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Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 8 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,040 than any other wine. 9 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,160 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 10 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:58,440 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you Virginia 11 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,160 Bruce in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 12 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:14,760 It was a Monday, most ordinary Monday in the world, except that I'd stolen an extra five 13 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:19,120 minutes dough after the alarm went off and I was feeling just a teeny bit guilty about 14 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,120 it. 15 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,360 I had to leave for the office at nine sharp, so I can't afford to waste a second in the 16 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:24,360 morning. 17 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,280 By the time I had the furnace going, the table laid in the breakfast nook and the coffee 18 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,280 and toast started, it was 7.30. 19 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,440 That left me 10 minutes more before Ed would be ready for me to run his bath. 20 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,920 Ten precious minutes to myself. 21 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,600 I suppose every woman has some little pet's vanity of her own. 22 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,600 With me, it's my hair. 23 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,320 Ed's always trying to make me have it cut. 24 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:53,000 He says long hair is unhygienic and besides, a woman of my age shouldn't be concerned with 25 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 appearances. 26 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,440 I often wonder what he would say if he knew I spent ten whole minutes every morning just 27 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:01,680 brushing and combing my hair. 28 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:07,760 Just brushing and combing and admiring myself in the mirror like any schoolgirl. 29 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,760 Only this morning I didn't. 30 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:09,760 I was a little upset. 31 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:10,760 Millie? 32 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:11,760 Millie! 33 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:12,760 Yes, dear? 34 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:13,760 Where's my blue search suit? 35 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:14,760 I can't find it anywhere. 36 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,160 Oh, Ed, I gave it to the cleaner. 37 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:18,160 Oh, no. 38 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,160 Well, it didn't. 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,160 He's cleaning so badly. 40 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:21,160 You said to yourself... 41 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,160 I said nothing of a kind. 42 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:23,160 But you did, Ed. 43 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,160 You said... 44 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:25,160 All right, all right. 45 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:26,160 I'll wear the gray. 46 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,160 You'd better come out and start your breakfast. 47 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,160 It's late. 48 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,160 Yes, yes, yes. 49 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:30,160 I'll be right out. 50 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,160 Ed? 51 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,160 Yes? 52 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,160 You know, Roger didn't come home last night. 53 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,160 Oh, isn't he? 54 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,160 No, and I'm worried. 55 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,160 Well, I don't see why. 56 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,160 Half the time he doesn't get home until three or four o'clock in the morning. 57 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,160 Now, clean, please. 58 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,160 Yes, dear. 59 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,160 But he's never stayed out all night before. 60 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,160 Look, Millie. 61 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,160 For two years, I provided food and shelter for your nephew so he could go to college in 62 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,160 this town, and I've never complained. 63 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,160 And please don't say it's because of his old man's money either. 64 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,160 You had a quarrel with him, Admin. 65 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,160 I didn't... 66 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,160 Oh, it wasn't a quarrel. 67 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,160 I just told him a few things for his own good, that's all. 68 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:03,160 Well, it was more than that. 69 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,160 I heard you. 70 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,160 You fought with him. 71 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,160 I didn't fight with him. 72 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,160 There was a little scuffle, maybe. 73 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,160 There was blood on the lapel of your suit, too. 74 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,160 All right, there was. 75 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,160 Say, what are you driving at, anyway? 76 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,160 Nothing, Ed. 77 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,160 I'm just wondering why Roger didn't come home. 78 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,160 Well, don't worry, don't worry. 79 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,160 He'll show up. 80 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,160 Well, I've got to be going. 81 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,160 Well, it's only half past eight. 82 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,160 I've got a walk today. 83 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,160 I had trouble with the car last night. 84 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,160 Say, that reminds me, Millie. 85 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,160 What are all those glass jars doing up on the shelf in the garage? 86 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,160 Oh, my preserving jar. 87 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,160 Well, whatever they are, they certainly don't belong in the garage. 88 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,160 But, Ed, I never start with my preserves until the 15th. 89 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,160 Oh, look, Millie, look. 90 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,160 Raleigh's are sending a mechanic up the first thing this morning to look over the car. 91 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,160 I don't want the garage looking like a... like a cannery. 92 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,160 Besides, those things are dangerous up there. 93 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,160 Suppose they should fall. 94 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,160 All right. 95 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,160 Put them down in the cellar. 