1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,240 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,640 reserves for your pleasure. 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:20,440 And now, Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 4 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:29,720 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mr. Dan Douriez in The Will to Power, a suspense play produced, 5 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:35,720 edited and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 6 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,720 Suspense. 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:44,240 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 8 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:51,960 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 9 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:57,120 than any other wine, for friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 10 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:03,360 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Dan Douriez 11 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:13,120 in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 12 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,360 I walked over to the safe and began to dial the numbers. 13 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,520 Before I snapped it open, I turned around to look at him. 14 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,440 He was leaning back in the easy chair at the end of the room. 15 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:30,000 His greasy face was covered with a shrewd smile, and he poured a revolver in his right 16 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 hand. 17 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Come on, get it open. 18 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,840 The gun looked like a model they stopped making in 1900, a 22 with a two-inch barrel. 19 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,240 They were about 40 feet between the safe and where he was sitting. 20 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:48,320 Unless that guy was an anti-Oakley, he couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from that position. 21 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,320 And with that gun... 22 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,320 All right, Fitz Starlin, open it. 23 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:55,680 I snapped open the little safe, and there it was. 24 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:02,280 I could see special Super 38 automatic stamped on the blued surface of the slide. 25 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,920 The hammer was back, just as I knew the old man had left it. 26 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,360 I picked up that beautiful precision instrument. 27 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,200 I turned, not too quickly, snapped off the safety and brought the sights in line between 28 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:16,200 our eyes. 29 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:17,200 Hey, wait. 30 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,200 Wait, don't. 31 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,200 Don't, the ladder. 32 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,200 He lay there on the floor. 33 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:38,720 I looked at him, and I had that strange feeling that I'd overlooked something, something important. 34 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,360 I walked over to where he was lying. 35 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,400 He'd pitched forward, landing in a disjointed heap. 36 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,400 The letter. 37 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,400 What had he yelled about a letter? 38 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,400 It meant nothing to me. 39 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,400 A letter? 40 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,400 Had I slipped up somewhere? 41 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,400 No, it was impossible. 42 00:02:51,400 --> 00:03:00,840 I must have stood there over his body for 10 minutes, for the blood was soaking its way 43 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,560 across the carpet. 44 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,640 I tried to think of how I stood now, of what I had to do next, but my mind wouldn't let 45 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:09,640 me. 46 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:15,640 It kept slipping back, slipping back to three months ago, three months ago, three months 47 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:23,680 ago, three months ago. 48 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,480 Old man Donovan was in a pretty bad mood that night. 49 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,280 He and his wife Rosanne were scrapping. 50 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,800 They stopped as I came into the living room. 51 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,800 That's final. 52 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,800 Oh, oh, Charles, come in. 53 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:36,800 Hello, Charles. 54 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,400 Hello, Mrs. Donovan. 55 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,120 I finished going over these papers, Mr. Donovan. 56 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,120 Ah, good. 57 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,040 Ah, they look okay. 58 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,040 Yes, sir. 59 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,640 Have you seen Mrs. Donovan's bank statements around anywhere? 60 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,000 No, I haven't run across them. 61 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,320 She's been overdrawing again. 62 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,320 We've got to get this straightened out once and for all. 63 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:57,800 I tell you, I haven't been overdrawing. 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,520 How many times do I have to tell you? 65 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:00,520 Don't argue with me. 66 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,360 Charles, will you see if you can find them somewhere? 67 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,360 I don't know where they are. 68 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,360 Of course you don't know where they are. 69 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:06,360 Look for them. 70 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,120 What do I have a private secretary for? 71 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,120 Yes, sir. 72 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:11,120 Yes, sir. 73 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,040 I'm going to bed now. 74 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,800 I want those statements in the morning. 75 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:15,800 Do you understand? 76 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,800 Good night, Rosanne. 77 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:17,800 Good night, John. 78 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:18,800 Charlie. 79 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Come here. 80 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:26,200 I can't stand it any longer. 81 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,480 I can't live in the same house with him and see you around every day. 82 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,280 Now, now, is that a nice way to talk about your ever-loving husband? 