WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.000 And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:18.000 --> 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. 00:25.000 --> 00:33.000 We call it Quiet Night. So now, starring Stacy Harris, here is tonight's Suspense play, Quiet Night. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 We listened for it every night right after lights out. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 And it would be there, passing over us, headed across the Everglades toward Miami. 00:49.000 --> 00:54.000 For a moment, it was like having somebody come and see you on visitor's day. 00:54.000 --> 00:58.000 Only when you're on a road gang, you don't get no visitors. 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 There were 80 of us in that camp on the edge of the mangrove swamp. 01:11.000 --> 01:15.000 Every night, we'd quiet down and listen to that airplane, 01:15.000 --> 01:22.000 wondering about the people up there, where they'd been, where they were going, and wishing we were going with them. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 Then it'd be gone. 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 But I'd feel good just knowing other people would hear it. 01:30.000 --> 01:33.000 People across the swamp over in Lakeland. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 They'd hear it about six minutes after we did. 01:36.000 --> 01:43.000 George, George, up, Shaw, wake up. George. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 Oh, mother. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 Honestly, George, if you're so all fired sleepy, why don't you take your clothes off and go to bed? 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 I can't yet. Have them checked to jail. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 Seems to me that'll be Burt's job. That's what a deputy's for, isn't it? 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 Keep the sheriff from running yourself to death? 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 Burt does his share. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 Well, if he wasn't your nephew, he'd starve to death. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 Hand me my hat, mother. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 George, you know what Doc Lang told you. You gotta start taking it easy. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 I will, I will. So long. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 George. 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 Why? 02:15.000 --> 02:18.000 Remember how you used to kiss me whenever you left the house. 02:18.000 --> 02:22.000 Well, we were younger then, mother. People our age, don't they? 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 Never mind. Go on. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 What's eating you, mother? 02:26.000 --> 02:31.000 Oh, I don't know. Maybe it was here in the plane coming over from Havana. 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 Remember when we took it home from our vacation? 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 That was nine years ago. They'd have a new plane by now. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 We haven't had so much fun since. 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 We ought to get away for a few days. 02:43.000 --> 02:47.000 Maybe go to St. Petersburg and just sit on a bench as for a spell. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 Where will one of these days? 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 One of these days. 02:52.000 --> 03:03.000 Well, if you're going to jail, hurry up about it so you can get home and get your rest. 03:03.000 --> 03:08.000 It took the plane less than four minutes to cover the 12 miles between the sheriff's farm 03:08.000 --> 03:16.000 and the parking lot next to the county courthouse. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 Rousy, stinking mosquitoes. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Want to put the window up? 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 No, it's too hot. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 Bert, we ought to get out of here. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Can't, honey. I'm on duty. 03:30.000 --> 03:34.000 I don't mean to deny. I mean get away from Lakeland for good. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 Where are you figuring on going? 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 Oh, up to Jacksonville over in New Orleans. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Nah, wouldn't work. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Now what makes you talk like that? 