96 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Why, up there where they are, those things could be the death of somebody. 97 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,160 By the time I'd washed up the breakfast thing, he said, Bobby. 98 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,160 Bobby's my pet canary. 99 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,160 It was ten o'clock. 100 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,160 Suddenly I remember those wretched preserving jars. 101 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,160 I was just starting on them. 102 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,160 When I got a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye and the shadows behind me, 103 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,160 I spun around, my heart pounding away ten to the dozen, and then I saw it. 104 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,160 The hand hanging out of the open window of the car. 105 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,160 A very still white hand. 106 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,160 Roger's hand. 107 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,160 It was cold when I touched it. 108 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,160 Roger was dead. 109 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,160 I don't know quite what happened after that. 110 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,160 I know I was running away from that awful darkness and out into the sunlight of the yard, 111 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,160 and I was screaming, I guess. 112 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,160 Then I must have fainted, because the next thing I knew, 113 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,160 there was a little crowd of people standing around, 114 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,160 and someone was holding me in his arms, and that was Duncan. 115 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,160 It's all right now. 116 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,160 Oh, he's dead. He's dead. 117 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,160 It's all right, Mrs. Anderson. It's all right now. 118 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,160 Who are you? What? 119 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,160 You don't know me, Mrs. Anderson. My name is Duncan Shaw. 120 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,160 You fainted. 121 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,160 The next few weeks were like a nightmare. 122 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,160 The local police and then the state authorities too. 123 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,160 Questioning, looking, snooping. 124 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,160 They knew he'd died of carbon monoxide poisoning, 125 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,160 but there were some wounds too on his head, and they couldn't explain them. 126 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,160 All this and what happened to poor Roger and Ed being so nervous and irritable. 127 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,160 Finally, there was an inquest. I didn't even go to it, 128 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:40,160 but it was all in the papers the next day. 129 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,160 You're not eating your breakfast, Ed? 130 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,160 I, uh, I don't feel hungry. 131 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,160 Oh, all right. 132 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,160 Ed? 133 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,160 Yes? 134 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,160 What does an open verdict mean? 135 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,160 Open verdict? 136 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:56,160 Yes. That's what the coroner's jury said about Roger, wasn't it? 137 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,160 Yes, yes, that's right. 138 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,160 Well, what does it mean? 139 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,160 Well, it just means that they don't know, they don't know how it happened. 140 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,160 You mean whether it was an accident or something else? 141 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:05,160 Yes, yes, yes. 142 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,160 I don't think it was an accident. Do you? 143 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,160 I don't know. I don't know what it was. 144 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,160 Who do you think did it? 145 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,160 What do you mean by that? 146 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,160 Just what I said. Who do you think did it? 147 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,160 I don't know. What do you mean? It probably was an accident. 148 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,160 Maybe it was suicide. How do I know? 149 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,160 Somebody hit him, Ed. 150 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,160 All right, maybe somebody did. I don't know and I don't care. 151 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,160 You don't what? 152 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,160 I said I don't know and I don't know anything about it. 153 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,160 I didn't say anything more. 154 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,160 I just watched him as he stormed down the path to the garage. 155 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,160 I suppose it was the way I felt about Ed that was the reason for what happened next. 156 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,160 I mean, I'd always felt that way about Ed in some ways, I guess, but... 157 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,160 ...Nard was different. 158 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,160 In what way? 159 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,160 That morning I was taking a basket of old junk out to the tool shed. 160 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:03,160 It was heavy and maybe I wasn't looking where I was going, but as I came around the corner of the house... 161 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,160 ...I ran right into someone. Someone who grabbed me by the arm. 162 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,160 I'm sorry. 163 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,160 Let go of me. 164 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,160 I'm sorry. 165 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,160 What do you mean by frightening me this way? 166 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,160 I didn't mean to frighten you. 167 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,160 Well, what are you doing around here anyway? 168 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,160 You don't remember me, do you? 169 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:16,160 No, I certainly do not. 170 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:22,160 I picked you up that day you fainted. I just came around to offer my condolences. 171 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,160 Oh, well, thank you. 172 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,160 Here, let me help you with that. 173 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,160 Oh, no, no, please don't bother. 174 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,160 Oh, it's no bother. There's nothing better to do. 175 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:34,160 See, I'm a member of that growing army, not to be unemployed. 176 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,160 Oh, I see. 177 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:36,160 Where do you want the stuff put? 178 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,160 Please, I wish you wouldn't. 179 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,160 Oh, very well. I'll be going then. I hope you'll forgive the intrusion. 