1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,280 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world, Roma Wines 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,280 presents Suspense. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:21,440 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Dane Clark as star of Till the Day I Die, a suspense 4 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:30,240 play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:37,520 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:44,080 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness 7 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:49,200 to the way you live, to your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of 8 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,560 everyday meals. 9 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:56,560 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Dane Clark 10 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:04,400 in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 11 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,880 I practically won a track in the linoleum and I was on my third pack of cigarettes in 12 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:09,880 three hours. 13 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:14,720 I was jumpy as a three-year-old thoroughbred that's flunked a saliva test. 14 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,440 Partly it was because you always feel like that after a job. 15 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,680 Partly it was the idea of staying holed up in that crummy dump when I had enough dough 16 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,120 not to buy a good-sized hotel, but mostly it was packed. 17 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,320 She and I were washed up anyway, even if she didn't know it. 18 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,240 And when you're washed up with a dame, almost, but when it's a kind of bellyache and she 19 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,880 was doing, it's enough to get you set for a canvas course. 20 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,600 It's the future I'm worried about, Frankie. 21 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,080 What's the matter with the future? 22 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,760 It doesn't look like you'll ever be on any bread lines. 23 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,240 No, I don't mean that. 24 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,080 I mean our future, yours and mine. 25 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:46,880 Well, stop worrying about it. 26 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,480 I can't. 27 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:49,680 You didn't have to do it, Frankie. 28 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,360 What do you mean I didn't have to do it? 29 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:52,360 The guy had his cold. 30 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,760 We were walking out of the place with a bag full of dough and all of a sudden he steps 31 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,280 around the corner and slaps a light in my face. 32 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,600 But you didn't have to kill him. 33 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,640 Oh, I suppose I should have given him cab fare to the police headquarters. 34 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,720 He'd have put the finger on us, don't you understand that? 35 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,920 He'd have given the description to the cops and a good description is all those guys 36 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,720 need because sooner or later, sister, they'd get you. 37 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,600 I don't know, Frankie. 38 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,720 I just never figured you'd ever do a thing like that. 39 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:14,720 Ah, stop it. 40 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,280 Look, you've been going out on these jobs with me for over a year now. 41 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,280 You know what the score is. 42 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,280 What do you think we carry a gun for? 43 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,280 For looks? 44 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:22,960 Yeah, but this is different, Frankie. 45 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:23,960 This is murder. 46 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,680 All right, so it's murder and the only difference between murder and what you've been doing 47 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,920 is that murder gets you the works and armed robbery only gets you 10 to 20. 48 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:32,920 Doesn't it even bother you? 49 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:33,920 Well, why should it? 50 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:38,360 A guy I don't know the first thing about, a guy that just had the tough luck to be working 51 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,560 late in the joint we stacked out the crack, a guy I don't even see his face. 52 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,680 I don't know what he looks like even now. 53 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,680 He was a man though, Frankie. 54 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:46,680 He was a human being. 55 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,680 So what, guys? 56 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,080 I knocked off every day. 57 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,680 Guys you don't know anything about, only what you read in the paper. 58 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:53,680 And do you worry about it? 59 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,000 You do not. 60 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,280 I don't like it, Frankie. 61 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,960 I don't like any part of it. 62 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,120 But you like that 50 grand in the suitcase over there. 63 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,680 You like that all right, don't you? 64 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,120 I'm not so sure, Frankie. 65 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,620 I'm not so sure. 66 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:08,840 Because I was in on this too. 67 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,560 Maybe you don't have a conscience, but I do. 68 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,480 A man was murdered and it was partly my fault. 69 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,080 You don't just brush off a thing like that, Frankie. 70 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:16,080 Shut up. 71 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,200 Sooner or later it begins to work on you. 72 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,200 Sooner or later it begins to catch up with you. 73 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,200 I said shut up. 74 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,200 And when it does you... 75 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:29,560 Now forget it, will you? 76 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,680 I'm sorry I hit you. 77 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,840 Look I'm a little nervous now. 78 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,520 Pull yourself together, will you? 79 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,600 Anyway it's time to go out and get the papers. 80 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:41,960 Come on, come on. 81 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,000 Come down for them like a good kid, will you? 82 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 All right. 