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Well, it's time now for today's episode of Nick Carter. And there
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were four lost episodes before today's show, So today's episode is the Witch of
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Donenberg Mountain. Original air date April twenty second of nineteen forty four, nineteen
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forty five. Excuse me, The Linux Show starring Nick Carter, Master Detective,
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story of a man known the world over as one of the most daring and
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resourceful characters in the history of detective fiction. A man whose name has become
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a symbol of the triumph of right and justice over the sinister forces of crime
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and lawlessness, and recognized as one of the great masters of deduction. Nick
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Carter Master detectives today's baffling case, The Witch of Dunderberg Mountain, another exciting
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chapter dramatized from the life story off Nick Catter. In just a moment,
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we'll find how a curious old Moley coin lured Nick Carter into a strange community,
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brooded over by Dunderberg Mountain and a collection of macabre superstitions. But now
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from the life of Nick Carter. Today's thrilling adventures starts in the usual place,
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the gloomy old brownstone mansion at the corner of Fourth and Fifth. Yes,
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looking at that company below victorian mansion with its gay flowered window boxes,
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its shiny brass door knocker, and the bright and glistening windows, no one
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would ever guess that those panes are bulletproof, the doors, windows, and
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Chimney's burglar proof, and that on the top floor is probably the world's best
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equipped laboratory for the scientific study of crime. As a matter of fact,
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our master detective is at this moment closeted in his laboratory, while Patsy Bowen,
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his efficient and long suffering secretary, holds the world at Babe, his
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second story office and consulting room. Finally, the hidden door that leads to
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a secret passageway creaks open and enter. Nick Carter, get that flame thing
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mix not me. The way you gums you around without making a sound gives
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me the jumps every time I think I'm in a perfectly empty room and suddenly
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look up and see you at that olverall top desk, which you won't let
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me throw out, as if you just materialize out of thin air. It
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makes my heart do nip ups? I g yes, Patsy Grammar's a bit
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pumbediddle, but I think I get your dripped. You want me to stamp
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around a bump of the furniture like the average made. I do not tell
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me? Did you finish whatever it was you were puttering around him up on
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the laboratory, I did. I examined the shirt the man accused that the
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Pemberton murder was wearing a night Daily permitted was killed, but that shirt had
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been washed in iron here quite so. Murderer made the common mistake of believing
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that a thorough washing and boiling would eliminate traces of his crime, but not
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with the modern benzadine pas sweetart Oh took me less than three drops to reveal
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the presence of bloodstains. Mister Pemberton's blood. She needn't look so pleased.
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I'm always pleased when I've managed to wind a criminal career, and murder so
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often becomes a habit. Anything happened when I was upstairs? Anything? Everything?
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Then they are called they had a Freedom from Arabia? Call who cann't
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Riley? Call the butcher car trivia, all trivia, anything worth bothering about.
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Down in the waiting room, this is the lady Trump's pearls? What
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about them? Stolen? Can her report to insurance company? She can?
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Seems some Jigglos liked him. She doesn't want a husband to find out.
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Not interested. Oh, mister DeWitt, Hemingway's second wife is run away.
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You should have done it years ago. Not interested. Mister Roger Winthrop,
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author and lecturer, has taken a house in some Forsakens, bought up the
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river. He's writing a history of the folklore and superstitions of the Catskills.
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He wants you. I never collaborate, decides what I know about the River
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Valley superstitions and the plenty gory. He can dig out of the records for
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himself. Not interested? Would you not jump to conclusions? Nick? He
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does not want you to collaborate. His servant has been hexed. The local
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witches put a curse on him, and he's that a succession of headaches or
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corns or something. Bag. I believe it's too late. The servant,
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whose name was Jacob, died about dawn this morning, a violent and horrible
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death. His last words was something about a descent into hell Bo. Why
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didn't you say so? You wouldn't let me then, mister Winthrop, pop
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well, send him up? What are we waiting for? Take your shirt
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on, Nick? I can't have him shot out of a cannon? Whit?
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Can I click my inner office gadget? Can't you? But I ain't
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no faith? Which mister Carter was in? Mister Roger Winter? You mean
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the guy with a river glasses right the very first time we up to staves
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ready athletic for an author? Come in, mister Cotton and mister Nick Carter.
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Where is he right behind you? Mister Carter, I know Roger windor
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author. I am now engaged in collecting data for my latest novel. In
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fact, I have already has this never anything to do with your servants death?
