WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.040 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Herbert Marshall in tonight's presentation 00:12.040 --> 00:14.800 of Suspense. 00:14.800 --> 00:25.180 Tonight, Auto Light presents the nightmare world of a coward as we bring you Graham Green's 00:25.180 --> 00:31.000 study in fear, The Man Within, our star Mr. Herbert Marshall. 00:31.000 --> 00:37.240 Hi, Hap, what's new? 00:37.240 --> 00:39.320 Why the whole set, Harlow. 00:39.320 --> 00:43.920 Then your set, Hap, if you mean a brace of brand new ignition engineered Auto Light spark 00:43.920 --> 00:47.560 plugs, the spark plugs that are world famous for quality and performance. 00:47.560 --> 00:48.940 I got them, Harlow. 00:48.940 --> 00:52.240 Then you've got the best performers money can buy, Hap. 00:52.240 --> 00:56.600 Auto Light spark plugs, both standard and resistor types, are available from thousands 00:56.600 --> 01:00.600 of dealers from coast to coast and used by millions of motorists everywhere. 01:00.600 --> 01:01.600 Yep. 01:01.600 --> 01:03.680 You see, my car wasn't operating just right. 01:03.680 --> 01:08.280 So, your Auto Light spark plug dealer checked and recommended a set of ignition engineered 01:08.280 --> 01:10.160 Auto Light spark plugs, eh, Hap? 01:10.160 --> 01:13.400 Yes, sir, Harlow, and I'm sure glad he did. 01:13.400 --> 01:15.280 And you'll be glad too, friends. 01:15.280 --> 01:18.260 See your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 01:18.260 --> 01:23.760 To locate him quickly, phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:23.760 --> 01:29.080 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:29.080 --> 01:35.300 And now, Auto Light presents The Man Within, starring Mr. Herbert Marshall, hoping once 01:35.300 --> 01:40.880 again to keep you in suspense. 01:40.880 --> 02:03.400 After a while, after I lay there in the long grass, after the end to running for a while 02:03.400 --> 02:08.760 from death, night came, and with it, the fear. 02:08.760 --> 02:12.560 And later I said to myself, who are you? 02:12.560 --> 02:17.800 And I answered, you are a hunted man, and you are going to die. 02:17.800 --> 02:20.640 Carlisle will find you and he will kill you. 02:20.640 --> 02:29.120 Then I got up and ran some more. 02:29.120 --> 02:30.120 Then there was a house. 02:30.120 --> 02:35.080 There was a wall around it of stone and separating the house from the woods. 02:35.080 --> 02:39.160 And there was a flame of candle on the ledge of one of the windows, and I thought I saw 02:39.160 --> 02:42.600 inside a room a shadow move. 02:42.600 --> 02:45.120 Then stay dark and motionless. 02:45.120 --> 02:49.840 It was a house and I was tired. 02:49.840 --> 02:53.400 It was a shelter and I was afraid. 02:53.400 --> 03:02.320 And outside here, somewhere, was Carlisle. 03:02.320 --> 03:03.320 Get away. 03:03.320 --> 03:04.320 I'll kill you. 03:04.320 --> 03:05.520 I wouldn't be afraid to do it. 03:05.520 --> 03:06.960 I've learned to use this gun. 03:06.960 --> 03:07.960 I want a hiding place. 03:07.960 --> 03:08.960 I'm being followed. 03:08.960 --> 03:09.960 You can't stop here. 03:09.960 --> 03:11.400 You'd better go the way you came. 03:11.400 --> 03:12.400 But I can't. 03:12.400 --> 03:13.400 They'd get me. 03:13.400 --> 03:14.400 Look here. 03:14.400 --> 03:16.000 I'm on the side of the law. 03:16.000 --> 03:17.760 It's not the officers who are after me. 03:17.760 --> 03:18.760 Oh, don't you see? 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 Sit back. 03:19.760 --> 03:20.760 You can't stay here. 03:20.760 --> 03:22.000 Now turn around and go out. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.480 When I get you, I'll teach you charity. 03:23.480 --> 03:24.480 I told you to... 03:24.480 --> 03:25.480 I'll teach you. 03:25.480 --> 03:26.480 Now. 03:26.480 --> 03:29.480 Now I have it, miss, you see? 03:29.480 --> 03:30.480 It isn't loaded. 03:30.480 --> 03:31.480 No. 03:31.480 --> 03:32.480 No. 03:32.480 --> 03:34.480 Now. 03:34.480 --> 03:35.480 Yes. 03:35.480 --> 03:37.200 But I wasn't going to kill you. 03:37.200 --> 03:38.880 I pointed it at the sky. 03:38.880 --> 03:39.880 You saw that. 03:39.880 --> 03:40.880 Yes. 03:40.880 --> 03:42.840 You're very frightened, aren't you? 03:42.840 --> 03:44.960 I don't want to die. 03:44.960 --> 03:45.960 Out there. 