1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:22,360 Autolyze and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Burt Lancaster in The Long Wait, a suspense 3 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:29,960 play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,640 Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. 5 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,920 The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh. 6 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,280 Hey, that's not the way hurrah for Thanksgiving Day goes. 7 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,280 What do you mean? 8 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,280 Why I wrote it? 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:41,280 No matter. 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,280 The 1950 version is different. 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,280 Listen. 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,200 Over the river and through the woods the snow is soft and white. 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,480 Grandpa is happy with his jalopy. 14 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:50,640 His spark plugs are autolyte. 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,200 Over the river and through the woods blow high, ye winds blow low. 16 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,080 The cars as snappy as grandma and pappy. 17 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,960 Because autolyte resistor spark plugs get it going faster in cold temperatures. 18 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,960 Give smooth even spark all along the line of fire. 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,800 Let your engine idle smoother, run better on leaner gas mixtures. 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Save gas. 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:08,800 Wait a minute. 22 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,120 These last lines don't rhyme. 23 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,120 Why sure they do. 24 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,960 Your car and autolyte resistor spark plugs are always in rhyme. 25 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,120 In fact, you're always right with autolyte. 26 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,400 And now with The Long Wait and with the performance of Burt Lancaster, autolyte hopes once again 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,680 to keep you in suspense. 28 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:37,400 When I stepped off the train at Grand Central I spotted Len Bush waiting for me. 29 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,920 All the heat of my body sucked into my head. 30 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:41,360 I knew that feeling. 31 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,160 I felt that way every time I wanted to kill a man. 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,160 He waved to me. 33 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,600 I turned my back and I started up the ramp to the upper level of the street. 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,040 He caught up to me and he kept pace with his long shuffling look. 35 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,040 Don't get me wrong, Dan. 36 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,480 I don't want to hound you. 37 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:56,480 And why begin, Lieutenant? 38 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,280 Something you said to the warden before you left. 39 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,640 You want to repeat on it? 40 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,680 I told him I'd be back for the limit. 41 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,360 In this town we don't even like guys to steal apples or push carts. 42 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:07,360 So when it comes to murder... 43 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,360 You can't touch me. 44 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,360 I served my full time. 45 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,360 I'm clean. 46 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,240 We just got to sit back and wait for it to happen. 47 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,720 Your brother died two years ago. 48 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:16,720 Everybody's cooled off. 49 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,920 Why don't you let it lay? 50 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:19,560 I don't cool so easy. 51 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,760 If Richie could come back, he'd say forget it. 52 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,200 Don't tell me what my brother would say. 53 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,360 All right, all right, I won't. 54 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,360 I don't know why I butt into other people's affairs anyway. 55 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,520 It's not my job to worry about things before they happen. 56 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,960 You'll be the first to know, Lieutenant. 57 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,400 You're a jerk if you put your neck in a noose to rub out a dame like Lois Williamson. 58 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:42,520 So long, Dan. 59 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,200 I waited until he was swallowed in the crowd. 60 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,360 Then I went across and down park until I made the car in that hotel on 40th Street. 61 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:49,360 Dan Vetter? 62 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:50,360 Oh, yes. 63 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,360 I'm going to go and get a room for you. 64 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,360 423. 65 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:00,360 The elevator was an old cage that pulled itself up like an old man with asthma climbing stairs. 