WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.320 Suspense! 00:19.320 --> 00:24.840 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Miss Rosalind Russell in consideration. 00:24.840 --> 00:33.880 A suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:33.880 --> 00:36.280 A Hollywood and Vine driver. 00:36.280 --> 00:37.280 And can you make it snappy? 00:37.280 --> 00:38.280 I'm late. 00:38.280 --> 00:39.280 Can I make it snappy? 00:39.280 --> 00:40.560 I got Auto Light spark plugs. 00:40.560 --> 00:41.560 What's snappier? 00:41.560 --> 00:42.880 Auto Light spark plugs, which type? 00:42.880 --> 00:44.280 Regular or resistor? 00:44.280 --> 00:46.560 Why resistor, my hurried huckster. 00:46.560 --> 00:48.240 Only Auto Light resistor spark plugs. 00:48.240 --> 00:49.920 Hold on, my haloed hackster. 00:49.920 --> 00:50.920 Let me say it. 00:50.920 --> 00:54.640 Only Auto Light resistor spark plugs can give you smoother performance on leaner gas 00:54.640 --> 00:59.480 mixtures, greater gas savings, and double life under equal service conditions. 00:59.480 --> 01:00.480 You're right there, all right. 01:00.480 --> 01:01.480 Of course I'm right. 01:01.480 --> 01:06.040 And it's all because every Auto Light resistor spark plug has an exclusive built-in 10,000 01:06.040 --> 01:11.580 ohm resistor that permits a wider gap setting and makes all these advantages possible. 01:11.580 --> 01:16.360 So friends, next time you have your car serviced, ask your dealer to install a set of Auto Light 01:16.360 --> 01:17.360 spark plugs. 01:17.360 --> 01:22.240 Remember, whether you choose Auto Light regular spark plugs or wide gap Auto Light resistor 01:22.240 --> 01:25.920 spark plugs, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:25.920 --> 01:31.280 And now, with consideration and the performance of Rosalind Russell, Auto Light hopes once 01:31.280 --> 01:39.880 again to keep you in suspense. 01:39.880 --> 01:42.840 Well Gloom, don't I rate a good morning? 01:42.840 --> 01:43.840 I'm sorry. 01:43.840 --> 01:44.840 Good morning, darling. 01:44.840 --> 01:47.920 You know, the Masons have asked us to cocktails tomorrow. 01:47.920 --> 01:48.920 I told them I didn't know. 01:48.920 --> 01:49.920 I checked with you. 01:49.920 --> 01:54.480 Oh, oh, by the way, I'm completely out of aspirin again. 01:54.480 --> 01:57.320 Would you mind picking me up a bottle on the way? 01:57.320 --> 02:00.640 Charles, you're not reading the paper, are you? 02:00.640 --> 02:02.120 No, Ellen, I'm not. 02:02.120 --> 02:04.120 Oh, what's the matter? 02:04.120 --> 02:06.120 Everything's the matter, darling. 02:06.120 --> 02:07.120 Everything. 02:07.120 --> 02:08.120 What is it? 02:08.120 --> 02:09.120 What have I? 02:09.120 --> 02:11.240 Oh, come dear, nothing could be as bad as the look on your face. 02:11.240 --> 02:12.240 I'm afraid it's worse. 02:12.240 --> 02:14.240 Oh dear, what on earth can... 02:14.240 --> 02:16.240 What a bad trouble, honey. 02:16.240 --> 02:18.280 Charles, what do you mean? 02:18.280 --> 02:22.040 Business has been pretty bad since the war and our contracts ran out and so you wouldn't 02:22.040 --> 02:24.080 have to go without, I took out a mortgage. 02:24.080 --> 02:25.080 Mortgage? 02:25.080 --> 02:28.200 On everything, house, car, even your jewelry. 02:28.200 --> 02:33.080 I figured on business getting better, but the note came due so I paid it off out of 02:33.080 --> 02:34.080 company funds. 02:34.080 --> 02:36.880 Oh, don't look at me like that. 02:36.880 --> 02:40.100 Tom and I had a Navy contract coming up that would cover it and I wouldn't have to dip 02:40.100 --> 02:41.100 into our savings. 02:41.100 --> 02:45.040 With the Navy canceled and now next week the auditors are coming in to examine the books 02:45.040 --> 02:46.040 and I have to cover them. 02:46.040 --> 02:47.280 Oh, why didn't you tell me? 02:47.280 --> 02:52.720 I figure roughly we should have between 15 and 18 thousand in the safety deposit box. 02:52.720 --> 02:56.520 I want you to go down this morning, take out 10 thousand, put it into a cashier's check 02:56.520 --> 02:58.680 and bring it to my office before three this afternoon. 02:58.680 --> 02:59.680 Charles, I... 02:59.680 --> 03:05.080 I know, all I can say now is that I'm sorry, but well, just do it, will you please? 03:05.080 --> 03:09.780 Charles, I've got to tell you something. 03:09.780 --> 03:12.480 I can't bring the money down to you this afternoon. 03:12.480 --> 03:14.480 Honey, you have to. 03:14.480 --> 03:19.480 Because there isn't any. 03:19.480 --> 03:20.480 What did you say, Ellen? 03:20.480 --> 03:22.800 Well, you know how I love to go to the races. 03:22.800 --> 03:24.360 You took me by first one, remember, Charles? 03:24.360 --> 03:27.720 We went with Zell and Tom and well, you always used to say that if you lose, so what? 03:27.720 --> 03:30.880 You'd spend it on a nightclub and you'd hate the floor show, remember? 03:30.880 --> 03:31.880 Go ahead. 03:31.880 --> 03:32.880 Well, I don't know how it happened. 