August 8, 2025 • 23 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful old time radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror genres - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Listen now to Act one of the Luck of the
Tiger Eye, starring Joan Loring and Leon Jenny, written especially
for suspense by Jack Buttram Henry.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't like it, Henry.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Don't like what the old man's quarter of a million?
Speaker 5 (00:35):
No, the night in that storm, and I don't like
having to come all the way up here. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
If we could just wait until another time, baby, you.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Know that the will is very explicit. You have to
come up here before the month is out. Now. Do
you want to collect the quarter of a million or not?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Dun you know I do.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
That's the way I like to hear my girl talk.
It'll just be tough for tonight and we can get
back to this city. And oh wow, man, he adjusted
the right. What a night.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Will we be there soon?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I think?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That must be it. I I saw the old house
illuminated in that last flash. The drive must be along
here somewhere.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Oh what I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Nuts building a house like that up here?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Henry, Please don't speak disrespectfully of the dead after Oh
he was.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
My uncle and he's probably turning over in his grave
at the thought of his niece coming to claim part
of the inheritance. What a crazy cotta so, he added
to the will Oh okay, end of the line. He
hand me the flashlight out of the glove department. Thanks, I
got your bag. Come on, slide out my side. It's closer.
(01:51):
All right, here's the door. Where's the light?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There's no bell?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh? Quiet, a sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh it's hard.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Not everyone has a bronze cobra head for a door knocker.
Let's see if it works.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Henri, I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh, come on, Angel, it's nothing to be scared of
your uncle. Like you didn't me? I guess so.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
He was an awfully strange man. We never did come
to visit him often.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Open up in there, anybody? All well, it's essentially can't
stand out here all night. Let's drive the door, Henry.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do you think we should?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Darling? I didn't drive you all the way up here
to stand on the front fort in the rain and
knock on the door. You are one of the legal
heirs to the estate, and if you don't have a
right to be here, I.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Don't know who does.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
All right, hum, it's open, it seems okay, m there's
no light snow.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I remember, uncle didn't believe in electricity too dangerous.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Well that's fine for life. This flash won't last forever.
Say what did your uncle use for life? Whale oil? Lambs?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
You can't find a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I know.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
He used to keep a big fire going in the
fireplace over over there somewhere, so I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Find so much as a kerosene lamb. Did the place
have gas?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I don't think so, Henry, Henry, don't leave me in
the dark.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm not leaving you, Diana. I just have to find
some life, that's all, Henry. Maybe there are some candles
in the dining room.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'll go look, Henry, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I'm just looking for candles, Henry. Something here, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, there, baby,
it's oh, it's just a stuffed tiger darling. Just calm
down and keep your mind on that two hundred and deep.
What's that? Sounds like someone's in the house with us.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Please be careful, Henry.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
He'll just be quiet a moment, Baby, wait till he
opens the door. Hold it right there, but her, I'll
bust you one.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, okay, let's have it. Now? What are you doing
in here?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I am the butler, sir, I'm expecting a Miss Singer.
And are you perchance Commander Quinn?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
No, I'm not perchance.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Go right, Henry.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
This is Gerald, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, Gerald, he's my uncle's butler.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Then you are Miss Singer.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yes, Diana Singer. And this is my fiance. He brought
me up here to fulfill the wishes in my uncle's will.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
And who is this Commander Quinn?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Use another claimant to the master's will? I expect him
this evening also, Miss Singer. I believe that the card
soul to the will states that you are to spend
one evening here in your uncle's home, and by so
doing place yourself in the position of collecting two hundred
fifty dollars. Yes, then I shall be happy to show
(05:08):
you to your room. Your bag, please, my room, yes man.
The bedrooms are on the second floor. One is prepared
for you. Well, I this way, please, Henry.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Now, don't worry, darling, I'll be right down here.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'm sorry, sir, you were not expected. If you will wait,
I shall prepare a room for you also.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's all right, sport. I don't expect to get much
sleep in this massy in anyway. I'll just try to
couch as.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You wish her. I should return the moment this way,
ma'am up these stairs.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I'm scared, Henny Darling. Just keep your mind on that money,
and remember I'm right down here to protect you. Creepy please,
creepy Butler. Maybe he's in the whel too here. Maybe
(06:07):
he gets a bigger share off some of these long
lost nieces and such don't collect. I wonder how the
old man made all his money.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Is to really.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Accumulated the pile of the disdom sure is dark. Hm hmm,
I think trophies. The tiger looks almost alive, eyes glowing,
rouch ready to spring. My eyes then almost move. Follow
(06:45):
you around the room.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Very natural, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Where where the devil did you come from?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I beg your pardon?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
How long have you been in here?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I just returned from upstairs. Miss Singer is in her room.
