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Nick Carter: Murder by Magic (EP1140) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Noise, Idaho. This
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  financial support of our listeners, especially when they thank James and Alana for their
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  support. Truly appreciate it. All right, Well, now it's time for
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  today's episode of Nick Carter again, resetting to our normal time frame. Here
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  from April the eighth of nineteen forty four is Murder by Magic? What is
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  it another case for? Yes, it's another case for that most famous of
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  all manhunters. The detectives ability of solving time is unequaled in the history of
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  detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master Detective Nice, Curious Adventure, Murder by
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  Magic or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Missing Identity. I wonder how
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  Scovery's making out. Do you suppose that he had any trouble. I doubt
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  if Patsy Scubby knows Philadelphia well enough to get all the information I want without
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  any difficulty. Yes, but he's been gone three days now. He isn't
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  trying to be gone that long, did he? Well? No, Patsy,
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  But is that all it's possible to tell? In events? How long
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  it's going to take? The fun Nick Kurdado, make that pay Scovey.
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  Yeah, he's here. How are you making out? Please? Put in
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  the I got to talk to him quick, for sure. Scovey. Here
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  he is. He's Covey sounds over. It was something wrong? I love
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  Scovey. What's up? Can you have a Chicago right away? Chicago thought
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  you went to Philadelphia? I thought it, I but I landed in Chicago.
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  What how I in trouble? I kind of trouble. I think you
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  have killed him? Man. Oh no, I don't try to be funny,
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  Skelly. This is all about I'm nothing funny. Then I'm really in
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  a cham I apparently killed him man last night. Oh look here, Skevey.
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  You certainly know whether you've killed somebody or not. But I don't make
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  what makes you think you have. It's also in the paper flat paper,
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  the Chicago paper. Oh please, we can come out here right away.
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  I've got to have help and other hurry all right, Chovy, that's it
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  and I leave it once. What are you saying? A little hotel on
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  the un called Paradise mansion. I have a character here since I read about
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  the murders. Okay, Scovevey said, tight, we'll be there as soon
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  as the plane can get us there. Gosh if we were offty lucky to
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  get seats on this thing, yesssy. Well, now that we're safely on
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  our way, let's take a look at the Chicago papers I bought. See
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  what they have to say about our Frank Scovey. Okay, not make on
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  the front page, lad of night, cut paste and sort. Here's a
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  snapshot of the killer taking up the nightclubs. I wonder how they happened to
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  get that, which does look kind of like scummy Jetty. That could be.
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  I look at these fingerprints. Certainly Scobies, I know them anywhere.
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  Certainly Scovey cigarette. It's the one I gave him last christ So I see
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  says here. Cold blooded killing, reminiscent of the gang wars of years ago,
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  makes you do you think that's Covyoh. I wouldn't believe it if he
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  admitted I Covey couldn't get anybody. It certainly looks as if he got himself
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  into some real trouble this time. What's he doing in Chicago? Oh?
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  Nick? Oh, I never was so glad to see anyone in my whole
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  life. Come in quick. I'm going to get this door closed anyway.
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  Huh. Yeah, I'm glad to see you're still out of jail. So
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  Nick, don't choke about it. I'm just about crazy. Look, I'm
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  in a jam. I suppose you sit down and tell us just what happened,
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  and begin at the beginning. Don't leave out anything. All right,
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  Oh, it's quite a story. I'm pretty unbelievable. I'll try to tell
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  it the best I can. As you know, I started for Philadelphia.
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  I was sitting in the airport waiting waiting for my plane to be an honest,
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  somebody stumbled over my feet. I looked up, expecting him to say
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  excuse me, and I heard a funny, shrill little voice say, go
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  why don't you keep you up? Why why don't you look where you're going?
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  You are so stupid to be allowed out in public. Yeah, well,
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  nobody asks you for your opinions. You don't like my feet, just
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  keep away from it. Trying to consult me? Are You're not even fit
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  to speak to me? You're stupid idiots. Look here, bud, that's
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  three times you've used that word stupid about me. The fourth time might get
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  you a skin nose. Come on on your way. You are attempting to
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  divert my senses from the concentration of inner thought to the grosser contemplations of ex
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  turn all wild, come again, but you are as clumsy as a cow.
