 If you were to call a girl angel face She'd have to be a beautiful girl a girl as beautiful and lonely as Dolores Caught doing a job. She didn't especially care anything about Waiting for the chance to get away from it all With the boy she loved Creeps this is T4 why? Opening the doors to the mystery Playhouse Tonight we bring you a modern horror story Complete with chills and frightening situations It's called angel face and it was written by mr. Walter Wilson I felt it was worth bothering with even though mr. Wilson is somewhat a newcomer at this writing game And we had planned to bring you one of the more prominent authors from our shelves downstairs Here then is angel face by Walter Wilson Our scene is a smart nightclub in midtown Manhattan waiter Have you seen miss? Yes, sir. I know she's waiting for you. All right the corner table. You're late tonight, mr. Wrangler. Yes, I know. Thank you Hey, you are Dolores, I Sorry, I'm late. I Gosh Dolores, you look lovely Joe Yeah, I'm getting so I Can't think about anything but you All day at the bank. I keep wishing it was time to get off so I could see Joe you sweet I think about you all the time, too. I guess I thought there never could be anyone like you For me anyway, I never thought I'd meet anyone like you a real nice guy like you You know what some people think a chorus girl And gee you make me feel like I was something out of this world or something. Oh, you are Delores You've got a face just like an angel. He's a such pretty Sometimes I was want to cry he's a such pretty thing Three weeks ago. We didn't even know each other But we were meant to meet We were meant to stay together, too. You and I were always and We can't let anything interfere and spoil things for us ever You think that too. Don't you Dolores? Tell me you think that Joe darling. What's the matter? Of course. Nothing's gonna spoil things for it. I Couldn't live without you I just couldn't live without you Joe. I love you. I Love you like I never loved anyone before You're the first person who's ever been really kind to me. I Know something tell me Joe. Maybe I couldn't help but tell me It hurts no one is something wrong and me not knowing what it is so I could help Is it Something at the bank Joe, it's not something at the bank. Dolores is it well Joe was going to put it back I I just needed some money quick, but what for what was it? It was important It was the first important thing that ever happened to me Dolores. I Couldn't let it slip away Joe Joe do you mean to say you did it for me? All that money you've been spending on me taking me to expensive places like this that that was don't don't you see Just see I was afraid I'd lose you I have a little money saved up not much of course, but some take it and put the money back if it's enough How much was it you do that for me? Oh No, no, it's too late for that It was only four or five hundred, but the auditors will catch up to me in a day or two, and then it'll be all up They they came unexpectedly It's no use to learn we can't do this Joe Look, we'll run away. We'll go somewhere with they'll never find us. They can't do this to it You don't know what you're letting yourself in for Delores. I don't care wherever you go. I'll go with you You won't be afraid not with you Joe. I won't be afraid of anything, but Joe hold my hand Hold it tight Don't I'll be all right Joe We'll make out won't we Joe I said it don't or is it it's It's going to take money to get away You can have everything I've got Joe and I can hug that bracelet you gave me and they're gonna be after me anyway What do you mean? well a Lot of money would help There's an old saying you might as well hang for a sheep Joe look They don't suspect anything yet, but I've got to work fast If if I could lay my hands on some real money say Say 20,000 no Joe. We've got trouble enough They're gonna try to send me to jail for a few hundred anywhere Delores with 20,000 won't this just make it worse darling It can't be any worse Will you stick with me Delores? Will you will you darling? I told you I'd do anything Whatever we have to do. I'm sticking with you Joe What can I do for you, please are you a locksmith? Yes? Yes, you want some keys made perhaps? No, I uh, I want you to do a job for me a Sort of a special job. Well, why not? I'll make it worth your while See you here. Here's the address. It's right right in the neighborhood. Let me see Miss Dolores still apartment 11 e 201 bed fridge. Yeah, I Don't know about this. I'll have to explain it to you when we get there Well, if it's a lock I can fix I told you I'd make it worth your while Well, I'd have to charge you for it a special job like this and leaving my shop. