July 26, 2025 • 25 mins
Please enjoy Life Ends At Midnigh 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):
Yah, Suspen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Columbia Broadcasting System brings.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You radios outstanding Peter of Thrills, produced and directed by
Anton m Leader and starring Tonight Miss Dave Bainter in
Light Ends at Midnight by Robert Tollman, A tale well
calculated to keep you in, Suspen.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Roger, he said you, Walter, that's right.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Mom, A little sunny boy.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Walter memoisl Yes, Oh but well I didn't know no one.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I'll turn out. What's the matter. Do we have to
stand out of here and all?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (01:22):
No, no, come in, It's just that come in ward.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
H same old crummy giant.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
I do my best to keep it clean. Wad.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah, I know, regular old mother.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
We'll have to clean up the whole south of Chicago
for you to get the filled.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Out of this sleep bag.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Oh oh, I'm tired, poor night in thinking day coach
full of snow and jerks and school and babies and
babies are the worst. All they do is bail and slaber.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
You left Pittsburgh last night.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
No morning, didn't sleep or wink?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Look about tell it.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Tomorrow is musty and you you have to be at
work in the moon.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Sure, what's somebody you're worried.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Oh no, no, I just then.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Don't just a guy come home and see his mother
once in six months? It's a wonderfully you break your
back and sit up all night to see your mother.
But one day she tells her you have to be
at work in the morning.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
How do you like that? I'm sorry. You did come
just to see me, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well, of course you came.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
To see me. It's just that I always worry so
about you.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
To get it forget it.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
How are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Well?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
I try not to complain all of it. Things are
not easy. Bryce's high, rents going up all the time,
even on this old house. Honest, I don't know what
I'm going to do with you.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You had some bonds Papa left you.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
I had about two thousand dollars bonds he left you.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Still, I'm trying to tell you all the things haven't
been easy, and I just waste the poor mouth every
turn I see it.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's putting on a poor mouth.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
I'm just saying the things aren't easy, and.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
For me, you think it's a picnic.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I got enough trouble, And for what for what?
Speaker 9 (03:07):
All?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You work like crazy?
Speaker 7 (03:08):
And for what a man must work.
Speaker 10 (03:10):
A man must work, Walter.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Yes, it's true. A man must work and live like
a person and not be afraid of You sleep at
night without worrying about what about a bell ringing at
night or knock on my door in the morning.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I adn't in trouble again.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
So stop mouthing at me, always moulding at men.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
And you know what the judge said the last time, Walter,
And he was nice. He gave you another chance. He
got a nice job for you. And you promised you
must sure you're all right, Walder.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You didn't do it, but herring on a plate all
your life.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
You're a tomcat in a garbage find a fish head
and say thank you, mister.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That's for me.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
You take a chance, you throw away the fish heads.
You get one break. You're out of the garbage can
for life. You throw with time clocks and shiny pants.
You're in the higher brackets. Nobody gets at you. You're
a mister with the future all your nose.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
When you walk through the day coach to.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Your compartment, you leave the sphinx behind and the porter
dusts the air in front of you.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
That's for me.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
One break.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Your hot as a.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Rocket shooting diamonds the spot. If you're a jet job
and a whirl full of flivers a buckets, you two
two gets your four good for one blonde, a kicker
or the kiss wazer.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
So all right, all right, I took another chance.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I try to run it up, but no, dice, you
gotta make it good tomorrow morning. I gotta make it
good the books at the office of the show. I
gotta make it good much fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred dollars
by midnight tonight, fifteen hundred and miss at twelve twenty
train of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
It's swell over.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Might as well take you, yes, fifteen.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
By midnight to night?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Where am I going to get for the bonds? You got?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
The bond's Papa left bonds?
Speaker 7 (05:08):
How do you think I got you out of your
last troubled brides bail? Paying back every penny? Where do
you think I got? Don't give me that your hold nouth.
You gotta help me, don't you hurt me?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Hope, I know your hold out, your worrying about your
old age, making yourself a cushy set up to.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I'm sorry, I hope I'm not intruding.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
This is mister Chonges, he has the back bedroom. This
is my son, Walter.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
How do you do, mister Dates. I feel that I
know you very well.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Your mother and.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
I sit here in the kitchen sometimes over a cup
of tea, and she talks about you for hours and hours.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yes, I can see my mother's so proud of you.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
How do you do, mister Bates.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Yes, and you're a fine looking young man.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
And missus Dates, if you excuse me, I'm just going
to the corner for my paper. I think that the
little man with the tiny mustache, who know who I mean,
the insurance agent. I think he might call again to collect,
and please tell him to go away. I don't want
to pay any more on the policy. You remember I
told you my nephew was very sick and Spokane. Yes,
(06:18):
mister Chalmers, well, the poor young man died. I was
going to leave him a few dollars when I died,
But now will I have no one left at all?
