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Suspense - "Death Sentence" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On November fourth, nineteen forty eight, CBS aired Auto Lights
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  Speaker 1: presentation of Suspense Death Sentence, Episode four. Originally scheduled for
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  Speaker 1: October twenty eighth, the broadcast was pre emptied and moved
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  Speaker 1: to this later date. John Garfield plays private investigator Tommy Cochrane,
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  Speaker 1: back from vacation to find crime boss Lou Cromwell has
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  Speaker 1: given him seven days to get out of reach. Tommy
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  Speaker 1: heads for Las Vegas, where he meets Helen Ludlow, played
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  Speaker 1: by Gloria Blondell. Her connection to Cromwell complicates his effort
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  Speaker 1: to escape. Raymond Burr appears as Cromwell in his first
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  Speaker 1: known suspense appearance, with Les Crutchfield, adapting Lou Lusty's original
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  Speaker 1: gangster story for radio. Anton M. Leader produced and directed
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast settle In for this nineteen forty eight CBS broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: In just a moment, Autoli presents suspense with John Garfield.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, mister Wilcox, Well.
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  Speaker 4: Hello Mary, where's hap tonight? Anaheim Azusa Cocomaga.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Wilcox, He's giving a speech at his club tonight,
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  Speaker 5: and he was scared to death too.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't know what to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why doesn't he talk about those bang up bonus
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  Speaker 2: built auto lights stay full batteries? Why buy Cornelius? He
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  Speaker 2: could talk a whole evening about them. Four auto lights
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  Speaker 2: stay full batteries have got something that practically eliminates a
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  Speaker 2: major cause of battery failure.
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  Speaker 4: You know what it is?
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  Speaker 3: Why sure they?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, please don't steal my thunder marry. Auto
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  Speaker 2: light stay full batteries have an extra large liquid reserve,
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  Speaker 2: which means, in plain old Wilcox language, that auto light
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  Speaker 2: stay full batteries need water only three times a year
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  Speaker 2: in normal car use. Why buy Cornelius? Everybody ought to
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  Speaker 2: get an auto light stay full battery. They'd be enthralled, enthused,
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  Speaker 2: and thrilled and thrilled.
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  Speaker 3: No, mister Wilcox, but sh here comes suspense.
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  Speaker 7: So spends auto light. And it's sixty thousand dealers in
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  Speaker 7: service stations bring you radios outstanding theater of thrills Starting tonight,
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  Speaker 7: mister John Garfield, Innanton Leader's production of death sentence. The
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  Speaker 7: tale well calculated to keep you in suspin.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard to tell where it first started. It was
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  Speaker 6: six months ago that I nabbed the killer Maxie Dune
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  Speaker 6: and cashed in fifteen thousand in reward money. Sure, I
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  Speaker 6: knew that Maxie worked for Louke Cromwell, but the killing
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  Speaker 6: was a private affair, so I didn't think lou would
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  Speaker 6: be upset. Right after I got the killer, I took
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  Speaker 6: a small job that meant going to Brazil, but the
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  Speaker 6: trouble started before then. By the time Maxie Dunn was arrested,
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  Speaker 6: the chips were down and the wheel was already spinning. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: That's how lou Cromwell would put it, and lou would
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  Speaker 6: know because he knows his gambling. He runs the gambling
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  Speaker 6: in this town, along with a lot of other things.
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  Speaker 6: I hadn't been back in town ten minutes when I
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  Speaker 6: ran into Brad Cummings local columnists in front of the
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  Speaker 6: Region Hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, well you're back in Todd. How are you, Tommy?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 6: How's the column?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Great, great, don't even have to write it anymore.
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  Speaker 8: I'm reusing last year's stuff, Say Tommy, I'm just going
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  Speaker 8: to a cocktail party in the hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Come along.
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  Speaker 6: Who's party Lou Cromwell's. He'll be surprised to see me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you love it, Tommy, Come on.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, let's go to your party.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that doesn't look like who's shown up yet?
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  Speaker 8: But what's he celebrated? Well, he hasn't said yet. Say
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  Speaker 8: why'd you come back? Tom Why shouldn't I? It's a
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  Speaker 8: nice town, sure, except when Lou Cromwell doesn't want it
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  Speaker 8: to be meaning much. I'm only a columnist, Tommy, And
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  Speaker 8: like I said, I'm using last year's news, so I'm
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  Speaker 8: still interested in Maxi done.
