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Let George Do It: The Darkest Shadow (EP0793) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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I've all talked more about that another time now It's time for today's episode
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of Let George do It. This one is actually marked low quality, but
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I know Andrew Ryns will do only ken. So let's go ahead and take
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a listen to the Darkest Shadows, my stock and trade the jobs doing something
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adventure of George Punzan. It is said, yeah, I want you to
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make out my will, your will. Yes, he's asking questions your child?
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How old are you? Twenty twenty one h desertin distance. If you
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don't help me out, have to go to saying no, your lawyer an
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executive of your father's estate. I have a right know because it's on a
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You see, Randol, You're standing on the threshold of life. You're in
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love, engaged to be many will dead. What kind of thinking was dead?
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Mister setting a. Please peace, You're not my psychiatrist. Please look
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out my will. Don't cause e telling me I'm not on the stairs and
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stop this. I said, stop this now, Lucy. Talk is over.
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You've always impressed me as your girl with crost on the ground. What's
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the matter. I'm going to die? Three dishes Davis? There's Davis.
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Oh, I didn't know. Miss Random left here and got break two stacks
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in the standard will form, said one Corpin and strandle and file the other
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will for the young random girls. Yes, spilt, I'm sorry. Does
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seems strange. I didn't mean the back of to miss Davis. You're quite
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right. It's more than strange. When you from that fellow, the one
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with the egg and the paper rods Valentine and asked him to come in and
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see me as soon as he can. Idea why the girls should talk about
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dying, that's the sent no idea at all. I'm dying in three days
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down three days. That's sadness, Brookes. Why I checked with the Rando's
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personal position? He says, there isn't a thing wrong with the help you
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know Randalls and they live in a big on eight place on Samuel Boulevard.
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Don't think that's right? Does Lucian, her older sister, Agnes, the
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father mother the dead quite a number of years. Fine, a family,
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one of the pioneer families of the city, and its something just how do
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you think you will be able to fit into this? Don't really know exactly.
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I thought I might take you along with me to the random home.
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So you're another lawyer, perhaps that's an associate. You might be able to
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size up the situation getter than I. I don't know. It won't be
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an idea. What's your reason? At least that's right? Just by me?
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Bill Cobelli, don't shoot as yeah right apparent pro see you well,
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I suppose you're trying to locate him instead of have a talk with him.
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All right, that's the son that I will see you black here after we've
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seen your randall sisters. But Agnes, mister Ballantine and I made this visit
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especially to see your sister's they kind of will you say you have no idea
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of what's behind Lucie's visitor, mister son of this afternoon, don't you think
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someone ought to try and find out, perhaps be able to help him.
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I told you Jess and Lucy is not feeling well. Yes, I know
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you told us, and Gush ruled or sister's life. Well, haven't joined.
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I don't know what you mean by rule. I tried to take care
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of me, after all, I'm older than Lucy. Why did you really
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come here to night, mister sentment to help? Of course, father used
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to say you've never did anything you want? Your father was a very step
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I need to happen. It would so much chair listing, my dear,
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we have list sucking chairs. Oh hello, Lucue, this is a friend
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of mine. Mister Valentine. Haveldus if you're in a training tried tried to
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open a door and you you're a boy, mister senter, I'm cheap think
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think ah, I did everything you said contrue voices and I thin strange voices
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that no one else did hear, and the awful cold s cleaning comes over
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me. Lucy, what are you talking about? Yes, Lucy, tell
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us about the things you're feeling here. No stop with you. I can
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shoot you, but any My posist is quite sad. She ought to rest
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rest a long time. Good day to thank him. Davis, you're sure
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there's nothing else in the fires on the randal statement? Yes, said that
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was all one and the sings on the very le I told you there was
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nothing complicated or important about the distribution of the randal Foulson one half to each
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sister Lucy's world erected? Does her money go to specifically named charity Whanna died
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in a turning incident eight years ago? Wrong? Some does another? Floor?
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Souls mother died or going Saint Catherine's after a lingering illness. I wonder
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what that lingering illness was. What was the SA find out by chected me
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the record, But mister Valentine, I paid you see what I'm oh?
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This is the untape? Okay, Bill, it's Hammon. What's the song
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about? Well, it's Lucy's of Valentine. I'm so crazy about her.
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I don't know whether I'm coming or going. She felt the same way about
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me too, that is until wonder until what about two or three weeks ago,
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mister Valentine. She's changed so completely, She's so morbid, so most
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not at all like her real self. What happened to us two weeks ago?
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I'm not sure if I didn't know Agnes so well. Agnes, it's
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a ridiculous Agnesis there's a swell person. A matter of facts. She used
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to be my girl for a while. Seriously, we went to school again.
