1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. James Mason in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 of Suspense. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:24,360 Tonight, Auto Light presents the true story of Lord Essex's attempt to gain the throne 4 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,240 of England from Queen Elizabeth. 5 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:32,240 Dramatization is called The Queen's Ring, our star Mr. James Mason. 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,240 Hi, Hap. 7 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,240 Buying a magazine, I see. 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:40,240 Yes, sir, Harlow. 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,240 Well, why not take this one? 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:43,240 No, no, thanks. 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,240 Everyone to his own taste, you know, Harlow. 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,240 In buying magazines, yes, Hap. 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,240 But in replacing electrical system parts for your car, definitely no. 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,240 Well, for example, many leading makes of our finest cars have Auto Light electrical systems 15 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,240 as original equipment, right? 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,240 Right. 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,240 But if replacements are needed, do the owners of those Auto Light equipped cars insist on 18 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,240 Auto Light original service parts exactly the same as those specified by the car manufacturer? 19 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,240 Well, if they don't, they're sure taking a big chance with a big investment, Harlow. 20 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:19,240 They sure are, Hap, because Auto Light original service parts meet the electrical system specifications 21 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,240 of the car manufacturers, and they know what's best for their cars. 22 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:30,240 So, friends, insist on and be sure you get only Auto Light original service parts for your Auto Light equipped car. 23 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,240 See your car dealer or your dealer handling Auto Light original service parts. 24 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:40,240 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:46,240 And now, Auto Light presents Transcribed, The Queen's Ring, starring Mr. James Mason 26 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:53,240 with Pamela Mason as Mary Howard, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,240 And of what stuff are you, my lord ethic soldier, warrior, hero? 28 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,240 And for this, you bid me sail from Spain to London, sweet Bess, 29 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,240 because you're parched to tell me the things I am. 30 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:26,240 You're a fop, fop and dandy lizard and golden fly that buzzes around pots of sweet. 31 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,240 The Spanish honey is wild, sweet Bess. 32 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,240 And you sat in bannered tent and silken hose and sipped the honeycomb while... 33 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,240 While my men flooded your treasury with casks of Spanish gold. 34 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,240 While your men bled and died for you, a trollop dumped your tomb. 35 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,240 A girl of the sun, a girl of summer. 36 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:44,240 Young. 37 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:51,240 Young, but a darting little firefly compared to the flame of the autumn woman, you. 38 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,240 I am old. Is that what you say of me, lord ethic? 39 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:02,240 Autumn woman, fired with a thousand memories and ten thousand longings. 40 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,240 Full woman at full season. 41 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,240 Buzz, buzz, buzz, you golden fly. 42 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,240 You'd tear my wings from me, sweet Bess? 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:11,240 Yes. 44 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,240 And for this, you summons me from Cadiz. 45 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,240 Yes. 46 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,240 You are queen, and you can do with love what you will. 47 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:20,240 Yes. 48 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Do it then, Bess. 49 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:28,240 But gently, because your own winter and your own dying lies with me. 50 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,240 There are rumors about your plot against me. 51 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,240 You want my throne. 52 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,240 What webs must I spend for your love, Bess girl? 53 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,240 What trickery? What young lovers' magics? 54 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,240 It's you I want, Bess girl. Not your throne. 55 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,240 Traitor. Liar. 56 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,240 Lover. 57 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:54,240 Liar. And your lies fall sweet on the ears of an old woman. 58 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,240 Do they now, Bess? 59 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:02,240 And what matter to me, you call it false? Call it whatever you like, and let me... 60 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,240 Stand from me, Essex. 61 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,240 Bess. Golden Bess. Sweet. 62 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,240 Stand from me, Essex. 63 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,240 Queen's command, and women do also. 64 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,240 You go to Ireland, my lord, Essex. 65 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:19,240 What? 66 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:28,240 Rebellion flares again in Ireland, and because you are loyal to me, you will trumpet men to yourself, and you will quack it and extinguish it, and bring me their unconditional surrender. 67 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,240 With blood again. And this time, perhaps mine. 68 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,240 Yes. 69 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,240 Would you have me dead? 70 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:42,240 You are a traitor to me, sweet Robin. I would have you dead. Traitor with girls of summer. 