1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:20,360 Tonight, we bring you a story of two men forced to live together in the frozen north. 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,160 We call it, A Study in Wax. 4 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:28,980 So now, starring Mr. William Conrad and Mr. Stacey Harris, here is tonight's suspense 5 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:47,960 play, A Study in Wax. 6 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,840 It was late October when the radio shack burned down. 7 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,280 We never did decide whose fault it was. 8 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,960 Maybe Cabell with his cigarettes, maybe me. 9 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:02,680 Anyway, I guess the whole thing began when we lost the phone transmitter and receiver. 10 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,440 Cabell and I had been set up to the northwest territory by the Canadian Geodetic Survey 11 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:07,440 people. 12 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,080 It was a long job. 13 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,000 And the biggest part of it for Cabell was the loneliness. 14 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,200 It wasn't that he was moody or anything like that. 15 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,360 I think he wasn't used to being out of touch with people and things he was accustomed to 16 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,360 in the cities. 17 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,240 Now, I was the opposite. 18 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,120 I kind of liked the loneliness. 19 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,200 As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, we were a strange couple to hit it off 20 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,200 the way we did. 21 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,560 And when you got seven months to spend alone with another man, well, you got to be sure 22 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:38,560 of each other. 23 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,680 And we thought we were, until after the radio was gone. 24 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,920 That day it burned, we stood in the snow watching the embers glowing and the whiffs of smoke 25 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,920 rising into the cold sky. 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:52,920 It's gone. 27 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:58,520 Well, we still got the code sender, just in case. 28 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,440 I'm going to miss the programs though and the music. 29 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,320 You know, I tell you, we could send a message to the base if you like and ask them to fly 30 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:05,320 out another receiver. 31 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:06,320 Oh, oh no. 32 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,840 You know, McCloud, he'd boil, waste the money, probably take it out of our pay. 33 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,560 I wouldn't do without it. 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,560 That's all right with me. 35 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,200 Well, you're a hearty soul. 36 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,640 You know, I don't think you'd mind if you had to stay alone for seven months. 37 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,640 It'd be dull. 38 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:27,720 I wouldn't have anybody to beat a chess. 39 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,720 Say Jack. 40 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:29,720 Yeah. 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,200 If it was my cigarette that burned the shack, I'm sorry. 42 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,000 Ah, forget it, forget it. 43 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,240 I may have done it myself. 44 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:42,240 Forget it. 45 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:50,760 By the end of November, we'd done pretty well as far as work was concerned. 46 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,320 But Cabell was getting jittery. 47 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,960 We had a weak stretch where we couldn't move out of the camp. 48 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,160 It was around 30 below outside and blowing 60 miles an hour. 49 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,560 Cabell had read most of the things that we'd brought along and was sitting at the table 50 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,800 trying to beat a solitaire game. 51 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,240 I was all in my gun. 52 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,640 Now the odds are against you over time. 53 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:19,640 Don't I know it? 54 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,000 Oh, how I wish this weather would ease off. 55 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Yeah, well. 56 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Hey, I got an idea. 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Now what? 58 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,520 What do you say we open our Christmas presents tonight? 59 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,760 Our Christmas presents? 60 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:34,760 It's November. 61 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,400 I know, I know, but I'll bet there'll be some books in there. 62 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,360 I told my folks to pack some books. 63 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,120 Now, well, what'll you do when you've finished them? 64 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,080 I don't know, but I gotta do something. 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,680 I wish we had the radio. 66 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,200 Look, we can send a message. 67 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,880 If McCloud wants to cut our heads off for burning up his property, he'll have to come 68 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:53,880 up here to do it. 69 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,560 If not, well, maybe he'll be feeling good and send it. 70 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,320 It's worth a try. 71 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:08,640 It's not you, Jack, we talk, play chess, it's swell, but I just miss the outside. 72 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:09,640 I feel... 73 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,640 Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. 74 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,040 Okay, how would this sound? 75 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,800 Radio shack burned to ground. 76 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,920 Can you send new receiver? 77 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,000 Have only small set on fixed channel. 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,600 Well, couldn't you say emergency? 79 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,880 Oh, that'd go over big with McCloud. 80 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,760 We Miss Canadian and US Mystery shows must continue to hear them in order to keep up 81 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:31,760 our work. 82 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,880 Uh-uh, we better leave it as it is. 83 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,920 All right. 