The master of acquired that trophy in India. It's one
of the largest done record. Is uh something of the
matters to him?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
No, nothing's the matter. I was just noticing that tiger's eyes.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yes, yes, they are very real. Aren't they. Would you
like for me to fix you a drink?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yes, a double scotch on the rock.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Now, yes, sir, but I'm afraid we have no ice.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well then just a double scotch, yes, sir. Hmm, well
it says looks like old diary. Let's seem last entry.
(07:50):
The secret of my success in the financial world is
one that shall go with me to the grade. I
have ordered that the ring shall be placed on my
little finger, left hand, just before the coffin is sealed.
Thus shall the luck of the tiger eye remain with
me in the grave. The luck of the tiger Eye.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Your drink, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Thanks? Uh, you're you're a master. Quite a funny fellow,
was he, sir? I mean, you know, eccentric.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I wouldn't know about that soon.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh of course, I suppose he was always kind to you,
wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The Master was always most considerate? Will that be also? Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yes, I guess that's all. Oh gerald uh, yes, sir.
Did you know the Master quite well?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Quite well? Sir? It was his only seven for twenty
five years.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
We see, then you would know about the luck of
the tiger eye. The tiger eye, Yes, yes, I think
it was a ring he used to wear.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh, no, sir, he never wore it. Are you sure?
Quite sure? Sir? He kept it with him always, but
he never wore it. He never wore it never, sir.
Then why did he call the tiger eye the secret
of his power? I'm sure I don't know, sir. Is
that also? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh? One thing more? Do you know where the tiger
eye is right now?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, sir? Where right now? It is on the literal
finger of his left And.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
In just a moment we shall return for Act two
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(10:06):
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Speaker 4 (10:10):
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
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Speaker 4 (10:28):
Diana, Diana, wake up, Come to the door, Diana, Henry,
come to the door, hurry, Henry.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Do you know what time it is? You needly scared me?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Metamite?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Do you know where your uncle is buried? What? Where
is your uncle buried?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
What?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
I think he's buried in the crypt on the hill
behind the house.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I think he had one built there.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Why do you wanna know?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Just get dressed, make me downstairs. I will not not
until you tell me how to hand you as we
go along.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Now hurry, I wish you wouldn't, Henry.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I don't think it's right now. How can it do
any harm just to look at this famous ring of
your uncles?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But robbing grave.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
We're not robbing graves. We're just looking into the coffin
just to see a famous ring and pay my last respects.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I've paid my last respects, and I don't see what
an old ring had to do with it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
There there, I saw it. It's over this way. Come on,
m uh, let's go and sid.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I really don't think we should quite.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
There's nothing to be afraid of. Come on in.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Is that it over there?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I think so? Let me see. Yeah, yeah, that's him.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Oh, Henry, Henry. Let's get out of here before something
terrible happens.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Now what could happen?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I don't know. I just have a feeling that if
we go any farther it's going to be awful.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Just your imagination. Now, hold the light steady and we'll
give uncle the once over, Henry, don't speak disrespects respectfully
of the dead. I won't if you just give me
a hand with getting the lid off this thing. Easy,
Now that's done. I'm afraid, Diana, it's just your uncle.
(12:40):
Now let me open the coffin and look for the
ring the diary said on the little finger, left hand. Eh,
let's see, it's a wing over here to see the
hand on the sun shine the light in here, Diana.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I won't. I'm not going to get near that coffin.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Well, it's oh, for Pete's sakes, here, hand me the lie. Yes, yes,
here it is. This must be the tiger eye. Oh,
it's a beauty, look, Diana, I won't. Oh well, okay, okay,
I'm I just kept saying, get it off his finger, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
You're not going to take it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Of course. It's not doing the old man any good.
