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Nick Carter: Nick Carter’s Christmas Adventure (EP1134) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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kindle or not a nonsense. Well, now, our Christmas shows continue as
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we bring you today from December twenty fifth of nineteen forty three. Nick Carter's
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Christmas Adventure. Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters,
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the detective was ability of solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective
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fiction. Nick Cutter, Master Detective, The Night's Curious Adventure, A special
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Christmas story, Nick Cutter's Christmas Adventure, The Mystery of the Reluctant Contributor.
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Well, Nick, we've been pretty much known. Why haven't we asked?
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Guvey we had? Which is another way of saying that folks are usually willing
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to contribute to your settlement house Christmas party every year. Nick, now's covey.
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I was just thinking about this last name on elis Yeah, Rasper.
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I don't know him personally, you no, I don't, but somebody must
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have thought he was rich enough or interested enough in the work to make a
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substantial contribution. Oh here's the hey, is this pay Nick? What's that
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address again? Five seventy six milkon that? Yes, that's right, and
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there's his name on the door. Play I must take a look, Scubby.
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Oh gosh, this doesn't make sense, Dick. A guy who still
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doesn't hide away at a place like this, Well, knock on the door
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anyhow? Who doesn't seem to be anybody here? Noluscy, I hear someone
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coming? Who is it? I'm Nicholas Cotter. May I speak to mister
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Rasper please? Nick Cuttery, Yes, yes, and this is my Assiseton.
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Scubby Wilson, how do you do you, mister Rasper? Yes,
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well, come in, come in, it's cold out there, letting all
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the heat out home. Bag your pardon? Wan Scuby, I'm in,
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Nick, I'm in. Oh I wasn't you wanted? Oh, mister Rasper,
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I have come to see if you would care to make a contribution to
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my Christmas party. I never made contributions, ah, but you didn't.
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Let Nick finish, sir. The fund provides food extra clothing for the needy
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of deserving. The show Sutty Department's still working, isn't it well, of
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course, mister Rasper. But my object is to provide an inspiration for the
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young people who are under privilege. People who haven't got any money are always
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trying to get it from those who have. Then you aren't interested in seeing
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that the children of the Lincoln Hall district helped to a little happiness on Christmas
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Day. Oh, I'm not Christmas is an old fashioned I don't believe in
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it. It's a waste of money and times today, Paul Well, mister
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Rasper. It's always been a lot of fun for me personally, but I
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must say that I've always felt better for celebrating, and I'm a plan to
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agree with scobby. Mister Rasper. Christmas has always been a bright spot in
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my life, and I feel sure that if you knew the good it has
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done throughout the world. It makes you change your mind, Robbie. Well,
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in any case, I'll marry Christmas to you. Good Dave here Christmas
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and leaves a lot of nuns and the Come on, Nick, let's get
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back to civilization. You know, Scubby Batman's wealthy, no doubt about that,
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and yet he's solid on Christmas and everything it stands for. You said,
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I'm mouthful of me, you know, Scoby. There must be reason
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why he thinks that way, and I'd like to find out what it is.
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But you having anything to work on, Nick knows Scuby. I haven't
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not yet, but look here, I can finish up whatever has to be
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done this afternoon. Suppose you hop down to the newspaper office and go through
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the files there. There might just be something we could learn about Rasper that
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way, Okay, Nick, I'll be glad to Then I'll have Roley check
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through the files at headquarters. It's a long shot, but something might turn
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up. Sure, maybe Patsy is run into something while she's been working out
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at the settlement house. She might know somebody who knows something about Raspor.
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Yeah, she might. At that I'll ask her about it, okay,
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and maybe with all of us working together on it, we may learn why
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Rasper's or dead set against Christmas. I'd certainly like to find out. Hello,
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he's that Tonick Riley talking. I've been through my files here and I
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can't find anything charged against the man named Ben Rasper. He was licensed to
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do business with a man named Howard Lowe, but low died some years ago.
