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Thanks so much for your while, we're going to bring you a new series
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this We're only going to run it for two weeks, so if you don't
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like it too much, don't worry. We'll be bringing you the Casebook of
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Gregory Hood. But our last new show of twenty and thirteen is Mister Chameleon.
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And Mister Chameleon came from the radio factory of Frank and Anne Hummer.
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Now we say radio factory, it's because they turn out just an amazing number
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of shows. Mostly they were syndicated programs such as Soap Overas. And the
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most amazing thing about this is they were doing well over a dozen shows and
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Anne Hummer was basically writing out all the plots and then sending it to the
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writers to go ahead and tell the story. Writing all these plots keeping them
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straight is a challenge. Well, this one is a detective melodrama and it
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stars Carl Swinson, who we heard way back in I think it was our
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second season as the old time radio voice of Father Brown. This series aired
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over CBS from July of nineteen forty eight to August of nineteen fifty three,
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with only a two month hiatus thrown in, so we only have two episodes,
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one from near the beginning of the show is Ron and then another from
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its end. So here now from December the twenty ninth of nineteen forty eight
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is the Perfect Made Murder Case. Next, Mister Chameleon and the Perfect Made
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Murder Case. Tonight we again present the famous Mister Chameleon of Central Police Headquarters
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in his famous Cases of Crime and Murder, brought to you by the makers
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of genuine Bayer Aspirin. Mister Cameleon, as you know, is the famous
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and dreaded detective who frequently uses a disguise to track down a killer, a
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disguise which at all times is recognized by the audience. Tonight we give you
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mister chameleon. In the Perfect Made Murder Case. The scene opens in one
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of New York's most fabulous mansions, the home of Raymond Cole, and we
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see a young woman about to leave. Her hand is on the knob of
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the front door when she is interrupted by a maid, whom we hear saying
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the words that lead to a gruesome, fantastic murder. Excuse me, miss
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Laura. Can I see you a moment before you go? I haven't any
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time now, Fannie. But this is important, miss Laura, terrible important.
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Well what is it? Then? I want to give them a notice?
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Mom? Your notice? You mean you're leaving? Well I thought you
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were a fixture in this house, Fernie. But that's just it, Mom,
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I am a fixture here. Then what's this talk about giving notice?
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What's wrong? If it's more wage? I mean, it's not that,
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Mum, it's a it's that. Yes, it's the time. I'm going
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to marry your father. You're what going to marry your father? That's what?
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Oh? Well, it don't seem to set very well with you.
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But are you completely and utterly mad? This is the most outrageous thing I've
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ever heard in my life. Oh it is is it. Well, let
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me tell you, I'm as good as you will. Pack up your things
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and get out of it his house as fast as you care. I'm not
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packing and I'm not leaving. I'm marrying into this house. Huh. Just
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put that in your pipe and smoke it out instantly. I say, I'm
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not going any further than my own room. You'll find me there if you
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want to be coming up later and telling me you're sorry, Tatar, dearie,
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John, John, come here, John, don't shout, Laura.
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I heard it all. Great. Heaven's on a mess. We can't let
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father do this. He's gone mad. Oh that cheap, terrible creature.
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Tell you, Laura, hysterics won't help. Besides, we don't want to
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wake the old man up and get him on our necks. We've got to
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think fast. What are we going to do? What can we do?
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This is too dread. Listen, Laura, listen. You stay right here,
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Laura, and watch every door he as love as you can. If
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anybody comes, you mean, father of that horrible fan, anybody. I've
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got the combination. The father's safe, he say, what are you going
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to do? John? I know he keeps his will there the first thing
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to do. He may have changed it in Fanny's paper. If he did,
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I'll burn it up. And some time later we hear the Commissioner of
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Police assigning another famous murder case to the astute and feared mister Chameleon, the
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man of many faces and disguises. Oh here you are, Chamelion. A
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murder in Park Avenue. Oh top draw case, hey, commissioner, that's
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for you to decide, old man. The murder occurred in the Raymond Colby
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house. You mean the mysteriously rich Raymond Colby's being killed. Oh not Colby
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himself, Chameleon. A maid in his house, girl named Fanny Bilkins.
