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during the darkest night, we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our
world islanded in the stream of stars, pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons
across the eternal seas of space and time. Yes, for a moment,
for only the briefest moment. She was kidnapped, sergeant. That's right.
There were people on the street. Someone would have seen something. Are you
sure she didn't run away? She was kidnapped, sergeant. But if she
were kidnapped, you'd have received a ransom note. Is it possible for a
girl to disappear without her tace? As if the earth just swallowed her up?
Our mystery drama Wilhelmina Wilson was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam
Dan and stars Paul Heckt. I'll be back shortly with that. One absence,
said the Roman philosopher, makes the heart grow fonder. However, an
unexplained absence is bound to make the heart grow anxious. Society takes note that
this fact, which is why every police department has its Bureau of Missing Persons.
My name is Truesdale, Sydney Tusdale. Yes, mister Tusdale, I'm
his wife. Molly Truesdale is a lieutenant. Down he said to see you
is sergeant's keller. Yes, so you wish to report a missing person.
Well, now that you ask it, there's no way to get around it.
She's a missing person. Who were we talking about? Our thought her?
And her name Margaret Truesdale. But she's known professionally as Margie True,
Margie True. Yes, it's shorter, snappier than Margaret Truesdale. That's not
important. Besides, I'm sure he never even heard of her. No,
I need some statistics. Female Margaret or Margie Truesdale or True. Age at
twenty three, he'll be twenty three, twenty two, blonde, natural height
at five nine, Wait at one twenty five? Now, how long has
she been missing? How long? About three hours? I should think.
It's almost one o'clock in the morning, at least four hours. Yeah,
well that's hardly enough time to be What were you going to say, it's
hardly something to be concerned about. Yes, Now when would she do home?
The library closes at eight thirty. Yes, she'd gone there to return
a book because she always comes right back. She should have been home nine
o'clock at the laden, or she might have gone to a movie, but
she would have called. Besides, she doesn't like to go alone. Just
because a girl, actually a young lady. Just because you haven't heard from
her in four hours, she may have met someone. She doesn't stay up
late, or she can't. She's in training, she's missing. There's nowhere
she might have gone, nowhere she's supposed to have gone except home, and
that's four hours ago. Sergeant. You have to find her. Yes,
and now I suggest you go home. What are you trying to do?
Get rid of us? I don't think you're taking this seriously, sargue Please,
mister missus Tursday, your place is home by the phone in case she's
trying to reach you. Well, you saw her last at six thirty.
She was wearing the coco brown flax and an eggshell blowers. She was carrying
the bage sweater. Do you have a picture of her? See, I
told you they'd want a picture. Thank you. She's very pretty. Your
address at six thirteen Delaware, and the library's at the corner of Garfield,
so somewhere in those eight blocks right right. We'll start the routine, routine,
routine. This is our daughter, he means the police routine. Molly,
what are you going to do? I mean, right now, we'll
check out the hospital. How could you say a thing like that. We'll
do everything we can to find your daughter, Sergeant Keller, Oh yeah,
Martie, the Tuesday, I'll go. Yeah. What have you got?
Nothing? Anything from the cup on the beat? Hospitals? How about the
Morgue? Oh? Okay, thanks? May I have to yes, I'm
a police detective. My identification. Were you working here at the library last
night, miss Dacy and to Win? Oh? Well, Wednesday nights we
close the library at eight thirty, do you know and miss Margaret Truesdale?
Oh yes, what do you know about her? Is she in any trouble?
I hope not. Well, I really don't know very much about her.
Was she in last night? Oh? Yes? She are. What
time did she arrive? I'm not sure. I didn't see her come in.
Do you know when she left? Oh? Yes, at exactly seven
thirty. You're sure, Oh, absolutely, because when she said good night
to me, I remember saying to her, I've got one more hour to
go. Do you know anything at all about her? Oh, she's a
very pretty girl. Yeah, yeah she is. Oh see, she looks
to be about nineteen. She comes in quite often early in the evening.
She reads for a while, and then she takes out a book and leaves.
Is she ever in here with anyone? Oh no, no, she's
always alone. Does she talk to anybody? Just to me, as far
as I know. What do you talk about? Oh? Books? Mostly?