83 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:35,600 I tell you, I just can't stand it anymore. 84 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,400 Yeah, this is no good. 85 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,000 He's going to talk down to me once too often. 86 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,640 I've got to get out of here before that happens. 87 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,520 That's what I've been telling you. 88 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,800 Charlie, let's run away. 89 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,860 Take a plane to South America tomorrow. 90 00:04:47,860 --> 00:04:50,080 We could be together from then on. 91 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,080 Let's do that, Charlie. 92 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,200 I have a little money and I have my jewels and the furs we could get along. 93 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,320 Let's do it. 94 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:56,800 Let's call for tickets now. 95 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:57,800 Run away? 96 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,300 Look, Charlie, isn't our happiness together the most important thing? 97 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:02,720 Let's just leave him. 98 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:03,720 We could go to Mexico. 99 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,580 He loves his bank books and bank statements and stocks and bonds more than me anyway. 100 00:05:08,580 --> 00:05:09,760 Can't we do it that way? 101 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:10,760 Can't we? 102 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:11,760 Charlie, we can't. 103 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,160 What are we going to do? 104 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,080 I can't go on with him. 105 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,080 What can we do? 106 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Charlie? 107 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,800 Yeah, baby, that's it. 108 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,440 You're reading my mind. 109 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,640 Oh, Charlie, that's... 110 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,920 That's the only way. 111 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,400 Is that what you want to say? 112 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:33,400 I don't know. 113 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,400 I don't know. 114 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,960 But I know, baby. 115 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,960 You haven't got a thing to worry about. 116 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:47,680 You look beautiful in black. 117 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,240 There wasn't much time to waste. 118 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,400 I couldn't take any chances on him catching on. 119 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,400 If we were going to do it my way, we'd have to do it soon. 120 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,440 I began to make plans. 121 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,600 I told her we were going to push him out the window. 122 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,000 I told her everything, everything except about the poison. 123 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 I was ready. 124 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,520 I bought the poison and now only had to slip it into the old man's medicine. 125 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,800 At six o'clock that night, the phone rang. 126 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,280 I knew that was Judge Peters. 127 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,960 I'd picked him to establish my alibi for me. 128 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,120 Hey, uh, the phone job. 129 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,120 Yes, sir. 130 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,800 It's probably Judge Peters. 131 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,440 He told me he wanted to see me tonight. 132 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,760 Ah, but if I'm to finish your letters... 133 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,000 Well, sir, could you perhaps tell him that I'm not here? 134 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,120 It'd be simpler and I have so much of your work to finish that I... 135 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,120 Oh, I sure sure. 136 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,120 Hello? 137 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,000 Hi, Judge Peters. 138 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,720 The old man swallowed at hook, line and sinker. 139 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,920 He liked little intrigues. 140 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,920 They were the only adventure in his life, except for Roseanne's. 141 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:49,920 I'm sorry, Judge. 142 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:50,920 Uh, uh, Charles isn't here. 143 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,920 I haven't seen him all day and I don't expect to see him tonight. 144 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:56,920 All right, Judge. 145 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,920 Yes, I'll tell him. 146 00:06:58,920 --> 00:06:59,920 Good night. 147 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,240 We fixed that, huh? 148 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,240 Yes, sir. 149 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,760 I think it's better this way. 150 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,920 Now I'll be able to finish those letters for you. 151 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:08,920 Oh, fine. 152 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,520 Say, fix me my medicine first, will you, Charles? 153 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,680 All right, sir. 154 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,680 You want soda with it? 155 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:16,680 Uh-huh. 156 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:17,680 Enough? 157 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,680 Oh, a little more. 158 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,680 Ah, that's it. 159 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:24,680 That's good. 160 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,680 You're only a fair secretary, Charles, but you're a swell butler. 161 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:30,680 Thank you, sir. 162 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,680 Well, I'll get busy on these reports. 163 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,680 Oh, take him down to your room? 164 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:36,680 Yes, sir. 165 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,680 I can work better down there. 166 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,680 All right. 167 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,080 Oh, I say, make a note to dump my consolidated steel bottles tomorrow. 168 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,080 Yes, sir. 169 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:44,080 Don't you worry. 170 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:53,560 I'll take care of everything tomorrow. 171 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,760 As I walked out the door, I saw him take a sip out of his glass. 