1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,520 Now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present Suspense. 2 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:29,880 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Joseph Cotton in The Day I Died, a suspense play 3 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:37,160 produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. 4 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:42,240 Friends, the 4th of July weekend is coming up with a lot of reckless weekend driving. 5 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,960 So remember, take care, don't take chances. 6 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,880 Reckless driving can put you in a spot you can't pull out of. 7 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,240 Yes, even a dandy dependable Auto Light stay full battery that needs water only three times 8 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,320 a year in normal car use can't help you then. 9 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,980 Your life depends on normal safe car driving. 10 00:00:59,980 --> 00:01:01,800 Be extra safe. 11 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,120 And an Auto Light stay full battery is protected by fiberglass insulation for stronger life 12 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,560 and longer life. 13 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,840 Why in recent tests conducted according to the Society of Automotive Engineers life cycle 14 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,760 standards Auto Light stay full batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without 15 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:19,320 stay full features. 16 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:22,820 So ask your dealer for an Auto Light stay full battery. 17 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:25,880 And this weekend and all the time, take care. 18 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:27,640 Don't take chances. 19 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,240 Be battery right with Auto Light. 20 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:38,000 And now Auto Light presents Mr. Joseph Cotton in the tale well calculated to keep you in 21 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:46,800 suspense. 22 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:47,800 Good morning, Leslie. 23 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:48,800 Good morning. 24 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,160 Why is that window open? 25 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,160 It's getting stuff in here. 26 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,520 I told you to keep it closed. 27 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:53,840 You might be seen from the street. 28 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,520 I haven't gone anywhere near it. 29 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:56,520 No one can... 30 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:57,520 Don't argue with me, Wells. 31 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,240 Keep that window closed and the shade down. 32 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,240 Now, just a minute. 33 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:01,840 I'll give the orders around here. 34 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,720 You're still my wife, Leslie, and this is still my house. 35 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,400 You're forgetting something, aren't you, Wells? 36 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,040 I'm not your wife. 37 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,040 I'm your widow. 38 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:18,520 And it's been my house ever since the day you died. 39 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:19,520 I had no comeback. 40 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,720 I did what Leslie told me because, well, she was right. 41 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,880 A dead man can't put up much of an argument. 42 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,520 He has no authority, not even with his wife. 43 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:30,600 Things had been different once. 44 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,760 I had money, power, and there was nobody in the world who would have presumed to tell 45 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,880 Wells Galloway what to do. 46 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,080 But that was before a certain evening in July up at Lake Latimer. 47 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,160 That was before Rad Tuttle, my law partner, paid me a visit at my cabin up there. 48 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,120 In other words, that was before the day I died. 49 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:55,720 I was alone. 50 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,800 I'd gone to the cabin to be alone, to try to figure things out. 51 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,440 The money was gone by that time. 52 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,960 I'd thrown it away, hundreds of thousands of dollars in good living and gambling. 53 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,080 And in a sense, Leslie was gone too. 54 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,880 Oh, she was still my wife, but the man she loved was Norman Vale. 55 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,200 And I knew it, and she knew I knew it, and she didn't much care. 56 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,960 So this time I'd come up to the cabin without my rifle because I wasn't planning to do 57 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,600 any hunting. 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:26,480 But I brought along a revolver for reasons I didn't admit to myself. 59 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,480 And I left it lying on the table in the living room. 60 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,480 I was staring at it that evening when I heard the cab from the village stopped down on the 61 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:35,480 highway. 62 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:40,720 It was still a little light, and I saw a shock of flaming red hair on the path between the 63 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:41,720 trees. 64 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,760 And I knew my partner was going to honor me with his presence. 65 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,280 I thought I knew why too, and I wasn't wrong. 66 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,000 I couldn't believe my eyes, Wells. 67 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,240 I still can't believe it. 68 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,600 I came all the way up here just to hear you say it isn't true. 69 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,080 You wasted your time, Rad. 70 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,080 It is true. 71 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,920 But good Lord, man, we were appointed trustees of that estate. 