1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,360 And now, tonight's presentation from radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:22,000 Tonight, the story of a man with no imagination, who found it necessary to cause the violent 3 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,300 end of a life. 4 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:27,100 It was written by the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, E. Jack Newman. 5 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:37,680 The story is called, Sequel to Murder. 6 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,160 I read, I don't write. 7 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:42,400 I don't have the imagination, they tell me. 8 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:43,680 They've told me. 9 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,960 But I'm writing this down, and it doesn't take much imagination, so I guess I might 10 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,680 do a fair job at that. 11 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,920 Take a day in my office, for a starter. 12 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:53,920 Oh, hi, Frank. 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,920 Up to your neck? 14 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:55,920 No, Mr. Walsh. 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:56,920 Oh, good. 16 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:57,920 I'm here. 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,560 New writer, interesting title. 18 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,520 Death on my Hands by Blaine Kittredge. 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,520 Good title. 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:03,520 New boy. 21 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,520 I'd like to have you read it and see what you think for our Red Berrier series. 22 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,840 Okay, I'll get at it as soon as I can, Mr. Walsh. 23 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:10,840 What did you think? 24 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:12,120 I only read the first ten pages, Frank. 25 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,640 Looked fine, fine. 26 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,640 But I'm going to leave the decision up to you. 27 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,040 If you think this Kittredge has got anything, we'll put him in this month's listings. 28 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,040 Oh, it's 11.35. 29 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:22,040 Lunch? 30 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,520 I'd better not, Mr. Walsh. 31 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,160 Well, okay, Frank, I don't want to interfere with any business you've got to take care of. 32 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,600 Ah, sorry, Mr. Walsh. 33 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,600 It's okay, okay, Frank. 34 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:30,600 I won't press you. 35 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:31,600 Maybe tomorrow, huh? 36 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Yeah, fine, sir. 37 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:46,440 It's just that I have so much work here. 38 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,000 We certainly can't go on like this. 39 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,080 I can't go on. 40 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,080 You'd better work something out. 41 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,080 I will. 42 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,400 Now, there's no need for all this. 43 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,680 You said the same thing a year ago, Frank. 44 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,720 A whole year ago, you said exactly the same thing. 45 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,360 And it's still the same as it was then. 46 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,800 I still have all those empty nights when I can't see you. 47 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,320 I just told you I'll do something, Bess. 48 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,320 Why all this? 49 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,560 I want you to understand how I feel, Frank. 50 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,280 Exactly how I feel. 51 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:15,640 Make no mistake about it. 52 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:19,720 Either you do something now, today, when you see her. 53 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:20,720 Something definite. 54 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,720 Or that's the end. 55 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,720 This way, it's awful. 56 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,160 It's awful for me, too, you know. 57 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,600 How do people get into things like this? 58 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:29,600 Oh, now, now, Bess. 59 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,920 I didn't want to love you. 60 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:33,920 I knew you were married. 61 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:34,920 I'm such a fool. 62 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:35,920 Bess, please. 63 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:36,920 Don't worry. 64 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,920 Don't worry, Mr. Gault. 65 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:41,920 I won't sit here and cry. 66 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:44,640 I wouldn't think of upsetting Mr. Gault while he ate his lunch. 67 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:45,760 Don't you worry a bit, Mr. Gault. 68 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,280 I'm going to work it out. 69 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,880 Bess, do you hear me? 70 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,840 But you're thinking of some other things, too. 71 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,440 Oh, I know what you're thinking of. 72 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,440 How it'll hit you in the pocketbook. 73 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,520 Things like this cost a lot of money, and you hate the thought of that. 74 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,840 Well, if you want me, and you say you do, you'll have to make some sacrifices. 75 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,320 You know that as well as I do. 76 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,800 Oh, sure, look away from me. 77 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:10,800 Look at the way to look anywhere. 