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Speaker 1: I'm E. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall, moderator of these meanderings through the mysterious and the macabre.
We say revenge is sweet, but the accurate quote is
sweet is revenge, And the full quote is sweet is revenge,
especially to women. And it was written by Lord Byron,
who certainly was in a position to know. And if
you don't believe Lord Byron, you can take the word
of Moliere, who said a woman always has her revenge ready.
Does revenge really come more easily and readily to women?
Or is this the chauvinism of male writers. Our mystery
drama Killing Valley was written especially for the Mystery Theater
by Sam Dan and stars Kim Hunter. It is sponsoring
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Speaker 3: You've heard it said, good name in man or woman
is the immediate jewel of their souls. And I suppose
what it comes down to for everyone is the reaction
the mention of our name creates in others. Holly Preston
still has to get used to the fact that her
name has suddenly acquired meaning it wasn't too long ago
that mention of her name wouldn't even cause a ripple,
but now it really royals the waters.
Speaker 7: At the thirty seventh floor, I stepped off the elevator.
The stunningly beautiful macifately boomed blonde secretary put the mandatory
English accent, put honey and heather into a voice. But
she said to me, Oh, how do you do, miss Preston?
You look marvelous. The book, I understand is doing fabulously.
You're to go right in, mister CAUNTWELLI is expecting you.
What are different? Six months and a best seller can make?
Speaker 1: Hey? Hello, Polly, am I late just fashionably? Now about
the advance on your notebook?
Speaker 7: Hope you'll have to discuss that with my agent.
Speaker 3: Little Polly pressed And six months ago I had to
advance you money for your room rands. And now you're
having a headache with your tacking.
Speaker 7: A most delightful headache.
Speaker 1: Have you thought about your next book? Any ideas? Well?
Speaker 7: I should have a first draft in three weeks you'll
have another best seller.
Speaker 1: Ah, what's it about? Ever?
Speaker 7: You have a town called Killing Valley? Oh? I was
born and raised there.
Speaker 1: Oh k one life in a small town.
Speaker 7: Yes, and it's already written. Everything's in my head. But
it's been ten years since I've seen the place. I'll
go back there for a few days. I wanna get
the feel of it again. Oh.
Speaker 1: If I were you, i'd go back there for at
least a month.
Speaker 7: Never, I couldn't stand the place that long.
Speaker 1: Why don't you like it.
Speaker 7: I despise it. I detest what it stands for and
everyone in it, all those corrupt, vicious people.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see it's gonna be that kind of a book.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid it won't be very good.
Speaker 7: Oh, you don't have to publish it.
Speaker 1: Polly, you're out month of Sundays and that you were
an art and understanding that's your style.
Speaker 7: I dash that off as an exercise to see if
I really was ready to write. I am do something
for me. Send out a publicity release, say that Polly
Preston's new book is to be an exper zay of
a small very much like the one she grew up in.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you want it to be an exposition all?
Speaker 7: And I want it in tomorrow morning's papers when I
arrived in Killing Valley. I want them all to know
why I've come back. I want to watch each of
them wonder and worry how I'll betray them. Oh, I'll
have a wonderful time.
Speaker 1: Ah, Polly, this can't be you.
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 1: I've seen people spoiled by sudden success, but I'd have
bet my life on that down or gentle girl I
met six months.
Speaker 7: Ago, but for ten years I've bided my time, Herb,
I've directed my entire life toward one goal, revenge. Killing
Valley named after its first settler back in eighteen twenty three,
Josiah Killing. Oh what a prophetic name, and through the
generations the family has pertically owned the place. As I
started down the hill, there was the town spread up
before me. On the left, the old red brick buildings
of the Killing Wire Copper Company, and moving in past,
the sprawl of shops and houses, with the main street named,
of course, Killing Boulevard. The National Bank also had Killing's
name on it as president. He was the latest Killing,
which a fire. The fourth was like a dynasty. The
imperial holdings included the old Killing Insurance Company, building, a
new shopping ArKade called Killing Mare. Finally, a park in
front of the only place on the street. I had
any affection for. Margaret's luncheonette a cup of coffee, pleads,
what a what? Hello? Hello, my oh kids, you're a
sight before. Let me look at your oh well, thou
hood of no Little Polly Preston and that dress it's
got me from power? Are you looking wonderful?
Speaker 1: Tom?
