WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:20.720 Suspense. 00:20.720 --> 00:27.000 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. 00:27.000 --> 00:33.400 Tonight, starring Mr. Robert Ryan and Miss Ruth Warwick in a play by Devery Freeman entitled 00:33.400 --> 00:45.000 Beyond Reason, edited and directed by Anton M. Lieder and produced by Robert Montgomery. 00:45.000 --> 00:47.400 This is Robert Montgomery. 00:47.400 --> 00:52.760 For well over a year, on the average of five times a week, my newsboy and I have engaged 00:52.760 --> 00:55.500 in the same spirited conversation. 00:55.500 --> 01:01.120 Each evening I greet him with anything in the papers, and each evening he answers with, 01:01.120 --> 01:03.480 no, same old stuff. 01:03.480 --> 01:07.560 Then I spend part of the evening reading the chronicle of the day's events, the same old 01:07.560 --> 01:08.800 stuff. 01:08.800 --> 01:13.280 And I learn that the tensions in the world are greater or lesser, that some people want 01:13.280 --> 01:19.400 high taxes and some people want low, that some people are born and some are married 01:19.400 --> 01:22.480 and some are divorced and some are dead. 01:22.480 --> 01:24.280 Same old stuff. 01:24.280 --> 01:29.840 Yesterday a man walked out onto his front porch, lost his balance on the top step, and 01:29.840 --> 01:31.800 one minute later he was dead. 01:31.800 --> 01:36.400 An hour ago a wife in Fort Wayne, Indiana went to the hospital. 01:36.400 --> 01:39.440 Ten minutes ago she became a mother. 01:39.440 --> 01:43.280 One cycle of life completed, another just beginning. 01:43.280 --> 01:49.080 And the newspaper will report them both clearly, accurately, and without editorial comment. 01:49.080 --> 01:54.760 We can assume that in each of these homes the old patterns of living are broken and 01:54.760 --> 01:57.320 the new ones are in formation. 01:57.320 --> 02:01.800 But we can't know what happens next in the history of these two families. 02:01.800 --> 02:07.920 And these are very real stories that begin with birth or death. 02:07.920 --> 02:14.960 We have one for you today, a story entitled Beyond Reason, and it began this way. 02:14.960 --> 02:21.880 Exactly 722 on the night of January 5th, Pinkton Carr reached the corner of Post and Stockton 02:21.880 --> 02:24.960 Streets in downtown San Francisco. 02:24.960 --> 02:27.000 He was feeling fine. 02:27.000 --> 02:32.120 He stopped for a moment to look at an attractive window display, and then, still looking back, 02:32.120 --> 02:33.120 he stepped off the curb. 02:33.120 --> 02:34.120 Hey, look out! 02:34.120 --> 02:35.120 No! 02:35.120 --> 02:36.120 You hit him! 02:36.120 --> 02:37.120 Stop! 02:37.120 --> 02:38.120 Stop! 02:38.120 --> 02:39.120 Hey, don't run, driver! 02:39.120 --> 02:40.120 Stop him! 02:40.120 --> 02:41.120 Oh, no, don't look! 02:41.120 --> 02:42.120 Oh, the poor man! 02:42.120 --> 02:43.120 Call an ambulance! 02:43.120 --> 02:44.120 Somebody call an ambulance! 02:44.120 --> 02:45.120 This guy's hurt bad! 02:45.120 --> 02:46.120 I saw it! 02:46.120 --> 02:47.120 I saw it happen! 02:47.120 --> 02:48.120 He just stepped off the curb! 02:48.120 --> 02:49.120 Somebody call an ambulance! 02:49.120 --> 02:50.120 Call an ambulance! 02:50.120 --> 02:51.120 Somebody call an ambulance! 02:51.120 --> 02:52.120 Who is he? 02:52.120 --> 02:53.120 Do you know who is he? 02:53.120 --> 02:54.120 You mean who was he? 02:54.120 --> 02:57.120 Oh, the poor man! 02:57.120 --> 03:08.120 Next day, the newspapers put it briefly and concisely in a small headline on page 4. 03:08.120 --> 03:10.120 Businessman hit. 03:10.120 --> 03:12.120 Businessman hit run victim. 03:12.120 --> 03:14.120 You probably read it. 03:14.120 --> 03:16.120 Not very interesting, unless you knew him. 03:16.120 --> 03:18.120 The police were working on the case. 03:18.120 --> 03:21.120 Maybe one day soon they'd track down the car. 03:21.120 --> 03:22.120 Maybe. 03:22.120 --> 03:27.120 It looked like just another one of those things, soon forgotten, over and done with. 03:27.120 --> 03:30.120 But a tragedy like that can be a beginning as well as an end. 03:30.120 --> 03:36.120 It can start a whole chain of events, generate a whole series of reactions. 03:36.120 --> 03:44.120 It can become the genesis of fear, especially in the mind as sensitive as the mind of Evangeline Carr, 03:44.120 --> 03:46.120 the eldest of three daughters. 03:46.120 --> 03:48.120 Vanjie Carr. 03:48.120 --> 03:53.120 Beautiful, lonely, susceptible. 03:53.120 --> 03:55.120 Daddy. 03:55.120 --> 03:57.120 Darling daddy. 03:57.120 --> 04:00.120 Why did he have to die that way? 04:00.120 --> 04:04.120 How could such a thing have happened to him? 04:04.120 --> 04:10.120 Accidents like that don't happen to people like him, not without some reason. 04:10.120 --> 04:12.120 It couldn't have been an accident. 04:12.120 --> 04:15.120 It couldn't have been. 04:15.120 --> 04:20.120 And who is this man, Harry Newton? 04:20.120 --> 04:25.120 This man has suddenly become so important in our lives. 04:25.120 --> 04:29.120 My father's business partner, they say. 04:29.120 --> 04:33.120 But my father never had a business partner, never, I'm sure of that. 04:33.120 --> 04:35.120 He would have told me. 04:35.120 --> 04:39.120 But then, who is Harry Newton? 04:39.120 --> 04:42.120 He was a hard one to pin down in his car. 04:42.120 --> 04:45.120 Doesn't have a home, not even a permanent address. 04:45.120 --> 04:47.120 He just seems to drift around. 04:47.120 --> 04:50.120 Was he up here in San Francisco the night my father was killed? 04:50.120 --> 04:52.120 I checked that, no he wasn't. 04:52.120 --> 04:54.120 But he was here that day. 04:54.120 --> 04:58.120 In fact, that's the day your father and he signed the papers that made them partners. 04:58.120 --> 04:59.120 That day? 04:59.120 --> 05:00.120 Yeah. 05:00.120 --> 05:02.120 That's the date on the contract. 05:02.120 --> 05:05.120 He left Frisco on the four o'clock plane. 05:05.120 --> 05:07.120 Accident happened about 7.30. 05:07.120 --> 05:08.120 Yes. 05:08.120 --> 05:10.120 He seems to be the promoter type. 05:10.120 --> 05:12.120 Somebody else always takes the risk. 05:12.120 --> 05:16.120 How could my father have made a man like that his partner? 05:24.120 --> 05:26.120 The contract is perfectly legal, Vangie. 05:26.120 --> 05:27.120 He is your father's partner. 05:27.120 --> 05:28.120 But why? 05:28.120 --> 05:30.120 Why did Dad ever take him in? 05:30.120 --> 05:32.120 Dad contributed all the property. 05:32.120 --> 05:34.120 This man contributed nothing. 05:34.120 --> 05:36.120 Nothing but himself. 05:36.120 --> 05:39.120 Evidently your father thought he was super salesman. 05:39.120 --> 05:44.120 You see, they had planned to subdivide and sell the acreage here at De La Vista. 05:44.120 --> 05:46.120 And he's determined to go through with it. 05:46.120 --> 05:49.120 No, I'm afraid there's not much we can do. 05:49.120 --> 05:51.120 No, I suppose not. 05:51.120 --> 05:52.120 I'm sorry. 05:52.120 --> 05:55.120 This is very trying for you and your sisters, I know. 05:55.120 --> 05:58.120 Perhaps when he comes up here, we can persuade him. 05:58.120 --> 06:00.120 He's coming here? 06:00.120 --> 06:01.120 Of course. 06:01.120 --> 06:03.120 To look the place over. 06:03.120 --> 06:06.120 You'd have to stay here quite a bit to get the work started. 06:06.120 --> 06:07.120 Yes, of course. 06:07.120 --> 06:08.120 I must have realized that. 06:08.120 --> 06:15.120 Only I never really let myself think about how someday I'd have to meet him face to face. 06:15.120 --> 06:20.120 Vangie, be careful. 06:20.120 --> 06:24.120 You don't trust him either, do you? 06:24.120 --> 06:26.120 No. 06:26.120 --> 06:33.120 I don't trust him either. 06:33.120 --> 06:38.120 Just an everyday accident, but it can be the beginning of many things. 06:38.120 --> 06:41.120 Especially when the dead man leaves unfinished business behind. 06:41.120 --> 06:47.120 Unfinished business and 400 choice suburban acres between the highway and the sea. 06:47.120 --> 06:52.120 400 undeveloped acres in which any real estate man would see the possibilities. 06:52.120 --> 06:57.120 Add to that a partner like Harry Newton and three beautiful daughters. 06:57.120 --> 07:06.120 Especially a daughter like Vangie. 07:06.120 --> 07:07.120 Are you hurt? 07:07.120 --> 07:09.120 No, no, I guess not. 07:09.120 --> 07:11.120 I just fell down getting out of your way. 07:11.120 --> 07:13.120 Here, let me brush you off. I'm sorry. 07:13.120 --> 07:15.120 I came around the bend and didn't see you in case... 07:15.120 --> 07:17.120 Oh, no, it was my fault. 07:17.120 --> 07:21.120 I shouldn't have been walking in the middle of the road daydreaming like that. 07:21.120 --> 07:23.120 I'm all right, thanks. 07:23.120 --> 07:25.120 Receiving hospitals are made for people like you. 07:25.120 --> 07:30.120 I know. I started out at the age of two playing with electric light sockets. 