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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Roughneck’s Will (EP0821) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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here is the very last episode of Frank Race that features Tom Hollins in the
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league The Adventure of the Roughnecks Will Hello everyone, This is Andrew from Otier
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Westerns dot com The Adventures of Frank Race starring Tom Collin. The War changed
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many things the face of the earth and the people on it. Before the
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war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his lawbooks but
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the cloak and Dagger of the Oss and when it was over, his former
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life was over too. Adventure had become his business, the Adventures of Frank
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Race. And now we joined Frank Race for the Adventure of the Roughnecks.
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Will Sometimes people come back to you through the years. People you used to
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know or work with become in unexpected phone calls or chance meetings on the street
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of some strange town. Some of them you want to see and some you
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hope you'll never see it again. Jim Fallon was one of the former.
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We'd gone through law school together, played football together. One night in nineteen
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forty three, we'd almost died together in a parachute jumped behind Rummel's lines.
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So when Mark Donovan relayed Jim's call to me, I told him to ignore
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the red lights. I was full of the excitement that always comes from the
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thought of seeing an old friend or an there's a layer of the suite two
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oh one to four sixteen. I look at the names on that door.
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You balin forced, the Peabody, Morton and Laroche twenties a law Yes,
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Jim, Villains come along way, Mark, that guy has to come a
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long way when he spends every day walk until sixteen locks. That's good.
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No, no, he said you should come through the door mark four eleven,
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ignoring that it is marked private. Sounds tough sy good here, Hello,
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Jim Race man, it's good to see you. You know Mark Donovan.
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We spoke on the phone. How are you understanding having a little trouble,
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Jim race This isn't little. You can imprest the doubt out of your
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mind by mentioning the name of my problem. Martin Bayard Colin could be serious.
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My dead names from what is Martin Baird Cullins an old man who avoids
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publicity. You can't avoid it all together, though it's hard to avoid it
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to do who happened to be one of the ten richest men in the world.
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Oh, Lika, we handle his legal business race this this morning,
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though I've been wishing we didn't. He's kicking up his heels. No,
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somebody broke into his office last night. I opened columns. Will I want
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you to read the will race He voted himself, and it's an invitation to
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murder? Is it? Yes? Brief? Isn't it? pH one paragraph
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written with TNT Go ahead read it? It was my wish that my entire
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fortune passed into the hands of only one person. However, I list here
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the four persons who have been closest to me, with the provision that the
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entire estate go to the last one surviving. Last one survival you know,
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the four people named Hinjin. Yes, two of them granddaughters of his wife
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by a former marriage. Elle never had any children. Well, they must
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be Joan and on a Rigin. And there's Carry Bragg, she's been Culin's
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nurse for the past ten years. The man Bill Forsyth is Culin secretary.
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M hm, No, any one of them has to do become fabulously well,
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he is murdered the oust. What kind of money has turned them pretty
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nice people into murderers? Right? Yes? And here is tell me?
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Does Cullen know his will? Yes? And formed him immediately. I asked
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him to change the will at once, let it be known that it has
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been changed. But it won't do it Nope. And he told me not
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to call an investigator. But I can't hold still for that. I'd like
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to have a talk with Color. Will you clear a meeting, right,
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I'll do it while you're driving up to this place. The state is called
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gray Acres in Larchmonk. Gray Acres was appropriately named. The house had the
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grim aspects of a medieval castle, and even the grass and trees seemed colorless
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and drab. Despite the evidence, care Martin Beard Cullen mass the general atmosphere.
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Only his large, dark eyes glittered through a shriveled and pasty skin as
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he lay propped up by pillows. When he spoke, his voice belive it
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is night a year. My orders to fallon were quite precise. I want
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no investigation. I let you in so I could tell you that now get
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out. I'm not here in your behalf, miss Cullen. I just wanted
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to see what kind of a man it is who uses his fortune to try
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to influence murdered she I be the first to be murdered. If it does
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happen, it's still my affair. It's time for your medicine, mister Callen.
