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Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans 00:48.120 --> 00:50.040 than any other wine. 00:50.040 --> 00:53.160 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:53.160 --> 00:58.440 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you Virginia 00:58.440 --> 01:02.160 Bruce in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:02.160 --> 01:14.760 It was a Monday, most ordinary Monday in the world, except that I'd stolen an extra five 01:14.760 --> 01:19.120 minutes dough after the alarm went off and I was feeling just a teeny bit guilty about 01:19.120 --> 01:20.120 it. 01:20.120 --> 01:23.360 I had to leave for the office at nine sharp, so I can't afford to waste a second in the 01:23.360 --> 01:24.360 morning. 01:24.360 --> 01:28.280 By the time I had the furnace going, the table laid in the breakfast nook and the coffee 01:28.280 --> 01:30.280 and toast started, it was 7.30. 01:30.280 --> 01:35.440 That left me 10 minutes more before Ed would be ready for me to run his bath. 01:35.440 --> 01:37.920 Ten precious minutes to myself. 01:37.920 --> 01:43.600 I suppose every woman has some little pet's vanity of her own. 01:43.600 --> 01:45.600 With me, it's my hair. 01:45.600 --> 01:48.320 Ed's always trying to make me have it cut. 01:48.320 --> 01:53.000 He says long hair is unhygienic and besides, a woman of my age shouldn't be concerned with 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 appearances. 01:54.000 --> 01:59.440 I often wonder what he would say if he knew I spent ten whole minutes every morning just 01:59.440 --> 02:01.680 brushing and combing my hair. 02:01.680 --> 02:07.760 Just brushing and combing and admiring myself in the mirror like any schoolgirl. 02:07.760 --> 02:08.760 Only this morning I didn't. 02:08.760 --> 02:09.760 I was a little upset. 02:09.760 --> 02:10.760 Millie? 02:10.760 --> 02:11.760 Millie! 02:11.760 --> 02:12.760 Yes, dear? 02:12.760 --> 02:13.760 Where's my blue search suit? 02:13.760 --> 02:14.760 I can't find it anywhere. 02:14.760 --> 02:17.160 Oh, Ed, I gave it to the cleaner. 02:17.160 --> 02:18.160 Oh, no. 02:18.160 --> 02:19.160 Well, it didn't. 02:19.160 --> 02:20.160 He's cleaning so badly. 02:20.160 --> 02:21.160 You said to yourself... 02:21.160 --> 02:22.160 I said nothing of a kind. 02:22.160 --> 02:23.160 But you did, Ed. 02:23.160 --> 02:24.160 You said... 02:24.160 --> 02:25.160 All right, all right. 02:25.160 --> 02:26.160 I'll wear the gray. 02:26.160 --> 02:27.160 You'd better come out and start your breakfast. 02:27.160 --> 02:28.160 It's late. 02:28.160 --> 02:29.160 Yes, yes, yes. 02:29.160 --> 02:30.160 I'll be right out. 02:30.160 --> 02:31.160 Ed? 02:31.160 --> 02:32.160 Yes? 02:32.160 --> 02:34.160 You know, Roger didn't come home last night. 02:34.160 --> 02:35.160 Oh, isn't he? 02:35.160 --> 02:36.160 No, and I'm worried. 02:36.160 --> 02:37.160 Well, I don't see why. 02:37.160 --> 02:41.160 Half the time he doesn't get home until three or four o'clock in the morning. 02:41.160 --> 02:42.160 Now, clean, please. 02:42.160 --> 02:43.160 Yes, dear. 02:43.160 --> 02:46.160 But he's never stayed out all night before. 02:46.160 --> 02:47.160 Look, Millie. 02:47.160 --> 02:51.160 For two years, I provided food and shelter for your nephew so he could go to college in 02:51.160 --> 02:52.160 this town, and I've never complained. 02:52.160 --> 02:55.160 And please don't say it's because of his old man's money either. 02:55.160 --> 02:57.160 You had a quarrel with him, Admin. 02:57.160 --> 02:58.160 I didn't... 02:58.160 --> 02:59.160 Oh, it wasn't a quarrel. 02:59.160 --> 03:02.160 I just told him a few things for his own good, that's all. 03:02.160 --> 03:03.160 Well, it was more than that. 03:03.160 --> 03:04.160 I heard you. 03:04.160 --> 03:05.160 You fought with him. 03:05.160 --> 03:06.160 I didn't fight with him. 03:06.160 --> 03:08.160 There was a little scuffle, maybe. 03:08.160 --> 03:10.160 There was blood on the lapel of your suit, too. 03:10.160 --> 03:12.160 All right, there was. 03:12.160 --> 03:14.160 Say, what are you driving at, anyway? 03:14.160 --> 03:15.160 Nothing, Ed. 03:15.160 --> 03:17.160 I'm just wondering why Roger didn't come home. 03:17.160 --> 03:18.160 Well, don't worry, don't worry. 03:18.160 --> 03:19.160 He'll show up. 03:19.160 --> 03:20.160 Well, I've got to be going. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.160 Well, it's only half past eight. 03:21.160 --> 03:22.160 I've got a walk today. 03:22.160 --> 03:24.160 I had trouble with the car last night. 