WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.300 Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:09.300 --> 00:13.300 Roma Wines present Suspense. 00:17.300 --> 00:22.300 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Miss Nancy Kelly and Miss Kathy Lewis in Dark Journey, 00:22.300 --> 00:31.800 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:31.800 --> 00:39.500 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:39.500 --> 00:47.800 That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:47.800 --> 00:53.000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:53.000 --> 01:00.100 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Nancy Kelly and Kathy Lewis 01:00.100 --> 01:05.500 in the premiere of Lucille Fletcher's radio play for two actresses, Dark Journey. 01:05.500 --> 01:22.500 Tonight's study in Suspense. 01:22.500 --> 01:30.000 Today I'm going on a journey. I am going to see Ann Brody again after 15 years. 01:30.000 --> 01:37.500 When the news came yesterday, terrible as it was, it was as though a shadow had lifted from my life, 01:37.500 --> 01:41.500 a secret horror that I could never quite forget. 01:41.500 --> 01:54.500 I have been afraid of Ann Brody now for 15 years, but there is no need to be afraid of her anymore. 01:54.500 --> 02:00.500 Ann's secret has been locked in my heart together with all shameful, horrible things. 02:00.500 --> 02:05.500 Yet I've never gone on a journey like this one, but while it comes back. 02:05.500 --> 02:09.000 There have been times when I couldn't bear the whistle of the train, 02:09.000 --> 02:13.500 flung out long and mournful over the lonely countryside. 02:13.500 --> 02:19.500 I couldn't bear the smell of a day coach, the feel of the plush seats, the rattle and bustle. 02:19.500 --> 02:31.500 Only because everything came back, every detail of that long and terrible weekend we spent together 15 years ago. 02:31.500 --> 02:36.500 Oh, God! 02:36.500 --> 02:39.500 Oh, Alice, Alice, we're all. Thank goodness. 02:39.500 --> 02:41.500 I don't think anybody saw us, do you? 02:41.500 --> 02:45.000 No, only old Mr. Hodges was stationed at the master and he's no God. 02:45.000 --> 02:50.500 I wouldn't want anybody to know, not that I care, but you know how the tongue's wagging in this town. 02:50.500 --> 02:54.500 Well, it's much better to be perfectly sure of your plans before you pass the word around. 02:54.500 --> 02:58.000 Then if you and Clyde don't settle things, nobody will be any the wiser. 02:58.000 --> 03:04.000 If we don't settle things? Well, there's no if about it, but Clyde and I are practically engaged. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.500 Did you get his letter yet about us coming to New York? 03:06.500 --> 03:07.500 Uh-huh. 03:07.500 --> 03:10.000 Well, for goodness sake, why didn't you tell me? What'd he say? 03:10.000 --> 03:17.500 Oh, nothing much. He's no letter writer, just that he was glad and that he's been busy and he's going to call us at the hotel. 03:17.500 --> 03:19.500 Oh? He can't meet us at the train? 03:19.500 --> 03:25.000 No. It seems it's his mother's birthday and he's promised to take it to lunch in town. 03:25.000 --> 03:31.000 We'll be getting in just around that time. He's terribly devoted to her, you know. Has been ever since his father died. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.500 Oh, I see. You're very much in love with him, aren't you, Anne? 03:34.500 --> 03:36.000 Terribly. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.500 And yet you really see him so little. How long has he been now? Three months? 03:39.500 --> 03:44.000 Not three months and six days, but it doesn't really matter. 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 No? 03:45.000 --> 03:51.500 I know Clyde loves me and I love him. There's a bond between us and nothing will ever break it. 03:51.500 --> 03:55.000 Well, as long as you feel that way, it's a wonderful way to feel. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 I don't think you ought to let it drag on like this much longer, Anne. I really don't. 