August 5, 2025 • 30 mins
Please enjoy An Honest Man a great episode of the legendary Suspense - Old Time Radio show OTR - a Old Time Radio OTR classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In just a moment Suspense, starring Charles Lawton.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hi, Hi Dad, work laid on your bicycle, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, the old bike.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Has been getting going death right. Boy, did I pop
up Second Street this morning?
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Just like the car belieutil I had that new auto
light stay full battery put in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, my boy, you just keep at it.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
I'm going in coast along with auto light batteries, park
plugs and ignition systems on the suspension.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Dad, if you want to listen to the auto light,
so you'd better stay out here in the garage with me.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Mm Mom's got her bridge club in tonight.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
What why?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
She dug on?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Well knows I want to hear Charles Lawton. Welly, all
that drinks my stay full battery doesn't need high.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Take it easy, dad, Here comes Charles Lawton.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Suspense at a light and at sixty thousand dealers in
service stations. Bring You Radio is outstanding theater of thrills,
starring tonight mister Charles Lawton in Anton Leader's production of
An Honest Man. But they are well calculated to keep
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you in suspend.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
I couldn't sleep ala in bed that night listening to
the stillness and loneliness of the empty house, and tried
to bring my mother back to me.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Friday, my son, I must leave you now. I know
that you will miss me, but you needn't, for you
are strong. I shall not be worried about you.
Speaker 9 (01:56):
I have taught you.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, taught me a well.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
For the first time, the meaning of those words became
clear to me, the tears driving my eyes when gew's pinched,
as was the woman, my mother, whom I had been
cursed than anyone else in the world. Indeed, I'd been
cursed to but my mother in all my forty four years.
And after the tears, a fellow memories passed before my eyes.
And after the memories, came to the realization that I
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was dead. My mother was dead, and I was glad.
All the next day at the store, I worked in
a sort of a haze of happiness and well being.
Dora smiled at me once or twice, but we were
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both very busy. During the rush hour, mister Kelcer came
into help out, as he always did. About a quarter
to ten, he said, what I realized that I'd been
hoping to hear all day.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
You got to days received total Yet, buddy, I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just finishing them now, mister Kelson, and I.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
Think I'll knock off and he gets too, and just
put the money in the safe and lag it. I
won't go to the bank to laughter on.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yes, mister Kelson. They both close up.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Whenever you think what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You tomorrow, Yes, mister Kelny, good night.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Uh one hundred and twenty three dollars and fourteen cents.
Speaker 11 (03:26):
Check, mister Kelken, Sure trust you, don't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He he shout? After twenty six years?
Speaker 11 (03:34):
Twenty six years?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You want?
Speaker 12 (03:37):
Can hear? That? Low?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Sounds like a long time when you're said, But it
doesn't seem that way to me.
Speaker 11 (03:43):
Well, I guess it's quitting time. Oh boy a, my
feet tired. Twenty six years? You're gonna put out the lights?
You want me to? Okay?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well, I'm leaving so long, Miss Dora. May I ask
you something?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (04:06):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, Paul, isn't it a beautiful night?
Speaker 11 (04:12):
Are you sure that door is locked?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Yes, I was just wondering. I was wondering if you
mind if I walked home with you. It's a little
out of my way?
Speaker 11 (04:21):
Sure, why not? I would say? Don't you have to
get home to your mother? Oh? She's pretty unstyed. Must
have been a terrible blow to you. Yes it was,
and you've taken care of their all that time, twenty
six years.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But you mustn't think that that was a hardship. You see,
I owe.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Everything in the world to my mother, everything that I
am or ever will be.
Speaker 11 (04:45):
Oh, I know what you mean. I always say you
a prison's mother.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I've never told this to anyone.
Speaker 11 (04:53):
I've been meaning to ask you. The way you're always
call me this Dora, and I mean the way you talk.
It's so fun. Really, I bet you had a real
good education once.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Didn't, you know, not formally, but you see, my mother
was a governess and she always tried to give me
the same advantages as she were the children.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Under her care. My mother was a highly educated woman.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
Well, I knew it must be something like that. Anyway,
you don't have to call me miss door.
Speaker 12 (05:18):
I mean, seeing we're kind of old friends, i'd say,
what was it you were going to tell me before?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Well, that was something about my mother, something she taught me.
I'll never forget it as long as I live. You
happened to remind me of it when you remarked how
mister Kelsey trusted me. What was it, Well, it was
just before my eleventh birthday. There was a motion picture
that I wanted to see very badly. Actually it was
something about cowboys, I think, but my mother said we
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couldn't afford it, and so I took ten cents from
her purse and she found it out.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What she saw was she whipped me. Was the only
time she ever did until I could hardly walk.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
She said I'd done the worst thing that anyone could
ever do, that I had been dishonest.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I was a thief.
Speaker 11 (06:13):
You dishonest? Oh that's a laugh. I never know anybody
more honest than all my life.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, look at the way, mister Kelsey.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Because of what my mother taught me, I've been grateful
to her all my life that I always will be.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
Oh yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 12 (06:27):
Well, they say honest, he's the best policy, and I.
Speaker 11 (06:29):
Guess it is all right.
Speaker 12 (06:31):
Now you take Tom there about him, Well, I wouldn't
exactly say he's dishonest, but I'm sure having a lot
more fun than you or.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Me that, Dora, and I'm sure you will agree that
there are more important things in life than just having fun.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
I'm sure, of course, I didn't mean it like that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And what I mean to say is you couldn't admire
a fellow like this best?
Speaker 11 (06:53):
Could you?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (06:54):
I should say not?
