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Let George Do It: The Stand In (EP0909) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Today, of course, is April Fool's Day. However, given how complex
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our schedule is already, it won't play any jokes or do anything to confuse
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folks further. We're going today, of course, we're doing the last episode
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of Let George Do It we have with Bob Bailey, and I do want
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to say before we get started at Today's episode is brought to you by the
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financial support of our listeners. Thanks so much for your support. Now it's
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time for the stand in personal not it thank just my stocking trade. If
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the job's too tough for you to hand it, You've got a job for
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me. George Valentine right hold the tailor Standard Oil Company of California, invite
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the stand in a transcribed adventure of George Valentine. Not a single letter book
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scene, is sure, Not a single desperate phone call. Nope. I
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see then, why this nocturnal visit back to the office to have one last
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look at these beautiful, beautiful productional ledger No plants, and nothing terrible happens.
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All bills are paid and there's a balance in the bank. I don't
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this is a milestone. You're a solid solvent businessman, a captain of industry,
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a low goal. So that's the reason for the celebration dinner tonight.
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Oh cooy, they tell me. Did you enjoy your dinner? Angela?
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Who wouldn't I didn't? All right, wonderful. Did you notice the way
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that guy kept staring at us in the restaurant? Oh well, these days
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when you saw her in in order a double stake, it costs for a
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double take, even from the waiter. I wasn't talking about the waiter,
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huh. I mean that husky young fellow at the corner table. He was
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staring at us all through dinner. Why don't you jealous? I was just
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wondering. Well, I'd certainly be disappointed if at least one man didn't look
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twice screen. Slinky number I'm wearing is something new? Well, this great
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drooping number I'm wearing is something old. And the gentleman kept looking at me
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during these long screws. Okay, let's forget it. Eight books are commer
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Yeah, well, at the risk of being serious, there's something I want
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to tell you. I could never become a well, a more gull junior
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grade if it went for you. I continue how to become a more gull
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senior grade? Yeah? Nice? Moving out tonight, huh, Come and
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take a look, it's for free. Oh yeah, it is beautiful.
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Yeah, sure, up there over the building, not down the street.
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I know it. Look next to the other building. There's that friend again.
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Yeah, from the restaurant. You know, I'm sure of it.
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Now. He's been dogging my heels all day? Are you serious by search
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me? But I'm gonna find out right now. I'll look, Brooks.
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So you stay here in the office a few minutes. When the lights on,
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you'll think I'm still here. I'll get down and surprise him, find
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out what he wants. George, are you sure that you are? You
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didn't your mother warn you against Spring been following you. I'll go off the
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side door through the alley and then meet you in front. George, you
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can't just walk up to a stranger and say, look, but just who
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do you think you're following? I never say that, Brooks. See,
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that wouldn't be right. No, I'll say, look, Bud, just
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home do you think you're following? Well, it looks like mister Valentine got
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hisself laws Brooks. I'm worried. Henry. He said he'd meet me out
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here in front in a few minutes. Oh, he can take care of
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himself. Mister Valentine, can where if I see him? Sorry, when
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I'm making a rounds a villain, I'll tell him you eat well, Thanks,
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Hendry. I'm gonna have a look for myself, even if it means
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skulking down dark alley. Never a dull moment, No boy, George,
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Oh you don't knowing what happened. It's gonna be all right. I'll get
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a cab and get you to a doctor and I'll be right back right here.
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dB. Yeah, he's gonna have to help me with him. Yes,
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miss, that's mad and they feeling good. Oh he's fine except somebody
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hit him on the head and left him right here. He well, he
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was here, yeah, well he was propped up against the sash kick.
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I know, I know. Look, miss, I assure you all all
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right? Are you implying that I'm not? George was right here, and
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there was a stranger over there. And now that car, so don't you
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see old? Definitely blase, lady. I'm told I play cars on Robert.
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It's just what are you gonna do? Now? Uh, that's a
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good question. I wish I knew the answer. Oh, brun hello there,
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oh hello, oh oh, I can see, being married to you
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is going to be delightfully exciting. I don't want to be an all worry
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ward. But just where am i? You're home? Pool? Oh?