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  Speaker 6: It's a dull story, Brad. The cops couldn't find Maxi,
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  Speaker 6: so the widow of the guy he killed hiring me,
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  Speaker 6: I dug up a tip on Maxi's hide out and
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  Speaker 6: brought him in. There happened to be a fifteen grand reward,
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  Speaker 6: so I had myself a customed build vacation. I guess
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  Speaker 6: I was just born lucky.
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  Speaker 4: Lou may think you ought to die the same way.
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  Speaker 6: I can take care of myself as a Why I
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  Speaker 6: should lit't worry about it one way or the other. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you have done some work for him, I was sure. Sure.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a private investigator. I worked for anybody who'll pay
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  Speaker 6: me as long as the job's on the level.
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  Speaker 8: And those I did for Lou were too you don't
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  Speaker 8: have to argue with me, Tommy. But I told you
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  Speaker 8: a year ago not to get mixed up with Lou.
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  Speaker 8: A man has to pick one side of the fence
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  Speaker 8: and stay there. He can't play on both sides.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, Brad. I've done pretty well at it
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  Speaker 6: until now.
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  Speaker 4: But MAXI was lose right hand, so I don't think
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  Speaker 4: he liked it.
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  Speaker 6: So he didn't like it. In the meantime, I'll ll yeah,
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  Speaker 6: oh hello, aha, muggsy Tommy, Lou wants to see you. Well,
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  Speaker 6: how did he not? Okay? Never my words? Not here?
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  Speaker 6: Wants to see you across the street in his office. Well,
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  Speaker 6: let's go back in a few minutes, Brad, I have
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  Speaker 6: a drink for me.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, Tommy, Sure, I'll drink to your health.
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  Speaker 6: How are he?
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  Speaker 10: Helloll? Tell me nice to have you back with us.
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  Speaker 6: Nice to be back low. Seems to me you're pretty
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  Speaker 6: fast about me being in town.
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  Speaker 10: You know how it is? Tell me people drop in
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  Speaker 10: here and gossip and I hear things. Sit down. Thanks, cigarette, Sure,
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  Speaker 10: have a nice vacation.
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  Speaker 6: Good enough.
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  Speaker 10: I guess you're just naturally lucky. Temmy long vacation and
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  Speaker 10: fifteen grand to spend. Now me I didn't get a vacation.
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  Speaker 10: I had to work pretty hard in there plenty trying
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  Speaker 10: to save MAXI done, and now it's very inconvenient finding
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  Speaker 10: someone to take his place.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you're offering me the job, I'm not interested.
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  Speaker 10: I'm glad to see you haven't changed. But seriously, Tommy,
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  Speaker 10: you shouldn't have turned Maxie in.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I ain't convenienced.
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  Speaker 10: No, it's not only that you know how it is
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  Speaker 10: in this racket. Either you keep rolling sevens and stay
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  Speaker 10: on top, or you're on the bottom. It don't look
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  Speaker 10: so good for me to let one of my boys
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  Speaker 10: take a ramp. He had it coming. Possibly MAXI was
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  Speaker 10: dumb to pull that personal job. But if I let
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  Speaker 10: you come in and grab off my boys, somebody will
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  Speaker 10: start thinking that Lou Cromwell is slipping.
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  Speaker 6: Oh never thought of that, Lou. What's the pitch?
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  Speaker 10: And let's see MAXI goes to the gas chamber in
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  Speaker 10: seven days, that's just how long you have to live, Tommy.
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  Speaker 9: What.
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  Speaker 10: Lou. You're punchy, maybe, but you and Maxie are going
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  Speaker 10: out together and you've got seven days, Tommy, no more.
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  Speaker 10: You can take care of the job yourself then, or
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  Speaker 10: we'll handle it for you when the time's up. Play
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  Speaker 10: at your own way.
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  Speaker 6: I could get the DA in my coin.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think so, Tommy. You and I have just
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  Speaker 10: had a friendly talk. Nobody's made any threats. Besides, you
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  Speaker 10: won't win playing that way. Maybe, and maybe there are
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  Speaker 10: other ways to play, not this time.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 10: I like you, Tommy. Ordinarily I'd even like to see
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  Speaker 10: you win. But once in a while, the house has
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  Speaker 10: to rake in a few chips to stay in business.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you better tell the house man to keep
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  Speaker 6: his foot off the break. I'm playing a win though
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  Speaker 6: I knew you would.
