1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,800 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Anne Baxter in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,800 of Suspense. 3 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:26,600 Tonight, Auto Light recreates a classic tale as with song and story we tell of the death 4 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,600 of Barbara Allen, our star Miss Anne Baxter. 5 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:39,600 Hey Harlow, you got in my way. 6 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:40,600 Huh? 7 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Oh, Oscar Auto. 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:42,600 Sorry, I was daydreaming. 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:43,600 About what? 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,400 Why, about the Auto Light stay full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in 11 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,400 normal car use. 12 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,000 I've got one. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,560 Then my speaking sedan, you've got the world's most desired, dynamic and dependable battery. 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,320 It has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate to reduce shedding and 15 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,320 flaking. 16 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,360 That's one of the reasons why the Auto Light stay full gives longer life, as proved by 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,600 tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,520 My owner got mine from our neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer. 19 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,940 Friends, to quickly locate your nearest Auto Light battery dealer, phone Western Union 20 00:01:17,940 --> 00:01:18,940 by number. 21 00:01:18,940 --> 00:01:19,940 And ask for operator 25. 22 00:01:19,940 --> 00:01:24,360 That's me and I'll gladly tell you where you can get an Auto Light stay full. 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,720 A battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 24 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:40,240 And now Auto Light presents the Death of Barbara Allen, starring Miss Anne Baxter, hoping once 26 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:55,200 again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:06,640 In Scarlet Town where I was born, there was a fair maid dwelling, made every youth cry 28 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:32,160 well a day, and her name was Barbara Allen. 29 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:38,040 His voice was on the wind calling, calling to me, and the surface to the west of me and 30 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:43,120 to the east, and the sounds of the night sea were all around, and on the finger of strand 31 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:48,400 I waited for him, for my love, for my love as he rode to me. 32 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:54,200 And a star swung across the moon and the wind rose from the night as he rode to me, as he 33 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,200 came to me. 34 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,400 I thought you wouldn't be here, Barbara Allen. 35 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,640 And where else would I be on such a night? 36 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:07,600 Home perhaps, where it's warm. 37 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,080 And the young men of Scarlet Town to knock on your door. 38 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,600 Not here where the sea rises and the moon is cold. 39 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:14,920 Where I meet my love. 40 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:16,480 But there's a storm coming. 41 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,480 Let it. 42 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,160 The storm and the tides will drown this strand. 43 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,640 And we would drown. 44 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:22,640 Yes. 45 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:24,440 We would drown, Will. 46 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,240 And you would live no longer than I, and I no longer than you. 47 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,080 Our love would die at once on a storm. 48 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,080 Why do you talk of death? 49 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,080 Oh, I talk of love. 50 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,080 And I do. 51 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,080 And there's no death in it. 52 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,080 No, Will. 53 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,080 Only this. 54 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,080 Oh, Will. 55 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,080 Fair Barbara Allen. 56 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:40,080 Wild Barbara Allen. 57 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,080 Ride with me. 58 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:42,080 Yes. 59 00:03:42,080 --> 00:04:04,840 They rode, they rode on a stallion black. 60 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,240 The sea it was a-swellin'. 61 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:17,240 And dark, dark clouds a shadow lay on the lips of Barbara Allen. 62 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:22,520 Then Willie held her oh so close. 63 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:27,520 And he kissed a little trembling. 64 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:34,520 Then kissed again in fond ado. 65 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:41,560 Then kissed again in fond ado. 66 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:51,360 And he kissed again in fond ado. 67 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,360 Father. 68 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:53,360 In the kitchen. 69 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,360 Sean's here. 70 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:55,360 He's been waiting. 71 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:56,360 Hello, Barbara Allen. 72 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,360 I'll get you some tea. 73 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,360 No. 74 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,360 The pillow in back of me slid down, Barbara Allen. 75 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,680 Sit. 76 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,360 Where you been? 77 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:08,360 On the Strand. 78 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:09,360 With Will. 79 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,360 With Will. 80 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,360 Sean's been waiting. 81 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,960 You knew he was going to be here. 82 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,200 And then sitting with your father waiting, doing the things you should be doing, while 83 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:19,200 you meet Will on the Strand. 84 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,320 Ah, he can do for himself. 85 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:22,320 Thank you, Teafater. 86 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,320 I like whiskey in it. 87 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,120 Here. 88 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,760 Drink, old man. 89 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:36,200 I like whiskey in it because whiskey keeps the warm down. 90 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,520 And it's a cold house. 91 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,320 It's a season of storm. 92 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,360 And I have a daughter who's never home. 93 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 Ah, father. 94 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,400 The warmth of my daughter is for a sailor named Will. 95 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:48,400 Father. 