03:24.160 --> 03:26.160 Say, that reminds me, Millie. 03:26.160 --> 03:29.160 What are all those glass jars doing up on the shelf in the garage? 03:29.160 --> 03:30.160 Oh, my preserving jar. 03:30.160 --> 03:33.160 Well, whatever they are, they certainly don't belong in the garage. 03:33.160 --> 03:35.160 But, Ed, I never start with my preserves until the 15th. 03:35.160 --> 03:37.160 Oh, look, Millie, look. 03:37.160 --> 03:40.160 Raleigh's are sending a mechanic up the first thing this morning to look over the car. 03:40.160 --> 03:44.160 I don't want the garage looking like a... like a cannery. 03:44.160 --> 03:46.160 Besides, those things are dangerous up there. 03:46.160 --> 03:47.160 Suppose they should fall. 03:47.160 --> 03:48.160 All right. 03:48.160 --> 03:50.160 Put them down in the cellar. 03:50.160 --> 03:54.160 Why, up there where they are, those things could be the death of somebody. 04:00.160 --> 04:03.160 By the time I'd washed up the breakfast thing, he said, Bobby. 04:03.160 --> 04:04.160 Bobby's my pet canary. 04:04.160 --> 04:06.160 It was ten o'clock. 04:06.160 --> 04:09.160 Suddenly I remember those wretched preserving jars. 04:09.160 --> 04:11.160 I was just starting on them. 04:11.160 --> 04:14.160 When I got a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye and the shadows behind me, 04:14.160 --> 04:19.160 I spun around, my heart pounding away ten to the dozen, and then I saw it. 04:19.160 --> 04:23.160 The hand hanging out of the open window of the car. 04:23.160 --> 04:26.160 A very still white hand. 04:26.160 --> 04:28.160 Roger's hand. 04:28.160 --> 04:31.160 It was cold when I touched it. 04:31.160 --> 04:33.160 Roger was dead. 04:37.160 --> 04:39.160 I don't know quite what happened after that. 04:39.160 --> 04:43.160 I know I was running away from that awful darkness and out into the sunlight of the yard, 04:43.160 --> 04:45.160 and I was screaming, I guess. 04:45.160 --> 04:48.160 Then I must have fainted, because the next thing I knew, 04:48.160 --> 04:50.160 there was a little crowd of people standing around, 04:50.160 --> 04:53.160 and someone was holding me in his arms, and that was Duncan. 04:53.160 --> 04:55.160 It's all right now. 04:55.160 --> 04:58.160 Oh, he's dead. He's dead. 04:58.160 --> 05:01.160 It's all right, Mrs. Anderson. It's all right now. 05:01.160 --> 05:03.160 Who are you? What? 05:03.160 --> 05:06.160 You don't know me, Mrs. Anderson. My name is Duncan Shaw. 05:06.160 --> 05:09.160 You fainted. 05:14.160 --> 05:17.160 The next few weeks were like a nightmare. 05:17.160 --> 05:20.160 The local police and then the state authorities too. 05:20.160 --> 05:22.160 Questioning, looking, snooping. 05:22.160 --> 05:24.160 They knew he'd died of carbon monoxide poisoning, 05:24.160 --> 05:28.160 but there were some wounds too on his head, and they couldn't explain them. 05:28.160 --> 05:33.160 All this and what happened to poor Roger and Ed being so nervous and irritable. 05:33.160 --> 05:36.160 Finally, there was an inquest. I didn't even go to it, 05:36.160 --> 05:40.160 but it was all in the papers the next day. 05:40.160 --> 05:42.160 You're not eating your breakfast, Ed? 05:42.160 --> 05:44.160 I, uh, I don't feel hungry. 05:44.160 --> 05:46.160 Oh, all right. 05:46.160 --> 05:47.160 Ed? 05:47.160 --> 05:48.160 Yes? 05:48.160 --> 05:51.160 What does an open verdict mean? 05:51.160 --> 05:52.160 Open verdict? 05:52.160 --> 05:56.160 Yes. That's what the coroner's jury said about Roger, wasn't it? 05:56.160 --> 05:57.160 Yes, yes, that's right. 05:57.160 --> 05:58.160 Well, what does it mean? 05:58.160 --> 06:01.160 Well, it just means that they don't know, they don't know how it happened. 06:01.160 --> 06:04.160 You mean whether it was an accident or something else? 06:04.160 --> 06:05.160 Yes, yes, yes. 06:05.160 --> 06:08.160 I don't think it was an accident. Do you? 06:08.160 --> 06:11.160 I don't know. I don't know what it was. 06:11.160 --> 06:13.160 Who do you think did it? 06:13.160 --> 06:15.160 What do you mean by that? 06:15.160 --> 06:17.160 Just what I said. Who do you think did it? 06:17.160 --> 06:20.160 I don't know. What do you mean? It probably was an accident. 06:20.160 --> 06:22.160 Maybe it was suicide. How do I know? 06:22.160 --> 06:23.160 Somebody hit him, Ed. 06:23.160 --> 06:26.160 All right, maybe somebody did. I don't know and I don't care. 06:26.160 --> 06:27.160 You don't what? 06:27.160 --> 06:31.160 I said I don't know and I don't know anything about it. 06:36.160 --> 06:38.160 I didn't say anything more. 06:38.160 --> 06:42.160 I just watched him as he stormed down the path to the garage. 