71 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:50,240 I will bejewel you with Ireland as I have with Cadiz. Your leave, Majesty. 72 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Majesty. 73 00:04:53,240 --> 00:05:00,240 Robin. Robin! Come to me. 74 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:09,240 This ring. Take it from my finger. No, no, kiss not. Kiss not. Take it. 75 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,240 And what is its symbol, sweet Queen? 76 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:23,240 Your life. The purchase back of your life when your Queen is galled with Essex. For I know you will trick me again. 77 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,240 Bess. 78 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:37,240 You will trick me, and it will be the last time. For I will send you to the gibbet, and you will die, except for the ring. 79 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:53,240 Send it back to me then, and I will remember how with youth's tempest. Love me, sweet Robin, and I will give you back your life. 80 00:05:53,240 --> 00:06:09,240 Go. 81 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,240 Robin. 82 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:21,240 Hark, and how a soft voice beckons me. What is Mary? Mary, whose shame the pink and hues of... 83 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,240 You were long with your Queen, Robin. 84 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,240 Your Queen too, Mary. Ah, winsome, handsome Mary. 85 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:32,240 Long with your Queen, and wrapping round her all the lying promises you weave so pretty. 86 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,240 The woman is Queen, Mary, and the cavalier must... 87 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,240 Then tell me it's me, you love, and not that balding crone. 88 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:50,240 When I'm back from Ireland, Mary, I'll tell you things that'll spin you and wind you in silk. And no longer Mary Howard, lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth, but Mary Howard. 89 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,240 Will you serve England well, Mary, when Essex is on the throne? 90 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:02,240 But love me, Robin. Love me, and not her. And I'll serve you however you fancy. 91 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:08,240 So prettily lipped. And lips on mine to bid the gentle adieu. 92 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,240 Robin. 93 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:20,240 Hmm. Ireland will but the gentler for the memory of this mouth. 94 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,240 Sweet adieu, Mary. 95 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,240 Now consider it, Roger. Admit there's drama in it. 96 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:37,240 Oh, there is. 97 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,240 A city of Ireland canon to death because I ordered it. 98 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:42,240 That's drama. 99 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:43,240 I said it, Essex. 100 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:50,240 I ordered it, and from a hill I watched it done. Which was all of my promise to Queen Bess. 101 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,240 Roger. 102 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,240 I want to hear no more of it. 103 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,240 I tell you the plan I have. 104 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,240 If Bess knew of it, she'd have you hung. 105 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:04,240 Now there's the crux of it, I suppose. Which of us will have the other hung? Will Bess hang me, or will I hang her? 106 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:13,240 She's afraid of me. My success is here in Ireland, and the crowd's at home saying my name too much to has. My Queen Bess frightens. 107 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,240 I call your plan treachery. 108 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,240 If I should wear the crown of England. 109 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:19,240 And not Elizabeth. 110 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,240 If I should wear it, and not Elizabeth. 111 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,240 Surely you'll die for these thoughts. 112 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:30,240 Which is the point in which you are incorrect. Not surely I will die for it, perhaps I will die for it. 113 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:44,240 This ring, Roger. Do not forget this ring. It ensures my life. I can mock her, or try to use her per throne. This ring, this ring, it buys back my life. 114 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,240 It buys... What horseman is that so close? 115 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,240 I will see. 116 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:57,240 Halt! Halt or I kill you and horse, Irishman! 117 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:04,240 Sword to slitch off, frode Irishman. And tell me, what do you hear at the tent of Essex? 118 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,240 To speak with him. To entreat him. 119 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,240 You are coward and you flee from battle to... 120 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,240 To speak with the Lord Essex and to parley with him. 121 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,240 Of what? 122 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,240 Of truce. Armistice. 123 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:23,240 The Irish blood flows thin. Dismount then, coward. Throw your sword to earth. 124 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,240 I take you to your Lord Essex. 125 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:33,240 Essex! 126 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,240 What brambled filthy beast do you bring me, Roger? 127 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,240 He wants truce, he says. 128 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,240 What makes you so bold to speak of truce with your Lord Essex? 129 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,240 I am Sean of Lemoore. 130 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,240 The Irish chief? I'm honoured. You fought bold and brave, Sean. 131 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,240 Take to Queen Elizabeth my proffering of truce. 132 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:52,240 Why to Elizabeth? 133 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,240 She is your Queen. In her name have you spilled our blood. 134 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,240 You want truce? Yes. 135 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:07,240 And you will get it not from Elizabeth or from her Parliament or her privy privy Lords, but from me. From Essex. 