WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.600 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Richard Widmark in tonight's presentation 00:12.600 --> 00:21.000 of Suspense. 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 Tonight Auto Light presents a dramatization of Walter Van Tilbert Clark's study in panic, 00:27.000 --> 00:32.000 The Track of the Cat, starring Mr. Richard Widmark. 00:32.000 --> 00:38.000 Hello, Mr. Wilcox. 00:38.000 --> 00:42.000 Well, gas me up if it isn't Sam, my Auto Light spark plug man. 00:42.000 --> 00:43.000 How's it going, Sam? 00:43.000 --> 00:44.000 Great. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 You mean my exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator. 00:47.000 --> 00:50.560 Ah, that super sleuth is really doing a job, eh, Sam? 00:50.560 --> 00:51.560 You bet. 00:51.560 --> 00:56.240 It quickly and accurately shows my customers if their car's spark plugs need cleaning, 00:56.240 --> 00:59.300 or if they're worn out or wrong for their style of driving. 00:59.300 --> 01:01.000 And if they need cleaning, Sam? 01:01.000 --> 01:05.600 Why, then I do the job fast and fine with my modern equipment. 01:05.600 --> 01:08.240 And if those spark plugs are worn out or wrong? 01:08.240 --> 01:10.240 Oh, you know the answer, Mr. Wilcox. 01:10.240 --> 01:11.640 I sure do, Sam. 01:11.640 --> 01:16.200 You install ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs for smoother performance, quick 01:16.200 --> 01:18.280 starts and gas savings. 01:18.280 --> 01:23.520 So friends, take a tip from me and visit your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 01:23.520 --> 01:29.680 You can learn his location by calling Western Union by number and asking for operator 25. 01:29.680 --> 01:34.280 She will quickly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 01:34.280 --> 01:40.520 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:40.520 --> 01:46.720 And now, with the track of the cat and the performance of Mr. Richard Widmark, Auto Light 01:46.720 --> 02:05.640 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 02:05.640 --> 02:06.640 Gotta get this fire going. 02:06.640 --> 02:07.640 I got it. 02:07.640 --> 02:08.640 It's my last chance. 02:08.640 --> 02:12.960 I'm freezed to death out here tonight if I don't. 02:12.960 --> 02:14.960 That or be cat meat. 02:14.960 --> 02:15.960 Snow. 02:15.960 --> 02:17.840 Nothing but snow. 02:17.840 --> 02:22.440 And that black murdering devil waiting out there in the dark for me. 02:22.440 --> 02:25.560 That big black cat waiting for his chance. 02:25.560 --> 02:28.840 There she goes. 02:28.840 --> 02:31.400 That'll hold Mr. Cat for a while. 02:31.400 --> 02:33.120 Cats are afraid of fire. 02:33.120 --> 02:34.860 Even big black ones. 02:34.860 --> 02:38.080 Even a big black panther big as a horse won't fool around a fire. 02:38.080 --> 02:39.080 No, Sam. 02:39.080 --> 02:41.720 What am I talking about? 02:41.720 --> 02:45.360 Where are you gonna find a black panther on a range in Nevada? 02:45.360 --> 02:47.400 Some lion, that's all he is. 02:47.400 --> 02:50.960 Big maybe, but just a plain mountain cat and that's all. 02:50.960 --> 02:53.000 Nothing but superstition all that other talk. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Crazy Indian superstition. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 Fire sure makes a man feel good. 02:57.000 --> 03:03.760 Good and kind of drowsy. 03:03.760 --> 03:04.760 No sleep though. 03:04.760 --> 03:06.760 He mustn't go to sleep. 03:06.760 --> 03:10.000 That's all that cat's waiting for out there in the trees. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Me to go to sleep and the fire go out. 03:12.000 --> 03:13.000 Gotta keep awake. 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 Gotta take a nap. 03:14.000 --> 03:18.160 Gotta do something to keep awake. 03:18.160 --> 03:21.440 Think about tracking the cat. 03:21.440 --> 03:23.640 How I got started. 03:23.640 --> 03:25.960 Two days, two nights. 03:25.960 --> 03:28.800 Almost three nights ago. 03:28.800 --> 03:30.960 Five o'clock in the morning. 03:30.960 --> 03:35.000 Asleep in a bunkhouse with a storm beginning outside with me not hearing it. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.920 Not hearing anything because I was asleep. 03:37.920 --> 03:38.920 So sound asleep. 03:38.920 --> 03:44.320 Kurt. 03:44.320 --> 03:49.120 Kurt. 03:49.120 --> 03:55.560 Wake up. 03:55.560 --> 03:56.560 Wake up Kurt. 03:56.560 --> 03:57.560 Arthur. 03:57.560 --> 03:58.560 What's the matter? 03:58.560 --> 04:01.080 What's the matter with you? 04:01.080 --> 04:02.640 Cows are balling up in the canyon. 04:02.640 --> 04:03.640 Something's happening. 