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  It's doing it. Look fella, if you've got somewhere to go,
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  just go ahead. Your room is better than your company entitastic. That is
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  because you do not know who I am? All right, I'll buy Who
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  are you? You tell me and see if I care. It is useless
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  to tell you that thing you think is your mind is arrested, worthless tool,
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  a sponge, too dry out to took of anything. Oh dumb,
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  you mean exactly? You really want to know who I am? Quite frankly,
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  I don't give a tinker's damn. I am Cheechy the magnificant in the
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  central counsel of the Father inwards. I am the most completely. Don't be
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  quick, brother, you don't make sense. I am the mystic the whole
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  council. I am the most honored there has been in twenty generations. No
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  other great enough to be the mystic, but I am he. Okay,
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  Well, now that we settled that I was about some peace and quiet,
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  you I have offended me. Great rush. May I do not let such
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  a princess go unpunished. I shall sit here, betid do it decide?
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  What's your punishment it's going to be. I shall say no more until I
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  have this. Okay, Well, happy thoughts? My mystic A little pal.
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  So he sat down beside me and didn't say another word. He was
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  a funny, weaseled up little man, and he amused me rather than worried
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  me. So I forgot all about him. Did he take the same thing?
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  I don't get ahead of me passing. I was tired from working all
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  night than the night before, and I guess I must have dozed off.
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  The next thing I knew somebody was shaking Eve by the shoulder. Well,
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  fond of it. As far as this cap goes, I wake up.
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  Pay This is where you get off. Huh oh sure, sure anyway,
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  come on, Bounty, this is your hotel. There must have been some
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  night you had last night that bousy Stop calling me palsy? Sure sure,
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  whatever you say, Patty, Ruth is the matter with you? Why does
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  my PI feel so funny? Hey? Where I am? I? Where's
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  the plane? Look? GOALSI. I don't know who you're getting, but
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  this is where you live. Now you're getting out of You're gonna stay in
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  a cab or where's my bankage? Plenty? Little kid a palsy? Now,
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  come on, come on, get out, get out. You better
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  get them sleep. There's nothing like it for a hangover. All right?
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  Oh hey, you better give me a hand to get out of here.
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  How game poundy? Yeah you go? All right? Now, what does
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  the meter say? Dame is always bousy fifty c Yeah, well he's six
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  fifty and look bounding. You generally give me five bucks for holling you.
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  I'll get you a not on the head of it. Don't stop ridding me?
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  Okay, yeah, now you sound more like yourself. See you later,
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  and he drove off, leaving me standing in front of the cummy of
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  wicking hotel. I ever hope to stop it? You mean you have no
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  notion? No, oh you got that? Not the thing you get?
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  Hold everything? Why do I finish the story? Wella I was apparently expected
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  to go in the hotel. I did. As I approached the desk room
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  clerk, I had sack with a sour puss cost me a key. Dah
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  missed the gush and I picked up the key and started to ask the clerk
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  a lot of questions. But my head was so busy I couldn't think straight.
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  So I went up to room seven fourteen, which was the number on
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  the key. What was it like? Oh? Cheap and flashy, and
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  I reached a cheap person. I found some letter paper on the writing desk
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  and the letter head said Hotel Prince Royal, Chicago, and I at least
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  knew where I was. My head was aching so that I stumbled into the
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  bathroom debated. I got one look at myself in the mirror, and I
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  could almost finished me. Well, it wasn't me the mirror. That's ridiculous,
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  How could it be anyone else? Well, that's what I wanted to
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  know. What I saw was a typical cheap, pasty face gangster with red
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  hair. It was then and then I discovered that I was wearing a zoot
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  suit. You don't want that, but I didn't amuse me Nick. By
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  this time, I was scared sick. My head was so dizzy I couldn't
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  finish it. Thought maybe I was still having some kind of nightmare. So
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  I picked up the house bun. When the operator answered, I asked her,
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  what day is the Friday? Friday, March twenty fourth. Then it
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  was yesterday that I left New York. Oh nothing, that's all. Thanks?
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  Oh hell, huh, I guest her from the hospital. You just
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  broke daddy down, that's all? What? Oh? When was that?
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  Well? I was not you remember, don't worry. Daddy's good the top?