83 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 And see if you can get me a couple of packs of cigarettes while you're at it. 84 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 All right, Frankie. 85 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 And stop worrying. 86 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Nothing's going to happen. 87 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,880 I can't help it, Frankie. 88 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,360 Listen Pat. 89 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,720 Yeah? 90 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,240 I don't like you to worry, see. 91 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,560 Because you might get ideas. 92 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,520 What do you mean ideas? 93 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,520 I mean you might get some ideas about saying something to somebody. 94 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,520 Oh, Frankie. 95 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:15,600 And you know what would happen if you did get any ideas like that. 96 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:25,440 You don't need to worry because I do know now. 97 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,040 I went over to the window and I watched her go down the steps of the street and then start 98 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,640 for the corner. 99 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,520 I know I didn't have to worry about anything yet but having somebody around who could put 100 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,560 the finger on you for a murder rap isn't so healthy. 101 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,840 I was just starting on my fourth pack of cigarettes when I heard her running up the stairs. 102 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 All right, all right. 103 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,840 Hurry up, Frankie. 104 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:44,840 Open the door. 105 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:45,840 All right. 106 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:46,840 You don't have to knock... 107 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:47,840 What's the matter? 108 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:48,840 Is somebody after you? 109 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:49,840 No. 110 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:50,840 No, but look at the paper. 111 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:51,840 Let's see. 112 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:52,840 Oh, front page, huh? 113 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:53,840 Pear, lute, broker jar. 114 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,840 No, the picture. 115 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:55,840 What about the pi... 116 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:56,840 It's me. 117 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:57,840 It's me. 118 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:11,320 Listen, Pat, there's only one place in the world they could have got a picture of me. 119 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:12,320 No, don't listen, Frankie. 120 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,320 Don't you... 121 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:14,320 You're hurting me. 122 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,320 Look what it says. 123 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,320 What about it? 124 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,320 Look at it. 125 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,320 Look what it says under it. 126 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:19,320 Huh? 127 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:20,920 Philip Abel accounting shot down... 128 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:21,920 No. 129 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,920 It couldn't be. 130 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:23,920 It can't be. 131 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:24,920 It is, though, Frankie. 132 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,800 It's the man you killed. 133 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,800 It couldn't be, l tell you. 134 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:32,800 Why, that's me. 135 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,320 It's exactly like me, any way you look at it, even the way the hair is parted. 136 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,320 Look. 137 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,480 Why, it's some kind of a mistake or something. 138 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:40,480 You know it isn't, Frankie. 139 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:41,480 How could it be? 140 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:42,480 l don't know. 141 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:43,480 l don't have any picture of you. 142 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:44,480 You told me you never had any taken. 143 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:45,480 You said you'd been smart. 144 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,160 You hadn't let him take your picture since you were a kid. 145 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,160 That's right. 146 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,160 l never did. 147 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:50,160 l... 148 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,160 But it's almost exactly like me. 149 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,160 l couldn't tell the difference myself. 150 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,880 lt's just one of those freak things. 151 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,920 The guy you didn't know or care about. 152 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,400 The guy who wasn't going to bother your conscience one little bit. 153 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,160 The guy you killed turns out to be your double. 154 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,160 Yeah. 155 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,840 lt's sort of like killing yourself. 156 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:09,840 Shut up. 157 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:11,720 l told you it's not so easy to kill a man without... 158 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:12,720 Come on, give me that paper. 159 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:13,720 Frankie, listen. 160 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:14,720 What are you trying to do? 161 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,120 l'm tearing up that picture, see? 162 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,760 And now l'm burning it. 163 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,240 See? 164 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,240 And it's over with. 165 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,880 lt's forgotten, see? 166 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,600 It's nothing but a little pile of ashes. 167 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,560 l never heard of the guy. 168 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,760 l don't know the first thing about him. 169 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,280 l don't even remember his name. 170 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:35,280 l do. 171 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,280 lt was... 172 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:37,280 Shut up! 173 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:40,280 l don't want to hear about it. 174 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:45,000 Ever! 175 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,600 Maybe l should have let her talk about it then when she wanted to. 176 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:55,080 lf l'd really got to thinking about the face in that picture, it might have made some difference. 