WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:20.360 Tonight, we bring you a story of two men forced to live together in the frozen north. 00:20.360 --> 00:23.160 We call it, A Study in Wax. 00:23.160 --> 00:28.980 So now, starring Mr. William Conrad and Mr. Stacey Harris, here is tonight's suspense 00:28.980 --> 00:47.960 play, A Study in Wax. 00:47.960 --> 00:51.840 It was late October when the radio shack burned down. 00:51.840 --> 00:54.280 We never did decide whose fault it was. 00:54.280 --> 00:56.960 Maybe Cabell with his cigarettes, maybe me. 00:56.960 --> 01:02.680 Anyway, I guess the whole thing began when we lost the phone transmitter and receiver. 01:02.680 --> 01:06.440 Cabell and I had been set up to the northwest territory by the Canadian Geodetic Survey 01:06.440 --> 01:07.440 people. 01:07.440 --> 01:10.080 It was a long job. 01:10.080 --> 01:13.000 And the biggest part of it for Cabell was the loneliness. 01:13.000 --> 01:17.200 It wasn't that he was moody or anything like that. 01:17.200 --> 01:21.360 I think he wasn't used to being out of touch with people and things he was accustomed to 01:21.360 --> 01:22.360 in the cities. 01:22.360 --> 01:25.240 Now, I was the opposite. 01:25.240 --> 01:27.120 I kind of liked the loneliness. 01:27.120 --> 01:31.200 As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, we were a strange couple to hit it off 01:31.200 --> 01:33.200 the way we did. 01:33.200 --> 01:37.560 And when you got seven months to spend alone with another man, well, you got to be sure 01:37.560 --> 01:38.560 of each other. 01:38.560 --> 01:44.680 And we thought we were, until after the radio was gone. 01:44.680 --> 01:48.920 That day it burned, we stood in the snow watching the embers glowing and the whiffs of smoke 01:48.920 --> 01:50.920 rising into the cold sky. 01:50.920 --> 01:52.920 It's gone. 01:52.920 --> 01:58.520 Well, we still got the code sender, just in case. 01:58.520 --> 02:00.440 I'm going to miss the programs though and the music. 02:00.440 --> 02:04.320 You know, I tell you, we could send a message to the base if you like and ask them to fly 02:04.320 --> 02:05.320 out another receiver. 02:05.320 --> 02:06.320 Oh, oh no. 02:06.320 --> 02:11.840 You know, McCloud, he'd boil, waste the money, probably take it out of our pay. 02:11.840 --> 02:13.560 I wouldn't do without it. 02:13.560 --> 02:14.560 That's all right with me. 02:14.560 --> 02:17.200 Well, you're a hearty soul. 02:17.200 --> 02:20.640 You know, I don't think you'd mind if you had to stay alone for seven months. 02:20.640 --> 02:21.640 It'd be dull. 02:21.640 --> 02:27.720 I wouldn't have anybody to beat a chess. 02:27.720 --> 02:28.720 Say Jack. 02:28.720 --> 02:29.720 Yeah. 02:29.720 --> 02:33.200 If it was my cigarette that burned the shack, I'm sorry. 02:33.200 --> 02:35.000 Ah, forget it, forget it. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.240 I may have done it myself. 02:37.240 --> 02:42.240 Forget it. 02:42.240 --> 02:50.760 By the end of November, we'd done pretty well as far as work was concerned. 02:50.760 --> 02:53.320 But Cabell was getting jittery. 02:53.320 --> 02:55.960 We had a weak stretch where we couldn't move out of the camp. 02:55.960 --> 03:01.160 It was around 30 below outside and blowing 60 miles an hour. 03:01.160 --> 03:05.560 Cabell had read most of the things that we'd brought along and was sitting at the table 03:05.560 --> 03:07.800 trying to beat a solitaire game. 03:07.800 --> 03:12.240 I was all in my gun. 03:12.240 --> 03:16.640 Now the odds are against you over time. 03:16.640 --> 03:19.640 Don't I know it? 03:19.640 --> 03:23.000 Oh, how I wish this weather would ease off. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Yeah, well. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Hey, I got an idea. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 Now what? 03:27.000 --> 03:30.520 What do you say we open our Christmas presents tonight? 03:30.520 --> 03:33.760 Our Christmas presents? 03:33.760 --> 03:34.760 It's November. 03:34.760 --> 03:37.400 I know, I know, but I'll bet there'll be some books in there. 03:37.400 --> 03:39.360 I told my folks to pack some books. 03:39.360 --> 03:41.120 Now, well, what'll you do when you've finished them? 03:41.120 --> 03:45.080 I don't know, but I gotta do something. 03:45.080 --> 03:46.680 I wish we had the radio. 03:46.680 --> 03:49.200 Look, we can send a message. 03:49.200 --> 03:52.880 If McCloud wants to cut our heads off for burning up his property, he'll have to come 03:52.880 --> 03:53.880 up here to do it. 03:53.880 --> 03:57.560 If not, well, maybe he'll be feeling good and send it. 03:57.560 --> 04:00.320 It's worth a try. 04:00.320 --> 04:08.640 It's not you, Jack, we talk, play chess, it's swell, but I just miss the outside. 04:08.640 --> 04:09.640 I feel... 04:09.640 --> 04:12.640 Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. 04:12.640 --> 04:16.040 Okay, how would this sound? 04:16.040 --> 04:17.800 Radio shack burned to ground. 04:17.800 --> 04:19.920 Can you send new receiver? 04:19.920 --> 04:22.000 Have only small set on fixed channel. 04:22.000 --> 04:23.600 Well, couldn't you say emergency? 04:23.600 --> 04:26.880 Oh, that'd go over big with McCloud. 04:26.880 --> 04:30.760 We Miss Canadian and US Mystery shows must continue to hear them in order to keep up 04:30.760 --> 04:31.760 our work. 04:31.760 --> 04:34.880 Uh-uh, we better leave it as it is. 04:34.880 --> 04:36.920 All right. 04:36.920 --> 04:41.240 Well, here we go. 04:41.240 --> 04:58.920 Now McCloud's gonna love this. 04:58.920 --> 05:01.880 The reply from McCloud came back the following day. 05:01.880 --> 05:07.000 It was long involved and said what could have been said in one word, no. 05:07.000 --> 05:12.280 You know, our chief was a very careful man and believed in others following his example. 05:12.280 --> 05:16.600 Therefore, if our radio was gone, it was our fault and the next time we should be more 05:16.600 --> 05:17.600 careful. 05:17.600 --> 05:23.000 And that was that. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.400 The weather let up a bit and we got some work done. 05:25.400 --> 05:30.320 It was still terribly cold, but it didn't bother us now that the wind had gone. 05:30.320 --> 05:37.200 I noticed that Cabell was much quieter after our request for the radio had been turned on. 05:37.200 --> 05:41.320 I began to get a feeling as though he blamed me for it. 05:41.320 --> 05:44.520 So a week before Christmas, we'd just finished supper. 05:44.520 --> 05:48.760 I said, Larry, about those Christmas presents. 05:48.760 --> 05:49.760 What about them? 05:49.760 --> 05:51.600 What do you say we open them, huh? 05:51.600 --> 05:54.320 Well, I thought you didn't want to until Christmas. 05:54.320 --> 05:57.040 Well, I've changed my mind. 05:57.040 --> 05:58.360 Oh? 05:58.360 --> 05:59.360 What's the matter? 05:59.360 --> 06:01.160 You want to be nice to me? 06:01.160 --> 06:03.080 I can take this as well as you can, you know. 06:03.080 --> 06:04.640 I don't need you feeling sorry for me. 06:04.640 --> 06:06.080 I'm not sorry. 06:06.080 --> 06:07.840 I don't give a good stink one way or the other. 06:07.840 --> 06:10.720 I'm just saying if you want to open the packages now, it's all right with me. 06:10.720 --> 06:11.720 They're yours. 06:11.720 --> 06:12.720 It's not my business. 06:12.720 --> 06:13.720 Oh, forget it. 06:13.720 --> 06:16.720 Do what you want to do. 06:16.720 --> 06:23.200 Well, will you open yours up too? 06:23.200 --> 06:25.200 Sure. 06:25.200 --> 06:27.840 Okay. 06:27.840 --> 06:30.960 He got a hammer and started to pry open the case. 06:30.960 --> 06:35.240 Our families and friends had done their shopping in August, and we put their gifts together 06:35.240 --> 06:37.440 in the case. 06:37.440 --> 06:41.360 And at the sight of those colorful wrappings, Cabel began to smile. 