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  Speaker 10: That makes it more interesting. I get tired of playing
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  Speaker 10: with playing suckers. Well, I got a party across the street.
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  Speaker 10: Care to come along, I've already been there. It's not
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  Speaker 10: much of a party.
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  Speaker 6: It'll get better.
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  Speaker 10: I'll see you around, Tommy. Don't start brooding about the
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  Speaker 10: seven days. Make the most of them. Oh you need
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  Speaker 10: any money.
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  Speaker 6: No thanks, I'll make out all right.
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  Speaker 10: Good, go out and have some fun. It's a great life, Tommy,
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  Speaker 10: as long as it lasts.
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  Speaker 7: For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you mister John Garfield
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  Speaker 7: in radio's outstanding Theater of Thrills suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Say Mary, let me tell you about a most wonderful
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  Speaker 2: experience I had this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure mister will carry well.
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  Speaker 2: I drove my car into a nearby service station, and
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  Speaker 2: the attendant new Man. You see, he said, check your battery,
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  Speaker 2: mister well By Cornelius. This is the chance I've been
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  Speaker 2: waiting for ever since my grandfather traded his horse for
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  Speaker 2: a Stanley Steamer. Young Man, I says that gorgeous hunk
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  Speaker 2: of battery you're looking at as an auto light stayful?
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  Speaker 2: Why that auto light stayful battery hasn't needed a drop
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  Speaker 2: of water for months, and I'll bet you a forty
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  Speaker 2: dollars for Dora. It doesn't need water now any more
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  Speaker 2: than a goldfish needs a raincoat.
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  Speaker 3: Did he take your bet, mister Wilcocks, I.
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  Speaker 2: Should say not, bub he says to me, you can't
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  Speaker 2: trick me. I'm an auto light dealer. Why I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: bet a barrel of bucks on a three legged horse
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  Speaker 2: than bet an auto light stay.
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  Speaker 4: Full battery needs water.
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  Speaker 2: What's more, says he, that auto light battery is built
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  Speaker 2: to last longer than batteries without.
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  Speaker 6: Stay full features.
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  Speaker 2: It's got oversized electrical capacity plus fiberglass insulation, and it's
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  Speaker 2: one of over four hundred automotive, aviation and marine parts
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  Speaker 2: made by the Auto Light people in their twenty six
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  Speaker 2: nationwide plants. Chew on that a while, mister, he says,
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  Speaker 2: to me, imagine the nerve of this guy Mary stealing
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  Speaker 2: my sales.
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  Speaker 4: Talk me harlow A for Auto Light Wilcox.
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  Speaker 3: Will you just go feel sorry for yourself, mister Wilcox
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  Speaker 3: while I listen to suspense.
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  Speaker 7: And now Auto Light brings back to a Hollywood sound stage.
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  Speaker 7: Mister John Garfield as Tommy Cochran in death sentence A
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  Speaker 7: taiale well calculated to keep you in suspen.
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  Speaker 6: Seven more days to live. I wouldn't admit it to Lou,
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  Speaker 6: maybe not even to myself, but it was almost that simple.
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  Speaker 6: Sure I could go to the police, but I didn't
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  Speaker 6: have any proof that Lou was out to kill me.
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  Speaker 6: And I knew that sooner or later, no matter where
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  Speaker 6: I went, one of Lou's boys would catch up with me.
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  Speaker 6: As I wrote down in the elevator, I kept remembering
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  Speaker 6: one of Lou's gang who turned state's evidence once and
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  Speaker 6: got off. Was three years ten days after the guy
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  Speaker 6: I checked into the Big house. He was knife to
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  Speaker 6: death in the prison yard and they never found out
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  Speaker 6: who did it. That's the way Lou operated patient deadly,
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  Speaker 6: and there wasn't any point of making plans with a
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  Speaker 6: guy like that. I'd pretend to follow his advice about
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  Speaker 6: having a good time. All I could do was keep
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  Speaker 6: on my toes and watch for an opening main floorster.
