1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:22,800 Tonight, Eve, starring Nancy Kelly. 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,520 Right over there, Miss Jeremy's second booth. 4 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:25,520 Thank you. 5 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:26,520 You've got five minutes. 6 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,520 Hello, Angel. 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:28,520 Oh, Frank. 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:29,520 Right over there, Angel. 9 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:30,520 Take it easy. 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:31,520 We don't have much time. 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,480 Oh, but to have to talk to you like this through an iron screen, not even to be able to touch 12 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:36,480 you when I... 13 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,480 That's the way it is, Angel, when a guy's been... 14 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:39,480 Frank. 15 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:40,560 Frank, I know you didn't do it. 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:41,560 I know you didn't. 17 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,880 Of course I didn't, Angel, but just one of those things, circumstantial evidence. 18 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:46,600 Oh, but there must be something. 19 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:47,600 Uh-uh. 20 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,800 I was pretty optimistic during the trial because I knew I didn't do it, I guess, but now that 21 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,040 I look back on it, they had enough coincidence pieced together to convict a dozen innocent 22 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,040 men. 23 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,320 Oh, Frank, how can you be so calm? 24 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:01,320 How can you... 25 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,320 There's one thing I want you to know. 26 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,680 I want to be sure you didn't believe any of that gossip about my running around with her. 27 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:07,680 Oh, of course I didn't. 28 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:08,680 She was a star. 29 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,680 I was a producer. 30 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:10,680 I needed her for my next picture. 31 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,440 Lorna Moore was a big name in pictures, but you knew I'd been seeing her. 32 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,240 I even told you how I'd quarrel with her. 33 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,240 Oh, Frank, Frank, I know. 34 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,680 Frank, how much more time is there? 35 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,120 Two or three more minutes. 36 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,120 No, no, no, I mean... 37 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,120 Oh. 38 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,040 I'll be back on the 15th, November the 16th. 39 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,040 Six weeks. 40 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,040 Yeah. 41 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,400 Frank, I'm going to do something. 42 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,920 What can you do, Angel? 43 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,000 Don't you realize there's a murderer running around loose? 44 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,360 Some man who's free and having fun and going out with girls. 45 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,360 I'm going to find him. 46 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:44,360 How could you find him? 47 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:45,480 The police tried for weeks. 48 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,480 They didn't try. 49 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,080 All they wanted was to convict you. 50 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,200 Uh-uh. 51 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,040 But it is nice to hear you say it, Angel, because... 52 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,160 What? 53 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,280 Because it makes me know you really did love me. 54 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,280 Oh, Frank. 55 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,680 You see, there are things you can face when you're like this you didn't dare talk about 56 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,040 or even think about before. 57 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,000 I always loved you, Eve. 58 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,600 But you were so much younger and full of ambition. 59 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:10,600 Oh, Frank, don't. 60 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:11,600 I'm sorry, Angel. 61 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,080 I wish I could have done things for you. 62 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,040 There won't be much left for you now. 63 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:19,320 You know how it is in this business. 64 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:20,920 You spend it as fast as you make it. 65 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:21,920 Frank, stop. 66 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:22,920 Please, please stop. 67 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,640 I'm a hero. 68 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:26,440 Forgive me, Angel. 69 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,280 But it's wonderful to know how you do for you. 70 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:30,280 Frank. 71 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,440 Frank, I'm not going to let this thing happen. 72 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,440 There must be something. 73 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,560 There must be some clue somewhere. 74 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:37,920 Well, don't you think the police... 75 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:40,040 Something the police didn't know. 76 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,400 Something you saw when you were up there and didn't tell them. 77 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,960 I couldn't have very well told them anything about that when my whole defense was that I 78 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,480 hadn't been up there. 79 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,640 But there wasn't anything, nothing important. 80 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:51,440 But there must have been something. 81 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,400 Whoever, whoever was there before you, whoever did it must have left some trace. 82 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,520 Well, there was her address book. 83 00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,520 Her, her... 84 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,000 Yeah, I stuck it in my pocket because, well, it was open at the letter J and my name was 85 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 in it. 86 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,200 It was a silly thing to do, but it's in the little secret drawer in my desk. 87 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,840 Oh, Frank, why didn't you tell somebody sooner? 88 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:11,840 What was the use? 89 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,920 If I'd told them I'd been up there... 90 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:17,400 Oh, yes, there was another little thing. 91 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,400 I hadn't thought... 92 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Frank, what? 93 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 A smell. 