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 Don't worry. We'll settle it this time once and for all. You'll see. 04:03.000 --> 04:10.000 When we get on this train again, I'll be wearing his engagement ring on my finger. 04:23.000 --> 04:30.000 Oh, doesn't anybody ever open a hotel window? 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 Three o'clock. I thought he'd have called me by now. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Oh, he's probably tied up with his mother. 04:36.000 --> 04:39.000 Come on, let's get on the drugstore and have a sandwich. Aren't you just starved? 04:39.000 --> 04:42.500 No, no, I don't feel hungry. You go, though. I'll wait. 04:42.500 --> 04:45.000 Oh, come on. The clerk will take the message for you. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.500 No, no, I want to be here myself. 04:47.500 --> 04:49.000 Why don't you call him? 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 I can't if he's at a restaurant. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.500 Maybe he didn't go. Maybe he's home sick or at the office. 04:54.500 --> 04:58.500 No, no, it wouldn't look right. He's got to call me. 04:58.500 --> 05:00.500 I don't know why he doesn't. 05:00.500 --> 05:05.000 I don't know why either. In fact, why couldn't we all have had lunch together at that restaurant? 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 I mean, he's not exactly poor, is he? 05:09.000 --> 05:12.500 Don't you want to take a bus ride or see the sights or anything? 05:12.500 --> 05:16.500 Later, Alice, after he's called. 05:16.500 --> 05:22.500 Hello? Yes? Oh, yes, this is Miss Ann Brody. 05:22.500 --> 05:28.000 What? He left a message. 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 Oh, thank you. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.500 What is it? 05:33.500 --> 05:36.500 He stopped by and left a message. 05:36.500 --> 05:40.500 He has a previous engagement. A previous engagement. 05:40.500 --> 05:44.000 When he knew I was coming to New York this weekend only to see him. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.500 Well, maybe it was something he couldn't get out of. Maybe on account of his mother's birth. 05:47.500 --> 05:49.500 But he already gave her today. 05:49.500 --> 05:54.500 And after all he knew I was coming, he knew I'd want to be with him every possible minute. 05:54.500 --> 05:59.000 Maybe that's the trouble, Ann. Maybe he doesn't want to be pinned down. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.500 Maybe you expect too much. 06:00.500 --> 06:05.000 That he was right here in the hotel and he didn't even... 06:05.000 --> 06:10.000 Oh, he's grown away from me. He's not mine anymore. 06:10.000 --> 06:16.000 Alice, Alice, you know what Clyde has meant to me these three years, how I've lived for him and worshipped him. 06:16.000 --> 06:19.500 Oh, it's just as though my world has been cut away. 06:19.500 --> 06:23.000 It's like having a lump of ice for a heart. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Alice, Clyde is my heart. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.500 Oh, I've got to see him. I've got to tell him. 06:28.500 --> 06:32.000 Oh, Ann, dear, wouldn't you like to lie down? 06:32.000 --> 06:34.500 No, no, I can't lie down. 06:34.500 --> 06:39.500 I'm free to sit here in this chair by the window. 06:39.500 --> 06:42.000 I wish you'd go, Alice. 06:42.000 --> 06:45.500 I want to be quiet and think and think about him. 06:45.500 --> 06:46.500 Ann, I wouldn't. 06:46.500 --> 06:50.000 Something's happened to him. There's some derriere. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.500 I've got to wish it away, to break it down. 06:53.500 --> 06:54.500 What are you talking about? 06:54.500 --> 06:57.000 I can do it, you know. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.500 Ann, please go. Please. 07:13.500 --> 07:18.000 Oh, oh my gosh, don't tell me it's nine o'clock. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.500 I didn't mean to sleep so late. We'd better get up and get breakfast. 07:21.500 --> 07:23.500 Alice, Alice, what am I going to do? 07:23.500 --> 07:27.500 What am I going to do? He hasn't called me. I haven't slept. 07:27.500 --> 07:31.000 Why don't you call him, Ann? Call him and have it out with him once and for all. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.500 No, no, I couldn't. 07:32.500 --> 07:34.500 Well, maybe there's something bothering him. 07:34.500 --> 07:36.500 Maybe it's some family situation. 07:36.500 --> 07:38.500 After all, his mother didn't have lunch with you yesterday. 07:38.500 --> 07:40.000 Maybe there was a reason. 07:40.000 --> 07:43.000 What reason could there be except that she didn't want to meet me? 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 She doesn't want him to marry anybody. She wants him all to herself. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.500 Well, isn't that enough to upset any fellow? 07:48.500 --> 07:51.000 Oh, come on, we'll get to the bottom of this thing. 07:51.000 --> 07:52.500 What's his number? I'll get it for you. 07:52.500 --> 07:57.000 I, I haven't his number. I never called him at home. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.500 But his address is 3254 Sunset Drive, Riverdale, New York. 08:00.500 --> 08:03.000 3254 Sunset Drive, Riverdale, New York. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.500 Hello. Hello, operator. This is room 351. 08:07.500 --> 08:10.000 We want to put in a call to Riverdale, New York. 08:10.000 --> 08:14.500 3254 Sunset Drive, Riverdale, New York. 08:14.500 --> 08:18.000 The name is Dexter. Mr. Clyde Dexter. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.500 Will you get it for us, please? 08:19.500 --> 08:22.000 What did she say? She's looking at us. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 There it is. She's ringing. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.500 Here, you better take it now. 08:25.500 --> 08:28.000 Oh, no. No, just one minute. One minute. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Let me get my breath. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Let me think of what I'm going to say. 08:34.500 --> 08:38.000 Hello? Is this the Dexter residence? 08:38.000 --> 08:39.500 This is Miss Ann Brody speaking. 08:39.500 --> 08:43.000 I wonder if I might speak to Mr. Clyde Dexter, please. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.500 Thank you. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.500 Clyde? 08:47.500 --> 08:50.000 Oh, Clyde, this is Ann. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.500 I'm fine, thank you. 08:52.500 --> 08:56.500 Oh, Clyde, I've been waiting here at the hotel for you to call, 08:56.500 --> 08:58.500 and Alice and I have to spend the morning out, 08:58.500 --> 09:00.500 and we thought we'd better let you know we wouldn't be in 09:00.500 --> 09:02.500 just in case you wanted... 09:03.500 --> 09:07.000 Oh, yes, Clyde, I know you said you had a previous engagement, 09:07.000 --> 09:08.500 but I thought... 09:08.500 --> 09:11.500 Well, you see, Clyde, I'm only going to be here today, 09:11.500 --> 09:15.500 and we get to see each other so little, I was wondering... 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 What's that, Clyde? 09:19.000 --> 09:22.500 Yes? Yes? 09:22.500 --> 09:24.500 Well, no, I didn't. 09:24.500 --> 09:28.500 What did you say, Clyde? I didn't understand. 09:29.500 --> 09:32.500 You know what? You... 09:33.500 --> 09:37.500 Oh, Clyde. Oh, Clyde, it's not true. It can't be. 09:37.500 --> 09:41.500 It can't be. But, Clyde, we... 09:41.500 --> 09:43.500 But, Clyde, you can't do this to me. 09:43.500 --> 09:45.500 I've considered myself engaged to you. 09:45.500 --> 09:47.500 Ann, give me that phone. 09:47.500 --> 09:49.500 No, I just want to say goodbye to him. Please. 09:49.500 --> 09:50.500 No. 09:51.500 --> 09:55.500 Ann, don't look that way. 09:55.500 --> 09:57.500 What did he say? 09:58.500 --> 10:03.500 He told me he's engaged to marry a New York girl this September. 