November 16, 2025 • 24 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful 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 - 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 (00:07):
Suspense. Standing alongside the five year old station wagon was
a woman, a woman, the woman, but.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The woman wasn't his woman. In just a moment, The
Man who Knew How to Hate, starring Joan Loring and
Leon Jenny, and written especially for suspense by Walter Black,
The Lovely.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Crowd to Day Green.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Those who think young, say.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Pepsi, please.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They picked the right one, the modern like one. Now
it's pepsi for those who think young, So go ahead
and pick the drink that lets you drink young as
you think. Yes, get the right one, a modern like one.
Now it's pepsi for all those who think young.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Well, let's see where the Yankees lost again? The Yankees
they lost again. That's three in a row. Now you
take the Tigers for a change. They got a well
rounded ball.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Plub Tigers, Yankees, a stupid slub. Baseball is probably his
whole life. And what's mine?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hate? Oh why not? It's a good, honest emotion.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
You can feed on it and live off, and you
never get enough better than love that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Dries up SODA's lust.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Lust on a rhyme with grace and hate on a
rhyme with Albert Miserable penny pinching mousey Albert.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The first time I saw him, we were on the
five h nine to High Long.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I was sitting next to him and he was marking down.
It was a little ten cents starting.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Totally up your racetrack winnings. Oh oh you mean this?
Oh no, no, no, I was just mucking down my
daily expenses that way I keep track, you see, sounds
like fun. No, you'd be surprised how one's expenses can
mount up if they're not constantly check lunch, for instance.
Unless I keep it down to ninety or ninety five cents,
my daily expenses can go over three or three and
(02:28):
a half dollars that much so easily? Is I'm Albert
Larrabie eat Friendly.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I saw very well.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well that's my station. Excuse me, mister Friendly. Relax, it's
mine too. Oh. I didn't realize we were neighbors, so
to speak.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Lot a creeper. I made a mental note to avoid
him in the future, but I tore it up when
I saw who was waiting for him. He made a
b line for a five year old station wagon. Standing
alongside it was a woman, a woman the woman, red
hair and sexy figure and everything else any man would
(03:17):
ever want. It was eyes right for every commuter passing by.
I stood there and her eyes slid over me. He stopped,
slipped back. My mouth felt dry. I knew the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh, brother, did I know the symptoms. I had to
meet her toucher. Oh, mister friendly, I'd like you to
meet my wife, Grace.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
His wife had to be a joke, a woman like that.
I walked over to the car. We shook hands.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, I felt the contact so that she could tell.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I'm very glad.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
To meet you.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Mister.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The name's Peter, Peter, mine's Grace. Who can we give
you a lift? Mm? No, no, thanks, No, yeah, my
car's up in the lot.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Your wife doesn't use it during the day.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
My ex wife can't afford a car on the album
only she's into.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Me for Oh, I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sorry, don't thee We hated each other.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
And all the time I was wondering what she was
doing with that little creep. How could she even talk
to him for five minutes when I'm dying of boredom.
I had to get to her. The easiest way was
by being friendly with Albert. Two days later, in the
drug store, I gagged down a part of a glue
sandwich that was advertised as eche salad and watched him
(04:49):
munch away on lettuce and cottage cheese, just like a
five or six inch rabbit.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Much much, much, h there's something wrong with your sandwich, Peter,
I'm not hungry. Well, this place is quite a fine,
you know. Seventy cents for the salad plate. Your wife
for a good cook? Oh well, frankly, I do most
of my own cooking. Yeah, you see, I'm a diabetic
(05:17):
and a lot of things are forbidden to me. I
can't eat just anything. Sorry to hear that. Oh, don't be.
As long as I take my insulin, I'm fine, But
it does limit the men use at home. So Grace
usually fixes something for herself, and I do the same
for myself. She's the intellectual type, you know. She paints
(05:38):
and takes evening classes at the library. She's very interested
in art, I'll.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Bet, especially if art is a man. What was I
feeling so superior about this creep lived with her?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
A week later, I took him out to a local inn.
Albert had vegetable juice. Grace and I had four martinis
and piece and played nasies under the table. My chance
came after dinner when Albert went to bring the car around.
