WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 In just a moment, suspense with Van Heflin. 00:05.000 --> 00:07.000 Hi, Mr. Martin. 00:07.000 --> 00:09.000 Hello, Frank. What are you doing out here? 00:09.000 --> 00:12.000 I've been fishing, and not for auto light customers this time, App. 00:12.000 --> 00:19.000 Auto light customers? No, I don't think you'll find many cars in the middle of the bay. Auto light was just a spot for us, either. 00:19.000 --> 00:25.000 No cars, but there's plenty of auto light in power boats. You know, more auto light ignition systems are used in marine craft than any other brand? 00:25.000 --> 00:28.000 Old reliable is the first thought of boat owners, too, eh? 00:28.000 --> 00:31.000 It'd be hard to get back to town if you had a breakdown out here. 00:31.000 --> 00:34.000 Yeah, we wouldn't get back to hear your suspense show if that happened. 00:34.000 --> 00:38.000 Well, tie up alongside, and let's listen to it here. I've got my portable. 00:49.000 --> 00:51.000 Suspense. 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 Suspense. 00:56.000 --> 01:03.000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 01:03.000 --> 01:10.000 Starring tonight, Mr. Van Heflin in Anton Leder's production of Song of the Heart. 01:10.000 --> 01:21.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspense. 01:21.000 --> 01:26.000 Well, you explain all that to the officer in the car, ma'am. Thank you. 01:26.000 --> 01:31.000 Yeah, can I help you? Please. I, uh... For what? 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 I have a confession to make. A confession? 01:35.000 --> 01:40.000 Please, are you the officer that I'd tell it to? Well, do I guess. 01:40.000 --> 01:44.000 My name is Neil Wilson. I live with Tanta Alice. 01:44.000 --> 01:49.000 Aunt Alice at 265 West 19th Street. All right. So? 01:49.000 --> 01:56.000 Last night, I guess it was early this morning, I killed Tanta Alice. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 Mike. Yes? You better get this. All right. 02:00.000 --> 02:05.000 Go on. You killed your, uh, Tanta Alice? Yes. How? 02:05.000 --> 02:09.000 I took a pillow and smothered. Go on. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.000 Could I tell you about it? I mean, all about it? Sure. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 Well, I have a fine job. I'm the general manager of the Hand Desk Company. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 I've been with them ever since I got out of school. 02:19.000 --> 02:25.000 I'm an orphan. I live with my aunt, with Tanta Alice. You live with your aunt? 02:25.000 --> 02:30.000 Yes, I don't remember my parents. They died when I was just a little boy in an accident. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.000 Tanta Alice brought me up. She was like my own mother. 02:34.000 --> 02:39.000 Why did you kill her? I guess I should start when I met Muriel Jones. 02:39.000 --> 02:45.000 That was... That was only last Sunday at the annual company picnic. 02:45.000 --> 02:51.000 It was the first time I'd ever been to one. Usually I spent Sunday afternoons with Tanta Alice. 02:51.000 --> 02:56.000 Everyone was at the picnic, from shipping clerks to executives, everyone. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 But I sat off to the side by myself, and... 02:59.000 --> 03:03.000 Well, that's the afternoon that I met Muriel. 03:03.000 --> 03:08.000 Having a good time? What? Oh, yes, thank you. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 Isn't it a lovely day? Yes, it is. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 I'm Muriel Jones, accounting department. How do you do? 03:15.000 --> 03:21.000 I'm Neil Wilson. Yes, I know. Do you mind if I sit down here? 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 Oh, no, please do. Thank you. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 It's really a beautiful day, isn't it? 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 What are you staring at? Well, I didn't... 03:31.000 --> 03:35.000 Don't you like my blouse? Oh, yes, very much. I wasn't staring. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 It's a present. A gift from a friend. Oh, really? 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Mm-hm. I'm sorry. 03:40.000 --> 03:45.000 I like it because I've been told I have pretty shoulders. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 Do you think so? Yes. Yes, I do. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Did you come alone? Yes. 03:51.000 --> 03:55.000 So did I. I had several invitations, but I turned them down. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Why? Did I turn them down? 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 Because I knew you were going to be here. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Really? Mm-hm. 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 I've seen you at the office. You always look so happy. 04:06.000 --> 04:10.000 I wanted to meet you and see if you were. 04:10.000 --> 04:13.000 Well, I'm flattered. You should be. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Most of the time, all the men chase after me. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 This is the first time I ever did anything like this. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 Got a cigarette? Oh, yes, I'm sorry. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Here you are. Thanks. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 Match? Yeah. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 Thanks. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 Don't you smoke? Not just now. Thank you. 04:36.000 --> 04:40.000 Would you like to take me home? 04:40.000 --> 04:44.000 Well, yes, I would. 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 Should we go now? All right. 04:47.000 --> 04:51.000 Aren't you going to help me up? Yes, I'm sorry. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 Why, Mr Wilson, how strong you... 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 You smell of sunshine. 05:00.000 --> 05:04.000 What a pretty speech. Do you always kiss young ladies when you first meet them? 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 I never have before. You never met a young lady like me before? 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 No, no, I haven't. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 Don't kiss me any more here. Take me home. 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 I've been out with girls before, but nothing ever came of any of it. 