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Speaker 2: Zero, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents come in Welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm e G. Marshall. For a brief moment, during the
Speaker 2: darkest night, we have a glimpse of ourselves and of
Speaker 2: our world islanded in the stream of stars, pilgrims of mortality,
Speaker 2: voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time. Yes,
Speaker 2: for a moment, for only the briefest moment. She was kidnapped, sergeant.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: There were people on the street. Someone would have seen something.
Speaker 2: Are you sure she didn't run away?
Speaker 3: She was kidnapped, sergeant.
Speaker 2: But if she were kidnapped, you'd have received a ransom note.
Speaker 2: Is it possible for a girl to disappear without her trace,
Speaker 2: as if the earth just swallowed her up? Our mystery
Speaker 2: drama will Helmina Wilson was written especially for the Mystery
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Speaker 2: back shortly with that. One absence, said the Roman philosopher,
Speaker 2: makes the heart grow fonder. However, an unexplained absence is
Speaker 2: bound to make the heart grow anxious. Society takes note
Speaker 2: of this fact, which is why every police department has
Speaker 2: its Bureau of Missing Persons. My name is Truesdale, Sydney Tuesdale. Yes,
Speaker 2: mister Truesdale, I'm his wife.
Speaker 3: Mollie Truesdale is.
Speaker 2: A lieutenant downstairs. He said, to see you, Sergeant Keller.
Speaker 4: Yes, so you wish to report a missing person?
Speaker 2: Well, now that you.
Speaker 5: Ask did, there's no way to get around it. She's
Speaker 5: a missing person.
Speaker 4: Who were we talking about?
Speaker 5: My?
Speaker 2: Our daughter?
Speaker 5: And her name Margaret Truesdale. But she's known professionally as.
Speaker 4: Margie True, Margie True.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's shorter, snappier than Margaret Truesdale.
Speaker 3: That's not important. Besides, I'm sure he never even heard
Speaker 3: of her.
Speaker 2: No, I need some statistics. Female, eh, Margaret or Margie
Speaker 2: Truesdale or True? Age twenty three?
Speaker 3: He'll be twenty three? Is he twenty two?
Speaker 2: Blonde?
Speaker 4: Natural height five nine?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 4: How long has she been missing?
Speaker 2: How long? About three hours?
Speaker 4: I should think it's almost one.
Speaker 3: O'clock in the morning, at least four hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's hardly enough time to be.
Speaker 2: What were you going to say, it's hardly something to
Speaker 2: be concerned about.
Speaker 4: Yes, Now when was she do home?
Speaker 2: The library closes at eight thirty.
Speaker 3: Yes, she'd gone there to return.
Speaker 2: A book because she always comes right back.
Speaker 5: She should have been home nine o'clock at the latest.
Speaker 4: Well, she might have gone to a movie.
Speaker 3: She would have called.
Speaker 2: Besides, she doesn't like to go alone. Just because a girl,
Speaker 2: actually a young lady. Just because you haven't heard from
Speaker 2: her in four hours, she may have met someone.
Speaker 3: She doesn't stay up late.
Speaker 2: She can't. She's in training.
Speaker 3: She's missing.
Speaker 5: There's nowhere she might have gone, nowhere she's supposed to
Speaker 5: have gone except home, and that's four hours ago.
Speaker 2: Sergeant. You have to find her.
Speaker 4: Yes, and now I suggest you go home.
Speaker 2: What are you trying to do? Get rid of us?
Speaker 5: I don't think you're taking this seriously, sergeant.
Speaker 4: Please missus trusday.
Speaker 2: Your place is home by the phone in case she's
Speaker 2: trying to reach you. Well, you saw her last.
Speaker 5: At six thirty, and she was wearing the cocoa brown
Speaker 5: flax and an eggshell blouse.
Speaker 2: She was carrying the beige sweater. Do you have a
Speaker 2: picture of her? See, I told you they'd want a picture.
Speaker 4: Thank you. She's very pretty. Your address at six thirteen.
Speaker 5: Delaware, and the library's at the corner of Garfield.
Speaker 2: So somewhere in those eight blocks right right.
Speaker 4: We'll start the routine.
Speaker 3: Routine, routine.
Speaker 2: This is our daughter, he means the police routine. And Molly,
Speaker 2: what are you going to do?
Speaker 3: I mean right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I we'll check out the hospital, say a thing
Speaker 2: like that. We will do everything we can to find
Speaker 2: your daughter. Sergeant Keller, Oh yeah, Martie, the Tuesday will girl. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what have you got? Nothing?
Speaker 4: Huh? Anything from the cup on the beat hospitals? How
Speaker 4: about the Morgue? Oh okay, thanks?
Speaker 3: May I help you?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm a police detective. My identification.
Speaker 2: Oh were you working here at the library last night,
Speaker 2: miss Dacy?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: And to win well.
Speaker 5: Wednesday nights we close the library at eight thirty.
Speaker 4: Do you know miss Margaret Truesdale?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, what do you know about her?
Speaker 3: Is she in any trouble?
Speaker 4: I hope not.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: I really don't know very much about her.
Speaker 4: Was she in last night?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, she was?
Speaker 4: What time did she arrive.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I didn't see her come in.
Speaker 4: Do you know when she left?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, at exactly seven point thirty.
