1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,720 Suspense! 2 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:27,120 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Edward Arnold in Account Payable, a suspense 3 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:34,160 play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:36,160 It's a pip for pep and power. 5 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:37,160 What is Harlow? 6 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,080 A but for bustling bounce and brawn. 7 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,160 Yeah, but what? 8 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:44,380 It's the famous Auto Light Stay Full Battery, the battery that needs water only three times 9 00:00:44,380 --> 00:00:46,280 a year in normal car use. 10 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,920 Why its larger liquid reserve above the plates as compared to ordinary batteries helps leak 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,680 one of the leading causes of battery failure. 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,760 It has an extra lifeguard too, fiberglass retaining mask to protect every positive plate. 13 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:04,400 Yes, sir, in tests conducted according to SAE life cycle standards, Auto Light Stay Full 14 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,720 Batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without Stay Full features. 15 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,120 So friends, get an Auto Light Stay Full Battery for your car. 16 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,040 And remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 17 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,620 Oh, a reminder, suspense on television may be seen in many parts of the country every 18 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:21,620 Tuesday night. 19 00:01:21,620 --> 00:01:27,400 And now with the count payable and with the performance of Mr. Edward Arnold, Auto Light 20 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:35,680 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 21 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:40,520 When you wait for something, a minute seems like an hour, an hour like a century. 22 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,280 I've heard that all my life, but now waiting for a door to open a door at the far end of 23 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,240 a big office, at last I realized the true meaning of those words. 24 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,800 He's in there, in that office, but he won't be the one to open the door this time. 25 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,800 A dead man doesn't open doors. 26 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,160 That body, sooner or later someone will have to discover that body. 27 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:10,440 But why do I feel it must be later? 28 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,800 It seems like almost all my life I've watched Mr. Waterbury's door, the door at the far 29 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,600 end of the office, not private, bang open and that fighting, sobbing voice. 30 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:24,600 Mr. Baker, Mr. Timothy Baker, will you come in here? 31 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,880 And I'd quickly lay down my pencil, take off my eye shade, pick up the count payable ledger 32 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:35,400 and walk the full length of the office with all eyes upon me until I was at that impersonal 33 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,280 frosted glass door. 34 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,080 As many times as I'd walked down that aisle, as well as I knew these people all around 35 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,120 me, it still made me uncomfortable. 36 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:50,240 And as many times as I'd been in Mr. Waterbury's office, I still trembled slightly inside. 37 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,880 Well, Baker, have you the accounts payable ledger with you? 38 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,160 Yes, Mr. Waterbury, right here. 39 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,920 Drop a chair, Baker. 40 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,680 I want to go over these with you. 41 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,680 I'll stand if you don't mind. 42 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,680 Stand? 43 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:06,680 That's right. 44 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,440 Those chairs are too heavy for you to move, that it? 45 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 Too heavy. 46 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,440 Too heavy. 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:25,240 Waterbury's favorite joke, because I'm a big man, but he's a wiry giant. 48 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,120 There were only two things we had in common, Mr. Waterbury and I. 49 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:38,120 We worked in the same office and we were both sick men. 50 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,400 But after five o'clock, after five o'clock, my life was different. 51 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,320 I shook off my bounds and I was king. 52 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,760 My daughter, my Jessie, would be waiting for me. 53 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,280 And every night I knew that there was no indignity that John Waterbury or anyone else in the world 54 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:54,280 could subject me to. 55 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:02,080 It wasn't more than outweighed by a single smile from my little girl. 56 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,520 Jessie, Jessie, darling. 57 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,520 I'll be with you in a second, Dad. 58 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:08,520 I'm ready. 59 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,520 All right, dear, I'll wash up. 60 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,520 Here, kiss me. 61 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:11,520 Kiss. 62 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:12,520 Get away from me. 63 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,520 My face is all wet. 64 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:14,520 Kiss. 65 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:15,520 All right. 66 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,520 There. 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:23,520 I'm not going to let you until I'm fed and careful. 