03:32.880 --> 03:36.560 I started betting here at home on the phone and got in deep and began doubling up. 03:36.560 --> 03:38.400 Ellen, I'll go to prison if I don't have that money. 03:38.400 --> 03:40.300 Oh, I had to catch us one winner. 03:40.300 --> 03:41.300 Just one and I've been even. 03:41.300 --> 03:43.080 Just one, Charles, but it wouldn't come in. 03:43.080 --> 03:46.080 Believe me, you couldn't do that to me. 03:46.080 --> 03:47.600 Charles. 03:47.600 --> 03:52.240 In one month, I'd gone through twenty two thousand dollars, including some money I borrowed 03:52.240 --> 03:53.240 from the bank. 03:53.240 --> 03:54.240 Charles. 03:54.240 --> 03:55.240 Charles. 03:55.240 --> 03:56.240 I didn't mean to. 03:56.240 --> 03:57.240 Oh, Charles, don't hate me. 03:57.240 --> 03:58.240 Charles. 03:58.240 --> 03:59.240 That night, he didn't come home till very late. 03:59.240 --> 04:18.760 Very late and when he did, he he was different. 04:18.760 --> 04:20.360 He wasn't angry with me. 04:20.360 --> 04:21.360 It's all right, darling. 04:21.360 --> 04:22.360 Don't you worry. 04:22.360 --> 04:23.720 What are we going to do? 04:23.720 --> 04:24.720 Won't be so bad. 04:24.720 --> 04:26.720 Oh, you can't go to jail. 04:26.720 --> 04:27.720 Of course not. 04:27.720 --> 04:30.160 Have you, have you worked out something? 04:30.160 --> 04:31.160 Everything. 04:31.160 --> 04:32.840 Oh, I'm sick. 04:32.840 --> 04:33.840 I'm so sorry. 04:33.840 --> 04:35.520 What are you going to do? 04:35.520 --> 04:36.520 No worrying now. 04:36.520 --> 04:38.480 Oh, but I do worry and I should. 04:38.480 --> 04:40.120 Darling, don't work yourself up. 04:40.120 --> 04:43.360 I've already made arrangements and everything's going to be taken care of. 04:43.360 --> 04:46.640 Now take your aspirin and go to bed. 04:46.640 --> 04:48.280 Aspirin? 04:48.280 --> 04:50.880 Even in the midst of all this, you didn't forget. 04:50.880 --> 04:52.440 No, Ellen. 04:52.440 --> 05:02.440 I'm never going to forget anything that will make you rest easier. 05:02.440 --> 05:05.440 From then on, he began to work a great deal at night. 05:05.440 --> 05:10.000 Worked for hours alone in his little laboratory that he had built out there in the garage. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 I could feel a tension mounting inside me. 05:13.000 --> 05:16.800 Building and building and building till my nerves became so taut that I couldn't sleep. 05:16.800 --> 05:19.200 The least sound awakened me. 05:19.200 --> 05:24.400 One night in particular, I thought I heard the muffled whine of a dog in our backyard. 05:24.400 --> 05:27.320 We had a high wire fence completely enclosing our grounds. 05:27.320 --> 05:29.360 It would be impossible for any animal to get in. 05:29.360 --> 05:33.320 I raised up on one elbow, listened intently. 05:33.320 --> 05:38.320 There it was again. 05:38.320 --> 05:40.320 I got up and went to the window. 05:40.320 --> 05:42.320 Saw nothing. 05:42.320 --> 05:45.240 There was no reason to arouse Charles. 05:45.240 --> 05:47.120 He'd worked late out there again. 05:47.120 --> 05:51.800 I slipped on a robe and went down the stairs. 05:51.800 --> 05:54.200 I opened the back door. 05:54.200 --> 05:55.200 Then again. 05:55.200 --> 05:57.200 This time it was distinct. 05:57.200 --> 05:59.760 There was no doubt. 05:59.760 --> 06:01.560 It was coming from the laboratory. 06:01.560 --> 06:06.720 I walked across the yard to the garage and waited. 06:06.720 --> 06:10.200 There were no more sounds. 06:10.200 --> 06:15.200 As I reached for the latch, I noticed that my hands were wet. 06:15.200 --> 06:17.520 And then I stopped. 06:17.520 --> 06:27.680 There was a new lock on the laboratory door. 06:27.680 --> 06:31.360 In the practical light of the next day, I convinced myself that I had a very bad dream 06:31.360 --> 06:34.520 and that I'd better watch my nerves. 06:34.520 --> 06:38.440 That evening, Charles brought home a dinner guest, Bill Dover, an old friend of the family 06:38.440 --> 06:40.680 and our insurance agent. 06:40.680 --> 06:43.760 After dinner, Bill leaned back and did a cigar. 06:43.760 --> 06:45.400 Well, how about it? 06:45.400 --> 06:46.400 What Bill? 06:46.400 --> 06:47.400 The insurance, darling. 06:47.400 --> 06:49.200 He's talking about increasing our policies. 06:49.200 --> 06:51.120 Oh, well, I don't know. 06:51.120 --> 06:52.120 Maybe sometime. 06:52.120 --> 06:53.120 You've come a long way. 06:53.120 --> 06:54.360 Your standard of living is higher. 06:54.360 --> 06:56.160 If something should happen to either of you... 06:56.160 --> 06:58.800 Maybe things seem more prosperous than they are. 06:58.800 --> 06:59.800 Right now I don't think we can even... 06:59.800 --> 07:00.800 Let him talk, Ellen. 07:00.800 --> 07:01.800 But you... 07:01.800 --> 07:03.560 You see, we have a new family plan. 07:03.560 --> 07:05.240 Talking to Chuck about it this afternoon. 07:05.240 --> 07:08.080 Where both of your policies could be increased to 30,000 apiece. 07:08.080 --> 07:09.520 In other words, tripled. 