1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:19,440 Tonight, the story of three women and their vigil of death. 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,680 We call it Waiting. 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:26,200 So now, starring Vivi Janis, Helen Cleave and Charlotte Lawrence, here is tonight's 5 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:46,080 Suspense play, Waiting. 6 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,240 You want me to put butter on them, Eileen? 7 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,240 I don't care. 8 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:50,840 I told you I don't care. 9 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,520 I'm not hungry. 10 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:53,720 I couldn't eat, not now. 11 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:54,720 I don't see how you can. 12 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:55,720 You've got to. 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,760 It's no good going on like this. 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,040 Is Harriet coming? 15 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,040 I think so. 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,040 She said she would. 17 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,200 I hope she gets here soon. 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,640 Everything will get cold. 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:07,640 Stop it. 20 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:08,640 Why don't you stop it? 21 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,160 How can you talk as if nothing's happening? 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,160 Nothing's going to happen. 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,360 Oh dear. 24 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:30,360 Oh, come in, Harriet. 25 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,280 I was just wondering if you were going to be late. 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:33,280 Does it make any difference? 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,280 Oh, now, you mustn't talk like that. 28 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,880 Life goes on. 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,180 I know it's hard to see that now, but you will. 30 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:42,760 Time is kind to us. 31 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,860 Mr. Mailer is still trying to see the governor. 32 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:46,440 Let me take your coat, dear. 33 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,480 He's going to call here in a little while. 34 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,840 We mustn't give up hope. 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,800 Mrs. Martinson, could I have a drink? 36 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,240 Well, I'm not sure. 37 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,080 I don't really know if there is anything, you know, since I... 38 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,080 I'm sorry. 39 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:00,080 It doesn't matter. 40 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,080 Where's Eileen? 41 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,080 Lying down. 42 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,720 I've got some nice dinner ready. 43 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,480 Harriet, why don't you see if you can get Eileen to have some? 44 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,760 It'll give her strength, poor dear. 45 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,760 All right. 46 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:17,760 I'll be right back. 47 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,760 Hello. 48 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Harriet. 49 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,520 Harriet, I can't stand it. 50 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:29,520 I can't. 51 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:30,520 I know. 52 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:31,520 I know. 53 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,520 No, you don't. 54 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:33,520 You're only his sister. 55 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:34,520 I love him. 56 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:35,520 I'm his wife. 57 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:36,520 I'm his sister, and I love him. 58 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:37,520 I know. 59 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,520 Can't they do anything? 60 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:39,520 They can't. 61 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,520 They can't. 62 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:41,520 They can't. 63 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:42,520 They can't. 64 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:43,520 They can't. 65 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:44,520 They can't. 66 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,520 Can't they do anything? 67 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:46,520 Did you see Mr. Mailer? 68 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:47,520 He's trying. 69 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:48,520 He's trying to see the governor. 70 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:49,520 But there's no time. 71 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:50,520 There's no time. 72 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:51,960 There's a witness flying in from Mexico tonight. 73 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,680 He says he saw a woman coming out of the building that night about the time that she was supposed 74 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,100 to have been killed. 75 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:01,240 Mr. Mailer thinks he might be able to get a stay of execution on the strength of it. 76 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,640 It won't make any difference. 77 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:04,440 It'll be like all the others. 78 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,340 There was no proof. 79 00:03:06,340 --> 00:03:10,400 Just Norman and that terrible diary. 80 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Dean, do you honestly think he didn't kill her? 81 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,800 Of course he didn't. 82 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,960 I know he couldn't have done it. 83 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,840 I couldn't bear thinking anything else. 84 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,680 But you sometimes do think something else. 85 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:23,680 No. 86 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,060 No, I love him. 87 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:27,060 He wrote me a letter. 88 00:03:27,060 --> 00:03:28,060 I got it this morning. 89 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:30,280 I want to read it to you. 90 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,280 What? 91 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,280 What did he say? 92 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:39,520 Dear little egg, just a note. 93 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,360 I feel I can talk to you better than I can to Eileen. 