WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.280 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world, Roma Wines 00:09.280 --> 00:11.280 presents Suspense. 00:11.280 --> 00:21.440 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Dane Clark as star of Till the Day I Die, a suspense 00:21.440 --> 00:30.240 play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:30.240 --> 00:37.520 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:37.520 --> 00:44.080 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness 00:44.080 --> 00:49.200 to the way you live, to your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of 00:49.200 --> 00:50.560 everyday meals. 00:50.560 --> 00:56.560 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Dane Clark 00:56.560 --> 01:04.400 in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:04.400 --> 01:08.880 I practically won a track in the linoleum and I was on my third pack of cigarettes in 01:08.880 --> 01:09.880 three hours. 01:09.880 --> 01:14.720 I was jumpy as a three-year-old thoroughbred that's flunked a saliva test. 01:14.720 --> 01:18.440 Partly it was because you always feel like that after a job. 01:18.440 --> 01:21.680 Partly it was the idea of staying holed up in that crummy dump when I had enough dough 01:21.680 --> 01:26.120 not to buy a good-sized hotel, but mostly it was packed. 01:26.120 --> 01:28.320 She and I were washed up anyway, even if she didn't know it. 01:28.320 --> 01:32.240 And when you're washed up with a dame, almost, but when it's a kind of bellyache and she 01:32.240 --> 01:36.880 was doing, it's enough to get you set for a canvas course. 01:36.880 --> 01:38.600 It's the future I'm worried about, Frankie. 01:38.600 --> 01:40.080 What's the matter with the future? 01:40.080 --> 01:41.760 It doesn't look like you'll ever be on any bread lines. 01:41.760 --> 01:43.240 No, I don't mean that. 01:43.240 --> 01:45.080 I mean our future, yours and mine. 01:45.080 --> 01:46.880 Well, stop worrying about it. 01:46.880 --> 01:48.480 I can't. 01:48.480 --> 01:49.680 You didn't have to do it, Frankie. 01:49.680 --> 01:51.360 What do you mean I didn't have to do it? 01:51.360 --> 01:52.360 The guy had his cold. 01:52.360 --> 01:54.760 We were walking out of the place with a bag full of dough and all of a sudden he steps 01:54.760 --> 01:56.280 around the corner and slaps a light in my face. 01:56.280 --> 01:57.600 But you didn't have to kill him. 01:57.600 --> 02:00.640 Oh, I suppose I should have given him cab fare to the police headquarters. 02:00.640 --> 02:03.720 He'd have put the finger on us, don't you understand that? 02:03.720 --> 02:06.920 He'd have given the description to the cops and a good description is all those guys 02:06.920 --> 02:09.720 need because sooner or later, sister, they'd get you. 02:09.720 --> 02:11.600 I don't know, Frankie. 02:11.600 --> 02:13.720 I just never figured you'd ever do a thing like that. 02:13.720 --> 02:14.720 Ah, stop it. 02:14.720 --> 02:18.280 Look, you've been going out on these jobs with me for over a year now. 02:18.280 --> 02:19.280 You know what the score is. 02:19.280 --> 02:20.280 What do you think we carry a gun for? 02:20.280 --> 02:21.280 For looks? 02:21.280 --> 02:22.960 Yeah, but this is different, Frankie. 02:22.960 --> 02:23.960 This is murder. 02:23.960 --> 02:26.680 All right, so it's murder and the only difference between murder and what you've been doing 02:26.680 --> 02:31.920 is that murder gets you the works and armed robbery only gets you 10 to 20. 02:31.920 --> 02:32.920 Doesn't it even bother you? 02:32.920 --> 02:33.920 Well, why should it? 02:33.920 --> 02:38.360 A guy I don't know the first thing about, a guy that just had the tough luck to be working 02:38.360 --> 02:42.560 late in the joint we stacked out the crack, a guy I don't even see his face. 02:42.560 --> 02:44.680 I don't know what he looks like even now. 02:44.680 --> 02:45.680 He was a man though, Frankie. 02:45.680 --> 02:46.680 He was a human being. 02:46.680 --> 02:47.680 So what, guys? 02:47.680 --> 02:49.080 I knocked off every day. 02:49.080 --> 02:52.680 Guys you don't know anything about, only what you read in the paper. 02:52.680 --> 02:53.680 And do you worry about it? 02:53.680 --> 02:55.000 You do not. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.280 I don't like it, Frankie. 02:56.280 --> 02:57.960 I don't like any part of it. 02:57.960 --> 03:01.120 But you like that 50 grand in the suitcase over there. 03:01.120 --> 03:02.680 You like that all right, don't you? 03:02.680 --> 03:05.120 I'm not so sure, Frankie. 