WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.880 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:12.880 --> 00:20.600 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a story of a mind reader who discovers his nightclub 00:20.600 --> 00:22.480 act is not a fake. 00:22.480 --> 00:32.720 A story we call a vision of death starring Mr. Ronald Coleman. 00:32.720 --> 00:36.320 Before our play begins, here is a word about Auto Light from a good friend of ours. 00:36.320 --> 00:38.320 Greetings, I, Wilcox. 00:38.320 --> 00:45.120 Why, it's that amazing, magnificent mystic and great glass globe gazer, Sabu the Swami. 00:45.120 --> 00:46.240 What's on my mind? 00:46.240 --> 00:48.960 You think of your best friend. 00:48.960 --> 00:50.360 Everybody's best friend. 00:50.360 --> 00:54.240 The Auto Light Stay Full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal 00:54.240 --> 00:55.240 car use. 00:55.240 --> 00:59.000 Now the glass shows a glass even more powerful than mine. 00:59.000 --> 01:03.120 Well, that's the fiberglass retaining mat protecting every positive plate in the Auto 01:03.120 --> 01:05.080 Light Stay Full battery. 01:05.080 --> 01:09.800 They prevent shedding and flaking and give the Stay Full longer life, as proved by tests 01:09.800 --> 01:12.760 conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 01:12.760 --> 01:15.920 Now I see many smiling faces. 01:15.920 --> 01:20.680 Among the thousands of drivers who visit their masterful, merry and marvelous neighborhood 01:20.680 --> 01:22.560 Auto Light battery dealers. 01:22.560 --> 01:27.880 For an Auto Light Stay Full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal 01:27.880 --> 01:28.880 car use. 01:28.880 --> 01:32.240 Now the crystal ball shows words of wisdom. 01:32.240 --> 01:33.600 I know. 01:33.600 --> 01:37.000 You're always right with Auto Light. 01:37.000 --> 01:43.560 And now with a vision of death and the performance of Mr. Ronald Coleman, Auto Light hopes once 01:43.560 --> 01:59.280 again to keep you in suspense. 01:59.280 --> 02:03.720 If I speak too rapidly for your stenographer, you'll tell me won't you, Lieutenant? 02:03.720 --> 02:07.880 No offense, but he impresses me as someone who has to sit on the floor to put his shoes 02:07.880 --> 02:09.120 on. 02:09.120 --> 02:12.280 And don't hesitate to stop me if I seem to wander away from the point. 02:12.280 --> 02:17.040 I mean to say this is my first and I hope final appearance in a police precinct and 02:17.040 --> 02:19.800 I should hate to give a sloppy performance. 02:19.800 --> 02:25.960 We were always known, Aurora and I, for the smoothness and gem-like precision of our act. 02:25.960 --> 02:31.760 And as for this murder rap, I suppose it's called is concerned, an acquaintance with 02:31.760 --> 02:33.800 our act is the essential rabbit. 02:33.800 --> 02:35.520 Awfully good act. 02:35.520 --> 02:40.720 Smart, informal, occasionally humorous and always mystifying. 02:40.720 --> 02:47.280 Well, the act always began with music, never with the cliché fanfare of trumpets or roll 02:47.280 --> 02:48.680 of drums. 02:48.680 --> 02:53.600 I would saunter out to the center of the floor and say something like, good evening, you 02:53.600 --> 02:57.120 are about to witness an exhibition of mental telepathy. 02:57.120 --> 03:01.320 Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Aurora, my wife. 03:01.320 --> 03:05.000 They never failed to give her a hand. 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 What were they applaud? 03:06.000 --> 03:10.280 The vision she presented as she came toward me. 03:10.280 --> 03:16.800 There's never been anyone as lovely as Aurora, the most beautiful flash in the profession. 03:16.800 --> 03:21.600 Aurora, would you care to tell the audience or shall I? 03:21.600 --> 03:25.920 You tell them, Judd, while I tie the blindfold across my eyes. 03:25.920 --> 03:29.960 Ladies and gentlemen, all mind readers employ a gimmick. 03:29.960 --> 03:32.360 A gimmick is a trick, a device. 03:32.360 --> 03:36.480 For example, when the mind reader, threading his way through the audience, says to the 03:36.480 --> 03:41.240 mind reader sitting blindfolded on the stage, a lady has given me a small object, which 03:41.240 --> 03:43.000 I now hold in my hand. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 What is it? 03:44.000 --> 03:47.320 And the mind reader sitting blindfolded replies, a silver coin. 03:47.320 --> 03:49.760 The answer has not come through mind reading. 