WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:12.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Vamp Till Dead, a suspense play starring Miss Ginger Rogers. 00:23.000 --> 00:25.000 Hello? 00:25.000 --> 00:27.000 Sure. 00:27.000 --> 00:29.000 Honest. 00:29.000 --> 00:31.000 Bye. 00:31.000 --> 00:33.000 Sparkling conversation, Harlow. 00:33.000 --> 00:36.000 Well, that's the owner of a new Auto Light stay full battery, Half. 00:36.000 --> 00:40.000 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 Hello? 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 Why, sure. 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 You're telling me. 00:46.000 --> 00:47.000 Bye. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 Harlow, are you speechless? 00:49.000 --> 00:51.000 No, Half, that's my friend again. 00:51.000 --> 00:56.000 He wants me to know his new Auto Light stay full battery has fiberglass retaining mats, 00:56.000 --> 01:00.000 protecting every positive plate to help prevent shedding and flaking, 01:00.000 --> 01:03.000 and keep the power producing materials in place. 01:03.000 --> 01:04.000 And you said nothing? 01:04.000 --> 01:08.000 Well, there is nothing to say after such a sound statement, Half. 01:08.000 --> 01:12.000 And then he said the Auto Light stay full battery gives 70% longer life, 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 as proved by tests conducted according to SAE minimum life cycle standards. 01:16.000 --> 01:20.000 So friends, see your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer, 01:20.000 --> 01:24.000 and have him install in your car an Auto Light stay full battery. 01:24.000 --> 01:28.000 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:28.000 --> 01:32.000 And remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:32.000 --> 01:37.000 And now with Bamped till Dead and the performance of Miss Ginger Rogers, 01:37.000 --> 01:42.000 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 The End 01:53.000 --> 01:59.000 Ha ha ha ha ha ha, your first name, I've forgotten. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 What did you say it was? 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 Amy, Mr. Gentry. Amy Watkin. 02:04.000 --> 02:07.000 Amy, Amy, Amy, Amy, Amy, yes, yes, yes. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 And are you a good secretary, Amy? 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 Why, you have all of my recommendations, Mr. Gentry. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 I mailed them to you a week ago. 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, to be sure. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 I must have looked at them or I wouldn't have hired you 02:17.000 --> 02:20.000 and had you come all the way from New York now, would I? 02:20.000 --> 02:23.000 You never worked for a writer. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 You think you're like it here in this big house working for me? 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 I hope so, sir. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 Sir. Ha ha ha ha, sir. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.000 That's very good. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 Did that politeness come from some secretarial school, 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 or perhaps your dear old mother taught it to you? 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 No, I know, sir. I mean, I... 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 Never mind, Amy, as soon as we finish eating, 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 you may unpack, write whoever you have to write, 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 and explain it to us safely here. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 We start work first thing in the morning. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 I'll attend to all that, Mr. Gentry. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 What do you think of me? 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 I beg your pardon? 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 Me? How do I strike you? 02:53.000 --> 02:58.000 What am I, a gentle person, a wit, a profound talent, a buffoon? 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Tell me, Amy, I'd be interested in your opinion. 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 Well, I've only known you half an hour, Mr. Gentry. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 Then I'll tell you I'm a writer. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 Amy, do you know what it means to have a million words inside of you 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 and not be able to let them out? 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 No, sir. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 It's an utter horror, 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 and that's the way it's been with me for almost a year. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 But now I'm ready to go back to work again 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 and release those million words. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 To take them down, that'll be your job. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 I'll do my best, Mr. Gentry. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 It's not going to be easy, very demanding, Amy. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.000 That's why I'm paying you a good salary. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 I'll make you work when it's working time. 03:31.000 --> 03:32.000 I understand, Mr. Gentry. 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 Sometimes I feel like working, and sometimes I don't, 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 and sometimes I... 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 I like carnations on the dinner table, Amy, 03:40.000 --> 03:41.000 very hard to get. 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 Shipping problems in winter like this, delicate, fragile things. 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 Yes, they are. 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 But they are my favorite flower. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 The cook's name is Jenny. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 She'll help you find your way around the house, 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 and for heaven's sake, call me Paul, not Mr. Gentry. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Yes, Paul. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 That's better. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 I suppose you're tired. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Yes, I am. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 It was a terribly long trip. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 You can find your way to your room. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Wait a moment, Amy. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 Wait. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 First time I've had a good look at you. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Can't see by candlelight over a dinner table. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Tilt your head toward the lamp. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 I want to see your face more clearly. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 No, but I... Don't. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Do as I say. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Hmm. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Hmm. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 You're trembling as I touch your face, Amy. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 You're frightened. 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 Oh, no, I'm not. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 I'm not at all. 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 At this instant, you can't decide whether or not I'm a madman. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 You must need this job very badly. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 I want to work for you. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 I have an inland father who... 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 I'm not interested in your problems. 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 Don't tell them to me. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 Amy, it's an assistance to me 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 if people adjust to new situations as quickly as possible. 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 Have you heard about my wife? 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 No, sir. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 I haven't. 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 I will tell you. 05:02.000 --> 05:06.000 People around here say I killed Mrs. Gentry. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 His great black eyes, 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 set deep back in his head, 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 seemed to be laughing at me when he said that, 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 as though he expected me to run from the Roman 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 and get as far away from him as I could. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 But I didn't move. 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 Somehow, in that moment, 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 I knew that I wanted to be near him, 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 no matter what he had done. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Good night, Amy. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Heh, heh, heh, heh. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 Heh, heh, heh, heh. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 I went upstairs to my room. 05:46.000 --> 05:50.000 I could still hear laughter even after I closed the door. 05:50.000 --> 05:54.000 And then, finally it stopped. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 And I was lying across my bed when... 05:56.000 --> 06:00.000 I was aware that someone was standing beside me. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 He's like that child. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 You mustn't mind him. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Why, it's his way. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 A way you'll come to know and understand 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 if you remain here and work for him. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 I'm Jenny the cook. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Oh, yes. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 I'm glad to meet you. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 He said you'd show me around. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 Somehow, I didn't imagine you'd be like this. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Oh, my dear. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Well, I find more satisfactory inspiration 06:26.000 --> 06:30.000 in serving meals for a fine writer like Paul Gentry 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 than I ever found in the 23 years 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 I taught a high school English class. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 Jenny, I'm going to like you. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 Don't let him upset you. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 He really doesn't mean it. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 He can be as gentle as he is harsh. 06:43.000 --> 06:46.000 No one really understands him. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Did, uh... 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 Did Mrs. Gentry understand him? 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 No. No, she didn't. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 She never made an attempt. 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 There's a question in your eyes, Amy. 06:58.000 --> 07:02.000 Was... was she murdered? 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Yes. 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 In that little guest cottage down by the bridge. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 You can see it from this window. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 There? 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 It seems so still and quiet, Jenny. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 It's hard to realize. 07:17.000 --> 07:20.000 Yes. Happened almost a year ago. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 I served dinner that night. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 They argued over something trivial, 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 the flowers on the table. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Mrs. Gentry ran from the house. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 A few minutes later, I could hear her 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 playing the piano from that cottage. 07:32.000 --> 07:36.000 Some little tune that always infuriated him. 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 The next morning, her body was found slumped 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 over the piano. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Her neck was broken. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 That's all. 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 Thank you for telling me about it, Jenny. 07:48.000 --> 07:51.000 There was no evidence against Mr. Gentry. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 No proof. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 Only hearsay and talk. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 I see. 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 You'll hear that talk from time to time, Amy. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Will it disturb you? 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 No. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 I don't think so. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 Strange. 08:07.000 --> 08:08.000 What? 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 Your appearance, my dear. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 It's really quite remarkable 08:12.000 --> 08:18.000 how much you resemble Isabel Gentry. 08:18.000 --> 08:22.000 I didn't go right to bed that night. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Instead, I slipped out of the house 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 after everything became quiet 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 and followed the path across the bridge 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 to the guest cottage 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 where she had been murdered. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 The door was unlocked, 08:36.000 --> 08:44.000 and though it was dark, I found the piano. 08:44.000 --> 08:49.000 As I played, I wondered how much of poor Gentry 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 I might have understood 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 if I had been Isabel. 08:54.000 --> 09:07.000 The next three weeks, 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 I took dictation from morning till night. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 The whole place was geared especially 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 for his return to work. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Jenny seemed to be everywhere, 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 bringing in meals at all hours, 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 slipping in and out of rooms silently 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 so as not to disturb anyone. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 And then one afternoon, 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 suddenly there was another man 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 standing there beside Paul. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 Oh, Amy, this is Al Pender, 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 a local newspaper man. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 He tried his best to have me indicted for murder. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 Oh, how do you do, Mr. Pender? 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 I'm a celebrity, Amy. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Pender wants to interview me about my new book. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Why don't you tell him all about it? 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 I wouldn't want the responsibility, Paul. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 You can tell him how bad it is as well as I can. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 No, Paul, I couldn't say that about it. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 What could you say about it? 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Is it anything worthwhile? 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 The dropped eyes, the withdrawal. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 Isabel used to react the same way 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 when I became angry with her. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 Do I remind you of her? 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Yes, you remind me of Isabel, 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 of all the things in her that stopped me from writing. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 How do you like that, Pender? 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 There's a story for you to print. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 You want me to print it, gentry? 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 I'd kill you if you did. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 I'm sorry that I remind you of Isabel, Paul. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 Are you, Amy? 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Are you really? 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 No, I don't think you are. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 I don't think you are at all. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 Well, has he been like this much? 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 I'd rather not say, Mr. Pender. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 Al. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 I'm glad he left, Amy. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 I think you're a nice person. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 Thank you. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Too nice to work for him. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 How'd you meet him? How'd you get this job? 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 I found out he was going back to work 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 and needed a secretary. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Did you know that no one in town would work for him? 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Yes. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Because of Isabel Gentry. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 And still you came here. Yes. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 He killed her. Everyone knows it. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 It was never proved. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 No. Because of the technicality. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 I watched him here with you. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 He looked at you the same way he used to look at Isabel with that... 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 that fury in his eyes. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 I know that. And there's a reason. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 At times, Amy, 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 you look a great deal like her. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 That means you're in danger as long as you're around him. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 He's a madman. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 He might actually think of you as Isabel. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 I want him to think of me as Isabel. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 In every way possible. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 Every day, every minute. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 There must be some way to prove he killed her. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 Who are you? 11:32.000 --> 11:48.000 I'm Isabel Gentry's sister. 11:48.000 --> 11:58.000 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Ginger Rogers with John Hoyt in Vamp Till Dead. 11:58.000 --> 12:04.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 No phone calls, Harlow. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 I guess I'll start to go. 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 Well, you'll have plenty of starting power to get going in your car, Hap, 12:20.000 --> 12:22.000 with an auto light stay full battery, 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 12:25.000 --> 12:29.000 Harlow, you throw those lines so fast, I need a chest protector. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Protection? 12:30.000 --> 12:36.000 Why, the auto light stay full battery has over three times the liquid protection of batteries without stay full features. 12:36.000 --> 12:40.000 So, the stay full needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 Go on, Harlow, and remind me... 12:42.000 --> 12:47.000 That the auto light stay full battery has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate 12:47.000 --> 12:52.000 to help reduce shedding and flaking and keep the power producing materials in place. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 How long can this last? 12:54.000 --> 12:59.000 Auto light stay full batteries last longer, give 70% longer life in fact, 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 as proved by tests conducted according to SAE minimum life cycle standards. 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 Good night, Harlow. 13:05.000 --> 13:12.000 Yes, friends, it's a good night to join the legion of lads and lassies who've latched on to an auto light stay full battery, 13:12.000 --> 13:17.000 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13:17.000 --> 13:23.000 See your neighborhood auto light battery dealer, and remember, you're always right with auto light. 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, 13:27.000 --> 13:32.000 Miss Ginger Rogers in Elliot Lewis's production of Vamped Till Dead, 13:32.000 --> 13:37.000 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:37.000 --> 13:50.000 Music 13:50.000 --> 13:55.000 For the next few days, Paul Gentry threw himself into his work with a vicious sort of concentration and purpose, 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 but his efforts were all in vain. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 His writing seemed to go from bad to worse. 14:00.000 --> 14:04.000 The stories were twisted, perverse, distorted studies in human behavior. 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 The women were inevitably deceitful. 14:06.000 --> 14:10.000 The men tortured and driven to insane rages. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 Terrible, terrible! 14:12.000 --> 14:16.000 Not a word, not a single word in the whole mess that's printable at all. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 Perhaps you're trying too hard, working too hard, Paul. 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 How can you accomplish anything worthwhile if you only half try? 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 I'll ask Jenny to bring us some coffee. 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 I don't want any coffee, I don't want anything. 14:26.000 --> 14:31.000 Maybe I expect too much, want too much, need too much. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 What is it that's the matter with me? 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 What is it? Tell me, tell me. 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 I can't tell you, Paul. I don't understand you. 14:38.000 --> 14:41.000 You don't even try, Isabelle. You... 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Why do you smile? 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 You just called me Isabelle. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 I did. 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 Well, I'm sorry. It won't happen again. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 It was an accident. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 Yes, Paul, of course it was. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 It was an accident. 15:03.000 --> 15:07.000 For the first time since I had met him, Paul Gentry was confused. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 And it was the confusion I'd been hoping for. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 I began to do everything the way I'd remembered Isabelle. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 I wore her favorite perfume. 15:14.000 --> 15:18.000 I held my head to one side and smiled the way she used to. 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 I started dropping her expressions in my speech. 