172 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,080 The next couple of hours, I'd have a lot of work to do. 173 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,560 I walked down the stairs instead of taking the elevator. 174 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,600 No one had seen me enter, and no one was going to see me leave. 175 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,000 My whole plan hinged on leaving without being noticed. 176 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,240 I went out the side door. 177 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,000 She was waiting for me outside just as we'd arranged. 178 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,600 It was exactly 15 minutes after six. 179 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,560 So far, my timing was perfect. 180 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:30,800 I took her through the hotel lobby, over to the elevator. 181 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,800 Will you be all right? 182 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,800 I'll be all right. 183 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:34,800 Oh, boy. 184 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,800 Yeah. 185 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,400 Will you see that Mrs. Donovan gets off at her floor all right? 186 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:39,640 She's not feeling too well. 187 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:40,640 Yes, sir. 188 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:41,640 Thanks. 189 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,120 Oh, say, do you happen to have the time? 190 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,120 My watch must have stopped. 191 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,120 Let's see. 192 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:46,120 That's 20 after six. 193 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,120 Thanks. 194 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,120 Thanks a lot. 195 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,120 I'll be up in about an hour, Mrs. Donovan. 196 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,120 Going up. 197 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:57,120 That was that. 198 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:04,040 Now all I had to do was to stall for time. 199 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,040 I walked around for a while. 200 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,640 Between 6.30 and 7, I went into some stores where I was known. 201 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,920 I said hello to some people, just in case anyone checked. 202 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,920 Then I walked around some more. 203 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,320 The minutes dragged by. 204 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,600 I must have looked at my watch 50 times during that hour and a half. 205 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,920 At eight, I went back to the hotel. 206 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,000 As I stepped into the elevator, I really noticed the elevator man for the first time. 207 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 He was big and greasy. 208 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,760 I had to make sure he wouldn't forget what time I went upstairs. 209 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,280 He made the first move as the elevator began to go up. 210 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:39,280 That was luck. 211 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,600 Hey, get your watch fixed, sir. 212 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:42,600 Hmm? 213 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:43,600 Oh, oh, sure. 214 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:44,600 It says 7.30. 215 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,600 It's still not working. 216 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:47,600 No? 217 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,280 It's almost eight now. 218 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,560 How do you like that? 219 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:52,560 It must have stopped again. 220 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,560 Almost eight o'clock, hmm? 221 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:56,560 Yeah. 222 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:57,560 Thanks. 223 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:58,560 Charlie? 224 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:02,960 Charlie, where have you been? 225 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:08,840 There's something wrong with John. 226 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,080 He keeps moaning and holding his stomach. 227 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:12,080 He wants me to call a doctor. 228 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:13,080 Stall him for a minute. 229 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,720 What can be wrong with him? 230 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:15,720 Search me, baby. 231 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:16,720 I'm so glad you came. 232 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:17,720 Help me to my bed, Charles. 233 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,720 Call a doctor for me, will you? 234 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:21,720 Relax, old man. 235 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:22,720 I'll get him in a minute. 236 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:23,720 Are you going to do it now? 237 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:24,720 Do you think we'd better do it now, Charlie? 238 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:25,720 Oh, Charles, for the love of heaven, get a doctor. 239 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:26,720 Don't just let me die here. 240 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:27,720 Rosanne, please get a doctor. 241 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:28,720 Charlie, I can't. 242 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:29,720 I'm going to lose my nerve. 243 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:30,720 Help me get him over to the window. 244 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:31,720 No, I... 245 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,720 What are you going to do? 246 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:33,720 No, no, Charles. 247 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:34,720 That's it, Rosanne. 248 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,720 Up on the sill. 249 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:36,720 Charles, no! 250 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:37,720 I'm going to die. 251 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:38,720 I'm going to die. 252 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,720 I'm going to die. 253 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:40,720 I'm going to die. 254 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:41,720 I'm going to die. 255 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:42,720 I'm going to die. 256 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,720 That's it, Rosanne. 257 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,720 Up on the sill. 258 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,720 Now, push. 259 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,880 Push! 260 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,400 You know everything now, don't you? 261 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,400 I just come in. 262 00:10:58,400 --> 00:10:59,400 He fell. 263 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,400 He fell. 264 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,680 We were on the other side of the room. 265 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:03,400 There was nothing wrong with him before the accident. 