WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.500 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Jeff Alexander. 00:11.500 --> 00:13.500 I'm sorry, Mr. Jeff Chandler. 00:13.500 --> 00:18.620 In tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:18.620 --> 00:29.520 Tonight, with song and story, Auto Light tells a classic tale of love and death. 00:29.520 --> 00:39.520 My true love's here, our star, Mr. Jeff Chandler. 00:39.520 --> 00:42.800 Well, Mr. McSorley, doing a crossword puzzle? 00:42.800 --> 00:44.360 That I am, Harlow. 00:44.360 --> 00:46.120 Say, what's perpetual motion? 00:46.120 --> 00:50.160 Why, that's the Auto Light electrical system in your Auto Light equipped car. 00:50.160 --> 00:54.920 You need it every time you blow your horn, turn on your lights, radio, heater, and electrical 00:54.920 --> 00:56.420 windshield wipers. 00:56.420 --> 01:01.120 It goes to work the instant you press the starter and continues every second your engine 01:01.120 --> 01:02.120 runs. 01:02.120 --> 01:05.280 It's designed to give you the best performance money can buy. 01:05.280 --> 01:07.200 Mighty important, eh, Harlow? 01:07.200 --> 01:11.800 That's why it pays to treat your car's electrical system to a periodic checkup. 01:11.800 --> 01:17.640 See your dealer or your authorized Auto Light service station before winter hits hard. 01:17.640 --> 01:22.480 You'll be the winner in smooth, economical performance and surer starts. 01:22.480 --> 01:27.040 To quickly locate your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, look in the classified 01:27.040 --> 01:32.020 section of the phone book under Automobile Electrical Service or call Western Union by 01:32.020 --> 01:34.840 number and ask for operator 25. 01:34.840 --> 01:39.880 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:39.880 --> 01:47.480 And now, Auto Light presents, My True Love's Here, starring Mr. Jeff Chandler, hoping once 01:47.480 --> 02:05.360 again to keep you in suspense. 02:05.360 --> 02:08.760 Black was the color of my true love's hair. 02:08.760 --> 02:20.680 My lips were something wondrous fair. 02:20.680 --> 02:25.040 The purest eyes, the daintiest hands. 02:25.040 --> 02:46.640 I loved the grass where on she stands. 02:46.640 --> 02:48.040 What do you want here? 02:48.040 --> 02:49.040 Are you Mr. Genowitt? 02:49.040 --> 02:50.040 I am. 02:50.040 --> 02:52.840 I am John Harverson of the ship Sumatra Bell. 02:52.840 --> 02:57.360 You are sailor and idleness has festered in you. 02:57.360 --> 03:00.920 Oh, you've wandered to our island. 03:00.920 --> 03:03.240 You saw the girl outside my house. 03:03.240 --> 03:04.240 No, not for... 03:04.240 --> 03:09.240 I watched how you looked at her, looked at Rachel. 03:09.240 --> 03:11.400 It is not why I came to you, Mr. Genowitt. 03:11.400 --> 03:12.920 Well, then for what? 03:12.920 --> 03:18.200 Mr. Darin asked that when I was on Suva, I call upon you and Mrs. Genowitt. 03:18.200 --> 03:19.200 Come in then. 03:19.200 --> 03:20.200 Mrs. Genowitt, come in. 03:20.200 --> 03:23.200 Mrs. Genowitt. 03:23.200 --> 03:25.200 Yes, what is it? 03:25.200 --> 03:27.400 Come in here, Mrs. Genowitt. 03:27.400 --> 03:33.480 There is a man who has word of Mr. Darin in Philadelphia. 03:33.480 --> 03:38.720 This is John Harverson of the ship Sumatra Bell. 03:38.720 --> 03:40.080 Mrs. Genowitt. 03:40.080 --> 03:42.560 And you have brought us word of Mr. Darin. 03:42.560 --> 03:43.560 Yes. 03:43.560 --> 03:45.560 Please sit down, Mr. Harverson. 03:45.560 --> 03:46.560 Thank you. 03:46.560 --> 03:47.560 Mr. Genowitt. 03:47.560 --> 03:48.560 Yes. 03:48.560 --> 03:50.280 Call Rachel. 03:50.280 --> 03:52.240 Say to her to bring tea. 03:52.240 --> 03:53.240 Rachel. 03:53.240 --> 03:54.240 Rachel. 03:54.240 --> 03:58.440 And Mr. Darin is well, Mr. Harverson? 03:58.440 --> 03:59.440 Quite well. 03:59.440 --> 04:00.440 And his wife and child too. 04:00.440 --> 04:01.440 He told me to tell you this. 04:01.440 --> 04:03.840 And to tell you, he is troubled. 