WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.280 Roman wines presents Suspense. 00:18.280 --> 00:24.160 Roman wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:24.160 --> 00:26.840 Salute your health, Senor. 00:26.840 --> 00:32.280 Roman wines toast the world. The wine for your table is Roman wine. 00:32.280 --> 00:41.880 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:41.880 --> 00:47.160 This is the man in black here for the Roman wine company of Fresno, California. 00:47.160 --> 00:51.920 To introduce this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:51.920 --> 00:56.760 Tonight from Hollywood, Roman wines bring you a star, Miss Lucille Ball. 00:56.760 --> 00:59.200 Who appears tonight as a Broadway lady. 00:59.200 --> 01:03.840 Whom you may have often seen if you are a devotee of musical comedy. 01:03.840 --> 01:07.520 She is the third one from the left in the chorus line. 01:07.520 --> 01:11.560 And so with this little lady's narrative about the ten grand. 01:11.560 --> 01:14.840 And with the performance of Lucille Ball as Miss Gigi Lewis. 01:14.840 --> 01:32.560 We again hope to keep you in Suspense. 01:32.560 --> 01:36.440 Well, on this particular night I'm standing in front of the Broadway Lindy's. 01:36.440 --> 01:39.040 With my nose practically pasted against the window. 01:39.040 --> 01:41.000 It's late and I'm hungry. 01:41.000 --> 01:44.720 I've been pounding the pavements all day doing the rounds of the manager's offices. 01:44.720 --> 01:48.320 You'd think a good hooper like I ought to be able to land something with all the shows 01:48.320 --> 01:49.320 on the big street. 01:49.320 --> 01:52.720 But here I am standing like General Sherman's statue in front of Lindy's. 01:52.720 --> 01:58.560 Looking at the pasted up menu and mentally over indulging in a big, thick, juicy, T-bone 01:58.560 --> 02:00.560 steak smothered with onions. 02:00.560 --> 02:04.960 That comfortable crowd inside there can toy politely with their chicken sandwiches and 02:04.960 --> 02:06.840 their shrimp cocktails for all I care. 02:06.840 --> 02:10.200 Just give me a T-bone smothered onions. 02:10.200 --> 02:12.320 Here I am with five cents in my handbag. 02:12.320 --> 02:13.320 Literally. 02:13.320 --> 02:15.040 Enough for the ride home on the subway. 02:15.040 --> 02:18.040 No extra charge for the empty stomach. 02:18.040 --> 02:22.800 Well, anyway, I can take my shoes off when I get in the subway. 02:22.800 --> 02:27.200 I turn around and give Lindy's one last sorrowful gander and then make to the subway entrance. 02:27.200 --> 02:35.440 It's just the time the shows are letting out. 02:35.440 --> 02:38.440 Plenty of people from the taxi fed are taking the subway home these nights. 02:38.440 --> 02:40.440 Being short on tires and gas. 02:40.440 --> 02:44.840 So I get in that Times Square Jam that looks like 5 o'clock p.m. and feels like a Russian 02:44.840 --> 02:46.840 pincer's movement on the Polish border. 02:46.840 --> 02:51.480 I'm getting shoved toward the turnstile so I quick try to get my handbag open to reach 02:51.480 --> 02:52.480 for that lonesome nickel. 02:52.480 --> 02:55.920 All of a sudden I feel something jerk out of my hand. 02:55.920 --> 02:56.920 My bag is gone. 02:56.920 --> 02:57.920 I try to yell, stop. 02:57.920 --> 02:58.920 Hey, hey, stop. 02:58.920 --> 03:02.920 I twist around and see somebody, a little guy with short bow legs running toward the 03:02.920 --> 03:03.920 stairs. 03:03.920 --> 03:04.920 Stop that guy. 03:04.920 --> 03:05.920 Stop that guy. 03:05.920 --> 03:06.920 He's got my purse. 03:06.920 --> 03:07.920 Stop him. 03:07.920 --> 03:12.920 I'm trying to break out of the mob and after the purse snatcher but I'm like the ace of 03:12.920 --> 03:14.920 spades being dealt off the bottom of the pack. 03:14.920 --> 03:18.400 When I'm finally in the clear a little I see a tall guy running after that little guy who 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 has my purse. 03:19.400 --> 03:21.400 They both disappear around the corner and up the steps. 