WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.800 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Anne Baxter in tonight's presentation 00:12.800 --> 00:15.800 of Suspense. 00:15.800 --> 00:26.600 Tonight, Auto Light recreates a classic tale as with song and story we tell of the death 00:26.600 --> 00:30.600 of Barbara Allen, our star Miss Anne Baxter. 00:30.600 --> 00:39.600 Hey Harlow, you got in my way. 00:39.600 --> 00:40.600 Huh? 00:40.600 --> 00:41.600 Oh, Oscar Auto. 00:41.600 --> 00:42.600 Sorry, I was daydreaming. 00:42.600 --> 00:43.600 About what? 00:43.600 --> 00:48.400 Why, about the Auto Light stay full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in 00:48.400 --> 00:49.400 normal car use. 00:49.400 --> 00:51.000 I've got one. 00:51.000 --> 00:56.560 Then my speaking sedan, you've got the world's most desired, dynamic and dependable battery. 00:56.560 --> 01:01.320 It has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate to reduce shedding and 01:01.320 --> 01:02.320 flaking. 01:02.320 --> 01:06.360 That's one of the reasons why the Auto Light stay full gives longer life, as proved by 01:06.360 --> 01:09.600 tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 01:09.600 --> 01:13.520 My owner got mine from our neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer. 01:13.520 --> 01:17.940 Friends, to quickly locate your nearest Auto Light battery dealer, phone Western Union 01:17.940 --> 01:18.940 by number. 01:18.940 --> 01:19.940 And ask for operator 25. 01:19.940 --> 01:24.360 That's me and I'll gladly tell you where you can get an Auto Light stay full. 01:24.360 --> 01:28.720 A battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:28.720 --> 01:33.600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:33.600 --> 01:40.240 And now Auto Light presents the Death of Barbara Allen, starring Miss Anne Baxter, hoping once 01:40.240 --> 01:55.200 again to keep you in suspense. 01:55.200 --> 02:06.640 In Scarlet Town where I was born, there was a fair maid dwelling, made every youth cry 02:06.640 --> 02:32.160 well a day, and her name was Barbara Allen. 02:32.160 --> 02:38.040 His voice was on the wind calling, calling to me, and the surface to the west of me and 02:38.040 --> 02:43.120 to the east, and the sounds of the night sea were all around, and on the finger of strand 02:43.120 --> 02:48.400 I waited for him, for my love, for my love as he rode to me. 02:48.400 --> 02:54.200 And a star swung across the moon and the wind rose from the night as he rode to me, as he 02:54.200 --> 02:57.200 came to me. 02:57.200 --> 03:03.400 I thought you wouldn't be here, Barbara Allen. 03:03.400 --> 03:05.640 And where else would I be on such a night? 03:05.640 --> 03:07.600 Home perhaps, where it's warm. 03:07.600 --> 03:11.080 And the young men of Scarlet Town to knock on your door. 03:11.080 --> 03:13.600 Not here where the sea rises and the moon is cold. 03:13.600 --> 03:14.920 Where I meet my love. 03:14.920 --> 03:16.480 But there's a storm coming. 03:16.480 --> 03:17.480 Let it. 03:17.480 --> 03:20.160 The storm and the tides will drown this strand. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.640 And we would drown. 03:21.640 --> 03:22.640 Yes. 03:22.640 --> 03:24.440 We would drown, Will. 03:24.440 --> 03:28.240 And you would live no longer than I, and I no longer than you. 03:28.240 --> 03:31.080 Our love would die at once on a storm. 03:31.080 --> 03:32.080 Why do you talk of death? 03:32.080 --> 03:33.080 Oh, I talk of love. 03:33.080 --> 03:34.080 And I do. 03:34.080 --> 03:35.080 And there's no death in it. 03:35.080 --> 03:36.080 No, Will. 03:36.080 --> 03:37.080 Only this. 03:37.080 --> 03:38.080 Oh, Will. 03:38.080 --> 03:39.080 Fair Barbara Allen. 03:39.080 --> 03:40.080 Wild Barbara Allen. 03:40.080 --> 03:41.080 Ride with me. 03:41.080 --> 03:42.080 Yes. 03:42.080 --> 04:04.840 They rode, they rode on a stallion black. 04:04.840 --> 04:08.240 The sea it was a-swellin'. 