WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.720 Now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present Suspense. 00:17.720 --> 00:28.920 Tonight, Auto Light brings you James Stewart in Consequence, a suspense play produced and 00:28.920 --> 00:31.920 directed by Anton M. 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02:23.120 --> 02:24.120 Can't you take a day or so? 02:24.120 --> 02:25.120 No, not very well. 02:25.120 --> 02:27.520 I've got my plane reservations and everything. 02:27.520 --> 02:32.320 Anyway, I told him I'd be back this week and tonight's just about the deadline if I'm 02:32.320 --> 02:33.320 going to make it. 02:33.320 --> 02:34.320 Well, what time's your plane? 02:34.320 --> 02:35.320 3 a.m. 02:35.320 --> 02:39.160 Say, that reminds me, I can't go aboard in this thing. 02:39.160 --> 02:40.880 Oh, you probably will. 02:40.880 --> 02:43.760 I think you're both kind of stuck on yourselves in those cowboy outfits. 02:43.760 --> 02:45.920 Worse than a couple of kids. 02:45.920 --> 02:48.400 Sure, I'm going to wear mine to the hospital tomorrow. 02:48.400 --> 02:49.400 Oh, fine. 02:49.400 --> 02:50.400 Fine. 02:50.400 --> 02:51.400 No kidding, though. 02:51.400 --> 02:52.400 People will think I'm nuts. 02:52.400 --> 02:53.400 All right, all right. 02:53.400 --> 02:56.840 Now, we'll call the hotel later, have them bring your bags over and you can change here. 02:56.840 --> 03:01.000 Although I would think a cowboy suit would be a sensation in Ecuador. 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 Ted, are you really going to Ecuador? 03:04.000 --> 03:05.840 First, I thought it must be a joke. 03:05.840 --> 03:08.160 No, you've heard me talk about the work Ted's doing there. 03:08.160 --> 03:09.160 I know, but Ecuador. 03:09.160 --> 03:10.880 Well, they've got to have medical care. 03:10.880 --> 03:13.000 I don't know if it's plantation some way. 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 I like it. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.520 I don't see how you stand it. 03:16.520 --> 03:19.080 Living like a hermit, cut off from civilization, not making... 03:19.080 --> 03:21.200 Well, I mean, they can't possibly pay you what's... 03:21.200 --> 03:23.200 No, no, no, no, Gwen. 03:23.200 --> 03:24.200 What time? 03:24.200 --> 03:25.640 Oh, my goodness, I've got to run. 03:25.640 --> 03:26.640 Are you leaving us, Gwen? 03:26.640 --> 03:28.560 I promised Mother I'd come out to the country tonight. 03:28.560 --> 03:31.840 Anyway, I know you two would much rather talk over old times by yourselves. 03:31.840 --> 03:32.840 Oh, I'm sorry. 03:32.840 --> 03:37.640 Well, in case I don't see you again, thanks for everything. 03:37.640 --> 03:38.640 It's been swell. 03:38.640 --> 03:40.960 Well, you're coming back sometime, aren't you? 03:40.960 --> 03:44.160 Maybe five years, maybe ten, maybe never. 03:44.160 --> 03:45.160 Silly. 03:45.160 --> 03:47.080 You come back next year and plan to stay for a while. 03:47.080 --> 03:48.080 Oh, thank you. 03:48.080 --> 03:50.120 I am sorry I have to go, but you two have a nice evening. 03:50.120 --> 03:52.160 There are eggs in the icebox, Phil. 03:52.160 --> 03:53.160 Okay. 03:53.160 --> 03:56.800 You always have to have fried eggs at night when he was in college, Ted. 03:56.800 --> 03:58.440 Yeah, that's Phil all right. 03:58.440 --> 03:59.440 Good night, darling. 03:59.440 --> 04:01.200 Don't bother coming to the door now. 04:01.200 --> 04:02.560 I'll phone you tomorrow night. 04:02.560 --> 04:03.560 Bye, Gwen. 04:03.560 --> 04:04.560 Have a good trip, Ted. 04:04.560 --> 04:05.560 Bye. 04:05.560 --> 04:06.560 Goodbye. 04:06.560 --> 04:11.960 You're a lucky man, Phil. 04:11.960 --> 04:12.960 Am I? 04:12.960 --> 04:17.560 Well, I suppose you know that the main reason I came to this shindig at all was to see you. 04:17.560 --> 04:19.040 So, why me? 04:19.040 --> 04:24.720 It's been a long time since you and I had the same dreams, Ted. 04:24.720 --> 04:26.280 You haven't lost them, though. 04:26.280 --> 04:27.280 You're still in there pitching. 04:27.280 --> 04:28.280 Oh, sure. 04:28.280 --> 04:29.280 Yes, yes. 04:29.280 --> 04:30.280 Private practice. 04:30.280 --> 04:33.840 Two cars in the garage, two chickens in the pot. 04:33.840 --> 04:36.440 That's the kind of ball I've been pitching for the last ten years. 04:36.440 --> 04:41.360 And it's the kind I'll keep on pitching until some other doc says coronary thrombosis and 04:41.360 --> 04:42.360 they carry me out. 04:42.360 --> 04:44.240 Oh, you can't kid me, Phil. 04:44.240 --> 04:45.240 You're happy. 04:45.240 --> 04:50.240 I'd just about given up the idea that there was such a thing as a happy man. 04:50.240 --> 04:52.240 And now you think you've found one. 04:52.240 --> 04:53.240 Oh, I know I have. 04:53.240 --> 04:55.240 I knew it the minute I came into this room. 04:55.240 --> 04:58.240 I knew it the minute I saw her. 04:58.240 --> 04:59.240 Gwen? 04:59.240 --> 05:01.560 Yeah, Gwen. 05:01.560 --> 05:03.560 I hate Gwen. 05:03.560 --> 05:05.560 Phil. 05:05.560 --> 05:07.640 And what's more, she hates me. 05:07.640 --> 05:12.480 Oh, it's nothing that shows on the surface we get along because we have to, because my 05:12.480 --> 05:15.080 reputation would suffer if we didn't. 05:15.080 --> 05:18.080 Phil, you can't be serious. 