1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,720 Now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present Suspense. 2 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:28,920 Tonight, Auto Light brings you James Stewart in Consequence, a suspense play produced and 3 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,920 directed by Anton M. 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resistor spark plugs. 15 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,160 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 16 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:25,320 And now, Auto Light presents James Stewart in a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 17 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,040 Hmm. 18 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:35,920 Maybe the costume was the decisive factor or maybe it would have happened anyway. 19 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:45,880 In any event, the occasion was the 10th reunion and the class of 29, as such occasions demand, 20 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,600 they were all dressed identically in cowboy suits. 21 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,480 And there was Ted Wolfe, whom I hadn't seen in 10 years, although in college he'd been 22 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,760 by far my closest friend. 23 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,920 And so of course I brought him home to dinner. 24 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:06,040 And Gwen managed to be quite charming, even though it was the maid's night out. 25 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,080 She didn't even kick about the oven. 26 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,820 And that's how it started out, just like that. 27 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:15,640 Just like any pleasant, casual little evening. 28 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:18,920 Oh, Gwen, that was a wonderful meal. 29 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:20,680 Last one I'll get like that for a while. 30 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:21,680 Thank you, Sid. 31 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,120 Have you really got to go tonight, Ted? 32 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,120 Can't you take a day or so? 33 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,120 No, not very well. 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,520 I've got my plane reservations and everything. 35 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,320 Anyway, I told him I'd be back this week and tonight's just about the deadline if I'm 36 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:33,320 going to make it. 37 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:34,320 Well, what time's your plane? 38 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,320 3 a.m. 39 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,160 Say, that reminds me, I can't go aboard in this thing. 40 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,880 Oh, you probably will. 41 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,760 I think you're both kind of stuck on yourselves in those cowboy outfits. 42 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,920 Worse than a couple of kids. 43 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:48,400 Sure, I'm going to wear mine to the hospital tomorrow. 44 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,400 Oh, fine. 45 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,400 Fine. 46 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,400 No kidding, though. 47 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,400 People will think I'm nuts. 48 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:53,400 All right, all right. 49 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,840 Now, we'll call the hotel later, have them bring your bags over and you can change here. 50 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,000 Although I would think a cowboy suit would be a sensation in Ecuador. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Ted, are you really going to Ecuador? 52 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,840 First, I thought it must be a joke. 53 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,160 No, you've heard me talk about the work Ted's doing there. 54 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,160 I know, but Ecuador. 55 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,880 Well, they've got to have medical care. 56 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,000 I don't know if it's plantation some way. 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 I like it. 58 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,520 I don't see how you stand it. 59 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,080 Living like a hermit, cut off from civilization, not making... 60 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,200 Well, I mean, they can't possibly pay you what's... 61 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,200 No, no, no, no, Gwen. 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:24,200 What time? 63 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,640 Oh, my goodness, I've got to run. 64 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:26,640 Are you leaving us, Gwen? 65 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:28,560 I promised Mother I'd come out to the country tonight. 66 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,840 Anyway, I know you two would much rather talk over old times by yourselves. 67 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:32,840 Oh, I'm sorry. 68 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,640 Well, in case I don't see you again, thanks for everything. 69 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:38,640 It's been swell. 70 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,960 Well, you're coming back sometime, aren't you? 71 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,160 Maybe five years, maybe ten, maybe never. 72 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:45,160 Silly. 73 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,080 You come back next year and plan to stay for a while. 74 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,080 Oh, thank you. 75 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,120 I am sorry I have to go, but you two have a nice evening. 76 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,160 There are eggs in the icebox, Phil. 77 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,160 Okay. 78 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,800 You always have to have fried eggs at night when he was in college, Ted. 79 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,440 Yeah, that's Phil all right. 80 00:03:58,440 --> 00:03:59,440 Good night, darling. 81 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,200 Don't bother coming to the door now. 82 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,560 I'll phone you tomorrow night. 83 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:03,560 Bye, Gwen. 84 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:04,560 Have a good trip, Ted. 85 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:05,560 Bye. 86 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:06,560 Goodbye. 87 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:11,960 You're a lucky man, Phil. 88 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:12,960 Am I? 89 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,560 Well, I suppose you know that the main reason I came to this shindig at all was to see you. 90 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,040 So, why me? 91 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,720 It's been a long time since you and I had the same dreams, Ted. 92 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,280 You haven't lost them, though. 