1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,960 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,280 reserves for your pleasure. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:20,440 And now Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 4 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:28,480 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mark Stevens in Tree of Life, a suspense play produced, 5 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:34,200 edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:40,600 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by 7 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,360 Roma Wines. 8 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:50,080 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 9 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:55,080 than any other wine, for friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 10 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:01,240 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Mark Stevens 11 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:09,160 in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 12 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:10,160 Everything went wrong. 13 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,840 From the very beginning, everything that possibly could went wrong. 14 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:22,320 Because you see, I'd already planned, planned for quite a while to kill my wife. 15 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:28,520 The first thing was the doors. 16 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,600 That's funny too because that was the thing that impressed me the most about the new place, 17 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:33,600 the doors. 18 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,680 The house was a double bungalow, twin apartments really, white stucco with two doors in the 19 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:39,680 front center. 20 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,680 The doors were exactly alike, made of modern yellow wood studded with nails. 21 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,200 The nails spread out in a Tree of Life pattern. 22 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,920 Tree of Life. 23 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,720 I can still see Helen standing with her slim elegance figure silhouetted against the door 24 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,920 and her hair blending with its warm color and her blue eyes burning with that strange 25 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,520 acquisitive fire I'd once mistaken for passion. 26 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,240 Isn't it a beautiful door, Jimmy? 27 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,160 I really think I'm clever to have found it, don't you? 28 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,680 You know it's definitely the smartest place we've ever had. 29 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,160 Well don't just stand there darling, come on, come on, you'll possibly love the inside. 30 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,240 You see, see Jimmy, the entrance hall and the living room can be thrown into one. 31 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,040 Jimmy, we can have some stunning parties. 32 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:19,920 Bedroom from the back? 33 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,480 Three rooms, small dressing room, two baths. 34 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,400 Of course we'll have to buy some new furniture to go with the house. 35 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,520 Most of our old pieces simply won't belong. 36 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,480 Softly dark back here. 37 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,760 Oh nonsense darling, it's just cloudy today. 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,600 Besides you'll love it when you want to sleep late on Sunday. 39 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,960 That's why I'm giving you the center room, I'm taking the front one with the dressing 40 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:36,960 room. 41 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:37,960 The corner room with the three windows? 42 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,120 Oh well that'll be the guest room, Mom and the girls will be coming in every so often, 43 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,120 you know. 44 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,000 Then you'll want to bring home some of your business associates. 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 I never have. 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,760 Oh but don't you see, now you can. 47 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,720 Jimmy Dawson, I'm not going to let you be an old stick in the mud anymore. 48 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,720 We're going to have a wonderful winter darling. 49 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,600 There's a young couple in the other part, their name is Roxborough, I think that's what 50 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:57,600 the agent said. 51 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,160 Anyway, I saw her from a distance, she seemed to be a perfectly stunning brunette, just 52 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,160 our sort. 53 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,600 I imagine the four of us will do lots of things together. 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,200 Oh darling, admit it, the house is priceless, isn't it? 55 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:14,520 Yeah, yeah of course Helen, but isn't there a small room somewhere where I might do some... 56 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:15,520 Painting? 57 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:16,520 Well, yes. 58 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:21,800 We've discussed this before, it's not healthy for you to bring your work home with you. 59 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,280 Besides it's much too lovely a house to mess up. 60 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:29,040 Oh I don't mean advertising there Helen, I want to try some real work, well creative 61 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,040 work. 62 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:31,880 I've told you what I think about it, Jimmy. 63 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:37,240 I want to make your home your castle darling, I want it to be a place for you to relax away 64 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,280 from work. 65 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,800 We must concentrate now on gracious living. 66 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,200 Of course it's your home, if you feel you must. 67 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,160 No, no Helen, skip it. 68 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:53,200 Of course darling, from now on it's gracious living, remember? 