WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.680 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:05.680 --> 00:08.680 Suspense. 00:08.680 --> 00:24.920 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you the distinguished actor, Mr. J. Carroll Nash, a star in Footfalls, 00:24.920 --> 00:33.160 a suspense play produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 00:33.160 --> 00:36.680 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:36.680 --> 00:39.760 That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 00:39.760 --> 00:44.320 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:44.320 --> 00:48.720 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:48.720 --> 00:55.040 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable 00:55.040 --> 00:57.480 tale of suspense. 00:57.480 --> 01:01.280 And with the drama called Footfalls and with the performance of Mr. J. Carroll Nash, Roma 01:01.280 --> 01:04.280 Wines hope indeed to keep you in... 01:04.280 --> 01:07.280 Suspense. 01:07.280 --> 01:20.080 How are you feeling, Bose? 01:20.080 --> 01:21.960 Good, Charlie. 01:21.960 --> 01:25.320 I feel good for a man who is going to die. 01:25.320 --> 01:26.720 Oh, don't be silly. 01:26.720 --> 01:28.520 What do you want to talk that way for? 01:28.520 --> 01:30.000 Oh, it is true. 01:30.000 --> 01:31.200 I know. 01:31.200 --> 01:33.360 But I do not feel bad. 01:33.360 --> 01:38.200 I asked you to come here only because I feel like talking a little while. 01:38.200 --> 01:40.600 You mind if I talk a little while, Charlie? 01:40.600 --> 01:41.600 Sure, sure. 01:41.600 --> 01:43.400 You talk as much as you want to. 01:43.400 --> 01:50.440 Charlie, all these years a cop, but a good cop and a good friend. 01:50.440 --> 01:52.040 You know I'm your friend, Bose. 01:52.040 --> 01:53.800 Yes, I know it. 01:53.800 --> 01:56.080 All these years I knew it. 01:56.080 --> 02:02.080 All those years when I keep silent, waiting to kill a man. 02:02.080 --> 02:07.000 There are not many people now who still remember my Manuel. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.360 But you remember, even when he was a little boy. 02:11.360 --> 02:19.120 Yes, perhaps it was true I was too fond, too easy on him after his mother died. 02:19.120 --> 02:22.560 But it was only because he was not so strong. 02:22.560 --> 02:24.840 And he was a good boy. 02:24.840 --> 02:28.680 Always Manuel was a good boy. 02:28.680 --> 02:33.960 You were like the others too, Charlie, the way you thought of him, but you, I know it 02:33.960 --> 02:38.840 was because you were afraid he would bring sorrow to all boys. 02:38.840 --> 02:45.920 I even remember the first time you were afraid, when he was just a little fellow. 02:45.920 --> 02:46.920 Papa. 02:46.920 --> 02:47.920 Yes, Manuel? 02:47.920 --> 02:49.800 What are you doing? 02:49.800 --> 02:51.360 What am I doing? 02:51.360 --> 02:52.720 What I always do. 02:52.720 --> 02:53.720 I work. 02:53.720 --> 02:55.560 I mend shoes. 02:55.560 --> 02:56.560 How do you? 02:56.560 --> 02:59.200 What kind of questions do you ask me? 02:59.200 --> 03:00.200 How do I? 03:00.200 --> 03:03.480 You see, ever since you were a little baby, how I do? 03:03.480 --> 03:07.480 With my knife, my hammer, with the little nails. 03:07.480 --> 03:10.080 But how can you work when you can't see? 03:10.080 --> 03:14.720 Why do I have need to see when I have my hands and my ears? 03:14.720 --> 03:17.640 Papa, what is it like to be blind? 03:17.640 --> 03:20.280 Oh, it is not like anything. 03:20.280 --> 03:25.560 What I touch with my hands, what I hear with my ears, those things I see with my mind, 03:25.560 --> 03:27.640 as well as you do with your eyes. 03:27.640 --> 03:31.200 Oh, it is nothing to be blind. 03:31.200 --> 03:34.200 Ah, good morning, Miss Evans. 03:34.200 --> 03:35.720 Good morning, Boaz. 03:35.720 --> 03:36.720 Hello, Manuel. 