And will a dollar a week? You will tell that
to the little man with the tiny.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Mustache, Yes, mister Charmer.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Thank you, Missus Bates, good day.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Miss tod.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I have forty dollars in the house for rent. You
can take that.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, tell me something about mister Chalmers.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
He interested me very strangely, Walter, don't be so nerve
a smile.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
We got plenty of time. We got till midnight.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Yes, I do think I will have another cup, if
you don't mind, Missus Daton.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Suppose you look at it this way. You've been paying
one buck a week for how many years?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Now?
Speaker 8 (07:20):
I'd say twenty years would be a conservative estimate, right right,
twenty years.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That's let me say fifty bucks a year. Say that's
one thousand bucks that you paid in Yeah, it's.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
One thousand bucks. This coffee cake, Missus bates is.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Actually like it.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
I made it yesterday.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I get the coffee ca let's figure percentate? Yeah, and
how many more years you'll forget all live?
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Oh that's all right, missus Bateson.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
After all, I am an old man, and at my
age one rather will comes to terms with death.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's like the end of a long, busy day. Life
ends at midnight and the new day begins.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yes, Walter, I think you are on the verge of
making a very profound observation. My policy is for twenty
five hundred dollars, and in the days that are left
to me. I certainly will not be required to pay,
inasmuch as I've already paid.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That's the exact point, mister Chalmers. And if you drop
it now, will you get anything back? No, you've got
a straight life with no cash value. If you dropped
the policy, now, the insurance company's the winner. But say
that you'll live another couple of years. You pay a
couple of hundred more, and you'll lead that twenty five
hundred summery, which is the smart thing.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I'll leave it to you.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Yes, I should like to think that when I'm gone,
I have left something behind for someone. It's nice to
live on in somebody's memory for a little fine after
we are dead. But a mister Dates, I have no
one in this world. And b I must be very
very frank with you and tell you that I can
no longer afford to pay even the dollar a week.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
You see, and the one been a.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Problem of the most minor importance.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
But anybody to invest in you now.
Speaker 10 (09:05):
A buck a week would be guilt beads.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I mean, for instance, take my mother here. Now suppose
that you made her the beneficiary. Now I suppose she
continued to play the buck a week, and I hope
could lose on such a deal.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Hope can lose nobody.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You say you will get your dearest wish to leave
something behind, and my mother in later years, says mister Chalmers.
Oh yes, I'll always remember him for this.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You get the point.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh no, I couldn't.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
It's simple, mister Chalmers.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Well, mister Chalmers. Desire, mister Chalmers, it makes good sense.
No makes everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But we're practically strangers.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Now what do you mean strangers?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Who is a stranger in this world, mister Chalmers.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We're all just little people trying to make each other happier.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Mister Chalmers here can die feeling that he didn't wait
a buck a week for twenty years, and he'll know that.
He'll live in your memory, Mama. That's what he wants.
Why shouldn't he have it? Ain't every man entitled to
at least live in somebody's memory.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
But mister Chalmers doesn't have to do that. I'll think
about him anyway, I promise that.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Let him say something always had Molly. Oh, what are
you saying, mister Charmer.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
That must be the little man with the tiny mustache.
I'll tell him I'm keeping the policy and changing the
beneficious for could you let me have the dollar?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Missus Binn's.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hurry it up?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
What are the old man's coming home in a minute?
Until he takes his nap about this time?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And what is ready for him?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You can't finish this job today?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
We are you giving me?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You'll take a join another length of pipe?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Fix it up? You can fix it up? And now
can't you?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, this room's pretty small. Why do you want to
eat it so close.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
To the bed?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Like I told you, he's got rheumatism.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
He needs plenty of heat.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Well, I can't run a rubber extension, but with.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Gas, I don't like it.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Okay, so with gas you don't like it.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
But with gas we gotta run this heater.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Oh man's got romantics. He can take plenty of gas. Hate,
I mean he needs plenty. What are you doing now?