06:42.160 --> 06:46.160 I suppose it was the way I felt about Ed that was the reason for what happened next. 06:46.160 --> 06:50.160 I mean, I'd always felt that way about Ed in some ways, I guess, but... 06:50.160 --> 06:52.160 ...Nard was different. 06:52.160 --> 06:54.160 In what way? 06:54.160 --> 06:58.160 That morning I was taking a basket of old junk out to the tool shed. 06:58.160 --> 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... 07:03.160 --> 07:06.160 ...I ran right into someone. Someone who grabbed me by the arm. 07:06.160 --> 07:07.160 I'm sorry. 07:07.160 --> 07:08.160 Let go of me. 07:08.160 --> 07:09.160 I'm sorry. 07:09.160 --> 07:10.160 What do you mean by frightening me this way? 07:10.160 --> 07:11.160 I didn't mean to frighten you. 07:11.160 --> 07:13.160 Well, what are you doing around here anyway? 07:13.160 --> 07:15.160 You don't remember me, do you? 07:15.160 --> 07:16.160 No, I certainly do not. 07:16.160 --> 07:22.160 I picked you up that day you fainted. I just came around to offer my condolences. 07:22.160 --> 07:24.160 Oh, well, thank you. 07:24.160 --> 07:25.160 Here, let me help you with that. 07:25.160 --> 07:27.160 Oh, no, no, please don't bother. 07:27.160 --> 07:29.160 Oh, it's no bother. There's nothing better to do. 07:29.160 --> 07:34.160 See, I'm a member of that growing army, not to be unemployed. 07:34.160 --> 07:35.160 Oh, I see. 07:35.160 --> 07:36.160 Where do you want the stuff put? 07:36.160 --> 07:38.160 Please, I wish you wouldn't. 07:38.160 --> 07:44.160 Oh, very well. I'll be going then. I hope you'll forgive the intrusion. 07:44.160 --> 07:46.160 Oh, your foot. 07:46.160 --> 07:47.160 What about it? 07:47.160 --> 07:49.160 Well, when I dropped the basket I hadn't realized. 07:49.160 --> 07:53.160 No, dear lady, I'm afraid this wound goes back a little farther than that. 07:53.160 --> 07:56.160 Oh, I am sorry. Please forgive me. 07:56.160 --> 07:57.160 It's all right. 07:57.160 --> 08:02.160 But really I feel terrible. A veteran and no job. And here I've been... 08:02.160 --> 08:04.160 There must be something I can do to make up for it. 08:04.160 --> 08:05.160 Oh, don't feel that way. 08:05.160 --> 08:10.160 But perhaps, believe me, this isn't charity. Perhaps you'll let me make you some breakfast. 08:10.160 --> 08:12.160 Breakfast? Well, uh... 08:12.160 --> 08:15.160 Well, then that settles. Come along. 08:15.160 --> 08:19.160 Uh, you must be a stranger in these parts. 08:19.160 --> 08:21.160 You might call me that. 08:21.160 --> 08:24.160 What in the world ever brought you to a little out-of-the-way place like Richmond? 08:24.160 --> 08:28.160 Oh, this and that. Anything more you'd like to know? 08:28.160 --> 08:31.160 No, you mustn't think that I... 08:31.160 --> 08:34.160 Well, here we are. Just sit down and make yourself comfortable. 08:34.160 --> 08:36.160 Now have something ready and a gif. 08:36.160 --> 08:40.160 I've been rude. I'm sorry. You're terribly nice, Miss Sons. 08:40.160 --> 08:43.160 Oh, not at all. Tea or coffee, Mr. 08:43.160 --> 08:45.160 You know, I've forgotten your name. 08:45.160 --> 08:48.160 Shaw. Duncan Shaw. And, uh, tea. 08:48.160 --> 08:52.160 You know, Mr. Shaw, I mean, I've been thinking and... 08:52.160 --> 08:54.160 No, I won't be offended. 08:54.160 --> 08:58.160 Well, it's just that my husband's always talking about the state the garden's in 08:58.160 --> 09:01.160 and I never seem to have time to do anything about it myself. 09:01.160 --> 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... 09:05.160 --> 09:06.160 Well, uh... 09:06.160 --> 09:07.160 You're sweet. 09:07.160 --> 09:12.160 Of course, I couldn't pay very much, so if it's going to interfere with any other plans... 09:12.160 --> 09:17.160 No. I don't think it would interfere with any other plans. 09:17.160 --> 09:19.160 I don't think it would interfere at all. 09:25.160 --> 09:29.160 That's how it began. Just as casual as that. 09:29.160 --> 09:32.160 A few weeks ago, I could never have done such a thing. 09:32.160 --> 09:35.160 I'd have worried about what Ed would say and how I was going to tell him 09:35.160 --> 09:38.160 or felt guilty and ashamed that I was keeping a secret from him. 09:38.160 --> 09:41.160 It didn't make any difference now. I didn't care. 09:41.160 --> 09:47.160 Duncan came to work every day after Ed had gone to the office and left before he got home. 09:47.160 --> 09:53.160 And it got so I looked forward to his coming with a strange secret after me. 09:56.160 --> 09:58.160 I hope I'm not disturbing you, Mrs. Anderson. 