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Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 00:46.000 --> 00:51.000 To your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:51.000 --> 01:02.000 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Lloyd Nolan and Vincent Price in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:07.000 --> 01:12.000 It began with just a little hunting trip for the two of us, Eric and me. 01:12.000 --> 01:17.000 I hadn't seen Eric for several months, not since before Karen died, in fact. 01:17.000 --> 01:23.000 When I bumped into him at the club, he suggested that we run up to his cabin in the mountains for a few days, 01:23.000 --> 01:28.000 grab a bit of fresh air and relaxation, see if we couldn't bag ourselves a moose or a deer. 01:28.000 --> 01:34.000 And yet, almost at the outset, I had an uncanny feeling about that trip. 01:34.000 --> 01:44.000 I suppose actually it was the night and the setting. It was the blackest night I'd ever seen. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 We'd left all humankind behind us. There was no moon. 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 There was only blackness, the kind that seemed to be all enveloping, 01:51.000 --> 01:56.000 as though there was nothing outside our car but blackness. No road, no forest, no mountains. 01:56.000 --> 02:01.000 Now let's admit I was nervous. I was boring my feet into the floorboard of the car, 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 as though somehow that would help. 02:06.000 --> 02:07.000 What are you laughing at? 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 You, Stan. You don't look as though you're having a very good time. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 Well, I'm not, I frankly. Shouldn't you be driving a little bit slower? 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 Why? 02:15.000 --> 02:18.000 Why? Good heavens, Eric, if you make just one little slip of the wheel, we're done for that. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 So all I doubt if they'd ever even find us down in those canyons. 02:21.000 --> 02:25.000 Nonsense. I know every crook and turn in this road. 02:25.000 --> 02:26.000 Oh, yeah? 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 I don't think you're much of an outdoors man, Stan. 02:28.000 --> 02:31.000 Well, maybe not. I love this kind of country in the daytime, 02:31.000 --> 02:36.000 but I'll confess I'm not so keen on it at night. I don't like what I can't see. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 Funny, I'm just the opposite. 02:38.000 --> 02:43.000 There's, well, there's a challenge in the darkness that stimulates my senses. 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 It's exhilarating. It stirs my imagination. 02:46.000 --> 02:51.000 Sure, I suppose it would. But I'm not equipped to grapple with the mysteries of the universe. 02:51.000 --> 02:55.000 Stan, you're much too modest. You always were. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 You've gotten out of life pretty much what you wanted, haven't you? 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 Well, yes, I suppose so. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Then don't always be belittling yourself. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 It's an effective technique, Stan, but I'm on to you. 03:06.000 --> 03:10.000 You're as clever as the next fellow, in your own way. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 I sat back and tried to relax. 03:22.000 --> 03:27.000 Things weren't quite as Eric had pictured them. I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, as they say. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 Eric had come up the hard way. I was average and soft. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 He was brilliant and hard. 03:33.000 --> 03:39.000 We'd known each other a long time, gone to school together, been in love with the same girl, Karen. 03:39.000 --> 03:44.000 When I married her, he was my best man, and yet I didn't pretend to understand him. 03:44.000 --> 03:49.000 He was still pretty much of a stranger to me. I glanced over his way. 03:49.000 --> 03:56.000 He actually seemed to be enjoying himself. It crossed my mind that he was rather enjoying seeing me in a bit of a lather, too. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Well, it's not far now, just around the next bend. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 Well, thank the Lord. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 Well, am I amusing you again? 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 No. I was just thinking what a perfect spot this would be for a murder. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 A murder? Honestly, Eric, I believe that's all you think about. 04:15.000 --> 04:21.000 It is almost. When I buy a newspaper, I read about murder the way you study the stock quotations. 04:21.000 --> 04:29.000 Murder is fascinating to me. I spend most of my time figuring out ways and means to commit murder. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 Now you're trying to sound like a mental case. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 Who knows? Perhaps I am. I have a mind. 04:34.000 --> 04:43.000 Well, here we are, old man. You see, I've delivered you safe and sound, all in one piece. 04:50.000 --> 04:57.000 Eric's cabin was perched high on a rocky crag jutting out from the side of a mountain, with one more flush against a sheer drop. 04:57.000 --> 05:02.000 In front there was a steep path leading down to a lake. I could hear the lapping of the waves. 05:02.000 --> 05:09.000 Eric fixed us something to eat and went outside. And pretty soon he came back in. 05:11.000 --> 05:15.000 Arm full of logs. His face was red and healthy. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 I don't think you like my place, Stan. 