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Nick Carter: Nick Carter’s Christmas Adventure (EP1446) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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and you can support the show at support dot Great Detectives dot well. I
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decided to play this today. I could have played it on Christmas Days given
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the way it falls this year, but since people be less likely to download,
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decided to go ahead and start today. So here from December twenty fifth
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of nineteen forty three is Nick Hard's Christmas Adventure. Yes, it's another case
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for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective was ability of solving crime
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is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick Cutter, Master Detective,
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The Night's Curious Adventure, a special Christmas story Nick Cutter Christmas Adventure or the
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Mystery of the Reluctant Contributor. Well, next, we've been pretty much more
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haven't we ask Covey? We had, which is another way of saying that
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folks are usually willing to contribute to your settlement house Christmas party every year.
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Nick, Now, what's Coovey? I was just thinking about this last name
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on elis Yeah, Rasper. I don't know him personally, you no,
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I don't, but somebody must have thought he was rich enough or interested enough
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in the work to make a substantial contribution. Oh here's the hey. Is
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this hey? Nick? What's that address again? Five seventy six Milton Avenue.
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Yes, that's right, and there's his name on the door. Play
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a let's take a look, scubby. Well, gosh, this doesn't make
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sense, Dick, A guy who still doesn't hide away at a place like
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this. Well, knock on the door anyhow, doesn't seem to be anybody
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here, nol coy, I hear someone coming? Who is it? I'm
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Nicholas Cotter. I speak to mister Rasper, please, Nick Carter? Yes,
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yes, and this is my assistant Scuvey Wilson. How you doing you,
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mister Rasper? Yes, well, come in, come in. It's
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cold there, letting all the heat out home. Take your pardon, I'm
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in, Nick, I mean. Oh I wasn't you wanted? Oh,
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mister Rasper, I have come to see if you would care to make a
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contribution to my Christmas party. I never made contributions. Ah, but you
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don't let nick finish, sir. The fund provides food and extra clothing for
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the needy of deserving. The show department is still working, isn't it Well,
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of course, mister Rasper. But my object is to provide an inspiration
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for the young people who are under privilege. People who haven't got any money
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are always trying to get it from those who have. Then you aren't interested
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in seeing that the children of the Lincoln Hall district helped to a little happiness
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on Christmas Day? Oh I'm not. Christmas is old fashioned. I don't
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believe in it. It's a waste of money and time. Good day.
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Oh well, mister Rasper. It's always been a lot of fun for me
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personally. But I must say that I've always felt better for celebrating, and
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I haven't glad to agree with scuby. Mister Rasper. Christmas has always been
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a bright spot in my life, and I feel sure that if you knew
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the good it has done throughout the world, it make you change your mind,
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Robbie. Well, in any case, I married Christmas to you.
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Good dave you Christmas and needs a lot of nuns. And come on,
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Nick, let's get back to civilization. You know, Scubby, that man's
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wealthy, no doubt about that, and yet he's solid on Christmas and everything
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it stands for. You said our mouthful Nick. You know Scopy there must
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be reason why he thinks that way, and I'd like to find out what
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it is. But you having anything to work on, Nick, know Skeby,
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I haven't not yet, But look here, I can finish up whatever
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has to be done this afternoon. Suppose you hop down to the newspaper office
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and go through the files there. There might just be something we could learn
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about Rasper that way, Okay, Nick, I'll be glad to Then I'll
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have Raleigh check through the files at headquarters. It's a long shot, but
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something might turn up. Sure. Maybe Patsy is run into something while she's
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been working out at the settlement house. She might know somebody who knows something
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about Rasbord. Yeah, she matter that. I'll ask her about it,
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okay, And maybe with all of us working together on it, we may
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learn why Raspor's or dead set against Christmas. I'd certainly like to find out.
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Hello, he's that Tunick Riley talking. I've been through my files here
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and I can't find anything charged against the man named Ben Rasper. He was
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licensed to do business with a man named Howard Low, but Low died some
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years ago. Otherwise, Rasper is just a successful businessman. That's right.
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Uh. I'll tell you what though, Nick, there's an old fellow named
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Fred Anderson who used to be on the force who knows Rasper for sure.