93 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:27,280 You're still in there pitching. 94 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:28,280 Oh, sure. 95 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:29,280 Yes, yes. 96 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:30,280 Private practice. 97 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:33,840 Two cars in the garage, two chickens in the pot. 98 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:36,440 That's the kind of ball I've been pitching for the last ten years. 99 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:41,360 And it's the kind I'll keep on pitching until some other doc says coronary thrombosis and 100 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,360 they carry me out. 101 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,240 Oh, you can't kid me, Phil. 102 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,240 You're happy. 103 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,240 I'd just about given up the idea that there was such a thing as a happy man. 104 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,240 And now you think you've found one. 105 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Oh, I know I have. 106 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,240 I knew it the minute I came into this room. 107 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,240 I knew it the minute I saw her. 108 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,240 Gwen? 109 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,560 Yeah, Gwen. 110 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,560 I hate Gwen. 111 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Phil. 112 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,640 And what's more, she hates me. 113 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:12,480 Oh, it's nothing that shows on the surface we get along because we have to, because my 114 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,080 reputation would suffer if we didn't. 115 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Phil, you can't be serious. 116 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,080 No? 117 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,680 Why do you think I've given up every dream I've ever had? 118 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,880 Why do you think I spend my life treating the imaginary ills of a lot of wealthy hypochondriacs 119 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:32,200 so Gwen can have this and Gwen can do that, so Gwen can satisfy every greedy instinct 120 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,680 and every petty rotten ambition that any woman ever had? 121 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:36,680 Good Lord. 122 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:37,680 I never realized. 123 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:38,680 Well, that's it. 124 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,160 You've got to do something about it, Phil. 125 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:44,160 You've got to get out. 126 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,120 You've got to go to another city, go to another country. 127 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,120 Yeah, yeah. 128 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,120 She'd be after me like a hawk. 129 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,600 She'd have me up before the medical association. 130 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,280 Oh, there are a thousand things she could do and would do. 131 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,800 I've thought of it everywhere there is. 132 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,800 It's no use. 133 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,680 So, oh, it's off my chest. 134 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:03,680 Now you know. 135 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,960 And I'm sorry I disillusioned you. 136 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:07,560 Excuse me. 137 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,440 Dr. Martin? 138 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,080 Oh, well, now? 139 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,280 Right, I'll be right down. 140 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:16,760 You're not going out now. 141 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:17,760 I want to talk to you. 142 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,120 No, well, I'm still a doctor. 143 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,120 Even Gwen can't stop that. 144 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,960 And I'll be back before you leave, though, if you want to stick around. 145 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,600 I'd so like to ride out the airport with you. 146 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,600 Was the call really important, Phil? 147 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:27,600 Yeah. 148 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,120 Now make yourself at home. 149 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,000 Fix yourself anything you want in the kitchen. 150 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,360 Only look out for the oven. 151 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,960 It leaks when you turn it off just right. 152 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,000 I won't be long. 153 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Okay. 154 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,200 I'll wait, doctor. 155 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,640 Thanks, doctor. 156 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:51,200 I kind of hoped you would, Ted. 157 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,080 That was the second thing. 158 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,680 Ted is deciding to stay. 159 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,320 But I didn't know it then. 160 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:02,960 All I knew was that Jo had called me from the office and she was upset. 161 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,880 Still I decided to walk. 162 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,200 I was upset, too. 163 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,160 When I got there, she was going over the accounts. 164 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,160 Hello, darling. 165 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,880 Hello. 166 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,480 That was nice. 167 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,480 Isn't it always? 168 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:17,480 Always terribly. 169 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,200 What are you doing? 170 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,440 There isn't all that rush to get the bills out. 171 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,440 There is, though. 172 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:23,440 For me. 173 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:24,440 For you? 174 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:25,440 Uh-huh. 175 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,440 What is it, Jo? 176 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,440 What's the matter? 177 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,240 Phil, I had a talk with Father this evening. 178 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:31,360 Something about us? 179 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,360 All about us. 180 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,720 Well, he doesn't know anything. 