1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,640 Tonight, we bring you a story of a cross-country bus and the safety of a nation that rode in 3 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:23,640 it. 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,880 We call it Classified Secret. 5 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:41,280 So now, starring Parley Bear, here is tonight's Suspense play, Classified Secret. 6 00:00:41,280 --> 00:01:11,200 Nice to meet you. 7 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,200 Nice day. 8 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:13,200 Yes. 9 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,120 Kids sure know what's getting on at Christmas. 10 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,120 Look at them. 11 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,120 I've been watching them. 12 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:21,120 Yeah. 13 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,480 Kind of glad though I haven't got any. 14 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,480 Oh? 15 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,720 Well, you know, world conditions, things the way they are. 16 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,720 Who wants to bring a kid into it? 17 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:30,720 I suppose so. 18 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,720 Do you have a match? 19 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:34,720 Oh, sure. 20 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,720 Here you are. 21 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:38,720 Thanks. 22 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,720 Have you got it? 23 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,720 What's the matter? 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,040 You don't look the type. 25 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,880 I almost hoped you weren't. 26 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:50,880 Have you got it? 27 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:51,880 With me? 28 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:52,880 No. 29 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,880 But I'll take you to where it is. 30 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:55,880 All right. 31 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,040 The money's in tens, twenties, and fifties. 32 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,360 In the sack with the groceries? 33 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:01,360 Yes. 34 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:02,840 I thought it would be safer that way. 35 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,360 Yeah, I guess so. 36 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,360 How much? 37 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:07,360 Ten thousand. 38 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,360 Ten. 39 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,760 Well, that's what you agreed to. 40 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,560 I said twenty. 41 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,440 I was told ten. 42 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,880 They made a mistake then, didn't they? 43 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:17,880 Sorry. 44 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,880 What are you trying to do? 45 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:20,880 Nothing. 46 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:21,960 Not a thing. 47 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,680 I was told you were with us. 48 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:24,680 I am. 49 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,160 But I get paid for it too, don't you? 50 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,400 Well, I can't sit here any longer. 51 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,400 We might be watched. 52 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,000 Will you please give me... 53 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,280 Sorry, it was a misunderstanding. 54 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:35,280 But... 55 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,560 Unless you want to take me to the head man. 56 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,600 Maybe he can straighten it out. 57 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,240 I haven't got any instructions for that. 58 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,960 How can I reach you? 59 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,560 Well, there's about two hours from now. 60 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:47,560 You can't. 61 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,560 I'm leaving town. 62 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,560 Will you give us twenty-four hours? 63 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,200 It'll take that long to... 64 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:53,200 I'm sorry. 65 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,600 If you can't pay what I want, there's somebody else who will. 66 00:02:58,600 --> 00:02:59,600 I'm going. 67 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:00,600 Okay. 68 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,720 So long. 69 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,120 I was sitting on a bench in a little park in North Hollywood, California. 70 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:16,040 The late fall sun was warm, and for a change there wasn't any smog in the air. 71 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,800 I watched the woman I'd never seen before walk off down the path. 72 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,480 She was headed for the avenue and some cars parked beyond the trees. 73 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:31,600 I thought how nice it would have been if she were just a woman in the park, nothing else. 74 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:49,440 I waited until she was out of sight, then I got up and walked away in the opposite direction. 75 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,080 I got the bus at the Hollywood station. 76 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,200 I had a train ticket in my pocket, but with the new development it looked safer to ride 77 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,840 the bus. 78 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,600 Just before we pulled out, a girl climbed aboard and came down the aisle looking for 79 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,600 a seat. 80 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,520 Excuse me, is this number... 81 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:08,520 Eighteen. 82 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,760 Oh, thank you. 83 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,320 Oh, let me put your case up. 84 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:21,560 Oh, thank you. 85 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,120 I was afraid I was going to miss it. 86 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:43,280 Yeah, I know how it is. 87 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:48,360 I settled back and watched the city drift away into desert country. 