03:05.120 --> 03:06.620 I'm not so sure. 03:06.620 --> 03:08.840 Because I was in on this too. 03:08.840 --> 03:11.560 Maybe you don't have a conscience, but I do. 03:11.560 --> 03:13.480 A man was murdered and it was partly my fault. 03:13.480 --> 03:15.080 You don't just brush off a thing like that, Frankie. 03:15.080 --> 03:16.080 Shut up. 03:16.080 --> 03:17.200 Sooner or later it begins to work on you. 03:17.200 --> 03:19.200 Sooner or later it begins to catch up with you. 03:19.200 --> 03:20.200 I said shut up. 03:20.200 --> 03:21.200 And when it does you... 03:21.200 --> 03:29.560 Now forget it, will you? 03:29.560 --> 03:32.680 I'm sorry I hit you. 03:32.680 --> 03:35.840 Look I'm a little nervous now. 03:35.840 --> 03:38.520 Pull yourself together, will you? 03:38.520 --> 03:40.600 Anyway it's time to go out and get the papers. 03:40.600 --> 03:41.960 Come on, come on. 03:41.960 --> 03:45.000 Come down for them like a good kid, will you? 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 All right. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 And see if you can get me a couple of packs of cigarettes while you're at it. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 All right, Frankie. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 And stop worrying. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Nothing's going to happen. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.880 I can't help it, Frankie. 03:54.880 --> 03:56.360 Listen Pat. 03:56.360 --> 03:57.720 Yeah? 03:57.720 --> 04:01.240 I don't like you to worry, see. 04:01.240 --> 04:02.560 Because you might get ideas. 04:02.560 --> 04:05.520 What do you mean ideas? 04:05.520 --> 04:09.520 I mean you might get some ideas about saying something to somebody. 04:09.520 --> 04:10.520 Oh, Frankie. 04:10.520 --> 04:15.600 And you know what would happen if you did get any ideas like that. 04:15.600 --> 04:25.440 You don't need to worry because I do know now. 04:25.440 --> 04:29.040 I went over to the window and I watched her go down the steps of the street and then start 04:29.040 --> 04:30.640 for the corner. 04:30.640 --> 04:34.520 I know I didn't have to worry about anything yet but having somebody around who could put 04:34.520 --> 04:37.560 the finger on you for a murder rap isn't so healthy. 04:37.560 --> 04:41.840 I was just starting on my fourth pack of cigarettes when I heard her running up the stairs. 04:41.840 --> 04:42.840 All right, all right. 04:42.840 --> 04:43.840 Hurry up, Frankie. 04:43.840 --> 04:44.840 Open the door. 04:44.840 --> 04:45.840 All right. 04:45.840 --> 04:46.840 You don't have to knock... 04:46.840 --> 04:47.840 What's the matter? 04:47.840 --> 04:48.840 Is somebody after you? 04:48.840 --> 04:49.840 No. 04:49.840 --> 04:50.840 No, but look at the paper. 04:50.840 --> 04:51.840 Let's see. 04:51.840 --> 04:52.840 Oh, front page, huh? 04:52.840 --> 04:53.840 Pear, lute, broker jar. 04:53.840 --> 04:54.840 No, the picture. 04:54.840 --> 04:55.840 What about the pi... 04:55.840 --> 04:56.840 It's me. 04:56.840 --> 04:57.840 It's me. 04:57.840 --> 05:11.320 Listen, Pat, there's only one place in the world they could have got a picture of me. 05:11.320 --> 05:12.320 No, don't listen, Frankie. 05:12.320 --> 05:13.320 Don't you... 05:13.320 --> 05:14.320 You're hurting me. 05:14.320 --> 05:15.320 Look what it says. 05:15.320 --> 05:16.320 What about it? 05:16.320 --> 05:17.320 Look at it. 05:17.320 --> 05:18.320 Look what it says under it. 05:18.320 --> 05:19.320 Huh? 05:19.320 --> 05:20.920 Philip Abel accounting shot down... 05:20.920 --> 05:21.920 No. 05:21.920 --> 05:22.920 It couldn't be. 05:22.920 --> 05:23.920 It can't be. 05:23.920 --> 05:24.920 It is, though, Frankie. 05:24.920 --> 05:29.800 It's the man you killed. 05:29.800 --> 05:31.800 It couldn't be, l tell you. 05:31.800 --> 05:32.800 Why, that's me. 05:32.800 --> 05:36.320 It's exactly like me, any way you look at it, even the way the hair is parted. 05:36.320 --> 05:37.320 Look. 05:37.320 --> 05:39.480 Why, it's some kind of a mistake or something. 05:39.480 --> 05:40.480 You know it isn't, Frankie. 05:40.480 --> 05:41.480 How could it be? 05:41.480 --> 05:42.480 l don't know. 05:42.480 --> 05:43.480 l don't have any picture of you. 05:43.480 --> 05:44.480 You told me you never had any taken. 05:44.480 --> 05:45.480 You said you'd been smart. 05:45.480 --> 05:47.160 You hadn't let him take your picture since you were a kid. 05:47.160 --> 05:48.160 That's right. 05:48.160 --> 05:49.160 l never did. 05:49.160 --> 05:50.160 l... 05:50.160 --> 05:52.160 But it's almost exactly like me. 05:52.160 --> 05:54.160 l couldn't tell the difference myself. 