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You can find him at Lincoln Hall where you're giving the party. No,
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he's the watchman there now. Waka Nick, that's all right, I'll see
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you tomorrow. Hello. Oh yes, Covey. Oh you did? Uh?
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Sportsal Morah? Well? Well what was that name again, Chris Bam?
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Why yes, yes, I recall. Oh no, I'll be down
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about an hour. So I want to call pats first, right, and
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thanks Guvey bye. Jingle bells, jingle bell Hy Patsy, how's everything?
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Huh ah? Fine, I'm coming down to the hall. Is there anything
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you want me to bring along? H are sure I can do that?
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But will that be enough? Though? Okay, yeah, yes it could
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be just called or we've found out something about Rasper what you did too?
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How old is he named Jimmy? And he's coming to our party? Oh
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fine, fine, Patsy, Okay, I'll seen it a little while.
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Bye, that's fine. We've collected enough to do Visia his party up right.
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Now, let's get organized, Ronnie. Your job of me to get
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the kids of the needy person's round about. Surely come take care of it.
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I got your lists in the list from the social worker from the church
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down there, and there are plenty of others who need to lift this year.
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Believe me, I know it, Riley, and I'll depend on you,
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Scabby. It's your job to see that the tree and decorations and gifts
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are taken care of. Don't worry, Nick, decorating's my middle name.
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I'll make Lincoln Hall look like a million dollars in cat a. Good boy,
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good boy, And Patsy, you see to it that there's plenty to
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eat and drink for the party, so I won't have to worry about that.
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I'll take care of the bills. And you have the letters of credit
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the stores gave us. You know how to do that, dear thing.
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Nick, I've been through with you walking that after before I ought to know
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what you want by this time, Well, what are you going to be
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doing? Nick? Me? Well, Riley, I'm gonna do a little
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detecting. I'm going to look into those tips you Patsy and Scobby gave me
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about those people who know Ben Rasper. And by the time I'm through,
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I hope to find out why it is that he hates Christmas the way he
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does. Then well then maybe I'll be able to do something about it.
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Oh yes, is it right for talking? Yes, I sent you the
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Belding knife. Well, whatever it is doing the twenty seventh, No,
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just forget it. The holidays don't tell the reason for bells to be unpaid.
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Goodbye, fool nonsense, That's what it is. There's a lot of
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fools talking big. Ain't your Rasper? Who's what do you want? Don't
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you remember me? Rasper? No? I don't remember you. Whuaia.
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He used to call me the kid Chris, the kid Chris sometimes known as
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the human flesh Chris. You. Oh, well, it's been a long
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time, Raspa, isn't it. How'd you find me? Who sent you
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here? Fellow named Nick Carter told me I'd find you here in your office,
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even if it is Christmas Eve, Nick Cutter, Oh yes, I
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want. I'm going to give him some money for some fool party or for
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the party at Lincoln Harley. I guess Heyce never asked me for anything,
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just gave me what I needed when I needed it. So he hired you
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to come here and take up my time again. He didn't send me here.
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This said I'd find you here. That's all. I came here on
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my own accord, just to wish you merry Christmas. Thought should say that.
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Well, I don't mind, because it's on a count of Nick Kara
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that I can stand on my own feet again, not on account of you.
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Watch that you mind if I sit down? It was on Christmas Eve
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that we won our first fight, wasn't it? Fight? Oh yeah,
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A long time ago. It was a long time ago. I can remember
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the noise of the crowd, the glare of the lights, and the smoke
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curling around, and the brightness over the ring, and you leaning over me
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with that wet towel. You gotta going, Chris, another one like that
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last round and you'll have him in the Rope's got a count? How do
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you feel now, kiddy? Come on, kiddy, rest, just let
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me ask you. I don't have to wait any more. It's me now.
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You take your orders from me, kid, I'm the brain's here.
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When you get the single from me, you'll give it to him as you
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got a boss. Keep me shout a hide, I might. That's amazing.
