WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.400 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:14.400 --> 00:21.560 Tonight, the transcribed story of life and death in an African colony. 00:21.560 --> 00:24.500 We call it, Lily and the Colonel. 00:24.500 --> 00:30.160 So now, starring Ramsey Hill and John Alderson with Paula Winslow, here is tonight's Suspense 00:30.160 --> 00:37.960 play, Lily and the Colonel. 00:37.960 --> 00:57.520 I first met Colonel M.O.V. Abinathy at the Rift Valley Club, Kenya colony, East Africa. 00:57.520 --> 01:01.400 Possibly being a sandhurst man, a lieutenant with a Lancashire fuseliers had something 01:01.400 --> 01:04.080 to do with my invitation into the Hallet Circle. 01:04.080 --> 01:07.760 At all events, I was invited and I went. 01:07.760 --> 01:08.760 Sandhurst, eh? 01:08.760 --> 01:09.760 That's right, sir. 01:09.760 --> 01:10.760 Sandhurst. 01:10.760 --> 01:13.760 I was sandhurst myself, 1917. 01:13.760 --> 01:15.760 That's all, sir. 01:15.760 --> 01:16.760 Well. 01:16.760 --> 01:18.600 Still turning them out the way they used to. 01:18.600 --> 01:21.760 Not knowing how they used to turn them out, I couldn't say, sir. 01:21.760 --> 01:22.760 Capital. 01:22.760 --> 01:24.760 At least they turn them out with humor. 01:24.760 --> 01:27.760 The only thing that's kept me alive, you know, is sense of humor. 01:27.760 --> 01:29.280 Yes, I can see that. 01:29.280 --> 01:32.680 And now you are here to save us from the Mau Mau. 01:32.680 --> 01:34.760 I'm quite sure you can save yourselves, Colonel. 01:34.760 --> 01:38.760 But of course we could if it weren't for the bunglers and their, well, their infernal 01:38.760 --> 01:39.760 bungling. 01:39.760 --> 01:52.400 The second time I met Colonel Abinathy was under quite different circumstances. 01:52.400 --> 01:58.760 My patrol had been called to the farm of one James C. Curry to investigate a murder. 01:58.760 --> 02:04.000 On the way, I stopped by Colonel Abinathy's house and brought him along in case identification 02:04.000 --> 02:06.080 was needed. 02:06.080 --> 02:10.760 On viewing the remains, the Colonel decided it was the body of James C. Curry himself 02:10.760 --> 02:13.280 lying under the rose bush. 02:13.280 --> 02:16.000 None of us said a word until we reached his house. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.640 You need a drink. 02:17.640 --> 02:19.640 I could use one, sir. 02:19.640 --> 02:20.640 Good. 02:20.640 --> 02:21.640 Mingumbe. 02:21.640 --> 02:22.640 Good morning, daddy. 02:22.640 --> 02:23.640 You back for now? 02:23.640 --> 02:24.640 Tell your mistress. 02:24.640 --> 02:25.640 She have blast a headache. 02:25.640 --> 02:26.640 I tell her you'll come back. 02:26.640 --> 02:27.640 Headache. 02:27.640 --> 02:28.640 All the girls in the house are going to be in trouble. 02:28.640 --> 02:29.640 I'll tell her to go to the doctor. 02:29.640 --> 02:30.640 I'll tell her to go to the doctor. 02:30.640 --> 02:31.640 I'll tell her to go to the doctor. 02:31.640 --> 02:32.640 I'll tell her to go to the doctor. 02:32.640 --> 02:33.640 I'll tell her to go to the doctor. 02:33.640 --> 02:34.640 I'll tell her to go to the doctor. 02:34.640 --> 02:35.640 All is having a headache. 02:35.640 --> 02:36.640 Oh, oh, sit down, Lieutenant. 02:36.640 --> 02:38.140 You'll have your drink in a moment. 02:38.140 --> 02:39.520 Thank you, sir. 02:39.520 --> 02:44.700 Incidentally, while your boy is out, may I ask, sir, is he Chikuyu? 