WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding, 00:11.000 --> 00:15.000 Twitter of Trolls, Suspense. 00:15.000 --> 00:24.000 Tonight, the story of a rehearsal and a performance of murder. 00:24.000 --> 00:27.000 We call it The Cellar. 00:27.000 --> 00:41.000 So now, starring Mr. Eric Snowden, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Cellar. 00:41.000 --> 00:44.000 I've got to put it away, and that's a fact. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 I've thought about it for a long time, 16 years to be exact. 00:49.000 --> 00:55.000 I've been married 20, and I think I owe it to myself to do something about it now. 00:55.000 --> 00:58.000 It's the principle of the thing, if you follow me. 00:58.000 --> 01:01.000 First of all, I don't like her voice. 01:01.000 --> 01:05.000 Jaw, jaw, jaw, horrible sound. 01:05.000 --> 01:08.000 She goes at it morning, noon, and night. 01:08.000 --> 01:10.000 You never heard the like. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 Or maybe you did. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 It goes something like this. 01:14.000 --> 01:19.000 Oscar! Oscar, how many times am I about to tell you not to put your feet on the attic? 01:19.000 --> 01:25.000 You think all I've got to do is to spend my days cleaning off your dirty boot marks. 01:25.000 --> 01:30.000 And for heaven's sake, I don't know, I'm sure, why I've got to do everything in the house. 01:30.000 --> 01:37.000 It's bad enough the way I strump and sigh, weak in and weak out, to keep a clothe of bread in our mouths. 01:37.000 --> 01:41.000 Never an hope, I'm sure, of having somebody to help with the work. 01:41.000 --> 01:48.000 I really don't know why you don't get a better position, always dreaming of what we're going to do. 01:48.000 --> 01:57.000 If you'd only asked the back-bone liar, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, not you! 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 Bloody awful, ain't it? 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 I've worked it out on paper. 02:01.000 --> 02:11.000 There's 60 seconds in a minute and 3,600 seconds in an hour, and 86,400 seconds in 24 hours. 02:11.000 --> 02:16.000 You listen to that for 20 years and then you go off your bleasy nut. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 Sooner or later it's got to stop, and that's a fact. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 And there's other things. 02:21.000 --> 02:29.000 She puts some kind of sheep oil on her hands and pours it into bed, and who gets smeared with it? 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Who else? 02:30.000 --> 02:35.000 Goodness knows, I try to keep myself looking halfway decent. 02:35.000 --> 02:40.000 It's not like I can afford a manicure twice a week like Mrs. Plimpton. 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 I should think you'd be grateful. 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 That shucks about it. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 You think that's not a good reason to do it in your life? 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 I don't mind telling you, it helps. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 And she's always putting her feet on me back. 02:59.000 --> 03:03.000 Says they're cold and wants me to warm them for her. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 They're cold all right. 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Like a blinking mackerel. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Shows my back. 03:09.000 --> 03:12.000 And she thinks she's all stuffed about keeping accounts. 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 Always guessing about saving. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 And I get two bob-a-weeks spending money. 03:17.000 --> 03:21.000 I ask you, how can a man live on that? 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 It's a perishing injustice. 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 So all in all, that's why I got a killer. 03:28.000 --> 03:43.000 Everything's ready and I suppose I might as well get on with it. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.000 Well, there. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 That looks about right. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Millie? 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 Millie? 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 What is it, Arthur? 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 Could you come down for a minute, love? 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Where are you? 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 In the cellar, sweetheart. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 I'm busy. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 That'll only take half a mile. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 I've got something to show you down here. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 I've got a job, it's just one business and another. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 What's my business? 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 The film's not gonna get you covered in it. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 You'll get a bad father, not much. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 We tell you there's a lot better things to do 04:18.000 --> 04:22.000 than to boil something down every time you want something. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Keep your hair on, love, it won't be long. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 I'm so hot in here, I'm pale all right. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Sure, I don't know why I put up with it, 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 you messing about down here while I'm... 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 Oscar Wiggins! 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 What are you doing with my cellar? 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Why is it all dug up like that? 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 You go on by me. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 Now, you put every scrap of that dirt back in the old-ish minute. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 You hear me? 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I never. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 All right, love, I will. 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 Don't worry. 04:48.000 --> 04:53.000 And don't you dare come upstairs till you've cleaned off your boots. 