WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:17.000 --> 00:20.280 Tonight the story of murder in a sealed coal mine. 00:20.280 --> 00:22.920 We call it The Cave-In. 00:22.920 --> 00:30.920 So now, starring Mr. Ben Wright, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Cave-In. 00:30.920 --> 00:47.920 Three, two, four, please. 00:47.920 --> 00:48.920 Hurry. 00:48.920 --> 00:52.600 Yes, it's the Clintwood scene. 00:52.600 --> 00:53.600 I don't know. 00:53.600 --> 00:58.600 Put in the call, will you? 00:58.600 --> 01:01.600 Mr. Gart, Mr. Gart, this is Mr. Flowers. 01:01.600 --> 01:03.600 It's a bad fall, Mr. Gart. 01:03.600 --> 01:06.600 Most of them got out, but a few are still down there. 01:06.600 --> 01:08.600 We don't know how many. 01:08.600 --> 01:10.600 I don't think there's been an explosion. 01:10.600 --> 01:19.600 Can you come down right away, sir? 01:19.600 --> 01:21.600 How is it down there, Will? 01:21.600 --> 01:23.600 I'll turn around and look, Mr. Flowers. 01:23.600 --> 01:25.600 I ran for the sake of my life when I heard it coming. 01:25.600 --> 01:27.600 Haven't you got any idea who's still in it? 01:27.600 --> 01:28.600 I'm not sure. 01:28.600 --> 01:33.600 I was working along with you, Davis, Evan Lewis and David Owen. 01:33.600 --> 01:37.600 I think maybe 4 Williams is with us too, but I can't be certain. 01:37.600 --> 01:38.600 All right. 01:38.600 --> 01:40.600 As soon as the dust is cleared a bit, we'll go down. 01:40.600 --> 01:42.600 Have any other men come up? 01:42.600 --> 01:44.600 I was the last, I think. 01:44.600 --> 01:45.600 Answer it, will you, Thomas? 01:45.600 --> 01:46.600 Yes, sir. 01:46.600 --> 02:08.600 What's the matter with the thing? 02:08.600 --> 02:10.600 Why don't they answer up there? 02:10.600 --> 02:12.600 The fall probably knocked it out. 02:12.600 --> 02:14.600 You're wasting your time. 02:14.600 --> 02:17.600 You're on a hard train, eh? 02:17.600 --> 02:20.600 Hello, hello. 02:20.600 --> 02:21.600 Wait a bit. 02:21.600 --> 02:23.600 Hello. 02:23.600 --> 02:26.600 Emeline, can you hear me? 02:26.600 --> 02:29.600 It's David Owen. 02:29.600 --> 02:30.600 Yes. 02:30.600 --> 02:31.600 Tell him what's happened. 02:31.600 --> 02:32.600 Tell him, tell him. 02:32.600 --> 02:35.600 Emeline, there's four of us in here. 02:35.600 --> 02:37.600 End of the shaft. 02:37.600 --> 02:40.600 You, Davis, Evan Lewis and me. 02:40.600 --> 02:41.600 There's... 02:41.600 --> 02:44.600 Evo Williams too, yeah. 02:44.600 --> 02:46.600 No, no, no, Evo Williams. 02:46.600 --> 02:47.600 But he's dead. 02:47.600 --> 02:59.600 And you better have a policeman ready if you ever get us out because he's been murdered. 02:59.600 --> 03:05.600 I was police inspector in charge of the district, which included Clinoeth, a village in South Wales. 03:05.600 --> 03:10.600 It was ugly, with the grey ugliness of mining country. 03:10.600 --> 03:15.600 Dirty, sullen, with the inevitable poverty. 03:15.600 --> 03:19.600 I learned what had happened from the constable who drove me to the mine. 03:19.600 --> 03:21.600 There was a light drizzle falling. 03:21.600 --> 03:25.600 And it seemed that the entire village was gathered on that desolate spot. 03:25.600 --> 03:29.600 I saw Mr. Flowers standing near a shed at the entrance. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.600 Mr. Flowers? 03:30.600 --> 03:31.600 What is it, constable? 