04:03.640 --> 04:04.640 Oh for Pete's sake. 04:04.640 --> 04:07.920 You have to wake me up every time you have one of your crazy dreams. 04:07.920 --> 04:08.920 Go back to bed. 04:08.920 --> 04:09.920 It's no dream Kurt. 04:09.920 --> 04:11.480 Oh you too Hal. 04:11.480 --> 04:14.240 You only hear it when the wind's right. 04:14.240 --> 04:15.240 Listen. 04:15.240 --> 04:17.840 Well how long's that been going on? 04:17.840 --> 04:19.240 Why didn't you let me know sooner? 04:19.240 --> 04:20.440 We've just been awake a few minutes. 04:20.440 --> 04:21.440 We wanted to be sure. 04:21.440 --> 04:22.440 A few minutes. 04:22.440 --> 04:25.400 And that going on all the time? 04:25.400 --> 04:28.640 Fine couple of brothers I got to help me run a ranch. 04:28.640 --> 04:32.040 One good for nothing but dreaming and the other good for nothing but thinking about 04:32.040 --> 04:33.040 that galley. 04:33.040 --> 04:34.360 Let's leave her out of it huh? 04:34.360 --> 04:35.840 How can I leave her out of it? 04:35.840 --> 04:38.200 You practically moved her into the house didn't you? 04:38.200 --> 04:39.480 Quit ragging the kid Kurt. 04:39.480 --> 04:40.720 She's just here for a visit. 04:40.720 --> 04:41.720 You know that. 04:41.720 --> 04:42.720 Yeah. 04:42.720 --> 04:43.880 Well get your clothes on. 04:43.880 --> 04:45.240 What are you standing there for? 04:45.240 --> 04:47.600 You think that cat's going to wait for us? 04:47.600 --> 04:49.040 You figure it is a cat? 04:49.040 --> 04:51.720 What else could it be running cattle like that? 04:51.720 --> 04:56.800 Or maybe you think it's that black panther Joe Sam talks about huh? 04:56.800 --> 05:01.720 I swear Arthur sometimes I think you're as crazy as that crazy old Indian. 05:01.720 --> 05:02.720 Could be. 05:02.720 --> 05:06.680 Could be that me and Joe Sam are just the ones that ain't crazy. 05:06.680 --> 05:08.580 Indian lover and cat lover. 05:08.580 --> 05:12.520 But don't think you ain't going to go out there with me because you are. 05:12.520 --> 05:13.680 Any way you want it Kurt. 05:13.680 --> 05:14.680 I'll go with you Kurt. 05:14.680 --> 05:15.680 Oh no. 05:15.680 --> 05:18.360 No you got to stick around and take care of that gal. 05:18.360 --> 05:20.320 Yeah listen to that. 05:20.320 --> 05:21.760 I woke the old lady up. 05:21.760 --> 05:23.080 She's come down to the kitchen. 05:23.080 --> 05:25.840 I suppose now she's going to give me some kind of argument. 05:25.840 --> 05:27.720 Why you always got to pick on everybody Kurt? 05:27.720 --> 05:28.720 First Gwen now Molly. 05:28.720 --> 05:29.720 What's the matter Hal? 05:29.720 --> 05:33.600 You worried about me and that gal Gwen of yours? 05:33.600 --> 05:38.600 Come on let's go. 05:38.600 --> 05:40.320 Up kind of early ain't you Ma? 05:40.320 --> 05:41.320 Hi Ma. 05:41.320 --> 05:43.720 I figured you'd be wanting breakfast. 05:43.720 --> 05:44.720 Just coffee. 05:44.720 --> 05:46.920 Some cat's running the cattle up in the canyon. 05:46.920 --> 05:47.920 I heard. 05:47.920 --> 05:48.920 You going up there? 05:48.920 --> 05:53.340 Well you don't think I'm going to sit around here in my hands while some thieving mountain 05:53.340 --> 05:56.040 cat kills off our best steers do you? 05:56.040 --> 05:57.640 Well sit down all of you. 05:57.640 --> 05:58.640 Here's your coffee. 05:58.640 --> 05:59.640 Thank you Ma. 05:59.640 --> 06:00.640 Kurt. 06:00.640 --> 06:01.640 What? 06:01.640 --> 06:04.040 I don't want for you to go. 06:04.040 --> 06:08.480 I suppose what I got to say don't carry much weight around here but I don't want for you 06:08.480 --> 06:09.480 to go. 06:09.480 --> 06:12.720 Well I'm going and so's your dreamer boy Arthur. 06:12.720 --> 06:15.520 Been starting a blizzard out Kurt and a bad one. 06:15.520 --> 06:17.840 I've been out in a little snow before ain't I? 06:17.840 --> 06:19.600 Well it ain't the same. 06:19.600 --> 06:21.400 It's the first snow of the year. 06:21.400 --> 06:23.800 No I thought so. 06:23.800 --> 06:27.240 You've been talking to that crazy old Indian too haven't you? 06:27.240 --> 06:28.600 I ain't either. 06:28.600 --> 06:31.240 But nobody hardly talked to him today the shape he's in. 06:31.240 --> 06:33.160 All spooked up again huh? 06:33.160 --> 06:35.360 Black panthers first snow. 06:35.360 --> 06:37.440 And you believe in it. 06:37.440 --> 06:38.440 Where is he Ma? 06:38.440 --> 06:42.560 Oh I told him to fetch some wood to get him inside. 06:42.560 --> 06:46.600 Wonder he ain't froze to death out there half the night and nothing but his shirt and jeans 06:46.600 --> 06:48.920 and them little thin moccasins. 06:48.920 --> 06:49.920 Maybe I better go get him. 06:49.920 --> 06:52.300 Will you sit down and drink your coffee? 