06:41.360 --> 06:42.720 He was back in touch again. 06:42.720 --> 06:48.640 They were little things, but a label, a scratch of handwriting, the feel of something different 06:48.640 --> 06:54.200 was blotting out his loneliness, that great far coldness outside. 06:54.200 --> 06:55.200 Come on over. 06:55.200 --> 06:56.200 Okay. 06:56.200 --> 06:57.880 It doesn't feel like books. 06:57.880 --> 06:58.880 They wouldn't pack them like this, would they? 06:58.880 --> 06:59.880 I don't mind. 06:59.880 --> 07:00.880 Hey, look! 07:00.880 --> 07:01.880 Hey, look! 07:01.880 --> 07:02.880 Look what we got! 07:02.880 --> 07:03.880 What is it? 07:03.880 --> 07:04.880 It's a phonograph! 07:04.880 --> 07:05.880 Here, I'll take it. 07:05.880 --> 07:06.880 And there's a whole stack of records. 07:06.880 --> 07:07.880 They must be... 07:07.880 --> 07:08.880 Oh, of all the lousy, crummy luck. 07:08.880 --> 07:09.880 Oh, what's the matter? 07:09.880 --> 07:10.880 Look, they're broken. 07:10.880 --> 07:11.880 Oh, that's a shame. 07:11.880 --> 07:12.880 All of them? 07:12.880 --> 07:13.880 No, no, wait a minute. 07:13.880 --> 07:14.880 There's one. 07:14.880 --> 07:15.880 There's two of them, okay? 07:15.880 --> 07:16.880 Oh, what? 07:16.880 --> 07:17.880 Oh, I'm sorry. 07:17.880 --> 07:18.880 I'm sorry. 07:18.880 --> 07:19.880 I'm sorry. 07:19.880 --> 07:20.880 I'm sorry. 07:20.880 --> 07:21.880 I'm sorry. 07:21.880 --> 07:22.880 I'm sorry. 07:22.880 --> 07:23.880 I'm sorry. 07:23.880 --> 07:24.880 I'm sorry. 07:24.880 --> 07:26.360 There's two of them, okay? 07:26.360 --> 07:29.360 Oh, that's good. 07:29.360 --> 07:31.480 Listen to this, Willie. 07:31.480 --> 07:33.520 A variety of bugle calls. 07:33.520 --> 07:34.520 What? 07:34.520 --> 07:35.520 No, I mean it. 07:35.520 --> 07:37.000 A variety of bugle calls. 07:37.000 --> 07:38.480 Look, it belonged to my father. 07:38.480 --> 07:40.680 I remember him playing it for me when I was a kid. 07:40.680 --> 07:42.680 Oh, well, what's the other one? 07:42.680 --> 07:43.920 Oh, that's great. 07:43.920 --> 07:45.400 Sabre Dance, Catch a Train. 07:45.400 --> 07:47.400 It's one of my favorites. 07:47.400 --> 07:48.400 Oh. 07:48.400 --> 07:51.360 No Less Brown or anything like that, huh? 07:51.360 --> 07:52.360 No. 07:52.360 --> 07:53.360 Just the... 07:53.360 --> 07:54.360 That's right. 07:54.360 --> 07:55.360 I'm not talking about you. 07:55.360 --> 07:56.360 You don't much like classical music, do you? 07:56.360 --> 07:57.360 No, not much. 07:57.360 --> 07:58.360 Oh, that's okay. 07:58.360 --> 07:59.360 Come on. 07:59.360 --> 08:00.360 Let's take a listen to that bugle call thing, huh? 08:00.360 --> 08:01.360 That ought to be something. 08:01.360 --> 08:02.360 Okay. 08:02.360 --> 08:07.360 Oh, wait till I tell my sister about that fancy packing job of hers. 08:07.360 --> 08:12.360 I've heard that one a thousand times. 08:12.360 --> 08:15.360 Oh, those good old army days. 08:15.360 --> 08:19.360 Now, Willie, here's the next one. 08:19.360 --> 08:21.360 They got a lot of laughs out of the old record. 08:21.360 --> 08:24.360 Played it a couple of times and then had a couple of drinks. 08:24.360 --> 08:29.120 You know, I tell you, that phonograph, even with only two records, it made a lot of difference 08:29.120 --> 08:30.120 to us. 08:30.120 --> 08:33.360 The strain seemed to be gone. 08:33.360 --> 08:36.360 Then Cabell put on his Sabre Dance and got lost in it. 08:36.360 --> 08:37.760 Well, to me, it wasn't much. 08:37.760 --> 08:41.360 It was all cluttered up with a lot of noise that hurt your ears. 08:41.360 --> 08:45.360 He must have played it a half a dozen times while we unwrapped the rest of the things. 