07:30.120 --> 07:33.120 Since I nearly knocked you down, I better introduce myself. 07:33.120 --> 07:35.120 My name's Harry Newton. 07:35.120 --> 07:38.120 And I always cross streets when the light is green. 07:38.120 --> 07:41.120 Getting by in life merely requires the ability to take advantage of green lights. 07:41.120 --> 07:44.120 And the ability to recognize red lights. 07:44.120 --> 07:46.120 Huh? 07:46.120 --> 07:49.120 I'm a Vangeline car. 07:49.120 --> 07:51.120 So... 07:51.120 --> 07:53.120 So you're Vangie, the beautiful one. 07:53.120 --> 07:55.120 No, no, Grace is the beautiful one. 07:55.120 --> 07:56.120 And Suzy? 07:56.120 --> 07:58.120 She's the cute one, the baby. 07:58.120 --> 07:59.120 And you, Vangie? 07:59.120 --> 08:01.120 Oh, I'm... 08:01.120 --> 08:03.120 Well, I'm just me, Vangie. 08:03.120 --> 08:06.120 The plain one, the old maid. 08:06.120 --> 08:09.120 Just because you're the oldest? 08:09.120 --> 08:13.120 Mr. Newton, you wouldn't be interested in me. 08:13.120 --> 08:15.120 No? 08:15.120 --> 08:19.120 Maybe I like plain girls. 08:23.120 --> 08:25.120 That was the way it was. 08:25.120 --> 08:27.120 So sudden I couldn't prepare for it. 08:27.120 --> 08:30.120 And I'd met Harry Newton. 08:30.120 --> 08:34.120 But what about all those questions and fears in my mind? 08:34.120 --> 08:36.120 What had happened to them? 08:36.120 --> 08:38.120 I didn't know. 08:38.120 --> 08:42.120 Downstairs, Harry Newton was talking to Aunt Martha. 08:42.120 --> 08:46.120 Of course you realize, Mr. Newton, this is merely an interview. 08:46.120 --> 08:50.120 Our only knowledge of you is that my brother entrusted you with some of his real estate ventures. 08:50.120 --> 08:52.120 He didn't entrust me with anything, Andy. 08:52.120 --> 08:54.120 He watched me like a hawk. 08:54.120 --> 08:58.120 You realize, of course, the responsibilities that go with this venture. 08:58.120 --> 09:02.120 We know nothing of your character or affiliations. 09:02.120 --> 09:04.120 Perhaps you can supply some of the details. 09:04.120 --> 09:06.120 I've got a credit card with the Union Oil Company. 09:06.120 --> 09:11.120 Look, Andy, I came 400 miles from Los Angeles to discuss the promotion of a subdivision. 09:11.120 --> 09:13.120 It's a little late for references. 09:13.120 --> 09:16.120 I'm in this deal with both feet and a legal document. 09:16.120 --> 09:18.120 Are you handling it for the kids? 09:18.120 --> 09:19.120 Well, not exactly. 09:19.120 --> 09:20.120 Well, then let's have a drink and make small talk. 09:20.120 --> 09:22.120 You'll learn more about me that way. 09:22.120 --> 09:23.120 How about it? 09:23.120 --> 09:24.120 Thank you, no. 09:24.120 --> 09:25.120 You can make yourself at home. 09:25.120 --> 09:27.120 Dinner is at seven. 09:27.120 --> 09:30.120 Okay, thanks. 09:30.120 --> 09:44.120 Thanks very much. 09:44.120 --> 09:47.120 Never let a lady make a phone call when she doesn't know she's not alone. 09:47.120 --> 09:48.120 That's rule number... 09:48.120 --> 09:49.120 Who are you? 09:49.120 --> 09:51.120 Harry Newton. Who are you, Grace? 09:51.120 --> 09:54.120 No, I'm Suzy. 09:54.120 --> 09:57.120 The youngest. 09:57.120 --> 10:01.120 You're the man who murdered my father. 10:01.120 --> 10:04.120 That's a pretty big statement for a little girl. 10:04.120 --> 10:08.120 I say it only as an apology for having thought it. 10:08.120 --> 10:10.120 I accept your apology. 10:10.120 --> 10:13.120 Only don't say it again. 10:13.120 --> 10:15.120 I won't. 10:15.120 --> 10:17.120 You going back to Los Angeles soon? 10:17.120 --> 10:18.120 Tomorrow. 10:18.120 --> 10:19.120 Would you like company? 10:19.120 --> 10:21.120 A passenger? 10:21.120 --> 10:23.120 I said company. 10:23.120 --> 10:26.120 Your aunt will ask for character references. 10:26.120 --> 10:29.120 I didn't ask for any. 10:29.120 --> 10:31.120 You got yourself a ride, Junior. 10:31.120 --> 10:35.120 You wouldn't be thinking of leaving earlier. 10:35.120 --> 10:36.120 Uh-uh. 10:36.120 --> 10:37.120 I'm sleeping over. 10:37.120 --> 10:39.120 Our first customer is coming to dinner. 10:39.120 --> 10:40.120 Who? 10:40.120 --> 10:43.120 People by the name of Burkhart. 10:43.120 --> 10:44.120 Oh? 10:44.120 --> 10:47.120 Quit Burkhart and his silly wife, huh? 10:47.120 --> 10:49.120 They're awful boars. 10:49.120 --> 10:51.120 And get set for some boring neighbors. 10:51.120 --> 10:53.120 We plan to sell them a lot. 10:53.120 --> 10:55.120 That's too bad. 10:55.120 --> 10:58.120 I love company, but I think I'll develop a headache 10:58.120 --> 11:01.120 and stay in my room tonight. 11:01.120 --> 11:05.120 Unless I can change your mind about leaving. 11:05.120 --> 11:07.120 Shall we change the subject? 11:07.120 --> 11:08.120 Suit yourself. 11:08.120 --> 11:11.120 I just don't want to press my luck too far. 11:18.120 --> 11:20.120 All that evening, through dinner with the Burkharts, 11:20.120 --> 11:22.120 through the business talks that followed, 11:22.120 --> 11:26.120 all I could do was watch him, listen to his voice. 11:26.120 --> 11:29.120 I'd never expected a man like this. 11:29.120 --> 11:32.120 Never expected him to make me feel like this. 11:32.120 --> 11:35.120 Like I felt when he smiled and said good night. 11:35.120 --> 11:38.120 Like I felt when he drove away with Susie 11:38.120 --> 11:40.120 for Los Angeles next morning. 11:40.120 --> 11:44.120 Like I felt when he called me long distance. 11:44.120 --> 11:46.120 How are you getting along up there without me, Vanjie? 11:46.120 --> 11:49.120 Oh, I suppose we're just barely managing. 11:49.120 --> 11:50.120 Good, I'll have to hurry back. 11:50.120 --> 11:52.120 The surveyors will be here next week. 11:52.120 --> 11:53.120 Who cares? 11:53.120 --> 11:55.120 I don't want to waste this call talking business. 11:55.120 --> 11:57.120 I just want to talk to you. 11:57.120 --> 11:59.120 Still an old maid, I hope. 11:59.120 --> 12:00.120 I'm afraid so. 12:00.120 --> 12:01.120 And still as plain as ever. 12:01.120 --> 12:02.120 Yes. 12:02.120 --> 12:03.120 Wonderful. 12:03.120 --> 12:04.120 Don't ever change, Vanjie. 12:04.120 --> 12:06.120 All right. 12:09.120 --> 12:11.120 Why did I laugh? 12:11.120 --> 12:13.120 And why did I go around walking on air? 12:13.120 --> 12:17.120 He was just flirting, probably with a purpose, 12:17.120 --> 12:19.120 for business reasons. 12:19.120 --> 12:21.120 But I didn't care. 12:21.120 --> 12:23.120 I knew it was crazy, but I didn't care. 12:23.120 --> 12:26.120 I counted the days until he'd be back. 12:26.120 --> 12:29.120 When he came, he brought me a gift, 12:29.120 --> 12:32.120 a quilted velvet robe. 12:32.120 --> 12:36.120 Aunt Martha said it looked like the inside of a coffin, 12:36.120 --> 12:38.120 but I liked it. 12:38.120 --> 12:41.120 And I liked the funny little note that went with it. 12:41.120 --> 12:45.120 After a few days seeing him, talking to him, 12:45.120 --> 12:50.120 I began to fill my thoughts so completely that I couldn't sleep. 12:50.120 --> 12:54.120 So one night I walked down through the rose garden 12:54.120 --> 12:57.120 to the little tea house on the edge of the palisade. 12:57.120 --> 13:02.120 I was sitting there watching the moonlight on the surf far below. 13:04.120 --> 13:06.120 Don't think anything personal. 13:06.120 --> 13:08.120 You're not alone. 13:08.120 --> 13:09.120 It's you. 13:09.120 --> 13:10.120 What's the matter? 13:10.120 --> 13:12.120 No sleep tonight? 13:12.120 --> 13:14.120 I have things on my mind. 13:14.120 --> 13:17.120 You're going to take real estate and me? 13:17.120 --> 13:19.120 Yes. 13:19.120 --> 13:22.120 I'm trying to make some sort of plan. 13:22.120 --> 13:25.120 I'd just like to feel my way along, see how far I can go. 13:25.120 --> 13:29.120 Plans are good to start with, then you follow your instinct. 13:29.120 --> 13:31.120 I'd like to know where I'm going. 13:31.120 --> 13:33.120 And you don't? 13:33.120 --> 13:35.120 I'm not sure. 13:35.120 --> 13:38.120 You've never asked me a lot of questions like the others, 13:38.120 --> 13:40.120 but I suppose you've been wondering why your father 13:40.120 --> 13:43.120 and I were doing business together, why he invited me in. 13:43.120 --> 13:45.120 There must have been a reason. 13:45.120 --> 13:47.120 A reason? 13:47.120 --> 13:50.120 I met him in Palm Springs, gave him a tip on a horse, and it won. 13:50.120 --> 13:52.120 He figured he owed me something. 13:52.120 --> 13:54.120 That's hard to believe. 13:54.120 --> 13:55.120 Isn't it? 13:55.120 --> 13:57.120 Well, of course he liked me, too. 13:57.120 --> 13:59.120 He thought I had guts and brains. 13:59.120 --> 14:01.120 Beyond that, he didn't want to know a thing. 14:01.120 --> 14:03.120 And if he had? 14:03.120 --> 14:05.120 I'd have told him. 14:06.120 --> 14:08.120 Come here. 14:08.120 --> 14:10.120 Harry, no. 14:10.120 --> 14:13.120 Are you still afraid to follow your instincts? 