I've got to see you, Grace. Yes, I know I'm
going crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Thinking about you when tomorrow noon at my place. I'll
stay hold from work.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Noon tomorrow daring.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Noon my place. It took the hands on my nine
o'clock an hour and traveled from eleven fifty five to twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Up to then.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Waiting and anticipating was almost fun. From twelve I know
what was murder? Twelve oh five, twelve oh seven. Something
had happened twelve twelve. She wasn't going to show the.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Creep stayed home.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Maybe maybe she hadn't met it last night, maybe she'd forgotten.
Maybe she had another sucker on the string.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Hello, Hello, Oh I knew what the first one would
feel like.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I just imagined. Well, truth is greater than the fiction.
M peer mm hmmm, yeah, uh got it. Uh that's
(07:52):
the French for thirty five.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
I'd better be going mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Why have you forgotten? Albert m for four hours? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Well, I've got to get home and change, run a
couple of errands before I pick him up.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
When do I see you again?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Not this week.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Listen if you think I'm going to be satisfied.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Being mad, darling, I'm a married woman, remember, so get unmarried.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'll put up the door for you a divorce. If
that was bothering you, you're laughing at I say something funny.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
No, just terribly sweet.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
You are quite a guy, darling, and.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You are all the woman I ever wandered.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
There's something you don't understand, though. I can't leave Albert.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Why he's short and bald and one hundred years older
than you, and the way he pinches every penny until
it turns green. You certainly aren't sticking.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
With him for his money, aren't I, Darling Peter.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Every week for twenty one years, Albert has taken exactly
ten percent of his salary check, right down to the
exact penny, and invested.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
It in the stock market.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Your kidding.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Sometimes he buys, sometimes.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
He sells, but always he reinvests, good times, bad times.
Every week, without fail, ten percent of his paycheck has
gone right into the kitty. He doesn't believe in banks.
You see our life insurance for saving money. He even
kept it a secret from me until about.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Two years ago. How much has he sold a way?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
One hundred and thirty three thousand dollars one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Hundred grand, one.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Hundred and thirty three grand. And that was back in March.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
So you see why I'm so except you've turned my
safe little world upside down.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
There is another way.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
What do you mean, baby?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
I mean, there is another way to be free of Albert.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
And keep the money.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You mean what I think you mean?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
What do you think I mean? Darling murder? Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
No, accidents happen every day.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hmm. I don't say an accident. Of course.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
All we have to do is figure out what kind
of an accident's going to happen to Albert.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'm sure I went for it. I had to have her,
and the doleingm only made it more urgent. So don't
go marl on me.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
A week went by, the longest I ever suffered through,
and then she called. We made a date in Midtown,
New York at a French restaurant where they never heard
of Countie cheese or egg salad sandwiches.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
You're staring at me, Peter.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Do you realize how long it's been?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Eight days less thirty minutes?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Or maybe you can stand up.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You'll have to.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Darling from now on, we're just casual acquaintances.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You're crazy, No.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
You are if you think I'm going to jeopardize our chances, Oh, Darling,
don't poach.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
After the funeral, I'll move away to Florida, California, and
in a couple of weeks you can join me.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You talk as if you were already dead.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Why not after tomorrow morning? He will be.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Tomorrow. Oh, we haven't made any plans.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
We're not going to the best. Murders are the simplest kind.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Most people make their biggest mistake in doing too much planning,
leaving too many loose ends.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, No, I don't. I'm on the real estate firm,
not with the mafia.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Temper temper anyway, it's tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
This cocova is delicious.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
And I thought I was cold blooded Darling, I'm just
realistic like most women.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Of course, if you want to back out.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Listen, I hate that little creek. I'm not backing out.
But how subway?
Speaker 10 (12:43):
You both take it every morning from the station.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, when I go uptown, he goes down.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Tomorrow you both go downtown.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
Make up a reason and be sure you're on the
platform with Albert better sit with him on the train
going in.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Then what.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
Speaker 10 (13:03):
The subways are jammed at rush hour, aren't they. It's
a wonder more people aren't shoved over the edge of
the platform. But listen, whatever you do, don't be obvious.
Pretend to buy a paper and leave.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And I don't think it's quite as crowded this morning
as usual, I'm gonna get more jammed. I can't even
raise my hand to scratch my nose. You should cultivate
the attitude of always looking on the bright side, Peter.