04:08.240 --> 04:17.240 And dark, dark clouds a shadow lay on the lips of Barbara Allen. 04:17.240 --> 04:22.520 Then Willie held her oh so close. 04:22.520 --> 04:27.520 And he kissed a little trembling. 04:27.520 --> 04:34.520 Then kissed again in fond ado. 04:34.520 --> 04:41.560 Then kissed again in fond ado. 04:41.560 --> 04:51.360 And he kissed again in fond ado. 04:51.360 --> 04:52.360 Father. 04:52.360 --> 04:53.360 In the kitchen. 04:53.360 --> 04:54.360 Sean's here. 04:54.360 --> 04:55.360 He's been waiting. 04:55.360 --> 04:56.360 Hello, Barbara Allen. 04:56.360 --> 04:57.360 I'll get you some tea. 04:57.360 --> 04:58.360 No. 04:58.360 --> 05:03.360 The pillow in back of me slid down, Barbara Allen. 05:03.360 --> 05:04.680 Sit. 05:04.680 --> 05:07.360 Where you been? 05:07.360 --> 05:08.360 On the Strand. 05:08.360 --> 05:09.360 With Will. 05:09.360 --> 05:10.360 With Will. 05:10.360 --> 05:11.360 Sean's been waiting. 05:11.360 --> 05:13.960 You knew he was going to be here. 05:13.960 --> 05:18.200 And then sitting with your father waiting, doing the things you should be doing, while 05:18.200 --> 05:19.200 you meet Will on the Strand. 05:19.200 --> 05:21.320 Ah, he can do for himself. 05:21.320 --> 05:22.320 Thank you, Teafater. 05:22.320 --> 05:25.320 I like whiskey in it. 05:25.320 --> 05:27.120 Here. 05:27.120 --> 05:31.760 Drink, old man. 05:31.760 --> 05:36.200 I like whiskey in it because whiskey keeps the warm down. 05:36.200 --> 05:38.520 And it's a cold house. 05:38.520 --> 05:40.320 It's a season of storm. 05:40.320 --> 05:42.360 And I have a daughter who's never home. 05:42.360 --> 05:43.360 Ah, father. 05:43.360 --> 05:47.400 The warmth of my daughter is for a sailor named Will. 05:47.400 --> 05:48.400 Father. 05:48.400 --> 05:53.240 And my house is cold. 05:53.240 --> 05:55.480 You'll need a pillow for his chair, Barbara Allen. 05:55.480 --> 05:56.480 He can do for himself. 05:56.480 --> 05:59.480 He can do whatever he needs for himself. 05:59.480 --> 06:04.800 He sits there and rocks and remembers the time when he had a wife to do for him. 06:04.800 --> 06:06.520 Do everything but walk for him. 06:06.520 --> 06:09.520 My house is cold. 06:09.520 --> 06:11.520 Listen to him. 06:11.520 --> 06:12.520 Barbara Allen? 06:12.520 --> 06:13.520 Yes, Sean. 06:13.520 --> 06:15.520 Will is a sailor. 06:15.520 --> 06:16.520 Yes. 06:16.520 --> 06:17.520 With a small boat. 06:17.520 --> 06:18.520 Yes. 06:18.520 --> 06:20.880 And a narrow life. 06:20.880 --> 06:22.160 You couldn't know. 06:22.160 --> 06:23.160 I know. 06:23.160 --> 06:27.400 And one day he'll say goodbye to you and sailor small boat. 06:27.400 --> 06:30.640 That will be the day when the sea will throw him back to you. 06:30.640 --> 06:33.040 Wrapped in kelp and drowned. 06:33.040 --> 06:34.480 And what of you, Sean? 06:34.480 --> 06:35.480 Shelf keeper, Sean. 06:35.480 --> 06:39.280 Seller of pots and fish hooks and whiskeys, Sean. 06:39.280 --> 06:42.280 Should I love you, Sean? 06:42.280 --> 06:43.280 Yes. 06:43.280 --> 06:44.280 Cold. 06:44.280 --> 06:46.480 And what will you make of me? 06:46.480 --> 06:48.800 One like him who sits in a rocker and remembers. 06:48.800 --> 06:50.440 You love Will. 06:50.440 --> 06:52.280 How many others love Willie the sailor? 06:52.280 --> 06:53.840 And how many does he love? 06:53.840 --> 06:54.840 No one. 06:54.840 --> 06:55.840 There's a girl. 06:55.840 --> 06:58.440 You've seen her, Barbara Allen. 06:58.440 --> 06:59.760 She's new to Scarlet Town. 06:59.760 --> 07:01.840 Her name is Moria. 07:01.840 --> 07:03.400 And she drinks wine with Will. 07:03.400 --> 07:05.600 They whisper in life together. 07:05.600 --> 07:06.600 Get out of here, Sean. 07:06.600 --> 07:08.680 They say when Will leaves you, he goes to her. 07:08.680 --> 07:09.680 You lie. 07:09.680 --> 07:11.680 And if I'm not lying? 07:11.680 --> 07:15.640 If he hurts you, Barbara Allen, I'll kill him. 07:15.640 --> 07:17.640 Get out of here, Sean. 07:17.640 --> 07:18.640 I would. 