94 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,400 A what? 95 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:22,400 A smell. 96 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:23,400 Your time's up, Mrs. Jeremy. 97 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,400 Frank, I'll write. 98 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,400 I'll write every day. 99 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,400 All right, Mrs. Jeremy. 100 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:27,400 Goodbye. 101 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:28,400 So long, Angel. 102 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:29,400 October 5th. 103 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Frank, darling, I found the little address book where you said it was. 104 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,400 It's not much to go on. 105 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,560 There are hundreds of names. 106 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,960 But under the J's, there are only three others besides yours. 107 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,320 I'm going after them one at a time. 108 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,920 Tomorrow, I'm going down to see Lieutenant Trout of the Homicide Bureau. 109 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,880 He always seemed to me one of the few who tried to be fair. 110 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:00,880 And I might need help. 111 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:08,040 Oh, darling, I know it isn't much, but you must keep on hoping something will happen 112 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:14,160 if only because I love you so desperately. 113 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:20,560 What's your angle, Mrs. Jeremy? 114 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:21,560 My angle? 115 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:22,560 Yeah. 116 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:23,560 Why are you doing all this? 117 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,600 Well, but he's my husband. 118 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,600 I love him. 119 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,400 Oh, look, Mrs. Jeremy, the cops around this town aren't exactly dummies, you know. 120 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,760 You know what you were like before you married him. 121 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,440 All right, Dick Tracy. 122 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:35,920 The person can change, can't they? 123 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,560 Sure they can. 124 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,760 A cop just hates to have anyone think they can make a sucker out of him. 125 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 You know how they are. 126 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,840 Well, you can skip the apologies if that's where they're supposed to be. 127 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:44,840 Sure. 128 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:46,880 Now, what do you want me to do? 129 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,280 Well, what kind of evidence would I have to have? 130 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:51,800 How specific would it have to... 131 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,080 What, to upset a first degree murderer? 132 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,080 Well, something in writing. 133 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,680 That's not so easy. 134 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,760 Have you got a suspect in mind, some particular person? 135 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:01,760 No, not yet. 136 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,160 But you might have. 137 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,800 Well, there's one other thing. 138 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,280 It's an old, old trick, but it's still good. 139 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:08,280 What's that? 140 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:09,680 Did you ever see one of these things? 141 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,240 No, I don't think so. 142 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,280 Here, talk into this little gadget here. 143 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,280 Well, what, what'll I say? 144 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:16,280 Oh, anything. 145 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:18,280 Just talk. 146 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:23,280 Lieutenant Trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I've ever met. 147 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,280 You're quite a realist, aren't you? 148 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,280 Here, now listen. 149 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:34,280 Lieutenant Trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I've ever met. 150 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:35,280 See? 151 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:36,280 A, a diptyphone. 152 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:37,280 Yeah. 153 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,280 It might come in handy. 154 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,280 Well, it, it might. 155 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:46,280 October 7th. 156 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:49,280 Darling, Trout has installed a diptyphone in my new apartment. 157 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:51,280 It's only a room, really. 158 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,280 And of course, I've changed my name to Evelyn Jarvis in my appearance. 159 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:59,280 I don't think that even you, my darling, would recognize me now. 160 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:01,280 The phone numbers are a dead end so far. 161 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:07,280 The first was a dressmaker and the next a man who's definitely been in the South Pacific for over a year. 162 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:10,280 But there's one more, a Jerry Jordan. 163 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,280 I'm going to call him this afternoon. 164 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,280 Oh, my darling, I miss you. 165 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:21,280 I miss you so terribly. 166 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:26,280 Hello? 167 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:29,280 Oh, is this Mr. Jerry Jordan? 168 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:30,280 Yes. 169 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:33,280 Well, I've finally found you. 170 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:34,280 Can you guess who this is? 171 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:36,280 Well, I'm afraid I'm not very good at that. 172 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:38,280 Oh, all right. 173 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:40,280 I suppose I'll have to tell you. 174 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,280 This is Evelyn Jarvis. 175 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:44,280 Oh. 176 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,280 Well, don't you know who I am? 177 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:48,280 No, I'm sorry. 178 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:49,280 I don't, Miss Jarvis. 179 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:53,280 Well, this is embarrassing. 180 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:55,280 Didn't you get the letter? 181 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:55,280 No. 182 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:56,280 What letter? 183 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,280 Oh, my goodness. 184 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:07,280 Well, you see, a very good friend of yours, who's also a very good friend of mine, wrote you a letter about me. 185 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,280 Or at least he said he would. 