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Lucy was along, a good kid with graces on a kid in those
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days. I don't along this feeling about your engagement to Lucy, though,
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Paint you have a big party for us. What do you mean about Agnes?
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I well, I can't no time to tell, gentlemen, do well.
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I don't really know this books intangible. It's just because when Agnes and
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Lucy got to get something, I'm going here, what you mean? I'm
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trying to call us the all day strict to me, I'd a love to
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pull, mister Valentine. I think I'm going to try and manage to seeing
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Lucy alone. But oh, yes, George Valmontine, it's the senders friend.
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Well, aren't you going to ask me to come in? Yes?
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Yes, of course, isn't at home? She went up shopping. Yes,
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I know I wanted to talk to you alone. Can we go to
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your room? Certainly? But what I'm sad my rooms to Valentine. The
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door, I can never open it. Something inside of my mind would't let
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me. She never hear the last time it happened this afternoon, remember,
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but my hand seemed to freezing. I can't tell you something like that.
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What happened? I don't know. Yes, she always knows. She remembers
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everything Mother went through. The photo I could shadow. That's what eggs cost.
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How did you know that mother found about that Saint Catherine's wasn't just a
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hospital. It's fear, that awful curl that follows me, But it is
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curled in this Househo egg is to only she keeps the sighs from the p
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last she did the cold. But I'm always close. She's like one of
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gost three days before three days goes to ten days to Valentine. Then seven
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five. That's a little scenes. I'd like to take a look at this
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job. It's not the door, it's me. Don't you understanding? Inside
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off me? Sens lock it's funny wax in the lock. I do this
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kind of the store. I won't jam again, I mean not a lot
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of piece of wax? Looking still what I need doing? Aga again?
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Oh? How did you just wanted to talk to me? I couldn't help
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any I mean I couldn't help it, honest, sisters this age time,
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who would you've done to it by disagaying my order? And I want you
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to meet this house, but I'm done like this. No, it's a
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lot of other things, little things like this piece of wax. I little
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story go in my life, this house. I don't like speaking in time
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and don Is said, I'm not I'm away. Can you stay and more?
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Your sister needs help lots of health aggs, she needs nothing, no,
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m no, no, all right, thanks for your cooperation. You
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must help me. I don't want anyone take new roles in control. But
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I'm at the exactly what did those last two days before? They? Who
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look at that? You might study down and listening by day? I wait,
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browing what's going to happening that? I'm very ft it waiting for this
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system. Stand by, I'll show myself before I left, put me away
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in justin women will return to to Night's adventure. George Valentine. You know,
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full being gradually cheated pieces from the inside and the way their owners would never
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suspect if your cars, like most cars, the manufacturer installed an oil filter
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to strain out sludge and ridd and keep buil from going back into the engine.
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Oil filters don't require much attention, actually only once every six thousand miles.
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Then it's time to get a new oil filter element. And unless you
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do, your oil filter becomes clogged and useless. So filter can't work anymore
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than a vacuum cleaner can and the best tag is jam full. That's why
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it's a good idea to have your car saver check your oil filter element.
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If more than six thousand miles of past your filter is full of dirt and
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sludge and do for a change. Car savers will be glad to install a
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Applas my chronic filter element. Let's correct for your car. The more thing,
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better care of your car. A twenty year old girl comes to her attorney
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in existed he growth or will immediately. The reason none except that she expects
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to be dead in three days. Well, you joined the lawyer, mister
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Sentinry, in trying to solve the mystery. But even if your name is
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George Valentine or you seemed to be able to find as if there's a deep
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and hidden secret between the girl Lucy and her older sister Agnes. You and
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Busy watched the ramble. Sisters were off the dinner, seeked into the doom
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and rambling old house. That's going on. But I see it before.
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I noticed a big old fashioned desk on the library. I think it higher
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the moon. If they think of the jail we're having in this case,
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mccanniford to become squedish. Besides of it, your cold will. Let's something
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to do sport and for all in this thing. Because of him. I
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better put to him before we turn on the line. That's good, I
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do. Yeah, may say this maybe isn't much. You've dad at the
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other places we looked to. But oh great black Yeah. I mean it's
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a good sign. M you should lose a little Persuashi. They've a good
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ans looking ship. They should have been Solida. Believe it very soon,
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we'll try it again, and let's see any Alice's desk. Thanks for six
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flowing run for a cold. She needs Lucy's glocer to No, that's so
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hard that Lucy was born in Wilkin's London. So and what cent that's me?
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I thought she was born right, animal was very washing. Come on,
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let's talk to her friends center. No, Valentine, it doesn't make
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sense. Why should a rich woman like missus Randrew go to a smaller dot
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town and have her baby there when she could have all the best care.
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I don't know, but there's the evidence she had no family there though.
