WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.920 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of frills, Suspense. 00:19.920 --> 00:29.680 Tonight, we bring you the story of a fantastic theft of a million dollar pearl necklace. 00:29.680 --> 00:32.080 We call it, The End of the String. 00:32.080 --> 00:51.320 So now, starring Stacey Harris, here is tonight's Suspense play, The End of the String. 00:51.320 --> 00:55.360 The necklace consisted of 61 perfectly matched pearls. 00:55.360 --> 01:02.760 It was insured for 650,000 dollars and was probably worth about a million. 01:02.760 --> 01:07.960 I got to know about the deal because Sam liked me, I guess, because in Boston, I wasn't 01:07.960 --> 01:09.760 competition. 01:09.760 --> 01:14.520 Just a nice young fellow who was trying to get ahead in costume jewelry. 01:14.520 --> 01:17.720 That's why I happened to be in his private office when the parcel containing the pearls 01:17.720 --> 01:18.720 arrived. 01:18.720 --> 01:23.080 I told you young fellow, you were going to see something this morning. 01:23.080 --> 01:24.080 That's what you said, Sam. 01:24.080 --> 01:25.560 Yeah, I like you. 01:25.560 --> 01:27.080 You call me Sam. 01:27.080 --> 01:30.840 Since I've been a big high finance, you know, I got to be Mr. Hyla. 01:30.840 --> 01:31.840 You're not impressed. 01:31.840 --> 01:32.840 I like that. 01:32.840 --> 01:36.300 I should have had a son like you to pass the business. 01:36.300 --> 01:37.720 Go ahead, pass it anyway. 01:37.720 --> 01:38.720 I'm up for adoption. 01:38.720 --> 01:39.720 Hey, smart. 01:39.720 --> 01:44.360 Come over here to the window. 01:44.360 --> 01:48.160 Do you ever see a million dollars? 01:48.160 --> 01:50.040 Like in the necklace you told me about? 01:50.040 --> 01:51.040 Really? 01:51.040 --> 01:52.040 In the package? 01:52.040 --> 01:54.040 Yeah, the same. 01:54.040 --> 01:55.800 How come you have it delivered by mail, Sam? 01:55.800 --> 01:56.800 Isn't that risky? 01:56.800 --> 01:57.800 Uh-uh. 01:57.800 --> 01:59.700 Sam Hyla's no dope. 01:59.700 --> 02:03.320 You get a messenger to carry it from Detroit to Boston, what happens? 02:03.320 --> 02:05.520 Somebody gives him a crack in the head. 02:05.520 --> 02:06.640 Registered mail? 02:06.640 --> 02:07.640 This they don't touch. 02:07.640 --> 02:09.280 Yeah, I'm glad to know about that. 02:09.280 --> 02:12.200 I'm just liable to send myself a million bucks. 02:12.200 --> 02:13.200 Don't worry. 02:13.200 --> 02:14.200 Someday maybe you will. 02:14.200 --> 02:16.440 Hand me the scissors there, will you? 02:16.440 --> 02:17.440 On the desk. 02:17.440 --> 02:18.440 Sure. 02:18.440 --> 02:19.440 Here you go. 02:19.440 --> 02:20.440 Thank you. 02:20.440 --> 02:21.440 Hey, you're welcome. 02:21.440 --> 02:24.360 Here you go. 02:24.360 --> 02:26.840 Hey, fancy sealing wax, stamp. 02:26.840 --> 02:28.480 I'm very impressed. 02:28.480 --> 02:34.320 Sam Hyla, SH, impresses the customers and I don't get anybody fooling with the parcel. 02:34.320 --> 02:35.800 That's something you've got to learn, Mark. 02:35.800 --> 02:40.360 In this business, you've got to pick and choose your agency, you know, in the other cities. 02:40.360 --> 02:42.720 Mine I know like sons, all bonded. 02:42.720 --> 02:44.840 What was the necklace doing in Detroit? 02:44.840 --> 02:45.840 Customer. 02:45.840 --> 02:46.940 Couldn't make up his mind. 02:46.940 --> 02:49.480 So I had my boy there send it back to me. 02:49.480 --> 02:53.960 You see, tomorrow, the next day, the customer will be screaming for it. 02:53.960 --> 02:56.040 I'm better off in costume jewelry. 02:56.040 --> 02:58.680 It's too much strain with that stuff. 02:58.680 --> 03:02.480 Switch on the light, will you? 03:02.480 --> 03:03.480 Okay. 03:03.480 --> 03:08.080 Now, young man, what do you think of this? 03:08.080 --> 03:11.280 You are going to see something. 03:11.280 --> 03:16.480 What is it, Sam? 03:16.480 --> 03:21.480 He keeled over. 03:21.480 --> 03:27.480 For a minute, I thought he was finished, but he'd only passed out from shock and I knew 03:27.480 --> 03:29.680 why. 03:29.680 --> 03:33.800 Inside the box wrapped in cotton and enclosed in part of a newspaper were eight cubes of 03:33.800 --> 03:40.600 sugar, a million dollars worth of nothing. 03:40.600 --> 03:48.160 In half an hour, the office was alive with uniforms. 