186 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:11,280 I see. 187 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,280 And I'll give you one other clue. 188 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,280 I'm from out of town. 189 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:18,280 Now can you guess? 190 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,280 You wouldn't be from San Francisco, would you? 191 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,280 Well. 192 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,280 Ed Thornton, eh? 193 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,280 He always did have a terrible memory for anything but phone numbers. 194 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:34,280 Well, I didn't mean to bother you, but Ed said to be sure and look you up. 195 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,280 Well, where are you staying? 196 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,280 Oh, I managed to find a little place. 197 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,280 Well, lucky you. 198 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,280 Have you got any plans for dinner? 199 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,280 Why, well, I hadn't really thought. 200 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,280 Say it better still. 201 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Have you got any plans for right now? 202 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,280 Well, really, Mr. Jordan. 203 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,280 No, no, seriously. 204 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,280 By the time we've had a drink and gotten acquainted, you'll be ready for dinner anyway. 205 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,280 Oh, no, no. 206 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,280 Now you wouldn't want Ed Thornton to know you were acting that way, would you? 207 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,280 You just jump in a taxi and tell him to take you to the Brown Derby on Vine Street. 208 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,280 I'll be waiting right there. 209 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,280 Well. 210 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:13,280 And knowing Ed the way I do, I'm dying to meet you. 211 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:34,280 Well, as a matter of fact, from what I know, I'm sort of anxious to meet you. 212 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,280 Darling, just a quick P.S. 213 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,280 I'm going to meet him now at the Brown Derby. 214 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:43,280 Mr. Jerry Jordan, and I have a hunch he's it. 215 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,280 I don't know why. 216 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,280 I'll remember what you said about cigar smoke. 217 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:53,280 And yet, although I've got a hunch, it makes me feel a little shaky to be going there. 218 00:08:53,280 --> 00:09:05,280 He's, well, he's got such a nice voice to be a murderer. 219 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,280 So that's what he says about me as a fine pal. 220 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,280 I'll say one thing for Ed. 221 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,280 He may be an awful liar, but he sure has well taste. 222 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,280 Well, which proves he's no liar. 223 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,280 But tell me, Jerry, is this the Brown Derby? 224 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,280 I mean the one you hear about? 225 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,280 This is it. 226 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,280 Well, are there any people, you know, famous people here now? 227 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,280 Well, it's a little early. 228 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:34,280 Well, you know, I've always thought it was awfully silly, really, to be impressed by movie stars. 229 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,280 Still, Hollywood must be sort of an exciting town to live in. 230 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,280 I mean, from some of the things I hear that go on. 231 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,280 That's mostly newspaper talk. 232 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,280 Hollywood's just like any other town. 233 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,280 They have their regular quota of divorces and fistfights. 234 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,280 Oh, and murders. 235 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,280 Oh, you mean that Lorne Amour business? 236 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,280 Well, I read something about it. 237 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,280 Yes, that was a genuine tragedy, all right. 238 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,280 I don't suppose you knew her. 239 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,280 Well, as a matter of fact, Lorne was one of the few celebrities I did know. 240 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,280 Oh, really? What was she like? 241 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:14,280 Well, Lorne was a long ways from being the sweet little thing she seemed to be on the screen. 242 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,280 Oh, but murder? 243 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,280 Yes, I suppose nothing really excuses that. 244 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,280 Well, anyway, they got the man who did it. 245 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,280 Frank Jeremy? Yes, I guess they did. 246 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,280 You mean you don't think that... 247 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Oh, the case looked good enough. 248 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,280 You can't always tell about those things, though. 249 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,280 Any number of people might have done it. 250 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,280 I'm afraid that Lorne's life was kind of a mess. 251 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,280 Well, Jerry, were you... 252 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,280 Mixed up with Lorne? Oh, no, no. 253 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,280 But didn't the police? 254 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,280 I mean, I should think with a woman like that. 255 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,280 All of her friends... 256 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,280 They nabbed Jeremy so quick, they didn't even question anyone else. 257 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,280 Anyway, I was out of town when it happened. 258 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,280 Oh, Jerry, may I have a cigarette? 259 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,280 I'm sorry, I don't use them. 260 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,280 I'll get you some, however. I only smoke cigars. 261 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,280 What did you say? 262 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,280 I said, I only smoke cigars. 263 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,280 Darling, don't you see? 264 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,280 His name in her book and he admits he knew her in the cigars. 265 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,280 I'm positive. 266 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,280 Now if I can win his confidence, 267 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,280 get him up to my apartment near that dictaphone. 268 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,280 Oh, I know I can do it. 269 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,280 We've still got four weeks, darling, 270 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,280 and I'll have to be awfully careful. 