1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 In just a moment, Suspense, starring Charles Lawton. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Hi Billy. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Hi Dad. 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Working kind of late on your bicycle, aren't you? 5 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Yeah, the old bike hasn't been getting going just right. 6 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Boy, did I puff up Second Street this morning. 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Just like the car, Billy, until I had that new auto light, stay full battery put in. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Well, my boy, you just keep at it. 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 I'm going in coast along with auto light batteries, spark plugs and ignition systems on the Suspense show. 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Dad, if you want to listen to the auto light show, you'd better stay out here in the garage with me. 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Why? 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Mom's got her bridge club in tonight. 13 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 What? 14 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Why, she doggone well knows I want to hear Charles Lawton. 15 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,000 By all the drinks my stay full battery doesn't eat, I... 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Take it easy, Dad. Here comes Charles Lawton. 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Suspense. Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Starring tonight, Mr. Charles Lawton in Anton Lido's production of An Honest Man. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 20 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Oh, I couldn't sleep. 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I lay in bed that night listening to the stillness and loneliness of the empty house and tried to bring my mother back to me. 22 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Freddy, my son, I must leave you now. 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I know that you will miss me, but you needn't, for you are strong. 24 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I shall not be worried about you. 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 I have taught you well. 26 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Taught me well. 27 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 For the first time the meaning of those words became clear to me. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 The tears dried in my eyes, my jaws clenched. 29 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 That was the woman, my mother, to whom I had been closer than anyone else in the world. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Indeed, I had been close to no one but my mother in all my 44 years. 31 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:23,000 And after the tears a flood of memories passed before my eyes and after the memories came the realization that I was glad. 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 My mother was dead and I was glad. 33 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:39,000 The next day at the store I worked in a sort of a haze of happiness and well-being. 34 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Dora smiled at me once or twice, but we were both very busy. 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 During the rush hour Mr. Kelsey came in to help out as he always did. 36 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And about a quarter to ten he said what I realized that I'd been hoping to hear all day. 37 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 You got your days receipts totaled yet, Freddy? 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I'm just finishing them now, Mr. Kelsey. 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Then I think I'll knock off. 40 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 When you get through just put the money in the safe and lock it. 41 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 I won't go to the bank till afternoon. 42 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Yes, Mr. Kelsey. 43 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 You can both close up whenever you're through with what you're doing. 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,000 See you tomorrow. 45 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Yes, Mr. Kelsey. Good night. 46 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Good night. 47 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Uh, $123.14. 48 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Check. 49 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Mr. Kelsey sure trusts you, don't he? 50 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 He should after 26 years. 51 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 26 years? You've been working here that long? 52 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Sounds like a long time when you've said it doesn't seem that way to me. 53 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Well, I guess it's quitting time. 54 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Oh, boy, am I feet tired. 26 years. 55 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 You're going to put out the lights you want me to. 56 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Oh, I'll do that. 57 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Okay. Well, I'm leaving so long. 58 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Um, Miss, uh, Dora? 59 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Yeah? 60 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 May I ask you something? 61 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Sure. What is it? 62 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Well, uh... 63 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Oh, isn't it a beautiful night? 64 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 You sure that door's locked? 65 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Oh, yes. I was just wondering. 66 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 I was wondering if you'd mind if I walked home with you. 67 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 It's a little out of my way. 68 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Well, sure. Why not? 69 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Oh, but Sid, don't you have to get home to your mother? 70 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Oh, gee, Freddie, I'm sorry. 71 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 That's all right. 72 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Must have been a terrible blow to you. 73 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Yes, it was. 74 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 And you've taken care of her all that time. 75 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 26 years, but you mustn't think that that was a hardship, you see. 76 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 I owe everything in the world to my mother. 77 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Everything that I am or ever will be. 78 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Oh, I know what you mean. 79 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I always say a person's mother... 80 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Miss Dora, I've never told this to anyone, but I... 81 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Say, I've been meaning to ask you the way you always call me Miss Dora. 82 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 And I mean the way you talk. It's so refined. 83 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Really? 84 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I bet you had a real good education once, didn't you? 85 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 No, not formally. But you see, my mother was a governess. 86 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 And she always tried to give me the same advantages 87 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 as she would the children under her care. 88 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 My mother was a highly educated woman. 89 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Well, I knew it must be something like that. 90 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Anyway, you don't have to call me Miss Dora. 91 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I mean, seeing we're kind of old friends. 