84 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,240 Well, here we go. 85 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:58,920 Now McCloud's gonna love this. 86 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,880 The reply from McCloud came back the following day. 87 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:07,000 It was long involved and said what could have been said in one word, no. 88 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,280 You know, our chief was a very careful man and believed in others following his example. 89 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:16,600 Therefore, if our radio was gone, it was our fault and the next time we should be more 90 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,600 careful. 91 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,000 And that was that. 92 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,400 The weather let up a bit and we got some work done. 93 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,320 It was still terribly cold, but it didn't bother us now that the wind had gone. 94 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:37,200 I noticed that Cabell was much quieter after our request for the radio had been turned on. 95 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,320 I began to get a feeling as though he blamed me for it. 96 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,520 So a week before Christmas, we'd just finished supper. 97 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,760 I said, Larry, about those Christmas presents. 98 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:49,760 What about them? 99 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,600 What do you say we open them, huh? 100 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,320 Well, I thought you didn't want to until Christmas. 101 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,040 Well, I've changed my mind. 102 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,360 Oh? 103 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,360 What's the matter? 104 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,160 You want to be nice to me? 105 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,080 I can take this as well as you can, you know. 106 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,640 I don't need you feeling sorry for me. 107 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,080 I'm not sorry. 108 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,840 I don't give a good stink one way or the other. 109 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,720 I'm just saying if you want to open the packages now, it's all right with me. 110 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:11,720 They're yours. 111 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:12,720 It's not my business. 112 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:13,720 Oh, forget it. 113 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,720 Do what you want to do. 114 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:23,200 Well, will you open yours up too? 115 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,200 Sure. 116 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,840 Okay. 117 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,960 He got a hammer and started to pry open the case. 118 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,240 Our families and friends had done their shopping in August, and we put their gifts together 119 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,440 in the case. 120 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,360 And at the sight of those colorful wrappings, Cabel began to smile. 121 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:42,720 He was back in touch again. 122 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,640 They were little things, but a label, a scratch of handwriting, the feel of something different 123 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:54,200 was blotting out his loneliness, that great far coldness outside. 124 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:55,200 Come on over. 125 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:56,200 Okay. 126 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:57,880 It doesn't feel like books. 127 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:58,880 They wouldn't pack them like this, would they? 128 00:06:58,880 --> 00:06:59,880 I don't mind. 129 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:00,880 Hey, look! 130 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:01,880 Hey, look! 131 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:02,880 Look what we got! 132 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:03,880 What is it? 133 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:04,880 It's a phonograph! 134 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:05,880 Here, I'll take it. 135 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:06,880 And there's a whole stack of records. 136 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:07,880 They must be... 137 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,880 Oh, of all the lousy, crummy luck. 138 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:09,880 Oh, what's the matter? 139 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:10,880 Look, they're broken. 140 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:11,880 Oh, that's a shame. 141 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:12,880 All of them? 142 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:13,880 No, no, wait a minute. 143 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:14,880 There's one. 144 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:15,880 There's two of them, okay? 145 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Oh, what? 146 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:17,880 Oh, I'm sorry. 147 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:18,880 I'm sorry. 148 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:19,880 I'm sorry. 149 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:20,880 I'm sorry. 150 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:21,880 I'm sorry. 151 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:22,880 I'm sorry. 152 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:23,880 I'm sorry. 153 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:24,880 I'm sorry. 154 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,360 There's two of them, okay? 155 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,360 Oh, that's good. 156 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,480 Listen to this, Willie. 157 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,520 A variety of bugle calls. 158 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,520 What? 159 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:35,520 No, I mean it. 160 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,000 A variety of bugle calls. 161 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,480 Look, it belonged to my father. 162 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,680 I remember him playing it for me when I was a kid. 163 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:42,680 Oh, well, what's the other one? 164 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:43,920 Oh, that's great. 165 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,400 Sabre Dance, Catch a Train. 166 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,400 It's one of my favorites. 167 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Oh. 168 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,360 No Less Brown or anything like that, huh? 169 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:52,360 No. 170 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Just the... 171 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,360 That's right. 172 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:55,360 I'm not talking about you. 173 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,360 You don't much like classical music, do you? 174 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,360 No, not much. 175 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,360 Oh, that's okay. 176 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,360 Come on. 177 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,360 Let's take a listen to that bugle call thing, huh? 178 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,360 That ought to be something. 