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 You? 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Me. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 If you didn't settle down. 03:50.000 --> 03:55.000 I wouldn't do what your husband did, but I wouldn't stay around you for two seconds. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Honey, I never loved Harry. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Then you shouldn't have married him. 03:58.000 --> 04:05.000 I had to. I hated my folks. Harry got me away from him. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 How old were you? 04:07.000 --> 04:11.000 Almost 17. 04:11.000 --> 04:15.000 Bert, I wrote Harry today. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Oh? 04:16.000 --> 04:21.000 I told him I wanted a divorce so I could marry somebody else. 04:21.000 --> 04:25.000 You will marry me, won't you? 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 I'd like to see somebody try to stop me. 04:28.000 --> 04:42.000 The night the plane didn't come over was the night that Harry showed Fats and me the letter. 04:42.000 --> 04:49.000 We figured the plane was late, held back by the wind or something, so we waited, listening. 04:49.000 --> 04:54.000 While we waited Harry had me read his letter. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 You through, Joe? 04:56.000 --> 04:57.000 Yeah. 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 What'd you think? 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 It's tough. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 Let me read it, Harry. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Later, Fats. 05:04.000 --> 05:11.000 Listen to this, Joe. He's a wonderful man. I'm sure he'll treat me good. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 How do you like that? 05:14.000 --> 05:15.000 It's tough, Harry. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 What do you expect, Harry? No woman can wait 10 years. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Why, you fuzzy little... 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 Quiet, you guys. Listen. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 You hear it, Jeffers? 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 I thought I did. I guess not. 05:29.000 --> 05:33.000 She sure turned out to be an ever-loving wife, didn't she? 05:33.000 --> 05:38.000 Makes me wonder if I did right, killing Red Simmons. Maybe it should have been her. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 You could still do it, Harry. We get enough money, we're making a break. Ain't that right, Joe? 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Fats, I told you before, don't talk about it. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 We'd sure surprise her. 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 Any of you guys got the makings? 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 Yeah, yeah. Just don't forget where you got them, huh? 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 Thanks. 05:56.000 --> 06:03.000 Hey, Harry. You know that picture you got of her, you know, the one where she's wearing shorts? 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 Yeah. 06:04.000 --> 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? 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 What would you do with it, Fats? 06:12.000 --> 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? 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 I know what you mean. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 Well? 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 No. 06:23.000 --> 06:28.000 No. You guys, you ain't got no feelings. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 Here's your tobacco, Joe. Thanks. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 That's OK, Jeffers. 06:33.000 --> 06:37.000 Joe, that plane never been late before. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 Not since I've been here. 06:40.000 --> 06:44.000 Man, I'm getting nervous. Where you suppose it's at? 06:53.000 --> 06:58.000 Alice Michael Stewart is Miami. John D. Erickson, Atlanta. Paul R. Brown, Miami. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Master, why don't you turn that thing off? 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Do they know what went down yet? 07:02.000 --> 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. 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 How you gonna get to it? 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Walk. Only way we can. 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 George! 07:12.000 --> 07:18.000 Now, Master, don't worry. Burt's going with me. We'll have plenty of help. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 From where? Who's gonna help? 07:21.000 --> 07:27.000 We're taking four or five trustees from that road gang. They're closer to it than anybody else. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 They gonna help you walk, Joe? 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 No, Master. 07:30.000 --> 07:34.000 You know what Doc Lang said? You aren't to exert yourself. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 I'll be all right. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 I swear I don't understand why it's your place to go at all. 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 Master, as long as I'm the sheriff of this county, it's my job. 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 When'll you be back? 07:42.000 --> 07:47.000 I don't know. It depends on how long it takes us to get in there. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 There's Burt with the truck. Bye, hon. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Be careful, George. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 I will. 07:51.000 --> 07:56.000 Before we'd finished our grits, we'd heard what had happened to the plane. 07:56.000 --> 08:00.000 By 9.30, we were sitting in the back of the county sheriff's truck, 08:00.000 --> 08:04.000 bumping over an oyster shell road headed west toward the gulf. 08:04.000 --> 08:10.000 The sheriff and his deputy had picked Harry, Jeffers, Fats, and me because we knew the swamps. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 And because we were trustees. 08:13.000 --> 08:11.160 After about half an hour, they stopped at the 08:11.160 --> 08:21.160 truck, we piled up. 08:21.160 --> 08:24.160 All right, you men. All right, knock it off. 08:24.160 --> 08:26.160 The sheriff wants to say something. 08:26.160 --> 08:30.160 And now on we walk, and as fast as we can. 08:30.160 --> 08:34.160 When we reach the plane, we'll clear the trees and brush the grass. 08:34.160 --> 08:14.200 We'll get the 08:14.200 --> 08:19.160 A helicopter can get in the carry-out of the body. 08:22.160 --> 08:25.160 And we can go pick it up in that bin. 08:25.160 --> 08:27.200 Hey, Finattle에í? 08:27.200 --> 08:28.260 Do you know who minerals this is? 08:28.260 --> 08:15.960 slot of Google or a 08:29.960 --> 08:33.120 technical 08:33.120 --> 08:37.220 Google 08:37.220 --> 08:36.220 Yes. 08:40.920 --> 08:41.920 News and report. 08:41.920 --> 08:45.420 Can get in to carry out the bodies. 08:45.420 --> 08:46.920 Any question? 08:46.920 --> 08:49.220 Sheriff, how far is that plane from here? 08:49.220 --> 08:51.220 About 10 miles southeast. 08:51.220 --> 08:52.520 Whistle. 08:52.520 --> 08:54.220 Something bothering you, mister? 08:54.220 --> 08:56.020 Mm-hmm, just thinking. 08:56.020 --> 08:59.220 10 miles of swamp can be a long way. 08:59.220 --> 09:02.020 Sheriff, how we go about finding it? 09:02.020 --> 09:06.720 A plane from Lakeland will drop a smoke part on it in about five hours. 09:06.720 --> 09:10.320 It'll burn long enough to guide us in. 09:10.320 --> 09:12.120 Anything else? 09:12.120 --> 09:14.620 What are we gonna clear those trees out with? 09:14.620 --> 09:19.620 There's a crosscut and a hand saw and an axe in the truck. 09:19.620 --> 09:21.620 You wanna say something, bud? 09:21.620 --> 09:23.620 Yeah. 09:23.620 --> 09:27.620 I'm not turning loose this shotgun at no time. 09:27.620 --> 09:30.620 First man even looks like he's thinking about a break, 09:30.620 --> 09:32.620 gets it right in the gut. 09:32.620 --> 09:34.620 All right, grab a saw. 09:34.620 --> 09:36.620 Hey, you, fat boy. 09:36.620 --> 09:37.620 Oh, yes, sir. 09:37.620 --> 09:39.620 You towed the axe. 09:39.620 --> 09:41.620 Where off sum that blubber? 09:41.620 --> 09:43.620 Yes, sir. 09:43.620 --> 09:44.620 Watch out. 09:44.620 --> 09:47.120 Little rough on them, weren't you, Bert? 09:47.120 --> 09:48.620 They are trustees. 09:48.620 --> 09:50.120 Maybe three of them. 09:50.120 --> 09:52.120 I ain't seen their records. 09:52.120 --> 09:53.620 But not Harry Briar. 09:53.620 --> 09:55.120 You know what he did. 09:55.120 --> 09:57.620 Yeah, a lot of men might have done the same thing. 09:57.620 --> 10:00.620 We've never been in that kind of situation. 10:00.620 --> 10:02.620 Well, I'll tell you this. 10:02.620 --> 10:05.620 Road boys can call him a trustee all he wants. 10:05.620 --> 10:09.620 But ain't gonna cut no ice with me. 10:19.620 --> 10:22.620 We started then single file 10:22.620 --> 10:25.620 with the sheriff leading and the deputy behind us. 10:25.620 --> 10:29.620 Like he thought we'd be crazy enough to run. 10:29.620 --> 10:31.620 Even if we did get clean away, 10:31.620 --> 10:34.620 where'd we go without money? 