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Throat slashed open. Better get out there, right, Commissioner. I'll take
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Detective Dave Ononnold with me. Ye. Oh here you are, Dave,
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Yes, sir, you come with me, please, By Commissioner, I
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suppose the case we're on is that parlor made murder at Raymond Colby's house.
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Yes, that's it. I guess it'll be one of those jobs where the
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chauffeur killed some poor girl because he was in love with her and caught the
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butler getting away with her. Have no idea. Let's get the car and
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buzz out there. Oh, personally, I'd be more interested if Old Koby
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himself was the victim here. He's a queer character, the absent minded professor
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type. He invented something somewhere that made him fabulously rich. Here's the house,
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mister Chamelion. Yes, we're a very pretty girl already holding the door
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open. Come ahead. Oh, I'm so glad you came. You are
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from the police, aren't you. Yes, my name is Chameleon. This
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is Detective Arnold, and you are I'm Laura Colby. Come in, mister
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Comelian. Thank you. I'm rather surprised to see you here. Surprised,
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miss Laura. Why we didn't expect to see such a famous detective as you
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on an unimportant case like this. Murther is always important, Judio Grady or
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the judge's lady. I see, I understand. The girl who was murdered
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was a housemaid in your father's house, Miss Lottery. Do you know anything
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about him? Practically nothing, mister Camellion, except that she was a perfect
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maid, really marvelous, and that she had perfectly wonderful references when she came.
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When was that? Oh, I don't really remember a couple of years
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ago, you know how those things are. Who found her body? One
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of the other help in the house. I suppose no. As a matter
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of fact, my father did. He and my brother John, that is,
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yes. Well, what actually happened was that one of the other servants,
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our cook, became annoyed when Fanny didn't turn up to save breakfast this
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morning. She thought she'd overslept. But when she knocked on Fanny's door and
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she didn't answer, she became alarmed and called my father. So he and
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your brother went up there, and when they opened the door they found her
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dead. Father was very much upset, and so was my brother. Odd
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that the cook didn't open the door herself when she got no answer to her
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knock. I hadn't thought of that. Oh, but I'm sure the cook
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wouldn't have killed her just because Fairny overslept scarcely, Miss latter Dave. Yes,
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mister Comellion, you go to the kitchen and talk to that cook.
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Find out what you can. I'm sure cook can't tell you any more than
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I have, mister Comedian. One never knows, miss Laura. She may
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be conceding something from you. I'll talk to the cook now, mister.
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In the meanwhile, miss Laura, perhaps your father or your brother will take
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me up to see the murdered girl's body. John's in the drawing room,
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mister Comellion, this story here, Oh John, this is mister Comellion,
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the famous detective. Oh how do you do, mister Comelion. Horrible thing,
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isn't it? But one never knows what will happen with servants these days,
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does one. What happened here, however, is a bit out of
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the usual run. Your sister says that you lead me to the murder room.
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Well, of course, mister comedian, I don't like the job,
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but just follow me and come. Here are the servants stairs. By the
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way, John, do you know anything about the murdered girl? I mean,
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do you ever noticed anything strange about her? Signs of being afraid,
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eight of something upset, anything like that. It's a funny thing, mister
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comedian. I never noticed any servant, particularly to me. They're just faceless
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people. All I know is that my sister always said Fanny was the perfect
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maid. Lara's all on a dinner, so you never find another one like
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her. Oh but here's her room, just about the size of a cell.
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But nothing. Ooh girl, a horrible sight. The head is almost
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seven if if you're finished with me, mister comedian, i'd like to get
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out of here. Oh yes, I understand, John. I'm sorry.
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I forgot that we policemen the more accustomed to sights like this than people like
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you. Yes, you go back to the drawing room. I'll see you
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there presently. Thank you, mister comedian. Poor Fanny, poor child.
