 This is Robert Montgomery inviting you to join us for the story of a woman named Eve tonight study in Suspense an hour of suspense a full 60 minutes at this time with the distinguished actor director, mr. Robert Montgomery as your host tonight. Our star is miss June Havoc Miss Havoc will appear in The Black Angel a suspense play produced edited and directed by William Spear Mr. Montgomery I Believe an apple is honest Until a couple of days ago. I don't suppose I'd given an apple a solid thought in months But it was a warm afternoon and the striped awning over the fruit stand offered shade and besides I found myself Staring at the apples all lined up. They were in nice even rows shiny and round and red They were supposed to tempt me and they did The first thing you know I picked one out and shined it up and then I looked at it close For the first time I think I understood why an artist ever set up an easel in front of an apple and painted it It's really very beautiful. A good apple is the way the red dissolves into the yellow It's warm. It's full of promise. I Bid into it and then I got to thinking That coloring I thought is just a come-on a Private sales promotion to make you want it a as a matter of fact an apple does its advertising in an extremely honest fashion Mind you, I'm not selling apples, but even a bad apple says here's a blemish a spot a fault If you take me you take the bad of me with the good and don't say I didn't warn you So you can take an apple on its face value and that's what I was doing But as I ate it I found myself wishing that all of nature's products were as frank and open You choose a friend a sweetheart The come-on the sales campaign the covering Maybe it lives up to its promise and maybe a dozen with an apple you can tell So the one I was munching on set me to thinking about apples and people About the confusion that arose when the first apple and the first human being got together the forbidden fruit and the woman Eve That name reminded me of the only Eve I ever knew very much about Eve Jeremy I Didn't actually know the Jeremies personally even Frank, but I don't think Hollywood will ever forget them Even Frank Jeremy are memorable not as individuals, but together as husband and wife Not just because she was a beautiful actress or because he was an influential producer But because of what they became in combination Let's take a look at Eve and Frank look past the covering and see what we find Now with the performance of our distinguished star miss June Havoc as Eve Jeremy We hope once again to keep you in Suspends Frank Is that you Frank? Well darling, we'd better get a move on you know how a Zadia is about her sit-down dinners It's off to seven now and it'll all Frank. You're not even I can't go baby. Oh for heaven's sake What do you mean you can't go? I've just been on the phone half an hour Crawford won't do the part. Well, she never was right for it. I thought she was Anyway, she won't do it and I've got to find someone else talk about it later on darling Go on get your dinner jacket on look you go without me honey. I will not I will not be the odd woman there Oh, you know how a Zadia is about how carefully Listen, this is serious. Oh, look, I didn't want to discuss it at home I'm not the kind of guy who brings the office home every night Maybe I'd be a bigger shot producer if I did anyway business is lousy See just lousy money's frozen all over. It's all right for the big studios MGM paramount and warners But it's murder right now for an independent I guys like me depend on money from the banks, honey And even if I've got the best picture in the world with money the way it is I've got to have at least one big box office name So the banks will think their investment is protected Frank. I know all about this You told me enough about it when you explained why I couldn't play the part myself. Well, oh Oh Frank, honey, I am sorry. I suppose it is terrible that I'm fussing over a little thing like a dinner party when you have that's better sweet Well Frank, why don't we go out to dinner anyhow? You know it might relax you and take your mind off. No honey now If I don't get my whole deal set within the next 48 hours and get word in New York about who my star is We can't shoot this year and frankly if I can't afford. I simply just can't afford I mean it literally to lay out the rest of this year. Well Fontaine can't do it Crawford won't All right, who's it going to be Eve? Just one star that's been right for it from the beginning now You'll get sore again and we'll have a big shindy about it But honestly now if you could just believe me when I tell you that she doesn't mean anything to me nothing But a big Lorna more Yes, Lorna more And I suppose you've been talking to her seeing her trying to warm up that all I just hung up the phone from talking to I'm gonna see her and so that's why I can't go to dinner. She's out at the Malibu beach house Look Eve, why can't you believe me when I leave me alone? Oh What do you think I am do you think I'm going over to a Zadius and tell him the reason I'm alone is that you couldn't come you had to go out and see Lorna more at her beach house in Malibu Oh, I can just see that look on a Zadius face when you and Lorna and a Zadia all used to be such great friends You never went to have dinner at a Zadius alone until six months ago. Oh, no You always had Lorna along even though she hadn't made a picture for you for three