1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:22,600 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Kirk Douglas in The Butcher's Wife, a 3 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:30,520 suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,280 Wilcox, I say there, Wilcox, old man. 5 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,720 Remming Chester shotgun as I live, breathe and batter my brains for burgeoning boasts 6 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,120 about the battery of batteries, the Auto Light Stay Full Battery. 7 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,080 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 8 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,000 See, sounding off. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,360 Is it not you who defied me to find a camel that could go without water as long as an 10 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,240 Auto Light Stay Full Battery? 11 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,760 Defy you I did, you dubious dunderhead. 12 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,280 Please, no compliments. 13 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:08,040 I concede your claim regarding ordinary one-hump camels, but what about a two-hump camel? 14 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,320 Need I say more? 15 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,480 Well, you probably mean he can go twice as long without refilling, but Auto Light Stay 16 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:18,080 Full Batteries hold over three times as much liquid reserve above the plate as ordinary 17 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,080 batteries. 18 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,080 Need I say more? 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,840 Jones, I shall have to find a dromedary with four humps. 20 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,440 Even that won't do it, for Auto Light Stay Full Batteries need water only three times 21 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,760 a year in normal car use. 22 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,640 What's more, in recent tests based on SAE life cycle standards, Auto Light Stay Full 23 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:40,520 Batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without Stay Full features. 24 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:47,200 So get wise, get an Auto Light Stay Full Battery, because you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,920 And now with the butcher's wife and the performance of Kirk Douglas, Auto Light hopes once again 26 00:01:52,920 --> 00:02:04,320 to keep you in suspense. 27 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,880 It started the first day of the job. 28 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,760 I was clerking the liquor department of this supermarket. 29 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,220 I hadn't been in Los Angeles a week. 30 00:02:13,220 --> 00:02:16,640 My brother, when I'd left New York, had given me this letter to a friend of his, a guy who 31 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:18,920 owned a string of these markets. 32 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:22,440 The letter was about could he use me, I was a good fellow, he'd count it a favor, you 33 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:23,440 know. 34 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,680 And the guy had this opening, liquor clerk, and comes the following Monday. 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,360 I'm at work. 36 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:35,280 I spent the morning loading the refrigerators with beers, soda water, all that stuff, and 37 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:36,280 sizing up the place. 38 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,720 You know, back East, we don't have these supermarkets. 39 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,440 There was a vegetable department run by a nice little dark guy. 40 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,520 There was a delicatessen. 41 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,720 That was run by an old geezer and his frow. 42 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,480 There was a bakery department, a meat department, and of course the groceries. 43 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:52,480 No clerks. 44 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,840 You pushed a little card around and helped yourself. 45 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,200 To get out, you passed the cash register and the girl loaded your stuff and rang up the 46 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,200 price. 47 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:06,160 My surveillance of the place had reached the girl who checked the groceries when the trouble 48 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,480 was over. 49 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,120 She was looking at herself in a little mirror and putting on some lipstick. 50 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,760 Her back was to me. 51 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,800 I see her stop putting on her lipstick, but still looking at the mirror. 52 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,280 I see her eyes in the mirror. 53 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,760 And then she turns around very slowly and looks at me. 54 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,760 Just looks at me. 55 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:30,000 She must have been 50 feet away at the least and with customers between us. 56 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,800 But it was like we were all alone, the two of us on a beach somewhere, an empty beach. 57 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,800 I should have looked away. 58 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,040 I should have winked and forgotten it. 59 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,160 I should have gone on stacking beer and thinking about how to be a success. 60 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,000 That's what I should have done. 61 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,320 What I did do was I stood right there and locked eyes with her for I don't know how long. 62 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,120 And all the time I was looking at her, I was sending her mental telegrams. 63 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,160 You and me, baby. 64 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 You and me. 65 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 Hey. 66 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 Hey, you. 67 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,160 Hey. 68 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,160 You and me, baby. 69 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,160 Hey, what's the matter? 70 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,160 She's not here. 71 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,160 She's not here. 72 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,960 Hey, what's the matter? 73 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:06,960 Sleep on your feet? 74 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,960 Oh, what did you say? 75 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,960 You're the new guy, huh? 76 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,000 Yeah, I just started this morning. 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 I'm Nick Arnall. 78 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 I work the vegetables. 79 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Oh, Harry Carr. 80 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Pleased to know you. 81 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Yeah. 82 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 You got two bottles of cold beer? 83 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Oh, sure. 84 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Cold as a witch's heart. 