03:45.960 --> 03:55.760 A man named Carlisle. 03:55.760 --> 03:58.080 It's too much. 03:58.080 --> 03:59.080 It's too much. 03:59.080 --> 04:00.080 He's my father. 04:00.080 --> 04:01.080 Dead in his coffin. 04:01.080 --> 04:04.080 He died this morning. 04:04.080 --> 04:05.080 I... 04:05.080 --> 04:09.440 I've never seen a dead man before. 04:09.440 --> 04:10.440 Like this. 04:10.440 --> 04:11.440 Face to face. 04:11.440 --> 04:16.680 Tomorrow morning, the people will come, the villagers, and I will bury him. 04:16.680 --> 04:20.040 My father must be terribly alone now. 04:20.040 --> 04:21.040 And I am. 04:21.040 --> 04:24.120 You can stay if you like. 04:24.120 --> 04:25.400 There's no one I'll tell. 04:25.400 --> 04:26.400 It's just that I need to hide. 04:26.400 --> 04:29.960 There's a shed, that door there, and you can hide. 04:29.960 --> 04:31.400 Now listen to me. 04:31.400 --> 04:33.120 You are my brother, do you see? 04:33.120 --> 04:37.040 Tomorrow at the funeral, everyone will come here and they will see you. 04:37.040 --> 04:39.240 And you will tell them that you are my brother. 04:39.240 --> 04:40.240 All right. 04:40.240 --> 04:41.240 What should I call you? 04:41.240 --> 04:42.240 Your name? 04:42.240 --> 04:43.240 Elizabeth. 04:43.240 --> 04:44.240 I am Andrews. 04:44.240 --> 04:48.200 And tomorrow when they ask, you heard of our father's illness, and you came back this morning 04:48.200 --> 04:51.520 after years in the city and watched him die. 04:51.520 --> 04:52.520 I don't know why. 04:52.520 --> 04:53.520 What? 04:53.520 --> 04:55.560 I don't know why I've helped you as much as I have. 04:55.560 --> 04:56.560 Afraid of me? 04:56.560 --> 04:57.560 That's why. 04:57.560 --> 04:58.560 It was not fear. 04:58.560 --> 05:01.000 It would be a fool who would be afraid of you. 05:01.000 --> 05:13.200 I suppose I was tired of being alone. 05:13.200 --> 05:16.480 Then she led me to a shed where I was to sleep. 05:16.480 --> 05:21.640 Then she went away from me to some upstairs room of the cottage. 05:21.640 --> 05:25.720 And in an instant, I slept. 05:25.720 --> 05:35.200 And my awakening, a swiftly running current of voices. 05:35.200 --> 05:39.920 The villagers gathered to the funeral and undertook as man shut in the coffin lid casually 05:39.920 --> 05:42.600 as a man shuts a book. 05:42.600 --> 05:46.520 Then the nailing of it with no air of finality. 05:46.520 --> 05:51.600 Then village men to carry it from the cottage, place it in a farm cart. 05:51.600 --> 05:57.720 And with Dark Elizabeth beside me, Elizabeth who is now a sister to me, walk into a wall 05:57.720 --> 06:02.520 of whiteness that melted before me, clothes behind me. 06:02.520 --> 06:06.600 And our footsteps sounding no louder than the drip of misty rain that fell from trees 06:06.600 --> 06:09.520 and bushes along our road. 06:09.520 --> 06:15.920 Then reach the burying place, stand beside the Dark Elizabeth in the misty graveyard, 06:15.920 --> 06:23.520 and be aware that yet somewhere outside my mind but really to deep within the fear, the 06:23.520 --> 06:27.360 tempest of fear, the fear of cowlion. 06:27.360 --> 06:35.160 O holy and merciful savior, thou most worthy judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour 06:35.160 --> 06:49.720 for any pains of death to fall from thee. 06:49.720 --> 06:52.600 The mist opened a little and I could see the fields. 06:52.600 --> 06:55.200 There was no cowlion. 06:55.200 --> 06:58.660 And I stood alone wanting to turn and run and put a wall of mist between me and that 06:58.660 --> 07:01.600 gathering of strangers. 07:01.600 --> 07:05.040 Fear and emptiness and fear were like the emptiness of hunger. 07:05.040 --> 07:09.400 Only six steps away and I would be lost to all the world in a blanket of white wool. 07:09.400 --> 07:12.920 But then I would be lonely again. 07:12.920 --> 07:14.360 Take me away from here. 07:14.360 --> 07:22.360 Take me home, brother. 07:22.360 --> 07:28.840 Food. 07:28.840 --> 07:29.840 Have you any food? 07:29.840 --> 07:31.880 I haven't had any for 15 hours. 07:31.880 --> 07:33.760 There's tea and bread in the cupboard. 07:33.760 --> 07:34.920 I'll get it. 07:34.920 --> 07:36.920 That's good of you. 07:36.920 --> 07:39.320 There's no reason why I should shut you out. 07:39.320 --> 07:40.320 I've been alone. 