 Auto light and it's 96,000 dealers present Tonight auto light brings you the wages of sin a suspense play starring miss Barbara Stanwick as Ruby Miller You know her dork. Yeah, Ruby Miller pretty good picture of her. This is her apartment. She's had it for two months What was he doing here? Don't know. It was dating. We got here shut within the hour. Oh captain Hello Frank, who is he driver's license says his name is David Madlock age 42 this city I don't recognize him with that kind of shooting keep going Frank desk clerk Frank to Marco saw Madlock come through lobby about nine o'clock Alone he got it here a few minutes later. What was madlock doing it? Don't know to Marco and a day clerk say they never saw him in building before mm-hmm Reported it janitor heard the shots called downtown saw nothing madlock's got a wife I sent the boys out to pick her up. Okay Doc tells me this is ruby miller's apartment. That's right. She rented it two months ago. Haven't located her yet Now the tabloids are gonna make this look juicy david madlock slain and beauty's apartment If I know those tabloids we got in this town, that'll be tame. All right. Let's find her and get her story I want to know points pull it now through a miller right away. She finally got herself messed up in something too big to handle In just a moment miss barbara stanwick in the first act of the wages of sin What's going on? Hello, why it's tuned up time half For what your car get it tuned up before winter weather wages war on your engine Winterize it by putting in any freeze change of oil and grease and check the spark plugs too Ah realistic reminder johnny plug jack because spark plugs are the very heart of your car's ignition system You mean spark plugs need winterizing too. 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I'll have my car winterized and check the spark plugs too Right, so folks see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer And whether you choose the standard type or the resistor type you can be sure you're always right with auto light And now with the wages of sin and the performance of miss barbara stanwick as ruby miller Auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense I don't care who you are. Nobody gets you. This is my apartment pinhead Hey, what's going on out here sergeant? Who's that? Who are you? Say what's the idea all these cops you're holding crime school in my apartment or something your ruby miller Yeah, that's right. Come on in nice of you. I was just starting out to look for you What's going on around here anyhow? I leave for a couple of hours and Yeah, my rug his name is frank madlock interested. What do you bleed all over my rug for? Come on sister captain wants to see you. Well, I want to see him What kind of a police force do we have in this town a lady can't go out for a drink without coming home? Define get your hands off me inside When I finish my judo course, I'm going to look you up. Hello ruby. Oh Huh, I draw all the dreamy one. I might have known it'd be you captain salvatore That's all right. Yeah, that's all frank Tell me about yourself ruby you're losing your hair. It's falling out worrying about you The last time was 47. No visible means of support I didn't know we were going to talk about old times or I cracked a bottle We aren't gonna talk about that guy lying in there in front of your fireplace Well, they tell me his name is david madlock. You know, that's his name. What's he doing in? How should I know I never saw in my whole life How long you've been seeing him? What did you fight about? Ruby you've had four arrests and one conviction in your time. You know, we always get the answers Captain Doric salvatore copperu Ha Been in the drugstore since 8 30 15 people saw me drinking my malted milk while junior in there must have been getting his brains blown As do they all have every one of them. It was a bowling team on their way home the loafers You're telling me that corpse is the man you never saw before in your life That's exactly what I am telling you your crew will find that out by poking into everything and everybody in town They'll also find my alibi's good and that your guesses are bad If madlock or whatever his name is staggers into my apartment while i'm out and somebody bumps him off That's not my fault and you nor any other single headed cop is going to write it any different All right ruby, let's go downtown Well doric dream You booked me as a material witness as expected After all you had to take somebody downtown The newspapers tossed a lot of type around my pictures in every paper every edition But after two days it died on the vine I made three inches in the second section after that ruby miller released for lack of evidence The morning I got out. I'll wait while you blush. I wanted a bath more than anything else All right. All right. Just a minute. I'm coming Oh ruby, I missed you before you left the station. I'm tired of looking at cops captain This will only take a minute. I'll time you myself. Thanks I uh Just been out talking to marie madlock david madlock's widow The way things happened she still thinks that you and her husband were real palsy on the side She hates the memory of him now. Don't you ever give up? I don't like to see a nice woman like mrs madlock running around believing something that isn't true My boys peaked under every rock in town before you were sprung ruby They came up with two things that got you out You were in the drug store while madlock was being killed and you never knew the guy I'm convinced of that my bath water is getting cold. So am I look ruby He moved in that apartment two months ago paid four hundred dollars rent in advance The same day you deposited one thousand dollars at freeman's national You also bought four hundred dollars worth of clothes and drink it. I hit a horse somebody gave you dough to play a part in this Who we'd gone all through this before who ruby