07:09.520 --> 07:12.200 While your premiums would only be twice what you're paying now. 07:12.200 --> 07:14.000 We can't afford anything like that right now. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 Don't you agree, dear? 07:15.000 --> 07:17.640 If there's anything we can afford, it's this. 07:17.640 --> 07:18.960 We've discussed it before. 07:18.960 --> 07:19.960 Write up the papers, Bill. 07:19.960 --> 07:25.560 Oh, well, as the fellow says, I just happen to have them here in my briefcase. 07:25.560 --> 07:26.560 This is very wise. 07:26.560 --> 07:27.560 But now, please wait a minute. 07:27.560 --> 07:29.320 No, I don't mean it as a salesman. 07:29.320 --> 07:31.440 Insurance is always a wise investment. 07:31.440 --> 07:32.440 Security. 07:32.440 --> 07:36.440 It isn't pleasant, but should something happen to either of you, the other would receive 07:36.440 --> 07:38.040 $30,000. 07:38.040 --> 07:41.840 That's security. 07:41.840 --> 07:46.400 I watched with a sort of numb helplessness as Bill filled out the papers. 07:46.400 --> 07:49.360 Charles signed his name and handed them to me. 07:49.360 --> 07:51.480 He looked at me. 07:51.480 --> 07:53.600 And then he lowered his eyes. 07:53.600 --> 07:57.000 I looked down at the application form that he put into my hand. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.920 It was a mass of fine print, all those clauses. 08:00.920 --> 08:03.280 But one word jumped up at me. 08:03.280 --> 08:07.880 One word that stood out as if it were printed in bold type in big letters. 08:07.880 --> 08:09.600 The word was... 08:09.600 --> 08:10.600 Murder. 08:10.600 --> 08:18.360 I found myself reading, suicide by the insured within two years, following date policy is 08:18.360 --> 08:21.720 in effect, voids all claims. 08:21.720 --> 08:26.560 Murder of insured by beneficiary or any party connected in a fraudulent manner with beneficiary 08:26.560 --> 08:30.880 in said murder, voids all claims. 08:30.880 --> 08:33.600 Any fraudulent act. 08:33.600 --> 08:35.040 $30,000. 08:35.040 --> 08:39.760 Well, Ellen, sign it. 08:39.760 --> 08:40.760 Yes. 08:40.760 --> 08:51.120 Yes, of course. 08:51.120 --> 08:54.720 That night Charles did something I'd never known him to do before. 08:54.720 --> 08:56.600 He got drunk. 08:56.600 --> 09:01.200 Bill left finally about midnight and I got Charles upstairs somehow. 09:01.200 --> 09:05.960 I helped him out of his clothes and he stumbled into bed and fell into a troubled sleep. 09:05.960 --> 09:09.720 I reached down and picked up a letter that had fallen out of his pocket. 09:09.720 --> 09:15.520 The letterhead said the city health department, office of the veterinary surgeon. 09:15.520 --> 09:22.460 Dear Mr. Forrester, the autopsy you requested to be performed on your dog revealed no trace 09:22.460 --> 09:25.700 of poison any place in his system. 09:25.700 --> 09:28.200 Blood and all organs seem normal. 09:28.200 --> 09:34.160 Therefore, it is the belief of this office that your dog died of natural causes, probably 09:34.160 --> 09:40.400 a hidden heart ailment, and that there are no grounds from this examination to be suspicious 09:40.400 --> 09:41.400 of your neighbor. 09:41.400 --> 09:45.440 Sincerely yours, Dr. Lois Morial, Examiner. 09:45.440 --> 09:53.560 I stood there over my sleeping husband. 09:53.560 --> 09:56.760 All these terrible words that I'd heard and seen tonight. 09:56.760 --> 10:00.760 Fraud, beneficiary, autopsy, murder. 10:00.760 --> 10:06.480 And two other words that Charles was mumbling in his sleep. 10:06.480 --> 10:07.480 Thirty thousand. 10:07.480 --> 10:08.480 Thirty thousand dollars. 10:08.480 --> 10:09.480 Thirty thousand. 10:09.480 --> 10:10.480 Thirty thousand dollars. 10:10.480 --> 10:25.920 Autolight is bringing you Rosalind Russell in consideration. 10:25.920 --> 10:30.480 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:30.480 --> 10:44.360 Say, driver, how is it you know so much about wide gap autolight resistor spark plugs? 10:44.360 --> 10:48.760 I used to have a set of worn out spark plugs and this old buggy jumped and jumped like 10:48.760 --> 10:49.760 a bucking bronco. 10:49.760 --> 10:52.560 Then I heard a guy named Wilcox on the radio. 10:52.560 --> 10:57.180 Did he say that autolight resistor spark plugs let your engine idle smoother than silk, run 10:57.180 --> 11:00.240 better on leaner gas mixtures and actually save gas? 11:00.240 --> 11:01.240 Yeah, and he... 11:01.240 --> 11:05.600 And did he say that with autolight resistor spark plugs your engine starts like a whirlwind 11:05.600 --> 11:08.320 and gets off to a galloping start in cold weather? 11:08.320 --> 11:09.520 Yeah, he said that... 11:09.520 --> 11:14.280 That autolight resistor spark plugs have doubled the life of ordinary spark plugs under equal 11:14.280 --> 11:15.280 conditions? 11:15.280 --> 11:16.280 Yeah. 11:16.280 --> 11:21.000 Everyone with old worn out spark plugs should tell his dealer to install a set of autolight 11:21.000 --> 11:22.720 spark plugs right away. 11:22.720 --> 11:28.160 Either autolight regular spark plugs or wide gap autolight resistor spark plugs because 11:28.160 --> 11:31.080 you're always right with autolight. 