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Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring 01:00.000 --> 01:05.000 you Hume Cronin in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:13.000 --> 01:14.000 Right in here, Doc. 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 What happened, Sergeant Hurley? 01:16.000 --> 01:20.000 I picked this guy up in a depot. I've been looking for him for three days. He's standing 01:20.000 --> 01:24.000 in a crowd screaming somebody made a sucker out of him. Getting violent. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 Well, I better have a look at him. 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 All right now, no one's going to hurt you. 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 She made a sucker out of me. 01:33.000 --> 01:34.000 There he goes again. 01:34.000 --> 01:35.000 Who made a sucker out of you? 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 Yeah, she made a sucker out of me. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 Hand me my bag. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 Here. What are you going to do, Doc? 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 Give him something to quiet him down. 01:45.000 --> 01:46.000 You think he's pulling an act? 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 He's trying to tell. Maybe temporary insanity. Pull up his sleeve. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Come on, you. Easy. Come on. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 She made a sucker out of me. 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 Who did? Who made a sucker out of you? 01:57.000 --> 02:04.000 Fate. It was fate, I tell you. Yeah. Yeah, that was a gag. 02:07.000 --> 02:08.000 This guy's crazy. 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 Maybe. That's far enough. Hold him. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 Will that stuff put him to sleep? 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Should. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 How long will he be under? 02:17.000 --> 02:18.000 About 10 hours. 02:22.000 --> 02:27.000 She ran out on me. She left me flat. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 He's starting to work. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Very fast reaction. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 I'll come back and question him later. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 What's he in for? 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Murder. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 Who'd he kill? 02:35.000 --> 02:39.000 Some cheap confidence mug, but the motive we haven't got. 02:39.000 --> 02:46.000 You see, Wallingford's my name. Charles Richard Wallingford. Yeah. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Don't call me Smith. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Hey, get that. He's talking in his sleep. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Sometimes they do under the influence of a sedative. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 Wallingford. 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 Especially when they have something in their conscience they want to get rid of. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 I'd better take notes. And you stay here as a witness, Doc. 02:59.000 --> 03:04.000 Yeah. That's me. Charles Richard Wallingford. 03:04.000 --> 03:12.000 But don't let that fancy moniker fool you. No, sir. I'm no banker or executive. 03:12.000 --> 03:17.000 I'm just a guy who worked in a porter in a big office building downtown. 03:17.000 --> 03:21.000 But I don't want you to think I didn't have any ambition. No. 03:21.000 --> 03:27.000 I know that someday I'd get my break and when I did there was nothing going to stop me from going places. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.000 No, sir. Not a thing. 03:29.000 --> 03:36.000 Now, take that night for instance. It was six o'clock and most of the offices were emptying out. 03:36.000 --> 03:41.000 I had my broom and mop and was ready to start cleaning the office of PJ Rogers. 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 PJ. He's the president of the Apex advertising agency. 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 I always like to start with the top boys. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 I looked around PJ's office. 03:51.000 --> 03:57.000 Soft, easy chairs. Lots of buttons to push to make people jump. 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 Yeah, this would be the life. 04:01.000 --> 04:07.000 Well, I started my broom going. I swept around and I bent down to pick up the waste basket. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Piece of torn paper caught my eye. 04:09.000 --> 04:15.000 Now, get this. I don't know whether it was fate or just plain curiosity, but I read what was written on it. 04:15.000 --> 04:20.000 It was a memorandum from the desk of S.M. Parry to PJ Rogers and it said, 04:20.000 --> 04:26.000 The judges have decided that the winner of the toothpaste contest is Pat Smith of Boston. 04:26.000 --> 04:30.000 I knew that that was the century toothpaste contest that just ended last week. 04:30.000 --> 04:35.000 Twenty-five thousand smackeroes to the winner. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 And this guy, Pat Smith of Boston, won it. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 Some guys have all the luck. Just for writing a slogan. 04:42.000 --> 04:48.000 Twenty-five thousand dollars and this guy doesn't even know he won it yet. 04:48.000 --> 04:53.000 Yeah, he don't even know he won it. 04:53.000 --> 04:58.000 But I do. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 I got what's called an inspiration. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 According to the radio, the winner won't be announced until the 15th of this month. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 Today's only the 12th. 05:07.000 --> 05:12.000 Charlie, my boy. Charlie, my boy, I say to myself. 05:12.000 --> 05:22.000 When fate decides to hand you a break, who are you to turn it down? 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 I stalled around until I made sure everyone had left the agency. 05:25.000 --> 05:29.000 Then I went for the filing cabinets that had the entries. They were listed from A to Z. 05:29.000 --> 05:33.000 I found the names and began with S and I started looking for Pat Smith from Boston. 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 There were over 200 Smiths. Abe Smith, Betty Smith, Carl Smith. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 I went through them until I came to Olly Smith. 