August 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 4 (01:55):
In Scarlett, where I was born, there was a well
made dwelling made angry you cry welladay, and her name
was all Brawlllen.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
His voice was on the wind, calling, calling to me,
and the surface to the west of me and to
the east, and the sounds of the night sea were
all around, and on the finger of strand. I waited
for him, for my love, for my love. As he
rode to me, and the star swung across the moon,
and the wind rose from the night. As he rode
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to me and he came to me, I thought.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
You wouldn't be here, Barbara Allen.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
And where else would I be on such a night?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Home?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Perhaps where it's warm, and the young men of Scarlet
town to knock on your door.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Not here where the sea rises.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
And the moon is cold, where I meet my love.
But there's a storm coming.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Let it.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
The storm and the tides will drown this strap and
we would drown, Yes, we would drown Will, and you
would live more longer than I, and I no longer
than you. Our love would die at once on a storm.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Why do you talk of death?
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I talk of love and I do. And there's no
death in it. No will, only this.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Ah, will fair, Barbara Allen? Why old Barbara Allen?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Right with me?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
They rode a roll on his Italian black the sea.
It was a swelling and dark, dark cloud. Her shadow
lay on the lips.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Of Barbara Hell. Then Willie had her.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Also close, and he kissedly her trembling, then kissed again
and fonded you and took her to her.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Dwelling in the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Hunt here he's been waking.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Hello, bar Brown, I'll get you some teeth. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:00):
The pillow and back of me slid down, Barbrea and
fitch it. Ah, where you been on the strand with Will?
Speaker 8 (05:09):
With Will?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
Sean's been waiting.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
You knew he was going to bed and sitting with
your father, waiting, doing the things you should be doing.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Will you meet Will on the strand.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Ah, he can do for himself. Thank you, tea father
all right.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
Whiskey in it, Yeah, drink, old man, and I whiskey
in it. Because whiskey keeps the warm down. And it's
a cold house, it's a seasonal storm. And I have
a daughter who's never home. Father the warmth of my
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daughters for a sailor named will Father, and my house
is cold.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You'll need a pillow for his chair. Bubrah.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
He can do for himself. He can do whatever he
needs for himself. He sits there and rock And remember
the time when he had a wife to do for him.
Do everything but walk for him.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Listen to him, Barbara Allen.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Yes, Jean will is a sailor, Yes, with a small boat. Yes,
and a narrow life.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Ha ha, you couldn't know.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I know.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
And one day he'll say goodbye to you and sailor's
small boat. That will be the day when the sea
will throw him back to you, wrapped in kelp and drowned.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
And what of you, sean shopkeeper? Sean sell her pots
and fish hooked and whiskey John? Would I love you, Sean?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Er cold, And what will you make of me? One
like him who sits in a rocker.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
And remembers you love will How many others love Willie
the sailor? And how many does he love?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
There's a girl.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
You've seen her, Barbara Allen. She's new to scarlet tongue.
Her name is Maya, and she drinks wine with Will,
a whisper and laugh together.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Get out of his save one.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Will leaves you. He goes to her.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
You lie, And if I'm not lying, if he hurts.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You, Barbra al and I'll kill him.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Get out of here, Sean, I would I kill him.
And later I could still hear my father rocking, and
the sounds of his remembrance. For me, it was a
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night of no sleep. I lay there in my bed,
and outside was fit for squalls of rain began, stopped
and began again. Outside was surfed that eddied in her
rocks and mists and choke and tangle of kelp flung
against the strand, and Will's face and his words and
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the words of Sean, and the sudden blaze of light
across my bed. The night creamed against the sea, and
then the night was still. Then it was morning. I
got up and dressed, walked through the room where my
father was still sleeping.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
In his chair.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
The beach had been pitted by the rain. When I
walked it. The dune grass was green and shining. The
wind held down the sand against my legs, and down
the curve of the beach, and near the end of
it Will's boat, the sail on it to be mended
from me to men's or Will. Hello, What are you
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doing on Will's boat? It's where I've along now on
Will's boat to mend his neck and the sails. We'll
scent you here. He left me here. I I know
who you are. You are more ya. You were a
stiff dressed in the morning to mend a nette. Here,
this is annette.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Mend it.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Let me watch what you'll do with it. He will
teach me when he returns. When did you see Will?
I saw him when when I was with him, when
he told me to stay here, and to day we
would go sailing together, sailing where?
