 Lipton tea and Lipton soup present in a sanctum mysteries Good evening friends of the inner thank you This is Raymond your host at the squeaking door come in. Won't you? Well, you're shivering cold Well, don't let it throw you just remember that many are cold, but fewer frozen Well our story to be different tonight is about murder murder and a clock So if you've got a little time to kill let's do it now Why mr. Raymond nobody can really kill time. Well, maybe not but you certainly can frighten it didn't you ever hear of an alarmed? Clock mr. Raymond some day you're going to choke on one of those puns and won't that be nice Mary Then you can revive me with guess what Lipton tea Oh dear must this go on a week after week Why must I talk to the only person in the world who doesn't know the proper uses of Lipton tea? Oh, don't say that isn't used to revive people at least not in the way you mean it Of course lots of folks do find that Lipton's makes the day seem brighter Yes It sort of helps them through their housework to sit down now and then between Meals as well as at dinner and supper and enjoy a cup of Lipton tea and the reason why Lipton's is so Satisfying is because of that one little word brisk B-r-i-s-k T experts say that Lipton's has a brisk flavor which means that it always tastes tangy and bracing It's never flat or wishy-washy So folks ask for Lipton tea at your grocers You just don't know how good tea can be till you've tried Lipton's Yes, and when you leave the grocer step next door to the clockmaker shop and ask him for a Judas clock If he doesn't have it on hand just to ask him to give you the works Yes, the title of tonight's story is the Judas clock It's an original radio play by that old clock watcher Christopher Mayo Now a star is Barry Kroger who plays the role of Sebastian Packer I'm a clockmaker. I carry on the profession my father taught me in London I like clocks All that is but one For 30 years, I've looked for a certain clock and a certain man The clock is known to collectors as the Judas clock The man I swore to kill when is a boy of 14 I closed my father's glazing eyes and wiped the froth of blood from his lips Last night I found the Judas clock Tonight I may have found the man You told you're an expert clock repairman, Mr. Rump Packer madam. Well, yes, I suppose. Well, I have a clock rather my husband has and it hasn't run for years Would you have a look at it? Well, don't you bring it in? Heavens know it weighs 500 pounds One of those huge marble things Italian Renaissance, I'd say Italian Can you describe it further? Well, it's rather unusual black marble heavily carved with biblical characters The ivory face has a beautifully etched scene on it, but it's a gruesome one gruesome What kind of a scene it's a picture of a man hanging from a tree Judas His face is positively ghastly The Judas clock I knew without seeing at why the clock wouldn't run It had been built in Italy for a prince of the house of Savoy in 1598 He conceived the idea when he discovered that his family's treasures included the 30 pieces of silver of Judas' scarlet The clock was made to run only when the 30 silver coins of Judas were in place in the clock's hollow weights 15 in each weight and The coins had been in my possession since the day of my father's death Somewhere inside me that clock still beats its deep-throated song And I have but to close my eyes to hear again my father's voice Mr. Packer, can you fix it? Oh, I'm sorry. I was daydreaming. Yes. I does mr. Arnold Arnold does mr. Arnold know that you're having the clock repaired. No, we've only been married a few weeks And I'd like to have it working when he comes back to town tomorrow sort of a surprise. Yes, I see And I'll be there in half an hour. Mrs. Arnold So last night I went to the Arnold house and found the Judas clock again. I started to work Fog horns from the East River sounded much as I remembered they did in London And suddenly I was back there on a fateful day about a fortnight after the clock had been uncrated by my father. I Was in the shop and the man from Scotland yard stepped in He walked straight to the clock and stared at it. Good afternoon, sir Is the clock interest you very much? When did you acquire it? The cousin bought it at an auction in Italy and I'm displaying it for sale and consignment My name is Pettibone Scotland yard. He's been looking for this clock for a month. It was stolen in Italy Stolen. Yes, mr. Baker and worse murder was done Fraud you're involved in a bit of something here Murder I'm taking possession of the clock in the name of the crown I shall never forget the look of horror on the detective's face a moment later He laid his hand on the clock's carving and it froze there while its face drained white and his eyes bulged He opened and closed his mouth soundlessly and crumpled to the floor with his hands to his throat he was still and twisted and Very dead Mr. Pettibone had died of a heart attack the moment he took possession of the clock. I Helped father drag him into the stock room