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But if the dead can hear, you'll hear me promising to bring your murderer
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to the execution chamber. Mister comedian, nothing from the cook except what Laura
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Colby already told us. But get this, Yes, Dave, just as
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I was talking to the cook, the girl's father came in. The murdered
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girl's father, David, uh huh, a man named Ed Bilkins. He
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started accusing everybody of murder. He's pretty wild. I told him to stay
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put, but you'd talk to him. What do you get a load of
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him, mister comedian looks like a bad customer to me. Not so sorry
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as he acts. What that don't mean? I think he killed a girl.
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Dave, you call the Morgan have this body picked up. And the
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hair is the knife that slashed her throat? Who send it in for Prince?
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Okay, mister comedian, and then hold the murdered girl's father down below.
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I want to talk to John Colby and his father first. Well,
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John, feeling a bit mustered in now, forgive me for bringing you back
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to the murder room. It's all right, mister Camelion. Took a drink
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and feel better. So this is my father, Raymond Colby. Father.
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This is mister Camelion. Ah, mister mister Watt didn't catch the name.
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Chameleon of Central Police Headquarters. Mister Colbyn, please headquarters, you said,
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John, What's what's a police officer doing here investigating the murder of your maid,
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Fanny Bilkins. Mister Colbyn, Oh, to be sure you know things?
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Slip my memories and you say your name is chameleon, mister Colby.
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Chameleon. Unfortunate thing here, mister Canston. Chameleon. Oh, yes,
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chameleon. Last thing I ever expected my house murder. Just one of the
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servants that probably got usself into trouble. Queer A lot of servants, queer
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a lot never know about them, but still human, mister Colby. They
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sing and sigh, laugh and weep, feel happiness and sorrow just like you
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and me, and they probably suffer more. Um, quite right. I
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didn't think policemen thought that way, though. Well, what can I do
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for you? Tell me any little thing that you might know about the girl
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who was so inconsiderate as to be murdered in your quiet home. Why do
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you think, for instance, that she was killed? I have no idea,
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no idea. Never paid the attention to her, no attention to my
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daughter. Laura runs the house. You better ask her. I did,
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and she told me just as little as you and your son John have,
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mister Kelby. But I'll mister Comelion, Yes, Dave, you'd better come
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downstairs and talk to the man I told you was here. He's got something
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for you, something plenty hot. What what man, mister comedian? After
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I see him, I'll tell you John, he's going to tear this case
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wide open, John, wide open, tear it open, Detective Idolf.
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That's ridiculous of mine. Never mind, son, I fancied someone of Fanny's
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own class, and that it'll all turn out that the grosser's clerk or delivery
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boy killed Danny. Perhaps, mister Colby, I'll see you later, mister
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Colby John, get Laura in here right away. What fourth father? If
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you don't manage to hold yourself in, you and Laura will find yourselves up
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on a murder charge. Our mister comeleons Wan, one of the most penetrating
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men I've ever met. Up to the time you revealed excitement, our story
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is going down perfectly. Now be careful, my boy, I beg of
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you. I don't want to see my children convicted of murder. What are
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the murdered girl's father tell you, Dave to make you think he'd break this
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case wide open? You better hear it from his own lips, mister comedian.
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He's here on the butler's pantry all right, mister Belkins, here's mister
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Comeleion. I'll tell him what you told me. It's fair, terrible life.
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I brought my innocent daughter to this country, mister comedian. That's how
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she was done in. What do you mean, mister Belkins brought her to
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this country? Didn't you see her? Busy tell you a mister comedian.
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Detective Ronold wanted me to hear the story direct from you, Milkins, and
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let's have it. Please, can and me come from Australia where we should
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have stayed. Men should never have gone into service in this old duffer's house.