02:44.700 --> 02:45.700 Ingumbe? 02:45.700 --> 02:46.700 No. 02:46.700 --> 02:47.700 He's a Jolou'o. 02:47.700 --> 02:49.280 I think his tribe is Jolou'o. 02:49.280 --> 02:51.200 Yes, I'm almost positive. 02:51.200 --> 02:53.000 You're not sure he is Jolou'o? 02:53.000 --> 02:56.800 Well, one can't be certain with these boys you know, but I'll ask him when he comes back. 02:56.800 --> 02:58.600 Mr Abinathy, it's a headache much better. 02:58.600 --> 03:00.720 She will come in a moment. 03:00.720 --> 03:01.720 Good. 03:01.720 --> 03:02.720 Ingumbe. 03:02.720 --> 03:04.920 Yes, Moana. I will fix it. 03:06.420 --> 03:07.920 Tell you, Temple, that I'm ab... 03:08.020 --> 03:10.020 I beg your pardon, Colonel. Will you ask... 03:10.420 --> 03:12.520 Oh, yes, yes, yes. In Gumby. 03:12.620 --> 03:13.620 Moana? 03:13.720 --> 03:14.720 What are you? 03:14.820 --> 03:15.820 Moana? 03:15.920 --> 03:17.020 Tribe. What tribe you belong to? 03:17.120 --> 03:19.920 I am Jaloo. 03:20.420 --> 03:22.220 Do the Jaloo have Ma-Mao? 03:23.020 --> 03:24.720 What the devil you do that for? 03:24.820 --> 03:26.720 Don't stand there quaking like an idiot. 03:27.120 --> 03:28.120 What do you say? 03:28.220 --> 03:30.420 Ma-Mao is only Kip-Sige and Kikuyu. 03:30.820 --> 03:31.920 I am Jaloo. 03:31.920 --> 03:32.920 Jaloo? 03:33.020 --> 03:34.020 Very well. 03:34.120 --> 03:36.620 Now give Lieutenant Temple his drink and then get out. 03:36.720 --> 03:37.720 Yes, Moana. 03:37.820 --> 03:39.120 Your drink, Moana. 03:39.220 --> 03:40.620 Blast, you idiot. 03:44.720 --> 03:46.120 I don't believe him. 03:46.820 --> 03:47.820 You think he's Kikuyu? 03:47.920 --> 03:48.920 I do. 03:49.020 --> 03:50.620 And the sooner you rid of him, the better. 03:50.720 --> 03:54.020 Hmm. Every head boy a Ma-Mao. Is that it? 03:55.220 --> 03:57.220 Hmm. Weak, sir. Weak. 03:57.520 --> 03:58.720 It happened to Curry. 03:59.120 --> 04:00.320 Could happen to others. 04:00.320 --> 04:02.020 So you still want to save me? 04:02.420 --> 04:05.020 I'm only here to do what I can, sir. It's my job. 04:05.120 --> 04:07.720 Young man, what happened to Curry didn't happen to me. 04:07.820 --> 04:09.820 There are still those who know how to handle this thing. 04:09.920 --> 04:11.320 And alone, if necessary. 04:11.820 --> 04:15.020 In my day, we knew how to keep the Wog in his place. 04:15.120 --> 04:17.220 Full justice, mind you, but uh... 04:17.720 --> 04:18.720 Also this. 04:19.320 --> 04:21.820 That pistol of yours may have seen its day, sir. 04:21.920 --> 04:23.020 Times are changing. 04:23.120 --> 04:25.820 Only because men have become too weak to prevent it, sir. 04:25.920 --> 04:28.120 Oh, Julian. Julian. 04:28.220 --> 04:30.020 Have you seen Tabakin? 04:30.020 --> 04:32.320 I don't know where that cat can be. 04:34.820 --> 04:36.320 It was the Colonel's lady. 04:36.920 --> 04:39.520 She stood half in shadow in the doorway. 04:39.820 --> 04:41.920 With something of a smile on her lips. 04:42.520 --> 04:45.320 An attractive woman, I thought, in her forties, but... 04:45.620 --> 04:48.320 When she came towards us and the light fell on her... 04:48.820 --> 04:53.720 I could see that what might have been attractive was only an illusion of powder and rouge. 04:54.020 --> 04:57.920 Heavily proportioned and badly applied to an aging, unhappy face. 04:57.920 --> 05:00.620 My dear, may I present Mr. Charles Temple? 