78 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,360 Well, I've made sacrifices already. 79 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,200 I can't see my mother on weekends and tell her who I'm seeing. 80 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,080 She always wants to know. 81 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,080 I can't take you to meet my friends. 82 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,280 I have to be satisfied with this. 83 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,840 This meeting you at your restaurant and seeing you at your office. 84 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,360 I don't have a life this way, Frank. 85 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,400 You don't even have the imagination enough to arrange a romantic setting. 86 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,600 Stop it, Bess. 87 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,200 Get your book out of your purse, Bess. 88 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,200 What? 89 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,200 Lillian just walked in. 90 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,200 Oh. 91 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,040 And if these terms are satisfactory, please advise by wire or cable. 92 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,040 Yours truly, Frank Gault. 93 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:49,040 Frank! 94 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,040 Oh, Lillian. 95 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,040 Well. 96 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,200 I took a chance you'd be here. 97 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,480 I thought maybe you'd buy me lunch. 98 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:55,480 Sure, dear, sure. 99 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,320 I didn't know you were coming in this early. 100 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,200 Oh, you remember Miss Lucas from our editorial department? 101 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,200 Yes. 102 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,200 How are you, Miss Lucas? 103 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,200 Fine, Mrs. Gault. 104 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,200 Nice to see you again. 105 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:09,000 I'd better get this off in the mail right away, Mr. Gault. 106 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 All right, Bessie. 107 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Fine. 108 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Better do that. 109 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Well, don't let me rush you off, Miss Lucas. 110 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Oh, we're finished, Mrs. Gault. 111 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,600 Sometimes lunch is the only place I can pin him down. 112 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,600 Really? 113 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:19,600 Are you that busy, dear? 114 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:20,600 Yes, I seem to be. 115 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:21,600 Sit down, Lillian. 116 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:22,600 Oh, thanks. 117 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,600 Oh, don't forget your notebook, Miss Lucas. 118 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,360 Oh, yes, of course. 119 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:29,360 Mr. Gault. 120 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,360 Hmm? 121 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,600 I hope you won't let that other matter slip your mind. 122 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,400 It's imperative that you do something about it immediately this afternoon. 123 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,360 Oh, yes, of course, Miss Lucas. 124 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,360 Fine. 125 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,360 Excuse me, Mrs. Gault. 126 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,360 Yes. 127 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:44,360 See you in the office. 128 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:45,360 Yes. 129 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,280 Goodbye for now. 130 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:48,280 Would you like a drink, Lillian? 131 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:49,880 Oh, she's an interesting girl, Frank. 132 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:50,880 Bess? 133 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:51,880 Oh, sure, yes, very bright. 134 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,280 Gonna be one of our best editors someday. 135 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:55,280 She looks like she'll go far. 136 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,040 But then I don't like the way she wears her hair. 137 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:59,040 I'll take the drink. 138 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,040 Lillian? 139 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,400 On the phone, you said it was something important. 140 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:03,400 Yes. 141 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,400 Are you going to tell me? 142 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:06,400 Yes, Lillian. 143 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,400 I'll tell you what I'll do, Frank. 144 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,000 I'll make it easier for you. 145 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,960 You're always very bad at this sort of thing, and I'm always very good at it. 146 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,080 At what sort of thing? 147 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,000 You don't even know what I wanted to talk to you about. 148 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,680 I can guess what you want to talk to me about. 149 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:18,800 You can stop me if I'm wrong. 150 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,280 I know all the symptoms, especially on you. 151 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:23,400 I know you like a book. 152 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:24,760 You hate to get down to cases. 153 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,520 In your office, you're a real demon. 