บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Brother John - Suspense | 04/15/1962 (Ep921)

Big brother John standing there trying to sing in French. Well, 79 00:04:31.490 --> 00:04:34.329 all right, so he didn't know French. But he had brains. 80 00:04:35.129 --> 00:04:36.889 He does a little stretch in prison for a guy. 81 00:04:36.910 --> 00:04:38.970 Then when he gets out, he moves in with the guy. 82 00:04:39.430 --> 00:04:43.750 Gets 200 a week and takes over the wife besides. Well, anyway, 83 00:04:44.310 --> 00:04:47.910 a few days later, I had a spontaneous recovery. Blood 84 00:04:47.970 --> 00:04:51.350 clot was absorbed. Speech came back. Paralysis is gone. 85 00:04:51.589 --> 00:04:54.029 I'm out of the army. walking around. 86 00:04:54.050 --> 00:04:59.490 But you see, I'd never met these Tremaines, and I'm 87 00:04:59.589 --> 00:05:01.930 very curious to find out what they're like. 88 00:05:02.889 --> 00:05:03.829 So, Mrs. 89 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:06.980 Tremaine comes to the door. Not a bad-looking woman for 90 00:05:07.009 --> 00:05:10.480 her age. She lets me in and introduces me to 91 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:11.019 her husband. 92 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.879 This is my husband, Mr. Tremaine. Gerald, this is John's brother, Charlie. 93 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.829 Charlie? Good Lord, I. 94 00:05:21.930 --> 00:05:23.750 Sit down. Sit down, Charlie. 95 00:05:23.790 --> 00:05:26.250 Well, I should have called John, I guess, but I 96 00:05:27.089 --> 00:05:28.040 wanted to surprise him. 97 00:05:28.269 --> 00:05:29.079 Gerald, you tell him. 98 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:34.560 I just can't. Charlie, we were just going to call 99 00:05:34.579 --> 00:05:38.800 you at the hospital. Huh? Yeah, the truth is... Well, 100 00:05:38.819 --> 00:05:44.170 your brother... Your brother has been shot, Charlie. Killed. John? 101 00:05:45.870 --> 00:05:46.750 John was shot? 102 00:05:46.889 --> 00:05:48.610 It just happened about an hour ago. 103 00:05:48.810 --> 00:05:48.970 What? 104 00:05:50.069 --> 00:05:51.129 Who'd want to do a thing like that? 105 00:05:51.189 --> 00:05:52.180 We don't know who did it. 106 00:05:52.180 --> 00:05:53.040 The police don't know. 107 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.139 Gerald, you ought to let them know that Charlie's here. 108 00:05:56.180 --> 00:05:59.439 All right, I will. I'll be right with you. I. 109 00:06:01.259 --> 00:06:05.139 Oh, he... He was such a wonderful brother to me. 110 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:06.379 I know. 111 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.699 He talked a lot about you. I mean, he... He 112 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.720 did everything for me. You were planning to stay here 113 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.360 with him, weren't you? He said so. 114 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:20.230 Yeah, yeah, till I get a job or something. Now 115 00:06:20.269 --> 00:06:21.050 I don't know what to do. 116 00:06:22.449 --> 00:06:25.250 Well, why don't you just stay on here anyway for 117 00:06:25.269 --> 00:06:26.610 the time being? 118 00:06:27.250 --> 00:06:28.370 Oh, I don't know if I could. 119 00:06:28.470 --> 00:06:32.110 John's apartment's over the garage, you know. Why don't you 120 00:06:32.129 --> 00:06:32.750 just move in? 121 00:06:33.470 --> 00:06:33.910 Well, I. 122 00:06:35.410 --> 00:06:39.269 Gee, Mrs. Tremaine, I'd... I'd kind of like that. 123 00:06:40.550 --> 00:06:42.500 I'd like to poke around there, sort of, and see 124 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:44.509 if I can't figure out who could have wanted to 125 00:06:44.569 --> 00:06:45.839 kill my brother John. 126 00:06:50.990 --> 00:06:54.269 It was so simple. It was ridiculous. 