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I can take him, take him rest now. There are a lot
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of those little affairs after that, Rasper, and I always did what I
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was told. Yes, a good fighter, Chris, good fighter. I
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made a lot of money for us in those spots, Rasper, A lot
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of my old age, Chris. I'll the water has gone on lots of
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bridges since then. Ill, and the percentage you paid me didn't last long
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either. It went just like that water. But I didn't care much about
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things like that. The day a friend of mine came and gave me a
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warning tip and started me thinking, oh, Ken, how do you feel?
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Cohdo rasp wit thin? I have wanted to talk to you. I've
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been around. What's up? I got a tip today? She's signing up
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Timmy. O'Day you're gonna manage him, don't you? That? Never mind?
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Is it true? That depends depends on what that kid you're getting slow
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o, day's fresh. He'll be the next chair. If he wins this
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fight with you tonight, I'm taking him over. If I win tonight,
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I'm taking a day over. Anyhow, We've been together a long time,
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kidding. They don't pay to get into too much of a rut. So
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that's all it means to Is it money to payoff her? What about all
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the years we've known each other? What about the things we've been proved?
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Why you don't get yourself all in a sweat, kid, isn't good for
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you. You'll get your cut anyway. Don't worry. You'll get your cut
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last time. What I do? Tell me what to do? I can't
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see him in my eyes. I'll pass up. He's cut me the ribbons.
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Tell me what to do. That's me. Don't bother me. Kid,
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here's your own judgment. You're on your own as of now, but
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grasp for you always. You're on your own, kiddy. I can still
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see it sitting there in the ring corner, laughing at me. But that
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was the last thing I saw for a long time. Oh day, sort
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of that You must have coached him pretty far about my style and then you
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really cashed in. Well, I haven't got much myself, but I'm still
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able to wish you merry Christmas, Rasper, although I don't think you'll ever
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have one of churse I Well, I got some things to do, ras
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Carter asked me to pick up some things for the party at Lincoln Hall tomorrow.
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We always have a swell time at Carter's Christmas parties. Too bad you
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can't enjoy anything like that anymore. Well, as I said before, Rasper,
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Mary, how can a man work with his mind whirling like a merry
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go around Christmas Eve? God, it's a fighting excuse for people to go
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around yelling at each other in the streets, sturbing a man when he wants
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to get some work done. Oh, I might as well close the office
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and get some rest. We'll be home by now. If the kid Chris
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hadn't taken up so much time. Christs for a living now, wonder if
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that it's none of my concern? Can home and get some sleep? That's
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what I need? Who's that I'm closing up? Come back tomorrow morning.
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I'm glad I got here before you left it. Who is it? It's
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Nina? Then, Oh, Nina, I only stop by to speak to
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you for a moment. It's getting quite later. Well, sit down for
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a moment, Nina. Thank you. Let me get your chair. I
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suppose it's ro had a bowl of me to come after all this time.
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But I know me know why. I'm I'm glad you did. Is there
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something you want? No, you know there's nothing you can do for me.
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Ben, Jimmy and I are doing very nicely. I just wanted to
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wish you a merry Christmas. I was in the neighborhood doing some shopping for
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the party that mister Carter's giving it Lincoln Hall tomorrow. And Nina, Jimmy,
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I mean, oh, he's fine, Ben. He's full of life
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and interested in everything. He has a good head on his shoulder, isn't
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He's very handsome too. Oh that's fine, just fine. Uh you're looking
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a little tired, Ben, Are you feeling well? Oh? Yes,
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yes, of course I have been working hard, that's all. I don't
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spend much time at home much reason to him, m that's the way you
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want it, Ben, don't you remember Nana wreat Oh, Jimmy, there's
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daddy. You're waiting here for Mommy like a good boy, won't you.
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I'm coming, Ben, I've been giving your dinner warm for you. I
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hope you'll what's anoa? Then you look as if there's nothing, Nina,
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nothing, I'm in a hurry, that's all. You're always in a hurry,
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Aren't you never have time for where's dinner? Then I'll I'll have it
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for you right away. This plate is half now, be careful you don't
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bring me I won't salt. Please who you are? Dear? Then when
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you've finished, won't you take time enough out of your business to help me
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get the tree decorated. I know Jimmy's too young to know much about it,
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but I'd love to have these Christmas already for him in the morning.