92 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Say, what was it you was going to tell me before? 93 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 That was something about my mother. 94 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Something she taught me. 95 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I'll never forget it as long as I live. 96 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 You happened to remind me of it 97 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 when you remarked how Mr Kelsey trusted me. 98 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Well, what was it? 99 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Well, it was just before my 11th birthday. 100 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 There was a motion picture that I wanted to see very badly. 101 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 It was something about cowboys, I think. 102 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 But my mother said we couldn't afford it. 103 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 And so I took ten cents from her purse, and she found it out. 104 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 What'd she say? 105 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Well, she whipped me. 106 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 It was the only time she ever did, until I could hardly walk. 107 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 She said I'd done the worst thing that anyone could ever do 108 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 that I had been dishonest. 109 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 That I was a thief. 110 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Ha-ha-ha! 111 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 You're dishonest. Oh, that's a laugh. 112 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 I never knew anybody more honest in all my life. 113 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Well, look at the way Mr Kelsey always... 114 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Yes, but only because of what my mother taught me. 115 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,000 I've been grateful to her all my life. For that, I always will be. 116 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. 117 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Well, they say honesty's the best policy, and I guess it is all right. 118 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 But now you take Tom Best... 119 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 What about him? 120 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Well, I wouldn't exactly say he's dishonest, 121 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 but he's sure having a lot more fun than you or me. 122 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 But, Dora, I'm sure you'll agree that there are more important things in life 123 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 than just having fun. 124 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Oh, sure, of course. I didn't mean it like that. 125 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,000 What I meant to say is you couldn't admire a fellow like this Bass, could you? 126 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Tom Bass? Oh, I should say not. 127 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 He thinks he's so smart with his wisecracks and his cheap jokes. 128 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I wouldn't give him the time of day. 129 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Is there anyone, that is to say, any man you do admire? 130 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Eh, not me. 131 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Oh, I admire you, of course. 132 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 You, really? 133 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Sure, but if you mean, do I go out steady with anyone? 134 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Uh-uh. 135 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Have you ever thought of the kind of man that you would go steady with? 136 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 My dream man? 137 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. 138 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Oh, sure. 139 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 But you just don't find them growing on trees. 140 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Not that kind. 141 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 What kind, Dora? 142 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Oh, when I say dream man, don't get me wrong. 143 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 I've been around enough to know better than that. 144 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 You just give me a nice, easy-going fellow with a steady job. 145 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. 146 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 That, that, that does sound like a description of me. 147 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 And a little money put away in the bank. 148 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 That's the kind of fellow I want. 149 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Did you say money? 150 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Well, sure. A fellow's never gonna get very far if he doesn't have a little laid aside for a rainy day. 151 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Oh, yes. 152 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Isn't that right? 153 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Yes, I suppose that is right. 154 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 How much money do you think such a fellow ought to have? 155 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Oh, thousand dollars. 156 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 You know, just something for kind of a little nest egg. 157 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Little, oh, yes, yes, yes, of course, yes. 158 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Well, here's where I live. 159 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Thanks for the walk. 160 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Dora? 161 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Yeah? 162 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 If you were to find such a man... 163 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Who? 164 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 A man with a steady job and money in the bank... 165 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Oh, him. 166 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I mean, would you, would you consider, I mean, would you, uh... 167 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Would I what? 168 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Oh, how I get it. 169 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Well, sure, if I thought I could make him happy. 170 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Oh, I know you would. 171 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Why not? 172 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Well, till death do us part. 173 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Ah! 174 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Well, it was strange that she should have said that when death had parted me only a few brief hours 175 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 before they found the only woman in my life, my mother. 176 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And now so soon after there was another woman, but if she was there, 177 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 that thousand dollars, that stood in the way. 178 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 With all the expense of the funeral still to be met, 179 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I knew it would take me at least two years to accumulate such a sum. 180 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And Dora was a warm, attractive girl. 181 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 I couldn't expect her to wait that long. 182 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 It wouldn't be fair, so by the next morning, 183 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 my first fond hope had turned to black despair. 184 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 I hardly noticed Tom Bass when he sauntered into the store. 