06:52.300 --> 06:55.120 We got to be leaving here in a co... 06:55.120 --> 06:58.760 Well if it ain't our little lady visitor. 06:58.760 --> 06:59.760 Good morning. 06:59.760 --> 07:00.760 Hello honey. 07:00.760 --> 07:01.760 Morning Gwen. 07:01.760 --> 07:04.280 Come sit down have some hot coffee child. 07:04.280 --> 07:05.280 Thank you. 07:05.280 --> 07:07.200 No need for you to got up this early you know. 07:07.200 --> 07:09.760 Maybe she got up special just to see us off. 07:09.760 --> 07:11.160 See who off? 07:11.160 --> 07:12.160 Where? 07:12.160 --> 07:14.240 Oh mountain cats after the cattle. 07:14.240 --> 07:16.440 Kurt's bound there going up there to get him. 07:16.440 --> 07:18.280 Oh Hal in this storm? 07:18.280 --> 07:20.320 Don't worry about your precious Hal. 07:20.320 --> 07:22.360 I'm leaving him here to take care of you. 07:22.360 --> 07:23.680 I said I'd go didn't I? 07:23.680 --> 07:29.440 Besides if it is that spook panther of Joe Sam's I'll need Arthur here to make big medicine. 07:29.440 --> 07:34.400 He's almost as good at that Indian medicine as Joe Sam himself ain't you Art? 07:34.400 --> 07:39.360 You never will learn not to write a good thing too hard will you Kurt? 07:39.360 --> 07:42.480 I guess I'm a little confused. 07:42.480 --> 07:43.480 Spook panthers? 07:43.480 --> 07:44.480 Indian medicine? 07:44.480 --> 07:45.480 It's nothing honey. 07:45.480 --> 07:47.280 It's just Kurt's little joke. 07:47.280 --> 07:48.280 Yeah. 07:48.280 --> 07:49.280 Here's Joe Sam. 07:49.280 --> 07:52.440 Close the door after him Hal. 07:52.440 --> 07:54.040 That's right. 07:54.040 --> 07:58.280 Now go on just dump it in the wood box Joe Sam. 07:58.280 --> 08:00.440 That's right. 08:00.440 --> 08:01.960 Now drink this hot coffee. 08:01.960 --> 08:06.200 For land's sake you're shaking like a leaf. 08:06.200 --> 08:08.200 Joe Sam here coffee. 08:08.200 --> 08:10.160 Yeah he don't want no coffee. 08:10.160 --> 08:11.160 He don't even hear you. 08:11.160 --> 08:14.640 He just wants to sit there and go off into one of them prances of his. 08:14.640 --> 08:19.440 Hey Joe Sam you seeing that spook panther now Joe Sam? 08:19.440 --> 08:21.640 Leave him alone Kurt. 08:21.640 --> 08:26.360 I do wish somebody would tell me what this is all about unless it's a family secret. 08:26.360 --> 08:28.760 Well there you hear that Joe Sam? 08:28.760 --> 08:33.320 Go ahead tell the little lady about that big old black spook. 08:33.320 --> 08:38.160 It looks like I'll have to do the honors myself. 08:38.160 --> 08:41.680 You see it's this way little lady. 08:41.680 --> 08:45.800 According to Joe Sam there's a black panther roams this part of the country. 08:45.800 --> 08:49.320 Comes with the first snow every year and he's big. 08:49.320 --> 08:52.800 Big as a horse and eyes like coals of fire. 08:52.800 --> 08:54.760 And you can see right through him. 08:54.760 --> 08:56.880 And you can shoot right through him too. 08:56.880 --> 09:04.360 And still he'll keep coming until he gets you because he can't never die he's a spook. 09:04.360 --> 09:10.520 Kind of frightening. 09:10.520 --> 09:12.560 For old women and for dreamers maybe. 09:12.560 --> 09:14.800 Now come on dreamer boy let's go. 09:14.800 --> 09:17.880 I suppose you're going to wear that old cow hide parka too. 09:17.880 --> 09:19.920 Maybe you should look even more like a medicine man. 09:19.920 --> 09:21.320 Keeps me warm. 09:21.320 --> 09:26.320 Oh be careful please and don't stay out there beyond nightfall. 09:26.320 --> 09:27.320 Yeah sure sure. 09:27.320 --> 09:28.320 Way well Ma. 09:28.320 --> 09:29.320 Arthur. 09:29.320 --> 09:31.520 Well come to life did he? 09:31.520 --> 09:34.320 Arthur no go. 09:34.320 --> 09:36.440 It's all right Joe Sam. 09:36.440 --> 09:42.160 No Arthur not please no go. 09:42.160 --> 09:44.120 I got to Joe Sam we both do. 09:44.120 --> 09:47.520 Will you come on and stop pylavering with that old fool. 09:47.520 --> 09:50.160 All right Kurt all right. 09:50.160 --> 09:52.280 You go Arthur. 09:52.280 --> 09:53.280 Got to. 09:53.280 --> 09:55.480 But don't you worry. 09:55.480 --> 09:58.520 Then you go. 09:58.520 --> 10:01.640 But you'll not come back. 10:01.640 --> 10:16.640 You'll not ever ever come back. 10:16.640 --> 10:25.320 Auto light is bringing you Mr. Richard Widmark in the track of the cat. 10:25.320 --> 10:40.320 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:40.320 --> 10:44.960 Sam my auto light spark plug man why do you recommend ignition engineered auto light spark 10:44.960 --> 10:45.960 plugs. 10:45.960 --> 10:48.240 It's not easy Mr. Wilcox it's because. 