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Thinks he's so smart with his wise cracks, and acuse
I wouldn't give him the chime of day?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Is there anyone that is to say? Any man? You
do it?
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Mine?
Speaker 11 (07:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Not me?
Speaker 11 (07:09):
Oh? I admire you, of course for sure.
Speaker 12 (07:14):
But if you mean, do I go out steady with anyone?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
H Have you ever thought of the kind of man
that you would go steady with?
Speaker 11 (07:26):
My dreamman?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (07:31):
Sure, but you just don't find them going on trees?
Not that kind?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
What kind joy?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (07:38):
When I say dream man, don't get me wrong. I
don't go for those glamor boys. I've been around enough
to know better than that.
Speaker 12 (07:45):
You just give me a nice, easy going fellow with
a steady job.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That sounds like a description of me.
Speaker 11 (07:55):
And a little money put away in the bank. That's
the kind of fellow I want.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Did you say money? For sure?
Speaker 12 (08:02):
That was never going to get very far if he
doesn't have a little late aside for a rainy day.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yes, is that right?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes? I suppose that is right?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
But how much money do you think such a fellow ought.
Speaker 12 (08:12):
To have oh, thousand dollars, you know, just something from
kind of a little mystery.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, of course. Yes.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Well here's where I live.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thanks for the work, Dora. If you were to find
such a man, a man with a steady job.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
And money in the bank, Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean, would you would you consider? I mean would you.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
Would I watch? Oh? Oh, I can for sure if
I thought I could make him happy, Oh, I know
you would. Well, I'm not well till death there was part.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Well, it was strange that she should have said that
when death had founded me only a few brief hours
before they who found the only woman in my life?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
My mother? And now so soon after there was another woman.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
But if she was there, that that thousand dollars that
stood in the way, with all the expensive the funerals
still have been met. I knew that it would take
me at least two years to accumulate such a sum,
And Dora was a warm, attractive girl. I couldn't have
spent her to wait that long. It wouldn't be fair.
So I read the next morning, my first found hope
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had turned to black despair.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I hardly noticed Tom Best when he sauntered into the store.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
We almost knew.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh hell was they say, pretty boy, I beg your pardon.
You watch the matter? You will love her something? Say
remember that horse I told you about last week?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Of course you remember revelations I told you to get
down on him at eight to one?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yes, well what did I tell you?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well? To tell? I do the truth. I have had
a number of things in my mind lately.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He won jump, He won just like I.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Told you would. Now, ain't you.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Sorry you didn't get a couple of bucks down on him?
Speaker 11 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yes, yes, portula, I don't know very much about horse racing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Never delight to light. Say you give me a hot postroma.
I'm right with you, Yeah, little lettuce, let's get there.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He wanted to go or not need it? Here?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Say how time a guy like you ever laid to
make such good sandwiches for the best in town?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
No kidding?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
My mother taught me that a fact. My mother taught
me everything I know.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, he must be good to be like that about
your old lady. Haven't been mine for ten years? You
are thanks?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Is your mother dead now?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I she took a powder when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I couldn't stand it. Around there anymore. You couldn't stand
it around your own mother.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, all she ever did was yep, yep, yep. Why
didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that? Finally
one day I told her.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What she could do, and I beat it. But how
could she get a wrong without you? What did she do?
Same old thing? I guess, laundry?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Soyy, look, fuddy, are you for the sandwich tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
All I got to fifty.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Well, if you won't forget, I did have to remind
you last time. You know, I have to take it
out of my own puffet.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You're a good guy, ready say? In fact, you know
what I think. I'm going to let you in on something.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Ready, listen, I get a tips of hot it's burning
the seat of my pants. Avalanche in the third at
Santa Rosa today, strictly a drugstore job.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What they're going to give him?
Speaker 11 (11:28):
The needle?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
I got it from his trainer myself. In personal Avalanche
can't anymore lose that race than I can sing Hi.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I see you know what?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
The odds are a hundred to one, a hundred to one,
one hundred and two one.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
But I said, do you mean to tell me this?
Is someone with a bet ten dollars on this horse.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They went back a thousand.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
You ain't just bird cold, and you put a tenor
on that beetle and you'll have one thousand bucks in
your hospital hand by ten nights.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh I wish I could, but I don't have ten
dollars ready where there. I don't get paid until the
Mary you see Oh out of five you are do thanks,
get ready. It's a matter.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
You can always lay your hand on a ten when
you want it, can't you?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I care how Oh? Oh no, no, no, no no,
that's mister Kelsey's money.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And not till the nine what mister Kelsey don't know?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You can hit him? Hi, I couldn't do anything like that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'll think it over.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Friend one thousand skinner.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Room and that a Horsey.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
One thousand and skinners.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
What suspense motterlight is bringing you? Mister Charles Lawton in
radios outstanding theater thrills suspends.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I don't know what's coming next, but this story's got
me in the mood to expect anything.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, anything but invite a woman's bridge body in on
Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Still think that mom, Dad will I share up.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
This car radio is operating hunky dorry thanks to your
new auto light stayful battery. Besides, Mom's partner probably just
trump to race. So let's listen to Frank Martin, the
auto light announcer.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yes, the new auto light stay full battery needs water
only three times a year in normal car use. This
greater liquid reserve practically eliminates one of the major causes
of battery failure. Car owners tell us this the greatest
battery ever built. The greatest battery ever built. Bunny, cannot
buy a better battery for your car, you know, Billy.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The boys over the service station tell me that these auto.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Light stayfolds are really setting up some long time between
drink's records.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, Dad, I guess it's like having a camel under
your hood.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Hunt.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Oh better than that, an auto lighte stainful only needs
a drink three times a year in normal car use.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So friends, see your friendly neighborhood autolite battery dealer and
order the new autolite stainphole battery for your car. It
needs water only three times a year in normal car use.