66 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,040 I caught the reflection of my face in the panel mirror of the cage. 67 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,360 Three years housekeeping with the state had left a mark. 68 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:07,360 A little paler, maybe. 69 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:08,360 Serene was the word for me. 70 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,360 That's the way the reporter put it. 71 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,360 The serene countenance of an alabaster saint showing no trace of the killer rampant under 72 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,360 the shelf. 73 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:12,360 Only I hadn't killed anyone. 74 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:13,360 Yet. 75 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:25,360 I got out of the elevator and I found 423. 76 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,360 Inside I made for the bathroom. 77 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,360 I felt under the washstand. 78 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,360 The gun was there. 79 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,200 Shorty Thompson had it taped neatly in place just like he'd promised. 80 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,200 I pried it loose. 81 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,200 I heard someone at the door. 82 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,200 I yanked it open. 83 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,200 Lois Williams came in. 84 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,200 Not exactly came in. 85 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,200 I was just standing there. 86 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,200 I was just standing there. 87 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,200 I was just standing there. 88 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,200 I was just standing there. 89 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,200 I thought the bowling ball would have been there. 90 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,200 I was just standing there. 91 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,200 I went in the hallway. 92 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,200 I had no idea what exactly came in. 93 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,200 She saw the slew of it along the wall and hung there like a f contrat balloon. 94 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,240 The little rat was as beautiful as ever. 95 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,160 The scared look in her eyes made them brighter and greener. 96 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,880 She was wearing one of those curved gowns that she used to design for herself and was 97 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,240 pointed up neat and tidy. 98 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,980 She stared at the gun in my hand in a kind of a glad hungry way. 99 00:04:03,980 --> 00:04:06,420 Or I'd say to the trouble of coming for me. 100 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:08,860 I'd have found you but thanks anyway. 101 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:11,580 What are you waiting for? 102 00:04:11,580 --> 00:04:12,280 I don't know. 103 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,280 Go ahead. 104 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:13,780 Kill me. 105 00:04:13,780 --> 00:04:14,480 Don't hurry me. 106 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,480 Go ahead. 107 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,080 You want me dead and I don't want to live. 108 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:20,280 You want to die. 109 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:22,280 That's why you came to me. 110 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,780 There's one thing, Dan, about Richie. 111 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,280 I didn't think he'd kill himself. 112 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,580 You figured he'd enjoy looking at his wife and kids through bars for the next ten years, huh? 113 00:04:28,580 --> 00:04:31,080 I've lost every friend I had because of that. 114 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:33,280 Nobody will speak to me, have anything to do with me. 115 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,380 I can't get a job either. No club will hire me. They're all afraid of me. 116 00:04:36,380 --> 00:04:37,480 What do you expect? 117 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,480 They all knew how I felt about my brother. 118 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:40,680 By the way, 119 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,280 how is Tim Grady? 120 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:43,680 I'm gonna look him up too. 121 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:44,680 That's a kick. 122 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,680 I ratted on Richie to save Tim and then he shook me loose. 123 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,980 He didn't want anything to do with this squealer, he said. 124 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,280 And you still love that dirty... 125 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:56,880 You took him to make you miserable enough to want to die, huh? 126 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:57,980 All right, so now you know. 127 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,680 No job, no friend, no Tim. I got nothing to live for. 128 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,480 My brother had everything to live for and you... 129 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,180 killed himself. 130 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:06,780 That saved the post-mortem till after you do the job. 131 00:05:06,780 --> 00:05:08,780 This was the day I caused my brother's death. 132 00:05:09,380 --> 00:05:10,780 But she wasn't scared. 