05:18.080 --> 05:19.080 No? 05:19.080 --> 05:21.680 Why do you think I've given up every dream I've ever had? 05:21.680 --> 05:26.880 Why do you think I spend my life treating the imaginary ills of a lot of wealthy hypochondriacs 05:26.880 --> 05:32.200 so Gwen can have this and Gwen can do that, so Gwen can satisfy every greedy instinct 05:32.200 --> 05:35.680 and every petty rotten ambition that any woman ever had? 05:35.680 --> 05:36.680 Good Lord. 05:36.680 --> 05:37.680 I never realized. 05:37.680 --> 05:38.680 Well, that's it. 05:38.680 --> 05:43.160 You've got to do something about it, Phil. 05:43.160 --> 05:44.160 You've got to get out. 05:44.160 --> 05:46.120 You've got to go to another city, go to another country. 05:46.120 --> 05:47.120 Yeah, yeah. 05:47.120 --> 05:49.120 She'd be after me like a hawk. 05:49.120 --> 05:50.600 She'd have me up before the medical association. 05:50.600 --> 05:55.280 Oh, there are a thousand things she could do and would do. 05:55.280 --> 05:56.800 I've thought of it everywhere there is. 05:56.800 --> 05:57.800 It's no use. 05:57.800 --> 06:02.680 So, oh, it's off my chest. 06:02.680 --> 06:03.680 Now you know. 06:03.680 --> 06:05.960 And I'm sorry I disillusioned you. 06:05.960 --> 06:07.560 Excuse me. 06:07.560 --> 06:09.440 Dr. Martin? 06:09.440 --> 06:13.080 Oh, well, now? 06:13.080 --> 06:15.280 Right, I'll be right down. 06:15.280 --> 06:16.760 You're not going out now. 06:16.760 --> 06:17.760 I want to talk to you. 06:17.760 --> 06:19.120 No, well, I'm still a doctor. 06:19.120 --> 06:20.120 Even Gwen can't stop that. 06:20.120 --> 06:22.960 And I'll be back before you leave, though, if you want to stick around. 06:22.960 --> 06:24.600 I'd so like to ride out the airport with you. 06:24.600 --> 06:26.600 Was the call really important, Phil? 06:26.600 --> 06:27.600 Yeah. 06:27.600 --> 06:29.120 Now make yourself at home. 06:29.120 --> 06:31.000 Fix yourself anything you want in the kitchen. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.360 Only look out for the oven. 06:32.360 --> 06:34.960 It leaks when you turn it off just right. 06:34.960 --> 06:37.000 I won't be long. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Okay. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.200 I'll wait, doctor. 06:40.200 --> 06:42.640 Thanks, doctor. 06:42.640 --> 06:51.200 I kind of hoped you would, Ted. 06:51.200 --> 06:53.080 That was the second thing. 06:53.080 --> 06:54.680 Ted is deciding to stay. 06:54.680 --> 06:57.320 But I didn't know it then. 06:57.320 --> 07:02.960 All I knew was that Jo had called me from the office and she was upset. 07:02.960 --> 07:04.880 Still I decided to walk. 07:04.880 --> 07:07.200 I was upset, too. 07:07.200 --> 07:09.160 When I got there, she was going over the accounts. 07:09.160 --> 07:11.160 Hello, darling. 07:11.160 --> 07:12.880 Hello. 07:12.880 --> 07:15.480 That was nice. 07:15.480 --> 07:16.480 Isn't it always? 07:16.480 --> 07:17.480 Always terribly. 07:17.480 --> 07:19.200 What are you doing? 07:19.200 --> 07:21.440 There isn't all that rush to get the bills out. 07:21.440 --> 07:22.440 There is, though. 07:22.440 --> 07:23.440 For me. 07:23.440 --> 07:24.440 For you? 07:24.440 --> 07:25.440 Uh-huh. 07:25.440 --> 07:26.440 What is it, Jo? 07:26.440 --> 07:27.440 What's the matter? 07:27.440 --> 07:30.240 Phil, I had a talk with Father this evening. 07:30.240 --> 07:31.360 Something about us? 07:31.360 --> 07:32.360 All about us. 07:32.360 --> 07:33.720 Well, he doesn't know anything. 07:33.720 --> 07:34.720 He couldn't. 07:34.720 --> 07:36.480 Nobody, unless you told him. 07:36.480 --> 07:38.160 You know I wouldn't do that, Phil. 07:38.160 --> 07:39.160 I'm sorry, darling. 07:39.160 --> 07:40.160 I know. 07:40.160 --> 07:41.160 It isn't what he knows. 07:41.160 --> 07:42.160 It's what he thinks. 07:42.160 --> 07:44.720 We had an awful row. 07:44.720 --> 07:47.320 He said he'd go to the trustees of the hospital. 07:47.320 --> 07:48.680 He said he'd go to Gwen. 07:48.680 --> 07:49.680 He said that? 07:49.680 --> 07:52.680 That's why I'm getting the bills out for you now. 07:52.680 --> 07:54.400 Because I'm going away. 07:54.400 --> 07:56.520 But you're going where? 07:56.520 --> 07:57.520 How long? 07:57.520 --> 07:58.520 No, darling. 07:58.520 --> 08:00.480 It's not going to be like that. 08:00.480 --> 08:01.480 It's for good. 08:01.480 --> 08:02.480 Jo. 08:02.480 --> 08:03.480 It's for good, Phil. 08:03.480 --> 08:04.920 Jo, I can't let you go. 08:04.920 --> 08:09.880 I know it hasn't been perfect, but I know it's been infinitely worse for you than for 08:09.880 --> 08:10.880 me. 08:10.880 --> 08:12.200 But at least we've had something. 