88 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,440 As buses go, it was pretty quiet. 89 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,880 There was a six or seven year old kid with his mother a couple of seats forward, but 90 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,440 he dozed off almost as soon as we got running. 91 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,440 I took a look at the girl sitting next to me. 92 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,560 Oh, not in the way you might think, but because in my business you get to learn to look at 93 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:05,560 people. 94 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,500 You never know who it might be. 95 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:15,480 She must have felt me watching when she lowered the magazine she was reading. 96 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,600 Would you catalog of one of these? 97 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,520 Oh, that's nice of you. 98 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,560 I always forget to buy them. 99 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:23,560 This one's a mystery. 100 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,200 I don't usually read them, but on a long trip they kind of pass the time away. 101 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,200 Yeah, they do. 102 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,200 How far are you going? 103 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:32,200 New York. 104 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,160 Oh, that is a long trip, all right. 105 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,160 I'll say. 106 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,960 I haven't been back for ten years, but it's changed. 107 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:46,080 I guess so. 108 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,840 I read the mystery well into Arizona, and when I finished it was beginning to get dark. 109 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:55,080 The kid up ahead was awake and hungry. 110 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:03,120 There was a feeling of expectation on the bus as we drove into the first night of travel. 111 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,600 Did you enjoy it? 112 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,600 Oh, yeah. 113 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,920 It was fine. 114 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:09,920 Thanks a lot. 115 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:11,920 What was it about? 116 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:12,920 Spies. 117 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,120 They're real exciting. 118 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,080 I like spy movies sometimes, but I think they do so many of them. 119 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,280 You know, you read about it in the papers all the time. 120 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:24,280 I don't know. 121 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,280 You'd think people would get sick of it. 122 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:28,280 Yeah, I guess you're right. 123 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:32,160 They're exciting, like you say, but I bet it isn't really like that. 124 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,160 I doubt it. 125 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,440 I'll say, my name's Charlie. 126 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:37,440 Charlie Rader. 127 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,040 Oh, how do you do? 128 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,040 I'm Julie Spalding. 129 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,040 Hi. 130 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,000 That kid sounds as hungry as I am. 131 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,200 We ought to be stopping soon. 132 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:58,040 I hope so. 133 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:03,000 About 15 minutes later, we pulled up at a restaurant terminal and went in for food. 134 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,360 I watched for any new passengers who might be getting on. 135 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,880 I didn't see anybody, and as soon as I finished my sandwich and coffee, I sent a telegram 136 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,600 to New York, then got back on the bus. 137 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,680 The girl, Julie, and I seemed to be hitting it off, and it was pleasant enough to pass 138 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:19,680 the time. 139 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,640 After we got rolling, the kid up ahead decided to sing himself to sleep. 140 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:31,760 It was like a crooning over and over again, the same song, the same few notes. 141 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:37,280 I guess it put everybody else to sleep except him. 142 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:44,600 It makes you sleepy, doesn't it? 143 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:45,600 Yeah. 144 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,280 It reminds me of when I was a kid. 145 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,280 I used to do that. 146 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,280 Kids are funny. 147 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,280 How? 148 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,280 I don't know. 149 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:02,480 I'm going back to New York for my sister's wedding. 150 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,200 She's getting married next week. 151 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,440 She says she wants lots of kids. 152 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,000 I don't know. 153 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I know what you mean. 154 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,160 Mind if I ask you something? 155 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,160 I don't mind what? 156 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,160 Are you married? 157 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:19,160 No. 158 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:24,760 I don't mean it the way it sounds. 159 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,120 I'm always interested in trying to guess about people. 160 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:35,640 Now, I would have figured you were a married man with maybe two or three kids. 161 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,840 No, I'm not married. 