14:13.120 --> 14:15.120 I don't know. 14:15.120 --> 14:17.120 Come here. 14:26.120 --> 14:28.120 It's all so crazy. 14:28.120 --> 14:31.120 Two weeks ago, Harry Newton was just a name, 14:31.120 --> 14:33.120 a name I hated and feared. 14:33.120 --> 14:35.120 There's nothing of that now. 14:35.120 --> 14:40.120 Now he's a man, a man that I love. 14:40.120 --> 14:42.120 My husband. 14:42.120 --> 14:45.120 We drove to Las Vegas and were married in a little chapel there. 14:45.120 --> 14:47.120 Then we had a fast honeymoon, 14:47.120 --> 14:49.120 plague roulette, seeing Boulder Dam, 14:49.120 --> 14:52.120 just having fun being together. 14:52.120 --> 14:54.120 And when we came home again, 14:54.120 --> 14:57.120 words were still ringing in my ears. 14:57.120 --> 14:59.120 For better, for worse, 14:59.120 --> 15:02.120 for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, 15:02.120 --> 15:06.120 to love and cherish until death do us part. 15:08.120 --> 15:12.120 Until death do us part. 15:12.120 --> 15:15.120 I've moved my things into a corner room, Banshee, 15:15.120 --> 15:17.120 so that you and he may have the suite. 15:17.120 --> 15:19.120 Relax, Andy. This is strictly temporary. 15:19.120 --> 15:22.120 We'll probably go to Los Angeles eventually. 15:22.120 --> 15:24.120 All Harry's friends are there. 15:24.120 --> 15:26.120 Meanwhile, I'll have my stuff shipped up. 15:26.120 --> 15:27.120 There isn't much. 15:27.120 --> 15:29.120 It's packed away in Lou Danch's apartment. 15:29.120 --> 15:31.120 He's the one I was telling you about. 15:31.120 --> 15:34.120 While you were away, there was a phone call from Mr. Newton. 15:34.120 --> 15:35.120 Yeah? 15:35.120 --> 15:37.120 From Miss Kitty Platt. 15:37.120 --> 15:39.120 Kitty Platt? 15:39.120 --> 15:41.120 The girl I used to date. 15:41.120 --> 15:43.120 Probably wondering what happened to me. 15:43.120 --> 15:45.120 I wonder what did. Look at me. 15:45.120 --> 15:47.120 Head over heels in matrimony and... 15:47.120 --> 15:49.120 and I love it. 15:49.120 --> 15:51.120 Oh, Harry. Harry. 15:51.120 --> 15:54.120 Is that a private match or can anybody get in it? 15:54.120 --> 15:57.120 Oh. Hello, Susie. 15:57.120 --> 15:59.120 Hi. 15:59.120 --> 16:01.120 I have to excuse my lack of tact. 16:01.120 --> 16:05.120 Never been a sister-in-law before, and I'm at a loss. 16:05.120 --> 16:07.120 Best of everything, sis. 16:07.120 --> 16:09.120 You rate it. 16:09.120 --> 16:11.120 Thank you, Susie. 16:11.120 --> 16:13.120 Is anything wrong, dear? 16:13.120 --> 16:15.120 You look awfully tired. 16:15.120 --> 16:17.120 Hasn't Harry told you? 16:17.120 --> 16:21.120 Takes a gentleman to keep a secret. 16:21.120 --> 16:23.120 Thank you, Harry. 16:23.120 --> 16:25.120 You're welcome. 16:25.120 --> 16:28.120 What a lovely wedding, Ban Banshee. 16:28.120 --> 16:30.120 Nothing temporary about this piece of jewelry. 16:30.120 --> 16:32.120 Three passes at a craptable. 16:32.120 --> 16:34.120 Tell me, Ban Banshee, darling, 16:34.120 --> 16:38.120 did he buy you the short-order ceremony or the blue plate? 16:38.120 --> 16:41.120 It's very impressive, I understand. 16:41.120 --> 16:44.120 Bless, O Lord, this ring, 16:44.120 --> 16:47.120 that he who gives it and she who wears it 16:47.120 --> 16:49.120 may abide in thy peace. 16:49.120 --> 16:51.120 Let us pray. 16:51.120 --> 16:54.120 Susie. Susie, dear. 16:54.120 --> 16:56.120 Harry. 16:56.120 --> 16:58.120 That's a sick girl. 16:58.120 --> 17:00.120 Mind if I speak to her? 17:00.120 --> 17:02.120 As a member of the family, 17:02.120 --> 17:04.120 I feel I have the privilege of helping. 17:04.120 --> 17:06.120 I'll be right back. 17:06.120 --> 17:08.120 But, Harry... 17:06.120 --> 17:08.120 Vandy! Vandy! 17:08.120 --> 17:10.120 Oh. Oh. 17:10.120 --> 17:12.120 What is it, Anne Martha? 17:12.120 --> 17:15.120 Well, I didn't want to talk to you, dear, while he was with you. 17:15.120 --> 17:17.120 But I'm worried about Susie. 17:17.120 --> 17:19.120 She's been acting very queerly, 17:19.120 --> 17:21.120 not eating and so jumpy. 17:21.120 --> 17:23.120 What do you suppose is wrong? 17:23.120 --> 17:25.120 I don't know. 17:25.120 --> 17:28.120 But she hasn't been herself since she went to Los Angeles. 17:28.120 --> 17:30.120 Perhaps if you had a talk with her... 17:30.120 --> 17:32.120 Harry is doing that now. 17:32.120 --> 17:34.120 Harry? Yes. 17:34.120 --> 17:35.120 A stranger! 17:35.120 --> 17:36.120 Auntie. 17:36.120 --> 17:39.120 Oh, I'm sorry, dear, I shouldn't have said that. 17:39.120 --> 17:42.120 It's just that I can't get used to the idea. 17:42.120 --> 17:44.120 I mean his being one of us. 17:44.120 --> 17:47.120 But then I... I hardly know him. 17:47.120 --> 17:49.120 It's very hard to know him. 17:49.120 --> 17:51.120 Yes, I suppose it is. 17:51.120 --> 17:54.120 Well, I only meant that perhaps someone else should talk to Susie. 17:54.120 --> 17:59.120 You mean you think maybe Harry has something to do with Susie acting this way? 17:59.120 --> 18:02.120 Why, no, Vangie, I didn't say that. 18:02.120 --> 18:04.120 No. 18:04.120 --> 18:06.120 No, of course not. 18:14.120 --> 18:16.120 Harry? Yeah? 18:16.120 --> 18:18.120 How is Susie? She'll be okay. 18:18.120 --> 18:20.120 Maybe I better talk to her. Leave her alone. 18:20.120 --> 18:22.120 She won't tell you anything. 18:22.120 --> 18:24.120 Then you tell me. 18:24.120 --> 18:26.120 That's one of those things. 18:26.120 --> 18:29.120 How do the writers put it? Unrequited love. 18:29.120 --> 18:31.120 You? 18:31.120 --> 18:34.120 Well, if it is, she hasn't told me the whole truth. 18:34.120 --> 18:36.120 What did she tell you? 18:36.120 --> 18:40.120 Say, how do you turn the heat out in this dungeon of a room? 18:40.120 --> 18:44.120 There's a gas heater in the fireplace, but what did she tell you? 18:44.120 --> 18:46.120 Harry? 18:46.120 --> 18:48.120 Look, Angel. 18:48.120 --> 18:50.120 Are you going to turn on me, too? 18:50.120 --> 18:52.120 Don't do it. I need you. 18:52.120 --> 18:55.120 I've been rattling around like a pebble in this old drum of a world 18:55.120 --> 18:57.120 with nothing to grab onto. Now I'm safe. 18:57.120 --> 18:59.120 I've got somebody. 18:59.120 --> 19:01.120 This alley cat's got a home. 19:01.120 --> 19:04.120 That's you, Angel. You're my roof and four walls. 19:04.120 --> 19:06.120 Oh, Harry, darling, please understand. 19:06.120 --> 19:10.120 It's not that I don't trust you, but I'm worried about Susie. 19:10.120 --> 19:13.120 Okay, baby, you talk to her tomorrow, if it'll do any good. 19:13.120 --> 19:16.120 But right now, don't worry about it. 19:16.120 --> 19:20.120 Come on, let's get some sleep. 19:20.120 --> 19:22.120 Help! Help! 19:22.120 --> 19:24.120 Help! Help! 19:24.120 --> 19:26.120 Help! Help! 19:26.120 --> 19:28.120 Help! Help! 19:28.120 --> 19:30.120 Help! Help! 19:30.120 --> 19:32.120 Help! Help! 19:32.120 --> 19:34.120 What is that? 19:34.120 --> 19:36.120 What was that? 19:36.120 --> 19:38.120 I don't know. What time is it? 19:38.120 --> 19:40.120 Six o'clock. 19:40.120 --> 19:42.120 Help! Help! 19:42.120 --> 19:44.120 It's Aaron, I think. 19:44.120 --> 19:47.120 He must be below that window there. 19:49.120 --> 19:50.120 What's up? 19:50.120 --> 19:52.120 It's Miss Susie. 19:52.120 --> 19:54.120 What about her? 19:54.120 --> 19:56.120 She's dead. 19:56.120 --> 19:58.120 Dead? 19:58.120 --> 20:00.120 Dead! 20:05.120 --> 20:07.120 Tragedy begets tragedy. 20:07.120 --> 20:10.120 Accidents breed more accidents. 20:10.120 --> 20:13.120 Or was this another accident? 20:13.120 --> 20:19.120 At any rate, in the grim sequence of events started by that simple accident on a city street, 20:19.120 --> 20:23.120 a second member of the Carr family was dead. 20:23.120 --> 20:26.120 They say tragedies strike in threes. 20:26.120 --> 20:28.120 I wonder. 20:28.120 --> 20:31.120 And so does Vanjie Carr wonder. 20:31.120 --> 20:34.120 Why? Why did it happen? 20:34.120 --> 20:36.120 Why did she do it? 20:36.120 --> 20:38.120 What did Harry know? 20:38.120 --> 20:40.120 Did he have anything to do with it? 20:40.120 --> 20:43.120 No, no, I mustn't. 20:43.120 --> 20:45.120 Just relax now. 20:45.120 --> 20:48.120 Rest. That's what I'm supposed to do. 20:48.120 --> 20:50.120 Relax. 20:50.120 --> 20:53.120 In a few minutes, he'll come up and tell me. 20:53.120 --> 20:55.120 Tell me what they're talking about down there. 20:55.120 --> 20:58.120 He and Aaron, and my sister, Grace. 20:58.120 --> 21:01.120 Tell me about it, Aaron, from the beginning. 21:01.120 --> 21:04.120 It's hard for me to tell it now, Miss Grace. 21:04.120 --> 21:05.120 It's like a dream. 21:05.120 --> 21:07.120 He hasn't told it the same way twice. 21:07.120 --> 21:09.120 But I try to. I try to. 21:09.120 --> 21:11.120 And Martin knows that. 21:11.120 --> 21:13.120 Now try again, Aaron. 21:13.120 --> 21:15.120 Well, I was up early. 21:15.120 --> 21:17.120 Not early for me, but early. 21:17.120 --> 21:19.120 And there was a mist, and the ground was wet. 21:19.120 --> 21:21.120 So I wore my rubbers. 