WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:33.119 Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.600 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:43.840 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot net and you can follow us on 4 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:49.479 Twitter at Radio Detectives. Well, this is our eight hundred episode special and 5 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:55.000 we're going to bring you another one hour episode of suspense. And this is 6 00:00:55.880 --> 00:01:00.359 from a story originally written by Cornell Woolwich. It was was adapted as a 7 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:06.200 movie and there was a Lucks Radio Theater version of the movie. But myself, 8 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:10.760 I like this version much better. I think it's a very emotionally resident 9 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:17.239 and a powerful story, A definitely a great mystery with lots of detection. 10 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:22.159 We would probably put it today the way it was performed here on the radio, 11 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:26.079 into the category of romantic suspense, but I think it's pretty exciting and 12 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.959 challenging for anybody. So let's go ahead and take a lesson to this episode 13 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:38.000 from May the fifteenth, nineteen forty eight. It was the very last of 14 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:46.200 Suspense Is one hour episodes, So let's go ahead and enjoy Deadline at Dawn. 15 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:14.199 Suspense Radio's outstanding theater of frills brings you an hour, a full sixty 16 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:20.400 minutes of suspense to night. Our stars, Miss Helen Walker and mister John 17 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:25.840 Beale. Our Story Deadline at Dawn by William Irish, a suspense play produced 18 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:35.759 and directed by Anton M. Leader. If you've ever been alone in a 19 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.319 strange, big city, you know the haunting loneliness of it, and you 20 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.639 know how the sight of a familiar face, the sound of a familiar voice 21 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.520 can lift your spirit high. Even a stranger who comes from your hometown becomes 22 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.360 a long lost friend because he brings with him a breath of home, a 23 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:54.879 flood of memories. That was the emotion that drew Brickie Coleman and Quinn Williams 24 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:00.400 together. But their meeting wasn't the joyful, happy kind. It was the 25 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:06.680 beginning of longing and fear and danger. And now, with the performances of 26 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.520 Helen Walker as Brickie Coleman and John Beale as Quinn Williams, and with William 27 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:16.280 Irish's great story Deadline at Dawn, we again hope to keep you in suspend. 28 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:42.199 Until I met him, men were just pink dance tickets. To me. 29 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.080 They were just two and a half cents worth of commission on the dime. 30 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:50.520 Here's a feat that kept crowding mine. All over the map, all 31 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:54.240 over the floor, all over the night. There were blank faces that could 32 00:03:54.240 --> 00:04:00.479 steer me anyway they wanted until they're five minutes were up. Because I was 33 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.560 a New York taxi dancer until I met him, a girl from a small 34 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:10.639 town, caught and held fast in the big city, with all her dreams 35 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:16.120 forgotten and all her hopes gone, and not caring anymore, not caring at 36 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:23.759 all until I met him. They always dimmed the lights for the last dance, 37 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:29.439 just to make the customers feel sentimental about it all. At one in 38 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.120 the morning, I was through again for the day. I put on my 39 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:36.759 coat, go out the side door, walked past the sad sacks that thought 40 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:42.199 they were wolves and loitered on the sidewalk, and then I begin the twenty 41 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:47.439 blocks to home. Home was a filthy old brownstone down near the river, 42 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:56.639 the long Smelace, an old army caught That was home. But at least 43 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.639 it was a place where I could get out of my shoes and make some 44 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:08.639 calls sleep to forget. I'd get home about one thirty. You left your 45 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:14.319 door open, so I left my door open. It did you think that 46 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.399 was an invitation to walk in. You better close it now. Hey, 47 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:27.680 listen here, please, all right, you're a burglary. You won't find 48 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:31.160 anything. The rats got here first. I am a burgley. Oh then 49 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.439 you're a very smart one. What are you looking for? Coffee grounds? 50 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.480 I wasn't looking for anything. Then, why don't you go? Please find 51 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:43.319 a nice, rich old lady to rob. I need a place to stay 52 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:48.160 for a while. I thought maybe you would let me. What stay here? 53 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:51.600 I don't hand out favors. You're nothing to me, I know, 54 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:58.560 just a hunch I head where you were looking at me. I thought I 55 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.279 could come here for help. The way I was looking, I've never seen 56 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:06.120 you before in my life. Well, you were looking straight at me at 57 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:10.639 the dance hall about an hour ago. You mean you were at the Cinderella 58 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:16.000 Ballroom tonight. Don't you remember me? No, that's funny, not funny 59 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.040 at all. You all look the same to me, namely horrible. I 60 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:30.120 guess it's my mistake. I was sure you seem so so nice, did 61 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.600 I? Yeah, that's because I was thinking of home. I always do 62 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:38.439 that on the job. Makes the night go faster. I guess I know 63 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:43.079 what you mean. What'd you do? Follow me? No? The man 64 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.959 at the door gave me your address for a dollar. Oh he did, 65 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.079 did he? I wanted to get off the streets this time of night. 66 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:53.360 The cops are curious. I thought I saw one of them following me, 67 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:56.639 so I beat it down this hall to hide. That's when I found your 68 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.199 door open, and take a good place for hiding. Nobody ever comes here 69 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.279 but the landlady once a month. Please let me stay awhile? Please? 70 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:11.480 What's your name? Quinn Williams? Quinn? Ye never heard that name before. 71 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.639 It used to be my mother's before she got married. I see, 72 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:23.240 what do you say? You want some coffee? Quinn? Thanks? Thanks? 73 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.160 I get this straight. One cup of coffee and nothing more. No 74 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.199 sugar goes with it. You give me one blink too many coffee? I 75 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:35.319 understand a man can tell by looking at a girl whether she means one thing 76 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.399 or another. Be surprised how many of them are to have an oppetition? 77 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.959 I know. Give me a match for the oven. Here you are. 78 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:54.879 I got the oven lit and reached down some cups and sauces and watched him. 79 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.040 Not that I was worried. I wouldn't have closed the door if I 80 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:03.240 hadn't thought I could handle him. It was only that he was so young 81 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:09.959 and his face was so tight and strained. He'd been beat by the city. 82 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:15.519 Must have been like taking candy away from a baby. And he trusted 83 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.920 me because I'd smiled at him while I was dancing, and he thought that 84 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.839 smile was for him. I wish it was all of a sudden because he 85 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:31.879 was different. Coffee won't be long. I' sorry, I'm in no hurry. 86 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.600 Pretty young for a burg Roger, doesn't take much training. Where'd you 87 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:43.679 come from? And how did it happen? Oh? Come from a little 88 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.000 town. It's nothing much, but I like him. I hick myself here 89 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:54.039 from my place is Glenn Falls. I will what's yours? What's the matter? 90 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.399 Nothing? Oh? I thought I said something wrong. Oh no, 91 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.639 you said something right. It's crazy, a crazy coincidence. But I come 92 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:07.799 from Glen Falls too, honest. That's that's amazing. You know it is? 93 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.679 What street did you live on? And there's name Pine Street? The 94 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.600 second house down between Pine and Oh when we're neighbors? What? I live 95 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:18.639 just across the street from you? How is it we never met? I 96 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:20.840 don't know. I came here five years ago. Oh, I've been here 97 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.879 a year. You must have come to New York before we moved in. 98 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.039 Sure, Wait a minute, Have you got a brother with a lot of 99 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.879 freckles? Yeah, Journey, he's just a kid about eight. My sister 100 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.759 has been writing to me about a new boyfriend, a boy named Williams. 