1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,680 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Joseph Cotton in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:19,760 of Suspense. 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:25,360 Tonight Auto Light presents the story of a man who craved power, position, and money 4 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:31,160 and destroyed himself accomplishing it, a tale we call A Watery Grave, starring Mr. 5 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,160 Joseph Cotton. 6 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:43,200 Oh, Mr. Wilcox. 7 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:44,960 Why it's Oscar Auto. 8 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,760 You're looking way below par. 9 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,200 I feel that way too. 10 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,200 Well, let Dr. Wilcox have a look. 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:57,800 Uh-huh. Well, Oscar, I'd say you're suffering from a case of worn out spark plugs. 12 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,360 Let's visit the nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 13 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,680 He and his exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator will quickly show if I'm right. 14 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,400 And suppose you are. 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,560 Well, if that exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator shows that your spark plugs are 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,560 worn out or wrong for your style of driving, the Auto Light spark plug dealer will install 17 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,160 a bright brisk set of ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs to give you smoother 18 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,520 performance, quick starts, and gas savings. 19 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,760 Okay, let's go. 20 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:30,080 But how do I find the location of the nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer? 21 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:31,400 Why, that's easy. 22 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,400 We'll call Western Union, buy number, and ask for operator 25. 23 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,360 She'll gladly tell us his location. 24 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:44,040 Let's go, Oscar, because from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:50,080 And now with A Watery Grave and the performance of Mr. Joseph Cotton, Auto Light hopes once 26 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:58,720 again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,840 How did it happen when everything was so good? 28 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,840 How did it get destroyed in five short hours? 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:15,040 How did I start to die? 30 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,200 In our city, a district attorney is an important man. 31 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,640 Our city is an important city in the nation. 32 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:24,200 Therefore, I am important as its district attorney. 33 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,240 The logic of law, the deductive reasoning that leads to everything. 34 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,200 It was only reasonable that such powerful interest should have come to me. 35 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:45,800 I had a case against McNeely which could have destroyed him. 36 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,240 What is it, Mr. McNeely? 37 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,560 I'm not in the habit of making these calls myself, Mr. Kelley. 38 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,560 It's obvious, but then you're not in this position very often either. 39 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:56,920 It's a daring thing you've done. 40 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:00,280 Only a question of getting a sufficiently strong case against you. 41 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,360 I've broken other district attorneys for attempting it. 42 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,800 They never had the evidence I do. 43 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,640 I don't think you'd want to try breaking me. 44 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,440 I can send you to prison for life. 45 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,060 You're right. 46 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:17,640 And yet, where I can't destroy you, I can prevent you from advancing, getting to a greater 47 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,320 position, a more prominent position in political life. 48 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:21,360 What does that mean? 49 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,480 It means it is no longer a question of can you be bought, but how much you want. 50 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:32,920 I've waited a long time for this moment to be able to bargain with you. 51 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:36,520 I respect your strength and perception. 52 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,160 It's worth a great deal to me, Mr. Kelley. 53 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,280 That is the matter of my chief witness. 54 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,280 If I don't prosecute you, he'll go to the state district attorney, perhaps to the federal 55 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,280 government. 56 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:51,720 That is part of what you will give me in exchange for the wealth you're going to receive. 57 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,440 Who is your chief witness? 58 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,000 I can guarantee you he'll not testify. 59 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,920 I would rather give myself my own guarantee on that matter. 60 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,440 It would mean his death, wouldn't it? 61 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:09,120 Mr. Kelley, all of us, any of us, even the most noble of persons, must look the other 62 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,480 way sometimes. 