04:03.840 --> 04:04.840 Oh? 04:04.840 --> 04:07.200 He's not had word of you or Mr. Genowitt in a year now. 04:07.200 --> 04:08.200 Not a letter, not a... 04:08.200 --> 04:10.280 Mr. Genowitt's position on Suva. 04:10.280 --> 04:13.240 In the office of administration, it leaves him little time. 04:13.240 --> 04:14.240 But... 04:14.240 --> 04:16.280 It leaves him little time. 04:16.280 --> 04:23.560 And for me also, little time to indulge the past and memories and lost friendships. 04:23.560 --> 04:27.000 On Suva, we live for the present, Mr. Harverson. 04:27.000 --> 04:31.080 The past flows away on our seas. 04:31.080 --> 04:33.200 We... 04:33.200 --> 04:35.440 How long will you be on Suva? 04:35.440 --> 04:36.440 Three days. 04:36.440 --> 04:39.080 We take cargo here and then... 04:39.080 --> 04:42.720 You were saying, Mr. Harverson? 04:42.720 --> 04:43.720 Three days. 04:43.720 --> 04:45.760 Then I will be gone. 04:45.760 --> 04:48.840 Do that, Mr. Harverson. 04:48.840 --> 04:50.720 For if you do not... 04:50.720 --> 04:51.720 What? 04:51.720 --> 04:54.060 What if I do not? 04:54.060 --> 04:57.360 You may serve the tea, Rachel. 04:57.360 --> 05:00.920 Thank you. 05:00.920 --> 05:03.480 Thank you, Rachel. 05:03.480 --> 05:06.560 What if I do not go from here, Mrs. Genowitt? 05:06.560 --> 05:08.320 Your tone was strange, Mrs. Genowitt. 05:08.320 --> 05:09.320 What was... 05:09.320 --> 05:10.320 Come here, Rachel. 05:10.320 --> 05:14.720 Lean to me, Rachel. 05:14.720 --> 05:16.680 This is Rachel. 05:16.680 --> 05:19.640 This her hair. 05:19.640 --> 05:21.840 This her face. 05:21.840 --> 05:24.080 These her lips. 05:24.080 --> 05:27.480 This her throat. 05:27.480 --> 05:29.720 And you have looked on them. 05:29.720 --> 05:34.640 And they are of evil and of death. 05:34.640 --> 05:42.440 Mr. Harverson, your tea grows cold. 05:42.440 --> 05:45.040 She stood like a child. 05:45.040 --> 05:48.880 Rachel stood and let thin and pale fingers of Mrs. Genowitt trail across the pureness 05:48.880 --> 05:51.000 of her face. 05:51.000 --> 05:57.160 Let Mrs. Genowitt take the scarlet blossom from her hair and crush it against her mouth. 05:57.160 --> 06:03.120 And Rachel tasted of it and all the while looked at me and then left us. 06:03.120 --> 06:13.360 I love my love and well she knows. 06:13.360 --> 06:18.240 I love the grass whereon she grows. 06:18.240 --> 06:29.240 If she on earth no more I see. 06:29.240 --> 06:42.360 My life will quickly fade away. 06:42.360 --> 06:45.280 And I had of the tea and there was little talk. 06:45.280 --> 06:48.000 I made farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Genowitt. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.720 Back to the Sumatra Bell then to perform the duties of midshipman in officer's training 06:51.720 --> 06:53.520 for the merchant fleet. 06:53.520 --> 06:57.160 The paperwork that at the end of voyage would give me first mate's rating. 06:57.160 --> 07:08.800 And from the island a soft wind laden with jasmine and wild palm. 07:08.800 --> 07:12.000 And on the seas of Fiji it was night. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.360 Night that lay in hollows and great cups of coral reef. 07:15.360 --> 07:21.240 And spilled now into the seas against the ship and against the island. 07:21.240 --> 07:23.160 I must find her. 07:23.160 --> 07:28.680 I must go to her. 07:28.680 --> 07:42.800 If she on earth no more I see. 07:42.800 --> 07:43.800 My life will quickly fade away. 07:43.800 --> 07:46.760 And where was curve of wild palm against copper sky? 07:46.760 --> 07:50.400 Where was lagoon deep and stilled in crystal lava volcano? 07:50.400 --> 07:51.400 He would come. 07:51.400 --> 07:52.400 I knew him. 07:52.400 --> 07:53.400 In this place of the island was Rachel. 07:53.400 --> 07:54.400 Close. 