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Why?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
To some place? This coast is new to me? Will
wants me to know it? What other places? As he
shown you? Scarlet town and what's around it? And ridden
with him on his black horse, ridden a strand at night? Yes,
and the ruined church at the end of it, Yes,
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all of these things. Where is Will? We sail to day?
Will's in Scarlet Town. He's buying things for the sailing.
Why And shons. What will the shawns? And he'll stay there.
He won't sail with you.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Across the dunes.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
How she did run the wind with world siring, and
as she ran a more she grieved until she burst
out crying. When she came down to Scarlet Town, the street.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
With Crayn was fillin'.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
When they saw her, they stepped aside made way for bard.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Don.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
He's in there, bar Brillan, in Shaun's place. Why is
there a crowd, mister Eman?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
In Shaun's place? Will's in there?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
What happened? I was in there.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Will was buying things of Sean. Will was laughing.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
He broke up in a bottle of wine.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
He made a toast, a toast to whom to the
ladies all around, to maya to her.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And what happened?
Speaker 8 (11:09):
There was talk. Then Will had a knife in his hand,
and Shun did too.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
There was a fight.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Will's in there.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Barbara, and he's lying on the floor. He called your name, fellow, Will,
I'm dying, Barbara. What did you say, Will h I'm dying.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Die?
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Speaker 4 (13:36):
In Scarlet where I was born to Wilight wall fll
On William Green all dedly.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
No green from.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
They carried Will to the edge of the strand the
people Scarlet town, and I was not there. They opened
the earth of the old churchyard, and they scattered the
earth over the body of Will, and I was not there.
I walked the sands of Scarlet Shore, and I cursed
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the grave that held him.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Is that you, barb Raven?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What do you want, old woman?
Speaker 12 (14:34):
Is that you barb Radam? I'm all I can't see
so good, especially with a mist so heavy.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
And drifting like to do?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (14:45):
Give me some of the drift wood you're gathering. I'm
an old woman, and when I bend for the wood,
the sea snatches it from my hands.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
What I have there's more.
Speaker 12 (14:56):
Let me walk with you and fill my apron form.
All right, Your Will is dead.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
He's dead.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
They're burying him. The whole town's there. You're not there,
Barb Allan.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And you're not there, old woman.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
I buried three sons on that strand in the churchyard.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
At the end of it. Never do I want to
be on that strip of.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
Land again, your rye, But you will and I Your
death place is there, and mine and all of us
are scarlettown. The earth covers us in summer, and the
sea in winter and storm. I'll give me that piece
of wood from my apron.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Take it.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
You met Will there on the strand didn't you, barb Allan.
There's a place of love and dead. That Will was
handsome to me, old woman.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Walk with me and beg my driftwood, and I'll give
it to you. But don't talk to me. You will,
and why not? He died for the love of you,
for the love of me, and one called Moya, and
the rest of the ladies all around.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
For the love of you. I was there in Shaan's place,
touching the bolts of dress goods, and close I heard
what happened, all of it for the love of Jean
spoke your.
Speaker 13 (16:28):
Name lightly in a teasing way, and he moved over
with a smile and whispered a question in Will's dearth.
Then in Will's hand was a knife because of what
Sean had asked, You lie.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
A woman.
Speaker 12 (16:44):
It's how Will died for the love of you. I
swear it on the graves of my three sons who
lie dead.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
For the love of me, not for the one called Moya.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Her of the silk dress, who paid Will to take
her sailing. Paid him this I heard too, when the
toasts were drunk in Sean's place. Gave him money to
take her savings. Will spoke her name lightly and laughed
when he told.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Us of it.
Speaker 12 (17:14):
Oh, fetch me that piece of wood there, barb.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Allan and my apron will before.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And then she left me, the old woman did. And
for an hour I walked the beach, gathering goodwood from
my house, and all the while the bell of the
ruined church told for Will, the death of Will, or
my true love or Will. Night came swiftly with the rain,
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and the moon said behind something black in the sky,
and stayed there. The sea was last rolled in and broke,
and the end of it was chill against my feet,
far away the file of Mourner's life as they walked homeward,
and I went home too, and made a fire, waited
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till the sound of my father's returning. The funeral was over,
the dead had been buried. My father asked Prettea with
whiskey in it. I gave it to him.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
I left.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I went to a place, Sean's place.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Barbara, hour.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
The storm outside.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You're drenched, my coat shown.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yes, you killed Will.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It was a fair fight.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You killed him with a knife in my belt. You'll
hang for it.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
No, it was a fair fight. According to the law
of Scarlet Town. He could have killed me. I'm alive,
he's dead. No one will hang.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Ah. I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I was worried for you, Barbara Allan.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
No, wait, tell me about it, about what the fight?