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 I'm too introverted, I guess, to make the first move. 05:28.000 --> 05:33.000 And the ladies that I had known previously were not the kind who'd make the move for me. 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 But Muriel did. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 And I thought that that meant that she loved me. 05:39.000 --> 05:44.000 We drove for a while when we left the picnic, and then I took her home. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 I like your car. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 Would you like to go for a ride tomorrow? 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 You mean you'll pick me up in the morning, drive me to work? 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 Well, I'd like to. Isn't that sweet? 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 About 7.45? All right. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 I'll have some coffee ready if you like. 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 Would you like having your morning coffee with me? 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't. Thanks a lot, though. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 It'll be all right. My girlfriend lives here with me. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Oh, no, no, it's not that. I mean, I always have breakfast with Aunt Alice. 06:11.000 --> 06:15.000 Who? My Aunt Alice. I call her Tuntie. That means Aunt. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Oh. 06:17.000 --> 06:21.000 And this silly way, standing out here like we didn't have a place to go. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Won't you come in for a few minutes? 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Well, I'd like to. Thanks, Karen. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 I know you'll excuse the looks of the house. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 I left this morning before I had a chance to straighten things up. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 You just sit down there. OK. 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 Here, I'll put these things in the other room. 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Is there anything I can get you? 06:39.000 --> 06:42.000 No, thanks. I'm... It's very comfortable. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 That's good. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 This is nice. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 You're beautiful. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 Thank you. 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 Just for saying nice things like that. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Muriel. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 Muriel, I... What? 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 I've never known anyone like you. 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 You're just saying that. No, no, that's true. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Do you believe in love at first sight? Yes. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 So do I. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 I knew a girl and a fellow once who got married three days after they met. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 That was love at first sight, wasn't it? Yes, I'm sure it was. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 Is that the way you feel about me? Yes, yes, it is. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 I knew the first time I saw you it would be like this, didn't you? 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I... I hoped it would be. Give me a kiss. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 Will you marry me? Why, Mr. Wilson, how sudden. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 No, will you marry me? I should be delighted. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 I drove home without knowing where I was going. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 I felt as though... as though I'd never breathed before that day. 07:48.000 --> 07:52.000 I felt that I was the luckiest man in the world. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 Neil, dear? Oh, yes, Aunt Alice. 07:57.000 --> 08:01.000 Did you have a nice day at the picnic, dear? Oh, I had a wonderful day. 08:01.000 --> 08:04.000 Well, aren't you going to kiss me? Oh, sure. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 Why, Neil, dear, what's that on your mouth? What? Where? 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 It looks to me like lip rouge. Where? On your mouth, dear. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 And on your cheek, too. Why, Neil, dear. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 Well, I... It was... You'd better let me wipe it off. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 Who is the girl? Do I know her? 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Her name is Muriel Jones. She works at the office in the accounting department. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 How is it that I've never met her if you've known her so long? 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 Well, I haven't. I just met her today. You just met her? And she? 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 Well, it... 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 Dandy Alice, it was love at first sight. Was it, dear? 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 Yes, we're going to be married. 08:38.000 --> 08:41.000 When, dear? Well, pretty soon, I think. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 Am I going to meet her? Yes, I'll bring her here to dinner tomorrow night. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 All right, dear, all right. We'll have a nice dinner for her. 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 Well, you'll like her, Tandy Alice. She's a wonderful girl. 08:50.000 --> 08:53.000 I'm sure she is, dear. I'm sure. You better get some sleep now. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 Tomorrow is a work day, you know. Is there something special you'd like for breakfast? 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 I won't be having breakfast here in the morning, Tandy Alice. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 Muriel's fixing coffee for me at her house. Just coffee? 