05:39.000 --> 05:45.000 And the next one was Pat Smith of 500 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 I copied the address and the slogan. 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 Brother to me, that slogan sure sounded corny. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 But who am I to judge $25,000? 05:54.000 --> 05:57.000 I went downstairs to the locker room, I changed my clothes, I beat it over to Grand Central, 05:57.000 --> 06:07.000 and I caught the midnight to Boston. 06:07.000 --> 06:08.000 Front, boy. 06:08.000 --> 06:13.000 500 Commonwealth Avenue is a big hotel with a sign reading, for men only. 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 I walked up to the desk. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 May I help you, sir? 06:16.000 --> 06:17.000 Yeah. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 You have Mr. Pat Smith staying here? 06:19.000 --> 06:25.000 Pat Smith, now let me see, George Smith, Harry Smith, ah, Pat Smith. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Yes, sir, room 1133. 06:27.000 --> 06:28.000 1133, thanks. 06:28.000 --> 06:33.000 Oh, say, mister, look, we have... 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 The clerk started to yell something after me. 06:35.000 --> 06:38.000 The elevator door closed and I didn't wait. 06:38.000 --> 06:48.000 Yeah, I wish I had, but I didn't. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 Hello. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 My name's Wallingford, Charlie Wallingford. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 I'd like to talk to you. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 What about? 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 About $25,000. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Is this a joke? 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 That kind of money isn't funny, mister. 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 Come on in. 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 Thanks. 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 I'll just move my clothes and you can sit down. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot. 07:09.000 --> 07:13.000 Now, what can I do for you, Mr. Wallingford? 07:13.000 --> 07:19.000 Mr. Smith, how would you like to make $12,500? 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 That's a lot of money. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 It sure is. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 What do I have to do? 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 You wanted the Century Toothpaste Contest, didn't you? 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 The slogan contest? 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 Yeah, how'd you know? 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 I worked for the people that run the contest. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 I see. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 And I can fix it so that you can win first prize. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 I'm beginning to understand. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 Good. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 And I don't have to do any explaining. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 It isn't exactly legal, is it? 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 Well, maybe not. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 I thought all these contests were running the up and up. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 They are. 07:45.000 --> 07:49.000 This happens to be an unusual circumstance. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 I see. 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 If somebody had to win, it might as well be you. 07:53.000 --> 07:57.000 Tell me, why of all the contestants did you happen to pick me? 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 Oh, I don't know. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Just chalking up the fate. 08:00.000 --> 08:04.000 And suppose I don't agree to your proposition? 08:04.000 --> 08:08.000 Then I'll find somebody else who will. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 Simple as that? 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Yeah. 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 All right. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 What's the deal, Mr. Wallingford? 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 Just plain Charlie to all my business friends. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 Shake. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 Yeah. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 Well, I suppose you're busy. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Not at all. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 Don't you have some kind of job you got to get to? 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 No. 08:26.000 --> 08:27.000 That's why I came to Boston. 08:27.000 --> 08:28.000 Oh. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 How long you been here? 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Two days. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Wait a minute. 08:33.000 --> 08:34.000 How come your entry had this address? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Oh, I reserved this room a month ago. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 I've been using it as my mailing address. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Oh, I see. 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Where you from, Pat? 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 Nowhere in particular. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 Just where my business takes me. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 You don't say. 08:45.000 --> 08:46.000 Got any family? 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 No. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Not a soul. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Maybe you have friends here in Boston. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Not a one. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 Gee, that's too bad. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 Why the look? 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 Oh, nothing. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 I was just thinking. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 About the money? 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 Right the first time. 09:02.000 --> 09:05.000 You know, it's too bad our paths didn't cross before. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 Why's that? 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 I think we'd have made a good team. 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 What's your racket? 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Stocks and bonds. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 Sell them? 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 Uh-huh. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 Legitimate? 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 What do you think? 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 I don't. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 Say, isn't contests out of your alley? 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 That's just a hobby. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 But sometimes they pay off, huh? 09:23.000 --> 09:24.000 Well, come on, let's blow this place. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 We'll really celebrate our little deal. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Sure, anything you say. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 I knew I had this guy figured from the second I laid eyes on him. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 Just a small-time confidence mug. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 And I knew he wasn't going to play 50-50 with me. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 No, sir. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 The minute he got his hands in that dough, I'd have to sing for my half. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 So I decided to take it all. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Yeah. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 I could be Pat Smith for a couple of days. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 And just so there wouldn't be too many Smiths, 09:58.000 --> 10:05.000 I'd fix this one up with a one-way ticket. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 We went to a place for coffee and sandwiches. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 I had some of my sleeping pills with me, 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 and by the time we got to the apple pie, he was feeling them. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 What's wrong with me? 10:20.000 --> 10:21.000 What's the matter? 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 My head. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Going around the top. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Oh, come on, come on, give me your arm. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 Yeah. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Ah, here we are. 10:36.000 --> 10:39.000 The air will straighten you out. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 I just want to lay down. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 You will. 10:41.000 --> 10:44.000 In a little while. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Where we going? 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Just walking. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 I want to lay down. 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 Oh, hey, hey, take it easy. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Hey, easy. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 Stand up. 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 Hey, why are we walking on this dock? 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 Just to get you some air. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Bring you around. 11:02.000 --> 11:03.000 All right, all right. 11:03.000 --> 11:05.000 Hey there. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Yeah? 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 What's wrong, mister? 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 Well, nothing, officer. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 My friend here isn't feeling very good. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 Oh, yeah? 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 Let me have a look at him. 11:14.000 --> 11:15.000 Sure. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 Hey, hey, wake up. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 I just want to lay down. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 Okay, mister. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 I just want to check up. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 I don't know what the funny things happen around here tonight. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 Boy, you can't be too careful. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 No, sir. 11:27.000 --> 11:28.000 Good night, officer. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 Good night. 11:32.000 --> 11:37.000 I waited until the cop disappeared under the fog. 11:37.000 --> 11:41.000 Smith had passed completely out of the picture. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 Dragged him down to the end of the dock. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 I looked around me and I found a piece of lead pipe and I... 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 And that was over. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 I stripped off his clothes and I changed with them. 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 I stuck the pipe under his belt and I pushed him into the water. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 I watched his body sink. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Then I left the dock. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.000 I went back to the hotel and I went up to Smith's room and... 12:07.000 --> 12:16.000 After a while, I went to sleep. 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 Yeah? 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 Mr. Smith? 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Mr. Pat Smith? 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Speaking. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 Well, there's a young lady waiting for you. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Waiting for me? 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 Yes, sir. 12:31.000 --> 12:46.000 She says she's your fiancée. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 For Suspense, Romowinds are bringing you as star Hume Cronin 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 in Too Many Smiths by Arthur L. 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Hello? Hello? 