WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.600 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:19.600 --> 00:24.600 Tonight the story of a duel, an incomplete duel, since one of its participants chooses 00:24.600 --> 00:27.140 to wait and owe his adversary. 00:27.140 --> 00:33.640 So now, starring William Conrad with John Danaer, here is tonight's Suspense play, The 00:33.640 --> 00:34.640 Shot. 00:34.640 --> 01:01.360 Everyone's here, I see. 01:01.360 --> 01:02.360 You're late, Rose. 01:02.360 --> 01:05.940 I stopped to pick these. 01:05.940 --> 01:06.940 Cherry anyone? 01:06.940 --> 01:07.940 No? 01:07.940 --> 01:08.940 They're delicious. 01:08.940 --> 01:13.940 For a man who's about to die, you don't seem too concerned. 01:13.940 --> 01:16.140 Well, I am concerned, Peyton. 01:16.140 --> 01:21.100 I have a whole hat full of delicious cherries that certainly have to be eaten. 01:21.100 --> 01:26.100 And on the other hand, Peyton, I'm not certain that I have to die. 01:26.100 --> 01:28.940 You will draw lots, gentlemen. 01:28.940 --> 01:32.580 The papers in this hat are numbered from one to ten. 01:32.580 --> 01:34.140 You will each draw a paper. 01:34.140 --> 01:37.380 The man who receives the highest number will fire the first shot. 01:37.380 --> 01:40.380 And well, after you, Lieutenant Peyton. 01:40.380 --> 01:43.900 And good, good luck. 01:43.900 --> 01:46.900 Your draw, sir. 01:46.900 --> 01:51.420 Mr. Peyton. 01:51.420 --> 01:54.060 I draw eight. 01:54.060 --> 02:00.580 Now, now, I have drawn a ten. 02:00.580 --> 02:05.540 Mr. Roles wins the first shot, back to back. 02:05.540 --> 02:08.380 You will pace away until the count of eight is completed. 02:08.380 --> 02:10.620 Mr. Roles has the first shot. 02:10.620 --> 02:13.700 You, Mr. Peyton, will return a shot. 02:13.700 --> 02:14.700 Understood? 02:14.700 --> 02:15.700 Yes, understood. 02:15.700 --> 02:20.300 Is anyone present here who finds this not an honorable way to settle the dispute between 02:20.300 --> 02:23.820 these two men? 02:23.820 --> 02:24.820 You ready, gentlemen? 02:24.820 --> 02:25.820 All ready. 02:25.820 --> 02:26.820 Ready. 02:26.820 --> 02:35.820 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. 02:35.820 --> 02:41.820 Mr. Peyton, are you all right? 02:41.820 --> 02:43.820 Are you hit? 02:43.820 --> 02:47.220 No, I'm all right. 02:47.220 --> 02:48.220 Bullet went through my hat. 02:48.220 --> 02:51.220 Your shot, Lieutenant Peyton. 02:51.220 --> 02:53.740 Yes, I know. 02:53.740 --> 02:56.500 Cherry, wonderful. 02:56.500 --> 03:01.740 You seem so anxious to kill me, sir. 03:01.740 --> 03:05.820 Do I have to remind you that you have a shot at me? 03:05.820 --> 03:06.820 Go ahead. 03:06.820 --> 03:08.820 Take it. 03:08.820 --> 03:12.860 No, not now. 03:12.860 --> 03:17.500 Zachary, he's taking a shot at you. 03:17.500 --> 03:19.060 You have to take your shot at him. 03:19.060 --> 03:20.060 Shut up. 03:20.060 --> 03:22.740 I don't have to do anything for you yet. 03:22.740 --> 03:26.380 You challenged him to a duel, Zachary. 03:26.380 --> 03:27.380 Quiet. 03:27.380 --> 03:36.740 Would you like to take your shot from here, Peyton? 03:36.740 --> 03:39.220 No. 03:39.220 --> 03:41.740 You don't seem ready for death this morning, Rose. 03:41.740 --> 03:43.380 You're wrong again, sir. 03:43.380 --> 03:47.340 I'm always ready for death or life. 03:47.340 --> 03:48.820 You've disappointed me, Peyton. 