The Black Angel
Suspense · January 24, 1948 · 59 min · 8,868 words
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This is Robert Montgomery inviting you to join us for the story of a woman named Eve tonight's study in suspense an hour of suspense a full 60 minutes at this time With the distinguished actor director mr. Robert Montgomery as your host Tonight our star is Miss June Havoc miss Havoc will appear in the black angel a suspense play produced edited and directed by
William spear Mr. Montgomery, I believe an apple is honest. Until a couple of days ago I don't suppose I'd given an apple a solid thought in months. But it was a warm afternoon and the striped awning over the fruit stand offered shade.
And besides I found myself staring at the apples. All lined up they were in nice even rows, shiny and round and red. They were supposed to tempt me, and they did. The first thing you know, I picked one out and shined it up.
And then I looked at it close. For the first time, I think I understood why an artist ever set up an easel in front of an apple and painted it. It's really very beautiful, a good apple is.
The way the red dissolves into the yellow, it's warm, it's full of promise. I bit into it and then I got to thinking. That coloring, I thought, is just a come on. of private sales promotion to make you want it. As a matter of fact, an apple does its advertising in an extremely honest fashion. Mind you, I'm not selling apples, but even
a bad apple says, here's a blemish, a spot, a fault. If you take me, you take the bad of me with the good. And don't say I didn't warn you. So you can take an apple on its face value. And that's what I was doing. But as I ate it, I found myself wishing that all of
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