177 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,080 l don't know. 178 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:13,640 It might have saved my life, but l don't know. 179 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:19,720 For Suspense, Romowinds are bringing you Dane Clark, Until the Day l Die, a radio play by 180 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,280 Martin Ryerson. 181 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:34,880 Romowinds' presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 182 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,640 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles with a friendly suggestion. 183 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:44,440 Now that summer is over, this is the time when friends drop by to say hello again and 184 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,960 swap vacation yarns with you. 185 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,640 Make these evenings of friendly companionship rich in hospitality by serving a delicious 186 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:52,640 Romowind. 187 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:59,600 Yes, a glass of Roma California Sherry, Port or Muscatel does taste good. 188 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,900 And with Romowinds on hand, you're always tastefully prepared for unexpected guests 189 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:10,760 because delicious Romowinds lend an air of graciousness and goodwill to the most casual 190 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:11,760 get togethers. 191 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:18,980 You know, there's a solid reason why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 192 00:08:18,980 --> 00:08:21,760 That reason is finer taste. 193 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:26,600 The finer taste of Romowind is born in California's richest vineyards. 194 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:33,320 There, each year, a vast juice-laden treasure of choice grapes is patiently, unhurriedly 195 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:39,520 guided to tempting perfection by Roma's unmatched skills and resources. 196 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:46,000 Then, along with Romowinds of years before, this treasure of taste awaits selection from 197 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,560 the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 198 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:59,620 No wonder so many Americans insist on Romowinds, R-O-M-A, Romowinds for unvarying goodness 199 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:01,720 at reasonable cost. 200 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:07,920 And now, Romowinds bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Dane Clark in Till the Day I Die, 201 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:20,440 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 202 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,720 I won't say it didn't get under my skin because it did. 203 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:30,520 To bump a guy off and then to see his picture in a paper the next day, and it's a picture 204 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,360 of yourself. 205 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Feature for feature. 206 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:34,360 The spitting image. 207 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,720 I guess it would get anybody. 208 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,440 But it was like Pat said, just one of those freak things, so what was the use of worrying 209 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:43,440 about it? 210 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:48,360 What was worrying me more right now was that somebody must have seen us making our getaway 211 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,440 because the cops knew it was a man and a woman who pulled the job. 212 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:52,440 And that wasn't good. 213 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,960 It meant that we were just that much easier to spot. 214 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,200 It meant that with 50 grand in a suitcase under the bed, we still had to stay cooped 215 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,080 up in that crummy rooming house day after day waiting for the heat to slack off. 216 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,000 And finally, I couldn't stand it any longer. 217 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,880 Yeah, but Frankie, I thought you said- 218 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,160 I know, I know what I said, but I'm going nuts in this place. 219 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,600 I got to get out. 220 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:12,600 All right. 221 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,720 It'll mean we have to separate for a while. 222 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:15,720 Separate? 223 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,280 Now keep your shirt on, will you? 224 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,220 We can't hang around here, so one of us goes to Chicago and the other one goes to Philly. 225 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,400 You take your share of the dough and I- 226 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,400 I don't want any share, Frankie. 227 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,120 Are you still beefing about that? 228 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,400 That I killed a guy? 229 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:29,920 I just don't want the money, Frank. 230 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,840 All right, all right, take a couple of grand and anything you want enough to last you a 231 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:34,840 while. 232 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:35,840 But you're getting out of town, see? 233 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,560 All right, Frank, but I got enough money. 234 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:41,720 Okay, okay, have it your way. 235 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,440 You go to the Allerton and Philly. 236 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,640 You know the place now and you wait for me there. 237 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,080 For how long, Frankie? 238 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,080 A month, two months. 239 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,080 How do I know? 240 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:50,080 Until it cools off. 241 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:55,760 I'll get in touch with you and when the heat's off, we'll meet someplace like KC or St. Louis 242 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,640 and then we'll head to the West Coast, right? 243 00:10:58,640 --> 00:10:59,640 Frankie. 244 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:00,640 Frankie. 245 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,080 You won't forget to show, will you, Frankie? 246 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,360 Because if you're going to, I'd rather know it now. 247 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Forget you, baby? 248 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:17,280 When you're the one person in the world who can put the finger on me for murder? 249 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,320 Don't worry, baby. 250 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:25,920 I won't forget you. 251 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,360 I walked back to the subway station a couple of blocks from where the room was and I said 252 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:30,360 goodbye to her there. 