Jessica

And now stay tuned for the program that has been rated Tufts in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal Oil Program? The Whistler. Signal, the famous Go Father gasoline invites you to sit back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.

I am the Whistler, and I know many things, or I walk by dine. I know many strange tales, hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

And now for the signal oil company, the Whistler's strange story, Jessica. Jessica Monroe stared at the manuscript she held tightly in her hand. The manuscript that had suddenly shrouded her spacious office with ugly, threatening memories from the past.

Until that moment, the reputation of no member of the Monroe family had ever been questioned, not open. But there before her were vivid, venomous words, words to shock the sensibilities of any reader. To Jessica Monroe, the editor-publisher of Monroe House, these words produced a curious challenge.

Slowly she closed the manuscript and faced a man who had written the words, Joe Arnold. Why did you write this, Joe? For money and because it's a great story. It'll sell a hundred thousand copies if you'll publish it.

Do you really expect me to publish it? A story written in poison and gall by an ingrate I was foolish enough to employ when no editor in town would let him inside their office? Maybe you made a mistake.

You rifled the files of this office for what sex you have. You've twisted them so that you've even made my parents look bad. Very bad. I bit the hand that fed me. And again I asked, why?