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Otherwise, Rasper is just a successful businessman. That's right. Uh,
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I'll tell you what to Nick. There's an old fellow named Fred Anderson who
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used to be on the force who knows Rasper for sure. You can find
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him at Lincoln Hard where you're giving the party. No, he's the watchman
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there now, Okay, Nick, that's all right. I'll see you tomorrow.
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Hello, yes, cry oh you did? Eh Sposhal Morah? Well?
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Hell what was that name again, Chris Baum? Why? Yes,
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yes, I recall No, I'll done about an hour. So I want
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to call Patsy first, right, and thanks, Gubby bye. Jingle bells,
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jingle jingle boy guys, dingle bells ing you Ho, hey, Patsy,
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how's everything? Huh? Oh? Fine, I'm coming down to the
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hall. Is anything you want me to bring along? Huh? Are sure
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I can do that? But will that be enough? Though? Okay?
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Yeah, yescubby just called or you've found out something about Rasper? What you
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did too? How is he named Jimmy? Uh? And he's coming to
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our party? Oh fine, fine, Patsy, Okay, I've seen it
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a little while. Bye, that's fine. We've collected enough to move vis
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his party up right now, let's get organized ROLLI. Your job will be
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to get the kids and the needy persons round about. Sure he can't take
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care of it. I got your lists in the list from this social worker
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from the church down there, and there are plenty of others who need to
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lift this year. Believe me, I know what Riley, and I'll depend
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on you. Scabby. It's your job to see that the tree and decorations
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and gifts are taken care of. Don't worry Nick decorating. It's my middle
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name. I'll make Lincoln Hall look like a million dollars in care a good
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boy, good boy, and Patsy, you see to it that there's plenty
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to eat and drink for the party, so I won't have to worry about
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that. I'll take care of the bills, and you have the letters of
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credit the stores gave us. You don't how to do that here thing?
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Nick, I've been through with you walking on off before I ought to know
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what you want by this day? 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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depecking. 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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bell, didn't I? Well, what are they doing the twenty sevenths?
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No yet I got to the holidays. Non tell the reason for those to
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be unpaid? Goodbye? Fool nonsense, That's what it is. There's a
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lot of fools talking big. Ain't your Rasper? Who's what do you want?
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Don't you remember me? Rasper? No? I don't remember you.
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Whuaia. He used to call me the kid Chris. The kid Chris sometimes
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known as the human Flesh. Push you. Oh well, it's been a
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long time raspa, isn't it. How'd you find me? Who sent you
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here? A fellow named Nick Carter told me I'd find you here in your
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office, even if it is Christmas Eve. Nick Cutter, Oh yes,
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I want. I'm going to give him some money for some fool party or
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for the party at Lincoln Hall. I guess Heyce never asked me for anything,
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just gave me what I needed when I needed. Yeah, so you
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hired you to come here and take up my tire again. He didn't send
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me here. This said I'd find you here. That's all. I came
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here on my own accord, just to wish your merry Christmas. Thought should
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say that, Well, I don't mind, because it's on account of Nick
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Karta that I can stand on my own feet again, not on account of
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you. Watch that you mind if I sit down? It was on Christmas
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Eve 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
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remember the noise of the crowd, the glare of the lights, and the
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smoke curling around, and the brightness over the ring, and you leaning old
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of me with that wet towel. He kind of joined Chris. Another one
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like that last round, and you'll have him in the rope. It's on
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account. How do you feel now, kidd, I'm okay, Raspe.
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Just let me ad me. I don't have to wait any morning. It's
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my knee right now. You take your orders from me. Kid, If
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behind the brain's here, when you get the signal from me, you'll give
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it to him. Okay, Araspee, you got a bossy keep me should
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high mighty that you can take him. I'll take him now. There are
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a lot of those little affairs after that, Rasper, and I always did
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what I was told. Yes, a good fighter, Chris, good fighter.
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I made a lot of money for us in those spots of Rasper.