85 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Only don't open here by the comrade, you know. 86 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 It's the law. 87 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Yeah, sure. 88 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,400 I have them out back with my lunch. 89 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:29,400 Well. 90 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,400 Oh, uh, uh, uh, Nick. 91 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:32,400 What? 92 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,200 I mean, the, uh, the gal over there by the cash register. 93 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,200 Huh? 94 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,200 Mary? 95 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,200 Is that her name? 96 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,200 Mary? 97 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:40,200 Yeah. 98 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,200 What about her? 99 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:42,200 Well, that's what I'm wondering. 100 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,200 What about her? 101 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,200 Oh. 102 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:45,200 No soap. 103 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,200 She's married. 104 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,200 Oh, you're kidding. 105 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,200 You see that big guy over there with a knife? 106 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,200 The butcher? 107 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,200 Yeah. 108 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,200 Ask him if I'm kidding. 109 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,200 Well, who's he? 110 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Her husband. 111 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,200 Oh. 112 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,200 See ya. 113 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,200 I looked over at him. 114 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,200 He's a good guy. 115 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,200 He's a good guy. 116 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,200 He's a good guy. 117 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,600 I looked over at him. 118 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,600 He's a funny looking guy. 119 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,600 A real creep. 120 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,400 He stood there stropping a tremendous big cleaver, whistling to himself. 121 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,120 He had on, you know, one of those hard straw hats and a white apron. 122 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,600 He had those rimless glasses with thick lenses so that his eyes looked like baseballs. 123 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,600 When he saw I was looking at him, he nodded and went on whistling and stropping. 124 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,600 A real creep. 125 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,000 Later on, I watched him softening up some sort of steaks. 126 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,440 He had a big steel mallet with points on it. 127 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,640 He was whacking away at this meat like a pile driver. 128 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:40,440 I watched him grinding and slicing, quartering, sawing the bones off some of the cuts. 129 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:46,640 And always those eyes like baseball and that teeny little mouth lost in the big red face, 130 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:47,640 whistling. 131 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:55,640 I looked over at her and she was giving me the eye again. 132 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:02,480 We closed at seven. 133 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,280 The festival guys carted out the old stuff, delicatessen man put away his pickles. 134 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:10,240 I checked the register, countered my slips, made my entries. 135 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,760 Krause the butcher was still there packing and cleaning, putting stuff in that big refrigerator 136 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,720 room back at the counter, but she'd left. 137 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:26,000 I got to my street coat and walked out. 138 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,520 Hello. 139 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,560 She was standing looking at the shoe display a couple of doors down from the market. 140 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:33,560 I said hello. 141 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,120 Don't you say hello wherever it is you come from? 142 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:38,120 Sure. 143 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,120 Hello. 144 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,120 Taking the bus? 145 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:41,120 Yeah. 146 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:42,120 Which way do you go? 147 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:43,120 I don't know, Wester. 148 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,120 I'm going that way. 149 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,120 I'll drive you. 150 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,120 No, no, I'll take the bus. 151 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,480 No, no, I don't think you'd better. 152 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:50,560 What's the matter? 153 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,560 I wouldn't want to trouble you. 154 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:53,560 No trouble. 155 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:54,560 Well, I... 156 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:55,560 Come on. 157 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:56,560 I'm parked right here. 158 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,680 Yeah, but what about Mr. Krause? 159 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,040 He'll be there an hour yet. 160 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,040 He takes the bus. 161 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,040 Oh. 162 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,040 Come on. 163 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,040 Well, I... 164 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,040 Come on. 165 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,040 Don't be afraid. 166 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,040 I'm not afraid of you. 167 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,040 You're afraid of me. 168 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,040 Come on. 169 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,480 Get in. 170 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:34,680 So all day long I'm pushing liquor at them. 171 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,680 Now they're pushing it at me. 172 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:36,680 Oh, you're cute, Harry. 