101 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.600 How perfect he is except for the freckles, And of course they're we are 102 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:45.080 off. That's Journey. Ah, so you're the boy next door. Were 103 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:50.919 we we'd probably have known each other very well. If you'd stayed home. 104 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:58.879 I know I wish you had stay I do too. What's your name? 105 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:05.960 Ruth Coleman. Everybody at home calls me Brickie. They started it because because 106 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.840 of your hair, that's right. Do you have a feel that you want 107 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:16.879 to go back every day? Zebus les New York every morning at six I 108 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.159 know I've inquired. I've got the fair sewed up in my mattress. Have 109 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:28.759 you go because my mother thinks I'm dancing in a Broadway show. Because I'd 110 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.200 be too ashamed because it's so hard to go back. Yeah, would you 111 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.039 want to go, Brickie? This morning? At six o'clock? You ought 112 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:41.480 to go back? Hard? Going back alone? If someone could come with 113 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:48.639 me. Would you come home to Quinny. You want to escape from the 114 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.600 city, don't you just like me? You want to go back. We'll 115 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.679 then come with me. If it's the fair you're worried about. I've got 116 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.000 enough for both of us, including a good dinner in Chicago, anything for 117 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.360 the boy next door, Quinn makes Brickie. It's too late. The police 118 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:07.320 will be looking for me around eight o'clock this morning. Oh yeah, I 119 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:16.080 forgot. How long have you been at very glad? About three hours? 120 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.279 Three hours? And did it tonight for the first time, so you see 121 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.200 breaking it's a little too late for me to go back. I've missed a 122 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:33.639 bus three hours. Hop is ready, clean, good cream and sugar? 123 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:48.519 No thanks, Black? Was it easy? Very easy? Why you do 124 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:54.720 it? You'll do anything when you've gone for four days without eating. Oh 125 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.879 but it's funny. After I'd done it, I went straight to the best 126 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.320 restaurant in town. I looked at the menu and got ready to order everything 127 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.919 on it. Two helpings of everything. Right. I couldn't eat it, 128 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.240 so I got up and walked out. That's when I began to think cops 129 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:18.320 were trailing me. I'm not used to being a robber. So you still 130 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:24.519 got it all with you, twenty five hundred dollars in cash. Divide it 131 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.159 up into small rolls in all my pockets. You want to see it, 132 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:35.639 No neither do I. But it's there. I can feel it against my 133 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:41.159 skin all over my body. Where did you get it? Quinn? I 134 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.879 was working for an electrician about four months ago. One day I got a 135 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.279 call to go to a big house on seventy first Street and put a fixture 136 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.120 in the bathroom wall. I had to cut a big hole in the wall 137 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.000 to do it. While I was doing that, I ran into woodin a 138 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.399 wooden box in the wall. I did my work just beside it, and 139 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:05.759 that box. That box was the back of a safe OH put into the 140 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.200 wall of a study in the next room. The front of the safe was 141 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.720 good, heavy steel. When they built it, nobody thought it could be 142 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:16.480 broken into from the other side through the bathroom, and nobody ever would have 143 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.440 either until an electrician ran into it one day by a mistake. But all 144 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:26.080 this happened four months ago. You see, I'd brought more tools with me 145 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.600 than I needed that day, and I left some of them in my bag 146 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.480 downstairs on a little table near the front door. And when I got back 147 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.159 to the shop, I found a key in the bag. I must have 148 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.000 brushed it in while I was putting the tools back after finishing the job. 149 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.279 It turned out to be a key to the front door. You didn't return 150 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:48.480 it. I didn't. No, I meant to, but right then I 151 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.240 forgot all about it. And when I did remember that I had the key, 152 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:58.480 I was out of work, hungry and wanting money badly, so I 153 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:03.360 went back there. It's an unbox. I opened that hole again, pulled 154 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.440 the back of the safe out. I didn't bother with any of the papers 155 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.240 or securities. I just took the cache. The house was empty. The 156 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:15.720 man who lives there society fell up, by the name of Graves, was 157 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:18.360 probably out on the town. So I just walked out the front door. 158 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:28.080 Seems like ten years ago. It was only three hours. So this Graves 159 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.679 man will see the hole in the morning when he goes in to take a 160 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.759 shower. Then you'll call the police. It will be a quick trial. 161 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:41.320 I'm a short one, but the sentence won't be so short. The boy 162 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.399 next door, the boy you wave too when you come in or out of 163 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:50.080 your gate. The grinning boy next door, friendly as a pun, Go 164 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.159 back, Brickie. It's where you belong. It's the only kind of life 165 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.799 for you. Come with me, Quinn. I've told you I can't. 166 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.840 They've got a long arm. They'll find me, and I'd rather have him. 167 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.360 I'm me here in the city. Have you still got the key, 168 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:09.240 the key you went in with? Yeah? Why well if you can get 169 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:13.600 back in before he comes home, just in and out long enough to put 170 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.519 the money back. They won't come all the way to Iowa for you, 171 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.919 just for chopping a hole in the wall if nothing's been taken. Don't you 172 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.639 want to go home? At six o'clock this morning? If he's out on 173 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.240 the town, he won't be home yet. At least that's what we'll pray 174 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.679 for. We'll go together now. I'll wait outside for you, and then 175 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:33.639 we'll go down of the term and buy our tickets and wait for the bus. 176 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.240 We'll wait for dawn together, Quinn, you mean you do this for 177 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:48.159 me? For the boy next door? Anytime anything. There was no time 178 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.360 to lose. Graves might be coming home any minute. I ripped the money 179 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.399 out of my mattress and we ran out of the cold, empty streets, 180 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.279 just as a cab crows By. We piled into it and told him to 181 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:04.879 take us to seventy first Street, and to take us fast. Everybody's always 182 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.159 in a hurry. What's your hurry? The night's young, Yeah, have 183 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:18.000 a mind the conversation, Joe drive. The customers always right. I just 184 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.440 remember what. I can't pay for this cab unless I use some of our 185 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.279 capital. I don't care what you use, Pal, just so it's money. 186 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.519 Don't worry about it. You'll get paid. I'll pay him. We 187 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.320 don't want to use any of our capital, not a single penny. It's 188 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.480 all got to go back breaking when we get out of this, when we 189 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.720 get back home, Oh, thank you. Then i'll find a way to 190 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:45.200 thank you. Seventy free Street, any special number, No, Just let 191 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:55.840 us out here on the corner. That's ninety cents, and I can break 192 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.320 a fifty if I have to. Here's ninety cents, and here's a time 193 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:19.319 have fun. Well, here we are. Where's the house across the street? 