Speaker 4: You're sure, Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 5: Because when she said good night to me, I remember
Speaker 5: saying to her, I've got one more hour to go.
Speaker 4: Do you know anything at all about her?
Speaker 5: Oh, she's a very pretty girl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah she is.
Speaker 3: Oh see, she looks.
Speaker 5: To be about nineteen. She comes in quite often early
Speaker 5: in the evening. She reads for a while, and then
Speaker 5: she takes out.
Speaker 3: A book and leaves.
Speaker 4: Is she ever in here with anyone?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, she's always alone.
Speaker 4: Does she talk to anybody?
Speaker 3: Just to me? As far as I know.
Speaker 4: What do you talk about?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Books?
Speaker 3: Mostly?
Speaker 4: What kind of books?
Speaker 2: Fiction?
Speaker 3: Usually short stories?
Speaker 4: Who's your favorite author?
Speaker 5: I would say Edgar Allan Poe? This one book she'd
Speaker 5: head out for quite a while. By that, I mean
Speaker 5: she'd keep renewing it in What book was that? As
Speaker 5: a matter of fact, she'd returned it last night. She
Speaker 5: said she'd finally bought herself a copy and didn't need
Speaker 5: ours anymore.
Speaker 4: What's the name of the book?
Speaker 5: Oh, William Wilson and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Speaker 3: Why do I ask.
Speaker 2: Sergeant, I'm just hoping one thing may lead to another. Nay,
Speaker 2: what is this all about, miss Stacy? It seems you're
Speaker 2: the last person I can find so far who has
Speaker 2: seen Miss Truesdale since she.
Speaker 4: Left here last night. I don't understand she disappeared.
Speaker 5: Oh, does anyone have any ideas as to why.
Speaker 4: I came here to see? If you have any ideas?
Speaker 5: As I said, I don't really know her. She's very quiet.
Speaker 5: She's been coming in for a long time. We say hello,
Speaker 5: we say goodbye. We occasionally passed the time of day
Speaker 5: while she checks out a book.
Speaker 4: On those occasions, what do you talk about?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Nothing, There is nothing of any significance. Maybe the weather
Speaker 5: if it's unusually hot or cold.
Speaker 3: Or rainy or dry.
Speaker 4: And that's all. Oh, yes, just about miss Dacy. Tried
Speaker 4: to think. Did she ever say anything else?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 5: Really, nothing significant that could.
Speaker 2: Even be insignificant?
Speaker 5: Oh, sergeant, I wish I had some idea of what
Speaker 5: you want?
Speaker 2: Yes? And why is he? At seven thirty last night?
Speaker 2: She left here, presumably to return home. It's an eight
Speaker 2: and a half block walks south along Delaware. It's a wide,
Speaker 2: well lighted street filled with people. There was any vile
Speaker 2: once it would have been noticed.
Speaker 3: Well, then perhaps she didn't go home.
Speaker 4: Where else was she bound for?
Speaker 2: And why.
Speaker 4: Was there anything unusual in her manner last night?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, not that I could see, miss Dacy.
Speaker 2: Could you keep thinking and see if you come up
Speaker 2: with anything, anything at all?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's his Truesdawn.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's the police, sergeant's sid.
Speaker 3: It's the sergeant.
Speaker 4: May I come in?
Speaker 3: Oh? Have you found her?
Speaker 2: And no?
Speaker 3: Oh? Is there any news?
Speaker 4: I'm afraid not.
Speaker 3: Do you hear what he says?
Speaker 2: Seed?
Speaker 3: He's afraid not? What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 2: I guess it means they have no news yet.
Speaker 5: I think it means a little bit more than that,
Speaker 5: like what it means they've been looking, but so far
Speaker 5: they're lit.
Speaker 3: Isn't that a fact?
Speaker 4: Sergeant? Well we need more information.
Speaker 2: Well you know her name, what she looks like, how
Speaker 2: she was dressed? What more can we tell you?
Speaker 4: Would she have any reason for leaving home? What are
Speaker 4: you saying?
Speaker 5: It's obvious what he's saying said. He's implying she ran off.
Speaker 4: I'm suggesting it as a possibility.
Speaker 2: And I'm here to go on record that it's an impossibility.
Speaker 4: Why is that, mister Truesdale.
Speaker 3: Now you have no right to ask slimmer down, said
Speaker 3: simmered Down. He's a cop.
Speaker 5: They've got a right to ask anything they please. No, Sergeant,
Speaker 5: she did not run off.
Speaker 4: Can you be sure of it?
Speaker 2: Why would a.
Speaker 5: Girl who loved her home, loved her parents, and loved
Speaker 5: her career just up and take off?
Speaker 4: Yes? Where did she work at.
Speaker 3: The Sunrise Athletic Club?
Speaker 2: What sort of job did she have there? No, she
Speaker 2: wasn't employed there. What my wife means is that she
Speaker 2: worked out there.
Speaker 4: Oh, she was an athlete.
Speaker 5: See sid, he never heard of her. You never heard
Speaker 5: of Margie, true, sergeant, and.
Speaker 4: No, not until you reported her missing.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know who she is, what she does.
Speaker 5: And we're paying your friend Morrison a pretty penny for
Speaker 5: publicity too.
