WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.160 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:17.160 --> 00:20.780 Tonight the story of a little girl and the terror in a vacant lot. 00:20.780 --> 00:23.300 We call it The Screaming Woman. 00:23.300 --> 00:34.280 So now, starring Sherry Jackson, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Screaming Woman. 00:34.280 --> 00:37.320 I'm Margaret Leary and I've got to tell you how it happened. 00:37.320 --> 00:42.120 It was Thanksgiving Day and it was nice and sunshiny, almost like summer except cooler. 00:42.120 --> 00:45.640 Mama was cooking the turkey and I was watching and Mama said to me, 00:45.640 --> 00:47.620 Oh good heavens, I forgot. 00:47.620 --> 00:50.040 Your Aunt Betty's made some cranberry relish for us. 00:50.040 --> 00:52.140 Run over and get it Margaret so our feelings aren't hurt. 00:52.140 --> 01:02.920 And hurry dear, this turkey's done to a turn. 01:02.920 --> 01:06.520 So I ran to Aunt Betty's and on the way back I took a shortcut through Mr. Kelly's Lough. 01:06.520 --> 01:11.360 It's a swell place to play Indians and cowboys or explore or hunting for treasure 01:11.360 --> 01:14.120 because trucks dump all kinds of stuff there. 01:14.120 --> 01:18.300 Loads of dirt and junk and even big things like old cars and big pipes and chunks of 01:18.300 --> 01:19.300 concrete. 01:19.300 --> 01:23.200 Well this day, coming back from Aunt Betty's, I saw that a lot of new junk and dirt had 01:23.200 --> 01:24.720 been dumped there since Saturday. 01:24.720 --> 01:29.680 They even covered up a swell big concrete pipe that us kids called our fort. 01:29.680 --> 01:30.680 Covered it clear up. 01:30.680 --> 01:38.720 Well I was looking around to see where it used to be when all of a sudden, 01:38.720 --> 01:43.080 The sound was coming up out of the ground. 01:43.080 --> 01:51.240 A woman was buried under the junk and dirt and glass and she was screaming all wild and 01:51.240 --> 01:53.320 horrible for someone to dig her out. 01:53.320 --> 01:54.640 I started to run. 01:54.640 --> 01:57.080 I fell down and got up and ran some more. 01:57.080 --> 02:00.320 It was an awful, awful long way to our house that day. 02:00.320 --> 02:01.320 Mama, Mama! 02:01.320 --> 02:02.320 Margaret! 02:02.320 --> 02:03.320 Mama, Mama! 02:03.320 --> 02:08.600 Margaret, haven't I told you not to slam the door? 02:08.600 --> 02:09.600 Oh, is that the relish? 02:09.600 --> 02:12.200 Listen, Mama, there's a screaming woman in the lot. 02:12.200 --> 02:13.200 Wash your hands, Margaret. 02:13.200 --> 02:16.200 She was screaming and screaming and screaming. 02:16.200 --> 02:18.960 Mama, Mama, listen to me. 02:18.960 --> 02:20.480 We've got to dig her out. 02:20.480 --> 02:22.360 She's buried under tons and tons of dirt. 02:22.360 --> 02:24.360 Well I'm sure she can wait till after dinner. 02:24.360 --> 02:27.840 Oh, honestly, next year I swear I'm going to buy a bigger platter. 02:27.840 --> 02:29.320 Mama, don't you believe me? 02:29.320 --> 02:30.320 You've got to believe me. 02:30.320 --> 02:32.920 Oh look, honey, I've got a million things to do. 02:32.920 --> 02:34.520 Oh, good gosh, look at you. 02:34.520 --> 02:36.080 How'd you get your knees so dirty? 02:36.080 --> 02:37.640 Well, running back from the lot I... 02:37.640 --> 02:38.640 Oh, never mind. 02:38.640 --> 02:40.480 Scoot and tell your dad we're about to eat. 02:40.480 --> 02:42.480 He's in the front room reading his paper. 02:42.480 --> 02:43.480 Dad! 02:43.480 --> 02:46.840 Oh, Dad, I've got to tell you something. 02:46.840 --> 02:47.840 Getting hungry, baby? 02:47.840 --> 02:49.840 Dad, there's a screaming woman in the lot. 02:49.840 --> 02:52.160 I never knew a woman who didn't. 02:52.160 --> 02:54.600 We've got to get picks and shovels and dig her up. 02:54.600 --> 02:55.600 Dad! 02:55.600 --> 02:59.000 Oh, I don't feel much like an archaeologist today, Margaret. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.400 Can't think of anything but food. 03:01.400 --> 03:03.600 Let's have an expedition next Sunday and dig her up. 03:03.600 --> 03:04.600 We can't wait that long. 03:04.600 --> 03:08.240 Dad, you'll die if we don't do it now. 03:08.240 --> 03:09.240 Calm down now. 03:09.240 --> 03:10.240 Dad, please! 