WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.800 Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:11.800 --> 00:16.000 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 00:16.000 --> 00:24.920 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Dame May Whitty as star of My Dear Niece, a suspense play 00:24.920 --> 00:31.720 produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:31.720 --> 00:41.040 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:41.040 --> 00:44.320 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:44.320 --> 00:49.320 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:49.320 --> 00:54.160 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:54.160 --> 01:00.920 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Dame May Whitty 01:00.920 --> 01:09.760 in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:09.760 --> 01:14.640 My Dear Niece, I'm writing you this letter in explanation of certain recent actions of 01:14.640 --> 01:18.680 mine about which you're probably curious. 01:18.680 --> 01:23.320 As you know, since that day four years ago when your dear uncle died, may he rest in 01:23.320 --> 01:27.640 peace, I've been living a busy, if lonely, life. 01:27.640 --> 01:32.280 Fortunately the city is small itself and one has many friends, but they in no way could 01:32.280 --> 01:35.240 make up for the loneliness I felt. 01:35.240 --> 01:40.200 As you recall, you're continually urging me to try to get some sort of a position, and 01:40.200 --> 01:46.520 so finally I took your advice and placed an advertisement in our local paper. 01:46.520 --> 01:50.720 It was six weeks ago this next Friday that I inserted the ad. 01:50.720 --> 01:54.040 I'm sure you must have chuckled when you read it. 01:54.040 --> 02:01.120 Widowed woman, genteel, some secretarial experience, drives own car, desires position of interest 02:01.120 --> 02:03.640 with reliable business house. 02:03.640 --> 02:10.440 Address Miss Emily Rogers, Box 2B or phone Hilton 22412. 02:10.440 --> 02:14.160 I was somewhat surprised to receive a reply the next morning. 02:14.160 --> 02:15.160 I'd finished my breakfast. 02:15.160 --> 02:16.160 Yes, you're right. 02:16.160 --> 02:20.280 I still drink a cup of hot water from arising each morning. 02:20.280 --> 02:23.920 I'd finished at all events when the phone rang. 02:23.920 --> 02:24.920 Hello? 02:24.920 --> 02:26.920 Mrs. Emily Rogers, please. 02:26.920 --> 02:28.240 This is she speaking. 02:28.240 --> 02:31.200 I'm calling about the ad you ran in the evening paper yesterday. 02:31.200 --> 02:32.280 Oh yes. 02:32.280 --> 02:36.000 I think I can offer you a position you'd be interested in, Mrs. Rogers. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 My name is Bruce. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.320 How do you do, Mr. Bruce? 02:38.320 --> 02:42.960 We have a very small publishing house, Mrs. Rogers, and need someone to take care of any 02:42.960 --> 02:46.480 of the contacts we might wish to make in your part of the country. 02:46.480 --> 02:47.960 Oh, aren't you from Hilton then? 02:47.960 --> 02:48.960 No. 02:48.960 --> 02:50.880 Our offices are in Los Angeles. 02:50.880 --> 02:54.240 We'd pay you $50 a week providing you could use your home as an office, although there 02:54.240 --> 02:56.480 wouldn't be much office work required. 02:56.480 --> 03:01.160 As I say, the position primarily would be one of establishing contacts. 03:01.160 --> 03:02.160 Right. 03:02.160 --> 03:03.760 It sounds fine, Mr. 03:03.760 --> 03:04.760 Bruce. 03:04.760 --> 03:05.760 It sounds fine, Mr. Bruce. 03:05.760 --> 03:06.760 Good, good. 03:06.760 --> 03:10.520 Well then consider yourself under salary beginning immediately, Mrs. Rogers. 03:10.520 --> 03:14.160 I'll phone you again as soon as there's something more definite for you to do. 03:14.160 --> 03:21.800 And that's how I got the job. 03:21.800 --> 03:25.800 I assumed naturally that I would immediately receive instructions from Mr. Bruce as to 03:25.800 --> 03:28.720 how I should go about establishing contacts. 03:28.720 --> 03:34.800 The first word I had after the telephone conversation was when the postman arrived the next Saturday 03:34.800 --> 03:38.360 with an envelope for me containing a check for $50. 03:38.360 --> 03:43.260 There was no return address on the envelope and the check was a personal one bearing no 03:43.260 --> 03:44.260 company name. 03:44.260 --> 03:45.260 It was signed R.L. 03:45.260 --> 03:46.260 Bruce. 