94 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,760 I know how you've stood by these past weeks. 95 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,500 It's been the thing that's kept me going. 96 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:52,920 I know that Eileen doesn't think I'm innocent. 97 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,800 I was a fool to have kept the diary. 98 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,000 I was a fool to have gotten involved with Sheila, but self-recrimination is no help 99 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,320 now. 100 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,840 It must have been a terrible shock to Eileen, but you weren't altogether blind when it came 101 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,760 to seeing the truth of our marriage. 102 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,320 I suppose I turned to that poor girl trying to find again what was finished between Eileen 103 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,520 and myself. 104 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:21,440 It's too late now, but I wish that things might have been different. 105 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,480 Goodbye little egg. 106 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,200 My last brotherly advice. 107 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,920 Find a good man, get married, have lots of nice kids, and be happy. 108 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,760 You're the best of sisters. 109 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:41,760 All my love, Norman. 110 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,040 He hasn't written to me. 111 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,520 Hasn't he? 112 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,040 He believes that I... 113 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,040 I think he did it. 114 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:52,040 Don't you? 115 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,320 I love him. 116 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:54,920 But you think he did kill her. 117 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,000 I love him. 118 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,760 It's not too late to send a message. 119 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 Let him know. 120 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,760 Tell him you know he's not guilty. 121 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,160 You could do that. 122 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:02,160 He was there. 123 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:03,280 He was with her that night. 124 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:06,320 He admitted that, but there was somebody else after he left. 125 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,240 You're so sure. 126 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:09,880 You sit there cold, not caring. 127 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:10,880 You're like those lawyers. 128 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,120 I'm waiting for him to die. 129 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,280 I love him and he's going to die. 130 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,480 You're waiting for an end to something and you're not feeling anything. 131 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:17,480 Not really. 132 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,320 He's your brother and so he's got to be innocent. 133 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:20,320 Save the name of Landon. 134 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,320 That's all it means to you. 135 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:22,320 That's not true. 136 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,360 Yes it is. 137 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,860 You've always laughed at us, mother and me. 138 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:29,720 You and Norman, always laughing. 139 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,640 Little secrets. 140 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:37,040 I love him and he always held something away from me that he gave you. 141 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,880 I hated him for that. 142 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,680 Then you can't be very unhappy that he's going to die tonight. 143 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,960 Don't you dare say that. 144 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,920 Why shouldn't I hate as well? 145 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,560 He's never let me in. 146 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,840 Never let me belong. 147 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,640 Even waiting now. 148 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:00,500 Waiting for him to go to the check. 149 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:01,520 You keep it to yourselves. 150 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,520 I can't even share that. 151 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:03,520 I'm sorry. 152 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,400 I suppose we just don't feel things the same way. 153 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,400 Maybe I can't cry anymore. 154 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:11,400 What's the time? 155 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,400 Seven. 156 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:13,400 Seven. 157 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,400 Four hours. 158 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:15,400 Eileen, Harriet, come along. 159 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:16,400 Dinner's getting cold. 160 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:17,400 I'm not hungry, Mrs. Martinson. 161 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,400 I told you before, mother. 162 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:31,220 It's nice, nice that you two have each other for comfort. 163 00:06:31,220 --> 00:06:35,040 We must all be strong, pray together and hope together. 164 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,400 I'd like to get some coffee. 165 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:39,400 You stay here with Eileen. 166 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,400 I'll get it. 167 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,640 Mother. 168 00:06:47,640 --> 00:07:00,520 Oh, yes dear, I'm sorry. 169 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,480 What's the time? 170 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:03,480 Nearly eight. 171 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:04,480 I'll get it. 172 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,480 Must be Mr. Mailer. 173 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:08,480 Hello? 174 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,480 Yes, Mr. Mailer. 175 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:12,480 Yes. 176 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:13,480 Oh. 177 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,480 Yes, all right. 178 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,480 Thank you. 179 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,480 Yes, I will. 180 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:17,480 The governor has refused to see him. 181 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,480 I'm sorry. 182 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,480 I'm sorry. 