181 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:34,720 He couldn't. 182 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,480 Nobody, unless you told him. 183 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,160 You know I wouldn't do that, Phil. 184 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:39,160 I'm sorry, darling. 185 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,160 I know. 186 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,160 It isn't what he knows. 187 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,160 It's what he thinks. 188 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,720 We had an awful row. 189 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,320 He said he'd go to the trustees of the hospital. 190 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:48,680 He said he'd go to Gwen. 191 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:49,680 He said that? 192 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,680 That's why I'm getting the bills out for you now. 193 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,400 Because I'm going away. 194 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,520 But you're going where? 195 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:57,520 How long? 196 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:58,520 No, darling. 197 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,480 It's not going to be like that. 198 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,480 It's for good. 199 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:02,480 Jo. 200 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:03,480 It's for good, Phil. 201 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:04,920 Jo, I can't let you go. 202 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:09,880 I know it hasn't been perfect, but I know it's been infinitely worse for you than for 203 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:10,880 me. 204 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,200 But at least we've had something. 205 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,120 At least I've always known where you are, that you're here on the other side of the 206 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,000 door and I could see you and talk to you. 207 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,040 I can't live with a door between us anymore. 208 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,800 Well, maybe you just don't love me enough to... 209 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:22,800 No, darling. 210 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:23,800 Darling. 211 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:24,800 I don't mean that. 212 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,560 Phil, I'm not playing noble. 213 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,720 This had to happen someday and it has. 214 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,640 And that's all. 215 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:33,920 I could go with you. 216 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,320 You couldn't do that, Phil. 217 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,320 Why not? 218 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:37,440 I could change my name. 219 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:38,640 We could go to another city. 220 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,720 Even another country. 221 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:40,920 I could get back to research. 222 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:41,920 I could... 223 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:42,920 Oh, darling. 224 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,880 It's no go, Phil. 225 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,680 I asked her for a divorce again this morning. 226 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:53,080 You don't have to tell me the answer. 227 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,660 There is no answer for us, Phil. 228 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:59,440 Not one that we can take. 229 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,120 And there we are. 230 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,120 Yeah. 231 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:06,160 Yeah, there we are. 232 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,640 You'd better go now. 233 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:08,920 I've got all this to do. 234 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:09,920 Oh, let me help you. 235 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:10,920 No. 236 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:11,920 Why not? 237 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,120 I could weaken and then where would we be? 238 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,120 Oh, Joe. 239 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:17,120 No, Phil. 240 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,120 Please go. 241 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,120 Joe. 242 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:20,120 Please. 243 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,120 Please. 244 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:22,120 Please. 245 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:23,120 All right. 246 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,120 I'll go. 247 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:36,400 I don't know how long I walked that night or where. 248 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,280 Most men are weak and never know it. 249 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,120 But when you're losing the woman you think you love, that's when you'll find out. 250 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,840 That's when you'll see yourself at last in the pitiless glare of all your poor, frightened, 251 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,480 childish helplessness. 252 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:59,640 And I walked along and I was sick to the depths of my soul. 253 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:00,640 And I walked some more. 254 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,640 I don't know. 255 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,120 Somewhere in the distance I heard a siren. 256 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,560 There was a glow against the sky of fire. 257 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:12,320 And then I realized I was near my home. 258 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,440 And then it wasn't just a glow against the sky of any fire. 259 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,440 It was my own house. 260 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:17,440 It burned almost to the ground. 261 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:18,440 This is terrible. 262 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:19,440 How did it happen? 263 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,960 Somebody said they think it was the gas stove. 264 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,720 Stunned and confused, I began edging through the crowd. 265 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,080 And then there was a sudden stillness. 266 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,200 And a few men took off their hats. 267 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,000 And then I saw it. 268 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 A stretcher. 269 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,080 And the black had thrown over the shapeless form. 270 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,640 And the blackened shriveled cowboy boot. 271 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,640 And I remembered. 