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Why no have skipp it? Of course? But if it went for
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the novel. I never would have rented the old Brocken house and we never
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have met the old witch. You said, witch, he did you keep
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out of this Betsy? What old witch do you mean? Mister Winter?
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Who is this servan? I'm Nickcotter's secretary. And then you wents this general
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fact totem and the lady who sews the buttons on his shirt. Let's get
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back to the witch. She sounds more interesting. Thanks, of course,
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I don't actually think she is one. Still, the natives who live around
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the brock And farm are quite convinced of the fact. It seems she's placed
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to kiss on people Before this, mostly young boys who taunted Hart have fruit.
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Young William Tappan was thrown from his father's farm horse and dragged twice around
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the barn. Henry Vanderbolt fell out of an apple tree and broke his arm,
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and Johnny Upsendyke had scarlet fever and john us both at the same time.
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And to me, I've heard of accidents like that happening to kids even
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without their being he des persy. But that's not the significant part of the
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narrative. What is the boys' last name? It happened fand of work upsendyke.
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I take it, mister Winthrop. The old Brocken farm you run,
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It is in a Dutch community. It is up the river at the foot
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of the Dunderberg wild hag ridden country. Those families settled there before the Revolution
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and had married and intermarried ever since, all but the Brockens. They seem
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to have been disliked right from the beginning. Some say they aren't Dutch at
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all, but Hessians. Let you see, Brocken. Isn't that the name
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of that mountain in Germany where all the witches are supposed to gather and Wildbourg
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is not? Yes, that's why the Brockins are said to have settled where
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they did, because Old Dunderberg, the local mountain, bears a strange resemblance
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to the Brocken. I say, local Docip has it that on the eve
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of May Day, which as you know, is while Carcus not, all
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the family and their cats they've always had black cats would swoop up the chimney
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on broomsticks and fly away to Dunderberg Mountain for some sort of witch's sabbath.
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And this witch was supposed to have hext Your servant, Jacob is i gallo
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one of the famous Rockens. She's the last of them. Miss Hermina Broughton
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is an old maid and when she dies the family would be extinct and high
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time too. If you ask me now, you don't really think she's a
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witch? No, but she's a vindictive, highly neurotic, I might even
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say dangerous female. And you think she killed Jacob? I do. She
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laid a hex on him last week, made a rag doll out of those
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scarf of here she managed to steal. She named the doll Jacob, of
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course, and then began sticking pins into it. And last night, or
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rather early this morning, he died. Tell me exactly what happened. Well,
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I rented the Brocken House for the summer. It seemed to have the
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sort of weird, not to say sinnister background I needed for my novel.
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Did Miss Hermina go to the house, mister, Oh no, No,
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She and her cat moved out to a sort of fire cottage. I insisted
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on that I can't abide cats. Well, as I was saying, last
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night, I was in my study scribbling away the better part of the night.
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It was a peculiarly black night. You may remember. This is what
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is called the dark of the moon. Well, finally I became aware that
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everything was unusually quiet, and then I realized I'd worked through the entire night,
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and this was that queer, unearthly silence that comes just before the dawn.
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Suddenly I was conscious of a dull, muffled thud, a bud that
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was almost a play. What was that? Curious how strange sounds become at
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night. Sounded like the clang of a cotton lid. Better lay off work
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for tonight, winter, old boy, First thing, you know, you'll
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be imagining ghostly footsteps. Good lord, what's there? Something's coming around the
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corner of the house. That's the toolhouse door. Someone's trying to get in.
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This is ridiculous. Better go see what it is before my imagination makes
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a fool of me. I'll take the lamp. It's probably nothing at all,
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just the wind rattling the lock. But there isn't any wind tonight.
