WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 In just a moment, suspense with Ida Lapino. 00:07.000 --> 00:08.000 Phew! What a night. 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 Yeah, it's a scorcher, Dad. 00:10.000 --> 00:12.000 Lucky we thought of coming to the firehouse. 00:12.000 --> 00:15.000 We had to sit around at that hen party your mother's giving. 00:15.000 --> 00:16.000 Hello, Mike. Hello, Ab. 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 Say, you fellas want to put out a fire tonight. 00:18.000 --> 00:21.000 All you've got to do is turn the hoses on and squirt them anywhere. 00:21.000 --> 00:23.000 Yep, it's hotter than Hades. 00:23.000 --> 00:25.000 We're all sitting here listening to the radio. 00:25.000 --> 00:27.000 Dad, I wonder if they're listening to the auto light show. 00:27.000 --> 00:28.000 What are you hearing, Mike? 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 We're just switching to auto light. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 Besides, we like their batteries, spark plugs, and ignition systems around here. 00:34.000 --> 00:35.000 Everyone does. 00:35.000 --> 00:37.000 And everyone likes their show, Suspense. 00:37.000 --> 00:38.000 Oh, here's the show. 00:49.000 --> 00:50.000 Suspense. 00:50.000 --> 01:00.000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 01:00.000 --> 01:06.000 Starring tonight, Miss Ida Lapino in a tale well calculated to keep you in... 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 Suspense. 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 Today, everybody's switching to auto light. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 And tonight, auto light takes pleasure in presenting... 01:15.000 --> 01:18.000 Anton Leder's production of Rave and the Hades. 01:18.000 --> 01:23.000 Anton Leder's production of Ray Bradbury's remarkable story, Summer Night. 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 Starring Miss Ida Lapino. 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 Oh, is the line still busy? 01:45.000 --> 01:47.000 I just don't see how it could still be. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 Oh, it isn't the line, Miss McCauley. It's the circuit. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 I've been simply swamped all afternoon. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 I haven't been able to get a call through to the police station for over an hour. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 And the mayor's office has been busy. 01:58.000 --> 02:01.000 Yes, I know. I'm sorry to trouble you, but it's terribly important. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 Well, if you want to hang on, Miss McCauley, I'll try again in a minute. 02:04.000 --> 02:05.000 Oh, all right. 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 It's been this way ever since the news got out about Piningpool of India. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.000 You heard about it, I suppose. 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 Yes. 02:11.000 --> 02:14.000 Oh, just a minute, Miss McCauley. I got another call. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 Yes, this is the operator. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 No, I'm sorry. That line is still busy. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 Yes, I'll call you just as soon as I can give you a connection. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Miss McCauley, but you see what I mean? 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 Oh, dear. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 Oh, Miss Welsh, by the way... 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 It was bad enough last week when they found that other poor girl. 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 But this time the whole town is on its ear. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 And I can't say that I blame them. What with a maniac loose and nobody knowing who it was. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Yes, I meant to ask you, Miss Welsh. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Are they sure that Lavinia... 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 I mean that it was the same thing as the web girl last week? 02:44.000 --> 02:48.000 Why, yes! Why, I thought you knew. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 I just knew she'd been found. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Oh, goodness, yes. There was never any doubt about it. 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 Whoever it was, he used a knife, just like on the other girl. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 And then there was that same crazy cross and a forehead, you know, made with orange lipstick. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 That's why they're calling him, you know, the lipstick killer. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 Oh, yes, as I thought it must be that. But I wasn't sure. I didn't know. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 Oh, yes, they're looking all over the state for him by now. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 But of course they don't have much to go on. And the chances are that he's right here in this town anyway. 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 Oh, I'll try to get your call for you now, Miss Macaulay. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Thank you. 03:21.000 --> 03:26.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Macaulay. That circuit is still busy. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 But it can't... 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Well, why don't I call you back when I get through? It shouldn't be very long. 03:30.000 --> 03:41.000 All right. But please try to hurry. It's really important. Terribly important. 03:41.000 --> 03:46.000 While I was waiting for the call, I went to the front door to start locking up. 03:46.000 --> 03:50.000 It was coming on evening, a warm summer evening. 03:50.000 --> 03:56.000 And ordinarily up and down the street the windows would be open, all but mine. 03:56.000 --> 04:02.000 And you'd hear the sound of a piano or a radio drifting out onto the still summer air. 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 And people would be sitting in swings and hammocks on their front porches, 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 enjoying the coolness at the end of the day. 04:09.000 --> 04:16.000 But not on this day, not this evening. I locked my door, too. 04:16.000 --> 04:21.000 I went around the big gloomy old house, checking all the windows, just like the others. 04:21.000 --> 04:26.000 Not that I needed to, really. They'd been locked ever since Father died. 04:26.000 --> 04:32.000 And he went away. All in that one terrible week nearly four years ago. 04:32.000 --> 04:37.000 Yes, they'd been locked, and I hadn't left the house more than half a dozen times, and nobody... 04:37.000 --> 04:44.000 Nobody had come here. Why should they? I didn't want to see them. Nor they me. 04:44.000 --> 04:50.000 I was the town's queer one. But all that was going to be different now. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 From now on, everything was going to be very, very different. 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 Yes? Hello? 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 I've got your party now, Miss Macaulay. Go ahead, please. Hello? 05:06.000 --> 05:09.000 Oh, Helen, is that you? 05:09.000 --> 05:10.000 Yes, who's this? 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 It's Anna. Anna Macaulay. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 Why, Anna? Why, what a surprise. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 How have you been, Helen? 05:17.000 --> 05:22.000 Oh, just fine. You know, there's nothing ever the matter with me. But how are you, Anna? 05:22.000 --> 05:27.000 Oh, I'm well. You know, I've been living rather quietly these last few years. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 Yes, I... I know. I mean, I'd heard... 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 It's been a long time, hasn't it, Helen? 05:32.000 --> 05:37.000 Why, yes. I haven't heard your voice for... well, how long has it been? 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 Nearly four years. 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Has it? 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 Three years and 11 months, this week, to be exact. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 Oh, that long has it. Well, it doesn't seem possible, and we were such good friends before. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 Helen, Helen, I hope you don't think. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 I mean, those last few times you called and I didn't answer. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 Oh, darling, of course not. 05:54.000 --> 05:58.000 I knew how you must be suffering, your father passing on so suddenly that way, 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 and you'd always been so close. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 I wouldn't have even bothered you at such a time, only that we'd been such good friends, 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 and I thought maybe I could help. 06:05.000 --> 06:08.000 And then, of course, I heard later anyway that... well, that is, I... 06:08.000 --> 06:13.000 Yes, yes, I suppose you must have heard some rather strange things about me, Helen. 