96 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,240 And my house is cold. 97 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,480 You'll need a pillow for his chair, Barbara Allen. 98 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:56,480 He can do for himself. 99 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,480 He can do whatever he needs for himself. 100 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,800 He sits there and rocks and remembers the time when he had a wife to do for him. 101 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,520 Do everything but walk for him. 102 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,520 My house is cold. 103 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,520 Listen to him. 104 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,520 Barbara Allen? 105 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:13,520 Yes, Sean. 106 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,520 Will is a sailor. 107 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,520 Yes. 108 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:17,520 With a small boat. 109 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:18,520 Yes. 110 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,880 And a narrow life. 111 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,160 You couldn't know. 112 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,160 I know. 113 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,400 And one day he'll say goodbye to you and sailor small boat. 114 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,640 That will be the day when the sea will throw him back to you. 115 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,040 Wrapped in kelp and drowned. 116 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:34,480 And what of you, Sean? 117 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:35,480 Shelf keeper, Sean. 118 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,280 Seller of pots and fish hooks and whiskeys, Sean. 119 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,280 Should I love you, Sean? 120 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:43,280 Yes. 121 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:44,280 Cold. 122 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:46,480 And what will you make of me? 123 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,800 One like him who sits in a rocker and remembers. 124 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,440 You love Will. 125 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,280 How many others love Willie the sailor? 126 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:53,840 And how many does he love? 127 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:54,840 No one. 128 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:55,840 There's a girl. 129 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:58,440 You've seen her, Barbara Allen. 130 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:59,760 She's new to Scarlet Town. 131 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,840 Her name is Moria. 132 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:03,400 And she drinks wine with Will. 133 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,600 They whisper in life together. 134 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:06,600 Get out of here, Sean. 135 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,680 They say when Will leaves you, he goes to her. 136 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:09,680 You lie. 137 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,680 And if I'm not lying? 138 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,640 If he hurts you, Barbara Allen, I'll kill him. 139 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,640 Get out of here, Sean. 140 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:18,640 I would. 141 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:19,640 I'd kill him. 142 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:35,920 And later I could still hear my father rocking and the sounds of his remembering. 143 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,280 For me, it was a night of no sleep. 144 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,120 I lay there in my bed and outside was fitful squalls of rain. 145 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,600 It began and stopped and began again. 146 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:52,920 There was surf that eddied in the rocks and mist and choke and tangle of kelp flung against 147 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:53,920 the strand. 148 00:07:53,920 --> 00:08:01,400 And Will's face and his words and the words of Sean and the sudden blaze of light across 149 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:02,400 my bed. 150 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,400 The night careened against the sea. 151 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,400 And then the night was still. 152 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,400 Then it was morning. 153 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:16,400 I got up and dressed, walked through the room where my father was, still sleeping in his 154 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:17,400 care. 155 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,400 The beach had been pitted by the rain when I walked it. 156 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,400 The dune grass was green and shining. 157 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,400 The wind held stung the sand against my legs. 158 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,400 And down the curb of the beach near the end of it, Will's boat. 159 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,400 The sail on it to be mended. 160 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,400 From me to men. 161 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,400 For Will. 162 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,400 Hello. 163 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,400 What are you doing on Will's boat? 164 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,400 It's where I belong now, on Will's boat. 165 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,400 To mend his nets and the sails. 166 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,400 Will sent you here? 167 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:52,400 He left me here. 168 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:53,400 I'm not... 169 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:54,400 I know who you are. 170 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:55,400 You are Moria. 171 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:00,400 You wear a silk dress in the morning to mend a net. 172 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,400 Here, this is a net. 173 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:04,400 Mend it. 174 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,400 Let me watch what you'll do with it. 175 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,400 He will teach me when he returns. 176 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,400 When did you see Will? 177 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:10,400 I saw him. 178 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:11,400 When? 179 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,400 When I was with him. 180 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,400 When he told me to stay here and today we would go sailing together. 181 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,400 Sailing? 182 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,400 Where? 183 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:20,400 Why? 184 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:21,400 To someplace. 185 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,400 This coast is new to me. 186 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,400 Will wants me to know it. 187 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,400 What other places has he shown you? 188 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,400 Scarlet Town and what's around it. 189 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:33,400 You ridden with him? 190 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,400 On his black horse. 191 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,400 Ridden the Strand? 192 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:38,400 At night? 