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Play It Again Adam: Barrie Craig: A Time To Kill (EP1028s) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam Graham, and I'm welcome you in today's episode,
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where we will kick off our listener support campaign and present the first of three
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Play It Again Adam episodes ask listeners in the month of July to email me
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in their requests for programs we've played before that they'd like to hear again and
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perhaps for the benefit of some of our more recent listeners, and we will
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get into that program in just a moment. The first of these specials.
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and Saturday. But now let's go ahead and take a look at our email
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from Michael, who writes, congratulations on reaching a thousand episodes. I love
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your podcast and think you did a terrific job. Enjoy even your convention of
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chronology presenting a program through its entire catalog is brilliant. You ask for a
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repeat for a special program. My vote would be for Barry Craig, which
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is my favorite. One mark of a great program is how memorable it is.
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I can easily recall dozens of Barry Craig episodes. How many other shows
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TV or radio can make that claim. I often wonder when you talk about
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all the lost ones at the end of the programs, what we are missing
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in there's I believe about fifty nine episodes in circulation, about one hundred and
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thirty two loss so pretty significant. He goes on to say, I love
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the writing and in particular the dialogue. It can be both dark and human
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at the same time. William Gargan is the quintessential detective with both brains and
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brawn, completely believable and fits the role like an old shoe. He's the
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perfect guy through some fairlyly diverse and interesting cases, and a supporting cast is
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always terrific too. If I picked one particular episode, it would be A
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Time to Kill. It has a great plot, some action, a ton
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of chemistry between Craig and the gal he finds in the car, and some
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amazing dialogue. It even has a little bit of a twist in the end.
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What more could you ask for a gem of the era. I'd be
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remiss if I didn't mention that I'm a big fan of Pat Novak and Jeffreagan
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two. All three of these shows are brilliant and for me, about as
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good as radio gets. Again, thanks for all you do well, Thanks
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so much, Michael, and A Time for Kill is also Time to Kill
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is actually one of my favorite Barry Craig episodes as well, so I will
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be more than happy to present that here now from February thirteenth, nineteen fifty
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two is William Gargan as Barry Craig in A Time to Kill. William Gargan
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stars as Barry Craig, confidential Investigator to ensure along a life folks, A
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gun in hand is worth two in the bush. The National Broadcasting Company presents
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William Gargan in another transcribed drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective
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Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator Barry Craig speaking, there's a popular notion people have
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about confidential operatives. Stop any guy in the street and ask him the notion
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steam needed love or as the French day amour my classification of workers always got
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a blonde on one arm, another blonde in his lap, and the third
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blonde in his eyes. So people think. The truth as a matter of
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fact is people are so right, textbook biology aside. The true reason for
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our howling success with the ladies is our fatherly appeal. It's women looking for
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the male protection they missed since the carefree days of the cradle. It's the
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young lady like search for the strong, dominating male knows all the answers.
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It's also the classic feminine urge to pin horns on the masculine cranium. I
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won my horns by parking overtime outside Grand Central Station. I'd gone in to
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see if the mayor was making good on his promise to keep the trains running
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on time. I came out to find a summons tied to my wind shear
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wifer, a green ticket, the fifteen dollars variety ouch in my car.
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I found something more had been added to liven up my humdrum existence, a
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QP doll painted a rainbow pink with sorcer eyes and blowing so many cents over
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me. I got an immediate perfumed jay, isn't there some mistake? No,
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you didn't mistake this for public hike? No, then I'm in the
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wrong car, are you? I'll check well, keys fit the ignition,
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the car belongs to me. Oh, how wonderful. But you don't,
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oh said honey funny. I always wonder just how the future missus Barry Craig
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would happen along, run into me turning a corner, or come to me
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with a letter of introduction from my uncle Hesse in Alentown. You're disappointed.
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It's like this I'm frightened. Frightened, my blood pressure ten more points,
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and I'm flying with the angel. Oh, then you like me. We'll
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get married and have six kids. Seven. Seven's a lot of laundry.
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We'll live in the country. I'm allergic to marigold. A picture wall looking
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out on green fields comes August. I sneeze and my eyes get rid of.