10:03.500 --> 10:05.500 Oh, Ann. 10:05.500 --> 10:07.500 Well, he just isn't worthy of you. 10:07.500 --> 10:09.500 He couldn't have been if he treats you like this now. 10:09.500 --> 10:11.500 I love him. I love him. 10:11.500 --> 10:14.500 I'll love him till the day I die. 10:16.500 --> 10:19.500 Ann, I'm sorry. I'm... 10:19.500 --> 10:22.500 Oh, please, Alice, please, don't talk. 10:22.500 --> 10:26.500 Don't come near me or go away, will you, just for a little while? 10:26.500 --> 10:29.500 Oh, no, I won't leave you. I can't leave you when you look like that. 10:29.500 --> 10:32.500 Oh, go away, I said. 10:32.500 --> 10:36.500 Oh, do you hear me? Go away. I want to be alone. 10:36.500 --> 10:38.500 I want you to go away. 10:38.500 --> 10:41.500 I...I have work to do. 10:41.500 --> 10:43.500 Work to do? 10:43.500 --> 10:46.500 I'm...I'm going to will him to come back to me. 10:46.500 --> 10:50.500 I'm going to make him come to this hotel through heaven and hell. 10:50.500 --> 10:52.500 And they're dragging him away from me. 10:52.500 --> 10:53.500 Oh, Ann. 10:53.500 --> 10:56.500 I can do it. I've done it before. 10:56.500 --> 11:01.500 I've made him write to me. I've made him call me up out of a clear sky after months and months. 11:01.500 --> 11:06.500 I willed him to speak to me the very first time I saw him when he was just a stranger. 11:06.500 --> 11:12.500 I willed him to give me his return deep in last year at the Spring Dance, and I can do it. I can do it. 11:12.500 --> 11:15.500 If only I'd try hard enough and... 11:15.500 --> 11:20.500 And if you're absolutely quiet... 11:20.500 --> 11:23.500 Clyde... 11:23.500 --> 11:26.500 Clyde! 11:26.500 --> 11:30.500 Oh, it's no use. He's too far away. 11:30.500 --> 11:33.500 I'll have to come closer to him. 11:33.500 --> 11:34.500 We're going out. 11:34.500 --> 11:35.500 Going out? Where to? 11:35.500 --> 11:36.500 To Riverdale. 11:36.500 --> 11:37.500 Riverdale? 11:37.500 --> 11:40.500 I want to look at his house, to see where he lives. 11:40.500 --> 11:44.500 There's something there. Someone who's holding him back. 11:44.500 --> 11:50.500 Ann, let's go back to Denford. Let's take a train tonight, any train, and get out of here for good. 11:50.500 --> 11:56.500 No, I can't go home. I told you that before. I can't until I have his engagement ring on my finger. 11:56.500 --> 12:14.500 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Nancy Kelly and Kathy Lewis in Dark Journey by Lucille Fletcher. 12:14.500 --> 12:27.500 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:27.500 --> 12:33.500 Between the Acts. This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines with a little domestic drama. 12:33.500 --> 12:37.500 It's happened to you before and will happen again. 12:37.500 --> 12:42.500 You're relaxed in your easy chair, coat off, contentedly reading your evening paper. 12:42.500 --> 12:46.500 Your wife is probably tidying up after dinner. 12:46.500 --> 12:51.500 The doorbell rings. Sure enough, it's guests who just dropped in. 12:51.500 --> 12:56.500 Now, famed hostess Elsa Maxwell tells us how she handles these surprise visits. 12:56.500 --> 13:03.500 She says, I always keep Roma California Sherry on hand to welcome unexpected guests. 13:03.500 --> 13:09.500 Serving Roma Sherry is so simple. You just pour and hospitality reigns. 13:09.500 --> 13:15.500 And because Roma is America's favorite wine, you know your guests will enjoy it. 13:15.500 --> 13:23.500 Yes, there's no easier way to gain a reputation for gracious hospitality than by keeping Roma Sherry ready for guests. 13:23.500 --> 13:32.500 And Roma, America's taste favorite, the wine more Americans prefer, costs no more than ordinary wines. 13:32.500 --> 13:37.500 So make a note to get mellow, gold and amber Roma Sherry tomorrow. 