72 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,440 Taking those bonds was a criminal act. 73 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:00,440 Why did you do such a thing? 74 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,440 I needed the money. 75 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,080 Well, I hope you're ready to pay it back before the ears get wind of it. 76 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,080 I'm not. 77 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,080 I haven't got a cent. 78 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,080 Then what are you going to do? 79 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,080 I don't know yet. 80 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,080 You certainly don't expect me to... 81 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,800 Is that what you're thinking, Wells? 82 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:12,800 It is, isn't it? 83 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,680 Well, I'll be hanged if I'll do it. 84 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,880 I'm not going to take a beating to cover up for you. 85 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,640 You cash those bonds and you'll make them good. 86 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,240 Or go away, will you, Rad? 87 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,240 What? 88 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:22,240 I said go away. 89 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,360 I don't care what you do about those bonds. 90 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,960 I've got more important things to worry about. 91 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,240 Like your wife, Wells? 92 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,280 Well, don't expect any pity from me there either. 93 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:31,160 I'm not asking you for anything. 94 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,880 You're responsible for losing Leslie. 95 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,880 No man could treat a woman the way you've treated Leslie and get away with it. 96 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:36,880 You made a slave of her. 97 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,200 You practically locked her up in your house. 98 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,920 I think you'd better go away, Rad. 99 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,080 I'll go when I get the money to buy back those bonds. 100 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Not before... 101 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,080 Oh, for the love of... 102 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,840 Here, here's my ring, here's my watch. 103 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:46,840 Take them. 104 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:47,840 They ought to be worth something. 105 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:48,840 Take them and get out. 106 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,360 I'll take them, Wells, but it's not enough. 107 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,560 It's all I've got, I tell you. 108 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,560 Now leave me alone. 109 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,560 All right. 110 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,920 But when I leave here, I'm going to the police. 111 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:56,920 Police? 112 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:57,920 Yes. 113 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,520 If you think I'm going to suffer for your mistakes, you're wrong. 114 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,120 I'm going to bring charges against you before the Prescott Heirs start prosecuting the firm. 115 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:04,120 Why, you dirty... 116 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,840 That was another mistake, Wells. 117 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:09,320 I won't take that either. 118 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,120 He was stronger than I. 119 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,320 His blow caught me on the chin and I was staggering across the room. 120 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,880 I was hushed against the mandrel of the fireplace. 121 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,720 Kerosene lamp had been burning there, toppled off and fell on the floor, but I hardly noticed 122 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,800 it. 123 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,240 My eyes were on something else. 124 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,760 On that revolver that lay on the table by the window. 125 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:29,920 I don't remember picking it up. 126 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,840 I only remember how it felt in my hand. 127 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:33,840 Wells! 128 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:34,840 No, Wells, put it down. 129 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:35,840 Wells! 130 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:44,120 The first shot dropped red to the floor. 131 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:48,320 But I kept on firing because I couldn't stop. 132 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,560 This was power again, the power to kill, and I loved it. 133 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,280 But not for long. 134 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:01,480 With the last bullet, the spell was broken and then was when the fear came. 135 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,680 I'd never known fear before. 136 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,080 I wasn't prepared to deal with it. 137 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,440 It took hold of me and shook me until I was trembling from head to foot. 138 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,080 It brought the sweat popping out of every pore. 139 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,200 It wouldn't let me approach the body, not even to reclaim my ring and watch. 140 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,920 It carried me out of the cabin and sent me stumbling into the darkening woods. 141 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:24,360 I spent the night there, wandering blindly through the blackness. 142 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,760 In my hand, I still carried the gun. 143 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,080 Long before dawn, I began to wonder why I hadn't saved one shell, just one. 144 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:37,000 For if my life had reached dead end a few hours ago, then what would you call this? 145 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,160 Where did I go now? 146 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,600 Now that I was wanted for murder. 147 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,480 It was daylight when I came out of the woods. 148 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,600 There was a truck rumbling toward me. 149 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,560 Desperate men take desperate chances. 