179 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:02,360 Okay. 180 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:07,360 Oh, wait till I tell my sister about that fancy packing job of hers. 181 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:12,360 I've heard that one a thousand times. 182 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Oh, those good old army days. 183 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,360 Now, Willie, here's the next one. 184 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,360 They got a lot of laughs out of the old record. 185 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,360 Played it a couple of times and then had a couple of drinks. 186 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,120 You know, I tell you, that phonograph, even with only two records, it made a lot of difference 187 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:30,120 to us. 188 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,360 The strain seemed to be gone. 189 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,360 Then Cabell put on his Sabre Dance and got lost in it. 190 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,760 Well, to me, it wasn't much. 191 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,360 It was all cluttered up with a lot of noise that hurt your ears. 192 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,360 He must have played it a half a dozen times while we unwrapped the rest of the things. 193 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,360 There were a lot of books and magazines and that was good. 194 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,360 I figured we could stretch him out for at least three months, which would take us into 195 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:55,360 March. 196 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,360 But the next day turned bad again. 197 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,360 A blizzard came down. 198 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,360 And we stayed inside until the day after Christmas. 199 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,360 And Cabell, he was like a kid. 200 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,360 He smoked cigars, drank brandy, listened to his record and read. 201 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,360 In ten days, he'd read every single thing. 202 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:19,360 Then he had nothing to do but listen to his record. 203 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:29,360 Oh, that's great. 204 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,360 Look, you're not going to play it again. 205 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Just this one part. 206 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,360 Look, I don't mind not listening to it for a while. 207 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,360 Try the bugle calls. 208 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,360 They're quieter. 209 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,360 You ought to learn to appreciate good music, Jack. 210 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:44,360 You're missing something. 211 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,360 Well, maybe I will, but not from that. 212 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:47,360 No, this is beautiful music. 213 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:48,360 Well, not to me. 214 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Now, will you let it go for a while? 215 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:51,360 Sure. 216 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,360 Sure, if you feel that way about it. 217 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,360 How about a game? 218 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,360 No, no, not right now. 219 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,360 Thanks. 220 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,360 I want to finish this article I'm reading. 221 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,360 You're reading? 222 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,360 Oh, yeah, I read that. 223 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:05,360 It's not much. 224 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,360 That guy never could write. 225 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:08,360 Oh? 226 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,360 Well, I think it's pretty good. 227 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,360 Well, it depends on what you're used to reading, I guess. 228 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,360 And what kind of a crack is that? 229 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Nothing. 230 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,360 It just depends on what you're used to reading, that's all. 231 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,360 Does that make me a lowbrow? 232 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,360 You said it, I didn't. 233 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,360 You better check the oil outside. 234 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:30,360 I did it yesterday. 235 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:31,360 It's your turn. 236 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,360 Uh-uh. 237 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:33,360 I did it this morning, and this weather, 238 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,360 we do it twice a day, remember? 239 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,360 Yes, sir. 240 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Are you trying to be funny? 241 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,360 No, I don't like the way you said it, that's all. 242 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,360 We're both in charge, not you or me. 243 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:46,360 Nobody gives orders his. 244 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,360 We share the responsibility. 245 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:48,360 OK, then do your share. 246 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,360 All right. 247 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,360 All right, I'm going out to check the oil, 248 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,360 but not because you say to do it, you know, 249 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,360 but because I want to. 250 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,360 Well, good for you. 251 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,360 When I think of it now, we sounded like a couple of kids. 252 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,360 And I can't even remember what it was that set us off. 253 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,360 But I'll never forget what happened because of that day. 254 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,360 You don't easily forget a thing like death. 255 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,360 You are listening to A Study in Wax, 256 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:34,360 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 257 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:43,360 suspense. 258 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,360 This is a new sound in the history of mankind, 259 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,360 the sound of atomic energy. 260 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,360 The crackling comes from a model atom smasher, 261 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,360 similar to large models used in treating deep-seated cancer 262 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,360 and sterilizing foods and drugs. 