WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.440 I fetched his body to reach it. 00:04.440 --> 00:08.720 I waited until he had his back to me with his hands raised high in the air, reaching 00:08.720 --> 00:10.600 for the window frame. 00:10.600 --> 00:16.200 And I opened my purse, took out the gun, aimed very carefully at his spot just in the center 00:16.200 --> 00:20.360 of his left shoulder blade, and pulled the trigger four times. 00:20.360 --> 00:34.600 He didn't immediately fall. 00:34.600 --> 00:40.000 He had his fingers over the window ledge, ready to unfasten the catch when the bullets hit 00:40.000 --> 00:41.000 him. 00:41.000 --> 00:47.360 With some terrible effort, he dug his nails into his stucco to keep himself from dying. 00:47.360 --> 00:52.320 Once he tried to turn his face and look at me, but he hadn't that much life left. 00:52.320 --> 01:01.360 At last he fell. 01:01.360 --> 01:04.160 I bent and looked at my husband's body. 01:04.160 --> 01:06.200 He was quite dead. 01:06.200 --> 01:11.000 I wiped off the gun, his gun, and threw it behind an acacia bush. 01:11.000 --> 01:15.960 And I walked back to the car slowly and carefully, removing any of my footprints which showed 01:15.960 --> 01:18.040 in the loose dirt of the road. 01:18.040 --> 01:23.720 I dusted my shoes and drove home. 01:23.720 --> 01:31.960 I put the car in the garage and went in and had my shower, and lay down in the library 01:31.960 --> 01:32.960 to wait. 01:32.960 --> 01:37.320 A few minutes after the grandfather clock struck eleven, the telephone rang. 01:37.320 --> 01:38.320 Hello? 01:38.320 --> 01:39.320 Mrs. Skinner? 01:39.320 --> 01:40.320 This is she. 01:40.320 --> 01:41.320 This is Jonathan Brown at the sheriff's office. 01:41.320 --> 01:42.320 I need to speak to you. 01:42.320 --> 01:43.320 I'm sorry, I'm busy. 01:43.320 --> 01:46.320 This is Jonathan Brown at the sheriff's office. 01:46.320 --> 01:48.400 I have some bad news for you. 01:48.400 --> 01:49.400 Oh, what is it? 01:49.400 --> 01:50.400 Mr. Skinner, ma'am. 01:50.400 --> 01:51.400 He's been killed. 01:51.400 --> 01:52.400 Mrs. Skinner? 01:52.400 --> 01:53.400 Hello, Mrs. Skinner? 01:53.400 --> 01:54.400 Are you all right? 01:54.400 --> 02:05.400 I waited quietly for a moment, then I let the phone fall to the floor. 02:05.400 --> 02:06.400 Mrs. Skinner? 02:06.400 --> 02:11.240 I listened until I heard Jonathan Brown hang up, at which time I replaced my telephone 02:11.240 --> 02:17.400 on its stand, and went into the kitchen for some ice, which I put in a large Turkish towel. 02:17.400 --> 02:31.000 I then arranged myself on the living room divan, and again waited. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 Mrs. Skinner? 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 In here, please. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.960 Oh, oh yes, thank you. 02:37.960 --> 02:39.800 Are you all right, Mrs. Skinner? 02:39.800 --> 02:44.080 What was this stupid thing for me to do, breaking the news that way, you know? 02:44.080 --> 02:45.080 I'm all right. 02:45.080 --> 02:48.480 I came over as soon as you, well, you know, dropped the phone. 02:48.480 --> 02:50.560 I felt faint suddenly. 02:50.560 --> 02:51.560 And no wonder. 02:51.560 --> 02:53.640 Tell me what happened, Mr. 02:53.640 --> 02:56.160 Brown, Jonathan Brown from the sheriff's office. 02:56.160 --> 02:58.360 Mr. Brown, please sit down. 02:58.360 --> 03:00.400 Oh, thank you. 03:00.400 --> 03:06.280 Well, your husband was up at the Johnson house this afternoon, as well as we can figure, 03:06.280 --> 03:08.280 up there on the side of the mountain, you know. 03:08.280 --> 03:16.200 He must have been trying to get into the window, and somehow somebody, well, shot him. 03:16.200 --> 03:18.640 Sure you want me to tell you? 03:18.640 --> 03:19.640 I'm sorry. 03:19.640 --> 03:21.480 Go, go on, please. 