August 1, 2025 • 29 mins
Please enjoy Deep Into Darkness a great episode of the legendary Suspense - Old Time Radio show OTR - a Old Time Radio OTR classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In just a moment Suspense starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. And
it's stopping at Jones for a moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:16):
You in Start ten.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:25):
Anton Leader's production of Deep Into Darkness, starring Douglas Fairbanks.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is a story about fear, and I'm an expert
on you. Fear me, Ken Matthews. That cheap, broken down
hotel room is as good a place as any to start.
It was all I could afford. New York, the city
of bright lights, and me stretched out on a squeaky
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bed watching a spot change shape on the ceiling. It's
a kind of game to keep a man from going crazy.
For seven years, I watched another spot, changed it into
a million of shapes. Got to know it better than
I knew my cellar, that spot on the ceiling of
my cell at Joliet Penitentiary. When it was over, when
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they were finally ready to let me go back into
the world, the warden had something to say to me,
some advice.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Matthews. You leaving us early because of your good behavior record. Now,
if I were you, I'd start fish on the outside.
Stay away from Chicago, go someplace new where they don't
know you.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I saw a figured on doing that, Warden good, you'll
find it easier. I'd find it easier. I wonder how
it is when it's tough. Nobody know me in New York,
nobody wanted to know me. And as for a job, well,
did you ever want addition? Smack? I watched them media,
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any dirty jobs nobody wants to do? I did them all.
That's how I build up my fortune. Seventeen dollars and
fifty cents United States currency. That's how much I was
worth this one morning when I saw it sign out
in front of a construction job men wanted the time, said,
I believe I looked up the form here.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What that compression?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He was moving looking for something, bud, Yes, you have
a sign out there? Are you hiring men? Good?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh? Just spot anything? I can keep books, handle your time.
I used to be in the countant. Oh yeah, but
that's not what you're looking for. Well, I can swing
a shovel too. I just want a job. I like
your attitude, like your discard certificate.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Would you discharge, Yeah, honorable discard always like to give
a break the egg service guy?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh well I wasn't in the service. Yeah, Oh all right, no, No,
I I sat out the war. I was in jail.
Hey got little ext up on your accountant. No, it
was manslaughter. I killed a man. What about the job
I really needed? Buddy, I don't want you to think
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this is my idea. But you can't use me. They
all can't. You see, Yes, I see start friction.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got more order, see you now it is a
bosses figure. There's a lot of vets looking for a job.
But I got to give them the first crack of thing.
Oh if it's all right, it's isn't your fault? Maybe
maybe some other world.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Somehow. That was the last straw I started to hate.
I hated everything and everyone. And then I thought of
my fortune, my seventeen dollars and fifty cents, and suddenly
I knew there was something I wanted to buy.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
What do you want to use the gun for?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Mister? I don't know. I just want to have it.
I always supposed to put.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Something down here, I mean, along with your name and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh well, put down target practice. That's good. Nothing, I
don't guess. So what's the but Smith? Smith? No, it's
like that. Huh.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Look, mister, I don't want to get into any trouble.
I want a respectable place of business here.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You want to sell a gun, don't you. Well sure,
but you want the fourteen dollars, aren't you?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Okay, okay, so it's smith and you're going to do
some target practice. Give me the fourteen bucks and get lost. Huh, thanks,
thanks a lot, funny thing. I still don't know why
I wanted to be a gun. I swear I don't
kill myself rob a bank or a filling station. I
haven't any idea. I suppose I just thought that having
it would make me feel better. Only it didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It hung in my pocket, heavy as lead, cold dead,
just like a saw. I turned into a side street
fifty second fifty first, I wasn't sure. I stopped to
light a cigarette, and the car pulled up to the curve.
It was a big car with a chauffeur, a black car,
smooth and shining, and I let the man getting out
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just one look. Wheel started spinning around in my head
like a dizzy. A sidewalk twisted and bounced around like
a with having a convulsion. When he spoke, the shock
of hearing his voice traitened it all out. He'd a
cold and clear as hard, Cristal, that's a few words
to that show. Wait for me, David, I won't be long.
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Turn and walk past me, right by me into the bank.
But he couldn't walk, he couldn't do anything. That was
Lee Burke. I was staring at Lee Burke, the man
I'd killed seven years ago. For suspense.
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Speaker 4 (07:01):
Sure it looks like young Duck's got it, they believe,
I'll say, has what a chip he's got in this shower?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Really? Stop chipping and chirping like your mother. Oh, by
the way, and that ignition system.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Of mind Scora bulls Iron, she's completely on the beam.
