1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Herbert Marshall in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:14,800 of Suspense. 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:25,180 Tonight, Auto Light presents the nightmare world of a coward as we bring you Graham Green's 4 00:00:25,180 --> 00:00:31,000 study in fear, The Man Within, our star Mr. Herbert Marshall. 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:37,240 Hi, Hap, what's new? 6 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,320 Why the whole set, Harlow. 7 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,920 Then your set, Hap, if you mean a brace of brand new ignition engineered Auto Light spark 8 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,560 plugs, the spark plugs that are world famous for quality and performance. 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,940 I got them, Harlow. 10 00:00:48,940 --> 00:00:52,240 Then you've got the best performers money can buy, Hap. 11 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,600 Auto Light spark plugs, both standard and resistor types, are available from thousands 12 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,600 of dealers from coast to coast and used by millions of motorists everywhere. 13 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:01,600 Yep. 14 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,680 You see, my car wasn't operating just right. 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,280 So, your Auto Light spark plug dealer checked and recommended a set of ignition engineered 16 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,160 Auto Light spark plugs, eh, Hap? 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,400 Yes, sir, Harlow, and I'm sure glad he did. 18 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,280 And you'll be glad too, friends. 19 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,260 See your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 20 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:23,760 To locate him quickly, phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,080 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 22 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:35,300 And now, Auto Light presents The Man Within, starring Mr. Herbert Marshall, hoping once 23 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:40,880 again to keep you in suspense. 24 00:01:40,880 --> 00:02:03,400 After a while, after I lay there in the long grass, after the end to running for a while 25 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,760 from death, night came, and with it, the fear. 26 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,560 And later I said to myself, who are you? 27 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,800 And I answered, you are a hunted man, and you are going to die. 28 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,640 Carlisle will find you and he will kill you. 29 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:29,120 Then I got up and ran some more. 30 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,120 Then there was a house. 31 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:35,080 There was a wall around it of stone and separating the house from the woods. 32 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,160 And there was a flame of candle on the ledge of one of the windows, and I thought I saw 33 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,600 inside a room a shadow move. 34 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,120 Then stay dark and motionless. 35 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,840 It was a house and I was tired. 36 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,400 It was a shelter and I was afraid. 37 00:02:53,400 --> 00:03:02,320 And outside here, somewhere, was Carlisle. 38 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:03,320 Get away. 39 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:04,320 I'll kill you. 40 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:05,520 I wouldn't be afraid to do it. 41 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,960 I've learned to use this gun. 42 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:07,960 I want a hiding place. 43 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:08,960 I'm being followed. 44 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:09,960 You can't stop here. 45 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:11,400 You'd better go the way you came. 46 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,400 But I can't. 47 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,400 They'd get me. 48 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:14,400 Look here. 49 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,000 I'm on the side of the law. 50 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,760 It's not the officers who are after me. 51 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Oh, don't you see? 52 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,760 Sit back. 53 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,760 You can't stay here. 54 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,000 Now turn around and go out. 55 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,480 When I get you, I'll teach you charity. 56 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,480 I told you to... 57 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:25,480 I'll teach you. 58 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Now. 59 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,480 Now I have it, miss, you see? 60 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:30,480 It isn't loaded. 61 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:31,480 No. 62 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:32,480 No. 63 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,480 Now. 64 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:35,480 Yes. 65 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,200 But I wasn't going to kill you. 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,880 I pointed it at the sky. 67 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:39,880 You saw that. 68 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:40,880 Yes. 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,840 You're very frightened, aren't you? 70 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,960 I don't want to die. 71 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:45,960 Out there. 72 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:55,760 A man named Carlisle. 73 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,080 It's too much. 74 00:03:58,080 --> 00:03:59,080 It's too much. 75 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,080 He's my father. 76 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,080 Dead in his coffin. 77 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,080 He died this morning. 78 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,080 I... 79 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,440 I've never seen a dead man before. 80 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:10,440 Like this. 81 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,440 Face to face. 82 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:16,680 Tomorrow morning, the people will come, the villagers, and I will bury him. 83 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,040 My father must be terribly alone now. 84 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,040 And I am. 85 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,120 You can stay if you like. 86 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,400 There's no one I'll tell. 87 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:26,400 It's just that I need to hide. 88 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,960 There's a shed, that door there, and you can hide. 89 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,400 Now listen to me. 90 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,120 You are my brother, do you see? 91 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,040 Tomorrow at the funeral, everyone will come here and they will see you. 92 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,240 And you will tell them that you are my brother. 