WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:18.520 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Dennis O'Keefe in Very Much Like a Nightmare, a suspense 00:18.520 --> 00:23.000 play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:23.000 --> 00:24.000 Harlow. 00:24.000 --> 00:25.000 Yeah? 00:25.000 --> 00:29.560 What spectacular event heralds the approach of summer? 00:29.560 --> 00:33.720 By getting an Auto Light Stay Full Battery, the battery that has three times as much liquid 00:33.720 --> 00:37.320 reserve above the plates as batteries without stay full features. 00:37.320 --> 00:40.600 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 00:40.600 --> 00:41.600 Come on now, Wilcox. 00:41.600 --> 00:44.240 I mean for fun, for pleasure, for excitement. 00:44.240 --> 00:45.840 Well, so do I, Hap. 00:45.840 --> 00:49.280 What could be more fun than driving a car that has an Auto Light Stay Full Battery to 00:49.280 --> 00:52.360 give you extra starting dependability? 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02:44.440 --> 02:45.440 Anybody for three? 02:45.440 --> 02:46.440 Down to the guys seeing you around lately, Mr. DuPré. 02:46.440 --> 02:53.440 No, I'm playing hooky. 02:53.440 --> 02:54.440 Lucky you. 02:54.440 --> 02:55.440 Bye, Eddie. 02:55.440 --> 03:00.440 Have I ever let you off in the other place? 03:00.440 --> 03:09.200 Mr. DuPré, though not precisely my type, was one of the rare plus qualities to be discovered 03:09.200 --> 03:10.200 in the Nugent building. 03:10.200 --> 03:14.600 She was one of the few girls I've seen around office buildings who actually looked as though 03:14.600 --> 03:16.640 they belonged in somebody's penthouse apartment. 03:16.640 --> 03:22.600 She usually tagged along with Farris, a cocky-looking character who also worked at Circassian Brothers 03:22.600 --> 03:24.600 importers up on five. 03:24.600 --> 03:25.600 Five? 03:25.600 --> 03:26.600 Watch your step. 03:26.600 --> 03:27.600 Thank you, Eddie. 03:27.600 --> 03:28.600 Mr. DuPré. 03:28.600 --> 03:29.600 Yes? 03:29.600 --> 03:30.600 Is everything all right? 03:30.600 --> 03:31.600 What? 03:31.600 --> 03:32.600 Oh, yes, I think so, Eddie. 03:32.600 --> 03:37.600 But maybe you'd better check with Mr. Farris. 03:37.600 --> 03:41.600 He may want to send out for a sandwich around 11. 03:41.600 --> 03:42.600 Okay. 03:42.600 --> 03:47.600 Seven, Mr. McClain. 03:47.600 --> 03:52.600 Watch your step. 03:52.600 --> 03:57.600 Thank you, Eddie. 03:57.600 --> 04:04.600 The morning went slowly, even with Hermes' pills to help, but at noon I resumed a pleasant 04:04.600 --> 04:07.600 custom which had been temporarily interrupted by my illness. 04:07.600 --> 04:12.600 Out of having lunch with Miss Catherine Warren, a delightful young lady on whose future I 04:12.600 --> 04:16.600 had very definite, if not especially dark, designs. 04:16.600 --> 04:18.600 Now for the gruesome lecture. 04:18.600 --> 04:21.600 What time did you go to bed last night, boss? 04:21.600 --> 04:22.600 Who, me? 04:22.600 --> 04:23.600 Last night? 04:23.600 --> 04:24.600 Well... 04:24.600 --> 04:25.600 All right, then. 04:25.600 --> 04:26.600 It was this morning. 04:26.600 --> 04:27.600 It was this morning, wasn't it? 04:27.600 --> 04:28.600 Such a charming girl to be so snoopy. 04:28.600 --> 04:33.600 Would you like to hear about a very interesting conversation I had going down on the bus this 04:33.600 --> 04:37.600 morning with a young man named Herman? 04:37.600 --> 04:38.600 Hermes? 04:38.600 --> 04:40.600 How a guy like that can run a prescription shop beats me. 04:40.600 --> 04:43.600 What would the doctors do if they knew he went around blabbing professional secrets? 04:43.600 --> 04:46.600 It's you, not Hermes, I'm concerned about. 04:46.600 --> 04:49.600 And I'd like to know what makes you think it's smart to start taking dope. 04:49.600 --> 04:50.600 Dope? 04:50.600 --> 04:52.600 Oh, that Hermes and his melodrama. 04:52.600 --> 04:53.600 All he gave me was something to... 04:53.600 --> 04:56.600 Something to keep you from getting the sleep you ought to be getting. 