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We'll name the children Tommy, not all six of them. Seven.
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I did want one daughter. What will I call you when I'm hunting high
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and low for my coupling series? And when I want help with the separate
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dishes Berry? And when we toast marshmallows and the mists about how we came
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to meet? What should I remember? How I hid in your car to
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escape the dragon. The dragon a repulsive little man who follows me. Where
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did he follow you from last Connecticut? He was on the train from Connecticut
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to my car. Yes, I see where is mister repulsive? Right now?
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Behind us, behind us in the gray kupe. He's waiting to follow
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us. When you pull away, I'll fix that. Oh. No,
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I'm Samson. I break heads like match slee. There's no violence, nothing
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to spoil the fun we're having. Oh, I feel so good. Oh
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I haven't felt good for such a long time. So what do I do?
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Just take me away with a chaperone on our tail. You're capable,
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clever, huh. I shake guys like saw out of a shakeout. I
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knew you were equal to the dragon. For every block he hangs on over
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ten, you can paint a zebra stripe on me. In no time,
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I had more zebra stripes than the skin. The repulsive dragon hung on for
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ten blocks, then thirty more, then threw the Holland tunnel Way into Jersey.
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I hung up for a new highway speed record, but the Great Kupe
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stayed in the money. You're a dragon, drives like he was born to
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the wheel. But you were so much better all of a sudden, Baby,
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I'm not so sure. I got off the highway, snaked up and
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down deserted side roads. I followed the moon across rocks and stumps of forests
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like my car was a jeep. But the Great Coupe hung on, hung
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on close enough to point up the risks in my undertaking. The dragon's spitting
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fire at his baby. He's shooting at your tire. You're wrong about the
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tires, old very, you've been hit. How are you gonna like me
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with a dimpled elbow in front of them like this with a nice lush target.
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Well, you're not stopping. I run out of road, dead end
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ahead. We can't, very, Look, he's crashed. Hey he has.
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I will teach him to shoot and drive at the same time. He
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ran into a tree. Remind me to kiss the tree. Let's go off
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for our condolences. Wait, I almost forgot. Uh got a dime handy?
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Oh yes, here, I'm flowing at the Finnegan for luck. He
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was Finegan who made the gray Kupet crash in the nick of time. Oh
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you understand, Yes, Finnegan's you're a good angel. Oh I almost forgot
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too. You seem a quarter I'm throwing at the missus Ruebelheimer, my good
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angel. You're growing on me, baby, no question about it. You're
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really growing on me. The Great Gupei was telescope, like an accordion.
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Getting the unconscious dragon out of the wrect was like breaking into a sardine can
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with your fingernails. And now kept applauding the show. Let's park at dragon,
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small hands and davy feet and the emaitiated look of a guy who went
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hungry on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. How badly is he? He could
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be worse, he could be dead contusions when he comes to he's going to
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hate that word. Your elbow. Only a nick that can wait. Buster
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here is really emergency. I've got to get him to a hospital if he
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keeps bleeding, and dragon will change toward zombie right in front of us.
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Conclusions weren't half the medical jargon? The patients and an oxygen tents to Craig,
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what's the diagnosis? Multiple injuries to the head, conditional paralysis of the
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reflexes due to severe concussion. Ooh here, recover athologically is what does that
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mean as an aftermath of trauma? There? Maybe psychiatric complications meaning a memory
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lapse, an amnesia. Well, oh maybe not. Maybe it's a blessing.
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Maybe Buster has more I'd like to forget than remember. His name appears
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to be Reuben Clark. Yeah, that's the name on the label sold inside
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his coat with no other identification address and airst of kin. No, as
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I've already said, I looked for a wallet. Oddly enough, he wasn't
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carrying one. The hospital will need more information for a police report. I've
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told you all I know. I was out driving with my girl and heard
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this crash behind me. A great coufe out of control, had folded against
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a tree. I played good Samaritan, That's all I is. He's in
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your hands now, Doc, so well give him the poor treatment. Huh.