How you killed Will.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Will was your love and you want to know how
he died.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Will is dead and I can't grieve.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Tell me why, Shan, I'll make you happy.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Yes, tell me how you killed Will.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Will was the sailor. But he was clumsy with a knife.
And when I drew mine and we faced each other
and we suckled.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I could tell it.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Heavy foot and awkward. And when he rushed me, I
stepped aside and he fell and everybody laughed, and I
let him get up. And somehow he closed with me
and cut me here.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
On my arm.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Oh show me a poor Sean.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
We bent back over the counter, the two of us struggling,
and I looked his face, and I saw a thing fright.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Willie the sailor was scared, and I brought my hand up.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Oh, barb Brillen, Oh you should have seen it his
face when the knife went into it.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
That knife in your belt, Yes, I want to see it.
Put it there on the table where I can look
at it, Sean. Yes, what else will you do for me?
What did this doormat? And I came to you? What
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will you do for me?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Now?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I love you?
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Oh, with fine things, bar brill with silk from my shoves.
Whatever you want, this one, this bolt of silk, this one, oh,
this one, which.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
One, barbriell, and which one at your feet?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Whatever you want?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
And listen, I have these two.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Mirrors, and these buttons of shell, and these combs of
mother of pearl for your hair, bar Sean, for your hair.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And you will love me forever, Sean, for as long
as I live.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Tell me again, for as long as I live.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yes, you with a knife you killed? Will I kill you?
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Father your home, Barbara.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Nothing happened for will left me alone again. Fire has
gone out.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I went to Shawn.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Fire has gone out, and I killed him. The sea
spills over the kirchyard, and the dead little drowned, the dead,
and the old graves and the dead.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
And the new graves.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Will.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
That's why I kill shanfather, because of Will, his grave.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Will sink beneath the sea. The storm will wash over Rune.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Don't you hear what I'm saying, Father, I killed Sean.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Will is dead.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I kill Sean, and your life is over. Yes, I
mine shit with me by Brillon.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yes. And I sat with him at his feet while
he rocked. He remembered, and I remembered. And once my
father got up, walked to the fire and threw one root,
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sat down again, rocked, and I remembered Will.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Will.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
The grease came from the tears. Will Will, the tears
his grave would.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Think beneath the sea.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I'll make your bed, Barbara, all right, See you killed Sean.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I did look through the window.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Oh the lights of people from Scarlet Town are coming
after you.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Oh, they'll hang me for what I did.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Your love lies on the strand.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
He sleeps on the strand.
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Your love is away.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
I ran.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I ran to where my love was, where Will was,
down to the beach under the strand. And they followed
me the lights of the people from Starlett, and their
voices on the howling winds. And I ran down the
strand where the black sea was covering it. And they
followed me, their voices and the bell on the winds,
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and their voices on the wind. And ran ran the bell,
and ran again. Where my love lay lonely, the will
in his grave in the churchyard. I found him, and
no longer was he lonely.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Sweet William lay in the hall to yard, his love
of fair beside him. Out of William's hard through a
red red rose, out of barbarous, through brier, they grew
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and grew to the old church tower, and they could
not grow higher. And Lady and the tide on lovers
Knock and the Rosarrapri the.
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of Autolite would like to thank you for another magnificent
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performance and to announce to our listeners that you have
won the first annual Golden Mike Award for the best
feminine performance of the past year on suspense. And here
Anne is your handsome Golden Mic to add to the
Baxter Trophy.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Thank you, Harlow. It's beautiful and thanks to Autolife. I'd
also like to thank the wonderful group of suspense players
who work with me, especially Joseph Kerns and Jeanette Nolan.
We've also won Golden Mic for the best supporting performances
on suspense. Thank you for all of us. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Next week, a story that will prove once again that
truth is stranger than fiction. Mister Cornell Wilde will star
as a man who inadvertently was hired to be an assassin.
The story is called in Wonderland and will be heard
on Suspense. Suspense was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis,
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with music written by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Bluskin.
The Death of Barbara Allen was written for Suspense by
Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In Tonight's story, Jeannette Nolan
was heard as the old lady, Joseph Kerns as Barbara's father.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, William Conrad, Louise Lewis,
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and Junius Matthews. And Baxter Is soon to be seen
in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess and Remember Next Week on Suspense,
mister Cornell Wilde in Allen in Wonderland.
