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I went about installing myself, which merely means bringing in my old studio 02:07.560 --> 02:12.640 couch, an old chair, about three trillion books, a couple of Matisse prints, and my 02:12.640 --> 02:16.600 typewriter. And I was all set in a day or two and ready to get down to real work on 02:16.600 --> 02:28.840 the book. One evening, I came in after a good dinner and sat down to finish off a sequence. 02:28.840 --> 02:34.240 It wasn't writing easy. I felt that I was getting off on a tangent. I was going a million 02:34.240 --> 02:43.960 miles away from what I wanted to say, and it annoyed me. It was then that I heard it 02:43.960 --> 02:55.160 for the first time. It was coming from the next apartment, and coupled with my bad writing, 02:55.160 --> 03:00.840 it was very annoying. I tried to ignore it, but that couldn't be done. I got up and walked 03:00.840 --> 03:06.480 around the room a few times. That didn't help any. So I sat down and tried to write again. 03:06.480 --> 03:12.280 But I was tough, and the right words came like water from a closed faucet. And then 03:12.280 --> 03:19.320 the music stopped. It was suddenly very peaceful. I felt my mind settle down. I started once 03:19.320 --> 03:26.600 more. There it was going along pretty well now. I was thinking clearly that phrases were 03:26.600 --> 03:33.680 right, the mood was good, the dialogue, and the things started up again. I yanked the 03:33.680 --> 03:47.320 paper out of the machine and tossed it into the wastebasket. I was through for the night. 03:47.320 --> 03:51.360 Few nights later, after spending the entire day reading, which is so much more delightful 03:51.360 --> 03:56.640 than writing, I decided it was about time to sit down and start pounding it out. It 03:56.640 --> 04:01.600 was a beautiful night. It took a lot of willpower to tear myself away from the window. I smoked 04:01.600 --> 04:07.520 a couple of cigarettes, decided I'd start work after them, then smoked a few more and 04:07.520 --> 04:11.920 listened to the night noises of the city. After that, I searched my pockets for some 04:11.920 --> 04:17.320 more cigarettes, but I didn't have any. So I took a deep breath, reluctantly turned my 04:17.320 --> 04:22.600 back on the city and sat down at my work table. There was a story in the paper that I wanted 04:22.600 --> 04:27.240 to keep because it was sort of like the situation I was writing about, and I was cutting it 04:27.240 --> 04:35.120 out. Then, almost as though it was time, that canned music started up. Well, that settled 04:35.120 --> 04:38.520 my work for the night again, I thought. That fool in the next apartment, or whoever he 04:38.520 --> 04:44.080 or she might be, was probably planning to serenade himself for hours on end. And yet, 04:44.080 --> 04:49.120 strangely enough, I half hoped that the music would go on. It was a very lovely evening, 04:49.120 --> 04:55.260 and I was looking for the slightest excuse to lounge around. I just started thinking 04:55.260 --> 05:01.200 of going for a walk when the music stopped. In the stillness that followed, I could hear 05:01.200 --> 05:14.240 steps, then a door opening and closing, then a long, long silence. Then I was back at my 05:14.240 --> 05:18.160 typewriter and everything was fine. The words were coming right from my brain to my fingers, 05:18.160 --> 05:23.520 and as I wrote, I could see the next line and the next, and then while I was working, 05:23.520 --> 05:30.760 I became conscious of the next door footsteps, and it disturbed me. I sat up, stretched, 05:30.760 --> 05:36.680 yawned, looked at my watch. One o'clock in the morning. I hadn't realized it was that 05:36.680 --> 05:37.680 late. 05:37.680 --> 05:38.680 Yes? Who is it? 05:38.680 --> 05:43.680 It's me, Mr. Kenyon, the janitor. Please open the door. 05:43.680 --> 05:49.680 What's wrong? You always cover out at one in the morning. 05:49.680 --> 05:52.680 Excuse me, please, Mr. Kenyon. 05:52.680 --> 05:53.680 Are you Charles Kenyon? 05:53.680 --> 05:55.680 Of course. What is it? 05:55.680 --> 05:57.680 He's from the police station, Mr. Kenyon. 05:57.680 --> 06:00.680 Here you are. I'm Sam Fields from this precinct. Can I come in? 06:00.680 --> 06:03.680 Come right in. 06:03.680 --> 06:04.680 What's this all about? 