185 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Hiya, honey. What do you know that's new? 186 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Oh! Oh, hello there. 187 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 What do you say, fitty boy? 188 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 I beg your pardon? 189 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 What's the matter? You in love or something? 190 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Say, remember that horse I told you about last week? 191 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Horse? 192 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 You remember Revelation? 193 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 I told you to get down on him at eight to one. 194 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Oh, yes. 195 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Well, what did I tell you? 196 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Well, to tell you the truth, I have had a number of things in my mind lately. 197 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 He won, chump. He won. Just like I told you he would. 198 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Now, ain't you sorry you didn't get a couple of bucks down on him? 199 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Oh, yes, yes, but really, I don't know very much about horse racing. 200 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Never too late to learn. 201 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Say, give me a hot pastrami on rye, will you? 202 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Mustard? 203 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Yeah. 204 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Little lettuce? 205 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 No, skip that. 206 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 You want it to go or you can... 207 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 I'll eat it here. 208 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Say, how come a guy like you ever learn to make such good sandwiches? 209 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 They're the best in town. No kidding. 210 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 My mother taught me. 211 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Is that a fact? 212 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 My mother taught me everything I know. 213 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Yeah? 214 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Say, it must be good to feel like that about your old lady. 215 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 I haven't seen mine for ten years. 216 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Here you are. 217 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Thanks. 218 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Is your mother dead? 219 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 No. 220 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 I actually took a powder when I was a kid. 221 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 I couldn't stand it around there anymore. 222 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 You couldn't stand it around your own mother? 223 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Yeah. All she ever did was yap, yap, yap. 224 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Why didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that? 225 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Finally, one day I told her what she could do and I beat it. 226 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 But how could she get along without you? What did she do? 227 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 I don't know. Same old thing, I guess. 228 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Waking the laundry. 229 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Say, look, Freddie, pay her for the sandwich tomorrow, OK? 230 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 I got some fifty. 231 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Well, if you won't forget, I did have to remind you last time, you know. 232 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 I have to take it out of my own pocket. 233 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 You're a good guy, Freddie. 234 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Say, in fact, you know what? 235 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I think I'm going to let you in on something. 236 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Freddie, listen. 237 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 I got a tip so hot it's burning the seat of my pants. 238 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Avalanche in the third at Santa Rosa today. 239 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Strictly a drugstore job. 240 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 What? 241 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 They're going to give him the needle. 242 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 I got it from his trainer myself in person. 243 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Avalanche can't any more lose that race than I can sing high C. 244 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 You know what the odds are? 245 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 A hundred to one. 246 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 A hundred to one. 247 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 A hundred to one. 248 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,000 That's what I said. 249 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Do you mean to tell me that if someone were to bet ten dollars on this horse, 250 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 they'd win back a thousand? 251 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 You ain't just bird calling. 252 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 You put a tenner on that beetle and you'll have one thousand bucks 253 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 in your hot little hand by tonight. 254 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Oh, I wish I could, but I don't have ten dollars or anywhere near it. 255 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 I don't get paid until tomorrow, you see. 256 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 One twenty-eight out of five. 257 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Here you are, Dora. 258 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Thanks. 259 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Hey, Freddie, what's the matter? 260 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 You can always lay your hand on a ten when you want it, can't you? 261 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I can? How? 262 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 263 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 That's Mr. Kelsey's money. 264 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Not till tonight. 265 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 What Mr. Kelsey don't know, he's going to hurt him. 266 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 I couldn't do anything like that. 267 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Okay, I'll be back. 268 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Think it over, friend. 269 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 One thousand skinneroos. 270 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 One thousand skinneroos. 271 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 And that ain't horse feet. 272 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 One thousand skinneroos. 273 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 For Suspense, Audolight is bringing you Mr. Charles Lawton 274 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 in radio's outstanding theater thrills, Suspense. 275 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Dad, I don't know what's coming next, but this story's got me in the mood to expect anything. 276 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Yeah, anything but invite a woman's bridge party in on Thursday night. 277 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Still peeved it, Mom, Dad. 278 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Well, I... 279 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Cheer up. 280 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 This car radio's operating hunky-dory, thanks to your new Audolight stay-full battery. 