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Speaker 4 (01:55):
In Scarlett, where I was born, there was a well
made dwelling made angry you cry welladay, and her name
was all Brawlllen.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
His voice was on the wind, calling, calling to me,
and the surface to the west of me and to
the east, and the sounds of the night sea were
all around, and on the finger of strand. I waited
for him, for my love, for my love. As he
rode to me, and the star swung across the moon,
and the wind rose from the night. As he rode
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to me and he came to me, I thought.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
You wouldn't be here, Barbara Allen.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
And where else would I be on such a night?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Home?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Perhaps where it's warm, and the young men of Scarlet
town to knock on your door.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Not here where the sea rises.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
And the moon is cold, where I meet my love.
But there's a storm coming.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Let it.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
The storm and the tides will drown this strap and
we would drown, Yes, we would drown Will, and you
would live more longer than I, and I no longer
than you. Our love would die at once on a storm.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Why do you talk of death?
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I talk of love and I do. And there's no
death in it. No will, only this.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Ah, will fair, Barbara Allen? Why old Barbara Allen?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Right with me?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
They rode a roll on his Italian black the sea.
It was a swelling and dark, dark cloud. Her shadow
lay on the lips.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Of Barbara Hell. Then Willie had her.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Also close, and he kissedly her trembling, then kissed again
and fonded you and took her to her.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Dwelling in the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Hunt here he's been waking.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Hello, bar Brown, I'll get you some teeth. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:00):
The pillow and back of me slid down, Barbrea and
fitch it. Ah, where you been on the strand with Will?
Speaker 8 (05:09):
With Will?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
Sean's been waiting.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
You knew he was going to bed and sitting with
your father, waiting, doing the things you should be doing.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Will you meet Will on the strand.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Ah, he can do for himself. Thank you, tea father
all right.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
Whiskey in it, Yeah, drink, old man, and I whiskey
in it. Because whiskey keeps the warm down. And it's
a cold house, it's a seasonal storm. And I have
a daughter who's never home. Father the warmth of my
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daughters for a sailor named will Father, and my house
is cold.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You'll need a pillow for his chair. Bubrah.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
He can do for himself. He can do whatever he
needs for himself. He sits there and rock And remember
the time when he had a wife to do for him.
Do everything but walk for him.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Listen to him, Barbara Allen.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Yes, Jean will is a sailor, Yes, with a small boat. Yes,
and a narrow life.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Ha ha, you couldn't know.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I know.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
And one day he'll say goodbye to you and sailor's
small boat. That will be the day when the sea
will throw him back to you, wrapped in kelp and drowned.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
And what of you, sean shopkeeper? Sean sell her pots
and fish hooked and whiskey John? Would I love you, Sean?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Er cold, And what will you make of me? One
like him who sits in a rocker.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
And remembers you love will How many others love Willie
the sailor? And how many does he love?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
There's a girl.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
You've seen her, Barbara Allen. She's new to scarlet tongue.
Her name is Maya, and she drinks wine with Will,
a whisper and laugh together.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Get out of his save one.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Will leaves you. He goes to her.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
You lie, And if I'm not lying, if he hurts.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You, Barbra al and I'll kill him.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Get out of here, Sean, I would I kill him.
And later I could still hear my father rocking, and
the sounds of his remembrance. For me, it was a
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night of no sleep. I lay there in my bed,
and outside was fit for squalls of rain began, stopped
and began again. Outside was surfed that eddied in her
rocks and mists and choke and tangle of kelp flung
against the strand, and Will's face and his words and
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the words of Sean, and the sudden blaze of light
across my bed. The night creamed against the sea, and
then the night was still. Then it was morning. I
got up and dressed, walked through the room where my
father was still sleeping.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
In his chair.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
The beach had been pitted by the rain. When I
walked it. The dune grass was green and shining. The
wind held down the sand against my legs, and down
the curve of the beach, and near the end of
it Will's boat, the sail on it to be mended
from me to men's or Will. Hello, What are you
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doing on Will's boat? It's where I've along now on
Will's boat to mend his neck and the sails. We'll
scent you here. He left me here. I I know
who you are. You are more ya. You were a
stiff dressed in the morning to mend a nette. Here,
this is annette.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Mend it.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Let me watch what you'll do with it. He will
teach me when he returns. When did you see Will?
I saw him when when I was with him, when
he told me to stay here, and to day we
would go sailing together, sailing where?