03:31.600 --> 03:33.600 This is Inspector Glidd, sir. 03:33.600 --> 03:34.600 How do you do, sir? 03:34.600 --> 03:36.600 Mr. Flowers, any news? 03:36.600 --> 03:38.600 Relief crew's been down there two hours now, sir. 03:38.600 --> 03:40.600 Should be coming up any minute. 03:40.600 --> 03:41.600 How are they? 03:41.600 --> 03:42.600 With the three in the shaft? 03:42.600 --> 03:44.600 Mostly thirst, from what he says. 03:44.600 --> 03:46.600 Air's not too good either. 03:46.600 --> 03:49.600 Get any more details on the murdered man, Williams? 03:49.600 --> 03:50.600 Not much. 03:50.600 --> 03:54.600 He complained of a stomach ache just before the cave-in and afterwards before he died. 03:54.600 --> 03:56.600 He had convulsions like. 03:56.600 --> 03:58.600 At least that's what they say down there. 03:58.600 --> 04:00.600 Well, that sounds like poison. 04:00.600 --> 04:03.600 The shot-fireman, David Owen, talked to me on the phone from down there. 04:03.600 --> 04:05.600 He says he knows it's poison. 04:05.600 --> 04:07.600 He's a St. John's ambulance man. 04:07.600 --> 04:09.600 Any progress getting the others out? 04:09.600 --> 04:11.600 Oh, slow, very slow. 04:11.600 --> 04:12.600 It's worrying. 04:12.600 --> 04:14.600 Very, very loose down there, very loose. 04:14.600 --> 04:17.600 If there's another fall, well, you can see we can't afford to blast. 04:17.600 --> 04:19.600 I'd like to go down when you get close enough. 04:19.600 --> 04:21.600 I couldn't allow that, Inspector. 04:21.600 --> 04:23.600 Well, I'm afraid you'll have to. 04:23.600 --> 04:24.600 It's my job, you know. 04:24.600 --> 04:25.600 It's too dangerous. 04:25.600 --> 04:28.600 When those men are reached, I want to be on the spot. 04:28.600 --> 04:30.600 I'm not interested in policemen. 04:30.600 --> 04:31.600 I've got work to do. 04:31.600 --> 04:33.600 Something that might not interest you, mister. 04:33.600 --> 04:35.600 Saving lives, not haunting them. 04:35.600 --> 04:38.600 Uh, Mr. Flowers meant no offence, sir. 04:38.600 --> 04:39.600 He's worried. 04:39.600 --> 04:40.600 I don't blame him. 04:40.600 --> 04:41.600 There's Will Vaughan. 04:41.600 --> 04:42.600 Just come up from the shaft. 04:42.600 --> 04:43.600 Maybe he knows something. 04:43.600 --> 04:45.600 Will? Will Vaughan? 04:45.600 --> 04:46.600 Hello! 04:46.600 --> 04:47.600 Any news, Will? 04:47.600 --> 04:48.600 Nothing much. 04:48.600 --> 04:49.600 This is Inspector Glidd. 04:49.600 --> 04:51.600 He's here for the murder. 04:51.600 --> 04:52.600 Oh. 04:52.600 --> 04:53.600 Well, I'm glad you're here. 04:53.600 --> 04:55.600 The chaps and me were talking while we were digging. 04:55.600 --> 04:57.600 We thought somebody better know. 04:57.600 --> 04:58.600 Know? 04:58.600 --> 05:00.600 About T.4 Williams. 05:00.600 --> 05:01.600 About him? 05:01.600 --> 05:02.600 He was no good. 05:02.600 --> 05:04.600 No good at all that I've heard. 05:04.600 --> 05:06.600 No good at all that T.4 Williams. 05:06.600 --> 05:09.600 It's better you know the truth than find out lies. 05:09.600 --> 05:11.600 That's what the chaps and me decided. 05:11.600 --> 05:12.600 Ah. 05:12.600 --> 05:13.600 What is the truth? 05:13.600 --> 05:15.600 T.4 Williams was a lad with the girls. 05:15.600 --> 05:17.600 It was more than one fight he had over it. 05:17.600 --> 05:18.600 Oh. 05:18.600 --> 05:23.600 So it's a great many men in Clinoeth who are not sorry to see him gone. 05:23.600 --> 05:24.600 Well, is that all? 05:24.600 --> 05:25.600 Yes, I... 05:25.600 --> 05:27.600 I'm grieved for his wife, poor woman. 