150 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:54,280 Give me a lift to the city. 151 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:56,280 Why, sure, mister. 152 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:57,280 Hop in. 153 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:01,080 He'd heard about me. 154 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,800 Wells Galloway was wanted for murder. 155 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:03,800 I knew that right away. 156 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,560 I knew it from the way he looked me over, but it didn't matter. 157 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,860 Nothing mattered. 158 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:09,920 This really was dead end. 159 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,160 I guess you're OK, mister. 160 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,360 Shut the door. 161 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:15,360 What do you mean OK? 162 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,240 Well, I thought maybe you're the guy I heard about back at Lake Latimer. 163 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,240 What guy? 164 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,860 Well, there was a murder back there last night. 165 00:07:22,860 --> 00:07:26,240 One fellow shot another one in the cabin, then burned the cabin down. 166 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,760 Burned it down? 167 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:29,760 Sure. 168 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:30,760 Right to the ground. 169 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,680 Couldn't even have identified the body. 170 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,000 Only they found a ring and a watch on it. 171 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,120 I figured you might be the killer, but he's a redhead. 172 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,160 Poor name Tuttle. 173 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,280 Guy Kill was his law partner. 174 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,640 Big shot with a fancy moniker. 175 00:07:47,640 --> 00:08:04,880 Something like, uh, oh, Wells Galloway. 176 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:11,440 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Joseph Cotton in Radio's outstanding Theater 177 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,440 of Thrills Suspense. 178 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:19,720 Hello there, Harlow. 179 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,400 I hear you're going to speak at the Fourth of July picnic. 180 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,640 I sure am, Hap, and by happy coincidence, I just happen to have a copy of my speech 181 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,640 right here. 182 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:30,640 Uh-oh. 183 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:36,040 Anyway, on this glorious occasion, it behooves us all to think about that dandy, dynamic, 184 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,960 dependable Auto Light stay full battery that needs water only three times a year, normal 185 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:40,960 car use. 186 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,720 On this historic occasion, my friends, let's look at facts. 187 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,560 An Auto Light stay full battery practically eliminates one of the major causes of battery 188 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:49,560 failure. 189 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:54,200 And in addition, it's protected by fiberglass insulation for stronger life and longer life. 190 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,200 My, my. 191 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,880 Think, my friends, longer life. 192 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,880 In recent tests conducted according to the Society of Automotive Engineers life cycle 193 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:07,040 standards, Auto Light stay full batteries gave 70%, yes, 70% longer average life than 194 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,160 batteries without stay full features. 195 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,480 It's inspired, Harlow. 196 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,760 So remember these words that will go ringing down the corridors of time. 197 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,880 An Auto Light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 198 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,880 And at this point, Hap, I take a long cold drink of water. 199 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:23,880 Why? 200 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:24,880 Because I'm thirsty. 201 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,000 Why not an Auto Light stay full battery? 202 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,560 And at this point, suspense. 203 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:37,880 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Joseph Cotton as Wells Galloway 204 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,560 in The Day I Died. 205 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:49,280 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 206 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,880 So the day I killed my partner turned out as far as the law was concerned to be the 207 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:55,280 day I died. 208 00:09:55,280 --> 00:10:00,240 It was my body the police had decided that was lying back there in the charred ruins 209 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:01,760 of my cabin on Lake Latimer. 210 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:11,400 It was Red Tuttle, not Wells Galloway who was wanted for murder. 211 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,240 The truck driver dropped me on the outskirts of the next city. 212 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,480 I went into a barbecue joint, sat down at the counter and pieced the story together. 213 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,780 The kerosene lamp I'd knocked off the mantle. 214 00:10:21,780 --> 00:10:23,920 That was what had started the fire. 215 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:29,200 It was the ring and the watch I'd given Red that enabled the police to identify the body 216 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:34,460 that had been burned beyond recognition to identify it as me, Wells Galloway. 217 00:10:34,460 --> 00:10:36,260 That much was clear. 218 00:10:36,260 --> 00:10:40,280 But what wasn't clear was what to do about it. 219 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,640 What's the next step after you've been pronounced dead? 220 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,880 Well, here's the eggs, fella. 221 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:46,880 Nice day, eh? 222 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:47,880 Yeah. 223 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:48,880 Yes, sir. 224 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:49,880 Beautiful day. 225 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:55,640 And today it's great to be alive. 