WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.680 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Joseph Cotton in tonight's presentation 00:11.680 --> 00:19.760 of Suspense. 00:19.760 --> 00:25.360 Tonight Auto Light presents the story of a man who craved power, position, and money 00:25.360 --> 00:31.160 and destroyed himself accomplishing it, a tale we call A Watery Grave, starring Mr. 00:31.160 --> 00:35.160 Joseph Cotton. 00:35.160 --> 00:43.200 Oh, Mr. Wilcox. 00:43.200 --> 00:44.960 Why it's Oscar Auto. 00:44.960 --> 00:46.760 You're looking way below par. 00:46.760 --> 00:49.200 I feel that way too. 00:49.200 --> 00:52.200 Well, let Dr. Wilcox have a look. 00:52.200 --> 00:57.800 Uh-huh. Well, Oscar, I'd say you're suffering from a case of worn out spark plugs. 00:57.800 --> 01:00.360 Let's visit the nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 01:00.360 --> 01:04.680 He and his exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator will quickly show if I'm right. 01:04.680 --> 01:06.400 And suppose you are. 01:06.400 --> 01:10.560 Well, if that exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator shows that your spark plugs are 01:10.560 --> 01:15.560 worn out or wrong for your style of driving, the Auto Light spark plug dealer will install 01:15.560 --> 01:20.160 a bright brisk set of ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs to give you smoother 01:20.160 --> 01:22.520 performance, quick starts, and gas savings. 01:22.520 --> 01:24.760 Okay, let's go. 01:24.760 --> 01:30.080 But how do I find the location of the nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer? 01:30.080 --> 01:31.400 Why, that's easy. 01:31.400 --> 01:35.400 We'll call Western Union, buy number, and ask for operator 25. 01:35.400 --> 01:37.360 She'll gladly tell us his location. 01:37.360 --> 01:44.040 Let's go, Oscar, because from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:44.040 --> 01:50.080 And now with A Watery Grave and the performance of Mr. Joseph Cotton, Auto Light hopes once 01:50.080 --> 01:58.720 again to keep you in suspense. 01:58.720 --> 02:01.840 How did it happen when everything was so good? 02:01.840 --> 02:05.840 How did it get destroyed in five short hours? 02:05.840 --> 02:15.040 How did I start to die? 02:15.040 --> 02:18.200 In our city, a district attorney is an important man. 02:18.200 --> 02:20.640 Our city is an important city in the nation. 02:20.640 --> 02:24.200 Therefore, I am important as its district attorney. 02:24.200 --> 02:28.240 The logic of law, the deductive reasoning that leads to everything. 02:28.240 --> 02:33.200 It was only reasonable that such powerful interest should have come to me. 02:33.200 --> 02:45.800 I had a case against McNeely which could have destroyed him. 02:45.800 --> 02:47.240 What is it, Mr. McNeely? 02:47.240 --> 02:51.560 I'm not in the habit of making these calls myself, Mr. Kelley. 02:51.560 --> 02:55.560 It's obvious, but then you're not in this position very often either. 02:55.560 --> 02:56.920 It's a daring thing you've done. 02:56.920 --> 03:00.280 Only a question of getting a sufficiently strong case against you. 03:00.280 --> 03:03.360 I've broken other district attorneys for attempting it. 03:03.360 --> 03:04.800 They never had the evidence I do. 03:04.800 --> 03:07.640 I don't think you'd want to try breaking me. 03:07.640 --> 03:10.440 I can send you to prison for life. 03:10.440 --> 03:12.060 You're right. 03:12.060 --> 03:17.640 And yet, where I can't destroy you, I can prevent you from advancing, getting to a greater 03:17.640 --> 03:20.320 position, a more prominent position in political life. 03:20.320 --> 03:21.360 What does that mean? 03:21.360 --> 03:26.480 It means it is no longer a question of can you be bought, but how much you want. 03:26.480 --> 03:32.920 I've waited a long time for this moment to be able to bargain with you. 03:32.920 --> 03:36.520 I respect your strength and perception. 03:36.520 --> 03:38.160 It's worth a great deal to me, Mr. Kelley. 03:38.160 --> 03:40.280 That is the matter of my chief witness. 03:40.280 --> 03:45.280 If I don't prosecute you, he'll go to the state district attorney, perhaps to the federal 03:45.280 --> 03:46.280 government. 03:46.280 --> 03:51.720 That is part of what you will give me in exchange for the wealth you're going to receive. 03:51.720 --> 03:53.440 Who is your chief witness? 