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Look am I sitting on somebody's lap? I'm really too lucky. But I
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was perfectly willing to marry you just for your money. Money, my how
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news gets around. You also have a sense of humor, and you're beautiful.
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Oh yeah, may be kind of pretty, but I don't know.
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Wait a minute, let's stop this hidden. You know you're really too big
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a boy to be getting into brawls. And the moment you got off the
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boat too? What boat? The boat from Australia's stilly. Oh, let's
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start from the beginning. All this is much too luxurious for a petted seller,
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and you're much too well anyway to be a nurse. Thank you,
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Paul. So I draw the round doubtful conclusion that I am saying, and
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just don't know why I'm supposed to be now just between us, gorgeous?
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Who am I? You love to play games, don't you? Yeah?
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Well you're Paul Gibson, the man I've decided to marry. How does the
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idea of marrying me strike you? Paul right between the eyes. What did
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you say Your name was Gloria? Gloria Bradley. Oh that's nice to know.
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I may want to introduce you to friends. Gloria, Just when did
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you decide to make me the happiest boy in the world at why? Who
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was the simplest thing to do? And you have to admit it's logical.
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That's what I like. Logic, cold, uncompromising logic. When father died
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and left the whole fortune to you, naturally the rest of the family was
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fit to be tied. Yes, I can imagine my stepmother and my brother
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Ted were all for putting a violent end your young life. But I thought
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it would be easier if I just married you and we shared all that beautiful
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money you and I. You see, I'm not greedy. Oh look,
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fun is fun, but I'm not in anything. I know you're in no
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condition to talk about it. Now. Look how did I get in here
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anyway? Only we're nursing your poor battered head at our front door. At
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four this morning. I drinked you on the couch here in the drawing room
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so you could sleep it off. Thanks. The others is still upstairs sleeping.
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But I sneak down early so I could be the first to talk to
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you. Your friend is in the kitchen getting some coffee, and I suppose
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he came from Australia with me carry me in his pouch. Now he said
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he met you at the boat. His name is George Valentine. Oh brother,
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wait, Gloria, I don't mind you wanting to marry me. I'm
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greatly flattered. I don't even mind sharing my fortune with you. But please
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don't tell me I'm in the kitchen drinking coffee. Oh you poor boy,
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your head. You're really the one who needs coffee. Yeah, yeah,
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you've got something there, and i'd better hurry in the kitchen before I drink
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it all up. Oh wait, Paul, don't you want me to go
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with you? Kin of myself. I want to talk to this George Valentine
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alone you and sorry, I just couldn't hold myself back. Now get up
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right, cross you out of Themiston. Well, that's the scalp treatment.
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Now we start off. Even then, that's the idea of following me all
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day yesterday? And what am I doing here? You know I've almost snipped
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up. Then that girl, get down and talk to you first. This
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morning. I might to spoil the house show, but you didn't. I
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was listening at the door line. Come on, let's have it. What's
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the deal here, do you? Oh? Oh? I see? Well,
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will you take a hundred dollars? What for me being you? And
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you'll be in me when you cut that out. I've just been through one
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of these quiz games with my future wife. Don't blame you for being confused.
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Thanks. You see when you came up to me in that ellie and
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asked me who I was, I well, I couldn't resist letting your heavy
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Oh brother, you're kidding. You didn't really fight against it. I'm serious.
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I knew you wouldn't help me if I told you the truth. It
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sounds silly. I'm getting used to things sounding silly. Go ahead, go
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ahead, I'm Paul Gibson. Just got in from Australia. I gathered that
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much. Well, now, mister Bradley, Willis Bradley, you own this
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house did about six months ago? It look at all his money to me
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of all people. Congratulations. Yeah, My mother and mister Bradley were childood
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sweethearts something like that. Anyway, since none of the Bradley family ever saw
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me, before I got the idea of passing you off for me. Why
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don't you like money? Oh, it's not that, it's well, I'm
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just afraid one of them wants to kill me. Why. Yes, there's
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the girl Gloria, and brother, of course, the second Missus Bradley.
