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Roma wines present Suspense. 00:21.500 --> 00:26.000 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mr. Kirk Douglas in Community Property, 00:26.000 --> 00:31.000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma wines by William Spears. 00:35.000 --> 00:41.500 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. 00:41.500 --> 00:44.500 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 00:44.500 --> 00:50.000 Those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 00:50.000 --> 00:53.500 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:53.500 --> 00:56.500 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant. 00:56.500 --> 01:03.000 As Roma wines bring you Kirk Douglas, the young American actor who made such an auspicious screen debut, 01:03.000 --> 01:05.500 and the strange love of Martha Ivers. 01:05.500 --> 01:12.000 Mr. Douglas appears as George Mason, with Kathy Lewis as his wife, Lois, in Community Property. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 You sure manage to look sloppy in the mornings, don't you? 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 Thanks. Coffee? 01:24.000 --> 01:29.500 Yeah. Maybe I shouldn't have qualified it. You look sloppy most of the times nowadays. 01:29.500 --> 01:31.500 Why should I waste my time looking glamorous for you? 01:31.500 --> 01:35.500 Oh, don't mind me. I'm just your husband. I just pay the bills, that's all I do. 01:35.500 --> 01:40.500 What bills? I should look like one of the ten best women of the year on what I can squeeze out of you, I suppose. 01:40.500 --> 01:46.500 I'm not talking about clothes. But you could get your hair out of your face and put on a little lipstick for a change. 01:46.500 --> 01:49.500 Sure. Get up three hours early and go to the beauty parlor. 01:49.500 --> 01:52.500 Offer the privilege of making your breakfast and listening to your sour cracks. 01:52.500 --> 01:55.500 What's the matter with you? Didn't you sleep well? 01:55.500 --> 01:56.500 What do you care? 01:56.500 --> 02:01.500 I thought maybe you'd been lying awake nights again, wondering how you're going to spend your share of Uncle Burt's 50,000 bucks. 02:01.500 --> 02:05.500 I never lie awake nights wondering how to spend any money that you ever got your hands on first. 02:05.500 --> 02:10.500 Well, you got something there. I've got better use for that money than letting it go into freak hats and imitation furs. 02:10.500 --> 02:15.500 Well, then stop harping about it. I don't care about the money. I don't want to see the money. I don't want to hear about the money. 02:15.500 --> 02:17.500 What do you call this, coffee? 02:17.500 --> 02:19.000 That's what it says on the can. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.500 Yeah, you could even make stuff out of a can taste rotten. 02:21.500 --> 02:25.500 Look, if you don't like it, go get your breakfast at Schwab's Drugstore. It's no pleasure for me. 02:25.500 --> 02:28.500 Well, I would if I could afford it. 02:28.500 --> 02:30.000 You know, you're not kidding me any, Lois. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 Kidding you? I've stopped even trying to communicate with you. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.500 And that doesn't prevent you trying to make my life as miserable as possible, though, does it? 02:36.500 --> 02:40.500 Your life. What kind of a life do you think I've had this past year? 02:40.500 --> 02:44.500 I can't even remember the last time I had a civil conversation with you. 02:44.500 --> 02:48.500 And if for anything else, I'm nothing more than a housekeeper around here, a housekeeper that doesn't get paid. 02:48.500 --> 02:52.000 Yeah, it's tough. Sometimes I wonder how you stand it. 02:52.000 --> 02:52.500 So do I. 02:52.500 --> 02:53.500 But I know why, all right. 02:53.500 --> 02:55.000 Oh, you know everything. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.500 I told you, you weren't kidding me any. 02:57.500 --> 03:01.500 As long as you think I'm gonna get that inheritance from Uncle Bird, you'll stick to me like a leech, won't you? 03:01.500 --> 03:05.500 I told you I don't care about the money and I don't want to hear about the money. 03:05.500 --> 03:07.500 There's enough about it. 03:07.500 --> 03:10.000 Even if your uncle is fool enough to leave it to you, which I don't. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.500 Oh, sure, you don't care about the money. Not much. 03:13.500 --> 03:16.000 All I care about is having a decent life. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.500 Now, if I'm about to come to the conclusion it's impossible for you to be decent to anybody. 03:19.500 --> 03:21.500 Well, if it's as bad as all that, why don't you get a divorce? 03:21.500 --> 03:23.500 Well, maybe I should. 03:23.500 --> 03:26.500 Maybe it's what time we talk divorce, George. Maybe it's just high time. 03:26.500 --> 03:27.500 Well, what's stopping you? 03:27.500 --> 03:28.500 Sometimes I wonder. 03:28.500 --> 03:32.500 Well, I don't. You'll never get a divorce as long as you think I might inherit 50,000 bucks. 03:32.500 --> 03:33.500 That's what you think. 03:33.500 --> 03:34.000 Yes. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Well, I've thought about it. I've thought about it plenty. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.500 Then why don't you do something about it? 03:37.500 --> 03:41.500 Because I know you're too cheap to pay alimony in the lawyer's fees. That's why. 03:41.500 --> 03:44.000 Is that honestly all that's worrying you? 03:44.000 --> 03:47.500 Well, I'm certainly not worried by any illusions I might ever have had about you. 03:47.500 --> 03:50.500 All right. I'll pay the lawyer's fees in advance. 03:50.500 --> 03:53.500 And any reasonable alimony you can get a judge to grant you. 03:54.500 --> 03:55.500 You mean that, George? 03:55.500 --> 03:58.000 I never meant anything more in my life. 03:58.000 --> 04:01.000 Brother, you've got yourself a divorce. 04:01.000 --> 04:15.000 I tried to register shock and righteous indignation, but I could hardly keep my face straight. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.500 Lois was going to get a divorce. 04:17.500 --> 04:19.000 I'd been working on it for a year. 04:19.000 --> 04:25.000 Ever since I'd realized that Uncle Bert was going to die and I was going to inherit his estate. 04:25.000 --> 04:30.000 Ever since I'd realized that under the community property laws of California, Lois would get half of it. 04:30.000 --> 04:35.000 Half of 50,000 bucks, I figured. Maybe even more. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 50,000 bucks. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 I wasn't going to share that with Lois or anybody else. 04:42.000 --> 04:48.000 For a year, I'd been nagging her and insulting her and even knocking her around a little, but it was no use. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 He just turned sullen and took it. 04:51.000 --> 04:55.000 And so I'd just about given up thinking about divorce. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 I'd begun to think about something else for Lois. 04:58.000 --> 05:02.000 I'd begun to think about murder. 05:13.000 --> 05:18.000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Kirk Douglas in Community Property. 05:18.000 --> 05:28.000 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 05:36.000 --> 05:44.000 To enrich your quiet evenings at home, to add warmth to your welcome when friends drop in, serve Roma Wine. 05:44.000 --> 05:49.000 Yes, your family and friends will appreciate and enjoy the important difference in Roma, 05:49.000 --> 05:55.000 the extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 05:55.000 --> 06:00.000 That better taste of Roma Wine begins with California's choicest grapes. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.000 Then with ancient skill and America's finest winemaking resources, 06:04.000 --> 06:11.000 Roma master venteners guide this grape treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 06:11.000 --> 06:16.000 These choice wines are placed with mellow Roma wines of years before. 06:16.000 --> 06:25.000 And from these reserves, the world's greatest reserves of fine wines, Roma later selects for your pleasure. 06:25.000 --> 06:33.000 So for everyday enjoyment or gracious hospitality, serve Roma California Sherry, Port or Muscatel. 06:33.000 --> 06:40.000 You'll find all Roma wines delightful, moderate, inexpensive, and always better tasting. 06:40.000 --> 06:45.000 And that's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 06:45.000 --> 06:51.000 And now, Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Kirk Douglas as George Mason 06:51.000 --> 07:13.000 and Kathy Lewis as his wife Lois in Community Property, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 07:13.000 --> 07:17.000 So now Lois is going to give me a divorce at last. 07:17.000 --> 07:23.000 Uncle Burt's $50,000 would be mine as long as she started proceedings before I inherited. 07:23.000 --> 07:29.000 And knowing Lois, I figure now that she'd finally decided she'd probably go to work on it that very afternoon. 07:29.000 --> 07:34.000 When I drove out to Uncle Burt's later in the day, I was feeling like a kid just out of school. 07:34.000 --> 07:40.000 It was one of my regular visits and I never missed three or four times a week. 07:40.000 --> 07:49.000 That was a bore and a pain, but I'm a guy that can put up with $50,000 worth of almost anything. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Good afternoon, Mr. Mason. 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 Oh, hi, Judson. How's the old boy feeling this afternoon? 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 Not too well, I'm afraid, sir. 07:56.000 --> 08:00.000 Gee, I'm sorry to hear that. One of his bad days, eh? 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Rather difficult, yes, sir. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 Well, do you suppose it's all right for me to see him? 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 Oh, yes, sir. It's nothing that serious, I should say. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 He's called for his lawyer, Mr. Bernard, and for Dr. Thorpe. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 I should imagine he'd be quite able to see you as well. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 Yes? Yes, what is it? 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 Your nephew, Mr. Mason, is here to see you, sir. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 All right, show him in. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Hello, Uncle Burt. How are you feeling? 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 Oh, not well, my boy. Not well. Not well at all. 08:27.000 --> 08:31.000 Well, go on, Judson. Close the door. Go about your business. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Yes, sir. 08:33.000 --> 08:36.000 Judson was saying you've had sort of a bad day. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 Yes, I'm completely bedridden now, as you see. 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 I'm afraid the end is not far off, my boy. 08:42.000 --> 08:45.000 Oh, don't be silly, Uncle Burt. You live to be a hundred. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 No, no, no, no. I've called Dr. Thorpe. 08:47.000 --> 08:51.000 Oh, you can't scare me. Well, you call Dr. Thorpe every other day. 08:51.000 --> 08:55.000 I tell you, I'm sick. I'm dying. Are you going to sit there and argue with me? 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 Oh, I know, Uncle Burt, but gee, I... 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Well, I hadn't realized it was that serious. 08:59.000 --> 09:01.000 Well, it's most serious. 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 I'm glad you came today. I'd have called you if you hadn't. 09:05.000 --> 09:08.000 Oh, I understand your lawyer is coming over here. 09:08.000 --> 09:15.000 Oh, yes. I wish to be absolutely certain that my affairs are all in order before the end. 09:15.000 --> 09:21.000 Gee, Uncle Burt, it's hard to believe that anything could happen like that. I mean... 09:21.000 --> 09:27.000 Ah, my boy. There's no disputing with the Grim Reaper when your time comes. 09:27.000 --> 09:30.000 Oh, put your chair a little closer. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 Sure. 09:31.000 --> 09:38.000 Yeah, yeah. George, you have always been a good nephew to me. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 Of course, I know you're always thinking of the money. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 Oh. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Oh, but that's only natural. I don't care. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Uncle Burt, now that's not fair. 09:46.000 --> 09:52.000 You're a liar, George. But you're a good liar. And that's a comfort to an old man. 09:52.000 --> 09:56.000 Of course, I don't know what you're like in daily life. I've been ill for a long time. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 Just average, I guess. 09:58.000 --> 10:07.000 I wouldn't think so. Now, I imagine you're mean and greedy and thoroughly dishonest when it's safe to be, as I was. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 I run from the family. It's only natural, too. 10:10.000 --> 10:14.000 You make me sound like a pretty bad guy, Uncle Burt. 10:14.000 --> 10:21.000 All right. Only true to human nature, George, with the little dash of Mason family thrown in. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 Yes, you've always been a good nephew to me, George. 10:24.000 --> 10:31.000 Even though you may have been a hypocrite about it, and that's all anyone has the right to expect at my age. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 You won't have any reason to regret it. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 I wish you wouldn't talk that way, Uncle Burt. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Now what way? 10:38.000 --> 10:41.000 Well, about the money and things like that. 10:41.000 --> 10:43.000 I don't want to hear about it. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 Well, have I ever asked you about it? 10:45.000 --> 10:52.000 No, no, you haven't, George. You've been very clever about that. But you may as well know now. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 Well, I... 10:53.000 --> 11:00.000 As my will stands now, my estate will be divided into two parts. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 Oh. 11:01.000 --> 11:06.000 Yes. One half of my estate will go as an endowment to my old school, Weymouth College. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 Half? 11:07.000 --> 11:08.000 Yes. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 How is that? 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Come in. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 Well, hello, Mr. Basie. How are we today? 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 Oh, no, Doctor. 11:18.000 --> 11:27.000 Oh, man's handing out bad news today. Now in your case, I'm afraid you're about to lose a steady source of income, Doctor. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Oh, meaning... 11:29.000 --> 11:38.000 Meaning, meaning me. Yes, I'm afraid you're going to have to find some other victim to pay your office rent very soon now. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 Oh, well... 