194 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.960 Up a little you wait here, don't come any closer than this. 195 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.839 I'll be back in no time. Don't be frightened, Brinkie, don't take 196 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.519 any chances. Quinn. If you see any lights. If it looks as 197 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.920 if he's gotten back already, don't go all the way in. Just drop 198 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.599 the money inside the door, all right, Bricky, goodbye? Then goodbye, 199 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:48.079 Quinn, hurry back. I waited for him there in the chilly night, 200 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:53.880 on the dark empty street. Why I knew better. New Yorker taught 201 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.400 me one thing, and that was never to be a sucker for a man. 202 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:03.160 But then there was no man. This was the boy who lived across 203 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.039 from the on Anderson Street in Glen Falls, Iowa. The boy had come 204 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:11.680 here to do big things, to lick the town, and instead he'd been 205 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:18.160 licked. Instead. He was hiding in the dog sneaking along the streets helpless, 206 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.799 the boy next door. Then I suddenly crouched back into our doorway. 207 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.400 A patrolman was coming on his tour of duty. He stopped near me, 208 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:33.319 not ten yards away, but his back was to me, and his hand 209 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:41.920 was opening a call box, Russian reporting in how's a rummy game? Gone? 210 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:49.519 Another thing? Quiet at church? He finished his call, closed the 211 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:55.519 box and went on down the street. Then he turned a corner and disappeared, 212 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:03.759 and I breathed again. He'd been right, though it was quiet as 213 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.559 a church and that was wrong because Quinn should have been back long ago. 214 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.400 Ricky, what's the matter? Ricky? Tell me, Quinn? What is 215 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:18.279 it? What is it? What are you frightened about? What happened in 216 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.640 there? He's been killed, He's dead, he's lying in there, dead 217 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:27.319 man who lives there? Yeah, mister great, why is it you? 218 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:33.079 Quinn? Did you do it the first time you were in there? And 219 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.000 I I swear I didn't, Ricky, I only took the money. He 220 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.519 wasn't even there. He must have come back since I knew you didn't, 221 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:45.720 Quinn. I knew even though I asked, go down to the terminal, 222 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.319 get your ticket and climb on that bus and forget we ever met. Go 223 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.559 on, Ricky, beat it before they find out, not without you. 224 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:55.880 But don't you see now it's murder. They'll charge me with They'll find the 225 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.559 bathroom, fix your tampered with the traces the electrician, then to me, 226 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:00.839 and they'll they'll naturally think, don't you see it's too light, Breakie. 227 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:06.359 It's never too late, don't you know that, Not until the last second 228 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:08.640 of the last minute of the last star. What do you mean. We'll 229 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.759 go back in there and see if we can figure it out. It's our 230 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.839 only hope. We're fighting for our lives, Quinn, for our lives, 231 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:18.799 and we have until six o'clock this morning to win our fight. All right, 232 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:26.960 Champ, come on, And so very slowly we went together into the 233 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:32.960 place where death was. The door closed on our backs, and we felt 234 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.799 our way down a long and narrow hallway. He's upstairs. I don't want 235 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:38.960 any lights on down here. You just hang on to my sleeve. I'll 236 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:45.319 lead the way, all right. We went forward in a sort of swimming 237 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.599 darkness that was almost liquid. It was so dense. I could feel the 238 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:55.079 muscles in his arms shivering. But he was brave, not afraid. He 239 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.359 was going into it, not running away from it. To the step. 240 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:03.160 Here, a stair creaked under our weight. I wondered if there were anyone 241 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:08.720 else in the house, anyone still alive, suppose someone had slept through the 242 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:15.640 murder, would be awakened any moment by us. Okay, we were on 243 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:21.359 the second floor. Now. I smell the aroma of leather and would work. 244 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.839 I smell the last lingering trace of a cigar. I smelled powder, 245 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:33.599 a harsh, deadly powder, and then I thought I saw, I thought, 246 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:38.720 I smell something sweet, something very sweet. Here, Brickie. All 247 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:45.440 right. They say you can't smell a recent death, but I could smell 248 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:52.000 a stillness and a presence in it was more than just emptiness. Yet your 249 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:57.000 eyes ready, Here go the light. The dead man lay in the middle 250 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:02.119 of the study. His face was all out of focus. The lines that 251 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:07.000 have been laugh lines were creases now. The mouth that had been either strong 252 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.880 or weep was just a gap now, a place where the face was open. 253 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.799 The eyes that had been either kindly or cruel were just glossy, lifeless 254 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:22.039 insects. Now this was the dead man, and we'd come for his secret. 255 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:30.160 This is it, Bricky, Yes, this is it? And now 256 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:37.000 what do we do? Shouldn't we close? They seem to be watching. 257 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:44.839 No, don't touch him. I don't know how to anyway. He's he's 258 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.960 done a tuxedo. It couldn't have been home very long. Can you tell 259 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:52.319 what it was done with? No, I'll have to done. Botanist, 260 00:22:52.400 --> 00:23:03.440 Jackie, all right, go ahead, there it is. Must have been 261 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:06.599 a gun, Yeah, a bullet. It's round and frazzled. A knife 262 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:07.559 would have made a slit. And we can be sure no one else was 263 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.200 in the house, or they would have heard it go off, and the 264 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:11.839 killer must have taken the gun away. There's no sign on one lying around, 265 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:17.160 so he didn't do it himself. It can't be suicide. Right now, 266 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.519 we'd better look in his pocket. Yes, I'll do it. You 267 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:25.279 look the things over as I hand them to you, all right, Quinn. 268 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:27.519 I'll start up here in the breast pocket. That's the highest pocket in 269 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:33.640 anybody's suit. His handkerchief. Look, Quinn, the bullet went through this 270 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:41.200 the way it folded, it just made one little hole. When you open 271 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.599 it up, it makes three separate holes, like when you cut papers and 272 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:49.680 make them into patterns. One on the left side's empty, the right hand 273 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:56.599 pocket empty. Two Try inside the jacket, Ye, take out everything, 274 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:03.559 no matter what it is. Right, cigarette case silver, Tiffany's three cigarettes 275 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:10.720 in it, the wallet, two fives in a single. Two ticket stubs 276 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:14.160 from tonight's show at the Blaskos see one hundred and twelve, one hundred and 277 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:18.240 fourteen, So we know where he was from eight thirty to eleven. Anything 278 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:23.759 else, business cards, Stafford Holmes, Inglesby, whoever they are. Oh 279 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:29.880 on a snapshot girl in riding tags. Let's see that, yeah, it's 280 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:33.279 the same ones in the silver frame over there on the desk to Stephen with 281 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:37.240 love from Barbara. Then she didn't do it. If she had, she 282 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:38.880 wouldn't be there on his desk anymore. Just the silver frame maybe, but 283 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:41.359 not her anymore. That's common sense, all right, Let's go on. 284 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:49.599 I had to lift him a little. Go ahead, left ray air in 285 00:24:49.680 --> 00:25:03.799 the trousers. Nothing right ray air, spare handkerchieon left side, nothing right 286 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:15.480 side match folder, loose change, latch key. That's it. Not much 287 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:21.200 help. Do we know what we're doing, Ricky? I don't know. 288 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:29.039 Quinn a man who's a cigarette smoker, and we found that case in his 289 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:33.599 pocket. Would he go in for cigars too? Maybe some people smoke boards, 290 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.000 but but would he smoke two cigars alone by himself? Look, Quinn, 291 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.680 two butts in this tray, yeah, and the trays between two chairs 292 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.400 facing each other, one cigar and one not of the tray, the other 293 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.279 one around on the other side from it. Two people, Quinn, two 294 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.920 men, and they were having an argument. One of them was worked up 295 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.759 about something. You see, this butt is smooth at the mouth end. 296 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:57.839 And look at this one chow to ribbons, choot to a fringe. That 297 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.559 tells it just which who was common, who was steamed up? And who 298 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:07.200 was the other man with Graves? Oh, Quinn, wait a minute, 299 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:10.240 here's something. What must have fallen out of his pocket? He was probably 300 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:15.200 sitting on it. Fine, another book of matches and it just did another 301 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:18.400 one. Graves had some on him. So this is the other man. 302 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:21.559 And did he leave his name on it? No? But he was excited. 