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  Speaker 6: This is as far as we go. Oh, thanks, it's
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  Speaker 6: about as far as I go too. I didn't know
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  Speaker 6: just where I was going for the first stop, but
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  Speaker 6: sometimes it's better if you just play it off the cuff.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I was still thinking of the next spin
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  Speaker 6: of the wheel as I walked out of the building.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't even notice the taxi standing at the curve.
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  Speaker 3: With the Okay, why don't you look where you're going?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry. I hope I didn't hurt your traveling case.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I thought you were going to stumble right
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  Speaker 3: off the curb.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I was thinking same. Yeah, beautiful, Well, I
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  Speaker 6: hope you'll live forever.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, I'll try to.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you find out, how let me know where
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  Speaker 6: you're going. Huh, well, now, really, I mean the traveling
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  Speaker 6: case there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Santa Barbara shut a barber.
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  Speaker 6: Huh, it's not a bad idea. Tell me something. If
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  Speaker 6: you had just one week, where would you go?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I do have about a week, and I'm still
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  Speaker 5: going to Santa Barber.
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  Speaker 6: All right, honey, thanks for the idea, and maybe i'll
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  Speaker 6: rant edit you again. You must say I got part
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  Speaker 6: on you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh hello, Mugsy, Look, will you be a darling and
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  Speaker 3: help me bring these bags up to Lose Office.
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  Speaker 6: I threw a few things into a bag and headed
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  Speaker 6: for Santa Barbara. Seemed like a good place to wait
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  Speaker 6: for that opening. Lou would never think of me going
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  Speaker 6: to a pleasure resorts on the air. Anyway. Three hours
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  Speaker 6: after I left Los Office, I was on a plane
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  Speaker 6: bound for Frisco. That's right, San Francisco. When I got there,
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  Speaker 6: I rode around for an hour and a half in
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  Speaker 6: three different taxis and caught another plane out for Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 6: From there, I swung back to Santa Barbara checked in
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  Speaker 6: at the Swank Ocean's Club hotel. I was pretty sure
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  Speaker 6: I'd shaken anybody who may have been watching me. I
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  Speaker 6: could come on maybe two days before Lou's boys caught
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  Speaker 6: up with me. By that time, I might have a
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  Speaker 6: plan I wandered around on the beach a while, keeping
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  Speaker 6: my eyes open. For the other reason. I had picked
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  Speaker 6: Santa Barbara, And then when I went inside, I saw
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  Speaker 6: her sitting there at the bar. It was the same
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  Speaker 6: girl and she was alone. Well, I beg you love that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh to you? So you did come to Santa bar
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  Speaker 3: You told me you remember, I only suggested that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know I'm kidding. Mind if I join you?
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  Speaker 3: Please do?
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  Speaker 6: I'm Tommy Cochran.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Tommy. My name's Helen Ludlow.
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  Speaker 6: Helen. Huh. Maybe it's silly here, but I was feeling
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  Speaker 6: like a kid in the wrong schoolhouser until I saw
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  Speaker 6: you sitting there. I know that sounds like the usual.
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  Speaker 3: I know what you mean. In fact, I felt.
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  Speaker 6: The same way.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 6: So now we're both happy. I guess we are.
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  Speaker 3: Are you here on vacation?
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  Speaker 6: Not exactly. I retired yesterday, What about you?
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  Speaker 5: I guess I retired too, in a way.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen you, Helen, but I just can't remember.
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  Speaker 5: Probably any show. I'm a dancer.
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  Speaker 6: Sure that's it. In the top of the roof last
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  Speaker 6: for Ah Bad.
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  Speaker 5: Guess that was my kid's sister. She had a second
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  Speaker 5: lead in it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm strictly chorus.
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  Speaker 6: Strictly carus. Why you need a new manager? How about
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  Speaker 6: having dinner with me tonight and we'll talk about your career.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if all right?
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  Speaker 6: Good, it's a date.
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  Speaker 3: Look tell mey, we met each other entirely by accident,
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  Speaker 3: but suddenly we're friends, I mean really friends, at least
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  Speaker 3: I feel that way.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know what you mean, go on, Helen.
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  Speaker 3: But we don't know anything about each other, and that's
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  Speaker 3: where it's got to be. I won't ask any questions Tommy,
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  Speaker 3: and I can't answer any If we keep it like that,
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  Speaker 3: then maybe everything will be all right.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, it's a deal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know why I feel this way.