03:21.480 --> 03:28.080 We looked around the place, couldn't see anything, although we found the, you know, weapon. 03:28.080 --> 03:30.240 It was a gun. 03:30.240 --> 03:37.200 Found it in the brush near where he was, no footprints or anything. 03:37.200 --> 03:41.880 To think that my husband shot him. 03:41.880 --> 03:44.280 There, there, there. 03:44.280 --> 03:45.280 Terrible shock. 03:45.280 --> 03:46.280 There now. 03:46.280 --> 03:47.280 Thank you. 03:47.280 --> 03:48.760 I'll be all right. 03:48.760 --> 03:51.560 Oh, don't you worry about a thing, Mrs. Skinner. 03:51.560 --> 03:55.000 The best thing for you to do right now is rest and take it easy. 03:55.000 --> 03:56.600 Thank you for your help. 03:56.600 --> 03:58.800 You've been most kind. 03:58.800 --> 04:03.200 The only thing I think you'll have to do will be make an appearance at the coroner's inquest, 04:03.200 --> 04:05.200 unless you're still not feeling well, you know. 04:05.200 --> 04:07.800 In which case, I guess, maybe you shouldn't be there. 04:07.800 --> 04:08.800 Oh, no. 04:08.800 --> 04:10.440 No, thank you, Mr. Brown. 04:10.440 --> 04:21.840 You let me know when you need me, and I'll be there. 04:21.840 --> 04:24.920 I slept very well that night. 04:24.920 --> 04:30.240 How much better a position I would hold as the tragic widow and as the discarded wife 04:30.240 --> 04:32.680 of a successful man. 04:32.680 --> 04:37.120 The next few days, a few photographers and newspaper men called, but they were kind and 04:37.120 --> 04:39.440 gentle and didn't make too much bother. 04:39.440 --> 04:43.720 Finally, Mr. Jonathan Brown called to say that he would send a car for me on Friday 04:43.720 --> 04:44.720 morning. 04:44.720 --> 04:48.520 The next day, as it turned out, to take me to the coroner's inquest. 04:48.520 --> 04:55.160 The small courtroom was crowded, and almost everyone there eyed me with great sympathy. 04:55.160 --> 05:00.040 The inquest proceeded evenly, and there was as yet no evidence as to the identity of my 05:00.040 --> 05:01.400 husband's murderer. 05:01.400 --> 05:06.480 I have had this blackboard brought into court so that I might show the position of the body 05:06.480 --> 05:07.800 when found. 05:07.800 --> 05:10.400 I think it might be of interest. 05:10.400 --> 05:11.400 Proceed. 05:11.400 --> 05:17.120 Now, the body was found just below the first story window on the left side of the house. 05:17.120 --> 05:20.600 The dead man was obviously trying to gain admittance, you know. 05:20.600 --> 05:24.900 He didn't die immediately, as I will show you, but stayed alive long enough to try to 05:24.900 --> 05:28.620 keep himself from falling, since marks from each of his fingernails were found running 05:28.620 --> 05:30.760 down the side of the building. 05:30.760 --> 05:34.040 Here, then, is the window sill. 05:34.040 --> 05:40.120 Here are the marks of his fingernails, and here is the spot where the body lay when it 05:40.120 --> 05:41.280 was discovered. 05:41.280 --> 05:43.920 As he talked, he watched me do this, Mr. Brown. 05:43.920 --> 05:49.000 And I didn't know why until I heard the first scrape of the chalk against the blackboard. 05:49.000 --> 05:53.240 For one awful moment, it was the sound that had been made by my husband, as he tried so 05:53.240 --> 05:55.960 desperately to hold himself alive. 05:55.960 --> 05:59.580 I found myself tightly clutching the wooden table in front of me. 05:59.580 --> 06:03.520 My arms and body tense, trying not to faint. 06:03.520 --> 06:07.800 Now, since a large deposit of the dried stucco from the building was found under each of 06:07.800 --> 06:12.000 the victim's fingernails, I believe I can best illustrate the manner of the victim's 06:12.000 --> 06:14.480 last moments with a physical illustration. 06:14.480 --> 06:20.800 Now, suppose I am the victim, you know, and this blackboard is the side of the building. 