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You're always right with auto light William Powell is appearing by arrangement with Metro Golden mayor producers of the Technicolor picture the naked spur starring James Stewart Janet Lee and Robert Ryan and Now auto light presents the man who cried wolf starring mr. William Powell Hoping once again to keep you in suspense If you knew who I am If one day you would pass me on the street and stop and point your finger at me and say This story happened to you Then I would be a dead man And therefore I cannot tell you too much about myself Neither what I looked like nor where I am a Few things you may know which will alter nothing. I Am Russian. I was once a member of the Communist Party And until recently I was attached to the Russian Embassy in Mexico City a cipher clerk Three years of it attached to the Embassy in a strange new land Here a thing needs emphasis The people the Mexican people They worked they sang They laughed they had families cried played hoped loved like Russian people But with a difference They did these things when and how and where they wanted to not by directives The word is freedom. It took me three years to know its meaning for this I Was almost murdered to you. My name is Maros Leco. It started at nine o'clock in the morning When I was walking toward the cipher room in the Embassy Can you spare me a moment of course in here, please my office sit down sit down Thank you, and I was your wife Lillia and the little one his name even He must be let me see three months Three months amazing. I believe even recognizes me I I have heard of other children his age who travel in airplanes Bottles and equipment to make formula these things are provided. I don't I don't you do Traveling airplanes. Ivan will do it. Therefore you therefore your wife. I Have been recalled. I have suggested it to the ambassador the ambassador to Moscow approved Moscow to the ambassador Etc. But why because I suggested it to the ambassador. I See, of course you do However, you should know this I have written a letter which will precede you by diplomatic pouch as your superior my Impressions of you the gist of it. You must know. I know. No, I don't you will be missed here in Mexico I've told them that thank you by many friends Mexicans Americans whom you have met through your Mexican friends Then I am being recalled as a poor security risk Exactly now your key to the cypher room Comrade they're the key. Oh Yes, I have it here Detach it will Zappatine speaking. Yes comrade. Oh, yes one moment comrade let go if you please wait for me in the corridor Of course Yes, comrade. Yes ambassador. I have told him there is no melodrama attached to it merely a simple truth To be sent back to Moscow is a bad security risk prison work camp in Siberia death Therefore do a thing What's your plan ensure my living? Do not wait for Zappatine Back to the cypher room use the key Steal Certain papers documents for the occasion of remaining alive You have this one and this Secret documents to buy my own security papers doggie it for the purpose Stay alive and these This and put them into my coat pocket inside A moment comrade told you to wait But I had duties here in the cypher room. You are relieved of them. I told you this No merely that I'm returning to Moscow tomorrow Yes, the key comrade of course Here you will go immediately to your house. You will inform your wife. You will pack You will get your child ready and you will be delivered to Moscow under escort comrade Now good day the kitchen during the things of the morning in Meadows What it is morning, and you are not at the embassy. You are here. Why? The child Lillia where he has been fed he's bathed and he sleeps now Lillia It's cold in your hands Close I will warn you Lillia Why? Say to me why you are of illness. Yes, that's it And whole realdoms, and you recall a doctor. We will know Lillia This chilling you that I cannot warm fear fear of death To run in streets blazing the sun and still to be cold What cure for that lead to begin tomorrow for you for me? and for the child I Don't know what there will be for the child I'm being recalled Lillia. Why you have worked hard for him, and I have talked to people here Life sat in sunlight and laughed with them And somewhere in darkness it was observed and reported There is until tomorrow, and there is time for flight. I will make ready the child No If we run they will find a quicker way to kill us. I Have a plan Lillia for a year now. I've had this plan and it will keep you from day. Listen to me I've stolen certain papers from the Cypher room Documents at the house that can buy back our life. I had them here in my coat from whom will they buy our life mirrors Who will now want you listen to me? You ought to take them Here take them Yes, you put them in a briefcase And then you'll take the boy and dress him and go to the plaza Zocalo And the bench there near the Greek fountain And you were there so the child will have son if anyone asks And you'll keep the briefcase hidden until I come to you you understand will you yes, and then quickly get ready Oh You give me surprise senor leco. It was not you are expected to see this hour, but I'm glad to see you Please come in The day has a beauty and in the streets. There is fiesta, and I thought to me the senora leco would care for fiesta She