WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:18.000 --> 00:22.680 Tonight the story of a handicapped man and the woman who holds the key to his freedom. 00:22.680 --> 00:25.720 We call it, Give Me Liberty. 00:25.720 --> 00:43.960 So now, starring Mr. Tony Barrett, here is tonight's Suspense play, Give Me Liberty. 00:43.960 --> 00:47.760 I embezzled a quarter of a million dollars. 00:47.760 --> 00:52.920 I want you to know that needed brains, planning, patience. 00:52.920 --> 00:57.240 I devoted three years of my life to the trick and I got away with it. 00:57.240 --> 01:00.240 Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 01:00.240 --> 01:03.800 Of course they caught me, very easily. 01:03.800 --> 01:06.480 But they couldn't find the money. 01:06.480 --> 01:09.120 I wouldn't tell them where it was. 01:09.120 --> 01:10.920 I got seven years for it. 01:10.920 --> 01:14.640 My right wrist was handcuffed to the left wrist of a detective and they put me aboard 01:14.640 --> 01:17.520 a train bound for the penitentiary. 01:17.520 --> 01:22.080 I could see that the detective had had instructions to soften me up. 01:22.080 --> 01:24.000 He was much, much too kind. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.400 You comfortable Mr. French? 01:26.400 --> 01:28.040 You want a magazine? 01:28.040 --> 01:29.040 Any anything? 01:29.040 --> 01:35.040 I'd like to be able to lift my hand without raising yours into the air. 01:35.040 --> 01:38.680 Can't you guard me without being quite so attached to me? 01:38.680 --> 01:41.480 Why sure, I guess we can work that out. 01:41.480 --> 01:47.080 Tell you what, you sit next to the window, I'll kind of box you in and that way you can 01:47.080 --> 01:50.360 wear the cuffs all by yourself and nobody loses. 01:50.360 --> 01:52.120 Now, thank you. 01:52.120 --> 01:55.120 Let me get my keys. 01:55.120 --> 01:58.120 There. 01:58.120 --> 02:04.960 Funny thing, most guys say the biggest trouble is when you read a paper. 02:04.960 --> 02:08.280 Five inches of chain don't give you much room to turn a page. 02:08.280 --> 02:09.280 I'm not worrying. 02:09.280 --> 02:12.380 I'll have seven years for reading. 02:12.380 --> 02:15.600 Seven years and a quarter of a minute. 02:15.600 --> 02:20.480 Hey, how smart does a guy have to be to get his hooks on so much lettuce? 02:20.480 --> 02:22.480 Would you like some of it? 02:22.480 --> 02:23.480 Are you kidding? 02:23.480 --> 02:26.040 Well, all right, let's make a deal. 02:26.040 --> 02:29.840 You drop the key to these things on the floor and then go have yourself a nice lunch. 02:29.840 --> 02:30.840 Oh, sure. 02:30.840 --> 02:33.320 And when do I see Mr. French again? 02:33.320 --> 02:35.640 When I meet you to pay off. 02:35.640 --> 02:38.760 I wouldn't be taking kind of a chance there, would I? 02:38.760 --> 02:43.400 You know, to tell the truth, you wouldn't be taking a chance at all. 02:43.400 --> 02:44.400 How come? 02:44.400 --> 02:48.680 Oh, why should I escape, be on the run the rest of my life? 02:48.680 --> 02:49.680 No. 02:49.680 --> 02:52.760 No, this has to go according to plan. 02:52.760 --> 02:53.760 Planning. 02:53.760 --> 02:55.640 That's what gives a man his future. 02:55.640 --> 02:58.000 But you've got a long stretch ahead. 02:58.000 --> 03:02.920 How do you know that whoever's holding the stuff on the gun... 03:02.920 --> 03:07.720 Was a stupid conversation and I was only making words. 03:07.720 --> 03:11.120 I looked out at the fields and brooks and houses rushing past. 03:11.120 --> 03:16.760 I wouldn't see these things for seven years, not counting time off or good behavior. 