1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:23,800 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Miss Nancy Kelly, a star of A Week Ago Wednesday, a suspense 4 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,000 play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Suspense! 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,400 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 7 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,520 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 8 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,960 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 9 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,480 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 10 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:57,280 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Nancy Kelly 11 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,280 in a remarkable tale of... 12 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,280 Suspense! 13 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,440 I was married in a blue suit that wrinkled too easily and shoes that were too tight when 14 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:09,680 I walked. 15 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,040 Just another girl. 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,600 I got hungry when I didn't eat and tired when I didn't sleep. 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,520 When I got pushed around in the Eighth Avenue subway and I waited in line at the movies, 18 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,960 I was hot in summer and cold in the winter. 19 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:26,800 Other people were killed and robbed in disgrace and in trouble so, so I could read about it 20 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:27,800 in the morning paper. 21 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:33,240 That sort of thing happened to other people, not to me, not to Maude Haskin. 22 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:40,920 But suddenly I've become other people and a million someone else's read about me. 23 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:48,920 I'd like to tell you how it was. 24 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,240 Harry and I had quarreled that Wednesday morning. 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,520 I've tried to remember why but I can't. 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:02:00,240 I've tried to think but well, I wasn't in any hurry to get home after work that day, 27 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:01,240 that Wednesday. 28 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,320 So I sat for a while on a bench in Central Park. 29 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,160 The sky looked moody and had a dirty face. 30 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,120 I watched evening happen quickly because it was going to rain. 31 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,320 It started to come down during my crying for me and I ran. 32 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,760 I knew suddenly that I wanted to go home. 33 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,280 I wanted to climb the stairs to the little furnished flat. 34 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,520 I wanted Harry to be there so I could put my arms around him and feel him warm against 35 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:29,520 me. 36 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,200 I wanted to tell him that I loved him and that I was sick because I hadn't kissed him 37 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,480 goodbye that morning. 38 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,640 I nearly fell running up those narrow little steps. 39 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:41,920 I stumbled a half a dozen times before I reached the third floor, apartment 3B. 40 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:44,840 I was nervous and I was too eager to get in. 41 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,160 My hand was clumsy, all thumbs and the key wouldn't fit. 42 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,160 It dropped to the floor. 43 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,600 I stooped to pick it up and as I did, the door was unlatched from the inside. 44 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,600 Harry! 45 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:00,520 I saw it open and I nearly sobbed with joy and relief. 46 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:01,520 Harry! 47 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,240 Yes, what is it dearie? 48 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,400 But it wasn't Harry. 49 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,440 It's not Harry looking anxious because I was late and worried because I was drenched with 50 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,440 the rain. 51 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,240 This was a stranger in our apartment. 52 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,720 A small dark woman with eyes like two shiny brown buttons and a pinched little face. 53 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,720 Well? 54 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,520 She was wearing a flowered apron and in her hand she held a limp dish towel. 55 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,960 I blinked at her stupidly. 56 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:26,960 Well, what is it? 57 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:27,960 I don't want to buy anything. 58 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:28,960 I'm busy. 59 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:29,960 I'm making supper. 60 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:30,960 Oh, but you don't understand. 61 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:31,960 I'm... 62 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:32,960 Looking for somebody? 63 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:33,960 What apartment did you want? 64 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:34,960 This is 3B. 65 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:35,960 3B? 66 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,960 Yeah. 67 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,960 What apartment are you looking for? 68 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,960 Oh, but I'm not. 69 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:39,960 I... 70 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:40,960 I won't be much help anyhow. 71 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:41,960 Better ask down the hall. 72 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,960 We only been living here a few days. 73 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:47,960 Living here? 74 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:48,960 Yes. 75 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:49,960 Oh, what's the matter with you, dearie? 76 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:50,960 Are you sick? 77 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:51,960 Don't you feel well? 78 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:52,960 I... 79 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:53,960 Oh, no. 80 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,240 No, I don't feel very well. 81 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,240 And your clothes. 