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Lot of my old days, Cris. I'll the water has gone on lots
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of bridges since then, I know, And the percentage you paid me didn't
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last long either. It went just like that water. But I didn't care
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much about things like that. The day a friend of mine came and gave
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me a warning tip and started me thinking, oh, Cad, how do
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you feel? Hello? Rast? Wait? I thin I have wanted to
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talk to you. I haven't around. What's up? I got a tip
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today. She's signing up Timmy, O'Day you got to manage him. But
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don's that never mind? Is it true? That depends depends on what that
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kid? You're getting slow? Our day's fresh. He'll be the next champ.
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If he wins this fight with you tonight, I'm taking him over.
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If I win tonight, I'm taking a day over. Anyhow, we've been
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together a long time. Kidding. They don't pay to get into too much
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of a rut. So that's all it means to Is it money to payoff?
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Huh? What about all the years we've known each other? What about
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the things we've been through? Why you don't get yourself all in a sweat?
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Kid? Isn't good for you. You'll get your cut anyway. Don't
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worry, you'll get your cut. I see you later last night. Well,
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I do tell me what to do. I can't see him my eyes.
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I'll past up. He's cut me the ribbons. Tell me what to
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do? That's me, but I mean can't. Here's your own judgment.
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You're on your wrong as job now. But Rasper, you always here on
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your wrong kid, And I can still see it sitting there in the ring
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corner. Laughing at me. But that was the last thing I saw for
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a long time. Oh day, sort of that. You must have coached
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him pretty thorough about my style and then you really cashed in. Well,
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I haven't got much myself, but I'm still able to wish you merry Christmas,
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Rasper, although I don't think you'll ever have one of Chris. Well,
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I got some things to do, ras Carter asked me to pick up
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some things for the party at Lincoln Hall tomorrow. We always have a swell
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time at Carter's Christmas parties. Too bad you can't enjoy anything like that anymore.
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Well, as I said before Rasper married, how can a man work
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with his mind whirling like a merry go around Christmas Eve? God, it's
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a fight excuse for people to go around yelling at each other in the streets,
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sturbing him man when he wants to get some work done, I might
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as well close the office and get some rest. We'll have been home by
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now if the kid Chris hadn't taken up so much time. Chris did for
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a living. Now, wonder if that's none of my concern. Can home
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and get some sleep? That's what I need? Who's that I'm closing up.
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Come back tomorrow morning. Oh, I'm glad I got here before you
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left it. Who is it? HiT's Nina then? Oh, Nina,
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I only stop by to speak to you for a moment and getting quite later.
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Well, sit down for a moment, Nina. Thank you. Let
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me get your chair. I suppose it's rather bold of me to come after
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all this time, But I know, Nana. No why I'm glad you
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did. Is there something you want? No, No, there's nothing you
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can do for me. Ben, Jimmy and I are doing very nicely.
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I just wanted to wish you a merry Christmas. I was in the neighborhood
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doing some shopping for the party that mister Carter's giving it Lincoln Hall tomorrow.
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And Janina Jimmy, I mean, oh, he's fine, Ben. He's
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full of life and interested in everything. He has a good head on his
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shoulder, isn't He's very handsome too. Oh that's fine, just fine.
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Uh you're looking a little tired, Ben, Are you feeling well? Oh?
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Yes, yes, of course I have been working hard, that's all.
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I don't spend much time at home much reason to that's the way you
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want it, Ben, don't you remember Nana? Where you there's Daddy?
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You wait here for Mommy like a good boy, won't you. I'm coming,
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Ben, I've been giving a dinner warm for you. I hope you'll
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what's anoa? Ben? You look as if there's nothing, Nina, nothing.
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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 Go down, Ben, 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 you I won't. It's all Please who you are? Dear Ben?
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When you've finished, won't you take time enough out of your business to help
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me get the tree decorated. I know Jimmy's too young to know much about
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it, but I'd love to have these Christmas already for him in the morning.