03:49.760 --> 03:54.760 No, it has come through the gimmick, a cue or signal communicated through the very question 03:54.760 --> 03:55.760 itself. 03:55.760 --> 03:57.400 But we don't do that. 03:57.400 --> 03:59.520 We do not. 03:59.520 --> 04:04.040 You will notice, ladies and gentlemen, that I never speak to Aurora at all. 04:04.040 --> 04:05.040 Are you ready, Rory? 04:05.040 --> 04:06.040 Ready, Judd. 04:06.040 --> 04:07.040 Here we go, then. 04:07.040 --> 04:08.040 You, sir. 04:08.040 --> 04:09.040 You have something. 04:09.040 --> 04:10.040 Go ahead. 04:10.040 --> 04:11.040 Concentrate upon it like a good chap. 04:11.040 --> 04:12.040 The gentleman holds a coin in his hand. 04:12.040 --> 04:13.040 And you, madam? 04:13.040 --> 04:14.040 It is a Mexican peso bearing the date 1-8-9-2. 04:14.040 --> 04:15.040 I know that. 04:15.040 --> 04:16.040 That's very clever of you, madam. 04:16.040 --> 04:17.040 I'll be surprised if she gets this one. 04:17.040 --> 04:18.040 The lady holds in her hand her other hand. 04:18.040 --> 04:19.040 How about you, young man? 04:19.040 --> 04:46.560 A sucker once born remains a sucker till death. 04:46.560 --> 04:50.600 The audience never realized, never in all the years we worked, that although I was not 04:50.600 --> 04:57.240 speaking to Aurora directly, my chatter nevertheless was loaded with signals and cues for her guidance. 04:57.240 --> 04:59.640 By revealing the gimmick, we concealed the gimmick. 04:59.640 --> 05:02.600 And that, lieutenant, is the ne plus ultra of gimmicks. 05:02.600 --> 05:04.680 Yes, it was as crude as that. 05:04.680 --> 05:09.080 But it enabled us to work 50 weeks a year here and abroad at an average of over a thousand 05:09.080 --> 05:10.080 a week. 05:10.080 --> 05:14.840 Of course, I always gave some credit for our success to our agent, Harry Arnold. 05:14.840 --> 05:17.760 Although Rory was inclined to give him no credit at all. 05:17.760 --> 05:19.120 Good news, Judd. 05:19.120 --> 05:23.800 I've managed to book the act into the college inn in Chicago with a four-week guarantee. 05:23.800 --> 05:24.800 Not bad, huh? 05:24.800 --> 05:25.800 Get him. 05:25.800 --> 05:27.640 He managed to book the act. 05:27.640 --> 05:30.040 I suppose they never heard of us in Chicago. 05:30.040 --> 05:34.640 I suppose we weren't held over there six weeks when we played the Sans Souci in 1948. 05:34.640 --> 05:37.460 You think it's easy to get a four-week guarantee these days? 05:37.460 --> 05:38.460 Money is short. 05:38.460 --> 05:39.460 Money is tight. 05:39.460 --> 05:42.300 I've never yet heard you say money is long, money is loose. 05:42.300 --> 05:44.800 You have to sweat for your 10 percent, don't you? 05:44.800 --> 05:46.880 Yes, you do, in a pig's ear you do. 05:46.880 --> 05:48.720 Agents, they're all like you. 05:48.720 --> 05:50.120 Oh, there's gratitude for you. 05:50.120 --> 05:52.360 There's the milk of human memory. 05:52.360 --> 05:53.720 What were you when I first saw you? 05:53.720 --> 05:55.520 Nothing, not this much. 05:55.520 --> 06:00.600 Playing 10 a day on the canvas in Monash, Wisconsin, and paid off in bottle tops. 06:00.600 --> 06:02.520 I worked, I schemed, I sweated. 06:02.520 --> 06:03.520 Listen to him. 06:03.520 --> 06:06.200 You think he had to get out there on the floor every night. 06:06.200 --> 06:10.800 You think he was the one spent 11 months, 12 hours a day memorizing the code. 06:10.800 --> 06:12.760 You think it was his name in lights? 06:12.760 --> 06:13.760 Agents. 06:13.760 --> 06:16.440 All they know is how to live off a dead whale. 06:16.440 --> 06:17.440 Scum of the earth. 06:17.440 --> 06:18.760 Look, I'm not going to take that from you, you hear me? 06:18.760 --> 06:21.000 You'll take it, baby, along with the 10 percent. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.920 You'll take it and you'll chew it and you'll swallow it and you'll keep it down, too. 06:24.920 --> 06:25.920 How do you like that? 06:25.920 --> 06:26.920 I'm warning you, kid. 06:26.920 --> 06:27.920 Don't push me too far. 06:27.920 --> 06:28.920 Don't push me too far. 06:28.920 --> 06:31.720 Now, children, children, on your way, Harry, and don't let it get you down. 06:31.720 --> 06:34.120 I think a four-week guarantee is pretty good. 06:34.120 --> 06:36.160 Oh, thanks, Judd. 06:36.160 --> 06:38.160 If it wasn't for you, Judd, I'd... 06:38.160 --> 06:39.440 Oh, why go into it? 06:39.440 --> 06:49.200 I'm going for a walk. 06:49.200 --> 06:54.320 But aside from these altercations between Rory and Harry, it was smooth sailing. 