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  Speaker 6: Tell me if you find out. After all, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: A kid sixteen years old. It just doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've known a couple of girls myself.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing this afternoon, Tommy? Would you like
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  Speaker 3: to go horse stack riding?
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  Speaker 4: Horse?
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  Speaker 6: Sure? Why not? I'd never been on a horse though,
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  Speaker 6: but you can always pick me up.
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  Speaker 3: Then it's a day.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, How would you like a drink for it?
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  Speaker 3: That's a wonderful idea.
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  Speaker 6: I drink to the present, no past, no future. So
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  Speaker 6: Helen and I rode horse back in the afternoon, had
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  Speaker 6: dinner together, and then danced on early morning. It was great,
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  Speaker 6: except that it's hard to be with a girl like
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  Speaker 6: that and not talk about the future. I wanted her
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  Speaker 6: in my future, I mean, I didn't have any Maybe
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  Speaker 6: she sensed it. I hadn't seen any of the loose boys.
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  Speaker 6: I kept looking around, trying to spot them, thinking maybe
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  Speaker 6: the guy next to me might even be the one.
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  Speaker 6: I kept trying to forget them, and it wasn't too
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  Speaker 6: hard with Helen around. She was someone I'd been looking
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  Speaker 6: for all my life, and now maybe I'd found her
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  Speaker 6: too late. Every minute had to come, and I was
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  Speaker 6: still waiting for an opening. I got up early the
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  Speaker 6: next morning. Helen and I were going riding before breakfast,
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  Speaker 6: and for once I wasn't thinking about Lou and this
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  Speaker 6: boys until I walked across the lobby of the hotel.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, tell me, huh, how are you?
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  Speaker 6: Ah? Hello? Lou?
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  Speaker 10: Keeping awfully laid hours tummy or else you're up early?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe a little of both. What are you doing here? Lou?
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  Speaker 10: Checking in? I just got off the plane. But don't
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  Speaker 10: let it bother you, Tommy, you still have four days left.
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  Speaker 10: By the way, what room are you.
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  Speaker 6: In four twenty five?
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  Speaker 10: Now that's coincidence they gave me for twenty seven. You
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  Speaker 10: can knock on the wall whenever you get lonesome.
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  Speaker 6: I won't get that lonesome loom. Well, you never know.
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  Speaker 10: Anyway, Let's not talk shop. Why not enjoy ourselves while
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  Speaker 10: we can?
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  Speaker 6: All right? Why not? They tell me? It's fatally worry.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't see him again that day. Helen and I
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  Speaker 6: took that ride one swimming in the afternoon, and then
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  Speaker 6: drove down the beach for dinner. The next day was
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: about the same, except we ended up at the hotel
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: for dinner and dancing. Of course. Funny, I've never cared
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: much about dancing before.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: You know, you're very good at it, Tommy, even terrific dancing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Oh I used to be a jig Tommy. Did you
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: really no kidding't? Helen. I've been a lot of things though, yes,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: so hard anything besides wonderful.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Everything, but that things have been rough sometimes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: It's that kind of a world. It may not look
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: at and a place like this, soft lights and white
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: table gloves, nice clean people eating nice clean food, but
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: down underneath it's still rough.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: You can forget it, though all the music keeps on playing.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, how long you? How long are you're planning to
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: stay in the Santa about? Helen?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: About a week?
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: You? A week? Why'd you come?
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you, and please don't ask me any questions. Remember,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: let's enjoy it while we can.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, let's see.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I wish it would last forever. I mean this week.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: Maybe this is forever. Honey, here we are.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Thanks Tommy, what's this? You didn't order champagne?
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Did you know? They must have made it? Oh?
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: I sent it over, Tommy, and I thought you might
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: like it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Nice of you, lou. Thanks.
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: Well do I get to meet the lady or are
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: you starting to hold out on your old friends?
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Helen? This is Luke Cromwell, Miss Ludlow.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: How do you do?
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: You too?
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: Make a lovely couple. You both seem to be having
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: a lot of fun out there on the dance floor.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: That's right, we were. I'm glad to hear it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: Have all the fun you can while you're here. Life's
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: too short to waste any of it, don't you think so, Tommy?