And there are the important advantages of extra plates and
fiberglass insullation that means so much to long battery life.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
And now auto light brings back to Hollywood soundstage mister
Charles Lawton as Freddy in An Honest Man, A tail
well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Suspend Well, of course I could think of nothing else
a morning. My mind was in the world A thousand
dollars with a thousand dollars back propos store. I proposed
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to that very night. At the same time, it was
the appalling sort of what I'd have to do. I
would have to take ten dollars from the cash register, ten.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Dollars that was not mine. That would be stealing. I
would be a thief. And I thought, I wondered, perhaps
Tom Bass was right.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
It wouldn't be stealing if I put the money back,
and by tonight I'd have the ten thousand dollars. I
could put it back, but that was attached to the difference,
So I taking the money from money At that time
I had no prospect of replacing it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
But this way, this way. So the next time I
went to.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
The cash regious to make change, I slipped ten dollars
out of the draw and put it into my apron pocket.
After that, I found I was perspiring and my hands
trembled so that I nearly cut myself a dozen times
working at my sandwich board.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And I saw Tom Bass coming through the door.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Tom Tom, Yeah, it's not dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I've got the ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Ten dollars. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, now you
getting smile?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Give it to me. I'll place it out that How
are you sure you're absolutely shore?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'll tell you. The nag is in an a walk. I
got a few skins down on this one myself. Don't
forget all but one leg.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's money.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Six o'clock to night the latest. I'll bring it around myself.
Give me the ten.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, you won't forget me?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Forget what a thousand bucks in my kick? How could
I forget?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Relax?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You have nothing to worry.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
About, Surdy.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
What was you until I'm talking about just now?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh, he was just telling me about some horse or whatever.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
But you better be careful how you talk to him
about horse.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 11 (16:42):
Oh that's the way he makes his lemonade.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
It I should rather imagine it is, Oh, Dora, yeah,
would you care to that is when we're to work
with you, would you care to go somewhere with me
this evening.
Speaker 11 (16:55):
Go awhere, Oh wife, ready, are you asking me for
a date?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (17:02):
I suppose ready, that's your cue. I might even take you.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Up on you hear, who will go?
Speaker 11 (17:08):
I might?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'll tell you Clinton, I can't tell me now thought.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Something might come up?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What could come up?
Speaker 11 (17:14):
I don't know what could come up. I anything could
come up.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
One of us might drop dead.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
A strange sense of humor doors, but I get used
to that anyway. She had practically said, yester the date.
So I passed the rest of the afternoon busy with
thoughts of a good fortune.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That was awaiting me.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
At five, mister Kelsey came in, and shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
There was a ratch of customers that took up all
my attention, so that it was.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
With something of a stub that I looked at the
talk and saw that it was nearly six thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
But Tom had said six, no later than six, So it.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Was quite understandable there's in a transaction.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Of such magnitude he might have met with some unforseeable today.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So I tried to compose myself to remain calm, to
wait for two minutes, and then the hours.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Passed by nine o'clock I was into the state. I
didn hardly conceal it. I had to. I had to.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
And then suddenly, at nine point thirty I saw him.
He was walking rather hurriedly. I sought along the opposite
side of the street.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And so, in caution to the winds, I dashed from
behind the cars.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Tom calm Or.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I afraid for a minute that I didn't recognize you.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I'm so sorry to tumble you this way.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Which it was so late I thought you might have forgotten.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You do have the money with him.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Look, Freddy, I've been meaning to come in all evening
tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
About that, but I didn't know how to say. I
say what?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And it's getting so you can't trust nobody nowadays.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Believe me, kid, I feel as bad about this as you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What time, lion trainer.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
He never done a thing to that horse. That bump
come in last, and it really lasted.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
My money's gone, yeah last.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I don't take it too hard, kid. You stick with me,
and I'll have that ten back for your double people
by the end of next week.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know, somebody wins, somebody.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Loses, you know, Mother, Mother, help me. I'm a thief.
I turned back to the store automatically, but even now
I could hardly grasped the full.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Its tender and contesteously, which overwhelm me. All I knew
that tomorrow was paid there and prevent mister Kelsey from
finding out what happened to you.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I watched there, mister Kelsey, looked like you've.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Seen it goes through something you went charging on to
here a couple of minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Oh yes, I thought I saw someone I knew Sam
Night now as a child.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
Yeah, it happens to me all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I said, well, it's pretty late.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
You can both lead it if you want to.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
I'll check through your teach tonight myself.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Say what you're doing. I dropped a knife. You want
us to go? Yeah, you might as well.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
I'll be here late anyway, I'll close up.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
It don't make me mad. Gee, i'd been ready to
drop for the last dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Mister Kelsey. I'd be glad to check the receipts for you.
You don't have to. Yeah, I know, but I got
an order to coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
I gotta go with the books. For the last six months,
seems I got some kind of beef with the text people.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Oh come on, Freddy, let the boss do a little
work Christians. Anyway, I thought you had other plans for
the night.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yes I did, But mister Kelsey, I'd rather you let
me do it. Really, it wouldn't be any trouble.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
That's the way it is. I'm leaving.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Show me over that end machine before you go with it.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
Dora, Yeah, sure, night, mister Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Nice Dora, good night.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Nix Williams.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
It's the matter with her.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You two have been having trouble. Oh no, mister Kelsey.
