WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 In just a moment, Auto Light presents Suspense, starring Rosalind Russell. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 Hello, Harlow. How is Mr. Auto Light by Cornelius Wilcox's fine December evening? 00:12.000 --> 00:16.000 Well, by Cornelius, fit as a fiddle, ha? How's yourself? All set for winter? 00:16.000 --> 00:17.000 Yep. 00:17.000 --> 00:18.000 Overcoat dada mothballs? 00:18.000 --> 00:19.000 Yep. 00:19.000 --> 00:21.000 Storm windows up? 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What an extra. 00:45.000 --> 00:46.000 And what's more... 00:46.000 --> 00:49.000 Here's the next Auto Light stay full battery extra, Harlow. 00:49.000 --> 01:01.000 Suspense. 01:01.000 --> 01:07.000 Suspense. 01:07.000 --> 01:12.000 Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. 01:15.000 --> 01:22.000 Starting tonight, Miss Rosalind Russell in Anton Leder's production of The Sisters. 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in. 01:25.000 --> 01:29.000 Suspense. 01:29.000 --> 01:46.000 Suspense. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 Now, here is one I think would be very lovely. 01:48.000 --> 01:54.000 It has a far superior lining, pure silk, much heavier than the others we've looked at. 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 Do you care for this one, Miss Haskell? 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 Yes, that's very nice. 01:58.000 --> 02:02.000 But I believe I'd like to see something, perhaps even a little better. 02:02.000 --> 02:06.000 Of course. If you would just step over this way, Miss Haskell. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 Now, here, here is an exquisite casket. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 Something that really does honor to the departed. 02:13.000 --> 02:14.000 Yes, it's beautiful. 02:14.000 --> 02:19.000 Now, the interior is just the same as the last, but the casket itself is a bronze, solid bronze. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 Won't that be rather heavy? 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 Oh yes, but not too heavy. Will there be six pallbearers? 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 I don't know. 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 Well, it doesn't matter really. Four men can carry this very easily, very. 02:29.000 --> 02:33.000 Miss Haskell, I want you to notice the floral design here. All hand-wrought, every bit of it. 02:33.000 --> 02:39.000 And, oh yes, notice the seams in this casket. Airtight and watertight, guaranteed. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.000 You know of course how important that is. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 Yes. 02:43.000 --> 02:47.000 Yes. But this casket, in a hundred years or even two hundred years, will be just as strong 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 and will look just as beautiful as it does on this stand today. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 You couldn't buy a finer piece of workmanship. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 How much would this one be, please? 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 This casket, a durable, by the way, durable for durability, we say in the trade, 02:58.000 --> 03:02.000 this casket is priced at $775. 03:02.000 --> 03:09.000 We can't bring back the departed. Our only solace is the knowledge that we have done them the last possible honour. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Very well. I'll take this one. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 Oh, I'm sure you are making a very wise choice. 03:14.000 --> 03:19.000 In all my years as a mortician, I've never found a family that regretted money spent on a durable. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 Now, let me see. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 I'll give you a check. 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 Oh, that won't be necessary. Not immediately. After the funeral will do. 03:28.000 --> 03:34.000 Oh, by the way, we haven't mentioned it. Are we handling the funeral arrangements? 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 I don't know yet. 03:35.000 --> 03:40.000 Oh. Well, you want the casket delivered somewhere? 03:40.000 --> 03:44.000 No. I'd like you to hold it for a while, please. 03:44.000 --> 03:48.000 Hold it? But for how long? 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 For three weeks. 03:50.000 --> 03:59.000 Three weeks? I don't understand. Who is the party, the deceased? Who is the casket for? 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 It's for me. 04:01.000 --> 04:09.000 Lydia? Lydia? I thought I heard you come in. Where have you been, Lydia? You've been gone all afternoon. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 I've been shopping. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 What did you buy? Did you get the ribbons I asked for? 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 No, I didn't have time. 04:14.000 --> 04:18.000 Oh, I wanted some new ribbons. These are all I have. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Oh, I see. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 I'll give you a check. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 I'll give you a check. 04:26.000 --> 04:32.000 I'll give you a check. See, Lydia? 04:32.000 --> 04:38.000 I wish you'd stop putting ribbons in your hair like a schoolgirl. You're almost 40 years old. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 I know, Lydia. I know. 04:40.000 --> 04:45.000 Then try to act like it. Hand me my sewing. And light the lamp. It's getting dark. 04:45.000 --> 04:52.000 I wonder why we have to grow old. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had always stayed young like we used to be? 04:52.000 --> 04:59.000 Oh, Lydia. Remember when Mother used to send us out to school with our ribbons matching and our dresses matching? 04:59.000 --> 05:06.000 And at the end of the day, no one would even guess we were sisters because I was always so must and you were always so clean. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Oh, I wish we were young again, Lydia. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Stop talking nonsense, Ellie. 05:12.000 --> 05:18.000 It is nonsense, isn't it? Oh, the doorbell rang while you were out, just before you came home. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 You didn't answer us. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 Oh, no. You told me never to answer. I just looked out of the upstairs window. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Did you see who it was? 05:26.000 --> 05:31.000 Oh, yes. Yes, it was a man, a rather big man. He rang a long time and then he went away. 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 He didn't see you, did he? 05:32.000 --> 05:38.000 Oh, no. I just peeked ever so carefully from behind the curtains. Then I came down here and watched him going down the walk. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 You came downstairs? Yes. 05:40.000 --> 05:43.000 I told you never to come down those stairs when I'm not in this house. 05:43.000 --> 05:50.000 It was all right, Lydia. I held on very tight to the banisters all the way and I didn't once look down the stairwell. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 So I didn't get dizzy and I didn't want to jump. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Well, don't do it again. 05:55.000 --> 05:59.000 It was just that I was lonely. I couldn't think you were ever coming home. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Lydia, you didn't tell me what you bought. 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 A durable. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 What's that? What's a durable? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Don't ask so many questions, Ellie. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 All right. 06:10.000 --> 06:15.000 Lydia, I think I'll sew too. I could fix up one of these old ribbons here. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 May I, Lydia? 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 Yes, you sew. It will be good for you. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Thank you. 06:27.000 --> 06:28.000 Lydia. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 Yes? 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 Lydia, could I go shopping some day? 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 Don't be a fool. 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 Oh, I'm sorry. I just thought that... 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 No, I suppose you're right. It wouldn't do. Not yet. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Lydia, sing with me. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 You know I never sing. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 There wasn't any mail today. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Wasn't there? 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 No. I thought perhaps there'd be a letter from David. 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 It's been such a long time since he's written, hasn't it? 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 I haven't noticed. 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 Oh, yes. He used to write every week on Tuesday. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 And I'd get the letter on Thursday. 07:10.000 --> 07:14.000 But there wasn't one this week or last the week before that. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 Strange, isn't it? But perhaps he's been busy. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Perhaps. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 Still, he never used to be too busy to write. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 I can't understand it. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Do you suppose there's some other reason? 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 What are you trying to say to me, Ellie? 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Are you hinting perhaps I'm keeping your mail from you? 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 Oh, no. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Well, you certainly seem to be. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Why should I keep David's letters from you? 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 But I didn't say that. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 I just said it was strange that David hasn't written, that's all. 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 You wouldn't keep David's letters. I know that, Lydia. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Go on with your sewing. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 Yes. I want to finish this ribbon. 07:49.000 --> 07:54.000 HUMMING 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 Stop singing that. Stop it. 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 But Lydia, it's a hymn. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 I don't care. I said stop. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 I'll learn something else. That's all you sing day and night, day and night. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Same tune over and over and over. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 Now, stop it. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Lydia. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 Lydia, sometimes you frighten me. 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 The way you look at me, you make me think that... 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 that perhaps I'm not getting well. 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 That perhaps I'm still... 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 crazy. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 I'm not. 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 I'm not still crazy. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Am I, Lydia? 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 No, Lydia. 08:30.000 --> 08:48.000 Enough. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Yes? 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Evening, are you Miss Lydia Haskell? 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Yes. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 Can I speak to you for a minute? I was here this afternoon, there was no one home. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.800 We had a call from Doane Brothers, the undertakers. 09:00.800 --> 09:02.800 I'm from the police department. 09:02.800 --> 09:04.500 Oh, really? 09:04.500 --> 09:08.300 I don't see what the police could want with me. 09:08.300 --> 09:09.600 Come in, if you wish. 09:09.600 --> 09:11.600 Thank you. 09:14.900 --> 09:16.100 Sit down. 09:16.100 --> 09:18.100 Thank you. 09:18.100 --> 09:20.100 There's nothing we want, Miss Haskell, 09:20.100 --> 09:22.100 except it's sort of unusual for a woman 09:22.100 --> 09:24.100 to order a casket for herself. 09:24.100 --> 09:25.800 Unusual? 09:25.800 --> 09:28.200 I've heard of many cases of that kind. 09:28.200 --> 09:30.200 People who are alone in the world. 09:30.200 --> 09:32.200 There's no one else to look after things. 09:32.200 --> 09:34.200 Oh, yes, sure, I know. 09:34.200 --> 09:38.200 Only it's a little more unusual when you can name the date. 09:38.200 --> 09:43.200 The undertaker said you wanted the casket held for three weeks. 09:43.200 --> 09:45.200 Why three weeks? 09:45.200 --> 09:48.200 There must be some reason for it. 09:48.200 --> 09:50.200 There is. 09:50.200 --> 09:52.200 I'm going to die. 09:52.200 --> 09:54.200 I shall die in three weeks, 09:54.200 --> 09:56.200 perhaps even before. 09:56.200 --> 09:58.200 There's no date in my mind about it, 09:58.200 --> 10:00.200 and that's why I've ordered the casket. 10:00.200 --> 10:03.200 You may call it a premonition, if you want. 10:03.200 --> 10:06.200 Maybe I could also call it suicide. 10:06.200 --> 10:08.200 That's why I'm here, Miss Haskell. 10:08.200 --> 10:10.200 I don't know whether you know it, 10:10.200 --> 10:12.200 but suicide's a crime in the eyes of the state. 10:12.200 --> 10:15.200 A crime for which there is no punishment. 10:15.200 --> 10:17.200 Not if it's successful, no. 10:17.200 --> 10:19.200 But there is prevention. 