69 00:03:53,200 --> 00:04:03,480 Sure, gracious living. 70 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,440 I'd already begun to make some plans for Helen, for killing Helen that is, when we moved into 71 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,760 the new house two weeks later. 72 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,480 I rode the interurban to work that day and left the car with Helen. 73 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,760 She said she needed it to move some of our smaller, more breakable treasures. 74 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,680 I offered to stay and help her with the moving, but Helen said I'd be in the way. 75 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,840 I ate dinner in town and rode the interurban back, walked the seven blocks to my new home. 76 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:29,440 I hated it more with each step I took. 77 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:34,500 When I got there the shades were down, the lights were out on both sides, which meant 78 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:36,000 Helen was out again. 79 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,440 I stood outside for a while not wanting to go in. 80 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,640 Suddenly I started up the steps, but the doors made me pause. 81 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,400 I suddenly realized I didn't know which was my door. 82 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,960 I felt like a fool. 83 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,520 Suppose I were to go barging in on the Roxboroughs, or whatever the name was. 84 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,440 Certainly they'd think I was a fool. 85 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,600 All I could do was choose one of the doors. 86 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:04,120 I was just fumbling at the lock with my key, and when the door opened from the inside I 87 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:10,120 couldn't see the man who opened it very well, but I could see the gun he held in his hand. 88 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,720 It was the biggest gun I've ever seen in my life. 89 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:14,720 Come in. 90 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:15,720 Why I... 91 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:16,720 Come in. 92 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:22,920 After he closed the door, the man with the gun switched on the lights. 93 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:23,920 Hey, what... 94 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,120 Then I saw the other one. 95 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,720 He was big with a lot of black hair and an angry face. 96 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,160 He had a gun too. 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,680 Kept fooling with it, spinning the cylinder. 98 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,760 He was standing in front of the couch trying to hide something, something lying there covered 99 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:37,760 with an overcoat. 100 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:44,440 But I knew what it was, I saw the hand trailing down on the floor, a woman's hand. 101 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,920 And just who are you? 102 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:46,920 I'm... 103 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,560 You heard him, who are you? 104 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Is that my wife? 105 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,040 So you're Roxborough, huh? 106 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,640 You're supposed to be halfway to Chicago by now. 107 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Roxborough? 108 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:56,640 Well, well. 109 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,240 Cute, ain't he? 110 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,920 Curly hair and everything. 111 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:00,920 Real cute. 112 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,000 Look, I made a mistake, you see... 113 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 What do you know about that? 114 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,720 He thinks he made a mistake, Rico. 115 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,880 What kind of mistake you think you made, Curly? 116 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,960 What kind of a mistake? 117 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,320 You fix this thing all up with our boss today to time the alibi, the works, and then you 118 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,560 walk in right in the middle of it. 119 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,600 Ho ho, you made a mistake, all right, Curly? 120 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,000 The biggest mistake you ever made in your life. 121 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,920 Maybe the last too, Enrico. 122 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:25,640 Maybe the last. 123 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:26,640 Who knows? 124 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:34,160 For a minute they both just stood and looked at me. 125 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,920 Oh, I'd made a mistake, all right. 126 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,480 Here I'd gone and stumbled in on a job being done by a couple of hired killers. 127 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,720 The job of killing his wife for Roxborough. 128 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:43,720 My neighbor Roxborough. 129 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,720 And they thought I was Roxborough. 130 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,720 Even that wasn't the worst. 131 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,120 As long as they thought I was Roxborough, though, I might be able to make a deal. 132 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:57,120 But if they ever found out I wasn't Roxborough, the end of the line, I had to be Roxborough. 133 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,120 Any last words, Curly? 134 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,120 Oh, wait a minute. 135 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,120 Honest, I... 136 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,120 I made a mistake. 137 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,120 You said that. 138 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,920 We don't like those kind of mistakes in our business. 139 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,100 You can see how that would be, can't you? 140 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:11,280 But listen, if it wasn't a mistake, why else would I come home right when... 141 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:12,520 Oh, you can say it. 142 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:13,560 It don't matter now. 143 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,120 Right when we're knocking off your wife, huh, Curly? 