82 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,720 Why are they sopping wet? 83 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,720 Well, the rain. 84 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,720 I got caught in the rain. 85 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,000 What are you talking about isn't raining? 86 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,480 Oh, but you're wrong. 87 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,480 It is raining. 88 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:06,480 I just... 89 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,480 Listen here, young woman. 90 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,920 What kind of a game do you think you're playing? 91 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:09,920 But are you sure? 92 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:10,920 Well, I ran. 93 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,000 I ran all the way because there was thunder and lightning. 94 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,520 We had a storm a week ago, but it ain't rained like that since Wednesday. 95 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,040 Wednesday? 96 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,040 A week ago? 97 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,040 Oh, no. 98 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,040 No. 99 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,040 Here, here. 100 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,040 Don't do that. 101 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,680 You sit down there, dearie, and I'll get some water. 102 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,680 Don't move now. 103 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,760 And supper not ready and company coming. 104 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,760 I sat on the sofa. 105 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,640 Harry and I had talked just last night about having the spring in the middle cushion fixed. 106 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,040 Or had we? 107 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,880 I ran my hand over the top, cautiously, afraid. 108 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,320 And then I stopped as if I'd suddenly taken hold of a live wire. 109 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:54,200 So my fingers curved over the lumpy roughness of a pillow with a broken spring. 110 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Here, here. 111 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,200 Drink this. 112 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,200 Easy. 113 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,200 Are you better now? 114 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,200 Don't talk. 115 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,200 Just drink it. 116 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,200 Easy. 117 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:03,200 That's it, dearie. 118 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,200 Thank you. 119 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,360 Over the rim of the glass, she watched me. 120 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,600 I sipped the water slowly while my eyes drank in the room. 121 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,800 Well, there was that crack at the base of the lamp from the day Harry got his raise. 122 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,480 He'd been swinging me around the room, around and around in circles until we were both dizzy 123 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,120 and knocked the lamp over. 124 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:22,920 And there was a little table near the window. 125 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:28,120 And there was the rug with the Warnspot in it and the fireplace and the mantle. 126 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,520 But our wedding picture on it was missing. 127 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,000 And in its place there was a cheap blue vase. 128 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 There, there. 129 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Better? 130 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Are you better now? 131 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Oh, much. 132 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Thank you. 133 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,880 I want me to call a cab for you. 134 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,680 Where do you live, dearie? 135 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:43,680 Why, I... 136 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:45,680 You were looking for someone when you come. 137 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,680 Friends of yours? 138 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:48,680 Friends? 139 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:49,680 Friends, yes. 140 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,680 Yes, friends of mine. 141 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,680 Harry and Maud Haskin. 142 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Haskin? 143 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,680 But don't you read the papers? 144 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,680 You mean you don't know? 145 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:58,680 Know what? 146 00:05:58,680 --> 00:05:59,680 Why, about the murder, of course. 147 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:00,680 We moved in a few days after it happened. 148 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:01,680 My husband didn't like the idea. 149 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:02,680 But an apartment's an apartment these days. 150 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:03,680 Foolish, isn't it? 151 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:10,680 Being squeamish about those things. 152 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,680 But I said to him, Charlie, it's to be considered safe. 153 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,680 So what if there was a murder here? 154 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,680 We don't mean nothing. 155 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:18,680 Murder? 156 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:19,680 Tell me. 157 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:20,680 Tell me about it. 158 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,680 Oh, he looked such a nice young man, too. 159 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:24,680 At least in his pictures. 160 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:25,680 Who? 161 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:26,680 Who are you talking about? 162 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:27,680 Harry Haskin, of course. 163 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:28,680 Murder. 164 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:29,680 Harry? 165 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:30,680 Yes, with an ice pick. 166 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:31,680 Horrible. 167 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,680 Right in that kitchen. 168 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,680 Don't bother me, none, but my Charlie won't eat there. 