and the pequeno Aye the senora de pequeno. Muy buenas dias. Do you both? Ah you'd you'd better take the child and go lilia. There's not much time But senior I've come for you and the little one to the fiesta lilia Another time senor when I will not disturb I too will go no no wait. Yes Three years we've known each other now Neighbors you've done kindness as for us Are you also my friend Cardozes? This is a question of ridiculous That I am your friend I who have held the pequeno Ivan in my hands or maybe shit for him who have listened to me Just listen I've come across certain documents They prove a conspiracy exists between members of your government and mine These papers can buy back my life. I have only until tomorrow to sell Oh, I have read of such grotesque things. Where do I buy back my life Cardozes and lilas and evens? You were a lawyer and a Mexican Where do I trade it is to ponder a? Moment if I were not a poor lawyer if I were an Editor perhaps of a great newspaper and there was a week's headlines to be had for so little price Oh, but don't know how frightful I am. I did not mean the editor Newspaper Yes, yes, of course. Oh Bill. Gracias Cardozes 10,000. Thanks for our lives Yes What do you wish of me? I Am Maros Leco. I called clerk of the Russian embassy. I remember you well, so you let go from another time I Have a story for you With documents top secret so The documents prove that there's a conspiracy between certain members of your government with mine I've stolen them from my emissary Like yours if you want and the price and your I told you My life my wife's my three months old child our lives Very cheap senior bargain rates. You have the courage to steal secret papers of the Soviet You Russian citizen and this is what you want not money. I have been recalled to the Soviet There'll be a plane for us tomorrow morning an escort And after that or after papers My wife has them She's waiting for me on a bench in a plaza Zopalo the boys with her. I'll go to her. Tell her that you'll take You People intrigue drama the promises of violence and of revelations and the easy words on your mouth knife dead It's like the last time you came to see me has in your let go What not a year ago, senior let go you were here you then had another thing to sell Listen to me the thing of dr. Diego remember professor of electronics in the University of Mexico He too was inconspicuous you told me then and it was false a savage lie You and your government wish told me to relieve us of his brains To get him out of your evil way to destroy him Slowly us it was a lie. I admit it. I had orders to do that, but this but this This is of a fable senior of the boy who cried wolf once too often And now it is a man who has cried will please You have to believe that I senior I have more wisdom of you now run Run into streets cry wolf to the masks of fiesta Perhaps one of them will believe but not I Cry wolf that kill me Lillia the boy And yes, senior Oralite is bringing you mr. William Powell in the man who cried wolf tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Say Sam did you know that 41 years ago? Oralite designed the first two units six-volt automotive electrical system used as original equipment sure an Autolite electrical systems have been used as original equipment on leading makes of our finest cars tracks Truckers and boats ever since a mr. 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William Powell in Elliot Lewis's production of the man who cried wolf a Story well calculated to keep you in suspense These are the things which happen to a man who might be killed Walk a street Lance Backwood stop That man in back of you. Why did he stop too? So turn a corner and there's a place a building a place. You've been looking for the Department of Justice and go into it Find a man a small man the neat and dapper and ridiculous and but particle and shattering man Let go mirrors let go the name. I know I am sure of it Pardon me, please, and you're see I Have documents Forgive me. You have a story, but no documents. You say your wife has documents, but you do not pardon me Lekko Lekko Meadows Lekko. Ah, I see Meadows Lekko And the Department of Justice has a dossier on you. I was sure of it In March 1952 you reported that a certain Dr. Diego of the University erroneously reported I must say it was a lie then I Was on orders to report and today no lies senior what I have been telling you as the truth My life is in danger and you wish protection. Yes for me for my wife for my child senior Yes, you are a Russian national of the Embassy Has your embassy been informed of these things that it's about to happen to your life? Don't you understand? Those are the people who want to kill me. I understand only that once you endeavor to involve my government in an unpleasantness with your lies however Yeah, russian embassy, please man away from him flight from a cone phone call to death mine And for a woman who sits in the plaza near a fountain and waits For a child whose fingers play with drifting golden feathers of sunlight and try not to run through a long corridor of marble and columns quick Blur faces and the voices and their feet murmurings of the tongues of terror And great doors of metal and glass over on to a pavilion of steps Close and out of the images of fiesta for the masks of fiesta to the women the music and