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  Speaker 1: On December fifteenth, nineteen fifty, NBC brought listeners episode nine
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  Speaker 1: of the New Adventures of Nero Wolf. Sidney green Street
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  Speaker 1: stars as Wolf, with Lawrence Dobkin as Archie Goodwin. In
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  Speaker 1: The Girl Who Cried Wolf, Mary Dunning, secretary to the
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  Speaker 1: missing executive director of an ecological foundation, comes to Wolfe's
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  Speaker 1: New York brownstone for help. Wolfe doubts her account at first,
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  Speaker 1: while Archie finds the disappearance, leading them into the affairs
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  Speaker 1: of the foundation and those around its leadership. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Stay tune for Nero Wolf, transcribed later this evening. The
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  Speaker 2: unique mister Monty Woolley stars once again in the new
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  Speaker 2: comedy series The Magnificent Montague, the delightful saga of an
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  Speaker 2: embittered Shakespearean ham. After many triumphant years on the stage,
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  Speaker 2: the Magnificent Montacue now portrays Uncle Goodheart, the hero of
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  Speaker 2: a radio serial. Trials and Tribulations are thirty minutes of
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  Speaker 2: delightful listening over most of these NBC stations, and today,
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  Speaker 2: being Friday, means another visit to Duffy's Tavern, where Archie,
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  Speaker 2: the manager, presides over another sparkling session of mischief and madness.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The ringing of that phone bell means adventure. Hello. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: The young man answering the phone is Archie Goodwin. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is near a Wolf's office. The mountain of a
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  Speaker 2: man in the oversized armchair staring at Archie with a
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  Speaker 2: beady eye is Nero Wolf. Mister Wolf is in. Mister
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  Speaker 2: Wolf is always in. What are he's staying? Until he
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  Speaker 2: would at you in? And as she sounds blonde, don't
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  Speaker 2: believe I can tell over the phone. Okay, excuse me, miss,
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  Speaker 2: but are you blonde? Oh? Go ahead and laugh thang
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  Speaker 2: you mister Wolf will see you goodbye. I did not
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  Speaker 2: say no, but you will. Besides, she wasn't blonde, and
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  Speaker 2: I want you to see you red. She better think
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  Speaker 2: of some new ones.
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  Speaker 3: Ridiculous, Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: It's the bulkiest, balkiest, smartest and most unpredictable detective in
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  Speaker 2: the world, that chairborn genius, Nero Wolf, created by Restaud
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  Speaker 2: and brought to you in a new series of adventures
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  Speaker 2: over this NBC network, in the person of mister Sydney
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  Speaker 2: Green Street. Tonight, It's the case of the Girl who
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  Speaker 2: Cried Wolf in the old brownstone house in thirty fifth Street.
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  Speaker 2: My boss, Nero Wolf, with all his three hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 2: sits at his desk from which he runs his world.
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  Speaker 2: We have been patiently waiting for the lady client. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a knock at the door, and I admit her
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful, frightened and red headed girl. Mister Wolf, Mister
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  Speaker 2: Nero Wolf, not by one hundred and sixty pounds. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Archie Goodwin.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I spoke to you on the phone. I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm Mary Dunning, mister Goodwin.
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering if he's in. He's always in. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: we'll try getting him to admit it. This is mister Wolf,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Mary Dunning. How do you do? Miss Denning? Here?
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  Speaker 2: Take this red leather chair. It's a nice match for
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  Speaker 2: your hair, goes old doctor Titmouse has said to me
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  Speaker 2: be aware of a red headed woman. But I never
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  Speaker 2: could villain your business. Miss Danny. Do you mean what
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  Speaker 2: I do or or why I've come to you? Both
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  Speaker 2: of you? Please?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm to Stephen's secretary at the Talaver Ecological Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Our offices are down on East.
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  Speaker 5: Twelfth Ecological fear as her chas the factors operating on
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  Speaker 5: plant and animal development and survival.
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  Speaker 2: Argy animal development, Miss Dunning.
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  Speaker 5: The Foundation has several agricultural research projects throughout the country,
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  Speaker 5: hasn't it.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, mister Wolf and Donald Stevens's executive director, or
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  Speaker 4: was until he's disappeared. It's been three days now. He
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  Speaker 4: has not been near the office nor his apartment. No
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  Speaker 4: message or apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Steven's been living alone.