07:18.640 --> 07:19.640 I'd kill him. 07:19.640 --> 07:35.920 And later I could still hear my father rocking and the sounds of his remembering. 07:35.920 --> 07:39.280 For me, it was a night of no sleep. 07:39.280 --> 07:43.120 I lay there in my bed and outside was fitful squalls of rain. 07:43.120 --> 07:47.600 It began and stopped and began again. 07:47.600 --> 07:52.920 There was surf that eddied in the rocks and mist and choke and tangle of kelp flung against 07:52.920 --> 07:53.920 the strand. 07:53.920 --> 08:01.400 And Will's face and his words and the words of Sean and the sudden blaze of light across 08:01.400 --> 08:02.400 my bed. 08:02.400 --> 08:06.400 The night careened against the sea. 08:06.400 --> 08:07.400 And then the night was still. 08:07.400 --> 08:08.400 Then it was morning. 08:08.400 --> 08:16.400 I got up and dressed, walked through the room where my father was, still sleeping in his 08:16.400 --> 08:17.400 care. 08:17.400 --> 08:20.400 The beach had been pitted by the rain when I walked it. 08:20.400 --> 08:23.400 The dune grass was green and shining. 08:23.400 --> 08:26.400 The wind held stung the sand against my legs. 08:26.400 --> 08:30.400 And down the curb of the beach near the end of it, Will's boat. 08:30.400 --> 08:32.400 The sail on it to be mended. 08:32.400 --> 08:34.400 From me to men. 08:34.400 --> 08:36.400 For Will. 08:36.400 --> 08:38.400 Hello. 08:38.400 --> 08:43.400 What are you doing on Will's boat? 08:43.400 --> 08:47.400 It's where I belong now, on Will's boat. 08:47.400 --> 08:50.400 To mend his nets and the sails. 08:50.400 --> 08:51.400 Will sent you here? 08:51.400 --> 08:52.400 He left me here. 08:52.400 --> 08:53.400 I'm not... 08:53.400 --> 08:54.400 I know who you are. 08:54.400 --> 08:55.400 You are Moria. 08:55.400 --> 09:00.400 You wear a silk dress in the morning to mend a net. 09:00.400 --> 09:03.400 Here, this is a net. 09:03.400 --> 09:04.400 Mend it. 09:04.400 --> 09:06.400 Let me watch what you'll do with it. 09:06.400 --> 09:08.400 He will teach me when he returns. 09:08.400 --> 09:09.400 When did you see Will? 09:09.400 --> 09:10.400 I saw him. 09:10.400 --> 09:11.400 When? 09:11.400 --> 09:13.400 When I was with him. 09:13.400 --> 09:17.400 When he told me to stay here and today we would go sailing together. 09:17.400 --> 09:18.400 Sailing? 09:18.400 --> 09:19.400 Where? 09:19.400 --> 09:20.400 Why? 09:20.400 --> 09:21.400 To someplace. 09:21.400 --> 09:23.400 This coast is new to me. 09:23.400 --> 09:25.400 Will wants me to know it. 09:25.400 --> 09:29.400 What other places has he shown you? 09:29.400 --> 09:32.400 Scarlet Town and what's around it. 09:32.400 --> 09:33.400 You ridden with him? 09:33.400 --> 09:35.400 On his black horse. 09:35.400 --> 09:37.400 Ridden the Strand? 09:37.400 --> 09:38.400 At night? 09:38.400 --> 09:39.400 Yes. 09:39.400 --> 09:42.400 The ruined church at the end of it? 09:42.400 --> 09:44.400 Yes, all of these things. 09:44.400 --> 09:45.400 Where is Will? 09:45.400 --> 09:47.400 We sail today. 09:47.400 --> 09:49.400 Will's in Scarlet Town. 09:49.400 --> 09:51.400 He's buying things for the sailing. 09:51.400 --> 09:52.400 Wine, cigarettes... 09:52.400 --> 09:53.400 At Sean's. 09:53.400 --> 09:54.400 What? 09:54.400 --> 09:55.400 Will is at Sean's. 09:55.400 --> 09:57.400 And he'll stay there. 09:57.400 --> 10:00.400 He won't sail with you. 10:04.400 --> 10:08.400 Across the dunes, oh she did run 10:08.400 --> 10:12.400 The wind with her a-sying 10:12.400 --> 10:16.400 And as she ran, the more she grieved 10:16.400 --> 10:21.400 Until she burst out crying 10:21.400 --> 10:26.400 When she came down to Scarlet Town 10:26.400 --> 10:32.400 The street with crowd was fillin' 10:32.400 --> 10:38.400 When they saw her, they stepped aside 10:38.400 --> 10:45.400 Made way for Barbara Allen 10:47.400 --> 10:49.400 He's in there, Barbara Allen. 10:49.400 --> 10:50.400 In Sean's place. 