03:10.240 --> 03:14.400 Listen, dear, after our Thanksgiving dinner, I'll come out and listen to your screaming 03:14.400 --> 03:15.400 woman. 03:15.400 --> 03:16.400 How's that? 03:16.400 --> 03:17.400 No, now, Dad. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 Maybe she'll die if you don't come out now. 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 You've got to come now. 03:19.400 --> 03:20.400 Margaret. 03:20.400 --> 03:21.400 If you believe me, you wouldn't wait. 03:21.400 --> 03:22.400 Margaret, listen... 03:22.400 --> 03:23.400 You never believe me. 03:23.400 --> 03:24.400 Mama doesn't believe me. 03:24.400 --> 03:25.400 Nobody believes me. 03:25.400 --> 03:29.200 Margaret, quiet down right this minute or I not only won't go with you, but you'll go 03:29.200 --> 03:30.520 to your room and stay. 03:30.520 --> 03:32.600 And without your Thanksgiving dinner, now, is that clear? 03:32.600 --> 03:34.240 Yes, sir. 03:34.240 --> 03:35.240 It's clear. 03:35.240 --> 03:44.280 Margaret, you heard Mother. 03:44.280 --> 03:45.280 Don't gobble. 03:45.280 --> 03:47.520 But Dad, we've got to hurry. 03:47.520 --> 03:51.920 My dear young lady, this is Thanksgiving dinner, an occasion when we do not hurry. 03:51.920 --> 03:53.640 Oh, please, please, Dad. 03:53.640 --> 03:59.000 Listen, if you pester me any more, if you mention her again, this screaming wutzus, 03:59.000 --> 04:01.440 I won't go out with you to hear her recital at all. 04:01.440 --> 04:02.440 Now, is that understood? 04:02.440 --> 04:03.440 Yes, sir. 04:03.440 --> 04:04.440 It's understood. 04:04.440 --> 04:10.800 Well, now that I can be thankful for a full stomach, I guess we should consider what other 04:10.800 --> 04:12.600 things we have to be thankful for. 04:12.600 --> 04:14.240 Well, we're all healthy. 04:14.240 --> 04:18.080 And I'm thankful for my big daughter, right, baby? 04:18.080 --> 04:19.080 Yes, Dad. 04:19.080 --> 04:23.200 And for my loving wife, who is still the most romantic woman I know. 04:23.200 --> 04:24.200 Oh, silly. 04:24.200 --> 04:27.440 I'm thankful I didn't marry somebody else. 04:27.440 --> 04:28.840 You nearly married Dora Lampelle. 04:28.840 --> 04:30.240 You even gave her a ring. 04:30.240 --> 04:32.000 Oh, that never meant a thing. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.840 No, you've only had one serious competitor since we were all kids. 04:35.840 --> 04:36.840 Oh, who? 04:36.840 --> 04:37.840 Helen Nesbitt. 04:37.840 --> 04:38.840 Oh. 04:38.840 --> 04:40.480 Yeah, Helen was my first love. 04:40.480 --> 04:44.640 When she was about as old as Margaret, I gave her a present one Christmas and she gave me 04:44.640 --> 04:45.640 one. 04:45.640 --> 04:46.640 I still have it. 04:46.640 --> 04:47.640 That paperweight on your desk. 04:47.640 --> 04:48.640 Yeah. 04:48.640 --> 04:52.040 It's funny how we hang on to things that were important when we were kids. 04:52.040 --> 04:53.040 Dad. 04:53.040 --> 04:54.720 Now, just a little longer, Margaret. 04:54.720 --> 04:55.720 Oh, Dad, please. 04:55.720 --> 04:56.720 Oh, go on, dear. 04:56.720 --> 04:59.720 You'd better take her out to the lot before she collapses. 04:59.720 --> 05:00.720 Okay. 05:00.720 --> 05:01.720 Come on, Margaret. 05:01.720 --> 05:14.080 Let's hear this wailing banshee of yours. 05:14.080 --> 05:17.280 Now just where is this screaming woman of yours? 05:17.280 --> 05:18.280 Lead me to her. 05:18.280 --> 05:21.280 Over here, where our fort used to be. 05:21.280 --> 05:22.280 Fort? 05:22.280 --> 05:23.920 The big concrete pipe. 05:23.920 --> 05:26.160 It's all covered up now. 05:26.160 --> 05:27.520 Kelly is really getting the slot filled in. 05:27.520 --> 05:28.520 All right. 05:28.520 --> 05:29.520 Where's the lady? 05:29.520 --> 05:30.520 Right about here, Dad. 05:30.520 --> 05:31.520 Listen. 05:31.520 --> 05:36.720 Don't hear a thing except the wind. 05:36.720 --> 05:38.760 You better button your sweater, Margaret. 05:38.760 --> 05:39.760 Listen. 