154 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,760 Doesn't take any imagination to read what other people have thought out. 155 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,480 But this is hard for you, isn't it? 156 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:33,960 I'll say it right out, Lillian. 157 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:34,960 I want a divorce. 158 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,160 Well, you did get it out, didn't you? 159 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,240 I want a divorce because we don't get along. 160 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,840 We haven't gotten along for five years. 161 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:47,600 I want a divorce because I think we've tried about everything to make it work, and it won't. 162 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,040 Lillian, what do you think? 163 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,040 What do you honestly think? 164 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,680 Well, I think a divorce is a swell idea, Frank. 165 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Let's get one. 166 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,680 Huh? 167 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,680 Well, everything you've said is true. 168 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:58,680 We're castinko. 169 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,040 There's no denying it. 170 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,880 We can't live together, can we? 171 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,000 No, we can't. 172 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 You surprise me. 173 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Do what? 174 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 How? 175 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,400 Well, this isn't exactly the most pleasant thing for two people to discuss or start to 176 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,400 plan for. 177 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,560 Matter of fact, it's a tragedy and a sin. 178 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,920 Both of us had such high hopes when we started out. 179 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,200 I think we both honestly tried to do everything we can to make it work. 180 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,600 Now, coming to this, we're admitting we failed. 181 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,080 Well, that's one way to look at it, Frank. 182 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,520 Very, very humane. 183 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,800 But we're only human beings, aren't we? 184 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,520 We're two very nice people, aren't we? 185 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,280 And it's too bad that these things happen in life, don't they? 186 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:39,280 Yes, they do. 187 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:40,280 I'm sorry. 188 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,200 You wanted to say something like that to me, didn't you? 189 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Yes. 190 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,680 You're a good boy, Frank. 191 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,240 So, what do we do first? 192 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,600 Well, I suppose we get in touch with Dutch and have him advise us on the legal procedures. 193 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,960 No, I suppose we do. 194 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,400 Way easier than you thought it would be, isn't it? 195 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,840 I think you're being very understanding about the whole thing, Lillian. 196 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:02,840 But then there's really no need for bitterness, is there? 197 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:04,800 I'm glad you feel that way, Frank. 198 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:05,800 Here. 199 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:06,800 What's this? 200 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,800 A few notes I made on how it'll be done. 201 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,640 I've been thinking about it, too. 202 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,480 I hope you won't find the financial strain too great. 203 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,480 Lillian, this is absurd. 204 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:22,160 $2,500 a month, the house, both cars, and 30% of the stocks they issue you annually. 205 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,160 I think it's wonderful. 206 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,960 That's why I agree with you about the divorce. 207 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,820 This will make it easier for me to admit my defeat. 208 00:07:29,820 --> 00:07:32,440 You want to wreck me completely, don't you, Lillian? 209 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:33,600 Oh, dear, not completely. 210 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,720 Well, I can't stand still for this, then. 211 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,640 Oh, Frank, dear. 212 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,520 You didn't think you could have it for nothing, did you? 213 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,400 Or do you have such a little amount of imagination? 214 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,520 Who helped you work this out, some shyster? 215 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,640 I did it all by myself, dear. 216 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,320 All by myself. 217 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,400 Just the way you managed to wreck us, all by yourself. 218 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,400 I don't want that drink anyhow. 219 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,520 I have some shopping to do, and I'm going to meet some people for dinner later on. 220 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,040 I suppose you're going to Dutch and talk to him about this. 221 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,480 Take that along. 222 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,320 And tell him that it's the only way I'll consider divorcing you. 223 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:05,320 Just that way. 224 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,320 No other. 225 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,600 Lillian, I'll be reasonable, but this thing... 226 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:08,600 No other way, dear. 227 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,600 Those are my terms. 