07:54.400 --> 07:55.400 Bring thee close to me John Harbison. 07:55.400 --> 07:56.400 So close to me and sit with me. 07:56.400 --> 08:05.080 Then watch thee how to set bettos to sail upon the lagoon. 08:05.080 --> 08:07.120 See. 08:07.120 --> 08:10.680 Rachel. 08:10.680 --> 08:21.640 And watch thee the small planes of moon. 08:21.640 --> 08:23.640 Are they kindle the still waters? 08:24.840 --> 08:25.340 See? 08:25.840 --> 08:26.340 Yes. 08:27.340 --> 08:28.540 And on my hair? 08:28.940 --> 08:29.640 Black. 08:31.640 --> 08:34.640 The fingers of the art gentle, John Harvey Sonny. 08:34.940 --> 08:35.640 Rachel. 08:36.040 --> 08:36.540 Yes? 08:36.640 --> 08:38.640 Were you always called so? Always Rachel? 08:38.640 --> 08:39.140 No. 08:39.540 --> 08:40.640 Tell me your island name. 08:40.640 --> 08:41.640 I have forgotten. 08:42.340 --> 08:44.640 When I was a child they took me to a school. 08:45.140 --> 08:46.140 There I lived. 08:46.540 --> 08:47.940 There I was called Rachel. 08:47.940 --> 08:51.440 And this manner of speech, you learned it at the school? 08:51.640 --> 08:53.940 I will speak to thee in what manner you wish. 08:54.640 --> 08:56.140 Thou would wish island words? 08:56.140 --> 08:56.640 Yes. 08:56.940 --> 08:58.440 And an island name for me? 08:58.540 --> 09:01.640 Yes, that none have called you, not at the school, not the Geno, it's no one. 09:01.640 --> 09:03.940 That only thee will call me? 09:04.540 --> 09:05.740 That only the lips of thee? 09:05.740 --> 09:06.440 Yes. 09:08.040 --> 09:09.640 Come with me into the lagoon. 09:10.240 --> 09:14.140 And we will swim deep where the coral shell lies. 09:14.740 --> 09:15.940 And we will listen. 09:15.940 --> 09:18.440 And there will be a name for thee to call me. 09:18.540 --> 09:19.440 Yes. 09:19.540 --> 09:20.440 Come then. 09:20.540 --> 09:21.440 Yes. 09:24.240 --> 09:24.940 Rachel. 09:26.240 --> 09:27.240 Who's there? 09:29.440 --> 09:33.640 Gently Mr. Harverson, or you'll set the birds to coi. 09:34.240 --> 09:36.940 Caw, caw, caw! 09:40.940 --> 09:43.940 Gee, Mr. Harverson, you went and done it. 09:44.240 --> 09:45.240 What are you doing? 09:45.240 --> 09:46.440 What are you doing here? 09:46.740 --> 09:51.140 Now, Mr. Harverson, it's not aboard ship we are. 09:51.540 --> 09:54.040 Here I am more man than you. 09:54.040 --> 09:55.340 What are you doing here? 09:56.940 --> 10:03.240 Tell him girl, tell the midshipman, Mr. Harverson, what Red does here. 10:04.040 --> 10:04.740 Tell him. 10:05.640 --> 10:10.240 After they left the Genoids, at the island store he drank there. 10:11.240 --> 10:12.340 And he saw me. 10:13.240 --> 10:13.740 And... 10:13.740 --> 10:14.940 And what Rachel? 10:15.040 --> 10:19.040 And I spoke to him at the lagoon and that I would come here. 10:19.540 --> 10:20.240 What? 10:20.540 --> 10:22.540 He spoke more softly then. 10:23.040 --> 10:25.240 And he said he wished to see things of the island. 10:26.040 --> 10:27.540 And I did not know... 10:27.640 --> 10:28.440 You lie. 10:29.440 --> 10:31.540 So sweet you lie. 10:33.240 --> 10:33.840 Come. 10:34.340 --> 10:38.540 Let you and me take the swim I overheard you promised Mr. Harverson. 10:38.640 --> 10:39.740 Let go of her. 10:40.540 --> 10:42.240 Aye, Mr. Harverson. 10:42.240 --> 10:44.040 Aye, Mr. Harverson. 10:44.640 --> 10:46.240 I do your bidding. 10:46.440 --> 10:48.340 I let go of Rachel. 10:48.340 --> 10:49.340 Now get out of here. 10:50.140 --> 10:53.840 And now you've overstepped yourself, Mr. Harverson. 10:53.840 --> 10:54.540 Get out. 10:54.640 --> 10:57.140 More man than you, Mr. Harverson. 10:57.340 --> 10:58.040 More. 11:01.240 --> 11:01.840 Kill you. 11:01.940 --> 11:03.340 Up, Mr. Harverson. 11:03.640 --> 11:06.940 Let us show Rachel what puny stuff you are. 11:07.340 --> 11:07.740 Up. 11:07.740 --> 11:10.940 Ha ha ha. Kill me, Mr. Harverson. 11:38.740 --> 11:39.740 They have... 11:40.140 --> 11:40.540 killed. 