08:12.200 --> 08:16.120 At least I've always known where you are, that you're here on the other side of the 08:16.120 --> 08:18.000 door and I could see you and talk to you. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.040 I can't live with a door between us anymore. 08:20.040 --> 08:21.800 Well, maybe you just don't love me enough to... 08:21.800 --> 08:22.800 No, darling. 08:22.800 --> 08:23.800 Darling. 08:23.800 --> 08:24.800 I don't mean that. 08:24.800 --> 08:27.560 Phil, I'm not playing noble. 08:27.560 --> 08:30.720 This had to happen someday and it has. 08:30.720 --> 08:32.640 And that's all. 08:32.640 --> 08:33.920 I could go with you. 08:33.920 --> 08:35.320 You couldn't do that, Phil. 08:35.320 --> 08:36.320 Why not? 08:36.320 --> 08:37.440 I could change my name. 08:37.440 --> 08:38.640 We could go to another city. 08:38.640 --> 08:39.720 Even another country. 08:39.720 --> 08:40.920 I could get back to research. 08:40.920 --> 08:41.920 I could... 08:41.920 --> 08:42.920 Oh, darling. 08:42.920 --> 08:46.880 It's no go, Phil. 08:46.880 --> 08:50.680 I asked her for a divorce again this morning. 08:50.680 --> 08:53.080 You don't have to tell me the answer. 08:53.080 --> 08:55.660 There is no answer for us, Phil. 08:55.660 --> 08:59.440 Not one that we can take. 08:59.440 --> 09:01.120 And there we are. 09:01.120 --> 09:02.120 Yeah. 09:02.120 --> 09:06.160 Yeah, there we are. 09:06.160 --> 09:07.640 You'd better go now. 09:07.640 --> 09:08.920 I've got all this to do. 09:08.920 --> 09:09.920 Oh, let me help you. 09:09.920 --> 09:10.920 No. 09:10.920 --> 09:11.920 Why not? 09:11.920 --> 09:15.120 I could weaken and then where would we be? 09:15.120 --> 09:16.120 Oh, Joe. 09:16.120 --> 09:17.120 No, Phil. 09:17.120 --> 09:18.120 Please go. 09:18.120 --> 09:19.120 Joe. 09:19.120 --> 09:20.120 Please. 09:20.120 --> 09:21.120 Please. 09:21.120 --> 09:22.120 Please. 09:22.120 --> 09:23.120 All right. 09:23.120 --> 09:24.120 I'll go. 09:24.120 --> 09:36.400 I don't know how long I walked that night or where. 09:36.400 --> 09:39.280 Most men are weak and never know it. 09:39.280 --> 09:44.120 But when you're losing the woman you think you love, that's when you'll find out. 09:44.120 --> 09:49.840 That's when you'll see yourself at last in the pitiless glare of all your poor, frightened, 09:49.840 --> 09:53.480 childish helplessness. 09:53.480 --> 09:59.640 And I walked along and I was sick to the depths of my soul. 09:59.640 --> 10:00.640 And I walked some more. 10:00.640 --> 10:01.640 I don't know. 10:01.640 --> 10:05.120 Somewhere in the distance I heard a siren. 10:05.120 --> 10:09.560 There was a glow against the sky of fire. 10:09.560 --> 10:12.320 And then I realized I was near my home. 10:12.320 --> 10:15.440 And then it wasn't just a glow against the sky of any fire. 10:15.440 --> 10:16.440 It was my own house. 10:16.440 --> 10:17.440 It burned almost to the ground. 10:17.440 --> 10:18.440 This is terrible. 10:18.440 --> 10:19.440 How did it happen? 10:19.440 --> 10:21.960 Somebody said they think it was the gas stove. 10:21.960 --> 10:24.720 Stunned and confused, I began edging through the crowd. 10:24.720 --> 10:26.080 And then there was a sudden stillness. 10:26.080 --> 10:28.200 And a few men took off their hats. 10:28.200 --> 10:30.000 And then I saw it. 10:30.000 --> 10:31.000 A stretcher. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.080 And the black had thrown over the shapeless form. 10:34.080 --> 10:36.640 And the blackened shriveled cowboy boot. 10:36.640 --> 10:38.640 And I remembered. 10:38.640 --> 10:39.640 Ted. 10:39.640 --> 10:41.960 Ted had been in that house. 10:41.960 --> 10:43.240 They just got him out now. 10:43.240 --> 10:44.560 Yeah, what's left of him? 10:44.560 --> 10:46.640 They say you wouldn't hardly know it was a man. 10:46.640 --> 10:49.040 Frantically I started forward and then I stopped. 10:49.040 --> 10:51.440 Because I thought somebody had spoken to me but they hadn't. 10:51.440 --> 10:52.440 They weren't looking at me. 10:52.440 --> 10:55.800 They were looking at the ground and the stretcher. 10:55.800 --> 10:58.000 And that thing that lay there on it. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.360 Dr. Philip Martin. 10:59.360 --> 11:00.920 Yeah, I knew him. 11:00.920 --> 11:02.200 He was a good man. 11:02.200 --> 11:03.960 Oh, poor Dr. Martin. 11:03.960 --> 11:05.560 What an awful way to die. 11:05.560 --> 11:08.720 Suddenly I was shaking with excitement. 11:08.720 --> 11:10.720 I pulled my hat down over my eyes. 11:10.720 --> 11:13.280 I turned up my collar and I moved carefully back through the crowd. 11:13.280 --> 11:17.080 Out into the street and I turned the quarter and then I ran. 11:17.080 --> 11:18.080 Joe. 11:18.080 --> 11:19.080 Joe. 11:19.080 --> 11:20.080 Bill. 11:20.080 --> 11:21.560 Joe, I'm going with you. 11:21.560 --> 11:22.560 Bill, you haven't. 11:22.560 --> 11:23.560 It's all right. 11:23.560 --> 11:24.560 It's all right, Joe. 11:24.560 --> 11:25.560 I'll tell you later. 