06:54.320 --> 06:59.200 We wore the best, ate the best, drank the best, stayed at the finest hotels. 06:59.200 --> 07:03.160 And every Saturday night after the performance, Harry would bring us our salary. 07:03.160 --> 07:05.040 He'd bring it in cash. 07:05.040 --> 07:08.040 Thousand, 1250, 1500. 07:08.040 --> 07:12.040 I have the old performer's distrust of checks. 07:12.040 --> 07:15.080 Been given too many with a high latex content. 07:15.080 --> 07:18.800 Anyway, life couldn't have been more pleasant. 07:18.800 --> 07:23.600 And then one evening, about five weeks ago, soon after we opened at the Grove here in 07:23.600 --> 07:25.840 town, a frightening thing occurred. 07:25.840 --> 07:29.120 We'd just begun the act and I was out in the audience. 07:29.120 --> 07:35.120 You will notice, ladies and gentlemen, that I never speak to Aurora at all. 07:35.120 --> 07:36.120 Are you ready, Rory? 07:36.120 --> 07:37.120 Ready, Judd. 07:37.120 --> 07:38.120 Here we go then. 07:38.120 --> 07:39.120 Now, you, madam. 07:39.120 --> 07:40.120 The lady holds in her hand a compact. 07:40.120 --> 07:41.120 It is platinum and bears her initials, RC. 07:41.120 --> 07:42.120 You, sir. 07:42.120 --> 07:43.120 You, sir. 07:43.120 --> 07:44.120 The gentleman is holding an engagement ring. 07:44.120 --> 07:45.120 In it are three small diamonds. 07:45.120 --> 07:46.120 I... 07:46.120 --> 07:47.120 I... 07:47.120 --> 07:48.120 Miss, miss, have you... 07:48.120 --> 07:49.120 The young lady is holding... 07:49.120 --> 07:50.120 It's a small cameo brooch. 07:50.120 --> 07:54.680 And it's got an 07:54.680 --> 08:07.960 Rory, Rory. 08:07.960 --> 08:17.440 Maurice, Maurice, music, music. 08:17.440 --> 08:21.080 I picked Rory up from the floor and hurried with her to our dressing room, almost beside 08:21.080 --> 08:22.080 myself with anxiety. 08:22.080 --> 08:26.480 I placed her on the couch, dampened her towel and put it on her forehead and began to chafe 08:26.480 --> 08:27.480 her wrists. 08:27.480 --> 08:28.480 Rory, Rory, honey, Rory. 08:28.480 --> 08:29.480 Judd, what happened? 08:29.480 --> 08:30.480 I was in the bar. 08:30.480 --> 08:31.480 Do you want me to get a doctor? 08:31.480 --> 08:32.480 No, no, no. 08:32.480 --> 08:33.480 I don't know. 08:33.480 --> 08:34.480 Get out. 08:34.480 --> 08:35.480 Leave us alone. 08:35.480 --> 08:36.480 Get out, Harry. 08:36.480 --> 08:37.480 Get out. 08:37.480 --> 08:38.480 Judd, Judd. 08:38.480 --> 08:39.480 I'm here, Rory. 08:39.480 --> 08:40.480 Are you all right? 08:40.480 --> 08:41.480 I guess so. 08:41.480 --> 08:42.480 I don't know what happened. 08:42.480 --> 08:43.480 You painted away. 08:43.480 --> 08:44.480 Try to remember what happened. 08:44.480 --> 08:45.480 I felt funny. 08:45.480 --> 08:46.480 I don't know what happened. 08:46.480 --> 08:47.480 I don't know what happened. 08:47.480 --> 08:48.480 I don't know what happened. 08:48.480 --> 08:49.480 I don't know what happened. 08:49.480 --> 08:50.480 I don't know what happened. 08:50.480 --> 08:51.480 I don't know what happened. 08:51.480 --> 08:52.480 I don't remember. 08:52.480 --> 08:54.680 No, no, try, try, Rory, try. 08:54.680 --> 08:55.680 Try to remember. 08:55.680 --> 08:56.680 It's important. 08:56.680 --> 08:57.680 I can't. 08:57.680 --> 08:58.680 Why is it important? 08:58.680 --> 08:59.680 Oh, you don't know? 08:59.680 --> 09:00.680 Rory, you don't know? 09:00.680 --> 09:13.680 You were calling out the answers before I even had a chance to give you the cue. 09:13.680 --> 09:21.920 Do you believe in telepathy, Lieutenant? 09:21.920 --> 09:25.640 I don't mean the sort of thing Rory and I usually did. 09:25.640 --> 09:28.160 I mean real telepathy. 09:28.160 --> 09:30.600 I never did either until that night. 09:30.600 --> 09:33.080 I don't mind telling you I was badly shaken. 09:33.080 --> 09:37.320 I mean, after all, I knew we'd been using a gimmick and suddenly it began to happen without 09:37.320 --> 09:39.360 the gimmick. 09:39.360 --> 09:40.360 Scared us to death. 09:40.360 --> 09:43.660 We didn't know what we were getting into. 09:43.660 --> 09:48.520 But we went on with the act and in my mind I began to search about for the answer. 09:48.520 --> 09:49.640 I found it, of course. 09:49.640 --> 09:55.000 You'll find a gimmick in almost everything if you look hard enough. 09:55.000 --> 09:56.880 I've got it, Rory. 09:56.880 --> 10:01.440 We've worked together so long that you know what I'm going to say before I say it. 10:01.440 --> 10:04.040 From my inflection, my pauses, even my movements. 