1 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:20,039 Speaker 1: Come in. 2 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:22,679 Speaker 2: Welcome. 3 00:00:23,679 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: I'm E. G. 4 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 3: Marshall, moderator of these meanderings through the mysterious and the macabre. 5 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,079 We say revenge is sweet, but the accurate quote is 6 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:41,640 sweet is revenge, And the full quote is sweet is revenge, 7 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:46,200 especially to women. And it was written by Lord Byron, 8 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,240 who certainly was in a position to know. And if 9 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,759 you don't believe Lord Byron, you can take the word 10 00:00:51,759 --> 00:00:56,880 of Moliere, who said a woman always has her revenge ready. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,560 Does revenge really come more easily and readily to women? 12 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,879 Or is this the chauvinism of male writers. Our mystery 13 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,799 drama Killing Valley was written especially for the Mystery Theater 14 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,280 by Sam Dan and stars Kim Hunter. It is sponsoring 15 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:20,480 part by Ludden's Medicated Cough Drops and Buick Motor Division. 16 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with that one. 17 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:44,719 Speaker 4: When you say by, when you nay by, when you say. 18 00:01:44,079 --> 00:01:50,719 Speaker 5: Yes, when you day by the one of that name. 19 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 4: All, when you pay. 20 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:15,039 Speaker 5: By you, when you day. 21 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:24,479 Speaker 1: Is a boy Saint Louis, Hey, ma'am, what's for dinner? 22 00:02:25,159 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 3: Hey madam? 23 00:02:26,039 --> 00:02:28,759 Speaker 1: What's she? Cat Shop Ride's answer to what's for dinner 24 00:02:28,759 --> 00:02:31,240 this week is setter cup beef ribstake just a dollar 25 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,240 thirty nine a pounds. Press ground chuck eighty nine cents 26 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,159 a pound. Press snow white mushrooms only eighty nine cents 27 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:40,120 a pound. For a quick and delicious meal, try farm 28 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,879 Land Entreis frozen assorted varieties the two pound package for 29 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,120 eighty nine cents. Save on Fwischman's margarine, one pound package 30 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:51,759 only fifty nine cents golden ried bananas and nineteen cents 31 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,039 a pound. Don't miss these and other great values at 32 00:02:55,039 --> 00:02:56,280 your nearby shop. 33 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:03,319 Speaker 6: Right good day anything, She love, the band, she wants the. 34 00:03:03,319 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: Best, She does all she can. She don't shot. 35 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,159 Speaker 7: Hey, now what's her dinner? 36 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: Shop? 37 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,319 Speaker 5: Read the antwer, let's hear it. 38 00:03:16,439 --> 00:03:23,759 Speaker 8: For Martin Paint, we got decorated lumber, lighting fixtures, the Lord. 39 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: We've got tiles and faults and brushes. We've got covering 40 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:30,000 for the floor, rollers, paints and sackles, falls covering kills 41 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:30,599 your paints. 42 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,159 Speaker 8: Martin's Home decorating standards. 43 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:34,039 Speaker 6: Ain't just paint. 44 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,479 Speaker 1: Martin saves your money today by rolling back prices to 45 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:41,159 nineteen seventy two on three paints Late t Extra Outside 46 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:46,000 Paint Wall Pride, Dripless Flat Wallpaint Wall Pride semigloss enamel paint. 47 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:49,639 These paints all carry the Parents Magazine guarantee of product 48 00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:53,520 performance by two gallons saved fifty percent on special Martin 49 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:56,719 ceiling paints, wall paints, ports and deck in house paints 50 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,919 by Cushions off the bathroom seats in ninety ninety. 51 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,639 Speaker 3: We've got tilesand faults and brushes. 52 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: We've got covering for. 53 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 7: The floor, the rowers paint and fackle fall. 54 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:12,039 Speaker 8: Compering till your faith Barton home decorating, cider and shot pain. 55 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 3: You've heard it said, good name in man or woman 56 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,199 is the immediate jewel of their souls. And I suppose 57 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:35,399 what it comes down to for everyone is the reaction 58 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,959 the mention of our name creates in others. Holly Preston 59 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,480 still has to get used to the fact that her 60 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,879 name has suddenly acquired meaning it wasn't too long ago 61 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:50,160 that mention of her name wouldn't even cause a ripple, 62 00:04:51,240 --> 00:05:02,120 but now it really royals the waters. 63 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:01,399 Speaker 7: At the thirty seventh floor, I stepped off the elevator. 64 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,759 The stunningly beautiful macifately boomed blonde secretary put the mandatory 65 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,360 English accent, put honey and heather into a voice. But 66 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,240 she said to me, Oh, how do you do, miss Preston? 67 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,279 You look marvelous. The book, I understand is doing fabulously. 68 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:21,560 You're to go right in, mister CAUNTWELLI is expecting you. 69 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,519 What are different? Six months and a best seller can make? 70 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:34,519 Speaker 1: Hey? Hello, Polly, am I late just fashionably? Now about 71 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:35,879 the advance on your notebook? 72 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 7: Hope you'll have to discuss that with my agent. 73 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:42,879 Speaker 3: Little Polly pressed And six months ago I had to 74 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:45,800 advance you money for your room rands. And now you're 75 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,000 having a headache with your tacking. 76 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 7: A most delightful headache. 77 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: Have you thought about your next book? Any ideas? Well? 78 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 7: I should have a first draft in three weeks you'll 79 00:05:54,879 --> 00:05:56,120 have another best seller. 80 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: Ah, what's it about? Ever? 81 00:05:58,519 --> 00:06:01,959 Speaker 7: You have a town called Killing Valley? Oh? I was 82 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,199 born and raised there. 83 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:07,319 Speaker 1: Oh k one life in a small town. 84 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,439 Speaker 7: Yes, and it's already written. Everything's in my head. But 85 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:15,199 it's been ten years since I've seen the place. I'll 86 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:16,720 go back there for a few days. I wanna get 87 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,079 the feel of it again. Oh. 88 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,519 Speaker 1: If I were you, i'd go back there for at 89 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,480 least a month. 