68 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,520 I got your favorite tonight, lamb stew. 69 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:28,520 Fine. 70 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,520 Yes, there's only one place set, aren't you? 71 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,880 And Mr. Timothy Baker, how can you have such a brilliant, beautiful, thoughtful daughter 72 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:37,880 when you're so absent-minded? 73 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:38,880 Hmm? 74 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:39,880 Wednesday night, remember? 75 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:40,880 Dinner date, remember? 76 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:41,880 Fraternity party, remember? 77 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:42,880 Oh, yes. 78 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:43,880 I completely forgot. 79 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:44,880 Tonight, huh? 80 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:45,880 Well, well, and what time do you leave? 81 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:54,880 Well, I'll have a cup of coffee with you and then I'm going over to Margaret's house and 82 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:55,880 the boys will pick us up there. 83 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:56,880 Ah, that's wonderful. 84 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:57,880 At last, an evening alone. 85 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:58,880 Peace and quiet. 86 00:04:58,880 --> 00:04:59,880 Baker, you won't know what to do with yourself. 87 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:00,880 Wait, you'll sit up and read a mystery book till I come home. 88 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:08,880 And then you'll say, home already? 89 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:09,880 Didn't you enjoy yourself? 90 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:10,880 All right, all right. 91 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:11,880 You win. 92 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:12,880 Who's taking you? 93 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:13,880 I don't know. 94 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:14,880 What? 95 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:15,880 Won't know, in fact, until he picks me up at Margaret. 96 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:16,880 Isn't it exciting? 97 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:17,880 Oh, yes, I'm sure. 98 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,880 Well, all right. 99 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:19,880 Where's my napkin? 100 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:20,880 And sure enough, I was sitting up in bed with the mystery book. 101 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:35,880 When she came home, I heard her close the door and come up the stairs. 102 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:36,880 Jesse. 103 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,880 Dad, put down that book and get to sleep. 104 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,880 Enjoy yourself. 105 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,880 Oh, I had a wonderful time, Dad. 106 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:44,880 Perfectly grand. 107 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,880 It's two o'clock and you've got to get up at seven and so good night. 108 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:54,880 Good night, dear. 109 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,880 I knew that someday Jesse would marry and leave me for a home of her own. 110 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,880 It didn't worry me, although I thought twenty was well around the tender age. 111 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,880 She was so shy this time. 112 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:08,880 No mention of the boy. 113 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,880 Just a new bloom in her cheeks. 114 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,880 A distant look in her eyes. 115 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,880 During the days that followed, I was practically living in the house by myself. 116 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,880 Just was so lost in her own little world. 117 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,880 Then there was a black night. 118 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,880 The night I heard the door slam. 119 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:31,880 It wasn't like Jesse not to say good night, even if it was only a cold word through my closed door. 120 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:37,880 I sat still for a moment, then put down my book and got out of bed. 121 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,880 I could hear Jesse sobbing. 122 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:42,880 I'm sorry. 123 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:43,880 Good night, Dad. 124 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:44,880 Jesse. 125 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:46,880 Jesse, what's the matter? 126 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,880 Nothing. It's nothing. 127 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,880 Jesse, darling, what's wrong? 128 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,880 Dad, I'm so unhappy. 129 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,880 Oh, there, sweetheart. 130 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:58,880 What's the trouble? 131 00:06:58,880 --> 00:06:59,880 Nothing can be that bad. 132 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,880 Nothing in the world should make you cry like that. 133 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,880 It's Bill. 134 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,880 You know, Dad, I'm so in love with him. 135 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,880 I know it and I... 136 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:10,880 Oh, I see. 137 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:11,880 You had a fight. 138 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:12,880 Oh, no. 139 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,880 No, he hasn't done a thing except be sweet and wonderful and thoughtful and kind. 140 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,880 Well, then what's wrong? 141 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:20,880 Hasn't he got a job? 142 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:21,880 He's studying. 143 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:23,880 He'll be a doctor in about another year. 144 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:24,880 No, it's not that. 145 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:25,880 It's... 146 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:26,880 It's his father. 147 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:27,880 His father? 148 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,880 Yes, his father. 