11:25.560 --> 11:26.560 But we're free, Joe. 11:26.560 --> 11:27.560 We're free. 11:27.560 --> 11:28.560 I'm dead. 11:28.560 --> 11:29.560 I'm... 11:29.560 --> 11:33.720 I mean, I mean, Dr. Philip Martin. 11:33.720 --> 11:34.720 He's dead. 11:34.720 --> 11:50.480 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you James Stewart in Radio's outstanding theater of 11:50.480 --> 11:53.480 thrills, Suspense. 11:53.480 --> 11:56.720 Hello, hello. 11:56.720 --> 12:01.640 Heard you caught a burglar at your house last night. 12:01.640 --> 12:02.920 I sure did, Hap. 12:02.920 --> 12:05.080 There was this man sneaking around my garage. 12:05.080 --> 12:09.380 I said, look here, mister, you want to replace your old narrow gap spark plugs with the sensational 12:09.380 --> 12:12.400 new wide gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 12:12.400 --> 12:16.840 Why those wide gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs will make your engine idle smoother, 12:16.840 --> 12:20.000 give you better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas. 12:20.000 --> 12:21.000 What did he say? 12:21.000 --> 12:25.920 Well, holding him firmly with my thumb between his teeth, I said the newly developed exclusive 12:25.920 --> 12:31.080 10,000 ohm Auto Light Resistor found in no other automotive type spark plug increases 12:31.080 --> 12:33.560 electrode life 200% and more. 12:33.560 --> 12:35.320 You said all that to a burglar? 12:35.320 --> 12:39.720 And then throwing him heavily to the ground on top of me, I said, try it yourself. 12:39.720 --> 12:44.320 See your Auto Light dealer and replace those old narrow gap spark plugs with wide gap Auto 12:44.320 --> 12:46.220 Light Resistor spark plugs. 12:46.220 --> 12:50.720 Your motor will idle smoother, give you better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually 12:50.720 --> 12:51.720 save you gas. 12:51.720 --> 12:52.720 Then what? 12:52.720 --> 12:56.200 Oh, he said he'd stood all he could and he started yelling for the cops. 12:56.200 --> 12:58.640 And I think I'll start yelling for suspense. 12:58.640 --> 13:08.040 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, James Stewart as Phil in Consequence, 13:08.040 --> 13:22.240 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:22.240 --> 13:29.440 There must be something of the criminal in every man because it seemed that I knew automatically 13:29.440 --> 13:33.080 everything I would have to do and how I was going to do it. 13:33.080 --> 13:34.400 Hotel Wilton. 13:34.400 --> 13:36.360 Dr. Wolf, please. 13:36.360 --> 13:37.360 Dr. Theodore Wolf. 13:37.360 --> 13:38.360 Thank you. 13:38.360 --> 13:39.360 I'm sorry, sir. 13:39.360 --> 13:40.360 Dr. Wolf doesn't answer. 13:40.360 --> 13:50.280 Oh, well, say, what's the number of his room again? 13:50.280 --> 13:51.280 I want to drop my note. 13:51.280 --> 13:52.280 Dr. Wolf is in 502. 13:52.280 --> 13:53.280 502. 13:53.280 --> 13:54.280 Thank you very much. 13:54.280 --> 14:04.240 I knew in a big hotel like that the chances of anyone remembering exactly what Ted had 14:04.240 --> 14:06.320 looked like were pretty slim. 14:06.320 --> 14:09.360 And I figured they'd give me the key all right as long as I didn't have to stumble around 14:09.360 --> 14:10.360 asking for the number. 14:10.360 --> 14:14.240 I let myself into 502 and snapped on the light. 14:14.240 --> 14:19.160 I found the plane tickets on the bureau and I pried open his luggage and changed into 14:19.160 --> 14:24.880 one of his suits, put on his hat and overcoat just in case, packed my own things away. 14:24.880 --> 14:27.640 There was a pair of dark glasses on the bureau too. 14:27.640 --> 14:28.640 I put them on. 14:28.640 --> 14:33.240 Then I went downstairs, checked out, paying cash. 14:33.240 --> 14:36.920 I knew he'd bought the plane tickets to the airport and that the travel clerk in the hotel 14:36.920 --> 14:38.720 wouldn't know Ted Wolf from Adam. 14:38.720 --> 14:39.720 Yes, sir. 14:39.720 --> 14:40.720 I'm Dr. Wolf. 14:40.720 --> 14:41.720 I've been staying here at the hotel. 14:41.720 --> 14:42.720 Oh, yes, doctor. 14:42.720 --> 14:46.760 I have a through plane ticket here to Ecuador, Pan American, for tonight. 14:46.760 --> 14:47.760 I want to turn it in. 14:47.760 --> 14:49.760 One moment, sir, that's Dr. 14:49.760 --> 14:52.000 Dr. Theodore Wolf. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.320 Pan American, Wilton Hotel. 14:54.320 --> 14:55.920 Got a through ticket to Ecuador. 14:55.920 --> 14:56.920 Dr. Wolf. 14:56.920 --> 14:57.920 Would you take it? 14:57.920 --> 14:58.920 Thank you. 14:58.920 --> 14:59.920 All right. 14:59.920 --> 15:03.000 That will be quite all right, Dr. Wolf. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.480 And while we're at it, you might as well give me a couple of train tickets. 15:05.480 --> 15:06.480 Yes, sir. 15:06.480 --> 15:07.480 Where to? 15:07.480 --> 15:09.480 I said where to, sir? 15:09.480 --> 15:13.720 Oh, Los Angeles. 