13:37.500 --> 13:44.500 Once you try the tempting fragrance and intriguing nut-like taste of Roma Sherry, you'll always ask for Roma. 13:44.500 --> 13:48.500 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 13:48.500 --> 13:54.500 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 13:54.500 --> 14:02.500 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage, Kathy Lewis as Alice and Nancy Kelly as Anne in Dark Journey, 14:02.500 --> 14:07.500 a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:20.500 --> 14:25.500 It's getting dark. I don't think we ought to be wandering around here like this. There might be strange men. 14:25.500 --> 14:33.500 Here's the street, Sunset Drive, and there's the house. I've seen pictures of it. I'd know it anywhere. 14:33.500 --> 14:34.500 Anywhere. 14:34.500 --> 14:37.500 Oh, Anne, please. This is doing you no good. 14:37.500 --> 14:44.500 Oh, Hush. I've dreamed about that house, dreamed of myself and him living in it together. 14:44.500 --> 14:50.500 I've dreamed of our children playing on that lawn and the sound of music inside and our cars standing outside. 14:50.500 --> 14:53.500 But it wouldn't mean a thing to you, Anne, if Clyde didn't love you. 14:53.500 --> 15:01.500 I've dreamed of the years we'd spend together. I even named the children Clyde Jr. and Peter and Charlotte. 15:01.500 --> 15:06.500 That's his mother's name. I never liked it, but I was going to call one Charlotte just to please him. 15:06.500 --> 15:12.500 And now what have I got? Nothing. Nothing is gone. 15:12.500 --> 15:15.500 Come on, come on with me, Anne. 15:15.500 --> 15:22.500 Oh, there's a light going on upstairs. He's thought of his room. I wonder if he's home. 15:22.500 --> 15:30.500 Clyde, Clyde, think of me. Come back to me. 15:30.500 --> 15:36.500 Oh, love me, Clyde. Love me. Love me. 15:36.500 --> 15:39.500 No, Anne, don't. Somebody might hear you. 15:39.500 --> 15:44.500 There's a shadow at the window. Oh, it's Clyde. Oh, no. 15:44.500 --> 15:52.500 No, it's someone else. It's a woman, a gray-haired woman. Oh, it's his mother, Alice, Clyde's mother. 15:52.500 --> 15:55.500 I don't think he's home, Anne. Let's go back to the hotel. 15:55.500 --> 16:02.500 No, no, I want to see her. I've heard so much about her. She always turned her nose up at me. 16:02.500 --> 16:08.500 He never admitted it, but I knew. He was the only son and she thought there wasn't anybody good enough. 16:08.500 --> 16:12.500 And he was always under her influence, just believed everything she said. 16:12.500 --> 16:16.500 I could tell the way he talked. It was always mother says this and mother says that. 16:16.500 --> 16:21.500 How better was she who turned him against me, who picked out that, that New York girl. 16:21.500 --> 16:24.500 Oh, Anne, please come on. You're just tearing your heart out. 16:24.500 --> 16:28.500 She's up in his room now. She's straightening his things. She's happy up there. 16:28.500 --> 16:36.500 She doesn't care that she's made me miserable. Oh, I can feel it now, Alice. I can feel the barrier in my heart. 16:36.500 --> 16:37.500 Shh, something's coming. Let's go. 16:37.500 --> 16:44.500 We're doing no harm. We can stare, can't we, if we wish? Come on. Come on, we'll walk past the house. We'll defy her. 16:44.500 --> 16:50.500 We'll go up and ring the bell and then when she comes down to answer it, we'll ask, is Mrs. Clyde Dixter at home? 16:50.500 --> 16:54.500 And then when she answers, who we mean, we'll laugh at her face. 16:54.500 --> 16:56.500 Oh, Anne, you're just beside yourself. 16:56.500 --> 17:04.500 Yes, I am. I am beside myself because I feel it, Alice. He's lost to me as long as she's up there. 17:04.500 --> 17:13.500 Oh, I can stand here out here under the trees trying to reach him with every bit of soul I possess, but as long as she's there, 17:13.500 --> 17:34.500 as long as she's alive, he'll never be mine again. 17:34.500 --> 17:41.500 Anne, Anne, this is terrible. You've got to pull yourself together and get some rest. You've been sitting in that chair now for three hours. 17:41.500 --> 17:52.500 Please, don't talk. Just let me alone. You're working on that willpower thing still, aren't you, Anne? 17:52.500 --> 17:55.500 Anne, it makes me awfully nervous. 