08:45.360 --> 08:50.360 There were a lot of books and magazines and that was good. 08:50.360 --> 08:54.360 I figured we could stretch him out for at least three months, which would take us into 08:54.360 --> 08:55.360 March. 08:55.360 --> 08:57.360 But the next day turned bad again. 08:57.360 --> 08:59.360 A blizzard came down. 08:59.360 --> 09:02.360 And we stayed inside until the day after Christmas. 09:02.360 --> 09:05.360 And Cabell, he was like a kid. 09:05.360 --> 09:09.360 He smoked cigars, drank brandy, listened to his record and read. 09:09.360 --> 09:12.360 In ten days, he'd read every single thing. 09:12.360 --> 09:19.360 Then he had nothing to do but listen to his record. 09:19.360 --> 09:29.360 Oh, that's great. 09:29.360 --> 09:32.360 Look, you're not going to play it again. 09:32.360 --> 09:33.360 Just this one part. 09:33.360 --> 09:37.360 Look, I don't mind not listening to it for a while. 09:37.360 --> 09:38.360 Try the bugle calls. 09:38.360 --> 09:39.360 They're quieter. 09:39.360 --> 09:43.360 You ought to learn to appreciate good music, Jack. 09:43.360 --> 09:44.360 You're missing something. 09:44.360 --> 09:46.360 Well, maybe I will, but not from that. 09:46.360 --> 09:47.360 No, this is beautiful music. 09:47.360 --> 09:48.360 Well, not to me. 09:48.360 --> 09:50.360 Now, will you let it go for a while? 09:50.360 --> 09:51.360 Sure. 09:51.360 --> 09:54.360 Sure, if you feel that way about it. 09:54.360 --> 09:56.360 How about a game? 09:56.360 --> 09:58.360 No, no, not right now. 09:58.360 --> 09:59.360 Thanks. 09:59.360 --> 10:01.360 I want to finish this article I'm reading. 10:01.360 --> 10:02.360 You're reading? 10:02.360 --> 10:04.360 Oh, yeah, I read that. 10:04.360 --> 10:05.360 It's not much. 10:05.360 --> 10:07.360 That guy never could write. 10:07.360 --> 10:08.360 Oh? 10:08.360 --> 10:11.360 Well, I think it's pretty good. 10:11.360 --> 10:14.360 Well, it depends on what you're used to reading, I guess. 10:14.360 --> 10:17.360 And what kind of a crack is that? 10:17.360 --> 10:18.360 Nothing. 10:18.360 --> 10:20.360 It just depends on what you're used to reading, that's all. 10:20.360 --> 10:22.360 Does that make me a lowbrow? 10:22.360 --> 10:26.360 You said it, I didn't. 10:26.360 --> 10:29.360 You better check the oil outside. 10:29.360 --> 10:30.360 I did it yesterday. 10:30.360 --> 10:31.360 It's your turn. 10:31.360 --> 10:32.360 Uh-uh. 10:32.360 --> 10:33.360 I did it this morning, and this weather, 10:33.360 --> 10:36.360 we do it twice a day, remember? 10:36.360 --> 10:38.360 Yes, sir. 10:38.360 --> 10:40.360 Are you trying to be funny? 10:40.360 --> 10:42.360 No, I don't like the way you said it, that's all. 10:42.360 --> 10:45.360 We're both in charge, not you or me. 10:45.360 --> 10:46.360 Nobody gives orders his. 10:46.360 --> 10:47.360 We share the responsibility. 10:47.360 --> 10:48.360 OK, then do your share. 10:48.360 --> 10:50.360 All right. 10:50.360 --> 10:52.360 All right, I'm going out to check the oil, 10:52.360 --> 10:54.360 but not because you say to do it, you know, 10:54.360 --> 10:56.360 but because I want to. 10:56.360 --> 10:58.360 Well, good for you. 11:02.360 --> 11:05.360 When I think of it now, we sounded like a couple of kids. 11:05.360 --> 11:09.360 And I can't even remember what it was that set us off. 11:09.360 --> 11:13.360 But I'll never forget what happened because of that day. 11:13.360 --> 11:16.360 You don't easily forget a thing like death. 11:27.360 --> 11:29.360 You are listening to A Study in Wax, 11:29.360 --> 11:34.360 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 11:34.360 --> 11:43.360 suspense. 11:45.360 --> 11:48.360 This is a new sound in the history of mankind, 11:48.360 --> 11:50.360 the sound of atomic energy. 