 Autolight and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Anne Baxter in tonight's presentation of suspense Tonight auto light recreates a classic tale as with song and story We tell of the death of Barbara Allen our star miss Anne Baxter Huh, oh Oscar Otto. Sorry. I was daydreaming about why why about the autolight stay full the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. I've got one. Then my speaking sedan you've got the world's most desired dynamic and Dependable battery it has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking That's one of the reasons why the autolight stay full gives longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standard My owner got mine from our neighborhood auto light battery dealer friends to quickly locate your nearest auto light battery dealer phone Western Union by number And ask for operator 25. That's me and I'll gladly tell you where you can get an auto light stay full The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use and remember from bumper to tail light You're always right with auto light and now auto light presents the death of Barbara Allen Starring miss Anne Baxter hoping once again to keep you in suspense His voice was on the wind Calling calling to me and the surface to the west of me into the east and the sounds of the night sea were all around And on the finger of strand I waited for him for my love For my love as he rode to me and a star swung across the moon and the wind rose from the night as he rode to me As he came to me be here Barbara Allen and where else would I be on such a night home perhaps where it's warm The young men of scarlet town to knock on your door Not here where the sea rises and the moon is cold where I meet my love But there's a storm coming let it Storm and the tides will drown this strand and we would drown Yes, we would drown will and you would live no longer than I and I no longer than you Our love would die at once on a storm. Why do you talk of death? I talk of love and I do There's no death in it. No will Only this They have Barbara Allen while Barbara Allen Right with me. Yes And dark dark clouds on the lips of Bob the pillow and back of me slid down Bob Rowland fix it on the strand with will with will Sean's been waiting and sitting with your father waiting doing the things you should be doing Well, you meet will on the strand. I can do for himself. Thank you T father. I like whiskey in it Yeah, I like whiskey in it because Whiskey keeps the warm down It's a cold house Decision of storm and I have a daughter who's never home Warmth of my daughter's for a sailor named will You'll need a pillow for his chair Bob He can do for himself. You can do whatever he needs for himself He sits there and rocks and remembers the time when he had a wife to do for him do everything but walk for him listen to him Barbara Allen. Yes Sean Will is a sailor. Yes with a small boat. Yes And a narrow life You couldn't know I know And one day he'll say goodbye to you and sailor's small boat That will be the day when the sea will throw him back to you wrapped in kelp and Drowned and what of you Sean shot keeper Sean Seller of pots and fish hooks and whiskey Sean. Did I love you Sean? Yes And what will you make of me one like him who sits in a rocker and remembers you love will How many others love Willie the sailor and how many does he love no one? There's a girl You've seen her Barbara Allen She's new to Scarlett Town Her name is Moria and she drinks wine with will They whisper in life together get out of here. They say when will leaves you he goes to her you lie And if I'm not lying if he hurts you Barbara Allen, I'll kill him get out of here Sean. I would I kill him and Later I could still hear my father Rocking and the sounds of his remembering For me it was a night of no sleep. I lay there in my bed and outside was Fitful squall the rain began stopped began again Outside was surf that eddied in the rocks and mist Choke and tangle of kelp flung against the strand and will face and his words and The words of Sean and the sudden blaze of light across my bed The night careened against the sea and then the night was still Then it was morning. I Got up and dressed walked through the room where my father was still sleeping in his chair The beach had been pitted by the rain when I walked it the dune grass of green and shining The wind held down the sand against my legs and down the curb of the beach and near the end of it Will's boat the sail on it to be mended for me to mend For will what are you doing on will's boat? It's where I belong now on will's boat To mend his nets in the sail Will sent you here. He left me here I know who you are No, I'm more you You were a silk dress in the morning to mend a net Here this is a net Mend it Let me watch what you'll do with it. He will teach me when he returns when did you see will I saw him when? When I was with him when he told me to stay here and today we would go sailing together sailing Where why to someplace this coast is new to me will wants me to know it what Other places as he's shown you scarlet town and what's around it You're ridden with him on his black horse ridden the strand At night. Yes The ruin church at the end of it. Yes all of these things Where is will we sail today? Will's in scarlet town. He's buying things for the sailing wine and Sean's what will is it Sean's And you'll stay there He won't sail with you Across the dunes. Oh, she did run the wind with her I am and she ran the more she grieved until she burst out crying When she came down To scarlet town The street with In Sean's place. Why is there a crowd mr. Eman in Sean's place wills in there What happened? I was in there will was buying things of Sean will's laugh and he broke open a bottle of wine He made a toast a toast To whom Maria to her and what happened there was talk then will had a knife in his hand And Sean did do there was a fight wills in there And he's lying on the floor Called your name Hello will what did you say will bringing you miss and Baxter in the death of Barbara Allen tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense and that's the great battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use Right my low quesious limousine It's protected with fiberglass retaining mats to give longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards My money just can't buy a better battery than the famous auto lights they fold So friends see your nearest auto light battery dealer He services all makes of batteries to quickly locate him phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25 Where you can get an auto light The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use and remember from bumper to tail light You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage miss and Baxter in Elliot Lewis's production of the death of Barbara Allen a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense I was born twilight Will to the edge of the strand the people scarlet town And I was not there Opened the earth of the old church yard and they scattered the earth over the body of will And I was not there I Walked the sand of scarlet shore and I cursed the grave that held him. How do you wander woman? He's so good Bestly with a miss so heavy and drifting like to do what he wants. Oh, give me some of the drift would you're gathering? I'm an old woman and when I bend for the wood the sea snatches it from my hand think what I have There's more and let me walk