03:16.760 --> 03:21.800 But then I'd be free again and I'd have my quarter million. 03:21.800 --> 03:23.280 Not a bad salary, huh? 03:23.280 --> 03:27.080 Oh, I'd use my brains for myself this time. 03:27.080 --> 03:28.920 Some guys will do anything for dough. 03:28.920 --> 03:30.920 Now, take you seven years... 03:30.920 --> 03:31.920 Everybody, hold on! 03:31.920 --> 03:32.920 There's another train on the track! 03:32.920 --> 03:47.120 Our car lay on its side in flames and most passengers who could move got through the 03:47.120 --> 03:48.120 broken window. 03:48.120 --> 03:49.760 French, give me your hand. 03:49.760 --> 03:51.960 It was the detective, his legs pinned by the wreckage. 03:51.960 --> 03:52.960 Move, will you? 03:52.960 --> 03:53.960 You want to see me roasted? 03:53.960 --> 03:55.560 What can I do with my hands like this? 03:55.560 --> 03:56.560 Where do you carry the key? 03:56.560 --> 03:57.560 What do you want with a key? 03:57.560 --> 03:58.560 You can pull me out by an arm, can't you? 03:58.560 --> 03:59.560 Crap me by the hand. 03:59.560 --> 04:00.560 Get out of me! 04:00.560 --> 04:03.160 We'll both die here if I can't use my hands. 04:03.160 --> 04:04.160 You can use them good enough. 04:04.160 --> 04:05.160 Where's that key? 04:05.160 --> 04:06.160 I can't find it. 04:06.160 --> 04:07.160 French and Eden, my pockets were on the floor. 04:07.160 --> 04:08.160 You're a liar, French. 04:08.160 --> 04:11.520 The fire, get me out of here, please. 04:11.520 --> 04:13.400 The only weapon was a suitcase. 04:13.400 --> 04:14.520 I kicked him in the face. 04:14.520 --> 04:18.080 I smashed the suitcase down in his head. 04:18.080 --> 04:19.480 And he didn't have the key. 04:19.480 --> 04:24.120 I emptied his pockets down to the last crumb of tobacco while the fire crept closer. 04:24.120 --> 04:26.080 He hadn't the key to the handcuffs. 04:26.080 --> 04:28.360 And I wanted it. 04:28.360 --> 04:29.640 Because this wouldn't be an escape. 04:29.640 --> 04:30.640 This would be a disappearance. 04:30.640 --> 04:31.640 What a chance. 04:31.640 --> 04:32.640 What a chance. 04:32.640 --> 04:33.640 I would have my liberty and I'd have my money. 04:33.640 --> 04:34.640 Is somebody in that car? 04:34.640 --> 04:35.640 There's somebody moving there. 04:35.640 --> 04:36.640 Is there anybody in that car? 04:36.640 --> 04:37.640 Is there anybody? 04:37.640 --> 04:45.400 Hey Pete, hey Pete, put that extinguisher over this way. 04:45.400 --> 04:47.360 I threw away his pistol. 04:47.360 --> 04:48.360 I wouldn't need a gun. 04:48.360 --> 04:49.920 I used my head. 04:49.920 --> 04:51.680 I squeezed my college ring on his finger. 04:51.680 --> 04:52.680 I switched wallets. 04:52.680 --> 04:53.680 Is there anybody in that car? 04:53.680 --> 04:54.680 Hey Pete, this way. 04:54.680 --> 04:55.680 Over here. 04:55.680 --> 04:56.680 Over here. 04:56.680 --> 05:02.480 There was a conductor out there, a crowd of passengers. 05:02.480 --> 05:04.440 I got to the opposite side of the car. 05:04.440 --> 05:05.440 No one. 05:05.440 --> 05:06.440 Not a soul. 05:06.440 --> 05:09.440 And there wasn't a splinter of glass left in the window. 05:09.440 --> 05:11.960 I slid down the side of the car. 05:11.960 --> 05:12.960 I cleared the wheels. 05:12.960 --> 05:13.960 I struck the ground running. 05:13.960 --> 05:19.960 A few moments, a few hundred steps and I was safe in the darkness. 05:19.960 --> 05:20.960 I was free. 05:20.960 --> 05:23.600 They'd think I was dead. 05:23.600 --> 05:27.920 But I had a quarter of a million dollars. 05:27.920 --> 05:47.640 You are listening to Give Me Liberty, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 05:47.640 --> 05:58.520 of thrills, Suspense. 