03:21.400 --> 03:23.400 There's plenty of commotion in the crowd. 03:23.400 --> 03:26.400 You'd think there was a million dollars in my handbag for all the fuss they're making. 03:26.400 --> 03:29.400 But I don't stop to think about anything except that I lost my fair home. 03:29.400 --> 03:30.400 I take out after the tall guy. 03:30.400 --> 03:35.400 When I get to the foot of the stairs the tall guy's coming down again and he's got my bag 03:35.400 --> 03:36.400 in his hand. 03:36.400 --> 03:43.400 He's smiling a big wide smile at me and I'm gazing gratefully up into his big brown eyes 03:43.400 --> 03:47.200 and noticing the way his hairline ain't receiving any. 03:47.200 --> 03:50.200 Just the guy to go around rescuing ladies in distress. 03:50.200 --> 03:53.560 Regular Sir Galahad or somebody. 03:53.560 --> 03:54.560 Is this yours Miss? 03:54.560 --> 03:55.560 Yeah. 03:55.560 --> 03:57.280 Gee how can I ever thank you? 03:57.280 --> 03:58.280 Think nothing of it. 03:58.280 --> 03:59.280 There you are. 03:59.280 --> 04:00.280 What about the guy though? 04:00.280 --> 04:02.920 Oh there was a cop on the street. 04:02.920 --> 04:04.640 He'll take care of him. 04:04.640 --> 04:05.640 What about you? 04:05.640 --> 04:06.640 You're all right aren't you? 04:06.640 --> 04:08.640 Oh sure sure I'm all right. 04:08.640 --> 04:11.320 You look kind of pale. 04:11.320 --> 04:14.440 I guess it would have been pretty tough to lose your purse that way. 04:14.440 --> 04:16.760 Especially this late at night. 04:16.760 --> 04:18.360 I don't know why you bothered really. 04:18.360 --> 04:20.820 Nothing but a nickel in it anyway. 04:20.820 --> 04:25.080 I don't carry much with me when I'm out at night. 04:25.080 --> 04:27.600 A nickel will get you home. 04:27.600 --> 04:32.000 He's smiling at me again and my heart's saying oh brother. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.560 We both start towards the mob at the turnstile and I'm busy hoping he's going my way. 04:35.560 --> 04:37.520 So we can sort of get better acquainted. 04:37.520 --> 04:39.960 Well good night. 04:39.960 --> 04:41.840 Hang on to that pucker book now. 04:41.840 --> 04:42.840 Well aren't you uh. 04:42.840 --> 04:43.840 Well good night. 04:43.840 --> 04:44.840 I'm caught in that mob at the turnstile again and the train's coming in. 04:44.840 --> 04:45.840 Somehow the way you're doing crowds I lose sight of them. 04:45.840 --> 04:46.840 And I've got to concentrate on digging out their nickel or putting them in slots. 04:46.840 --> 04:47.840 I open up my bag and find the nickel all right and then my heart almost stops. 04:47.840 --> 04:48.840 Oh my goodness. 04:48.840 --> 04:49.840 I'm so sorry. 04:49.840 --> 04:50.840 I'm so sorry. 04:50.840 --> 04:51.840 I'm so sorry. 04:51.840 --> 04:52.840 I'm so sorry. 04:52.840 --> 04:53.840 I'm so sorry. 04:53.840 --> 04:54.840 I'm so sorry. 04:54.840 --> 04:55.840 I'm so sorry. 04:55.840 --> 04:56.840 I'm so sorry. 04:56.840 --> 04:57.840 I'm so sorry. 04:57.840 --> 04:58.840 I'm so sorry. 04:58.840 --> 04:59.840 I'm so sorry. 04:59.840 --> 05:00.840 I'm so sorry. 05:00.840 --> 05:01.840 I'm so sorry. 05:01.840 --> 05:02.840 I'm so sorry. 05:02.840 --> 05:13.340 There in my handbag sits a great big wad of bills, folding money, cash. 05:13.340 --> 05:17.440 I managed to get the nickel in the slot and get myself through to the platform and on 05:17.440 --> 05:21.520 the train, all the while hanging on to that bag as if there were ten grand in it. 05:21.520 --> 05:22.520 Ten thousand dollars. 05:22.520 --> 05:24.460 Well it could be that much. 05:24.460 --> 05:25.460 The roll is big enough. 05:25.460 --> 05:28.460 My head's going around in crazy circles. 05:28.460 --> 05:31.660 The door's closed behind me and everybody in the car is rushing to find a seat. 05:31.660 --> 05:34.660 Over the noise I hear some contented soul whistling. 05:36.660 --> 05:39.660 I grab a seat next to a fat man who's taking up most of it. 05:39.660 --> 05:42.660 I sit there hanging onto my bag, not daring to look inside. 