10:19.200 --> 10:21.200 I know I'm going to die. I feel it. 10:21.200 --> 10:24.200 But I have no intention of taking my own life. 10:24.200 --> 10:26.200 There's no need to do so. 10:26.200 --> 10:29.200 Miss Haskell, this premonition, as you call it, 10:29.200 --> 10:32.200 have you any idea what brought it on? 10:32.200 --> 10:33.200 No. 10:33.200 --> 10:35.200 Have you been speaking to anyone? 10:35.200 --> 10:37.200 No fortune tellers or anything like that? 10:37.200 --> 10:38.200 No. 10:38.200 --> 10:40.200 What makes you so sure? 10:40.200 --> 10:42.200 How do you know you can trust this premonition? 10:42.200 --> 10:44.200 You're not an old woman. 10:44.200 --> 10:46.200 I'd say you're in pretty good health. 10:46.200 --> 10:48.200 You've got a lot of good years ahead of you. 10:48.200 --> 10:50.200 I have a religion, not a church religion. 10:50.200 --> 10:52.200 It preaches that people go on living 10:52.200 --> 10:54.200 until they've outgrown their usefulness. 10:54.200 --> 10:57.200 Then they die from one cause or another. 10:57.200 --> 11:00.200 When that time comes, the desire to live is gone. 11:00.200 --> 11:04.200 And only desire keeps the body and soul alive and breathing. 11:04.200 --> 11:06.200 I don't understand that. 11:06.200 --> 11:08.200 I'm sorry. 11:08.200 --> 11:10.200 Miss Haskell, do you live alone here? 11:10.200 --> 11:11.200 Yes. 11:11.200 --> 11:12.200 No relations, no housekeeping? 11:12.200 --> 11:14.200 I live alone here. 11:14.200 --> 11:17.200 It's a pretty large house for a person living alone. 11:17.200 --> 11:20.200 There are three floors and far too many rooms. 11:20.200 --> 11:22.200 But it's on the outskirts of town. 11:22.200 --> 11:25.200 It's quiet and it gives me the privacy I've been looking for. 11:25.200 --> 11:28.200 A privacy which you are invading for the first time 11:28.200 --> 11:30.200 since I moved here five years ago. 11:30.200 --> 11:32.200 I'm sorry, Miss Haskell. I'm only doing my job. 11:32.200 --> 11:35.200 I was told to look you up and find out why you bought that casket. 11:35.200 --> 11:38.200 Then I think we may assume your job is over. 11:38.200 --> 11:41.200 I guess so, but the office might ask me to drop back once in a while. 11:41.200 --> 11:43.200 Just to keep in touch and all. 11:43.200 --> 11:44.200 I won't be at home. 11:44.200 --> 11:45.200 Why? 11:45.200 --> 11:47.200 You don't go out very much, I ask. 11:47.200 --> 11:50.200 The folks in town say they don't even see you more than once a week. 11:50.200 --> 11:52.200 When you come, I won't be at home. 11:52.200 --> 11:54.200 All right. Sorry to bother you. 11:54.200 --> 11:55.200 Good night. 11:55.200 --> 11:56.200 Good night. 11:57.200 --> 12:01.200 Oh, Miss Haskell, how are you going to die? 12:01.200 --> 12:04.200 I don't know, nor do I consider it important. 12:04.200 --> 12:06.200 Why should you? 12:06.200 --> 12:07.200 Good night. 12:07.200 --> 12:19.200 Good night. 12:19.200 --> 12:23.200 For Suspense, Autolite is bringing you Miss Rosalind Russell 12:23.200 --> 12:35.200 in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 12:35.200 --> 12:38.200 Extra, extra, hear all about the big extras you get 12:38.200 --> 12:41.200 with the wonderful Autolite Stay Full Battery. 12:41.200 --> 12:42.200 How can I help hearing? 12:42.200 --> 12:44.200 Extra number one, Autolite Stay Full Batteries 12:44.200 --> 12:46.200 have an extra large liquid reserve, 12:46.200 --> 12:49.200 need water only three times a year in normal car use. 12:49.200 --> 12:52.200 Why, an Autolite Stay Full Battery can give aces to an oasis 12:52.200 --> 12:54.200 and still have water to spare. 12:54.200 --> 12:55.200 Here we go. 12:55.200 --> 12:57.200 Extra number two, Autolite Stay Full Batteries 12:57.200 --> 12:59.200 have extra large electrical capacity. 12:59.200 --> 13:02.200 That means extra power when you need it most by Cornelius. 13:02.200 --> 13:05.200 And listen to me, friend, you don't want to get caught 13:05.200 --> 13:08.200 with your battery down, so get an Autolite Stay Full Battery 13:08.200 --> 13:09.200 right away. 13:09.200 --> 13:10.200 Set them up in the other alley. 13:10.200 --> 13:13.200 Alright, extra number three, Autolite Stay Full Batteries 13:13.200 --> 13:16.200 have fiberglass insulation for extra long life. 13:16.200 --> 13:19.200 Why, Methuselah turned green with envy when he heard 13:19.200 --> 13:21.200 of those long life Autolite Stay Full Batteries. 13:21.200 --> 13:23.200 Wait, don't quit now, hollow your heart. 13:23.200 --> 13:26.200 Bye-bye, Cornelius friend, if you knew what I know, 13:26.200 --> 13:29.200 you'd switch to Autolite Stay Full Batteries right now. 13:29.200 --> 13:31.200 You'd pop into your puddle jumper, pour on the power, 13:31.200 --> 13:35.200 and set off at a peppy pace down to your nearest Autolite dealer 13:35.200 --> 13:38.200 for a splendid new Autolite Stay Full Battery, 13:38.200 --> 13:40.200 the battery with all the extras. 