Speaker 7: I'm just getting old, father, Oh, ain't thenner going to
be a huh time in this old bird tonight and
every night from here on in Really wow, it was
in all the papers. Polly pressed him to return the
hometown of Killing Valley, which will be the locale of
her new book. He still makes the world's best cup
of coffee. Mother, They don't appreciate it. How's your dad, Well,
he's at the Veteran's hospital. You know, I'll find time
to run over and see you.
Speaker 1: No, don't bother.
Speaker 7: Why your dad was always so good to me, Polly.
He doesn't know anybody. His mind's just about gone. Well,
he's kind of old, you know. So you're writing another books? Yes?
Speaker 1: Will I be sure?
Speaker 7: You said, Matt Grace, that's really my father. And well,
and that's all for the good guys.
Speaker 1: The rest.
Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, kid, that book. It won't make you popular.
Already figured that out for myself. You know, something's going
on in this town, but I don't know. It's just
something in the air. The only thing in the air
is the pollution from Josiah Killing Factory. Polly, you know
what it's like to try to swim against the tide
in this town. Look what happened to your father. My
father was a poor, friendless, beaten man. I'm somebody, Martha.
I can't be pushed around by the likes of Josiah
Killing or anyone else. Oh, I still say it could
be dangerous. You mean someone would try to do me harm.
I mean that book of yours. I would say some
people would do anything to stop you from writing it.
Speaker 1: I'll sit down, miss Killing. Ah, but my home, mister Miers,
But I take it bye. I've given you a fox
all the information you need. Harm yees who I detect
shaded doubt in that yest? Well, you seem as a killing.
The underwriting group would ordinarily look at your proposition as
an extremely sound investment. What a hurry? I thought that
was also yesterday. Well well, well, well, well.
Speaker 3: What are you saying people have changed their minds? If so, sir,
I'm entitled to an explanation. Well, I think we may
be entitled to an explanation. You have asked our group
to invest minions in the revitalization of the town of
Killing Valley, and I tell you which a fantastically sound investment. Yes,
do you know poly Preston Coursion or poly Preston nor
father and a mother well, Miss Preston is a very
successful novelist, and there have been reports she intends to
write a book about Killing Valley.
Speaker 1: Now what does that have to do? An expose what,
according to the publicity, of all the sordid, corrupt and
the moral people who live there. That's a look just
is it true? It's what true? Are the people who
live there sordid, corrupt and demand Absolutely not, mister me,
No more so than the people who live anywhere else.
Quite frankly, that book isn't going to do our project
very much good. You could write a book like that
about any time.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, a prominent writer has chosen to write one about
Killing Valley, and the timing couldn't be worse. Frankly, I
only see one way out and watch out. Convince her
not to write that book. Convince her.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, I don't know, but one way or another
you have to stop her.
Speaker 7: Yesterdadeot, Hello, Helen, ho, Holy Helen. You know and Grace
it's me Polly, of course, Polly. Oh, you look too
much like your mother so much. And I was thinking
of her and of me when we were both young,
and I mat now I come in. Why I'm Sudge
it to the old lady. Oh, come in cover me?
Oh yes, Oh, why you startled me? But I spoke
to you on the phone. You knew I was coming.
I knew. Oh, oh, you look so luciful, and you're back.
You've come back home. I kept my promise at Grace.
I said I'd come home when i'd be able to
make this town pay the price for dad and mother.
Now I can collect. How long can you stay? Child?
Until I finished this book? The book?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Is it to be the book the whole town seems
to be talking about. Oh, oh my, why why are
you writing it? And Grace? You have all people should
know what this town did to my father and to
your own sister. Yes, I want for them. Oh, Polly,
don't write that book. The past is gone. Don't disturb it.
They don't kill you. Well, that's the second threat today.
Martha's a prayed for my safety too. Oh, that's not
the source of thing. I mean, Holly, you're writing this
book in order to kill people. Well, that they will
become a killer also, And the first person you'll kill
is yourself, the self that is kind and generous and
open hearted. Oh, don't kill that person. That young girl
I knew Polly. How about se supper? O, Grinnie, don't
tell me it's that time? All that is your favorite
stood in the oven and here are your first twenty pages.
How do you like it so far?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Now. Why don't you like it? Well,
I didn't say I didn't like you. On the other hand,
you didn't say you did like it. And Josiah Killing
is a selfish, arrogant man that's putting it mired, and
everyone in town is afraid of him. They have to be.