63 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,240 It's easy for you to say that. 64 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:13,920 It's easy for you to do. 65 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,720 To look the other way becomes the easiest thing in the world after a while. 66 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,200 All you have to know is why you're doing it and what you have to gain. 67 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,760 How does one look the other way? 68 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,320 How does one achieve the facility for turning around at precisely the right moment? 69 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,920 A trip to Europe. 70 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,700 My wife has always wanted to go to Europe. 71 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:35,320 She likes things like that. 72 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,080 His name? 73 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:41,720 Trip to Europe is something that is dreamed of, spoken of it often. 74 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,280 His name? 75 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:44,280 Bartell. 76 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,280 Ah, yes. 77 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,160 Ah, yes. 78 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:54,880 My good, trusted friend, Bartell. 79 00:04:54,880 --> 00:05:03,040 Thank you, Mr. Kelley. 80 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,960 Who was Bartell, a man from the streets who had muscled his way into life? 81 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,160 Who was Bartell? 82 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,360 Circumstance had made him a witness to McNeely's worst plans. 83 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,720 Destiny had placed him in a position of value to the district attorney's office. 84 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:23,120 This valueless man, Bartell, happenstance and coincidence had made him the keeper of 85 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,880 dark secrets and illegal events which could have smashed an empire, an empire I was now 86 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:42,920 partnered to merely because I told them a name and looked the other way. 87 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,560 The first night out I waited on deck after dinner, waited for Betty to come out and we 88 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:48,840 would go to the main saloon. 89 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:55,040 Oh, it felt good to know your way in the world, to know when to look the other way. 90 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:01,240 Sometimes you only have to do it once if you plan right and Betty could have everything, 91 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:08,160 a bigger house, another servant in the house, up, up, moving up, so secure I didn't even 92 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,440 hear his footsteps approaching. 93 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:17,200 So positive all was going well I didn't even think of caution, so certain of success, everything 94 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,200 for Betty. 95 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,200 I was so pleased. 96 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,440 You're the only man I ever trusted. 97 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,200 Ah, Bartell. 98 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,520 The only man and a D.A. besides. 99 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,280 Ah, and you can still trust me. 100 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,800 Even after you said my name? 101 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,000 I'm getting rid of McNeely for you. 102 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Are you? 103 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,280 You turned state's evidence. 104 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:42,520 If you didn't believe I could get rid of McNeely, you wouldn't have dared turn state's 105 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,520 evidence. 106 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,360 I believed you, I trusted you. 107 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:46,560 Let's stop the game. 108 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,000 Why did I ever think I could trust you? 109 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,680 Now tell me, you're a smart man, you went to college. 110 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,720 Of course it was to your advantage because if the law could get rid of McNeely for you, 111 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:58,720 that was better. 112 00:06:58,720 --> 00:06:59,720 And safer. 113 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,160 So don't have any illusions about trusting me. 114 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,760 You never did, you needed me, that's different. 115 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,120 And you needed me, we needed each other, we still do, nothing's different. 116 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,760 Act, you're under bond, Bartell. 117 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,720 You're leaving the country without permission. 118 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,560 McNeely gave me permission, he had me shot at and I was wounded. 119 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,880 See my shoulder? 120 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,280 Fat on this side, fat from bandages. 121 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:19,280 You don't have a passport. 122 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,440 I don't need that either, I have money. 123 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,840 How'd you get aboard? 124 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,480 Oh, it's simple. 125 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,440 Easy to stay hidden for a day, a second and third day, that's something else. 126 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,840 I can fix it so you won't be let off, so you'll be sent right back. 127 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,280 Mr. Callan, I can put you in prison if I'm sent back. 128 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,480 A word would prevail against yours in any court of law. 129 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,540 Maybe against my word alone, but not McNeely's hired gunsel. 