11:40.640 --> 11:41.240 Yes. 11:42.040 --> 11:42.740 For me. 11:42.840 --> 11:43.440 Yes. 11:44.240 --> 11:45.240 Love me. 11:47.740 --> 11:49.540 They cannot go back to ship now. 11:49.640 --> 11:50.240 No. 11:50.440 --> 11:52.040 And on the island no place to hide. 11:52.140 --> 11:52.740 No. 11:53.240 --> 11:54.540 Come, John Harverson. 11:54.840 --> 11:58.240 I know of a place where they will not take thee from me. 11:59.140 --> 12:00.040 Come thee. 12:00.040 --> 12:02.440 And the place was of coral. 12:03.340 --> 12:06.840 A splinter of coral flung into the sea of the New Hebrides, 12:07.240 --> 12:08.840 westerly of Suba. 12:09.640 --> 12:12.540 And when the proa Rachel had stolen from a Suba fisherman, 12:12.640 --> 12:13.540 touched it, 12:13.840 --> 12:15.540 the canoe was ripped open. 12:17.040 --> 12:19.040 And we left it there on the beach. 12:19.540 --> 12:21.740 Then through ourselves, beside it. 12:22.540 --> 12:23.440 And so, 12:23.540 --> 12:25.340 the ship was taken away. 12:25.440 --> 12:27.040 And the ship was taken away. 12:27.140 --> 12:28.540 And the ship was taken away. 12:28.540 --> 12:30.040 And the ship was taken away. 12:31.340 --> 12:33.840 And slept deeply. 12:35.240 --> 12:37.840 And when sun was on our faces, rose, 12:37.940 --> 12:40.240 and walked to the grass of the island, 12:40.440 --> 12:43.740 to the cluster of huts where natives held out their hands to us 12:43.840 --> 12:45.340 and gave us island fruit, 12:45.740 --> 12:48.040 where Rachel danced for them. 12:48.840 --> 12:52.840 And where days vanished became another grain of white coral sand. 12:52.840 --> 12:56.540 was laid gently at our sides by trade winds. 12:56.540 --> 12:58.240 And Rachel danced for me. 12:59.840 --> 13:03.840 The old men brought her pearls they had scraped from the sea 13:03.840 --> 13:06.940 and went away, left us alone. 13:06.940 --> 13:11.140 Island of wild scented sleep, of winds. 13:12.840 --> 13:14.840 John? John, wake. 13:14.840 --> 13:15.640 Hmm? 13:15.640 --> 13:17.840 Wake, John, they must flee. 13:17.840 --> 13:18.340 What? 13:18.340 --> 13:20.840 The packet comes. On it will be island police. 13:20.840 --> 13:22.840 What are you talking about? 13:22.840 --> 13:25.840 The packet that trades with the islands, it is not the time for it to be here. 13:25.840 --> 13:26.840 They come for thee. 13:26.840 --> 13:28.840 How do you know? Maybe it's another ship, not... 13:28.840 --> 13:32.840 The packet, island king, I saw it. I was on the beach. 13:32.840 --> 13:33.840 What were you doing on the beach? 13:33.840 --> 13:35.840 When they have gone, I will tell thee. 13:35.840 --> 13:38.840 Run from here. A typhoon comes, they cannot stay long. 13:38.840 --> 13:40.840 Run from here, John Harvey said. 13:40.840 --> 13:41.840 Where will I go? 13:41.840 --> 13:43.840 The boy who waits outside the hut, he will take thee 13:43.840 --> 13:45.840 to a place in the island, in jungle of islands. 13:45.840 --> 13:46.840 Go with him. 13:46.840 --> 13:47.840 Rachel, I... 13:47.840 --> 13:48.840 Not now, run. 13:48.840 --> 13:50.840 When I come back, when they've gone, you'll be here. 13:50.840 --> 13:51.840 Run. 13:51.840 --> 13:52.840 You'll be here. 13:52.840 --> 13:54.840 I will wait for thee. 13:54.840 --> 13:56.840 Run, John Harvey said. 14:07.840 --> 14:08.840 Old man. 14:08.840 --> 14:10.840 Old man, open to me. 14:14.840 --> 14:16.840 Coming, you. 14:16.840 --> 14:17.840 You want... 14:17.840 --> 14:19.840 Rachel, where is she? 14:19.840 --> 14:20.840 Where is she? 14:20.840 --> 14:24.840 Typhoon come, packet go, quick, very quick. 14:24.840 --> 14:26.840 I know, I saw it sale. Where's Rachel? 14:26.840 --> 14:30.840 Typhoon come, Rachel go, quick, very quick. 14:30.840 --> 14:31.840 Lie. 14:31.840 --> 14:33.840 Yes, I'm not lying. 14:33.840 --> 14:38.840 Rachel, packet, quick, they go with typhoon, quick, very quick. 14:38.840 --> 14:40.840 Yes, John Harvey said. 14:40.840 --> 14:45.840 Rachel, Rachel, Rachel. 