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Friend said, he you do some more checking into this verse certificate good Inns
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town. What are you going to do, Valentin? I know it's not
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going says some at bathing with missus Brooks and I are going to take a
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train after Wilker's landing. Whoka los landing. They don't wait the ten o'clock.
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They're all up the famers. They don't even put any down. That
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must be doctor Withers. High. Yes, there's a single good good George,
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I still have a seeing movies followed on that trail. Now, angel,
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lookye you got a glimpse of a man in a long black coat with
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a hat pulled on over his eyes. It was the only one who signs.
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I still got off here. But we can't just go looking for him?
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Can we? Fits my sting? It? Changing it? Where have?
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What can I do with you both? I'm not a practicing doctor anymore,
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been retired for a year now. He's that signed for a long time
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sake. Yes, so when I'm George Valentine, doctor Withers, and this
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is my assistant this book. So yeah, you're gladuate kid, I see
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it twice senior. Two of you wait coming for excuse me, you'll get
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the cool standing there. I wouldn't be kicking me off like that, but
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I'm not practicing anymore, my dad, I'd like to make you put some
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coffee. My housekeepers not hearing them all around. It's quite all right,
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doctor Whethers. We're just going a short business call about this birth certificate.
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This is your signature, isn't first a minute and putting my glasses on?
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Yeah? He is? What about it? And you brought Lucy Randall into
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the world? I did that? All right? Are you alone at the
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time? Doctor, No? The mother I was at you know, well,
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let's send not exactly what I mean. I don't know what you mean.
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Yeah, he was your nurse, Rundown Day was her name. Wasn't
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anything strange about the birth? Doctor weaers know who's strange? Perfectly normal drooper,
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it was missus Vandall's pasion to going from poison. Yeah, recognized.
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Better not talk about that, doctor Wellers, Please, I can't go into
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all the explanations now, but who's very importantly know Well in twenty years you
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know reason I shouldn't tell you, And just don't make no different now.
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One of the strangest cases I ever had. Gas me a lot to think
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about for a long time after that, going head, doctor kes head as
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your back door caration? Who could have been the night? I'll be here
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right back there where I'm right tracking. We're definitely on the right track.
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That's when I suspect this chong, Doctor Winners, say s doctor Winners somebody
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shot ply she Doctor Withers will be all right, angel, Oh good.
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You won't be able to talk to anybody for at least a day anymore.
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We can't take a chance. I'm waiting, well, my daddy. Yeah,
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she's next. Let's hope we get to her before the man in the
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long dot coat. I'm sorry about doctor Widays. Is that all you have
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to say? This is study. I told you I know nothing about Lucy's
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vandals. It's of the utmost important you'll tell us what happened. It's of
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the utmost importance to me that I live. But I told you you're in
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no danger. The sheriff has a man station right outside. You'll see what
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until this whole thing is cleared up. Now, look, you must realize
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there's a poor girl going around and you're the only one who can help her.
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I don't remember that pain. It's being put a long time. Missus
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Dowdy, you're a selfish woman who shut herself away from humanity so long that
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she's forgotten or other human beings. Human being she owes something to look at
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that nicely. You've forgotten that you're a nurse. You once took a sacred
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oath. Perhaps you no longer remember the words, but you couldn't have forgotten
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the ideals. I haven't forgotten that gave me depart. That's the whole point.
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Here's a young girl, only twenty years old. She's just stunning in
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life, engaged to be married, happiness ahead of her. But Lucy slowly
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but surely going mad, being driven mad. Did you see it's Lucy,
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he's going mad? Why? Yes, Oh, tell me everything. She
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has only a few hours of sanity life, So let's not waste time.
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Missus Dowding, I never thought i'd tell anyone, never, only Missus Bendy
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and doctor Wis. And I knew one day Missus Vanderkin here to look in
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vending and gave doctor Hiders this propetition. I didn't where are you? I
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didn't every name. Don't leave me alone like this. I rode in a
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dark old house. I didn't even I'm right here. I just want should
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leave me alone like this? Where you all? Like? I wasn't.
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I always always here, old by myself. I didn't leave this house at
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all. I cured r my gray head, and see I was sleeping in
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my room. I not my room because I didn't want any want to share
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me? No, no, no, no. Early this morning, I
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couldn't can it any longer? I want your door. I pounded on it.
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I screamed for you. Look at my answer questionable. If you didn't
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do it, I'm doing you imagine it, didn't you know? You imagine
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everything you hear? Now let me go right naturally. I didn't imagine.
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I wanted to stand on you, but I'll have to be underspeaking house.
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I talked to Missus and Missus Donatan has That's when I went. I beg
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you not to send you away, but they wouldn't do some to me,
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Lucy. They're coming for your own movements. Oh, I want to set
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you any mount. I'll try, but I can't let it to marry Missus
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Jones. They're gonna lock you up or say flee. They're gonta locking up.