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Get a perfumed jag on and your brain takes to the hills. It
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happens to a bachelor pushing forteen, that weak moment when single bless suddenly has
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the feeling of solitary confinement. Oh, you were wonderful rescuing me. The
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congressional metal goes to that tree. Do what you did for me in blind
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faith. Also history, men have gone blind and boneheaded over a cup doll
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Mark Anthony, for instance. Oh maybe you kiss like you took a graduate
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course. No man has ever risked himself for me before. The man in
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your past must have been eighty and over. I've never before had a champion
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tire, a blue ribbon around my neck, and U fifty dunce cap at
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a rakish angle duns kep blind faith, you said I could be promoting a
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horse lab but myself. Then fill in a few reassuring facts. Facts.
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The delirious Drake and I palmed off on a hospital Reuben Clark, Who is
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he? I'm not sure do you think he is? I think a man
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in the hire of my guardian. And what's the problem with your guardian?
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I don't think I want to talk about it. It's too late for reluctance.
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Baby. I've taken too big a bite of your life. He's mistreated
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me, hurt me, get me prisoner, confine me to my room,
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always underwatch. He wants to marry me. There was money, many,
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many valuable things left to both of us when my parents died, and Guardian
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once all of it through a marriage to Yuri. Who or why run?
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Why not stand up to him? Get to a lawyer, go to the
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police. I can't. He's clever, my guardian, devilishly clever and determined
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the land of the free. We paid judges to step on work, getting
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to have me put away if I oppose him, if I keep refusing to
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marry him, what do you mean? Put away in a sanitarium. He's
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bribe people, all servants, even old friends, to swear that I'm mentally
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irresponsible. Who nice guy? You got him? I have no way of
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fighting him. Fairly. You've got me. Oh, thank you so much.
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But I don't want to fight him. Procrastination. Baby doesn't want to
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hide and rest. Not think today and tomorrow, Just just not think.
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I've been trapped in a nightmare and in a hideous nice Sure, sure you
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have. It's up to your ears. You want to breathe nothing, get
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thread over, Just past the time and have fun like the fun we were
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having six kids, Steven doing this breather? Where do you want to be?
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Anywhere where only you can find? Okay? I know a country shack
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owned by a friend of mine over at Scotch Plains. It won't be in
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use until May first, and I know where the key is. Oh,
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you wonderful. You'll be the guest of a certain Lieutenant Trev Rodgers. Only
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he won't know it. It's Rogers shack. I'll stuck you up at groceries
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and look in now and then I'll take you over to it. Just one
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more effect file away. Who and where is your guardian? I'm rather a
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prince. No, you can trust me my word on it. I won't
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make a move until you agree to it. My guardian is Jeffrey Fley.
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We live in tuxedo, go Heights, Connecticut. Back in my office,
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I got my first three of indication. That boy girl woo who sometimes that
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goes back? Oh wow? An uninvited caller mail thirty about a flashy dresser
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and a pepmin striped shirt, gray suede gloves, and Nickel played a revolver
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you Bury Craig, uh no, what do you may know? This is
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Craig joff he Shaws. I took over this morning. I'm a distant cousin.
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Then where's Craig passed away? Craig? Yeah, all of a sudden
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at the two am this morning? What are you giving me? The obituary?
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Into your pocket and throw your wallet on the desk. I I want
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to chick if so happens, I'm carrying Craig's wallet to turn it over to
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the estate. Where's your Dame? Dame? You're asking for something, Craig.
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Your arm will get stiff pointing that gun. I've got a heat lamp
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home. Oh you don't want to talk about the Dame. I've got a
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block against discussing women. I was a retarded that lessened wan to talk about
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the truck dead Dame. Famous battles of history. Then dead dame. You
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know hot man, the please get over to the window. The window,
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open it. You can't flow guys out of windows. The sanitation cold literally
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in the sidewalk. You'll be sucked five bucks and magistrate's caught. Open the
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window, comedian, now close it close. It's what the daughter cover.
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Yes, smart, figured out yourself. I just did. Who is I
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signaling the big guy? He'll be up to talk to you later, later
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after I self, And yeah, you can talk politely to the big guy.