127 00:06:55.189 --> 00:06:57.629 I could move right in, and I did. Ah, they 128 00:06:57.649 --> 00:07:01.759 were nice, really. She was what you'd call faded, I guess, 129 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:05.259 but not too faded. I could see how John could 130 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:09.079 have gone for her a little bit. Next morning, I 131 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:13.379 asked if I could help her with breakfast. You know, 132 00:07:13.420 --> 00:07:15.790 John told me a lot about you, Mrs. 133 00:07:15.850 --> 00:07:16.290 Tremaine. 134 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:17.360 He did? 135 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.000 Yeah. He liked you a lot. 136 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:23.000 Well, that's very nice to hear. 137 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.839 I can see why. You're very attractive. 138 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:28.220 Well, now. 139 00:07:28.339 --> 00:07:32.959 I mean, John certainly thought you were. And so do I. 140 00:07:34.139 --> 00:07:35.920 That's a nice compliment from a young man. 141 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.040 And you're not much older than I am. 142 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:41.300 Well, I'm certainly not younger. 143 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.899 Lots of men my age go for older women. 144 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:48.189 I really wouldn't know about that. 145 00:07:48.269 --> 00:07:51.569 Oh, come on now, Mrs. Tremaine. You must have had 146 00:07:51.629 --> 00:07:53.050 lots of guys going for you. 147 00:07:53.329 --> 00:07:56.029 Really, Charlie, I don't think this is the way for 148 00:07:56.110 --> 00:07:56.589 us to talk. 149 00:08:02.069 --> 00:08:02.910 I knew I had her. 150 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.399 When they say they shouldn't talk this way, they're starting 151 00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:10.660 to weaken. They talk that way all the time they're 152 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:13.680 saying they shouldn't, and pretty soon they're ready for action. 153 00:08:14.810 --> 00:08:16.459 Anyway, I could see she was getting uncomfortable. 154 00:08:16.689 --> 00:08:20.790 And that was exactly what I wanted. Her husband came 155 00:08:20.850 --> 00:08:23.910 downstairs right then. And I took him some coffee in 156 00:08:23.930 --> 00:08:27.490 the living room. John was with us a long time, 157 00:08:27.529 --> 00:08:28.149 you know, Charlie. 158 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:30.470 Yeah, yeah, I know. A terrible shock. 159 00:08:31.490 --> 00:08:31.769 Awful. 160 00:08:32.629 --> 00:08:36.929 You talked to the police? Mm-hmm. Last night. They

don't 161 00:08:36.970 --> 00:08:41.419 seem to know much. Well, they need time. Oh, sure. Sure. Look, Charlie, 162 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.070 you stay on here just as long as you like. No, no, Mr. Tremaine. 163 00:08:45.110 --> 00:08:47.610 I'll be moving on pretty soon, I guess. I mean, 164 00:08:47.649 --> 00:08:50.250 John said he had some money saved up for me. 165 00:08:50.470 --> 00:08:50.649 Oh? 166 00:08:50.950 --> 00:08:51.230 Yeah. 167 00:08:51.929 --> 00:08:52.509 Quite a lot. 168 00:08:52.590 --> 00:08:52.889 Good. 169 00:08:53.470 --> 00:08:59.779 I don't know how he did it. Almost $ 40, 000. That much, huh? Yeah. Well, 170 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:01.100 he must have made good investments. 171 00:09:01.179 --> 00:09:01.960 No, no. 172 00:09:02.019 --> 00:09:06.850 He just had savings. In four different banks. Oh, is 173 00:09:06.870 --> 00:09:10.860 that so? Yeah. Every week he made a deposit. A 174 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:14.220 big one. You don't say. Ever since the first week, 175 00:09:15.059 --> 00:09:19.379 he came to work for you. Well, now, what do 176 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:26.879 you know about that? So, I had him, too. And 177 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:30.529 I knew it. Now, both of them were uncomfortable. Ah, 178 00:09:30.549 --> 00:09:32.149 but they were nice people, really. 