93 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,240 All right. 94 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,240 What should I call you? 95 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,240 Your name? 96 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,240 Elizabeth. 97 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,240 I am Andrews. 98 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,200 And tomorrow when they ask, you heard of our father's illness, and you came back this morning 99 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,520 after years in the city and watched him die. 100 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:52,520 I don't know why. 101 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:53,520 What? 102 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,560 I don't know why I've helped you as much as I have. 103 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,560 Afraid of me? 104 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:57,560 That's why. 105 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,560 It was not fear. 106 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,000 It would be a fool who would be afraid of you. 107 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:13,200 I suppose I was tired of being alone. 108 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,480 Then she led me to a shed where I was to sleep. 109 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,640 Then she went away from me to some upstairs room of the cottage. 110 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,720 And in an instant, I slept. 111 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:35,200 And my awakening, a swiftly running current of voices. 112 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,920 The villagers gathered to the funeral and undertook as man shut in the coffin lid casually 113 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,600 as a man shuts a book. 114 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,520 Then the nailing of it with no air of finality. 115 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:51,600 Then village men to carry it from the cottage, place it in a farm cart. 116 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,720 And with Dark Elizabeth beside me, Elizabeth who is now a sister to me, walk into a wall 117 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,520 of whiteness that melted before me, clothes behind me. 118 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,600 And our footsteps sounding no louder than the drip of misty rain that fell from trees 119 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,520 and bushes along our road. 120 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:15,920 Then reach the burying place, stand beside the Dark Elizabeth in the misty graveyard, 121 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:23,520 and be aware that yet somewhere outside my mind but really to deep within the fear, the 122 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,360 tempest of fear, the fear of cowlion. 123 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:35,160 O holy and merciful savior, thou most worthy judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour 124 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:49,720 for any pains of death to fall from thee. 125 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,600 The mist opened a little and I could see the fields. 126 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,200 There was no cowlion. 127 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,660 And I stood alone wanting to turn and run and put a wall of mist between me and that 128 00:06:58,660 --> 00:07:01,600 gathering of strangers. 129 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,040 Fear and emptiness and fear were like the emptiness of hunger. 130 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,400 Only six steps away and I would be lost to all the world in a blanket of white wool. 131 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,920 But then I would be lonely again. 132 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,360 Take me away from here. 133 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:22,360 Take me home, brother. 134 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:28,840 Food. 135 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Have you any food? 136 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,880 I haven't had any for 15 hours. 137 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,760 There's tea and bread in the cupboard. 138 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:34,920 I'll get it. 139 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,920 That's good of you. 140 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,320 There's no reason why I should shut you out. 141 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:40,320 I've been alone. 142 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,120 You're better than no one, even you. 143 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,120 Tea, bread, butter. 144 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,200 Eat, Andrews. 145 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:56,120 The reason I came back with you and something else, I'll tell you and you can laugh at me. 146 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,360 I was homesick for here. 147 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,720 I'm not making love to you. 148 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:01,720 It wasn't you. 149 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,760 It was just the place. 150 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,760 I slept here and I hadn't slept before for three days. 151 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:07,760 Elizabeth. 152 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,760 I was wondering. 153 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:09,760 What? 154 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:10,760 Why I like you. 155 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,760 Of whom are you frightened? 156 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,760 Elizabeth. 157 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,760 Of whom are you frightened? 158 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:18,760 Of death. 159 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,480 And it is a man I know. 160 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:23,480 A man named Carlion. 161 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,480 Of another man you are frightened. 162 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:26,480 Carlion. 163 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,640 A man with a voice as near to music as any voice I've ever heard. 164 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:31,640 Except for yours. 165 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:32,640 A man who... 166 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:33,640 What's that? 167 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:34,640 You're imagining things. 168 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,640 Can't you whisper? 169 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:36,640 Let go of me. 170 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:37,640 Do you want to tell the whole world I'm here? 171 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:38,640 There. 