90 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 7: Never, I couldn't stand the place that long. 91 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: Why don't you like it. 92 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 7: I despise it. I detest what it stands for and 93 00:06:29,199 --> 00:06:32,120 everyone in it, all those corrupt, vicious people. 94 00:06:32,399 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: Oh, I see it's gonna be that kind of a book. 95 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:35,959 Speaker 4: You know. 96 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,399 Speaker 1: I'm afraid it won't be very good. 97 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 7: Oh, you don't have to publish it. 98 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:42,959 Speaker 1: Polly, you're out month of Sundays and that you were 99 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,120 an art and understanding that's your style. 100 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 7: I dash that off as an exercise to see if 101 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,680 I really was ready to write. I am do something 102 00:06:53,759 --> 00:06:57,040 for me. Send out a publicity release, say that Polly 103 00:06:57,079 --> 00:06:59,480 Preston's new book is to be an exper zay of 104 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,519 a small very much like the one she grew up in. 105 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:06,199 Speaker 1: Are you sure you want it to be an exposition all? 106 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:09,439 Speaker 7: And I want it in tomorrow morning's papers when I 107 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,160 arrived in Killing Valley. I want them all to know 108 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:15,480 why I've come back. I want to watch each of 109 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,800 them wonder and worry how I'll betray them. Oh, I'll 110 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:21,040 have a wonderful time. 111 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,439 Speaker 1: Ah, Polly, this can't be you. 112 00:07:23,959 --> 00:07:24,319 Speaker 7: Why not? 113 00:07:24,639 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: I've seen people spoiled by sudden success, but I'd have 114 00:07:27,759 --> 00:07:31,680 bet my life on that down or gentle girl I 115 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:32,800 met six months. 116 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 7: Ago, but for ten years I've bided my time, Herb, 117 00:07:36,519 --> 00:07:46,959 I've directed my entire life toward one goal, revenge. Killing 118 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,839 Valley named after its first settler back in eighteen twenty three, 119 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:56,839 Josiah Killing. Oh what a prophetic name, and through the 120 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,600 generations the family has pertically owned the place. As I 121 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,279 started down the hill, there was the town spread up 122 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:06,759 before me. On the left, the old red brick buildings 123 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:10,279 of the Killing Wire Copper Company, and moving in past, 124 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:13,519 the sprawl of shops and houses, with the main street named, 125 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,839 of course, Killing Boulevard. The National Bank also had Killing's 126 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,480 name on it as president. He was the latest Killing, 127 00:08:21,839 --> 00:08:26,000 which a fire. The fourth was like a dynasty. The 128 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,399 imperial holdings included the old Killing Insurance Company, building, a 129 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:34,840 new shopping ArKade called Killing Mare. Finally, a park in 130 00:08:34,879 --> 00:08:36,840 front of the only place on the street. I had 131 00:08:36,879 --> 00:08:41,879 any affection for. Margaret's luncheonette a cup of coffee, pleads, 132 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:47,360 what a what? Hello? Hello, my oh kids, you're a 133 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,279 sight before. Let me look at your oh well, thou 134 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,879 hood of no Little Polly Preston and that dress it's 135 00:08:55,879 --> 00:08:57,759 got me from power? Are you looking wonderful? 136 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: Tom? 137 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 7: I'm just getting old, father, Oh, ain't thenner going to 138 00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:05,480 be a huh time in this old bird tonight and 139 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,360 every night from here on in Really wow, it was 140 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,960 in all the papers. Polly pressed him to return the 141 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,759 hometown of Killing Valley, which will be the locale of 142 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:16,679 her new book. He still makes the world's best cup 143 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,480 of coffee. Mother, They don't appreciate it. How's your dad, Well, 144 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,440 he's at the Veteran's hospital. You know, I'll find time 145 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,360 to run over and see you. 146 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: No, don't bother. 147 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 7: Why your dad was always so good to me, Polly. 148 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:34,240 He doesn't know anybody. His mind's just about gone. Well, 149 00:09:34,279 --> 00:09:39,960 he's kind of old, you know. So you're writing another books? Yes? 150 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,159 Speaker 1: Will I be sure? 151 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 7: You said, Matt Grace, that's really my father. And well, 152 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,879 and that's all for the good guys. 153 00:09:51,519 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: The rest. 154 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, kid, that book. It won't make you popular. 155 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,519 Already figured that out for myself. You know, something's going 156 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,519 on in this town, but I don't know. It's just 157 00:10:08,639 --> 00:10:11,200 something in the air. The only thing in the air 158 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,720 is the pollution from Josiah Killing Factory. Polly, you know 159 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:17,919 what it's like to try to swim against the tide 160 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,200 in this town. Look what happened to your father. My 161 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:26,240 father was a poor, friendless, beaten man. I'm somebody, Martha. 162 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:29,279 I can't be pushed around by the likes of Josiah 163 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,879 Killing or anyone else. Oh, I still say it could 164 00:10:32,919 --> 00:10:37,840 be dangerous. You mean someone would try to do me harm. 165 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:40,519 I mean that book of yours. I would say some 166 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,159 people would do anything to stop you from writing it. 167 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:52,039 Speaker 1: I'll sit down, miss Killing. Ah, but my home, mister Miers, 168 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:55,080 But I take it bye. I've given you a fox 169 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:59,919 all the information you need. Harm yees who I detect 170 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,600 shaded doubt in that yest? Well, you seem as a killing. 171 00:11:02,639 --> 00:11:05,960 The underwriting group would ordinarily look at your proposition as 172 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,679 an extremely sound investment. What a hurry? I thought that 173 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:12,799 was also yesterday. Well well, well, well, well. 174 00:11:12,639 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 3: What are you saying people have changed their minds? If so, sir, 175 00:11:16,639 --> 00:11:18,840 I'm entitled to an explanation. Well, I think we may 176 00:11:18,879 --> 00:11:21,639 be entitled to an explanation. You have asked our group 177 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,399 to invest minions in the revitalization of the town of 178 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:29,000 Killing Valley, and I tell you which a fantastically sound investment. Yes, 179 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:34,320 do you know poly Preston Coursion or poly Preston nor 180 00:11:34,399 --> 00:11:36,919 father and a mother well, Miss Preston is a very 181 00:11:36,919 --> 00:11:39,679 successful novelist, and there have been reports she intends to 182 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:41,360 write a book about Killing Valley. 