272 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:39,640 Ted. 273 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,960 Ted had been in that house. 274 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,240 They just got him out now. 275 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,560 Yeah, what's left of him? 276 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:46,640 They say you wouldn't hardly know it was a man. 277 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,040 Frantically I started forward and then I stopped. 278 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,440 Because I thought somebody had spoken to me but they hadn't. 279 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:52,440 They weren't looking at me. 280 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,800 They were looking at the ground and the stretcher. 281 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,000 And that thing that lay there on it. 282 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,360 Dr. Philip Martin. 283 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,920 Yeah, I knew him. 284 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,200 He was a good man. 285 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,960 Oh, poor Dr. Martin. 286 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,560 What an awful way to die. 287 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,720 Suddenly I was shaking with excitement. 288 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,720 I pulled my hat down over my eyes. 289 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,280 I turned up my collar and I moved carefully back through the crowd. 290 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,080 Out into the street and I turned the quarter and then I ran. 291 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:18,080 Joe. 292 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,080 Joe. 293 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,080 Bill. 294 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,560 Joe, I'm going with you. 295 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:22,560 Bill, you haven't. 296 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:23,560 It's all right. 297 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:24,560 It's all right, Joe. 298 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:25,560 I'll tell you later. 299 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:26,560 But we're free, Joe. 300 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:27,560 We're free. 301 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:28,560 I'm dead. 302 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:29,560 I'm... 303 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:33,720 I mean, I mean, Dr. Philip Martin. 304 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:34,720 He's dead. 305 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:50,480 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you James Stewart in Radio's outstanding theater of 306 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,480 thrills, Suspense. 307 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,720 Hello, hello. 308 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,640 Heard you caught a burglar at your house last night. 309 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:02,920 I sure did, Hap. 310 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,080 There was this man sneaking around my garage. 311 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,380 I said, look here, mister, you want to replace your old narrow gap spark plugs with the sensational 312 00:12:09,380 --> 00:12:12,400 new wide gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 313 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,840 Why those wide gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs will make your engine idle smoother, 314 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,000 give you better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas. 315 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 What did he say? 316 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,920 Well, holding him firmly with my thumb between his teeth, I said the newly developed exclusive 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Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, James Stewart as Phil in Consequence, 329 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:22,240 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 330 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:29,440 There must be something of the criminal in every man because it seemed that I knew automatically 331 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,080 everything I would have to do and how I was going to do it. 332 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,400 Hotel Wilton. 333 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,360 Dr. Wolf, please. 334 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,360 Dr. Theodore Wolf. 335 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:38,360 Thank you. 336 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:39,360 I'm sorry, sir. 337 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,360 Dr. Wolf doesn't answer. 338 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:50,280 Oh, well, say, what's the number of his room again? 339 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,280 I want to drop my note. 340 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:52,280 Dr. Wolf is in 502. 341 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:53,280 502. 342 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:54,280 Thank you very much. 343 00:13:54,280 --> 00:14:04,240 I knew in a big hotel like that the chances of anyone remembering exactly what Ted had 344 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,320 looked like were pretty slim. 345 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,360 And I figured they'd give me the key all right as long as I didn't have to stumble around 346 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:10,360 asking for the number. 347 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,240 I let myself into 502 and snapped on the light. 348 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:19,160 I found the plane tickets on the bureau and I pried open his luggage and changed into 349 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:24,880 one of his suits, put on his hat and overcoat just in case, packed my own things away. 350 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,640 There was a pair of dark glasses on the bureau too. 351 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:28,640 I put them on. 352 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:33,240 Then I went downstairs, checked out, paying cash. 353 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,920 I knew he'd bought the plane tickets to the airport and that the travel clerk in the hotel 354 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:38,720 wouldn't know Ted Wolf from Adam. 355 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Yes, sir. 356 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:40,720 I'm Dr. Wolf. 357 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,720 I've been staying here at the hotel. 358 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:42,720 Oh, yes, doctor. 359 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,760 I have a through plane ticket here to Ecuador, Pan American, for tonight. 360 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:47,760 I want to turn it in. 361 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,760 One moment, sir, that's Dr. 362 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,000 Dr. Theodore Wolf. 363 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,320 Pan American, Wilton Hotel. 364 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,920 Got a through ticket to Ecuador. 