years She wasn't a business deal then. Oh, no All right You know I feel about everything so you can just go and do is you exactly please darling if you just listen to me I don't care about Lorna at all. You must know that I don't even care for a particularly as an actress But I need that name or I'm sunk She's the only available actress in the whole world that can play that part. Yes She's the only actress that I can get in a hurry with a big enough name Okay, if I'm going out to Malibu Honestly, honey, I don't think I'll be any more than an hour from there. I'm not going to call her all right I'll call up from there. It wasn't like me It really wasn't like me But if a man would only understand that a woman is a really delicate sensitive instrument And of course that goes double if you're an actress Frank was actually a very nice sweet guy a bit older of course, but kind and and swell I Guess I knew basically that Lorna didn't mean anything to him, but business But the whole thing seemed to explode that night My wanting to be an important actress and the mortification of having a dinner party called off with me sitting there all dressed up and looking Well really wonderful I got up and put my coat on I was so mad. I was cold Wander into the living room on the coffee table was a bottle of gin Frank had just gotten it out I guess to start to make a martini. I let out a little into the jigger glass and I gulped it down But some plastered fallen off the ceiling and hit me on the chest for a minute Then I saw something lying under the love seat a little package. I untied it It was from Ryan goals a gold compact and on it was engraved to Lorna dear from Frank I guess it was the gin made me decide to do it Anyway, the next thing I knew I was out in my car backing out of the driveway and turning up sunset I knew I was headed for Malibu All the way there. I did the most wonderful scenes in my mind I'd knock on the door and quickly open it so they wouldn't be able to get out of each other's arms Good evening. Oh, no, no, please don't let me disturb you I merely came to bring you this present that Frank in his haste to get over to see you neglected to bring It's this lovely gold compact. He picked it out all by himself, of course, and that's his very own writing on it, too Well, good night, and I'm certainly looking forward to your Academy Award performance in his new picture I knew which house it was a white one all by itself up on Trancas Beach about a mile beyond Merleau Browns I stopped a couple of hundred feet from the house Frank's car was nowhere in sight. I opened the wrought iron gate and walked on the door. There wasn't a light on the house Please no, no, don't let me disturb you this lovely gold compact Then I saw that the door was standing open a couple of inches. I pushed it wide open Took a couple of steps in and stood there. I smelled cigar smoke cigar I was looking for them, but I couldn't see anybody It was all dark in my end of the room, but at the other end 30 or 40 feet across it was quite bright and blue Well, that's where they are I thought out there in the terrace looking at the sea having a drink I walked across the marble floor black and white checkerboard Beautiful. I stumbled over something as I made my way around a shears. I kicked at it discarded woodwall slipper But it wasn't it was a foot and a leg a silk clad leg and Then I could see better it looked like a tumbled mass of woodwall pillows Perhaps a discarded negligee and a shears coverlet all intermingled and allowed to fall into a neglected heap on the floor There at that one place. I got down waveringly and edged aside one of the pillows Satin it was and so soft so harmless But someone had smothered her to death with it I was sorry I tempered with that concealing pillow I looked for one moment at that Remacing suffused mask with a protruding tongue and then panic came on I made several confused half turns this way and and then that and then then I located the door And I sped for it, but just as I got there The drunk was arriving. It was that drunk Laura forgive me, but I came back. I had to come back. I Guess you can't speak to me Laura. I guess you aren't hardly able to speak to me Lorna. I'm sorry. I'm Truly sorry for anything The well or somebody said you wanted to get married again, and I I just couldn't stand Lorna. I Didn't mean to do it. It's bad to your lord Lorna there's a fault you want to speak to anybody Lord You can't speak to anybody. No, you can't speak to anybody. Oh I wanna can't cover the fall Who wants to know? Well, Jerry, this is Jack. I'm her husband by a previous marriage Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'll write it down. Oh Wait for me like that sounds like you're just in the next room Yeah, yeah Jerry Jordan all right Jerry kiss Broadway for no trouble. I'm sure I wish you were possible What's the matter? This man? Are you fall out? What I hadn't been able to move I stood there for minutes after he'd gone I remember I could hear seagulls and I wondered if seagulls were like vultures if they knew that someone was dead on their beach and About now something very strange was happening to me. I was getting stronger braver more interested than shocked. I Thought I'll call Frank. He must have gotten home by now And then I remembered my fingerprints on the telephone I wiped it off carefully with my handkerchief Even though I knew I was wiping away the drunk's fingerprints