04:53.000 --> 04:57.000 I will not have that mess all over me clean kitchen floor. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 All right, Uncle Off-Drop, 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 I just wanted to get an idea of the size. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 It looks all right. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 What are you talking about? 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 Right for what? 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 For you, dear. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 Nummy, you've been drinking. 05:12.000 --> 05:13.000 You've been drinking, that's what. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 Not a drop. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 I'm at Sea Totem and you know that milk. 05:17.000 --> 05:19.000 No milk, though. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 The time has come, as the wall has said to the carpenter, 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 your time. 05:25.000 --> 05:30.000 You pick up that spide this instant and fill in every bit of that oil. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 And no argument, you hear? 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 All right, old cop. 05:33.000 --> 05:37.000 When you're done, you'll march yourself up there to wash your hands of vape, 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 because supper will be on in ten minutes and I will not have it spoiled. 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 No, I've got something I've got to say to you. 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Eh? 05:46.000 --> 05:52.000 I'm fed up with your jaw, fed to the teeth, and that's a fact. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 How dare you! 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 Who do you think you're talking to? 05:57.000 --> 06:02.000 I'm fed up with your greasy hands and I'm fed up with your clammy feet. 06:02.000 --> 06:06.000 But most of all, Mill, I'm fed up with you. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 Oscar? 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 So I'm going to do you in. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 Oscar, don't you look at me like that. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 Don't you touch me or I'll have the law on you. 06:17.000 --> 06:22.000 I don't give a frid for you and I don't give a frid for the laws. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 I work it all out. 06:24.000 --> 06:29.000 And if you think you can get up them stairs before I bash your head in, 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 you're very much mistaken. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 Oh, he's going to murder me! 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Oh, he's going to murder me! 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Help! Help me! Murder me! 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Oh, you've got an horrible voice. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 Help! Help! 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 My old mum always used to say, 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 Oscar, if ever you do anything in this world, do it right. 06:59.000 --> 07:06.000 I remembered her words as I covered up the mortal remains of my ever loving ex, Millie Wittgen. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 I deterred a corker. 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 One good whack on the S, so there wasn't much of a mess, if you follow my meaning, 07:12.000 --> 07:17.000 took me about 15 minutes to cover her up nice and neat like. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 And then I went upstairs. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 You don't mind telling her? 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 Give me a bit of a turn when I open the front door. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I hadn't had time to wash up yet, but I wasn't too worried. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 Not until I saw her standing outside. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 It was a cop, gauntly by name. 07:34.000 --> 07:37.000 He's got the beat on my square. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Evening, Mr. Wittgen. 07:39.000 --> 07:40.000 Evening, Mr. Gauntly. 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 Sorry to have to trouble you, but I had a complaint. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Sorry to hear that, Mr. Gauntly. 07:46.000 --> 07:50.000 Complaint states that an audible vowel was emanating from your house. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 A vowel? 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Screams more like. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 Screams? Who's? 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 That's the nature of the inquiry, Mr. Wittgen. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 I'd be obliged if you could shed some light. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Happy to, if I knew how I could help. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 The, uh, missus at home? 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 No, she ran off to the picture palace. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 You know, these women and their ruddy pictures. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 What time did she go? 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 I don't know. About an hour ago. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 No one else here? 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 Not a living soul, except myself. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 Hmm. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.000 You been doing any screaming, Mr. Wittgen? 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Not bloody likely. What do you take me for? 08:23.000 --> 08:27.000 All in the nature of the inquiry, Mr. Wittgen. No offense, I hope. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 None took, Mr. Gauntly. 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 Oh, no. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Clean as hour, I have me duty to perform. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 I hope you'll allow me to have a look about the primitives, Mr. Wittgen. 08:35.000 --> 08:40.000 Seems to me a man's got his right, but I always hold to aid in the law. 08:40.000 --> 08:43.000 If you're looking his aid in, help yourself, Mr. Gauntly. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Your mind's telling me what you're looking for. 08:48.000 --> 08:52.000 Two neighbors swear they heard the sounds coming from here. 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 Maybe it was on the radio. 08:53.000 --> 08:54.000 It's not on. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 It saved me making the report, Mr. Wittgen. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 Pretty obliging of you, I'm sure. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 Phil, I don't think there's a need to bother you anymore. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 I'll just, uh... 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 Hello. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 Cut yourself? 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Huh? How? 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 Oh, that now. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 Cutting up a bit of beef for grub. 09:17.000 --> 09:21.000 Thought I'd give the missus a nice surprise when she gets home. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 I was in the kitchen when you knocked. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Sorry to have disturbed you, Mr. Wittgen, all right. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 Makes the bloke feel safer knowing there's law nearby. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 Nice to have you face up, Wittgen. 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 Good evening. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Evening, Mr. Gauntly. 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 Lummy. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 That was a close one, all right, but I handled it nicely. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 The worst of it was over. 09:48.000 --> 09:53.000 Copper had dinged and gone, and I'd have at least 24 hours to clear out. 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 Maybe longer. 09:54.000 --> 09:58.000 At 8 o'clock, like I'd planned it, Maggie Jones turned up. 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 Oh, what a bit of story she had. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Lovely. 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 I'd met her a couple of months before, and I hadn't told her what I had in mind. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 But I knew she wouldn't care when she heard. 10:09.000 --> 10:14.000 After all, it was all done for her, mostly. 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 Oh, Oscar, I didn't love you. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Heavenly ain't it. 10:20.000 --> 10:23.000 When she was coming home. 10:23.000 --> 10:28.000 Oh, I do feel something awful carrying on this way. 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 Maggie, love, sit down. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 I've something to say to you. 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 Maggie, will you run off with me? 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Run away? With you? 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 But how can I? 10:42.000 --> 10:47.000 You're a married man, and what would my mom and dad think? 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 Maggie, love, all I have is yours. 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 You don't have to worry about a blinking thing. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 Everything is taken care of. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Taken care of for now. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 What's your wife going to say? 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 She ain't going to say nothing. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 Maggie, for love of you, I've done her in. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 You've done her in? 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 That's right. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Where is she? 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 What did you do with her? 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 You're just about sitting over her now. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 She's buried in the cellar. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 Oh boy, how horrible. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 You did it for me, Oscar. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 For you, sweetheart. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 Oh, how you must love me. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Never a truer word. 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 Now, listen here, Duck, it's all arranged. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 In the morning, I'm taking the savings out, 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 and you and me are buzzing off. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 There's a boat sailing for South America 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 to the Argentine at eight o'clock tomorrow night. 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 We'll be on it. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 Oh, I don't know what my mom and dad will say. 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 Don't tell them. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 Write to them. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 From the Argentine. 11:51.000 --> 11:55.000 Oh, Oscar, you make it so hard for a girl to say no. 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 Give us a kiss of no more argy-bargy. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 How many years is that? 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 Oh, Oscar. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 You up in the kitchen. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 She won't be a sec. 12:08.000 --> 12:13.000 All right, all right, Mark, you're not coming. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 Good evening, Oscar. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Oh, it's you. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 Where's me daughter? 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 Out, out. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Won't be out for a bit. 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 Then I'll wait. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 Oh, close the door, Oscar. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 There's a drop down me back. 