03:48.160 --> 03:53.440 Poor old Sam just sat on the couch, a wet towel on his head staring over at the box 03:53.440 --> 03:55.440 on his desk. 03:55.440 --> 03:57.560 I felt really sorry for the old guy. 03:57.560 --> 04:02.120 I figured it was about time for me to go, but that's when Sam woke up a bit and so did 04:02.120 --> 04:04.960 a Dartmouth-type cop from headquarters. 04:04.960 --> 04:07.520 Mark, you're going? 04:07.520 --> 04:09.680 Well, unless there's something I can do, Sam. 04:09.680 --> 04:11.280 I was going to say, before you go. 04:11.280 --> 04:12.280 Yeah? 04:12.280 --> 04:14.280 What did you say your name was, sir? 04:14.280 --> 04:15.280 Hendricks. 04:15.280 --> 04:16.280 Mark Hendricks. 04:16.280 --> 04:17.280 Do you know anything about this? 04:17.280 --> 04:19.440 No, not much. 04:19.440 --> 04:24.520 I was here when Mr. Hyler opened the box and that's about it. 04:24.520 --> 04:25.520 You in this business, too? 04:25.520 --> 04:26.520 Costume jewelry. 04:26.520 --> 04:29.480 I have the office downstairs in the front. 04:29.480 --> 04:30.840 Oh. 04:30.840 --> 04:32.400 You were in here when the mail came? 04:32.400 --> 04:33.400 No. 04:33.400 --> 04:35.360 No, I came up a couple of minutes later. 04:35.360 --> 04:37.240 Didn't see anybody around in the hall? 04:37.240 --> 04:38.760 No, not at all. 04:38.760 --> 04:42.560 Mr. Hyler, you say that the same postman's been on the route for five years? 04:42.560 --> 04:43.560 Every day. 04:43.560 --> 04:44.560 Yeah. 04:44.560 --> 04:45.560 Mark, you go ahead. 04:45.560 --> 04:46.560 Thanks for staying. 04:46.560 --> 04:49.120 I'll look at Sam if there's anything at all I can do. 04:49.120 --> 04:50.840 Well, maybe you could wait a little. 04:50.840 --> 04:51.840 Sure, Sam. 04:51.840 --> 04:52.840 I'll stick around. 04:52.840 --> 04:54.840 How do you feel now, Mr. Hyler? 04:54.840 --> 04:55.840 I'm all right. 04:55.840 --> 04:56.840 I'm fine. 04:56.840 --> 04:58.640 I wish I was dead. 04:58.640 --> 05:01.680 Okay, I want to get a couple of things straight. 05:01.680 --> 05:03.160 You took the mail, Miss? 05:03.160 --> 05:04.160 Miss Cummings. 05:04.160 --> 05:05.680 Yes, same as usual. 05:05.680 --> 05:08.080 The mailman come into the office? 05:08.080 --> 05:09.080 Nobody with him? 05:09.080 --> 05:10.080 That's right. 05:10.080 --> 05:11.080 Nobody else in here? 05:11.080 --> 05:12.080 Only Mr. Hyler. 05:12.080 --> 05:13.760 Mr. Hendricks arrived a few minutes later. 05:13.760 --> 05:16.080 You'd already given the package to Mr. Hyler? 05:16.080 --> 05:17.080 Yes. 05:17.080 --> 05:18.080 Okay. 05:18.080 --> 05:21.360 I want the name and the address of the sender, and then when the Postal Inspector gets here, 05:21.360 --> 05:26.360 we'll go on from there. 05:26.360 --> 05:35.480 The cop's name was Colley, the Postal Inspector's shirer. 05:35.480 --> 05:38.160 Between the two of them, they covered everything. 05:38.160 --> 05:42.200 I hung around because Sam wanted me there, and though nobody said anything, I had the 05:42.200 --> 05:47.840 feeling that until they got through, I was going to be around because they wanted it. 05:47.840 --> 05:49.720 About 12 o'clock, the mailman was brought in. 05:49.720 --> 05:53.080 He was really shaky. 05:53.080 --> 05:56.480 The kind of guy that looks guilty just for living. 05:56.480 --> 05:57.480 I tell you, I don't know. 05:57.480 --> 05:58.480 I'm sorry. 05:58.480 --> 06:00.280 Listen, nothing like this has ever happened. 06:00.280 --> 06:01.280 Mr. Hyler, you tell him. 06:01.280 --> 06:02.280 I told him already. 06:02.280 --> 06:03.280 Mr. Hendricks. 06:03.280 --> 06:05.680 Sure, I'll give you a clean bill. 06:05.680 --> 06:06.680 You see. 06:06.680 --> 06:08.280 Well, looks like nobody said you switched packages. 06:08.280 --> 06:11.520 All we want to know is where you stopped between the office and here. 06:11.520 --> 06:13.040 I made all my stops. 06:13.040 --> 06:14.040 Okay. 06:14.040 --> 06:15.440 We'll start in this building. 06:15.440 --> 06:17.520 Did you put the mailbag down anywhere? 06:17.520 --> 06:18.840 No. 06:18.840 --> 06:19.840 How many offices? 06:19.840 --> 06:20.840 Four. 06:20.840 --> 06:21.840 No, three. 06:21.840 --> 06:24.920 No, four, five, but next door is empty. 06:24.920 --> 06:25.920 All right, it's four. 06:25.920 --> 06:28.520 Where'd you stop first? 06:28.520 --> 06:29.520 Mr. Hendricks. 06:29.520 --> 06:30.520 He's in the front. 06:30.520 --> 06:31.520 Yes. 06:31.520 --> 06:33.640 You put your mailbag down? 06:33.640 --> 06:35.960 Well, maybe just for a minute. 06:35.960 --> 06:38.160 We talked about the game last weekend. 