1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,680 Tonight the story of a handicapped man and the woman who holds the key to his freedom. 3 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,720 We call it, Give Me Liberty. 4 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:43,960 So now, starring Mr. Tony Barrett, here is tonight's Suspense play, Give Me Liberty. 5 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,760 I embezzled a quarter of a million dollars. 6 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,920 I want you to know that needed brains, planning, patience. 7 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:57,240 I devoted three years of my life to the trick and I got away with it. 8 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,240 Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 9 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,800 Of course they caught me, very easily. 10 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,480 But they couldn't find the money. 11 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,120 I wouldn't tell them where it was. 12 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,920 I got seven years for it. 13 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,640 My right wrist was handcuffed to the left wrist of a detective and they put me aboard 14 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,520 a train bound for the penitentiary. 15 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,080 I could see that the detective had had instructions to soften me up. 16 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,000 He was much, much too kind. 17 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,400 You comfortable Mr. French? 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,040 You want a magazine? 19 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,040 Any anything? 20 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:35,040 I'd like to be able to lift my hand without raising yours into the air. 21 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,680 Can't you guard me without being quite so attached to me? 22 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,480 Why sure, I guess we can work that out. 23 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:47,080 Tell you what, you sit next to the window, I'll kind of box you in and that way you can 24 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,360 wear the cuffs all by yourself and nobody loses. 25 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,120 Now, thank you. 26 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,120 Let me get my keys. 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,120 There. 28 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:04,960 Funny thing, most guys say the biggest trouble is when you read a paper. 29 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,280 Five inches of chain don't give you much room to turn a page. 30 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,280 I'm not worrying. 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,380 I'll have seven years for reading. 32 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:15,600 Seven years and a quarter of a minute. 33 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,480 Hey, how smart does a guy have to be to get his hooks on so much lettuce? 34 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,480 Would you like some of it? 35 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Are you kidding? 36 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,040 Well, all right, let's make a deal. 37 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,840 You drop the key to these things on the floor and then go have yourself a nice lunch. 38 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,840 Oh, sure. 39 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,320 And when do I see Mr. French again? 40 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,640 When I meet you to pay off. 41 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,760 I wouldn't be taking kind of a chance there, would I? 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:43,400 You know, to tell the truth, you wouldn't be taking a chance at all. 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,400 How come? 44 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,680 Oh, why should I escape, be on the run the rest of my life? 45 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:49,680 No. 46 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,760 No, this has to go according to plan. 47 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:53,760 Planning. 48 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,640 That's what gives a man his future. 49 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,000 But you've got a long stretch ahead. 50 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,920 How do you know that whoever's holding the stuff on the gun... 51 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:07,720 Was a stupid conversation and I was only making words. 52 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,120 I looked out at the fields and brooks and houses rushing past. 53 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,760 I wouldn't see these things for seven years, not counting time off or good behavior. 54 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,800 But then I'd be free again and I'd have my quarter million. 55 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,280 Not a bad salary, huh? 56 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,080 Oh, I'd use my brains for myself this time. 57 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:28,920 Some guys will do anything for dough. 58 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:30,920 Now, take you seven years... 59 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:31,920 Everybody, hold on! 60 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:32,920 There's another train on the track! 61 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:47,120 Our car lay on its side in flames and most passengers who could move got through the 62 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,120 broken window. 63 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,760 French, give me your hand. 64 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,960 It was the detective, his legs pinned by the wreckage. 65 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:52,960 Move, will you? 66 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:53,960 You want to see me roasted? 67 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,560 What can I do with my hands like this? 68 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:56,560 Where do you carry the key? 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:57,560 What do you want with a key? 70 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,560 You can pull me out by an arm, can't you? 71 00:03:58,560 --> 00:03:59,560 Crap me by the hand. 72 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:00,560 Get out of me! 73 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,160 We'll both die here if I can't use my hands. 74 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,160 You can use them good enough. 75 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,160 Where's that key? 76 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,160 I can't find it. 77 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,160 French and Eden, my pockets were on the floor. 78 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:08,160 You're a liar, French. 79 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,520 The fire, get me out of here, please. 80 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,400 The only weapon was a suitcase. 