133 00:05:10,980 --> 00:05:12,780 She was begging for it. Something was wrong. 134 00:05:13,180 --> 00:05:15,380 She came closer to me. She looked up at me with that... 135 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,780 that haunted thing all over her. 136 00:05:18,380 --> 00:05:19,780 Desire for an end of life. 137 00:05:20,780 --> 00:05:22,780 I thought of her suddenly dead, still looking at me like that. 138 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,280 I couldn't do it. 139 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:27,480 It wasn't right. 140 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,780 I put my gun back in my pocket. She saw me do it. 141 00:05:29,780 --> 00:05:32,080 Even when I try to get myself killed, I fumble. 142 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:33,580 I'll take care of it myself. 143 00:05:33,580 --> 00:05:35,280 Hey, watch it, you crazy bastard. 144 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:38,580 Come here. I'm allergic to people jumping out of windows. 145 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:40,780 Especially out of a room registered as my name. 146 00:05:40,780 --> 00:05:44,780 Why? Why did you stop me? 147 00:05:44,780 --> 00:05:46,780 You always were a high-strung dame. 148 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:47,780 Now go on, go home. 149 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:50,280 Go home and sleep it off like it was a jag. 150 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,280 I don't have a home. 151 00:05:53,780 --> 00:05:54,780 You really don't, huh? 152 00:05:54,780 --> 00:05:57,780 I've got nothing. I told you I've got nothing. 153 00:05:57,780 --> 00:05:58,780 No. 154 00:05:58,780 --> 00:06:00,780 No, it's no fun this way. 155 00:06:00,780 --> 00:06:03,780 Oh, well. 156 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:04,780 Wait a minute. 157 00:06:05,780 --> 00:06:06,780 I'll take you to a room in the hotel. 158 00:06:06,780 --> 00:06:08,780 Here. Here, have a drink. You'll feel better. 159 00:06:09,780 --> 00:06:10,780 Thanks. 160 00:06:13,780 --> 00:06:14,780 Lois. 161 00:06:16,780 --> 00:06:17,780 Lois, I'd like to help you. 162 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:20,780 You help me? Why? 163 00:06:21,780 --> 00:06:23,780 To tell you the truth, I don't know. 164 00:06:24,780 --> 00:06:25,780 But I know what Richie meant to me. 165 00:06:25,780 --> 00:06:27,780 I was with him when he died. I... 166 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:28,780 I was with him when he died. 167 00:06:28,780 --> 00:06:30,780 I heard the way he called your name. 168 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:31,780 Dan, listen to me. 169 00:06:31,780 --> 00:06:33,780 Before you became a singer, you were a dress designer. 170 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:34,780 What does that prove? 171 00:06:34,780 --> 00:06:36,780 Well, it proves your troubles are over if you want them to be. 172 00:06:36,780 --> 00:06:39,780 The only way my troubles will be over is for you to use that gun. 173 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:41,780 There's a way that doesn't hurt so much. 174 00:06:41,780 --> 00:06:43,780 The nerve doc says there's nothing like starting your own business 175 00:06:43,780 --> 00:06:45,780 or cracking a safe to get your mind off trouble. 176 00:06:47,780 --> 00:06:49,780 What do you know about psych-cliates? 177 00:06:49,780 --> 00:06:51,780 Nothing. But I know plenty about cracking safes. 178 00:06:51,780 --> 00:06:53,780 And I understand business is almost the same thing. 179 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:55,780 Go into business. 180 00:06:55,780 --> 00:06:56,780 I have a business. 181 00:06:56,780 --> 00:06:58,780 Go into business. 182 00:06:58,780 --> 00:07:00,780 I haven't got a dime. 183 00:07:01,780 --> 00:07:03,780 I'll supply the coin. We'll be partners. 184 00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:06,780 Yeah? In what? 185 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:07,780 The dress business. 186 00:07:08,780 --> 00:07:10,780 Dressed in what? 187 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:12,780 The boys would laugh you out of town. 188 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:14,780 Nobody laughs at Dan Vowell. 189 00:07:14,780 --> 00:07:16,780 Well, come on. What do you say? Partners? 190 00:07:16,780 --> 00:07:19,780 I haven't designed a dress for you yet. 191 00:07:19,780 --> 00:07:20,780 Oh, it'll come back to you? 192 00:07:20,780 --> 00:07:22,780 Once you're in business, you're sure to make a lot of new friends. 193 00:07:22,780 --> 00:07:23,780 You get a new slant on life. 194 00:07:23,780 --> 00:07:24,780 I'll tell you what I'll do. 195 00:07:24,780 --> 00:07:26,780 I'll talk to the old gang and they'll give you a break again. 196 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:28,780 If things go on smooth, you'll be happy again. 197 00:07:28,780 --> 00:07:29,780 You think so? 198 00:07:30,780 --> 00:07:31,780 I looked at her a minute. 199 00:07:31,780 --> 00:07:33,780 And then I put across the cliture. 200 00:07:34,780 --> 00:07:37,780 Lois, I'll bet even Tim Grady comes back. 201 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:42,780 I was always baffled by the effect a guy could have on a dame. 202 00:07:43,780 --> 00:07:45,780 I watched Hope push some of the unhappiness off her face. 203 00:07:46,780 --> 00:07:49,780 Mentioned the guy and the dame's heart changes places with her brain. 204 00:07:50,780 --> 00:07:51,780 She hesitated a second. 205 00:07:51,780 --> 00:07:54,780 I'll give it a try. 206 00:07:54,780 --> 00:07:55,780 Good. 207 00:07:56,780 --> 00:07:59,780 Now, do you think you can make it past bridges and open manholes or do you need protection? 208 00:07:59,780 --> 00:08:03,780 I'm all right now. After all, we're partners. 209 00:08:09,780 --> 00:08:11,780 I raised 20 grand and Lois went all out spending. 210 00:08:11,780 --> 00:08:14,780 She threw herself into the job with all she had. She had plenty. 211 00:08:14,780 --> 00:08:16,780 She was going to open on Madison Avenue. 212 00:08:16,780 --> 00:08:18,780 I spent a lot of time with Lois, talking dress shop. 213 00:08:18,780 --> 00:08:21,780 She took me to spots to check style. 214 00:08:21,780 --> 00:08:23,780 The dog show, the art galleries, the opera. 