Speaker 2: He's not my friend, all right, all right? She goes
Speaker 2: to the athletic club. Now, why, she's probably the best
Speaker 2: swimmer in the world.
Speaker 3: What do you mean.
Speaker 2: Probably when she was about fourteen, she was very sick
Speaker 2: and the doctor said the best thing for her would
Speaker 2: be the swim.
Speaker 5: She became a champion swimmer by the time she recovered
Speaker 5: her health.
Speaker 2: That took more than six years.
Speaker 5: Anyhow, she decided she should go.
Speaker 3: Into the Olympics.
Speaker 2: She's almost twenty three. That's maybe a little old. Actually,
Speaker 2: she started at a time when most of these kids
Speaker 2: are ready to retire. But she's got it and.
Speaker 3: We've been working with her setting things up.
Speaker 2: This is the year she has to make it. Yes,
Speaker 2: but the fact is she's missing now. People disappear for
Speaker 2: one of three general reasons. First, foul play, oh say that.
Speaker 2: The second, for some reason of their own. She'd have
Speaker 2: absolutely no reason to run away.
Speaker 4: A third. I think this is very rare amnesia.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: Our little girl is wandering around somewhere, not even knowing.
Speaker 3: Who she is.
Speaker 4: I'd like to talk with some of her friends.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they wouldn't know very much.
Speaker 4: Could you give me some names.
Speaker 3: She wasn't really that close with too many people.
Speaker 4: Does she have a boyfriend?
Speaker 5: No, you can't fit because she isn't pretty.
Speaker 2: If she was interested the way they buzz around like
Speaker 2: bees after honey.
Speaker 5: But she's in training early to bed, no distractions.
Speaker 2: The idea is, you win the Olympics, you get the fame,
Speaker 2: the publicity, and you go on from there. Endorsements, TV movies,
Speaker 2: a whole new important career, and then then.
Speaker 5: You're exposed to a totally different class of men.
Speaker 4: Tell me about her daily routine.
Speaker 2: Well, she'd sleep with the club in the morning, say.
Speaker 3: About nine, and she'd work out till lunch.
Speaker 2: And then she'd rest and back again for lessons in
Speaker 2: practice so forth.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty solid day.
Speaker 4: And that's all she did.
Speaker 5: Well enough, we'd go out to dinner shore or we'd
Speaker 5: stay home and watch TV.
Speaker 2: Is she like to go to the library. She'd loved
Speaker 2: to read because she was very intelligent. She could talk
Speaker 2: about things like what, well, you know things specifically, just
Speaker 2: things in general. Can you remember any individual topics a sergeant,
Speaker 2: there's no point giving me the third degree.
Speaker 3: I don't speak to the sergeant like that.
Speaker 5: Sid right now, he's our only hope. Well, what do
Speaker 5: people talk about in the weather, sports, the news?
Speaker 3: What's happening?
Speaker 4: Did she seem nervous or scared lately?
Speaker 2: What does that mean? It means I guess was she
Speaker 2: maybe afraid of something? Of what? That's what this police
Speaker 2: officer wants to know.
Speaker 5: Let me set you straight, sergeant. She had nothing to
Speaker 5: be afraid. She'd done nothing bad.
Speaker 4: Was there anything at all unusual about her?
Speaker 2: Behavior.
Speaker 3: No, nothing, she's got anesia.
Speaker 2: I know it.
Speaker 3: Well, what does that well mean?
Speaker 2: It means he's in the dark, he's up a tree,
Speaker 2: just like us.
Speaker 5: Well, what are you standing around here for, sergeant? Why
Speaker 5: aren't you out looking for her?
Speaker 2: Out where I need help.
Speaker 3: We're willing to help.
Speaker 2: You are willing, But I'm afraid you are not able.
Speaker 2: We are doing everything we can.
Speaker 4: You are not answering my question.
Speaker 2: That isn't so. You don't know who her friends are.
Speaker 2: You don't know what she thinks about. She's a very
Speaker 2: dedicated girl.
Speaker 4: Yes, then why does she run off?
Speaker 5: She would never run off she has amnesia.
Speaker 4: Why would she have amnesia?
Speaker 3: Well, because she's.
Speaker 2: An athlete in training, she's in perfect health.
Speaker 3: Well, then she was kidnapped.
Speaker 4: Right off the street Delaware Avenue.
Speaker 5: They could have overpowered her, forced her into a car.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't go quietly. She seems a big, strong girl.
Speaker 3: I don't say it like that. You make her sound ungainly.
Speaker 3: She's beautifully built.
Speaker 2: You can't rule out the possibility of kidnapping, sergeant. You'd
Speaker 2: have received word by now about a ransom.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe it's the kind of kidnapping where girls are
Speaker 5: sold into you know slavery.
Speaker 2: Oh please, Molly a sergeant. We're desperate, Yes, Sir, I understand,
Speaker 2: and I just wish you knew a little more about her.
Speaker 5: Sergeant, find her, please, She's own little girl, and we
Speaker 5: love her.
Speaker 2: There is a public service announcement on the air during
Speaker 2: the evening which asks the question, you know where your
Speaker 2: children are? That's a good question. However, a question, more
Speaker 2: to the point is one that asks, do you know
Speaker 2: who your child is? I suppose some people would be
Speaker 2: afraid to find out more information on this general subject.