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's do oh Sure, mr. Sure. Yeah for this I can fit Sure worried so every minute I think it's all right Nobody noticed a thing. They won't know till they balance the books tomorrow night But at time we'll Will be a long way away. They won't think anything tomorrow morning when you don't show up for work I I told one of the boys I was going to the races and he's gonna tell him my phone didn't and said I was sick That'll give me a good start on sure it will It'll work out. All right, you'll see. Yeah Well, here it is in this little satchel $20,000 gee I want you to have a duplicate key to the satchel in case anything happens to me No, no, nothing must happen to you Joe. It can't it just can't cause nothing will happen to me I I only meant just in case no No, I don't want the key If anything happened to you, I wouldn't want the money. What good would it do me? The only reason we've got it is so you and I can have a chance at living and belonging to each other Maybe we're doing wrong. I don't know. I guess people would say it's wrong Only it's the only way we have a chance of being together and that couldn't be wrong Could it no? No, you and me. That's the rightest thing in the world Gotta get going in a minute Just let me kiss you. I Joe Joey you're trembling. I know I know it'll pass Just my nerves. It'll pass off in a minute here. Take a little brandy. It'll fix you up. Here you are Thanks. Guess I need it You're not having any no, you know, I never could drink brandy Well, oh, that feels good What I needed all right sure Joe just what you need Funny all of a sudden what's the matter Joe? I Feel so Joe Joe the coast is clear All set sure Did he fall for it to Laura's of course he fell for it Sucker out like a light nice girl, baby. It was the same you sure can handle them Well, come on kid. We got way to do don't I even ready to kiss? Oh sure sure, baby I was just thinking maybe we ought that all you like that didn't you yeah You still love your little Delores, don't you? But you couldn't get along without her now. Good job. Oh sure. Sure. You know, I love you Delores knows her little boy loves it He just wants to be sure that's all And I would never think of leaving it little Delores now would it That wouldn't be a wise thing to do at all What is I take it easy Dolores? What's eating you? You know me sure? I know you well We've been around a lot together you and me It isn't as if this was our first job. Okay. Okay. Oh This one was a cinch. He fell for it even harder than that guy in Chicago No, Tom Stevens don't use names like that Someday you'll say something in the wrong place relax out. Everything's hunky. Don't yeah, I know what are you worrying about Tom Stevens for? They're still looking for him and the payroll he made off with Tom's been six feet under for nearly a year now and even if somebody does dig up that Tom was kind of nice He always used to call me Angel face remember angel face Cripes. What's the matter with angel face? Come on now. I'll don't look so sour. We just made 20 grand. I feel swell Come to think of it. I feel kind of hungry Hungry sure hungry. I'll rustle up something in the kitchen. I couldn't eat a thing. Come on now That's no way to talk. We got a job to do tonight You got to keep up your strength Yeah, well look let's get that guy out of the way before somebody walks in no one's gonna walk in and him He's out cold for a good four hours Well, oh Okay, okay, let's dump him in the trunk. I'll give you a hand. Yeah, let's get this thing over with Wonder why they always seem to waste so much more when they're out this way. I don't know I'm not supposed we get going. What's your hurry? I told you I was hungry Come on out to the kitchen. It beats me the way you calmly go ahead. All right. All right. I tell you he's out for hours We got plenty of time because when he comes to there'll be six feet on shut up. Will you come along? We'll look in the icebox Maybe I can find you a chicken heart Another red light get easy. Oh, we're not trying to catch a train. Yeah. Well, I don't like it Maybe somebody saw us. Maybe maybe somebody will stop us or something sure maybe this maybe that maybe anything Maybe we wouldn't have a thin dime between us if I listen to you squawking all the time. Go ahead. You got the green Okay, okay, just feel better when we get rid of this load. I don't like driving around with anything hot like this Yeah, you're a dope. We haven't got such a hot load. Oh, yeah, we could face a murder rap and you say it isn't hot Not on this trip out not on the way out The guys alive still ain't Of course, I admitted to take some fast talking to explain why we got him in a trunk But if someone was to stop us his very minute and found him there wouldn't be no murder rat. He's alive So just relax now We got no worry. Take the truck. All right. Here. We'll drag it over Tell you I'll be glad to see the last that's heavy Let's shove it down. No, no, wait a minute. What's for I I just want to see if I can hear him breathe in Hear anything No No, not a thing You suppose now you couldn't hear things with the trunk anyway. He's just out cold from that drink I gave Open it up if you want to see no, no, all right, then. What are we waiting for? Here help me give it a shove Okay, shovel the dirt back in take your shovel and get to work Now what do you just stand in there for you think you think he can he comes to down there under the ground and And there isn't any end and But he said the air is going and And it's all over Even before he comes to give me that shovel Yeah, top's covered