183 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:20,480 I'm sorry. 184 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:21,480 I'm sorry. 185 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:22,480 I'm sorry. 186 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,480 I'm sorry. 187 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,480 I'm sorry. 188 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:25,480 I'm sorry. 189 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:26,480 I'm sorry. 190 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,480 I'm sorry. 191 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:28,480 I'm sorry. 192 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,480 I'm sorry. 193 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,480 I'm sorry. 194 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:31,480 I'm sorry. 195 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,760 He's going to drive to the mansion and try again. 196 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:33,760 He's leaving. 197 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:34,760 God's will. 198 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:35,760 God's will. 199 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,560 He's leaving as soon as the witness arrives. 200 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,560 A witness? 201 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:39,560 Who? 202 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,960 A man says he saw someone come out of the apartment that night. 203 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,600 He says it was a woman. 204 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:44,600 She was running. 205 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:45,600 He saw the woman? 206 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,520 It was dark, but he thinks he could identify her. 207 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:48,520 He's not sure. 208 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,200 Mr. Mailer brought in a half a dozen witnesses who swore they saw somebody near the apartment. 209 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:53,520 It didn't help. 210 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,560 The jury didn't believe it. 211 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,560 I think it's unfair. 212 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,560 Please, please, don't talk about it. 213 00:07:58,560 --> 00:07:59,560 Why not? 214 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,240 Am I the only one? 215 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,840 Am I the only one who thinks Norman didn't kill her? 216 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:04,840 Am I? 217 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:10,600 Blind knot yourself with love to the faults which lie within man. 218 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,960 I've tried not to interfere. 219 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,920 I've seen what Norman's done to my daughter during the past two years and I've said nothing. 220 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,960 It's not for me to judge his acts. 221 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,560 That has been done. 222 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,720 And a far higher judge will be waiting. 223 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:24,720 I won't listen to you. 224 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:25,720 I won't. 225 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,200 I can't afford the loyalty that age has already squandered. 226 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:31,200 Must you quote? 227 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,160 Are you afraid of saying something original, something that'll show what you really are? 228 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:36,160 That's enough. 229 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,160 He's my husband. 230 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,800 I don't care whether he killed that woman or not. 231 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,360 I want him to live. 232 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,360 I love him. 233 00:08:42,360 --> 00:09:06,280 He can't die. 234 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:21,000 That was the second movement of the Symphony No. 6 in F major by Beethoven, played by the 235 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,280 Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Brno Walter. 236 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,680 Brought to you on Evening Music Program. 237 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:30,840 The time is now nine o'clock. 238 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,440 Here's a five minute summary of the news. 239 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,120 Tonight, prison officials said tonight that nothing new was developed in the bid for stay 240 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,400 of execution by Norman Landon, convicted slayer of Sheila Warner. 241 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:46,840 Landon is scheduled to die at 11 o'clock tonight, approximately two hours from now. 242 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,000 The governor turned down lawyers' latest plea. 243 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,600 According to William Mailer, attorney for the condemned man, a new witness has been 244 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,320 found who can shed further light on the case. 245 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:04,840 However, the governor does not feel the evidence is sufficient to... 246 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,800 I don't know where it went wrong with us. 247 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:07,880 You tried, Eileen. 248 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,240 Your mother knows you tried. 249 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,800 Maybe I didn't understand. 250 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,440 Maybe I was wrong, like he said in the letter. 251 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,200 But what did I do? 252 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,600 I wanted to make him happy. 253 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,840 He'd never let me be close to him. 254 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,480 I could never share anything. 255 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,180 It's true, true as I sit here. 256 00:10:23,180 --> 00:10:24,180 You did your best. 257 00:10:24,180 --> 00:10:26,560 You have nothing to be ashamed of. 258 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:28,560 Hasn't she? 259 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:29,560 Haven't you, Eileen? 260 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:30,560 No. 261 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:31,560 No, nothing. 262 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,560 He's ruined all our lives, what he did. 263 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:38,560 But it's not right. 264 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:39,560 I shouldn't care. 265 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:42,840 Why do I have to feel the way I do about him? 266 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:43,840 He didn't love me. 267 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:44,840 It was that other woman. 268 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:46,960 If he loved her so much, why did he kill her? 269 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,520 Because it was dirty, nasty. 