05:27.600 --> 05:30.600 She was a fool to marry him, but it was for love. 05:30.600 --> 05:33.600 Since you've gone so far, will you name some names? 05:33.600 --> 05:36.600 Oh, it would take a dozen men or more. 05:36.600 --> 05:38.600 There's those three still in the shaft. 05:38.600 --> 05:40.600 David Owen for instance. 05:40.600 --> 05:43.600 It is his daughter, Glynis, that's the latest trouble. 05:43.600 --> 05:46.600 There she is standing with, by Mr Flowers, over there, the dark girl. 05:46.600 --> 05:47.600 Oh. 05:47.600 --> 05:49.600 T.4 Williams was interested in her. 05:49.600 --> 05:50.600 Interested? 05:50.600 --> 05:53.600 Eh, from the talk of the women, it is more than that. 05:53.600 --> 05:58.600 David Owen swore he'd give Williams a terrible beating if he didn't stay away from his daughter. 05:58.600 --> 05:59.600 I see. 05:59.600 --> 06:00.600 Then you, Davis? 06:00.600 --> 06:02.600 That is Glynis's man. 06:02.600 --> 06:03.600 They are to be married. 06:03.600 --> 06:05.600 You know about the talk. 06:05.600 --> 06:07.600 You had a proper rage about it. 06:07.600 --> 06:10.600 Oh, poor chap, it does him little good now. 06:10.600 --> 06:12.600 You know that you've given those two men a motive for murder? 06:12.600 --> 06:15.600 That's only two. What about Evan Lewis? 06:15.600 --> 06:18.600 They fought for two days before the fall. 06:18.600 --> 06:20.600 And I can go on with more. 06:20.600 --> 06:22.600 You may have to, when the time comes. 06:22.600 --> 06:25.600 It'll be the whole village you can arrest before you are done. 06:25.600 --> 06:28.600 It is a great waste of time. 06:28.600 --> 06:30.600 Make your report that he died in the fall. 06:30.600 --> 06:32.600 It will save you the trouble. 06:38.600 --> 06:42.600 The day passed and it became dark. 06:42.600 --> 06:45.600 Floodlights blazed down on the mine entrance. 06:45.600 --> 06:47.600 And the crews went down. 06:47.600 --> 06:49.600 Fun came up again. 06:49.600 --> 06:53.600 The women brewed tea, made food for the men. 06:53.600 --> 06:55.600 Another day came. 06:55.600 --> 07:03.600 And the voices of those who were trapped behind tons of coal and dirt were suddenly gone. 07:03.600 --> 07:06.600 The telephone line had failed. 07:06.600 --> 07:12.600 At three o'clock in the afternoon, the superintendent sent word to me that the next crew expected to break into the craft. 07:12.600 --> 07:14.600 I was given clothing and a helmet. 07:14.600 --> 07:19.600 Then a few minutes later, a coal truck was rolling down the lines deep into the mine. 07:19.600 --> 07:22.600 Mr. Flowers and Will Vaughan were among those with me. 07:22.600 --> 07:24.600 The next day. 07:26.600 --> 07:28.600 All right, boys. 07:28.600 --> 07:30.600 Mind your head, sir. 07:30.600 --> 07:31.600 I will. 07:31.600 --> 07:33.600 We're shoring up with timbers as we go. 07:33.600 --> 07:35.600 That's the job of the shifters over there. 07:35.600 --> 07:36.600 All right, easy now. 07:36.600 --> 07:41.600 We shouldn't have more than a dozen feet to go, but slow slows the word. 07:41.600 --> 07:44.600 You two start with the picks. We'll take turns. 07:44.600 --> 07:49.600 Oh, if you must be here, you must inspect her, but stand out of the way. 07:49.600 --> 07:51.600 Give me a shovel. I can help. 07:51.600 --> 07:53.600 I'll be the first man in the pits. 07:53.600 --> 07:56.600 All right, there's one on the truck. 