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This is one of my year's race. Shall we say that Miss Bragg
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is attendant. She doesn't seem to be out murdering anybody, but she is
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giving me medicine. Someday may not be exactly what the doctor orders, Isn't
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that right esterday. That's right, mister Kevin. She agrees with you.
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They see everybody agrees with the nerve man, especially when he has millions.
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They may get her claws on. Come on, Mark, let's get out
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of here. Yeah, the medicine the only thing smell. Yeah, there
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is a sweet old guy. Can you tell me how that prone with a
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lemon poison? Now to get the it's gotta have the rough neck and a
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drilling crew. Oil wild to me. Now he's looking oil and steel,
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bonds, stocks, cattle, you name it. These guys you're seeing pretty
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well informed about the old man with hello force at the end of your goal.
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Not too well, you warned him, and look for saf you're his
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secretary. Anybody been, especially Smoothie. Only me, Frankline. I have
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my finger on all of the old man's affairs. You know about the broom.
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I've always known about the world. You see race, I typed it
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in a race that old guy must be tired of living. And it is
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age I can understanding. Yea, at his age a man could be tired
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of a lot of things marks. But it can also be read seven like
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about what but not wanting things investigated. There has been a blue convertible.
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First down our tails as we left the estate. Well, I will lose
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it for quick. Now let's play it the other way. Slow down,
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Come to a stop at that billboard side right all I get out. I
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tend to be checking the tires. Get you. Here comes a car slowing
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down. I gotta stop. Do come on behind the side, get back,
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keep lowing. Now you must have winked. I got out of control.
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I'm betting let's follow him. Look Nick, one of the tires on
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my hip. Oh that's too bad. It's too dark to get the license
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number. Get all the numbers I need. Say that somebody doesn't want us
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around. Get a look at the driver. No, I just fired at
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the hood. Now let's get the tire. James. Pay another call?
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And who I'm joining? Leona Richards Collins granddaughters, Oh Brook, the things
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which live here are related to that whole money facts. I will bet you
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we are about to come face to face with a couple of pigs. Remember
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Margarets, They're only related by marriage. My name is Frank Race. I'm
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an investigator working pure and grandmother's attorney. Oh what's you come on? All
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it did? It's over the room. But not so dim that you couldn't
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see the large eyes, eyes that could reflect her easily. I mean,
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that is the habit of it, except for that her face was playing.
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But something about her said, if I ever come into your arms, you
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won't want to let me go. I don't want a drink or something,
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mister race, but I a household bunch of Skis that far well? I
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could run? Mind, man, if my grandfather sent you to cam you
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back to I won't leave my sister saying that it doesn't make you happy.
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I didn't know you'd lived a great moved out. Why because my sister sister
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had reason, and the reasons that nobody's business but mine. Another girls did
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in the doorway to the bedroom. She looked like leons. She was beautiful.
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Her eyes were deep and dark, but hard as punished on us.
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In a few seconds before I realized that I left, arm was hanging as
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nay, this is mister, I heard everything. What do you want?
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Your grandfather wrote a will and saw me your beaver open ahead of schedule.
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Oh let me in terms of the will might place your life in danger,
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your life and your system because you let me worry about that. But it
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doesn't name been this particular Will might also work in a vernise and make you
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the menace. Sounds like Grandpa's after with all divide and counter tricks. John't
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say things a good John, Please. I know you're fond of them,
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but I'm not do either of you on a blue convertible? Well, yes
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I do, she answered, I see. I tell me why this slay?
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What happened to your n I don't take my ANSWER's going to surprise in
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his debrace? Somebody shop? Look, Grace, what for we going back
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at Morseline? I can might be wise to hang around gray aggers for the
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whole. I think that John Richard's name was the one who was losing his
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potagrapy Frank the slowdown Marcus, the gates, the grey agors of the hand.
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There's more than the gate there. It's a guy with a shotgun blocking
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the road. You stay in the car. I'll talk to him. What's
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your hands dropped? Blair? Hair up? Oh are you what you are?
