1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 You are about to hear a story based on actual events. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 To protect the innocent, names and places have been changed. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Herbert Marshall in a story taken from life. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Tonight, Auto Light presents Betrayal in Vienna, the true story of a man who traitorously destroyed an empire, starring Mr. Herbert Marshall. 6 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Well, there's Stanley Smart, baseball's genial genius. How do you like the series, Stan? 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,000 The World Series, Hollow? 8 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 No, no, no. 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You'll find it pays. 15 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:48,000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 16 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:56,000 And now with Betrayal in Vienna and the performance of Mr. Herbert Marshall, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in... 17 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:09,000 ...suspense. 18 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 September 15, 1913. 19 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Today started much like any other, but one thing I now understand. 20 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 It will end differently. 21 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And more than the day will end, much more. 22 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 This afternoon I called, as I often do, on the countess von Venal. 23 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I asked not to be announced and stood unnoticed in the doorway. 24 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Her charming salon was crowded with guests and overflowing with music and the familiar brilliant scene was suddenly precious to me. 25 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Then I heard Lieutenant Haushofer's voice, low but sharp in my ear. 26 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Colonel. Yes. 27 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 We've just received word, Helsinger was shot this morning as a spy. 28 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Come. 29 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Now, where did you hear? 30 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 1426 o'clock. A wireless message from Petersburg to the Russian embassy. 31 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 May I fetch you something, sir? 32 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Water? Here, let me help you to a chair. 33 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 No, I'll be all right. 34 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Sir, I know, everyone knows how much Captain Helsinger meant to you. 35 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 The report said he died with great courage. 36 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Enough? 37 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Yes, sir. 38 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 They've done us the courtesy of sending his body home. Have you any instructions, sir? 39 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Talk to General Stracker, arrange a military funeral with all honors. 40 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Of course, sir. 41 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 That's all. 42 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Yes, sir. 43 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Ask a Helsinger dead. I'd known, of course, but like a stupid child I'd hoped and believed some miracle would save him. 44 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Somehow I found the strength to leave. 45 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 It was dusk, the blue hour. 46 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Up and down the broad avenues lights were coming on. 47 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I hailed a cab to go to the post office and sitting alone in the back of the carriage I suddenly knew I had to leave Vienna. 48 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Say goodbye for good. 49 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Never had I felt so old. 50 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 My driver stopped at the side entrance to the central post office. 51 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 I told him to wait. 52 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Before I went in I turned the collar of my topcoat up and pulled my hat brim down. 53 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 It was closing time and the great building was almost deserted. 54 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 I crossed to the main desk. 55 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Yes, sir? 56 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Opera box number 13. 57 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Well, the letters are just to opera box number 13. 58 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Yes, of course, sir. I look. One moment. 59 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I am in a hurry. 60 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Yes, sir, I am looking. I don't seem to find... 61 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 You're sure there are letters, sir? I mean addressed like you said? 62 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Certainly. They've been here weeks. I've been too busy to call for them. 63 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Yes, sir, but I don't see... 64 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 You're looking on the wrong side. The box is to your right there. 65 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Oh, yes, sir. I was confused. I'm sorry. 66 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Here you are, sir. 67 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Thank you. 68 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Sir, just a minute. 69 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Yes? 70 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Did you notice, sir? Does it look like rain tonight? 71 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I mean, did you notice the weather? 72 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 The weather? 73 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 There's not a cloud or breath of wind. Good night. 74 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Kaiserhof Cafe. Hurry. 75 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 I look back. A man was running across the street toward the post office. 76 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I wondered then had I almost stepped into that abyss which for two long years had yawned at my feet. 77 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I opened the letters with my penknife. In one envelope, 6,000 kronen. In the other, 8,000. 