271 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,280 He's clever and he's intelligent. 272 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,280 Imagine a man who can carry a thing like that in his conscience 273 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:45,280 and still be so terribly nice and courteous and thoughtful. 274 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,280 But I'm going to win for you, darling. 275 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,280 Hello, Jerry. Hello. 276 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,280 You've been waiting long? Not very. 277 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,280 Jerry, is something the matter? 278 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,280 I don't know, darling. 279 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,280 Look, why do we always have to meet here? 280 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,280 Why can't I pick you up at your place? 281 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,280 I don't even know where it is. 282 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,280 Sometimes it's almost as though you were, 283 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,280 well, keeping some sort of a secret from me. 284 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,280 Isn't it a woman's privilege to have secrets? 285 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,280 Don't talk like that, darling. 286 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,280 Jerry, Jerry, you must know by now 287 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,280 I couldn't have any secrets from you. 288 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Oh, I'm a fine one to talk, I guess. 289 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,280 The fact is I've been holding out on you, darling. 290 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,280 I don't live in that hotel. 291 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,280 I live in a place out in Beverly Hills 292 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,280 with about 30 rooms and a swimming pool a block long. 293 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,280 I've got more money than I know what to do with. 294 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,280 Oh? 295 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,280 Darling, I feel like a dog about it now, 296 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,280 but I didn't want you to know at first. 297 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,280 Oh, and till you were sure I didn't care about money. 298 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,280 Is that it? Yes, dear. 299 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,280 Try to forgive me, will you? 300 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,280 Oh, my poor darling. 301 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,280 Will you? Of course I will. I do. 302 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,280 And Jerry? Yes? 303 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,280 About those secrets of mine. 304 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,280 Suppose there were some things I couldn't tell you yet. 305 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,280 Would that matter? 306 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,280 Not if I was sure you would tell me someday. 307 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:25,280 Jerry, I promise you that someday I will tell you. 308 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,280 Frank, darling, I know the delay must be torture to you, 309 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,280 but you must understand how careful I've got to be. 310 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,280 I've got to have the positive living truth on that dictaphone. 311 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,280 I haven't been able to get him up here yet, 312 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,280 but we've still got 10 days, 313 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,280 and I have a feeling it's going to be soon. 314 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,280 Very soon. 315 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,280 So don't worry, darling. 316 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,280 I miss you. 317 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:53,280 Who is it? 318 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:54,280 God knows. 319 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,280 Oh, wait a minute. 320 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,280 Jerry! Darling, I had to. 321 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,280 It's been almost a week and I... 322 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,280 Well, how did you find this place? 323 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,280 What do you think? I didn't tell you where it was if I didn't have reasons. 324 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,280 Let me in, please. I've got to talk to you. 325 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,280 Oh, all right. 326 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,280 Darling, Ed Thornton arrived in town last night. 327 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,280 He came to see me. 328 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:21,280 Oh? 329 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,280 He's never heard of you. 330 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,280 He doesn't know anybody by the name of Evelyn Jarvis, 331 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,280 or anyone that even looks like you. 332 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,280 Is that what you came up here to tell me? 333 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,280 Darling, darling, I don't care what it is. 334 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:33,280 Only please, please. 335 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:34,280 Jerry! 336 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,280 Oh, darling, I want you so much. 337 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,280 Oh, Jerry, Jerry, my darling. 338 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,280 I want you to go away with me tonight. 339 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:44,280 I want you to marry me. 340 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,280 You... you what? 341 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,280 I want you to marry me. 342 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:49,280 But first... 343 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,280 Oh, my darling, I've waited so long. 344 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:53,280 There's something... 345 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,280 There's something I've got to tell you. 346 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,280 No, Jerry. No, Jerry, don't. 347 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,280 I've got to. 348 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,280 And then you can tell me whatever it is, 349 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,280 and we can start even... 350 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,280 if you still want to. 351 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,280 Jerry, do we always have to tell anything? 352 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,280 Does that matter now? 353 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,280 I've got to, Evelyn. 354 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,280 I can't keep it any longer, 355 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,280 not the way I feel about... about you. 356 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,280 Jerry. 357 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:22,280 I've... I've killed someone. 358 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,280 I'm a murderer. 359 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:25,280 Who? 360 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,280 Lorne Moore. 361 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,280 And another man is going to die for it. 362 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,280 Jerry. Oh, no, my darling. 