09:58.160 --> 09:59.160 Why, no, of course not. 09:59.160 --> 10:01.160 I was just going home for the day and I thought I'd... 10:01.160 --> 10:04.160 Of course, did you just... Wait a minute, I left my purse upstairs. 10:04.160 --> 10:06.160 Oh, you've already paid me today, Mrs. Anderson. 10:06.160 --> 10:07.160 Oh, yes, I did. 10:07.160 --> 10:10.160 You said you were going to hang some curtains this afternoon. 10:10.160 --> 10:11.160 Thought I might be able to help. 10:11.160 --> 10:13.160 Well, that's very kind of you, I'm sure. 10:13.160 --> 10:15.160 Will you join me in a cup of tea, please? 10:15.160 --> 10:16.160 Oh, I wouldn't want to trouble you. 10:16.160 --> 10:18.160 There's no trouble. I've got it all made. 10:18.160 --> 10:21.160 Oh, so it is. You take milk or lemon? 10:21.160 --> 10:23.160 Oh, please. I'll do it. May I? 10:23.160 --> 10:24.160 Of course, it's just that... 10:24.160 --> 10:26.160 You're not used to being waited on. 10:26.160 --> 10:30.160 Well, now you've come to mention it. I suppose I'm not. 10:30.160 --> 10:33.160 Or perhaps you've just forgotten what it feels like. 10:33.160 --> 10:35.160 Perhaps I have. 10:35.160 --> 10:36.160 Sugar? 10:36.160 --> 10:38.160 Yes, please. 10:38.160 --> 10:41.160 There are a lot of other things you've forgotten, aren't there? 10:41.160 --> 10:42.160 Oh, I don't know. 10:42.160 --> 10:45.160 Like poetry, for instance? 10:45.160 --> 10:46.160 Poetry. 10:46.160 --> 10:48.160 You recognize this? 10:48.160 --> 10:50.160 Edna St. Vincent Millay? 10:50.160 --> 10:51.160 Where in the world? 10:51.160 --> 10:52.160 You asked me to clean out the attic. 10:52.160 --> 10:54.160 Duncan, give it to me. 10:54.160 --> 10:58.160 There's much left to give. Millay or Nick Kenny, it's all the same to the rats. 10:58.160 --> 11:00.160 But there's a name on the flyleaf. 11:00.160 --> 11:05.160 Mildred West and part of a sonnet written out in longhand. 11:05.160 --> 11:08.160 You remember what it was, Mildred West? 11:08.160 --> 11:10.160 Why, no, I don't think I do. 11:10.160 --> 11:14.160 I think you do. I think you know it by heart. 11:14.160 --> 11:23.160 Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath, nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone. 11:23.160 --> 11:30.160 Yet many a man is making friends with death, even as I speak, for lack of love alone. 11:30.160 --> 11:31.160 Mildred. 11:31.160 --> 11:33.160 Yes? 11:33.160 --> 11:34.160 You're lovely. 11:34.160 --> 11:36.160 Your hair. 11:36.160 --> 11:40.160 It's like the Princess Griselda that I used to read about when I was a little boy. 11:40.160 --> 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. 11:49.160 --> 11:53.160 You see, she was a prisoner, too. 11:53.160 --> 11:55.160 Oh, no, Duncan, no. 11:55.160 --> 12:00.160 And all this time you've been like her, waiting to be rescued, waiting to escape. 12:00.160 --> 12:02.160 Haven't you, Mildred? 12:02.160 --> 12:04.160 Haven't you? 12:04.160 --> 12:09.160 Oh, yes, Duncan, yes, yes, yes. 12:19.160 --> 12:21.160 Oh, Duncan, I'm afraid. 12:21.160 --> 12:23.160 Of what? Of being happy? 12:23.160 --> 12:25.160 No, only of how it will end. 12:25.160 --> 12:26.160 Why does it have to end? 12:26.160 --> 12:28.160 It will, and then I'll want to die. 12:28.160 --> 12:30.160 There's somebody at the door, aren't there? 12:30.160 --> 12:31.160 It must be Ed. 12:30.160 --> 12:31.160 I'll go. 12:31.160 --> 12:32.160 Wait, you don't have to. 12:32.160 --> 12:34.160 I've been going to tell him anyway, now's as good a time. 12:34.160 --> 12:36.160 Tell him. 12:36.160 --> 12:38.160 Milly, where is the... 12:38.160 --> 12:40.160 Ed, this is Duncan Shaw. 12:40.160 --> 12:42.160 Duncan Shaw? 12:42.160 --> 12:44.160 Yes, he's been doing some work around the place. 12:44.160 --> 12:46.160 Oh, he has, has he? 12:46.160 --> 12:48.160 I'll be going, Mrs. Anderson. 12:48.160 --> 12:50.160 I'll see you tomorrow, Duncan. 12:51.160 --> 12:54.160 We'll talk about that later. 12:54.160 --> 12:56.160 There's nothing to talk about, Ed. 12:56.160 --> 12:58.160 Isn't there? Well, I don't want him around here. 12:58.160 --> 12:59.160 Why not? 12:59.160 --> 13:01.160 I don't like strangers hanging around here. 13:01.160 --> 13:03.160 Haven't there been enough of them already? 13:03.160 --> 13:04.160 How do you know that he is a... 13:04.160 --> 13:06.160 You sound almost as though you had a guilty conscience, Ed. 13:06.160 --> 13:08.160 Guilty conscience? 13:08.160 --> 13:10.160 What do you mean? Guilty of what? 13:10.160 --> 13:12.160 I haven't put a name to it, Ed, but I could. 13:12.160 --> 13:14.160 What are you talking about? 