07:40.320 --> 07:43.120 You're better than no one, even you. 07:43.120 --> 07:45.120 Tea, bread, butter. 07:45.120 --> 07:47.200 Eat, Andrews. 07:47.200 --> 07:56.120 The reason I came back with you and something else, I'll tell you and you can laugh at me. 07:56.120 --> 07:59.360 I was homesick for here. 07:59.360 --> 08:00.720 I'm not making love to you. 08:00.720 --> 08:01.720 It wasn't you. 08:01.720 --> 08:03.760 It was just the place. 08:03.760 --> 08:06.760 I slept here and I hadn't slept before for three days. 08:06.760 --> 08:07.760 Elizabeth. 08:07.760 --> 08:08.760 I was wondering. 08:08.760 --> 08:09.760 What? 08:09.760 --> 08:10.760 Why I like you. 08:10.760 --> 08:13.760 Of whom are you frightened? 08:13.760 --> 08:14.760 Elizabeth. 08:14.760 --> 08:17.760 Of whom are you frightened? 08:17.760 --> 08:18.760 Of death. 08:18.760 --> 08:22.480 And it is a man I know. 08:22.480 --> 08:23.480 A man named Carlion. 08:23.480 --> 08:25.480 Of another man you are frightened. 08:25.480 --> 08:26.480 Carlion. 08:26.480 --> 08:30.640 A man with a voice as near to music as any voice I've ever heard. 08:30.640 --> 08:31.640 Except for yours. 08:31.640 --> 08:32.640 A man who... 08:32.640 --> 08:33.640 What's that? 08:33.640 --> 08:34.640 You're imagining things. 08:34.640 --> 08:35.640 Can't you whisper? 08:35.640 --> 08:36.640 Let go of me. 08:36.640 --> 08:37.640 Do you want to tell the whole world I'm here? 08:37.640 --> 08:38.640 There. 08:38.640 --> 08:39.640 Didn't you hear that? 08:39.640 --> 08:40.640 Into the shed, quick. 08:40.640 --> 08:41.640 The place where you slept. 08:41.640 --> 08:42.640 There's no door, you fool. 08:42.640 --> 08:43.640 There are shadows and darkness. 08:43.640 --> 08:44.640 Find one to hide in you and your fear. 08:44.640 --> 08:45.640 Well? 08:45.640 --> 09:00.640 Forgive me. 09:00.640 --> 09:04.240 I'm completely lost in this part. 09:04.240 --> 09:05.240 Why didn't you knock? 09:05.240 --> 09:08.240 One can't be too careful around here. 09:08.240 --> 09:10.640 You're not alone. 09:10.640 --> 09:11.640 I'm alone. 09:11.640 --> 09:13.320 My brother's just gone out. 09:13.320 --> 09:14.320 He's not far. 09:14.320 --> 09:17.160 I can easily call to him if you don't go. 09:17.160 --> 09:19.560 You mustn't be afraid of me. 09:19.560 --> 09:21.980 Perhaps I know your brother. 09:21.980 --> 09:23.560 Is he a little over the middle height? 09:23.560 --> 09:26.760 Slightly built, dark, with frightened, obstinate eyes. 09:26.760 --> 09:28.560 That's not my brother. 09:28.560 --> 09:32.640 He's short and squat and very strong. 09:32.640 --> 09:34.440 Then I'm not looking for your brother. 09:34.440 --> 09:38.240 He must have been here very lately. 09:38.240 --> 09:40.680 His tea is hot. 09:40.680 --> 09:43.760 And he left in a hurry with his tea unfinished. 09:43.760 --> 09:44.760 I'm curious if we didn't meet. 09:44.760 --> 09:46.000 That's my cup you have. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.400 Will you allow me to finish it? 09:48.400 --> 09:50.280 I'm sorry I didn't meet your brother. 09:50.280 --> 09:52.320 There's another door. 09:52.320 --> 09:55.360 That's the shed and there are only tools and withered plants. 09:55.360 --> 09:58.960 The man you described, the frightened, obstinate man. 09:58.960 --> 09:59.960 He's here? 09:59.960 --> 10:00.960 He slept here last night. 10:00.960 --> 10:01.960 And now? 10:01.960 --> 10:02.960 He went with the morning. 10:02.960 --> 10:03.960 North, I think. 10:03.960 --> 10:04.960 I don't know. 10:04.960 --> 10:07.000 He may return here then. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.800 I don't think so. 10:08.800 --> 10:10.680 The frightened man who was here. 10:10.680 --> 10:11.680 A sort of Judas. 10:11.680 --> 10:13.880 He was afraid of you. 10:13.880 --> 10:16.080 He's an informer. 10:16.080 --> 10:19.280 And because of him, six men are in jail on a charge of murder. 10:19.280 --> 10:24.880 There was a fight and a customs guard was shot for a devil. 10:24.880 --> 10:25.880 This man, Andrews. 10:25.880 --> 10:26.880 Yes? 10:26.880 --> 10:29.480 He has spoiled everything. 10:29.480 --> 10:30.480 Three of us escaped. 10:30.480 --> 10:36.160 Harry Frawley, who is with me, and Andrews, the informer. 