10:48.240 --> 10:53.000 Because they're designed by the same skilled auto light engineers who design the coil distributor 10:53.000 --> 10:57.800 and all the other important parts of complete ignition systems used as original equipment 10:57.800 --> 11:01.240 on many leading makes of our finest cars trucks and tractors. 11:01.240 --> 11:02.240 Eh Sam? 11:02.240 --> 11:03.240 That's right. 11:03.240 --> 11:06.560 Those auto light spark plugs are designed to work as a team with the complete ignition 11:06.560 --> 11:08.160 system. 11:08.160 --> 11:10.840 Take the new auto light resistor spark plug for instance. 11:10.840 --> 11:15.280 Ah it gives smoother performance greater gas savings and quicker starts and it's only one 11:15.280 --> 11:19.840 of a complete line of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs designed for every 11:19.840 --> 11:20.840 use. 11:20.840 --> 11:23.800 So see your nearest auto light spark plug dealer soon. 11:23.800 --> 11:28.720 Right your auto light spark plug dealers exclusive plug check indicator will quickly show you 11:28.720 --> 11:32.260 if your spark plugs are right for your style of driving. 11:32.260 --> 11:38.360 And remember from bumper to tail light you're always right with auto light. 11:38.360 --> 11:44.640 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Richard Widmark in Elliot 11:44.640 --> 11:48.160 Lewis' production of The Track of the Cat. 11:48.160 --> 12:08.060 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:08.060 --> 12:12.760 Even after we was saddled up and heading out across a range I was still laughing to myself 12:12.760 --> 12:18.720 at what the old man had said to Arthur about not coming back and how solemn he said it. 12:18.720 --> 12:22.440 I tried to get a look at Arthur to see how he was taking it but you never could tell 12:22.440 --> 12:24.400 with that one. 12:24.400 --> 12:27.120 Well we hit the draw that leads into the canyon about daylight. 12:27.120 --> 12:32.680 It's a real box canyon with a steep slope to the north and a sheer drop off the east 12:32.680 --> 12:34.280 face. 12:34.280 --> 12:38.200 We couldn't hear the cattle now but we could see their tracks in the snow where they was 12:38.200 --> 12:40.560 heading up the canyon. 12:40.560 --> 12:42.960 And then I saw what I'd been looking for. 12:42.960 --> 12:46.120 Hey look look at that you see them tracks? 12:46.120 --> 12:48.160 Cat all right big one. 12:48.160 --> 12:51.400 Yeah pretty near as big as a horse at that. 12:51.400 --> 12:56.080 But you won't see through the cat that made them tracks he's real enough. 12:56.080 --> 12:57.960 Come on most like he's still up there. 12:57.960 --> 13:01.280 Not what he was them fool horses. 13:01.280 --> 13:03.280 Look up ahead. 13:03.280 --> 13:05.920 To steer. 13:05.920 --> 13:08.480 He dead with his neck broke by the looks. 13:08.480 --> 13:10.000 That's what ails the horses. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 They don't like the blood. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.080 Look up there you're right. 13:14.080 --> 13:16.480 Two more that's three of my best steers. 13:16.480 --> 13:18.880 Oh he's been up here killing for fun. 13:18.880 --> 13:21.640 Don't look like he's up here now though. 13:21.640 --> 13:23.400 There goes the track up in North Slope. 13:23.400 --> 13:26.240 Yeah he's gone all right but he ain't been gone long. 13:26.240 --> 13:28.840 Tracks as fresh and clear as print on a page. 13:28.840 --> 13:30.240 I'm going after him. 13:30.240 --> 13:31.720 You'll need snowshoes. 13:31.720 --> 13:33.960 You'll need grub. 13:33.960 --> 13:35.240 I'll go back after it if you like. 13:35.240 --> 13:37.800 I'll go myself if it's all the same. 13:37.800 --> 13:39.760 You stay here and hold the trail. 13:39.760 --> 13:40.760 Either way. 13:40.760 --> 13:42.560 No not either way that way. 13:42.560 --> 13:45.800 Unless you're worrying about what Joe Sam said. 13:45.800 --> 13:46.800 I'm not worrying. 13:46.800 --> 13:50.480 And don't go dreaming off because I want you to be here when I get back. 13:50.480 --> 13:51.480 I'll be here. 13:51.480 --> 13:53.160 All right then keep your eyes open. 13:53.160 --> 13:54.160 Sure. 13:54.160 --> 13:55.160 And Kurt. 13:55.160 --> 13:56.160 Yeah. 13:56.160 --> 14:00.640 If I were you I'd leave Hal's girl alone. 14:00.640 --> 14:06.560 A smart one. 14:06.560 --> 14:08.600 A real smart one. 14:08.600 --> 14:10.520 He was reading my mind. 14:10.520 --> 14:12.920 He knew I wanted to get that gal off by herself. 14:12.920 --> 14:17.840 And with Ma taking care of her housework and Hal out doing the chores he knew I'd have 14:17.840 --> 14:18.840 my chance. 14:18.840 --> 14:21.200 And that's just how it happened too. 14:21.200 --> 14:25.560 Because a little while later I was sitting in the kitchen at the ranch. 