303 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:23.480 Look how many matches he used up just on that one cigar. A 304 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:27.240 folder could have been half used up before he began. Maybe take this What 305 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:33.440 does it tell you? Tells me to cheo Dawson's gum? Not that cover 306 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:38.359 inside? I don't know what are you driving here? Yeah? Take my 307 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:45.240 matches. I'll tear one off. Let's strike it all right, okay, 308 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:51.920 blow it out. You see what you did? No? You tore the 309 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:55.440 match from the right hand side, didn't you. Yeah, that's what everybody 310 00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:57.319 does. They start on the outside on the right and work their way over 311 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:02.000 to the left. But this fold was worked in reverse. Now do you 312 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:07.400 see the man sitting in this chair facing Graves was left handed. I see 313 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.720 we're making progress, are we, Quinn? Well, of course we are. 314 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:15.720 We know this man was rattled about something that he whittled away fifteen matches 315 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:19.039 to one cigar and then mangled it to ribbons between his teeth. That he 316 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.799 was probably on bad terms with Graves, and that he's left handed. Fine, 317 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:27.480 only you've missed something. Boy. The matches belonged to a woman. 318 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:33.559 A woman. A woman chopped that cigar to pieces. Smell the folder. 319 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:37.480 What do you get? Soft of the way matches? Always give that a 320 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:40.759 minute to clear away. That's the stronger of the two. Are tops the 321 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:48.240 other? Now, okay, fume, isn't it. Yeah? It's been 322 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.240 carried around all day in a handbag, a handbag that stinks up the fume. 323 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.480 I noticed it in the dark when we were coming in. There's been 324 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:57.359 a woman in this room tonight. Well, that gives us two of them, 325 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:02.039 a man and a woman, and they weren't here together. There are 326 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:03.960 only two chairs, one for Graves and the other one for each of his 327 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.720 business. Who was the last to go the man of the woman, I 328 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.240 don't know, but we're started. Look where we've dug up in half an 329 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:18.480 hour, two unidentified people in the biggest city in the world. You're right, 330 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:22.759 it's no use. Oh even so, we can't give up. It's 331 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:27.000 no use. And what's more, I'm yellow, Bricky. Let's give it 332 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.279 up. You're not yellow, Quinn, or I wouldn't be up here in 333 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:34.559 this room with you. I'd better tell you this well I can, Bricky 334 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:45.440 what I love you. It's three o'clock, Quinn, and we have till 335 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:52.759 six three hours. Bricky, save it, Quinn. Save it for the 336 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:59.119 bus when we're on our way home. All right. I don't know what 337 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:15.440 to do next to you? No, I don't. What's that? In 338 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:21.160 tonight's full Hour of Suspense, Helen Walker and John Beale co star in Deadline 339 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:33.240 at Dawn by William Irish, Tonight's study in suspense, Just a Moment, 340 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:38.119 We will return with Act two of Suspense. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting 341 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:45.039 System and now back to our Hollywood sound stage and Act two of Deadline at 342 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:49.480 Dawn, co starring Miss Helen Walker as Brickie Coleman and mister John Beale as 343 00:29:49.559 --> 00:30:07.640 Quinn Williams in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense, All the emotions of a 344 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.920 lifetime have been crowded into one night for a Brickie Coleman and Quinn Williams and 345 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.720 Dawn is a fast approaching deadline which they must meet. The bus which will 346 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:22.119 take them to home in safety, seems remote and unattainable as they stand now 347 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.079 over the body of a dead man in the quiet apartment, knowing that they 348 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:33.480 must find his murderer or stand incriminated for the crime themselves, And suddenly a 349 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.799 terrifying sound comes to them. What is it, Bricky? What is this? 350 00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:41.599 Sounds like a burglar or the front door bill. Mammy, Wait a 351 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.000 minute, there's a box over there against the wall. Follow the cord. 352 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:52.559 It's in his desk, in the drawer. What shall we do, well, 353 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:53.920 answer, I'll be careful. You'll have the police here. You'll know 354 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.880 us. Not his voice. I'll talk lore, I'll pretend i'm him. 355 00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:07.599 Say a prayer, Brickie, Hello, darling, this is Barbara. I 356 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.720 had to speak to you. We've never potted angry like this before. I 357 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.039 know. Maybe if we hadn't gone there to that Parricae place, it wouldn't 358 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:19.319 have happened. No, who was she, the tall red head and the 359 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:26.279 light green dress. I don't know you told me that before? Then? 360 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.559 Why did you slip a note into your hand? I saw a dot you 361 00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:32.720 know? Did you? And then you couldn't wait to see me to my 362 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:36.559 door and get me off your hands? What happens, Steve? Did this 363 00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:40.359 woman come by to see you afterwards? Is that why you wanted to get 364 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:45.559 rid of me? No, Barbara, Steve, you sounds so far away? 365 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:52.319 Is it the telephone or is it you? Poor connection? Sounds so 366 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:57.920 cagy is if someone were there? Now? Can't you talk louder? I'm 367 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:02.599 sorry? What's going on there? Isn't it? It's just catching on. 368 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.079 I'm take your hand away from the mouthpiece and turn it my way, Sugar. 369 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.400 Come on, I'm getting tired of waiting. How much long are you 370 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:17.960 going to stand there talking? I'm sorry, Stephen, forgive me. I 371 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:25.960 didn't know. You can hang up now. I feel like a heel. 372 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.160 We'll stop it. We don't have time, Paracay. That's a nightclub, 373 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.000 isn't it. Yes, I'm fifty four street. A woman slipped him a 374 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:36.880 note, quinn, Oh woman, could be Do you think he tore it 375 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:37.960 up? Or maybe not? Maybe he wanted to have a good look at 376 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.640 it when he got home alone. Let's look again. Well, I went 377 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:44.759 through those pockets pretty carefully. I'm sure it's not that you might have missed 378 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:55.559 something, Quinn, turning him over again. All right, nothing, nothing 379 00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.160 at all. Shall we go through the desk. Wait a minute, boy, 380 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:06.640 run your eyes over him again. I don't see a thing. He's 381 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.559 very well dressed. And yet isn't that a hole in the heel of his 382 00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:19.000 sock? They're just showing over the shoe. That's funny. Take his shoe 383 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:27.759 off, Quinn. Okay, the note. Of course, he didn't want 384 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.240 Baba to see it, so he hid it here until he could be alone 385 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:37.119 alone to go on, mister Graves, I'd like to speak to you in 386 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:44.759 private after you've taken the young lady home. And I don't mean some other 387 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:50.680 time, I mean tonight. I wouldn't want to be disappointed. And so 388 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:55.000 it isn't sign a woman of the matches. Sounds like a shakedown, I 389 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:58.599 mean blackmail. That's right. He'd have to pay attention to a note like 390 00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:01.000 this. And we're going night clubbing, my boy. We'll visit the paraquet. 