193 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,400 Yes. 194 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,400 The ruined church at the end of it? 195 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,400 Yes, all of these things. 196 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,400 Where is Will? 197 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,400 We sail today. 198 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,400 Will's in Scarlet Town. 199 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,400 He's buying things for the sailing. 200 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:52,400 Wine, cigarettes... 201 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,400 At Sean's. 202 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:54,400 What? 203 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:55,400 Will is at Sean's. 204 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,400 And he'll stay there. 205 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,400 He won't sail with you. 206 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,400 Across the dunes, oh she did run 207 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,400 The wind with her a-sying 208 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,400 And as she ran, the more she grieved 209 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Until she burst out crying 210 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,400 When she came down to Scarlet Town 211 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:32,400 The street with crowd was fillin' 212 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:38,400 When they saw her, they stepped aside 213 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:45,400 Made way for Barbara Allen 214 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,400 He's in there, Barbara Allen. 215 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,400 In Sean's place. 216 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,400 Why is there a crowd, Mr. Eamon? 217 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,400 In Sean's place. 218 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,400 Will's in there. 219 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,400 What happened? 220 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,400 I was in there. 221 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,400 Will was buying things of Sean. 222 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,400 Will was laughing. 223 00:10:58,400 --> 00:10:59,400 He broke open a bottle of wine. 224 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,400 He made a toast. 225 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,400 To whom? 226 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,400 To the ladies all around. 227 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,400 To Maria? 228 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,400 To her. 229 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,400 And what happened? 230 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,400 There was talk. 231 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,400 Then Will had a knife in his hand. 232 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,400 Then Sean did too. 233 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:12,400 There was a fight. 234 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Will's in there, Barbara Allen. 235 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,400 He's lying on the floor. 236 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,400 He called your name. 237 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,400 Hello, Will. 238 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,400 I'm dying, Barbara Allen. 239 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,400 What did you say, Will? 240 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,400 I'm dying. 241 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,400 Die. 242 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,400 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Ann Baxter in 243 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,400 The Death of Barbara Allen. 244 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 245 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:59,400 theater of thrills, Suspense. 246 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:11,400 For fine dependable starting power, all can well agree, 247 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:17,400 your best buy, by far, is an auto light staple battery. 248 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,400 Right, Oscar Auto. 249 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,400 And that's the great battery that needs water 250 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,400 only three times a year in normal car use. 251 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,400 The battery with advanced engineering design, eh, hello? 252 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Right, my loquacious limousine. 253 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,400 It's protected with fiberglass retaining mats 254 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,400 to give longer life, as proved by tests conducted 255 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,400 according to accepted life cycle standards. 256 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,400 Why, money just can't buy a better battery 257 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,400 than the famous auto light staple. 258 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,400 So friends, see your nearest auto light battery dealer. 259 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,400 He services all makes of batteries. 260 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,400 To quickly locate him, phone Western Union by number 261 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,400 and ask for operator 25. 262 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,400 That's me and I'll gladly tell you the name of your 263 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,400 nearest auto light battery dealer, 264 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,400 where you can get an auto light staple. 265 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,400 The battery that needs water only three times a year 266 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,400 in normal car use. 267 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,400 And remember, from bumper to tail light, 268 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,400 you're always right with auto light. 269 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,400 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, 270 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,400 Miss Ann Baxter in Elliot Lewis's production of 271 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,400 The Death of Barbara Allen. 272 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,400 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 273 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,400 suspense. 274 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,400 In scarlet town 275 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,400 where I was born 276 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,400 Twilight was a-fallin' 277 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,400 On William Green 278 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,400 cold death it lay 279 00:13:54,400 --> 00:14:00,400 No grief from Barbara Allen 280 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,400 They carried will to the edge of the Strand 281 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,400 the people scarlet town 282 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,400 and I was not there 283 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,400 They opened the earth of the old treach yard 284 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,400 and they scattered the earth over the body of will 285 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,400 and I was not there 286 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,400 I walked the sands of scarlet shore 287 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,400 and I cursed the grave that held him 288 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,400 Is that you, Barbara Allen? 289 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,400 How do you want, old woman? 290 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,400 Is that you, Barbara Allen? 