05:39.760 --> 05:43.760 No, it's the trolley over on Aspen Street. 05:43.760 --> 05:44.760 Hey there. 05:44.760 --> 05:45.760 Screaming woman. 05:45.760 --> 05:46.760 Hey. 05:46.760 --> 05:51.240 I'm afraid your screaming woman's let you down. 05:51.240 --> 05:53.200 But she was here, Dad. 05:53.200 --> 05:55.080 Right under where they've dumped all this dirt. 05:55.080 --> 05:59.960 I heard her screaming and screaming and screaming like she was underneath in the fort. 05:59.960 --> 06:02.400 She's dumped tons and tons right on top of our fort. 06:02.400 --> 06:04.760 Well, that's too bad they buried your fort, dear. 06:04.760 --> 06:07.720 I saw two of Kelly's big trucks here last evening and there was a dump truck in here 06:07.720 --> 06:08.720 this morning, too. 06:08.720 --> 06:10.320 It isn't because they covered the fort. 06:10.320 --> 06:13.440 It must be your screaming woman doesn't like grownups. 06:13.440 --> 06:15.440 Only delivers her solo for kids. 06:15.440 --> 06:16.920 Maybe she can't scream anymore. 06:16.920 --> 06:19.600 Well, I'm going to take a nap now. 06:19.600 --> 06:20.600 Let my dinner settle. 06:20.600 --> 06:23.480 Aren't you going to help me, dear? 06:23.480 --> 06:25.680 Don't you think this is a sort of silly game? 06:25.680 --> 06:27.680 It's not a game. 06:27.680 --> 06:28.680 All right. 06:28.680 --> 06:31.040 Dear, but don't stay too long. 06:31.040 --> 06:34.040 Mama probably would like some help with those dishes. 06:34.040 --> 06:36.320 Dad, Dad. 06:36.320 --> 06:38.160 I know I heard her scream. 06:38.160 --> 06:40.160 I know it. 06:40.160 --> 06:43.600 Darn, darn, darn. 06:43.600 --> 06:47.320 You are there. 06:47.320 --> 06:51.760 You are there. 06:51.760 --> 06:55.800 Hey, screaming woman. 06:55.800 --> 06:59.960 Why didn't you scream before? 06:59.960 --> 07:06.160 Why didn't you scream so Daddy could hear you? 07:06.160 --> 07:08.760 Oh, just don't scream for me. 07:08.760 --> 07:13.760 I can't help you all by myself. 07:13.760 --> 07:17.960 Dad, Dad. 07:17.960 --> 07:25.720 Dad, she's screaming again. 07:25.720 --> 07:27.320 Right after you left, she started to scream. 07:27.320 --> 07:28.320 You've got to come back. 07:28.320 --> 07:29.320 Oh, there now, Margaret. 07:29.320 --> 07:30.320 Come here. 07:30.320 --> 07:31.320 Come here. 07:31.320 --> 07:32.320 Let me feel your head. 07:32.320 --> 07:33.320 Please, Daddy. 07:33.320 --> 07:34.320 Please. 07:34.320 --> 07:35.320 Please. 07:35.320 --> 07:36.320 Oh, you've got a fever. 07:36.320 --> 07:37.320 Please, Daddy. 07:37.320 --> 07:38.320 You're going to lie down, young lady. 07:38.320 --> 07:39.320 We can't leave her down there, Dad. 07:39.320 --> 07:40.320 We can't. 07:40.320 --> 07:41.320 Come along in your room. 07:41.320 --> 07:42.320 It's awful, Dad. 07:42.320 --> 07:43.320 It's awful for her to be screaming and screaming and nobody listening or caring. 07:43.320 --> 07:44.320 Margaret. 07:44.320 --> 07:47.080 She'll choke when there isn't any more air and then she'll die. 07:47.080 --> 07:50.080 You're going to lie down the rest of the afternoon before you make yourself sick. 07:50.080 --> 07:52.280 No, I've got to dig her up. 07:52.280 --> 07:53.720 I've got to go back. 07:53.720 --> 07:55.920 There's all those comic books you've read, darling. 07:55.920 --> 07:58.320 Now, I forbid you to leave the house. 07:58.320 --> 08:01.320 Close your eyes and take a nap like a good little girl. 08:01.320 --> 08:05.320 What am I going to do? 08:05.320 --> 08:18.240 What am I going to do? 08:18.240 --> 08:23.080 You are listening to The Screaming Woman, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 08:23.080 --> 08:35.200 theater of thrills, Suspense. 08:35.200 --> 08:40.280 Today begins Red Cross Month, a reminder to all Americans whether or not you have ever 08:40.280 --> 08:45.400 benefited personally from the far-flung effective relief and rehabilitation programs of your 08:45.400 --> 08:47.200 Red Cross. 08:47.200 --> 08:51.440 Your month of March donation to the Red Cross, which you are urged to make, will keep Red 08:51.440 --> 08:56.200 Cross activities in progress, but you are urged to take a still more important step 08:56.200 --> 08:57.500 in addition. 