15:02.000 --> 15:07.000 I lay there, paralyzed with that phone in my hand. 15:07.000 --> 15:13.000 Hello? Hello? Mr. Smith? Did you hear me, sir? Your fiance. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 My fiance? 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Yes, sir. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 Oh, yeah, okay. I'll be right down. 15:18.000 --> 15:22.000 She'll be waiting for you in the reception room. 15:22.000 --> 15:27.000 This didn't jive. Smith said he didn't know anybody in Boston. 15:27.000 --> 15:34.000 I started to break out in a sweat. I had to go down and face her. Trying to avoid it would make things look suspicious. 15:34.000 --> 15:46.000 I took my time dressing, but my mind was going like a machine gun. But it was no use. There was nothing I could do but to face her and try and bluff my way. 15:46.000 --> 15:49.000 Pardon me, miss. Are you looking for Pat Smith? 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 Yes. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 Well, I'm Pat Smith. 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 Oh, I'm afraid there must be some mistake. 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 I guess there is. 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 Yes, the Mr. Smith I'm looking for is my fiance. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 You sure he's registered in this hotel? 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 I am very sure. 16:02.000 --> 16:03.000 Well... 16:03.000 --> 16:09.000 Oh, how foolish of me. There must be two Pat Smiths here. You and my fiance. 16:09.000 --> 16:13.000 Yeah, of course. Yeah. I never thought of that. 16:13.000 --> 16:17.000 It's such a big hotel. I'll ask the clerk. 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Yeah, do that. 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 Goodbye, Mr. Smith. I'm awfully sorry. I disturbed you. 16:22.000 --> 16:29.000 But that's okay. Two Pat Smiths. That was something I hadn't counted on. 16:29.000 --> 16:36.000 I watched her cross the lobby to the desk. She spoke to the clerk. He smiled and picked up the phone. The dame sat down and waited. 16:36.000 --> 16:41.000 In a few minutes, a middle-aged guy walks up to the desk and the clerk pointed out this dame to him. 16:41.000 --> 16:48.000 I took a good look at this other Pat Smith and I beat it into the elevator and went upstairs to my room. 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 I headed for the desk and I started going through the late Pat Smith's things. 16:51.000 --> 16:56.000 I found his papers and then I saw what I was looking for. A copy of the slogan he'd written. 16:56.000 --> 17:00.000 Oh, brother, I breathed a sigh of relief. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 It was the same as the one I'd copied from the agency's files. 17:03.000 --> 17:08.000 Fate is sure sticking closer to me than a suspicious wife. 17:08.000 --> 17:13.000 That stupid clerk could have sent me to the wrong Smith and if I'd knocked him off, I really would have been in a jam. 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 I didn't sleep at all good that night. 17:22.000 --> 17:29.000 Around 8 a.m. I headed for the drugstore in the lobby. My head was buzzing. I wanted a cup of black coffee. 17:29.000 --> 17:35.000 As I was drinking my second cup, I glanced in the mirror in front of me and I saw the second Pat Smith come in. 17:35.000 --> 17:38.000 I turned around to watch him buy some stuff at the counter. 17:38.000 --> 17:42.000 Razor blades, shaving cream, soap and a large tube of Century toothpaste. 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 Century toothpaste. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 It was only then it began to creep into my mind. 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 Maybe this Pat Smith had entered the contest also. 17:56.000 --> 18:00.000 And if so, maybe he was the guy that was going to collect the 25 grand. 18:00.000 --> 18:05.000 Maybe I'd been barking up the wrong tree. 18:05.000 --> 18:10.000 Sick, weak, empty feeling settled in my insides. 18:10.000 --> 18:14.000 I put a quarter on the counter and I followed Smith into the lobby. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 I beg your pardon. 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 Yes? 18:21.000 --> 18:24.000 Isn't your name Smith? Pat Smith? 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Yes, it is. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 Funny thing, but that's my name also. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 Oh yes, yes, I heard there was another Pat Smith staying here. 18:31.000 --> 18:32.000 You mind if I sit down? 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 No, no, go right ahead. 18:34.000 --> 18:35.000 Thanks. 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 Kind of funny two Pat Smiths living under the same roof. 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 Oh, I don't know, Smith's a very common name. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 Yeah, yeah, you're right there. 18:42.000 --> 18:45.000 You know, that's how I met your girlfriend. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 Uh, my girlfriend? 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 Yeah, the tall blonde, good looking dame. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 Oh yes, yes, I remember. But wasn't she looking for you? 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 I don't get you. 18:54.000 --> 19:01.000 Well, the clerk telephoned me in my room that she was waiting downstairs and when I met her it seems that I wasn't the Pat Smith she was looking for. 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 Darn it. 19:02.000 --> 19:03.000 You what? 19:03.000 --> 19:07.000 No, so naturally I assumed it was you. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 There couldn't be a third Pat Smith here. 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 Well hardly. I spoke to the clerk about it and he checked the register. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Maybe she had the wrong hotel. 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 Well, I doubt that very much because I've seen her about the lobby the past few days. 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 You have? 19:20.000 --> 19:23.000 Mm-hmm. Why, what's wrong? 19:23.000 --> 19:28.000 Oh nothing, nothing, I'm just thinking. Yeah. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 I see you're doing a crossword puzzle. 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 Yes, are you interested in puzzles? 19:33.000 --> 19:37.000 Sometimes. I like contests better. You know, the kind they have on the radio? 