In this joint's tight enough?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Here?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
There's your three bucks?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, you're the bus Bring your tools next time. I
won't be any next time, sonny, What do you give
me now? You can get somebody else to do your
dirty work after this?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Skippy?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Your mind's skippy. Put yourself together. They got to work,
you know, Hi you fuck.
Speaker 10 (12:09):
This is a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, yeah, this used to be my room. Steam don't
come up here so good. So I talked to the
old lady and the fixing this up for you.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That was very thoughtful of you, Worlter.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Huh thanks.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I stuff the cracks in the windows to zero. Weather
gets funny draft in this room.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You coud of everything, didn't you, Wild?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Huh? Oh yeah, yeah, I want to work out just fine.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
I need to do the job.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I think I'm going to take a little nap before dinner.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Do you think they just leave it on. I'll look
in after that to say it's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now you needn't go to war.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I'm no trouble at all, mister charmers. When I do
a thing, I like to do it right.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
H who's there?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Oh that you will?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Going back to sleep. Just turn the hero off little
stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You're a good considerate boy.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Wild, skip it like you sleep.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
H Please don't look so fast, for it must be
(13:49):
hurting me underhund You.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Can buy no shoes tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
I'd like to know up with.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Maybe you'll have do tomorrow. Maybe we'll both have done.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
If America happen.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Maybe rickles do happen?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Maybe if you smile?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
We are you taking me to Walter?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
No place particular.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I just thought we'd stole around the old neighborhood like
old times.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Well that's a nice idea, Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So we'll turn in.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
If the candy still in the corner, off, I'll buy
a dish.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Of ice skin So close to dinner time?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Do you trouble with your eyes? You're in a rot company?
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Hi, miss Baits?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Hello, how do you walder when you get back?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
He came in on the train from Pittsburgh this morning
just to see me.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, I thought i'd give the old girl a break.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Well, why can I mix up for your folks?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Mam will take vanilla and I want to coffee.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Coming right up even Nick, Hello Mike, and take a
load off your feet, you folks. No officer planning and
miss Bates from.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Down the block and some water, please to meet officer.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
House business cap Oh much the same big room, see
Petty Larson, And you.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Want to know I a murderer.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Murder that's what they started out to do.
Speaker 11 (15:00):
But it's harder to pull off a murder than most
people think. Yeah, the case just last week over in
the next precinct. Family disconnected the gas heater in the
old man's room, and he was asleep, and that's what
we were pretty sure he did. Anyway, they took off
a lot of insurance on him a few days before.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But you couldn't prove anything.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
You didn't have to.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
They always bungle somewhere, amateurs.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Gas featured out. They forgot to put a quarter in
the meter. Seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Sure, and I got to call it later.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Okay, Michael, guess.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
When did you put a quarter in a mater at home?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I don't pretend goodness. I better get some change. What's
the matter. Why did you ask about the gas?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Why do you think.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
That isn't why you put the heater in this quarter?
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I just pray that that quarter ran out your press
and get them all on, because if that didn't work,
I'll try another way.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
That an old cluck is dead before midnight.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Or I spent ten years in stir it's gonna be
dead before midnight. You understand that you try making any trouble,
you'll be pushing daisies right along with him. Stop that sniffling,
(16:32):
keep going in and if it took scream your head off,
or I'll give you a reason to scream.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Okay, I can smell it.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
Come on, well, good evening, Walter, And this is dates.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I was just on my wheel, mister Jones.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You're all right, You're all right, of course, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
What's it?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I have a slight headache, It's true, but the risk
war in the open air.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
It will cure that, I'm sure. Hey, what is it, Walter,
host on the hater it got unhitched.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I wonder you got a head ache? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I thought I smelled gas.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Oh it's lucky for you that Ma forgot to put
a quarter in the later.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Providence works in strange ways, doesn't it, Walter. Well, I
must be getting on, Missus Bates. Yes, I'll be coming
home rather late, so i'll just let myself in. How
they Well, I thought i'd stop in at the neighborhood
picturehouse after dinner. That'll be around nine o'clock, so I
imagine I won't be home much before eleven.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Mister Chalmers, there's something else.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Missus bates Or is a good boy at heart, you know.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
But he's been in some trouble lately.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
Is there anything I can do to help Walter.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah, plenty. I'll tell you all about it when you
get back.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
You better run along now, mister Chalmers, you don't want
to be late for that, Yes, yes.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Of course.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Well good night, missus Bates, mister Charles.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Good you're gonna tell them you'd like to send me
to the chair, wouldn't you.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You struck your own.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Monkey faced up for good?