78 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 No note. No writing of any kind. 79 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I put the money in my wallet, folded the envelopes and put them in my pocket. 80 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:01,000 14,000 kronen in my pocket. 300,000 in a bank of Rome. 81 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:08,000 I was rich. Very rich. And having made my decision to leave, I was free. 82 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,000 At the Kaiserhof Cafe, I changed to another cab. A routine precaution and went to my hotel. 83 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:19,000 There I put on my dress uniform for the last time. I looked in the mirror and saluted myself. 84 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Said goodbye to being Colonel Alfred Riedel, commander of the 8th Corps, creator of the Emperor Franz Josef's Black Cabinet. 85 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Colonel Alfred Riedel. A name whispered with terror in every capital of the world. 86 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I decided to dine at Holbombs and asked for a table where I could watch the dancing. 87 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Good evening, Colonel Riedel. 88 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Good evening. 89 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 I'm sorry, sir. I see you don't remember me. 90 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 But I do very well, huh? 91 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Istanbul, 1909. I sent you there in July and you remained through November. 92 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 In your reports you complained of the heat, but you nevertheless did a good job. 93 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Your number was Q41. You're an Austrian citizen. Your mother was Greek. And you speak both Greek and Turkish. 94 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Oh, that's enough, sir. I've won my wager. 95 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Wager? 96 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,000 I told my friend, he's sitting over at that table, that I met you only once, five years ago. It was certain you'd remember me. 97 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,000 I was right. Your memory's infallible. And what a blessing in your work, Herr Colonel. 98 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 A mixed blessing, my friend. 99 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Oh, I see what you mean, sir. I suppose there are some things in every man's life he'd just as soon forget. 100 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Exactly. 101 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:46,000 But he was thinking of the innocent follies of a man's youth, while I was thinking, remembering again with eye-seeked clarity that day two years ago when my secret life began. 102 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:54,000 How I wished I could forget that day. For until then I enjoyed my life, my friends, most of all my work. 103 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:01,000 For I had created a secret service which I could have matched with Scott and Yard or the Dersim Bureau. 104 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:14,000 But that day I remembered it was cool and bright and I drove early as usual to the Abwunden Gesellschaft, that vast beehive of activity which I directed. 105 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I hurried through the many self-locking doors, the labyrinth I had created, the web I had built. 106 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:25,000 And to that last I reached the center of the web where I, the spider, lived. 107 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:35,000 There were several people in my outer office, among them Oscar Helsinger, my dearest friend, the person I trusted above any man in the world. 108 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 When I came in, he embraced me. 109 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Congratulations, Alfred. 110 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 For what? 111 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:48,000 I was telling Lieutenant Househover today's an important anniversary. Six years to the day since you and I were assigned to counter-respy now. 112 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 She is. And I suppose we can congratulate ourselves. 113 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Lieutenant Househover, do I have any appointments? 114 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,000 There's someone waiting inside. And this man, he's one of the agents you assigned to follow Madame Boudin. 115 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Oh yes, well, has she been arrested? 116 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Well, no sir, not yet. 117 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 She's still under surveillance? 118 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Well, not exactly, Herr Colonel. 119 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Then tell me exactly. 120 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 She's... we don't know where she is. She gave us the slip. 121 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Impossible. 122 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Well, first she went into the flower market through the east door. We stayed right behind her, Fritz and me. 123 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Idiots! One of you should have covered the front door. 124 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Yes sir, I know. Inside the market we lost her in the crowd. And then by luck I spotted her later near the bridge. Fritz wasn't with me. 125 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 You lost her twice? 126 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Well, she's clever, Madame Boudin. She was walking fast and she dropped something. I leaned down to pick it up and when I looked up she was gone. It was just her handkerchief she dropped. 127 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:53,000 I don't care if it was the blueprints or the fortifications on the man. On page 31 of my manual I say that one should never change objectives. Your objective was Madame Boudin, not the contents of her purse. 128 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Yes sir. 129 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 You and the other agent are relieved of further duties. Dismissed. 130 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Yes sir. 131 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 You said someone else was waiting for me, Lieutenant Hussop? 132 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Yes sir, in your office. It's Major Rakovsky, sir, the new charge d'affaires at the Russian Embassy. Probably a courtesy call. 133 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Ask her to wait for me. 134 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Oh, no hurry Alfred. 