WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.880 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 00:06.880 --> 00:09.840 reserves for your pleasure. 00:09.840 --> 00:17.120 And now, Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 00:17.120 --> 00:25.520 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Miss Ava Gardner in Lady in Distress, a suspense play produced, 00:25.520 --> 00:30.520 edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:30.520 --> 00:37.920 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:37.920 --> 00:44.760 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 00:44.760 --> 00:49.560 than any other wine, for friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:49.560 --> 00:55.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you Ava Gardner 00:55.000 --> 00:57.920 in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 00:57.920 --> 01:09.200 The rain was coming down in torrents, washing huge streaks of gravel from the hillsides 01:09.200 --> 01:10.200 onto the road. 01:10.200 --> 01:12.960 It was getting dark and I was beginning to worry. 01:12.960 --> 01:15.840 I'd been waiting nearly an hour, and then I saw it. 01:15.840 --> 01:20.000 He was edging along the side of the road, his coat collar turned up against the rain, 01:20.000 --> 01:21.000 coming toward me. 01:21.000 --> 01:26.000 I eased the car into gear and drove up toward him. 01:26.000 --> 01:30.320 He had no raincoat on and he must have been walking for quite a ways because he was soaked 01:30.320 --> 01:31.320 through, dripping with the rain. 01:31.320 --> 01:34.320 He stuck out his hand when he saw me and I stopped. 01:34.320 --> 01:37.320 You're going to town? 01:37.320 --> 01:40.320 By the lower road, is that all right? 01:40.320 --> 01:43.320 That's even better. 01:43.320 --> 01:46.320 Nice lady. 01:46.320 --> 01:52.520 Out of the corner of my eye I looked him over. 01:52.520 --> 01:56.000 He was fairly young, a little pale and nervous. 01:56.000 --> 02:01.920 There was no real fear there and there was a lot of strength, of a kind, the kind I liked. 02:01.920 --> 02:05.400 It's a miserable looking world and I bet it's great to be out in it. 02:05.400 --> 02:06.400 Maybe you're right. 02:06.400 --> 02:07.400 I know I'm right. 02:07.400 --> 02:11.000 That'll somebody takes the privilege away from you of going where you want to go and 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 doing what you want to do. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.840 And you know how good it is to be out. 02:14.840 --> 02:17.280 You used the word out twice. 02:17.280 --> 02:19.280 Did you just get out of some place? 02:19.280 --> 02:20.280 Yeah. 02:20.280 --> 02:21.280 Where? 02:21.280 --> 02:22.280 That's my business. 02:22.280 --> 02:23.280 Oh, sorry. 02:23.280 --> 02:24.280 Yeah, so am I. 02:24.280 --> 02:26.280 I shouldn't be so touchy with you. 02:26.280 --> 02:28.280 You were nice to me, giving me a ride. 02:28.280 --> 02:31.280 Only if I told you where I came from it might frighten me. 02:31.280 --> 02:33.560 I don't think it would. 02:33.560 --> 02:34.560 Look at me. 02:34.560 --> 02:37.840 There's only one place a guy like me would get out of. 02:37.840 --> 02:38.840 Jail? 02:38.840 --> 02:40.840 They call it the State Penitentiary. 02:40.840 --> 02:41.840 Oh, yes. 02:41.840 --> 02:44.280 I passed it a half hour ago. 02:44.280 --> 02:45.280 Did you just get out? 02:45.280 --> 02:46.720 Just got out this morning. 02:46.720 --> 02:47.720 This morning? 02:47.720 --> 02:48.720 This is Sunday. 02:48.720 --> 02:49.720 So what? 02:49.720 --> 02:52.040 The State Penitentiary doesn't release men on Sunday. 02:52.040 --> 02:53.040 Only on weekdays. 02:53.040 --> 02:55.000 Well, they released me. 02:55.000 --> 02:59.920 You think I broke out? 02:59.920 --> 03:02.680 Maybe you're wrong and maybe you're right. 03:02.680 --> 03:04.880 What are you jumping for? 03:04.880 --> 03:06.880 I'm just reaching for a cigarette. 