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You don't like wise cracking comedians. Now lie down on the floor.
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What four so I can get at your head standing up, I can't reach
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you here. You are kind of short for a muscle man bending over the
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dice all the time I was a kid. Grew down and said, you'll
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lie down, Craig nice, Eh, you can close the safety catch on
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your gun. I'll lie down, nice Now tell me a funny story while
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I what. I awoke in a fog, a cigar fog, clouds of
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strong tobacco blowing in my face. I found a face behind the cigar.
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After a while, her moon face with a contented smile, like men smile
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after dealing themselves a royal flush in Spain. Hey, keep that stink weight
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in my face and I'll be gassed to death. It's fine Cuban tobacco,
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but I'm no Cuban. Let's talk, Craig. Let's talk about the beating
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I survived. My deepest apologies. The dude is a continual embarrassment to me.
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The dude, huh. I've tried to teach him moderation and restraint.
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Tell you all, what about teaching for ten minutes? All right? I
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will joke. I don't know where I fit into your game. I'll tell
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you. Automobile license number b C one hundred New York honorary plates issued to
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Barry Craig. So your automobile. I saw a certain young lady get into
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it yesterday it pulled away. Unfortunately, before I could formulate strategy in pursuit,
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I lost the car in traffic. So this morning I identified you as
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the owner of the car. Where's the girl, Craig, I don't know.
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She thanked me for the lift and got off at battery place. I
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don't think, so you'll have to take my word out of it temporarily.
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Perhaps I'm fairly resourceful at proving liars to be liars the dudes. I'm wary
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right now. I'm also a vindictive man when lied to my one great failing
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who hasn't got one flaw in his cat. You're a practical man, Craig.
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Is that a cash bribe? Developing modest gesture of goodwill? One thousand
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dollars? Keep your money in your pocket. You're not tempted, only curious
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what makes the girl worth a grand on the hoof? That doesn't concern you.
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It had better not concern you. You're a fool, Craig, loachin
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Va, riding for a fall. Who's lochan va? You're championing a girl
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you know nothing about whatever she told you, Craig, you can be sure
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it's pure invention. I'm only sure you're after and you ring cut of it.
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Craig, I warn you. And that stooge and a pepmint shirt you
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use for a calling card. You do already think you can whistle me over
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to your side, all right? Hide the girl, play the hero.
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I am the idiot. There's a keg of dynamite under you, Craig,
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if only you could free your eyes of stardust. Y can't get dynamite.
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The phrase kept repeating in my head until it gave me the willie. How
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much of the truth had QP told me? I began to wonder information.
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Will you get me the phone number of a Jeffrey Foley Tuxedo grow Heights,
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Connecticut. Later in the afternoon, I went calling on love Rock in Vall's
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hair, baby, with a sack full of groceries, wax beans, salmon
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rush, bluebellies, vintage jeff bagels, enough food to keep you hiding out
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for a month. I take my hat first time, the dunce cap.
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I hate myself in it. Take it off me, baby, very what's
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happened? I tried to telephone that wicked old guardian of yours. You tried
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to Jeffrey Foley of Tuxedo Grove Heights, Connecticut. There's no Touxedo Grove Heights
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anywhere on the map of Connecticut. I lied tell me something I don't know,
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but only about the address. What's the real address at Cranberry Hills,
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Pennsylvania? Why do you lie about the address? I wasn't sure I could
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trust you, really trust you, baby? Come here. I've confided people
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only to have them used me extort money. Two guys dropped in on me
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today looking for you. They barely stopped short of murder. I came out
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here by way of Planet X to shake them. You must be quite a
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prized to rate two homicidal retrievers like my morning callers one million dollars Berry,
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you state my guardian is trying to steal one million dollars a million dollars.
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I knew that love when it came would be nothing trivial, but I never
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dreamed it would have a dun in Bradstreet rating a perfume doll cries on your
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shoulder and reality drowns in a tub of tears. Keupy knew away to my
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heart like there was a neon sign on my chest saying enter here. When
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love let go of my throat long enough, I took a half hearted whack
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at confidential investigating. I did some more snip checking on Cupie the repulsive Dragon.