365 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:56,920 Dr. Wolf. 366 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:57,920 Would you take it? 367 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:58,920 Thank you. 368 00:14:58,920 --> 00:14:59,920 All right. 369 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,000 That will be quite all right, Dr. Wolf. 370 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,480 And while we're at it, you might as well give me a couple of train tickets. 371 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:06,480 Yes, sir. 372 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,480 Where to? 373 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,480 I said where to, sir? 374 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,720 Oh, Los Angeles. 375 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:21,640 We've taken care of everything, a note to my bank supposedly from Ted and closing Philip 376 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:27,600 Martin's check for $5,000 and a letter in my own handwriting explaining that I'd agreed 377 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,640 to lend him that amount and asking the bank to forward the money to my account in Los 378 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,520 Angeles, my account as Ted Wolf. 379 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:40,840 And we drafted a letter to the people in Ecuador and we... 380 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:46,120 Then in Los Angeles, Joe became Mrs. Ted Wolf. 381 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,600 And at first everything clicked. 382 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,080 I got the kind of a job a doctor dreams about where I could write my own ticket and spend 383 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,800 at least half my time entirely on research. 384 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,160 And Joe, Joe started taking courses for a medical degree. 385 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,160 After all, she was only 24. 386 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:10,400 And then, and then right there, right in broad daylight in the hospital, it happened. 387 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:11,400 Hello? 388 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:17,240 Joe, Joe, pack a bag as quick as you can, just enough for two or three days in the mountains. 389 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:18,760 Now, just as fast as you can. 390 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:19,760 Phil. 391 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:20,760 It's Gwen. 392 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,840 I saw her just now upstairs in the reception room. 393 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,120 Gwen, are you sure? 394 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:25,120 Absolutely sure. 395 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,600 Couldn't it be just a coincidence, Phil? 396 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,840 I mean, couldn't Gwen maybe just have happened? 397 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:29,840 Maybe, maybe. 398 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,520 Listen, Joe, I've been thinking. 399 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,680 She mustn't know where we go. 400 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,120 That's what I was thinking. 401 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,800 Maybe it would be better if she did know where we were going. 402 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:39,800 If she didn't. 403 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:40,800 I don't know. 404 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:41,800 I don't know. 405 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,360 It may just be a coincidence. 406 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,800 But if it is a showdown, the mountains is a better place than most. 407 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:49,800 All right. 408 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:50,800 I'll phone the landlady. 409 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:51,800 Is that, is that safe? 410 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:52,800 Now, Gwen won't talk, not until she's sure. 411 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:53,800 Carlton Apartments, Mrs. Burton. 412 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:54,800 Hello, Mrs. Burton. 413 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,800 This is Dr. Wolfe. 414 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:56,800 I wonder if you'd do me a favor. 415 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:57,800 Why, I'd be glad to, Dr. Wolfe. 416 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:06,520 We're in the middle of a 417 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:14,240 town for a couple of days, and I just remembered some friends said they might stop by, and 418 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,920 I thought they might like to join us. 419 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,800 So I wanted them to know where we were. 420 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:18,800 All right. 421 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,600 Now, maybe you could just stick a note in our door where they'll see it. 422 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,840 We're going to Caribou Lake, and we'll be in the cottage at the very top of the mountain. 423 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,800 It's right straight up a dirt road from the lake. 424 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,800 They can't miss it. 425 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,640 Caribou Lake, the cottage at the top of the mountain up the dirt road from the lake. 426 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:37,640 Is that all? 427 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:38,640 Yes. 428 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:39,640 Thank you, Mrs. Burton. 429 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:40,640 That's all. 430 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,640 Thank you. 431 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,040 Caribou Lake is nothing more than a general store where you can buy bait and hire boats 432 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,040 and cottages. 433 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:53,120 At that time of year, there's hardly anybody there except the people who own the store. 434 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,360 The cottage we had was a good three miles away, up a twisting dirt road running above 435 00:17:57,360 --> 00:17:58,360 the lake. 436 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:02,640 But you could see it very plain, even at night when the lights are on. 437 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:03,640 We stopped in the store. 438 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:09,240 We both went in to buy what we needed, food, kerosene, matches, things like that. 439 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,640 Then we went on up the mountain. 440 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:16,320 By that time, it was almost dark and Joe fixed something to eat, but neither of us could 441 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,040 touch it. 442 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:23,480 We were watching the road for lights of a car. 443 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,920 It was about half past eight when we saw them. 444 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:31,200 Then we went on past the store, not stopping, and came on up the mountain. 