WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:05.000 --> 00:10.000 Suspense! 00:10.000 --> 00:23.800 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Miss Nancy Kelly, a star of A Week Ago Wednesday, a suspense 00:23.800 --> 00:28.000 play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:28.000 --> 00:34.000 Suspense! 00:34.000 --> 00:39.400 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:39.400 --> 00:42.520 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:42.520 --> 00:46.960 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:46.960 --> 00:51.480 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:51.480 --> 00:57.280 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Nancy Kelly 00:57.280 --> 00:59.280 in a remarkable tale of... 00:59.280 --> 01:04.280 Suspense! 01:04.280 --> 01:08.440 I was married in a blue suit that wrinkled too easily and shoes that were too tight when 01:08.440 --> 01:09.680 I walked. 01:09.680 --> 01:11.040 Just another girl. 01:11.040 --> 01:14.600 I got hungry when I didn't eat and tired when I didn't sleep. 01:14.600 --> 01:18.520 When I got pushed around in the Eighth Avenue subway and I waited in line at the movies, 01:18.520 --> 01:21.960 I was hot in summer and cold in the winter. 01:21.960 --> 01:26.800 Other people were killed and robbed in disgrace and in trouble so, so I could read about it 01:26.800 --> 01:27.800 in the morning paper. 01:27.800 --> 01:33.240 That sort of thing happened to other people, not to me, not to Maude Haskin. 01:33.240 --> 01:40.920 But suddenly I've become other people and a million someone else's read about me. 01:40.920 --> 01:48.920 I'd like to tell you how it was. 01:48.920 --> 01:51.240 Harry and I had quarreled that Wednesday morning. 01:51.240 --> 01:53.520 I've tried to remember why but I can't. 01:53.520 --> 02:00.240 I've tried to think but well, I wasn't in any hurry to get home after work that day, 02:00.240 --> 02:01.240 that Wednesday. 02:01.240 --> 02:05.320 So I sat for a while on a bench in Central Park. 02:05.320 --> 02:08.160 The sky looked moody and had a dirty face. 02:08.160 --> 02:14.120 I watched evening happen quickly because it was going to rain. 02:14.120 --> 02:19.320 It started to come down during my crying for me and I ran. 02:19.320 --> 02:21.760 I knew suddenly that I wanted to go home. 02:21.760 --> 02:24.280 I wanted to climb the stairs to the little furnished flat. 02:24.280 --> 02:28.520 I wanted Harry to be there so I could put my arms around him and feel him warm against 02:28.520 --> 02:29.520 me. 02:29.520 --> 02:33.200 I wanted to tell him that I loved him and that I was sick because I hadn't kissed him 02:33.200 --> 02:35.480 goodbye that morning. 02:35.480 --> 02:37.640 I nearly fell running up those narrow little steps. 02:37.640 --> 02:41.920 I stumbled a half a dozen times before I reached the third floor, apartment 3B. 02:41.920 --> 02:44.840 I was nervous and I was too eager to get in. 02:44.840 --> 02:49.160 My hand was clumsy, all thumbs and the key wouldn't fit. 02:49.160 --> 02:50.160 It dropped to the floor. 02:50.160 --> 02:54.600 I stooped to pick it up and as I did, the door was unlatched from the inside. 02:54.600 --> 02:55.600 Harry! 02:55.600 --> 03:00.520 I saw it open and I nearly sobbed with joy and relief. 03:00.520 --> 03:01.520 Harry! 03:01.520 --> 03:05.240 Yes, what is it dearie? 03:05.240 --> 03:07.400 But it wasn't Harry. 03:07.400 --> 03:11.440 It's not Harry looking anxious because I was late and worried because I was drenched with 03:11.440 --> 03:12.440 the rain. 03:12.440 --> 03:15.240 This was a stranger in our apartment. 03:15.240 --> 03:19.720 A small dark woman with eyes like two shiny brown buttons and a pinched little face. 03:19.720 --> 03:20.720 Well? 03:20.720 --> 03:24.520 She was wearing a flowered apron and in her hand she held a limp dish towel. 