08:06.600 --> 08:08.600 Wait a bit. 08:09.600 --> 08:11.600 You would have made a minor, you would. 08:11.600 --> 08:13.600 I was once. 08:13.600 --> 08:15.600 I think it's easier being a policeman, isn't it? 08:15.600 --> 08:17.600 Try again. 08:17.600 --> 08:21.600 Let's see if you can get an answer, Will. 08:26.600 --> 08:27.600 Do you hear anything? 08:27.600 --> 08:29.600 No. 08:38.600 --> 08:40.600 There, there. I heard it. 08:40.600 --> 08:41.600 They're all right. 08:41.600 --> 08:43.600 Here, give me the pick. I'll have a go for a bit. 08:43.600 --> 08:47.600 Oh, thanks. I'm about done. 08:51.600 --> 08:55.600 We were working in a tunnel now big enough for only two men at a time. 08:55.600 --> 09:01.600 One working with pick, one carrying the dislodged dirt and rock to the entrance. 09:01.600 --> 09:04.600 It was a shaft within a shaft. 09:04.600 --> 09:10.600 The men could only work a few minutes at a time, and it was our turn, Will Vaughan and myself. 09:10.600 --> 09:16.600 We measured our progress by inches, lying on our stomachs, hacking at the unyielding earth, 09:16.600 --> 09:22.600 ducking as a miniature landslide fell about, coughing in the dust it raised. 09:22.600 --> 09:26.600 Will Vaughan had crawled to the tunnel entrance when my pick lodged in a seam. 09:26.600 --> 09:28.600 I tugged at it and then... 09:30.600 --> 09:32.600 I'm through! I'm through! 09:32.600 --> 09:34.600 Are you all right in there? 09:34.600 --> 09:35.600 Yes, yes. Can we get out? 09:35.600 --> 09:37.600 I hope you brought some water with you. 09:37.600 --> 09:39.600 We did. Bring some water in. 09:39.600 --> 09:41.600 Yes, we're bringing it. 09:42.600 --> 09:44.600 Ken, can you walk? 09:44.600 --> 09:47.600 All of us except Avar Williams. 09:47.600 --> 09:50.600 Come on, I don't want to look at him anymore. I'll drink outside. 09:50.600 --> 09:51.600 What's that? 09:51.600 --> 10:10.600 Come on, it's another fall. Come on! 10:10.600 --> 10:14.600 It was such a very little tunnel, wasn't it? 10:14.600 --> 10:18.600 And it took you so long to make. 10:18.600 --> 10:21.600 Now it's gone. 10:21.600 --> 10:25.600 What a shame you didn't bring in some water with you. 10:36.600 --> 10:43.600 We stood there, head spent a little, looking at what had once been the way to safety. 10:43.600 --> 10:50.600 Three feet inside the tunnel it was black, black with the solidity of a wall. 10:50.600 --> 10:54.600 I knew that the tunnel was 12 feet long, 10:54.600 --> 10:59.600 and there was no way of knowing how much of the mine had caved in beyond. 10:59.600 --> 11:02.600 I turned away. 11:02.600 --> 11:07.600 The dead man, Avar Williams, lay huddled in a corner. 11:07.600 --> 11:10.600 When I looked at him, I knew it was poison. 11:10.600 --> 11:13.600 The blue lips, fingernails. 11:13.600 --> 11:20.600 And as I moved away, I suddenly realized how thirsty I was. 11:20.600 --> 11:24.600 Might as well sit down and wait. 11:24.600 --> 11:26.600 Have you got a cigarette? 11:26.600 --> 11:27.600 Yes. 11:27.600 --> 11:30.600 No, no, it'll make you more thirsty. 11:30.600 --> 11:32.600 You should have brought water in with you. 11:32.600 --> 11:34.600 I am sorry. 11:34.600 --> 11:36.600 Oh, it's not your fault. 11:36.600 --> 11:38.600 What happened to the telephone? 11:38.600 --> 11:40.600 They don't know. 11:40.600 --> 11:42.600 They were trying to find out when I came down. 11:42.600 --> 11:44.600 Oh, well, it's not too bad. 11:44.600 --> 11:46.600 The air is better now. 11:46.600 --> 11:48.600 They'll get through again. 