06:38.160 --> 06:39.280 But nobody was around. 06:39.280 --> 06:46.080 Nobody touched the mailbag. 06:46.080 --> 06:48.080 That went on for another half hour. 06:48.080 --> 06:52.600 They tried to catch him up on the point of leaving his mailbag unattended. 06:52.600 --> 06:56.040 But he swore up and down he hadn't taken his eyes off it. 06:56.040 --> 06:58.640 At three o'clock, they quit. 06:58.640 --> 07:01.720 I went back to my place and caught up on my own mail. 07:01.720 --> 07:13.800 A couple of bills, a free dog food coupon. 07:13.800 --> 07:16.520 I saw Sam a lot in the next couple of weeks. 07:16.520 --> 07:20.680 He took the dropping into the office before going home and taking me out for a drink. 07:20.680 --> 07:22.240 No, no, no. 07:22.240 --> 07:23.720 You're my guest. 07:23.720 --> 07:24.720 I pay for the drinks. 07:24.720 --> 07:27.040 Now look, Sam, it's embarrassing. 07:27.040 --> 07:28.040 You never let me take a picture. 07:28.040 --> 07:30.840 In the hour of need, you were there. 07:30.840 --> 07:32.320 I can trust you. 07:32.320 --> 07:34.840 These are bad days for me, Mark. 07:34.840 --> 07:35.840 I need a friend. 07:35.840 --> 07:36.840 Sure, Sam. 07:36.840 --> 07:37.840 I know. 07:37.840 --> 07:38.840 The insurance company called today. 07:38.840 --> 07:39.840 Huh? 07:39.840 --> 07:41.920 Yeah, they're offering a reward. 07:41.920 --> 07:44.120 Fifty thousand dollars for information. 07:44.120 --> 07:46.480 I added ten of my own. 07:46.480 --> 07:47.480 Sixty thousand? 07:47.480 --> 07:48.480 Mm-hmm. 07:48.480 --> 07:49.480 Ah. 07:49.480 --> 07:51.280 Still nothing on it, though, huh? 07:51.280 --> 07:52.280 Nothing. 07:52.280 --> 07:55.440 The post office traced the package from the time it left Detroit. 07:55.440 --> 07:56.960 Nobody touched it. 07:56.960 --> 07:58.800 What about while the necklace was in Detroit? 07:58.800 --> 08:02.120 Well, like I told the police, I trust my boy there. 08:02.120 --> 08:03.360 He put my seal on it. 08:03.360 --> 08:04.360 He mailed it. 08:04.360 --> 08:05.360 We checked. 08:05.360 --> 08:08.760 I trust him, but we checked, too. 08:08.760 --> 08:10.800 Sam, what about that seal? 08:10.800 --> 08:13.640 I mean, you're sure the one on the fake package was yours? 08:13.640 --> 08:14.640 It's my seal. 08:14.640 --> 08:15.640 The same. 08:15.640 --> 08:16.640 The police examined it. 08:16.640 --> 08:19.000 I don't know. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.560 Somebody got a hold of it, I guess. 08:20.560 --> 08:22.560 But yet they couldn't. 08:22.560 --> 08:27.320 It's only me and the Detroit firm that's got one, and they're kept in the safe. 08:27.320 --> 08:31.840 Ah, my boy, you know, I'm gonna retire. 08:31.840 --> 08:34.560 Come on, Sam. 08:34.560 --> 08:36.280 Insurance will cover the loss. 08:36.280 --> 08:37.480 You're not too badly off. 08:37.480 --> 08:38.840 It'll take years. 08:38.840 --> 08:40.520 I know that company. 08:40.520 --> 08:43.520 Mark years. 08:43.520 --> 08:50.960 It's a funny thing about money. 08:50.960 --> 08:53.840 You don't have a lot, so you wish you had more. 08:53.840 --> 08:58.800 Then when you've got more, you want more than that, so you won't go back to not having any. 08:58.800 --> 09:03.640 The trouble is, where do you stop? 09:03.640 --> 09:07.080 The next day I caught Sam's secretary as she was leaving the office. 09:07.080 --> 09:08.080 Oh, Jeannie. 09:08.080 --> 09:09.080 Hi. 09:09.080 --> 09:10.080 Hi. 09:10.080 --> 09:11.080 Where have you been? 09:11.080 --> 09:12.080 Oh, Brown. 09:12.080 --> 09:13.080 Ah, you in a rush? 09:13.080 --> 09:14.080 No. 09:14.080 --> 09:15.080 Want to take me to dinner? 09:15.080 --> 09:16.080 Yeah. 09:16.080 --> 09:17.080 Yeah. 09:17.080 --> 09:18.080 I got a date. 09:18.080 --> 09:21.080 But I'll break it. 09:21.080 --> 09:23.440 Oh, great. 09:23.440 --> 09:26.840 You know, you must be one of the compensations for being broke. 09:26.840 --> 09:27.840 Can I use your phone? 09:27.840 --> 09:28.840 Sure. 09:28.840 --> 09:30.640 Come on in the office. 09:30.640 --> 09:31.640 He's a Harvard boy. 09:31.640 --> 09:33.600 I've taken terrible advantage of him. 09:33.600 --> 09:35.320 I'll just bet you have. 09:35.320 --> 09:39.000 Will you tell him you've got homework tonight, huh? 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 I will. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 I will. 09:41.000 --> 10:05.600 Well, that's enough homework for a while. 