05:54.160 --> 05:57.880 lt's just one of those freak things. 05:57.880 --> 05:59.920 The guy you didn't know or care about. 05:59.920 --> 06:02.400 The guy who wasn't going to bother your conscience one little bit. 06:02.400 --> 06:05.160 The guy you killed turns out to be your double. 06:05.160 --> 06:06.160 Yeah. 06:06.160 --> 06:08.840 lt's sort of like killing yourself. 06:08.840 --> 06:09.840 Shut up. 06:09.840 --> 06:11.720 l told you it's not so easy to kill a man without... 06:11.720 --> 06:12.720 Come on, give me that paper. 06:12.720 --> 06:13.720 Frankie, listen. 06:13.720 --> 06:14.720 What are you trying to do? 06:14.720 --> 06:17.120 l'm tearing up that picture, see? 06:17.120 --> 06:20.760 And now l'm burning it. 06:20.760 --> 06:22.240 See? 06:22.240 --> 06:23.240 And it's over with. 06:23.240 --> 06:25.880 lt's forgotten, see? 06:25.880 --> 06:28.600 It's nothing but a little pile of ashes. 06:28.600 --> 06:30.560 l never heard of the guy. 06:30.560 --> 06:32.760 l don't know the first thing about him. 06:32.760 --> 06:34.280 l don't even remember his name. 06:34.280 --> 06:35.280 l do. 06:35.280 --> 06:36.280 lt was... 06:36.280 --> 06:37.280 Shut up! 06:37.280 --> 06:40.280 l don't want to hear about it. 06:40.280 --> 06:45.000 Ever! 06:45.000 --> 06:48.600 Maybe l should have let her talk about it then when she wanted to. 06:48.600 --> 06:55.080 lf l'd really got to thinking about the face in that picture, it might have made some difference. 06:55.080 --> 06:56.080 l don't know. 06:56.080 --> 07:13.640 It might have saved my life, but l don't know. 07:13.640 --> 07:19.720 For Suspense, Romowinds are bringing you Dane Clark, Until the Day l Die, a radio play by 07:19.720 --> 07:21.280 Martin Ryerson. 07:21.280 --> 07:34.880 Romowinds' presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 07:34.880 --> 07:39.640 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles with a friendly suggestion. 07:39.640 --> 07:44.440 Now that summer is over, this is the time when friends drop by to say hello again and 07:44.440 --> 07:46.960 swap vacation yarns with you. 07:46.960 --> 07:51.640 Make these evenings of friendly companionship rich in hospitality by serving a delicious 07:51.640 --> 07:52.640 Romowind. 07:52.640 --> 07:59.600 Yes, a glass of Roma California Sherry, Port or Muscatel does taste good. 07:59.600 --> 08:04.900 And with Romowinds on hand, you're always tastefully prepared for unexpected guests 08:04.900 --> 08:10.760 because delicious Romowinds lend an air of graciousness and goodwill to the most casual 08:10.760 --> 08:11.760 get togethers. 08:11.760 --> 08:18.980 You know, there's a solid reason why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 08:18.980 --> 08:21.760 That reason is finer taste. 08:21.760 --> 08:26.600 The finer taste of Romowind is born in California's richest vineyards. 08:26.600 --> 08:33.320 There, each year, a vast juice-laden treasure of choice grapes is patiently, unhurriedly 08:33.320 --> 08:39.520 guided to tempting perfection by Roma's unmatched skills and resources. 08:39.520 --> 08:46.000 Then, along with Romowinds of years before, this treasure of taste awaits selection from 08:46.000 --> 08:50.560 the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 08:50.560 --> 08:59.620 No wonder so many Americans insist on Romowinds, R-O-M-A, Romowinds for unvarying goodness 08:59.620 --> 09:01.720 at reasonable cost. 09:01.720 --> 09:07.920 And now, Romowinds bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Dane Clark in Till the Day I Die, 09:07.920 --> 09:20.440 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 09:20.440 --> 09:24.720 I won't say it didn't get under my skin because it did. 09:24.720 --> 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 09:30.520 --> 09:32.360 of yourself. 09:32.360 --> 09:33.360 Feature for feature. 09:33.360 --> 09:34.360 The spitting image. 09:34.360 --> 09:37.720 I guess it would get anybody. 09:37.720 --> 09:42.440 But it was like Pat said, just one of those freak things, so what was the use of worrying 09:42.440 --> 09:43.440 about it? 09:43.440 --> 09:48.360 What was worrying me more right now was that somebody must have seen us making our getaway 09:48.360 --> 09:51.440 because the cops knew it was a man and a woman who pulled the job. 09:51.440 --> 09:52.440 And that wasn't good. 09:52.440 --> 09:55.960 It meant that we were just that much easier to spot. 09:55.960 --> 10:00.200 It meant that with 50 grand in a suitcase under the bed, we still had to stay cooped 10:00.200 --> 10:04.080 up in that crummy rooming house day after day waiting for the heat to slack off. 10:04.080 --> 10:06.000 And finally, I couldn't stand it any longer. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.880 Yeah, but Frankie, I thought you said- 10:07.880 --> 10:10.160 I know, I know what I said, but I'm going nuts in this place. 10:10.160 --> 10:11.600 I got to get out. 10:11.600 --> 10:12.600 All right. 10:12.600 --> 10:14.720 It'll mean we have to separate for a while. 10:14.720 --> 10:15.720 Separate? 10:15.720 --> 10:17.280 Now keep your shirt on, will you? 10:17.280 --> 10:21.220 We can't hang around here, so one of us goes to Chicago and the other one goes to Philly. 10:21.220 --> 10:23.400 You take your share of the dough and I- 10:23.400 --> 10:25.400 I don't want any share, Frankie. 10:25.400 --> 10:27.120 Are you still beefing about that? 10:27.120 --> 10:28.400 That I killed a guy? 10:28.400 --> 10:29.920 I just don't want the money, Frank. 10:29.920 --> 10:33.840 All right, all right, take a couple of grand and anything you want enough to last you a 10:33.840 --> 10:34.840 while. 10:34.840 --> 10:35.840 But you're getting out of town, see? 10:35.840 --> 10:38.560 All right, Frank, but I got enough money. 10:38.560 --> 10:41.720 Okay, okay, have it your way. 10:41.720 --> 10:43.440 You go to the Allerton and Philly. 10:43.440 --> 10:45.640 You know the place now and you wait for me there. 10:45.640 --> 10:47.080 For how long, Frankie? 10:47.080 --> 10:48.080 A month, two months. 10:48.080 --> 10:49.080 How do I know? 10:49.080 --> 10:50.080 Until it cools off. 10:50.080 --> 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 10:55.760 --> 10:58.640 and then we'll head to the West Coast, right? 10:58.640 --> 10:59.640 Frankie. 10:59.640 --> 11:00.640 Frankie. 11:00.640 --> 11:05.080 You won't forget to show, will you, Frankie? 11:05.080 --> 11:09.360 Because if you're going to, I'd rather know it now. 11:09.360 --> 11:10.360 Forget you, baby? 11:10.360 --> 11:17.280 When you're the one person in the world who can put the finger on me for murder? 11:17.280 --> 11:19.320 Don't worry, baby. 11:19.320 --> 11:25.920 I won't forget you. 11:25.920 --> 11:29.360 I walked back to the subway station a couple of blocks from where the room was and I said 11:29.360 --> 11:30.360 goodbye to her there. 11:30.360 --> 11:34.600 Then I bought me a couple of ready-to-wear suits, a few shirt shoes, and the rest of 11:34.600 --> 11:37.880 the trimmings and I stuffed everything in a brand new Gladstone and hopped the bus for 11:37.880 --> 11:40.480 the railroad terminal. 11:40.480 --> 11:42.760 I wasn't doing anything or thinking anything. 11:42.760 --> 11:47.440 I was just sitting there in a bus on a seat all by myself looking out the window and up 11:47.440 --> 11:52.480 front somewhere, the kid was hollering and I didn't pay any attention to him. 11:52.480 --> 11:56.720 I figured the kid was just calling to his old man to come and sit down or something. 11:56.720 --> 12:01.840 I went right on looking out the window and then all of a sudden I felt a tug on my sleeve 12:01.840 --> 12:03.840 and the kid was there hollering at me. 12:03.840 --> 12:06.520 Daddy, oh mommy, come quick. 12:06.520 --> 12:07.520 I found daddy. 12:07.520 --> 12:12.840 I turned around quick and kneeling there beside me on the seat was a blonde, curly-haired 12:12.840 --> 12:15.520 kid about four or maybe five years old. 12:15.520 --> 12:18.600 I don't know much about kids' ages. 12:18.600 --> 12:23.320 He was laughing and yet there was big tears running down his cheeks. 12:23.320 --> 12:27.600 I don't go much for kids but there was something about this particular character that... 12:27.600 --> 12:31.320 Daddy, daddy, it's daddy, mommy. 12:31.320 --> 12:33.760 Hey now, wait a minute, just a second kiddo. 12:33.760 --> 12:34.760 I'm afraid you got... 12:34.760 --> 12:38.440 Hey, what's got into you jumping up on that seat and shouting at the gentleman? 12:38.440 --> 12:39.440 It's daddy, mommy. 12:39.440 --> 12:40.440 It's my daddy. 12:40.440 --> 12:43.440 Daddy, I'm awfully sorry. 12:43.440 --> 12:46.400 Oh no. 12:46.400 --> 12:52.240 She was standing there just like I'd seen her a million times with that long blonde 12:52.240 --> 12:54.480 hair and those big expressive eyes. 12:54.480 --> 13:00.600 Yes, I'd seen her before but always with my eyes closed. 13:00.600 --> 13:05.000 This was the first time I'd ever seen her with my eyes open. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.880 Is it so crazy? 13:06.880 --> 13:11.320 Haven't you got some kind of a person in your mind that you've always dreamed about? 13:11.320 --> 13:15.160 Her eyes were fastened on my face, wide and full of expression. 