And after all, it's not as if it's going to
be out of the family. You'll have it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I won't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay, you feel different later, Hmmm. Something seems to be
stuck holding the ring on, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
If you don't get me out of here, this.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Very instantly all right, Diana, just a second, no, one
more pull?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Who let almost fell on you.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You're telling me it was.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
As if something pushed that lid to make it.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Fall on you, Diana, don't talk nonsense.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I saw it moved, Henry.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I know. I saw it move too as I jumped back.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I saw it move when it was balance.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Stop there, Diana, it just fell when I gave that
last pull to get the ring. That rings evil, Diana.
What look how it shines in the light. It does
look like a tiger's eye.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Henry.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Please, let's go back to the house.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Oh Diana, the firelight makes it glow like something alive.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
You shouldn't have taken it the first thing in the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You will have to put it back.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay, okay, baby, anything you say, but what good is
the ring doing anybody out there in the coffin with him.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's not what good it's doing, it's what evil it's
doing while it's.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Out, Diana. The ring has just a semi precious stone.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Just the same.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's going back, Henry.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Oh, Henry, I don't want to talk about that old
ring anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You'd think you're expecting your uncle to come for it,
and you take it easy, Diana. You don't have to
get upset over every little sound. I'll go Gerald the
next time you do that, I swear.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Come on, Quinn. That's right, I expected to come right in.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh hello, Hello, I'm Henry Lecher.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
How do you do, Kobe Quinn? Glad to meet you.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
This is my fiance, Diana Singer.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Peace to meet you, Miss Singer us.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We've had something of a wet night.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Yes, yes, it has been a rather bad one, hasn't it. Well,
my plane was delayed. When I finally got it, I
decided I might as little dash on up here and
get it over with as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh well, Gerald, Gerald, Yes sir.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Could I have a bit of brandy please right away?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So you're in the inheritance too.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Yes, yes, and you are you one of my long
lost kin.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
No, but I suppose you and Diana are cousin somewhere
along the line. That's the uniform.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Oh if I got in during the war and never
got around to getting out, at least not for long.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And if you spend the night here, you get a
quarter of a million also.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Yes, yes, sir, that's the way it seems to shape up.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
The old man must have been loaded with though.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Well, I don't know very much about him at all.
It seems he was somewhat eccentric.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Somewhat henry don't speak, okay, okay.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
And quite a sportsman, I believe.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh, yes, yes, so I've heard, you know. I've also
heard he was practically unbeatable at whatever he tried.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
So? Do you know about the luck of the tiger
eye tiger?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I seems to me I have heard something of it
in India, as bad as I remember, but I can't
quite put my finger on it.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Well, we have reason to believe that the old man
used a tiger eye ring as the secret of his power.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I don't quite understand from here.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
In his diary he said, Oh look here, old man.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
You haven't been going through his private papers, have you?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Do you see, Henry?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I told you, of course not. I merely looked inside
his diary. At the last entry his diary, you had
no right tell me what I have a right to do.
I want power, I need power, And that's what the
old man said he got with the ring. You have
the ring, Yes, yes, I have the ring, And in
the diary it says that this ring was the secret
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of his wealth and power.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Well, possibly so, old man, But in any case, the
ring is part of the estate and as such belongs
to the heirs.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
No, the ring went to the grave with him. He
didn't intend for any of you that.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Have good heavens, man, do you mean to tell me
that you've robbed my uncle's grave.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I've got the ring and I intend to keep it.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
But what possible good can the ring do you? The
stone is only semi precious, as I remember.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yes, it's quite right, sir, mister Letcher. The stone has
no intrinsic value.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You Gerald, how did he use this ring?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Use the ring, sir?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Use the ring? You hurt me. You were his only
servant for twenty five years. You must have known about
the ring.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yes, Sir, I knew about the ring, but it was
my master's wish that the ring be buried with him.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Well, I have the ring now and I intend to
use it. Now. I want you to tell me how
it must be.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Used, Miss Singer. Can't you reason with him, Diana, Sir.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
You are making a scene. Look here, I can't.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I'll stand by him, stand by and do what Gerald.
I want to know how your master used this hurt me.
I'll do a lot more if you don't tell me.
Click Very well, sir, it's more like it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
He kept the ring in his possession, as I said to,
but he never wore it. Yes, yes, especially would he
use the ring when dealing with business associates and the like.