266 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:04,400 Get it? 267 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,400 Get it? 268 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,400 Yes. 269 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:15,880 I looked at her standing there. 270 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,200 She was shaking, frightened half to death. 271 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,240 And yet her face had a reddish glow, like something warm and mellow. 272 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,760 The kind of stuff you feel in your dreams. 273 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,700 At that moment, I wouldn't have traded her in for anything. 274 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:45,600 Less than a million dollars. 275 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:50,800 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Dan Douriez in The Will to Power. 276 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:59,680 Roma Wines presentation tonight in Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 277 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:08,240 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 278 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:15,400 A friend famed for her enjoyable little dinners recently told me her secret of gracious hospitality. 279 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,840 Because she's usually busy in the kitchen after guests arrive, her husband keeps their 280 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:25,240 friends pleasantly entertained until dinner time by serving Roma California Sherry. 281 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:32,200 Yeah, she's a smart hostess, for better tasting Roma Sherry is the favorite of millions as 282 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,760 the perfect first call for dinner and for entertaining any time. 283 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:42,600 For Roma Sherry, like all Roma wines, begins with choicest grapes. 284 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:48,520 Then Roma Wintner skill and America's finest winemaking resources guide this luscious grape 285 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,840 treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 286 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:59,240 Later, at peak taste richness, Roma selects from the world's greatest wine reserves for 287 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,840 your pleasure. 288 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:06,280 So share with your guests the better taste of Roma California Wines. 289 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:10,280 Roma Sherry, Porte, Muscatel or Toquet. 290 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,240 Insist on Roma. 291 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,340 R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 292 00:13:15,340 --> 00:13:18,000 By America's greatest vintner. 293 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:24,040 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Dan Douriez in The Will to Power. 294 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:32,920 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 295 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:45,560 At the inquest there was some talk of an autopsy, but the old man's prestige and a crew of lawyers 296 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:51,240 preserved the body in a state of unmarred dignity at the request of the grief-stricken 297 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,240 widow. 298 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,480 That's just the way they put it too. 299 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,560 The day after the funeral we were married, quietly, no publicity. 300 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:03,440 Well, there I was. 301 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,200 I had all the old man's dough, then I had her. 302 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,160 I don't know what it was that made me go on. 303 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,280 Maybe it was the reading of the will that made me go through with my original plans. 304 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,800 A million? 305 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,680 Well, now we know better. 306 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:23,520 In one safety deposit box alone there was over 400,000 in cash. 307 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,680 And then there were the estates. 308 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:47,640 Compared to that kind of money and what it meant to me, she was just another dame. 309 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:52,240 James Donovan was poisoned and then pushed out the window. 310 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,160 I suggest you dig up the body. 311 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,160 What? 312 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,160 Who's this speaking? 313 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,920 I, uh, I work in the hotel. 314 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,320 The night before Donovan was killed his wife threatened him. 315 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:04,320 Ask anyone on the floor. 316 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,280 They'll tell you how Donovan and his wife always fought. 317 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,800 Hey look, suppose you come down here and- 318 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,600 That's all, Lieutenant. 319 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:20,280 Dig him up. 320 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:26,200 The second part was in the works and now all I had to do was to sit back and wait. 321 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:31,880 I was on my way to being the sole owner of the Donovan millions, standing alone on top 322 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,800 of a mountain with everyone looking up at me. 323 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:48,160 Everyone looking up at me. 324 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,520 What's the idea dragging us down here, Lieutenant? 325 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,240 Treating us like a pair of common criminals? 326 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,440 What is it you want of us, Lieutenant? 327 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,520 You'll get the idea in just a minute, Nargis. 328 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:57,600 Don't get excited. 329 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:58,600 Not get excited? 330 00:15:58,600 --> 00:15:59,600 Why of all- 331 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,060 It's mighty strange the guy falls out of a window with two people in the room. 332 00:16:03,060 --> 00:16:04,640 What do you mean strange? 333 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,080 We were on the other side of the room. 334 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:07,080 Accidents will happen. 335 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,080 Sure, sure. 336 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,080 I know. 337 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,320 I was at the inquest too. 338 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:15,040 What I really wanted to ask you was, where were you before he fell out? 339 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,040 I told you. 340 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:17,040 I'd just come in. 341 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:18,040 I see. 342 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,040 You'd come in, but before? 