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Well, I still don't know what you mean, Bilkins. What I'm
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trying to drive home, sir, is that Fanny wouldn't have got herself engaged
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to marry the old man. Do you mean to say that your daughter,
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Fanny was going to marry Raymond Colby? I'm not lying when I say it,
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mister comedian. I warnder prop about Mary out of her class, but
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Danny had got American ideas in the bad quick wouldn't listen to her father,
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and it all wound up and her being killed, butchered like an animal.
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Are you certain that your daughter was going to marry this fabulously rich man.
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Look here is a wedding licensed, mister comedian. She gave it to me,
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saying mister Colby didn't want it round the house for his son or daughter
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might find it. But they they must have caught on some other way,
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sir, and that's why they they killed her, Dave. This is a
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standing. This license is genuine. Fanny Bilkins, age twenty four, Raymond
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Coby fifty six. That's only up, all right, mister, comedian.
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I had to check myself. I'm taking the blame for Fanny's murder on myself,
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mister comedian. I'm a a or. I should have given her a
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good sump on of me to leave this house, the locks of her thinking
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of marrying the locks of him. I always say that everyone's stay in his
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own class. Mister Bilkins, come with me, who upstairs to the drawing
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room, and I think we'll find mister Colby in the sun. John,
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don't make me face a darm mister Kamlion. But I can't face my daughter's
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dirty murderers. I can't do it that. I can't. I understand,
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Milkins. You wait here, then, Detective Arnold and I will go up
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alone. They are real gentlemen, sir, thank you. I'll never forget
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your cudness. Save come along, ifever. I saw one for the book,
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mister chameleon. This is it. If it's true, Dave, if
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it's true, what don't you believe it? You saw the marriage license,
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didn't you? Yes, indeed, Dave, and I also saw the shifty
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look and the bereaved mister Milkins eyes. They were looking for a babysitter,
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and it wouldn't be Bilkins. Here's the drawing room. Now, I expected
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to find your father and brother here. They're in father's study. Mister comedian.
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I've just talked to your murdered maid's father, so they have fathers too,
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just as you and I, Laura. But tell name? Yes,
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when was your father, Raymond Colby going to marry Fanny Bilkins? Oh?
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I didn't realize detectives on duty kidded people, mister comedian. Then you didn't
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know know what? You know? What answered the question? If you expect
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me to answer a ridiculous question like that, mister comedian, are you serious?
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Imagine father marrying a housemaid. It's too too silly that the daughter of
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the study Laura. Well, yes, I'll tell father. You want to
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see it, don't trouble Thank you are going alone, and you stay here.
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I hope I'm not interrupting. Mister Colby. Oh, I see you
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have your safe open. Something lost. Father has an idea he misplaced his
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will, mister comedian. I'm on the forgetful side, mister comedian. I'll
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find it later. Why not look in the fireplace, mister Colby, Wait
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a second, in the fireplace, mister comedian, Yes, John, Yes,
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here is what is left to your father as well. I'll but the
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top and away though. Uh, do you mind telling me why you tried
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to destroy it? John? My Son didn't mister Comeleon probably did it myself.
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I do such utterly stupid things without thinking, like arranging to marry your
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house made mister Colbn. Who what is this, mister Comedion? Father planning
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to marry that that that murdered girl, John murdered. Mister Comeleion, What
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in Heaven's name gives you the idea of father's going to marry her? Uh?
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This marriage license? John? Marriage John? I told you before that
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mister Comeleon was a very penetrating man. Trying to deceive him would be unfair
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to him and us. Then you were going to marry a mister Colvin.
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Oh no, no, not a tall mister Comedian. I simply I well,
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I really don't know why I took out that marriage license. Well,
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I'm sure it wasn't done simply to keep a perfect maid. Come mister Klby,
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don't you think it's time to stop trying to protect your children? Why
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should he try to protect Laura and me? Mister Comedian, We didn't kill
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that girl in my entire experience. I've never met with a clearer motive for
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murder. Never Dave right here, mister Comellion, what do we do arrest
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John and Laura? I no, not now, Dave. Bring the murdered
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girl's father in here immediately, and then we'll That's what I came up here
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to tell you, mister comedian. Philkens slipped out of the house while I
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went into the kitchen to get a drink of water. What I sent out
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a general alarm for him. Have this house guarded, Dave, and get
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this straight, mister Kirlby. If either your son or daughter attempts to leave
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here, they'll be taken in on suspicion of wilful murder, mister Camellion,
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you get Bayer aspirin tablets for less than a penny apiece. And now back
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to mister Cameleon and the Perfect Maid murder case. Fanny Bilkins has been viciously
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murdered in the home of wealthy Raymond Colby, where she worked as a housemaid.