Go on, When the occasion shooted, he he would give
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them the ring.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Give them the ring, yes, sir, But how do you
get it back? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It always came back, so.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Now I get it. They would put it with their
other valuables, and he would arrange them to swipe.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The whole caboodle hardly, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Come on, he helped need to defend the old man
before me. In fact, I think I know him better
than the rest of you. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
There is one other thing, sir. Yes, whenever he would
give some of the ring, he would tell them to
place it on the little finger, left hand and to
twist it around three times for good luck.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Little finger, left hand twisted around three times, That's what
he would say. So well, Henry Letcher is ready to
let himself in for a piece of that luck. Right now,
it's on the little finger, Henry.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I don't think you'd better. There's something simply awful. It's
going to happen. I feel it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I'll be ridiculous, Diana. Now to twist ring around my
fingers three times, Henry, don't.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I really wouldn't do that if I were user.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You wouldn't do this if you were me. But you
aren't me. I'm Henry Letcher, and I want to have
lots of good luck, lots of power, lots of money.
So here's to the tiger I luck one two three. There.
(21:13):
I can almost feel it flowing in my veins. Why
it's like I'm ten feet tall. I feel as if
I'm going right through the ceiling. I'm flying, Henry.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Please, someone helpen the tiger eye. The robber ring I
should have remembered it was a trick. The Indian merchants hused.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
When pressed for their valuables, they were offered the robber
this ring to put on.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes, sir, what was it that killed them?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Hidden inside is a tiny spring, quite pointed. It is
coiled and embedded in wax that melts at body temperature.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
The point is dipped in cobra poison is something equally quite.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
And as he twisted the ring around his finger, the
spring scratched him, inflicting a deadly wound.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Precisely, Sir Master used to call it the luck of
the Tiger Eye. He had quite a sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Saspence, You've been listening to the Luck of the Tiger Eye,
starring Joan Loring and Leon Jenny, and written especially for
suspense by Jack Buttram. Suspense is produced and directed by
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Bruno Serrato, Junior music super by Ethel Huber. Heard in
Tonight's Story where Raymond Edward Johnson as Gerald and Mercer
MacLeod is Commander Quinn. Listen again next week when we
return with and So to Sleep My Love, written by
Dave W. Gilbert, Another tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
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And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Listen now to Act one of the Luck of the
Tiger Eye, starring Joan Loring and Leon Jenny, written especially
for suspense by Jack Buttram Henry.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't like it, Henry.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Don't like what the old man's quarter of a million?
Speaker 5 (00:35):
No, the night in that storm, and I don't like
having to come all the way up here. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
If we could just wait until another time, baby, you.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Know that the will is very explicit. You have to
come up here before the month is out. Now. Do
you want to collect the quarter of a million or not?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Dun you know I do.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
That's the way I like to hear my girl talk.
It'll just be tough for tonight and we can get
back to this city. And oh wow, man, he adjusted
the right. What a night.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Will we be there soon?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I think?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That must be it. I I saw the old house
illuminated in that last flash. The drive must be along
here somewhere.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Oh what I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Nuts building a house like that up here?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Henry, Please don't speak disrespectfully of the dead after Oh
he was.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
My uncle and he's probably turning over in his grave
at the thought of his niece coming to claim part
of the inheritance. What a crazy cotta so, he added
to the will Oh okay, end of the line. He
hand me the flashlight out of the glove department. Thanks, I
got your bag. Come on, slide out my side. It's closer.
(01:51):
All right, here's the door. Where's the light?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There's no bell?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh? Quiet, a sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh it's hard.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Not everyone has a bronze cobra head for a door knocker.
Let's see if it works.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Henri, I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh, come on, Angel, it's nothing to be scared of
your uncle. Like you didn't me? I guess so.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
He was an awfully strange man. We never did come
to visit him often.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Open up in there, anybody? All well, it's essentially can't
stand out here all night. Let's drive the door, Henry.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do you think we should?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Darling? I didn't drive you all the way up here
to stand on the front fort in the rain and
knock on the door. You are one of the legal
heirs to the estate, and if you don't have a
right to be here, I.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Don't know who does.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
All right, hum, it's open, it seems okay, m there's
no light snow.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I remember, uncle didn't believe in electricity too dangerous.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Well that's fine for life. This flash won't last forever.