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Look, I'm putting to sleep right away and then we can start. Seeah,
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I have some holly and missles over the fireplace and enter. I won't
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wait. But then it's Christmas Eve. Surely you have to get back to
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the office. I'm putting on a championship match for a day in January,
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and the things are gone haywire. Something that can't wait till tomorrow. I
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have to get it organized right away, That's all, Ben. This is
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Christmas Eve tomorrow will be Jimmy's first Christmas. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
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You and Jimmy celebrate Christmas anyway you want do, Nina, I have
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something more important to do. Business is more important than sentiment. Who certainly
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can see that? Yes, Ben, I can see that. I've been
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seeing it more and more during the last few years. I thought that when
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Jimmy came, maybe you will. No. I was wrong, wasn't i?
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Ben. You'd even let your love for business break up, our home
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break up our Don't be melodramatic, Nina. Not being melodramatic, Ben,
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I'm I'm trying to be very calm and quiet about it. I've had a
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lot of time to think when I've sat alone here night after night, and
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those days on end, when you've been away attending to your business, And
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what has come out of all this thinking? You've done just this, Ben,
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I'm not going on any longer. Either you belong to your family or
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your family will get along without you. I have to rush. Good night,
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God, good night, Ben, it's good goodbye. Jimmy and I
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are leaving tonight. Look, I haven't time to talk about it with you
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now. Oh, by the way. This will probably take most of the
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night. Good Night, goodbye, Ben, Verry Christmas. I never had
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much of a chance to make it up to you, Mina. You've had
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all the chance you wanted, Ben, But I just drop by to say
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hello and to give you a wish for happiness during the holidays. It's hard
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not to share with you the joy I have with Jimmy. I wish you
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could see his eyes dancing mister Carter's Christmas parties. Unfortunately, what little I
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make, we can't very well afford to have our Christmas at home, but
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somehow we don't miss it. Everybody has such a grand time at mister Carter's
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party, and Jimmy does enjoy every minute that he's there. Godness, I'll
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have to be on my way, jim He's waiting for me, and I
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have to make one more stop for mister Carter. Good Night, Ben,
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and Merry Christmas. This stuff doesn't taste like anything, nothing at all.
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I can't understand what's got into me. It's good food, fixed the same
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as always is. He just doesn't taste right, that's all. What's It's
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someone at the door of this time of the night. I'm coming. I'm
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coming. Oh, Ben, it's fit Anderson. Let up, I'll get
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home. I'm over at home this time of night. Yessues, I pull
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shop, Ben, are gonna come? In course? I brought your package,
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Ben. Nick Carter sent me around with it, said you'd probably be
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here alone tomorrow and he'd like you to have it. Carter what Carter sending
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me? You might open it and see? Ben, I'm no mind reader.
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It's any reason why Carter had wanted m h what wine? And see
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the card? May Christmas from Nick Carter. Let's say, idea, you
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know anything about this friend? No? But Nick Carter's a funny duck.
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There's lots of things people don't expect him to why. I don't even know
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the man only saw him once. And then you want the glass of this
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wine? Friend? Don't mind if I do, Ben, change it's Christmas
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Eve. I don't mind at all. And there's some glasses here somewhere.
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Say hurry open this thing. I'll do it for you. Ben. Go
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ahead, you open it? Eh? Oh, all right, there ain't
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a drinking with me, Ben? Huh, oh I will that's a ticket.
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Well, here's very Christmas for you, Ben, Yes, very Christmas.
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Oh have you been giving yourself. Friend. Oh, I've been sort
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of walking around Lincoln Hall since I was retired from the force. See,
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you know, while I was coming here tonight, I was thinking about those
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old days when I walked a beat twenty. Most folks call them the good
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old days, but I don't. You did all right in those times,
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and oh, sure I got along. I was just thinking about the different
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attitudes folks have nowadays thought being given a hand, they appreciate it more.
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It seems to entirely still charity for it. That hasn't changed. I guess
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it's all in the point of view. Ben, I guess you haven't changed
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with the times. That night I mentioned near the bridge, I was sure
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you were going to see that you were headed in the wrong direction and wake
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up in time. Remember that night, being which Christmas Eve you just come
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from the arena. They'd handed you your walking papers because you let them down.