172 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,640 Didn't you hear that? 173 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:40,640 Into the shed, quick. 174 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:41,640 The place where you slept. 175 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:42,640 There's no door, you fool. 176 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,640 There are shadows and darkness. 177 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:44,640 Find one to hide in you and your fear. 178 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:45,640 Well? 179 00:08:45,640 --> 00:09:00,640 Forgive me. 180 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,240 I'm completely lost in this part. 181 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:05,240 Why didn't you knock? 182 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,240 One can't be too careful around here. 183 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,640 You're not alone. 184 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:11,640 I'm alone. 185 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,320 My brother's just gone out. 186 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:14,320 He's not far. 187 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,160 I can easily call to him if you don't go. 188 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,560 You mustn't be afraid of me. 189 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:21,980 Perhaps I know your brother. 190 00:09:21,980 --> 00:09:23,560 Is he a little over the middle height? 191 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:26,760 Slightly built, dark, with frightened, obstinate eyes. 192 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,560 That's not my brother. 193 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:32,640 He's short and squat and very strong. 194 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,440 Then I'm not looking for your brother. 195 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,240 He must have been here very lately. 196 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,680 His tea is hot. 197 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:43,760 And he left in a hurry with his tea unfinished. 198 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:44,760 I'm curious if we didn't meet. 199 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,000 That's my cup you have. 200 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,400 Will you allow me to finish it? 201 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,280 I'm sorry I didn't meet your brother. 202 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,320 There's another door. 203 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,360 That's the shed and there are only tools and withered plants. 204 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,960 The man you described, the frightened, obstinate man. 205 00:09:58,960 --> 00:09:59,960 He's here? 206 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:00,960 He slept here last night. 207 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:01,960 And now? 208 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:02,960 He went with the morning. 209 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:03,960 North, I think. 210 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:04,960 I don't know. 211 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,000 He may return here then. 212 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,800 I don't think so. 213 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,680 The frightened man who was here. 214 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:11,680 A sort of Judas. 215 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:13,880 He was afraid of you. 216 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,080 He's an informer. 217 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,280 And because of him, six men are in jail on a charge of murder. 218 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:24,880 There was a fight and a customs guard was shot for a devil. 219 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:25,880 This man, Andrews. 220 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:26,880 Yes? 221 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,480 He has spoiled everything. 222 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,480 Three of us escaped. 223 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:36,160 Harry Frawley, who is with me, and Andrews, the informer. 224 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,760 He's made of us jail birds and fugitives and murderers. 225 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,280 The man killed because of smuggled casks of brandy. 226 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,920 What a dull, dirty game he's made it all appear. 227 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,040 And if you find him? 228 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:55,120 I should talk with him, make sure I was right. 229 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:56,120 And then? 230 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,120 What? 231 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,120 I should kill him. 232 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,080 He was laughing at me the whole time we were friends. 233 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,960 I told him all the things I liked, shared what I loved with him. 234 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,760 I can only make him forget what I told him by killing him. 235 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,360 You say he went north? 236 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Yes. 237 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,360 If he comes back, do not shelter him or warn him. 238 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,560 Stay with peace. 239 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:24,560 Stay alive. 240 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:30,240 Andrews, he's gone. 241 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,940 This knife, I would have killed him. 242 00:11:35,940 --> 00:11:36,940 And you, if you were told. 243 00:11:36,940 --> 00:11:39,320 You're a coward, coward, coward. 244 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,040 What he said, is it true? 245 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,040 Yes. 246 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,200 Coward and informer. 247 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,200 You heard him. 248 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,200 He would kill me. 249 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,200 You informed. 250 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,600 And whatever your reason, you were driven to the side of the law. 251 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,760 Stay there, go into the open, bear witness against the men they've caught. 252 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:57,760 Carl Lyon will kill me. 253 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:58,760 Do you understand, do you? 254 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,400 Touch of a coward is cold. 255 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,400 I want to stay. 256 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:04,400 I want to live. 257 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,440 The coward's hand on my cheek and it is cold. 258 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,440 Elizabeth. 259 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:09,440 Let go of me. 260 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:10,440 The fog is gone. 261 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:20,080 The sky is quite clear and I can see six stars. 