06:13.000 --> 06:18.000 Oh, not strange, dear, no. But we all knew you wanted to be alone in your grief, 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 and we respected that feeling naturally. 06:20.000 --> 06:24.000 I know. But sometimes I've been afraid people didn't quite understand, though. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Of course they did. 06:26.000 --> 06:31.000 Well, darling, now that you're back in the world again, so to speak, you must come over and see me. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 I'm staying with my mother now, but you know that anyway. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 Yes. Helen. 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 Yes, dear? 06:36.000 --> 06:40.000 Helen, it wasn't just an accident, my calling you this way. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 Well, I should hope not. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 I want to ask you a favour, a tremendous favour. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Why, of course, darling, anything. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 I... I want you to come over here to the house. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 I should say I would. I'll try to make it Friday or early next week at the latest, just to see... 06:53.000 --> 06:59.000 No, I don't mean just sometime, Helen. I mean now, right now, right this minute. 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 Now? 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 Yes. 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 But, darling, I don't see how I can. I mean, I don't know what mother's plans are... 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Helen, Helen, you know I wouldn't ask if it wasn't serious. 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Serious? What... what are you... 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 Please, please say you'll come. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Well, I'll try... 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 No, don't just try, Helen. Come. You've got to come. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 Oh, darling, what is this? What can be so serious? 07:21.000 --> 07:25.000 Maybe I'm being silly, but I think it's more than serious, Helen. 07:25.000 --> 07:43.000 I... I think it may be a matter of life and death. 07:43.000 --> 07:49.000 For Suspense, Autolite is bringing you Miss Ida Lupino in Summer Night. 07:49.000 --> 08:03.000 Autolite's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 08:03.000 --> 08:06.000 You know, Dad, boy, Mom would sure get a kick out of this. 08:06.000 --> 08:07.000 Out of what, Billy? 08:07.000 --> 08:12.000 We leave home because she's got the house full of women, and so far there aren't anything but women in tonight's Autolite show. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 Well, if she's listening, we'll certainly hear about it when we get home from the firehouse. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 Oh, say, Mike, what's over on that workbench? 08:19.000 --> 08:24.000 Over there? Oh, them's old batteries. We're replacing them with new Autolite staples. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 When your spark plugs, stut, stut, stutters. When your battery, putt, putt, putters. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Switching to Autolite, eh, Mike? 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 No, no, we've been using Autolite for over ten years now. 08:33.000 --> 08:40.000 You know, when you've got to get out of here in seven seconds after the alarm sounds, you've got to have the surest, safest batteries there are. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 When we got to go, we go. 08:42.000 --> 08:49.000 Yes, the new Autolite Staples battery is a great battery. Needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 08:49.000 --> 08:54.000 This greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the major causes of battery failure. 08:54.000 --> 08:59.000 Car owners tell us it's the greatest battery ever built. The greatest battery ever built. 08:59.000 --> 09:02.000 Money cannot buy a better battery for your car. 09:02.000 --> 09:08.000 Yep, that's real battery know-how. Once water goes into an Autolite Staples, it's like going into a camel. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 The drinks are few and far between. 09:10.000 --> 09:15.000 Yeah, and even a night's as hot as this, you don't find the Autolite Staples at an old oak and bucket. 09:15.000 --> 09:21.000 So friends, see your friendly neighborhood Autolite battery dealer and order the new Autolite Staples battery for your car. 09:21.000 --> 09:25.000 It needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 Remember, folks, Autolite means batteries. 