11:48.600 --> 11:50.600 What's your name? 11:50.600 --> 11:53.600 There, Glid. Harry Glid. 11:53.600 --> 11:56.600 He's the district inspector, Huey, didn't you know? 11:56.600 --> 12:00.600 Then that's a very dirty-faced policeman you are. 12:00.600 --> 12:03.600 Yes. 12:03.600 --> 12:04.600 What about him? 12:04.600 --> 12:06.600 The dead one? 12:06.600 --> 12:08.600 Oh, we've talked about it, the boys. 12:08.600 --> 12:10.600 Ah, what difference does it make now? 12:10.600 --> 12:12.600 It's the law, Huey. 12:12.600 --> 12:15.600 A person doesn't kill, that's the law. 12:15.600 --> 12:17.600 You think you know who did it? 12:17.600 --> 12:18.600 Yes. 12:18.600 --> 12:21.600 Remember now, I'm not agreed to it, don't forget that. 12:21.600 --> 12:22.600 Nor I. 12:22.600 --> 12:25.600 His wife, Catherine Williams. 12:25.600 --> 12:30.600 She stood more than a body can bear, and I, for one, hold no blame. 12:30.600 --> 12:32.600 Why do you think she did it? 12:32.600 --> 12:35.600 I mean, proof. 12:35.600 --> 12:38.600 Because of my daughter, Glynis. 12:38.600 --> 12:40.600 Don't say it, Mr. Owen, don't say it. 12:40.600 --> 12:43.600 There are a number of things I already know, Davis. 12:43.600 --> 12:45.600 Your Glynis never went with him, Mr. Owen. 12:45.600 --> 12:50.600 It's a dirty lie, made up by a lot of chattin' old women with nothing better to do. 12:50.600 --> 12:52.600 She's my daughter, you. 12:52.600 --> 12:54.600 I would feel it as much as you. 12:54.600 --> 12:56.600 I say it's true. 12:56.600 --> 13:00.600 Catherine Williams found out, and it was too much for her. 13:00.600 --> 13:01.600 That still isn't proof. 13:01.600 --> 13:02.600 No, it isn't. 13:02.600 --> 13:05.600 Catherine couldn't do a thing like that, she didn't. 13:05.600 --> 13:06.600 I heard him. 13:06.600 --> 13:08.600 I heard him in the pub. 13:08.600 --> 13:09.600 He was drunk and laughing. 13:09.600 --> 13:12.600 He may have tried to make up to her, but she wouldn't have let him. 13:12.600 --> 13:15.600 I was angry at the time, but Glynis wouldn't have let him. 13:15.600 --> 13:16.600 We are engaged. 13:16.600 --> 13:19.600 Nobody's arguing about that, Huwbach. 13:19.600 --> 13:20.600 Let me finish. 13:20.600 --> 13:23.600 He was saying that he had some money put away, 13:23.600 --> 13:26.600 that as soon as there were a few more pounds, 13:26.600 --> 13:29.600 he was going to divorce Catherine and take Glynis away with him. 13:29.600 --> 13:30.600 That's silly. 13:30.600 --> 13:33.600 Loud talk. You know it, Mr. Owen. 13:33.600 --> 13:34.600 That's all it was. 13:34.600 --> 13:40.600 Maybe, but if the word got back to Catherine Williams, what then? 13:40.600 --> 13:44.600 So then Catherine Williams killed him. 13:44.600 --> 13:46.600 And here we are. 13:46.600 --> 13:49.600 And who will be there to testify against her? 13:49.600 --> 13:52.600 Oh, I wish I had a drink of water. 13:52.600 --> 13:56.600 Now and again we tried the phone, but there was no sound. 13:56.600 --> 14:01.600 We sat in darkness a good deal, conserving the batteries in our lamps. 14:01.600 --> 14:05.600 And there was always the dead man in the mine. 14:05.600 --> 14:08.600 None of us wore a watch, and after a little while, 14:08.600 --> 14:11.600 time became something that was only counted in the remembrance 14:11.600 --> 14:15.600 of what seemed an age ago. 14:15.600 --> 14:18.600 And I was the only one who could remember. 