226 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,440 He made me see the point, the man by an account of the point I'd been missing. 227 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:05,560 It was great to be alive, especially if everybody thought you were dead, especially if the life 228 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:09,480 you'd been living had reached an impasse and you were broke and your wife was in love with 229 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,600 another man and you were wanted by the police and you're only hopefully in a chance to start 230 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,840 over, to start from scratch. 231 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,880 That's what they were giving me, handing it to me on a silver platter, a fresh start, 232 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,360 a clean slate. 233 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,360 I was dead. 234 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,360 Now I could begin living again. 235 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:28,640 Well, now let's see. 236 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,680 Oranges, two eggs, bacon, coffee. 237 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,760 That'll be 80 cents, please. 238 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,480 82 with tax. 239 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,280 But that was another point the counter man made me see. 240 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,800 Subtract 82 cents from $50 and you get $49.18. 241 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,800 Not much to start a new life on, not when you're used to big money. 242 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,520 And big money was the only thing that would make a new life worth living. 243 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:57,120 Little capital was all I needed, but where do you borrow capital when you can't show 244 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,120 your face? 245 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,880 Who'll then money to a corpse? 246 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,600 In the circles where Wells Galloway had moved, friends were not to be trusted. 247 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,800 And as for my wife, as for Leslie... 248 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:08,800 Leslie. 249 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,800 Yes, Leslie. 250 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:10,800 Yes, that was it. 251 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,960 The Wells Galloway brain was beginning to click again. 252 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:20,000 It kept on clicking, keeping pace with the click of the train wheels that carried me 253 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,800 back to the city where the late Wells Galloway had lived. 254 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,800 It was night when I got there. 255 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,120 I was halfway up the walk when the front door opened. 256 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:34,480 I hardly had time to slip behind a lilac bush before Leslie stepped out on the porch. 257 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,960 He was with her, the man she loved, Norman Vale. 258 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,840 You think I'm callous, don't you, Norman? 259 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:41,840 You think I'm too hard. 260 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:42,840 No, of course not, darling. 261 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,240 If you weren't happy with him, naturally you can't be too broken up over his death. 262 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:48,240 Happy? 263 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,240 I was miserable with him. 264 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,240 You know how he treated me? 265 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,240 I wasn't his wife, I was his prisoner. 266 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,240 I hated him, Norman, and I'm not broken up. 267 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,240 I'm glad he's dead. 268 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:11,960 I shut her hand out my spine when I hurt her, but that must have been because the night was 269 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,480 getting cool, for after all, this was just what I was counting on. 270 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,800 My plan wouldn't work if she weren't glad I was dead. 271 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,840 I waited till Norman Vale's car pulled away, then I waited five minutes longer. 272 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:30,160 And finally, I climbed the front steps, put my key in the lock and let myself in. 273 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,160 Who is that? 274 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,160 Who's out there? 275 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,160 Who is... 276 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:34,160 Hello, Leslie. 277 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:35,160 Wells! 278 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:43,120 There had been a time when she would have fainted. 279 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,460 She didn't faint now, but she turned very white, and I noticed when she poured herself 280 00:13:46,460 --> 00:13:49,640 a half tumble of bourbon that her hand was trembling. 281 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,880 Still she managed after one long swallow to say rather evenly, almost casually. 282 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:55,880 Let's have it, Wells. 283 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,760 I'm sure it's a fascinating story. 284 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,400 So I told her, as I talked, I had a queer feeling that she was a stranger. 285 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,520 Something had happened to her since I saw her last, whether it was Norman Vale or whether 286 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,640 it was the fact that she thought I was dead. 287 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:17,680 Whatever it was, she was a different person, a stronger one and braver and harder. 288 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,640 What do you want, Wells? 289 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,600 Accept my condolences, Leslie. 290 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:22,960 It's a tough break. 291 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:23,960 Not at all. 292 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:24,960 I'm tickled pink. 293 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:25,960 I'm sure. 294 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,520 Did you think I would be? 295 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,520 No. 296 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,440 Did you have any illusions I'd be heartbroken when they called and told me that you were 297 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:32,440 dead? 298 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,440 None. 299 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:34,440 You know what I did? 300 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:35,440 A jig. 301 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,360 It's the first time I ever danced in this house. 