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Reuben Clarke, I wanted his version of events positions has shown extraordinary improvement,
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mister Greig, Is he conscious? Doct Yes? I want to talk
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to him. I don't know. Think the first story I told you I
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thinned it down a little. The fact is this, uh huh so don't
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pump me, doctor, I'm engaged in operation top secret. I can't give
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out facts until I wrapped up the case. Of course, which door do
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we go through? A dragon talked like a guy kicking himself around the block.
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I first saw the girl on the train, Serice Foley. I never
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knew her name. Oh no, let me tell it my own way,
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all right, tell it. While I was in the club car, she
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sat across the aisle for me, looking peculiar, looking peculiar, a little
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looney, humming little ditties, then winking over to me, then laughing to
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herself. Are we talking about the same girl? Look, I'm talking about
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the chick you made me chase all over Jersey. Keep talking the way it
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was. I figured an easy pick up. You're trying awfully hard bust on
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the snowice. You asked me to tell you, and I'm telling you,
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okay, tell me. Well, I'm a guy like any other guy,
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good looker like this chick wants to be sociable, So I stop embroidering at
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buster. What would you do? Marryo or something? You took the seat
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beside her, then, what, Well? We got to talk and getting
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acquainted. I told her how I was a hardware salesman freshing from Bangham to
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I don't want to know your pedigree. She told me she was Princess something
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or other, traveling in cognita. What word am I muffin? Incognito?
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Incognito? Well, her uncle was a maharaja somewhere and she was here on
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a secret mission for him to raise cash. She said. The maharaja was
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stone book. You're making us up. Well, I thought she was until
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I got a picking of that overnight bag she kept on her lap. What
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was in the bag? Jewls? The stuff the maharaja sent her here to
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sell off jewels. Mission enough jewels to make you go clean off your rocket
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like you went, yeah, like I went uppy. Confirmed the fact of
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the jewels. Yes, I have jewels, many many jewels, bracelets,
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coaches, rings, right here, mon bag see of course, where did
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you get them? I asked, where did you get them? You're hurting
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no phony stories about a guardian or Amara Roger. I want the truth.
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I stold them. Jeffrey Foley of Cranberry Hills, Pennsylvania. He really lives
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in Meadow Farms, New York. I worked for mister Foley as an upstairs
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girl. You are maid. Yes, he was a brute, and missus
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Foley too. They mistreated me, humiliated me. So you made off with
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a fortune and jewels. Baby, put your hands out nice and straight my
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hands. I'm handcuffing you and tying you up, So you stay putting my
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absence? Where are you going away from that sweet sappy, daffy kisser of
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yours? So I can think grand larceny, baby, with yours truly accessory.
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After the fact, I thought it, over stood over it, and
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wound up telling it to Lieutenant Trev Rodgers. So love finally came to Barry
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Craig. If you have to rub it in, what brand of smokes do
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you want sent to the state pen? Give me an ounce, an out
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like a deal quietly arranged this Foley gets his jewels back and he doesn't proscute.
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Where's the girl and swag? Now? When I tell you don't blow
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a fuse? What's that supposed to mean? Your shack up in Scotch Plains
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where you were cool off July and August? What about my shack? The
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girl's been hiding out there. She's there now, Craig, of all the
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crush if I didn't think you'd mind, you didn't think i'd mind a common
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thief and a moon struck Admira and an accomplice. I've Craig, you're under
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arrest, and so is your Cupie Dow a minute, I arrived in Scotch
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planes but it didn't end like that. As it turned out, after some
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nice police handling, I had a couple of new wallops, a couple of
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new surprises in store. The first surprise was handed me by a solemn faced
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fellow wearing a white coat and a white beard, a doctor. I'd been
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brought to a place called Hopewell Rest, a sanitarium by Trev Rodgers. This
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is doctor Kempner, a psychiatrist, Doctor Tellantter Craig. Yes, and he's
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the kig. I am a clean little The details of your curious experience with
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the Sea's Fully, the daughter of mister and missus Jeffrey Fully Daughter. Now
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wait a minute, doctor Craig, hear the doctor out. Okay, the
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story of the Jews and her position as a maid with a pure fabrication.