03:06.880 --> 03:08.440 Mind if I smoke? 03:08.440 --> 03:09.440 No, you can smoke. 03:09.440 --> 03:10.440 Cigarette? 03:10.440 --> 03:11.440 No, thanks. 03:11.440 --> 03:13.440 What are you getting nervous about? 03:13.440 --> 03:14.440 I'm not nervous. 03:14.440 --> 03:15.440 See? 03:15.440 --> 03:20.440 I told you if you knew where I came from you'd be frightened. 03:20.440 --> 03:21.440 It's natural. 03:21.440 --> 03:23.440 Why did you tell me? 03:23.440 --> 03:25.440 I just felt like talking. 03:25.440 --> 03:30.840 I haven't talked to a dame, a lady, for a long time. 03:30.840 --> 03:31.840 Like it? 03:31.840 --> 03:32.840 Yeah. 03:32.840 --> 03:33.840 Yeah, I do. 03:33.840 --> 03:38.440 I don't think I ever talked to one quite like you before. 03:38.440 --> 03:42.000 What do you mean, quite like me? 03:42.000 --> 03:44.040 You know what I mean. 03:44.040 --> 03:47.000 You know what you got on a ball, every bit of it. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.880 You like that? 03:48.880 --> 03:49.880 I could try. 03:49.880 --> 03:52.000 Don't get me wrong. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 I don't usually pick people up. 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 Okay, relax. 03:55.000 --> 03:58.520 Am I going to do anything to you? 03:58.520 --> 04:01.360 Just drive me into the city and let me off. 04:01.360 --> 04:05.280 Of course it would be nice if you didn't say anything to anybody about picking me up. 04:05.280 --> 04:06.280 I won't say anything. 04:06.280 --> 04:08.120 What are you turning in here for? 04:08.120 --> 04:09.120 I'm hungry. 04:09.120 --> 04:10.120 I haven't eaten anything all day. 04:10.120 --> 04:12.240 You can wait a little while longer. 04:12.240 --> 04:16.800 We have 90 more miles to drive and I'm going to get a sandwich now. 04:16.800 --> 04:17.800 Okay. 04:17.800 --> 04:19.560 Wait a minute. 04:19.560 --> 04:20.560 Let's just understand. 04:20.560 --> 04:23.120 You know what this is, don't you? 04:23.120 --> 04:24.120 It's a gun. 04:24.120 --> 04:25.120 And it shoots. 04:25.120 --> 04:26.120 Don't forget that. 04:26.120 --> 04:27.120 I won't. 04:27.120 --> 04:28.120 Okay, on your way. 04:28.120 --> 04:29.120 After you. 04:29.120 --> 04:30.120 Hell, nice weather for ducking. 04:30.120 --> 04:44.000 Yeah, you all alone in here, Mark? 04:44.000 --> 04:45.400 Yep, glad you dropped in. 04:45.400 --> 04:47.640 Suppose you're in a hurry to get home though. 04:47.640 --> 04:50.440 Back to the kitties and the mother-in-law, huh? 04:50.440 --> 04:51.440 Yeah. 04:51.440 --> 04:53.440 Now, what do you have? 04:53.440 --> 04:54.440 Coffee and a hamburger, please. 04:54.440 --> 04:55.440 I get two. 04:55.440 --> 04:56.440 All right, everything on those burgers? 04:56.440 --> 04:57.440 Sure. 04:57.440 --> 04:58.440 Well, what's a little onion among friends, huh? 04:58.440 --> 05:01.440 Excuse me a minute. 05:01.440 --> 05:04.440 Hey, where are you going? 05:04.440 --> 05:07.440 If you're going over to use that telephone, lady, you might just as well not bother. 05:07.440 --> 05:08.440 It's out of order. 05:08.440 --> 05:09.440 I'm trying to get it fixed. 05:09.440 --> 05:10.440 I wasn't going to use the phone. 05:10.440 --> 05:11.440 I was going to get some cigarettes. 05:11.440 --> 05:12.440 You don't say. 05:12.440 --> 05:13.440 I know he didn't believe me. 05:13.440 --> 05:14.440 He didn't say anything, but the way he looked at me, I could tell. 05:14.440 --> 05:15.440 We finished our hamburgers and I paid for them and then we went back to the car. 05:15.440 --> 05:39.920 What did you want to make a telephone call for? 05:39.920 --> 05:40.920 I wasn't going to. 05:40.920 --> 05:41.920 It wasn't because of me, was it? 05:41.920 --> 05:42.920 I told you I wasn't going to make a call. 05:42.920 --> 05:43.920 I just wanted some coffee. 05:43.920 --> 05:46.920 You turned down my cigarette a little while ago. 05:46.920 --> 05:49.920 They were the wrong brand. 