179 00:09:32.909 --> 00:09:35.570 I could almost have gotten to like them. 180 00:09:35.889 --> 00:09:36.129 Yeah. 181 00:09:36.190 --> 00:09:39.309 Anyway, I helped Mrs. Tremaine put the breakfast on the table. 182 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:41.440 They even asked me to eat with them, but I 183 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:44.379 said no, I was going out. Only I didn't go out. 184 00:09:44.980 --> 00:09:47.220 I stayed in the kitchen because I wanted to hear 185 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:48.700 what they had to say to each other. 186 00:09:50.870 --> 00:09:52.370 Connie, how long is he going to stay? 187 00:09:52.950 --> 00:09:53.330 Charlie? 188 00:09:53.809 --> 00:09:54.470 Yeah, Charlie. 189 00:09:55.029 --> 00:09:55.409 I don't know. 190 00:09:56.669 --> 00:09:57.190 Nice fellow. 191 00:09:57.970 --> 00:09:58.370 Very nice. 192 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:01.779 Not like John, though. 193 00:10:03.259 --> 00:10:04.639 No, not really. 194 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:07.250 Doesn't even look like him. 195 00:10:07.259 --> 00:10:09.559 A lot younger, of course. 196 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:10.820 Yes. 197 00:10:12.580 --> 00:10:13.340 I'll miss John. 198 00:10:14.820 --> 00:10:15.620 We'll get somebody else. 199 00:10:17.139 --> 00:10:18.080 Not like John, though. 200 00:10:19.460 --> 00:10:25.850 No, not like John. I was sorry I wasn't like John. 201 00:10:25.870 --> 00:10:29.769 I really was. I'd have liked to stay on with 202 00:10:29.809 --> 00:10:30.909 these people for a while. 203 00:10:32.129 --> 00:10:34.720 I was even a pretty good butler, if you can 204 00:10:34.750 --> 00:10:37.700 imagine that. I helped Mrs. Tremaine get lunch. 205 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.080 I'm terribly awkward in the kitchen, I'm afraid. 206 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:42.820 Oh, well, let me do that. 207 00:10:43.500 --> 00:10:44.759 John always did everything. 208 00:10:44.779 --> 00:10:46.919 Uh-huh. He was a good man. 209 00:10:47.980 --> 00:10:48.830 Yes, he was. 210 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:52.090 Yeah, you know, I'm sorry I didn't get to see 211 00:10:52.149 --> 00:10:53.549 more of him. Oh, wait. 212 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.059 We used to ask him to have you here for 213 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.639 a visit, but he never would. 214 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.820 I know, I know. I wonder why he wouldn't. I 215 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.460 wonder if it was a woman. 216 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.340 Oh, no, it wasn't a woman. I'd have known if the. 217 00:11:06.289 --> 00:11:08.429 Oh? You would? 218 00:11:09.889 --> 00:11:11.789 Well, I mean, if that was why he wouldn't have 219 00:11:11.830 --> 00:11:14.450 you here, I'd have known if he was seeing some 220 00:11:14.490 --> 00:11:15.029 woman here. 221 00:11:15.230 --> 00:11:18.840 No, I meant if it was some woman who killed him. 222 00:11:26.289 --> 00:11:28.830 You should have seen her face. All of a sudden, 223 00:11:28.889 --> 00:11:30.600 she looked like somebody had hit her. 224 00:11:32.059 --> 00:11:32.639 Then Mr. 225 00:11:32.659 --> 00:11:35.539 Tremaine came home for lunch. I made him a drink 226 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:36.559 first in the living room. 227 00:11:37.139 --> 00:11:41.139 Join me, Charlie? Oh, well, thank you, Mr. Tremaine. I 228 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.659 don't usually indulge in the middle of the day. Of 229 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:48.549 course not. $ 38, 000. How's that? 230 00:11:49.309 --> 00:11:52.830 That's what my brother had in four different banks. 231 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.659 Oh, well, that makes you a rich man, doesn't it? 232 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:57.860 Well, not quite. 