136 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,240 Robin, does your stomach crawl with the thought of it, Roger? 137 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,240 You have no right to make truce. You are only... 138 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:21,240 I am only this. Lord Essex, who will continue battle until the last rebel Irishman lies in scarlet ribbon on the sweet green field. 139 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:29,240 I am only this. Lord Essex, who was commanded by Elizabeth to bring her unconditional surrender. 140 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:35,240 I can give you truce, Sean. With honour. Not unconditional surrender. 141 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,240 Truce? That's what I want. 142 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:42,240 But with only one condition. Allegiance to Essex. With your armies. 143 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,240 Allegiance to Essex with my armies. 144 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:55,240 You shall have truce, Sean. Bold, exquisite, brave, filthy, wild and wise Sean. 145 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:01,240 Not loyal, but an end to bloodletting and home soon and disbanding of your armies, Essex. 146 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:07,240 Disband? Disband, Roger? Then how will I entreat for Elizabeth's throne? 147 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,240 A traitor's army? She will hang you high. 148 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:19,240 You forget, Roger. The ring. The ring. See. See how it shines. How it glitters. As if alive. 149 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,240 We shall see who will hang. 150 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,240 In with you, my lord. 151 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:38,240 How now, good Bess? 152 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,240 Up, Rhine. Let me look at you. 153 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,240 Traitor! Violent, treacherous man. 154 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,240 How good to feel again your fingers on my cheek. 155 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:58,240 The effrontery of you. To march an army on London. Ragged band that deserted at the first shot. 156 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,240 What did you hope to gain? Applause? Cheers? 157 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,240 Say what you mean, Bess. Tis your crown, I wish. 158 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,240 Tell me you are suddenly insane and I'll sign your death warrant with cheers. 159 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:19,240 Tis your crown, Bess. And yourself, what I want. These two and I would be master of England. And one without the other. 160 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:26,240 Let me not think of you as a man whose tongue was plucked from its roots because of thy lies. 161 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:34,240 Only truth, Bess. The crown. And my lady. And I shall have them. 162 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:43,240 Indeed. I touch your throat, Robin. Your dear throat. 163 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:51,240 Where tomorrow the rope will be. Your dear throat. And the cruel rope. 164 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,240 Noon and the hangman's rope. 165 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,240 Jailer! To the dungeon with him. Tomorrow he hangs. 166 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,240 Come, my lord. 167 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,240 Wait! Robin. 168 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,240 Good Bess. 169 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:15,240 Have you nothing to say to me? To give to me? 170 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:39,240 Nothing. 171 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:48,240 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. James Mason in The Queen's Ring with Pamela Mason as Mary Howard and Jeanette Nolan as Elizabeth. 172 00:13:48,240 --> 00:14:03,240 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 173 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,240 Say, Hap, if a reader asked for a sports magazine, would he let the man substitute detective stories? 174 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,240 Why, of course not, Harlow. 175 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:17,240 Yet many magazine readers will stand for substitute parts in the vital electrical system of their auto light equipped cars. 176 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:18,240 But why, Harlow? 177 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:25,240 Well, Hap, I guess it's because readers can easily see what's inside the cover of a magazine, but not what's under the hood of the car. 178 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:33,240 But it's simple, Harlow. 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Wake. Wake, Essex. Wake, man. 187 00:15:54,240 --> 00:16:03,240 You shook a dreaming from my embrace, Roger. A lilt of a dream. 188 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:08,240 Cock crow in the dawn of your hanging robin and you can sleep and dream the liltings things. 189 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,240 I will tell you this, Roger. 190 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:11,240 What? 191 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:20,240 If it's the last dreaming I will ever make, for the fair one was fashioned in my sleeping brain. Passing fair. 192 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:25,240 And at noon the hangman's rope will twist out of you all the fair and bonny things. 193 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,240 It's what I'm told. At noon. 194 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:38,240 You're a madman, Robin. To thirst for her throne, to purchase a rabble army out of London alleys in the derelict streets, and to march on her. 195 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:44,240 It's how the dice fell, Roger. I flung them against the heavens and I lost. 196 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,240 Roger. 197 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:46,240 Yes? 198 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:54,240 At noon, when hangman wraps my throat with rope, at this noon will you weep for me? 199 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:55,240 Yes. 200 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,240 And who else? 201 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:58,240 Bess. 202 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:04,240 Will sweet Bess weep for me? And Mary Howard and the damsels of a hundred grassy fields, will they weep? 203 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,240 Madman. 204 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,240 How mad? How much am I mad? Shall I dance you a caper, Roger, and leer, and grimace? 