10:04.040 --> 10:05.040 You see? 10:05.040 --> 10:06.880 Judd, that has to be it. 10:06.880 --> 10:07.880 This is marvelous. 10:07.880 --> 10:10.000 When Harry gets back, I'll tell him about it. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.520 And if I last until tomorrow, he can ask the management for more dough. 10:13.520 --> 10:15.440 Yeah, as soon as he gets back. 10:15.440 --> 10:16.440 Next Thursday. 10:16.440 --> 10:17.440 Tonight. 10:17.440 --> 10:18.440 How much more should we ask for? 10:18.440 --> 10:19.440 What, we... 10:19.440 --> 10:20.440 Tonight? 10:20.440 --> 10:21.440 What made you say tonight? 10:21.440 --> 10:22.440 I don't know, Judd. 10:22.440 --> 10:28.440 Oh, you were there when he told me he'd be in Palm Springs till Thursday. 10:28.440 --> 10:31.280 What... what made you say tonight? 10:31.280 --> 10:32.280 I don't know. 10:32.280 --> 10:34.280 What difference does it make? 10:34.280 --> 10:35.280 Stop picking on me. 10:35.280 --> 10:36.280 So I made a mistake. 10:36.280 --> 10:37.280 So what? 10:37.280 --> 10:38.720 I don't see how you could make such a mistake, that's all. 10:38.720 --> 10:40.720 Judd, leave me alone. 10:40.720 --> 10:43.840 I've been worried half crazy about really being able to read your mind. 10:43.840 --> 10:46.280 I've been under a strain. 10:46.280 --> 10:48.600 So Harry's coming back Thursday and not tonight. 10:48.600 --> 10:49.600 All right. 10:49.600 --> 10:50.600 You satisfied? 10:50.600 --> 10:52.840 He'll be here Thursday and not tonight. 10:52.840 --> 10:53.840 You Juddson Stone, mister. 10:53.840 --> 10:54.840 This dressing room, eh? 10:54.840 --> 10:55.840 What is it? 10:55.840 --> 10:56.840 A telegram. 10:56.840 --> 10:57.840 Sign here. 10:57.840 --> 10:59.840 Oh, sign for it, will you, Rory? 10:59.840 --> 11:02.840 There you are, kid. 11:02.840 --> 11:06.440 I'm sorry I blew up in your face, Judd. 11:06.440 --> 11:07.440 Judd. 11:07.440 --> 11:10.440 What's the matter? 11:10.440 --> 11:13.440 It's... it's from Harry. 11:13.440 --> 11:22.400 He's coming in tonight. 11:22.400 --> 11:24.720 And he did too, Lieutenant. 11:24.720 --> 11:28.440 Rory was so upset by it, she couldn't go on at all that evening. 11:28.440 --> 11:31.720 She had no explanation for how she knew, none whatsoever. 11:31.720 --> 11:32.720 I don't know, Judd. 11:32.720 --> 11:34.360 I just don't know. 11:34.360 --> 11:39.880 My mind seems to go blank and I seem to hear a voice whisper in my ear. 11:39.880 --> 11:42.840 Harry, Arnold will be with you tonight. 11:42.840 --> 11:43.840 That's all. 11:43.840 --> 11:48.680 When we got to our suite at the hotel, Harry was there waiting for us. 11:48.680 --> 11:49.680 What happened? 11:49.680 --> 11:50.680 What happened? 11:50.680 --> 11:51.680 You both look like ghosts. 11:51.680 --> 11:52.920 Harry, I'll tell you some other time. 11:52.920 --> 11:53.920 Leave us alone, will you? 11:53.920 --> 11:54.920 All right, all right. 11:54.920 --> 11:55.920 I'm going. 11:55.920 --> 11:58.320 Just came back to wish you a happy birthday and to give you this. 11:58.320 --> 11:59.320 Birthday? 11:59.320 --> 12:00.320 Oh, yeah. 12:00.320 --> 12:01.320 Thanks. 12:01.320 --> 12:02.320 Thanks, Harry. 12:02.320 --> 12:03.320 Thanks. 12:03.320 --> 12:04.320 What is it? 12:04.320 --> 12:05.320 Well, open it, why don't you? 12:05.320 --> 12:06.320 It's a bathrobe. 12:06.320 --> 12:09.320 A red silk bathrobe with your initials. 12:09.320 --> 12:10.320 That's right. 12:10.320 --> 12:11.320 It's a... 12:11.320 --> 12:12.320 How does she know? 12:12.320 --> 12:13.320 How do you know? 12:13.320 --> 12:14.320 Get out of here. 12:14.320 --> 12:15.320 Get out of here. 12:15.320 --> 12:16.320 Judd, make him get out of here. 12:16.320 --> 12:17.320 Look, I won't be talked to like that. 12:17.320 --> 12:18.320 I don't care who she is. 12:18.320 --> 12:19.320 I won't be talked to like that. 12:19.320 --> 12:20.320 Harry, shut up. 12:20.320 --> 12:22.320 For heaven's sake, shut up and go away. 12:22.320 --> 12:23.320 Leave us alone. 12:23.320 --> 12:24.320 What? 12:24.320 --> 12:25.320 Go, get out. 12:25.320 --> 12:26.320 Get out. 12:26.320 --> 12:27.320 You too, Judd? 12:27.320 --> 12:29.680 She's got you talking against me too, huh? 12:29.680 --> 12:31.240 All right, I'm going. 12:31.240 --> 12:32.240 I'm going. 12:32.240 --> 12:35.240 But from here on in, it's strictly business between us. 12:35.240 --> 12:43.960 I wash my hands. 12:43.960 --> 12:45.520 He kept his word, Lieutenant. 12:45.520 --> 12:48.640 From that time on, he kept himself to himself. 