06:04.680 --> 06:05.680 Apartment 4D, Mr. Rhodes. 06:05.680 --> 06:09.680 Why don't you shut that? Kenyon, you've been home all night? 06:09.680 --> 06:10.680 Yes, I have. 06:10.680 --> 06:11.680 What have you been doing here all night? 06:11.680 --> 06:12.680 Mr. Kenyon's a writer. 06:12.680 --> 06:15.680 Look, are you going to keep your trap shut? Go ahead, Kenyon. 06:15.680 --> 06:19.680 Well, I'm a writer, and I've been working all evening. That's about all. 06:19.680 --> 06:21.680 You didn't hear no noise, no commotion? 06:21.680 --> 06:23.680 No. What's happened? 06:23.680 --> 06:26.680 The man in Apartment 4D has been killed, murdered. 06:26.680 --> 06:28.680 The floor is all covered with blood. 06:28.680 --> 06:32.680 We'll never get it off without scraping. That'll run up a bill, too. 06:32.680 --> 06:34.680 4D. That's two flights up? 06:34.680 --> 06:37.680 He was a pretty good guy, that Mr. Rhodeson. He gave me five for Christmas. 06:37.680 --> 06:40.680 We're just in here checking up. I don't suppose you knew him. 06:40.680 --> 06:41.680 No, I didn't. 06:41.680 --> 06:44.680 He must have been killed a short time ago. The coroner's upstairs now. 06:44.680 --> 06:47.680 The janitor here had a struggle and phoned in. 06:47.680 --> 06:51.680 I live in 4E now. The owner chopped the basement up into three apartments. 06:51.680 --> 06:53.680 He makes a barrel of money that way, you see. 06:53.680 --> 06:55.680 Yes, Mr. Rhodeson was just about dead when we got there. 06:55.680 --> 06:57.680 I'm surprised you didn't hear us go up. 06:57.680 --> 06:58.680 I was busy writing. 06:58.680 --> 06:59.680 He must have been. 06:59.680 --> 07:02.680 Oh, all that blood on the floor. We'll never get it off. 07:02.680 --> 07:05.680 By the next tenant, we'll have to paint the floor red, I tell you. 07:05.680 --> 07:06.680 How was he killed? 07:06.680 --> 07:08.680 He was stabbed in the back with a sharpening steel. 07:08.680 --> 07:09.680 Yes, he was stabbed in the back. 07:09.680 --> 07:12.680 Not a knife, the doc says. Could be maybe a shears, a scissor. 07:12.680 --> 07:14.680 Well, we looked all around, but we couldn't find no scissor. 07:14.680 --> 07:17.680 The murderer isn't giving us souvenirs this week. 07:17.680 --> 07:19.680 Well, Mr. Kenyon, I guess you're okay. 07:19.680 --> 07:21.680 We may want you to come down to headquarters for a few questions tomorrow. 07:21.680 --> 07:23.680 If so, I'll let you know. 07:23.680 --> 07:24.680 Yes, of course. 07:24.680 --> 07:26.680 You can go back to your writing now. 07:26.680 --> 07:28.680 Hey, what are you writing? Detective stories? 07:28.680 --> 07:31.680 No, about people. 07:31.680 --> 07:34.680 Yeah? That's who commits the murders, two people. 07:34.680 --> 07:39.680 Although I must say some of my best friends are people. 07:39.680 --> 07:42.680 What did you write tonight? I don't see nothing around. 07:42.680 --> 07:45.680 I don't like to have people see it, you know, until it's finished. 07:45.680 --> 07:48.680 You know, I got a tenant already for that apartment. 07:48.680 --> 07:51.680 Maybe that's where the guy was knocked off so someone could get the apartment. 07:51.680 --> 07:53.680 What about his wife? 07:53.680 --> 07:54.680 Oh, 4D's got no wife. 07:54.680 --> 07:57.680 Now, I know he's got a young lady, but he's a bad person. 07:57.680 --> 07:59.680 All right, all right, all right. We ain't interested in gossip. 07:59.680 --> 08:00.680 Come on, let's go. 08:00.680 --> 08:02.680 Have a good day, Mr. Kenyon. 08:02.680 --> 08:15.680 Good night. 08:15.680 --> 08:20.680 One night, a week after that, I was lying in bed trying to sleep. 08:20.680 --> 08:22.680 I don't know why I couldn't sleep. 08:22.680 --> 08:24.680 I'd been working hard all day. 08:24.680 --> 08:26.680 I was dead tired. 08:26.680 --> 08:28.680 My legs felt heavy. 08:28.680 --> 08:32.680 My brain, instead of feeling dull, was sharp and alert. 08:32.680 --> 08:39.680 Quite suddenly, and for no reason, I felt waves of chills run along my spine. 08:39.680 --> 08:44.680 I sat up in bed, reached for a cigarette. 08:44.680 --> 08:51.680 I looked at my watch, 220, and I'd wanted to get up at 7. 