173 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,680 I mean it. 174 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,680 You're really cute. 175 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:39,680 So are you, baby. 176 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,360 You really think so? 177 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,360 Sure, baby. 178 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:45,360 Harry, let's get out of here. 179 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:46,360 Go someplace else. 180 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,360 Hey, hey, wait a minute. 181 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:48,360 I got to work in the morning. 182 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,360 Hey, silly, this is the morning. 183 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,360 It is. 184 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,360 Hey. 185 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:52,360 Hey, Mac, what's the time? 186 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,360 2.30. 187 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,360 Harry, Harry, you really think I'm cute. 188 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:55,360 Oh, sure, baby. 189 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,360 Look, but it's late. 190 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,360 Real late. 191 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,360 Don't worry, sugar. 192 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,360 Look, look, come on. 193 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,360 I'll take you home. 194 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,360 No, no. 195 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:02,360 I'll take you home. 196 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,360 I'll take you home. 197 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,360 I'll take you home. 198 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,360 I'll take you home. 199 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,360 I'll take you home. 200 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:07,360 I'll take you home. 201 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,360 I'll take you home. 202 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,360 I'll take you home. 203 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:10,360 I'll take you home. 204 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:11,360 I took you home. 205 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:12,360 I got him. 206 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:13,360 It wasn't me. 207 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,360 It was Donna. 208 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,360 You got Pochette. 209 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,360 Oh, I'm going to have миллиard. 210 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Yes, 1944, you know, grade. 211 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:18,360 He could take away Beau Do on the past. 212 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,360 He'd want to see shoes like this, too, intelligent for a baby, isn't it? 213 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:38,360 No, I never 214 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:45,360 on me. But he never did. Just went on smashing, slicing, grinding, sawing, all that. 215 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:58,200 When I came out that night, she was there. I tried to disregard her, but... 216 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,200 Barry! 217 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,540 She said she had something very serious to talk over. Well, the way she said it, I got 218 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:12,540 in the car again. 219 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:16,720 Now, he's awful, Harry. Really, you don't know. 220 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:17,720 Yeah, I guess he's tough. 221 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,720 You just wouldn't believe some of the things. 222 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:20,720 Look, Mary, I... 223 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:21,720 He's crazy jealous. 224 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:22,720 Of you? 225 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:23,720 That's silly. 226 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:24,720 Well, I guess it's... 227 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,720 Jealous of me. Or should I say of you? 228 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,120 Me? What's he know about me? 229 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,720 Well, I got him this morning and there he was, sitting up like grandma in his bathrobe. 230 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,720 Maybe says, where you been? I said, what's it to you, Auntie? 231 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,720 I call him Auntie. It drives him crazy. 232 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:42,720 Now, look, Mary... 233 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:49,720 So he said, don't think you can fool me. And then he started to cry and say a lot of things 234 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,720 about Babylon and then sitting on the water, real crazy talk. 235 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,720 Look, I'd better go, Mary. I don't... 236 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,720 Oh, Harry, don't be silly. He doesn't know who you are, who it is. 237 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:00,720 Yeah, but he could find out. 238 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,720 Not unless I told him. 239 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:05,720 Oh, look, you wouldn't do that. 240 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:21,720 Of course not, baby. As long as you're good to me. 241 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:27,720 The next night I stayed in the market. I was scared. I didn't want any more of that stuff. 242 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:32,720 I did inventory, counted bottles, cleaned the refrigerator, changed the water in the soft drink 243 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:38,720 cooler. I kept busy. Across the market, Krauss was moving around, cleaning up. 244 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,720 After a while, he took office apron and his straw hat and he came over. 245 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,720 Hello, Mr. Krauss. 246 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,720 Give me a bottle of beer. 247 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:52,720 Sure thing. 248 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:54,720 All right, to drink it here? 249 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,720 Sure. We're closed, aren't we? 250 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,720 Oh, here. Here's an opener. 251 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:07,720 Thanks. 252 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,720 You're working late, huh? 253 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,720 Where are you? Know how it is? Nothing to do evenings. 254 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:13,720 No? 255 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,720 No. I'm new out here. Takes time to make friends. 256 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:23,720 For me, maybe it would take time. But not for a good looking young fellow like yourself. 257 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,720 Oh, I don't know. You're a big broad-shouldered guy. 258 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,720 Yes, you're big. That's me. 259 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,720 How's the beer? 260 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,720 All right. Listen, do you know my wife? 261 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:37,720 Your wife? 262 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,720 Yeah. You know her? She... 263 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:42,720 Isn't she the one who checks the groceries? 