215 00:08:23,780 --> 00:08:25,780 She was beginning to show signs of wanting to live again. 216 00:08:25,780 --> 00:08:27,780 A month after we became partners, she told me. 217 00:08:27,780 --> 00:08:29,780 We can open tomorrow, Dan, except that... 218 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:30,780 Well, I... 219 00:08:30,780 --> 00:08:31,780 Let's have it, Lois. 220 00:08:31,780 --> 00:08:35,780 The money's all run out and Dan, we have to advertise and get a sale for... 221 00:08:35,780 --> 00:08:36,780 What'll it take? 222 00:08:36,780 --> 00:08:38,780 Five thousand? Oh, three thousand. 223 00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:39,780 I'll get it. 224 00:08:39,780 --> 00:08:41,780 Oh, Dan. 225 00:08:43,780 --> 00:08:44,780 She kissed me. 226 00:08:44,780 --> 00:08:47,780 When I fought down the chill that sent along my spine, 227 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:50,780 I said, I want you to be happy, Lois. 228 00:08:54,780 --> 00:08:57,780 I went over to the Ember Club on 60th to raise the money. 229 00:08:57,780 --> 00:08:59,780 I stayed away from the old spots until now. 230 00:08:59,780 --> 00:09:01,780 Lou Henry, you owned the place. Glad handed me when I walked in. 231 00:09:01,780 --> 00:09:04,780 Hey, Dan Barrow. Where you been, boy? 232 00:09:04,780 --> 00:09:05,780 All around and about. 233 00:09:05,780 --> 00:09:08,780 Yeah, you're awful early, Dan. The tables don't open till 10. 234 00:09:08,780 --> 00:09:09,780 I need five grand, Lou. 235 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:12,780 Five grand? Without even a hello to soften me up? 236 00:09:12,780 --> 00:09:14,780 I need it, Lou. 237 00:09:14,780 --> 00:09:16,780 I figured you'd let me have it. 238 00:09:16,780 --> 00:09:18,780 For past favors. 239 00:09:18,780 --> 00:09:23,780 Sure, Dan. Don't mean no more to me than my right arm. 240 00:09:23,780 --> 00:09:25,780 Thanks. Be seeing you. 241 00:09:25,780 --> 00:09:30,780 Hey, Dan. A buddy of your brother's is out there at the bar. Shorty Thompson. 242 00:09:30,780 --> 00:09:32,780 Oh, thanks again. I'd like to see Shorty. 243 00:09:34,780 --> 00:09:36,780 Another one, bartender? 244 00:09:37,780 --> 00:09:38,780 Hello, Shorty. 245 00:09:38,780 --> 00:09:41,780 Oh, you, huh? 246 00:09:41,780 --> 00:09:44,780 Hey, you're in business, Dan. Something real imaginative, huh? 247 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:47,780 Yeah, legitimate, too. Lady's gone. 248 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:49,780 Ain't that a riot? 249 00:09:51,780 --> 00:09:54,780 Shorty was drunk. I don't like to talk to drunks. 250 00:09:54,780 --> 00:09:57,780 I was going to leave when I saw who the guy was on the other side of Shorty. 251 00:09:57,780 --> 00:10:01,780 It was Lieutenant Len Bush. Shorty turned his back on me and spoke to him. 252 00:10:01,780 --> 00:10:04,780 This guy is Richie Barrow's brother as though you didn't know. 253 00:10:04,780 --> 00:10:07,780 A few years ago, the joke was on you, Lieutenant. 254 00:10:07,780 --> 00:10:10,780 You put Dan away for sticking up a jewelry store. 255 00:10:10,780 --> 00:10:14,780 You didn't really believe Dan Barrow would pull anything as crude as that. 256 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:18,780 It was Richie who done it. But Big Brother here took the rap. 257 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:19,780 Shut up, Shorty. 258 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:21,780 Used to be sort of a gag with the boys. 259 00:10:21,780 --> 00:10:25,780 If Richie got shot, Danny Boy would do the bleeding for him. 260 00:10:26,780 --> 00:10:29,780 Everybody knew that Richie was one in a million. 261 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:32,780 Everybody knew that Danny Boy would die for the kid. 262 00:10:32,780 --> 00:10:35,780 Yeah, I'm going to let you in on the secret, Bush. 263 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:39,780 Danny Boy's partner is the dame who killed Richie Barrow. 264 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:40,780 You're drunk, Shorty. 265 00:10:40,780 --> 00:10:42,780 Get away from me, you rat. 266 00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:46,780 I turned back to the bar and I kept my temper in my pocket. 267 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:49,780 If Shorty kept talking like that, I wouldn't be healthy for him. 268 00:10:49,780 --> 00:10:52,780 And I didn't want to do anything to him. He was Richie's best friend. 269 00:10:52,780 --> 00:10:55,780 Two more of Richie's friends walked in while I was downing my drink. 270 00:10:55,780 --> 00:10:57,780 Gus Manning and Tommy Ogle. 271 00:10:57,780 --> 00:10:59,780 I put my glass down and I started to leave. 272 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:00,780 Just a minute, then. 273 00:11:00,780 --> 00:11:01,780 What's on your mind? 274 00:11:01,780 --> 00:11:04,780 The way I get the news, you and Lois have teamed up. 275 00:11:04,780 --> 00:11:05,780 Yeah? 276 00:11:05,780 --> 00:11:07,780 That's all I want to know, you freak. 277 00:11:07,780 --> 00:11:10,780 Hold it, Gus, hold it. Maybe Dan's got it scrambled. 278 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:13,780 Lieutenant, Lois Williams is a dame who pinned the rap on Richie, ain't she? 279 00:11:13,780 --> 00:11:15,780 Any newspaper morgue will give you the answer. 280 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:17,780 Look, I know she testified against him. 281 00:11:17,780 --> 00:11:19,780 And you know she lied about your brother to save Kim Grady. 282 00:11:19,780 --> 00:11:20,780 I know. 283 00:11:20,780 --> 00:11:21,780 Well... 284 00:11:22,780 --> 00:11:23,780 All right. 285 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:27,780 Lieutenant, the boys and I want to have a little talk. 286 00:11:27,780 --> 00:11:29,780 Okay, Dan, it's your funeral. 287 00:11:30,780 --> 00:11:32,780 We all watched Len put on his hat and walk out. 288 00:11:32,780 --> 00:11:35,780 I put my back up against the bar so none of them could get behind me. 289 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:37,780 Well, what are we waiting for? 290 00:11:42,780 --> 00:11:44,780 Cut it out, you guys, cut it out. 291 00:11:45,780 --> 00:11:46,780 Dan, you okay? 292 00:11:46,780 --> 00:11:47,780 Yeah. 293 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:48,780 What happened? 