262 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,800 Because I want you to love me. 263 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:27,400 And you will go to town and bear witness, testify at the trial. 264 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:28,400 Tomorrow. 265 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,400 A long walk to the town. 266 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,160 You must sleep where you slept last night. 267 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:48,080 Good night, Andrews. 268 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:53,640 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Herbert Marshall in Graham Green's The Man Within. 269 00:12:53,640 --> 00:13:07,960 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 270 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,400 Say Hap, what type of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs did you get? 271 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,360 Well the resistor type, Harlow. 272 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:19,460 To hear you tell it, the resistor is the greatest advance in spark plugs for automotive use 273 00:13:19,460 --> 00:13:21,000 in the past 20 years. 274 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,960 My words exactly, Hap. 275 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,000 That built in auto light resistor makes possible such outstanding advantages as double spark 276 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,360 plug life, smoother engine performance and quick starts. 277 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,320 That's why I had them put in, Harlow. 278 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,040 And it turns out you're right and they're super right. 279 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,680 And the auto light resistor spark plug is only one of a complete line of world famous 280 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:45,560 auto light spark plugs ignition engineered for every use. 281 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:50,040 So friends, visit your nearest auto light spark plug dealer for a spark plug check up 282 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,040 soon. 283 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:56,440 To quickly locate him, just phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 284 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:01,280 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 285 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:07,040 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage production of The Man Within. 286 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:15,520 A tail well calculated to keep you in suspense. 287 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,040 And bring up more whiskey for the lad. 288 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,040 I'd rather have food. 289 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,240 Whiskey, whiskey for the appetite. 290 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:28,160 Now, Mr. Andrews, I must tell you, you're a very brave man. 291 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:29,880 No, no, I'm not. 292 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:30,880 A coward. 293 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:31,880 She said so. 294 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,240 Oh, who said such a ridiculous thing? 295 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Nobody. 296 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,240 It doesn't matter. 297 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:36,240 It's in the viewpoint. 298 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,360 To me, you are brave to come here to my rooms as you did. 299 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,440 Because she told me to come. 300 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,720 It seems, it seems that it is necessary. 301 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,800 I changed somehow so that you can love me. 302 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:50,800 To be a man. 303 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:51,800 I see. 304 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,680 I'll do my best for you. 305 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,240 I've taken a room for you here at the inn. 306 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,240 But I won't go back to her. 307 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,240 You understand that? 308 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,440 If she will love you now, then why? 309 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:03,440 The fear. 310 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,080 Carlisle is not caught. 311 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,920 He will find me. 312 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:07,920 After tomorrow, I must get away. 313 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,160 You will have the whole of England to drop into. 314 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:12,680 But I must tell you this. 315 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:13,680 What? 316 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,080 Forget smuggling when this is over. 317 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,920 Be honest in the future. 318 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:17,920 Don't pray to me. 319 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:18,920 Don't talk to me about honesty. 320 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,320 You are not risking your life at this trial as I am. 321 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:23,320 And don't you be impertinent. 322 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,000 You are doing this to save your own skin. 323 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,600 Else you'd stand trial tomorrow like the rest. 324 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,600 Drink your whiskey. 325 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:38,480 Go to bed. 326 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:46,440 My name is Francis Andrews. 327 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:47,440 Very informal. 328 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:48,440 Order. 329 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,440 Order in the court. 330 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,840 Where were you on the night of February 10th? 331 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,080 On board the ship, good chance. 332 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,320 What were you doing there? 333 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,200 I was engaged in smuggling. 334 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,640 We better run a cargo that night so as not to pay the duty. 335 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,320 Tell the court what happened that night. 336 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,480 I helped load the dinghy with the casts of brandy, then I got in with them and helped 337 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:11,160 row to shore. 338 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,400 When they began to unload the cargo, I slipped away. 339 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:15,400 There was no moon. 340 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,280 It was very dark and they did not see me. 341 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,040 They didn't see me go. 342 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,920 I got away among the dunes and hid. 343 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:24,080 Then I ran again. 