169 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,680 Ice pick? 170 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:39,680 Murdered? 171 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:40,680 Isn't it awful? 172 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,680 And everybody says they've seen so much in love. 173 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,680 And she was so young this age. 174 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:46,680 What? 175 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:47,680 Did you know them well? 176 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:48,680 I... 177 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:49,680 Oh, yes. 178 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:50,680 Yes, very well. 179 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:51,680 Must be a shock to you. 180 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:52,680 Can't understand why... 181 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:53,680 Is it in that paper? 182 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:54,680 May I see it? 183 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:55,680 Sure. 184 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:56,680 Been full of nothing else for almost a week. 185 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:57,680 She was right. 186 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,680 Ice pick, murderer, awaits conviction. 187 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,680 The headlines screamed out at me. 188 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,680 I closed my eyes for a minute to blot it out. 189 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,680 Perhaps when I opened them again, the words would be gone. 190 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:11,680 But they weren't. 191 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,680 Big and bold as life or death, they mocked me. 192 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,680 Ice pick, murderer, awaits conviction. 193 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,680 And underneath the little black letters 194 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,680 pieced themselves together to form the words 195 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,680 killer, bloody, motive. 196 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,680 And then they jumped across the page. 197 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,680 And then they jumped crazily on the page. 198 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,680 There was a picture of Harry. 199 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,680 Harry, my husband. 200 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,680 I tried to read under it, but I couldn't. 201 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,680 Oh, maybe I shouldn't have let you see that. 202 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,680 Better sit down again, dearie. 203 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,680 No, no, let me alone. 204 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:42,680 Oh, I'm all right. 205 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:43,680 Let me alone. 206 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:44,680 Sure. 207 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,680 All right, all right. 208 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,680 After all, I didn't ask. 209 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,680 Oh, I'm sorry. 210 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,680 You've been very kind. 211 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:53,680 Please, I'm... 212 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,680 I better go. 213 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:06,680 I don't remember leaving, walking down those stairs out of the door. 214 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,680 I just remember finding myself on the street again, 215 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,680 half walking and half running, 216 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,680 wanting to curl up on the pavement 217 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,680 and let my head burst with the ache 218 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,680 and the fright that was growing inside. 219 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,680 Toot, toot, I'm a fireman. 220 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,680 Watch out, I'm a fireman. 221 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,680 Toot, toot. 222 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,680 I was back in Central Park again. 223 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,680 From out of nowhere, a little boy on a scooter 224 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,680 came tearing around the bend. 225 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,680 He turned sharply to keep from running into me. 226 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,680 I watched him lose his balance and tried to regain it dizzily. 227 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:35,680 I'm a fireman. 228 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:36,680 Watch out, lady. 229 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:38,680 Hey, lady, watch out. 230 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:42,680 He toppled over and fell in a pathetic little heap on the ground. 231 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:44,680 His knee was bleeding. 232 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:46,680 I ran over to pick him up. 233 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:47,680 Oh, my knee. 234 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:49,680 It hurts. 235 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:51,680 Oh, my knee. 236 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,680 Help me up, will you? 237 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:55,680 I'd bend over and my arms outstretched 238 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,680 to lift him to his feet again. 239 00:08:57,680 --> 00:08:59,680 And then I remembered... 240 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:02,680 I was dead. 241 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:05,680 I'd been murdered by my husband almost a week ago. 242 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:07,680 I was dead. 243 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,680 Help me up, lady. 244 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:10,680 Will you? 245 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:11,680 I froze. 246 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,680 This little boy, if it were true, and it was, 247 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:15,680 because I'd read it in the paper myself, 248 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,680 if I were really dead, 249 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,680 I knew I couldn't touch this child. 250 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,680 I was afraid for him. 251 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:25,680 So I ran again. 252 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:26,680 Hey, lady. 253 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,680 I ran faster and faster till I couldn't hear him anymore. 254 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:34,680 Then it was later somehow and really dark. 255 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,680 And I was so tired. 