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Look, I'm putting the sleep right away and then we can die.
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So yeah, I have some Holly and missles over the fireplace and enter.
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I won't. It's Ben, it's Christmas Eve. Surely you have to get
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back to the office. I'm putting on a champion match for a day in
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January, and the things aboun haywire, something that can't wait till tomorrow.
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You have to get it organized right away, that's all. Then this is
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Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will be Jimmy's first Christmas. Doesn't that mean anything to
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you? You and Jimmy celebrate Christmas anyway, you wander, Mina, I
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have something more important to do. Business is more important than sentiment. You
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suddainly can see that, Yes, Ben, I can see that. I've
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been seeing it more and more during the last few years. I thought that
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when Jimmy came, maybe you would. No. I was wrong, wasn't
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i, Ben, You'd even let your love for business break up, our
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home break up our Don't be melodramatic, Nina. Nothing melodramatic, Ben,
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I'm trying to be very calm and quiet about it. I've had a lot
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of time to think when I've sat alone here night after night, and those
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days on end, when you've been away attending to your business, and what
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has come out of all this thinking you've done just this? Then I'm not
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going on any longer. Either you belong to your family or your family will
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get along without you. I have to rush it. Good night, God,
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good night, Ben, It's good goodbye. Jimmy and I are leaving
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tonight. Look, I havn't time to talk about it with you now.
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Oh, by the way, this will probably take most of the night.
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Good Night, goodbye, then, Ry christ I never had much of a
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chance to make it up to you, Mina. You've had all the chance
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you wanted. Ben. I just dropped by to say hello and to give
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you a wish for happiness during the holidays. It's hard not to share with
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you the joy I have with Jimmy. I I wish you could see his
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eyes dance at mister Carter's Christmas parties. Unfortunately, on what little I make,
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we can very well afford to have our Christmas at home, but somehow
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we don't miss it. Everybody has such a grand time at mister Carter's party,
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and Jimmy does enjoy every minute that he's there. And it's all 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, just doesn't taste right. That's all. What's it's someone
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at the door of this time of the night. I'm coming. I'm coming
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lit bed, It's said Anderson. Let up, I'll get home. I'm
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over at home this time of nine heyshes ip pos you up? Ben?
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Are going to come in, of course. And I brought your package.
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Ben. Nick Carter sent me around with it, said you'd probably be here
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alone tomorrow and he'd like you to have it. Carter, what's Carter sending
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me? You might open it and see Ben, I'm no mind reader,
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that's any reason why Carter had want of what wine? And see the card
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many Christmas from Nick Carter? What's the idea you know anything about this friend?
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No? But Nick Carter's a funny duck. There's lots of things people
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don't expect him to why. I don't even know the man only saw him
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once. And then you want the glass of this wine? Friend? Don't
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mind if I do, Ben change It's Christmas Eve. I don't mind at
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all. And there's some glasses here somewhere. Say hurry open this thing.
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I'll do it for you, Ben. Yeah, Well go ahead, you
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open it. Eh. Oh, it's all right. There ain't a drinking
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with me. Ben, huh, oh, I will that's a ticket.
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Well, he's very Christmas for you here, 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. Say,
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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 funy. 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 me he still chardy for it. That hasn't changed. I
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guess it's all in the point of view. Ben, I guess you haven't
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changed with the times. That night I mentioned near the bridge, I was
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sure you were going to see that you were headed in the wrong direction and
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week up in time. Remember that night, being which Christmas Eve you just
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come from the arena. They'd handed you your walking papers because you let them
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down A 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 up. Well, oh
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it's you Anderson. Now I'm not of the arena anymore. That's so what
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happened? They decided tonight that'd rather have Davis take over my job time Christmas
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present bat is, Well that's tough. You's been. What's gonna do now?
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I don't know. I can't seem to think straight. Oh that's a
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crazy way for a man like you to talk on a Christmas Eve too.