149 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:31,880 He didn't know Bill was going with me. 150 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,880 When he met me, when he bumped into us on the street by mistake, he even seemed to like me. 151 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:36,880 Until... 152 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,880 Until what? 153 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,880 Come, come, tell me, tell me. 154 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,880 Look, Dad, Bill's father is Mr. Waterbury. 155 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,880 And when he found out I was your daughter, he... 156 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,880 I felt the blood rush to my head and my body go weak. 157 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,880 Mr. John Waterbury, the daughter of a bookkeeper. 158 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,880 Even this head bookkeeper wasn't fit for his son. 159 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,880 His son was going to be a doctor. 160 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,880 I felt myself going dizzy. 161 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:03,880 Oh, Dad, sit down. 162 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:04,880 Huh? 163 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:05,880 Oh, Dad, it's not another attack, is it? 164 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:06,880 Oh, please, sit here. 165 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:07,880 Oh, I didn't mean to. 166 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:08,880 Oh, I didn't mean to upset you. 167 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:09,880 Oh, Dad. 168 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:10,880 It's all right. 169 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:17,880 I was prepared for the next day. 170 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,880 I knew Mr. Waterbury would call me. 171 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,880 And for the first time in my life, I was prepared to stand up to him. 172 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,880 He could do what he wanted to me, but not to my Jessie. 173 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,880 I'd quit. I'd take her to South America. I'd... 174 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:37,880 Baker, come in here at once. 175 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,880 Well, come in, Baker. 176 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,880 Yes, Mr. Waterbury. 177 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:46,880 Close that door. 178 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,880 Yes, Mr. Waterbury. 179 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,880 Baker, how long have you worked for me? 180 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,880 22 years last November, sir. 181 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,880 And this is how you pay me back? 182 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:57,880 I don't understand. 183 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,880 You understand. 184 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,880 Baker, my son graduates from medical school in just one year. 185 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:04,880 He'll do it without a wife. 186 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,880 I won't have him getting serious with a girl, 187 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,880 especially one who can do him no good. 188 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,880 A doctor, a young doctor, starting out today, needs to marry position, family, society. 189 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,880 Otherwise, he's licked before he begins. 190 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:17,880 You understand me? 191 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,880 Yes, sir. 192 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:20,880 Now, I have nothing against you. 193 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,880 Your daughter is a pretty girl. 194 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,880 But let her go with her own class. Let her stay in her own class. 195 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:26,880 But, Mr. Waterbury... 196 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:27,880 Yes. 197 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:28,880 I... 198 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:29,880 Yes, yes. 199 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,880 What is it? What is it? 200 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,880 I didn't know she was going with your son. 201 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,880 Well, she has been. And I won't have it, you hear? 202 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,880 I won't have it. 203 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,880 Please, Mr. Waterbury, don't get excited. You're asthma. 204 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,880 Oh, blast me, asthma. 205 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,880 I won't have it, you understand? I won't have it. 206 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,880 Please don't excite yourself. 207 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:47,880 I'm not excited. 208 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:48,880 But, sir, I... 209 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:49,880 I'm all right. 210 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:51,880 Oh, needle. 211 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,880 My desk drawer. 212 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,880 Get the needle. 213 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,880 For the past ten years, Mr. Waterbury's asthma attacks 214 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,880 have grown increasingly severe 215 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,880 until he was forced to have an adrenal hypodermic handy at all times. 216 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,880 For just such a case as this, the adrenaline was mashing. 217 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:09,880 The coughing stopped. 218 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,880 He sat back in his chair, white and exhausted. 219 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:13,880 Ah... 220 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:14,880 That's... 221 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,880 That's my final word, Baker. 222 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:18,880 Tell your daughter... 223 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:19,880 Yes, sir. 224 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:20,880 I... 225 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,880 I think I'm going to take the rest of the day off. 226 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,880 Mr. Waterbury, I have to work on some records in the safe. 227 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:28,880 What should I do? 228 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,880 I'll leave it open. 229 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,880 Make sure you close the safe when you leave. 