1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,000 And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Tonight, we bring you the story of three convicts on a road gang in Florida who planned the perfect escape through the Everglades. 3 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:33,000 We call it Quiet Night. So now, starring Stacy Harris, here is tonight's Suspense play, Quiet Night. 4 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 We listened for it every night right after lights out. 5 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 And it would be there, passing over us, headed across the Everglades toward Miami. 6 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 For a moment, it was like having somebody come and see you on visitor's day. 7 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Only when you're on a road gang, you don't get no visitors. 8 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 There were 80 of us in that camp on the edge of the mangrove swamp. 9 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Every night, we'd quiet down and listen to that airplane, 10 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:22,000 wondering about the people up there, where they'd been, where they were going, and wishing we were going with them. 11 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Then it'd be gone. 12 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 But I'd feel good just knowing other people would hear it. 13 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 People across the swamp over in Lakeland. 14 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 They'd hear it about six minutes after we did. 15 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,000 George, George, up, Shaw, wake up. George. 16 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Oh, mother. 17 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Honestly, George, if you're so all fired sleepy, why don't you take your clothes off and go to bed? 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I can't yet. Have them checked to jail. 19 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Seems to me that'll be Burt's job. That's what a deputy's for, isn't it? 20 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Keep the sheriff from running yourself to death? 21 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Burt does his share. 22 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Well, if he wasn't your nephew, he'd starve to death. 23 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Hand me my hat, mother. 24 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 George, you know what Doc Lang told you. You gotta start taking it easy. 25 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I will, I will. So long. 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 George. 27 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Why? 28 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Remember how you used to kiss me whenever you left the house. 29 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Well, we were younger then, mother. People our age, don't they? 30 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Never mind. Go on. 31 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 What's eating you, mother? 32 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Oh, I don't know. Maybe it was here in the plane coming over from Havana. 33 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Remember when we took it home from our vacation? 34 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 That was nine years ago. They'd have a new plane by now. 35 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 We haven't had so much fun since. 36 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 We ought to get away for a few days. 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Maybe go to St. Petersburg and just sit on a bench as for a spell. 38 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Where will one of these days? 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 One of these days. 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Well, if you're going to jail, hurry up about it so you can get home and get your rest. 41 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 It took the plane less than four minutes to cover the 12 miles between the sheriff's farm 42 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:16,000 and the parking lot next to the county courthouse. 43 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Rousy, stinking mosquitoes. 44 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Want to put the window up? 45 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 No, it's too hot. 46 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Bert, we ought to get out of here. 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Can't, honey. I'm on duty. 48 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 I don't mean to deny. I mean get away from Lakeland for good. 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Where are you figuring on going? 50 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Oh, up to Jacksonville over in New Orleans. 51 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Nah, wouldn't work. 52 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Now what makes you talk like that? 53 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 You? 54 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Me. 55 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 If you didn't settle down. 56 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 I wouldn't do what your husband did, but I wouldn't stay around you for two seconds. 57 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Honey, I never loved Harry. 58 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Then you shouldn't have married him. 59 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I had to. I hated my folks. Harry got me away from him. 60 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 How old were you? 61 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Almost 17. 62 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Bert, I wrote Harry today. 