03:48.820 --> 03:49.820 Have I? 03:49.820 --> 03:52.260 Or perhaps I've disappointed you. 03:52.260 --> 03:57.020 At any rate, all these gentlemen witnessed that I went through my part of the challenge. 03:57.020 --> 04:00.100 Now, witness this. 04:00.100 --> 04:01.980 You still have your shot, Peyton. 04:01.980 --> 04:10.940 And if you aren't afraid to use it, I'll always be ready for you, any day, any place. 04:10.940 --> 04:13.860 I'll remember that, Rose. 04:13.860 --> 04:16.460 Please do, sir. 04:16.460 --> 04:18.700 Good day, gentlemen. 04:18.700 --> 04:22.460 It's a lovely morning. 04:22.460 --> 04:25.060 Zachary, he'll tell everyone about this. 04:25.060 --> 04:26.260 You'll be ruined. 04:26.260 --> 04:28.340 You can't expect to stay in the regiment now. 04:28.340 --> 04:31.220 Why deprive him of life when he attaches no value to it? 04:31.220 --> 04:34.780 You ended the duel your way, and it's not an honorable way, Zachary. 04:34.780 --> 04:37.680 The duel has not ended. 04:37.680 --> 04:38.680 You heard him. 04:38.680 --> 04:41.180 All of you heard him. 04:41.180 --> 04:42.900 I still have my shot coming. 04:42.900 --> 04:45.900 Then I'll take it. 04:45.900 --> 04:48.180 I'll choose the day. 04:48.180 --> 04:50.820 Then I'll choose the place. 04:50.820 --> 05:00.180 Then I'll see if he still wants to eat cherries and laugh down the barrel of my gun. 05:00.180 --> 05:03.740 Yes? 05:03.740 --> 05:15.780 What do you want? 05:15.780 --> 05:17.100 I brought your mail. 05:17.100 --> 05:18.540 Open the door. 05:18.540 --> 05:23.940 Set it there on the table, Mr. Temple. 05:23.940 --> 05:24.940 Thank you. 05:24.940 --> 05:25.940 Yes, sir. 05:25.940 --> 05:28.020 Oh, I didn't know you had a visitor. 05:28.020 --> 05:30.740 Mr. Stockwell, this is Mr. Temple, my landlord. 05:30.740 --> 05:32.340 How do you do, Mr. Temple? 05:32.340 --> 05:34.780 Colonel Stockwell, Virginia volunteer. 05:34.780 --> 05:37.300 Mr. Stockwell now, Mr. Temple. 05:37.300 --> 05:40.700 There's no longer a Confederate army or a Confederacy. 05:40.700 --> 05:43.100 I forget sometimes, sir. 05:43.100 --> 05:45.980 I served under you in the third volunteers, and I- 05:45.980 --> 05:48.660 Mr. Temple had quite a career as a soldier, Jim. 05:48.660 --> 05:51.700 He's told me about it every day since I took this room. 05:51.700 --> 05:54.340 Only thing left to talk about now, Colonel. 05:54.340 --> 05:56.780 There's nothing but carpet baggers and Yankees. 05:56.780 --> 05:59.340 We all know how it is, Mr. Temple. 05:59.340 --> 06:00.700 Was there anything else? 06:00.700 --> 06:01.700 Oh, yes. 06:01.700 --> 06:07.140 Those are fine dueling pistols, Mr. Payton. 06:07.140 --> 06:09.980 I have already admired Mr. Payton's fire on them. 06:09.980 --> 06:13.020 Would you believe how good Mr. Payton is with it, Colonel? 06:13.020 --> 06:18.020 He lies right here on his bed and fires away at a little old playing card stuck on the 06:18.020 --> 06:20.420 fence post out there in the back. 06:20.420 --> 06:22.620 Hits it every time. 06:22.620 --> 06:27.620 Some shooting, I declare, Mr. Payton practices all the time. 06:27.620 --> 06:29.020 Is that all, Mr. Temple? 06:29.020 --> 06:30.020 What? 06:30.020 --> 06:31.020 I ask if that was all. 06:31.020 --> 06:33.020 Is there something else you have to say? 06:33.020 --> 06:34.020 I... 06:34.020 --> 06:37.620 Well, it's my wife, Mr. Payton. 