230 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,880 And lock my door. 231 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,880 Yes, sir. 232 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,880 How I hated myself. Weakling coward. 233 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,880 But 22 years is a long time. 234 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:47,880 The ingrained habit of 22 years 235 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,880 kept me the bookkeeper, him the boss. 236 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,880 I opened the safe and took out Mr. Waterbury's private ledger. 237 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,880 In so doing, I knocked over a small lock box. 238 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,880 The key was still in the lock and curiosity got the better of me. 239 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,880 I snapped up the lid and... 240 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,880 $500 bills. 241 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,880 Two thick packets of $500 bills. 242 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,880 I counted 50 bills in each pack. 243 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,880 $50,000. 244 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,880 My mind raced. 245 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,880 I remembered stories, rumors of black market operations and drugs. 246 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,880 If this was the result, no wonder it was in cash and in the box. 247 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,880 Waterbury had been to the bank yesterday 248 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,880 and had come back with the package. 249 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,880 This must be it. 250 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,880 Undeclarable profit. 251 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,880 Money without record, money without claim. 252 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,880 Illegal profit. 253 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:40,880 If it was lost, 254 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,880 no police force could be called in to recover it. 255 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,880 It was... 256 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,880 I was watching someone else. 257 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,880 A tired old bookkeeper, 258 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,880 removing the money from the box, putting it in a large envelope. 259 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,880 He stuffed the lock box with a package of blothers 260 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,880 and I realized that this was me. 261 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,880 This was Timothy Bacon. 262 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,880 I was stealing the money. 263 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,880 I locked the box, replaced it. 264 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,880 I was putting the key in my pocket when he... 265 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,880 I heard a hand on the door. 266 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,880 I raised the seat cushion of a big black leather chair, 267 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,880 jammed the envelope under it and turned to the ledger. 268 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,880 I was working on it. 269 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:17,880 Oh, Baker. 270 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:18,880 Yes, Mr. Waterbury, yes. 271 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,880 I was halfway out of the building. I forgot something. 272 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,880 Did you see a little black metal box in the safe? 273 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,880 Box? By... Oh, oh, oh. 274 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:26,880 Do you mean that one over there? 275 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,880 Oh, yes, that's it. I've got to take it home. 276 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,880 Goodbye, Baker. And don't forget to talk to your daughter tonight. 277 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,880 A final warning, remember? 278 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,880 Yes, Mr. Waterbury, I will. 279 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:37,880 And remember to lock the safe. 280 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,880 He closed the door, and I stood there. 281 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,880 I was thinking very clearly. 282 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,880 He hadn't missed the key. 283 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,880 But before long he would. 284 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,880 And his next move would be to break the box open. 285 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,880 And then? Then he would remember. 286 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,880 He would suspect me. 287 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,880 That money was mine. I'd earned it. 288 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,880 It would take me to South America. 289 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,880 It would take us, Jesse and me, away from all the John Waterburys of the world. 290 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,880 But I needed time. 291 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,880 I had to get out before he discovered his loss. 292 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,880 How? 293 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,880 And then even if I did get away, 294 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,880 he wouldn't know I had done it. 295 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,880 And vindictive, 296 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,880 he'd keep after me as long as he lived. 297 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,880 As... 298 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,880 As long as he lived. 299 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,880 Yes, but... but what if Mr. John Waterbury were to die 300 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:36,880 before he opened that box? 301 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,880 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Edward Arnold in Account Payable, 302 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:59,880 tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 303 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,880 Say, Harlow, did you ever drive a camel? 304 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,880 Drive a camel? Why, I've driven camels to distraction 305 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,880 since I've been spreading the word about auto light stay full batteries 306 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,880 needing water only three times a year in normal car use. 307 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,880 You mean you've given camels a complex? 