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  Oh oh yeah, thanks? Why? And then I hung up the
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  phone. It was getting worse and worse. I went back into the bathroom
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  for a now to look at my new face, and then the rooms are
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  all coming. I heard someone come in. Huh oh, hello, hi,
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  cousin mish, Thanks? Thanks? What would you mind telling me who
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  you are? That's any one on Dolly fails? What's the ribs? Or
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  I just want to find out who you are. I'm Dolly the spare rib
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  the girlfriend. You're you're my girlfriend? Bay Kelsey, you're talking awful plenty.
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  What goes? Just some new kind of a brush off? No,
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  you must understand me if you're trying to give me the no. No,
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  it's still love dove. Yeah, it's more like it. A minute.
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  You had me guess you all the way? Tails you? Well? Where
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  was your last night? We had a date? Gate? Why'd you stand
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  me up? So I don't like that? Rat? I better explain and
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  make it good. Why I had business? Oh? I gave it?
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  Did a job? You want me to cover for you? Okay? Where
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  do I say we went last night? Oh? Well, I I think
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  that we better say that. Oh yes, ye something going on around here?
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  Right? Hello? Okay, okay, what what was it? He
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  says? This poor guy's name Spike, Steeve, bind Me and Lucky coming
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  up to see you. I got a blow them guys can meet a chill,
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  honey. The real killers me ain't fussy who they killed? I fly
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  good bye? N What happened to me? Were the four gentlemen of the
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  late spectations? Or they were gangsters? All right? They came sliding into
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  the room as if they were afraid of me. Well, I had already
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  discovered I was supposed to be a guy named Gerson Mugg who broke girl's arms
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  when I wanted to. And I was a no good who gay five dollar
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  tips for taxi drivers. And I was at Trik who had his girlfriend cover
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  up for him when he did a job. And now I seem to be
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  buddies with this gang of one of them. I was a good I did
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  all the talking. I have thousands. Look you guys, look me over.
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  Check with a my palsy Gerson. It's a matter of posy bed hangover.
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  Oh, let it go, let's cook it. What pals We're clean.
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  There's not a rod on any of us. We come here for a
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  piece talk. Yeah, yeah, we've been pals working together for a long
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  time now, we've been like that, right, So what so everybody knows
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  we're tied up with you, even that cops know it. Now, if
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  you get pulled in, we all get pulled in because the cops will figure
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  we're all in it to get Oh what are you getting here about this rubbot?
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  Last night? We didn't know nothing about that palsy. It didn't tell
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  us. So we want you to give it the lowdown so we'll know what
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  to say. If one of us get to take that. Oh, what
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  are you talking about? Halt, Palsy. Everybody knows about last night's killing.
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  You know it was your job, even if you did hire someone else
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  to do it for you. Waiting all the newspapers this morning, let me
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  see that favor. Oh there was the headline, all right, murder in
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  nightclub. And there was a picture of me, not a picture of that
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  Palsy Gerson, but of me, Scubby Wilson, taken on the spot by
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  the nightclub photographers said. And there were my fingerprints, dicks, those princip
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  both of us know so well, found on the gunment issues and a picture
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  of the cigarette lighter Patsy gave me last Christmas. Look, you got me
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  all wrong. I'm not Pelsy Gerson. There's been a terrible mistake. Palsy.
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  You mean you ain't going to be straight with this? I tell you
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  this is all a mistake. How's are you trying to cross us up?
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  We don't like it. We ain't gonna tell listen a minute. You can't
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  finish to what Powsy. Come on, boys, think I'm over watch got
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  first ride cross Oh I was so weak I couldn't do a thing and a
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  minute later, they've been a black check over my last year. And I
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  went out cold, kebby your poor guy, you setting me at a tough
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  time. Well, how did you get out of that howsy Gerson roll?
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  I don't know, Nick, Well, I can't chool you. And I
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  was on the bed in this room, and they there are a few minutes
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  getting my senses back. Then I jumped off the bed and raced to the
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  mirror. I was myself again. I was kebby Wilson once more, and
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  in my own clothes, and my hair wasn't web anymore, and my own
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  lucka she was on the rack at the foot of the bed. Things like
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  that just don't happen. So I've heard, Patsy, but you can't prove
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  it by me. So you went to sleep in the airport in New York.
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  When you woke up, your mind was in the body of a local
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  crook named Palsy Gerson, and some of Gerson's pals knocked over the head.