14:25.560 --> 14:27.400 Nobody there but old Joe Sam. 14:27.400 --> 14:29.800 Of course he didn't marry. 14:29.800 --> 14:34.080 And little Gwen sitting right across the table from me. 14:34.080 --> 14:38.080 But how did such a story ever get started? 14:38.080 --> 14:39.080 With the panther. 14:39.080 --> 14:41.240 Joe Sam says he's seen it. 14:41.240 --> 14:46.480 Joe Sam says this old spooked panther up and killed his wife and all his kids about 80 14:46.480 --> 14:47.480 years ago. 14:47.480 --> 14:48.480 80 years? 14:48.480 --> 14:49.480 Sure. 14:49.480 --> 14:53.520 Joe Sam's well over a hundred or so he claims. 14:53.520 --> 14:56.000 Ain't that right you crazy old fool? 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 Kurt. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.680 You shouldn't talk to him like that. 14:58.680 --> 14:59.680 Yeah he don't hear it. 14:59.680 --> 15:03.120 He don't hear nothing when he gets like this. 15:03.120 --> 15:06.280 But don't you worry little lady. 15:06.280 --> 15:10.120 I'm gonna bring you back a panther skin all the same. 15:10.120 --> 15:14.480 May not be black and may not be big as a horse. 15:14.480 --> 15:21.200 But it'll make a real nice present from your brother-in-law to the bride and the groom. 15:21.200 --> 15:23.880 Providing of course that it works out that way. 15:23.880 --> 15:25.640 Providing what works out that way? 15:25.640 --> 15:30.120 Providing I am your brother-in-law and Hal is the groom. 15:30.120 --> 15:32.160 I don't like that kind of talk Kurt. 15:32.160 --> 15:35.440 Talk never did a gal no damage did it? 15:35.440 --> 15:37.760 That time to go. 15:37.760 --> 15:41.640 How about a little kiss to keep me warm out there huh? 15:41.640 --> 15:42.640 Kurt. 15:42.640 --> 15:43.640 Kurt no don't. 15:43.640 --> 15:44.640 Ah come on honey. 15:44.640 --> 15:45.640 What's the matter with him? 15:45.640 --> 15:46.640 Shut up you. 15:46.640 --> 15:47.640 I told you to shut up. 15:47.640 --> 15:49.640 You you get an old man like that. 15:49.640 --> 16:04.080 Ah he's crazy somebody had to snap him out of it. 16:04.080 --> 16:05.800 Tell him off. 16:05.800 --> 16:08.720 Maybe I get that kiss when I bring you back your panther huh? 16:08.720 --> 16:20.280 I don't care if I never set eyes on you again the rest of my life. 16:20.280 --> 16:23.480 Only it wasn't me she wasn't gonna see again for the rest of her life. 16:23.480 --> 16:29.120 Because when I got back to the canyon I found my brother Arthur laying in the snow. 16:29.120 --> 16:34.800 And three deep gashes in his back like the stabs of a knife and his neck was broke. 16:34.800 --> 16:45.040 And all around him was the track of the cat. 16:45.040 --> 16:48.600 I lashed him across the saddle as gentle as I could and I hit the horse in the rump to 16:48.600 --> 16:50.640 send him back home. 16:50.640 --> 16:52.920 Then I set out to track the cat. 16:52.920 --> 16:59.800 It was easy at first with the bare paw snow shoes the trail good and clear and the weather 16:59.800 --> 17:00.800 lifted. 17:00.800 --> 17:03.320 Then in the late afternoon I saw him. 17:03.320 --> 17:09.640 The other side of a ravine dark and bulky like a shadow against the snow. 17:09.640 --> 17:11.240 I had him full in my sights. 17:11.240 --> 17:14.080 I fired and I missed. 17:14.080 --> 17:17.520 He was up the rocks in ten foot leaps and over the ridge before I could shoot again. 17:17.520 --> 17:19.640 Then I remembered something. 17:19.640 --> 17:22.080 I checked Arthur's gun. 17:22.080 --> 17:24.120 It had an empty shell in it. 17:24.120 --> 17:27.400 He'd fired it something too and missed. 17:27.400 --> 17:30.400 Now we both had. 17:30.400 --> 17:32.440 And then the storm come up again. 17:32.440 --> 17:36.000 And after a while I couldn't see fifty yards ahead of me. 17:36.000 --> 17:40.760 And that was the first time I heard that other voice. 17:40.760 --> 17:41.760 Kurt. 17:41.760 --> 17:42.760 Kurt. 17:42.760 --> 17:43.760 Who? 17:43.760 --> 17:44.760 Who's there? 17:44.760 --> 17:45.760 Who is it? 17:45.760 --> 17:46.760 Nobody Kurt. 17:46.760 --> 17:47.760 Just you. 17:47.760 --> 17:48.760 Well who are you? 17:48.760 --> 17:55.360 I'm the caution in you Kurt. 17:55.360 --> 17:58.320 Maybe you never knew you had it before. 17:58.320 --> 18:00.160 I'm the coward in you. 18:00.160 --> 18:01.360 I ain't afraid. 18:01.360 --> 18:05.040 I ain't afraid of men or cat or spook. 18:05.040 --> 18:06.040 Maybe. 18:06.040 --> 18:09.800 But it's getting dark Kurt. 18:09.800 --> 18:11.600 Night falls coming Kurt. 18:11.600 --> 18:12.600 Yeah. 18:12.600 --> 18:15.200 Yeah that's so it is. 18:15.200 --> 18:18.840 You better find a place to hold up for the night Kurt. 18:18.840 --> 18:23.760 A good safe place while you can still see. 18:23.760 --> 18:24.760 Well yeah. 18:24.760 --> 18:28.840 Yeah maybe I had that. 18:28.840 --> 18:32.080 Because a man can't see in the dark Kurt. 18:32.080 --> 18:33.080 Who said he could? 