13:14.160 --> 13:16.160 Murder. 13:25.160 --> 13:28.160 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Virginia Bruce 13:28.160 --> 13:30.160 in Night Comes Riding, 13:30.160 --> 13:32.160 Roma Wines' presentation tonight in 13:32.160 --> 13:34.160 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 13:34.160 --> 13:36.160 Suspense. 13:44.160 --> 13:46.160 Between the acts of suspense, 13:46.160 --> 13:48.160 this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 13:48.160 --> 13:50.160 For entertaining friends, 13:50.160 --> 13:52.160 for everyday pleasure, 13:52.160 --> 13:54.160 more Americans select Roma 13:54.160 --> 13:56.160 than any other wine. 13:56.160 --> 13:58.160 That's because you enjoy 13:58.160 --> 14:00.160 an important difference in Roma, 14:00.160 --> 14:02.160 an extra dividend of pleasure 14:02.160 --> 14:04.160 in fuller bouquet, 14:04.160 --> 14:06.160 richer body, and better taste. 14:06.160 --> 14:08.160 To bring you superior wines, 14:08.160 --> 14:10.160 better tasting wines, 14:10.160 --> 14:12.160 Roma selects from California's 14:12.160 --> 14:14.160 choicest grapes. 14:14.160 --> 14:16.160 Then, with ancient skill 14:16.160 --> 14:18.160 and winemaking resources unmatched in America, 14:18.160 --> 14:20.160 Roma master ventners 14:20.160 --> 14:22.160 guide this great treasure 14:22.160 --> 14:24.160 unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 14:24.160 --> 14:26.160 These choice wines 14:26.160 --> 14:28.160 are placed with mellow Roma wines 14:28.160 --> 14:30.160 of years before, 14:30.160 --> 14:32.160 and from these reserves, 14:32.160 --> 14:34.160 the world's greatest reserves 14:34.160 --> 14:36.160 of fine wines, 14:36.160 --> 14:38.160 Roma later selects 14:38.160 --> 14:40.160 for your pleasure. 14:40.160 --> 14:42.160 So why not enjoy a Roma California wine tomorrow? 14:42.160 --> 14:44.160 Whether your favorite is 14:44.160 --> 14:46.160 Sherry or Port, Muscatel or Tokay, 14:46.160 --> 14:48.160 you'll find any wine by Roma 14:48.160 --> 14:50.160 is better tasting wine. 14:50.160 --> 14:52.160 That's R-O-M-A, 14:52.160 --> 14:54.160 Roma wine, 14:54.160 --> 14:56.160 your best buy 14:56.160 --> 14:58.160 in good taste. 14:58.160 --> 15:00.160 And now Roma wines 15:00.160 --> 15:02.160 bring back to our Hollywood soundstage 15:02.160 --> 15:04.160 Virginia Bruce as Mildred Anderson, 15:04.160 --> 15:06.160 Wally Mayer as her husband Ed, 15:06.160 --> 15:08.160 and Howard Duff as Duncan Shaw. 15:08.160 --> 15:10.160 In Night Comes Riding, 15:10.160 --> 15:12.160 a tale well calculated to keep you in 15:12.160 --> 15:14.160 suspense. 15:14.160 --> 15:30.160 Music 15:30.160 --> 15:32.160 We never spoke of it after that. 15:32.160 --> 15:34.160 We never spoke of much of anything. 15:34.160 --> 15:36.160 I knew he'd hated Roger, I knew he'd fought with him, 15:36.160 --> 15:38.160 and I'd accused him to his face of killing him. 15:38.160 --> 15:40.160 He didn't even bother to deny it. 15:40.160 --> 15:42.160 What was there to talk about? 15:42.160 --> 15:44.160 Besides, I was in love. 15:44.160 --> 15:46.160 That was part of it too, I suppose. 15:46.160 --> 15:48.160 Part of my trying to escape. 15:48.160 --> 15:50.160 Falling in love with a boy years younger 15:50.160 --> 15:52.160 than myself. A stranger that 15:52.160 --> 15:54.160 I'd only known a few short weeks. 15:54.160 --> 15:56.160 I knew I was living in a dream world and 15:56.160 --> 15:58.160 that I'd have to wake up some day. 15:58.160 --> 16:00.160 But I didn't care. 16:00.160 --> 16:02.160 Will you pass the milk please, Milly? 16:02.160 --> 16:04.160 It's by your place. Oh, yes. 16:04.160 --> 16:06.160 Well, I see 16:06.160 --> 16:08.160 there was another robbery in town last night. 16:08.160 --> 16:10.160 Frank Davis's house. 16:10.160 --> 16:12.160 He was wounded too. 16:12.160 --> 16:14.160 They took a shot at him. That's too bad. 16:14.160 --> 16:16.160 Well, you might show 16:16.160 --> 16:18.160 a little interest. That might have been our 16:18.160 --> 16:20.160 house, you know. That might have been me that stopped 16:20.160 --> 16:22.160 that bullet. Yes, I suppose it might. 16:22.160 --> 16:24.160 And you wouldn't care much either, would you? I didn't say that. 16:24.160 --> 16:26.160 Now look, Milly, 16:26.160 --> 16:28.160 there's no use holding this thing against me 16:28.160 --> 16:30.160 forever. Holding what against you? 16:30.160 --> 16:32.160 Listen, I know you didn't tell them how 16:32.160 --> 16:34.160 I fought with Roger that night, and I'm grateful. 