63 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Oh? 64 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I told him I wanted a divorce so I could marry somebody else. 65 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 You will marry me, won't you? 66 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I'd like to see somebody try to stop me. 67 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:42,000 The night the plane didn't come over was the night that Harry showed Fats and me the letter. 68 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,000 We figured the plane was late, held back by the wind or something, so we waited, listening. 69 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 While we waited Harry had me read his letter. 70 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 You through, Joe? 71 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Yeah. 72 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 What'd you think? 73 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 It's tough. 74 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Let me read it, Harry. 75 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Later, Fats. 76 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Listen to this, Joe. He's a wonderful man. I'm sure he'll treat me good. 77 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 How do you like that? 78 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 It's tough, Harry. 79 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 What do you expect, Harry? No woman can wait 10 years. 80 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Why, you fuzzy little... 81 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Quiet, you guys. Listen. 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 You hear it, Jeffers? 83 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 I thought I did. I guess not. 84 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,000 She sure turned out to be an ever-loving wife, didn't she? 85 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Makes me wonder if I did right, killing Red Simmons. Maybe it should have been her. 86 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 You could still do it, Harry. We get enough money, we're making a break. Ain't that right, Joe? 87 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Fats, I told you before, don't talk about it. 88 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 We'd sure surprise her. 89 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Any of you guys got the makings? 90 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Yeah, yeah. Just don't forget where you got them, huh? 91 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Thanks. 92 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Hey, Harry. You know that picture you got of her, you know, the one where she's wearing shorts? 93 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Yeah. 94 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Well, I was just thinking, you don't want it no more now, why don't you give it to me, huh? OK, Harry? 95 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 What would you do with it, Fats? 96 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Oh, nothing. Just I ain't got no family and I could sort of make like she's kidding folk. You know what I mean, Harry? 97 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 I know what you mean. 98 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Well? 99 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 No. 100 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,000 No. You guys, you ain't got no feelings. 101 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Here's your tobacco, Joe. Thanks. 102 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 That's OK, Jeffers. 103 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Joe, that plane never been late before. 104 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Not since I've been here. 105 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Man, I'm getting nervous. Where you suppose it's at? 106 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Alice Michael Stewart is Miami. John D. Erickson, Atlanta. Paul R. Brown, Miami. 107 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Master, why don't you turn that thing off? 108 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Do they know what went down yet? 109 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:08,000 One of the CIA men spotted about 30 miles this side of Sabre Light, right in the middle of that cypress swamp. 110 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 How you gonna get to it? 111 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Walk. Only way we can. 112 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 George! 113 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Now, Master, don't worry. Burt's going with me. We'll have plenty of help. 114 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 From where? Who's gonna help? 115 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,000 We're taking four or five trustees from that road gang. They're closer to it than anybody else. 116 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 They gonna help you walk, Joe? 117 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 No, Master. 118 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 You know what Doc Lang said? You aren't to exert yourself. 119 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 I'll be all right. 120 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 I swear I don't understand why it's your place to go at all. 121 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Master, as long as I'm the sheriff of this county, it's my job. 122 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 When'll you be back? 123 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 I don't know. It depends on how long it takes us to get in there. 124 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 There's Burt with the truck. Bye, hon. 125 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Be careful, George. 126 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I will. 127 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Before we'd finished our grits, we'd heard what had happened to the plane. 