He does out their daily bread. Would you expect folks
to side with your father against him? Josiah fained my dad.
My father was not a thief. The jury was guided
by the evidence. The jury constantly kept one eye on
Josiah Killing. I'll answer that to hello, hello, who is
it all Killing? Who are you putrue?
Speaker 2: You're right book? Thank your.
Speaker 7: Hello Hello.
Speaker 3: So far we have the classical elements of conflict.
Speaker 1: We have a writer who wants to write.
Speaker 3: About certain people, and we have certain people who don't
want to have themselves written about. If each side is
determined to have its way, then things must move to.
Speaker 1: A crisis, which must occur in at two, which I
should deliver in just a few moments.
Speaker 6: Even denied, No, you'll be the thing you want to be,
or that to hide you.
Speaker 5: Did to me.
Speaker 6: Know you?
Speaker 7: Oh, that can be in the.
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neat things like that. But Century offers bonuses. It's a Buick, remember,
which says one heck of a lot about how nicely
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a Buick bsix of that Century.
Speaker 7: That spirital movie.
Speaker 3: A life in a democracy is filled with problems, which
is probably why it is so fascinating. A writer should
be free to write as he or in this case,
she pleases. On the other hand, aren't the subjects of
a writer's story entitled to their privacy. It's all a
matter of highly sensitive and delicate adjustments. Of course, always
those impatient and impetuous people who prefer to cut through
all the niceties and take direct violent action.
Speaker 7: Polly, you should call the police. The police. That's what
the police are for. You did receive a technique telephone
call the police of killing Valley. Every one of those
brave boys in little is a locke of Josiah killing
especially chief. Who oh, Polly, is it one thing it's
worth anything to destroy this town?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 7: Who can that be? Well? Speak of the devil?
Speaker 1: May I come in?
Speaker 7: Voy, I would say, no, it's not my house, I Grace,
please come in, Josiah, won't you see it?
Speaker 1: I tank you.
Speaker 7: I just to seed an interesting telephone call, some puddom
no doubt in your employee threatened me.
Speaker 1: Oh, why do you say in my employee?
Speaker 7: Doesn't everyone in this town work for you?
Speaker 1: If you receive such a call, if there are people
in this town who are novis upset and with good cause,
I am sure it was just someone let no steam,
just as you are, just as I am. Well, that's
what this book's all about, isn't it. Let my steam? Holly.
I've come here to ask you not to write that book.
Speaker 7: You've come here to threaten me.
Speaker 1: I'm here to appeal your sense of fairness. Fairness, oh
oh my.
Speaker 7: Yeah, obvious fair to you as you were to my father,
PAULI are you, miss Preston please.
Speaker 1: This town cannot defend itself against your charges.
Speaker 7: Who's been charged. I'm writing a book the part a
small town who says it's this one.
Speaker 1: Well, everyone's going to assume.
Speaker 7: I'm not responsible for that.
Speaker 1: Do you want to destroy us?
Speaker 7: I can't do that. I can cause you all some embarrassment,
but after a while, who would really care?
Speaker 1: You can destroy us? I allowed the teacher. You're talking
about the welfare of ten thousand human beings, and.
Speaker 7: How indifferent were those ten thousand to the suffering of
one human being named Jim Preston Party.
Speaker 1: I came here to appeal to your sense of justice,
and you've come at.
Speaker 7: The wrong time to the wrong place. Now, Paul, you
hated my father?
Speaker 6: Do you deny it?
Speaker 1: No? I did hate your power.
Speaker 7: And why did you hate my father? Now, Polly? You
hated my father because he married my mother, Because he
married Helen mcleoud, the girl you had chosen for yourself.
He did what no one else around here would ever
dream of. He took something that you wanted. He had
the audacitated defire you, and you hounded him to his grave.
You saw to it that no one would ever hire him.
You killed him, and that broke my mother's heart, so
you killed her too, please you might and now get out.