You'd be surprised at the difference it can make. And
(13:38):
you're daily living Nichols and times do add a in
a way? Yes, yes, my sated mother used to say,
a penny saved is a penny earned. That's what your
mother said, Oh, yes, many times. Of course it wasn't
original with eh, Oh, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
If I remember correctly, it was Benjamin No, holds it
for it, Albert, I forgot the other paper.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Hey, excuse me, please coming through, I with four or
five rows of people get between me and the creep.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And then I stopped and looked back.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
He was right at the edge of the platform, reading
his paper, these stock market quotations. No doubt, he wasn't
paying an attention to anyone around him. I started inching
my way back.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Grace was right. It was going to be a five cinch.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I was maybe four feet behind him, and I heard
the train barreling down the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I was forward like everybody else, and there were the
trains head lights. It was.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The simplest thing in the world.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
And you, Butter, I did everything just the way I
was supposed to.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's not my fault. The train stopped in time.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yes, it was pushed him too soon?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
All right, all right, just.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Lucky Albert soon suspect what he's saying. Just how glad
he was.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You were there to keep him company until he calmed down. Actually,
he blamed himself for standing too close.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
To the edge of the platform.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And don't say we try that again.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Shut up and let me think.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wait, you got an idea, I just might have. Well,
what is it this time?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Push him in front of the fifth Avenue bus. How
about noontime on forty second Street, or better yet, how's this.
I get Albert down to the aquarium and when nobody's looking,
I pick him up and throw him into the shark tank.
He looks enough like a shark himself, and that pointed
those Of course, he might last for a day or two,
but eventually the sharks.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Wait a minute, Why didn't I think of that right away?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's been there all along, staring me in the face.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You got the sharks.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Shut up and let me think a minute.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You really have come up with an idea.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
You're darn right, I have.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Fool proof too, die what never mind?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Unless you know the better off we are, and this
time I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh, by the way, grace, dear, I spoke to mister
Thatcher today, how is old fatso? As as a matter
of fact, he did speak of going.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
On a diet, believe for him.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But we were talking about my vacation. I get three
weeks this year, you know, so I asked him for
the first three weeks in August. That's satisfactory with you,
isn't it, my dear?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Ten o'clock, I'm for your insulin, Albert.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh, so it is? So it is? Or could I
impose on you, my dear, I'm rather tired, of course.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
You just sit and relaxed.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Thank you, dear. Oh, By the way, shall we go
to that same hotel again? It was most RESTful.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Doesn't matter anything you say.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Although we might try the seashore as a change, even
if I do sunburn too easily.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Your vacation, Albert, you make the decision here.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh you fill the hypodermic. I see that's very thoughtful
of you. Here you are?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Did you inject it all?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Every last drop? My dear, I was.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Just thinking of something amusing.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Odd coincidenceicide. What was in the hypodermic? Grace? A seline solution?
I should imagine.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh, come, come, no more games? It was a seline solution.
I'm sure a water alone isn't efficient enough. I should
go into a coma within the hour. If you're wondering, Albert,
I don't know what you're doing. I should be dead
sometime before, oh say, six in the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Why are you.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Talking this way? I don't know what you think I've done.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Don't Grace, the police will tomorrow when they play the tapes.
I've sent them tapes, Albert, what are you talking about?
Briefly and to the point, you and mister friendly white mouse.
I may be and to some even a creep, but
(18:35):
no one has ever accused me of being deaf, dumb,
and blind. I know you, Grace. I can read you
like a book, a nasty, dirty book. Albert. I know
why you've stayed with me. I know what you think
of me. Ah. Isn't it that you've never known what
I think of you?
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Albert?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I thought it would bear me. I've loathed you for
a long time. I have loathed you for your mean
little soul and your petty mind, and you, yes, for
your beauty, which was never mind. And I think I've
loathed you most of all because I still loved you, Albert.
(19:23):
Have had private detectives working for me since the day
you first set eyes on mister Friendly. You were the
ones who what's the expression bugged his apartment? Oh, very
interesting listening, Grace. Of course, I must admit the subway
was a surprise and so messy till I knew you'd
(19:46):
revert to this. Oh, Robert, You're You're even attractive when
you cry. Oh, one more surprise, my good wife.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Had you possessed the patience to wait another six months
at the most a year, all that money would have
been yours. Legally, what my last little secret. You thought
I'd been going to the doctor only for diabetes. Ah, alas,
(20:22):
no cancer dread word, isn't it We discovered it two
years ago. Oh no, I haven't suffered any pain yet.