05:42.660 --> 05:47.660 I tell myself I'm dreaming. There's not really a big roll of bills in there. 05:47.660 --> 05:49.660 Extreme hunger is giving me the DTs. 05:49.660 --> 05:53.660 How would I get a bankroll as big as your fist? What am I doing with money? 05:53.660 --> 05:57.660 Then I remember the purse snatcher. He must have put it there. 05:57.660 --> 05:58.660 But why? 05:58.660 --> 06:01.660 A fat guy next to me tries to drum up a conversation. 06:01.660 --> 06:04.660 Well, nice night, ain't it? 06:04.660 --> 06:05.660 Yeah, cold. 06:05.660 --> 06:08.660 You, the young lady, what, cut her purse snatched? 06:08.660 --> 06:09.660 Yeah. 06:09.660 --> 06:12.660 Lucky thing you cut it back, ain't it? 06:12.660 --> 06:13.660 Yeah, yeah, very lucky. 06:13.660 --> 06:22.660 I always say it ain't good for a young lady, especially a nice-looking dame like you, to carry a lot of money around when she's out, nice. 06:22.660 --> 06:24.660 Huh? What makes you think I got a lot of money? 06:24.660 --> 06:28.660 Well, the way you carried on when that fella snatched your purse. 06:28.660 --> 06:31.660 Oh, yeah. 06:31.660 --> 06:35.660 I'm showing this fat palooka by my attitude that I don't go for conversing. 06:35.660 --> 06:42.660 I'm sitting there looking straight at the wall ads, and the one across from me is a big photo in natural color of Miss Subway in 1944. 06:42.660 --> 06:48.660 A Brooklyn girl, all dressed up and gripping with furs, and probably wearing Chanel No. 5. 06:48.660 --> 06:52.660 Money. All the money I need. 06:52.660 --> 06:58.660 No more pounding the pavements and waiting in outer offices for some two-bed job in a show that's due to close opening night. 06:58.660 --> 07:03.660 Clothes. A fur, maybe. Chanel No. 5, maybe. 07:03.660 --> 07:09.660 An apartment downtown with a switchboard to announce people instead of a fifth-floor walk-up in the Bronx. 07:09.660 --> 07:14.660 Food, mmm, T-bone steak, smothered in onions. Just walk right in and order it. 07:14.660 --> 07:16.660 Fun, maybe, because we're nightclubbing. 07:16.660 --> 07:20.660 Say, though, maybe it's counterfeit dough. Maybe. 07:20.660 --> 07:24.660 See those guys coming through? They're cops. 07:24.660 --> 07:26.660 How do you know? They might be the Rover boys. 07:26.660 --> 07:33.660 I can spot a plainclothes dick in a minute. They all look alike. They all got a certain purr as a noise. 07:33.660 --> 07:35.660 Well, that don't prove they're dicks. 07:35.660 --> 07:39.660 I don't know. Maybe it's the way they part their hairs. 07:39.660 --> 07:46.660 Plainclothesmen. Looking for something, huh? Hot money, maybe. 07:46.660 --> 07:51.660 So, suppose I'm found with it. How am I going to prove somebody planted it on me? 07:51.660 --> 07:54.660 I can see them laughing at that one now. That's a good one. Ha ha ha. 07:54.660 --> 08:02.660 She didn't steal the dough, honest. She just found it in her purse. Ha ha. That's a good one. Lock her up. 25 years. 08:02.660 --> 08:07.660 Well, good night, little lady. I'm getting off here. Is this your stop? 08:07.660 --> 08:09.660 No, no thanks. I go further uptown. 08:09.660 --> 08:12.660 Well, good night. I'm certainly glad you found your voice. 08:12.660 --> 08:16.660 Good night, fatso. 08:16.660 --> 08:21.660 The Rover boys pass on through, and I decide to sneak another look at my bag. 08:21.660 --> 08:26.660 I open it up very carefully. The bankrolls there all right. Some of the bills are in big denominations, too. 08:26.660 --> 08:29.660 There could be ten grand. And it looks like the real thing. 08:29.660 --> 08:34.660 But there's also something else. Something I didn't see before. A piece of paper stuffed into the roll. 08:34.660 --> 08:37.660 I reach in and get it, looking around to see if I'm being watched. 08:37.660 --> 08:42.660 All I see in the car is sleepy people, so I unfold the paper and read what's scribbled on it. 08:42.660 --> 08:47.660 Get off at 161st Street and follow Yankee Doodle. 