What kind of books? Fiction? Usually short stories. Who's her favorite
author? I would say Edgar Allan Poe. This one book she'd head out
for quite a while. By that, I mean she'd keep renewing it.
What book was that? As a matter of fact, she'd returned it last
night. She said she'd finally bought herself a copee and didn't need hours anymore.
What's the name of the book, Oh, William Wilson and Other Stories
by Edgar Allan Poe. Why do you ask, Sergeant, I'm just hoping
one thing may lead to another. May What is this all about, miss
Stacy? It seems you're the last person I can find so far who has
seen Miss Truesdale since she left here last night. I don't understand she disappeared.
Oh, does anyone have any ideas as to why I came here to
see if you have any ideas? As I said, I don't really know
her. She's very quiet because she's been coming in for a long time.
We say hello, we say goodbye. We occasionally passed the time of day
while she checks out a book. On those occasions, what do you talk
about? Oh? Nothing, that is nothing of any significance. Maybe the
weather if it's unusually hot or cold or greeny or dry. And that's all.
Oh, yes, just about Miss Dacy. Tried to think. Did
she ever say anything else? Not? Really, nothing significant. It could
even be insignificant, Sergeant, I wish I had some idea of what you
want? Yes? And why is he? At seven thirty last night?
She left here, presumably to return home. It's an eight and a half
block walks south along Delaware. It's a wide, well lighted street. Filled
with people. There was any viole, it would have been noticed. But
perhaps she didn't go. But where else was she bound for? And why
was there anything unusual in her manner last night? Oh? No, not
that I could see, miss Dacy. Could you keep thinking and see if
you come up with anything, anything at all? This is trus down.
Oh it's the police, sergeant it see it, it's the sergeant. May
I come in? Oh? Have you found her? And is there any
news? I'm afraid not? Do you hear what he says? See he's
afraid not. What's that supposed to mean? I guess it means they have
no news yet. I think it means a little bit more than that,
Like what it means they've been looking, but so far they're lick. Isn't
that a fact? Sergeant? Well we need more information. Well you know
her name, what she looks like, how she was dressed? What more
can we tell you? Would she have any reason for leaving home? What
are you saying? It's obvious what he's saying said. He's implying she ran
off. I'm suggesting it as a possibility, and I'm here to go on
record that it's an impossibility. Why is that, mister Tuesdale. Now you
have no right to I slimmer down, said slimmer down. He's a cop.
They've got a right to ask anything they please. No, Sergeant,
she did not run off. Can you be sure of it? Why would
a girl who loved her home, loved her parents, and loved her career
just up and take off? Yes? Where did she work at the Sunrise
Athletic Club? What sort of job does she have there? Now? She
wasn't employed there. What my wife means is that she worked out there or
she was an athlete. She said. He never heard of her. You
never heard of Margie, true, sergeant, and no, not until you
reported her missing. He doesn't know who she is, what she does.
And we're paying your friend Morrison a pretty penny for publicity too. He's not
my friend, all right, all right? She goes to the athletic club.
Now, why, she's probably the best swimmer in the world. What
do you mean. Probably when she was about fourteen, she was very sick
and the doctor said the best thing for her would be the swim. She
became a champion swimmer by the time she recovered her health, and that took
more than six years. Anyhow, she decided she should go into the Olympics.
She's almost twenty three. That's maybe a little old. Actually, she
started at a time when most of these kids are ready to retire. But
she's got it and we've been working with her setting things up. This is
the year she has to make it. Yes, but the fact is she's
missing now. People disappear for one of three general reasons. First, foul
play, oh say that. A second, for some reason of their own.
She'd have absolutely no reason to run away. A third, this is
very rare amnesia. That's it. Our little girl is wandering around somewhere,
not even knowing who she is. I'd like to talk with some of her
friends. I'm sure that you wouldn't know very much. Could you give me
some names? She wasn't really that close with too many people. Does she
have a boyfriend? No, you can't fit because she isn't pretty. If
she was interested the way, they'd buzz around like bees after honey. But
she's in training, no distractions. The idea is, you win the Olympics,
you get the fame, the publicity, and you go on from there.
Endorsements, TV movies, a whole new important career and then you're exposed
to a totally different class of men. Tell me about her daily routine.