10:50.400 --> 10:52.400 Why is there a crowd, Mr. Eamon? 10:52.400 --> 10:53.400 In Sean's place. 10:53.400 --> 10:54.400 Will's in there. 10:54.400 --> 10:55.400 What happened? 10:55.400 --> 10:56.400 I was in there. 10:56.400 --> 10:57.400 Will was buying things of Sean. 10:57.400 --> 10:58.400 Will was laughing. 10:58.400 --> 10:59.400 He broke open a bottle of wine. 10:59.400 --> 11:01.400 He made a toast. 11:01.400 --> 11:02.400 To whom? 11:02.400 --> 11:04.400 To the ladies all around. 11:04.400 --> 11:05.400 To Maria? 11:05.400 --> 11:06.400 To her. 11:06.400 --> 11:07.400 And what happened? 11:07.400 --> 11:08.400 There was talk. 11:08.400 --> 11:10.400 Then Will had a knife in his hand. 11:10.400 --> 11:11.400 Then Sean did too. 11:11.400 --> 11:12.400 There was a fight. 11:12.400 --> 11:14.400 Will's in there, Barbara Allen. 11:14.400 --> 11:16.400 He's lying on the floor. 11:16.400 --> 11:19.400 He called your name. 11:27.400 --> 11:29.400 Hello, Will. 11:29.400 --> 11:34.400 I'm dying, Barbara Allen. 11:34.400 --> 11:36.400 What did you say, Will? 11:36.400 --> 11:39.400 I'm dying. 11:39.400 --> 11:42.400 Die. 11:46.400 --> 11:49.400 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Ann Baxter in 11:49.400 --> 11:51.400 The Death of Barbara Allen. 11:51.400 --> 11:54.400 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 11:54.400 --> 11:59.400 theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:06.400 --> 12:11.400 For fine dependable starting power, all can well agree, 12:11.400 --> 12:17.400 your best buy, by far, is an auto light staple battery. 12:17.400 --> 12:19.400 Right, Oscar Auto. 12:19.400 --> 12:21.400 And that's the great battery that needs water 12:21.400 --> 12:24.400 only three times a year in normal car use. 12:24.400 --> 12:27.400 The battery with advanced engineering design, eh, hello? 12:27.400 --> 12:29.400 Right, my loquacious limousine. 12:29.400 --> 12:32.400 It's protected with fiberglass retaining mats 12:32.400 --> 12:35.400 to give longer life, as proved by tests conducted 12:35.400 --> 12:37.400 according to accepted life cycle standards. 12:37.400 --> 12:40.400 Why, money just can't buy a better battery 12:40.400 --> 12:43.400 than the famous auto light staple. 12:43.400 --> 12:46.400 So friends, see your nearest auto light battery dealer. 12:46.400 --> 12:48.400 He services all makes of batteries. 12:48.400 --> 12:51.400 To quickly locate him, phone Western Union by number 12:51.400 --> 12:53.400 and ask for operator 25. 12:53.400 --> 12:55.400 That's me and I'll gladly tell you the name of your 12:55.400 --> 12:57.400 nearest auto light battery dealer, 12:57.400 --> 12:59.400 where you can get an auto light staple. 12:59.400 --> 13:02.400 The battery that needs water only three times a year 13:02.400 --> 13:04.400 in normal car use. 13:04.400 --> 13:06.400 And remember, from bumper to tail light, 13:06.400 --> 13:09.400 you're always right with auto light. 13:09.400 --> 13:13.400 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, 13:13.400 --> 13:16.400 Miss Ann Baxter in Elliot Lewis's production of 13:16.400 --> 13:19.400 The Death of Barbara Allen. 13:19.400 --> 13:22.400 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 13:22.400 --> 13:24.400 suspense. 13:35.400 --> 13:39.400 In scarlet town 13:39.400 --> 13:42.400 where I was born 13:42.400 --> 13:47.400 Twilight was a-fallin' 13:47.400 --> 13:50.400 On William Green 13:50.400 --> 13:54.400 cold death it lay 13:54.400 --> 14:00.400 No grief from Barbara Allen 14:03.400 --> 14:06.400 They carried will to the edge of the Strand 14:06.400 --> 14:08.400 the people scarlet town 14:08.400 --> 14:11.400 and I was not there 14:11.400 --> 14:13.400 They opened the earth of the old treach yard 14:13.400 --> 14:17.400 and they scattered the earth over the body of will 14:17.400 --> 14:20.400 and I was not there 14:20.400 --> 14:23.400 I walked the sands of scarlet shore 14:23.400 --> 14:27.400 and I cursed the grave that held him 14:30.400 --> 14:32.400 Is that you, Barbara Allen? 