08:47.660 --> 08:53.660 That don't make sense. What's Yankee Doodle got to do with it? 08:53.660 --> 08:56.660 I get up and I'm making for the door when I hear it. 08:56.660 --> 09:06.660 And then I remember I'd been hearing that whistling right along and didn't notice it. 09:06.660 --> 09:09.660 I back into the first empty seat and prepare to do some thinking. 09:09.660 --> 09:14.660 Somebody in this car wants that bankroll again. Could it be Sir Galahad? 09:14.660 --> 09:19.660 I just can't bear to think of him as a criminal type, but he was awful quick to go chasing after my purse. 09:19.660 --> 09:22.660 And he could have been in this car all along without me seeing him. 09:22.660 --> 09:25.660 I try to get a quick look around, but there's people in the aisles. 09:25.660 --> 09:29.660 And a dear little old lady is pushing her way forward. She sits down next to me. 09:29.660 --> 09:33.660 I was sitting next to a man who kept snoring. Do you mind if I sit here? 09:33.660 --> 09:38.660 No, not at all. I didn't know there could be so much confusion in the subway this late at night. 09:38.660 --> 09:41.660 In New York you get to confusion 24 hours a day. 09:41.660 --> 09:44.660 Yes, I'm just not used to it. That's all. 09:44.660 --> 09:47.660 Say, you look like there's something wrong. What's the matter? Do you feel sick? 09:47.660 --> 09:49.660 I'm all right. 09:49.660 --> 09:53.660 Hey, she's passed out. Won't somebody help me? This woman's sick. 09:53.660 --> 09:54.660 Yeah. 09:54.660 --> 09:55.660 Let's go. 09:55.660 --> 09:57.660 Yeah, give her a slug of this. This will bring her two. 09:57.660 --> 10:01.660 Thanks. That's swell. Now look, lady, just take a swallow. It won't hurt you. Go on. 10:01.660 --> 10:03.660 I'll swallow it. That's it. 10:03.660 --> 10:06.660 Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Really, I... 10:06.660 --> 10:08.660 Forget it. How do you feel? 10:08.660 --> 10:12.660 I can't imagine what happened. All at once everything seemed to whirl around. 10:12.660 --> 10:13.660 Sure you're all right now? 10:13.660 --> 10:15.660 I'll be fine in just a moment. 10:15.660 --> 10:17.660 Here's your medicine, Mr. Thanks. 10:17.660 --> 10:18.660 That's okay. 10:18.660 --> 10:23.660 You're awfully kind. I didn't think people were so kind in a big city like this. 10:23.660 --> 10:25.660 You better take it easy now. Where do you get off? 10:25.660 --> 10:26.660 What's that? 10:26.660 --> 10:27.660 Where do you get off? 10:27.660 --> 10:31.660 Oh, 169th Street. That's where my sister lives. 10:31.660 --> 10:37.660 I'm visiting her, you see, and I just thought I'd go downtown tonight and see a show and have a good time. 10:37.660 --> 10:42.660 Evelyn told me how to go on the subway, and everything was fine until just now. 10:42.660 --> 10:44.660 You're not hungry or anything? 10:44.660 --> 10:50.660 Oh, no, no. It's not that. I have plenty of money. At least I did have. 10:50.660 --> 10:52.660 Yeah? What happened to your money? 10:52.660 --> 10:55.660 Somebody stole my life savings. 10:55.660 --> 10:57.660 No, not really. Who'd do a thing like that? 10:57.660 --> 10:59.660 Eh? Who'd do a thing like that? 10:59.660 --> 11:05.660 A thing like that? Oh, I don't worry about it, you understand. I'll get the money back. 11:05.660 --> 11:06.660 How? 11:06.660 --> 11:11.660 Well, don't you remember the old saying? It takes a thief to catch a thief. 11:11.660 --> 11:12.660 I suppose so. 11:12.660 --> 11:17.660 Yes. Well, that's just how I plan to catch the person who stole my money. 11:17.660 --> 11:19.660 How much did you lose? 11:19.660 --> 11:20.660 What's that? 11:20.660 --> 11:21.660 How much did you lose? 11:21.660 --> 11:28.660 Oh, lose? Well, I had been saving it all my life, and there was at least, well, $10,000. 11:28.660 --> 11:31.660 Gee, that's too bad. 11:31.660 --> 11:35.660 Well, am I going to give it back to her if it turns out to be her money? 