144 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,000 I bet you I know. 145 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I bet she likes to play hero, Enrico. 146 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Hero? 147 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,240 Sure, you come home, you find burglars. 148 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,240 That's us. 149 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,760 And we just knocked off your wife, so you knock us off. 150 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:27,760 You're a hero. 151 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:28,760 Get it? 152 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,120 You ought to be in Hollywood, bud, where they pay for that stuff. 153 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,120 Only, you better tell Curly that I ain't making it up. 154 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Because the poor guy tried that on us once, Curly. 155 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,960 The poor guy. 156 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:40,800 But I couldn't have meant anything like that. 157 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:41,800 I don't even have a gun. 158 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,280 I ain't even got a jackknife. 159 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,480 Listen, we can make some kind of a deal. 160 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:46,760 There's a rod in the desk. 161 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Maybe you figured I'm using that. 162 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:48,760 Huh, Curly? 163 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,080 Hey, wait a minute, Enrico, wait a minute. 164 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,640 Curly here said something about a deal. 165 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:53,640 I don't like deals. 166 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,300 The boss don't like deals. 167 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:56,300 I like the other way. 168 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:57,300 It's cleaner all around. 169 00:07:57,300 --> 00:07:58,300 Turn around, Curly. 170 00:07:58,300 --> 00:07:59,300 No, wait a minute. 171 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:00,300 Relax, relax. 172 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:04,600 I just want to frisk you this time. 173 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,520 He started going over my pockets and that was all right. 174 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,920 Until he came to my wallet and took it. 175 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:11,920 My wallet. 176 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,280 Driver's license, social security card, every identification under the sun to prove I wasn't 177 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,280 Roxborough but James Dawson. 178 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,240 If he ever looked inside, it was finished. 179 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,400 I had to do something to distract his attention. 180 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,400 I had to do it right then. 181 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,400 Hey, where you going? 182 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Oh, I, I just, just wanted to look. 183 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,400 At her? 184 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:30,400 Yeah. 185 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,520 Baby Curly thinks we don't know our jobs, huh, Max? 186 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,520 Go ahead. 187 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:36,520 Take a look. 188 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:37,520 Take a good look. 189 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,240 Might be somebody you know. 190 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:42,760 I walked over to the couch. 191 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,000 I lifted the coat off her face. 192 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I looked. 193 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,280 And I put the coat back again. 194 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,160 I felt sick. 195 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,200 I hadn't needed more than that one look to know she was dead. 196 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,640 And I knew something else. 197 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,360 I knew that my chances of getting out of this alive had just gone down about 90 percent. 198 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,360 Well, satisfied? 199 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,360 He looks kind of sick, Max. 200 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,360 Maybe he's the sensitive type. 201 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,360 You know, these sensitive guys are funny. 202 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:04,360 They don't mind having it done. 203 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:05,360 Oh, no, that don't worry them a bit. 204 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:06,360 But the guy that does it because he needs a few bucks, he's just a big ape. 205 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,360 A guy with no feelings. 206 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,360 Ain't that right, Curly? 207 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,360 I'm not complaining. 208 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,360 He's not complaining? 209 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:11,360 Well, that's something anyway, huh, Max? 210 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,360 He's not complaining. 211 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:13,360 Oh, that's good. 212 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,360 But a minute ago, he was talking about a deal. 213 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,360 I like to think about it. 214 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:16,360 He's got a lot of money. 215 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:17,360 He's got a lot of money. 216 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,360 He's got a lot of money. 217 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:19,360 He's got a lot of money. 218 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:20,360 He's got a lot of money. 219 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:29,840 He's got a lot of money. 220 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:30,840 We got work to do. 221 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:32,300 We can talk about deals later. 222 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:33,940 And I still say no deal. 223 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:36,640 Maybe we ought to ask Curly. 