05:58.520 --> 06:02.960 Tomorrow night, CBS radio's FBI in Peace and War goes into a car stealing racket that 06:02.960 --> 06:06.760 involves a youth from one of the community's most respected families. 06:06.760 --> 06:11.440 Don't miss the facts about the neighborhood boy on the FBI in Peace and War tomorrow night 06:11.440 --> 06:13.360 on most of these same stations. 06:13.360 --> 06:19.400 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Tony Barrett, starring in tonight's production 06:19.400 --> 06:38.840 of Give Me Liberty, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 06:38.840 --> 06:43.520 My first job after escaping was to break out of those manacles. 06:43.520 --> 06:48.640 I sat in a wheat field holding my arms overhead so the blood would run from my hands and wrists 06:48.640 --> 06:51.000 and leave them slim. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.720 Then I tried to pull them off. 06:53.720 --> 06:56.240 Didn't work. 06:56.240 --> 06:59.080 And I couldn't snap the chain. 06:59.080 --> 07:05.480 I twisted it, I pulled at it, I tried to fling my hands apart and it wouldn't break. 07:05.480 --> 07:11.840 I rubbed it against stones until my skin was torn and bleeding and it wouldn't break. 07:11.840 --> 07:14.440 By this time it was morning. 07:14.440 --> 07:18.840 It wasn't until then that I knew I had to have help. 07:18.840 --> 07:23.000 I pushed through the wheat and the corn beyond it. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.120 I stumbled down a slope in an old barnyard. 07:26.120 --> 07:32.480 A woman was standing near one of the hen houses, a pan of chicken feed in her hand. 07:32.480 --> 07:35.720 What do you want? 07:35.720 --> 07:38.720 There was nothing I could say. 07:38.720 --> 07:41.720 She had seen the handcuffs. 07:41.720 --> 07:44.720 Come on, what do you want? 07:44.720 --> 07:45.720 I'm hungry. 07:45.720 --> 07:46.720 Where are you from? 07:46.720 --> 07:47.720 How'd you get away? 07:47.720 --> 07:48.720 We were going up to the prison. 07:48.720 --> 07:49.720 There was an accident. 07:49.720 --> 07:52.320 Well, what do you want from me? 07:52.320 --> 07:58.360 Look, you'll lend me a file and if you could spare some food, I'll be glad to pay you. 07:58.360 --> 08:00.960 You don't have to pay me for anything. 08:00.960 --> 08:01.960 Wait here. 08:01.960 --> 08:04.520 Jack, you're watching. 08:04.520 --> 08:09.160 She went into the house and the dog got down on its belly and put its nose between its 08:09.160 --> 08:14.760 paws and its eyes never left my face for a minute. 08:14.760 --> 08:18.360 Then through the stillness, I heard the cranking of an old fashioned wall telephone and I knew 08:18.360 --> 08:29.600 what she was doing. 08:29.600 --> 08:31.640 I couldn't get them off. 08:31.640 --> 08:35.240 I couldn't get the handcuffs off. 08:35.240 --> 08:36.240 I couldn't get anything to eat. 08:36.240 --> 08:38.680 I couldn't show myself. 08:38.680 --> 08:43.240 You know what it means to see food all about you and not be able to buy it. 08:43.240 --> 08:45.320 Don't tell me I could have eaten corn, fruit and roots. 08:45.320 --> 08:49.200 I can tell you the nature of every dog in that area, the feel of every barbed wire fence 08:49.200 --> 08:51.240 and the sound of every rifle and shotgun. 08:51.240 --> 08:52.240 That was him, Harry. 08:52.240 --> 08:53.240 That was him down on the brush. 08:53.240 --> 08:58.240 Get around to the other side. 08:58.240 --> 09:02.520 I crept into a village one night. 09:02.520 --> 09:05.760 I forced up the window of a hardware store. 