130 00:07:43,540 --> 00:07:45,840 Both are words against yours. 131 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:46,880 You have him? 132 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,000 Some of my men do, yeah, he's safe at home. 133 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,160 Oh, I could discredit your testimony. 134 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,440 Ah, then why argue? 135 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:53,760 I have nothing to do with you. 136 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,640 You've got no choice, Mr. Callan. 137 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,640 Warning you, Bartel. 138 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,240 Well, what do you do, kill me? 139 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,640 You're not the kind who thinks like that. 140 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,160 You kill by law the legal way. 141 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,560 And I'll find a way by law. 142 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,640 Once I'm in Europe, they have different laws. 143 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,160 All right. 144 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,640 I'm a realist, Bartel. 145 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:12,240 So? 146 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,760 I only take calculated risks. 147 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:15,960 What's your price? 148 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,640 I have more money than you do, Callan, you couldn't buy me. 149 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,160 Then what do you want? 150 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,240 But you have more prestige than I do. 151 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,640 You're liked. 152 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,560 You know your way around the talkers. 153 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,960 Well, talk me off this ship. 154 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:27,600 Impossible. 155 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:28,440 Find a way. 156 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:29,960 You'll be discovered before we dock. 157 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,160 Not if you put me up in your cabin. 158 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:37,240 Bartel, wherever I'm involved, I'll listen and meet a man half way. 159 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,440 But me, me alone, not my wife. 160 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,480 If you involve my wife, I won't do a thing for you. 161 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,600 Not if my wife's involved in any way, not a thing. 162 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,560 I'm in a squeeze, Callan. 163 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:47,880 I'm finished unless you help me get into Europe. 164 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,560 But you'll be finished with me. 165 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:51,120 I've got enough power for that. 166 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,120 I'll find a way. 167 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,360 All right, I'll go with you. 168 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,280 No. 169 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,560 Meet me here in one hour. 170 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,320 I walked away calm. 171 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:12,200 I made a point of walking away confident, but my stomach felt sick. 172 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,760 Maybe I thought of trying to kill him then and didn't know it. 173 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,640 I'd been raised to respect human life. 174 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,760 I'd been educated to be decent, to forgive. 175 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:22,200 But Bartel wasn't human. 176 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:23,680 He was a beast. 177 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:29,280 And is there anything in the ethic which says we cannot protect our lives when attacked? 178 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,800 Bartel was destroying me, pulling me carefully, built world down about me. 179 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:39,000 A world Betty must know nothing about, a world I had built to protect Betty. 180 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,080 Law school to ward politics, to assistant district attorney. 181 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,920 So long lay up, the hardest minds to fight, the most realistic men to please. 182 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,880 Only the toughest stay with it. 183 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:56,360 Only the toughest and shrewdest get to my position because my position leads to the highest offices 184 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,080 if you're smart, if you look the other way. 185 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,920 Maybe I knew I wanted to kill him then. 186 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:04,240 The sea was calm. 187 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,400 The ship wasn't pitching. 188 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,360 Yet my stomach was sick. 189 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:19,400 Half an hour was gone and still no plan. 190 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:20,400 Where to go? 191 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Who to turn to? 192 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,400 What to ask? 193 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:23,400 Nothing anywhere. 194 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,840 My mind posed questions for which there were no answers. 195 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,040 Would I lose all I owned in the world? 196 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:31,960 Problems for which there were no solutions. 197 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,480 If I lost everything, would Betty go too? 198 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:39,560 Were the two things inseparable, my success and Betty? 