183 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,039 Speaker 1: Now what does that have to do? An expose what, 184 00:11:45,279 --> 00:11:48,120 according to the publicity, of all the sordid, corrupt and 185 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:52,879 the moral people who live there. That's a look just 186 00:11:53,639 --> 00:11:57,600 is it true? It's what true? Are the people who 187 00:11:57,639 --> 00:12:01,840 live there sordid, corrupt and demand Absolutely not, mister me, 188 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:04,960 No more so than the people who live anywhere else. 189 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,639 Quite frankly, that book isn't going to do our project 190 00:12:07,799 --> 00:12:09,519 very much good. You could write a book like that 191 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:10,360 about any time. 192 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 3: Unfortunately, a prominent writer has chosen to write one about 193 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:18,600 Killing Valley, and the timing couldn't be worse. Frankly, I 194 00:12:18,639 --> 00:12:21,639 only see one way out and watch out. Convince her 195 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,120 not to write that book. Convince her. 196 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: Oh, oh, I don't know, but one way or another 197 00:12:29,159 --> 00:12:30,200 you have to stop her. 198 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 7: Yesterdadeot, Hello, Helen, ho, Holy Helen. You know and Grace 199 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:56,720 it's me Polly, of course, Polly. Oh, you look too 200 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,360 much like your mother so much. And I was thinking 201 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:03,600 of her and of me when we were both young, 202 00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:08,919 and I mat now I come in. Why I'm Sudge 203 00:13:08,919 --> 00:13:11,399 it to the old lady. Oh, come in cover me? 204 00:13:12,399 --> 00:13:17,120 Oh yes, Oh, why you startled me? But I spoke 205 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,200 to you on the phone. You knew I was coming. 206 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:27,879 I knew. Oh, oh, you look so luciful, and you're back. 207 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:32,159 You've come back home. I kept my promise at Grace. 208 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:34,879 I said I'd come home when i'd be able to 209 00:13:34,879 --> 00:13:37,360 make this town pay the price for dad and mother. 210 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,720 Now I can collect. How long can you stay? Child? 211 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,879 Until I finished this book? The book? 212 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 5: Oh? 213 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:49,919 Speaker 7: Is it to be the book the whole town seems 214 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:56,080 to be talking about. Oh, oh my, why why are 215 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,799 you writing it? And Grace? You have all people should 216 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,759 know what this town did to my father and to 217 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,399 your own sister. Yes, I want for them. Oh, Polly, 218 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,600 don't write that book. The past is gone. Don't disturb it. 219 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,399 They don't kill you. Well, that's the second threat today. 220 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,480 Martha's a prayed for my safety too. Oh, that's not 221 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,080 the source of thing. I mean, Holly, you're writing this 222 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:28,279 book in order to kill people. Well, that they will 223 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,200 become a killer also, And the first person you'll kill 224 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:36,360 is yourself, the self that is kind and generous and 225 00:14:36,559 --> 00:14:42,759 open hearted. Oh, don't kill that person. That young girl 226 00:14:42,879 --> 00:15:02,679 I knew Polly. How about se supper? O, Grinnie, don't 227 00:15:02,679 --> 00:15:04,679 tell me it's that time? All that is your favorite 228 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:09,480 stood in the oven and here are your first twenty pages. 229 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,240 How do you like it so far? 230 00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 4: Well? 231 00:15:11,799 --> 00:15:15,159 Speaker 7: I don't know. Now. Why don't you like it? Well, 232 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,639 I didn't say I didn't like you. On the other hand, 233 00:15:17,639 --> 00:15:20,679 you didn't say you did like it. And Josiah Killing 234 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:24,519 is a selfish, arrogant man that's putting it mired, and 235 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,639 everyone in town is afraid of him. They have to be. 236 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:31,639 He does out their daily bread. Would you expect folks 237 00:15:31,679 --> 00:15:35,879 to side with your father against him? Josiah fained my dad. 238 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,480 My father was not a thief. The jury was guided 239 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:42,720 by the evidence. The jury constantly kept one eye on 240 00:15:42,799 --> 00:15:55,000 Josiah Killing. I'll answer that to hello, hello, who is 241 00:15:55,039 --> 00:16:01,159 it all Killing? Who are you putrue? 242 00:16:01,679 --> 00:16:06,039 Speaker 2: You're right book? Thank your. 243 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 7: Hello Hello. 244 00:16:17,879 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 3: So far we have the classical elements of conflict. 245 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: We have a writer who wants to write. 246 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:28,159 Speaker 3: About certain people, and we have certain people who don't 247 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,600 want to have themselves written about. If each side is 248 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,799 determined to have its way, then things must move to. 249 00:16:36,759 --> 00:16:41,159 Speaker 1: A crisis, which must occur in at two, which I 250 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,559 should deliver in just a few moments. 251 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:51,639 Speaker 6: Even denied, No, you'll be the thing you want to be, 252 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:55,679 or that to hide you. 253 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 5: Did to me. 254 00:16:59,440 --> 00:16:59,759 Speaker 6: Know you? 255 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,039 Speaker 7: Oh, that can be in the. 256 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: Free spirit department. Buick's mid size nineteen seventy sixth Century 257 00:17:08,279 --> 00:17:12,079 has a lot growing for it. Efficient size, lots of rooms, 258 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:17,440 neat things like that. But Century offers bonuses. It's a Buick, remember, 259 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:20,319 which says one heck of a lot about how nicely 260 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,240 it takes care of you. And Century does something for 261 00:17:23,279 --> 00:17:25,880 the sake of efficiency that no other American mid sized 262 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,119 car does. It comes with a B six engine and 263 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,880 a Buick bsix of that Century. 264 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:54,319 Speaker 7: That spirital movie. 265 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 3: A life in a democracy is filled with problems, which 266 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,720 is probably why it is so fascinating. A writer should 267 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,200 be free to write as he or in this case, 268 00:18:05,319 --> 00:18:09,240 she pleases. On the other hand, aren't the subjects of 269 00:18:09,279 --> 00:18:13,599 a writer's story entitled to their privacy. It's all a 270 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:19,240 matter of highly sensitive and delicate adjustments. Of course, always 271 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,640 those impatient and impetuous people who prefer to cut through 272 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,240 all the niceties and take direct violent action. 