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 Well, that's not enough breakfast for a man with a day's work to do. 09:06.000 --> 09:10.000 Oh, coffee's plenty. But you've never had just coffee for breakfast, Neil, dear. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 No, it's enough. Thanks, anyway. All right. All right, then. 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 I'll just have a little fruit juice here for you before you leave. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 No, no, never mind, Tandy Alice. You can sleep in the morning. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 I'm having breakfast with Muriel. 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 I don't know what time it was when I woke up that night. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 I'd been dreaming of Muriel. 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 I remember the street lights were out. 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 What woke me was some music from downstairs. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Tandy Alice hadn't gone to bed yet. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 She was playing one of her old phonograph records. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 It was a sweet, sad record. 09:50.000 --> 09:54.000 And it's a song that I'll never forget as long as I live. 09:54.000 --> 09:58.000 For suspense, Autolight is bringing you Mr. Van Heffelen 09:58.000 --> 10:03.000 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Sweet little radio you have there. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 I'm not sure if you've ever heard of it. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 I've heard it before. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 It's a very old radio. 10:20.000 --> 10:25.000 Sweet little radio you have there. I'm sure glad we met you, Mr. Martin. 10:25.000 --> 10:28.000 Dad and I wouldn't miss Van Heffelen for anything. 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 He is great, isn't he? You can always count on him for a top performance. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 Just like Autolight Resistor Sparkplugs, ain't we? 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 Yes, Hap. 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Just had a set installed in my car. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 Yes, millions are switching to the new Autolight Resistor Sparkplugs 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 now available at Autolight dealers the country over. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 Avast with the sales talk, mates. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 Here's Van Heflin in suspense again. 11:20.000 --> 11:24.000 And now Autolight brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 11:24.000 --> 11:28.000 Mr. Van Heflin as Neo in Song of the Heart. 11:28.000 --> 11:33.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 You went to sleep when your aunt was playing this record. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 He's up to the end of the day. He met the girl. 11:42.000 --> 11:43.000 Yes, that's right. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 What happened the next day? 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 Well, the next day when I got up in the morning, Tante Alice was already up. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 I don't know, maybe she hadn't even been asleep. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 The table was set for two in the breakfast room. 11:55.000 --> 11:57.000 The toaster was out, my fruit juice was on the table 11:57.000 --> 12:00.000 and she was frying bacon when I came downstairs. 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 Good morning, Neil, dear. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 Good morning. 12:05.000 --> 12:06.000 You're early, aren't you? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Breakfast will be ready in just a moment. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 I'm not having breakfast at home. I told you that last night. 12:11.000 --> 12:15.000 Oh, that was last night, Neil, dear. Today is another day. 12:15.000 --> 12:19.000 I'm having breakfast with Muriel. I have to go now. I'll see you this evening. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 We'll have a nice dinner, Neil, dear. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 I'm bringing Muriel home for dinner with me. 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 Tonight? Oh, dear, that's hardly warning enough. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 You said last night that you wanted to meet her. 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 But so soon, dear? 12:31.000 --> 12:35.000 Now listen to me. I'm bringing a girl home for you to meet. I love this girl. 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 I want you to be nice to her. I don't want a fiasco like the last time. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 Neil, please, dear. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 I don't want you pouting and sulking this time. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 I don't want to have to apologize for your actions. 12:45.000 --> 12:49.000 I think that will be all, Neil, dear. I think that's enough. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 If you aren't going to behave yourself properly, now just say so now 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 and we'll not come home for dinner. That's up to you. 12:54.000 --> 12:57.000 I'm only thinking of you. Now, don't be cross. 12:57.000 --> 13:01.000 Give me a big smile like you used to when you were a bad little boy. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 All right. How's that? 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Oh, you can do better than that. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 Oh, please, Tondi, Alice, I'm late. I'll see you at dinner. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 All right, dear. You call me from the office if you decide to bring her home for dinner. 13:10.000 --> 13:14.000 We'll be home for dinner. I'm telling you now, I don't have to call you from the office. 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 You call me, dear. 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 You see, the last time I tried to bring a girl home, Tondi, Alice had acted just the same way. 13:27.000 --> 13:30.000 She'd behaved so badly that I'd never done it again. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 That had been after the junior class party at high school. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 It's 13 years ago and I'd never done it again. 13:36.000 --> 13:41.000 I waited for Muriel after work that evening and we drove toward my home together. 13:41.000 --> 13:46.000 Hold your head still so I can kiss you. 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 Let's get married tomorrow. 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 Why, Mr. Wilson, our son... 13:51.000 --> 13:52.000 No, really. 13:52.000 --> 13:53.000 Well, what about your Aunt Alice? 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 What about her? 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 She won't be angry at me, stealing you away from me. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 Why should she be? 13:58.000 --> 14:02.000 Well, the way she's hung on to you. For instance, why doesn't she live by herself? 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 Well, I don't know. We've been together so long, I guess. 14:05.000 --> 14:09.000 Sure, but after all, she's only your aunt. You've got a life of your own to lead. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 She's got enough money to live by herself. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 It's not money. She's quite wealthy. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 How did you know she had money? 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 Oh, I heard someone at the office talk about it. 14:19.000 --> 14:24.000 Look, incidentally, Aunt Alice might act a little strangely when I bring you in the house. 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 Just don't pay any attention to her. 14:26.000 --> 14:30.000 If she tries to do anything or say anything to upset you, promise me that now. 14:30.000 --> 14:31.000 I promise you. 14:31.000 --> 14:35.000 I can understand her being upset at someone taking you away from her, though. 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 After all, it takes one to know one. 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 The rest of the ride home we didn't talk nearer to sat close to me. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 She held my hand and hers. 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 I'll take your coat. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Oh, thank you. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Come on, let's go into the living room. 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 What's that playing? 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Oh, that's the phonograph. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 Pretty old machine, isn't it? 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 Well, actually, yeah, it's the record scratching. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 That's what she was playing last night. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 What is it, French? 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 Yes, Tante Alice has a collection of old records. 15:12.000 --> 15:15.000 This is the first time she's played them in years since I was in high school. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Where is she? 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 I don't know, she must be in the kitchen. 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 Well, I might as well sit down and get... 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Oh, I forgot to ask you. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Are my seams straight? 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 What? Oh. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 Yes, they look straight. 15:28.000 --> 15:29.000 They look straight. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 So hard to keep your stockings straight. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 I never can get mine long enough. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 Well, good evening, working people. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Oh, good evening, Tante Alice. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 And this must be Mabel. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 No, no, it's Muriel. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 Muriel, this is my aunt, Miss Alice Tremble. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 Tante Alice, this is Murie, Miss Muriel Jones. 15:48.000 --> 15:49.000 How do you do? 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Oh, please sit down. Dinner will be ready soon. 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 Is the phonograph too loud? I was just playing some old records. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Yes, it is a little loud, Tante Alice. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 Hey, that's better. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 Is there anything I can do to help? 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 No, no, that's all right, dear. 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 Just last minute things like the gravy, I'll do them in a bit. 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 I'll just sit here with you two young people for a while. 16:08.000 --> 16:12.000 Oh, my, I've had a day preparing to meet Neil's latest young lady. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 He always does this to me. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 Calls suddenly in the middle of the afternoon and says, 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 I'm bringing a young lady home for dinner. 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 Why do you say... 16:19.000 --> 16:22.000 Most of me wants to marry, as though he thinks. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 As he said, he wants to marry you. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 Be careful of him. He's a devil that way. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 Tante Alice, please, now that's not true. 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 Can you imagine wanting to get married before you really get to know someone? 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 Did Neil tell you we're going to get married? 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 He did ask you then. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Oh, Neil, shame on you. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 Shall we have our dinner? 