 Suspense tonight today in Clark as star of spoils for Victor a suspense play produced edited and directed by William Spear maybe what you ought to ask is will he talk I thought you were asleep hi Harry remember me they had me down to DA's office enough time so I order I didn't talk those times either remember you had to save your strength as much as you can mr. retica back here things I'm gonna die are you I don't think so I don't think I'm gonna talk either there's some questions we got to have the answers to if we don't get him from you Vic we're gonna have to get him from somebody else what kind of questions about those two slugs you've gotten your ribs among other things and not in there anymore at least that's what the doc tells me all right Vic I'm sorry wait playmen Harry yeah listen I don't know how she feels about this but if I talked you gotta leave her out all together out complete that could be big you've always been a pretty right guy here it's on a level on the level Vic all right maybe you can sell the pictures Alan land you could call it the gangster and the lady you know the mob Bonnie Bernard pinky Roberts and the rest as far as they're concerned it doesn't matter much now what I tell you I guess we were never big operators nothing really big time but we always had plenty of money in our pocket most of the time but this time I'm talking about the dive had been pretty long my pants were getting shiny in a seat my shoes were getting holes and walking instead of riding even Barney was getting a little rusty looking and this one day he's sitting around the office of pinky when I come in and his chin is down around his belt hi cutie hi what's new I forget it there's no money in it hey they cut the phone off yet he thinks he's kidding oh you want a phone a home release a game but you're three to one that one what what do you care you ain't got it things things things boy I ain't never seen nothing like this guy with Danes they buzz around him like he was John D Rockefeller there you go always looking at the same east side some names like if what you are not what you've got sure I know that kind your mother and your grandmother hello hello it's Madeline there yeah yeah I guess so Victor Rodigar who's calling some guys that she's probably married so what she give you the phone number didn't say hello Madeline yeah remember haha say who's guy answer the phone oh so you got a sense of humor too huh the butler she said I just call up to say hello I don't like to let these things get cold you know that's right what are you doing yourself well now for instance I see sure sure I would what do you live wait wait wait wait till I write it down okay I'll do that goodbye now hey where's the place called Woodford way with what away yeah you haven't heard it yeah it's in Bel Air Vic Bel Air yeah that's pretty big stuff ain't it yeah plenty say you don't suppose she does have a butler do you yeah there's a butler all right and she's the maid what she like Vic how'd you meet her well I'm just walking along Vine Street rubbing my last two nickels together she comes out of a joint with her arms full of bundles she bangs enemies she goes one way to bundles go the other I pick her up so one thing leads to another I buy a cup of coffee and I got a phone number before she decides to have another one I scram that's all nothing special but she looks like she wouldn't try to promote you for much more than a ticket to the movies and that's the best off I had all week so I gave her a ring come up and see me she said so I figure what I lose right right that's her name Madeleine what why she didn't tell me with the guy on a phone wherever he was he said it was a Rawlins Raleigh something like that so why you don't read this paper as much do you Vic I guess I know where the horses are running as well as the next guy why is that her that Damon a picture of that her yeah you see what it says Madeleine Rawlins opening up Bel Air home wealthy sugar he was personal fortune makes it one of the world's richest girl holy smokes you want to keep up on those things that's her all right that's all of all the dumb luck boy you got it yeah hey I might be able to shake a little that sugar out of there at that huh that's the trouble with you Vic you think too small what you want to do was very today what's so funny about that maybe I've been under estimate in your talents Vic all right funny man what one of your things have happened Vic are you kidding no are funny for yourself so maybe the dame does go for me for a couple of weeks all right a couple of months because I'm different from the guy she's been going around with but take a guy like me serious and nuts maybe we could do something about that so you wouldn't be so different so what so what if I even even if I didn't marry the dame do you think I could stick up with a setup like that I'd be on my ear in six months a lot could happen in six months nothing that I couldn't make happen in six weeks and without any marriage oh yes it could be what something could happen to her like what like an accident accidents happen all the time and they got community property laws in this state see nothing doing okay okay you're going out to see her though aren't you I guess so yeah you might need it thanks bro 50 what's that for I just want you to make a good impression on the girl that's all thanks and think about it Vic I did all right I guess it's all I did think about the whole of that first afternoon I was out there to see her I didn't see her again for over two weeks because that night we decided Bonnie put up nearly all the cash he had left he bought me a car a suite of rooms at the Ambassador closed that's one of our very nicest numbers mr. Ruttigan it looks just stunning on you 185 dollars leave or see something that ain't quite shut up we'll take it blended I want around places we hired a publicity agent I was supposed to be a wealthy young oil man we even hired a guy to try to teach me to talk