I do not like to have you checking the receipts
all by yourself. I don't like me. It's gotta be done.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
You run along now, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But I don't want you to do it. Look, Freddie,
thanks for trying to help. But just leave me alone,
will you. I ain't got a lot of work to
do tonight.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
No stop like what's eating you? I told you once
now I've always done it before. It makes me feel
that you don't trust me. See already, what kind.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Of way to talk is bad. I've been trusting you
for twenty six years, haven't I?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why should I stop tonight? All of a sudden, mister
Kelsey one hundred and eighteen thirty seven. Hey, that's funny
at ten dollars. Shut. I knew what he would say next.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
I knew that I had to stop him before he
said that awful word.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And I'll sure now, how could ready? What are you doing? Ready? Where?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
I washed my hands most carefully at the stink and
dried them on my apron, and I bent over mister Kelsey. Oh, oh,
mister Kelsey's body, and I removed from his pocket the
sum of thirty two dollars and fifty cents, the exact
amount that would be going to me in salary on
the following day of this sum, I put ten dollars
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in the cash register, and I left the soul and
went home. It was all right now, everything was all right.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I was not a thief. I was so exhausted as
I got home and just dropped and just dropped him.
I bet I must have proben to sleep.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
That way, because I was full of clothes when I
was awakened ten hours later.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Eh, yeah, well, who is it?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Let me in?
Speaker 12 (23:13):
Oh yes, of course, Oh Freddie, I'm so glad I
found you. You gotta help me, you gotta do something.
Of course, what can I do, Freddy, mister Kelsey, Mister
Kelsey is dead.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh yes, I'm sorry that had to happen to her.
Believe me, I am.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
How can you stand there and be so calm about it?
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
He was murdered and they got tommed for it.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
They say he did it. They got him down at
the police station right now, and I sent and he
didn't know what to do, and just on the cup
on the beat walkedn't and they arrested him right there.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I hardly believe a man like Tom bask could have
any good reason to kill mister Kelsey.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
That's what I said.
Speaker 12 (23:47):
That's what I've been telling the cops for the past hour.
He may be a little shady, I said. He may
have done some things that wasn't exactly right. But my
boyfriend wouldn't come in and murder I said he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You're boss, Yeah, I said, Oh.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
Gee, Freddie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yes, but you told me that that was not anyone
that there wasn't.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Honest, that's the truth. I've just been out with him
two or three times. I didn't know he meant anything.
I didn't even think I liked him. When I saw
him down there and I saw what they were doing
to him.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, friend, oh ready, please.
Speaker 12 (24:24):
Please don't be mad at me. I couldn't have crazy.
I didn't know who else to come to.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You got to do something for him, Dora, What.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Do you love him?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I see.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
I left her there and started the police station. Tom
Bass meant nothing to me, of course, meant less than
nothing now, But of course, dor that was something else again,
and I didn't know exactly what I should do with
the sergeant help me to make up my mind. Well,
I understand that you have a prisoner here who is
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accused of killing one Henry Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
That's right, who is mouth pieces? Oh no, no, no,
I am.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I will be saying I was an employee of mister
Kelsey's for twenty six years. Mac Williams, Frederick Aloysius mack Williams.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, we know about you, we mean, but you got
nothing to worry about. We got our man. You have
all the evidence you need. Of course, we got all
the evidence we need.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Why would we be holding him.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
We caught him right handed, and he's got a record
since he was fourteen years old.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There's damny.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
But supposing that I had positive evidence that the prisoner
Tom Bess did not kill mister Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That'd better be good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I'm warning you.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Tell me it would be dishonest to withhold that information.
Wouldn't it your dog one total? It would I mean
you see him. It would be like stealing, wouldn't it's stealing?
Is stealing another man's life? What are you trying to
kid somebody?
Speaker 12 (26:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
No, no, I've never been more serious in my life.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
All right, if you know so much, who did kill Kelsey?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I did good? Or I'm afraid she'll have to wear
a year for Tom Bess. It seems the.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Police foul on his method of making a living. Well
As for me, a great calm is settled over me.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh, it's such a calm as I've never learned before
in my life.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
So nice will be joining mother. She will smile when
she sees me, and I know that she'll be proud
of me, and she'll understand. She'll understand that whatever I
may have had, I was not a thief.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Thank you Charles Lawton for an extraordinary performance.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Mister Lawton will return in just a moment. Same and
Charles Ltton was certainly in the groove.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Tonight, I'll say, hey, there it comes, mam.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
I just thought you could be out here puttering, you
in your bikes and batteries with Charles Lawton on the
Suspense program too.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Mary.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Did you listen to Suspense?
Speaker 11 (27:41):
That's what I did.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
You're always talking about your auto right stayful batteries, so
I thought i'd listened to Suspense and get.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
The real back.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What about the bridge class?
Speaker 11 (27:50):
You can't really so we could all listen to Charles Lawton.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
My guess is just leaving now? Well that I guess
we men can't win.
Speaker 11 (27:57):
What do we do? Now?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Finish your evening, right, gentlemen, listen to the auto light
announces signing off.
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And now here again is mister Charles Lawton.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
It has been a great pleasure to appear again on Suspense,
and I am certainly looking forward to listening next week
when a Southern comes to the microphone as a deceiving
wife who learns a lesson the hard way. It is
a story titled They Wear the Quiet Man, and it's
a gripping study in suspence.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Charles Laden may currently be seen in Paramounts The Big Fox.
Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert L. Richards Good
music composed by Lucian Marleck and conducted by lud Gluskin.