03:36.720 --> 03:37.720 Hello. 03:37.720 --> 03:41.800 Papa, is it really true that you can tell everybody by their footsteps? 03:41.800 --> 03:43.640 Oh, of course. 03:43.640 --> 03:45.520 Didn't you see just then? 03:45.520 --> 03:47.760 And you really can't see them at all? 03:47.760 --> 03:48.760 Not even a little bit? 03:48.760 --> 03:51.000 Not even a little bit. 03:51.000 --> 03:56.680 To me, a footstep is as to you a face or a voice, each one is different. 03:56.680 --> 04:01.440 That is how I know people and remember them, even for many years. 04:01.440 --> 04:02.840 All right. 04:02.840 --> 04:04.800 Tell me who's coming down the street now. 04:04.800 --> 04:06.280 But you mustn't look. 04:06.280 --> 04:08.640 Oh, somebody is coming now. 04:08.640 --> 04:10.640 Well, well. 04:10.640 --> 04:13.000 That is the easiest of all, Manuel. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.440 That is our policeman, Mr. Rug. 04:15.440 --> 04:18.040 Now, am I right? 04:18.040 --> 04:19.040 Mm-hmm. 04:19.040 --> 04:20.400 Oh, hello, Charlie. 04:20.400 --> 04:22.000 You come for your shoes? 04:22.000 --> 04:23.480 No, just passing by. 04:23.480 --> 04:25.600 But I'll pick them up if they're ready. 04:25.600 --> 04:26.840 Well, not yet, Charlie. 04:26.840 --> 04:30.040 But do you come back this afternoon and they will be ready? 04:30.040 --> 04:33.080 Papa, can I have a nickel? 04:33.080 --> 04:35.480 Always the piece for the pocket, huh? 04:35.480 --> 04:36.960 Here, here's what they have. 04:36.960 --> 04:38.600 Now, you take a nickel out, huh? 04:38.600 --> 04:39.600 Thanks, Papa. 04:39.600 --> 04:41.080 Here, here you young scamp. 04:41.080 --> 04:42.080 Let me go. 04:42.080 --> 04:43.080 Well, what is it? 04:43.080 --> 04:45.160 It wasn't a nickel he took, it was half a dollar. 04:45.160 --> 04:48.520 Well, oh, that was only a mistake. 04:48.520 --> 04:51.440 Oh, Manuel, you keep the half dollar. 04:51.440 --> 04:52.920 Now, go on, run along. 04:52.920 --> 04:53.920 Thanks, Papa. 04:53.920 --> 04:55.920 Bye-bye. 04:55.920 --> 05:00.680 I didn't mean to butt in between you and your young men, Bose, but I thought maybe you didn't... 05:00.680 --> 05:02.360 That I did not know. 05:02.360 --> 05:05.280 Oh, I knew. 05:05.280 --> 05:10.160 But Manuel, he needs things now and he is not like other boys. 05:10.160 --> 05:12.920 Well, he's not so strong. 05:12.920 --> 05:16.520 Yeah, it's none of my business, but spare the rod, you know. 05:16.520 --> 05:18.280 He is a good boy. 05:18.280 --> 05:30.680 My Manuel is always a good boy. 05:30.680 --> 05:36.600 So it was like that through the years, a quiet life, my work, my shop, my house behind the 05:36.600 --> 05:41.680 shop, a quiet life until that day he came. 05:41.680 --> 05:45.480 My Manuel, he was a big boy now, almost a man. 05:45.480 --> 05:48.960 Still, he was not strong. 05:48.960 --> 05:53.720 I remember that day, it was evening, and Manuel had just come into the shop. 05:53.720 --> 05:55.720 I knew what he wanted. 05:55.720 --> 05:57.080 Hello, Pop. 05:57.080 --> 05:58.640 Oh, hello, Manuel. 05:58.640 --> 06:00.840 Well, have a good day today? 06:00.840 --> 06:02.320 Sure, pretty good. 06:02.320 --> 06:05.200 So, well, what were you doing today? 06:05.200 --> 06:07.960 Oh, just walking around and thinking. 06:07.960 --> 06:09.400 Thinking, uh-huh. 06:09.400 --> 06:11.080 Thinking about what? 06:11.080 --> 06:12.840 Just about people and things. 06:12.840 --> 06:16.760 Do they pay much for that kind of work, Manuel? 06:16.760 --> 06:18.240 You want me to get a job, Pop? 06:18.240 --> 06:21.120 Oh, Manuel, no, no, you do that when you want to. 06:21.120 --> 06:25.080 To work is good, but to think is good, too. 06:25.080 --> 06:26.680 You're a swell guy, Pop. 06:26.680 --> 06:30.760 Well, now, maybe a piece for the pocket, huh? 06:30.760 --> 06:31.760 Well... 06:31.760 --> 06:33.880 Five dollars, ten maybe? 