03:53.440 --> 03:56.000 I can guarantee you he'll not testify. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.920 I would rather give myself my own guarantee on that matter. 03:58.920 --> 04:02.440 It would mean his death, wouldn't it? 04:02.440 --> 04:09.120 Mr. Kelley, all of us, any of us, even the most noble of persons, must look the other 04:09.120 --> 04:10.480 way sometimes. 04:10.480 --> 04:12.240 It's easy for you to say that. 04:12.240 --> 04:13.920 It's easy for you to do. 04:13.920 --> 04:17.720 To look the other way becomes the easiest thing in the world after a while. 04:17.720 --> 04:21.200 All you have to know is why you're doing it and what you have to gain. 04:21.200 --> 04:23.760 How does one look the other way? 04:23.760 --> 04:29.320 How does one achieve the facility for turning around at precisely the right moment? 04:29.320 --> 04:31.920 A trip to Europe. 04:31.920 --> 04:33.700 My wife has always wanted to go to Europe. 04:33.700 --> 04:35.320 She likes things like that. 04:35.320 --> 04:37.080 His name? 04:37.080 --> 04:41.720 Trip to Europe is something that is dreamed of, spoken of it often. 04:41.720 --> 04:43.280 His name? 04:43.280 --> 04:44.280 Bartell. 04:44.280 --> 04:46.280 Ah, yes. 04:46.280 --> 04:49.160 Ah, yes. 04:49.160 --> 04:54.880 My good, trusted friend, Bartell. 04:54.880 --> 05:03.040 Thank you, Mr. Kelley. 05:03.040 --> 05:07.960 Who was Bartell, a man from the streets who had muscled his way into life? 05:07.960 --> 05:10.160 Who was Bartell? 05:10.160 --> 05:13.360 Circumstance had made him a witness to McNeely's worst plans. 05:13.360 --> 05:17.720 Destiny had placed him in a position of value to the district attorney's office. 05:17.720 --> 05:23.120 This valueless man, Bartell, happenstance and coincidence had made him the keeper of 05:23.120 --> 05:28.880 dark secrets and illegal events which could have smashed an empire, an empire I was now 05:28.880 --> 05:42.920 partnered to merely because I told them a name and looked the other way. 05:42.920 --> 05:47.560 The first night out I waited on deck after dinner, waited for Betty to come out and we 05:47.560 --> 05:48.840 would go to the main saloon. 05:48.840 --> 05:55.040 Oh, it felt good to know your way in the world, to know when to look the other way. 05:55.040 --> 06:01.240 Sometimes you only have to do it once if you plan right and Betty could have everything, 06:01.240 --> 06:08.160 a bigger house, another servant in the house, up, up, moving up, so secure I didn't even 06:08.160 --> 06:10.440 hear his footsteps approaching. 06:10.440 --> 06:17.200 So positive all was going well I didn't even think of caution, so certain of success, everything 06:17.200 --> 06:18.200 for Betty. 06:18.200 --> 06:19.200 I was so pleased. 06:19.200 --> 06:22.440 You're the only man I ever trusted. 06:22.440 --> 06:24.200 Ah, Bartell. 06:24.200 --> 06:27.520 The only man and a D.A. besides. 06:27.520 --> 06:31.280 Ah, and you can still trust me. 06:31.280 --> 06:33.800 Even after you said my name? 06:33.800 --> 06:36.000 I'm getting rid of McNeely for you. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Are you? 06:37.000 --> 06:38.280 You turned state's evidence. 06:38.280 --> 06:42.520 If you didn't believe I could get rid of McNeely, you wouldn't have dared turn state's 06:42.520 --> 06:43.520 evidence. 06:43.520 --> 06:45.360 I believed you, I trusted you. 06:45.360 --> 06:46.560 Let's stop the game. 06:46.560 --> 06:49.000 Why did I ever think I could trust you? 06:49.000 --> 06:52.680 Now tell me, you're a smart man, you went to college. 06:52.680 --> 06:57.720 Of course it was to your advantage because if the law could get rid of McNeely for you, 06:57.720 --> 06:58.720 that was better. 06:58.720 --> 06:59.720 And safer. 06:59.720 --> 07:01.160 So don't have any illusions about trusting me. 07:01.160 --> 07:02.760 You never did, you needed me, that's different. 07:02.760 --> 07:06.120 And you needed me, we needed each other, we still do, nothing's different. 07:06.120 --> 07:08.760 Act, you're under bond, Bartell. 07:08.760 --> 07:10.720 You're leaving the country without permission. 07:10.720 --> 07:14.560 McNeely gave me permission, he had me shot at and I was wounded. 07:14.560 --> 07:15.880 See my shoulder? 07:15.880 --> 07:18.280 Fat on this side, fat from bandages. 07:18.280 --> 07:19.280 You don't have a passport. 07:19.280 --> 07:21.440 I don't need that either, I have money. 