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 You know my nephew, of course. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 Sure. Hi, Doc. 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 Hello, George. 11:46.000 --> 11:54.000 Oh. Oh, by the way, George, here. Here's a prescription your wife asked me to write out for her. You might have it filled on your way home if you have time. 11:54.000 --> 11:55.000 Sure, thanks. 11:55.000 --> 12:04.000 Yes, bad news all around. Now, George here, I've just informed him that I'm leaving half my money to my old school. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.000 Looks mighty disappointed, doesn't he? 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 Oh, now, Uncle Burdick, well, it's your money. Why should I be sore? 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Now, did it false please, Mr. Mason? 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 No. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 Thank you. 12:14.000 --> 12:18.000 I haven't told him all of it yet. You want to hear the rest, George, huh? 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 Well, whatever you say, Uncle Burdick. 12:20.000 --> 12:24.000 Really, Mr. Mason, you shouldn't be talking too much. Your condition's not as good today as it might be. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 Oh, I know that. I was saying... 12:27.000 --> 12:34.000 Oh, what was I saying? Oh, yes, I will. 12:34.000 --> 12:43.000 As a matter of fact, I'm leaving you fairly well provided for, George. Enough to give you a little start in life, anyhow. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 Take it easy, Uncle Burdick. It's you I care about, not the money. 12:46.000 --> 12:56.000 Oh, you're an accomplished guy, George. That's the only word for it. But you can relax again. The other half is going to you. 12:56.000 --> 13:01.000 You know you didn't have to do that, Uncle Burdick. Well, it's not that I don't appreciate it, but... 13:01.000 --> 13:09.000 I think it will help, Uncle George. You'll be able to use $500,000, won't you? 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 What'd you say? 13:11.000 --> 13:16.000 Really, Mr. Mason, I must forbid you to get excited now you're in your condition. 13:16.000 --> 13:20.000 Didn't you hear me, George? I said five... 13:20.000 --> 13:23.000 Uncle Burdick. Mr. Mason. Uncle Burdick. Uncle Burdick, listen to me. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 I'm afraid he's gone. 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 Tell me what you said. 13:26.000 --> 13:29.000 For heaven's sake, man, have a little decency, can't you? He's dead. 13:29.000 --> 13:35.000 He can't be. It's some kind of a gag. Did you hear? $500,000. Come in. 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 Mr. Bernard is here to see you. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 I'm afraid you're too late, Bernie. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 Oh, Bernie, you drew up the will, you'll know. 13:40.000 --> 13:44.000 Bernie, he said $500,000. $500,000! 13:44.000 --> 13:47.000 You mean your inheritance? That's roughly what it comes to. 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Wow, half a million bucks. 13:49.000 --> 13:55.000 And permit me to be the first to congratulate you, George, on bearing up so well unto your bereavement, that is. 13:55.000 --> 13:58.000 Half a million bucks, and he never told me. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 Why, the rotten old liar. 14:00.000 --> 14:10.000 I left the house in a day. I got in my car and started driving, just driving around. I don't know where I drove to. 14:10.000 --> 14:16.000 I just drove, and I must have spent that $500,000 500,000 different ways. 14:16.000 --> 14:22.000 But I wasn't in such a fog that I didn't do a little real thinking, too, about Lois. 14:22.000 --> 14:26.000 Because now if she got her divorce, she'd nick me for half that money anyway. 14:26.000 --> 14:30.000 And I wasn't having any of that, not after what I'd been through. 14:30.000 --> 14:33.000 So it would have to be the other way. 14:33.000 --> 14:37.000 So I'd have to talk her out of the divorce, or it looked too much like a motive. 14:37.000 --> 14:41.000 First, I wanted to be absolutely sure of everything. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 I spotted a corner drugstore. 14:43.000 --> 14:47.000 It was late for this time, but I had Bernie's home number, so it didn't matter. 14:47.000 --> 14:52.000 Then, on the way past the drug counter, I remembered the prescription Dr. Thorpe had given me. 14:52.000 --> 14:56.000 I think I had the idea right then. 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 Yes, sir? 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 How long will it take you to fill this? 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Well, oh, that won't take any time. 15:01.000 --> 15:02.000 Okay. Where's your phone? 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 Just to your left. 15:03.000 --> 15:22.000 Thanks. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Hello? 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Bernie? 