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Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "The House of Mystery Case" (1949) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Dick Powell stars as Richard Diamond, joined by Joan Banks,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Frees, Ed Begley, Virginia Gregg and Wilms Herbert from
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  Speaker 1: NBC on December tenth, nineteen forty nine. This is Richard
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  Speaker 1: Diamond Private Detective Episode thirty three, The House of Mystery case,
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  Speaker 1: written by Herb Purdam, Diamond is engaged by the recently
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  Speaker 1: widowed Julia Bates to spend the night in the Bates residence,
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  Speaker 1: where the terms of her late husband's will require her
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  Speaker 1: to remain for three months before claiming her inheritance. Her
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  Speaker 1: husband's interest in mysticism. A crypt within the house, hidden
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  Speaker 1: passages and rooms that lead nowhere give Diamond a long
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  Speaker 1: night of inquiry. We now take you back to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: Portions of the following program are transcribed.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Here is Dick Paul as what's your Diamond, Private Detective?
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  Speaker 3: Are you mister Diamond?
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  Speaker 1: CREDITORI client, I'm a client, I'm a Diamond.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little informal, but hello, glad call me wreck.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no. My name is Julia Bates.
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  Speaker 4: Missus, Yes, but you don't have to call me missus.
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  Speaker 3: Bates I'm a widow, you see.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, it may help our relationship if you call
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  Speaker 4: me Julia.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go again. All right, Julia, you can call
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  Speaker 1: me wreck. The fees one hundred a day and expenses.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to stay at my house tonight, I.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: Said, one hundred a day in expenses.
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  Speaker 4: The fee is all right, mister as Rick. Money means nothing.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you think you're a way and I'll think mine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll make out a check right now.
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  Speaker 1: No hurry, anytime in the next ten seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Now about this assignment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it may sound silly, but I'm afraid of the
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  Speaker 3: house I live in.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I said, it might sound silly, but it's deadly serious.
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  Speaker 3: I assure you.
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  Speaker 4: You see, my husband, Warner Bates, died three months ago.
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  Speaker 3: He was a very strange man and.
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  Speaker 4: Believed devoutly in many forms of mysticism.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He built this house as a monument to his beliefs
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  Speaker 4: and filled it with secret passages and rooms and.
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  Speaker 3: Steps that leave nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: Why not move out, I'll be perfectly honest. It's because
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  Speaker 4: of the money in his will, Warner is stipulated I
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  Speaker 4: was to live in the house for a period of
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  Speaker 4: three months following his death.
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  Speaker 3: Three months is up tomorrow, and it.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't help that Warner is buried in the basement vault.
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  Speaker 2: What's he doing watching Benny's money?
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  Speaker 4: Well he had a ripped built the cellar and a
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  Speaker 4: key the only key to it.
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  Speaker 3: Was placed in his coffin.
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  Speaker 2: What's supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, Well, let me tell you the whole story. A
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  Speaker 3: month ago I began to hear the strangest things.
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  Speaker 4: In the house at night, and I found food half.
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  Speaker 3: Eaten on the kitchen table.
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  Speaker 2: Have a try setting traps.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the worst shot came and I wanted the cellar.
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  Speaker 4: A few days ago I found footprints in the dust,
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  Speaker 4: naked foot prints leading to and from the crypt.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe how to take a shower?
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  Speaker 4: Please please let me finish On his deathbed, Warners swore
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  Speaker 4: he visited me at the end of the third month
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  Speaker 4: and if he could take me with him back.
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  Speaker 3: To the spirit world.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and tonight is the night.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, at first I didn't think it would get me,
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  Speaker 4: but oh I'm scared, really scared.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now, look, baby, let's get off this mystic kick
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  Speaker 1: who inherits. If you don't live up your requirement, well
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  Speaker 1: that's just it.
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  Speaker 3: No one that.
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  Speaker 4: Is no person that the money goes to charities in schools,
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  Speaker 4: and mister Anderson, the executor of the estate, says the
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  Speaker 4: will is food proof, legal and binding. Either I live
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  Speaker 4: in the houses until noon tomorrow or tortured the inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: So what you wanted me to do is hang around
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  Speaker 1: tonight and see that hobby doesn't go death walking.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. You don't have to be a little dark.
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  Speaker 4: But oh, don't be any later than that, say six o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, I'm a detective agency, free willing corpses.