06:20.800 --> 06:26.600 We hear gunshots, and then the victim slowly sinks to the ground. 06:26.600 --> 06:41.480 Please don't make that noise. 06:41.480 --> 06:46.120 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Ann Baxter with Joseph Kearns in the 13th sound. 06:46.120 --> 06:59.800 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 06:59.800 --> 07:03.720 Hey Joe, any more sound effects for the Auto Light Stay Full Battery? 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08:43.400 --> 08:44.680 Oh, thank you. 08:44.680 --> 08:47.000 I'm terribly sorry to have... 08:47.000 --> 08:49.480 Oh, that's all right. 08:49.480 --> 08:51.840 I thought maybe you better not go, you know. 08:51.840 --> 08:53.400 It's quite a strain. 08:53.400 --> 08:55.840 Yes, it was quite a strain. 08:55.840 --> 08:58.900 Corner asked whether it'd be all right to go on without you. 08:58.900 --> 09:02.840 Everyone seemed agreed, you know, so we finished up while the doc looked you over. 09:02.840 --> 09:03.840 What happened? 09:03.840 --> 09:04.840 He said you'd be all right. 09:04.840 --> 09:05.840 Shock. 09:05.840 --> 09:08.320 No, no, I meant about my husband. 09:08.320 --> 09:12.720 It is death at the hand of person or person's unknown, you know. 09:12.720 --> 09:14.840 Is there anything further I must do? 09:14.840 --> 09:16.680 Not a thing, Mrs. Skinner. 09:16.680 --> 09:18.680 Oh, you've been very kind. 09:18.680 --> 09:21.720 Well, it's a terrible thing happened to you. 09:21.720 --> 09:22.720 I'll be going now. 09:22.720 --> 09:25.160 If there's nothing more you need from me. 09:25.160 --> 09:26.920 Oh, nothing, thank you. 09:26.920 --> 09:28.880 Well, goodbye then. 09:28.880 --> 09:31.080 And don't you worry. 09:31.080 --> 09:42.240 We'll find who did it, you know. 09:42.240 --> 09:46.800 After he had left, I had the time to be angry at myself for my behavior at the inquest. 09:46.800 --> 09:49.560 What must the people have thought? 09:49.560 --> 09:53.520 To faint only from the noise of a piece of chalk on a blackboard. 09:53.520 --> 09:59.520 I wondered if Mr. Brown had suspected anything because, as I remembered, he'd been watching 09:59.520 --> 10:03.920 me as he drew those silly little diagrams on the board. 10:03.920 --> 10:05.480 He hadn't been looking anywhere else. 10:05.480 --> 10:10.720 Not at the coroner, or any of the reporters, or even at what he was doing. 10:10.720 --> 10:13.360 He had been looking at me. 10:13.360 --> 10:17.480 Well, of course he was looking at me. 10:17.480 --> 10:26.040 He was showing his sympathy. 10:26.040 --> 10:29.880 I slowly allowed myself to return to my former position in the community. 10:29.880 --> 10:34.680 And as I'd anticipated, I was greeted with respect and admiration. 10:34.680 --> 10:37.280 Poor dear Mrs. Skinner. 10:37.280 --> 10:38.280 How tragic. 10:38.280 --> 10:45.120 The first evening I accepted an invitation was five weeks after my husband's death for 10:45.120 --> 10:47.200 bridge at the country club. 10:47.200 --> 10:49.800 Oh, I'm terribly sorry. 10:49.800 --> 10:51.320 I wonder if you'd forgive me. 10:51.320 --> 10:52.760 By something wrong, Melissa? 10:52.760 --> 10:54.600 I have a terrible headache. 10:54.600 --> 10:56.200 I'm afraid I've strained my eyes. 10:56.200 --> 10:58.440 Oh, my dear, why don't you lie down for a few minutes? 10:58.440 --> 10:59.440 If you wouldn't mind. 10:59.440 --> 11:00.440 Why not at all? 11:00.440 --> 11:02.440 Would you care for an aspirin tablet, Melissa? 11:02.440 --> 11:03.440 Thank you, no. 11:03.440 --> 11:05.440 If I could just lie down. 11:05.440 --> 11:07.440 I told you that you needed new glasses. 11:07.440 --> 11:08.880 Now I suppose you'll get them. 11:08.880 --> 11:09.880 Locking the bar. 11:09.880 --> 11:11.880 I'll get you comfortably settled. 11:11.880 --> 11:12.880 Oh, don't bother, please. 