14:32.400 --> 14:34.400 How do you want, old woman? 14:34.400 --> 14:37.400 Is that you, Barbara Allen? 14:37.400 --> 14:40.400 I'm old and I can't see so good 14:40.400 --> 14:43.400 especially with a mist so heavy and drifting like the dew. 14:43.400 --> 14:45.400 What do you want? 14:45.400 --> 14:48.400 Oh, give me some of the driftwood you're gathering. 14:48.400 --> 14:51.400 I'm an old woman and when I bend for the wood 14:51.400 --> 14:53.400 the sea snatches it from my hand. 14:53.400 --> 14:56.400 Think what I have, there's more. 14:56.400 --> 15:00.400 Let me walk with you and fill my apron for me. 15:00.400 --> 15:02.400 All right. 15:02.400 --> 15:04.400 Your will is dead. 15:04.400 --> 15:06.400 He's dead. 15:06.400 --> 15:08.400 They're burying him. 15:08.400 --> 15:11.400 The whole town is there. 15:11.400 --> 15:13.400 You're not there, Barbara Allen. 15:13.400 --> 15:15.400 And you're not there, old woman. 15:15.400 --> 15:18.400 I buried three sons on that strand 15:18.400 --> 15:21.400 in the churchyard at the end of it. 15:21.400 --> 15:24.400 Never do I want to be on that strip of land again. 15:24.400 --> 15:26.400 Nor I. 15:26.400 --> 15:30.400 But you will and I. 15:30.400 --> 15:33.400 Your death place is there and mine 15:33.400 --> 15:36.400 and all of us is scarlet town. 15:36.400 --> 15:39.400 The earth covers us in summer 15:39.400 --> 15:42.400 and the sea in winter and storm. 15:42.400 --> 15:45.400 Oh, give me that piece of wood from my apron. 15:45.400 --> 15:47.400 Take it. 15:47.400 --> 15:52.400 You met will there on the strand, didn't you, Barbara Allen? 15:52.400 --> 15:57.400 It's a place of love and death. 15:57.400 --> 15:59.400 That will was handsome. 15:59.400 --> 16:01.400 Listen to me, old woman. 16:01.400 --> 16:04.400 Walk with me and beg my driftwood and I'll give it to you. 16:04.400 --> 16:06.400 But don't talk to me, will. 16:06.400 --> 16:08.400 And why not? 16:08.400 --> 16:10.400 He died for the love of you. 16:10.400 --> 16:14.400 For the love of me and one called Moria 16:14.400 --> 16:16.400 and the rest of the ladies all around. 16:16.400 --> 16:18.400 For the love of you. 16:18.400 --> 16:23.400 I was there in Sean's place touching the vaults of dress goods and close. 16:23.400 --> 16:26.400 I heard what happened, all of it. 16:26.400 --> 16:28.400 For the love of me. 16:28.400 --> 16:31.400 Sean spoke your name lightly in a teasing way 16:31.400 --> 16:36.400 and he leaned over with a smile and whispered a question in Will's ear. 16:36.400 --> 16:42.400 Then in Will's hand was a knife because of what Sean had asked. 16:42.400 --> 16:44.400 You lie, old woman. 16:44.400 --> 16:46.400 It's how Will died. 16:46.400 --> 16:50.400 For the love of you, I swear it, on the graves of my three sons who lie dead. 16:50.400 --> 16:53.400 For the love of me. 16:53.400 --> 16:55.400 Not for the one called Moria. 16:55.400 --> 16:59.400 Her of the silk dress who paid Will to take her sailing. 16:59.400 --> 17:01.400 Paid him? 17:01.400 --> 17:05.400 This I heard too when the toasts were drunk in Sean's place. 17:05.400 --> 17:08.400 Gave him money to take her sailing. 17:08.400 --> 17:13.400 Will spoke her name lightly and laughed when he told us of it. 17:13.400 --> 17:21.400 Well, fetch me that piece of wood there, Barbara, and my apron will be full. 17:21.400 --> 17:24.400 And then she left me, the old woman did. 17:24.400 --> 17:29.400 And for an hour I walked the beach gathering driftwood for my house 17:29.400 --> 17:34.400 and all the while the bell of the ruined church tolled for Will. 17:34.400 --> 17:36.400 For the death of Will. 17:36.400 --> 17:38.400 For my true love. 17:38.400 --> 17:40.400 For Will. 17:40.400 --> 17:43.400 Night came swiftly with the rain 17:43.400 --> 17:45.400 and the moon said behind something. 17:45.400 --> 17:51.400 Black in the sky and it stayed there. 