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Put yourself together, windthrop down the steps to the woodshed. Yes, something
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is moving the lock. Someone's out there, So wait till I am locked
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the door. And Jacob, what are you doing out here this time of
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night? Jacob? What's wrong with you? Here? Go right go straight
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o, good lord, he's having confunctions. Jacob, Jacob. And what
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happened then, mister wendor Jacob died right there in my arms. It was
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horrible as the death rifle left his throat, his right hand relaxed, and
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something rolled to the floor with a metallic clink. I picked it up and
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brought it here, thinking it might serve as a clue to this whole horrible
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business that I say here, Hm, black with age, looks like a
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metal slug of some kind. Fatty, how about giving this a going over
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with that metal polish you keep around for polishing him up the door knot were
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pleasure right here in this draw. I keep it hand in, mister Winter,
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because all the hardware in this old house is bressed, And I always
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say, what's the good of having real breast furnishing unless they postponed the house
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giving Well, mister Winthrop, from your description of Jacob's death panting and dragging
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footsteps and the final compulsions, I'd say it was probably poisoned. No possibility
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of suicide, I suppose, of course not. It was the witch,
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Miss Hermina Brocken. I told you she'd put a curss on him. Curses
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don't cause convulsion, mister Windor, I never said they did. The point
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was she hated Jacob enough to want him dead. Why, Well, I
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suppose it was my fault in a way. I told Jacob to make up
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to the Gold Girl in order to get her to tell him all the local
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ghost stories he unearthed twenty. Some of them, like the headless horsemen and
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the cool Hendrick Hudson who go bowling in the mountains whenever there's a storm,
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have already been recorded by Washington Nervy. Yes. Then there's the two Specful
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Riders who are supposed to be the ghosts of Major Andre and General Benedict Arnold.
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They met and rode through that territory, you know, the knight Arnold
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sold out to the enemy. Yes. Then there's the story of a lost
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treasure that's supposed to be cursed, not to mention a batwoman and a black
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culture who appears whenever there's to be a death in the valley. Interesting but
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irrelevant. Why did mister rock and hate Jacob certainly enough to go the word
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these stories out of her? Well? No, as a matter of fact,
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I rather imagine Jacob overdid his attentions to the old girl when she discovered
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he had a wife and five children in the bronx while she turned on him
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like a vixen. It was all Peter and I could do to have him
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away from her. She was trying to scratch out his eyes. Hell has
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no fury and so forth quiet. That's who is Peter. Mister Wndor,
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a local character who does the gardening for me. He's well, not exactly
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bright, but he can make anything grow. How does he get on with
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Mitt Brocken? Scared to death of her? Carries a piece of cold iron
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in his pocket all the time is around the place. If you touch cold
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iron, you know a witch can't harm you. Speaking of coal metal,
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how's this very handsome hunk of stuff? It tign's better than I do not
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now that I've got the Tarny show. Very interesting. That coin Patsy is
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gold what I'm very skinny to be exact, meant it In the reign of
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George the Third in those days, coins like this were called trader's gold.
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Why everybody's soldier who brought in a member of Washington's army received one of these,
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and every member of Washington forces who gave himself up got one too in
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the world, is the bout Jacob to answer that, we'll have to make
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a visit to the Dunderberg. Yes, Master Windor, I think you brought
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us a problem that's even more interesting than you suspect. Well, just what
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is the significance of the piece of breaker's gold found clutched in the dead man's
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where. And now back to today's exciting case. As we pick up Nick,
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Carter and Patsy, they are following Roger Winterrop along a desolate country road
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to the Brocken Farm, where Winthrop's servant Jacob has recently died of violent death.
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It is twilight, and the sinister hawk of the Dunderberg Mountain broods over
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the landscape. I'm not surprised that people who live around here believe in witches
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and curses and hidden treasures. If you'd spend a couple of months around the
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other way I have, miss Bowen, you've believe in superstitions too. Things
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like that don't seem possible back in the midst of the city's traffic, but
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up here time seems to stand still. Here people are still living in the
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dark ages. I noticed as we came along more to the barn, had
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hech signs spanded on them. Nick, Have you noticed the clouds gathering behind
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that mountain? Yeah, I imagine the old dustin start that game of nine
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tens any time now. I hope you reached your house for the winter before
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the storm breaks. It's over the next rise in mister Carta. Here's the
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gate behind the lilac bush. That's what you call him, very good with
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hair. After that's the house down there in the hollow, and that's Peter
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sitting outside the toolhouse door. I gave him strict instructions not to let anyone
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move the body until you arrive. I know you detectives prefer to find your
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clues undisturbed. It's sometimes helpful. Why doesn't Peter sit inside the tool out
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because he's afraid of the dead. There's a superstition around here that the soul
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of anyone who's died a violent death is afraid of being alone and always tries
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to take along a companion. What's that nothing up there in that tree?
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That's fair, celebrate it against the sky. That's right, cat, it's
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miss Brockin's hecktibba. They're inseparable. If that cat's around, then the Brocken
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female isn't far behind. I wondered, who's been following us the last quarter
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mile? The guy didn't see her hear a thing. You don't mean she's
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invisible or something. I'll admit she's kept out of sight, But no disembodied
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spirit breaks twigs and russells dead Lee. He's in perfectly at about what I
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want. Took the trouble to listen. Hey, let's he got stepped on
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a little head. My teeth a chattering still, I couldn't hear an avalanche.