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They're almighty put out because the old gentleman cut him off without a penny.
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I think one of them sent me this. Let me see that if you
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make any claims to the Bradleyest state, you will never live to enjoy it.
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To the point, isn't it if I don't claim the money, it
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goes to those three according to the will. Oh, this whole thing is
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ridiculous. Somebody's just trying to scare you, that's all. Forget it.
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I don't know about that. A couple of months ago, when I was
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trying to clean up my affairs in Australia, somebody took a pot shot at
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me, whoever it was, almost didn't miss, And for a hundred dollars,
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I'm supposed to find the villain in the piece the highway playing target heard
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about you taking on all sorts of tough jobs to people. But even then,
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not even then, you thought I'd have too much brains to take this
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on, so you shang eyed me into it. So what do you say?
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Will you do it? I gotta make a phone call as a young
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lady who's going without sleep right now because you couldn't resist temptation. Well,
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now there's an outside phone right here in the kitchen. You can use it.
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But will you help me? Well, well, I've been giving myself
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some sage and sound advice which I'm now going to proceed to ignore. It's
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a deal, mister Valentine. Good From now on I'll be known as the
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man from down Under. I hope that's just a figure of speech. In
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they say and mean we take better care of your car. You're hired to
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take the place of a man about to come into a fortune and marry one
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of the most beautiful girls the world. Sounds like a dream assignment. But
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when said man is marked for murder by a person's unknown, well, said
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dream darkens quickly into a nightmare. Even if your name is George Valentine anyway,
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that in effect is the subject of conversation between you and Brooksy in the
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drawing room of the palatial Bradley home on the outskirts of the city. Prose,
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be reasonable, I'm supposed to be incognito. You shouldn't have bounced any
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here like this. You Sydney, didn't expect me to sit around twiddling my
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thumbs. Why do you play studs so loud? Not so loud? Remember
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the stooges name now is Paul Gibson, the Pride of the ANZACs. Paul
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Gibson, girl. Please, I don't know if I like strangers calling me
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Da. I'm a blonde, easy going gentleman upstairs, as my friend George
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Valentine. If you had to give your name away, it could have at
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least been to a woman, and I know the woman. Okay, okaye,
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But how am I going to account for you hanging around? You could
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see I'm the scrub woman in mid stay in Consulate and I just had to
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see you to find out if everything he didn't given the brush conse And you
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don't have to tell me, Ted, this will soon be hit time.
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That would be missus Bradley and her stepside Tisza. You don't have to be
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so obvious about but I shall certainly speak my mind to this this Gibson.
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Oh, mister Gibson, Oh yes, that's right, good morning. Oh
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I'm Ted Bradley. This is my stepmother Clarissa. Who is this young woman?
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This is my secretary of Miss Brooks secretary. What do you mean?
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Oh, yes, yes, social secretary. You know I'll make all my
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arrangements for me dinner's, body's, dog show stuff. Okay, you're not
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wasting any time, are you all? Mister Gibson, why should he?
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Why not wait right in and start spending somebody else's porchun hand over hand?
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Why should he wait? Oh? I tell you this much. I'm not
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going to just stand stupidly by you may as well know it. I'm willing
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to do anything anything to keep that money out of your hand. She means
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any legal steps of court. Oh, yes, of course. I think
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that's all I have to say by way of greeting. Now, I'm going
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into breakfast, coming to Clarissa prides herself on her frankness be around. I
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wouldn't leave any lethal weapons around either one of those characters. Oh what's Gloria
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like? Gloria? Oh, she doesn't have to worry about lethal weapons.
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She was born with a whole assortment of them. Oh you know Brooks.
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Either. It gives me an idea. I think I know how to bring
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things to her head around here the quickest way I'm going to tell the beautiful
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Gloria. She can have my hand in marriage, missus, Paul Gibson,
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I'm gonna like that. Yes, yes, I thought you would, Gloria.
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I wonder if it was something you said that gave me that impression.