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 Oh, yes, I do. Honestly, I'm just tired, I guess. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Well, we'll turn in directly. Cigarette? 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 Yes, thanks. I believe I will. 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 I like it here. All the privacy in the world. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 Say, Eric. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 Yes? 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 Why do you read about murder? 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 Why do you read about stocks and bonds? 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 Well, because they interest me. It's my business. 05:39.000 --> 05:43.000 My business doesn't interest me. I read about murder because I'm interested in people. 05:43.000 --> 05:48.000 Murder is emotional. When people are being emotional, you get to see more of them. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Why are you so interested in people? 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Oh, I think I'm more curious than interested. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 Well, all right. Why so curious? 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 Well, it amuses me. I find out about people. I write down what I find out, 05:58.000 --> 06:03.000 and I write my impressions of how those people will react to a series of circumstances. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 It's a good way to get rid of one's inhibition. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Sort of a frightening hobby. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 I think stamp collecting is frightening. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 You're too darn clever, Eric. 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 Why too clever? 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Well, I mean you see through people. 06:16.000 --> 06:20.000 Well, what's wrong with that unless, of course, they have something they want to hide? 06:20.000 --> 06:23.000 Oh, I suppose it's all right if your friends don't mind. 06:23.000 --> 06:27.000 Do you? Mine? No, heavens no. Why should I? 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 That's right. Why should you? 06:29.000 --> 06:32.000 Well, how about hitting the hay? We have to be up early. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 We'll only get a few hours' sleep, as it is. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 Well, suits me. 06:35.000 --> 06:40.000 You sleep in my study, Stan. The bed in there is a bit more comfortable. 06:40.000 --> 06:51.000 I'll bunk out here on the couch. 06:51.000 --> 06:56.000 I had undressed and gotten into bed and was reaching over to put out the light on Eric's desk 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 when my eyes fell on a stack of typewritten sheets. 07:00.000 --> 07:04.000 I wondered if they were the notes Eric had been speaking about. 07:04.000 --> 07:08.000 The strange mumbo jumbo he'd written there, phrases he liked, 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 single sentences describing people he'd met. 07:11.000 --> 07:16.000 There were a few clippings pasted on sheets of white paper, clippings describing murders, 07:16.000 --> 07:20.000 by strangulation, by pistol, by drowning, by poison. 07:20.000 --> 07:25.000 The full sheet was devoted to Karen. I hadn't realized how much he cared for. 07:25.000 --> 07:29.000 His analysis was very kind, almost maudlin. 07:29.000 --> 07:35.000 He spoke of a shock at hearing of her suicide, and he tried to reason it to find causes. 07:35.000 --> 07:39.000 A small memo pad caught my eye, however. 07:39.000 --> 07:44.000 And on the last page, I saw my name carefully printed. 07:44.000 --> 07:50.000 I read it eagerly. I read Eric's arguments for not hating me because I had married Karen. 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 I read Eric's cold analysis of my character. 07:53.000 --> 07:57.000 Not exactly flattering, but it was pretty accurate. 07:57.000 --> 08:01.000 And at the bottom of the page, newly written by the looks of it, 08:01.000 --> 08:07.000 and in Eric's own careful hand, I read four ways to commit murder. 08:07.000 --> 08:15.000 By strangulation, by pistol bullet, by drowning, by poison. 08:15.000 --> 08:26.000 Music 08:26.000 --> 08:31.000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Vincent Price and Lloyd Nolan in Hunting Trip 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 by Paul Bernard and Lee Horton. 08:33.000 --> 08:39.000 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 08:39.000 --> 08:48.000 Music 08:48.000 --> 08:54.000 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Grand Estate Wines. 08:54.000 --> 09:00.000 Last night, a friend who entertains frequently told me how much he likes Grand Estate Wines, 09:00.000 --> 09:05.000 those wines of outstanding excellence presented by Roma, America's greatest vintner. 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 Here's what he said. 09:07.000 --> 09:13.000 Recently, Ken, I serve Grand Estate Wines to some very particular guests, people who really know wine. 09:13.000 --> 09:20.000 Their sincere praise for that wonderful fragrance and taste was certainly flattering to me as a host. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Grand Estate Wines are outstanding. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 Yes, to bring you this limited bottling of Grand Estate Wines, 09:27.000 --> 09:33.000 Roma selected only the choicest juice-laden grapes from California's finest vineyards. 09:33.000 --> 09:38.000 Then at Roma's famed wineries, unmatched in winemaking resources, 09:38.000 --> 09:43.000 Grand Estate Wines are patiently, skillfully guided to perfection. 