WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 In just a moment, Suspense, starring Charles Lawton. 00:05.000 --> 00:06.000 Hi Billy. 00:06.000 --> 00:07.000 Hi Dad. 00:07.000 --> 00:09.000 Working kind of late on your bicycle, aren't you? 00:09.000 --> 00:12.000 Yeah, the old bike hasn't been getting going just right. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Boy, did I puff up Second Street this morning. 00:14.000 --> 00:19.000 Just like the car, Billy, until I had that new auto light, stay full battery put in. 00:20.000 --> 00:21.000 Well, my boy, you just keep at it. 00:21.000 --> 00:26.000 I'm going in coast along with auto light batteries, spark plugs and ignition systems on the Suspense show. 00:26.000 --> 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. 00:30.000 --> 00:31.000 Why? 00:31.000 --> 00:33.000 Mom's got her bridge club in tonight. 00:33.000 --> 00:34.000 What? 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 Why, she doggone well knows I want to hear Charles Lawton. 00:37.000 --> 00:40.000 By all the drinks my stay full battery doesn't eat, I... 00:40.000 --> 00:43.000 Take it easy, Dad. Here comes Charles Lawton. 00:43.000 --> 01:05.000 Suspense. Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 01:05.000 --> 01:11.000 Starring tonight, Mr. Charles Lawton in Anton Lido's production of An Honest Man. 01:11.000 --> 01:16.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:31.000 --> 01:33.000 Oh, I couldn't sleep. 01:33.000 --> 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. 01:39.000 --> 01:44.000 Freddy, my son, I must leave you now. 01:44.000 --> 01:49.000 I know that you will miss me, but you needn't, for you are strong. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 I shall not be worried about you. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 I have taught you well. 01:54.000 --> 01:58.000 Taught me well. 01:58.000 --> 02:02.000 For the first time the meaning of those words became clear to me. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 The tears dried in my eyes, my jaws clenched. 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 That was the woman, my mother, to whom I had been closer than anyone else in the world. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 Indeed, I had been close to no one but my mother in all my 44 years. 02:14.000 --> 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. 02:23.000 --> 02:27.000 My mother was dead and I was glad. 02:27.000 --> 02:39.000 The next day at the store I worked in a sort of a haze of happiness and well-being. 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 Dora smiled at me once or twice, but we were both very busy. 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 During the rush hour Mr. Kelsey came in to help out as he always did. 02:46.000 --> 02:51.000 And about a quarter to ten he said what I realized that I'd been hoping to hear all day. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 You got your days receipts totaled yet, Freddy? 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 I'm just finishing them now, Mr. Kelsey. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Then I think I'll knock off. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 When you get through just put the money in the safe and lock it. 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 I won't go to the bank till afternoon. 03:03.000 --> 03:04.000 Yes, Mr. Kelsey. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 You can both close up whenever you're through with what you're doing. 03:07.000 --> 03:08.000 See you tomorrow. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 Yes, Mr. Kelsey. Good night. 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 Good night. 03:11.000 --> 03:19.000 Uh, $123.14. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 Check. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 Mr. Kelsey sure trusts you, don't he? 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 He should after 26 years. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 26 years? You've been working here that long? 03:31.000 --> 03:36.000 Sounds like a long time when you've said it doesn't seem that way to me. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 Well, I guess it's quitting time. 03:39.000 --> 03:46.000 Oh, boy, am I feet tired. 26 years. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 You're going to put out the lights you want me to. 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 Oh, I'll do that. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 Okay. Well, I'm leaving so long. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 Um, Miss, uh, Dora? 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 Yeah? 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 May I ask you something? 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Sure. What is it? 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Well, uh... 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 Oh, isn't it a beautiful night? 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 You sure that door's locked? 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 Oh, yes. I was just wondering. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 I was wondering if you'd mind if I walked home with you. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 It's a little out of my way. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Well, sure. Why not? 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 Oh, but Sid, don't you have to get home to your mother? 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 Oh, gee, Freddie, I'm sorry. 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 That's all right. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Must have been a terrible blow to you. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Yes, it was. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 And you've taken care of her all that time. 04:27.000 --> 04:31.000 26 years, but you mustn't think that that was a hardship, you see. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 I owe everything in the world to my mother. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Everything that I am or ever will be. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Oh, I know what you mean. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 I always say a person's mother... 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 Miss Dora, I've never told this to anyone, but I... 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 Say, I've been meaning to ask you the way you always call me Miss Dora. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 And I mean the way you talk. It's so refined. 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 Really? 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 I bet you had a real good education once, didn't you? 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 No, not formally. But you see, my mother was a governess. 04:56.000 --> 04:59.000 And she always tried to give me the same advantages 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 as she would the children under her care. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 My mother was a highly educated woman. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Well, I knew it must be something like that. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Anyway, you don't have to call me Miss Dora. 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 I mean, seeing we're kind of old friends. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 Say, what was it you was going to tell me before? 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 That was something about my mother. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Something she taught me. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 I'll never forget it as long as I live. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 You happened to remind me of it 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 when you remarked how Mr Kelsey trusted me. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Well, what was it? 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 Well, it was just before my 11th birthday. 05:29.000 --> 05:32.000 There was a motion picture that I wanted to see very badly. 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 It was something about cowboys, I think. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 But my mother said we couldn't afford it. 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 And so I took ten cents from her purse, and she found it out. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 What'd she say? 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 Well, she whipped me. 05:46.000 --> 05:50.000 It was the only time she ever did, until I could hardly walk. 05:50.000 --> 05:54.000 She said I'd done the worst thing that anyone could ever do 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 that I had been dishonest. 05:56.000 --> 06:00.000 That I was a thief. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Ha-ha-ha! 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 You're dishonest. Oh, that's a laugh. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 I never knew anybody more honest in all my life. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Well, look at the way Mr Kelsey always... 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Yes, but only because of what my mother taught me. 06:10.000 --> 06:13.000 I've been grateful to her all my life. For that, I always will be. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 Well, they say honesty's the best policy, and I guess it is all right. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 But now you take Tom Best... 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 What about him? 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Well, I wouldn't exactly say he's dishonest, 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 but he's sure having a lot more fun than you or me. 06:28.000 --> 06:32.000 But, Dora, I'm sure you'll agree that there are more important things in life 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 than just having fun. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Oh, sure, of course. I didn't mean it like that. 06:36.000 --> 06:42.000 What I meant to say is you couldn't admire a fellow like this Bass, could you? 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 Tom Bass? Oh, I should say not. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 He thinks he's so smart with his wisecracks and his cheap jokes. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 I wouldn't give him the time of day. 06:50.000 --> 06:55.000 Is there anyone, that is to say, any man you do admire? 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 Eh, not me. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 Oh, I admire you, of course. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 You, really? 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 Sure, but if you mean, do I go out steady with anyone? 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Uh-uh. 07:08.000 --> 07:14.000 Have you ever thought of the kind of man that you would go steady with? 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 My dream man? 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Oh, sure. 07:20.000 --> 07:23.000 But you just don't find them growing on trees. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Not that kind. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 What kind, Dora? 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Oh, when I say dream man, don't get me wrong. 07:29.000 --> 07:32.000 I've been around enough to know better than that. 07:32.000 --> 07:37.000 You just give me a nice, easy-going fellow with a steady job. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 That, that, that does sound like a description of me. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 And a little money put away in the bank. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 That's the kind of fellow I want. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Did you say money? 07:48.000 --> 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. 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 Oh, yes. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Isn't that right? 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 Yes, I suppose that is right. 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 How much money do you think such a fellow ought to have? 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Oh, thousand dollars. 08:01.000 --> 08:04.000 You know, just something for kind of a little nest egg. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 Little, oh, yes, yes, yes, of course, yes. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Well, here's where I live. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 Thanks for the walk. 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Dora? 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Yeah? 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 If you were to find such a man... 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Who? 