Because of operating difficulties, there has been a delay in the start of the program, Mr. and Mrs. North. We expect to present the program in a short time. Meanwhile, we bring you an interlude of recorded music. Operating difficulties have now been cleared, and we continue with the program, Mr. and Mrs. North. Jerry and Bill Wagon arrived with some questions of their own, and Wade Hatton was taken to headquarters to answer them. Then later, during a discussion of the high price of a cup of coffee with a talkative cab driver, it suddenly occurred to Pam, the thing that was bothering her, something she had seen in Frank Bates' apartment. Three cups and only two people. A driver turning around. And ten minutes later, she is outside the door of Frank Bates' apartment, pleading with the building superintendent to let her go inside. Well, all right, I guess it would be okay if I should go in with you just to meet. What's the matter? You smell something? Smell something? Yes. No. Yes, it's gas. Why, that sure is. That's gas, all right. That's coming from Mr. Bates' apartment. Oh, golly, unlock the door. I must have gone off and left that stove going. Please unlock the door. Well, now, don't get so excited. Little gas ain't going to hurt nothing. Oh, will you please hurry? I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, golly, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, golly, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, golly, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, golly, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, golly, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, golly, my sticks were riding pretty well. this is the key. We'll have it in a minute. Why is it just. Right this one this way here. Well what's the. Just like what you want. To get. Up in the not Sure share it. All. Where did that cam Force it to happen OK. Let me get a role. under her shoulders. You're sick. Now get to the phone. Call an ambulance. Yes, is she dead? I don't know. I can't tell. What floor, Operator? Yes, sir. What floor? Where's the waiting room? Back across the hallway. Jerry, oh, I'm so glad you're here. All right, all right. Now take it easy, darling. Now, now what's this all about? Will you read my message? Well, darling, you were so excited that you got my secretary so excited that your message suffered terribly in the translation. All I was able to get out of it was that Laura Haddon was in the Westside Emergency Hospital. She tried to commit suicide, and you were here with her. Bill's here now, too, and so is Wade Haddon. They're in her room with her now. Well, will you please tell me what happened? Laura Haddon tried to kill herself. I know that much already. How? By turning on the gas in Frank Bates' apartment. And you found it? Yes. And just exactly what were you doing back at Bates' apartment? Well, after you got out of the taxi, the driver started talking about coffee, telling me about a place where you could still get a big cup of coffee for a nickel, you see? No, but go on. Well, that got me thinking. About coffee? No, about what I'd seen in Frank Bates' apartment. So naturally I went back there. And I was thinking, well, I'm going to go back to the Westside Emergency Hospital. And I was absolutely right. Of course you were, darling. But about what? That Laura Haddon was there. I have a strong feeling that I ought to go out and come back in again, but I'll invest in one more question. How did the taxi driver, talking about where you could still get a big cup of coffee for a nickel, start you to thinking so that naturally you went back to Frank Bates' apartment where you were absolutely right and found Laura Haddon was trying to kill herself? I saw three cups. Well, that explains everything. Jerry, if you'll just listen. When we were going to go, I saw three cups of coffee on the table. And in the taxi it came to me. Why should there be three cups and only Frank Bates and Wade Haddon were supposed to be there? And so you went barging back to Bates' apartment on your own? Please, Doug, don't give me the dickens about that. Bill's already giving me a balling out. Good for him. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, I've had it. You better be thankful. I can't believe you're getting out with a conclusion. I'm not. I can't believe you're getting out with a conclusion. I'm not. I thought you mean barging in and out. Bill's already given me a balling out. Good for him. Here's your match. Oh, Jerry. Oh, hi, Bill. How's Mrs. Haddon doing? Oh, she's gonna be alright. Oh, thank goodness. Where's Depending? I left him in there with her. I figured I might as well give him a few minutes alone. It'll be the last. Did you talk to Mrs. Haddon? Yeah. You know what you were doing I can't get me anyway but she did them. That's why she can't confess she'd look at the sleepwalking was just a hoax. She wasn't walking in a sleep when she killed her sister she was wide awake she knew exactly what she was doing. But why Laura why did you tell Lieutenant Wagon you knew what you were doing with your level and. You realize what that means means I'll go to the electric chair better to a prison for the criminal insane. Why Laura did you tell him that I told him the truth wait you didn't. You lied to him I want to know why I told him the truth I was awake when I killed Evelyn I knew exactly what I was doing or that's not what. One thing I want wait I want to die I want to die you're not going to die when you leave me alone. Well. You're going to live long because I want you to do you. You know I do and I know that Lieutenant Wagon suspects that it was your car that almost hit me last night Frank told me so if you really want me to live why did you try to kill me. Would you like for us to give you a lift anyway there are thanks Jerry but I'm going to have to stay here at the hospital man from the district attorney's office is coming to get Laura had