07:21.440 --> 07:22.840 How'd you get aboard? 07:22.840 --> 07:24.480 Oh, it's simple. 07:24.480 --> 07:29.440 Easy to stay hidden for a day, a second and third day, that's something else. 07:29.440 --> 07:32.840 I can fix it so you won't be let off, so you'll be sent right back. 07:32.840 --> 07:36.280 Mr. Callan, I can put you in prison if I'm sent back. 07:36.280 --> 07:39.480 A word would prevail against yours in any court of law. 07:39.480 --> 07:43.540 Maybe against my word alone, but not McNeely's hired gunsel. 07:43.540 --> 07:45.840 Both are words against yours. 07:45.840 --> 07:46.880 You have him? 07:46.880 --> 07:49.000 Some of my men do, yeah, he's safe at home. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.160 Oh, I could discredit your testimony. 07:51.160 --> 07:52.440 Ah, then why argue? 07:52.440 --> 07:53.760 I have nothing to do with you. 07:53.760 --> 07:55.640 You've got no choice, Mr. Callan. 07:55.640 --> 07:56.640 Warning you, Bartel. 07:56.640 --> 08:00.240 Well, what do you do, kill me? 08:00.240 --> 08:02.640 You're not the kind who thinks like that. 08:02.640 --> 08:04.160 You kill by law the legal way. 08:04.160 --> 08:06.560 And I'll find a way by law. 08:06.560 --> 08:08.640 Once I'm in Europe, they have different laws. 08:08.640 --> 08:10.160 All right. 08:10.160 --> 08:11.640 I'm a realist, Bartel. 08:11.640 --> 08:12.240 So? 08:12.240 --> 08:14.760 I only take calculated risks. 08:14.760 --> 08:15.960 What's your price? 08:15.960 --> 08:18.640 I have more money than you do, Callan, you couldn't buy me. 08:18.640 --> 08:20.160 Then what do you want? 08:20.160 --> 08:22.240 But you have more prestige than I do. 08:22.240 --> 08:23.640 You're liked. 08:23.640 --> 08:25.560 You know your way around the talkers. 08:25.560 --> 08:26.960 Well, talk me off this ship. 08:26.960 --> 08:27.600 Impossible. 08:27.600 --> 08:28.440 Find a way. 08:28.440 --> 08:29.960 You'll be discovered before we dock. 08:29.960 --> 08:33.160 Not if you put me up in your cabin. 08:33.160 --> 08:37.240 Bartel, wherever I'm involved, I'll listen and meet a man half way. 08:37.240 --> 08:39.440 But me, me alone, not my wife. 08:39.440 --> 08:41.480 If you involve my wife, I won't do a thing for you. 08:41.480 --> 08:43.600 Not if my wife's involved in any way, not a thing. 08:43.600 --> 08:45.560 I'm in a squeeze, Callan. 08:45.560 --> 08:47.880 I'm finished unless you help me get into Europe. 08:47.880 --> 08:49.560 But you'll be finished with me. 08:49.560 --> 08:51.120 I've got enough power for that. 08:51.120 --> 08:52.120 I'll find a way. 08:52.120 --> 08:53.360 All right, I'll go with you. 08:53.360 --> 08:55.280 No. 08:55.280 --> 08:57.560 Meet me here in one hour. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.320 I walked away calm. 09:08.320 --> 09:12.200 I made a point of walking away confident, but my stomach felt sick. 09:12.200 --> 09:15.760 Maybe I thought of trying to kill him then and didn't know it. 09:15.760 --> 09:18.640 I'd been raised to respect human life. 09:18.640 --> 09:20.760 I'd been educated to be decent, to forgive. 09:20.760 --> 09:22.200 But Bartel wasn't human. 09:22.200 --> 09:23.680 He was a beast. 09:23.680 --> 09:29.280 And is there anything in the ethic which says we cannot protect our lives when attacked? 09:29.280 --> 09:33.800 Bartel was destroying me, pulling me carefully, built world down about me. 09:33.800 --> 09:39.000 A world Betty must know nothing about, a world I had built to protect Betty. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.080 Law school to ward politics, to assistant district attorney. 09:43.080 --> 09:47.920 So long lay up, the hardest minds to fight, the most realistic men to please. 09:47.920 --> 09:49.880 Only the toughest stay with it. 09:49.880 --> 09:56.360 Only the toughest and shrewdest get to my position because my position leads to the highest offices 09:56.360 --> 10:00.080 if you're smart, if you look the other way. 10:00.080 --> 10:02.920 Maybe I knew I wanted to kill him then. 10:02.920 --> 10:04.240 The sea was calm. 10:04.240 --> 10:06.400 The ship wasn't pitching. 10:06.400 --> 10:09.360 Yet my stomach was sick. 10:09.360 --> 10:19.400 Half an hour was gone and still no plan. 10:19.400 --> 10:20.400 Where to go? 10:20.400 --> 10:21.400 Who to turn to? 10:21.400 --> 10:22.400 What to ask? 10:22.400 --> 10:23.400 Nothing anywhere. 