205 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,240 You need not hang. 206 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,240 I need not. 207 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,240 Then what is my need? 208 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,240 Send her the ring you wear. The ring Elizabeth gave you. It will buy you another life. 209 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:23,240 Send the ring? 210 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:24,240 Yes, yes. 211 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:30,240 Tell me, Roger, how did Bess sleep last night? 212 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,240 What are you? 213 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:38,240 Come now, Roger. You are at court, and the court whispers of the Queen's waking and the Queen sleeping. How did Bess sleep last night? 214 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,240 It is said she sobbed the night. 215 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,240 Her sobbing made a great drifting moan through the castle vaults. 216 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,240 Yes. 217 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,240 Then why send her back the ring? 218 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,240 For your life, Essex. 219 00:17:52,240 --> 00:18:06,240 When I can hold it for so little cost, when I can have it for the price of an old woman's tears, for the price of her longing and her moaning for me, I have but to dry her weeping. 220 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:17,240 And I do not pay out of my pride, or beggar-wise crawl to her and hold out a puny ring and ask the alms for my life. 221 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,240 It is a sparkling ring, and worth a thousand sapphire pounds. 222 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,240 She will not have it back from me, and I will not hang. 223 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:45,240 Robin, tell Elizabeth this, that at her age she cannot weather more tears, nor night sobbing, or she becomes a hag in the crone, and sits on England like a bony, desert bird, without Essex, without me. 224 00:18:45,240 --> 00:19:03,240 Go to. Tell her that, sweet friend. 225 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,240 Majesty. 226 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,240 Lady Nere. 227 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:07,240 Yes. 228 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,240 Arise. 229 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,240 Come to me. 230 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,240 Lean your face to me. 231 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,240 I will touch it. 232 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,240 Oh, the feel of silk and youth to your cheek. 233 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,240 Bright eyes, scarlet, fulsome lips. 234 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,240 Now, put your hand to my face. 235 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,240 Tell me what your fingers feel. 236 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,240 Your Highness. 237 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,240 Do it. 238 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,240 Touch here the wrinkle. 239 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:44,240 Here the hollow cheek and the dry, parched lips. 240 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,240 What, Mary, you cannot? 241 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:47,240 Why can you not? 242 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,240 Please, dear Highness, let me. 243 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,240 I'll tell you why you cannot. 244 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:56,240 Because age and dying lie deep against my cheek. 245 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,240 Here where the tears are flooded. 246 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,240 Here where the lip was bit so bleeding. 247 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,240 For Lord Essex? 248 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,240 For Robin. 249 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:06,240 For Lord Essex. 250 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,240 And yet in a space of hours you will hang him? 251 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,240 He could fall from his pride and live. 252 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:13,240 How, Majesty? 253 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,240 He has entreated you not? 254 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,240 He has pleaded not for his life? 255 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,240 How will Robin live? 256 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,240 He has but to send me the ring I gave him. 257 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:23,240 What ring? 258 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:24,240 Mine that he wears. 259 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,240 I told him he could purchase back his life with it. 260 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,240 And forgiveness. 261 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,240 No matter what dying I commanded him. 262 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,240 And he has not sent it to you? 263 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:34,240 No. 264 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,240 Then perhaps he loves you not as well as he has whispered you. 265 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,240 And prefers this dying. 266 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,240 And if it's so, then you're well rid of Essex. 267 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,240 Essex does love me. 268 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,240 Go to him, Mary. 269 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,240 Go to him and beg of him the ring. 270 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:50,240 Yes, Highness. 271 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,240 And Lady Mary. 272 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,240 Yes. 273 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,240 Say it is I who beg. 274 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,240 Say not, Elizabeth, not your Queen. 275 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,240 Say woman's fate. 276 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,240 Say anguished woman's fate. 277 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,240 And he will give it to you. 278 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:13,240 And you will see how well Robin does love me. 279 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,240 Go to him. 280 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,240 The time is soon for his leading out and he is dying, 281 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,240 my Lady Mary, but little more than an hour. 282 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:32,240 In an hour. 283 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,240 Nor do I need reminding of it, Jailor. 