03:46.260 --> 03:56.260 Three weeks went by in this fashion. 03:56.260 --> 04:00.960 Each Saturday I would receive the $50 check in the mail, but always the envelope was without 04:00.960 --> 04:04.840 a return address and the check was a personal check. 04:04.840 --> 04:09.480 All the envelopes were postmarked Los Angeles, but other than that I haven't the smallest 04:09.480 --> 04:14.320 clue as to the identity of the company by which I was employed. 04:14.320 --> 04:17.680 I've always believed that money is very precious. 04:17.680 --> 04:23.840 And as your uncle, may his soul rest in peace, used to say, no self-respecting person would 04:23.840 --> 04:27.360 accept it without doing a lick of work for it. 04:27.360 --> 04:29.640 I was dissatisfied at the arrangement. 04:29.640 --> 04:33.360 I would tell this Mr. Bruce when he phoned that I wished to resign my position with his 04:33.360 --> 04:35.760 small publishing house. 04:35.760 --> 04:41.280 It was on the Wednesday after we arrived with the third check that I again received a telephone 04:41.280 --> 04:43.040 call from Mr. Bruce. 04:43.040 --> 04:46.480 He was charming as he'd been on the first call. 04:46.480 --> 04:48.760 And before I had the chance to tell him if I wished to resign. 04:48.760 --> 04:51.400 Well, I have your first assignment for you Mrs. Rogers. 04:51.400 --> 04:53.560 Oh, I wanted to talk to you about that Mr. Bruce. 04:53.560 --> 04:54.560 Oh, getting impatient were you? 04:54.560 --> 04:55.560 Well, this will keep you busy for a while. 04:55.560 --> 04:56.560 Really? 04:56.560 --> 04:57.560 Yes, and Mr. Paul Stevens will arrive in Hilton this afternoon. 04:57.560 --> 05:02.560 Now he's one of our most promising new authors and I'm going to have to ask a big favor of 05:02.560 --> 05:03.560 you Mrs. Rogers. 05:03.560 --> 05:06.560 What sort of a favor Mr. Bruce? 05:06.560 --> 05:13.720 Well, Mr. Stevens has some rewriting on a novel we plan publishing in a few months and too 05:13.720 --> 05:15.760 many people interrupt him here in Los Angeles. 05:15.760 --> 05:20.320 So I wonder if you could put him up at your home until he finishes. 05:20.320 --> 05:21.320 Why, I don't know. 05:21.320 --> 05:26.000 Oh, he'll be no bother Mrs. Rogers and of course all expenses will be covered. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 He has an awful lot of work to do. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.640 Well, yes I suppose I could. 05:30.640 --> 05:32.480 Oh, that's fine, that's fine. 05:32.480 --> 05:33.960 It's just a place for him to get away. 05:33.960 --> 05:35.960 Oh, and one more favor. 05:35.960 --> 05:36.960 Yes? 05:36.960 --> 05:39.160 Just so we're sure he's not bothered. 05:39.160 --> 05:49.000 Please don't tell anyone he's staying with you. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.200 And that's all I knew of the job my dear niece. 05:52.200 --> 05:57.400 Well at last I'd be doing something for my pay which to me was very important. 05:57.400 --> 06:02.160 I waited around the house all day afraid to leave, even to do my shopping, for fear I'd 06:02.160 --> 06:04.600 miss the telephone call from Mr. Stevens. 06:04.600 --> 06:10.720 It was quite late in the afternoon, almost five o'clock when the telephone rang. 06:10.720 --> 06:11.720 Hello? 06:11.720 --> 06:12.720 Mrs. Rogers? 06:12.720 --> 06:13.720 This is Mrs. Rogers. 06:13.720 --> 06:16.720 This is Paul Stevens, Mrs. Rogers. 06:16.720 --> 06:19.120 Oh yes, Mr. Stevens. 06:19.120 --> 06:20.680 I've been expecting your call. 06:20.680 --> 06:21.880 Where are you? 06:21.880 --> 06:22.880 I've come and pick you up. 06:22.880 --> 06:23.880 Oh, that's very kind of you. 06:23.880 --> 06:24.880 I'm at the corner, just a minute. 06:24.880 --> 06:29.960 The corner of Brookside and Sierra Madre. 06:29.960 --> 06:32.400 The corner of Brookside and Sierra Madre, fine. 06:32.400 --> 06:37.000 I've been driving a Black Buick Convertible and the right fender's dented. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.200 A parking station attendant did it. 06:39.200 --> 06:40.200 Black Buick Convertible. 06:40.200 --> 06:41.200 I'll be waiting. 06:41.200 --> 06:42.200 Bye. 06:42.200 --> 06:43.200 Goodbye, Mr. Stevens. 06:43.200 --> 06:44.200 Oh, oh, Mr. Stevens. 