233 00:11:58.059 --> 00:12:05.120 I just can't help wondering, that's all. Wondering what, Charlie? Oh, 234 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:08.120 where he got all that money. Who gave it to 235 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.830 him all those years. Well, I wouldn't know if anybody 236 00:12:12.570 --> 00:12:13.309 gave it to him. 237 00:12:13.529 --> 00:12:18.090 Well, you see, if somebody was paying him, that could 238 00:12:18.129 --> 00:12:19.409 be the man who killed him. 239 00:12:20.769 --> 00:12:26.230 So he could stop paying it. Oh, I see what 240 00:12:26.250 --> 00:12:26.570 you mean. 241 00:12:31.090 --> 00:12:33.909 She came in right then and told him lunch was ready, 242 00:12:33.950 --> 00:12:37.799 and they both went into the dining room looking absolutely sick. 243 00:12:40.100 --> 00:12:42.340 As a parting shot, I said that I was going 244 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.379 down to the police station. I thought that should start 245 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:46.399 a little something, you know? 246 00:12:47.139 --> 00:12:48.950 I went out to the kitchen,

and I. 247 00:12:48.990 --> 00:12:51.950 Opened and shut the door like I was leaving, but 248 00:12:52.009 --> 00:12:53.029 I sat down to listen. 249 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.200 That's the third time he's talked to the police. 250 00:12:56.700 --> 00:12:57.700 That's natural, isn't it? 251 00:12:58.519 --> 00:12:59.299 Yes, I guess so. 252 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.159 I must say, he doesn't seem to be mourning for 253 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:04.039 his brother very much. 254 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.919 No, they were supposed to be very close, weren't they? 255 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.460 I guess men just don't show their feelings, in fact. 256 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:14.519 I'm sure they don't. 257 00:13:15.620 --> 00:13:16.100 Meaning me? 258 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:21.460 Toward each other. Some men don't even show their feelings 259 00:13:21.500 --> 00:13:22.179 toward their wives. 260 00:13:22.580 --> 00:13:22.940 Me again? 261 00:13:24.230 --> 00:13:25.809 If you have any feelings toward your wife. 262 00:13:25.830 --> 00:13:29.750 Oh, Connie, don't start that again. Sorry. I'm sorry. That 263 00:13:29.789 --> 00:13:31.129 Charlie is making us both nervous. 264 00:13:31.590 --> 00:13:32.220 I'm not nervous. 265 00:13:32.889 --> 00:13:35.519 Are you nervous? No, not nervous, exactly. Yes, you are. 266 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:38.159 Why don't we get rid of him? 267 00:13:38.259 --> 00:13:38.860 Get rid of who? 268 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:39.480 That Charlie. 269 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:41.220 But we just asked him to stay. 270 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:42.200 You asked him, not me. 271 00:13:42.779 --> 00:13:43.740 If you want him to leave. 272 00:13:43.779 --> 00:13:45.840 I didn't say I wanted... Tell him so. Well, I'll 273 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:48.919 give him some money till John's estate is settled. That'd 274 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:50.659 be nice. Well, so tell him. Me? 275 00:13:51.419 --> 00:13:51.980 You tell him. 276 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:53.389 Why should I tell him? You tell him. 277 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:53.720 Why me? 278 00:13:58.889 --> 00:14:01.809 And so it went. You tell it. No, you tell it. 279 00:14:03.169 --> 00:14:03.860 I wanted to laugh. 280 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.840 I got out of the kitchen very quietly, and I 281 00:14:06.899 --> 00:14:08.399 did go down to the police station. 282 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:10.039 They didn't know anything. 283 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:12.340 They hadn't found the gun, and they couldn't figure out 284 00:14:12.419 --> 00:14:16.779 who'd had a motive. So, about 5.30, I went back 285 00:14:16.820 --> 00:14:17.340 to the house. 