03:24.520 --> 03:25.960 I blinked at her stupidly. 03:25.960 --> 03:26.960 Well, what is it? 03:26.960 --> 03:27.960 I don't want to buy anything. 03:27.960 --> 03:28.960 I'm busy. 03:28.960 --> 03:29.960 I'm making supper. 03:29.960 --> 03:30.960 Oh, but you don't understand. 03:30.960 --> 03:31.960 I'm... 03:31.960 --> 03:32.960 Looking for somebody? 03:32.960 --> 03:33.960 What apartment did you want? 03:33.960 --> 03:34.960 This is 3B. 03:34.960 --> 03:35.960 3B? 03:35.960 --> 03:36.960 Yeah. 03:36.960 --> 03:37.960 What apartment are you looking for? 03:37.960 --> 03:38.960 Oh, but I'm not. 03:38.960 --> 03:39.960 I... 03:39.960 --> 03:40.960 I won't be much help anyhow. 03:40.960 --> 03:41.960 Better ask down the hall. 03:41.960 --> 03:46.960 We only been living here a few days. 03:46.960 --> 03:47.960 Living here? 03:47.960 --> 03:48.960 Yes. 03:48.960 --> 03:49.960 Oh, what's the matter with you, dearie? 03:49.960 --> 03:50.960 Are you sick? 03:50.960 --> 03:51.960 Don't you feel well? 03:51.960 --> 03:52.960 I... 03:52.960 --> 03:53.960 Oh, no. 03:53.960 --> 03:56.240 No, I don't feel very well. 03:56.240 --> 03:57.240 And your clothes. 03:57.240 --> 03:58.720 Why are they sopping wet? 03:58.720 --> 03:59.720 Well, the rain. 03:59.720 --> 04:00.720 I got caught in the rain. 04:00.720 --> 04:03.000 What are you talking about isn't raining? 04:03.000 --> 04:04.480 Oh, but you're wrong. 04:04.480 --> 04:05.480 It is raining. 04:05.480 --> 04:06.480 I just... 04:06.480 --> 04:07.480 Listen here, young woman. 04:07.480 --> 04:08.920 What kind of a game do you think you're playing? 04:08.920 --> 04:09.920 But are you sure? 04:09.920 --> 04:10.920 Well, I ran. 04:10.920 --> 04:14.000 I ran all the way because there was thunder and lightning. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.520 We had a storm a week ago, but it ain't rained like that since Wednesday. 04:17.520 --> 04:21.040 Wednesday? 04:21.040 --> 04:22.040 A week ago? 04:22.040 --> 04:23.040 Oh, no. 04:23.040 --> 04:24.040 No. 04:24.040 --> 04:25.040 Here, here. 04:25.040 --> 04:26.040 Don't do that. 04:26.040 --> 04:29.680 You sit down there, dearie, and I'll get some water. 04:29.680 --> 04:30.680 Don't move now. 04:30.680 --> 04:32.760 And supper not ready and company coming. 04:32.760 --> 04:34.760 I sat on the sofa. 04:34.760 --> 04:38.640 Harry and I had talked just last night about having the spring in the middle cushion fixed. 04:38.640 --> 04:41.040 Or had we? 04:41.040 --> 04:43.880 I ran my hand over the top, cautiously, afraid. 04:43.880 --> 04:48.320 And then I stopped as if I'd suddenly taken hold of a live wire. 04:48.320 --> 04:54.200 So my fingers curved over the lumpy roughness of a pillow with a broken spring. 04:54.200 --> 04:55.200 Here, here. 04:55.200 --> 04:56.200 Drink this. 04:56.200 --> 04:57.200 Easy. 04:57.200 --> 04:59.200 Are you better now? 04:59.200 --> 05:00.200 Don't talk. 05:00.200 --> 05:01.200 Just drink it. 05:01.200 --> 05:02.200 Easy. 05:02.200 --> 05:03.200 That's it, dearie. 05:03.200 --> 05:04.200 Thank you. 05:04.200 --> 05:07.360 Over the rim of the glass, she watched me. 05:07.360 --> 05:10.600 I sipped the water slowly while my eyes drank in the room. 05:10.600 --> 05:14.800 Well, there was that crack at the base of the lamp from the day Harry got his raise. 05:14.800 --> 05:18.480 He'd been swinging me around the room, around and around in circles until we were both dizzy 05:18.480 --> 05:21.120 and knocked the lamp over. 05:21.120 --> 05:22.920 And there was a little table near the window. 05:22.920 --> 05:28.120 And there was the rug with the Warnspot in it and the fireplace and the mantle. 05:28.120 --> 05:31.520 But our wedding picture on it was missing. 05:31.520 --> 05:34.000 And in its place there was a cheap blue vase. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 There, there. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Better? 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Are you better now? 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 Oh, much. 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Thank you. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.880 I want me to call a cab for you. 05:40.880 --> 05:42.680 Where do you live, dearie? 05:42.680 --> 05:43.680 Why, I... 05:43.680 --> 05:45.680 You were looking for someone when you come. 05:45.680 --> 05:47.680 Friends of yours? 05:47.680 --> 05:48.680 Friends? 05:48.680 --> 05:49.680 Friends, yes. 05:49.680 --> 05:52.680 Yes, friends of mine. 05:52.680 --> 05:54.680 Harry and Maud Haskin. 05:54.680 --> 05:55.680 Haskin? 05:55.680 --> 05:56.680 But don't you read the papers? 05:56.680 --> 05:57.680 You mean you don't know? 05:57.680 --> 05:58.680 Know what? 05:58.680 --> 05:59.680 Why, about the murder, of course. 05:59.680 --> 06:00.680 We moved in a few days after it happened. 06:00.680 --> 06:01.680 My husband didn't like the idea. 06:01.680 --> 06:02.680 But an apartment's an apartment these days. 06:02.680 --> 06:03.680 Foolish, isn't it? 06:03.680 --> 06:10.680 Being squeamish about those things. 06:10.680 --> 06:13.680 But I said to him, Charlie, it's to be considered safe. 06:13.680 --> 06:16.680 So what if there was a murder here? 06:16.680 --> 06:17.680 We don't mean nothing. 06:17.680 --> 06:18.680 Murder? 06:18.680 --> 06:19.680 Tell me. 06:19.680 --> 06:20.680 Tell me about it. 06:20.680 --> 06:23.680 Oh, he looked such a nice young man, too. 06:23.680 --> 06:24.680 At least in his pictures. 06:24.680 --> 06:25.680 Who? 06:25.680 --> 06:26.680 Who are you talking about? 06:26.680 --> 06:27.680 Harry Haskin, of course. 06:27.680 --> 06:28.680 Murder. 06:28.680 --> 06:29.680 Harry? 06:29.680 --> 06:30.680 Yes, with an ice pick. 06:30.680 --> 06:31.680 Horrible. 06:31.680 --> 06:34.680 Right in that kitchen. 06:34.680 --> 06:37.680 Don't bother me, none, but my Charlie won't eat there. 06:37.680 --> 06:38.680 Ice pick? 06:38.680 --> 06:39.680 Murdered? 06:39.680 --> 06:40.680 Isn't it awful? 06:40.680 --> 06:43.680 And everybody says they've seen so much in love. 06:43.680 --> 06:45.680 And she was so young this age. 06:45.680 --> 06:46.680 What? 06:46.680 --> 06:47.680 Did you know them well? 06:47.680 --> 06:48.680 I... 06:48.680 --> 06:49.680 Oh, yes. 06:49.680 --> 06:50.680 Yes, very well. 06:50.680 --> 06:51.680 Must be a shock to you. 06:51.680 --> 06:52.680 Can't understand why... 06:52.680 --> 06:53.680 Is it in that paper? 06:53.680 --> 06:54.680 May I see it? 06:54.680 --> 06:55.680 Sure. 06:55.680 --> 06:56.680 Been full of nothing else for almost a week. 06:56.680 --> 06:57.680 She was right. 06:57.680 --> 07:02.680 Ice pick, murderer, awaits conviction. 07:02.680 --> 07:04.680 The headlines screamed out at me. 07:04.680 --> 07:07.680 I closed my eyes for a minute to blot it out. 07:07.680 --> 07:10.680 Perhaps when I opened them again, the words would be gone. 07:10.680 --> 07:11.680 But they weren't. 07:11.680 --> 07:14.680 Big and bold as life or death, they mocked me. 07:14.680 --> 07:17.680 Ice pick, murderer, awaits conviction. 07:17.680 --> 07:19.680 And underneath the little black letters 07:19.680 --> 07:21.680 pieced themselves together to form the words 07:21.680 --> 07:24.680 killer, bloody, motive. 07:24.680 --> 07:26.680 And then they jumped across the page. 07:26.680 --> 07:29.680 And then they jumped crazily on the page. 07:29.680 --> 07:31.680 There was a picture of Harry. 07:31.680 --> 07:33.680 Harry, my husband. 07:33.680 --> 07:35.680 I tried to read under it, but I couldn't. 07:35.680 --> 07:37.680 Oh, maybe I shouldn't have let you see that. 07:37.680 --> 07:39.680 Better sit down again, dearie. 