Say what did your uncle use for life? Whale oil? Lambs?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
You can't find a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I know.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
He used to keep a big fire going in the
fireplace over over there somewhere, so I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Find so much as a kerosene lamb. Did the place
have gas?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I don't think so, Henry, Henry, don't leave me in
the dark.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm not leaving you, Diana. I just have to find
some life, that's all, Henry. Maybe there are some candles
in the dining room.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'll go look, Henry, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I'm just looking for candles, Henry. Something here, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, there, baby,
it's oh, it's just a stuffed tiger darling. Just calm
down and keep your mind on that two hundred and deep.
What's that? Sounds like someone's in the house with us.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Please be careful, Henry.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
He'll just be quiet a moment, Baby, wait till he
opens the door. Hold it right there, but her, I'll
bust you one.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, okay, let's have it. Now? What are you doing
in here?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I am the butler, sir, I'm expecting a Miss Singer.
And are you perchance Commander Quinn?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
No, I'm not perchance.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Go right, Henry.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
This is Gerald, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, Gerald, he's my uncle's butler.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Then you are Miss Singer.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yes, Diana Singer. And this is my fiance. He brought
me up here to fulfill the wishes in my uncle's will.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
And who is this Commander Quinn?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Use another claimant to the master's will? I expect him
this evening also, Miss Singer. I believe that the card
soul to the will states that you are to spend
one evening here in your uncle's home, and by so
doing place yourself in the position of collecting two hundred
fifty dollars. Yes, then I shall be happy to show
(05:08):
you to your room. Your bag, please, my room, yes man.
The bedrooms are on the second floor. One is prepared
for you. Well, I this way, please, Henry.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Now, don't worry, darling, I'll be right down here.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'm sorry, sir, you were not expected. If you will wait,
I shall prepare a room for you also.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's all right, sport. I don't expect to get much
sleep in this massy in anyway. I'll just try to
couch as.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You wish her. I should return the moment this way,
ma'am up these stairs.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I'm scared, Henny Darling. Just keep your mind on that money,
and remember I'm right down here to protect you. Creepy please,
creepy Butler. Maybe he's in the whel too here. Maybe
(06:07):
he gets a bigger share off some of these long
lost nieces and such don't collect. I wonder how the
old man made all his money.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Is to really.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Accumulated the pile of the disdom sure is dark. Hm hmm,
I think trophies. The tiger looks almost alive, eyes glowing,
rouch ready to spring. My eyes then almost move. Follow
(06:45):
you around the room.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Very natural, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Where where the devil did you come from?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I beg your pardon?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
How long have you been in here?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I just returned from upstairs. Miss Singer is in her room.
The master of acquired that trophy in India. It's one
of the largest done record. Is uh something of the
matters to him?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
No, nothing's the matter. I was just noticing that tiger's eyes.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yes, yes, they are very real. Aren't they. Would you
like for me to fix you a drink?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yes, a double scotch on the rock.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Now, yes, sir, but I'm afraid we have no ice.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well then just a double scotch, yes, sir. Hmm, well
it says looks like old diary. Let's seem last entry.
(07:50):
The secret of my success in the financial world is
one that shall go with me to the grade. I
have ordered that the ring shall be placed on my
little finger, left hand, just before the coffin is sealed.
Thus shall the luck of the tiger eye remain with
me in the grave. The luck of the tiger Eye.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Your drink, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Thanks? Uh, you're you're a master. Quite a funny fellow,
was he, sir? I mean, you know, eccentric.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I wouldn't know about that soon.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh of course, I suppose he was always kind to you,
wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The Master was always most considerate? Will that be also? Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yes, I guess that's all. Oh gerald uh, yes, sir.
Did you know the Master quite well?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Quite well? Sir? It was his only seven for twenty
five years.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
We see, then you would know about the luck of
the tiger eye. The tiger eye, Yes, yes, I think
it was a ring he used to wear.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh, no, sir, he never wore it. Are you sure?
Quite sure? Sir? He kept it with him always, but
he never wore it. He never wore it never, sir.