13:40.200 --> 13:43.200 Why, the thought of all those extra features makes me excited, 13:43.200 --> 13:46.200 exhilarated, exalted, exhausted. 13:46.200 --> 13:48.200 You'll be an ex-announcer if you don't be quiet 13:48.200 --> 13:51.200 and listen to suspense. 13:51.200 --> 13:55.200 And now, Autolite brings back to our Hollywood soundstage 13:55.200 --> 13:59.200 Miss Rosalind Russell as Lydia, with Miss Loreen Tuttle as Ellie 13:59.200 --> 14:06.200 in The Sisters, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:06.200 --> 14:16.200 MUSIC 14:16.200 --> 14:19.200 After he'd gone, I stood there in the hall thinking. 14:19.200 --> 14:21.200 Perhaps I'd made a mistake. 14:21.200 --> 14:24.200 Perhaps I shouldn't have gone to the morticians. 14:24.200 --> 14:26.200 I had thought it would be so clever, but I hadn't thought 14:26.200 --> 14:29.200 he might become suspicious and a policeman. 14:29.200 --> 14:31.200 Since someone's snooping around, asking questions, 14:31.200 --> 14:35.200 trying to find out things, I was so upset thinking about it, 14:35.200 --> 14:37.200 I hadn't heard her come down the stairs. 14:37.200 --> 14:39.200 Lydia. 14:39.200 --> 14:42.200 Ellie, what are you doing down here? 14:42.200 --> 14:45.200 What are you doing sitting on the steps in the dark? 14:45.200 --> 14:46.200 Lydia. 14:46.200 --> 14:48.200 Haven't I told you never to come down here at night? 14:48.200 --> 14:49.200 Lydia. 14:48.200 --> 14:49.200 What do you want? 14:49.200 --> 14:51.200 I heard that man who was here. 14:51.200 --> 14:53.200 Lydia, why did you buy the casket? 14:53.200 --> 14:55.200 Why are you going to die? 14:55.200 --> 14:57.200 Yes, Lydia, you mustn't die. 14:57.200 --> 14:59.200 I'd be alone if you died. 14:59.200 --> 15:00.200 And you know what would happen. 15:00.200 --> 15:02.200 They'd send me away like they did once before. 15:02.200 --> 15:04.200 The people in the town would come and find me living here, 15:04.200 --> 15:05.200 and they'd send me away. 15:05.200 --> 15:07.200 Go up to bed, Ellie. Go to sleep. 15:07.200 --> 15:09.200 How can I sleep? 15:09.200 --> 15:11.200 Oh, Lydia, you won't die. Promise me you won't. 15:11.200 --> 15:13.200 I promise you. Now go to bed. 15:13.200 --> 15:15.200 But why did you buy the casket? 15:15.200 --> 15:18.200 And the things you said to that man is if you wanted to die. 15:18.200 --> 15:21.200 Why, Lydia? Why do you want to die? 15:21.200 --> 15:23.200 I don't want to die. No one does. 15:23.200 --> 15:26.200 You have such a lot to live for, haven't you, Ellie? 15:26.200 --> 15:28.200 Yes. 15:28.200 --> 15:31.200 I've been happy, Lydia. You've made me happy. 15:31.200 --> 15:35.200 And someday when I'm well again, I'll go back home. 15:35.200 --> 15:38.200 And David will be waiting for me. 15:38.200 --> 15:41.200 You know he'll be there. You've always told me he'd be waiting. 15:41.200 --> 15:45.200 And he'll see that I'm well again, and he'll take me back. 15:45.200 --> 15:47.200 I'm not so old, am I? 15:47.200 --> 15:49.200 David won't see me as old. 15:49.200 --> 15:51.200 He told me that when I was well, 15:51.200 --> 15:55.200 no matter how long it took, he'd still see me as a young girl. 15:55.200 --> 15:57.200 That's why I've been happy. 15:57.200 --> 16:01.200 Just waiting for the time I can go back to David. 16:01.200 --> 16:03.200 Haven't you heard yet? 16:03.200 --> 16:05.200 And haven't you learned it? 16:05.200 --> 16:07.200 Don't you know yet that you're mad and you'll always be mad? 16:07.200 --> 16:09.200 No, don't say that. I'm getting better, Lydia. 16:09.200 --> 16:11.200 You know I'm getting better. 16:11.200 --> 16:14.200 Yes, of course. Putting bows in your hair, sewing ribbons all day long, 16:14.200 --> 16:17.200 sneaking about the house at night, spying on me, 16:17.200 --> 16:20.200 singing the same hymn over and over and over until I think I'm going mad, too. 16:20.200 --> 16:22.200 Is that why you want to die? 16:22.200 --> 16:24.200 To get away from me? Why, I thought you loved me, Lydia. 16:24.200 --> 16:26.200 Why should I love you? 16:26.200 --> 16:28.200 Look what life has given me, and tell me why. 16:28.200 --> 16:30.200 You've always spoiled everything for me, 16:30.200 --> 16:32.200 even from the time we were children. 16:32.200 --> 16:34.200 Why, how could I spoil everything? 16:34.200 --> 16:37.200 We were just like the same child, Lydia, twins. 16:37.200 --> 16:39.200 You were I, and I was you. 16:39.200 --> 16:41.200 We looked the same, yes. 16:41.200 --> 16:44.200 We were born the same day, yes, and that's where it ended. 16:44.200 --> 16:46.200 You were the nice one. I used to hear them say so. 16:46.200 --> 16:48.200 You were even the prettiest, they said, 16:48.200 --> 16:50.200 as if they could see any difference between us. 16:50.200 --> 16:52.200 Well, whatever you wanted, you had. 16:52.200 --> 16:55.200 You smiled so beautifully, and I never smiled. 