294 00:11:48,780 --> 00:11:50,780 The boys don't like me just now. 295 00:11:50,780 --> 00:11:52,780 They want to keep me from making a girl happy. 296 00:11:52,780 --> 00:11:55,780 Yeah, yeah, the girl responsible for your brother's death. 297 00:11:55,780 --> 00:12:10,780 Yeah, that's right. 298 00:12:10,780 --> 00:12:13,780 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Burt Lancaster in the long wait. 299 00:12:13,780 --> 00:12:19,780 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 300 00:12:19,780 --> 00:12:24,780 And now it's time for my Thanksgiving fairy tale. 301 00:12:24,780 --> 00:12:27,780 Last night my car called me out to the garage. 302 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:29,780 Harlow, I don't feel good. 303 00:12:29,780 --> 00:12:31,780 I think you ought to do something about it. 304 00:12:31,780 --> 00:12:33,780 Well, open your hood and say ah. 305 00:12:33,780 --> 00:12:34,780 Ah. 306 00:12:34,780 --> 00:12:36,780 Oh, your spark plugs need replacing. 307 00:12:36,780 --> 00:12:42,780 I'll buy you a new set of Auto Light Resistor spark plugs with the exclusive Auto Light 10,000 ohm built-in resistor. 308 00:12:42,780 --> 00:12:43,780 Gosh, Harlow, would you? 309 00:12:43,780 --> 00:12:45,780 That's better than turkey on Thanksgiving. 310 00:12:45,780 --> 00:12:47,780 Just think of it. 311 00:12:47,780 --> 00:12:50,780 Turkey on Thanksgiving? 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Some other... 329 00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:14,780 Hello, Tony. 330 00:14:14,780 --> 00:14:15,780 Oh, hello, Glenda. 331 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:16,780 Hello. 332 00:14:16,780 --> 00:14:17,780 What do you want, Dan? 333 00:14:17,780 --> 00:14:18,780 You knocked over the Third National. 334 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:20,780 What is this, a hijack? 335 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:21,780 No. 336 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:23,780 Your dame looks like she needs a lot of clothes. 337 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:25,780 After last night, I figured I'd get plenty of that. 338 00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:27,780 What are you still talking about? 339 00:14:27,780 --> 00:14:28,780 I'm in the dress business, Tony. 340 00:14:28,780 --> 00:14:30,780 Tell the other boys, too. 341 00:14:30,780 --> 00:14:33,780 I went all the day buying their clothes from Lois Williams. 342 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:36,780 Sure. What do I care where they buy them? 343 00:14:41,780 --> 00:14:43,780 The next day I ran into Numbers Johnson. 344 00:14:43,780 --> 00:14:45,780 He ran a policy racket on the East Side. 345 00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:48,780 I don't have a dame, Dan. You know that. 346 00:14:48,780 --> 00:14:50,780 Yeah, I know. It's about time you gave your wife a break. 347 00:14:50,780 --> 00:14:53,780 If I buy her clothes now, she'll expect me to every time I hit. 348 00:14:53,780 --> 00:14:55,780 That's the idea. 349 00:14:55,780 --> 00:14:56,780 Do you see it my way or do I... 350 00:14:56,780 --> 00:14:59,780 I don't figure it. You in the dress business. 351 00:14:59,780 --> 00:15:03,780 Well, if I keep happy in the dress business, I'll stay out of the numbers business. 352 00:15:03,780 --> 00:15:05,780 Which way do you want to play? 353 00:15:05,780 --> 00:15:08,780 The doll will get some new duds. 354 00:15:12,780 --> 00:15:15,780 Once the ball started rolling, it became a mouth. 355 00:15:15,780 --> 00:15:17,780 Lois knew all the angles on female frills. 356 00:15:17,780 --> 00:15:21,780 Her clientele was strictly 10th Avenue, but she turned them out on the Long Island, and they loved it. 357 00:15:21,780 --> 00:15:26,780 One dame tells another, and in no time at all, the shop is jammed with customers. 358 00:15:26,780 --> 00:15:30,780 It was a crime the way the dames spent the dough or the hoods go to to make so much trouble to collect. 359 00:15:30,780 --> 00:15:32,780 Lois clowed like a firefly. 360 00:15:32,780 --> 00:15:34,780 She was the complete businesswoman. 361 00:15:34,780 --> 00:15:37,780 She loved being surrounded with dolls who bounced in and out with business of the shop. 362 00:15:37,780 --> 00:15:39,780 Business that must have madame's attention. 363 00:15:39,780 --> 00:15:42,780 I asked her during a lull. 364 00:15:42,780 --> 00:15:43,780 You happy, Lois? 365 00:15:43,780 --> 00:15:46,780 Yes, Dan. Almost completely. 366 00:15:46,780 --> 00:15:47,780 I do miss the old gang though. 367 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,780 Come in. 368 00:15:49,780 --> 00:15:52,780 Pardon me, Miss Williams. There's a Mrs. Barrell outside. 369 00:15:52,780 --> 00:15:54,780 Let's see if you want to see Mr. Barrell. 370 00:15:54,780 --> 00:15:56,780 Mrs. Barrell? Oh. 371 00:15:56,780 --> 00:15:58,780 Richie's wife, June. 372 00:15:58,780 --> 00:16:00,780 She was supposed to be in the mountains with a kid. 373 00:16:00,780 --> 00:16:02,780 That's why I sent her money. 374 00:16:02,780 --> 00:16:04,780 I didn't want her to know about this. 375 00:16:04,780 --> 00:16:06,780 She was waiting for me on the street. 376 00:16:06,780 --> 00:16:09,780 She had a roll of bills in her hand, and she threw it at my feet. 377 00:16:09,780 --> 00:16:11,780 The roll bounced against the storefront. 378 00:16:11,780 --> 00:16:15,780 I saw the rubber band snap off it, and the bills unwrapped like a sigh of relief. 379 00:16:15,780 --> 00:16:17,780 You think I'd take your money now? 380 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:18,780 Now? What do you mean? 381 00:16:18,780 --> 00:16:19,780 You and Lois. 382 00:16:19,780 --> 00:16:22,780 Okay, so it's tainted money, but you got a kid you need it. 383 00:16:22,780 --> 00:16:24,780 You thought a lot of Richie, didn't you? 384 00:16:24,780 --> 00:16:25,780 As much as you did. 385 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:27,780 Oh, no, much more. 386 00:16:27,780 --> 00:16:30,780 When Richie had pneumonia, I remember how hard you took it. 387 00:16:30,780 --> 00:16:33,780 During the crisis, you wouldn't eat or drink or talk. 388 00:16:33,780 --> 00:16:37,780 I remember thinking if Richie dies, Dan will die too. 389 00:16:37,780 --> 00:16:38,780 Take the money for the kid. 390 00:16:38,780 --> 00:16:42,780 You loved Richie, and now you're sponsoring that woman with his blood. 