05:00.720 --> 05:01.720 How do you do? 05:01.820 --> 05:02.820 How do you do? 05:02.920 --> 05:04.020 Please sit down. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.620 As a matter of fact, I was just leaving. 05:05.720 --> 05:07.220 Oh, no. No, please. 05:07.720 --> 05:11.420 It isn't often that I have an opportunity to talk to a handsome young man. 05:11.720 --> 05:13.920 And from the outside world, too. 05:17.120 --> 05:18.920 What happened today, dear? 05:19.220 --> 05:20.620 Why did you run out so quickly? 05:20.720 --> 05:21.220 Well, you... 05:21.320 --> 05:24.020 Oh, Julian never tells me anything. I'm always in the dark. 05:24.120 --> 05:26.620 I'm afraid that I'm responsible today, Mrs. Abbott. 05:26.620 --> 05:27.820 I needed his help. 05:27.920 --> 05:28.720 Help? 05:28.820 --> 05:30.820 Mr. Temple will tell you. I'm off to bed. 05:30.920 --> 05:31.820 Good night. 05:31.920 --> 05:32.920 Good night, sir. 05:33.020 --> 05:34.020 And... 05:34.120 --> 05:36.320 Please think over what I said. 05:36.420 --> 05:37.820 Get rid of your boy. 05:37.920 --> 05:40.320 Young man, I like you. 05:40.420 --> 05:44.020 But as for your advice, I shall handle my affairs my way. 05:44.420 --> 05:45.420 Good night. 05:49.320 --> 05:53.320 Well, Mr. Temple, what was it Julian said you'd tell me? 05:53.320 --> 05:55.920 One of your neighbors was killed today. 05:56.020 --> 05:57.820 Killed? Who? 05:57.920 --> 05:59.420 James Curry. 05:59.520 --> 06:01.220 Jim Curry. 06:01.620 --> 06:03.220 Jim Curry? 06:03.720 --> 06:05.520 Who'd want to kill Jim Curry? 06:05.620 --> 06:07.320 Oh, why? Why? 06:07.420 --> 06:09.020 Mrs. Abinanti, please. 06:09.120 --> 06:10.320 No. 06:10.420 --> 06:11.420 You know, I... 06:11.520 --> 06:13.520 I'm quite all right. 06:14.320 --> 06:15.820 How did it happen? 06:15.920 --> 06:17.020 Mow, mow. 06:17.120 --> 06:18.320 Mow, mow. 06:19.420 --> 06:20.420 The... 06:20.520 --> 06:21.520 The... 06:21.620 --> 06:22.620 The... 06:22.620 --> 06:24.120 There must be a way out. 06:24.220 --> 06:25.620 There must be. 06:25.720 --> 06:27.120 Let me get you something. 06:27.220 --> 06:28.220 Oh, yes. 06:37.620 --> 06:39.120 Here. Drink this. 06:39.220 --> 06:40.220 Oh, thank you. 06:43.820 --> 06:45.320 Oh, it's better. 06:45.420 --> 06:47.920 Oh, that's better. Much better. 06:48.020 --> 06:50.120 I had to, but I must go now, Mrs. Abinanti. 06:50.220 --> 06:51.420 Oh, please don't. 06:51.420 --> 06:52.720 Sit beside me. 06:52.820 --> 06:54.720 Let me call the colonel. He can be with you. 06:54.820 --> 06:56.120 But he can't help me. 06:56.220 --> 06:57.520 More than I can, I'm sure. 06:57.620 --> 06:59.120 Now, please, let me... 07:04.820 --> 07:06.920 It lay broken at our feet. 07:07.020 --> 07:10.320 A cat strung up by the neck to a willow branch. 07:10.420 --> 07:12.320 Mrs. Abinanti's cat. 07:12.420 --> 07:14.820 And outside, somewhere in the dark, 07:14.920 --> 07:16.320 beyond the shattered window, 07:16.420 --> 07:18.320 were those who had done the thing. 07:18.320 --> 07:21.420 It was the mow, mow. 07:35.520 --> 07:37.420 Probably miles away by now. 07:37.520 --> 07:39.020 I'm afraid so. 07:40.620 --> 07:41.620 Wait. 07:41.620 --> 07:44.120 No, no, no. 07:44.220 --> 07:46.320 No, no, no. 07:46.420 --> 07:49.820 No, no, no, no. 07:49.920 --> 07:51.020 Give me a hand. 07:51.120 --> 07:52.420 There. 07:52.520 --> 07:54.320 Recognise him? 07:54.420 --> 07:56.120 Never seen this one before. 