180 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,160 Oh, your foot. 181 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,160 What about it? 182 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,160 Well, when I dropped the basket I hadn't realized. 183 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,160 No, dear lady, I'm afraid this wound goes back a little farther than that. 184 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,160 Oh, I am sorry. Please forgive me. 185 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,160 It's all right. 186 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:02,160 But really I feel terrible. A veteran and no job. And here I've been... 187 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,160 There must be something I can do to make up for it. 188 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:05,160 Oh, don't feel that way. 189 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:10,160 But perhaps, believe me, this isn't charity. Perhaps you'll let me make you some breakfast. 190 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,160 Breakfast? Well, uh... 191 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,160 Well, then that settles. Come along. 192 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,160 Uh, you must be a stranger in these parts. 193 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,160 You might call me that. 194 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,160 What in the world ever brought you to a little out-of-the-way place like Richmond? 195 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,160 Oh, this and that. Anything more you'd like to know? 196 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,160 No, you mustn't think that I... 197 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,160 Well, here we are. Just sit down and make yourself comfortable. 198 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,160 Now have something ready and a gif. 199 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,160 I've been rude. I'm sorry. You're terribly nice, Miss Sons. 200 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,160 Oh, not at all. Tea or coffee, Mr. 201 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,160 You know, I've forgotten your name. 202 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,160 Shaw. Duncan Shaw. And, uh, tea. 203 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,160 You know, Mr. Shaw, I mean, I've been thinking and... 204 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,160 No, I won't be offended. 205 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:58,160 Well, it's just that my husband's always talking about the state the garden's in 206 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,160 and I never seem to have time to do anything about it myself. 207 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,160 And there's a lot of other things like the mailbox and the fence in the back that's falling apart and... 208 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,160 Well, uh... 209 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,160 You're sweet. 210 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,160 Of course, I couldn't pay very much, so if it's going to interfere with any other plans... 211 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:17,160 No. I don't think it would interfere with any other plans. 212 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,160 I don't think it would interfere at all. 213 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,160 That's how it began. Just as casual as that. 214 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,160 A few weeks ago, I could never have done such a thing. 215 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,160 I'd have worried about what Ed would say and how I was going to tell him 216 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,160 or felt guilty and ashamed that I was keeping a secret from him. 217 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,160 It didn't make any difference now. I didn't care. 218 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:47,160 Duncan came to work every day after Ed had gone to the office and left before he got home. 219 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:53,160 And it got so I looked forward to his coming with a strange secret after me. 220 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,160 I hope I'm not disturbing you, Mrs. Anderson. 221 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,160 Why, no, of course not. 222 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,160 I was just going home for the day and I thought I'd... 223 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,160 Of course, did you just... Wait a minute, I left my purse upstairs. 224 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,160 Oh, you've already paid me today, Mrs. Anderson. 225 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:07,160 Oh, yes, I did. 226 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,160 You said you were going to hang some curtains this afternoon. 227 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,160 Thought I might be able to help. 228 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,160 Well, that's very kind of you, I'm sure. 229 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,160 Will you join me in a cup of tea, please? 230 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,160 Oh, I wouldn't want to trouble you. 231 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,160 There's no trouble. I've got it all made. 232 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,160 Oh, so it is. You take milk or lemon? 233 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,160 Oh, please. I'll do it. May I? 234 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,160 Of course, it's just that... 235 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,160 You're not used to being waited on. 236 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,160 Well, now you've come to mention it. I suppose I'm not. 237 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,160 Or perhaps you've just forgotten what it feels like. 238 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,160 Perhaps I have. 239 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:36,160 Sugar? 240 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,160 Yes, please. 241 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,160 There are a lot of other things you've forgotten, aren't there? 242 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:42,160 Oh, I don't know. 243 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,160 Like poetry, for instance? 244 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,160 Poetry. 245 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,160 You recognize this? 246 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,160 Edna St. Vincent Millay? 247 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:51,160 Where in the world? 248 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:52,160 You asked me to clean out the attic. 249 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,160 Duncan, give it to me. 250 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,160 There's much left to give. Millay or Nick Kenny, it's all the same to the rats. 251 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,160 But there's a name on the flyleaf. 252 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:05,160 Mildred West and part of a sonnet written out in longhand. 253 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,160 You remember what it was, Mildred West? 254 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,160 Why, no, I don't think I do. 255 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,160 I think you do. I think you know it by heart. 256 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:23,160 Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath, nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone. 257 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:30,160 Yet many a man is making friends with death, even as I speak, for lack of love alone. 258 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,160 Mildred. 259 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,160 Yes? 260 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,160 You're lovely. 