343 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,040 Why, yes. 344 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:21,040 I'd gone- 345 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:22,040 Can you prove that? 346 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,040 What? 347 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,680 Can you prove that you weren't in the apartment any length of time before the accident? 348 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,320 Yes, I guess so. 349 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,640 I hadn't seen him all day. 350 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,640 Sure, I guess I could prove it. 351 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,480 But why? 352 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,520 And how about you, Mrs. Donovan? 353 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:37,520 I... 354 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:38,520 Why, I- 355 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,720 Listen, Lieutenant, if you have something to tell us, let's hear it. 356 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,440 Otherwise, let us go. 357 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,360 Okay, brother. 358 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,320 We dug up old man Donovan. 359 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,640 He had enough poison in him to kill an ox. 360 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:52,640 Poison? 361 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:53,640 Poison? 362 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,320 Why, that's impossible. 363 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,720 He couldn't have been poisoned. 364 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,240 Mrs. Donovan was up there with him all the time. 365 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,960 Oh, she was? 366 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:02,960 Of course. 367 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,440 He couldn't have been poisoned. 368 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,000 I see. 369 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Can we go now? 370 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Yeah, sure. 371 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,120 Sure, you can go. 372 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:12,920 Mrs. Donovan will have to wait though. 373 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:18,880 We're booking her for murder. 374 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:20,680 It was perfect. 375 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,680 They indicted her for second-degree murder. 376 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,600 That was a smart move on the part of the DA because he couldn't conclusively prove whether 377 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,120 the fall or the poison killed him. 378 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:34,600 And then she swore to high heaven that she didn't see him drink anything while she was 379 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:35,600 there. 380 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,440 The lawyer who was trying to prove suicide almost broke a blood vessel. 381 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:45,040 The best part came when the prosecution tried to get me to testify for them. 382 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,840 I showed them our marriage license then. 383 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,800 It convinced her that I was trying to protect her. 384 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,800 But it gave the DA all the motive he needed. 385 00:17:54,800 --> 00:18:05,160 The jury finds the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. 386 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,560 There was only one more step left. 387 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,000 I had to face her in her cell. 388 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:18,280 You've got five minutes, mister. 389 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,280 Darling. 390 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:20,280 Charlie. 391 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,800 Oh, Charlie, I've been waiting for you to come. 392 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,400 I'm still in a daze, Roseanne. 393 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:27,840 How did it all happen? 394 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,000 The trial, the conviction. 395 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,440 It all went so fast. 396 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,560 I don't know how it happened, but maybe it's better this way. 397 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,480 At least part of what we did has been paid for. 398 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:44,160 When I get out, we'll be able to live a free life together. 399 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,160 For ten years? 400 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:47,800 No, darling. 401 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,280 I'm going to tell them. 402 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,880 I'm going to confess everything. 403 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,600 I'll do that rather than see you wasting away in prison. 404 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:54,600 No. 405 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,600 No, you're not. 406 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,600 You'll just be trading places with me. 407 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,560 It'll be punishment enough if we're deprived of each other's love. 408 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,040 No, Charlie, this is the only way it can be. 409 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,160 Ten years isn't so long. 410 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:13,000 I know you'll always be mine no matter where I am. 411 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,360 Yes, darling. 412 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:22,840 No matter where you are, I'll always be yours. 413 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,840 I really felt bad about it, too. 414 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,040 But you've got to compromise in life. 415 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,120 I traded in a thing I wanted for something I wanted more. 416 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:34,880 Money and power. 417 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,520 It was right there in the palm of my hand. 418 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:49,920 And all I did was make a fist. 419 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,640 I headed up to one of the old man's hideouts in the White Mountains then to let things 420 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:54,640 cool off. 421 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,800 There, I wanted to plan all the things I'd do during the coming weeks. 422 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:05,120 It would have been a great time except for that phone call. 423 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,120 Yes? 424 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,120 Hello, Mr. Ross. 425 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:11,360 I was reading about Mrs. Donovan's trial, Mr. Ross. 426 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:12,360 Who is this? 427 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:13,360 The old man was really poisoned, huh? 428 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:17,040 And you were running off leaving your wife to take a rap. 429 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:18,040 Who is this? 430 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,040 Tell you what. 431 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:25,840 For 25 grand, no one will ever know about you sneaking out of the apartment that day. 432 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,400 I think you'd better come up here and see me in person. 