12:48.640 --> 12:53.640 And I was prepared to let it go at that, much as I liked Harry, until the night I was awakened 12:53.640 --> 12:56.200 by Rory, moaning in her sleep. 12:56.200 --> 12:58.200 No, no, please. 12:58.200 --> 13:00.280 Rory, wake up. 13:00.280 --> 13:01.280 You're having a bad dream. 13:01.280 --> 13:02.280 Rory. 13:02.280 --> 13:03.280 No. 13:03.280 --> 13:04.280 What? 13:04.280 --> 13:05.280 Judd? 13:05.280 --> 13:06.280 Shhh. 13:06.280 --> 13:07.280 Judd. 13:07.280 --> 13:08.280 It's all right. 13:08.280 --> 13:09.280 I'm here. 13:09.280 --> 13:10.280 I'm here. 13:10.280 --> 13:11.280 Oh, Judd. 13:11.280 --> 13:12.280 What, Rory? 13:12.280 --> 13:13.280 The voice. 13:13.280 --> 13:14.280 Whispering again? 13:14.280 --> 13:15.280 Yes. 13:15.280 --> 13:16.280 Oh, Judd. 13:16.280 --> 13:17.280 What? 13:17.280 --> 13:23.280 He's going to kill me. 13:23.280 --> 13:29.680 Harry Arnold is going to kill me. 13:29.680 --> 13:45.720 And that, Lieutenant, was the beginning of the end of that. 13:45.720 --> 13:51.840 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Ronald Coleman with Kathy Lewis in A Vision of Death, tonight's 13:51.840 --> 14:00.240 production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:00.240 --> 14:13.400 Rory, Rory, get a grip on yourself. 14:13.400 --> 14:14.400 He's going to kill me. 14:14.400 --> 14:15.400 Harry is going to kill me. 14:15.400 --> 14:16.400 Don't be ridiculous. 14:16.400 --> 14:17.400 Stop it now. 14:17.400 --> 14:18.400 It was just a bad dream. 14:18.400 --> 14:19.400 Harry is going to kill me. 14:19.400 --> 14:20.400 Will you stop that? 14:20.400 --> 14:21.400 Will you stop that? 14:21.400 --> 14:22.400 Will you stop saying that? 14:22.400 --> 14:23.400 Judd, hold me. 14:23.400 --> 14:24.400 Judd, run. 14:24.400 --> 14:25.400 Harry is going to kill me. 14:25.400 --> 14:26.400 Now you've had a bad dream, I tell you. 14:26.400 --> 14:27.400 He hates me. 14:27.400 --> 14:28.400 He hates me, Judd. 14:28.400 --> 14:30.920 Judd, Harry is going to kill me. 14:30.920 --> 14:47.880 I'm a rational man, Lieutenant. 14:47.880 --> 14:51.880 I've always felt, for example, that when Hamlet says there are stranger things in heaven and 14:51.880 --> 14:55.640 earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, Horatio ought to reply, tell that 14:55.640 --> 14:56.640 to Sweeney. 14:56.640 --> 14:59.880 I knew there was no such thing as mental telepathy. 14:59.880 --> 15:02.840 I knew it as well as I know I'm sitting here talking to you. 15:02.840 --> 15:05.000 Up here in my head, I knew it. 15:05.000 --> 15:10.920 And yet, the next afternoon, I found myself entering a gun shop and purchasing a revolver 15:10.920 --> 15:16.200 and a box of bullets, determined that before Harry Arnold could so much as injure one hair 15:16.200 --> 15:19.800 of Rory's head, I would kill him. 15:19.800 --> 15:23.280 I should have gone directly to the police first. 15:23.280 --> 15:24.880 You're using hindsight, Lieutenant. 15:24.880 --> 15:26.640 I had all that out with Rory. 15:26.640 --> 15:27.640 Please, Judd, please. 15:27.640 --> 15:30.600 Go to the police and tell them about this. 15:30.600 --> 15:31.600 Let them handle it. 15:31.600 --> 15:32.600 Tell them what? 15:32.600 --> 15:35.960 That by reading his mind, we've learned Harry intends to murder you. 15:35.960 --> 15:36.960 They'll believe us. 15:36.960 --> 15:37.960 They've got to believe us. 15:37.960 --> 15:40.160 Oh, now, they're reasoning like a child. 15:40.160 --> 15:43.680 They'll decide that it's either a publicity stunt or else they were both lunatics. 15:43.680 --> 15:46.920 If I tell them about the telegram and the birthday presents... 15:46.920 --> 15:47.920 Rory, we have no proof. 15:47.920 --> 15:49.920 But we have to do something. 15:49.920 --> 15:50.920 What? 15:50.920 --> 15:51.920 Tell me what? 15:51.920 --> 15:53.480 You know he intends to kill you. 15:53.480 --> 15:57.000 I know he intends to kill you, but what can we do? 15:57.000 --> 16:00.660 I can't simply put a bullet in his heart next time I see him. 16:00.660 --> 16:02.080 How could I explain it? 16:02.080 --> 16:05.040 My wife had a premonition that he was going to murder her. 16:05.040 --> 16:11.840 Do you know when he's going to do it or how he's going to do it? 16:11.840 --> 16:12.840 No. 16:12.840 --> 16:17.120 He hasn't decided yet. 16:17.120 --> 16:20.080 Isn't there anything we can do? 16:20.080 --> 16:21.360 Nothing. 16:21.360 --> 16:30.040 Except wait. 16:30.040 --> 16:33.320 I reacted to the waiting, as you might expect, Lieutenant. 