My jobs usually are, especially when that auto right death.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
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Speaker 4 (07:33):
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Speaker 2 (07:40):
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mister Douglas Fairbanks Junior as ken being deep into darkness,
the tail well calculated to keep you in dot fall.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
In those few moments of washing, a man walk across
the sidewalk into a bank. I lived it all over again,
the way it happened when I killed him seven years ago,
back in Chicago. There wasn't anything about it. I couldn't remember.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Kim Darling, Yeah, do you love me?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Kim? Do I love you? No, not at all. I
just sit in that goofy nightclub night after night because
the food's so good.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Oh, Ken, ye're sweet?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, I don't why don't you forget that? Please kill
it up? Where's it going to get a girl like
you dancing in a cheap honkeey tar?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You have something better to offer that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I've offered it a half a dozen times. Married, I
got a good job. It'll it'll get better.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Tell me my drink?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Will you sure care? What do you say?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I've told you, Kim over and over again. I'm not
getting married, not to you anyway. You're a sweet guy, sure,
and I'm very fond of you, But little Parley isn't
burying herself in any house with a bunch of squalling kids.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I don't think you mean that at all.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No, Well you just watch, darling. I'm going to wind
up with the diamonds so big it'll take a two
ton truck.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
To deliver it to me.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I'm gonna have so many men coachs, I'll use them
for the job. Yeah, that's the way it talks, is
you tell him Hello, Lee?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Any of it sounds like you're getting good sense. Now
what are you doing up here with this bookkeeper?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And a good evening to you too, Lee. Never mind
I thought, I said. I didn't want you wasting a
time with him. All right, get out of here, Matthews.
I'll wait a minute if Leilah wants me to go.
Not satisfied with my suggestions, Eh, I've a good mind.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Stop it. Put that gun away. Every time you have
a few drinks, you stop waving that gun around.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Really, you better put it downe stop acting like a kid.
Like a kid, I'll show you who's acting like a kid.
I'll give me that gun.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Come on, stop.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It went off. I was only trying to take it
away from him.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You killed him, then you killed my brother.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I didn't mean it. I tell you you saw what happened.
I was only trying to get the gun.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Get off, Kim, please to find you get out of here.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Well, you get out.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I got out of the ride in a hurry. It
was pouring that night. I ran down the street with
the rains flapping me in the face. I ran up
a back alley into the darkness, and then I stopped.
I didn't want to run, not for the rest of
my life. I went to the nearest police station, turned
myself in. I took me back to the Burkes, and
we found Lilah sitting in a chair, glassy eye, just
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staring down at her brother Lee. He was right where
I left him, sprawled on the floor, faced down, and
a big red puddle was ruining the rug. Lee Burke
was dead and they gave me ten years for killing him.
Only now he wasn't dead. He couldn't be. I just
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seen him walk into a bank.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
A nice car yet, Yeah, it must must be an
important man. I have a car like that. Eh. Yeah,
he's a big guy. There's lots of money, I suppose. Eh. Yeah,
he's crawling with it. Doesn't make you happy. His name
isn't happened to be Burke, does it?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Wilson, Keith Wilson. He also happens to be a stockbroker.
Anything else you want to know? Keith Wilson.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, and I'll beat it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The boss is coming, the boss. Isn't that something?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
All right, David?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm going back to the office now, Yes, hurry Lee.
Huh oh, there must be some mistake. My name isn't Lee. Oh, pardon,
but it was Lee. There was many doubt about it,
and he knew me too. I could see it in
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the side and the way his face went white. I
didn't understand it. I couldn't figure out why or how,
but Lee Burke was a lie. The rest of the
portune went for a taxi ride, but it was worth
it to me, and I guess if I hadn't had
enough money to follow Lee's car wherever it wins, I'd
have forced the cab driver with that gun I'd bought.
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But it wasn't necessary. We went out to Long Island
way out, and then the car swung into a place
with a big half circle drive. Lee Burke, now, mister
Keith Wilson was doing very well for himself, and so
was Lilah. Is a matter, Lilah?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Ken?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Is it like seeing a ghost? Ken?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Ken? It's really you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I saw a ghost just now too, only he was
very much alive.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So that's what he was so excited about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Lee.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yes, he came in, rushed upstairs, told me to call
the airport, get him a plane for Miami.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Did you not yet? I won't do any good, Ken, Ken?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
What do you want? Why did you come here?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I just wanted to be sure, Lila, absolutely sure?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I'd like to kill him, I order to kill you both.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, Ken, don't talk like that. It wasn't me. I
didn't plan.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But it was a plan, wasn't it, Lilah, wasn't it? Yes?
Do you want to tell me about it? Or do
I have to choke it out of him?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'll tell you. What's the distance? You didn't kill Lee?