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Well, three more days went by. I was still on
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: my toes, but nothing had opened. I was like a
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: fighter who was a ponent wouldn't come out of his corner.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: I spent every minute with Helen. We weren't kidding ourselves
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: any longer. We knew this was the biggest thing that
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: ever happened to us. We'd both been kicked around a
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: lot and made mistakes and played the game on a bluff,
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: trying to get things we thought we wanted. And now
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: we knew we had what we wanted. Only I knew
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: how long it could keep. And there were times when
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: I thought Helen guessed it. Maybe it was because she
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: didn't ask any questions, as though she already knew the answers. Finally,
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: it was nearly noon of my sixth day. I had
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a date for an early lunch with Helen. So I
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: walked down the hall that was sweep. I guess I
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: was about ten feet away when her door opened.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: All right, Heney, and we'll leave it that way. Just
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: see that you deliver in two days.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: So all tright, Tommy, you haven't changed rooms? Have you losed?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I knew Lou before I came here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: Answer Tommy, Helen and I are an old friend.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Oh I thought I introduced you. That was just a
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: little idea of mine.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: I've got to run along now, Helen, unless Tommy has
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: something he'd.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Like to talk. No, just run along real fast.
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: Take it easy, tell me. It may not make you
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: live longer, but you'll be happier. See you around.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Would you like to come in? Tommy?
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Thanks? All right, let's have it. How do you happen
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: to know Lou Cromwell, Tommy?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Doesn't everybody know Lou or know of him?
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Yes? But you know him? How come? Well?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I was the dancer. I met him somewhere. You know
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: how it is?
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know how it is. Why didn't you tell
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: me the other night when he saw us a one?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: He obviously didn't want me to, And I don't see
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: how it mattered.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: What did you mean before about you delivering in two days? Tommy?
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Temmy, I can't tell Why didn't you leave it that way?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I can't answer.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Question. Got to Helen. You know how I feel about it,
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: and I thought you felt the same way. It's too
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: late now for that. No questions. I don't have the time.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: You've got to answer.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Please try to understand, Tommy. I came here in the
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: first place because of Lou, because he forced me to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: forced you because of my sister, Tommy. She's just a
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: crazy kid and she got mixed up in something. Lou
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: could make it tough for he if he wanted to do,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I mean really tough.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Okay, So he forced you to come here?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Why to do something I didn't want to do, but
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: that I had to?
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: What?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you, Tommy, I didn't want to believe me.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I have to, and that's.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: All all right, all right, I believe you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Oh Tommy. I guess we're the kind of people who
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: never win no matter what, Helen.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: I've done some pretty foolish things around a lot. I
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: know what you mean. It's never been like this. I've
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: never been in love with anybody before like this. Oh
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: that goes for me too. Will you do something for me,
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: something important? Marry me tonight, Tommy, Please, Honey, I don't
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: know what do you say.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I never wanted anything so much, and I ought to
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: have just one thing I want. We both ought too,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: all right, Tommy. Tonight We were.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Married at eight o'clock with a hotel musician playing Oh
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Promise Me on a pint sized organ, and then Helen
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: went to her suite to change for dinner at least
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: that's what she thought that I had a different plan.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: I was going to make my own opening and take
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: her along. Oh. I ordered the dinner all right, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: made a big noise about it in the dining room,
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: and then I went straight to my room. A charter
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: plane was already warmed up and waiting at the airfield,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: and I had a taxi at the rear her door
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: of the hotel. This was going to be a fast break,
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: and I wasn't even taking any luggage, nothing except Helen
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: and me and a thirty eight automatic strapped down under
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: my coat. It was about a half hour later when
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I finally went down to Helen's sweet to pick her
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: up Nanser. So I tried again. The door was unlocked, Helen.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: It's tell me, Helen. She wasn't in the sitting room
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: or the bedroom. So I finally opened the door to
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: the bath. I looked around, but she wasn't in sight.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Then just as I started to leave, she fell. She
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: then propped up in the tub behind the shower curtain,
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: but she fell out, hitting with a horrible limp sound.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: She was dead, strangled. I stepped out and pulled the
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: bathroom door shut it using my handkerchief to wipe off
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: the knob, without even thinking that. I didn't feel anything
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: except maybe an numbness. It's still Lou had seen how
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: I felt about her, so he'd done this or I
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: had it done. I tried to brush the fog out
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: of my eyes and think not about her lying in
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: there or what might have been now. I wasn't even
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: thinking about my seven days. I had something else on
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: my mind. Finally I stepped out into the hall and
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: started for Lou Cromwell's room. But I had only gone
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: a few steps when I heard two guys coming, and
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: they sounded like cops. I stepped into the hall in
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: in closet and pulled the door shut.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Somebody calls up and says, this dame was just been killed,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: and we'd find a killer still there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I got it then Lou had not
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: only killed Helen. He called the police and said I
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: did it. It didn't take long to reach his room.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: Oh it's you, Tommy. I thought it was one of
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: the boys.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: No, oh, it's me, Lou.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: I'm a little surprised at this visit, Tommy. Where's your
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: new bride?
