The Flame

And now, to tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, SUSPENSE. Tonight, we bring you a terrifying study of a pyromaniac. We call it the Flame. So now, starring Tony Barrett, here is to tonight's a Spence Play, The Flame.

Started on the ground floor. I guess so. I don't know. I just got here. Hey, you know Mr.

The first floor. What a mess. I wonder how it got started. Some joker in bed with a lit cigarette probably fell asleep. No, that wasn't the way it started. Why isn't that... You mean that kind of thing?

Take more of that little cigarette to start a fire like that. The whole apartment building is just about gone. Maybe the guy who owns the building started it. You know, for the insurance and all.

Well, he didn't have anything to do with it. Look at it burn, will you? Makes kind of a pretty pattern against the sky though, isn't it? Pretty pet. Are you kidding? What are you doing?

What's the... What are you doing with that paper? I'm drunk! Red, big now and one climb and just they put it out Then there were big black ugly claws of smoke But I had the picture I'd drawn on the fire just just a pencil sketch. I colored when I got home Just the way I remembered

Reds, oranges, pinks So I go home But when I get there my sister Mary Leah is still up shoots in her robe She should be in bed. She has to get up and go to work early in the morning.

Why is she up at this hour? Yeah. Where have you been all night? I had supper ready. You promised me you'd be home. What happened? Andy, don't you stand there. I asked you what happened.