10:36.160 --> 10:39.760 He's made of us jail birds and fugitives and murderers. 10:39.760 --> 10:44.280 The man killed because of smuggled casks of brandy. 10:44.280 --> 10:47.920 What a dull, dirty game he's made it all appear. 10:47.920 --> 10:50.040 And if you find him? 10:50.040 --> 10:55.120 I should talk with him, make sure I was right. 10:55.120 --> 10:56.120 And then? 10:56.120 --> 10:57.120 What? 10:57.120 --> 10:58.120 I should kill him. 10:58.120 --> 11:03.080 He was laughing at me the whole time we were friends. 11:03.080 --> 11:07.960 I told him all the things I liked, shared what I loved with him. 11:07.960 --> 11:10.760 I can only make him forget what I told him by killing him. 11:10.760 --> 11:13.360 You say he went north? 11:13.360 --> 11:14.360 Yes. 11:14.360 --> 11:19.360 If he comes back, do not shelter him or warn him. 11:19.360 --> 11:21.560 Stay with peace. 11:21.560 --> 11:24.560 Stay alive. 11:24.560 --> 11:30.240 Andrews, he's gone. 11:30.240 --> 11:35.940 This knife, I would have killed him. 11:35.940 --> 11:36.940 And you, if you were told. 11:36.940 --> 11:39.320 You're a coward, coward, coward. 11:39.320 --> 11:43.040 What he said, is it true? 11:43.040 --> 11:44.040 Yes. 11:44.040 --> 11:46.200 Coward and informer. 11:46.200 --> 11:47.200 You heard him. 11:47.200 --> 11:48.200 He would kill me. 11:48.200 --> 11:49.200 You informed. 11:49.200 --> 11:52.600 And whatever your reason, you were driven to the side of the law. 11:52.600 --> 11:56.760 Stay there, go into the open, bear witness against the men they've caught. 11:56.760 --> 11:57.760 Carl Lyon will kill me. 11:57.760 --> 11:58.760 Do you understand, do you? 11:58.760 --> 12:02.400 Touch of a coward is cold. 12:02.400 --> 12:03.400 I want to stay. 12:03.400 --> 12:04.400 I want to live. 12:04.400 --> 12:07.440 The coward's hand on my cheek and it is cold. 12:07.440 --> 12:08.440 Elizabeth. 12:08.440 --> 12:09.440 Let go of me. 12:09.440 --> 12:10.440 The fog is gone. 12:10.440 --> 12:20.080 The sky is quite clear and I can see six stars. 12:20.080 --> 12:22.800 Because I want you to love me. 12:22.800 --> 12:27.400 And you will go to town and bear witness, testify at the trial. 12:27.400 --> 12:28.400 Tomorrow. 12:28.400 --> 12:30.400 A long walk to the town. 12:30.400 --> 12:35.160 You must sleep where you slept last night. 12:35.160 --> 12:48.080 Good night, Andrews. 12:48.080 --> 12:53.640 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Herbert Marshall in Graham Green's The Man Within. 12:53.640 --> 13:07.960 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:07.960 --> 13:12.400 Say Hap, what type of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs did you get? 13:12.400 --> 13:14.360 Well the resistor type, Harlow. 13:14.360 --> 13:19.460 To hear you tell it, the resistor is the greatest advance in spark plugs for automotive use 13:19.460 --> 13:21.000 in the past 20 years. 13:21.000 --> 13:22.960 My words exactly, Hap. 13:22.960 --> 13:28.000 That built in auto light resistor makes possible such outstanding advantages as double spark 13:28.000 --> 13:31.360 plug life, smoother engine performance and quick starts. 13:31.360 --> 13:33.320 That's why I had them put in, Harlow. 13:33.320 --> 13:37.040 And it turns out you're right and they're super right. 13:37.040 --> 13:41.680 And the auto light resistor spark plug is only one of a complete line of world famous 13:41.680 --> 13:45.560 auto light spark plugs ignition engineered for every use. 13:45.560 --> 13:50.040 So friends, visit your nearest auto light spark plug dealer for a spark plug check up 13:50.040 --> 13:51.040 soon. 13:51.040 --> 13:56.440 To quickly locate him, just phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 13:56.440 --> 14:01.280 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 14:01.280 --> 14:07.040 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage production of The Man Within. 14:07.040 --> 14:15.520 A tail well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:15.520 --> 14:18.040 And bring up more whiskey for the lad. 14:18.040 --> 14:19.040 I'd rather have food. 14:19.040 --> 14:21.240 Whiskey, whiskey for the appetite. 14:21.240 --> 14:28.160 Now, Mr. Andrews, I must tell you, you're a very brave man. 14:28.160 --> 14:29.880 No, no, I'm not. 14:29.880 --> 14:30.880 A coward. 