18:33.080 --> 18:36.880 But there's something out here that can. 18:36.880 --> 18:40.560 That can see in the dark real good. 18:40.560 --> 18:43.560 That hunts in the dark. 18:43.560 --> 18:45.560 The cat. 18:45.560 --> 18:48.800 It was getting dark for sure. 18:48.800 --> 18:51.920 Almost a darker night when I finally found what I was looking for. 18:51.920 --> 18:54.840 A little cave halfway up the other side of the ravine. 18:54.840 --> 18:59.800 I worked my way up to it when all at once I thought of something. 18:59.800 --> 19:03.360 The cat had holed up from the storm just the same as me. 19:03.360 --> 19:06.240 Suppose he'd holed up here. 19:06.240 --> 19:10.560 For a long time I just stood there listening. 19:10.560 --> 19:15.320 But there was nothing but the wind and the whistle of the snow. 19:15.320 --> 19:22.520 And then real slow with my knees shaking a little I crept up to it. 19:22.520 --> 19:25.000 My finger on the trigger of the gun. 19:25.000 --> 19:29.000 And I lit a match. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.740 The cave was empty. 19:31.740 --> 19:33.120 And it was dry. 19:33.120 --> 19:34.680 I crawled in. 19:34.680 --> 19:37.960 I ate some of the bread and jerky beef I'd brought along. 19:37.960 --> 19:40.160 Made a cigarette and smoked it. 19:40.160 --> 19:41.160 Then lay back. 19:41.160 --> 19:44.160 Let the tiredness go out of my bones. 19:44.160 --> 19:47.160 It was warm. 19:47.160 --> 19:48.160 Cozy. 19:48.160 --> 19:50.240 I felt good. 19:50.240 --> 19:51.240 Real good. 19:51.240 --> 19:52.240 And warm. 19:52.240 --> 19:53.240 And drowsy. 19:53.240 --> 19:54.240 Kurt. 19:54.240 --> 19:55.240 Hello Kurt. 19:55.240 --> 19:56.240 You in there Kurt? 19:56.240 --> 19:57.240 Art. 19:57.240 --> 19:59.360 Art where are you? 19:59.360 --> 20:00.360 Right here. 20:00.360 --> 20:03.360 I'm in the cave. 20:03.360 --> 20:14.080 You can look right through the wall and see me if you try. 20:14.080 --> 20:19.080 Yeah but what's the matter with you? 20:19.080 --> 20:23.480 Your eyes and the snow all on your face. 20:23.480 --> 20:24.480 I'm dead. 20:24.480 --> 20:25.840 Don't you remember Kurt? 20:25.840 --> 20:26.840 Yes. 20:26.840 --> 20:28.640 And I've come to help you Kurt. 20:28.640 --> 20:29.640 Yeah Art. 20:29.640 --> 20:30.640 Help me. 20:30.640 --> 20:31.640 Help me. 20:31.640 --> 20:32.640 Listen. 20:32.640 --> 20:33.640 The cat. 20:33.640 --> 20:34.640 The cat. 20:34.640 --> 20:37.360 It's sniffing out there. 20:37.360 --> 20:38.880 It's right outside the wall. 20:38.880 --> 20:39.880 Look. 20:39.880 --> 20:41.440 Look close and you can see him. 20:41.440 --> 20:42.440 Can you see him now? 20:42.440 --> 20:43.440 Yeah. 20:43.440 --> 20:44.440 Yeah black. 20:44.440 --> 20:47.080 It's black and big as a horse. 20:47.080 --> 20:48.880 Eyes like coals of fire. 20:48.880 --> 20:50.680 But he can't get through the wall Art. 20:50.680 --> 20:52.440 You don't know how to get through that wall. 20:52.440 --> 20:53.800 That's why Joe Sam's here. 20:53.800 --> 20:54.800 Joe Sam? 20:54.800 --> 20:55.800 See him? 20:55.800 --> 20:56.800 See him out there on the slope? 20:56.800 --> 20:57.800 You see him laughing? 20:57.800 --> 20:58.800 Art you tell him. 20:58.800 --> 20:59.800 You tell the cat about the wall. 20:59.800 --> 21:00.800 Don't let him Art. 21:00.800 --> 21:01.800 Don't let him. 21:01.800 --> 21:02.800 See him Art. 21:02.800 --> 21:03.800 Don't let him. 21:03.800 --> 21:04.800 Too late Kurt. 21:04.800 --> 21:05.800 Art help me. 21:05.800 --> 21:06.800 Help me. 21:06.800 --> 21:08.960 Too late now Kurt. 21:08.960 --> 21:11.960 Too late. 21:11.960 --> 21:14.960 Art. 21:14.960 --> 21:24.960 Art. 21:24.960 --> 21:27.880 I was lying there in the cave. 21:27.880 --> 21:30.160 And it was dark. 21:30.160 --> 21:32.040 So it was a dream. 21:32.040 --> 21:33.040 Sure. 21:33.040 --> 21:36.120 Sure it was a dream. 21:36.120 --> 21:38.600 But was it all a dream? 21:38.600 --> 21:46.920 I listened and then I heard something that could be. 21:46.920 --> 21:49.160 All right suppose he was out there. 21:49.160 --> 21:53.000 I couldn't stay holed up there forever by a stinking mountain cat. 21:53.000 --> 21:57.880 I reached over for my rifle and then I bent my knees up and I kicked out with all my might 21:57.880 --> 22:04.280 and the wall went flying out into the ravine and I was crouching there with the rifle. 22:04.280 --> 22:06.680 And there was nothing. 22:06.680 --> 22:08.560 No cat. 22:08.560 --> 22:09.560 No tracks. 22:09.560 --> 22:10.560 Nothing. 