05:49.920 --> 05:51.920 You bought the same brand I offered you. 05:51.920 --> 05:53.920 Who are you trying to kid, beautiful? 05:53.920 --> 05:56.920 Oh, let's not talk about it. 05:56.920 --> 05:59.920 It's not important. 05:59.920 --> 06:04.920 What are you going to do now that you're out? 06:04.920 --> 06:05.920 I got a job to do. 06:05.920 --> 06:07.920 I got to take care of somebody. 06:07.920 --> 06:08.920 You mean your family? 06:08.920 --> 06:09.920 No, beautiful. 06:09.920 --> 06:12.920 Somebody I got to buy a coffin for. 06:12.920 --> 06:15.920 As a matter of fact, I'm not even going to buy the coffin. 06:15.920 --> 06:18.920 I'm just going to make it easier for somebody to get one. 06:18.920 --> 06:21.920 Sounds an awful lot like you mean you're going to kill somebody. 06:21.920 --> 06:23.920 It's as easy as that. 06:23.920 --> 06:24.920 I am. 06:24.920 --> 06:25.920 Why? 06:25.920 --> 06:27.920 I told you I just got out of prison, didn't I? 06:27.920 --> 06:29.920 Well, you don't want to get back in. 06:29.920 --> 06:31.920 It doesn't happen to make much difference. 06:31.920 --> 06:33.920 You see, there isn't much useful left in my life. 06:33.920 --> 06:34.920 I'm through. 06:34.920 --> 06:35.920 Revenge, huh? 06:35.920 --> 06:36.920 Yeah. 06:36.920 --> 06:40.920 With all his debts settled, a guy could die happy. 06:40.920 --> 06:43.920 That's a strange philosophy. 06:43.920 --> 06:44.920 Is it? 06:44.920 --> 06:46.920 What are you driving so fast for? 06:46.920 --> 06:47.920 I'm in a hurry. 06:47.920 --> 06:49.920 I have to get home. 06:49.920 --> 06:50.920 It's OK with me. 06:50.920 --> 06:53.920 The sooner I get this thing over, the better. 06:53.920 --> 06:55.920 Get what over? 06:55.920 --> 06:56.920 Hey, that's a cop. 06:56.920 --> 06:58.920 That's what you get for driving so fast. 06:58.920 --> 06:59.920 I didn't realize it. 06:59.920 --> 07:00.920 Pull over. 07:00.920 --> 07:02.920 If they ask any questions, tell them I'm your brother. 07:02.920 --> 07:03.920 See, your brother. 07:03.920 --> 07:04.920 I will. 07:04.920 --> 07:09.920 Don't say anything. 07:09.920 --> 07:11.920 You'll be sorry for it, beautiful. 07:15.920 --> 07:17.920 You're going pretty fast for these wet roads, lady. 07:17.920 --> 07:18.920 I'm sorry. 07:18.920 --> 07:19.920 I really didn't realize it. 07:19.920 --> 07:22.920 If it skidded into a telephone pole, you would have. 07:22.920 --> 07:23.920 Let me see your license. 07:23.920 --> 07:26.920 It must be here somewhere. 07:26.920 --> 07:27.920 That's your husband? 07:27.920 --> 07:28.920 No. 07:28.920 --> 07:29.920 Now, that's my brother. 07:29.920 --> 07:30.920 Oh, here's the license. 07:30.920 --> 07:31.920 Thanks. 07:31.920 --> 07:36.920 Oh, why have I seen this name before? 07:36.920 --> 07:37.920 I don't know. 07:37.920 --> 07:38.920 Oh, sure. 07:38.920 --> 07:40.920 Your husband's in the department, isn't he? 07:40.920 --> 07:42.920 Well, yes, he is. 07:42.920 --> 07:43.920 Are you nervous about something? 07:43.920 --> 07:45.920 No, no, I'm just tired. 07:45.920 --> 07:46.920 OK. 07:46.920 --> 07:48.920 But just take it easy from now on. 07:48.920 --> 07:49.920 Here's your license. 07:49.920 --> 07:50.920 I will. 07:50.920 --> 08:02.920 Thanks a lot. 08:02.920 --> 08:04.920 So your husband's in the police department? 08:04.920 --> 08:05.920 Yes. 08:05.920 --> 08:09.920 Maybe he'll get a promotion. 08:09.920 --> 08:10.920 For catching you? 08:10.920 --> 08:11.920 Don't be foolish. 08:11.920 --> 08:14.920 Nobody's going to catch me unless I want them to. 08:14.920 --> 08:17.920 Not even you, beautiful. 08:17.920 --> 08:19.920 What did you mean about my husband? 08:19.920 --> 08:21.920 About his getting a promotion. 08:21.920 --> 08:24.920 Well, just between you and me, you know what I mean. 08:24.920 --> 08:28.920 There's somebody I got to take care of who's also in the department. 08:28.920 --> 08:29.920 What department? 08:29.920 --> 08:30.920 Oh, that dumb, the police department. 