291 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,400 I'm old and I can't see so good 292 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,400 especially with a mist so heavy and drifting like the dew. 293 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,400 What do you want? 294 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,400 Oh, give me some of the driftwood you're gathering. 295 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,400 I'm an old woman and when I bend for the wood 296 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,400 the sea snatches it from my hand. 297 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,400 Think what I have, there's more. 298 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,400 Let me walk with you and fill my apron for me. 299 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,400 All right. 300 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,400 Your will is dead. 301 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,400 He's dead. 302 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,400 They're burying him. 303 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,400 The whole town is there. 304 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,400 You're not there, Barbara Allen. 305 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,400 And you're not there, old woman. 306 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,400 I buried three sons on that strand 307 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,400 in the churchyard at the end of it. 308 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Never do I want to be on that strip of land again. 309 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,400 Nor I. 310 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,400 But you will and I. 311 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,400 Your death place is there and mine 312 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,400 and all of us is scarlet town. 313 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,400 The earth covers us in summer 314 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,400 and the sea in winter and storm. 315 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,400 Oh, give me that piece of wood from my apron. 316 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,400 Take it. 317 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,400 You met will there on the strand, didn't you, Barbara Allen? 318 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,400 It's a place of love and death. 319 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,400 That will was handsome. 320 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,400 Listen to me, old woman. 321 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,400 Walk with me and beg my driftwood and I'll give it to you. 322 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,400 But don't talk to me, will. 323 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,400 And why not? 324 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,400 He died for the love of you. 325 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,400 For the love of me and one called Moria 326 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,400 and the rest of the ladies all around. 327 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,400 For the love of you. 328 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,400 I was there in Sean's place touching the vaults of dress goods and close. 329 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,400 I heard what happened, all of it. 330 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,400 For the love of me. 331 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,400 Sean spoke your name lightly in a teasing way 332 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:36,400 and he leaned over with a smile and whispered a question in Will's ear. 333 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:42,400 Then in Will's hand was a knife because of what Sean had asked. 334 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,400 You lie, old woman. 335 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,400 It's how Will died. 336 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,400 For the love of you, I swear it, on the graves of my three sons who lie dead. 337 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,400 For the love of me. 338 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Not for the one called Moria. 339 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,400 Her of the silk dress who paid Will to take her sailing. 340 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,400 Paid him? 341 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,400 This I heard too when the toasts were drunk in Sean's place. 342 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,400 Gave him money to take her sailing. 343 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:13,400 Will spoke her name lightly and laughed when he told us of it. 344 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:21,400 Well, fetch me that piece of wood there, Barbara, and my apron will be full. 345 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,400 And then she left me, the old woman did. 346 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:29,400 And for an hour I walked the beach gathering driftwood for my house 347 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,400 and all the while the bell of the ruined church tolled for Will. 348 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,400 For the death of Will. 349 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,400 For my true love. 350 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400 For Will. 351 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,400 Night came swiftly with the rain 352 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,400 and the moon said behind something. 353 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:51,400 Black in the sky and it stayed there. 354 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,400 The sea was vast. 355 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,400 It rolled in and broke and the end of it was chill against my feet. 356 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,400 Far away the file of mourner's life as they walked home. 357 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,400 And I went home too and made a fire. 358 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,400 Waited till the sound of my father's returning. 359 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,400 The funeral was over. 360 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,400 The dead had been buried in the sand. 361 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,400 My father asked for his tea with whiskey in it. 362 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,400 I gave it to him. 363 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,400 I left. 364 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,400 I went to a place. 365 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,400 Sean's place. 366 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,400 Barbara Allen. 367 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,400 The storm outside you're drenched. 368 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,400 Take my coat, Sean. 369 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:40,400 Yes. 370 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,400 You killed Will. 371 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,400 It was a fair fight. 372 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,400 You killed him with a knife. 373 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:48,400 In my belt. 374 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:49,400 You'll hang for it. 375 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,400 No, it was a fair fight. 376 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,400 According to the law of Scarlet Town, he could have killed me. 377 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,400 I'm alive, he's dead, no one will hang. 378 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:57,400 I'm glad. 379 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,400 I was worried for you. 380 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:01,400 Barbara Allen. 381 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,400 No, no, wait. 382 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,400 Tell me about it. 383 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400 About what? 384 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,400 The fight. 