16:55.200 --> 16:58.200 I was the sullen one, the dark cloud in the house. 16:58.200 --> 17:00.200 You made it so, Lydia. We all loved you. 17:00.200 --> 17:02.200 When your doll was broken, they gave you mine. 17:02.200 --> 17:05.200 When you tore your dancing dress, you took mine. 17:05.200 --> 17:08.200 You gave it to me, Lydia. I remember you gave it to me. 17:08.200 --> 17:10.200 You gave it to me. I've always given things to you. 17:10.200 --> 17:13.200 I've given you my whole life. I even gave you David. 17:15.200 --> 17:17.200 Lydia. 17:17.200 --> 17:19.200 You were in love with David. 17:20.200 --> 17:22.200 He came to our house. 17:22.200 --> 17:25.200 Was it you he came to see? 17:26.200 --> 17:28.200 Oh, Lydia, I didn't know. 17:29.200 --> 17:32.200 You never knew. No one did. 17:33.200 --> 17:37.200 I had to stand by and watch you take him from me. 17:38.200 --> 17:41.200 And when you had your first attack, I was glad. 17:41.200 --> 17:44.200 People said it was a shame, but I was glad. 17:44.200 --> 17:47.200 Because I knew that he could never have you. 17:47.200 --> 17:49.200 Oh, yes, you were going away and be cured. 17:49.200 --> 17:52.200 He was going to wait. It wouldn't matter how long he waits. 17:52.200 --> 17:55.200 He'll never be cured, and he'll never have you. Never! 17:56.200 --> 18:00.200 You hate me. You've always hated me. I see it now. 18:01.200 --> 18:03.200 Even when you've been taking care of me. 18:03.200 --> 18:06.200 When we came to this town, you didn't bring me here, so I'd be cured. 18:07.200 --> 18:09.200 You wanted to keep me this way. 18:09.200 --> 18:12.200 Man, that's why you took me out of that place. 18:12.200 --> 18:14.200 Because they might have made me well again. 18:14.200 --> 18:16.200 Go upstairs. You hate me. 18:16.200 --> 18:18.200 And now you're going to die. I told you. 18:18.200 --> 18:21.200 Leave me without anyone. I will not die. 18:21.200 --> 18:22.200 Oh, Ellie. 18:22.200 --> 18:24.200 Ellie, I'm sorry we had this quarrel. 18:24.200 --> 18:28.200 I didn't mean to upset you. It's just that I'm upset myself and tired. 18:28.200 --> 18:31.200 I didn't mean the things I said. You bought a casket. 18:31.200 --> 18:34.200 It was only an idea I had in case anything ever happened to me. 18:34.200 --> 18:36.200 You bought a casket. 18:37.200 --> 18:40.200 Lydia, was it for yourself? 18:40.200 --> 18:42.200 Or is it for me? 18:42.200 --> 18:43.200 Ellie! 18:43.200 --> 18:45.200 You wouldn't. You wouldn't, would you, Lydia? 18:45.200 --> 18:47.200 What are you talking about? 18:47.200 --> 18:49.200 Hold the lamp up. Hold it close to you. 18:49.200 --> 18:51.200 I want to see your face. 18:51.200 --> 18:53.200 Go up to bed. 18:53.200 --> 18:57.200 Yes. I can see it in your eyes. 18:57.200 --> 19:01.200 It is for me. You're going to kill me. 19:01.200 --> 19:02.200 You're going to murder me. 19:02.200 --> 19:03.200 Don't be a fool, Ellie. 19:03.200 --> 19:05.200 It's true. You want to get rid of me. 19:05.200 --> 19:07.200 Because you hate me. 19:07.200 --> 19:11.200 Oh, no, I see. I see. 19:11.200 --> 19:12.200 You love David. 19:12.200 --> 19:14.200 And you're going to kill me. 19:14.200 --> 19:16.200 And they'll come and find me and bury me. 19:16.200 --> 19:18.200 And they'll think it's you who... 19:18.200 --> 19:19.200 Be quiet. 19:19.200 --> 19:21.200 That's why you bought the casket. 19:21.200 --> 19:25.200 They'll think it's you who is dead because no one knows I'm living here. 19:25.200 --> 19:29.200 And then you'll go away and you'll go back to David. 19:29.200 --> 19:31.200 And you'll say that Lydia has died. 19:31.200 --> 19:35.200 And he'll think you are me and that you're well again. 19:35.200 --> 19:38.200 And he'll marry you. 19:38.200 --> 19:41.200 You'll have him. You'll be Ellie. 19:41.200 --> 19:44.200 You'll have David in my place. 19:44.200 --> 19:46.200 Did you hear what I said? Be quiet. 19:46.200 --> 19:49.200 Now go upstairs and get to bed. 19:49.200 --> 19:52.200 Oh, Lydia. Lydia. 19:52.200 --> 20:12.200 How can you be so wicked? 20:12.200 --> 20:14.200 Ellie. 20:14.200 --> 20:16.200 Ellie, are you awake? 20:16.200 --> 20:18.200 Ellie. 20:18.200 --> 20:21.200 Dear, you mustn't think anymore about what we said tonight. 20:21.200 --> 20:23.200 Do you hear? 20:23.200 --> 20:25.200 It's not so, Ellie. It's just your imagination. 20:25.200 --> 20:27.200 You mustn't think about it. 20:27.200 --> 20:30.200 It will be bad for you. 20:30.200 --> 20:34.200 Are you asleep, Ellie? 20:34.200 --> 20:35.200 She's not asleep. 20:35.200 --> 20:39.200 She's lying over there on the other side of the room staring at me through the dark. 20:39.200 --> 20:41.200 She knows it was the truth tonight. 