17:51.400 --> 17:53.400 The sea was vast. 17:53.400 --> 17:58.400 It rolled in and broke and the end of it was chill against my feet. 17:58.400 --> 18:02.400 Far away the file of mourner's life as they walked home. 18:02.400 --> 18:05.400 And I went home too and made a fire. 18:05.400 --> 18:08.400 Waited till the sound of my father's returning. 18:08.400 --> 18:10.400 The funeral was over. 18:10.400 --> 18:13.400 The dead had been buried in the sand. 18:13.400 --> 18:16.400 My father asked for his tea with whiskey in it. 18:16.400 --> 18:18.400 I gave it to him. 18:18.400 --> 18:19.400 I left. 18:19.400 --> 18:21.400 I went to a place. 18:21.400 --> 18:23.400 Sean's place. 18:33.400 --> 18:35.400 Barbara Allen. 18:35.400 --> 18:37.400 The storm outside you're drenched. 18:37.400 --> 18:39.400 Take my coat, Sean. 18:39.400 --> 18:40.400 Yes. 18:40.400 --> 18:43.400 You killed Will. 18:43.400 --> 18:45.400 It was a fair fight. 18:45.400 --> 18:47.400 You killed him with a knife. 18:47.400 --> 18:48.400 In my belt. 18:48.400 --> 18:49.400 You'll hang for it. 18:49.400 --> 18:51.400 No, it was a fair fight. 18:51.400 --> 18:53.400 According to the law of Scarlet Town, he could have killed me. 18:53.400 --> 18:56.400 I'm alive, he's dead, no one will hang. 18:56.400 --> 18:57.400 I'm glad. 18:57.400 --> 19:00.400 I was worried for you. 19:00.400 --> 19:01.400 Barbara Allen. 19:01.400 --> 19:03.400 No, no, wait. 19:03.400 --> 19:05.400 Tell me about it. 19:05.400 --> 19:06.400 About what? 19:06.400 --> 19:10.400 The fight. 19:10.400 --> 19:11.400 How you killed Will. 19:11.400 --> 19:14.400 Will was your love and you want to know how he died? 19:14.400 --> 19:16.400 Will is dead and I can't breathe. 19:16.400 --> 19:19.400 Tell me why, Sean. 19:19.400 --> 19:21.400 I'll make you happy. 19:21.400 --> 19:23.400 Yes. 19:23.400 --> 19:25.400 Tell me how you killed Will. 19:25.400 --> 19:29.400 Will was a sailor, but he was clumsy with a knife. 19:29.400 --> 19:34.400 And when I drew mine, and we faced each other, and we circled, 19:34.400 --> 19:37.400 I could tell it, heavy footed and awkward. 19:37.400 --> 19:41.400 And when he rushed me, I stepped aside, and he fell. 19:41.400 --> 19:43.400 And everybody laughed. 19:43.400 --> 19:45.400 And I let him get up. 19:45.400 --> 19:49.400 And somehow he closed with me and cut me here on my arm. 19:49.400 --> 19:50.400 Oh, show me. 19:50.400 --> 19:52.400 Oh, poor Sean. 19:52.400 --> 19:56.400 We bent back over the counter, the two of us struggling. 19:56.400 --> 20:00.400 And I looked into his face, and I saw a thing. 20:00.400 --> 20:01.400 Fright. 20:01.400 --> 20:03.400 Will was dead. 20:03.400 --> 20:05.400 Willie, the sailor, was scared. 20:05.400 --> 20:07.400 And I brought my hand up. 20:07.400 --> 20:09.400 Up, Papa Allen. 20:09.400 --> 20:10.400 Oh, you should have seen it. 20:10.400 --> 20:13.400 His face when the knife went into him. 20:13.400 --> 20:15.400 That knife? 20:15.400 --> 20:17.400 In your belt? 20:17.400 --> 20:18.400 Yes. 20:18.400 --> 20:19.400 I want to see it. 20:19.400 --> 20:24.400 Put it there on the table where I can look at it. 20:24.400 --> 20:25.400 Sean. 20:25.400 --> 20:27.400 Yes. 20:27.400 --> 20:30.400 What else will you do for me? 20:30.400 --> 20:31.400 What? 20:31.400 --> 20:34.400 There was a storm outside, and I came to you. 20:34.400 --> 20:37.400 What will you do for me now? 20:37.400 --> 20:39.400 Love you. 20:39.400 --> 20:41.400 How? 20:41.400 --> 20:44.400 With fine things, Barbara Allen. 20:44.400 --> 20:46.400 With silk from my shelves. 20:46.400 --> 20:48.400 Whatever you want. 20:48.400 --> 20:50.400 This one. 20:50.400 --> 20:52.400 This bowl of silk. 20:52.400 --> 20:53.400 Or this one. 20:53.400 --> 20:54.400 Or this one. 20:54.400 --> 20:56.400 Which one, Barbara Allen? Which one? 20:56.400 --> 20:57.400 They're at your feet. 20:57.400 --> 20:59.400 Whatever you want. 20:59.400 --> 21:03.400 And listen, I have these too. 21:03.400 --> 21:04.400 Mirrors. 