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 A man with a steady job and money in the bank... 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 Oh, him. 08:20.000 --> 08:23.000 I mean, would you, would you consider, I mean, would you, uh... 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 Would I what? 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 Oh, how I get it. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Well, sure, if I thought I could make him happy. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Oh, I know you would. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Why not? 08:34.000 --> 08:38.000 Well, till death do us part. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Ah! 08:48.000 --> 08:53.000 Well, it was strange that she should have said that when death had parted me only a few brief hours 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 before they found the only woman in my life, my mother. 08:57.000 --> 09:01.000 And now so soon after there was another woman, but if she was there, 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 that thousand dollars, that stood in the way. 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 With all the expense of the funeral still to be met, 09:06.000 --> 09:10.000 I knew it would take me at least two years to accumulate such a sum. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 And Dora was a warm, attractive girl. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 I couldn't expect her to wait that long. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 It wouldn't be fair, so by the next morning, 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 my first fond hope had turned to black despair. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 I hardly noticed Tom Bass when he sauntered into the store. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 Hiya, honey. What do you know that's new? 09:27.000 --> 09:30.000 Oh! Oh, hello there. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 What do you say, fitty boy? 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 I beg your pardon? 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 What's the matter? You in love or something? 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 Say, remember that horse I told you about last week? 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 Horse? 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 You remember Revelation? 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 I told you to get down on him at eight to one. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 Oh, yes. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Well, what did I tell you? 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 Well, to tell you the truth, I have had a number of things in my mind lately. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 He won, chump. He won. Just like I told you he would. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Now, ain't you sorry you didn't get a couple of bucks down on him? 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 Oh, yes, yes, but really, I don't know very much about horse racing. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 Never too late to learn. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 Say, give me a hot pastrami on rye, will you? 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 Mustard? 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Yeah. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Little lettuce? 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 No, skip that. 10:03.000 --> 10:04.000 You want it to go or you can... 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 I'll eat it here. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Say, how come a guy like you ever learn to make such good sandwiches? 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 They're the best in town. No kidding. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 My mother taught me. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Is that a fact? 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 My mother taught me everything I know. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Yeah? 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Say, it must be good to feel like that about your old lady. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 I haven't seen mine for ten years. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 Here you are. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 Thanks. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 Is your mother dead? 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 No. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 I actually took a powder when I was a kid. 10:27.000 --> 10:28.000 I couldn't stand it around there anymore. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 You couldn't stand it around your own mother? 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 Yeah. All she ever did was yap, yap, yap. 10:33.000 --> 10:36.000 Why didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that? 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Finally, one day I told her what she could do and I beat it. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 But how could she get along without you? What did she do? 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 I don't know. Same old thing, I guess. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Waking the laundry. 10:44.000 --> 10:48.000 Say, look, Freddie, pay her for the sandwich tomorrow, OK? 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 I got some fifty. 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 Well, if you won't forget, I did have to remind you last time, you know. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 I have to take it out of my own pocket. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 You're a good guy, Freddie. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Say, in fact, you know what? 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 I think I'm going to let you in on something. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Freddie, listen. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 I got a tip so hot it's burning the seat of my pants. 11:05.000 --> 11:08.000 Avalanche in the third at Santa Rosa today. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 Strictly a drugstore job. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 What? 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 They're going to give him the needle. 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 I got it from his trainer myself in person. 