16:33.320 --> 16:37.480 Sleeplessness, loss of appetite, growing irritability. 16:37.480 --> 16:39.040 I flared up at everyone. 16:39.040 --> 16:43.160 The waiters, chambermaids, elevator boys, the manager of the club. 16:43.160 --> 16:44.480 The manager of the club, yes. 16:44.480 --> 16:45.840 He finally said to me... 16:45.840 --> 16:47.600 Stone, what the devil's gotten into you? 16:47.600 --> 16:48.600 I'd really like to know. 16:48.600 --> 16:49.600 None of your business. 16:49.600 --> 16:50.600 I'm only trying to be nice. 16:50.600 --> 16:52.600 Oh, shut up and let me alone. 16:52.600 --> 16:54.360 Yeah, sure, I'll let you alone. 16:54.360 --> 16:57.440 I'd let you alone right now if your contract didn't have another week to run. 16:57.440 --> 16:59.520 But after that, I'll let you strictly alone. 16:59.520 --> 17:01.880 You'll never work this club again. 17:01.880 --> 17:02.880 Maniac. 17:02.880 --> 17:09.840 I began to drink quite heavily, quite noticeably. 17:09.840 --> 17:12.600 I was going crazy just from the waiting. 17:12.600 --> 17:15.920 And then, and then the waiting came to an end. 17:15.920 --> 17:18.560 It was around three in the morning. 17:18.560 --> 17:24.520 I was sitting up in bed, in the dark, smoking, when Rory opened her eyes and said... 17:24.520 --> 17:25.520 Judd? 17:25.520 --> 17:26.520 Yes? 17:26.520 --> 17:27.520 The voice. 17:27.520 --> 17:28.520 Yes? 17:28.520 --> 17:29.520 He's, he's going to kill me. 17:29.520 --> 17:33.840 Here, right here, in this room. 17:33.840 --> 17:34.840 Rory. 17:34.840 --> 17:35.840 Saturday. 17:35.840 --> 17:36.840 This Saturday at midnight. 17:36.840 --> 17:37.840 Judd? 17:37.840 --> 17:38.840 Rory, Rory, sweetheart. 17:38.840 --> 17:39.840 He's going to shoot me. 17:39.840 --> 17:40.840 He has a gun. 17:40.840 --> 17:41.840 And he's going to shoot me. 17:41.840 --> 17:46.840 He's going to get you downstairs in the manager's office at the club. 17:46.840 --> 17:49.840 I don't know how he's going to get you down there. 17:49.840 --> 17:53.840 I don't know how he's going to get you down there. 17:53.840 --> 17:56.840 I don't know how he's going to get you down there. 17:56.840 --> 17:59.840 He's going to get you down there in the manager's office at the club. 17:59.840 --> 18:00.840 And why is he there? 18:00.840 --> 18:02.840 He's going to come up here. 18:02.840 --> 18:04.840 Rory, Rory, listen to me. 18:04.840 --> 18:06.600 I want you to listen to me. 18:06.600 --> 18:08.840 You're mistaken, do you understand? 18:08.840 --> 18:11.840 You've been having another bad dream and that's all there is to it. 18:11.840 --> 18:14.840 No, no, Judd, I swear it. 18:14.840 --> 18:16.840 He just thought of it. 18:16.840 --> 18:17.840 Just this minute. 18:17.840 --> 18:22.840 He was standing at a bar, standing there all by himself, drinking. 18:22.840 --> 18:26.840 And he just this minute decided. 18:26.840 --> 18:27.840 You're making it up. 18:27.840 --> 18:30.840 Judd, no. 18:30.840 --> 18:35.840 It's the bar over at the Tuscany Hotel. 18:35.840 --> 18:37.840 I see it so clear. 18:37.840 --> 18:38.840 You're wrong. You're wrong. 18:38.840 --> 18:40.840 I'll prove you wrong. 18:40.840 --> 18:41.840 Judd. 18:41.840 --> 18:43.840 Give me the bar at the Tuscany, will you? 18:43.840 --> 18:44.840 Over on Sunset. 18:44.840 --> 18:46.840 One moment, please. 18:46.840 --> 18:48.840 You'll see, Rory, he's not there at all. 18:48.840 --> 18:49.840 You'll see, it's just a dream. 18:49.840 --> 18:51.840 Just a bad dream. 18:51.840 --> 18:54.840 Tuscany Cocktail Lounge. 18:54.840 --> 18:57.840 Hello, is Harry Arnold there at the bar? 18:57.840 --> 19:00.840 Harry Arnold? No, I'm sorry, he's not. 19:00.840 --> 19:02.840 He's not, huh? You sure of that? 19:02.840 --> 19:05.840 Sure, I'm sure. He was here all evening, left about a minute ago. 19:05.840 --> 19:06.840 I said good night to him myself. 19:06.840 --> 19:08.840 He wanted me to call. 19:08.840 --> 19:11.840 It wasn't a dream. 19:11.840 --> 19:13.840 Judd. 19:13.840 --> 19:15.840 No, no, Rory, don't worry. 19:15.840 --> 19:16.840 Trust me, trust me. 19:16.840 --> 19:20.840 When Harry comes tomorrow night, you won't be here at all. 19:20.840 --> 19:23.840 But I will. 19:29.840 --> 19:32.840 Look, Lieutenant, my hands. 19:32.840 --> 19:33.840 See? 19:33.840 --> 19:38.840 Just the memory of how I felt at that moment when my hands began to tremble again. 19:38.840 --> 19:40.840 Amazing, isn't it? 19:40.840 --> 19:43.840 Well, that was last Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, 19:43.840 --> 19:47.840 and towards daybreak, Rory subbed herself to sleep. 