15:13.720 --> 15:21.640 We've taken care of everything, a note to my bank supposedly from Ted and closing Philip 15:21.640 --> 15:27.600 Martin's check for $5,000 and a letter in my own handwriting explaining that I'd agreed 15:27.600 --> 15:31.640 to lend him that amount and asking the bank to forward the money to my account in Los 15:31.640 --> 15:34.520 Angeles, my account as Ted Wolf. 15:34.520 --> 15:40.840 And we drafted a letter to the people in Ecuador and we... 15:40.840 --> 15:46.120 Then in Los Angeles, Joe became Mrs. Ted Wolf. 15:46.120 --> 15:48.600 And at first everything clicked. 15:48.600 --> 15:53.080 I got the kind of a job a doctor dreams about where I could write my own ticket and spend 15:53.080 --> 15:55.800 at least half my time entirely on research. 15:55.800 --> 15:59.160 And Joe, Joe started taking courses for a medical degree. 15:59.160 --> 16:01.160 After all, she was only 24. 16:01.160 --> 16:10.400 And then, and then right there, right in broad daylight in the hospital, it happened. 16:10.400 --> 16:11.400 Hello? 16:11.400 --> 16:17.240 Joe, Joe, pack a bag as quick as you can, just enough for two or three days in the mountains. 16:17.240 --> 16:18.760 Now, just as fast as you can. 16:18.760 --> 16:19.760 Phil. 16:19.760 --> 16:20.760 It's Gwen. 16:20.760 --> 16:22.840 I saw her just now upstairs in the reception room. 16:22.840 --> 16:24.120 Gwen, are you sure? 16:24.120 --> 16:25.120 Absolutely sure. 16:25.120 --> 16:26.600 Couldn't it be just a coincidence, Phil? 16:26.600 --> 16:28.840 I mean, couldn't Gwen maybe just have happened? 16:28.840 --> 16:29.840 Maybe, maybe. 16:29.840 --> 16:32.520 Listen, Joe, I've been thinking. 16:32.520 --> 16:33.680 She mustn't know where we go. 16:33.680 --> 16:35.120 That's what I was thinking. 16:35.120 --> 16:38.800 Maybe it would be better if she did know where we were going. 16:38.800 --> 16:39.800 If she didn't. 16:39.800 --> 16:40.800 I don't know. 16:40.800 --> 16:41.800 I don't know. 16:41.800 --> 16:43.360 It may just be a coincidence. 16:43.360 --> 16:48.800 But if it is a showdown, the mountains is a better place than most. 16:48.800 --> 16:49.800 All right. 16:49.800 --> 16:50.800 I'll phone the landlady. 16:50.800 --> 16:51.800 Is that, is that safe? 16:51.800 --> 16:52.800 Now, Gwen won't talk, not until she's sure. 16:52.800 --> 16:53.800 Carlton Apartments, Mrs. Burton. 16:53.800 --> 16:54.800 Hello, Mrs. Burton. 16:54.800 --> 16:55.800 This is Dr. Wolfe. 16:55.800 --> 16:56.800 I wonder if you'd do me a favor. 16:56.800 --> 16:57.800 Why, I'd be glad to, Dr. Wolfe. 16:57.800 --> 17:06.520 We're in the middle of a 17:06.520 --> 17:14.240 town for a couple of days, and I just remembered some friends said they might stop by, and 17:14.240 --> 17:15.920 I thought they might like to join us. 17:15.920 --> 17:17.800 So I wanted them to know where we were. 17:17.800 --> 17:18.800 All right. 17:18.800 --> 17:23.600 Now, maybe you could just stick a note in our door where they'll see it. 17:23.600 --> 17:27.840 We're going to Caribou Lake, and we'll be in the cottage at the very top of the mountain. 17:27.840 --> 17:30.800 It's right straight up a dirt road from the lake. 17:30.800 --> 17:31.800 They can't miss it. 17:31.800 --> 17:36.640 Caribou Lake, the cottage at the top of the mountain up the dirt road from the lake. 17:36.640 --> 17:37.640 Is that all? 17:37.640 --> 17:38.640 Yes. 17:38.640 --> 17:39.640 Thank you, Mrs. Burton. 17:39.640 --> 17:40.640 That's all. 17:40.640 --> 17:41.640 Thank you. 17:41.640 --> 17:47.040 Caribou Lake is nothing more than a general store where you can buy bait and hire boats 17:47.040 --> 17:48.040 and cottages. 17:48.040 --> 17:53.120 At that time of year, there's hardly anybody there except the people who own the store. 17:53.120 --> 17:57.360 The cottage we had was a good three miles away, up a twisting dirt road running above 17:57.360 --> 17:58.360 the lake. 17:58.360 --> 18:02.640 But you could see it very plain, even at night when the lights are on. 18:02.640 --> 18:03.640 We stopped in the store. 18:03.640 --> 18:09.240 We both went in to buy what we needed, food, kerosene, matches, things like that. 18:09.240 --> 18:10.640 Then we went on up the mountain. 18:10.640 --> 18:16.320 By that time, it was almost dark and Joe fixed something to eat, but neither of us could 18:16.320 --> 18:18.040 touch it. 18:18.040 --> 18:23.480 We were watching the road for lights of a car. 18:23.480 --> 18:25.920 It was about half past eight when we saw them. 18:25.920 --> 18:31.200 Then we went on past the store, not stopping, and came on up the mountain. 18:31.200 --> 18:35.200 It couldn't have been anyone else but Gwen. 18:35.200 --> 18:36.200 Well? 18:36.200 --> 18:38.480 Yeah, she didn't waste any time. 18:38.480 --> 18:40.400 What if the car is rented? 18:40.400 --> 18:41.920 No, she'd bring her own. 18:41.920 --> 18:43.520 She loves to drive. 18:43.520 --> 18:46.960 Phil, you're not afraid, are you? 18:46.960 --> 18:47.960 No. 18:47.960 --> 18:53.480 No, not anymore. 