264 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:43,720 Yeah. 265 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,720 Oh, very nice looking lady. 266 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:46,720 You think so? 267 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,720 Well, of course. Don't get me wrong. I mean it very sincerely. 268 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,720 Very nice, respectfully looking... 269 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,720 Listen, have you noticed anything funny going on there? 270 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:58,720 Funny? 271 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,720 Somebody's playing around with her. And I want to find out who. 272 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:03,720 With her? 273 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,720 You wouldn't think it now, would you? 274 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,720 No. I should say no. 275 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,720 I don't know who it is, but listen, haven't you noticed anything? 276 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,720 I mean, some guy who shoots the breeze with her or something like that? 277 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,720 No. No. 278 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,720 Then will you do me a favor? 279 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,720 Sure. What? 280 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Keep your eyes open. 281 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,720 Oh, I will, Mr. Krauss. I promise you. 282 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:32,720 Ah. Ah. I'll find the guy. 283 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,720 I'll find out who he is if it takes a year. 284 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,720 And when I do, I'll kill him. 285 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,720 Good night. 286 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:54,720 Good night. 287 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,720 Auto Light is bringing you Kirk Douglas in The Butcher's Wife. 288 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:09,720 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 289 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,720 I say, Wilcox, you're keeping me in suspense. 290 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,720 Ah, but not for long, Remmingchester, old man. 291 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,720 I'll tell you here and now, you just can't find anything, man, beast, or battery, 292 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,720 to beat the liquid reserve of a genuine Auto Light staple battery. 293 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,720 That's a powerful statement, Wilcox. 294 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,720 That's a powerful battery, Remmingchester. 295 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,720 Needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 296 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,720 Extraordinary. Well, I must be on my way. 297 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:41,720 If I'm to find a more capacious camel, after all, life is short. 298 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,720 Not the life of the Auto Light staple battery. 299 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,720 With fiberglass retaining mats at every positive plate, 300 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,720 Auto Light staple batteries give 70% longer average life 301 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,720 than batteries without the staple features. 302 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:59,720 That's based on recent tests conducted according to SAE life cycle standards. 303 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,720 See your Auto Light dealer soon, friends, because you're always right with Auto Light. 304 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,720 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star, Kirk Douglas, 305 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:16,720 in The Butcher's Wife, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 306 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,720 See how it happens? You go along minding your own business, 307 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,720 trying to be a sweet guy in a whammy. 308 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,720 How pops the devil. The roof caves in in their yard. 309 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,720 The executioner's honing the axe and whistling to himself. 310 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,720 I tell you, I was nervous. My hands were sweating and my teeth were aching. 311 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Well, if it hadn't been for needing the job bad, 312 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,720 I'd have put on my coat and high-tailed it out of there, but fast. 313 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,720 There was a situation. 314 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,720 Mary's looking over at me every now and then, giving me the big eyes. 315 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,720 The heck with you, baby. Get yourself another boy. 316 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,720 And Krauss is looking over, raising his eyeblows. Do I know who it is yet? 317 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,720 And I'm making a long face and shaking my head. 318 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,720 Then Nick, the vegetable man, comes over. 319 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,720 I see you didn't understand what I told you the other day. 320 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:06,720 What's that, Nick? 321 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,720 About Mary. I told you she was a married woman. 322 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,720 What are you talking about? 323 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,720 I see you. The both of you coming out of a bar the other morning. 324 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:14,720 You're nuts, Nick. Listen, I have... 325 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,720 Don't pull the hard face with me, Harry. 326 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,720 I ought to tip Krauss off to what's going on. 327 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,720 Nick, Nick, be a good guy, will you? 328 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,720 Be a good guy, will you? I'm telling you, you better be a good guy. 329 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,720 And leave the butcher's wife alone if you know what's good for you. 330 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,720 Look, I will, Nick. I will. I swear it. It was a mistake, that's all. 331 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:35,720 Yeah. 332 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,720 Oh, be a good guy, Nick. Forget about it. 333 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,720 All right. This once, OK. 334 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,720 But do it again and you'll get what's coming to you. 335 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:43,720 Sure, Nick. Sure. 336 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:44,720 And I'm not just talking. 337 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:52,720 Harry. 338 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:53,720 What? 339 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:54,720 Blow, will you? Blow. 340 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Harry, I wish you wouldn't treat me this way. 341 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:57,720 Look, Blow, get away. 342 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:58,720 Look at me, Harry. 