224 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,740 You want us to finish the job up right, don't you, Curly? 225 00:09:39,740 --> 00:09:40,740 Oh, sure. 226 00:09:40,740 --> 00:09:41,740 Ask Curly. 227 00:09:41,740 --> 00:09:43,400 Finish the job? 228 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:44,400 Sure. 229 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,460 Collect the ice. 230 00:09:45,460 --> 00:09:46,460 He don't know what that means. 231 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:47,460 Do you, Curly? 232 00:09:47,460 --> 00:09:50,600 The jewelry, the silverware, the stuff that makes it look like burglars. 233 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:51,600 Remember? 234 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:52,600 Oh. 235 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:53,600 Oh, yeah. 236 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:54,600 Where do you keep it? 237 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,900 Why, uh, her bedroom, I guess. 238 00:09:57,900 --> 00:09:58,900 Your guess? 239 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:03,260 Oh, these sensitive guys are great guesses, but you better have guessed right, Curly. 240 00:10:03,260 --> 00:10:04,260 Come on inside. 241 00:10:04,260 --> 00:10:07,380 All right, now where is it? 242 00:10:07,380 --> 00:10:11,300 I, uh, I think the dressing table. 243 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:12,300 Take a look, Rico. 244 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:13,300 Yeah. 245 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:15,740 Well, well, looky here. 246 00:10:15,740 --> 00:10:17,180 He guessed it right on her nose. 247 00:10:17,180 --> 00:10:19,060 Oh, Curly, sharp, sharp he is. 248 00:10:19,060 --> 00:10:21,340 And there's some real pretty ice here, too. 249 00:10:21,340 --> 00:10:24,220 I bet this was her engagement ring, huh, Curly? 250 00:10:24,220 --> 00:10:25,220 You got the stuff? 251 00:10:25,220 --> 00:10:26,220 You don't have to talk about it. 252 00:10:26,220 --> 00:10:28,700 Oh, you got the wrong attitude, Curly. 253 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:30,820 You knew this was part of the deal. 254 00:10:30,820 --> 00:10:32,540 We get part of our cut out of this stuff. 255 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:34,740 Hey, I'll tell you what I did with that sapphire, Max. 256 00:10:34,740 --> 00:10:35,740 What sapphire? 257 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:37,340 The Allison job, the place you got the garnets. 258 00:10:37,340 --> 00:10:38,340 Oh, yeah, yeah. 259 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:40,020 I had it made into a pen for my kid. 260 00:10:40,020 --> 00:10:41,940 I gave it to her for graduation. 261 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:43,260 She was crazy about it. 262 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:44,260 Your kid? 263 00:10:44,260 --> 00:10:45,260 Sure. 264 00:10:45,260 --> 00:10:47,420 I didn't swell kids, boy and a girl. 265 00:10:47,420 --> 00:10:48,420 Smart, too. 266 00:10:48,420 --> 00:10:49,980 Maybe that's the trouble with these sensitive guys. 267 00:10:49,980 --> 00:10:50,980 How many go? 268 00:10:50,980 --> 00:10:51,980 No kids. 269 00:10:51,980 --> 00:10:52,980 I wanted four. 270 00:10:52,980 --> 00:10:53,980 But she didn't, huh? 271 00:10:53,980 --> 00:10:56,580 Well, that's the way it goes sometimes. 272 00:10:56,580 --> 00:11:00,140 I bet she'd have figured it a little different if she'd have known how it was going to turn 273 00:11:00,140 --> 00:11:03,300 out for her, huh, Curly? 274 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:04,300 Yeah. 275 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:05,580 Yeah, maybe she would. 276 00:11:05,580 --> 00:11:06,580 All right, now listen. 277 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:07,580 We got work to do. 278 00:11:07,580 --> 00:11:08,580 The rest of the house. 279 00:11:08,580 --> 00:11:09,580 Now, about that deal. 280 00:11:09,580 --> 00:11:10,580 Never mind that deal. 281 00:11:10,580 --> 00:11:11,580 What are we going to do with him while we're working? 282 00:11:11,580 --> 00:11:13,580 I'd leave him in here. 283 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:16,500 You wouldn't try to holler or anything like that, would you, Curly? 284 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:17,500 Oh, no. 285 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:18,500 No, I won't. 286 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:19,500 There you see? 287 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:20,500 I told you. 288 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:21,500 He's sharp, sharp. 289 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:22,500 He's going to think over the deal while we're gone. 290 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:23,500 I tell you, I don't like him. 291 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:24,500 How do you know? 292 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:25,500 You haven't heard it. 293 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:26,500 Oh. 294 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:27,500 Now, listen, Curly. 295 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:29,540 There's two ways. 296 00:11:29,540 --> 00:11:31,220 The first is Rico's way. 297 00:11:31,220 --> 00:11:32,220 Quick and clean. 298 00:11:32,220 --> 00:11:33,220 You know what I mean? 299 00:11:33,220 --> 00:11:34,220 Yeah, I know. 300 00:11:34,220 --> 00:11:35,620 The other way, you pay us five grand. 301 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:38,260 But I haven't got $5,000. 302 00:11:38,260 --> 00:11:41,460 With a setup like this, with the business you got, you can raise it and you're better 303 00:11:41,460 --> 00:11:42,460 too. 304 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:43,980 I like my way better. 305 00:11:43,980 --> 00:11:44,980 You see what I mean, Curly? 306 00:11:44,980 --> 00:11:45,980 Think it over. 307 00:11:45,980 --> 00:11:46,980 Come on, Rico. 308 00:11:46,980 --> 00:11:49,980 Well, maybe I'd better stay here and watch him. 309 00:11:49,980 --> 00:11:51,980 If you watch him, who's going to watch me? 310 00:11:51,980 --> 00:11:54,220 I see what you mean. 311 00:11:54,220 --> 00:11:56,700 And don't try nothing funny, Curly. 312 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:04,540 Because I still like my way better. 313 00:12:04,540 --> 00:12:05,980 I like my way better. 314 00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:09,860 He knew he wasn't kidding, so did I. 315 00:12:09,860 --> 00:12:11,340 It already killed once tonight. 316 00:12:11,340 --> 00:12:16,420 There was already one dead body in that house that could be just as easy be another. 317 00:12:16,420 --> 00:12:30,060 There could be me. 318 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:34,740 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Mark Stevens in Tree of Life. 319 00:12:34,740 --> 00:12:48,500 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 320 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:53,020 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 321 00:12:53,020 --> 00:12:57,140 Here's an easy way to return the compliment of the friendly hospitality you've enjoyed 322 00:12:57,140 --> 00:12:58,820 over the holidays. 