128 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 By 9.30, we were sitting in the back of the county sheriff's truck, 129 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 bumping over an oyster shell road headed west toward the gulf. 130 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:10,000 The sheriff and his deputy had picked Harry, Jeffers, Fats, and me because we knew the swamps. 131 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And because we were trustees. 132 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:11,160 After about half an hour, they stopped at the 133 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:21,160 truck, we piled up. 134 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,160 All right, you men. All right, knock it off. 135 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,160 The sheriff wants to say something. 136 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,160 And now on we walk, and as fast as we can. 137 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,160 When we reach the plane, we'll clear the trees and brush the grass. 138 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:14,200 We'll get the 139 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:19,160 A helicopter can get in the carry-out of the body. 140 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,160 And we can go pick it up in that bin. 141 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,200 Hey, Finattle에í? 142 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:28,260 Do you know who minerals this is? 143 00:08:28,260 --> 00:08:15,960 slot of Google or a 144 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,120 technical 145 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,220 Google 146 00:08:37,220 --> 00:08:36,220 Yes. 147 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:41,920 News and report. 148 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,420 Can get in to carry out the bodies. 149 00:08:45,420 --> 00:08:46,920 Any question? 150 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,220 Sheriff, how far is that plane from here? 151 00:08:49,220 --> 00:08:51,220 About 10 miles southeast. 152 00:08:51,220 --> 00:08:52,520 Whistle. 153 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,220 Something bothering you, mister? 154 00:08:54,220 --> 00:08:56,020 Mm-hmm, just thinking. 155 00:08:56,020 --> 00:08:59,220 10 miles of swamp can be a long way. 156 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:02,020 Sheriff, how we go about finding it? 157 00:09:02,020 --> 00:09:06,720 A plane from Lakeland will drop a smoke part on it in about five hours. 158 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,320 It'll burn long enough to guide us in. 159 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,120 Anything else? 160 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,620 What are we gonna clear those trees out with? 161 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:19,620 There's a crosscut and a hand saw and an axe in the truck. 162 00:09:19,620 --> 00:09:21,620 You wanna say something, bud? 163 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:23,620 Yeah. 164 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:27,620 I'm not turning loose this shotgun at no time. 165 00:09:27,620 --> 00:09:30,620 First man even looks like he's thinking about a break, 166 00:09:30,620 --> 00:09:32,620 gets it right in the gut. 167 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:34,620 All right, grab a saw. 168 00:09:34,620 --> 00:09:36,620 Hey, you, fat boy. 169 00:09:36,620 --> 00:09:37,620 Oh, yes, sir. 170 00:09:37,620 --> 00:09:39,620 You towed the axe. 171 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:41,620 Where off sum that blubber? 172 00:09:41,620 --> 00:09:43,620 Yes, sir. 173 00:09:43,620 --> 00:09:44,620 Watch out. 174 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:47,120 Little rough on them, weren't you, Bert? 175 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,620 They are trustees. 176 00:09:48,620 --> 00:09:50,120 Maybe three of them. 177 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,120 I ain't seen their records. 178 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:53,620 But not Harry Briar. 179 00:09:53,620 --> 00:09:55,120 You know what he did. 180 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,620 Yeah, a lot of men might have done the same thing. 181 00:09:57,620 --> 00:10:00,620 We've never been in that kind of situation. 182 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:02,620 Well, I'll tell you this. 183 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:05,620 Road boys can call him a trustee all he wants. 184 00:10:05,620 --> 00:10:09,620 But ain't gonna cut no ice with me. 185 00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:22,620 We started then single file 186 00:10:22,620 --> 00:10:25,620 with the sheriff leading and the deputy behind us. 187 00:10:25,620 --> 00:10:29,620 Like he thought we'd be crazy enough to run. 188 00:10:29,620 --> 00:10:31,620 Even if we did get clean away, 189 00:10:31,620 --> 00:10:34,620 where'd we go without money? 190 00:10:34,620 --> 00:10:37,620 We really moved along until we hit swamp. 191 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:40,620 Then every step we took, our boots went in up to our ankles. 192 00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:42,620 Didn't our feet free? 193 00:10:42,620 --> 00:10:45,620 Out in front of us again was like walking up a hill. 194 00:10:49,620 --> 00:10:50,620 Joe. 195 00:10:50,620 --> 00:10:51,620 Yeah. 196 00:10:51,620 --> 00:10:53,620 Look at the sheriff. 197 00:10:53,620 --> 00:10:55,120 What about him? 198 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,620 He's gonna drop most any time. 199 00:10:57,620 --> 00:10:59,620 He's sick, Joe. 200 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:01,120 Gone, Sheriff. 201 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,620 Dropped. 202 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:04,620 Drop, Sheriff. 203 00:11:04,620 --> 00:11:07,620 Go on, drop, drop, drop. 204 00:11:07,620 --> 00:11:09,620 Right here, Sheriff. 205 00:11:09,620 --> 00:11:11,620 Take a break, you men. Fall out. 206 00:11:11,620 --> 00:11:12,620 Bats. 207 00:11:12,620 --> 00:11:14,620 Harry. 208 00:11:14,620 --> 00:11:17,620 Bring your backs up against this tree. 209 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:23,620 Sheriff's got the deputy worried. 