261 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,160 Your hair. 262 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,160 It's like the Princess Griselda that I used to read about when I was a little boy. 263 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:49,160 I used to pretend I was her knight in shining armor, and one day I would come riding up and rescue her from the Dark Tower. 264 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,160 You see, she was a prisoner, too. 265 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,160 Oh, no, Duncan, no. 266 00:11:55,160 --> 00:12:00,160 And all this time you've been like her, waiting to be rescued, waiting to escape. 267 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,160 Haven't you, Mildred? 268 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,160 Haven't you? 269 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:09,160 Oh, yes, Duncan, yes, yes, yes. 270 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,160 Oh, Duncan, I'm afraid. 271 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,160 Of what? Of being happy? 272 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,160 No, only of how it will end. 273 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,160 Why does it have to end? 274 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,160 It will, and then I'll want to die. 275 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,160 There's somebody at the door, aren't there? 276 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,160 It must be Ed. 277 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,160 I'll go. 278 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,160 Wait, you don't have to. 279 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,160 I've been going to tell him anyway, now's as good a time. 280 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,160 Tell him. 281 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,160 Milly, where is the... 282 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,160 Ed, this is Duncan Shaw. 283 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,160 Duncan Shaw? 284 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,160 Yes, he's been doing some work around the place. 285 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,160 Oh, he has, has he? 286 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,160 I'll be going, Mrs. Anderson. 287 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,160 I'll see you tomorrow, Duncan. 288 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,160 We'll talk about that later. 289 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,160 There's nothing to talk about, Ed. 290 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,160 Isn't there? Well, I don't want him around here. 291 00:12:58,160 --> 00:12:59,160 Why not? 292 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,160 I don't like strangers hanging around here. 293 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,160 Haven't there been enough of them already? 294 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,160 How do you know that he is a... 295 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,160 You sound almost as though you had a guilty conscience, Ed. 296 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,160 Guilty conscience? 297 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,160 What do you mean? Guilty of what? 298 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,160 I haven't put a name to it, Ed, but I could. 299 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,160 What are you talking about? 300 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,160 Murder. 301 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,160 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Virginia Bruce 302 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,160 in Night Comes Riding, 303 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,160 Roma Wines' presentation tonight in 304 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,160 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 305 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,160 Suspense. 306 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,160 Between the acts of suspense, 307 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,160 this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 308 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,160 For entertaining friends, 309 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,160 for everyday pleasure, 310 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,160 more Americans select Roma 311 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,160 than any other wine. 312 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,160 That's because you enjoy 313 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,160 an important difference in Roma, 314 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,160 an extra dividend of pleasure 315 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,160 in fuller bouquet, 316 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,160 richer body, and better taste. 317 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,160 To bring you superior wines, 318 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,160 better tasting wines, 319 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,160 Roma selects from California's 320 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,160 choicest grapes. 321 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,160 Then, with ancient skill 322 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,160 and winemaking resources unmatched in America, 323 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,160 Roma master ventners 324 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,160 guide this great treasure 325 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,160 unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 326 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,160 These choice wines 327 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,160 are placed with mellow Roma wines 328 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,160 of years before, 329 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,160 and from these reserves, 330 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,160 the world's greatest reserves 331 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,160 of fine wines, 332 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,160 Roma later selects 333 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,160 for your pleasure. 334 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,160 So why not enjoy a Roma California wine tomorrow? 335 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,160 Whether your favorite is 336 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,160 Sherry or Port, Muscatel or Tokay, 337 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,160 you'll find any wine by Roma 338 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,160 is better tasting wine. 339 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,160 That's R-O-M-A, 340 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,160 Roma wine, 341 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,160 your best buy 342 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,160 in good taste. 343 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,160 And now Roma wines 344 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,160 bring back to our Hollywood soundstage 345 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,160 Virginia Bruce as Mildred Anderson, 346 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,160 Wally Mayer as her husband Ed, 347 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,160 and Howard Duff as Duncan Shaw. 348 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,160 In Night Comes Riding, 349 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,160 a tale well calculated to keep you in 350 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,160 suspense. 351 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:30,160 Music 352 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,160 We never spoke of it after that. 353 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,160 We never spoke of much of anything. 354 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,160 I knew he'd hated Roger, I knew he'd fought with him, 355 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,160 and I'd accused him to his face of killing him. 356 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,160 He didn't even bother to deny it. 357 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,160 What was there to talk about? 