08:51.680 --> 08:54.680 I snuffed out the butt and leaned back. 08:54.680 --> 08:58.680 Somehow, I seemed a bit more relaxed now. 08:58.680 --> 09:03.680 I closed my eyes and felt comfortable, tired out. 09:03.680 --> 09:07.680 And then there it was again, that music. 09:07.680 --> 09:10.680 And I was wide awake again, intense and jumpy as a cat. 09:10.680 --> 09:13.680 I don't know why it made me feel that way, but it did. 09:13.680 --> 09:15.680 It went on and on. 09:15.680 --> 09:20.680 Sometimes it would seem to be fading away, and it would be loud again, 09:20.680 --> 09:27.680 fade away, the clouds beneath the covers and throw the pillow over my head. 09:27.680 --> 09:29.680 That was better. 09:29.680 --> 09:32.680 I could still hear it, but it wasn't so bad. 09:32.680 --> 09:38.680 And it seemed to get farther and farther and farther away. 09:38.680 --> 09:44.680 And I was so tired, exhausted by now. 09:44.680 --> 09:49.680 I heard that sort of thump from somewhere upstairs. 09:49.680 --> 09:51.680 But it didn't matter now. 09:51.680 --> 09:54.680 All I cared about was sleep. 09:54.680 --> 09:56.680 Sleep. 09:56.680 --> 09:58.680 Just sleep. 10:09.680 --> 10:13.680 Mr. Penya! Mr. Penya! Are you all right? 10:13.680 --> 10:15.680 Of course I'm all right. 10:15.680 --> 10:19.680 Just a minute, I'm still in bed. 10:22.680 --> 10:24.680 Can't a man sleep around here without keeping... 10:24.680 --> 10:26.680 I didn't know you were sleeping. 10:26.680 --> 10:28.680 You always sleep this late, Kenyan. 10:28.680 --> 10:30.680 Oh, Inspector, I didn't recognize you. 10:30.680 --> 10:32.680 I guess I'm still a little bleary-eyed. 10:32.680 --> 10:34.680 Come on in. 10:34.680 --> 10:38.680 I asked if you always sleep this late. 10:38.680 --> 10:40.680 Twelve. 10:40.680 --> 10:42.680 I guess it is late. 10:42.680 --> 10:45.680 No, I don't usually, but I couldn't get to sleep last night. 10:45.680 --> 10:46.680 Last night? 10:46.680 --> 10:47.680 Shut up. 10:47.680 --> 10:49.680 Kenyan, do you know the guy who lives upstairs? 10:49.680 --> 10:51.680 That was Mr. Blackwell, the lawyer. 10:51.680 --> 10:54.680 I'm sorry, I don't. I don't know anyone around here. 10:54.680 --> 10:56.680 I do my work, that's all I know. 10:56.680 --> 10:58.680 Look, you asked me these questions the last time you were here. 10:58.680 --> 11:00.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, and I'm asking them again. 11:00.680 --> 11:02.680 Mr. Blackwell, he's been killed. 11:02.680 --> 11:03.680 Killed? Upstairs? 11:03.680 --> 11:05.680 Yeah, killed, the same way. 11:05.680 --> 11:08.680 Floor just filled with blood, just like 4D. 11:08.680 --> 11:12.680 Well, last night I did hear something. 11:12.680 --> 11:14.680 I didn't think it was anything then. 11:14.680 --> 11:17.680 It was just a sound, like a table or something falling over from upstairs. 11:17.680 --> 11:19.680 There was no table falling. 11:19.680 --> 11:20.680 What time do you think you heard it? 11:20.680 --> 11:23.680 A little while after I went to bed, a little after 2 a.m. 11:23.680 --> 11:25.680 Mr. Blackwell divorced his wife five months ago. 11:25.680 --> 11:27.680 She was such a nice woman. 11:27.680 --> 11:29.680 Powerness as death took place around that time. 11:29.680 --> 11:32.680 You didn't hear anything else, did you? 11:32.680 --> 11:33.680 What? 11:33.680 --> 11:35.680 I said, did you hear anything else? 11:35.680 --> 11:38.680 Anything else? 11:40.680 --> 11:41.680 Anything else. 11:41.680 --> 11:42.680 That music. 11:42.680 --> 11:44.680 But I couldn't tell him about that. 11:44.680 --> 11:45.680 I couldn't tell it to a detective. 11:45.680 --> 11:48.680 Or that terrible feeling I had when I heard it. 11:48.680 --> 11:49.680 It would sound silly, crazy. 11:49.680 --> 11:51.680 Yes, yes, did you hear anything else? 11:51.680 --> 11:54.680 No, no, I didn't hear anything else. 11:54.680 --> 11:57.680 I went to sleep right after that, and I didn't wake up until you rang the bell just now. 11:57.680 --> 12:00.680 Mr. Blackwell gave me a ten for Christmas, but he never smiled. 12:00.680 --> 12:01.680 He was a very sad man. 12:01.680 --> 12:04.680 We've been checking up to see if everyone else is all right. 