father wanted time to think so I went to my room. I Dozed off only to wake hours later at the sound of angry voices Well cousin Andrew you've done me a fine turn, haven't you? I've told you I didn't mean to kill the old girl It was an accident don't talk so loud boy will hear us you kill it as soon as you learn She'd made out a will in your favor then when you thought it was safe You saw all her furnishings and sent the clock to me to sell very well. I did you're in it to the ears I'd go to the police And how will you explain poor stiff mr. Pettibone lying in your stock room all this while? I besides Timothy there's nothing to fear now Pettibone's gone. He was the only one who suspected me Now you're the only one who knows I'll create this cast black monster tomorrow and you leave with it And will you also create mr. Pettibone? Hey, I have a plan here sit down in this chair right here I'll show you how we can solve the whole thing My young heart beat with a wild dread as I listened I could only see cousin Andy's back But I could see father seated dejectedly in the chair near the Judas clock his head in his hands It was midnight All the clocks in the shop began striking the hour and louder than all the rest was the chime of the evil clock If only then I'd known I might have done something but the slow strokes beat on eight nine ten And before my horrified eyes the heavy marble piece lean slowly from the wall and crashed across my father's back Facing my father's the crust is frail form and choked him He made pitiful little sounds his eyes begging for life and the murderer just stood back to me What's hungry sinners you die hard? Because Landy ran from the shop crying for help. He would claim an accident. I raced into the shop My father was dead. I Choked back my tears and I closed the poor staring eyes I took the coins of Judas from the weights of the clock and ran from the shop the blood stained pieces jangling merrily in my pocket Armed with the notion that the coins were of value and the definite notion that I must eat Approached one of the many dingy little curio shops in the limelight district. I Steped through the fog taught a shop where a dim light burned in the rear Every inch of wall and ceiling was hung with curios old armor swords and shields I would have run out But a wheeze and apish man barked at me from the rear. What do you want? I Have something to sell what you got. I have the 30 pieces of silver that belong to Judas is scary it I'll twist a scrawny neck off you're pulling me like a oh no, sir. I'm not pulling your legs, sir. Here they are Silver right now Where'd you cut them? Oh, I didn't steal them sir. They they belong to my father It'll likely tell that Will you buy them? Buy me says Buy him Get down to me before I cause a bobby a scam get out. Oh no, give me my coin get out right to my butt and fetch you a sound one The ugly brute came told me he held my coins clutched in a tight hairy fist Before I could move he had struck And I hit the wall with a clatter and then It happened again For the second time that night the curse of the Judas clock struck As I hit the wall my eye caught a metallic glint above and a heavy object dropped from the ceiling The man was about to strike me again when the object struck his head And remained part of him He fell His skulls split in two by a hangman's axe Clamped my mouth on a cry and pride the man's fist open The fresh blood made it hard But I recovered the coins That stumbled and panicked threw the shop out into the night of London Never swallowed a more frightened and lonely boy Nasty fog swallowing a little boy that reminds me of a little nursery rhyme Hickory dickory dark the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck two Look out it might strike you Heavens, I'm glad I don't own that terrible clock. Oh, don't say that Mary. Just think if you had the Judas clock then Time wouldn't hang Evelyn. You know it would fall, honey Well, if it did fall and you rescued me, wouldn't that make you a time saver? Well split my sides with an axe if Mary didn't make with a joke. Well a very little one, Mr. Raymond That's true But seriously, I do have something to say about a time saver And I'm thinking about Lipton tea You know Lipton's is such a handy beverage it takes a little time to prepare and it's always so welcome Yes, it's famous brisk flavor makes it enjoyable not just at your own meal times But between meals and whenever folks drop in for a visit That's why it's a good idea to buy Lipton's in the larger more economical size packages That's right. The larger packages are much thriftier So you see it's wise to keep on hand a really good supply of that brisk flavored Lipton tea Oh, sure. It'll come in handy to warm up the chills you get from these inner sanctum stories and brother You're going to shiver plenty with Barry Kroger as Sebastian Packer as this story goes on about the Judas clock I hadn't touched those horrible coins of Judas Iscariot since the day the storekeeper was killed By now I have believed the legend