Speaker 2: In act too shortly. You need not wander afar to
Speaker 2: seek out the stranger. He is with you, within you.
Speaker 2: What the poet is saying is how can we hope
Speaker 2: to see the truth in others when we are unaware
Speaker 2: of what the truth is about ourselves? Who are we?
Speaker 2: What are we? And why? This has preoccupied the finest
Speaker 2: brain since the beginning of time. So if we don't
Speaker 2: completely settle live here, Please don't ask for your money back,
Speaker 2: Sargeant killer, What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: What do you know about Margie Truesdale. Well, I'm not
Speaker 4: trying to evade your question, Sergeant, I'm just trying to
Speaker 4: think what do I know about Margie? Yes, it has
Speaker 4: to be nothing, mister Sparta. You're her swimming coach. She
Speaker 4: spends eight hours a day here.
Speaker 2: Or did I think she was fourteen, skinny, consumptive, anemic
Speaker 2: little thing and just barely alive today? Would you believe it?
Speaker 4: I can't believe you know nothing about her.
Speaker 2: As some people go through life, talkers, this one's a listener.
Speaker 4: Are you telling me she says nothing at all?
Speaker 2: Oh, she talks. I even go so far as to
Speaker 2: say she chatters, But you analyze the conversation and there's
Speaker 2: nothing there. Still, you've known this girl for eight years.
Speaker 2: You do have some sort of relationship. Look out that window, sergeant,
Speaker 2: see that swimming pool that forms the boundaries of our relationship.
Speaker 4: But you do talk about something true.
Speaker 2: We have long talks about diet, breat control, coordination. Look,
Speaker 2: I played ball at school. I was close to my coach.
Speaker 2: I mean there were times when we just sit around,
Speaker 2: you know, and I know what you're looking for, but
Speaker 2: it's not here, not like with the other kids. So
Speaker 2: you become more than just a coach. You're sort of
Speaker 2: an older brother, maybe your second father. You talk about
Speaker 2: what really bothers kids today, sex, friendship, life, but not
Speaker 2: with her. I can't even begin to imagine. Well, why
Speaker 2: was she training all out constantly? I mean, was it
Speaker 2: something she wanted or were her parents putting on the pressure.
Speaker 2: I don't know where all that tremendous dedication came from.
Speaker 2: Could have been hers, could have been there.
Speaker 4: How did she feel toward her mother and father?
Speaker 2: Well? I never saw so much love on the part
Speaker 2: of a kid, considering the circumstances.
Speaker 4: What circumstances, Well, considering they weren't her.
Speaker 2: Real father and mother. Just because two people adopt a child,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean they're not the real parents. Well, I
Speaker 2: didn't mean it to sound that way. He was her stepfather.
Speaker 2: And then when her mother died, Margie was still a
Speaker 2: little girl and he married Mollie. He said, Molly raised
Speaker 2: her like their own. What were her chances for making
Speaker 2: the Olympics? Well a lot goes into that, But I
Speaker 2: don't see how she can be kept out. She's ready.
Speaker 2: The trials begin in a couple of weeks, but if
Speaker 2: she's not around, she'll miss him. Also, every day she's gone,
Speaker 2: she's losing out on training.
Speaker 4: You really can't give me anything to go on, can you?
Speaker 2: Sorry? Friends, and I don't think she had any. She
Speaker 2: had to be friendly with some bow with everybody. That's
Speaker 2: not the same as having friends. I can't believe there
Speaker 2: was nothing to this girl's existence except swimming.
Speaker 4: She must have had another life, one that nobody knew about.
Speaker 2: Maybe, But where did she lead it? And when did
Speaker 2: you find the time?
Speaker 4: Well? I love their sergeant, I'm ms.
Speaker 5: What are you drinking?
Speaker 4: I'm on duty.
Speaker 5: Lemonade, make it sour. That's sixty cent sage. Gotta keep
Speaker 5: things on the up and.
Speaker 2: Up, you know.
Speaker 4: And did you read in the papers about a girl
Speaker 4: named Margaret Truesday?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I never read the papers.
Speaker 5: Why should I go chasing it the bad news?
Speaker 4: It'll come soon enough. Yeah, well this one just disappeared.
Speaker 5: Oh well girls do that quite often.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a photograph.
Speaker 5: Ah nice, Yes, indeed, got a meat on those bones
Speaker 5: and it all looks like.
Speaker 4: A proud she's a swimmer. She just vanished.
Speaker 5: Not, if I can paraphrase the French she or she long?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, there's no.
Speaker 2: Man involved that you know of, that anybody knows of.
Speaker 5: Ah, Joe, you've got a certain tone in your voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could you be falling for this?
Speaker 3: Chicken.
Speaker 4: I don't even know her.
Speaker 5: The ones you don't know, the most dangerous kind.
Speaker 4: And look the way it is now. She just vanished
Speaker 4: from the face of the earth. No motive, no clue,
Speaker 4: nothing that's bad.
Speaker 5: I could get a young romantic god like yourself, all
Speaker 5: bothered and curious.
Speaker 4: Moms. Now, you hear a lot of things in a
Speaker 4: place like.
Speaker 3: This, sure, but what I hear stays here?