273 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,279 Speaker 7: Polly, you should call the police. The police. That's what 274 00:18:31,319 --> 00:18:34,759 the police are for. You did receive a technique telephone 275 00:18:34,759 --> 00:18:38,880 call the police of killing Valley. Every one of those 276 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,799 brave boys in little is a locke of Josiah killing 277 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,559 especially chief. Who oh, Polly, is it one thing it's 278 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,759 worth anything to destroy this town? 279 00:18:49,039 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: Uh? 280 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:49,519 Speaker 6: Huh? 281 00:18:49,559 --> 00:18:55,319 Speaker 7: Who can that be? Well? Speak of the devil? 282 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: May I come in? 283 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:02,519 Speaker 7: Voy, I would say, no, it's not my house, I Grace, 284 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:08,279 please come in, Josiah, won't you see it? 285 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:09,559 Speaker 1: I tank you. 286 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 7: I just to seed an interesting telephone call, some puddom 287 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,160 no doubt in your employee threatened me. 288 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: Oh, why do you say in my employee? 289 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,039 Speaker 7: Doesn't everyone in this town work for you? 290 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 1: If you receive such a call, if there are people 291 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:32,000 in this town who are novis upset and with good cause, 292 00:19:32,519 --> 00:19:36,039 I am sure it was just someone let no steam, 293 00:19:36,079 --> 00:19:38,759 just as you are, just as I am. Well, that's 294 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:44,440 what this book's all about, isn't it. Let my steam? Holly. 295 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:49,160 I've come here to ask you not to write that book. 296 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:51,799 Speaker 7: You've come here to threaten me. 297 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:58,279 Speaker 1: I'm here to appeal your sense of fairness. Fairness, oh 298 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:58,839 oh my. 299 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 7: Yeah, obvious fair to you as you were to my father, 300 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:05,759 PAULI are you, miss Preston please. 301 00:20:06,519 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: This town cannot defend itself against your charges. 302 00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 7: Who's been charged. I'm writing a book the part a 303 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,759 small town who says it's this one. 304 00:20:16,599 --> 00:20:18,599 Speaker 1: Well, everyone's going to assume. 305 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 7: I'm not responsible for that. 306 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: Do you want to destroy us? 307 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,279 Speaker 7: I can't do that. I can cause you all some embarrassment, 308 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,359 but after a while, who would really care? 309 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:37,279 Speaker 1: You can destroy us? I allowed the teacher. You're talking 310 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:40,599 about the welfare of ten thousand human beings, and. 311 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:44,559 Speaker 7: How indifferent were those ten thousand to the suffering of 312 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:47,480 one human being named Jim Preston Party. 313 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: I came here to appeal to your sense of justice, 314 00:20:50,839 --> 00:20:51,559 and you've come at. 315 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 7: The wrong time to the wrong place. Now, Paul, you 316 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:56,559 hated my father? 317 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:57,319 Speaker 6: Do you deny it? 318 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,039 Speaker 1: No? I did hate your power. 319 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 7: And why did you hate my father? Now, Polly? You 320 00:21:05,039 --> 00:21:08,680 hated my father because he married my mother, Because he 321 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:12,559 married Helen mcleoud, the girl you had chosen for yourself. 322 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,519 He did what no one else around here would ever 323 00:21:15,599 --> 00:21:19,599 dream of. He took something that you wanted. He had 324 00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:24,160 the audacitated defire you, and you hounded him to his grave. 325 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:27,839 You saw to it that no one would ever hire him. 326 00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:30,960 You killed him, and that broke my mother's heart, so 327 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:34,079 you killed her too, please you might and now get out. 328 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,720 Well how're we going? Oh it's great, By the way, Polly, 329 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:48,119 I'm financially grateful to you. What everybody knows you and 330 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,839 I will tongue. If I have a true friend in 331 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,319 this world, it's you. You stood by me, and no 332 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,920 one else did know it was nothing. I didn't have 333 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,960 any friends. Nobody wanted their kids to play with that question. Girl, 334 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,160 After all, was and my father a bummer and a 335 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:05,759 jail bird on He never did that robbery home and 336 00:22:05,839 --> 00:22:08,559 you know it and I know it. But Josiah killing 337 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,759 hand him framed for it. Albi Stewart swore he found 338 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:16,960 Dad's watch near the office safe and didn't Josiah promote 339 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:19,519 I'll be the foreman a month after the trial. You 340 00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:23,279 don't have to convince me, kid, and Artie Horn identified 341 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:26,880 the man who was running away as my friend. Didn't 342 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,720 Artie get a big loan for the bank a few 343 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:34,720 weeks later? Yeah, now that's hard I have. I hope 344 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,880 you don't mind my coming in him blowing off steam, 345 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,799 But it cleared my mind I should be getting back 346 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:45,279 to that type of other Holly. I think maybe you'd 347 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:49,960 better leave here. Finished the book in New York? Why Oh, 348 00:22:50,079 --> 00:22:54,640 I gotta feeling. I think things are gonna get rough 349 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,920 around here. I'm not afraid if you're gonna turn the 350 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:07,480 place inside out. You all be the were home. I 351 00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:11,160 kept thinking about what Margaret said. Why not finished the 352 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,799 book in New York? Where I was a standing? What 353 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:20,000 was keeping me here? What was I enjoying it? I said, Oh, 354 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:22,960 I didn't have to stay here longer as a writer. 355 00:23:23,079 --> 00:23:25,480 There was nothing more I could get from the town itself. 