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let's get into today's episode of the Adventures of Frank Race, The Adventure of
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the General's Lady. The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Tom Collin, The
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war changed many things, the face of the earth and the people on it.
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Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded
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his law books for the cloak and dagger of the oss. And when it
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was over, his former life was over too. Adventure had become his business,
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the adventures of Frank Race. And now we joined Frank Race for the
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Adventure of the General's Lady. There's nothing quite as bad as the liquor you
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get in the Mediterranean area and the bar to libri and tune. This is
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no exception, but it is an atmosphere you'll find nowhere else. And I
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sense the dawning appreciation of this, and the attitude of Mark Donovan as he
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stood beside me drinking invitations. Is a great town, Race, I like
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you. Didn't think you wouldn't remember. Yes, I was wrong you said
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Africa, or I could think I was out of elephants snorting to the jungle.
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This place is classed, Dames, Dames, We're I get back in
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New York and tell the boys about these days. Guy couldn't do no better.
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In front of Minsky's boy last me, didn't I have the name Race
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mentioned? Yes, I'm Race you're my boy. I'm looking for you.
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I've noticed him before. I'm standing at the end of the barn. He's
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tall and braun, redheaded, with a grim that would have elected in the
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public office. Heard a lot about your race, because that's why I was
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looking for someone to be throwing his weight around about Carton in your reputation.
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I'm Ed Connelly, that's pleasure. It's Mark Donovan Irkey. I'm han hear
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about me. Pete Peterson, Pete, He's gonna meet me here. I
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know. That's why I've been looking for you. Pete couldn't like it.
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Knowing Peter, I'm saying that means trouble. What's the story. He's been
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hurt, badly hurt. We're gonna see him. To come with me.
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Come Pete Peterson, International troubleshooter for one of the biggest insurance I fits in
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the business. And you thought of Pete. You usually thought of drive and
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the tality, but the drivers out of him. Now you had about as
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much vitality as a wet sack. Pete Peterson had become a limp heap on
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a bit of the pain race. Glad you got here. What was Pete?
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What happened to face my face? Yeah, I got to take some
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surgery to make it look decent again. Who did it, Pete? I
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could tend to the name of one of them. The pod sounds like a
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Marseid duc Rad. Yeah, there's a big ring on his right hand and
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look of dust. I knew all about that ring. Believe me, I
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know all about it. Why people, why are you here? Because of
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a guy named the Metro known general meet Yeah, I do well he's into
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was because of a woman the company got the tip he was never going to
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leave the city a life. If Lametrian's murdered, it could mean civil war
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and Lenarco. So so you came to play nurse man and look how I
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ended up. Have you seen the Metro never had a chance to get near
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him. I'm gonna have to tune it over to your race. And the
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only lead I can give is the name of a woman, June the man.
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Give me one other lead, beat? Where did you encounter this?
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Lapard? And I've called Elena, but racey if you're fine him watching.
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I know a few things about taking care of myself, but man to man,
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he handled me like a child. Whatever you do, don't let him
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get his hands on you wear, Lena. I love sailing low harbweb blind
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and trying to do arguments of flaredison. As we got there a little boiling
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point mark and I stuck around, drinking once in a while to avoid being
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conspiculous man. After about forty five minutes, my attention was drawn to a
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hand resting on the bar beside me. It was a monstrous head, harry
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and thick. The fact about it that held my gaze was a massive ring
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that encircled the third thing you seemed to be curious about me, my friend,
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I am curious about that ring. You every reason. Perhaps I haven't
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told the man, but the name of Lapart? Where is such an ornament?
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So well you can talk to me about that. I am Mussel Lapart?
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What is this? Did you help you? Where the ring as a
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weapon? And that annoys you? I'm annoyed when I think of the man
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you disfigured within me. There have been so many men who have tasted my
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little trinket. This man's name is Peterson, a friend of money, right,
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friend? So you would do something about it? Damn I thought of
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doing so. You would have smashed my anna if I had left it there.