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 In a moment, dear, in a moment. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 You poor little girl. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 And Neil has been acting the darned one with you also. 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 You poor dear. 16:47.000 --> 16:51.000 Well, excuse me, I'll let you hear some of my records while I make the gravy. 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 Would you like me to help? 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 No, no, you stay with the young lady. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Muriel, is it? 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 I can handle things alone, just once. 16:59.000 --> 17:03.000 And after all, if she should ever come back here again, 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 I want her to think kindly of us. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 Wasn't that a nice dinner? 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 Very nice, thank you. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 Did you enjoy your dinner, Neil dear? 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 Yes, it was very nice, Tante Alice. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 Would you like a cigarette? 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 Thanks. 17:24.000 --> 17:28.000 Neil dear, don't you think you should take the girl home now, 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 so that we can go to bed? 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Well, you can go, Tante Alice. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 We'll sit here for a while. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 Well, all right. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 I'm very tired. 17:36.000 --> 17:37.000 Good night, young lady. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 I do hope you stop in and see us again some day. 17:40.000 --> 17:43.000 I'm always delighted to meet Neil's friend. 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 Neil dear, you haven't oiled my door. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 What am I going to do with her? 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 What am I going to do? 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 I don't think I've ever been treated that way. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 I'm sorry, darling, please believe me. 17:55.000 --> 17:56.000 I'm sorry, but what can I do? 17:56.000 --> 17:57.000 How can I get rid of her? 17:57.000 --> 17:58.000 Just leave. 17:58.000 --> 17:59.000 When we're married, we'll leave. 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 Oh, she'll follow us. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 I'm all she has in the world. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 I wish she were dead. 18:04.000 --> 18:05.000 Neil. 18:04.000 --> 18:05.000 No, I wish she were dead. 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 What good is she to anyone? 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 Hanging on for dear life to me, holding me, 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 afraid that I'll go out on my own and have my own life 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 and that she'll have no part of it. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Oh, sure, she's been good to me and she's worked for me, 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 but I've been good to her too and I've helped her. 18:19.000 --> 18:20.000 We'll go away together. 18:20.000 --> 18:21.000 She won't follow us. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 Have you enough money? 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 Well, I think so. 18:24.000 --> 18:25.000 Yes, I have enough. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 And then there's always her money. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 She has it lying all over the house. 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 She doesn't believe in banks. 18:29.000 --> 18:30.000 You could take some of that. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 I think that's fair. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 Oh, listen, we better be quiet. 18:35.000 --> 18:36.000 She'll hear us. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 I'll turn the phonograph on then. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 She won't. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 You're right, though. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 About what? 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 What use is she? 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 She has money, but she doesn't need. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 She's unhappy living alone. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 It would kill her to live alone. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 I hate to say this, dear. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 I won't live in the same house with her. 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 No, no, I don't blame you. 18:57.000 --> 19:01.000 I was thinking, there are a lot of people whose time's finished. 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 Yeah. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 You know, they've done all they're good for. 19:04.000 --> 19:08.000 I read once where Eskimos put their aged people on ice floes 19:08.000 --> 19:09.000 and push them out into the ocean. 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 No ceremony, no sorrow, just that it's the end of their time 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 of usefulness, and that's that. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 Neil. 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 You know, it would be doing her a favor. 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 She wouldn't know. 19:20.000 --> 19:25.000 Well, you did say she wouldn't live long without you, Neil. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 She'd probably die of loneliness. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 She's never been alone. 19:29.000 --> 19:33.000 And if she is going to follow us, like you said, 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 then I'm sorry I can't marry you, Neil. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 And that's hard for me to say because I love you. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 I don't think I've ever been in love before. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 Never before you. 19:41.000 --> 19:44.000 I need you, Mary, very badly. 19:44.000 --> 19:48.000 I think that we should have the opportunity to make good with our lives. 19:48.000 --> 19:49.000 Sure we should. 19:49.000 --> 19:50.000 But how? 19:50.000 --> 19:53.000 As gently as possible. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.000 Yes. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 I think... 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 What? 19:56.000 --> 20:02.000 Well, after she's asleep tonight, just put a pillow over her face. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 No one will ever know. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 It would be doing her a favor, Neil. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Look, they couldn't tell. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 I mean, they... 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 How could they? 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 She's old. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 She's smothered and asleep. 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 Yeah, that's right. 20:15.000 --> 20:18.000 Then we could use her money to go away. 20:18.000 --> 20:19.000 After all, she won't need it. 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 That's true enough. 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 It's here in the house? 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 Well, all of it. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 It's in cash, $5,000 or something. 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 Mary, look, you do love me now, don't you? 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 No, no, I do. 20:31.000 --> 20:32.000 Kiss me. 20:32.000 --> 20:33.000 What was that? 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 Oh, Tante Alice. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Yes, Neil, dear. 20:37.000 --> 20:40.000 I was listening to the record playing. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 I'm so glad your children enjoyed it. 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 Isn't it a lovely song? 20:45.000 --> 20:46.000 You know what it means? 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 No. 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 No, I don't. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 Turn it off, please, Neil, dear. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Yes, all right. 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 Oh, I... 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 I feel so odd tonight. 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 I think I should like to tell you a story before I go to sleep. 21:01.000 --> 21:05.000 Would... would the girl mind? 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Go ahead. 21:06.000 --> 21:12.000 That record tells a story about a boy and his mother. 21:12.000 --> 21:18.000 The boy lived at home with his mother, and the boy met a girl. 21:18.000 --> 21:22.000 And the mother didn't like the girl and warned the boy away from her. 21:22.000 --> 21:27.000 But the girl used all her wiles on the boy, and the boy turned against his mother. 21:27.000 --> 21:33.000 And the girl told him that proof of his love for her would be that he killed his mother. 21:33.000 --> 21:39.000 And proof of the killing would be that he brought the girl, his mother's heart. 21:39.000 --> 21:45.000 And so the poor boy killed his mother and took her heart to bring it to the girl. 21:45.000 --> 21:52.000 And on the way, he stumbled and fell, and the heart escaped his hands. 21:52.000 --> 21:58.000 And before he could get to his feet again, or even see if he was injured from the fall, 21:58.000 --> 22:03.000 the heart spoke, and the heart said to him, 22:03.000 --> 22:08.000 Are you hurt, my son? 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 I cried when I heard that song the first time. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Such a sad... 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 You'd better go to sleep now. It's late. 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 Good night, dear, dear. 22:20.000 --> 22:28.000 Sleep well. Sleep well. 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 What an unpleasant story. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 She knows all sorts of things, like that fable sort of. 22:34.000 --> 22:37.000 She gets older, she quotes them to me at great length. 22:37.000 --> 22:40.000 Will it take a long to go to sleep now? 22:40.000 --> 22:53.000 Oh, no, no. She's told me a story now. She'll go right to sleep now. 22:53.000 --> 22:59.000 We sat there and waited, not saying anything, not touching one another, just waiting. 22:59.000 --> 23:03.000 Finally, after about an hour, Muriel suddenly kissed me. 23:03.000 --> 23:06.000 She kissed me hard and she held me close to her. 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 Then I got up and I walked quietly over to Tanta Alice's door. 23:09.000 --> 23:13.000 I opened it and I walked into her bedroom. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 She was sleeping on her back. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 I took a pillow from her chaise and then... 23:18.000 --> 23:22.000 Just as I was about to put it over her face, I thought I saw her eyes move. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Waited. 23:24.000 --> 23:28.000 No, I was mistaken. She was sleeping soundly, just as she always did. 23:28.000 --> 23:33.000 I lowered the pillow softly over her mouth and nose and I held it there. 23:33.000 --> 23:37.000 Watched her chest until there was no movement from her breathing. 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 Then I opened her bureau drawer and took out her money box. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 Then Muriel and I left the house. 23:43.000 --> 23:44.000 All right? 23:44.000 --> 23:45.000 Yes, yes, all right. 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 And don't feel badly. You did a good thing. 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 It's just like a mercy killing. It was for her own good. 23:50.000 --> 23:51.000 I know that. 23:51.000 --> 23:54.000 We've got each other now in a whole life to live together without any interference. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 I know. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 I'll drive. Poor baby, you're upset. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 All right. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 Can I have the keys? 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 Yes, yes, right here. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 Oh. 24:02.000 --> 24:03.000 What? 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 Did you take the pillow off her face? 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 No, no, no, I forgot. 24:07.000 --> 24:11.000 Run back and do it. You can leave the box on the seat. 24:11.000 --> 24:36.000 Hurry now. 24:36.000 --> 24:39.000 I heard the car leave and I knew what it meant. 24:39.000 --> 24:42.000 I didn't do anything about it. I just stood there. 24:42.000 --> 24:44.000 I wanted to cry. 24:44.000 --> 24:48.000 I didn't go into Tanta Alice's room. I just stood there. 24:48.000 --> 24:52.000 After a while, I opened the front door again. 24:52.000 --> 24:55.000 Went and sat down on the steps and waited for the light to come. 24:55.000 --> 25:01.000 And all night long I heard the record playing in my brain and I heard Tanta Alice sing. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 And the heart spoke. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 And the heart said to him, 25:05.000 --> 25:12.000 Are you hurt, my son? 25:12.000 --> 25:13.000 That it? 25:13.000 --> 25:14.000 That's it. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 I'll type it up for him to sign. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 All right, Mike. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 She's driving my car, but I don't care. 25:19.000 --> 25:22.000 I mean, if you want to catch her, she's driving my car. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 We'll catch her. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 What do I do now? 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 You come with me. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 Funny you're coming in here this morning. 25:31.000 --> 25:34.000 Although, of course, we'd have had a routine investigation anyway. 25:34.000 --> 25:37.000 Because the pillow was still on her face? 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 Well, yeah. 25:39.000 --> 25:43.000 Although she might have had a heart attack or the pillow might have smothered her without her knowing it, 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 most accidental deaths are pretty strange. 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 Much stranger than the planned ones. 25:48.000 --> 25:54.000 No, I meant that you didn't look at the room very closely when you went in there to kill your aunt. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 Yeah, in here. 25:56.000 --> 26:00.000 What do you mean that I didn't look at the room very closely? 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Your aunt was a pretty smart cookie. 26:02.000 --> 26:08.000 I guess she was really looking out for you, warning you with that song, anticipating what you were planning. 26:08.000 --> 26:10.000 We were over there this morning. 26:10.000 --> 26:13.000 The door was open, the prowl car spotted it and went to see what was cooking. 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 Must have been after you left to come down here. 26:16.000 --> 26:20.000 They found your aunt's body, but they turned in a sort of routine report. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 Routine? 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 Yeah, this case looked open and shut. 26:24.000 --> 26:29.000 Because right next to the bed on her night table, in her own handwriting, 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 your Tanta Alice left a suicide note. 26:33.000 --> 27:01.000 Thank you, Van Heflin, for a splendid performance. 27:01.000 --> 27:05.000 Mr. Heflin will return in just a moment. 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 Boy, that show was a knockout. 27:08.000 --> 27:10.000 Well, thanks for letting us listen, Frank. 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 Always glad to do a friend a favor. 27:12.000 --> 27:14.000 You must have lots of friends, Frank. 27:14.000 --> 27:19.000 You do plenty of folks a favor, telling them about auto light resistor spark plugs. 27:19.000 --> 27:24.000 Well, Hap, every car owner who switches to auto light resistor spark plugs does himself a favor. 27:24.000 --> 27:30.000 When you replace your narrow gap spark plugs with the sensational new wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs, 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 you can tell the difference in your car. 27:32.000 --> 27:36.000 You've got advantages like smoother idling and saving gas. 27:36.000 --> 27:41.000 So, always remember, auto light means spark plugs. 27:41.000 --> 27:44.000 Ignition engineered resistor spark plugs. 27:44.000 --> 27:46.000 Auto light means batteries. 27:46.000 --> 27:48.000 Stay full, batteries. 27:48.000 --> 27:51.000 Auto light means ignition systems. 27:51.000 --> 28:01.000 The lifeline of your car. 28:01.000 --> 28:03.000 And now here again is Mr. Van Heflin. 28:03.000 --> 28:11.000 It's always a great pleasure to join Tony Leader and his fine cast of Suspense actors on radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 28:11.000 --> 28:19.000 And speaking of thrills, there are plenty in store for you next week when Suspense brings you wonderful Madeline Carroll in The Morrison Affair, 28:19.000 --> 28:26.000 another gripping study in Suspense. 28:26.000 --> 28:35.000 Mr. Van Heflin appeared by arrangement with Metro-Golden-Mayer, producers of Julia Misbehaves, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. 28:35.000 --> 28:39.000 Lorraine Tuttle played the part of Tanta Alice and Betty Lou Gerson was Muriel. 28:39.000 --> 28:47.000 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Luskin. 28:47.000 --> 28:52.000 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leader. 28:52.000 --> 29:04.000 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Madeline Carroll in The Morrison Affair. 29:04.000 --> 29:07.000 This is the auto light Suspense show. 29:07.000 --> 29:08.000 Go slow. 29:08.000 --> 29:11.000 Death and danger travel in fast company. 29:11.000 --> 29:12.000 Good night. 29:12.000 --> 29:15.000 Switch to auto light. 29:15.000 --> 29:21.000 This is CBS where 99 million people gather every week, the Columbia Broadcasting System.