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Christmas Eve, that's never been anything that jinks to me. First, I
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get stuck with that, no good fight or a day. Then Nina leaves
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me and takes my son with it, and now Weena throws me out.
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Well, maybe you better stop and find out what it is you're doing wrong.
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Ben, Maybe you're the one that's to blame, not Christmas Eve.
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They all take advantage of me. I made all the money I could for
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them, but I'm not gonna do it anymore. Take it easy, Ben,
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take it easy. You better go home and think it over. I
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have thought it over, Fred, and I know what the answer is.
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I'm gonna make money for myself and nobody else. I'll show these people I
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don't make so much money they'll come crawling to me on their knees and I
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won't have to ask for anybody's sympathy. You don't pay to think like that,
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Ben, You'll regret it now. Look, I know the pill points
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and who runs the shoe store down on Elam Street is looking for a man
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to buy in with him. Me work in a shoe store. Not in
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your life, Fred, I'm going after the big money. Big money,
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that's the only thing people understand, and I'm gonna get it now. You
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got it, Ben, one of the richest men in town. And once
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she got you, why, I don't know, Ben. Too bad you
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don't get around and see what nice people that are in the world, People
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like this Carter Fella, for instance. Does a man good To know people
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like him? Makes you feel that really is a Santa Claus To see him
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bring the smiles in the kids' faces, those parties and kids down Atdrincoln Hall.
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Well, I'll be getting back there now, and I've got a big
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day tomorrow. I'm not as young as he used to be. Merry Christmas
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to you, Ben. I'll tell Nina I saw you. She'll be at
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the party tomorrow with young Jimmy. Good Night, then tell everybody quiet now,
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I'm bad right away. Knock you all right up along the wall over
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there and watch it out here by the tree. But that o Riley has
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here yet? There you go out of the table there it gets a reclass
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light up that wat's out here. Come on, make your time now,
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well, Patsy, how's it going? I'm making wonderful time, Paul.
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That's flying Patsy. Patsy. Look over there by the door. What do
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you see? That's Patsy? Is Ben Resby? I hope he's come to
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join the party. Thank god, that's the man I've heard so much about.
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What's up? Scared Patsy? You're going for make him welcome? Hello?
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Then, Merry Christmas. I'm Patty. Goewen you join us? How
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do you doing? Hope? I'm not? Do you mind if I just
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watch? Oh, come in. I wanted to thank mister Carter for the
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gifts you send the night night over there the other tree come along, Uh
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huh, suldn't seem to be enjoying themselves. I'm ready. There's me do
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there's Lieutenant Riley handing out the gifts. There it's kably welcome with him standing
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melistically yes, I met mister Wilson living Lieutenant Riley. He's having as much
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fun as the children. So I see. Oh there's a nice looking boy
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there, miss who I mean, what's his name? Where? Or that
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one over there? Oh he's Jimmy, he's and I boy if mother was
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a big chap to him getting a refreshments ready this year is over there on
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the five out of the hall at the table. See oh yes personally,
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yes, I mean we have no guests. Oh oh, I'm as harassment
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married Christmas. I'm glad you get joints. Thank you, mister Carter.
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I came to express my appreciation with the gift you send me. I hardly
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know how nothing out that bess harassment you're being here. Thanks enough for me,
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mister Carter's the little boy coming along the line there, Jimmy, I
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think his name is. Do you think I might give him? I mean,
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could I hand in his gift? Do you think why? Certainly?
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Riley, mister aspec he wants eleven half? Can you use him? Sure
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thing? Nick coming on, mister er. Thank you glad I heard you
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get ademy. Thanks of the cameline, mister raisber and enjoy yourself. Will
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there little get hill and Merry Christmas. See she liked it, didn't he.
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They all appreciate a little kindness. Mister Rasmus, here's a gift for
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that to to buy there. Oh hello, Jimmy, here you are,
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and the Merry Christmas. So oh well, that was the day for you.