10:34.620 --> 10:37.620 We really moved along until we hit swamp. 10:37.620 --> 10:40.620 Then every step we took, our boots went in up to our ankles. 10:40.620 --> 10:42.620 Didn't our feet free? 10:42.620 --> 10:45.620 Out in front of us again was like walking up a hill. 10:49.620 --> 10:50.620 Joe. 10:50.620 --> 10:51.620 Yeah. 10:51.620 --> 10:53.620 Look at the sheriff. 10:53.620 --> 10:55.120 What about him? 10:55.120 --> 10:57.620 He's gonna drop most any time. 10:57.620 --> 10:59.620 He's sick, Joe. 10:59.620 --> 11:01.120 Gone, Sheriff. 11:01.120 --> 11:02.620 Dropped. 11:02.620 --> 11:04.620 Drop, Sheriff. 11:04.620 --> 11:07.620 Go on, drop, drop, drop. 11:07.620 --> 11:09.620 Right here, Sheriff. 11:09.620 --> 11:11.620 Take a break, you men. Fall out. 11:11.620 --> 11:12.620 Bats. 11:12.620 --> 11:14.620 Harry. 11:14.620 --> 11:17.620 Bring your backs up against this tree. 11:21.620 --> 11:23.620 Sheriff's got the deputy worried. 11:23.620 --> 11:26.620 Look how he's unloosening his collar for him. 11:26.620 --> 11:27.620 Yeah. 11:27.620 --> 11:30.620 Hey, any of you guys hungry yet? 11:30.620 --> 11:31.620 No. 11:31.620 --> 11:34.620 Well, I think I'll eat one of them sandwiches. 11:36.620 --> 11:37.620 Joe. 11:37.620 --> 11:38.620 Hmm? 11:38.620 --> 11:40.620 You been thinking about that plane? 11:40.620 --> 11:42.620 I don't like to think about things like that. 11:42.620 --> 11:44.620 I just hope I can forget them. 11:44.620 --> 11:47.620 I've been thinking about it, Harry. 11:47.620 --> 11:50.620 You know, every night when he used to come over, 11:50.620 --> 11:53.620 I sort of imagined I was on it. 11:53.620 --> 11:55.620 And the stewardess was being nice to me, 11:55.620 --> 11:57.620 bringing me my food and all. 11:57.620 --> 12:00.620 Boy, she was sure pretty. 12:00.620 --> 12:01.620 I mean, at least I thought so. 12:01.620 --> 12:03.620 Shut up, Fett. Stop talking about it, will you? 12:03.620 --> 12:07.620 Joe, that plane was carrying lots of things besides people. 12:07.620 --> 12:08.620 Maybe. 12:08.620 --> 12:09.620 No. 12:09.620 --> 12:10.620 No, maybe. 12:10.620 --> 12:12.620 That was a big plane. 12:12.620 --> 12:13.620 Four motors. 12:13.620 --> 12:17.620 A plane like that carries mail, packages, 12:17.620 --> 12:20.620 sometimes real valuable stuff like money 12:20.620 --> 12:23.620 being shipped from one bank to another. 12:23.620 --> 12:25.620 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Harry. 12:25.620 --> 12:29.620 And what's been holding us up? 12:29.620 --> 12:30.620 Money. 12:30.620 --> 12:31.620 It's no good, Harry. 12:31.620 --> 12:33.620 You crazy? Why not? 12:33.620 --> 12:36.620 How are we going to keep the sheriff or that deputy from seeing us? 12:36.620 --> 12:37.620 They're four of us. 12:37.620 --> 12:39.620 They can't watch all of us at the same time. 12:39.620 --> 12:40.620 Come on, Joe. 12:40.620 --> 12:41.620 It's what we've been waiting for, ain't it? 12:41.620 --> 12:43.620 You tell him it's what we've been waiting for, Harry. 12:43.620 --> 12:47.620 He knows it. I don't need to tell him. 12:47.620 --> 12:49.620 Well, I guess we got nothing to lose. 12:49.620 --> 12:51.620 Okay, Harry, okay. 12:51.620 --> 12:55.620 Knock it off, Mr. Deputy. 12:55.620 --> 12:58.620 You, what's your name? 12:58.620 --> 13:00.620 Joseph McGuire. 13:00.620 --> 13:01.620 What are you doing? 13:01.620 --> 13:05.620 Eight to ten, armed robbery, second offense. 13:05.620 --> 13:06.620 You? 13:06.620 --> 13:08.620 Henry Fats Carver. 13:08.620 --> 13:09.620 Offense? 13:09.620 --> 13:11.620 Oh, sir, it was a misunderstanding. 13:11.620 --> 13:12.620 I know you're innocent. 13:12.620 --> 13:13.620 Yes, sir. 13:13.620 --> 13:16.620 Never mind, never mind. 13:16.620 --> 13:19.620 All right, I know you, Harry. 13:19.620 --> 13:20.620 You. 13:20.620 --> 13:22.620 What's your name? 13:22.620 --> 13:24.620 Paul Jeffers, sir. 13:24.620 --> 13:25.620 Offense? 13:25.620 --> 13:27.620 Burglary, first offense. 13:27.620 --> 13:30.620 You think you can find your way back to the truck? 13:30.620 --> 13:33.620 Why, yes, sir, I think so. 13:33.620 --> 13:36.620 All right, go on over to the sheriff. 13:36.620 --> 13:37.620 He's sick. 13:37.620 --> 13:39.620 You're taking him back, and don't you rush. 13:39.620 --> 13:40.620 Do it easy, here. 13:40.620 --> 13:41.620 Yes, sir. 13:41.620 --> 13:42.620 The rest of us are going on. 13:42.620 --> 13:44.620 Fats, you're gonna lead. 13:44.620 --> 13:46.620 Oh, how I know which way to go, sir. 13:46.620 --> 13:48.620 I got the compass now, I'll tell you. 13:48.620 --> 13:51.620 Joe, you follow Fats. 13:51.620 --> 13:57.620 And Harry, you and me, we'll bring up the rear. 14:03.620 --> 14:05.620 We started again. 