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What did you take me for? I neediot? But now, my
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friend, it is Mike. You didn't hurry, just crossed a little in
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a squat thick body. Man of tremendous strength, I said, my servant.
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He came in for sure of one thing is I got my knees under
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me there on the floor, Lapart, there's no lily pan to be plucked
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lightly. I watched him wearily as he came erect across the room from Hi,
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and I became conscious of something else he had friends. Proof of that
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was presented in the formula heel that gouged into the cap of my legs.
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Hi, I think clear up. I couldn't go another fact, thanks Marchael
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the person created back there. I was in a spot, know you were
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in a spot. I had more paths, and all them in the pool.
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Yeah, look somewhere since when you started going around picking brass yourself?
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What Lapine did to Pete Peterson. It doesn't have to raise any man's blood
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pressure. Oh look, any time you tangle with it, Laparte, you
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ain't attending old tape body. Oh what are we doing now? That's pretty
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light. We got took it back to the hotel turning. No, you
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know, I think the pain subtlely any time to come out with a suggestion
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like that, There's only one answer to Jack. You're going to go see
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the game. That's right, Marcus name but the name of Joan Vanaire.
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Well take it easy and try and stay out of trouble. You begin to
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get the feeling this town is full of. Told the name I expected the
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blue mette told statusque maybe about thirty five, with a relish molds insteadard door
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was answered by a combination of flexing hair and blue eyes. Not at all
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statusque, but the figure that had taught any cigarette girl we've ever seen.
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What is it you want? I am. I know it's late too,
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I understand me a mutual friends. I thought you m'd like to chat about.
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And just who are these mutual friends? General? Let meet Trum and
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the General's most able aid cell phone, Sebastian. And who are you?
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The name is Race Planks. I am here because I'm worried about Yeah,
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per ape, you had better com okay, yeah, mind if I say
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I'm surprised containing one we would describe to me as a lady of intrigue.
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Guy, expect that someone else should we say, I'm sure you mean to
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be a complimentary I do I want to sit down at the would you care
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about it? I'm quite content with the atmospheres. It is something puzzles man.
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Why the tie em prob let me begging? But he's not that you
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you could have anything you said your mind. No, you're not being complimentary
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at all. H you'd almost make me believe those words. Don't make yourself
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to try to outsw What did it you came to see me at that?
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Let me drums here in twos because of the own he stays dad losing his
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mind. You must know something clearly. I'm not in love with General Limitro.
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I never have been. Now have I ever given him any encouragement because
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of me? I cannot take I can understand my whif he's said, sometimes
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a man goes a little out of his head over a woman even though she
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doesn't feel the same way about him. Would you be willing to leave so
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that he'll go to missus my home? Or did it just for a short
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time? Did you go to Paris do some shopping? It is really so
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important, just a whim of someone. American insurance companies learn the general Demetro
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has to be assassinated here in tuness the possible. We'd like to prevent it
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happening. That's why I'm here. Oh I'll go to Paris, but I
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won't enjoy it. I won't enjoy it anything much better have it here.
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May I see you again? I'd like to so, yeah, let's see
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if this word make it in mind? Why I see it. I don't
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worry. I'll never keep you winning very long. Outside, for all the
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lateness of the hour, the night was full of sound, murmuring people patronizing
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sidewalk cafes. You could hear them, but you can hardly see them.
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Tunas is like that. After dark. There are a few lights and the
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atmosphere of a darkened stage, stage set for drama, suspense. And as
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I walked, a voice reached from it in shadows, grace one woman.
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Perhaps you don't remember me, Sullivan se Bastion. Of course I remember you.