81 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:14,520 I kicked him in the face. 82 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,080 I smashed the suitcase down in his head. 83 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,480 And he didn't have the key. 84 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:24,120 I emptied his pockets down to the last crumb of tobacco while the fire crept closer. 85 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,080 He hadn't the key to the handcuffs. 86 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,360 And I wanted it. 87 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:29,640 Because this wouldn't be an escape. 88 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:30,640 This would be a disappearance. 89 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:31,640 What a chance. 90 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:32,640 What a chance. 91 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:33,640 I would have my liberty and I'd have my money. 92 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,640 Is somebody in that car? 93 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,640 There's somebody moving there. 94 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:36,640 Is there anybody in that car? 95 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,640 Is there anybody? 96 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:45,400 Hey Pete, hey Pete, put that extinguisher over this way. 97 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,360 I threw away his pistol. 98 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,360 I wouldn't need a gun. 99 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:49,920 I used my head. 100 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:51,680 I squeezed my college ring on his finger. 101 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:52,680 I switched wallets. 102 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:53,680 Is there anybody in that car? 103 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,680 Hey Pete, this way. 104 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:55,680 Over here. 105 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:56,680 Over here. 106 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:02,480 There was a conductor out there, a crowd of passengers. 107 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,440 I got to the opposite side of the car. 108 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:05,440 No one. 109 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:06,440 Not a soul. 110 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,440 And there wasn't a splinter of glass left in the window. 111 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,960 I slid down the side of the car. 112 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:12,960 I cleared the wheels. 113 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:13,960 I struck the ground running. 114 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:19,960 A few moments, a few hundred steps and I was safe in the darkness. 115 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:20,960 I was free. 116 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,600 They'd think I was dead. 117 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,920 But I had a quarter of a million dollars. 118 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:47,640 You are listening to Give Me Liberty, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 119 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:58,520 of thrills, Suspense. 120 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,960 Tomorrow night, CBS radio's FBI in Peace and War goes into a car stealing racket that 121 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,760 involves a youth from one of the community's most respected families. 122 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,440 Don't miss the facts about the neighborhood boy on the FBI in Peace and War tomorrow night 123 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,360 on most of these same stations. 124 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:19,400 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Tony Barrett, starring in tonight's production 125 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:38,840 of Give Me Liberty, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 126 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:43,520 My first job after escaping was to break out of those manacles. 127 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,640 I sat in a wheat field holding my arms overhead so the blood would run from my hands and wrists 128 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,000 and leave them slim. 129 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,720 Then I tried to pull them off. 130 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,240 Didn't work. 131 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,080 And I couldn't snap the chain. 132 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:05,480 I twisted it, I pulled at it, I tried to fling my hands apart and it wouldn't break. 133 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:11,840 I rubbed it against stones until my skin was torn and bleeding and it wouldn't break. 134 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,440 By this time it was morning. 135 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,840 It wasn't until then that I knew I had to have help. 136 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,000 I pushed through the wheat and the corn beyond it. 137 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,120 I stumbled down a slope in an old barnyard. 138 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:32,480 A woman was standing near one of the hen houses, a pan of chicken feed in her hand. 139 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,720 What do you want? 140 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,720 There was nothing I could say. 141 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,720 She had seen the handcuffs. 142 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,720 Come on, what do you want? 143 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:45,720 I'm hungry. 144 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:46,720 Where are you from? 145 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,720 How'd you get away? 146 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:48,720 We were going up to the prison. 147 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:49,720 There was an accident. 148 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,320 Well, what do you want from me? 149 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:58,360 Look, you'll lend me a file and if you could spare some food, I'll be glad to pay you. 150 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,960 You don't have to pay me for anything. 151 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:01,960 Wait here. 152 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,520 Jack, you're watching. 153 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:09,160 She went into the house and the dog got down on its belly and put its nose between its 154 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,760 paws and its eyes never left my face for a minute. 155 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,360 Then through the stillness, I heard the cranking of an old fashioned wall telephone and I knew 156 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:29,600 what she was doing. 157 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,640 I couldn't get them off. 158 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,240 I couldn't get the handcuffs off. 159 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:36,240 I couldn't get anything to eat. 160 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,680 I couldn't show myself. 