14:05.620 --> 14:07.620 There are only four of us now. 14:07.620 --> 14:11.620 Fats, Harry, me, and the deputy. 14:11.620 --> 14:14.620 Three of us against one of him. 14:14.620 --> 14:17.620 We didn't say anything we didn't need to. 14:17.620 --> 14:19.620 But we were waiting. 14:19.620 --> 14:23.620 Waiting for that one moment when he'd take his hands off that shotgun. 14:23.620 --> 14:25.620 Then it came. 14:25.620 --> 14:29.620 Okay, okay, Fats, hold it up. 14:29.620 --> 14:33.620 You men see smoke rising off ahead? 14:33.620 --> 14:35.620 No, not yet. 14:35.620 --> 14:38.620 Hey, Mr. Deputy, can somebody else carry this here, I ask? 14:38.620 --> 14:40.620 No. 14:40.620 --> 14:41.620 Joe. 14:41.620 --> 14:43.620 Yeah, Harry. 14:43.620 --> 14:46.620 Sir, are you sure we're headed in the right direction? 14:46.620 --> 14:47.620 I'm sure. 14:47.620 --> 14:49.620 He's not so sure. 14:49.620 --> 14:51.620 Look at him, Joe. 14:51.620 --> 14:52.620 Yeah, I know. 14:52.620 --> 14:55.620 He's gonna reach in his pocket for that compass. 14:55.620 --> 14:56.620 Fats. 14:56.620 --> 14:58.620 There he goes. 14:58.620 --> 15:00.620 Now, Fats, now! 15:00.620 --> 15:03.620 The gun, Harry, get the gun! 15:11.620 --> 15:14.620 But Harry didn't need the shotgun. 15:14.620 --> 15:17.620 Fats had used the axe. 15:17.620 --> 15:21.620 I picked up the compass and we turned away to the southeast. 15:23.620 --> 15:25.620 Something bothering you, Joe? 15:25.620 --> 15:26.620 Huh? 15:26.620 --> 15:28.620 I don't know. 15:28.620 --> 15:29.620 I was just thinking. 15:29.620 --> 15:31.620 About what's at the plain? 15:31.620 --> 15:34.620 Oh, I was thinking about that deputy. 15:34.620 --> 15:36.620 Don't feel bad about him. 15:36.620 --> 15:39.620 He was itching to use this here shotgun on us. 15:39.620 --> 15:41.620 Yeah, that's right. 15:41.620 --> 15:44.620 I just don't know him. 15:44.620 --> 15:46.620 You suppose he had a family? 15:46.620 --> 15:47.620 Him? 15:47.620 --> 15:49.620 Who'd marry something like him? 15:49.620 --> 15:51.620 Hey, hey, hey, you guys, hey! 15:51.620 --> 15:52.620 What's the matter? 15:52.620 --> 15:54.620 Look at it! 15:54.620 --> 15:55.620 What? 15:55.620 --> 15:56.620 It's smoke. 15:56.620 --> 15:57.620 Blank smoke. 15:57.620 --> 15:58.620 It's the plane! 15:58.620 --> 15:59.620 Come on, come on, it's the plane! 15:59.620 --> 16:12.620 Come on! 16:12.620 --> 16:20.620 You are listening to Quiet Night, tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, Suspense. 16:20.620 --> 16:33.620 For a good time tomorrow during the day, don't miss the goings on when it's Arthur Godfrey 16:33.620 --> 16:34.620 time. 16:34.620 --> 16:38.620 Remember, every Monday through Friday, you can join those gifted fund-makers over most 16:38.620 --> 16:40.620 of these same stations. 16:40.620 --> 16:48.620 And now we bring back to our Hollywood Sound stage, Stacey Harris, starring in tonight's 16:48.620 --> 16:56.620 one Quiet Night, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 16:56.620 --> 17:05.620 We were heading for that thin stream of black smoke rising out of the swamp that marked 17:05.620 --> 17:08.620 the position of the fallen plane. 17:08.620 --> 17:13.620 Ahead of us in a straight line about 200 yards long and 50 wide, the tops of the trees have 17:13.620 --> 17:16.620 been neatly sheared off by the wings. 17:16.620 --> 17:19.620 And then we saw it. 17:19.620 --> 17:23.620 Parts of the plane were scattered about in the mud as far as we could see. 17:23.620 --> 17:27.620 The wings had burned, but nothing else. 17:27.620 --> 17:30.620 Cabin was in two sections, with the larger section dead ahead of us. 17:30.620 --> 17:34.620 We climbed up into it. 17:34.620 --> 17:40.620 Joe, you ever been in a plane like this? 17:40.620 --> 17:41.620 Once? 17:41.620 --> 17:42.620 Yeah, when? 17:42.620 --> 17:45.620 When I was trying to get out of the country. 17:45.620 --> 17:48.620 You know where they'd keep mail and stuff like that? 17:48.620 --> 17:49.620 I think so. 17:49.620 --> 17:54.620 I think it'll be up front, about where the pilot sits. 17:54.620 --> 17:58.620 Well, maybe in here somewhere, huh? 17:58.620 --> 17:59.620 Yeah, I think so. 17:59.620 --> 18:00.620 Let's take a look. 18:00.620 --> 18:02.620 Watch your head, Joe. 18:02.620 --> 18:04.620 All right. 18:04.620 --> 18:09.620 Boy, I haven't seen anything this bad since the Navy. 18:09.620 --> 18:10.620 You in the Navy? 18:10.620 --> 18:11.620 For a year. 18:11.620 --> 18:12.620 Just for a year. 18:12.620 --> 18:13.620 Well, it wouldn't take me. 18:13.620 --> 18:14.620 I got a bad knee. 18:14.620 --> 18:17.620 I tried to get in, but on account of this bad knee of mine, it just didn't work. 18:17.620 --> 18:18.620 Here it is, Harry. 