11:31.080 --> 11:36.920 And now autolight brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star Rosalind Russell with 11:36.920 --> 11:48.480 John McIntyre in consideration a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:48.480 --> 11:52.280 The next morning I woke with a frightful sense of lurking danger. 11:52.280 --> 11:53.280 Charles was up and gone. 11:53.280 --> 11:56.400 There was a note that said, sorry darling. 11:56.400 --> 11:59.320 As I got out of bed I stepped on something cold. 11:59.320 --> 12:02.040 It was a key to a padlock. 12:02.040 --> 12:05.760 The key to the new laboratory. 12:05.760 --> 12:06.760 I went out there. 12:06.760 --> 12:12.800 I stood in the tiny room, a maze of odd shaped bottles, test tubes and boxes. 12:12.800 --> 12:17.320 I was about to leave when my hand brushed against the side of an old steamer trunk. 12:17.320 --> 12:18.960 It was ice cold and damp. 12:18.960 --> 12:23.480 It was locked and I couldn't force it open. 12:23.480 --> 12:26.560 So I called a locksmith and he came over. 12:26.560 --> 12:28.760 I'm going to have it open in a minute. 12:28.760 --> 12:29.760 Please hurry. 12:29.760 --> 12:31.600 You just slipped this little rod in like this. 12:31.600 --> 12:32.800 A little turn and... 12:32.800 --> 12:33.800 Don't open it. 12:33.800 --> 12:34.920 I thought you wanted me... 12:34.920 --> 12:36.640 No no, just open the lock. 12:36.640 --> 12:37.640 Don't lift the lid. 12:37.640 --> 12:38.640 Well I can't very well... 12:38.640 --> 12:40.640 Don't lift the lid! 12:40.640 --> 12:41.640 There. 12:41.640 --> 12:46.240 Hey, you always keep dead guinea pigs in trunks? 12:46.240 --> 12:48.120 Oh, no. 12:48.120 --> 12:49.920 It was just part of an experiment. 12:49.920 --> 12:50.920 What killed him? 12:50.920 --> 12:52.400 There ain't a mark on him. 12:52.400 --> 12:55.760 Well, the experiment. 12:55.760 --> 12:56.760 Give me my money. 12:56.760 --> 12:59.760 Yes, yes of course. 12:59.760 --> 13:03.440 Thanks. 13:03.440 --> 13:07.240 After the locksmith left, I forced myself to look through the trunk. 13:07.240 --> 13:08.700 Nothing else in it. 13:08.700 --> 13:11.360 Nothing but a few pieces of wrapping paper. 13:11.360 --> 13:15.320 Wrapping paper with the words, frozen carbonic company. 13:15.320 --> 13:18.880 Dry ice printed on it. 13:18.880 --> 13:19.880 Dry ice. 13:19.880 --> 13:22.120 A guinea pig. 13:22.120 --> 13:23.760 A dog. 13:23.760 --> 13:26.960 I got in the car and went to our doctor's office. 13:26.960 --> 13:28.440 Doctor Hanson might tell me. 13:28.440 --> 13:30.000 Here you are, Ellen. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.120 Now sit down here. 13:32.120 --> 13:33.120 Thank you. 13:33.120 --> 13:35.120 Now, what's our trouble, Ellen? 13:35.120 --> 13:37.680 Jay, maybe I'm being silly. 13:37.680 --> 13:39.440 Nothing silly if it worries you. 13:39.440 --> 13:42.860 Well, Charles has been puttering around his laboratory. 13:42.860 --> 13:44.440 You know how he does. 13:44.440 --> 13:49.680 And he's been doing some experimenting with... with dry ice. 13:49.680 --> 13:52.360 And I... I've heard some things about it. 13:52.360 --> 13:53.360 What kind of things? 13:53.360 --> 13:56.440 Well, that it... that it was dangerous. 13:56.440 --> 14:00.880 Say if left in a closed room, it might even kill a person. 14:00.880 --> 14:02.560 Oh, now listen. 14:02.560 --> 14:06.040 Of all the chemicals he plays around with, dry ice is the least of your work. 14:06.040 --> 14:07.040 Would it kill a person? 14:07.040 --> 14:08.040 Oh, Ray. 14:08.040 --> 14:09.040 Well, would it? 14:09.040 --> 14:11.160 Well, I... I suppose it would. 14:11.160 --> 14:14.840 It evaporates into carbon dioxide gas, would actually cause suffocation. 14:14.840 --> 14:15.840 Heart would go. 14:15.840 --> 14:18.880 There wouldn't be any trace of poison in the system. 14:18.880 --> 14:19.880 It would seem like natural causes. 14:19.880 --> 14:20.880 Huh? 14:20.880 --> 14:21.880 What's that? 14:21.880 --> 14:24.760 And then... and if it evaporated, there wouldn't be anything left, like water. 14:24.760 --> 14:25.760 No way to know. 14:25.760 --> 14:26.760 Nothing to trace. 14:26.760 --> 14:27.760 What are you driving at? 14:27.760 --> 14:29.640 Oh, I don't know. 14:29.640 --> 14:30.920 I'm upset. 14:30.920 --> 14:32.280 I guess you're right. 14:32.280 --> 14:33.280 I am being silly. 14:33.280 --> 14:34.560 Now, look, Ellen. 14:34.560 --> 14:36.400 Charles is really a brilliant man. 14:36.400 --> 14:39.680 He knows exactly what everything he experiments with can do. 14:39.680 --> 14:40.680 Yes, of course. 14:40.680 --> 14:41.680 Of course. 14:41.680 --> 14:42.680 Huh. 14:42.680 --> 14:44.280 You didn't sleep well again last night, did you? 14:44.280 --> 14:45.280 No, no, I... 14:45.280 --> 14:48.480 I'll take two of those sleeping tablets and get to bed early. 14:48.480 --> 14:49.480 Sleeping tablets? 