16:34.160 --> 16:36.160 When the police are looking for a suspect, you 16:36.160 --> 16:38.160 never can tell what they're liable to pounce on, but now 16:38.160 --> 16:40.160 it's 8.30. Better get started. 16:40.160 --> 16:42.160 All right, Milly, 16:42.160 --> 16:44.160 if that's the way you want it. 16:44.160 --> 16:46.160 Well, I see your 16:46.160 --> 16:48.160 protege's out there bright and early 16:48.160 --> 16:50.160 this morning. Is he? What's 16:50.160 --> 16:52.160 the catch, Milly? You're not paying 16:52.160 --> 16:54.160 him enough to amount to anything. Maybe he just 16:54.160 --> 16:56.160 likes working for an important man like 16:56.160 --> 16:58.160 you. Or maybe he's smitten with 16:58.160 --> 17:00.160 the lady of the house. 17:00.160 --> 17:02.160 Ha ha! That'd be a hot one, 17:02.160 --> 17:04.160 wouldn't it? Milly's boyfriend. 17:04.160 --> 17:06.160 Ha ha ha! Well, I gotta go. 17:06.160 --> 17:08.160 Good morning, sir. 17:08.160 --> 17:10.160 Bye. Good morning. 17:24.160 --> 17:26.160 Hello, Griselda. Hello, Duncan. 17:26.160 --> 17:28.160 You're beautiful. 17:28.160 --> 17:30.160 How'd your breakfast? Your hair 17:30.160 --> 17:32.160 is beautiful. I'll fix you 17:32.160 --> 17:34.160 something. No, wait. Don't you want breakfast? 17:34.160 --> 17:36.160 Mildred, I want to talk 17:36.160 --> 17:38.160 to you. What? So serious? 17:38.160 --> 17:40.160 Yes, serious. 17:40.160 --> 17:42.160 What is it, Duncan? I've lied to you, 17:42.160 --> 17:44.160 Mildred. Lied to me? Yes. 17:44.160 --> 17:46.160 In the first place, I'm 17:46.160 --> 17:48.160 not a veteran. Oh, 17:48.160 --> 17:50.160 well, what difference does that make? 17:50.160 --> 17:52.160 In this, uh, gimpy leg, this limp, 17:52.160 --> 17:54.160 I didn't get it in the war. I had 17:54.160 --> 17:56.160 it long before, and that's why I wasn't 17:56.160 --> 17:58.160 in the war. Why, Duncan, 17:58.160 --> 18:00.160 why should that make any difference? Listen, 18:00.160 --> 18:02.160 uh, remember the time I told you 18:02.160 --> 18:04.160 the fairy story that first time about 18:04.160 --> 18:06.160 the Princess Griselda? 18:06.160 --> 18:08.160 Of course. I should have told you another story 18:08.160 --> 18:10.160 right then. Does it have a 18:10.160 --> 18:12.160 happy ending? No. 18:12.160 --> 18:14.160 Then I don't want to hear it. Well, you've got 18:14.160 --> 18:16.160 to hear it sooner or later. Oh, Duncan, please, if it's 18:16.160 --> 18:18.160 not... Now, listen. 18:18.160 --> 18:20.160 Once upon a time there was a little boy. 18:20.160 --> 18:22.160 He wasn't much different from any other 18:22.160 --> 18:24.160 kid born on the wrong side of the tracks 18:24.160 --> 18:26.160 then. He just happened to be 18:26.160 --> 18:28.160 behind the door when the silver spoons were 18:28.160 --> 18:30.160 passed out. But he didn't care, 18:30.160 --> 18:32.160 and he did have one break. 18:32.160 --> 18:34.160 He had an older brother, Mike. 18:34.160 --> 18:36.160 Mike was my whole 18:36.160 --> 18:38.160 world. Until he was 18:38.160 --> 18:40.160 killed. Oh, Duncan. 18:40.160 --> 18:42.160 We hadn't been doing anything wrong, just a gang 18:42.160 --> 18:44.160 of kids playing cops and robbers with an 18:44.160 --> 18:46.160 old warehouse for props, but 18:46.160 --> 18:48.160 to him we were fair game. 18:48.160 --> 18:50.160 Maybe we did run 18:50.160 --> 18:52.160 away and it was wrong, but we were just kids, 18:52.160 --> 18:54.160 scared kids, so we ran. 18:54.160 --> 18:56.160 That's when he started shooting. 18:56.160 --> 18:58.160 The first shot winged me in the leg. 18:58.160 --> 19:00.160 The next one caught Mike in the shoulder 19:00.160 --> 19:02.160 and knocked him down. 19:02.160 --> 19:04.160 Who started shooting, Duncan? 19:04.160 --> 19:06.160 Your husband. 19:06.160 --> 19:08.160 Mike fell forward on his knees. I can 19:08.160 --> 19:10.160 still see him. Just a kid on his knees in the dirt. 19:10.160 --> 19:12.160 Then the next shot was a bullseye. 19:12.160 --> 19:14.160 It hit him right in the middle of the back. 19:14.160 --> 19:16.160 I wanted to kill him then, 19:16.160 --> 19:18.160 but I knew I didn't have a chance. He was a big slob 19:18.160 --> 19:20.160 with a gun in his hand protecting the community, 19:20.160 --> 19:22.160 and I was just a kid, but I swore to them that someday, 19:22.160 --> 19:24.160 that someday I'd... You'd kill him? 19:24.160 --> 19:26.160 Yes. And that's 19:26.160 --> 19:28.160 why you came back? 19:28.160 --> 19:30.160 Yes. And that's why you came to me? 19:30.160 --> 19:32.160 No, no, no, Mildred. 