18:18.620 --> 18:19.620 Come on, let's get it out of here. 18:19.620 --> 18:20.620 Okay. 18:20.620 --> 18:21.620 Come on, Fats. 18:21.620 --> 18:23.620 Grab ahold of one of these here bags. 18:23.620 --> 18:24.620 Boy, this thing's... 18:24.620 --> 18:25.620 Listen. 18:25.620 --> 18:26.620 It's a helicopter. 18:26.620 --> 18:27.620 Come on. 18:27.620 --> 18:28.620 What about this mail bag? 18:28.620 --> 18:29.620 Get it later. 18:29.620 --> 18:30.620 Come on. 18:30.620 --> 18:31.620 Now, grab the axe, Fats. 18:31.620 --> 18:32.620 Hurry over here. 18:32.620 --> 18:33.620 All right. 18:33.620 --> 18:34.620 Now, Fats, get busy chopping on that tree. 18:34.620 --> 18:35.620 Go on. 18:35.620 --> 18:36.620 Come on. 18:36.620 --> 18:37.620 Come on. 18:37.620 --> 18:38.620 Come on. 18:38.620 --> 18:39.620 Come on. 18:39.620 --> 18:40.620 Come on. 18:40.620 --> 18:41.620 Come on. 18:41.620 --> 18:42.620 Come on. 18:42.620 --> 18:43.620 Come on. 18:43.620 --> 18:44.620 Get on that tree. 18:44.620 --> 18:45.620 Go on. 18:45.620 --> 18:46.620 All right. 18:46.620 --> 18:47.620 Come on, Harry. 18:47.620 --> 18:48.620 Where is it? 18:48.620 --> 18:49.620 Can you see him? 18:49.620 --> 18:50.620 No, not yet. 18:50.620 --> 18:51.620 The tree's too thick. 18:51.620 --> 18:52.620 He's gonna have to get right over us. 18:52.620 --> 18:53.620 Here he comes. 18:53.620 --> 18:54.620 Act natural. 18:54.620 --> 18:55.620 Cut out the chop, Fats, and smile. 18:55.620 --> 18:56.620 Wave to him. 18:56.620 --> 18:57.620 That's it. 18:57.620 --> 19:00.620 Now, give me a big smile. 19:00.620 --> 19:01.620 Smile. 19:01.620 --> 19:02.620 Hi. 19:02.620 --> 19:03.620 Hi-ya, hi-ya. 19:03.620 --> 19:04.620 Hi-ya. 19:04.620 --> 19:05.620 That's it. 19:05.620 --> 19:06.620 He's got some big eyes. 19:06.620 --> 19:07.620 Well, now he's got a big head. 19:07.620 --> 19:08.620 Yeah. 19:08.620 --> 19:09.620 Now, Fats, come on. 19:09.620 --> 19:10.620 Come on. 19:10.620 --> 19:11.620 He's got a big head. 19:11.620 --> 19:12.620 He's got a big head. 19:12.620 --> 19:14.620 You think he's looking for that deputy? 19:14.620 --> 19:16.620 I hope not. 19:16.620 --> 19:18.620 What are we so worried about? 19:18.620 --> 19:20.620 He can't land. 19:20.620 --> 19:22.620 No, but he can use that radio, Hedge. 19:22.620 --> 19:24.620 If anything's wrong, they'll come after us 19:24.620 --> 19:26.620 before we get a chance to get out of the swamp. 19:26.620 --> 19:28.620 Here he comes again. 19:28.620 --> 19:30.620 Well, he's planning on us making a clearing 19:30.620 --> 19:42.620 so he can land. He's got a long way to go. 19:42.620 --> 19:44.620 How much out of that mail bag, Joe? 19:44.620 --> 19:46.620 Four hundred and eighty-two. 19:46.620 --> 19:48.620 Not bad. 19:48.620 --> 19:50.620 Well, why don't we look in that other part? 19:50.620 --> 19:52.620 Maybe we'll find some more stuff. 19:52.620 --> 19:54.620 In a minute, Fats. 19:54.620 --> 19:56.620 Altogether we can get a good deal. 19:56.620 --> 20:00.620 That'll get us to Cuba. From there we can work our way down to South America. 20:00.620 --> 20:02.620 When do you think we'll get there, Harry? 20:02.620 --> 20:04.620 Couple of weeks, Fats. 20:04.620 --> 20:06.620 We can rent a boat in Lakeland. A friend of mine's got one. 20:06.620 --> 20:08.620 Now, let's provide him we get across to Lakeland tonight. 20:08.620 --> 20:10.620 Yeah. 20:10.620 --> 20:12.620 How far is Lakeland from here? 20:12.620 --> 20:14.620 Fifteen, twenty miles. 20:14.620 --> 20:16.620 I'm tired. How come we gotta make it all in one night? 20:16.620 --> 20:18.620 Because that helicopter will be back in the morning. 20:18.620 --> 20:20.620 When there's no place for him to land, he's gonna be gone. 20:20.620 --> 20:22.620 He's gonna be gone. 20:22.620 --> 20:24.620 He's gonna be gone. 20:24.620 --> 20:26.620 He's gonna be gone. 20:26.620 --> 20:28.620 Yeah, he's gonna be gone. 20:28.620 --> 20:30.620 He's gonna be gone. 20:30.620 --> 20:32.620 We better leave in about an hour. 20:32.620 --> 20:34.620 Hey, we got any more of them Sanches left? 20:34.620 --> 20:36.620 No, nothing. 20:36.620 --> 20:38.620 So hungry Fats wants to take a look in the galley. 20:38.620 --> 20:40.620 The what? 20:40.620 --> 20:42.620 The galley, over there. 20:42.620 --> 20:44.620 The tail section. The stewardess usually keeps the food back in there. 20:44.620 --> 20:46.620 I'll go take a look. 20:46.620 --> 20:48.620 Cigarette, Joe? 20:48.620 --> 20:50.620 No. 20:50.620 --> 20:52.620 Tailor made. 20:52.620 --> 20:54.620 Okay. 20:54.620 --> 20:56.620 Oh, here. Let me give you your share. 20:56.620 --> 20:58.620 Keep it. 20:58.620 --> 21:00.620 What? 21:00.620 --> 21:02.620 Keep it, I said. I don't want it. 21:02.620 --> 21:04.620 What's the matter with you? 21:04.620 --> 21:06.620 I don't know. 21:06.620 --> 21:08.620 I'm getting fed up with everything. 