12:04.680 --> 12:05.680 Has anyone else? 12:05.680 --> 12:08.680 No, no, no, no, no, just this guy above you. 12:08.680 --> 12:11.680 I guess we've got some sort of maniac operating in this area. 12:11.680 --> 12:13.680 He tries to get me. 12:13.680 --> 12:14.680 He's going to get a big surprise. 12:14.680 --> 12:16.680 I've got a license to carry a gun. 12:16.680 --> 12:17.680 I've got a good gun, too. 12:17.680 --> 12:19.680 My son brought it to me from Germany. 12:19.680 --> 12:23.680 When I don't go shooting the tenants just because the joke paid the rent. 12:23.680 --> 12:25.680 Everybody pays the rent here. 12:25.680 --> 12:28.680 Did you ever see a guy with no sense of humor? 12:28.680 --> 12:31.680 Well, this whole thing doesn't seem particularly funny. 12:31.680 --> 12:32.680 Don't you worry about it, Mr. Kenyon. 12:32.680 --> 12:36.680 You've got the whole police force protecting you, so don't worry about it at all. 12:36.680 --> 12:37.680 Well, I'll probably be seeing you. 12:37.680 --> 12:38.680 So long. 12:38.680 --> 12:39.680 So long. 12:39.680 --> 12:40.680 Goodbye, Mr. Kenyon. 12:40.680 --> 12:43.680 Oh, Mr. Torsten, will you stay a moment? 12:43.680 --> 12:45.680 I'd like you to do something for me. 12:45.680 --> 12:48.680 Sure, sure. 12:48.680 --> 12:52.680 Mr. Torsten, you seem to know a good deal about everyone in the building. 12:52.680 --> 12:54.680 I don't snoop around. 12:54.680 --> 12:55.680 I'm the janitor. 12:55.680 --> 12:57.680 I just see them when other people don't see them. 12:57.680 --> 12:59.680 I know. I didn't mean it that way. 12:59.680 --> 13:02.680 I just want to ask you a question or two. 13:02.680 --> 13:06.680 This Mr. Blackwell who was killed, he was living alone, wasn't he? 13:06.680 --> 13:10.680 Yeah, like I told you, he was married, but his wife moved out. 13:10.680 --> 13:13.680 You know, it's harder to take blood off the floor than it is from the walls. 13:13.680 --> 13:17.680 You can paint the walls, but the floor has to be scraped and sanded. 13:17.680 --> 13:21.680 What about my neighbor to the left next door? 13:21.680 --> 13:22.680 Oh, 2E? 13:22.680 --> 13:24.680 Well, I don't know too much about him. 13:24.680 --> 13:26.680 I've just seen him once. 13:26.680 --> 13:27.680 He never bothers me. 13:27.680 --> 13:29.680 His name is Williams. 13:29.680 --> 13:31.680 Has he got a phonograph? 13:31.680 --> 13:32.680 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 13:32.680 --> 13:34.680 Got lots of records for the phonograph, too. 13:34.680 --> 13:36.680 I seen them when they put the telephone in. 13:36.680 --> 13:38.680 That was the only time I was ever in his place. 13:38.680 --> 13:40.680 I see. 13:40.680 --> 13:43.680 Well, thanks a lot, Mr. Torsten. 13:43.680 --> 13:44.680 Oh, that's a... 13:44.680 --> 13:47.680 Well, say, thank you, Mr. Kenyon. 13:47.680 --> 13:52.680 And if there's ever any time you ever want anything, don't be afraid to ask. 13:52.680 --> 13:54.680 No, I... 13:54.680 --> 13:56.680 I won't be afraid. 13:56.680 --> 13:58.680 No, I... 13:58.680 --> 14:00.680 I won't be afraid. 14:00.680 --> 14:01.680 Hmm. 14:08.680 --> 14:10.680 For Suspense, 14:10.680 --> 14:13.680 Romo Wines are bringing you Henry Morgan in Green Song. 14:13.680 --> 14:26.680 Romo Wines presentation tonight in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:26.680 --> 14:31.680 Suspense, Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented by Romo Wines. 14:31.680 --> 14:38.680 That's R-O-M-A, Romo Wines, from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines. 14:38.680 --> 14:41.680 This is the season when the air is clear and sharp. 14:41.680 --> 14:45.680 The kind of weather to whet appetites to razor keenness. 14:45.680 --> 14:51.680 Well, here's an easy, inexpensive way to make the plainest food taste like a chef's masterpiece. 14:51.680 --> 14:58.680 For family meals or when guests come to dinner, just serve a delicious Romo California table wine, 14:58.680 --> 15:03.680 such as robust Romo Burgundy or delicate pale gold Romo Sauternes. 15:03.680 --> 15:09.680 You'll be amazed how much these delicious Romo Wines add to your mealtime enjoyment. 15:09.680 --> 15:15.680 Now, the simplest, most economical meals take on new glamour and flavor goodness. 