06:33.880 --> 06:34.880 If it's all right. 06:34.880 --> 06:35.880 Sure, here. 06:35.880 --> 06:36.880 Here you are. 06:36.880 --> 06:37.880 Huh? 06:37.880 --> 06:43.320 It's a stranger coming down our street. 06:43.320 --> 06:44.880 You hear? 06:44.880 --> 06:46.760 Not the way you do, Pop. 06:46.760 --> 06:49.400 Why, he's stopping at our door, I think. 06:49.400 --> 06:51.720 Well, I think I'll be going, Pop. 06:51.720 --> 06:52.720 Yes, Manuel. 06:52.720 --> 06:53.720 Good night. 06:53.720 --> 06:54.720 Good night, Pop. 06:54.720 --> 06:55.720 Mr. Negro? 06:55.720 --> 06:56.720 Mr. Boaz Negro? 06:56.720 --> 06:57.720 Yes? 06:57.720 --> 07:03.080 I'm a stranger in town, Mr. Negro, and I... 07:03.080 --> 07:04.080 Yes, yes, I know. 07:04.080 --> 07:08.240 What? What was that you said? 07:08.240 --> 07:09.240 Oh, nothing. 07:09.240 --> 07:12.240 I was merely thinking out loud. 07:12.240 --> 07:13.240 Please continue, Mr. 07:13.240 --> 07:14.240 Mr. 07:14.240 --> 07:15.240 Wood. 07:15.240 --> 07:16.240 Campbell Wood. 07:16.240 --> 07:17.240 Wood. 07:17.240 --> 07:18.240 Mr. Campbell Wood. 07:18.240 --> 07:23.200 Well, as I was saying, I'm a stranger in town, and I was told down at the depot that you 07:23.200 --> 07:24.200 had a room to rent. 07:24.200 --> 07:25.560 Matter of fact, I have. 07:25.560 --> 07:29.480 Well, I'm just starting at a new job in the bank, and I can't afford to pay too much, 07:29.480 --> 07:30.480 but... 07:30.480 --> 07:34.640 I always like to help a young fellow to get a start in life. 07:34.640 --> 07:37.200 How would five dollars a week suit you, Mr. Wood? 07:37.200 --> 07:39.120 Oh, that is if you like the room, of course. 07:39.120 --> 07:41.600 That would be just fine, Mr. Negro. 07:41.600 --> 07:45.720 Now, if I could see the room. 07:45.720 --> 07:48.880 So you are making your start in life, eh, Mr. Wood? 07:48.880 --> 07:50.720 Well, I hope so, Mr. Negro. 07:50.720 --> 07:57.480 You know, I can tell something about you, Mr. Wood, by your voice, but even more by 07:57.480 --> 07:58.480 your footsteps. 07:58.480 --> 07:59.480 By my footsteps? 07:59.480 --> 08:03.800 Oh, that is a sort of specialty of mine, yes? 08:03.800 --> 08:07.720 I think you will, as they say, go places, Mr. Wood. 08:07.720 --> 08:09.400 Well, I'll certainly try. 08:09.400 --> 08:11.600 Oh, yes, yes, you will, Mr. Wood. 08:11.600 --> 08:17.400 Very definitely you will go places. 08:17.400 --> 08:26.600 Yes, and I was right. 08:26.600 --> 08:31.640 He did go places, maybe even a little too fast, and there was talk. 08:31.640 --> 08:36.480 That fine young Mr. Wood who lived with old boys, Negro, they said, what a contrast to 08:36.480 --> 08:39.320 that son, that Manuel, who did nothing. 08:39.320 --> 08:43.200 Then that night, that night when he came home late. 08:43.200 --> 08:45.840 Oh, good evening, Mr. Wood. 08:45.840 --> 08:47.440 You are out rather late tonight. 08:47.440 --> 08:50.640 Yes, I had to attend a special board of trade meeting. 08:50.640 --> 08:52.600 And you, you're up rather late tonight yourself. 08:52.600 --> 08:58.040 Yes, I had to attend to my special shoes. 08:58.040 --> 09:00.200 Mr. Boas, I'd like to speak to you. 09:00.200 --> 09:02.040 Well, do you need my permission? 09:02.040 --> 09:04.240 Well, this affair is none of my business. 09:04.240 --> 09:05.680 Well, go on, go on. 09:05.680 --> 09:11.520 Well, Don, I hate to see a hardworking man like yourself support a lazy son. 09:11.520 --> 09:12.960 Why doesn't he get himself a job? 09:12.960 --> 09:14.720 You know, my Manuel is not strong. 09:14.720 --> 09:18.640 Well, that's what I've heard you tell your friends, but he doesn't appear undernourished 09:18.640 --> 09:19.640 to me. 09:19.640 --> 09:22.960 Mr. Wood, my Manuel is not too strong. 09:22.960 --> 09:24.920 Well, couldn't he learn your trade then? 09:24.920 --> 09:25.920 Shoemaking? 