10:23.400 --> 10:26.840 My mind posed questions for which there were no answers. 10:26.840 --> 10:30.040 Would I lose all I owned in the world? 10:30.040 --> 10:31.960 Problems for which there were no solutions. 10:31.960 --> 10:34.480 If I lost everything, would Betty go too? 10:34.480 --> 10:39.560 Were the two things inseparable, my success and Betty? 10:39.560 --> 10:44.440 I'll be ready in a minute. 10:44.440 --> 10:47.600 Robert, is that you? 10:47.600 --> 10:49.640 Who is it? 10:49.640 --> 10:52.640 Oh, Robert, you didn't answer. 10:52.640 --> 10:53.640 There. 10:53.640 --> 10:54.640 Drink helps. 10:54.640 --> 10:55.640 Helps what? 10:55.640 --> 10:58.240 You go to the dining saloon yourself. 10:58.240 --> 10:59.240 I'll be along soon. 10:59.240 --> 11:01.640 Do you mind if I ask what's wrong? 11:01.640 --> 11:02.640 I can handle it. 11:02.640 --> 11:03.640 Yes, of course. 11:03.640 --> 11:06.760 I'll be in the dining saloon. 11:06.760 --> 11:08.480 Wait a minute. 11:08.480 --> 11:09.480 Come back. 11:09.480 --> 11:10.480 All right. 11:10.480 --> 11:11.480 What is it? 11:11.480 --> 11:15.080 You were going to leave, weren't you? 11:15.080 --> 11:16.080 I don't understand. 11:16.080 --> 11:17.760 You'd have left me. 11:17.760 --> 11:21.640 You saw I was troubled, very troubled, and I wanted to talk to you, but you made me ask 11:21.640 --> 11:22.640 you. 11:22.640 --> 11:24.640 Oh, please, don't get angry, Robert. 11:24.640 --> 11:25.640 Please don't argue. 11:25.640 --> 11:29.040 You always make me ask you for your attention, always, ever since we've been married. 11:29.040 --> 11:30.320 Not always, Robert. 11:30.320 --> 11:31.880 Not ever since we were married. 11:31.880 --> 11:32.880 Most of the time. 11:32.880 --> 11:33.880 You changed. 11:33.880 --> 11:34.880 You got quiet. 11:34.880 --> 11:36.320 You never wanted to talk about things I was doing. 11:36.320 --> 11:37.760 You never accepted my suggestion. 11:37.760 --> 11:40.360 You didn't understand the legal profession, the workings of law. 11:40.360 --> 11:41.800 That's why I stopped giving suggestions. 11:41.800 --> 11:43.360 It wasn't suggestions I wanted. 11:43.360 --> 11:45.640 It was encouragement to have you believe in me. 11:45.640 --> 11:46.640 But you never did. 11:46.640 --> 11:49.840 The more I gave you, the more I tried to give you, the less you seemed to care. 11:49.840 --> 11:50.840 Oh, please, stop. 11:50.840 --> 11:52.520 You think all these things come out of the sky? 11:52.520 --> 11:53.680 Do you think they were given to me? 11:53.680 --> 11:56.000 I had to fight for them, to fight to get things for you. 11:56.000 --> 11:57.000 I never asked for them. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.520 Oh, but you took them. 11:58.520 --> 11:59.520 You never refused them. 11:59.520 --> 12:01.040 You never said, no, I don't want a lot of clothes. 12:01.040 --> 12:02.480 No, I don't want a fur coat. 12:02.480 --> 12:03.480 You never said no. 12:03.480 --> 12:04.480 Stop shouting. 12:04.480 --> 12:05.480 Stop. 12:05.480 --> 12:06.480 Shout. 12:06.480 --> 12:07.480 Everything. 12:07.480 --> 12:08.480 For you. 12:08.480 --> 12:10.760 But you give nothing in return. 12:10.760 --> 12:13.080 No love or affection or like, not even liking. 12:13.080 --> 12:15.440 Why didn't you ask for a divorce? 12:15.440 --> 12:16.440 I'll give you a divorce. 12:16.440 --> 12:17.440 Easy. 12:17.440 --> 12:18.440 Simple. 12:18.440 --> 12:19.440 Is that what you want? 12:19.440 --> 12:21.440 Oh, I can't stand anymore. 12:21.440 --> 12:24.760 Dear, you're not going to leave now. 12:24.760 --> 12:25.760 My arm. 12:25.760 --> 12:27.720 You know why you want to divorce me? 12:27.720 --> 12:28.720 You know why you won't? 12:28.720 --> 12:31.160 Because of these comforts. 12:31.160 --> 12:32.800 That's all you want. 12:32.800 --> 12:33.800 You'd lose them. 12:33.800 --> 12:34.800 You'd lose them overnight. 12:34.800 --> 12:36.880 Why do you do this to me? 12:36.880 --> 12:39.760 I've paid for everything in my life, for everything. 12:39.760 --> 12:40.760 Everything you have. 12:40.760 --> 12:56.000 Only now it's time for you to pay too. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.880 To kill a man is the easiest thing in the world to do. 12:58.880 --> 13:01.600 To kill a man who would take your wife from you. 13:01.600 --> 13:02.600 I know the logic. 13:02.600 --> 13:04.840 I know it's wrong. 