06:37.620 --> 06:39.660 I mean, Libby don't like it. 06:39.660 --> 06:42.460 She don't understand how it is with a man and a gun. 06:42.460 --> 06:44.060 Women are like that. 06:44.060 --> 06:47.940 I keep telling her these are hard times and we surely appreciate getting a man in here 06:47.940 --> 06:50.700 who can pay us a little rent, but then she just don't know... 06:50.700 --> 06:51.700 Then tell her. 06:51.700 --> 06:55.300 Tell her, Mr. Temple, I practice shooting and all kinds of light from all positions 06:55.300 --> 06:57.300 and I'll continue to do it. 06:57.300 --> 06:59.700 Good day, Mr. Temple. 06:59.700 --> 07:00.700 Yes. 07:00.700 --> 07:04.700 Good day to you both. 07:04.700 --> 07:05.700 Yeah. 07:05.700 --> 07:06.700 Jim. 07:06.700 --> 07:07.700 No thanks. 07:07.700 --> 07:08.700 Yeah. 07:08.700 --> 07:09.700 Thank you. 07:09.700 --> 07:14.700 Well, you haven't changed too much, Zachary. 07:14.700 --> 07:16.700 A little gray. 07:16.700 --> 07:19.700 It's been seven years now. 07:19.700 --> 07:22.700 Now, Zach, maybe you have changed. 07:22.700 --> 07:25.700 The man who was just here was afraid I'd be... 07:25.700 --> 07:27.700 Scared, shrinking little man. 07:27.700 --> 07:33.700 If I might comment, Zach, you didn't do anything to alleviate his fright. 07:33.700 --> 07:35.700 He uses his wife as an excuse. 07:35.700 --> 07:36.700 It's not his wife, it's him. 07:36.700 --> 07:37.700 He's frightened of my gun. 07:37.700 --> 07:39.700 He knows what I can do with it. 07:39.700 --> 07:40.700 But that means nothing to you. 07:40.700 --> 07:42.700 He has no bearing on your life. 07:42.700 --> 07:43.700 True. 07:43.700 --> 07:46.700 But it comes to him that a gun pointed at a card stuck on a fence 07:46.700 --> 07:51.700 can just as easily be pointed at a heart stuck in a man's chest. 07:51.700 --> 07:56.700 Would you mind putting those pistols back in the case? 07:56.700 --> 07:58.700 You afraid too, Jim. 07:58.700 --> 07:59.700 I'm not a Willis Temple. 07:59.700 --> 08:00.700 Don't treat me like that, Zachary. 08:00.700 --> 08:02.700 I'm your friend. 08:02.700 --> 08:05.700 I came here to meet you because you asked me. 08:05.700 --> 08:10.700 Oh. 08:10.700 --> 08:11.700 There. 08:11.700 --> 08:14.700 Better. 08:14.700 --> 08:16.700 Why am I here, Zachary? 08:16.700 --> 08:18.700 What do you want of me? 08:18.700 --> 08:20.700 A week ago I received a letter from Norfolk. 08:20.700 --> 08:25.700 It mentioned that an old acquaintance of mine is living here. 08:25.700 --> 08:27.700 A man who was in office in my regiment. 08:27.700 --> 08:30.700 His name is Benjamin Rawls. 08:30.700 --> 08:31.700 Do you know him, Jim? 08:31.700 --> 08:33.700 Slightly. 08:33.700 --> 08:35.700 I've seen him around town and spoken to him once or twice. 08:35.700 --> 08:38.700 How does he look these days? 08:38.700 --> 08:40.700 Not knowing how he looked when you knew him, 08:40.700 --> 08:41.700 I'd say he looks mighty fine, Zach. 08:41.700 --> 08:43.700 He's in good health, I think. 08:43.700 --> 08:45.700 And he's done better than most of us. 08:45.700 --> 08:47.700 I understand his family lost all they had at Savannah, 08:47.700 --> 08:51.700 but there's an English branch that died off and filled in the inheritance. 08:51.700 --> 08:53.700 He's very well off. 08:53.700 --> 08:58.700 Marsha Pemberton's considered to be a very, very lucky young lady in these parts. 08:58.700 --> 08:59.700 Marsha Pemberton? 