09:25.920 --> 09:28.840 Well, it may be good enough for a blind man, but for Manuel... 09:28.840 --> 09:33.480 Well, I'm feeling a bit tired, so I guess I'll be going upstairs. 09:33.480 --> 09:38.880 Oh, darn it, getting as careless as a newborn baby. 09:38.880 --> 09:41.880 Now, let me see. 09:41.880 --> 09:44.880 Oh, dear, gee whiz. 09:44.880 --> 09:47.400 Oh, I'm glad it's all here. 09:47.400 --> 09:49.400 I'm responsible, you know. 09:49.400 --> 09:50.400 For what? 09:50.400 --> 09:52.120 For the gold I have in this sack. 09:52.120 --> 09:54.240 It's government money for the breakwater project. 09:54.240 --> 09:55.640 Indeed, but why have you... 09:55.640 --> 09:59.240 I know what you're thinking, Mr. Negrow, but I'm keeping the money for the bank until tomorrow 09:59.240 --> 10:00.240 morning. 10:00.240 --> 10:04.760 You see, too many people in town know that we received the funds, and I don't trust that 10:04.760 --> 10:06.360 old safe we have down at the bank. 10:06.360 --> 10:08.080 Well, very, very clever, Mr. Wood. 10:08.080 --> 10:13.360 So you take the money home for you with safekeeping, and nobody is any wiser. 10:13.360 --> 10:14.360 Very clever. 10:14.360 --> 10:17.560 I'd rather think so myself. 10:17.560 --> 10:21.200 I'm glad I dropped the sack in front of you, Mr. Negrow, because I know I can trust you 10:21.200 --> 10:24.880 as far as, well, as far as I can trust myself. 10:24.880 --> 10:29.160 That is a fine compliment for an old cobbler, Mr. Wood. 10:29.160 --> 10:31.440 Well, I'm going upstairs now. 10:31.440 --> 10:33.200 Remember, I have your word. 10:33.200 --> 10:34.960 Yes, you have my word. 10:34.960 --> 10:35.960 What's that? 10:35.960 --> 10:38.520 Oh, well, a mouse, I suppose. 10:38.520 --> 10:40.360 I will have to set a trap. 10:40.360 --> 10:41.360 Is Manuel home? 10:41.360 --> 10:44.360 No, no, no, Mr. Wood, he is not here. 10:44.360 --> 10:45.360 Good night. 10:45.360 --> 10:52.600 Good night. 10:52.600 --> 10:55.320 That was the first time I was frightened. 10:55.320 --> 10:58.920 That was the first time I ever thought of such a thing. 10:58.920 --> 11:02.920 Manuel was home, and he has heard everything I thought. 11:02.920 --> 11:07.960 Manuel has heard the tinkle of gold, the tinkle of gold. 11:07.960 --> 11:09.960 Manuel, Manuel. 11:09.960 --> 11:12.760 Yes, Pop? 11:12.760 --> 11:15.480 Did you hear my boy? 11:15.480 --> 11:18.280 Yes, I heard, Pop. 11:18.280 --> 11:20.040 You won't say anything. 11:20.040 --> 11:21.040 Why should I? 11:21.040 --> 11:24.520 Ah, you are a good boy, Manuel. 11:24.520 --> 11:27.000 Are you short of money? 11:27.000 --> 11:28.000 Perhaps $10? 11:28.000 --> 11:31.280 Thanks, Pop, but I don't need it now. 11:31.280 --> 11:33.480 Well, are you sure, Manuel? 11:33.480 --> 11:36.540 A fiver or a tenner? 11:36.540 --> 11:38.240 Not now, Pop. 11:38.240 --> 11:39.760 Some other time, huh? 11:39.760 --> 11:40.760 Sure, Pop. 11:40.760 --> 11:42.480 Sure, some other time. 11:42.480 --> 11:46.040 Some other time. 11:46.040 --> 11:48.280 My Manuel was a good boy. 11:48.280 --> 11:52.200 Yes, but I wished he did not know about the money. 11:52.200 --> 12:00.800 I tried to return to my work, but I could not, and suddenly I knew that I was listening. 12:00.800 --> 12:06.200 First I heard footsteps there in the house behind the shop, the footsteps prowling here 12:06.200 --> 12:16.880 and there, halting, advancing again, then others pacing back and forth, back and forth. 12:16.880 --> 12:19.560 A door opened, a voice. 12:19.560 --> 12:22.560 Hello, Casino, or Gin Rummy? 12:22.560 --> 12:23.960 Sure, why not? 12:23.960 --> 12:29.440 The steps again, the door closing, and then silence. 12:29.440 --> 12:33.520 Oh, how I wished to know what that silence meant. 12:33.520 --> 12:38.960 And yet, though I wished to know stronger in me than that, I wished not to know. 12:38.960 --> 12:46.400 It was cold, and I pulled my old coat around me, still listening to the silence. 