Well how're we going? Oh it's great, By the way, Polly,
I'm financially grateful to you. What everybody knows you and
I will tongue. If I have a true friend in
this world, it's you. You stood by me, and no
one else did know it was nothing. I didn't have
any friends. Nobody wanted their kids to play with that question. Girl,
After all, was and my father a bummer and a
jail bird on He never did that robbery home and
you know it and I know it. But Josiah killing
hand him framed for it. Albi Stewart swore he found
Dad's watch near the office safe and didn't Josiah promote
I'll be the foreman a month after the trial. You
don't have to convince me, kid, and Artie Horn identified
the man who was running away as my friend. Didn't
Artie get a big loan for the bank a few
weeks later? Yeah, now that's hard I have. I hope
you don't mind my coming in him blowing off steam,
But it cleared my mind I should be getting back
to that type of other Holly. I think maybe you'd
better leave here. Finished the book in New York? Why Oh,
I gotta feeling. I think things are gonna get rough
around here. I'm not afraid if you're gonna turn the
place inside out. You all be the were home. I
kept thinking about what Margaret said. Why not finished the
book in New York? Where I was a standing? What
was keeping me here? What was I enjoying it? I said, Oh,
I didn't have to stay here longer as a writer.
There was nothing more I could get from the town itself.
I heard the car before I saw it. It was
bearing down on me. Surely I'd be killed for what
seemed in eternity, but it must only have been a
fraction of a second. I was frozen, and then as
I was about to be overfeld my I meddled some
hy and I managed to throw myself out of the
way and I got against the colonel. I was stab
of pain, but I knew it was from the fall
I wasn't here. You would be all right. I also
knew that tempted deliberate come in.
Speaker 1: I uh, your aunt said that you would see me,
mister killing. And I spoke to doctor Welborne. Did you
he said, your injuries are superficial that you should be
up and about in the day or so.
Speaker 7: Oh he said that did? Oh, yes, well, now you
know why I'm writing this book. You see, i'm doctor
Welborne's patient. Information concerning me should be confidential between my
doctor and me. But of course doctor Welborne is your doctor.
You own him the way you own everyone else in
this town.
Speaker 1: Oh, Polly, hi, I'm sorry about the accident.
Speaker 7: Sorry the driver missed.
Speaker 1: What happened was certainly not a deliberate attempt on anyone's
Why should I believe? Well, there are audibbiedile accidents. We
do have reckless divers.
Speaker 7: What will you think of next? Please let me give
you some ideas. Have me shot and frame some poor
derelicts a birdlar. Now, Polly, you'll have no trouble getting
with me. I've come here to offer you a composition.
How the world has changed. Now your entire propose is
to ruin me or I do it, but leave the
town loans. How I'll pay you what.
Speaker 1: Whatever you ask.
Speaker 7: Oh, money, a great deal of money, But I no
longer poverty stricken little Polly Priston, And I'll make a
foot on this book.
Speaker 1: You name the figure you'll think you'll make and I'll
double it.
Speaker 7: But I'm not writing this book for money.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, Polly, you must take my money home.
Speaker 7: Now take my money? Where's this good money? The way
the words seemed to explode when his money the word
and an electric shock for my body, as if I
touched the live wire. It worth money? I heard it before.
I didn't him see it before a long long time ago.
But where for what reason? Money? You must take my money?
Speaker 1: You must listen.
Speaker 7: You're wasting your time as to killing. Oh, don't be
a fool, heaven, Helen.
Speaker 1: Oh, and I'm I'm someone I have thought.
Speaker 7: Why did you call me hall I?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I suppose because you look so much
like your mother? But are you think about what I said?
I'll I'll call you.
Speaker 7: Ricer u ur more quickly out of the room. I
was feeling agitated myself. Where had I heard him say
that word money before? And why did he call me Helen?
What did Josiah say to you? He offered me money?
I knew he would you kneel? Oh, yes, that's why
I met him. See you what you must take his money? Helen?
You can't be proud. Why do you call me? You
were wrong, my dear wrong, and now heaven. I nudge him.
We'll never work again, a grave. There are times when
suddenly you disappear. Did appeal? Oh I can't account for it.
I look at you, and suddenly you're heaven, and I'm
reminded of something. Why were you telling Helen to take
money from Josiah Killing? What was I doing that?
Speaker 1: Yes? You were.
Speaker 7: Helen was lying in bed, just as I'm lying in bed. Oh, yes,
that my have I don't might let me think of heaven.
Why are you telling you to take money from Josiah?
I don't remember, but I I remember I was a
very little girl, and I I remember how he said many.
I can't think of any reason why Josiah should have
offered your mother money. Are you sure? Please? Please Polly
believe me.
Speaker 1: Oh, mister Killing, it's John mearsh What you have to
tell me?