228 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:10,600 Bye-bye. 229 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:11,600 Dear. 230 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,600 Frank, you didn't talk to her, did you? 231 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,600 Yes, I did. 232 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,600 Well, what came of it? 233 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:31,600 Why did you avoid me when you came back to the office? 234 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,600 I've been trying to get hold of you all day and half the night. 235 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,280 Up to my ears and work, Bess. 236 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:36,280 Work? 237 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:37,820 Yes, work, work, lots of it. 238 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:38,820 I still have to work, you know. 239 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:39,820 Well, don't get angry at me. 240 00:08:39,820 --> 00:08:40,820 Just tell me what happened. 241 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:41,820 That's all you have to do. 242 00:08:41,820 --> 00:08:44,820 I'm lying in bed right now. 243 00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:45,820 I'm reading a manuscript. 244 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:47,820 I have to make a decision on it tomorrow morning. 245 00:08:47,820 --> 00:08:48,820 Let's talk then. 246 00:08:48,820 --> 00:08:49,820 Now. 247 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:51,820 Bess, I can't talk now. 248 00:08:51,820 --> 00:08:52,820 Lillian just walked in the next room. 249 00:08:52,820 --> 00:08:53,820 Yes or no, Frank. 250 00:08:53,820 --> 00:08:54,820 Yes or no. 251 00:08:54,820 --> 00:08:55,820 Say it. 252 00:08:55,820 --> 00:08:56,820 Say it now. 253 00:08:56,820 --> 00:08:57,820 Yes, we're going to be together. 254 00:08:57,820 --> 00:08:58,820 No, we aren't going to be together. 255 00:08:58,820 --> 00:08:59,820 Yes. 256 00:08:59,820 --> 00:09:00,820 Yes. 257 00:09:00,820 --> 00:09:01,820 She'll give you the divorce. 258 00:09:01,820 --> 00:09:02,820 Yes. 259 00:09:02,820 --> 00:09:03,820 Yes. 260 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:04,820 Goodbye. 261 00:09:04,820 --> 00:09:05,820 Well? 262 00:09:05,820 --> 00:09:06,820 Hi. 263 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:07,820 Are you a little tight, dear? 264 00:09:07,820 --> 00:09:08,820 I'm a little tight. 265 00:09:08,820 --> 00:09:09,820 Yes, why? 266 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:10,820 Nothing. 267 00:09:10,820 --> 00:09:14,820 It's just that I have to read this manuscript tonight. 268 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:17,820 I'd rather not discuss anything about anything right now. 269 00:09:17,820 --> 00:09:18,820 Oh, I see. 270 00:09:18,820 --> 00:09:21,820 Death on my hands by Blaine Kittredge. 271 00:09:21,820 --> 00:09:23,820 Fencing tile, dear. 272 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:24,820 Yes. 273 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:25,820 Who's Blaine Kittredge? 274 00:09:25,820 --> 00:09:26,820 I don't know. 275 00:09:26,820 --> 00:09:27,820 Some new writer. 276 00:09:27,820 --> 00:09:28,820 We've never published anything of his before. 277 00:09:28,820 --> 00:09:30,580 Are you going to publish this? 278 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:31,580 I don't know. 279 00:09:31,580 --> 00:09:32,580 I haven't read it yet, Lillian. 280 00:09:32,580 --> 00:09:33,580 Oh, well, don't let me stop you. 281 00:09:33,580 --> 00:09:34,580 Good night, dear. 282 00:09:34,580 --> 00:09:35,580 Good night. 283 00:09:35,580 --> 00:09:36,580 Frank. 284 00:09:36,580 --> 00:09:37,580 Yes. 285 00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:41,580 I hate to disturb you, but did you talk to Dutch? 286 00:09:41,580 --> 00:09:42,580 No. 287 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:43,580 Are you going to? 288 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:44,580 No. 289 00:09:44,580 --> 00:09:47,260 Then you don't want a divorce? 290 00:09:47,260 --> 00:09:48,300 What do you want, Frank? 291 00:09:48,300 --> 00:09:51,580 I want you to leave me alone right now. 292 00:09:51,580 --> 00:09:52,580 Okay. 293 00:09:52,580 --> 00:09:54,580 Especially Lucas, isn't it? 294 00:09:54,580 --> 00:09:55,580 What? 295 00:09:55,580 --> 00:09:56,580 Oh, you're so bad, Frank. 296 00:09:56,580 --> 00:09:58,580 So bad an actor and so sheen. 297 00:09:58,580 --> 00:10:01,020 So little imagination. 298 00:10:01,020 --> 00:10:03,580 I could tell it today when I walked in on your little lunch. 299 00:10:03,580 --> 00:10:05,580 Nothing to say? 300 00:10:05,580 --> 00:10:06,580 No denials? 301 00:10:06,580 --> 00:10:07,580 No confirmation? 302 00:10:07,580 --> 00:10:12,580 Frank, you haven't made a decision yet. 303 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:13,580 I have. 304 00:10:13,580 --> 00:10:14,580 What's that, Lillian? 305 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:15,580 I'm going to divorce you. 306 00:10:15,580 --> 00:10:18,580 I'm going to get everything I told you about in the way of terms and on top of it, I'm 307 00:10:18,580 --> 00:10:19,580 going to name her. 308 00:10:19,580 --> 00:10:20,580 No, not me. 309 00:10:20,580 --> 00:10:21,580 You look pretty tawdry, dear. 310 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:26,580 You're a pretty tawdry person anyway, aren't you, Frank? 311 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:43,580 A real company man who has to do his little job regardless of what. 312 00:10:43,580 --> 00:10:46,580 Death on my hands by Blaine Kittredge. 313 00:10:46,580 --> 00:10:50,580 Murder is the swiftest, surest, most untraceable crime. 314 00:10:50,580 --> 00:10:54,580 I'm the one that holds the promise of absolute success above all others. 315 00:10:54,580 --> 00:11:02,580 It requires two participants, the killer and the victim. 316 00:11:02,580 --> 00:11:04,580 Frank? 317 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:06,580 Yeah? 318 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:11,580 What's the matter? 319 00:11:11,580 --> 00:11:16,580 What are you doing in my room? 320 00:11:16,580 --> 00:11:17,580 Thinking. 321 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:19,580 At four in the morning? 322 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:20,580 About what? 323 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:25,580 The story I just read, it's about a man who gets away with murder, Lillian. 324 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:28,580 There's no way for him to be caught, no way at all, Lillian. 325 00:11:28,580 --> 00:11:30,580 Will you publish it, dear, then I'll read it. 326 00:11:30,580 --> 00:11:34,580 The trick is he never planned to murder at all. 327 00:11:34,580 --> 00:11:37,580 He killed his wife and he got away with it. 328 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:42,580 He half-smothered her with a pillow, set the room on fire, and she suffocated from the 329 00:11:42,580 --> 00:11:43,580 smoke. 