07:56.220 --> 07:57.520 Got him in the stomach. 07:57.620 --> 07:59.220 Said get him to a hospital right away. 07:59.320 --> 08:00.420 Take him under the shoulder. 08:00.420 --> 08:01.620 Recognize him? 08:01.620 --> 08:03.420 Never seen this one before. 08:03.420 --> 08:04.620 Got him in the stomach. 08:04.620 --> 08:06.620 Said get him to a hospital right away. 08:06.620 --> 08:07.820 Take him under the shoulder. 08:07.820 --> 08:09.220 We'll carry him to the car. 08:14.820 --> 08:18.220 Took him to the nearest clinic at Thompson Falls. 08:18.220 --> 08:21.020 And all night he hovered between life and death. 08:21.020 --> 08:24.620 All night I questioned him vainly and much of the next day. 08:24.620 --> 08:28.220 Toward the end, I asked him if he knew he was dying. 08:28.220 --> 08:30.620 He rolled his head toward me. 08:30.620 --> 08:33.620 And the look in his eyes showed that he knew he was. 08:33.620 --> 08:36.220 It was then that all my questions were answered. 08:36.220 --> 08:37.820 Name, September. 08:37.820 --> 08:39.420 Tribe, Kikuyu. 08:39.420 --> 08:40.620 Maomao? 08:40.620 --> 08:42.020 Yes. 08:42.020 --> 08:43.820 Family, one brother. 08:43.820 --> 08:48.020 And this brother was Colonel Abernethy's head boy in Gumby. 08:48.020 --> 08:50.420 I went back to the Colonel's house. 08:56.420 --> 08:57.820 Who's there? 08:57.820 --> 08:59.220 Left in the temple, ma'am. 08:59.220 --> 09:02.820 Oh, thank goodness you're coming. 09:02.820 --> 09:04.620 Oh, I'm all alone. 09:04.620 --> 09:06.220 Where's the Colonel and the Gumby? 09:06.220 --> 09:07.620 They've been gone all day. 09:07.620 --> 09:09.020 They left me alone. 09:09.020 --> 09:10.620 I've never been so terrified in my life. 09:10.620 --> 09:11.620 Will he be back soon? 09:11.620 --> 09:15.220 My tabacons and the shooting. 09:15.220 --> 09:17.020 Oh, yes, they'll be back soon. 09:17.020 --> 09:18.420 I'll wait for him then. 09:18.420 --> 09:21.620 He gave me a pistol and said I must carry it with me until he comes back. 09:21.620 --> 09:23.020 That's very wise. 09:23.020 --> 09:24.620 I hate them. 09:24.620 --> 09:27.820 They're for killing. 09:27.820 --> 09:30.820 Sit down, Mr. Temple. 09:30.820 --> 09:34.620 Oh, I must look a fright. 09:34.620 --> 09:38.820 No make-up and this old gown. 09:38.820 --> 09:40.820 You must think I look a fright. 09:40.820 --> 09:43.020 Not at all. You look very well indeed. 09:43.020 --> 09:46.620 Well, thank you, kind sir, she said. 09:49.420 --> 09:51.420 May I make you a drink? 09:51.420 --> 09:53.420 No, thank you, Mrs. Abernethy. 09:53.420 --> 09:56.220 Well, I think I shall have one. 09:59.820 --> 10:03.820 If I don't look out, I shall become a drunkard. 10:03.820 --> 10:05.020 A solitary drunkard. 10:05.020 --> 10:08.020 I'm sure you're much too sensible for that. 10:08.020 --> 10:11.620 Well, Julian doesn't think I'm sensible. 10:11.620 --> 10:13.620 He calls me silly. 10:13.620 --> 10:19.220 Oh, that'll make me feel much better. 10:19.220 --> 10:23.220 You know, you're awfully nice. 10:23.220 --> 10:26.220 You're not like the other men. 10:26.220 --> 10:27.820 You seem very kind. 10:27.820 --> 10:29.220 I'm not really. 10:29.220 --> 10:30.620 Quite the opposite. 10:30.620 --> 10:33.220 I beat children the second Tuesday of every month. 10:33.220 --> 10:36.420 Oh, I gather you're married then. 10:36.420 --> 10:37.620 Somebody in England? 10:37.620 --> 10:39.020 No, I'm not married. 