11:35.660 --> 11:37.660 How do I know she's not pulling a fast one? 11:37.660 --> 11:43.660 I remember that in shows it's always the dear old lady who fakes a faint to get sympathy when she's really the brains of the mob. 11:43.660 --> 11:48.660 Yeah. I noticed she got a big gulp from the Bible while she had the chance. 11:48.660 --> 11:52.660 Well, supposing she is on the level, would I give her the money when I have it here? 11:52.660 --> 11:56.660 Ten grand? And me practically in the lap of luxury? Would I? 11:56.660 --> 11:58.660 Oh, my. 11:58.660 --> 12:00.660 Listen, do you know how to whistle? 12:00.660 --> 12:07.660 What a strange thing to ask me. As a matter of fact, yes, I do. 12:07.660 --> 12:09.660 Well, I'm awfully fond of whistling. 12:09.660 --> 12:16.660 You are? Are you? Well, you know, I was judged the champion whistler of the ladies' auxiliary at church back home. 12:16.660 --> 12:20.660 Oh, isn't that nice? Yes. Won't you whistle something for me? 12:20.660 --> 12:25.660 Oh, well, I could not hear. People would turn around and look at me. 12:25.660 --> 12:27.660 Well, you already caused quite a stir when you fainted. 12:27.660 --> 12:32.660 Oh, did I? Well, then, what would you like to hear? 12:32.660 --> 12:34.660 Yankee doodle. 12:34.660 --> 12:46.660 Well, I'll try. 12:46.660 --> 12:51.660 Uh-huh. That's fine. But I guess it doesn't prove anything. 12:51.660 --> 12:53.660 I beg your pardon? 12:53.660 --> 12:56.660 I meant, how was it you say you lost all that money? 12:56.660 --> 13:03.660 Oh, the money. That. Why, the bank teller back home just ran off with the savings of practically everybody in town. 13:03.660 --> 13:05.660 Oh, it happened back home, huh? When? 13:05.660 --> 13:14.660 Well, now, let me see. Why, it must have been five... No, no, no. It was just about six years ago. 13:14.660 --> 13:15.660 Oh. 13:15.660 --> 13:17.660 Yes, and why do you ask me? 13:17.660 --> 13:22.660 Well, I just thought maybe you, uh... I thought you might have just lost it tonight the way you talked. 13:22.660 --> 13:28.660 Well, I hope I didn't alarm you. But I just keep knowing I'm going to get that money back someday. 13:28.660 --> 13:30.660 Yeah, I'm sure you will. 13:30.660 --> 13:37.660 Oh, listen. Somebody else is whistling Yankee doodle now. That's very fine whistling, too. 13:37.660 --> 13:38.660 Isn't it, though? 13:38.660 --> 13:40.660 Yes. 13:40.660 --> 14:00.660 Yeah, and this time it's no old lady. I got an idea it's somebody who just possibly could have a slight case of murder on his mind. 14:00.660 --> 14:09.660 Tonight for suspense, Roma wines bring you a star, Miss Lucille Ball, whom you have heard in the first act of The Ten Grand by Virginia Radcliffe. 14:09.660 --> 14:22.660 Tonight's adventure in suspense. 14:22.660 --> 14:29.660 Far to the south of us is our good neighbor country, Ecuador, land of towering mountains, sweeping vistas. 14:29.660 --> 14:37.660 Let's imagine ourselves there now, dining on the roof terrace cafe of the exclusive Hotel Metropolitano in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 14:37.660 --> 14:43.660 Near us, an American has just complimented his hosts on the magnificent dinner, to which his host quickly responds, 14:43.660 --> 14:56.660 Ah, yes, it is true that our foods are famous. 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Is this your station? 16:35.660 --> 16:38.660 Yeah, and the next stop is yours. Don't fall asleep missing now. 16:38.660 --> 16:42.660 Well, I won't. You've been very kind. I do want to thank you. 16:42.660 --> 16:44.660 No, thank nothing of it. Well, good night. 16:44.660 --> 16:48.660 Good night, my dear. Now be careful crossing the street. 16:48.660 --> 16:51.660 Sure, don't worry. I'll be plenty careful. 16:51.660 --> 16:58.660 Now get off the train. Stand for a minute on the platform, looking around. 16:58.660 --> 17:02.660 I don't see Sir Galahad, but he could have gone through to another car and come out down the line. 17:02.660 --> 17:06.660 Several guys are on the platform and they all hurry up the steps of the street. 17:06.660 --> 17:11.660 I go up too. I look ahead at the block I have to travel. 