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Why did you do it?
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Lou?
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: Oh? You've already been there. Then I thought you'd stick
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: around longer after you found things so the cops would
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: get there. Well, something like that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Maybe you didn't have to do it that way, Lou,
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: not to her. Why did you do it? You mean
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: you don't know?
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: You should have gone back to that party with me
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: last week? Why, because then you'd have found out about
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: my surprise. Tommy. I made the announcement that I was
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: going to marry Helen Ludlow at the end of the week.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: So that's what you were forcing her to do.
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: Oh, let's just say that I proposed and conditions were
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: such that she accepted. Now, when I got here, she
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: wanted a couple of more days, and I gave.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: It to her.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: But today she double crossed me and married you. Two
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: double crosses. You can see the position that put me in. Tommy.
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: It's bad for business.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Tell me, Lou, did you know about me? You know
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: what I mean?
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she knew. I guess she thought the two of
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: you could break the bank, so you had to do it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: But you made some mistakes. You made one way, what's
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: the gun for?
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: I just feel more comfortable holding it this way, Tommy,
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: don't let it bother you though, go on, What were
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: my mistakes?
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: One of them was not thinking I'd come here to
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: your room and find you alone. But the big one,
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: the big one was when you killed Heaven. You shouldn't
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: have done that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: Well, now, Tommy, don't let it get you down. Maybe
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: I can fix it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: It's too late now we've all had our last chance.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: The way you'd put it. The bets are all down
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: and the wheels starting to slow up.
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: Well, well, maybe you can tell me what number it's
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: stopping on, Tommy, Sure the house takes everything, all right,
• 26:47
  Speaker 10: it's already stopped on.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Doubles him. Uh huh, Hello, that's that's clerk. I'm I'm
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: a stranger in town. How do I find the chief
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: of police?
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: Thank you, John Garfield for a splendid performance. Mister Garfield
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: will return in just a moment.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Mister Wilcox, you look all out of breath. Did suspense get.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: You me out of breath?
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I only need three rest the year in normal Wilcox,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: use I mean auto light stay full, batteries need water
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: only three times a year in normal car.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: You my, I'm glad you got that straightened out.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Well, friends, here's something I'm really straightened out about if
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: you mean to make the most of your next battery
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: by if you want to practically banish one cause of
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: battery failure, then high yourself down to your nearest auto
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: light dealer, bright and early tomorrow morning and get your
• 28:24
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• 28:27
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• 28:29
  Speaker 2: put a wonderful, dependable auto light, stay full battery in
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: your car. Don't delay, get your ding Dong daisy of
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: an auto light, stay full battery right away. And friends,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: remember auto light means.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Battery, Stay full battery.
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: Auto light means spark plugs, ignition engineered spark plug. Auto
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: light means ignition system the lifeline of your car.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: And again is mister John Garfield.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: It's been a great pleasure to appear here tonight with
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: his great cast of suspense actors, and I'm expecting almost
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: as much pleasure next Thursday, when Radio's outstanding Theater of
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Thrills brings you Anne Blyfe and Edmond O'Brien and Muddy
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Track another gripping study in suspense.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: John Garfield will soon be seen starred in the Roberts
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: production Force of Evil. Presented by Enterprise Studios and released
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: through Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Tonight's suspense play was written by
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Lou Lusty and Less Crutchfield, with music composed by Lucian
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. The entire production was
• 29:42
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• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Suspense will present such stars as rosalind Russell, Agnes Moorehead
• 29:50
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• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Thursday to Suspense Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, and next Thursday,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: same time. Here Edmund O'Brien and Blythe in muddy track.
• 30:07
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• 30:10
  Speaker 10: your life depends on it, it does.
• 30:13
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• 30:16
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• 30:19
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• 30:40
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• 30:44
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