391 00:16:42,780 --> 00:16:44,780 June, wait! 392 00:16:44,780 --> 00:16:46,780 I'll kill you both! 393 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:49,780 Nobody was going to keep me from doing what I wanted. 394 00:16:49,780 --> 00:16:53,780 Not Len Bush following me around, or Shorty Thompson hating my guts, 395 00:16:53,780 --> 00:16:55,780 or Richie's wife itching to kill me. 396 00:16:55,780 --> 00:16:57,780 I'd given Lois back an urge to live. 397 00:16:57,780 --> 00:17:00,780 I swore I was going to make her happy, and I was on first base. 398 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:02,780 She had a going business. 399 00:17:06,780 --> 00:17:08,780 Lois' old gang hung out in the village, the Bolo Road. 400 00:17:08,780 --> 00:17:12,780 Richie, Lois, and Tim Grady used to pal around with the musicians who played the spot. 401 00:17:12,780 --> 00:17:15,780 They used to work with the musicians, and they'd play the music. 402 00:17:15,780 --> 00:17:19,780 They used to wait until closing time, and then huddle with the jive artists until morning. 403 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:23,780 When Lois and Tim double-crossed Richie, the other kids cut Lois out of their hair, 404 00:17:23,780 --> 00:17:25,780 and Tim Grady left town. 405 00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:29,780 That night I went down to the Bolo Room to get Lois' friends back for her. 406 00:17:33,780 --> 00:17:36,780 I walked in just as the last paying customers left. 407 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:40,780 The kids were getting set for a jam session when they spotted me. 408 00:17:40,780 --> 00:17:42,780 The place became full of hush. 409 00:17:42,780 --> 00:17:45,780 They glared at me, hating me for not daring to open their mouths. 410 00:17:45,780 --> 00:17:48,780 I picked a menu up off a table and I laid it on the bar. 411 00:17:48,780 --> 00:17:51,780 I pulled a pencil out of my pocket. I said, 412 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:54,780 I'm giving a party for Lois Williams. You're all invited. 413 00:17:54,780 --> 00:17:57,780 Saturday night, gold room, carnet hotel. 414 00:17:57,780 --> 00:17:58,780 Whitey Jones? 415 00:17:58,780 --> 00:17:59,780 Yeah. 416 00:17:59,780 --> 00:18:03,780 I'm putting you down, plus your dame and three guests. 417 00:18:03,780 --> 00:18:05,780 Suppose I can't make it. 418 00:18:05,780 --> 00:18:09,780 Then throw away your piano. You'll never play it with broken hands. 419 00:18:09,780 --> 00:18:13,780 Phil Bliss, you, your dame and three friends, and your horn. 420 00:18:13,780 --> 00:18:15,780 Well? 421 00:18:15,780 --> 00:18:17,780 Okay, yeah, sure, baby, sure. 422 00:18:17,780 --> 00:18:22,780 Jerry Barton, Mel Folley, Joe Ward, Les Seltzer, your dames and three friends. 423 00:18:22,780 --> 00:18:24,780 Okay. 424 00:18:24,780 --> 00:18:27,780 And make sure that Lois knows that you're all tickled to death to see her. 425 00:18:27,780 --> 00:18:29,780 I'll be checking you off as you come in. 426 00:18:29,780 --> 00:18:39,780 I'll be seeing you on Saturday. 427 00:18:39,780 --> 00:18:42,780 It was Friday, the day before the party. 428 00:18:42,780 --> 00:18:43,780 Hello? 429 00:18:43,780 --> 00:18:44,780 Hello, Dan. 430 00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:45,780 Yeah? 431 00:18:45,780 --> 00:18:46,780 This is Lou Henry down at the Emerald Club. 432 00:18:46,780 --> 00:18:47,780 Yeah. 433 00:18:47,780 --> 00:18:49,780 Look, I don't want you to think I'm butting into your affairs, Dan, 434 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:51,780 but we'll know how you feel about Lois. 435 00:18:51,780 --> 00:18:52,780 Yeah? 436 00:18:52,780 --> 00:18:55,780 Well, June, your brother's wife's been down here talking to Shorty Thompson. 437 00:18:55,780 --> 00:18:56,780 So what? 438 00:18:56,780 --> 00:18:57,780 She talked Shorty into rubbing out Lois. 439 00:18:57,780 --> 00:18:58,780 What? 440 00:18:58,780 --> 00:18:59,780 He's on his way now. 441 00:18:59,780 --> 00:19:02,780 Remember who told you, Dan? 442 00:19:02,780 --> 00:19:03,780 I dialed my body code on the flyer. 443 00:19:03,780 --> 00:19:06,780 If Shorty touched Lois now, being a buddy of Richie's wouldn't help him. 444 00:19:06,780 --> 00:19:09,780 The same went for June. 445 00:19:09,780 --> 00:19:10,780 Hello? 446 00:19:10,780 --> 00:19:11,780 Lois Williams, Francis? 447 00:19:11,780 --> 00:19:12,780 Give me Miss Williams. 448 00:19:12,780 --> 00:19:14,780 I'll connect you with her office. 449 00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:16,780 Come on, snap it up, snap it up. 450 00:19:16,780 --> 00:19:17,780 I'm ringing, sir. 451 00:19:17,780 --> 00:19:19,780 Come on, Lois, answer, come on. 452 00:19:19,780 --> 00:19:20,780 Miss Williams' office? 453 00:19:20,780 --> 00:19:21,780 Put Lois on. 454 00:19:21,780 --> 00:19:22,780 She's not in. 455 00:19:22,780 --> 00:19:23,780 Who's calling me? 456 00:19:23,780 --> 00:19:24,780 It's me, Dan Varo. 457 00:19:24,780 --> 00:19:25,780 Where'd she go? 458 00:19:25,780 --> 00:19:26,780 Mr. Varo? 459 00:19:26,780 --> 00:19:27,780 You just called Mr. Varo. 460 00:19:27,780 --> 00:19:28,780 What do you mean, I just called? 461 00:19:28,780 --> 00:19:31,780 Someone called, said it was you, and spoke to Miss Williams. 462 00:19:31,780 --> 00:19:32,780 I wonder why they do that. 463 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:33,780 Well, never mind that. 464 00:19:33,780 --> 00:19:34,780 What did she, what did he say? 465 00:19:34,780 --> 00:19:38,780 Miss Williams always goes to the Museum of Art at this time of day to copy designs. 466 00:19:38,780 --> 00:19:40,780 She made an appointment to meet you. 467 00:19:40,780 --> 00:19:42,780 I mean, the man who called at the museum. 468 00:19:42,780 --> 00:19:43,780 She just left. 469 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:46,780 I didn't wait for the elevator. 470 00:19:46,780 --> 00:19:48,780 I took the stairs three at a time going down. 471 00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:49,780 I came out on the street. 472 00:19:49,780 --> 00:19:51,780 The cab was idling on the other side of the avenue. 473 00:19:51,780 --> 00:19:53,780 I come to the traffic to get to it. 474 00:19:53,780 --> 00:19:56,780 I hopped into the cab, and for five bucks the hacky crashed light all the way. 475 00:19:56,780 --> 00:19:58,780 I was at the museum and nothing flared. 