17:11.660 --> 17:14.660 Then I hear it again, from the darkness of the street. 17:14.660 --> 17:20.660 I can't tell exactly where it's coming from, but I'm standing in the light and whoever's after me has a pretty perfect target. 17:20.660 --> 17:24.660 I walk away, hugging my purse and shaking like six hangovers. 17:24.660 --> 17:28.660 I tell myself that pretty soon Yankee Doodle will grab me and take the money. 17:28.660 --> 17:33.660 Any second now. He wouldn't need to kill me. I haven't seen him so I can't identify him. 17:33.660 --> 17:37.660 He could just take the money and leave. But suppose he enjoys killing people. 17:37.660 --> 17:41.660 Suppose he gets panicky all of a sudden and his finger slips on the trigger. 17:41.660 --> 17:51.660 Suppose he's a maniac. I think about screaming, but nobody would hear me in time because screaming probably makes Yankee Doodle's trigger finger tremble. 17:51.660 --> 17:55.660 Why doesn't he do something? Why doesn't he take the money away from me and get it over with? 17:55.660 --> 17:58.660 Does he want me to offer it to him on a gold platter? 17:58.660 --> 18:05.660 Uh-uh. Not Gigi. She's got a T-bone steak smothered in onions waiting for her if she ever gets out of this in one piece. 18:05.660 --> 18:10.660 But now I'm getting toward the next corner and there's a dim street lamp on the other side. I see him. 18:10.660 --> 18:15.660 That's strange. He's been walking ahead of me all this time. 18:15.660 --> 18:20.660 Then I hear something else. Footsteps. Somebody behind me. 18:20.660 --> 18:25.660 I listen. That doesn't sound like the tread of somebody hurrying home to the little woman. 18:25.660 --> 18:30.660 That's a steady tread of somebody trailing somebody. I don't know how I know it, but I know it. 18:30.660 --> 18:36.660 There's Yankee Doodle up ahead, but here's also somebody behind me I don't like just by instinct. 18:36.660 --> 18:42.660 I'm sandwiched. I'm the ham between two slices of rye. I listen again. 18:42.660 --> 18:48.660 He's getting closer. By the time I reach the corner, he'll catch up with me. I try walking faster. 18:48.660 --> 18:52.660 I turn around. I can see a dark shape behind me with a distant street lamp back of him. 18:52.660 --> 18:57.660 Then I see something else. Back away across the street is another man walking fast. 18:57.660 --> 19:02.660 Now I got three of them. I'm in a triple decker sandwich now. I want to scream. I want to yell, help! 19:02.660 --> 19:08.660 But my heart's got all mixed up in my larynx somehow and I know I'd never be able to project my voice past the next crack on a sidewalk. 19:08.660 --> 19:11.660 They're catching up to me fast. If this is the end, sister, this is it. 19:11.660 --> 19:18.660 I'm already imagining the cold steel on my back and then... 19:31.660 --> 19:36.660 The two boys walk right on past me. Don't even give me a tumble. 19:36.660 --> 19:40.660 They're making time and as the one on my side gets ahead of me, I see him nod to the one across the street. 19:40.660 --> 19:46.660 They're not telling me they're after Yankee Doodle. They heard him whistle and they'll be catching up with him any minute now. 19:46.660 --> 19:51.660 I heave a big sigh of relief and consider a quick exit back to the subway with my ten grand. 19:51.660 --> 19:55.660 I can just barely see the two of them as they come close to the next street lamp. 19:55.660 --> 19:59.660 They could be plain clothes men, but I don't think so somehow. 19:59.660 --> 20:04.660 In that case, they got an illegal desire to get something they think Yankee Doodle's got. 20:04.660 --> 20:07.660 Or maybe Yankee Doodle's the illegal part of the deal. 20:07.660 --> 20:12.660 Suppose he turns out to be Sir Galahad. It's pretty confusing and I ain't happy about it either way. 20:12.660 --> 20:18.660 But something, I don't know what, makes me take after the two Rover boys instead of going my own way while I got the chance. 