308 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,880 You bet. The dreary dromedaries are dejected, discouraged, distressed and dismayed 309 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,880 because they can't hold a candle to auto light's larger liquid capacity. 310 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,880 Wilcox the camel baiter. 311 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,880 Auto light stay full batteries need water only three times a year in normal car use, 312 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,880 and it's their extra liquid reserve above the plates 313 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,880 that helps eliminate one of the major causes of battery failure. 314 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,880 Auto light stay full batteries have fiberglass retaining mats 315 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,880 protecting every positive plate, 316 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,880 and they have extra long life too, 317 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,880 70% longer average life in fact 318 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:50,880 than batteries without stay full features according to tests based on SAE life cycle standards. 319 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,880 It's the battery that makes camels cry. 320 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,880 Yes sir, the auto light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 321 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,880 Get one for your car. Remember, you're always right with auto light. 322 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,880 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 323 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,880 Edward Arnold in Account Payable, a tale well calculated to keep you in... 324 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,880 Suspended! 325 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,880 Yes, I had the solution. 326 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,880 Mr. Waterbury would die and I would have $50,000, 327 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,880 a fitting retirement sum for 22 years of hard work. 328 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,880 But, but how? 329 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,880 I looked around the room and knew that I was thinking more clearly, 330 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,880 more quickly than I ever had in my life. 331 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,880 My eyes came to rest upon a group of sample bottles, 332 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,880 samples of new Waterbury drug company products. 333 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,880 I picked up one small bottle marked, 334 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,880 poison. 335 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,880 I felt a sudden rush of blood to my head. 336 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,880 My body seemed to be floating, weak. 337 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,880 I was perspiring but something kept driving me to act, 338 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:01,880 and act quickly. 339 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,880 Poison, poison! 340 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,880 And how to administer it, how to... 341 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,880 The hypodermic needle, of course. 342 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,880 Ho ho ho. 343 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,880 Poison, self-inflicted! 344 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,880 Technical suicide, it would be easy, simple. 345 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,880 I emptied the adrenaline out of Mr. Waterbury's ever-present hypodermic needle 346 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,880 and filled it with the colorless liquid from the bottle in my hand. 347 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,880 This was the poison of freedom. 348 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,880 The poison of my freedom! 349 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:35,880 Mr. Baker, I'm sorry. 350 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:36,880 What is it, Miss Jones? 351 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:39,380 Mr. Baker, I'm in awful trouble. Could you come right away, please? 352 00:16:39,380 --> 00:16:44,080 I've got Abilene, Texas, on the phone, and Mr. Baker, if Mr. Waterbury finds out, I'll get fired. 353 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:45,880 All right, all right. I'll be right there. 354 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,880 Oh, no, no, Mr. Baker, please, please, come now. 355 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,880 Oh, all right. Lock the safe, will you? 356 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,380 Oh, it's your thing. 357 00:16:51,380 --> 00:16:53,880 It was a maddening interruption. 358 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,880 I was shaking with impatience, and yet as I strode to the telephone, 359 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,880 and as I talked to our representative in Texas, I felt a new authority in my manner. 360 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,880 A new strength of character. 361 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,880 Yes, Mr. Peterson. 362 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,880 Yes, the shipment is completely insured. 363 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,880 You haven't a thing... you haven't a thing to worry about. No, sir. 364 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:12,880 Thank you, Mr. Peterson. Goodbye. 365 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,880 You have lots of authority when you want to use it. 366 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,880 Well, Miss Jones, you shouldn't get so excited. It doesn't pay. 367 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,880 Now, may I go back to my work? 368 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,880 Of course, Mr. Baker. 369 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,880 Miss Jones, Miss Jones! 370 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:27,880 Yes? 371 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,880 Miss Jones, this door to Mr. Waterbury's office. I... I can't open it. 372 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,380 Will you tell me to lock it? 373 00:17:31,380 --> 00:17:33,880 Lock it, you stupid fool. Don't you know I... I haven't got the key? 374 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,880 Don't you know nobody but Mr. Waterbury has the key? 375 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,880 But you told me to lock it! 376 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,880 The safe! The safe! I... I told you to lock the safe, not the office. 