20:41.200 --> 20:43.200 She's going to die. I'm going to kill her. 20:43.200 --> 20:45.200 That quarrel. I shouldn't have let her know. 20:45.200 --> 20:46.200 I lost my temper, stupid. 20:46.200 --> 20:47.200 Now I must... 20:47.200 --> 20:49.200 Oh, I must think clearly. 20:49.200 --> 20:51.200 What was my plan? 20:51.200 --> 20:53.200 How was I going to kill her? 20:53.200 --> 20:55.200 It mustn't look like murder. They'll suspect things then. 20:55.200 --> 20:56.200 It must be suicide. 20:56.200 --> 21:03.200 And it must be soon, now that she knows. 21:03.200 --> 21:05.200 There. Listen. 21:05.200 --> 21:07.200 She's starting again. She's singing again. 21:07.200 --> 21:08.200 That hymn. That hymn. 21:08.200 --> 21:10.200 No, no. I must be calm. 21:10.200 --> 21:11.200 Don't get excited. 21:11.200 --> 21:13.200 Think clearly. 21:13.200 --> 21:15.200 How was I going to kill her? 21:15.200 --> 21:18.200 Oh, I wish it were over. 21:18.200 --> 21:20.200 I could go back then. 21:20.200 --> 21:22.200 Back to David. 21:22.200 --> 21:25.200 How quickly she saw through that. 21:25.200 --> 21:28.200 That I'd go back in her place. 21:28.200 --> 21:30.200 But he'll never suspect. 21:30.200 --> 21:33.200 I'll be Ellie to him. 21:33.200 --> 21:36.200 Ellie cured and happy again. 21:36.200 --> 21:39.200 I'll learn to smile. 21:39.200 --> 21:41.200 At first she must die. 21:41.200 --> 21:47.200 Now, which way is best? 21:47.200 --> 21:49.200 The stairs. 21:49.200 --> 21:51.200 Of course, the stairwell. 21:51.200 --> 21:54.200 She gets dizzy if she looks down into the stairwell. 21:54.200 --> 21:56.200 Yes, it will be so easy. 21:56.200 --> 21:59.200 In a day or two, that policeman will come back to the house. 21:59.200 --> 22:01.200 They'll find her and they'll think it's me. 22:01.200 --> 22:02.200 The stairwell. 22:02.200 --> 22:04.200 Three floors from the attic here. 22:04.200 --> 22:06.200 Three floors straight down. 22:06.200 --> 22:08.200 It's so easy when you think clearly. 22:08.200 --> 22:20.200 Of course. 22:20.200 --> 22:21.200 Ellie. 22:21.200 --> 22:22.200 Ellie. 22:22.200 --> 22:24.200 You mustn't cry anymore. 22:24.200 --> 22:25.200 Do you hear me? 22:25.200 --> 22:27.200 Are you afraid of the dark? 22:27.200 --> 22:33.200 I'll light the lamp for you. 22:33.200 --> 22:35.200 There, dear. 22:35.200 --> 22:37.200 That's better, isn't it? 22:37.200 --> 22:39.200 Why, you're shivering. 22:39.200 --> 22:40.200 Are you cold? 22:40.200 --> 22:41.200 Come. 22:41.200 --> 22:42.200 Put your wrapper on. 22:42.200 --> 22:44.200 We'll go down to the parlor in light of fire. 22:44.200 --> 22:47.200 And I'll make a nice cup of hot milk for you. 22:47.200 --> 22:48.200 Come, Ellie. 22:48.200 --> 22:50.200 Ellie, stop acting like this. 22:50.200 --> 22:52.200 Now, come, dear. 22:52.200 --> 22:53.200 Here's your wrapper. 22:53.200 --> 22:55.200 Put it around your shoulders. 22:55.200 --> 22:57.200 That's a girl now. 22:57.200 --> 22:58.200 Get up. 22:58.200 --> 23:00.200 Get up now. 23:00.200 --> 23:02.200 I'll carry the lamp. 23:02.200 --> 23:05.200 Give me your hand, dear. 23:05.200 --> 23:07.200 You're cold as ice. 23:07.200 --> 23:09.200 Now, be careful. 23:09.200 --> 23:13.200 Walk slowly. 23:13.200 --> 23:15.200 There we are. 23:15.200 --> 23:18.200 Now, hold on to the banister, dear. 23:18.200 --> 23:19.200 That's right. 23:19.200 --> 23:22.200 I'll hold the lamp up high so you can see better. 23:22.200 --> 23:23.200 I'm afraid. 23:23.200 --> 23:24.200 The stairwell. 23:24.200 --> 23:25.200 It's right here, dear. 23:25.200 --> 23:26.200 You see? 23:26.200 --> 23:27.200 I'm afraid. 23:27.200 --> 23:29.200 Ellie, you must get over that, dear. 23:29.200 --> 23:31.200 Look, Ellie. 23:31.200 --> 23:33.200 Just look down. 23:33.200 --> 23:35.200 There's nothing to frighten you. 23:35.200 --> 23:37.200 Look down the stairwell, Ellie. 23:37.200 --> 23:38.200 No. 23:38.200 --> 23:39.200 I'm holding you, dear. 23:39.200 --> 23:41.200 Now, just lean over and look down. 23:41.200 --> 23:43.200 You can see all the way. 23:43.200 --> 23:44.200 No. 23:44.200 --> 23:45.200 Don't make me look. 23:45.200 --> 23:46.200 Don't make me. 23:46.200 --> 23:47.200 You see? 23:47.200 --> 23:48.200 It's nothing. 23:48.200 --> 23:49.200 It's nothing at all. 23:49.200 --> 23:50.200 Are you dizzy? 23:50.200 --> 23:51.200 I'm holding you. 23:51.200 --> 23:52.200 Let me go. 23:52.200 --> 23:53.200 I can't stand it. 23:53.200 --> 23:54.200 Come closer, dear. 23:54.200 --> 23:55.200 Come closer. 23:55.200 --> 23:56.200 No. 23:56.200 --> 23:57.200 Lean over. 23:57.200 --> 23:58.200 Lean over. 23:58.200 --> 23:59.200 No. 23:59.200 --> 24:00.200 Do you hear, Ellie? 24:00.200 --> 24:01.200 Let me get back. 24:01.200 --> 24:02.200 Ellie, look down. 24:02.200 --> 24:03.200 No. 24:03.200 --> 24:04.200 Around. 