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 Avalanche can't any more lose that race than I can sing high C. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 You know what the odds are? 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 A hundred to one. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 A hundred to one. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 A hundred to one. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.000 That's what I said. 11:26.000 --> 11:30.000 Do you mean to tell me that if someone were to bet ten dollars on this horse, 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 they'd win back a thousand? 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 You ain't just bird calling. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 You put a tenner on that beetle and you'll have one thousand bucks 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 in your hot little hand by tonight. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 Oh, I wish I could, but I don't have ten dollars or anywhere near it. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 I don't get paid until tomorrow, you see. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 One twenty-eight out of five. 11:45.000 --> 11:50.000 Here you are, Dora. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Thanks. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 Hey, Freddie, what's the matter? 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 You can always lay your hand on a ten when you want it, can't you? 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 I can? How? 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 That's Mr. Kelsey's money. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Not till tonight. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 What Mr. Kelsey don't know, he's going to hurt him. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 I couldn't do anything like that. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Okay, I'll be back. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Think it over, friend. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 One thousand skinneroos. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 One thousand skinneroos. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 And that ain't horse feet. 12:17.000 --> 12:21.000 One thousand skinneroos. 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 For Suspense, Audolight is bringing you Mr. Charles Lawton 12:38.000 --> 12:43.000 in radio's outstanding theater thrills, Suspense. 12:50.000 --> 12:54.000 Dad, I don't know what's coming next, but this story's got me in the mood to expect anything. 12:54.000 --> 12:58.000 Yeah, anything but invite a woman's bridge party in on Thursday night. 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 Still peeved it, Mom, Dad. 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 Well, I... 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 Cheer up. 13:01.000 --> 13:06.000 This car radio's operating hunky-dory, thanks to your new Audolight stay-full battery. 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 Besides, Mom's partner probably just trumped her ace. 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 So, uh, let's listen to Frank Martin, the Audolight announcer. 13:12.000 --> 13:18.000 Yes, the new Audolight stay-full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13:18.000 --> 13:23.000 This greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the major causes of battery failure. 13:23.000 --> 13:26.000 Car owners tell us it's the greatest battery ever built. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 The greatest battery ever built. 13:28.000 --> 13:31.000 Money cannot buy a better battery for your car. 13:31.000 --> 13:35.000 You know, Billy, the boys over at the service station tell me that these Audolight stay-fulls 13:35.000 --> 13:38.000 are really setting up some long time between drinks records. 13:38.000 --> 13:41.000 Yeah, Dad, I guess it's like having a camel under your hood, huh? 13:41.000 --> 13:42.000 Oh, better than that. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 An Audolight stay-full only needs to drink three times a year in normal car use. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 So, friends, see your friendly neighborhood Audolight battery dealer 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 and order the new Audolight stay-full battery for your car. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 It needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13:57.000 --> 14:02.000 And there are the important advantages of extra plates and fiberglass insulation 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 that mean so much to long battery life. 14:05.000 --> 14:09.000 And now Audolight brings back to our Hollywood soundstage 14:09.000 --> 14:13.000 Mr. Charles Lawton as Freddy in An Honest Man. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 Well, of course I could think of nothing else all morning. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 My mind was in a whirl. 14:22.000 --> 14:26.000 A thousand dollars with a thousand dollars I could propose to Dora. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 I could propose to her that very night. 14:28.000 --> 14:32.000 At the same time was the appalling thought of what I'd have to do. 14:32.000 --> 14:36.000 I would have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 14:36.000 --> 14:39.000 I'd have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 And I'd have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 14:42.000 --> 14:48.000 And I'd have to take ten dollars from the cash register. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 Ten dollars that was not mine. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 That would be stealing. 14:51.000 --> 14:54.000 I would be a thief. 14:57.000 --> 15:01.000 But as I thought I wondered, perhaps Tom Bass was right. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 It wouldn't be stealing if I put the money back. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 And by tonight I'd have the thousand dollars. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 I could put it back. 15:07.000 --> 15:08.000 But that was the difference. 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 When I'd taken the money from Mother that time, 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 I had no prospect of replacing it. 15:12.000 --> 15:17.000 But this way, this way, so the next time I went to the cash register to make change, 15:17.000 --> 15:23.000 I slipped ten dollars out of the drawer and put it into my apron pocket. 