162 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:42,000 I hope you don't think I'm nosy. 163 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 No. 164 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,800 Well, that kid singing fixed me. 165 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:47,800 I'm going to take a nap. 166 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:48,800 Good night, Charlie. 167 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:49,800 Good night. 168 00:08:49,800 --> 00:09:10,040 I must have dropped off too. 169 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,800 And when I woke up, she had her head on my shoulder. 170 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,560 A lock of her hair was falling over her closed eyes. 171 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:21,600 And then I knew something was different on the bus. 172 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,720 Somebody on the other side of the aisle watching. 173 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:27,720 Excuse me, mister. 174 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,360 Have you got a match? 175 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:31,360 I'm clean out. 176 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:32,360 Hmm? 177 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Oh, sure. 178 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:34,360 Just a minute. 179 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,360 Here. 180 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:36,360 Thank you. 181 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,360 No, no. 182 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,360 Keep them. 183 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,360 Oh, fine. 184 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,360 Fine. 185 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:48,080 Thanks a lot. 186 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:54,120 Hey, you got any idea where we are? 187 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,120 No, I'm not sure. 188 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,880 I got on a flagstaff an hour or so back. 189 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,720 Oh, boy, I envy her. 190 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,800 Wish I could sleep like that. 191 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:05,800 That's your wife? 192 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:06,800 No. 193 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:07,800 Oh. 194 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,720 Say, that's rude. 195 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:11,720 Hmm? 196 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,400 But taking your matches, not offering you a cigarette. 197 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:16,400 That's OK. 198 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,400 No, I don't want one now. 199 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,400 Thanks. 200 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:24,040 Say, I want to tell you something. 201 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,040 Oh? 202 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,720 There's a lady in the seat behind you. 203 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,720 I think you've met her before in the park. 204 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,320 Right? 205 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,040 Mm-hmm. 206 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,480 She brought her with us to identify you. 207 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:43,040 But she gave us a pretty good description back in L.A. 208 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,040 Good for her. 209 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,040 Yeah? 210 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,480 Well, it's going to be a nice trip. 211 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,800 Nothing like traveling with people you know, is there? 212 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:52,800 Nothing like it. 213 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,760 I don't suppose you've got any reading material you could let me look at? 214 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:00,500 How about a mystery? 215 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:01,960 It's a spy story. 216 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:02,960 Pretty good. 217 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,640 No, I was thinking of something else. 218 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,920 I think, you know, something more, oh, say, scientific. 219 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,600 I'm very interested in airplanes. 220 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,600 Jet motors. 221 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,880 Sorry. 222 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,520 He looked across at me, smiling, pleasant. 223 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,800 And to anybody watching, it was nothing more than the casual conversation of two strangers 224 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,240 brought together by the night and sympathy of loneliness. 225 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:35,160 Then he leaned back, and reaching inside his jacket brought out a small automatic, which 226 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,000 he kept very carefully hidden from any eyes but mine. 227 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,560 I always carry this with me on a trip. 228 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:45,560 You never know. 229 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:49,720 Oh, I knew all right. 230 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,840 If they couldn't buy what they wanted, there were other ways. 231 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,920 That's what he was telling me. 232 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:01,880 I saw in the man's smiling face that I'd never reach New York unless I killed them before 233 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:16,560 they killed me. 234 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:22,560 You're listening to Classified Secret, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 235 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:34,120 of thrills, Suspense. 236 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,000 Nine solid years of applause. 237 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,440 That's the wonderful record of popularity that belongs to Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, 238 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,760 now in its tenth year. 239 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,960 Enjoy the fun with the inimitable redhead this Monday night on most of these same stations. 240 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,400 You'll hear promising young performers compete for a golden chance at fame. 241 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,400 Enjoy the suspense as you wait to hear which entertainer will be singled out by the studio 242 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:57,800 audience. 