14:49.480 --> 14:50.480 The ones I gave Charles for you. 14:50.480 --> 14:51.480 Oh, yes. 14:51.480 --> 14:52.480 Yes, of course. 14:52.480 --> 15:05.640 That night, I sat in the upstairs den, read until my eyes burned without having the least 15:05.640 --> 15:08.000 idea what was written in the book. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 An hour passed by. 15:09.000 --> 15:10.000 Two. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 Three. 15:11.000 --> 15:16.280 There were no more sounds coming from the bedroom. 15:16.280 --> 15:17.720 Charles was asleep. 15:17.720 --> 15:19.480 I wanted to sleep myself. 15:19.480 --> 15:24.720 Desperately, I had to sleep, but I wouldn't go into that room with him. 15:24.720 --> 15:29.000 I remember hearing the clock in the living room strike three. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.920 The night breeze shake loose a shutter downstairs. 15:31.920 --> 15:42.120 The distant cry of a tomcat, and then unmistakably, I sensed a chill coming over the room surrounding 15:42.120 --> 15:43.120 me. 15:43.120 --> 15:46.720 A pale light was filtering through the Venetian lines. 15:46.720 --> 15:50.480 Morning was near. 15:50.480 --> 15:52.720 The room was like ice. 15:52.720 --> 15:53.720 Ice! 15:53.720 --> 15:54.720 Charles, don't! 15:54.720 --> 15:55.720 Oh, Ellen, you fell asleep. 15:55.720 --> 15:56.720 I just brought a blanket for you. 15:56.720 --> 15:57.720 I thought maybe you were cold. 15:57.720 --> 15:58.720 No, I... 15:58.720 --> 15:59.720 You've been dreaming. 15:59.720 --> 16:00.720 Now, there. 16:00.720 --> 16:01.720 I don't want a blanket. 16:01.720 --> 16:02.720 All right. 16:02.720 --> 16:03.720 Here, take these. 16:03.720 --> 16:04.720 Take what? 16:04.720 --> 16:05.720 The bed sheets. 16:05.720 --> 16:06.720 The bed sheets. 16:06.720 --> 16:07.720 The bed sheets. 16:07.720 --> 16:08.720 The bed sheets. 16:08.720 --> 16:09.720 The bed sheets. 16:09.720 --> 16:10.720 The bed sheets. 16:10.720 --> 16:11.720 The bed sheets. 16:11.720 --> 16:12.720 The bed sheets. 16:12.720 --> 16:13.720 The bed sheets. 16:13.720 --> 16:14.720 The bed sheets. 16:14.720 --> 16:15.720 The bed sheets. 16:15.720 --> 16:16.720 The bed sheets. 16:16.720 --> 16:17.720 Take what? 16:17.720 --> 16:18.720 A couple of your aspirin. 16:18.720 --> 16:19.720 Here. 16:19.720 --> 16:20.720 No. 16:20.720 --> 16:21.720 No! 16:21.720 --> 16:22.720 No, I don't want them! 16:22.720 --> 16:23.720 I don't want them! 16:23.720 --> 16:37.920 I apologize an hour later for getting so upset. 16:37.920 --> 16:41.480 I even made coffee for him before he left for work. 16:41.480 --> 16:43.800 I was weary now, you see. 16:43.800 --> 16:46.320 It was far better not to let him know that I'd found out. 16:46.320 --> 16:48.800 Then I'd have the advantage on him. 16:48.800 --> 16:51.800 And he wasn't able to deny it and change his tactics. 16:51.800 --> 16:54.800 So now I held the advantage and I... 16:54.800 --> 16:55.800 Hello, darling. 16:55.800 --> 16:56.800 Surprise. 16:56.800 --> 16:57.800 Oh, Charles. 16:57.800 --> 16:58.800 You're home early. 16:58.800 --> 17:00.800 Well, don't look so disappointed. 17:00.800 --> 17:01.800 Expecting the iceman? 17:01.800 --> 17:02.800 Look. 17:02.800 --> 17:03.800 What is it? 17:03.800 --> 17:04.800 Open it up. 17:04.800 --> 17:05.800 An orchid. 17:05.800 --> 17:06.800 It's beautiful. 17:06.800 --> 17:09.800 Not half as beautiful as my lovely wife. 17:09.800 --> 17:12.800 And that ain't all. 17:12.800 --> 17:13.800 More? 17:13.800 --> 17:14.800 Lots. 17:14.800 --> 17:17.800 Tonight, my darling, we're going out. 17:17.800 --> 17:21.800 Dinner at the plaza, the show at the Green Hat, the gypsy violinist at Little Asia, and 17:21.800 --> 17:22.800 champagne. 17:22.800 --> 17:23.800 Nothing but champagne. 17:23.800 --> 17:24.800 All the champagne we can drink. 17:24.800 --> 17:28.240 We're going to pack into this night everything you ever wanted and ever loved. 17:28.240 --> 17:29.800 All the places we used to go. 17:29.800 --> 17:30.800 Tonight's yours. 17:30.800 --> 17:31.800 Why, Charles? 17:31.800 --> 17:32.800 Why? 17:32.800 --> 17:35.800 Who does it have to be a why? 17:35.800 --> 17:36.800 Usually. 17:36.800 --> 17:37.800 Not for this husband. 17:37.800 --> 17:38.800 Well, I mean, I don't think... 17:38.800 --> 17:39.800 You deserve it. 17:39.800 --> 17:40.800 That's enough. 17:40.800 --> 17:42.800 Now, upstairs and into your best. 17:42.800 --> 17:46.800 Tonight's the night. 17:46.800 --> 17:51.800 We started on the merry ground. 17:51.800 --> 17:56.800 But all that I could think of was, tonight is the night. 17:56.800 --> 17:58.800 We went to all those places. 17:58.800 --> 18:00.800 Charles laughed a lot. 18:00.800 --> 18:03.800 But there was something horrible in the back of his eyes. 18:03.800 --> 18:05.800 They didn't laugh. 18:05.800 --> 18:07.800 It was very late when we got home. 18:07.800 --> 18:10.800 There was one of those notices on the door you get when a telegram has been delivered, 18:10.800 --> 18:12.800 and no one was home to receive it. 18:12.800 --> 18:15.800 He called Western Union, listened while they read it to him. 18:15.800 --> 18:20.800 And then he put his coat back on, came over and put his arms around me. 18:20.800 --> 18:23.800 Ellen, there's a new contract that came in this afternoon. 