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 It was that audible old cow, Mrs. Quill. 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 Poor old Millie's mother. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.000 And when she says she's going to wait, she means it. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 Last time it took two weeks to get rid of her. 12:46.000 --> 12:50.000 Now, what was I going to do about her? 12:50.000 --> 12:58.000 You are listening to The Cellar, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 You might ask me to sit down, Oscar, wouldn't you? 13:24.000 --> 13:28.000 Oh, oh yes, sit down, mother dear. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Still daydreaming, I think. 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 Not much improvement in you since the last time I was here. 13:34.000 --> 13:38.000 Oh, Millie and me, we was going out when she came to visit. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 I'm sorry. 13:41.000 --> 13:42.000 I'm sorry. 13:42.000 --> 13:43.000 I'm sorry. 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 I'm sorry. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 I'm sorry. 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 I'm sorry. 13:46.000 --> 13:47.000 I'm sorry. 13:47.000 --> 13:48.000 I'm sorry. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.000 We was going out when she came back. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 Why don't you drop in over the weekend? 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 She'd love to see you. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 You can stay for a bit if you'd like. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 I've traveled across all from London to visit me daughter. 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 I've no intention of going home tonight. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 You can go out if you want to, Oscar. 14:05.000 --> 14:08.000 Millie will stay here and talk to her mother. 14:08.000 --> 14:09.000 Oh. 14:09.000 --> 14:10.000 I haven't had me supper yet. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 I brought a nice bit of smoked daddocks. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 I'll go in and put it on. 14:14.000 --> 14:18.000 No, I mean you sit here comfortable like. 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 I'll do it. 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 You? 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Don't make me laugh. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 You think I want me attic ruined? 14:24.000 --> 14:28.000 I said, mother dear, I'll cook your ruddy attic for you. 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 Take it or leave it. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 How dare you? 14:32.000 --> 14:35.000 How dare you address me in that fashion? 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 Go boil your head. 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 Oh, you naughty little worm. 14:40.000 --> 14:43.000 Just wait till Millie hears about this. 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 You wait. 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 Matter of fact, this is my house, 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 and I didn't hear no invitation for you to come in tonight. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 You've been drinking. 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 Once and for all, I have not been drinking. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Now buzz off. 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 I will not leave this house until me daughter comes in that door. 14:59.000 --> 15:03.000 I'm going to give you ten seconds, mother dear, to op it. 15:03.000 --> 15:07.000 Then I'm going to land you one you won't forget. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 One, two. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 You dare to hit an old woman. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 Three, four. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 You'll lay an end on me. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Five, six. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 You must be insane. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 Seven, eight. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Oh, my Millie is. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 Nine, ten. 15:21.000 --> 15:22.000 Oh. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Ah. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Ah. 15:28.000 --> 15:33.000 Now that's something I've wanted to do for a long time. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 All clear, Aggie, love. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Oh, I was, I was that frightened. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 Don't you worry, you're pretty yet. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Everything's bright as rain. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 Now you'll have to be off. 15:45.000 --> 15:49.000 Wouldn't it be good to have anybody else snooping around and find you here? 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Not a word to anyone, see? 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 You'll meet me at the marble art station at four o'clock tomorrow, see? 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 But what about me clothes, Oscar? 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 Mama'll ask where I'm going. 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 Leave it to me. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 I'll buy you all the clothes you want. 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 That's one thing I've got to say for poor old Millie. 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 She wasn't a very nuttish in woman, but she was a saving one. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 She was wanted to go abroad. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 Oh, but ain't it awful? 16:13.000 --> 16:17.000 A nation means going with a married man and a murderer. 16:17.000 --> 16:20.000 You're all going to marry me, aren't you, Oscar? 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Marry you? 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 What a question. 16:23.000 --> 16:26.000 I've got memorials same as the next bloke. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 Of course I'm going to marry you. 16:28.000 --> 16:33.000 Oh, Oscar, I know it's wicked, but I can't wait till tomorrow. 