at the same time By the phone was the piece of paper. You'd scroll the message on Jerry Jordan. It said New York Broadway I put that in my pocket Something shiny was lying on the floor near her. I thought it must be the compact fallen out of my hand when I first stumbled I bent down to pick it up. Oh, it was awful Because it was her hand It was a gold lipstick that she had in her hand I let go Then I looked at the white square of linoleum that was there a letter She'd growl the red letter on the marble with a lipstick a big letter Jay While she was being suffocated put to death with a satin pillow. She'd been trying to write the name of the man who was killing her What an actress trick What a corny actress trick I thought But Jay Not so many men's names begin with Jay Jerry Jordan begins with Jay two of them and and Jack her drunken ex husband That begins with Jay and Frank Jeremy begins with Jay and Frank is my husband I picked up her address book the beautiful white leather tooled address book on the phone table. I was getting panicked again I was about to tear the Jay page out of it But then I thought no, no, that would look suspicious look very suspicious So I put the address book in my purse The phone was still ringing when I left with his adia, please Fateful headache just more than I could bear came on me while I was dressing and I just had to lie down It just won't stop But didn't Frank call and tell you that we couldn't make it No That is he had to go out Mike some business or something. You know how he is so much in his mind Thank you. It's better now, but well, I still don't think I'd better go out Just then I did my best to see it wasn't printed. What what wasn't printed? Oh that oh well I Why of course I do Mike. Good night my headache. Thank you Mike. I will good night The evening paper was where Frank had dropped it. I opened it to the Hollywood hush column It was the first item if Frank Jeremy would like to get Lorna Moore back to work for him Starring in Eagle's nest his proposed new indie production and if Lorna Moore would like to do the parts for her ex heart flutter Why can't they keep from fighting at that number one table in Romanoff? It started politely yesterday over the consomme and ended up with shrieks for coffee Round two was a today's lusty luncheon during which Lorna did most of the talking at a medium shout With Frank eating very dark bread indeed If this keeps up Mike Romanoff will be auctioning off seats at ringside tables We're sure that Mrs. J. Understands. It's all just J Mrs. J And then I heard them coming in. Hello, baby Don't be frightened. It's all right. It's all right. It's good. They think I Will look at you. I know I know about it and it wasn't you tell him Frank tell him it wasn't you tell him Yeah, tell us Frank. How did you know? Oh? Radio I was there. I was right there baby. What'd you say say lady? She didn't say anything She said she heard it on the radio I have been two hours now. It doesn't seem to have couldn't have don't you see he couldn't have yeah We better let him go it then and she says he couldn't have done it. She had a Mrs. Jeremy. Did you not? Can you say with certainty what your husbands were about were have been since seven o'clock this evening baby shut up Can you mrs. Jeremy listen? I Know you know he was going to visit out at Malibu to visit miss Lorna Moore Yes, I knew that was a business thing and we gotta get going. Oh Frank They've been fighting we ain't been fighting with them, but that Lorna Moore, you know She used to be a swimmer in the Olympics your hand darling. It's all bleeding She had long fingernails too. How cat did that? I told you over and over again where they came from She wouldn't let him in but her cat raked his hand. It was outside the door. It had gotten out of So much for the cat It's all right sweet I ran to his bedroom looked around blindly Snatched up something at random from under one of the bed pillows and I ran back with him when I got there The door was standing open and the street beyond was empty They hadn't waited they were gone I stood there in the open doorway and the rolled-up pajamas dropped to the floor at my feet and lay there Sit down, mrs. Jeremy. Thank you. It's just a technicality. I know it frightens people so but it isn't final It's just a legal phrase. It's automatically spoken in these cases Honey, I've seen mr. Benedict get more people off on appeals and reversals haven't you mort How about it more it haven't you yeah, he wouldn't even let me take the stand and the compact and the address book I Do feel terrible not not being allowed. What could you have done? Don't you suppose he would have been the first to call you if it would have helped any Mr. Benedict never overlooks a witness. He thinks can help a case and he never uses one and he thinks we're weak in it Does he more? Well now you see nobody saw you come or go there that night No, of course the jury wouldn't have believed you any more than the arresting detectives They would have thought that you were making it up to try to shield your husband and the sympathy you aroused for yourself would have worked in reverse Anyhow, honey, you have to admit he was mixed up with it. Surely All right, I know that as well as he does How are you mr. Jeremy? I'm fine then it's pretty bad, isn't it? Let me have a cigarette will you more? It's it's pretty bad isn't it? It isn't over yet You're taking the typical layman's