302 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,920 You should have done that often. 303 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,560 Things might have been better between us. 304 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,040 I couldn't find anything to dance about. 305 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,440 Well, why did you come back? 306 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,440 What are you after? 307 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:46,440 Three guesses. 308 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,440 Knowing you, I only need one. 309 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:49,440 How much? 310 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:50,440 Twenty-five thousand. 311 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,640 What makes you think you'll get it? 312 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,480 I think you could use twenty-five thousand yourself. 313 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:57,760 Maybe you'd better explain. 314 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:58,760 Simple enough. 315 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,880 I'm worth fifty thousand dollars, Dad. 316 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,280 The insurance is payable in one lump sum to you. 317 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,120 It should be coming through in another week or so. 318 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,880 And you're suggesting an even split? 319 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:07,880 Exactly. 320 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,240 I take my house and disappear. 321 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,360 As far as you and the rest of the world are concerned, I'm dead and I stay dead. 322 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,960 You have twenty-five thousand and you're free to marry Norman Vale. 323 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:17,960 I see. 324 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:18,960 Well. 325 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,480 Must have occurred to you I'd prefer to keep the whole fifty. 326 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:23,480 If you could. 327 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:24,480 And why couldn't I? 328 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,360 Suppose I turn you in. 329 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,120 And you're electrocuted for killing Red Tuttle. 330 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,720 I still collect, but there's no split. 331 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,400 And if I'm not electrocuted, if I get life imprisonment? 332 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,200 There would be that risk. 333 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,880 Too big a risk, Leslie. 334 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:39,280 I didn't plan Red's death. 335 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,000 There was nothing premeditated about it. 336 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,680 I killed him in anger. 337 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,840 The state doesn't give the death penalty for that. 338 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:45,840 If you can prove it. 339 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,480 I think I could. 340 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,280 I'd live a long time in prison, Leslie. 341 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,280 I wouldn't like that. 342 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,560 So? 343 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,560 I'm thinking. 344 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,720 You'd stay here in the house till the insurance company pays off. 345 00:15:58,720 --> 00:15:59,720 Is it safer? 346 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:00,720 Is there any place? 347 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:01,720 Safer? 348 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:02,720 You'd have to stay hidden. 349 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:03,720 Of course. 350 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:04,720 You couldn't step out the door. 351 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,720 Not very often. 352 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:06,720 Not at all. 353 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,680 You'd be practically a prisoner in your own home. 354 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,200 If we could do it, it'd be worth it. 355 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,200 Would it? 356 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,200 Yes. 357 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,200 I guess it would. 358 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,200 All right, Wells. 359 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,200 I mean. 360 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,200 I mean all right. 361 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,200 It's a deal. 362 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:24,200 She was smiling when she said it, but after all, why should she be? 363 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,640 Oh, why shouldn't she smile? 364 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,320 Things had turned out well enough for her, considering the fact that I wasn't actually 365 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,320 dead. 366 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,840 This was the next best thing. 367 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,080 Naturally, she smiled. 368 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,520 Her reasons for smiling were perfectly obvious, weren't they? 369 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,720 She went upstairs afterward, and when she came down, she was still smiling. 370 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,920 I thought you must be tired after all you've been through, Wells. 371 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:43,920 I made your bed. 372 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:44,920 Thanks, Leslie. 373 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:45,920 Guest room? 374 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:46,920 No, not the guest room. 375 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,720 Well, if I'm going to stay hidden, that's the most isolated room in the house. 376 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:50,720 Not quite the most. 377 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,720 You're forgetting the attic. 378 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:52,720 The attic? 379 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,400 The whole army caught up there, you'll use that. 380 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:55,760 It's hotter than blazes in the attic. 