10:05.600 --> 10:06.600 Huh? 10:06.600 --> 10:09.000 You know, I think you've got something on your mind. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.040 I mean, you haven't been concentrating at all. 10:13.040 --> 10:14.040 I'm sorry, honey. 10:14.040 --> 10:15.040 Ha. 10:15.040 --> 10:18.040 I want to ask you something. 10:18.040 --> 10:19.040 Yeah. 10:19.040 --> 10:22.040 This isn't a proposal. 10:22.040 --> 10:25.840 You want to make $100,000? 10:25.840 --> 10:28.960 Well, you have got something on your mind. 10:28.960 --> 10:30.960 If you say no, it's okay. 10:30.960 --> 10:34.480 If you say yes, you can't back out. 10:34.480 --> 10:35.480 I love to say yes. 10:35.480 --> 10:36.480 Come on, Jeannie, I'm serious. 10:36.480 --> 10:37.480 So am I. 10:37.480 --> 10:42.480 It's about Sam Hyler's necklace. 10:42.480 --> 10:43.480 Oh? 10:43.480 --> 10:51.000 Who do you like more, your boss or $100,000? 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 I'm loyal. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 You know that. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 Yeah, I know. 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 To which one? 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 Money. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 Sam, too, depending. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 Okay, I'll take a chance. 11:03.000 --> 11:08.000 I want to show you something. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 What? 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 Well... 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 How did you... 11:13.000 --> 11:18.000 The deal's still on? 11:18.000 --> 11:22.000 Mark, it's the necklace. 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 Yeah. 11:23.000 --> 11:40.400 Beautiful, isn't it? 11:40.400 --> 11:46.200 You are listening to The End of the String, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 11:46.200 --> 12:00.040 theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:00.040 --> 12:04.120 Chances are the average man in jail would be pleased and reassured to learn that his 12:04.120 --> 12:09.400 wife was safe at home, but not the gentleman in the pokey in this week's episode of 21st 12:09.400 --> 12:10.400 Precinct. 12:10.400 --> 12:14.680 Having jammed the lock on the door to his home prior to his arrest, he is startled and 12:14.680 --> 12:19.000 not a little dismayed to realize that his long-suffering wife cannot get out of the 12:19.000 --> 12:22.520 house to bail him out even when she wants to. 12:22.520 --> 12:27.180 For engrossing drama with an extra good measure of human interest and humor, don't miss this 12:27.180 --> 12:33.040 diverting story on 21st Precinct when it is broadcast this Friday night over most of these 12:33.040 --> 12:36.800 same stations. 12:36.800 --> 12:41.960 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Stacey Harris, starring in tonight's 12:41.960 --> 12:54.560 production, The End of the String, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:54.560 --> 13:08.360 She sat looking at the necklace and her mouth opened and shut like a beautiful blonde fish. 13:08.360 --> 13:12.840 Then she noticed me staring at her and she got ahold of herself, reached for a cigarette 13:12.840 --> 13:15.840 and lit it. 13:15.840 --> 13:19.880 Funny, Mr. Hyler is the only one I've ever seen hold that necklace. 13:19.880 --> 13:22.760 Uh-huh, it's not heavy. 13:22.760 --> 13:23.760 Here. 13:23.760 --> 13:24.760 Are you interested? 13:24.760 --> 13:30.240 What are you going to do? 13:30.240 --> 13:33.240 What I've been trying to do ever since I got ahold of it, pedal it. 13:33.240 --> 13:34.240 Oh. 13:34.240 --> 13:36.240 Trouble is I don't know where to start. 13:36.240 --> 13:38.840 That's where you come in. 13:38.840 --> 13:40.920 Here, take it back. 13:40.920 --> 13:41.920 No. 13:41.920 --> 13:43.520 What do you mean, no? 13:43.520 --> 13:44.520 I couldn't help you. 13:44.520 --> 13:46.880 I mean, I don't know anymore about where to get rid of it. 13:46.880 --> 13:48.560 Well, then you. 13:48.560 --> 13:49.560 But if you did know. 13:49.560 --> 13:50.560 I couldn't. 13:50.560 --> 13:51.560 It wouldn't make any difference. 13:51.560 --> 13:52.560 I just couldn't. 13:52.560 --> 13:54.280 It's worth a million. 