19:32.160 --> 19:34.160 That was something I hadn't planned on. You see, 19:34.160 --> 19:36.160 I... I fell in love with you. 19:36.160 --> 19:38.160 That sort of makes 19:38.160 --> 19:40.160 a difference. Killed Roger 19:40.160 --> 19:42.160 too. I know it now. That's another reason. 19:42.160 --> 19:44.160 I couldn't say anything before, 19:44.160 --> 19:46.160 but... Murder? 19:46.160 --> 19:48.160 What's the difference, what you call it? 19:48.160 --> 19:50.160 No difference. And 19:50.160 --> 19:52.160 after a while we could go away. No one 19:52.160 --> 19:54.160 would ever know. We could really be together, really be 19:54.160 --> 19:56.160 free. Free. But... 19:56.160 --> 19:58.160 We'd have to plan it that way. 19:58.160 --> 20:00.160 Something simple, 20:00.160 --> 20:02.160 accidental. Duncan. 20:02.160 --> 20:04.160 I know. 20:04.160 --> 20:06.160 It's horrible to even talk about it. 20:06.160 --> 20:08.160 No, Duncan, it can be simple. 20:08.160 --> 20:10.160 You mean you... Listen, he told me himself 20:10.160 --> 20:12.160 this morning. He was reading about the robbery 20:12.160 --> 20:14.160 last night. He said it could have been our house. 20:14.160 --> 20:16.160 He said it could have been him. Sure. 20:16.160 --> 20:18.160 Shot while protecting his home. An accident, 20:18.160 --> 20:20.160 one of those things. 20:20.160 --> 20:22.160 Does he still have a gun? No. 20:22.160 --> 20:24.160 We'd better do it soon. Yes. 20:24.160 --> 20:26.160 Tonight. Tonight? Why not? 20:26.160 --> 20:28.160 I'll leave the kitchen door unlocked. 20:28.160 --> 20:30.160 Alright. What time? 20:30.160 --> 20:32.160 He's always asleep by 12. 20:32.160 --> 20:34.160 Duncan. Yes? 20:34.160 --> 20:36.160 You're not afraid, are you? 20:36.160 --> 20:38.160 Because I'm not. Not anymore. 20:38.160 --> 20:40.160 Afraid? 20:40.160 --> 20:42.160 No. 20:42.160 --> 20:44.160 Just glad. 20:44.160 --> 20:52.160 Because at last I'm gonna kill him. 20:52.160 --> 20:56.160 I was quite calm after that. 20:56.160 --> 20:58.160 I got supper as usual, 20:58.160 --> 21:00.160 as I had for the past ten years. 21:00.160 --> 21:02.160 Ed would be home for supper at 7.30. 21:02.160 --> 21:04.160 Ed was always home for supper at 7.30 21:04.160 --> 21:06.160 on Thursday. 21:06.160 --> 21:08.160 Only on this Thursday for the first time in ten years 21:08.160 --> 21:10.160 Ed was late. 21:10.160 --> 21:12.160 Thirty agonizing minutes late. 21:12.160 --> 21:14.160 Well, something sure smells good. 21:14.160 --> 21:16.160 You're late. What happened? 21:16.160 --> 21:18.160 I stopped in at Lerner's Hardware. 21:18.160 --> 21:20.160 Brought you a little present. 21:20.160 --> 21:22.160 Gun? 21:22.160 --> 21:24.160 It's no water pistol. 21:24.160 --> 21:26.160 What do you want a gun for? 21:26.160 --> 21:28.160 What do you think? 21:28.160 --> 21:30.160 What are you afraid of, Ed? 21:30.160 --> 21:32.160 Who says I'm afraid? 21:32.160 --> 21:34.160 But what these robberies and all these other things? 21:34.160 --> 21:36.160 What other things? Oh, let's skip it, shall we, Millie? 21:36.160 --> 21:38.160 All I say is a man's entitled to a little protection 21:38.160 --> 21:40.160 for his home, for his wife. Isn't that right? 21:40.160 --> 21:42.160 Well, when do we eat? 21:42.160 --> 21:44.160 I'll dish it right up. 21:46.160 --> 21:48.160 Ed. Yes? 21:48.160 --> 21:50.160 About the gun... 21:50.160 --> 21:52.160 What about it? Well, where do you want to keep it? 21:52.160 --> 21:54.160 I mean, I'll put it away for you. 21:54.160 --> 21:56.160 Somewhere where you'll always... Oh, no. 21:56.160 --> 21:58.160 No, no. From now on, this gun's my right arm. 21:58.160 --> 22:00.160 Anybody starts 22:00.160 --> 22:02.160 prowling around this place, it's in for the shock 22:02.160 --> 22:04.160 of his life. Why? 22:04.160 --> 22:06.160 This thing will knock a man down at fifty yards 22:06.160 --> 22:08.160 and any closer. 22:08.160 --> 22:10.160 Well... 22:10.160 --> 22:12.160 What's the matter with you? 22:12.160 --> 22:14.160 You look as if you've seen a ghost. 22:14.160 --> 22:16.160 Nothing, nothing. Well, come on, let's eat. 22:16.160 --> 22:18.160 I'm starved. 22:26.160 --> 22:28.160 He kept it right next to his safe all through dinner. 22:28.160 --> 22:30.160 Finally, after about an hour 22:30.160 --> 22:32.160 of listening to the radio, he got up 22:32.160 --> 22:34.160 to go to bed, and he took that gun 22:34.160 --> 22:36.160 with him. I followed, 22:36.160 --> 22:38.160 as I always did, 22:38.160 --> 22:40.160 to turn his bed down for him. 22:40.160 --> 22:42.160 As I came into the room, I saw him 22:42.160 --> 22:44.160 putting it under his pillow. 