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Part of shall I say, her newest hallucination, Lewist hallucination. The young
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lady has been a mental patient on the McKay for some time. She hallucinates
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many many things. The Jews belong to her father. She immediately appropriated them
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in this latest escapade. Two guys who worked over me. Who were they?
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I'll answer that they were private detectives hired by the father to recover the
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jewels and his daughter without publicity. They'll play rough for private detectives. They
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promised fee was twenty five thousand dollars. The fee had them a little over
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eager, Serice, she's here well, the salitary yes, and she is
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confined. Shall I see her? Surprise? Number two added some gray hairs
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to the few I already had. I watched the doctor walk CUPI doll taught
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me hello baby. The doc tells me you'll do okay, and I'm rooting
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for you. Who is this man? Doctor? I watched her stare at
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me blankly, stare through me, and walk away. You see, mister
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cake, she looked right through me as if she didn't know me. She
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does not know you. That is another symptom in a hallucinations, an element
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of any jur Shall we see she forgets the escapade and her companion in it
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totally. You mean she'll never remember me, never know me. I mean
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you must forget her. How good pinned for the day and now it is
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another day. You'll get over Gray. It hurt a while, but you'll
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get over. Yeah, I'll get over that track you made travel What was
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it again? Yeah? Love comes to Barry Craig to night, folks,
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See you next week. You've been listening to William Gargan in another exciting transcribed
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mystery drama from the adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator. The night story
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A Time to Kill was written by John Robert. Next week it's the strange
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story titled Motive for Murder, about which Barry Craig has this to say.
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Next week, death flies the Atlantic from Lisbon to New York, a corpse
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breaks the bank for forty million dollars, and yours truly almost sprouts wings.
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See you next week. Book featured in the role of series was Arline Blackburn.
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Barry Craig, starring William Gargan was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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This is Don Pardo speaking Next. Robert Montgomery presents something different in news analysis
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on NBC Welcome Back, Well. This remains a favorite of mine. I
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think Michael hit it the nail right on the head. There's such a terrific
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dialogue here, and I really like the way the plot on this one just
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twisted and turned because it really to me, it's always you know, I've
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listened to this about three or four times now and it never fails to move
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me. When we've reached the end and the psychiatrists delivers that line, but
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today is another day. You know, it brings it home. And it
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was a surprise too, just because of the entire tone of the episode.
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This was, you know, wonderfully written and perfectly paced, well played by
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a Gargain throughout as Craig is clearly falling for the girl. You saw that
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kind of in the where he was talking to the dragon, such a memorable
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characterization when they were talking about the whole idea of burbing interested in a pickup,
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and overall it just becomes such a beautifully tragic story of Starcross love.
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You don't usually get that sort of emotional depth from your everyday program, and
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they just did such a good job on it, and it really is worth
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noting. NBC tried so many detective stories from the early to mid fifties,
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and some of them are pretty interesting and our listeners loved them. Near a
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Wolf, The Big Guy, Mister Motto, Rocky Fortune, Crime and Peter
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Chambers Easy Money, The Adventures of the Abbots, And despite the best efforts
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and some actually pretty good, enjoyable performances, is shows were all done after
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one season. Barry Craig launched in nineteen fifty one, managed to stay on
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the year four seasons that just simply did not happen with the detective shows launched
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from nineteen fifty on work over the NBC network, and you get a real
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taste here for why Barry Craig was able to outlast the rest. All right,
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well, that will do it for today. If you want to enjoy
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more episodes of Barry Craig, go to our archives archives dot Great Detectives dot
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net and we have links to the Barry Craig page and the Barry Craig feet
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where you can download all the Barry Craig episodes we brought to you, as
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well as William Gargan's previous series which wasn't quite as good but still worth a
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listen, Ideal and Crime. We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny
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Doller and we'll announce what show we'll come to Mondays following the conclusion of the
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three part Johnny Dollar or five part Johnny Dollar serials. As our listener support
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Your financial support definitely appreciated. From Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
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Adam Grahamson and off