over you can hardly see any of the trunk now. Yeah, you can finish it Take the shovel I'll well, that's over with 20,000 now 20,000 cash. Yeah, I guess we can use it. All right, you're darned doing weekend and there's more where that came from What do you mean? If the guy's dead, how he wasn't the last sucker alive There's plenty more way he came. No, don't don't you think we ought to lay low for a while? We don't want to take no chances. We got enough to last us for a while now taking any chances Don't want to ever pin anything on us. Yeah, but I still think it wouldn't do no harm to kind of lay low for a while after this job You'll never change What do you mean? I won't change you're a small time just like when I picture a Small-time punk. That's all you'll ever be. Don't you talk that way to me shut up Small-time rackets for small-time dough. Yeah, well at least I didn't have no murder wraps hanging off me till I met you I can thank you for that of all the ungrateful low dump pick you up practically out of a gutter and make a man of I cut you in on some big-time stuff, and that's the gratitude I get just let me tell you one thing pretty boy I'm Dolores. Yes I'm sorry Dolores. It's just my nerves. See I I say things. I don't mean Well better. Yeah, it's just my nerves. I Got to thinking about About the guy in that truck in the cops six feet underground Why should you worry about? Joe wasn't exactly a friend of yours After the way he made love to me you'd hardly call him a friend Well, I didn't like that part of it either The way he used to make love to me Dolores it say you got a face like an angel. He said he thought they never could be anyone like he had something there He used to say he could never live without me. He said we'd loved each other all our lives The only part of our lives that matters And then he kissed me I bet that used to make you jealous Didn't it out Didn't that used to make you real jealous? I told you I didn't like that part of it. Didn't I? Well, you won't have to be jealous anymore. Yeah, you'll have your little Dolores all to yourself You'll like that. Won't you? We got 20 grand and Dolores is gonna buy her pretty boy a nice press. We'll be home and we'll be all alone Just Allen Home again. Yeah No, don't turn on the light for a minute. Just kiss me right you can turn on the light now Good evening Dolores. Why are you taking easy out? Can't you see he's got a gun. You're supposed to be dead. Why don't you two sit down? You're both a little overwrought Now there We are I think we've got a few things to talk over but calmly That's why I've got this gun so we can talk things over calmly. You're supposed to be dead You must have got out of the trunk while we were in the kitchen. You'd like a spot of brandy Probably chilly from your little expedition Grave digging is so depressing. Don't you think? I don't worry The brandy was not poison. I Saw to that this morning How'd you get out? The trunk was locked. I thought it would be That's why I saw a locksmith this morning when you were out and had it fixed so it could be unlocked from the inside You see I made a few plans too Like putting those weights in the trunk to take my place and you got out of the trunk while we were in the kitchen. Oh You smart guy you real smart guy But you haven't got a thing on us. We'll let the police be there judge of that You ain't gonna call no cops you you can't afford to you got a rap waiting for you and you know it Little matter of the bank's $20,000. Oh that huh? Well, you see Yeah, I don't work in a bank. What where'd you get that cash belong to me and You and I didn't meet by chance to Laura's I Waited a long time to meet you Yeah, I Looked for you a long long car What did you want to meet me for? Because I want to see you in this punk of yours hang for the murder of Tom Stevens in Chicago How'd you know about let them talk let them talk Doesn't make any difference now I've got all the evidence. I need it all fits together Okay, so we did bump off Stevens, but it's still just your word against us now What's your word? Your words verbatim. I Told you I did some planning too That dictograph behind your chair is just this moment recorded your confetti. Why you stay right there? Now that's better Now I've got a call to make the police remember I've still got you covered. Oh You wanted to know where I got the money the 20,000 you thought I'd taken from the bank I told you was mine it is and quite legally the paid claim of a life insurance policy of which I was the beneficiary Tom Stevens a Chicago Tom Stevens. Yeah, the man you killed Tom Steve. That's right isn't it? That's right, isn't it an angel face angel face that's what yeah, that's what Tom used to call you, isn't it? But how did you know I guess I forgot to tell you my name isn't Joe Anglin. It's Joe Stevens See Tom was my brother That was angel face a Modern surprise in horror stories Written for the mystery Playhouse by Walter Wilson. I Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Well, it's getting early again This is T4 why? Closing the doors to the mystery Playhouse and saying good night Sleep tight This is the armed forces