08:57.500 --> 09:01.280 You are urged to be an active member of your local Red Cross chapter. 09:01.280 --> 09:05.200 Remember, the Red Cross is people helping people. 09:05.200 --> 09:11.080 Join and serve more effectively to benefit should the need arise. 09:11.080 --> 09:16.340 And now, we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Sherry Jackson, starring in tonight's production 09:16.340 --> 09:32.080 of The Screaming Woman, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 09:32.080 --> 09:33.080 After a while I stopped crying. 09:33.080 --> 09:37.720 I had to get back to the lot where that woman was screaming, but I was locked in. 09:37.720 --> 09:40.960 So I tied a sheet to the bed and let it out the window and shinnied down to the ground. 09:40.960 --> 09:44.400 Then I ran to the garage and got shovels and ran to the empty lot. 09:44.400 --> 09:47.080 The sun was almost down and it was getting cold. 09:47.080 --> 09:49.080 I started to dig fast. 09:49.080 --> 09:52.080 Hi, Maggie. 09:52.080 --> 09:55.360 It was Dippy Smith. 09:55.360 --> 09:56.360 He goes to my school. 09:56.360 --> 09:57.360 What are you digging for? 09:57.360 --> 09:58.360 For Screaming Woman. 09:58.360 --> 10:03.240 She's down on the ground and I'm going to dig her up. 10:03.240 --> 10:05.560 You can help me dig, Dippy. 10:05.560 --> 10:06.560 There's an extra shovel. 10:06.560 --> 10:07.560 I don't hear nothing. 10:07.560 --> 10:08.560 Well, listen. 10:08.560 --> 10:09.560 Just listen. 10:09.560 --> 10:10.560 No, I don't hear nothing. 10:10.560 --> 10:11.560 Well, just listen. 10:11.560 --> 10:14.560 You will. 10:14.560 --> 10:17.560 Hey, there. 10:17.560 --> 10:20.560 There. 10:20.560 --> 10:21.560 Did you hear it? 10:21.560 --> 10:22.560 That's okay. 10:22.560 --> 10:23.560 Do it again. 10:23.560 --> 10:24.560 Do what again? 10:24.560 --> 10:25.560 The scream. 10:25.560 --> 10:26.560 Do it again. 10:26.560 --> 10:27.560 Go on. 10:27.560 --> 10:30.560 I'll give you this Aggie if you teach me to do it. 10:30.560 --> 10:31.560 Hot dog! 10:31.560 --> 10:35.560 Did you get that friend Krog was booked for a dime from the magic company? 10:35.560 --> 10:38.560 You got one of those tin things in your mouth? 10:38.560 --> 10:40.560 I won't tell you unless you help me dig. 10:40.560 --> 10:41.560 Okay, give me the shovel. 10:41.560 --> 10:42.560 Hot dog. 10:42.560 --> 10:43.560 And you've got to dig fast, like this. 10:43.560 --> 10:44.560 Boy, you think she was right under our feet. 10:44.560 --> 10:45.560 You're wonderful, Maggie. 10:45.560 --> 10:46.560 What's the Screaming Woman's name? 10:46.560 --> 10:47.560 You made up a name for her yet? 10:47.560 --> 10:48.560 Oh, sure. 10:48.560 --> 10:49.560 Her name is Shirley Miller and she's a rich old lady, 160 years old. 10:49.560 --> 10:50.560 And she was buried by her crook names. 10:50.560 --> 10:51.560 Oh, I'm sorry. 10:51.560 --> 10:52.560 I'm sorry. 10:52.560 --> 10:53.560 I'm sorry. 10:53.560 --> 10:54.560 I'm sorry. 10:54.560 --> 10:55.560 I'm sorry. 10:55.560 --> 10:56.560 I'm sorry. 10:56.560 --> 10:57.560 I'm sorry. 10:57.560 --> 10:58.560 I'm sorry. 10:58.560 --> 10:59.560 I'm sorry. 10:59.560 --> 11:00.560 I'm sorry. 11:00.560 --> 11:01.560 I'm sorry. 11:01.560 --> 11:02.560 I'm sorry. 11:02.560 --> 11:03.560 I'm sorry. 11:03.560 --> 11:04.560 I'm sorry. 11:04.560 --> 11:05.560 I'm sorry. 11:05.560 --> 11:06.560 I'm sorry. 11:06.560 --> 11:07.560 I'm sorry. 11:07.560 --> 11:08.560 I'm sorry. 11:08.560 --> 11:09.880 I don't fire 11:09.880 --> 11:11.840 She really did. 11:11.840 --> 11:33.460 And she was buried by her crook name Sp damaging her foot. 11:33.460 --> 11:34.460 People over there. 11:34.460 --> 11:35.460 Come on, Dippy. 11:35.460 --> 11:36.460 Dig. 11:36.460 --> 11:37.460 Dippy. 11:37.460 --> 11:38.460 Dippy. 11:38.460 --> 11:40.060 There's a woman buried there. 11:40.060 --> 11:41.460 Oh, sure. 11:41.460 --> 11:42.860 Don't you believe me? 11:42.860 --> 11:44.160 I wasn't throwing my voice. 11:44.160 --> 11:45.860 Honest, I wasn't, Dippy. 