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 Yeah? 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 George Mason. 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 Why hello, George. 15:27.000 --> 15:31.000 I'm afraid you can't have the money tonight, old boy, but come in first thing tomorrow. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 Great kidder, aren't you? 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 Listen, Bernie, I wanted to ask you something. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 Anything you ask, we'll be charged against you. 15:37.000 --> 15:38.000 Now, I'll joke. 15:38.000 --> 15:45.000 Seriously, though, I met a friend of mine today, a Texas oil man, but he married out here, and, well, he's having a little trouble with his wife. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 Send him around. I'll give him a discount. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 Well, maybe I'll do that, but all he wants now is free advice. 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 You see, he's worried about this community property law. 15:53.000 --> 15:56.000 Well, it seems he came into quite a hunk of dough out here lately. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 Coincidence department, huh? 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 Not exactly. This was, well, a deal, you know, real estate. 16:01.000 --> 16:05.000 Well, he wants to know if there's any way he can keep his wife from cutting in on it. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 Oh, a heel, huh? 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 That's right. 16:08.000 --> 16:16.000 Not a chance, my boy. Any property accumulated in the normal course of affairs after the marriage is community property. That's the law. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Yeah, that's what he was afraid of. 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 Now, listen, though, George, you want to know something cute? It had nothing to do with your friend. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Well, I got to go, Bernie. I'm late. I'll call you tomorrow. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 But I'm trying to tell you something. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 Well, save it till tomorrow, huh? Good night, Bernie. 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 I was in no mood to listen to bright sayings. I had too much else to do. 16:35.000 --> 16:39.000 At the drug counter, I picked up the prescription. It was what I thought it was. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 Sedative, it said. 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 She'd been taking stuff to make her sleep for quite a while now. 16:44.000 --> 16:49.000 At the next corner, I bought her the biggest box of candy I could find. 16:49.000 --> 16:55.000 Then I went home to kill it. 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 Lois? 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 Is that you, George? 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Yeah. You going to bed? 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 Yes. You're late. 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 Yeah, I... Well, I'll tell you about it. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 You don't need to. It's nothing unusual. 17:09.000 --> 17:18.000 I know it isn't, Lois, and... Well, that's what I want to talk to you about. Oh, here's something I picked up for you. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 What's this for? 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 Nothing. I just thought you might like it. 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 You must have wrecked a car or something. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 No, but... Well, I've been doing a lot of thinking today, Lois. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.000 So have I. 17:30.000 --> 17:35.000 Well, you haven't done anything about that yet, have you? I mean the divorce. 17:35.000 --> 17:38.000 Not yet. I know you're in a big hurry, but tomorrow will be time enough, won't it? 17:38.000 --> 17:42.000 Oh, now listen, Lois. Like I said, I've been doing a lot of thinking today. 17:42.000 --> 17:45.000 Well, it was quite a shock when you said that this morning. 17:45.000 --> 17:46.000 When I said it? 17:46.000 --> 17:52.000 When it came up that way. I got to thinking, well, I've been pretty rotten these last few months. 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 I don't know why, but I have and I know. 17:55.000 --> 17:58.000 You haven't been exactly the ideal companion, George. 17:58.000 --> 18:04.000 Well, it was something was driving me, making me do things and say things that I didn't mean and I didn't want to, and I couldn't help myself. 18:04.000 --> 18:14.000 I don't know what it's been. Worry, trying to scrape along with everything going sky high and running into debt, and thinking about the old man's money. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 I don't know what it's been, but I know it's been awful for me, too. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 And I know it's been ten times as bad for you. 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 I know, George, but everybody has those kinds of worries nowadays. 18:23.000 --> 18:33.000 I know. Well, they don't take it out on somebody else the way I have, but when you talked about divorce, it made me realize that I love you, Lois. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 I don't know how I could ever get along without you. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Did you really mean that, George? 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 I never meant anything more in my life. 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 Just give me another chance, Lois. I'll do anything. 18:44.000 --> 18:48.000 I'll go to a psychiatrist or something. I know it's been my fault, but I can change. 18:48.000 --> 18:52.000 If you'll help me, I can change overnight. It'll be the way it used to be, huh? 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 Oh, George. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 Oh, darling, I know. I've been a terrible healer. 18:56.000 --> 19:03.000 I knew it wasn't really you. It hasn't been all your fault either. 19:03.000 --> 19:06.000 I've been telling the nasty. 19:06.000 --> 19:12.000 I had to do something to self-defense to keep from going crazy. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 Because I love you so. 19:14.000 --> 19:18.000 Oh, now there, there, baby. It's going to be different now. I've learned my lesson, Lois. 19:18.000 --> 19:24.000 Oh, George. I know it will if we try, if we both just try. We used to be so happy. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 We're going to be happy again, too. You see, happier than ever. 19:27.000 --> 19:30.000 I know it. 19:30.000 --> 19:34.000 You know, I think I'll really sleep tonight for the first time in months. 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 Good. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 I've been so nervous lately, I've just been a wreck. 19:37.000 --> 19:41.000 Oh, say, that reminds me. I ran into Doc Thorpe today, and he gave me a prescription to use. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 I had it filled on the way home. Here. 19:43.000 --> 19:50.000 Oh, my sleeping pills. That's funny, you're thinking about that now, and I probably won't need them anymore. 19:50.000 --> 19:53.000 You better take one anyway, just to be on the safe side, huh? 19:53.000 --> 19:57.000 Say, maybe I'll take one, too. It's been a pretty tough day. 19:57.000 --> 20:02.000 All right. I guess tonight maybe I'm almost too happy to sleep. 20:02.000 --> 20:06.000 Would you warm up a little milk for me, darling? Take them with you? 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Why, sure, honey. I'll fix you right up. 20:08.000 --> 20:13.000 Thanks, Doc. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 I went downstairs and started warming the milk. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 I'd had the stuff hidden away for a couple of months now. 20:19.000 --> 20:25.000 It was a narcotic that would have the same effects as the sleeping pills and show up the same way in an autopsy. 20:25.000 --> 20:29.000 I put some sugar and cinnamon in the milk to cover the taste, 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 and then dumped in another of the stuff to kill a horse. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 Then I took it up to her. 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 Thanks, darling. 20:38.000 --> 20:42.000 Oh, that's nice. What'd you put in it? 20:42.000 --> 20:46.000 Oh, just sweeten it up a little. Sweet, sweet. 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 Oh, here's your pill. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 Thank you. 20:50.000 --> 20:55.000 Oh, it tastes a little funny. It's nice, but kind of funny. 20:55.000 --> 20:59.000 Yes, maybe I got the milk a little too hot. It always tastes funny when it's boiled. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 Ah, how is it? 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 Ah, to drink it all now, that's a good girl. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Ah, there. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 That's the ticket. Feeling sleepy? 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 All of a sudden. 21:08.000 --> 21:12.000 Well, now you lie down and let me tuck you in and you get a good sleep. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 And tomorrow, we'll start all over again. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Oh, yeah. A new life. 21:17.000 --> 21:28.000 That's right. Tomorrow there'll be a brand new life. 21:28.000 --> 21:33.000 I took the glass downstairs and washed it out thoroughly and brought it back again half empty. 21:33.000 --> 21:37.000 I dumped about three quarters of the sleeping pills down the drain 21:37.000 --> 21:44.000 and then tipped the bottle over on the bedside table to give things that reckless look, and went to bed. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 You think that's pretty funny, I suppose. 