323 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:04,460 Simply invite your holiday hosts to an open house and delight them with Roma California 324 00:13:04,460 --> 00:13:05,460 wines. 325 00:13:05,460 --> 00:13:11,980 Yes, you're sure to please every guest with better tasting Roma Sherry, Port or Muscatel 326 00:13:11,980 --> 00:13:17,020 because more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 327 00:13:17,020 --> 00:13:18,460 The reason? 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371 00:15:47,860 --> 00:15:48,860 Hold it Rico. 372 00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:49,860 All right, what's the idea? 373 00:15:49,860 --> 00:15:50,860 I, I, I'm not sure. 374 00:15:50,860 --> 00:15:51,860 I'm not sure. 375 00:15:51,860 --> 00:15:54,300 All right, what's the idea? 376 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:56,020 I, I, I'm just a little nervous I guess. 377 00:15:56,020 --> 00:15:58,220 I knocked that thing on the floor, see. 378 00:15:58,220 --> 00:16:00,140 Well put it back together again. 379 00:16:00,140 --> 00:16:01,140 Sure, sure. 380 00:16:01,140 --> 00:16:02,620 What do you know? 381 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:03,620 He's nervous. 382 00:16:03,620 --> 00:16:05,180 What are you nervous about, Curly? 383 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:06,820 My wife's got one of them things too. 384 00:16:06,820 --> 00:16:08,420 Made me get it for our last Christmas. 385 00:16:08,420 --> 00:16:09,900 Did it make you nervous like Curly? 386 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:11,900 Curly ain't nervous about that. 387 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:15,900 You got a way to get that five grand, Curly? 388 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:18,460 I can't get, can't get the cash right away. 389 00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:21,780 Well, uh, maybe we could take a note, huh Rico? 390 00:16:21,780 --> 00:16:22,780 Huh? 391 00:16:22,780 --> 00:16:23,780 Oh, oh yeah, a note. 392 00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:24,780 Sure, maybe we could. 393 00:16:24,780 --> 00:16:36,100 Come on Curly, you're gonna come out here and write us a nice little note, all right? 394 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,140 Now sit down there at the desk. 395 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:40,140 Make yourself real comfortable. 396 00:16:40,140 --> 00:16:42,540 Maybe you better tell him how that note should go. 397 00:16:42,540 --> 00:16:45,620 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe I should. 398 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:51,020 Now Curly, all you gotta do is write us a nice little note telling, uh, telling how 399 00:16:51,020 --> 00:16:52,540 you killed your wife. 400 00:16:52,540 --> 00:16:53,540 How I? 401 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:54,540 Killed my wife? 402 00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:57,340 He don't think he did kill his wife. 403 00:16:57,340 --> 00:16:59,380 I mean, thanks Wade then. 404 00:16:59,380 --> 00:17:02,900 But if I did that, you could blackmail me. 405 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:03,900 You could keep blackmailing me. 406 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:06,940 Hey, you see, I told you it was sharp. 407 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:11,660 You know, this thing has gotta be said right so one can believe it, right Curly? 408 00:17:11,660 --> 00:17:13,860 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 409 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:14,860 That's right. 410 00:17:14,860 --> 00:17:19,620 Now, you're gonna sit right down there and write how you and your wife was always getting 411 00:17:19,620 --> 00:17:21,180 in your hair, you know? 412 00:17:21,180 --> 00:17:25,900 You was always having fights and finally, uh, well you had a real big one tonight and 413 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:28,060 you hit her over the head with a bottle. 414 00:17:28,060 --> 00:17:29,780 Only you hit her a little too hard, see? 415 00:17:29,780 --> 00:17:30,860 Is that how she... 416 00:17:30,860 --> 00:17:34,060 You don't think we use these things unless we have to, do you? 417 00:17:34,060 --> 00:17:35,060 Too noisy. 418 00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:38,060 We don't want to cause you no trouble, understand Curly? 419 00:17:38,060 --> 00:17:41,380 We just want to be sure you do raise that five grand, see? 420 00:17:41,380 --> 00:17:47,900 Yeah, I see, but, well, if it came to a showdown, how would you explain the note? 421 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,500 Very sharp, very sharp. 422 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:51,180 See what I mean, Rico? 423 00:17:51,180 --> 00:17:56,340 Curly wants to know, if we turn him in, how do we tell the cops we got the note? 424 00:17:56,340 --> 00:17:57,340 Easy. 425 00:17:57,340 --> 00:18:00,580 We make a deal with a guy who's gotta take a ramp for burglary anyway, says he burgled 426 00:18:00,580 --> 00:18:04,220 this place too and found the note we bought it from. 427 00:18:04,220 --> 00:18:05,220 Get it? 428 00:18:05,220 --> 00:18:06,220 I get it. 429 00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:07,220 Then start writing. 430 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:11,420 For a minute, I sat there thinking. 431 00:18:11,420 --> 00:18:13,700 I wasn't too worried about the handwriting. 432 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:17,340 The chances that Roxborough had been fool enough to write anything in his own hand that these 433 00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:19,340 mugs had ever seen was pretty slim. 434 00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:24,620 And it couldn't do me any harm writing a confession in another man's name. 435 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:27,020 So I began to write. 436 00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:30,580 And I stopped thinking about Roxborough and his wife. 437 00:18:30,580 --> 00:18:34,260 Began thinking about Helen in five wasted years. 438 00:18:34,260 --> 00:18:39,220 The opportunities missed, the friends lost, the time gone down the drain. 439 00:18:39,220 --> 00:18:42,740 All because of Helen and what she thought was gracious living. 440 00:18:42,740 --> 00:18:44,460 Gracious living. 441 00:18:44,460 --> 00:18:49,020 When I got through it, it was a pretty good note. 442 00:18:49,020 --> 00:18:50,020 I see it. 443 00:18:50,020 --> 00:18:51,020 Yeah, huh? 444 00:18:51,020 --> 00:18:52,020 Okay. 445 00:18:52,020 --> 00:18:56,980 It almost sounds like you met it, Curly. 446 00:18:56,980 --> 00:18:57,980 I did. 447 00:18:57,980 --> 00:18:58,980 Okay. 448 00:18:58,980 --> 00:18:59,980 Sign it. 449 00:18:59,980 --> 00:19:00,980 Huh? 450 00:19:00,980 --> 00:19:02,980 I said sign it. 451 00:19:02,980 --> 00:19:06,580 Sign it? 452 00:19:06,580 --> 00:19:08,500 I couldn't sign it. 453 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,300 I didn't know Roxborough's first name. 454 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:11,900 They'd know that. 455 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:15,140 But one thing they'd be sure to know, I could have cried. 