11:55.360 --> 11:57.360 The crackling comes from a model atom smasher, 11:57.360 --> 12:00.360 similar to large models used in treating deep-seated cancer 12:00.360 --> 12:03.360 and sterilizing foods and drugs. 12:03.360 --> 12:06.360 The sounds like this one and the stories behind the sounds 12:06.360 --> 12:09.360 are the subject of CBS radio's current program series 12:09.360 --> 12:11.360 called The Age of the Atom. 12:11.360 --> 12:13.360 The peaceful uses of atomic energy 12:13.360 --> 12:15.360 open endless possibilities for us all. 12:15.360 --> 12:18.360 Hear them discussed by leading atomic scientists and specialists 12:18.360 --> 12:21.360 from all over the world on CBS radio's 12:21.360 --> 12:23.360 Age of the Atom program series, 12:23.360 --> 12:26.360 now being broadcast by most of these stations. 12:26.360 --> 12:28.360 Consult your local listings. 12:28.360 --> 12:31.360 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage 12:31.360 --> 12:34.360 Mr. William Conrad and Mr. Stacy Harris, 12:34.360 --> 12:37.360 starring in tonight's production, A Study in Wax, 12:37.360 --> 12:58.360 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:58.360 --> 13:01.360 Cabell and I didn't talk to each other for the next few days, 13:01.360 --> 13:03.360 not the way we used to, I mean, 13:03.360 --> 13:08.360 just conversations was necessary to do our work, and that was it. 13:08.360 --> 13:11.360 He didn't play his record either. 13:11.360 --> 13:14.360 New Year's Eve day, we got a couple of messages 13:14.360 --> 13:16.360 through and code from our families, 13:16.360 --> 13:19.360 and I guess we both felt pretty bad. 13:19.360 --> 13:21.360 Cabell was trimming the oil stove 13:21.360 --> 13:25.360 when I decided to try to make things up. 13:25.360 --> 13:28.360 Say, Larry. 13:28.360 --> 13:30.360 Yeah? 13:30.360 --> 13:37.360 Look, about that business the other night, I'm sorry. 13:37.360 --> 13:39.360 It's my fault. 13:39.360 --> 13:42.360 We were kind of silly, you know? 13:42.360 --> 13:43.360 Yeah. 13:43.360 --> 13:46.360 Probably just as well we had to bust up then. 13:46.360 --> 13:49.360 Still three months to go. 13:49.360 --> 13:51.360 Three long months before the show. 13:51.360 --> 13:56.360 Yeah, no. 13:56.360 --> 13:59.360 Oh, well, thanks for not playing the record. 13:59.360 --> 14:02.360 It's okay. 14:02.360 --> 14:04.360 Oh, I wish that wind had stopped. 14:04.360 --> 14:06.360 It gets in my nerves. 14:06.360 --> 14:08.360 You know, I got something good for that. 14:08.360 --> 14:10.360 Oh, what's that? 14:10.360 --> 14:13.360 Something that toasts the New Year. 14:13.360 --> 14:15.360 Champagne! 14:15.360 --> 14:16.360 Hey, what an idea. 14:16.360 --> 14:17.360 That's wonderful, Jack. 14:17.360 --> 14:19.360 We'll stick them outside for a couple of minutes. 14:19.360 --> 14:22.360 Yeah, give them to me. I'll do it. 14:27.360 --> 14:30.360 Oh, that's cool out there. 14:30.360 --> 14:32.360 You know, the best thing for you and me to do tonight 14:32.360 --> 14:34.360 is to get roaring, stinking drunk. 14:34.360 --> 14:37.360 Champagne with brandy, Chase. 14:37.360 --> 14:39.360 Happy New Year, Larry. 14:39.360 --> 14:41.360 Same to you, Jack. 14:43.360 --> 14:45.360 We got drunk. 14:45.360 --> 14:47.360 We got red-eyed drunk. 14:47.360 --> 14:52.360 Now, we talked about women and ourselves and our dreams. 14:52.360 --> 14:55.360 And it was sloppy and it was great. 14:55.360 --> 14:57.360 The kind of haze you get when it doesn't matter 14:57.360 --> 14:59.360 and you're feeling good about everything. 14:59.360 --> 15:02.360 And it was fine. 15:02.360 --> 15:06.360 Until Cabell decided it was time to hear some music. 15:08.360 --> 15:11.360 Jack, I want you to really listen to this. 15:11.360 --> 15:13.360 Really listen. 15:13.360 --> 15:15.360 This is Constitutory. 