21:21.120 --> 21:25.120 I was pinning back the honeysuckle on the trellis near the garage when she came by. 21:25.120 --> 21:30.120 Didn't see me, but I saw her walking as if in her sleep. 21:30.120 --> 21:33.120 Yet she looked as if she knew where she was going. 21:33.120 --> 21:37.120 And she was dressed and combed and carried a purse. 21:37.120 --> 21:39.120 I said, good morning. 21:39.120 --> 21:44.120 But she didn't answer and went off into the mist toward the teahouse on the edge of the palisade, 21:44.120 --> 21:46.120 where there's only one path. 21:46.120 --> 21:52.120 And then presently I worked my way down the path through the rose garden to say good morning again. 21:52.120 --> 21:54.120 But she was gone. 21:54.120 --> 21:57.120 She had jumped into the ocean onto the rocks below. 21:57.120 --> 22:01.120 And I found her purse, that purse on the bar, and that writing crop. 22:01.120 --> 22:04.120 The writing crop is mine. 22:04.120 --> 22:06.120 I left it there several days ago. 22:06.120 --> 22:08.120 Oh, I see. 22:08.120 --> 22:11.120 All right, Aaron. That's all. You may go now. 22:11.120 --> 22:13.120 All right, Miss Grace. 22:13.120 --> 22:15.120 Well, Mr. Newton? 22:15.120 --> 22:17.120 Harry's the name. 22:17.120 --> 22:19.120 Yes, of course. We are related, aren't we? 22:19.120 --> 22:24.120 Should I apologize for not belaboring you with congratulatory messages on your marriage? 22:24.120 --> 22:26.120 Some people are just naturally short on sentiment. 22:26.120 --> 22:28.120 You have other gifts. 22:28.120 --> 22:30.120 Thanks. 22:30.120 --> 22:36.120 It's just that I have an instinct of aversion to attractive men being snatched from the open market. 22:36.120 --> 22:40.120 If I ever get back on the market, I'll send you a credit slip. 22:40.120 --> 22:42.120 Planning to get back on the market? 22:42.120 --> 22:45.120 Not at this particular time. 22:45.120 --> 22:47.120 I see. 22:54.120 --> 22:56.120 Anybody here? 22:56.120 --> 22:58.120 Vanjie. 22:58.120 --> 23:01.120 I'm not in the light, Harry. I look awful. 23:01.120 --> 23:03.120 Relax, Angel. 23:03.120 --> 23:06.120 I know how upset you are, but you've got to relax. 23:06.120 --> 23:08.120 I can't. I can't. 23:08.120 --> 23:10.120 Oh, Suzy. 23:10.120 --> 23:12.120 Suzy, you poor baby. 23:12.120 --> 23:14.120 Take it easy. 23:14.120 --> 23:17.120 I swear you'll just fly apart, springs and wheels and everything. 23:17.120 --> 23:19.120 You're going to have to rest a few days. 23:19.120 --> 23:21.120 Oh, I want to know everything, Harry. 23:21.120 --> 23:25.120 Who was it? Who did this to Suzy? 23:25.120 --> 23:27.120 I lied to her. 23:27.120 --> 23:31.120 I mean, I lied when I said Suzy chose me as a confidant. 23:31.120 --> 23:35.120 The way it happened, I stumbled into the middle of her romance by accident. 23:35.120 --> 23:37.120 Then who? 23:37.120 --> 23:39.120 A neighbor of yours, Whit Burkhart. 23:39.120 --> 23:42.120 Whit Burkhart? But, oh, no, he's married. 23:42.120 --> 23:46.120 Yeah, you see, I bumped into them in a quiet little restaurant in Los Angeles. 23:46.120 --> 23:49.120 I was about as welcome as bad news in a collect telegram. 23:49.120 --> 23:51.120 I grabbed a quick one at the bar and ran. 23:51.120 --> 23:53.120 But is that all? 23:53.120 --> 23:54.120 No. 23:54.120 --> 23:57.120 Suzy made it her business to see me the next day. 23:57.120 --> 24:01.120 She wanted me to promise not to tell anyone I'd seen them together. 24:01.120 --> 24:03.120 I let her talk and she did. 24:03.120 --> 24:05.120 Plenty. 24:05.120 --> 24:09.120 It wasn't nice the way she told it, crying as if her insides were splintered. 24:09.120 --> 24:14.120 This fellow Burkhart had met her in Los Angeles to let her know that they'd come to the end of the line. 24:14.120 --> 24:19.120 He was afraid his wife was getting wise, so they had one last rendezvous. 24:19.120 --> 24:20.120 That's all. 24:20.120 --> 24:23.120 Except the way she loved this guy, he must be all right. 24:23.120 --> 24:25.120 Oh, no, Harry. 24:25.120 --> 24:30.120 A man doesn't have to be all right for a woman to love him. 24:38.120 --> 24:41.120 The next few days I spent in bed. 24:41.120 --> 24:43.120 I was supposed to relax. 24:43.120 --> 24:46.120 I couldn't. It was too much to think about. 24:46.120 --> 24:49.120 Even the doctor's pills didn't help. 24:49.120 --> 24:52.120 And little things made impressions on me. 24:52.120 --> 24:55.120 Little things that people said. 24:55.120 --> 24:58.120 Your husband took me riding this morning, darling. 24:58.120 --> 25:02.120 Tell me, Vanjie, how did you ever trap him? 25:02.120 --> 25:04.120 I don't know. 25:04.120 --> 25:06.120 He just seemed to like me. 25:06.120 --> 25:08.120 Well, I guess we're not hard to like. 25:08.120 --> 25:11.120 Daddy left us quite a bit of allure. 25:11.120 --> 25:15.120 A square block in San Francisco, four theaters, two open-air markets, 25:15.120 --> 25:17.120 and a lovely office building in Los Angeles. 25:17.120 --> 25:19.120 In short, a real estate man's paradise. 25:19.120 --> 25:20.120 Grace. 25:20.120 --> 25:22.120 Sorry, darling. 25:22.120 --> 25:25.120 He's so different from my faithful, methodical Lenny, 25:25.120 --> 25:27.120 I'm just jealous. 25:27.120 --> 25:29.120 Aren't you flattered? 25:37.120 --> 25:40.120 Well, I thought you were making yourself irresistible. 25:40.120 --> 25:44.120 I just got tired of looking like something that's been left out in the rain. 25:44.120 --> 25:46.120 Flowers do all right. 25:46.120 --> 25:49.120 You're very sweet, Harry, but I know my limitations. 25:49.120 --> 25:51.120 Nonsense. I think you're very attractive. 25:51.120 --> 25:57.120 But not beautiful, like Grace, if we take her for a measuring stick. 25:57.120 --> 26:02.120 No one would take Grace for a measuring stick or any other kind of stick. 26:02.120 --> 26:04.120 She's the sexy type. 26:10.120 --> 26:12.120 Nice of you to come, Mrs. Burkhardt. 26:12.120 --> 26:14.120 Cigarette? 26:14.120 --> 26:16.120 No, thanks. Whit made me give up smoking. 26:16.120 --> 26:18.120 He really babies me, that man. 26:18.120 --> 26:21.120 Forced me to go away for a two-week rest. 26:21.120 --> 26:24.120 I told him I felt fine, but he insisted. 26:24.120 --> 26:26.120 Was that when he went to Los Angeles? 26:26.120 --> 26:28.120 Los Angeles? 26:28.120 --> 26:31.120 Whit hasn't been to Los Angeles in four years. 26:31.120 --> 26:33.120 Why, no, he went along with me. 26:36.120 --> 26:38.120 Of course she was lying. 26:38.120 --> 26:42.120 Her husband had been to Los Angeles, just as Harry said he had, with Susie. 26:42.120 --> 26:44.120 He must have been. 26:44.120 --> 26:46.120 She was just trying to make Harry look bad. 26:46.120 --> 26:48.120 And so were the rest of them. 26:48.120 --> 26:56.120 That's why I took to listening, to find out what they were up to, to protect Harry. 26:56.120 --> 27:02.120 I listened, even from behind doors. 27:02.120 --> 27:04.120 Hello, Newton. You remember me? 27:04.120 --> 27:06.120 Gurney, the lawyer? 27:06.120 --> 27:08.120 Uh-huh. 27:08.120 --> 27:10.120 Is Mrs. Newton too ill for a visitor? 27:10.120 --> 27:12.120 Yes, she is. What do you want? 27:12.120 --> 27:19.120 It's in regard to your suggestion, Mr. Newton, that arrangements be made to give you power of attorney in matters pertaining to De La Vista. 27:19.120 --> 27:22.120 You can lower your voice. I told you my wife is ill. 27:22.120 --> 27:26.120 Any request of that nature should be gone over with all parties' concerns. 27:26.120 --> 27:28.120 I said lower your voice. 27:28.120 --> 27:30.120 Of course. 27:30.120 --> 27:36.120 Two untimely tragedies have decreased the number of parties concerned. 27:36.120 --> 27:40.120 I'd say you have two down and two to go, Mr. Newton. 27:40.120 --> 27:42.120 What do you mean by that? 27:42.120 --> 27:46.120 Nothing. 27:46.120 --> 27:48.120 Have you discussed this matter with Mrs. Newton? 27:48.120 --> 27:50.120 There's no reason for her to object. 27:50.120 --> 27:52.120 On the other hand, there's Grace Carr. 27:52.120 --> 27:54.120 Have you spoken to her? 27:54.120 --> 27:56.120 Not more than a moment ago. 27:56.120 --> 27:58.120 It's no go, Newton. 27:58.120 --> 28:02.120 Miss Carr, it seems, has developed quite an interest in De La Vista. 28:02.120 --> 28:04.120 Or some aspects of it. 28:04.120 --> 28:09.120 She intends to work with you as closely as possible. 28:09.120 --> 28:11.120 That sounds engaging. 28:11.120 --> 28:16.120 Yes. For you, it should be a cinch, Newton. 28:16.120 --> 28:20.120 I understand you're quite a hand with the ladies. 28:20.120 --> 28:22.120 Well, I've had my innings. 28:22.120 --> 28:24.120 Oh! 28:29.120 --> 28:31.120 I listened to everything. 28:31.120 --> 28:35.120 Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night and listened. 28:35.120 --> 28:40.120 I listened to Harry and Grace downstairs talking, laughing, laughing. 