Well, she'd leave for the club in the morning, say about nine,
and she'd work out till lunch. Then she'd rest and back again for lessons
and practice. Still for that's a pretty solid day. And that's all she
did. Oh, it's enough. Oh we'd go out to dinner, show
or we'd stay home and watch TV. She liked to go to the library.
She'd love to read. She was very intelligent. She could talk about
things like what, well, you know, things specifically, just things in
general. Can you remember any individual topics? A sergeant, there's no point
giving me the third degree. Don't speak to the sergeant like that. Said
right now, he's our only hope. Well, what do people talk about?
The weather, sports, the news? What's happening? Did she seem
nervous or scared lately? What does that mean? It means, I guess
was she may be afraid of something? Of what? That's what this police
officer wants to know. Let me set you straight, sergeant. She had
nothing to be afraid. She done nothing bad. Was there anything at all
unusual about her behavior? No? Nothing, She's got amnesia. I know
it. Well what does that well mean? It means he's in the dark,
He's up a tree, just like us. Well, what are you
standing around here for, sergeant? Why aren't you out looking for her?
Out where I need help. We are willing to help, you are willing,
But I'm afraid you're not able. We are doing everything we can.
You are not answering my question. That isn't so you don't know who her
friends are, you don't know what she thinks about. She's a very dedicated
girl. Yes, then why does she run off? She would never run
off she had amnesia. Why would she have amnesia? Well, because it's
an athlete in training, she's in perfect health. Well, then she was
kidning at right off the street a Delaware avenue. They could have overpowered her,
forced her into a car. She wouldn't go quietly. She seems a
big, strong girl. I don't say it like that. You make her
sound ungainly. She beautifully builds. So you can't rule out the possibility of
kidnapping, Sergeant, you'd have received word by now about a ransom. Well,
maybe it's the kind of kidnapping where girls are sold into you know,
slavery. Oh please Molly, Sergeant. We're desperate her. Yes, I
understand, and I just wish you knew a little more about her. Find
her please, She's own little girl, and we love her. There is
a public service announcement on the air during the evening which asks the question you
know where your children are? That's a good question. However, a question,
more to the point is one that asks do you know who your child
is? I suppose some people would be afraid to find out more information on
this general subject. In act too shortly. You need not wander afar to
seek out the stranger. He is with you, within you. What the
poet is saying is how can we hope to see the truth in others when
we are unaware of what the truth is about ourselves? Who are we?
What are we? And why? This has preoccupied the finest brain since the
beginning of time. So if we don't completely settle live here, Please don't
ask for your money back, Sergeant Keller, What can I do for you?
What do you know about Margie Tuesday Off? Well, I'm not trying
to evade your question, sergeant, I'm just trying to think what do I
know about Margie? Answer has to be nothing, mister Sparta, you're her
swimming coach. She spends eight hours a day here. Or did I think
she was fourteen? Skinny, consumptive and nimid little thing. It's just barely
alive today. Would you believe it? I can't believe you know nothing about
her. As some people go through life talkers, this one's a listener.
Are you telling me she says nothing at all? No, she talks.
I even go so far as to say she chatters, But you analyze the
conversation and there's nothing there. Still, you've known this girl for eight years.
You do have some sort of relationship. Look out that window, sergeant,
see that swimming pool that forms the boundaries of our relationship. But you
do talk about something. Sure, we have long talks about diet, breath
control, coordination. Look, I played ball at school. I was close
to my coach. I mean there were times when we just sit around,
you know, and I know what you're looking for, But it's it's not
here, not like with the other kids. Or you become more than just
a coach here, you're sort of an older brother, maybe your second father.
You talk about what really bothers kids today, sex, friendship, life,
but not with her. I can't even begin to imagine. Well,
why was she training all out constantly? I mean, was it something she
wanted? Or and we're her parents putting on the pressure. I don't know
where all that tremendous dedication came from. Could have been hers, could have
been there. How did she feel toward her mother and father? Well?
I never saw so much love on the part of a kid, considering the
circumstances. What circumstances, Well, considering they weren't her real father and mother.
Just because two people adopt a child, that doesn't mean they're not the
real parents. Well, I didn't mean it to sound that way. He
was her stepfather. And then when her mother died, Margie was still a
little girl and he married Molly. He said, Molly raised her like their
own. What were her chances for making the Olympics. Well a lot goes
into that, But I don't see how she can be kept out. She's
ready the trials beginning a couple of weeks, but if she's not around,
she'll miss him. Also, every day she's gone, she's losing out on
training. You really can't give me anything to go on, can you?