07:39.680 --> 07:41.680 No, no, let me alone. 07:41.680 --> 07:42.680 Oh, I'm all right. 07:42.680 --> 07:43.680 Let me alone. 07:43.680 --> 07:44.680 Sure. 07:44.680 --> 07:45.680 All right, all right. 07:45.680 --> 07:47.680 After all, I didn't ask. 07:47.680 --> 07:50.680 Oh, I'm sorry. 07:50.680 --> 07:52.680 You've been very kind. 07:52.680 --> 07:53.680 Please, I'm... 07:53.680 --> 07:56.680 I better go. 08:01.680 --> 08:06.680 I don't remember leaving, walking down those stairs out of the door. 08:06.680 --> 08:08.680 I just remember finding myself on the street again, 08:08.680 --> 08:10.680 half walking and half running, 08:10.680 --> 08:12.680 wanting to curl up on the pavement 08:12.680 --> 08:14.680 and let my head burst with the ache 08:14.680 --> 08:16.680 and the fright that was growing inside. 08:16.680 --> 08:18.680 Toot, toot, I'm a fireman. 08:18.680 --> 08:20.680 Watch out, I'm a fireman. 08:20.680 --> 08:21.680 Toot, toot. 08:21.680 --> 08:23.680 I was back in Central Park again. 08:23.680 --> 08:26.680 From out of nowhere, a little boy on a scooter 08:26.680 --> 08:28.680 came tearing around the bend. 08:28.680 --> 08:31.680 He turned sharply to keep from running into me. 08:31.680 --> 08:34.680 I watched him lose his balance and tried to regain it dizzily. 08:34.680 --> 08:35.680 I'm a fireman. 08:35.680 --> 08:36.680 Watch out, lady. 08:36.680 --> 08:38.680 Hey, lady, watch out. 08:38.680 --> 08:42.680 He toppled over and fell in a pathetic little heap on the ground. 08:42.680 --> 08:44.680 His knee was bleeding. 08:44.680 --> 08:46.680 I ran over to pick him up. 08:46.680 --> 08:47.680 Oh, my knee. 08:47.680 --> 08:49.680 It hurts. 08:49.680 --> 08:51.680 Oh, my knee. 08:51.680 --> 08:53.680 Help me up, will you? 08:53.680 --> 08:55.680 I'd bend over and my arms outstretched 08:55.680 --> 08:57.680 to lift him to his feet again. 08:57.680 --> 08:59.680 And then I remembered... 08:59.680 --> 09:02.680 I was dead. 09:02.680 --> 09:05.680 I'd been murdered by my husband almost a week ago. 09:05.680 --> 09:07.680 I was dead. 09:07.680 --> 09:09.680 Help me up, lady. 09:09.680 --> 09:10.680 Will you? 09:10.680 --> 09:11.680 I froze. 09:11.680 --> 09:13.680 This little boy, if it were true, and it was, 09:13.680 --> 09:15.680 because I'd read it in the paper myself, 09:15.680 --> 09:17.680 if I were really dead, 09:17.680 --> 09:20.680 I knew I couldn't touch this child. 09:20.680 --> 09:23.680 I was afraid for him. 09:23.680 --> 09:25.680 So I ran again. 09:25.680 --> 09:26.680 Hey, lady. 09:26.680 --> 09:29.680 I ran faster and faster till I couldn't hear him anymore. 09:29.680 --> 09:34.680 Then it was later somehow and really dark. 09:34.680 --> 09:37.680 And I was so tired. 09:37.680 --> 09:40.680 Help me up, lady. 09:40.680 --> 09:43.680 I found myself back on that bench again, 09:43.680 --> 09:46.680 the same bench I'd been sitting on earlier that evening. 09:46.680 --> 09:48.680 No one was around. 09:48.680 --> 09:51.680 I stretched out and tried to sleep. 09:51.680 --> 09:55.680 I knew I was awake before I opened my eyes. 09:55.680 --> 09:58.680 It smelled like morning, fresh and clean, 09:58.680 --> 10:00.680 and I felt the sun soak into me. 10:00.680 --> 10:03.680 I thought, I thought, when I open my eyes, 10:03.680 --> 10:05.680 I'll be back in my own bed again. 10:05.680 --> 10:08.680 I'll reach out and I'll be back in my own bed again. 10:08.680 --> 10:11.680 I'll reach out and I'll find Harry there beside me, 10:11.680 --> 10:15.680 and everything will be all right when I open my eyes. 10:15.680 --> 10:17.680 I did. 10:17.680 --> 10:20.680 And it was still Central Park. 10:20.680 --> 10:24.680 I set up stiffly and I smoothed out the wrinkles in my skirt. 