15:21.000 --> 15:27.000 I wasn't sure all the time whether I was torturing him or he was torturing himself. 15:27.000 --> 15:31.000 But unconsciously he began to think of me as Isabelle. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 Even Jenny noticed it. 15:40.000 --> 15:41.000 Amy! 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 Oh, I didn't notice you coming, Jenny. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 What are you doing? 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 Here in the cottage. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 Practicing? 15:49.000 --> 15:53.000 It was the little melody she used to play. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 He's been calling you by her name, hasn't he? 15:59.000 --> 16:04.000 No, it's probably because his mind is on his work and an old habit is difficult to break. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 And you're not thinking about it. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 You fixed your hair the way she used to wear it. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Have I? 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 I often put it up like this. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 Do you think my hair would really bother him, Jenny? 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Oh, it's hard to tell. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 The poor man. 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 She was such a part of his life. 16:22.000 --> 16:26.000 I guess he can't quite give her up even yet. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 Oh, maybe it'd be better if he didn't even try. 16:29.000 --> 16:32.000 A memory is sometimes a wonderful thing. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 Not hers. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 There was something about her that killed his inspiration to create 16:38.000 --> 16:43.000 and left him with a feeling only to destroy. 16:43.000 --> 16:47.000 And he's done a good job, starting with himself. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 His writing is very bad. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 What do you think I could do to help him? 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 Leave. 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 Because no one can help him but himself. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 What if he's going to write in Eatney? 16:57.000 --> 17:02.000 Do you want to go through life with a picture in your mind of man being eaten alive 17:02.000 --> 17:06.000 by the acids that are burning inside of him? 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 Jenny, where do you stay? 17:09.000 --> 17:12.000 Oh, I'm like his desk or the chair he sits on, 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 just a piece of furniture doing his job. 17:14.000 --> 17:18.000 He doesn't think about me one way or the other. 17:18.000 --> 17:24.000 Someday I'll be able to see him get back to writing the way he used to. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 You mean without her? 17:26.000 --> 17:27.000 Yes. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 Do you think he killed her, Jenny? 17:31.000 --> 17:36.000 That's something I don't dare think about, Amy. 17:43.000 --> 17:45.000 I thought about it. 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 In the days that followed, Paul's work went from bad to worse, 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 and so did his temper. 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 He was unmanageable most of the time. 17:52.000 --> 17:57.000 Then his headaches finally came upon him and couldn't work for hours at a time. 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 He would sit in his chair drinking and staring at me, 18:00.000 --> 18:04.000 just staring, staring, staring. 18:04.000 --> 18:08.000 Sometimes I expected him to leap out of his chair and beat me to death. 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 And other times I was afraid he was going to fall on his knees 18:11.000 --> 18:15.000 and throw his arms around me, begging forgiveness. 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 I knew he was almost ready to break. 18:17.000 --> 18:22.000 The day went into a rage and started throwing things around his study. 18:22.000 --> 18:26.000 I left the house and walked down to the bridge. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 I was only alone for a minute. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 Hello, Amy. I heard all kinds of noise in the house. 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 What's going on? 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 Suppose I ask you what's going on? 18:35.000 --> 18:39.000 You seem to be keeping a pretty close watch on me. Why? 18:39.000 --> 18:43.000 Call it humanity. Call it what you like. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 I don't want anything to happen to you. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 Is that the only reason? 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 No. I want to be around when he breaks up completely. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 Are you sure it's just humanity? 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 Or trying to catch a murderer? 18:58.000 --> 19:02.000 Looks more like a campaign of personal revenge. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 I said call it what you like. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 But if you stick around here another minute, you're out of your mind. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 Suppose I told you I wasn't worried about myself? 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 I might say you're crazy. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 You're in more trouble than Isabelle was. 19:13.000 --> 19:14.000 He's going to go. 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 And when he goes, nothing or nobody around him is going to be safe. 19:17.000 --> 19:22.000 Al, I'm going to tell you something. 19:22.000 --> 19:26.000 Isabelle used to write to me, and she was pretty frank. 19:26.000 --> 19:31.000 She told me about a newspaper man she was interested in. 19:31.000 --> 19:34.000 Could you be that newspaper man? 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 How many of them do you think there are in this town? 19:37.000 --> 19:41.000 Is it because you loved Isabelle that you want to see her murderer caught? 