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As a matter of fact. I'm glad to see you as the risk
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of seeming in pattern and die must ask what you were doing at the apartment
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of mom Depners. I was the watch. Yeah, I'm discussing General Lemitro,
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and you set great men genius at the moment, he suffers from temporary
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insanity because of a woman you're giving credits investing. It's a woman well worth
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it, No woman as well as a men's life. Do you know who's
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after Limitroal? Race Balcon himself? The general has become too strong, the
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party has become too strong. Oh I with that worried there we can protect
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a meetron. But yeah, maybe it'll work on I've just persuaded the girl
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go to parents. What good would they do? Race? Le meet one
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will follow her. No, you'll have to get him home. So what
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the girl got to another? Nay, you'll have to ask you that one.
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And I dared says she's never given amitro in any encouragement, don't I
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No, I know that seems so hopeless. Race, Why don't you come
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as me to out villa You nerally meet and he may respect your advice.
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Please talk to him. Good. It was only a short walk in that
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more than five minutes, and I stood up my thinking to plan what I'd
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say to the general. But in front of the villa, I found myself
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with another problems on the shape of several shadowy figures that suddenly comparis, you
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are going somewhere. I would you mind getting out of my way? You
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are forgetting something. Race. We have some unfinished business later, Lapparde.
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At the moment, I have other matters to take care of Namasi, And
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this time you're not to run for me. I suppose it came him running
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a heel into his knee, fell away, But then his companions came at
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us, making a wild spining fair look. Hart and I again finding one
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another in the dark. This time you are not getting away. This time
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I am going to kill you. Yes, And they were like, oh,
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But I slammed a punch to his stomach and another book and he let
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come on. Then as he came it again, I drew to his job.
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He all right, sebasting. Yes, those rights. I should have
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had this gun out sooner. What about your man is in the thorough state
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of comma. Then everything has hid the spectory. Maybe let's get inside.
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I'm feeling we better checked with the general rooms. Besting nodded, and we
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went into the villain. We had no trouble finding General. Let me drive.
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He was in the living room, but in no condition to receive a
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visit. Room. General lay face down on the carpet's prowled your test figure.
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The general had been stabbed at We'll return to the adventures of Frank Race
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in just about one minute. And now back to the adventures of Frank Race.
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From the look of it, the general had been stabbed just as he
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came into the room. His hat, a soft panama, lay a few
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feet from his head. Incongruous note was an electric razor that had been placed
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in the phone stand. I glanced at Sebastian. He stood in mobile,
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staring down at his dead chief. He stood this way for a long time
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before he said anything, and when he spoke, he still kept his gaze
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in the quiet form lying at his feet. So they have done it,
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though at the time I have been afraid. I never really thought they would
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let me make you drinks. Version. You will never know Race, how
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much I a worse should this man some of this brandish at home. It
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murdered him because he'd become too popular as the people. He would have been
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our next president at the next election. You'll realize, at Race, there's
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a Falcon conclusion. Take the straight you always didn't get raised. The fire
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I need is already beginning to burn inside me. What are you going to
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do, I'm going home, said the country on fire. What do you
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expect I think I'm going to let him get away? Vises You said you've
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got an election coming up. Why don't you let the people return the verdict
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through the ballots. No, we will set it is now. When I
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take back Lemitron's body, I don't do it, wonted. All you'd need
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to do be to order a crime avenge Lamitron. My country is in for
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a bloody civil war, but nobody will be surprised. Always the best in
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you people have always done it that way. I haven't did an eye for
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an eye. Yes, they have always done it that way, an eye
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for an eye. Now wait a minute. You have no proof that Johann
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Vaneira had anything to do with this. I don't need proof she was a
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cause of his being here. That is a knock. I've got a warning
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for you, Sebastian. That girl must not be hard. Yeah. I
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care the woman for your genner. Then we go home, understanding there like
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a man in the strains matther Than nothing could be done with him. So
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I turned from him, left the villone returned to the center of the city,
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I must get me to talk to you at this hour. You and
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see No, I'm not saying what sebastiing is General Matron has been murdered,
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and Sebastian waving you leaving me? How guys you making me in? Her
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hair was tuzzled from slumber and her eyes were sleeping. She looked cuted in
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the chicken and nies to biscuit. So I took her on my arms,
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but only for a minute. This was a girl in danger. Doctors.