14:30.880 --> 14:31.880 She said so. 14:31.880 --> 14:33.240 Oh, who said such a ridiculous thing? 14:33.240 --> 14:34.240 Nobody. 14:34.240 --> 14:35.240 It doesn't matter. 14:35.240 --> 14:36.240 It's in the viewpoint. 14:36.240 --> 14:40.360 To me, you are brave to come here to my rooms as you did. 14:40.360 --> 14:42.440 Because she told me to come. 14:42.440 --> 14:45.720 It seems, it seems that it is necessary. 14:45.720 --> 14:49.800 I changed somehow so that you can love me. 14:49.800 --> 14:50.800 To be a man. 14:50.800 --> 14:51.800 I see. 14:51.800 --> 14:54.680 I'll do my best for you. 14:54.680 --> 14:57.240 I've taken a room for you here at the inn. 14:57.240 --> 14:58.240 But I won't go back to her. 14:58.240 --> 14:59.240 You understand that? 14:59.240 --> 15:02.440 If she will love you now, then why? 15:02.440 --> 15:03.440 The fear. 15:03.440 --> 15:05.080 Carlisle is not caught. 15:05.080 --> 15:06.920 He will find me. 15:06.920 --> 15:07.920 After tomorrow, I must get away. 15:07.920 --> 15:11.160 You will have the whole of England to drop into. 15:11.160 --> 15:12.680 But I must tell you this. 15:12.680 --> 15:13.680 What? 15:13.680 --> 15:15.080 Forget smuggling when this is over. 15:15.080 --> 15:16.920 Be honest in the future. 15:16.920 --> 15:17.920 Don't pray to me. 15:17.920 --> 15:18.920 Don't talk to me about honesty. 15:18.920 --> 15:22.320 You are not risking your life at this trial as I am. 15:22.320 --> 15:23.320 And don't you be impertinent. 15:23.320 --> 15:26.000 You are doing this to save your own skin. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.600 Else you'd stand trial tomorrow like the rest. 15:28.600 --> 15:31.600 Drink your whiskey. 15:31.600 --> 15:38.480 Go to bed. 15:38.480 --> 15:46.440 My name is Francis Andrews. 15:46.440 --> 15:47.440 Very informal. 15:47.440 --> 15:48.440 Order. 15:48.440 --> 15:49.440 Order in the court. 15:49.440 --> 15:53.840 Where were you on the night of February 10th? 15:53.840 --> 15:56.080 On board the ship, good chance. 15:56.080 --> 15:57.320 What were you doing there? 15:57.320 --> 16:00.200 I was engaged in smuggling. 16:00.200 --> 16:03.640 We better run a cargo that night so as not to pay the duty. 16:03.640 --> 16:05.320 Tell the court what happened that night. 16:05.320 --> 16:09.480 I helped load the dinghy with the casts of brandy, then I got in with them and helped 16:09.480 --> 16:11.160 row to shore. 16:11.160 --> 16:14.400 When they began to unload the cargo, I slipped away. 16:14.400 --> 16:15.400 There was no moon. 16:15.400 --> 16:18.280 It was very dark and they did not see me. 16:18.280 --> 16:20.040 They didn't see me go. 16:20.040 --> 16:22.920 I got away among the dunes and hid. 16:22.920 --> 16:24.080 Then I ran again. 16:24.080 --> 16:25.080 To where? 16:25.080 --> 16:27.800 To a house on the moors that I found there. 16:27.800 --> 16:29.800 To a girl who was in it. 16:29.800 --> 16:30.800 Elizabeth. 16:30.800 --> 16:34.640 Tell us about the letter, Mr. Andrews. 16:34.640 --> 16:40.900 Two days before I had sent an anonymous letter to the officer in charge stating the time 16:40.900 --> 16:42.680 and the exact place and who... 16:42.680 --> 16:44.680 A judge of this court. 16:44.680 --> 16:45.680 Order. 16:45.680 --> 16:46.680 Order. 16:46.680 --> 16:48.680 Another question, Mr. Andrews. 16:48.680 --> 16:51.400 How long have you been in your profession? 16:51.400 --> 16:53.840 Three years. 16:53.840 --> 16:55.720 And you hated what you were doing? 16:55.720 --> 16:56.720 Yes. 16:56.720 --> 16:57.800 Why didn't you leave then? 16:57.800 --> 17:00.120 I had nowhere to go and no money. 17:00.120 --> 17:02.960 Did it ever occur to you to work honestly? 17:02.960 --> 17:03.960 No. 17:03.960 --> 17:07.000 Why did you first join? 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 Friendship for a man. 17:08.000 --> 17:11.080 A man who you have not caught. 17:11.080 --> 17:12.080 Carl Iron. 17:12.080 --> 17:14.560 The man friend of these others in the dark who you betrayed. 17:14.560 --> 17:15.560 Yes. 17:15.560 --> 17:19.440 Then what were your motives for laying information with the revenue? 17:19.440 --> 17:22.440 The men hated me, all of them, except Carl Iron. 17:22.440 --> 17:23.840 Oh, go on. 17:23.840 --> 17:29.320 And I was afraid of being hurt and I hated the sea and the noise and the danger. 