point of view, but isn't it all just? Circumstantial evidence. I just don't see how they can sure it is sure it is Now mr. Jeremy and I had a long talk this morning long talk you understand that I felt from the very beginning And I've been very frank with you to my reasons for thinking so that you shouldn't appear on the stand Yes, I know mr. Benedict However, I expressed to mr. Jeremy your natural desire to come forward and tell the Circumstances that you detailed to us your visit to the beach house and the detail about the probable explanation for the gold compact There's no probable explanation for the compact. I told you Yes At any rate mr. Jeremy and I had a long talk again about the advisability of your going on the stand He's absolutely dead set against it. Now if you insist on it, of course I shall have to introduce you but let me once again say that if you do you'll hurt our side more than you'll help it Well, you all know so much more about it. That's right. That's right. Mr. Jeremy It is his wish and it's also mine He doesn't want you to get all smeared up to if it can be avoided and the wife isn't required to testify anyway You know, honey. Now you must admit it's lost. There's one thing I haven't told you I Was confused and worried about Frank and well anyway, I didn't think of it again until just lately Her address book when I was there. I found I don't want to hear about it. This is Jeremy well You just hold on you're being wonderful about it. This is a real test and you're taking it like a major Come on I'll take you downstairs and put you in a taxi. Do you want more to the girl to ride home with you to your place? No, thank you I'll be all right I'll have to get used to going around alone from now on I guess Ladies and gentlemen of the jury have you reached a verdict. We have your honor the defendant will rise Take it easy sweet It's gonna be all right. What does the jury find? We find the defendant Frank Jeremy guilty of murder in tonight's full hour of suspense June Havoc our star appears as Eve Jeremy in William Spears production of Eve tonight study in suspense In just a moment. We will return with act two of suspense This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system. This is Robert Montgomery again quote a Woman is a delicate sensitive instrument and that goes double if the woman is also an actress Unquote Eve Jeremy said that a long time ago Before Lorna Moore was murdered Now the sensitive instrument that is Eve Jeremy is forced to follow a course that she's never planned for herself a Course dictated by somebody else's verdict a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree We bring back to our Hollywood soundstage our star miss June Havoc as Eve Jeremy with William Johnston as Frank Jeremy And wallymar as Jerry Jordan in night study in suspense Right over there, Mrs. Jeremy the second booth Thank you. You have five minutes They're not take it easy sweet. We don't have much time I have to talk to you like this through an iron screen not even to be able to touch you. That's sweet is sweet When a guy's okay today, I know you didn't do it. I know you didn't of course I didn't sweet, but It's just one of those things Circumstantial evidence but Frank there must be something I was pretty optimistic during the trial Because I knew I didn't do it. I guess but now that I look back on it They had enough coincidence piece together to convict it doesn't innocent Frank. How can you be so calm? How can you what's the use of being anything else? Like an old man waiting to Don't There's one thing I want you to know dear I Want to be sure you didn't believe that I was starting over with her That she meant anything to me at all. She was a star and I was a producer. I needed her for my picture. She's a She was a big name in pictures You know, I've been seeing her when I quarreled with her. It was about you dear darling. Honestly, I know I know I Just wanted to be sure You know I've got nothing to hide now Frank How much more time is there two or three minutes? No, no, I mean oh November the 16th remember this Six weeks. Yes, Frank I'm going to do something. What can you do sweet? Don't you realize there's a murderer running around loose some man Who's free and having fun and going out with girls the man who did the thing that you're going to be here I'm going to find him. How could you find him sweet the police tried They didn't try all they wanted was to convict you But it's nice to hear you say sweet because I What? Because it makes me know that you really did love me. Oh, you see sweet There are things you can face when you you're like this that you didn't dare talk about or even think about before I Always loved you Eve, but you were so much younger and full of ambition Don't please I'm sorry, sweetheart. I wish I could have done things for you There won't be much left for you now. You know how it is in this business. You spend it as fast as you make it I don't Forgive me sweet, but It's wonderful to know how you do for you Frank Frank I'm not going to let this thing happen. There must be something that there must be some clues Don't you think the police but there are things the police didn't know things I saw Things maybe maybe you saw when you're up there and didn't tell them I couldn't very well have told them anything about that My whole defense was that I hadn't been up there But there wasn't anything nothing important. There must there