with you and fill my apron for me. All right Your will is dead He's dead They're burying him The whole town is there You're not there Bob Rallon and you're not there old woman I buried three sons on that strand in the church yard at the end of it Never do I want to be on that strip of land again, but you will and I Your death places there and mine and all of us of scarlet town The earth covers us in summer and the sea in winter and storm Give me that piece of wood from my apron take it You met will there on the strand didn't you Bob Rallon? There's a place of love and death Will was handsome listen to me old woman Walk with me and beg my driftwood and I'll give it to you, but don't talk to me a will and why not He died for the love of you For the love of me and one called more you and the rest of the ladies all around for the love of you I was there in Sean's place touching the boats of dress goods and close. I heard what happened all of it For the love of me Sean spoke your name lightly in a teasing way Whispered a question Then in wills hand with a knife Because of what Sean had asked You lie old woman. It's how will died for the love of you I swear it on the graves of my three sons who lie dead for the love of me Not for the one called more her of the silk dress who paid will to take her sailing Paid him this I heard too when the toasts were drunk and Sean's place gave him money to take her sailing Will spoke her name lightly and laugh when he told us of it Fetch me that piece of wood there Bob Rallon And my apron will be for and she left me the old woman did For an hour I I walked the beach gathering driftwood for my house And all the while the bell of the ruined church told for will For the death of will for my true love for will Night came swiftly with the rain and the moon said buying something black in the sky And it stayed there The sea was Rolled in and broke and the end of it was chill against my feet Far away the file of mourners lights as they walked home And I went home to her and made a fire Waited till the sound of my father's returning The funeral was over The dead had been buried My father asked for a tea with whiskey in it. I gave it to him. I left. I went to a place On my coach John. Yes killed will fair fight you killed him with a knife in my belt You hang for it. No, it was a fair fight According to the law of Scarlet Town. He could have killed me. I'm alive. He's dead. No one will hang Glad I was worried for you Barbara Allen no no wait Tell me about What the fight how you killed will Will was your love and you want to know how he died will is dead and I can't breathe Tell me why I'll make you happy. Yes Tell me how you killed will Will was a sailor But he was clumsy with a knife and when I drew mine and we faced each other and we circled I Could tell it Heavy-footed and awkward and when he rushed me I stepped aside and he fell and everybody laughed Now let him get up and Somehow he closed with me and cut me here on my arm. Oh show me Poor song we bent back over the counter the two of us struggling and I Looked into his face and I saw a thing Fright will he the sailor was scared and I brought my hand up You should have seen it his face when the knife went into him That knife in your belt Yes, I want to see it put it there on the table where I can look at it Yes What else will you do for me? What What will you do for me now find things Barbara Allen with silk for my shelves Whatever you want This one this bolt of silk For this one for this one Which one Barbara Allen which one they're at your feet, whatever you want and and listen. I have these two mirrors and these Buttons of shell and and these Combs of mother of pearl For your hair Barbara Allen Sean for your hair You will love me forever Sean For as long as I live Tell me again For as long as I live Yes With a knife you killed will I killed you Happened for the left me alone again fires gone out. I went to Sean Gone out and I killed him See spills over the church yard and the dead will drown The dead in the old graves the dead in the new graves Will that's why I killed Sean father Because of will his grave will sink beneath the sea the storm will wash over Don't you hear what I'm saying father I killed Sean will is dead. I killed Sean and your life is over Yes, sit with me Barbara Allen Yes, and I sat with him at his feet while he rocked He remembered and I remembered And one my father got up walk to the fire and threw on route That down again rocked And I remembered the grief came I'll make your bed Barbara All right killed Sean I did Look through the window the people from Scarlett town they're coming after you They'll hang me for what I did your love lies on the strand. He sleeps on the strand Your love is only I ran to where my love was where will what? Down to the beach under the strand and they followed me the lights of the people from Scarlett And their voices on the howling wind And I ran down the strand for the black sea was covering it and they followed me their voices And the bell on the wind and their voices on the wind and ran again Where my love lay lonely the will in his grave In the church yard I found him Tonight's star miss and Baxter will return in this is Harlow Wilcox speaking for auto light world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment Auto light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry They are members of the auto light family as well as are the 98,000 auto light distributors and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great auto light plants from coast to coast as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in auto light Every auto light product is backed by constant research and Precision built to the highest standards of quality and performance. So remember from bumper to tail light You're always right with auto light and now we bring back to our suspense microphone miss and Baxter Miss Baxter we have auto light would like to thank you for another Magnificent performance and to announce to our listeners that you have won the first annual golden mic award for the best Feminine performance of the past year on suspense and Here and is your handsome golden mic to add to the Baxter trophy. Thank you. Harlow. It's beautiful and Thanks to auto life. I'd also like to thank the wonderful group of suspense players who worked with me Especially Joseph Kearns and Jeanette Nolan. We've also won golden mic for the best supporting performances on suspense Thank you for all of us and good night Next week a story that will prove once again that truth is stranger than fiction Mr.. Cornel Wilde will star as a man who inadvertently was hired to be an assassin the story is called Alan in Wonderland and will be heard on Suspense Suspense was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music written by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Ludbloskin The death of Barbara Allen was written for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin In tonight's story Jeanette Nolan was heard as the old lady Joseph Kearns as Barbara's father featured in the cast for Harry Bartell William Conrad Louis Lewis and Junius Matthews and Baxter is soon to be seen in Alfred Hitchcock's I confess And remember next week on suspense. Mr. Cornel Wilde in Alan in Wonderland People batteries auto light electrical parts and auto light resistor or standard type spark plugs at your neighborhood auto light dealer Which do auto light? Good night. This is the CBS radio network