433 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,400 Okay. 434 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,200 I'll be up tomorrow night at nine. 435 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Why not tonight? 436 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:40,040 You'll be there if you know what's good for you, brother. 437 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,360 Blackmail. 438 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:42,800 I knew what to do. 439 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,640 And paying him wasn't the answer. 440 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,240 Once I began to pay, he'd then have the power that belonged to me. 441 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:49,920 He'd pull the strings. 442 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,280 This man, whoever he was, could degrade me and humiliate me more than I'd ever been degraded 443 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,960 while serving the old man. 444 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:03,200 I heard the car drive up at a little after nine. 445 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,160 I left the front door open and sat in the living room waiting for him. 446 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,160 He walked in. 447 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,160 Hello, Mr. Ross. 448 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,160 It was the elevator man. 449 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:18,720 Well, well, Mr. Ross, got a pretty classy set up here. 450 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,120 I ain't nice. 451 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:21,440 Poor Mr. Donovan. 452 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,040 Sure is a shame when a guy has to leave all that money behind. 453 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,320 Straight to the point or get out. 454 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,880 Brother, from now on, you're going to treat me with respect. 455 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,520 What I know can send you straight to the chair. 456 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,520 Keep talking. 457 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,200 I saw you sneak out of Donovan's apartment a couple of hours before he died. 458 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,800 I saw you pull your act in the lobby so the dame would be alone with the old man. 459 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,920 It's pretty clear the way you framed her at the trial. 460 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,400 But you didn't fool me for a minute. 461 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,400 What's the count? 462 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,080 Well, I figure you're working the babe for plenty, so seeing the papers said that Donovan 463 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,080 left the flock of millions, well, $25,000 will do for a start. 464 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,800 You know I haven't got that kind of money here. 465 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,080 How much have you got? 466 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,720 I guess there ought to be $16, $1700 in the wall safe. 467 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:07,720 But look here, if I... 468 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:08,720 Get it! 469 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,720 Then what do I get in return? 470 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:10,720 Keep quiet. 471 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,720 For a while. 472 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:12,720 For a while. 473 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,720 That's it. 474 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:20,000 Seeing I'm such a valuable guy, I figure you ought to put me on a payroll. 475 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,240 Take me sort of a private secretary, like you was the old man Donovan. 476 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,720 I think I understand. 477 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,920 Yeah, you bet you understand. 478 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,640 Now get the dough, and fast! 479 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,440 Yes, I see now. 480 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:40,040 I think I see the whole picture. 481 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:44,200 I walked over to the safe and began to dial the numbers. 482 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,880 Before I snapped it open, I turned round to look at him. 483 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,240 He was leaning back in the easy chair at the end of the room. 484 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:57,160 His greasy face was covered with a shrewd smile, and he was pawing that silly little revolver 485 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,160 in his right hand. 486 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,280 It looked like a 1900 Iver Johnson.22 caliber with a two inch barrel. 487 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:08,760 I took that, and the fact that they were about 40 feet between us, and at a glance. 488 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,960 Unless that guy was an Annie Oakley, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from that position, 489 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:14,960 and with that gun... 490 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,640 All right, Fritz Stalin, open it! 491 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,360 I snapped open the little safe, and there it was. 492 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:28,040 I could see Colt Super 38 automatic, stamped on the blued surface of the slide. 493 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:32,200 The hammer was back, just as I knew the old man had left it. 494 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,280 I snapped off the safety and brought the sights in line between our eyes. 495 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,280 Hey, wait! 496 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,280 Don! 497 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,280 The ladder! 498 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:40,280 The ladder! 499 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:47,480 He lay there on the floor. 500 00:23:47,480 --> 00:24:03,640 I looked down at him, and I had this strange feeling that I'd overlooked something. 501 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,160 I'd hidden his car in the garage and gotten rid of the body in the cellar under two feet 502 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,960 of dirt. 503 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,880 Maybe I should have left him alone. 504 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,920 I could have pleaded self-defense, but no, no. 505 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,240 After Donovan, another trial might not have turned out so well. 506 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,800 Now I had to get away. 507 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,960 I was really in the clear. 508 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,760 Nobody'd ever look under those boards in the cellar. 