391 00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:04.480 It'll be closing by now. She must have been seen there, a 392 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:07.559 tall redhead in a light green dress. We'll check with the people who work 393 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.920 there. They'll still be around waiters, checkroom girl, washroom attendant. We'll 394 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:13.440 find her. Oh, we will trace her. If I have to go 395 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.719 over the hair brushes in the dressing room one by one for stray red hair. 396 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:17.639 M kill the lights. I'll be right with you. Hey, don't 397 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:22.719 forget the switch, the one over the sink in the bathroom. Come on, 398 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:30.239 Quinn times running out in a minute? Is anything wrong? I don't 399 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:37.079 know. Look what I found, right? It's a check, yeah, 400 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:43.320 made out to Stephen Graves for twelve thousand dollars, signed by Arthur Holme. 401 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:46.599 And look I stamped returned, No fun? Who did you find it in 402 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:51.360 the dry bottom of the tub? How did ever get there? Just one 403 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:55.000 way? When I came here tonight the first time I did it. Why 404 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.800 don't you see when I pulled the cash box out and opened it, the 405 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:02.079 check must have slipped into the tub without my noticing it. And unless fellow 406 00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:07.559 Holmes game, our jittery cigar smoker, maybe to ask Graves not to prosecute 407 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.599 on a bad check, to stall for time. Graves went to find the 408 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.199 check, and he couldn't because it was on the other side of the wall 409 00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:20.760 in his bathtub, and Holmes thought he was trying to put something over on 410 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:25.559 him, and you think Holmes shot him, killed him for twelve thousand dollars. 411 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.280 It's been done before. And what about our redhead Brickie. It's the 412 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:35.079 man, it's got to be. I think it's the woman. We'll have 413 00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.280 to split up. No, let's do it together the way we start. 414 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.960 It's too late. We can't follow them one at a time. Our deadlines 415 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.719 at don Quinn, and we've got less than three hours. Bus to glen 416 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:51.119 Falls, the last bus. Remember that it's the last bus for you and 417 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.880 for me too. Then we will be saying goodbye Bricky, Yes, Quinn, 418 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:10.239 goodbye till on. We went down into the empty streets without talking to 419 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:14.400 other, each of each other again, and I went one way and Quinn 420 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:19.039 went the other. In ten minutes we were blocks apart, maybe miles, 421 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.360 but it seemed to me that I was still at his side, still with 422 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.760 him. As he finally found an all night drug store and went back into 423 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.679 a booth. I knew he'd dial all the alpha holmes is in the book 424 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:35.199 and talked to a lot of angry, sleepy people, and then he'd find 425 00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:39.639 the right one. The alpha homes we wanted. What would Quinn do then 426 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:55.320 what would he say? What would happen? Hello? Yeah, is this 427 00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:01.920 mister Arthur Holmes? Welmas Holmes. You don't know me that wants to speak 428 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:06.000 to mister Holmes. The name isn't known to you, mister Holmes. But 429 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:08.760 what makes you think this is mister Holmes? And are you aware that it's 430 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:13.679 almost four o'clock in the morning. What do you want? I have a 431 00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:16.280 check here that belongs to mister Holmes. Will you let me talk to him? 432 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:22.079 You're speaking to him. It's made out to Stephen Graves and I have 433 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:24.480 it right here in my hand. Where did you find it? I found 434 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:27.760 it on the seat of a taxi. It must have slipped out of someone's 435 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:30.559 wallet. Who was with you when you found it? No one? Just 436 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:35.440 me by myself. Whom did you show it to afterwards? No one? 437 00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.639 Who's with you now? No one, I swear. And you called because 438 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:45.280 you thought I might want it back. That's right, I'm sorry he tied 439 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:50.039 it up. Nickel? Please shall I hang up? Mister Holmes? Put 440 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:58.679 in another nickel? Tell me what's your name? Quinn Williams? Tell me 441 00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:02.480 something about yourself you do Are you a married man? No? I'm single. 442 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:07.960 I live by myself, not even a roommate, nobody, strictly lone 443 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.519 wolf. I'd like to see that check Quinn. Maybe I can do something 444 00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.280 for you fair enough as a little bar called Owens down on fifty first. 445 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.280 You know it, I know where it is. Can you take me about 446 00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:21.119 fifteen minutes to get dressed and get down there? He is? Fifteen minutes? 447 00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:23.000 Good for you? Just fine, mister Holmes. I'll see you there. 448 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:43.639 You're a cagey boy, mister Holmes. But you swallowed yeah over here 449 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:49.079 in the boot. Good evening, mister Holmes, Good evening. Sit down, 450 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:54.000 watch you, yeah, I will. You're right on time? Sure, 451 00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:59.679 so are you? As a drink for you? I had water? 452 00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:01.360 Here is why i'd be allowed to stay in here. It's past closing time. 453 00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:10.119 Thanks. What's the matter, son? Nothing, it'd just be funny. 454 00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:15.840 That's all funny and kind of corny. If you'd slipped a little something 455 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:22.840 into this take mine then I haven't put it to my mouth yet. I 456 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:34.320 think I will bottoms up, bottoms up my cars around the corner. Would 457 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.800 you rather talk about it there? Yeah? I would. I think we 458 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:52.960 ought to be alone. It's easy, son, we can be alone. 459 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:59.199 That's enough. Driving pull up. I just thought we'd coast a bit. 460 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:00.880 If we can't say, talking at the curve at this hour, we'll have 461 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:05.079 a cop done on us, sticking his nose into the car. And what's 462 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:09.760 wrong with that? I don't know, do you? I was asking you, 463 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:22.960 however, if you want to pull up the East River, a mighty 464 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:25.920 mysterious place at this time of day. You're pretty close to the edge, 465 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.280 ain't you. The wheels are blocked. You're not nervous, are you? 466 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:37.880 No? I'm not now about that check. I didn't find that check in 467 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:44.320 a cab, mister Holmes. I found it in stephen graves house, where 468 00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:50.199 he's lying right now on the floor dead. Stephen dead, and your cigar 469 00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.079 is still in the room with him, chewed to a pop a corona like 470 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:57.440 the one you're smoking right now. You should have taken it with you, 471 00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:01.960 mister Holmes, after you'd killed him. You seem to know a good deal 472 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.079 about this, a little, just enough to know who the killer is. 473 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:14.360 I feel a little sorry for you. I didn't know you were as young 474 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:21.039 as you are. Over the phone. What about what I got to do 475 00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.400 with it? You're having a lot of trouble with your eyes aren't you. 476 00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:29.519 Lights on the dashboard have got rings around them, haven't they like big soap 477 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:35.199 bubbles? What are you talking about? Say you talked too much. You've 478 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:39.480 talked yourself into the grave. I would have believed you about finding that check 