09:28.000 --> 09:36.000 Staples batteries. Autolite means spark plugs. Ignition engineered spark plugs. Autolite means ignition system. 09:36.000 --> 09:40.000 The lifeline of your car. 09:46.000 --> 09:54.000 And now, Autolite brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Ida Lupino as Honor in Summer Night. 09:54.000 --> 10:15.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:15.000 --> 10:22.000 A matter of life and death, I told her. I knew Helen would come to see me after that. 10:22.000 --> 10:29.000 It would be strange seeing her again. Not that we'd ever quarreled. She never even suspected, of course. 10:29.000 --> 10:39.000 But after that day when he went away with her, I'd simply put her out of my life and never thought of her again. 10:39.000 --> 10:47.000 To be strictly truthful, I'd thought of her a great deal, but in a rather different way than I had before when she'd been my best friend. 10:47.000 --> 10:55.000 And now, she was coming to my house again. After all these years, it should be interesting. 10:55.000 --> 11:03.000 Quite like a surprise party for both of us. 11:03.000 --> 11:10.000 Anna, darling. Helen, Helen, come in. Oh, it's so nice to see you. It's good to see you again, Helen. 11:10.000 --> 11:15.000 Why, you haven't changed a bit. You don't look a day older. Now, tell me all about it. I can't stay but a few minutes. 11:15.000 --> 11:20.000 Well, you know, Barton drove me over. You remember Ted. Oh, yes. And he's got to be back before seven. But never mind that now. 11:20.000 --> 11:28.000 Darling, what is the matter? Helen, I'm frightened. Frightened of what? I'm afraid I'm going to be killed. 11:28.000 --> 11:35.000 Going to be killed? Yes, tonight. But, darling. You see, I used to know poor Lavinia. I used to know her quite well. 11:35.000 --> 11:41.000 And the other girl, well, I didn't know her, but it happened to her right near here in the little woods just beyond the tracks. 11:41.000 --> 11:47.000 Anna, please, dear. What on earth makes you think anything like that could happen to you? You're perfectly safe if you don't go out and lock the doors. 11:47.000 --> 11:54.000 No, no, I'm not. I'm all alone here, Helen. And there's been someone prowling at night. A man? Last night he tried to get in. 11:54.000 --> 12:00.000 Are you sure? I heard him trying the doors, the windows. Well, did you call the police? No, I was afraid to. 12:00.000 --> 12:09.000 Oh, Helen, I didn't know who to turn to but you. Everyone thinks I'm crazy anyway. Oh, Anna, dear, that's ridiculous. 12:09.000 --> 12:16.000 Well, we'll call them right now. No, no, it'll be all right after tonight. I know it will. Please, I just want you to stay with me tonight. 12:16.000 --> 12:23.000 Stay with you? Please, Helen, just this one night. I can't ask anyone else. I don't have any friends anymore. 12:23.000 --> 12:30.000 But, darling, I don't even have any night clothes. Oh, I'd already thought of that, Helen. I have everything you need for tonight. 12:30.000 --> 12:35.000 Well, I don't have anything for the morning. No face cream, not even a toothbrush. Why worry about that now? 12:35.000 --> 12:40.000 Maybe neither of us will even be here by morning. Oh. 12:47.000 --> 12:55.000 So she said she'd stay, went out and told Ted Barton. Ted Barton. That was typical of Helen. 12:55.000 --> 13:03.000 Only two weeks back from Cleveland and already she had the county's most eligible bachelor squiring her around in his car. 13:03.000 --> 13:12.000 But that was going to be different, too. I fixed a little supper for both of us and then we tried all the doors and windows. 13:12.000 --> 13:20.000 And then there was nothing to do but sit and talk to her until it was time to go to bed. No, no more, thank you. 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 I'm afraid it will keep you awake, Helen. I'm afraid I won't need coffee to keep me awake. 13:24.000 --> 13:31.000 Anna, is it true? I mean what they say about these murders. Is what true? Well, I mean... 13:31.000 --> 13:36.000 You've been out in the world, Helen, more than I have lately. You should know more than I. 13:36.000 --> 13:42.000 Well, all I meant was, well, you seem so frightened. I thought you might have heard something, something special. 13:42.000 --> 13:50.000 No. Is it true about the lipstick? Why not? Oh, it sounds so crazy. I thought it might be just something the newspapers made up. 13:50.000 --> 13:56.000 There was a cross on their foreheads in lipstick. Orange lipstick. 13:56.000 --> 14:02.000 Anna, you do know something. Don't be ridiculous, Helen. How could I? But lipstick, Anna. 14:02.000 --> 14:09.000 Do you suppose perhaps it isn't a man at all? It's a woman. Oh, I'm sorry, dear. Did I do that? No. 14:09.000 --> 14:13.000 Now, come along, Helen. It's time to go to bed. Yes, I suppose we might as well. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 You don't mind sleeping in the same room with me, do you? Why, of course not, dear. 14:18.000 --> 14:24.000 Oh, shouldn't you leave on a light downstairs? No. Didn't do any good last night. Oh. 14:24.000 --> 14:29.000 I must say, I don't blame you for being a little frightened, staying here all alone. 14:29.000 --> 14:36.000 It's rather a gloomy old place, isn't it? Oh, I don't think so. It's always been like this. It's the way father liked it. 14:36.000 --> 14:42.000 What about your mother? I hated my mother. Oh, Anna. Well, it's true. Why not say it? But your own mother. 14:42.000 --> 14:48.000 What does that matter? Everyone has to have someone to hate, Helen. Enough to kill them sometimes. 14:48.000 --> 14:56.000 Oh, and I don't think that's true. How can you say that everyone... Well, this is our room. Why, it's... 14:56.000 --> 15:03.000 It's what? It's charming. It's so... I mean, it's so different from the rest of the house. 15:03.000 --> 15:09.000 Yes. This was to be my bridal room, if I'd ever married. Darling, I didn't know... 15:09.000 --> 15:14.000 Well, I didn't know you'd ever thought... That was a long time ago. 15:14.000 --> 15:21.000 What's the news of Charles? Charles? Well, there just isn't any. You knew we were separated, didn't you? 15:21.000 --> 15:28.000 Yes. What was the trouble, Helen? Oh, I don't know. After the first year, he simply became impossible, that's all. 15:28.000 --> 15:36.000 You remember, even as a child, he was sometimes wild and... And strange. Oh, yes. Yes, he and I were always the queer ones. 15:36.000 --> 15:42.000 Why, whatever do you mean? Oh, strange, different. A little apart from all of you somehow. 15:42.000 --> 15:47.000 Not quite right, I think they say about me now. Oh, Anna, you're imagining that. No one ever said such a thing. 15:47.000 --> 15:56.000 No. Of course not. What about Charles? Nothing. He just left, that's all. I haven't even heard from him in six months. 15:56.000 --> 16:05.000 Are you sure it was all his fault, Helen? Perhaps if he married someone else. Oh, you know there was never anyone else for Charles. 16:05.000 --> 16:11.000 That's the funny part of it. Of course he liked other girls. He liked you. Yes. 16:11.000 --> 16:17.000 Well, you're certainly lucky he didn't marry you. I don't know what happened towards the end. It just went from bad to worse. 16:17.000 --> 16:24.000 It got so I hated the very sight of him. I told you, everyone had to have someone to hate. Oh, I didn't really mean that. 16:24.000 --> 16:31.000 Are you sure, Helen? Haven't you ever hated anyone? Oh, perhaps as a little girl, I thought I did. You hated me, didn't you? 16:31.000 --> 16:36.000 Why, darling, I never... There were never... There were some times when I hated you, too. Oh, I don't believe it. 16:36.000 --> 16:45.000 Children can't... Can't they? And an ugly little girl like me sees a pretty little girl like you getting everything she wants all through her life. 16:45.000 --> 16:51.000 Well, not exactly everything. You could always twist the teachers around your finger. Later it was the same with the boys. 16:51.000 --> 17:00.000 And finally Charles, just because you were pretty. Oh, maybe I was a little prettier than you, dear, but you were always the clever one. 17:00.000 --> 17:09.000 Yes. Yes, I was the clever one. Well, I suppose we really should go to bed. Why, Anna, look at this. I didn't know you used lipstick. 17:09.000 --> 17:19.000 I don't. It's just one of young cousin of mine left here several months ago. Oh, that's funny. Do you know what colour it is, Anna? 17:19.000 --> 17:39.000 What colour is it, Helen? It's orange. No, Helen wasn't very clever. It amused me to watch her trying to think, putting two and two together, 17:39.000 --> 17:58.000 and not being able to because she was afraid of her own conclusions, because she was essentially a hypocrite like everyone else. If she hadn't been, it might have saved her life. 17:58.000 --> 18:08.000 It was some time in the middle of the night. I don't know exactly what time because it didn't matter. Helen was sleeping as soundly as a silly child when I went over to the side of her bed and began shaking. 18:08.000 --> 18:20.000 Helen, Helen, wake up. What is it? Don't make a sound. Anna, what's the matter? He's in the house downstairs. Who? I don't know. Whoever it was last night, he's gotten in somehow. Are you sure? 18:20.000 --> 18:28.000 I heard him. I've been listening for the last ten minutes. Oh, Anna, what are we going to do? We've got to get out of the house before he starts upstairs. But how can we? He'll hear us. We'll be caught. 