09:05.760 --> 09:10.120 I wanted a file, just a file. 09:10.120 --> 09:13.520 You know what they carry in hardware stores these days? 09:13.520 --> 09:19.840 Glassware, kitchen gadgets, garden tools, seeds, ovens, rat poison, dresses. 09:19.840 --> 09:22.360 Then I moved behind a counter. 09:22.360 --> 09:25.800 A hardware store has to have a file somewhere. 09:25.800 --> 09:41.080 My foot struck a wire stretched across the floor. 09:41.080 --> 09:42.560 How tired have you been? 09:42.560 --> 09:52.520 Have you ever been so tired that you thought you'd die if you wanted to die? 09:52.520 --> 09:58.320 On the evening of the fourth day of my liberty, I crawled quietly to the garbage can back 09:58.320 --> 09:59.600 of a roadside diner. 09:59.600 --> 10:02.480 I began to pull about for something I could ease. 10:02.480 --> 10:04.600 There was a step behind me. 10:04.600 --> 10:06.960 I turned and it was a boy. 10:06.960 --> 10:08.360 We looked at each other for a long moment. 10:08.360 --> 10:10.120 He was waiting for me to speak. 10:10.120 --> 10:13.160 I said, hello, Sonny. 10:13.160 --> 10:14.160 Hello. 10:14.160 --> 10:17.440 You, you live in this neighborhood? 10:17.440 --> 10:18.440 Yeah. 10:18.440 --> 10:20.440 I, I don't. 10:20.440 --> 10:22.440 I'm traveling. 10:22.440 --> 10:24.040 With handcuffs on? 10:24.040 --> 10:26.720 Oh, these, yeah. 10:26.720 --> 10:28.960 Well, a friend put them on me for a joke. 10:28.960 --> 10:30.480 Say, that gives me an idea. 10:30.480 --> 10:33.200 Sonny, look, would you do me a big favor? 10:33.200 --> 10:34.200 Depends on how big. 10:34.200 --> 10:36.200 I'll say it's worth $10. 10:36.200 --> 10:40.040 You, you'll get me a file or chop them off with an axe or something like that, huh? 10:40.040 --> 10:41.040 No. 10:41.040 --> 10:42.040 I'll let you keep them there. 10:42.040 --> 10:43.040 They're fun. 10:43.040 --> 10:44.040 No. 10:44.040 --> 10:47.640 Well, then would you do something else for me? 10:47.640 --> 10:48.640 Depends. 10:48.640 --> 10:52.960 Well, you know, I'm a little embarrassed about going in a lunch wagon like this. 10:52.960 --> 10:55.880 Would you step in there and buy a few hamburgers for me? 10:55.880 --> 10:56.880 How much? 10:56.880 --> 10:57.880 It's the same $10. 10:57.880 --> 10:58.880 Let's see the money. 10:58.880 --> 11:04.680 I got it right here in my pocket, ready to jump into your hand. 11:04.680 --> 11:08.120 A lot of things a boy can buy with $10. 11:08.120 --> 11:09.120 There we are. 11:09.120 --> 11:12.120 How do I know it's good? 11:12.120 --> 11:14.920 Don't, don't you trust me? 11:14.920 --> 11:17.480 Drop it on the ground. 11:17.480 --> 11:18.960 Drop it? 11:18.960 --> 11:19.960 Why? 11:19.960 --> 11:22.480 You drop it and back away, then I'll pick it up. 11:22.480 --> 11:25.480 Oh, say that's very smart. 11:25.480 --> 11:28.720 All right, how's that? 11:28.720 --> 11:29.720 Far enough? 11:29.720 --> 11:30.720 I guess. 11:30.720 --> 11:35.440 He picked it up, began to walk around the diner. 11:35.440 --> 11:37.440 When he was out of reach, he started to run. 11:37.440 --> 11:51.640 I got away and I couldn't tear them off. 11:51.640 --> 11:53.080 I couldn't. 11:53.080 --> 11:57.880 I had $250,000 buried away and it was worthless to me. 11:57.880 --> 12:01.560 Do you know what can be bought with a quarter of a million? 12:01.560 --> 12:10.680 A man's soul can be bought for less, but I couldn't buy a $0.10 file. 12:10.680 --> 12:16.120 I spent that night in a nest of cast off railroad ties, stacked at a siding. 12:16.120 --> 12:20.800 When I opened my eyes in the morning, I had company. 