14:18.600 --> 14:22.600 They had been without water for nearly two days, 14:22.600 --> 14:25.600 and I knew what a torture it was becoming. 14:25.600 --> 14:29.600 My own mouth was dry and bitter. 14:29.600 --> 14:33.600 May have been ours, may have been another day. 14:33.600 --> 14:35.600 We took turns at the little tunnel, 14:35.600 --> 14:38.600 tearing at the loose dirt and rocks with our hands, 14:38.600 --> 14:42.600 and we became tired very quickly. 14:44.600 --> 14:45.600 It's funny. 14:45.600 --> 14:48.600 What? 14:48.600 --> 14:52.600 I remember last week, I went to the tap and drank a glass of water. 14:52.600 --> 14:57.600 And then I filled the glass again because I thought I was still thirsty. 14:57.600 --> 15:01.600 But I wasn't anymore, and so I threw it away. 15:01.600 --> 15:05.600 I threw away the lovely water. 15:05.600 --> 15:08.600 Oh, it made a cool sound. 15:08.600 --> 15:09.600 That's enough. 15:09.600 --> 15:12.600 If I want to talk about water, Evan Lewis, 15:12.600 --> 15:15.600 I shall talk about water. 15:15.600 --> 15:17.600 It is a great comfort for me. 15:17.600 --> 15:19.600 Well, not for me. Shut up. 15:19.600 --> 15:21.600 You are not telling me to shut up. 15:21.600 --> 15:24.600 Look, you know this isn't going to do any good. 15:24.600 --> 15:25.600 Save your strength. 15:25.600 --> 15:28.600 What for? So that we can die more slowly? 15:28.600 --> 15:32.600 Hugh, try the telephone again. It may be working. 15:32.600 --> 15:35.600 As soon as I get my breath, in a minute. 15:35.600 --> 15:42.600 Oh, do it. 15:48.600 --> 15:52.600 No. Nothing. 15:52.600 --> 15:56.600 Oh, well, I'm going to have a bit of sleep. 15:56.600 --> 16:05.600 Put out the light. 16:16.600 --> 16:18.600 Why doesn't he stop staring at me? 16:18.600 --> 16:21.600 Easy, man, easy. He's not staring. We've covered his face. 16:21.600 --> 16:23.600 No, he's staring. Look at him. 16:23.600 --> 16:25.600 Make him stop. 16:25.600 --> 16:28.600 You can't even see him, Evan. There's no light. 16:28.600 --> 16:30.600 The dead can do you no harm. 16:30.600 --> 16:34.600 Now, try to sleep. It will make the time pass sooner. 16:34.600 --> 16:38.600 I'm going to dig again. I'm not going to sit here to die. 16:38.600 --> 16:43.600 Give me a hand, Mr. Lidd. 16:43.600 --> 16:45.600 Our hands were bleeding, 16:45.600 --> 16:50.600 and every handful of rock and coal and dirt was an agony to pull away. 16:50.600 --> 16:53.600 The darkness was never ending. 16:53.600 --> 16:59.600 And as our batteries began to fail, it became a terrifying, alive thing. 16:59.600 --> 17:02.600 Was Hugh Davis who found the teacan 17:02.600 --> 17:06.600 glinted dully in the orange glow of his lamp? 17:06.600 --> 17:09.600 Look. Look at this, boys. Listen to it. 17:09.600 --> 17:11.600 It's a teacan. 17:11.600 --> 17:13.600 It's wet. Oh, it's wet. 17:13.600 --> 17:15.600 Did you ever hear a lovely sound like it? 17:15.600 --> 17:17.600 We can measure it out. There's enough there. 17:17.600 --> 17:20.600 You chop first. I'll miss this round. You've been here longer. 17:20.600 --> 17:23.600 Share and share. Be careful. You don't spill it. 17:23.600 --> 17:25.600 The lid's jammed. 17:25.600 --> 17:27.600 You can't have it. 17:27.600 --> 17:30.600 Give it back, Evan. Give it to me. 17:30.600 --> 17:33.600 Don't be an idiot. There's enough for all. You'll have your share. 