356 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,559 I heard the car before I saw it. It was 357 00:23:31,599 --> 00:23:35,519 bearing down on me. Surely I'd be killed for what 358 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,440 seemed in eternity, but it must only have been a 359 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,000 fraction of a second. I was frozen, and then as 360 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,640 I was about to be overfeld my I meddled some 361 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:47,000 hy and I managed to throw myself out of the 362 00:23:47,039 --> 00:23:51,200 way and I got against the colonel. I was stab 363 00:23:51,279 --> 00:23:53,640 of pain, but I knew it was from the fall 364 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:59,440 I wasn't here. You would be all right. I also 365 00:23:59,599 --> 00:24:07,559 knew that tempted deliberate come in. 366 00:24:11,039 --> 00:24:14,279 Speaker 1: I uh, your aunt said that you would see me, 367 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:20,799 mister killing. And I spoke to doctor Welborne. Did you 368 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,880 he said, your injuries are superficial that you should be 369 00:24:26,079 --> 00:24:27,200 up and about in the day or so. 370 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 7: Oh he said that did? Oh, yes, well, now you 371 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,920 know why I'm writing this book. You see, i'm doctor 372 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,720 Welborne's patient. Information concerning me should be confidential between my 373 00:24:40,839 --> 00:24:44,960 doctor and me. But of course doctor Welborne is your doctor. 374 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,079 You own him the way you own everyone else in 375 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:48,599 this town. 376 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: Oh, Polly, hi, I'm sorry about the accident. 377 00:24:55,799 --> 00:24:57,039 Speaker 7: Sorry the driver missed. 378 00:24:57,279 --> 00:25:00,319 Speaker 1: What happened was certainly not a deliberate attempt on anyone's 379 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:04,000 Why should I believe? Well, there are audibbiedile accidents. We 380 00:25:04,079 --> 00:25:05,400 do have reckless divers. 381 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 7: What will you think of next? Please let me give 382 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:15,599 you some ideas. Have me shot and frame some poor 383 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,799 derelicts a birdlar. Now, Polly, you'll have no trouble getting 384 00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:24,319 with me. I've come here to offer you a composition. 385 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,599 How the world has changed. Now your entire propose is 386 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:34,559 to ruin me or I do it, but leave the 387 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:41,279 town loans. How I'll pay you what. 388 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:40,799 Speaker 1: Whatever you ask. 389 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 7: Oh, money, a great deal of money, But I no 390 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:50,039 longer poverty stricken little Polly Priston, And I'll make a 391 00:25:50,079 --> 00:25:51,240 foot on this book. 392 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: You name the figure you'll think you'll make and I'll 393 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:54,799 double it. 394 00:25:54,839 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 7: But I'm not writing this book for money. 395 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: Listen to me, Polly, you must take my money home. 396 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:13,279 Speaker 7: Now take my money? Where's this good money? The way 397 00:26:13,319 --> 00:26:18,400 the words seemed to explode when his money the word 398 00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:20,839 and an electric shock for my body, as if I 399 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:26,440 touched the live wire. It worth money? I heard it before. 400 00:26:27,599 --> 00:26:31,079 I didn't him see it before a long long time ago. 401 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:39,440 But where for what reason? Money? You must take my money? 402 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:40,839 Speaker 1: You must listen. 403 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:43,799 Speaker 7: You're wasting your time as to killing. Oh, don't be 404 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,839 a fool, heaven, Helen. 405 00:26:49,039 --> 00:26:52,559 Speaker 1: Oh, and I'm I'm someone I have thought. 406 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 7: Why did you call me hall I? 407 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. I suppose because you look so much 408 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,279 like your mother? But are you think about what I said? 409 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,359 I'll I'll call you. 410 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:12,279 Speaker 7: Ricer u ur more quickly out of the room. I 411 00:27:12,319 --> 00:27:16,559 was feeling agitated myself. Where had I heard him say 412 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:21,400 that word money before? And why did he call me Helen? 413 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,039 What did Josiah say to you? He offered me money? 414 00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:34,160 I knew he would you kneel? Oh, yes, that's why 415 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:39,559 I met him. See you what you must take his money? Helen? 416 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,519 You can't be proud. Why do you call me? You 417 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:50,319 were wrong, my dear wrong, and now heaven. I nudge him. 418 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:55,039 We'll never work again, a grave. There are times when 419 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:04,440 suddenly you disappear. Did appeal? Oh I can't account for it. 420 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:09,559 I look at you, and suddenly you're heaven, and I'm 421 00:28:09,759 --> 00:28:14,240 reminded of something. Why were you telling Helen to take 422 00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:17,160 money from Josiah Killing? What was I doing that? 423 00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: Yes? You were. 424 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 7: Helen was lying in bed, just as I'm lying in bed. Oh, yes, 425 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:30,880 that my have I don't might let me think of heaven. 426 00:28:31,279 --> 00:28:34,119 Why are you telling you to take money from Josiah? 427 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:40,680 I don't remember, but I I remember I was a 428 00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:46,160 very little girl, and I I remember how he said many. 429 00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:51,079 I can't think of any reason why Josiah should have 430 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:57,880 offered your mother money. Are you sure? Please? Please Polly 431 00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,319 believe me. 432 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: Oh, mister Killing, it's John mearsh What you have to 433 00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:14,920 tell me? 434 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 2: What do you have to tell me? Anything new on 435 00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:20,359 that book? Have you been able to kill it? 436 00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: Oh? Not yet? 437 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:24,119 Speaker 2: Well, it's still the fly in the ointment. 438 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: You know, I have a way of stuck in her. 439 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 2: I hope so. But you realize, of course you can't 440 00:29:30,279 --> 00:29:32,880 take her to court, the publicity would defeat the purpose. 441 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: Yes, I understand that, and not that either of us 442 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,599 would even consider it. But any kind of rough stuff 443 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,440 is out well naturally. 444 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,559 Speaker 2: Well, what have you come up with? 445 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: I can put an end of the book completely. 446 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,519 Speaker 2: We can do it. What's holding you back? 447 00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:53,559 Speaker 1: I'm not sure it'll be worth it, mister Killing. 448 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:55,599 Speaker 2: You're talking about millions of dollars. 449 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:07,759 Speaker 1: I know, and I'm still not sure that to me. 450 00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:22,200 Balzac had a word of advice for all writers and speakers. 451 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,200 He said, keep your words to yourself, because they belong 452 00:30:27,279 --> 00:30:30,799 to you, and not to other folks who will only 453 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,440 twist them to serve their own purposes. Here we thought 454 00:30:35,519 --> 00:30:39,519 all along that Jsiah Killing would do anything to stop 455 00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:43,519 Polly Preston from writing that book. And now we find 456 00:30:43,559 --> 00:30:47,599 out the sky is not the limit. The limit will 457 00:30:47,599 --> 00:30:50,960 be clearly defined when I shall return with Act three. 