12:20.800 --> 12:25.220 A very tough looking hobo in blue jeans and a navy coat. 12:25.220 --> 12:28.680 She was counting my money, smoothing each bill with loving care. 12:28.680 --> 12:30.840 She grinned when she saw that I was awake. 12:30.840 --> 12:33.320 Good morning, chum. 12:33.320 --> 12:35.280 You sleep like an honest man. 12:35.280 --> 12:37.520 What's the matter, chum? 12:37.520 --> 12:39.480 Never speak till they bring your orange juice? 12:39.480 --> 12:41.520 Look, I'm in trouble. 12:41.520 --> 12:43.360 I want you to help me. 12:43.360 --> 12:44.680 To get the bracelets off? 12:44.680 --> 12:45.680 Yes, yes. 12:45.680 --> 12:48.760 Now, chum, wouldn't that be kind of silly? 12:48.760 --> 12:50.960 I might lose all this harder and dull. 12:50.960 --> 12:52.760 Look, there's more where that came from. 12:52.760 --> 12:53.760 A lot more. 12:53.760 --> 12:54.760 I'll make it richer. 12:54.760 --> 12:58.760 Yeah, yeah, I've heard that one before. 12:58.760 --> 13:00.760 So long, chum. 13:00.760 --> 13:01.760 Listen, listen. 13:01.760 --> 13:03.760 I've got a quarter of a million dollars. 13:03.760 --> 13:04.760 Yeah, I know. 13:04.760 --> 13:06.480 I get feelings like that. 13:06.480 --> 13:07.760 Look, come back, will you? 13:07.760 --> 13:08.760 It's true. 13:08.760 --> 13:09.760 Don't you read the papers? 13:09.760 --> 13:10.760 I'm Earl French. 13:10.760 --> 13:12.360 I never heard of you. 13:12.360 --> 13:14.960 Look, look, just go into town and buy one of the newspapers. 13:14.960 --> 13:15.960 It's six days ago. 13:15.960 --> 13:20.800 I stole $250,000. 13:20.800 --> 13:23.520 And you're wearing those things so they won't pick your own pockets. 13:23.520 --> 13:25.760 Oh, please, don't try to be clever. 13:25.760 --> 13:27.040 Don't you understand? 13:27.040 --> 13:30.500 I died in the train wreck near Scottsville. 13:30.500 --> 13:34.600 You, uh, you're sure about that, chum? 13:34.600 --> 13:36.440 You died only a few days ago? 13:36.440 --> 13:38.960 No, no, they only think I did. 13:38.960 --> 13:42.280 Get those newspapers and come back here with a file and some food. 13:42.280 --> 13:45.360 Ah, chum, don't order me around. 13:45.360 --> 13:47.200 Just take it easy. 13:47.200 --> 13:51.200 Maybe I'll be back. 13:51.200 --> 13:56.520 I waited for all through the long, blistering day, crouching within the four walls of railroad 13:56.520 --> 13:57.920 ties. 13:57.920 --> 14:00.400 I knew she'd be back. 14:00.400 --> 14:01.400 She couldn't resist it. 14:01.400 --> 14:03.120 I knew she'd be back. 14:03.120 --> 14:06.920 Chum, it seems you were a very important guy in your time. 14:06.920 --> 14:08.920 You, you saw the papers? 14:08.920 --> 14:09.920 Yeah. 14:09.920 --> 14:12.040 Yeah, and I got news for you. 14:12.040 --> 14:15.200 Mr. French, you are now burned to a crisp. 14:15.200 --> 14:17.040 That's the way they found you in the train. 14:17.040 --> 14:20.040 Recognize me by the ring on my finger? 14:20.040 --> 14:21.040 Yeah. 14:21.040 --> 14:24.320 Yeah, you're dead all right. 14:24.320 --> 14:25.320 You and 250 grand. 14:25.320 --> 14:26.320 All right, all right. 14:26.320 --> 14:27.320 We'll come to that later. 14:27.320 --> 14:28.520 Look, get to work with a file. 14:28.520 --> 14:30.720 Now, look, you're giving me orders again. 14:30.720 --> 14:32.360 I told you I don't like that. 14:32.360 --> 14:33.720 Please give me the file. 14:33.720 --> 14:36.640 It's right here in my jeans. 14:36.640 --> 14:39.520 That's where it's going to stay until you lead me to my share of that dough. 14:39.520 --> 14:40.520 You'll get it. 14:40.520 --> 14:41.520 You'll get it. 14:41.520 --> 14:42.880 Chum, you listen. 