210 00:11:23,620 --> 00:11:26,620 Look how he's unloosening his collar for him. 211 00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:27,620 Yeah. 212 00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:30,620 Hey, any of you guys hungry yet? 213 00:11:30,620 --> 00:11:31,620 No. 214 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:34,620 Well, I think I'll eat one of them sandwiches. 215 00:11:36,620 --> 00:11:37,620 Joe. 216 00:11:37,620 --> 00:11:38,620 Hmm? 217 00:11:38,620 --> 00:11:40,620 You been thinking about that plane? 218 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:42,620 I don't like to think about things like that. 219 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:44,620 I just hope I can forget them. 220 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:47,620 I've been thinking about it, Harry. 221 00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:50,620 You know, every night when he used to come over, 222 00:11:50,620 --> 00:11:53,620 I sort of imagined I was on it. 223 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:55,620 And the stewardess was being nice to me, 224 00:11:55,620 --> 00:11:57,620 bringing me my food and all. 225 00:11:57,620 --> 00:12:00,620 Boy, she was sure pretty. 226 00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:01,620 I mean, at least I thought so. 227 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:03,620 Shut up, Fett. Stop talking about it, will you? 228 00:12:03,620 --> 00:12:07,620 Joe, that plane was carrying lots of things besides people. 229 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:08,620 Maybe. 230 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:09,620 No. 231 00:12:09,620 --> 00:12:10,620 No, maybe. 232 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:12,620 That was a big plane. 233 00:12:12,620 --> 00:12:13,620 Four motors. 234 00:12:13,620 --> 00:12:17,620 A plane like that carries mail, packages, 235 00:12:17,620 --> 00:12:20,620 sometimes real valuable stuff like money 236 00:12:20,620 --> 00:12:23,620 being shipped from one bank to another. 237 00:12:23,620 --> 00:12:25,620 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Harry. 238 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:29,620 And what's been holding us up? 239 00:12:29,620 --> 00:12:30,620 Money. 240 00:12:30,620 --> 00:12:31,620 It's no good, Harry. 241 00:12:31,620 --> 00:12:33,620 You crazy? Why not? 242 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:36,620 How are we going to keep the sheriff or that deputy from seeing us? 243 00:12:36,620 --> 00:12:37,620 They're four of us. 244 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:39,620 They can't watch all of us at the same time. 245 00:12:39,620 --> 00:12:40,620 Come on, Joe. 246 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:41,620 It's what we've been waiting for, ain't it? 247 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:43,620 You tell him it's what we've been waiting for, Harry. 248 00:12:43,620 --> 00:12:47,620 He knows it. I don't need to tell him. 249 00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:49,620 Well, I guess we got nothing to lose. 250 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:51,620 Okay, Harry, okay. 251 00:12:51,620 --> 00:12:55,620 Knock it off, Mr. Deputy. 252 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:58,620 You, what's your name? 253 00:12:58,620 --> 00:13:00,620 Joseph McGuire. 254 00:13:00,620 --> 00:13:01,620 What are you doing? 255 00:13:01,620 --> 00:13:05,620 Eight to ten, armed robbery, second offense. 256 00:13:05,620 --> 00:13:06,620 You? 257 00:13:06,620 --> 00:13:08,620 Henry Fats Carver. 258 00:13:08,620 --> 00:13:09,620 Offense? 259 00:13:09,620 --> 00:13:11,620 Oh, sir, it was a misunderstanding. 260 00:13:11,620 --> 00:13:12,620 I know you're innocent. 261 00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:13,620 Yes, sir. 262 00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:16,620 Never mind, never mind. 263 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:19,620 All right, I know you, Harry. 264 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:20,620 You. 265 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:22,620 What's your name? 266 00:13:22,620 --> 00:13:24,620 Paul Jeffers, sir. 267 00:13:24,620 --> 00:13:25,620 Offense? 268 00:13:25,620 --> 00:13:27,620 Burglary, first offense. 269 00:13:27,620 --> 00:13:30,620 You think you can find your way back to the truck? 270 00:13:30,620 --> 00:13:33,620 Why, yes, sir, I think so. 271 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:36,620 All right, go on over to the sheriff. 272 00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:37,620 He's sick. 273 00:13:37,620 --> 00:13:39,620 You're taking him back, and don't you rush. 274 00:13:39,620 --> 00:13:40,620 Do it easy, here. 275 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:41,620 Yes, sir. 276 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:42,620 The rest of us are going on. 277 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:44,620 Fats, you're gonna lead. 278 00:13:44,620 --> 00:13:46,620 Oh, how I know which way to go, sir. 279 00:13:46,620 --> 00:13:48,620 I got the compass now, I'll tell you. 280 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:51,620 Joe, you follow Fats. 281 00:13:51,620 --> 00:13:57,620 And Harry, you and me, we'll bring up the rear. 282 00:14:03,620 --> 00:14:05,620 We started again. 283 00:14:05,620 --> 00:14:07,620 There are only four of us now. 284 00:14:07,620 --> 00:14:11,620 Fats, Harry, me, and the deputy. 285 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:14,620 Three of us against one of him. 286 00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:17,620 We didn't say anything we didn't need to. 287 00:14:17,620 --> 00:14:19,620 But we were waiting. 288 00:14:19,620 --> 00:14:23,620 Waiting for that one moment when he'd take his hands off that shotgun. 289 00:14:23,620 --> 00:14:25,620 Then it came. 290 00:14:25,620 --> 00:14:29,620 Okay, okay, Fats, hold it up. 291 00:14:29,620 --> 00:14:33,620 You men see smoke rising off ahead? 292 00:14:33,620 --> 00:14:35,620 No, not yet. 293 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:38,620 Hey, Mr. Deputy, can somebody else carry this here, I ask? 294 00:14:38,620 --> 00:14:40,620 No. 295 00:14:40,620 --> 00:14:41,620 Joe. 296 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:43,620 Yeah, Harry. 