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Oh, miss Brooks, I forgot about you. Why don't you squam is
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the American expression, mister Gibson. Oh, that's very cute. I'll make
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a note of that. One more thing, dear, I promised to make
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you an exciting, loving wife as long as your money holds out. Well,
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there's lots of I think this is beautiful. Two people so much in
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love still finding time to talk about practical things. I don't want to start
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bossing you, Paul. But this secretary of yours is entirely too social.
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Oh I said was it was beautiful? And I thought it was like the
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way you said. Now, please, ladies don't fight over me. Oh,
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never mind. Now I want the others to know. Clarissa. Hello.
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Yeah, she thinks I'm going to let you out of my side.
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She's crazy. This is an act, Brooksy. Remember, and she kissed
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you. Nice fight. You didn't put out buster leading about Gloria. Here
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I can let Paul tell you himself. Yes, well, folks, I
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know this is going to seem a little sudden, but you know how it
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is when love hits you. Yeah. Well, the simple fact is Gloria
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and I are going to be married. Gloria tells man he's out of his
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mind. On the contrary, he's remarkably said he thinks he needs a wife
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to help him take care of all our money. Well, this is a
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surprise. I'm not going to let you get away with this. At least,
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I am willing to share Paul's money with him, but you and Tel
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won't be enough from you, Clarissa. Let's be reasonable. Let's face it.
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Glorias stolen a march on us. Suppose we try to be good sports
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about it. Congratulations, thank you, I'm sure you don't mean it,
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and good luck Paul. Kiss beautiful. Two people still much in love.
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They don't care who stands against you. Shut up, mister Gibson. I
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was all. I know what you're saying. Don't expect me to congratulate you,
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mister Gibson, and you're not married yet, Gloria, don't worry.
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Clarissa will get over it. I will talk to her, and so I
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I won't be long. Had worked worked, Alisa, I was a family
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braw and Gloria didn't even get hurt. Oh, it was much more than
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that. Somebody just overplayed his hand. How did you manage to miss it?
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Oh? It was easy. I don't have any proof, but I
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think I'll play a hunch and start clearing up this little matter for Paul.
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Really, mister Gibson, I thought you said your little piece. Why did
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you want to see us here in the library? Oh, mister Gibson,
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your friend, mister Valentine. It's still upstairs. I think he's taking an
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out. Yes, well I can see him. Waiter, Miss Presca,
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where's Ted? Oh he's being very galant. He said something about buying me
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an engagement present and left for downtown. Oh well, I particularly wanted him
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to be here. We'll look. Suppose I round up some champagne. Maybe
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he'll be back soon, an't it? Oh? Where? Ah huh?
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Just a minute, it's dead and Miss Bradley wants to know if you have
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any preference about them anagram on your engagement present. Tell my brother, I
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think he's an idiot. He should save his money. He's going to need.
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Tell him to get back here. It's urgent. Oh, mister Bradley,
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your sister wants me to tell you you're an idiot, and mister Gibson
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would like to see you right away. Oh, don't mention it. Goodbye?
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Oh yes, the champagne now really, mister mother, if I may
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call you mother now, Glory Anne, Clarissa. There's a little matter I
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want to straighten out now while I have the chance. Oh you who me?
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You know there's something gave me here? Just where did Paul pick you
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up? Pick me up? And sadly I wouldn't speak like that about you,
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Oh would I? You know exactly what I mean. He's hardly off
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the boat and right away he has himself a social secretary. Oh, mister
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Gibson is a fast work as you win. You stop at the two of
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you there that it sounded like i'd just start here. Couldn't have been a
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shot one of the king from upstairs? Yes, Oh yeah, somebody seems
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to be using you upstairs. Oh it's post friends to what's hap what's happened?
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What's the man on the stairs here? Yes, yes, I'm afraid
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he is. You've got a lot of explaining to do. Valentiane passing yourself
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off as in Australian getting yourself engaged with Lieutenant Johnson. Yes, I know.