better all right mr. Ruttigan repeat after me please the house of my feet is total super noises no no no mr. Ruttigan you have it just backwards purple soup and oyster turtle soup and oyster the house that might be two weeks I looked a little better enough to get by in small doses anyway and I began to go out and see her again and after two months I wouldn't have known myself because I was standing in a striped pants in a cutaway coat and church and she was standing there beside me and the minister was standing in front of both of us lawful wedded wife to have them to hold to love and to cherish from this day forth for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness in health until death do you part I do do you Madeline take this man and all the time all I could think of was that it was funny and kind of tough too when you stop to figure how a woman is supposed to feel at a time like this that when she spoke those two little words she'd be signing her own death warrant I do six months Barney and Pinkie and me were going to be rich and she was going to be dead I didn't have any feelings about it at first inside of me I was feeling like a like an old stray dog that just found a swell home I was tired I hadn't known how terribly sick and tired the years of snarling and snapping for every bone it made me and so at first I just stretched my paws out to the fire I lay around in the Sun and enjoyed myself I didn't even mind Madeline then after I got over feeling tired something else began inside something began eating me just a little thing at first but it got bigger I didn't know what it was except I knew it wasn't my conscience I hadn't had one of those since I was 10 years old for a while I thought maybe I was just missing the old gang the old ways but that didn't fit either and then one day we've been married about four months then and we were going out for dinner I was upstairs getting ready and I passed by her dressing room and she was in there with her mate fixing her hair take me out anywhere yeah I will say that's the new hairdo isn't it will be you like it yeah it looks kind of cute hand yes madam what's that electric hair dryer you've seen me use it before remember don't bother me I'll plug it in you go now yes madam hey hey wait a minute you ought to be careful handing those electric gimmicks when your hands are wet that way you can get silly I've been doing this get a doctor Marie get a doctor then I went down on a floor beside a remembering from somewhere that with people who had an electric shot you gave artificial respiration I pressed my hands against the ribs and I was talking to her without hardly knowing myself what I was saying Madeline baby come on baby come on snap out of it you're gonna be all right baby you gotta be oh please baby please please are you all right so now I knew because I just stood there she has died but I couldn't stand there not for all the money in the treasury could I have stood there because I was in love with her I tried I tried to keep my mind and all that money and what I could do with it I tried to tell myself that no game was worth that much to me or any other guy and all the time I was going nuts I wasn't fit to be living with wild animals to say nothing about girl like Madeline sorry about going up to Arrowhead this next weekend well big please put down the paper and listen to me where you're going business I got a little deal must be quite a deal bit make you feel where you have been lately it is Madeline quite a deal how they're coming hi Bonnie hi I think I care that you're looking great not that you had not of the yeah we missed you thick but we've been reading all about you in the society columns yeah you've been living up there in a fad of the land for quite a while yeah but near six months big that's right so we've been sort of expecting that's why I figure that's why I come and I hope you're ready to business Vic because we are that's why I'm here okay okay so let's we start talking listen Bonnie look wait a minute suppose suppose I figured out a better way a better way to what a better way to get dough out of the set up how much though maybe a million dollars a million dollars are you kidding it's a matter with a million dollars nothing only my way we get about 10 times that much and that's what we're in this for and that's what we're gonna get see I might even be able to get more than a million in in time you're not trying to tell me you're getting softer you like I don't like murder that's all and you wouldn't try to tell me you've fallen for the game would you know what if I did because they wouldn't believe you have known you for a long time big and I know you ain't that kind of a guy no I wouldn't figure it that way big no no I figured that maybe you were getting away with it up there a lot better than you expected and you didn't see no reason for not hanging out of the rest of the dough all be a son no no I don't like murder Bonnie maybe you don't I can see how maybe you wouldn't but I put my dough under this I put my brains into it the biggest thing that anybody's ever pulled 10 million bucks and I ain't taken any less it's my way there else well what about it okay that's better that all figured out for the accident sure a burglary pinky here breaks in you and her hear the noise you go down and find pinkie at the wall safe you got one haven't you yeah in the library so you catch pinky on your shoot only you hit her I do why not pinkie oh no no it's an outside job they'll keep looking for the guy and that might find him and if you do it it's the next and it open and shut no more trouble you like it sure it's great you got a gun haven't you registered to you up at the house use that want to set a time sooner the better Friday night Friday night okay pinkie sure anytime check with me Thursday okay okay and Vic yeah when you shoot don't miss hello Helen yeah this is Vic Vic Derruttiga I never thought I'd ever hear from you again look Helen I want you to