22:10.560 --> 22:11.560 Better head for home boy. 22:11.560 --> 22:12.560 You've got daylight now. 22:12.560 --> 22:13.560 Head while the heading's good. 22:13.560 --> 22:14.560 I can't do that. 22:14.560 --> 22:15.560 I swore I'd get that cat. 22:15.560 --> 22:16.560 You've got a long way to go Kurt. 22:16.560 --> 22:17.560 I swore. 22:17.560 --> 22:18.560 For Art. 22:18.560 --> 22:19.560 And I swore. 22:19.560 --> 22:20.560 For Art. 22:20.560 --> 22:21.560 And I swore. 22:21.560 --> 22:22.560 For Art. 22:22.560 --> 22:23.560 For Art. 22:23.560 --> 22:24.560 For Art. 22:24.560 --> 22:25.560 For Art. 22:25.560 --> 22:26.560 For Art. 22:26.560 --> 22:27.560 For Art. 22:27.560 --> 22:28.560 And I promised Gwen. 22:28.560 --> 22:29.560 What'll I tell Gwen? 22:29.560 --> 22:35.560 You have enough on your hands just getting back before it's dark again. 22:35.560 --> 22:39.160 Well I sure hate to give it up though. 22:39.160 --> 22:40.160 What's the matter with you? 22:40.160 --> 22:41.160 Don't you know yet? 22:41.160 --> 22:42.160 Know what? 22:42.160 --> 22:43.160 You're not hunting that cat anymore. 22:43.160 --> 22:44.160 That cat's hunting you. 22:44.160 --> 22:56.400 I laced on the bear paws and I started down the ravine. 22:56.400 --> 22:59.120 It was still snowing but I could see pretty good now. 22:59.120 --> 23:01.600 And I'd taken my directions the night before. 23:01.600 --> 23:05.000 Down the ravine, up the other side, half a day north along the ridge. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.720 Then down the other side. 23:06.720 --> 23:09.040 And keep going until you see the ranch. 23:09.040 --> 23:10.360 I was making pretty fair time. 23:10.360 --> 23:14.000 I figured it was just about midday when I seen the sun break through a hole in the clouds 23:14.000 --> 23:16.440 way off to my right. 23:16.440 --> 23:18.680 And then I stopped. 23:18.680 --> 23:21.400 Cause there was something wrong. 23:21.400 --> 23:24.080 Awful wrong. 23:24.080 --> 23:27.040 What's it doing up there Kurt? 23:27.040 --> 23:29.920 What's the sun doing up there? 23:29.920 --> 23:30.920 I don't know. 23:30.920 --> 23:31.920 It can't be. 23:31.920 --> 23:34.920 You're supposed to be going north. 23:34.920 --> 23:35.920 Sure. 23:35.920 --> 23:36.920 Sure I am. 23:36.920 --> 23:39.360 Half a day north along the ridge then down the other side. 23:39.360 --> 23:40.360 Sure. 23:40.360 --> 23:45.400 The sun's on your left when you travel north Kurt. 23:45.400 --> 23:46.800 And it's on my right. 23:46.800 --> 23:47.800 A whole half a day. 23:47.800 --> 23:51.360 I've been going the wrong direction a whole half a day. 23:51.360 --> 23:54.880 You're going to be caught out after dark again Kurt. 23:54.880 --> 23:57.640 You're going to be caught out after dark. 23:57.640 --> 24:00.360 That's all he's waiting for Kurt. 24:00.360 --> 24:01.360 Waiting for the dark. 24:01.360 --> 24:02.360 I can't. 24:02.360 --> 24:03.920 I can't get caught out. 24:03.920 --> 24:04.920 I gotta make it. 24:04.920 --> 24:05.920 Never. 24:05.920 --> 24:06.920 You'll never make it. 24:06.920 --> 24:07.920 What'll I do? 24:07.920 --> 24:08.920 What am I gonna do? 24:08.920 --> 24:09.920 Run. 24:09.920 --> 24:10.920 Keep running. 24:10.920 --> 24:11.920 I can't. 24:11.920 --> 24:12.920 I can't run much more. 24:12.920 --> 24:13.920 Think of something. 24:13.920 --> 24:14.920 Think. 24:14.920 --> 24:15.920 I can't think. 24:15.920 --> 24:16.920 Think. 24:16.920 --> 24:17.920 A fire. 24:17.920 --> 24:18.920 A fire. 24:18.920 --> 24:21.520 You have only had a fire. 24:21.520 --> 24:22.520 That's it. 24:22.520 --> 24:23.520 A fire. 24:23.520 --> 24:24.520 That's it. 24:24.520 --> 24:25.520 That's it. 24:25.520 --> 24:26.520 A fire. 24:26.520 --> 24:27.520 That'll hold Mr. Blackcatch. 24:27.520 --> 24:29.880 Afraid of fire ain't you, you murdering devil. 24:29.880 --> 24:30.880 That'll hold you. 24:30.880 --> 24:31.880 A fire. 24:31.880 --> 24:35.880 A great big roaring fire. 24:35.880 --> 24:39.960 It's all right now. 24:39.960 --> 24:42.320 It's gonna be all right. 24:42.320 --> 24:45.400 I got branches cut enough to last all night. 24:45.400 --> 24:48.400 Nothing to do now but take it easy and feed the fire. 24:48.400 --> 24:53.000 He's out there in the tree somewhere but he won't come near this fire. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 No sir, he won't. 24:54.000 --> 25:00.200 I'll just keep smoking, keep yourself awake, keep your eye on that fire. 25:00.200 --> 25:03.040 Just watch the fire. 25:03.040 --> 25:06.040 Just keep watching that fire. 25:06.040 --> 25:09.240 Too late, Kurt. 25:09.240 --> 25:11.240 Too late. 25:11.240 --> 25:12.240 What? 25:12.240 --> 25:13.240 Oh sir. 25:13.240 --> 25:14.240 The fire's gone out. 25:14.240 --> 25:15.240 Gone out? 25:15.240 --> 25:16.240 I gotta fix it quick. 