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 After that I found I was perspiring and my hands trembled. 15:27.000 --> 15:31.000 So then I nearly cut myself a dozen times working at my sandwich board. 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 And I saw Tom Bass coming through the door. 15:34.000 --> 15:35.000 Tom! Tom! 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 Yeah? What's the matter? 15:37.000 --> 15:38.000 Not the ten dollars. 15:38.000 --> 15:39.000 The ten dollars? 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 Say, now you're getting smart. 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 Give it to me. I'll place it on that. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 Yeah, but Tommy, you sure? You absolutely sure? 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 I tell you the nag is in at a walk. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 I got a few skins down on this one myself. Don't forget. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 Oh, all right. But when will I get the money? 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 Six o'clock tonight. The latest. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 I'll bring it around myself. Give me the ten. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Here. You won't forget, will you? 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 Forget? With a thousand bucks in my kick, how could I forget? 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Relax. You got nothing to worry about. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Freddie? 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 What was you and Tom talking about just now? 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 Oh, he was just telling me about some horse or other. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 Well, you better be careful how you talk to him about horses. 16:14.000 --> 16:15.000 Why do you say that? 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 Well, that's the way he makes his living, ain't it? 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 Yes, as I should rather imagine it is. 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 Oh, Dora? 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 Yeah? 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 Would you care to, that is, when we're through work, would you, 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 would you care to go somewhere with me this evening? 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Go where? 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 Oh, my Freddie. Are you asking me for a date? 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Yes, I suppose I am. 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 Oh, Freddie, that's real cute. I might even take you up on it. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 You mean that you will go? 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 I might. I'll tell you at quitting time. 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 Why can't you tell me now? 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 Oh, something might come up. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 What could come up? 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 I don't know what could come up. Anything could come up. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 One of us might drop dead. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.000 Strange sense of humor, Dora's. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 But I get used to that, you know. 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 Anyway, she had practically said yes to the date. 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 So I passed the rest of the afternoon busy with thoughts 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 of the good fortune that was awaiting me. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 At five, Mr. Kelsey came in, and shortly thereafter 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 there was a rush of customers that took up all my attention. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 So that it was with something of a start that I looked at the clock 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 and saw that it was nearly 6.30. 17:24.000 --> 17:27.000 But Tom had said six no later than six. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 Still, it was quite understandable that in a transaction of such magnitude, 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 he might have met with some unforeseeable delay. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 So I tried to compose myself to remain calm 17:37.000 --> 17:41.000 and to wait but the minutes and then the hours passed. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 By nine o'clock I was in such a state I could hardly conceal it, 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 and yet I had to. 17:46.000 --> 17:49.000 And then suddenly at 9.30 I saw him. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 He was walking rather hurriedly. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 I thought along the opposite side of the street. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 I saw him caution to the winds. 17:55.000 --> 17:58.000 I dashed from behind the counter and out he went, Tom! Tom! 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 Oh, hi, Freddie. For a minute there I didn't recognize you. 18:01.000 --> 18:04.000 I'm so sorry to trouble you this way but it's so late 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 I thought you might have forgotten. 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 No, no, I didn't... 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 Did you have the money with you? 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Look, Freddie, I've been meaning to come in all evening 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 to tell you about that but I didn't know how to say it. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Say what? 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 It's getting so you can't trust nobody nowadays. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Believe me, kid, I feel as bad about this as you do. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Well, well, well, well, Tom, what happened? 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 That lion trainer, he never done a thing to that horse. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 The bum come in last. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 You mean that we lost and my money's gone? 18:26.000 --> 18:27.000 Yeah. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 Lost? 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 Oh, don't take it too hard, kid. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 You stick with me and I'll have that ten back for you 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 double and triple by the end of next week. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 You know, somebody wins, somebody loses, you know. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Take it easy now. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 Mother? 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 Mother! 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Help me. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 I'm a thief. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 I turned back to the store automatically but even now 18:53.000 --> 18:58.000 I could hardly grasp the full extent of the catastrophe 18:58.000 --> 19:00.000 which had overwhelmed me. 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 All I knew that tomorrow was payday and I could only 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 prevent Mr. Kelsey from finding out until then. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 What happened to you? 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 What was that, Mr. Kelsey? 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 You looked like you'd seen a ghost or something. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 You went charging out of here a couple of minutes ago. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 Oh, yes, I thought I saw someone I knew, 19:14.000 --> 19:15.000 someone I'd known as a child. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Oh, yeah, that happens to me all the time. 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 I said... 19:18.000 --> 19:19.000 Well, it's pretty late. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 You can both beat it if you want to. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 I'll check the receipts tonight myself. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Hey, what you doing? 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 I dropped a knife. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 You want us to go? 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 Yeah, you might as well. 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 I'll be here late anyway. 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 I'll close up. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Well, that sure don't make me mad. 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 Gee, I've been ready to drop for the last hour. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 Mr. Kelsey, I'd be glad to check the receipts for you. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 You don't have to... 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Yeah, I know, but I got an order to come in tomorrow. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 I got to go over the books for the last six months. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 Seems I got some kind of beef with the tax people. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 Oh, come on, Freddie. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 Let the boss do a little work for a change. 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 Anyway, I thought you had other plans for tonight. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Yes, I did, but... 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Mr. Kelsey, I'd rather you let me do it, really. 20:00.000 --> 20:01.000 It wouldn't be any trouble. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 Well, if that's the way it is, I'm leaving. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 Shove me over that adding machine before you go, will you, Dora? 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Yeah, sure. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 Eh. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Night, Mr. Kelsey. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 Night. 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 Dora. 20:13.000 --> 20:17.000 Good night, Mr. McWilliams. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 What's the matter with her? 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 You two been having trouble? 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Oh, no. 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 Mr. Kelsey. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 Hmm? 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 I do not like to have you checking the receipts all by yourself. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 I don't like it either. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 But it's got to be done. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 You run along now. See you tomorrow. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 But I don't want you to do it. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Look, Freddie, thanks for trying to help, 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 but just leave me alone, will you? 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 I ain't got a lot of work to do tonight. 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 No. Stop. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 Say, what's eating you? 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 I told you once... 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 Now, I've always done it before. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 It makes me feel that you don't trust me. 20:52.000 --> 20:55.000 Freddie, what kind of way to talk is that? 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 I've been trusting you for 26 years, haven't I? 20:58.000 --> 21:01.000 Why should I stop tonight all of a sudden? 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Mr. Kelsey. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 Hmm? 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Uh... 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 $118.37. 21:07.000 --> 21:10.000 Hey, that's funny. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 We're $10 short. 21:14.000 --> 21:18.000 I knew what he would say next. 21:18.000 --> 21:24.000 I knew that I had to stop him before he said that awful word. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 $10 short. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Now, how could... 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Freddie. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 What are you doing? 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Freddie. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 Freddie. 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 I washed my hands most carefully at the sink 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 and dried them on my apron, 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 and I bent over Mr. Kelsey, 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 or rather, Mr. Kelsey's body, 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 and I removed from his pocket 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 the sum of $32.50, 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 the exact amount that would be owing to me in salary 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 on the following day. 22:04.000 --> 22:08.000 Of this sum, I put $10 in the cash register. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 Then I left the store and went home. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 It was all right now. Everything was all right. 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 I was not a thief. 22:23.000 --> 22:27.000 I was so exhausted that I got home and just dropped in my bed. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 I must have fallen asleep that way 22:29.000 --> 22:33.000 because I was fully clothed when I was awakened some hours later. 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 Yes? 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 Yes? What... Who is it? 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 It's me, Dora. Let me in. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 Oh, yes, of course. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Oh, Freddie, I'm so glad I found you. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 You've got to help me. You've got to do something. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 Why, of course, my dear. What can I do? 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 Freddie, Mr. Kelsey. Mr. Kelsey's dead. 22:50.000 --> 22:53.000 Oh, yes. I'm sorry that had to happen, Dora. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 Believe me, I am. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 How can you stand there and be so calm about it? 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Freddie, he was murdered, and they got Tom for it. 22:59.000 --> 23:02.000 They say he did it. They got him down at the police station right now. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 Tom? Tom Pass? 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 Yes. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 Tom said he was just going by the store, 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 and he saw the lights on, and he went in. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 Mr. Kelsey there with a knife in him, 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 and he didn't know what to do, and just then the cop on the beat walked in, 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 and they arrested him right there. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 But I can hardly believe a man like Tom Bass 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 could have any good reason to kill Mr. Kelsey. 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 Well, that's what I said. That's what I've been telling the cops for the past hour. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 He may be a little shady, I said. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 He may have done some things that wasn't exactly right, 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 but my boyfriend wouldn't commit murder. I said he wouldn't. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Your boyfriend? 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Yeah, I said... 23:30.000 --> 23:34.000 Oh, gee, Freddie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... 23:34.000 --> 23:39.000 Yes, but you told me that there was not anyone. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Well, there wasn't, honest. That's the truth. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 I'd just been out with him two or three times. 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 I didn't know he meant anything. I didn't even think I liked him. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 But when I saw him down there, 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 and I saw what they were doing to him, well... 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 Your boyfriend. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 Oh, Freddie, please. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Please, don't be mad at me. 23:57.000 --> 24:00.000 I was half crazy. I didn't know who else to come to. 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 You've got to do something for him. 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 Dora. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 What? 24:06.000 --> 24:10.000 Do you love him? 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 Yeah. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 I guess I do. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 I see. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 I left her there and started for the police station. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 Tom Bass meant nothing to me, of course. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 He meant less than nothing now. 24:34.000 --> 24:37.000 But, of course, Dora, that was something else again. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 I didn't know exactly what I should do, 24:39.000 --> 24:42.000 but the sergeant helped me to make up my mind. 24:42.000 --> 24:44.000 Well? 24:44.000 --> 24:47.000 I understand that you have a prisoner here 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 who is accused of killing one Henry Kelsey. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 That's right. You his mouthpiece? 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 Oh, no, no, no. I am... 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 Well, at least say I was an employee of Mr. Kelsey's 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 for 26 years. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 Mac Williams? 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 Frederick Aloysius Mac Williams. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 Yeah, we know about you. 25:05.000 --> 25:08.000 We may want to ask you a few questions tomorrow, 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 but you've got nothing to worry about. We've got our man. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 You have all the evidence you need? 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Of course we've got all the evidence we need. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 But why would we be holding him? 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 We caught him red-handed. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 And he's got a record since he was 14 years old. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 Dear, dear, dear, dear me. 25:24.000 --> 25:27.000 But supposing that I had positive evidence 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 that the bastard not killed Mr. Kelsey? 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 This had better be good. I'm warning you. 25:32.000 --> 25:36.000 Tell me, it would be dishonest 25:36.000 --> 25:39.000 to withhold that information, wouldn't it? 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 You're doggone tootin', it would. 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 You see, it would be like stealing, wouldn't it? 25:44.000 --> 25:47.000 It would be stealing. It's stealing another man's life. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 What, are you trying to kid somebody? 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 No, no, no. I've never been more serious in my life. 25:51.000 --> 25:55.000 All right. If you know so much, who did kill Kelsey? 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 I did. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 Poor Dora. 26:05.000 --> 26:09.000 I'm afraid she'll have to wait a year for Tom Bass. 26:09.000 --> 26:12.000 It seems the police frown on his method of making a living. 26:12.000 --> 26:16.000 Well, as for me, a great calm has settled over me. 26:16.000 --> 26:20.000 Oh, such a calm as I've never known before in my life. 26:20.000 --> 26:23.000 Soon I shall be joining Mother. 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 She will smile when she sees me, 26:25.000 --> 26:28.000 and I know that she'll be proud of me, and she'll understand. 26:28.000 --> 26:32.000 She'll understand that whatever faults I may have had, 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 I was not a thief. 26:35.000 --> 26:39.000 Thank you, Charles Lawton, for an extraordinary performance. 26:39.000 --> 26:42.000 Mr. Lawton will return in just a moment. 26:42.000 --> 26:45.000 Say, Billy, Charles Lawton was certainly in the groove tonight. 26:45.000 --> 26:48.000 I'll say. Hey, Dad, here comes Mom. 26:48.000 --> 26:52.000 I just thought you two'd be out here puttering you and your bikes and batteries. 26:52.000 --> 26:54.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 26:54.000 --> 26:56.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 26:56.000 --> 26:58.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 26:58.000 --> 27:00.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 27:00.000 --> 27:02.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 I thought you two'd be out here puttering you and your bikes and batteries 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 with Charles Lawton on the suspense program, too. 27:08.000 --> 27:10.000 Mary, did you listen to suspense? 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 Why, of course I did. 27:12.000 --> 27:15.000 You're always talking about your auto-light staple battery, 27:15.000 --> 27:18.000 so I thought I'd listen to suspense and get the real facts. 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 What about the bridge club? 27:20.000 --> 27:23.000 Oh, they came early so we could all listen to Charles Lawton. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.000 My guests are just leaving now. 27:25.000 --> 27:28.000 Well, Dad, I guess we men can't win. What do we do now? 27:28.000 --> 27:30.000 Why, finish your evening right, gentlemen. 27:30.000 --> 27:33.000 I'll listen to the auto-light announcer signing off. 27:33.000 --> 27:36.000 So remember, folks, auto-light staple needs water 27:36.000 --> 27:39.000 only three times a year at normal car use. 27:39.000 --> 27:44.000 That's another reason why everybody is switching to auto-light staple batteries. 27:44.000 --> 27:46.000 Auto-light means batteries. 27:46.000 --> 27:49.000 Stay full, batteries. 27:49.000 --> 27:51.000 Auto-light means spark plugs. 27:51.000 --> 27:54.000 Ignition engineered spark plugs. 27:54.000 --> 27:56.000 Auto-light means ignition system. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 The lifeline of your car. 27:58.000 --> 28:00.000 Auto-light means ignition system. 28:00.000 --> 28:02.000 The lifeline of your car. 28:02.000 --> 28:04.000 Auto-light means ignition system. 28:04.000 --> 28:06.000 The lifeline of your car. 28:06.000 --> 28:08.000 And now here again is Mr. Charles Lawton. 28:08.000 --> 28:12.000 It has been a great pleasure to appear again on suspense. 28:12.000 --> 28:15.000 And I'm certainly looking forward to listening next week 28:15.000 --> 28:18.000 when Anne Southern comes to the microphone 28:18.000 --> 28:22.000 as a deceiving wife who learns a lesson the hard way. 28:22.000 --> 28:24.000 It is a story titled, 28:24.000 --> 28:28.000 Beware the Quiet Man, and it's a gripping study in... 28:28.000 --> 28:30.000 Suspense. 28:30.000 --> 28:32.000 Suspense. 28:32.000 --> 28:34.000 Suspense. 28:34.000 --> 28:36.000 Suspense. 28:36.000 --> 28:40.000 Charles Lawton may currently be seen in Paramount's The Big Clock. 28:40.000 --> 28:44.000 Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert L. Richards 28:44.000 --> 28:48.000 with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 28:48.000 --> 28:52.000 The entire production was under the direction of Antonin Lieder. 28:52.000 --> 28:56.000 On Thursday same time, you will hear Anne Southern in, 28:56.000 --> 28:58.000 Beware the Quiet Man. 28:58.000 --> 29:00.000 This is the Auto-light Suspense Show. 29:00.000 --> 29:03.000 We congratulate the United States Coast Guard 29:03.000 --> 29:07.000 on the celebration of its 158th anniversary this week. 29:07.000 --> 29:11.000 Good night. Switch to auto-light. 29:11.000 --> 29:13.000 This is CBS. 29:13.000 --> 29:15.000 This is the New York Times. 29:15.000 --> 29:17.000 This is the New York Times. 29:17.000 --> 29:19.000 This is the New York Times. 29:19.000 --> 29:22.000 Auto-light. 29:22.000 --> 29:50.000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.