I'm told that comes only in the final stages. Oh
that's what I couldn't face. Oh, oh, thank you very
(20:43):
much for your assistance, Albert.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Couldn't we just once more, trusting that we couldn't?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now? Would you leave me alone? The condemned man is
supposed to get his last wish, and mine is really
quite simple. I don't want to look at you again.
Never how he fool.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Us both who would have dreamed of in The Miserable
Little Creep?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, everything with the last chapter is.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Over awesing, astening, the next station awes.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Okay, buddy, on your feet.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You don't have to make of the muscle now.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You be a good boy, and I'll take the cups off.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
That's cool.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
So that's how it ends for me in a cell
in singsing that like mouse.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Salberg must be laughing his head off wherever he is.
And I thought I knew how to hate sauspense.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You've been listening to the man who knew how It Hates,
starring John Loring as Grace Larabie and Leon Jenney as
Peter Friendly and written for suspense by Walter Black. In
a moment the names of our players and the word
about next week's story of suspense.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Mommy, I scraped my elbow.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Oh dear, you ought to be more careful.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Wait, I'll get the on guantine bad, Mommy, isn't that
evnce Sure? But on Guntine's wonderful for scratches too.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
When for cuts and scrapes.
Speaker 11 (22:30):
As well as burns, Science has proved that Onungwantine boosts
nature's healing power as no plane at us after they
can forms a protective cover to lock out germs and
speed healing.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Stops to hurt kill.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
See it's not just for burns.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
And now there's something new. U Gwantine first aid spray
looks like a fire extinguisher, but inside a special unguantine
medication that puts out pain, kills germs, and starts healing
fast as you to spray it on cools and soothe
sunburn on contact. Get both on Guantine first aide spray
(23:08):
and Unguantine antiseptic dressing that boosts nature's healing power.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Suspense is produced and directed by Bruno Zerrato. Junior music
supervision by Ethel Huber, and featured in tonight's story was
Bob dryden Is Albert Laravie, also heard in our cast
where Bill Smith and Barbara Kassar. Listen again next week
when we return with Stranger with My Face, written by
(23:43):
Alan Sloan, another tale well calculated to keep.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You in.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Suspense. First word in speed, the last word in accuracy,
expanded CBS News on the CBS Radio network
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Suspense. Standing alongside the five year old station wagon was
a woman, a woman, the woman, but.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The woman wasn't his woman. In just a moment, The
Man who Knew How to Hate, starring Joan Loring and
Leon Jenny, and written especially for suspense by Walter Black,
The Lovely.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Crowd to Day Green.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Those who think young, say.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Pepsi, please.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
They picked the right one, the modern like one. Now
it's pepsi for those who think young, So go ahead
and pick the drink that lets you drink young as
you think. Yes, get the right one, a modern like one.
Now it's pepsi for all those who think young.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Well, let's see where the Yankees lost again? The Yankees
they lost again. That's three in a row. Now you
take the Tigers for a change. They got a well
rounded ball.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Plub Tigers, Yankees, a stupid slub. Baseball is probably his
whole life. And what's mine?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hate? Oh why not? It's a good, honest emotion.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
You can feed on it and live off, and you
never get enough better than love that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Dries up SODA's lust.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Lust on a rhyme with grace and hate on a
rhyme with Albert Miserable penny pinching mousey Albert.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The first time I saw him, we were on the
five h nine to High Long.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I was sitting next to him and he was marking down.
It was a little ten cents starting.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Totally up your racetrack winnings. Oh oh you mean this?
Oh no, no, no, I was just mucking down my
daily expenses that way I keep track, you see, sounds
like fun. No, you'd be surprised how one's expenses can
mount up if they're not constantly check lunch, for instance.
Unless I keep it down to ninety or ninety five cents,
my daily expenses can go over three or three and
(02:28):
a half dollars that much so easily? Is I'm Albert
Larrabie eat Friendly.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I saw very well.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well that's my station. Excuse me, mister Friendly. Relax, it's
mine too. Oh. I didn't realize we were neighbors, so
to speak.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Lot a creeper. I made a mental note to avoid
him in the future, but I tore it up when
I saw who was waiting for him. He made a
b line for a five year old station wagon. Standing
alongside it was a woman, a woman the woman, red
hair and sexy figure and everything else any man would
(03:17):
ever want. It was eyes right for every commuter passing by.