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Very Christmas, officer, Very Christmas to you, sir. Well what
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you doing out on a night like this? Ben? I thought you'd be
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able at the arena get into New Year's fights, lined coch you Anderson.
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Now I'm not of the arena anymore. That's so what happened. They decided
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tonight that'd rather have Davis take over my job. Fine, Christmas present bat
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is, Well that's tuck you, Ben. What's gonna do now? I
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don't know. I can't seem to think straight. Oh that's a crazy way
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for a man like you to talk on the Christmas Eve to Christmas Eve.
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That's never been anything but that jinks to me. First, I get stuck
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with that, no good fight or oday. Then Nina leaves me and takes
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my son with it, and now Arena throws me out. Well, maybe
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you better stop and find out what it is you're doing wrong, Ben,
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Maybe you're the one that's to blame, not Christmas Eve. They all take
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advantage of me. I made all the money I could for them, but
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I'm not gonna do it anymore. Take it easy, man, take it
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easy. You better go home and think it over. I have thought it
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over, Fred, and I know what the answer is. I'm gonna make
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money for myself and nobody else. I'll show these people I don't make so
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much money. They'll come crawling to me on their knees, and I won't
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have to ask for anybody's sympathy. You don't pay to think like that,
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then you regret it. Now. Look, I know the pillboint and who
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runs the shoe store down on Ellam Street. He is looking for a man
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to buy in with him. Me working a shoe store. Not on your
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life, Fred, I'm going after the big money. Big money. That's
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the only thing people understand, and I'm gonna get it. Now. You've
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got it, Ben, one of the richest men in town. And once
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he got you, why, I don't know. Ben. It's too bad
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you don't get around and see what nice people are in the world. People
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like this card if, for instance, does a man good to know people
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like him makes you feel? Really is a Santa Claus? To see him
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bring the smiles in the kids' faces those parties he gives down at Lincoln Hall.
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Well, I'll be getting back then, and I've got a big day
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tomorrow. I've not as young as he used to be her Christmas, do
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you, Ben, I'll tell Nina I saw you. She'll be at the
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party tomorrow with young Jimmy. Good night, man. Ah, Pay everybody
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quiet now, I'm right over art not you'll light up along the wall over
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there and watch it out here by the tree. If he O. While
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he has her gifts there you go out of the table. There gets a
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request, Come on, I'll light up flat there fat the ticket down?
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Watch it out here? Come on your time? O. Well, Pantcy,
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how's it going? Making wonderfu a grand time? Paul? That's flying
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Pancy's Patsy. And look over there by the door. What do you see,
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Renie? Who's that's Patsy? Is Ben Resby? I hope he's come
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to join the party. Thanks, that's the man I've heard so much about.
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She look scared. He's Patsy. You want to make him welcome?
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Hello, then, Merry Christmas. I'm Patty Gowen you join us? How
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do you doing? I hope I'm not? Do you mind if how he
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just watch? Oh christ come right in. I wanted to thank mister Carter
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for the gifts you send them by Nick right over there near the tree.
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Come along, Uh huh. Children seem to be enjoying themselves. I'm glad
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they Didney do. That's Attendant's Alley handing out the gifts. There. It's
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ktably welcome with him. Yes, I met mister Wilson. He's living Lieutenant
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Riley. He's having as much fun as the children. So I see,
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Oh, I think there's a nice looking boy there, miss who I mean,
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what's his name? Where there's that one over there? Oh that's Jimmy.
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He's a night boy. If though there was a big jap to me
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getting a refreshments ready this year is over there on the five out of the
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hall at the table. See oh, yes, personal, I mean we
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have no guest. Oh oh, I'm miss harassmer Mary Christmas. I'm glad
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to get joints. Thank you, mister Carter. I came to express my
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appreciation with the gift you sent me. I hardly know how having Ols Rasper
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you're being here. Thanks enough for me, mister Carter. That little boy
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coming along the line there, Jimmy, I think his name is. Do
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you think I might give him? I mean, could I him in his
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gift? Do you think? Quite certainly? Riley, mister Rasper, he
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wants a leven head? Can you use him for sure? Seeing me come
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along, mister thank you you just hand to meet you said, they come
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along, mister Raisberd and enjoy your health man. I will there little gel
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and Merry Christmas. She liked it, didn't he? They all appreciate the
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little kindness mister Asmund. Now here's a gift for that to to buy there.