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  When you woke up again, you were back in your own body, and
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  this will yeah, that's right. And while you were using Gerson's body,
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  somebody was using your body to kill that guy in the night club. Yeah,
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  Yo, I know it sounds insane, Nick, but that's the way
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  I see it from here. And unless something happens, I'm slated for the
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  electric Sure. If we can't let anything happen, Scubby, I'll worry.
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  That's who we won't our first would die Scubby's hair, make him up so
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  that he won't me too weak, They recognize and here's the police are looking
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  for him. Then I don't have the police pick up this Palsy Gerson,
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  his girlfriend Dolly and his four thugs. If it really exists, and somehow
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  I think they do. I want to see what the body Scubby was using
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  has to say for itself. Well, Nick, he's past two days haven't
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  gotten us very far. We located Palsy Gerson and he satisfied the police,
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  but he knows nothing about it. His girlfriend Dolly isn't the same girl who
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  came to see me, and the telephone operator will call me. Palsy has
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  disappeared and can't be found. All of which adds up to a large round
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  zero. You're wrong, Scuvey. It all adds up to proof that you
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  were part of a well laid plan. But why Nick, Why look Scovevey
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  if the police discover that you are the one who apparently killed a man in
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  the night slub, they'll arrest you, and I, even with my reputation
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  for being on the right side of the law, will be arrested with you
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  as an accessory. After the fact, police couldn't do anything else, all
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  of which would be an excellent way for somebody to commit or murder and at
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  the same time get someone he didn't like jailed for the said killing. Scovey,
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  I think I'm the one there after, and they used you to get
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  me for how we're going to stat we don't promp which I prove that I
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  didn't do. That's what I'm trying to do now, Scovey, get that
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  proof before the police catch up with us. So I haven't had me see
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  where that is. Everything Hold, everything be a wards for the arrest of
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  Scovey Nick Carter in connection with the murder of John Waters. But why didn't
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  they keep you in jail too? Because they were extremely decent about it,
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  Patsy. They told me that although they had positive proof that Scubby committed the
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  murder, that I had been a betting him in defiance of the law.
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  They were so so impressed with my insistence that Scubby didn't murter him that.
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  Out of consideration for my past reputation, they were going to give me ten
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  days to prove his innocence if I could. If I fail in that time
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  and I get myself up, and they proceeded the charges against Scubby and me,
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  How did they find out about him? Nick? Very simple, Patsy.
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  They sent the fingerprints they found on the gun to Washington to the FBI,
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  and they identified them as Scubby's. You know, he and I are
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  both on file there as law enforcement agents that an investigation voun Scubby was living
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  here, and the rest was easy. What's your next movement? That's see,
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  if my hunch is right, a man behind this wants to get at
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  me for some reason. Rather so, he's going to be awful mad when
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  he finds the police to let me go again, and he may try to
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  do something himself about getting me out of the way. And if he doesn't,
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  I have a couple of the boys keeping their eyes open for anyone who
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  looks like that mystic Scubby's telling us about. I believe he's at the bottom
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  of all this, Patsy. I can lay my hands on him. I
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  feel sure he can tell us all the answers. But he might mystic,
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  you too, Nick, the way he did Scuvey. He might, but
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  I doubt it. Well, I'm going on to pick up a paper the
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  newstand. I'll be right back there, even in journal. Please thanks.
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  Don't make any sudden moves. But looking for me, you Nick Carter,
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  Yes, then you're the one we want. What can I do for you?
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  Keep your hands in plain sights on me and my two boys. Don't
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  have to do any sudden shooting. This ain't a water pistol I got here.
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  I'll take your word for it. What do we do now? A
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  mystic wants to talk to you? Come on and come quiet, say a
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  friend. Any idea why the mystic wants to talk to me? I don't
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  think he likes the idea. The cops letting you go after they took you
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  to the jug. He thought he was out of the way for keeps and
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  I was going to do something himself about getting rid of me. Huh,
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  No, me and the boys, they're going to do it for him.
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  When now, as soon as we get down to the pier, oh,
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  an old abandoned pier. I suppose, yeah, one way, there ain't
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  nobody to bother us when we take care of you just around the corner,
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  but are planning to with me. A couple of sash weights tied your legs
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  a little the trick after putting a couple of bullets through your head. Lucky,
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  Yeah, you get out. The sash waits in the rope in the
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  back of the car. Funny, Bryan, if you go get the girl,
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  you'll take care about the girl and Carter at the same time, like
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  the four suggested. All right, Carter, you and me will walk out
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  on a pier together. Don't forget how I got this little persuader in my
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  hand, getting dark, which is what we want. But even if you
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  can't see this thirty eight of mine, it's still there pointing at you.