377 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,880 How am I going to get in there? 378 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,880 Mr. Baker, Mr. Baker, please. Sit here, you purple... 379 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,880 Oh! Mr. Baker! 380 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,880 Oh, I'm sorry. I've got to get me a hand. 381 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,880 Yes, I have painted it. 382 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,880 All I could visualize was that envelope under the cushion of a chair in Mr. Waterbury's office. 383 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:06,880 The envelope was $50,000 so near and I couldn't get into that office until the next day. 384 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:11,880 Why, even the cleaning woman had to get a key for Mr. Waterbury himself to go in there once a week. 385 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,880 Well, I went home. There was nothing else to do. 386 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,880 Do you look off and tired, Dad? Why don't you go to bed? 387 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,880 Oh, I'm really not tired, Jessie. I'm... I'm just a little nervous. 388 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,880 But I've told you, you shouldn't be. 389 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,880 Don't worry about Bill or Mr. Waterbury or me. 390 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:29,880 I won't. 391 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,880 I'll go work things out. You wait and see. 392 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,880 Of course, dear, of course. Yes, I'll get to bed right away. 393 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,880 But it was no use. Sleep just wouldn't come. 394 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,880 No, I could... I could only think of Mr. Waterbury. 395 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,880 Of a lockbox without a key. 396 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,880 $50,000 of the broken heart of my darling Jessie. 397 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,880 And of a hypodermic needle filled with poison. 398 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,880 Finally, it was morning and I was in the office. 399 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:07,880 Mr. Ball, Waterbury was in when I arrived, even though I came a half hour early. 400 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,880 The reports were that Waterbury was a raging man. 401 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,880 I waited on edge. 402 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,880 Baker! Mr. Baker! Will you come in here? 403 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,880 Yes, sir. 404 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:24,880 Baker, when you were working here yesterday, did you see that lockbox? 405 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,880 Of course, Mr. Waterbury. I handed it to you, don't you remember? 406 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,880 That's not what I mean. Did you see the key? 407 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:31,880 Key? 408 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,880 Key, yes, the key to the box. Was it in the safe? 409 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,880 I don't know what you're talking about, sir. I didn't see any key. 410 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:38,880 You fool, didn't you see anything? 411 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:39,880 No, sir. 412 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,880 Baker, come here. Here is the safe. You examine it. 413 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,880 I've got to find that key. I've been all through it. Do you hear? It's not there. 414 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,880 Well, I'll look for it, Mr. Waterbury. 415 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,880 You look there. I'll look here. Maybe I fell under here. 416 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,880 I'm sorry. I can't find anything that even resembles the key. 417 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,880 Never mind. I'll get it. I'll get it. 418 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,880 Yes! This is John Waterbury. 419 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:09,880 What? No. It can't be. 420 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:15,880 It can't be? Thank you. I've got about this right now. 421 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:20,880 Baker, do you know that Baker, my boy Bill... 422 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,880 Mr. Waterbury. 423 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,880 Needle. Get the needle. 424 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,880 I started to open mechanically the desk drawer when I froze to the spot. 425 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,880 Waterbury was writhing on the floor, gasping for breath, turning in deep red color. 426 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,880 I couldn't move. His eyes started to bulge and his face was contorted with agony. 427 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,880 The drawer which held the hypodermic needle was half open in my hand... 428 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,880 when another thought flashed through my brain. 429 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:54,880 Poison can be traced. Death from suffocation in the throes of an asthmatic attack could not be. 430 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,880 Slowly I closed the desk drawer and stood near Waterbury. 431 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,880 He could hardly breathe. He gasped spasmodically. 432 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,880 Years of incest and brow-beating flash before me as I watched him transfixed. 433 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:15,880 Then with one final convulsive gasp, he stopped breathing and fell back. 434 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,880 I waited until every muscle spasm stopped. 435 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,880 I reached over and felt his heart. 436 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:33,880 And I knew that at last Mr. John Waterbury was dead. 437 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:40,880 As soon as I caught control of myself, I backed out of his office as though I was still talking to him. 438 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,880 Yes, Mr. Waterbury. I'll take care of those accounts. 439 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,880 Payable right away, sir. Yes, sir. 440 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,880 Mr. Baker. How is he? You look scared to death. 441 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,880 Oh, he's bad this morning. He's really on the warpath. 442 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,880 He said you're not to bother him under any circumstances. 