11:45.860 --> 11:51.060 Hey, you couldn't talk and scream together. 11:51.060 --> 11:52.760 There really is a woman here. 11:52.760 --> 11:54.160 That's what I told you. 11:54.160 --> 11:55.860 Come on, let's dig. 11:57.860 --> 12:00.060 How she breathing, you think? 12:00.060 --> 12:02.160 I think she's in the fort. 12:02.160 --> 12:03.260 Remember? 12:03.260 --> 12:05.260 Sure, that's where she is. 12:05.260 --> 12:06.860 Five or six of us kids could get in it, 12:06.860 --> 12:07.860 so it's big enough. 12:07.860 --> 12:10.260 Hey, what do you kids think you're doing? 12:10.260 --> 12:12.460 Hello, Mr. Kelly. 12:12.460 --> 12:14.660 I'm tired of chasing you out of this lot. 12:14.660 --> 12:17.260 If only they get hurt, maybe your folks would sue me. 12:17.260 --> 12:19.660 But Mr. Kelly, there's a woman screaming. 12:19.660 --> 12:21.260 You kids beat it, you hear? 12:21.260 --> 12:22.260 Yes, sir. 12:22.260 --> 12:25.260 But listen, Mr. Kelly, don't you hear? 12:25.260 --> 12:26.260 There. 12:26.260 --> 12:28.260 I don't hear anything, and neither do you, and I'll beat it. 12:28.260 --> 12:30.460 Come on, Maggie. 12:30.460 --> 12:32.660 Mr. Kelly, somebody's got to dig her up. 12:32.660 --> 12:34.660 Don't argue with me or I'll phone your folks. 12:34.660 --> 12:36.060 This is my property. 12:36.060 --> 12:37.460 Do I have to put up a fence? 12:37.460 --> 12:40.060 Why should I spend money to keep people off my property? 12:40.060 --> 12:41.260 I'm putting up a fence. 12:41.260 --> 12:42.460 Dippy. 12:42.460 --> 12:43.860 Dippy, it's him. 12:43.860 --> 12:46.260 He's the one. 12:46.260 --> 12:47.860 He murdered Mrs. Kelly. 12:47.860 --> 12:50.260 He hit her on the head and stuck her in the fort 12:50.260 --> 12:52.060 and dumped loads of dirt on top. 12:52.060 --> 12:53.160 But she wasn't dead. 12:53.160 --> 12:54.460 She came, too. 12:54.460 --> 12:55.460 Why, you saw him. 12:55.460 --> 12:56.860 He stood right there when she screamed 12:56.860 --> 12:58.460 and wouldn't pay any attention. 12:58.460 --> 13:00.260 Hey, that's right. 13:00.260 --> 13:03.460 He stood right there and lied to us. 13:03.460 --> 13:04.960 What do we do, Maggie? 13:04.960 --> 13:06.860 There's only one thing to do. 13:06.860 --> 13:09.260 We'll phone the police and tell them to come and arrest 13:09.260 --> 13:10.260 Mr. Kelly. 13:10.260 --> 13:23.860 Hey, they sure got here fast, Maggie. 13:23.860 --> 13:24.660 Shh. 13:24.660 --> 13:25.860 Don't make a sound. 13:25.860 --> 13:26.860 Stay down. 13:26.860 --> 13:42.660 Mr. Kelly might get desperate and shoot or something. 13:42.660 --> 13:43.860 Oh, oh. 13:43.860 --> 13:44.660 Oh, yes. 13:44.660 --> 13:45.460 Officer? 13:45.460 --> 13:47.260 You Mr. Kelly? 13:47.260 --> 13:48.560 Yes, sir. 13:48.560 --> 13:50.060 Well, what can I do for you? 13:50.060 --> 13:53.460 Is Mrs. Kelly at home this evening? 13:53.460 --> 13:54.860 Why, sure. 13:54.860 --> 13:56.460 May I see her, sir? 13:56.460 --> 13:57.460 Why, sure. 13:57.460 --> 13:58.360 Sure. 13:58.360 --> 14:00.860 Hey, Anna. 14:00.860 --> 14:02.260 What's up? 14:02.260 --> 14:04.160 Well, we got a call. 14:04.160 --> 14:05.760 Oh, good evening, ma'am. 14:05.760 --> 14:07.960 What is it, officer? 14:07.960 --> 14:09.160 Well, I'm sorry, folks. 14:09.160 --> 14:12.860 We got a call that Mrs. Kelly was buried alive 14:12.860 --> 14:14.460 in some empty lot. 14:14.460 --> 14:16.260 It sounded like some kid calling, 14:16.260 --> 14:17.060 but we had to make sure. 14:17.060 --> 14:17.860 We always check. 14:17.860 --> 14:18.960 Well, I can't understand. 14:18.960 --> 14:21.260 It's those blasted kids. 14:21.260 --> 14:23.660 If I ever catch them, I'll break their necks. 14:23.660 --> 14:37.460 Maggie, cheese it. 14:37.460 --> 14:41.260 Boy, if Kelly telephones my dad, I'll get a lickin'. 14:41.260 --> 14:43.260 What'll we do about the screaming woman? 14:43.260 --> 14:45.060 Oh, to heck with her. 14:45.060 --> 14:47.260 I'm not going near that lot again. 14:47.260 --> 14:49.660 Wait a minute, Dippy. 14:49.660 --> 14:52.260 I know why you didn't hear the screams. 14:52.260 --> 14:53.860 Kelly's sort of deaf. 14:53.860 --> 14:55.560 Mama says he's hard of hearing. 