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  I have no doubt you're right, and I shan't forget you know you can't
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  hope to kill me and not pay for it. I think my chances on
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  that, Carter, you ain't the first guy I bumped off, and you
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  ain't gonna be the last. It will be far enough. I don't then
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  there's not much I can do about it. Is that? No? Whoh?
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  Is that the girl coming with your panel? There where. Oh yeah,
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  make your arm drop top, there's no noise. If you want to
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  stay alive, I'll drop it. Thanks, I'll take charge here. I'll
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  do just as I say, and you won't get hurt of trying to the
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  funny business. You'll never see that again. You understands. Yeah, yeah,
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  you need to break my arm or go live. He come to the
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  girl and Bernie a sound of you? Okay, okay, this is enough
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  waiting for the answer him answer him right there. Yeah, we got enough.
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  I'm gonna bring her over here. Bring her over here. Coming.
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  You didn't want to your gun and get your hands up? Right? Why
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  get those hands up. I'll take your gun too, now, Bernie,
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  come over here, Yes, a little closer. What are you gonna do?
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  It's getting dark now, it's time for dead. So I'm just gonna
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  put you like, yes here, you don't have to kill him your I
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  didn't kill him, Oh yes, I am, or I did craying something
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  like this. It happened, but I didn't think it would quiet. We're
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  not out of the woods yet, Spike. Keep your mouth shut if you
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  want to keep on living. When he gets hit, tell him to bring
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  you the weights and stuff. Well, I know that no got him.
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  Bring this stuff over hair, Okay, don't bow Blackie. I've got the
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  gun this time, all right, young lady, he got the gun out
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  of his pocket. Please, I'll take it. Thanks. Now, Lucky,
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  I want you to tie up your pale Bernie there. Then you can
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  tie up Spike. Yeah, and I'll tie you up. You have the
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  finishing touches to all three of you and be on my way. I mean
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  you're gonna leave his Hat's exactly what I want, are you? All right?
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  Lucky? Get vised with those rope. Times getting short, and I've
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  got a real score to settle with your boss. Gems Carr. Woman should
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  be bloo drink when you get out of his I'm sure not of practice.
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  I like him on. We believe them as safely. Now say, look,
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  I ain't told you who I am yet I know who are you.
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  I'm Dolly Dally. They're not Gir's friends. Well, and the other one
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  want to mystic Hia to visit your friend in the hotel, So that's where
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  you are. How much do you know about this record? Oh? I
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  don't know nothing about a fan. But sincey snatched me and kept me lock
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  up in their hideout. I learned a lost I'm listening to him talk.
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  Stop here a minute. What's this all about? Dalling? If that's your
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  name, my real name is Anne. You didn't really think he was telling
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  us? She certainly did for a while. That's a sort of fixed on
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  it. He has an amstetis gas that he did when you were sleeping knocked
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  out. He duped his friend in the airport and going Chicago. He needed
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  somebody take him up like a mob to him. He let him wake up
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  in a test. I suppose you paid all those people to put on the
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  ex to convince study he really was only the catty drive at the telephone girl
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  the hotel clut me the poor he was already remembered the game. And they
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  beat him up for this mystic and give him another side of the guess well
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  he was unconscious and let him wake up with himself. Yeah, and he
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  was so sope all the time we was putting on the egg, so he
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  never could figure out what was going on. Clever, and how did you
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  get in on this? I wanted to be an extic. They hired me
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  to put on his back. They told me they were ribbing some friend of
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  his When I saw the publicity in the papers and I told that you got
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  arrested too. I knew it wasn't no gag and whether the way the headquarters
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  was one day to see if they were still there so I could go to
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  the police. But somebody saw me there and grabbed me. I've been locked
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  up ever since. You know why they wanted to do all this. The
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  mystic New York friend was going to fill a down you to get some soap
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  on a racket. The mystic was ahead of the gang and he wanted to
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  scare your friend off. He hope to scare you off too. He getting
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  ready to words. The steam wracked all over the country and he was the
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  only one was getting hot on his trail. When we didn't scare off,
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  he had to take matters into his own hands. I suppose it was one
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  of the mystics tugs who did the killing in the night club. It was
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  spiked, made up to look like your pale, and he left the evidence
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  of the cop star who is the man that killed some fellow wouldn't play ball
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  away? Wanted to You know where the headquarters of this gang is, Cure
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  It's about a block from here. Let me show you you bet I do.