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  Speaker 4: He's a bachelor. He's engaged to Laura Tolliver. She's a
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  Speaker 4: cousin of the original Tolliver's, but she doesn't know where
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  Speaker 4: he is.
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  Speaker 2: Either. Have you come to me or Laura Tolliver's account
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  Speaker 2: or I am mahalf of the foundation.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well neither, mister Wolf. I'm just worried. And i'd
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  Speaker 4: heard of you as one of the finest private detectives
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  Speaker 4: in New York.
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  Speaker 5: You heard of me, Miss Dunning. We see that you're here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I still fair to understand why.
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  Speaker 4: But I've told you mister Stevens has dropped out of sight.
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  Speaker 4: And there's another thing. The last time I saw him,
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  Speaker 4: he had a caller with him in his office.
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  Speaker 2: Caller male female. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We're in a converted old Brownstone House, and well, the
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  Speaker 4: way the officers are laid out, I don't see all
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  Speaker 4: the people who come in unless they make a point
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  Speaker 4: of coming to my desk.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: All I know is that mister Stephens stepped out for
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  Speaker 4: a moment, looking either scared or angry, I couldn't be
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  Speaker 4: sure which, and asked me to see if there was
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  Speaker 4: a policeman at the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Which corner? Gee continue, Miss Dunny.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I started to go, and there were low voices
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  Speaker 4: arguing from the inner office, and then mister Stevens called
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  Speaker 4: me not to bother then why? He said I could
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  Speaker 4: go ahead and take my lunch hour. Then, so I did,
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  Speaker 4: And when I came back.
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  Speaker 5: He was gone, leaving no message. Leaving no message, And
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  Speaker 5: you've heard of him since.
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  Speaker 4: I've tried all over by phone going out myself, Miss Danning.
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  Speaker 5: Has mister Stevens been in the habit of making extended business.
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  Speaker 4: Trips well, once in a while to our research stations
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  Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania or New Jersey or up in Vermont, but
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  Speaker 4: not without letting me know I have to make out
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  Speaker 4: his travel vouchers.
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  Speaker 5: Has there been any recent travel at the foundation? Trouble,
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  Speaker 5: financial trouble, personal trouble. No, there's been no trouble, Miss Danning.
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  Speaker 5: You're wasting my time in yours. This is the problem
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  Speaker 5: for the police if there is a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, mister Wolfe, I'd have gone to the police,
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  Speaker 4: except well, if there should.
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  Speaker 2: Be an innocent explanation.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't seem fair to the Foundation to risk the
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  Speaker 4: unpleasant publicity I said.
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  Speaker 2: For the police. Oh wait a minute, mister wolf it's
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  Speaker 2: yours say so. But when a girl walks in here and.
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  Speaker 5: Ask a young lady kinderpart by the use the same
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  Speaker 5: rather trim legs that carried her here at you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh now, luck boss. Just because I is dunning, I
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  Speaker 2: can think of a dozen reasons and might take your bed.
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  Speaker 5: You're the director out of town for a few days
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  Speaker 5: without the formality of explaining his.
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  Speaker 2: Actions, then you won't look into this despite.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Goodwin's fans, No should mister Stevens not turn up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: So I suggest you advise the police or whatever attorney
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  Speaker 5: acts for the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: There is such a person.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, Yes, Joona's doubt is counsel. He's also a
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  Speaker 4: coke trustee.
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  Speaker 2: Concert him then by all means. But you don't seem
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  Speaker 2: to understand he If.
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  Speaker 5: You will excuse me, I'm over you for an important
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  Speaker 5: conference with my cook. You've just received a shipment of
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  Speaker 5: truffles from France.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course, if.
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  Speaker 5: It's Wolf, If you ask me precisely what I've refrained
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  Speaker 5: from doing, Archie, would you be good enough to escort
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  Speaker 5: Miss Dunning to the door.
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  Speaker 2: To the door, Archie, good night, Miss Dunning, good night,
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  Speaker 2: good night, and thanks just the same. Look, mister Wolf,
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  Speaker 2: it's your shop and you can get as surly as
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  Speaker 2: you please. But can you give me one excuse for
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  Speaker 2: that high handed brush, one thin shred of an excuse?
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  Speaker 2: Miss Dunning was sitting in this chair, was lying, Aggie, lying,
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  Speaker 2: how can you say?