Speaker 4: Is there a rumble on this?
Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything, Joe.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody grabbed her off the street.
Speaker 2: You never can tell.
Speaker 3: I'll listen, Joe.
Speaker 5: It's against my principles, but I'll stick my ear up.
Speaker 5: You know why, because I'm a sucker for romance.
Speaker 4: I cut it out, will you.
Speaker 5: I can see you got a thing for this girl.
Speaker 5: Can't say as I blame you.
Speaker 4: I'm only doing my job, you know. I tell you
Speaker 4: what scares me. Yeah, she's a swimmer. She's reaching for
Speaker 4: the big time. She has to get known, she has
Speaker 4: to compete. She's been traveling to meets in Canada and
Speaker 4: Mexico all over.
Speaker 2: So do I have to spell it out for you?
Speaker 2: Maybe she's been caught up in some smuggling. The pros
Speaker 2: have been known to use kids like her.
Speaker 5: Ah, you really must have fallen in love with her.
Speaker 4: Why do you insist that I'm in love with her?
Speaker 5: Well, look me straight in the eye and say, no,
Speaker 5: I'm not in love with her.
Speaker 2: No, don't be silly.
Speaker 5: Oh that's how it is with some of you cops.
Speaker 5: You like those nights of old, always rescuing fair maidens
Speaker 5: in distress, and naturally you got to fall in love.
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 4: All right, all right, that's enough.
Speaker 2: Ones. If you hear anything at all concerning this girl,
Speaker 2: will you let me know?
Speaker 3: Sure, and it won't cost you a thing. Uh, let
Speaker 3: it be my witting presence.
Speaker 4: Oh for crying out loud?
Speaker 2: Tell her?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Uh.
Speaker 2: The parents of this girl, Margaret Truesdale, what do they want?
Speaker 4: Inspector? Miracles, inspector.
Speaker 2: They're phoning me every minute of the day and night.
Speaker 2: She just disappeared, and I I I know, I know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna say. Nobody just vanishes into thin air.
Speaker 2: There has to be some clue. Look, I'm doing the
Speaker 2: best I can I go.
Speaker 4: I got nothing to go on. I'm making bricks without straw.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yes, sir, yes sir. Just as soon as
Speaker 2: something turns up.
Speaker 4: Sure thing, see what could have happened to her? Any Hello,
Speaker 4: a Sergeant Keller.
Speaker 6: I know it's very late, I mean very early in
Speaker 6: the morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure is.
Speaker 6: I got your home number from your office. I said
Speaker 6: it with an emergency. You have to come over here
Speaker 6: right away.
Speaker 2: Have you heard from Margie?
Speaker 6: No, but I'm calling you because otherwise there's going to
Speaker 6: be a lot of trouble and embarrassment. And can you
Speaker 6: come over?
Speaker 2: No, it's my wife and she has this idea, and
Speaker 2: well you'd better talk to her.
Speaker 3: Sergeant, I know what happened to my daughter.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 5: It's a wonder it didn't occur to you. After all,
Speaker 5: you're a professional, and it's so simple.
Speaker 3: She's been kidnapped.
Speaker 4: Missus Tuesday or we've been through this already. There's been
Speaker 4: no note. You are not wealthy people.
Speaker 3: But she was not kidnapped for money.
Speaker 5: She was kidnapped by one or another of the Iron
Speaker 5: Curtain countries.
Speaker 3: Don't you understand.
Speaker 4: Oh well, no, she's a threat.
Speaker 5: Those countries take these competitions seriously. They're doing this to
Speaker 5: keep her out of the games. Oh you don't believe it.
Speaker 4: I was pretty far fast.
Speaker 5: You're a police officer, and you have connections with the FBI, yes,
Speaker 5: and you're coordinated with the CIA.
Speaker 4: Not that I know of.
Speaker 3: You get to work on this immediately or.
Speaker 5: You will force me to get in touch with my
Speaker 5: congressman and my senator.
Speaker 2: No, Molly, it's awfully late. Why don't you get to bed.
Speaker 3: Don't think you can fluff me off.
Speaker 2: Nobody's got that idea. As the sergeant is going to
Speaker 2: notify all the necessary authorities, you get all the wheels
Speaker 2: in motion.
Speaker 5: Once the government steps in, they won't dare to harm her.
Speaker 2: You look awfully tired.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes i am. I'm very very tired.
Speaker 5: But sergeant, you do believe I've given you a logic
Speaker 5: collection explanation.
Speaker 4: Well, it does deserve thinking.
Speaker 3: About, and you'll start what you like to call the routine.
Speaker 4: Get on it right away.
Speaker 5: Now I can go to bed. Did will you show
Speaker 5: the sergeant out?
Speaker 2: Why? Sure, thing, Bobby, good night, Good night, missus Treusdale.
Speaker 2: I had to call you, otherwise she'd be phoning the
Speaker 2: President of the United States. Yeah, yeah, okay, And besides,
Speaker 2: who says she has to be off base? Crazy things
Speaker 2: happened today?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, sure? Well, good night, mister Trusdale. Don't go now,
Speaker 2: it's late and my day starts early. I know what
Speaker 2: you must think of me and my wife. You you
Speaker 2: don't care for us.
Speaker 4: Now, why do you say that?