04:56.600 --> 04:59.600 At this rate, you'll be back in bed again before you know it. 04:59.600 --> 05:01.600 Ah, they're just little white pills. 05:01.600 --> 05:04.600 Perfectly harmless if you don't try to swallow the whole box. 05:04.600 --> 05:05.600 Why, Hermes says, here. 05:05.600 --> 05:07.600 Well, let's take a look for yourself. 05:07.600 --> 05:08.600 That's a... 05:08.600 --> 05:09.600 That's a wrong box. 05:09.600 --> 05:11.600 What do you mean, wrong box? 05:11.600 --> 05:12.600 All right. 05:12.600 --> 05:14.600 So, I'm a fugitive from a drug counter. 05:14.600 --> 05:15.600 These are the... 05:15.600 --> 05:16.600 One of the other ones. 05:16.600 --> 05:17.600 The other ones? 05:17.600 --> 05:22.600 Well, the fact is, darling, at first I was as leery about these stay-awake things as you 05:22.600 --> 05:23.600 are. 05:23.600 --> 05:24.600 I started worrying. 05:24.600 --> 05:28.600 Suppose the stuff was slow-wiring off or suppose I developed insomnia or something like that. 05:28.600 --> 05:32.600 Now, Hermes said he doubted that that would happen, but just to make sure, he fixed me 05:32.600 --> 05:35.600 up with these sleeping pills. 05:35.600 --> 05:36.600 More dope. 05:36.600 --> 05:37.600 Oh, look, honey. 05:37.600 --> 05:39.600 It's not Yeoman I'm doing this for. 05:39.600 --> 05:40.600 You know that. 05:40.600 --> 05:41.600 It's us. 05:41.600 --> 05:43.600 I wouldn't have tried to come to work if I... 05:43.600 --> 05:45.600 I know, I know, but I'm sorry. 05:45.600 --> 05:46.600 Forget it. 05:46.600 --> 05:49.600 Shall I call you tonight before I tuck myself in? 05:49.600 --> 05:59.600 If you don't, I'll come over and toss tear gas through your window. 05:59.600 --> 06:04.600 I made my way back toward the Nuget building, wedged as very appropriately near narrow dead-end 06:04.600 --> 06:05.600 street. 06:05.600 --> 06:09.600 About halfway down the block, I heard footsteps behind me and then a voice familiar enough. 06:09.600 --> 06:10.600 McClane. 06:10.600 --> 06:12.600 It was Ferris, Marie Dupree's boyfriend. 06:12.600 --> 06:13.600 Hi, McClane. 06:13.600 --> 06:14.600 Haven't seen you around lately. 06:14.600 --> 06:15.600 Been out of town? 06:15.600 --> 06:18.600 Oh, just had to stay in for a few days. 06:18.600 --> 06:20.600 How's it with Sir Christian Brothers? 06:20.600 --> 06:21.600 Never better, never better. 06:21.600 --> 06:22.600 And with you? 06:22.600 --> 06:23.600 No complaints. 06:23.600 --> 06:28.600 Say, something was said in the elevator this morning, you know, Eddie, about him picking 06:28.600 --> 06:30.600 up a sandwich for you around 11. 06:30.600 --> 06:33.600 I was wondering if that's just an arrangement with the people... 06:33.600 --> 06:34.600 Sandwiches? 06:34.600 --> 06:35.600 I don't get it, Mr. McClane. 06:35.600 --> 06:38.600 Eddie's never picked up any sandwiches for me. 06:38.600 --> 06:39.600 Somebody's kidding. 06:39.600 --> 06:40.600 Well, here we are. 06:40.600 --> 06:41.600 Coming up. 06:41.600 --> 06:42.600 Oh, hi, Mr. Ferris. 06:42.600 --> 06:43.600 Mr. McClane. 06:43.600 --> 06:44.600 Howdy. 06:44.600 --> 06:51.600 Eddie, what's this about some sandwich service you've got? 06:51.600 --> 06:53.600 Been holding out on me? 06:53.600 --> 06:54.600 Well, I... 06:54.600 --> 06:59.600 Well, Eddie, I just thought I overheard you and Mr. Dupree say something about handing 06:59.600 --> 07:00.600 out for a sandwich, so I... 07:00.600 --> 07:01.600 Oh, no, no, that was... 07:01.600 --> 07:02.600 No, you got us wrong. 07:02.600 --> 07:03.600 I never said that. 07:03.600 --> 07:08.600 I told Mr. McClane, Eddie, that it was probably some kind of kidding you and Mr. Dupree were 07:08.600 --> 07:09.600 carrying on. 07:09.600 --> 07:12.600 That goes to show you should never kid on the job. 07:12.600 --> 07:13.600 Yes, sir. 07:13.600 --> 07:16.600 That's a good motto for Eddie, huh, Mr. McClane? 07:16.600 --> 07:19.600 Never kid on the job. 07:19.600 --> 07:24.600 The three of us stood silently in the rising elevator. 07:24.600 --> 07:29.600 It seemed to me that Ferris had pushed the sandwich topic a little farther than necessary. 