19:41.000 --> 19:47.000 Or would you just like to sacrifice Paul Gentry because he was married to her when you wanted her? 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 All right. So I knew your sister. 19:50.000 --> 19:54.000 There were very few young men in this town who didn't. 19:54.000 --> 19:58.000 She didn't like living here. She didn't like Paul Gentry. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 She didn't like this lousy small town. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 Then why didn't she get out? 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 You can't walk when you're dead. 20:04.000 --> 20:05.000 I mean before. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Because she was afraid of him. 20:07.000 --> 20:11.000 Cowed by him, mentally beaten down by his peculiar form of sadism. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 You really hate him, don't you? 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 Look, I brought you something. This gun. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 What do I want that for? 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 Because if you're foolish enough to stay on in that house you need some protection. 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 But not a gun. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 Everything's on your side, Amy. The first time he comes at you let him have it. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 No jury in this town would ever do a thing to you. 20:26.000 --> 20:30.000 I came here to get proof that Paul Gentry killed my sister. 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 And I want him to pay for it. Under the law. 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 It seems to me that you want me to be judge, jury and executioner. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Take it, you little fool. He's dynamite. 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 What did you come here for? To play games? Take it. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 Hurry up. Put it in your pocket. 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 All right. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 Tender, are you aware that this land belongs to me? What are you doing on it? 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 Talking to her, what does it look like? 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 Paul, please. 20:51.000 --> 20:54.000 How many times do I have to tell you to leave my wife alone? 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 Your wife, it's bad enough that I have to tolerate you in public places. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 But this land is private. And it's mine. 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 Go on, get off it while you can still walk. 21:03.000 --> 21:07.000 And Isabel, you get back to the house where you belong. 21:07.000 --> 21:11.000 I ran back and locked myself in my room. 21:11.000 --> 21:14.000 Downstairs I heard Paul moving around in his study. 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 Then I heard a bottle crash against the wall. 21:17.000 --> 21:21.000 And then his heavy steps coming up the stairway. 21:21.000 --> 21:25.000 And then suddenly before I could do anything, he was standing in my doorway. 21:25.000 --> 21:29.000 Isabel! Isabel! Isabel! 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Paul, Paul, come to me. 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 Isabel, Isabel, why did you come? 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 Isabel, Isabel, why did you make me do it? 21:38.000 --> 21:41.000 Why did you do it, Paul? 21:41.000 --> 21:45.000 I couldn't help myself. It was those men all the time, especially Penn... 21:45.000 --> 21:49.000 Amy, Isabel's dead. 21:49.000 --> 21:53.000 You're Amy. Why do you keep making me think that you're Isabel? 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 Please let me go, Paul. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 What's this all about, Amy? 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 Let me go, Paul. 21:57.000 --> 22:01.000 All right. A few weeks ago you came here and began talking and acting like her. 22:01.000 --> 22:04.000 Or is it my imagination? Maybe I'm going crazy. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 Paul, I think it's mostly your imagination. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 Maybe I happen to be a little like her. 22:09.000 --> 22:12.000 No, there's something more to it than that. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 Something I can't figure out. Something in the air or inside of me. 22:16.000 --> 22:21.000 I don't know what it is. But I do know one thing. Another week of this and... 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Amy, why don't you leave here while it's safe? 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 I think it is safe, Paul. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 You aren't afraid of me the way you were that first night. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 You aren't afraid of what I might do to you. 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 No, Paul. I'm not afraid. 22:35.000 --> 22:40.000 If you really want me to go, I will. I'd rather stay. 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 I want to be close to you. 22:42.000 --> 22:46.000 Closer to you than anybody in this world has ever been. 22:46.000 --> 22:50.000 I don't want you to go, Amy. Ever. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 I love you. 22:51.000 --> 22:57.000 I know. You love me the same way you once loved her. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 Isn't that so? 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 Yes, Amy, that's so. And I want you to marry me. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 Of course, Paul. Of course. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 I've always wanted to be your wife. 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 Amy. Amy. 23:17.000 --> 23:21.000 I let him kiss me then, hoping he wouldn't feel the gun in my pocket. 23:21.000 --> 23:24.000 I knew that very soon I might have to use it. 23:24.000 --> 23:28.000 The next evening, when we came back from the wedding license bureau, 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 he planned a wonderful dinner for two. 23:30.000 --> 23:35.000 The table was beautiful with candles and flowers and expensive silver. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 When I walked into the dining room, 23:37.000 --> 23:42.000 I was dressed in the perfect image of my sister, as I remembered her. 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 Isabelle, you'll never look more beautiful. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 Thank you, Paul. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Your chair. 23:49.000 --> 23:54.000 Thank you. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 We're having roast mallard duck. 23:55.000 --> 23:59.000 I shot them myself and kept them in the deep freeze. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Are you ready for dinner, Mr. Jenfrey? 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 Yes, Jenny. 24:02.000 --> 24:03.000 Yes, sir. 24:03.000 --> 24:08.000 Oh, Jenny, use the large soup bowls, please, for Isabelle. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 I understand, sir. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 I know you prefer them, darling. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 Yes. 24:14.000 --> 24:19.000 Something wrong, Isabelle? 24:19.000 --> 24:22.000 Paul, I just noticed you have carnations on the table. 24:22.000 --> 24:23.000 Why, yes. 24:23.000 --> 24:28.000 You know, you know I don't like carnations, Paul. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 I don't like them at all. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Isabelle, they were all I could get. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 I'm afraid you'll have to like them, darling. 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 I don't have to like anything. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 Have Jenny take them off the table. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 I'll see here. 24:37.000 --> 24:40.000 You'll either get rid of them or I won't eat dinner with you. 24:40.000 --> 24:44.000 Do you hear me? 24:44.000 --> 24:45.000 Then don't eat dinner with me, my dear. 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 I'd like it better that way. 24:46.000 --> 24:50.000 Then I won't have to look at your bored, critical face all the time. 24:50.000 --> 24:53.000 Isabelle, Isabelle, come back here. 24:53.000 --> 24:58.000 Come back here. 24:58.000 --> 25:03.000 I rushed out the door and down toward the cottage. 25:03.000 --> 25:08.000 And then I remembered it had been a year to the night. 25:08.000 --> 25:22.000 It had been a year to the night that Isabelle had died. 25:22.000 --> 25:27.000 And then I was in the cottage where it had happened, 25:27.000 --> 25:56.000 playing with the piano, playing her tune. 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 I sat there waiting. 25:58.000 --> 26:04.000 I knew that I would hear steps first, then a door. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 But I heard nothing. 26:06.000 --> 26:19.000 Nothing but the wind outside. 26:19.000 --> 26:24.000 And then I heard the steps. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 You! 26:26.000 --> 26:27.000 Oh, no! 26:27.000 --> 26:28.000 Don't! 26:28.000 --> 26:29.000 Don't! 26:29.000 --> 26:30.000 Amy! 26:30.000 --> 26:31.000 Amy! 26:31.000 --> 26:32.000 Don't! 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 Amy, are you all right? 26:35.000 --> 26:38.000 Yes, I had to do it this way. 26:38.000 --> 26:39.000 I had to. 26:39.000 --> 26:40.000 I know. 26:40.000 --> 26:41.000 Don't try to talk to me, Amy. 26:41.000 --> 26:42.000 It's all right. 26:42.000 --> 26:43.000 Stay where you are, Pender. 26:43.000 --> 26:44.000 Or I'll blow your head off. 26:44.000 --> 26:45.000 You're wrong, Paul. 26:45.000 --> 26:46.000 It wasn't me. 26:46.000 --> 26:47.000 Paul! 26:47.000 --> 26:48.000 Paul, darling. 26:48.000 --> 26:49.000 She was the one. 26:49.000 --> 26:50.000 Jenny! 26:50.000 --> 26:51.000 Jenny! 26:51.000 --> 26:54.000 She tried to kill Amy the same way she killed Isabel. 26:54.000 --> 26:57.000 She thought Amy was going to take you away from her. 26:57.000 --> 27:01.000 Amy, my darling, I'm sorry you had to go through this. 27:01.000 --> 27:02.000 Paul. 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 Paul, do you know who I am? 27:05.000 --> 27:06.000 Who I really am? 27:06.000 --> 27:08.000 Yes, I know you're not Isabel. 27:08.000 --> 27:10.000 I've known all along. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 I had to pretend as you pretended. 27:13.000 --> 27:16.000 I'm sorry, Paul, for the pain I've caused you. 27:16.000 --> 27:18.000 It's all over, my darling. 27:18.000 --> 27:19.000 Ended. 27:19.000 --> 27:23.000 Yes, Paul, it's all over. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 Isabel is truly dead. 27:26.000 --> 27:52.000 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:52.000 --> 27:55.000 Tonight's star, Ginger Rogers. 27:55.000 --> 27:57.000 Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again. 27:57.000 --> 28:02.000 I'd just like to remind you that you're always right with the more than 400 products made 28:02.000 --> 28:08.000 by Auto Light for cars, trucks, planes, and boats in 28 plants from coast to coast. 28:08.000 --> 28:13.000 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many leading 28:13.000 --> 28:16.000 makes of America's finest cars. 28:16.000 --> 28:21.000 Electric windshield wipers, starting motors, voltage regulators, coils, distributors, 28:21.000 --> 28:27.000 wire and cable generators, all engineered to fit together perfectly, work together 28:27.000 --> 28:30.000 perfectly because they're a perfect team. 28:30.000 --> 28:34.000 So friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 28:34.000 --> 28:39.000 Ask for and insist on original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, 28:39.000 --> 28:42.000 car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 28:42.000 --> 28:47.000 And because all Auto Light parts are original factory parts, you can be sure you're right 28:47.000 --> 28:51.000 because you're always right with Auto Light. 28:58.000 --> 29:03.000 Next week on Suspense, Miss Eve Arden as star of The Well-Dressed Corpse. 29:03.000 --> 29:08.000 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Ezio Pinza, Paul Douglas, 29:08.000 --> 29:17.000 and James Stewart all appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 29:22.000 --> 29:27.000 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawek 29:27.000 --> 29:29.000 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 29:29.000 --> 29:34.000 Ramp Till Dead was written for Suspense by E. 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