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He's always been a fanatic about it to meet room. Now he's gone mad.
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Realize that you can't get that through to him. Now I tried.
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He's in a fog, a fog of bitterness and mate. So I'm gonna
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get you away from him. You're going to the hotel Majestic. I was
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able to get a room for her next to the one Mark and I had.
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Was three o'clock. But then but when I tried to turn in and
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I found myself two breastsness, So I awakened Mark. Yeah, what a
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girl I went to see when I left here in the next room. She
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might be in danger, So I want you to watch out for Yeah,
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I don't think anything's gonna happen. But yeah, sure, where you were?
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I don't know. I can't set him done. I go out for
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happen down at the Bard believing. Okay, okay, that one for me.
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Were you at it? Hey? Race? Over here? It's Ted
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Connelly and his red hair. A little on end from having a good time
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with him was another American lad he introduced as Larry Charles. I sure,
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I am glad to meet you. Race. We need a little company around
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it. Place has been dying on his feet. I'm celebrating something. Sure,
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I'm celebrating the fact I'm about to become a bto bto big time operator,
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dreaming big dreams. Race. Look at does that to Larry every time?
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Listen, boy, I'm a such, I'm a sunch I tell you
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well, you have, Race, Hey, don't try none of this phony
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scotch and I'll cut your throat. Yeah, I'll have a Fenelon, brandy
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and soda. Oh yeah, give the man a Give the man a brandy
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and soda. Listen, Race, Say, let me tell you about me.
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Now, what I do for a living. It's some night rates.
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That's a fancy name for fightalizer. Yeah, that's what I do. I
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sell nitrates all over Europe. He here's your fenia, yeah, brandy and
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soda? Well thanks, yeah, yeah, I sell nitrates. But I
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got a competitor, A nice fellow, but a competitor. Yea three or
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four months ago he beat me out on a big order millions of sacks of
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this stuff. I was feeling pretty bad. Tors that down, Race,
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have another one, thanks. You know what happened? Big country to the
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north, all of a sudden wants a lot of nitrates. More anybody can
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supply, would sends a price way way up. And here's my competitor or
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contractor. I delivered everything he's got tell Naco, but me I ain't signed
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up delivering nothing, you see, So I can deal with the big country
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up north at those very britten prices. No drinking your success, Thanks Race,
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thanks a lot. Hey, you're drinking to a big operator. You
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don't a big operator. And it's a shame. You know they don't have
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any babing around here. What I wouldn't do for a good class a bartender,
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another finer brandy and sort for mister Race. Yeah, but you gotta
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listen to some more. Race. You ain't eat the funniest part right,
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you see a competitive partner's literally what is it? Mark? Yeah, yeah,
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she's gone. I was flying awake, like I said, but I
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must have dropped off and I heard something. I went out in the hall,
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but I was too late. I was hoping she was gone. A
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couple of race, blenty of trom lovely girl and jam through the little fall
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of her own. Oh, let's get her out of it. Yeah,
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we will help, on't we take? That makes fales racy. You gotta
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be able to do something about it. We could find her. I'm good
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a night here where she might be. Come on, I guess was let
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me drums villain MAT's wre we flounder and got it by a couple of waterfront
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running gades and the Yeah, we're taking myselves at the white pop go out
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and together, guys, Yeah we're here. We'll take myselves. You get
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the one on the chair, I'll take the letter of the singlett. Let's
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go. I got mine and I'll get mine. Brother. Nothing until I'm
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getting so, I don't even need. Then I had a feeling you'd come.
