Waybill ( )
High Adventure · March 22, 1947 · 25 min · 2,820 words
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A walk into danger, the cold heartbeat of suspense, escaped in the white glow of fury. For this is high adventure. Yes, this is high adventure. The meeting place for the Society for the Preservation and Perviance of Strange and Suspenseful Stories of Men and Women.
Those living the one moment in their lifetime that deserves and preserve the meaning of high adventure. For this session, I'm your host with a story called way bill on the meeting agenda. It concerns a man who hopped a train to get away from it all and found himself boxed in. And of course that man must tell it. His name, Red Henderson.
You often hear people say that if a fellow wants something you'll go out and get it. If he wants it bad enough he'll find some way to get it. My trouble wasn't exactly that. I went after something but I didn't know what I was going to do. Like a couple The million other guys was overseas for a long time, and when I came back to the home town,
and a wife I barely knew, it was hard to settle down. Yeah, it was hard. But the payoff came that night the wife and I were walking home from the movies. Well, that's the last time I'm going to see a picture I don't know anything about.
Well, you didn't like it? Did you? True I did. I think you wouldn't want to be reminded of war. How do you know what I like? Just common sense. I wouldn't understand you weren't there.
Well, I'd like to see one of those colored musicals. You know with a lot of songs, smart dancing, something it's fun to watch. Teenage stuff. You ever gonna grow up? Maybe you should grow up, Red.
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