28:40.120 --> 28:43.120 They laugh together a lot these days. 28:43.120 --> 28:46.120 Harry, you're wonderful. I don't know how you did it. 28:46.120 --> 28:47.120 What's up, partner? 28:47.120 --> 28:50.120 Telegram from Gin Strand. He's willing to talk terms. 28:50.120 --> 28:52.120 And he's free to talk tonight. 28:52.120 --> 28:54.120 Well, for heaven's sake, let's be sociable. 28:54.120 --> 28:56.120 Maybe we can have the deal signed and moving tomorrow. 28:56.120 --> 28:59.120 That means staying over in San Francisco tonight. 28:59.120 --> 29:01.120 I'll take care of the hotel reservations. 29:01.120 --> 29:03.120 Oh, high pressure, Harry. 29:03.120 --> 29:07.120 We'll take them to the best restaurant in town and we'll order their best meal. 29:07.120 --> 29:09.120 Are you worried about your figure? 29:09.120 --> 29:13.120 No. Are you worried about... 29:13.120 --> 29:14.120 See you later. 29:14.120 --> 29:17.120 Hello. I want the Grosvenor in San Francisco. 29:17.120 --> 29:19.120 A charming little hotel. 29:19.120 --> 29:22.120 Oh, it's you. 29:22.120 --> 29:24.120 Hello, Angel. I thought you were in bed. 29:24.120 --> 29:25.120 How's your headache? 29:25.120 --> 29:29.120 Better. I'd like to go along with you, Harry. 29:29.120 --> 29:31.120 Tonight? In your condition? 29:31.120 --> 29:34.120 What's wrong with me? Don't you want my company? 29:34.120 --> 29:36.120 You're not up to it. You're sick. 29:36.120 --> 29:40.120 I said I'm better. I've decided to help you. 29:40.120 --> 29:42.120 Help me? 29:42.120 --> 29:44.120 Grace helps you. 29:44.120 --> 29:46.120 She tags along. 29:46.120 --> 29:50.120 Can't I tag along, too? Please, Harry, I want to go with you. 29:50.120 --> 29:52.120 All right. Why not? 29:52.120 --> 29:55.120 And this afternoon, I want you to take me riding. 29:55.120 --> 29:58.120 Did you know I could ride? I'm better than Grace. I've won cups. 29:58.120 --> 30:00.120 Shall we go riding this afternoon? 30:00.120 --> 30:04.120 Sure, Angel. Maybe that's a good idea. 30:14.120 --> 30:16.120 What's that, Grace? 30:16.120 --> 30:19.120 I don't know, Aunt Martha. I can't see. The fog is rolling in. 30:19.120 --> 30:21.120 It's a horse. 30:21.120 --> 30:23.120 But no rider. 30:23.120 --> 30:24.120 Is it Vanjie's? 30:24.120 --> 30:26.120 Well, Harry's. It's tearing down the path toward the highway, 30:26.120 --> 30:28.120 probably heading for the stables. 30:28.120 --> 30:31.120 Something's happened. I knew it. Come on. 30:32.120 --> 30:34.120 Here comes the other one. It's Harry. 30:34.120 --> 30:36.120 He's carrying Vanjie. Hi. 30:36.120 --> 30:38.120 Hi. 30:40.120 --> 30:42.120 Help me get her up to her room. 30:42.120 --> 30:44.120 Please stop acting silly. I wasn't hurt a bit. 30:44.120 --> 30:46.120 Yes, she was. Her shoulder's bruised. I'm calling Dr. Rupert. 30:46.120 --> 30:48.120 What's more, you're going to the clinic tomorrow for X-rays. 30:48.120 --> 30:50.120 No sense taking chances. What happened? 30:50.120 --> 30:52.120 A horse bolted. Why? I don't know. 30:52.120 --> 30:54.120 Maybe Harry does. Yes. 30:54.120 --> 30:56.120 He was riding just behind. 30:56.120 --> 30:58.120 Did you see any reason for it, Harry? 30:58.120 --> 31:00.120 No, not a thing. 31:07.120 --> 31:09.120 I tell you, Harry, there's nothing wrong with me. 31:09.120 --> 31:12.120 Nothing but a simple old-fashioned headache. 31:12.120 --> 31:15.120 Maybe you can grab some sleep before the doctor gets here. 31:15.120 --> 31:18.120 Why are you making such a fuss? 31:18.120 --> 31:22.120 Is it because you don't want me with you in San Francisco? 31:22.120 --> 31:25.120 You certainly can't go till we're sure you're all right. 31:25.120 --> 31:28.120 Then you're going without me. 31:28.120 --> 31:30.120 We'll talk about it later. 31:30.120 --> 31:32.120 Get some sleep, Angel. 31:34.120 --> 31:36.120 What are you doing? 31:36.120 --> 31:38.120 Connecting up your heater. This room is like a tomb. 31:38.120 --> 31:41.120 If we take the chill off, maybe you'll sleep. 31:41.120 --> 31:45.120 You won't go without me, will you, Harry? 31:45.120 --> 31:47.120 Are we back on that again? 31:47.120 --> 31:49.120 Oh, I'm sorry. 31:49.120 --> 31:51.120 Harry. 31:51.120 --> 31:53.120 What? 31:53.120 --> 31:55.120 I've made you angry with me, haven't I? 31:55.120 --> 31:57.120 No. 31:57.120 --> 31:59.120 Do you love me? 31:59.120 --> 32:01.120 Sure. 32:01.120 --> 32:04.120 It's so strange, this marriage of ours. 32:04.120 --> 32:06.120 It's more like an affair, really. 32:06.120 --> 32:08.120 It happened so fast. 32:08.120 --> 32:12.120 We don't really know each other, do we, Harry? 32:13.120 --> 32:15.120 Why did you want me, Harry? 32:15.120 --> 32:17.120 Because I love you. 32:17.120 --> 32:19.120 Because you love me. 32:19.120 --> 32:21.120 You love me. 32:21.120 --> 32:23.120 Yet if I were gone tomorrow, 32:23.120 --> 32:26.120 would there be another to take my place, 32:26.120 --> 32:28.120 as there were others before me? 32:28.120 --> 32:30.120 Oh, no. 32:30.120 --> 32:32.120 No, don't answer that. 32:32.120 --> 32:34.120 I get sillier by the minute. 32:34.120 --> 32:36.120 Forgive me, darling. 32:36.120 --> 32:38.120 There's nothing to forgive. 32:38.120 --> 32:40.120 Yes, there is. 32:40.120 --> 32:42.120 I won't be silly anymore. 32:42.120 --> 32:44.120 I'm sure you won't, Angel. 32:44.120 --> 32:46.120 Good night. 32:46.120 --> 32:49.120 I'll see that you're not disturbed. 32:49.120 --> 32:51.120 Harry. 32:51.120 --> 32:53.120 Harry. 32:53.120 --> 32:55.120 Oh, darling. 33:05.120 --> 33:08.120 I'd come to that state of mind. 33:08.120 --> 33:11.120 And the senses are so drugged with fatigue, 33:11.120 --> 33:14.120 there's an end to caring. 33:14.120 --> 33:16.120 Almost. 33:16.120 --> 33:20.120 All the doubts, the fears loomed up and enveloped me. 33:20.120 --> 33:24.120 And yet I was getting drowsy. 33:24.120 --> 33:29.120 Reality was becoming distorted into nightmare. 33:29.120 --> 33:32.120 There was a strange ringing in my ears, 33:32.120 --> 33:36.120 and I began to see things. 33:36.120 --> 33:39.120 Like... like a dream. 33:39.120 --> 33:43.120 I thought I saw Pookie, my canary, 33:43.120 --> 33:46.120 lying in the bottom of his cage, 33:46.120 --> 33:52.120 with his little legs thrust stiffly upward in death. 33:52.120 --> 33:55.120 Then I was hearing things, 33:55.120 --> 33:59.120 like... like a hissing snake. 33:59.120 --> 34:03.120 And down on the floor, I saw it, 34:03.120 --> 34:06.120 coiled up by the heater. 34:06.120 --> 34:09.120 I must... 34:09.120 --> 34:11.120 I must... 34:11.120 --> 34:13.120 laugh. 34:13.120 --> 34:15.120 LAUGHS 34:15.120 --> 34:17.120 Grace. 34:17.120 --> 34:19.120 Grace laughing. 34:19.120 --> 34:22.120 Laughing with Harry. 34:22.120 --> 34:26.120 Somehow, for the first time, 34:26.120 --> 34:29.120 I didn't care. 34:29.120 --> 34:33.120 She had no cause to gloat. 34:33.120 --> 34:37.120 It did happen to her, too. 34:37.120 --> 34:42.120 Just like it happened to death. 34:42.120 --> 34:45.120 And to Susan. 34:45.120 --> 34:50.120 And like it was happening to me. 34:50.120 --> 34:52.120 HISSING 34:52.120 --> 34:55.120 MUSIC 34:55.120 --> 35:00.120 MUSIC 35:00.120 --> 35:03.120 In tonight's full hour of suspense, 35:03.120 --> 35:05.120 Mr Robert Ryan appears as Harry Newton, 35:05.120 --> 35:08.120 and Miss Ruth Warwick appears as Vanjie Kahn 35:08.120 --> 35:10.120 in Beyond Reason. 35:10.120 --> 35:13.120 Tonight's study in Suspense. 35:13.120 --> 35:19.120 MUSIC 35:19.120 --> 35:23.120 In just a moment, we will return with Act Two of Suspense. 35:23.120 --> 35:36.120 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 35:36.120 --> 35:39.120 And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage 35:39.120 --> 35:42.120 and to our producer, Mr Robert Montgomery, 35:42.120 --> 35:44.120 for Act Two of Beyond Reason, 35:44.120 --> 35:47.120 starring Ruth Warwick and Robert Ryan, 35:47.120 --> 35:50.120 in a narrative well calculated to keep you in... 35:50.120 --> 35:53.120 Suspense! 35:53.120 --> 36:01.120 MUSIC 36:01.120 --> 36:03.120 It all started with a fatal accident 36:03.120 --> 36:05.120 on a street corner in San Francisco. 36:05.120 --> 36:08.120 You probably read about it in the papers a few weeks ago. 36:08.120 --> 36:10.120 Just an everyday accident. 36:10.120 --> 36:12.120 But it was an end and a beginning. 36:12.120 --> 36:15.120 An end for Pinkton Carr, who was killed, 36:15.120 --> 36:18.120 and a beginning for his three daughters, 36:18.120 --> 36:20.120 Aunt Harry Newton. 36:20.120 --> 36:23.120 But with the sequence of events half played through, 36:23.120 --> 36:25.120 there are now only two daughters, 36:25.120 --> 36:27.120 one down and two to go. 36:27.120 --> 36:30.120 And right now, lying on the bed in her room, 36:30.120 --> 36:32.120 is Vanjie Kahn, the hiss of gas, 36:32.120 --> 36:35.120 loud in her ears, drowning out the thoughts, 36:35.120 --> 36:39.120 the fears and the voices of Sister Grace and Harry Newton 36:39.120 --> 36:41.120 in the living room below. 