330 00:11:43,580 --> 00:11:46,580 Is there a cigarette over there? 331 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:47,580 You want a cigarette? 332 00:11:47,580 --> 00:11:51,580 As well, if you're going to keep this up. 333 00:11:51,580 --> 00:11:53,580 Here. 334 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:58,580 Thanks. 335 00:11:58,580 --> 00:11:59,580 Now, where are we? 336 00:11:59,580 --> 00:12:00,580 I'm a story, Lillian. 337 00:12:00,580 --> 00:12:01,580 I'll tell you what you do, Frank. 338 00:12:01,580 --> 00:12:02,580 You publish it and I'll read it. 339 00:12:02,580 --> 00:12:03,580 I won't have to listen to it, huh? 340 00:12:03,580 --> 00:12:05,580 I'm going to turn it down. 341 00:12:05,580 --> 00:12:06,580 Fine, you turn it down. 342 00:12:06,580 --> 00:12:10,580 But I'm going to use it, in a way, on you, Lillian. 343 00:12:10,580 --> 00:12:11,580 What are you talking about? 344 00:12:11,580 --> 00:12:13,580 I can't let you wreck me, Lillian. 345 00:12:13,580 --> 00:12:16,580 Oh, Frank, go on back to bed and stop being dramatic. 346 00:12:16,580 --> 00:12:18,580 I have enough imagination to know what that would be like. 347 00:12:18,580 --> 00:12:20,580 It would cost me everything I ever worked for. 348 00:12:20,580 --> 00:12:21,580 What are you doing? 349 00:12:21,580 --> 00:12:22,580 Put that match out. 350 00:12:22,580 --> 00:12:24,580 You're going to set this house on fire. 351 00:12:24,580 --> 00:12:25,580 Just the bed, Lillian. 352 00:12:25,580 --> 00:12:26,580 Frank, go get some water. 353 00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:27,580 The whole house will catch fire. 354 00:12:27,580 --> 00:12:28,580 No, no, not the house. 355 00:12:28,580 --> 00:12:30,580 Just this room, your bed. 356 00:12:30,580 --> 00:12:35,580 They'll be able to save the rest of the house and I don't mind building this room over. 357 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:38,580 You're utterly mad, Frank, utterly mad. 358 00:12:38,580 --> 00:12:42,580 Just Frank, just hold the pillow over your nose and mouth just long enough to make you 359 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:43,580 unconscious. 360 00:12:43,580 --> 00:12:44,580 No marks, Lillian, no fuss. 361 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:47,580 Just like the story. 362 00:12:47,580 --> 00:12:50,580 Smoke's really going to kill you, not me. 363 00:12:50,580 --> 00:12:54,580 It'll be the first thing you breathe, breathe in when I take the pillow away. 364 00:12:54,580 --> 00:12:58,580 It'll be in your lungs, Lillian, for the coroner. 365 00:12:58,580 --> 00:13:02,580 You went to sleep with a cigarette in your hand and you started the bed on fire and you 366 00:13:02,580 --> 00:13:05,580 suffocated before I could help you. 367 00:13:05,580 --> 00:13:13,580 Right in front of my eyes. 368 00:13:13,580 --> 00:13:17,580 All right, Lillian, you can breathe now. 369 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:22,580 That's it, breathe, Lillian. 370 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:25,580 Breathe! 371 00:13:25,580 --> 00:13:41,580 Glad to see you back on the job, Frank. 372 00:13:41,580 --> 00:13:43,580 Thank you, Mr. Walsh. 373 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:46,580 Did you get any rest? 374 00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:49,580 Well, I guess you didn't after all that happened. 375 00:13:49,580 --> 00:13:52,580 We all feel pretty badly about Mrs. Gault's death. 376 00:13:52,580 --> 00:13:53,580 Yes, I know. 377 00:13:53,580 --> 00:13:55,580 Tragic, tragic thing. 378 00:13:55,580 --> 00:13:59,580 Those accidents just happened and there's nothing to be done about them. 379 00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:03,580 Well, I won't take up any more of your time saying awkward things, Frank. 380 00:14:03,580 --> 00:14:05,580 I know what you've been through, all of us do. 381 00:14:05,580 --> 00:14:08,580 But I have a suggestion. 382 00:14:08,580 --> 00:14:09,580 Yes? 383 00:14:09,580 --> 00:14:11,580 Pile in and work, work will help a lot, Frank. 384 00:14:11,580 --> 00:14:13,580 I intended to, Mr. Walsh. 385 00:14:13,580 --> 00:14:15,580 Good boy. 386 00:14:15,580 --> 00:14:16,580 Lunch? 387 00:14:16,580 --> 00:14:17,580 Fine. 388 00:14:17,580 --> 00:14:18,580 I'll see you about two, huh? 389 00:14:18,580 --> 00:14:20,580 Right. 390 00:14:20,580 --> 00:14:21,580 Excuse me, Mr. Walsh. 391 00:14:21,580 --> 00:14:22,580 Oh, hello, Miss Lucas. 392 00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:23,580 Did I interrupt anything? 393 00:14:23,580 --> 00:14:24,580 No, no, no, just leave it. 394 00:14:24,580 --> 00:14:33,580 Oh. 395 00:14:33,580 --> 00:14:34,580 Frank. 396 00:14:34,580 --> 00:14:35,580 Bess. 397 00:14:35,580 --> 00:14:36,580 Darling. 398 00:14:36,580 --> 00:14:37,580 Oh, Bess. 399 00:14:37,580 --> 00:14:41,580 I can't say I'm sorry she's gone, but I am sorry about the way it happened. 400 00:14:41,580 --> 00:14:44,580 I'm sorry I couldn't be with you. 401 00:14:44,580 --> 00:14:50,580 I know you loved her, weren't you? 402 00:14:50,580 --> 00:14:51,580 All over now, Bess. 403 00:14:51,580 --> 00:14:53,580 Oh, Frank. 404 00:14:53,580 --> 00:14:55,580 It was awful for you, wasn't it? 405 00:14:55,580 --> 00:14:57,580 Awful. 406 00:14:57,580 --> 00:15:00,580 But just as Mr. Walsh said, those things happened. 407 00:15:00,580 --> 00:15:02,580 Yes. 408 00:15:02,580 --> 00:15:06,580 Well, you want to talk about it, I guess we can do it another time. 409 00:15:06,580 --> 00:15:07,580 Yes. 410 00:15:07,580 --> 00:15:09,580 Anytime. 411 00:15:09,580 --> 00:15:10,580 That's right. 412 00:15:10,580 --> 00:15:12,580 Anytime. 413 00:15:12,580 --> 00:15:14,580 Do I sound cruel or thoughtless? 414 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:15,580 Oh. 415 00:15:15,580 --> 00:15:16,580 I do. 416 00:15:16,580 --> 00:15:17,580 I'm sorry. 417 00:15:17,580 --> 00:15:19,580 I just know that I've wanted you for so long. 418 00:15:19,580 --> 00:15:21,580 Now I can have you, Frank. 419 00:15:21,580 --> 00:15:24,580 I'd better get back to my desk. 420 00:15:24,580 --> 00:15:35,580 Yeah. 421 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:36,580 Hello? 422 00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:37,580 Mr. Galt? 423 00:15:37,580 --> 00:15:38,580 That's right. 424 00:15:38,580 --> 00:15:39,580 Lane Kittredge, Mr. Galt. 425 00:15:39,580 --> 00:15:41,580 I've been trying to get you for a week. 426 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:42,580 Oh, I've been out of town. 427 00:15:42,580 --> 00:15:43,580 My wife. 428 00:15:43,580 --> 00:15:44,580 Yes, I read about it in the papers. 429 00:15:44,580 --> 00:15:45,580 My sympathy, Mr. Galt. 430 00:15:45,580 --> 00:15:46,580 Thank you. 431 00:15:46,580 --> 00:15:50,580 Mr. Kittredge, I'm sorry, but I don't seem to place you at the moment. 432 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:51,580 Oh, we've never met. 433 00:15:51,580 --> 00:15:56,580 But just before you went away, I sent you a story called Death on My Hands. 