25:16.240 --> 25:17.240 Too late, Kurt. 25:17.240 --> 25:18.240 He's here. 25:18.240 --> 25:19.240 The cat. 25:19.240 --> 25:20.240 The cat? 25:20.240 --> 25:24.480 Crouching there to make you spring, you see him behind that tree, big as a horse and black 25:24.480 --> 25:26.480 as night and eyes like gold. 25:26.480 --> 25:27.480 Help me, Arthur. 25:27.480 --> 25:28.480 Help me! 25:28.480 --> 25:29.480 Shoot. 25:29.480 --> 25:32.920 Shoot while you still got the chance right between those burning eyes. 25:32.920 --> 25:33.920 Shoot. 25:33.920 --> 25:34.920 I'll shoot. 25:34.920 --> 25:35.920 Too late, Kurt. 25:35.920 --> 25:41.280 You shot right through him but he's coming at you. 25:41.280 --> 25:42.280 Throw the gun away. 25:42.280 --> 25:43.280 It's no good now, Kurt. 25:43.280 --> 25:44.280 Run. 25:44.280 --> 25:45.280 Your only chance. 25:45.280 --> 25:46.280 Run. 25:46.280 --> 25:47.280 Faster. 25:47.280 --> 25:48.280 Don't fall. 25:48.280 --> 25:49.280 He's right behind you, Kurt. 25:49.280 --> 25:50.280 Faster. 25:50.280 --> 25:51.280 Faster. 25:51.280 --> 25:52.280 Look out. 25:52.280 --> 25:53.280 You're falling. 25:53.280 --> 25:54.280 You're falling, Kurt. 25:54.280 --> 25:55.280 You're falling. 25:55.280 --> 26:14.760 We buried my brother Arthur the night before. 26:14.760 --> 26:19.040 And the next day we went to look for Kurt, Joe Sam and me. 26:19.040 --> 26:24.760 We found him where he'd fallen over the cliff of the canyon, all stiff and twisted in the 26:24.760 --> 26:25.760 snow. 26:25.760 --> 26:30.320 Later, we went up to see what happened. 26:30.320 --> 26:35.400 You could tell he'd been running when he fell, running away from something and afraid for 26:35.400 --> 26:38.040 his life. 26:38.040 --> 26:40.760 Only there was nothing there. 26:40.760 --> 26:43.760 No tracks except just his. 26:43.760 --> 26:44.760 Nothing. 26:44.760 --> 27:12.520 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:12.520 --> 27:16.560 Tonight's star, Mr. Richard Widmark. 27:16.560 --> 27:21.760 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 27:21.760 --> 27:24.000 automotive electrical equipment. 27:24.000 --> 27:27.800 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:27.800 --> 27:32.960 That's why during the early months of 1952, the Auto Light family joins in saluting the 27:32.960 --> 27:38.280 leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products as original equipment. 27:38.280 --> 27:43.120 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light 27:43.120 --> 27:48.560 plants from coast to coast and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 27:48.560 --> 27:52.780 Our family also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their 27:52.780 --> 27:58.320 savings in Auto Light, as well as 96,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United 27:58.320 --> 28:02.760 States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 28:02.760 --> 28:06.880 Our Auto Light family will salute the Studebaker Corporation on the next Auto Light Suspense 28:06.880 --> 28:08.360 television program. 28:08.360 --> 28:12.680 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on Television so 28:12.680 --> 28:15.000 you'll be sure to see this program. 28:15.000 --> 28:27.480 And remember, be with us next week for another thrilling Auto Light Suspense program on radio. 28:27.480 --> 28:32.300 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Miss Linda Darnell in a story about a woman who 28:32.300 --> 28:37.760 knew her husband was trying to kill her and was powerless to stop it, a dramatic report 28:37.760 --> 28:41.360 we call A Killing in Las Vegas. 28:41.360 --> 28:52.040 In weeks to come, we shall also present Herbert Marshall and Frank Lovejoy all on Suspense. 28:52.040 --> 28:56.160 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 28:56.160 --> 28:58.320 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:58.320 --> 29:03.160 The track of the cat was adapted for Suspense by Sylvia Richards from the book by Walter 29:03.160 --> 29:04.360 Van Tilburg Clark. 29:04.360 --> 29:09.960 Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Lee Millar, Martha Wentworth, Sharon Douglas, 29:09.960 --> 29:10.960 and Parley Bear. 29:10.960 --> 29:15.320 Tonight's appearance of Richard Widmark was made possible through the courtesy of 20th 29:15.320 --> 29:17.120 Century Fox Studios. 29:17.120 --> 29:24.080 Mr. Widmark may currently be seen in the Technicolor production, Red Skies of Montana. 29:24.080 --> 29:32.520 And remember, next week on Suspense, Miss Linda Darnell in A Killing in Las Vegas. 29:32.520 --> 29:55.160 This is the CBS Radio Network.