Speaker 7 (18:24):
It's your fall.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I pull this thing up in the first place. But
don't you remember to put a corner and that gas.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Made didn't I forgot it wouldn't be alive from the.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Mester around with a gas trying to spare your feelings,
make it look like an accident. The thanks I get
for it.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
She wants to blab the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Turn it in my own mother.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
No, no, that's not true. I don't Again, I can't
stand it.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Maybe now you'll cooperate.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Let's put it this way. It's either you or him.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
If it's you, I don't care whether they get me
or not that you're listening to me. Yes, well, all right,
And like I said, I got very little time to
get this thing done.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
You would have done a knee.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Clean in the first place. Like I said, he's all
these weight just push him over on the bed, hold
of pillow on his face for a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Not job is done. Nobody ask any questions. A guy
that over.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
For the last time.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I beg you all right, you just made sure it's
the last time. Remember, like I said, it's your him.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I'll be waiting in his room when he gets home.
You wait up from tell him if I if I've
left to catch a train. That's Casey suspects anything. When
he comes into his room, I'll take care of the
rest of you. How do you know I won't warn
you because it's your him. Just like I told you,
I don't think you'll warn mister Charms. Don't you try
to stall him when he comes in. He's got to
(19:50):
be dead by midnight or else.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
Jeravenn Chomas, Joel.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I'll have the late edition of the Daily News as usual,
said one out for mister Chalmers.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
Thank you, good night, Joe Man. Oh, by the way, Joe,
I almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Can you give me the change of a dollar?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Mister Chalmers?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Hey, I fifteenth seventy five ninety five ninety one.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Now, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I just happened to think of something I need change
for a little good deed for a friend of mine.
(20:50):
Oh no, no, wait, I didn't think you be up
so late, Missus Bates.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I waited up especially I wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
About well, Missus Bates, you're right, it's all this colored.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Oh yes, the light burned out in the bottom, and
when I went to replace it in the dark, I
bumped into the door.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
No, I would have thought Walter would have done.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
That for you.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I mean, Walter's left already. He had to catch the
twelve twenty for Pittsburgh, you know.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
But it's only a little after eleven.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Now, perhaps he had some things to do on the way.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
I mean, of course.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Well, I'm afraid I must be getting on to bed.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
No, I mean, won't just sit down and have a
cup of tea with me.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I'd like to, but he keeps me awake, Missus Dates.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
I'll be getting along to my room now, if you
don't mind.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
No, no, don't go into the room, mister Champ.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Why Missus Bates, What was the trouble Walter?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
There's something I must too.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Forgive me, Missus Bates, but I am an old man
and I need my rest. If it could possibly wait
until morning.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
No, no, we can't wait until morning. It's got to
be told for midnight.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
What you said sounds like someone moving about in the
back of the house.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
One of the shutters is loose the wind.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
You were saying, Missus Bates.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
No, I can't tell you after. I'm afraid that.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
There there, Missus Bates.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And perhaps in the.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Morning and try to get some race.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
You're going in there now.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I think that would be the best thing to do
all the way around, don't you, Missus Bates?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Good night?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, no, wait, miss what is it, Missus Bates?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Smell death?
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Why don't you lie down for a few minutes, Missus Bates,
I'll call you when the ambulance arrives.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Less it's striking twelve dead before midnight, poor rad.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
If only I hadn't remembered to go back for that change.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
You did it. You put the quarter in. That's what
turned on the guest that guilds it.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Well, you mentioned the cast having gone off and forgetting
to put a quarter in the meter.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
So on the way to the.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Picture house, I just went round to.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
The back entry and dropped the climb. I suppose I
should have remembered about the connection being loose on the.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Heater in my room.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
But I I wanted to surprise you with my good deed.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I didn't mean to do anything.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Wrong, missus Bates, truly I didn't.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You didn't do anything wrong, mister charm No, you didn't
do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Our thanks to miss Faye Bater for her wonderful performance
as Missus Bates, to Tony Barrett, who played Walter and
Norman Field Mister Chalmers.