344 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,080 To where? 345 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,800 To a house on the moors that I found there. 346 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,800 To a girl who was in it. 347 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:30,800 Elizabeth. 348 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,640 Tell us about the letter, Mr. Andrews. 349 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:40,900 Two days before I had sent an anonymous letter to the officer in charge stating the time 350 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:42,680 and the exact place and who... 351 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:44,680 A judge of this court. 352 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:45,680 Order. 353 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:46,680 Order. 354 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,680 Another question, Mr. Andrews. 355 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,400 How long have you been in your profession? 356 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,840 Three years. 357 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,720 And you hated what you were doing? 358 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:56,720 Yes. 359 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:57,800 Why didn't you leave then? 360 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,120 I had nowhere to go and no money. 361 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,960 Did it ever occur to you to work honestly? 362 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:03,960 No. 363 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,000 Why did you first join? 364 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Friendship for a man. 365 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,080 A man who you have not caught. 366 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,080 Carl Iron. 367 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,560 The man friend of these others in the dark who you betrayed. 368 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:15,560 Yes. 369 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,440 Then what were your motives for laying information with the revenue? 370 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,440 The men hated me, all of them, except Carl Iron. 371 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:23,840 Oh, go on. 372 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:29,320 And I was afraid of being hurt and I hated the sea and the noise and the danger. 373 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,520 And I wanted to show these men that I was someone to be considered, that I had the power 374 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,520 to smash all their plans. 375 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,680 And your friend Carl Iron, did you do nothing to ward? 376 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,120 It was a case of him or me. 377 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:41,120 That is all, Mr. Andrews. 378 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:44,120 Will the defense cross examine? 379 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:45,120 No. 380 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:47,800 You may step down, Mr. Andrews. 381 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,600 You may continue, Sir Henry. 382 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:57,360 I call the prisoner Jason Collier. 383 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:01,040 So he was called Jason Collier and sworn in. 384 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:05,160 He refused to talk, as did the two who came after him. 385 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:10,040 Instead, they looked at me and each in his turn smiled. 386 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,040 Smiled. 387 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,040 I could not understand why. 388 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,760 And the courtroom became very hot, the faces blobs. 389 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:24,520 And time became drone of voices and got accused and denied. 390 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,520 Accused again. 391 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:27,520 Ebbed. 392 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:34,480 They were found guilty. 393 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:39,400 Then through streets filled with jarring, an officer to escort me. 394 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,520 Through succession of back doors and dirty lanes, through stables. 395 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:47,200 Then the white heart and the room I had in it. 396 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:55,040 Lighted darkness with candle and in the floating wisps of its rays, an image in mirror, an 397 00:18:55,040 --> 00:19:01,000 image, informer, brave, courageous informer. 398 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:09,680 And the mirror shadow, coward, coward, still coward, fear ridden man, fear sick man, because 399 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,360 Carlion was free. 400 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:14,960 Carlion alive. 401 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,120 In Carlion's hands, still my death. 402 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:19,120 Coward. 403 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:27,480 And no love from Elizabeth for a coward, room, candle dancing with fear, shadow drifting 404 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,480 with fear. 405 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,480 Andrews. 406 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,480 So there you are. 407 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:33,480 Harry. 408 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,480 Harry Frawley. 409 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:43,480 Knife says stay where you are unless you want to squeak to a new tune. 410 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,120 There are officers in this hotel. 411 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:47,120 What do you want Harry? 412 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,120 Why do you want a quarrel? 413 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,880 I'm here to do you a service straight, I am. 414 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:51,880 You're out. 415 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:52,880 You ain't very grateful. 416 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,960 Don't you want to hear my news? 417 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:56,960 What news? 418 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,720 You shouldn't have squealed. 419 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,560 Not on the others who was like your mother, you might say, when we used to see and see 420 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:07,360 storms and things made you whisper, whimper like a puerient baby. 421 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:08,960 You were a squeaker, you were. 422 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:09,960 You said you had news. 423 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:10,960 Of Carlion. 424 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,960 I have finished with him. 425 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,680 Ah, that he ain't finished with you. 426 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:16,680 Look. 427 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:17,680 Don't interrupt, squeaker. 