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  Speaker 2: Ask the man who kills one rich? When are you
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  Speaker 2: going to stop those? Off of slogan?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Helen, baby, going to call you back. Got a client,
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  Speaker 2: all right?
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  Speaker 3: Is pretty?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm packed behind a curve. Don't forget it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll call you back.
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  Speaker 1: Bye now, Julia, you better go on home.
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  Speaker 2: Where's your broom?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think I look like a witch?
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: You don't look like one, More like the good fairy
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  Speaker 1: if she'd heard about men.
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  Speaker 2: Are you flying home? Sweet? I don't know. I'll see
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  Speaker 2: you at six.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be late.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there with bone. John.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: I tried to uncurl my toes and get my mind
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  Speaker 1: on business, thinking of my spook. Client didn't seem to help,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a business. It was getting pretty late
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, so I put the office to bed
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  Speaker 1: for the night, picked up a bite to eat, and
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  Speaker 1: went over to the fifth Precinct keep a coffee date
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  Speaker 1: with Lieutenant Levinson.
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  Speaker 2: When I walked into.
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  Speaker 1: The squad room, I spotted Sergeant Otis with his nose
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  Speaker 1: in a book. Oh, hello, Otis, what's with the book?
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me you're learning to read? Hey, hey, hello,
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  Speaker 1: Sama said, hey, hot trick the book?
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  Speaker 2: Sig, what's the book or what book?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? At a lieutenant in side, he said, if you
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  Speaker 1: had to go right in when you came, Otis, tell
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Richard about the book. It's just a book. Yeah,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: I was trying to improve myself. Well, don't feel ashamed, Odors,
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: You've got reason to do that. Yeah, very funny, I see,
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  Speaker 1: hmm the art of graceful dancing. Osis, Well, what's around
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  Speaker 1: with me dancing? Shamas? I don't want to be no
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  Speaker 1: social podcast dancing. Well maybe, but graceful? Oh that you
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: couldn't be graceful even if your feet did match. Tell
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: you what, though, I'll give you a hand, just open
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  Speaker 1: your arms and pretend you have a day.
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  Speaker 2: Go on, I'll start you on the walls.
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  Speaker 6: Well okay, goddee, oh no, no, no, does you look
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  Speaker 6: like an elephant with sprained ankles?
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  Speaker 3: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Try again and close your eyes god doud?
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, I'm sieutenant.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you was a day You what.
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  Speaker 5: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I had my eyes closed. I was dancing all the
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  Speaker 2: tent the shamas tuck.
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  Speaker 1: Me into it, Rick, would you mind telling me what
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: you were doing saving Arthur Murray Ulcers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, come on in and get some coffee and otis? Yeah,
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: shut up? Shall I poor? Please? Do you know how
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: I like mine? Walt?
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: An old train? Twelve lumps? I better change that, I
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: would think. So okay, I'm gonna make it fourteen. Your
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: coffee is stronger than mine.
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: It's not so strong? Rick?
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Here, thanks a bit about that spot off the desk.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: The varnish is beginning to smoke your joke? Signed any better?
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: You're gonna stick around for the hot game tonight?
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Walt got a client with a house full of spirits,
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  Speaker 1: the dead kind? Would you want the job? The be
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  Speaker 1: corpse is jumping out of every window. Yeah, well, if
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: they start I'll give you a call.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. Why don't you give up being
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: a detective? Rick, play postman or something. Wal.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: You just don't seem to appreciate my favors. Oh, I'm
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: getting late. It's nearly six. It's a peaceful night, Rick.
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  Speaker 1: See if you can't keep it that way? Oh sure, Walt, chore,
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  Speaker 1: this is one night you can take it easy. Uh
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  Speaker 1: give me two more lumps please.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: Leaving Walt and heading to the Baits house, I was
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  Speaker 2: feeling as happy as a bird and a had full
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  Speaker 2: of worms.
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  Speaker 1: I had one hundred bucks to stall off the landlord,
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  Speaker 1: a lovely redheaded girlfriend with curves, and a spook client
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  Speaker 1: with the troubles.
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  Speaker 2: Everything great. Then the storm began to blow up.
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  Speaker 1: It had started to rain when I saw the Bait's
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  Speaker 1: house on Temple Street, a big, ugly house straight out
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  Speaker 1: of a horror story with gables and shuttered windows.