17:55.500 --> 18:03.500 Be quiet. It's coming. Something's coming. Something's going to happen. I feel it all around me. 18:03.500 --> 18:05.500 I'm going to get a doctor if you don't stop. 18:05.500 --> 18:06.500 Shh, shh, shh. 18:06.500 --> 18:12.500 I feel it. I feel something. You're just as white as a sheet. You're shaking all over. 18:12.500 --> 18:16.500 I absolutely refuse to let this go on. Do you hear? Now, you get into bed. 18:16.500 --> 18:16.500 No. 18:16.500 --> 18:17.500 Let me take off my shoes. 18:17.500 --> 18:20.500 No, no, no. Leave me alone. 18:20.500 --> 18:31.500 It's as though there were a big lump being moved off my heart, as though the ice inside me were going, as though I could cry at last. 18:31.500 --> 18:38.500 Oh, it happened. Oh, thank you, God. Thank you. 18:38.500 --> 18:44.500 All right. I'll lie down now. I'll go to sleep. 18:44.500 --> 18:49.500 If you could sleep, you'd feel better. If you'd just relax. 18:49.500 --> 18:55.500 I've done it, Alice. You'll see. He'll be here in the morning. You lie down now. 18:55.500 --> 19:00.500 There he is. Didn't I tell you? There's Clyde now. Hello? Yes. 19:00.500 --> 19:07.500 Yes, this is room 351. Yes, this is Ann Brody speaking. Yes. 19:07.500 --> 19:09.500 It's Riverdale calling. 19:09.500 --> 19:11.500 Riverdale? Clyde? 19:11.500 --> 19:18.500 She didn't say. Oh, hello? Yes. Yes, I'm Ann Brody. 19:18.500 --> 19:24.500 Why, yes, I'm a friend of Mr. Clyde Dexter. Who did you say this is, please? 19:24.500 --> 19:26.500 The police. 19:26.500 --> 19:27.500 The police? 19:27.500 --> 19:30.500 Oh, something has happened to Mr. Dexter, hasn't it? 19:30.500 --> 19:40.500 Oh. What? Yes. Yes, my friend and I were out to the house late this afternoon, around six o'clock. 19:40.500 --> 19:45.500 Well, yes, I did wear a white hat and a green dress, and she... 19:45.500 --> 19:50.500 Oh, but we took the subway, the White Plains Express, on the Inderbur line from our hotel. 19:50.500 --> 19:56.500 We came back around seven. We just walked past the house tour three times, but... 19:56.500 --> 19:58.500 But what's the matter? 19:58.500 --> 20:02.500 Why are you asking me these questions? No, I haven't seen them. I... 20:02.500 --> 20:03.500 What? 20:03.500 --> 20:05.500 Give me the phone, Ann. Let me speak to them. You're in no condition to do... 20:05.500 --> 20:07.500 Keep away. 20:07.500 --> 20:12.500 You know what they're saying, don't you? That Clyde's mother has been murdered. 20:12.500 --> 20:16.500 What? Oh, no. No, I haven't. 20:16.500 --> 20:17.500 Yes? 20:17.500 --> 20:22.500 No. No, we didn't. We just came right home. We didn't even ring the bell. 20:22.500 --> 20:26.500 His mixer's desk to get there with you. 20:26.500 --> 20:31.500 I see. Well, I'd like to speak to him, please, when he gets through. 20:31.500 --> 20:33.500 Will you ask him to call me? 20:33.500 --> 20:37.500 Yes. We'll stay here in the room. 20:37.500 --> 20:43.500 Oh, Ann. It was a hammer. At eight o'clock tonight. 20:43.500 --> 20:46.500 She was struck from behind by an unknown assailant. 20:46.500 --> 20:51.500 Oh, how awful. Why did the police call us? 20:51.500 --> 20:53.500 What have we got to do with this? 20:53.500 --> 20:59.500 Clyde was home when we walked by the house. He saw us standing there. 20:59.500 --> 21:02.500 I'm going to tell him, Alice. I'm going to tell him the truth. 21:02.500 --> 21:04.500 Truth? What truth? 21:04.500 --> 21:10.500 There's always been that power inside me. I've known I had it, and sometimes it frightened me. 21:10.500 --> 21:16.500 Things have happened. I've been afraid sometimes to use it, afraid it would turn against me. 21:16.500 --> 21:19.500 And tonight it did turn against me. 21:19.500 --> 21:21.500 Ann, what do you mean? 21:21.500 --> 21:25.500 By an unknown assailant. Murdered by an unknown assailant. 21:25.500 --> 21:29.500 You know who that assailant was? It was me. 21:29.500 --> 21:34.500 Ann, are you crazy? You were up here in the room every minute. 