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  Speaker 5: At least twice and possibly from the moment you opened
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  Speaker 5: it undeniably pretty maud. Now, if you would excuse me, Aggie,
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  Speaker 5: I have an appointment.
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  Speaker 2: With a truffle. You see, you have a surprise with me, Agie,
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  Speaker 2: enough to yank you three inches out of that chair.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the girl was here last night, Mary Dunning, you
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  Speaker 2: see man win the internet me forget her. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: took off on my own this morning to check up
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  Speaker 2: on that foundation setup.
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  Speaker 5: Good Agie. I ventured a small bit with Fritz that
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  Speaker 5: you would all right see if you bet included this.
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  Speaker 5: I found Stevens down there, right in his office, missing
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  Speaker 5: executive direct.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and the missing mister. Stevens claimed he had just
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  Speaker 2: been in a business trip, delayed getting back because his
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  Speaker 2: card been smacked by a hit and run driver in
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey. Now here's the payoff. He even tried to
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  Speaker 2: make out that he'd been thinking of calling you went
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  Speaker 2: enough problem He didn't run accident. No know something about
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  Speaker 2: the foundation, but I didn't waste time letting him cloud
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  Speaker 2: it up for us. The point is actually you brought
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  Speaker 2: him here of course Stevens. No, he's still down there.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to grab him before the day is out,
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  Speaker 2: but I had something more important to run down first.
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  Speaker 2: It took me three calls on the way up here,
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  Speaker 2: but you can take it as confirmed. We've still got
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  Speaker 2: a disappearance case, and this one you're not sitting out.
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  Speaker 2: And who has disappeared now, Mary Dunning. Stevens is back.
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  Speaker 2: But Mary's gone, not at the office, not at her
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  Speaker 2: rooming house, and none of her clothes are taken. How'd
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  Speaker 2: you get going? Put a police call out on Mary?
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  Speaker 5: Back to twelfth Street and get Stevens out of that
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  Speaker 5: office and up here as fast.
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  Speaker 2: As you can.
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  Speaker 5: iPhone him you are on the way.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Stevens. Yes, this is Donald Stevens is near a wolf.
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  Speaker 2: I understand you've been thinking of concerning me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, as a matter of fact, I have, mister Wolf.
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  Speaker 6: I started to explain to mister Goodwin.
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  Speaker 2: But are you alone here at the office? Why? Well, yes,
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  Speaker 2: as it happens, be careful. I don't think your car
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  Speaker 2: smash up as an accident. I've just said, mister Goodwin
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  Speaker 2: to ask you to come here. Meanwhile, I had.
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  Speaker 6: Sug yes, Oh, excuse me, mister Wolf. There seems to
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  Speaker 6: be someone coming in now.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, mister Stevens, there's meantime for ask you to get there.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, mister Wolf. Hold the wire moment. Wait, mister Stephens,
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  Speaker 6: come on in. I haven't had a chance yet.
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  Speaker 2: What no, no, God, And that's all Inspector Kramer has
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  Speaker 2: been able to make of it.
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  Speaker 5: Our dream not to hear him tell it, But that's
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  Speaker 5: all he's got, Stephen, Dad, and the girl's still missy.
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  Speaker 5: Did you find anything helpful at the office?
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  Speaker 2: I think the murderer started to tear up some account
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  Speaker 2: books and project ledgers. But I must have scared him
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  Speaker 2: away when I rang the bell couldn't have been more
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  Speaker 2: than three or four minutes after the shooting. When I
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  Speaker 2: got there, did you twur an one? The murderer can
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  Speaker 2: cover a lot of ground in three or four minutes.
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  Speaker 5: You were naturally by accident, since it is merely illegal.
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  Speaker 5: You had a good look at the day man, a
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  Speaker 5: very good look. Not to mention his pockets anything particular.
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  Speaker 2: There was a half eaten package of life savers in
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  Speaker 2: the left hand trouser pocket. What's particular about that? The
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  Speaker 2: flavor was lying. I hate line.
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  Speaker 5: Frey PAGII called Jonas Dowd last Nay, the foundation lawyer. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: he set up the original charter under which Donald Stevens
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  Speaker 5: operated with an annual friend of ninety thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Ecology has its attractions, ninety thousand attractions, to be precise.