10:39.020 --> 10:40.620 Mrs. Abernethy. 10:40.620 --> 10:43.820 I have something to tell you. I thought of waiting for the Colonel, 10:43.820 --> 10:45.620 but since you should know about it too, I... 10:45.620 --> 10:48.020 If it's anything unpleasant, I won't hear it. 10:48.020 --> 10:50.420 It concerns you very directly. You should listen. 10:50.420 --> 10:52.620 No, no, no, no. 10:52.620 --> 10:57.420 We shall talk of everything, but not about Kenya or Africa 10:57.420 --> 11:03.420 and Colonel's and poor unhappy natives and everything. 11:03.420 --> 11:05.220 Very well, I'll wait for the Colonel. 11:05.220 --> 11:08.220 Oh, now you've been wounded. 11:08.220 --> 11:14.220 The handsome soldier has been wounded on the battlefield of the sexes. 11:14.220 --> 11:18.220 Now here, drink from my glass. 11:18.220 --> 11:20.220 Here. 11:20.220 --> 11:23.820 Oh, now not just a sip. 11:23.820 --> 11:27.220 All right, just a sip. 11:27.220 --> 11:29.620 There. 11:29.620 --> 11:33.620 Jim Currie thought I was attractive. 11:33.620 --> 11:36.220 Am I attractive? 11:36.220 --> 11:40.220 Am I attractive, Charles? 11:40.220 --> 11:43.020 Why, yes, yes, of course. 11:43.020 --> 11:44.820 No, I mean to you. 11:44.820 --> 11:47.420 Well, after all, you're a married woman and well, you know. 11:47.420 --> 11:51.820 No, no, no, sit quietly and listen. 11:51.820 --> 11:57.220 If I told you that you're the handsomest man I know 11:57.220 --> 11:59.620 and if I told you that I was in love with you... 11:59.620 --> 12:01.020 Mrs. Abernethy. 12:01.020 --> 12:04.420 Would you take me away with you? 12:04.420 --> 12:09.220 Would you put me in your pocket and take me? 12:09.220 --> 12:12.420 Of course, right in my pocket. 12:12.420 --> 12:15.020 Well, I... 12:15.020 --> 12:19.420 I don't feel very well. 12:19.420 --> 12:24.420 I think I shall lie down. 12:28.220 --> 12:30.420 Poor old... 12:30.420 --> 12:33.420 Oh, Temple, I thought I couldn't be here when you came. 12:33.420 --> 12:34.620 Where is Lily? 12:34.620 --> 12:35.820 She's not well. 12:35.820 --> 12:38.020 I think last night was a bit too much for her. 12:38.020 --> 12:39.020 She's resting. 12:39.020 --> 12:42.020 Tell me, what happened to that beggar you shot? 12:42.020 --> 12:44.820 The man died early this afternoon. 12:44.820 --> 12:46.820 I was right about Ingambuy. 12:46.820 --> 12:48.020 What do you mean? 12:48.020 --> 12:50.020 We questioned the native all night. 12:50.020 --> 12:52.820 Since before he died, he confessed that he belonged to the Mau Mau. 12:52.820 --> 12:54.820 What does that to do with Ingambuy? 12:54.820 --> 12:57.820 They're brothers. 12:57.820 --> 13:00.020 Then he is a Kikuyu after all. 13:00.020 --> 13:02.020 Get rid of him, but quietly. 13:02.020 --> 13:03.620 I want to aggravate the situation. 13:03.620 --> 13:05.020 A lying devil. 13:05.020 --> 13:06.620 Don't worry, I know what to do. 13:06.620 --> 13:07.820 One more thing. 13:07.820 --> 13:09.820 I want you to place a light in your front window. 13:09.820 --> 13:10.820 What for? 13:10.820 --> 13:12.820 We shall be patrolling the valley tonight. 13:12.820 --> 13:15.420 We'll have a clear view of your house most of the time. 13:15.420 --> 13:17.820 In the event something happens, turn out the light. 13:17.820 --> 13:20.620 We'll know then that you're in trouble and we'll be along in a jiffy. 13:20.620 --> 13:21.620 Right you are. 13:21.620 --> 13:24.020 Well, I must be off now. 13:24.020 --> 13:26.220 Goodbye, Colonel. 