07:29.600 --> 07:31.600 Eddie was pretty upset. 07:31.600 --> 07:32.600 Why would he? 07:32.600 --> 07:35.600 Oh, well, hell, it wasn't any of my affair. 07:35.600 --> 07:39.600 I went back into my cubbyhole and waited till 3 o'clock, the hour for which Gilman had called 07:39.600 --> 07:43.600 the conference with Fisher, Barton, and Fisher, our big accounts. 07:43.600 --> 07:48.600 And it was in this conference that the sleep I hadn't got started creeping up on me. 07:48.600 --> 07:52.600 Out of a fleecy fog, I suddenly heard Gilman barking at me. 07:52.600 --> 07:53.600 McClane! 07:53.600 --> 07:54.600 Yes, huh? 07:54.600 --> 07:56.600 Heavensake, what's the matter with you? 07:56.600 --> 07:59.600 You didn't get out of bed too soon, did you? 07:59.600 --> 08:02.600 Oh, no, no, I'm all right, Mr. Gilman. 08:02.600 --> 08:03.600 Oh, good. 08:03.600 --> 08:06.600 I'd appreciate your getting Mr. Fisher's brief finished up for me. 08:06.600 --> 08:10.600 I hate to ask you this, but I wonder if you'd mind getting it done before you go. 08:14.600 --> 08:16.600 I managed an apology and stood up. 08:16.600 --> 08:21.600 My eyes burned and my neck muscles seemed to be dragging my head down as I went back to my office. 08:21.600 --> 08:26.600 It had been 10, maybe 12 hours since I had taken the last couple of stay-awake pills. 08:26.600 --> 08:31.600 If I could borrow enough energy for the next 45 minutes, I told myself I could clean up this last job 08:31.600 --> 08:34.600 and the whole blessed night would be mine for sleeping. 08:34.600 --> 08:37.600 This time I'd cut the dose in half, only take a single pill, so... 08:37.600 --> 08:41.600 I shook one of the pills out of the little box and followed it with a glass of water. 08:41.600 --> 08:45.600 Then I sat down at my desk and unclipped the sheets that Gilman had given me. 08:50.600 --> 08:54.600 I don't know when it was that I noticed that the words had started running together. 08:54.600 --> 08:58.600 I looked at the papers and it was like peering through water. 08:58.600 --> 09:05.600 The bell was bonging somewhere far off in the distance and I seemed to be lying across a bed. 09:05.600 --> 09:10.600 Slowly I forced open my eyes and blinked while reality swam into focus. 09:10.600 --> 09:13.600 For a moment I really didn't know where I was and it was just silence 09:13.600 --> 09:16.600 and the lost feeling of being in the wrong place. 09:16.600 --> 09:21.600 Then suddenly I realized the bed I had seemed to be lying across was my office desk. 09:21.600 --> 09:24.600 I couldn't quite get it clear. What was I doing here? 09:24.600 --> 09:27.600 The outer office was nothing but darkness. 09:27.600 --> 09:31.600 Stiff and cramped, I stood up, I looked at my watches. 09:31.600 --> 09:35.600 2.15. 2.15? That's impossible. 09:35.600 --> 09:38.600 Only a few minutes ago I looked at my watch and it was... 09:38.600 --> 09:42.600 Oh, no. It couldn't have been a few minutes ago when Gilman was here then 09:42.600 --> 09:46.600 and Miss Tyler and the others at... What can't be two in the morning? 09:46.600 --> 09:53.600 Oh, oh, oh, oh, bright boy McClane. Hermes' pills. 09:56.600 --> 09:59.600 For the second time I'd made a stupid mistake about the pills. 09:59.600 --> 10:02.600 When I went into the washroom I'd taken the wrong pills with me. 10:02.600 --> 10:06.600 The sleeping pills. The others were still in my top coat. 10:10.600 --> 10:13.600 I laughed again but this time I knew I was wrong. 10:13.600 --> 10:17.600 I laughed again but this time I didn't like the sound so much. 10:17.600 --> 10:22.600 Somehow it seemed too hollow and then suddenly standing there in the middle of the floor 10:22.600 --> 10:26.600 seven stories up in an empty office building, the darkness moved in on me. 10:26.600 --> 10:30.600 I got that funny feeling as if the darkness wasn't all, 10:30.600 --> 10:35.600 as if I had something worse to contend with like in blind man's buff when you're a kid 10:35.600 --> 10:39.600 and you shrink back and hold your breath while the hand fumbles past you in the darkness. 