21:34.500 --> 21:39.500 I was up here in the room, but I was wishing she were dead. I was willing him to come to me. 21:39.500 --> 21:41.500 I was trying to destroy the barrier. 21:41.500 --> 21:46.500 Surely you can't believe that, Ann. It was only a coincidence, a terrible coincidence. 21:46.500 --> 21:51.500 I was trying to bring him back to touch his heart, but the power didn't touch his heart. 21:51.500 --> 21:56.500 His heart's like steel against me. It struck his heart and glanced off and struck her dead. 21:56.500 --> 21:58.500 Ann, please, you're talking like a little... 21:58.500 --> 22:03.500 But you don't understand. People like you can understand. People like you... 22:06.500 --> 22:10.500 But there's violence to will. To store it up takes years. 22:10.500 --> 22:16.500 To send it out of yourself is like sending a powerful hand with fingers. 22:16.500 --> 22:19.500 Will can't kill somebody, Ann. 22:19.500 --> 22:24.500 Not pure will. The body is one thing, the mind's another. 22:24.500 --> 22:29.500 Mrs. Dexter is physically dead. Her heart stopped beating. 22:29.500 --> 22:32.500 There was a blow. Somebody real, somebody human did that. 22:32.500 --> 22:35.500 She was struck from behind. She was alone in the house. They said the doors were locked. 22:35.500 --> 22:39.500 She had no enemies. It came out of nothing and it went away again. 22:39.500 --> 22:44.500 Oh, I never dreamed... I didn't want it to happen that way, but... 22:44.500 --> 22:50.500 But it's getting beyond me. It's assuming forms and accomplishing ends. I don't plan. 22:50.500 --> 22:54.500 It's turning against me, Alice. Turning against me! 22:54.500 --> 22:57.500 Do you think a police court will believe you? 22:57.500 --> 23:01.500 You'll only confuse the testimony. You'll only hurt Clyde. 23:01.500 --> 23:04.500 Oh, Will. Will, you talk about the power of your will. 23:04.500 --> 23:08.500 Did you have any real power these last two days? Did it bring Clyde to this hotel? 23:08.500 --> 23:10.500 Did it make him love you or even call you off? 23:10.500 --> 23:14.500 Yes. Yes. Yes. 23:14.500 --> 23:17.500 Don't you touch it. I won't let you speak to him. 23:17.500 --> 23:19.500 Get away from that phone, Alice. 23:19.500 --> 23:22.500 Do you want to get us in trouble? Do you want us to go to jail and spend weeks in court? 23:22.500 --> 23:24.500 He'd put you there. He wouldn't care. 23:24.500 --> 23:27.500 Get away from that phone, Alice. 23:27.500 --> 23:31.500 I don't believe you, do you hear? I think you're mad. You're mad as a hatter. 23:31.500 --> 23:33.500 Get away from that phone. 23:33.500 --> 23:35.500 No! 23:35.500 --> 23:39.500 And you'll ruin your life. You'll fall into suspicion. 23:39.500 --> 23:42.500 And people always think you had something really to do with it. 23:42.500 --> 23:46.500 You'll end up in an asylum. The whole world will know he jilted you. 23:46.500 --> 23:50.500 What...what are you going to say to him? 23:50.500 --> 23:54.500 He must be half beside himself as it is. 23:54.500 --> 23:57.500 He'll never believe you. 23:57.500 --> 24:00.500 What? 24:00.500 --> 24:03.500 All right. Thank you, Alice. 24:03.500 --> 24:06.500 You see? It is there, isn't it? 24:06.500 --> 24:09.500 I made you do what I wanted. 24:09.500 --> 24:12.500 And I could make anyone. 24:12.500 --> 24:14.500 Hello? 24:14.500 --> 24:17.500 Hello, Clyde. 24:17.500 --> 24:20.500 Oh, Clyde, darling, I just heard the terrible news. 24:20.500 --> 24:24.500 Not terrible for you. I'm so sorry. 24:24.500 --> 24:31.500 Yes, Alice and I were out there this afternoon. We came by to say hello, but we got cold feet and came home. 24:31.500 --> 24:35.500 No, Clyde, no, we didn't. Not a soul. 24:35.500 --> 24:43.500 Oh, yes, my darling, I...I understand how terribly broken up and...and my heart goes out to you. 24:43.500 --> 24:46.500 Oh, I will, Clyde. Dearest, I will. I'll be right over. 24:46.500 --> 24:50.500 I'll help you in any way I know. 24:50.500 --> 24:54.500 Goodbye, Clyde. 