09:43.000 --> 09:50.000 Necessary time and the age-old skill of Roma master vintners endow each Grand Estate Wine 09:50.000 --> 09:54.000 with brilliant clarity, full fragrance, and mellow taste. 09:54.000 --> 10:01.000 So whatever the occasion, you're sure to please all tastes with Grand Estate California Wines. 10:01.000 --> 10:06.000 Medium sherry, ruby port, and golden muscatel for delightful entertaining. 10:06.000 --> 10:10.000 Grand Estate burgundy and sotern for gracious dining. 10:10.000 --> 10:17.000 Remember the name, Grand Estate Wines by Roma, the crowning achievement of vintner skill. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 And now, Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, 10:21.000 --> 10:26.000 Lloyd Nolan as Stan and Vincent Price as Eric in Hunting Trip. 10:26.000 --> 10:30.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:30.000 --> 10:42.000 I suppose I slept that night, but it seemed as though I had only just dozed off 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 when I heard the door open quietly. 10:45.000 --> 10:50.000 I opened one eye cautiously. It was still gray in the room, so I know I hadn't slept long. 10:50.000 --> 10:56.000 I was about to open both eyes to save Eric the trouble of waking me when I thought, 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 he hasn't come to wake me. 10:58.000 --> 11:04.000 My mind threw two words at me by strangulation. 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 Before I had the chance to move, I felt his hands carefully on my throat. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 Don't! 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Why, Stan, what's the matter? 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 I thought for a minute that... 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 I guess I must have been dreaming. Nightmare. 11:18.000 --> 11:23.000 You grabbed hold of my hands like you thought I was going to strangle you. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 Did I? 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 What's the matter? Have you got a guilty conscience? 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 Yeah, yeah, I guess I have. What did you want, Eric? 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 Time to get up. 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 Oh, already? 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 Yeah, that's right. I've got good news, too. 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 I just spotted a likely looking buck right across the lake when I went down for water. 11:40.000 --> 11:41.000 Oh, good, good. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 Well, I'll get breakfast going as soon as you're ready. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 Yeah, B, right with you. 11:45.000 --> 11:50.000 Now, there's no rush. Take your time. Nice to have you here. 11:53.000 --> 11:58.000 Well, maybe it was the way that he'd said that as though he'd really meant it. 11:58.000 --> 12:02.000 For a minute I was convinced that I'd let my imagination run away with me. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 As for putting his hand on my throat, that was an accident. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 He'd been groping for my shoulder. 12:07.000 --> 12:11.000 Then the next minute I was asking myself, was it an accident, though? 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 Suppose I'd really been asleep. Suppose I hadn't grabbed his hands. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 I still didn't know what to think. 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 Well, I dressed and we sat down to breakfast. 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 Pass me your cup, will you, Stan? I'll give you some coffee. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 There you are. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Thanks. 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 Sugar coming up. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 No, no sugar for me, thanks. 12:33.000 --> 12:37.000 Well, Stan, when are you going to confess? 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 What do you mean, confess? 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 Or shall I drag it out of you? 12:40.000 --> 12:41.000 What are you driving at? 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 Oh, come now. You're not going to play the adolescent schoolboy with me. 12:44.000 --> 12:45.000 I swear, I don't... 12:45.000 --> 12:50.000 I'm referring to the lovely young woman you've been seen dining with and taking to the theater. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 Oh, you mean Marcia. 12:52.000 --> 12:53.000 Is that her name? 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 Yes, yes. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Well, go on. Where did you meet her? How? When? 12:56.000 --> 13:00.000 Is she wealthy? Is she as beautiful as they say she is? Come on. 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 Let's have the sordid detail. 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 No, Eric, you're barking up the wrong tree. 13:04.000 --> 13:05.000 Am I? 13:05.000 --> 13:09.000 Oh, I'll admit, I've taken her out occasionally, but nothing like that. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 Marcia, do I know her? 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 No, I don't believe you do. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Isn't her last name Jenkins? 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 Yes. 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 Oh, of course I know her. That is, I met her. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 Or don't you remember you introduced me to her yourself? 