297 00:14:43,620 --> 00:14:46,620 Sir, are you sure we're headed in the right direction? 298 00:14:46,620 --> 00:14:47,620 I'm sure. 299 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:49,620 He's not so sure. 300 00:14:49,620 --> 00:14:51,620 Look at him, Joe. 301 00:14:51,620 --> 00:14:52,620 Yeah, I know. 302 00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:55,620 He's gonna reach in his pocket for that compass. 303 00:14:55,620 --> 00:14:56,620 Fats. 304 00:14:56,620 --> 00:14:58,620 There he goes. 305 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:00,620 Now, Fats, now! 306 00:15:00,620 --> 00:15:03,620 The gun, Harry, get the gun! 307 00:15:11,620 --> 00:15:14,620 But Harry didn't need the shotgun. 308 00:15:14,620 --> 00:15:17,620 Fats had used the axe. 309 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:21,620 I picked up the compass and we turned away to the southeast. 310 00:15:23,620 --> 00:15:25,620 Something bothering you, Joe? 311 00:15:25,620 --> 00:15:26,620 Huh? 312 00:15:26,620 --> 00:15:28,620 I don't know. 313 00:15:28,620 --> 00:15:29,620 I was just thinking. 314 00:15:29,620 --> 00:15:31,620 About what's at the plain? 315 00:15:31,620 --> 00:15:34,620 Oh, I was thinking about that deputy. 316 00:15:34,620 --> 00:15:36,620 Don't feel bad about him. 317 00:15:36,620 --> 00:15:39,620 He was itching to use this here shotgun on us. 318 00:15:39,620 --> 00:15:41,620 Yeah, that's right. 319 00:15:41,620 --> 00:15:44,620 I just don't know him. 320 00:15:44,620 --> 00:15:46,620 You suppose he had a family? 321 00:15:46,620 --> 00:15:47,620 Him? 322 00:15:47,620 --> 00:15:49,620 Who'd marry something like him? 323 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:51,620 Hey, hey, hey, you guys, hey! 324 00:15:51,620 --> 00:15:52,620 What's the matter? 325 00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:54,620 Look at it! 326 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:55,620 What? 327 00:15:55,620 --> 00:15:56,620 It's smoke. 328 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:57,620 Blank smoke. 329 00:15:57,620 --> 00:15:58,620 It's the plane! 330 00:15:58,620 --> 00:15:59,620 Come on, come on, it's the plane! 331 00:15:59,620 --> 00:16:12,620 Come on! 332 00:16:12,620 --> 00:16:20,620 You are listening to Quiet Night, tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, Suspense. 333 00:16:20,620 --> 00:16:33,620 For a good time tomorrow during the day, don't miss the goings on when it's Arthur Godfrey 334 00:16:33,620 --> 00:16:34,620 time. 335 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:38,620 Remember, every Monday through Friday, you can join those gifted fund-makers over most 336 00:16:38,620 --> 00:16:40,620 of these same stations. 337 00:16:40,620 --> 00:16:48,620 And now we bring back to our Hollywood Sound stage, Stacey Harris, starring in tonight's 338 00:16:48,620 --> 00:16:56,620 one Quiet Night, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 339 00:16:56,620 --> 00:17:05,620 We were heading for that thin stream of black smoke rising out of the swamp that marked 340 00:17:05,620 --> 00:17:08,620 the position of the fallen plane. 341 00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:13,620 Ahead of us in a straight line about 200 yards long and 50 wide, the tops of the trees have 342 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:16,620 been neatly sheared off by the wings. 343 00:17:16,620 --> 00:17:19,620 And then we saw it. 344 00:17:19,620 --> 00:17:23,620 Parts of the plane were scattered about in the mud as far as we could see. 345 00:17:23,620 --> 00:17:27,620 The wings had burned, but nothing else. 346 00:17:27,620 --> 00:17:30,620 Cabin was in two sections, with the larger section dead ahead of us. 347 00:17:30,620 --> 00:17:34,620 We climbed up into it. 348 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:40,620 Joe, you ever been in a plane like this? 349 00:17:40,620 --> 00:17:41,620 Once? 350 00:17:41,620 --> 00:17:42,620 Yeah, when? 351 00:17:42,620 --> 00:17:45,620 When I was trying to get out of the country. 352 00:17:45,620 --> 00:17:48,620 You know where they'd keep mail and stuff like that? 353 00:17:48,620 --> 00:17:49,620 I think so. 354 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:54,620 I think it'll be up front, about where the pilot sits. 355 00:17:54,620 --> 00:17:58,620 Well, maybe in here somewhere, huh? 356 00:17:58,620 --> 00:17:59,620 Yeah, I think so. 357 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:00,620 Let's take a look. 358 00:18:00,620 --> 00:18:02,620 Watch your head, Joe. 359 00:18:02,620 --> 00:18:04,620 All right. 360 00:18:04,620 --> 00:18:09,620 Boy, I haven't seen anything this bad since the Navy. 361 00:18:09,620 --> 00:18:10,620 You in the Navy? 362 00:18:10,620 --> 00:18:11,620 For a year. 363 00:18:11,620 --> 00:18:12,620 Just for a year. 364 00:18:12,620 --> 00:18:13,620 Well, it wouldn't take me. 365 00:18:13,620 --> 00:18:14,620 I got a bad knee. 366 00:18:14,620 --> 00:18:17,620 I tried to get in, but on account of this bad knee of mine, it just didn't work. 367 00:18:17,620 --> 00:18:18,620 Here it is, Harry. 368 00:18:18,620 --> 00:18:19,620 Come on, let's get it out of here. 369 00:18:19,620 --> 00:18:20,620 Okay. 370 00:18:20,620 --> 00:18:21,620 Come on, Fats. 371 00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:23,620 Grab ahold of one of these here bags. 372 00:18:23,620 --> 00:18:24,620 Boy, this thing's... 373 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:25,620 Listen. 374 00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:26,620 It's a helicopter. 375 00:18:26,620 --> 00:18:27,620 Come on. 376 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:28,620 What about this mail bag? 377 00:18:28,620 --> 00:18:29,620 Get it later. 378 00:18:29,620 --> 00:18:30,620 Come on. 379 00:18:30,620 --> 00:18:31,620 Now, grab the axe, Fats. 380 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:32,620 Hurry over here. 381 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:33,620 All right. 