06:44.200 --> 06:51.440 I remembered I hadn't asked Mr. Stevens what he looked like so that I would be able to 06:51.440 --> 06:52.440 recognize him. 06:52.440 --> 06:56.880 Oh, but then I thought that Brookside and Sierra Madre is not a busy intersection and 06:56.880 --> 07:00.680 all the chances of there being more than one stranger at the corner were slight. 07:00.680 --> 07:06.080 I left the house immediately and drove through town to where Brookside crosses Sierra Madre. 07:06.080 --> 07:12.040 The first nervousness I felt was when arriving at the corner, I found myself faced with this 07:12.040 --> 07:13.040 problem of identification. 07:13.040 --> 07:18.040 There were many cars and a rather large and excited crowd gathered at the corner. 07:18.040 --> 07:19.040 Come on now, stand back everybody, please. 07:19.040 --> 07:20.040 Oh, hello there, Mrs. Rogers. 07:20.040 --> 07:21.040 Officer, what happened? 07:21.040 --> 07:22.040 A hit and run accident a few minutes ago. 07:22.040 --> 07:23.040 Oh, how dreadful. 07:23.040 --> 07:27.040 Who was hit? 07:27.040 --> 07:30.040 A man about 35, no one I know. 07:30.040 --> 07:32.040 Was he badly hurt? 07:32.040 --> 07:33.040 He's dead. 07:33.040 --> 07:35.040 Oh, oh, that's awful. 07:35.040 --> 07:37.040 Yeah, oh, please, now back. 07:37.040 --> 07:44.520 Officer, I, well, I was supposed to meet someone, a gentleman here, a Mr. Paul Stevens. 07:44.520 --> 07:46.720 I don't suppose that this poor gentleman could be... 07:46.720 --> 07:49.320 Well, now, the ambulance will be here in a few minutes, Mrs. Rogers. 07:49.320 --> 07:51.600 I'll call you when we find out who it is, if you like. 07:51.600 --> 07:52.600 Would you? 07:52.600 --> 07:53.600 I'd be very grateful. 07:53.600 --> 07:54.600 I'll call you later. 07:54.600 --> 07:55.600 All right, now, please, kids, stand back. 07:55.600 --> 07:56.600 Mrs. Rogers? 07:56.600 --> 07:57.600 Yes? 07:57.600 --> 07:59.920 I, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. 07:59.920 --> 08:00.920 I'm Paul Stevens. 08:00.920 --> 08:01.920 Mr. Stevens? 08:01.920 --> 08:02.920 Oh, I'm so relieved. 08:02.920 --> 08:03.920 Hmm? 08:03.920 --> 08:04.920 Well, of course, please get in. 08:04.920 --> 08:05.920 The accident upset me. 08:05.920 --> 08:06.920 I was afraid for a minute it was you. 08:06.920 --> 08:07.920 No, no, it wasn't me. 08:07.920 --> 08:08.920 Won't you get in? 08:08.920 --> 08:09.920 Thank you. 08:09.920 --> 08:10.920 Have you had your dinner? 08:10.920 --> 08:11.920 Yes, yes, thank you. 08:11.920 --> 08:12.920 I'd like to go to your house if you don't mind. 08:12.920 --> 08:13.920 Well, of course, Mr. Stevens. 08:13.920 --> 08:14.920 It won't take long. 08:14.920 --> 08:34.880 I was really terribly relieved, and I thought what a warrior I was, because for a few minutes, 08:34.880 --> 08:37.880 I really had been sure that Paul Stevens was dead. 08:37.880 --> 08:40.680 But now everything was fine. 08:40.680 --> 08:46.240 I tried making conversation with Mr. Stevens on the drive home, but he seemed tired, not 08:46.240 --> 08:47.240 inclined to talk. 08:47.240 --> 08:51.560 And so we drove quietly back through town and to my house. 08:51.560 --> 08:56.440 We went inside, and I showed Mr. Stevens up to his room, and then went into the living 08:56.440 --> 08:57.440 room to tidy up. 08:57.440 --> 09:00.440 The telephone rang as I was setting out some ashtrays. 09:00.440 --> 09:01.440 Hello? 09:01.440 --> 09:02.440 Hello, Mrs. Rogers. 09:02.440 --> 09:03.440 This is Officer Barnes. 09:03.440 --> 09:04.440 Oh, yes, Officer. 09:04.440 --> 09:05.440 I'm glad you called. 09:05.440 --> 09:06.440 I wanted to tell you that I met Mr. 09:06.440 --> 09:07.440 I think that I identified you with the police. 09:07.440 --> 09:10.880 Yes, that's what I wanted to tell you, Officer. 09:10.880 --> 09:13.880 The name was Paul Stevens, all right. 09:13.880 --> 09:17.880 We had a hand bill on him, as how we know. 09:17.880 --> 09:22.240 He was wanted for a payroll robbery in L.A. 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12:21.520 --> 12:24.520 Are you there, Mrs. Rogers? 12:24.520 --> 12:26.120 Hello? 12:26.120 --> 12:27.720 Hello? 12:27.720 --> 12:30.240 Thank them and hang up. 12:30.240 --> 12:31.240 Hello, Mrs. Rogers. 12:31.240 --> 12:33.240 Are you all right? 12:33.240 --> 12:34.240 Yes. 12:34.240 --> 12:36.560 Yes, I'm all right, officer. 12:36.560 --> 12:37.560 I was... 12:37.560 --> 12:38.920 Thank them and hang up. 12:38.920 --> 12:39.920 I was... 12:39.920 --> 12:40.920 Thank you, officer. 