10:39.600 --> 10:43.600 Weird as it seemed all of a sudden it was like being on the island again 10:43.600 --> 10:46.600 with the Japanese somewhere near you and not daring to let a match 10:46.600 --> 10:49.600 and holding your breath for the darkness so thick it choked you. 10:49.600 --> 10:53.600 Holding your breath because that over-loud breath might be your last. 11:02.600 --> 11:07.600 Auto Light is bringing you Dennis O'Keefe in very much like a nightmare. 11:07.600 --> 11:12.600 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:19.600 --> 11:24.600 Hello, one of the circus men told me that elephants drink ten gallons of water a day. 11:24.600 --> 11:26.600 Ten gallons a day, wow. 11:26.600 --> 11:31.600 And an auto light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 11:31.600 --> 11:37.600 It's a super battery that has three times as much liquid reserve as batteries without stay full features. 11:37.600 --> 11:40.600 Yes, but the elephant is a mighty powerful critter, Wilcock. 11:40.600 --> 11:44.600 Well, talk about power. 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Why? 13:13.600 --> 13:15.600 And then I heard the whistling. 13:15.600 --> 13:18.600 Eddie, Eddie, the elevator boy. 13:18.600 --> 13:21.600 What are you doing here at this weird hour? 13:21.600 --> 13:25.600 Two o'clock in the morning in an empty building with no passengers. 13:25.600 --> 13:29.600 Lead footed, I moved down one flight and waited there on the sixth floor. 13:29.600 --> 13:33.600 Straining every cell to hear the whistling again, but I didn't. 13:33.600 --> 13:39.600 Instead I heard something from the fifth floor and I felt my way down toward it. 13:39.600 --> 13:45.600 Sure, I'm laughing, Shelby, because I know Marie and I know that when she talks like this she's not even half what she's saying. 13:45.600 --> 13:47.600 And then we've been drinking, drinking. 13:47.600 --> 13:49.600 I haven't been drinking that much. 13:49.600 --> 13:52.600 We feed him everything he asks for, lined up so that all he's got to do is walk in. 13:52.600 --> 13:55.600 And even before the stuff is out of the plane he's ready to cheat us out of what he promised. 13:55.600 --> 13:56.600 Marie. 13:56.600 --> 13:58.600 So we get for letting ourselves get mixed up in a bunch of... 13:58.600 --> 13:59.600 Now wait a minute. 13:59.600 --> 14:01.600 Shut up. 14:01.600 --> 14:04.600 Now I tell you something, Miss Dupree. 14:04.600 --> 14:06.600 You don't know your friends, do you? 14:06.600 --> 14:09.600 You start calling names and you're going to get hurt worse, much worse. 14:09.600 --> 14:10.600 You... 14:10.600 --> 14:11.600 You're hurting me. 14:11.600 --> 14:13.600 Yeah, yeah, I hit you and that ain't all. 14:13.600 --> 14:15.600 You figure you don't get enough for what you do. 14:15.600 --> 14:19.600 You figure you're being cheated out of your cock, but I tell you something now. 14:19.600 --> 14:21.600 You open your mouth the wrong way, I handle it myself. 14:21.600 --> 14:22.600 No way, Joe. 14:22.600 --> 14:25.600 You think we're so scared of you, we'll stand for anything, don't you? 14:25.600 --> 14:27.600 Well, if I get nothing, you get nothing too. 14:27.600 --> 14:29.600 Open my mouth, I'll open my mouth, all right? 14:29.600 --> 14:31.600 We never should have... Get out of my way. 14:31.600 --> 14:32.600 Where are you, Marie? 14:32.600 --> 14:36.600 Marie, let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. 14:36.600 --> 14:39.600 I told you to keep your mouth shut. 14:42.600 --> 14:46.600 What was this nightmare I'd stumbled into? 14:46.600 --> 14:49.600 If I hadn't been groggy and I looked down on the platform from seven, 14:49.600 --> 14:51.600 I would have been tipped off by the flashlights. 14:51.600 --> 14:54.600 Sir Kissian would never have had his workmen stumbling around in that sketchy light 14:54.600 --> 14:57.600 with stuff costing a small fortune. 14:57.600 --> 14:59.600 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 14:59.600 --> 15:02.600 The sketchy light with stuff costing a small fortune. 15:04.600 --> 15:06.600 The elevator. 