16:33.000 --> 16:36.000 You dream about it, love, and before you know it, it'll be tomorrow. 16:36.000 --> 16:37.000 Now go on. 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 You'd better leave by the back door. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 The next morning at ten, I was in the bank. 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 I had my slip made out to withdraw my savings, 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 and a nice little drop it was too, 800 quid. 16:55.000 --> 17:00.000 I was waiting for the money when a tallish bloke comes out to me from behind a gate, 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 all smiles and treacle he was. 17:03.000 --> 17:04.000 Mr. Widgerton? 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Yes, sir, I? 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 How do you do? 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 I'm Mr. Four-Paw, the manager. 17:08.000 --> 17:11.000 I understand that you wish to withdraw your savings. 17:11.000 --> 17:12.000 That's right. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 I trust you found no fault with our service? 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 No, just what's mine. 17:16.000 --> 17:17.000 That's all? 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 Of course, of course, naturally. 17:19.000 --> 17:23.000 The eyeing past of the reason you're withdrawing the fund, 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 is there apt to be a reason? 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 No, no, no, not at all. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 But since you've been such a faithful depositor for so many years. 17:29.000 --> 17:34.000 Oh, well, the truth is, Mr. Four-Paw, me and the missus thought we'd take a bit of an ology. 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 You know, the Riviera, a little sunshine and polyvoo. 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Oh, yes, I see. 17:40.000 --> 17:43.000 Then of course, sir, you want to leave a sum here with us? 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 No, I want it all. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 But my dear sir, you can't spend it abroad. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 Who says I can't? 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 The government, sir, the government. 17:51.000 --> 17:55.000 A maximum of 50 pounds need be taken out of the country. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 Yes, what are you giving me? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 But surely you know that it's common knowledge. 17:59.000 --> 18:04.000 No, to me it ain't. It's my money. I can do as I please with it. 18:04.000 --> 18:08.000 Here in England, yes, but you can't take it out of court. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 It's a ruddy injustice. 18:09.000 --> 18:10.000 That's what it is. 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 I charge, I give the point, sir. I'm conservative. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 That's your odd luck. 18:14.000 --> 18:19.000 Now you and over my money, see, what I do with it is my business. 18:19.000 --> 18:20.000 Opt to it. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 Just as you please, Mr. Widgeon. 18:22.000 --> 18:25.000 Ah, Mr. Easton, I oversteeped you. I'd like to hear... 18:25.000 --> 18:28.000 I've done it. They've done it. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 What in blazes am I going to do now? 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 I shelved the 800 quid in her pocket and went home. 18:40.000 --> 18:43.000 And that's what I should never have done. 18:43.000 --> 18:48.000 Because when I got there, the old cow was standing in front of the door 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 and the copper gorm we was with her. 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 There he is, Constable. There he is. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 Ask him what he's done with my little daughter. Ask him. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 Ask more and you meddling old hag. 19:00.000 --> 19:04.000 Now then, now then. No language at your place, Mr. Widgeon. 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 There's a lady's upset because she has knocked on the door 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 and there's no answer for moving in. 19:09.000 --> 19:10.000 Well, what's that to her? 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 She's worried about Mrs. Widgeon. 19:12.000 --> 19:15.000 It's me own flesh and blood I'm worrying about. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 I've got a right. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 She ain't home. That's all. 19:18.000 --> 19:19.000 Then where is she? 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 She went out shopping. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 He's lying. 19:22.000 --> 19:26.000 She went home last night and he put me out by force. 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 Threatened to do me a mischief. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 He's done something to her. You mock my words. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 How would you like a fat blip? 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Now then, now then. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Look here, I ain't got time to stand here arguing. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 Constable, you go in that house and see what's what. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 He wouldn't let me in the kitchen last night. 19:43.000 --> 19:47.000 Outside I'd see the blood and gore where he's access a business. 19:47.000 --> 19:48.000 You go in there. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 Mr. Widgeon wouldn't do a thing like that, ma'am. 19:51.000 --> 19:54.000 Now, why don't you go to the corner house 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 and have a nice cup of tea. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 And by the time you're finished, 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 your daughter will be home just like Mr. Widgeon's is. 20:01.000 --> 20:02.000 That's right. 20:02.000 --> 20:06.000 I ain't moving from here till I see her alive with me own eyes. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 Yeah, it's all one with me, but you ain't sitting foot inside. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 I'm not having you break up my happy home. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 He's afraid. He's afraid to let me in. 20:15.000 --> 20:18.000 He knows what I'll find. He knows. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 Oh, look at him standing there. 20:20.000 --> 20:24.000 The stain of his horrible deed still in his wicked eyes. 20:24.000 --> 20:29.000 Mr. Widgeon, I hate to ask you, but to oblige, 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 will you let this lady come in and satisfy yourself? 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 You've seen for yourself, Mr. Gormley. 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 You've seen last night. 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 You're the law. If you can't be satisfied, who can? 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 I ask you. 20:40.000 --> 20:41.000 Ah, get him. 20:41.000 --> 20:45.000 He's got few hypnotized like he had my poor Millie. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 Talk a wink of law for Billy Wood, but not me. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 I want you in, I am. 20:50.000 --> 20:55.000 Mr. Widgeon, to oblige, they'll have a look at that. 20:55.000 --> 20:59.000 Oh, blimey, what I have to put up with from this old gas bag. 20:59.000 --> 21:03.000 All right, all right, but it's the last time. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Don't say I didn't warn you. 21:10.000 --> 21:14.000 She went through the house like a ruddy bloodhound, 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 and there wasn't nothing. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 Not an air, not a place. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Mr. Gormley followed her with me, 21:20.000 --> 21:24.000 and I could see it was a very aggravating position for him. 21:24.000 --> 21:27.000 Mr. Gormley likes to keep the peace, 21:27.000 --> 21:32.000 but by the time we got to the cellar, he was clear out of patience. 21:33.000 --> 21:36.000 Well, satisfied? 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Are you satisfied? 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 You want to look in the cold, then? 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 Go on, get your hands nice and dirty. 21:42.000 --> 21:46.000 Sorry to have troubled you, Mr. Widgeon, not mentioning. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 As for you, Mrs. Quill, 21:48.000 --> 21:53.000 I don't want to see your nasty face around here until I give the word. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 You stay out of Millie's and my way, see? 21:56.000 --> 22:00.000 And if you don't, I'll have you put in charge. 22:00.000 --> 22:03.000 That's my right, ain't they, Mr. Gormley? 22:03.000 --> 22:07.000 In the manner of speaking, disturbing the peace, Mr. Widgeon. 22:07.000 --> 22:10.000 Right, and she's disturbing my peace. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 Now I'll thank you to leave my house. 22:21.000 --> 22:25.000 Of course, when you come right down to it, I suppose they're right. 22:25.000 --> 22:28.000 In a way, I am a dreamer. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Always have been. 22:30.000 --> 22:36.000 To tell the truth, I ain't got no 800 pound, not even 80. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 And I ain't no Eggy Jones. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 But I wish there was. 22:42.000 --> 22:47.000 There's only Millie's mother and Millie, 22:47.000 --> 22:56.000 and them greasy hands and cold feet and jaw, jaw, jaw. 22:56.000 --> 23:01.000 And if I hang from what I'm trying to do, it'll be worth it. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 There. 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 That looks about right. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 Millie? Millie? 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 What is it, doctor? 23:13.000 --> 23:16.000 Could you come down for a minute, love? 23:16.000 --> 23:17.000 Where are you? 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 In the cellar, sweetheart. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Why are you sitting? 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 It'll only take half a month. 23:22.000 --> 23:25.000 I've got something to show you down here. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Doctor, one thing is another. 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 What's my scene to the bone? 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 Time to get yourself burned. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 You give a brass file, ain't I? 23:32.000 --> 23:37.000 You think I ever got better? You said you'd been burned up and down every time you want something. 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 Keep your air on, love. It won't be long. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 You said be a little consideration. I'm very worn out. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 I'm sure I don't know why I put up with it. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Oh, God, Richard. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 What are you doing with my cellar? 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 Why is it all dug up like that? 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 You're born barmy. 23:53.000 --> 23:57.000 Now you put every scrap of dirt back in the old list minute. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 You hear me? 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 Oh, I never. 24:00.000 --> 24:04.000 I just wanted to get an idea of the size. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 It looks about right. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 What are you talking about? Right for what? 24:09.000 --> 24:33.000 For you, dear. 24:33.000 --> 24:46.000 Next week, the story of a handcuffed man and the woman who holds the key to his freedom. 24:46.000 --> 24:50.000 We call it, Give Me Liberty. 24:50.000 --> 25:09.000 That's next week on Suspense. 25:09.000 --> 25:14.000 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's play. 25:14.000 --> 25:18.000 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 25:18.000 --> 25:29.000 Featured in the cast were Jeanette Nolan, John Boehner, Betty Harford, Paula Winslow, and Ramsey Hill. 25:29.000 --> 25:58.000 Suspense is presented by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 25:58.000 --> 26:19.060 I will be engaged in the investigation and can't open the case 26:19.060 --> 26:43.860 This is the American Voices Network, Europe.