12:40.920 --> 12:52.600 He walked away from me then and sat across the room where he could watch me and also see 12:52.600 --> 12:55.120 anyone who might come to the front door. 12:55.120 --> 12:57.440 The gun rusted in his lap. 12:57.440 --> 13:00.080 I stood and stared at him. 13:00.080 --> 13:01.080 My mind raced. 13:01.080 --> 13:04.360 I tried to think of what to do. 13:04.360 --> 13:06.960 I was surprised when he spoke. 13:06.960 --> 13:08.840 Sit down, if you like. 13:08.840 --> 13:09.840 Who are you? 13:09.840 --> 13:11.720 Why did you tell me you were Mr. Stevens? 13:11.720 --> 13:12.720 Sit down. 13:12.720 --> 13:13.720 Who are you? 13:13.720 --> 13:16.560 How dare you pretend to be Mr. Stevens? 13:16.560 --> 13:17.560 I'm stupid. 13:17.560 --> 13:18.560 What? 13:18.560 --> 13:20.320 I didn't think they'd find out who he was. 13:20.320 --> 13:21.720 I didn't know he was hot. 13:21.720 --> 13:22.720 You killed... 13:22.720 --> 13:23.720 Yes. 13:23.720 --> 13:24.720 I killed Paul Stevens. 13:24.720 --> 13:25.720 That's all he would say. 13:25.720 --> 13:28.720 I tried to find out who he was and why he'd chosen me and why he killed Mr. Stevens and 13:28.720 --> 13:32.040 what he was going to do next, but he wouldn't answer me. 13:32.040 --> 13:33.760 He wouldn't say anything. 13:33.760 --> 13:37.400 He looked over at me occasionally and smiled. 13:37.400 --> 13:42.200 It was beginning to get dark and I got up. 13:42.200 --> 13:45.200 I was very nervous. 13:45.200 --> 13:51.960 He looked over at me occasionally and smiled. 13:51.960 --> 13:53.800 It was beginning to get dark and I got up to turn on the lights. 13:53.800 --> 13:54.800 What are you doing? 13:54.800 --> 13:55.800 It's dark. 13:55.800 --> 13:56.800 I thought I... 13:56.800 --> 13:57.960 I like it dark. 13:57.960 --> 13:59.720 My house doesn't look well in the dark. 13:59.720 --> 14:02.040 We'll be going out in a few minutes, Mrs. Rogers. 14:02.040 --> 14:03.840 Where are we going? 14:03.840 --> 14:06.240 Oh, we're going out for dinner, Mrs. Rogers. 14:06.240 --> 14:08.800 You're going to be my dinner guest. 14:08.800 --> 14:10.520 Why did the cop call you? 14:10.520 --> 14:12.360 How did you know he called me? 14:12.360 --> 14:13.560 The phone upstairs. 14:13.560 --> 14:16.120 I was expecting a call. 14:16.120 --> 14:17.320 Why did he call you? 14:17.320 --> 14:18.320 I thought you were dead. 14:18.320 --> 14:19.320 I... 14:19.320 --> 14:20.640 I mean, I thought Mr. Stevens was dead. 14:20.640 --> 14:21.640 I... 14:21.640 --> 14:22.640 All right, all right. 14:22.640 --> 14:25.680 Get your face on, Mrs. Rogers. 14:25.680 --> 14:33.200 I have a very important engagement. 14:33.200 --> 14:37.920 We left the house then, got in the car and drove to a restaurant I'd never been in before. 14:37.920 --> 14:40.840 It's on the highway out past the other side of town. 14:40.840 --> 14:43.640 It has quite a bad reputation. 14:43.640 --> 14:47.400 The man didn't know where it was, but he knew the name. 14:47.400 --> 14:50.800 All the while I was trying to remember who he was. 14:50.800 --> 14:55.400 I say remember because there was something familiar about him. 14:55.400 --> 15:01.680 But what that something was, my dear niece, I couldn't for the life of me think. 15:01.680 --> 15:06.240 An attendant took the car when we arrived at the road house and we went inside. 15:06.240 --> 15:12.360 We just sat down at a table when a small and very thin dark complexion man slid into the 15:12.360 --> 15:15.640 seat next to the man who was Mr. Stevens. 15:15.640 --> 15:16.720 What are you doing here? 15:16.720 --> 15:17.720 I had to come. 15:17.720 --> 15:18.720 It didn't work. 15:18.720 --> 15:19.720 They found out who he was. 15:19.720 --> 15:20.720 Why didn't you stay hidden? 15:20.720 --> 15:22.480 She knows I'm not Stevens. 15:22.480 --> 15:23.480 The cop told him. 15:23.480 --> 15:24.920 You could stay at her house anyway, couldn't you? 15:24.920 --> 15:26.840 You have to come out where people can pick you up. 15:26.840 --> 15:28.320 Take it easy, Al. 15:28.320 --> 15:29.320 Nuts easy. 15:29.320 --> 15:30.320 What's the matter with you? 15:30.320 --> 15:32.920 Mary figures out a foolproof way for you to get rid of a guy and hide out right under 15:32.920 --> 15:35.880 the cop's noses and then you go and louse up the whole deal. 15:35.880 --> 15:37.000 It's not louse up the deal. 15:37.000 --> 15:38.800 It will be if you don't get away quick. 15:38.800 --> 15:39.800 Maybe, maybe. 15:39.800 --> 15:42.200 Oh, I don't think you've met Mrs. Rogers. 