434 00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:57,580 Huh? 435 00:15:57,580 --> 00:15:58,580 Mr. Galt? 436 00:15:58,580 --> 00:15:59,580 Yes. 437 00:15:59,580 --> 00:16:00,580 You remember now? 438 00:16:00,580 --> 00:16:01,580 You rejected that one, Mr. Galt, but I read it. 439 00:16:01,580 --> 00:16:05,580 Well, fine. 440 00:16:05,580 --> 00:16:06,580 Fine, Mr. Gittredge. 441 00:16:06,580 --> 00:16:07,580 Send it in. 442 00:16:07,580 --> 00:16:08,580 I'll be glad to read it. 443 00:16:08,580 --> 00:16:09,580 It's sort of a sequel to the other story, Mr. Galt. 444 00:16:09,580 --> 00:16:10,580 In the first one, I told you how a man got away with a murder. 445 00:16:10,580 --> 00:16:11,580 In this one, I tell you how he gets caught. 446 00:16:11,580 --> 00:16:12,580 Mr. Galt? 447 00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:13,580 Yes. 448 00:16:13,580 --> 00:16:14,580 I'll bring it in myself. 449 00:16:14,580 --> 00:16:15,580 Huh? 450 00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:45,380 You are listening to Mr. Whitfield Connor in E. Jack Newman's story, Sequel to Murder. 451 00:16:45,380 --> 00:17:02,540 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 452 00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:06,940 For full understanding of our changing land, to know more about the opportunities all can 453 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:12,340 enjoy as America continues to prosper, send for the free booklet titled, The Future of 454 00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:13,620 America. 455 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:19,540 Head to Box 1776, Grand Central Station, New York 17, and your copy will be sent to you 456 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:21,520 by early return mail. 457 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:27,980 The address again is Box 1776, Grand Central Station, New York City 17. 458 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:34,180 For confidence, for security in your great future, send for this booklet today. 459 00:17:34,180 --> 00:17:40,180 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Whitfield Connor, in Elliot Lewis's production 460 00:17:40,180 --> 00:17:56,300 of Sequel to Murder, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 461 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:59,540 It isn't hard to write all this now. 462 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:04,500 First because the details were all there, and next because someone else really did all 463 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:06,540 the writing, I did the reading. 464 00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:10,860 But the reader and the writer had to meet. 465 00:18:10,860 --> 00:18:11,860 I'm Blaine Kittredge. 466 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:12,860 Oh. 467 00:18:12,860 --> 00:18:16,620 I got here right after I phoned you, Mr. Galt, but they said you were out to lunch. 468 00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:17,980 I've been waiting ever since. 469 00:18:17,980 --> 00:18:19,740 Sorry, Mr. Kittredge. 470 00:18:19,740 --> 00:18:22,660 I suppose you needed that long lunch hour. 471 00:18:22,660 --> 00:18:23,960 It fits in, Mr. Galt. 472 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,660 You had to think of something to say to me, didn't you? 473 00:18:26,660 --> 00:18:29,100 I don't know why particularly. 474 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:32,540 Because I have a story for you, the sequel to my first story. 475 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:34,260 Oh, well, where is it? 476 00:18:34,260 --> 00:18:36,420 I have it here, in my head. 477 00:18:36,420 --> 00:18:39,020 All I have to do is put it down on paper as the saying goes. 478 00:18:39,020 --> 00:18:41,820 Well, I'm afraid I can't read your mind. 479 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:43,100 I'll help you. 480 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:48,540 First, I suppose I should tell you I usually write my stories based on fact, more or less. 481 00:18:48,540 --> 00:18:51,540 I take all seven newspapers here every day, for instance. 482 00:18:51,540 --> 00:18:53,300 Read them from top to bottom. 483 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:57,020 There are a great many things in newspapers that make valuable material for a writer, 484 00:18:57,020 --> 00:18:58,020 Mr. Galt. 485 00:18:58,020 --> 00:18:59,020 Yes. 486 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:02,120 That's what I do most of the time, Mr. Galt. 487 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,900 But when I wrote that story about the man who half-smothered his wife to death with a 488 00:19:05,900 --> 00:19:09,740 pillow, and then set the room on fire so she'd suffocate, I... 489 00:19:09,740 --> 00:19:11,940 You do remember the story, don't you? 490 00:19:11,940 --> 00:19:13,940 I don't know. 491 00:19:13,940 --> 00:19:16,060 Called Death on My Hands. 492 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:17,380 You rejected it, Mr. Galt. 493 00:19:17,380 --> 00:19:19,060 You personally rejected it. 494 00:19:19,060 --> 00:19:20,060 Oh. 495 00:19:20,060 --> 00:19:22,020 Yes, well, go on. 496 00:19:22,020 --> 00:19:25,020 Well, that story was a little different, Mr. Galt. 497 00:19:25,020 --> 00:19:28,500 You might say I gave it a little more work than the others. 498 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:31,860 You see, I didn't base that story on anything I'd read in the newspapers. 499 00:19:31,860 --> 00:19:32,860 You said you had a new story. 500 00:19:32,860 --> 00:19:35,740 I made that one up. 501 00:19:35,740 --> 00:19:37,540 I worked it out pretty well, didn't I? 502 00:19:37,540 --> 00:19:39,580 I suppose you did. 503 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:44,100 Imagine how surprised I was after I'd written the story to read it in the papers about your 504 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,140 wife, Mr. Galt, dying of suffocation. 505 00:19:46,140 --> 00:19:47,140 Let's not dwell on that, please. 506 00:19:47,140 --> 00:19:49,420 Oh, I don't want to make it painful at all, Mr. Galt. 507 00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:52,900 I'd just like to make sure you buy my new story. 508 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:56,620 What, uh, what do you have in mind? 509 00:19:56,620 --> 00:19:58,820 A talk with the coroner's office, Mr. Galt. 510 00:19:58,820 --> 00:20:03,780 I'm sure that if I explain to them the details of my story and how you had the story, and 511 00:20:03,780 --> 00:20:07,460 of course they know the details of Mrs. Galt's death, they'd reverse their decision. 512 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:10,960 We both know they'd reverse their decision about how she died. 513 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,380 And they'd look into your life pretty well. 514 00:20:12,380 --> 00:20:15,060 They'd probably find a good reason for you wanting to get rid of her. 515 00:20:15,060 --> 00:20:17,060 Absurd story like that that wouldn't listen to you. 516 00:20:17,060 --> 00:20:19,600 They'd listen to me, Mr. Galt, because I'm a pretty good talker. 