13:15.160 --> 13:19.240 I couldn't figure it but she got very pale and licked her lips and then she began to 13:19.240 --> 13:21.800 sway and I jumped up and I grabbed her. 13:21.800 --> 13:22.800 I'm all right. 13:22.800 --> 13:24.040 No, look, you're not all right. 13:24.040 --> 13:25.040 You better sit down here. 13:25.040 --> 13:26.040 Thank you. 13:26.040 --> 13:27.040 Maybe I will. 13:27.040 --> 13:28.040 Sit here, mommy. 13:28.040 --> 13:29.040 I'll move over. 13:29.040 --> 13:31.240 Let's just turn the seat, Teddy. 13:31.240 --> 13:32.240 Oh, that's okay, kiddo. 13:32.240 --> 13:33.240 You stay put. 13:33.240 --> 13:35.080 There's plenty of room here for the three of us. 13:35.080 --> 13:36.520 All right, if you insist. 13:36.520 --> 13:37.520 Well, I do insist. 13:37.520 --> 13:40.520 It is daddy, isn't it, mommy? 13:40.520 --> 13:41.520 No. 13:41.520 --> 13:42.520 No, darling. 13:42.520 --> 13:43.520 I'm afraid it isn't. 13:43.520 --> 13:44.520 I'm so sorry. 13:44.520 --> 13:46.800 You must think we're both a little insane. 13:46.800 --> 13:47.800 No, I... 13:47.800 --> 13:51.520 Only you looked for a minute there as if you saw a ghost or something. 13:51.520 --> 13:55.480 I'm afraid for a moment I thought you were a ghost. 13:55.480 --> 13:56.480 Me, a ghost? 13:56.480 --> 13:57.480 Yes, I... 13:57.480 --> 14:03.240 No, it sounds perfectly ridiculous but for a moment there I thought you were my husband. 14:03.240 --> 14:06.880 Oh, oh, now I get that daddy routine. 14:06.880 --> 14:11.160 Yes, it's almost uncanny but he was the image of you that... 14:11.160 --> 14:12.160 The image? 14:12.160 --> 14:15.160 The image of me? 14:15.160 --> 14:17.160 Yeah, only... 14:17.160 --> 14:19.200 See, he's dead. 14:19.200 --> 14:20.200 Oh? 14:20.200 --> 14:22.160 Well, Teddy hasn't quite gotten used to the idea yet. 14:22.160 --> 14:24.600 That's why he mistook you for his daddy. 14:24.600 --> 14:26.600 Philip was killed only about a week ago. 14:26.600 --> 14:28.600 About a week ago? 14:28.600 --> 14:31.440 Yes, perhaps you read about it in the newspapers. 14:31.440 --> 14:43.440 Philip Abel killed by a hoodlum who was robbing the brokerage office where he worked. 14:43.440 --> 14:46.440 There was a terrible knot inside my stomach. 14:46.440 --> 14:50.600 I tried to speak but the words got lost somewhere in my throat. 14:50.600 --> 14:55.240 I looked down at the kid with the blonde curly hair, the cutest kid I'd ever seen in my life 14:55.240 --> 14:57.200 and I... 14:57.200 --> 15:00.200 I was a guy who killed his daddy. 15:00.200 --> 15:05.640 I kept thinking, this kid is what my kid would have looked like. 15:05.640 --> 15:07.640 I had to get a grip on myself. 15:07.640 --> 15:09.760 The right sir was a coincidence. 15:09.760 --> 15:13.080 I happened to get on the same bus with the wife of the guy I shot down in the bank but 15:13.080 --> 15:17.880 how was I supposed to know he had a beautiful wife and a curly haired kid when I shot him? 15:17.880 --> 15:20.360 To me he was just a Joe who stood in my way. 15:20.360 --> 15:24.000 So it was a coincidence, that's all. 15:24.000 --> 15:27.760 Anyway I was getting off the bus at the end of the line catching a train for Chicago and 15:27.760 --> 15:29.240 that would be that. 15:29.240 --> 15:33.600 Well, they rode almost as far as the railroad station and we sat there and we talked about 15:33.600 --> 15:35.160 a lot of different things. 15:35.160 --> 15:40.640 And it wasn't hard to talk to her somehow and that kid. 15:40.640 --> 15:44.800 And then finally they were getting up to leave. 15:44.800 --> 15:50.560 And then the kid reached up and he did something no kid had ever done to me before. 15:50.560 --> 15:52.040 He kissed me. 15:52.040 --> 15:57.160 If you ever come back to this place Mr. King, we live right down this block, seventh house 15:57.160 --> 15:58.160 from the corner. 15:58.160 --> 15:59.160 I'll remember that. 15:59.160 --> 16:01.160 Goodbye Mr. Daddy. 16:01.160 --> 16:07.960 Uh, goodbye son. 16:07.960 --> 16:09.800 I bought my ticket to Chicago one way. 16:09.800 --> 16:13.240 I went down and got aboard the train and the porter showed me my seat. 16:13.240 --> 16:16.280 But I couldn't get myself to sit down in it. 16:16.280 --> 16:17.720 I went out and stood on the platform. 16:17.720 --> 16:20.160 I stood there a long time. 16:20.160 --> 16:22.560 I tried not to think about her. 16:22.560 --> 16:26.760 I tried not to remember her face and the kid's face with all those tears. 