363 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Listen to me. 364 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,280 It doesn't matter. 365 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,280 I don't care what you've done. 366 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,280 Jerry, I love you. 367 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,280 You know that. I love you. 368 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:44,280 Can you still? 369 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,280 I've loved you from the beginning. 370 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,280 It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now. 371 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,280 Darling, what do you mean, 372 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,280 it didn't matter then? 373 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Did you... 374 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,280 Yes, I knew. 375 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,280 Do you know who I am? 376 00:15:58,280 --> 00:15:59,280 Who? 377 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:00,280 I'm Eve Jeremy, 378 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,280 the wife of the man who's going to die for it. 379 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:04,280 His wife? 380 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,280 Yes. 381 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,280 Now you know. 382 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,280 And you're willing to let him die? 383 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,280 He deserves to die for the things he's done. 384 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,280 He'd have probably killed her anyway if you hadn't. 385 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,280 I knew he was seeing her. 386 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,280 He was a beast, Jerry. 387 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,280 I knew from the beginning it was a mistake. 388 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:20,280 He beat me. 389 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,280 He beat me and he tortured me. 390 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,280 I can't even tell you some of the things he... 391 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,280 When... when does it happen? 392 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:30,280 The 16th. Tomorrow night. 393 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:31,280 Tomorrow night? 394 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,280 Does that matter to you? 395 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,280 I'd let 50 men die to get you, darling. 396 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,280 That's why I haven't seen you. 397 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,280 That's why I haven't seen you. 398 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:39,280 I was waiting until... 399 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,280 We could be in Argentina tomorrow night. 400 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:41,280 I'll pack. 401 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,280 I can get plane tickets tonight from a friend. 402 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:44,280 I don't have to change, do I? 403 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:45,280 Oh, you look lovely. 404 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,280 I'll just throw a couple of things in a bag. 405 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:49,280 Nobody will know about this place anyway. 406 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,280 Make it quick, though. 407 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,280 And it's a perfectly logical time for me to go away for a while. 408 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,280 Hurry, baby, hurry. 409 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,280 I'm already now. 410 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,280 How do I look? 411 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,280 Oh, you look beautiful, darling. 412 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:02,280 Wait. 413 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:03,280 What? 414 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,280 I ought to write a note to him. 415 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:06,280 Your husband? 416 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:07,280 Yes. 417 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,280 Just to keep us both in the clear. 418 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,280 He won't get it until just before... 419 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:13,280 What are you going to say? 420 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,280 Well, you can read it if you want to. 421 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:17,280 No, no. 422 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:18,280 Here. 423 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:19,280 I'll mail it for you. 424 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,280 No, I'll just stick it in my handbag. 425 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:21,280 I'll mail it at the airport. 426 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,280 Are you ready? 427 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:23,280 Yes. 428 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,280 Come on, Jerry. 429 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,280 Well, good evening, Mrs. Jarrett. 430 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,280 Oh, hello. 431 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,280 You taking a little trip? 432 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,280 Wouldn't you if you were me? 433 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,280 Sure, I know how you feel. 434 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,280 You in a hurry? 435 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:41,280 Sort of. 436 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,280 My friend here was going to run me down to the airport. 437 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,280 Lieutenant Trout, Mr. Jordan. 438 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:48,280 Well, I won't keep you but a minute, 439 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,280 and then I'll give you a fast trip down there in a squad car. 440 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,280 Want to step inside a minute? 441 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:54,280 All right. 442 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,280 Your friend here know what you've been doing? 443 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:00,280 In a way. 444 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,280 Any luck with our little gadget? 445 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:03,280 What little gadget? 446 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,280 Oh, a dictaphone. 447 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,280 Lieutenant Trout thought... 448 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,280 You thought, Mrs. Jarrett. 449 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,280 All right, I thought. 450 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,280 Mind if I turn it on? 451 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,280 No, go ahead. 452 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,280 There's nothing... 453 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,280 I've got two evidence. 454 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,280 I can't keep it any longer. 455 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,280 Not the way I feel now about you. 456 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,280 Jerry, don't... 457 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,280 I've killed someone. 458 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,280 I'm a murderer. 459 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,280 Who? 460 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,280 Lorna Moore. 461 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,280 And another man is going to die for it. 462 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,280 All right. 