456 00:19:15,140 --> 00:19:19,860 To get this far, freedom almost incited, and then to have it end this way, I just sat there 457 00:19:19,860 --> 00:19:20,860 holding the pen. 458 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:21,860 What's the matter? 459 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:22,860 Cold feet? 460 00:19:22,860 --> 00:19:23,860 I... 461 00:19:23,860 --> 00:19:24,860 Yeah, yeah, maybe. 462 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:25,860 Come on, sign it. 463 00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:26,860 Well, I... 464 00:19:26,860 --> 00:19:32,140 And not K. Roxborough like that little printed note you sent the boss. 465 00:19:32,140 --> 00:19:33,900 The full name. 466 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,300 Not K. Roxborough, the full name. 467 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:39,340 What's the K for, Curly? 468 00:19:39,340 --> 00:19:40,340 Kenneth? 469 00:19:40,340 --> 00:19:41,340 No. 470 00:19:41,340 --> 00:19:42,340 No, it's Kendall. 471 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:45,580 Is that all? 472 00:19:45,580 --> 00:19:49,020 No, that's not all. 473 00:19:49,020 --> 00:19:51,940 Oh, no, the $5,000. 474 00:19:51,940 --> 00:19:53,100 That's the idea. 475 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:55,340 That's my sharp boy, the five grand. 476 00:19:55,340 --> 00:19:59,060 Well, I don't know where I can lay my hands on that much cash tonight. 477 00:19:59,060 --> 00:20:02,540 Well, cash was sort of what we had in mind, Curly. 478 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:03,540 I could write you checks. 479 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:04,540 No checks. 480 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:05,540 Hey, wait a minute. 481 00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:06,540 Wait a minute. 482 00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:07,540 I think he's got something there. 483 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:10,260 Yeah, he could date it ahead. 484 00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:13,260 He could say he gave it to his wife for a mink coat or something, and it was stolen 485 00:20:13,260 --> 00:20:15,540 by them nasty burglars. 486 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:19,380 You could think up something, couldn't you, Curly? 487 00:20:19,380 --> 00:20:20,380 You better. 488 00:20:20,380 --> 00:20:22,300 Why can't we get the cash from him tomorrow? 489 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:24,660 Because Curly's got to be in Chicago tonight for sure. 490 00:20:24,660 --> 00:20:29,500 If the cops nab him for this job, what good is that little note he just wrote us, huh? 491 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:30,980 Oh, yeah. 492 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:33,900 Okay, Curly, write a check. 493 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:34,900 Sure. 494 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:35,900 Sure. 495 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:36,900 To cash. 496 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:37,900 Yeah. 497 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:38,900 Five grand. 498 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:41,900 Five... five thousand. 499 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,900 Kendall, Roxborough. 500 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:45,900 Okay. 501 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,500 Now we're going to do you a favor, Curly. 502 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:51,580 We're going to take you down and put you on that next train to Chicago. 503 00:20:51,580 --> 00:20:53,940 How do we know we won't take a powder and never come back? 504 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:55,660 And leave this nice business of his? 505 00:20:55,660 --> 00:20:58,140 Oh, Curly wouldn't do that, would you, Curly? 506 00:20:58,140 --> 00:20:59,140 No. 507 00:20:59,140 --> 00:21:00,140 Of course not. 508 00:21:00,140 --> 00:21:01,140 Okay, then let's go. 509 00:21:01,140 --> 00:21:04,460 I don't like sticking around here with that. 510 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:05,760 She can't hurt you. 511 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,900 She can't hurt nobody. 512 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:17,500 Even Curly, if he's smart. 513 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,700 They went around wiping off fingerprints, even mine. 514 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:22,780 They were very good about that. 515 00:21:22,780 --> 00:21:27,860 They snapped off the lights, opened the door, snapped that behind them, too. 516 00:21:27,860 --> 00:21:34,060 Harvey, are you sure this is the Dalton's new place? 517 00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:36,260 Why, no, he said you were. 518 00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:39,900 I heard their voices first, then I saw them. 519 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:40,900 Lillian and Harvey Reynolds. 520 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:44,500 I tried to step back, out of the street light, but the two gunmen pushed me forward. 521 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:46,500 I just kept my head down and prayed. 522 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,500 Oh, I didn't see you. 523 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:50,500 Excuse me. 524 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:51,500 What's the matter, Lil? 525 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:52,500 I bumped into someone. 526 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:53,500 Come on, let's go home. 527 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:54,500 I want to know who I bumped into. 528 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:55,500 You know, it's awfully dark, but he looks like Jimmy. 529 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:56,500 Hey, are you Jimmy? 530 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:57,500 No. 531 00:21:57,500 --> 00:21:58,500 You see, Lil, come on, let's go home. 532 00:21:58,500 --> 00:21:59,500 I think he's Jimmy. 533 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:00,500 Who are you? 534 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:01,500 I'm Jimmy. 535 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:02,500 Jimmy? 536 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:03,500 Jimmy? 537 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:04,500 Jimmy? 538 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:05,500 Jimmy? 539 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:06,500 Who are your friends, Jimmy? 540 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:07,500 They're not Jimmy. 541 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:08,500 They're not my friends. 542 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:09,500 Must be relatives. 543 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:10,500 Don't you think so, Harvey? 544 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:11,500 Must be relatives. 545 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:12,500 Oh, come on, Lil, let's go home. 546 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:13,500 Sounds like Jimmy. 