18:23.800 --> 18:24.800 I've got to go down to the office. 18:24.800 --> 18:26.800 But it's nearly three in the morning. 18:26.800 --> 18:27.800 I'll call you when I get there. 18:27.800 --> 18:29.800 Well, if you have to. 18:29.800 --> 18:34.800 It's a rush deal, and I've got to figure out a formula so the boys can work on it in the morning. 18:34.800 --> 18:38.800 So go to bed, dogs. 18:47.800 --> 18:48.800 Operator. 18:48.800 --> 18:49.800 Western Union, please. 18:49.800 --> 18:51.800 Just a moment. 18:55.800 --> 18:56.800 Western Union. 18:56.800 --> 19:00.800 This is Mrs. Charles Forrester, 1552 Carlton Manoway. 19:00.800 --> 19:02.800 You sent a wire that was just read over the phone. 19:02.800 --> 19:05.800 My husband wanted me to get the exact wording. 19:05.800 --> 19:07.800 Would you read it again, please? 19:07.800 --> 19:10.800 One moment, please. 19:10.800 --> 19:11.800 Here it is. 19:11.800 --> 19:12.800 Go ahead. 19:12.800 --> 19:16.800 Charles, tried reaching you by phone. 19:16.800 --> 19:18.800 Auditors still working on books. 19:18.800 --> 19:21.800 Call office immediately. 19:21.800 --> 19:23.800 Signed, Tom. 19:23.800 --> 19:25.800 Thank you. 19:25.800 --> 19:30.800 The auditors were still working on the books. 19:30.800 --> 19:33.800 Charles' boss was trying to contact him. 19:33.800 --> 19:35.800 Well, Charles wasn't worried. 19:35.800 --> 19:38.800 He'd have the missing money and a little extra besides. 19:38.800 --> 19:41.800 The difference between $30,000 and... 19:41.800 --> 19:42.800 Hello? 19:42.800 --> 19:43.800 Hello, darling. 19:43.800 --> 19:45.800 How do you feel? 19:45.800 --> 19:46.800 All right. 19:46.800 --> 19:50.800 I called to tell you that I wouldn't be home until very late tonight. 19:50.800 --> 19:55.800 Maybe not even until tomorrow. 19:55.800 --> 19:58.800 Something came up at the office and I'll have to drive out of town. 19:58.800 --> 19:59.800 Oh? 19:59.800 --> 20:02.800 Now, I want you to go to bed. 20:02.800 --> 20:03.800 I will. 20:03.800 --> 20:06.800 You haven't had a good night's sleep in a week and I'm worried about you. 20:06.800 --> 20:08.800 Take a couple of aspirin and hit the hay. 20:08.800 --> 20:11.800 Why don't you sleep in the upstairs den and I won't wake you if I should have to. 20:11.800 --> 20:12.800 All right. 20:12.800 --> 20:14.800 Promise? 20:14.800 --> 20:15.800 Promise. 20:15.800 --> 20:18.800 Bye, darling. 20:18.800 --> 20:23.800 Goodbye. 20:23.800 --> 20:28.800 Tonight's the night. 20:28.800 --> 20:31.800 Yes, of course, he wouldn't be home when it happened. 20:31.800 --> 20:33.800 He'd be out of town. 20:33.800 --> 20:35.800 But then what? 20:35.800 --> 20:37.800 Where would it come from? 20:37.800 --> 20:41.800 Oh, my head was aching so that I could hardly see. 20:41.800 --> 20:45.800 I took three aspirin and sat down to wait for him. 20:45.800 --> 20:47.800 Hello? 20:47.800 --> 20:49.800 Is Charles Forrester there? 20:49.800 --> 20:52.800 Well, who's calling him? 20:52.800 --> 20:57.800 Well, I'm terribly sorry to bother you at this hour, but I'm not sure that this is the Forrester I want. 20:57.800 --> 20:59.800 This is the frozen carbonic company. 20:59.800 --> 21:04.800 You wouldn't know whether your Mr. Forrester ordered some dry ice for tonight. 21:04.800 --> 21:06.800 Well, why? 21:06.800 --> 21:09.800 Well, the plant's shutting down for the night and this fellow made such a fuss about it, 21:09.800 --> 21:12.800 said it was so important that I wanted to make sure he found it. 21:12.800 --> 21:16.800 He said for us to leave it on the back ramp, but he hasn't picked it up yet. 21:16.800 --> 21:18.800 I guess he'll find it all right. 21:18.800 --> 21:20.800 You will. You must have the wrong Forrester. 21:20.800 --> 21:23.800 Oh, I'm sorry to bother you. 21:23.800 --> 21:25.800 The upstairs den. 21:25.800 --> 21:27.800 That's why he wanted me to sleep there. 21:27.800 --> 21:32.800 A small room where dry ice could do it suffocating faster, more surely, more believably. 21:32.800 --> 21:36.800 And realizing it, I wasn't that excited. 21:36.800 --> 21:39.800 My heart wasn't beating fast anymore. 21:39.800 --> 21:42.800 In fact, I felt quite cool. 21:42.800 --> 21:44.800 Drowsy. 21:44.800 --> 21:46.800 Drowsy. 21:46.800 --> 21:48.800 I shook my head. 21:48.800 --> 21:51.800 Oh, it still ached, the aspirin. Why hadn't it stopped my headache? 21:51.800 --> 21:53.800 I'd have to take two more. 21:53.800 --> 21:55.800 I started to the medicine cabinet. 21:55.800 --> 21:57.800 Oh! 21:57.800 --> 22:01.800 I...I couldn't walk straight. 22:01.800 --> 22:04.800 I opened the cabinet and got out the bottle of aspirin. 22:04.800 --> 22:07.800 I'd already taken five. 22:07.800 --> 22:09.800 Why didn't they? 22:09.800 --> 22:11.800 No! No! 22:11.800 --> 22:13.800 They weren't aspirin at all. 22:13.800 --> 22:15.800 They were sleeping tablets. 