382 00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:34,620 Now, Fats, get busy chopping on that tree. 383 00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:35,620 Go on. 384 00:18:35,620 --> 00:18:36,620 Come on. 385 00:18:36,620 --> 00:18:37,620 Come on. 386 00:18:37,620 --> 00:18:38,620 Come on. 387 00:18:38,620 --> 00:18:39,620 Come on. 388 00:18:39,620 --> 00:18:40,620 Come on. 389 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:41,620 Come on. 390 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:42,620 Come on. 391 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:43,620 Come on. 392 00:18:43,620 --> 00:18:44,620 Get on that tree. 393 00:18:44,620 --> 00:18:45,620 Go on. 394 00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:46,620 All right. 395 00:18:46,620 --> 00:18:47,620 Come on, Harry. 396 00:18:47,620 --> 00:18:48,620 Where is it? 397 00:18:48,620 --> 00:18:49,620 Can you see him? 398 00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:50,620 No, not yet. 399 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:51,620 The tree's too thick. 400 00:18:51,620 --> 00:18:52,620 He's gonna have to get right over us. 401 00:18:52,620 --> 00:18:53,620 Here he comes. 402 00:18:53,620 --> 00:18:54,620 Act natural. 403 00:18:54,620 --> 00:18:55,620 Cut out the chop, Fats, and smile. 404 00:18:55,620 --> 00:18:56,620 Wave to him. 405 00:18:56,620 --> 00:18:57,620 That's it. 406 00:18:57,620 --> 00:19:00,620 Now, give me a big smile. 407 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:01,620 Smile. 408 00:19:01,620 --> 00:19:02,620 Hi. 409 00:19:02,620 --> 00:19:03,620 Hi-ya, hi-ya. 410 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:04,620 Hi-ya. 411 00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:05,620 That's it. 412 00:19:05,620 --> 00:19:06,620 He's got some big eyes. 413 00:19:06,620 --> 00:19:07,620 Well, now he's got a big head. 414 00:19:07,620 --> 00:19:08,620 Yeah. 415 00:19:08,620 --> 00:19:09,620 Now, Fats, come on. 416 00:19:09,620 --> 00:19:10,620 Come on. 417 00:19:10,620 --> 00:19:11,620 He's got a big head. 418 00:19:11,620 --> 00:19:12,620 He's got a big head. 419 00:19:12,620 --> 00:19:14,620 You think he's looking for that deputy? 420 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:16,620 I hope not. 421 00:19:16,620 --> 00:19:18,620 What are we so worried about? 422 00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:20,620 He can't land. 423 00:19:20,620 --> 00:19:22,620 No, but he can use that radio, Hedge. 424 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:24,620 If anything's wrong, they'll come after us 425 00:19:24,620 --> 00:19:26,620 before we get a chance to get out of the swamp. 426 00:19:26,620 --> 00:19:28,620 Here he comes again. 427 00:19:28,620 --> 00:19:30,620 Well, he's planning on us making a clearing 428 00:19:30,620 --> 00:19:42,620 so he can land. He's got a long way to go. 429 00:19:42,620 --> 00:19:44,620 How much out of that mail bag, Joe? 430 00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:46,620 Four hundred and eighty-two. 431 00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:48,620 Not bad. 432 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:50,620 Well, why don't we look in that other part? 433 00:19:50,620 --> 00:19:52,620 Maybe we'll find some more stuff. 434 00:19:52,620 --> 00:19:54,620 In a minute, Fats. 435 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:56,620 Altogether we can get a good deal. 436 00:19:56,620 --> 00:20:00,620 That'll get us to Cuba. From there we can work our way down to South America. 437 00:20:00,620 --> 00:20:02,620 When do you think we'll get there, Harry? 438 00:20:02,620 --> 00:20:04,620 Couple of weeks, Fats. 439 00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:06,620 We can rent a boat in Lakeland. A friend of mine's got one. 440 00:20:06,620 --> 00:20:08,620 Now, let's provide him we get across to Lakeland tonight. 441 00:20:08,620 --> 00:20:10,620 Yeah. 442 00:20:10,620 --> 00:20:12,620 How far is Lakeland from here? 443 00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:14,620 Fifteen, twenty miles. 444 00:20:14,620 --> 00:20:16,620 I'm tired. How come we gotta make it all in one night? 445 00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:18,620 Because that helicopter will be back in the morning. 446 00:20:18,620 --> 00:20:20,620 When there's no place for him to land, he's gonna be gone. 447 00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:22,620 He's gonna be gone. 448 00:20:22,620 --> 00:20:24,620 He's gonna be gone. 449 00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:26,620 He's gonna be gone. 450 00:20:26,620 --> 00:20:28,620 Yeah, he's gonna be gone. 451 00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:30,620 He's gonna be gone. 452 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:32,620 We better leave in about an hour. 453 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:34,620 Hey, we got any more of them Sanches left? 454 00:20:34,620 --> 00:20:36,620 No, nothing. 455 00:20:36,620 --> 00:20:38,620 So hungry Fats wants to take a look in the galley. 456 00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:40,620 The what? 457 00:20:40,620 --> 00:20:42,620 The galley, over there. 458 00:20:42,620 --> 00:20:44,620 The tail section. The stewardess usually keeps the food back in there. 459 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:46,620 I'll go take a look. 460 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:48,620 Cigarette, Joe? 461 00:20:48,620 --> 00:20:50,620 No. 462 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,620 Tailor made. 463 00:20:52,620 --> 00:20:54,620 Okay. 464 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:56,620 Oh, here. Let me give you your share. 465 00:20:56,620 --> 00:20:58,620 Keep it. 466 00:20:58,620 --> 00:21:00,620 What? 467 00:21:00,620 --> 00:21:02,620 Keep it, I said. I don't want it. 468 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:04,620 What's the matter with you? 469 00:21:04,620 --> 00:21:06,620 I don't know. 470 00:21:06,620 --> 00:21:08,620 I'm getting fed up with everything. 471 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:10,620 Us, this place, Fats, you, everything. 472 00:21:10,620 --> 00:21:12,620 You'll feel better when we get on that boat to Cuba. 473 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:14,620 Hey, you guys. 474 00:21:14,620 --> 00:21:16,620 Now what? 475 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:18,620 Come here, quick. 476 00:21:18,620 --> 00:21:20,620 What is it? 477 00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:22,620 A young kid. 478 00:21:22,620 --> 00:21:24,620 Look out, Harry. Let me see. 479 00:21:26,620 --> 00:21:28,620 This kid's alive. 