343 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,720 Don't you know your husband's watching you? 344 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,720 He's got his glasses off. He couldn't see Hollywood Bowl. 345 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,720 You better be nice to me, Harry. 346 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,720 Please, Mary. Please go back to your cash register. 347 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:08,720 I want to see you tonight. 348 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:09,720 No. 349 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:10,720 Oh, yes. 350 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,720 Look, understand me, Mary. You're poisoned. Now get away. 351 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,720 You'll see me, Harry, or you'll see Krauss. 352 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,720 All right. Where? 353 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,720 I'll be parked. Around the corner. 354 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,720 Around the corner. 355 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,720 Don't be late. 356 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,720 Oh, Harry. 357 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,720 Stop being silly. Come on, get in. 358 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,720 Look, please, can't you understand? 359 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:36,720 I don't want any trouble. 360 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:37,720 What are you so afraid of? 361 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:38,720 Trouble. 362 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,720 Oh, come on, baby. Let's go and have some fun. 363 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:41,720 Please, I... 364 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,720 What's the matter? 365 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,720 Oh. 366 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:46,720 Hello, Nick. 367 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:47,720 I warn you. 368 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:48,720 Listen, you've got it wrong, Nick. 369 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:49,720 Oh, no. 370 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:50,720 What is all this? 371 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,720 You shut up. 372 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:52,720 Don't you talk to me like that. 373 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,720 I talk to you like I please, cheek. 374 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:55,720 Harry. 375 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,720 Hit him, Harry. 376 00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,720 I didn't hit him. 377 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:00,720 He was looking down his nose at me, 378 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,720 and he was a nice wide-open target, 379 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:03,720 but I didn't hit him. 380 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,720 Because all of a sudden, I knew what I had to do, 381 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,720 and I knew I had to do it fast. 382 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:08,720 Harry. 383 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,720 Hey, where are you going, baby? 384 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:11,720 I didn't turn. 385 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,720 Nick was still back there beside the car. 386 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,720 I went into the market. 387 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:16,720 Mr. Kraus. 388 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:18,720 Mr. Kraus. 389 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:20,720 Yeah? 390 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:21,720 I... 391 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:23,720 What? 392 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,720 I found out. 393 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,720 What? I can't hear you. 394 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:28,720 I said I found out. 395 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,720 I found out who it is. 396 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:32,720 Who? 397 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:33,720 Nick. 398 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,720 The vegetable man. 399 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:37,720 Yeah. 400 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,720 The vegetable man. 401 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:41,720 Yeah. 402 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,720 The vegetable man. 403 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,720 The vegetable man. 404 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,720 I knew yesterday, but I didn't want to get him in trouble. 405 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,720 I told him to lay off, but he said nuts. 406 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:51,720 He said if I opened my mouth, 407 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,720 he'd tell you it was me, that I was the one. 408 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:54,720 The vegetable man. 409 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:56,720 I'm sorry, Mr. Kraus. 410 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,720 I never did like him. 411 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:58,720 I never did like him. 412 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,720 Well, good night. 413 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:01,720 Good night. 414 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,720 Good night. 415 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,720 I took a bottle of brandy home with me. 416 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:14,720 No dinner. 417 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,720 I just laid around the bed about three hours, 418 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,720 talking to myself. 419 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,720 Finally, the heck with the job. 420 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,720 I got up, started the pack. 421 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,720 I was broke, but I didn't care. 422 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:28,720 I'd have to skip out of my rent, 423 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:29,720 but it didn't matter. 424 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:30,720 I didn't care. 425 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,720 I figured out from Kraus, from Mary, from Nick, and... 426 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,720 Suddenly, I figured that even if Nick was a snooping little rat 427 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,720 with his holier than now, I ought to clear him. 428 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,720 So I wrote a note to Kraus. 429 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,720 I said, I did it. 430 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,720 Kraus, don't blame anybody else. 431 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,720 I took the note in my bag and the key to the market 432 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,720 and I tiptoed out of the rooming house. 433 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,720 I caught a bus and went to the market. 434 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,720 The whole of Vard was deserted. 