253 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,600 Then I bought me a couple of ready-to-wear suits, a few shirt shoes, and the rest of 254 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,880 the trimmings and I stuffed everything in a brand new Gladstone and hopped the bus for 255 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,480 the railroad terminal. 256 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,760 I wasn't doing anything or thinking anything. 257 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,440 I was just sitting there in a bus on a seat all by myself looking out the window and up 258 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,480 front somewhere, the kid was hollering and I didn't pay any attention to him. 259 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,720 I figured the kid was just calling to his old man to come and sit down or something. 260 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,840 I went right on looking out the window and then all of a sudden I felt a tug on my sleeve 261 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:03,840 and the kid was there hollering at me. 262 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,520 Daddy, oh mommy, come quick. 263 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:07,520 I found daddy. 264 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:12,840 I turned around quick and kneeling there beside me on the seat was a blonde, curly-haired 265 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,520 kid about four or maybe five years old. 266 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,600 I don't know much about kids' ages. 267 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,320 He was laughing and yet there was big tears running down his cheeks. 268 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,600 I don't go much for kids but there was something about this particular character that... 269 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,320 Daddy, daddy, it's daddy, mommy. 270 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,760 Hey now, wait a minute, just a second kiddo. 271 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,760 I'm afraid you got... 272 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,440 Hey, what's got into you jumping up on that seat and shouting at the gentleman? 273 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:39,440 It's daddy, mommy. 274 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:40,440 It's my daddy. 275 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,440 Daddy, I'm awfully sorry. 276 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,400 Oh no. 277 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:52,240 She was standing there just like I'd seen her a million times with that long blonde 278 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,480 hair and those big expressive eyes. 279 00:12:54,480 --> 00:13:00,600 Yes, I'd seen her before but always with my eyes closed. 280 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,000 This was the first time I'd ever seen her with my eyes open. 281 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,880 Is it so crazy? 282 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,320 Haven't you got some kind of a person in your mind that you've always dreamed about? 283 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,160 Her eyes were fastened on my face, wide and full of expression. 284 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,240 I couldn't figure it but she got very pale and licked her lips and then she began to 285 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,800 sway and I jumped up and I grabbed her. 286 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:22,800 I'm all right. 287 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,040 No, look, you're not all right. 288 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,040 You better sit down here. 289 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:26,040 Thank you. 290 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,040 Maybe I will. 291 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,040 Sit here, mommy. 292 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,040 I'll move over. 293 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,240 Let's just turn the seat, Teddy. 294 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:32,240 Oh, that's okay, kiddo. 295 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,240 You stay put. 296 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,080 There's plenty of room here for the three of us. 297 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,520 All right, if you insist. 298 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:37,520 Well, I do insist. 299 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,520 It is daddy, isn't it, mommy? 300 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:41,520 No. 301 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:42,520 No, darling. 302 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:43,520 I'm afraid it isn't. 303 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:44,520 I'm so sorry. 304 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,800 You must think we're both a little insane. 305 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:47,800 No, I... 306 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,520 Only you looked for a minute there as if you saw a ghost or something. 307 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,480 I'm afraid for a moment I thought you were a ghost. 308 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:56,480 Me, a ghost? 309 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:57,480 Yes, I... 310 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:03,240 No, it sounds perfectly ridiculous but for a moment there I thought you were my husband. 311 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,880 Oh, oh, now I get that daddy routine. 312 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,160 Yes, it's almost uncanny but he was the image of you that... 313 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,160 The image? 314 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,160 The image of me? 315 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,160 Yeah, only... 316 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,200 See, he's dead. 317 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Oh? 318 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,160 Well, Teddy hasn't quite gotten used to the idea yet. 319 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,600 That's why he mistook you for his daddy. 320 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,600 Philip was killed only about a week ago. 321 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,600 About a week ago? 322 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,440 Yes, perhaps you read about it in the newspapers. 323 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:43,440 Philip Abel killed by a hoodlum who was robbing the brokerage office where he worked. 324 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,440 There was a terrible knot inside my stomach. 325 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,600 I tried to speak but the words got lost somewhere in my throat. 326 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,240 I looked down at the kid with the blonde curly hair, the cutest kid I'd ever seen in my life 327 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,200 and I... 328 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,200 I was a guy who killed his daddy. 329 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,640 I kept thinking, this kid is what my kid would have looked like. 330 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,640 I had to get a grip on myself. 331 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,760 The right sir was a coincidence. 