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Mister Camellon has discovered that Colby had planned to marry Fanny in spite of
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the bitter protests of his son John and his daughter Laura. During the investigation,
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the murdered girl's father, Edward Bilkins, has disappeared from the Colby home.
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But an hour later, when mister Cameleon impatiently paces his office at Headquarters,
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he suddenly finds that no general alarm is required to bring in Bilkins.
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For a strange surprise awaits him as Detective Dave Arnold rushes into his office,
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saying, mister Comellionton, I just brought in Fanny Milken's father in an ambulance,
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in an ambulance day. He's got a knife cut straight down his left
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cheek to missus throat by half an inch. But the ambulance dark patched him
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up on the way in, and now he's squawking loud to see you,
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he said, I mean Bilkins, Bilkins, what happened? Who trying to
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get you? I get down to the point without reasting words. Very good,
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sir, but it was a there one not satisfied with cruel and murdering
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my daughter Fenn Raymond Kowby, I mean his son John. But the fact
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is I don't know where did the attack take place. Bilkins in the Old
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Deafers Study that's where. How are you doing that? Nothing, sire,
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nothing, just nosing around it won't do Bilkins out of it. Mister Chamelion.
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Here's a bag the boys took off Bilkins on the way in. Give
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it a mister Copper. I never seen it before. It the fanny gave
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it to me. Looks like about a half million and Joe's balcons and they
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look familiar, very familiar. I don't know anything about them. Put Bilkans
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on detention. I got the answer to this guy, and look here,
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comeing in. I got a right so those jewels were planted. I'll be
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right back. Mister. Hello, mister comedian, this is John Colby.
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Most of my dead mother's jewelry has been stolen. Who discovered the last?
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John Butler did caught the robber in the act, but he got away.
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Can you come out here right away and not just now? John? You
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said only part of your mother's jewelry. Sterlen. The butler came in the
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room just in time to save the rest. I have got the stolen jewels,
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John, and the robber too. You've got the jewels and the robber
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both. I'm pretty positive I have, John, but I want to make
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sure before I definitely charge the men that we're holding. What do you mean,
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mister comedian? Instead of coming myself, John, I'm going to send
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one of our expert jewel men out there, and he'll bring the jewels I
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have here out too, but identification. I wish you'd come yourself, mister
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comedian instead of what's that? Father? All right, I'll ask mister comedian.
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Sorry, mister comedian, but father suggests yes. Father is worried about
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anybody coming with you, mister comedian, so is my sister Laura. How'd
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you come yourself? I'm sorry, I'm not a duel expert. I'm sending
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out headman Pierre Antoina right away and then I'll follow later. Goodbye, John,
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what's all that about, mister comedian? Are you going out to Colby's
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in disguise? Right? You are Dave disguised as Pierre Antoine, the police
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Department's chief men on Joe's. Now, you will come with me and the
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instant we get there and you introduce me arrest John and Laura Colby on my
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orders. Orders are orders, But I don't get your mister comedian. Why
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not pinch them and be done with it? Because I need the evidence.
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I think their father, Raymond Colby, will give me, Dave and so.
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A little later we find Detective Arnold with mister Cameleon in his disguise as
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Pierre Antoine at the murder house. As Dave Arnold says, evening, everybody,
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best gentleman is the police Department's duel expert. Mister Cameleon, cinema here,
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Antoine? That yourself you, mister Raymond Coulbys hees, Yes, mister
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Antoine. This is my daughter Laura, how do you do? And my
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son John Sieu Jean. May we all sit down? Well, perhaps you,
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Mademoiselle Laura, will be the kindest to bring your remaining jewels from the
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robbery for me to see. Sorry, monsieur Antoine, but mister Cameleon ordered
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me to arrest less Laly and our brother and bring them back to headquarters.