08:59.700 --> 09:02.700 The girl he married last week. 09:02.700 --> 09:04.700 Does he love her? 09:04.700 --> 09:05.700 What? 09:05.700 --> 09:07.700 Do you know if he loves this girl he married? 09:07.700 --> 09:10.700 Well, it's apparent to everybody in town that he loves her very much. 09:10.700 --> 09:13.700 When he was courting her, folks in town saw him together. 09:13.700 --> 09:14.700 Often I saw him. 09:14.700 --> 09:17.700 I would say Ben Rawls is in love. 09:17.700 --> 09:21.700 The way a man loves only once in his life. 09:21.700 --> 09:24.700 Is that what you want to know? 09:24.700 --> 09:26.700 Yes. 09:26.700 --> 09:27.700 Why? 09:27.700 --> 09:29.700 It's important for me to know. 09:29.700 --> 09:32.700 Because I'm your friend, Zachary, I'm talking to you about Ben Rawls, 09:32.700 --> 09:33.700 but I'm uncomfortable. 09:33.700 --> 09:35.700 I don't like talking about a man. 09:35.700 --> 09:38.700 You see over there, that large white house on the hill? 09:38.700 --> 09:39.700 Yes, I see it. 09:39.700 --> 09:40.700 That's where Ben lives. 09:40.700 --> 09:42.700 He's right there, Zachary. 09:42.700 --> 09:43.700 You can talk to him instead of me. 09:43.700 --> 09:46.700 I won't answer any more questions, Zachary. 09:49.700 --> 09:55.700 Zachary, why do you want to know these things about Ben Rawls? 09:55.700 --> 10:01.700 I want to satisfy myself that he's at last found something to live for. 10:01.700 --> 10:07.700 I want to know if he can still laugh down a gun barrel. 10:07.700 --> 10:09.700 I heard about that, dude. 10:09.700 --> 10:12.700 I won't let you do this thing, Zachary. 10:12.700 --> 10:15.700 There's been enough killing. 10:19.700 --> 10:20.700 Jim! 10:20.700 --> 10:22.700 Yes? 10:22.700 --> 10:24.700 Jim. 10:24.700 --> 10:28.700 I'd hate to kill you, too. 10:42.700 --> 10:44.700 You are listening to The Shot, 10:44.700 --> 10:54.700 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:58.700 --> 11:01.700 To keep the United States Air Force at full strength around the clock, 11:01.700 --> 11:06.700 around the year, America's youth must respond in greater numbers than ever. 11:06.700 --> 11:10.700 An Air Force career offers travel, education, adventure, and high pay. 11:10.700 --> 11:16.700 More than that, it offers a personal opportunity to help America lead the world in the cause of freedom. 11:16.700 --> 11:19.700 For further information, see your local recruiter. 11:19.700 --> 11:24.700 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, William Conrad, 11:24.700 --> 11:27.700 starring in tonight's production of The Shot, 11:27.700 --> 11:41.700 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:57.700 --> 11:59.700 Zachary. 11:59.700 --> 12:01.700 Jim Stockwell? 12:01.700 --> 12:03.700 Yes. 12:05.700 --> 12:07.700 Who are your friends? 12:07.700 --> 12:10.700 This is Palk Gager and Quincy Talbott. 12:10.700 --> 12:12.700 We were in the Army together, Zach. 12:12.700 --> 12:13.700 How do, Miss Payton? 12:13.700 --> 12:17.700 Palk and Quincy were executive officers, forming the Third Cavalry. 12:17.700 --> 12:19.700 We served together at Apulia's. 12:19.700 --> 12:21.700 We were in the Army together, Zach. 12:21.700 --> 12:23.700 How do, Miss Payton? 12:23.700 --> 12:26.700 Palk and Quincy were executive officers, forming the Third Cavalry. 12:26.700 --> 12:27.700 We served together at Appomattox. 