19:47.840 --> 19:50.840 But I was restless. 19:50.840 --> 19:54.840 I got dressed and went downstairs and got into my car. 19:54.840 --> 19:56.840 A long drive has always relaxed me, 19:56.840 --> 20:00.840 but when I got behind the wheel, I don't know what it was, possibly the fresh air. 20:00.840 --> 20:03.840 But all at once I felt as though I couldn't keep my eyes open for another moment. 20:03.840 --> 20:06.840 I simply had to have sleep. 20:06.840 --> 20:08.840 So I crawled into the back seat, 20:08.840 --> 20:10.840 curled myself up in one corner, 20:10.840 --> 20:14.840 pulled the rug over me and went out like a light. 20:14.840 --> 20:16.840 Hello, Satin Skin. 20:16.840 --> 20:17.840 Hello, Harry. 20:17.840 --> 20:20.840 I was awakened around noon by the sound of voices. 20:20.840 --> 20:22.840 Don't smile at me, you idiot. You may cease. 20:22.840 --> 20:23.840 Look businesslike. 20:23.840 --> 20:24.840 Where is he? 20:24.840 --> 20:25.840 I don't know. 20:25.840 --> 20:27.840 Since he hasn't got the car, he must be out walking. 20:27.840 --> 20:30.840 Don't you have some papers or something I could be examining just to make it look good in case... 20:30.840 --> 20:31.840 A pocketful here. 20:31.840 --> 20:32.840 All right. 20:32.840 --> 20:33.840 Did he fall for it last night? 20:33.840 --> 20:35.840 Just like he fell for all the rest of it. 20:35.840 --> 20:37.840 Red bathrobe, the plants in the audience. 20:37.840 --> 20:39.840 He even phoned the bar just after you left. 20:39.840 --> 20:41.840 I timed it beautifully. 20:41.840 --> 20:44.840 Oh, Satin Skin, Satin Skin, I can hardly keep away from you. 20:44.840 --> 20:47.840 After tomorrow night, we'll have all the time in the world for each other, Harry. 20:47.840 --> 20:49.840 You bought the whole story, huh? Midnight, tomorrow, your place? 20:49.840 --> 20:52.840 Every word of it. Just do what you have to do. 20:52.840 --> 20:54.840 Remember to come to the dressing room before the eight o'clock show 20:54.840 --> 20:57.840 and tell him you've set up a meeting with Stamper, the manager in his office at 12. 20:57.840 --> 20:59.840 I want them to shake hands and be friends again. I'll tell him. 20:59.840 --> 21:01.840 And don't forget, when you come to the door at midnight, 21:01.840 --> 21:04.840 keep talking to the elevator boy. Don't let him go, whatever you do. 21:04.840 --> 21:06.840 You'll want him to testify with self-defense. 21:06.840 --> 21:08.840 Don't worry. I won't forget a thing. 21:08.840 --> 21:09.840 You'll handle all the rest of it? 21:09.840 --> 21:10.840 Yeah, yeah. Just leave it to me. 21:10.840 --> 21:12.840 No, I mean about his gun. That's pretty important, you know. 21:12.840 --> 21:15.840 Don't worry. It will misfire. 21:23.840 --> 21:27.840 It'd be difficult for me to tell you what I felt as they walked away, lieutenant. 21:28.840 --> 21:31.840 One part of me felt the way a man ought to feel, I suppose, 21:31.840 --> 21:34.840 when he learns that the woman he loves is not only unfaithful, 21:34.840 --> 21:36.840 but plotting his death as well. 21:37.840 --> 21:39.840 But another part of me felt only relief. 21:39.840 --> 21:42.840 Relief at learning there was a gimmick in this, too. 21:43.840 --> 21:46.840 They've been fairly clever for amateurs. 21:46.840 --> 21:49.840 Harry had a good excuse for carrying a gun 21:49.840 --> 21:52.840 to protect the cash he brought me each Saturday. 21:52.840 --> 21:55.840 My own behavior in recent weeks would lend weight 21:55.840 --> 21:57.840 to what he would probably offer in his defense, 21:57.840 --> 21:59.840 but I must have been crazy. 21:59.840 --> 22:02.840 For no reason at all, I'd pointed a revolver at him and threatened his life 22:02.840 --> 22:05.840 that he had a shoot in self-defense. 22:05.840 --> 22:07.840 The presence of the elevator boy, 22:07.840 --> 22:11.840 that could mean only that Harry would shoot just as soon as I opened the door. 22:11.840 --> 22:14.840 I'd be found dead with a revolver in my hand 22:14.840 --> 22:16.840 and a heartbroken agent at my side. 22:16.840 --> 22:18.840 Tableau. 22:18.840 --> 22:23.840 Then I found myself hoping, as I never hoped before, 22:23.840 --> 22:26.840 that they'd come to their senses before Saturday, 22:26.840 --> 22:30.840 that they'd realize what a vicious, inhuman thing it was they were planning. 22:31.840 --> 22:34.840 But just before the eight o'clock show that night, 22:34.840 --> 22:37.840 there was a knock at the door of our dressing room. 22:38.840 --> 22:40.840 Come in. 22:40.840 --> 22:43.840 Judd, I've been talking to Stamford, the manager. 