Speaker 2: Well, I I guess we come over like like stage parents,
Speaker 2: you know, the kind of push their kids toward a career.
Speaker 4: Well, isn't that what you did?
Speaker 1: Know?
Speaker 4: This whole training routine was her idea?
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember you said she decided she should go
Speaker 2: into the Olympics, but she did without any help from
Speaker 2: you or missus Truesdale. Oh, we approved, but the idea
Speaker 2: was hers. Is there any chance she might have suggested
Speaker 2: it to win your approval?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: If she were to appear right now and say, mom, dad,
Speaker 2: I want to throw the whole thing over, what would
Speaker 2: you say to her? Impossible?
Speaker 4: Impossible for her to say that.
Speaker 2: Well, impossible to think she'd even want to. All right, Oh,
Speaker 2: do you mind if I have a look at her room.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe I can find something. Oh, I
Speaker 2: want to know this girl better. Maybe there's something in
Speaker 2: the room. I too. Here, see everything just as she
Speaker 2: left it.
Speaker 4: She was very neat.
Speaker 2: I hope we haven't touched a thing. See in the
Speaker 2: waste basket, we haven't even emptied it. Just a crumpled
Speaker 2: piece of paper here, it's going to stay right there.
Speaker 2: M funny. It's probably the last thing she ever wrote. Two?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing at all? Test the name? The name? Whose
Speaker 2: nobody's name that I know of? What's the name Wilson?
Speaker 2: We don't even know anyone named Wilson.
Speaker 4: Wilson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, will Helmina Wilson.
Speaker 4: Could I see that?
Speaker 2: What far?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: All right? Yeah, but I want it back, Will Helmina Wilson.
Speaker 2: Is this your daughter's handwriting?
Speaker 4: Of course? M. She writes will Helmina Wilson, as if
Speaker 4: it's a signature. She's written it four or five or
Speaker 4: six times, as if she were practicing how to sign it. Why.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine, Will Helmina Wilson? Have you ever heard
Speaker 2: that name in any connection? Now, wait a minute, Maybe
Speaker 2: I have where where I heard it somewhere before. Maybe
Speaker 2: one that sounds an awful lot like it. He's heard
Speaker 2: one that's very close to it, and so have you.
Speaker 2: It's a name that's fraught with significance, as they say,
Speaker 2: provided you know just how to look at it. Stop
Speaker 2: for a minute, think for a minute, and it should
Speaker 2: all fall into place, and if it doesn't, we'll take
Speaker 2: care of it. Next three. What's in a name? Asked
Speaker 2: mister Shakespeare, That which we call a rose by any
Speaker 2: other name would smell as sweet and so forth. While
Speaker 2: we hate to differ with the immortal Bard, we must
Speaker 2: quarrel with his premise everything is in a name? And
Speaker 2: who can say that the rose doesn't smell sweeter precisely
Speaker 2: because it's called a rose? The fact is where the
Speaker 2: captives of our own propaganda.
Speaker 4: Will Helmina Wilson. You're sure this name means nothing to you,
Speaker 4: mister trusdown Nothing at all, missus Trusdowne, Well, I asked her.
Speaker 2: She doesn't know either.
Speaker 4: All right? And where did I hear it? I'm sorry
Speaker 4: to bother you, mister Sparta.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to be of help. I'm can I tell you.
Speaker 4: The name will help? Mina Wilson? Is that familiar?
Speaker 2: Will Helmina Wilson?
Speaker 4: Who is she?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: She isn't anybody, but she has to be somebody.
Speaker 2: Noo, will help me? No Wilson is a rhythm?
Speaker 4: Oh what.
Speaker 2: She's Margie's rhythm? While she swims, Margie keeps saying, will
Speaker 2: help me? No Wilson will help me, No, Wilson and
Speaker 2: oh it's a simple six feet rhythm.
Speaker 4: Da da see it helps.
Speaker 2: So set up a little chant like that.
Speaker 4: That's all will Helmina Wilson is.
Speaker 2: Why what do you think it was?
Speaker 5: Well, here's a handsome young police officer.
Speaker 2: Like you need a drink, I do.
Speaker 4: Which is why I'm not going to have one.
Speaker 5: Well, tell old moms, what's the problem.
Speaker 4: I just stop buying in case you may have heard something.
Speaker 3: About who oh yeah, chick.
Speaker 2: Hey, how many times I have to tell you there's
Speaker 2: nothing there?
Speaker 5: If there was nothing there, you do only have to
Speaker 5: tell me once.
Speaker 4: Well what do you hear?
Speaker 3: Not a whisper?
Speaker 4: See, somebody has to know something. Oh sure, I just
Speaker 4: can't find a handle on this case.
Speaker 3: Oh poor Joe.
Speaker 5: Tell me, is this the kind of girl you've been
Speaker 5: looking for all your life?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, mom, she's an interesting girl. Good.
Speaker 5: We finally got that out in the open.
Speaker 2: Now you can go to work.
Speaker 4: I've been working without let up since the case came in.
Speaker 5: Working, yeah, but thinking No, I don't follow Joe. When
Speaker 5: I saw you for the first time, you know what
Speaker 5: I said to myself, I said that one's going to
Speaker 5: be a smart cup once he sets down, you got
Speaker 5: this dame on the brain.