286 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:18.620 Mrs. 287 00:14:18.700 --> 00:14:23.059 Tremaine was setting the table for dinner. Did you see 288 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:23.879 the police, Charlie? 289 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:27.590 Yeah, yeah. I was there all afternoon. Really? 290 00:14:28.789 --> 00:14:29.409 All afternoon? 291 00:14:29.590 --> 00:14:30.070 Mm-hmm. 292 00:14:30.490 --> 00:14:34.009 They wanted me to tell them everything I knew about John. 293 00:14:35.190 --> 00:14:35.509 Really? 294 00:14:35.830 --> 00:14:37.789 Yeah. I didn't know a lot. 295 00:14:38.669 --> 00:14:40.490 He never said too much about himself. 296 00:14:41.110 --> 00:14:41.330 No. 297 00:14:42.129 --> 00:14:44.950 No, he was sort of a quiet man. 298 00:14:44.970 --> 00:14:46.570 A few things, I told him. 299 00:14:47.889 --> 00:14:48.879 Oh? Like what? 300 00:14:49.549 --> 00:14:53.460 Well, like I gathered he was very happy here. I mean, 301 00:14:53.500 --> 00:14:55.039 you took good. 302 00:14:54.899 --> 00:14:56.940 Care of him. I gathered that. 303 00:14:58.360 --> 00:14:59.179 Well, we tried. 304 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.799 He was really happy here. Yeah, he really was happy. 305 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:05.539 He used to say he never wanted to leave here. 306 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:07.019 Did he? 307 00:15:07.259 --> 00:15:07.710 Yeah. 308 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.289 I guess he had about everything he wanted right here 309 00:15:12.330 --> 00:15:13.029 in this house. 310 00:15:14.509 --> 00:15:15.009 Everything? 311 00:15:15.710 --> 00:15:18.370 I mean, jobs like that are sure hard to find 312 00:15:19.509 --> 00:15:21.940 that have everything. 313 00:15:23.299 --> 00:15:24.379 I suppose they are. 314 00:15:28.690 --> 00:15:30.830 Her hands started to shake, and pretty soon she gave 315 00:15:30.909 --> 00:15:33.309 up trying to set the table and went out to 316 00:15:33.350 --> 00:15:35.049 the living room to join Mr. 317 00:15:35.090 --> 00:15:35.509 Tremaine. 318 00:15:36.750 --> 00:15:38.450 I told her that I was going to go up 319 00:15:38.490 --> 00:15:41.110 and wash up for dinner, but instead I went out 320 00:15:41.129 --> 00:15:44.169 in the hall. She closed the door to the living room, 321 00:15:44.740 --> 00:15:46.940 and standing on the other side, I could hear everything 322 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:47.480 that went on. 323 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:49.779 Gerald, I must tell you something. 324 00:15:49.820 --> 00:15:50.440 What, dear? 325 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:53.000 Gerald, we've got to get rid of that man. 326 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:54.860 I told you that at lunch. 327 00:15:56.100 --> 00:15:57.100 He knows something. 328 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:58.740 What do you mean, something? 329 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:03.139 Gerald, I never meant to tell you this. It isn't 330 00:16:03.179 --> 00:16:07.500 anything much, really. Only now it might make the police 331 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:13.460 think I killed John. You? Oh, I'm so ashamed of myself. 332 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:16.519 Carrying on with a servant. 333 00:16:16.820 --> 00:16:18.580 A poor little lonely housewife. 334 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.720 Taking up with the first man who was nice to her. 335 00:16:21.740 --> 00:16:24.259 Connie, Connie, what are you talking about? That's the way I. 336 00:16:24.220 --> 00:16:29.049 Thought of myself, Gerald. It