135 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Good morning Major Rakovsky. 136 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Good morning Colonel Raylore. 137 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Sit down Major. 138 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Thank you. 139 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Cigar Major? 140 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 No. 141 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Excuse me then. 142 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Now then, I'm very busy Rakovsky. Can we come to the point or save it for another day? 143 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:42,000 To the point. I quite agree. I don't enjoy a chess game when I have my opponent's queen. I have yours Raylore. You're a checkmated. 144 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 You are sure you don't want a cigar? 145 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 I neither smoke cigars nor opium. 146 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Indeed. 147 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Yes. Some men smoke both. 148 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 To the point Major. 149 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:09,000 That, Herr Raylore, is the point. The period. And the sentence preceding this period, you will henceforth deliver to me as the representative of the Tsar of the Russia's all secret military plans of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian armies. 150 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Is that all? 151 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 For the present? 152 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,000 If I for one moment took you seriously, you wouldn't leave this building alive. 153 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:30,000 And what's one life more or less? But the secret, the secret of one Alfred Raylore, that he is a dope addict, that secret plus facts, names, places, dates is in the files of my embassy. 154 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Unless you agree, those facts will be brought first to the attention of General Stryker, then to France yourself himself. 155 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Let me assure you this is no pipe dream, Herr Raylore. This is real. And these 20,000 gold kronen are also real. We'll arrange future payments through the post office. 156 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 You wonder why we pay when we don't have to, huh? 157 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Because the money will be some consolation for you and we are not unfriendly. 158 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Come here, Raylore, you needn't fear you'll be discovered. Who'd suspect a man in your position? Well, I know this has been sudden, but you realize you have no choice. 159 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 No choice. 160 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:27,000 One week from today then at the Este Cafe on Birkenstrasse. You'll be there at two. Good day, Herr Raylore. 161 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Oh, Alfred, finished? 162 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Oh, yes, finished. 163 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Why, you look pale, Alfred. I didn't notice before. 164 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 I'm tired. 165 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Oh, you work too hard. Oh, I have a gift for you. Special memento for today. For the anniversary I mentioned. Here, it's a pen knife. 166 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 A knife? 167 00:12:51,000 --> 00:13:03,000 You're thinking the old saying about a knife between friends, but it doesn't mean friends like you and me. You know, I wanted to have that silk sheath embroidered with your name and insignia, but there wasn't time. I can still have it done. 168 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:09,000 No need, no, I'll have it done. It's a beautiful piece of work, a knife. 169 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 I thought so. 170 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Oscar, tell me, what creature devours spiders? 171 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Why, I don't know. 172 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 I'll tell you, Oscar. 173 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Another spider. 174 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Spiders devour everything. 175 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Even their own. 176 00:13:40,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Herbert Marshall in Betrayal in Vienna. Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 177 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Say, Harlow, who's the lead standout? 178 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Why, that famous Auto Light electrical system, Stan. 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You can find the name of your nearest Auto Light service station in the classified section of your telephone directory. 184 00:14:53,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Or call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. She'll quickly tell you the address of the authorized Auto Light service station nearest you. 185 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:09,000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 186 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:19,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Herbert Marshall in Elliot Lewis's production of Betrayal in Vienna. 187 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:39,000 A dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 188 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:52,000 I, the spider, devouring even my own, betraying my own, my country, my friends. But it's not really hard to betray your friends, not at first. 189 00:15:52,000 --> 00:16:01,000 The world doesn't change for you overnight. The sun shines in the morning and warms you. And a woman is still beautiful. 190 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Everything goes on as it did for a while. For myself, I constructed excuses. That plan for the three-pronged invasion of Serbia, which I handed over, can be changed. 191 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Then the Russians' information will be useless. As soon as I conquer the opium habit, and I am conquering it, I'll be free. 192 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Yes, I explained to myself, comforted myself. But still at night, I often felt a chill go through me. 193 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:40,000 For in the dark corners of my mind, I knew I was a traitor to my people, my friends, my country. 194 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Reidel, we have decided on the following plan. You'll arrest one of our spies, a certain Austrian named Zane. You'll put him on trial. You may sentence him to death. 