You didn't kill anybody?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
With the frame up?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And how could I have seen him like that? Lee
was on the floor, diad, No, that wasn't Lee.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He he found the man Canna a stumble bomber, drunk,
and the man looked just like him, close enough for
what Lee had figured out. It was the crooked scheme
you ever heard, with that insurance, with every company in town,
half a million dollars, with me as beneficiary. He was
going to kill this brestro and disappear, let me collect
the money. It was as simple as that at first,
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keep talking, But I told him it wouldn't word ten
if they'd never pay off, not that much, not till
they checked fingerprints, tiqued everything. But he had that figure tool.
They wouldn't check the sing if a fall guy pleaded
guilty to a murder charge.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
So that's how it was.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It was a fall guy, I'll let you take me home.
As I remember, I remember, Lee had his gun loaded
with blanks. It was an act, the whole thing. Then
when you ran, he finished the job. He had the
drunken the bedroom, dressed in his clothes. He brought him
into the living room, killed him right in front of me.
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That's who you saw when you got back.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Good slus.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
That's why why I hate my brother. I don't care
what happens to him.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Thanks, Lyla, that's going to make it easier. Call no
only not here, But I told you not to waste
any time. You don't know what this means. She knows
what it means, leaving we all do. What do you want?
Why do you follow me here? Hey, look, I think
you better get out here. You I'd stay away from
that telephone me. I'd stand still if I were you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You better do as he says. Lee, he's got a gun.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Can't listen to me. You can't do this, not now.
You don't want any more trouble. Why if the police
find the police, If you told him I was going
to kill you, it would make sense leave because I've
already done that. Remember, Oh kid, Look, I can explain
the whole thing. It was a mistake. I'm glad you
know that. Now I've made a lot of money. Can
I've been very lucky. I'll split with you. You look
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like you give you some money, Yes, I could. Sure,
that's good. Only forget the gun. Huh and stop acting
like you want to kill me. You wouldn't gain anything
that way. Come on, Lylah, fixed some drinks or something.
We'll talk this over friendly, like. Can you know Lilah
was always crazy about you? I was always crazy about her. Oh,
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let's talk about something else right now, Lee, Let's talk
about America, Yello. This is a wonderful country. The way
the laws are set up to protect a man hav
a hear of double jeopardy, Lee brings up a rather
interesting fact. If you can't try a man twice for
the same crime seven years, I spent paying for killing
you seven years at Jolliet, and you weren't even dead.
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That means I've paid for something I haven't done yet.
I still have the right way to kill you once more. Wow,
can't stop it, you're talking crazy. It'll be something why.
I only want to kill you because you deserve to
be killed. We both know that, don't we only I
don't think I'll kill you now, not right away. Oh
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we'll be reasonable? Is that it can't be reasonable. I say,
I'm going to stay right with you twenty four hours
a day, right up to the time you do. I
know exactly when and how I'm going to kill you,
and you won't know. You never know, Lee until it happened.
You just wait, just sit and wait and wait. I
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never let the birks mansion, never let them leave. I
was with leave from the time he got up until
he went to there. I stayed with him every waking hour,
and I never stopped twisting his life like a piece
of body, putting fear in his mind until well until
it didn't seem to be anything else left there at all.
It's a trembling, driving fear in everything he did, everything
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he said, Lila, can't we do something?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Get to somebody? Holy what can I do?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You could have said something to the servants. You had
a chance before he sat him away. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It all happened too fast, got rid of them as
easily cut the telephone line.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh you gotta do something, get in touch with somebody
with Matlin mate.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Oh yeah, what will your blue blood fiance. Think of
you now when you suddenly stopped calling two days before
your wedding and then don't show up the wedding.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, Lila, don't you see if anything should happen to
the wedding now, I'd be ruined her.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He can't get away with this let down. Sometimes he's
got asleep? Lylah's rightly? How can you you there by
the door? You heard about your wedding? Yes, Lee, I
got back just in time tonight? Can I boil on Manhattan?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
No, no, I don't want anything. You're a funeral. Don't
say that. You're falling apart much faster than I thought. Leave.
It wasn't taking long at all. Lee couldn't sit still
for a minute, couldn't take his eyes off me. Of course,
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little things like this didn't exactly help. Who is it ken? Yes, Lee,
it's can got the gun? I have begun leeve this?
This is the time. No, no, I don't think so. Yes,
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drink this? What is it? Milk? Warm? Milk? It'll put
you to sleep? Oh for good? You mean no, no,
just until morning? You see. I wouldn't think of killing
a man on his wedding day. Uh huh, don't tell
me you've forgotten your wedding to the blue blooded mister
haven come a long way Lee marrying into the social register,
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DOLPHI come on, drink up. You will need your strength
for the wedding. No, no, that's all off. I haven't
even called it. Lylah has I made her call. She
made some very pretty excuses for you, and the wedding
will go on as scheduled. What are you going to do? Nothing?