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Now let's get out of this kitchen. I'm beginning to feel like a
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butler. Just a minute, will you? When this thing happened, all
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the women are together in the library, young Bradley was downtown buying a present
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for his sister. You were the only one prowling around, and I'll way
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them in a Johnson, You don't really think I killed Gibson? No,
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I know you didn't have a motive. I thought I knew who tried to
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kill Gibson in Australian Son in that threatening note. Yeah, oh no,
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something's got me starting he Look, you have a lot of routine detail work
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here with a boy or well, well give me about an hour. Will
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you tell the others? I had to step out a while and it was
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okay with you. Do you think the police department would stake you to a
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long distance call State Department Washington? Yeah, it's important, Johnson. Now
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look here's the door, Lieutenant Johnson. Don't you think this family has had
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to put up with enough for one day? It's been a murder committed missus
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Bradley, and that's illegal. I really should feel sorry for myself. It's
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really funny in a gruesome sort of way. What's gruesome in a funny way?
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I mean, how about me engaged to the wrong man and a widow
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before him, even a white You have my deepest sympathies. And Bradley.
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Incidentally, Lieutenant, where is mister Valentine? He took a little walk some
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time ago my promation. Does anybody mind? Oh, we were just curious.
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It's all right, I'll take this. Yes, Look, Ted,
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I'm planning what you went Valentine. What do you want where? There's something
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I want you to do for me, Ted before I get back to the
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house. Now you just answer yes or no. I don't want any of
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the others to know what we're talking about. I look beat it upstairs tomorrow
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and the top dresser drawer you'll find an envelope. Oh yeah, trusting you,
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Ted, because you were the only one out of the house when poor
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Gibson got it. Then endlope was something he gave me. It's important.
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I want you to make sure it's still there and nobody got to it.
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That's straight. Oh I suppose I'll hang on Okay, oh, Lieutenant Johnson,
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it's Valentine. He wants me to check something in his room. Okay,
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I guess so I'll be just the second now, missus Bradley, Miss
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Bradley, that's threatening. Note, we're you sure trace it? You know
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you certainly won't play a stupid melodramatic thing like that to me. And don't
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look at me. Oh no, not again. I know I shouldn't have
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let Valentine you I'm developing a split personality, broceed. This guy isn't shot.
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What did you do to him? Why? The shot was purely for
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dramatic effect, Lauri. I guess though I pushed him a little too hard
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at the head of the stairs. He'll be all right in a minute.
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Oh what happened? Yeah, that's what I want to know, val I
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just staged a repeat performance of the little act that was put on here a
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little earlier today. You'll heard me ted when you were on the phone today.
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You weren't out buying a present. You were just where I was a
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minute ago, using the outside phone in the kitchen. What about that,
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Joha? What proof has he got? One thing at a time. There's
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the tell tale phone in the kitchen. Now take it. What was that
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nonsense about Ted? Mister Valentine, all of you just saw how Gibson could
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have been murdered with an iron bound alibi for Ted, always lying. Ted,
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you were the only one here who knew for a fact that I wasn't
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Paul Gibson. How did I know? Claria? I thought I was Paul
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and she couldn't wait for the wedding bells. Clarissa was convinced I was Paul.
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She hit the roof when she thought her stepdaughter was marrying a fortune and
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young brad. Yeah, Lieutenant, he didn't mind at all. Graciously he
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congratulated the happy bride and grom and why because he knew, Don Well,
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I wasn't Gibson. Oh, George, that was for Lieutenant Johnson. I
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took the message. Doesn't carefully, Johnson. This should explain things. I
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hope, well, I hope you know. It says there was a passport
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issued to Ted Bradley some two months ago, a passport to Australia. Ted,
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But I, oh, that was when you said you were going on
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a long fishing trip to Rainbow Lake. So Ted didn't have any trouble recognizing
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Gibson not after that pot shot he took a him in Australia. Look,
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I say that for your lawyer, Bradley, and you, Valentine, you're
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gonna come along. I'bb me now, writer Johnson. After all, a
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mogul can't let his business go completely to part canny Angel. Did you ever
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stop to think that there's a very real reason why some engines need lots of
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repair and wear out sooner than other engines at the same model, even though
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both go an equal number of miles more times than not. It's the motor
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oil it makes the difference. It either protects or fails to protect. Heavy
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duty RPM motor oil gives top protection actually reduces where of critical engine parts.