358 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,160 Besides, I was in love. 359 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,160 That was part of it too, I suppose. 360 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,160 Part of my trying to escape. 361 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,160 Falling in love with a boy years younger 362 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,160 than myself. A stranger that 363 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,160 I'd only known a few short weeks. 364 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,160 I knew I was living in a dream world and 365 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,160 that I'd have to wake up some day. 366 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,160 But I didn't care. 367 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,160 Will you pass the milk please, Milly? 368 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,160 It's by your place. Oh, yes. 369 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,160 Well, I see 370 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,160 there was another robbery in town last night. 371 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,160 Frank Davis's house. 372 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,160 He was wounded too. 373 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,160 They took a shot at him. That's too bad. 374 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,160 Well, you might show 375 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,160 a little interest. That might have been our 376 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,160 house, you know. That might have been me that stopped 377 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,160 that bullet. Yes, I suppose it might. 378 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,160 And you wouldn't care much either, would you? I didn't say that. 379 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,160 Now look, Milly, 380 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,160 there's no use holding this thing against me 381 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,160 forever. Holding what against you? 382 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,160 Listen, I know you didn't tell them how 383 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,160 I fought with Roger that night, and I'm grateful. 384 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,160 When the police are looking for a suspect, you 385 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,160 never can tell what they're liable to pounce on, but now 386 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,160 it's 8.30. Better get started. 387 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,160 All right, Milly, 388 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,160 if that's the way you want it. 389 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,160 Well, I see your 390 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,160 protege's out there bright and early 391 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,160 this morning. Is he? What's 392 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,160 the catch, Milly? You're not paying 393 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,160 him enough to amount to anything. Maybe he just 394 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,160 likes working for an important man like 395 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,160 you. Or maybe he's smitten with 396 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,160 the lady of the house. 397 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,160 Ha ha! That'd be a hot one, 398 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,160 wouldn't it? Milly's boyfriend. 399 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,160 Ha ha ha! Well, I gotta go. 400 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,160 Good morning, sir. 401 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,160 Bye. Good morning. 402 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,160 Hello, Griselda. Hello, Duncan. 403 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,160 You're beautiful. 404 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,160 How'd your breakfast? Your hair 405 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,160 is beautiful. I'll fix you 406 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,160 something. No, wait. Don't you want breakfast? 407 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,160 Mildred, I want to talk 408 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,160 to you. What? So serious? 409 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,160 Yes, serious. 410 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,160 What is it, Duncan? I've lied to you, 411 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,160 Mildred. Lied to me? Yes. 412 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,160 In the first place, I'm 413 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,160 not a veteran. Oh, 414 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,160 well, what difference does that make? 415 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,160 In this, uh, gimpy leg, this limp, 416 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,160 I didn't get it in the war. I had 417 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,160 it long before, and that's why I wasn't 418 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,160 in the war. Why, Duncan, 419 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,160 why should that make any difference? Listen, 420 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,160 uh, remember the time I told you 421 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,160 the fairy story that first time about 422 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,160 the Princess Griselda? 423 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,160 Of course. I should have told you another story 424 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,160 right then. Does it have a 425 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,160 happy ending? No. 426 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,160 Then I don't want to hear it. Well, you've got 427 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,160 to hear it sooner or later. Oh, Duncan, please, if it's 428 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,160 not... Now, listen. 429 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,160 Once upon a time there was a little boy. 430 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,160 He wasn't much different from any other 431 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,160 kid born on the wrong side of the tracks 432 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,160 then. He just happened to be 433 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,160 behind the door when the silver spoons were 434 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,160 passed out. But he didn't care, 435 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,160 and he did have one break. 436 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,160 He had an older brother, Mike. 437 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,160 Mike was my whole 438 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,160 world. Until he was 439 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,160 killed. Oh, Duncan. 440 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,160 We hadn't been doing anything wrong, just a gang 441 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,160 of kids playing cops and robbers with an 442 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,160 old warehouse for props, but 443 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,160 to him we were fair game. 444 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,160 Maybe we did run 445 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,160 away and it was wrong, but we were just kids, 446 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,160 scared kids, so we ran. 447 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,160 That's when he started shooting. 