Speaker 4: Look, we don't have to keep talking about that aspect
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 5: But I suppose it was an old lady that was
Speaker 5: missing or a guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a guy.
Speaker 2: It'd be even better.
Speaker 3: Better for what better to prove my point?
Speaker 4: So far? You haven't made one, Joe.
Speaker 3: Just pretend you're not in love with it?
Speaker 4: Who says I am? Okay, okay, let it go.
Speaker 5: Guys like you who are already over thirty, you were
Speaker 5: always afraid of getting married. Hey, listen, so you make
Speaker 5: up excuses to get up this ideal or some dane
Speaker 5: that's just gorgeous but out of reach.
Speaker 4: See, moms, I've seen all those moving pictures too.
Speaker 5: You know where do you think life gets its ideas
Speaker 5: from the movie.
Speaker 2: I'm going at this case the same way I tackle
Speaker 2: every other.
Speaker 5: That's what you say, But just take a deep breath
Speaker 5: and think think about it from every angle.
Speaker 4: I am good.
Speaker 5: Now ask yourself the question you should have asked the
Speaker 5: very first night.
Speaker 2: Am I being had?
Speaker 3: Think about it?
Speaker 2: Joe?
Speaker 3: Are you being had? Do you have any news? Sergeant?
Speaker 4: I may have?
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Sid? What did he say?
Speaker 2: As argent? Oh? What do you have to tell us.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about what you told me, and all rests
Speaker 2: on the assumption that your daughter could disappear on a crowded,
Speaker 2: well lighted street.
Speaker 3: Assumption, sid, he said, assumption.
Speaker 2: I heard what he said. I'm afraid it didn't work.
Speaker 4: The only way she could disappear was for.
Speaker 2: You to arrange a place for her to go to. No,
Speaker 2: now you'd better listen to me. At first, I had
Speaker 2: the idea maybe she might have gotten into a little jam.
Speaker 2: She went swimming meets in Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 4: Maybe she carried some pot for somebody, and maybe something
Speaker 4: a little stronger.
Speaker 2: That's a lie.
Speaker 4: Actually, I didn't believe it myself.
Speaker 3: Then what are you trying to imply?
Speaker 2: I think it's all a publicity stunt, but it's gone sour.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 5: Sid, coldest man, superior officer, whoever he is.
Speaker 2: I'll give you his name and the phone number myself,
Speaker 2: but you'd better hear the rest of it first. Now,
Speaker 2: the stakes are tremendous. I should have realized that in
Speaker 2: the beginning the Olympics. They become a fantastic media event.
Speaker 2: The winners get more than the old Laurel wreath, even
Speaker 2: more than the gold medal I'll hold at the minute
Speaker 2: talk time. You have no right your old swimmer disappears.
Speaker 2: That will be the headline, wouldn't it? When I could
Speaker 2: have been? But all you got was a couple of
Speaker 2: lines on page seventeen and nothing to speak of on
Speaker 2: the air. The media didn't bite, or maybe you didn't
Speaker 2: know how to promote it. You don't understand she's missing
Speaker 2: when you need it was an experienced inventive publicity guy.
Speaker 4: He might have pulled it off.
Speaker 3: It isn't true.
Speaker 2: You have to keep it alive, so you feed me
Speaker 2: little things like this iron curtain plot.
Speaker 3: It could be true, and.
Speaker 2: Then you try to fob off this name at me,
Speaker 2: this will Helmina Wilson. Why did you pretend you didn't
Speaker 2: know what it was, mister Truesday, Well, I don't have
Speaker 2: the pander's.
Speaker 5: Idea, Red, Who is Willowmina Wilson?
Speaker 2: Didn't you think I check it out with Dick Sparter.
Speaker 2: I mean you're trying to tell me you actually don't
Speaker 2: know that will Helmina.
Speaker 4: Wilson is the name, she says to herself while she's swimming.
Speaker 3: I never heard of it.
Speaker 4: Where is she.
Speaker 2: We don't know she disappeared.
Speaker 4: You knowingly mislead the police.
Speaker 3: We haven't missed the truth.
Speaker 4: Wait, will Helmina Wilson. I just remembered, I just remembered.
Speaker 5: Has there been any word of March Tuesday or Sergeant?
Speaker 4: I know, miss Stacy.
Speaker 2: I just came by the library to ask a question,
Speaker 2: and you said she liked to read a book she
Speaker 2: kept renewing.
Speaker 4: Would you tell me the name of it again?
Speaker 5: Oh, William Wilson and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Speaker 2: William Wilson, Yes, I guess I made a mistake. Funny,
Speaker 2: I thought it was Wilhelmina Wilson.
Speaker 3: Well that's close.
Speaker 5: Actually, Wilhelmina is the feminine form of William.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, Helmina Wilson. I wonder that story? Do you
Speaker 2: do you suppose I could read it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I serdaenly wait here.
Speaker 2: A yes, Mss Wilhelmina Wilson. Yes, yes, And you dyed
Speaker 2: your hair. You changed your makeup.
Speaker 4: M Instead of wearing biges and browns, I see you've
Speaker 4: gone in for blues and grays. It does give you
Speaker 4: a different look.