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 Uh-huh. 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 You ever enter one of those? 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Well, as a matter of fact I have. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 How about the Century Toothface contest? 19:43.000 --> 19:47.000 Oh, of course, $25,000. That's quite a big prize to shoot for. 19:47.000 --> 19:51.000 Yeah, it is. What kind of slogan did you write? 19:51.000 --> 19:56.000 Well, I think it's pretty good. I got a copy right here in my pocket. Would you care to read it? 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 Sure would. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 Let me see now where it is. 19:59.000 --> 20:05.000 Oh, here it is. I don't think it'll win first prize, but it might win one of the lesser ones. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Well, what do you think Pat? 20:07.000 --> 20:13.000 Yeah, that's pretty good. Much better than the one a certain party I knew wrote. 20:13.000 --> 20:24.000 Didn't take no book credit to see that the slogan this Smith wrote was the better of the two. 20:24.000 --> 20:32.000 I was a fool. If I'd looked through the files at the agency more carefully, I'd have seen that there were two Smiths and which Smith won the dough. 20:32.000 --> 20:37.000 I was in a tough spot. Tonight at 10 they were going to announce the winner. 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 I had just six hours to figure out an angle or lose 25 grand. 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 Hello. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 Hello, Mr. Smith. 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 Who's this? 20:47.000 --> 20:51.000 Mr. Smith's fiance. Remember? 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 Yeah, I remember. What do you want? 20:53.000 --> 20:56.000 I think you and I better have a little talk. 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 What about? 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 About my fiance. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 Where are you? 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 In the lounge. 21:01.000 --> 21:12.000 I'll be right down. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 Well, hello. 21:14.000 --> 21:15.000 Sit down, won't you? 21:15.000 --> 21:18.000 Thanks. Okay, what's on your mind? 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 You. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Me? Gee, I'm flattered. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 You needn't be. 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 Okay. What about me? It's so interesting. 21:27.000 --> 21:31.000 Why you killed Pat Smith. 21:31.000 --> 21:32.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 Let's not be stubborn about this, Mr. Wallingford. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Must I repeat my question? 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 No. Who are you? 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 You already know that. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 What's your name? 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 Betty. 21:42.000 --> 21:43.000 Betty what? 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 I'm asking the questions. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 How do you know he's dead? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 It's in the evening papers. 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 Let me see that. 21:50.000 --> 21:51.000 Here. 21:51.000 --> 21:54.000 Police discover body in Charles River. 21:54.000 --> 21:59.000 First thought to be Charles Wallingford, but fingerprints taken from the dead man proved his identity to be Pat Smith, 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 the small-time confidence man wanted by the police in three states. 22:03.000 --> 22:07.000 The police are looking for Wallingford. 22:07.000 --> 22:12.000 New York City police have discovered that Wallingford's been missing from his rooming house for the past five days. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 You see how I know. 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 Where do you fit? 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 I was supposed to meet Smith here. We had a little job planned. 22:18.000 --> 22:19.000 Oh, I see. 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 And you went and spoiled it. Why? 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Come on, come on. Start talking. 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 If I don't like the tone of your conversation, maybe the police will. 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 Well, I couldn't see any way out but to tell her the whole story. 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 I couldn't bluff. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 I was scared and she knew it. 22:39.000 --> 22:43.000 She didn't say anything while I was talking. She just sits and stares at me. 22:43.000 --> 22:47.000 I always told Pat those contests would be the death of him. 22:47.000 --> 22:48.000 Well, that's how it is. 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 This other guy will collect all the dough. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 You giving up so easily? 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 You have any ideas? 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Twenty-five thousand dollars. 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 I was a fool to get mixed up in this in the first place. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 Are you sure this Smith is going to win? 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 It can't be anyone else. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 Ah, you've gone so far. Why not take another step? 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 What do you mean? 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 I met this other Smith just as I met you. 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 Yeah, I know that. 23:11.000 --> 23:16.000 And from the way his eyes lit up I could see he was kind of sorry I wasn't his fiance. 23:16.000 --> 23:17.000 So? 23:17.000 --> 23:22.000 I don't think Mr. Smith would mind very much taking a walk with me down by the river. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Maybe holding hands? 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 I see what you mean. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Just the way you did the other job. 