Speaker 2: What do you have to tell me? Anything new on
that book? Have you been able to kill it?
Speaker 1: Oh? Not yet?
Speaker 2: Well, it's still the fly in the ointment.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a way of stuck in her.
Speaker 2: I hope so. But you realize, of course you can't
take her to court, the publicity would defeat the purpose.
Speaker 1: Yes, I understand that, and not that either of us
would even consider it. But any kind of rough stuff
is out well naturally.
Speaker 2: Well, what have you come up with?
Speaker 1: I can put an end of the book completely.
Speaker 2: We can do it. What's holding you back?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it'll be worth it, mister Killing.
Speaker 2: You're talking about millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: I know, and I'm still not sure that to me.
Balzac had a word of advice for all writers and speakers.
He said, keep your words to yourself, because they belong
to you, and not to other folks who will only
twist them to serve their own purposes. Here we thought
all along that Jsiah Killing would do anything to stop
Polly Preston from writing that book. And now we find
out the sky is not the limit. The limit will
be clearly defined when I shall return with Act three.
Speaker 7: You can an bring these fund the great.
Speaker 8: They been reading, cop Jac with bringing me every box
faavery all common samery.
Speaker 4: Long day, including.
Speaker 1: The medicated contra. I said, don't taste medicated. They taste great,
and you're gonna interact it. Ten. I'm a farmer. Anyone
isn't yet if you're in the country of seven hundred ovens.
Speaker 9: We can show you more bone fish in one sunny
Bahamas morning than you've seen in.
Speaker 1: Your whole life.
Speaker 9: We got funny especially here dors bone fish, just not
three light Bahamas walkers, Claire calm with more flops and smar.
Of course we do a lot of deep sea fishing
down here too. My friend Henry and Bemany can take
you out off the top on Wahoo fairfoot something goods
running every day for yet about.
Speaker 7: Bahama.
Speaker 1: In the Bahamas, a country of seven hundred islands, you
can choose from golf, tennis and scuba. Packages are affordable
prices called toll free eight hundred three through seven oh
seven eight seven Bahama's Tourist Office. It must be wonderful
to be able to pay back the people whill hurt you,
to hurt them even worse. Maybe it's wrong, but it
feels wonderful. That is, it's supposed to feel wonderful. Polly
Preston has it in her power to destroy an entire town,
So why doesn't she feel wonderful at this moment which
could be her moment of triumph?
Speaker 7: Well, kid, I told you to go back to New York.
I'll be careful crossing streets from now on. You know,
people can get awfully ugly when it's gonna hit their
bread and butter. Martha, why would my mother take money
from Josiah Killing?
Speaker 1: Whoever? Say she did?
Speaker 7: She did when I was a little girl. I'm thinking
somehow lit up in my memory. I remember she was,
she was very sick. She was in bed. Oh yeah, yeah,
she was real sick when you were no more than
five or six years old. And I remember Aunt Grace
was there and Josiah killing. Well, no, what would he
be doing in your mother's room? I don't know when
did you ask a great She doesn't remember? Oh how
can she not remember? She's old and maybe she doesn't
want to. And the cat asked Josiah killing. Now there's
nobody like to remember those days. Your mother's dead, so's
your dad?
Speaker 1: And my father?
Speaker 7: Well your father now, honey, my father, he's so sick,
he's in another world. He's my only hope.
Speaker 1: Oh sure you're Jimmy's little girl. Yeah, I remember you.
Your name is Helen.
Speaker 7: My mother's name is Helen.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, sure, Helen. I know Helen, Helen McLoud. How
is your mother.
Speaker 7: Mother.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, Jimmy's supposed to come to see me today.
We got a veterans meeting. Jimmy and I we're gonna
go to the convention in Washington. Mister Doyle, Oh no, no, no,
not mister Doyle, Uncle Jack, uncle Jack.
Speaker 7: Did mister Killing ever give my mother any money?
Speaker 1: Oh? Sure, sure, lots of money, lots of money. Now
what can be keeping your old man?
Speaker 7: When did Josiah Killing give my mother money?
Speaker 1: Always? All the time? You know, if you're old man,
keeps me waiting much longer?
Speaker 7: Why did he give my mother money?
Speaker 1: I'll go without him, That's what I'll do.
Speaker 7: Why did he give my mother money?
Speaker 1: Oh? Why, poor Jimmy, he never had any money to
give your mother.