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Oh hello, Jimmy, he and the merry Christmas. So oh well,
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that was the day for you. Gosh, I haven't had so much
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fun since last year. You played those games harder than any two kids in
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the bench coming. Yeah, lots practically. Yeah. Why do you really
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have to be in condition to keep up with these kids? Boy? They're
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wonders. They wanted to get all that energy. That will be one of
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the world's great mysteries for abascuby, Nick, What are you thinking so hard
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about? Oh? I was. I was just thinking of the way mister
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Rasper took to the party. Hey, don't you mean the way the party
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took to mister Rasper? Nick? Yeah, I never saw a man open
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up. Boy he did. I was wonderful. The children just walked around
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him. That's one of the greatest jobs that Nick Connor ever did. What
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do you mean, rileygh Well, Patsy, You'll never believe it. But
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when Nick and I went to see Rasper to get a contribution to the party,
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he was the hardest case of unadultivated unpleasantness I ever saw. What.
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Somehow Nick managed to get under his skin and bring out well what she saw
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to night. Well, for Heaven's sake, how did you do it?
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Well? It wasn't difficult, Patsy. You see, I could see when
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we first spoke to Rasper that he was fighting something, but I didn't know
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what it was. But mc riley, Scubby and you had told me.
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I found that three different times Christmas Eve had brought him bad luck. First
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the fighter o day, Then Missus Rasper had left Rasper and a Christmas Eve,
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taking his son Jimmy with her. And third he'd lost his promoter's connection
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at the arena also on Christmas Eve. Well, the whole thing added up.
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Rasper associated Christmas Eve with a list of unfortunate incidents and bought anything that
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suggested the holidays to him. He made a lot of money, but it
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never brought him happiness. The big thing for me was to make him realize
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that people and Christmas meant good and not evil. And from what I saw
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this afternoon, the Rasper family in the whole neighborhood for that matter, is
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going to benefit by his awakening to that realization. I make that wonderful.
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You did have a kid for that. Oh thanks, Massy, I'm glad
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you feel that way too. You know, I'm happier this evening because of
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mister Rasper than I would be if I'd solved twenty murders. He's made this
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a really merry Christmas for all of us. This has been another of the
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Strange adventures of Nick Carter, Master Detective, which are brought to you regularly
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at this time by w or R Mutual. What's your story going to be
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about next time? Nick? It's a little different from the usual story because
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it started out with Nick himself being the victim of a holder. Yes,
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and the men who held me up turned out to be innocent after all.
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Sound a trifle complicated to me. It was complicated but interesting, and it
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gave me plenty of trouble before I found the solution, including a sore felt
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that almost finished Nick Carter a saw throat. Why should that be dangerous because
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it was the kind that you get from a rope around your neck? Hey,
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wait a minute, you mean, well, the rest of the story
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you get two weeks from tonight. That's now so long, everybody, so
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long, So long, both of you in the strange adventure you have just
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heard. Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark, Patsy by Helen Choult,
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and Scubby by John Kin. The story was written for Nick Carter by Humphrey
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Davis. A rich music was played by Lou White. The entire production was
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under the direction of Jack McGregor. Two weeks from the Night at the same
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time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled Recall Disguise, Arnick
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Carter and the Mystery of the Kidnap Harris. This story is a copyrighted feature
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of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. The Return of Nick Carter is produced in
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the studios of WR and is broadcast over most of these stations Monday evenings at
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nine thirty Eastern wartime. This is mutual welcome back. Well, a fairly
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interesting take on the Christmas Carol, definitely a bit atypical for Nick Carter episode,
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but definitely a message about remembering what really matters in life. Which character
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had sacrificed for money, which is never a good trade. Well. Our
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Christmas specials will continue Tomorrow Saturday Sunday with a special one hour episode you won't
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want to miss, and then wrap up on Monday with an episode of The
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