480 00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:30,620 You crazy. How could he be? 481 00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:32,620 I don't know, but look at him. 482 00:21:32,620 --> 00:21:34,620 Nah, he's probably so messed up inside, 483 00:21:34,620 --> 00:21:36,620 he won't live long. 484 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:38,620 You can't tell. 485 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:40,620 Kids like this are strong. They take a lot, bounce back hard. 486 00:21:40,620 --> 00:21:42,620 What do you reckon we should do about him? 487 00:21:42,620 --> 00:21:44,620 Nothing. 488 00:21:44,620 --> 00:21:46,620 Just walk away from him, will you? 489 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:48,620 Just forget he's here? 490 00:21:48,620 --> 00:21:50,620 Who? You or the doctor? Am I? 491 00:21:50,620 --> 00:21:52,620 You don't look like he's hurt so bad he ain't bleeding. 492 00:21:52,620 --> 00:21:54,620 If we're gonna get to Lakeland before morning, 493 00:21:54,620 --> 00:21:56,620 we can't fool around with him. 494 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:58,620 Fats, take this rag outside, dip it in some water, will you? 495 00:21:58,620 --> 00:22:00,620 So you put a cloth on his head. 496 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:02,620 What are you, Joe, some kind of healer? 497 00:22:02,620 --> 00:22:04,620 Go on, Fats, do it, huh? 498 00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:08,620 Come on, Harry, help me straighten him out. 499 00:22:08,620 --> 00:22:10,620 Come on. 500 00:22:12,620 --> 00:22:14,620 Hand me that blanket behind you. 501 00:22:14,620 --> 00:22:16,620 Okay. 502 00:22:16,620 --> 00:22:18,620 Yo. 503 00:22:18,620 --> 00:22:20,620 I'm not leaving this kid, Harry. 504 00:22:20,620 --> 00:22:22,620 What? 505 00:22:22,620 --> 00:22:24,620 I told you how I felt about things before. 506 00:22:24,620 --> 00:22:26,620 I'm fed up. 507 00:22:26,620 --> 00:22:28,620 I would have gone, but not... 508 00:22:28,620 --> 00:22:30,620 Well, I can't now. 509 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:32,620 But, Joe, you're the one that's been talking escape. 510 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:34,620 You stood by while we killed the deputy. 511 00:22:34,620 --> 00:22:36,620 Now all of a sudden you get religion. 512 00:22:36,620 --> 00:22:38,620 Why? 513 00:22:38,620 --> 00:22:40,620 This kid, that's why. 514 00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:42,620 This kid dies, he'd be just the same as if he were 515 00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:44,620 a shotgun right in his face and pulled a trigger. 516 00:22:44,620 --> 00:22:46,620 Now how do you figure that? 517 00:22:46,620 --> 00:22:48,620 Because if that helicopter had a place to land, he'd be in a hospital by now, that's all. 518 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:50,620 Hey, guys. 519 00:22:50,620 --> 00:22:52,620 The sun's starting to go down. 520 00:22:52,620 --> 00:22:54,620 Give me that rag. 521 00:22:54,620 --> 00:22:56,620 Hey, maybe I can help, Joe, let me see his eyes. 522 00:22:56,620 --> 00:22:58,620 Get out of here, will you? 523 00:22:58,620 --> 00:23:00,620 Now go on, both of you, get out! 524 00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:04,620 I'll give you 525 00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:06,620 half an hour. 526 00:23:06,620 --> 00:23:08,620 Then you're coming with us. 527 00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:10,620 And, Joe? 528 00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:12,620 What is it? 529 00:23:12,620 --> 00:23:14,620 Don't you worry about it. 530 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:16,620 That kid will be dead by then. 531 00:23:30,620 --> 00:23:32,620 But the kid didn't die. 532 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:34,620 And in a few minutes his breathing came easier, 533 00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:36,620 like he knew he wasn't alone anymore. 534 00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:38,620 I looked through his clothes 535 00:23:38,620 --> 00:23:40,620 for some kind of identification, but there wasn't any. 536 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:42,620 Not even his flight ticket stub or baggage check. 537 00:23:44,620 --> 00:23:46,620 He'd been traveling with somebody. 538 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:48,620 His father, or mother, 539 00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:50,620 or both. 540 00:23:50,620 --> 00:23:52,620 But he would live. 541 00:23:52,620 --> 00:23:54,620 Yeah. 542 00:23:54,620 --> 00:23:56,620 Yeah, I'd get him to a hospital in time. 543 00:23:56,620 --> 00:23:58,620 And someday, 544 00:23:58,620 --> 00:24:00,620 someday he'd know 545 00:24:00,620 --> 00:24:02,620 what I'd done for him. 546 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:04,620 It was a nice dream, 547 00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:06,620 and then the half hour was up. 548 00:24:06,620 --> 00:24:08,620 Joe? 549 00:24:08,620 --> 00:24:10,620 I'm over here, Harry. 550 00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:14,620 You noticed the sky? 551 00:24:14,620 --> 00:24:16,620 It's clouding up. Yeah, I noticed it's gonna rain. 552 00:24:16,620 --> 00:24:18,620 We're leaving, Joe. 553 00:24:18,620 --> 00:24:20,620 Go ahead. 554 00:24:20,620 --> 00:24:22,620 You're coming with us. 555 00:24:22,620 --> 00:24:24,620 We can't let you stay, Joe. 556 00:24:24,620 --> 00:24:26,620 They'll be here in the morning. 557 00:24:26,620 --> 00:24:28,620 You'll tell them where we've gone. 558 00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:30,620 You know me better than that, Harry. 559 00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:32,620 Sure. Not even if they promise you a pardon. 560 00:24:32,620 --> 00:24:34,620 I'm not going with you, Harry. 561 00:24:34,620 --> 00:24:36,620 I'm going with Fats. Can you... 562 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:38,620 Where's Fats? 563 00:24:38,620 --> 00:24:40,620 Where is he, Harry? 