was all self-willing. I was 337 00:16:29.129 --> 00:16:33.009 alone all day. And John was here. That's the way 338 00:16:33.070 --> 00:16:33.590 it was. 339 00:16:34.950 --> 00:16:35.169 You? 340 00:16:35.850 --> 00:16:38.409 And John? It looks hard to believe. 341 00:16:38.429 --> 00:16:41.070 I'm not trying to excuse myself. 342 00:16:41.169 --> 00:16:41.590 I'm not. 343 00:16:41.649 --> 00:16:45.169 It's just that now John's dead. And that awful Charlie 344 00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:48.320 thinks some woman killed him. And I think he thinks 345 00:16:48.539 --> 00:16:49.240 I'm the woman. 346 00:16:49.259 --> 00:16:50.340 No, he doesn't. 347 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:52.460 He thinks some man did it. Some man who was 348 00:16:52.500 --> 00:16:54.139 paying John a lot of money. Extortion money. 349 00:16:54.179 --> 00:16:54.840 Who? Me. 350 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:55.279 You? 351 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:55.779 Yes. 352 00:16:56.820 --> 00:16:58.100 He doesn't come right out and say it, but he 353 00:16:58.139 --> 00:17:00.480 knows someone's been paying the money, and I think he 354 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.899 suspects me. And he's right. 355 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:05.420 What do you mean? 356 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.789 I paid John for 15 years, ever since he got 357 00:17:07.809 --> 00:17:09.569 out of jail. We were both guilty, but he took 358 00:17:09.589 --> 00:17:09.930 the rap. 359 00:17:10.009 --> 00:17:14.190 Guilty of what? Embezzlement. Embezzlement? Yes. 360 00:17:14.210 --> 00:17:15.890 We took $ 70, 000 from the firm before we got caught. 361 00:17:16.670 --> 00:17:18.349 As I said, I went free, and John went up 362 00:17:18.369 --> 00:17:21.150 the river. I paid him $ 200 a week, 52. 363 00:17:21.109 --> 00:17:21.650 Weeks a year. 364 00:17:22.710 --> 00:17:24.529 He'd saved up almost $ 40, 000 when he was killed. 365 00:17:26.150 --> 00:17:27.130 But you didn't kill him. 366 00:17:27.150 --> 00:17:28.950 Is that a question? 367 00:17:28.970 --> 00:17:30.910 I know you didn't do it. 368 00:17:32.369 --> 00:17:33.380 You know I didn't. 369 00:17:34.450 --> 00:17:37.759 Of course. You think I did? 370 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:38.960 No, no, no, of course not. 371 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:41.440 You don't think maybe he got tired of me or 372 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.519 I got jealous or hysterical or something and shot him? 373 00:17:44.539 --> 00:17:45.380 No, of course I don't. 374 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:47.539 I did get jealous sometimes and hysterical. 375 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:48.420 But you didn't kill him. 376 00:17:48.460 --> 00:17:49.079 No, I didn't. 377 00:17:49.099 --> 00:17:49.680 Neither did I. 378 00:17:50.740 --> 00:17:51.019 I know. 379 00:17:55.259 --> 00:17:58.160 Well, that wasn't the way I thought it would go, frankly. 380 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.740 In the first place, I never thought they'd spill everything 381 00:18:01.779 --> 00:18:03.900 to each other. And in the second place, I thought 382 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.450 if they did spill everything, they'd each jump at the 383 00:18:06.490 --> 00:18:07.730 chance to pin it on the other. 384 00:18:07.750 --> 00:18:11.549 They must have loved each other or something. 385 00:18:12.730 --> 00:18:14.509 Something like that. 386 00:18:14.569 --> 00:18:16.910 Anyway, I decided to walk in and settle the whole 387 00:18:16.990 --> 00:18:18.170 thing right then and there. 388 00:18:19.710 --> 00:18:19.930 Mr. 389 00:18:19.970 --> 00:18:22.099 Tremaine. Oh, yes, Charlie. 390 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:22.380 Mr. 391 00:18:22.420 --> 00:18:27.039 Tremaine, the fact is, I need $ 50, 000 from you right now. 392 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:28.660 $ 50, 000? 393 00:18:27.579 --> 00:18:31.440 What is this, Charles? Well, it's extortion money, Mr. Tremaine. 394 00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:34.519 You know what that is. It's just a word like embezzlement. 395 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:35.700 I see. 396 00:18:36.019 --> 00:18:37.759 Gerald, he knows. He actually... That's right. 397 00:18:37.779 --> 00:18:40.339 That's right. I actually know, Mrs. Tremaine. 