15:15.680 --> 15:21.680 Remember, there's a better tasting Romo Wine for every occasion, for every taste. 15:21.680 --> 15:25.680 Yet it costs little to enjoy this taste's luxury. 15:25.680 --> 15:28.680 So always serve Romo Wines. 15:28.680 --> 15:33.680 That's R-O-M-A, Romo Wines, America's favorite wines. 15:33.680 --> 15:39.680 And now, Romo Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Henry Morgan, starring as Charles Kenyon, 15:39.680 --> 15:45.680 with Wally Mayer as the inspector, and Joseph Kearns as Torsten in Dream Song, 15:45.680 --> 15:49.680 a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:49.680 --> 16:13.680 For the first time in my life, I felt genuinely afraid, because it was something you couldn't know, couldn't fight. 16:13.680 --> 16:17.680 An innocent knock on the door, you open it, the next thing that happens is you're found in a pool of blood. 16:17.680 --> 16:21.680 With that intolerable canned music coming from next door. 16:21.680 --> 16:25.680 I wondered what that Williams looked like, living next door. 16:25.680 --> 16:29.680 Why should he play that one record over and over again when he had so many Torsten's at that? 16:29.680 --> 16:31.680 And I wondered what he sounded like. 16:31.680 --> 16:33.680 A house phone. 16:33.680 --> 16:39.680 Yes, Mr. Kenyon? 16:39.680 --> 16:45.680 Give me Mr. Williams' apartment, 2E. 16:45.680 --> 16:47.680 The music started. 16:47.680 --> 16:59.680 That meant he was in, and I could find out what he sounds like. 16:59.680 --> 17:03.680 There's no answer. Shall I keep ringing, sir? 17:03.680 --> 17:05.680 Why doesn't he answer? He's there. 17:05.680 --> 17:07.680 Maybe he knows I'm calling. 17:07.680 --> 17:09.680 Maybe he can hear me call. 17:09.680 --> 17:11.680 Shall I keep ringing, sir? 17:11.680 --> 17:13.680 Why doesn't he? 17:13.680 --> 17:15.680 Never mind, operator, never mind. 17:15.680 --> 17:29.680 I was certain that Williams had heard me call him on the phone. 17:29.680 --> 17:31.680 Had been, as a matter of fact, waiting for me to call. 17:31.680 --> 17:35.680 From that day on, I left peace of mind behind. 17:35.680 --> 17:37.680 I thought of moving, but there was no place to go. 17:37.680 --> 17:39.680 I smoked more and more. 17:39.680 --> 17:42.680 I sat for hours in a dark movie in the park in the public library reading room. 17:42.680 --> 17:46.680 And still that record revolved in my ears. 17:46.680 --> 17:49.680 If only I could get to know who this Williams was, if I could get to see him. 17:49.680 --> 17:53.680 If I could get to observe him somehow without his observing me. 17:53.680 --> 17:56.680 I was in the park when I thought of it. 17:56.680 --> 17:59.680 I could see our windows from the park. 17:59.680 --> 18:03.680 I hurried home. 18:03.680 --> 18:08.680 I searched in the drawer for my one war souvenir, my German liberated binoculars. 18:08.680 --> 18:10.680 Powerful 8x50 Zeiss field glasses. 18:10.680 --> 18:12.680 There they were, still dusty. 18:12.680 --> 18:14.680 I wiped them with my shirt. 18:14.680 --> 18:17.680 Went back downstairs to survey the terrain. 18:17.680 --> 18:20.680 I hurried over to the park, my heart beating like a trip hammer. 18:20.680 --> 18:22.680 Leaned against the body of an old auto. 18:22.680 --> 18:24.680 Trying to look at ease. 18:24.680 --> 18:27.680 I looked up at Williams' window. 18:27.680 --> 18:29.680 The Venetian blinds were raised. 18:29.680 --> 18:31.680 I looked around. 18:31.680 --> 18:33.680 No one in sight. 18:33.680 --> 18:36.680 Quickly I unslung my binoculars, held them up to my eyes. 18:36.680 --> 18:37.680 What was I focused on? 18:37.680 --> 18:39.680 That wasn't Williams' window, that was mine. 18:39.680 --> 18:41.680 There was a window to the left. 18:41.680 --> 18:43.680 Should be just about there. 18:43.680 --> 18:45.680 There it was. 18:45.680 --> 18:49.680 The window, just a few yards from it. 18:49.680 --> 18:50.680 Having fun buddy? 18:50.680 --> 18:53.680 No, no officer I... 18:53.680 --> 18:55.680 See anything good? 18:55.680 --> 18:56.680 Look officer I... 18:56.680 --> 18:57.680 Yeah, yeah, I know. 18:57.680 --> 18:59.680 You're trying to spot planes. 18:59.680 --> 19:01.680 Yeah, trying to spot planes. 