479 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:43.800 in a taxi. You would have gone to sleep in the card. When 480 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.400 you woke up, you wouldn't have the check on you anymore, but you'd 481 00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:50.760 have had a ten down a bill in your pocket. Too, sugarcoat the 482 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:55.519 experience head weighs too much? Doesn't it too heavy for your neck? My 483 00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.559 head? You should have stuck to your own drink. Son, You were 484 00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:07.559 suspicious, but not suspicious enough. You took the wrong glass. Me. 485 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.280 I'm a chess player. You know what chess is. It's figuring out your 486 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:20.039 opponent's moved before he makes it a funny thing. Wear my head. I 487 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:27.440 a solid rock. You're going to sleep here in the car, Then you're 488 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.360 going into the river without a mark on you. But I'll take the check 489 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:35.320 before I dump you. It's probably in your shoe. It's about where your 490 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:39.039 type of youngster would think was a clever hiding place for it. Just clear 491 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:51.760 my head, kicking trying to kick out the glass you haven't the strength of 492 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:58.000 a kick left in you. No, it's all over. That's water in 493 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:04.400 front of us, that even black line you see right over the hubcat. 494 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:10.519 I can't even move, can't you. That's right. Make a lazy pass 495 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:15.000 with your hand, like your brushing away flies. That's about all you're able 496 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:21.400 to do. In a minute. You won't even be able to do that. 497 00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:31.400 There, go your eyes down, down. You won't get he won't 498 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:37.840 get away with this. Mister Ricky knows there are two of us, not 499 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:52.760 just one. And so I walked away from Quinn and I was alone again. 500 00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:58.880 I'd met him only a few hours before, and with him, i'd 501 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:04.880 met my past, my home, and everything I loved and wanted. And 502 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:09.440 now I was alone again, somewhere in this sleeping city. Quinn was after 503 00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:15.800 his man, and I was after my woman, my redhead, my long 504 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:23.559 stemmed American beauty. The nightclub Parriquet was dead, dead, but not quite 505 00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:30.119 cold, just in the process of giving up the ghost. Every other minute, 506 00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:34.039 a solitary figure would come out and walk away, someone who earned a 507 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:38.440 living inside. This was the five o'clock in the afternoon of the nightclub workers, 508 00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:42.800 whose clock goes in the opposite direction to that of the rest of the 509 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:49.000 world. And what did I have to go on? A redhead blackmailer who 510 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.440 had quickly scribbled a note to a man. And that kind of woman doesn't 511 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:58.239 ordinarily carry around pencil and paper in her purse. She sends messages with her 512 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:02.400 eyes and her hips. If she wants a pencil, she's got to borrow 513 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:08.800 it from the help. Excuse me, huh, what's the matter? You 514 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:12.599 work here, don't you. I'm in a check room till something better turns 515 00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:15.639 up. Why well, I wondered. Did my friend in a light green 516 00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:17.639 dress, a redhead? Did she borrow a pencil from you? Tonight? 517 00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:21.760 It works the other way around, Honey. The men take out their pencils 518 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:23.599 and give me names and addresses and telephone numbers. I got a fist, 519 00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.880 didn't a woman. It's no dice, honey. I don't even see any 520 00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:36.239 women in my scall. Oh, another long day. My feet swell up 521 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.000 all the time. You want to drying up some salts water as hot as 522 00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:44.119 you can stand. Excuse me, Wow, my name's Jerry, but don't 523 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:46.000 let the name stand in your way. I'm looking for my friend. A 524 00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:50.800 redhead in a light green dress. Did she borrow a pencil from you tonight, 525 00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:52.880 not at my end of the bar, how about it, Frank ye 526 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:59.079 sure, Joan Bessett about midnight. She's always borrowing something and forgetting to give 527 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.800 it back. How that girl think it? That's the way Joanie is? 528 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:07.360 Do you do you know where I can find her? Try to concorde. 529 00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:12.280 That was the last address, which she's probably moved by now, thanks fellas. 530 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.599 Oh, can't I do anything for you another time? Jerry? Okay, 531 00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:30.199 that's a promise another time? What can I do for you? Be 532 00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:34.599 friendly? Pops say hello? You know that's better? What do you want 533 00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.480 a room? Pull up brows? My girlfriend got I want to r up 534 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:42.159 and tell us something, you know, Joanie Joan Bassett, Yeah, Joan 535 00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.519 Bassett. Only we don't have to be so formal. She's didn't fur ownin 536 00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.960 Wait a minute out train skip that she don't have to put on no airs 537 00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:51.280 with me? Who's she kidding? I know she's two weeks behind no rant. 538 00:46:51.800 --> 00:47:12.559 All right? If you know that? Well, going up? What 539 00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:16.079 do you want you? I want to talk to you? Yeah, I'm 540 00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:20.039 just stand out there a minute and tell me what about we got a friend 541 00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:24.159 in common? You and I it's possible. Go on. This friend's name 542 00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:30.440 is Stephen Graves. Suppose you come in a minute. I'll hear what's on 543 00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:37.480 your mind. Sure, I thought that might do it. Do you have 544 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.760 to lock the door? Yeah? I think I do. Whatever you think 545 00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:44.960 best, begin with your name. You can put me down as Caroline Miller. 546 00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:50.360 All right, Carolin Miller. Now about Stephen Graves. What makes you 547 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.320 think I know him? Stop being polite? You know him? He mentioned 548 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:58.039 me to you. No, he wasn't doing any mentioning of anybody. He 549 00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:04.599 wasn't doing anything. Been over to see him lately, very lately. I 550 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:08.639 just came from there. Now, how did you find him? I found 551 00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:17.000 him dead. See that tap in the kitchen is loose again. Excuse me 552 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:24.599 a minute. While I t I'd known we weren't alone the moment I came 553 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:28.719 into that room, and I knew that faucet in the kitchen was a signal 554 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.239 for a quick conference. It was my chance. Maybe I had a minute, 555 00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:35.039 maybe only thirty seconds. There was only time for one thing. The 556 00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:42.519 open handbag on the dresser. Nothing there XTI powder, usual junk, and 557 00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.840 then an unpaid hotel bill for seventeen dollars and eighty nine cents from this place 558 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.239 the conquered, no good, worthless, and my time was up. Yet 559 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.280 something screamed at me to hold on to it, to slip it inside my 560 00:48:52.360 --> 00:49:00.239 stocking, high up, and to get back into my chair. Wow that's 561 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:05.760 done. Now. Where were we with Stephen Graves? Oh? Yeah, 562 00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:08.440 you go up there alone? Or do you have somebody with you alone? 563 00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:14.360 I don't take my grandmother with me when I'm visiting. I see somebody stopping 564 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.360 at the door and tell you that I found out. Cops and people hanging 565 00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:20.280 around, lots of excite. No one knows it. I found him alone. 566 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.000 I had a key to the house that he'd given me. I went 567 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:28.800 up and there he was dead. What'd you do? Holler bloody murder and 568 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:30.400 bring everyone down the place. I got out of there fast and quiet. 