14:42.880 --> 14:47.920 I can pick up 500 fish by turning in an escaped prisoner, or you can dig up that treasure 14:47.920 --> 14:50.560 chest and buy this file for half the dough. 14:50.560 --> 14:52.480 It's over 100 miles away. 14:52.480 --> 14:55.320 I can't ride a train or a bus with these on my wrist. 14:55.320 --> 14:57.360 It's okay, chum. 14:57.360 --> 14:58.640 We'll walk. 14:58.640 --> 15:00.680 I've done it before. 15:00.680 --> 15:02.720 But we'll be seen. 15:02.720 --> 15:03.720 Not at night. 15:03.720 --> 15:05.040 Oh, how will I eat? 15:05.040 --> 15:07.040 Where will we sleep? 15:07.040 --> 15:10.520 You'll sleep in the woods and I'll bring your grub to you. 15:10.520 --> 15:15.480 Me, I'll sleep in town where I'll be snug and safe. 15:15.480 --> 15:18.400 You don't take this file from me, chum. 15:18.400 --> 15:24.680 Not till I see my half of the dough. 15:24.680 --> 15:27.280 And that's how it was. 15:27.280 --> 15:28.920 That same evening we started to walk. 15:28.920 --> 15:31.240 At first it wasn't as bad as I made it sound. 15:31.240 --> 15:33.800 It gave me time to think. 15:33.800 --> 15:36.120 And I knew I'd think of something. 15:36.120 --> 15:37.880 Don't start thinking I trust you, chum. 15:37.880 --> 15:38.880 I don't. 15:38.880 --> 15:42.360 A lot of things can happen before we get there. 15:42.360 --> 15:44.560 I'll do what's fair. 15:44.560 --> 15:45.560 We'll split. 15:45.560 --> 15:49.680 If we don't, I'll split your skull. 15:49.680 --> 15:51.400 Don't kid yourself that I won't. 15:51.400 --> 15:57.800 I've been waiting a long time for a break like this. 15:57.800 --> 15:58.800 We walked. 15:58.800 --> 16:03.400 For the handcuffs digging so deep into my flesh that I began to believe they were part 16:03.400 --> 16:04.400 of me. 16:04.400 --> 16:06.880 Yeah, yeah, she brought me food. 16:06.880 --> 16:08.560 But she wouldn't come close enough to hand it to me. 16:08.560 --> 16:10.920 And every time I reached for anything it was torture. 16:10.920 --> 16:14.280 My hands and wrists, they were a mass of misery. 16:14.280 --> 16:16.440 As though I were a pet animal on a leash. 16:16.440 --> 16:19.280 My friend always walked six paces behind me. 16:19.280 --> 16:22.000 Oh, she was smart. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.360 I realized I had to get away from her and soon. 16:25.360 --> 16:31.000 The morning I decided to do it, she found me a shack to hole up in. 16:31.000 --> 16:35.080 I could hardly wait for her to leave going to town. 16:35.080 --> 16:37.280 This place looks good. 16:37.280 --> 16:38.680 I'll meet you back here tonight. 16:38.680 --> 16:39.680 All right. 16:39.680 --> 16:40.680 All right. 16:40.680 --> 16:41.680 See you tonight. 16:41.680 --> 16:44.800 That's the way I like you, chum. 16:44.800 --> 16:45.800 Nice and agreeable. 16:45.800 --> 16:46.800 Well, why not? 16:46.800 --> 16:47.800 Why shouldn't I be? 16:47.800 --> 16:49.800 I'll see you tonight, as usual. 16:49.800 --> 16:50.800 Sure. 16:50.800 --> 16:55.800 Is there anything special you'd like me to bring you to eat? 16:55.800 --> 16:58.800 No, nothing special. 16:58.800 --> 17:02.800 Chum, I think you better turn around. 17:02.800 --> 17:03.800 Why? 17:03.800 --> 17:04.800 Because! 17:04.800 --> 17:17.200 When I awoke with a dull ache filling my head, I found myself neatly trussed up. 17:17.200 --> 17:20.640 I could move a little, but not enough to get free. 17:20.640 --> 17:23.840 You talk about female intuition. 17:23.840 --> 17:27.040 She had guessed that I was going to try to get away from her, and she just beat me to 17:27.040 --> 17:28.040 it. 17:28.040 --> 17:30.040 I didn't give up, though. 17:30.040 --> 17:32.440 She would have to make one mistake. 