Speaker 7: I don't need my dad. I mean mister Killing.
Speaker 1: You see, Jimmy meant well, but if he ever got
his hands on a dollar, he'd spend it on the booth.
Speaker 7: I'm not talking about it.
Speaker 1: I helped him, the good Lord, forgive me, forgive me.
Speaker 7: Tell me about my mother and Josiah Killing.
Speaker 1: Uh, your mother say she was the prettiest girl in town,
and Josiah Killing was sweet on her, engaged they was,
and Jimmy said to me, Jack, I bit your five dollars,
I can get her away from him. And they said, man,
you're crazy, and he was, but he who could resist
your old man?
Speaker 7: I know all that, But why did Josiah give her money?
Speaker 1: Eh? Did he give her money? Who said that you did? Oh?
Well then it must be true.
Speaker 7: Tell me why now, Helen. I'm not Helen.
Speaker 1: Well, there's no need of your yelling at me. I
can't stop Jimmy's drinking. I'm not the one that gets
him into trouble. He's the one who gets me into trouble.
And that's why I can have a whole job. And Martha,
my little girl, Martha can't even go to school. She's
got a sling hash in that greasy spoon. I'm a
bad father. I'm so bad. But at least I ain't
as bad as Jimmy Preston.
Speaker 7: What did you say about Jimmy Preston. He's your best friend?
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, my best friend. Yes, Oh I told
you about him. I told you Helen before you.
Speaker 7: I'm not Helen. I'm Polly.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, little Polly. So nice of you to
come to see me.
Speaker 7: Uncle Jack. Please think try to remember why would Josiah
give my mother money.
Speaker 1: Joe Siah killing giving away money? Why he wouldn't give
away the time of day? Now? What is that old
man of yours keeping me waiting?
Speaker 7: Suddenly something was happening inside of me. I didn't know
what it was, but I somehow concerned my mother, my
father and Josiah killing and why he'd been giving my
mother money. It was all so long ago. I was
so young. Oh, I had the little stabs of memory,
tiny glimmers, shall briefly die. Money. That's that word, And
it was how that would changed in sound sound, the
sound of it changed in my mother's voice. My aunt
Grace could tell me. I'd make her tell you in
spite of herself. Am I disturbing anything? Oh no, no,
anchries come in, come in. I haven't heard that typewriter
going well. And I'm thinking of what money? An Grace.
I look more and more like my mother every day,
don't I? Oh, God rest her soul. And it's the
same say and my voice, uh hell hell, and look
I I can't take the money, Grace, I can't. I can't.
He just tried, My dear, what about the child? Don't
make me take his money Jimmy will never know.
Speaker 1: Grace.
Speaker 7: I don't know what to do. He loves you. I
know a woman always knows. Josiah loves you, and so
therefore it isn't wrong. But takes the money. It's all right,
he loves you, but I'm married nothing, it doesn't matter.
How can you say that? It doesn't matter? Let him
be good to you. But but it's wrong. It's an
act of love. Then eats wrong? And Grace, who was?
Oh no, my my mother betrayed my father. Polly, What
are you saying? How can you see here when she
betray Oh you, this monster's bolt you'll did? I said,
no such thing. My mother had an affair with Josiah killer. Polly,
you must be mad and corrupted everybody, even her.
Speaker 10: He robbed my father of everything, even of me. Holy,
oh god, you saying. And it was my mission to
write that book as a memory to my father to
save his name.
Speaker 7: Polly. But Josiah is going to stook me. You see how,
just before the book goes depressed, he'll confront me with
the proof, proof of what, proof of the fact that
my mother was his mistress he bought and paid for. Mister,
you can't say that. Oh yeah, here I am writing
about the gutter morality of this child, and who's done
and mud with the rest of them, my own mother.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 7: It's not what happened. But what did happen? Mustn't think
badly of your mother, dear? Oh no, of course not.
But why don't you sit back in a chair and relax.
I'll try to nap. Also, just relapse like Chris, relax
and closure eyes his relax and grace, grace, grace. I
a sleep. It's me, Helen, Yes, Helen, I don't feel Oh,
try to rest, try, grace. Yes, if something happened to me?
What will you tell Polly about about me and Josiah? Nothing?
You know that you made me swear she should never know.
Oh yes, yes, yes, that's right, but Helen, dear Polly
should know. Oh no, no, it would destroy her memory
of her father. It should be destroyed. He was a bum,
a drunk.