A key to this apartment was found on madlock's body. How'd he get that key? I don't know captain. I just don't know I should have my lock changed All right ruby. I'm leaving. Sorry you didn't have any luck captain You know whatever you get out of this they'll take 20 times as much back from you right down to your soul Madlock's killing was top drawer stuff with some big people involved People who don't care anything about you because you were just background scenery. They might want to change at any time Aren't you scared ruby? You'll never see the day Grandissimo buliardo. What does that mean? You're a liar ruby Where did you get off thinking I was scared? What was it to be scared of her? I held three aces in the deck and that was enough at least to make a starting bid When I looked out my window that night and saw two men in overcoat standing across the street from the apartment I felt extra brain I wasn't worried one bit Hello, ruby mille. Yes What are you still doing in town? I'm waiting for a phone call, but it's not from you. You're asking for a doll I'll be over Well, say hello to the two cops standing in front of my apartment house Salvador's got them on me 24 hours a day Play it smart doll Get out of town while you got legs to walk on listen you sick lip creep I want to talk to him the big man right away and if I don't I'll talk to the cops. I just said how you better act Sorry to disappoint you again dork But I wasn't scared that time either A spook call was always standard operating procedure for those kind of people It let me down a little low having them think I was so square. I wasn't expecting it When I went to bed that night. I was dreaming of a new kind of life And it started the next day with bell Hello, miss miller My name is victor sharon. I'm the attorney for the big man And that's as close as you're going to get take it or leave it My officers are in the equity building suite 203 Uh, I'll expect you anytime today That was the music I was waiting for dork I'll expect you anytime and I made anytime an hour later Salvador's two shadows followed me when I left my apartment and went downtown So I wasn't worried that anybody might interrupt my conversation with Sheridan and carter attorneys at law Uh, call me Sharon, sir My client asked me to speak to you speak up. All right My client has been disturbed by your attitude good for him He wonders why you haven't fulfilled your part of the bargain after all you've been well paid You call that money a man I never saw before in my life came to me a couple of months ago and made the deal $1,500 two months rent on a nice apartment and on a certain night. I was to blow town never come back You should have done it. I saw us set up a mile off. How dumb do you think I am? That is not the question miss miller. How dumb do you think we are? Dumb enough to know he needed a place to do a killing and someone with a rep like mine to throw the cops off I know who he is where he is how he did it and why he did it Tell the client I want to pay off to keep quiet lots of pay off Or I can tell a whole lot of cops something that will keep them absolutely spellbound I see well Well, this being up to start with miss miller a thousand dollars Look sonny. This is the major league I want ten to start with I haven't had much money in the office. You can get it as a bank downstairs You're playing a very dangerous game miss miller I've got built-in police protection at all times Or you have to worry about it's coming through that uh Protection may not last forever. Let me worry about that miss miller It's not up to me to decide the outcome of this affair, but somewhere someplace some time you'll be alone on a dark street And I wouldn't want to say what might happen to you. Well, don't you worry buster I'm going to be burning money to keep all those dark streets bright Now call the bank Auto light is bringing you miss barbara stanwick in the wages of sin tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Check the spark plugs too. 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You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our hollywood soundstage miss barbara stanwick in elliott louis's production Of the wages of sin a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspend I don't think those next few months weren't great captain salvedor They were the last days of pompeh with christmas and a polish wedding thrown in I picked up my checks regularly from victor sherryden and I spent them regularly on ruby miller I never could understand why the two men you always had shadowing me didn't pick up victor sherryden But where I look a gift horse in the mouth I was busy enough being the bell of the boulevard the girl most likely to succeed Clothes all over the place money any place that were enclosed nightclubs. I was a bigger attraction than the chorus girl men Like flies in a sugar ball and don't think I ever got tired of it Why I even got tapped by the 400 Of course, I was sort of a late starter, but so were broker's tip and the yankee Let's see. There was douglas elward tisdale who had the mink ranches Clayton dashill who made governors hamilton moore who was in shipping and polo And talber g cooper Whose taste ran to women ruby I've known girls from bombay to Hunter well don't tell me about them. I hear kinsley's in town. No, no what I was going to say was You're the most exciting of them all. Oh cool squash head I don't come from bombay or hunter. So I don't have to follow the rules. Go get yourself some new material No, I mean it. Oh if I were calming you, I'd do it in another place I'll cut it off. I came here for laughs They uh Who are those two people over by the window? Don't you know Look stupid Didn't you ever read anything but no old coward if I knew who they were I wouldn't have asked Well, come on. I'll introduce you The um the distinguished looking man lives on an inheritance and the distinguished