398 00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:43.599 I didn't know exactly before that it was embezzlement, you see. 399 00:18:44.299 --> 00:18:47.680 But Brother John told me he'd done time for your husband, 400 00:18:47.700 --> 00:18:49.339 and that was why he had this cushy job. 401 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.049 I didn't know why he bothered to work at all. I... 402 00:18:52.690 --> 00:18:55.099 I know I wouldn't have. Oh, I guess you wouldn't have. Now, 403 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:55.490 wait a minute. 404 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.960 Well, I take that back. I know a reason why 405 00:18:59.019 --> 00:19:00.980 he worked here. Don't you, Mrs. 406 00:19:01.019 --> 00:19:05.119 Tremaine? Yeah. You were fooling around a little, weren't you? Huh? 407 00:19:05.339 --> 00:19:05.980 With Brother John? 408 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.559 Now, look, my wife and I have no secrets, so 409 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:08.920 this is not a shock to either one of us. 410 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:10.660 But have you told the police? It might be a 411 00:19:10.700 --> 00:19:11.369 shock to them. 412 00:19:12.569 --> 00:19:12.910 Have you? 413 00:19:14.109 --> 00:19:16.410 Well, now, of course you haven't. My wife didn't kill 414 00:19:16.430 --> 00:19:19.289 your brother, neither did I. Maybe yes, maybe no. 415 00:19:19.569 --> 00:19:23.359 How do we know you didn't kill him? Why would 416 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:25.059 I kill my own brother? 417 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:26.799 For the money and the four savings banks? 418 00:19:26.900 --> 00:19:29.579 I was going to get that anyway. Brother John told 419 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:31.619 me so in the hospital. He even said he could 420 00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:33.599 put the touch on your wife for a little extra 421 00:19:33.660 --> 00:19:35.519 if I needed it. You can't prove that. Well, I 422 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:37.799 think I could if I had to. There's a guy 423 00:19:37.859

--> 00:19:40.390 up at the hospital. He had the bed next to mine. 424 00:19:40.450 --> 00:19:42.450 He was there when John came to see me. 425 00:19:42.470 --> 00:19:44.970 He knows all about this? Well, he might. 426 00:19:45.470 --> 00:19:47.569 Neither one of us could talk at the time. Maybe 427 00:19:47.609 --> 00:19:48.529 he can't even now. 428 00:19:48.650 --> 00:19:51.039 I don't know. But he was still there when I 429 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:55.480 got out. What's his name? Now, why would I tell 430 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.640 you that? I can find out. What's the difference, Mr. Tremaine? 431 00:19:58.700 --> 00:20:00.680 Suppose he says the whole story is true, that he 432 00:20:00.700 --> 00:20:01.799 heard John tell it to me. 433 00:20:01.819 --> 00:20:05.890 It'll all come out anyway, newspapers and everything. And then 434 00:20:05.930 --> 00:20:07.609 what will the police think about you? 435 00:20:07.630 --> 00:20:09.589 So come on. I mean, let's be sensible. 436 00:20:10.220 --> 00:20:12.900 You raise the $ 50, 000 and I'll clear out. 437 00:20:12.940 --> 00:20:14.980 How am I supposed to raise $ 50, 000? 438 00:20:14.380 --> 00:20:16.539 Your house, your car. 439 00:20:16.579 --> 00:20:20.539 You must have insurance. You two stay there. I'll answer 440 00:20:20.579 --> 00:20:25.869 that phone. What do you think, Constance? 441 00:20:26.130 --> 00:20:26.859 Don't give it to him. 442 00:20:27.049 --> 00:20:27.750 It's just money. 443 00:20:27.789 --> 00:20:28.690 Don't give it to him. 444 00:20:29.250 --> 00:20:32.750 You sure? It's wrong. What I did was wrong. Let's 445 00:20:32.809 --> 00:20:35.210 not keep on doing what's wrong. Well, it's the wrong 446 00:20:35.269 --> 00:20:38.089 number or something. It sounded like a singing telegram. 447 00:20:38.109 --> 00:20:39.009 Singing telegram? 