Only behave yourself tomorrow who as you're told, and you
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might live through the ceremony.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Wilt thou keith take this woman to thy wedded wife,
to live together after God's gardens in the holy state
of matrimony. Wilt thou love her, comfort her honor, and
keep her in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others,
keep thee unto her so long as you both shall live.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Say no chance, they know we're I'll chill your right
here in front of them all say it leave, mister Wilson.
The answer to please no.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I can't. There was only one thing wrong with that
was the wedding scene. I had fun, sure, but in
the excitement, I'm afraid I relaxed a little I wasn't
sure how much it mattered. That depended on Lilah. When
I was sure Lee was asleep that night, I met
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her in the living room. Got right to the point,
telling on your mind, Kim, Yes, Mousie. Who's Mousey?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Can you? He looks so tired, so thin?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Tell me, Lilah, tell me about MOUSEI what do you
know about him? Lee's been talking about him in his sleep,
talking about Mousie and you, Lilah and me. You better
tell me all about it?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Can you hear anymore? Alma? I don't know anything about Mousey.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Maybe he was there at the wedding. Maybe you saw it.
Maybe you gave him the message, did you? Lilah?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Can't stop it? You know I thomised I wouldn't do
anything like that. Don't you trust me?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You should? You really think I should?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But you know how I feel about you. Surely you
don't think Jim Ken Darling get away from me. Ken.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
It was all just a gag to keep the little
girl in line.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
How did you expect me to feel after all this happened?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's right? I was Nieve was nice? Sure? Okay, Well,
I won't be naive anymore. You can bet on that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Lia.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Good night, Ken, Darling.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And I cooled off. I realized I've gone too far.
She wouldn't be on my side anymore, unless unless I
could talk to her again and make it, make it
all seem like like a mistake, a joke. Mandy, Yeah,
that'd be the thing. But when I went to find her,
she wasn't around. I didn't see her again until next morning.
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Every morning I went out to the gate for the paper,
but this time I waited for Lila to get up
and come down so I could talk to her before
Lee came in. Try to try to fix things, and
standing there in the hallway, I fix things all right,
fixed them good, Lilah. Yes, I want you to know
that well that I'm sorry about last night. It's all right, No,
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it is No. I didn't mean what I said it tall.
I guess I built up so much hate. Well, I
was upset. I was blind to how you feel about me,
how I really feel about you.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Ken. You're asking me to be naive again.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yes, I guess I am. I like you that way.
I looked for you last night to tell you you
weren't around. Where'd you go? I I don't care where
you went anyway. Now you know how I really.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Feel, can you? You don't know what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yes, I do, Lilah. I've been thinking that's the way
it ought to be. We've been a couple of lost souls.
But maybe by forgetting the past, trying to find some
peace of mind. Ken think about it, William, Lilah. I
went out, then out the door and down the driveway.
I was just standing there, tearing after me. And suddenly,
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as I was almost to the gate, I heard it
come in running fack, no can come there? And I
saw it a car that it didn't park down the road.
It was moving now, gallery steed, coming right past the gate,
and she was there. She threw it way in front
of me. I heard the shot. I sut her thrown
heavily against me, and then and then her body was
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ment in my arm. I held her clothes for a
second and then I lowered her to the ground. I
walked back up the drive alone. Lee was out in
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front of the house, sitting on a bench in front
of a big tree. He'd heard the shots, I'm sure,
but he was just sitting there, probably waiting for Lila
to come back. And s say that Mousey had taken
care of me. He turned and looked up as I
walked towards.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Lilah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Oh, his eyes seemed to look right through me. Somehow
he was that full of fear. I guess his fingers
gripped the tree in the back of him and deep
into the bark. He was waiting for me to kill him.
Lilah's deadly. Your your gunman gutter instead of me, Lilah, Lilah,
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I'm sorry because because there was something I didn't have
time to tell her. I never intended to kill you, Lee,
I was just just showing you how seven years looked
crowded into a few days. Seven years now, that's right.
I guess you know now. I guess you know why,
why and what you did? Lee?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Lee.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
This is Ken. I'm talking to you, Ken. Ken. I
don't know any again, And he didn't. He didn't even
know himself, but his eyes looked I don't think he
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ever will again. They weren't lie Berk's eyes anymore. They
belonged to someone else. Funny, the man who tried to
be somebody else had finally made it and it was
not good to look upon me.
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Anton Leader's production of Deep Into Darkness, starring Douglas Fairbanks.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is a story about fear, and I'm an expert
on you. Fear me, Ken Matthews. That cheap, broken down
hotel room is as good a place as any to start.
It was all I could afford. New York, the city
of bright lights, and me stretched out on a squeaky
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bed watching a spot change shape on the ceiling. It's
a kind of game to keep a man from going crazy.