428 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,360 Now I've got the role of it. 429 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:21,360 It's like this. 430 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:24,120 Carlion ain't finished with you. 431 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:26,120 Nor with your ladybird. 432 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,840 What do you mean? 433 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:28,840 Your ladybird. 434 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,720 The one of the cottage in the mists. 435 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:32,720 Her. 436 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:33,720 Dear caller. 437 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:34,720 Elizabeth. 438 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:35,720 Ah, Elizabeth. 439 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:36,720 Pity. 440 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:41,720 To shelter a squeaker and then to die. 441 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:42,720 Pity, pity. 442 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,280 Carlion wouldn't do anything to her. 443 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:45,280 I know he wouldn't. 444 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,880 He ought to give it to her tomorrow or the next day. 445 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:48,880 You're lying. 446 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,680 It's a trap to get me to go back to her so Carlion will catch me. 447 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,120 But I won't. 448 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:54,640 I won't go back, I tell you. 449 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,960 Carlion that has soon killed you has a look at you. 450 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,840 But he says killing's too good for you. 451 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,440 He says you ought to have some fun with your first. 452 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:03,440 He says Elizabeth. 453 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:04,440 Tell him I'll not go back. 454 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,840 Tell him it's no use laying that trap for me. 455 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:09,840 Good. 456 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:24,120 I have brought you Carlion's news and we're quits. 457 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,440 And silence now and again alone. 458 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:31,600 And the coward's image to reach from mirror offer its embrace. 459 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,640 It's only a whisper. 460 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,640 Only a trap. 461 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,200 Why such a trap for a coward who's only repelled by danger? 462 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,160 Carlion would not kill a woman. 463 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:48,920 Carlion snuff a candle and its images, leave the hotel, walk with no fear of death but 464 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,560 a terror of life. 465 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:57,280 Without escape, without will, walk and reach the downs as the first orange glow lifted 466 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,240 above the eastern horizon. 467 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,640 Then run to stifle thought, run fast until there's no more breath. 468 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:10,320 Until the flinging down again upon salt tufts of grass and cool and silver sky touched now 469 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,320 with green. 470 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:16,840 Up and run again. 471 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:22,800 Then the house and the wall around it and an opening door and Elizabeth. 472 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,280 Is it you at last? 473 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,280 I've come back. 474 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,720 Oh yes, I can see that. 475 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,360 I get you tea. 476 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:31,360 From that cup. 477 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,560 That was the cup we both drank from. 478 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,560 Not that one. 479 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:35,560 I remember the one. 480 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,560 It had a chip out of the rim. 481 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,560 This one. 482 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:41,560 Come. 483 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,560 Bread, tea, here. 484 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:48,040 Oh tell me, what are you doing here? 485 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,320 Has anything happened since I've been away? 486 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,960 No, nothing ever happens here. 487 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,160 The door was unbolted. 488 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,160 Do you think that's safe? 489 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,840 It was unbolted when you first came. 490 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,720 I didn't want a less warm welcome for you when you came back. 491 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:03,720 You knew I would come back. 492 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,720 We are friends. 493 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,400 They will laugh at me. 494 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,400 You'll despise me. 495 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,040 You know that I'm a coward. 496 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,040 I betrayed you. 497 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,040 How have you betrayed me? 498 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,000 It came out in court that you sheltered me. 499 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 In court? 500 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Were you there? 501 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I betrayed you. 502 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,040 I told them you sheltered me. 503 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,320 And now Carlion needs to punish you for it. 504 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,800 He'll be here today or tomorrow. 505 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,080 You're with me and I have no fear. 506 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,320 He will kill you and me. 507 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,320 No. 508 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,320 Fool, go from here. 509 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 Go away. 510 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,640 I love you and I will stay here in this house where you came to me. 511 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,000 Do you hear? 512 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 I love you. 513 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Elizabeth. 514 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,720 Why were you so long? 515 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:42,720 I was afraid. 516 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,880 Am I worse than death? 