12:27.700 --> 12:29.700 What do you and your friends want, Jim? 12:29.700 --> 12:32.700 I want to talk to you about Ben Rose some more, Zach. 12:32.700 --> 12:34.700 I've told Palk and Quincy all you told me. 12:34.700 --> 12:37.700 They're close friends to me now, and I've asked them to assist me. 12:37.700 --> 12:39.700 That's right, Captain. 12:39.700 --> 12:41.700 Mr. Stockwell's told us everything. 12:41.700 --> 12:44.700 Zach, the war did many things to all of us. 12:44.700 --> 12:49.700 Everything we thought and lived for is gone now, but we are still human beings. 12:49.700 --> 12:52.700 You want to kill Ben Rose tonight. 12:52.700 --> 12:54.700 This is what the war has done to you, Zach. 12:54.700 --> 12:56.700 And this is what I want to talk about. 12:56.700 --> 13:00.700 Wanting to kill a man in cold blood, a man you haven't seen for seven years, 13:00.700 --> 13:02.700 I bet it doesn't make sense. 13:02.700 --> 13:06.700 I'm your friend, Zachary, and I want to help you. 13:07.700 --> 13:09.700 Go home, Jim. 13:09.700 --> 13:13.700 Palk, Quincy, this is none of your business. 13:13.700 --> 13:15.700 We can't do that, Zachary. 13:15.700 --> 13:18.700 We can't let you go in and shoot Ben Rose in cold blood. 13:18.700 --> 13:22.700 Let Saul go upstairs to your room and talk a bit, Captain. 13:22.700 --> 13:26.700 Quincy's got some fine whiskey that's coming from Ireland, haven't you, Quincy? 13:26.700 --> 13:29.700 I sure have, Captain. It's Jameson's. 13:29.700 --> 13:32.700 You're a man I'd be proud to share it with. 13:32.700 --> 13:37.700 Captain, Mr. Stockwell is your friend, and he's thinking of you. 13:37.700 --> 13:41.700 Is Ben Rose your friend, too, Jim? Are you trying to protect him? 13:41.700 --> 13:43.700 But I know of Ben Rose. I told you this afternoon. 13:43.700 --> 13:44.700 Get out of my way. 13:44.700 --> 13:48.700 You'll have to kill me first, Zachary. Kill these two boys who've never done you any harm. 13:48.700 --> 13:50.700 But I won't let you go over there. 13:50.700 --> 13:52.700 Come on, Quincy. 13:52.700 --> 13:55.700 I think they got fooled, Zachary. Stop. 13:56.700 --> 13:59.700 All right, Palk, it's the only way. 14:03.700 --> 14:06.700 All right, let me down there. 14:07.700 --> 14:09.700 Quincy, hand me that whiskey. 14:09.700 --> 14:12.700 Yes, sir. I'll get his head, Mr. Stockwell. 14:12.700 --> 14:19.700 Right here. Here. 14:20.700 --> 14:25.700 I'm sorry, Zachary. Sometimes we all go about things the wrong way. 14:25.700 --> 14:30.700 I'm noted for my poor judgment in many matters. 14:34.700 --> 14:37.700 Jim, ask him to wait over there. 14:37.700 --> 14:41.700 All right, Palk. Quincy, over there. 14:41.700 --> 14:43.700 Sure, it's all right, Mr. Stockwell. 14:43.700 --> 14:45.700 Captain Peyton is a man of honor. 14:45.700 --> 14:48.700 Come on, Quincy. Be right over by the tree, you said. 14:48.700 --> 14:55.700 Jim, Jim, I have to kill him. I have to before I can ever live again. 14:55.700 --> 15:00.700 I hate him, Jim. When you've lived with it, I hate as long as I've lived with it. 15:00.700 --> 15:01.700 There's nothing else you can do. 15:01.700 --> 15:05.700 Zach, Zach, it would solve nothing, killing Ben Rose. 15:05.700 --> 15:09.700 Why do you think I resigned my commission before the war was over? 15:09.700 --> 15:12.700 Why do you think I disappeared from the Confederacy? 15:12.700 --> 15:15.700 Why do you think I never returned to my home? 15:15.700 --> 15:17.700 I heard you had done all those things. 15:17.700 --> 15:20.700 I didn't ask any questions because you're my friend. 15:20.700 --> 15:25.700 Ben, Ben Rose, the cause of everything. 