256 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:40,680 Help me up, lady. 257 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:43,680 I found myself back on that bench again, 258 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:46,680 the same bench I'd been sitting on earlier that evening. 259 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:48,680 No one was around. 260 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:51,680 I stretched out and tried to sleep. 261 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,680 I knew I was awake before I opened my eyes. 262 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:58,680 It smelled like morning, fresh and clean, 263 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:00,680 and I felt the sun soak into me. 264 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:03,680 I thought, I thought, when I open my eyes, 265 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:05,680 I'll be back in my own bed again. 266 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,680 I'll reach out and I'll be back in my own bed again. 267 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:11,680 I'll reach out and I'll find Harry there beside me, 268 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:15,680 and everything will be all right when I open my eyes. 269 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:17,680 I did. 270 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,680 And it was still Central Park. 271 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:24,680 I set up stiffly and I smoothed out the wrinkles in my skirt. 272 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,680 I wondered where I was going to go or what I was going to do. 273 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:31,680 I tried not to think of Harry, where he was, now. 274 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:34,680 Moore! Moore, darling! Are you all right? 275 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,680 Harry. Harry, you! 276 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,680 Oh, golly, baby, I've been worried sick about you all night. 277 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,680 Where have you been? 278 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:43,680 Honey, I'm sorry about yesterday. 279 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:45,680 Will you come home with me? 280 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:46,680 Home? 281 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,680 Look at your clothes. They're still damp from the rain. 282 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:52,680 Oh, if you get sick, I'll never forgive myself. 283 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:54,680 How do you feel? Are you all right? 284 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:57,680 Rain. Oh, yes. Yes, I'm all right. 285 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:01,680 Oh, good. Come on, then. Let me take your arm. 286 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,680 Here's a big hand and long, strong fingers pressed against my arm. 287 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,680 My head still ached, so I let him lead me. 288 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,680 We left the park from the entrance on 72nd Street 289 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:15,680 as a little boy on a scooter came tearing around the bend. 290 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,680 Toot, toot! I'm a fireman! Watch out! 291 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:37,680 Toot, toot! I'm a fireman! 292 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:41,680 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Miss Nancy Kelly, 293 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:45,680 in A Week Ago Wednesday by Winifred Wolf. 294 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:51,680 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 295 00:11:51,680 --> 00:12:00,680 Music 296 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:05,680 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 297 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:10,680 With the holidays ahead, here's good news to all who enjoy fine Roma Wines. 298 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:15,680 To all who serve Roma Wines for gracious hospitality and for mealtime pleasure, 299 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:21,680 Roma Wines are now featured at new low prices in plentiful supply, too. 300 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,680 Roma California Wines offer you full selections. 301 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:28,680 Sherry, Port, Muscatel, or Toquet for entertaining, 302 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,680 Burgundy or Sauternes for mealtime enjoyment, 303 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:35,680 and Champagne to make any happy occasion unforgettable. 304 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:41,680 Each of these fine Roma Wines brings you taste luxury at new low prices. 305 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:44,680 So be sure to have plenty of Roma Wines on hand. 306 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:50,680 Roma Wines are grown from choicest grapes, unhurriedly perfected by age-old skill, 307 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,680 bottled at Roma Wineries in California's choicest vineyards. 308 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:59,680 Remember, because of uniformly fine quality at low cost, 309 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:04,680 more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 310 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:07,680 Roma Wines make perfect gifts, too. 311 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:12,680 So insist on Roma Wines for good living and good giving. 312 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:16,680 Roma Wines offer you so much for so little. 313 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:20,680 That's Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 314 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:24,680 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage 315 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,680 Miss Nancy Kelly as Maude Haskin in A Week Ago Wednesday, 316 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:34,680 a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 317 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:45,680 Yeah, place looks awful, doesn't it? 318 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,680 I don't know how many cigarettes I smoked. 319 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:51,680 I tried to sleep, but I couldn't, so I tried the couch, and no luck there either. 320 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:53,680 That broken spring didn't help much. 321 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:56,680 I was almost out of my mind worrying about you, honey. 322 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:59,680 I got hungry about 3 o'clock in the morning, but I couldn't eat. 323 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:01,680 Dirty dishes still in the sink. 324 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:03,680 Never mind, I'll wash them. 325 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:05,680 Come on. Darling? 