24:54.500 --> 24:56.500 Anne. 24:56.500 --> 24:59.500 You didn't tell him. 24:59.500 --> 25:01.500 You're not going to tell him at all. 25:01.500 --> 25:04.500 No. Why should I? 25:04.500 --> 25:07.500 He's mine now. 25:19.500 --> 25:23.500 And so Anne Brody walked out of my life. 25:23.500 --> 25:28.500 Walked from me, wrapped in her new and terrible strangeness. 25:28.500 --> 25:32.500 Now I didn't want to play any part in her life again. 25:32.500 --> 25:37.500 I didn't go to her wedding when she and Clyde were married one year later. 25:37.500 --> 25:42.500 To me, there would have been something evil in hearing her voice repeat the sacred words. 25:42.500 --> 25:48.500 I am take thee, Clyde. 25:48.500 --> 25:55.500 There has been for me a nameless horror in the slow, steady way Anne Brody fulfilled her plans. 25:55.500 --> 26:01.500 The house in Riverdale, the car, the three children, Peter, Clyde Jr., and Charlotte. 26:01.500 --> 26:07.500 Her happiness, her triumphant motherhood have somehow been hideous to me. 26:07.500 --> 26:14.500 I've never heard a train whistle crying through the dorm, but what I've thought of her and shuddered. 26:14.500 --> 26:24.500 I have been afraid of Anne Brody now for fifteen years. 26:24.500 --> 26:28.500 Today, I know I've been a fool. 26:28.500 --> 26:36.500 Today I know that it was a real murderer who murdered Mrs. Dexter with a hammer from the service porch. 26:36.500 --> 26:39.500 Today I'm going on a journey to Riverdale. 26:39.500 --> 26:48.500 I am going to see Anne Brody again, lying willed and struck down in her coffin. 26:48.500 --> 26:59.500 Lying innocent and pathetic, lying murdered. Not will, nor nameless monsters of the mind could save her from the truth at last. 26:59.500 --> 27:07.500 Yesterday afternoon, the weak, long-blooding creature who could not brook domination from mother or wife, 27:07.500 --> 27:12.500 flung pent-up deaths against the mistress of his will. 27:12.500 --> 27:34.500 Yesterday afternoon, Clyde Dexter struck again. 27:34.500 --> 27:36.500 Suspense. 27:36.500 --> 27:45.500 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 27:45.500 --> 27:51.500 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines with a tip on how to win praise and increase dining pleasure. 27:51.500 --> 27:59.500 Today, millions of clever homemakers are enjoying dinner table compliments by giving everyday dishes tempting new meal appeal. 27:59.500 --> 28:05.500 Here's the secret. A glass of Red Roma California Burgundy at each place. 28:05.500 --> 28:16.500 Try it yourself. Serve robust Roma Burgundy with tomorrow night's piping hot savory pot roast, tender juicy steak, or baked fish. 28:16.500 --> 28:24.500 Roma Burgundy brings out tasty new flavorfulness from every morsel, wins grateful compliments for your cooking, 28:24.500 --> 28:31.500 and notice how the warm glowing redness of Roma Burgundy adds richness and beauty to your table. 28:31.500 --> 28:39.500 Yet, the gracious custom of serving Roma, America's favorite wine, is as inexpensive as it is delightful. 28:39.500 --> 28:45.500 Enjoy exciting new dining pleasure tomorrow with delicious Roma Burgundy. 28:45.500 --> 28:55.500 Insist on Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 28:55.500 --> 29:02.500 This is Nancy Kelly. I'm sure you'll want to hear next Thursday's suspense when Joseph Cotton will star as a famous New York criminal lawyer 29:02.500 --> 29:08.500 in one of the best known suspense stories of our time, Den Hecht's Crime Without Passion. Thank you. 29:08.500 --> 29:12.500 Nancy Kelly will soon be seen in the Paramount picture. Follow that woman. 29:12.500 --> 29:23.500 Next Thursday, same time, Roma Wines will bring you Joseph Cotton as star of Suspense, radio's outstanding theater thrill. 29:23.500 --> 29:31.500 Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:31.500 --> 29:39.500 Next week, part of the country goes on daylight saving time. If your area remains on standard time, tune in Suspense one hour earlier. 29:39.500 --> 29:54.500 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.