15:42.200 --> 15:45.840 Mrs. Rogers, this is Mr. Al Newholt who owns this restaurant. 15:45.840 --> 15:46.840 Yes. 15:46.840 --> 15:47.840 Hiya. 15:47.840 --> 15:49.920 Look, you better get back to L.A. 15:49.920 --> 15:50.920 What good would it do? 15:50.920 --> 15:56.640 Have you got any contacts in that part of the country? 15:56.640 --> 15:58.840 Suddenly I knew. 15:58.840 --> 16:04.240 I knew who the man was because as he talked to Al, I remembered that voice. 16:04.240 --> 16:08.920 We need someone to take care of any contacts we might wish to make in your part of the 16:08.920 --> 16:09.920 country. 16:09.920 --> 16:10.920 It was Mr. Bruce. 16:10.920 --> 16:17.000 The same Mr. Bruce who'd given me my job and sent me the checks and who'd called me 16:17.000 --> 16:21.160 that morning and told me to inspect Mr. Stevens that afternoon and to put up Mr. Stevens at 16:21.160 --> 16:22.160 my home for a while. 16:22.160 --> 16:23.160 How did they find out? 16:23.160 --> 16:24.160 What? 16:24.160 --> 16:25.800 You said they found out who he was. 16:25.800 --> 16:26.800 How? 16:26.800 --> 16:27.800 It was hot. 16:27.800 --> 16:28.800 They had pictures and prints on him. 16:28.800 --> 16:30.280 I jumped him at the corner just before I met her. 16:30.280 --> 16:31.280 You're Mr. Bruce. 16:31.280 --> 16:33.280 He did that payroll job. 16:33.280 --> 16:34.280 What did you say? 16:34.280 --> 16:35.280 He's Mr. Bruce. 16:35.280 --> 16:36.280 That's very good, Mrs. Rogers. 16:36.280 --> 16:37.280 How did you know? 16:37.280 --> 16:38.280 I just remembered your voice. 16:38.280 --> 16:39.280 It doesn't make any difference. 16:39.280 --> 16:40.280 You know too much about this anyway. 16:40.280 --> 16:41.280 Doesn't make any difference. 16:41.280 --> 16:42.280 You want me to take her with me out? 16:42.280 --> 16:43.280 I don't want her around here. 16:43.280 --> 16:44.280 Somebody might have seen her car drive in. 16:44.280 --> 16:45.280 They'd look. 16:45.280 --> 16:46.280 I think we'll go back to her house and start fresh. 16:46.280 --> 16:47.280 That way it'll be harder checking where she went. 16:47.280 --> 16:48.280 Whatever you do, do it now. 16:48.280 --> 16:49.280 The crowd starts coming for dinner soon and someone will see you. 16:49.280 --> 16:50.280 Yeah, yeah, okay. 16:50.280 --> 16:51.280 I'll be right back. 16:51.280 --> 16:52.280 I'll be right back. 16:52.280 --> 16:53.280 I'll be right back. 16:53.280 --> 16:54.280 I'll be right back. 16:54.280 --> 16:55.280 I'll be right back. 16:55.280 --> 16:56.280 I'll be right back. 16:56.280 --> 17:03.280 I'll be right back. 17:26.280 --> 17:27.280 I can't describe my fright. 17:27.280 --> 17:28.280 It all seemed so hopeless. 17:28.280 --> 17:29.280 I suppose I was more resigned than frightened. 17:29.280 --> 17:30.280 We drove back through town. 17:30.280 --> 17:31.280 Mr. Bruce sitting very quietly next to me in the front seat. 17:31.280 --> 17:32.280 My car's not new, as you know, and although I often have trouble with it, I never before 17:32.280 --> 17:33.280 had the horn staked. 17:33.280 --> 17:34.280 But that night it stuck right on the corner of Brookside and Sierra Madre. 17:34.280 --> 17:35.280 Stop blowing your horn. 17:35.280 --> 17:36.280 I'm sorry, Mr. Bruce. 17:36.280 --> 17:37.280 I'm not blowing my horn. 17:37.280 --> 17:38.280 It's gotten stuck. 17:38.280 --> 17:39.280 I'm sorry. 17:39.280 --> 17:40.280 I'm sorry. 17:40.280 --> 17:41.280 I'm sorry. 17:41.280 --> 17:42.280 I'm sorry. 17:42.280 --> 17:43.280 I'm sorry. 17:43.280 --> 17:44.280 I'm sorry. 17:44.280 --> 17:45.280 I'm sorry. 17:45.280 --> 17:46.280 I'm sorry. 17:46.280 --> 17:47.280 I'm sorry. 17:47.280 --> 17:48.280 I'm sorry. 17:48.280 --> 17:49.280 I'm sorry. 17:49.280 --> 17:50.280 I'm sorry. 17:50.280 --> 17:51.280 I'm sorry. 17:51.280 --> 17:52.280 I'm sorry. 17:52.280 --> 17:56.280 I'm sorry, Mr. Bruce, I'm not blowing my horn, it's gotten stuck. 17:56.280 --> 17:57.280 Stop the car. 17:57.280 --> 17:58.280 Stop the car. 17:58.280 --> 18:03.280 Now, say where you are and don't try to drive away, see? 18:03.280 --> 18:06.280 Yes, I see. 18:06.280 --> 18:11.280 Okay, let's get out of here. 18:11.280 --> 18:16.280 You got the horn fixed, Mrs. Rogers? 18:16.280 --> 18:17.280 Who's that? 18:17.280 --> 18:18.280 Evening, Mrs. Rogers. 18:18.280 --> 18:19.280 Tell him everything's all right. 18:19.280 --> 18:20.280 Want me to fix that horn for you? 18:20.280 --> 18:21.280 Mr. Merritt. 