326 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:06,680 Yes? 327 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:07,680 Come here, will you? 328 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,680 Why are you standing near the mantel? Why don't you come over to me? 329 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:14,680 Huh? Oh, I was looking at the picture on it. 330 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:18,680 Our wedding picture. It's there. 331 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:21,680 Of course it's there. Where should it be? 332 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:29,680 Darling, put your arms around me so I'll know you're real, that you've come back. 333 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,680 Where did you go? Where were you? 334 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:32,680 I don't know. 335 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,680 All right, I won't ask questions now. 336 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:39,680 Just put your arms around me tight and tell me you still love me. 337 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:45,680 He held me close to him, and he bent his head so it was buried warm and heavy against my throat. 338 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,680 I thought it wouldn't hurt because he's pressing me too tightly if I were dead. 339 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:58,680 I couldn't feel the tiny pulse in my throat beating quick and sharp as I were really dead. 340 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,680 The worn spot on the rug was still there, and the crack in the base of the lamp. 341 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:09,680 But the wedding picture was back on the mantel and the woman with eyes like two shiny brown buttons was gone. 342 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,680 There was just Harry and me. 343 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,680 Are you hungry? Let me get you something to eat. 344 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,680 I am hungry a little. 345 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,680 Well, let me make you something here. Now you sit down here on the couch and I'll bring it to you. 346 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,680 Or you want to change first? 347 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,680 Yes, I'd like that. 348 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,680 Gee, I'm sorry you got caught in the rain, honey. 349 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,680 It was raining, wasn't it, Harry? It was raining hard, wasn't it? 350 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,680 Raining? I'll say it was. What a storm. 351 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,680 It was raining. It was raining hard. Oh, Harry. 352 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:42,680 Oh, sweet, don't. Please don't. You're home now. 353 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,680 We ate breakfast on the little table near the window. 354 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:55,680 He leaned across the table, his large arms resting on the cloth, his eyes steady and serious, watching me. 355 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,680 Why was he being so kind? Why should he be so good to me? 356 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,680 What were the thoughts behind those eyes watching me? Watching? 357 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,680 I love you. 358 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,680 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to drop. 359 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,680 Why, don't worry about it. 360 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,680 I'll get the broom, sweep it up. 361 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:14,680 Maud. 362 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:15,680 Yes? 363 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,680 Don't bother about it now. Come here to me, will you? 364 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,680 No. 365 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,680 What? 366 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:25,680 I, I mean, it's glass. I'd better sweep it up. I'll only be a minute. 367 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,680 Okay. 368 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:33,680 I went into the kitchen. Glad to be alone for a minute, safe for a minute. 369 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:40,680 I knew with a dull, sick realization that I was afraid of my husband, afraid of Harry. 370 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:41,680 Want me to do it for you? 371 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,680 No, no, I can do it. I'll sweep it up. 372 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,680 Maud, don't go into work today. Stay home and rest. You don't look well. 373 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,680 Oh, but I am. I, I want to go into work. 374 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,680 All right, if you're sure. Anything you want. 375 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,680 He was being good to me again. Too good to me. 376 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,680 Anything I wanted. Anything. Anything. 377 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,680 I didn't trust him. He was too kind. His lips moved with honeyed words, but... 378 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,680 the want was on his mind. 379 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:13,680 I love you. 380 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:14,680 Do you? 381 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:15,680 Well, don't you know I do? 382 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,680 Of course. Of course I do. 383 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,680 You'll be home right after work? 384 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,680 I... yes. 385 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,680 Maybe we'll go to a movie or something. Would you like that? 386 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:24,680 We'll see. 387 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,680 All right. We'll see. 388 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,680 He walked me to the Eighth Avenue subway like he always did. 389 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:43,680 And when he kissed me goodbye, a slim trimmer of fear went through me. 390 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,680 See you tonight, darling. 391 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,680 I took three letters that morning. I typed them automatically, but... 392 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,680 inside my head, one thought kept repeating, repeating. 393 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,680 I'm afraid of Harry. I'm afraid. My husband is going to kill me. 394 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,680 I know because I dreamed it last night. Only I'm not sure it was a dream. 395 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,680 Maybe it was a warning. A warning. My husband is going to kill me. 396 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:11,680 Kill me! 397 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,680 Fry two, looking at the moon, wheat down. 398 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:23,680 What'll it be, lady? 399 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,680 Ham on rye, coffee. 