12:46.400 --> 12:52.080 A little later I thought I heard a little sound like the rustling of the wind outside 12:52.080 --> 13:03.160 my shop, but I could not tell, and then perhaps I dozed there in my chair. 13:03.160 --> 13:04.160 Smoke! 13:04.160 --> 13:07.840 Yes, there's fire in my house, fire! 13:07.840 --> 13:08.840 Help! 13:08.840 --> 13:09.840 Fire! 13:09.840 --> 13:10.840 Fire! 13:10.840 --> 13:11.840 Fire! 13:11.840 --> 13:23.080 The rest was like a nightmare, because I knew. 13:23.080 --> 13:26.520 Even as they poked and searched through the ashes of my house, I knew. 13:26.520 --> 13:27.520 Hey, look here. 13:27.520 --> 13:29.640 A body, a man's body. 13:29.640 --> 13:33.320 Yeah, what's left of it. 13:33.320 --> 13:36.720 Oh, a dreadful accident. 13:36.720 --> 13:37.720 It wasn't an accident. 13:37.720 --> 13:38.720 Well, why not? 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Carol Nash, who in the character 15:31.520 --> 15:36.240 of Boas Negro, the Blind Cobbler, continues a narrative well calculated to keep you in 15:36.240 --> 15:49.600 suspense. 15:49.600 --> 15:53.120 It is very kind of you to listen, Charlie. 15:53.120 --> 15:56.520 I feel suddenly so old. 15:56.520 --> 16:03.680 I feel that it is right for me to tell about it, because sometime tonight I am going to 16:03.680 --> 16:04.680 go. 16:04.680 --> 16:11.960 Oh, but that nightmare day when the body was found in the ashes of my house, when I was 16:11.960 --> 16:18.480 forced with my heart breaking to agree with you that a dreadful crime had been committed. 16:18.480 --> 16:21.640 You remember, Charlie, you came to me here and... 16:21.640 --> 16:24.560 Listen, Boas, we have identified the body every way there is. 16:24.560 --> 16:28.000 The clothes, the cufflinks, the watch they gave him at the bank, you know that. 16:28.000 --> 16:29.440 And the money is gone. 16:29.440 --> 16:30.440 Yes. 16:30.440 --> 16:31.440 All right, then. 16:31.440 --> 16:34.360 For the hundredth time, where is Manuel? 16:34.360 --> 16:35.360 Where is Manuel? 16:35.360 --> 16:37.440 And for the hundredth time, I do not know. 16:37.440 --> 16:38.880 Come on, Boas, quit stalling. 16:38.880 --> 16:39.880 Where is he? 16:39.880 --> 16:40.880 I am not stalling. 16:40.880 --> 16:42.880 I don't know, I tell you. 16:42.880 --> 16:44.560 All right. 16:44.560 --> 16:45.560 When did you see him last? 16:45.560 --> 16:46.560 After supper. 16:46.560 --> 16:47.820 He was in the shop. 16:47.820 --> 16:49.920 You knew about the government money, Boas? 16:49.920 --> 16:50.920 Yes. 16:50.920 --> 16:52.600 And Manuel, he knew too? 16:52.600 --> 16:53.600 Manuel knew? 16:53.600 --> 16:54.600 Yes. 16:54.600 --> 16:55.600 I see. 16:55.600 --> 16:56.600 As I thought. 16:56.600 --> 16:59.560 Well, you must not think those things about my Manuel, Chief. 16:59.560 --> 17:01.100 He is a good boy. 17:01.100 --> 17:02.280 What happened after you saw Manuel? 17:02.280 --> 17:03.280 Nothing. 17:03.280 --> 17:04.280 He went into sleep. 17:04.280 --> 17:05.720 He stayed in the shop and worked. 17:05.720 --> 17:06.720 I see. 17:06.720 --> 17:08.120 Did you hear anything, Boas? 17:08.120 --> 17:09.120 Yes. 17:09.120 --> 17:12.080 I heard a man, the man, moving about. 17:12.080 --> 17:13.080 What man? 17:13.080 --> 17:15.400 Mr. Wood upstairs and my son down here. 17:15.400 --> 17:17.240 Ah, then Manuel wasn't asleep. 17:17.240 --> 17:20.520 No, he was not asleep. 17:20.520 --> 17:21.520 Go on. 17:21.520 --> 17:24.120 A while later, the noise stopped and... 17:24.120 --> 17:25.120 We must know everything, Boas. 17:25.120 --> 17:29.960 Well, a while later, Mr. Wood called down to Manuel and asked him if he cared to come 17:29.960 --> 17:31.880 upstairs and play cards with him. 17:31.880 --> 17:32.880 You heard him ask that? 17:32.880 --> 17:33.880 Yes. 17:33.880 --> 17:34.880 He was talking to Manuel who asked Mr. Wood. 17:34.880 --> 17:35.880 Yet this is... 17:35.880 --> 17:39.320 This is as I said, I do not lie to you. 17:39.320 --> 17:40.960 All right, all right. 