that death followed them I began to feel that the only way I could escape their curse Was to find the Judas clock and put the coins back in its weights where they belonged One day as I read the notices in the times my heart skipped a beat it said auction of clocks It's choke in place auction rooms Saturday at 7 Rare items one of them fine italian renaissance piece of black marble Rare treat for collectors come early Interested in something young man. Oh why uh, yes. Well, that is nothing in particular Uh, just looking at these splendid pieces. I thought I might stay for the auction. Hmm Look about Auction won't start for a bit yet. I sauntered toward the black clock My hand had scooped all the coins from my pocket. I would have to work fast and noiselessly My sweating fingers began to unscrew the small cover on one of the weights I would soon have the coins put back as I thought What have you got in your hand there? Let's have a look. No, nothing. Nothing at all. I'm just examining examining my foot You've got a flock of coins there. You must have taken them from somewhere in the clock No Sometimes when things happen quickly the mind retains details that would otherwise escape notice As the men and I struggled I dropped the clock's weight It hit a short round bit of metal directly below it The man had a vice like grip on my clenched hand. He lasted little rich. No, I rent your handle for you I heard a whirring sound within the clock and before my horrified eyes the supporting panel at the front of the clock's base Slowly lifted on hinges. The clock was off balance and began to fall forward. I screamed a warning The auction man was dead Mashed to a pulp of bone and blood beneath the clock As my father had been I ran to the door and out into the street I was right back where I'd started Only now I knew that my father had been murdered By cousin and I walked for miles trying to pull myself together I wandered aimlessly Oh, so I thought But fate had traced my path before me Because I was startled to find myself staring into the shop window of a rare coin dealer named megaroid I walked into the shop Mr. Megaroid was a nice little man He smiled a bit quizzically at my firm belief that I possessed the betrayal coins of judas I poured them onto his counter Oh, I say you could be right, you know Well, these are the right era I say suppose they are let me put a glass to them. Mr. Megaroid, would they be worth a great deal? Even if they weren't the well, let me see. Let me see Yes gracious. Yes, they should be worth a great deal as collectors items alone. Well, uh, mr. Megaroid I feel that there's something I should tell you about these pieces. They yes Oh, it's not important. Oh, well now just a moment. I have a catalog on this here in my show window. I'll figure just a chiffy The coins lay on the counter I watched mr. Megaroid run down the aisle as he approached the display window his foot caught in an electric wire Which lay across the floor the lights went out and I saw him pitch forward The streetlight peered through the broken plate glass And played across a grotesquely sprawled form in the show window I needed no more light than there was to see what had happened The upper half of the heavy plate had broken and dropped flat against the solid lower half There was no need to ask how he was No guillotine could have done the neater job Mr. Megaroid Had no head I shall find out if mr. Arnold is cousin andrew If he is I shall feel no remorse in killing him tonight Because while working to repair the judo's clock last night I discovered how my father's accidental death had been well conceived diabolic murder When the right hand weight reached the floor of the clock on the 12th stroke of midnight It tripped a trigger Which collapsed the base of the clock and caused it to fall forward My father had died on the 12th stroke of midnight Have you finished mr. Packer? No, mrs. Arnold. I should have to come back tomorrow night What time do you expect mr. Arnold tomorrow about 11? I'd say will you be finished by then? Well, I uh, I think so I'll have to take these weights to the shop with me though. There's something has to be added to them Well, of course, mr. Packer mr. Arnold will be so surprised to see the clock running won't he? He'll be very surprised mrs. Arnold I've put the coins in their place within the weights Not 15 in each weight, but 15 in one and 10 in the other The other five coins are in my pocket In another pocket. I have a small 38 although. I don't plan to use it eight o'clock And I Have a 30 year old date Good evening. Oh Mr. Packer. Yes, but I'm closing now. I see you are My name is Arnold just came in from chicago Sorry to spoil your little surprise Or my wife's rather you You surprised her instead. Yes, she had to confess I wanted to go out so she had to tell me about engaging you to repair the jeweler's clock You don't want it to repair. Why all means I insist. It's a splendid idea But what I came for really was to tell you that you and I have much to talk about. Oh, do we? Yes But