21:04.400 --> 21:06.400 And these. 21:06.400 --> 21:08.400 Buttons of shell. 21:08.400 --> 21:09.400 And these. 21:09.400 --> 21:12.400 Combs of Mother of Pearl. 21:12.400 --> 21:14.400 For your hair, Barbara Allen. 21:14.400 --> 21:15.400 Sean. 21:15.400 --> 21:16.400 For your hair. 21:16.400 --> 21:19.400 You will love me forever, Sean? 21:19.400 --> 21:22.400 For as long as I live. 21:22.400 --> 21:24.400 Tell me again. 21:24.400 --> 21:27.400 For as long as I live. 21:27.400 --> 21:29.400 Yes. 21:29.400 --> 21:32.400 You. 21:32.400 --> 21:35.400 With a knife, you killed Will. 21:35.400 --> 21:37.400 I killed you. 21:54.400 --> 21:55.400 Father. 21:55.400 --> 21:57.400 I'm home, Barbara Allen. 21:57.400 --> 21:58.400 Something happened, Father. 21:58.400 --> 22:00.400 You left me alone again. 22:00.400 --> 22:01.400 The fire's gone out. 22:01.400 --> 22:02.400 I went to Sean. 22:02.400 --> 22:04.400 The fire's gone out. 22:04.400 --> 22:06.400 And I killed him. 22:06.400 --> 22:09.400 The sea spilled over the churchyard. 22:09.400 --> 22:11.400 And the dead will drown. 22:11.400 --> 22:13.400 The dead in the old graves. 22:13.400 --> 22:16.400 And the dead in the new graves. 22:16.400 --> 22:17.400 Will. 22:17.400 --> 22:19.400 That's why I killed Sean, Father. 22:19.400 --> 22:20.400 Because of Will. 22:20.400 --> 22:23.400 His grave will sink beneath the sea. 22:23.400 --> 22:26.400 The storm will wash over him. 22:26.400 --> 22:28.400 Lonely. 22:28.400 --> 22:30.400 Don't you hear what I'm saying, Father? 22:30.400 --> 22:31.400 I killed Sean. 22:31.400 --> 22:33.400 Will is dead. 22:33.400 --> 22:34.400 I killed Sean. 22:34.400 --> 22:37.400 And your life is over. 22:37.400 --> 22:38.400 Yes. 22:38.400 --> 22:42.400 Like mine. 22:42.400 --> 22:44.400 Sit with me, Barbara Allen. 22:44.400 --> 22:45.400 Yes. 22:45.400 --> 22:50.400 And I sat with him at his feet while he rocked. 22:50.400 --> 22:52.400 He remembered. 22:52.400 --> 22:54.400 And I remembered. 22:54.400 --> 22:58.400 And once my father got up, walked to the fire, 22:58.400 --> 23:00.400 and threw on wood. 23:00.400 --> 23:01.400 Sat down again. 23:01.400 --> 23:03.400 Rocked. 23:03.400 --> 23:06.400 And I remembered. 23:06.400 --> 23:07.400 Will. 23:07.400 --> 23:09.400 Will. 23:09.400 --> 23:12.400 The dead will drown. 23:12.400 --> 23:15.400 Will. 23:15.400 --> 23:19.400 The grief came and the tears. 23:19.400 --> 23:20.400 Will. 23:20.400 --> 23:22.400 Will, the tears. 23:22.400 --> 23:27.400 His grave will sink beneath the sea. 23:27.400 --> 23:31.400 I'll make your bed, Barbara Allen. 23:31.400 --> 23:33.400 All right. 23:33.400 --> 23:36.400 See, you killed Sean. 23:36.400 --> 23:38.400 I did. 23:38.400 --> 23:41.400 Look through the window. 23:41.400 --> 23:42.400 The lights. 23:42.400 --> 23:45.400 The people from Scarlet Town are coming after you. 23:45.400 --> 23:47.400 They'll hang me for what I did. 23:47.400 --> 23:50.400 Your love lies on the strand. 23:50.400 --> 23:52.400 He sleeps on the strand. 23:52.400 --> 23:54.400 Your love is over me. 24:01.400 --> 24:02.400 I ran. 24:02.400 --> 24:04.400 I ran to where my love was. 24:04.400 --> 24:05.400 Where Will was. 24:05.400 --> 24:07.400 Down to the beach, under the strand. 24:07.400 --> 24:09.400 And they followed me. 24:09.400 --> 24:11.400 The lights of the people from Scarlet Town. 24:11.400 --> 24:13.400 And their voices on the howling wind. 24:13.400 --> 24:16.400 And I ran down the strand. 24:16.400 --> 24:18.400 But the black sea was covering it. 24:18.400 --> 24:19.400 And they followed me. 24:19.400 --> 24:21.400 Their voices. 24:21.400 --> 24:23.400 And the bell on the wind. 24:23.400 --> 24:26.400 And their voices on the wind. 24:26.400 --> 24:28.400 I ran. 24:28.400 --> 24:29.400 And fell. 24:29.400 --> 24:30.400 And ran again. 24:30.400 --> 24:33.400 Where my love lay lonely. 24:33.400 --> 24:35.400 The will in his grave. 24:35.400 --> 24:39.400 In the churchyard I found him. 24:39.400 --> 24:43.400 And no longer was he lonely. 