13:54.280 --> 13:58.240 I figure we could get 200,000, maybe more. 13:58.240 --> 14:04.200 Split down the middle, that's, that's $100,000, Jean. 14:04.200 --> 14:05.200 Tax free. 14:05.200 --> 14:07.600 You'll be caught, so will I. 14:07.600 --> 14:08.760 No, no. 14:08.760 --> 14:09.760 Worst of it's over. 14:09.760 --> 14:12.760 How'd you do it, Mark? 14:12.760 --> 14:15.800 Well, it seems to me I've told you an awful lot already. 14:15.800 --> 14:19.160 If we can't make a deal, let's forget it, huh? 14:19.160 --> 14:21.160 Aren't you afraid I'll tell Mr. Hyler? 14:21.160 --> 14:22.160 No. 14:22.160 --> 14:24.840 No, because if you did, you'd have to prove what I've told you. 14:24.840 --> 14:26.880 That wouldn't be easy. 14:26.880 --> 14:29.240 They wouldn't find the necklace around here. 14:29.240 --> 14:34.600 And besides, you, you wouldn't get $100,000. 14:34.600 --> 14:35.600 Why'd you pick me? 14:35.600 --> 14:38.440 Well, Sam works with people in the business. 14:38.440 --> 14:41.720 You get his phone calls, answer his mail. 14:41.720 --> 14:44.720 Wouldn't be hard to find out who handles this kind of stuff. 14:44.720 --> 14:47.800 You could even ask him if you're careful. 14:47.800 --> 14:50.920 That's all I'd have to do, find out where to sell the necklace? 14:50.920 --> 14:51.920 Not another thing. 14:51.920 --> 14:52.920 All right. 14:52.920 --> 14:53.920 Good. 14:53.920 --> 14:58.040 Now, so I won't keep you up tonight. 14:58.040 --> 15:00.000 I'll tell you how I worked it. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.480 This wasn't done overnight. 15:02.480 --> 15:04.920 Sam has been telling me for a long time about that necklace. 15:04.920 --> 15:07.680 But how'd you know he was sending it to Detroit? 15:07.680 --> 15:08.960 And when it'd come back? 15:08.960 --> 15:10.640 Empty office next to yours. 15:10.640 --> 15:15.640 Did you ever hear of wall mics, induction coils to pick up phone conversations? 15:15.640 --> 15:16.640 Oh. 15:16.640 --> 15:17.640 That's it. 15:17.640 --> 15:22.400 Now, let me turn that thing on. 15:22.400 --> 15:27.480 But you couldn't have got ahold of his seal. 15:27.480 --> 15:29.880 All the packages have a seal on. 15:29.880 --> 15:31.680 I didn't have to. 15:31.680 --> 15:33.880 I got friendly with the mailman. 15:33.880 --> 15:36.200 He always stops to gab when he brings my mail. 15:36.200 --> 15:38.720 About a month ago I saw a package addressed to Sam. 15:38.720 --> 15:39.720 That wasn't the necklace. 15:39.720 --> 15:40.720 No. 15:40.720 --> 15:41.720 It was an important package. 15:41.720 --> 15:43.520 Had Sam's seal on it. 15:43.520 --> 15:46.320 So I got the mailman interested in some costume pieces for his wife. 15:46.320 --> 15:50.400 And when he was looking at them I took a wax impression of the seal. 15:50.400 --> 15:52.560 Had a stamp made from that. 15:52.560 --> 15:53.840 Just like that? 15:53.840 --> 15:54.840 Just like that. 15:54.840 --> 15:58.880 I heard Sam talking to his agent on the phone two days before the necklace was mailed from 15:58.880 --> 16:00.080 Detroit. 16:00.080 --> 16:04.880 I knew when it was going to arrive so I made up my own package with the seal. 16:04.880 --> 16:06.480 Switched them when the mailman stopped by. 16:06.480 --> 16:09.040 Well, how'd you know what the box looked like? 16:09.040 --> 16:13.780 I was in the office when you were wrapping it to mail out to Detroit, remember? 16:13.780 --> 16:16.440 And I thought you hung around because of me. 16:16.440 --> 16:18.000 Well, sure. 16:18.000 --> 16:30.400 You're pretty good in Sam. 16:30.400 --> 16:35.560 We agreed not to make any contact with each other until she had some word for me. 16:35.560 --> 16:38.040 I'd worked it out pretty well. 16:38.040 --> 16:42.200 I hoped that she wouldn't be suspected if she did ask questions about fences in Boston 16:42.200 --> 16:43.200 or New York. 16:43.200 --> 16:45.520 And I hoped she wouldn't lose her nerve. 16:45.520 --> 16:51.600 For the next five days I sweated it out along. 16:51.600 --> 16:52.600 The necklace was safe. 16:52.600 --> 16:54.680 I didn't have to worry about that. 16:54.680 --> 16:58.440 But you're never really happy when a million bucks is lying around and you've got to borrow 16:58.440 --> 17:01.800 a hundred to pay rent. 17:01.800 --> 17:06.880 Then one evening just as I was getting home. 17:06.880 --> 17:15.880 Hello? 17:15.880 --> 17:20.520 Hello, Mark. 17:20.520 --> 17:21.520 Oh, hi. 17:21.520 --> 17:22.520 Where are you? 17:22.520 --> 17:23.520 Downstairs. 17:23.520 --> 17:25.560 Oh, come on up. 17:25.560 --> 17:27.720 I wanted to see if it was all right. 