270 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:50,800 Because of the liquor and immorality. 271 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,200 It always ends that way. 272 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,680 How do you know about morality? 273 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:56,880 Everything's dirty and nasty to you. 274 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:58,880 You tried to make Eileen feel that way, too. 275 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,120 You think I don't know what happened to their marriage. 276 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,120 I do. 277 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,120 Get out. 278 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:04,120 Get out of this house. 279 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:05,440 You've shown your true color. 280 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:06,440 You're no better than he was. 281 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,440 Get out. 282 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,440 I'll go. 283 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,440 I wouldn't... 284 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,440 Well? 285 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:11,440 Hello? 286 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:22,440 Yes? 287 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,920 Yes, I'll wait. 288 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:27,920 Who is it? 289 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:28,920 Mr. Mailer. 290 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:29,920 He's coming to the phone. 291 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:30,920 Let me talk to him. 292 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:31,920 No, I want to. 293 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,660 Hello, Mr. Mailer? 294 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:35,660 This is Mrs. Landon. 295 00:11:35,660 --> 00:11:36,660 Yes. 296 00:11:36,660 --> 00:11:37,660 Oh. 297 00:11:37,660 --> 00:11:42,200 I see. 298 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:50,200 Yes, thank you. 299 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,800 Thank you very much. 300 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:53,800 What did he say? 301 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:54,800 What? 302 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,940 Mr. Mailer's not going to see the governor. 303 00:11:57,940 --> 00:12:00,960 He doesn't have to. 304 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:18,840 The Americans just confessed that he killed the woman. 305 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:26,240 You are listening to Waiting, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 306 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:37,840 The Suspense. 307 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,640 Isn't it wonderful the way some people always seem to have the money for extras, car, vacation, 308 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,920 weekends away, fur coats, higher education, folks who seem to be in the same circumstances 309 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:51,460 as yourselves. 310 00:12:51,460 --> 00:12:56,440 It may be wonderful, but it's nothing you can't have through planned automatic savings, 311 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,560 the United States Savings Bond way. 312 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,640 Through the payroll savings plan or the bond a month plan at your bank, buy United States 313 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,040 savings bonds regularly. 314 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:13,920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Vivi Janis, Helen Klebe, and Charlotte Lawrence, 315 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:35,120 starring in tonight's production of Waiting, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 316 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,120 I'll be going. 317 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,120 No, I don't want you to go. 318 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,440 You let her be in this house after the way she's talked to your mother. 319 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,720 Oh, none of us know what we're saying. 320 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:42,720 It doesn't matter anyway. 321 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,120 Well, I would have thought an apology were in order. 322 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,840 I wish I had a drink. 323 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Something in the cabinet. 324 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,640 I'll get you one, Harriet. 325 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:53,640 I want one too. 326 00:13:53,640 --> 00:14:00,240 Make it strong. 327 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,760 So he did it after all. 328 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:03,760 What did you say? 329 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:04,760 Nothing. 330 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,760 Yes, you did. 331 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,880 You said he did it, didn't you? 332 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,440 He confessed. 333 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,200 For his soul's sake, he confessed. 334 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,200 I don't believe it. 335 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:13,200 I don't want to believe it. 336 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,200 He didn't kill her. 337 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,960 He was always drinking. 338 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,200 He taught Eileen to drink and no good comes of it. 339 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,800 It's a false strength she's taking for herself. 340 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,800 Where does your strength come from? 341 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,600 A knowledge of right and wrong. 342 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,920 You laugh at that, waiting till you're my age. 343 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,040 I think I'll never know your kind of right and wrong. 344 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:33,920 You just wait. 345 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,600 I pray, go down on my knees, that there were no children to see this night. 346 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,800 Eileen, you all right? 347 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:42,800 Eileen. 348 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,080 I dropped it. 349 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,640 No, don't pick up the pieces like that. 350 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:49,640 You'll cut yourself. 351 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,640 I'll do it. 352 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,640 I'm afraid. 353 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,640 I'm afraid. 354 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,480 I'm afraid. 355 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:03,480 What's the time? 356 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Nearly 10. 357 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,120 It's the waiting that's the worst. 358 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,840 It'd be better if it were finished. 