547 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:14,500 If you're not Jimmy, where is Jimmy? 548 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:15,500 I don't know. 549 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:16,500 Oh. 550 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:17,500 Well, I'm going to find Jimmy. 551 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:18,500 I beg your pardon, madam. 552 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:19,500 I think I know where he is. 553 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:20,500 What? 554 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:21,500 Where is he? 555 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:22,500 Where's Jimmy? 556 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:23,500 You're just a little mixed up. 557 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:24,500 Now, if you go five blocks up the street, then four blocks over, you'll find Jimmy. 558 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:25,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 559 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:26,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 560 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:27,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 561 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:28,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 562 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:29,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 563 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:36,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 564 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:37,500 I'm going to find Jimmy. 565 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:38,500 Where's Jimmy? 566 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:39,500 You're just a little mixed up. 567 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:40,500 Now, if you go five blocks up the street, then four blocks over, it's the big yellow 568 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:41,500 house on the corner. 569 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:42,500 Come on, Harvey. 570 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:43,500 I told you we'd find Helen and Jim. 571 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:44,500 Don't run it, Lil. 572 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:45,500 I want to go home. 573 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:46,500 I sure feel sorry for Jimmy if she finds him. 574 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:55,500 So do I. 575 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:56,500 We drove down the station. 576 00:22:56,500 --> 00:23:00,740 Found the next train for Chicago in about 45 minutes. 577 00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:02,500 One of them went in with me while I got my ticket. 578 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:08,500 And we just stood out there in the darkness on the platform and waited. 579 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:14,300 When the train finally pulled in, they walked me down to my car and stood there with me 580 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:17,300 in the vestibule until the train was ready to pull out. 581 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:21,100 Take it easy now, Curly. 582 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:22,100 And about that check. 583 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:23,100 Yeah. 584 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:24,100 It better be good. 585 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:25,100 Yeah. 586 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:36,460 And if it ain't, we'll be waiting for you when you come back. 587 00:23:36,460 --> 00:23:38,060 What did I care where they'd be? 588 00:23:38,060 --> 00:23:39,060 I was free. 589 00:23:39,060 --> 00:23:40,060 I was going to Chicago all right. 590 00:23:40,060 --> 00:23:41,060 But from there, I was going to catch a train to Detroit. 591 00:23:41,060 --> 00:23:44,820 From there, I was going to cross the Canadian border. 592 00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:46,820 I was never coming back because I'd made it. 593 00:23:46,820 --> 00:23:49,820 I was free, free. 594 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:56,020 I got in Chicago all right. 595 00:23:56,020 --> 00:24:00,580 I got a train to Detroit last night. 596 00:24:00,580 --> 00:24:04,900 I was walking through the observation car, not paying much attention to anything except 597 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,940 the receipt when somebody slapped me on the shoulder. 598 00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:10,140 Well, well, well, if it isn't Dawson. 599 00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:11,140 Huh? 600 00:24:11,140 --> 00:24:12,140 Oh, yes. 601 00:24:12,140 --> 00:24:13,500 Maybe you don't know me, Mr. Dawson. 602 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:16,020 I know you, at least by sight. 603 00:24:16,020 --> 00:24:18,820 I'm your next door neighbor, Kent Roxborough. 604 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:19,820 Kent Roxborough. 605 00:24:19,820 --> 00:24:20,820 Mm-hmm. 606 00:24:20,820 --> 00:24:24,900 Well, well, small world these days, isn't it? 607 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:29,180 I suppose you're out this way on business like me. 608 00:24:29,180 --> 00:24:30,740 I stayed over in Chicago last night. 609 00:24:30,740 --> 00:24:33,100 Got a good room for a change, too. 610 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:37,620 Then I thought I might just as well clear up a couple little things out in Detroit. 611 00:24:37,620 --> 00:24:40,020 Listen, Roxborough, I got to talk to you. 612 00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:41,020 Of course, old man. 613 00:24:41,020 --> 00:24:42,020 Come on, let's find a seat. 614 00:24:42,020 --> 00:24:43,020 No, no, no, not here. 615 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:44,020 What's the matter, old boy? 616 00:24:44,020 --> 00:24:45,020 Trouble? 617 00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:48,540 Listen, I ran into those men last night. 618 00:24:48,540 --> 00:24:49,540 My mistake. 619 00:24:49,540 --> 00:24:52,500 Those men you sent to see your wife. 620 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:53,500 What? 621 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:55,780 What in the world are you talking about? 622 00:24:55,780 --> 00:24:56,780 I never sent any... 623 00:24:56,780 --> 00:24:57,780 Okay, it's all right. 624 00:24:57,780 --> 00:24:59,780 I understand why you did it. 625 00:24:59,780 --> 00:25:04,300 I was thinking of doing the same thing myself, but I walked in on my mistake. 626 00:25:04,300 --> 00:25:05,300 They told me all about it. 627 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:07,380 They thought I was you. 628 00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:12,020 Let's you and me take a little stroll out onto the observation platform, Dawson. 629 00:25:12,020 --> 00:25:15,020 Yeah, yeah, sure. 630 00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:21,700 No, what's all this, Dawson? 631 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:23,100 I tell you, it was a mistake. 