17:33.600 --> 17:34.600 No. Stay back. 17:34.600 --> 17:36.600 Stan, where you are, I'll pour it out. 17:36.600 --> 17:37.600 Evan. No. 17:37.600 --> 17:41.600 You drink one drop of that, Evan Lewis, 17:41.600 --> 17:44.600 and I'm going to kill you. 17:44.600 --> 17:47.600 Come along now. You can have the first drink. That's all right. 17:47.600 --> 17:49.600 It's all right. 17:49.600 --> 17:51.600 It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. 17:51.600 --> 17:53.600 It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. It's his. 17:53.600 --> 17:55.600 He's dead. He doesn't need it anymore. 17:55.600 --> 17:58.600 And he's left enough for us all. 17:58.600 --> 18:01.600 Thank you, Igor. Thank you. 18:01.600 --> 18:03.600 He's gone mad. 18:03.600 --> 18:06.600 I'm going to sit here with my tea, 18:06.600 --> 18:08.600 and you'll all watch me, but you can't have any. 18:08.600 --> 18:10.600 Don't come near. Don't come near. 18:10.600 --> 18:12.600 All right. We can't let him. 18:12.600 --> 18:14.600 Hush, you bug. 18:14.600 --> 18:17.600 Have a sip and then pass it, eh, Lewis man? 18:17.600 --> 18:20.600 Oh, no, no. I'm keeping it. 18:20.600 --> 18:22.600 Go on then. 18:22.600 --> 18:25.600 But don't forget, Evan, 18:25.600 --> 18:29.600 when we are outside, I am going to kill you. 18:29.600 --> 18:32.600 You remember what I say? 18:32.600 --> 18:35.600 You'll not be fit to live. 18:35.600 --> 18:38.600 Oh. Oh. 18:38.600 --> 18:40.600 What's the matter with him? 18:40.600 --> 18:44.600 Why doesn't he drink then and have done? 18:44.600 --> 18:46.600 I wonder. 18:46.600 --> 18:50.600 Stay there. Don't come near. 18:50.600 --> 18:53.600 Why don't you drink it? 18:53.600 --> 18:56.600 If you're not going to, give it to us. 18:56.600 --> 18:58.600 No, it's mine. 18:58.600 --> 19:01.600 Stay away. I'll pour it out. 19:01.600 --> 19:03.600 Go on then. Pour it out. 19:03.600 --> 19:06.600 I will. I will. Stay away. 19:06.600 --> 19:09.600 Why don't you drink it? 19:11.600 --> 19:13.600 Shall I tell you why? 19:13.600 --> 19:16.600 Because I think you know what's in it. 19:16.600 --> 19:18.600 You can't drink it, can you? 19:18.600 --> 19:21.600 Yes. If I want to, I will too. 19:21.600 --> 19:24.600 E.F.R. Williams drank some of that tea, didn't he? 19:24.600 --> 19:26.600 Before he died. 19:26.600 --> 19:30.600 I don't know. Don't you come closer to me. 19:30.600 --> 19:32.600 Drink it then. Go on. 19:32.600 --> 19:35.600 I will. But if you come closer, I'll pour it out. 19:35.600 --> 19:37.600 Then no one will have it. 19:37.600 --> 19:39.600 Don't. He means it, Mr. Lidd. 19:39.600 --> 19:41.600 What did you put in that tea before you came down? 19:41.600 --> 19:43.600 Nothing. 19:43.600 --> 19:45.600 Then why are you afraid? 19:45.600 --> 19:47.600 I'm not. 19:47.600 --> 19:49.600 There isn't much choice, is there? 19:49.600 --> 19:53.600 You're dying of thirst, but if you drink, you'll die of poison. 19:53.600 --> 19:55.600 Is that it? 19:55.600 --> 19:57.600 No. No. 19:57.600 --> 19:59.600 You know if we want to get it, we can. 19:59.600 --> 20:01.600 Not enough will spill out. 20:01.600 --> 20:04.600 Why don't you give it to me now? 20:04.600 --> 20:07.600 I... I can't. 20:07.600 --> 20:10.600 You killed him, didn't you? 20:10.600 --> 20:12.600 Give it to me. 20:12.600 --> 20:15.600 No. You're not going to help me. 20:15.600 --> 20:17.600 I'll drink it, see? 20:17.600 --> 20:19.600 Don't. Don't, Mr. Glade. Come back here. 20:19.600 --> 20:21.600 Don't do it, Evan. Don't. 20:21.600 --> 20:23.600 We'll stand by you. 20:23.600 --> 20:25.600 Get away from me. 20:25.600 --> 20:27.600 Why, Evan, why did you do it? 20:27.600 --> 20:29.600 Why? 20:29.600 --> 20:32.600 He was wicked, oh, and ungodly. 