22:44.160 --> 22:46.160 After that, it seemed hours and hours 22:46.160 --> 22:48.160 lying in the dark, 22:48.160 --> 22:50.160 watching the luminous hands of the little 22:50.160 --> 22:52.160 bedside concrete morn to eleven. 22:52.160 --> 22:54.160 Eleven? 22:54.160 --> 22:56.160 Waiting until I was 22:56.160 --> 22:58.160 sure he was asleep. 22:58.160 --> 23:00.160 And then slowly, 23:00.160 --> 23:02.160 ever so slowly, 23:02.160 --> 23:04.160 I clipped my hand 23:04.160 --> 23:06.160 under his pillow, 23:06.160 --> 23:08.160 waiting for the gun. 23:08.160 --> 23:10.160 What's the matter? 23:10.160 --> 23:12.160 What's the matter? 23:12.160 --> 23:14.160 I think I forgot to lock the kitchen door. 23:14.160 --> 23:16.160 Oh, go to sleep, Millie. I locked it 23:16.160 --> 23:18.160 myself. 23:22.160 --> 23:24.160 I looked at the clock. 23:24.160 --> 23:26.160 Nearly quarter of twelve. 23:26.160 --> 23:28.160 There was no time for anything else now. 23:28.160 --> 23:30.160 I slipped out of bed and down the back stairs to the kitchen 23:30.160 --> 23:32.160 as quickly and as silently as I could. 23:32.160 --> 23:34.160 I was just pushing open the screen door 23:34.160 --> 23:36.160 when I felt a hand like a vice 23:36.160 --> 23:38.160 close to my arm. Are you out of your mind? 23:38.160 --> 23:40.160 Oh, Duncan, you've got to get away from here quickly. 23:40.160 --> 23:42.160 Oh, have I? But he's got a gun. 23:42.160 --> 23:44.160 He's got it this afternoon. He's got it with him now. 23:44.160 --> 23:46.160 So that's it. I never thought you'd go 23:46.160 --> 23:48.160 through with it. Duncan, listen to me, please. 23:48.160 --> 23:50.160 He'll kill you. You listen to me. 23:50.160 --> 23:52.160 I'm doing the killing tonight. I don't think you can 23:52.160 --> 23:54.160 save him at the last minute. Nobody can. 23:54.160 --> 23:56.160 You think I made love to you for all 23:56.160 --> 23:58.160 these weeks? What? Do you think it was 23:58.160 --> 24:00.160 fun playing Iceman to a frumpy 24:00.160 --> 24:02.160 housewife? Oh, Duncan. You might as well 24:02.160 --> 24:04.160 know it. You might as well know all of it. 24:04.160 --> 24:06.160 It was me that killed your nephew, too. I thought it was your husband. 24:06.160 --> 24:08.160 Now get out of my way 24:08.160 --> 24:10.160 before I kill you, too. Duncan, 24:10.160 --> 24:12.160 Duncan, listen to me. I don't care. I don't care what's 24:12.160 --> 24:14.160 happened. But if you go up there, he'll kill you. 24:14.160 --> 24:16.160 And I don't want you to die. Maybe I... 24:16.160 --> 24:18.160 Maybe I still love you. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't 24:18.160 --> 24:20.160 want you to die. Please. 24:20.160 --> 24:22.160 We're going. Duncan! 24:26.160 --> 24:28.160 Blows down me like hell. 24:28.160 --> 24:30.160 But only for a few seconds. 24:30.160 --> 24:32.160 And then I was cramming to my feet again and running blindly 24:32.160 --> 24:34.160 across the dark kitchen and up the back stairs. 24:34.160 --> 24:36.160 There was still time. I could still stop it. 24:36.160 --> 24:38.160 Please, please, let there still be time. 24:38.160 --> 24:40.160 Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. 24:42.160 --> 24:44.160 Suddenly it was quiet. 24:44.160 --> 24:46.160 Deathly quiet. 24:48.160 --> 24:50.160 Then the lights blazed out of my eyes 24:50.160 --> 24:52.160 and from what seemed a million miles 24:52.160 --> 24:54.160 away... Millie! Millie! 24:54.160 --> 24:56.160 I heard someone calling my name. Millie, Millie, 24:56.160 --> 24:58.160 I got him. The burglar. I got him. I got him. 24:58.160 --> 25:00.160 It's all right, Millie. He's dead. 25:00.160 --> 25:02.160 Yeah, dead in the mackerel. 25:02.160 --> 25:04.160 Look. 25:04.160 --> 25:06.160 Well, what do you know? It's your 25:06.160 --> 25:08.160 boyfriend, Millie. Your boyfriend. 25:08.160 --> 25:30.160 Duncan Shaw! 25:30.160 --> 25:36.160 There's always so much to do in the morning. 25:36.160 --> 25:40.160 The furnace and Ed's breakfast and his bath. 25:40.160 --> 25:42.160 I can't afford to waste a second. 25:42.160 --> 25:46.160 Somehow I just don't have time anymore 25:46.160 --> 25:48.160 to brush my hair. 25:48.160 --> 25:50.160 It's too bad. 25:50.160 --> 25:52.160 Because I've always had lovely hair. 25:52.160 --> 25:56.160 Once someone said I had hair like a princess. 25:56.160 --> 26:24.160 Like a princess in a fairy tale. 26:24.160 --> 26:26.160 Suspense. 26:26.160 --> 26:28.160 Presented by Roma Wines. 26:28.160 --> 26:30.160 R-O-M-A. 26:30.160 --> 26:34.160 Roma. 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