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That is absel, Detective Arnold. Surely mister carmileone is making a mistake.
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Mister Camellion is a fool. We won't go Laura. Detective Inald counterrests without
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a warrant. Here's the warrant. John better come quietly, John, Johnny,
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you can only cause yourself and Laura trouble by not going with Detective Arnold.
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You've got the right idea, mister Cowley. Oh, come on,
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John and Laura. No point getting tough about it. And my compliment to
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mister camellon detective animals and be good enough to express my opinion that he is
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making a most stupid blunder. I think two such charming young people, stupid
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or not, I'm taking them, Monsieur Antoine, good night, good night,
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doreadful contor Tom you could be I thought better of that Cameleon. There
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is your police mind, mister Antoine. Did you bring the jewels recovered from
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the man who robbed my safety in this very bag? She could be the
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robber was the father of the housemaid murdered here today, your fiance. I
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am told, hand over those jewels, Chameleon, what charp Comellion, I'm
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doing the talking. Now give me that bag quick. The only evidence you've
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got that I killed that infernal housemaid Panny billions. Now that's happen. When
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I take you in, Raymond Colby, it'll be for two murders. But
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anyway, here to the jewels. You're not taking me in. No,
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by the time they find your body, Chameleon, I'll be out of the
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country. Got me last wishes, Cop. I'd like to tell you how
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I caught up with your Raymond Coby. I'm interested, but hold your gab
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to three minutes. Through a careful study of police records extending from New York
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to Sydney, Australia, you murdered a woman who owned those jewels, Lady
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Ashton berll And Australia, five years ago. That's past history, chameleon.
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But suppose I did. The one living man who knew you did was your
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murdered housemaid's father, a petty criminal named ed Bilkins, and he followed you
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here, forced you to hire his daughter Fanny as a maid in your house,
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and then blackmailed you into a promise to marry her with your mysteriously and
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criminally acquired wealth. Anything else, Chameleon, You've got thirty seconds left.
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Only this Raymond don't know? Koby, I said, down, moved and
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so odd. He doesn't answer, Cob what mm hmm Oh why did I
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have to become a policeman? Yeah, Police headquarters, this is Comeleon.
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Connect me with Detective Arnold. Please Dave listen, Dave, send the dead
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wagon out please. Yes, the dead wagon, Well, I'm afraid I
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killed a man. Yes, the murder of Fanny Bilkins. I hit a
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fatal spot by mistake. I know, Dave, It's all in the line
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of duty. But still, and with these words, mister Cameleon concludes tonight's
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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. As I
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listened to Mister Chameleon, I have to believe that this show was intended to
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be somewhat comedic. We've kind of lost records of what they were trying to
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do with this show, what type of program it was viewed as. But
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I have to say, if this wasn't intended to be a slight send up
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of this type of melodramatic detective show, it falls into one of those so
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bad, it's good sort of categories, with so much happening that is just
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so over the top that it's actually funny. And of course, in this
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particular case, not only as the audience was as we were advised at the
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start of the show, was the audience in on the fact that mister Cameleon
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was in a disguise, so was the murderer. And I actually thought it
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was a clever twist as to who the murderer was. I wish we'd had
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a little bit more of that sense of fair play where we're able to kind
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of follow along with the detective, but really we were set up to think
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that the children were behind it when it was actually the father. So I
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enjoyed it, and we have one more week to go, and then we'll
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get into something. I think we'll all definitely enjoy the case book of Gregory
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Hood. Tomorrow we will return with another chapter in the Peerly Matter, and
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then, as I said, join us back here next Tuesday for one more
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episode of Mister Cameleon. In the meantime, sendra comments to Box thirteen at
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