a statement and what about way to happen going to him no then you don't think it would happen because it almost hit his wife I don't know hadn't fixed to restore it so they haven't done the car since before I went to Cleveland about book of matches you found from the King William Hotel with their from a previous trip maybe lying but I haven't any way of proving it to somebody else in driving the car bill says no his wife didn't drive he has the only set of keys no I guess there's nothing more you can do them come on Pamela Oh Lieutenant Oh hadn't come on in if you're through with me I'd like to go home I hadn't missed an open eye driving down your way Mr hadn't to be given a lift Oh thanks for now let's go we'll see you Bill but I don't think. The cars right down in front of. Yes there's a telephone call for you you can take it in that booth over there Oh thanks go ahead and we'll wait. Right. Hello wait Frank I just got home in the building super. OK what are you going to do wait I haven't decided yet wait. No. My do me some good. I know that. The money you want to have it right here a little over twenty four thousand it won't do any good now. Forget a drink there's nothing more to talk about. The. One that has. When Evelyn told me we'd love to want to marry her I made up my mind I was going to kill you were convinced that you were telling the truth about your husband being in love with her I don't know what I was I'm not a kid and I knew that sooner or later somehow some way she'd see to it that I lost weight all our lives she'd taken things from me you didn't know what she wanted to got but I wasn't going to let her have weight. Now let's get down to last night I went to bed early but then I laid awake until I was sure that a Evelyn was in bed and asleep I'm a bit well about eleven that I got up took a knife in the kitchen went to Evan's room and. And then after being so cool and deliberate about killing your sister you suddenly lost your head and became so panic stricken that you ran out of the apartment without even dressing just threw a coat over your pajamas now let's have the truth. I told you the truth now Mrs. Haddon this statement of yours has been fiction beginning to end now you didn't consciously kill your I didn't and your statement proved it you say you killed your sister at eleven but we know from the medical examiner's report that she was dead for a half an hour to forty five minutes before that time. What different doesn't make I killed it makes a great deal of difference in what happens to you I don't care what happens to me maybe not Mr. Haddon just because you've lost the will to live the state of New York isn't going to help you kill yourself. I. Had not to come under the nose and I think that's not but I'd better go home we'd love to have you I'm afraid I'm not in the mood for dinner. Oh Mr. No yes do you think the tenant wagon really believes well and you what she was doing she killed him sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what Bill thinking had he can't believe that it isn't true then why did your wife confess the same reason she tried to commit suicide she she'd rather go to the electric chair than be locked up for the rest of her life you think that's the only reason. Well what do you mean your wife knows about the car that almost hit her last night doesn't she and it was a car exactly like yours yes she believed it was yours. Yes that's what I mean that you haven't given her very much to live for when she thinks the man she loved tried to kill her but I didn't die. You what. Look I know what has happened it's my fault I should have gone off and left Laura alone is that just one of the things you should have done have you shouldn't have let your sister in law come into your home in the first place I know I know but everything would have worked out if I hadn't had to make that trip if I hadn't had to leave Laura if I'd been here when Evelyn tried to tell Laura that I didn't love her I didn't want to go but I knew I shouldn't leave Laura but I had to with the first time she came out of the sanitary and but I left her alone but I had to take the chance that nothing would happen but it did. You are happy. Thanks for the. Just a minute that. You just said that this is the first time you'd left your wife and she came out of the sanitary and that was over a year ago I. Just when you've been lying to the dinner wagon about something else I haven't you know what you mean you said the book of matches from the King William Hotel in Cleveland couldn't have been left in your car last night because you didn't drive it you said they must have been from a previous trip didn't you. You're not going to try to tell us that those matches have been in your car for a year are you Mr Hatton. Well Mr Hatton. And they were left in there last night you did drive your car if you got back from Cleveland it was your car that almost killed your life. Yes it was my car. And I was driving. Mr and Mrs North transcribed starring Richard Denning and Barbara Britton comes to you each weekday night Monday through Friday at the same time Mr and Mrs North is based on the characters originally created by Francis and Richard Lockridge be sure to read the story about Francis and Richard Lockridge in the current issue of McCall magazine Mr and Mrs North is written for radio by Ken field with music by Del Castillo and as a John W. Lupton production be sure to join us again Monday evening for another exciting chapter in the mystery night walk are balance is speaking. fee fee fee fee PL. I they had re eating out. Yeah. If e that you are thinking at the radio. The real or the rolling story is tomorrow evening AM on CBS radio over most of A man leaving prison after five years plots to get Marshal Matt Dillon, who set him up. But he doesn't reckon on the love of a good woman. That's gun smoke tomorrow night. Administrators go into action Saturday evening over the CBS Radio Network.