must have been something Whoever was there before you whoever did it must have left some trace I know what I'm going to do. What if her address book? I took it away in my purse because Well, it was open at the letter J and your name wasn't it it was a silly thing to do But I have it now and I don't do it Eve. I'd love you to want to but I can't stand to have you in this mess I'm an actress. I can carry it off now. Tell me please wasn't there anything you noticed when you well I I was only there a second. I I saw her right away. None of that beat it. I It was only Well, well well Frank a smell of what cigar smoke Yes, I Remember that too Frank Frank. I'll I'll write every day Goodbye October 5th Frank darling I've been studying the address book under the jays. There are only three others besides yours I'm going after them one at a time tomorrow. I'm going down to see lieutenant trout at the homicide bureau I won't tell him anything But he always seemed to me to be one of the few who tried to be fair and I might need help. Oh Darling, I know it isn't much But you must keep on hoping Something will happen and if only because I love you so desperately So What's your angle mr. Jeremy? I my angle. Yeah, why are you doing all this? Why? He's my husband and I love him and I look Mrs. Jeremy the cops around this town aren't exactly dumb as you know We know what you were like before you married him We know that what you kept on being after you married him Everybody seems to have known it except him all right dick Tracy a person can change can't they sure they can The cop just hates to have anyone think they can make a sucker out of them You know it is he can skip the apologies if that's what they're supposed to be sure And what's this new evidence anything specific? Well, not very it well for instance Did you know that Lorna Moore had a first husband named Jack? Yeah, go on well It just occurred to me that he he might be worth investigating why because Well, how do you know he wasn't some kind of madman or drunk or something that got off on a spree or something and just came out and killed her You're pretty smart. Thank you that nobody can take away from you. You're smart. Mrs. Jeremy. I Suppose you've been through the old newspaper files and you dug that up the drama appealed here You thought of tomorrow's newspaper files Actress wife of convicted man freeze adored husband at last moment by securing evidence overlooked by bungling police You're very insulting and maybe the next day the caption would read Hollywood Studios by an effort to place Eve Jeremy glamorous actress detective under contract I Won't forget everything. You've just said I haven't the time to allow myself the luxury of putting you in your place Now, please listen to me. Oh, I'm sorry. Mrs. Jeremy. I really am Isn't fair to string this out any longer It's just that a policeman gets a little irritated sometimes at all the help private citizens try to give them in a case like this I Withdraw any untoward remarks. I may have made Mrs. Jeremy. Thank you. I forgive you Now regarding Jack Gordon the murdered woman's ex-husband He is a lush and he is as you say a slightly unpredictable and screwy guy However, we've already questioned him investigated him thoroughly and we're satisfied with the story We can't prove that he was near the Malibu beach house that night There's nothing there that would incriminate him no fingerprints or anything No Unless of course you want to step forward and say you were in the murder room and so on. Well, I read No, no, of course not. I don't want to go that far. Of course not. I've all right Do anything else besides Gordon nothing definite well not yet But I have a plan and I want your help when I want your help Okay, what do you want me to do? Tell me what kind of evidence would I have to have how specific to upset a first-degree murder rap? Something in writing You got a suspect in mind some particular person well not yet, but you might have Well, there's one other thing. It's an old old trick, but it's still good What do you mean what yeah, I ever see one of these things no, I don't think so yeah Talk into this little gadget here. Oh, but you suggest I say oh anything just talk Lieutenant trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen. I have ever met Quite a realist aren't you? Yeah, listen Lieutenant trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen. I have ever met See Detective graph think it might come in handy. Uh-huh. It might October 7th darling, I thought trout and I'm afraid he's not quite the kindly soul I thought he was but he did help me in one way he installed a detective graph in my new apartment Oh Partman only a room really and of course my hair is dark again really black. I've changed my name and my appearance I don't think that even you my darling would recognize me now Now about those other three men who were the Jays in her address book I'm afraid they're a dead end so far Johnson was her dressmaker and Stanley Jellico is a doctor who's definitely been in the South Pacific for over a year I know that the J She tried to write with her lipstick is one of those four names in her book naturally darling We know it wasn't you and for the time being at least we better forget about her husband Jack After all Frank it would incriminate me to bring that out Maybe if the last one doesn't pan out I can go after him then there's just one more Jerry Jordan You remember