19:01.680 --> 19:03.680 Why don't you try spotting them from the roof? 19:03.680 --> 19:07.680 Well I never spotted anything from the roof. 19:07.680 --> 19:10.680 Look wise guy, I'll give you a tip. 19:10.680 --> 19:12.680 I'm easy going. 19:12.680 --> 19:15.680 But when headquarters gets on my tail, I gotta play rough. 19:15.680 --> 19:20.680 Now, somebody puts in a complaint, and I catch you causing trouble. 19:20.680 --> 19:21.680 I'll run you in. 19:21.680 --> 19:22.680 You understand? 19:22.680 --> 19:23.680 Well I... 19:23.680 --> 19:26.680 Well so far there's been no complaint. 19:26.680 --> 19:29.680 Now let's just leave it that way, huh? 19:29.680 --> 19:40.680 Let's just be it now before I change my mind. 19:40.680 --> 19:45.680 For two days after that, the thought of that cop catching me with a binoculars made me tremble. 19:45.680 --> 19:47.680 I found my hand shaking when I lit a cigarette. 19:47.680 --> 19:48.680 Couldn't eat. 19:48.680 --> 19:53.680 I knew that I must find some way to reassure myself about Williams or I'd lose my mind. 19:53.680 --> 19:58.680 One morning, after I'd spent a sleepless night listening and watching, 19:58.680 --> 20:02.680 the music went on. 20:02.680 --> 20:06.680 My plan was to wait till the music stopped. 20:06.680 --> 20:09.680 Possibly then Williams would go out. 20:09.680 --> 20:13.680 And as soon as he left, I'd slip out and follow him. 20:13.680 --> 20:16.680 I waited while that music ground out. 20:16.680 --> 20:20.680 That metallic sediment squeezed out through a loudspeaker. 20:20.680 --> 20:23.680 Nine o'clock. 20:23.680 --> 20:26.680 Nine thirty. 20:26.680 --> 20:28.680 Ten o'clock. 20:28.680 --> 20:31.680 Ten thirty. 20:31.680 --> 20:36.680 My head started to go round and round like the record under the needle. 20:36.680 --> 20:39.680 Eleven o'clock. 20:39.680 --> 20:49.680 The music still kept on and on and on. 20:49.680 --> 20:50.680 Suddenly I sat up quickly. 20:50.680 --> 20:52.680 Looked at my watch. 20:52.680 --> 20:54.680 Three o'clock. 20:54.680 --> 21:03.680 I was sleeping, but the record, it was still... 21:03.680 --> 21:06.680 Mr. Williams? 21:06.680 --> 21:07.680 Oh, Mr. Williams. 21:07.680 --> 21:12.680 Torsten. 21:12.680 --> 21:13.680 Mr. Kenyon. 21:13.680 --> 21:14.680 Mr. Kenyon. 21:14.680 --> 21:16.680 Torsten. 21:16.680 --> 21:17.680 Torsten. 21:17.680 --> 21:18.680 He always talks about blood. 21:18.680 --> 21:20.680 Mr. Kenyon, did you say something? 21:20.680 --> 21:21.680 Don't you come in here! 21:21.680 --> 21:23.680 Don't come in here! 21:23.680 --> 21:24.680 Mr. Kenyon, what's the matter? 21:24.680 --> 21:25.680 You keep away from me! 21:25.680 --> 21:26.680 Keep away? 21:26.680 --> 21:27.680 All right, all right. 21:27.680 --> 21:32.680 Only, I was just going to tell you, don't use the incinerator for a while. 21:32.680 --> 21:34.680 We're cleaning it out for the next couple of hours. 21:34.680 --> 21:36.680 And, uh, incinerator? 21:36.680 --> 21:37.680 Yeah. 21:37.680 --> 21:38.680 Oh. 21:38.680 --> 21:39.680 Well, why tell me? 21:39.680 --> 21:40.680 How do we tell everybody? 21:40.680 --> 21:42.680 We don't keep it no secret. 21:42.680 --> 21:43.680 Mr. Williams, too? 21:43.680 --> 21:45.680 He pays his rent. 21:45.680 --> 21:46.680 Only he's not home. 21:46.680 --> 21:47.680 I just knocked, didn't I? 21:47.680 --> 21:49.680 Yeah, but you came in here with a key. 21:49.680 --> 21:50.680 Why? 21:50.680 --> 21:51.680 Because I heard you yell like a bull. 21:51.680 --> 21:54.680 I thought maybe something was wrong. 21:54.680 --> 21:58.680 Maybe... maybe something is wrong with Mr. Williams. 21:58.680 --> 21:59.680 Why don't you open his door? 21:59.680 --> 22:02.680 Look, Mr. Kenyon, I don't go around opening people's doors 22:02.680 --> 22:03.680 for the fun of it. 22:03.680 --> 22:04.680 I got a job to keep. 22:04.680 --> 22:06.680 I got the reputation to think of. 22:06.680 --> 22:09.680 If you think a super's job is easy, you got it all wrong. 22:09.680 --> 22:10.680 I didn't mean it that way. 22:10.680 --> 22:11.680 Well, okay. 22:11.680 --> 22:16.680 Only, please, don't use the incinerator, huh? 22:16.680 --> 22:23.680 Why did Williams' record stop just before Torsten knocked? 22:23.680 --> 22:26.680 Why didn't he answer Torsten's call? 22:26.680 --> 22:28.680 He wanted privacy. 