400 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,680 Coming. Ham on rye! 401 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,680 The drugstore was full of hungry, busy people reading the daily paper. 402 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,680 The paper that screamed the hurts and the pains and the troubles of other people. 403 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,680 But not me. Not Maude Haskin. 404 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,680 When there was nothing in it about a nice pick murder and Harry's picture... 405 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,680 I began to feel a little foolish. 406 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,680 Hey, old lady, ham on rye, jab on its way. 407 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,680 I'd fallen asleep on a park bench and I'd had a dream. 408 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,680 That was all just a nightmare. 409 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,680 Afraid? Afraid of Harry? 410 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,680 Well, I'd let a silly dream play tricks with me. 411 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,680 I wanted to push the minutes ahead so I could go home. 412 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,680 Go home to Harry. 413 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,680 I kept looking at the clock. Four, four-thirty, four-thirty-five. 414 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:14,680 I wanted to get home and tell him I was all right. I was all right now. 415 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,680 Four-forty-five, four-fifty, five o'clock. 416 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,680 This time I knew I wasn't dreaming. 417 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,680 This time I could run, run fast all the way from the subway to sixty-ninth and down and home. 418 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,680 And Harry would be there. 419 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,680 Down sixty-ninth and up those brownstone steps. 420 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,680 I climbed one flight, two flights, out of breath, hurrying. 421 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,680 One more, one more. 422 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,680 Excuse me, dearie, do you know where I can find the landlady? 423 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,680 It was that woman. 424 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,680 The small, dark woman with eyes like two shiny brums. 425 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,680 Do you know where I can find the landlady? 426 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,680 What? What did you say? 427 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:55,680 You live here, dearie? 428 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:56,680 Yes, yes, I... 429 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,680 Well, well, tell me then. Do you happen to know if there's any vacancies? 430 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,680 Vacancies? No, no! I'm sure there aren't. 431 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,680 Oh, me and me husband's been looking for weeks. What a job. 432 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,680 You know if anybody's planning to move out, dearie? Soon, maybe. 433 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,680 Say, where are you going? Say. 434 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,680 Well, can you beat that? 435 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,680 That woman in my dream who'd been living in our apartment. 436 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,680 What was she doing here? Maybe it had been more than a dream. 437 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,680 Maybe I was thrown ahead into seven tomorrows to next Wednesday. 438 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,680 Maybe by then she'd have our apartment, just like in my dream. 439 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,680 And then I'd... 440 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,680 Darling, that you? 441 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:37,680 Yes. Yes, Harry. 442 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,680 Got a kiss for me? 443 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,680 Madder girl. You're home early. 444 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:43,680 I hurried. 445 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,680 Did you? So did I. I missed you terribly. 446 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,680 Come on in. I got a surprise. 447 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,680 What kind of a surprise? 448 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:50,680 Never mind. 449 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,680 Oh, Maude, don't ever go very far away again, will you? 450 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,680 No. No, Harry, I won't. 451 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,680 Good. Now you wait here. I'll be only a minute. 452 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,680 I kept thinking. Not a dream. 453 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,680 Not just a dream, but a warning. A warning. 454 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,680 Oh, but that was silly. It couldn't be. It... 455 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,680 I heard the sound of... 456 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,680 I couldn't be sure, but it sounded like... 457 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,680 I felt the blood rush up to my face and I began to shake all over. 458 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,680 I walked into the kitchen. 459 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,680 Harry was bent over a small bowl. 460 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:30,680 I could see the muscles under his thin shirt move up and down as his arm rose and fell again and again. 461 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,680 And in his hand he held a nice kick. 462 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,680 Maude! What is it? What's the matter? 463 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,680 I... I... 464 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,680 Nothing. Nothing. 465 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:46,680 What are you doing? 466 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,680 Why did you come in? This was gonna be a surprise. 467 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,680 You're not angry because I spent the money, are you? 468 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,680 We've got to celebrate. 469 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,680 No. No, I'm not angry. 470 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,680 I wish you hadn't come in, though. You spoiled it. 471 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,680 I'm sorry. 472 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,680 I didn't mean it. Doesn't matter. 473 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,680 Nothing matters as long as you're here. 474 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,680 He put the ice pick beside the bowl and he took me in his arm. 475 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:12,680 And all the time he kept telling me he loved me, I was looking fascinated at the ice pick, thin and sharp. 476 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,680 The ice pick. Spoiler surprise. 