381 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,200 It's only for a week or so. 382 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,200 You said yourself it was worth it. 383 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,200 Oh, I didn't mean... 384 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,200 No, but I did. 385 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:08,280 Don't you want to go up now, Wells? 386 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,600 That was when I started to catch on. 387 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:15,800 Hadn't occurred to me that she would relish the idea of keeping me as confined as possible. 388 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,720 I was abused as I climbed the stairs. 389 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:19,720 Let her have a fun, I thought. 390 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,840 It wouldn't be so bad. 391 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:27,840 Two days in the attic, well, that wouldn't kill me. 392 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:32,080 The light up there was dim and she must have walked very quietly because I didn't know 393 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,080 she had followed me up the stairs. 394 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:39,080 I didn't know it until I opened the door to the attic room. 395 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,040 And then just behind me, she said... 396 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,280 Go on in, Wells. 397 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:43,280 I have the key. 398 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:44,280 I'll lock the door. 399 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,280 Lock it? 400 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:48,560 Well, there's no need to lock it. 401 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:49,560 I don't agree with you. 402 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:50,560 The cleaning woman comes tomorrow. 403 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:51,560 Well, she won't come up here. 404 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,360 But you might be tempted to go down. 405 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:54,360 Why should I? 406 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:56,320 You'll get lonely, Wells. 407 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,760 You'll get bored and restless and terribly unhappy. 408 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,080 You'll begin to think you'll go crazy if you don't get out. 409 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,040 You'll be desperate for the sound of a human voice. 410 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,040 Believe me, I know. 411 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,040 Now, look here, Lesley. 412 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,040 Please go in, Wells. 413 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:12,160 All right, but there's no reason to take advantage of the spot I'm in. 414 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,160 What do you mean, dear? 415 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,720 I'm protecting you. 416 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,320 I'm carrying out our bog in the one you suggested. 417 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,560 Now go in and let me lock the door. 418 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,000 I wasn't amused anymore. 419 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 This wasn't funny. 420 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,840 This was a new experience, taking orders from my own wife. 421 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,800 And I couldn't say I liked it. 422 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,000 But what could I do? 423 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,560 One quick telephone call, one shout, even to the neighbors in the next house, and my 424 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:35,560 game was up. 425 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,760 I knew that, and she knew I knew it. 426 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,000 So the trump card was in her hand, and she was playing it. 427 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,400 She was playing it slowly and with pleasure. 428 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,880 She was playing it for all it was worth. 429 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:53,920 Good morning, darling. 430 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,560 Morning, morning. 431 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:58,560 It must be almost noon. 432 00:18:58,560 --> 00:18:59,560 I'm starving. 433 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:00,720 Why didn't you come up? 434 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:01,720 I was busy. 435 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:02,720 Norman dropped over to see me. 436 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,720 You didn't tell him? 437 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,720 Of course not. 438 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,120 This is our little secret here. 439 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,120 Did you sleep well? 440 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:08,120 I didn't sleep at all. 441 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:09,120 Worried about something? 442 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:10,120 Sadly not. 443 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:11,120 It was hot up here, that's all. 444 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:14,120 What have I got to worry about? 445 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:15,400 Nothing that I know of. 446 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,600 Well, go and get me something to eat. 447 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:17,600 I'm dying of hunger. 448 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,000 Oh, I hope not, Wells. 449 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,800 I wouldn't want you to die of hunger. 450 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,440 And then I saw it. 451 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,240 I saw it all, the whole thing, the thing I should have seen before. 452 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,480 How could I have missed it? 453 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,120 She was going to kill me, and why not? 454 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:37,120 What was there to stop her? 455 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:38,940 Wasn't I dead already? 456 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:39,940 Who would ever miss me? 457 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:41,960 Who would know what she had done? 458 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,960 She could bury me in the back orchard. 459 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,480 She could burn me in the furnace. 460 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,720 She'd have the whole 50,000, and who would be the wiser? 461 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:57,840 Can't accuse a woman of killing a corpse. 462 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,640 Then on I paced. 