22:28.680 --> 22:31.680 Privacy to play his record. 22:31.680 --> 22:36.680 Every day for the next week, that music played at the strangest hours. 22:36.680 --> 22:39.680 It became a personal message to me. 22:39.680 --> 22:41.680 I was next. 22:41.680 --> 22:43.680 Get ready, Kenyon. 22:43.680 --> 22:47.680 You're next to have the floor of your apartment scraped, 22:47.680 --> 22:49.680 the walls done over. 22:49.680 --> 22:52.680 Many times I thought of calling the police, 22:52.680 --> 22:54.680 but what could that do? 22:54.680 --> 22:57.680 No one would believe me just because of a record. 22:57.680 --> 22:59.680 No one would believe me without some proof. 22:59.680 --> 23:00.680 That was it. 23:00.680 --> 23:05.680 Proof, something that would stand up in court before a judge, before a jury. 23:05.680 --> 23:09.680 Yeah, but before I could get that, he might creep into this room. 23:09.680 --> 23:12.680 Slowly, quietly, while I was asleep, while I was in that bed, 23:12.680 --> 23:14.680 helpless as a child. 23:14.680 --> 23:20.680 Hour after hour, I walked the streets trying to think, to reason my way out. 23:20.680 --> 23:25.680 Yesterday, I sat huddled in the chair all day. 23:25.680 --> 23:28.680 The music didn't play at all. 23:28.680 --> 23:31.680 About seven o'clock, I went out for something to eat. 23:31.680 --> 23:36.680 In the evening paper, there was an item that could be the basis for a good short story. 23:36.680 --> 23:40.680 When I got back, I started to clip it out. 23:40.680 --> 23:43.680 Then I got my nerves again. 23:43.680 --> 23:45.680 I locked the door. 23:45.680 --> 23:47.680 I went to both the windows. 23:47.680 --> 23:50.680 I locked one window. 23:50.680 --> 23:52.680 Then I went to the other one. 23:52.680 --> 23:54.680 Wait a minute. 23:54.680 --> 23:57.680 This window was the window with the fire escape. 23:57.680 --> 23:59.680 Whose window was that on the other side of the fire escape? 23:59.680 --> 24:01.680 It was his window. 24:01.680 --> 24:03.680 William's window. 24:03.680 --> 24:06.680 I stared at it as though I were hypnotized. 24:06.680 --> 24:07.680 The light was on. 24:07.680 --> 24:09.680 That man, he was home. 24:09.680 --> 24:12.680 Maybe I could crawl out on the platform peeking through the window. 24:12.680 --> 24:14.680 Maybe I could get a look at him. 24:14.680 --> 24:18.680 As I was thinking these thoughts, the music sounded. 24:18.680 --> 24:21.680 And I started to sweat. 24:21.680 --> 24:24.680 Cold, icy sweat. 24:24.680 --> 24:27.680 I started to close the window, but I caught myself. 24:27.680 --> 24:29.680 And I pushed it back open. 24:29.680 --> 24:34.680 With the palms of my hands wet, I climbed up on the window ledge. 24:34.680 --> 24:37.680 And I crawled out on the fire escape. 24:37.680 --> 24:40.680 And I made my way along the iron bars as silently as I could. 24:40.680 --> 24:42.680 The window was just in front of me. 24:42.680 --> 24:45.680 And I felt my throat go dry. 24:45.680 --> 24:48.680 I leaned my head over to try and look in. 24:48.680 --> 24:51.680 I swallowed hard and tried to keep my body concealed. 24:51.680 --> 24:57.680 The Venetian blinds were drawn all the way, but they were slanted in such a way that permitted me to see inside. 24:57.680 --> 25:01.680 I craned my head forward and looked. 25:01.680 --> 25:05.680 It was dark inside, but I could make out the living room. 25:05.680 --> 25:11.680 And the photograph, large cabinet machine, there was a couch. 25:11.680 --> 25:15.680 And there, there was a man. 25:15.680 --> 25:18.680 It seemed as though he was dancing, swaying to the music. 25:18.680 --> 25:20.680 They kept getting louder. 25:20.680 --> 25:22.680 And he kept coming towards me. 25:22.680 --> 25:24.680 Nearer, and nearer. 25:24.680 --> 25:26.680 He must have seen me. 25:26.680 --> 25:28.680 And I couldn't move. 25:28.680 --> 25:32.680 And he kept coming nearer, moving in the shadows. 25:32.680 --> 25:34.680 Nearer, nearer. 25:34.680 --> 25:36.680 Nearer? 25:47.680 --> 25:51.680 When I came out of it, I was in my own apartment, lying on my own couch. 25:51.680 --> 25:54.680 And Inspector Fields was there, and a lot of other people. 25:54.680 --> 25:56.680 He'll be okay now. 25:56.680 --> 25:58.680 Did you get him? 25:58.680 --> 26:00.680 Yeah, they got him. They think. 