1948-xx-xx (016) Look Pleasant, Please

Box 13 with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. Box 13, Carol Star Times. Please meet me at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in front of the Mercantile Building. You can do me a tremendous favor.

Perhaps change the whole course of my life. I shall be wearing a brown, Gavadine suit and I'll be carrying a forest green suede. I'll be carrying a forest green suede handbag. That was all. No name, no initials.

Just the letter. Well, it didn't sound like much of an adventure. Brother, but how I could have used a crystal ball in good working order. And now, back to Box 13 and Dan Holiday's newest adventure, look pleasantly.

The holiday doesn't look particularly thrilling, but I guess it's like the oldage. Huh? The what? The oldage. You know, when somebody says something smart, it means something different from what it says, It's only it's the same thing.

Oh. Oh. On your next trip around the office, fix that one up, Susie. What? Never mind. Just save up your adage. Okay? Okay. Hey, I can just make it to the Mercantile building by two o'clock.

So long, Susie. There were lots of people standing in front of the building, but only one girl in a brown, gabberdins, a green hat and handbag. I didn't walk up to her right away because...

Well, I wanted to take a good look. And what I saw was good. Maybe about 24, slender, lots and lots of brown hair that fell down from that cute hat in a nice way. Her clothes felled money with two capital ends.

Well, I walked over to it. Good afternoon. Oh. I'm the man from Box 13. Oh, thank you. Look, I know this sounds terribly foolish and silly, but I do want your help. Mr.... Mr.... Holiday.