17:29.320 --> 17:32.520 And I wanted to show these men that I was someone to be considered, that I had the power 17:32.520 --> 17:34.520 to smash all their plans. 17:34.520 --> 17:37.680 And your friend Carl Iron, did you do nothing to ward? 17:37.680 --> 17:40.120 It was a case of him or me. 17:40.120 --> 17:41.120 That is all, Mr. Andrews. 17:41.120 --> 17:44.120 Will the defense cross examine? 17:44.120 --> 17:45.120 No. 17:45.120 --> 17:47.800 You may step down, Mr. Andrews. 17:47.800 --> 17:49.600 You may continue, Sir Henry. 17:49.600 --> 17:57.360 I call the prisoner Jason Collier. 17:57.360 --> 18:01.040 So he was called Jason Collier and sworn in. 18:01.040 --> 18:05.160 He refused to talk, as did the two who came after him. 18:05.160 --> 18:10.040 Instead, they looked at me and each in his turn smiled. 18:10.040 --> 18:11.040 Smiled. 18:11.040 --> 18:15.040 I could not understand why. 18:15.040 --> 18:18.760 And the courtroom became very hot, the faces blobs. 18:18.760 --> 18:24.520 And time became drone of voices and got accused and denied. 18:24.520 --> 18:26.520 Accused again. 18:26.520 --> 18:27.520 Ebbed. 18:27.520 --> 18:34.480 They were found guilty. 18:34.480 --> 18:39.400 Then through streets filled with jarring, an officer to escort me. 18:39.400 --> 18:42.520 Through succession of back doors and dirty lanes, through stables. 18:42.520 --> 18:47.200 Then the white heart and the room I had in it. 18:47.200 --> 18:55.040 Lighted darkness with candle and in the floating wisps of its rays, an image in mirror, an 18:55.040 --> 19:01.000 image, informer, brave, courageous informer. 19:01.000 --> 19:09.680 And the mirror shadow, coward, coward, still coward, fear ridden man, fear sick man, because 19:09.680 --> 19:12.360 Carlion was free. 19:12.360 --> 19:14.960 Carlion alive. 19:14.960 --> 19:18.120 In Carlion's hands, still my death. 19:18.120 --> 19:19.120 Coward. 19:19.120 --> 19:27.480 And no love from Elizabeth for a coward, room, candle dancing with fear, shadow drifting 19:27.480 --> 19:28.480 with fear. 19:28.480 --> 19:29.480 Andrews. 19:29.480 --> 19:32.480 So there you are. 19:32.480 --> 19:33.480 Harry. 19:33.480 --> 19:34.480 Harry Frawley. 19:34.480 --> 19:43.480 Knife says stay where you are unless you want to squeak to a new tune. 19:43.480 --> 19:46.120 There are officers in this hotel. 19:46.120 --> 19:47.120 What do you want Harry? 19:47.120 --> 19:48.120 Why do you want a quarrel? 19:48.120 --> 19:50.880 I'm here to do you a service straight, I am. 19:50.880 --> 19:51.880 You're out. 19:51.880 --> 19:52.880 You ain't very grateful. 19:52.880 --> 19:55.960 Don't you want to hear my news? 19:55.960 --> 19:56.960 What news? 19:56.960 --> 19:58.720 You shouldn't have squealed. 19:58.720 --> 20:02.560 Not on the others who was like your mother, you might say, when we used to see and see 20:02.560 --> 20:07.360 storms and things made you whisper, whimper like a puerient baby. 20:07.360 --> 20:08.960 You were a squeaker, you were. 20:08.960 --> 20:09.960 You said you had news. 20:09.960 --> 20:10.960 Of Carlion. 20:10.960 --> 20:12.960 I have finished with him. 20:12.960 --> 20:15.680 Ah, that he ain't finished with you. 20:15.680 --> 20:16.680 Look. 20:16.680 --> 20:17.680 Don't interrupt, squeaker. 20:17.680 --> 20:20.360 Now I've got the role of it. 20:20.360 --> 20:21.360 It's like this. 20:21.360 --> 20:24.120 Carlion ain't finished with you. 20:24.120 --> 20:26.120 Nor with your ladybird. 20:26.120 --> 20:27.840 What do you mean? 20:27.840 --> 20:28.840 Your ladybird. 20:28.840 --> 20:31.720 The one of the cottage in the mists. 20:31.720 --> 20:32.720 Her. 20:32.720 --> 20:33.720 Dear caller. 20:33.720 --> 20:34.720 Elizabeth. 20:34.720 --> 20:35.720 Ah, Elizabeth. 20:35.720 --> 20:36.720 Pity. 20:36.720 --> 20:41.720 To shelter a squeaker and then to die. 20:41.720 --> 20:42.720 Pity, pity. 20:42.720 --> 20:44.280 Carlion wouldn't do anything to her. 20:44.280 --> 20:45.280 I know he wouldn't. 20:45.280 --> 20:47.880 He ought to give it to her tomorrow or the next day. 20:47.880 --> 20:48.880 You're lying. 