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 Well, I don't know. 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 You scared? 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 No, no, no. I'm game. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 Good. 23:33.000 --> 23:36.000 Look, you get him on that dock. I'll take over from there. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Don't worry, don't worry. He'll be there. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 Yeah. 23:39.000 --> 23:43.000 By the time the cops fish him out of the river we'll have the money and plenty of distance. 23:43.000 --> 23:44.000 You mean we go together? 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 What's the matter? Don't I appeal to you? 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Oh, sure, sure. 23:47.000 --> 23:50.000 Wait here. I'm going to phone him and cast out the bait. 23:50.000 --> 23:53.000 Okay. Here's hoping he bites. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 Don't worry, he will. 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 I watched her walk out of the lounge to the phone booth across the lobby. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Every eye on the joint on her. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 I knew Smith didn't have a chance. 24:03.000 --> 24:06.000 And if I hung around her I wouldn't either. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 Oh, she was murder that dame. 24:09.000 --> 24:12.000 After this job was over I was heading in the opposite direction. 24:12.000 --> 24:18.000 I could see her talking and when she hung up I could tell by the expression on her face that Smith was a cooked turkey. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 He'll be down in five minutes. You better beat it. 24:21.000 --> 24:24.000 Okay, baby. You're carrying the ball from now on. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 See you on the dock. 24:28.000 --> 24:33.000 I glanced back at the table and she was sitting there, calmly powdering her nose for the kill. 24:34.000 --> 24:40.000 Then fate stepped in again. I don't know why, but it suddenly hit me that maybe she was giving me the double cross. 24:40.000 --> 24:43.000 After all, how long do I know the dame? 24:43.000 --> 24:48.000 I went back into the lounge through the street entrance and I managed to sneak into a booth behind the one she was sitting in. 24:48.000 --> 24:52.000 In a few minutes Smith came in through the lobby entrance and walked over to her. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 Well, good evening. I came down as quickly as I could. 24:56.000 --> 25:01.000 So I see. I suppose my phone call surprised you. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 Oh, yes, yes indeed. 25:03.000 --> 25:06.000 I'll come to the point, Mr. Smith. 25:06.000 --> 25:10.000 Somebody is going to murder you. 25:10.000 --> 25:11.000 What? 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 Please keep your voice down. 25:13.000 --> 25:18.000 Oh, I'm sorry, but in heaven's name, why would anyone want to murder me? 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 For $25,000. 25:20.000 --> 25:21.000 I don't have that much money. 25:21.000 --> 25:22.000 You will. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 Look, I don't understand. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 The Century Toothpaste Contest. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 You hit the jackpot. 25:28.000 --> 25:31.000 How do you know? The winner won't be announced until 10 tonight. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 I have a way of knowing these things. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 I'm going to call the police. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 Come down, Mr. Smith. I've got a better idea. 25:38.000 --> 25:42.000 She lowered her voice, but by straining I got wind of what she was pulling. 25:42.000 --> 25:43.000 That was clear. 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 She wanted the money, but without a murder rap. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 Then she was going to tip off the police about me, 25:47.000 --> 25:50.000 which would give her clear salin' with Smith in the dough. 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 Yeah, she was clever, all right. 25:53.000 --> 25:57.000 But you know, it was funny. It didn't burn me up. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 I wasn't even sore. 25:59.000 --> 26:02.000 I was just tired and scared. I wanted to get away. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 Anywhere, so long as it was far from Boston. 26:05.000 --> 26:08.000 I had a few dollars left, so I beat it. 26:08.000 --> 26:10.000 I went to the railroad depot. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 My train didn't leave for an hour, so I walked around. 26:12.000 --> 26:14.000 I bought a paper. 26:14.000 --> 26:17.000 I felt like a punch-drunk fighter. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 I was licked, and I knew it. 26:19.000 --> 26:23.000 Faded let me down, all right. I was through. 26:23.000 --> 26:27.000 While I was standing in the crowd, waiting for the gate to open, 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 when I saw it. 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 Right there on the front page, I saw it. 26:32.000 --> 26:34.000 I started to laugh. 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 Yeah, I... I couldn't stop. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 I couldn't stop. 26:39.000 --> 26:42.000 There it was, right there on the front page. 26:42.000 --> 26:45.000 I just broke up a... 26:45.000 --> 26:47.000 Hey, officer! Hey, officer! 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 I was tired. 26:49.000 --> 26:52.000 What's wrong with this man? 26:52.000 --> 26:55.000 You. What's the matter with you, buddy? 26:55.000 --> 26:58.000 Hey. Hey. 26:58.000 --> 27:01.000 You're Charles Wallingford, alias Pat Smith. 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 You're wanted for murder. 27:15.000 --> 27:17.000 What a story. 27:17.000 --> 27:20.000 Starts out as a simple swindle and winds up murder. 27:20.000 --> 27:24.000 Yeah, but a story still doesn't tell me what I want to know. 27:24.000 --> 27:26.000 What's that, Doc? 27:26.000 --> 27:28.000 What cause for his temporary insanity? 27:28.000 --> 27:31.000 Oh, it doesn't at that. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 Hey, that newspaper. 27:33.000 --> 27:35.000 He was reading... 27:35.000 --> 27:38.000 Where is it? 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