21:08.620 --> 21:10.620 Us, this place, Fats, you, everything. 21:10.620 --> 21:12.620 You'll feel better when we get on that boat to Cuba. 21:12.620 --> 21:14.620 Hey, you guys. 21:14.620 --> 21:16.620 Now what? 21:16.620 --> 21:18.620 Come here, quick. 21:18.620 --> 21:20.620 What is it? 21:20.620 --> 21:22.620 A young kid. 21:22.620 --> 21:24.620 Look out, Harry. Let me see. 21:26.620 --> 21:28.620 This kid's alive. 21:28.620 --> 21:30.620 You crazy. How could he be? 21:30.620 --> 21:32.620 I don't know, but look at him. 21:32.620 --> 21:34.620 Nah, he's probably so messed up inside, 21:34.620 --> 21:36.620 he won't live long. 21:36.620 --> 21:38.620 You can't tell. 21:38.620 --> 21:40.620 Kids like this are strong. They take a lot, bounce back hard. 21:40.620 --> 21:42.620 What do you reckon we should do about him? 21:42.620 --> 21:44.620 Nothing. 21:44.620 --> 21:46.620 Just walk away from him, will you? 21:46.620 --> 21:48.620 Just forget he's here? 21:48.620 --> 21:50.620 Who? You or the doctor? Am I? 21:50.620 --> 21:52.620 You don't look like he's hurt so bad he ain't bleeding. 21:52.620 --> 21:54.620 If we're gonna get to Lakeland before morning, 21:54.620 --> 21:56.620 we can't fool around with him. 21:56.620 --> 21:58.620 Fats, take this rag outside, dip it in some water, will you? 21:58.620 --> 22:00.620 So you put a cloth on his head. 22:00.620 --> 22:02.620 What are you, Joe, some kind of healer? 22:02.620 --> 22:04.620 Go on, Fats, do it, huh? 22:06.620 --> 22:08.620 Come on, Harry, help me straighten him out. 22:08.620 --> 22:10.620 Come on. 22:12.620 --> 22:14.620 Hand me that blanket behind you. 22:14.620 --> 22:16.620 Okay. 22:16.620 --> 22:18.620 Yo. 22:18.620 --> 22:20.620 I'm not leaving this kid, Harry. 22:20.620 --> 22:22.620 What? 22:22.620 --> 22:24.620 I told you how I felt about things before. 22:24.620 --> 22:26.620 I'm fed up. 22:26.620 --> 22:28.620 I would have gone, but not... 22:28.620 --> 22:30.620 Well, I can't now. 22:30.620 --> 22:32.620 But, Joe, you're the one that's been talking escape. 22:32.620 --> 22:34.620 You stood by while we killed the deputy. 22:34.620 --> 22:36.620 Now all of a sudden you get religion. 22:36.620 --> 22:38.620 Why? 22:38.620 --> 22:40.620 This kid, that's why. 22:40.620 --> 22:42.620 This kid dies, he'd be just the same as if he were 22:42.620 --> 22:44.620 a shotgun right in his face and pulled a trigger. 22:44.620 --> 22:46.620 Now how do you figure that? 22:46.620 --> 22:48.620 Because if that helicopter had a place to land, he'd be in a hospital by now, that's all. 22:48.620 --> 22:50.620 Hey, guys. 22:50.620 --> 22:52.620 The sun's starting to go down. 22:52.620 --> 22:54.620 Give me that rag. 22:54.620 --> 22:56.620 Hey, maybe I can help, Joe, let me see his eyes. 22:56.620 --> 22:58.620 Get out of here, will you? 22:58.620 --> 23:00.620 Now go on, both of you, get out! 23:02.620 --> 23:04.620 I'll give you 23:04.620 --> 23:06.620 half an hour. 23:06.620 --> 23:08.620 Then you're coming with us. 23:08.620 --> 23:10.620 And, Joe? 23:10.620 --> 23:12.620 What is it? 23:12.620 --> 23:14.620 Don't you worry about it. 23:14.620 --> 23:16.620 That kid will be dead by then. 23:30.620 --> 23:32.620 But the kid didn't die. 23:32.620 --> 23:34.620 And in a few minutes his breathing came easier, 23:34.620 --> 23:36.620 like he knew he wasn't alone anymore. 23:36.620 --> 23:38.620 I looked through his clothes 23:38.620 --> 23:40.620 for some kind of identification, but there wasn't any. 23:40.620 --> 23:42.620 Not even his flight ticket stub or baggage check. 23:44.620 --> 23:46.620 He'd been traveling with somebody. 23:46.620 --> 23:48.620 His father, or mother, 23:48.620 --> 23:50.620 or both. 23:50.620 --> 23:52.620 But he would live. 23:52.620 --> 23:54.620 Yeah. 23:54.620 --> 23:56.620 Yeah, I'd get him to a hospital in time. 23:56.620 --> 23:58.620 And someday, 23:58.620 --> 24:00.620 someday he'd know 24:00.620 --> 24:02.620 what I'd done for him. 24:02.620 --> 24:04.620 It was a nice dream, 24:04.620 --> 24:06.620 and then the half hour was up. 24:06.620 --> 24:08.620 Joe? 24:08.620 --> 24:10.620 I'm over here, Harry. 24:12.620 --> 24:14.620 You noticed the sky? 24:14.620 --> 24:16.620 It's clouding up. Yeah, I noticed it's gonna rain. 24:16.620 --> 24:18.620 We're leaving, Joe. 24:18.620 --> 24:20.620 Go ahead. 24:20.620 --> 24:22.620 You're coming with us. 24:22.620 --> 24:24.620 We can't let you stay, Joe. 24:24.620 --> 24:26.620 They'll be here in the morning. 24:26.620 --> 24:28.620 You'll tell them where we've gone. 24:28.620 --> 24:30.620 You know me better than that, Harry. 24:30.620 --> 24:32.620 Sure. Not even if they promise you a pardon. 24:32.620 --> 24:34.620 I'm not going with you, Harry. 