17:40.960 --> 17:42.600 Did Manuel go up to Mr. Wood's room? 17:42.600 --> 17:44.320 Yes, he went up. 17:44.320 --> 17:45.320 I see. 17:45.320 --> 17:47.800 Now, did you hear anything else after that? 17:47.800 --> 17:49.800 No, no nothing. 17:49.800 --> 17:50.800 Nothing? 17:50.800 --> 17:51.800 Hmm? 17:51.800 --> 17:56.640 Well, there is something else. 17:56.640 --> 18:02.200 Sometime during the night, I thought I heard something, footfalls perhaps, stealing past 18:02.200 --> 18:03.200 my shop. 18:03.200 --> 18:04.200 I see. 18:04.200 --> 18:06.960 That you wouldn't swear in court that you heard them. 18:06.960 --> 18:09.440 No, not in court or here in my shop. 18:09.440 --> 18:13.000 I cannot swear to something I am not sure of. 18:13.000 --> 18:16.120 Boas, you're a good man. 18:16.120 --> 18:19.920 We don't want to cause any trouble, but you understand a man has been murdered, government 18:19.920 --> 18:22.220 funds are missing and your son is gone. 18:22.220 --> 18:23.220 What else can we think? 18:23.220 --> 18:28.720 As far as I'm concerned, it's an open and shut case. 18:28.720 --> 18:32.480 I've issued a warrant for Manuel's arrest. 18:32.480 --> 18:34.600 Oh no, no, you cannot. 18:34.600 --> 18:35.600 Yes. 18:35.600 --> 18:39.360 And if you know where he is, it'll go easier for him if you pass on that information. 18:39.360 --> 18:41.440 I've told you all I wish to tell you. 18:41.440 --> 18:42.440 All right, be stubborn. 18:42.440 --> 18:43.440 Stubborn? 18:43.440 --> 18:45.040 Do you wish me to dance a jig? 18:45.040 --> 18:46.840 I tell the truth and you do not believe me. 18:46.840 --> 18:48.480 What more can I do? 18:48.480 --> 18:50.640 Gosh, put yourself in my place, Boas. 18:50.640 --> 18:51.640 This is serious business. 18:51.640 --> 18:53.960 And will you change places with me? 18:53.960 --> 19:01.240 I have lost everything, my house, even my honor, my only son. 19:01.240 --> 19:08.440 I'm sorry. 19:08.440 --> 19:13.420 Someday that murder will return to the place of his crime and when it does, I shall be 19:13.420 --> 19:14.420 waiting for him. 19:14.420 --> 19:29.880 Yes, then, then I will show you for I shall be waiting for him. 19:29.880 --> 19:31.960 Two questions, I gave no answer. 19:31.960 --> 19:33.240 Two threats, I gave no heed. 19:33.240 --> 19:42.160 I scarcely heard them for my ears were deaf to all sounds save one, the sound of footfalls. 19:42.160 --> 19:44.720 The footsteps of a murderer. 19:44.720 --> 19:47.640 Patiently as the weeks, the months, then the years moved by. 19:47.640 --> 19:49.480 I listened for three years. 19:49.480 --> 19:52.440 I listened, wondering only when they would come. 19:52.440 --> 19:55.800 For three years more, I wondered if they would come. 19:55.800 --> 20:00.120 Only the last three years was I troubled by the growing of a terrible doubt. 20:00.120 --> 20:03.080 Suppose the steps had come and gone and I had not heard. 20:03.080 --> 20:05.360 Suppose I were to make a mistake. 20:05.360 --> 20:08.760 Suppose my ears should fail me and I could not remember. 20:08.760 --> 20:10.800 Could not remember. 20:10.800 --> 20:15.680 From that first hour of doubt, every waking moment, yes, even in my dreams, I lived in 20:15.680 --> 20:18.760 a nightmare of echoing jumbled footsteps. 20:18.760 --> 20:22.000 Footsteps slow and halting. 20:22.000 --> 20:23.400 Footsteps quick and running. 20:23.400 --> 20:25.680 Pounding heavy footsteps. 20:25.680 --> 20:27.840 All those like as a cat's tread. 20:27.840 --> 20:30.360 More, more, faster, faster. 20:30.360 --> 20:49.760 Footsteps, footsteps, footsteps. 20:49.760 --> 20:52.880 It was the evening of the winter holidays. 20:52.880 --> 20:56.800 The Portuguese festival of Menuhesu. 