Sorry? Friends, I don't think she had any She had to be friendly
with somebob, with everybody. That's not the same as having friends. I
can't believe there was nothing to this girl's existence except swimming. She must have
had another life, one that nobody knew about. Maybe, But where did
she lead it? And when did she find the time? Well? I
love that, sergeant. What are you drinking? Oh, I'm on duty.
Lemonade, make it sour. That's a sixty cent serge. Gotta keep
things on the up and up dinner? And did you read in the papers
about a girl named Margaret Tuesday? I never read the papers. Why should
I go chasing at the bad news? It'll come soon enough. Well,
this one just disappeared. Oh wow, girls do that quite often. Yeah,
this is a photograph a nice yes, indeed, about a meat on
those bones. And it all looks like a prize. She's a swimmer.
She just vanished. But if I can paraphrase the French, she or she
long? No, no, no, there's no man involved that you know
that anybody knows of? Ah, Joe, you got a certain tone in
your voice. Yeah, could you be fallen for this chicken? I don't
even know her. The ones you don't know are the most dangerous kind.
Look the way it is now, she just vanished from the face of the
earth. No motive, no clue. Nothing that's bad. I could get
a young romantic guy like yourself, old, bothered and curious moms. Now,
you hear a lot of things in a place like this, Sure,
but what I hear stays here? Is there a rumble on this? I
haven't heard anything, Joe. I don't think anybody grabbed her off the street.
You never can tell. I'll listen, Joe. It's against my principles,
but I'll stick my ear up. You know why, because I'm a
sucker for romance. Cut it out? Well, yeah, I can see
you got a thing for this girl. Can't say as I blame you.
I'm only doing my job. Yeah, I'll tell you what scares me.
Yeah, she's a swimmer. She's reaching for the big time. She has
to get known, she has to compete, and she's been traveling to meets
in Canada and Mexico all over. So do I have to spell it out
for you? Maybe she's been caught up in some smuggling. The pros have
been known to use kids like her. You really must have fallen in love
with her. Why do you insist that I'm in love with her? Well,
look me straight in the eye and say, no, I'm not in
love with her. No, don't be silly. Oh that's how it is
with some of your cops. You like those nights of old, always rescuing
fair maidens in distress, and naturally you've got to fall in love. What
else? All right, All right, that's enough. Ones. If you
hear anything at all concerning this girl, will you let me know? Sure,
and it won't cost your thing. Let it be my witting present.
Oh for crying out loud, Keller. Oh yeah, the parents of this
girl, Margaret Tuesday or what do they want to inspector? Miracles? Inspector?
They're phoning me every minute of the day and night. She just disappeared.
And I know, I know what you're gonna say. Nobody just vanishes
into thin air. There has to be some clue. Look, I'm doing
the best I can. I got nothing to go on. I'm making bricks
without straw. Okay, okay, yes sir, yes sir. Just as
soon as something turns up, sure thing. See what could have happened to
her? Any day? Hello? Sarge and Keller. I know it's very
late, I mean very early in the morning. Yeah, sure, As
I got your home number from your office. I said it was an emergency.
You have to come over here right away. Have you heard from Margie?
No? But I'm calling you because otherwise there's going to be a lot
of trouble and embarrassment. Can you come over now? It's my wife and
she has this idea, and well you'd better talk to her. Sergeant,
I knew what happened to my doctor. You do. It's a wonder it
didn't occur to you, after all, you're a professional, and it's so
simple. She's been kidnapped, missus Tuesday or we've been through this already.
There's been no note. You are not wealthy, Pete. But she was
not kidnapped for money. She was kidnapped by one or another of the Iron
Curtain countries. Don't you understand. Oh, well, she's a French.
Those countries take these competitions seriously. They're doing this to keep her out of
the games. Oh you don't believe it. It's pretty far fair. If
you're a police officer, you have connections with the FBI, and you're coordinated
with the CIA, not that I know. You get to work on this
immediately or you will force me to get in touch with my congressman and my
senator. Now, Momy, it's awfully late. Why don't you get to
this. I don't think you can fluff me off. Nobody's got that idea.