16:26.760 --> 16:29.600 But it was no good. 16:29.600 --> 16:31.840 There was everything I've wanted all my life. 16:31.840 --> 16:35.160 A home, a kid and the right girl. 16:35.160 --> 16:36.160 The girl. 16:36.160 --> 16:38.200 And why not? 16:38.200 --> 16:41.560 If she'd married Abel she'd marry me wouldn't she? 16:41.560 --> 16:43.960 Wasn't I the very image of the guy? 16:43.960 --> 16:45.920 Didn't she say that herself? 16:45.920 --> 16:48.160 Didn't the kid even call me daddy? 16:48.160 --> 16:49.160 Why not? 16:49.160 --> 16:50.160 Porter! 16:50.160 --> 16:51.160 Porter! 16:51.160 --> 16:52.160 Porter! 16:52.160 --> 16:53.160 Yes sir? 16:53.160 --> 16:54.760 Hey uh, get my bag. 16:54.760 --> 16:56.200 What we're getting ready to pull out? 16:56.200 --> 16:57.680 Get my bag off this train. 16:57.680 --> 16:58.680 Yes sir. 16:58.680 --> 17:11.560 Why, why Mr. Cade? 17:11.560 --> 17:13.560 Hello. 17:13.560 --> 17:16.360 It's Mr. Daddy. 17:16.360 --> 17:18.360 Hi Teddy, hi. 17:18.360 --> 17:19.360 Oh gee. 17:19.360 --> 17:21.840 I thought you were on your way to Chicago. 17:21.840 --> 17:25.760 There was a wire waiting for me when I got to the station that told me that the business 17:25.760 --> 17:29.960 deal I had there had been called off so there wasn't any need of me going since then I remembered 17:29.960 --> 17:30.960 your invitation. 17:30.960 --> 17:33.880 I certainly never expected it to be filled so soon. 17:33.880 --> 17:36.400 Well if it's too soon I'll go and I'll... 17:36.400 --> 17:37.400 Don't be silly. 17:37.400 --> 17:38.400 Come in please. 17:38.400 --> 17:39.400 Gee I'm glad you're home. 17:39.400 --> 17:40.400 I, I mean... 17:40.400 --> 17:41.400 I went into the house. 17:41.400 --> 17:46.400 It was everything I knew it would be. 17:46.400 --> 17:53.240 Neat, well furnished, nothing overdone. 17:53.240 --> 17:54.880 Just a real solid home. 17:54.880 --> 18:00.440 And we went into the living room and there in a big silver frame on the brady grand piano 18:00.440 --> 18:03.720 was the same picture that had appeared in the newspaper. 18:03.720 --> 18:06.800 A picture of him. 18:06.800 --> 18:07.800 That's Philip. 18:07.800 --> 18:10.920 He does look like you, doesn't he? 18:10.920 --> 18:13.000 Yeah he does, he does. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Quite a lot. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.680 You can hardly blame Teddy very much can you? 18:16.680 --> 18:17.800 Or me? 18:17.800 --> 18:23.440 No I, I guess I can't. 18:23.440 --> 18:31.400 After those first few uneasy moments I, I guess you could say everything settled down a routine. 18:31.400 --> 18:33.520 I became a regular visitor. 18:33.520 --> 18:37.000 She and Teddy called me Frank and I called her Barbara and I, I had dinner with her a 18:37.000 --> 18:40.160 couple of times a week and we went to the movies and the shows and even a couple of 18:40.160 --> 18:41.480 night spots together. 18:41.480 --> 18:45.200 But I feel funny about moving in on a wife and the kid of a guy I killed. 18:45.200 --> 18:46.200 Why should I? 18:46.200 --> 18:50.240 The guy was still a total stranger to me wasn't he? 18:50.240 --> 18:54.160 And whenever she brought up the subject I just ducked it and she wasn't bringing it 18:54.160 --> 18:55.160 up so often now. 18:55.160 --> 18:59.320 From now on it was just a matter of time. 18:59.320 --> 19:02.600 Except for one thing, one little thing. 19:02.600 --> 19:06.040 So about two months after I met her I told her how I had to go away on business. 19:06.040 --> 19:07.040 Where Frank? 19:07.040 --> 19:08.280 Do you have to go far? 19:08.280 --> 19:09.880 Oh just to Philly that's all. 19:09.880 --> 19:11.440 Philip, I feel that's not far. 19:11.440 --> 19:13.360 No and Barbara. 19:13.360 --> 19:14.740 Yes? 19:14.740 --> 19:19.200 When I come back there's something I'd like to ask you. 19:19.200 --> 19:20.200 Ask me? 19:20.200 --> 19:21.200 Well, a question. 19:21.200 --> 19:24.960 What kind of a question Frank? 19:24.960 --> 19:28.840 Oh something about you and Teddy and me. 19:28.840 --> 19:29.840 Oh. 19:29.840 --> 19:33.080 Well, will you be gone long? 19:33.080 --> 19:34.800 No. 19:34.800 --> 19:45.720 What I got to do in Philly won't take long. 19:45.720 --> 19:49.360 I knew the Allerton Hotel in Philly like I knew the inside of my hat. 19:49.360 --> 19:52.640 I knew how to get in without being seen and how to get out without being seen. 19:52.640 --> 19:55.080 So I just went up to a room. 19:55.080 --> 19:57.080 Who is it? 19:57.080 --> 19:58.080 Just an old friend. 19:58.080 --> 19:59.080 Frankie. 19:59.080 --> 20:00.080 Hi baby. 20:00.080 --> 20:01.080 Oh Frank. 