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Could you want a straight jack and bind your hands and feet and you
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will be able to move. We'll be able to protect yourself, not unkey
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yourself. And you'll lie there day after day, night after night, just
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with a horror in your own mind, the darkest shadow for your life.
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Chance, Lucy, look, Lucy, eatin up there A gone you can
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still say yourself a friend happiking of the of you because you're not crusty.
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I don't want to see you suffering. Mother did cover horribly and the sleep.
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If the don see go up, it is to take don Lucy,
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she go ahead. Mostly don't come near me, mister Valentine, stay away,
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Lucy, Mary, sorry, did you asked her? I pick you
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away? Nobody gonna take your ala. That's right now. Listen to dude,
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look at this bish. Lucy, you're not Agnes's sister. You're an
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a doctor child. I don't understand. There's no one sanity in your family,
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Lucy. Agnes has been trying to drive you mad. Missus Dowdy told
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us the whole story. A young girl and Wilkins Landing was going to have
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a baby and she couldn't take care of it. Are you sorry? Missus
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Randall went to Wilkins's Landing and lived there six months waiting for the birth of
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this child. Only doctor Withers and missus Dowdy knew what she had in mind,
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and Missus Randall came back here. She passed you off as her own
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baby. Talk to child fighters. After mister Randall wanted or two. He
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knew from the time Angus was a few years old that she could never be
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any stronger mentally than her mother. How you no, you aren't going to
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do anything to anybody else. So we got to the house to a muddy
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footprints in the hall. Those footprints led to a close closet. In here
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we found a long dock overcoat and a slout chase. We also found a
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pair of shoes, muddy shoes. The same kind of blood you see on
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our shoes. That blood came from a little country to load lem to doctor
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here where the deposition in doctor will go Dunson, head of the State lunacy
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Board. You're still in the rest of status, and see that you will
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take care of all around the papers that need no rising. I'll do that
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right away, who IDs chatting? Yeah, well she'll be better off where
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she's joined by. After all, she did trying to kill not only Lucy
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with a bunch of weathers. I still don't see why as to see Lucy's
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true identity secret And as the doctor tells me, she was jealous. There
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was a Lucy and a bro I mean, I guess there were other mothers
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too. The wedding mister is willing to them. Valentine, I'm very grateful
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for what you've done. And Lucy, Yeah, she insists she's going to
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name her first baby absolute. That's great as the matter. In fact,
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she wanted to do something for news boys what to do. Yeah, He's
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going through the Bible book and Greg Castle. The Vice Adventure of George Valentine
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has been brought to you by Standard Oil Company of California on behalf of independent
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David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by Kenneth Webt, Virginia Eiler who has
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Heard as Lucy Greene, Tuttle as Agnes ted Osbourne as Sentineer, Juniors Matthews
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as Winners, Roland Morris is Bill, and Bobberly Denton as Miss gave Us.
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The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstater. You're announce to John
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Welcome back, Well A story where I think we had everything really other
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than the motive. Um, it was kind of obvious. It was,
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you know, in a very disturbing story. This has probably been one of
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the more nutty characters they've you know, or disturbed, I think is a
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better word, disturbed characters that they've had on the series. Yet a pretty
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scary top of scenario here, but thanks to George Valentine, turns out for
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the best. All right, Well, now we do turn to listener comments
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and feedback. Art Bright's in It is a Adam. It is great the
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way you've set up the podcast with a different detective every night. I listened
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to them at night to get to sleep, being that they are on my
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iPhone. They play all night long, which is wonderful when I wake up
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three or four times a night. I download all fifty three episodes of Box
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thirteen because I really like Box thirteen, but playing them one after another is
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very hard to take. Your format is perfect, Art, Thanks so much,
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Art, and I did find that because initially what I planned for this
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show was that we would do one show five times a week till it was
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all done. And you tried that with Pat Novac for Hire and you,
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yeah, that wouldn't work too well, particularly since people who might like Pat
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Novac for Hire might not be in two five days a week of Sherlock Holmes,
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so this was a good way for us to find that balance, and
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James comments, I'm so glad I found your app. Also finding the Fat
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Man a real joy. WAMU from Washington, DC, a old time radio
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program every Sunday night from seven to eleven. Your programs are wonderful editions,
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many of the programs I remember from my youth. Thank you, Jim.
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Well, thanks so much, Jim, And I've heard of that program quant
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a bit. I'm one of those venerable pioneers in bringing old time radio for
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life, and we definitely salute them. All Right, Well, that'll do
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it for today. Join us back here tomorrow for Sherlock Holmes, and then
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next Wednesday another episode of Let George dood in. The Meanwhile, Sandra comments
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