199 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,440 I'll be ready in a minute. 200 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,600 Robert, is that you? 201 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,640 Who is it? 202 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,640 Oh, Robert, you didn't answer. 203 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:53,640 There. 204 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:54,640 Drink helps. 205 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:55,640 Helps what? 206 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,240 You go to the dining saloon yourself. 207 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,240 I'll be along soon. 208 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,640 Do you mind if I ask what's wrong? 209 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:02,640 I can handle it. 210 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:03,640 Yes, of course. 211 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,760 I'll be in the dining saloon. 212 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,480 Wait a minute. 213 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,480 Come back. 214 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:10,480 All right. 215 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:11,480 What is it? 216 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,080 You were going to leave, weren't you? 217 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,080 I don't understand. 218 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,760 You'd have left me. 219 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,640 You saw I was troubled, very troubled, and I wanted to talk to you, but you made me ask 220 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:22,640 you. 221 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,640 Oh, please, don't get angry, Robert. 222 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:25,640 Please don't argue. 223 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,040 You always make me ask you for your attention, always, ever since we've been married. 224 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:30,320 Not always, Robert. 225 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:31,880 Not ever since we were married. 226 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:32,880 Most of the time. 227 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:33,880 You changed. 228 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:34,880 You got quiet. 229 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,320 You never wanted to talk about things I was doing. 230 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,760 You never accepted my suggestion. 231 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,360 You didn't understand the legal profession, the workings of law. 232 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:41,800 That's why I stopped giving suggestions. 233 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,360 It wasn't suggestions I wanted. 234 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,640 It was encouragement to have you believe in me. 235 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:46,640 But you never did. 236 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,840 The more I gave you, the more I tried to give you, the less you seemed to care. 237 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:50,840 Oh, please, stop. 238 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,520 You think all these things come out of the sky? 239 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,680 Do you think they were given to me? 240 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,000 I had to fight for them, to fight to get things for you. 241 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 I never asked for them. 242 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,520 Oh, but you took them. 243 00:11:58,520 --> 00:11:59,520 You never refused them. 244 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,040 You never said, no, I don't want a lot of clothes. 245 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:02,480 No, I don't want a fur coat. 246 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,480 You never said no. 247 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:04,480 Stop shouting. 248 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:05,480 Stop. 249 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:06,480 Shout. 250 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:07,480 Everything. 251 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:08,480 For you. 252 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,760 But you give nothing in return. 253 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,080 No love or affection or like, not even liking. 254 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,440 Why didn't you ask for a divorce? 255 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:16,440 I'll give you a divorce. 256 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:17,440 Easy. 257 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:18,440 Simple. 258 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,440 Is that what you want? 259 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,440 Oh, I can't stand anymore. 260 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,760 Dear, you're not going to leave now. 261 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:25,760 My arm. 262 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,720 You know why you want to divorce me? 263 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:28,720 You know why you won't? 264 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,160 Because of these comforts. 265 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,800 That's all you want. 266 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:33,800 You'd lose them. 267 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:34,800 You'd lose them overnight. 268 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,880 Why do you do this to me? 269 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,760 I've paid for everything in my life, for everything. 270 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:40,760 Everything you have. 271 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:56,000 Only now it's time for you to pay too. 272 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,880 To kill a man is the easiest thing in the world to do. 273 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,600 To kill a man who would take your wife from you. 274 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:02,600 I know the logic. 