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 Oh, did I? 13:23.000 --> 13:26.000 Yes, don't you remember I ran into you at Silver's. 13:26.000 --> 13:30.000 You were buying perfume and she was helping you select it. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 For Karen, remember? 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 Oh, yes, yes. Now that you recall it... 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 More coffee? 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 Uh, yeah, no sugar. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 Well, when we got to the lake, we bailed out the boat, loaded it, and pushed it out into the fog. 13:47.000 --> 13:54.000 It was still half light when we reached the other side, so we sat in the boat and lighted cigarettes, waited for the sun to come up. 13:54.000 --> 14:00.000 We'd been sitting there just smoking, not saying anything, when he suddenly turned to me and said... 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 You say that she'd been ill? 14:02.000 --> 14:07.000 Uh, oh, Karen, yes. Yes, she'd been ill for some time, Eric. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 So she killed herself? 14:08.000 --> 14:09.000 Yes. 14:09.000 --> 14:12.000 There was an inquest, of course. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 Yes, of course. Why do you ask? 14:14.000 --> 14:24.000 Look at that sun. Did you ever see such color? 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 Four ways to commit murder. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 I'd almost forgotten about Eric's hands on my throat. 14:29.000 --> 14:36.000 Now the incident jumped vividly back to my mind because now I knew that Eric had a reason. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 He looked away after he asked me about the inquest. 14:38.000 --> 14:44.000 He didn't answer me when I asked him why he wanted to know. 14:44.000 --> 14:53.000 Somewhere in that strange dark corner of his mind, he was still obsessed by love for Karen, even though she was dead and gone. 14:53.000 --> 14:58.000 He thought that she'd still be alive and happy if she hadn't married me. 15:02.000 --> 15:05.000 My legs were weak when he motioned me out of the boat. 15:05.000 --> 15:10.000 A deer blew somewhere near us. We stopped. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 Hey, did you hear that? 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 Yeah. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Listen, it's moving west. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Yeah. 15:15.000 --> 15:19.000 Stan, you work west, just about half a mile or so ahead of us. You'll come to a clearing. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 Take your stand there. 15:20.000 --> 15:21.000 Right. 15:21.000 --> 15:25.000 I'll strike north and west and then work toward the clearing. Good hunting. 15:25.000 --> 15:34.000 This is it then, I thought. He'll hide somewhere along the way to the clearing and shoot me in the back. 15:34.000 --> 15:42.000 Now that I knew what to expect, I felt somewhat relieved. At least I'd be ready for him. 15:46.000 --> 15:50.000 Nothing happened until I'd nearly reached the clearing. 15:50.000 --> 15:56.000 And then I got the feeling that someone was walking with me, timing his steps with mine. 15:56.000 --> 16:00.000 I stopped. I listened. 16:02.000 --> 16:06.000 I don't know how long I stood there. My rifle gripped in my hands. 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 But suddenly, instinctively, I wheeled around. 16:11.000 --> 16:15.000 The shot whistled over my head. Then I saw a buck running across the clearing. 16:15.000 --> 16:20.000 He'd shot at me and missed. Well, two can play at that game, I thought. 16:20.000 --> 16:23.000 The next shot would be mine. I wouldn't miss. 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 I dropped to my knees watching the brush for him. 16:25.000 --> 16:29.000 Then all of a sudden I saw him running toward me right out in the open. 16:29.000 --> 16:35.000 I started to raise my rifle, but I couldn't. I couldn't kill a man that way in cold blood. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 Stan, Stan, did I hit you? 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 I can't find you. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 Now hold on a minute, old son. Let's not lose our heads. 16:41.000 --> 16:46.000 I'm terribly sorry, of course, but I had no idea you were to take Stan in the clearing. 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 So I naturally assumed you were there. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 I don't know what I can say. 16:51.000 --> 16:55.000 Well, maybe it was my fault. I don't know. 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 Anyway, let's forget it. 16:56.000 --> 16:57.000 But I... 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 I said let's skip it. 16:59.000 --> 17:04.000 I stuck close to Eric. After that I gave no more opportunity for a shooting accident. 17:04.000 --> 17:08.000 It was dusk when we headed back toward the cabin. 17:08.000 --> 17:12.000 We didn't get our buck, not that I cared, and I'm sure Eric didn't. 17:12.000 --> 17:15.000 He was after different games. 17:15.000 --> 17:19.000 Then I saw a boat on the beach. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 I drowned. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 I was in the water. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 I was in the water. 17:25.000 --> 17:29.000 I saw a boat on the beach. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 I drowned. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Here we were alone. 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 I couldn't refuse to get in the boat with him. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 There was no other way of getting back to the cabin. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 I could feel the perspiration trickling down my ribs. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 I stumbled in the underbrush. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 Easy, easy now. 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 Too bad we didn't bag that fella. 17:54.000 --> 17:57.000 That buck? Better luck tomorrow, maybe. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 Yeah, better luck tomorrow. 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 You seem preoccupied, Stan. 18:02.000 --> 18:03.000 Do I? 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 Yes, I have the ghastly feeling that I'm failing you as a host. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 I don't think you're having a very good time. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 I think this is a marvelous country, Eric. 18:12.000 --> 18:16.000 You've exercised phenomenal restraint, old son. 18:16.000 --> 18:17.000 What do you mean? 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 About expressing your admiration for it. 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 I never suspected that you liked it so much. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 That remark called for some sort of an answer, but I wasn't equal to it. 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 Fortunately, I was spared the necessity. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 We reached the lake and the boat. 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 Then we tossed our guns into it. 18:38.000 --> 18:42.000 Eric started to push out the shore. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 Hop in, Stan. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 Easy does it now. 18:47.000 --> 18:50.000 Hang on to the oars, will you, while I climb in? 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 All set? 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 All set. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Splendid. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Here, now, you better let me row. I know this lake. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 There's some treacherous spots in it. 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 What do you mean? 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Oh, some nasty boulders sticking up. 19:03.000 --> 19:06.000 Some of them that aren't easy to spot. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 Come too close to the surface for comfort. 19:09.000 --> 19:10.000 I see. 19:10.000 --> 19:14.000 If we were to hit one of them, we'd turn over in a hurry. 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 You don't swim, do you, Stan? 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 You know darn well I don't. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 Oh, that's a shame. 19:21.000 --> 19:25.000 It's a mistake not to learn to swim, don't you think? 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 What happened after that was a nightmare. 19:33.000 --> 19:37.000 He rode. I sat there, paralyzed. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 I couldn't move. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 I couldn't think. I knew I should do something, but what? 19:42.000 --> 19:46.000 I stared at the water till I was blind, looking for rocks. 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 Eric's face was a blur. 19:49.000 --> 19:54.000 He just smiled, rode, rode and talked. 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 His voice sounded hollow, unreal. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 You're shaking, Stan. Is something wrong? 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 This lake's plenty deep. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 Lots of fish in it, too. 20:04.000 --> 20:12.000 Maybe we can do a little fishing. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 He stopped suddenly. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 He'd seen something in the water. 20:18.000 --> 20:23.000 He turned around, pulled hard on the oars. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 We'd reached the spot he knew it. 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 And then... 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 No! No! Get down! 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 Eric, we're going to love you! 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 Eric! 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 When I came up, Eric was there in the water near me. 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 He didn't speak. He just grinned. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 And then I saw his face above mine, grinning. 20:48.000 --> 20:51.000 I saw him raise his face, strike me and... 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 That's the last thing I remember. 20:53.000 --> 20:57.000 When I came to, I was lying on the beach. 20:57.000 --> 21:02.000 And Eric was standing over me, smiling. 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 Well, hello. How are you feeling? 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 I... OK, I guess. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 You're a tough customer to rescue, old son. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 You put up quite a fight. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 I'm sorry. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 I'm sorry. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 I'm sorry. 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 I'm sorry. I thought that maybe... 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 No, don't try to talk now. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 You've had a pretty bad time. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Take it easy. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Well, it was all clear to me then. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 Eric could save my life. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 It would have been accidental. 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 The shot, the boat turning over. 21:39.000 --> 21:40.000 He didn't want to kill me. 21:40.000 --> 21:43.000 A man doesn't save you from drowning when he wants you dead. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 But it had all been my imagination. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 A nightmare. 21:47.000 --> 21:52.000 The relief that flowed through my body was almost too much for me. 21:52.000 --> 21:56.000 It would fill her on words to express how I felt. 22:04.000 --> 22:10.000 A little later, Eric held me up to my cabin and I stretched out on the couch. 22:10.000 --> 22:14.000 Eric went to the kitchen to fix hot coffee and soup. 22:14.000 --> 22:19.000 He brought the coffee in first, pulled up the coffee table close to me, 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 and poured us each out a cupful. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 There you are. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Get some of that into you and you'll feel different. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 Oh, thanks. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 I'll be back in a second. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 Soup's coming right up. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 Hey, Stan, do you like to cook? 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 Huh? 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 I said, do you like to cook? 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 You know, I do. I... 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 Well, I like to try different concoctions. 22:42.000 --> 22:46.000 Oh, not me. I'd starve to death if I had to cook for myself. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 Oh, man. 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 This coffee hits the spot. 22:50.000 --> 22:54.000 Ah, I can use a little of that, too. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 It sure does warm the innards, doesn't it? 22:56.000 --> 22:57.000 Mm-hmm. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 I got a little chilled. 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 Nothing like a cup of coffee, I always say. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 That's what I always say, too, Stan. 23:04.000 --> 23:09.000 Why, did I say something funny when I'm using you again? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Immensely. 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 In fact, Stan, I think that's probably the funniest thing you ever said. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Mm-hmm. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 How did you like it, Stan? 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 Four ways to commit murder. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 You read it, of course. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Why, yes, I... 23:25.000 --> 23:29.000 I could tell you had, just as I intended you to. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 Were you frightened all day today? 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 I don't understand. 23:34.000 --> 23:38.000 You didn't know, did you, that I came to your engagement party 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 to ask Karen to be my wife? 23:40.000 --> 23:45.000 I wasn't aware that you were throwing a party or that she had accepted you. 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 Oh, good Lord. 23:46.000 --> 23:49.000 Perhaps you don't remember what I told you that night. 23:49.000 --> 23:52.000 You thought I was joking, but I meant every word I said, 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 that I'd make you pay if you failed, Karen, if you made her unhappy. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 Within all these years, you would... 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 Then you did bring me up here to murder you. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 You're so right, Stan. 24:03.000 --> 24:06.000 But you pulled me out of the lake, you saved my life. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 You are a dull-witted clown, aren't you, Stan? 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 Don't you know me better than that? 24:11.000 --> 24:14.000 Did you think I'd kill you in the manner of a homicidal moron? 24:14.000 --> 24:15.000 Oh, no, Stan. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 But you did take a shot at me. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 Oh, yes, that was the second way. 24:19.000 --> 24:22.000 The first way was by waking you up by the throat this morning. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 The boat tipping over was the third way. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 And now I suppose we've reached the fourth way. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 Your brilliance positively staggers me. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 You can't get away with it, Eric. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Oh, yes, I can. I have. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 You see how intently I'm watching you? 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 I'm waiting to see you fall. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 I'm in a die-stand, just as Karen died. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 What do you mean? In the coffee stand. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 That's right. 24:45.000 --> 24:49.000 Your coffee's poisoned, just as you poisoned her coffee. 