darling He was the one who called on the telephone on that horrible drunk answered at the beach house He said he was calling from New York, but maybe that was some trick or something Anyway, I have his Hollywood number. Oh, uh, is this mr. Jerry Jordan. Yes Well, well, I finally found you. Well, can you guess who this is? Well, I'm afraid I'm not very good at all right then. I suppose I'll have to tell you this is Evelyn Jarvis. Oh Well, don't you know who I am? No, I'm sorry. I don't miss jobs. Oh, well, this is embarrassing. Didn't didn't you get the letter? My goodness Well a very good friend of yours who's also a very good friend of mine wrote you a letter about me or at least he said he would I see and and I'll give you one other clue I'm from out of town and now can you guess? Well, I For anything but phone number. Oh, I didn't mean to bother you, but Ed said to be sure. Look you well Where you stay? I managed to find a little place. Oh, why I hadn't really Still have you got any plans for right now? Well really mr. Jordan. Oh, no, no seriously Oh, no, you just jump in a taxi and tell him to take you to the Brown Derby on Bynes Street Well, well as a matter of fact from what I know, I'm sort of anxious to meet you Donning just a quick piece. I'm going to meet him now and I have a hunch. He's it I don't know why and I'll remember what you said about cigar smoke Yet, although I've got a hunch makes me feel a little shaky. He's got such a nice voice To be a murderer Oh So that's what he says about me. I'm a fine pal I'll say one thing for Ed. He may be an awful liar, but he sure got good taste. Well, thank you It proves that he's no liar Tell me Jerry is is this the Brown Derby? I mean the one you hear about. Hi. This is it Are there any people you know famous people here early, but I'm just a small town girl Oh San Francisco isn't such a small town. Well, I live sort of outside of San Francisco. Oh, look Jerry, isn't that Jean Tierney over there? Yep, that's who it is. My Goodness, she looks just like her pictures doesn't mm-hmm. What a lovely skin. There's a Gregory Peck. Oh Yeah, I thought he was Jerry do you know any of these people I mean no no I I've never gone around with the picture crowd Oh now I suppose you're disappointed. Oh, no, I'm not. I've always thought it was awfully silly really all this worship of stars Still Hollywood must be sort of an exciting town to live in. Oh, I mean from some of the things I hear that go on That's mostly newspaper talk Hollywood's about like any other town. They have their regular quota of divorces and fish fights and Murders. Oh, you mean that Lorna more business. Well, I read something about it. Yes, that was a genuine tragedy. All right Jerry, I don't suppose you knew her either Well as a matter of fact Lorna was one of the few celebrities. I didn't know really what was she like Well Lorna was a long ways from being the sweet little thing. She seemed to be on the screen But oh, but murder. Yes, I suppose nothing really excuses that well anyway, they got the man who did it Frank Jeremy Yes, I guess they did you mean You didn't know the case look good enough You can't always tell about those things though any number of people might have done it. Well, who for instance, well Jeremy's wife for one His wife. Well, there was talk that Jeremy's relations with Lorna weren't always strictly business You can't tell but I'm afraid a little Lorna's life was kind of a mess Jerry Were you mixed up with Lorna? Oh No, no, no, but didn't the police? I mean, I should think with a woman like that all of them have Jeremy so quick They didn't even question anybody else. Anyway, I was out of town when it happened Jerry May I have a cigarette? Oh, of course a waiter, please. Well, what kind will you have? Oh, don't do that I'll smoke whatever kind you have. I don't have any. Yes, sir a package of cigarettes, please Oh, what will they be there when he kind? I don't smoke often enough. It can't pin you down I just use your judgment Chris. Yes, sir. Don't you have a favorite brand? No, no, I only smoke cigars What I said I only smoke cigars Darling, don't you see his name in her book and he admits he knew her and the cigars I'm positive now if I can win his confidence get him up to my apartment near the dictograph I know I can do it. We've still got four weeks darling, but I'll have to be awfully careful He's clever and intelligent Imagine a man who can carry a thing like that on his conscience and still be so terribly nice and courteous and thoughtful But I'm going to win for you darling. I know I am now. Hello. Hello, Jerry. Hello, baby. You've been waiting long. Oh, not very Jerry something the matter. No, no, nothing's the matter, baby. Oh, something is though Nothing that makes any difference, baby. Well, what is it? I don't know Sometimes it it almost seems as though you were kidding me as though you were Well keeping some kind of a secret that you didn't want me to know isn't it a woman's privilege to have secrets Don't talk like that, baby. Oh, Jerry, you know, I couldn't have any secrets from you. Well Why do we always have to meet here for instance? Why can't I pick you up at your own place once in a while? I don't even know where it is. Maybe I like this place because this is where I first met you There you see you see you haven't even answered me well And what about San Francisco at first you were only going to be here a few days Then you