13:04.840 --> 13:08.960 Bartel wasn't taking my wife from me, but he was taking position and wealth and those 13:08.960 --> 13:13.000 things kept my wife to me, I thought. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.280 I knew. 13:15.280 --> 13:20.360 Bartel had to be destroyed and she would have to be partner to it. 13:20.360 --> 13:22.120 That way she'd never leave. 13:22.120 --> 13:24.280 That way I'd achieve everything. 13:24.280 --> 13:26.800 That's why I told her the story as if I'd memorized it. 13:26.800 --> 13:29.560 As if it was the only thing I'd ever thought about. 13:29.560 --> 13:33.480 As if Bartel's death was the last obstacle in our life. 13:33.480 --> 13:34.880 No, Robert. 13:34.880 --> 13:36.680 Please, don't, Robert. 13:36.680 --> 13:38.760 You'll distract him up there on the deck. 13:38.760 --> 13:41.480 At the dark place on the deck. 13:41.480 --> 13:42.480 Don't ask me. 13:42.480 --> 13:44.840 Don't make me part of this. 13:44.840 --> 13:47.040 Together we plan it. 13:47.040 --> 13:49.400 Together we need him. 13:49.400 --> 13:50.400 Together. 13:50.400 --> 13:53.880 Come on, Betty, the hour's up. 13:53.880 --> 14:18.560 The hour's up. 14:18.560 --> 14:24.360 Radio Light is bringing you Mr. Joseph Carton in A Watery Grave, 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plans to kill a human being and die more when one does it? 16:30.640 --> 16:37.720 And to compound it, Your Honor, funny to think, Your Honor, funny to think that way now. 16:37.720 --> 16:41.440 To compound it by knowing your wife hates you more than anything in the world because 16:41.440 --> 16:48.400 she's terrified, infuriated by her hate, but pleased with her terror. 16:48.400 --> 16:51.160 How can she hate me so? 16:51.160 --> 16:54.000 In so short a time, I gave her everything. 16:54.000 --> 17:01.960 I tried to be something important for her and rich for her and kill for her. 17:01.960 --> 17:07.400 As we walked along the deck, I had no real idea how I would kill Bartell, no exact idea, 17:07.400 --> 17:09.440 but it had to be done. 17:09.440 --> 17:15.640 I held that his arm tightly as we approached the dark part of the deck near the railing, 17:15.640 --> 17:20.720 the place where Bartell was, not actually a railing, an entrance for a ramp with only 17:20.720 --> 17:23.800 a chain across it. 17:23.800 --> 17:29.920 Bartell, Bartell, this is my wife. 17:29.920 --> 17:30.920 What did you decide? 17:30.920 --> 17:32.240 I've been talking to her. 17:32.240 --> 17:33.520 I've been explaining to her. 17:33.520 --> 17:34.520 What did you decide? 17:34.520 --> 17:36.920 Don't talk to me like that, Bartell. 17:36.920 --> 17:39.520 Don't ever talk to me like that. 17:39.520 --> 17:42.360 Do you put me in your stateroom? 17:42.360 --> 17:44.280 Yes, yes, of course. 17:44.280 --> 17:46.080 And guarantee to get me off the ship? 17:46.080 --> 17:47.080 I couldn't guarantee. 17:47.080 --> 17:49.280 Guarantees and things like this are impossible. 17:49.280 --> 17:52.320 There are officials to get at, ship's officers, finding the right people. 17:52.320 --> 17:54.920 You're good at putting in a fix, Mr. Callan. 17:54.920 --> 17:59.200 You've been putting in fixes all the way from the slums up to the penthouses. 17:59.200 --> 18:00.200 Ship shouldn't stop you. 18:00.200 --> 18:01.560 Don't say things like that. 18:01.560 --> 18:03.080 Why not? 18:03.080 --> 18:07.160 Everybody knows how McNeely pays off and you're one of McNeely's boys now. 18:07.160 --> 18:11.840 Anytime he wants to put his fingers in a dirty deal, he'll use your hands to do it. 18:11.840 --> 18:14.280 Don't talk like that in front of my wife. 18:14.280 --> 18:16.760 She'll get used to it. 18:16.760 --> 18:19.640 McNeely doesn't care who knows about his dirty-handed men. 18:19.640 --> 18:20.640 Shut up. 18:20.640 --> 18:21.640 Shut up! 18:21.640 --> 18:22.640 I lunged at him. 18:22.640 --> 18:23.640 I didn't even reach for his gun he was carrying. 18:23.640 --> 18:24.640 He didn't think I was capable of doing it. 18:24.640 --> 18:25.640 His back was against the chain, his good arm flailing wildly over the chain, over and 18:25.640 --> 18:26.640 into the water. 18:26.640 --> 18:27.640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 18:27.640 --> 18:28.640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 18:28.640 --> 18:29.640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 18:29.640 --> 18:30.640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 18:30.640 --> 18:31.640 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 18:31.640 --> 18:33.280 I didn't see him in the doctor's office. 