385 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:11,400 How you killed Will. 386 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,400 Will was your love and you want to know how he died? 387 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,400 Will is dead and I can't breathe. 388 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,400 Tell me why, Sean. 389 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,400 I'll make you happy. 390 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,400 Yes. 391 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,400 Tell me how you killed Will. 392 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,400 Will was a sailor, but he was clumsy with a knife. 393 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,400 And when I drew mine, and we faced each other, and we circled, 394 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,400 I could tell it, heavy footed and awkward. 395 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,400 And when he rushed me, I stepped aside, and he fell. 396 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,400 And everybody laughed. 397 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,400 And I let him get up. 398 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,400 And somehow he closed with me and cut me here on my arm. 399 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,400 Oh, show me. 400 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,400 Oh, poor Sean. 401 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,400 We bent back over the counter, the two of us struggling. 402 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,400 And I looked into his face, and I saw a thing. 403 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,400 Fright. 404 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,400 Will was dead. 405 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,400 Willie, the sailor, was scared. 406 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,400 And I brought my hand up. 407 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,400 Up, Papa Allen. 408 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,400 Oh, you should have seen it. 409 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,400 His face when the knife went into him. 410 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,400 That knife? 411 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,400 In your belt? 412 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,400 Yes. 413 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,400 I want to see it. 414 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,400 Put it there on the table where I can look at it. 415 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:25,400 Sean. 416 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,400 Yes. 417 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,400 What else will you do for me? 418 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,400 What? 419 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,400 There was a storm outside, and I came to you. 420 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,400 What will you do for me now? 421 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,400 Love you. 422 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,400 How? 423 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,400 With fine things, Barbara Allen. 424 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,400 With silk from my shelves. 425 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,400 Whatever you want. 426 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,400 This one. 427 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,400 This bowl of silk. 428 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:53,400 Or this one. 429 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:54,400 Or this one. 430 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,400 Which one, Barbara Allen? Which one? 431 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:57,400 They're at your feet. 432 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,400 Whatever you want. 433 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,400 And listen, I have these too. 434 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:04,400 Mirrors. 435 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,400 And these. 436 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,400 Buttons of shell. 437 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,400 And these. 438 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,400 Combs of Mother of Pearl. 439 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,400 For your hair, Barbara Allen. 440 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,400 Sean. 441 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:16,400 For your hair. 442 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,400 You will love me forever, Sean? 443 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,400 For as long as I live. 444 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,400 Tell me again. 445 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,400 For as long as I live. 446 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,400 Yes. 447 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,400 You. 448 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,400 With a knife, you killed Will. 449 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,400 I killed you. 450 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,400 Father. 451 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,400 I'm home, Barbara Allen. 452 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,400 Something happened, Father. 453 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,400 You left me alone again. 454 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:01,400 The fire's gone out. 455 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:02,400 I went to Sean. 456 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,400 The fire's gone out. 457 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,400 And I killed him. 458 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,400 The sea spilled over the churchyard. 459 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,400 And the dead will drown. 460 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,400 The dead in the old graves. 461 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,400 And the dead in the new graves. 462 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,400 Will. 463 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,400 That's why I killed Sean, Father. 464 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,400 Because of Will. 465 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,400 His grave will sink beneath the sea. 466 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,400 The storm will wash over him. 467 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,400 Lonely. 468 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,400 Don't you hear what I'm saying, Father? 469 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,400 I killed Sean. 470 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,400 Will is dead. 471 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:34,400 I killed Sean. 472 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,400 And your life is over. 473 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,400 Yes. 474 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,400 Like mine. 475 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,400 Sit with me, Barbara Allen. 476 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:45,400 Yes. 477 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,400 And I sat with him at his feet while he rocked. 478 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 He remembered. 479 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,400 And I remembered. 480 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,400 And once my father got up, walked to the fire, 481 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,400 and threw on wood. 482 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Sat down again. 483 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,400 Rocked. 484 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,400 And I remembered. 485 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,400 Will. 486 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,400 Will. 487 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,400 The dead will drown. 