275 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,840 I know it's wrong. 276 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,960 Bartel wasn't taking my wife from me, but he was taking position and wealth and those 277 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,000 things kept my wife to me, I thought. 278 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,280 I knew. 279 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:20,360 Bartel had to be destroyed and she would have to be partner to it. 280 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,120 That way she'd never leave. 281 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,280 That way I'd achieve everything. 282 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,800 That's why I told her the story as if I'd memorized it. 283 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,560 As if it was the only thing I'd ever thought about. 284 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:33,480 As if Bartel's death was the last obstacle in our life. 285 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,880 No, Robert. 286 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:36,680 Please, don't, Robert. 287 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:38,760 You'll distract him up there on the deck. 288 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,480 At the dark place on the deck. 289 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,480 Don't ask me. 290 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,840 Don't make me part of this. 291 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,040 Together we plan it. 292 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,400 Together we need him. 293 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:50,400 Together. 294 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,880 Come on, Betty, the hour's up. 295 00:13:53,880 --> 00:14:18,560 The hour's up. 296 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:24,360 Radio Light is bringing you Mr. Joseph Carton in A Watery Grave, tonight's production in 297 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:46,600 radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 298 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,040 Wow, I feel great now. 299 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,880 Now, thanks to your Auto 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00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:32,320 And the Auto Light resistor spark plug is only one of a complete line of ignition engineered 311 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,760 Auto Light spark plugs designed for every use. 312 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,500 So friends, take a tip from me and see your Auto Light spark plug dealer. 313 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:46,040 Let him check your spark plugs, and remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right 314 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,000 with Auto Light. 315 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,720 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Mr. Joseph Cotton, in Elliot 316 00:15:53,720 --> 00:16:14,360 Lewis's production of A Watery Grave, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 317 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,160 How did I start to die then at that moment? 318 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:24,140 As we walked along the deck, did I start to die then because I knew I would kill Bartell? 319 00:16:24,140 --> 00:16:30,640 Does one die a little if one plans to kill a human being and die more when one does it? 320 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:37,720 And to compound it, Your Honor, funny to think, Your Honor, funny to think that way now. 321 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,440 To compound it by knowing your wife hates you more than anything in the world because 322 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:48,400 she's terrified, infuriated by her hate, but pleased with her terror. 323 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,160 How can she hate me so? 324 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,000 In so short a time, I gave her everything. 325 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:01,960 I tried to be something important for her and rich for her and kill for her. 326 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:07,400 As we walked along the deck, I had no real idea how I would kill Bartell, no exact idea, 327 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,440 but it had to be done. 328 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:15,640 I held that his arm tightly as we approached the dark part of the deck near the railing, 329 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,720 the place where Bartell was, not actually a railing, an entrance for a ramp with only 330 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,800 a chain across it. 331 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:29,920 Bartell, Bartell, this is my wife. 332 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:30,920 What did you decide? 333 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,240 I've been talking to her. 334 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:33,520 I've been explaining to her. 335 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:34,520 What did you decide? 336 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,920 Don't talk to me like that, Bartell. 337 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,520 Don't ever talk to me like that. 338 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,360 Do you put me in your stateroom? 339 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:44,280 Yes, yes, of course. 340 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:46,080 And guarantee to get me off the ship? 341 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,080 I couldn't guarantee. 342 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,280 Guarantees and things like this are impossible. 343 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,320 There are officials to get at, ship's officers, finding the right people. 344 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,920 You're good at putting in a fix, Mr. Callan. 345 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:59,200 You've been putting in fixes all the way from the slums up to the penthouses. 