15:00.840 --> 15:05.840 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Jeff Chandler in my true love's hair. 15:05.840 --> 15:08.840 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 15:08.840 --> 15:11.840 theater of thrills, suspense. 15:21.840 --> 15:25.840 Say, Mr. McSorley, as a crossword puzzle expert, 15:25.840 --> 15:28.840 can you define this a precise, peerless, 15:28.840 --> 15:31.840 and perfectly performing paragon of parts? 15:31.840 --> 15:33.840 Why, sure, Harlow. 15:33.840 --> 15:35.840 That would be the auto light electrical system. 15:35.840 --> 15:38.840 Right, and it includes the auto light starting motor, 15:38.840 --> 15:40.840 generator, distributor, coil, spark plugs, 15:40.840 --> 15:42.840 voltage regulator, and battery. 15:42.840 --> 15:44.840 All originally installed in the many leading 15:44.840 --> 15:46.840 makes of auto light equipped cars, eh, Harlow? 15:46.840 --> 15:50.840 Yes, sir, with every unit and component part designed 15:50.840 --> 15:53.840 and precision built by auto light to fit and work together 15:53.840 --> 15:55.840 like the parts of a fine watch. 15:55.840 --> 16:00.840 So, friends, don't take chances with that vital electrical system. 16:00.840 --> 16:02.840 Be sure to specify auto light original service 16:02.840 --> 16:05.840 parts for your auto light equipped car. 16:05.840 --> 16:07.840 They're your best assurance of smooth, 16:07.840 --> 16:09.840 economical, and safe performance. 16:09.840 --> 16:11.840 Remember, from bumper to tail light, 16:11.840 --> 16:14.840 you're always right with auto light. 16:14.840 --> 16:18.840 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 16:18.840 --> 16:22.840 Mr. Jeff Chandler in Elliot Lewis's production of 16:22.840 --> 16:32.840 My True Love's Hair, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 16:32.840 --> 16:42.840 I love my love and well she knows 16:42.840 --> 16:48.840 I love the grass where on she goes 16:48.840 --> 16:56.840 If she on earth no more I see 16:56.840 --> 17:19.840 My life will quickly fade away 17:19.840 --> 17:21.840 How long has it been, Mr. Harbison? 17:21.840 --> 17:23.840 Three months, I think. 17:23.840 --> 17:26.840 The police look for you, but you must know that. 17:26.840 --> 17:28.840 The thing you've done. 17:28.840 --> 17:29.840 Mrs. Chenoweth. 17:29.840 --> 17:32.840 They found a man that next morning, a sailor. 17:32.840 --> 17:35.840 He had lain in the sea and been scrubbed against the coral. 17:35.840 --> 17:38.840 They thought at first he'd gotten drunk, 17:38.840 --> 17:42.840 but they knew her gone and the girl, Rachel, 17:42.840 --> 17:45.840 and they knew what had happened. 17:45.840 --> 17:48.840 And then the storm came and they weren't able to... 17:48.840 --> 17:50.840 Where is she? 17:50.840 --> 17:54.840 Sometimes they come here, the police, 17:54.840 --> 17:57.840 and they ask if you have wandered past here again. 17:57.840 --> 17:59.840 Where is she? 17:59.840 --> 18:01.840 Aren't you afraid? 18:01.840 --> 18:04.840 Where is your husband? I'll ask him, Rachel. 18:04.840 --> 18:09.840 Mr. Chenoweth is inside, in the house, and you'll see him. 18:09.840 --> 18:12.840 But listen to me first. 18:12.840 --> 18:14.840 I need to know. 18:14.840 --> 18:17.840 Aren't you afraid? 18:17.840 --> 18:19.840 Surely they will kill you if they find you. 18:19.840 --> 18:21.840 Aren't you afraid? 18:21.840 --> 18:23.840 No. 18:23.840 --> 18:24.840 The love of the girl. Yes. 18:24.840 --> 18:27.840 And the thought of dying. Nothing. 18:27.840 --> 18:29.840 A hunger. Yes. 18:29.840 --> 18:32.840 A need. Yes. 18:32.840 --> 18:35.840 And there is nothing you would not do. 18:35.840 --> 18:37.840 To see her again, nothing. 18:37.840 --> 18:40.840 I killed for her and would again. 18:40.840 --> 18:45.840 Who is more evil, you or him? 18:45.840 --> 18:47.840 What are you talking about? 