36:41.120 --> 36:45.120 Harry, I told Jim Strand we'd meet him at nine. 36:45.120 --> 36:47.120 We can make it if we hurry. 36:47.120 --> 36:49.120 I'll go and get Auntie. 36:49.120 --> 36:51.120 She's resting. 36:51.120 --> 36:53.120 Okay, let's go. 36:53.120 --> 36:55.120 What about Mrs. Newton? 36:55.120 --> 36:57.120 Shall we take a peek? 36:57.120 --> 36:59.120 No, she'll wake up if I go in. 36:59.120 --> 37:01.120 Let her sleep. 37:01.120 --> 37:04.120 I could be back by midnight if we hurry. 37:04.120 --> 37:06.120 Let's just go. 37:06.120 --> 37:12.120 MUSIC 37:12.120 --> 37:16.120 I dreamed church bells were tolling my 10. 37:16.120 --> 37:19.120 And someone was stuffing my throat, 37:19.120 --> 37:22.120 nostrils with cotton padding. 37:22.120 --> 37:25.120 I couldn't breathe. 37:25.120 --> 37:28.120 My limbs were bound to the bed. 37:28.120 --> 37:31.120 I tried to scream, but I couldn't. 37:31.120 --> 37:33.120 I started to spin. 37:33.120 --> 37:35.120 The bed was spinning. 37:35.120 --> 37:39.120 The whole room was spinning like a whirlpool, 37:39.120 --> 37:42.120 ever narrowing, until finally 37:42.120 --> 37:46.120 it was as thin as the sound of a bell. 37:46.120 --> 37:48.120 BELL RINGS 37:51.120 --> 37:53.120 Oh, Dr. Rupert. 37:53.120 --> 37:55.120 I just got your message. 37:55.120 --> 37:57.120 Been out all day. How is she? 37:57.120 --> 38:00.120 She seems quite well. I guess my call was a little hasty. 38:00.120 --> 38:01.120 What happened? 38:01.120 --> 38:02.120 Fell off a horse. 38:02.120 --> 38:04.120 That girl, always something. 38:04.120 --> 38:06.120 It's been that way as long as I've known her. 38:06.120 --> 38:09.120 So she thought she was strong enough to go riding. 38:09.120 --> 38:11.120 Maybe that's my fault. 38:11.120 --> 38:13.120 Well, I'll go up and have a look. 38:13.120 --> 38:15.120 She's sleeping. 38:15.120 --> 38:19.120 Oh, well, that's always good medicine. 38:19.120 --> 38:21.120 Going someplace? 38:21.120 --> 38:22.120 Business appointment. 38:22.120 --> 38:25.120 Oh. Well, good night. 38:25.120 --> 38:27.120 What was that crash? 38:27.120 --> 38:30.120 That came from Vanjie's room. There's something wrong. 38:30.120 --> 38:37.120 MUSIC 38:37.120 --> 38:42.120 There was darkness, darkness and flashing lights, 38:42.120 --> 38:47.120 changing colours, shifting designs, noises, 38:47.120 --> 38:51.120 somehow recognisable to human voices. 38:51.120 --> 38:52.120 Vanjie. 38:52.120 --> 38:53.120 Never blankets. 38:53.120 --> 38:55.120 Good night, Apollos. 38:55.120 --> 38:56.120 Always a danger to ammonia. 38:56.120 --> 38:58.120 She's a murderer. Listen to me, I know. 38:58.120 --> 38:59.120 She's a murderer. 38:59.120 --> 39:00.120 Vanjie. 39:00.120 --> 39:01.120 Lots of coffee. More coffee. 39:01.120 --> 39:02.120 Kill her. 39:02.120 --> 39:03.120 Blanket. 39:03.120 --> 39:04.120 Murder. 39:04.120 --> 39:05.120 Coffee. 39:05.120 --> 39:06.120 Murder. 39:06.120 --> 39:07.120 Vanjie. 39:07.120 --> 39:08.120 Vanjie. 39:08.120 --> 39:11.120 Oh, Harry. 39:11.120 --> 39:12.120 Vanjie. 39:12.120 --> 39:16.120 Oh, Harry. 39:16.120 --> 39:17.120 Good morning, Angel. 39:17.120 --> 39:20.120 Oh, Harry. 39:20.120 --> 39:24.120 It's been a tough night, but you came through as good as new. 39:24.120 --> 39:27.120 Last night I wanted to shoot myself. It's all my fault. 39:27.120 --> 39:31.120 No. No, it's not. Don't say that. 39:31.120 --> 39:35.120 I thought I connected the heater fine, but something must have happened. 39:35.120 --> 39:38.120 Maybe I kicked the pipe. I don't know. 39:38.120 --> 39:39.120 Harry. 39:39.120 --> 39:41.120 Vanjie. 39:41.120 --> 39:44.120 Listen to me before they come back in. 39:44.120 --> 39:47.120 They may say things about me. 39:47.120 --> 39:50.120 Your aunt's got some weird ideas about what happened. 39:50.120 --> 39:51.120 Don't listen to them, Vanjie. 39:51.120 --> 39:52.120 Don't listen to them. 39:52.120 --> 39:55.120 I won't, Harry. 39:55.120 --> 39:56.120 I love you, Angel. 39:56.120 --> 39:58.120 That's all that matters, isn't it? 39:58.120 --> 40:03.120 Yes. Yes, that's all that matters. 40:03.120 --> 40:05.120 What's wrong? 40:05.120 --> 40:07.120 Nothing, Harry. 40:07.120 --> 40:08.120 You don't believe me. 40:08.120 --> 40:14.120 I do, Harry. I do believe you love me. 40:14.120 --> 40:17.120 That is, I want to believe you. 40:17.120 --> 40:22.120 I want to more than anything else in the world. 40:22.120 --> 40:24.120 You've got to. 40:24.120 --> 40:26.120 I will. 40:26.120 --> 40:29.120 Are we up or are we going to sleep some more? 40:29.120 --> 40:31.120 She's up, Dr. Rupert. 40:31.120 --> 40:33.120 There's a lucky girl. 40:33.120 --> 40:35.120 What a fine room for such an accident. 40:35.120 --> 40:36.120 Big and drafty. 40:36.120 --> 40:39.120 My poor Pookie. My poor Pookie. 40:39.120 --> 40:41.120 I'm sorry, Aunt Martha. 40:41.120 --> 40:44.120 It's too bad you didn't knock over the bed table sooner. 40:44.120 --> 40:47.120 But then it was soon enough, thank heaven. 40:47.120 --> 40:49.120 You should get some sleep, Mr. Newton. 40:49.120 --> 40:51.120 I'll settle for a cup of coffee. 40:51.120 --> 40:55.120 And as for you, Angel, no more trouble while I'm gone. 40:55.120 --> 40:57.120 No. 40:57.120 --> 41:00.120 You must reassure him, Vanjie. He's eaten with remorse. 41:00.120 --> 41:02.120 Disappointment, you mean. 41:02.120 --> 41:04.120 You consider the accident his fault. 41:04.120 --> 41:06.120 Accident? You keep calling it an accident. 41:06.120 --> 41:11.120 Your auntie, Vanjie, is very disturbed and full of wild theories. 41:11.120 --> 41:13.120 There's no need to theorise. 41:13.120 --> 41:15.120 Oh? 41:15.120 --> 41:17.120 The blame is all mine. 41:17.120 --> 41:21.120 I got up to get some water, yes. 41:21.120 --> 41:24.120 And this sleeping pill made me groggy. 41:24.120 --> 41:29.120 I must have stumbled on the gas hose and pulled it out without realising. 41:29.120 --> 41:31.120 I'm always doing things like that. 41:31.120 --> 41:35.120 Yes, you are, as long as I've known you. 41:35.120 --> 41:41.120 You know, there are those of us who go through life with a predisposition toward having accidents. 41:41.120 --> 41:43.120 We actually will them to happen. 41:43.120 --> 41:48.120 We, who are thus disposed, live closer to the edge of time than others. 41:48.120 --> 41:50.120 We walk in front of moving cars... 41:50.120 --> 41:52.120 We fall from high places. 41:52.120 --> 41:56.120 We are bitten by snakes and sucked in by riptides. 41:56.120 --> 41:59.120 There's poison oak. We will find it. 41:59.120 --> 42:01.120 There are live wires. We will touch them. 42:01.120 --> 42:03.120 We are wedded to calamity. 42:03.120 --> 42:06.120 We are indeed wedded to calamity, indeed. 42:06.120 --> 42:10.120 You may discount the other nonsense and be sure of the last. 42:16.120 --> 42:19.120 Wedded to calamity. 42:19.120 --> 42:22.120 No, no, I mustn't listen to such things. 42:22.120 --> 42:24.120 I mustn't think such things. 42:24.120 --> 42:26.120 How could I? 42:26.120 --> 42:31.120 When I saw the genuine concern, the fright in his face, 42:31.120 --> 42:34.120 when I heard the love in his voice. 42:34.120 --> 42:38.120 In those days when I lay resting from my narrow escape, 42:38.120 --> 42:44.120 he was sweet, sweet enough to convince me I wasn't alone. 42:44.120 --> 42:49.120 Not really. Not even when he was away in San Francisco on business. 42:51.120 --> 42:53.120 Hello? 42:53.120 --> 42:57.120 Oh, darling. Oh, darling, I've missed you. 42:57.120 --> 43:01.120 San Francisco might as well be on the other side of the world. 43:01.120 --> 43:04.120 Oh, no, darling, come home tonight. 43:04.120 --> 43:07.120 Well, well, then try to. 43:07.120 --> 43:09.120 Oh, please, Harry, I... 43:09.120 --> 43:11.120 What? 43:11.120 --> 43:14.120 Unto eternity. 43:14.120 --> 43:17.120 Oh, yes, darling. Yes. 43:17.120 --> 43:20.120 I love you unto eternity. 43:20.120 --> 43:23.120 Yes, darling. Yes. 43:23.120 --> 43:25.120 Goodbye. 43:31.120 --> 43:35.120 But suddenly I was feeling alone again. 43:35.120 --> 43:38.120 Unto eternity, he said. 43:38.120 --> 43:40.120 But what did he mean? 43:40.120 --> 43:43.120 Eternity? 43:43.120 --> 43:45.120 The word made me shudder. 43:45.120 --> 43:48.120 Hello? Hello, Vanjie. 43:48.120 --> 43:51.120 You don't seem to recognize me. I'm Lenny Walden. 43:51.120 --> 43:54.120 Grace's friend. Oh, yes, yes, of course. 43:54.120 --> 43:57.120 Won't you come in? Thanks. 43:57.120 --> 43:59.120 Grace isn't here? 43:59.120 --> 44:00.120 Oh, no. 44:00.120 --> 44:03.120 I didn't really expect her to be. I just thought that... 44:03.120 --> 44:06.120 You two haven't quarreled, have you? 44:06.120 --> 44:09.120 No. Well, yes, I guess so. 44:09.120 --> 44:11.120 Oh, I'm sorry. 44:11.120 --> 44:15.120 Well, it was my fault. Jealous. 