20:32.600 --> 20:34.600 He deserved to die. 20:34.600 --> 20:36.600 He was cruel. 20:36.600 --> 20:38.600 He was cruel. 20:38.600 --> 20:41.600 He made my life a misery. 20:41.600 --> 20:45.600 I was engaged to Catherine ten years ago, 20:45.600 --> 20:47.600 and he stole her from me. 20:47.600 --> 20:49.600 He deserved to die. 20:49.600 --> 20:52.600 Oh, the way he treated her. 20:52.600 --> 20:56.600 Oh, I'm sorry, Evan. I am sorry. 20:56.600 --> 20:59.600 It doesn't matter anymore. 20:59.600 --> 21:01.600 We'll not get out anyway. 21:01.600 --> 21:04.600 It's better to go quickly by drinking this. 21:04.600 --> 21:06.600 No. Don't. Don't, Evan. 21:06.600 --> 21:08.600 The telephone. 21:10.600 --> 21:12.600 Hello? Hello? 21:12.600 --> 21:14.600 Hello, Mr. Glade? Yes. 21:14.600 --> 21:16.600 Are you all right? Yes, we all are. 21:16.600 --> 21:18.600 We'll be to you soon. It wasn't a bad fall. 21:18.600 --> 21:21.600 Only a few feet. The men are clearing away now. 21:21.600 --> 21:23.600 Hold on. Thank you. 21:23.600 --> 21:25.600 Thank you very much. 21:25.600 --> 21:30.600 Thank you very much. 21:32.600 --> 21:35.600 They'll be through in a few minutes. 21:44.600 --> 21:46.600 We waited. 21:47.600 --> 21:49.600 Watching. 21:52.600 --> 21:54.600 Listening. 21:54.600 --> 21:57.600 The fun Lewis crouched away from us. 21:57.600 --> 22:00.600 The spout of the teacan raised to his lips. 22:00.600 --> 22:02.600 Look! Look! It's breaking through! 22:02.600 --> 22:04.600 They'll not hang me! They'll not! 22:04.600 --> 22:06.600 Stop it! Stop! 22:06.600 --> 22:08.600 No, no! Let him do it! 22:08.600 --> 22:10.600 It's better that way! 22:10.600 --> 22:12.600 No! Hugh! Help me! 22:12.600 --> 22:14.600 I've got him! 22:14.600 --> 22:16.600 It's poison. He's drinking the poison. 22:16.600 --> 22:18.600 You're letting him die. You're killing him! 22:18.600 --> 22:24.600 It's better this way. 22:27.600 --> 22:31.600 You can let him go now, Hughie. 22:32.600 --> 22:36.600 Thank you, Owen. Thank you. 22:40.600 --> 22:42.600 We were brought to the surface. 22:42.600 --> 22:46.600 But it was useless for Ivan Lewis. 22:46.600 --> 22:48.600 The doctor worked over him. 22:48.600 --> 22:52.600 And for the second time his life was saved. 22:52.600 --> 23:16.600 Saved for the trial which convicted him of murder. 23:16.600 --> 23:24.600 Suspense, in which Mr. Ben Wright starred in tonight's presentation of The Cave-In. 23:24.600 --> 23:30.600 Next week, another terrifying and provocative story by Mr. Ray Bradbury. 23:30.600 --> 23:33.600 We call it Kaleidoscope. 23:33.600 --> 23:50.600 That's next week on Suspense. 23:50.600 --> 23:54.600 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's script. 23:54.600 --> 23:59.600 The music was composed by Renny Garragown and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:59.600 --> 24:10.600 Featured in the cast were Richard Peel, Tudor Owen, Jane Avello, Joe Kearns, John Dotsworth, and Charles Davis. 24:10.600 --> 24:12.600 Listen while you work. 24:12.600 --> 24:40.600 The Road of Life is here on the CBS Radio Network. 24:42.600 --> 25:07.600 The Road of Life is here on the CBS Radio Network.