517 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,480 You're not afraid of that. 518 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,040 I don't fear it any longer. 519 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,160 You are filling me with yourself. 520 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,960 That means courage, peace, holiness. 521 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,160 Oh, love me. 522 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,160 So long alone. 523 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:00,160 Oh, love. 524 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,160 Love me. 525 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,160 Andrews. 526 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,160 Yes, what? 527 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,160 What? 528 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,160 What is it? 529 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,160 Have you seen something? 530 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,160 Nothing. 531 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,160 I remembered. 532 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,160 We shall need water before tonight. 533 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,520 We must go with a pail now before it's dangerous. 534 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:15,520 To the well. 535 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,600 The pail's in the corner there. 536 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,520 What a time to remember. 537 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,520 My knife, take it. 538 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,520 Half a minute's walk, no more. 539 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:25,520 The path behind the trees. 540 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,520 Half a minute and no more. 541 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:28,520 The knife, take it. 542 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,520 Yes. 543 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:30,520 Now kiss me? 544 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,480 Farewell for a half minute's absence. 545 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,600 I kiss you when I come back. 546 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:37,600 Go now. 547 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,600 Now. 548 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:58,800 She's dead, Andrews. 549 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,760 She meant the knife for me. 550 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:05,800 She came for me and she stumbled, fell to the floor and the knife pierced her. 551 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,560 I'm sorry. 552 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,520 Intensely, deeply sorry. 553 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,840 She was fine. 554 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,760 Finer than you or I. 555 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:20,240 She knew you were here and she sent me away. 556 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,440 I wanted you, Andrews. 557 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,080 Not her. 558 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,040 Not the death of that lovely girl. 559 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,240 You. 560 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,480 Killed her. 561 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,720 With my knife. 562 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,720 You will kill me, Andrews. 563 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,240 You the coward. 564 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,720 You who brought death to what you loved. 565 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,760 Because of her. 566 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,920 Of Elizabeth. 567 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:54,240 No more, Carlisle. 568 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:55,680 There is peace now. 569 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,120 And a kind of happiness. 570 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,840 Carlion is dead. 571 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,080 Carlion is dead of the wounding of my knife. 572 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,040 The knife that had tasted of Elizabeth. 573 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,600 Carlion dead. 574 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,720 And I killed him. 575 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:16,720 And I am free. 576 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:25,640 And the coward who whimpered in the darknesses of fear is a man who waits for the coming 577 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,960 of the police. 578 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,600 Who waits in a cottage where fear is dead. 579 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:57,960 And where love lies dead. 580 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:58,960 Suspense. 581 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,040 Suspense. 582 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:07,680 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 583 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,840 automotive electrical equipment. 584 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,880 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 585 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,360 They are members of the Auto Light family, as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors 586 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:22,520 and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 587 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:27,060 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants 588 00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:31,960 from coast to coast and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 589 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,800 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 590 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,480 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 591 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,040 standards of quality and performance. 592 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:49,560 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 593 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,360 Next week, we proudly present the first radio dramatization of William Shakespeare's tragic 594 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,960 history of love and death, Othello. 595 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,680 Our stars, Kathy Lewis, Richard Widmark, and Elliot Lewis. 596 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,960 That's next week on Suspense. 597 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,960 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 598 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,760 and conducted by Lud Luskin. 599 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,760 Graham Greene's The Man Within was adapted for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 600 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,480 In tonight's story, Betty Harford was heard as Elizabeth. 601 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:35,840 In the cast were Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns, Raymond Lawrence, Richard Peel, and Bill Bissell. 602 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:51,600 This is the CBS Radio Network.