11:12.880 --> 11:14.880 You go right ahead with your game. 11:14.880 --> 11:17.160 I'm sorry to be such a nuisance. 11:17.160 --> 11:18.600 Oh, poor dear. 11:18.600 --> 11:20.080 That is uncomfortable. 11:20.080 --> 11:23.600 There's something it don't pay to neglect. 11:23.600 --> 11:25.000 Your eyes, you know. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.000 Mr. Brown. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 Good evening. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.640 I didn't see you come in. 11:29.640 --> 11:30.640 You know these... 11:30.640 --> 11:31.640 Oh, sure. 11:31.640 --> 11:33.640 Good evening, Mr. Greg, Mrs. Greg. 11:33.640 --> 11:34.640 Good evening, Mr. Brown. 11:34.640 --> 11:38.000 Would you object to a new partner? 11:38.000 --> 11:39.040 Considered a fairly good wisp, 11:39.040 --> 11:40.040 pinnacle and bridge man? 11:40.040 --> 11:42.160 We'd be delighted, Mr. Brown. 11:42.160 --> 11:43.160 Please join us. 11:43.160 --> 11:44.160 Yes, please do. 11:44.160 --> 11:45.160 Yes, very kind of you. 11:45.160 --> 11:47.000 No sense starting a new game. 11:47.000 --> 11:49.240 I'll just pick up where the lady went away. 11:49.240 --> 11:50.240 Splendid. 11:50.240 --> 11:52.240 Then I believe it's my deal. 11:52.240 --> 11:55.800 I hope I deal myself a good hand. 11:55.800 --> 11:58.120 I've had atrocious luck all evening. 11:58.120 --> 11:59.920 Maybe I can change it for you. 11:59.920 --> 12:00.920 Maybe you can. 12:00.920 --> 12:03.600 Incidentally, Mrs. Skinner, 12:03.600 --> 12:09.520 I always meant to ask you whether or not you minded noises, especially. 12:09.520 --> 12:13.960 Sharp noises like, say, chalk on a blackboard. 12:13.960 --> 12:16.040 I don't understand. 12:16.040 --> 12:17.040 Chalk on a blackboard? 12:17.040 --> 12:20.320 At the inquest, I always wondered about it. 12:20.320 --> 12:24.000 You fainted just when the chalk was scratching across the blackboard. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.520 I don't remember hearing it. 12:26.520 --> 12:30.360 I'm afraid I fainted before you drew any diagrams. 12:30.360 --> 12:36.000 I assume that's what you were planning to do, draw diagrams. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.960 That's what I was planning to do. 12:37.960 --> 12:38.960 Yes, ma'am. 12:38.960 --> 12:39.960 Yes. 12:39.960 --> 12:40.960 There we are. 12:40.960 --> 12:41.960 Oh, I'm sorry. 12:41.960 --> 12:42.960 Let me... 12:42.960 --> 12:45.960 That's all right. 12:45.960 --> 12:48.400 I can reach them. 12:48.400 --> 12:50.720 I... 12:50.720 --> 12:53.600 Something wrong, Mrs. Skinner? 12:53.600 --> 12:55.480 I didn't... 12:55.480 --> 12:59.640 Again, it happened. 12:59.640 --> 13:08.520 And again, as the noise was made, it sounded to me like my husband's fingernails sliding 13:08.520 --> 13:11.800 down the rough side of the Johnson house. 13:11.800 --> 13:17.400 And again, as I slipped into darkness, I could see that Mr. Brown was watching me. 13:17.400 --> 13:26.720 I stayed at home for the next few days. 13:26.720 --> 13:28.880 I canceled all appointments. 13:28.880 --> 13:33.840 By Friday of that week, the musical group of which I was chairman was giving a concert 13:33.840 --> 13:36.480 of chamber music, which I had to attend. 13:36.480 --> 13:42.400 I went to the musical alone, studying my program when Mr. Jonathan Brown entered. 13:42.400 --> 13:46.560 I tried to avoid his eyes, but he came directly over to where I was sitting and took the place 13:46.560 --> 13:47.800 immediately next to me. 13:47.800 --> 13:48.800 Is his seat taken? 13:48.800 --> 13:50.840 Oh, good evening, Mr. Brown. 13:50.840 --> 13:53.040 Mrs. Skinner, well, good evening. 13:53.040 --> 13:54.600 I didn't recognize you, you know. 13:54.600 --> 13:56.320 I was to be joined later. 13:56.320 --> 13:59.360 Oh, I'll just sit here a moment then. 13:59.360 --> 14:02.600 You know, I'm terribly sorry about the other night. 