help me sure what is it I wouldn't ask you Helen but I'm on a spot yeah I was on a spot once too remember what do you want you're a good kid Helen I listen I can't tell you over the phone and don't talk to anybody not that anybody until I tell you but what are you doing Friday night whatever you say okay I'll be in touch with you remember Friday night hello Madeline look hon look I think arrowhead this weekend would be a great idea what do you say start getting things ready right away when we think of leaving what about first thing Friday morning wonderful darling Friday morning it's about 90 miles to our head and I usually make it in two hours easier way I drive this time I guess my mind was on almost everything except my driving you made up your mind pretty suddenly didn't you darling about what oh about coming up here oh I well I don't know I please not so fast on these turns fast it was too slow a while back a while back it was too slow you were crawling why'd you tell the servants to go away for the weekend away I didn't tell them to go away well the way you said it it meant that well we were going to be away I figured they might like a little vacation too big what is it what's what what's the matter nothing the matter Madeline is just a business business that's all Victor I don't believe you what do you mean I mean I don't believe it's business I believe it's something else what else could it be I believe it's something about you and me oh it is it is Madeline it is it's a deal that's all and the law be over by a few days will it course it will think I love you I could never fool myself about that I do something I do something awful if anything ever came between you and me anything or anyone I know Madeline you don't want to talk about it I can't Madeline all right all right remember anything or anyone up to the cabin around noon and I helped her unpack and we changed and I moped around a couple of hours stalling then I knew I couldn't much longer have to come out with it Madeline what Madeline I just thought of something terrible I got an appointment to see a guy tonight in town I don't see I could have forgotten it but it's it's terribly important I'll just have to go yes I suppose you will but I'll be back first thing in the morning I'll have to take the car but they'll own you a station wagon at the hotel if you want to be going anywhere staying at the house yeah yeah sure I am Madeline don't look at me that way please you understand how it is don't you yes I think I do I drove on down feeling like the world's worst healing and scared and excited to I called Helen and told her how to get out there and where to leave a car and how to get in without anyone seeing her in case they were already watching a joint it was good and dark about eight o'clock when I let her in sure it's well oh what a dump yeah yeah it's quite a place isn't it it's awful empty though I had an idea it was kind of party or something it is kind of the people I'm expecting will be a long later now come on up this way she knew you'd married into the greedy Vic but I didn't know it was anything like this coming here what's this bedroom dressing room so this is what rich people call a bedroom look at the mirrors yeah yeah look Helen Helen can you put your hair up over your head you know that sort of crown business on top like like this yeah that part of the act yeah that's it and why you're at it put on this nightgown will you and the dressing gown to and there ought to be some slippers now wait a minute wait a minute Helen it's nothing like that I'll wait outside no like I said it's a sort of a gag probably isn't important I don't know I don't know might be your wife yeah yeah well for heaven's sake why don't you answer it I can't answer it how do I look you look just about right I hated the part about Helen but I know I didn't stand a chance in the world of getting Barney inside unless he thought he was seeing Madeline he'd never seen him except from a distance that lousy newspaper picture what would the hair doing all Helen looked pretty good and after a while I went around the house I put up all the lights and after that we had a sit in the dark I didn't even dare talk to Helen anymore pretty soon she just went to sleep and I wait I heard a clock in the downstairs hall strike four and then right on the dot I heard what I've been waiting for all right all right I'm gonna put on the light get to the library now you stay right behind me as quiet as you can and I'll shine the flashlight you can see when I go in you come in right behind close the door just stand right there right against the door all right here we are all right pinky drop that gun what's the idea that just not taking any chances kick it across the floor over to me Barney outside alone yeah I want you to go to that side door where you came in and whistled to him and when he shows tell him we need him in here and that's all anything more and I shoot understand when this happens I want Barney in here just in case you wouldn't want you and me to be the only suckers would you take it easy baby all right all right put up your hands and keep them up what's the idea go outside baby all right that ain't your wife close the door after you what is this the old double cross yeah the old double cross they broke into my house they broke into my house they were but that's Barney but not they broke into my house I think I don't want to be mixed up in anything you're not going to be mixed up in anything nobody saw you come nobody see you go is that I'm sorry I couldn't tell you more I can't tell you now either but you better get your things to the scramb I've got to call a cop car I think Madeline is what I do big Madeline put down that gun listen would you anything or anyone Madeline but remember you said the DA's office would lay offer that's right now you better lie down there look Harry do you think do you think the way it was it might make a difference oh to her yeah yeah I don't get might