18:47.840 --> 18:49.840 Come. 18:49.840 --> 18:51.840 In the house. 18:56.840 --> 18:58.840 There. 18:58.840 --> 19:01.840 Can you get up, Mr. Chenoweth? 19:01.840 --> 19:04.840 Whiskey. Whiskey. 19:04.840 --> 19:06.840 I'll get it. 19:06.840 --> 19:11.840 Drink, Mr. Chenoweth. 19:11.840 --> 19:14.840 What happened to him? 19:14.840 --> 19:17.840 He was destroyed. 19:17.840 --> 19:21.840 He did not have the youth to search the islands for Rachel. 19:21.840 --> 19:25.840 So he sat here and became destroyed. 19:25.840 --> 19:27.840 And you? You helped him to become... 19:27.840 --> 19:30.840 Every way I can. 19:30.840 --> 19:33.840 I want him dead. 19:33.840 --> 19:36.840 To have sinned in his heart as he has. 19:36.840 --> 19:39.840 Or however he has sinned. 19:39.840 --> 19:42.840 He needs to die to be clean again. 19:42.840 --> 19:45.840 As you need to die. 19:45.840 --> 19:48.840 As you will die. 19:48.840 --> 20:03.840 Drink, Mr. Chenoweth. 20:03.840 --> 20:05.840 Nor would she say the name of Rachel to me again. 20:05.840 --> 20:07.840 Nor even talk to me again. 20:07.840 --> 20:11.840 And leave Suba again because she was not there. 20:11.840 --> 20:15.840 And a word that drifted down about a fight that had been with loading hooks. 20:15.840 --> 20:20.840 And a man had been killed because of a black haired girl named Rachel. 20:20.840 --> 20:22.840 An island in the Santa Cruises. 20:22.840 --> 20:24.840 But she was not there. 20:24.840 --> 20:27.840 Just the grave of a man. A month old grave on the high strand. 20:27.840 --> 20:29.840 And a native boy. 20:29.840 --> 20:32.840 Oh, one big fella fight. My word. 20:32.840 --> 20:33.840 Tell me about it. 20:33.840 --> 20:34.840 My word. 20:34.840 --> 20:35.840 Over a girl. 20:35.840 --> 20:37.840 Two men. They stand here. I think so. 20:37.840 --> 20:39.840 And fight. My word. With hooks. 20:39.840 --> 20:40.840 One catch other. 20:40.840 --> 20:42.840 The girl's name was Rachel. 20:42.840 --> 20:44.840 The girl. My word. 20:44.840 --> 20:46.840 Black haired, long. She wore a flower. 20:46.840 --> 20:48.840 My word. 20:48.840 --> 20:49.840 Mister. 20:49.840 --> 20:50.840 What? 20:50.840 --> 20:52.840 What for you want with girl, huh? 20:52.840 --> 20:54.840 Where did she go? 20:54.840 --> 20:55.840 Long gone. 20:55.840 --> 20:56.840 Where? 20:56.840 --> 20:57.840 In boat. 20:57.840 --> 21:00.840 To Maleta, I think maybe she say. 21:00.840 --> 21:09.840 I think so maybe. To Maleta. 21:09.840 --> 21:12.840 You remember the one I mean. Her name was... 21:12.840 --> 21:15.840 Rachel. You said so. 21:15.840 --> 21:16.840 And you said she was a beauty. 21:16.840 --> 21:17.840 Yes. 21:17.840 --> 21:19.840 Well, it don't last. Not Mia Allen. 21:19.840 --> 21:21.840 Please. 21:21.840 --> 21:24.840 Well, I remember all right. On account of her name, that's all. 21:24.840 --> 21:26.840 On account of nothing else. 21:26.840 --> 21:28.840 Listen, you forget her. 21:28.840 --> 21:29.840 Just tell me. 21:29.840 --> 21:33.840 It's a good time to forget her. Right this minute, now. 21:33.840 --> 21:34.840 She's dead. 21:34.840 --> 21:36.840 No, I didn't say that. 21:36.840 --> 21:40.840 When a ship comes in, some of the sailors get to come ashore and some don't. 21:40.840 --> 21:44.840 I send out to them papaya, rice wine, shell combs. 21:44.840 --> 21:48.840 I send island girls or whoever's about and I send them out with baskets. 21:48.840 --> 21:51.840 They get to keep a commission. 21:51.840 --> 21:53.840 Did she tell you why she's running away? 21:53.840 --> 21:54.840 Is she? 21:54.840 --> 21:56.840 Yes, she's running away from me. Didn't I tell you? 21:56.840 --> 21:58.840 No. She didn't either. 21:58.840 --> 21:59.840 Please. 21:59.840 --> 22:02.840 You're crazy. I don't know where she went. North, I guess. 