332 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,080 I happened to get on the same bus with the wife of the guy I shot down in the bank but 333 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,880 how was I supposed to know he had a beautiful wife and a curly haired kid when I shot him? 334 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,360 To me he was just a Joe who stood in my way. 335 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,000 So it was a coincidence, that's all. 336 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,760 Anyway I was getting off the bus at the end of the line catching a train for Chicago and 337 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,240 that would be that. 338 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,600 Well, they rode almost as far as the railroad station and we sat there and we talked about 339 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,160 a lot of different things. 340 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:40,640 And it wasn't hard to talk to her somehow and that kid. 341 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,800 And then finally they were getting up to leave. 342 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:50,560 And then the kid reached up and he did something no kid had ever done to me before. 343 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,040 He kissed me. 344 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:57,160 If you ever come back to this place Mr. King, we live right down this block, seventh house 345 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,160 from the corner. 346 00:15:58,160 --> 00:15:59,160 I'll remember that. 347 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,160 Goodbye Mr. Daddy. 348 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:07,960 Uh, goodbye son. 349 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,800 I bought my ticket to Chicago one way. 350 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,240 I went down and got aboard the train and the porter showed me my seat. 351 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,280 But I couldn't get myself to sit down in it. 352 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,720 I went out and stood on the platform. 353 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,160 I stood there a long time. 354 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,560 I tried not to think about her. 355 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,760 I tried not to remember her face and the kid's face with all those tears. 356 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,600 But it was no good. 357 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,840 There was everything I've wanted all my life. 358 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,160 A home, a kid and the right girl. 359 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,160 The girl. 360 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,200 And why not? 361 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,560 If she'd married Abel she'd marry me wouldn't she? 362 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,960 Wasn't I the very image of the guy? 363 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,920 Didn't she say that herself? 364 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,160 Didn't the kid even call me daddy? 365 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:49,160 Why not? 366 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,160 Porter! 367 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,160 Porter! 368 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,160 Porter! 369 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,160 Yes sir? 370 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,760 Hey uh, get my bag. 371 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,200 What we're getting ready to pull out? 372 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:57,680 Get my bag off this train. 373 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:58,680 Yes sir. 374 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:11,560 Why, why Mr. Cade? 375 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,560 Hello. 376 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,360 It's Mr. Daddy. 377 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,360 Hi Teddy, hi. 378 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:19,360 Oh gee. 379 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:21,840 I thought you were on your way to Chicago. 380 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,760 There was a wire waiting for me when I got to the station that told me that the business 381 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,960 deal I had there had been called off so there wasn't any need of me going since then I remembered 382 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:30,960 your invitation. 383 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:33,880 I certainly never expected it to be filled so soon. 384 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,400 Well if it's too soon I'll go and I'll... 385 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:37,400 Don't be silly. 386 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,400 Come in please. 387 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,400 Gee I'm glad you're home. 388 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:40,400 I, I mean... 389 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:41,400 I went into the house. 390 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:46,400 It was everything I knew it would be. 391 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:53,240 Neat, well furnished, nothing overdone. 392 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,880 Just a real solid home. 393 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:00,440 And we went into the living room and there in a big silver frame on the brady grand piano 394 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,720 was the same picture that had appeared in the newspaper. 395 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,800 A picture of him. 396 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:07,800 That's Philip. 397 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,920 He does look like you, doesn't he? 398 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,000 Yeah he does, he does. 399 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Quite a lot. 400 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,680 You can hardly blame Teddy very much can you? 401 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:17,800 Or me? 402 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:23,440 No I, I guess I can't. 403 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:31,400 After those first few uneasy moments I, I guess you could say everything settled down a routine. 404 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,520 I became a regular visitor. 405 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,000 She and Teddy called me Frank and I called her Barbara and I, I had dinner with her a 406 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,160 couple of times a week and we went to the movies and the shows and even a couple of 407 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,480 night spots together. 408 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,200 But I feel funny about moving in on a wife and the kid of a guy I killed. 409 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,200 Why should I? 410 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,240 The guy was still a total stranger to me wasn't he? 411 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,160 And whenever she brought up the subject I just ducked it and she wasn't bringing it 412 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,160 up so often now. 413 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,320 From now on it was just a matter of time. 414 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,600 Except for one thing, one little thing. 415 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,040 So about two months after I met her I told her how I had to go away on business. 416 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,040 Where Frank? 417 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,280 Do you have to go far? 418 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,880 Oh just to Philly that's all. 419 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,440 Philip, I feel that's not far. 420 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,360 No and Barbara. 