476 00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:00,780 The length of the building was quiet as a wall. 477 00:20:00,780 --> 00:20:03,780 I cursed myself for not asking what room Lois would be in. 478 00:20:03,780 --> 00:20:05,780 Here, here, you can't run here. 479 00:20:05,780 --> 00:20:08,780 Did you see a girl with, with drawing papers and crayons, tall, beautiful, well-stacked? 480 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:09,780 I see hundreds of them. 481 00:20:09,780 --> 00:20:11,780 Well, where would she go to draw designs? 482 00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:12,780 The armor room, maybe. 483 00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:15,780 The Egyptian room, or the famous painting. 484 00:20:15,780 --> 00:20:17,780 Second floor. 485 00:20:17,780 --> 00:20:19,780 I had visions of a dead in some corner. 486 00:20:19,780 --> 00:20:21,780 I thought of her all twisted in the heat. 487 00:20:21,780 --> 00:20:23,780 I hit the Egyptian room on the run, and I stopped short. 488 00:20:23,780 --> 00:20:25,780 Lois was standing at the other end. 489 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:27,780 She was behind a mummy case. 490 00:20:27,780 --> 00:20:28,780 On the other side of it was Shorty. 491 00:20:28,780 --> 00:20:29,780 He had a knife in his hand. 492 00:20:29,780 --> 00:20:30,780 They didn't see me. 493 00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:33,780 I sneaked up on them and I watched Lois fighting to move her lips. 494 00:20:33,780 --> 00:20:38,780 Lois, run, run to me. 495 00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:39,780 Dad! 496 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:40,780 Here it is. 497 00:20:40,780 --> 00:20:42,780 I hate to do this, Shorty. 498 00:20:42,780 --> 00:20:46,780 Dad, he tried to kill me. 499 00:20:46,780 --> 00:20:48,780 I have to keep up with you, Dan. 500 00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:49,780 Still with me, Lieutenant? 501 00:20:49,780 --> 00:20:51,780 I always keep an eye on my friends. 502 00:20:51,780 --> 00:20:52,780 Who's this laying here? 503 00:20:52,780 --> 00:20:54,780 Shorty Thompson. 504 00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:55,780 You better take him in. 505 00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:57,780 He tried to kill Miss Williams. 506 00:20:57,780 --> 00:20:58,780 Yeah, I guess I'd better. 507 00:20:58,780 --> 00:20:59,780 Come on, Lois. 508 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:00,780 By the way, Bush. 509 00:21:00,780 --> 00:21:01,780 Huh? 510 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:03,780 You better pick up June Varrell, too. 511 00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:04,780 She was in on it. 512 00:21:04,780 --> 00:21:07,780 In case you don't know who she is, she's my sister-in-law. 513 00:21:15,780 --> 00:21:18,780 With June and Shorty out of the way for a while, nothing was going to upset things now. 514 00:21:18,780 --> 00:21:21,780 The party Saturday night in the gold room was a big success. 515 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:25,780 Every time somebody tried to make a break for home, I beat them to the exit and insisted they stay. 516 00:21:25,780 --> 00:21:29,780 The place was full of smiles and hot adudes, and only Lois didn't know they were phoning. 517 00:21:29,780 --> 00:21:35,780 She was a dream in a green, backless evening gown, held up by a deep breath and an anxious look. 518 00:21:35,780 --> 00:21:37,780 She bubbled around, greeting people. 519 00:21:37,780 --> 00:21:38,780 Thank you, I enjoyed it. 520 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:39,780 Lois? 521 00:21:39,780 --> 00:21:41,780 Dan, where have you been hiding? 522 00:21:41,780 --> 00:21:42,780 No place. 523 00:21:42,780 --> 00:21:43,780 Tell me, Lois, you happy? 524 00:21:43,780 --> 00:21:44,780 Dan. 525 00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:46,780 Just be happy, that's all I ask. 526 00:21:46,780 --> 00:21:47,780 Just be happy. 527 00:21:47,780 --> 00:21:49,780 I'm doing like this, Dan. 528 00:21:49,780 --> 00:21:51,780 Is there any guy here you like? Anybody? 529 00:21:51,780 --> 00:21:56,780 No, there's just one guy for me, Dan. He's not here. 530 00:21:56,780 --> 00:22:00,780 But he is, he's back in town. He's at the Sphinx Hotel. 531 00:22:00,780 --> 00:22:01,780 Tim. 532 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:04,780 Yeah. Lois, I think I'll drop over and see him now. 533 00:22:04,780 --> 00:22:06,780 Dan, you're not going to do anything? 534 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:09,780 Don't worry, Lois. I'm going to fix everything. 535 00:22:09,780 --> 00:22:14,780 She had her job, her friends. Just one thing more. Just Tim Grady to make the picture complete. 536 00:22:14,780 --> 00:22:21,780 The Sphinx Hotel was over in 6th Avenue. I walked. I wanted time to cool off. I wanted to do things right. 537 00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:22,780 Yes? 538 00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:23,780 Mr. Grady's room? 539 00:22:23,780 --> 00:22:25,780 One moment, please. 540 00:22:25,780 --> 00:22:27,780 Hotel? 541 00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:29,780 The Sphinx Hotel. 542 00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:30,780 Yes? 543 00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:31,780 Yes. 544 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:32,780 Yes. 545 00:22:32,780 --> 00:22:33,780 Yes. 546 00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:34,780 Yes. 547 00:22:34,780 --> 00:22:35,780 Yes. 548 00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:36,780 Yes. 549 00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:37,780 Yes. 550 00:22:37,780 --> 00:22:39,780 Yes? 551 00:22:39,780 --> 00:22:40,780 This is Dan Varrell. 552 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:42,780 Dan. 553 00:22:42,780 --> 00:22:43,780 Yeah. Remember? 554 00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:45,780 It's 3 a.m., Dan. 555 00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:46,780 I won't take much of your time. 556 00:22:46,780 --> 00:22:48,780 What, tomorrow too? 557 00:22:48,780 --> 00:22:49,780 I'm coming up now. 558 00:22:54,780 --> 00:22:55,780 Come in. 559 00:22:55,780 --> 00:22:59,780 I pushed open the door and I went in. I was standing by the bed. 560 00:22:59,780 --> 00:23:04,780 He was wearing a monogram black robe over some fleshy yellow pajamas. He glad-handed me. 561 00:23:04,780 --> 00:23:08,780 Come in, Dan. Come on in. Have a cigarette? 