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Why?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
To some place? This coast is new to me? Will
wants me to know it? What other places? As he
shown you? Scarlet town and what's around it? And ridden
with him on his black horse, ridden a strand at night? Yes,
and the ruined church at the end of it, Yes,
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all of these things. Where is Will? We sail to day?
Will's in Scarlet Town. He's buying things for the sailing.
Why And shons. What will the shawns? And he'll stay there.
He won't sail with you.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Across the dunes.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
How she did run the wind with world siring, and
as she ran a more she grieved until she burst
out crying. When she came down to Scarlet Town, the street.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
With Crayn was fillin'.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
When they saw her, they stepped aside made way for bard.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Don.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
He's in there, bar Brillan, in Shaun's place. Why is
there a crowd, mister Eman?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
In Shaun's place? Will's in there?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
What happened? I was in there.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Will was buying things of Sean. Will was laughing.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
He broke up in a bottle of wine.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
He made a toast, a toast to whom to the
ladies all around, to maya to her.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And what happened?
Speaker 8 (11:09):
There was talk. Then Will had a knife in his hand,
and Shun did too.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
There was a fight.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Will's in there.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Barbara, and he's lying on the floor. He called your name, fellow, Will,
I'm dying, Barbara. What did you say, Will h I'm dying.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Die?
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Speaker 4 (13:36):
In Scarlet where I was born to Wilight wall fll
On William Green all dedly.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
No green from.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
They carried Will to the edge of the strand the
people Scarlet town, and I was not there. They opened
the earth of the old churchyard, and they scattered the
earth over the body of Will, and I was not there.
I walked the sands of Scarlet Shore, and I cursed
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the grave that held him.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Is that you, barb Raven?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What do you want, old woman?
Speaker 12 (14:34):
Is that you barb Radam? I'm all I can't see
so good, especially with a mist so heavy.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
And drifting like to do?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (14:45):
Give me some of the drift wood you're gathering. I'm
an old woman, and when I bend for the wood,
the sea snatches it from my hands.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
What I have there's more.
Speaker 12 (14:56):
Let me walk with you and fill my apron form.
All right, Your Will is dead.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
He's dead.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
They're burying him. The whole town's there. You're not there,
Barb Allan.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And you're not there, old woman.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
I buried three sons on that strand in the churchyard.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
At the end of it. Never do I want to
be on that strip of.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
Land again, your rye, But you will and I Your
death place is there, and mine and all of us
are scarlettown. The earth covers us in summer, and the
sea in winter and storm. I'll give me that piece
of wood from my apron.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Take it.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
You met Will there on the strand didn't you, barb Allan.
There's a place of love and dead. That Will was
handsome to me, old woman.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Walk with me and beg my driftwood, and I'll give
it to you. But don't talk to me. You will,
and why not? He died for the love of you,
for the love of me, and one called Moya, and
the rest of the ladies all around.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
For the love of you. I was there in Shaan's place,
touching the bolts of dress goods, and close I heard
what happened, all of it for the love of Jean
spoke your.
Speaker 13 (16:28):
Name lightly in a teasing way, and he moved over
with a smile and whispered a question in Will's dearth.
Then in Will's hand was a knife because of what
Sean had asked, You lie.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
A woman.
Speaker 12 (16:44):
It's how Will died for the love of you. I
swear it on the graves of my three sons who
lie dead.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
For the love of me, not for the one called Moya.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Her of the silk dress, who paid Will to take
her sailing. Paid him this I heard too, when the
toasts were drunk in Sean's place. Gave him money to
take her savings. Will spoke her name lightly and laughed
when he told.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Us of it.
Speaker 12 (17:14):
Oh, fetch me that piece of wood there, barb.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Allan and my apron will before.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And then she left me, the old woman did. And
for an hour I walked the beach, gathering goodwood from
my house, and all the while the bell of the
ruined church told for Will, the death of Will, or
my true love or Will. Night came swiftly with the rain,
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and the moon said behind something black in the sky,
and stayed there. The sea was last rolled in and broke,
and the end of it was chill against my feet,
far away the file of Mourner's life as they walked homeward,
and I went home too, and made a fire, waited
(18:10):
till the sound of my father's returning. The funeral was over,
the dead had been buried. My father asked Prettea with
whiskey in it. I gave it to him.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
I left.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I went to a place, Sean's place.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Barbara, hour.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
The storm outside.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You're drenched, my coat shown.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yes, you killed Will.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It was a fair fight.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You killed him with a knife in my belt. You'll
hang for it.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
No, it was a fair fight. According to the law
of Scarlet Town. He could have killed me. I'm alive,
he's dead. No one will hang.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Ah. I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I was worried for you, Barbara Allan.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
No, wait, tell me about it, about what the fight?