the spinning scarlet some goals and green of fiesta and Across the street is a lifetime away The cry of laughter and small fright you've made a child a young boy's brawl against confetti pavement And take the precious time to help him do his feet and say you're sorry A few steps to another building you're shot at door and beat on it Because there is help there and refuge and say your court does this the office of senior court does it? God knows us just an amigo queen was my office for fiesta. He wouldn't listen to me. God knows us He wouldn't believe me. Huh? Oh The man of the newspaper someone has to believe me God knows us someone has to see those documents perhaps What a friend to me and the secret police I could say to him of you and perhaps he but maybe You have no issue of secret police, and you're like oh Get to him Tell him I have but to phone to him. He's a friend from student days. He will meet us Think amigo Where is your friend? He will meet us here in good time drink Miros Yes, are you not worried about your wife about the Pekinu? They would be all right. Yes. I'm sure it that man who came through the door Sientate Pepe and amigo Pepe amigo mirrors well as this how do you do you are in trouble, sir? Yes What trouble? Pepe May I call you that see I? Have stolen some documents from the Russian Embassy. Where are they senior my wife? That's them and where is your wife? She's waiting for me When you hear my story If you believe me no one believes him Pepe the story is senior tomorrow I'm to be sent back to Russia I've stolen documents to prevent this that is the part that is difficult for authorities to understand Pepe My friend Miros talks of documents and has no documents see this I notice To give them to my wife and separate from her as part of a plan By this time surely that that the documents has been discovered by this time the embassy looks for me if they catch me They cannot harm me see the blackmail of the documents. Do you believe my story? Senor I wish to tell you something Do you believe me to us of the police the names of all members of your embassy is known yours? I will not conceal from you the fact that I know of the tricks you played with us last year The matter of the professor at the university. It's the truth What I tell you is the truth believe him Pepe. Why should I believe you senior because it is the truth See I saw his wife earlier leave. I will take you to her. I do not wish to be made a fool of I will give you the papers believe him Pepe I Have a car outside We will go to your wife turn here My wife waits for me at the plaza Zogalo and she will wait with my son. Yes, but can you pay three months senior? Yes, your wife is Russian also. Yes, and a member of the party Yes, how can you be sure she did not return to the embassy deliver back the papers and when you arrive at the plaza a truck Funny very the plaza senior Where is your wife? Oh slowly? Yes, yes, there she is By the fountain where I told her to be with the child see The police motions to stop the car so I must stop we can't get to the other side anyhow Such a solemn parade How ridiculous both of you? Spies communist lies the lies I had once lived the envelopes they turned over the car And the last thing I saw Godotus and Pepe communists who tricked me the terror on their faces The last thing I saw At another place Maros you are released. I will take you there and the papers the documents the police They believe you. Yes. Oh, yes We are free Maros Not to return to Russia and your homeland That is freedom and no fear Freedom where we are now We are not known And it is freedom where we are And there are hopes and there is love I am alive But if one day you would pass me on the street and stop and point your finger at me and say This story happened to you Then I would be a dead man suspense Presented by auto light tonight star mr. William Powell This is Harlow Wilcox again 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 That's why during these early months of 53 the auto light family joins together in saluting the leading car manufacturers who install auto light products as original equipment our Auto light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great auto light plants from coast to coast and instill other auto light plants in many foreign countries our family also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in auto light as well as 98,000 auto light distributors and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world Our auto light family will salute the National Safety Council and its accident prevention work on the next auto light suspense television Program if you live in a television area check the day and time of suspense so that you'll be sure to see this program Next week a true story the tragic history of the most famous of all early, California bandits The story is called the love and death of Joaquin Murrieta our star mr. Victor mature That's next week on suspense Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin The man who cried wolf was written for suspense by Morton fine and David Friedkin from research gathered by Larry Thorpe In tonight's story Lillian biop was heard as Lilia featured in the cast for Joseph Kearns, Jack Crucian, Steve Roberts, Byron Kane and John Daener and remember next week mr. Victor mature as Joaquin Murrieta This is the CBS radio network