284 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,240 Mary! 285 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,240 Good Mary. 286 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,240 Robin. 287 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,240 Oh, Robin, love. 288 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:44,240 Robin. 289 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,240 Robin. 290 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Sweet Mary, sweet girl. 291 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,240 Mary of the sweet face and tender glance. 292 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,240 How will you miss me? 293 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:55,240 How? 294 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,240 With cruel tears that burn small furrows in your cheek? 295 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,240 Don't cry for me. 296 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,240 Only smile. 297 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,240 Smile always when you think of me. 298 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,240 So that when we shall meet again, your face... 299 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,240 What manner of man are you, Robin? 300 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,240 I had a speech for you. 301 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,240 Let me finish it. 302 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,240 It's what I mean. 303 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,240 In an hour you die and still you act the lover. 304 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,240 Don't mock me before I die, little girl. 305 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,240 Let me have my play. 306 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,240 Listen, I saw the Queen. 307 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,240 And how is she? 308 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,240 Magnificent shamble of a woman that she is. 309 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,240 How is Bess? 310 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,240 How is Elizabeth, my Queen? 311 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,240 Did you love her, Robin? 312 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:33,240 Loved her, hated her, admired her, cursed her, prayed for her, 313 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,240 that she'd live, that she'd die, that she'd suffer, that she'd... 314 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,240 All the things a man could feel for a woman. 315 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,240 You said you saw her. 316 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,240 What of it? 317 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,240 She said she'd given you a ring. 318 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,240 Mary. 319 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,240 Don't gentle me, Robin, nor touch me now. 320 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,240 But if you want the truth, I love only you. 321 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,240 On your word? 322 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,240 On my heart, Mary, that having it only you. 323 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:57,240 Then listen. 324 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,240 She said she gave you a ring and a promise. 325 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,240 Whatever happened, she would forgive me, she said. 326 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,240 Return the ring to her, Robin. 327 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,240 No matter what, she said, but is leading an army upon her for her crown. 328 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,240 Coward army. 329 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,240 That ring you wear? 330 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,240 The very ring. 331 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:14,240 Then you give it to her. 332 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,240 I do not think so. 333 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,240 She prays for it, Robin. 334 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,240 She sent me for it. 335 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:19,240 Oh? 336 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,240 You bring it to her and she will release you and you will not die, and there will be no 337 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,240 more. 338 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,240 No more what? 339 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,240 There will be teeth, then. 340 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,240 And no more fighting and... 341 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,240 And no more what? 342 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,240 Oh, the ring, dear Robin. 343 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:35,240 Mary. 344 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,240 The ring. 345 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,240 Yes, yes, here. 346 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,240 Here, take it. 347 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,240 Mary. 348 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,240 Yes. 349 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,240 You're right. 350 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,240 Suddenly the thought of dying has no sable in it. 351 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:52,240 I could rule England with her as man and wife. 352 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,240 Take the ring, go to her. 353 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,240 Tell her she's won. 354 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,240 Jailer! 355 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,240 Jailer, open! 356 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,240 Quickly, quickly, Mary. 357 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,240 Go to her. 358 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,240 Give her the ring. 359 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,240 Go. 360 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:17,240 Enter, enter. 361 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,240 My Queen. 362 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,240 Quickly, come. 363 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,240 Will. 364 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,240 Will. 365 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,240 He said... 366 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,240 The ring. 367 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,240 Did he send the ring? 368 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,240 No. 369 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,240 What? 370 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,240 He laughed. 371 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,240 He said he had beaten you. 372 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Oh, Robin. 