18:21.280 --> 18:22.280 No, thank you. 18:22.280 --> 18:23.280 It's all right. 18:23.280 --> 18:28.280 Oh, don't it take me a second to fix it so you can use it? 18:28.280 --> 18:29.280 Never mind. 18:29.280 --> 18:31.280 Mr. Mayors, this is Mr. Paul Stevens. 18:31.280 --> 18:33.280 Oh, pleased to meet you. 18:33.280 --> 18:34.280 How are you? 18:34.280 --> 18:36.280 I see you pulled them wires to stop the horn. 18:36.280 --> 18:40.280 I usually take care of Mrs. Rogers' car myself, makes me feel funny when something goes wrong 18:40.280 --> 18:41.280 with it. 18:41.280 --> 18:42.280 Oh, of course. 18:42.280 --> 18:43.280 I'll bring it in in the morning, Mr. Mayors. 18:43.280 --> 18:45.280 Oh, no sense you're bothering Mrs. Rogers. 18:45.280 --> 18:48.280 I'll go along with you now, if you like, and take you home. 18:48.280 --> 18:49.280 Not today, driving without a horn. 18:49.280 --> 18:50.280 Oh, I think that's an excellent idea. 18:50.280 --> 18:55.280 I believe you said you wanted to show me the town this evening, Mrs. Rogers. 18:55.280 --> 18:56.280 Wouldn't you need the car? 18:56.280 --> 18:57.280 Well, I suppose... 18:57.280 --> 19:00.280 I was looking forward to the drive. 19:00.280 --> 19:01.280 You don't mind? 19:01.280 --> 19:02.280 No, of course. 19:02.280 --> 19:06.280 You'll pick the car up, though, in the morning, Mr. Mayors. 19:06.280 --> 19:09.280 I had promised Mr. Stevens I'd take him for a ride. 19:09.280 --> 19:10.280 Sure, of course. 19:10.280 --> 19:12.280 Thanks for your trouble, Mr. Mayors. 19:12.280 --> 19:13.280 Oh, glad to help. 19:13.280 --> 19:14.280 It is such a little town. 19:14.280 --> 19:17.280 We all know each other and like each other and like to help each other. 19:17.280 --> 19:19.280 That so, Mrs. Rogers? 19:19.280 --> 19:20.280 Yes. 19:20.280 --> 19:22.280 Well, good night, Mrs. Rogers. 19:22.280 --> 19:25.280 And I'm glad to have met you, Mr. Stevens. 19:33.280 --> 19:35.280 The rest of the drive was uneventful. 19:35.280 --> 19:40.280 The streetlights were on now, and flashes applied from them darted into the car 19:40.280 --> 19:45.280 and lighted up the sullen face of the man who sat tensely by my side. 19:45.280 --> 19:49.280 I tried to remember all the conversations I'd had with him, 19:49.280 --> 19:53.280 to find the reason for his choosing me out of all the people who must have placed 19:53.280 --> 19:57.280 advertisements that day as the person with whom he would hide out. 19:57.280 --> 20:03.280 For by now, my dear niece, I was convinced that Mr. Bruce had deliberately set out 20:03.280 --> 20:08.280 to murder Mr. Stevens for some reason and hide out in my house where the police 20:08.280 --> 20:10.280 were the most unlikely to look for him. 20:10.280 --> 20:12.280 But why my house? 20:12.280 --> 20:15.280 Why had he chosen me? 20:15.280 --> 20:20.280 When we got to my house, Mr. Bruce directed me to leave my car on the street, 20:20.280 --> 20:23.280 and we went up the dark pathway to the front door. 20:23.280 --> 20:28.280 Mr. Bruce a few steps behind me, all the way. 20:28.280 --> 20:30.280 Quite dark tonight, isn't it? 20:30.280 --> 20:32.280 Yes. 20:32.280 --> 20:34.280 Why are we going inside? 20:34.280 --> 20:36.280 I have to make a phone call. 20:36.280 --> 20:38.280 I see. 20:38.280 --> 20:46.280 Open the door. 20:46.280 --> 20:47.280 Douse that light. 20:47.280 --> 20:48.280 Pardon me? 20:48.280 --> 20:49.280 Turn off the light. 20:49.280 --> 20:51.280 Oh, sorry. 20:51.280 --> 20:53.280 Now, pull the blinds down out of that window. 20:53.280 --> 21:00.280 Yes. 21:00.280 --> 21:02.280 All right. 21:02.280 --> 21:03.280 Now the light. 21:03.280 --> 21:05.280 Yes. 21:05.280 --> 21:06.280 Get the telephone. 21:06.280 --> 21:24.280 Ask long distance for Crestview 9177 in Los Angeles. 21:24.280 --> 21:26.280 Operator. 21:26.280 --> 21:28.280 I'd like long distance, please. 21:28.280 --> 21:31.280 Crestview 9177 in Los Angeles. 21:31.280 --> 21:34.280 Crestview 9177. 21:34.280 --> 21:38.280 One moment, please. 21:38.280 --> 21:40.280 Los Angeles. 21:40.280 --> 21:44.280 Hilton calling Crestview 9177. 21:44.280 --> 21:47.280 Crestview 9177. 21:47.280 --> 21:56.280 One moment, please. 21:56.280 --> 21:57.280 Hello. 21:57.280 --> 21:58.280 All right. 21:58.280 --> 21:59.280 Give it to me. 21:59.280 --> 22:01.280 Mary, look. 22:01.280 --> 22:03.280 Meet me at Owls as soon as you can get here. 22:03.280 --> 22:04.280 Yes, I'm coming. 