564 00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:42,620 Fats? 565 00:24:42,620 --> 00:24:44,620 Fats! 566 00:24:44,620 --> 00:24:46,620 He's doing it for you, Joe. 567 00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:48,620 For you! 568 00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:50,620 Fats. 569 00:24:50,620 --> 00:24:52,620 What did you do to the kid? 570 00:24:52,620 --> 00:24:54,620 Now, Joe, Joe, 571 00:24:54,620 --> 00:24:56,620 I didn't do nothing to him. 572 00:24:56,620 --> 00:24:58,620 Harry told me to, but I didn't. 573 00:24:58,620 --> 00:25:00,620 No, don't hit me, Joe. Please don't. 574 00:25:00,620 --> 00:25:02,620 That's enough, Joe. Cut it out. 575 00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:04,620 You put him up to killing the kid, huh, Harry? 576 00:25:04,620 --> 00:25:06,620 It's for your own good, Joe. 577 00:25:06,620 --> 00:25:08,620 For all our good. 578 00:25:08,620 --> 00:25:10,620 We gotta stick together. 579 00:25:10,620 --> 00:25:12,620 No. Not now. Not after this. 580 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:14,620 You got a choice? 581 00:25:14,620 --> 00:25:16,620 I think so. Against this shotgun. 582 00:25:16,620 --> 00:25:18,620 It's clouding up outside, Harry. 583 00:25:18,620 --> 00:25:20,620 You can't make Lakeland without stars 584 00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:22,620 or without a compass. 585 00:25:22,620 --> 00:25:24,620 Huh? 586 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,620 Where's it at? What'd you do with it? 587 00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:28,620 Uh-uh. 588 00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:30,620 No soap, Harry. 589 00:25:30,620 --> 00:25:32,620 You want that compass? 590 00:25:32,620 --> 00:25:34,620 You give me the shotgun. 591 00:25:34,620 --> 00:25:36,620 You hit it while you were outside just now. 592 00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:38,620 That's right, Harry. 593 00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:40,620 Tie him up, Harry. 594 00:25:40,620 --> 00:25:42,620 We can make him tell us where it is. 595 00:25:42,620 --> 00:25:44,620 You wanna try, fat boy? You go ahead. 596 00:25:44,620 --> 00:25:48,620 Well, go on. You got all night. 597 00:25:48,620 --> 00:25:50,620 No. 598 00:25:50,620 --> 00:25:52,620 You know we haven't. 599 00:25:52,620 --> 00:25:54,620 Okay, Joe. 600 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:56,620 You win. 601 00:25:56,620 --> 00:25:58,620 Oh, Harry! 602 00:25:58,620 --> 00:26:00,620 All right, Harry. 603 00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:02,620 Break the shotgun. 604 00:26:04,620 --> 00:26:06,620 Come on. 605 00:26:06,620 --> 00:26:08,620 Give me the barrels and 606 00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:10,620 I'll go get you the compass. 607 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:18,620 They left a few minutes later. 608 00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:20,620 I didn't bother to wish them luck 609 00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:22,620 because I knew it wouldn't do any good. 610 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:24,620 I put another blanket over the boy 611 00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:26,620 and went outside. 612 00:26:26,620 --> 00:26:28,620 It was just beginning to rain 613 00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:30,620 when I picked up the axe 614 00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:34,620 and started chopping away at one of the giant cypress trees. 615 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:36,620 It might take all night, 616 00:26:38,620 --> 00:26:40,620 but tomorrow 617 00:26:40,620 --> 00:26:42,620 that helicopter had a place to land. 618 00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:48,620 And I heard it 619 00:26:48,620 --> 00:26:52,620 like a ghost coming in from the gulf 620 00:26:52,620 --> 00:26:56,620 heading across the Everglades toward Miami. 621 00:26:56,620 --> 00:27:00,620 People in Lakeland had heard about six minutes. 622 00:27:00,620 --> 00:27:04,620 Other people, too, clear across the state. 623 00:27:08,620 --> 00:27:10,620 And it was gone. 624 00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:14,620 For a moment it was a real quiet night. 625 00:27:14,620 --> 00:27:22,620 Only for a moment. 626 00:27:22,620 --> 00:27:24,620 I'm sorry. 627 00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:44,620 Suspense. 628 00:27:44,620 --> 00:27:46,620 In which Stacey Harris 629 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:50,620 starred in tonight's presentation of Quiet Night. 630 00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:52,620 We'll listen again next week 631 00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:54,620 when we bring you another presentation 632 00:27:54,620 --> 00:27:56,620 of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, 633 00:27:56,620 --> 00:27:58,620 Suspense. 634 00:28:10,620 --> 00:28:12,620 Suspense is produced and directed in Hollywood 635 00:28:12,620 --> 00:28:14,620 by Anthony Ellis. 636 00:28:14,620 --> 00:28:16,620 Tonight's script was written by Charles B. Smith. 637 00:28:16,620 --> 00:28:18,620 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowek 638 00:28:18,620 --> 00:28:20,620 and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 639 00:28:20,620 --> 00:28:22,620 Featured in the cast were Helen Klebe, 640 00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:24,620 Herb Butterfield, Charlotte Lawrence, 641 00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,620 Tony Barrett, William Forrester, 642 00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:28,620 Joseph Kearns, Joe DuVall, and George Walsh. 643 00:28:30,620 --> 00:28:32,620 For dramatic excitement, 644 00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:34,620 don't miss the next explosive episode 645 00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:36,620 of the FBI in Peace and War 646 00:28:36,620 --> 00:28:38,620 tomorrow night over most of these same stations. 647 00:28:38,620 --> 00:28:42,620 Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS News 648 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:44,620 to be followed on most of these stations 649 00:28:44,620 --> 00:28:48,620 by The Jack Carson Show. 650 00:28:58,620 --> 00:29:00,620 The Radio Workshop presents the new 651 00:29:00,620 --> 00:29:14,620 and unusual Friday Nights on the CBS Radio Network.