243 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:03,320 Don't miss Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts this Monday night at the Star's address. 244 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:10,200 Now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Parley Bear, starring in tonight's production, 245 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:28,600 Classified Secret, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 246 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,840 Julie and I had breakfast somewhere in New Mexico. 247 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,200 The woman from the park and the man who carried the small automatic sat in a booth while we 248 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,200 ate at the counter. 249 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:43,000 I'd thought about things most of the night and I decided to tell the girl, not too much, 250 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,600 but enough so that she might be able to help. 251 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:53,800 And I knew I'd need some help. 252 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:54,800 Coffee's pretty good here. 253 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:55,800 Yeah. 254 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:56,800 Cigarette? 255 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:57,800 No, thanks. 256 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,800 Julie. 257 00:13:58,800 --> 00:13:59,800 Yes? 258 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,800 I want to tell you something. 259 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Oh? 260 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:11,520 I want you to turn around and look, just pretend we're talking about the weather, the coffee, 261 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:12,520 anything, but listen. 262 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,640 Well, sure, Charlie. 263 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,800 There's a couple sitting in the booth behind us. 264 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:17,800 They're spies. 265 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:18,800 Hmm? 266 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:19,800 Oh, you. 267 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:20,800 I'm not kidding. 268 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:26,400 I can't tell you much, but as you love your life, you will believe me. 269 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,400 Oh, you're kidding. 270 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,400 Spy? 271 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:29,400 Don't turn around. 272 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,400 Smile and just listen. 273 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:33,400 But I... 274 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,120 I'm trying to get hold of the plans for a new jet motor. 275 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,180 It's faster than anything anybody else has got. 276 00:14:39,180 --> 00:14:40,180 You are kidding. 277 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:41,180 No, I'm not. 278 00:14:41,180 --> 00:14:42,180 Well, how do you know? 279 00:14:42,180 --> 00:14:44,320 Well, how do you know about it? 280 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,120 I'm working for the government. 281 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:47,120 FBI? 282 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,960 Well, in a way, but now I need you to help me. 283 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:51,960 Me? 284 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,920 They think I've got the blueprints, the plans, and they're going to try and get them from 285 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:55,920 me. 286 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,000 But can't we get the police? 287 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 No. 288 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,040 Well, but why? 289 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,240 Because we're trying to get the head man. 290 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,080 And if those two are arrested, we'll have to start all over again. 291 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,000 They think I'm working with them. 292 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,040 But I got tough about the money they offered, so now they're going to try and get rid of 293 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,120 me and get the secret for nothing. 294 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,720 Did they follow you from L.A.? 295 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,440 Yeah, they got on during the night in Flagstaff. 296 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:17,440 All right, folks, let's go. 297 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:18,440 I don't see... 298 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,880 Well, what can I do? 299 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:22,880 Just stick with me. 300 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:24,680 I'll explain at the next stop. 301 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,840 We can't talk about it on the bus because she's sitting right behind and he's across 302 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:28,840 the aisle. 303 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,840 Listen, are you pulling my... 304 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:32,840 No. 305 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,000 No, you're not, are you? 306 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:46,680 I'm not. 307 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,520 We went on through New Mexico and the pink rock and desert. 308 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,480 We talked a lot of nonsense, and after a while, I could see she was getting back to the idea 309 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,960 that I'd been kidding, especially after the man with the gun introduced himself as Mr. 310 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,400 Hutchinson and started to talk about fishing. 311 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,480 It was about half an hour before our lunch stop. 312 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:12,120 Now you take some of that Northern California country, so you talk about trout and steelhead. 313 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,080 Oh, boy, I tell you. 314 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,600 My dad used to take us up, my sister and me, he'd take us up to a place in Maine. 315 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:19,600 Oh, gee. 316 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,400 Dad always wanted a couple of boys, I guess. 317 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,360 When he saw what he got, well, he figured it wouldn't spoil his plans anyway, so he 318 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,360 took his fishing every summer. 