421 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:14,740 Yes? 422 00:19:14,740 --> 00:19:19,200 When I come back there's something I'd like to ask you. 423 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,200 Ask me? 424 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,200 Well, a question. 425 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,960 What kind of a question Frank? 426 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,840 Oh something about you and Teddy and me. 427 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,840 Oh. 428 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,080 Well, will you be gone long? 429 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,800 No. 430 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:45,720 What I got to do in Philly won't take long. 431 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,360 I knew the Allerton Hotel in Philly like I knew the inside of my hat. 432 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,640 I knew how to get in without being seen and how to get out without being seen. 433 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,080 So I just went up to a room. 434 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,080 Who is it? 435 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:58,080 Just an old friend. 436 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,080 Frankie. 437 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,080 Hi baby. 438 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,080 Oh Frank. 439 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,080 Take it easy will you? 440 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,080 Take it easy. 441 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,080 You just want to let me in? 442 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:05,080 Oh sure, sure come on in. 443 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,080 Oh Frankie I thought you, I thought maybe you wouldn't. 444 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,080 Yeah but I did didn't I? 445 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,080 Sure you did. 446 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,080 Gee you look great. 447 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,080 You look relaxed and happy. 448 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,080 Yeah I'm glad you're here. 449 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:12,080 I'm glad you're here. 450 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:13,080 I'm glad you're here. 451 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,080 I'm glad you're here. 452 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,080 I'm glad you're here. 453 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,080 I'm glad you're here. 454 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:17,080 I'm glad you're here. 455 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,080 I'm glad you're here. 456 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,080 I'm glad you're here. 457 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,080 I'm glad you're here. 458 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,080 Yeah I'm happy. 459 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,280 Now what have you been doing with yourself Pat? 460 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,280 Oh just waiting. 461 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,240 Well nice and private here. 462 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,240 Yeah. 463 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,360 I guess we better get it over with. 464 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:35,360 Get what over with? 465 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,400 I'm afraid I have some bad news for you Pat. 466 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,400 Bad news? 467 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,400 Yeah. 468 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,400 I'm going to have to kill you. 469 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,400 Kill me? 470 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,640 Oh Frankie always did have a lousy sense of humor. 471 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,720 Only don't kid that way. 472 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,720 Yeah. 473 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,720 Oh I'm not kidding. 474 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,000 Frankie put away that gun. 475 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 For heaven's sake. 476 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 I'm sorry Pat. 477 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 But why? 478 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 What have I done? 479 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Nothing yet. 480 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Well then. 481 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 You see Pat I uh. 482 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 I met a girl. 483 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,920 Alright alright take her. 484 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:12,920 But you'll come back. 485 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,360 No no this is different. 486 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:21,000 She's a wife, was a wife of a guy named Philip Abel. 487 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Philip Abel? 488 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,200 That's the man you killed? 489 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,120 You see Pat you got too good a memory. 490 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:28,280 But I wouldn't talk Frankie. 491 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,280 You know I wouldn't talk. 492 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,680 It's a chance I can't take Pat because from now on I'm not taking any chances. 493 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,320 From now on I'm going to be happy. 494 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,640 Happy? 495 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,600 How could a thing like you be happy? 496 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,640 A cold blooded butcher like you. 497 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,080 You think all you've got to do is spill enough blood around and you'll get what you want. 498 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,700 You'll be happy. 499 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:50,240 Happy try and be happy with all the blood you've got on your hands. 500 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,240 You'll never be happy until the day you die. 501 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,240 Truth. 502 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:55,240 Yeah. 503 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,240 Go ahead. 504 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,240 Kill me. 505 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,240 Murderer. 506 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,240 I will. 507 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:14,240 I was back that same night but I didn't go around to see Barbara and the others. 508 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:19,640 I called and she asked me over to dinner. 509 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,760 And afterwards I helped her put the kid to bed and he kissed me good night. 510 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,560 Then I sat down with her on a couch in the front room. 511 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,140 Well Frank. 512 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:33,000 It's about that question that I told you I was going to ask you when I came back. 513 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,680 What is the question Frank? 