10:24.680 --> 10:28.680 I wondered where I was going to go or what I was going to do. 10:28.680 --> 10:31.680 I tried not to think of Harry, where he was, now. 10:31.680 --> 10:34.680 Moore! Moore, darling! Are you all right? 10:34.680 --> 10:36.680 Harry. Harry, you! 10:36.680 --> 10:39.680 Oh, golly, baby, I've been worried sick about you all night. 10:39.680 --> 10:41.680 Where have you been? 10:41.680 --> 10:43.680 Honey, I'm sorry about yesterday. 10:43.680 --> 10:45.680 Will you come home with me? 10:45.680 --> 10:46.680 Home? 10:46.680 --> 10:49.680 Look at your clothes. They're still damp from the rain. 10:49.680 --> 10:52.680 Oh, if you get sick, I'll never forgive myself. 10:52.680 --> 10:54.680 How do you feel? Are you all right? 10:54.680 --> 10:57.680 Rain. Oh, yes. Yes, I'm all right. 10:57.680 --> 11:01.680 Oh, good. Come on, then. Let me take your arm. 11:01.680 --> 11:05.680 Here's a big hand and long, strong fingers pressed against my arm. 11:05.680 --> 11:08.680 My head still ached, so I let him lead me. 11:08.680 --> 11:11.680 We left the park from the entrance on 72nd Street 11:11.680 --> 11:15.680 as a little boy on a scooter came tearing around the bend. 11:15.680 --> 11:18.680 Toot, toot! I'm a fireman! Watch out! 11:18.680 --> 11:37.680 Toot, toot! 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Darling? 14:05.680 --> 14:06.680 Yes? 14:06.680 --> 14:07.680 Come here, will you? 14:07.680 --> 14:10.680 Why are you standing near the mantel? Why don't you come over to me? 14:10.680 --> 14:14.680 Huh? Oh, I was looking at the picture on it. 14:14.680 --> 14:18.680 Our wedding picture. It's there. 14:18.680 --> 14:21.680 Of course it's there. Where should it be? 14:21.680 --> 14:29.680 Darling, put your arms around me so I'll know you're real, that you've come back. 14:29.680 --> 14:31.680 Where did you go? Where were you? 14:31.680 --> 14:32.680 I don't know. 14:32.680 --> 14:34.680 All right, I won't ask questions now. 14:34.680 --> 14:39.680 Just put your arms around me tight and tell me you still love me. 14:39.680 --> 14:45.680 He held me close to him, and he bent his head so it was buried warm and heavy against my throat. 14:45.680 --> 14:50.680 I thought it wouldn't hurt because he's pressing me too tightly if I were dead. 14:50.680 --> 14:58.680 I couldn't feel the tiny pulse in my throat beating quick and sharp as I were really dead. 14:58.680 --> 15:03.680 The worn spot on the rug was still there, and the crack in the base of the lamp. 15:03.680 --> 15:09.680 But the wedding picture was back on the mantel and the woman with eyes like two shiny brown buttons was gone. 15:09.680 --> 15:11.680 There was just Harry and me. 15:11.680 --> 15:13.680 Are you hungry? Let me get you something to eat. 15:13.680 --> 15:15.680 I am hungry a little. 15:15.680 --> 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. 15:18.680 --> 15:20.680 Or you want to change first? 15:20.680 --> 15:22.680 Yes, I'd like that. 15:22.680 --> 15:25.680 Gee, I'm sorry you got caught in the rain, honey. 15:25.680 --> 15:29.680 It was raining, wasn't it, Harry? It was raining hard, wasn't it? 15:29.680 --> 15:32.680 Raining? I'll say it was. What a storm. 15:32.680 --> 15:36.680 It was raining. It was raining hard. Oh, Harry. 15:36.680 --> 15:42.680 Oh, sweet, don't. Please don't. You're home now. 15:44.680 --> 15:47.680 We ate breakfast on the little table near the window. 15:47.680 --> 15:55.680 He leaned across the table, his large arms resting on the cloth, his eyes steady and serious, watching me. 15:55.680 --> 15:59.680 Why was he being so kind? Why should he be so good to me? 15:59.680 --> 16:03.680 What were the thoughts behind those eyes watching me? Watching? 