looking woman lives on um Well memories, I guess. Hello, cool. Nice to see you. Hello, clinton re May I present miss ruby miller mr. Clinton fischer. How do you do mr. Fischer and mrs. david madlock? Talk about your drama That moment could have run 36 straight weeks at the barry moore theater As you know captain It was my first performance at trying to carry on idle chit chat with the widow of a man found dead in my apartment Must have been her first too because she excused herself and walked quickly away The guy who staged the scene cooper the coward Also took a powder by natural selection. I guess we're left alone miss miller What's she complaining about I wasn't found dead in his apartment Well, you couldn't exactly expect her to carry on tea time conversation with you Look, uh, is she a friend of yours? I uh know her well tell her the next husband. She gets keep him home That means keeping him happy if she isn't too chill to find time Now if you'll excuse me mr. Fischer, I'll go have a drink allow me to join you miss miller Why frankly, I like you If anybody tells you men over 50 don't have charm put salt in her coffee Clint Fischer was as charming as they need them And the thought came to me that this was my chance to move from the phony money to the real stuff And he was said to have more connections than the plumbing at the wall door I intended someday to use them and my chance came sooner than I thought yes, ma'am Captain Doric salvador wants to see me. You mean lieutenant salvador. He got a bust. Good. He was too arrogant third door on the left lady Don't look so mad sergeant. Maybe if you work hard, you'll be busted too someday Hello, lieutenant Yeah Salam What did you do kick them there's mother? No, the commissioner got a little mad because I didn't bring anybody in for david madlock What did you call me down here for a week? The commissioner's dropping the case What do you mean? He called us off madlock will be under him in the file I'll be on another case. Yeah, but that means that I'm starting tomorrow where you go you go alone What is this you're pulling off my protection ruby We had those men on you to see if anybody made a move towards you not for protection I gotta write the protection you forfeit at every right you had when you threw in with the wrong people In my opinion ruby you sold your soul for a firm up and a filling in you don't talk to me like that You lousy failure shut up. I played your game long enough. This is the end I you don't even know what i'm talking about. You'll never know All dames like you got is your sex You wouldn't know a good piece of music if you heard it You've never read anything longer than a menu in your life You couldn't tell me two intelligent things about the history of the people you came from or the name of the man Who wrote the declaration of independence All you got is a 75 word vocabulary and 112 pounds of flesh that could have been put to better use in an You listen to me flathead. Where do you get off telling me how worthless I am? Just because I went out and made myself a few bucks the hard way Well, I took nerve and I've got it It didn't take any to sit behind that desk and get demoted from captain to lieutenant You picked your way of life yourself and because everybody isn't like you you can't stomach them Your kind doesn't send your sons to college So they'll know a good piece of music when they hear it You send them to learn how to make money and you don't dress your daughters in the best clothes You can buy because they know who wrote the constitution You do it so they'll marry into money You're cheaper on your level and I am on mine because you lie about what you really want and I don't I'm honest I say what I want right out and I get it No Why did the commissioner call off the case? It was costing too much. I can smell a fixed 20 miles off. You're going to set me up for a kill I'm not setting you up for anything. They called me off the case. That's all I know Yeah, well if the commission has been fixed it can be unfixed. I know some pretty big people now I hope they can help you. They will they will don't worry. I'll have my protection back and while I'm at it I think I'll have you busted down to sergeant And I couldn't wait to do it to you Clint Fisher was my boy By then I had him wrapped around my little finger. He knew the skeleton in everybody's closet And I was going to make him rattle a few I pulled out all the stops and he had my hero printed all over him When he said he'd see what he could do You cops who thought you had a corner on everything fracture me I slipped on a negligee and cracked a bottle of champagne While I waited for my team to go into action Hello Oh Clint darling. Oh, it's so nice to hear your voice. It's nice to hear yours ruby. Are you all right? Oh, yes, of course. Don't worry about me. Well, uh ruby everything's going to be fixed Clint Not exactly. That's why I called you I've tried everybody in town and I hate to say this But there's nothing I can do for you Absolutely nothing Clint. You don't mean that afraid honey. You're on your own Don't tell me about men I know more ways they can be cheap and lying too faced and vicious than you can count in a year But Clint Fisher wasn't the only man in the world who could fix things So I tried the rest of them up and down the social register and through the moneymen and tycoons and every one of them Checking out every one of them No ruby. Sorry ruby. Try someone else ruby. That's all I got. Don't tell me about men Then I began to get scared Scared right down through the little veins I locked the door and pull the shades And told the desk to let no one visit me and I sat there all night I didn't bear sleep In half the next day I was scared But then I remembered I still had an ace to play Sheridan. Yes. Yes ruby. Well, what's the matter with you? Nothing I came to make a deal a deal. Do you hear me too late? I won't spill