Last Will and Nursery Rhyme

Box 13, with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd, as Dan Holiday. Dear Dan, I'm inviting you up to Pharaoh's to spend the last weekend with me. Forget your box 13 gag for a while and grab yourself a little vacation.

There's not much I can offer in the way of excitement or adventure. But if you'll really go anyplace or do anything, you might like to see the crumbling grandeur of the last year. Here's the last of the Kenverse.

You know how to get there and I'll be waiting. Hold on. Ted. Vacation, the man said. You know, someday I'm really going to take a vacation, but this wasn't it. Back to box 13 and damn holidays newest adventure, last will and nursery rhyme.

I think you should go, Mr. Holiday. You need a rest. Oh, Susie, every time I go for a rest, something happens to me. But what can happen at a nice, quiet place like Fair Oaks?

Gee, from what your friend Ted says about it, it's just a spot to take it easy. You sure of that, huh? Uh-huh. Why, you'll come back all full of vim and vinegar. Okay, Susie, you talk me into it.

Forward my male to Pharaoh's care of Ted Kenworth. It was pleasant. A 200-mile drive through the countryside. I was forgetting all about Box 13. It chased after me all the way up to Pharaoh's. I got there in the evening and Ted was waiting for me.

Maybe I should explain Ted and Pharaoh's. You see, Ted was my closest friend at college, and he had inherited Pharaoh's. One of those big, overdone houses people were found in the 1890s. It looked like an insane wedding cake, gingerbread balconies, all running around and contributing nothing to the architectural value of the place.