16:03.680 --> 16:05.680 I love you. 16:05.680 --> 16:09.680 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to drop. 16:09.680 --> 16:11.680 Why, don't worry about it. 16:11.680 --> 16:13.680 I'll get the broom, sweep it up. 16:13.680 --> 16:14.680 Maud. 16:14.680 --> 16:15.680 Yes? 16:15.680 --> 16:18.680 Don't bother about it now. Come here to me, will you? 16:18.680 --> 16:19.680 No. 16:19.680 --> 16:20.680 What? 16:20.680 --> 16:25.680 I, I mean, it's glass. I'd better sweep it up. I'll only be a minute. 16:25.680 --> 16:27.680 Okay. 16:27.680 --> 16:33.680 I went into the kitchen. Glad to be alone for a minute, safe for a minute. 16:33.680 --> 16:40.680 I knew with a dull, sick realization that I was afraid of my husband, afraid of Harry. 16:40.680 --> 16:41.680 Want me to do it for you? 16:41.680 --> 16:45.680 No, no, I can do it. I'll sweep it up. 16:45.680 --> 16:50.680 Maud, don't go into work today. Stay home and rest. You don't look well. 16:50.680 --> 16:53.680 Oh, but I am. I, I want to go into work. 16:53.680 --> 16:57.680 All right, if you're sure. Anything you want. 16:57.680 --> 17:01.680 He was being good to me again. Too good to me. 17:01.680 --> 17:05.680 Anything I wanted. Anything. Anything. 17:05.680 --> 17:10.680 I didn't trust him. He was too kind. His lips moved with honeyed words, but... 17:10.680 --> 17:12.680 the want was on his mind. 17:12.680 --> 17:13.680 I love you. 17:13.680 --> 17:14.680 Do you? 17:14.680 --> 17:15.680 Well, don't you know I do? 17:15.680 --> 17:17.680 Of course. Of course I do. 17:17.680 --> 17:19.680 You'll be home right after work? 17:19.680 --> 17:21.680 I... yes. 17:21.680 --> 17:23.680 Maybe we'll go to a movie or something. Would you like that? 17:23.680 --> 17:24.680 We'll see. 17:24.680 --> 17:26.680 All right. We'll see. 17:35.680 --> 17:38.680 He walked me to the Eighth Avenue subway like he always did. 17:38.680 --> 17:43.680 And when he kissed me goodbye, a slim trimmer of fear went through me. 17:43.680 --> 17:45.680 See you tonight, darling. 17:52.680 --> 17:56.680 I took three letters that morning. I typed them automatically, but... 17:56.680 --> 17:59.680 inside my head, one thought kept repeating, repeating. 17:59.680 --> 18:02.680 I'm afraid of Harry. I'm afraid. My husband is going to kill me. 18:02.680 --> 18:06.680 I know because I dreamed it last night. Only I'm not sure it was a dream. 18:06.680 --> 18:10.680 Maybe it was a warning. A warning. My husband is going to kill me. 18:10.680 --> 18:11.680 Kill me! 18:19.680 --> 18:22.680 Fry two, looking at the moon, wheat down. 18:22.680 --> 18:23.680 What'll it be, lady? 18:23.680 --> 18:25.680 Ham on rye, coffee. 18:25.680 --> 18:27.680 Coming. Ham on rye! 18:27.680 --> 18:31.680 The drugstore was full of hungry, busy people reading the daily paper. 18:31.680 --> 18:35.680 The paper that screamed the hurts and the pains and the troubles of other people. 18:35.680 --> 18:38.680 But not me. Not Maude Haskin. 18:38.680 --> 18:42.680 When there was nothing in it about a nice pick murder and Harry's picture... 18:42.680 --> 18:45.680 I began to feel a little foolish. 18:45.680 --> 18:48.680 Hey, old lady, ham on rye, jab on its way. 18:48.680 --> 18:52.680 I'd fallen asleep on a park bench and I'd had a dream. 18:52.680 --> 18:54.680 That was all just a nightmare. 18:54.680 --> 18:57.680 Afraid? Afraid of Harry? 18:57.680 --> 19:00.680 Well, I'd let a silly dream play tricks with me. 19:00.680 --> 19:03.680 I wanted to push the minutes ahead so I could go home. 19:03.680 --> 19:05.680 Go home to Harry. 19:05.680 --> 19:09.680 I kept looking at the clock. Four, four-thirty, four-thirty-five. 19:09.680 --> 19:14.680 I wanted to get home and tell him I was all right. I was all right now. 19:14.680 --> 19:18.680 Four-forty-five, four-fifty, five o'clock. 19:18.680 --> 19:21.680 This time I knew I wasn't dreaming. 19:21.680 --> 19:26.680 This time I could run, run fast all the way from the subway to sixty-ninth and down and home. 19:26.680 --> 19:28.680 And Harry would be there. 