26:00.680 --> 26:03.680 They think? Don't they know? 26:03.680 --> 26:06.680 It was Williams. I saw him in his room. He was coming at me. 26:06.680 --> 26:08.680 He was going to kill me. I was going to be next. 26:08.680 --> 26:10.680 He was coming at me there in the dark. 26:10.680 --> 26:12.680 Take it easy, King. Take it easy. 26:12.680 --> 26:15.680 That wasn't Williams. That was me. 26:15.680 --> 26:17.680 Oh. 26:17.680 --> 26:19.680 Listen, Inspector. 26:19.680 --> 26:21.680 There's something I haven't told you. 26:21.680 --> 26:23.680 Something I heard. 26:23.680 --> 26:25.680 The other two times. 26:25.680 --> 26:28.680 Yeah, I thought it would sound crazy, but I heard music. 26:28.680 --> 26:31.680 A song. An old song. An old record. 26:31.680 --> 26:33.680 What was it? 26:33.680 --> 26:35.680 It was I'll See You In My Dreams. 26:35.680 --> 26:38.680 Heard it again tonight in Williams' room. He was playing. 26:38.680 --> 26:40.680 I guess you heard it tonight, all right. 26:40.680 --> 26:42.680 And I heard it the other two times, too. 26:42.680 --> 26:44.680 The same way. Same song. 26:44.680 --> 26:47.680 Maybe you heard it, and maybe you just thought you heard it. 26:47.680 --> 26:49.680 How much do you remember? 26:49.680 --> 26:52.680 Do you remember coming at me with those scissors? 26:52.680 --> 26:54.680 Scissors? 26:54.680 --> 26:57.680 In Kenyon, we found your other apartment. 26:57.680 --> 27:00.680 The one you moved out of a month ago. 27:00.680 --> 27:02.680 The other apartment? 27:02.680 --> 27:04.680 And we found your wife. 27:04.680 --> 27:06.680 I don't have a wife. 27:06.680 --> 27:08.680 No, but you did. 27:08.680 --> 27:13.680 And that song you were talking about, it was on the phonograph. 27:13.680 --> 27:16.680 And your wife, she was dead. 27:16.680 --> 27:26.680 MUSIC 27:26.680 --> 27:29.680 They made me talk to a doctor today. 27:29.680 --> 27:31.680 He said, 27:31.680 --> 27:34.680 Hearing that song that way, I sort of remember Alice. 27:34.680 --> 27:38.680 She was playing a record, and I was clipping something out of... 27:38.680 --> 27:41.680 I don't know what to believe. 27:41.680 --> 27:46.680 Because I thought the song was real, and the woman, the dead woman, 27:46.680 --> 27:49.680 I thought that was a dream. 27:49.680 --> 27:51.680 Just a bad dream. 27:51.680 --> 27:55.680 They wouldn't hang a man for a dream, would they? 27:55.680 --> 28:14.680 MUSIC 28:14.680 --> 28:16.680 Suspense. 28:16.680 --> 28:20.680 Dream Song, starring Henry Morgan, presented by Roma Wines. 28:20.680 --> 28:22.680 That's R-O-M-A. 28:22.680 --> 28:26.680 Roma Wines, America's largest selling wines. 28:26.680 --> 28:31.680 This is Truman Bradley to tell you why Roma Wines are America's favorite wines. 28:31.680 --> 28:36.680 It's because Roma selects and presses the choicest California grapes. 28:36.680 --> 28:42.680 Then, with centuries-old skill and winemaking resources unmatched in America, 28:42.680 --> 28:46.680 Roma guides this grape treasure to tempting perfection. 28:46.680 --> 28:50.680 These better tasting Roma wines are placed with other mellow Roma wines 28:50.680 --> 28:57.680 to a wait-later selection for your enjoyment from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines. 28:57.680 --> 29:03.680 This weekend, treat your friends to the better taste of a fine Roma California wine, 29:03.680 --> 29:11.680 such as Ruby Red Roma Port, Golden Amber Roma Sherry, or Flame Bright Roma Muscatel. 29:11.680 --> 29:16.680 Discover for yourself why Roma wines, that's R-O-M-A, 29:16.680 --> 29:22.680 Roma wines are enjoyed by more Americans than any other wines. 29:22.680 --> 29:27.680 Tonight's Suspense play was by George Bellac and Ben Kerner. 29:27.680 --> 29:30.680 Henry Morgan will soon be seen in his first starring picture, 29:30.680 --> 29:36.680 the Screenplay Enterprise production, So This Is New York, 29:36.680 --> 29:41.680 and may be heard every Wednesday night on another network for Evershop Chic. 29:41.680 --> 29:48.680 Be sure to listen next Thursday, same time to Suspense, 29:48.680 --> 30:02.680 produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 30:02.680 --> 30:17.680 This is CBS for Columbia Broadcasting System.