463 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:04,640 The room was only eight feet square, but I walked for miles, and the sweat rolled down 464 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:12,520 my face and down my body, and the walls closed in, and I waited for her to return. 465 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,560 What do you want, Leslie? 466 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,240 Well, I thought you'd like to know. 467 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,240 I just came from your funeral. 468 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,520 Oh, they buried Red. 469 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:21,520 Mm-hmm. 470 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,640 It was a beautiful service. 471 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,760 I'm sorry you weren't there. 472 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,240 That was the evening of the second day. 473 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,000 She left my dinner on the table and didn't come back that night. 474 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,280 At least I didn't think she had come back, but when I awoke the next morning, I wasn't 475 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,080 sure. 476 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,720 Sometime toward dawn, a shadow had moved across my dream. 477 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,880 A lock had snapped, a door had opened. 478 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,160 Had it been a part of the dream itself, or had Leslie... 479 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,240 But why should she have come and gone like that? 480 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:55,240 What could she have wanted? 481 00:20:55,240 --> 00:21:00,720 There was nothing of interest to her, nothing, nothing. 482 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:06,420 Except the revolver, the gun I'd emptied into Red Puddle's body. 483 00:21:06,420 --> 00:21:11,080 It was in the pocket of my coat, and my coat was hung over the back of a chair. 484 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,480 I leaped from the bed and went for my coat, the right-hand pocket. 485 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,480 No, it was empty. 486 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:15,480 It must have been the left. 487 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:16,960 The left, the left was empty too. 488 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:17,960 The gun was gone. 489 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:18,960 Leslie had taken it. 490 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,960 And now, and now for the second time in my life, I knew fear. 491 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:24,960 I stumbled toward the door. 492 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,960 I began to pound frantically. 493 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,960 Leslie, Leslie, Leslie! 494 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:38,960 I heard her footsteps when she was just outside hissing at me. 495 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,120 Quiet, you fool! 496 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,120 Let me out of here. 497 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:43,120 I said be quiet. 498 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:44,120 Norman's downstairs. 499 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:45,120 He'll hear you. 500 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:46,120 I don't care who hears me. 501 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,120 Let me out! 502 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:48,120 Leslie, who is that? 503 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:49,120 Here he comes. 504 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:50,120 Will you be quiet? 505 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:51,120 Who's up there, Leslie? 506 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:52,120 It's no one, Norman. 507 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:53,120 It's nothing. 508 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:54,120 Really? 509 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:55,120 Don't lie to me. 510 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:56,120 I heard someone shouting. 511 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:57,120 There's somebody in that room. 512 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:58,120 Who is it, Leslie? 513 00:21:58,120 --> 00:21:59,120 Leslie, answer me. 514 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:00,120 Who's in there? 515 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:01,120 It's... 516 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:02,120 My husband. 517 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:03,120 It's Wells. 518 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:04,120 So now he knew, too. 519 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:21,340 There was silence after she told him, and the sound of footsteps descending the stairs. 520 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:22,340 She was leading him away. 521 00:22:22,340 --> 00:22:26,880 She was going to talk it over with him, tell him her plan, ask his help. 522 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:31,200 They were discussing it now, just how they would do it, just how they would dispose of 523 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,200 me afterward. 524 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,560 I staggered to the window. 525 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,040 She put a lock on it after the first time she'd found it open, and even if she hadn't, 526 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,040 what good would it do me? 527 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,680 Suppose I could climb down somehow. 528 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:42,680 Where was I to go? 529 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,960 The face of a dead man attracts attention on a public street. 530 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:55,240 An hour passed before I heard footsteps again. 531 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,400 Now I thought, now they would do it. 532 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:05,680 The key turned in the lock, but the door didn't open. 533 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,440 They were getting ready, checking the gun. 534 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,140 It was loaded now. 535 00:23:09,140 --> 00:23:12,880 They would empty it into me as I had emptied it into Red Tuttle. 536 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,240 Now they were turning the knob. 537 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,240 They were coming in. 538 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:24,480 But it was only Leslie, and she had no gun, and Norman wasn't with her. 539 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,480 It's all right now, Wells. 540 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,480 What? 541 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,480 Everything is all right. 