17:27.720 --> 17:28.720 There's somebody with me. 17:28.720 --> 17:29.720 Oh. 17:29.720 --> 17:32.360 I thought I'd do a little work to earn the money. 17:32.360 --> 17:35.480 I found a man, called him myself. 17:35.480 --> 17:36.480 Does he know what it is? 17:36.480 --> 17:37.480 Not yet. 17:37.480 --> 17:40.320 Are you sure he's all right? 17:40.320 --> 17:41.320 I think so. 17:41.320 --> 17:42.320 Yes. 17:42.320 --> 17:45.320 Okay, come on up. 17:45.320 --> 17:50.120 Hi, Jeannie. 17:50.120 --> 18:03.720 Mark, this is Mr. Larkin. 18:03.720 --> 18:04.720 Mark Hendricks. 18:04.720 --> 18:05.720 How are you? 18:05.720 --> 18:06.720 I'm Hendricks. 18:06.720 --> 18:10.440 Can I fix your drink? 18:10.440 --> 18:11.440 Never drink, thanks. 18:11.440 --> 18:12.440 Oh, sit down. 18:12.440 --> 18:15.440 Jeannie, you want to get me a scotch and water? 18:15.440 --> 18:16.440 Yeah, all right. 18:16.440 --> 18:17.440 Thanks. 18:17.440 --> 18:22.600 Well, Jeannie tells me you're interested in jewelry. 18:22.600 --> 18:27.280 I represent an outfit that buys and sells. 18:27.280 --> 18:29.680 In the market to buy right now? 18:29.680 --> 18:30.680 Might be. 18:30.680 --> 18:32.520 Depends what's being sold. 18:32.520 --> 18:34.120 Sure. 18:34.120 --> 18:37.160 From folks we don't know, we usually take stuff on consignment. 18:37.160 --> 18:38.240 No, that's out. 18:38.240 --> 18:41.000 This is a cash proposition only. 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 Uh-huh. 18:42.000 --> 18:45.800 Do you have much call for pearls? 18:45.800 --> 18:46.800 Not much. 18:46.800 --> 18:50.480 Of course, for special customers, once in a while we buy them. 18:50.480 --> 18:54.080 How about a pearl necklace? 18:54.080 --> 18:55.080 Might be interested. 18:55.080 --> 18:56.080 You got it? 18:56.080 --> 18:57.080 Not on me. 18:57.080 --> 18:59.080 I can get it, though. 18:59.080 --> 19:01.080 How much you want? 19:01.080 --> 19:02.080 $200,000. 19:02.080 --> 19:03.080 For pearls? 19:03.080 --> 19:04.080 It's worth a million. 19:04.080 --> 19:05.080 You're crazy. 19:05.080 --> 19:06.080 It's insured for over $600,000. 19:06.080 --> 19:07.080 The Hyland necklace? 19:07.080 --> 19:08.080 You got that? 19:08.080 --> 19:09.080 Or might. 19:09.080 --> 19:10.080 You're a pretty foolish boy. 19:10.080 --> 19:11.080 What do you mean? 19:11.080 --> 19:12.080 You're working backwards. 19:12.080 --> 19:13.080 You should figure how to get rid of it before you lift it. 19:13.080 --> 19:14.080 Nobody's going to touch that necklace. 19:14.080 --> 19:15.080 Well, wait a minute. 19:15.080 --> 19:16.080 What's the matter? 19:16.080 --> 19:17.080 You didn't tell me what your boyfriend had, honey. 19:17.080 --> 19:18.080 You're wasting my time. 19:18.080 --> 19:19.080 Well, just take a look at it, huh? 19:19.080 --> 19:20.080 Maybe you'll change your mind. 19:20.080 --> 19:21.080 What do I want to look at it for? 19:21.080 --> 19:22.080 I wouldn't get it. 19:22.080 --> 19:23.080 I'm not going to touch it. 19:23.080 --> 19:24.080 I'm not going to touch it. 19:24.080 --> 19:25.080 I'm not going to touch it. 19:25.080 --> 19:26.080 I'm not going to touch it. 19:26.080 --> 19:37.080 You better get rid of that thing anyway you can. 19:37.080 --> 19:43.000 I'm telling you. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.200 Nice to have met you folks. 19:45.200 --> 19:50.160 And I'd like to ask you to please forget my name. 19:50.160 --> 19:54.760 He was gone, just like that. 19:54.760 --> 19:57.280 Jeannie stood there holding a couple of glasses, looking at the door. 19:57.280 --> 20:01.880 There wasn't anything to say, so we didn't try. 20:01.880 --> 20:03.960 After a couple of drinks, though, we felt better. 20:03.960 --> 20:06.280 So one guy was afraid to handle a big item. 20:06.280 --> 20:07.280 There were others. 20:07.280 --> 20:15.800 We'd go after them. 20:15.800 --> 20:19.720 Jeannie and I got to know most of the fences in the East during the next month. 20:19.720 --> 20:23.880 We'd only have to say, Pearls, and the door would slam. 20:23.880 --> 20:25.960 It gets around. 20:25.960 --> 20:29.400 I was getting a little scared, so I decided on another plan. 20:29.400 --> 20:31.640 We had to be even more careful about getting together. 20:31.640 --> 20:35.560 So Jeannie met me on her lunch hour in the public library. 20:35.560 --> 20:39.320 We went to the reference room and walked down to her back aisle. 20:39.320 --> 20:43.440 Listen, Mark, let's forget it, huh? 20:43.440 --> 20:44.440 What do you mean? 20:44.440 --> 20:45.440 We can't sell it. 20:45.440 --> 20:46.440 We've tried. 