Speaker 12 (24:33):
Suspense is produced and directed by Anton m Leader, with
music under the direction of Blood Gluskin from the original
score composed by Lucian Morrowick. Miss Bator will soon be
seen in the Warner Brothers production June Bride.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
A tale well calculated to keep you in sush Ben
Yah, Suspen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Columbia Broadcasting System brings.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You radios outstanding Peter of Thrills, produced and directed by
Anton m Leader and starring Tonight Miss Dave Bainter in
Light Ends at Midnight by Robert Tollman, A tale well
calculated to keep you in, Suspen.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Roger, he said you, Walter, that's right.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Mom, A little sunny boy.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Walter memoisl Yes, Oh but well I didn't know no one.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I'll turn out. What's the matter. Do we have to
stand out of here and all?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (01:22):
No, no, come in, It's just that come in ward.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
H same old crummy giant.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
I do my best to keep it clean. Wad.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah, I know, regular old mother.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
We'll have to clean up the whole south of Chicago
for you to get the filled.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Out of this sleep bag.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Oh oh, I'm tired, poor night in thinking day coach
full of snow and jerks and school and babies and
babies are the worst. All they do is bail and slaber.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
You left Pittsburgh last night.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
No morning, didn't sleep or wink?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Look about tell it.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Tomorrow is musty and you you have to be at
work in the moon.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Sure, what's somebody you're worried.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Oh no, no, I just then.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Don't just a guy come home and see his mother
once in six months? It's a wonderfully you break your
back and sit up all night to see your mother.
But one day she tells her you have to be
at work in the morning.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
How do you like that? I'm sorry. You did come
just to see me, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well, of course you came.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
To see me. It's just that I always worry so
about you.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
To get it forget it.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
How are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Well?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
I try not to complain all of it. Things are
not easy. Bryce's high, rents going up all the time,
even on this old house. Honest, I don't know what
I'm going to do with you.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You had some bonds Papa left you.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
I had about two thousand dollars bonds he left you.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Still, I'm trying to tell you all the things haven't
been easy, and I just waste the poor mouth every
turn I see it.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's putting on a poor mouth.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
I'm just saying the things aren't easy, and.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
For me, you think it's a picnic.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I got enough trouble, And for what for what?
Speaker 9 (03:07):
All?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You work like crazy?
Speaker 7 (03:08):
And for what a man must work.
Speaker 10 (03:10):
A man must work, Walter.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Yes, it's true. A man must work and live like
a person and not be afraid of You sleep at
night without worrying about what about a bell ringing at
night or knock on my door in the morning.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I adn't in trouble again.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
So stop mouthing at me, always moulding at men.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
And you know what the judge said the last time, Walter,
And he was nice. He gave you another chance. He
got a nice job for you. And you promised you
must sure you're all right, Walder.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You didn't do it, but herring on a plate all
your life.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
You're a tomcat in a garbage find a fish head
and say thank you, mister.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That's for me.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
You take a chance, you throw away the fish heads.
You get one break. You're out of the garbage can
for life. You throw with time clocks and shiny pants.
You're in the higher brackets. Nobody gets at you. You're
a mister with the future all your nose.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
When you walk through the day coach to.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Your compartment, you leave the sphinx behind and the porter
dusts the air in front of you.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
That's for me.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
One break.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Your hot as a.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Rocket shooting diamonds the spot. If you're a jet job
and a whirl full of flivers a buckets, you two
two gets your four good for one blonde, a kicker
or the kiss wazer.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
So all right, all right, I took another chance.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I try to run it up, but no, dice, you
gotta make it good tomorrow morning. I gotta make it
good the books at the office of the show. I
gotta make it good much fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred dollars
by midnight tonight, fifteen hundred and miss at twelve twenty
train of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
It's swell over.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Might as well take you, yes, fifteen.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
By midnight to night?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Where am I going to get for the bonds? You got?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
The bond's Papa left bonds?
Speaker 7 (05:08):
How do you think I got you out of your
last troubled brides bail? Paying back every penny? Where do
you think I got? Don't give me that your hold nouth.
You gotta help me, don't you hurt me?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Hope, I know your hold out, your worrying about your
old age, making yourself a cushy set up to.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I'm sorry, I hope I'm not intruding.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
This is mister Chonges, he has the back bedroom. This
is my son, Walter.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
How do you do, mister Dates. I feel that I
know you very well.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Your mother and.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
I sit here in the kitchen sometimes over a cup
of tea, and she talks about you for hours and hours.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yes, I can see my mother's so proud of you.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
How do you do, mister Bates.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Yes, and you're a fine looking young man.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
And missus Dates, if you excuse me, I'm just going
to the corner for my paper. I think that the
little man with the tiny mustache, who know who I mean,
the insurance agent. I think he might call again to collect,
and please tell him to go away. I don't want
to pay any more on the policy. You remember I
told you my nephew was very sick and Spokane. Yes,
(06:18):
mister Chalmers, well, the poor young man died. I was
going to leave him a few dollars when I died,
But now will I have no one left at all?