14:55.560 --> 14:57.860 Well, he heard us, didn't he? 14:57.860 --> 14:59.060 He heard the cop. 14:59.060 --> 15:01.460 He reads people's lips, but he couldn't hear 15:01.460 --> 15:04.260 the screaming woman because he couldn't see her. 15:04.260 --> 15:04.960 Dippy, come on. 15:04.960 --> 15:06.460 We gotta go dig some more. 15:06.460 --> 15:07.460 No, sir. 15:07.460 --> 15:08.560 We got to. 15:08.560 --> 15:11.060 We're in a pack of trouble because of your old darn old 15:11.060 --> 15:12.360 screaming woman. 15:12.360 --> 15:14.960 I'm not going to get in any more trouble, no, sir. 15:14.960 --> 15:15.960 So long, Maggie. 15:15.960 --> 15:18.560 And he went off and left me all alone. 15:18.560 --> 15:21.560 It was dark now, and Dad would be hunting for me. 15:21.560 --> 15:24.760 If he found me, I'd get a lickin' and be put to bed, 15:24.760 --> 15:27.360 and then nobody would help the screaming woman at all. 15:27.360 --> 15:30.560 There was only one last thing to do, to go all over the 15:30.560 --> 15:32.760 neighborhood from house to house and find out who was 15:32.760 --> 15:33.760 missing. 15:33.760 --> 15:37.560 So I rang bells and knocked, but everybody was home. 15:37.560 --> 15:39.760 And I was about to give up when I came to the Nesbitts' 15:39.760 --> 15:40.760 house. 15:40.760 --> 15:42.360 I was so scared. 15:42.360 --> 15:43.960 I was so scared. 15:43.960 --> 15:46.160 I gave up when I came to the Nesbitts' house. 15:46.160 --> 15:49.160 The house was quiet, like nobody was home. 15:49.160 --> 15:52.160 I saw a dim, spooky light inside somewhere. 15:52.160 --> 15:55.160 So I just kept knocking and knocking and knocking. 15:58.160 --> 15:59.160 What do you want? 15:59.160 --> 16:01.360 Uh, nothing, Mr. Nesbitt. 16:01.360 --> 16:03.160 I want to see Mrs. Nesbitt. 16:03.160 --> 16:04.560 She's not here. 16:04.560 --> 16:06.560 She's going to the store. 16:06.560 --> 16:07.560 Oh. 16:07.560 --> 16:09.360 Then she ought to be back pretty quick. 16:09.360 --> 16:10.360 I'll come in and wait. 16:10.360 --> 16:11.760 Hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute. 16:11.760 --> 16:13.560 I'll just sit down here and wait. 16:13.560 --> 16:16.560 I sure like a rocking chair. 16:16.560 --> 16:18.560 Uh, don't mind me. 16:18.560 --> 16:20.760 Go right ahead doing whatever you were doing, Mr. Nesbitt. 16:20.760 --> 16:24.160 I wasn't doing anything. 16:24.160 --> 16:25.560 Oh. 16:25.560 --> 16:27.560 It looks like you were packing or something with all 16:27.560 --> 16:29.360 those boxes and trunks around. 16:29.360 --> 16:30.160 Going away? 16:30.160 --> 16:31.360 No. 16:31.360 --> 16:34.760 Mrs. Nesbitt's been sorting things out, getting rid of a 16:34.760 --> 16:35.760 lot of stuff. 16:35.760 --> 16:38.160 Oh. 16:38.160 --> 16:39.360 Burning it up in the fireplace. 16:39.360 --> 16:40.360 Oh, yeah. 16:40.360 --> 16:41.360 That's right. 16:41.360 --> 16:43.760 Dad always burns our junk out in the alley. 16:43.760 --> 16:45.960 Cloth smells awful when it burns. 16:45.960 --> 16:46.960 I think that... 16:46.960 --> 16:48.160 Uh, look, kid. 16:48.160 --> 16:51.760 Helen may have gone on from the store to visit a friend. 16:51.760 --> 16:54.560 Well, if she doesn't come soon, I'll leave. 16:54.560 --> 16:56.960 Yeah, and I'll tell her you were here. 16:56.960 --> 16:58.560 What did you want to see her about? 16:58.560 --> 17:00.360 Oh, nothing much. 17:00.360 --> 17:02.360 Hey, that's too bad. 17:02.360 --> 17:03.160 What? 17:03.160 --> 17:04.960 I guess you lost the key to that box. 17:04.960 --> 17:05.760 You had to break the lock. 17:05.760 --> 17:10.560 It, uh, was, uh, broken already. 17:10.560 --> 17:14.960 I bet your folks don't know where you are, kid. 17:14.960 --> 17:15.960 No, sir. 17:15.960 --> 17:17.760 They think I'm in bed. 17:17.760 --> 17:19.560 What friend did Mrs. Nesbitt go visit? 17:19.560 --> 17:20.160 I don't know. 17:20.160 --> 17:24.960 Uh, I mean, uh, look, kid, I ought to tell you, 17:24.960 --> 17:27.360 she won't be back tonight. 