15:15.360 --> 15:18.360 That's Constitutory. Now, he makes them all look sick with this stuff. 15:18.360 --> 15:19.360 I want you to listen to it. 15:19.360 --> 15:21.360 No, I don't want to hear that thing. 15:21.360 --> 15:23.360 Now, don't put it on for me. I don't want to hear it. 15:23.360 --> 15:26.360 I know, but if you just listen once, give it a chance. 15:26.360 --> 15:28.360 You don't have to listen now. 15:28.360 --> 15:30.360 Come on. 15:32.360 --> 15:34.360 There. 15:34.360 --> 15:36.360 See the rhythm? 15:36.360 --> 15:38.360 That's great. That's great music. 15:38.360 --> 15:39.360 That's really great. 15:39.360 --> 15:45.360 Listen, music's a lot of noise. 15:45.360 --> 15:47.360 Don't tell me to shut up. 15:47.360 --> 15:50.360 You don't understand good music. That's what's the matter with you. 15:50.360 --> 15:52.360 You just don't understand. 15:52.360 --> 15:54.360 I understand. I don't want to listen to that. 15:54.360 --> 15:56.360 Well, I want to hear it. 15:56.360 --> 15:59.360 Now, don't take it off, Jack. 15:59.360 --> 16:02.360 You take your hands off me or you're going to get hurt. 16:02.360 --> 16:04.360 Just stay away from the machine, Jack. 16:04.360 --> 16:06.360 Get out of my way. 16:06.360 --> 16:09.360 Hey, don't get pushy, friend, huh? 16:09.360 --> 16:11.360 No. 16:14.360 --> 16:16.360 I'm going to kick your brains out for that. 16:16.360 --> 16:19.360 I'm sick of you and your filthy music. 16:19.360 --> 16:21.360 Don't touch that record. 16:32.360 --> 16:34.360 Now, you take a good listen. 16:34.360 --> 16:37.360 Because you're not going to hear any more of this again. 16:37.360 --> 16:39.360 Not as long as I'm here. 16:43.360 --> 16:45.360 Put it down, Jack. 16:45.360 --> 16:47.360 I made it. 16:47.360 --> 16:50.360 I'll put it down or I'll shoot you. 16:52.360 --> 16:53.360 Put it down. 16:53.360 --> 16:55.360 If you don't, I'll... 16:55.360 --> 16:57.360 I'll shoot you and I'll put the record down. 17:00.360 --> 17:02.360 I got sober. 17:02.360 --> 17:05.360 I might never have had a drink. I was so sober. 17:05.360 --> 17:09.360 Cabello had reached up for one of the holsters that hung near the door. 17:09.360 --> 17:11.360 And he wobbled to his feet. 17:11.360 --> 17:13.360 The gun held tightly in his hand. 17:13.360 --> 17:16.360 There was blood running out of his mouth and down his chin. 17:16.360 --> 17:18.360 I just stood there. 17:18.360 --> 17:20.360 And I put the record down on the turntable. 17:20.360 --> 17:23.360 You were going to break it, weren't you? 17:25.360 --> 17:27.360 Weren't you? 17:27.360 --> 17:29.360 Yeah. Yeah. 17:29.360 --> 17:31.360 Well, I knew you were. 17:31.360 --> 17:34.360 Just because it gives me pleasure to listen to it and you don't like that. 17:34.360 --> 17:37.360 Well, I want to listen to it and you don't. 17:37.360 --> 17:39.360 All right? 17:39.360 --> 17:41.360 You get outside. 17:41.360 --> 17:43.360 You're crazy, Cabello. 17:43.360 --> 17:46.360 Go on. I'll kill you if I don't. Now get outside. 17:46.360 --> 17:48.360 It's 40 below out there. I'm freezing. 17:48.360 --> 17:51.360 I don't care. It'll do you good. Now go on. 17:51.360 --> 17:53.360 Get outside. 17:53.360 --> 17:55.360 All right. Let me get my things. 17:55.360 --> 17:56.360 No! 17:56.360 --> 17:58.360 Listen to me, you're drunk. You don't know what you're doing. 17:58.360 --> 18:00.360 Open the door, you hear me? 18:00.360 --> 18:02.360 Now go on. Open it. 18:04.360 --> 18:06.360 Now go on out. 18:10.360 --> 18:12.360 Larry. 18:12.360 --> 18:15.360 Let me in, Larry. Do you hear me? 18:15.360 --> 18:17.360 Let me in, Larry. 18:19.360 --> 18:22.360 And inside I thought I heard the music again. 18:22.360 --> 18:25.360 He was crazy. Crazy drunk. 