18:28.000 --> 18:37.000 No, we'll go down the back stairs and out through the kitchen. We can go through the back door, over the tracks to Judge Brown's house. It's not far, but we've got to hurry. Oh, Anna, I'm frightened. What if he hears us? 18:37.000 --> 18:45.000 What if we're careful and if we hurry? The door between the kitchen and the front of the house is locked. Are you sure he isn't in the kitchen? Who is in the front? I tell you, I heard him. Now get up, Helen. We've got to go right now. 18:45.000 --> 18:54.000 All right. Hold my hand. Yes. While I unlock the door, the back stairs adjust to the right after we get out in the hall. Oh, Anna. 18:54.000 --> 19:05.000 Come along. Hold onto my hand and try not to make any noise. Here are the stairs. Just follow me. Yes, all right. 19:05.000 --> 19:19.000 Watch out. That's the last step. Yes, I've got it. We're in the kitchen now. Can you see anything? No, it's too dark. Then stand right there, right where you are and don't move. Where are you going? There's something I want to get before we leave. Anna, please. 19:19.000 --> 19:39.000 What are you doing? I've got it now. A knife. Here, take my hand again. All right. A knife? Shh, this way. I don't think I can for a minute. Come along, Helen. In a little while, it'll all be over. 19:39.000 --> 19:55.000 As we hurried down the path, I kept thinking about the air behind me. So frightened now. I had to keep myself from laughing out loud. It was really funny. She'd always been so confident before at school and later at the parties we used to go to. 19:55.000 --> 20:11.000 She'd been the confident one and I'd been frightened. While she slowly poisoned my life. While she quietly and deliberately stole everything I'd ever wanted. Even Charles. But it was different now. 20:11.000 --> 20:24.000 That must be the two o'clock local. The other side of town. Yes. Which way now? Straight ahead, through the grove of trees. Anna, isn't it here somewhere that they found that girl? Yes, I. 20:24.000 --> 20:34.000 Oh, Anna, I can't. I can't go through there. Helen, come along. Don't be silly. Do we have to? Of course we do. 20:34.000 --> 20:46.000 Anna, what was that? What? Didn't you hear it? No. I was positive I heard something. Now who's imagining things, Helen? Oh, let's hurry. No. 20:46.000 --> 21:09.000 I'm going to stop here. Stop. But why? Can't you guess? Even now, Helen. Oh, Anna. Don't. 21:09.000 --> 21:24.000 She didn't make a sound. I think she'd fainted even before I struck. She died without ever realizing why I did it. I made the cross on the forehead with the orange lipstick. It seemed such a silly thing as I was doing. 21:24.000 --> 21:40.000 But of course I had to. And then I dragged the body off the path and started home. At the railroad tracks, I turned south a few yards to where they crossed the river and tossed the knife and the lipstick over the bridge. 21:40.000 --> 21:53.000 And watched them disappear into the muddy stream below. Not that it was really necessary. No one would ever think of questioning me. They would all, of course, assume that the lipstick killer had struck again. 21:53.000 --> 22:03.000 And then suddenly my heart was in my mouth. From the path ahead of me, cutting sharply across the moonlight was a shadow. The shadow of a man. 22:03.000 --> 22:14.000 Can I help you? I didn't mean to frighten you. I just thought you must be in some kind of trouble to be out at... Oh, Anna. It's Anna McCauley. 22:14.000 --> 22:26.000 Charles. Oh, Charles. You did frighten me. Well, if you insist on running around town at 2 a.m. and your night told you. Oh, Charles. Charles, this is really too much of a coincidence. 22:26.000 --> 22:33.000 Why, I didn't know you were anywhere near Boone Center. Theoretically, I'm not. Just passing through business trip, Mr. 2 a.m. local. 22:33.000 --> 22:41.000 So I thought I'd kill the time waiting for the milk train by looking the old burg over again. What's your alibi? My what? 22:41.000 --> 22:47.000 Well, that's what I meant about a coincidence. I was looking for Helen. For Helen? 22:47.000 --> 22:58.000 I don't wonder your surprise, Charles. But it's really very simple. First, there were these, well, what the newspapers have been calling the lipstick murders. I suppose you've heard about it. 22:58.000 --> 23:08.000 I've read something about it. Well, I suppose I was silly, but I got terribly nervous living alone in that big house. I asked Helen to stay with me. 23:08.000 --> 23:16.000 And then in the middle of the night, she got frightened and said she couldn't stay another minute and rushed out to Judge Brown's house. How typical of Helen. 23:16.000 --> 23:25.000 Well, then I, after I thought about it, I got worried about her and went to look for her. But I guess she must have gotten there all right. I didn't find her anywhere. 