14:02.600 --> 14:04.840 There's really nothing at all for you to be sorry about. 14:04.840 --> 14:09.280 It's very kind of you to say that, you know, but I do feel guilty as all sin being the 14:09.280 --> 14:10.560 cause of your getting sick. 14:10.560 --> 14:13.160 Well, really, Mr. Brown, I wasn't sick at all. 14:13.160 --> 14:15.920 I was very close at the club that night, if you remember. 14:15.920 --> 14:17.560 Yes, ma'am, it was. 14:17.560 --> 14:20.200 Well, just so I don't feel it was my fault, you know. 14:20.200 --> 14:21.960 No, I don't want you to feel it. 14:21.960 --> 14:22.960 It was your fault. 14:22.960 --> 14:26.200 Well, that's very kind of you, you know. 14:26.200 --> 14:29.960 Oh, if you don't mind, I'll stay till whoever holds this seat gets here. 14:29.960 --> 14:30.960 That's quite all right. 14:30.960 --> 14:31.960 Thank you. 14:31.960 --> 14:34.760 Thank you, and welcome. 14:34.760 --> 14:41.200 We crave your indulgence and a certain open-mindedness for giving a fair chance to the first piece 14:41.200 --> 14:44.520 with which we're going to open our program this evening. 14:44.520 --> 14:50.760 The title of this piece is The Thirteenth Sound, and the composer is Julian Carrillo. 14:50.760 --> 14:58.040 Now, this piece is what you call, I guess, modern music, and the really unusual thing 14:58.040 --> 15:01.360 about it is that the instruments play in quarter tones. 15:01.360 --> 15:07.680 Now, a quarter tone is somewhere in between the other tones, like we're accustomed to 15:07.680 --> 15:08.680 hearing. 15:08.680 --> 15:12.760 So, on this following piece, the instruments are not playing like you would think out of 15:12.760 --> 15:14.240 tune. 15:14.240 --> 15:16.680 This is the way it's supposed to sound. 15:16.680 --> 15:17.680 Thank you. 15:17.680 --> 15:18.680 Thank you. 15:18.680 --> 15:19.680 Well, tune up, Jim. 15:19.680 --> 15:26.680 This should be very interesting, don't you think, Mrs. Skinner? 15:26.680 --> 15:28.160 The thirteenth sound. 15:28.160 --> 15:30.160 Have you heard it? 15:30.160 --> 15:31.160 Oh, what? 15:31.160 --> 15:32.160 No. 15:32.160 --> 15:35.160 No, no, I haven't. 15:35.160 --> 15:37.600 Too hot again, Mrs. Skinner? 15:37.600 --> 15:39.600 It does get stuffy in here, you know. 15:39.600 --> 15:40.600 I'm all right. 15:40.600 --> 15:41.600 It's hot in here. 15:41.600 --> 15:42.600 Oh, you know, it's hot in here. 15:42.600 --> 15:45.600 Oh, you look terribly peaked. 15:45.600 --> 15:48.120 You sure you're all right? 15:48.120 --> 15:52.240 I'm quite all... excuse me. 15:52.240 --> 15:58.760 I left Mr. Brown sitting on the rented folding chair. 15:58.760 --> 16:00.440 My man drove me home. 16:00.440 --> 16:02.520 I've never liked modern music. 16:02.520 --> 16:07.160 I locked all the doors and I turned on all the lights, and I did a foolish thing. 16:07.160 --> 16:12.520 I found a hammer and a piece of board, and I beat on the board with a hammer as hard as 16:12.520 --> 16:19.320 I could, and finally the heavy, steady pounding that I made drove the other sharp, shrill, 16:19.320 --> 16:22.320 awful noise from my mind. 16:22.320 --> 16:31.760 And I turned out all the lights, opened the windows, and went to sleep. 16:31.760 --> 16:42.720 I didn't sleep well, but I didn't stay awake either. 16:42.720 --> 16:47.440 I hadn't set the alarm next to my bed when I first awoke the next morning. 16:47.440 --> 16:49.720 For a minute I couldn't remember what had happened. 16:49.720 --> 16:56.240 I felt drugged, and I heard the gardener mowing my lawn, and I looked around my room and saw 16:56.240 --> 16:58.080 all my familiar possessions. 16:58.080 --> 17:04.520 It had been the heat both times that I had fainted it had been close in the room, and 17:04.520 --> 17:09.720 the first time it had happened at the inquest, I'd been overwrought and disturbed. 17:09.720 --> 17:11.760 Anyone would have fainted at her husband's inquest. 