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  Speaker 2: And as if that.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't enough, I was met at the door by a
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  Speaker 1: butler who was a tiny thing about seven feet tall
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  Speaker 1: and three hundred pounds, with a face like the devil
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  Speaker 1: with a hangover.
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  Speaker 2: Come in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wanted to see missus Baits.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you missed the diamond. She left word with you?
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  Speaker 2: I need no word.
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  Speaker 7: I am the seventh son of a What the seventh
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  Speaker 7: son of a Oh no, this could go on forever.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, lead on the name is Keane. Yeah, how's your brother?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Forget it? Where's your missus Bates? In the drawing room?
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  Speaker 1: In this way, cozy little mausoleum. What time do the
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  Speaker 1: ghosts come out?
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  Speaker 7: Usually right after the vampire?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dandy, I hope you have an early show. Oh
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  Speaker 1: it will be soon enough, sir. The dead arrestless tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if I rocked them to sleep? Got a rock,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Bates, mister.
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  Speaker 2: Diamond, thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Hello. How do you like my house?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? It's lovely. We're used for doorknobs. Heads? And what's
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: with a big zombie? You didn't mention him?
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  Speaker 3: Kay?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, here's a fixture around here. I get frightened more
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  Speaker 4: when he's robbed and when he's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I know you take it easy, baby, Come on
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  Speaker 1: over and sit down and let.
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  Speaker 2: Me chase those fears away.
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  Speaker 3: That is an idea.
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  Speaker 2: Name your better?
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  Speaker 3: Can I take you a drink?
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll take a glass of milk. Here you
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: are now, hey, look crusher. Put a beller on your
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: neck or something. One more surprise like that, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be best man at the funeral.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: My apologies, your milk. Yeah, thanks, Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Julia, let's get back to where we were and you Cane, Hey,
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: where do you go?
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  Speaker 3: Here? It is? Yeah, so that's the way it starts. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: it's the stairs to the cellar. Someone's climbing them.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: Right, it's probably Cane. You wanted me the Caine? Then?
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Who you wait in here? Julia? I go out and
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: get our nosy friends.
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  Speaker 3: The cellar door at the end of the hall.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: I left Julia looking as nervous as a one legged
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  Speaker 1: man walking a tight rope, and took off down the
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  Speaker 1: long hall. There was only one door, the under the cellar,
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  Speaker 1: so I opened it and flipped on the switch. I
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: was moving my ankles down the creaking steps when I
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: heard trouble.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: But the devil, Julia, Julia, are you hurt? What is it? Rick?
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: Rick?
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  Speaker 3: Over there in the closet a dead man.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, there's no dead man in here, not there.
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  Speaker 3: But I saw him, Rick, I swear there was a
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: man in there. It was all bloody and there was
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: a big knife in his chair.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: But you must have been mistaken a corpse, Ricky was there?
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: I don't see it?
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, on the floor bloodstains.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: You see there was a man in there.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: This is blood all right? But where the body go?
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: He couldn't have been moved that fast unless where's Kane
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  Speaker 1: right here, mister Diamond?
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: But I did not move the dead one. No, where
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: are you? Just now?
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: When Julia screamed having tea of the vampire, no, I
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: was in the kitchen, sir.
• 12:09
  Speaker 7: Do not be mystified, mister Diamond. Accept the fact that you.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: Were in a house controlled by the other There's.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: Been a murder cane and that brings it into this world.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: A real life cop who likes to know about dead.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Bodies kicking around? Well, rick no, I know that cone.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Where's the body? I wish I knew? Come on over
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: to two o nineties Temple Street. Wait, what do you mean?
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: You wish you know? Here? Someplace?
• 12:41
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: Don't argue, get over here. Wait, wait and hurry.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I can you can go back to the kitchen, but
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: stay there, don't roam around as you wish, sir.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: Now, Julia, baby, we're going to do some investigating. That's right.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: I got a big year to see what's in that
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: vault downstairs? This time, I am taking you with me.
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  Speaker 3: Brick.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: It's locked, I hope so. But I'm not making a book.
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  Speaker 3: You mean you think it may actually have been? Want
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: to come back from the dead, and I'm.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Kill that man.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: I mean right now, I don't know how to think.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised to run into Dracula sitting on
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: top of the wolf man. Here's the basement. Hey, who
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: turned out the life? I know I turned it on before. Yeah,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: that's better.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, it's cold down here. Oh hurry, Rick, I'm
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: getting scared.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't like to feel it myself, but I
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: want to check this vault.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: See the foot prints there in the dust.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: I see them, but I don't believe them, not yet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll try the door of the vault.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: Why it's unlocked?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Look what's inside?