18:53.480 --> 18:56.200 I'll go. 18:56.200 --> 18:59.720 Well, this is a surprise. 18:59.720 --> 19:01.160 Hello, Gwen. 19:01.160 --> 19:03.400 Dr. Martin, always poised. 19:03.400 --> 19:06.080 Nothing surprises you, does it? 19:06.080 --> 19:07.720 I suppose it was the check. 19:07.720 --> 19:08.720 Partly. 19:08.720 --> 19:13.080 Then I happened to notice that a Dr. Theodore Wolfe had married a Miss Josephine Reynolds 19:13.080 --> 19:14.080 in Los Angeles. 19:14.080 --> 19:18.880 It did occur to me that your idealistic friend must have been an awfully fast worker. 19:18.880 --> 19:23.840 Well, aren't you and your bride going to ask me in? 19:23.840 --> 19:25.160 Come in, Mrs. Martin. 19:25.160 --> 19:27.800 Thank you. 19:27.800 --> 19:29.640 Quite cozy, aren't you? 19:29.640 --> 19:30.640 We have been. 19:30.640 --> 19:32.440 Well, I'm sorry to break up your little... 19:32.440 --> 19:33.440 All right, cut it out, Gwen. 19:33.440 --> 19:34.440 What do you want? 19:34.440 --> 19:35.800 Dear man, what do you think I want? 19:35.800 --> 19:40.120 In the way things are now, you've got $200,000 worth of life insurance coming to you. 19:40.120 --> 19:41.120 Why don't you let us alone? 19:41.120 --> 19:44.640 Philip, I don't know whether you realize how much worry and anguish you've caused me. 19:44.640 --> 19:45.640 Sure I know. 19:45.640 --> 19:46.640 I know. 19:46.640 --> 19:48.400 I know just exactly how much. 19:48.400 --> 19:52.000 And perhaps you also know exactly how you stand with the law in this matter. 19:52.000 --> 19:55.920 I don't know about all this impersonation business, except it would permanently ruin 19:55.920 --> 19:56.920 your career. 19:56.920 --> 20:00.240 But I do know that the laws covering Bigamy are quite drastic. 20:00.240 --> 20:04.920 Yeah, I used to think that money meant everything to you, Gwen, but I guess it doesn't. 20:04.920 --> 20:08.320 I certainly don't feel called upon to accept rebukes from you, Philip, for anything, not 20:08.320 --> 20:09.660 after what you've done. 20:09.660 --> 20:12.320 I feel that I'm being most generous to both of you. 20:12.320 --> 20:15.080 All right, now just what exactly do you want, Gwen? 20:15.080 --> 20:18.520 Either you come back and we'll explain the whole thing as amnesia or something, or you 20:18.520 --> 20:19.520 both go to jail. 20:19.520 --> 20:20.800 How could you shut up? 20:20.800 --> 20:21.800 Listen, listen. 20:21.800 --> 20:22.800 Just a minute. 20:22.800 --> 20:26.160 Listen, Gwen, does anybody else know about this? 20:26.160 --> 20:27.160 Of course not. 20:27.160 --> 20:28.960 Nobody knows you came out here, or why? 20:28.960 --> 20:30.760 After all, Philip, I do have some pride left. 20:30.760 --> 20:34.120 Just that I was taking a little trip to New York to forget. 20:34.120 --> 20:36.320 New York, huh? 20:36.320 --> 20:40.640 All right, Gwen, just give us a couple of minutes to talk this thing over, will you? 20:40.640 --> 20:41.640 Alone? 20:41.640 --> 20:42.640 Very well. 20:42.640 --> 20:44.800 Although I don't see there's very much to talk about. 20:44.800 --> 20:46.640 Will you go outside or shall we? 20:46.640 --> 20:47.640 I'll go. 20:47.640 --> 20:50.640 I'll wait in the car. 20:50.640 --> 20:52.960 Oh, Phil. 20:52.960 --> 20:54.880 It's all right, Jo. 20:54.880 --> 20:55.880 I don't mind now. 20:55.880 --> 20:56.880 Neither do I. 20:56.880 --> 20:58.760 Do you think you can do it? 20:58.760 --> 20:59.760 Me? 20:59.760 --> 21:01.560 I'll have to have an alibi. 21:01.560 --> 21:02.560 Have you thought? 21:02.560 --> 21:03.560 I've thought about it. 21:03.560 --> 21:05.800 I've thought about it all day. 21:05.800 --> 21:06.800 And it's all right. 21:06.800 --> 21:07.800 It's good. 21:07.800 --> 21:10.200 She'll disappear the same way I did. 21:10.200 --> 21:11.640 A fire? 21:11.640 --> 21:12.640 Yeah. 21:12.640 --> 21:15.040 Only I'll have to be down at the store when it happens. 21:15.040 --> 21:16.960 This place will go up like kindling. 21:16.960 --> 21:19.200 And when they pull her out, they'll think it's you. 21:19.200 --> 21:20.800 Nobody knows she's up here. 21:20.800 --> 21:22.680 And I'll be there to say it is you. 21:22.680 --> 21:23.680 How are you going to... 21:23.680 --> 21:25.920 I've got it all fixed in the cellar. 21:25.920 --> 21:28.760 All you have to do is... 21:28.760 --> 21:31.880 Here. 21:31.880 --> 21:34.360 Use this hatchet. 21:34.360 --> 21:35.960 Can you? 21:35.960 --> 21:37.920 Yes. 21:37.920 --> 21:38.920 I will. 21:38.920 --> 21:42.540 Then go out to the car and get on the floor of the back seat under the blanket, lock it 21:42.540 --> 21:44.240 from the inside. 21:44.240 --> 21:45.880 I'll probably get away right afterwards. 21:45.880 --> 21:47.440 All right, Phil. 21:47.440 --> 21:49.240 I'll see you in the car. 21:49.240 --> 21:51.800 And the whole thing shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. 21:51.800 --> 21:53.440 Phil, you're not afraid? 21:53.440 --> 21:54.440 Are you? 21:54.440 --> 21:55.440 No. 21:55.440 --> 21:56.440 I'm glad. 21:56.440 --> 21:57.440 Gwen? 21:57.440 --> 21:58.440 Yes? 21:58.440 --> 21:59.440 Come on in. 21:59.440 --> 22:00.440 Have you decided? 