448 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,160 The first shot winged me in the leg. 449 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,160 The next one caught Mike in the shoulder 450 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,160 and knocked him down. 451 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,160 Who started shooting, Duncan? 452 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,160 Your husband. 453 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,160 Mike fell forward on his knees. I can 454 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,160 still see him. Just a kid on his knees in the dirt. 455 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,160 Then the next shot was a bullseye. 456 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,160 It hit him right in the middle of the back. 457 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,160 I wanted to kill him then, 458 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,160 but I knew I didn't have a chance. He was a big slob 459 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,160 with a gun in his hand protecting the community, 460 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,160 and I was just a kid, but I swore to them that someday, 461 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,160 that someday I'd... You'd kill him? 462 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,160 Yes. And that's 463 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,160 why you came back? 464 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,160 Yes. And that's why you came to me? 465 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,160 No, no, no, Mildred. 466 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,160 That was something I hadn't planned on. You see, 467 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,160 I... I fell in love with you. 468 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,160 That sort of makes 469 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,160 a difference. Killed Roger 470 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,160 too. I know it now. That's another reason. 471 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,160 I couldn't say anything before, 472 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,160 but... Murder? 473 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,160 What's the difference, what you call it? 474 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,160 No difference. And 475 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,160 after a while we could go away. No one 476 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,160 would ever know. We could really be together, really be 477 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,160 free. Free. But... 478 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,160 We'd have to plan it that way. 479 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,160 Something simple, 480 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,160 accidental. Duncan. 481 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,160 I know. 482 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,160 It's horrible to even talk about it. 483 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,160 No, Duncan, it can be simple. 484 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,160 You mean you... Listen, he told me himself 485 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,160 this morning. He was reading about the robbery 486 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,160 last night. He said it could have been our house. 487 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,160 He said it could have been him. Sure. 488 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,160 Shot while protecting his home. An accident, 489 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,160 one of those things. 490 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,160 Does he still have a gun? No. 491 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,160 We'd better do it soon. Yes. 492 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,160 Tonight. Tonight? Why not? 493 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,160 I'll leave the kitchen door unlocked. 494 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,160 Alright. What time? 495 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,160 He's always asleep by 12. 496 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,160 Duncan. Yes? 497 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,160 You're not afraid, are you? 498 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,160 Because I'm not. Not anymore. 499 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,160 Afraid? 500 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,160 No. 501 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,160 Just glad. 502 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:52,160 Because at last I'm gonna kill him. 503 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,160 I was quite calm after that. 504 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,160 I got supper as usual, 505 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,160 as I had for the past ten years. 506 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,160 Ed would be home for supper at 7.30. 507 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,160 Ed was always home for supper at 7.30 508 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,160 on Thursday. 509 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,160 Only on this Thursday for the first time in ten years 510 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,160 Ed was late. 511 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,160 Thirty agonizing minutes late. 512 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,160 Well, something sure smells good. 513 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,160 You're late. What happened? 514 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,160 I stopped in at Lerner's Hardware. 515 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,160 Brought you a little present. 516 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,160 Gun? 517 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,160 It's no water pistol. 518 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,160 What do you want a gun for? 519 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,160 What do you think? 520 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,160 What are you afraid of, Ed? 521 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,160 Who says I'm afraid? 522 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,160 But what these robberies and all these other things? 523 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,160 What other things? Oh, let's skip it, shall we, Millie? 524 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,160 All I say is a man's entitled to a little protection 525 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,160 for his home, for his wife. Isn't that right? 526 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,160 Well, when do we eat? 527 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,160 I'll dish it right up. 528 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,160 Ed. Yes? 529 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,160 About the gun... 530 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,160 What about it? Well, where do you want to keep it? 531 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,160 I mean, I'll put it away for you. 532 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,160 Somewhere where you'll always... Oh, no. 533 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,160 No, no. From now on, this gun's my right arm. 534 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,160 Anybody starts 535 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,160 prowling around this place, it's in for the shock 536 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,160 of his life. Why? 537 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,160 This thing will knock a man down at fifty yards 538 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,160 and any closer. 539 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,160 Well... 540 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,160 What's the matter with you? 541 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,160 You look as if you've seen a ghost. 