How you killed Will.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Will was your love and you want to know how
he died.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Will is dead and I can't grieve.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Tell me why, Shan, I'll make you happy.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Yes, tell me how you killed Will.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Will was the sailor. But he was clumsy with a knife.
And when I drew mine and we faced each other
and we suckled.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I could tell it.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Heavy foot and awkward. And when he rushed me, I
stepped aside and he fell and everybody laughed, and I
let him get up. And somehow he closed with me
and cut me here.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
On my arm.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Oh show me a poor Sean.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
We bent back over the counter, the two of us struggling,
and I looked his face, and I saw a thing fright.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Willie the sailor was scared, and I brought my hand up.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Oh, barb Brillen, Oh you should have seen it his
face when the knife went into it.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
That knife in your belt, Yes, I want to see it.
Put it there on the table where I can look
at it, Sean. Yes, what else will you do for me?
What did this doormat? And I came to you? What
(20:35):
will you do for me?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Now?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I love you?
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Oh, with fine things, bar brill with silk from my shoves.
Whatever you want, this one, this bolt of silk, this one, oh,
this one, which.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
One, barbriell, and which one at your feet?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Whatever you want?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
And listen, I have these two.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Mirrors, and these buttons of shell, and these combs of
mother of pearl for your hair, bar Sean, for your hair.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And you will love me forever, Sean, for as long
as I live.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Tell me again, for as long as I live.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yes, you with a knife you killed? Will I kill you?
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Father your home, Barbara.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Nothing happened for will left me alone again. Fire has
gone out.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I went to Shawn.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Fire has gone out, and I killed him. The sea
spills over the kirchyard, and the dead little drowned, the dead,
and the old graves and the dead.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
And the new graves.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Will.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
That's why I kill shanfather, because of Will, his grave.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Will sink beneath the sea. The storm will wash over Rune.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Don't you hear what I'm saying, Father, I killed Sean.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Will is dead.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I kill Sean, and your life is over. Yes, I
mine shit with me by Brillon.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yes. And I sat with him at his feet while
he rocked. He remembered, and I remembered. And once my
father got up, walked to the fire and threw one root,
(23:06):
sat down again, rocked, and I remembered Will.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Will.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
The grease came from the tears. Will Will, the tears
his grave would.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Think beneath the sea.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I'll make your bed, Barbara, all right, See you killed Sean.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I did look through the window.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Oh the lights of people from Scarlet Town are coming
after you.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Oh, they'll hang me for what I did.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Your love lies on the strand.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
He sleeps on the strand.
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Your love is away.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
I ran.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I ran to where my love was, where Will was,
down to the beach under the strand. And they followed
me the lights of the people from Starlett, and their
voices on the howling winds. And I ran down the
strand where the black sea was covering it. And they
followed me, their voices and the bell on the winds,
(24:23):
and their voices on the wind. And ran ran the bell,
and ran again. Where my love lay lonely, the will
in his grave in the churchyard. I found him, and
no longer was he lonely.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Sweet William lay in the hall to yard, his love
of fair beside him. Out of William's hard through a
red red rose, out of barbarous, through brier, they grew
(25:21):
and grew to the old church tower, and they could
not grow higher. And Lady and the tide on lovers
Knock and the Rosarrapri the.
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Speaker 5 (27:27):
Thank you, Harlow. It's beautiful and thanks to Autolife. I'd
also like to thank the wonderful group of suspense players
who work with me, especially Joseph Kerns and Jeanette Nolan.
We've also won Golden Mic for the best supporting performances
on suspense. Thank you for all of us. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Next week, a story that will prove once again that
truth is stranger than fiction. Mister Cornell Wilde will star
as a man who inadvertently was hired to be an assassin.
The story is called in Wonderland and will be heard
on Suspense. Suspense was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis,
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with music written by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Bluskin.
The Death of Barbara Allen was written for Suspense by
Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In Tonight's story, Jeannette Nolan
was heard as the old lady, Joseph Kerns as Barbara's father.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, William Conrad, Louise Lewis,
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and Junius Matthews. And Baxter Is soon to be seen
in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess and Remember Next Week on Suspense,
mister Cornell Wilde in Allen in Wonderland.
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