17:32.440 --> 17:36.320 The next night, we'd stop for a rest. 17:36.320 --> 17:38.400 How can you be sure this stuff is still there? 17:38.400 --> 17:39.400 Look, it's safe. 17:39.400 --> 17:40.400 How do you know? 17:40.400 --> 17:41.960 What kind of a place did you hide it in? 17:41.960 --> 17:42.960 You'll see. 17:42.960 --> 17:44.720 Now, get out that file. 17:44.720 --> 17:47.400 When I see the dough, little Chum... 17:47.400 --> 17:49.120 Take them off, will you? 17:49.120 --> 17:50.120 How long do you think... 17:50.120 --> 17:51.120 Shut up! 17:51.120 --> 17:53.120 Now, wake up the neighbors. 17:53.120 --> 17:54.600 Now, move. 17:54.600 --> 17:55.760 No! 17:55.760 --> 17:56.760 I said move! 17:56.760 --> 17:57.760 No! 17:57.760 --> 18:00.040 That money is mine. 18:00.040 --> 18:04.120 You'll never see it unless I want you to, and we'll go to it the way I say. 18:04.120 --> 18:07.440 Chum, you're making me mad. 18:07.440 --> 18:09.600 You get out that file and take these off. 18:09.600 --> 18:11.560 Now, go on, get it out! 18:11.560 --> 18:14.840 I can give orders, too. 18:14.840 --> 18:16.840 What do you think you are, an animal trainer? 18:16.840 --> 18:20.280 Now, that's not a bad idea. 18:20.280 --> 18:21.480 Is it? 18:21.480 --> 18:27.200 But it happens I'm not an animal, and it also hap... 18:27.200 --> 18:29.760 What's that for? 18:29.760 --> 18:31.400 You can't frighten me with a knife. 18:31.400 --> 18:35.400 You use that on me, and we both lose out. 18:35.400 --> 18:36.400 You gonna get up? 18:36.400 --> 18:37.400 No. 18:37.400 --> 18:38.400 This will hurt. 18:38.400 --> 18:39.400 I'll get you out. 18:39.400 --> 18:42.680 I'll kill you someday. 18:42.680 --> 18:44.560 I swear I'll kill you. 18:44.560 --> 18:46.880 I had a husband like you. 18:46.880 --> 18:49.640 Brave enough outside, but once anybody put on the pressure... 18:49.640 --> 18:50.880 You talk too much. 18:50.880 --> 18:52.360 Go on, I'm calling your bluff. 18:52.360 --> 18:55.360 I'm sick of hearing you talk. 18:55.360 --> 18:58.360 All right. 18:58.360 --> 19:02.360 Keep away from me. 19:02.360 --> 19:15.720 Keep away. 19:15.720 --> 19:16.720 We walked. 19:16.720 --> 19:19.720 Oh, I hated her. 19:19.720 --> 19:25.760 And she... she was sure she'd beat me down altogether because she didn't even bother 19:25.760 --> 19:28.320 now to make lousy jokes at me anymore. 19:28.320 --> 19:32.320 Oh, she was very quiet after that. 19:32.320 --> 19:34.520 And a little careless. 19:34.520 --> 19:39.440 I stopped now and then she'd bump into me in the darkness, but I just never had a chance 19:39.440 --> 19:42.000 to get my hands on her. 19:42.000 --> 19:46.400 Then a couple of mornings later I said, here it is. 19:46.400 --> 19:47.400 What? 19:47.400 --> 19:48.400 The money. 19:48.400 --> 19:49.400 Where? 19:49.400 --> 19:50.400 We're standing over it. 19:50.400 --> 19:51.400 Are you trying to kid me? 19:51.400 --> 19:52.400 We're standing in the middle of the highway. 19:52.400 --> 19:57.400 You didn't do any digging here, chum. 19:57.400 --> 20:01.720 Look, there's a culvert running under the road here, a 24-inch pipe. 20:01.720 --> 20:03.480 Come on into the ditch, I'll show you. 20:03.480 --> 20:05.120 You didn't stick that dough in the pipe. 20:05.120 --> 20:06.360 It had washed away. 20:06.360 --> 20:07.360 It's not in the pipe. 20:07.360 --> 20:11.880 It's in a deep crevice between the pipe and the concrete. 20:11.880 --> 20:14.600 Pull out some of those stones. 