18:33.280 --> 18:34.280 I didn't know until I heard the scream. 18:34.280 --> 18:35.280 Let go! 18:35.280 --> 18:36.280 Let go! 18:36.280 --> 18:38.280 It was too late for Bartell to let go. 18:38.280 --> 18:39.280 He had a grip on my wife's arm. 18:39.280 --> 18:40.280 Before I could move, before I could do anything, it was insane. 18:40.280 --> 18:41.280 She was pulled over the side too, over into the water. 18:41.280 --> 18:42.280 I had to save her. 18:42.280 --> 18:56.120 There was little I could do to save her would be to save Bartell, but I didn't hesitate. 18:56.120 --> 18:57.120 I know that. 18:57.120 --> 18:58.120 I'm sure of it. 18:58.120 --> 19:00.120 I grabbed the nearest light preserver and hurled it over the side. 19:00.120 --> 19:04.360 I could barely see them struggling in the water with the ship's propellers coming nearer. 19:04.360 --> 19:05.920 And then I knew I would have to jump. 19:05.920 --> 19:06.920 I would go over. 19:06.920 --> 19:10.040 I could still finish Bartell and save Betty. 19:10.040 --> 19:14.480 Still, I could have everything and it would be called an accident. 19:14.480 --> 19:15.480 I went over the side. 19:15.480 --> 19:16.480 Go over it. 19:16.480 --> 19:17.480 Get the light preserver. 19:17.480 --> 19:18.480 Lie flat. 19:18.480 --> 19:19.480 Don't try to swim. 19:19.480 --> 19:20.480 But watch. 19:20.480 --> 19:30.480 From the propellers. 19:30.480 --> 19:33.480 Help. 19:33.480 --> 19:44.480 Robert, help. 19:44.480 --> 20:07.440 Suddenly it was quiet. 20:07.440 --> 20:12.000 Suddenly the terror was gone and I could see Betty staying afloat near the light preserver 20:12.000 --> 20:16.680 and beyond that Bartell struggling with one good arm, struggling to get to the light preserver 20:16.680 --> 20:17.680 first. 20:17.680 --> 20:18.680 I forgot about Betty. 20:18.680 --> 20:23.600 I forgot everything except that I had to get him before he took the light preserver. 20:23.600 --> 20:24.600 You'll never get it. 20:24.600 --> 20:25.600 Keep, keep back. 20:25.600 --> 20:26.600 A gun. 20:26.600 --> 20:27.600 I have a gun. 20:27.600 --> 20:28.600 Nothing now. 20:28.600 --> 20:29.600 Robert, Robert, don't. 20:29.600 --> 20:30.600 Keep away from me. 20:30.600 --> 20:31.600 Now. 20:31.600 --> 20:32.600 Keep away. 20:32.600 --> 20:33.600 Now Bartell. 20:33.600 --> 20:34.600 Now try to talk. 20:34.600 --> 20:35.600 Hands. 20:35.600 --> 20:36.600 Now tell your story. 20:36.600 --> 20:37.600 I'm telling you. 20:37.600 --> 20:38.600 I'm telling you. 20:38.600 --> 20:39.600 I'm telling you. 20:39.600 --> 20:40.600 I'm telling you. 20:40.600 --> 20:41.600 I'm telling you. 20:41.600 --> 20:42.600 Tell it. 20:42.600 --> 20:43.600 Over Like Water. 20:43.600 --> 20:44.760 Under water. 20:44.760 --> 20:45.760 No. 20:45.760 --> 20:47.600 Tell it. 20:47.600 --> 20:50.920 No No. 20:50.920 --> 20:52.080 From the sea. 20:52.080 --> 21:06.160 Tell your story. 21:06.160 --> 21:07.260 Tell it. 21:07.260 --> 21:08.260 in the sea. 21:14.260 --> 21:16.260 You... you murdered him. 21:16.260 --> 21:18.260 It was Bartell who us. 21:18.260 --> 21:20.260 Takes a preservative and holds onto it. 21:20.260 --> 21:23.260 Don't you understand it was Bartell who us? 21:23.260 --> 21:24.260 I never knew you. 21:24.260 --> 21:26.260 The ship will turn around and pick us up soon. 21:26.260 --> 21:27.260 You must understand. 21:27.260 --> 21:29.260 I never really knew you. 21:29.260 --> 21:30.260 It takes something to kill a man. 21:30.260 --> 21:32.260 Bartell was the killer. 21:32.260 --> 21:33.260 A ruthless man, I know. 21:33.260 --> 21:37.260 I was the one who forced him to turn state's evidence. 21:37.260 --> 21:38.260 Something horrible in you. 21:38.260 --> 21:41.260 Maybe that's why we've been growing apart. 21:41.260 --> 21:42.260 Maybe I saw it but didn't recognize it. 21:42.260 --> 21:43.260 I'd never seen it before. 21:43.260 --> 21:45.260 You see it every day in the eyes of the people. 21:45.260 --> 21:46.260 That's a lie. 21:46.260 --> 21:47.260 Look at the murders. 21:47.260 --> 21:50.260 Look at war. 21:50.260 --> 21:53.260 Can't make people kill each other if they don't want to. 21:53.260 --> 21:54.260 Could you? 21:54.260 --> 21:56.260 How could you? 21:56.260 --> 21:58.260 I'll never forget the look on his face 21:58.260 --> 22:00.260 when he knew he was going to be drowned. 