17:11.760 --> 17:14.760 There was nothing strange about that. 17:14.760 --> 17:17.960 I looked at his picture on my dressing table. 17:17.960 --> 17:21.160 He looked so smug and safe. 17:21.160 --> 17:24.440 How happy I was to be rid of him. 17:24.440 --> 17:29.080 I got out of bed and put on a lovely chartreuse brocade housecoat I'd just gotten, and went 17:29.080 --> 17:30.080 downstairs. 17:30.080 --> 17:32.280 And then I heard... 17:32.280 --> 17:33.280 What? 17:33.280 --> 17:35.040 I didn't know. 17:35.040 --> 17:36.040 I didn't care. 17:36.040 --> 17:39.280 I knew only that I had to stop it before it happened to me again. 17:39.280 --> 17:40.280 Stop it! 17:40.280 --> 17:41.280 Please stop it! 17:41.280 --> 17:42.280 Pardon me, Mrs. Skinner. 17:42.280 --> 17:43.280 Get out of here. 17:43.280 --> 17:44.280 Who told you to do your work here? 17:44.280 --> 17:48.280 Did someone tell you to make that noise near my house? 17:48.280 --> 17:49.280 No, ma'am. 17:49.280 --> 17:50.280 The lawnmower wasn't cutting. 17:50.280 --> 17:51.280 I had to sharpen it. 17:51.280 --> 17:52.280 Get out! 17:52.280 --> 17:53.280 Go on, get out of this property at once! 17:53.280 --> 17:54.280 Yes, ma'am. 17:54.280 --> 17:55.280 Yes, ma'am. 17:55.280 --> 17:56.280 Go on, don't ever come back, you hear? 17:56.280 --> 18:00.800 Don't ever come back! 18:00.800 --> 18:03.200 Good morning, Mrs. Skinner. 18:03.200 --> 18:04.200 It's a lovely day. 18:04.200 --> 18:08.120 I turned and ran back to my living room. 18:08.120 --> 18:11.680 I was still shivering there in the beam of sunlight. 18:11.680 --> 18:14.960 I waited for him to come bursting into the room after me. 18:14.960 --> 18:18.200 I waited, but nothing happened. 18:18.200 --> 18:20.480 No one came into the house. 18:20.480 --> 18:22.480 I turned and looked. 18:22.480 --> 18:26.320 Mr. Brown was walking slowly out my front gate. 18:26.320 --> 18:38.240 His shoulders seemed a little more stoop than usual, but he was leaving. 18:38.240 --> 18:39.880 I went up to my room. 18:39.880 --> 18:41.920 I knew what I must do. 18:41.920 --> 18:46.040 I carefully packed all my clothes because I was going away. 18:46.040 --> 18:51.680 Halfway through my packing, I went downstairs for my coffee and then the doorbell rang. 18:51.680 --> 18:52.680 Who is it? 18:52.680 --> 18:53.680 It's Miss Greg. 18:53.680 --> 18:57.400 Oh, just a moment. 18:57.400 --> 18:58.400 Come in. 18:58.400 --> 18:59.400 Did I disturb you? 18:59.400 --> 19:00.400 No, not at all. 19:00.400 --> 19:03.720 Well, then I will come in, but I can only stay a minute. 19:03.720 --> 19:04.720 Would you like some coffee? 19:04.720 --> 19:05.720 Oh, no, thank you. 19:05.720 --> 19:11.320 When I was so sick, you remember, the doctor absolutely forbade me having any more coffee. 19:11.320 --> 19:12.760 I didn't know that. 19:12.760 --> 19:13.760 Sit down, please. 19:13.760 --> 19:16.880 Um, do you drink much coffee? 19:16.880 --> 19:17.880 Why do you ask? 19:17.880 --> 19:22.520 I thought perhaps one of your recent attacks might have been caused by that. 19:22.520 --> 19:25.760 Mr. Greg is an exponent of aspirin and salt tablets. 19:25.760 --> 19:27.440 I think it's much simpler than that. 19:27.440 --> 19:29.320 Just cut out the coffee. 19:29.320 --> 19:34.080 I think my attacks were just caused by this heat. 19:34.080 --> 19:36.800 I'm planning to go away where it's cooler. 19:36.800 --> 19:38.080 Oh, how splendid. 19:38.080 --> 19:40.040 That will certainly help you. 19:40.040 --> 19:46.360 Um, I don't mean to be disrespectful, heaven knows, but perhaps you might meet a fine young 19:46.360 --> 19:47.360 man who will... 19:47.360 --> 19:48.360 Perhaps. 19:48.360 --> 19:50.480 Uh, when do you plan to leave? 19:50.480 --> 19:51.480 Tomorrow morning. 19:51.480 --> 19:52.480 I'm leaving for New York. 19:52.480 --> 19:53.480 Oh, that's terrible. 