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My name's Race. I'm working for mister Collins, attorney's Oh ah,
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I told me he was here earlier today. I'm Blair, come black,
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oh man, Colin hide man God propter Colin hide, Nah, you used
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to work for him before you all never the trouble his friends for Blair?
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Do you have orders not to let me through this game? Well, I
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who'se my own judgment? Colins got a lot of faith in my judge.
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Well do my panser? Do I make camp out here on the road?
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Oh? Miss four five Latin first today? Prob Hello? Race? Right?
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How did come back? Just in? Yes? I had a hunt?
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You would I have a room prepared for you on the frint. You
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Latin man with forefry, have any objections, Blair? May? Why should
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not? I was just one ring, that's all. I'll drive up with
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your race. There's space for your car, all right. I think you'll
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be comfortable in here only smiles. Ali Cann would be comfortable on this Joy
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even went out for you. Before you go for something. I've got a
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question fire away. Where was Joan Richards here this afternoon when I was here?
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No? No, she wasn't what Leona was driving her book in for
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the boom. Yes, with a present from my grandfather last Christmas. A
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matter of fact, I got one tool race, and so did missus Bragg
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the nurse. You mean that's right. Clearly that all identical. I thought
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about it, and after we turned in, I dreamed about it. Leona
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had been here, but John was the one who being shot. It twisted
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fit, it seemed, goes off. Then somebody scream, come on,
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where's the light switch. I'll get it. Martin Beard Color lay propped on
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the pillows, the staring eyes fixed right on us, his withered old hands
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motionless against the white carpe. It wasn't the stir of death, though.
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The glittering eyes turned to the par side of the bed. I moved around
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and see what he was saying. I needed only one look. She was
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on the floor in a crumpled heap. And look Nurse Kerry Bragg, who
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wasn't going to win head of any game. She was dead. We'll return
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to the adventures of Frank Race in just about one minute. And now back
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to the Adventures of Frank Ray. The murder of Nurse Kerry Bragg narrowed the
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field of Cullen's potential airs the three Leona and John Richards and Bill forsythe I
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met the two, more of them had to die before there was any pair
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offf I sent Mark into town to get a few answers from Jim Fellham and
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his law office, and I started for a stroll around the grounds. When
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I'm telling where the shal had come from, dying behind the heads, flushing
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some birds, I got a whisper smoke coming from a clump of trees near
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the ivy covered wall. Got off a wild shot in return. Oh,
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shooting, Nah, you should know you're starting it? You ray? Yes,
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lets may here fly? Look Gregory, you crazy man? What you're
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shooting and made for? I wasn't shooting at you until you try to pick
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me off of that rifle. Come out of those trees with your hands up.
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Man, I wasn't shooting with you. You clipped the top of the
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hedge as soon as I dove anyway, I didn't even slay you. I
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got shooting the blue jays. Yeah, I come out holding the gun over
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my head. What makes you so hot about blue jays? Blame? Oh?
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They're bad, man, bad, gotting a treat and coops shot baggs
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dry they're on the chicken coops here. Wow, I guess we just got
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the habit from down the home. Yes, maybe, No, I think
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you were trying to scare me. Blame Oh, now why I would have
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wanted to do a thing like that. I don't know whether it's me or
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a bunch of innocent birds you're after. Take a tip, make your first
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shot content next time you start playing this game goes next time I want.
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Miss Mark came back from Fallen's office with information to turn on a few lines.
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His latest will of columns had been drawn up three months before and replaced
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a more say any reasonable request that had been popular on by the attorneys.
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The contents at the first will told me it was time to have him of
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a chat with Leona and John Richards. Please to believe in misters, I
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knew nothing at all of my grandfather here. I was the first one of
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the new one that's causing all the problems. His original will left you one
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third of his estate and the rest was to go to chairman. That doesn't
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surprise when mister Race the one is his favorite. When you should be interested
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in the contents of the new world, does it call for action not ordered?