20:18.660 --> 20:23.660 I look up ahead. Yankee Doodle's a block away now and he stops for a second under a street light. 20:23.660 --> 20:27.660 He's listening. I can tell that even though he's too far away for me to tell if he's Sir Galahad. 20:27.660 --> 20:30.660 Then quickly he disappears into the shadows again. 20:30.660 --> 20:36.660 I'm trying to keep my heels from clicking too loud, but they sound like drum beats so I take my shoes off quick. 20:36.660 --> 20:42.660 The Rover boys are up on the corner now, but I'm making it by the time they're halfway down the next block. 20:42.660 --> 20:46.660 The street lamp must have burned out along here because it's blacker than the Scapparelli dinner dress. 20:46.660 --> 20:50.660 If only a police car would come by or something. Maybe Winchell would be cruising with the boys. 20:50.660 --> 20:54.660 Yeah, and then he'd give me a plug in his column and it'd be easy for me to get a job. 20:54.660 --> 20:57.660 Oh, what am I thinking about things like that for now? 20:57.660 --> 21:00.660 Besides, there ain't a car on the street. There hasn't been one since I got off the subway. 21:00.660 --> 21:03.660 Suddenly out of the blackness a hand grabs my arm and another covers my mouth. 21:03.660 --> 21:06.660 Be quiet. Don't scream. It's me. 21:06.660 --> 21:11.660 Yeah, let's get down on the stairway. They can't see it. It's getting lighter. 21:11.660 --> 21:12.660 Now. 21:12.660 --> 21:14.660 You didn't need to choke me. 21:14.660 --> 21:18.660 Shh. They'll come back this way in a minute. As soon as they found out they'd lost me. 21:18.660 --> 21:20.660 How'd you get here? I thought you was way ahead of them. 21:20.660 --> 21:25.660 I was. I ducked in here and let them pass. Are you with me? 21:25.660 --> 21:26.660 Why should I be? 21:26.660 --> 21:27.660 It's my life or theirs. 21:27.660 --> 21:28.660 So what? 21:28.660 --> 21:30.660 I got your purse back for you. 21:30.660 --> 21:32.660 Yeah, Sir Galahad. 21:32.660 --> 21:34.660 You've got my money. 21:34.660 --> 21:36.660 Could be their money. 21:36.660 --> 21:37.660 Yes, but it isn't. 21:37.660 --> 21:42.660 Wait. They're coming back. I got an idea. I'll step out and say something and you, you. 21:42.660 --> 21:45.660 All right. Get up there quick. They're coming. 21:45.660 --> 21:50.660 Well, hiya boys. Fancy seeing you here. Nice night, ain't it? 21:50.660 --> 21:53.660 Never mind, sister. We ain't got time to chat. 21:53.660 --> 21:56.660 Well, you needn't blind me with that flashlight. I just wanted to pass the time of day. 21:56.660 --> 21:59.660 Well, it ain't that time of day, so step aside and let me. 21:59.660 --> 22:02.660 Hey, what you. 22:02.660 --> 22:05.660 Hey, he was trying to get up. 22:05.660 --> 22:07.660 Let's make sure they're really out. 22:07.660 --> 22:10.660 Are you kidding? They're both out farther than the 12 mile limit. 22:10.660 --> 22:12.660 Then let's get away from here fast. Come on. 22:12.660 --> 22:13.660 Wait a minute. 22:13.660 --> 22:16.660 What's the matter? You don't want to be picked up around here, do you? 22:16.660 --> 22:21.660 Well, I got to put my shoes on first, don't I? Say, do you know I broke my heel on that heel? 22:21.660 --> 22:34.660 So here we are, 15 minutes later, sitting in an all night restaurant after running practically 12 blocks 22:34.660 --> 22:38.660 and me forgetting all about the fact my feet was killing me a couple hours ago. 22:38.660 --> 22:43.660 Sir Galahad's breathing just like normal, but I'm still sounding like a parable trying to catch my wind. 22:43.660 --> 22:48.660 He's looking at me and laughing in a nice way and I don't mind. 22:48.660 --> 22:55.660 You know, what you need is a little regular exercise. It would get you in condition. 22:55.660 --> 23:00.660 A nice steady job hoofing somewhere will do that for me. 23:00.660 --> 23:04.660 I wonder how long it will be before the cops find those guys. 23:04.660 --> 23:07.660 Maybe you ought to report it first just to be on the safe side. 23:07.660 --> 23:11.660 No, no. It would be too dangerous. I have to get rid of the money first. 