15:06.600 --> 15:10.600 Eddie was in on a two, handling something a little hotter now than sandwiches. 15:10.600 --> 15:13.600 But after the doors opened, I noticed that the whistling stopped 15:13.600 --> 15:16.600 like being cut in two by a knife. 15:16.600 --> 15:19.600 The longer I stood there, the more unhealthy my position became, 15:19.600 --> 15:22.600 and then I wondered about Albert, the night watchman. 15:22.600 --> 15:26.600 Where was he? He had a gun, but suddenly I... 15:26.600 --> 15:29.600 I wanted to get out of there more than anything in the world. Just get out. 15:29.600 --> 15:32.600 My dash for the stairs to the fourth floor was like a slow motion dream. 15:32.600 --> 15:35.600 Hermione's sleeping pills. 15:35.600 --> 15:38.600 I plumped to the floor just out of range of the nearing light 15:38.600 --> 15:40.600 as the elevator dropped toward me. 15:40.600 --> 15:42.600 Suddenly there it was. 15:42.600 --> 15:46.600 A nakedly lighted little room suspended in space. 15:46.600 --> 15:49.600 I was staring through its fourth wall at Eddie. 15:49.600 --> 15:53.600 His face looked sick and green as he hugged the corner there at the controls. 15:53.600 --> 15:56.600 If nothing could make him look behind at the rear of the car 15:56.600 --> 16:00.600 where a big man I hadn't seen before held something in his arms. 16:00.600 --> 16:04.600 Something like an oversized doll whose legs dangled limply. 16:08.600 --> 16:12.600 The panic was fighting my fogginess as I stood there trying to think. 16:12.600 --> 16:14.600 Then I remembered the telephone. 16:14.600 --> 16:16.600 There was a perfectly good phone in my office. 16:16.600 --> 16:19.600 But that was five flights up, five long flights. 16:19.600 --> 16:23.600 I think there had been a phone on one of the other floors, a base station. 16:23.600 --> 16:26.600 I fought my way upward again and found it. I found it on the third. 16:26.600 --> 16:28.600 I remembered not to close the door of the booth completely 16:28.600 --> 16:30.600 because if I did that the little light would flash on 16:30.600 --> 16:32.600 and light was the last thing I wanted. 16:32.600 --> 16:35.600 I broke the phone off the hook, took a deep breath and... 16:38.600 --> 16:42.600 Coins sounded louder than a fire bell on a dead of night. 16:43.600 --> 16:46.600 Plumsly I dialed the operator. 16:46.600 --> 16:50.600 Number please. Number please. 16:50.600 --> 16:53.600 The dope. The words wouldn't come out. 16:53.600 --> 16:55.600 Number please. 16:55.600 --> 16:58.600 Police. I want the police. 16:59.600 --> 17:01.600 My palms were sweaty. 17:01.600 --> 17:03.600 I was listening with half an ear down the hall. 17:03.600 --> 17:06.600 I thought I heard a slight scuffling sound but I couldn't be sure. 17:06.600 --> 17:09.600 Why was it taking so long? 17:09.600 --> 17:11.600 Police department. 17:11.600 --> 17:15.600 Hello. I'm calling from the Nugent building on 3rd Street North. 17:15.600 --> 17:18.600 There's a robbery going on here. A robbery. 17:18.600 --> 17:19.600 A girl's been killed. 17:19.600 --> 17:21.600 What's that address? Who's calling? 17:21.600 --> 17:23.600 My name's McClane. Bartley McClane. 17:23.600 --> 17:25.600 I work in this building. The address is... 17:25.600 --> 17:28.600 All right, mister. Hang up that phone. 17:32.600 --> 17:35.600 A sudden glare of the flashlight struck across my face like a fist. 17:35.600 --> 17:37.600 I shriveled and nothing inside it. 17:37.600 --> 17:39.600 And I saw the man behind the gun. 17:39.600 --> 17:42.600 It wasn't Joe. It wasn't any other man I'd expected. 17:42.600 --> 17:45.600 It was the guy I'd almost written off as gagged and tired to death. 17:45.600 --> 17:47.600 Albert! Albert, the night watchman. 17:47.600 --> 17:48.600 Hang it up. 17:48.600 --> 17:50.600 Albert, I was looking for you a while ago. 17:50.600 --> 17:53.600 It's all right. I'm McClane. Bart McClane, remember? 17:53.600 --> 17:55.600 Duman and Company up on the 7th floor. 17:55.600 --> 17:57.600 Hang up that phone, Mr. McClane. 17:57.600 --> 17:58.600 Hello, would you repeat? 