195 00:16:52,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Am I permitted to ask why? Zane is expendable, shall we say? But that's not our major purpose. You're a mastered intrigue. Suppose you give me your guess. 196 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:12,000 I will catch a Russian spy. I will force him to confession, since I will know everything about him using your files. The public will be amazed, shocked, pleased. 197 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,000 I will be an even greater hero, and therefore more valuable to you. 198 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Reidel, I fully believe you are worth the 100,000 kroner a year we pay you. It's a small price for the destruction of an empire. 199 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:38,000 If I may be so bold, here, Reidel, that's the first stupid statement I've ever heard you make. You're not destroying this empire. Corruption and decadence are doing that. A thousand and one corruptions, not yours alone. 200 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Are we more corrupt than you? We are not corrupt, in my opinion. Then you are a fool. 201 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Perhaps. But I'm a fool who's calling the tune, whereas you're a wise man who's dancing to it. Am I right, Herr Reidel? 202 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:13,000 He was right. I danced to his tune. I had to. I ordered the arrest of the Austrian citizen Adolf Zane. He went on trial, charged with treason, with betrayal of his country to the Russians. 203 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:26,000 The trial was an enormous success. I stunned the court and astonished the world with my knowledge of Zane. I knew every step he'd taken for the past five years, every penny he'd collected, every secret he'd sold. 204 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,000 But how could you know this? How could you possibly know it? 205 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,000 A lesson. Confine yourself to answering questions, Herr Zane. Proceed, Colonel Reidel. 206 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:47,000 On the 19th of March at 11 p.m. you turned over to a Russian representative all the correspondence, the most secret correspondence between our beloved emperor and the Kaiser of the Germans. Isn't that true? 207 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Yes. Yes, it's true. But how could you know? 208 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Do you know the penalty for your crime? Yes. Tell me. 209 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Death. By hanging. And what else? What else? I don't know. 210 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:07,000 The convicted traitor will be buried in civilian clothes in an unmarked grave. 211 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Colonel, for the love... I wasn't the only one. What about Arnold Sonderheim? He's just as guilty as Zane. 212 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:19,000 You will answer questions. And Hoffman Kish. He's been a spy for two years right in the bureau. Silence! 213 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Colonel Reidel, if this man has accomplices, surely the court wishes to hear. Of course, your honor, but... 214 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:34,000 While it cannot save this miserable man's life to tell us their names, it will in some way redeem him in the eyes of his countrymen. 215 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Proceed, Adolf Zane. 216 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:52,000 It wasn't that I was afraid he would betray me. He didn't know. Nobody knew except Major Rakowski himself. 217 00:19:52,000 --> 00:20:01,000 But I had been ordered to arrest one spy, try one spy, have one spy executed. And now he was implicating others. 218 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:09,000 When the trial ended, I was congratulated by the Crown Prince himself. I was the most celebrated man in the Empire. 219 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:17,000 But at three that morning, I was summoned to a meeting. You fool! We gave you Zane, not Sonderheim and Kish. 220 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:23,000 I could not control him. You had the brains. You pretend you... No, never mind. The damage is done. 221 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Now, we want the name of your top agent in Petersburg. No. I hope that was an involuntary no. 222 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I no longer use Opium, Major. I'm no longer your man. Ah? And how about the letters addressed to Opera Box 13, Herr Reidel? 223 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:45,000 The letters fat with Cronon you've called for so regularly. You're no longer a dope addict, but you're a traitor. 224 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Then we can prove it. Now, come. The name of your top agent. But why? For what? 225 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Your prestige has been built up at great expense to us. Now, we must repair our own prestige. I won't do it. 226 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Plans are one thing. People are another. Ah! Don't be naive. When your Austrian army is marched, they'll be sliced to ribbons because of you. 227 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Thousands of men will die. Men I don't know. Don't trifle with us, Reidel. The name. 228 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:14,000 In Helsingfors there's a man, Yalmar Kikkonen. There are nobody. I want your key man. 229 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Your key man, Reidel? Who is in Petersburg? In Petersburg? No one in Petersburg. There is that much we know. His name. His name! 230 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:52,000 There is an importer on the Nevsky Prospekt. His name is Melanchinsky. He is our top agent. Ah! His real name is Oskar Helsinger. He is my friend. 231 00:21:52,000 --> 00:22:01,000 When Oskar was arrested, he smuggled a message out to me. Alfred, someone close to you betrayed me. Find out who. 232 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:09,000 I thought then of suicide, but I waited, hoping for some miracle. Then today word came that he was dead. 233 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:19,000 And I knew there was nothing left for me in Vienna. But in Italy, in the sun... 234 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:27,000 I didn't finish my dinner. I decided to pack and leave Vienna immediately and catch the train for Rome that leaves shortly after midnight. 235 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,000 At my hotel I started across the great, bright, nearly deserted lobby. Colonel Reidel! Yes? 236 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:40,000 We found this silk thing. Looks like a knife sheath. Is it yours? Where did you find it? 237 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I must have dropped it when I left my room. I valued it a great deal, you. You'll see it was a gift from a friend. 