45-xx-xx ep22 To Have and to Hold

The sealed book, once again the keeper of the book, has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault, wherein his kept the great sealed book, in which he has recorded all the secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages.

He wrought tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief. of the book. I would know what tale we tell this time. Open the great book and let us read.

Slowly the great book opens one by one. The keeper of the book turns the pages and stops are the strange story of an old lady who for 40 years lived alone in a huge old New England mansion, a mansion in which death was the master. The tale is titled, To Have and to Hold. Here

is the tale to Have and to Hold, as it is written in the pages of the steeled book. Our story begins at a small New England railroad station, as a train stops to discharge a lone passenger.

The passenger, a young, attractive girl of 20, looks about the station with an air of uncertainty. Is there a cab, Ms.? Oh, yes, please. Yeah, get right in. Yeah, I'll take you back. Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah, two, Ms. The Bradley estate, please. Did you say a Bradley estate? Well, yes. You know where it is, don't you? I assure everyone does. In fact, I was just getting ready to go out there to deliver these packages.

Oh, good. Missy, are you sure you want to go out to the Bradley estate? But they ain't had a visitor in 40 years. Wait, that's funny. You were Bradley? Yes. My family lives in California.