23:11.660 --> 23:12.660 Oh. 23:12.660 --> 23:16.660 No, I did not rob a bank. 23:16.660 --> 23:19.660 Well, there's other illegal ways to get 10 grand. 23:19.660 --> 23:23.660 Here comes the waitress. Better order and then we can talk. 23:23.660 --> 23:28.660 I can't believe I'm really going to get a steak inside of me instead of hot lead. 23:28.660 --> 23:32.660 Wait until you see what the steak's like before you feel too happy. 23:32.660 --> 23:36.660 Know what you want yet? Yeah, long time ago. Tea bone steak, rare, smothered in onions. 23:36.660 --> 23:37.660 Make it two, please. 23:37.660 --> 23:44.660 Two teas, rare and buried. All right, shoot. What am I saying? 23:44.660 --> 23:47.660 I am a Greek. 23:47.660 --> 23:48.660 Yeah? 23:48.660 --> 23:54.660 I came over here when I was about 15. My father and mother are still in Athens. 23:54.660 --> 23:59.660 I couldn't get them out of the country when the Italians invaded. 23:59.660 --> 24:02.660 So I don't know where they are now. 24:02.660 --> 24:04.660 Oh gee, that's too bad. 24:04.660 --> 24:07.660 Oh, I'm like a lot of people over here. 24:07.660 --> 24:13.660 I want to do something for my mother country even though I am a naturalized American. 24:13.660 --> 24:18.660 So in my spare time I collect contributions from all the Greeks living over here. 24:18.660 --> 24:21.660 Oh, you mean for the relief society? 24:21.660 --> 24:24.660 Oh no, no, no. That's different. 24:24.660 --> 24:26.660 This money supports the Greek underground. 24:26.660 --> 24:34.660 It has to be gotten and sent very quietly because certain people over here would like very much to know who's operating the underground in Greece. 24:34.660 --> 24:35.660 You see? 24:35.660 --> 24:39.660 Yeah, I'm beginning to. What about the Rover boys? 24:39.660 --> 24:40.660 Who? 24:40.660 --> 24:43.660 The two kids we lulled to sleep back there. 24:43.660 --> 24:48.660 Oh, well I can't prove it yet but I think they're Axis agents. 24:48.660 --> 24:51.660 They've been following me ever since I left home this morning. 24:51.660 --> 24:54.660 Today was my day off and I've been making the rounds collecting. 24:54.660 --> 24:57.660 You did pretty well. How much is in that bankroll? 24:57.660 --> 24:59.660 $10,415. 24:59.660 --> 25:02.660 Oh boy, you're quite a salesman. 25:02.660 --> 25:05.660 I've got the good product to sell. 25:05.660 --> 25:09.660 Anyway, I thought I could shake those guys in the subway. 25:09.660 --> 25:16.660 But then when you got your purse lifted, I did a little quick thinking and decided the money would be safer with you for a while. 25:16.660 --> 25:20.660 And I do want to thank you. 25:20.660 --> 25:24.660 Oh, that's all right. Always glad to help out. 25:24.660 --> 25:29.660 Well, I guess you'd like to have your ten grand back now, huh? 25:29.660 --> 25:36.660 You know, in Greece they have a law that whoever finds money gets to keep 10% as a reward. 25:36.660 --> 25:38.660 No kidding! 25:38.660 --> 25:44.660 Yes. So the way we'd figure it, you get $1,041.15. 25:44.660 --> 25:50.660 Say, that's wonderful. That's a great custom. I wonder why they don't adopt it in America. 25:50.660 --> 25:56.660 Well, I guess America has a lot of things that Greece doesn't have. 25:56.660 --> 25:58.660 T-bone steaks, for instance. 25:58.660 --> 26:03.660 Yeah, that's true. Well, here you are. I hope you get the dough into the right hands. 26:03.660 --> 26:06.660 Thank you very, very much. 26:06.660 --> 26:10.660 Uh, aren't you going to count out your 10%? 26:10.660 --> 26:15.660 I got to contribute something to winning the war, ain't I? Say, Miss. 26:15.660 --> 26:16.660 You want me? 26:16.660 --> 26:18.660 Yeah, what happened to them two T-bone steaks? 26:18.660 --> 26:23.660 Oh, well, I'm sorry, but when I took your order for the steak, I forgot this was Meatless Tuesday. 26:23.660 --> 26:37.660 Oh, no. 26:37.660 --> 26:46.660 And so closes the Ten Grands, starring Lucille Ball. 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