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Oh, Nick, I don't like this place. Easy fat. Here
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comes Peter, poor guy. He looks relieved. I thought you were stuff
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for coming. I told you I couldn't stay if you couldn't get back before
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nightfall. But we did, Peter. This is mister Nick Carter, the
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famous protecting. He'll find out what he'll Jacob. I's fading fast that I
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make her examination. The courts completely dark. Oh, Katy, may not
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be nice. I want to stay out here for that woman and her cat
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crawling through the bos, the stone coming up beside. Thank you. I'm
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coming inside, no matter what's in there. All the flashlight, it's horrible,
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extreme rate and mortars and marked panic constrictions and muffles yours who firmly clanked
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together to permit any investigation of the oral tervity. We can't take a look
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at the inside of the lips, not the poison. Whatever it was,
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it was violent, but I don't think it was administer them. Now,
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let's see rest on the instep of the shoes between the stone and heel,
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heavy boots and toward red trousers and the lower limbs, A hands fair,
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yes, yes, look here the two small punkers of the right thumb,
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whether help me roll back a sleeve? Right these tocto? Here we are
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two more, and here again and again, and all the punctors have already
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started the Gangreen, that's how the poison entered the body. It's the evil
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eye. Those too dense, it's the mark of the evil eye. They
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burned straight prolid. Interesting idea, Peter, But what killed Jacob with quite
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a bit more deadly than any evil eye? Do you mean you know who
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killed me? Definitely quest to now to find what a killer's hiding. But
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Na, let's see if we can get a line on how Jacob spent his
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last twelve hours. Get a small microscope out of my zippertate pay or when
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you might prepare a few slides, right, just exactly what you're doing that
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for, mister Carter. Cleaning the dead man's nails, A good scientific detective
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mister can pretty well deduced and what he finds under any person's nails, where
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that person has been, and what he's done for some time previous. Oh,
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slide police said, Hey, this is my most powerful ends. Of
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course, a splash light isn't as strong as one could wish you you had
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anything? Yes, quite a few things. He ate a piece of chocolate
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take for dinner with a figure depot, saw quite a bit of wood minute
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bitch of starwduck. That was yesterday afternoon. They also plucked the chicken reasons
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very in polished the furniture finey glow bills are very fine. Oil had the
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most interesting ingredient into the whole collection. There's a certain timey sport more the
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funger, great deal of it. As a matter of fact, maybe he
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went out picking wildflowers in the wood. No, this particular fungers only grows
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in places where there's a great deal of moisture and where sunlight never reaches any
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places like that around him at the winter basement spring house. No, no,
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the basement's bone dry and there is no spring house. How about it,
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Well, there are few enough improvements on the place, no electricity,
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no telephone. But we do have a hand humping the kitchen sink, which
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means are well under it. The Jacob couldn't very easily get down into it.
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I'd say it would be absolutely impossible. Wait a minute, there's some
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sort of boarded up stonework with a padlock out back of the barn. I
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remember someone told me. It's a condemned system or well of some sort.
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Yeah, that's the witches. Well, you'll be wise to stay away from
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it. It's the way straight down to hell, a way to hell.
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Yeah, weren't those Jacob's last word before he died. One, Yes,
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mister Carr, come on tow me the place, unless I'm very much mistaken.
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That's where we'll finally answer to this problem. At the I'm a well
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down to the Henry Hudson's crew had started a game of nineteen Oh that means
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this evil abroad tonight, nick? Nick? I just remember now what is
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the first nay? That means it is small treats night when witches ride and
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graves give up their dead. That one sounded like a strike. This is
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the system, mister Carter or whatever it is. I thought you said it
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was Padlock's maletter, you know, always has been, not now a lot.
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I'm on the brow. They both are bent and christen if someone broken
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it when the cover has been moved recently too, But Pinni, these crass
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on the stone that thing. I do believe you're finally beginning to notice things,
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you know, where you can go down to Yeah, that's just where
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you will go if you get too interested in that well now here here you're
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a big boy. Now, you don't really think it's Brocken the witch.