15:28.700 --> 15:35.700 One night, in front of the whole regiment, he slapped me. 15:35.700 --> 15:36.700 Over what? Why? 15:36.700 --> 15:41.700 Her girl, just a girl we both liked. I don't even remember her name. 15:41.700 --> 15:44.700 No, everybody had seen it come. 15:44.700 --> 15:53.700 Until Rose joined the regiment, I was the most popular officer with my fellow officers and the ladies. 15:53.700 --> 15:55.700 Zachary, that was then. 15:55.700 --> 15:59.700 And this is now. But my life stopped then, Jim. 15:59.700 --> 16:06.700 Jim, try to remember how it was then in the early stages when the North was dying and not the South. 16:06.700 --> 16:16.700 It was so fashionable to be young and reckless and brave and an officer in the Confederate Army. 16:16.700 --> 16:25.700 And then to be slapped by a man more brave, more reckless, more, more everything. 16:25.700 --> 16:27.700 It was too much, Jim. 16:27.700 --> 16:33.700 Those days are gone. Forget them. The whole way of life is different now. 16:33.700 --> 16:34.700 It's no different for him. 16:34.700 --> 16:35.700 Exactly. 16:35.700 --> 16:36.700 And it's no different for me, Jim. 16:36.700 --> 16:39.700 Can you kill a man for something that happened then? 16:39.700 --> 16:48.700 He shot at me once. Now I owe him a shot. You know that, Jim. 16:48.700 --> 16:58.700 Yes, exactly. You owe him a shot. Go ahead. 16:58.700 --> 17:02.700 You are letting him go, Mr. Stockwell? 17:02.700 --> 17:31.700 Yes. I can't stop him. It's between him and Ben Rose now. 17:31.700 --> 17:34.700 I understand you have some business with me, sir. 17:34.700 --> 17:40.700 I don't usually receive people who refuse to give their names to my servants. 17:40.700 --> 17:41.700 Hello, Rose. 17:41.700 --> 17:42.700 Jim. 17:42.700 --> 17:43.700 What? 17:43.700 --> 17:45.700 Don't you recognize me? 17:45.700 --> 17:48.700 Zachary Payton. What are you doing here? 17:48.700 --> 17:52.700 I owe you a shot, Rose. And I've come to pay off. 17:52.700 --> 17:57.700 I see. Are you ready? 17:57.700 --> 18:01.700 I'm ready. I told you I always would be. 18:01.700 --> 18:05.700 Yes, you did. And you asked me to remember it. 18:05.700 --> 18:10.700 You don't seem quite as certain as you were the last time we met. Is there something wrong? 18:10.700 --> 18:15.700 I... I believe we were at eight paces before. 18:15.700 --> 18:19.700 Yes. Do you mind if I count? 18:19.700 --> 18:20.700 I'll count. 18:20.700 --> 18:25.700 As you will, Rose. Back to back. 18:25.700 --> 18:37.700 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. 18:37.700 --> 18:42.700 Shoot, man. Shoot! Do it quickly. 18:42.700 --> 18:45.700 You seem in a hurry to die, Mr. Rose. 18:45.700 --> 18:50.700 It's Marshal, my wife. She'll be coming home any minute. 18:50.700 --> 18:57.700 Ah, well, in that case, we'd better get on with it, then. 18:57.700 --> 18:58.700 Shoot! 18:58.700 --> 19:04.700 You know, I apologize, Mr. Rose, that this pistol isn't loaded with cherry stones. 19:04.700 --> 19:10.700 You have no idea how often I've dreamed of cherry stone bullets since last we met. 19:10.700 --> 19:14.700 I think they would be somewhat lighter than lead. 19:14.700 --> 19:17.700 Shoot! 19:17.700 --> 19:24.700 Rose, this doesn't seem to me like a duel anymore. It's just plain murder. 19:24.700 --> 19:28.700 And if I'm anything, I will not be called a murderer. 