263 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,360 The sounds like this one and the stories behind the sounds 264 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,360 are the subject of CBS radio's current program series 265 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,360 called The Age of the Atom. 266 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,360 The peaceful uses of atomic energy 267 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,360 open endless possibilities for us all. 268 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,360 Hear them discussed by leading atomic scientists and specialists 269 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,360 from all over the world on CBS radio's 270 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,360 Age of the Atom program series, 271 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,360 now being broadcast by most of these stations. 272 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,360 Consult your local listings. 273 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,360 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage 274 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Mr. William Conrad and Mr. Stacy Harris, 275 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,360 starring in tonight's production, A Study in Wax, 276 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:58,360 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 277 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,360 Cabell and I didn't talk to each other for the next few days, 278 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,360 not the way we used to, I mean, 279 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,360 just conversations was necessary to do our work, and that was it. 280 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,360 He didn't play his record either. 281 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,360 New Year's Eve day, we got a couple of messages 282 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,360 through and code from our families, 283 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,360 and I guess we both felt pretty bad. 284 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,360 Cabell was trimming the oil stove 285 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,360 when I decided to try to make things up. 286 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,360 Say, Larry. 287 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,360 Yeah? 288 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:37,360 Look, about that business the other night, I'm sorry. 289 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,360 It's my fault. 290 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,360 We were kind of silly, you know? 291 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:43,360 Yeah. 292 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,360 Probably just as well we had to bust up then. 293 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,360 Still three months to go. 294 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,360 Three long months before the show. 295 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,360 Yeah, no. 296 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,360 Oh, well, thanks for not playing the record. 297 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,360 It's okay. 298 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,360 Oh, I wish that wind had stopped. 299 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,360 It gets in my nerves. 300 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,360 You know, I got something good for that. 301 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,360 Oh, what's that? 302 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,360 Something that toasts the New Year. 303 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,360 Champagne! 304 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,360 Hey, what an idea. 305 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,360 That's wonderful, Jack. 306 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,360 We'll stick them outside for a couple of minutes. 307 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,360 Yeah, give them to me. I'll do it. 308 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,360 Oh, that's cool out there. 309 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,360 You know, the best thing for you and me to do tonight 310 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,360 is to get roaring, stinking drunk. 311 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,360 Champagne with brandy, Chase. 312 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,360 Happy New Year, Larry. 313 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,360 Same to you, Jack. 314 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,360 We got drunk. 315 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,360 We got red-eyed drunk. 316 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,360 Now, we talked about women and ourselves and our dreams. 317 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,360 And it was sloppy and it was great. 318 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,360 The kind of haze you get when it doesn't matter 319 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,360 and you're feeling good about everything. 320 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,360 And it was fine. 321 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,360 Until Cabell decided it was time to hear some music. 322 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,360 Jack, I want you to really listen to this. 323 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,360 Really listen. 324 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,360 This is Constitutory. 325 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,360 That's Constitutory. Now, he makes them all look sick with this stuff. 326 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:19,360 I want you to listen to it. 327 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,360 No, I don't want to hear that thing. 328 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,360 Now, don't put it on for me. I don't want to hear it. 329 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,360 I know, but if you just listen once, give it a chance. 330 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,360 You don't have to listen now. 331 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,360 Come on. 332 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,360 There. 333 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,360 See the rhythm? 334 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,360 That's great. That's great music. 335 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:39,360 That's really great. 336 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:45,360 Listen, music's a lot of noise. 337 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,360 Don't tell me to shut up. 338 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,360 You don't understand good music. That's what's the matter with you. 339 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,360 You just don't understand. 340 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,360 I understand. I don't want to listen to that. 341 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,360 Well, I want to hear it. 342 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,360 Now, don't take it off, Jack. 343 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,360 You take your hands off me or you're going to get hurt. 344 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,360 Just stay away from the machine, Jack. 345 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,360 Get out of my way. 346 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,360 Hey, don't get pushy, friend, huh? 347 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,360 No. 348 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,360 I'm going to kick your brains out for that. 349 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,360 I'm sick of you and your filthy music. 350 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,360 Don't touch that record. 351 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,360 Now, you take a good listen. 352 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,360 Because you're not going to hear any more of this again. 