22:00.260 --> 22:03.260 That you were going to do. 22:03.260 --> 22:06.260 It's terrible. 22:06.260 --> 22:08.260 Crying. 22:08.260 --> 22:10.260 Crying for him. 22:10.260 --> 22:11.260 Crying for a hoodlum. 22:11.260 --> 22:13.260 A killer. 22:13.260 --> 22:14.260 Crying for a gangster. 22:14.260 --> 22:15.260 Yes. 22:15.260 --> 22:17.260 Tears for him. 22:17.260 --> 22:18.260 I don't deserve it. 22:18.260 --> 22:19.260 Why should he be cried over? 22:19.260 --> 22:21.260 Why him? 22:21.260 --> 22:23.260 You never wept for me. 22:23.260 --> 22:24.260 I weep for you too. 22:24.260 --> 22:25.260 I don't need pity. 22:25.260 --> 22:26.260 I don't need your pity. 22:26.260 --> 22:28.260 I'm not giving you pity. 22:28.260 --> 22:30.260 I'm trying to find a way to forgive you. 22:30.260 --> 22:31.260 Here. 22:31.260 --> 22:33.260 Hold on to the life preserver. 22:33.260 --> 22:34.260 Don't touch me. 22:34.260 --> 22:35.260 You'll drown if you let go. 22:35.260 --> 22:36.260 Get away from me. 22:36.260 --> 22:37.260 You'll claw at me. 22:37.260 --> 22:39.260 Don't come near me. 22:39.260 --> 22:41.260 You only want the life preserver. 22:41.260 --> 22:43.260 All right. You want to believe it. It's true. 22:43.260 --> 22:46.260 And I'll get it. 22:46.260 --> 22:48.260 I claw you. I claw your eyes. 22:48.260 --> 22:50.260 You'll never have a chance. 22:50.260 --> 22:51.260 The water carried me faster. 22:51.260 --> 22:52.260 You'll never catch up to me. 22:52.260 --> 22:53.260 I'll... 22:53.260 --> 22:55.260 I'll catch up. 22:55.260 --> 22:56.260 Oh, Betty. 22:56.260 --> 22:58.260 Don't be a fool. Come back. 22:58.260 --> 23:00.260 Betty. 23:00.260 --> 23:03.260 Come back. The ship will turn around. 23:03.260 --> 23:06.260 The ship will save us. 23:06.260 --> 23:07.260 Die, Robertson. 23:07.260 --> 23:09.260 Die like you'd let anyone die for you. 23:09.260 --> 23:10.260 Die for yourself. 23:10.260 --> 23:12.260 I don't need the life preserver. 23:12.260 --> 23:18.260 I can hold out until the ship turns around. 23:18.260 --> 23:20.260 They're still going for the horizon. 23:20.260 --> 23:21.260 The ship. 23:21.260 --> 23:22.260 They'll turn around. 23:22.260 --> 23:24.260 I'm the biggest sweet on the ship. 23:24.260 --> 23:27.260 They'll miss us and turn around in a few minutes. 23:27.260 --> 23:30.260 What makes you think you're so important? 23:30.260 --> 23:32.260 What makes you think you'd be missed? 23:32.260 --> 23:34.260 I... 23:34.260 --> 23:36.260 I am important. 23:36.260 --> 23:38.260 What makes you want to be so big? 23:38.260 --> 23:39.260 So much? 23:39.260 --> 23:41.260 Oh. 23:41.260 --> 23:43.260 It was... 23:43.260 --> 23:45.260 for you. 23:45.260 --> 23:49.260 What I've struggled so hard to get. 23:49.260 --> 23:51.260 Oh. For you. 23:51.260 --> 23:52.260 For yourself. 23:52.260 --> 23:56.260 Getting rich to please yourself, but you never enjoyed it either. 23:56.260 --> 23:59.260 You would have left me if I'd stopped. 23:59.260 --> 24:01.260 Stopped making so much. 24:01.260 --> 24:03.260 I only wanted love. 24:03.260 --> 24:07.260 Only wanted a family. Your love. Your children. 24:07.260 --> 24:09.260 Only yours. 24:09.260 --> 24:12.260 Oh. You mean that. 24:12.260 --> 24:14.260 You do mean that. 24:14.260 --> 24:16.260 It's too late. 24:16.260 --> 24:17.260 Too late. 24:17.260 --> 24:19.260 Oh, we can. 24:19.260 --> 24:23.260 In time, we can forget. 24:23.260 --> 24:25.260 How? 24:25.260 --> 24:27.260 How can I forget? How can you? 24:27.260 --> 24:30.260 Oh, you're right. 24:30.260 --> 24:35.260 It was for me, and it wasn't for the money. 24:35.260 --> 24:38.260 For the wealth. It was for power. 24:38.260 --> 24:41.260 Not... not even that. 24:41.260 --> 24:43.260 Oh, darling. 24:43.260 --> 24:45.260 Darling. 24:45.260 --> 24:47.260 Darling Betty. 24:47.260 --> 24:50.260 Oh, my wonderful Betty. 24:50.260 --> 24:51.260 Robert. 24:51.260 --> 24:53.260 The ship is turning. 24:53.260 --> 24:54.260 Hold on, Robert. 24:54.260 --> 24:55.260 I can't. 24:55.260 --> 24:57.260 And I'll come to you. 24:57.260 --> 24:59.260 The life preserver, it can support both of us. 24:59.260 --> 25:01.260 When did I start to die, Betty? 