22:02.840 --> 22:05.840 There was a ship going that way and when it went, she wasn't here. 22:05.840 --> 22:10.840 That's all I can tell you. 22:15.840 --> 22:18.840 I can do it. 22:18.840 --> 22:23.840 Finger of my right hand and finger of my left. 22:23.840 --> 22:26.840 Hold them out in front of me. 22:26.840 --> 22:30.840 Make them meet. 22:30.840 --> 22:33.840 You know what I'm going to do with you? 22:33.840 --> 22:34.840 What? 22:34.840 --> 22:37.840 I'm going to take you home and meet my mother. 22:37.840 --> 22:39.840 That's what. 22:39.840 --> 22:42.840 Such a charmer you are, John. 22:42.840 --> 22:44.840 You want to? 22:44.840 --> 22:45.840 Want to what? 22:45.840 --> 22:47.840 To meet my mother. 22:47.840 --> 22:50.840 Buy a bottle of gin to make an impression. 22:50.840 --> 22:52.840 Who are you? 22:52.840 --> 22:54.840 Oh, dearie, John, dearie. 22:54.840 --> 22:56.840 Who are you? 22:56.840 --> 22:59.840 Mary. I'm still Mary, dearie. 22:59.840 --> 23:01.840 Get away from me. 23:01.840 --> 23:02.840 Get away from me. 23:02.840 --> 23:05.840 I said get away. 23:05.840 --> 23:07.840 What do you think you're doing? 23:07.840 --> 23:08.840 You scum. 23:08.840 --> 23:10.840 That's what you are, scum. 23:10.840 --> 23:13.840 Look at you, drunken son of a man. 23:13.840 --> 23:15.840 Didn't pay any attention to her, Mr. Harvester. 23:15.840 --> 23:17.840 Well, then at least stand up. 23:17.840 --> 23:19.840 All right, that's enough out of you. 23:19.840 --> 23:22.840 I said that's enough. 23:22.840 --> 23:24.840 It's like I said, Mr. Harvester. 23:24.840 --> 23:26.840 I don't know you. 23:26.840 --> 23:29.840 That's a shame, laddie, because I know all about you. 23:29.840 --> 23:32.840 I followed you all over the southern seas, I have. 23:32.840 --> 23:36.840 Averdeen and the Santa Cruzies and... 23:36.840 --> 23:40.840 Policemen, laddie, for a killing you did. 23:48.840 --> 23:50.840 The prison at Suva was this. 23:50.840 --> 23:53.840 Two cells in a hollowed out hill. 23:53.840 --> 23:56.840 Two cells for the scum of the islands. 23:56.840 --> 23:59.840 For the island scum from the coral reef to the marshals. 23:59.840 --> 24:01.840 Thieves and drunkards. 24:01.840 --> 24:03.840 Terralicks and those who have murdered. 24:03.840 --> 24:05.840 Men and one, women and the other. 24:05.840 --> 24:07.840 Iron bars between them. 24:07.840 --> 24:12.840 What had been scraped from the end of the world and dumped like garbage. 24:12.840 --> 24:14.840 My name's Ernie Bemis, mate. 24:14.840 --> 24:16.840 I knifed a girl down in Newmere. 24:16.840 --> 24:19.840 Killed her man to get her and then she wouldn't come to me. 24:19.840 --> 24:22.840 Fat she was, but I like some fat. 24:22.840 --> 24:24.840 What did you do? 24:24.840 --> 24:25.840 I killed him there. 24:25.840 --> 24:27.840 Oh, that's an easy thing to do, isn't it, mate? 24:27.840 --> 24:31.840 I thought at first it would take some doing, but easy, ain't it? 24:31.840 --> 24:32.840 I hardly remember. 24:32.840 --> 24:34.840 Oh, you're a joshing one, mate. 24:34.840 --> 24:38.840 What you've done and what I've done, the largest thing a man can do. 24:38.840 --> 24:39.840 You think so? 24:39.840 --> 24:40.840 John Harleyson. 24:40.840 --> 24:42.840 See him against the bars there. 24:42.840 --> 24:44.840 John Harleyson. 24:44.840 --> 24:46.840 Lady calling you, mate. 24:46.840 --> 24:48.840 Oh. 24:51.840 --> 24:53.840 Hello, John Harleyson. 24:53.840 --> 24:55.840 Rachel. 24:55.840 --> 24:57.840 The look of me. 24:57.840 --> 24:59.840 Old. 24:59.840 --> 25:01.840 Why did you run from me, Rachel? 25:01.840 --> 25:02.840 I do not know. 25:02.840 --> 25:04.840 I looked for you all over for me. 25:04.840 --> 25:06.840 I know. I heard. 25:06.840 --> 25:09.840 Once in Vanicoro you passed me in the street. I saw you. 25:09.840 --> 25:11.840 Why didn't you stop me? 25:11.840 --> 25:12.840 I could not. 25:12.840 --> 25:13.840 Why? 25:13.840 --> 25:15.840 I could not. 25:15.840 --> 25:17.840 You didn't love me? 25:17.840 --> 25:18.840 I loved you. 25:18.840 --> 25:21.840 Which is why I fled from thee. 25:21.840 --> 25:23.840 I killed for you. 25:23.840 --> 25:26.840 I loved thee most then. 25:26.840 --> 25:28.840 And others have killed for you. 25:28.840 --> 25:31.840 One thing is no more. 25:31.840 --> 25:33.840 Look at me. 25:33.840 --> 25:35.840 Beautiful. 