The Coral Gables Times

The Long Arm of Peter Kilian

Continued from page 7 live with them in California. Now, I'm asking you—is there a Santa Claus?' He turned away from me and gave another fierce toot on the horn, then he slapped me on the back and said, 'You'll come up to the house with me the minute we land, and I'll introduce you to the lot of them. Besides, you'll get to meet my son-in-law, who's a real celebrity w—and you'll have a chance to boast that you know him personally. You may have heard of him already. His name is Millard Tompkins.' "'I have heard of him,' I said. 'And you tell me he's rich now?' "'He's rolling in the stuff,' said the captain. 'And not a bit proud, either. You'll have a treat shaking hands with him. Finish your drink—we're ready to land.'" "'It was this guy you'd been looking for for three years,' said. "How did he take it?" "'Like Trader Horn—philosophically." Later, after Kilian had gone, and only the smell of his home-grown shag still permeated the premises—I wondered whether he knew that he'd been talking to Alexander King that afternoon. I really couldn't make up my mind. He was such a cozy old codger. But when, during my first television program, two years ago, I happened to look casually out over the audience, I noticed him sitting on the aisle down in the very first row. He waved to me reassuringly, like an old friend, and after the show he came back to my dressing room and said, "You served me the best whisky I'd drunk in maybe ten years—and real hospitality is an institution so rare and so sacred that I wouldn't have profaned it for the world. After all—there's more to life than just money, isn't there—although I'm mighty glad you're finally making lots of it. By the way, I think there's a little account of yours that is still outstanding—isn't there? . . . And some accounts—as you perfectly well know—are never outdated—are they, Mr. King? They are never outdated, even if they happened twenty-five years ago, because, as you and I know, they are inscribed—indelibly—on the heart!'"

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