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  Speaker 3: The coffin is empty.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: It's empty, all right, and it's open.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: What are you going inside?
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: No? No, I think I'll stay out here.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: We coopered out the lights.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: Wasn't Edison? Baby? We got company. I told you i'd
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: come back for you. Hey, what is this?
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: I am dead?
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: You know? I am don't you, Julia.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: I know you.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: I am coming for you tonight, Julia, I will appear
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I better send my watch. He prepared to meet me,
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Julia and die.
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  Speaker 3: No no, no, no.
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  Speaker 9: Baby.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Oh helloah yeah, I'll turn on the lights, jure errah great,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: what are you doing that?
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Oh h blah, I'm gonna know. Well, do come upstairs.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: We're coming off. What is it all about?
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: In a minute walk to help missus Base into the
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: living room. She's pretty shaken up. Shamas, Come on, lady.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Now, what are there's all this about? Ring?
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: I'll come on back downstairs with knee walk and get
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: your gun out. Somewhere in this cellar is a dead
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: man with a lousy sense of humor. Well, we searched
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: the long cellar, but good. While I briefed Walt in
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the events of the evening, neither was much of a success.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Walt didn't believe me, and our ghost remained the ghost.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: As we went back up into the living room. I
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: was at the point where I didn't believe the things myself.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: They couldn't have happened, but they had. Hey, otis where
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: did Missus Bates go? She went upstairs to pack. Shama
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: said she was going to leave, leave and give up
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: her door for Pete's sake. She can't not just because
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: of this ghost house.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Ghost house.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Oh this is the wackiest yet, Ricky, if I didn't
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: know you wish so old?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Do I look like I'm happy about these things.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I'm at a point where I'm believing in spooks and
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: spirit worlds and death men who talked from out of nowhere?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Tell the Shamas is the praid of books? This shime love? Otis?
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: I know?
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant? Shut up? Did I say that otis?
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: No, Lieutenant, what do you want me to do? Shut up?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Gee? I wish I had a glass, a glass of water. Oh,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: come out from behind that chair, orders, it's only came
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Who's he?
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Didn't he let you in?
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: No?
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: We found the door open when we rang and no
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: one answered.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: We came in?
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Did you know, kan? Where were you? Didn't you hear
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: the doorbell?
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: I knew the door was open, mister Diamond.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: And I was like, maybe playing ghost No, sir, baking
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: cake cake?
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Swow?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Oka? Will you take me to a hotel?
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Julia? Look, you can't leave. Think of the money, money
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: or no money.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I'm getting out of here. Rick, that was oneer's voice,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: and I just don't have an earth to stay.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Look, baby, you know there are any such things as
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: go do I you were in the cellar with me.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: You heard him? And did you find anybody down there afterwards?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: No?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: But just a minute, Missus Bates, you saw a murdered
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: man earlier this evening, didn't you?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: You know I did in that closet.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Well, until I find out who he is and who
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: killed him, you don't leave this house. But I'm sorry, Julia.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: We'll protect you, but you can't leave. Otis.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Take missus Bates into the library and make a comfortable Yeah,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: come on, missus Bates.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: All Eric enough, bus enough?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: How could there have been a body in that closet
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: one minute not the next?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Where did it go? And why? How the devil should
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I know?
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: She saw it?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Screamed, I ran back open the closet and that was gone.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Oh great, Now come on, I want to better look
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: at that closet. I look, all right, wonder how sounds?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Use your gun? Butt on the wall? Now? No, yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: this is it? But where's the latch? Must be somewhere
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: to open a section? Try those hooks?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: No, not them. M Maybe there's right secret room just
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: like in the movies. Oh, oh, there he is. Yeah,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: we found a corpse, Walf. How he disappeared so fast?