08:30.920 --> 08:31.920 Oh. 08:31.920 --> 08:32.920 Keep your eyes on the road. 08:32.920 --> 08:33.920 I am. 08:33.920 --> 08:34.920 You weren't. 08:34.920 --> 08:35.920 You were looking at me. 08:35.920 --> 08:36.920 Well, what do you expect me to do? 08:36.920 --> 08:37.920 You don't exactly make me comfortable sitting there. 08:37.920 --> 08:38.920 You recognized me, didn't you? 08:38.920 --> 08:39.920 Didn't you? 08:39.920 --> 08:40.920 I'm not sure. 08:40.920 --> 08:41.920 Yes, you are. 08:41.920 --> 08:42.920 And that could be a mistake. 08:42.920 --> 08:45.920 Believe me, I don't know who you are or anything about you. 08:45.920 --> 08:46.920 That's a lie. 08:46.920 --> 08:47.920 Stop looking at me. 08:47.920 --> 08:48.920 All right. 08:48.920 --> 08:49.920 I'm going to kill Ralph Harris. 08:49.920 --> 08:50.920 I don't want to know anything about it. 08:50.920 --> 08:51.920 Yes, you do. 08:51.920 --> 08:52.920 You know Ralph pretty well. 08:52.920 --> 08:53.920 No, no, I don't. 08:53.920 --> 08:54.920 I never heard of him. 08:54.920 --> 08:55.920 Stop dumbing up. 08:55.920 --> 08:58.920 I saw the license when you handed it to the cop. 08:58.920 --> 09:03.920 I'm going to kill your husband, Mrs. Harris. 09:03.920 --> 09:08.920 You know, it's back a few miles on the road. 09:08.920 --> 09:11.920 I could see it the way you looked at me. 09:11.920 --> 09:14.920 You know, somehow I get the idea. 09:14.920 --> 09:17.920 You're not going to mind that like you should. 09:17.920 --> 09:18.920 Why don't you say something? 09:18.920 --> 09:21.920 I can't think of anything. 09:21.920 --> 09:26.920 Now that you know, I think you and me are going to have to have a little understanding. 09:26.920 --> 09:27.920 What are you doing? 09:27.920 --> 09:28.920 Nothing. 09:28.920 --> 09:29.920 Just racing through your pocketbook. 09:29.920 --> 09:30.920 I only have $10 in it. 09:30.920 --> 09:31.920 I don't need money that bad. 09:31.920 --> 09:32.920 Then what? 09:32.920 --> 09:35.920 I'm going to get you a dress. 09:35.920 --> 09:37.920 Women carry more things. 09:37.920 --> 09:39.920 Here it is. 09:39.920 --> 09:41.920 627 Mill Street, huh? 09:41.920 --> 09:43.920 Here, you can have your pocketbook back. 09:43.920 --> 09:45.920 I'm going to take the license. 09:45.920 --> 09:48.920 I want to make sure I don't forget. 09:48.920 --> 09:50.920 What are you going to do with me? 09:50.920 --> 09:53.920 I haven't quite decided yet, beautiful. 09:53.920 --> 09:55.920 I haven't quite decided. 09:55.920 --> 10:05.920 I glanced over at him again. 10:05.920 --> 10:07.920 I knew he meant it exactly. 10:07.920 --> 10:09.920 He hadn't quite decided. 10:09.920 --> 10:10.920 Things had gone far enough. 10:10.920 --> 10:15.920 From here on out, I had to make it convincing or else. 10:15.920 --> 10:17.920 Look, Sullivan. 10:17.920 --> 10:19.920 Oh, so you don't know my name. 10:19.920 --> 10:20.920 Yes, I know your name. 10:20.920 --> 10:21.920 I remember you. 10:21.920 --> 10:22.920 I was at trial. 10:22.920 --> 10:23.920 They framed you. 10:23.920 --> 10:24.920 Did he tell you that? 10:24.920 --> 10:25.920 They didn't have to. 10:25.920 --> 10:26.920 The whole department knew it. 10:26.920 --> 10:29.920 They needed a conviction and you were it. 10:29.920 --> 10:31.920 That's what I thought. 10:31.920 --> 10:34.920 You know a lot, don't you? 10:34.920 --> 10:39.920 Listen, suppose I told you that you were right in what you said a minute ago. 10:39.920 --> 10:41.920 That I hated my husband. 10:41.920 --> 10:43.920 That I hated him as much as you do. 10:43.920 --> 10:45.920 And that I'd hated him for years. 10:45.920 --> 10:47.920 What do you think? 10:47.920 --> 10:48.920 Well? 10:48.920 --> 10:51.920 I'd say it was a stall to save your own neck. 10:51.920 --> 10:53.920 That's what I thought. 10:53.920 --> 10:57.920 That's why I wanted to get acquainted with him first. 10:57.920 --> 10:59.920 First? Before what? 10:59.920 --> 11:03.920 Well, doesn't it seem a little funny to you, am I just happening to run into you this way? 11:03.920 --> 11:07.920 The wife of the man you've sworn to kill on the very day you break out of prison? 