24:55.400 --> 25:01.400 Sweet William lay in the old churchyard. 25:01.400 --> 25:06.400 His love so fair beside him. 25:06.400 --> 25:09.400 Out of William's heart. 25:09.400 --> 25:13.400 Grew a red, red rose. 25:13.400 --> 25:19.400 Out of Barbara's grew a briar. 25:19.400 --> 25:22.400 They grew and grew. 25:22.400 --> 25:25.400 To the old church tower. 25:25.400 --> 25:30.400 And they could not grow higher. 25:30.400 --> 25:32.400 And at the end. 25:32.400 --> 25:36.400 A tidal lover's knot. 25:36.400 --> 26:00.400 And the rose wrapped round the briar. 26:00.400 --> 26:02.400 Suspense. 26:02.400 --> 26:04.400 Presented by Auto Light. 26:04.400 --> 26:08.400 Tonight's star, Miss Ann Baxter, will return in just a moment. 26:08.400 --> 26:11.400 This is Harlow Wilcock speaking for Auto Light, 26:11.400 --> 26:15.400 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:15.400 --> 26:19.400 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 26:19.400 --> 26:21.400 They are members of the Auto Light family, 26:21.400 --> 26:26.400 as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States, 26:26.400 --> 26:29.400 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 26:29.400 --> 26:36.400 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast, 26:36.400 --> 26:42.400 as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 26:42.400 --> 26:45.400 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research 26:45.400 --> 26:50.400 and precision built to the highest standards of quality and performance. 26:50.400 --> 26:55.400 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 26:55.400 --> 27:06.400 And now we bring back to our suspense microphone Miss Ann Baxter. 27:06.400 --> 27:11.400 Miss Baxter, we of Auto Light would like to thank you for another magnificent performance 27:11.400 --> 27:17.400 and to announce to our listeners that you have won the first annual Golden Mic Award 27:17.400 --> 27:21.400 for the best feminine performance of the past year on suspense. 27:21.400 --> 27:26.400 And here Ann, is your handsome Golden Mic to add to the Baxter Trophy. 27:26.400 --> 27:31.400 Thank you Harlow, it's beautiful. And thanks to Auto Light. 27:31.400 --> 27:35.400 I'd also like to thank the wonderful group of suspense players who worked with me, 27:35.400 --> 27:38.400 especially Joseph Kearns and Jeanette Nolan, 27:38.400 --> 27:42.400 who have also won Golden Mics for the best supporting performances on suspense. 27:42.400 --> 27:45.400 Thank you for all of us, and good night. 27:45.400 --> 27:51.400 Next week, a story that will prove once again that truth is stranger than fiction. 27:51.400 --> 27:57.400 Mr. Cornell Wilde will star as a man who inadvertently was hired to be an assassin. 27:57.400 --> 28:14.400 The story is called, Alan in Wonderland, and will be heard on Suspense. 28:14.400 --> 28:17.400 Suspense was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, 28:17.400 --> 28:21.400 with music written by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:21.400 --> 28:27.400 The Death of Barbara Allen was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 28:27.400 --> 28:31.400 In tonight's story, Jeanette Nolan was heard as the old lady, 28:31.400 --> 28:33.400 Joseph Kearns as Barbara's father, 28:33.400 --> 28:40.400 featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, William Conrad, Louise Lewis, and Junius Matthews. 28:40.400 --> 28:45.400 And Baxter is soon to be seen in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess. 28:45.400 --> 28:58.400 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. Cornell Wilde in Alan in Wonderland. 28:58.400 --> 29:02.400 You can buy auto light staple batteries, auto light electrical parts, 29:02.400 --> 29:06.400 and auto light resistor or standard type spark plugs at your neighborhood auto light dealer. 29:06.400 --> 29:09.400 Switch to auto light. 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