22:04.280 --> 22:05.280 I'll call you later. 22:05.280 --> 22:08.280 Hurry up. 22:08.280 --> 22:12.280 Now, do you have any food for the animals before we leave? 22:12.280 --> 22:13.280 Where are we going? 22:13.280 --> 22:16.280 Oh, a little trip. 22:16.280 --> 22:17.280 Are you ready to go? 22:17.280 --> 22:19.280 Don't answer that. 22:19.280 --> 22:22.280 The operator might be calling. 22:22.280 --> 22:24.280 I wonder. 22:24.280 --> 22:25.280 Okay. 22:25.280 --> 22:26.280 Answer it. 22:26.280 --> 22:30.280 But I'm right here. 22:30.280 --> 22:31.280 Hello. 22:31.280 --> 22:33.280 Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Officer Barnes. 22:33.280 --> 22:35.280 Say, oh, yes, operator. 22:35.280 --> 22:36.280 Oh, yes, operator. 22:36.280 --> 22:38.280 Is he still there? 22:38.280 --> 22:39.280 Say yes or no, operator. 22:39.280 --> 22:40.280 Yes, operator. 22:40.280 --> 22:42.280 I'll stall him a while. 22:42.280 --> 22:43.280 We're coming after him. 22:43.280 --> 22:50.280 Thank you, operator. 22:50.280 --> 22:53.280 Dear Mr. Mayors, he'd understood me. 22:53.280 --> 22:55.280 And he told the police. 22:55.280 --> 22:57.280 And they were going to save me. 22:57.280 --> 22:59.280 Well, you just can't imagine. 22:59.280 --> 23:02.280 I felt exactly like the heroine in a motion picture. 23:02.280 --> 23:05.280 I simply had to prevent Mr. Brooks from leaving the house. 23:05.280 --> 23:08.280 Just a few minutes, the officer said. 23:08.280 --> 23:10.280 Just time enough for them to get here. 23:10.280 --> 23:11.280 All right. 23:11.280 --> 23:13.280 Let's get going. 23:13.280 --> 23:15.280 I wish I knew where we were going. 23:15.280 --> 23:17.280 Do I have to take anything with me? 23:17.280 --> 23:19.280 Will we be gone long? 23:19.280 --> 23:21.280 Yeah. 23:21.280 --> 23:23.280 A long time. 23:23.280 --> 23:25.280 Then I need several changes of clothes. 23:25.280 --> 23:27.280 Let me think. 23:27.280 --> 23:29.280 My brown suit. 23:29.280 --> 23:30.280 Would the gray be better? 23:30.280 --> 23:31.280 It's older, but... 23:31.280 --> 23:32.280 Come on, come on. 23:32.280 --> 23:33.280 You won't need anything. 23:33.280 --> 23:35.280 Oh, the heater. 23:35.280 --> 23:36.280 What? 23:36.280 --> 23:38.280 I left the heater on in the other room. 23:38.280 --> 23:39.280 I'd better turn it off. 23:39.280 --> 23:42.280 I wouldn't like anything to catch on fire when we are gone. 23:42.280 --> 23:43.280 Fire? 23:43.280 --> 23:45.280 You mean those heaters could set the house on fire? 23:45.280 --> 23:47.280 No, no, no, not really. 23:47.280 --> 23:48.280 I meant that... 23:48.280 --> 23:52.280 Well, I'd rather not pay a gas bill that's been run up against me... 23:52.280 --> 23:54.280 because I neglected to turn the heater off. 23:54.280 --> 23:57.280 All right, all right, but make it fast. 24:03.280 --> 24:05.280 Well? 24:07.280 --> 24:09.280 Come on, what's the trouble? 24:09.280 --> 24:11.280 This thing always sticks. 24:11.280 --> 24:12.280 I never can fix it. 24:12.280 --> 24:14.280 I remember I did it last fall. 24:14.280 --> 24:17.280 I was just starting off to meet my niece Mary. 24:17.280 --> 24:19.280 And... 24:19.280 --> 24:21.280 Here, let me do it. 24:21.280 --> 24:23.280 There. 24:23.280 --> 24:24.280 Thank you. 24:24.280 --> 24:26.280 Now I feel better about it. 24:26.280 --> 24:28.280 Sure, there must be something I've forgotten. 24:28.280 --> 24:29.280 Now let me think. 24:29.280 --> 24:31.280 Come on, come on. 24:31.280 --> 24:33.280 Now you're ready? 24:33.280 --> 24:34.280 Yes. 24:34.280 --> 24:36.280 I'm ready. 24:41.280 --> 24:45.280 It was quiet on my street, peaceful and dark. 24:45.280 --> 24:47.280 All the neighbors' lights were out, 24:47.280 --> 24:49.280 except for the gauges across the way. 24:49.280 --> 24:52.280 One light was on upstairs in the back of their house. 24:52.280 --> 24:56.280 It threw a diffused pattern diagonally across the pavement. 24:56.280 --> 25:00.280 And I thought for a minute that I saw a figure move suddenly towards us. 25:00.280 --> 25:02.280 Mr. Bruce motioned to me to go ahead, 25:02.280 --> 25:06.280 and I walked slowly down the path towards the car. 25:06.280 --> 25:10.280 I could feel Mr. Bruce a few steps behind me. 25:12.280 --> 25:14.280 Suddenly, it happened. 25:14.280 --> 25:15.280 All of them high, Bruce. 25:15.280 --> 25:16.280 What? Get down, Mrs. Rogers. 