20:01.080 --> 20:02.080 Take it easy will you? 20:02.080 --> 20:03.080 Take it easy. 20:03.080 --> 20:04.080 You just want to let me in? 20:04.080 --> 20:05.080 Oh sure, sure come on in. 20:05.080 --> 20:06.080 Oh Frankie I thought you, I thought maybe you wouldn't. 20:06.080 --> 20:07.080 Yeah but I did didn't I? 20:07.080 --> 20:08.080 Sure you did. 20:08.080 --> 20:09.080 Gee you look great. 20:09.080 --> 20:10.080 You look relaxed and happy. 20:10.080 --> 20:11.080 Yeah I'm glad you're here. 20:11.080 --> 20:12.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:12.080 --> 20:13.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:13.080 --> 20:14.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:14.080 --> 20:15.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:15.080 --> 20:16.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:16.080 --> 20:17.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:17.080 --> 20:18.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:18.080 --> 20:19.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:19.080 --> 20:20.080 I'm glad you're here. 20:20.080 --> 20:21.080 Yeah I'm happy. 20:21.080 --> 20:23.280 Now what have you been doing with yourself Pat? 20:23.280 --> 20:26.280 Oh just waiting. 20:26.280 --> 20:29.240 Well nice and private here. 20:29.240 --> 20:31.240 Yeah. 20:31.240 --> 20:34.360 I guess we better get it over with. 20:34.360 --> 20:35.360 Get what over with? 20:35.360 --> 20:38.400 I'm afraid I have some bad news for you Pat. 20:38.400 --> 20:39.400 Bad news? 20:39.400 --> 20:40.400 Yeah. 20:40.400 --> 20:43.400 I'm going to have to kill you. 20:43.400 --> 20:44.400 Kill me? 20:44.400 --> 20:48.640 Oh Frankie always did have a lousy sense of humor. 20:48.640 --> 20:50.720 Only don't kid that way. 20:50.720 --> 20:51.720 Yeah. 20:51.720 --> 20:54.720 Oh I'm not kidding. 20:54.720 --> 20:57.000 Frankie put away that gun. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 For heaven's sake. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 I'm sorry Pat. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 But why? 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 What have I done? 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Nothing yet. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Well then. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 You see Pat I uh. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 I met a girl. 21:10.000 --> 21:11.920 Alright alright take her. 21:11.920 --> 21:12.920 But you'll come back. 21:12.920 --> 21:15.360 No no this is different. 21:15.360 --> 21:21.000 She's a wife, was a wife of a guy named Philip Abel. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Philip Abel? 21:22.000 --> 21:25.200 That's the man you killed? 21:25.200 --> 21:27.120 You see Pat you got too good a memory. 21:27.120 --> 21:28.280 But I wouldn't talk Frankie. 21:28.280 --> 21:29.280 You know I wouldn't talk. 21:29.280 --> 21:32.680 It's a chance I can't take Pat because from now on I'm not taking any chances. 21:32.680 --> 21:36.320 From now on I'm going to be happy. 21:36.320 --> 21:37.640 Happy? 21:37.640 --> 21:39.600 How could a thing like you be happy? 21:39.600 --> 21:41.640 A cold blooded butcher like you. 21:41.640 --> 21:45.080 You think all you've got to do is spill enough blood around and you'll get what you want. 21:45.080 --> 21:46.700 You'll be happy. 21:46.700 --> 21:50.240 Happy try and be happy with all the blood you've got on your hands. 21:50.240 --> 21:53.240 You'll never be happy until the day you die. 21:53.240 --> 21:54.240 Truth. 21:54.240 --> 21:55.240 Yeah. 21:55.240 --> 21:56.240 Go ahead. 21:56.240 --> 21:57.240 Kill me. 21:57.240 --> 21:58.240 Murderer. 21:58.240 --> 21:59.240 I will. 21:59.240 --> 22:14.240 I was back that same night but I didn't go around to see Barbara and the others. 22:14.240 --> 22:19.640 I called and she asked me over to dinner. 22:19.640 --> 22:23.760 And afterwards I helped her put the kid to bed and he kissed me good night. 22:23.760 --> 22:27.560 Then I sat down with her on a couch in the front room. 22:27.560 --> 22:29.140 Well Frank. 22:29.140 --> 22:33.000 It's about that question that I told you I was going to ask you when I came back. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.680 What is the question Frank? 22:34.680 --> 22:38.960 It's uh Barbara will you marry me? 22:38.960 --> 22:39.960 Oh. 22:39.960 --> 22:43.800 Is that all you got to say? 22:43.800 --> 22:45.400 No it isn't. 22:45.400 --> 22:46.400 But why? 22:46.400 --> 22:49.800 Well I've got to have a little time to think about it Frank. 