13:26.220 --> 13:29.620 Please be careful with Ingambuy. 13:29.620 --> 13:36.620 Goodbye, Teppel. 13:36.620 --> 13:39.620 That's the last I saw of Colonel Abernathy. 13:39.620 --> 13:42.620 Now I must piece together the remainder of the story 13:42.620 --> 13:46.820 from details related to me by Ingambuy himself. 13:46.820 --> 13:48.820 I've thought of it many times. 13:48.820 --> 13:52.020 And although Ingambuy was punished for what he did, 13:52.020 --> 14:05.220 I cannot in good conscience hold him totally responsible for what went wrong. 14:05.220 --> 14:06.820 Ingambuy! 14:06.820 --> 14:07.820 Yes, why not? 14:07.820 --> 14:09.220 Come here. 14:09.220 --> 14:10.220 Why not? 14:10.220 --> 14:11.820 Ingambuy, you're a liar. 14:11.820 --> 14:13.420 Why not? 14:13.420 --> 14:14.220 What do you mean? 14:14.220 --> 14:16.020 You know very well what I mean. 14:16.020 --> 14:18.220 There was a man shot here last night and he was your brother. 14:18.220 --> 14:19.820 No, no. 14:19.820 --> 14:22.420 My brother is on the reserve. 14:22.420 --> 14:26.820 He died here this morning and he said he was your brother. 14:26.820 --> 14:29.620 My brother died? 14:29.620 --> 14:32.020 Moreover, you belong to the Kikuyu tribe. 14:32.020 --> 14:33.620 No. 14:33.620 --> 14:35.420 You would lie to my face, you dog. 14:35.420 --> 14:37.020 No, no. 14:37.020 --> 14:40.220 Maybe some Kikuyu, but I good head boy. 14:40.220 --> 14:43.020 I do not tolerate lying by anyone. 14:43.020 --> 14:44.220 Oh, no. Please. 14:44.220 --> 14:46.020 You shall be punished for this. 14:46.020 --> 14:49.420 I hope at least you can stand up your medicine. 14:49.420 --> 14:51.420 Medicine? 14:51.420 --> 14:53.620 Put your hands to your side. 14:53.620 --> 14:56.020 To your side, I said. 14:56.020 --> 14:58.020 Stand straight. 15:01.020 --> 15:03.220 That will teach you to lie. 15:03.220 --> 15:06.020 Now get your things together and get out. 15:06.020 --> 15:08.620 I shall pay you when you leave. 15:08.620 --> 15:10.220 I said go. 15:10.220 --> 15:12.620 Buona. 15:12.620 --> 15:18.620 If you hit me with hand closed, it is good. 15:18.620 --> 15:22.620 And I am a man too. 15:22.620 --> 15:26.620 But you hit me with open hand. 15:26.620 --> 15:29.420 That make me not a man. 15:29.420 --> 15:31.820 Get out and tell your maumau dogs 15:31.820 --> 15:34.220 if they want the same medicine to come to me. 15:34.220 --> 15:35.420 And I'll give it to them. 15:35.420 --> 15:37.420 Get out. 15:40.020 --> 15:41.620 Dogs, filthy dogs. 15:41.620 --> 15:45.020 I'll shoot all of them, every one of them. 15:45.020 --> 15:46.420 What are you doing, Julian? 15:46.420 --> 15:49.620 Moving the lamp over to the window, obviously. 15:49.620 --> 15:51.620 Oh? What for? 15:51.620 --> 15:54.220 Mr. Temple wants it to remain on all night. 15:54.220 --> 15:57.420 Ah. Such a lovely young man. 15:57.420 --> 15:59.420 Will you listen to what I'm telling you? 15:59.420 --> 16:03.420 Mr. Temple wants it to remain on all night, I heard. 16:06.020 --> 16:06.620 Why? 16:06.620 --> 16:10.420 If for any reason you need Mr. Temple's help, you're to turn it off. 16:10.420 --> 16:12.220 He will see it and he will come to you at once. 16:12.220 --> 16:14.220 How nice. 16:14.220 --> 16:17.220 Turn it off and he'll come to me at once. 16:17.220 --> 16:18.620 Did he really say that? 16:18.620 --> 16:20.620 Yes, yes, yes. Now, another thing. 