517 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,020 In fact, I talk a lot better than I write, really. 518 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:24,700 Look, you're listening to me. 519 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:27,220 Everyone listens to me when I talk. 520 00:20:27,220 --> 00:20:28,220 See? 521 00:20:28,220 --> 00:20:31,060 Now, it really comes down to what do you want out of life. 522 00:20:31,060 --> 00:20:36,100 Now, I don't care about your personal troubles or how you solve them, but I do care about 523 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:38,060 mine, Mr. Galt. 524 00:20:38,060 --> 00:20:41,960 I need $100,000 to make life interesting for me again. 525 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,500 You have to get me $100,000 if you want to live. 526 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:46,260 I haven't got that kind of money. 527 00:20:46,260 --> 00:20:48,340 No one has these days. 528 00:20:48,340 --> 00:20:53,420 I've seen your house and your cars, and I have some idea of the salary you make here 529 00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:56,320 and the dividends you get on stock. 530 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,220 And that's how I arrived at my figure. 531 00:20:58,220 --> 00:21:04,020 You might have to liquidate a few things, but then you'll be alive, and after all, you'll 532 00:21:04,020 --> 00:21:07,540 be better off than Mrs. Galt. 533 00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:11,380 She's not alive because you killed her. 534 00:21:11,380 --> 00:21:13,460 You'll have to go to somebody with your story, Kittredge. 535 00:21:13,460 --> 00:21:17,460 I can't pay you that kind of money. 536 00:21:17,460 --> 00:21:19,740 Okay. 537 00:21:19,740 --> 00:21:20,740 I'll turn you in. 538 00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:21,740 Wait. 539 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:30,860 I'll see what I can do. 540 00:21:30,860 --> 00:21:32,980 It takes time to raise that kind of money. 541 00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:36,540 A little down payment will do, say $10,000. 542 00:21:36,540 --> 00:21:38,980 How about midnight at the 45th Street station? 543 00:21:38,980 --> 00:21:39,980 All right. 544 00:21:39,980 --> 00:21:42,220 Don't, don't, don't, don't go to anybody. 545 00:21:42,220 --> 00:21:45,220 Of course not, Mr. Galt. 546 00:21:45,220 --> 00:21:55,180 Not until I've given you a chance. 547 00:21:55,180 --> 00:21:58,340 Frank? 548 00:21:58,340 --> 00:22:01,260 Frank? 549 00:22:01,260 --> 00:22:03,660 Huh? 550 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:07,260 What is it, Frank? 551 00:22:07,260 --> 00:22:09,740 Been sitting there looking out the window almost ever since you got here. 552 00:22:09,740 --> 00:22:11,220 You haven't touched your drink. 553 00:22:11,220 --> 00:22:12,220 Oh, I'm sorry. 554 00:22:12,220 --> 00:22:13,220 Is there something wrong with it? 555 00:22:13,220 --> 00:22:14,220 No, no, no, no. 556 00:22:14,220 --> 00:22:15,220 It's fine. 557 00:22:15,220 --> 00:22:16,220 Frank? 558 00:22:16,220 --> 00:22:17,220 What? 559 00:22:17,220 --> 00:22:20,660 For heaven's sake, Frank, this is supposed to be some sort of happy occasion. 560 00:22:20,660 --> 00:22:22,300 Are you tired or sick or something? 561 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:23,300 What is it? 562 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:24,300 Bess, I... 563 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:27,300 I guess I'm just tired. 564 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:30,380 Frank, who's Blaine Kittredge? 565 00:22:30,380 --> 00:22:31,380 Blaine Kittredge? 566 00:22:31,380 --> 00:22:32,380 Yes. 567 00:22:32,380 --> 00:22:33,380 Uh, a writer. 568 00:22:33,380 --> 00:22:34,380 Why? 569 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:37,740 Well, he came into the editorial department today, just meeting some of the editors. 570 00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:38,740 I noticed he met you too. 571 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:40,740 He went to your office, didn't he? 572 00:22:40,740 --> 00:22:41,740 Yeah. 573 00:22:41,740 --> 00:22:42,740 I didn't like him, Frank. 574 00:22:42,740 --> 00:22:43,740 Is he a friend of yours? 575 00:22:43,740 --> 00:22:46,940 No, no, just someone I know. 576 00:22:46,940 --> 00:22:49,020 What is it? 577 00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:50,020 What, Frank? 578 00:22:50,020 --> 00:22:51,020 Tell me. 579 00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:53,140 Kittredge can ruin me, Bess. 580 00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:55,420 He... he... he can ruin us. 581 00:22:55,420 --> 00:22:56,420 What? 582 00:22:56,420 --> 00:22:57,420 Bessie, the whole... 583 00:22:57,420 --> 00:23:01,020 Well, he wrote a story that I rejected, a story about a murder. 584 00:23:01,020 --> 00:23:05,180 The circumstances in the story, the murder and all, well, they're pretty close to the 585 00:23:05,180 --> 00:23:06,660 circumstances of Lillian's death. 586 00:23:06,660 --> 00:23:07,660 What? 587 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:08,660 Don't you see, Bess? 588 00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:11,020 He has a good weapon and he told me he means to use it today. 589 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:13,020 Frank, Lillian's death was accidental. 590 00:23:13,020 --> 00:23:16,220 Of course it was accidental, Bess, but his story could make it look deliberate. 591 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:17,220 What do you mean? 592 00:23:17,220 --> 00:23:20,620 It could make it look as though I had something to do with it. 593 00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:22,460 Why, that's ridiculous, Frank. 594 00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:25,180 Oh, Frank, why do you pay any attention to him at all? 595 00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:26,180 You're really upset, darling. 596 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:27,180 He wants $100,000. 597 00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:30,180 Why, that's so absurd. 598 00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:33,780 Or is it? 599 00:23:33,780 --> 00:23:35,300 Frank. 600 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:37,620 What? 601 00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:40,500 You're actually thinking of giving it to him, aren't you? 602 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:41,660 Well, best the way he presented it. 603 00:23:41,660 --> 00:23:42,660 I haven't got a chance. 604 00:23:42,660 --> 00:23:45,260 He could make the worst kind of trouble for me. 605 00:23:45,260 --> 00:23:50,460 Frank, is it the way he presented it or the way it happened? 