477 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,680 Yes. Yes, I'd spoil it. 478 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,680 He thought he was gonna kill me, but I wasn't gonna let him. 479 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,680 I wasn't gonna let him. 480 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,680 Gee, I love you. I love you. 481 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,680 I'd smother the lying words in his throat before he could say them again. 482 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,680 I'd been warned and I wasn't gonna let him do it. 483 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,680 I reached out and I felt my fingers creep around the handle of the ice pick. 484 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,680 I was strong and safe now. 485 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,680 That dream wasn't gonna come true. I'd make sure. 486 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:48,680 I held it tightly and I raised it behind his back and I saw it over his shoulder, poised like a serpent ready to strike. 487 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,680 Ready. Ready. 488 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,680 Darling, I love you. I... 489 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,680 I've done it. 490 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,680 I put all my strength into that blow and the ice pick half disappeared into him. 491 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,680 Maura. Maura, I... 492 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,680 His arms still around me grew limp. 493 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:18,680 I felt them slide heavily, big hands dragging at my body as he desperately tried to stay on his feet. 494 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,680 His long fingers clutched at my belt and he tore it from me. 495 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,680 And then he fell, still holding it in his hand. 496 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:43,680 He was still on my feet, a red circle of blood on his white shirt and in that circle, the ice pick. 497 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,680 No one saw me leave the house. 498 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,680 It was a clear cold night. 499 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,680 Overhead a plane made its way past the stars. 500 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,680 I remember looking up at it and thinking, you can't even see me. 501 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,680 You don't even know I'm here. 502 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,680 And then I've just killed my husband and left him lying dead on the kitchen linoleum. 503 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,680 But I knew. And somehow I didn't care. 504 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:12,680 All I kept thinking was, not me. Not me. It wasn't me lying dead with an ice pick in my back. 505 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,680 I'd been cleverer than he. I'd done it first. 506 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:23,680 I stumbled into the park and then I dropped from exhaustion. 507 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,680 I slept all night on the grass. 508 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,680 In the morning, I remembered when I was too sick to care. 509 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,680 I was almost sorry I woke up. I didn't want ever to wake up. 510 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,680 I started to walk again. I kept on walking until I couldn't go anymore. 511 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,680 There was a bench. I sat down. 512 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,680 Someone had been there before and left a newspaper. 513 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,680 I picked it up and I read it. 514 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,680 And then I knew. 515 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,680 As big and bold as life or death it mocked me. 516 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,680 Ice pick murder and the words killer, bloody, motive jumped crazily on the page. 517 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,680 And Harry's picture just as it had been in my dream. 518 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,680 Only this time I read on. 519 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:23,680 Harry Haskin dead. Murdered. Police searching for wife Maude Haskin. 520 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,680 And then I knew. Harry never wanted to kill me. 521 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,680 Harry loved me. 522 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,680 I tried to run away from a dream. Just a dream. 523 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:42,680 But instead I made him live and now Harry was dead. 524 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:56,680 I wanted to tell you how it was, Father, because it's so hard to believe it happened to me. 525 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,680 Pray for me. I know now what wrong I've done. 526 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:08,680 But the dream has come true. It's Wednesday again, isn't it, Father? 527 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:14,680 Maude Haskin in a prison cell because I killed my husband. 528 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,680 I had to tell someone, Father. 529 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,680 Will you pray for me? 530 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:25,680 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 531 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,680 A week ago Wednesday. 532 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:37,680 I wonder if she's still there. The woman with eyes like two shiny brown buttons reading about us in the paper. 533 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,680 I wonder if she's there now. 534 00:26:40,680 --> 00:27:02,680 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. A week ago Wednesday. 535 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,680 Tonight's study in suspense. 536 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,680 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines, the sponsor of suspense. 537 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:19,680 This is the time of the year when unexpected guests and old friends drop in for surprise visits and joyous reunions. 538 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:25,680 To make the evening more pleasureful, famed hostess Elsa Maxwell makes this suggestion. 539 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,680 Serve guests a wine that adds warmth to the welcome. 540 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:41,680 Such a delightful wine is Red, Red Roma California Port, a heartening wine, a gracious wine that adds so much to the enjoyment of an evening with friends. 541 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:54,680 Roma Port is vibrant with the rich brilliance of a precious ruby, the softness of velvet with the fruity fragrance of the fresh grape, and a delicious nectar-like taste of natural sweetness. 542 00:27:54,680 --> 00:28:03,680 Roma Port is a proud wine in a family of California's finest. 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