The entire production was under the direction of antonim Leader.
Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Anne Southern in
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Beware the Quiet Man.
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Speaker 6 (29:44):
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Speaker 11 (29:49):
This week, good Night, switch to Aerolite.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
In just a moment Suspense, starring Charles Lawton.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hi, Hi Dad, work laid on your bicycle, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, the old bike.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Has been getting going death right. Boy, did I pop
up Second Street this morning?
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Just like the car belieutil I had that new auto
light stay full battery put in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, my boy, you just keep at it.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
I'm going in coast along with auto light batteries, park
plugs and ignition systems on the suspension.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Dad, if you want to listen to the auto light,
so you'd better stay out here in the garage with me.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Mm Mom's got her bridge club in tonight.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
What why?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
She dug on?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Well knows I want to hear Charles Lawton. Welly, all
that drinks my stay full battery doesn't need high.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Take it easy, dad, Here comes Charles Lawton.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Suspense at a light and at sixty thousand dealers in
service stations. Bring You Radio is outstanding theater of thrills,
starring tonight mister Charles Lawton in Anton Leader's production of
An Honest Man. But they are well calculated to keep
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you in suspend.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
I couldn't sleep ala in bed that night listening to
the stillness and loneliness of the empty house, and tried
to bring my mother back to me.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Friday, my son, I must leave you now. I know
that you will miss me, but you needn't, for you
are strong. I shall not be worried about you.
Speaker 9 (01:56):
I have taught you.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, taught me a well.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
For the first time, the meaning of those words became
clear to me, the tears driving my eyes when gew's pinched,
as was the woman, my mother, whom I had been
cursed than anyone else in the world. Indeed, I'd been
cursed to but my mother in all my forty four years.
And after the tears, a fellow memories passed before my eyes.
And after the memories, came to the realization that I
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was dead. My mother was dead, and I was glad.
All the next day at the store, I worked in
a sort of a haze of happiness and well being.
Dora smiled at me once or twice, but we were
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both very busy. During the rush hour, mister Kelcer came
into help out, as he always did. About a quarter
to ten, he said, what I realized that I'd been
hoping to hear all day.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
You got to days received total Yet, buddy, I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just finishing them now, mister Kelson, and I.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
Think I'll knock off and he gets too, and just
put the money in the safe and lag it. I
won't go to the bank to laughter on.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yes, mister Kelson. They both close up.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Whenever you think what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You tomorrow, Yes, mister Kelny, good night.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Uh one hundred and twenty three dollars and fourteen cents.
Speaker 11 (03:26):
Check, mister Kelken, Sure trust you, don't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He he shout? After twenty six years?
Speaker 11 (03:34):
Twenty six years?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You want?
Speaker 12 (03:37):
Can hear? That? Low?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Sounds like a long time when you're said, But it
doesn't seem that way to me.
Speaker 11 (03:43):
Well, I guess it's quitting time. Oh boy a, my
feet tired. Twenty six years? You're gonna put out the lights?
You want me to? Okay?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well, I'm leaving so long, Miss Dora. May I ask
you something?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (04:06):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, Paul, isn't it a beautiful night?
Speaker 11 (04:12):
Are you sure that door is locked?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Yes, I was just wondering. I was wondering if you
mind if I walked home with you. It's a little
out of my way?
Speaker 11 (04:21):
Sure, why not? I would say? Don't you have to
get home to your mother? Oh? She's pretty unstyed. Must
have been a terrible blow to you. Yes it was,
and you've taken care of their all that time, twenty
six years.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But you mustn't think that that was a hardship. You see,
I owe.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Everything in the world to my mother, everything that I
am or ever will be.
Speaker 11 (04:45):
Oh, I know what you mean. I always say you
a prison's mother.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I've never told this to anyone.
Speaker 11 (04:53):
I've been meaning to ask you. The way you're always
call me this Dora, and I mean the way you talk.
It's so fun. Really, I bet you had a real
good education once.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Didn't, you know, not formally, but you see, my mother
was a governess and she always tried to give me
the same advantages as she were the children.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Under her care. My mother was a highly educated woman.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
Well, I knew it must be something like that. Anyway,
you don't have to call me miss door.
Speaker 12 (05:18):
I mean, seeing we're kind of old friends, i'd say,
what was it you were going to tell me before?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Well, that was something about my mother, something she taught me.
I'll never forget it as long as I live. You
happened to remind me of it when you remarked how
mister Kelsey trusted me. What was it, Well, it was
just before my eleventh birthday. There was a motion picture
that I wanted to see very badly. Actually it was
something about cowboys, I think, but my mother said we
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couldn't afford it, and so I took ten cents from
her purse and she found it out.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What she saw was she whipped me. Was the only
time she ever did until I could hardly walk.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
She said I'd done the worst thing that anyone could
ever do, that I had been dishonest.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I was a thief.
Speaker 11 (06:13):
You dishonest? Oh that's a laugh. I never know anybody
more honest than all my life.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, look at the way, mister Kelsey.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Because of what my mother taught me, I've been grateful
to her all my life that I always will be.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
Oh yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 12 (06:27):
Well, they say honest, he's the best policy, and I.
Speaker 11 (06:29):
Guess it is all right.
Speaker 12 (06:31):
Now you take Tom there about him, Well, I wouldn't
exactly say he's dishonest, but I'm sure having a lot
more fun than you or.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Me that, Dora, and I'm sure you will agree that
there are more important things in life than just having fun.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
I'm sure, of course, I didn't mean it like that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And what I mean to say is you couldn't admire
a fellow like this best?