443 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,880 So don't let any calls through or anything until he gives you the go ahead. 444 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,880 Oh, don't worry. You couldn't get me inside that office, not for anything. 445 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:09,880 I don't blame you. I hope I never have to go in there again. 446 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,880 I came back to my desk. 447 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,880 An hour would give me time, an hour, and I can compose myself so that I can... 448 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,880 ...place that dead body on the floor without exposing myself. 449 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,880 I need that hour. 450 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,880 Peter Galloway, my assistant, came up to me a few moments ago and... 451 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,880 Tim, did you go over that ledger of the old man's yesterday? 452 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,880 Well, I didn't get too much chance, Peter. 453 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,880 Miss Jones called me out of the office. 454 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,880 Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. Miss Jones was in a jam again. You got locked out. 455 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,880 Yes, yes. 456 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,880 Hey, it's lucky you didn't leave that accounts payable ledger in there. 457 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,880 The old man would have blown his top. 458 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,880 Yes, but he blew his top anyhow. 459 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,880 Oh, yeah? I wonder what's eating him. 460 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:49,880 I don't know. 461 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,880 Well, I got to get to that ledger. 462 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,880 Oh, I'll just have to go in and beard the lion in his den. 463 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,880 No, no, no, no, you can't! 464 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:57,880 Why, why, why not? 465 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,880 I mean, I mean, you better wait an hour or so. 466 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,880 I'll go in there in a little while and get it for you. 467 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,880 Yeah, but I need it. 468 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,880 There's something in there I need too. I... 469 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,880 Be a good boy, Peter. Have patience. 470 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,880 You've got a wife and a family. You need your job. 471 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,880 I've worked here for 22 years. I know Mr. Waterbury. 472 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,880 Now, don't go in there just now. 473 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,880 Well, okay, if you say so. What did you leave in there? 474 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,880 Why, I left... 475 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,880 Oh, just something personal. 476 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,880 Oh, oh, I see. 477 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,880 Something personal. 478 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,880 $50,000 that rightfully belonged to me. 479 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,880 After Peter Gotaway went back to his desk, I relaxed for a moment. 480 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,880 And now I... 481 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,880 Why, why am I so frightened? 482 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,880 Sooner or later, someone will have to discover that body. 483 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,880 But why do I feel it must be later? 484 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,880 Bill Waterbury, young Waterbury, my Jesse's bill just came in. 485 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,880 Miss Jones is arguing with him. 486 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,880 Look, Miss Jones, I know you're efficient, I know what a terror dad is, but this is important. 487 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,880 But he doesn't want to be disturbed, Mr. Bill. 488 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,880 I know his blood pressure's up and I know what's causing it. I'm the doctor. 489 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,880 When he sees me, will he explode completely or he'll calm down? 490 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,880 Did he get a phone call about three quarters of an hour ago? 491 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,880 I think he did, but he left in struggle... 492 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,880 Yeah, I know who called him and I know what his trouble is. 493 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,880 You catch me if I come flying out. 494 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,880 Won't even answer. 495 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,880 Well, here goes. 496 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,880 Uh, Mr. Baker, I was... 497 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,880 Shut up. 498 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,880 I'm sorry, I mean... 499 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,880 Can I have some help in here, please? It's Dad, he's just passed out. 500 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,880 Passed out? Here, here, here, here. 501 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,880 Here, uh, golly, take a seat. 502 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,880 Get him up on the floor. 503 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,880 Here, here, here, here. 504 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,880 We ought to get a pillow for his head. Tim, Tim, get a pillow. 505 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,880 A pillow? 506 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,880 Yeah, yeah, get anything. Miss Jones, Miss Jones, go get a glass of water. 507 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,880 How's it coming, Bill? 508 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,880 Where can I find a pillow? 509 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,880 I don't know, take that cushion off the black leather chair. 510 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:54,880 That'll do. 511 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,880 The black leather chair? 512 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,880 Don't bother, Mr. Baker. 513 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,880 What? 514 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,880 Don't bother, it isn't necessary. 