I stood there and her eyes slid over me. He stopped,
slipped back. My mouth felt dry. I knew the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh, brother, did I know the symptoms. I had to
meet her toucher. Oh, mister friendly, I'd like you to
meet my wife, Grace.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
His wife had to be a joke, a woman like that.
I walked over to the car. We shook hands.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, I felt the contact so that she could tell.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I'm very glad.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
To meet you.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Mister.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The name's Peter, Peter, mine's Grace. Who can we give
you a lift? Mm? No, no, thanks, No, yeah, my
car's up in the lot.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Your wife doesn't use it during the day.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
My ex wife can't afford a car on the album
only she's into.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Me for Oh, I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sorry, don't thee We hated each other.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
And all the time I was wondering what she was
doing with that little creep. How could she even talk
to him for five minutes when I'm dying of boredom.
I had to get to her. The easiest way was
by being friendly with Albert. Two days later, in the
drug store, I gagged down a part of a glue
sandwich that was advertised as eche salad and watched him
(04:49):
munch away on lettuce and cottage cheese, just like a
five or six inch rabbit.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Much much, much, h there's something wrong with your sandwich, Peter,
I'm not hungry. Well, this place is quite a fine,
you know. Seventy cents for the salad plate. Your wife
for a good cook? Oh well, frankly, I do most
of my own cooking. Yeah, you see, I'm a diabetic
(05:17):
and a lot of things are forbidden to me. I
can't eat just anything. Sorry to hear that. Oh, don't be.
As long as I take my insulin, I'm fine, But
it does limit the men use at home. So Grace
usually fixes something for herself, and I do the same
for myself. She's the intellectual type, you know. She paints
(05:38):
and takes evening classes at the library. She's very interested
in art, I'll.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Bet, especially if art is a man. What was I
feeling so superior about this creep lived with her?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
A week later, I took him out to a local inn.
Albert had vegetable juice. Grace and I had four martinis
and piece and played nasies under the table. My chance
came after dinner when Albert went to bring the car around.
I've got to see you, Grace. Yes, I know I'm
going crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Thinking about you when tomorrow noon at my place. I'll
stay hold from work.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Noon tomorrow daring.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Noon my place. It took the hands on my nine
o'clock an hour and traveled from eleven fifty five to twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Up to then.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Waiting and anticipating was almost fun. From twelve I know
what was murder? Twelve oh five, twelve oh seven. Something
had happened twelve twelve. She wasn't going to show the.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Creep stayed home.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Maybe maybe she hadn't met it last night, maybe she'd forgotten.
Maybe she had another sucker on the string.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Hello, Hello, Oh I knew what the first one would
feel like.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I just imagined. Well, truth is greater than the fiction.
M peer mm hmmm, yeah, uh got it. Uh that's
(07:52):
the French for thirty five.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
I'd better be going mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Why have you forgotten? Albert m for four hours? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Well, I've got to get home and change, run a
couple of errands before I pick him up.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
When do I see you again?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Not this week.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Listen if you think I'm going to be satisfied.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Being mad, darling, I'm a married woman, remember, so get unmarried.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'll put up the door for you a divorce. If
that was bothering you, you're laughing at I say something funny.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
No, just terribly sweet.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
You are quite a guy, darling, and.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You are all the woman I ever wandered.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
There's something you don't understand, though. I can't leave Albert.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Why he's short and bald and one hundred years older
than you, and the way he pinches every penny until
it turns green. You certainly aren't sticking.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
With him for his money, aren't I, Darling Peter.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Every week for twenty one years, Albert has taken exactly
ten percent of his salary check, right down to the
exact penny, and invested.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
It in the stock market.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Your kidding.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Sometimes he buys, sometimes.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
He sells, but always he reinvests, good times, bad times.
Every week, without fail, ten percent of his paycheck has
gone right into the kitty. He doesn't believe in banks.