decided to stay longer. Well, that's because you asked me to Jerry But you're going to have to go back some time. Aren't you? What are you going back to in San Francisco, baby? Maybe I'm not going Maybe I'm not ever going back. Maybe I'll go to all New York instead Do you like New York? Oh love it if you'd be there As a matter of fact, I haven't been back to New York three years. You haven't know. I mean, I know so little about you Yes, yes, that's true, baby, and I don't know anything about you For all I know you might even be married Jerry don't you think that that's a kind of a tough thing to say out after what I've been doing baby, baby I'm sorry. It's only that Well, you know What are we going to do look baby? Why don't we go out to my place for a change huh a change what do you see I? Don't really live at that hotel. I mean that really isn't my home. It isn't oh, I'm a fine one to talk I guess the fact is I've been holding out on you, baby Actually, I live in a place out in Beverly Hills with about 30 rooms in a swimming pool a block long And I've got more money than I know what to do it cattle ranches in Argentina oil wells in Mexico. Ah, I don't know what all Yes, my dad left it to me, and I found out something about money from him It can be a terrible thing to be rich. Oh Oh Kenneth all kinds of things can happen to you like like what? Cheap promoters cheap lawyers cheap women blackmail. Oh That's why I usually don't let people know until I see oh Baby, baby. I feel like a dog about it now, but I didn't want you to know it first until you were sure I didn't care about money Is that it? Oh, will you will you try to forgive me, baby? Will you please? Oh? Jerry will you will you darling? Of course, I will I do and Jerry yes about those secrets of mine Suppose there were some things I couldn't tell you yet. Would that matter not if I was sure you would tell me someday Yeah, I promise you that some day some day. I will tell you Frank darling, I know the delay must be torture to you, but you must understand how careful I've got to be Supposing I know I can't be But just supposing he weren't the man That's why I've got to have the positive living truth On that detective. I haven't been able to get him up there yet But we've still got ten days and I have a feeling it's it's going to be soon very soon So please don't worry darling, and I miss you very good Wait a minute. Oh, baby. I had to honestly. How did you find this place Jerry? Why do you think I didn't tell you where it was if I didn't have reason can I come in? Please I've got to talk to you. All right, come in baby Baby Ed Thornton arrived in town last night He came to see me. Oh He's never heard of you, baby He doesn't know anybody by the name of Evelyn Jarvis or anybody that even looks like you Is that what you came up here to tell me? Oh, baby, baby. I don't care what it is only please, please Jerry Hey, baby. Oh, I want you so much. I want you I want you to go away with me. I mean tonight I want you to marry me I want you to marry me But first darling. Oh, Jerry. I've waited so long. There's something I've got to tell you No, don't don't I got to know and then you can tell me whatever it is and we can stop even if If you still want to Jerry do either of us have to tell anything does that matter now I've got to Evelyn I can't keep it any longer Not the way I feel about Jerry. Please. Don't I I've I've killed someone I'm a murderer Lorna Moore and another man is going to die for it Oh Now Jerry listen to me. It doesn't matter. I don't care what you've done Jerry. I love you. Don't you know that I love you Can you still I've loved you from the beginning it it didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now I could only believe you got to believe it listen. I I can prove it to you baby What do you mean it didn't matter then did you know yes, I knew do you know who I am? I'm Eve Jeremy the wife of the man who's going to die for it His wife Yes, now you know and You're willing to let him die Jerry. He deserves to die for things. He's done. He probably killed her anywhere I knew we were seeing her. He was a beast. I knew from the beginning. It was a mistake He beat me did he did he tortured me? I can't even tell you some of the things he did when When does it happen? At the 16th tomorrow night Tomorrow night Does that matter to you? Oh, I'd let 50 men die to get you baby. That's why I haven't seen you I was waiting we could be in Argentina tomorrow night. Yes. I'll palpate. I can get plain tickets tonight from a friend I don't have to change. Oh now you look lovely, baby Make it quick though But hurry baby hurry How do I look oh you look great wait wait a what what I ought to write a note to him Your husband yes now Just to keep both of us in the clear. He won't get it before he what are you going to say and you can read it You can read it if you want to oh Here here. I'll make it for you. I'll just stick it here in my handbag. I'll mill at the airport. All right Are you are you ready? Yes, come on There's the elevator now. Good evening, Mrs. Jeremy. Oh Hello, you were taking a little trip. Well, wouldn't you if you were me sure I know how you feel You were you know hurry sort of my friend here was going to run me down to the airport Lieutenant trout mr. Jordan. How do you do? Well, I won't keep you but a minute and I'll give you a fast trip down there in a squad car Let's just step in here No, no not your