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Oh, Johannah, I hope you're all righty thing you said you were
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just coming in and reconnoiter. Heah, why don't you let me and Tarnan
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on the phone. I'm sorry, Larry, it seems simpler to do it
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this way? Makes you think it's so simple? Ray? Sebastian standing in
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the doorway, and I know what he meant. He had the glare of
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a fanatic in his eyes. He gripped a submachine gun in his hands.
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Let me repeat my question, what makes you think it's so simple? I
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see I was wrong, and the men cannot afford to be wrong when he
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met with an affairs that don't concern him? Can he? Race? Sebastian,
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We've known each other for years. Be magical about this girl. She
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was one of the causes I've let me wrong's death. There were other causes,
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but she was one. So she is going to die? Is the
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Jewish to divers? How race? His mood was hair triggering, look and
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his finger was going to flame that time of gun into actually my sense that
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the bullets wouldn't stop with the join of the man. I stood there,
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frozen without thought, and then just a part of my glance took in the
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electric razor I'd seen the form. The incongruous note was still on the phone
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stand, and it started gears missing in my brain. I spoke to him
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again, Sebastian. This girl didn't have anything to do with Lamitron's death,
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and neither did any of your countrymen. Now you're talking just to divert me.
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No, I'm not the answer, Sebastian. Is nitrates. Your country
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contracted for heavy shipments of the stuff a few months ago, you remember,
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which means nothing to me. It means everything. Since then, the price
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for nitrates has gone up tremendously. If the contract with your government could be
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broken, the seller stands to profit considerably by the increase in price. But
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it's hard to break a contract with the nation, isn't it, Sebastian.
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A civil war would do it, though, wouldn't it? Then the seller
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could refuse delivery. Do you see, Sebastian, I see no killer.
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You can turn your eyes on the proof that electric razor on the phone stand.
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I'll gamble that there's your proof here. Let me show you. No,
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that's not track. General Lemitron was a soldier, an engineer, an
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engineer as an orderly person. What would his razor be doing in this room
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unless someone else moved it here? Lamitron couldn't have been using it. He'd
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just came in when he was murdered. No, No, I've got it,
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I know it. The killer waited here for the general, waited a
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long time. He wanted about hardly, picked up the razor in the bathroom
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and started to shave himself, But the general's arrival startled him, and he
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kept the razor in his hand when he came in here. Look, even
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the chord still attached to it. I'm gonna pick it up, Sebaston,
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I'm going to give you a further proof. All right, pick it up.
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But then he tricks and I turned this gun loose. Hellary, you
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were saying plenty about night rates this evening. You remember him? Yeah?
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Race? I remember? What's that competitor you mentioned? You were talking about
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Ted Connley, weren't you? Yeah, I wash, but made a second
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race. You can't pin this on me. I think I can, Connley,
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I think I can. Here's your proofs, the best proof that Ted
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Connley was in this room today. Here's inside this cutting mechanism. Some of
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them are gray, but the others indicate this razor has been used by a
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redheaded man. Hi, why if I ever lived through You got to live
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through it, baby. I've got plans for a lot of other Knights,
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and all of them include you. The Adventures of Frank Ray starring Tom Collins
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with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in
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tonight's cast were Lilian Bayef Wilms, Herbert Jack Crucian, and Harry Lang.
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This series is written and directed by Buckley Angel and Joel Murcott. The music
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is composed and played by Ivan Desmark. Be sure to be with us again
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this time next week for another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of Frank Race.
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Our Gilmore speaking. This is a Bruce El's production. Welcome back well once
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again, or actually someone unusually the strikingly beautiful woman didn't do it. Somewhat
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different outcome made possible by the murderer predictively returning to the scene of the crime
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and somewhat just kind of stumbling into it. Well, not one of the
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brightest guys around. That guy wanting to murder is taking a long time getting
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here. Let me go ahead and practice my shaving, but be don as
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it may that we'll do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow for
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call the police. And then on next Monday'll be another adventure of Frank Race.
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