And will a dollar a week? You will tell that
to the little man with the tiny.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Mustache, Yes, mister Charmer.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Thank you, Missus Bates, good day.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Miss tod.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I have forty dollars in the house for rent. You
can take that.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, tell me something about mister Chalmers.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
He interested me very strangely, Walter, don't be so nerve
a smile.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
We got plenty of time. We got till midnight.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Yes, I do think I will have another cup, if
you don't mind, Missus Daton.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Suppose you look at it this way. You've been paying
one buck a week for how many years?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Now?
Speaker 8 (07:20):
I'd say twenty years would be a conservative estimate, right right,
twenty years.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That's let me say fifty bucks a year. Say that's
one thousand bucks that you paid in Yeah, it's.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
One thousand bucks. This coffee cake, Missus bates is.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Actually like it.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
I made it yesterday.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I get the coffee ca let's figure percentate? Yeah, and
how many more years you'll forget all live?
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Oh that's all right, missus Bateson.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
After all, I am an old man, and at my
age one rather will comes to terms with death.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's like the end of a long, busy day. Life
ends at midnight and the new day begins.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yes, Walter, I think you are on the verge of
making a very profound observation. My policy is for twenty
five hundred dollars, and in the days that are left
to me. I certainly will not be required to pay,
inasmuch as I've already paid.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That's the exact point, mister Chalmers. And if you drop
it now, will you get anything back? No, you've got
a straight life with no cash value. If you dropped
the policy, now, the insurance company's the winner. But say
that you'll live another couple of years. You pay a
couple of hundred more, and you'll lead that twenty five
hundred summery, which is the smart thing.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I'll leave it to you.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Yes, I should like to think that when I'm gone,
I have left something behind for someone. It's nice to
live on in somebody's memory for a little fine after
we are dead. But a mister Dates, I have no
one in this world. And b I must be very
very frank with you and tell you that I can
no longer afford to pay even the dollar a week.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
You see, and the one been a.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Problem of the most minor importance.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
But anybody to invest in you now.
Speaker 10 (09:05):
A buck a week would be guilt beads.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I mean, for instance, take my mother here. Now suppose
that you made her the beneficiary. Now I suppose she
continued to play the buck a week, and I hope
could lose on such a deal.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Hope can lose nobody.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You say you will get your dearest wish to leave
something behind, and my mother in later years, says mister Chalmers.
Oh yes, I'll always remember him for this.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You get the point.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh no, I couldn't.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
It's simple, mister Chalmers.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Well, mister Chalmers. Desire, mister Chalmers, it makes good sense.
No makes everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But we're practically strangers.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Now what do you mean strangers?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Who is a stranger in this world, mister Chalmers.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We're all just little people trying to make each other happier.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Mister Chalmers here can die feeling that he didn't wait
a buck a week for twenty years, and he'll know that.
He'll live in your memory, Mama. That's what he wants.
Why shouldn't he have it? Ain't every man entitled to
at least live in somebody's memory.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
But mister Chalmers doesn't have to do that. I'll think
about him anyway, I promise that.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Let him say something always had Molly. Oh, what are
you saying, mister Charmer.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
That must be the little man with the tiny mustache.
I'll tell him I'm keeping the policy and changing the
beneficious for could you let me have the dollar?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Missus Binn's.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hurry it up?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
What are the old man's coming home in a minute?
Until he takes his nap about this time?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And what is ready for him?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You can't finish this job today?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
We are you giving me?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You'll take a join another length of pipe?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Fix it up? You can fix it up? And now
can't you?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, this room's pretty small. Why do you want to
eat it so close.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
To the bed?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Like I told you, he's got rheumatism.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
He needs plenty of heat.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Well, I can't run a rubber extension, but with.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Gas, I don't like it.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Okay, so with gas you don't like it.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
But with gas we gotta run this heater.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Oh man's got romantics. He can take plenty of gas. Hate,
I mean he needs plenty. What are you doing now?