Speaker 6: He abused you.
Speaker 7: It was just sire who kept his homegoing. His money,
Polly must never know, and the money to send her
to college. Am I supposed to lie about it? Am
I supposed to say it was my money? Yes? Please
grace for me.
Speaker 1: There was never.
Speaker 7: Anything between you and Josiah. He never did more than
touch your hand. But please, Chris, let Polly have a memory.
Let her keep her father.
Speaker 1: It was no good.
Speaker 7: Even Josiah's influence couldn't get him free. Or that charge
of burglary gents a head. Let Polly has something, something
and desire. Ask him, ask him to show you a
certain letter.
Speaker 2: What do you mean you'll do nothing to stop publication
of that book? You said you had a full proof way.
Speaker 1: I figured out the cost. It isn't worth it. Let
her published, mister Mayers, Well, then this has.
Speaker 2: To be the end of our interest in killing Valley.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, so am I mister killing Josiah? How
did you both get in here?
Speaker 7: I want to see a certain letter?
Speaker 1: What letter? Show her the letters? Josiah case I promised
h him. I shot to her.
Speaker 5: You were my sister.
Speaker 7: I give you the right to break your word. I
broke mine.
Speaker 1: I told Polly who father? What?
Speaker 7: I don't believe it. This is the man who loved
your mother. Your father and mother weren't married long before.
Helen had ample reason to.
Speaker 1: Regretful grace dog, you are a woman who had to
be loyal to her husband.
Speaker 7: She was loyal to the day she died. You're making
it our shows a letter.
Speaker 1: Well, I promise sorry to know, huh, I've I've carried
this letter with me for years. No one who's.
Speaker 7: Well here read it.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 7: You must, and then you'll be free forever. My yos
de sire. I can only write you a very short
note to thank you for everything you did for me
and jim Polly. No woman ever had a dear true friend.
I know now that I loved you always, and we
were both foolish one night, very long ago, and so
my life and yours has been different. Josiah, after Jimmy
and I are dead, please look after Pollie and see
that she never learns the truth about her father. Please
swear to me she'll never know the truth.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: When are you going, Polly? Oh?
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 7: You see that.
Speaker 1: There's a book.
Speaker 7: Burning up inside me, a book about some wonderful people.
Let count wait to sit down and write it.
Speaker 1: And she did. And it was a very good book too.
It was well received and sold a fair amount of copies,
but a best seller it wasn't, and a blockbuster. It
never became the other one. Ah that would have been
a different story. Well, I'll have a different story for
you when I return shortly. Would you say that Macy's
has just about the most complete selection of fine china
and glassware anywhere?
Speaker 7: Yes, I'd say that.
Speaker 1: Would you say lovers of fine china and glass would
be excited to hear Macy's is having its biggest and
best sale of the year, reducing one million dollars worth
of these items twenty to fifty percent.
Speaker 7: I'd not only be excited, I'd be on my way
out the door when.
Speaker 1: It's one day tomorrow at Macy's.
Speaker 7: How much off on the costa bone china.
Speaker 1: Forty seven percent off?
Speaker 7: What about Royal Dalton and Wedgewood.
Speaker 1: Twenty percent off and fifty percent off? Make Cossa stoneware
twenty to thirty percent off, Nora Takie fabulous?
Speaker 7: Oh tell me about Macy's stunning glassware?
Speaker 1: Fifty percent off Royal Briary English Crystal, twenty percent off
Royal Dalton stemware, fifty percent off French lead crystal. What
are twenty to fifty percent off lead crystal bowls, vases
that catters and more. Macy's has launched their departments and
added extra sales help for this event.
Speaker 7: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: You won't have to take your purchase or get immediate
free delivery. Macy's million dollar china and glass sale one
day tomorrow. Don't miss it.
Speaker 7: Miss it. You've gotta be kidding.
Speaker 1: Of silence. The people who cry without tears, like Helen
McLoud Preston, and those who love without ever touching or
even speaking, like Helen and Josiah Killing. And too often
we listen for words and look for actions as the
clue to meaning. But all the while, all that matters
is that which is hidden inside. But we hide nothing
at all from you here seven times each week. Our
cast included Kim Hunter, Jones, shay Ian Martin, and William Radfield.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated
Brewers of Budweiser. This is E. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dream