20:46.440 --> 20:47.440 Let's forget it. 20:47.440 --> 20:48.440 What are you going to do with it? 20:48.440 --> 20:49.440 Just drop it in the bay? 20:49.440 --> 20:50.440 I don't care, just so we get rid of it. 20:50.440 --> 20:51.440 Look, we've gone this far. 20:51.440 --> 20:52.440 We can't just... 20:52.440 --> 20:54.440 Excuse me. 20:54.440 --> 20:56.440 Yes, certainly. 20:56.440 --> 20:59.440 Thank you. 20:59.440 --> 21:04.480 Now, you look. 21:04.480 --> 21:09.360 We've gone this far. 21:09.360 --> 21:10.960 We can't just get rid of it. 21:10.960 --> 21:12.600 Then what do we do? 21:12.600 --> 21:13.600 The reward. 21:13.600 --> 21:14.600 What? 21:14.600 --> 21:15.760 What happens if we find it? 21:15.760 --> 21:17.320 We get the reward, don't we? 21:17.320 --> 21:18.320 That's $30,000 apiece. 21:18.320 --> 21:19.320 No, I won't do it. 21:19.320 --> 21:21.400 Now, you listen to me. 21:21.400 --> 21:23.400 I'm not going back to those $1.98 earrings. 21:23.400 --> 21:24.400 I don't care about you. 21:24.400 --> 21:25.400 You do what you want. 21:25.400 --> 21:28.320 But I know we can get $30,000 each out of this. 21:28.320 --> 21:29.320 That's a lot better than nothing. 21:29.320 --> 21:30.320 Is it better than prison? 21:30.320 --> 21:32.320 We won't get caught, Jeannie, I promise you. 21:32.320 --> 21:33.600 I've got it all figured out. 21:33.600 --> 21:34.920 Like you had it figured out to sell. 21:34.920 --> 21:35.920 All right, I was wrong. 21:35.920 --> 21:36.920 I admit it. 21:36.920 --> 21:37.920 But this time I'm right. 21:37.920 --> 21:38.920 I'm afraid. 21:38.920 --> 21:39.920 No, now, look, it's simple. 21:39.920 --> 21:40.920 There's nothing to it. 21:40.920 --> 21:41.920 They'll never know. 21:41.920 --> 21:42.920 Are you sure? 21:42.920 --> 21:43.920 Let me give you the idea. 21:43.920 --> 21:44.920 Then you decide. 21:44.920 --> 21:45.920 Okay? 21:45.920 --> 21:46.920 Okay. 21:46.920 --> 22:01.520 I guess a deal like this is something like poker. 22:01.520 --> 22:05.920 It's hoping you'll pull an inside straight flush, which doesn't happen very often, and 22:05.920 --> 22:08.320 the stakes are a lot higher. 22:08.320 --> 22:11.400 I made it sound real easy to Jeannie, though. 22:11.400 --> 22:16.080 I was to go to Hyler, tell him I'd been doing a bit of private eyeing on my own, and that 22:16.080 --> 22:17.760 I'd had a tip. 22:17.760 --> 22:22.920 Some punk had seen a guy put a small package in one of the lockers at the South Station. 22:22.920 --> 22:25.560 That was what I was supposed to know. 22:25.560 --> 22:28.280 I'd paid said punk fifty bucks for the information. 22:28.280 --> 22:30.800 We set it up like that. 22:30.800 --> 22:34.360 Jeannie took the necklace and a package to the station on her lunch hour. 22:34.360 --> 22:37.960 I thought it best not to see her after that, and I waited until the next morning before 22:37.960 --> 22:41.160 I went to Sam and told him the news. 22:41.160 --> 22:45.120 The college boy-type cop, Collie, was at the office ten minutes later. 22:45.120 --> 22:46.840 Who was this fellow, Hendricks? 22:46.840 --> 22:48.200 Well, I told you, I don't know. 22:48.200 --> 22:49.200 I was snooping around. 22:49.200 --> 22:50.840 I made a couple of contacts. 22:50.840 --> 22:53.240 Yeah, and the pearls are at the South Station. 22:53.240 --> 22:56.240 Well, if they're not, I spent fifty bucks for nothing. 22:56.240 --> 22:58.880 Mr. Collie, why do you waste time? 22:58.880 --> 23:01.640 Mark is doing me a big favor, and you're asking questions. 23:01.640 --> 23:03.000 Let's get over there. 23:03.000 --> 23:04.520 And don't you worry, my boy. 23:04.520 --> 23:08.920 If I get my necklace back, you'll have your fifty dollars, and everything else is coming 23:08.920 --> 23:09.920 to you. 23:09.920 --> 23:10.920 Let's go. 23:10.920 --> 23:25.840 Which locker is it, Mark? 23:25.840 --> 23:27.640 Thirty-six, that's what the guy told me. 23:27.640 --> 23:28.640 We'll find out. 23:28.640 --> 23:30.760 Look, Collie, I don't like the way you talk. 23:30.760 --> 23:31.920 I'm just trying to help. 23:31.920 --> 23:35.440 If you didn't get the reward first, that's not my fault, you know. 23:35.440 --> 23:36.440 Thirty-six? 23:36.440 --> 23:37.440 Thirty-six. 23:37.440 --> 23:39.400 I'll get the attendant over. 23:39.400 --> 23:40.400 He'll have a key. 23:40.400 --> 23:42.560 No, wait a minute, look. 23:42.560 --> 23:47.520 It ain't locked. 