373 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,240 Robin. 374 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,240 He said... 375 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,240 What? 376 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,240 There I say. 377 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,240 Say it! 378 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,240 Say as else you will climb the gibbet with him. 379 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,240 But you were a crone. 380 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,240 Oh, he loved me. 381 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,240 But if he loved you, he would have sent back the ring. 382 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,240 If he valued your forgiveness, he would have given me the ring for you. 383 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,240 But he did not. 384 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,240 Yes, yes. 385 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,240 My Queen, come to the window. 386 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,240 Let me help you to the window to see. 387 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,240 See? 388 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,240 My Queen. 389 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,240 See? 390 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,240 Mount the scaffold. 391 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,240 And the top of it, the trap. 392 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,240 Crone, he said you were. 393 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,240 But what must he think of you now? 394 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,240 Forsaken. 395 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,240 What? 396 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:18,240 Forsaken. 397 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,240 You denied him his life. 398 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,240 But the ring he would not return it. 399 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,240 His pride has killed him. 400 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,240 See, now they placed the rope down there. 401 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:33,240 And the man you owned, whose body you owned, and soul, old woman, to deny it to me, who 402 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,240 he truly loved. 403 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:35,240 What are you saying? 404 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,240 Who he truly loved. 405 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,240 And he must die for it. 406 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:43,240 That is the only way I can triumph over both of you. 407 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,240 You? 408 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,240 Yes. 409 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,240 Alive, he would run to you. 410 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,240 And you would lay your fingers against his hair and swoon inside of you and give to him 411 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,240 what he desired. 412 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,240 Yes. 413 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,240 Even to the throne if he wanted it. 414 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,240 My Lord! 415 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,240 My Lord! 416 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,240 Send to the square! 417 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:00,240 Send to the hangar! 418 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,240 Send to the hangar! 419 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,240 Send to the hangar! 420 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,240 Send to the hangman and tell to him, My Lord, their strictest to be found! 421 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,240 Robin! 422 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,240 Brave Robin! 423 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:14,240 I lied to you, my Queen. 424 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:25,240 He asked me to give you this. 425 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:32,240 Suspense! 426 00:26:32,240 --> 00:27:00,440 Presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. James Mason. 427 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,360 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, the world's largest independent manufacturer 428 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,680 of automotive electrical equipment. 429 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:13,560 In 28 plants from coast to coast, Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, 430 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,660 tractors, planes, boats, and industry. 431 00:27:16,660 --> 00:27:22,000 These products include bumpers, die castings, industrial thermometers, and batteries such 432 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,080 as the famous Auto Light Stayful, ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, both standard 433 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:32,980 and resistor types, voltage regulators, wire, and battery cable, Auto Light bullseye sealed 434 00:27:32,980 --> 00:27:39,720 beam units, and Auto Light original service parts for all Auto Light electrical systems. 435 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,560 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 436 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:56,280 So from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 437 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,760 Next week, one of the most terrifying half hours ever presented on Suspense, a young 438 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:07,320 couple and a mad woman, and what happened to them on a country road. 439 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,960 Our star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 440 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:18,240 That's next week on Suspense. 441 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,920 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick 442 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,320 and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 443 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:30,520 The Queen's Ring was adapted for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 444 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,920 In tonight's story, Jeanette Nolan was heard as Elizabeth and Pamela Mason as Mary. 445 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,160 Featured in the cast were Joseph Kearns and Ben Wright. 446 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,400 James Mason may currently be seen starring in the United Artists picture, The Man Between. 447 00:28:44,400 --> 00:29:12,480 And remember, next week, Mr. Frank Lovejoy in on a country road. 448 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:25,840 This is the CBS Radio Network.