Speaker 11 (06:53):
Could you?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (06:54):
I should say not?
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Thinks he's so smart with his wise cracks, and acuse
I wouldn't give him the chime of day?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Is there anyone that is to say? Any man? You
do it?
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Mine?
Speaker 11 (07:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Not me?
Speaker 11 (07:09):
Oh? I admire you, of course for sure.
Speaker 12 (07:14):
But if you mean, do I go out steady with anyone?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
H Have you ever thought of the kind of man
that you would go steady with?
Speaker 11 (07:26):
My dreamman?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (07:31):
Sure, but you just don't find them going on trees?
Not that kind?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
What kind joy?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (07:38):
When I say dream man, don't get me wrong. I
don't go for those glamor boys. I've been around enough
to know better than that.
Speaker 12 (07:45):
You just give me a nice, easy going fellow with
a steady job.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That sounds like a description of me.
Speaker 11 (07:55):
And a little money put away in the bank. That's
the kind of fellow I want.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Did you say money? For sure?
Speaker 12 (08:02):
That was never going to get very far if he
doesn't have a little late aside for a rainy day.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yes, is that right?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes? I suppose that is right?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
But how much money do you think such a fellow ought.
Speaker 12 (08:12):
To have oh, thousand dollars, you know, just something from
kind of a little mystery.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, of course. Yes.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Well here's where I live.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thanks for the work, Dora. If you were to find
such a man, a man with a steady job.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
And money in the bank, Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean, would you would you consider? I mean would you.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
Would I watch? Oh? Oh, I can for sure if
I thought I could make him happy, Oh, I know
you would. Well, I'm not well till death there was part.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Well, it was strange that she should have said that
when death had founded me only a few brief hours
before they who found the only woman in my life?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
My mother? And now so soon after there was another woman.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
But if she was there, that that thousand dollars that
stood in the way, with all the expensive the funerals
still have been met. I knew that it would take
me at least two years to accumulate such a sum,
And Dora was a warm, attractive girl. I couldn't have
spent her to wait that long. It wouldn't be fair.
So I read the next morning, my first found hope
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had turned to black despair.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I hardly noticed Tom Best when he sauntered into the store.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
We almost knew.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh hell was they say, pretty boy, I beg your pardon.
You watch the matter? You will love her something? Say
remember that horse I told you about last week?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Of course you remember revelations I told you to get
down on him at eight to one?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yes, well what did I tell you?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well? To tell? I do the truth. I have had
a number of things in my mind lately.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He won jump, He won just like I.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Told you would. Now, ain't you.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Sorry you didn't get a couple of bucks down on him?
Speaker 11 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yes, yes, portula, I don't know very much about horse racing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Never delight to light. Say you give me a hot postroma.
I'm right with you, Yeah, little lettuce, let's get there.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He wanted to go or not need it? Here?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Say how time a guy like you ever laid to
make such good sandwiches for the best in town?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
No kidding?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
My mother taught me that a fact. My mother taught
me everything I know.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, he must be good to be like that about
your old lady. Haven't been mine for ten years? You
are thanks?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Is your mother dead now?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I she took a powder when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I couldn't stand it. Around there anymore. You couldn't stand
it around your own mother.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, all she ever did was yep, yep, yep. Why
didn't I do this? Why didn't I do that? Finally
one day I told her.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What she could do, and I beat it. But how
could she get a wrong without you? What did she do?
Same old thing? I guess, laundry?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Soyy, look, fuddy, are you for the sandwich tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
All I got to fifty.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Well, if you won't forget, I did have to remind
you last time. You know, I have to take it
out of my own puffet.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You're a good guy, ready say? In fact, you know
what I think. I'm going to let you in on something.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Ready, listen, I get a tips of hot it's burning
the seat of my pants. Avalanche in the third at
Santa Rosa today, strictly a drugstore job.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What they're going to give him?
Speaker 11 (11:28):
The needle?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
I got it from his trainer myself. In personal Avalanche
can't anymore lose that race than I can sing Hi.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I see you know what?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
The odds are a hundred to one, a hundred to one,
one hundred and two one.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
But I said, do you mean to tell me this?
Is someone with a bet ten dollars on this horse.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They went back a thousand.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
You ain't just bird cold, and you put a tenor
on that beetle and you'll have one thousand bucks in
your hospital hand by ten nights.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh I wish I could, but I don't have ten
dollars ready where there. I don't get paid until the
Mary you see Oh out of five you are do thanks,
get ready. It's a matter.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
You can always lay your hand on a ten when
you want it, can't you?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I care how Oh? Oh no, no, no, no no,
that's mister Kelsey's money.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And not till the nine what mister Kelsey don't know?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You can hit him? Hi, I couldn't do anything like that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'll think it over.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Friend one thousand skinner.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Room and that a Horsey.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
One thousand and skinners.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
What suspense motterlight is bringing you? Mister Charles Lawton in
radios outstanding theater thrills suspends.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I don't know what's coming next, but this story's got
me in the mood to expect anything.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, anything but invite a woman's bridge body in on
Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Still think that mom, Dad will I share up.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
This car radio is operating hunky dorry thanks to your
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The boys over the service station tell me that these auto.
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Light stayfolds are really setting up some long time between
drink's records.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, Dad, I guess it's like having a camel under
your hood.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Hunt.