21:46.000 --> 21:52.000 Lying down in the next bed to someone you know is dying, who will be dead before morning? 21:52.000 --> 21:55.000 Someone you just murdered? 21:55.000 --> 21:57.000 Well, maybe it is. 21:57.000 --> 22:01.000 But all I was thinking of was that 500,000 bucks 22:01.000 --> 22:09.000 and spending it over and over another million different ways as I went off to sleep, and believe it or not, I slept like a baby. 22:09.000 --> 22:21.000 I woke up early feeling great, not knowing why for a minute, and then I remembered. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 I went over to look at Lois. 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 She was lying just the way I'd left it. 22:27.000 --> 22:30.000 I put out my hand and touched her arm. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 That was all I needed to know. 22:32.000 --> 22:40.000 She was cold, stone cold. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 Dr. Thomas, give me the doctor, quick, quick. 22:43.000 --> 22:44.000 Calling, please. 22:44.000 --> 22:49.000 What's the dip? George Mason, hurry, please. 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Hello, George. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Oh, Doc, listen, you've got to come right over here. 22:52.000 --> 22:53.000 Something's happened, something terrible. 22:53.000 --> 22:54.000 What is it, George? 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Lois, those pills you gave her. She's taken almost all of them. 22:56.000 --> 22:57.000 I can't get her to move. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Now, wait a minute, George, wait a minute. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 Are you sure there isn't some mistake? 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 I know there isn't. She's cold. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 You'd better call the police, George. 23:06.000 --> 23:07.000 Police? 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 Yes. Yes, it's usual in such cases. 23:10.000 --> 23:17.000 I'll be over, but you'd better call the police. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 In about half an hour, they arrived. 23:19.000 --> 23:23.000 Two plainclothes dicks and a man from the coroner's office. 23:23.000 --> 23:28.000 He and one of the dicks went in to look at Lois, and the other one stayed outside talking to me. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 I know it's a trying time for you, Mr. Mason. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 I can't understand it. I can't understand it. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 Had you and your wife had any quarrels? 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 No, well, we had a little fast, but nothing more than any other married couple. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Nothing to make her do a thing like that. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 She's been taking these sedatives long. 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 Now, the last few months, I don't know exactly why. 23:46.000 --> 23:50.000 Well, she's been nervous and upset. You know, she wasn't getting any younger, of course. 23:50.000 --> 23:55.000 Well, but you took them on advice of a physician. She was under a physician's care, I suppose. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 Oh, yes, Dr. Alexander Thorpe. Well, he saw her regularly. 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 But he never told me there was anything, mentally. 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 Oh, how about it, Doc? 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 Narcotic poisoning. Pretty clear. 24:05.000 --> 24:09.000 That bottle was full. When she went to work on it, she took enough to kill her heart. 24:09.000 --> 24:12.000 I got it filled for her only last night. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 Well, I guess that's about all, Mr. Mason. We'll, uh... 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 I'm Dr. Thorpe, the family physician. Oh, hello, John. 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 Hello, Alex. You know Lieutenant Farley? 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 How do you do, Lieutenant? Hello, Doc. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 Hello, George. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 You want to say the, uh... 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 I take it Mrs. Mason is dead? 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 Uh-huh. Narcotic poisoning. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Your, uh, prescription, wasn't it, Alex? 24:29.000 --> 24:34.000 Yes. Yes, so it was. But, uh, I'm afraid there's some discrepancy here. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 Discrepancy? Yes. 24:36.000 --> 24:40.000 I had been prescribing sedatives for Mrs. Mason for some time. 24:40.000 --> 24:48.000 Lately, however, I reached the conclusion that her mental health was such that the possession of drugs in any quantity would be dangerous. 24:48.000 --> 24:53.000 My last prescription, therefore, contained no sedative of any kind. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 What did it contain? Nothing. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 Sugar and a neutral base. 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 Quite. 24:58.000 --> 25:05.000 If Mrs. Mason died of poisoning, the poison was administered to her in some other form. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 You said, uh, administered? 25:07.000 --> 25:11.000 I did. From the evidence, I can reach no other conclusion. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 I need to get another. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Well, Mr. Mason? 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 Can I call my lawyer? 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 You're entitled to do that. 25:19.000 --> 25:25.000 And for where I sit, bud, looks like you're gonna need a good one. 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 Well, let that be a lesson for you, George. 25:42.000 --> 25:46.000 Before you commit a murder, always check with your attorney. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Great kidder, huh, Bernie? 25:48.000 --> 25:49.000 Sure. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 You did only told me this on the phone yesterday. 25:51.000 --> 25:56.000 Instead of that cock and bull story about a friend from Texas, I could have saved you a lot of trouble. 25:56.000 --> 25:57.000 Oh. 25:57.000 --> 26:03.000 I tried to tell you, money that you earn or make in business is community property. 26:03.000 --> 26:06.000 Money that you inherit is not what... 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 That 500 grand would have bid all you, George. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 You see what I mean? 26:11.000 --> 26:18.000 Next time, check with your attorney. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 Check with your attorney. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 A great kidder. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 Now he says, don't worry. 26:24.000 --> 26:29.000 If he can get me off the gas chamber, I'll still have the worst years of my life ahead of me. 26:29.000 --> 26:50.000 How do you like that? 26:50.000 --> 26:52.000 Suspense. 26:52.000 --> 26:54.000 Resouted by Roma Wines. 26:54.000 --> 26:56.000 R-O-M-A. Roma. 26:56.000 --> 26:59.000 America's favorite wine. 26:59.000 --> 27:05.000 This is Truman Bradley bringing back for the curtain call our suspense star of the evening, Kirk Douglas. 27:05.000 --> 27:12.000 Kirk, you know millions of our suspense listeners will remember you as Barbara Stanley's husband in the strange love of Martha Ivers. 27:12.000 --> 27:17.000 Seeing you play the part of a weak, neurotic man, they had never guessed you were a wrestling champion in college. 27:17.000 --> 27:20.000 Well, Truman, you know the difference isn't as great as you might think. 27:20.000 --> 27:21.000 No? 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 You see, college wrestling was my first acting experience. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.000 See, that's where I learned to portray suffering. 27:25.000 --> 27:30.000 Well, since you were undefeated champion, Kirk, I imagine most of the suffering was done by your opponent. 27:30.000 --> 27:34.000 But you must have some other hobby besides wrestling, Kirk. 27:34.000 --> 27:38.000 After all, you can't be throwing your guests around the living room all the time, you know. 27:38.000 --> 27:40.000 Well, my wife claims my favorite hobby is eating. 27:40.000 --> 27:42.000 I do have an awful sweet tooth. 27:42.000 --> 27:46.000 You know, when it comes to eating cake, I'm worse than a ten-year-old at a birthday party. 27:46.000 --> 27:51.000 Say, speaking of birthday parties, Kirk, reminds me that your host of the evening, Roma Wines, has a gift for you. 27:51.000 --> 27:57.000 This hamper of Roma Wines with the compliment of Roma, the greatest name in wine. 27:57.000 --> 28:00.000 Well, thank you, Truman, and my compliment to Roma. 28:00.000 --> 28:03.000 And for that sweet tooth of yours, Kirk, let me suggest this. 28:03.000 --> 28:10.000 After dinner tomorrow or with dessert, enjoy the tempting taste luxury of Roma California Port. 28:10.000 --> 28:17.000 Yes, brilliant, ruby red Roma Port, with its rich, full body and mellow natural sweetness, 28:17.000 --> 28:21.000 is the ideal finishing touch to a fine dinner. 28:21.000 --> 28:25.000 And when friends drop in, add warmth to their welcome with Roma Port. 28:25.000 --> 28:29.000 You'll find Roma Port delightful with your favorite fruits or nuts, too. 28:29.000 --> 28:30.000 Truman, I'll remember that. 28:30.000 --> 28:34.000 And remember, Kirk, that in all Roma wines, you enjoy an important difference, 28:34.000 --> 28:39.000 an extra goodness and fuller bouquet, richer body and better taste. 28:39.000 --> 28:47.000 Yes, Roma Wines taste better because Roma selects better tasting wines from the world's greatest reserves. 28:47.000 --> 28:51.000 That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 28:51.000 --> 28:54.000 I can't think of a better recommendation. 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