20:56.800 --> 21:01.600 Christ was born again in a hundred mangers and a hundred tiny altars. 21:01.600 --> 21:04.920 There was cake and wine and song. 21:04.920 --> 21:07.320 And in all the houses there were lights. 21:07.320 --> 21:13.480 Even in my shop, the shop of Bois Negro, a customer had just called for his shoes and 21:13.480 --> 21:14.480 gone out again. 21:14.480 --> 21:18.080 Now I was thinking of putting out those lights. 21:18.080 --> 21:22.560 I reached up to turn the switch and stopped. 21:22.560 --> 21:25.720 And I entered the shop. 21:25.720 --> 21:27.640 The newcomer stood by the closed door. 21:27.640 --> 21:32.920 I wondered why I had not heard the footfalls leading into the shop. 21:32.920 --> 21:35.320 Yes, what can I do for you? 21:35.320 --> 21:36.920 Well, I don't know. 21:36.920 --> 21:38.600 To tell the truth. 21:38.600 --> 21:40.600 You will have to come nearer, please. 21:40.600 --> 21:43.600 I am a little deaf. 21:43.600 --> 21:48.000 Oh, all right. 21:48.000 --> 21:49.560 Can you hear me now? 21:49.560 --> 21:51.080 Fine, just fine. 21:51.080 --> 21:55.880 I have a pair of expensive boots with me and they're in need of repair. 21:55.880 --> 21:56.880 Could you fix them? 21:56.880 --> 22:00.440 I think so, if you care to leave them with me. 22:00.440 --> 22:03.160 Well, darn it, I haven't got them with me now. 22:03.160 --> 22:07.200 I just thought I could I look around a bit, you know, look around. 22:07.200 --> 22:12.840 Well, you are welcome, but I assure you there is not much interest in a poor copper shop. 22:12.840 --> 22:14.920 Well, that may be true, but I... 22:14.920 --> 22:15.920 The lights. 22:15.920 --> 22:17.480 Put on these lights. 22:17.480 --> 22:18.480 I can't see. 22:18.480 --> 22:19.680 Why did you turn them off? 22:19.680 --> 22:21.920 I can see much better in the dark. 22:21.920 --> 22:22.920 You're crazy. 22:22.920 --> 22:23.920 You can't see at all. 22:23.920 --> 22:24.920 How did you know? 22:24.920 --> 22:27.000 Put on those lights. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.080 Stay where you are. 22:28.080 --> 22:29.480 I can hear every move. 22:29.480 --> 22:33.280 What are you going to do? 22:33.280 --> 22:34.280 Keep away from me. 22:34.280 --> 22:35.280 Don't touch me. 22:35.280 --> 22:36.280 Murderer, murderer. 22:36.280 --> 22:37.280 I have waited nine years. 22:37.280 --> 22:38.280 I have lived for this day. 22:38.280 --> 22:39.280 Murderer. 22:39.280 --> 23:02.000 Then as he died, suddenly I realized this man that I had killed has a beard, a full beard 23:02.000 --> 23:06.120 over his face, over his throat where my fingers strangled him. 23:06.120 --> 23:10.360 I could have been wrong, but no, the footsteps I was certain of. 23:10.360 --> 23:15.600 Then perhaps others would not know him for who he was if suddenly I knew what I must 23:15.600 --> 23:16.600 do. 23:16.600 --> 23:22.640 That his last cries had been heard, I knew, for I could hear the crowd gathering outside 23:22.640 --> 23:23.640 my locked door. 23:23.640 --> 23:28.320 But I set about my task as carefully as though he had been alive. 23:28.320 --> 23:34.160 With a sure, unhurried touch, I continued at my work even as you battered at the door. 23:34.160 --> 23:35.160 All right. 23:35.160 --> 23:36.160 Stand back, all of you. 23:36.160 --> 23:37.160 Stand back. 23:37.160 --> 23:38.160 Come on, Martin. 23:38.160 --> 23:39.160 Yeah, all right. 23:39.160 --> 23:40.160 Lord only knows what we were finding here. 23:40.160 --> 23:41.160 Bose. 23:41.160 --> 23:42.160 Dark as pitch. 23:42.160 --> 23:43.160 Bose, where are you? 23:43.160 --> 23:44.160 Put on the lights, Martin. 23:44.160 --> 23:45.160 I can't find... 23:45.160 --> 23:46.160 Oh, here it is, Chief. 23:46.160 --> 23:47.160 Yeah, that's much better. 23:47.160 --> 23:48.160 Bose. 23:48.160 --> 23:49.160 Bose, what are you doing there on the floor? 