22:15.800 --> 22:18.800 He tricked me. 22:18.800 --> 22:19.800 I'd been drugged. 22:19.800 --> 22:21.800 I had to run. Stop him. 22:21.800 --> 22:24.800 I was helpless. He won. 22:24.800 --> 22:27.800 I got to keep awake. Got to... 22:27.800 --> 22:29.800 Got to... 22:29.800 --> 22:30.800 Yes? 22:30.800 --> 22:31.800 Hello. Er, Ellen? 22:31.800 --> 22:32.800 Yes, who is this? 22:32.800 --> 22:34.800 This is Tom. Where's Charles? 22:34.800 --> 22:35.800 Well, isn't he there? 22:35.800 --> 22:36.800 He said he was going to the office. 22:36.800 --> 22:38.800 No, I've been trying to get him all night. 22:38.800 --> 22:39.800 He even sent a wire. 22:39.800 --> 22:40.800 Oh, no. 22:40.800 --> 22:43.800 Now, Ellen, things aren't as bad as all that. 22:43.800 --> 22:45.800 Look, I've known you for 20 years. 22:45.800 --> 22:47.800 Think I haven't made mistakes shown wrong. 22:47.800 --> 22:49.800 I knew he took that money months ago, 22:49.800 --> 22:51.800 and I figured it must have been for a pretty good reason. 22:51.800 --> 22:54.800 All I wanted was for Charles to tell me about it. 22:54.800 --> 22:57.800 I've already made up for it out of my own pocket, 22:57.800 --> 23:00.800 and, well, you can chuck and pay me back whenever you can. 23:00.800 --> 23:03.800 He's much more valuable to me than a few dollars. 23:03.800 --> 23:06.800 Well, do you hear me, Ellen? 23:06.800 --> 23:08.800 Yes. 23:08.800 --> 23:10.800 Yes, Tom, I hear you. 23:10.800 --> 23:13.800 He doesn't know that, does he? 23:13.800 --> 23:15.800 It's all right. It's all all right. 23:15.800 --> 23:17.800 That's why I wanted him to come down. 23:17.800 --> 23:19.800 All he had to do was ask me. 23:19.800 --> 23:21.800 Well, after all, that's what friends are for, and... 23:21.800 --> 23:23.800 Oh, cut this stuff. I've got this stuff. 23:23.800 --> 23:24.800 Now, you go to sleep, Ellen. 23:24.800 --> 23:26.800 We'll get it all straightened out in the morning. 23:26.800 --> 23:28.800 Give Zella a ring one of these days. 23:28.800 --> 23:30.800 She's home a lot. Maybe you two could... 23:30.800 --> 23:32.800 Sleep, yes. Thank you. 23:32.800 --> 23:34.800 Thank you. It's all right. 23:34.800 --> 23:39.800 I've got to tell him. I've got... 23:39.800 --> 23:41.800 Information. 23:41.800 --> 23:45.800 What... what is the number of the frozen carbonic company, please? 23:45.800 --> 23:48.800 Just a moment. 23:48.800 --> 23:50.800 It is in your directory. 23:50.800 --> 23:54.800 The number is L4-4892. 23:54.800 --> 23:56.800 Thank you. 23:56.800 --> 23:58.800 L... 23:58.800 --> 24:00.800 4... 24:00.800 --> 24:02.800 5... 24:02.800 --> 24:04.800 2... 24:04.800 --> 24:06.800 2... 24:06.800 --> 24:08.800 4... 24:08.800 --> 24:10.800 Frozen Carbonic Company. 24:10.800 --> 24:12.800 Hello. 24:12.800 --> 24:14.800 This... this is Mrs. Forrester. 24:14.800 --> 24:16.800 Yes? 24:16.800 --> 24:20.800 My husband is coming down to pick up some dry ice from you. 24:20.800 --> 24:23.800 I want you to tell him... 24:23.800 --> 24:27.800 that I called and said everything was all right. 24:27.800 --> 24:29.800 And... understand. 24:29.800 --> 24:33.800 Well, lady, your husband picked up the dry ice about 20 minutes ago. 24:33.800 --> 24:36.800 Hello? Hello, Mrs. Forrester? 24:36.800 --> 24:38.800 I... 24:38.800 --> 24:40.800 I hear you. 24:40.800 --> 24:42.800 If he comes back, I'll... 24:42.800 --> 24:44.800 Zell... 24:44.800 --> 24:46.800 Come on, Zell. 24:46.800 --> 24:48.800 Zell... 24:48.800 --> 24:50.800 I'll be home soon. 24:50.800 --> 24:52.800 Zell... 24:52.800 --> 24:54.800 Hello? 24:54.800 --> 24:56.800 Zell... 24:56.800 --> 24:58.800 This is Ellen. 24:58.800 --> 25:00.800 Is Tom home? 25:00.800 --> 25:03.800 Oh, he's still at the office, she says. 25:03.800 --> 25:05.800 No matter. I... 25:05.800 --> 25:07.800 I want you to talk to me. 25:07.800 --> 25:09.800 Ellen, do you know what time it is? 25:09.800 --> 25:12.800 No matter what happens, keep talking. 25:12.800 --> 25:15.800 Don't let me go to sleep. 25:15.800 --> 25:17.800 Is it a game? 25:17.800 --> 25:18.800 Say, are you all right? 25:18.800 --> 25:20.800 Please, just talk. 25:20.800 --> 25:23.800 Tell me what you've been doing. 25:23.800 --> 25:27.800 Tell me everything you did today. 25:27.800 --> 25:29.800 Who did today? 25:29.800 --> 25:31.800 Oh, I had a terribly fascinating day. 25:31.800 --> 25:33.800 I got up at eight and made Tom's breakfast. 25:33.800 --> 25:37.800 I got Lola off to school, and at 10.30 I dusted and vacuumed the living room. 25:37.800 --> 25:39.800 Then at 12, I... 25:39.800 --> 25:41.800 How are we doing? 25:41.800 --> 25:43.800 Ellen? 25:43.800 --> 25:45.800 Oh, Ellen. 25:45.800 --> 25:47.800 Ellen! 25:47.800 --> 25:50.800 Ellen! Ellen! Wake up, Ellen! 25:50.800 --> 25:52.800 Charles! 25:52.800 --> 25:54.800 No, no, no, it's Tom, Ellen. 