19:53.480 --> 19:54.480 I beg your pardon? 19:54.480 --> 19:55.480 Oh, the clubhouse. 19:55.480 --> 20:00.920 The unveiling ceremonies are the day after tomorrow. 20:00.920 --> 20:03.120 We assumed that you'd be there for the ceremonies. 20:03.120 --> 20:04.120 Oh, I'd forgotten. 20:04.120 --> 20:06.120 And you simply can't leave. 20:06.120 --> 20:10.320 Why, I don't even know what we'd do without you. 20:10.320 --> 20:11.320 The day after tomorrow? 20:11.320 --> 20:14.920 You'd really need almost all that time to properly pack. 20:14.920 --> 20:19.520 And we have no one who can replace you on the speaker's platform. 20:19.520 --> 20:21.400 All right then, Mrs. Gregor. 20:21.400 --> 20:31.520 I'll stay for the ceremonies. 20:31.520 --> 20:33.400 So I put off my trip. 20:33.400 --> 20:36.880 I packed carefully for it and stayed at home for the two days. 20:36.880 --> 20:40.480 I made my reservations and prepared to close my house. 20:40.480 --> 20:44.760 The day of the unveiling, I ordered my bags sent to the station, in direction to the care 20:44.760 --> 20:49.160 taker, and then drove to the new clubhouse with Mr. and Mrs. Gregor. 20:49.160 --> 20:50.960 The building was really very lovely. 20:50.960 --> 20:54.040 It was almost ready for occupancy. 20:54.040 --> 20:58.280 This day we were unveiling an heroic figure which graced the entrance way. 20:58.280 --> 21:00.400 Isn't this exciting? 21:00.400 --> 21:01.880 Yes, very. 21:01.880 --> 21:04.080 You ladies have done a marvelous job. 21:04.080 --> 21:05.080 Oh, thank you. 21:05.080 --> 21:07.200 What's that fellow doing up there? 21:07.200 --> 21:08.200 Up where? 21:08.200 --> 21:09.200 Oh, see? 21:09.200 --> 21:10.200 Up on the roof. 21:10.200 --> 21:11.200 The workman? 21:11.200 --> 21:12.200 Oh, yes. 21:12.200 --> 21:15.120 It makes me nervous to see people at such heights. 21:15.120 --> 21:17.040 He is awfully close to the edge. 21:17.040 --> 21:19.600 Oh, he knows his business, I imagine. 21:19.600 --> 21:20.600 Yes. 21:20.600 --> 21:23.640 I'm very anxious to hear your little talk, Mrs. Skinner. 21:23.640 --> 21:24.640 Thank you. 21:24.640 --> 21:27.720 Well, I think we should get on with it, eh? 21:27.720 --> 21:30.240 Why, I believe it'll only be a few more minutes. 21:30.240 --> 21:31.240 No, no. 21:31.240 --> 21:32.240 Of what? 21:32.240 --> 21:33.240 What? 21:33.240 --> 21:34.240 What is it? 21:34.240 --> 21:35.240 Good heavens, look. 21:35.240 --> 21:36.240 That workman, he's gonna fall. 21:36.240 --> 21:37.240 Can't someone catch him? 21:37.240 --> 21:38.240 He's hanging on to that rope. 21:38.240 --> 21:39.240 Some of the men are running up there now. 21:39.240 --> 21:40.240 No, they've got to catch him. 21:40.240 --> 21:41.240 They will. 21:41.240 --> 21:42.240 They will. 21:42.240 --> 21:43.240 No, no, no. 21:43.240 --> 21:44.240 Oh, he's falling. 21:44.240 --> 21:45.240 I did it. 21:45.240 --> 21:46.240 What? 21:46.240 --> 21:47.240 I did it. 21:47.240 --> 21:48.240 Nonsense, Mrs. Skinner. 21:48.240 --> 21:49.240 You had nothing to do with it. 21:49.240 --> 21:50.240 I did it. 21:50.240 --> 21:51.240 I killed him. 21:51.240 --> 21:52.240 I did it. 21:52.240 --> 21:53.240 Oh, you don't know what you're saying. 21:53.240 --> 21:54.240 You're upset. 21:54.240 --> 21:55.240 I did it. 21:55.240 --> 21:56.240 I killed him. 21:56.240 --> 21:57.240 I did it. 21:57.240 --> 21:58.240 Mrs. Skinner, let me take you home. 21:58.240 --> 21:59.240 You're not well. 21:59.240 --> 22:00.240 I killed him. 22:00.240 --> 22:01.240 Let me take you home, Mrs. Skinner. 22:01.240 --> 22:02.240 I killed him. 22:02.240 --> 22:03.240 Listen to me. 22:03.240 --> 22:04.240 Don't you understand? 22:04.240 --> 22:05.240 I understand. 22:05.240 --> 22:06.240 I killed him, Mr. Braheck. 22:06.240 --> 22:07.240 Stop that noise. 