For seven years, I watched another spot, changed it into
a million of shapes. Got to know it better than
I knew my cellar, that spot on the ceiling of
my cell at Joliet Penitentiary. When it was over, when
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they were finally ready to let me go back into
the world, the warden had something to say to me,
some advice.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Matthews. You leaving us early because of your good behavior record. Now,
if I were you, I'd start fish on the outside.
Stay away from Chicago, go someplace new where they don't
know you.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I saw a figured on doing that, Warden good, you'll
find it easier. I'd find it easier. I wonder how
it is when it's tough. Nobody know me in New York,
nobody wanted to know me. And as for a job, well,
did you ever want addition? Smack? I watched them media,
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any dirty jobs nobody wants to do? I did them all.
That's how I build up my fortune. Seventeen dollars and
fifty cents United States currency. That's how much I was
worth this one morning when I saw it sign out
in front of a construction job men wanted the time, said,
I believe I looked up the form here.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What that compression?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He was moving looking for something, bud, Yes, you have
a sign out there? Are you hiring men? Good?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh? Just spot anything? I can keep books, handle your time.
I used to be in the countant. Oh yeah, but
that's not what you're looking for. Well, I can swing
a shovel too. I just want a job. I like
your attitude, like your discard certificate.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Would you discharge, Yeah, honorable discard always like to give
a break the egg service guy?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh well I wasn't in the service. Yeah, Oh all right, no, No,
I I sat out the war. I was in jail.
Hey got little ext up on your accountant. No, it
was manslaughter. I killed a man. What about the job
I really needed? Buddy, I don't want you to think
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this is my idea. But you can't use me. They
all can't. You see, Yes, I see start friction.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got more order, see you now it is a
bosses figure. There's a lot of vets looking for a job.
But I got to give them the first crack of thing.
Oh if it's all right, it's isn't your fault? Maybe
maybe some other world.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Somehow. That was the last straw I started to hate.
I hated everything and everyone. And then I thought of
my fortune, my seventeen dollars and fifty cents, and suddenly
I knew there was something I wanted to buy.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
What do you want to use the gun for?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Mister? I don't know. I just want to have it.
I always supposed to put.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Something down here, I mean, along with your name and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh well, put down target practice. That's good. Nothing, I
don't guess. So what's the but Smith? Smith? No, it's
like that. Huh.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Look, mister, I don't want to get into any trouble.
I want a respectable place of business here.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You want to sell a gun, don't you. Well sure,
but you want the fourteen dollars, aren't you?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Okay, okay, so it's smith and you're going to do
some target practice. Give me the fourteen bucks and get lost. Huh, thanks,
thanks a lot, funny thing. I still don't know why
I wanted to be a gun. I swear I don't
kill myself rob a bank or a filling station. I
haven't any idea. I suppose I just thought that having
it would make me feel better. Only it didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It hung in my pocket, heavy as lead, cold dead,
just like a saw. I turned into a side street
fifty second fifty first, I wasn't sure. I stopped to
light a cigarette, and the car pulled up to the curve.
It was a big car with a chauffeur, a black car,
smooth and shining, and I let the man getting out
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just one look. Wheel started spinning around in my head
like a dizzy. A sidewalk twisted and bounced around like
a with having a convulsion. When he spoke, the shock
of hearing his voice traitened it all out. He'd a
cold and clear as hard, Cristal, that's a few words
to that show. Wait for me, David, I won't be long.
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Turn and walk past me, right by me into the bank.
But he couldn't walk, he couldn't do anything. That was
Lee Burke. I was staring at Lee Burke, the man
I'd killed seven years ago. For suspense.
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Really? Stop chipping and chirping like your mother. Oh, by
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Of mind Scora bulls Iron, she's completely on the beam.
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Sir.
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That auto light ignition system sounds intelligent enough to take
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Speaker 1 (08:49):
In those few moments of washing, a man walk across
the sidewalk into a bank. I lived it all over again,
the way it happened when I killed him seven years ago,
back in Chicago. There wasn't anything about it. I couldn't remember.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Kim Darling, Yeah, do you love me?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Kim? Do I love you? No, not at all. I
just sit in that goofy nightclub night after night because
the food's so good.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Oh, Ken, ye're sweet?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, I don't why don't you forget that? Please kill
it up? Where's it going to get a girl like
you dancing in a cheap honkeey tar?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You have something better to offer that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I've offered it a half a dozen times. Married, I
got a good job. It'll it'll get better.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Tell me my drink?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Will you sure care? What do you say?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I've told you, Kim over and over again. I'm not
getting married, not to you anyway. You're a sweet guy, sure,
and I'm very fond of you, But little Parley isn't
burying herself in any house with a bunch of squalling kids.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I don't think you mean that at all.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No, Well you just watch, darling. I'm going to wind
up with the diamonds so big it'll take a two
ton truck.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
To deliver it to me.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I'm gonna have so many men coachs, I'll use them
for the job. Yeah, that's the way it talks, is
you tell him Hello, Lee?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Any of it sounds like you're getting good sense. Now
what are you doing up here with this bookkeeper?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And a good evening to you too, Lee. Never mind
I thought, I said. I didn't want you wasting a
time with him. All right, get out of here, Matthews.