435 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,720 I looked into the glass door. 436 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,720 In the back of the place, up high, 437 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,720 there was a red neon beer sign that blinked on and off, 438 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,720 on and off. 439 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,720 I unlocked the door, went in, 440 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,720 and locked the door behind me. 441 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,720 The place was kind of eerie in the dark. 442 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,720 What with that red light blinking on and off. 443 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,720 One minute the place was pitch black 444 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:27,720 and the next it was a thousand little red lights 445 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,720 bouncing off the canned stuff in the grocery store. 446 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,720 I went to the butcher counter first. 447 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,720 I laid the note on the scale where you'd be sure to see it. 448 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,720 Then I crossed over past the vegetables and the bakery, 449 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,720 past the delicatessen to the liquor department. 450 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,720 It was dark and I kept bumping into things. 451 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,720 I thought, why am I acting like a criminal? 452 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,720 So I turned on the light. 453 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,720 The whole place was suddenly so dazzling, it hurt my eyes. 454 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,720 I looked at the cash register. 455 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,720 I was just thinking, maybe I'll take a couple of bucks. 456 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,720 When it happened, 457 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,720 I hadn't touched it. 458 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,720 There were other switches in the place hiding nowhere. 459 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,720 After the brightness, the place seemed twice as dark. 460 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,720 The red sign blinked on and off, on and off. 461 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,720 Then I saw Trous. 462 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,720 He was standing behind the meat counter at the scale. 463 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,720 He picked up the new my note. 464 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,720 I did it, Trous, and he read it. 465 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,720 I couldn't see his eyes, just the glasses. 466 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:32,720 Every time the light blinked, it shone red. 467 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,720 Bright red like some sort of terrible toy. 468 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,720 Then it began to move. 469 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,720 It was like a movie that you see one frame at a time. 470 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,720 Each time the light blinked down, he wasn't where he'd been before. 471 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,720 But closer, closer. 472 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,720 Trous! 473 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,720 Mr. Trous! 474 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,720 Mr. Trous! 475 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,720 The red glasses kept coming at me. 476 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,720 I edged over toward the vegetables, 477 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,720 and he moved to... 478 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,720 I moved the other way toward the groceries. 479 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,720 There was a railing. I climbed over. 480 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,720 I was in one of the long, narrow aisles of cans and bottles. 481 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,720 The stuff was piled head high. 482 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,720 I waited, hoping maybe he didn't see me. 483 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,720 But he did. 484 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,720 I hid behind a stack of canned dog food. 485 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,720 He sounded 30 or 40 feet away. 486 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,720 I waited. 487 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,720 I looked around the corner. 488 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:45,720 He was looking down another aisle. I knocked my head back. 489 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,720 I couldn't understand that sound. 490 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,720 I looked again. 491 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,720 The aisle was empty, but in the center where Kraus had stood were his shoes. 492 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,720 He'd taken them off. 493 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,720 Very quietly, I bent and took mine off. 494 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,720 Then I began to chip through away from where I'd seen him. 495 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,720 And then I rounded the corner. 496 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,720 There he was, not two feet away with his back to me. 497 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,720 I lost my balance. I put my hand out to steady me. 498 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,720 A whole stack of cans went over. 499 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,720 I ran. I kept running, and there I was. 500 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,720 I was at the end of an aisle, and there was the wall, the back wall. 501 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,720 I turned, and he was coming, coming straight at me. 502 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,720 My hand put something cold, a bottle. I grabbed it. 503 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,720 It was ammonia. 504 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,720 Kraus, get back. 505 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,720 Get back, Kraus, or I'll blind you. 506 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,720 Kraus, I warn you. I swear I will. 507 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,720 No! 508 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,720 He stood there like a crazy giant, 509 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,720 like cyclops tearing at his eyes the ammonia running down his face. 510 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,720 I didn't wait. I ran past him, bumping him aside, 511 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,720 ran and ran and cut around the cash register, 512 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,720 passed delicatessen in the bakery to the door. 513 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,720 It was locked. 514 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,720 The key, I'd left it in the lock. It was gone. 515 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,720 I tried to break the glass with my fist, 516 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,720 but it was like steel. 517 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,720 I couldn't kick it. I'd left my shoes behind. 518 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,720 And Kraus kept coming, feeling his way along, moaning. 519 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,720 In the blinking light, I could see he still had the knife in his hand. 520 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,720 I slid behind the counter to meet him, under my feet, the sawdust. 