488 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,400 Will. 489 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,400 The grief came and the tears. 490 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,400 Will. 491 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,400 Will, the tears. 492 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:27,400 His grave will sink beneath the sea. 493 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,400 I'll make your bed, Barbara Allen. 494 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,400 All right. 495 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,400 See, you killed Sean. 496 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,400 I did. 497 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,400 Look through the window. 498 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,400 The lights. 499 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,400 The people from Scarlet Town are coming after you. 500 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,400 They'll hang me for what I did. 501 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,400 Your love lies on the strand. 502 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,400 He sleeps on the strand. 503 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,400 Your love is over me. 504 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,400 I ran. 505 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,400 I ran to where my love was. 506 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,400 Where Will was. 507 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,400 Down to the beach, under the strand. 508 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,400 And they followed me. 509 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,400 The lights of the people from Scarlet Town. 510 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,400 And their voices on the howling wind. 511 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,400 And I ran down the strand. 512 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,400 But the black sea was covering it. 513 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,400 And they followed me. 514 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,400 Their voices. 515 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,400 And the bell on the wind. 516 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,400 And their voices on the wind. 517 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,400 I ran. 518 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,400 And fell. 519 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,400 And ran again. 520 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,400 Where my love lay lonely. 521 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,400 The will in his grave. 522 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,400 In the churchyard I found him. 523 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,400 And no longer was he lonely. 524 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:01,400 Sweet William lay in the old churchyard. 525 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,400 His love so fair beside him. 526 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,400 Out of William's heart. 527 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,400 Grew a red, red rose. 528 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:19,400 Out of Barbara's grew a briar. 529 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,400 They grew and grew. 530 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,400 To the old church tower. 531 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:30,400 And they could not grow higher. 532 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,400 And at the end. 533 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,400 A tidal lover's knot. 534 00:25:36,400 --> 00:26:00,400 And the rose wrapped round the briar. 535 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,400 Suspense. 536 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,400 Presented by Auto Light. 537 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,400 Tonight's star, Miss Ann Baxter, will return in just a moment. 538 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,400 This is Harlow Wilcock speaking for Auto Light, 539 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,400 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 540 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,400 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 541 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,400 They are members of the Auto Light family, 542 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,400 as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States, 543 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,400 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 544 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:36,400 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast, 545 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:42,400 as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 546 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,400 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research 547 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,400 and precision built to the highest standards of quality and performance. 548 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:55,400 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 549 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:06,400 And now we bring back to our suspense microphone Miss Ann Baxter. 550 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:11,400 Miss Baxter, we of Auto Light would like to thank you for another magnificent performance 551 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:17,400 and to announce to our listeners that you have won the first annual Golden Mic Award 552 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,400 for the best feminine performance of the past year on suspense. 553 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:26,400 And here Ann, is your handsome Golden Mic to add to the Baxter Trophy. 554 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:31,400 Thank you Harlow, it's beautiful. And thanks to Auto Light. 555 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,400 I'd also like to thank the wonderful group of suspense players who worked with me, 556 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,400 especially Joseph Kearns and Jeanette Nolan, 557 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,400 who have also won Golden Mics for the best supporting performances on suspense. 558 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,400 Thank you for all of us, and good night. 559 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:51,400 Next week, a story that will prove once again that truth is stranger than fiction. 560 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:57,400 Mr. Cornell Wilde will star as a man who inadvertently was hired to be an assassin. 561 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:14,400 The story is called, Alan in Wonderland, and will be heard on Suspense. 562 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,400 Suspense was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, 563 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,400 with music written by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 564 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:27,400 The Death of Barbara Allen was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 565 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,400 In tonight's story, Jeanette Nolan was heard as the old lady, 566 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,400 Joseph Kearns as Barbara's father, 567 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:40,400 featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, William Conrad, Louise Lewis, and Junius Matthews. 568 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,400 And Baxter is soon to be seen in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess. 569 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:58,400 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Cornell Wilde in Alan in Wonderland. 570 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,400 You can buy auto light staple batteries, auto light electrical parts, 571 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,400 and auto light resistor or standard type spark plugs at your neighborhood auto light dealer. 572 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,400 Switch to auto light. 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