458 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 7: You can an bring these fund the great. 459 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,559 Speaker 8: They been reading, cop Jac with bringing me every box 460 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,799 faavery all common samery. 461 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 4: Long day, including. 462 00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: The medicated contra. I said, don't taste medicated. They taste great, 463 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:30,960 and you're gonna interact it. Ten. I'm a farmer. Anyone 464 00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:40,440 isn't yet if you're in the country of seven hundred ovens. 465 00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 9: We can show you more bone fish in one sunny 466 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,279 Bahamas morning than you've seen in. 467 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:44,839 Speaker 1: Your whole life. 468 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,839 Speaker 9: We got funny especially here dors bone fish, just not 469 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:53,079 three light Bahamas walkers, Claire calm with more flops and smar. 470 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,279 Of course we do a lot of deep sea fishing 471 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:58,200 down here too. My friend Henry and Bemany can take 472 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,720 you out off the top on Wahoo fairfoot something goods 473 00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:03,680 running every day for yet about. 474 00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:09,559 Speaker 7: Bahama. 475 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: In the Bahamas, a country of seven hundred islands, you 476 00:32:13,079 --> 00:32:16,359 can choose from golf, tennis and scuba. Packages are affordable 477 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,440 prices called toll free eight hundred three through seven oh 478 00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:36,640 seven eight seven Bahama's Tourist Office. It must be wonderful 479 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,319 to be able to pay back the people whill hurt you, 480 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,400 to hurt them even worse. Maybe it's wrong, but it 481 00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:50,640 feels wonderful. That is, it's supposed to feel wonderful. Polly 482 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,680 Preston has it in her power to destroy an entire town, 483 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,880 So why doesn't she feel wonderful at this moment which 484 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:03,039 could be her moment of triumph? 485 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,079 Speaker 7: Well, kid, I told you to go back to New York. 486 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,000 I'll be careful crossing streets from now on. You know, 487 00:33:09,039 --> 00:33:11,240 people can get awfully ugly when it's gonna hit their 488 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,920 bread and butter. Martha, why would my mother take money 489 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,359 from Josiah Killing? 490 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: Whoever? Say she did? 491 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 7: She did when I was a little girl. I'm thinking 492 00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:27,759 somehow lit up in my memory. I remember she was, 493 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:32,200 she was very sick. She was in bed. Oh yeah, yeah, 494 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,640 she was real sick when you were no more than 495 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,200 five or six years old. And I remember Aunt Grace 496 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,720 was there and Josiah killing. Well, no, what would he 497 00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:44,480 be doing in your mother's room? I don't know when 498 00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:48,200 did you ask a great She doesn't remember? Oh how 499 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,480 can she not remember? She's old and maybe she doesn't 500 00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:57,279 want to. And the cat asked Josiah killing. Now there's 501 00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:01,240 nobody like to remember those days. Your mother's dead, so's 502 00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:01,720 your dad? 503 00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:03,039 Speaker 1: And my father? 504 00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 7: Well your father now, honey, my father, he's so sick, 505 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,400 he's in another world. He's my only hope. 506 00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 1: Oh sure you're Jimmy's little girl. Yeah, I remember you. 507 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,039 Your name is Helen. 508 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 7: My mother's name is Helen. 509 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 1: Oh sure, sure, Helen. I know Helen, Helen McLoud. How 510 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:35,960 is your mother. 511 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 7: Mother. 512 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 1: Oh, you know, Jimmy's supposed to come to see me today. 513 00:34:40,519 --> 00:34:43,960 We got a veterans meeting. Jimmy and I we're gonna 514 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,280 go to the convention in Washington. Mister Doyle, Oh no, no, no, 515 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,920 not mister Doyle, Uncle Jack, uncle Jack. 516 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,159 Speaker 7: Did mister Killing ever give my mother any money? 517 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,199 Speaker 1: Oh? Sure, sure, lots of money, lots of money. Now 518 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,920 what can be keeping your old man? 519 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,159 Speaker 7: When did Josiah Killing give my mother money? 520 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,679 Speaker 1: Always? All the time? You know, if you're old man, 521 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,320 keeps me waiting much longer? 522 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 7: Why did he give my mother money? 523 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,679 Speaker 1: I'll go without him, That's what I'll do. 524 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 7: Why did he give my mother money? 525 00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 1: Oh? Why, poor Jimmy, he never had any money to 526 00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:24,199 give your mother. 527 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 7: I don't need my dad. I mean mister Killing. 528 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,519 Speaker 1: You see, Jimmy meant well, but if he ever got 529 00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:33,920 his hands on a dollar, he'd spend it on the booth. 530 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,199 Speaker 7: I'm not talking about it. 531 00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: I helped him, the good Lord, forgive me, forgive me. 532 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 7: Tell me about my mother and Josiah Killing. 533 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,599 Speaker 1: Uh, your mother say she was the prettiest girl in town, 534 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,559 and Josiah Killing was sweet on her, engaged they was, 535 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,679 and Jimmy said to me, Jack, I bit your five dollars, 536 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,079 I can get her away from him. And they said, man, 537 00:35:57,159 --> 00:36:02,559 you're crazy, and he was, but he who could resist 538 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,800 your old man? 539 00:36:04,559 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 7: I know all that, But why did Josiah give her money? 540 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:15,960 Speaker 1: Eh? Did he give her money? Who said that you did? Oh? 541 00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:18,719 Well then it must be true. 542 00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:23,119 Speaker 7: Tell me why now, Helen. I'm not Helen. 