562 00:23:08,780 --> 00:23:12,780 I took one and I watched him going through hard times trying to light it for me. 563 00:23:12,780 --> 00:23:18,780 I let him sweat for a while and then pulled out my light, lit my cigarette and shoved the lighter under his face so I could light his. 564 00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:23,780 He couldn't stand still. He moved around the room like a cat on hot coals. 565 00:23:23,780 --> 00:23:27,780 He was a big good-looking check. Broad shoulders with all the trim. Curly hair, dimple on his chin. 566 00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:32,780 I just got back out on the coast. That's the place to be, Dan. You ever saw anything like it? 567 00:23:32,780 --> 00:23:35,780 Well, things go on in L.A. Someday... 568 00:23:35,780 --> 00:23:36,780 Lightsome place. 569 00:23:36,780 --> 00:23:38,780 And you say, Dan? 570 00:23:39,780 --> 00:23:41,780 Lois is a great dame. 571 00:23:41,780 --> 00:23:45,780 She sure is, Dan. She sure is. Anybody says different should get slugged. 572 00:23:45,780 --> 00:23:50,780 Listen, Dan, there never was anything between me and Lois. Anybody says different's a no-good liar. 573 00:23:50,780 --> 00:23:52,780 We were just good friends. We hardly ever even went out. 574 00:23:52,780 --> 00:23:53,780 Relax. 575 00:23:54,780 --> 00:23:56,780 Are you and Lois a partner? 576 00:23:56,780 --> 00:23:57,780 Yeah. 577 00:23:57,780 --> 00:23:59,780 She must be pretty near the happiest girl in town. 578 00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:03,780 Pretty near. You know, when I first saw Lois a few months ago, she was all set to kill us. 579 00:24:03,780 --> 00:24:04,780 Oh, wait a minute, Dan. I tell you... 580 00:24:04,780 --> 00:24:07,780 Sit down, Tim. You make me nervous. 581 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:11,780 Nobody's blaming you for the way she felt. 582 00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:15,780 And Amara... Amara, I pulled out of the partnership. And Lois will be alone again. 583 00:24:15,780 --> 00:24:17,780 I don't want her to be alone. It's not good for her. 584 00:24:17,780 --> 00:24:19,780 Anything I can do, you know. 585 00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:23,780 She's in love with you. I'd like to see her get married. 586 00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:29,780 A woman with... with $75,000 business, well, she needs someone to look after her interests. 587 00:24:31,780 --> 00:24:35,780 The mention of the 75 grand has eyes lit up like Broadway after dark. 588 00:24:35,780 --> 00:24:39,780 Reading his mind was like looking through a dirty window into a filthy room. 589 00:24:39,780 --> 00:24:43,780 It hurt to think a foul ball like Tim Grady could make a girl do anything for her. 590 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:44,780 Well, Dan... 591 00:24:44,780 --> 00:24:46,780 It's about time she got a proposal for marriage. 592 00:24:46,780 --> 00:24:47,780 Yeah. 593 00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:50,780 Why don't you call her up, Tim? 594 00:24:50,780 --> 00:24:52,780 Yeah. Good idea, Dan. 595 00:24:52,780 --> 00:24:56,780 I mean, right now. Stuyvesant, 1541. 596 00:24:56,780 --> 00:24:58,780 Now? 597 00:24:58,780 --> 00:25:00,780 Well, sure, sure. If you think... 598 00:25:01,780 --> 00:25:03,780 Heh. I won't know what to say. 599 00:25:04,780 --> 00:25:05,780 It's been so long. 600 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:07,780 Say you want to marry her. 601 00:25:07,780 --> 00:25:09,780 Yeah. Yeah, sure. 602 00:25:11,780 --> 00:25:13,780 Lois? Hello, baby. 603 00:25:14,780 --> 00:25:17,780 Well, I see you knew the old voice. 604 00:25:17,780 --> 00:25:19,780 I closed the door. 605 00:25:19,780 --> 00:25:23,780 I didn't know if I'd be able to control myself if I'd listen to any more. 606 00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:26,780 I got to the dress shop at 10 o'clock the next morning. 607 00:25:26,780 --> 00:25:30,780 Lois was floating around like a... like a waft of loveliness. 608 00:25:30,780 --> 00:25:33,780 She touched the ink stand on her desk, moved a chair, straightened a picture. 609 00:25:33,780 --> 00:25:35,780 Wasn't conscious of what she was doing. 610 00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:38,780 She talked fast and happy about things that didn't mean a thing. 611 00:25:38,780 --> 00:25:41,780 She flung open a window and hugged the inrush of air. 612 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:42,780 She spoke with her back to me. 613 00:25:42,780 --> 00:25:45,780 Oh, Dan, it's wonderful. It's wonderful. It's like beautiful. 614 00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:47,780 You're happy, huh, Lois? 615 00:25:47,780 --> 00:25:49,780 Dan was waiting when I got here this morning. 616 00:25:49,780 --> 00:25:52,780 He proposed. He said you wanted it that way, too. 617 00:25:53,780 --> 00:25:55,780 I guess I'm the happiest woman in the world. 618 00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:56,780 Can I use your phone? 619 00:25:56,780 --> 00:26:00,780 Sure. Sure. Call Paris, Bombay, Shanghai. 620 00:26:00,780 --> 00:26:01,780 He's in there. 621 00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:03,780 And that's him. 622 00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:05,780 I'm assigned Lieutenant Bush. 623 00:26:05,780 --> 00:26:07,780 Dan Verrill talking. I'm at Lois' shop. 624 00:26:07,780 --> 00:26:09,780 If you get here in five minutes, it'll be about right. 625 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:14,780 Yes, Dan, I'm the happiest woman in the world and I owe it all to you. 626 00:26:14,780 --> 00:26:19,780 She turned from the window and saw the gun in my hand. 627 00:26:19,780 --> 00:26:21,780 Now you're worth killing. 628 00:26:38,780 --> 00:26:40,780 Suspense presented by Autolite. 629 00:26:40,780 --> 00:26:44,780 Tonight's star, Burt Lancaster with Betty Lou Gerson. 630 00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:48,780 Oh, boy, am I happy. 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