24:34.200 --> 24:38.480 Oh yes, a very strange thing, yes. 24:38.480 --> 24:42.000 It was brought to my mind, of course, because this is the house just here. 24:42.000 --> 24:43.000 This one? 24:43.000 --> 24:45.280 The next one we're coming to, yes. 24:45.280 --> 24:49.480 She was in Tisias just a few days ago, came in to order the casket. 24:49.480 --> 24:55.160 She saw a casket she wanted, and then she told me it was for herself. 24:55.160 --> 24:57.320 She must have had a premonition. 24:57.320 --> 25:01.400 I notified the police, of course, why she said she wanted me to hold the casket three 25:01.400 --> 25:02.400 weeks. 25:02.400 --> 25:07.000 Then, just the day before yesterday, the police came back to the house here and found her 25:07.000 --> 25:09.920 lying at the bottom of the stairwell, dead. 25:09.920 --> 25:12.360 She'd been dead about two days. 25:12.360 --> 25:13.800 Funny how she knew. 25:13.800 --> 25:17.200 The banister up on the attic floor broke away and she fell. 25:17.200 --> 25:18.200 Did she have any people? 25:18.200 --> 25:20.760 No, lived alone, they tell me. 25:20.760 --> 25:22.720 We're going to bury her tomorrow. 25:22.720 --> 25:24.520 Haskell, the name was. 25:24.520 --> 25:25.520 Haskell? 25:25.520 --> 25:29.960 Strange, living all by herself here in a big three-story frame house. 25:29.960 --> 25:30.960 Yes, isn't it? 25:30.960 --> 25:31.960 Say. 25:31.960 --> 25:32.960 So, what is it? 25:32.960 --> 25:36.040 My imagination, I guess. 25:36.040 --> 25:38.760 I could have sworn I saw a light in the attic window just now. 25:38.760 --> 25:40.400 Oh, it couldn't have been. 25:40.400 --> 25:41.800 The police have shut it up. 25:41.800 --> 25:43.800 Yes, of course. 25:43.800 --> 25:47.720 That story of yours really gave me the creeps. 25:47.720 --> 25:50.040 Let's walk on. 25:50.040 --> 25:53.160 What a queer thing the power of suggestion is. 25:53.160 --> 25:54.520 You've conveyed it to me. 25:54.520 --> 25:59.240 Well, you know, just now I thought I could hear someone upstairs in there. 25:59.240 --> 26:00.240 A woman. 26:00.240 --> 26:01.240 A woman singing. 26:01.240 --> 26:02.240 A woman? 26:02.240 --> 26:06.520 Yes, sort of crooning to herself. 26:06.520 --> 26:07.520 Some kind of hymn. 26:07.520 --> 26:36.040 But it seemed right. 26:36.040 --> 26:41.040 Say, uh, Hap. 26:41.040 --> 26:43.040 Yes, I am. 26:43.040 --> 27:00.440 Look, supposing, just supposing, you didn't already have an auto light stay full battery 27:00.440 --> 27:04.760 in your car, what would be the first thing you'd do tomorrow morning? 27:04.760 --> 27:06.560 Eat breakfast. 27:06.560 --> 27:07.560 Then what? 27:07.560 --> 27:08.560 Well, then I... 27:08.560 --> 27:09.560 Ah, right, right. 27:09.560 --> 27:13.360 You'd make hay with your coupé right straight down to your nearest auto light dealer and 27:13.360 --> 27:15.720 ask for an auto light stay full battery. 27:15.720 --> 27:20.640 That beautifully built battery with the biggest bunch of bonus features you ever saw. 27:20.640 --> 27:25.360 Why that auto light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car 27:25.360 --> 27:26.360 use. 27:26.360 --> 27:29.760 Has extra electrical capacity and an extra long life. 27:29.760 --> 27:34.040 What's more, friends, the auto light people make over 400 other automotive, aviation, 27:34.040 --> 27:37.680 and marine parts in their 26 nationwide plants. 27:37.680 --> 27:41.960 Every part famous for its auto light engineered dependability. 27:41.960 --> 27:45.080 And remember, friends, auto light means batteries. 27:45.080 --> 27:46.920 Stay full batteries. 27:46.920 --> 27:48.960 Auto light means spark plugs. 27:48.960 --> 27:51.400 Ignition engineered resistor spark plugs. 27:51.400 --> 27:53.480 Auto light means ignition systems. 27:53.480 --> 28:03.600 The lifeline of your car. 28:03.600 --> 28:06.360 And now here again is Miss Rosalind Russell. 28:06.360 --> 28:10.320 It has been a great pleasure to appear here tonight on Suspense. 28:10.320 --> 28:16.200 And I want to thank Tony Leader and his fine cast, and especially Loren Tuttle, for her 28:16.200 --> 28:19.040 splendid performance as Ellie. 28:19.040 --> 28:23.520 I know none of you will want to miss James Cagney's appearance next week on radio's 28:23.520 --> 28:29.300 outstanding theater of thrills in a story called No Escape. 28:29.300 --> 28:31.320 Another gripping study in... 28:31.320 --> 28:33.960 Suspense. 28:33.960 --> 28:37.320 Miss Rosalind Russell may currently be seen in the independent artist's production, The 28:37.320 --> 28:38.320 Velvet Touch. 28:38.320 --> 28:42.200 Tonight's suspense play, The Sisters, was written by George Wells with music composed 28:42.200 --> 28:45.240 by Lucian Morrowak and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:45.240 --> 28:48.600 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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