In this joint's tight enough?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Here?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
There's your three bucks?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, you're the bus Bring your tools next time. I
won't be any next time, sonny, What do you give
me now? You can get somebody else to do your
dirty work after this?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Skippy?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Your mind's skippy. Put yourself together. They got to work,
you know, Hi you fuck.
Speaker 10 (12:09):
This is a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, yeah, this used to be my room. Steam don't
come up here so good. So I talked to the
old lady and the fixing this up for you.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That was very thoughtful of you, Worlter.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Huh thanks.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I stuff the cracks in the windows to zero. Weather
gets funny draft in this room.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You coud of everything, didn't you, Wild?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Huh? Oh yeah, yeah, I want to work out just fine.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
I need to do the job.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I think I'm going to take a little nap before dinner.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Do you think they just leave it on. I'll look
in after that to say it's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now you needn't go to war.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I'm no trouble at all, mister charmers. When I do
a thing, I like to do it right.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
H who's there?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Oh that you will?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Going back to sleep. Just turn the hero off little
stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You're a good considerate boy.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Wild, skip it like you sleep.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
H Please don't look so fast, for it must be
(13:49):
hurting me underhund You.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Can buy no shoes tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
I'd like to know up with.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Maybe you'll have do tomorrow. Maybe we'll both have done.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
If America happen.
Speaker 10 (13:59):
Maybe rickles do happen?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Maybe if you smile?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
We are you taking me to Walter?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
No place particular.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I just thought we'd stole around the old neighborhood like
old times.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Well that's a nice idea, Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So we'll turn in.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
If the candy still in the corner, off, I'll buy
a dish.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Of ice skin So close to dinner time?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Do you trouble with your eyes? You're in a rot company?
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Hi, miss Baits?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Hello, how do you walder when you get back?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
He came in on the train from Pittsburgh this morning
just to see me.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, I thought i'd give the old girl a break.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Well, why can I mix up for your folks?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Mam will take vanilla and I want to coffee.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Coming right up even Nick, Hello Mike, and take a
load off your feet, you folks. No officer planning and
miss Bates from.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Down the block and some water, please to meet officer.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
House business cap Oh much the same big room, see
Petty Larson, And you.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Want to know I a murderer.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Murder that's what they started out to do.
Speaker 11 (15:00):
But it's harder to pull off a murder than most
people think. Yeah, the case just last week over in
the next precinct. Family disconnected the gas heater in the
old man's room, and he was asleep, and that's what
we were pretty sure he did. Anyway, they took off
a lot of insurance on him a few days before.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But you couldn't prove anything.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
You didn't have to.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
They always bungle somewhere, amateurs.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Gas featured out. They forgot to put a quarter in
the meter. Seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Sure, and I got to call it later.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Okay, Michael, guess.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
When did you put a quarter in a mater at home?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I don't pretend goodness. I better get some change. What's
the matter. Why did you ask about the gas?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Why do you think.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
That isn't why you put the heater in this quarter?
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I just pray that that quarter ran out your press
and get them all on, because if that didn't work,
I'll try another way.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
That an old cluck is dead before midnight.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Or I spent ten years in stir it's gonna be
dead before midnight. You understand that you try making any trouble,
you'll be pushing daisies right along with him. Stop that sniffling,
(16:32):
keep going in and if it took scream your head off,
or I'll give you a reason to scream.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Okay, I can smell it.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
Come on, well, good evening, Walter, And this is dates.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I was just on my wheel, mister Jones.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You're all right, You're all right, of course, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
What's it?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I have a slight headache, It's true, but the risk
war in the open air.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
It will cure that, I'm sure. Hey, what is it, Walter,
host on the hater it got unhitched.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I wonder you got a head ache? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I thought I smelled gas.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Oh it's lucky for you that Ma forgot to put
a quarter in the later.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Providence works in strange ways, doesn't it, Walter. Well, I
must be getting on, Missus Bates. Yes, I'll be coming
home rather late, so i'll just let myself in. How
they Well, I thought i'd stop in at the neighborhood
picturehouse after dinner. That'll be around nine o'clock, so I
imagine I won't be home much before eleven.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Mister Chalmers, there's something else.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Missus bates Or is a good boy at heart, you know.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
But he's been in some trouble lately.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
Is there anything I can do to help Walter.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah, plenty. I'll tell you all about it when you
get back.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
You better run along now, mister Chalmers, you don't want
to be late for that, Yes, yes.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Of course.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Well good night, missus Bates, mister Charles.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Good you're gonna tell them you'd like to send me
to the chair, wouldn't you.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You struck your own.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Monkey faced up for good?