22:43.840 --> 22:46.840 He's sorry there's bad blood between you. He wants to square it. 22:46.840 --> 22:49.840 I told him you'd be in his office at 12 to talk things over. 22:49.840 --> 22:51.840 All right with you? Yeah. 22:51.840 --> 22:53.840 We don't want it so we never work here again, do we? 22:53.840 --> 22:56.840 I mean, there's no reason we should. No reason at all. 22:56.840 --> 22:58.840 Button my dress, Judd. See you later, Judd. 22:58.840 --> 23:00.840 Yeah, later. 23:00.840 --> 23:03.840 Well, we did the show and then went up to our suites. 23:03.840 --> 23:06.840 I helped Rory pack a small overnight bag. 23:06.840 --> 23:11.840 I loaded the revolver and then there was nothing to do but wait. 23:12.840 --> 23:14.840 The minutes passed. 23:14.840 --> 23:18.840 Nine o'clock, ten, ten-thirty, and I waited. 23:18.840 --> 23:20.840 Judd. Yes? 23:20.840 --> 23:22.840 I don't want you to go. 23:22.840 --> 23:24.840 It's best that you do. 23:24.840 --> 23:26.840 It doesn't seem right to leave you here alone. 23:26.840 --> 23:28.840 Things might not go as I planned. 23:28.840 --> 23:30.840 I might not be able to stop him. 23:30.840 --> 23:32.840 And if I fail to stop him... 23:32.840 --> 23:35.840 Oh, no, it's best that you go. 23:35.840 --> 23:38.840 Just wait at the motel until you hear from me. 23:38.840 --> 23:40.840 What time is it? 23:40.840 --> 23:43.840 Almost 11. Two minutes of 11. 23:43.840 --> 23:45.840 I'm out of cigarettes. 23:46.840 --> 23:48.840 Desk. 23:48.840 --> 23:50.840 This is Mr. Stone in 1101. 23:50.840 --> 23:52.840 Please send up a carton of players, will you? 23:52.840 --> 23:54.840 Right away, Mr. Stone. 23:55.840 --> 23:57.840 I want you to go now, Rory. 23:57.840 --> 23:59.840 Judd, let me call the police, please. 23:59.840 --> 24:01.840 It would be useless. 24:01.840 --> 24:03.840 We've gone into it and it'll be useless. 24:03.840 --> 24:05.840 Then come with me. 24:05.840 --> 24:07.840 He won't find anybody here. 24:07.840 --> 24:09.840 Then he'll choose another place, another time. 24:09.840 --> 24:11.840 Here's your valise. 24:11.840 --> 24:13.840 You have your gun? 24:13.840 --> 24:15.840 In my pocket. 24:15.840 --> 24:17.840 You won't take any chances. 24:17.840 --> 24:19.840 I don't know what I'd do if you were hurt or anything. 24:19.840 --> 24:21.840 I won't take any chances. 24:22.840 --> 24:24.840 Let me help you on with your coat. 24:24.840 --> 24:26.840 Judd, I love you so. 24:26.840 --> 24:28.840 Yes, I know. 24:28.840 --> 24:30.840 And I love you, Rory. 24:30.840 --> 24:32.840 I really do, you know. 24:33.840 --> 24:34.840 Ready? 24:34.840 --> 24:36.840 Yes. 24:36.840 --> 24:38.840 Eleven o'clock. 24:38.840 --> 24:40.840 He'll be here in an hour. 24:40.840 --> 24:42.840 Go now, Rory. 24:43.840 --> 24:45.840 Kiss me goodbye. 24:45.840 --> 24:47.840 Judd. 24:49.840 --> 24:50.840 The cigarettes. 24:50.840 --> 24:56.840 Get them, will you, darling, while I find change? 24:58.840 --> 25:00.840 Harry. 25:02.840 --> 25:04.840 Rory. 25:05.840 --> 25:07.840 Rory. 25:07.840 --> 25:09.840 Rory! 25:09.840 --> 25:13.840 I shall always remember the look on Harry's face, Lieutenant, as she sank to the floor. 25:13.840 --> 25:17.840 They'd concocted a bad dream between them and it had come true. 25:17.840 --> 25:19.840 I'll bet he still doesn't know how it happened. 25:19.840 --> 25:23.840 And if you pass his cell, Lieutenant, you might tell him. 25:23.840 --> 25:25.840 Whisper the word gimmick into his ear. 25:25.840 --> 25:27.840 That's what I said, gimmick. 25:27.840 --> 25:29.840 I'll tell him. 25:29.840 --> 25:31.840 I'll tell him. 25:31.840 --> 25:33.840 I'll tell him. 25:33.840 --> 25:35.840 I'll tell him. 25:35.840 --> 25:37.840 I'll tell him. 25:37.840 --> 25:39.840 That's what I said, gimmick. 25:39.840 --> 25:42.840 I gimmicked the clock while Rory was dressing. 25:42.840 --> 25:44.840 I set it back a full hour. 25:44.840 --> 25:48.840 It was eleven to her, but twelve to him. 25:50.840 --> 25:52.840 I adore gimmicks. 25:52.840 --> 26:08.840 Don't you? 26:13.840 --> 26:15.840 Suspense. 26:15.840 --> 26:18.840 Presented by Auto Light. 26:18.840 --> 26:21.840 Tonight's star, Mr. Ronald Coleman. 26:21.840 --> 26:30.840 My occult powers do reveal that every driver's automobile has a life both long and bright when it has parts by Auto Light. 26:30.840 --> 26:33.840 Well, that's fortune telling. 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