11:07.920 --> 11:08.920 Who says I broke out? 11:08.920 --> 11:10.920 I know someone who knows Red Folly. 11:10.920 --> 11:12.920 Red Folly? 11:12.920 --> 11:15.920 He was your contact on the outside that helped you plan it, wasn't he? 11:15.920 --> 11:18.920 Listen, beautiful, I don't know how you got this. 11:18.920 --> 11:20.920 Why do you think Red Folly got the money? 11:20.920 --> 11:22.920 You tell me. 11:22.920 --> 11:23.920 I'll tell you. 11:23.920 --> 11:25.920 I want you to kill my husband. 11:25.920 --> 11:27.920 I'll even help you. 11:27.920 --> 11:45.920 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Eva Gardner in Lady in Distress, Roma Wines' presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:45.920 --> 11:55.920 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 11:55.920 --> 12:00.920 There's a reason more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 12:00.920 --> 12:04.920 It's because Roma gives you more enjoyment for your money. 12:04.920 --> 12:13.920 Yes, in all Roma wines you enjoy an important difference, an extra dividend in fuller bouquet, richer body and better taste. 12:13.920 --> 12:18.920 To bring you better tasting wine, Roma selects from California's choicest grapes. 12:18.920 --> 12:29.920 Then, with ancient skill and winemaking resources unmatched in America, Roma master vintners guide this grape treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 12:29.920 --> 12:40.920 These choice wines are placed with Melo Roma wines of years before, and from these reserves, the world's greatest reserves of fine wines, Roma later selects. 12:40.920 --> 12:44.920 So to enjoy more pleasure for your money, insist on Roma. 12:44.920 --> 12:48.920 That's R-O-M-A, Roma California Wine. 12:48.920 --> 12:55.920 And whether your favorite is Sherry, Port or Muscatel, you'll find Roma, your best buy, in good taste. 12:55.920 --> 13:04.920 And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Eva Gardner as Evelyn Harris with Howard Duffa Sullivan in Lady in Distress, 13:04.920 --> 13:11.920 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:25.920 --> 13:33.920 He was beginning to believe me now when I told him that I knew who'd helped him make the prison break, when I told him that I'd put up the money for it, 13:33.920 --> 13:41.920 when I told him that the man he wanted to kill was the man I wanted to kill, when I told him that man was my own husband. 13:41.920 --> 13:46.920 We drove along for quite a while without saying anything, then I pulled him to a gas station. 13:46.920 --> 13:49.920 It's the idea of coming in here. You don't need gas. 13:49.920 --> 13:51.920 You still don't trust me, do you? 13:51.920 --> 13:52.920 I don't know. 13:52.920 --> 13:56.920 Look, Sullivan, I have to make a phone call to my husband. 13:56.920 --> 13:58.920 Oh, no. I'm not that dumb, beautiful. 13:58.920 --> 14:00.920 But I have to call him. I told him I would. 14:00.920 --> 14:03.920 Why don't you think something's wrong? You can listen. 14:03.920 --> 14:05.920 All right. I'll listen. 14:12.920 --> 14:13.920 Where's your phone? 14:13.920 --> 14:14.920 Oh, it's just inside the door. 14:14.920 --> 14:15.920 Thanks. 14:15.920 --> 14:20.920 It's right in here, lady. Right on the wall. Right on the wall there, lady. Got your nickel? 14:20.920 --> 14:31.920 Look, I know how to use the phone. You don't have to act like you're Orson Welles. 14:37.920 --> 14:38.920 Hello? 14:38.920 --> 14:39.920 Ralph? 14:39.920 --> 14:40.920 Yes? 14:40.920 --> 14:43.920 This is Evelyn. I'm 25 miles from the city. The rain slowed me up. 14:43.920 --> 14:45.920 You should have started earlier. 14:45.920 --> 14:46.920 I know, but I didn't. 14:46.920 --> 14:47.920 Everything all right? 14:47.920 --> 14:48.920 Yes, everything's all right. 