521 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,720 I bent, scooped up a handful. 522 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,720 His face was awful, twisted and gleaming. 523 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,720 His glasses were gone and his eyes were screwed tight shut in pain. 524 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,720 He stopped ten feet away, swaying. 525 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,720 Then he opened his eyes, opened them as wide as he could 526 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,720 and moved his head from side to side, trying nearsightedly to see me. 527 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,720 Then his head stopped moving and holding it sideways, 528 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,720 using one eye to see me, he came on, the knife held way back. 529 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,720 I went... I... I... 530 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,720 I'd fly with the sawdust and jumped to one side, 531 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,720 my back up against the block, and he twisted and skidded in the sawdust and he fell. 532 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,720 He was very still for a moment. 533 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,720 I waited. 534 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,720 He rose to his knees. 535 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,720 In the blinking light, I saw the knife. 536 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,720 He'd fallen on it. It stuck out of the middle of his chest. 537 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,720 Kraus! 538 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,720 Then, very slowly, he got to his feet. 539 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,720 One hand over the place where the knife was and started towing me again. 540 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,720 There was a rack over the chopping block. 541 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,720 He reached up and got a cleaver. 542 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:35,720 I backed up. 543 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,720 Behind me, I felt a large cold handle. 544 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,720 The door to the meat storage room, I eased it open. 545 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,720 Inside, it was cold, bitter cold and dark. 546 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,720 In the center of the door was one small thick pane of glass. 547 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:52,720 It was clouded. 548 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,720 I wiped it clear with my hand and looked out. 549 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,720 Kraus stood there, his face an inch from mine, looking in. 550 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,720 And then his eyes rolled back and his face went slack and he fell out of sight. 551 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,720 He was dead. 552 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,720 I was sure. 553 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,720 I felt around in the dark for the knob, but I couldn't find it. 554 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,720 I felt the door from top to bottom. 555 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,720 There were bars and bolts and something that felt like a handle. 556 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,720 I can't and tug, but it wouldn't move. 557 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,720 There was a knife on the slab there. 558 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:31,720 I put your knife. 559 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,720 I felt around the door for a crack, slipped the knife in and twisted. 560 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,720 Broke off. 561 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:42,720 Another door, I thought. 562 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,720 Maybe there's...oh, please. 563 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,720 Another door out of this place. 564 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,720 I began to search for it in the dark, feeling along the icy damp walls. 565 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,720 I walked into something cold that moved when I touched it. 566 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,720 Oh, the sight of beef. 567 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:58,720 But no door. 568 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,720 I moved farther, another icy cold thing. 569 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,720 And I moved on and came up against another. 570 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,720 Cold as the rest, but... 571 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,720 And I'm crazy. 572 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,720 I know it. 573 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,720 I'm crazy. 574 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:20,720 This one...this one feels as though it's wearing silk stockings. 575 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,720 So here I am. 576 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,720 It's awfully cold. 577 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,720 Cold as a witch's heart. 578 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,720 Cold as a tomb. 579 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,720 This thing I have in my hand is knife handle. 580 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,720 I wish it had a blade. 581 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,720 I know what I do, I know, but it hasn't. 582 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,720 Anyway, I'm innocent of anything. 583 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:49,720 They'll believe me. 584 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:50,720 They will. 585 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,720 There's a letter outside on the scale. 586 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:53,720 It says, I did it, Kraus. 587 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,720 Don't blame anybody else. 588 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:56,720 And there's my suitcase. 589 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,720 Well, that'll prove I meant to go away and not cause anybody a hard time. 590 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,720 And there's... 591 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,720 Oh, time goes slow. 592 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,720 And while I'm waiting and waiting and waiting, 593 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,720 I'll tell myself the whole story again. 594 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,720 And again, it'll give me something to do, you know. 595 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,720 Something to think about. 596 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,720 You see, it started the first day of the job. 597 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,720 I was clerking the liquor department at the supermarket. 598 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,720 I hadn't been to Los Angeles a week. 599 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,720 My brother, when I left New York, had given me this letter to a friend of his. 600 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,720 You know, a guy who owned a string of these supermarkets. 601 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:29,720 The letter was about, could he use me? 602 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,720 I was a good fellow. 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