161 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:43,240 You know what it means to see food all about you and not be able to buy it. 162 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,320 Don't tell me I could have eaten corn, fruit and roots. 163 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,200 I can tell you the nature of every dog in that area, the feel of every barbed wire fence 164 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,240 and the sound of every rifle and shotgun. 165 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:52,240 That was him, Harry. 166 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,240 That was him down on the brush. 167 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,240 Get around to the other side. 168 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,520 I crept into a village one night. 169 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,760 I forced up the window of a hardware store. 170 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:10,120 I wanted a file, just a file. 171 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,520 You know what they carry in hardware stores these days? 172 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:19,840 Glassware, kitchen gadgets, garden tools, seeds, ovens, rat poison, dresses. 173 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,360 Then I moved behind a counter. 174 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,800 A hardware store has to have a file somewhere. 175 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:41,080 My foot struck a wire stretched across the floor. 176 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:42,560 How tired have you been? 177 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:52,520 Have you ever been so tired that you thought you'd die if you wanted to die? 178 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:58,320 On the evening of the fourth day of my liberty, I crawled quietly to the garbage can back 179 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,600 of a roadside diner. 180 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,480 I began to pull about for something I could ease. 181 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,600 There was a step behind me. 182 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,960 I turned and it was a boy. 183 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,360 We looked at each other for a long moment. 184 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,120 He was waiting for me to speak. 185 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,160 I said, hello, Sonny. 186 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,160 Hello. 187 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,440 You, you live in this neighborhood? 188 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:18,440 Yeah. 189 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,440 I, I don't. 190 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,440 I'm traveling. 191 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,040 With handcuffs on? 192 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,720 Oh, these, yeah. 193 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,960 Well, a friend put them on me for a joke. 194 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,480 Say, that gives me an idea. 195 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,200 Sonny, look, would you do me a big favor? 196 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,200 Depends on how big. 197 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,200 I'll say it's worth $10. 198 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,040 You, you'll get me a file or chop them off with an axe or something like that, huh? 199 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:41,040 No. 200 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,040 I'll let you keep them there. 201 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:43,040 They're fun. 202 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,040 No. 203 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,640 Well, then would you do something else for me? 204 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:48,640 Depends. 205 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,960 Well, you know, I'm a little embarrassed about going in a lunch wagon like this. 206 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,880 Would you step in there and buy a few hamburgers for me? 207 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:56,880 How much? 208 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:57,880 It's the same $10. 209 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:58,880 Let's see the money. 210 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:04,680 I got it right here in my pocket, ready to jump into your hand. 211 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,120 A lot of things a boy can buy with $10. 212 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:09,120 There we are. 213 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,120 How do I know it's good? 214 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,920 Don't, don't you trust me? 215 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,480 Drop it on the ground. 216 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:18,960 Drop it? 217 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,960 Why? 218 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,480 You drop it and back away, then I'll pick it up. 219 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,480 Oh, say that's very smart. 220 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,720 All right, how's that? 221 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:29,720 Far enough? 222 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:30,720 I guess. 223 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,440 He picked it up, began to walk around the diner. 224 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,440 When he was out of reach, he started to run. 225 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:51,640 I got away and I couldn't tear them off. 226 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,080 I couldn't. 227 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,880 I had $250,000 buried away and it was worthless to me. 228 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,560 Do you know what can be bought with a quarter of a million? 229 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:10,680 A man's soul can be bought for less, but I couldn't buy a $0.10 file. 230 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:16,120 I spent that night in a nest of cast off railroad ties, stacked at a siding. 231 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,800 When I opened my eyes in the morning, I had company. 232 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,220 A very tough looking hobo in blue jeans and a navy coat. 233 00:12:25,220 --> 00:12:28,680 She was counting my money, smoothing each bill with loving care. 234 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,840 She grinned when she saw that I was awake. 235 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,320 Good morning, chum. 236 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,280 You sleep like an honest man. 237 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,520 What's the matter, chum? 238 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,480 Never speak till they bring your orange juice? 239 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,520 Look, I'm in trouble. 240 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,360 I want you to help me. 241 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,680 To get the bracelets off? 242 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:45,680 Yes, yes. 243 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,760 Now, chum, wouldn't that be kind of silly? 