14:48.920 --> 14:52.920 Well, I'm glad to see you're getting some sense in your head. Hurry up and get here. 14:52.920 --> 14:53.920 Well, it won't take long. 14:53.920 --> 14:56.920 You're not going to give me any more trouble, are you? 14:56.920 --> 15:01.920 No, Ralph. From now on, I don't think you have a thing to worry about. 15:11.920 --> 15:15.920 We drove on into town then. I didn't say anything more and nodded at Sullivan. 15:15.920 --> 15:21.920 But I know I had it. He was still playing cautious, but I know I had it. 15:27.920 --> 15:30.920 Well, here's where I let you off. Oh, the rain's almost stopped. 15:30.920 --> 15:35.920 Okay, but listen, beautiful, don't try to double-cross me. 15:35.920 --> 15:36.920 I won't double-cross you. 15:36.920 --> 15:38.920 You'd make a mistake if you did. 15:38.920 --> 15:39.920 Sullivan? 15:39.920 --> 15:41.920 Yeah? 15:41.920 --> 15:50.920 My husband always keeps his car in the garage. Every night, just as it gets dark, he walks into the garage to get the car, alone. 15:50.920 --> 15:55.920 You know, you're quite a dish, beautiful. 15:55.920 --> 15:57.920 And there's no light in the garage. 15:57.920 --> 15:59.920 Come here. 15:59.920 --> 16:08.920 Good night, beautiful. 16:08.920 --> 16:12.920 There's only a few more blocks to the house. 16:12.920 --> 16:16.920 Ralph was waiting up for me, and he seemed genuinely happy to see me. 16:16.920 --> 16:21.920 A month ago, Ralph and I had one of our usual fights, and I went north to stay with my mother. 16:21.920 --> 16:25.920 But I realized that I couldn't stay with her forever, and the only thing left for me to do was to come back. 16:25.920 --> 16:33.920 And I hated it, crawling back to a man who had no heart, who ran his home like the lock-up pen down at police headquarters. 16:33.920 --> 16:39.920 But I had no choice. Ralph was smug about my coming back, as I knew he would be. 16:39.920 --> 16:52.920 I kept wondering if Sullivan was actually going through with it. Two days later, I knew. 16:52.920 --> 16:54.920 Good morning, Mrs. Harris. 16:54.920 --> 16:59.920 Get inside. Someone might see you. 16:59.920 --> 17:00.920 How did you know I was alone? 17:00.920 --> 17:05.920 I got friends. Your husband's working right now. He won't be home for five hours. 17:05.920 --> 17:07.920 What do you want, Sullivan? 17:07.920 --> 17:11.920 Let's not act like children. I said I was going to kill your husband, and I meant it. 17:11.920 --> 17:13.920 What are you coming here for at this time of day? 17:13.920 --> 17:14.920 See this? 17:14.920 --> 17:15.920 That little box? 17:15.920 --> 17:18.920 Yeah. When you do the wrong thing with it, it blows up. 17:18.920 --> 17:19.920 Oh. 17:19.920 --> 17:29.920 All I do is put this under the hood of somebody's car, hook it up to the starter, and when somebody gets in his car to drive off somewhere, all he does is step on the starter. 17:29.920 --> 17:33.920 And he doesn't have to worry about driving a car ever again. 17:33.920 --> 17:34.920 Oh. 17:34.920 --> 17:46.920 Let's go out to the garage, beautiful. 17:46.920 --> 17:54.920 We went out to the garage. Sullivan hooked the explosive up under the hood of Ralph's car. Then after a while, he went away. 17:54.920 --> 18:00.920 All the rest of the day, I was nervous and worried. The last minute, I even wanted to go out and disconnect it, but I didn't. 18:00.920 --> 18:04.920 It was foolish to be nervous, and it had all gone along fine so far. 18:04.920 --> 18:10.920 The time Ralph came home, I was composed and tried not to show that anything was any different than it always was. 18:10.920 --> 18:14.920 After dinner, Ralph was doing some paperwork on a housebreaking case. 18:14.920 --> 18:16.920 Oh, these reports are a nuisance. 18:16.920 --> 18:17.920 Anything I can do to help you? 18:17.920 --> 18:20.920 No. You know less about these reports than I do. 18:20.920 --> 18:22.920 Well, I just thought maybe there might be something else. 18:22.920 --> 18:23.920 Well, there isn't, so stop bothering. 18:23.920 --> 18:24.920 All right, Ralph. 