319 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,360 You should have seen the fishing up there. 320 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,360 Oh, I'd like to someday. 321 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,360 Yeah, I'd like that. 322 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,360 How about you, Mr. Rader? 323 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,880 Do you like fishing? 324 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:35,880 Oh, not much. 325 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:36,880 Ever try it? 326 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:37,880 No, little. 327 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:38,880 When I was a kid. 328 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,600 You ought to take it up again if you have time. 329 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,880 Oh, I might do that. 330 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:50,240 You know, if a man had a little money put away, he could do a lot of fishing. 331 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,640 Oh, boy, that's a way to live. 332 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,880 Have about, oh, say, $10,000. 333 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,840 Go all over the country, fishing. 334 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:57,840 No work, no worries. 335 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,320 How's that sound, Miss Faulting? 336 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:02,320 What a life. 337 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,320 It would take more than $10,000. 338 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,320 Oh, I don't know. 339 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,320 Ten's better than nothing. 340 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,320 Say, have you ever been up on the road? 341 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,760 They went on talking, and I did some thinking. 342 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,760 He was smarter than I'd thought. 343 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,200 Looked like a nice, average guy and behaved like one. 344 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:22,200 That's one thing I'd learned. 345 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,200 The more ordinary you can be, the less you're going to be suspected. 346 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,320 But these people had it down to a science. 347 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,280 It wasn't going to be easy because I was going to have to convince Julie all over again. 348 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,520 I could see that. 349 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:42,240 My chance didn't come until that evening after our dinner stop. 350 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,680 By that time, the woman in the park who went by the name of Lisa Nyland, Hutchinson, the 351 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,560 girl and myself, all four of us were buddies. 352 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,200 We'd pulled up over the car out of border. 353 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,520 There was some kind of trouble up ahead, a slide or a wreck. 354 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,160 And the driver told us we'd have half an hour or so before we went on. 355 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:03,160 You want to take a walk for a while? 356 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,160 There's a cafe a couple hundred yards back. 357 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,520 I'll give you a call when we're ready to move on. 358 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,520 Here, watch your step, Julie. 359 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,520 Oh, thanks. 360 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:21,520 Oh, well, gee. 361 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:27,760 Oh, what kind of nice to have an extra leg stretch of that. 362 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,520 How about some coffee? 363 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:30,960 Oh, that'd be nice. 364 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:31,960 Jolly? 365 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:32,960 Oh, I don't know. 366 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,760 I'd like to have a look at the valley down there. 367 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:39,120 We might walk up the dirt road away, get a pretty good view, the sun setting off. 368 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,120 Oh, you're romantic, huh? 369 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:42,560 Sure, why not? 370 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:43,560 Oh, Jolly. 371 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,140 OK with you, Lisa? 372 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:46,140 You feel romantic? 373 00:18:46,140 --> 00:18:48,520 Want to see a valley and the sunset? 374 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,000 That'd be very nice. 375 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,680 OK, then let's go. 376 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:52,680 Hey, girls, wait a minute. 377 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:53,680 Be careful. 378 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,200 There are snakes. 379 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,640 We walked away from the bus up a narrow ranch road. 380 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,260 About a hundred yards up there was a curve and around it a stand of trees. 381 00:19:05,260 --> 00:19:09,360 And when we got there, you couldn't hear the sounds from the highway any longer. 382 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:12,720 It was peaceful and it was very pretty. 383 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,440 I knew that Hutchinson was delighted about the suggestion. 384 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,840 It was going to give him his chance. 385 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,200 But he made the mistake of playing it a little too clever. 386 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,320 Kept his game of small talk going a minute too long. 387 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:31,600 We'd got to the top of a cliff overlooking the valley when I stumbled on a rock and fell 388 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,920 a few steps behind before they had a chance to stop. 389 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:40,200 And when they did, I already had my gun out. 390 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:45,800 Hey, what are you going to do? 391 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:46,800 Target practice? 