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Some mess let all over him. Well, hey, this is
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: no corpse. Oh no, don't start that. No, well look
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: at it closer, Walf. It's a dummy.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Well it is wax dummy with blots. Me done it?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: No wonder, I wasn't meant to see it. Oh, this
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: is it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I'm getting out of this crazy house. Corpses, the talk
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: corpses that aren't corpses.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I've had enough.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: This is just plain ridiculous, I Wade Wald. Someone planted
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: this dummy, and someone is trying to scare him as
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: his bates out of his house. That same someone is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: in this house right now, and if he hasn't stopped,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it may mean her murder. Are you feeling, Julia?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I'm exhausted, Rick, But we found the body of Julia.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: It was a dummy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: A dummy, then then there wasn't any murdered man.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: No, this whole thing is a bluff. Even that voice
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and the cellar, Oh no.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: That couldn't be. That was Warner's voice, Trick, I know
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: it was, and he's not.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: In his car. I know, baby, And I think that's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: all funny too, now telling me who knew that? Only
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: key in the coffin.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Business, but just myself and mister Anderson.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Anderson, Oh that's right.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: You remember he was Onner's lawyer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, Albert Kin?
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Did he know of the key?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Ricky. They have Warner can fighted in
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: him a great deal.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Rick, this isn't getting as any place. Come with me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Oh that's you stayed with missus Bates. All right, wal
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: what are we gonna do? Grill the dummy? Oh? I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: had be funny, but I want to search this whole house.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Oh well, this place is a nott house full of
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: sacred rooms. In the Hocus Pocus, it'll.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Take two maps in the Ruisia board to get around it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to get around it. And up these
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: stairs are going to places any canna start? Oh? Hello, Walt,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Oh stairs that lead to a blank wall. Rick, that's
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: too much?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Would you stop playing games? Saying games? He says, Oh,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: where is my bicarb?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Here? You are you tennis?
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry to be late. Where's the thunder cane? Your mister
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Q will there be anything else.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I don't see how, sir, not unless Frankenstein drops in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: for a game of jacks.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: I doubt if he will tonight. It's at his house,
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: so I'll be on hand.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: If you need.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: We won't go on back to your bombing. Come on
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you okay, I'll never feel okay again, Rick. I have
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: stood for you getting me mixed up in some crazy cases.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: But this night I'll never forget.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Don't quitt?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I mean now, wal we still have to find that
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: spook and keep Julia from being killed. Now, please tell
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: me how. Look, he said he was going to appear
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock to night to take her to the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: spirit world with him. Well, I'll get a squat down
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: here to see that he doesn't. No, No, we'll wait.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: He'll never show up if we're all hanging around right, Well, yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the only way we can catch the ghost is for
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: him to show up, right, Yeah, go on, So what
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: do we do? So we pretend to leave, make.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: A big fuss about giving the whole thing up, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: we sneak back in and hide. We wait and see he.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Shows up, and when he said he wouldn't, If he does,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we nab it case closed and it sounds cool, but
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the wine in this case, I'll buy anything.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Where do we hide? We'll get Julia to wait in
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the living room, We'll sneak back and hide in that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Secret room behind the closet. If the ghost showed, we
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: can grab him as soon as he gives himself away.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And I think he'll show. After getting Julia to agree
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to the idea, walk Otis and I made a big
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: thing about leaving the house. Then we sneak back in
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and hid in the secret room back of the living
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: room closet. The closet door was open enough so we
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: could see Julia pretending to read on the couch. And
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: for the next few centuries we waited, waited for a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: dead man to keep a date. What time is it, greck,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: It's two minutes to nine. If he's going to show,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: it won't be long. Hey, do you think a dead
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: man really can't come back to life? If you don't
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: shut up or this, I'll give you a per no
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: chance to try. I wish she'd hurried. Yeah, now it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: just time.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: I hope Julia plays her part. Okay, she looks pretty nervous.
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: Why would she be nervous, She's only waiting for a
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: dead man, only a dead man, Walt, I hope. Now,
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: don't you start believing in ghosts. You know there are
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: any red the lights one house.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I told you I would come for you, Julia. It
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: is nine over. I don't want to the gym with Walter. I, Julia,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I'm your husband.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I know you.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: You must leave this. How to do it? I know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: let's be quiet. Well, I know enough not to make
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: any day.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: But what was that ry?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Come on, let's grab him. We all took off after
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the ghost.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It let us on the screw ise chase yet in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and out of the secret passages upstairs and then back
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: downstairs again. Trying to lay hands on him is like
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: trying to squat a fly with a piece of string.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: He finally made a break for the outside door. Then,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: not to be outdone, I made like a big athlete. Okay,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that was a pretty nifty tackle.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: You okay?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: So as I get this hood off, I'm gonna have
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a few words of this spook. There he's out cold.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Oh to bring missus Bates in here? Oh, come on
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you wake up?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Who is he? I don't know? Come on? Wake up?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: The put of like a real ghost out of here. Okay,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: they don't have any more. Please, Yes she is, Lieutenant,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: miss Bates. You know who this man is.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: It's Warner's lawyer, mister Anderson, the executor of the stage.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Sure, baby, had to be all right, buster, what's the story?