look close your place and bring along whatever you need to fix the clock and we'll talk about it at my place I'm all set. Let's go You'll have it fixed in time to strike midnight. Oh, yes. Yes, it will strike at midnight And well there we are mr. Arnold Waits are in place. Let's see exactly 10 minutes before midnight set the hands And just a little shove on the pendulum so And the jeweler's clock ticks again It's an either clock the jeweler's clock wakes from a 30 year sleep Hey cousin sabastra cousin. Well, that's what I wanted to tell you My wife told me your father owned this clock in london. Oh, I well, yes, I was your father's cousin Your sabastre packer the little boy who ran away that night cousin hendry. Yes I wonder how much you know of that horrible night when your father was killed right I know the clock fell on father I heard the sound from my room and I'm so frightened And on the rear steps in time to see them carry father away he Was all covered up. So that was why I didn't find you in your room afterward It happened so fast We were sitting talking The clocks were striking 12 Suddenly the base of the clock seemed to cave in and I know I bought the clock at an auction a few years later Had it all fixed It's good and solid now I saw to that Yes, sir. Well, I I suppose I run along now because nandy and nonsense nonsense Let's make up for lost time and get acquainted. Well, come now. I have some fine old port from england here I wrote sit down a while. No, no, no, not that chair. No, this one's a lot more comfortable That's a funny thing When you work with clocks as long as I have You will get to Philosophizing about time. That's all How? Well Here I sit by the big clock Just as my father said 30 years ago You know, how many seconds ago that was cousin andy? No Do you well? uh three hundred and fifteen million three hundred and sixty thousand seconds in ten years and the uh nine billion four hundred and sixty million and eight hundred thousand Seconds in 30 years You've got quite a mechanical mind, Sebastian Yeah, try this pot. Thank you Here's to What's the matter cousin andy? Are you ill? No Your face is quite drawn gray. Shut up cousin andy. It's late. I guess I best go You know, you do look awfully sick. Oh, don't get up. Oh, man Here sit down and relax. Take my chair. It's the more comfortable Are you shaking like a leaf? Now just sit quietly. I'll see myself out Senders. Good night cousin andy You're choking to death You die Don't you it was just a matter of timing I set the hand a minute fast and the weight didn't touch your clever little spring device So just now because it's lighter by five pieces of cursed Judas money It's easy father Stun the pieces of silver in the temple And departed And went and hanged himself But a fine chime was had by all Uh anybody want to buy a large grandfathering clock I'm in the market for a sundial himself a sundial my they are old timing Say mr. Raymond if you're afraid of clocks that tick Why don't you try to get hold of one of those old egyptian water clocks? Oh, Mary Now you're going to tell me that when tea time comes around the water begins to boil in the clock That would be quite an invention But no mr. Raymond right now. I'm not going to talk about Lipton tea Instead i'm going to tell our listeners about an important job that lies ahead A fight that's far from finished. Yes the battle for japan Our government says that this specific war will be one of the most bitter and difficult in history Never before has the nation fought so far away from its own shores And to support this fight we at home must work even harder at our homefront activities We must keep on buying more and more bonds and we must hold on to them And above all we must stay on our war job until the job in the pacific is over Well, I'll leave you with a cheerful timely moral. Oh that goes with tonight's story. No extra charge now You can figure out how many seconds you've lived All right. That's your past time But you can't figure out how many you've got left. That's just uh sometime Well, I'll see you in just 604 800 seconds from right now. Hmm Well, that's next Tuesday night at nine o'clock, of course By the way this month's inner sanctum mystery novel Is the lucky stiff by craig rice Well, now it's really time to close out their squeaking door until next Tuesday night when Lipton tea and Lipton soup bring you another inner sanctum mystery Directed by hymen brown So until then Good night pleasant dream Hmm Folks if you'd like to give the boys overseas a real taste of home Then why not include a package or two of Lipton's noodle soup mix the next time you send them a box of food? Yes, Lipton's has the same Homemade chickeny taste as the soup you make right in your own kitchen That's why it's a thoughtful welcome little gift to send Lipton's And as you know yourself Lipton's noodle soup makes a grand snack So remember Send a package or two to your boy And remember to tune in next Tuesday night for another inner sanctum mystery Cbs the columbia broadcasting system