17:58.600 --> 18:01.600 Look, you don't understand. You don't know what's going on. 18:01.600 --> 18:03.600 I know what's going on, honor. 18:03.600 --> 18:05.600 Will you take that gun out of my face? 18:05.600 --> 18:07.600 I tell you, there's a gang of crooks in this building. 18:07.600 --> 18:11.600 You never should have been here tonight, Mr. McClane. 18:11.600 --> 18:12.600 What? 18:12.600 --> 18:15.600 Come on. We're going to see him. 18:15.600 --> 18:16.600 Him? 18:16.600 --> 18:19.600 Joe. Come on. 18:19.600 --> 18:20.600 Walk. 18:26.600 --> 18:28.600 That was a trick we'd practiced a hundred times for combat use, 18:28.600 --> 18:30.600 but I never tried it before when it really counted. 18:30.600 --> 18:33.600 So I came to the head of the stairs, I whirled and chopped down hard with my right hand. 18:33.600 --> 18:36.600 I heard the gun go clattering, but my timing was way off. 18:36.600 --> 18:38.600 My lever and life never got into the play. 18:38.600 --> 18:42.600 Albert had me by the throat and two of his pitch down the steps towards the landing. 18:42.600 --> 18:46.600 Locked together with a couple of residents, but it was Albert who took the brunt of the fall. 18:50.600 --> 18:55.600 His heart was still beating. He was just knocked out for how long? 18:55.600 --> 18:57.600 I suppose it was someone that had heard us. 18:57.600 --> 18:59.600 They must have heard us. The gun fall, too. 18:59.600 --> 19:02.600 The gun up at the top of the stairs. 19:02.600 --> 19:09.600 I had to get it. I had to get that gun. 19:09.600 --> 19:13.600 I had the gun in my hand. I didn't feel so naked now. 19:13.600 --> 19:17.600 I headed upstairs for Gilman and company's quarters fast. 19:17.600 --> 19:21.600 The door was still ajar the way I'd left it. I slipped in and closed it behind me. 19:21.600 --> 19:25.600 I knew that maybe I had only a matter of a few minutes to get out of final S.O.S. 19:25.600 --> 19:27.600 Albert would come to it and start talking. 19:27.600 --> 19:30.600 I stumbled over to my desk and put the gun down and started to reach for the phone. 19:30.600 --> 19:33.600 All right, fellas, just stay where you are. 19:33.600 --> 19:37.600 When I tell you, Ferris, I knew our boy would be coming back to see us. 19:37.600 --> 19:39.600 Let's go in and visit Petey. 19:39.600 --> 19:43.600 Okay, guys, move out where we can see you. 19:43.600 --> 19:47.600 Petey, Ferris, at least three of them, and everything was in their favor. 19:47.600 --> 19:50.600 My hands moved even before I thought the desk door was open. 19:50.600 --> 19:54.600 I slid the gun into it and moved in front of the door. 19:54.600 --> 19:58.600 Okay, Mac, or whatever your name is. 19:58.600 --> 20:00.600 Petey, look him over. 20:00.600 --> 20:03.600 Yeah, sure, Joe. 20:03.600 --> 20:06.600 Ain't you hanging around here a little late, Mac? 20:06.600 --> 20:10.600 I went down the hall for a minute. I had some work to do. 20:10.600 --> 20:15.600 I guess I fell asleep. When I woke up, I just wanted to find out what time it was. 20:15.600 --> 20:18.600 Hey, mister, I think you'd pick a bad night to work late. 20:18.600 --> 20:22.600 Petey, you wait in the hall and keep your eyes open. 20:22.600 --> 20:24.600 In five minutes, we'll be out of this dump. 20:24.600 --> 20:26.600 You stay here with this guy, Ferris. 20:26.600 --> 20:30.600 You're no good to us downstairs, and I'm tired of looking at you. 20:30.600 --> 20:32.600 Petey, I tell you what. 20:32.600 --> 20:35.600 I think maybe we better make it easy for Ferris. 20:35.600 --> 20:37.600 Oh, no, look, Joe, I mean... 20:37.600 --> 20:41.600 What are you talking about? What are you talking about? 20:41.600 --> 20:46.600 I mean, suppose we take this guy's time, make a nice handcuff for him. 20:46.600 --> 20:56.600 Then these two businessmen can sit down and talk business until we're ready to go. 20:56.600 --> 20:58.600 In a few seconds, not only were my wrists locked together, 20:58.600 --> 21:03.600 but I was sitting in the chair facing the door while Ferris slumped in the seat I wanted to have. 21:03.600 --> 21:07.600 The chair at the desk, inches away from the gun in the drawer. 