244 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,960 I might lose all this harder and dull. 245 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,760 Look, there's more where that came from. 246 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,760 A lot more. 247 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:54,760 I'll make it richer. 248 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,760 Yeah, yeah, I've heard that one before. 249 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,760 So long, chum. 250 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:01,760 Listen, listen. 251 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,760 I've got a quarter of a million dollars. 252 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:04,760 Yeah, I know. 253 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,480 I get feelings like that. 254 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:07,760 Look, come back, will you? 255 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,760 It's true. 256 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:09,760 Don't you read the papers? 257 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:10,760 I'm Earl French. 258 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,360 I never heard of you. 259 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,960 Look, look, just go into town and buy one of the newspapers. 260 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:15,960 It's six days ago. 261 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:20,800 I stole $250,000. 262 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,520 And you're wearing those things so they won't pick your own pockets. 263 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,760 Oh, please, don't try to be clever. 264 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:27,040 Don't you understand? 265 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,500 I died in the train wreck near Scottsville. 266 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:34,600 You, uh, you're sure about that, chum? 267 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,440 You died only a few days ago? 268 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,960 No, no, they only think I did. 269 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,280 Get those newspapers and come back here with a file and some food. 270 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,360 Ah, chum, don't order me around. 271 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,200 Just take it easy. 272 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,200 Maybe I'll be back. 273 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:56,520 I waited for all through the long, blistering day, crouching within the four walls of railroad 274 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,920 ties. 275 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,400 I knew she'd be back. 276 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:01,400 She couldn't resist it. 277 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,120 I knew she'd be back. 278 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,920 Chum, it seems you were a very important guy in your time. 279 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,920 You, you saw the papers? 280 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:09,920 Yeah. 281 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,040 Yeah, and I got news for you. 282 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,200 Mr. French, you are now burned to a crisp. 283 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,040 That's the way they found you in the train. 284 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,040 Recognize me by the ring on my finger? 285 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,040 Yeah. 286 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,320 Yeah, you're dead all right. 287 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,320 You and 250 grand. 288 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,320 All right, all right. 289 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:27,320 We'll come to that later. 290 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:28,520 Look, get to work with a file. 291 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:30,720 Now, look, you're giving me orders again. 292 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,360 I told you I don't like that. 293 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:33,720 Please give me the file. 294 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,640 It's right here in my jeans. 295 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,520 That's where it's going to stay until you lead me to my share of that dough. 296 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:40,520 You'll get it. 297 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:41,520 You'll get it. 298 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:42,880 Chum, you listen. 299 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:47,920 I can pick up 500 fish by turning in an escaped prisoner, or you can dig up that treasure 300 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,560 chest and buy this file for half the dough. 301 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,480 It's over 100 miles away. 302 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,320 I can't ride a train or a bus with these on my wrist. 303 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,360 It's okay, chum. 304 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:58,640 We'll walk. 305 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,680 I've done it before. 306 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:02,720 But we'll be seen. 307 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:03,720 Not at night. 308 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,040 Oh, how will I eat? 309 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,040 Where will we sleep? 310 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,520 You'll sleep in the woods and I'll bring your grub to you. 311 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:15,480 Me, I'll sleep in town where I'll be snug and safe. 312 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,400 You don't take this file from me, chum. 313 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:24,680 Not till I see my half of the dough. 314 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,280 And that's how it was. 315 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:28,920 That same evening we started to walk. 316 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,240 At first it wasn't as bad as I made it sound. 317 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,800 It gave me time to think. 318 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,120 And I knew I'd think of something. 319 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:37,880 Don't start thinking I trust you, chum. 320 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:38,880 I don't. 321 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,360 A lot of things can happen before we get there. 322 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,560 I'll do what's fair. 323 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,560 We'll split. 324 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,680 If we don't, I'll split your skull. 325 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,400 Don't kid yourself that I won't. 326 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:57,800 I've been waiting a long time for a break like this. 327 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:58,800 We walked. 