19:28.700 --> 19:32.700 You must understand that I've had quite a long lecture on why I shouldn't be doing this. 19:32.700 --> 19:35.700 I don't like shooting an unarmed man. 19:35.700 --> 19:43.700 Well, there's another pistol in my case, all loaded. Take it, and then we can start over. 19:43.700 --> 19:46.700 You hesitate, Mr. Rose. 19:46.700 --> 19:52.700 I do not hesitate, sir. 19:52.700 --> 19:55.700 I'm ready now. 19:55.700 --> 20:00.700 Well, go ahead, Mr. Rose. Your shot. 20:00.700 --> 20:01.700 What? 20:01.700 --> 20:09.700 You may have the first shot. I'm ready. 20:09.700 --> 20:16.700 Well, sir, you have broken a candle holder and ruined a picture. 20:16.700 --> 20:21.700 Now I truly owe you a shot. 20:21.700 --> 20:26.700 Ben? Ben, dear, what is this? What's the matter? Oh, Ben, are you all right? 20:26.700 --> 20:33.700 Oh, I'm fine, Marsha, fine. But truly I am. Didn't you see we were just joking? 20:33.700 --> 20:34.700 Joking? 20:34.700 --> 20:41.700 Oh, don't be so frightened. Now, I'll tell you what. Find Abrams and ask him to bring up some nice wine. 20:41.700 --> 20:45.700 And then I'll introduce you to my old friend here. 20:45.700 --> 20:51.700 Tell me, sir, is my husband telling the truth? Ben, is it true you're just joking? 20:51.700 --> 20:59.700 He's always joking, Mrs. Rose. Once he slapped me in the face for a joke. 20:59.700 --> 21:04.700 Another time he put a bullet through my cap for a joke. 21:04.700 --> 21:12.700 Just now he fired a gun at me and missed. Another joke. 21:12.700 --> 21:18.700 Now I think I'll have my little joke and end this joking. 21:18.700 --> 21:21.700 Ben, this is the man Peyton you told me about. 21:21.700 --> 21:27.700 Leave the room, Marsha. This is between us. 21:27.700 --> 21:32.700 This man has a right to shoot at me. I wouldn't have any honor if I didn't allow. 21:32.700 --> 21:34.700 Oh, no. 21:34.700 --> 21:42.700 Shoot, Peyton. Shoot, man, and stop making her suffer for me. 21:42.700 --> 21:46.700 Will you fire or not? 21:46.700 --> 21:53.700 No. No, sir, I will not fire. 21:53.700 --> 21:59.700 I'm satisfied. I've seen you afraid. 21:59.700 --> 22:05.700 I forced you to fire at me. That's enough. 22:05.700 --> 22:13.700 You'll remember me all your life, Rose. I'll leave you to your conscience. 22:13.700 --> 22:36.700 Now, as for that shot, here it is. Goodbye, Mr. Rose. 22:36.700 --> 22:42.700 You back again? You did it. You took your shot. 22:42.700 --> 22:47.700 Yes, I put it in the picture right next to his shot. 22:47.700 --> 22:54.700 Zack, Zack, he's still alive. You could have killed him, but he's alive. 22:54.700 --> 23:23.700 He's fine, Jim, and still the bravest man I ever met. Let's go, Jim. 23:23.700 --> 23:30.700 Suspense, in which William Conrad starred as Peyton with John Danaer as Rose. 23:30.700 --> 23:36.700 Next week, the terrifying story of a young couple and a madwoman and what happened to them. 23:36.700 --> 23:46.700 We call it On a Country Road. That's next week on Suspense. 23:46.700 --> 23:52.700 Suspense is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald with music composed by Lucian Morawek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 23:52.700 --> 24:05.700 The shot by Alexander Pushkin was specially adapted for Suspense by E. Jack Newman, featured in the cast were Parley Bear, Edgar Barrier, Lynn Allen, Vic Perrin, Marvin Bryan, and Frank Gerstel. 24:05.700 --> 24:27.700 Friday nights, enjoy the Arthur Godfrey Digest on the CBS Radio Network.