463 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Guess that's about all we need to know, isn't it? 464 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,280 I guess it is. 465 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,280 Well, I told you I'd get him, didn't I? 466 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:47,280 Yeah. 467 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:49,280 Evelyn. 468 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,280 You can wrap him up and take him away, Lieutenant. 469 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,280 And don't forget to send me back my husband 470 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,280 the first thing in the morning. 471 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,280 Come on, Jordan. 472 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,280 Eve. 473 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,280 So long, sucker. 474 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:03,280 Eve. 475 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,280 They sure gave you the right name, baby. 476 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,280 Yeah? 477 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,280 Only you wouldn't have needed the apple. 478 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:24,280 Or the snake. 479 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,280 Oh, Frank, darling. 480 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,280 It just doesn't seem possible. 481 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,280 Back here in our own home, 482 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,280 out here on our own terrace again. 483 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,280 Everything just the way it was. 484 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,280 Yeah. 485 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,280 Do you remember when we first took the place, 486 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,280 how happy we were and how the agent took us out on this terrace 487 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,280 and asked us if it would be too high up, 488 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,280 if we were afraid of high places? 489 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,280 Mm-hmm. 490 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,280 Frank, is something bothering you? 491 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:55,280 Well, Eve... 492 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,280 Oh, tell me, darling. 493 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,280 Oh, I know you've been through so much. 494 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,280 When I think that today you might have... 495 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,280 Now, look, Angel, I haven't had a kick coming. 496 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:05,280 You saved my life. 497 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,280 Oh, darling. 498 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:07,280 And I know what the answer is anyway, 499 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,280 but it would only prey on my mind if I didn't talk to you about it. 500 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,280 And there shouldn't be anything like that between us ever, should there? 501 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,280 Oh, of course not, darling. 502 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,280 What is it? 503 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,280 I...I have a record here. 504 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,280 What record? 505 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,280 That the police took off your dictaphone. 506 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,280 Oh, well, Frank, I... 507 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,280 I want to play it back for you, Angel. 508 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,280 I'll put it on the phonograph here on the terrace. 509 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,280 Oh, but Frank, please, dear. 510 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,280 It's all right, Angel. I know. 511 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,280 Jerry. Oh, my Jerry. 512 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,280 Listen to me. 513 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,280 It doesn't matter. 514 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,280 I don't care what you've done. 515 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,280 Jerry, I love you. 516 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:42,280 Do you know that? 517 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,280 I love you. 518 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,280 Can you still? 519 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,280 I've loved you from the beginning. 520 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,280 It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now. 521 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,280 Darling, what do you mean, it didn't matter then? 522 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Did you... 523 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,280 Yes, I knew. 524 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,280 You know who I am? 525 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:00,280 Who? 526 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,280 I'm Eve Jeremy, 527 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,280 the wife of the man who's gonna die for it. 528 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:05,280 His wife? 529 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,280 Yes. 530 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,280 Now you know. 531 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,280 And you are? 532 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,280 Is... 533 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,280 Is that all? 534 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,280 That was the end of the record. 535 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,280 That was all that was recorded. 536 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,280 It's all right, Angel. It's all right. 537 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,280 I know. 538 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,280 Oh, Frank. 539 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,280 Don't you see I had to play it that way? 540 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,280 Don't you see I had to make him think that's... 541 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,280 so I could save you? 542 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,280 Sure, I know, Angel. 543 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,280 I just wanted to hear you say it, I guess. 544 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,280 Please, Angel, I understand. 545 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,280 Do... 546 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:41,280 Do you really? 547 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,280 Well, of course I do. 548 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,280 I'm a hero, Angel. 549 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,280 Oh, darling. 550 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:47,280 Listen, it's all over now. 551 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,280 I'll tell you... 552 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,280 Let's celebrate. 553 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,280 All right. Let's. 554 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,280 I'll go down and get us some wine, champagne or something. 555 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,280 Oh, that'd be wonderful. 556 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,280 I'll go now, only... 557 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,280 What, darling? 558 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,280 Well, just getting out of the clink, I don't have any money. 559 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,280 Do you? 560 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,280 Oh, of course, darling. 561 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,280 Right there in my handbag. 