632 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:25,100 The doors, they're exactly alike. 633 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:28,300 Yeah, yeah, I remember. 634 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:29,300 I walked in. 635 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:30,300 They thought I was you. 636 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:31,300 They'd already done it. 637 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,300 They thought I'd come back to double crossings. 638 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:37,980 So they made me sign a confession that I'd done it in your name. 639 00:25:37,980 --> 00:25:38,980 Confession? 640 00:25:38,980 --> 00:25:40,740 Oh, it's all right. 641 00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:42,380 It's in my handwriting, not yours. 642 00:25:42,380 --> 00:25:44,140 I even got your first name wrong. 643 00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:46,540 I had to write them a check, too. 644 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:47,540 High thousand dollars. 645 00:25:47,540 --> 00:25:52,060 You say they... they'd done it. 646 00:25:52,060 --> 00:25:53,060 You know that. 647 00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:55,660 Yeah, yeah, I saw her. 648 00:25:55,660 --> 00:25:58,020 So I'm going away, Canada. 649 00:25:58,020 --> 00:26:00,020 I'm never coming back. 650 00:26:00,020 --> 00:26:01,020 Yeah. 651 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:04,580 Now, you're going away all right, Dawson. 652 00:26:04,580 --> 00:26:05,580 No. 653 00:26:05,580 --> 00:26:06,580 No, don't shoot. 654 00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:07,580 There's something else. 655 00:26:07,580 --> 00:26:08,580 They didn't... 656 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:09,580 Oh! 657 00:26:09,580 --> 00:26:10,580 They... they didn't... 658 00:26:10,580 --> 00:26:11,580 They didn't... 659 00:26:11,580 --> 00:26:23,740 They found me beside the tracks this morning. 660 00:26:23,740 --> 00:26:28,180 They say I may live until tonight, maybe even a little longer. 661 00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:30,340 I guess I can't blame him. 662 00:26:30,340 --> 00:26:31,340 The cops picked him up. 663 00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:32,340 He'll get his. 664 00:26:32,340 --> 00:26:35,740 So will those two hired killers. 665 00:26:35,740 --> 00:26:40,440 I guess he thought he had to do it once he knew that I knew. 666 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,700 I guess I can't blame anyone but myself. 667 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:50,300 I guess it's what you call retribution, because I had planned to kill my wife. 668 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:53,420 I'd have done it, too, I guess. 669 00:26:53,420 --> 00:26:59,660 But what he didn't give me time to tell him was that it wasn't me that got the wrong door. 670 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:01,220 It was the gunman. 671 00:27:01,220 --> 00:27:02,940 It wasn't me that got into his house. 672 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:06,380 It was the gunman that got into mine. 673 00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:08,060 It wasn't his wife they killed. 674 00:27:08,060 --> 00:27:11,100 It was mine. 675 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:12,100 Gracious living. 676 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:14,980 Helen had always talked about it. 677 00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:18,180 Now gracious dying. 678 00:27:18,180 --> 00:27:30,620 I guess that's what you'd call it. 679 00:27:30,620 --> 00:27:35,100 Retribution. 680 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:43,380 Suspense. 681 00:27:43,380 --> 00:27:47,740 Now this is Ken Niles making a curtain call with the star of tonight's Suspense play, 682 00:27:47,740 --> 00:27:48,740 Mark Stevens. 683 00:27:48,740 --> 00:27:54,540 Mark, I'm sure that Mr. Webster gave the world the word suspense just to describe a dramatic 684 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:56,460 performance such as you've given us here tonight. 685 00:27:56,460 --> 00:27:58,060 Oh, thank you very much, Ken. 686 00:27:58,060 --> 00:27:59,980 It was a wonderful part. 687 00:27:59,980 --> 00:28:03,580 I've noticed that you make it a custom here on Suspense to provide your guests with the 688 00:28:03,580 --> 00:28:05,860 most wonderfully dramatic roles. 689 00:28:05,860 --> 00:28:09,060 And there's another Suspense custom I'm sure you'll enjoy. 690 00:28:09,060 --> 00:28:13,140 Each week we present our star with a gift basket of Roma wines. 691 00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:17,260 This is yours, Mark, with the compliments of Roma, America's greatest vendor. 692 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:19,140 Oh, and a pleasant custom it is too. 693 00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:23,260 Well, pleasantest of all is the enjoyment you share with friends when you serve the 694 00:28:23,260 --> 00:28:26,660 delicious Roma California Port in your basket. 695 00:28:26,660 --> 00:28:30,340 For Roma Port adds warmth to any welcome. 696 00:28:30,340 --> 00:28:34,620 Roma Port is the favorite of millions for evening entertaining. 697 00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:37,460 And Roma Port is so easy to serve. 698 00:28:37,460 --> 00:28:40,220 All you do is pour and hospitality reign. 699 00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:43,540 Oh, it sounds like Roma Port is a host's best friend. 700 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:44,820 Indeed it is, Mark. 701 00:28:44,820 --> 00:28:46,700 And Roma Port tastes so good. 702 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:50,980 In fact, all Roma wines are famous for better taste. 703 00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:52,500 And here's the reason. 704 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:57,700 Roma vintners with ancient skill and America's finest winemaking resources guide the rich 705 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:01,460 treasure of choicest grapes to tempting taste perfection. 706 00:29:01,460 --> 00:29:07,060 Then at peak taste richness, Roma selects from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines 707 00:29:07,060 --> 00:29:08,780 for your pleasure. 708 00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:13,220 No wonder more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 709 00:29:13,220 --> 00:29:16,620 Well, the popularity of Roma wine speaks for itself, Ken. 710 00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:19,020 And thank you very much and good night. 711 00:29:19,020 --> 00:29:22,500 Tonight's Suspense play was written by J. Douglas Ware. 712 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:27,300 Mark Stevens will soon be seen in the 20th Century Fox Technicolor production, I Wonder 713 00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:29,340 Who's Kissing Her Now. 714 00:29:29,340 --> 00:29:35,180 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Dan Douriez as star of Suspense. 715 00:29:35,180 --> 00:29:40,060 Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 716 00:29:40,060 --> 00:29:57,500 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.