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You're wasting your time, mister Race. I know the contents of the
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new will, and I didn't have to break into Fallon's office to learn them.
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Going out, Yonner likes to ask. You're so stubborn. Suppose something
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happened. Hey, this is no time to break up. I'm sorry,
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I'm so nervous enough. He didn't get those eyes caught me. No,
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okay, okay, time you never had practice, I mean murdered next time.
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I don't know. You don't believe anything. Sure it's true. I
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never danced. I never had a date name twenty four. Now go ahead
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and laugh at me. I'm not laughing. Grandfather never talked at any man
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with good enough clause. Why John's angry with him? That's why we love
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Gray, because every found out ahead. I can't what did your grandfather find
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out about? Maybe important? I can't tell you. I can't. That's
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all all right, biddy, you're secret and even give it. I don't
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know. I hope it doesn't cost you your life, all right about I've
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been walking around town about a dame judging about a look in the kissing,
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and I'll bet it chat le On and Richard school, brother, that's bad.
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Like, do you mean one of the girls killed carry a brag your
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way off base market? If they didn't do anything? That somebody starts and
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you're right, you can't see the more the old man's anger with him.
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My change of will in the spur of the moment, the change it within
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an hour. They know that, all right, So it'll be to them
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intended to lanch out of the whole ports. And they have killed coming prayers
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to make sure the will isn't changed. Wait a minute, like that,
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brag ain't did only at least one guy nice, least Bill forsythe coloring secretary
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that's gonna have a talk with Okay, what did you see? This is
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the one who came out of last night? What's that? Maybe it's in
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the library. That's where it would you know? We'll see you later.
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Meanwhile, I'm not gonna look around him. Hey, what are you looking?
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What do you know? Marcus? You go through that beer. I
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don't think you're writing disc any person do for sight something in order? Yeah,
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you wear highlight short look anything? Never mind that. Keep going.
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When they come in saying to bandy paper claws, here, I guess what
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is good? What isn't you? You were tiny dresses? This I never
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know? Mm hmm. I think the inscription down on the corner, getting
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you wouldn't be overlo mind love my own something else on the guy's pud.
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Jam is it the letters right? What's her? Nice darling? Missus Bragg
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says the doctor, gay, Dame, father, et cetera. I can
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make this tonight usual play in sign must taken. John put everything bag.
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It's amazing, means bloody old man. Column found out about Joan and Bill
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Forsyde, and he knows that carry Bragg was helping him, so he set
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up the will of stock. I'm not going to each other off. I'm
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afraid of that. You're gonna look around anymore. I'm just the classes.
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I want to find out the Foresyde has any weapons sitting around? You take
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that and I'll take this one. Grace, Grace, come, what is
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it? Boys? He's been hanging. For the next few hours, the
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number of police on the grounds of Gray Acres were almost equal to the blades
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of grass. I click permission took Mark into town for a visit to the
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morgue, only it was a newspaper morgue. To look. I have read
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the newspapers for the past ten years. My tomb is worn out twenty the
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page. Alright, alright, but what do you look? That's the item's
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dayline Texas it comes up you know, and nothing ever happened to Texas except
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an occasional mortar like this one. What is happenn eighty years ago? Anyone
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else? Fields? A wild cat killed and a gunfight by a guy,
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how a guy named Blair, Tom Blair. That's it, baby, give
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it to me here. Look, witness said Blair did the shooting and couldn't
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identified before the grand jury. No one, Yeah, but how could he
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not recognize your man? Heno? We must have been brought up? Look
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look at this the murdered Manner refused to sell Coulin and oilies, and Blair
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was in charge of Colin's drilling operations. You gotta get back to Gray's acres
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past I light. It's a little lad up, Glan wanted to make.