I'll wait a minute if Leilah wants me to go.
Not satisfied with my suggestions, Eh, I've a good mind.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Stop it. Put that gun away. Every time you have
a few drinks, you stop waving that gun around.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Really, you better put it downe stop acting like a kid.
Like a kid, I'll show you who's acting like a kid.
I'll give me that gun.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Come on, stop.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It went off. I was only trying to take it
away from him.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You killed him, then you killed my brother.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I didn't mean it. I tell you you saw what happened.
I was only trying to get the gun.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Get off, Kim, please to find you get out of here.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Well, you get out.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I got out of the ride in a hurry. It
was pouring that night. I ran down the street with
the rains flapping me in the face. I ran up
a back alley into the darkness, and then I stopped.
I didn't want to run, not for the rest of
my life. I went to the nearest police station, turned
myself in. I took me back to the Burkes, and
we found Lilah sitting in a chair, glassy eye, just
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staring down at her brother Lee. He was right where
I left him, sprawled on the floor, faced down, and
a big red puddle was ruining the rug. Lee Burke
was dead and they gave me ten years for killing him.
Only now he wasn't dead. He couldn't be. I just
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seen him walk into a bank.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
A nice car yet, Yeah, it must must be an
important man. I have a car like that. Eh. Yeah,
he's a big guy. There's lots of money, I suppose. Eh. Yeah,
he's crawling with it. Doesn't make you happy. His name
isn't happened to be Burke, does it?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Wilson, Keith Wilson. He also happens to be a stockbroker.
Anything else you want to know? Keith Wilson.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, and I'll beat it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The boss is coming, the boss. Isn't that something?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
All right, David?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm going back to the office now, Yes, hurry Lee.
Huh oh, there must be some mistake. My name isn't Lee. Oh, pardon,
but it was Lee. There was many doubt about it,
and he knew me too. I could see it in
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the side and the way his face went white. I
didn't understand it. I couldn't figure out why or how,
but Lee Burke was a lie. The rest of the
portune went for a taxi ride, but it was worth
it to me, and I guess if I hadn't had
enough money to follow Lee's car wherever it wins, I'd
have forced the cab driver with that gun I'd bought.
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But it wasn't necessary. We went out to Long Island
way out, and then the car swung into a place
with a big half circle drive. Lee Burke, now, mister
Keith Wilson was doing very well for himself, and so
was Lilah. Is a matter, Lilah?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Ken?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Is it like seeing a ghost? Ken?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Ken? It's really you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I saw a ghost just now too, only he was
very much alive.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So that's what he was so excited about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Lee.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yes, he came in, rushed upstairs, told me to call
the airport, get him a plane for Miami.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Did you not yet? I won't do any good, Ken, Ken?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
What do you want? Why did you come here?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I just wanted to be sure, Lila, absolutely sure?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I'd like to kill him, I order to kill you both.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, Ken, don't talk like that. It wasn't me. I
didn't plan.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But it was a plan, wasn't it, Lilah, wasn't it? Yes?
Do you want to tell me about it? Or do
I have to choke it out of him?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'll tell you. What's the distance? You didn't kill Lee?
You didn't kill anybody?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
With the frame up?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And how could I have seen him like that? Lee
was on the floor, diad, No, that wasn't Lee.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He he found the man Canna a stumble bomber, drunk,
and the man looked just like him, close enough for
what Lee had figured out. It was the crooked scheme
you ever heard, with that insurance, with every company in town,
half a million dollars, with me as beneficiary. He was
going to kill this brestro and disappear, let me collect
the money. It was as simple as that at first,
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keep talking, But I told him it wouldn't word ten
if they'd never pay off, not that much, not till
they checked fingerprints, tiqued everything. But he had that figure tool.
They wouldn't check the sing if a fall guy pleaded
guilty to a murder charge.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
So that's how it was.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It was a fall guy, I'll let you take me home.
As I remember, I remember, Lee had his gun loaded
with blanks. It was an act, the whole thing. Then
when you ran, he finished the job. He had the
drunken the bedroom, dressed in his clothes. He brought him
into the living room, killed him right in front of me.
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That's who you saw when you got back.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Good slus.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
That's why why I hate my brother. I don't care
what happens to him.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Thanks, Lyla, that's going to make it easier. Call no
only not here, But I told you not to waste
any time. You don't know what this means. She knows
what it means, leaving we all do. What do you want?