You see our life insurance for saving money. He even
kept it a secret from me until about.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Two years ago. How much has he sold a way?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
One hundred and thirty three thousand dollars one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Hundred grand, one.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Hundred and thirty three grand. And that was back in March.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
So you see why I'm so except you've turned my
safe little world upside down.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
There is another way.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
What do you mean, baby?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
I mean, there is another way to be free of Albert.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
And keep the money.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You mean what I think you mean?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
What do you think I mean? Darling murder? Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
No, accidents happen every day.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hmm. I don't say an accident. Of course.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
All we have to do is figure out what kind
of an accident's going to happen to Albert.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'm sure I went for it. I had to have her,
and the doleingm only made it more urgent. So don't
go marl on me.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
A week went by, the longest I ever suffered through,
and then she called. We made a date in Midtown,
New York at a French restaurant where they never heard
of Countie cheese or egg salad sandwiches.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
You're staring at me, Peter.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Do you realize how long it's been?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Eight days less thirty minutes?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Or maybe you can stand up.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You'll have to.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Darling from now on, we're just casual acquaintances.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You're crazy, No.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
You are if you think I'm going to jeopardize our chances, Oh, Darling,
don't poach.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
After the funeral, I'll move away to Florida, California, and
in a couple of weeks you can join me.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You talk as if you were already dead.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Why not after tomorrow morning? He will be.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Tomorrow. Oh, we haven't made any plans.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
We're not going to the best. Murders are the simplest kind.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Most people make their biggest mistake in doing too much planning,
leaving too many loose ends.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, No, I don't. I'm on the real estate firm,
not with the mafia.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Temper temper anyway, it's tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
This cocova is delicious.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
And I thought I was cold blooded Darling, I'm just
realistic like most women.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Of course, if you want to back out.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Listen, I hate that little creek. I'm not backing out.
But how subway?
Speaker 10 (12:43):
You both take it every morning from the station.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, when I go uptown, he goes down.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Tomorrow you both go downtown.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
Make up a reason and be sure you're on the
platform with Albert better sit with him on the train
going in.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Then what.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
Speaker 10 (13:03):
The subways are jammed at rush hour, aren't they. It's
a wonder more people aren't shoved over the edge of
the platform. But listen, whatever you do, don't be obvious.
Pretend to buy a paper and leave.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And I don't think it's quite as crowded this morning
as usual, I'm gonna get more jammed. I can't even
raise my hand to scratch my nose. You should cultivate
the attitude of always looking on the bright side, Peter.
You'd be surprised at the difference it can make. And
(13:38):
you're daily living Nichols and times do add a in
a way? Yes, yes, my sated mother used to say,
a penny saved is a penny earned. That's what your
mother said, Oh, yes, many times. Of course it wasn't
original with eh, Oh, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
If I remember correctly, it was Benjamin No, holds it
for it, Albert, I forgot the other paper.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Hey, excuse me, please coming through, I with four or
five rows of people get between me and the creep.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And then I stopped and looked back.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
He was right at the edge of the platform, reading
his paper, these stock market quotations. No doubt, he wasn't
paying an attention to anyone around him. I started inching
my way back.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Grace was right. It was going to be a five cinch.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I was maybe four feet behind him, and I heard
the train barreling down the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I was forward like everybody else, and there were the
trains head lights. It was.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The simplest thing in the world.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
And you, Butter, I did everything just the way I
was supposed to.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's not my fault. The train stopped in time.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yes, it was pushed him too soon?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
All right, all right, just.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Lucky Albert soon suspect what he's saying. Just how glad
he was.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You were there to keep him company until he calmed down. Actually,
he blamed himself for standing too close.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
To the edge of the platform.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And don't say we try that again.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Shut up and let me think.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wait, you got an idea, I just might have. Well,
what is it this time?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Push him in front of the fifth Avenue bus. How
about noontime on forty second Street, or better yet, how's this.
I get Albert down to the aquarium and when nobody's looking,
I pick him up and throw him into the shark tank.
He looks enough like a shark himself, and that pointed
those Of course, he might last for a day or two,
but eventually the sharks.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Wait a minute, Why didn't I think of that right away?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's been there all along, staring me in the face.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You got the sharks.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Shut up and let me think a minute.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You really have come up with an idea.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
You're darn right, I have.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Fool proof too, die what never mind?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Unless you know the better off we are, and this
time I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh, by the way, grace, dear, I spoke to mister
Thatcher today, how is old fatso? As as a matter
of fact, he did speak of going.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
On a diet, believe for him.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But we were talking about my vacation. I get three
weeks this year, you know, so I asked him for
the first three weeks in August. That's satisfactory with you,
isn't it, my dear?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Ten o'clock, I'm for your insulin, Albert.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh, so it is? So it is? Or could I
impose on you, my dear, I'm rather tired, of course.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
You just sit and relaxed.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Thank you, dear. Oh, By the way, shall we go
to that same hotel again? It was most RESTful.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Doesn't matter anything you say.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Although we might try the seashore as a change, even
if I do sunburn too easily.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Your vacation, Albert, you make the decision here.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh you fill the hypodermic. I see that's very thoughtful
of you. Here you are?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Did you inject it all?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Every last drop? My dear, I was.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Just thinking of something amusing.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Odd coincidenceicide. What was in the hypodermic? Grace? A seline solution?