21:07.600 --> 21:11.600 Ferris didn't look at me at all. Silence ticked behind ages. 21:11.600 --> 21:15.600 I shifted a little in my seat, testing Ferris, seeing if he'd notice. 21:15.600 --> 21:19.600 I got no reaction. It's that queer look on his face. 21:19.600 --> 21:22.600 The elevator would be bringing bad news in a matter of heartbeats. 21:22.600 --> 21:25.600 Hey, hey, who's that? 21:25.600 --> 21:26.600 Huh? What? 21:26.600 --> 21:28.600 The phone, the telephone. 21:28.600 --> 21:32.600 Oh, the phone. Well, it's my wife, I guess. 21:32.600 --> 21:35.600 You see, I told her I'd be working late. 21:35.600 --> 21:38.600 She's probably calling to say that she's on her way down to pick me up. 21:38.600 --> 21:40.600 Why is she coming down here? 21:40.600 --> 21:43.600 Look, you don't want nobody else butting in down here. 21:43.600 --> 21:46.600 I don't want her down here any more than you do, but... 21:46.600 --> 21:48.600 With the phone ringing and ringing like that, 21:48.600 --> 21:51.600 she'll just figure I've dozed off and come on down. 21:51.600 --> 21:53.600 Yeah, but Joe might... 21:53.600 --> 21:56.600 Hey, Ferris, don't you think you should cry a better answer? 21:56.600 --> 21:58.600 Come over here, mister. 21:58.600 --> 22:00.600 Talk to her. Tell her, uh... 22:00.600 --> 22:01.600 Hello? 22:01.600 --> 22:03.600 Tell her she don't have to pick you up. 22:03.600 --> 22:05.600 Hello, Bart? 22:05.600 --> 22:08.600 Hello, darling. I figured it was time you were calling. 22:08.600 --> 22:11.600 Oh, it is you, Bart, darling. I've been worried out of my mind. 22:11.600 --> 22:14.600 It's three o'clock in the morning. Hermy and I have tried to... 22:14.600 --> 22:18.600 Oh, yes, dear, yes. I've just about wound up the work for the Warren people. 22:18.600 --> 22:22.600 I figured you were just having a little trouble putting Junior to bed. 22:22.600 --> 22:24.600 Listen, tell her not to come down. 22:24.600 --> 22:26.600 What is it? What are you talking about? Who is Junior? 22:26.600 --> 22:28.600 And the Warren people. 22:28.600 --> 22:31.600 Yes, darling. Put the car back in the garage. 22:31.600 --> 22:34.600 Hermy is here. He's gonna drive me home. 22:34.600 --> 22:37.600 Hermy? Bart, Hermy's here with me, don't you... 22:37.600 --> 22:39.600 Bart, is something wrong? 22:39.600 --> 22:41.600 You'll be right, dear. Absolutely. 22:41.600 --> 22:42.600 Oh, Bart, Bart. 22:42.600 --> 22:44.600 All right, don't talk all night. 22:44.600 --> 22:45.600 Goodbye, darling. 22:45.600 --> 22:46.600 Bart! 22:46.600 --> 22:48.600 Who is this Hermy? 22:48.600 --> 22:50.600 He's a friend of mine. 22:50.600 --> 22:53.600 Sometimes we both work late and he drives me home. 22:53.600 --> 22:55.600 I had to tell her something, she'd believe. 22:55.600 --> 22:57.600 I didn't want her calling back. 22:57.600 --> 22:59.600 Yeah, well, we'll fix that. 23:02.600 --> 23:05.600 So he pointed me back to my chair and took the receiver off the hook. 23:05.600 --> 23:08.600 All the time, we might have been pictures on the wall 23:08.600 --> 23:10.600 that Ferris took in us. 23:10.600 --> 23:13.600 Then he went back out in the hall and when Ferris did speak, 23:13.600 --> 23:16.600 it was all I could do to keep from jumping out of my skin. 23:16.600 --> 23:18.600 And his face. 23:18.600 --> 23:21.600 I suddenly remembered when and where I'd seen her look 23:21.600 --> 23:23.600 like the one on Ferris' face. 23:23.600 --> 23:25.600 Funny thing. 23:25.600 --> 23:28.600 All this time I never knew you were married. 23:28.600 --> 23:31.600 Oh, yes, yes, I married three years ago. 23:31.600 --> 23:34.600 Marie and me, we... 23:34.600 --> 23:37.600 That's what we had in mind all the time. 23:37.600 --> 23:39.600 We figured we could make it work. 23:39.600 --> 23:42.600 We were gonna get married. 23:42.600 --> 23:44.600 But you know how it is sometimes, 23:44.600 --> 23:47.600 you run up all you make on clothes and cars. 23:47.600 --> 23:49.600 Bill said no rough stuff. 23:49.600 --> 23:52.600 Marie just got excited. 