22:07.240 --> 22:08.240 Can't you hear it? 22:08.240 --> 22:09.240 I killed him. 22:09.240 --> 22:10.240 I killed him. 22:10.240 --> 22:11.240 I know. 22:11.240 --> 22:12.240 I know, ma'am. 22:12.240 --> 22:13.240 I killed him. 22:13.240 --> 22:14.240 It's going to be all right, you know. 22:14.240 --> 22:19.240 You just come along with me. 22:19.240 --> 22:39.700 Do you sign it, Jonathan? 22:39.700 --> 22:41.700 You're not gonna sign it, Jonathan? 22:41.700 --> 22:43.700 Uh-huh. 22:43.700 --> 22:45.700 Shame. 22:45.700 --> 22:47.700 Yeah. People do funny things. 22:47.700 --> 22:49.700 Yeah. 22:49.700 --> 22:51.700 Did you pay the fella? 22:51.700 --> 22:53.700 Uh-huh. He's very clever. 22:53.700 --> 22:55.700 Sure is. 22:55.700 --> 22:57.700 I really thought he was falling off that building. 22:57.700 --> 22:59.700 He used to be an acrobat. 22:59.700 --> 23:01.700 Yeah. 23:01.700 --> 23:03.700 How'd he make that noise? 23:03.700 --> 23:05.700 He was holding ten penny nails in his hand. 23:05.700 --> 23:08.700 Scraped them along the face of the building as he slid down the road. 23:08.700 --> 23:10.700 He's an awful raggot. 23:10.700 --> 23:12.700 Uh-huh. 23:12.700 --> 23:14.700 How pity. 23:14.700 --> 23:16.700 Nice lady, you know. 23:16.700 --> 23:18.700 Yeah. 23:18.700 --> 23:20.700 What the devil are you doing? 23:20.700 --> 23:22.700 Huh? 23:22.700 --> 23:24.700 Fixing my nails, I guess. 23:24.700 --> 23:26.700 Well, cut it out, will ya? 23:26.700 --> 23:28.700 Sure. 23:28.700 --> 23:30.700 What's the matter with you? 23:30.700 --> 23:32.700 That noise makes me nervous, I guess. 23:32.700 --> 23:50.700 You know? 23:50.700 --> 23:52.700 Suspense. 23:52.700 --> 23:54.700 Presented by Auto Light. 23:54.700 --> 23:56.700 Tonight's star, Miss Anne Baxter. 23:56.700 --> 24:00.700 Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again. 24:00.700 --> 24:07.700 To remind you that Auto Light is the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 24:07.700 --> 24:14.700 In 28 plants from coast to coast, Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, planes, and boats, 24:14.700 --> 24:21.700 including famous Auto Light stay-full batteries carried by your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer. 24:21.700 --> 24:25.700 See him soon and ask for an Auto Light stay-full battery, 24:25.700 --> 24:30.700 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 24:30.700 --> 24:33.700 And remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 24:33.700 --> 24:47.700 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Miss Rosalind Russell in When the Bough Breaks. 24:47.700 --> 24:54.700 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Phil Harris and Alice Fay, Charles Boyer and Jeff Chandler, 24:54.700 --> 25:00.700 all on Suspense. 25:00.700 --> 25:07.700 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucien Moroweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 25:07.700 --> 25:11.700 The 13th sound was written for Suspense by Elliot and Kathy Lewis. 25:11.700 --> 25:19.700 In tonight's cast, Joseph Kearns was heard as Mr. Brown, Florence Bates as Mrs. Gregg, and Norman Field as Mr. Gregg. 25:19.700 --> 25:26.700 Others in the cast were Howard McNear, Sarah Selby, Anthony Barrett, Jim Nusser, and John Stevenson. 25:26.700 --> 25:32.700 Our sincere thanks to 20th Century Fox Studios who made possible Ann Baxter's appearance tonight. 25:32.700 --> 25:39.700 Watch for Miss Baxter's appearance in that studio's forthcoming production, Follow the Sun. 25:39.700 --> 25:47.700 And remember, next week on Suspense, Miss Rosalind Russell as a woman who holds death over her husband's head, 25:47.700 --> 25:52.700 a tale we call When the Bough Breaks. 25:52.700 --> 26:02.700 You can buy autolite staple batteries, autolite standard type or resistor type spark plugs, autolite electrical parts at your neighborhood autolite dealers. 26:02.700 --> 26:05.700 Switch to autolite. 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