542 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:28,480 He won't tell. 543 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:29,480 How do you know? 544 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:30,480 He wanted to. 545 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:31,480 He wanted to go to the police. 546 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,080 I persuaded him not to, so don't worry. 547 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,760 Everything's quite all right. 548 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:37,760 Was it? 549 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,720 Then why did she say it like that, and why was she trembling? 550 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,160 Because she was afraid, afraid of what she and Norman Vale were planning to do, afraid 551 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,760 because the next time she came, he would be with her, and they'd kill me. 552 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,920 And I was alone again now. 553 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,720 Oh, what were they waiting for? 554 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,720 Let them come. 555 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:55,720 Let them come and get it over with. 556 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,720 I was tired of this room. 557 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,120 It was getting smaller every minute, smaller and hotter. 558 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:00,120 The heat was unbearable. 559 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,160 I could scarcely breathe. 560 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,560 Why, it was hotter than it had been 10 minutes ago. 561 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:12,520 It was like a furnace, just like a furnace. 562 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,840 I didn't know what it was at first, that sound. 563 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,440 I didn't know until I heard it again. 564 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,560 And then I knew there was no need even to look at the steam radiator in the corner. 565 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,760 They had built a fire, Leslie and Norman Vale, in the middle of the summer. 566 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,600 They had built a fire, and they had built it for me. 567 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,840 Now the sweat really poured. 568 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,640 Now the breath came hard. 569 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,560 No, not alive, I thought. 570 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,560 They wouldn't put me in alive. 571 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,560 Of course they would. 572 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,200 That's the safest way. 573 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,640 Gunshots could be heard, but you can't hear a man being stuffed into a furnace. 574 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,640 Of course they would. 575 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:51,640 No. 576 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,000 No, no, they wouldn't, because I wouldn't let them. 577 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Maybe I had to die, but not that way. 578 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,760 No, no, no, not that way. 579 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,680 There was still the window. 580 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,680 There were still people on the street. 581 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,680 Help! 582 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:13,680 Help me, they're going to break me alive! 583 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,680 Help! 584 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,800 Help! 585 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:18,800 Something happened. 586 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,880 I blacked out. 587 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,640 And when I came to, I was lying on the army cot, the policeman, towered above. 588 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:32,240 He waited until my eyes could focus, and when he said it, he said it very quietly. 589 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,680 You're under arrest, Mr. Galloway, for the murder of your partner, Mr. Tuttle. 590 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:38,680 You fool! 591 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:43,680 You stupid fool! 592 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,960 She was standing in the doorway, and there was another policeman with her. 593 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,000 His arm was linked to hers. 594 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,040 I could almost smile at that, but Norman Vale, where was Norman Vale? 595 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,040 He wanted to kill me too. 596 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,600 He was as guilty as she. 597 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,600 The policeman must have seen the question in my eyes. 598 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:07,880 Your wife is under arrest too, Mr. Galloway, for the murder of Norman Vale. 599 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,880 The murder of... 600 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,240 Leslie, you killed him? 601 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,960 Of course I killed him. 602 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,960 Didn't I tell you he wanted to turn you in? 603 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,960 You think I'd let him rob me of all that money? 604 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:20,960 Oh, you fool! 605 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,960 You fool! 606 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:22,960 You! 607 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:46,480 If you'd only waited ten minutes, there wouldn't have been a trace of him left. 608 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,520 Thank you, Joseph Cotton, for a splendid performance. 609 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:50,520 Well, hello. 610 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,960 I guess that winds up suspense for this season. 611 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,320 It sure does, Hap, but we'll be back in the fall on September 1st. 612 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,200 In fact, same time, same stations. 613 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,960 And gosh, does that make me happy. 614 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:01,960 Oh, it does? 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Selznick, producer of Portrait 640 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,120 of Jenny. 641 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,460 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Ken Pettis and Lou Schofield with music composed 642 00:28:43,460 --> 00:28:46,920 by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 643 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,920 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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