20:14.600 --> 20:15.600 You pull them out. 20:15.600 --> 20:19.400 With these hands, I can't touch anything without screaming, pull them out. 20:19.400 --> 20:21.800 Prince, help me. 20:21.800 --> 20:22.800 If this is a gag... 20:22.800 --> 20:23.800 She believed me. 20:23.800 --> 20:24.800 She had to. 20:24.800 --> 20:25.800 She saw the truth in my eyes. 20:25.800 --> 20:28.840 The money was there in my quarter of a million. 20:28.840 --> 20:31.760 She bent over to tug at the stones. 20:31.760 --> 20:34.640 She turned her back to me for the first time. 20:34.640 --> 20:35.640 That was it. 20:35.640 --> 20:37.680 That was a mistake I was waiting for. 20:37.680 --> 20:39.680 I sprang forward and I... 20:39.680 --> 20:42.680 Christ, a hand comes down on her head. 20:42.680 --> 20:45.680 The back of her head. 20:45.680 --> 20:48.680 Her head and her neck. 20:48.680 --> 20:49.680 I can't... 20:49.680 --> 20:50.680 All the pain, the pain of my wrist. 20:50.680 --> 20:51.680 But I didn't care. 20:51.680 --> 20:52.680 I just didn't care. 20:52.680 --> 20:53.680 I just didn't care. 20:53.680 --> 20:54.680 I just didn't care. 20:54.680 --> 20:55.680 I just didn't care. 20:55.680 --> 20:56.680 I just didn't care. 20:56.680 --> 20:57.680 I just didn't care. 20:57.680 --> 20:58.680 I just didn't care. 20:58.680 --> 20:59.680 She was dead. 20:59.680 --> 21:00.680 I couldn't move. 21:00.680 --> 21:01.680 My hands... 21:01.680 --> 21:02.680 My poor hands. 21:02.680 --> 21:09.680 I had to wait till the shark drained all of them. 21:09.680 --> 21:17.240 I reached into her pockets for the file. 21:17.240 --> 21:19.920 It isn't there. 21:19.920 --> 21:22.920 Must be in this one. 21:22.920 --> 21:23.920 No. 21:23.920 --> 21:26.400 No, no file. 21:26.400 --> 21:28.600 She hasn't got a file. 21:28.600 --> 21:29.600 She never had one. 21:29.600 --> 21:30.600 The cheat. 21:30.600 --> 21:31.600 The dirty little cheat. 21:31.600 --> 21:32.600 Come on, little children. 21:32.600 --> 21:33.600 Come on, babies. 21:33.600 --> 21:34.600 Two hundred and fifty thousand beautiful babies. 21:34.600 --> 21:35.600 Come on. 21:35.600 --> 21:36.600 I can't get a hold on it. 21:36.600 --> 21:37.600 I need another few inches. 21:37.600 --> 21:38.600 I can't. 21:38.600 --> 21:39.600 I can't with these handcuffs on. 21:39.600 --> 21:40.600 I need one arm free. 21:40.600 --> 21:41.600 You handcuffs. 21:41.600 --> 21:42.600 You doubt-breakers. 21:42.600 --> 22:01.600 I'll have to rip my hands off. 22:01.600 --> 22:22.600 I've got the money. 22:22.600 --> 22:24.320 That's the way I found him, Chief. 22:24.320 --> 22:26.320 Sitting in a ditch beside the dead girl. 22:26.320 --> 22:28.600 He hasn't stopped babbling since. 22:28.600 --> 22:29.600 All right. 22:29.600 --> 22:30.600 Lock him up. 22:30.600 --> 22:33.080 I'll notify the city authorities. 22:33.080 --> 22:51.800 Tell them we got Earl French here. 22:51.800 --> 22:59.200 Suspense in which Mr. Tony Barrett starred in tonight's presentation of Give Me Liberty. 22:59.200 --> 23:03.080 Next week, Suspense will bring you a repeat performance of one of the most controversial 23:03.080 --> 23:05.400 stories ever heard over your radio. 23:05.400 --> 23:10.020 It's called Zero Hour, written by Mr. Ray Bradbury. 23:10.020 --> 23:13.240 Be sure to listen to Zero Hour. 23:13.240 --> 23:34.920 It's next week on Suspense. 23:34.920 --> 23:37.240 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 23:37.240 --> 23:40.400 Tonight's script was written by Herb Meadows. 23:40.400 --> 23:43.560 It was composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:43.560 --> 23:49.520 Featured in the cast were Michael Ann Barrett, Lou Merrill, Helen Klebe, Richard Beals, and 23:49.520 --> 23:58.480 Jack Carroll. 23:58.480 --> 24:24.200 Get a real squad car with Nightwatch Thursdays on the CBS Radio Network.