346 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,200 Ship shouldn't stop you. 347 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:01,560 Don't say things like that. 348 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,080 Why not? 349 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,160 Everybody knows how McNeely pays off and you're one of McNeely's boys now. 350 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:11,840 Anytime he wants to put his fingers in a dirty deal, he'll use your hands to do it. 351 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,280 Don't talk like that in front of my wife. 352 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,760 She'll get used to it. 353 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,640 McNeely doesn't care who knows about his dirty-handed men. 354 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:20,640 Shut up. 355 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,640 Shut up! 356 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:22,640 I lunged at him. 357 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:23,640 I didn't even reach for his gun he was carrying. 358 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:24,640 He didn't think I was capable of doing it. 359 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:25,640 His back was against the chain, his good arm flailing wildly over the chain, over and 360 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:26,640 into the water. 361 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:27,640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 362 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:28,640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 363 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 364 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 365 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:31,640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 366 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,280 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 367 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,280 I didn't know until I heard the scream. 368 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,280 Let go! 369 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,280 Let go! 370 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,280 It was too late for Bartell to let go. 371 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,280 He had a grip on my wife's arm. 372 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Before I could move, before I could do anything, it was insane. 373 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,280 She was pulled over the side too, over into the water. 374 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:42,280 I had to save her. 375 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:56,120 There was little I could do to save her would be to save Bartell, but I didn't hesitate. 376 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:57,120 I know that. 377 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:58,120 I'm sure of it. 378 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,120 I grabbed the nearest light preserver and hurled it over the side. 379 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:04,360 I could barely see them struggling in the water with the ship's propellers coming nearer. 380 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:05,920 And then I knew I would have to jump. 381 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:06,920 I would go over. 382 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,040 I could still finish Bartell and save Betty. 383 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,480 Still, I could have everything and it would be called an accident. 384 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:15,480 I went over the side. 385 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:16,480 Go over it. 386 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,480 Get the light preserver. 387 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:18,480 Lie flat. 388 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,480 Don't try to swim. 389 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:20,480 But watch. 390 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:30,480 From the propellers. 391 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,480 Help. 392 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:44,480 Robert, help. 393 00:19:44,480 --> 00:20:07,440 Suddenly it was quiet. 394 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:12,000 Suddenly the terror was gone and I could see Betty staying afloat near the light preserver 395 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,680 and beyond that Bartell struggling with one good arm, struggling to get to the light preserver 396 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:17,680 first. 397 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:18,680 I forgot about Betty. 398 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:23,600 I forgot everything except that I had to get him before he took the light preserver. 399 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:24,600 You'll never get it. 400 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:25,600 Keep, keep back. 401 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:26,600 A gun. 402 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:27,600 I have a gun. 403 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:28,600 Nothing now. 404 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:29,600 Robert, Robert, don't. 405 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,600 Keep away from me. 406 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:31,600 Now. 407 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:32,600 Keep away. 408 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:33,600 Now Bartell. 409 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:34,600 Now try to talk. 410 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:35,600 Hands. 411 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:36,600 Now tell your story. 412 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:37,600 I'm telling you. 413 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:38,600 I'm telling you. 414 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:39,600 I'm telling you. 415 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:40,600 I'm telling you. 416 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:41,600 I'm telling you. 417 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:42,600 Tell it. 418 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:43,600 Over Like Water. 419 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:44,760 Under water. 