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Oh? Sorry, I'm a police detective. Sergeant Joe Keller, May I,
Speaker 4: may I come in? Why I wanna talk to you
Speaker 4: about Margaret Truesdale.
Speaker 3: Uh, alright, what what do you want to know?
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 2: I'd I'd like to know if you'll marry me, y,
Speaker 2: for we'll not right away, we'd have to get to
Speaker 2: know each other better.
Speaker 4: Or although I know all about you already.
Speaker 3: What do you know about me?
Speaker 4: Start with a girl just in her teens, father dies
Speaker 4: and mother remarries.
Speaker 2: Will the stepfather accept her? And then the mother dies
Speaker 2: and the stepfather remarries. Will the strange new woman accept
Speaker 2: her as a daughter?
Speaker 3: Why do you want me to relive all this?
Speaker 4: She thinks she's a very unattractive girl.
Speaker 3: Oh I was. I was pale and skinny, always sitch.
Speaker 2: So they bring you to a friend, Dick Sparta, a
Speaker 2: swimming coach, and you work out every day.
Speaker 3: Yes, I did, hour after hour, and.
Speaker 4: It changes you.
Speaker 2: It also becomes obvious to everyone that you could be
Speaker 2: a great swimmer. Yes, and everybody begins to count the money,
Speaker 2: taste the glory.
Speaker 3: Yes, at first Sid and Molly were only thinking of me.
Speaker 5: Later the thing just overpowered and blew their perspectives crazy.
Speaker 5: At first, I was so happy because finally I could
Speaker 5: do something.
Speaker 3: To please them, repay them for all they did for me.
Speaker 5: You were a good little girl, yes, but after a
Speaker 5: while it became torture. Every stroke was agony, every lap
Speaker 5: was I don't want to say, oh, percatory.
Speaker 2: I understand, But couldn't you face them, couldn't you say, look, Mom,
Speaker 2: look Dad?
Speaker 5: I was scared. I was still very insecure. Besides, I
Speaker 5: told you they had changed.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: All they could talk about was how rich, how famous
Speaker 5: we would become, the fantastic.
Speaker 3: Things we could do.
Speaker 4: And then you read that story William Wilson, about a
Speaker 4: man who has another self.
Speaker 3: Yes, another self.
Speaker 5: That was what I needed, and so inside me I
Speaker 5: created Wilhelmina Wilson. Inside I was Wilhelmina Wilson. Every time
Speaker 5: I swam, I would say will Helmina Wilson. Oh, I
Speaker 5: wanted to run away, just disappear.
Speaker 3: But where could I go? How would I live? All
Speaker 3: I ever learned to do was swim.
Speaker 4: Couldn't you study something?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 5: After the kind of day I put in a matter
Speaker 5: of fact, I wanted to take a secretarial course. But
Speaker 5: Sit and Molly both jumped on me. What do you
Speaker 5: need that for you'll never use it. You're going to
Speaker 5: be rich.
Speaker 3: You know what I did.
Speaker 5: I tried to raise money by entering contests under the
Speaker 5: name of wilhelm Me and to Wilson. I never won anything,
Speaker 5: anything at all.
Speaker 4: Until dear Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I bought a fifty cent lottery ticket in the name
Speaker 5: of Wilhelmina Wilson, and that did it. Can you imagine
Speaker 5: the minute I saw that winning number.
Speaker 2: I took this apartment and that's how I found you.
Speaker 5: Twenty five thousand dollars. It can give me a start.
Speaker 2: Where does this leave me? Your parents reported you as
Speaker 2: a missing person. I'm a police officer.
Speaker 4: I found you.
Speaker 3: I can't go home. Do you know why. I just
Speaker 3: can't swim any more. I can't take the pressure.
Speaker 5: I'm out of it. That's going to break their hearts.
Speaker 4: They're broken hearted now, but this.
Speaker 5: Way they'll still have their dreams that I could have
Speaker 5: been the greatest swimmer in the world.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't go back, Yes you can.
Speaker 5: No, I'm no longer scared. Little Margie Treusdale. And they
Speaker 5: wouldn't understand Wilhelmina Wilson.
Speaker 3: They would never forgive.
Speaker 5: Her for for wasting that chance of a lifetime.
Speaker 4: Do you know who they could understand, forgive and accept?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 4: Missus? Joseph Keller?
Speaker 3: Who she?
Speaker 4: She would be my wife?
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: You don't you want to get to know me?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I suppose I could.
Speaker 2: By that time the Olympic trials will be over.
Speaker 3: They'll never forgive me.
Speaker 2: Sure will once we make it very clear that you
Speaker 2: forgive them. I would assume that after a suitable passage
Speaker 2: of time, everyone in this particular story forgave everybody else,
Speaker 2: although why and for what is not exactly crystal clear.
Speaker 2: After all, we do our best to reach a goal,
Speaker 2: but so many times that goal isn't even our own.
Speaker 4: I'll be back shortly.
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Speaker 8: Week on the Chisholms, The journey continues as they leave
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Speaker 8: for the promised land called California.
Speaker 2: We're heading our own way to California.
Speaker 3: I think we should give it careful thought. Stay in
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Speaker 2: You'll be traveling through mostly uncharted territory.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid it will might happen.
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Speaker 9: You can sing smoke gets in your eyes, but when
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Speaker 2: life and breath. We look at the faces as some
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