apartment, Mrs. Jeremy next door next door really lieutenant. We're in an awful hurry What do we what do we want to go in here for? Oh, we took over this apartment a couple weeks ago, Mrs. Jeremy When you started going with mr. Jordan here. Oh By the way, Brennan. I here we had some luck with our little gadget. Yeah, what what little gadgets little gadget You forgot Mrs. Jeremy a Detectograph Lieutenant trout thought that you thought this is Jeremy. All right. I thought Mind of I turn it on why go ahead. There's nothing because I forgot to turn it on. Oh Brennan does that in here. Don't you Brennan? Yeah, very interesting. I guess that's about all we need to know, isn't it? Yes, I guess it is Well, I told you I'd get him didn't I yeah, you can wrap him up and take him away Lieutenant and don't forget to send me back my husband the first thing in the morning. Come on Jordan Eve so long sucker Eve They sure gave you the right name, baby. Yes Only you wouldn't have needed the apple or the snake Frank darling it. Oh, it just doesn't seem possible back here in our own home out here on our own terrace again And everything just the way it was Yeah Frank you remember when we first took this place how happy we were and how the agent took us out on this terrace and Asked us to be too high up if we were afraid of high places Frank There's something bothering you Well You oh tell me darling. I know you've been through so much when I think that today you may look sweet dad I haven't any kit coming You saved my life. Oh, and I know what the answer is anyway, but You would only pray on my mind if I didn't talk to you about it And there shouldn't be anything like that between us ever Shouldn't it? Of course not darling. What is it? I've got a record here. What record that the police took off your detector grab. Oh, I want to play it back for you, sweet I'll put it on the phone. Oh, please. It's all right sweet, but I know dear I don't care what you've done Jerry. I love you. Don't you know that I love you Can you still I love you from the beginning? It didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now I could only believe that is that all that was the end of the record That was all that was recording It's all right sweet, it's all right. I know Please darling. Oh Frank. Don't you see? I had to play it my friend. I did. Don't you see? I had to make him think that so so so I could say I know sweet. I know I just wanted you to I just wanted you to say it. I guess please sweet. No, I understand Do you really? Well, of course I do Heal sweet. Listen darling. It's all over now. It's over. I'll tell you let's celebrate I'll go down and get some wine champagne or something. I honestly that'd be wonderful. Okay. I'll go right now Well, I just getting out of the clink. I don't have any money. Oh, of course. No, of course right there in my handbag Darling, oh, oh Yeah, you've got plenty Is a letter a letter It's addressed to me A letter Frank Frank don't know you must have written it Frank Frank no, no Frank Frank listen. I didn't Frank Jeremy Terrible things just happened my wife suicide Nerves, I guess she jumped off the terrace Before I could stop her. It's 14 stories. She gave me a note in her own handwriting Just before I'll read it to you. It says Frank my darling, I've been wrong all the time. Oh so terribly wrong You know what I mean. I Failed you utterly Now I can't even bear the thought of facing you When you read this I will be gone This is farewell forever signed Eve Who ends the story of Eve? But Frank Jeremy's story didn't end there. He was a good guy and he didn't want it to Frank's story ended a little later after another long trial and another jury verdict of Guilty of murder in the first degree and this time the verdict in all its implications was carried out Our thanks to miss June Havoc for a superb performance as Eve Do you know what hate is really? Have you ever actually hated someone? The word hate is often used and misused very few of us really experienced hate the emotion But next week we'll tell you a story of hate the violent bloathing of two men for each other in a hate So desperate that it will tax on normal imaginations a hate so genuine and honest it inspires a despicable pact Where one man sets a price on another's life a Bet that he can successfully kill the other within this within a specified length of time a Hate so mutual that the wager is accepted That's the incredible premise of bet with death a story by John Dixon Carr next week study in suspense This is Robert Montgomery inviting you to be with us next week June Havoc is currently being seen in the Darrell-Afzanic production Gentlemen's agreement. Mr. Montgomery may currently be seen in the Universal International production ride the pink horse tonight's play Eve was written by Bob Richard and Sebastian Moriarty and was based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolridge Lud Glosken is our musical director and conductor Lucian Morrowake composes the original scores Mr. Johnstone appeared as Frank Jeremy Wally mayor as Jerry Jordan Jack Moyles as lieutenant trout Mike Romanoff was played by Prince Michael Romanoff Others in the cast were Lorraine Tuttle Jack Crucian Dick Ryan Jerry Hausner Frank Albertson and Alan Reeve Next week hear the John Dixon Carr story bet with death on radio's outstanding theater of thrills one hour of Suspends This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system