As the sergeant is going to notify all the necessary authorities, you get
all the wheels in motion. Once the government steps in, they won't dare
to harm her. You look awfully tired. Yes, yes, I am,
I'm very, very tired. But sergeant, you do believe I've given
you a logical explanation. Well it does deserve thinking about, and you'll start
what you like to call the routine. Get on it right away. Now
I can go to bed. Did will you show the sergeant out? Why?
Sure thing, Bobby, good night, good night missus Tursdale. I
am I had to call you, otherwise she'd be phoning the President of the
United States. Yeah okay, And besides, who says she has to be
off base? Crazy things happened today? Yeah? Sure, sure, Well,
good night, mister Trusdall. Don't go now. It's late and my
day starts early. I know what you must think of me and my wife.
You you don't care for us. Now, why do you say that?
Well, I guess we come over like like stage parents, you know,
the kind that pushed their kids toward a career. Listen that what you
did know? This whole training routine was her idea. Yes, I remember
you said she decided she should go into the Olympics. But she did without
any help from you or missus Trusdale. Oh, we approved, but the
idea was hers. Is there any chance she might have suggested it to win
your approval? No? If she were to appear right now and say,
mom, dad, I want to throw the whole thing over, what would
you say to her? Impossible? Impossible for her to say that. Quite
impossible to think she'd even want to. All right, Oh, do you
mind if I if I have a look at her room? Why? I
don't know. Maybe I can find something quite I want to know this girl
better. Maybe there's something in the room. Am I too? Hear see
everything just as she left it? She was very neat. I hope we
haven't touched a thing. See in the waste basket, we haven't even emptied
it. Just a crumpled piece of paper, here, it's going to stay
right there. Funny. It's probably the last thing she ever wrote too.
What is it? Nothing? Nothing at all, just a name, the
name who's nobody's name that I know of? Forwards, the name Wilson.
We don't even know anyone named Wilson. Wilson. Yeah, will Heelmina Wilson?
Could I see that? What far? Well? All right? Yeah,
but I want it back, Wilhelmina Wilson. Is this your daughter's handwriting?
Of course? She writes Wilhelmina Wilson, as if it's a signature.
She's written it four or five or six times, as if you were practicing
how to sign it. Why, I can't imagine, will Helmina Wilson.
Have you ever heard that name in any connection? Now, wait a minute,
Maybe I have where where I heard it somewhere before. Maybe one that
sounds an awful lot like it. Oh, he's heard one that's very close
to it, and so have you. It's a name that's fraught with significance,
as they say, provided you know just how to look at it.
Stop for a minute, think for a minute, and it should all fall
into place. And if it doesn't, we'll take care of it. Next
three, what's in a name? Asked mister Shakespeare, That which we call
a rose by any other name would smell is sweet, and so forth.
While we hate to differ with the immortal Bard, we must quarrel with his
premise everything is in a name? And who can say that the rose doesn't
smell sweeter precisely because it's called a rose? The fact is where the captives
of our own propaganda, Willhelmina Wilson. You're sure this name means nothing to
you, mister Trusdale, nothing at all, missus treusdwe Well, I asked
her. She doesn't know either, all right? And where did I hear
it? I'm sorry to bother you, mister Sparter, I'm glad to be
of help. I'm gonna tell you the name Willhelmina Wilson. Is that familiar?
Willhelmina Wilson? Who is she? Oh? She isn't anybody? Or
she has to be somebody though? Will help me? No Wilson is a
rhythm. What she's Margie's rhythm? While she swims, Margie keeps saying,
will help me, No Wilson, will help me? No wills. And
it's a simple six feet rhythm. Da da da da da da. It
helps, So Adam set up a little chant like that. That's all will
help me. No, Wilson is yeah, why what do you think it
was? Well, here's a handsome young police officer. Yeah, it looks
like you need a drink. I do, which is why I'm not going
to have one. Well, tell old moms, what's the problem. I
just stop buying in case. You may have heard something about oh yeah,
your check. Hey, how many times I have to tell you there's nothing
there? If there was nothing there, you don't have to tell me once.