420 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:45,760 No. 421 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,600 Tell it. 422 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,920 No No. 423 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,080 From the sea. 424 00:20:52,080 --> 00:21:06,160 Tell your story. 425 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,260 Tell it. 426 00:21:07,260 --> 00:21:08,260 in the sea. 427 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:16,260 You... you murdered him. 428 00:21:16,260 --> 00:21:18,260 It was Bartell who us. 429 00:21:18,260 --> 00:21:20,260 Takes a preservative and holds onto it. 430 00:21:20,260 --> 00:21:23,260 Don't you understand it was Bartell who us? 431 00:21:23,260 --> 00:21:24,260 I never knew you. 432 00:21:24,260 --> 00:21:26,260 The ship will turn around and pick us up soon. 433 00:21:26,260 --> 00:21:27,260 You must understand. 434 00:21:27,260 --> 00:21:29,260 I never really knew you. 435 00:21:29,260 --> 00:21:30,260 It takes something to kill a man. 436 00:21:30,260 --> 00:21:32,260 Bartell was the killer. 437 00:21:32,260 --> 00:21:33,260 A ruthless man, I know. 438 00:21:33,260 --> 00:21:37,260 I was the one who forced him to turn state's evidence. 439 00:21:37,260 --> 00:21:38,260 Something horrible in you. 440 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:41,260 Maybe that's why we've been growing apart. 441 00:21:41,260 --> 00:21:42,260 Maybe I saw it but didn't recognize it. 442 00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:43,260 I'd never seen it before. 443 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:45,260 You see it every day in the eyes of the people. 444 00:21:45,260 --> 00:21:46,260 That's a lie. 445 00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:47,260 Look at the murders. 446 00:21:47,260 --> 00:21:50,260 Look at war. 447 00:21:50,260 --> 00:21:53,260 Can't make people kill each other if they don't want to. 448 00:21:53,260 --> 00:21:54,260 Could you? 449 00:21:54,260 --> 00:21:56,260 How could you? 450 00:21:56,260 --> 00:21:58,260 I'll never forget the look on his face 451 00:21:58,260 --> 00:22:00,260 when he knew he was going to be drowned. 452 00:22:00,260 --> 00:22:03,260 That you were going to do. 453 00:22:03,260 --> 00:22:06,260 It's terrible. 454 00:22:06,260 --> 00:22:08,260 Crying. 455 00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:10,260 Crying for him. 456 00:22:10,260 --> 00:22:11,260 Crying for a hoodlum. 457 00:22:11,260 --> 00:22:13,260 A killer. 458 00:22:13,260 --> 00:22:14,260 Crying for a gangster. 459 00:22:14,260 --> 00:22:15,260 Yes. 460 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:17,260 Tears for him. 461 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:18,260 I don't deserve it. 462 00:22:18,260 --> 00:22:19,260 Why should he be cried over? 463 00:22:19,260 --> 00:22:21,260 Why him? 464 00:22:21,260 --> 00:22:23,260 You never wept for me. 465 00:22:23,260 --> 00:22:24,260 I weep for you too. 466 00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:25,260 I don't need pity. 467 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:26,260 I don't need your pity. 468 00:22:26,260 --> 00:22:28,260 I'm not giving you pity. 469 00:22:28,260 --> 00:22:30,260 I'm trying to find a way to forgive you. 470 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:31,260 Here. 471 00:22:31,260 --> 00:22:33,260 Hold on to the life preserver. 472 00:22:33,260 --> 00:22:34,260 Don't touch me. 473 00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:35,260 You'll drown if you let go. 474 00:22:35,260 --> 00:22:36,260 Get away from me. 475 00:22:36,260 --> 00:22:37,260 You'll claw at me. 476 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:39,260 Don't come near me. 477 00:22:39,260 --> 00:22:41,260 You only want the life preserver. 478 00:22:41,260 --> 00:22:43,260 All right. You want to believe it. It's true. 479 00:22:43,260 --> 00:22:46,260 And I'll get it. 480 00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:48,260 I claw you. I claw your eyes. 481 00:22:48,260 --> 00:22:50,260 You'll never have a chance. 482 00:22:50,260 --> 00:22:51,260 The water carried me faster. 483 00:22:51,260 --> 00:22:52,260 You'll never catch up to me. 484 00:22:52,260 --> 00:22:53,260 I'll... 485 00:22:53,260 --> 00:22:55,260 I'll catch up. 486 00:22:55,260 --> 00:22:56,260 Oh, Betty. 487 00:22:56,260 --> 00:22:58,260 Don't be a fool. Come back. 488 00:22:58,260 --> 00:23:00,260 Betty. 489 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:03,260 Come back. The ship will turn around. 490 00:23:03,260 --> 00:23:06,260 The ship will save us. 491 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:07,260 Die, Robertson. 492 00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:09,260 Die like you'd let anyone die for you. 493 00:23:09,260 --> 00:23:10,260 Die for yourself. 494 00:23:10,260 --> 00:23:12,260 I don't need the life preserver. 495 00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:18,260 I can hold out until the ship turns around. 496 00:23:18,260 --> 00:23:20,260 They're still going for the horizon. 497 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:21,260 The ship. 498 00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:22,260 They'll turn around. 499 00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:24,260 I'm the biggest sweet on the ship. 500 00:23:24,260 --> 00:23:27,260 They'll miss us and turn around in a few minutes. 501 00:23:27,260 --> 00:23:30,260 What makes you think you're so important? 502 00:23:30,260 --> 00:23:32,260 What makes you think you'd be missed? 503 00:23:32,260 --> 00:23:34,260 I... 504 00:23:34,260 --> 00:23:36,260 I am important. 505 00:23:36,260 --> 00:23:38,260 What makes you want to be so big? 506 00:23:38,260 --> 00:23:39,260 So much? 507 00:23:39,260 --> 00:23:41,260 Oh. 508 00:23:41,260 --> 00:23:43,260 It was... 509 00:23:43,260 --> 00:23:45,260 for you. 510 00:23:45,260 --> 00:23:49,260 What I've struggled so hard to get. 511 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:51,260 Oh. For you. 512 00:23:51,260 --> 00:23:52,260 For yourself. 513 00:23:52,260 --> 00:23:56,260 Getting rich to please yourself, but you never enjoyed it either. 514 00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:59,260 You would have left me if I'd stopped. 515 00:23:59,260 --> 00:24:01,260 Stopped making so much. 516 00:24:01,260 --> 00:24:03,260 I only wanted love. 517 00:24:03,260 --> 00:24:07,260 Only wanted a family. Your love. Your children. 518 00:24:07,260 --> 00:24:09,260 Only yours. 519 00:24:09,260 --> 00:24:12,260 Oh. You mean that. 520 00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:14,260 You do mean that. 521 00:24:14,260 --> 00:24:16,260 It's too late. 522 00:24:16,260 --> 00:24:17,260 Too late. 523 00:24:17,260 --> 00:24:19,260 Oh, we can. 524 00:24:19,260 --> 00:24:23,260 In time, we can forget. 