18:24.920 --> 18:27.920 Wait a minute. There is something you can do. 18:27.920 --> 18:28.920 What? 18:28.920 --> 18:30.920 Go out and get the car and bring it around to the front. 18:30.920 --> 18:31.920 No. 18:31.920 --> 18:39.920 What? What are you looking so surprised about? As soon as I finish the report, I want to run down to the station. It'd save time if you got the car out. 18:39.920 --> 18:41.920 I'd rather not. 18:41.920 --> 18:42.920 What's the matter with you? 18:42.920 --> 18:44.920 I have trouble getting out of the driveway. It's too narrow. 18:44.920 --> 18:47.920 Ah, you've taken the car out a hundred times. What are you talking about? 18:47.920 --> 18:50.920 Well, Ralph, I've got a cold coming on. I'd rather stay inside. 18:50.920 --> 18:52.920 Put a coat on. It isn't cold out anyway. 18:52.920 --> 18:53.920 I don't want to drive your car. 18:53.920 --> 18:58.920 Look, the least you could do is help me out once in a while when I asked you to. Heaven knows you'd never do anything for me anyway. 18:58.920 --> 18:59.920 Well, it won't save that much time. 18:59.920 --> 19:02.920 Get the car out before I get mad. 19:02.920 --> 19:12.920 All right, Ralph. If you want me to, I'll get the car. 19:12.920 --> 19:21.920 What could I do? I went out and opened the garage doors and put it around for a few minutes and slammed the door a couple of times, and I went back in the house. 19:21.920 --> 19:22.920 Ralph? 19:22.920 --> 19:23.920 Well, what, Ralph? 19:23.920 --> 19:25.920 Is the car out in front? 19:25.920 --> 19:26.920 It wouldn't start. 19:26.920 --> 19:28.920 What do you mean it wouldn't start? 19:28.920 --> 19:31.920 I don't know. It just wouldn't start. The motor wouldn't turn over. 19:31.920 --> 19:33.920 Oh, you give me nothing but trouble. 19:33.920 --> 19:35.920 It isn't my fault. It's your car. 19:35.920 --> 19:36.920 All right, all right. Forget it. 19:36.920 --> 19:37.920 Why don't you go out and try it yourself? 19:37.920 --> 19:45.920 Because I won't, that's all. I've been having trouble with my battery. It's probably run down again. If it wouldn't start for you, it won't start for me. I'll look at it tomorrow sometime. 19:45.920 --> 19:47.920 I'll do what you want. 19:47.920 --> 19:49.920 Wait a minute. 19:49.920 --> 19:51.920 Excuse me. I have some reading to do. 19:51.920 --> 19:52.920 Well, wait a minute. 19:52.920 --> 19:53.920 What do you want? 19:53.920 --> 20:02.920 Call up headquarters and have them send a cruiser around for me. 20:02.920 --> 20:07.920 I could hardly sleep that night. Why, of all times, did Ralph have to ask me to get his car? 20:07.920 --> 20:16.920 This almost as if he suspected. I knew he'd have to get the car sometime, but I was afraid he might check over the car and find out what was wrong with it and discover the mechanism. 20:16.920 --> 20:21.920 Or he might send a mechanic out from a garage to look at it, and an innocent person would be killed. 20:21.920 --> 20:25.920 But I was afraid of Sullivan by this time, terribly afraid. 20:25.920 --> 20:30.920 I was exhausted from nervousness and lack of sleep when I got out of bed the next day. 20:30.920 --> 20:48.920 Ralph had breakfast and went off to work in the police cruiser. I didn't dare go near the garage. I didn't dare do anything, except just wait. 20:48.920 --> 20:49.920 Mrs. Harris? 20:49.920 --> 20:50.920 Yes? 20:50.920 --> 20:51.920 Sullivan speaking. 20:51.920 --> 20:52.920 Why, Lo? 20:52.920 --> 20:56.920 I've been reading all the papers and I haven't seen anything about your husband yet. 20:56.920 --> 20:57.920 Yes, I know. 20:57.920 --> 20:58.920 What happened? 20:58.920 --> 21:00.920 Well, last night he didn't take the car out. 21:00.920 --> 21:01.920 Why not? 21:01.920 --> 21:03.920 I don't know why not. He just didn't, that's all. 21:03.920 --> 21:07.920 Mrs. Harris, you wouldn't try to stall me, would you? 21:07.920 --> 21:13.920 No, I swear that's what happened. He left the car in a... he left the house in a police cruiser. He didn't take his car. 21:13.920 --> 21:14.920 You know what I think? 