25:54.800 --> 25:55.800 What? 25:55.800 --> 25:56.800 Tom, Chuck's boss. 25:56.800 --> 25:58.800 Zell, what are you doing here? 25:58.800 --> 26:00.800 Well, you fell asleep while I was talking to you. 26:00.800 --> 26:02.800 I tried to call you back then when Tom got home. 26:02.800 --> 26:03.800 I told him about it. 26:03.800 --> 26:04.800 Oh, that can wait, Zell. 26:04.800 --> 26:05.800 Listen, I have to talk fast. 26:05.800 --> 26:07.800 Are you awake now, Ellen? 26:07.800 --> 26:08.800 Yes, yes, go ahead. 26:08.800 --> 26:09.800 Well, look, Charles is downstairs. 26:09.800 --> 26:10.800 I brought him home. 26:10.800 --> 26:12.800 He doesn't know anything about the house. 26:12.800 --> 26:14.800 He's not going to tell me anything. 26:14.800 --> 26:17.800 Charles is downstairs. I brought him home. 26:17.800 --> 26:19.800 He doesn't know anything about our conversation last night. 26:19.800 --> 26:21.800 And he doesn't want you to know that he wasn't at the office. 26:21.800 --> 26:22.800 Have you got it? 26:22.800 --> 26:23.800 Where was he? 26:23.800 --> 26:25.800 Well, the police picked him up in his car. 26:25.800 --> 26:27.800 I went down to the station and got him. 26:27.800 --> 26:29.800 He was so groggy they thought he was drunk. 26:29.800 --> 26:31.800 Crazy guy had taken a couple of sleeping pills, 26:31.800 --> 26:33.800 put her off to the side of the road and gone to sleep. 26:33.800 --> 26:36.800 They noticed his car because the windows were frosted up. 26:36.800 --> 26:37.800 Frosted up? 26:37.800 --> 26:39.800 Yes, yes, all frosted on the outside. 26:39.800 --> 26:41.800 The cops couldn't understand... 26:41.800 --> 26:43.800 Come in, Charles. 26:43.800 --> 26:44.800 Come on, let's go, Zelle. 26:44.800 --> 26:46.800 Yes, sure. 26:49.800 --> 26:51.800 Hello, darling. 26:51.800 --> 26:53.800 Thirty thousand dollars. 26:53.800 --> 26:55.800 You wanted me to have the money. 26:55.800 --> 26:57.800 And you were going to die for the... 26:57.800 --> 26:59.800 Yes, darling, I... 26:59.800 --> 27:03.800 It just seemed the only way to make things right. 27:05.800 --> 27:08.800 They could never be right without you. 27:08.800 --> 27:11.800 Oh, Ellen, I love you. 27:11.800 --> 27:13.800 I know, darling. 27:13.800 --> 27:15.800 I know. 27:26.800 --> 27:29.800 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:29.800 --> 27:31.800 Tonight's star, Rosalind Russell, 27:31.800 --> 27:34.800 with John McIntyre as Charles. 27:34.800 --> 27:37.800 Here we are, Hollywood and Vine. 27:37.800 --> 27:39.800 Say, I just figured out something. 27:39.800 --> 27:41.800 You're Harlow Wilcox. 27:41.800 --> 27:43.800 Right, my friend, and next time I see you, 27:43.800 --> 27:45.800 I'll tell you about Auto Light Bullseye Sealed Beam Headlights, 27:45.800 --> 27:47.800 the new safe headlight that's guaranteed to function 27:47.800 --> 27:49.800 even when the lens is cracked or broken. 27:49.800 --> 27:51.800 Got them, Mr. Wilcox, got them. 27:51.800 --> 27:54.800 Well, they're unbeatable, just like Auto Light spark plugs, 27:54.800 --> 27:56.800 and they're only one of more than 400 products 27:56.800 --> 27:59.800 made by Auto Light for cars, trucks, planes and boats. 27:59.800 --> 28:01.800 These include complete electrical systems 28:01.800 --> 28:04.800 used as original equipment on many makes of America's finest cars. 28:04.800 --> 28:07.800 Batteries, spark plugs, generators, coils, distributors, 28:07.800 --> 28:10.800 starting motors, and Bullseye Sealed Beam Headlights. 28:10.800 --> 28:12.800 All engineered to fit together perfectly, 28:12.800 --> 28:15.800 work together perfectly, because they're a perfect team. 28:15.800 --> 28:18.800 So don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 28:18.800 --> 28:20.800 Ask for and insist on Auto Light, 28:20.800 --> 28:22.800 original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, 28:22.800 --> 28:25.800 car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 28:25.800 --> 28:27.800 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:33.800 --> 28:36.800 Next Thursday for Suspense, Kirk Douglas will be our star. 28:36.800 --> 28:39.800 The play is called Never Steal a Butcher's Wife. 28:39.800 --> 28:41.800 And it is, as we say... 28:41.800 --> 28:44.800 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 28:44.800 --> 28:46.800 Suspense! 28:46.800 --> 28:49.800 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear 28:49.800 --> 28:51.800 and directed by Norman MacDonald. 28:51.800 --> 28:53.800 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Moorowek 28:53.800 --> 28:55.800 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:55.800 --> 28:58.800 Consideration is an original play for radio by Richard Vodra. 28:58.800 --> 29:01.800 Rosalind Russell will soon be seen in the Columbia Pictures comedy, 29:01.800 --> 29:06.800 A Woman of Distinction. 29:06.800 --> 29:08.800 You can buy Auto Light regular or resistor spark plugs, 29:08.800 --> 29:11.800 Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light electrical parts 29:11.800 --> 29:13.800 at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 29:13.800 --> 29:15.800 Switch to Auto Light. 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