Well what do you hear? Not a whisper? Somebody has to know
something. Oh sure, I just can't find a handle on this case,
poor Joe. Tell me, is this the kind of girl you've been looking
for all your life? All right, all right, mom, she's an
interesting girl. Good, we finally got that out in the open. Now
you can go to work. I've been working without that up since the case
came in. Working. Yeah, but thinking, No, I don't follow
Joe. When I saw you for the first time, You know what I
said to myself, I said that one's going to be a smart cup once
he settles down. You got this dame on the brain. Look, we
don't have to keep talking about that aspect of it. But not suppose it
was an old lady that was missing or a guy. Yeah, yeah,
a guy. It'd be even better. Better for what better to prove my
point? So far? You haven't made one, Joe. Just pretend you're
not in love with it. Who says, okay, okay, let it
go. Guys like you who are already over thirty, you're always afraid of
getting married. Hey, listen, so you make up excuses. You get
up this ideal of some dame that's just gorgeous, but out of reach,
seems. I've seen all those moving pictures too. You know where do you
think life gets its ideas from the movie. I'm going at this case the
same way I tackle every other. That's what you say. But just take
a deep breath and think think about it from every angle. Good. Now
ask yourself the question you should have asked the very first night. Am I
being had? Think about it? Joe? Are you being had? Do
you have any news? Sergeant? I may have. What does that sid?
What did he say? As argeant? What do you have to tell
us? I'm thinking about what you told me, and all rests on the
assumption that your daughter could disappear on a crowded, well lighted street. Assumption,
sid, he said, assumption I heard what he said. I'm afraid
it didn't work. The only way she could disappear was for you to arrange
a place for her to go to. No, you'd better listen to me.
At first, I had the idea, maybe she might have gotten into
a little jam. She went to swimming meets in Canada and Mexico. Maybe
she carried some pot for somebody, maybe something a little stronger. That's a
lie. Actually, I didn't believe it myself. Then what are you trying
to imply? I think it's all a publicity stunt, but it's gone sour.
How dare you? Sid, coldest man, superior officer, whoever he
is. I'll give you his name of the phone number myself, but you'd
better hear the rest of it first. And the stakes are tremendous. I
should have realized that in the beginning the Olympics. They become a fantastic media
event. The winners get more than the old laurel wreath, even more than
the gold medal. I'll hold it a minute you have no right an old
swimmer disappears. That would be the headline, wouldn't it. I could have
been, But all you got was a couple of lines on page seventeen and
nothing to speak of on the air. The media didn't bite, or maybe
you didn't know how to promote it. You don't understand she's missing. What
you needed was an experienced, inventive publicity guy. He might have pulled it
off. It isn't true. You have to keep it alive, so you
feed me little things like this iron curtain plot could be true, and then
you try to fob off his name at me. This will held Mina Wilson.
Why didn't you pretend you didn't know what it was, mister Trewsdale,
I don't have the Panter's idea live. Who is Willowmina Wilson? Didn't you
think I check it out with Dick Sparter. I mean you're trying to tell
me you actually don't know that will Helmina Wilson is the name she says to
herself while she's swimmed. I never heard of it. Where is she?
We don't know she disappeared? You knowingly mislead the police. We haven't the
truth? Wait, will Helpmina Wilson, I just remembered, I just remembered.
Has there been any word of March Tuesday or Sergeant? No, Miss
Stacy, I just came by the library to ask a question, and you
said she liked to read a book. She kept renewing. Would you tell
me the name of it again? Oh, William Wilson and other stories by
Edgar Allan Poe. William Wilson, Yes, I guess I made a mistake.
Funny, I thought it was Wilhelmina Wilson. Well that's close. Actually,
Wilhelmina is the feminine form of William. Yes, oh, Helmina Wilson.
I wonder that story? Do you work? Do you suppose I could
read it? Oh? I certainly? And wait here, yes, miss
will Helmina Wilson. Yes, yes, you dyed your hair. You changed
your makeup. Instead of wearing beiges and browns, I see you've gone in
for blues and grays. It does give you a different look. Who are
you? Oh? Sorry, I'm a police detective. Sergeant Joe Keller.
May I, may I come in? Why? I want to talk to
you about Margaret Truesdale all right, What what do you want to know?
First? I'd like to know if you'll marry me. You'll not right away.