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Speaker 6 (14:28):
And now auto light brings back to Hollywood soundstage mister
Charles Lawton as Freddy in An Honest Man, A tail
well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Suspend Well, of course I could think of nothing else
a morning. My mind was in the world A thousand
dollars with a thousand dollars back propos store. I proposed
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to that very night. At the same time, it was
the appalling sort of what I'd have to do. I
would have to take ten dollars from the cash register, ten.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Dollars that was not mine. That would be stealing. I
would be a thief. And I thought, I wondered, perhaps
Tom Bass was right.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
It wouldn't be stealing if I put the money back,
and by tonight I'd have the ten thousand dollars. I
could put it back, but that was attached to the difference,
So I taking the money from money At that time
I had no prospect of replacing it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
But this way, this way. So the next time I
went to.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
The cash regious to make change, I slipped ten dollars
out of the draw and put it into my apron pocket.
After that, I found I was perspiring and my hands
trembled so that I nearly cut myself a dozen times
working at my sandwich board.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And I saw Tom Bass coming through the door.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Tom Tom, Yeah, it's not dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I've got the ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Ten dollars. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, now you
getting smile?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Give it to me. I'll place it out that How
are you sure you're absolutely shore?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'll tell you. The nag is in an a walk. I
got a few skins down on this one myself. Don't
forget all but one leg.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's money.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Six o'clock to night the latest. I'll bring it around myself.
Give me the ten.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, you won't forget me?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Forget what a thousand bucks in my kick? How could
I forget?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Relax?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You have nothing to worry.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
About, Surdy.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
What was you until I'm talking about just now?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh, he was just telling me about some horse or whatever.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
But you better be careful how you talk to him
about horse.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 11 (16:42):
Oh that's the way he makes his lemonade.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
It I should rather imagine it is, Oh, Dora, yeah,
would you care to that is when we're to work
with you, would you care to go somewhere with me
this evening.
Speaker 11 (16:55):
Go awhere, Oh wife, ready, are you asking me for
a date?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (17:02):
I suppose ready, that's your cue. I might even take you.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Up on you hear, who will go?
Speaker 11 (17:08):
I might?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'll tell you Clinton, I can't tell me now thought.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Something might come up?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What could come up?
Speaker 11 (17:14):
I don't know what could come up. I anything could
come up.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
One of us might drop dead.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
A strange sense of humor doors, but I get used
to that anyway. She had practically said, yester the date.
So I passed the rest of the afternoon busy with
thoughts of a good fortune.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That was awaiting me.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
At five, mister Kelsey came in, and shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
There was a ratch of customers that took up all
my attention, so that it was.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
With something of a stub that I looked at the
talk and saw that it was nearly six thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
But Tom had said six, no later than six, So it.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Was quite understandable there's in a transaction.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Of such magnitude he might have met with some unforseeable today.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So I tried to compose myself to remain calm, to
wait for two minutes, and then the hours.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Passed by nine o'clock I was into the state. I
didn hardly conceal it. I had to. I had to.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
And then suddenly, at nine point thirty I saw him.
He was walking rather hurriedly. I sought along the opposite
side of the street.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And so, in caution to the winds, I dashed from
behind the cars.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Tom calm Or.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I afraid for a minute that I didn't recognize you.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I'm so sorry to tumble you this way.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Which it was so late I thought you might have forgotten.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You do have the money with him.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Look, Freddy, I've been meaning to come in all evening
tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
About that, but I didn't know how to say. I
say what?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And it's getting so you can't trust nobody nowadays.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Believe me, kid, I feel as bad about this as you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What time, lion trainer.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
He never done a thing to that horse. That bump
come in last, and it really lasted.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
My money's gone, yeah last.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I don't take it too hard, kid. You stick with me,
and I'll have that ten back for your double people
by the end of next week.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know, somebody wins, somebody.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Loses, you know, Mother, Mother, help me. I'm a thief.
I turned back to the store automatically, but even now
I could hardly grasped the full.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Its tender and contesteously, which overwhelm me. All I knew
that tomorrow was paid there and prevent mister Kelsey from
finding out what happened to you.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I watched there, mister Kelsey, looked like you've.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Seen it goes through something you went charging on to
here a couple of minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Oh yes, I thought I saw someone I knew Sam
Night now as a child.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
Yeah, it happens to me all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I said, well, it's pretty late.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
You can both lead it if you want to.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
I'll check through your teach tonight myself.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Say what you're doing. I dropped a knife. You want
us to go? Yeah, you might as well.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
I'll be here late anyway, I'll close up.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
It don't make me mad. Gee, i'd been ready to
drop for the last dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Mister Kelsey. I'd be glad to check the receipts for you.
You don't have to. Yeah, I know, but I got
an order to coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
I gotta go with the books. For the last six months,
seems I got some kind of beef with the text people.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Oh come on, Freddy, let the boss do a little
work Christians. Anyway, I thought you had other plans for
the night.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yes I did, But mister Kelsey, I'd rather you let
me do it. Really, it wouldn't be any trouble.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
That's the way it is. I'm leaving.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Show me over that end machine before you go with it.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
Dora, Yeah, sure, night, mister Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Nice Dora, good night.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Nix Williams.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
It's the matter with her.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You two have been having trouble. Oh no, mister Kelsey.