515 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,880 My father's dead. 516 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:06,880 Dead? 517 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,880 Must have had a bad attack and couldn't get to his adrenaline. 518 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,880 I know what had happened some day. I just knew it. 519 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,880 What do we do, call the hospital or the police? 520 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,880 I think you'd better call the police and report it. 521 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,880 Mr. Baker, would you... 522 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,880 Would you please... 523 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,880 Now, come on, snap out of it, Tim. Tim, you're shaking like a leaf. 524 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,880 Here, here, I'll do it. Tim, Tim! 525 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,880 Mr. Baker, why are you painted again? 526 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,880 What? No, he'll be all right. He's just painted. 527 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,880 Get a doctor. 528 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,880 Here, let me take care of him. I'm almost a doctor. 529 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,880 I've got to take care of him. He doesn't know it, but he's my father-in-law. 530 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,880 I married his daughter this morning. 531 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:43,880 How is he? 532 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:44,880 When will I open his collar? 533 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,880 Say this is serious. 534 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,880 Then what is it? Is he going to be all right? 535 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:48,880 Poor Mr. Baker. 536 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,880 You think I'd better call somebody? 537 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,880 His pulse is terribly weak. We've got to act quickly. 538 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,880 This isn't a normal painting. Spell it, almost. 539 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,880 Do something, do something, someone. 540 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,880 Roll up a sleeve, Miss Jones. 541 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,880 Adrenaline. A shot of adrenaline will bring him right around. 542 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,880 Galloway, in the top drawer at Dad's desk, there's a little black box and a hypo needle. 543 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,880 It's filled with adrenaline. Hurry up, bring it over here. 544 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,880 That's it. 545 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,880 Now... 546 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,880 Good. 547 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:30,880 He'll be all right now. 548 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,880 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 549 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,880 Tonight's star, Edward Arnold. 550 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:38,880 Oh, I say, Mr. Arnold. 551 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:39,880 Yes, Mr. Wilcock. 552 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,880 I understand you own an orange ranch out San Bernardino way. 553 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:43,880 That's right. 554 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,880 Well, I'm glad to know that. 555 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,880 My lad, you have a very commercial glint in your eye. 556 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,880 What else? Anyhow, on an orange ranch, you're using batteries for trucks, tractors, and stuff like that there. 557 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,880 Your English is wrong, but your assumption is correct. 558 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,880 All right, come on, give me the pitch on your Auto Light staple batteries. 559 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,880 Well, time's limited here, Mr. Arnold, so I'll just repeat. 560 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:09,880 Auto Light staple batteries need water only three times a year in normal car use. 561 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:18,880 That's typical of the superiority Auto Light builds into more than 400 products for cars, trucks, planes, and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 562 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,880 And you'll find the same dependable quality in the complete electrical systems Auto Light makes for many of America's finest cars. 563 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,880 Batteries, spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors. 564 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:34,880 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a perfect team. 565 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:44,880 So friends, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts at your service station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 566 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,880 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 567 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:58,880 Next Thursday, for Suspense, our star will be Miss Betty Davis. 568 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,880 The play is called Good Night, Mrs. Russell, and it is, as we say, 569 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:08,880 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 570 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,880 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald. 571 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,880 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Moraweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 572 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,880 Accountable was an original radio play written by Robert Platt. 573 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:29,880 Edward Arnold appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of The Red Danube, starring Walter Pigeon, Ethel Barrymore, and Peter Lawford. 574 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:36,880 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as Victor Mature, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and Red Skelter. 575 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:48,880 And don't forget, next Thursday, same time, Auto Light will present Suspense, starring Betty Davis. 576 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:55,880 You can buy Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light resistor spark plugs, Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 577 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,880 Switch to Auto Light. 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