We'd have to get to know each other better. Although I know all
about you already. What do you know about me? Start with a girl
just in her teens, father dies, a mother remarries. Well, the
stepfather accept her, and then the mother dies and the stepfather remarries. Well,
the strange new woman accept her as a daughter. Why do you want
me to relieve all this? She thinks she's a very unattractive girl. Oh
I was. I was pale and skinny, always sits. Oh. They
bring you to a friend, Dick Sparta, a swimming coach, and you
work out every day. Yes, I did, hour after hour, and
it changes you. It also becomes obvious to everyone that you could be a
great swimmer. Yes, and everybody begins to count the money, taste the
glory. Yes. At first Sit and Molly were only thinking of me.
Later, the thing just overpowered them, blew their perspectives crazy. At first,
I was so happy because finally I could do something to please them,
repay them for all they did for me. You were a good, little
obedient girl, Yes, But after a while, it became torture. Every
stroke was agony, every lap was I don't want to say, oh,
Perkatie, I understand, But couldn't you face them, couldn't you say?
Look? Mom? Looked an? I was scared. I was still very
insecure. Besides, I told you they had changed. Now. All they
could talk about was how rich, how famous we would become, the fantastic
things we could do. And then you read that story William Wilson about a
man who has another self, Yes, another self. That was what I
needed, and so inside me I created Wilhelmina Wilson. Inside I was Wilhelmina
Wilson. Every time I swam, I would say, will Helmina Wilson.
Oh, I wanted to run away, just just a beer. But where
could I go? How would I live? All I ever learned to do
was swim. Couldn't you study something? Oh? Not? After the kind
of day I put In a matter of fact, I wanted to take a
secretarial course. But Sit and Molly both jumped on me. What do you
need that for? You'll never use it. You're going to be rich.
You know what I did? I tried to raise money by entering contests under
the name of Wilhelmina Wilson. I never won anything, anything at all until
dear Yeah, I know, I bought a fifty cent lottery ticket in the
name of Wilhelmina Wilson, and that did it. Can you imagine the minute
I saw that winning number, I took this apartment. That's how I found
you. Twenty five thousand dollars. It can give me a starting. Ever,
where does this leave me? Your parents reported you as a missing person.
I'm a police officer. I found you. I can't go home.
Do you know why. I just can't swim anymore. I can't take the
pressure. I'm out of it. That's going to break their hearts. They're
broken hearted now, but this way they'll still have their dreams that I could
have been the greatest swimmer in the world. No, I can't go back,
Yes you can. No, I'm no longer scared Little Margie Truesdale.
And they wouldn't understand Wilhelmina Wilson. They would never forgive her for for wasting
that chance of a lifetime. Do you know who they could understand, forgive
and accept? Who? Missus? Joseph Keller, who she she would be
my wife. But I don't know. You don't you want to get to
know me. I don't know. I suppose I could. By that time,
the Olympic trials will be over. They'll never forgive me, sure will
once we make it very clear that you forgive them. I would assume that,
after a suitable passage of time, everyone in this particular story forgave everybody
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continues as they leave the security of the wagon train behind to strike out for
the promised land called California. We're hiding our own way to California. I
think we should give it careful thought, staying with the wagon train and be
safer. He retraveled through mostly uncharted territory. I'm afraid it will man happen.
Who will survive the last great American Adventure? The Chisholm's, starring Robert
Preston and Rosemary Harris, Saturday night at eight seventh Central Lawn, CBS Television
and Robert Preston and Rosemary Harris Saturday Night at eight. You can sing smoke
gets in your eyes, but when it gets into everyone else's eyes and nose
and throat, it's no musical matters. Your Lung Association says cigarettes are a
personal health hazard and secondhand smoke is offensive to all non smokers. Give us
all a break. Let the Lung Association help you kick the habit for your
sake and for everyone's life and breath. We look at the faces as some
of these high powered young performers, athletes, dancers, prodigies of one sort
or another, the strained and nerve wracked faces, and we say they're hardly
more than children. Why are they being thrown into the snake pit of money
and notoriety so early? Why? Quite simply because so many of us are
willing to pay and to cheer them. Yes, our heroes are getting younger
and older before their time. Our cast included Paul Heck, Joan Shay ray
Owens, and Brona Rayburn. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman
Brown. Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery
theater for another adventure in the macabre unto stories of love and sacrifice As World
War Two brings broth and change to a