18:25.360 --> 18:29.360 I went around to the back trying to get away from the wind, but it wasn't any good. 18:29.360 --> 18:31.360 There wasn't anywhere to get away from it. 18:31.360 --> 18:34.360 I've seen what happened to men caught out in the open this way, 18:34.360 --> 18:36.360 and I knew how quickly it could happen. 18:36.360 --> 18:39.360 So I ran and I jumped. 18:39.360 --> 18:41.360 Anything to keep moving. 18:41.360 --> 18:44.360 And all the time I couldn't believe it was happening. 18:44.360 --> 18:47.360 I don't know how much time went on. 18:47.360 --> 18:50.360 Maybe it was a minute, maybe it was ten. 18:50.360 --> 18:52.360 Larry! 18:52.360 --> 18:53.360 Darkwater! 18:53.360 --> 18:55.360 I heard him calling. 18:55.360 --> 18:57.360 Then through the flurries of powdered snow blowing off the roof, 18:57.360 --> 18:59.360 I saw Cabell standing in the doorway. 18:59.360 --> 19:02.360 And I saw the gun still in his hand hanging by his side. 19:02.360 --> 19:04.360 Jack! 19:04.360 --> 19:06.360 Jack, come on in, Jack! 19:06.360 --> 19:07.360 I forgot the cold. 19:07.360 --> 19:10.360 I only knew that Cabell had gone mad. 19:10.360 --> 19:11.360 He was going to kill me. 19:11.360 --> 19:13.360 Somehow I had to get him away from the cabin, 19:13.360 --> 19:16.360 get him outside where I'd have a chance. 19:16.360 --> 19:18.360 I waited for a minute and then... 19:18.360 --> 19:21.360 Larry! Larry, over here, Larry! 19:21.360 --> 19:22.360 Jack! 19:22.360 --> 19:24.360 Over here! 19:24.360 --> 19:25.360 I knew he'd heard me. 19:25.360 --> 19:27.360 And I saw him move out from the doorway. 19:27.360 --> 19:29.360 Where are you? 19:29.360 --> 19:31.360 Can you hear me? Where are you? 19:31.360 --> 19:34.360 Over this way. Here. 19:34.360 --> 19:36.360 And I moved back behind a hammock. 19:36.360 --> 19:38.360 I thought I might be able to make a wide circle 19:38.360 --> 19:41.360 and then double back to the cabin before he knew what was happening. 19:41.360 --> 19:44.360 I can't hear you, Jack! 19:44.360 --> 19:46.360 Jack, are you hurt? Where are you? 19:46.360 --> 19:49.360 Larry! Larry! 19:49.360 --> 19:52.360 And the wind burned my eyes so that I couldn't see. 19:52.360 --> 19:56.360 And I tripped and fell and my hands bare 19:56.360 --> 19:58.360 didn't feel the coldness of snow any longer. 19:58.360 --> 20:00.360 Jack! 20:00.360 --> 20:02.360 Jack, can you hear me? I'm over here! 20:02.360 --> 20:03.360 He must have seen me. 20:03.360 --> 20:04.360 Jack! 20:04.360 --> 20:06.360 He was closer now, close enough to shoot. 20:06.360 --> 20:10.360 And I tried to run, stumping, falling. 20:10.360 --> 20:12.360 And then it was easier. 20:12.360 --> 20:14.360 I was going downhill, but he was behind me. 20:14.360 --> 20:16.360 Jack! 20:16.360 --> 20:17.360 Jack, come on, Larry! 20:17.360 --> 20:18.360 And then there was something different 20:18.360 --> 20:19.360 in the feel of the ground under me. 20:19.360 --> 20:20.360 Jack! 20:20.360 --> 20:22.360 It wasn't ground anymore, not snow. 20:22.360 --> 20:24.360 It was ice. 20:24.360 --> 20:25.360 I had reached the shore 20:25.360 --> 20:28.360 and I was going out under the frozen sea. 20:28.360 --> 20:30.360 I began to imagine that I could feel the movement 20:30.360 --> 20:32.360 of the sea under me. 20:32.360 --> 20:35.360 Suddenly it didn't matter anymore. 20:35.360 --> 20:37.360 I didn't care. 20:37.360 --> 20:40.360 I couldn't run. I wanted to lie down. 20:40.360 --> 20:42.360 I wanted to lie down. 20:42.360 --> 20:45.360 Jack, take it easy. It's all right. 20:45.360 --> 20:47.360 Jack, it's going to be all right. 20:47.360 --> 20:49.360 You don't have to be afraid. 20:49.360 --> 20:52.360 Look, you can have the gun if you want. 20:52.360 --> 20:54.360 Jack! 20:54.360 --> 20:56.360 When it happened, Cabell was no more 20:56.360 --> 20:58.360 than eight feet away from me. 20:58.360 --> 21:00.360 I just lay there, watching, 21:00.360 --> 21:02.360 waiting for him to shoot. 