44:15.120 --> 44:18.120 I'm in love with Grace, you know. I know. 44:18.120 --> 44:21.120 Well, I won't bother you any more with my problems. 44:21.120 --> 44:26.120 Do you care to tell me just what or who you're jealous of? 44:26.120 --> 44:29.120 I'd rather not. 44:29.120 --> 44:32.120 Well, then may I guess? 44:32.120 --> 44:35.120 You're jealous of my husband. 44:35.120 --> 44:38.120 Well, don't be. 44:38.120 --> 44:41.120 My husband is very much in love with me. 44:41.120 --> 44:45.120 If anything, he merely tolerates the way Grace tags along after him... 44:45.120 --> 44:47.120 and putters in real estate. 44:47.120 --> 44:49.120 I guess you're right, Mrs. Newton. 44:49.120 --> 44:51.120 It's just that when I saw them dancing... 44:51.120 --> 44:53.120 Well, Grace didn't even tell me she was in town. 44:53.120 --> 44:56.120 Somebody saw them at the band box and called me. 44:56.120 --> 44:59.120 I guess I was steamed up and anxious to jump to conclusions. 44:59.120 --> 45:01.120 I'm an idiot. 45:01.120 --> 45:04.120 Not at all. Just a little hasty. 45:04.120 --> 45:07.120 I've got to hand it to you, Vanjie. 45:07.120 --> 45:10.120 You're a lot more broad-minded than I am. 45:10.120 --> 45:13.120 I envy you. 45:16.120 --> 45:18.120 Envy me? 45:18.120 --> 45:22.120 Envy me when I was so alone and frightened. 45:22.120 --> 45:25.120 When he'd gone, I went upstairs to our room. 45:25.120 --> 45:29.120 Frantically, I looked through his luggage, went through his clothes... 45:29.120 --> 45:33.120 searching, searching for some clue, some clue to the man I married. 45:33.120 --> 45:36.120 There was no... nothing. 45:36.120 --> 45:39.120 Nothing. And I had to know. 45:39.120 --> 45:42.120 Now I had to know. 45:42.120 --> 45:44.120 Long distance. 45:44.120 --> 45:46.120 Give me the hotel, Grovener, in San Francisco. 45:46.120 --> 45:48.120 Thank you. 45:48.120 --> 45:50.120 Oh, I had to know. 45:50.120 --> 45:53.120 I had to talk to him, ask him to come home... 45:53.120 --> 45:56.120 go to him, anything, anything. 45:56.120 --> 45:58.120 Grovener? 45:58.120 --> 46:01.120 Oh, Mr. Newton, please. Room 724. 46:01.120 --> 46:03.120 One moment. 46:03.120 --> 46:06.120 Hello? 46:06.120 --> 46:09.120 Hello? Who is this? 46:19.120 --> 46:24.120 It was Grace's voice, without the slightest doubt. 46:24.120 --> 46:27.120 I ran out to my car. 46:27.120 --> 46:32.120 Grace had answered that telephone in Harry's room. 46:32.120 --> 46:36.120 And I knew. Now I was sure of it all. 46:36.120 --> 46:38.120 Harry had killed Susie. 46:38.120 --> 46:41.120 Whether it had been suicide or murder, he'd killed her. 46:41.120 --> 46:45.120 And in the same way, he would kill me. 46:45.120 --> 46:47.120 Hey, hey, look at that. 46:47.120 --> 46:50.120 That car better slow down for that turn. 46:50.120 --> 47:03.120 Hey, look! 47:03.120 --> 47:08.120 You see, the sequence of events comes to full circle. 47:08.120 --> 47:10.120 It started with an automobile accident. 47:10.120 --> 47:12.120 Was it going to end with another one? 47:12.120 --> 47:16.120 At least this was one they couldn't blame on Harry Newton. 47:16.120 --> 47:22.120 Vanjie simply drove too fast, tried to take a shortcut to San Francisco through a tree, 47:22.120 --> 47:24.120 rushing to her husband. 47:24.120 --> 47:29.120 In the end, he had to rush to the emergency hospital to her. 47:29.120 --> 47:32.120 But she was all right. 47:32.120 --> 47:34.120 The indestructible Vanjie. 47:34.120 --> 47:40.120 Perennial accident case, always smelling of antiseptics and painted with eye line. 47:40.120 --> 47:46.120 I lay there between hospital sheets, pretending that the hypodermic needle had put me to sleep. 47:46.120 --> 47:51.120 But I was listening to Dr. Rupert as he talked to Harry and Aunt Martha. 47:51.120 --> 47:54.120 The night of your wife's first unfortunate experience, 47:54.120 --> 47:59.120 I had a vague suspicion that the circumstances were not entirely accidental. 47:59.120 --> 48:00.120 What do you mean? 48:00.120 --> 48:03.120 Vanjie has twice tried to take her own life. 48:03.120 --> 48:04.120 I don't believe it. 48:04.120 --> 48:05.120 It's true. 48:05.120 --> 48:11.120 For people like Vanjie, it is sometimes harder to find the dividing point between accident and suicide. 48:11.120 --> 48:16.120 There's a certain will to die, a subconscious compulsion which invites disaster. 48:16.120 --> 48:17.120 It's nonsense. 48:17.120 --> 48:18.120 Go on. 48:18.120 --> 48:24.120 In the matter of the gas heater, Vanjie said herself she pulled a flexible pipe by accident. 48:24.120 --> 48:26.120 Was that accident or intention? 48:26.120 --> 48:29.120 I don't believe she ever did it. It was he who really pulled the cord. 48:29.120 --> 48:31.120 No, I think it was Vanjie. 48:31.120 --> 48:35.120 She invited disaster again tonight, driving her car off the road at high speed. 48:35.120 --> 48:40.120 Was it accident or did she suddenly cease to care whether the car made that curve or not? 48:40.120 --> 48:43.120 Or did somebody tamper with a steering wheel on her car? 48:43.120 --> 48:44.120 You'd better stop that, Andy. 48:44.120 --> 48:45.120 Please, Martha. 48:45.120 --> 48:48.120 You'll know too that the tendency seems to run in her family. 48:48.120 --> 48:51.120 Her father stepped in front of a moving car. 48:51.120 --> 48:53.120 How do we know even that? 48:53.120 --> 48:54.120 And Susie leaped to her death off a cliff. 48:54.120 --> 48:55.120 Or was pushed. 48:55.120 --> 48:58.120 At times, Vanjie was drawn to self-destruction. 48:58.120 --> 49:01.120 At times of mental depression. 49:01.120 --> 49:03.120 We've got to work to save her. 49:03.120 --> 49:05.120 I'll do anything, Doctor. 49:05.120 --> 49:06.120 Anything you say. 49:06.120 --> 49:09.120 There'll be a lot for you to do. 49:09.120 --> 49:12.120 You have it all figured out, haven't you, Dr. Rupert? 49:12.120 --> 49:14.120 And you're right, of course. 49:14.120 --> 49:16.120 Except for that about mental depressions. 49:16.120 --> 49:18.120 That's not what causes it. 49:18.120 --> 49:20.120 It's the fear. 49:20.120 --> 49:21.120 Fear of being alone. 49:21.120 --> 49:23.120 Of not being loved. 49:23.120 --> 49:25.120 Of not being loved by Harry Newton. 49:25.120 --> 49:27.120 I heard what he said. 49:27.120 --> 49:28.120 He'd do anything. 49:28.120 --> 49:29.120 Anything. 49:29.120 --> 49:31.120 But he didn't fool me. 49:31.120 --> 49:33.120 I know he wants grace. 49:33.120 --> 49:34.120 I'm in his way. 49:34.120 --> 49:36.120 I know. 49:36.120 --> 49:38.120 They're gone now. 49:38.120 --> 49:41.120 Oh, it's stifling in here. 49:41.120 --> 49:43.120 So close. 49:43.120 --> 49:45.120 I must have some air. 49:50.120 --> 49:52.120 That's better. 49:52.120 --> 49:57.120 There was a razor-sharp blade here a little while ago. 49:57.120 --> 50:00.120 They used it to make a blood test. 50:00.120 --> 50:03.120 Oh, but it's gone. 50:03.120 --> 50:05.120 No matter. 50:05.120 --> 50:08.120 In the lavatory, just off my room, 50:08.120 --> 50:10.120 there'll be a drinking glass. 50:10.120 --> 50:13.120 If I can break that without too much noise, 50:13.120 --> 50:15.120 glass cuts. 50:15.120 --> 50:16.120 Yes. 50:16.120 --> 50:18.120 Glass. 50:20.120 --> 50:21.120 What is it, Ness? 50:21.120 --> 50:22.120 What's happened? 50:22.120 --> 50:23.120 Mrs Newton. 50:23.120 --> 50:24.120 She's gone out that window. 50:24.120 --> 50:25.120 Stop her. 50:25.120 --> 50:26.120 Stop her. 50:26.120 --> 50:27.120 She can't have gone far. 50:27.120 --> 50:30.120 Notify the highway patrol and tell Mr Newton. 50:30.120 --> 50:31.120 Yes, doctor. 50:31.120 --> 50:33.120 We've got to find her to protect her from herself. 50:33.120 --> 50:34.120 And from him. 50:34.120 --> 50:35.120 What? 50:35.120 --> 50:36.120 Don't you see? 50:36.120 --> 50:39.120 You've given Harry Newton the soundest alibi in the world. 50:39.120 --> 50:42.120 Your assurance that Danji is bent on suicide. 50:45.120 --> 50:47.120 What did Aunt Martha mean by that? 50:47.120 --> 50:49.120 The soundest alibi? 50:49.120 --> 50:51.120 Oh, by no matter. 50:51.120 --> 50:53.120 I pressed close to the bathroom wall 50:53.120 --> 50:55.120 with one shoulder tucked in the corner. 50:55.120 --> 50:57.120 They didn't think to look there. 50:57.120 --> 51:00.120 Oh, but someone was bound too soon. 51:00.120 --> 51:03.120 D'Alovista, that was it. 51:03.120 --> 51:07.120 If I was going to die, I wanted to go home to die. 51:07.120 --> 51:10.120 I waited till my room was empty again. 51:10.120 --> 51:12.120 Then I went to the open window. 51:12.120 --> 51:19.120 If I could get to my car... 51:28.120 --> 51:30.120 Yes, home. 51:30.120 --> 51:32.120 Yes, it was right. 51:32.120 --> 51:35.120 It was right to come home. 51:35.120 --> 51:38.120 It was going on morning, but it was still dark. 51:38.120 --> 51:41.120 The house was pitch black. 51:41.120 --> 51:43.120 I went inside. 51:43.120 --> 51:47.120 There was a telephone. 51:47.120 --> 51:50.120 A stray ray of moonlight shone in it. 51:50.120 --> 51:53.120 I could see it plainly. 