392 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:47,800 No. 393 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,720 You two stay where you are and keep your hands behind your head. 394 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,760 Julie, get over here. 395 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:01,480 Charlie, Charlie, are you sure? 396 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:02,480 They seem... 397 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:03,480 I know what they seem. 398 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,520 Now look, I don't want to do this, but it's you or me. 399 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,200 You should have made the right deal in the first place. 400 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,840 I can't let you go, you know that. 401 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,420 We might still make a deal. 402 00:20:14,420 --> 00:20:16,000 You had your chance. 403 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,280 We've got the 10,000. 404 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,360 How about waiting until we get to the next town? 405 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:23,040 We'll have the rest of it telegraphed out. 406 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,600 I make mistakes, but not that kind. 407 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,240 If you told us what you wanted, we might have been able to get the 20,000 for you in Los 408 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,240 Angeles. 409 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,240 Turn around. 410 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,240 Both of you. 411 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:34,240 Wait a minute. 412 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,400 We're all in this together. 413 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,320 We all want the same thing. 414 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,280 You figure you can get more money from the people in the East. 415 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,720 Okay, give us a chance to get it for you. 416 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,960 We're in contact with them. 417 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,280 Turn around. 418 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:49,840 They give us our orders. 419 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,920 What difference does it make? 420 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,600 Look, you shoot us. 421 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,600 What do you think they'll do? 422 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,520 They won't let you get away with that. 423 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,080 They'll kill you. 424 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,240 Charlie, you can't just shoot them. 425 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:03,560 Turn them over to the police. 426 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:04,560 You can't just shoot them. 427 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,560 Be quiet. 428 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,080 He can tell the police, Julie. 429 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:08,080 He's with us. 430 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,000 Only he wants money out of it. 431 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,840 And he thinks you'll get more from the head man in the East. 432 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,200 Turn around and I'm not going to say it again. 433 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,200 Charlie, don't. 434 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,040 I know you've got a duty, but you can arrest them, please. 435 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,040 You could still. 436 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,040 I told you to be quiet. 437 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,040 Arrest? 438 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,040 Arrest? 439 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:28,400 Listen, Raider, you're not going to... 440 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,440 Oh, you're not going to kill us over 10,000? 441 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,840 Boy, that's murder. 442 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:36,840 Even if... 443 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:42,240 Mr. Nylund dropped instantly. 444 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:49,600 Hutchinson held his middle for a second and tried to keep his balance. 445 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,400 I shot him in the back of the head. 446 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,920 I knew he was dead before his body slipped to the ground. 447 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,360 The girl just stood next to me, her hands tightly covering her mouth. 448 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:02,360 She was shivering. 449 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:04,480 I took a look out across the wide valley. 450 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:09,400 The sky was turning purple. 451 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,880 I... 452 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:19,080 I've never seen anybody killed before. 453 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,640 I'm sorry. 454 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,880 Couldn't you... 455 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,040 Couldn't you have arrested them or something? 456 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,040 Couldn't you... 457 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,080 Did you have to? 458 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,040 I had to. 459 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,080 They wouldn't have stopped it killing both of us if they'd had the chance. 460 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,080 What are you going to do? 461 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,680 What are you going to do now? 462 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:45,880 I've got to get the money for evidence. 463 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,600 What are you going to tell the driver? 464 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,120 He'll ask where they are. 465 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,360 Charlie? 466 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,480 The driver's going to wonder where they are. 467 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,280 Charlie, what are you doing? 468 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,960 I've got to put them over the cliff. 469 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:01,960 Oh, no. 470 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:02,960 No. 471 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:03,960 I've got to. 472 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:04,960 Oh. 473 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Oh, no. 474 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,960 Charlie, no. 475 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,960 No. 476 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,960 You can't, Charlie. 