281 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Besides, Mom's partner probably just trumped her ace. 282 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 So, uh, let's listen to Frank Martin, the Audolight announcer. 283 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Yes, the new Audolight stay-full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 284 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,000 This greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the major causes of battery failure. 285 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Car owners tell us it's the greatest battery ever built. 286 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 The greatest battery ever built. 287 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Money cannot buy a better battery for your car. 288 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 You know, Billy, the boys over at the service station tell me that these Audolight stay-fulls 289 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 are really setting up some long time between drinks records. 290 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Yeah, Dad, I guess it's like having a camel under your hood, huh? 291 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Oh, better than that. 292 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 An Audolight stay-full only needs to drink three times a year in normal car use. 293 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 So, friends, see your friendly neighborhood Audolight battery dealer 294 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,000 and order the new Audolight stay-full battery for your car. 295 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 It needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 296 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 And there are the important advantages of extra plates and fiberglass insulation 297 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 that mean so much to long battery life. 298 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000 And now Audolight brings back to our Hollywood soundstage 299 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Mr. Charles Lawton as Freddy in An Honest Man. 300 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 301 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Well, of course I could think of nothing else all morning. 302 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 My mind was in a whirl. 303 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 A thousand dollars with a thousand dollars I could propose to Dora. 304 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I could propose to her that very night. 305 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,000 At the same time was the appalling thought of what I'd have to do. 306 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 I would have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 307 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 I'd have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 308 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,000 And I'd have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 309 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:48,000 And I'd have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 310 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Ten dollars that was not mine. 311 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000 That would be stealing. 312 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 I would be a thief. 313 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 But as I thought I wondered, perhaps Tom Bass was right. 314 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 It wouldn't be stealing if I put the money back. 315 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 And by tonight I'd have the thousand dollars. 316 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I could put it back. 317 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 But that was the difference. 318 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 When I'd taken the money from Mother that time, 319 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 I had no prospect of replacing it. 320 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 But this way, this way, so the next time I went to the cash register to make change, 321 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 I slipped ten dollars out of the drawer and put it into my apron pocket. 322 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 After that I found I was perspiring and my hands trembled. 323 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 So then I nearly cut myself a dozen times working at my sandwich board. 324 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 And I saw Tom Bass coming through the door. 325 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Tom! Tom! 326 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Yeah? What's the matter? 327 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Not the ten dollars. 328 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 The ten dollars? 329 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 330 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Say, now you're getting smart. 331 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Give it to me. I'll place it on that. 332 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Yeah, but Tommy, you sure? You absolutely sure? 333 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I tell you the nag is in at a walk. 334 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 I got a few skins down on this one myself. Don't forget. 335 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Oh, all right. But when will I get the money? 336 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Six o'clock tonight. The latest. 337 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 I'll bring it around myself. Give me the ten. 338 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Here. You won't forget, will you? 339 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Forget? With a thousand bucks in my kick, how could I forget? 340 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Relax. You got nothing to worry about. 341 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Freddie? 342 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 What was you and Tom talking about just now? 343 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Oh, he was just telling me about some horse or other. 344 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Well, you better be careful how you talk to him about horses. 345 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Why do you say that? 346 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Well, that's the way he makes his living, ain't it? 347 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Yes, as I should rather imagine it is. 348 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Oh, Dora? 349 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Yeah? 350 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Would you care to, that is, when we're through work, would you, 351 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 would you care to go somewhere with me this evening? 352 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Go where? 353 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Oh, my Freddie. Are you asking me for a date? 354 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yes, I suppose I am. 355 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Oh, Freddie, that's real cute. I might even take you up on it. 356 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 You mean that you will go? 357 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I might. I'll tell you at quitting time. 358 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Why can't you tell me now? 359 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Oh, something might come up. 360 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 What could come up? 361 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 I don't know what could come up. Anything could come up. 362 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 One of us might drop dead. 363 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Strange sense of humor, Dora's. 364 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 But I get used to that, you know. 365 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Anyway, she had practically said yes to the date. 366 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 So I passed the rest of the afternoon busy with thoughts 367 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 of the good fortune that was awaiting me. 368 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,000 At five, Mr. Kelsey came in, and shortly thereafter 369 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,000 there was a rush of customers that took up all my attention. 