569 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:36.280 I don't want to be mixed up in it, smart girl, And all 570 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:38.079 this happened just a little while ago. Yeah, nobody knows yet, but 571 00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:45.280 you me and you did you come here alone? All alone? Everything I 572 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:51.039 do I do alone. I guess I've hit the jackpot. Yeah you're sure, 573 00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:55.039 head baby, You've hit it hard. Make it tight grip so she 574 00:49:55.079 --> 00:50:00.039 can't make any noise. Don't worry about that. Well, miss Carol and 575 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:02.599 Meller, you're in trouble now, you tell me so. Stephen Graves is 576 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:06.840 dead and you felt a little nosy about it. Huh. You're wanted the 577 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:09.199 details, all right? You can have him. You seemed to have known 578 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:13.039 him pretty well. Maybe he told you did he did? He tell you 579 00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:16.000 about his kid brother who married a tavern hostess back in Boston. They tell 580 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:19.960 you what that did, the fine old family name. When this girl again 581 00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:22.960 asking for money, when she came to New York and again asking Stephen for 582 00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.760 money, he'd tell you that he paid and paid, and finally decided to 583 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:29.840 stop paying. So this girl and a friend had to pay him a little 584 00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:32.239 visit tonight. I'd try to persuade him. Did you tell you that? 585 00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:39.599 I tell you what happened when he couldn't be persuaded. Yeah, No, 586 00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:45.039 he didn't tell you that because he wasn't talking by then. Then he was 587 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.440 dead. That's enough. You want to spend the night at it? All? 588 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.519 Right? Well, what's the plane now? Don't you figure we are 589 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.960 not here in the room that's begging for it. You don't understand, I 590 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.480 don't mean chop chop, that kind of stuff. I mean, four flank 591 00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:01.239 step. I ought to be enough. Three of us get to drink in 592 00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:04.199 a piece. She goes over to the window, trying to open it for 593 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:08.000 a little air and jams, so she's well, there's always a follow up. 594 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.840 It's a little messy. Let me take care. Yeah, like it 595 00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:14.159 took care of the other. And I told you just to throw a scare 596 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:17.360 into him. Say come across a well, sound scarier through at him, 597 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:20.960 Griffin. Yeah, I scared him right out of his skin, right out 598 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.920 of his heart. I don't want you to be so impulsive this time. 599 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.440 Well, the less blow stuffer in the closet backs up against the dead wall, 600 00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.440 so she'll never bear. It'll be days before they get around the bust 601 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:31.599 in the door down. Yeah, we'll be far away by there, Yeah, 602 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:35.800 far away. Okay, I can pack in ten minutes. Less, 603 00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:39.079 I'll give you a hand. Wait a minute, I'm missing that hotel bill. 604 00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:42.719 It must have fallen, so we're not don't worry about that. He 605 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.480 can make up a no one for you down at the desk. Shall we 606 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:51.719 get her out of the way fast? Yeah, Han, Carol and Miller 607 00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:57.599 in the closet take a comfortable griff. Sure, we want to be extra 608 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.599 nice to her because there's a little fresh air. Yeah, I only be 609 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:05.559 a minute with it down. Put her down quick. I ought to have 610 00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:07.920 my head examine. Mean you slept on something? Yeah, forgot, We 611 00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:12.880 both clean forgot? What was it? Kept her off to me? She 612 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:15.400 didn't pull my name and address out of my hat. Yeah, gag off 613 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:21.559 her. You try to scream and I'll dent you. I won't scream, 614 00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:23.960 no talk. How'd you know I knew him? How'd you know where to 615 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:28.559 find me? Left you heaven and I'm gonna keep letting you heaven to answer. 616 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:35.400 You dropped your hotel bill over there? I found it lying in the 617 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:38.159 room with him. I ought to slap you down to the sociothy you left 618 00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:40.840 your calun contest, which you know she's lying. I swear I thought my 619 00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:44.440 hand bag after I got bad? Did you take it out to shaw man? 620 00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:47.000 Sw me? Did you sure while you were waiting downstairs? It was 621 00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:50.039 part of the build up to shaw them? How bad? I needed money? 622 00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:53.559 But I know I put it back again, thank you. Oh, 623 00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:59.159 I'm almost positive it fell out. It was for seventeen dollars and eighty nine 624 00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:04.280 cents. It had passed. You stamped on it in purple ink. It 625 00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:06.559 even had your room number on it. How what did you do with it? 626 00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.000 Did you bring it with you? I left it where it was. 627 00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:15.119 I was afraid to touch anything. We'll have to go back and get it, 628 00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:20.880 all right, we will, We'll take her with us. It looked 629 00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:22.840 like she did it to him. What do you want to do in the 630 00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:27.280 first place, Griff, We do it over there. If my double head 631 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:31.159 had a figure out, it's the only way robot this detour by finishing her 632 00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:35.960 off where she started from. All right, come on, Carol and Miller, 633 00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:51.719 they are going for a little ride. And so I went back into 634 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:55.440 stephen Graves House for the second time that night. They pushed me ahead of 635 00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:59.800 them in the darkness, whispering to each other not to use any lights. 636 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:05.119 It just as Quinn and I had done a few hours before, or was 637 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:09.360 it a few years before. Then we were in the study and the lights 638 00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:15.800 were snapped on, and the dead man was still on the floor, and 639 00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:22.119 nobody stepped forward to say, Ricky, is that you No, he wasn't 640 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:29.559 there, Quinn wasn't there waiting to help me, to save me. And 641 00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:30.800 let's do what we have to do and get out. First, No, 642 00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:40.719 not yet, something else first? Well you where is it? Where's that 643 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.000 hotel bill? Where you say your thought? Over there by him? Is 644 00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:52.719 where I said? And you believed me? And you did? You lied? 645 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:59.719 I lied? Where is it? Where you got it? That's that's 646 00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:05.199 your a little problem. Let me have the gun here he's Griff, Get 647 00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:09.440 away from him, move over, stand still, caroling, minute and want 648 00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:15.159 to come real clothes. I want them to worry about whether it's so. 649 00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:24.199 Sign yes, Griff, I'll stand still, good girl, Carol, good 650 00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:34.280 girl. It didn't hurt. It didn't hurt at all. And I opened 651 00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.920 my eyes to find out why. Griff stood in the middle of the room, 652 00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.800 his face contorted, an arm squeezing hard around his neck, and behind 653 00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:45.400 his face was another face, a face I knew Quinn's face, the boy 654 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:49.000 next door, fighting for me, fighting to save me. Then Quinn went 655 00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.679 down, all lopsided, and Quinn was on top, punching at him again 656 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:54.360 and again, and John was racing across the room with an end I and 657 00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:58.400 raising her hand. I never played football as a little girl, but on 658 00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:21.880 this night I decided it was time to try. Ricky Ricky Darling Quinn Are 659 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:27.559 you all right? Somebody's bringing church bells in my head. Oh you knocked 660 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:30.800 yourself out with a flying tackle, Quinn, Quinn, what happened? I 661 00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:37.800 think? Oh? Yeah, they're both asleep, Ricky, as sounds can 662 00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:42.880 be. All right. See you've wrapped them up nicely. I had to 663 00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:45.079 tear up a few good sheets to do it. But I don't think mister 664 00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:50.920 Graves would have minded. I'd given up, Quinn. I thought i'd beat 665 00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:58.400 you back here, and I'd given up, Ricky. I saw them coming 666 00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:00.639 in with you outside on the street. I was watching from one of the 667 00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:04.400 front windows, and something about the way you were walking between them sort of 668 00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:07.719 stiff told me they had a gun on you. So I backed up into 669 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:10.360 the bathroom and laid low. Yeah, the ones, Queenn, they did 670 00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:15.519 it, and we can go now. It's a quarter to six. We 671 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:17.679 can catch that bus for home. There's one more thing to be done, 672 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:24.199 Ricky. I'll only take a minute, and then you and I aren't going 673 00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:31.000 to have any more to worry about. It. Is this a police I 674 00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:37.119 want to report a murder Queen Stephen Graves in his home on East seventy first 675 00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.119 Street. There are two people tied up in the same room with the body, 676 00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:44.400 and they're the killers. You'll find a special delivery letter in the desk 677 00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:46.800 from Graves's younger brother, and that'll tell you the reason for the killing. 