359 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,440 You can't wait till he's dead. 360 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:13,920 Is that what you mean? 361 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,920 Is that why you're afraid? 362 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,040 Shut up! 363 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,640 Did that make you feel better? 364 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:21,640 I'm sorry. 365 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:22,640 I'm sorry. 366 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,400 You have to take it out on somebody. 367 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:25,960 It's easier then, isn't it? 368 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,720 It always was. 369 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,640 If you can get angry enough, you don't have to think about things. 370 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,860 Like now, that's why you slapped me. 371 00:15:32,860 --> 00:15:35,200 You want him to be guilty. 372 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,160 It's better for you now he's confessed, isn't it? 373 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:38,160 He did kill her. 374 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:39,160 He did. 375 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:40,160 No. 376 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,680 If he confessed to make things easier for you and for me, then maybe we wouldn't have 377 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,560 to spend the rest of our lives wondering. 378 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,400 Not that you're wondering. 379 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,360 You know, don't you? 380 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,360 What do you mean? 381 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,040 You know what I mean. 382 00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,040 Go on inside. 383 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:00,040 I'll make the drinks. 384 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:25,520 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. 385 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,120 But it shall not come nigh thee. 386 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,760 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. 387 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,200 They'll find out who really did it. 388 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,480 No matter what happens to Norman, they'll find out who did it. 389 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:40,680 They already know. 390 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,280 Do they? 391 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,680 In half an hour, a man's going to be murdered. 392 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,520 An eye for an eye. 393 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,160 At 11 o'clock, we just sit here, and it'll be like New Year's Eve. 394 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,680 We ought to have the radio on so we know the exact time. 395 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:59,440 But it takes a little while for him to be pronounced dead, completely dead. 396 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:00,440 What is it? 397 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,440 A minute? 398 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:02,440 A minute and a half? 399 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,640 Do we drink a toast at 11 or one minute past? 400 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:05,640 You should be put away. 401 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:06,640 Talk like that. 402 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:07,640 You're out of your mind. 403 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,920 Somebody else will be sitting, waiting. 404 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:10,920 There isn't anybody else. 405 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,480 Why don't you be quiet? 406 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:13,480 He did it. 407 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,080 I wanted to believe he didn't, but I know he said he did. 408 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:17,080 I'll go. 409 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:22,080 Telegram from Mrs. Norman Landon. 410 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,080 Thank you. 411 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:42,760 It's for you, Ani. 412 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,760 You did this. 413 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:44,760 What is it, dear? 414 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:45,760 Who is it from? 415 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,760 She did it. 416 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:48,760 Congratulations. 417 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,800 That's all it says. 418 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:52,800 It's from you, isn't it? 419 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:53,800 Don't be stupid. 420 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:54,800 I didn't say that. 421 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:55,800 I didn't send it. 422 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:56,800 Who did? 423 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:57,800 You're a wicked girl if you sent that. 424 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:58,800 A horrible wicked girl. 425 00:17:58,800 --> 00:17:59,800 Mother was right. 426 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:00,800 You shouldn't be here. 427 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:01,800 I want you to go. 428 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:02,800 No, I'm staying. 429 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:03,800 I'm going to wait until 11. 430 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:04,800 You're getting out. 431 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:05,800 I've told you I'm not leaving. 432 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:06,800 Call the police, Eileen. 433 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:07,800 Call the police. 434 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:08,800 They'll take care of her. 435 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:09,800 What are you smiling at? 436 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:10,800 What? 437 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,800 Don't take any notice of her. 438 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:12,800 Why are you smiling like that? 439 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:13,800 I just think it's funny. 440 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:14,800 Calling the police to put me out. 441 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:15,800 She's gone crazy. 442 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:16,800 Stay away from her, Eileen. 443 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,800 Why are you being like this, Harriet? 444 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:19,800 It's not my fault. 445 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,800 I can't help it. 446 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,800 I want to hear you say you believe he's innocent. 447 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:24,800 I'm waiting for that. 448 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:25,800 Operator, get me the police. 