16:20.620 --> 16:22.020 I have dismissed in Gumby. 16:22.020 --> 16:23.420 I know. 16:23.420 --> 16:25.820 I was watching through the door. 16:25.820 --> 16:29.220 I saw you strike him bravely, Colonel. 16:29.220 --> 16:30.620 Don't say it that way. 16:30.620 --> 16:32.420 It was the only way to make him understand. 16:32.420 --> 16:35.420 It's the only way they'd understand who's the master. 16:35.420 --> 16:37.820 There's too much molly coddling with these people. 16:37.820 --> 16:39.020 Oh, is there? 16:39.020 --> 16:40.220 Oh, no matter, no matter. 16:40.220 --> 16:42.220 Now, where's your pistol? 16:42.220 --> 16:44.220 I don't know and I don't care. 16:44.220 --> 16:46.020 Oh, in the name of heaven, 16:46.020 --> 16:48.420 I told you to carry it with you at all times. 16:48.420 --> 16:51.620 Can't you understand this for your own good? 16:51.620 --> 16:53.820 Here, take mine. 16:53.820 --> 16:57.620 And I expect you to keep it with you all the time. 16:57.620 --> 16:59.220 Do you understand? 16:59.220 --> 17:00.820 I don't want it. 17:00.820 --> 17:02.220 It's hateful. 17:02.220 --> 17:03.420 Everything here is hateful. 17:03.420 --> 17:04.020 Lily. 17:04.020 --> 17:05.020 I'm leaving. 17:05.020 --> 17:07.220 I'm going away, far away, 17:07.220 --> 17:10.020 from this house, from Kenya, from you. 17:10.020 --> 17:10.820 You're drunk. 17:10.820 --> 17:12.420 Yes, I am. 17:12.420 --> 17:13.820 And I'll have some more. 17:13.820 --> 17:15.420 Stop it, Lily. 17:15.420 --> 17:17.020 Give me that bottle. 17:17.020 --> 17:18.020 Give it to me. 17:21.420 --> 17:23.420 I'm sorry. 17:23.420 --> 17:26.020 Sorry? 17:26.020 --> 17:29.620 You're sorry. 17:29.620 --> 17:33.520 You don't know what it is to be sorry. 17:33.520 --> 17:37.220 I've been sorry for 25 years. 17:37.220 --> 17:39.720 I'm sick. 17:39.720 --> 17:42.620 I'm sick for living with you. 17:42.620 --> 17:46.420 The way you stand, the way you walk, 17:46.420 --> 17:51.620 parade grounds, always on parade. 17:51.620 --> 17:53.120 Oh, that's right. 17:53.120 --> 17:54.020 Run away. 17:54.020 --> 17:55.420 Go off. 17:55.420 --> 17:57.320 You never talked to me. 17:57.320 --> 17:58.820 You never did. 17:58.820 --> 18:03.620 You never gave me anything, anything kind, anything nice. 18:03.620 --> 18:06.120 I don't think I want it now because I don't. 18:06.120 --> 18:07.020 I don't want it. 18:07.020 --> 18:08.620 Do you hear me? 18:08.620 --> 18:09.820 Go on, run away. 18:09.820 --> 18:11.720 Go on. 18:11.720 --> 18:12.720 I don't care. 18:12.720 --> 18:14.720 I don't care. 18:14.720 --> 18:16.220 I don't care anymore. 18:16.220 --> 18:17.720 I don't care. 18:17.720 --> 18:18.720 I don't care. 18:18.720 --> 18:19.720 You're right. 18:19.720 --> 18:23.220 I don't care. 18:23.220 --> 18:24.720 I'm not crying. 18:24.720 --> 18:26.220 I don't care. 18:26.220 --> 18:27.720 You're not crying. 18:33.720 --> 18:36.720 This means one night. 18:36.720 --> 18:38.120 What? 18:38.120 --> 18:41.320 Who's there? 18:41.320 --> 18:44.620 Who's there? 18:44.620 --> 18:46.720 Do you hear me? 18:46.720 --> 18:48.220 Blast you. 18:48.220 --> 18:49.120 Do you hear me? 18:49.120 --> 18:49.920 Blast you. 18:49.920 --> 18:50.920 Do you hear me? 18:50.920 --> 18:51.420 Where? 18:51.420 --> 18:52.220 Where are you? 18:56.220 --> 18:57.520 Ingunby? 18:57.520 --> 18:58.220 Is that you? 18:58.220 --> 18:58.720 Ingunby? 18:58.720 --> 19:00.420 Is that me? 19:00.420 --> 19:01.720 I'm armed. 