Then why did he call the tiger eye the secret
of his power? I'm sure I don't know, sir. Is
that also? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh? One thing more? Do you know where the tiger
eye is right now?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, sir? Where right now? It is on the literal
finger of his left And.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
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Speaker 4 (10:28):
Diana, Diana, wake up, Come to the door, Diana, Henry,
come to the door, hurry, Henry.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Do you know what time it is? You needly scared me?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Metamite?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Do you know where your uncle is buried? What? Where
is your uncle buried?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
What?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
I think he's buried in the crypt on the hill
behind the house.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I think he had one built there.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Why do you wanna know?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Just get dressed, make me downstairs. I will not not
until you tell me how to hand you as we
go along.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Now hurry, I wish you wouldn't, Henry.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I don't think it's right now. How can it do
any harm just to look at this famous ring of
your uncles?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But robbing grave.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
We're not robbing graves. We're just looking into the coffin
just to see a famous ring and pay my last respects.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I've paid my last respects, and I don't see what
an old ring had to do with it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
There there, I saw it. It's over this way. Come on,
m uh, let's go and sid.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I really don't think we should quite.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
There's nothing to be afraid of. Come on in.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Is that it over there?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I think so? Let me see. Yeah, yeah, that's him.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Oh, Henry, Henry. Let's get out of here before something
terrible happens.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Now what could happen?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I don't know. I just have a feeling that if
we go any farther it's going to be awful.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Just your imagination. Now, hold the light steady and we'll
give uncle the once over, Henry, don't speak disrespects respectfully
of the dead. I won't if you just give me
a hand with getting the lid off this thing. Easy,
Now that's done. I'm afraid, Diana, it's just your uncle.
(12:40):
Now let me open the coffin and look for the
ring the diary said on the little finger, left hand. Eh,
let's see, it's a wing over here to see the
hand on the sun shine the light in here, Diana.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I won't. I'm not going to get near that coffin.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Well, it's oh, for Pete's sakes, here, hand me the lie. Yes, yes,
here it is. This must be the tiger eye. Oh,
it's a beauty, look, Diana, I won't. Oh well, okay, okay,
I'm I just kept saying, get it off his finger, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
You're not going to take it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Of course. It's not doing the old man any good.
And after all, it's not as if it's going to
be out of the family. You'll have it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I won't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay, you feel different later, Hmmm. Something seems to be
stuck holding the ring on, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
If you don't get me out of here, this.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Very instantly all right, Diana, just a second, no, one
more pull?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Who let almost fell on you.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You're telling me it was.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
As if something pushed that lid to make it.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Fall on you, Diana, don't talk nonsense.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I saw it moved, Henry.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I know. I saw it move too as I jumped back.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I saw it move when it was balance.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Stop there, Diana, it just fell when I gave that
last pull to get the ring. That rings evil, Diana.
What look how it shines in the light. It does
look like a tiger's eye.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Henry.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Please, let's go back to the house.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Oh Diana, the firelight makes it glow like something alive.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
You shouldn't have taken it the first thing in the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You will have to put it back.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay, okay, baby, anything you say, but what good is
the ring doing anybody out there in the coffin with him.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's not what good it's doing, it's what evil it's
doing while it's.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Out, Diana. The ring has just a semi precious stone.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Just the same.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's going back, Henry.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Oh, Henry, I don't want to talk about that old
ring anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You'd think you're expecting your uncle to come for it,
and you take it easy, Diana. You don't have to
get upset over every little sound. I'll go Gerald the
next time you do that, I swear.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Come on, Quinn. That's right, I expected to come right in.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh hello, Hello, I'm Henry Lecher.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
How do you do, Kobe Quinn? Glad to meet you.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
This is my fiance, Diana Singer.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Peace to meet you, Miss Singer us.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We've had something of a wet night.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Yes, yes, it has been a rather bad one, hasn't it. Well,
my plane was delayed. When I finally got it, I
decided I might as little dash on up here and
get it over with as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh well, Gerald, Gerald, Yes sir.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Could I have a bit of brandy please right away?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So you're in the inheritance too.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Yes, yes, and you are you one of my long
lost kin.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
No, but I suppose you and Diana are cousin somewhere
along the line. That's the uniform.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Oh if I got in during the war and never
got around to getting out, at least not for long.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And if you spend the night here, you get a
quarter of a million also.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Yes, yes, sir, that's the way it seems to shape up.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
The old man must have been loaded with though.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Well, I don't know very much about him at all.