21:02.360 --> 21:04.360 And the dark ribbon that split the ice 21:04.360 --> 21:05.360 grew wider and wider. 21:05.360 --> 21:06.360 Jack! 21:06.360 --> 21:07.360 Jack! 21:07.360 --> 21:09.360 A semicircle of ice had cracked away. 21:09.360 --> 21:11.360 It wasn't very big and it was drifting out, 21:11.360 --> 21:13.360 away, away. 21:13.360 --> 21:16.360 And the ribbon was no longer a ribbon. 21:16.360 --> 21:18.360 And at that moment I knew that he 21:18.360 --> 21:20.360 hadn't wanted to kill me. I'd been wrong. 21:20.360 --> 21:21.360 Jack! 21:21.360 --> 21:22.360 Jump! 21:22.360 --> 21:24.360 Larry, jump in and swim! 21:24.360 --> 21:26.360 Now come on, you can make it! 21:26.360 --> 21:27.360 Come on, Larry! 21:27.360 --> 21:28.360 I can't swim! 21:28.360 --> 21:29.360 Come on! 21:29.360 --> 21:30.360 I can't! 21:30.360 --> 21:31.360 Try, you've got to try! 21:31.360 --> 21:33.360 Now come on, hurry! 21:33.360 --> 21:35.360 I want to do the jiu-jitsu, John! 21:35.360 --> 21:36.360 Larry! 21:36.360 --> 21:38.360 I want to do the jiu-jitsu! 21:38.360 --> 21:40.360 I want to get your back in the ground! 21:40.360 --> 21:42.360 He moved away faster after that. 21:42.360 --> 21:43.360 John! 21:43.360 --> 21:45.360 And then I couldn't see him anymore. 21:45.360 --> 21:47.360 He was lost in the blackness. 21:47.360 --> 21:49.360 But I could hear him. 21:49.360 --> 21:52.360 Oh, Lord, I could hear him. 21:52.360 --> 21:54.360 Jack, I don't want to die! 21:54.360 --> 21:56.360 Jack! 21:56.360 --> 21:58.360 Help me! 22:06.360 --> 22:09.360 Somehow I got back to the cabin. 22:09.360 --> 22:12.360 And I remember getting the transmitter switched on, 22:12.360 --> 22:14.360 sending a message through. 22:14.360 --> 22:17.360 I got the flashlight and my furs on. 22:17.360 --> 22:20.360 I don't know how long I was down there on the ice, 22:20.360 --> 22:22.360 shouting, rocking. 22:22.360 --> 22:24.360 But I knew he was gone. 22:24.360 --> 22:26.360 I'd never see him again. 22:26.360 --> 22:30.360 But in the gray morning the planes came. 22:30.360 --> 22:33.360 And for two days they searched 22:33.360 --> 22:36.360 until the weather forced them back. 22:36.360 --> 22:39.360 And that was all. 22:39.360 --> 22:42.360 They flew me back to the hospital. 22:42.360 --> 22:46.360 Maybe I'll lose my hands, maybe not. 22:46.360 --> 22:49.360 They're not sure yet. 22:49.360 --> 23:13.360 It doesn't matter anyway. 23:13.360 --> 23:17.360 Suspense, in which Mr. William Conrad 23:17.360 --> 23:19.360 and Mr. Stacy Harris 23:19.360 --> 23:23.360 starred in tonight's presentation of A Study in Wax. 23:23.360 --> 23:26.360 Next week, the story of a man who found that murder 23:26.360 --> 23:28.360 was not the only way out of his problem. 23:28.360 --> 23:31.360 We call it The Beetle and Mr. Bottle. 23:31.360 --> 23:35.360 That's next week on Suspense. 23:35.360 --> 23:38.360 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, 23:38.360 --> 23:40.360 who wrote tonight's script. 23:40.360 --> 23:42.360 The music was composed by Leith Stevens 23:42.360 --> 23:45.360 and René Garagin and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:45.360 --> 23:47.360 Listen while you work. 23:47.360 --> 23:49.360 Heard him in the morning, 23:49.360 --> 23:51.360 heard him in the evening, 23:51.360 --> 23:53.360 heard him in the evening, 23:53.360 --> 23:55.360 heard him in the evening, 23:55.360 --> 23:57.360 heard him in the evening, 23:57.360 --> 23:59.360 heard him in the evening, 23:59.360 --> 24:01.360 heard him in the evening, 24:01.360 --> 24:03.360 heard him in the evening, 24:03.360 --> 24:05.360 heard him in the evening. 24:05.360 --> 24:07.360 Listen while you work. 24:07.360 --> 24:34.360 The studio network. 24:37.360 --> 24:39.360 The studio network.