678 00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:57.280 What. No, this isn't any rib I wish you was me, just 679 00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.920 a guy who happened to be passing by. We can take their car. 680 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:17.320 He left his keys in it. Come on, Quinn, hurry will make 681 00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:21.880 it. Don't you worry, Brickie. I'm not worried. I know we 682 00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:25.679 will. What happened to you tonight? Did you find Holmes? Yeah, 683 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:30.880 and he tried to kill me. Quinn. It was your name that saved 684 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:35.519 me, Brickie, and call out your name and told him you were in 685 00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.000 on this with me, and he changed his mind in a hurry, and 686 00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:44.079 we saved each other. That's right. What about the check? Cut at 687 00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:47.280 it figure? Holmes was caught short when he wrote that check, and Graves 688 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:51.519 got sold and the bank returned it. They talked it over tonight and it 689 00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:53.960 ended up with Graves giving him another day to raise the money. The reason 690 00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:59.159 Holmes was legitty was that the check seemed to have disappeared. You didn't know 691 00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:01.840 what Graves might be pulling, and of course, Graves wasn't pulling anything. 692 00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:06.360 That Jack lying in the bottom of his bathtub. You told Holmes how it 693 00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:14.039 got there. Yeah, and look what I've got two hundred dollars, Quinn. 694 00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:17.719 Oh, I didn't steal it. After he decided he wouldn't kill me. 695 00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:22.079 Holmes and I ain't got very chummy, he said. We both made 696 00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:27.599 a mistake in the same night, knee breaking into a safe and him with 697 00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.679 his bad check. He slipped me appeal earlier in the evening, and now 698 00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:35.119 he was walking me around and sober me up. That's when he gave me 699 00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:38.039 the money, a nest egg for me. He said I could send it 700 00:59:38.119 --> 00:59:42.119 back to him a little at a time. Later on, we'll send it 701 00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:46.239 back. Quinn. We've Bricky. We're in this together, aren't we. 702 00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:52.000 Yes, Bricky, we are. Look, Quinn, we made it. 703 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:54.639 We're in time. The bus is still there. Come on, Bricky, 704 00:59:55.280 --> 01:00:25.360 let's go on home. Thank you Helen Walker and John Beale for your truly 705 01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:30.480 wonderful performances as Bricky and Quinn, And to Lillian Bayer, Frye Billsbury, 706 01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:37.639 Edith Tackner, Buddy Gray and Bill Johnstone, thanks for your splendid support with 707 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:42.199 this performance, Suspense leaves the air for a short vacation period. We will 708 01:00:42.280 --> 01:00:47.280 return on Thursday at nine pm Eastern Daylight Saving time starting Thursday July eighth with 709 01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:52.440 an outstanding series of gripping suspense stories featuring the acting of your favorite stars of 710 01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:59.199 the screen. Watch for the new suspense series starting Thursday July eighth. Miss 711 01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:02.079 Helen Walker soon be seen in My Dear Secretary and mister John Beale will soon 712 01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:07.480 be seen in Paramount's Abigail Dear Heart. Deadline of Dawn by William Irish was 713 01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:10.639 adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch and was produced and directed by Anton M. 714 01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:15.880 Leader Blood Gluskin is our musical director and conductor Lucian Marrowak composes the original scores. 715 01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:21.079 Be sure to watch for the new half hour series of radio's outstanding theater 716 01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:39.840 of thrills Suspends. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back 717 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:46.000 Well. I love the story the way it was acted. Certainly it was 718 01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:52.239 the type of thing that with people moving to the cities, could spake too, 719 01:01:52.000 --> 01:02:02.039 perhaps that longing for home, for the for the quiet peace of the 720 01:02:02.239 --> 01:02:06.679 towns where people came from. So I think this would resonate with a lot 721 01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:09.960 of audiences, and certainly if you're from a small town, I can't help 722 01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:15.159 but think that this has some residence. I know it does for me because 723 01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:20.920 I always have this sort of feeling when I hear of somebody being from or 724 01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:27.800 in a Galluspell up in a northwest Montana. It's it's a special sort of 725 01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:31.679 feeling of home, you know. And it captured that managed to keep a 726 01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:42.079 good solid story going along with this sort of emotional romantic angle that was offered 727 01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:46.239 here. As they've hinted at the end, it didn't come quite out and 728 01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:52.000 say that they suspense would revert back to the one half hour format, which 729 01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.360 it held for all but really half a season of its run. But these 730 01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:00.519 I love these one hour stories that are incredibly involved, and I think we've 731 01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:07.039 got more than a few left with some very interesting stars. This one, 732 01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:12.119 in terms of its star power, is usually is a little less than the 733 01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:15.920 one hour suspense. Usually they tried to go all out with the guest star, 734 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:22.840 but this was actually a couple of interesting actors. John Bill, who 735 01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:34.400 they mentioned here, was a long time character actor whose last movie credit will 736 01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:38.320 be in the nineteen ninety three film The firm had more than forty five years 737 01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:44.559 of acting ahead of him. Helen Walker meanwhile a somewhat of a tragic story 738 01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:47.800 as the top build actress. In this one, she had picked up three 739 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:53.599 soldiers, gotten into a car accident where one of the soldiers died and the 740 01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:58.679 other two said she'd been drinking and speeding, and this led to actually a 741 01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:03.400 manslaughter try for her. But with what had happened, it really soured the 742 01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:10.400 public on her, and according to IMDb, although she was acquitted of criminal 743 01:04:10.559 --> 01:04:14.519 charges, many fans turned against her. Major studios were hesitant to hire her. 744 01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:19.559 She tried to adapt by portraying ruthless and manipulative women in dark murder mysteries, 745 01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:24.559 in which she again showed great talent. She performed with great applaum and 746 01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:30.360 nightmare Alley the gritty urban police drama called North Signe seven seven an impact, 747 01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:36.159 an unconventional murder drama that featured a fatal automobile accident. Her character helped cause, 748 01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:44.079 but she could not overcome the stigma of the veteran's death. I don't 749 01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.519 know. It may have been that all of her roles reminded people of it. 750 01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:54.639 That I think could have been a problem. But really she was very 751 01:04:54.760 --> 01:05:00.280 talented and tragically her career cut short by the whole thing, and she up 752 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:05.320 dying much earlier in nineteen sixty eight than Bale, even though she was eleven 753 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.519 years younger than Bill, So you kind of had two careers headed in different 754 01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:15.880 directions, all right. Well, though, that will actually do it for 755 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:23.480 today. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. We will be back on Monday 756 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.800 with the adventures of Frank Race in the meantimes. Andrew Commas to box thirteen 757 01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:31.360 at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and 758 01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:35.280 call us to a eight not nine one four seven eighth three from Boise, 759 01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:39.079 Idaho. This is your host, Adam Grahamson and off