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So buy what's best for your car. Next time you need oil, be
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sure to get heavy duty RPM motor oil at any standard station or independent Chevron
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gas station where they say and mean we take better care of your car.
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George, you know, I simply can't understand how any girl can let us.
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So if marry a man for his money, yeah, Dad must be
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an uphill struggle all the way. All I'd want is the man with the
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business that's finally beginning to pay off a little money in the bank. Yes,
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I see, Sally incentive, I need not to change the subject book
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scene. Well, I took a little look at that ledger of ours too,
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and the balance in the bank. Yeah. Well, let's uh pretty
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much of a mirage. Changel On, what are you talking about? You
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made no provision for Texas and we're through shelling out. I'll be the Bookers
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tycoon on record. Oh dear, never mind, bus see look at all
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the fun we're going to have building up our fortune again. Tonight's transcribed Adventure
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of George Valentine has been brought to you by Standard Oil Company of California,
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on behalf of independent Chevron Gas Stations and Standard Stations throughout the West. Robert
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Bailey has starred as George, with Virginia Gregg as Brooks Let George Dowett.
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Was written by David Victor, directed by Kenneth Webb. Ken Christie was heard
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as Lieutenant Johnson, Jean Bates as Gloria, Chester Stratton as Paul Lee Patrick
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as Clarissa, and Roland Morris as Ted. Music by Gaylord Carter, as
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he announced in John Houston, Listen again next week, same time, say
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station to let George do it. Let George Doott has hurt overseas through the
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worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces. Ra Yo say, this is the mutual
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don lead broadcasting Welcome back. How I'm getting to hear Virginia Greg as Brooksie
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do a little bit of that Australian accent. It's too bad she didn't use
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it in character. I guess that would to me was the uh was the
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challenge for Bob Bailey because he didn't sound Australian, but the guy who he
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was standing in for, certainly Dad. He sounded as an Australian as a
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Philly chee steak sandwich. That Virginia Greg definitely the queen of voice talent.
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I'm personally wondering if anyone heard a radio program where she played somebody Australian to
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use that accent for more than a few lines. Now I mentioned that finished
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the Bob Bailey part of Yours Truly, Johnny Dowler, that definitely did not
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finish, or of excuse me, let George do it, but that definitely
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that did not actually finish. Let George do it, and we'll talk a
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little bit more about the second, less well known version, and let George
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do it on Wednesday. But now we'll go ahead and we'll turn to listener
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comments and feedback, and we have this from Jerome who says, do you
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have any old Charlie Chen shows? Thank you for responding, nice sight,
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and my as is that in terms of what we're going to play in the
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future on the show, we do have. We do have access to one
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US Charlie Chan show and quite a few Australian Charlie Chan programs over the radio.
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And there were a couple of different eras in Charlie Chan over the radio.
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There was the nineteen thirties, which were serialized adventures fifteen minutes serials with
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Walter Connolly, and these are mostly lost, much like the Perry Mason stories,
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they you know, because of the fact they're serialized, you know,
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you just don't have a complete set. There's one story that's often claimed to
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be complete, Colonel Willoughby's Baffling Murder Mysteries, but really they just have parts
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four through seven, and with seven being the last part. The good part
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is you have the end. The bad part is that you're coming in,
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you know, right towards the end. So there's one episode of mystery Playhouse
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from World War Two which features Charlie Chen played by Ed Begley, and then
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we have a lot of Australian episodes, and then there are some partial American
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episodes, but we'll just be playing that one US episode and then a few
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Australian Charlie Chan programs when we get to it on the Great Detectives of Old
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Time Radio, and Jerome says, and I do want to congratulate you on
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your fine community service to old time radio addicts, while I'm glad to a
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botch and that will actually do it for today. Join us back here next
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Monday. Bob Bailey will be in this time spot with yours truly Johnny Dowler,
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and join us tomorrow live for where Frank Rice formerly heard on Mondays.
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