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  Speaker 5: It indicates a possible reason for Steven's murder. He was
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  Speaker 5: in so charge of that money.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody donated three thirty eight Coba bullets to him, hardly
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  Speaker 2: a token of appreciation.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps, However, the shooting followed the attempt to stage an
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  Speaker 5: automobile accident aargie I sent so panz on an Eden
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  Speaker 5: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Saul's expensive. True, he's the best man in the shadow
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  Speaker 2: job there is You've got something huh possibility an angle
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  Speaker 2: I cat handle.
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  Speaker 5: Apart from your natural preference for curves, you more than
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  Speaker 5: work enough here in New York, finding Mary dunning for
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  Speaker 5: a starter or her body or her body?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: May be?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what Saul's on picking up a line on.
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  Speaker 5: Mary among amateur saws is buying me some special groceries
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  Speaker 5: at the city market.
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  Speaker 2: You frown aargie, I glower, But okay, play it cozy.
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  Speaker 2: You can send Saul off the Stockholm for Smarkes board
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  Speaker 2: for all I care. I'm still asking what about Stevens
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  Speaker 2: and what about Mary? Where do we start?
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  Speaker 5: I'm expecting Lord Tolliver, the heiress and the son of
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  Speaker 5: Jonas dowed here. Within a few minutes, Jernis died himself.
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  Speaker 5: Proude is difficult to from the offices.
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  Speaker 2: As you generally are from this one. All good for
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  Speaker 2: old Jonas. Wait a minute, though he said a son
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  Speaker 2: was coming, would that be Peter Dowd?
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  Speaker 5: It would be he could I attributed to pass a
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  Speaker 5: second bottle of bier. It's your third stop auditing the
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  Speaker 5: Agie you reacted to the name of Peter Dowd.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I asked why Kramer is ahead of you on
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  Speaker 2: that pitch. He's had Peter Dowd downtown already and learn
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  Speaker 2: playboy used to be in love with Laura Tulliver now
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  Speaker 2: in line to take over Stephen's tidy twenty thousand a
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  Speaker 2: year salary as executive director. Take over free Peter Dowdes.
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  Speaker 2: No ecolloges. He's got more important qualifications. His old man
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  Speaker 2: and Laura Tulliver are co trustees under the Tolliver will,
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  Speaker 2: and the director can be anybody they name, Agie. He's
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  Speaker 2: how prejudiced against young mister Dowd. Yeah, that's what Kramer said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just naturally suspicious of anybody who stood to pick
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  Speaker 2: up twenty grand a year plus a whack at the
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  Speaker 2: ninety thousand a year in house money just by throwing
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  Speaker 2: three thirty eight Caliba slugs into Stephen's particularly after getting
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  Speaker 2: rid of Mary Dunning to clear the way.
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  Speaker 5: You pray still have no needs understunning A for effort
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  Speaker 5: Z for results now the way I say it for
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  Speaker 5: leg work now, chie guess is leader you might try
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  Speaker 5: Miss Dunning's Dan leady again for one.
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  Speaker 2: And try Peter Down's apartment. Now, yes, I had say,
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  Speaker 2: going on and keep after the missing girl instead of
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  Speaker 2: sifting through the names in Stephen's appointment book you were
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  Speaker 2: asking about.
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  Speaker 5: It's two legs of the same animal names may help
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  Speaker 5: on the girl.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Archie on your way.
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  Speaker 5: Come in, mister, Yes, come in, mister Tulliver, mister sit down.
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  Speaker 5: As good of you both to come, Miss Tulliver. I'm
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  Speaker 5: profoundly sorry of your loss. You were to marry mister Stevens,
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  Speaker 5: as I understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, two weeks from today.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to warn will Stephen just as the
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  Speaker 5: murderer came in, but he evidently knew his caller well.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to feel no alarm.
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  Speaker 7: The police told us that, mister wolf We've just come
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  Speaker 7: from Inspector Kramer's office.
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  Speaker 5: I know, mister Dowd. Did you gather the inspector meant
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  Speaker 5: to see you again?
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  Speaker 2: Why should he?
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  Speaker 8: How could anyone think that well that Peter could have
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  Speaker 8: anything to do with this horrible business.
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  Speaker 2: I see that you have no doubts about mister Dowd.
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  Speaker 7: Here, mister Toleimy, you see Laura, Yes, mister Wolfe, I
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  Speaker 7: gathered that Kramer was interested in me.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a man outside here watching us. Now you got.
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  Speaker 5: Alert, mister Dowd, of what are aware that Inspector Kramer
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  Speaker 5: may have grounds for keeping you under surveillance?