370 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 So that it was with something of a start that I looked at the clock 371 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 and saw that it was nearly 6.30. 372 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 But Tom had said six no later than six. 373 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Still, it was quite understandable that in a transaction of such magnitude, 374 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 he might have met with some unforeseeable delay. 375 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 So I tried to compose myself to remain calm 376 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 and to wait but the minutes and then the hours passed. 377 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 By nine o'clock I was in such a state I could hardly conceal it, 378 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 and yet I had to. 379 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 And then suddenly at 9.30 I saw him. 380 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 He was walking rather hurriedly. 381 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 I thought along the opposite side of the street. 382 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I saw him caution to the winds. 383 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I dashed from behind the counter and out he went, Tom! Tom! 384 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Oh, hi, Freddie. For a minute there I didn't recognize you. 385 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,000 I'm so sorry to trouble you this way but it's so late 386 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 I thought you might have forgotten. 387 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 No, no, I didn't... 388 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Did you have the money with you? 389 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Look, Freddie, I've been meaning to come in all evening 390 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 to tell you about that but I didn't know how to say it. 391 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Say what? 392 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 It's getting so you can't trust nobody nowadays. 393 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Believe me, kid, I feel as bad about this as you do. 394 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Well, well, well, well, Tom, what happened? 395 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,000 That lion trainer, he never done a thing to that horse. 396 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 The bum come in last. 397 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 You mean that we lost and my money's gone? 398 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Yeah. 399 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Lost? 400 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Oh, don't take it too hard, kid. 401 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 You stick with me and I'll have that ten back for you 402 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 double and triple by the end of next week. 403 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 You know, somebody wins, somebody loses, you know. 404 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Take it easy now. 405 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Mother? 406 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Mother! 407 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Help me. 408 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 I'm a thief. 409 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 I turned back to the store automatically but even now 410 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,000 I could hardly grasp the full extent of the catastrophe 411 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 which had overwhelmed me. 412 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 All I knew that tomorrow was payday and I could only 413 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 prevent Mr. Kelsey from finding out until then. 414 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 What happened to you? 415 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 What was that, Mr. Kelsey? 416 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 You looked like you'd seen a ghost or something. 417 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 You went charging out of here a couple of minutes ago. 418 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Oh, yes, I thought I saw someone I knew, 419 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 someone I'd known as a child. 420 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Oh, yeah, that happens to me all the time. 421 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 I said... 422 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Well, it's pretty late. 423 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 You can both beat it if you want to. 424 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 I'll check the receipts tonight myself. 425 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Hey, what you doing? 426 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 I dropped a knife. 427 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 You want us to go? 428 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Yeah, you might as well. 429 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 I'll be here late anyway. 430 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 I'll close up. 431 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Well, that sure don't make me mad. 432 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Gee, I've been ready to drop for the last hour. 433 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Mr. Kelsey, I'd be glad to check the receipts for you. 434 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000 You don't have to... 435 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Yeah, I know, but I got an order to come in tomorrow. 436 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 I got to go over the books for the last six months. 437 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Seems I got some kind of beef with the tax people. 438 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Oh, come on, Freddie. 439 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Let the boss do a little work for a change. 440 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Anyway, I thought you had other plans for tonight. 441 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Yes, I did, but... 442 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Mr. Kelsey, I'd rather you let me do it, really. 443 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,000 It wouldn't be any trouble. 444 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Well, if that's the way it is, I'm leaving. 445 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Shove me over that adding machine before you go, will you, Dora? 446 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Yeah, sure. 447 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Eh. 448 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Night, Mr. Kelsey. 449 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Night. 450 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Dora. 451 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Good night, Mr. McWilliams. 452 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 What's the matter with her? 453 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,000 You two been having trouble? 454 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Oh, no. 455 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Mr. Kelsey. 456 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Hmm? 457 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 I do not like to have you checking the receipts all by yourself. 458 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 I don't like it either. 459 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 But it's got to be done. 460 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 You run along now. See you tomorrow. 