25:35.840 --> 25:37.840 No. 25:37.840 --> 25:39.840 Purest eyes. 25:39.840 --> 25:40.840 No. 25:40.840 --> 25:42.840 Your hands. 25:42.840 --> 25:45.840 Give me your hands, Rachel. 25:45.840 --> 25:48.840 Oh, the daintiest hands. 25:48.840 --> 25:50.840 Old. 25:50.840 --> 25:52.840 The hair. 25:52.840 --> 25:54.840 Touch it. 25:56.840 --> 25:58.840 Do you like it, John? 25:58.840 --> 26:00.840 Like. 26:02.840 --> 26:03.840 Rachel. 26:03.840 --> 26:05.840 Yes? 26:05.840 --> 26:07.840 Come closer. 26:07.840 --> 26:09.840 Yes. 26:09.840 --> 26:10.840 Right. 26:10.840 --> 26:12.840 John. 26:12.840 --> 26:14.840 Your hair, Rachel. 26:14.840 --> 26:16.840 The death of me. 26:16.840 --> 26:18.840 And the death of you. 26:18.840 --> 26:20.840 They loved me. 26:20.840 --> 26:22.840 Do not. 26:25.840 --> 26:26.840 Blimey. 26:26.840 --> 26:28.840 He's strangling her with her hair. 26:28.840 --> 26:30.840 Oh, shut up. 26:30.840 --> 26:32.840 Black. 26:48.840 --> 26:51.840 Black, black, black 26:51.840 --> 26:53.840 is the color 26:53.840 --> 26:56.840 of my true 26:56.840 --> 27:00.840 love's hair. 27:14.840 --> 27:16.840 Suspense. 27:16.840 --> 27:18.840 Presented by Autolight. 27:18.840 --> 27:21.840 Tonight's star, Mr. Jeff Chandler. 27:21.840 --> 27:23.840 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Autolight, 27:23.840 --> 27:27.840 the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 27:27.840 --> 27:32.840 In 28 plants from coast to coast, Autolight makes over 400 products 27:32.840 --> 27:36.840 for cars, trucks, tractors, planes, boats, and industry. 27:36.840 --> 27:40.840 These products include batteries, such as the famous Autolight Stay Full, 27:40.840 --> 27:44.840 ignition engineered Autolight spark plugs, both standard and resistor types, 27:44.840 --> 27:50.840 voltage regulators, wire and battery cable, Autolight bullseye sealed beam units, 27:50.840 --> 27:55.840 and Autolight original service parts for all Autolight electrical systems. 27:55.840 --> 28:00.840 Autolight is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 28:00.840 --> 28:05.840 So, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Autolight. 28:11.840 --> 28:16.840 Next week, the true story of the plan to assassinate Thomas Dewey. 28:16.840 --> 28:20.840 The report is called Dutch Schultz. 28:20.840 --> 28:22.840 Our star, Mr. Broderick Crawford. 28:22.840 --> 28:26.840 That's next week on Suspense. 28:28.840 --> 28:31.840 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, 28:31.840 --> 28:36.840 with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:36.840 --> 28:40.840 My True Love's Hair was written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 28:40.840 --> 28:44.840 In tonight's story, Lillian Bya was heard as Rachel. 28:44.840 --> 28:48.840 Featured in the cast were Barry Harford, Paula Winslow, Martha Wentworth, 28:48.840 --> 28:52.840 Joseph Kearns, Clayton Post, Jack Crouchon, and Ben Wright. 28:52.840 --> 28:54.840 Our singer was Ernest Newton. 28:54.840 --> 28:59.840 Jeff Chandler may currently be seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production 28:59.840 --> 29:04.840 East of Sumatra, co-starring Marilyn Maxwell and Anthony Quinn. 29:04.840 --> 29:09.840 And remember next week, Mr. Broderick Crawford in Dutch Schultz. 29:09.840 --> 29:15.840 You can buy Auto Light original service parts, Auto Light stay full batteries, 29:15.840 --> 29:20.840 and Auto Light standard or resistor type spark plugs at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 29:20.840 --> 29:23.840 Switch to Auto Light. 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