20:48.880 --> 20:51.680 It's a trap to get me to go back to her so Carlion will catch me. 20:51.680 --> 20:53.120 But I won't. 20:53.120 --> 20:54.640 I won't go back, I tell you. 20:54.640 --> 20:57.960 Carlion that has soon killed you has a look at you. 20:57.960 --> 20:59.840 But he says killing's too good for you. 20:59.840 --> 21:02.440 He says you ought to have some fun with your first. 21:02.440 --> 21:03.440 He says Elizabeth. 21:03.440 --> 21:04.440 Tell him I'll not go back. 21:04.440 --> 21:08.840 Tell him it's no use laying that trap for me. 21:08.840 --> 21:09.840 Good. 21:09.840 --> 21:24.120 I have brought you Carlion's news and we're quits. 21:24.120 --> 21:26.440 And silence now and again alone. 21:26.440 --> 21:31.600 And the coward's image to reach from mirror offer its embrace. 21:31.600 --> 21:33.640 It's only a whisper. 21:33.640 --> 21:34.640 Only a trap. 21:34.640 --> 21:39.200 Why such a trap for a coward who's only repelled by danger? 21:39.200 --> 21:43.160 Carlion would not kill a woman. 21:43.160 --> 21:48.920 Carlion snuff a candle and its images, leave the hotel, walk with no fear of death but 21:48.920 --> 21:50.560 a terror of life. 21:50.560 --> 21:57.280 Without escape, without will, walk and reach the downs as the first orange glow lifted 21:57.280 --> 21:59.240 above the eastern horizon. 21:59.240 --> 22:03.640 Then run to stifle thought, run fast until there's no more breath. 22:03.640 --> 22:10.320 Until the flinging down again upon salt tufts of grass and cool and silver sky touched now 22:10.320 --> 22:11.320 with green. 22:11.320 --> 22:16.840 Up and run again. 22:16.840 --> 22:22.800 Then the house and the wall around it and an opening door and Elizabeth. 22:22.800 --> 22:24.280 Is it you at last? 22:24.280 --> 22:25.280 I've come back. 22:25.280 --> 22:27.720 Oh yes, I can see that. 22:27.720 --> 22:30.360 I get you tea. 22:30.360 --> 22:31.360 From that cup. 22:31.360 --> 22:33.560 That was the cup we both drank from. 22:33.560 --> 22:34.560 Not that one. 22:34.560 --> 22:35.560 I remember the one. 22:35.560 --> 22:38.560 It had a chip out of the rim. 22:38.560 --> 22:40.560 This one. 22:40.560 --> 22:41.560 Come. 22:41.560 --> 22:43.560 Bread, tea, here. 22:43.560 --> 22:48.040 Oh tell me, what are you doing here? 22:48.040 --> 22:50.320 Has anything happened since I've been away? 22:50.320 --> 22:52.960 No, nothing ever happens here. 22:52.960 --> 22:55.160 The door was unbolted. 22:55.160 --> 22:56.160 Do you think that's safe? 22:56.160 --> 22:58.840 It was unbolted when you first came. 22:58.840 --> 23:02.720 I didn't want a less warm welcome for you when you came back. 23:02.720 --> 23:03.720 You knew I would come back. 23:03.720 --> 23:04.720 We are friends. 23:04.720 --> 23:06.400 They will laugh at me. 23:06.400 --> 23:07.400 You'll despise me. 23:07.400 --> 23:09.040 You know that I'm a coward. 23:09.040 --> 23:10.040 I betrayed you. 23:10.040 --> 23:11.040 How have you betrayed me? 23:11.040 --> 23:13.000 It came out in court that you sheltered me. 23:13.000 --> 23:14.000 In court? 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 Were you there? 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 I betrayed you. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.040 I told them you sheltered me. 23:18.040 --> 23:20.320 And now Carlion needs to punish you for it. 23:20.320 --> 23:21.800 He'll be here today or tomorrow. 23:21.800 --> 23:25.080 You're with me and I have no fear. 23:25.080 --> 23:27.320 He will kill you and me. 23:27.320 --> 23:28.320 No. 23:28.320 --> 23:29.320 Fool, go from here. 23:29.320 --> 23:30.320 Go away. 23:30.320 --> 23:33.640 I love you and I will stay here in this house where you came to me. 23:33.640 --> 23:35.000 Do you hear? 23:35.000 --> 23:36.000 I love you. 23:36.000 --> 23:37.000 Elizabeth. 23:37.000 --> 23:41.720 Why were you so long? 23:41.720 --> 23:42.720 I was afraid. 23:42.720 --> 23:44.880 Am I worse than death? 23:44.880 --> 23:46.480 You're not afraid of that. 23:46.480 --> 23:49.040 I don't fear it any longer. 23:49.040 --> 23:52.160 You are filling me with yourself. 23:52.160 --> 23:55.960 That means courage, peace, holiness. 23:55.960 --> 23:58.160 Oh, love me. 23:58.160 --> 23:59.160 So long alone. 23:59.160 --> 24:00.160 Oh, love. 24:00.160 --> 24:01.160 Love me. 24:01.160 --> 24:02.160 Andrews. 