606 00:23:50,460 --> 00:23:55,900 Frank, Lillian died accidentally, didn't she? 607 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:58,540 Frank? 608 00:23:58,540 --> 00:24:01,260 I did it for us, Bess, for us. 609 00:24:01,260 --> 00:24:03,080 It was the only way out. 610 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,220 She wanted to ruin us completely so that nothing would have meant anything. 611 00:24:06,220 --> 00:24:07,220 Bess. 612 00:24:07,220 --> 00:24:09,220 I just wanted you. 613 00:24:09,220 --> 00:24:12,220 Look, Bess, look at me. 614 00:24:12,220 --> 00:24:15,100 You'll think of it differently in a while and you'll know it was all I could do. 615 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:18,820 I didn't mean ever to tell you, but remember, it was for us. 616 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:20,460 Don't touch me. 617 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:21,460 Don't ever touch me again. 618 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:22,460 Bess. 619 00:24:22,460 --> 00:24:43,620 Hi. 620 00:24:43,620 --> 00:24:47,220 Hello. 621 00:24:47,220 --> 00:24:48,780 Right on time, Mr. Galt. 622 00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:49,780 Yeah. 623 00:24:49,780 --> 00:24:52,940 Good time of the day to meet for this kind of thing, nobody around. 624 00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:53,940 Yeah? 625 00:24:53,940 --> 00:24:54,940 Well? 626 00:24:54,940 --> 00:24:56,540 I didn't bring you the money, Kittredge. 627 00:24:56,540 --> 00:24:58,580 I'm not going to give you any money. 628 00:24:58,580 --> 00:24:59,580 What is this? 629 00:24:59,580 --> 00:25:03,180 I don't need a book to tell me how to handle this. 630 00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:05,100 You're crazy if you try to use that thing here. 631 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:07,500 You wouldn't get 10 feet without running into a policeman. 632 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:09,660 Let's go over there. 633 00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:12,940 I haven't got much more to lose, Kittredge. 634 00:25:12,940 --> 00:25:15,780 All right. 635 00:25:15,780 --> 00:25:21,300 I learned a lot about homicide from you, but you can never really get away with it, Kittredge. 636 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:27,420 Somewhere along the line you get caught, not by policemen, by yourself. 637 00:25:27,420 --> 00:25:29,300 Someone else made me realize that. 638 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:31,700 A man has to go on living. 639 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:34,580 Look, Mr. Galt, you aren't going to solve anything here. 640 00:25:34,580 --> 00:25:35,580 I'll kill you. 641 00:25:35,580 --> 00:25:38,540 I know how to do it because it has to be done. 642 00:25:38,540 --> 00:25:41,780 You will fall in front of the subway, Kittredge. 643 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:43,420 Oh. 644 00:25:43,420 --> 00:25:45,900 These men coming don't move or try to shout at them. 645 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:47,820 Just let them walk past. 646 00:25:47,820 --> 00:25:50,820 I mean that. 647 00:25:50,820 --> 00:25:54,420 Mr. Galt? 648 00:25:54,420 --> 00:25:57,180 Oh, yes? 649 00:25:57,180 --> 00:26:00,060 Better give us the gun, Mr. Galt. 650 00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:01,060 Police officers. 651 00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:04,060 Count of three. 652 00:26:04,060 --> 00:26:08,300 One, two, here. 653 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:17,340 Oh. 654 00:26:17,340 --> 00:26:19,500 Boy am I glad you two showed up. 655 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:21,460 He was just telling me how he was going to kill me. 656 00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:22,460 What's your name? 657 00:26:22,460 --> 00:26:23,460 Kittredge, Blaine Kittredge. 658 00:26:23,460 --> 00:26:24,460 I called earlier. 659 00:26:24,460 --> 00:26:29,500 Sorry, Mr. Galt, but I figured you'd try something like this. 660 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:31,260 Lillian was right. 661 00:26:31,260 --> 00:26:32,580 What? 662 00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:34,620 I should have known. 663 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:36,860 I don't have much imagination. 664 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:38,820 All right. 665 00:26:38,820 --> 00:26:42,620 Let's go. 666 00:26:42,620 --> 00:26:50,540 No reprieve. 667 00:26:50,540 --> 00:26:53,820 I didn't think there'd be one anyhow. 668 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:55,020 Don't care about that part of it. 669 00:26:55,020 --> 00:26:59,100 I do care that Bess never came to the trial. 670 00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:00,980 But I would have seen that. 671 00:27:00,980 --> 00:27:15,220 I would have known she'd take it that way if I'd had any imagination. 672 00:27:15,220 --> 00:27:16,220 All right, Father. 673 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:17,220 I'm ready. 674 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:46,940 Suspense, in which Whitfield Connor was starred in Sequel to Murder. 675 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:50,540 Next week, the story of a man who lost his shoes. 676 00:27:50,540 --> 00:27:54,860 And when you're suspected of murder and you've got to run for your life and the temperature 677 00:27:54,860 --> 00:28:01,460 is in the 90s, why then you're correct in saying it's too hot to live. 678 00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:09,900 That's next week on Suspense. 679 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:21,580 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with tonight's music composed by René 680 00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:24,860 Garagin and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 681 00:28:24,860 --> 00:28:28,660 Sequel to Murder was written for Suspense by E. Jack Newman. 682 00:28:28,660 --> 00:28:33,580 In tonight's story, Whitfield Connor was heard as Galt, Charlotte Lawrence as Bess, Betty 683 00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:52,060 Lou Gerson as Lillian, Joe Kearns as Walsh, and Jack Crushen as Kitteridge. 684 00:28:52,060 --> 00:28:56,020 This is the network and tomorrow's the night when CBS Radio's Crime Photographer takes 685 00:28:56,020 --> 00:28:57,580 on his latest murder case. 686 00:28:57,580 --> 00:29:02,860 Yes, it's Casey on the case and things usually click from start to finish when crime photographers 687 00:29:02,860 --> 00:29:05,940 in action on most of these stations every Wednesday night. 688 00:29:05,940 --> 00:29:10,860 Be sure you're in your favorite radio side seat tomorrow night when Casey, crime photographer, 689 00:29:10,860 --> 00:29:19,660 cuts loose with his camera, his brains, and his instinct for adding up clues to a killing. 690 00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:36,620 Gay Time is a Gay Time with Arthur Godfrey Time on the CBS Radio Network.