562 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,280 Where? 563 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,280 Oh. 564 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,280 Oh, sure. 565 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,280 Sure, you've got plenty. 566 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,280 Say, here's a letter. 567 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,280 A letter? 568 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,280 Yeah, and it's addressed to me. 569 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,280 A letter? 570 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:20,280 A letter? 571 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,280 Oh, Frank. 572 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,280 Well, you must have forgotten to... 573 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,280 Frank. 574 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,280 No, Frank. 575 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,280 No, Frank, no. 576 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,280 No, Frank, I didn't... 577 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,280 I can explain just how, Frank. 578 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,280 Please, Frank. 579 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,280 Angel! 580 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,280 Ah! 581 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,280 Lieutenant Trout, homicide. 582 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,280 Trout. 583 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,280 Trout, this is Frank Jeremy. 584 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,280 A terrible thing has just happened. 585 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,280 What? 586 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,280 My wife, suicide. 587 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,280 Nerves, I guess. 588 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,280 She jumped off the terrace before I could stop her. 589 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,280 It's 14 stories. 590 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,280 Was suicide, was it? 591 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,280 She gave me a note in her own handwriting just before... 592 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:17,280 Oh. 593 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,280 Well, of course, if the note says so. 594 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,280 It does, all right. 595 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,280 The case is closed. 596 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,280 Here, I'll read it to you. 597 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,280 It says, 598 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,280 Frank, my darling, I've been wrong all the time. 599 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,280 I've failed you utterly. 600 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,280 Now I can't even bear the thought of facing you. 601 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,280 When you read this, I will be gone. 602 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,280 This is farewell. 603 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,280 Forever. 604 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,280 Signed, Eve. 605 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,280 And so closes Eve, 606 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,280 starring Nancy Kelly. 607 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,280 Tonight's study in... 608 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,280 Suspense. 609 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,280 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 610 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,280 And now, further to intrigue you, 611 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,280 we of Suspense present a special preview 612 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,280 of our next exciting tale. 613 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,280 And here it is, 614 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,280 a tantalizing glimpse of our next adventure in... 615 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,280 Suspense. 616 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,280 Warden Graves. 617 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,280 Yes, Miss Rhodes. 618 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,280 Sit down, won't you? 619 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,280 Thank you. 620 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,280 I hate to disturb you like this, 621 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,280 but I've traveled clear across the country. 622 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,280 They wouldn't give me the information over the phone. 623 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,280 I know. 624 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,280 You know what this visit is all about, Warden? 625 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:33,280 To some extent, yes. 626 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,280 You think one of our prisoners, Tom Nixon, has escaped? 627 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,280 He has escaped. 628 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,280 I'm as sure of it as I'm sure of sitting here now. 629 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,280 I saw him at large in New York City two days ago. 630 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,280 You knew Tom Nixon well, Miss Rhodes? 631 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,280 Knew him? 632 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,280 He was my mother's murderer. 633 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,280 My mother was Mrs. George Rhodes of Huntington, Long Island. 634 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,280 She ran a boarding house there. 635 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,280 He killed her on September 18, 1935. 636 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,280 We have all the records of the crime, Miss Rhodes. 637 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,280 Tom was Mother's chief boarder for ten years. 638 00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,280 Know him. 639 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,280 Why, I sat opposite him at dinner table 640 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,280 from the time I was a girl of 15. 641 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,280 I knew him as well as I knew Mother. 642 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,280 I'd know him anyway. 643 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,280 I see. 644 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,280 And now he's at large. He's free. 645 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,280 Somewhere or other, he's escaped this place. 646 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,280 Maybe you're not aware of it. 647 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,280 Maybe even his fellow prisoners aren't aware of it. 648 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,280 But he's wormed his way out. 649 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,280 And he's after me. 650 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,280 He's after me. 651 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,280 Oh, now, my dear young lady. 652 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,280 Warden Graves. 653 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,280 Ten years ago, Mother was found murdered. 654 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,280 I knew it couldn't have been anyone but Tom. 655 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,280 I testified against him. 656 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,280 I was the chief, practically the only witness at the trial. 657 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,280 And when they sentenced him here for life, 658 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,280 he swore to kill me. 659 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,280 He swore in the open court to get even with me. 660 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,280 For ten years, I've lived in deadly fear. 661 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,280 I've watched the newspapers for prison breaks. 