328 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,400 For the handcuffs digging so deep into my flesh that I began to believe they were part 329 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:04,400 of me. 330 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,880 Yeah, yeah, she brought me food. 331 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:08,560 But she wouldn't come close enough to hand it to me. 332 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,920 And every time I reached for anything it was torture. 333 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,280 My hands and wrists, they were a mass of misery. 334 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,440 As though I were a pet animal on a leash. 335 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,280 My friend always walked six paces behind me. 336 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,000 Oh, she was smart. 337 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,360 I realized I had to get away from her and soon. 338 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:31,000 The morning I decided to do it, she found me a shack to hole up in. 339 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,080 I could hardly wait for her to leave going to town. 340 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,280 This place looks good. 341 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,680 I'll meet you back here tonight. 342 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:39,680 All right. 343 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:40,680 All right. 344 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:41,680 See you tonight. 345 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,800 That's the way I like you, chum. 346 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Nice and agreeable. 347 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:46,800 Well, why not? 348 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:47,800 Why shouldn't I be? 349 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,800 I'll see you tonight, as usual. 350 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Sure. 351 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,800 Is there anything special you'd like me to bring you to eat? 352 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,800 No, nothing special. 353 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,800 Chum, I think you better turn around. 354 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:03,800 Why? 355 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,800 Because! 356 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:17,200 When I awoke with a dull ache filling my head, I found myself neatly trussed up. 357 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,640 I could move a little, but not enough to get free. 358 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,840 You talk about female intuition. 359 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,040 She had guessed that I was going to try to get away from her, and she just beat me to 360 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:28,040 it. 361 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,040 I didn't give up, though. 362 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,440 She would have to make one mistake. 363 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,320 The next night, we'd stop for a rest. 364 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,400 How can you be sure this stuff is still there? 365 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,400 Look, it's safe. 366 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:40,400 How do you know? 367 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:41,960 What kind of a place did you hide it in? 368 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:42,960 You'll see. 369 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,720 Now, get out that file. 370 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,400 When I see the dough, little Chum... 371 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,120 Take them off, will you? 372 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:50,120 How long do you think... 373 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:51,120 Shut up! 374 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:53,120 Now, wake up the neighbors. 375 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:54,600 Now, move. 376 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:55,760 No! 377 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:56,760 I said move! 378 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:57,760 No! 379 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,040 That money is mine. 380 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,120 You'll never see it unless I want you to, and we'll go to it the way I say. 381 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:07,440 Chum, you're making me mad. 382 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,600 You get out that file and take these off. 383 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,560 Now, go on, get it out! 384 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,840 I can give orders, too. 385 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,840 What do you think you are, an animal trainer? 386 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,280 Now, that's not a bad idea. 387 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:21,480 Is it? 388 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:27,200 But it happens I'm not an animal, and it also hap... 389 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,760 What's that for? 390 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,400 You can't frighten me with a knife. 391 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,400 You use that on me, and we both lose out. 392 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:36,400 You gonna get up? 393 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:37,400 No. 394 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:38,400 This will hurt. 395 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,400 I'll get you out. 396 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,680 I'll kill you someday. 397 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,560 I swear I'll kill you. 398 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,880 I had a husband like you. 399 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,640 Brave enough outside, but once anybody put on the pressure... 400 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:50,880 You talk too much. 401 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,360 Go on, I'm calling your bluff. 402 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,360 I'm sick of hearing you talk. 403 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:58,360 All right. 404 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:02,360 Keep away from me. 405 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:15,720 Keep away. 406 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:16,720 We walked. 407 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,720 Oh, I hated her. 408 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:25,760 And she... she was sure she'd beat me down altogether because she didn't even bother 409 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,320 now to make lousy jokes at me anymore. 410 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,320 Oh, she was very quiet after that. 411 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,520 And a little careless. 