I'll never say a word not a single word to anyone. I'll even get out of town. I What are you laughing about? You trying to make a deal I got the greatest deal in the world the greatest. You never heard anything like this. Listen I don't even know who the client is I don't know. I never knew never All I know is some creep I never saw before gave me a couple of thousand bucks to use the apartment for a killing I don't even know his name. He came and he was gone. That's all I know. Believe me. I Sheridan In the stomach The client he killed madlock because he wanted mrs. Madlock She found out last night committed suicide He he went crazy thought I told her But after shooting Ah, I said it was you And you don't even know him. Who is the client sheridan? He'll kill me. I've got to tell the police Tell me who is it? I ran out of that office as fast as I could make it I didn't know where to go what to do. I couldn't end up like sheridan I couldn't I couldn't Then I then I decided to go to my apartment get my money and try to get out of town I ran up the stairs locked the door and stood there trying to pull myself together And I got an idea Salvatore captain Listen to me. Listen carefully. Who is it ruby ruby miller now? Listen to me the client's after me I know he is the client the man who killed david madlock It's just the way you said I take everything back. I ever said to you. I'm sorry really truly flower I suppose you want protection. Oh, yes. Yes, please send somebody come yourself take care of me I'm in my apartment. I'm afraid to leave it ruby. You're a great girl for deals We had two men following you and three men following sheridan. We didn't find out a thing Tell me who this client is. We'll go out and pick him up. That's just it. I don't know I don't know. I really don't it was all above They thought I knew but I didn't I don't know a thing I played it for what I could get in at work. Now you don't expect me to believe that Got to believe that you've got to I don't know who he is or where he's coming from, but I know I'll be killed. You're lying ruby when you're ready. Tell me the truth. I'll give you what you want. Goodbye Don't hang up. Don't please. I'll be killed I tried to get you back, but they said you'd left the office I wanted to tell you about vetsheridan's death. That would have been true That's why I'm writing you this letter. You'll have to believe I'm packed and I'm leaving town and I don't ever want to come back I'm yelling it from the airport So long durek I hope you have better luck finding the client than I did Oh, oh, yes, we just found vicksheridan. I'm sorry ruby. Sometimes my personal opinion of people gets in the way of my badge We'll be over there in a couple of minutes. Oh, thank you. Thank. Who is it? Clint Fisher, let me in Oh, oh, Clint, I'm so glad you came. Nobody cared. Nobody would do anything Now ruby, you'll be all right. Somebody's after me. Clint, they'll get me. They will they Clint, what's that gun for for you, baby? Oh That won't help. You can't outrun a bullet. You've had a free ride on me I was perfectly willing to give you money when it meant something to avoid trouble But now you're going to pay it all back. I'll do anything anything in the world Close your eyes because it's going to hurt They'll get you Clint. The police will get you. I know, but I'll get it quick. You'll get it the hard way Oh, Clint, please Hold me. Hold me up. How does it feel ruby? That's what you get for telling mary medlock. I killed her husband Mary was the one thing I wanted. I killed to get her made it as sorted as possible Girls apartment and all so she'd forget even his memory And after all the dough I paid you had to tell her I Didn't tell her I didn't even know who All right, you stand where you are with your hands in the air Oh Will you look at that They're lying on the same spot where madlock was killed Yeah The wages of sin Suspense presented by auto light the night star miss barbara stanwick The north wind does blow and we shall have snow and then what will old wilcox do He'll sit in his car and drive near and far in winter long comfort Will you well if you have your car tuned up and winterized by your neighborhood auto light spark plug dealer And remember auto light makes more than 400 products for cars trucks planes and boats in 28 plants coast to coast These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many of america's finest cars Generators coils distributors voltage regulators wire and cable starting motors and electric windshield wipers All engineered to work together perfectly as part of the auto light team All engineered to give you unexcelled auto light service Don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good Ask for and insist on auto light original factory parts at your neighborhood service station car dealer garage or repair shop Remember you're always right with auto light next week on suspense. Mr. Richard widmark a star of too hot to live And in weeks to come you will hear such famous stars as Herbert marshal and william holden appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in suspense Tonight suspense play was produced and directed by elliot lewis with music composed by lucian mora wek and conducted by lud bluskin The wages of sin was written for suspense by e jack newman and john michael haze This stand week may currently be seen in the mgm picture to please a lady and remember next week on suspense Mr. Richard widmark in too hot to live You can buy world famous auto light resistor or standard spark plugs auto light stateful batteries auto light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto light dealers switch to auto light. Good night Motorists be prepared to stop in time to save a child's life when driving through school zones Watch out for youngsters at play save a life by expecting the unexpected from children This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system