19:01.720 --> 19:03.520 Come closer and I'll shoot. 19:03.520 --> 19:05.620 I can see all of you. 19:05.620 --> 19:07.520 I can see you better. 19:07.520 --> 19:09.620 You're not armed. 19:09.620 --> 19:12.520 Look, you forgot this one. 19:12.520 --> 19:13.820 Blast. 19:13.820 --> 19:15.420 Ingunby, now listen to me. 19:15.420 --> 19:16.420 I forbid you to do this. 19:16.420 --> 19:17.820 Do you hear? 19:17.820 --> 19:23.620 Now, stand out in the open where I can see you. 19:23.620 --> 19:25.320 You're a coward, Ingunby. 19:25.320 --> 19:27.320 And I don't deal with cowards. 19:27.320 --> 19:31.620 If you have grievances, we shall talk them over as men. 19:31.620 --> 19:32.520 Do you hear me? 19:32.520 --> 19:35.720 Today, you hit me. 19:35.720 --> 19:37.620 You make me not a man. 19:37.620 --> 19:39.120 You deserved it. 19:39.120 --> 19:43.320 Now, now, now stand out in the open where I can see you. 19:43.320 --> 19:46.220 Be a man, blast you. 19:46.220 --> 19:48.020 Ingunby. 19:48.020 --> 19:49.420 Ingunby. 19:49.420 --> 19:51.620 I say, come out here. 19:51.620 --> 19:54.320 You, you cowardly devil. 19:54.320 --> 19:56.620 Julian? 19:56.620 --> 19:58.620 Julian? 19:58.620 --> 20:02.620 I, I know you're out there. 20:02.620 --> 20:04.320 I mean what I said. 20:04.320 --> 20:07.620 I'm going away. 20:07.620 --> 20:09.420 Julian? 20:09.420 --> 20:11.620 Julian? 20:11.620 --> 20:12.620 Oh, very well. 20:12.620 --> 20:14.620 Don't answer me then. 20:14.620 --> 20:16.620 I'm going away. 20:16.620 --> 20:18.620 Julian? 20:18.620 --> 20:20.620 Julian? 20:20.620 --> 20:22.620 Julian? 20:22.620 --> 20:29.420 Oh, you're a fool. 20:29.420 --> 20:35.420 You could have kept me if you were kind. 20:35.420 --> 20:39.920 I only want kindness. 20:39.920 --> 20:43.220 Lieutenant Temple is kind. 20:43.220 --> 20:46.320 Oh, oh, yes. 20:46.320 --> 20:48.420 How stupid of me. 20:48.420 --> 20:50.620 The lights. 20:50.620 --> 21:01.420 Julian said that Mr. Temple would come to me if I turned off the lights. 21:01.420 --> 21:09.520 Now, now he'll come to me. 21:09.520 --> 21:11.420 Charles Temple? 21:11.420 --> 21:14.920 Is that you? 21:14.920 --> 21:18.520 You must have been waiting just outside. 21:18.520 --> 21:20.220 Oh, it is you. 21:20.220 --> 21:22.020 It is. 21:22.020 --> 21:29.020 Oh, oh, you've come for me. 21:29.020 --> 21:34.520 Did you come to take me away in your pocket? 21:34.520 --> 21:40.420 Oh, oh, no, no, no. 21:40.420 --> 21:41.920 No! 21:41.920 --> 21:51.920 When I arrived with the patrol, the house was dark. 21:51.920 --> 21:56.920 Our men found the colonel lying dead in a thorn bush. 21:56.920 --> 22:03.920 I found the colonel's lady, poor unhappy woman, at the screen door to the veranda. 22:03.920 --> 22:06.920 There was a strong smell of whiskey about it. 22:06.920 --> 22:11.920 Turned my head away. 22:11.920 --> 22:38.620 Suspense, in which Ramsey Hill and John Alderson with Paula Winslow starred in tonight's transcribed 22:38.620 --> 22:43.420 presentation of Lily and the Colonel. 22:43.420 --> 22:59.620 Be sure to listen next week to Suspense. 22:59.620 --> 23:02.720 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 23:02.720 --> 23:05.420 Tonight's script was written by Mr. John Danaer. 23:05.420 --> 23:10.320 The music was composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:10.320 --> 23:37.320 Directed in the cast were Dave Young and Joe Duvall.