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  Speaker 7: Look, mister Wolf, I didn't come here to be put
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  Speaker 7: through the jumps again.
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  Speaker 2: First, Kramer, are now you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm acting for the dodd of a foundation, Mister Dowd,
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  Speaker 5: I have been since your father attained.
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  Speaker 2: Me last night. Why jump on me, then, young man
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  Speaker 2: and my age? And wait?
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  Speaker 5: The chances of my jumping on anyone are about as
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  Speaker 5: likely as well as unlikely as to expect that you
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  Speaker 5: are not still in love with miss Laura Klaver.
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  Speaker 2: Here, mister Wolf, we haven't admitted that it was miss Tylerver.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Tulliver, you have concerned a moment ago at the
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  Speaker 5: possibility that this young man might be charged with Stevens
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  Speaker 5: murder White.
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  Speaker 2: I'm minute, mister Wolf. Climb back on me if you want,
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  Speaker 2: but let Laura alone. If you're trying to I.
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  Speaker 5: Am no longer changed to Now do you both confirm
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  Speaker 5: the point for me?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 7: I am still in love with Laura, and I think
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  Speaker 7: Laura's known ever since she accepted Stephens ring that well,
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  Speaker 7: that their engagement was a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: What are you gonna make of that? Did Stevens know
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  Speaker 2: you hadn't given that bone, Mourner?
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  Speaker 5: I told him twice. I even went down to the
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  Speaker 5: Foundation just just to when mister this morning, when I
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  Speaker 5: was telephoned Stevens, for.
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  Speaker 7: Example, I haven't been near the Foundation office for days.
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  Speaker 7: I've well, i've been out of town.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Wolf. You have no right to twist and turn everything,
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  Speaker 2: Peter says.
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  Speaker 7: I do love him, But Laura, that's the first time
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  Speaker 7: you've come right out with it.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Peter. I've wanted to tell you a thousand times, yes,
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  Speaker 8: but well, you kept going away on all those trips,
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  Speaker 8: and I never knew whether it was for some other
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  Speaker 8: girl or.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Dowd Miss Darlan. How could this tender exchge be postponed?
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  Speaker 5: Tell you to find yourselves alone.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead, mister Wilpe, ask anything you want, as long
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  Speaker 7: as I know it's all.
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  Speaker 5: Right with Laura here now and he's spoken, mister Doward,
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: May I ask about Mary?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Eh? What's Mary unning got to do with this? I'm
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: glad you're aware of the Mary I am in.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Well, well, I've met her at the foundation.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Of course, we've all heard she's missing. You couldn't suggest
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: where she might be. How would Peter know.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Let's return to mister Stevens. Can either of you explain
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: his three days absence from the city. I've been out
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: of town myself, miss Dollvant.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: He could have been inspecting any one of the research plans.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: He didn't tell me. If that's what you mean.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Stephens said this morning he had been willing to consult me.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: You can't see just.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: Why, well, no, I can't about foundation business or personal business.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Three thirty eight caliber. Let's get mister Stephens from making
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: the care of miss Tulliver. Mister Dowd's father is sending
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: me over some material, but as yet it's not in
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: my hands. Are you familiar with the person now at
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: the research stations?