445 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:35,200 It couldn't have been anyone else but Gwen. 446 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200 Well? 447 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,480 Yeah, she didn't waste any time. 448 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,400 What if the car is rented? 449 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:41,920 No, she'd bring her own. 450 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,520 She loves to drive. 451 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,960 Phil, you're not afraid, are you? 452 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:47,960 No. 453 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:53,480 No, not anymore. 454 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,200 I'll go. 455 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,720 Well, this is a surprise. 456 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,160 Hello, Gwen. 457 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,400 Dr. Martin, always poised. 458 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,080 Nothing surprises you, does it? 459 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:07,720 I suppose it was the check. 460 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:08,720 Partly. 461 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:13,080 Then I happened to notice that a Dr. Theodore Wolfe had married a Miss Josephine Reynolds 462 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,080 in Los Angeles. 463 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:18,880 It did occur to me that your idealistic friend must have been an awfully fast worker. 464 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,840 Well, aren't you and your bride going to ask me in? 465 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,160 Come in, Mrs. Martin. 466 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,800 Thank you. 467 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,640 Quite cozy, aren't you? 468 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:30,640 We have been. 469 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,440 Well, I'm sorry to break up your little... 470 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,440 All right, cut it out, Gwen. 471 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:34,440 What do you want? 472 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:35,800 Dear man, what do you think I want? 473 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,120 In the way things are now, you've got $200,000 worth of life insurance coming to you. 474 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:41,120 Why don't you let us alone? 475 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:44,640 Philip, I don't know whether you realize how much worry and anguish you've caused me. 476 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:45,640 Sure I know. 477 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:46,640 I know. 478 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,400 I know just exactly how much. 479 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,000 And perhaps you also know exactly how you stand with the law in this matter. 480 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,920 I don't know about all this impersonation business, except it would permanently ruin 481 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:56,920 your career. 482 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,240 But I do know that the laws covering Bigamy are quite drastic. 483 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,920 Yeah, I used to think that money meant everything to you, Gwen, but I guess it doesn't. 484 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,320 I certainly don't feel called upon to accept rebukes from you, Philip, for anything, not 485 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:09,660 after what you've done. 486 00:20:09,660 --> 00:20:12,320 I feel that I'm being most generous to both of you. 487 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,080 All right, now just what exactly do you want, Gwen? 488 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,520 Either you come back and we'll explain the whole thing as amnesia or something, or you 489 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,520 both go to jail. 490 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:20,800 How could you shut up? 491 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:21,800 Listen, listen. 492 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:22,800 Just a minute. 493 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,160 Listen, Gwen, does anybody else know about this? 494 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,160 Of course not. 495 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,960 Nobody knows you came out here, or why? 496 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,760 After all, Philip, I do have some pride left. 497 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,120 Just that I was taking a little trip to New York to forget. 498 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,320 New York, huh? 499 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,640 All right, Gwen, just give us a couple of minutes to talk this thing over, will you? 500 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:41,640 Alone? 501 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:42,640 Very well. 502 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,800 Although I don't see there's very much to talk about. 503 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,640 Will you go outside or shall we? 504 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:47,640 I'll go. 505 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,640 I'll wait in the car. 506 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,960 Oh, Phil. 507 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,880 It's all right, Jo. 508 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:55,880 I don't mind now. 509 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:56,880 Neither do I. 510 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,760 Do you think you can do it? 511 00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,760 Me? 512 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,560 I'll have to have an alibi. 513 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,560 Have you thought? 514 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,560 I've thought about it. 515 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,800 I've thought about it all day. 516 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:06,800 And it's all right. 517 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:07,800 It's good. 518 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,200 She'll disappear the same way I did. 519 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,640 A fire? 520 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,640 Yeah. 521 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,040 Only I'll have to be down at the store when it happens. 522 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,960 This place will go up like kindling. 523 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,200 And when they pull her out, they'll think it's you. 524 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,800 Nobody knows she's up here. 525 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,680 And I'll be there to say it is you. 526 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,680 How are you going to... 527 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,920 I've got it all fixed in the cellar. 528 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,760 All you have to do is... 529 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,880 Here. 530 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,360 Use this hatchet. 