543 00:36:23,199 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: Well, there's no need of your yelling at me. I 544 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,880 can't stop Jimmy's drinking. I'm not the one that gets 545 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,519 him into trouble. He's the one who gets me into trouble. 546 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,199 And that's why I can have a whole job. And Martha, 547 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,000 my little girl, Martha can't even go to school. She's 548 00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:43,679 got a sling hash in that greasy spoon. I'm a 549 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:48,800 bad father. I'm so bad. But at least I ain't 550 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,360 as bad as Jimmy Preston. 551 00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:54,360 Speaker 7: What did you say about Jimmy Preston. He's your best friend? 552 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,320 Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, my best friend. Yes, Oh I told 553 00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,840 you about him. I told you Helen before you. 554 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,519 Speaker 7: I'm not Helen. I'm Polly. 555 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,559 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, little Polly. So nice of you to 556 00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:08,440 come to see me. 557 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:17,280 Speaker 7: Uncle Jack. Please think try to remember why would Josiah 558 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,480 give my mother money. 559 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: Joe Siah killing giving away money? Why he wouldn't give 560 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,039 away the time of day? Now? What is that old 561 00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:30,440 man of yours keeping me waiting? 562 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,559 Speaker 7: Suddenly something was happening inside of me. I didn't know 563 00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:43,679 what it was, but I somehow concerned my mother, my 564 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,559 father and Josiah killing and why he'd been giving my 565 00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:51,880 mother money. It was all so long ago. I was 566 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,159 so young. Oh, I had the little stabs of memory, 567 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:03,920 tiny glimmers, shall briefly die. Money. That's that word, And 568 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:10,960 it was how that would changed in sound sound, the 569 00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:16,239 sound of it changed in my mother's voice. My aunt 570 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,159 Grace could tell me. I'd make her tell you in 571 00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:28,519 spite of herself. Am I disturbing anything? Oh no, no, 572 00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:32,000 anchries come in, come in. I haven't heard that typewriter 573 00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:40,039 going well. And I'm thinking of what money? An Grace. 574 00:38:40,679 --> 00:38:43,360 I look more and more like my mother every day, 575 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:48,440 don't I? Oh, God rest her soul. And it's the 576 00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:57,239 same say and my voice, uh hell hell, and look 577 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,760 I I can't take the money, Grace, I can't. I can't. 578 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,440 He just tried, My dear, what about the child? Don't 579 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:11,079 make me take his money Jimmy will never know. 580 00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 1: Grace. 581 00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:19,320 Speaker 7: I don't know what to do. He loves you. I 582 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,679 know a woman always knows. Josiah loves you, and so 583 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:30,639 therefore it isn't wrong. But takes the money. It's all right, 584 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,679 he loves you, but I'm married nothing, it doesn't matter. 585 00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:39,239 How can you say that? It doesn't matter? Let him 586 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,800 be good to you. But but it's wrong. It's an 587 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:50,400 act of love. Then eats wrong? And Grace, who was? 588 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:56,599 Oh no, my my mother betrayed my father. Polly, What 589 00:39:56,639 --> 00:39:59,480 are you saying? How can you see here when she 590 00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:04,360 betray Oh you, this monster's bolt you'll did? I said, 591 00:40:04,559 --> 00:40:09,400 no such thing. My mother had an affair with Josiah killer. Polly, 592 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,840 you must be mad and corrupted everybody, even her. 593 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,639 Speaker 10: He robbed my father of everything, even of me. Holy, 594 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:25,159 oh god, you saying. And it was my mission to 595 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,880 write that book as a memory to my father to 596 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:29,719 save his name. 597 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:34,760 Speaker 7: Polly. But Josiah is going to stook me. You see how, 598 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,519 just before the book goes depressed, he'll confront me with 599 00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:44,519 the proof, proof of what, proof of the fact that 600 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:51,079 my mother was his mistress he bought and paid for. Mister, 601 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:56,039 you can't say that. Oh yeah, here I am writing 602 00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:59,800 about the gutter morality of this child, and who's done 603 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,079 and mud with the rest of them, my own mother. 604 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,159 Speaker 1: That's not true. 605 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,719 Speaker 7: It's not what happened. But what did happen? Mustn't think 606 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,840 badly of your mother, dear? Oh no, of course not. 607 00:41:12,519 --> 00:41:16,920 But why don't you sit back in a chair and relax. 608 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,760 I'll try to nap. Also, just relapse like Chris, relax 609 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:31,800 and closure eyes his relax and grace, grace, grace. I 610 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:40,480 a sleep. It's me, Helen, Yes, Helen, I don't feel Oh, 611 00:41:40,599 --> 00:41:49,519 try to rest, try, grace. Yes, if something happened to me? 612 00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:56,599 What will you tell Polly about about me and Josiah? Nothing? 613 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,639 You know that you made me swear she should never know. 614 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,599 Oh yes, yes, yes, that's right, but Helen, dear Polly 615 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,000 should know. Oh no, no, it would destroy her memory 616 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,119 of her father. It should be destroyed. He was a bum, 617 00:42:14,519 --> 00:42:15,039 a drunk. 618 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,280 Speaker 6: He abused you. 619 00:42:16,639 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 7: It was just sire who kept his homegoing. His money, 620 00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:23,000 Polly must never know, and the money to send her 621 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,079 to college. Am I supposed to lie about it? Am 622 00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:29,320 I supposed to say it was my money? Yes? Please 623 00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:30,320 grace for me. 624 00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 1: There was never. 625 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,320 Speaker 7: Anything between you and Josiah. He never did more than 626 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,559 touch your hand. But please, Chris, let Polly have a memory. 627 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:41,719 Let her keep her father. 628 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:42,880 Speaker 1: It was no good. 629 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,199 Speaker 7: Even Josiah's influence couldn't get him free. Or that charge 630 00:42:47,199 --> 00:42:52,559 of burglary gents a head. Let Polly has something, something 631 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:59,440 and desire. Ask him, ask him to show you a 632 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:00,440 certain letter. 