353 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,360 Not as long as I'm here. 354 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,360 Put it down, Jack. 355 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,360 I made it. 356 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,360 I'll put it down or I'll shoot you. 357 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,360 Put it down. 358 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,360 If you don't, I'll... 359 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,360 I'll shoot you and I'll put the record down. 360 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,360 I got sober. 361 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,360 I might never have had a drink. I was so sober. 362 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:09,360 Cabello had reached up for one of the holsters that hung near the door. 363 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:11,360 And he wobbled to his feet. 364 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:13,360 The gun held tightly in his hand. 365 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:16,360 There was blood running out of his mouth and down his chin. 366 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,360 I just stood there. 367 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:20,360 And I put the record down on the turntable. 368 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:23,360 You were going to break it, weren't you? 369 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,360 Weren't you? 370 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:29,360 Yeah. Yeah. 371 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:31,360 Well, I knew you were. 372 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,360 Just because it gives me pleasure to listen to it and you don't like that. 373 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:37,360 Well, I want to listen to it and you don't. 374 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,360 All right? 375 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:41,360 You get outside. 376 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,360 You're crazy, Cabello. 377 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,360 Go on. I'll kill you if I don't. Now get outside. 378 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,360 It's 40 below out there. I'm freezing. 379 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:51,360 I don't care. It'll do you good. Now go on. 380 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:53,360 Get outside. 381 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:55,360 All right. Let me get my things. 382 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:56,360 No! 383 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:58,360 Listen to me, you're drunk. You don't know what you're doing. 384 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:00,360 Open the door, you hear me? 385 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:02,360 Now go on. Open it. 386 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:06,360 Now go on out. 387 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,360 Larry. 388 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:15,360 Let me in, Larry. Do you hear me? 389 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:17,360 Let me in, Larry. 390 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:22,360 And inside I thought I heard the music again. 391 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:25,360 He was crazy. Crazy drunk. 392 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:29,360 I went around to the back trying to get away from the wind, but it wasn't any good. 393 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:31,360 There wasn't anywhere to get away from it. 394 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:34,360 I've seen what happened to men caught out in the open this way, 395 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,360 and I knew how quickly it could happen. 396 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,360 So I ran and I jumped. 397 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:41,360 Anything to keep moving. 398 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,360 And all the time I couldn't believe it was happening. 399 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:47,360 I don't know how much time went on. 400 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,360 Maybe it was a minute, maybe it was ten. 401 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:52,360 Larry! 402 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:53,360 Darkwater! 403 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,360 I heard him calling. 404 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,360 Then through the flurries of powdered snow blowing off the roof, 405 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:59,360 I saw Cabell standing in the doorway. 406 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:02,360 And I saw the gun still in his hand hanging by his side. 407 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:04,360 Jack! 408 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:06,360 Jack, come on in, Jack! 409 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:07,360 I forgot the cold. 410 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:10,360 I only knew that Cabell had gone mad. 411 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:11,360 He was going to kill me. 412 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,360 Somehow I had to get him away from the cabin, 413 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,360 get him outside where I'd have a chance. 414 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,360 I waited for a minute and then... 415 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:21,360 Larry! Larry, over here, Larry! 416 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:22,360 Jack! 417 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:24,360 Over here! 418 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:25,360 I knew he'd heard me. 419 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:27,360 And I saw him move out from the doorway. 420 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:29,360 Where are you? 421 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:31,360 Can you hear me? Where are you? 422 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:34,360 Over this way. Here. 423 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:36,360 And I moved back behind a hammock. 424 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,360 I thought I might be able to make a wide circle 425 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:41,360 and then double back to the cabin before he knew what was happening. 426 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:44,360 I can't hear you, Jack! 427 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:46,360 Jack, are you hurt? Where are you? 428 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:49,360 Larry! Larry! 429 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,360 And the wind burned my eyes so that I couldn't see. 430 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,360 And I tripped and fell and my hands bare 431 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,360 didn't feel the coldness of snow any longer. 432 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,360 Jack! 433 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,360 Jack, can you hear me? I'm over here! 434 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:03,360 He must have seen me. 435 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:04,360 Jack! 436 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:06,360 He was closer now, close enough to shoot. 437 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:10,360 And I tried to run, stumping, falling. 438 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,360 And then it was easier. 439 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:14,360 I was going downhill, but he was behind me. 440 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:16,360 Jack! 441 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:17,360 Jack, come on, Larry! 