531 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,960 Can you? 532 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,920 Yes. 533 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:38,920 I will. 534 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,540 Then go out to the car and get on the floor of the back seat under the blanket, lock it 535 00:21:42,540 --> 00:21:44,240 from the inside. 536 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,880 I'll probably get away right afterwards. 537 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,440 All right, Phil. 538 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,240 I'll see you in the car. 539 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,800 And the whole thing shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. 540 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,440 Phil, you're not afraid? 541 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:54,440 Are you? 542 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:55,440 No. 543 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:56,440 I'm glad. 544 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:57,440 Gwen? 545 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:58,440 Yes? 546 00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:59,440 Come on in. 547 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,440 Have you decided? 548 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,440 Yes. 549 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,440 Yes. 550 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:10,440 Well, you might as well eat with us. 551 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,080 There'll be quite a few details to talk over. 552 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,320 I'm not sure I feel much like eating in this house, Philip. 553 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,320 Yes. 554 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,280 Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not going to start back hungry. 555 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,440 Give me the keys to your car, will you? 556 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,120 It's blocking mine and I'll go down the hill and get a few things for dinner. 557 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:23,120 Really, Philip? 558 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,120 Will you please stop griping? 559 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:25,120 You've won. 560 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:26,120 Now give me the keys. 561 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:27,120 Very well. 562 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:30,000 But I wouldn't try any mad dashes if I were you. 563 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,520 Oh, don't be a fool, Gwen. 564 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,000 No, I don't suppose you would alone. 565 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 She went in. 566 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,320 I took the keys, but first I went around back down the cellar. 567 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,160 I put a lot of old newspapers around the wood pile and doused the whole thing with kerosene. 568 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:51,440 And then I cut a stub of plumber's candle and set it on the papers and lit it. 569 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,240 I knew just about how long it would take the candle to burn down, about 45 minutes. 570 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,480 Then I went out and I got in Gwen's car and I started on the mountain without lights. 571 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:07,320 At the drop above the lake, I put it in low and I cramped the wheels and I jumped out. 572 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:14,680 About 40 feet of water. 573 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,000 Unless somebody told them where to look, they'd never find the car. 574 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,920 And all that hadn't taken more than 15 minutes. 575 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,600 The walk down to the store took about 20 more. 576 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,640 Well, forget something, Dr. Wolf? 577 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:26,840 Yeah, yeah, like a fool. 578 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:27,840 I forgot my tobacco. 579 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,000 I can't get through the night without a pipe. 580 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,920 No, just how it is. 581 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:32,920 Walk down? 582 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,680 Yeah, working up an appetite, you know. 583 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:35,960 There you are. 584 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:37,480 You folks have callers tonight? 585 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,480 No, no. 586 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:39,480 Why? 587 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,040 I thought I saw a car go up your way a while back. 588 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,800 Oh, oh, I saw the lights, but they didn't come up. 589 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,160 There's somebody must have made the wrong turn. 590 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,160 Didn't they come back? 591 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,160 I don't know. 592 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,160 I was out for a spell. 593 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,200 You see that car come back by, Daisy? 594 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,600 Well, you must have seen it all right. 595 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:52,600 It was about an hour ago. 596 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,880 Oh, seems like I did hear a car about that. 597 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,880 Sure, sure, that was it. 598 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:57,880 Yep, pretty sure I did. 599 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,080 Mrs. Dooley don't always see so good, but she hears plenty. 600 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,080 Here, Ma. 601 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,080 Hey, Pa, looky here. 602 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,080 Pa, look it. 603 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,080 Look it up there. 604 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,080 Looks like a fire. 605 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,080 Say, it is. 606 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,080 It is a fire. 607 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,080 Golly, Doc, that looks like your place. 608 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,640 It couldn't be, but it must be. 609 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:15,640 Big too. 610 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,640 We better get up there too. 611 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:17,640 Do you have your, do you have your car? 612 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,640 We'll go in the truck. 613 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,640 It's right outside. 614 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,440 The boys can bring Ma along in the car. 615 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:22,440 You hear that, Ma? 616 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,440 Yeah. 617 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:24,440 Len. 618 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:25,440 Come on, Doc. 619 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,440 Johnny, get out of the car. 620 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:27,440 I sure hope everything's all right. 