448 00:20:39.190 --> 00:20:42.339 I couldn't make it out. Well, how about it? 449 00:20:42.730 --> 00:20:45.359 Charlie, we don't think we can give you $ 50, 000. We 450 00:20:45.390 --> 00:20:46.400 don't think we can afford it. 451 00:20:47.059 --> 00:20:49.680 Can you afford being smeared all over the newspapers? 452 00:20:49.700 --> 00:20:51.519 We can't afford to go on living this way, lying 453 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:52.019 to each other. 454 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:53.750 One of you may not go on living at all. 455 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:55.559 Let me answer it this time. 456 00:20:55.579 --> 00:20:57.759 Leave the phone off the hook. Charlie, neither one of 457 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.400 us killed John. Tell that to the police. I'm going to. 458 00:21:00.460 --> 00:21:01.799 I've talked to my wife, and she agrees. 459 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:02.700 Gerald, come here. 460 00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:04.240 You too, Charlie. 461 00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:06.519 Now, look, I don't think you've thought this over. Oh, yes, 462 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.420 we have. We don't want to think about it anymore. Gerald, listen. Huh? 463 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:11.289 What is it? Listen. 464 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.690 I'll hold the phone up. Listen, Charlie. 465 00:21:15.009 --> 00:21:33.349 Frere Jacques. Frere Jacques. Dormez-vous. Dormez-vous. Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous, dormez-vous. 466 00:21:34.150 --> 00:21:35.430 Well, that's the story. 467 00:21:35.829 --> 00:21:38.390 It was the real Charlie on the phone, the guy 468 00:21:38.670 --> 00:21:42.230 in the other bed. See, he hadn't had a spontaneous 469 00:21:42.309 --> 00:21:45.779 recovery like mine, but he'd gotten back enough to get 470 00:21:45.819 --> 00:21:48.460 to a phone in the hospital, dial the number, and 471 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:49.900 then sing this French. 472 00:21:49.740 --> 00:21:54.380 Song into the phone. Brother John, Brother John, are you sleeping? 473 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:59.680 Are you sleeping? That's what it says. It's just my lousy. 474 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:01.680 Luck I never learned French or I'd have known it 475 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:03.900 was the real Charlie the first time he called. 476 00:22:05.059 --> 00:22:09.019 Oh, I guess you want the gun I killed John with, huh? 477 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:10.019 Here. 478 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:13.660 Yeah, I've had it in my pocket the whole time. 479 00:22:14.180 --> 00:22:16.420 Oh, and thanks for offering me a lawyer. 480 00:22:17.309 --> 00:22:18.049 But frankly. 481 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:21.440 I don't think any lawyer in the world could get 482 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:21.980 me off. 483 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:29.190 Do you? Well, do you? Suspense. 484 00:22:31.369 --> 00:22:34.730 You have been listening to Brother John, starring William Redfield, 485 00:22:35.109 --> 00:22:40.839 and written especially for Suspense by Elspeth Erick. Suspense is 486 00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:44.200 produced and directed by Bruno Zerato Jr., music supervision by 487 00:22:44.259 --> 00:22:47.869 Ethel Huber, sound patterns by Joseph Cabibbo. Heard in tonight's 488 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:51.049 story were Connie Lemke as Constance Tremaine, Paul McGrath as 489 00:22:51.089 --> 00:22:54.690 Gerald Tremaine, Sam Gray as John, Bill Smith as the doctor, 490 00:22:54.970 --> 00:22:57.670 and Guy Repp as the voice of Charlie. Listen again 491 00:22:57.710 --> 00:22:59.910 next week when we return with The Curse of Kamashek, 492 00:22:59.970 --> 00:23:03.509 written by Jonathan Bundy. Another tale well calculated to keep. 493 00:23:03.339 --> 00:23:08.200 You in suspense. This is the CBS Radio Network.