662 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,280 I've moved from house to house. 663 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,280 Made few friends. 664 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,280 He's hung over me like a shadow. 665 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,280 Even though I told myself he was locked up here. 666 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,280 Locked up here forever. 667 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,280 And now it's come. 668 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,280 And where exactly did you see the prisoner, Miss Rhodes? 669 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,280 That's just the point. 670 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,280 That's why I know he's after me. 671 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,280 I saw him in my own apartment house. 672 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,280 Well. 673 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,280 He has a job there. 674 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,280 Running the elevator at night. 675 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,280 That's what makes it so horrible. 676 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,280 I've never married Warden Graves. 677 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,280 I live all alone in a small three room penthouse 678 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,280 on the 18th floor of an office building. 679 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,280 The other night, about a week ago, 680 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,280 I came home alone from the movies. 681 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,280 After midnight. 682 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,280 The big marble lobby of my building was deserted. 683 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,280 Except in a far corner near the elevator 684 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,280 with his back toward me, 685 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,280 there was a man, down on his hands and knees, 686 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,280 scrubbing the floor. 687 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:42,280 Good evening. 688 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:54,280 Evening. 689 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,280 Well. 690 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,280 Where is everybody? 691 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,280 Isn't the elevator working tonight? 692 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,280 You want to go up in the elevator, Mom? 693 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,280 Certainly. 694 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,280 I'll be right with you. 695 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:06,280 Okay, Mom. 696 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,280 What floor? 697 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,280 I was in the elevator. 698 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,280 And he had started to ascend before I really saw him. 699 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,280 It was Tom. 700 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,280 His hair had turned white. 701 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,280 And there was a horrible stoop to his shoulders. 702 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,280 Everything about him. 703 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:24,280 The crook of his head. 704 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,280 His high, thin, bony nose. 705 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,280 The hollow cheekbones. 706 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Were all the same. 707 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,280 And then he turned and stared at me. 708 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,280 I could see those deadly pale, cold eyes. 709 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,280 Those heavy eyebrows. 710 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,280 Still black. 711 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,280 That familiar, quiet, sarcastic mouth. 712 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,280 What floor, Mom? 713 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,280 Oh. 714 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,280 My floor. 715 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,280 Yes. 716 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:50,280 The penthouse, please. 717 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:51,280 Penthouse? 718 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,280 Where's that? On the roof? 719 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,280 Yes. 720 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,280 On the roof, please. 721 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,280 Eighteenth floor. 722 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,280 Okay. 723 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,280 Warden Graves. 724 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,280 It was like being in a cage with a wild beast. 725 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,280 He kept watching me. 726 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,280 Peering at me furtively. 727 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,280 As the elevator moved, agonizing, slowness, up and up past the floors. 728 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,280 I shrunk back, averting my face. 729 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,280 The light in the car was dim. 730 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,280 My only hope was that he did not recognize me. 731 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,280 Here's your floor, Miss. 732 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Thank you. 733 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,280 Good night. 734 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,280 Good night. 735 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,280 Good night. 736 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,280 You can go back down. 737 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,280 I don't need anything, thank you. 738 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,280 What's the matter? 739 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,280 Forgotten your door key? 740 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,280 No. 741 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,280 No, it's just... 742 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,280 It's right in my bag. 743 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,280 I'll find it in a minute. 744 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,280 You want me to let you in? 745 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,280 Let me in? 746 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,280 No. 747 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,280 No, good Lord. 748 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,280 I got pass keys to all the doors. 749 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,280 No trouble. 750 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:51,280 No, thanks, but I... 751 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,280 No. 752 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,280 No. 753 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,280 No, I have it right here. 754 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:55,280 Good night. 755 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,280 And so until our next performance, 756 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,280 when you will hear the rest of this exciting tale, 757 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,280 we keep you in... 758 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:36,280 Suspense! 759 00:29:40,280 --> 00:30:03,280 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 760 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:17,280 Thank you.