17:27.360 --> 17:28.160 Oh? 17:28.160 --> 17:29.160 No. 17:29.160 --> 17:32.560 She went to the store, like I said, but she was going from 17:32.560 --> 17:38.160 there over the beachward to visit her mother on the bus. 17:38.160 --> 17:40.160 She'll be gone two or three days. 17:40.160 --> 17:41.960 Oh, that's a shame. 17:41.960 --> 17:42.960 Why? 17:42.960 --> 17:45.560 Mama was expecting Mrs. Nesbitt to come over tomorrow, 17:45.560 --> 17:46.360 maybe just so. 17:46.360 --> 17:48.160 You better not tell your mother. 17:48.160 --> 17:53.160 You see, it's a kind of a secret about Helen going away. 17:53.160 --> 17:56.760 She doesn't want people to know for a while. 17:56.760 --> 17:57.760 Oh. 17:57.760 --> 18:01.360 You know how to keep a secret, kid. 18:01.360 --> 18:03.360 I guess so. 18:03.360 --> 18:05.760 I'll give you something for not telling. 18:05.760 --> 18:07.560 I'll give you a reward. 18:07.560 --> 18:10.960 Now, let's see here. 18:10.960 --> 18:11.960 All right. 18:11.960 --> 18:14.360 Here's something for a kid. 18:14.360 --> 18:15.360 A doll. 18:15.360 --> 18:15.960 A doll? 18:15.960 --> 18:16.760 Yeah. 18:16.760 --> 18:18.360 Helen was going to give it to you. 18:18.360 --> 18:21.960 I heard her say when she was sorting this stuff. 18:21.960 --> 18:25.360 I'll give this to the little leery girl. 18:25.360 --> 18:26.360 That's funny. 18:26.360 --> 18:29.360 Mrs. Nesbitt always calls me Margaret. 18:29.360 --> 18:31.360 Well, sure. 18:31.360 --> 18:32.960 That's what she said. 18:32.960 --> 18:34.360 Margaret. 18:34.360 --> 18:36.960 You see, it's quite a doll. 18:36.960 --> 18:38.560 Old fashioned. 18:38.560 --> 18:39.760 It's made of leather. 18:39.760 --> 18:43.360 And the face is china or something. 18:43.360 --> 18:44.360 You see? 18:44.360 --> 18:45.760 Uh-huh. 18:45.760 --> 18:47.360 Thank you, Mr. Nesbitt. 18:47.360 --> 18:51.360 It's a reward for not saying anything about Helen being 18:51.360 --> 18:53.560 gone, you understand? 18:53.560 --> 18:55.160 Now, now, now, come on. 18:55.160 --> 18:58.160 I'll step on the porch light. 18:58.160 --> 19:01.360 Mr. Nesbitt, I saw your dump truck in the lot this morning. 19:01.360 --> 19:02.560 What do you mean? 19:02.560 --> 19:04.160 Were you in the lot this morning? 19:04.160 --> 19:04.960 No. 19:04.960 --> 19:06.160 No, I was home. 19:06.160 --> 19:07.960 I looked out the window. 19:07.960 --> 19:10.160 Please, Mr. Nesbitt, let go of my arm. 19:10.160 --> 19:11.360 You been playing out there today? 19:11.360 --> 19:12.360 Answer me. 19:12.360 --> 19:13.160 Don't. 19:13.160 --> 19:13.960 That hurts. 19:13.960 --> 19:15.360 I wasn't playing. 19:15.360 --> 19:17.360 It's no fun now with the fort covered up and. 19:17.360 --> 19:18.460 The fort? 19:18.460 --> 19:19.560 What's that? 19:19.560 --> 19:21.160 Nothing. 19:21.160 --> 19:22.360 Nothing, Mr. Nesbitt. 19:22.360 --> 19:24.160 Tell me what you're talking about. 19:24.160 --> 19:26.560 Nothing, nothing but that old concrete pipe. 19:26.560 --> 19:28.360 You know something. 19:28.360 --> 19:29.960 That's why you came here. 19:29.960 --> 19:31.760 You've been snooping around that lot 19:31.760 --> 19:32.960 and you found out something. 19:32.960 --> 19:34.360 What do you know? 19:34.360 --> 19:35.960 I don't know anything. 19:35.960 --> 19:37.160 Let me go. 19:37.160 --> 19:39.160 Mr. Nesbitt, if you don't let me go. 19:39.160 --> 19:40.060 What? 19:40.060 --> 19:42.360 Oh! 19:42.360 --> 19:43.360 Hey, come back. 19:43.360 --> 19:44.360 Come back here. 19:44.360 --> 19:45.560 I'll give you something else. 19:45.560 --> 19:46.360 I'll give you something else. 19:46.360 --> 19:46.960 Come back here. 19:46.960 --> 19:47.560 Come back. 19:50.360 --> 19:53.660 Mr. Nesbitt yelled because I kicked him and bit his hand. 19:53.660 --> 19:56.060 Then I ran, but I heard him run after me. 19:56.060 --> 19:59.560 It was dark and quiet and scary on the street 19:59.560 --> 20:01.760 and more scary out there in the lot. 20:01.760 --> 20:03.160 I ran straight across the place where 20:03.160 --> 20:05.860 I'd heard the screaming and it was so quiet. 