509 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,680 Nobody'd ever dare to snoop around Donovan's place, my place. 510 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,480 Not unless they suspect something. 511 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,160 And why should anyone suspect anything? 512 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,400 Not in my house. 513 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,920 My house. 514 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,160 In a minute I'd be off this dirt road and on the highway to New York. 515 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,960 Yes, that's it. 516 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:45,960 Back to New York. 517 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,960 Then out of the country. 518 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,880 What the? 519 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,640 Hey, you! 520 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,400 How about pulling out of the road and letting me by? 521 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,400 You seem to be in an awful hurry, mister. 522 00:24:58,400 --> 00:24:59,400 Who is it? 523 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,400 Why don't you? 524 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,400 How about letting me see your driver's license, huh? 525 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,680 Well, well, well, if it isn't Mr. Ross. 526 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,040 Why, Lieutenant Braddon, what's the trouble? 527 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,040 Oh, no trouble at all. 528 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,720 As a matter of fact, I just came up here to talk to you. 529 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,040 Sort of a social call. 530 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,640 Well, right now I'm going to New York. 531 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:16,640 I, I, I mean, I can't. 532 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,640 You see, you see, you can't... 533 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,120 You know, Mr. Ross, I never had a chance to talk to you after the trial. 534 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:24,320 I, I got a little theory about Donovan's death. 535 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,720 Oh, it's too late to do anything about it now, of course, but I thought it might be 536 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,080 nice if we could sort of discuss it. 537 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,080 Sure, sure. 538 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,080 Any time except now. 539 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,080 I'm in a great hurry. 540 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,720 So I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. 541 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:37,720 What? 542 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:42,800 Well, some crank sent me a letter, see, saying he was coming up here to see you. 543 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,880 It, it seems he thought that you might kill him. 544 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:46,880 A letter? 545 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:51,440 Yeah, oh, it probably didn't mean a thing, but, well, you're a rich man now, Mr. Ross. 546 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,320 You'll just have to get used to being a target for cranks. 547 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,520 A letter. 548 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,520 That's what he meant. 549 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:57,520 A letter. 550 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,520 What's the matter, Mr. Ross? 551 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,520 You look, you don't look so good. 552 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,920 Yeah, there's nothing to be afraid of. 553 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,920 Ah, I tell you what. 554 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,360 You're, your house ain't far from here, let you and me take a little stroll up there and 555 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:10,320 see if that crank has arrived, huh? 556 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,600 It'll make you feel better. 557 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,680 Oh, I'm all right. 558 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,440 I'm all right. 559 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,120 Just let me go. 560 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,400 No, no, no, no, no. 561 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,840 I insist it'll set your mind at ease. 562 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,840 Okay? 563 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:33,800 Come on, let's go. 564 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,680 The cop didn't have any trouble finding him at all. 565 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:43,520 I guess Roseanne will get the money after all now when she gets out. 566 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,520 It's too bad, really. 567 00:26:44,520 --> 00:27:12,320 Suspense presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wines. 568 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,760 This is Ken Niles returning to our suspense microphone with the star of tonight's play, 569 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,760 Dan Durier. 570 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,600 Dan, I've noticed in your last few pictures that you've forsaken the cloak of villainy 571 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:23,600 to play the hero. 572 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:29,600 Yes, Ken, I have managed to qualify for a love scene or two lately in spite of my wicked 573 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,600 reputation. 574 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,880 Well, then I'm afraid we've done you wrong tonight casting you as the villain. 575 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,720 No, no, on the contrary, Ken. 576 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,160 I don't want to be a hero on suspense. 577 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,080 Look at what happened to the good guy tonight. 578 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,240 He was poisoned, pushed out of a window in a couple of minutes, fat. 579 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,600 Well, maybe you're right, Dan, but he'll or a hero for your fine performance tonight, 580 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,960 you rate a reward. 581 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:55,360 So here's a gift basket of Roma Wines with thanks from Roma, America's greatest vintner. 582 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,800 Oh, thank you, Ken, and Roma. 583 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,520 I'll be glad to be a villain on suspense anytime. 584 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,000 And you'll be glad to have Roma California Sherry on hand when guests drop in. 585 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:11,400 Just serve the Roma Sherry in your gift basket and watch the smiles of enjoyment appear at 586 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,120 the first sip of this better tasting Roma Wines. 587 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:21,560 Remember to Roma Sherry is the perfect first call for dinner, a delightful treat anytime. 588 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,660 I know that about Roma Sherry, Ken. 589 00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:26,560 But do you know why Roma Sherry tastes better? 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