542 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,160 Nothing, nothing. Well, come on, let's eat. 543 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,160 I'm starved. 544 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,160 He kept it right next to his safe all through dinner. 545 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,160 Finally, after about an hour 546 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,160 of listening to the radio, he got up 547 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,160 to go to bed, and he took that gun 548 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,160 with him. I followed, 549 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,160 as I always did, 550 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,160 to turn his bed down for him. 551 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,160 As I came into the room, I saw him 552 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,160 putting it under his pillow. 553 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,160 After that, it seemed hours and hours 554 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,160 lying in the dark, 555 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,160 watching the luminous hands of the little 556 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,160 bedside concrete morn to eleven. 557 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,160 Eleven? 558 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,160 Waiting until I was 559 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,160 sure he was asleep. 560 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,160 And then slowly, 561 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,160 ever so slowly, 562 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,160 I clipped my hand 563 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,160 under his pillow, 564 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,160 waiting for the gun. 565 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,160 What's the matter? 566 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,160 What's the matter? 567 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,160 I think I forgot to lock the kitchen door. 568 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,160 Oh, go to sleep, Millie. I locked it 569 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,160 myself. 570 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,160 I looked at the clock. 571 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,160 Nearly quarter of twelve. 572 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,160 There was no time for anything else now. 573 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,160 I slipped out of bed and down the back stairs to the kitchen 574 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,160 as quickly and as silently as I could. 575 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,160 I was just pushing open the screen door 576 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,160 when I felt a hand like a vice 577 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,160 close to my arm. Are you out of your mind? 578 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,160 Oh, Duncan, you've got to get away from here quickly. 579 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,160 Oh, have I? But he's got a gun. 580 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,160 He's got it this afternoon. He's got it with him now. 581 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,160 So that's it. I never thought you'd go 582 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,160 through with it. Duncan, listen to me, please. 583 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,160 He'll kill you. You listen to me. 584 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,160 I'm doing the killing tonight. I don't think you can 585 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,160 save him at the last minute. Nobody can. 586 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,160 You think I made love to you for all 587 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,160 these weeks? What? Do you think it was 588 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,160 fun playing Iceman to a frumpy 589 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,160 housewife? Oh, Duncan. You might as well 590 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,160 know it. You might as well know all of it. 591 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,160 It was me that killed your nephew, too. I thought it was your husband. 592 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,160 Now get out of my way 593 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,160 before I kill you, too. Duncan, 594 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,160 Duncan, listen to me. I don't care. I don't care what's 595 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,160 happened. But if you go up there, he'll kill you. 596 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,160 And I don't want you to die. Maybe I... 597 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,160 Maybe I still love you. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't 598 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,160 want you to die. Please. 599 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,160 We're going. Duncan! 600 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,160 Blows down me like hell. 601 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,160 But only for a few seconds. 602 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,160 And then I was cramming to my feet again and running blindly 603 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,160 across the dark kitchen and up the back stairs. 604 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,160 There was still time. I could still stop it. 605 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,160 Please, please, let there still be time. 606 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,160 Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. 607 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,160 Suddenly it was quiet. 608 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,160 Deathly quiet. 609 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,160 Then the lights blazed out of my eyes 610 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,160 and from what seemed a million miles 611 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,160 away... Millie! Millie! 612 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,160 I heard someone calling my name. Millie, Millie, 613 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,160 I got him. The burglar. I got him. I got him. 614 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,160 It's all right, Millie. He's dead. 615 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,160 Yeah, dead in the mackerel. 616 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,160 Look. 617 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,160 Well, what do you know? It's your 618 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,160 boyfriend, Millie. Your boyfriend. 619 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:30,160 Duncan Shaw! 620 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:36,160 There's always so much to do in the morning. 621 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,160 The furnace and Ed's breakfast and his bath. 622 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,160 I can't afford to waste a second. 623 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,160 Somehow I just don't have time anymore 624 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,160 to brush my hair. 625 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,160 It's too bad. 626 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,160 Because I've always had lovely hair. 627 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,160 Once someone said I had hair like a princess. 628 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:24,160 Like a princess in a fairy tale. 629 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,160 Suspense. 630 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,160 Presented by Roma Wines. 631 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,160 R-O-M-A. 632 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,160 Roma. 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