22:00.440 --> 22:01.440 Yes. 22:01.440 --> 22:02.440 Yes. 22:02.440 --> 22:10.440 Well, you might as well eat with us. 22:10.440 --> 22:12.080 There'll be quite a few details to talk over. 22:12.080 --> 22:14.320 I'm not sure I feel much like eating in this house, Philip. 22:14.320 --> 22:15.320 Yes. 22:15.320 --> 22:17.280 Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not going to start back hungry. 22:17.280 --> 22:18.440 Give me the keys to your car, will you? 22:18.440 --> 22:22.120 It's blocking mine and I'll go down the hill and get a few things for dinner. 22:22.120 --> 22:23.120 Really, Philip? 22:23.120 --> 22:24.120 Will you please stop griping? 22:24.120 --> 22:25.120 You've won. 22:25.120 --> 22:26.120 Now give me the keys. 22:26.120 --> 22:27.120 Very well. 22:27.120 --> 22:30.000 But I wouldn't try any mad dashes if I were you. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.520 Oh, don't be a fool, Gwen. 22:32.520 --> 22:38.000 No, I don't suppose you would alone. 22:38.000 --> 22:39.000 She went in. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.320 I took the keys, but first I went around back down the cellar. 22:42.320 --> 22:46.160 I put a lot of old newspapers around the wood pile and doused the whole thing with kerosene. 22:46.160 --> 22:51.440 And then I cut a stub of plumber's candle and set it on the papers and lit it. 22:51.440 --> 22:55.240 I knew just about how long it would take the candle to burn down, about 45 minutes. 22:55.240 --> 22:59.480 Then I went out and I got in Gwen's car and I started on the mountain without lights. 22:59.480 --> 23:07.320 At the drop above the lake, I put it in low and I cramped the wheels and I jumped out. 23:07.320 --> 23:14.680 About 40 feet of water. 23:14.680 --> 23:17.000 Unless somebody told them where to look, they'd never find the car. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.920 And all that hadn't taken more than 15 minutes. 23:19.920 --> 23:22.600 The walk down to the store took about 20 more. 23:22.600 --> 23:25.640 Well, forget something, Dr. Wolf? 23:25.640 --> 23:26.840 Yeah, yeah, like a fool. 23:26.840 --> 23:27.840 I forgot my tobacco. 23:27.840 --> 23:30.000 I can't get through the night without a pipe. 23:30.000 --> 23:31.920 No, just how it is. 23:31.920 --> 23:32.920 Walk down? 23:32.920 --> 23:34.680 Yeah, working up an appetite, you know. 23:34.680 --> 23:35.960 There you are. 23:35.960 --> 23:37.480 You folks have callers tonight? 23:37.480 --> 23:38.480 No, no. 23:38.480 --> 23:39.480 Why? 23:39.480 --> 23:41.040 I thought I saw a car go up your way a while back. 23:41.040 --> 23:43.800 Oh, oh, I saw the lights, but they didn't come up. 23:43.800 --> 23:45.160 There's somebody must have made the wrong turn. 23:45.160 --> 23:46.160 Didn't they come back? 23:46.160 --> 23:47.160 I don't know. 23:47.160 --> 23:48.160 I was out for a spell. 23:48.160 --> 23:50.200 You see that car come back by, Daisy? 23:50.200 --> 23:51.600 Well, you must have seen it all right. 23:51.600 --> 23:52.600 It was about an hour ago. 23:52.600 --> 23:55.880 Oh, seems like I did hear a car about that. 23:55.880 --> 23:56.880 Sure, sure, that was it. 23:56.880 --> 23:57.880 Yep, pretty sure I did. 23:57.880 --> 24:02.080 Mrs. Dooley don't always see so good, but she hears plenty. 24:02.080 --> 24:03.080 Here, Ma. 24:03.080 --> 24:04.080 Hey, Pa, looky here. 24:04.080 --> 24:05.080 Pa, look it. 24:05.080 --> 24:06.080 Look it up there. 24:06.080 --> 24:07.080 Looks like a fire. 24:07.080 --> 24:08.080 Say, it is. 24:08.080 --> 24:09.080 It is a fire. 24:09.080 --> 24:12.080 Golly, Doc, that looks like your place. 24:12.080 --> 24:14.640 It couldn't be, but it must be. 24:14.640 --> 24:15.640 Big too. 24:15.640 --> 24:16.640 We better get up there too. 24:16.640 --> 24:17.640 Do you have your, do you have your car? 24:17.640 --> 24:18.640 We'll go in the truck. 24:18.640 --> 24:19.640 It's right outside. 24:19.640 --> 24:21.440 The boys can bring Ma along in the car. 24:21.440 --> 24:22.440 You hear that, Ma? 24:22.440 --> 24:23.440 Yeah. 24:23.440 --> 24:24.440 Len. 24:24.440 --> 24:25.440 Come on, Doc. 24:25.440 --> 24:26.440 Johnny, get out of the car. 24:26.440 --> 24:27.440 I sure hope everything's all right. 24:27.440 --> 24:28.440 I sort of why. 24:28.440 --> 24:40.040 The cottage was all wood and dry, and it was completely gone by the time we got there. 24:40.040 --> 24:42.400 It was the boys who dragged her out of the embers. 24:42.400 --> 24:44.680 I wouldn't look if I was you, Doctor. 24:44.680 --> 24:45.680 Oh, Joe. 24:45.680 --> 24:47.680 Must have been quick anyway. 24:47.680 --> 24:50.240 She's burnt almost to nothing. 24:50.240 --> 24:51.880 You better go on, Doc. 24:51.880 --> 24:52.880 We'll take charge of everything. 24:52.880 --> 24:53.880 All right. 24:53.880 --> 24:55.840 Do you want one of the boys to go with you? 24:55.840 --> 24:56.840 No, no, no. 24:56.840 --> 24:59.000 I'll get in touch with you from town. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.880 I'll make the arrangements down there, and I'll send down for... 25:01.880 --> 25:02.880 Sure, sure, sure. 25:02.880 --> 25:03.880 You go on. 25:03.880 --> 25:04.880 We'll see to everything. 25:04.880 --> 25:05.880 All right. 25:05.880 --> 25:14.360 I'm awful sorry, Dr. Wolf. 25:14.360 --> 25:16.480 I climbed into the car and I started down the mountain. 25:16.480 --> 25:20.520 When I was around the first bend, I pulled up and stopped. 25:20.520 --> 25:25.000 I reached over with one hand and touched the blanket on the floor behind me. 25:25.000 --> 25:26.400 Are you all right, Joe? 25:26.400 --> 25:27.840 Yes, Philip. 25:27.840 --> 25:32.120 I'm quite all right. 25:32.120 --> 25:35.480 Gwen. 25:35.480 --> 25:50.280 Gwen has never told me how it happened, but of course she killed Joe. 25:50.280 --> 25:52.680 We both killed her. 25:52.680 --> 25:55.720 And now I know that I'm trapped. 25:55.720 --> 26:00.880 I'm hopelessly, irrevocably trapped by the terrible burden of guilt we share between 26:00.880 --> 26:03.440 us as she is. 26:03.440 --> 26:10.360 I know now the two people held together by such a frightful bond cannot both go on living, 26:10.360 --> 26:13.920 for that bond can be broken in only one way. 26:13.920 --> 26:16.000 One of the two must die. 26:16.000 --> 26:20.480 And so I write this and place it in the hands of my attorney for safekeeping in order that 26:20.480 --> 26:24.960 the true facts be brought to light in the event of such a death. 26:24.960 --> 26:29.600 For no matter how innocent it may appear, no matter how natural the cause, how plausible 26:29.600 --> 26:32.320 the accident, it will be no accident. 26:32.320 --> 26:35.880 It will be murder. 26:35.880 --> 26:45.880 Cold-blooded, calculated, deliberate murder. 26:45.880 --> 26:47.400 And now the local news. 26:47.400 --> 26:52.440 Dr. Philip Martin, who has been in poor health for the past three months while recovering 26:52.440 --> 26:58.560 from an attack of amnesia, died today in his home from an overdose of sleeping sedative. 26:58.560 --> 27:17.840 He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gwen Martin. 27:17.840 --> 27:21.200 Thank you, James Stewart, for a splendid performance. 27:21.200 --> 27:22.520 Better performance, Harlow. 27:22.520 --> 27:26.400 Yes, half as like the performance you get when you replace old narrow gap spark plugs 27:26.400 --> 27:28.920 with wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs. 27:28.920 --> 27:30.720 They make an engine idle smoother. 27:30.720 --> 27:33.120 Give better performance on leaner gas mixtures. 27:33.120 --> 27:34.560 Actually save on gas. 27:34.560 --> 27:37.600 Because auto light resistor spark plugs are ignition engineered. 27:37.600 --> 27:42.120 That's right, by Auto Light, the makers of over 400 products for... 27:42.120 --> 27:44.080 Cars, trucks, airplanes, boats. 27:44.080 --> 27:46.560 In 28 auto light plants from coast to coast. 27:46.560 --> 27:47.600 Yes, siree. 27:47.600 --> 27:52.160 And auto light also makes complete electrical systems for many makes of America's finest 27:52.160 --> 27:53.160 cars. 27:53.160 --> 27:54.160 Batteries. 27:54.160 --> 27:55.160 Spark plugs. 27:55.160 --> 27:56.160 Generators. 27:56.160 --> 27:57.160 Starting motors. 27:57.160 --> 27:58.160 Coils. 27:58.160 --> 27:59.160 Distributors. 27:59.160 --> 28:01.320 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly because they're a perfect 28:01.320 --> 28:02.320 team. 28:02.320 --> 28:04.080 The lifeline of your car. 28:04.080 --> 28:07.240 So folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. 28:07.240 --> 28:11.600 Ask for and insist on auto light original factory parts at your neighborhood service 28:11.600 --> 28:14.440 station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 28:14.440 --> 28:17.560 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 28:17.560 --> 28:26.400 And now here again is Mr. James Stewart. 28:26.400 --> 28:31.640 Well, I want to thank Tony later and his great cast of actors for making my suspense visit 28:31.640 --> 28:32.640 so pleasant. 28:32.640 --> 28:37.360 I'm a great suspense fan and like all of you, I'm looking forward to the next week's show 28:37.360 --> 28:43.760 when Frederick March appears in Cornell Woolrich story, The Night Reveals, another gripping 28:43.760 --> 28:46.760 study in... 28:46.760 --> 28:52.480 James Stewart can currently be seen starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, The 28:52.480 --> 28:53.480 Stratton Story. 28:53.480 --> 28:57.680 Tonight's suspense play was adapted for radio by Robert Richards from an original story 28:57.680 --> 29:02.640 by Vladimir Posner and George Sklar with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted 29:02.640 --> 29:04.320 by Leith Stevens. 29:04.320 --> 29:07.760 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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