Speaker 7 (18:24):
It's your fall.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I pull this thing up in the first place. But
don't you remember to put a corner and that gas.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Made didn't I forgot it wouldn't be alive from the.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Mester around with a gas trying to spare your feelings,
make it look like an accident. The thanks I get
for it.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
She wants to blab the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Turn it in my own mother.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
No, no, that's not true. I don't Again, I can't
stand it.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Maybe now you'll cooperate.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Let's put it this way. It's either you or him.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
If it's you, I don't care whether they get me
or not that you're listening to me. Yes, well, all right,
And like I said, I got very little time to
get this thing done.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
You would have done a knee.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Clean in the first place. Like I said, he's all
these weight just push him over on the bed, hold
of pillow on his face for a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Not job is done. Nobody ask any questions. A guy
that over.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
For the last time.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I beg you all right, you just made sure it's
the last time. Remember, like I said, it's your him.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I'll be waiting in his room when he gets home.
You wait up from tell him if I if I've
left to catch a train. That's Casey suspects anything. When
he comes into his room, I'll take care of the
rest of you. How do you know I won't warn
you because it's your him. Just like I told you,
I don't think you'll warn mister Charms. Don't you try
to stall him when he comes in. He's got to
(19:50):
be dead by midnight or else.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
Jeravenn Chomas, Joel.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I'll have the late edition of the Daily News as usual,
said one out for mister Chalmers.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
Thank you, good night, Joe Man. Oh, by the way, Joe,
I almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Can you give me the change of a dollar?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Mister Chalmers?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Hey, I fifteenth seventy five ninety five ninety one.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Now, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I just happened to think of something I need change
for a little good deed for a friend of mine.
(20:50):
Oh no, no, wait, I didn't think you be up
so late, Missus Bates.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I waited up especially I wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
About well, Missus Bates, you're right, it's all this colored.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Oh yes, the light burned out in the bottom, and
when I went to replace it in the dark, I
bumped into the door.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
No, I would have thought Walter would have done.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
That for you.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I mean, Walter's left already. He had to catch the
twelve twenty for Pittsburgh, you know.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
But it's only a little after eleven.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Now, perhaps he had some things to do on the way.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
I mean, of course.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Well, I'm afraid I must be getting on to bed.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
No, I mean, won't just sit down and have a
cup of tea with me.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I'd like to, but he keeps me awake, Missus Dates.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
I'll be getting along to my room now, if you
don't mind.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
No, no, don't go into the room, mister Champ.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Why Missus Bates, What was the trouble Walter?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
There's something I must too.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Forgive me, Missus Bates, but I am an old man
and I need my rest. If it could possibly wait
until morning.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
No, no, we can't wait until morning. It's got to
be told for midnight.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
What you said sounds like someone moving about in the
back of the house.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
One of the shutters is loose the wind.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
You were saying, Missus Bates.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
No, I can't tell you after. I'm afraid that.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
There there, Missus Bates.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And perhaps in the.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Morning and try to get some race.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
You're going in there now.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I think that would be the best thing to do
all the way around, don't you, Missus Bates?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Good night?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, no, wait, miss what is it, Missus Bates?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Smell death?
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Why don't you lie down for a few minutes, Missus Bates,
I'll call you when the ambulance arrives.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Less it's striking twelve dead before midnight, poor rad.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
If only I hadn't remembered to go back for that change.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
You did it. You put the quarter in. That's what
turned on the guest that guilds it.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Well, you mentioned the cast having gone off and forgetting
to put a quarter in the meter.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
So on the way to the.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Picture house, I just went round to.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
The back entry and dropped the climb. I suppose I
should have remembered about the connection being loose on the.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Heater in my room.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
But I I wanted to surprise you with my good deed.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I didn't mean to do anything.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Wrong, missus Bates, truly I didn't.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You didn't do anything wrong, mister charm No, you didn't
do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Our thanks to miss Faye Bater for her wonderful performance
as Missus Bates, to Tony Barrett, who played Walter and
Norman Field Mister Chalmers.
Speaker 12 (24:33):
Suspense is produced and directed by Anton m Leader, with
music under the direction of Blood Gluskin from the original
score composed by Lucian Morrowick. Miss Bator will soon be
seen in the Warner Brothers production June Bride.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
A tale well calculated to keep you in sush Ben
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