19:28.680 --> 19:30.680 Down sixty-ninth and up those brownstone steps. 19:30.680 --> 19:33.680 I climbed one flight, two flights, out of breath, hurrying. 19:33.680 --> 19:36.680 One more, one more. 19:38.680 --> 19:41.680 Excuse me, dearie, do you know where I can find the landlady? 19:44.680 --> 19:46.680 It was that woman. 19:46.680 --> 19:49.680 The small, dark woman with eyes like two shiny brums. 19:49.680 --> 19:51.680 Do you know where I can find the landlady? 19:51.680 --> 19:54.680 What? What did you say? 19:54.680 --> 19:55.680 You live here, dearie? 19:55.680 --> 19:56.680 Yes, yes, I... 19:56.680 --> 19:59.680 Well, well, tell me then. Do you happen to know if there's any vacancies? 19:59.680 --> 20:03.680 Vacancies? No, no! I'm sure there aren't. 20:03.680 --> 20:06.680 Oh, me and me husband's been looking for weeks. What a job. 20:06.680 --> 20:10.680 You know if anybody's planning to move out, dearie? Soon, maybe. 20:10.680 --> 20:13.680 Say, where are you going? Say. 20:13.680 --> 20:15.680 Well, can you beat that? 20:15.680 --> 20:19.680 That woman in my dream who'd been living in our apartment. 20:19.680 --> 20:22.680 What was she doing here? Maybe it had been more than a dream. 20:22.680 --> 20:27.680 Maybe I was thrown ahead into seven tomorrows to next Wednesday. 20:27.680 --> 20:31.680 Maybe by then she'd have our apartment, just like in my dream. 20:31.680 --> 20:33.680 And then I'd... 20:33.680 --> 20:35.680 Darling, that you? 20:35.680 --> 20:37.680 Yes. Yes, Harry. 20:37.680 --> 20:39.680 Got a kiss for me? 20:39.680 --> 20:42.680 Madder girl. You're home early. 20:42.680 --> 20:43.680 I hurried. 20:43.680 --> 20:45.680 Did you? So did I. I missed you terribly. 20:45.680 --> 20:47.680 Come on in. I got a surprise. 20:47.680 --> 20:49.680 What kind of a surprise? 20:49.680 --> 20:50.680 Never mind. 20:50.680 --> 20:54.680 Oh, Maude, don't ever go very far away again, will you? 20:54.680 --> 20:57.680 No. No, Harry, I won't. 20:57.680 --> 21:00.680 Good. Now you wait here. I'll be only a minute. 21:00.680 --> 21:04.680 I kept thinking. Not a dream. 21:04.680 --> 21:07.680 Not just a dream, but a warning. A warning. 21:07.680 --> 21:11.680 Oh, but that was silly. It couldn't be. It... 21:11.680 --> 21:14.680 I heard the sound of... 21:14.680 --> 21:17.680 I couldn't be sure, but it sounded like... 21:17.680 --> 21:21.680 I felt the blood rush up to my face and I began to shake all over. 21:21.680 --> 21:23.680 I walked into the kitchen. 21:23.680 --> 21:25.680 Harry was bent over a small bowl. 21:25.680 --> 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. 21:30.680 --> 21:33.680 And in his hand he held a nice kick. 21:38.680 --> 21:40.680 Maude! What is it? What's the matter? 21:40.680 --> 21:42.680 I... I... 21:42.680 --> 21:45.680 Nothing. Nothing. 21:45.680 --> 21:46.680 What are you doing? 21:46.680 --> 21:49.680 Why did you come in? This was gonna be a surprise. 21:49.680 --> 21:51.680 You're not angry because I spent the money, are you? 21:51.680 --> 21:53.680 We've got to celebrate. 21:53.680 --> 21:55.680 No. No, I'm not angry. 21:55.680 --> 21:57.680 I wish you hadn't come in, though. You spoiled it. 21:57.680 --> 21:58.680 I'm sorry. 21:58.680 --> 22:00.680 I didn't mean it. Doesn't matter. 22:00.680 --> 22:02.680 Nothing matters as long as you're here. 22:02.680 --> 22:06.680 He put the ice pick beside the bowl and he took me in his arm. 22:06.680 --> 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. 22:12.680 --> 22:15.680 The ice pick. Spoiler surprise. 22:15.680 --> 22:17.680 Yes. Yes, I'd spoil it. 22:17.680 --> 22:20.680 He thought he was gonna kill me, but I wasn't gonna let him. 22:20.680 --> 22:22.680 I wasn't gonna let him. 22:22.680 --> 22:25.680 Gee, I love you. I love you. 22:25.680 --> 22:28.680 I'd smother the lying words in his throat before he could say them again. 