412 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:39,440 I stopped now and then she'd bump into me in the darkness, but I just never had a chance 413 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,000 to get my hands on her. 414 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,400 Then a couple of mornings later I said, here it is. 415 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:47,400 What? 416 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:48,400 The money. 417 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,400 Where? 418 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,400 We're standing over it. 419 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,400 Are you trying to kid me? 420 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:52,400 We're standing in the middle of the highway. 421 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,400 You didn't do any digging here, chum. 422 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,720 Look, there's a culvert running under the road here, a 24-inch pipe. 423 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,480 Come on into the ditch, I'll show you. 424 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,120 You didn't stick that dough in the pipe. 425 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,360 It had washed away. 426 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,360 It's not in the pipe. 427 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:11,880 It's in a deep crevice between the pipe and the concrete. 428 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,600 Pull out some of those stones. 429 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:15,600 You pull them out. 430 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,400 With these hands, I can't touch anything without screaming, pull them out. 431 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,800 Prince, help me. 432 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:22,800 If this is a gag... 433 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:23,800 She believed me. 434 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:24,800 She had to. 435 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:25,800 She saw the truth in my eyes. 436 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,840 The money was there in my quarter of a million. 437 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,760 She bent over to tug at the stones. 438 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,640 She turned her back to me for the first time. 439 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:35,640 That was it. 440 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,680 That was a mistake I was waiting for. 441 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,680 I sprang forward and I... 442 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,680 Christ, a hand comes down on her head. 443 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,680 The back of her head. 444 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,680 Her head and her neck. 445 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,680 I can't... 446 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:50,680 All the pain, the pain of my wrist. 447 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:51,680 But I didn't care. 448 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:52,680 I just didn't care. 449 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:53,680 I just didn't care. 450 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:54,680 I just didn't care. 451 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:55,680 I just didn't care. 452 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:56,680 I just didn't care. 453 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:57,680 I just didn't care. 454 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:58,680 I just didn't care. 455 00:20:58,680 --> 00:20:59,680 She was dead. 456 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:00,680 I couldn't move. 457 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:01,680 My hands... 458 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:02,680 My poor hands. 459 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:09,680 I had to wait till the shark drained all of them. 460 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:17,240 I reached into her pockets for the file. 461 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,920 It isn't there. 462 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,920 Must be in this one. 463 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:23,920 No. 464 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,400 No, no file. 465 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,600 She hasn't got a file. 466 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,600 She never had one. 467 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,600 The cheat. 468 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:31,600 The dirty little cheat. 469 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:32,600 Come on, little children. 470 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:33,600 Come on, babies. 471 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,600 Two hundred and fifty thousand beautiful babies. 472 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:35,600 Come on. 473 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:36,600 I can't get a hold on it. 474 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,600 I need another few inches. 475 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:38,600 I can't. 476 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,600 I can't with these handcuffs on. 477 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,600 I need one arm free. 478 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,600 You handcuffs. 479 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:42,600 You doubt-breakers. 480 00:21:42,600 --> 00:22:01,600 I'll have to rip my hands off. 481 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:22,600 I've got the money. 482 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,320 That's the way I found him, Chief. 483 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,320 Sitting in a ditch beside the dead girl. 484 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,600 He hasn't stopped babbling since. 485 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:29,600 All right. 486 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:30,600 Lock him up. 487 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,080 I'll notify the city authorities. 488 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:51,800 Tell them we got Earl French here. 489 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:59,200 Suspense in which Mr. Tony Barrett starred in tonight's presentation of Give Me Liberty. 490 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,080 Next week, Suspense will bring you a repeat performance of one of the most controversial 491 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,400 stories ever heard over your radio. 492 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,020 It's called Zero Hour, written by Mr. Ray Bradbury. 493 00:23:10,020 --> 00:23:13,240 Be sure to listen to Zero Hour. 494 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:34,920 It's next week on Suspense. 495 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,240 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 496 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,400 Tonight's script was written by Herb Meadows. 497 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,560 It was composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 498 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:49,520 Featured in the cast were Michael Ann Barrett, Lou Merrill, Helen Klebe, Richard Beals, and 499 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:58,480 Jack Carroll. 500 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:24,200 Get a real squad car with Nightwatch Thursdays on the CBS Radio Network.