It seems he was somewhat eccentric.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Somewhat henry don't speak, okay, okay.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
And quite a sportsman, I believe.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh, yes, yes, so I've heard, you know. I've also
heard he was practically unbeatable at whatever he tried.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
So? Do you know about the luck of the tiger
eye tiger?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I seems to me I have heard something of it
in India, as bad as I remember, but I can't
quite put my finger on it.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Well, we have reason to believe that the old man
used a tiger eye ring as the secret of his power.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I don't quite understand from here.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
In his diary he said, Oh look here, old man.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
You haven't been going through his private papers, have you?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Do you see, Henry?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I told you, of course not. I merely looked inside
his diary. At the last entry his diary, you had
no right tell me what I have a right to do.
I want power, I need power, And that's what the
old man said he got with the ring. You have
the ring, Yes, yes, I have the ring, And in
the diary it says that this ring was the secret
(17:50):
of his wealth and power.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Well, possibly so, old man, But in any case, the
ring is part of the estate and as such belongs
to the heirs.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
No, the ring went to the grave with him. He
didn't intend for any of you that.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Have good heavens, man, do you mean to tell me
that you've robbed my uncle's grave.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I've got the ring and I intend to keep it.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
But what possible good can the ring do you? The
stone is only semi precious, as I remember.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yes, it's quite right, sir, mister Letcher. The stone has
no intrinsic value.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You Gerald, how did he use this ring?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Use the ring, sir?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Use the ring? You hurt me. You were his only
servant for twenty five years. You must have known about
the ring.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yes, Sir, I knew about the ring, but it was
my master's wish that the ring be buried with him.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Well, I have the ring now and I intend to
use it. Now. I want you to tell me how
it must be.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Used, Miss Singer. Can't you reason with him, Diana, Sir.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
You are making a scene. Look here, I can't.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I'll stand by him, stand by and do what Gerald.
I want to know how your master used this hurt me.
I'll do a lot more if you don't tell me.
Click Very well, sir, it's more like it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
He kept the ring in his possession, as I said to,
but he never wore it. Yes, yes, especially would he
use the ring when dealing with business associates and the like.
Go on, When the occasion shooted, he he would give
(19:38):
them the ring.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Give them the ring, yes, sir, But how do you
get it back? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It always came back, so.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Now I get it. They would put it with their
other valuables, and he would arrange them to swipe.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The whole caboodle hardly, sir.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Come on, he helped need to defend the old man
before me. In fact, I think I know him better
than the rest of you. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
There is one other thing, sir. Yes, whenever he would
give some of the ring, he would tell them to
place it on the little finger, left hand and to
twist it around three times for good luck.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Little finger, left hand twisted around three times, That's what
he would say. So well, Henry Letcher is ready to
let himself in for a piece of that luck. Right now,
it's on the little finger, Henry.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I don't think you'd better. There's something simply awful. It's
going to happen. I feel it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I'll be ridiculous, Diana. Now to twist ring around my
fingers three times, Henry, don't.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I really wouldn't do that if I were user.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You wouldn't do this if you were me. But you
aren't me. I'm Henry Letcher, and I want to have
lots of good luck, lots of power, lots of money.
So here's to the tiger I luck one two three. There.
(21:13):
I can almost feel it flowing in my veins. Why
it's like I'm ten feet tall. I feel as if
I'm going right through the ceiling. I'm flying, Henry.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Please, someone helpen the tiger eye. The robber ring I
should have remembered it was a trick. The Indian merchants hused.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
When pressed for their valuables, they were offered the robber
this ring to put on.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes, sir, what was it that killed them?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Hidden inside is a tiny spring, quite pointed. It is
coiled and embedded in wax that melts at body temperature.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
The point is dipped in cobra poison is something equally quite.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
And as he twisted the ring around his finger, the
spring scratched him, inflicting a deadly wound.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Precisely, Sir Master used to call it the luck of
the Tiger Eye. He had quite a sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Saspence, You've been listening to the Luck of the Tiger Eye,
starring Joan Loring and Leon Jenny, and written especially for
suspense by Jack Buttram. Suspense is produced and directed by
(22:57):
Bruno Serrato, Junior music super by Ethel Huber. Heard in
Tonight's Story where Raymond Edward Johnson as Gerald and Mercer
MacLeod is Commander Quinn. Listen again next week when we
return with and So to Sleep My Love, written by
Dave W. Gilbert, Another tale well calculated to keep you in.
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