Why do you follow me here? Hey, look, I think
you better get out here. You I'd stay away from
that telephone me. I'd stand still if I were you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You better do as he says. Lee, he's got a gun.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Can't listen to me. You can't do this, not now.
You don't want any more trouble. Why if the police
find the police, If you told him I was going
to kill you, it would make sense leave because I've
already done that. Remember, Oh kid, Look, I can explain
the whole thing. It was a mistake. I'm glad you
know that. Now I've made a lot of money. Can
I've been very lucky. I'll split with you. You look
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like you give you some money, Yes, I could. Sure,
that's good. Only forget the gun. Huh and stop acting
like you want to kill me. You wouldn't gain anything
that way. Come on, Lylah, fixed some drinks or something.
We'll talk this over friendly, like. Can you know Lilah
was always crazy about you? I was always crazy about her. Oh,
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let's talk about something else right now, Lee, Let's talk
about America, Yello. This is a wonderful country. The way
the laws are set up to protect a man hav
a hear of double jeopardy, Lee brings up a rather
interesting fact. If you can't try a man twice for
the same crime seven years, I spent paying for killing
you seven years at Jolliet, and you weren't even dead.
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That means I've paid for something I haven't done yet.
I still have the right way to kill you once more. Wow,
can't stop it, you're talking crazy. It'll be something why.
I only want to kill you because you deserve to
be killed. We both know that, don't we only I
don't think I'll kill you now, not right away. Oh
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we'll be reasonable? Is that it can't be reasonable. I say,
I'm going to stay right with you twenty four hours
a day, right up to the time you do. I
know exactly when and how I'm going to kill you,
and you won't know. You never know, Lee until it happened.
You just wait, just sit and wait and wait. I
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never let the birks mansion, never let them leave. I
was with leave from the time he got up until
he went to there. I stayed with him every waking hour,
and I never stopped twisting his life like a piece
of body, putting fear in his mind until well until
it didn't seem to be anything else left there at all.
It's a trembling, driving fear in everything he did, everything
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he said, Lila, can't we do something?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Get to somebody? Holy what can I do?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You could have said something to the servants. You had
a chance before he sat him away. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It all happened too fast, got rid of them as
easily cut the telephone line.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh you gotta do something, get in touch with somebody
with Matlin mate.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Oh yeah, what will your blue blood fiance. Think of
you now when you suddenly stopped calling two days before
your wedding and then don't show up the wedding.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, Lila, don't you see if anything should happen to
the wedding now, I'd be ruined her.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He can't get away with this let down. Sometimes he's
got asleep? Lylah's rightly? How can you you there by
the door? You heard about your wedding? Yes, Lee, I
got back just in time tonight? Can I boil on Manhattan?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
No, no, I don't want anything. You're a funeral. Don't
say that. You're falling apart much faster than I thought. Leave.
It wasn't taking long at all. Lee couldn't sit still
for a minute, couldn't take his eyes off me. Of course,
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little things like this didn't exactly help. Who is it ken? Yes, Lee,
it's can got the gun? I have begun leeve this?
This is the time. No, no, I don't think so. Yes,
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drink this? What is it? Milk? Warm? Milk? It'll put
you to sleep? Oh for good? You mean no, no,
just until morning? You see. I wouldn't think of killing
a man on his wedding day. Uh huh, don't tell
me you've forgotten your wedding to the blue blooded mister
haven come a long way Lee marrying into the social register,
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DOLPHI come on, drink up. You will need your strength
for the wedding. No, no, that's all off. I haven't
even called it. Lylah has I made her call. She
made some very pretty excuses for you, and the wedding
will go on as scheduled. What are you going to do? Nothing?
Only behave yourself tomorrow who as you're told, and you
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might live through the ceremony.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Wilt thou keith take this woman to thy wedded wife,
to live together after God's gardens in the holy state
of matrimony. Wilt thou love her, comfort her honor, and
keep her in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others,
keep thee unto her so long as you both shall live.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Say no chance, they know we're I'll chill your right
here in front of them all say it leave, mister Wilson.
The answer to please no.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I can't. There was only one thing wrong with that
was the wedding scene. I had fun, sure, but in
the excitement, I'm afraid I relaxed a little I wasn't
sure how much it mattered. That depended on Lilah. When
I was sure Lee was asleep that night, I met
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her in the living room. Got right to the point,
telling on your mind, Kim, Yes, Mousie. Who's Mousey?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Can you? He looks so tired, so thin?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Tell me, Lilah, tell me about MOUSEI what do you
know about him? Lee's been talking about him in his sleep,
talking about Mousie and you, Lilah and me. You better
tell me all about it?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Can you hear anymore? Alma? I don't know anything about Mousey.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Maybe he was there at the wedding. Maybe you saw it.