23:49.160 --> 23:50.160 Bose, are you all right? 23:50.160 --> 23:51.160 Chief, he's shaving someone. 23:51.160 --> 23:52.160 Bose, what are you doing there? 23:52.160 --> 23:53.160 It's all right, Charlie. 23:53.160 --> 23:54.160 I'm through. 23:54.160 --> 23:55.160 I'm through. 23:55.160 --> 23:56.160 Now, I'm going to go. 23:56.160 --> 23:57.160 I'm going to go. 23:57.160 --> 23:58.160 I'm going to go. 23:58.160 --> 23:59.160 I'm going to go. 23:59.160 --> 24:00.160 I'm going to go. 24:00.160 --> 24:01.160 I'm going to go. 24:01.160 --> 24:02.160 I'm going to go. 24:02.160 --> 24:05.160 I'm through. 24:05.160 --> 24:07.160 Now, tell me, is it that murderer? 24:07.160 --> 24:09.160 This guy on the floor is dead, Chief. 24:09.160 --> 24:10.160 He's strangled. 24:10.160 --> 24:13.160 Tell me, is it that murderer? 24:13.160 --> 24:15.160 Manuel, Bose? 24:15.160 --> 24:17.160 You mean Manuel? 24:17.160 --> 24:18.160 Not Manuel. 24:18.160 --> 24:21.160 I told you my Manuel was a good boy. 24:21.160 --> 24:24.160 But I ask you, is it that murderer? 24:24.160 --> 24:25.160 Well, it... 24:25.160 --> 24:26.160 Good Lord. 24:26.160 --> 24:27.160 What's up, Chief? 24:27.160 --> 24:29.160 That man on the floor. 24:29.160 --> 24:31.160 It's Campbell Wood. 24:31.160 --> 24:33.160 The bank fellow we thought was burned. 24:33.160 --> 24:34.160 Burned? 24:34.160 --> 24:35.160 Him burned? 24:35.160 --> 24:37.160 No, it was my boy that was burned. 24:37.160 --> 24:39.160 That murderer killed my boy. 24:39.160 --> 24:42.160 He put his clothes on him and set fire to my house. 24:42.160 --> 24:43.160 I knew that all the time. 24:43.160 --> 24:45.160 Why didn't you tell us all this before? 24:45.160 --> 24:47.160 And have you laugh in my face? 24:47.160 --> 24:51.160 Could I tell you that I thought those footfalls moving along the side of the shop belonged 24:51.160 --> 24:52.160 to Mr. Wood? 24:52.160 --> 24:55.160 A blind man with crazy ideas, you would say. 24:55.160 --> 24:58.160 Could I stop him and ask where he was going? 24:58.160 --> 25:01.160 If I were not blind, he would have killed me too. 25:01.160 --> 25:04.160 No, it was not my son that ran away. 25:04.160 --> 25:07.160 It was this murderer all the time. 25:07.160 --> 25:10.160 But I told you he'd come back. 25:10.160 --> 25:12.160 And I killed him. 25:12.160 --> 25:14.160 I showed you. 25:14.160 --> 25:29.160 Now you can hang me for my crime. 25:29.160 --> 25:32.160 You remember, don't you, Charlie? 25:32.160 --> 25:35.160 And you did not even bother to arrest me. 25:35.160 --> 25:40.160 Perhaps you did not believe old boy had such strength in his hands, huh? 25:40.160 --> 25:44.160 He died of heart failure. 25:44.160 --> 25:45.160 Did he? 25:45.160 --> 25:47.160 Well, so be it. 25:47.160 --> 25:54.160 But you believe now that old boy has no trouble with these ears, huh? 25:54.160 --> 25:56.160 Ah, yes. 25:56.160 --> 25:58.160 I hear. 25:58.160 --> 26:00.160 I hear everything. 26:00.160 --> 26:07.160 Even a voice close in my ear. 26:07.160 --> 26:09.160 Hello, Bob. 26:09.160 --> 26:11.160 Mr. Manuel? 26:11.160 --> 26:12.160 Yes. 26:12.160 --> 26:14.160 Yes, I hear. 26:14.160 --> 26:16.160 Oh, Manuel. 26:16.160 --> 26:20.160 How are things with you, Manuel? 26:20.160 --> 26:22.160 Fine, Pop. 26:22.160 --> 26:23.160 Fine. 26:23.160 --> 26:26.160 Do you need a little money? 26:26.160 --> 26:28.160 A fiver perhaps? 26:28.160 --> 26:30.160 A tenner? 26:30.160 --> 26:32.160 No, thanks, Pop. 26:32.160 --> 26:34.160 Not now. 26:34.160 --> 26:38.160 Some other time. 26:38.160 --> 26:42.160 Pop, I'm waiting for you, Pop. 26:42.160 --> 26:46.160 Yes, I know you are waiting. 26:46.160 --> 26:52.160 And I am glad to come with you. 26:52.160 --> 27:14.160 My Manuel is a good boy. 27:14.160 --> 27:19.160 And so closes Footfalls, in which Roma wines have brought you J. 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