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I'm currying somebody hurry right, come ahid hair John Richards occurring, Look my
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grab the car and get out of here, and finally own Richard and stick
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to her. Bring it back here, ye here, Blair, let me
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grab it. What happened? Mike? Moms been multiplening? I thought by
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span the car? All right, put it down here, I'll break your
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dead right, yes? Years? Well, what's here? John? There's
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color? Now about this I couldn't, no man, we just hauler out.
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There's manner, and I think I'll go tell him. Saul will busted
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up Nancy store Will. Colin seem never to lead. His eyes burned at
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me as I came into the room. There was a little color in his
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cheeks. He made no effort to conceal the victory he was tasting. I
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had things figured right though I had one ace, the fifth ace in the
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deck, Joker, we had a race. There's been an accident, Colin,
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even though I was dream there things an accident. The the things that
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happened I planned to happen. Didn't anybody ever call you that one of your
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granddaughters is dead? Colin? This time I know it was an accident,
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mistake because the wrong girl who got killed? The wrong girl? Yes it
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wasn't John Colin, le owner is dead. His eyes went wild, and
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the veins at the side of his nick picking a flood of red spilled across
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the cheeks. Did you ordered the color of his mouth? And then he
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screamed, I children not to hurt the owner. You were support killed Joan
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and the other shut off. That's all I wanted Coling. He did kill
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John the owner's sake. Good. I'm afraid you moved toward me in a
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drilling roughnecks, squat and solid. I bought up man, but not as
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tough as this, and his hand over his heart as a diamond drill.
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I had to keep him up, no matter how hard I hit him.
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He closing in. He got his hand on my throat. A chill struggled
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quest I was no good. Suddenly I got tired, blacked out across the
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centuries and not of time and space. I came aloud again. I didn't
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know whether I was in this world or the next, because the dead eyes
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of Martin Beard Cullin stared down him from where he had slumped across the edge
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of the bed, seized with a panal heart attack. Then I heard a
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welcome voice that belonged to the living. Come on, come on you,
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he'd wake up? We did you him? Hi, strolet? Where's God?
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Look? I burnt me in wrench when I wat them with him.
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Now, you couldn't have gone all the way back in the town and come
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back. Not no, you see, I got to thinking. I tint
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around because I think it the plan was the heavy, So how could he
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only get hurt if he was here, I think the old man was.
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He was in the World of Covers on thirty one st I call it cops
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while he was out, and he on the call here. I told her
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the whole story, and she wants to say you so. It's good,
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Margaret. It's very good because I want to see her too, should be
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one of the richest girls in the world. When Colin's will goes to Promin
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and her education has been woolbuy exactly. You have to be taught how to
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protect it, and you're going to teach her how. I ain't going to
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be shooting bluegird Boy. The Adventures of Frank Race starring Tom Collins with Tony
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Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast
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were Gloria Blondell, Frank Lovejoy, Michael A. Barrett, and Wills Herbert.
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This series is written and directed by Buckley Angel and Joel Murcott. The
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music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmars. Be sure to be with us
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again at the same time next week for another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of
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Frank Race. Art Gilmore speaking. This is a Brucel's production. Welcome back.
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Well one of those bizarre murder plots that shows sometimes quite not quite right
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up in the head, but well solved by Frank Race. This is definitely
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a bit of an unusual situation in terms of the midcast change. Not unheard
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of, but certainly unusual in terms when you have a star changed in one
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program midstream, particularly in syndication. Not necessarily unusual for this company. They
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did do it at another time there was a Western series called Frontier Town.
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They began with Jeff Chandler in the lead and ended up changing over to Read
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Handley. So for the last twenty one episodes, we're going to have a
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different Frank Race. So be sure to listen in to hear Paul Duvolf taking
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over as Frank Race. And tomorrow we will be bringing you a show new
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to our podcast, A Life in Your Hands. It's very interesting and somewhat
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unique in the world of old time radio, so I think you will enjoy
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it. So be listening tomorrow for that, and then join us back here
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on Monday again Paul Duvolf takes over as Frank Race. In the meanwhile,
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send your comments to Box thirteen at Rate Detectives Dot net, follow us on
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Son and off.