633 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,840 Speaker 2: What do you mean you'll do nothing to stop publication 634 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,039 of that book? You said you had a full proof way. 635 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,559 Speaker 1: I figured out the cost. It isn't worth it. Let 636 00:43:18,639 --> 00:43:23,079 her published, mister Mayers, Well, then this has. 637 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,039 Speaker 2: To be the end of our interest in killing Valley. 638 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:35,639 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, so am I mister killing Josiah? How 639 00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:36,840 did you both get in here? 640 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,159 Speaker 7: I want to see a certain letter? 641 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:45,519 Speaker 1: What letter? Show her the letters? Josiah case I promised 642 00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:46,800 h him. I shot to her. 643 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:47,880 Speaker 5: You were my sister. 644 00:43:48,559 --> 00:43:50,719 Speaker 7: I give you the right to break your word. I 645 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:51,440 broke mine. 646 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,679 Speaker 1: I told Polly who father? What? 647 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,199 Speaker 7: I don't believe it. This is the man who loved 648 00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:03,159 your mother. Your father and mother weren't married long before. 649 00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:04,840 Helen had ample reason to. 650 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,320 Speaker 1: Regretful grace dog, you are a woman who had to 651 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,719 be loyal to her husband. 652 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,239 Speaker 7: She was loyal to the day she died. You're making 653 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,880 it our shows a letter. 654 00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:23,800 Speaker 1: Well, I promise sorry to know, huh, I've I've carried 655 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:29,920 this letter with me for years. No one who's. 656 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,199 Speaker 7: Well here read it. 657 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:37,920 Speaker 1: I can't. 658 00:44:38,039 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 7: You must, and then you'll be free forever. My yos 659 00:44:46,039 --> 00:44:49,639 de sire. I can only write you a very short 660 00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:52,920 note to thank you for everything you did for me 661 00:44:53,039 --> 00:44:59,920 and jim Polly. No woman ever had a dear true friend. 662 00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:06,239 I know now that I loved you always, and we 663 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,679 were both foolish one night, very long ago, and so 664 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:16,639 my life and yours has been different. Josiah, after Jimmy 665 00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:21,840 and I are dead, please look after Pollie and see 666 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:26,840 that she never learns the truth about her father. Please 667 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,679 swear to me she'll never know the truth. 668 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:39,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. 669 00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:44,920 Speaker 7: When are you going, Polly? Oh? 670 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,320 Speaker 1: I have to. 671 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:50,440 Speaker 7: You see that. 672 00:45:51,199 --> 00:45:52,039 Speaker 1: There's a book. 673 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,719 Speaker 7: Burning up inside me, a book about some wonderful people. 674 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:04,039 Let count wait to sit down and write it. 675 00:46:19,599 --> 00:46:23,559 Speaker 1: And she did. And it was a very good book too. 676 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,280 It was well received and sold a fair amount of copies, 677 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:33,760 but a best seller it wasn't, and a blockbuster. It 678 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,920 never became the other one. Ah that would have been 679 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,880 a different story. Well, I'll have a different story for 680 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,199 you when I return shortly. Would you say that Macy's 681 00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:48,920 has just about the most complete selection of fine china 682 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,239 and glassware anywhere? 683 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:51,400 Speaker 7: Yes, I'd say that. 684 00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:54,239 Speaker 1: Would you say lovers of fine china and glass would 685 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,760 be excited to hear Macy's is having its biggest and 686 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,599 best sale of the year, reducing one million dollars worth 687 00:46:59,599 --> 00:47:01,480 of these items twenty to fifty percent. 688 00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:03,960 Speaker 7: I'd not only be excited, I'd be on my way 689 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,320 out the door when. 690 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,559 Speaker 1: It's one day tomorrow at Macy's. 691 00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 7: How much off on the costa bone china. 692 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:11,039 Speaker 1: Forty seven percent off? 693 00:47:11,119 --> 00:47:13,559 Speaker 7: What about Royal Dalton and Wedgewood. 694 00:47:13,159 --> 00:47:16,159 Speaker 1: Twenty percent off and fifty percent off? Make Cossa stoneware 695 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,280 twenty to thirty percent off, Nora Takie fabulous? 696 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,800 Speaker 7: Oh tell me about Macy's stunning glassware? 697 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,119 Speaker 1: Fifty percent off Royal Briary English Crystal, twenty percent off 698 00:47:25,199 --> 00:47:28,440 Royal Dalton stemware, fifty percent off French lead crystal. What 699 00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:31,840 are twenty to fifty percent off lead crystal bowls, vases 700 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,840 that catters and more. Macy's has launched their departments and 701 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,599 added extra sales help for this event. 702 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:37,519 Speaker 7: I can't wait. 703 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,280 Speaker 1: You won't have to take your purchase or get immediate 704 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,639 free delivery. Macy's million dollar china and glass sale one 705 00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,440 day tomorrow. Don't miss it. 706 00:47:45,639 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 7: Miss it. You've gotta be kidding. 707 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,800 Speaker 1: Of silence. The people who cry without tears, like Helen 708 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:11,639 McLoud Preston, and those who love without ever touching or 709 00:48:11,679 --> 00:48:17,400 even speaking, like Helen and Josiah Killing. And too often 710 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,559 we listen for words and look for actions as the 711 00:48:22,639 --> 00:48:27,400 clue to meaning. But all the while, all that matters 712 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:33,519 is that which is hidden inside. But we hide nothing 713 00:48:33,559 --> 00:48:37,880 at all from you here seven times each week. Our 714 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,000 cast included Kim Hunter, Jones, shay Ian Martin, and William Radfield. 715 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,960 The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio. 716 00:48:47,039 --> 00:48:50,599 Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated 717 00:48:51,079 --> 00:48:53,480 Brewers of Budweiser. This is E. G. 718 00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,280 Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 719 00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:12,920 another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dream