24:02.160 --> 24:03.160 Yes, what? 24:03.160 --> 24:04.160 What? 24:04.160 --> 24:05.160 What is it? 24:05.160 --> 24:07.160 Have you seen something? 24:07.160 --> 24:08.160 Nothing. 24:08.160 --> 24:09.160 I remembered. 24:09.160 --> 24:11.160 We shall need water before tonight. 24:11.160 --> 24:14.520 We must go with a pail now before it's dangerous. 24:14.520 --> 24:15.520 To the well. 24:15.520 --> 24:17.600 The pail's in the corner there. 24:17.600 --> 24:21.520 What a time to remember. 24:21.520 --> 24:22.520 My knife, take it. 24:22.520 --> 24:24.520 Half a minute's walk, no more. 24:24.520 --> 24:25.520 The path behind the trees. 24:25.520 --> 24:27.520 Half a minute and no more. 24:27.520 --> 24:28.520 The knife, take it. 24:28.520 --> 24:29.520 Yes. 24:29.520 --> 24:30.520 Now kiss me? 24:30.520 --> 24:34.480 Farewell for a half minute's absence. 24:34.480 --> 24:36.600 I kiss you when I come back. 24:36.600 --> 24:37.600 Go now. 24:37.600 --> 24:38.600 Now. 24:38.600 --> 24:58.800 She's dead, Andrews. 24:58.800 --> 25:00.760 She meant the knife for me. 25:00.760 --> 25:05.800 She came for me and she stumbled, fell to the floor and the knife pierced her. 25:05.800 --> 25:07.560 I'm sorry. 25:07.560 --> 25:10.520 Intensely, deeply sorry. 25:10.520 --> 25:12.840 She was fine. 25:12.840 --> 25:15.760 Finer than you or I. 25:15.760 --> 25:20.240 She knew you were here and she sent me away. 25:20.240 --> 25:22.440 I wanted you, Andrews. 25:22.440 --> 25:24.080 Not her. 25:24.080 --> 25:27.040 Not the death of that lovely girl. 25:27.040 --> 25:28.240 You. 25:28.240 --> 25:30.480 Killed her. 25:30.480 --> 25:32.720 With my knife. 25:32.720 --> 25:34.720 You will kill me, Andrews. 25:34.720 --> 25:36.240 You the coward. 25:36.240 --> 25:38.720 You who brought death to what you loved. 25:38.720 --> 25:40.760 Because of her. 25:40.760 --> 25:42.920 Of Elizabeth. 25:42.920 --> 25:54.240 No more, Carlisle. 25:54.240 --> 25:55.680 There is peace now. 25:55.680 --> 26:00.120 And a kind of happiness. 26:00.120 --> 26:02.840 Carlion is dead. 26:02.840 --> 26:07.080 Carlion is dead of the wounding of my knife. 26:07.080 --> 26:11.040 The knife that had tasted of Elizabeth. 26:11.040 --> 26:13.600 Carlion dead. 26:13.600 --> 26:15.720 And I killed him. 26:15.720 --> 26:16.720 And I am free. 26:16.720 --> 26:25.640 And the coward who whimpered in the darknesses of fear is a man who waits for the coming 26:25.640 --> 26:27.960 of the police. 26:27.960 --> 26:32.600 Who waits in a cottage where fear is dead. 26:32.600 --> 26:57.960 And where love lies dead. 26:57.960 --> 26:58.960 Suspense. 26:58.960 --> 27:03.040 Suspense. 27:03.040 --> 27:07.680 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 27:07.680 --> 27:09.840 automotive electrical equipment. 27:09.840 --> 27:12.880 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:12.880 --> 27:17.360 They are members of the Auto Light family, as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors 27:17.360 --> 27:22.520 and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:22.520 --> 27:27.060 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants 27:27.060 --> 27:31.960 from coast to coast and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 27:31.960 --> 27:36.800 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:36.800 --> 27:41.480 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 27:41.480 --> 27:44.040 standards of quality and performance. 27:44.040 --> 27:49.560 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 27:49.560 --> 27:54.360 Next week, we proudly present the first radio dramatization of William Shakespeare's tragic 27:54.360 --> 27:57.960 history of love and death, Othello. 27:57.960 --> 28:01.680 Our stars, Kathy Lewis, Richard Widmark, and Elliot Lewis. 28:01.680 --> 28:06.960 That's next week on Suspense. 28:06.960 --> 28:10.960 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 28:10.960 --> 28:12.760 and conducted by Lud Luskin. 28:12.760 --> 28:17.760 Graham Greene's The Man Within was adapted for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 28:17.760 --> 28:20.480 In tonight's story, Betty Harford was heard as Elizabeth. 28:20.480 --> 28:35.840 In the cast were Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns, Raymond Lawrence, Richard Peel, and Bill Bissell. 28:35.840 --> 28:51.600 This is the CBS Radio Network.