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I know she is ever say a right at bruins. No, but I've
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seen her go down this well one winter nights. He and my brother Timmy
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put hide in the hay of that old pond and wait for her to come
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along. Forced it here to scrape as she pulled off the lead, and
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then we'd see her climb down inside, put the lantern and her teeth on
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that old black cat sitting on her shoulder. Why do you think she didn't
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limb down inside? I mean to get warm. Of course, it's dice
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and cousy in hell on the winter's nine. He never went down in summer.
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Oh why should she? It's hot in the right here in the valley
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in summer time. Very interesting observation, Peter, And it verifies my hunt.
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Just how Jacob was killed? And why what do you mean, mister
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God? Help me pull a little up as well, and I'll show you
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take that side? Did it? Cassy? Give it that last night?
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You are thanks, Let's see what we've got. Yes, noticed those lusty
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spikes driven into the stone work to form a sort of ladder, and noticed
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for the rush has done scraped reasonably. That's how Jacob got him in his
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boots. He followed Miss Brocken's example and climbed down into the well. You'll
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also notice that the stones are covered with that furious fungus we found under his
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neck. Mick's watching him over there under that apple tree, his hat standing
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on her shoulder. We've been waiting for you, Miss Brocken. I think
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you can tell us how Jacob died. I can. It was his own
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breed killed him. I warned him no man could go down there and live.
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You knew he died. He went down into the well and let you
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let him go. I did not. I refused him the key. I
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did, but he broke off in the lock like a thief where no one
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was looking. He wouldn't list, and then so he had to die.
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And I'm not sorry you killed him. More easy went up that rock and
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hasn't been funsible for Jacob's death? Then who is you? Said yourself?
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He was poisoned by right And I think if I dropped this rock down into
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the well, we may rouse the killer. If you don't play that devil's
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tattoo. Make me careful here, Alice, good lord, what is it
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rattlesnakes? Forget? This is rattlesnake country, and I rather imagine there's a
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rattlesnake nest down there. That there is old ones and the young ones,
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the darlings. I told Jacob not to go down in that well. I
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told him to go to hell, but only care for his gold. You
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know, Nick, There's one thing I still don't understand about that down to
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durd New Street. Why did Jacob go down in the well, And why
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wasn't Miss Brocken And when she did the same thing? I answered the last
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question. First, Miss Brocken was careful to make all her descents into the
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well and winter. So what you see when snake's hibernate, they become cold
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and almost lifeless. Asking a snake's commerce an old trick of the trade to
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put snakes on ice af before a show, makes them quite harmless. Oh
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and as for the reason that drew both Miss Drocken and Jacob into the well,
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I deduced to miss Samples Jacob had in his hands that the Brocken Well
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is a hiding place of Benedict Arnold's famous lost treasure. What's that? Well?
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Major Andre is supposed to have given Arnold a golden guinea for every man
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then garrisoned at West Point. Arnold undoubtedly hid the money and didn't have time
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to dig it up when he had to flee for his life after this treachery
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was uncovered. But if the broccn family knew where it was, why didn't
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they use it themselves? Probably because, as they thought, it was painted
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money with a curse on it. I see well, thanks Nick. Now,
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Next week, can I think I'll tell you the story of how and air
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a woman who's going to have a baby any minute disappears into thin air right
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on the threshold of a famous maternity hospital. Thank you, persually, don't
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give the whole plot away, wait until next week. What do you call
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a story, Nick, I call it the Vanishing Ladies. Nick Carter,
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week. This is the mutual broadcasting system, Welcome back. This episode definitely
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had a very different tone from the traditional Nick Her episode, And I don't
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mean that in a good way, because you had Nick probably at his most
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condescending, and you had this case taking on much more of a mastermind sort
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of a way of telling a story. Well, there's a reason for that.
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Finder of this week's show was Edith Miser was best known for her work
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on the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and she did pretty well there.
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Here, she doesn't seem to have much as much of a grasp of the
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character, so they don't come off quite as well, but she doesn't write
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too many episodes, so hopefully we'll see some change and improvement in this regard.
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By the way, the programs that we don't have in existence death at
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the Studio, Death at the toll Bridge, uh, the Missing Dad kind
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of in a macabre titling scheme, and the Truth Machine. Those are the
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four episodes that we missed. All right, Well, that we'll do it
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for now. Oh the funny thing I should note, I use the otrside
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dot com for my episode log source on this program, and it lists this
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as a Halloween episode. And this is funny timing for a Halloween episode given
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that this was in April. But anyway, all right, well, that'll
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do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
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and join us back here next Thursday for another episode of Next Nick Carter.
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