51:53.120 --> 51:59.120 And I remembered unto eternity. 51:59.120 --> 52:03.120 To have and to hold until death do us part. 52:03.120 --> 52:05.120 With this ring I thee wed. 52:05.120 --> 52:11.120 This ring and three passes at a cramp table. 52:11.120 --> 52:14.120 I went upstairs. 52:14.120 --> 52:17.120 My room was cold, dark. 52:17.120 --> 52:20.120 One of his shirts was still on the floor, 52:20.120 --> 52:24.120 where I'd thrown it in my frantic search of his things. 52:24.120 --> 52:26.120 It was a sports shirt. 52:26.120 --> 52:31.120 He'd said he wouldn't need a sports shirt in San Francisco. 52:31.120 --> 52:34.120 I hung it up in the closet. 52:34.120 --> 52:37.120 The room was in order otherwise. 52:37.120 --> 52:41.120 There was water by my bed and the sleeping pills. 52:41.120 --> 52:45.120 I emptied the bottle into my hand and counted them. 52:45.120 --> 52:50.120 One, two, three, four. 52:50.120 --> 52:52.120 Not enough. 52:52.120 --> 52:54.120 I said it aloud. 52:54.120 --> 52:56.120 The words boomed in the silence. 52:56.120 --> 52:59.120 Such silence. 52:59.120 --> 53:01.120 Not a sound. 53:01.120 --> 53:05.120 Not even the stirring of Pookie in her cage. 53:05.120 --> 53:11.120 I looked toward the empty cage and shuddered in a sudden chill. 53:11.120 --> 53:13.120 Oh, yes. 53:13.120 --> 53:15.120 There was a gas heater close by. 53:15.120 --> 53:19.120 I crossed over to it quickly, kneeled down, 53:19.120 --> 53:21.120 and turned on the gas. 53:21.120 --> 53:23.120 Get a blanket. It's murder. 53:23.120 --> 53:25.120 Coffee. More coffee. Kill her. 53:25.120 --> 53:31.120 Murder. Kill her. 53:31.120 --> 53:33.120 I held the match to the heater 53:33.120 --> 53:37.120 and watched it flare up warm and alive. 53:37.120 --> 53:43.120 I was beginning to enjoy my borrowed time. 53:43.120 --> 53:45.120 That was Harry. 53:45.120 --> 53:50.120 Suddenly, in a burst of panic, I knew what her mouth had meant. 53:50.120 --> 53:53.120 Dr. Rupert had given him the sound to tell her by in the world. 53:53.120 --> 53:57.120 The assurance I was going to commit suicide. 53:57.120 --> 54:01.120 He'd come to make sure I didn't change my mind. 54:01.120 --> 54:03.120 It was dark. 54:03.120 --> 54:06.120 He could barely make out the shadowy bulk of him. 54:06.120 --> 54:09.120 As he looked at the car, I'd come in. 54:09.120 --> 54:13.120 Then he entered the house, walking fast. 54:13.120 --> 54:15.120 Banshee. 54:15.120 --> 54:19.120 Banshee, I know you're here. 54:19.120 --> 54:21.120 Banshee. 54:21.120 --> 54:23.120 I had time to think. 54:23.120 --> 54:26.120 I had to think out what it all meant. 54:26.120 --> 54:28.120 Banshee, come here. 54:28.120 --> 54:30.120 I want to talk to you. 54:30.120 --> 54:32.120 But I couldn't think. 54:32.120 --> 54:34.120 The sound of his voice frightened me. 54:34.120 --> 54:37.120 All at once, I felt terribly depressed. 54:37.120 --> 54:39.120 The boat was sinking. 54:39.120 --> 54:42.120 The sides were caving in. 54:42.120 --> 54:46.120 All I wanted was to get off. 54:46.120 --> 54:50.120 I slipped down the stairs, outside, 54:50.120 --> 54:54.120 into the rose garden, to the tea house. 54:54.120 --> 54:58.120 The night was turning milky. 54:58.120 --> 55:02.120 Vision was lengthening by the moment. 55:02.120 --> 55:06.120 I couldn't see the surf directly below me. 55:06.120 --> 55:09.120 But I could hear it. 55:09.120 --> 55:12.120 I thought of Suzy. 55:12.120 --> 55:17.120 And I leaned on the rail above the retaining wall. 55:17.120 --> 55:21.120 Then I heard his footsteps, 55:21.120 --> 55:24.120 approaching through the rose garden, 55:24.120 --> 55:26.120 through the morning mist. 55:26.120 --> 55:28.120 Good morning, Angel. 55:28.120 --> 55:32.120 Not talking this morning, Mrs. Newton? 55:32.120 --> 55:34.120 I can't see you, but I know you're there. 55:34.120 --> 55:36.120 Don't come any closer. 55:36.120 --> 55:38.120 Is your hand on the rail, Angel? 55:38.120 --> 55:40.120 Are you poised and ready? 55:40.120 --> 55:43.120 Or are you hoping for a reprieve? 55:43.120 --> 55:46.120 Something I'll say that will turn despair to ecstasy. 55:46.120 --> 55:49.120 Don't come any closer, Harry. 55:49.120 --> 55:51.120 I mean it. I'll jump. 55:51.120 --> 55:54.120 And what's holding you back? A thread? 55:54.120 --> 55:55.120 A lingering hope? 55:55.120 --> 55:56.120 Yes. 55:56.120 --> 55:57.120 That I love you? 55:57.120 --> 55:58.120 Yes. 55:58.120 --> 55:59.120 That I don't love Grace? 55:59.120 --> 56:00.120 Yes. 56:00.120 --> 56:01.120 So that's it. 56:01.120 --> 56:03.120 You know it is. 56:03.120 --> 56:04.120 Harry. 56:04.120 --> 56:05.120 What? 56:05.120 --> 56:07.120 Have you come to kill me? 56:07.120 --> 56:08.120 No. 56:08.120 --> 56:10.120 You have a perfect alibi. 56:10.120 --> 56:13.120 Dr. Rupert said I was a potential suicide. 56:13.120 --> 56:15.120 I know. 56:15.120 --> 56:20.120 You pushed me off under the rocks below as you pushed Susie. 56:20.120 --> 56:23.120 Because you were through with it, it'll be just as perfect a crime. 56:23.120 --> 56:25.120 An obvious suicide. 56:25.120 --> 56:27.120 But Burghard's wife spoke to you. 56:27.120 --> 56:28.120 Yes. 56:28.120 --> 56:29.120 She could have been lying. 56:29.120 --> 56:30.120 I know. 56:30.120 --> 56:32.120 And you called my hotel last night, didn't you? 56:32.120 --> 56:34.120 And when Grace answered, you hung up. 56:34.120 --> 56:37.120 I figured that out and called you back with a beautiful explanation ready. 56:37.120 --> 56:40.120 That I'd gotten Lenny Walden and Grace together to patch up their differences. 56:40.120 --> 56:41.120 You're lying, Harry. 56:41.120 --> 56:43.120 If you think so, why don't you jump? 56:43.120 --> 56:44.120 I will. I won't let you push me. 56:44.120 --> 56:45.120 I'm not going to push you. 56:45.120 --> 56:46.120 How do I know? 56:46.120 --> 56:47.120 You don't. 56:47.120 --> 56:50.120 The act and the proof are both one. 56:50.120 --> 56:52.120 If I push you, I must want you dead. 56:52.120 --> 56:54.120 If I don't push you, I must want you alive. 56:54.120 --> 56:55.120 Isn't that so? 56:55.120 --> 56:56.120 Yes. 56:56.120 --> 56:59.120 You have to stand there and wait for the proof. 56:59.120 --> 57:01.120 Harry, don't. 57:01.120 --> 57:04.120 Jump if you want to, but I assure you, Vangie, the proof is worth the anguish. 57:04.120 --> 57:05.120 This is it. 57:05.120 --> 57:08.120 Irene Burghard was lying or she wasn't lying. 57:08.120 --> 57:09.120 I killed Susie or I didn't. 57:09.120 --> 57:11.120 I want you or I don't want you. 57:11.120 --> 57:12.120 Total proof. 57:12.120 --> 57:15.120 Clear, concise and quick. 57:15.120 --> 57:16.120 Harry. 57:16.120 --> 57:17.120 Harry. 57:17.120 --> 57:18.120 Don't. 57:18.120 --> 57:21.120 If you come any closer, I'll jump. 57:21.120 --> 57:22.120 Darling. 57:22.120 --> 57:23.120 Darling. 57:23.120 --> 57:36.120 I've got to help you. 57:36.120 --> 57:38.120 That's all that matters. 57:38.120 --> 57:40.120 Everything I said was true. 57:40.120 --> 57:43.120 And it's easily proved. 57:43.120 --> 57:50.120 This is all the proof a woman would want. 57:50.120 --> 57:56.120 To have and to hold from this day forth. 57:56.120 --> 57:59.120 Hold me, Harry. 57:59.120 --> 58:21.120 I will. 58:21.120 --> 58:25.120 Our grateful thanks to Robert Ryan and Ruth Warwick. 58:25.120 --> 58:32.120 You gave us the excellent performances we expected from an actress whose talent and versatility we've applauded many times before. 58:32.120 --> 58:39.120 And from an actor whose outstanding work in Crossfire has deservedly won him an Academy Award nomination. 58:39.120 --> 58:46.120 Next week for Suspense, we have selected the story of a successful young man whose gifts are many. 58:46.120 --> 58:49.120 He is handsome in youth, charming and intelligent. 58:49.120 --> 58:53.120 He is a poet of considerable ability and his fame is far-reaching. 58:53.120 --> 58:56.120 Beauty and comfort attend his everyday pattern of living. 58:56.120 --> 59:01.120 But over him reigns an element ominous and unseen. 59:01.120 --> 59:05.120 An element we call suspense. 59:05.120 --> 59:08.120 Next week then, The House by the River. 59:08.120 --> 59:14.120 Mr. Montgomery may currently be seen in the Universal International Production Ride the Pink Horse. 59:14.120 --> 59:18.120 Mr. Ryan may soon be seen in the RKO Production Berlin Express. 59:18.120 --> 59:23.120 Miss Warwick's current picture is 20th Century Fox's Daisy Canyon. 59:23.120 --> 59:29.120 Beyond Reason, an original story by Devery Freeman, was edited and directed by Anton M. Leder. 59:29.120 --> 59:34.120 Ludgluskin is our musical director and conductor and Lucian Morrowek composes the original scores. 59:34.120 --> 59:40.120 Next week, here The House by the River on radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 59:40.120 --> 59:45.120 One hour of Suspense. 59:45.120 --> 59:51.120 Music