25:16.280 --> 25:17.280 What? 25:17.280 --> 25:19.280 Oh, there you are. 25:19.280 --> 25:21.280 Oh, my God. 25:26.280 --> 25:28.280 How did you know? 25:28.280 --> 25:30.280 Mrs. Rogers, are you all right? 25:30.280 --> 25:32.280 Yes, I... 25:32.280 --> 25:34.280 I'm all right. 25:34.280 --> 25:36.280 Thank you. 25:36.280 --> 25:49.280 I'm all right. 25:49.280 --> 25:53.280 And there it is, Mary, the explanation I promised you. 25:53.280 --> 25:59.280 I felt as your aunt that I should tell you how you happened to be in the penitentiary. 25:59.280 --> 26:03.280 When Mr. Allen, the roadhouse, first mentioned your name, I was suspicious. 26:03.280 --> 26:09.280 But not until Mr. Bruce made the phone call to you did I begin to piece the story together. 26:09.280 --> 26:11.280 You had suggested the advertisement. 26:11.280 --> 26:14.280 Your husband answered it and employed me. 26:14.280 --> 26:18.280 If only you'd told me, my dear, that you'd gotten married when you were in Los Angeles. 26:18.280 --> 26:22.280 After all, I'm your only living relative, and I could have come to your wedding. 26:22.280 --> 26:25.280 Then this whole thing wouldn't have happened, would it, dear? 26:25.280 --> 26:28.280 Because I would have known Mr. Bruce all the time. 26:28.280 --> 26:31.280 Let me know after the trial what your new address is to be, 26:31.280 --> 26:33.280 and I'll continue writing. 26:33.280 --> 26:48.280 As always, Aunt Emily. 26:48.280 --> 26:50.280 Suspense. 26:50.280 --> 26:52.280 Presented by Roma Wines. 26:52.280 --> 26:54.280 R-O-M-A. 26:54.280 --> 26:59.280 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 26:59.280 --> 27:04.280 Before we hear again from Dame Mae Whitty, the star of My Dear Niece, tonight's suspense play, 27:04.280 --> 27:08.280 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 27:08.280 --> 27:12.280 Here's a hospitality tip on how to flatter your guests when entertaining. 27:12.280 --> 27:16.280 So easy, so smart, and so economical, too. 27:16.280 --> 27:22.280 Famed hostess Elsa Maxwell offers this suggestion from her own great entertaining experience. 27:22.280 --> 27:31.280 I find, says Miss Maxwell, that keeping a selection of Roma wine on hand enables me to please all my guests all the time. 27:31.280 --> 27:38.280 Yes, there's a Roma California wine to delight everyone, and you flatter your guests when you give them a choice. 27:38.280 --> 27:43.280 To add warmth to your welcome, serve red, red Roma port. 27:43.280 --> 27:45.280 Perfect at the end of a meal, too. 27:45.280 --> 27:49.280 Many prefer glorious, golden-amber Roma sherry. 27:49.280 --> 27:58.280 Others, the rich distinctive fragrance and taste of golden Roma muscatel, or the flame-bright radiance of Roma touquet. 27:58.280 --> 28:04.280 And you can afford all these Roma wines easily, for Roma is now at the lowest prices in years. 28:04.280 --> 28:08.280 No other wine offers you so much, or so little. 28:08.280 --> 28:10.280 Get Roma wine tomorrow. 28:10.280 --> 28:11.280 Insist on Roma. 28:11.280 --> 28:13.280 R-O-M-A. 28:13.280 --> 28:15.280 Roma wine. 28:15.280 --> 28:22.280 Discover for yourself why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 28:22.280 --> 28:28.280 Mrs. Maywitty, as always, it's been a great pleasure to me to appear on Suspense. 28:28.280 --> 28:35.280 And I, I want to thank Mr. Spear for his usual splendid help, and Mr. Wally Mayer as Mr. Bruce for his excellent support, 28:35.280 --> 28:40.280 and all the other members of the cast who've all been so helpful. 28:40.280 --> 28:50.280 About next Thursday's Suspense, it seems that a gentleman of questionable reputation, a racetrack swindler, who is, I believe the phrase is, hot, 28:50.280 --> 28:55.280 answers an advertisement which apparently offers him free transportation from New York to California. 28:55.280 --> 29:04.280 How this leads to the committing of one murder and the uncovering of another should give that excellent actor, George Caloris, something to get his teeth into. 29:04.280 --> 29:08.280 I'll be listening, as I'm sure you will be, next Thursday. 29:08.280 --> 29:11.280 And don't forget the March of Dimes. 29:11.280 --> 29:12.280 Thank you. 29:12.280 --> 29:14.280 Thank you, Dame Maywitty. 29:14.280 --> 29:24.280 Next Thursday, same time, Roma wines will bring you Mr. George Caloris as star of Suspense, radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. 29:24.280 --> 29:29.280 Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:29.280 --> 29:39.280 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.