20:05.860 --> 20:09.360 And all of a sudden there was a man in the lot right in front of me. 20:09.360 --> 20:11.560 Margaret, Margaret, stop. 20:11.560 --> 20:12.760 Oh, Dad. 20:12.760 --> 20:14.160 Margaret, where have you been? 20:14.160 --> 20:16.060 Do you have any idea how your mama's worried? 20:16.060 --> 20:17.260 Do you know how late it is? 20:17.260 --> 20:18.360 Dad, Dad, he's after me. 20:18.360 --> 20:21.160 We've been up and down alleys and clear down to Clark Street. 20:21.160 --> 20:22.460 I was about to call the police. 20:22.460 --> 20:23.460 The screaming woman. 20:23.460 --> 20:24.960 It's Mrs. Nesbitt who's down there. 20:24.960 --> 20:26.360 I'm going to give you a good licking. 20:26.360 --> 20:28.260 Mr. Nesbitt killed her and now he wants to kill me. 20:28.260 --> 20:29.760 I've had all of this idiotic talk. 20:29.760 --> 20:30.360 I can stand. 20:30.360 --> 20:31.160 It's true. 20:31.160 --> 20:33.860 He said she's gone away and he was burning her things. 20:33.860 --> 20:34.660 You've got to believe me. 20:34.660 --> 20:35.260 Margaret, that's enough. 20:35.260 --> 20:36.460 Now stop it right now. 20:38.860 --> 20:39.760 What have you got there? 20:40.860 --> 20:41.960 Where did you get that doll? 20:41.960 --> 20:42.960 Mr. Nesbitt. 20:42.960 --> 20:45.060 I gave it to her, Larry. 20:46.460 --> 20:50.960 Kid stopped by the house and I remembered Helen said she wanted to throw it away. 20:50.960 --> 20:53.260 Helen said to throw it away. 20:53.260 --> 20:54.360 He's lying, Dad. 20:54.360 --> 20:56.660 He gave it to me so I wouldn't tell about her. 20:56.660 --> 20:58.060 It was locked up in a box. 20:58.060 --> 20:58.860 He didn't have a key. 20:58.860 --> 20:59.760 He broke it open. 21:00.460 --> 21:02.460 She's a high-strung kid, Larry. 21:02.460 --> 21:03.760 All the stuff she was telling me. 21:03.760 --> 21:04.860 He's lying, Dad. 21:04.860 --> 21:06.460 Why are you lying, Charlie? 21:06.460 --> 21:07.460 Lying? 21:07.460 --> 21:08.660 How do you get that to work? 21:08.660 --> 21:10.660 Helen was going to give it to Margaret on her birthday. 21:10.660 --> 21:11.560 She told me so. 21:12.260 --> 21:14.160 It was a present I gave her a long time ago. 21:14.760 --> 21:18.460 She wouldn't have thrown it away anymore that I threw away the paperweight she gave me. 21:19.460 --> 21:20.560 Why are you lying, Charlie? 21:20.560 --> 21:21.160 I'm not. 21:22.160 --> 21:23.660 Don't look at me like that, Larry. 21:24.560 --> 21:25.860 As God as my riddlers. 21:25.860 --> 21:27.060 It's her, Dad. 21:27.060 --> 21:28.260 It's the screaming woman. 21:28.260 --> 21:29.860 As God as your witness. 21:29.860 --> 21:30.860 No. 21:34.860 --> 21:36.660 Margaret, run to the house. 21:36.660 --> 21:38.060 Phone the police and tell them to hurry. 21:38.060 --> 22:03.060 Hello? 22:03.060 --> 22:04.060 Hi, Dippy. 22:04.060 --> 22:05.260 Everything's fine. 22:05.260 --> 22:06.860 Everything's worked out, King. 22:06.860 --> 22:08.860 The screaming woman isn't screaming anymore. 22:08.860 --> 22:11.060 They got a lot of people down there digging her up. 22:11.060 --> 22:12.060 Hey, Swell. 22:12.060 --> 22:13.560 Hot dog. 22:13.560 --> 22:15.060 And you know what else, Dippy? 22:15.060 --> 22:16.660 They uncovered our fort again. 22:16.660 --> 22:19.560 And now we'll be able to get the kids and play in it tomorrow. 22:19.560 --> 22:43.360 Suspense, in which Sherry Jackson starred in The Screaming Woman by Ray Bradbury. 22:43.360 --> 22:48.860 Next week, the story of a man who tries to escape his past and is faced with no future. 22:48.860 --> 22:51.960 We call it, Nobody Ever Quits. 22:51.960 --> 22:54.960 That's next week on Suspense. 23:11.960 --> 23:14.760 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Anthony Ellis. 23:14.760 --> 23:17.560 Adaptation was by Sylvia Richardson. 23:17.560 --> 23:21.760 The music was composed by Lucian Marwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:21.760 --> 23:26.560 Featured in the cast were Paula Winslow, John Danaer, Richard Beals, Howard McNeer, Joe 23:26.560 --> 23:37.360 Cranston, Herb Butterfield and Eve McVeigh. 23:37.360 --> 23:56.960 Join the FBI in peace and war Wednesday nights on the CBS Radio Network.