514 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,960 It's uh Barbara will you marry me? 515 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:39,960 Oh. 516 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,800 Is that all you got to say? 517 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,400 No it isn't. 518 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,400 But why? 519 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,800 Well I've got to have a little time to think about it Frank. 520 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:50,800 Think about it? 521 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,800 Yes. 522 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,920 Well you must have known I was going to ask you. 523 00:22:54,920 --> 00:23:00,880 Yeah I suppose I did but it's still a pretty serious question to answer just like that 524 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:01,880 Frank. 525 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,600 Well is it that you don't love me enough to marry me? 526 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,600 Is that it? 527 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,880 It's not just a question of myself. 528 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,400 Well what is it then? 529 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,400 Steady. 530 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:14,400 Why? 531 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,400 Why? 532 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,400 He's crazy about me. 533 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,960 I know he is but things are easy. 534 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,760 Simple for a child. 535 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,240 I'm the one who has to think about his future. 536 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,760 I can take care of his future. 537 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,160 Well I know you can financially I believe that but. 538 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,160 Well what other way is there? 539 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,600 That's what I sometimes wonder if you know Frank. 540 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,720 You see you're a little different from other men I've known. 541 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:37,720 From a little rougher mold. 542 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:38,720 A little harder. 543 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,720 Well I can be changed. 544 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,720 I can. 545 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,720 Yes I think you can. 546 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,880 But I want to be sure first Frank. 547 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:51,000 I want to be sure that Teddy's father, his second father isn't just a successful man 548 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,960 but that he's a good man. 549 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:56,560 Like his first father? 550 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:57,560 Yeah. 551 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,400 And what did he have that I don't have? 552 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,400 No. 553 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,200 Since you ask he had a lot of struggle in his life. 554 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,200 Oh struggle. 555 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,280 He was a successful public accountant when he died. 556 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,880 But it hadn't been easy for him. 557 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,960 He'd had to work his way through college. 558 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:14,960 He was an orphan. 559 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,960 He'd been adopted you see. 560 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,960 Real name was Lundin. 561 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,360 Lundin? 562 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,800 His real parents were killed in an accident when he was less than Teddy's age. 563 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:31,240 They lived on a farm in a little town called Hemley-Vermont. 564 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Farm in Hemley-Vermont? 565 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,240 Yes. 566 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,240 Do you know the place? 567 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,360 When he was adopted by a family called Abel. 568 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:43,520 He didn't even remember it himself. 569 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:44,520 He was too small. 570 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,520 But they told it. 571 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,520 Frank. 572 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:47,520 Frank where are you going? 573 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:48,520 Frank! 574 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:49,520 I started walking. 575 00:24:49,520 --> 00:25:05,480 I tried to put it out of my mind like I had everything else. 576 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,880 But it was no good. 577 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,600 It grew and grew until my head was bursting with it. 578 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:18,200 Until it was the only thing in the whole world that the things she told me. 579 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,600 So when I got back to my room I knew what I was going to have to do. 580 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,280 And I sat down to write this. 581 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,600 To tell her before I do it. 582 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,040 It wasn't just what I'd done. 583 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:40,720 It wasn't realizing that a man with another man's blood on his hands can't be a fit father 584 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,320 to that man's kid. 585 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,520 Or a fit husband to that man's wife. 586 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,920 It was what she had told me. 587 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,400 A kid named Lundin. 588 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,920 A farm in Hemley-Vermont. 589 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,120 And I remembered. 590 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:03,080 I knew now why I looked like Philip Abel. 591 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,600 Because I had a, I had been a kid named Lundin. 592 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,200 On a farm in Hemley-Vermont. 593 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,560 I had been adopted by a family named Kane and I'd grown up. 594 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,920 But in reform schools mostly. 595 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:22,960 And I'd lived to shoot and kill a man named Philip Abel. 596 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,840 Who was my twin? 597 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,880 Who was my brother? 598 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,040 The gun is by my hand. 599 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:43,640 Pat said I'd never be happy until the day I died. 600 00:26:43,640 --> 00:27:03,240 I guess she was kind of right at that. 601 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,240 Suspense. 602 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,480 Presented by Roma Wines. 603 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:13,640 For O-M-A. 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Robinson. 662 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:09,040 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 663 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:25,160 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.