442 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,360 And then there was something different 443 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:19,360 in the feel of the ground under me. 444 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:20,360 Jack! 445 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,360 It wasn't ground anymore, not snow. 446 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,360 It was ice. 447 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:25,360 I had reached the shore 448 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:28,360 and I was going out under the frozen sea. 449 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,360 I began to imagine that I could feel the movement 450 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,360 of the sea under me. 451 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,360 Suddenly it didn't matter anymore. 452 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,360 I didn't care. 453 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,360 I couldn't run. I wanted to lie down. 454 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:42,360 I wanted to lie down. 455 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:45,360 Jack, take it easy. It's all right. 456 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,360 Jack, it's going to be all right. 457 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,360 You don't have to be afraid. 458 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:52,360 Look, you can have the gun if you want. 459 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:54,360 Jack! 460 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,360 When it happened, Cabell was no more 461 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:58,360 than eight feet away from me. 462 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:00,360 I just lay there, watching, 463 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,360 waiting for him to shoot. 464 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:04,360 And the dark ribbon that split the ice 465 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360 grew wider and wider. 466 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:06,360 Jack! 467 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,360 Jack! 468 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,360 A semicircle of ice had cracked away. 469 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:11,360 It wasn't very big and it was drifting out, 470 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:13,360 away, away. 471 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,360 And the ribbon was no longer a ribbon. 472 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,360 And at that moment I knew that he 473 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,360 hadn't wanted to kill me. I'd been wrong. 474 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:21,360 Jack! 475 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:22,360 Jump! 476 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:24,360 Larry, jump in and swim! 477 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,360 Now come on, you can make it! 478 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:27,360 Come on, Larry! 479 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:28,360 I can't swim! 480 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:29,360 Come on! 481 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:30,360 I can't! 482 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:31,360 Try, you've got to try! 483 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,360 Now come on, hurry! 484 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,360 I want to do the jiu-jitsu, John! 485 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,360 Larry! 486 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:38,360 I want to do the jiu-jitsu! 487 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:40,360 I want to get your back in the ground! 488 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:42,360 He moved away faster after that. 489 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:43,360 John! 490 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:45,360 And then I couldn't see him anymore. 491 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:47,360 He was lost in the blackness. 492 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:49,360 But I could hear him. 493 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:52,360 Oh, Lord, I could hear him. 494 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:54,360 Jack, I don't want to die! 495 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:56,360 Jack! 496 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,360 Help me! 497 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,360 Somehow I got back to the cabin. 498 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:12,360 And I remember getting the transmitter switched on, 499 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,360 sending a message through. 500 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:17,360 I got the flashlight and my furs on. 501 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,360 I don't know how long I was down there on the ice, 502 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:22,360 shouting, rocking. 503 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,360 But I knew he was gone. 504 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:26,360 I'd never see him again. 505 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:30,360 But in the gray morning the planes came. 506 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,360 And for two days they searched 507 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:36,360 until the weather forced them back. 508 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:39,360 And that was all. 509 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:42,360 They flew me back to the hospital. 510 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:46,360 Maybe I'll lose my hands, maybe not. 511 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,360 They're not sure yet. 512 00:22:49,360 --> 00:23:13,360 It doesn't matter anyway. 513 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:17,360 Suspense, in which Mr. William Conrad 514 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,360 and Mr. Stacy Harris 515 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:23,360 starred in tonight's presentation of A Study in Wax. 516 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:26,360 Next week, the story of a man who found that murder 517 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,360 was not the only way out of his problem. 518 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:31,360 We call it The Beetle and Mr. Bottle. 519 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,360 That's next week on Suspense. 520 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,360 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, 521 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,360 who wrote tonight's script. 522 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,360 The music was composed by Leith Stevens 523 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:45,360 and René Garagin and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 524 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,360 Listen while you work. 525 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,360 Heard him in the morning, 526 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,360 heard him in the evening, 527 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:53,360 heard him in the evening, 528 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,360 heard him in the evening, 529 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:57,360 heard him in the evening, 530 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,360 heard him in the evening, 531 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:01,360 heard him in the evening, 532 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,360 heard him in the evening, 533 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:05,360 heard him in the evening. 534 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,360 Listen while you work. 535 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:34,360 The studio network. 536 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,360 The studio network.