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: Any more than four or five project managers? Pusey and
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Vermont Schwartzen Pennsylvania.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Excuse me here, were Archie? Yes that you can take
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: it back about Mary Dunning. If she's a liar, she's
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: just gone to a lot of trouble to make it
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: look good. Did no but knocked out with floraform and
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: stopped in a closet in a man's apartment. And guess
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: whose apartment spare me or charade? Archie, Peter Dowds, That's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: where I'm calling from. Is he still widim? Is it?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Who's yes? You better hang on to him. There's been
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: another development. Inspector Kramer's got hold of a man named Schwartz,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the Pennsylvania project manager. Right, Schwartz was at the Foundation
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: office this morning, and he says Peter Dowd was going
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: in as he came out. When within minutes, if you're
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: called to Stephens, Kramer's on his way to your place
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: now to pick up young Dowd. Any instruction. I like
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: more company. The ball game is all wrapped up, isn't it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I still like more company, Right, Mary and Schwartz?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: If you can get them here, and Archie, yes, get
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: them here, I'd have that fifth butler, beerd.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Argie, seventh and quota for the night. And when do
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you get around of calling in Mary and our friend
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Schwartz in a moment, aargie in a moment after all
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: that scramble to get them here.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: I have been studying these project reports that Jonas Dowd
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: sent over a fascinating field ethology.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I know the factors playing on the development and survival
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: of living organisms. Too bad poor Stevens didn't figure on
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: a factor named Peter dowd Archie.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: I'm really even, mister Schwartz. Now, no, Mary, I res
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: you in an ex room with miss Dunning for the
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: time being.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, one Schwartz coming up, Come in, mister s Watson,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Mister Wilf, how do you do, mister Swatts.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: My apology is for this long wait you've had, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I've tried to make our business brief. Yes, sir, mister Swartz,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: you managed the todd of our agriculture research station in
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Pennsylvania for some time, two years. I am not sure
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I didn't once enjoy a shipment of mushrooms that came
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: from your place.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You've experimented with maya had.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Anaria, my arenaria, Yes, of course, yes, so we've done
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: some work with mushrooms.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: David Eckson.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah. By the way, I understand you saw mister Stevens
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: just before he was shut down. If I stayed ten
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: minutes longer, he might still be alive.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: May I ask the purpose of your call.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I was delivering the monthly reports Espresso of trouble you
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: came to discuss Alser. You met Peter down coming in
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: at the foundation as you were going out. How did
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: he look in a hurry? How so he just pushed
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: past with his face turned away. Be sure it was he? Yes,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I hadn't seen him at the foundation, maybe two or
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: three times before you aware of. Mister Stevens and mister
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Dowd were both apparently in love the same, young lady.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: I'm a research worker, mister Wolfe, I wouldn't know about
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: mister Stephens' personal affairs. Just an hour ago before Inspector
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Grahamer took him from here, young Dowd admitted that he'd
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: been there today. I didn't think I could be mistaken,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: but he said only because Stevens had phoned him to come.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Were you there when that call with me?
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: No, there was no call to doubt while I was there.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, mister Swatts. Yes, near the wolf speaking. This
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: is Saul Panzer, Yes, so earlier still ye still down
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: here at the city market, which as if you were right. Indeed,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: one of the trucks just pulled in with a load.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Of full crates, top quality produce.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Try not to wins when you're sending the expin sheets
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: any other confirmation.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Internal revenue records show no taxes paid on income by
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the time of her foundation.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, phone any information as you get it,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: you won't forgive me again.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Mister Schwartz.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Hi, Gie, that's boss, and you asked Miss Dunning to
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: step in coming up, Dunning, good evening is Dunny.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: You've great recovered from the Curry home. Mister Goodwin's been
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: helping me. It's been rubbing my forehead and I'm telling me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Any further details, Miss Dunnings, would you mind telling me
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: again how it was you came to find yourself in
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: mister Dad's apartment.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Well, it was a phone call that got me to
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: go over. It was a man whispering. He didn't give
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: his name, but he said if I came to that
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: address apartment for c I could learn something about mister Stevens.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: You went to your apartment four s and then that's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: really all I know.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Just after the door opened, before I could see him,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: this coat was thrown over my head. Then he must
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: have given me the chloroform. It was Peter Dowd. Of course,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: who else could it have been?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: It could have been mister Schwartz. Here mister Wolf, you're joking.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Am I Swartz joking or drunk?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Why should I.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: The ancient reason Swartz money for the racket you had
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: and wanted to keep racket. Mister Schwartz was Schwartz is
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: no more of any collogies than mister Goodwin. Here a
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: moment ago he accepted mara adnaria as a mushroom. It
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: happens to be a common clam common on nearly any
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: beach rare in Inland, Pennsylvania. And Stevens know I didn't
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: go in for all that Latin stuff. I could understand
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: that you might be useful without its, Schwartz, But to
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: get away from your station operations, you fake the scientific
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: knowledge you never had. All right, Suppose I am more