477 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:27,960 Not her. 478 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,960 No. 479 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,960 All right. 480 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,960 Come on. 481 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,960 We got back from the bus. 482 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,960 Neither of us said anything about the two we'd walked off with. 483 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,760 I guess nobody had seen us together, and after waiting around for another half hour, the driver 484 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,960 gave up. 485 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,360 I'll drop their baggage in La Jolla. 486 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:56,960 I'd better notify the police, too. 487 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,960 It's screwy, all right. 488 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,960 Okay, folks, sorry for the delay. 489 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,960 You'd better go back to your seat, mister. 490 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:03,960 Sure. 491 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:24,960 I was starved when we pulled into the depot at La Jolla. 492 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,960 I'd already made up my mind to lay over and take a detour on another bus. 493 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,960 The girl wasn't going to be able to keep quiet much longer, and I had to get rid of her. 494 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:39,960 Well, we got out of the bus, and two men were standing alongside, waiting. 495 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,960 Just a minute, please. 496 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,960 We're special agents for the FBI. 497 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:52,960 Search them, Larry. 498 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,960 Just gun and money. 499 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:55,960 Where are the other two? 500 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:56,960 The other two? 501 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,960 They're dead. 502 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,960 He killed them. 503 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,960 Oh. 504 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,960 We'll take those plans now, Mr. Rader, and don't do anything silly. 505 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,960 There are four more men covering you. 506 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,960 Okay. 507 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,960 It's in my shoe. 508 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,960 You want me to take it off now? 509 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:15,960 Please. 510 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,960 All right. 511 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,960 I've got terrible balance. 512 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,960 Mind if I lean on you? 513 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:33,960 Thank you. 514 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:34,960 Here we are. 515 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,960 Thank you, Mr. Rader. 516 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,960 This isn't worth anything, really, you know. 517 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,960 We planted it in the factory in LA for someone to steal. 518 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,960 What we wanted was to be led to the top man in New York, 519 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,960 and when you sent that wire to him from Arizona, we got him. 520 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:52,960 Uh-huh. 521 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,960 We were worried about you, Julie, when you didn't call us from Albuquerque. 522 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,960 I didn't get a chance. 523 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,960 He was with me all the time. 524 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,960 Is she... 525 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,960 Oh, my. 526 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,960 Is she... 527 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,960 Are you playing spy, too, Julie? 528 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,960 I'm working for the government, Mr. Rader. 529 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,960 She's been following you since you stole the plans. 530 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,960 Well, you fooled me. 531 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,960 I bet you fooled Hutchinson and Nylan, too. 532 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,960 It won't matter to them, though, will it? 533 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,960 Well, that's the way it goes. 534 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,960 Take him away, will you? 535 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,960 I had to watch him murder those two. 536 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,960 I didn't want to hear him laugh about it. 537 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,960 Come on, Rader. We've got a car waiting. 538 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,960 Sure. 539 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,960 So long, Julie. 540 00:26:37,960 --> 00:27:05,960 Nice to have met you. 541 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:12,960 Suspense, in which Parley Bear starred in tonight's presentation of Classified Secret. 542 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:35,960 Be sure to listen next week for another presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 543 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,960 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who also wrote tonight's script. 544 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:46,960 The music was composed by Lee Stevens and Lucian Morwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 545 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:54,960 Featured in the cast were Virginia Eiler, Charlotte Lawrence, Richard Beals, Howard McNear, Charles Seal, and Jim Nasser. 546 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,960 Listen Friday night for the 21st Precinct. 547 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:03,960 The hard-hitting 21st Precinct police will give us another graphic view of big city protectors at work. 548 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,960 There's danger every minute, human interest every second, 549 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:16,960 when metropolitan police try to unsnarl personal problems, hunt the missing, solve the crimes, protect the public, sometimes from itself. 550 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:38,960 Remember, Friday nights on most of these same stations, hear the 21st Precinct. 551 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:55,960 Thrill to gun smoke every Saturday and Sunday on the CBS Radio Network.