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 Only yours is a slow poison. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 Poisonic justice, don't you think? 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 You poisoned my coffee? 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 Yes, I wore down your guard. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 I planned it so that by now you would trust me, 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 you would have faith in me. 25:04.000 --> 25:07.000 You poisoned my coffee? 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 What did you... 25:09.000 --> 25:13.000 I didn't drink my coffee, Eric. 25:13.000 --> 25:17.000 I changed cups with you that were sugar in my cup, Eric. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 I don't take sugar in my coffee, Eric. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 So I changed cups with you. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 I didn't mean to do it, Eric, but... 25:29.000 --> 25:35.000 I don't like sugar in my coffee. 25:46.000 --> 25:50.000 So you see, I didn't kill Eric, really. 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 He killed himself accidentally. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 But I wish he had killed me. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 He had a good reason to. 25:57.000 --> 26:01.000 Because somehow he knew about Karen, 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 about how I killed Karen, 26:03.000 --> 26:06.000 by putting poison in her coffee that morning. 26:06.000 --> 26:08.000 And I watched her die, 26:08.000 --> 26:12.000 the same way that I watched Eric die. 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 I'm tired now. I don't want to talk anymore. 26:15.000 --> 26:28.000 You do whatever you want with me. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 Suspense. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Presented by Rome of Wines. 26:41.000 --> 26:47.000 R-O-M-A. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 And now, our two distinguished stars, 26:49.000 --> 26:51.000 Lloyd Nolan and Vincent Price, 26:51.000 --> 26:54.000 are returning for a curtain call with William Spear, 26:54.000 --> 26:56.000 our producer director of Suspense. 26:56.000 --> 26:59.000 Mr. Spear is carrying two large gift baskets 26:59.000 --> 27:01.000 of Grand Estate California wines. 27:01.000 --> 27:04.000 Lloyd and Vincent and Vincent and Lloyd, 27:04.000 --> 27:06.000 just to keep the billing straight, 27:06.000 --> 27:09.000 we want you each to have a basket of these Grand Estate wines 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 with our compliments for a thrilling performance. 27:11.000 --> 27:14.000 Thank you, Bill. Hey, this is quite a selection. 27:14.000 --> 27:16.000 It certainly is. My thanks too, Bill. 27:16.000 --> 27:20.000 Well, there must be a Grand Estate wine for every occasion here. 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 I guess there is, isn't there, Ken? 27:22.000 --> 27:23.000 Well, there is indeed, Bill. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 Even my favorite, Grand Estate Medium Sherry. 27:26.000 --> 27:28.000 A truly versatile wine, 27:28.000 --> 27:33.000 Grand Estate Medium Sherry is delicious as an aperitif before dinner. 27:33.000 --> 27:36.000 Delightful for afternoon or evening parties, too. 27:36.000 --> 27:40.000 And, of course, like all Grand Estate wines by Roma, 27:40.000 --> 27:43.000 Medium Sherry possesses the brilliant clarity, 27:43.000 --> 27:48.000 full fragrance and mellow taste that distinguish truly great wines. 27:48.000 --> 27:50.000 That sounds wonderful. Yes, Mr. Nolan. 27:50.000 --> 27:54.000 And you can be sure that any Grand Estate wine you serve 27:54.000 --> 27:57.000 represents the ultimate in wine goodness, 27:57.000 --> 27:59.000 the crowning achievement of vintner skill. 27:59.000 --> 28:03.000 That's why Grand Estate wines presented by Roma, 28:03.000 --> 28:08.000 the greatest name in wine, are the choice of discriminating wine users everywhere. 28:08.000 --> 28:09.000 Well put, Ken. 28:09.000 --> 28:12.000 Vincent, what's new and startling over on the 20th century fox lot? 28:12.000 --> 28:17.000 Well, they're pretty excited about Daryl Zanuck's film version of Mom's The Razor's Edge, 28:17.000 --> 28:19.000 which is just finished up shooting. 28:19.000 --> 28:24.000 And I guess the picture that they like best among the current releases is Flordy and David. 28:24.000 --> 28:27.000 You're on loan out just now, away from the home lot, aren't you, Vincent? 28:27.000 --> 28:29.000 That's right, Bill. And Lloyd is, too. 28:29.000 --> 28:33.000 Yes, yes, sir. I will be in a couple of weeks. Right now I'm just loafing, 28:33.000 --> 28:36.000 grabbed a little fishing, took a hunting trip up north. 28:36.000 --> 28:39.000 You wouldn't want to go on a hunting trip with me, would you, Lloyd? 28:39.000 --> 28:42.000 No, thanks. Plenty of that tonight on Suspense. 28:42.000 --> 28:44.000 Oh, Bill, who's on the show next Thursday? 28:44.000 --> 28:48.000 It's Dane Clark in a suspense play about a gunsel, 28:48.000 --> 28:51.000 a professional murderer who doesn't know he has any emotions, 28:51.000 --> 28:55.000 until he finds himself falling in love with the wife of a man he's killed. 28:55.000 --> 28:57.000 That's wonderful. We'll be listening, ain't we, Lloyd? 28:57.000 --> 28:58.000 Oh, yes, sure thing. 28:58.000 --> 29:02.000 Swell. Well, then if you two will relieve me of these baskets of Grand 29:02.000 --> 29:05.000 Estate wines before my arms give way and there's a loud crack. 29:05.000 --> 29:06.000 Thanks again, Bill. 29:06.000 --> 29:07.000 Well, good night. 29:07.000 --> 29:08.000 Good night. 29:08.000 --> 29:14.000 Next Thursday, same time, listen to Dane Clark on Suspense. 29:14.000 --> 29:29.000 Presented by Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California.