449 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,800 Harriet, will you go now? 450 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:29,800 No. 451 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:30,800 Mother, hang up. 452 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:31,800 How do you know such thing? 453 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,800 I said hang up. 454 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,800 You hurt my hand. 455 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,800 I'm sorry. 456 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,800 It's bad enough as it is. 457 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,800 We don't need any more business with the police. 458 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,800 You hurt me. 459 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,800 I'm going to my room. 460 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:51,800 When you've thought it over, you may come and apologize. 461 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,800 She's old. 462 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,800 Things aren't the same to her anymore. 463 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,800 Were they ever? 464 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,800 You think I'm to blame for everything, don't you? 465 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,800 Most of it, yes. 466 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,800 Do you know what it's like living with a man you love? 467 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:13,800 Love so much it makes you weak and nothing. 468 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,800 Realize that when you say things you don't mean them. 469 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,800 But you want to hurt. 470 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,800 Do anything to get him to notice. 471 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,800 Make him angry, anything. 472 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:32,800 But make him feel something. 473 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,800 I never could. 474 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:42,800 You think I don't know why he started going with that woman? 475 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,800 I understand. 476 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,800 I don't want to, but I do. 477 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,800 It's the lack in me. 478 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,800 Just the way he said in the diary. 479 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,800 It's ten to eleven. 480 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,800 I hated her so much. 481 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,800 I thought of killing him, but he wouldn't have cared. 482 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,800 You'll be even with them both now. 483 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,800 You can't understand how I love him. 484 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,800 There'll never be anybody else. 485 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,800 There's somebody else, all right. 486 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:12,800 No! 487 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,800 We're a lot alike. 488 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,800 The whole others have over us. 489 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,800 Norman and I, you and your mother. 490 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,800 It's not good to be that close, not for anybody. 491 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,800 Norman and I had each other. 492 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Maybe if it hadn't been for you, Mother, we might have... 493 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:32,800 You didn't? 494 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,800 You had a chance and you didn't. 495 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,800 I thought you'd tell the truth when you got the telegram. 496 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,800 You said it. 497 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,800 It was you. 498 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,800 I hoped it would make you tell the truth. 499 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Charlene, Harriet, it's nearly eleven. 500 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,800 We must all pray together. 501 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,800 You pray, Mrs. Martinson. 502 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,800 I'll watch you. 503 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,800 Hello? 504 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,800 Yes, Mr. Mailer. 505 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,800 Oh, yes, I will. 506 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,800 Thank you. 507 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,800 The witness arrived and identified the woman from the picture. 508 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,800 Identified? 509 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,800 The governor granted a stay of execution five minutes ago. 510 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,800 He won't come back to me. 511 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Would have been better if he died. 512 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,800 Now I'll have no one. 513 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,800 You knew, didn't you, Eileen? 514 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,800 Yes. 515 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,800 I didn't think anyone saw me come out. 516 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800 I followed him, Eileen. I did it for you. 517 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,800 I had to. It was so wicked. 518 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,800 Right after he left her, I went in. 519 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,800 I tried to talk to her. 520 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,800 I did it for you, dear. 521 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,800 They won't electrocute me, will they? 522 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:07,800 I know it's against the commandment to kill, but I had to. 523 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:33,800 I think I'll be able to stand everything but the waiting. 524 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,800 Suspense, in which Vivi Janis, Helen Klebe and Charlotte Lawrence 525 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,800 were starred in Waiting. 526 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,800 Next week, the story of a little girl and the terror in a vacant lot. 527 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,800 It's called The Screaming Woman and is written by a master of fear and suspense, 528 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,800 Mr. Ray Bradbury. 529 00:22:52,800 --> 00:23:04,800 That's next week on Suspense. 530 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,800 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's play. 531 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,800 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 532 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:20,800 Featured in the cast were Tom Hanley and Larry Thorne. 533 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Crime Photographer clicks against criminals Fridays on the CBS Radio Network.