I do not like to have you checking the receipts
all by yourself. I don't like me. It's gotta be done.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
You run along now, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But I don't want you to do it. Look, Freddie,
thanks for trying to help. But just leave me alone,
will you. I ain't got a lot of work to
do tonight.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
No stop like what's eating you? I told you once
now I've always done it before. It makes me feel
that you don't trust me. See already, what kind.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Of way to talk is bad. I've been trusting you
for twenty six years, haven't I?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why should I stop tonight? All of a sudden, mister
Kelsey one hundred and eighteen thirty seven. Hey, that's funny
at ten dollars. Shut. I knew what he would say next.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
I knew that I had to stop him before he
said that awful word.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And I'll sure now, how could ready? What are you doing? Ready? Where?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
I washed my hands most carefully at the stink and
dried them on my apron, and I bent over mister Kelsey. Oh, oh,
mister Kelsey's body, and I removed from his pocket the
sum of thirty two dollars and fifty cents, the exact
amount that would be going to me in salary on
the following day of this sum, I put ten dollars
(22:39):
in the cash register, and I left the soul and
went home. It was all right now, everything was all right.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I was not a thief. I was so exhausted as
I got home and just dropped and just dropped him.
I bet I must have proben to sleep.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
That way, because I was full of clothes when I
was awakened ten hours later.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Eh, yeah, well, who is it?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Let me in?
Speaker 12 (23:13):
Oh yes, of course, Oh Freddie, I'm so glad I
found you. You gotta help me, you gotta do something.
Of course, what can I do, Freddy, mister Kelsey, Mister
Kelsey is dead.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh yes, I'm sorry that had to happen to her.
Believe me, I am.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
How can you stand there and be so calm about it?
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
He was murdered and they got tommed for it.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
They say he did it. They got him down at
the police station right now, and I sent and he
didn't know what to do, and just on the cup
on the beat walkedn't and they arrested him right there.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I hardly believe a man like Tom bask could have
any good reason to kill mister Kelsey.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
That's what I said.
Speaker 12 (23:47):
That's what I've been telling the cops for the past hour.
He may be a little shady, I said. He may
have done some things that wasn't exactly right. But my
boyfriend wouldn't come in and murder I said he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You're boss, Yeah, I said, Oh.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
Gee, Freddie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yes, but you told me that that was not anyone
that there wasn't.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Honest, that's the truth. I've just been out with him
two or three times. I didn't know he meant anything.
I didn't even think I liked him. When I saw
him down there and I saw what they were doing
to him.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, friend, oh ready, please.
Speaker 12 (24:24):
Please don't be mad at me. I couldn't have crazy.
I didn't know who else to come to.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You got to do something for him, Dora, What.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Do you love him?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I see.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
I left her there and started the police station. Tom
Bass meant nothing to me, of course, meant less than
nothing now, But of course, dor that was something else again,
and I didn't know exactly what I should do with
the sergeant help me to make up my mind. Well,
I understand that you have a prisoner here who is
(25:17):
accused of killing one Henry Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
That's right, who is mouth pieces? Oh no, no, no,
I am.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I will be saying I was an employee of mister
Kelsey's for twenty six years. Mac Williams, Frederick Aloysius mack Williams.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, we know about you, we mean, but you got
nothing to worry about. We got our man. You have
all the evidence you need. Of course, we got all
the evidence we need.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Why would we be holding him.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
We caught him right handed, and he's got a record
since he was fourteen years old.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There's damny.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
But supposing that I had positive evidence that the prisoner
Tom Bess did not kill mister Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That'd better be good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I'm warning you.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Tell me it would be dishonest to withhold that information.
Wouldn't it your dog one total? It would I mean
you see him. It would be like stealing, wouldn't it's stealing?
Is stealing another man's life? What are you trying to
kid somebody?
Speaker 12 (26:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
No, no, I've never been more serious in my life.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
All right, if you know so much, who did kill Kelsey?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I did good? Or I'm afraid she'll have to wear
a year for Tom Bess. It seems the.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Police foul on his method of making a living. Well
As for me, a great calm is settled over me.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh, it's such a calm as I've never learned before
in my life.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
So nice will be joining mother. She will smile when
she sees me, and I know that she'll be proud
of me, and she'll understand. She'll understand that whatever I
may have had, I was not a thief.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Thank you Charles Lawton for an extraordinary performance.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Mister Lawton will return in just a moment. Same and
Charles Ltton was certainly in the groove.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Tonight, I'll say, hey, there it comes, mam.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
I just thought you could be out here puttering, you
in your bikes and batteries with Charles Lawton on the
Suspense program too.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Mary.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Did you listen to Suspense?
Speaker 11 (27:41):
That's what I did.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
You're always talking about your auto right stayful batteries, so
I thought i'd listened to Suspense and get.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
The real back.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What about the bridge class?
Speaker 11 (27:50):
You can't really so we could all listen to Charles Lawton.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
My guess is just leaving now? Well that I guess
we men can't win.
Speaker 11 (27:57):
What do we do? Now?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Finish your evening, right, gentlemen, listen to the auto light
announces signing off.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So remember, folks, auto light stayfol needs water only three
times a year in normal car use. That's another reason
why everybody is switching to auto light stayful batteries. Auto
light means batteries stay full batteries.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Auto light means spark plugs, ignition engineered spark plugs.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Auto light means ignition system the lifeline of your car.
And now here again is mister Charles Lawton.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
It has been a great pleasure to appear again on Suspense,
and I am certainly looking forward to listening next week
when a Southern comes to the microphone as a deceiving
wife who learns a lesson the hard way. It is
a story titled They Wear the Quiet Man, and it's
a gripping study in suspence.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Charles Laden may currently be seen in Paramounts The Big Fox.
Tonight's suspense play was written by Robert L. Richards Good
music composed by Lucian Marleck and conducted by lud Gluskin.
The entire production was under the direction of antonim Leader.
Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Anne Southern in
(29:28):
Beware the Quiet Man.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
This is the Aerolite Suspect Show.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
We con gratuate the United States Coast Guard on the
celebration of it one hundred and fifty eighth anniversary.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
This week, good Night, switch to Aerolite.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
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