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Gosh, I haven't had so much fun since last year. And you
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played those games harder than any two kids in the bench. Coully, Yeah,
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a lot, practically. Yeah, Widie, really have to be in
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condition to keep up with these kids. Boy, they're wonders. They wanted
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they get all that energy. That will be one of the world's great mysteries
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for Abascuby. Nick, what he's thinking so hard about? Oh? I
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was. I was just thinking of the way mister Rasper took to the party.
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Hey, don't you mean the way the party took to mister Rasper?
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Nick? Yeah, I never saw a man open up the boy he did.
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I was wonderful. The children just walked around him. That's one of
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the greatest jobs that Nick caught her ever did. What do you mean,
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Rileigh, Well, Patsy, you'll never believe it. But when Nick and
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I went to see Rasper, to get a contribution to the party. He
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was the hardest case of undultivated unpleasantness I ever saw a lot. Somehow Nick
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managed to get under his skin and bring out well what she saw to night.
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Well, for Heaven's sake, how did you do it? Well?
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It wasn't difficult, Patsy. You see, I could see when we first
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spoke to Rasper that he was fighting something. But I didn't know what it
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was. But but Riley Scubby and you told me. I found at three
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different times Christmas Eve had brought him bad luck. First the fighter o day,
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Then Missus Rasper had left Rasper on Christmas Eve, taking his son Jimmy
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with her. And third he'd lost his promoter's connection at the arena, also
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on Christmas Eve. Well, the whole thing added up. Rasper associated Christmas
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Eve with a list of unfortunate incidents and bought anything that suggested the holidays to
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him. He made a lot of money, but it never brought him happiness.
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The big thing for me was to make him realize that people and Christmas
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meant good and not evil. And from what I saw this afternoon, the
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Rasper family in the whole neighborhood for that matter is going to benefit by his
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awakening to that realization. I'll make that wonderful. You did have a kids
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for that. Oh thanks, Massy, I'm glad you feel that way too.
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You know. I'm happier this evening because of mister Rasper, and I
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would be if I'd solved twenty murders. He's made this a really merry Christmas
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for all of us. This has been another of the strange adventures of Nick
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Carter, Master Detective, which are brought to you regularly at this time by
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W O R. Mutual. What's your story going to be about next time?
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Nick? It's a little different from the usual story because it started out
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with Nick himself being the victim of a holder. Yes, and the men
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who held me up turned out to be innocent after all. Sounds a trifle
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complicated to me. It was complicated but interesting, and it gave me plenty
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of trouble before I found the solution, including a saw trout that almost finished
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Nick Carter a saw throat? Why should that be dangerous? Because there was
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a kind that you get from a rope around your neck. Hey, wait
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a minute, you mean all the rest of the story you get two weeks
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from tonight that's now so long, everybody, so long, So long both
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of you in the strange adventure you have just heard. Nick Carter was impersonated
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by Lon Clark, Patsy by Helen Choult, and Scuby by John Kin.
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The story was written for Nick Carter by Humphrey Davis. Original music was played
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by Lou White. The entire production was under the direction of Josh McGregor.
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Two weeks from the Night, at the same time, listened to another Curious
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Experience of Nick Carter entitled All Disguis Nick Carter as the Mystery of the Kidnapped
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Harris. This story is a copyrighted feature of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
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The Return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios of w o R and
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is broadcast over most of these stations Monday evenings at nine thirty Eastern wartime.
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This is mutual come back mad for a takeoff on the Christmas Christmas Carol.
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There were a few things in here that I kind of thought didn't work quite
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as well. I appreciated that the writers managed to come up with an interesting
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spin on the story that wasn't just copying it, but managed to at least
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give a basis for a little bit of mystery, and it had a good
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message about what matters in life, even if it may have been just a
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tent on the heavy handed side. All right, well, that will actually
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do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow. We'll be wrapping up
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our Christmas programs with the final part of the Nick sher matter, and we'll
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also be continuing on with Carter Brown. And then join us back here on
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Thursday, where we'll return to our normal order of programs with Nick Carter.
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