525 00:24:23,260 --> 00:24:25,260 How? 526 00:24:25,260 --> 00:24:27,260 How can I forget? How can you? 527 00:24:27,260 --> 00:24:30,260 Oh, you're right. 528 00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:35,260 It was for me, and it wasn't for the money. 529 00:24:35,260 --> 00:24:38,260 For the wealth. It was for power. 530 00:24:38,260 --> 00:24:41,260 Not... not even that. 531 00:24:41,260 --> 00:24:43,260 Oh, darling. 532 00:24:43,260 --> 00:24:45,260 Darling. 533 00:24:45,260 --> 00:24:47,260 Darling Betty. 534 00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:50,260 Oh, my wonderful Betty. 535 00:24:50,260 --> 00:24:51,260 Robert. 536 00:24:51,260 --> 00:24:53,260 The ship is turning. 537 00:24:53,260 --> 00:24:54,260 Hold on, Robert. 538 00:24:54,260 --> 00:24:55,260 I can't. 539 00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:57,260 And I'll come to you. 540 00:24:57,260 --> 00:24:59,260 The life preserver, it can support both of us. 541 00:24:59,260 --> 00:25:01,260 When did I start to die, Betty? 542 00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:03,260 I'm dying now. 543 00:25:03,260 --> 00:25:05,260 When did I start to die? 544 00:25:05,260 --> 00:25:07,260 Don't. Don't talk like that. 545 00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:09,260 Hold up, Robert. 546 00:25:09,260 --> 00:25:13,260 When I knew I would kill Bartell. 547 00:25:13,260 --> 00:25:15,260 It was sooner. 548 00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:19,260 When I said I would look the other way. 549 00:25:19,260 --> 00:25:22,260 Yes, Mr. McNeely. 550 00:25:22,260 --> 00:25:25,260 You can kill Bartell. 551 00:25:25,260 --> 00:25:27,260 I will look the other way. 552 00:25:27,260 --> 00:25:28,260 Hold up, darling. 553 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:30,260 Yes, Mr. McNeely. 554 00:25:30,260 --> 00:25:34,260 Only I started to die long before, years before, 555 00:25:34,260 --> 00:25:38,260 maybe I've been killing myself all my life, 556 00:25:38,260 --> 00:25:40,260 a slow way. 557 00:25:40,260 --> 00:25:42,260 A subtle way. 558 00:25:42,260 --> 00:25:45,260 Darling, please hold on a minute longer. 559 00:25:45,260 --> 00:25:47,260 Only a minute. 560 00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:50,260 I can. 561 00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:52,260 My darling. 562 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:55,260 I love you. 563 00:25:55,260 --> 00:25:57,260 I love you. 564 00:25:57,260 --> 00:26:12,260 I love you. 565 00:26:27,260 --> 00:26:30,260 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 566 00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:33,260 Tonight's star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. 567 00:26:33,260 --> 00:26:36,260 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, 568 00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:38,260 world's largest independent manufacturer 569 00:26:38,260 --> 00:26:42,260 of automotive electrical equipment. 570 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:35,260 It is the world's largest 571 00:26:45,260 --> 00:26:47,260 and most powerful 572 00:26:47,260 --> 00:26:49,260 automotive equipment manufacturer. 573 00:26:49,260 --> 00:26:51,260 It is a large-scale, 574 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:53,260 high-quality, 575 00:26:53,260 --> 00:26:57,780 independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 576 00:26:57,780 --> 00:27:01,700 Auto-Lite is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 577 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:07,640 And during these early months of 52, the Auto-Lite family joins in saluting the leading manufacturers 578 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,460 who install Auto-Lite products as original equipment. 579 00:27:11,460 --> 00:27:16,740 Our Auto-Lite family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto-Lite 580 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:22,380 plants from coast to coast and in still other Auto-Lite plants in many foreign countries. 581 00:27:22,380 --> 00:27:27,500 It also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in 582 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:33,860 Auto-Lite, as well as 96,000 Auto-Lite distributors and dealers in the United States and thousands 583 00:27:33,860 --> 00:27:37,140 more in Canada and throughout the world. 584 00:27:37,140 --> 00:27:41,820 Our Auto-Lite family will salute the leading truck manufacturers who use Auto-Lite products 585 00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:44,920 on the next Auto-Lite Suspense Television program. 586 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,940 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of suspense on television so 587 00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:51,100 that you'll be sure to see this program. 588 00:27:51,100 --> 00:28:04,340 And remember, be with us next week for another thrilling Auto-Lite Suspense program on radio. 589 00:28:04,340 --> 00:28:10,140 Next week, our star will be Mr. Frank Lovejoy in the recreation of an historical puzzle, 590 00:28:10,140 --> 00:28:17,220 a radio dramatization of The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven, a story based on fact and 591 00:28:17,220 --> 00:28:23,620 presented on Suspense. 592 00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:28,220 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick 593 00:28:28,220 --> 00:28:30,020 and conducted by Ludd Luskin. 594 00:28:30,020 --> 00:28:34,180 A watery grave was written for Suspense by Arthur Ross. 595 00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:40,740 In tonight's story, Mary Jane Kraft was heard as Betty, Stan Waxman as McNeely, and Joseph 596 00:28:40,740 --> 00:28:42,980 Kearns as Bartel. 597 00:28:42,980 --> 00:28:48,060 Joseph Cotton may soon be seen in the untamed, a Universal International picture co-starring 598 00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:50,620 Shelley Winters. 599 00:28:50,620 --> 00:29:00,260 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Frank Lovejoy in The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven. 600 00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:05,780 Last July, the nation's worst flood in a decade smashed through Kansas and Missouri. 601 00:29:05,780 --> 00:29:10,780 The Red Cross was on the job to relieve the suffering and shelter the homeless. 602 00:29:10,780 --> 00:29:17,180 This was only one of 300 domestic disasters in which the Red Cross gave aid last year. 603 00:29:17,180 --> 00:29:22,980 To carry on its vital work, the Red Cross needs your financial aid now. 604 00:29:22,980 --> 00:29:28,620 Give generously. 605 00:29:28,620 --> 00:29:43,300 This is the CBS Radio Network.