22:49.800 --> 22:50.800 Think about it? 22:50.800 --> 22:51.800 Yes. 22:51.800 --> 22:54.920 Well you must have known I was going to ask you. 22:54.920 --> 23:00.880 Yeah I suppose I did but it's still a pretty serious question to answer just like that 23:00.880 --> 23:01.880 Frank. 23:01.880 --> 23:06.600 Well is it that you don't love me enough to marry me? 23:06.600 --> 23:07.600 Is that it? 23:07.600 --> 23:09.880 It's not just a question of myself. 23:09.880 --> 23:12.400 Well what is it then? 23:12.400 --> 23:13.400 Steady. 23:13.400 --> 23:14.400 Why? 23:14.400 --> 23:15.400 Why? 23:15.400 --> 23:16.400 He's crazy about me. 23:16.400 --> 23:18.960 I know he is but things are easy. 23:18.960 --> 23:20.760 Simple for a child. 23:20.760 --> 23:22.240 I'm the one who has to think about his future. 23:22.240 --> 23:23.760 I can take care of his future. 23:23.760 --> 23:26.160 Well I know you can financially I believe that but. 23:26.160 --> 23:29.160 Well what other way is there? 23:29.160 --> 23:32.600 That's what I sometimes wonder if you know Frank. 23:32.600 --> 23:36.720 You see you're a little different from other men I've known. 23:36.720 --> 23:37.720 From a little rougher mold. 23:37.720 --> 23:38.720 A little harder. 23:38.720 --> 23:39.720 Well I can be changed. 23:39.720 --> 23:40.720 I can. 23:40.720 --> 23:41.720 Yes I think you can. 23:41.720 --> 23:44.880 But I want to be sure first Frank. 23:44.880 --> 23:51.000 I want to be sure that Teddy's father, his second father isn't just a successful man 23:51.000 --> 23:54.960 but that he's a good man. 23:54.960 --> 23:56.560 Like his first father? 23:56.560 --> 23:57.560 Yeah. 23:57.560 --> 24:00.400 And what did he have that I don't have? 24:00.400 --> 24:01.400 No. 24:01.400 --> 24:05.200 Since you ask he had a lot of struggle in his life. 24:05.200 --> 24:06.200 Oh struggle. 24:06.200 --> 24:09.280 He was a successful public accountant when he died. 24:09.280 --> 24:11.880 But it hadn't been easy for him. 24:11.880 --> 24:13.960 He'd had to work his way through college. 24:13.960 --> 24:14.960 He was an orphan. 24:14.960 --> 24:17.960 He'd been adopted you see. 24:17.960 --> 24:19.960 Real name was Lundin. 24:19.960 --> 24:22.360 Lundin? 24:22.360 --> 24:25.800 His real parents were killed in an accident when he was less than Teddy's age. 24:25.800 --> 24:31.240 They lived on a farm in a little town called Hemley-Vermont. 24:31.240 --> 24:34.240 Farm in Hemley-Vermont? 24:34.240 --> 24:35.240 Yes. 24:35.240 --> 24:38.240 Do you know the place? 24:38.240 --> 24:42.360 When he was adopted by a family called Abel. 24:42.360 --> 24:43.520 He didn't even remember it himself. 24:43.520 --> 24:44.520 He was too small. 24:44.520 --> 24:45.520 But they told it. 24:45.520 --> 24:46.520 Frank. 24:46.520 --> 24:47.520 Frank where are you going? 24:47.520 --> 24:48.520 Frank! 24:48.520 --> 24:49.520 I started walking. 24:49.520 --> 25:05.480 I tried to put it out of my mind like I had everything else. 25:05.480 --> 25:07.880 But it was no good. 25:07.880 --> 25:10.600 It grew and grew until my head was bursting with it. 25:10.600 --> 25:18.200 Until it was the only thing in the whole world that the things she told me. 25:18.200 --> 25:23.600 So when I got back to my room I knew what I was going to have to do. 25:23.600 --> 25:26.280 And I sat down to write this. 25:26.280 --> 25:30.600 To tell her before I do it. 25:30.600 --> 25:35.040 It wasn't just what I'd done. 25:35.040 --> 25:40.720 It wasn't realizing that a man with another man's blood on his hands can't be a fit father 25:40.720 --> 25:43.320 to that man's kid. 25:43.320 --> 25:46.520 Or a fit husband to that man's wife. 25:46.520 --> 25:49.920 It was what she had told me. 25:49.920 --> 25:52.400 A kid named Lundin. 25:52.400 --> 25:56.920 A farm in Hemley-Vermont. 25:56.920 --> 25:59.120 And I remembered. 25:59.120 --> 26:03.080 I knew now why I looked like Philip Abel. 26:03.080 --> 26:07.600 Because I had a, I had been a kid named Lundin. 26:07.600 --> 26:10.200 On a farm in Hemley-Vermont. 26:10.200 --> 26:14.560 I had been adopted by a family named Kane and I'd grown up. 26:14.560 --> 26:16.920 But in reform schools mostly. 26:16.920 --> 26:22.960 And I'd lived to shoot and kill a man named Philip Abel. 26:22.960 --> 26:25.840 Who was my twin? 26:25.840 --> 26:30.880 Who was my brother? 26:30.880 --> 26:35.040 The gun is by my hand. 26:35.040 --> 26:43.640 Pat said I'd never be happy until the day I died. 26:43.640 --> 27:03.240 I guess she was kind of right at that. 27:03.240 --> 27:05.240 Suspense. 27:05.240 --> 27:07.480 Presented by Roma Wines. 27:07.480 --> 27:13.640 For O-M-A. 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