461 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 But I don't want you to do it. 462 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Look, Freddie, thanks for trying to help, 463 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000 but just leave me alone, will you? 464 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 I ain't got a lot of work to do tonight. 465 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 No. Stop. 466 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Say, what's eating you? 467 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 I told you once... 468 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Now, I've always done it before. 469 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 It makes me feel that you don't trust me. 470 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Freddie, what kind of way to talk is that? 471 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 I've been trusting you for 26 years, haven't I? 472 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Why should I stop tonight all of a sudden? 473 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Mr. Kelsey. 474 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Hmm? 475 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Uh... 476 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 $118.37. 477 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Hey, that's funny. 478 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 We're $10 short. 479 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 I knew what he would say next. 480 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:24,000 I knew that I had to stop him before he said that awful word. 481 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 $10 short. 482 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Now, how could... 483 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Freddie. 484 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 What are you doing? 485 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Freddie. 486 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Freddie. 487 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 I washed my hands most carefully at the sink 488 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 and dried them on my apron, 489 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 and I bent over Mr. Kelsey, 490 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,000 or rather, Mr. Kelsey's body, 491 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 and I removed from his pocket 492 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 the sum of $32.50, 493 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 the exact amount that would be owing to me in salary 494 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 on the following day. 495 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Of this sum, I put $10 in the cash register. 496 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Then I left the store and went home. 497 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 It was all right now. Everything was all right. 498 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I was not a thief. 499 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,000 I was so exhausted that I got home and just dropped in my bed. 500 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I must have fallen asleep that way 501 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 because I was fully clothed when I was awakened some hours later. 502 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Yes? 503 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Yes? What... Who is it? 504 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 It's me, Dora. Let me in. 505 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Oh, yes, of course. 506 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Oh, Freddie, I'm so glad I found you. 507 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 You've got to help me. You've got to do something. 508 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Why, of course, my dear. What can I do? 509 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Freddie, Mr. Kelsey. Mr. Kelsey's dead. 510 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Oh, yes. I'm sorry that had to happen, Dora. 511 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Believe me, I am. 512 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 How can you stand there and be so calm about it? 513 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Freddie, he was murdered, and they got Tom for it. 514 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 They say he did it. They got him down at the police station right now. 515 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Tom? Tom Pass? 516 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Yes. 517 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Tom said he was just going by the store, 518 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 and he saw the lights on, and he went in. 519 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Mr. Kelsey there with a knife in him, 520 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 and he didn't know what to do, and just then the cop on the beat walked in, 521 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 and they arrested him right there. 522 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 But I can hardly believe a man like Tom Bass 523 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 could have any good reason to kill Mr. Kelsey. 524 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Well, that's what I said. That's what I've been telling the cops for the past hour. 525 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 He may be a little shady, I said. 526 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 He may have done some things that wasn't exactly right, 527 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 but my boyfriend wouldn't commit murder. I said he wouldn't. 528 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Your boyfriend? 529 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Yeah, I said... 530 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Oh, gee, Freddie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... 531 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Yes, but you told me that there was not anyone. 532 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Well, there wasn't, honest. That's the truth. 533 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 I'd just been out with him two or three times. 534 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000 I didn't know he meant anything. I didn't even think I liked him. 535 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 But when I saw him down there, 536 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 and I saw what they were doing to him, well... 537 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Your boyfriend. 538 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Oh, Freddie, please. 539 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Please, don't be mad at me. 540 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000 I was half crazy. I didn't know who else to come to. 541 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 You've got to do something for him. 542 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Dora. 543 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 What? 544 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Do you love him? 545 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Yeah. 546 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 I guess I do. 547 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 I see. 548 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 I left her there and started for the police station. 549 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Tom Bass meant nothing to me, of course. 550 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 He meant less than nothing now. 551 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 But, of course, Dora, that was something else again. 552 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 I didn't know exactly what I should do, 553 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 but the sergeant helped me to make up my mind. 554 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Well? 555 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,000 I understand that you have a prisoner here 556 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 who is accused of killing one Henry Kelsey. 557 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 That's right. You his mouthpiece? 