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  With your help, I'm going to get that mystic if he's there.
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  That's the pip that little house beside the warehouse he ran on this. Let's
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  talk how many in the gang? Five? Besides, you've got three.
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  I'm tied up on the piece. Good. Can you handle a gun?
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  I don't know. I'll try it if you want me. Good, take
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  this one. Go around to the other door. When you hear me fire
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  wants to shoot that gun? Six shots fast? They do that? Will
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  you try to pick the lock on this door? Go in and try to
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  trap them. They try to make a get away through the other door.
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  The shots you fire and make them think they're surrounded. Okay, good,
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  Lock in the car. I'll be listening for you now, mister mystic.
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  Let's see how mysticful you really are. First, I get this door open.
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  Yeah, that was easy because they're not expecting tro Now find and fine,
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  taking care of car, taking care of that strat is. But I
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  do love it. WHI am I any and yes, we we're toll color
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  than great over their hands you make it snap your oh good, your saronic.
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  You can't get away. What we're gonna change up your guns if you
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  want to stay alive. Too many bars this time, I'll be a wife.
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  Thank you. I turn and stand up against the wall. Your hands
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  in the air. I am and Oliver, and now you can come in.
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  Fike's over here. Captivation. All right. Then go to the nearest
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  telephone and call police headquarters. Tell them we'll have the correct answer to the
• 27:45
  killing the Scubby's charged with, and tell him to send some cops down.
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  He wrapped the right away. Now who's on top? Missed some mystic pre
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  You try a little magic now, all right, and going Scubby will be
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  very anxious to get this good news. My I mean gill me. You
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  didn't have any please call with you, no, my mystical friend, just
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  me and the girls. By using my own special brand of magic, you
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  couldn't tell a difference. That's the kind of magic worth using. This has
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  been another of the strange adventures of Nick Carter, Master Detective, which had
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  brought to you regularly each week at the same time by W O. R.
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  Mutual. Well, Nick, I'd like to hear a few of the
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  high spots the next week's story. Okay, next week's story started with a
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  cat, but not a common ordinary cat. This one was a lemon yellow
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  Persian cat with a pedigree. The chase started when I tried to find a
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  said pedigree's foot, which had been stolen from it rightful and very ultra ultra
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  owner. But before long I found I was involved in first kidnapping, murder,
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  and other varieties of lawbreaking, which included being you know, the head
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  and being shot at in the darks. Not exactly an amusing case. It
• 29:03
  was a deadly serious case. Before it was finished. I call it A
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  Cat Brings Death or the Mystery of the Missing Persians. And that's all for
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  now. So long, So long, everybody, and so long are you
• 29:17
  both Nick and Patsy? In the strange adventure you have just heard? Nick
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  Carter was impersonated by Linklock, Patsy by Helen Chokes, Covery by John Kine.
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  Original music was played by Lou White. The entire production was written and
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  directed by Jack McGregor. Next week, at the same time, listen to
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  another curious experience of Nick Carter, entitled A Cat Brings Death or Nick Cotter
• 29:53
  and the Mystery of the Missing Persians. This story is the copyrighted feature of
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  Fident Smith Publications Incorporated. The kind of Nick Carter is produced in the studios
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  of WR and is broadcast over most of these stations every Saturday evening at ten
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  fifteen Eastern Waltime. This is neutual welcome back. Well, that was a
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  pretty clever mystic. I have to be there a little disappointed that his plan
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  B wasn't a little more imaginative. Of course, the realists will point out
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  that it really would have made sense just to try and shoot Nick Carter in
• 30:45
  the first place, rather than putting him on alert. But these are the
• 30:51
  Nick Carter stories really do derive from the pulse, and the focus here is
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  not necessarily on doing things in a logical or realistic way, in a way
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  that's entertaining, and certainly this episode was that, and I hope you enjoyed
• 31:04
  it. Well, that will do it for today. We will be back
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  tomorrow with the last part of the Laughing Matter, and then join us back
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  here on Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. In the meantime, sendor
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  signing off.