23:47.520 --> 23:48.520 Well Hendricks? 23:48.520 --> 23:50.520 Mark, think. 23:50.520 --> 23:52.400 Maybe you forgot the number. 23:52.400 --> 23:54.560 No, I didn't forget. 23:54.560 --> 23:56.200 That's what he said, thirty-six. 23:56.200 --> 23:57.960 But there's nothing in it. 23:57.960 --> 23:58.960 It's empty. 23:58.960 --> 23:59.960 Well, Hendricks? 23:59.960 --> 24:05.600 Well, I guess I'm out fifty dollars. 24:05.600 --> 24:09.600 Yeah, too bad. 24:09.600 --> 24:16.200 What had she done with it? 24:16.200 --> 24:17.680 I couldn't get to the office. 24:17.680 --> 24:19.880 I couldn't be seen with her, but I had to know. 24:19.880 --> 24:22.920 What had she done with it? 24:22.920 --> 24:24.680 I waited all day until she finished work. 24:24.680 --> 24:27.520 Then I was waiting outside her apartment when she got home. 24:27.520 --> 24:29.800 Jean, now listen, I want to know- 24:29.800 --> 24:32.800 Where do we get inside? 24:32.800 --> 24:38.720 Okay, okay, where is it? 24:38.720 --> 24:45.960 Here, take it. 24:45.960 --> 24:48.000 Why didn't you do what I told you to do? 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 Why didn't you put it in the locker? 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 I did. 24:50.000 --> 24:51.000 Why didn't you put it in the locker? 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 I can't put it in. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 Yesterday. 24:53.000 --> 24:59.720 Then this morning I heard Mr. Hyler talking to Collie about you and me seeing so much 24:59.720 --> 25:00.720 of each other. 25:00.720 --> 25:04.440 I was afraid they were beginning to suspect, so I went back to the station and took it 25:04.440 --> 25:05.440 out again. 25:05.440 --> 25:10.280 I was trying to do you a favor and you slapped me. 25:10.280 --> 25:11.280 I'm sorry, Jeannie. 25:11.280 --> 25:13.320 I'll bet you are. 25:13.320 --> 25:14.320 Go away. 25:14.320 --> 25:18.320 I don't want to see you again and I don't want to see that necklace again, but you'd 25:18.320 --> 25:19.760 better get rid of it. 25:19.760 --> 25:30.920 Go throw it in the bay and you go with it. 25:30.920 --> 25:32.920 Get rid of it? 25:32.920 --> 25:34.960 Lose it? 25:34.960 --> 25:39.240 A million dollars burning a hole in your pocket and you throw it away? 25:39.240 --> 25:40.240 No. 25:40.240 --> 25:43.240 No, don't throw it away. 25:43.240 --> 25:44.240 It's too beautiful. 25:44.240 --> 25:51.040 Put it back where you got it. 25:51.040 --> 25:53.840 Give it back to Sam. 25:53.840 --> 25:58.600 Go back to Sam Hyler's office and in the morning old Sam will be so happy to find it on his 25:58.600 --> 26:02.040 desk he won't ask any questions. 26:02.040 --> 26:06.040 And maybe Collie won't either. 26:06.040 --> 26:14.800 Ah, it's so beautiful. 26:14.800 --> 26:23.840 A million dollars and so beautiful. 26:23.840 --> 26:25.840 That's a good boy, Mark. 26:25.840 --> 26:26.840 Collie. 26:26.840 --> 26:33.640 You know, I was getting awfully tired of following you around. 26:33.640 --> 26:43.000 Well, it was a great idea anyway. 26:43.000 --> 26:47.800 Starting with a million dollars, sure, you have to take a loss or you settle for 200,000. 26:47.800 --> 26:54.840 But nobody buys, so then there's the reward, 60,000. 26:54.840 --> 26:57.080 Turns out nobody's going to get that. 26:57.080 --> 27:02.160 That takes care of the reward. 27:02.160 --> 27:25.840 Anybody got a dime for a lawyer? 27:25.840 --> 27:38.620 They're tablecomers, they're 27:38.620 --> 27:58.380 a baby. We call it the cellar door. That's next week on Suspense. 27:58.380 --> 28:02.540 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by David 28:02.540 --> 28:07.780 Williams. The music was composed by Lucian Morrowek and René Garagang and conducted 28:07.780 --> 28:12.860 by Wilbur Hatch. Featured in the cast were Benny Rubin, Mary Jane Croft, Larry Thor, 28:12.860 --> 28:18.180 Jim Nusser and Jack Crouchon. There may be two sides to most stories, but where a story 28:18.180 --> 28:22.180 of crime is concerned, there's only one place to be and that is on the right side of the 28:22.180 --> 28:27.620 law. Unfortunately for him, the nice looking boy finds himself on the wrong side of the 28:27.620 --> 28:33.980 law when the FBI in Peace and War next goes into action to track down an impulsive killer. 28:33.980 --> 28:38.780 How they link the handsome youth to the ugly crime is a story in itself. 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