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: of a farmer than a fancy scientist. Our job at
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: the research station is to raise vegetable crops, isn't it?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: As you worked at Swartz.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Of course, you turned the agricultural research project into a
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: commercial farm, all expenses met from tax free funds, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: not a send of return shown for the produce soul.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So that's why salt Panzer drew the root of Bakers Run.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Stephen had the innocence of a specialist interested in his
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: own field only. But even Stevens finally began to get
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: onto those doctored reports of your sports.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And when was it? The internal revenue man.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Began asking questions, Look, goodman, is this fat guy out
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: of his mind? You had to get rid of Stevens
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: after the last inspection trip. We were even counting on
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: taking over his job after Peter Dowters put away for
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: stevens murder.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: If you'll just explain to this slola tech watching Archie
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: watching you, I've got his gun rightly down. Archie, Wait
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: a minute. This is a thirty two and it was
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a thirty eight that did the murderer. Mister Wolfe, that's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: my back. You can't take this pistle from it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: I have my dea this extraordinary efforts you put me
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: to of actually leaving my chair to secure this weapon.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: We'll add that to the score against you, mister wolf
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: If you want to Tucker to answer, that gun from
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Mary's bag, it's a thirty eight, maybe the one used
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: on Stephen, but Mary couldn't. She didn't.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Ballistics tells us that this is the weapon, then Swartz
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: must have passed it for safe keeping till it could
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: be planted in young Dad's apartment or a car or whatever.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't have anything to do with it, Miss Dunning.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You had to do it more than you know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Do you realize that if mister Goodwin hadn't found you
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: at the Dire Department when he did that, you might
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: not be alive at this moment. You were the one
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: person who knew Schwartz's crime. Mary, don't listen to him.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: She's listening Swartz. Miss Dunning. You thought the chloroform scheme
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: has directed solely against Peter Dowd, and so you let
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Swartz talk you into it. Mister Goodwin tells me the
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: door of that closet was sealed with Scotch tape.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that Schwartz actually tried ther chloroform.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Sleep was meant to turn into a permanent one, Miss Dunning, that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I was trying to cover for him. All right here
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: it is. Schwartz planned it all. He did try the
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: hit and run, and he did shoot Stevens.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Here's a liar, Mary, you've been juggling those books since.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Say that he tears for Inspector Kramer.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Schwartz, Yes, Gilt enough to be divided between you and
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Gilt enough to burn you both.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: All right, you're being noble and not rubbing it in.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Don't I merit a full explanation.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Argie, I'm concentrating on truffles. Do we dig out a
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: bird or sure we have them in an armed again.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Mister Wolf. Look, I've got a white flag up and
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm asking all right. Mary and Schwartz wanted Stevens out
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: of the way, and all right, they tried to hang
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it on Peter doubt. But white Mary, come here and
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: try to get you into it in the first place.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: As far as she knew that night, Argie, Stevens wasn't.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: To get back to New York alive.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Swartz hit and run ambush, and New Jersey was supposed
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: to take care of Stephen's on his way back from Pennsylvania.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: By luck, Stephens survived the accident and Swarps had.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: To follow him here to finish him off.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Yes, but I still don't see why he came here
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: to establish your innocence by pretending to see I help.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, and she.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Thought to keep suspicion from Swartz by creating the imaginary
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: figure of a threatening call at the office several days
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: before she knew Stevens meant to concent me about Swartz,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: and she could guess jonas Dowd would call me in Eventually.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Stephens said he wanted to consult you that morning.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: When I had morning when you couldn't hear Stevens hard
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: because you were seeing him as Mary Danny wanted us
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: to see him.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, a trick operator with two vanishing acts to explain
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Stevens's and Mary's. Now you have it, Archie, and both
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: fake a straight business trip ranted a run out or
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a snatch only by Mary's account, and the chloroform act.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: At Dowd's apartment. You have it, infu, except how you
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: knew she was lying to start with? Find when the
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: girl offered no fee, no prospect.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Of a fee. Mm hm, stay at that?
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Could anyone claim knowledge of my reputation Archie? And still
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: seriously expect that I would take an arduous labor for
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: the love of it?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm ashamed of myself. Point two.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: She told us of a caller coming to see Stevens,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: of Stevens asking her to fetch a policeman, then changing
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: his mind when asked to call a policeman. What woman's
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: curiosity would be satisfied by being told not to bother it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: How utterly brilliant you are. Yes, Achie, a bottle of
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: beer and now back to a serious problem. You know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I think they see a compromise on these troubles between
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Bird and omelet Achi.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Why not both? Yeah, you have been listening to the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: New Adventures of Nero World, starring Sydney Greenspree. Tonight's transcribed
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: story by Charles O'Neill was based on the characters created
• 29:13
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• 29:17
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• 29:20
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• 29:25
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• 29:29
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• 29:31
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• 29:35
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• 29:59
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• 30:02
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• 30:04
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