238 00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:01,000 From a dead friend, betrayed by me, his dead hand reaching out to trap me. For at that moment I knew I was lost. 239 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Knew with dreadful certainty where I had dropped the sheath. In the cab, the fiat I took from the post office. It had been found there by... 240 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Slowly I looked around the lobby and saw them. Drabbly dressed men, too obviously not looking in my direction. 241 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:28,000 The postal clerk had signaled them when I called for the letters. They'd arrived too late, but somehow by some stroke of... of impossible luck... 242 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:33,000 They'd found the cab I took and they traced me to my hotel. 243 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Where's your elevator, sir? I'm not going up. Yes, sir? I've a headache. I think I'll take a walk. 244 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:51,000 When I went out through the big revolving door I knew without looking that the two men were behind me. My boots rang on the paving. 245 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:59,000 But when I stopped, their footsteps sounded a moment behind me. I crossed the park. They followed. 246 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:08,000 I knew they wouldn't kill me in the street. The government wouldn't risk the scandal. But with pain and pride I knew too they would surely kill me somewhere. 247 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:15,000 For men from the organization I had created would follow their quarry to the ends of the earth. 248 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I ducked in through a great coffee house and cut out another door. One was waiting there. The other followed me through. 249 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:30,000 I tried to trick them then by tearing the envelopes to bits. The envelope was marked opera box number 13, screwing the paper in their path. 250 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:39,000 But they were well trained by me. They never faltered. They left the evidence blowing down the dark street in order not to lose their man. 251 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Then I knew it was hopeless. I went back to my hotel and sat down in my room to wait. 252 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:03,000 The door is unlocked. Gentlemen, I've been expecting you. Good evening, Prince Otto. Good evening, General. 253 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Good evening, Lieutenant Hauswoffer. Colonel Reddell, we would like a complete account of all your activities. 254 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,000 I will write an account if you'll permit me the time. Of course. 255 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Colonel, how could you have done it? It wasn't difficult. 256 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Treason takes over a man's heart as the camel invaded the poor Arab's tent. A little at a time. At first, a man betrays himself. 257 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 But how, sir? A man like you. 258 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:48,000 I endowed myself. I was an opium addict. Committed to opium, I was forced to commit myself further. 259 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Have you a gun, Colonel? 260 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 That's the best way, of course. 261 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Have you a gun? No, sir. 262 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Lieutenant? I have a Luger. General Stryker, I believe, carries a Mauser. 263 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:05,000 I prefer the Luger. Here you are, then, sir. 264 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Come, gentlemen. We will wait downstairs. 265 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Now it is all written down. Outside, the cathedral is striking midnight. Midnight, September 15, 1913. 266 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,000 I look out over the sleeping city, east, where the sky will pale before the rising sun. 267 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:41,000 There, in the east, the Russians are ready. To the west, facing our German ally, the French, too, are ready. 268 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:48,000 I have made them so. In six months, in a year, two years at the most, those armies will march. 269 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,000 Whatever the outcome, I would have made my contribution, but I won't be here to see it. 270 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:03,000 I'll lie in an unmarked grave. I've said goodbye to Vienna, to all I loved. 271 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Now it is time to say goodbye to Alfred Redl. 272 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:23,000 When I snap off the safety on this gun, when I pull the trigger, it'll be the end of an empire, of an era. 273 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Suspense presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Herbert Marshall. 274 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Friends, this is World Series Wilcox again to remind you that Auto Light is the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 275 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:10,000 In 28 plants from coast to coast, Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, tractors, planes, and boats. 276 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:16,000 These include complete electrical systems, Auto Light batteries, such as the famous Auto Light Stay Full, 277 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:22,000 and a complete line of ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, both standard and resistor types. 278 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Auto Light also makes automotive wire and cable, bumpers and hubcaps, electric windshield wiper motors, and many more. 279 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:37,000 And all are backed by constant Auto Light research and precision built to highest standards of quality and performance. 280 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:48,000 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 281 00:28:48,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Cornell Wild in another story based on actual events, the terrifying study of a pyromaniac, a dramatic report we call The Flame. 282 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:11,000 In weeks to come, we shall also present Mr. Ray Milland and Mr. Richard Widmark, all on Suspense. 283 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Moroweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 284 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Betrayal in Vienna was adapted for Suspense by Sylvia Richards from research gathered by Dana Lee Thomas. 285 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:31,000 Joining tonight's cast were Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns, William Johnstone, Herb Butterfield.