621 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:28,440 I sort of why. 622 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:40,040 The cottage was all wood and dry, and it was completely gone by the time we got there. 623 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,400 It was the boys who dragged her out of the embers. 624 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,680 I wouldn't look if I was you, Doctor. 625 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:45,680 Oh, Joe. 626 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,680 Must have been quick anyway. 627 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,240 She's burnt almost to nothing. 628 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,880 You better go on, Doc. 629 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:52,880 We'll take charge of everything. 630 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:53,880 All right. 631 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,840 Do you want one of the boys to go with you? 632 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,840 No, no, no. 633 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,000 I'll get in touch with you from town. 634 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,880 I'll make the arrangements down there, and I'll send down for... 635 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:02,880 Sure, sure, sure. 636 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,880 You go on. 637 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:04,880 We'll see to everything. 638 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:05,880 All right. 639 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:14,360 I'm awful sorry, Dr. Wolf. 640 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:16,480 I climbed into the car and I started down the mountain. 641 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,520 When I was around the first bend, I pulled up and stopped. 642 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:25,000 I reached over with one hand and touched the blanket on the floor behind me. 643 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,400 Are you all right, Joe? 644 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,840 Yes, Philip. 645 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,120 I'm quite all right. 646 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:35,480 Gwen. 647 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:50,280 Gwen has never told me how it happened, but of course she killed Joe. 648 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,680 We both killed her. 649 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,720 And now I know that I'm trapped. 650 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,880 I'm hopelessly, irrevocably trapped by the terrible burden of guilt we share between 651 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,440 us as she is. 652 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:10,360 I know now the two people held together by such a frightful bond cannot both go on living, 653 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:13,920 for that bond can be broken in only one way. 654 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,000 One of the two must die. 655 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,480 And so I write this and place it in the hands of my attorney for safekeeping in order that 656 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,960 the true facts be brought to light in the event of such a death. 657 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,600 For no matter how innocent it may appear, no matter how natural the cause, how plausible 658 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,320 the accident, it will be no accident. 659 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,880 It will be murder. 660 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:45,880 Cold-blooded, calculated, deliberate murder. 661 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,400 And now the local news. 662 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:52,440 Dr. Philip Martin, who has been in poor health for the past three months while recovering 663 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:58,560 from an attack of amnesia, died today in his home from an overdose of sleeping sedative. 664 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:17,840 He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gwen Martin. 665 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,200 Thank you, James Stewart, for a splendid performance. 666 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,520 Better performance, Harlow. 667 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,400 Yes, half as like the performance you get when you replace old narrow gap spark plugs 668 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,920 with wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs. 669 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,720 They make an engine idle smoother. 670 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,120 Give better 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work together perfectly because they're a perfect 686 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,320 team. 687 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,080 The lifeline of your car. 688 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,240 So folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. 689 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,600 Ask for and insist on auto light original factory parts at your neighborhood service 690 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,440 station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 691 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,560 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 692 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:26,400 And now here again is Mr. James Stewart. 693 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,640 Well, I want to thank Tony later and his great cast of actors for making my suspense visit 694 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:32,640 so pleasant. 695 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,360 I'm a great suspense fan and like all of you, I'm looking forward to the next week's show 696 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:43,760 when Frederick March appears in Cornell Woolrich story, The Night Reveals, another gripping 697 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,760 study in... 698 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:52,480 James Stewart can currently be seen starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, The 699 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,480 Stratton Story. 700 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,680 Tonight's suspense play was adapted for radio by Robert Richards from an original story 701 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,640 by Vladimir Posner and George Sklar with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted 702 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,320 by Leith Stevens. 703 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,760 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leder. 704 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,280 Next Thursday, same time, hear Frederick March in The Night Reveals. 705 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:19,520 You can buy auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light staple batteries, auto light electrical 706 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,800 parts at your neighborhood auto light dealers. 707 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,280 Switch to auto light. 708 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,280 Good night. 709 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:41,520 CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.