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Oh all right, all right?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: It was the money. If I could get you, you
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to break the will. I had dummy charity set up
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: so I could get the estate. He's all yours. We'll
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: wrap him up.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It'll be a pleasure, Ohris, But the cups take him
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: out of here. Yeah, come on, spooky, Well, that takes
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: care of that. Hey, what about kin? He must have
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: known about all this.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: Of course I knew, Lieutenant, but I did not wish
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: to intrude those who interfere with the dead.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: They their own penalty, lose their haunting license. Nothing.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Oh sir, My cake is done. Would you like them?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It's devil's no. Thank Claus skept it with not Julia
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: walking to the door. Of course, I'll leave you with
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: kine Wall tell him a ghost story. Feeling all right, baby?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, much better. I'm fine now that I know
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: there's nothing to be afraid of. Tomorrow I'll be moving
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: into an apartment. Will you come and see me? We
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: have thanks to talk over, like white honey, like sharing
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: just two of us.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Well actually reached up and showed me what she meant
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: with a big smoochie. I'd probably stuck around, but I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: was afraid the house would be too disturbing. I wouldn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: have minded having to get to chase the bats out
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: of the room, but with Caine showing up every time
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I wanted something, well, that could have led to complications.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So I left Walton Otis to clean things up that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: are not too fond. Farewell to Cane, and went from
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the house of Howard to the one that was full
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: of redhead and the piano.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: The redhead was wearing a red dress.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: With a new.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Well, did you think you were going to make it?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I had a tough case tonight, honey, but I might
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: not get away at all.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: I'll bet you didn't.
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: Why Helen, Baby, all of a sudden, you sound suspicious
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: without any effort, especially when it comes to.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Blonde blond You mean girls, girls, blonde girls with hair
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: like sh and the lipstick on your cheek and the
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: look in your eye.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Oh you know how it is honey, brilliant detective saves
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: client's life and fortune.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: She had to be grateful.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Brilliant detective, just keep on making me so jealous of you.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: In one of these days, the world is going to
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: lose a brilliant detective.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: No, someone's gonna rub out Sam space. Oh what's the use?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Oh now, baby, don't be mad. Come on, that's mad.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: No, I'm upset and I'm unhappy.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: If I sing, will you be happy again?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: No?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: No, well I'll try.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I think my red would hit off. I need your
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: love so badly.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I love you, oh so madly, But I don't stay
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: a gast of a chance with you. I thought at
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: last i'd found you, but the love surround you, and
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I don't stay a gast of a chance with you.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: If you'll surrender, just for a tender kiss or two,
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: you might discover that I am a loverment.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: For you, and i'd be true.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: But what's the good of scheming. I know I'm at
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: to be dreaming, but I don't stay a gold.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Stu a chant.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: With you.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Happy, you're saying, do we next?
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: No?
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: No, it's still early enough to calculate. Show Well, if
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: I take it to the show, h Yeah, Okay, what's
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: the show you want to see?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Oh it's a wonderful horror picture full of spooks, the
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: ghost Talk.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, you have just heard Richard Diamond
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Private Detective, starring Dick call Helen was played by Virginia Gray.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Levinson by Ed Begley. Also in our cast were Wilms, Herbert,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Joan Banks, Paul Freeze and Robert Clark. Music was under
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the direction of Frank Word portions were transcribed. Tonight's story
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: was written by Herb Burdham and edited and directed.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: By Blake Edwards.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Dick Powell soon will be seen in the screen version
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of the best selling novel Missus Mike. Now, this is
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Toll Avery inviting you to be with us again. It's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the same time next week when we will again bring
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: What's on in BC tomorrow?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: There's great comedy in store for you on The Phil
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Harris Alice Fai Show when Phil and Frankie go shopping
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: for Alice's Christmas present. And there's excellent drama on Theater Guild.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: On the air tomorrow. Richard Conti, Diana Lynn and Shirley
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Booth will be starred in the Pulitzer Prize winning play
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Street Scene on Theater Guild. On the air, Richard Diamond,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: private Detective, brought us the house of mystery case. Good
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: night and thank you for joining us.