Maybe you gave him the message, did you? Lilah?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Can't stop it? You know I thomised I wouldn't do
anything like that. Don't you trust me?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You should? You really think I should?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But you know how I feel about you. Surely you
don't think Jim Ken Darling get away from me. Ken.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
It was all just a gag to keep the little
girl in line.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
How did you expect me to feel after all this happened?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's right? I was Nieve was nice? Sure? Okay, Well,
I won't be naive anymore. You can bet on that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Lia.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Good night, Ken, Darling.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And I cooled off. I realized I've gone too far.
She wouldn't be on my side anymore, unless unless I
could talk to her again and make it, make it
all seem like like a mistake, a joke. Mandy, Yeah,
that'd be the thing. But when I went to find her,
she wasn't around. I didn't see her again until next morning.
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Every morning I went out to the gate for the paper,
but this time I waited for Lila to get up
and come down so I could talk to her before
Lee came in. Try to try to fix things, and
standing there in the hallway, I fix things all right,
fixed them good, Lilah. Yes, I want you to know
that well that I'm sorry about last night. It's all right, No,
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it is No. I didn't mean what I said it tall.
I guess I built up so much hate. Well, I
was upset. I was blind to how you feel about me,
how I really feel about you.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Ken. You're asking me to be naive again.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yes, I guess I am. I like you that way.
I looked for you last night to tell you you
weren't around. Where'd you go? I I don't care where
you went anyway. Now you know how I really.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Feel, can you? You don't know what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yes, I do, Lilah. I've been thinking that's the way
it ought to be. We've been a couple of lost souls.
But maybe by forgetting the past, trying to find some
peace of mind. Ken think about it, William, Lilah. I
went out, then out the door and down the driveway.
I was just standing there, tearing after me. And suddenly,
(24:08):
as I was almost to the gate, I heard it
come in running fack, no can come there? And I
saw it a car that it didn't park down the road.
It was moving now, gallery steed, coming right past the gate,
and she was there. She threw it way in front
of me. I heard the shot. I sut her thrown
heavily against me, and then and then her body was
(24:30):
ment in my arm. I held her clothes for a
second and then I lowered her to the ground. I
walked back up the drive alone. Lee was out in
(24:51):
front of the house, sitting on a bench in front
of a big tree. He'd heard the shots, I'm sure,
but he was just sitting there, probably waiting for Lila
to come back. And s say that Mousey had taken
care of me. He turned and looked up as I
walked towards.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Lilah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Oh, his eyes seemed to look right through me. Somehow
he was that full of fear. I guess his fingers
gripped the tree in the back of him and deep
into the bark. He was waiting for me to kill him.
Lilah's deadly. Your your gunman gutter instead of me, Lilah, Lilah,
(25:39):
I'm sorry because because there was something I didn't have
time to tell her. I never intended to kill you, Lee,
I was just just showing you how seven years looked
crowded into a few days. Seven years now, that's right.
I guess you know now. I guess you know why,
why and what you did? Lee?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Lee.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
This is Ken. I'm talking to you, Ken. Ken. I
don't know any again, And he didn't. He didn't even
know himself, but his eyes looked I don't think he
(26:22):
ever will again. They weren't lie Berk's eyes anymore. They
belonged to someone else. Funny, the man who tried to
be somebody else had finally made it and it was
not good to look upon me.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Thank you Douglas Fairbanks for an outstanding performance on Spend.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Talk about performance dead auto light ignition is good, but
what about doub Fairbanks.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
He's really got it, Billy, Well, that's good going. Your
mother mom will.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Be is full of suspenses. Your auto light ignition system
is full of pet per power and pistol points performances.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That boy knows his auto light piece and he doesn't
miss any ques they have.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yes, an auto light is your cue to real motoring enjoyment.
So remember wherever you go, auto light means spark plug,
ignition engineer, spark plug. Auto light means batteries stay full.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Batteries.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Auto light means ignition system. They're a lifeline of your car.
And now here again is mister Douglas Fairbanks.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I've enjoyed this appearance on Suspense very much, and I
noted with great interest as a suspense fan, that Agnes
Moorehead will return to the sound stage next week the
scene of the splendid performances of the past. As one
of the many who applauded her portrayal in the suspense
classic Sorry wrong Number, I'll be listening with anticipation next
week for Agnes Moorehead in the Yellow Wallpapers. A powerful
(28:12):
study in the.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Spend Douglas Fairbanks may soon be seen in its long production.
The Oaklynn Tonight's and Spence Play was written by Edward James.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
With music composed by Lucian Morwick. I'm conducted by Loud Luskin.
The entire production the direction of Antony M. Leader.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Next Thursday, same time you will hear missus Agnes moorehead
in the Yellow Wallpaper.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
This is the Orlight Suspension signing off good night, switch
to ALA.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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