25:01.260 --> 25:03.260 I'm dying now. 25:03.260 --> 25:05.260 When did I start to die? 25:05.260 --> 25:07.260 Don't. Don't talk like that. 25:07.260 --> 25:09.260 Hold up, Robert. 25:09.260 --> 25:13.260 When I knew I would kill Bartell. 25:13.260 --> 25:15.260 It was sooner. 25:15.260 --> 25:19.260 When I said I would look the other way. 25:19.260 --> 25:22.260 Yes, Mr. McNeely. 25:22.260 --> 25:25.260 You can kill Bartell. 25:25.260 --> 25:27.260 I will look the other way. 25:27.260 --> 25:28.260 Hold up, darling. 25:28.260 --> 25:30.260 Yes, Mr. McNeely. 25:30.260 --> 25:34.260 Only I started to die long before, years before, 25:34.260 --> 25:38.260 maybe I've been killing myself all my life, 25:38.260 --> 25:40.260 a slow way. 25:40.260 --> 25:42.260 A subtle way. 25:42.260 --> 25:45.260 Darling, please hold on a minute longer. 25:45.260 --> 25:47.260 Only a minute. 25:47.260 --> 25:50.260 I can. 25:50.260 --> 25:52.260 My darling. 25:52.260 --> 25:55.260 I love you. 25:55.260 --> 25:57.260 I love you. 25:57.260 --> 26:12.260 I love you. 26:27.260 --> 26:30.260 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 26:30.260 --> 26:33.260 Tonight's star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. 26:33.260 --> 26:36.260 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, 26:36.260 --> 26:38.260 world's largest independent manufacturer 26:38.260 --> 26:42.260 of automotive electrical equipment. 26:42.260 --> 26:35.260 It is the world's largest 26:45.260 --> 26:47.260 and most powerful 26:47.260 --> 26:49.260 automotive equipment manufacturer. 26:49.260 --> 26:51.260 It is a large-scale, 26:51.260 --> 26:53.260 high-quality, 26:53.260 --> 26:57.780 independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:57.780 --> 27:01.700 Auto-Lite is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:01.700 --> 27:07.640 And during these early months of 52, the Auto-Lite family joins in saluting the leading manufacturers 27:07.640 --> 27:11.460 who install Auto-Lite products as original equipment. 27:11.460 --> 27:16.740 Our Auto-Lite family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto-Lite 27:16.740 --> 27:22.380 plants from coast to coast and in still other Auto-Lite plants in many foreign countries. 27:22.380 --> 27:27.500 It also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in 27:27.500 --> 27:33.860 Auto-Lite, as well as 96,000 Auto-Lite distributors and dealers in the United States and thousands 27:33.860 --> 27:37.140 more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:37.140 --> 27:41.820 Our Auto-Lite family will salute the leading truck manufacturers who use Auto-Lite products 27:41.820 --> 27:44.920 on the next Auto-Lite Suspense Television program. 27:44.920 --> 27:48.940 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of suspense on television so 27:48.940 --> 27:51.100 that you'll be sure to see this program. 27:51.100 --> 28:04.340 And remember, be with us next week for another thrilling Auto-Lite Suspense program on radio. 28:04.340 --> 28:10.140 Next week, our star will be Mr. Frank Lovejoy in the recreation of an historical puzzle, 28:10.140 --> 28:17.220 a radio dramatization of The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven, a story based on fact and 28:17.220 --> 28:23.620 presented on Suspense. 28:23.620 --> 28:28.220 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick 28:28.220 --> 28:30.020 and conducted by Ludd Luskin. 28:30.020 --> 28:34.180 A watery grave was written for Suspense by Arthur Ross. 28:34.180 --> 28:40.740 In tonight's story, Mary Jane Kraft was heard as Betty, Stan Waxman as McNeely, and Joseph 28:40.740 --> 28:42.980 Kearns as Bartel. 28:42.980 --> 28:48.060 Joseph Cotton may soon be seen in the untamed, a Universal International picture co-starring 28:48.060 --> 28:50.620 Shelley Winters. 28:50.620 --> 29:00.260 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Frank Lovejoy in The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven. 29:00.260 --> 29:05.780 Last July, the nation's worst flood in a decade smashed through Kansas and Missouri. 29:05.780 --> 29:10.780 The Red Cross was on the job to relieve the suffering and shelter the homeless. 29:10.780 --> 29:17.180 This was only one of 300 domestic disasters in which the Red Cross gave aid last year. 29:17.180 --> 29:22.980 To carry on its vital work, the Red Cross needs your financial aid now. 29:22.980 --> 29:28.620 Give generously. 29:28.620 --> 29:43.300 This is the CBS Radio Network.