23:25.000 --> 23:33.000 You're not alone in that big house now, are you, Anna? Why, yes, I thought you knew, Charles. My father died. Oh, I'd forgotten. 23:33.000 --> 23:44.000 Well, silly to be standing here, isn't it? You've got to wait for a train. Why don't you come back to the house with me? I'll fix you some coffee or something. Wouldn't that be nicer? 23:44.000 --> 23:48.000 Yes, that would be nice. That would be very nice. 23:48.000 --> 24:06.000 I could hardly believe my good luck. Charles, of all people. It was as though he'd come back to me, almost as though he'd known and come back to me just at the right moment. 24:06.000 --> 24:17.000 So there we were, making coffee in the kitchen, talking over old times. Oh, dear, where is that opener for the evaporated milk? I never can find it. 24:17.000 --> 24:26.000 Oh, here. I'll open it with my knife. Just make a couple of holes in it. Ah, isn't that a rather dangerous weapon to carry around, just to make holes in tin cans? 24:26.000 --> 24:33.000 Oh, it has other uses. There we are. 24:33.000 --> 24:49.000 That tastes good. Charles, I was terribly sorry to hear about you and Helen. Me and Helen? That you'd separated, I mean. Is that what she called it? 24:49.000 --> 25:02.000 Well, she said that you'd left her. Helen always had a quaint way of putting things. Didn't you? You don't still love her, do you? Love her? Didn't she tell you where I'd been? 25:02.000 --> 25:15.000 I know. Not exactly. I'd been in a hall manor. A rest home, as they call it. It was Helen who put me there. Put you there? I'm afraid committed is the word. 25:15.000 --> 25:27.000 See, Helen thought I was crazy. Oh, Charles. I only got out a couple of weeks ago. I imagine they're still looking for me. You escaped? I had to. 25:27.000 --> 25:36.000 Oh, Charles, how dreadful for you. As a matter of fact, I've been looking for Helen. There was something I wanted to give her. But couldn't you find her? 25:36.000 --> 25:47.000 No. I thought I had a couple of times. But it wasn't Helen after all. What was it you wanted to give her, Charles? This. 25:47.000 --> 26:08.000 This? Lipstick. Yes. A frightful colour, isn't it, Orange? Are you sure you're not Helen? 26:08.000 --> 26:20.000 I heard the doctors talking a little while ago. They say I won't live through the night. But I don't care. Oh, it's been such a glorious day. 26:20.000 --> 26:33.000 The happiest since I can remember. People have been calling on me, whom I haven't seen for years. They say I saved the town. I must have screamed. I don't remember. 26:33.000 --> 26:47.000 So they caught poor Charles. For the first time in my life, I'm a really important person. I wonder when they'll find Helen. 27:03.000 --> 27:12.000 Thank you, Ida Lupino, for a splendid performance on Suspense. In just a moment, we will again hear from Miss Ida Lupino. 27:12.000 --> 27:21.000 Gee, what a show. I was sweating and it wasn't from the heat either. What a show. Gee, Dad, a fire! Out of the way, son. Where's the fire, Mike? 27:21.000 --> 27:36.000 Down at 28 to May. They were out of here in seven seconds, almost before they stepped on the starter. Mike sure wasn't fooling about those auto light stay full batteries, was he, Dad? No, sir. 27:36.000 --> 27:41.000 Talk about pistol pack and action. Switch to auto light stay fulls and boy, you've got it. 27:41.000 --> 27:54.000 When your spark plug studs that stutter, now don't you try to putt, putt, putter. Switch to auto light. When your starter's just a grinder, why, it's a battery reminder. 27:54.000 --> 28:20.000 Switch to auto light. Keep your auto right, just switch to auto light. A-U-T-O-L-I-T-E, switch to auto light. For spark plug life and action, for a battery whose attraction is ignition satisfaction. Switch to auto light. 28:20.000 --> 28:36.000 And now here again is Miss Ida Lupino. It's always a great pleasure to appear on Suspense. And as a listener, I'm looking forward to some outstanding programs on this new Suspense series with stars like Charles Lawton, Agnes Moorhead, Van Johnson, Madeline Carroll and Anne Southern. 28:36.000 --> 28:46.000 And next week, I'll be tuned in to hear Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in a gripping suspense story entitled Deep Into Darkness. I know you'll want to hear it too on... 28:46.000 --> 28:51.000 Suspense. 28:51.000 --> 29:02.000 Ida Lupino may soon be seen in Darrell F. Zanuck's 20th Century Fox production Roadhouse. Tonight's Suspense play was written by Robert L. Richards from an original story by Ray Bradbury. 29:02.000 --> 29:11.000 The music was composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. 29:11.000 --> 29:22.000 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in Deep Into Darkness. 29:22.000 --> 29:45.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.