23:52.600 --> 23:54.600 He didn't have to. 23:54.600 --> 23:56.600 He didn't have to. 23:56.600 --> 23:59.600 He didn't have to. 23:59.600 --> 24:02.600 All right, Ferris, here they come. Let's roll. 24:02.600 --> 24:04.600 Ferris, Ferris, listen to me. 24:04.600 --> 24:06.600 The desk drawer in front of you, there's a gun in there. 24:06.600 --> 24:07.600 A gun. 24:07.600 --> 24:08.600 A gun? 24:08.600 --> 24:10.600 Joe's coming back. 24:10.600 --> 24:12.600 There's not much time, Ferris. Right in front of you. 24:12.600 --> 24:14.600 In a desk drawer. Open it. 24:14.600 --> 24:16.600 Get the gun. 24:16.600 --> 24:21.600 Joe, he's the boy who went out to find what time it was. 24:21.600 --> 24:25.600 Smart boy. Can't keep his nose out of people's business. 24:25.600 --> 24:27.600 Well, we're gonna fix all that up. 24:27.600 --> 24:28.600 Oh, look, Joe... 24:28.600 --> 24:30.600 Shut up. 24:30.600 --> 24:32.600 We found the watchman, white guy. 24:32.600 --> 24:34.600 But one little thing we didn't find. 24:34.600 --> 24:37.600 You don't find the gun you took off of him. 24:37.600 --> 24:39.600 Now, you're gonna tell me where that gun is. 24:39.600 --> 24:43.600 I got something figured out for that little gun. 24:43.600 --> 24:45.600 Okay, where is it? 24:45.600 --> 24:47.600 Come on. 24:47.600 --> 24:49.600 Ask me why don't you, Joe. 24:49.600 --> 24:51.600 Is this what you're looking for? 24:51.600 --> 24:52.600 Help! 24:52.600 --> 24:54.600 Wait a minute! 24:59.600 --> 25:02.600 The first shot, Ferris buckled, sweeping the lamp off the desk. 25:02.600 --> 25:04.600 I went to the outer office. 25:04.600 --> 25:07.600 Petey was in my path, but he was through stopping anybody. 25:07.600 --> 25:09.600 When I got to the window there at the first landing, 25:09.600 --> 25:11.600 I didn't waste motion this time in the lock, 25:11.600 --> 25:13.600 especially with my hands done up the way they were. 25:13.600 --> 25:14.600 I kicked twice. 25:14.600 --> 25:17.600 Pain was out of the window, and then I was out. 25:17.600 --> 25:19.600 Fire escape was rickety, but it had a railing, 25:19.600 --> 25:23.600 and the cold, wonderful night air was smacking me in the face. 25:23.600 --> 25:25.600 Then... 25:25.600 --> 25:29.600 Just as I realized that the throbbing in my left arm 25:29.600 --> 25:31.600 meant that not all the stray lead had missed me, 25:31.600 --> 25:35.600 I heard the music that I had been waiting for. 25:35.600 --> 25:36.600 Bless her. 25:36.600 --> 25:38.600 Bless my Catherine. 25:54.600 --> 25:57.600 Well, I'm not in the Nugent building anymore, 25:57.600 --> 25:59.600 and here at Predison Miles, 25:59.600 --> 26:02.600 I managed to exercise such talents and training as I have 26:02.600 --> 26:05.600 without putting too great a strain on my blood pressure. 26:05.600 --> 26:08.600 A situation which not only pleases Mrs. McClain, 26:08.600 --> 26:09.600 a girl named Catherine, 26:09.600 --> 26:12.600 but also meets with the unreserved approval of her husband. 26:12.600 --> 26:15.600 Aside from an aversion to little white pills 26:15.600 --> 26:17.600 and a tendency to sneak frequent looks at his watch 26:17.600 --> 26:19.600 long about closing time each day, 26:19.600 --> 26:23.600 said husband is reputed to have only the normal number of faults. 26:23.600 --> 26:26.600 His greatest strong point remains his memory, 26:26.600 --> 26:29.600 which is convenient equipment for anniversaries. 26:29.600 --> 26:32.600 It will also ever be cherished for reminding him 26:32.600 --> 26:35.600 that the look on the face of a fellow named Ferris 26:35.600 --> 26:38.600 was a carbon copy of the expression he had last seen 26:38.600 --> 26:41.600 the day one of the men in his outfit disobeyed orders 26:41.600 --> 26:45.600 and wiped out half a dozen belligerent nymphenies. 26:45.600 --> 26:47.600 Ferris got only two, 26:47.600 --> 26:50.600 while a man who was protesting what had happened to his brother 26:50.600 --> 26:52.600 got twice that many. 26:52.600 --> 26:55.600 But it is possible that he died just as happy. 26:55.600 --> 26:57.600 Personally, I... 26:57.600 --> 26:59.600 Oh, good Lord. 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