I should imagine.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh, come, come, no more games? It was a seline solution.
I'm sure a water alone isn't efficient enough. I should
go into a coma within the hour. If you're wondering, Albert,
I don't know what you're doing. I should be dead
sometime before, oh say, six in the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Why are you.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Talking this way? I don't know what you think I've done.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Don't Grace, the police will tomorrow when they play the tapes.
I've sent them tapes, Albert, what are you talking about?
Briefly and to the point, you and mister friendly white mouse.
I may be and to some even a creep, but
(18:35):
no one has ever accused me of being deaf, dumb,
and blind. I know you, Grace. I can read you
like a book, a nasty, dirty book. Albert. I know
why you've stayed with me. I know what you think
of me. Ah. Isn't it that you've never known what
I think of you?
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Albert?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I thought it would bear me. I've loathed you for
a long time. I have loathed you for your mean
little soul and your petty mind, and you, yes, for
your beauty, which was never mind. And I think I've
loathed you most of all because I still loved you, Albert.
(19:23):
Have had private detectives working for me since the day
you first set eyes on mister Friendly. You were the
ones who what's the expression bugged his apartment? Oh, very
interesting listening, Grace. Of course, I must admit the subway
was a surprise and so messy till I knew you'd
(19:46):
revert to this. Oh, Robert, You're You're even attractive when
you cry. Oh, one more surprise, my good wife.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Had you possessed the patience to wait another six months
at the most a year, all that money would have
been yours. Legally, what my last little secret. You thought
I'd been going to the doctor only for diabetes. Ah, alas,
(20:22):
no cancer dread word, isn't it We discovered it two
years ago. Oh no, I haven't suffered any pain yet.
I'm told that comes only in the final stages. Oh
that's what I couldn't face. Oh, oh, thank you very
(20:43):
much for your assistance, Albert.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Couldn't we just once more, trusting that we couldn't?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now? Would you leave me alone? The condemned man is
supposed to get his last wish, and mine is really
quite simple. I don't want to look at you again.
Never how he fool.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Us both who would have dreamed of in The Miserable
Little Creep?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, everything with the last chapter is.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Over awesing, astening, the next station awes.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Okay, buddy, on your feet.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You don't have to make of the muscle now.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You be a good boy, and I'll take the cups off.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
That's cool.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
So that's how it ends for me in a cell
in singsing that like mouse.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Salberg must be laughing his head off wherever he is.
And I thought I knew how to hate sauspense.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You've been listening to the man who knew how It Hates,
starring John Loring as Grace Larabie and Leon Jenney as
Peter Friendly and written for suspense by Walter Black. In
a moment the names of our players and the word
about next week's story of suspense.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Mommy, I scraped my elbow.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Oh dear, you ought to be more careful.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Wait, I'll get the on guantine bad, Mommy, isn't that
evnce Sure? But on Guntine's wonderful for scratches too.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
When for cuts and scrapes.
Speaker 11 (22:30):
As well as burns, Science has proved that Onungwantine boosts
nature's healing power as no plane at us after they
can forms a protective cover to lock out germs and
speed healing.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Stops to hurt kill.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
See it's not just for burns.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
And now there's something new. U Gwantine first aid spray
looks like a fire extinguisher, but inside a special unguantine
medication that puts out pain, kills germs, and starts healing
fast as you to spray it on cools and soothe
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(23:08):
and Unguantine antiseptic dressing that boosts nature's healing power.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Suspense is produced and directed by Bruno Zerrato. Junior music
supervision by Ethel Huber, and featured in tonight's story was
Bob dryden Is Albert Laravie, also heard in our cast
where Bill Smith and Barbara Kassar. Listen again next week
when we return with Stranger with My Face, written by
(23:43):
Alan Sloan, another tale well calculated to keep.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You in.
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