558 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Oh, no, no, no. I am... 559 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Well, at least say I was an employee of Mr. Kelsey's 560 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 for 26 years. 561 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Mac Williams? 562 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Frederick Aloysius Mac Williams. 563 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Yeah, we know about you. 564 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000 We may want to ask you a few questions tomorrow, 565 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 but you've got nothing to worry about. We've got our man. 566 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 You have all the evidence you need? 567 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Of course we've got all the evidence we need. 568 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 But why would we be holding him? 569 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 We caught him red-handed. 570 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 And he's got a record since he was 14 years old. 571 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Dear, dear, dear, dear me. 572 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000 But supposing that I had positive evidence 573 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 that the bastard not killed Mr. Kelsey? 574 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,000 This had better be good. I'm warning you. 575 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Tell me, it would be dishonest 576 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 to withhold that information, wouldn't it? 577 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 You're doggone tootin', it would. 578 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 You see, it would be like stealing, wouldn't it? 579 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 It would be stealing. It's stealing another man's life. 580 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 What, are you trying to kid somebody? 581 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 No, no, no. I've never been more serious in my life. 582 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000 All right. If you know so much, who did kill Kelsey? 583 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 I did. 584 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Poor Dora. 585 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 I'm afraid she'll have to wait a year for Tom Bass. 586 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000 It seems the police frown on his method of making a living. 587 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Well, as for me, a great calm has settled over me. 588 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Oh, such a calm as I've never known before in my life. 589 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Soon I shall be joining Mother. 590 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 She will smile when she sees me, 591 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 and I know that she'll be proud of me, and she'll understand. 592 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000 She'll understand that whatever faults I may have had, 593 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 I was not a thief. 594 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Thank you, Charles Lawton, for an extraordinary performance. 595 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Mr. Lawton will return in just a moment. 596 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Say, Billy, Charles Lawton was certainly in the groove tonight. 597 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 I'll say. Hey, Dad, here comes Mom. 598 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,000 I just thought you two'd be out here puttering you and your bikes and batteries. 599 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 600 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 601 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 602 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 603 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 604 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 I thought you two'd be out here puttering you and your bikes and batteries 605 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 with Charles Lawton on the suspense program, too. 606 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Mary, did you listen to suspense? 607 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Why, of course I did. 608 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 You're always talking about your auto-light staple battery, 609 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000 so I thought I'd listen to suspense and get the real facts. 610 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000 What about the bridge club? 611 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Oh, they came early so we could all listen to Charles Lawton. 612 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,000 My guests are just leaving now. 613 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Well, Dad, I guess we men can't win. What do we do now? 614 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Why, finish your evening right, gentlemen. 615 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000 I'll listen to the auto-light announcer signing off. 616 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 So remember, folks, auto-light staple needs water 617 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000 only three times a year at normal car use. 618 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:44,000 That's another reason why everybody is switching to auto-light staple batteries. 619 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Auto-light means batteries. 620 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Stay full, batteries. 621 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Auto-light means spark plugs. 622 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Ignition engineered spark plugs. 623 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Auto-light means ignition system. 624 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 The lifeline of your car. 625 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Auto-light means ignition system. 626 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000 The lifeline of your car. 627 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Auto-light means ignition system. 628 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000 The lifeline of your car. 629 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 And now here again is Mr. Charles Lawton. 630 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 It has been a great pleasure to appear again on suspense. 631 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 And I'm certainly looking forward to listening next week 632 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 when Anne Southern comes to the microphone 633 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,000 as a deceiving wife who learns a lesson the hard way. 634 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 It is a story titled, 635 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Beware the Quiet Man, and it's a gripping study in... 636 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Suspense. 637 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Suspense. 638 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Suspense. 639 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Suspense. 640 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Charles Lawton may currently be seen in Paramount's The Big Clock. 641 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert L. Richards 642 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,000 with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 643 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 The entire production was under the direction of Antonin Lieder. 644 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 On Thursday same time, you will hear Anne Southern in, 645 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Beware the Quiet Man. 646 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 This is the Auto-light Suspense Show. 647 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 We congratulate the United States Coast Guard 648 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,000 on the celebration of its 158th anniversary this week. 649 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Good night. 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