21:14.920 --> 21:16.920 No. What? 21:16.920 --> 21:21.920 I think I'm going to take a run out there and check up myself. Your husband isn't home, is he? 21:21.920 --> 21:23.920 No, no, he won't be home for three hours. 21:23.920 --> 21:35.920 Okay, beautiful. You can expect me. 21:35.920 --> 21:38.920 Well, you could at least... oh, Ralph. 21:38.920 --> 21:40.920 Who did you expect, Winston Churchill? 21:40.920 --> 21:43.920 Well, he doesn't have time for you to be home. 21:43.920 --> 21:46.920 Who said there was a certain time for me to be home? 21:46.920 --> 21:48.920 Well, you don't usually get home this early. 21:48.920 --> 21:53.920 Well, there wasn't much doing today. I have a few hours coming to me, but... what's the matter with you? 21:53.920 --> 21:54.920 Nothing, why? 21:54.920 --> 21:59.920 Well, you're nervous about something. Don't tell me you have a boyfriend hiding in the closet. 21:59.920 --> 22:00.920 You may look if you want to. 22:00.920 --> 22:07.920 I wouldn't bother. All right, come on, come on out with it. What's on your mind? What do you keep looking out the window for? 22:07.920 --> 22:12.920 Oh, stop examining me like a criminal. I just didn't sleep well last night. I'm tired. 22:12.920 --> 22:15.920 You don't do anything to get tired. Where are you going? 22:15.920 --> 22:22.920 When you came in, I was just on my way to the market. Do you mind? I have to get my coat. Do you want me to explain any more? 22:22.920 --> 22:23.920 Say, Evelyn. 22:23.920 --> 22:25.920 What's wrong, Ralph? 22:25.920 --> 22:33.920 I just thought I saw somebody go into our garage. Come here. Look, garage door is half open. 22:33.920 --> 22:38.920 Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you. I called the garage and had them send a man to look at the battery. He'll take care of everything. 22:38.920 --> 22:40.920 Yeah? Well, I'm going out and take a look myself. 22:40.920 --> 22:41.920 You don't have to. He knows his job. 22:41.920 --> 22:45.920 Sometimes I don't think you have any brains at all. I'll be right back. 22:52.920 --> 22:58.920 I stood there at the window watching. I knew who was in the garage and it wasn't the mechanic. It was Sullivan. 22:58.920 --> 23:05.920 Ralph walked off the back porch and across the yard and then into the garage. I didn't know what was going to happen. 23:05.920 --> 23:13.920 I kept thinking only one man will come out of there alive. And then I thought maybe I'll be lucky. Maybe neither of them will come out alive. 23:13.920 --> 23:20.920 I pulled the curtain back so I could see more clearly. And then I waited what seemed hours staring through the window. 23:20.920 --> 23:28.920 I couldn't hear a thing and nobody came out. Nobody. I moved closer. My face pressed against the glass. 23:28.920 --> 23:35.920 And then just before it happened, somehow I could hear it coming. 23:58.920 --> 24:03.920 Operator. Get me to police headquarters. Just a moment. 24:11.920 --> 24:13.920 Police headquarters. Sergeant Thompson speaking. 24:13.920 --> 24:18.920 This is Mrs. Ralph Harris. There's been an accident. An explosion. 24:18.920 --> 24:21.920 We'll be right out, Mrs. Harris. Are you all right? 24:21.920 --> 24:28.920 The window broke. A big piece of glass. My throat. 24:28.920 --> 24:46.920 One way I was lucky. Neither of them did come out alive. But another way I wasn't so lucky. I'm going to die. 24:58.920 --> 25:03.920 Suspense. 25:03.920 --> 25:10.920 Presented by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A. Roma. America's favorite wines. 25:10.920 --> 25:24.920 Before we hear again from Ava Gardner, star of tonight's suspense play, this is Truman Bradley reminding you that in all Roma wines you enjoy an extra premium goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 25:24.920 --> 25:38.920 Yes, Roma wines taste better because Roma, and only Roma, selects better tasting wines from the world's greatest wine reserves. 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