22:28.680 --> 22:31.680 I'd been warned and I wasn't gonna let him do it. 22:31.680 --> 22:36.680 I reached out and I felt my fingers creep around the handle of the ice pick. 22:36.680 --> 22:38.680 I was strong and safe now. 22:38.680 --> 22:41.680 That dream wasn't gonna come true. I'd make sure. 22:41.680 --> 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. 22:48.680 --> 22:50.680 Ready. Ready. 22:50.680 --> 22:54.680 Darling, I love you. I... 22:57.680 --> 22:59.680 I've done it. 22:59.680 --> 23:03.680 I put all my strength into that blow and the ice pick half disappeared into him. 23:03.680 --> 23:07.680 Maura. Maura, I... 23:09.680 --> 23:12.680 His arms still around me grew limp. 23:12.680 --> 23:18.680 I felt them slide heavily, big hands dragging at my body as he desperately tried to stay on his feet. 23:18.680 --> 23:22.680 His long fingers clutched at my belt and he tore it from me. 23:22.680 --> 23:26.680 And then he fell, still holding it in his hand. 23:26.680 --> 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. 23:44.680 --> 23:46.680 No one saw me leave the house. 23:46.680 --> 23:48.680 It was a clear cold night. 23:48.680 --> 23:52.680 Overhead a plane made its way past the stars. 23:52.680 --> 23:56.680 I remember looking up at it and thinking, you can't even see me. 23:56.680 --> 23:58.680 You don't even know I'm here. 23:58.680 --> 24:03.680 And then I've just killed my husband and left him lying dead on the kitchen linoleum. 24:03.680 --> 24:06.680 But I knew. And somehow I didn't care. 24:06.680 --> 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. 24:12.680 --> 24:16.680 I'd been cleverer than he. I'd done it first. 24:16.680 --> 24:23.680 I stumbled into the park and then I dropped from exhaustion. 24:23.680 --> 24:27.680 I slept all night on the grass. 24:33.680 --> 24:38.680 In the morning, I remembered when I was too sick to care. 24:38.680 --> 24:43.680 I was almost sorry I woke up. I didn't want ever to wake up. 24:43.680 --> 24:48.680 I started to walk again. I kept on walking until I couldn't go anymore. 24:48.680 --> 24:52.680 There was a bench. I sat down. 24:52.680 --> 24:55.680 Someone had been there before and left a newspaper. 24:55.680 --> 24:58.680 I picked it up and I read it. 24:58.680 --> 25:00.680 And then I knew. 25:03.680 --> 25:07.680 As big and bold as life or death it mocked me. 25:07.680 --> 25:12.680 Ice pick murder and the words killer, bloody, motive jumped crazily on the page. 25:12.680 --> 25:15.680 And Harry's picture just as it had been in my dream. 25:15.680 --> 25:17.680 Only this time I read on. 25:17.680 --> 25:23.680 Harry Haskin dead. Murdered. Police searching for wife Maude Haskin. 25:23.680 --> 25:28.680 And then I knew. Harry never wanted to kill me. 25:28.680 --> 25:30.680 Harry loved me. 25:30.680 --> 25:33.680 I tried to run away from a dream. Just a dream. 25:33.680 --> 25:42.680 But instead I made him live and now Harry was dead. 25:49.680 --> 25:56.680 I wanted to tell you how it was, Father, because it's so hard to believe it happened to me. 25:56.680 --> 26:01.680 Pray for me. I know now what wrong I've done. 26:01.680 --> 26:08.680 But the dream has come true. It's Wednesday again, isn't it, Father? 26:08.680 --> 26:14.680 Maude Haskin in a prison cell because I killed my husband. 26:14.680 --> 26:17.680 I had to tell someone, Father. 26:17.680 --> 26:20.680 Will you pray for me? 26:20.680 --> 26:25.680 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 26:25.680 --> 26:28.680 A week ago Wednesday. 26:28.680 --> 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. 26:37.680 --> 26:40.680 I wonder if she's there now. 26:40.680 --> 27:02.680 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 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