24:34.620 --> 24:36.620 I'm going with Fats. Can you... 24:36.620 --> 24:38.620 Where's Fats? 24:38.620 --> 24:40.620 Where is he, Harry? 24:40.620 --> 24:42.620 Fats? 24:42.620 --> 24:44.620 Fats! 24:44.620 --> 24:46.620 He's doing it for you, Joe. 24:46.620 --> 24:48.620 For you! 24:48.620 --> 24:50.620 Fats. 24:50.620 --> 24:52.620 What did you do to the kid? 24:52.620 --> 24:54.620 Now, Joe, Joe, 24:54.620 --> 24:56.620 I didn't do nothing to him. 24:56.620 --> 24:58.620 Harry told me to, but I didn't. 24:58.620 --> 25:00.620 No, don't hit me, Joe. Please don't. 25:00.620 --> 25:02.620 That's enough, Joe. Cut it out. 25:02.620 --> 25:04.620 You put him up to killing the kid, huh, Harry? 25:04.620 --> 25:06.620 It's for your own good, Joe. 25:06.620 --> 25:08.620 For all our good. 25:08.620 --> 25:10.620 We gotta stick together. 25:10.620 --> 25:12.620 No. Not now. Not after this. 25:12.620 --> 25:14.620 You got a choice? 25:14.620 --> 25:16.620 I think so. Against this shotgun. 25:16.620 --> 25:18.620 It's clouding up outside, Harry. 25:18.620 --> 25:20.620 You can't make Lakeland without stars 25:20.620 --> 25:22.620 or without a compass. 25:22.620 --> 25:24.620 Huh? 25:24.620 --> 25:26.620 Where's it at? What'd you do with it? 25:26.620 --> 25:28.620 Uh-uh. 25:28.620 --> 25:30.620 No soap, Harry. 25:30.620 --> 25:32.620 You want that compass? 25:32.620 --> 25:34.620 You give me the shotgun. 25:34.620 --> 25:36.620 You hit it while you were outside just now. 25:36.620 --> 25:38.620 That's right, Harry. 25:38.620 --> 25:40.620 Tie him up, Harry. 25:40.620 --> 25:42.620 We can make him tell us where it is. 25:42.620 --> 25:44.620 You wanna try, fat boy? You go ahead. 25:44.620 --> 25:48.620 Well, go on. You got all night. 25:48.620 --> 25:50.620 No. 25:50.620 --> 25:52.620 You know we haven't. 25:52.620 --> 25:54.620 Okay, Joe. 25:54.620 --> 25:56.620 You win. 25:56.620 --> 25:58.620 Oh, Harry! 25:58.620 --> 26:00.620 All right, Harry. 26:00.620 --> 26:02.620 Break the shotgun. 26:04.620 --> 26:06.620 Come on. 26:06.620 --> 26:08.620 Give me the barrels and 26:08.620 --> 26:10.620 I'll go get you the compass. 26:16.620 --> 26:18.620 They left a few minutes later. 26:18.620 --> 26:20.620 I didn't bother to wish them luck 26:20.620 --> 26:22.620 because I knew it wouldn't do any good. 26:22.620 --> 26:24.620 I put another blanket over the boy 26:24.620 --> 26:26.620 and went outside. 26:26.620 --> 26:28.620 It was just beginning to rain 26:28.620 --> 26:30.620 when I picked up the axe 26:30.620 --> 26:34.620 and started chopping away at one of the giant cypress trees. 26:34.620 --> 26:36.620 It might take all night, 26:38.620 --> 26:40.620 but tomorrow 26:40.620 --> 26:42.620 that helicopter had a place to land. 26:46.620 --> 26:48.620 And I heard it 26:48.620 --> 26:52.620 like a ghost coming in from the gulf 26:52.620 --> 26:56.620 heading across the Everglades toward Miami. 26:56.620 --> 27:00.620 People in Lakeland had heard about six minutes. 27:00.620 --> 27:04.620 Other people, too, clear across the state. 27:08.620 --> 27:10.620 And it was gone. 27:10.620 --> 27:14.620 For a moment it was a real quiet night. 27:14.620 --> 27:22.620 Only for a moment. 27:22.620 --> 27:24.620 I'm sorry. 27:42.620 --> 27:44.620 Suspense. 27:44.620 --> 27:46.620 In which Stacey Harris 27:46.620 --> 27:50.620 starred in tonight's presentation of Quiet Night. 27:50.620 --> 27:52.620 We'll listen again next week 27:52.620 --> 27:54.620 when we bring you another presentation 27:54.620 --> 27:56.620 of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, 27:56.620 --> 27:58.620 Suspense. 28:10.620 --> 28:12.620 Suspense is produced and directed in Hollywood 28:12.620 --> 28:14.620 by Anthony Ellis. 28:14.620 --> 28:16.620 Tonight's script was written by Charles B. Smith. 28:16.620 --> 28:18.620 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowek 28:18.620 --> 28:20.620 and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 28:20.620 --> 28:22.620 Featured in the cast were Helen Klebe, 28:22.620 --> 28:24.620 Herb Butterfield, Charlotte Lawrence, 28:24.620 --> 28:26.620 Tony Barrett, William Forrester, 28:26.620 --> 28:28.620 Joseph Kearns, Joe DuVall, and George Walsh. 28:30.620 --> 28:32.620 For dramatic excitement, 28:32.620 --> 28:34.620 don't miss the next explosive episode 28:34.620 --> 28:36.620 of the FBI in Peace and War 28:36.620 --> 28:38.620 tomorrow night over most of these same stations. 28:38.620 --> 28:42.620 Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS News 28:42.620 --> 28:44.620 to be followed on most of these stations 28:44.620 --> 28:48.620 by The Jack Carson Show. 28:58.620 --> 29:00.620 The Radio Workshop presents the new 29:00.620 --> 29:14.620 and unusual Friday Nights on the CBS Radio Network.