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Nick Carter: The Lucrative Confession (EP1458) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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audio books that stored a Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time
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for today's episode of Nick Harter. The original air date April the twentieth of
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nineteen forty seven, and the tunnel is the Case of the Lucrative Rex.
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I guess there, Nick, I feel like a Hollywood stumbleman about the pushed
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over a cliff. That's do as I told you, there shouldn't be any
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danger. The Andrew Writers Association is going to feel awfully bad about having this
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nice new car wreck, not if it gets the results they want. All
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right, hold tight, scarre's the curve and here we go. Now the
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Case of the Lugrative res Today is exciting. Nick Carter Adventure brought to you
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by old Dutch Glenter. Story begins with a young couple, Bob and Peggy
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Anderson, trying out their brand new car. Listen to that motar per Peggy.
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Oh, I feel it was good to be at the wheel of a
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new car again. Bob. This hill is steep. Maybe there's a curve
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at the bottom. Is there a curve that would be marked? You don't
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see any market, do you know? But Bob, there is a curve.
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Huh, don't ty? Peggy? All right, I guess too.
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Oh how about you? I gotta bump on my head. I guess no
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bones broken? Canna let me help you out? Oh, Bob, on
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new cars, it's pot wreck. Yeah golly. We not only went through
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the fence, we went halfway through the wall this barnay, you two,
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don't try to get away. Who's trying to get away? Ho? Don
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got gun you with us? Young fella right in here. Ruined my barn
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when you're reckless driving? Done you a thousand dollars damage to one thousand dollars.
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The whole barn isn't worth that. Don't go getting sashy, young lady.
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I'm a deputy sheriff. I am, I'll look mister Wick, my
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name is doing all right, mister Dylan. You'll get paid for the damage
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as soon as I can arrange it. I want cash, young fellow,
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haw, I haven't got enough with me. I get the cash, or
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I hold your car. Look, we can work this out somehow. Well,
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look tell you what. I got a nephew in the garage business.
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Now, this wreck of yours might be worth two or three hundred two in
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Now here's my proposition. I'll take what's left of the car and call it
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quits. Why am I take it or leave it? Well? All right,
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I'm licked. Yeah, pace another records afternoon, mighty nice new Royal
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Coop. Here's bill sale and good work. Dylan arranged another wreck by taking
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down that sign that says one in curve ahead? Did you a georged Rocky?
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Okay, Dylan, they got that bill of sale to Elmer Eustace.
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Same as usual. Ride in the Rocky. Look in the files and see
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if we got a wine colored Royal Coop model seventy six. Okay. Got
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a customer for a new job, just itching to pay a big price.
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Well, there's no model seventy six Royal Cope listed in the Bosses files.
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All right, Rocky, come on, let's go out and see if we
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can pick one up. Well, they're the records, mister Carter. In
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the past three months has been a positive epidemic offfects of new cause. So,
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mister Benson, hasn't a single car been recovered? Not one. That's
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why the Younger Writers Association is asking you to take the case very well.
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I warn you I'll have to have a free hand, no matter how strained
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my methods may seem, of course. Now what can we do for you?
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First, I'd like a list of all the cars stolen in the last
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three months, together were the names of their owners? Certainly? Oh,
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miss Collins, have you the car theft file? Here's mister Bote here it
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is. Oh, thank you. That's all right now, missus Collins,
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you are mister Carter. Anytime you want me, day or night, please
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call me. If I'm not in call Ms Collins. Oh. Here here's
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her home phone number and here's mine. Thanks. Now, if you'd excuse
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me, I've got some work to do. Oh nick, oh, asked
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Patsy. If you can there to give up playing with those radio sets for
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a minute, mister Benson's and the underwriters is here. Good. I was
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just going to call him, all right, shore men, Patsy, right,
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Nick, mister Benson, would you step in here, I'll say I
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will. Mister Carter, do you realize that it's forty eight hours since we
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gave you a free hand on this case, and in that time you haven't
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lifted a finger? Oh? Yes, I have, mister Benson. In
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my own way, of course. Do you know that another one of our
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clients had his car stolen last night? Yes? I know, and I'm
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sorry, and I couldn't do anything last night. Now I can. Well
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that's something. At least I need three cars from you, pretty new cars,
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three new cars. But for that I can't tell you. I give
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me the three cars, and I think I can promise you action in a
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hurry. Well, all right, all right, I guess it can be
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arranged. I'll have them here this afternoon. But frankly, mister Carter,
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we want results. Well, Nick, I just left the last of those
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three cars at seventh in Washington Streets. Now, maybe you'll break down,
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tell me what this is all about. Why, Patsy, I thought you'd
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figure the whole thing out right Now, All I know is that you had
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me pat those three beautiful new cars in different parts of the city, and
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they're supposed to be bait for this car stealing gang. But why don't you
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haven't put them someplace where you can watch them? But I am watching the
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Oh are you kidding? I am not under the back seat of each of
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those cars. I've hidden one of those little radios you said. I was
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playing with what a really small compact sanding sets with an individual signal and a
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two mile range. That shan Oh, I think i'd don if anybody steals
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one of those cars, the radio is sending out a signal automatically. With
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the direction finder in my car, we can follow the stolen car straight to
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the gang's hideout. Oh, that gang will just pick up one of those
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cars they have. How do you like that for service? Wait, it's
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the signal from the Royal coop you parked at the corner of six and Johnson.
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We've got to get there best. It must be straight ahead of us.
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Nack. The signal's been getting louder ever since we turned that last corner.
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Yeah, sieve, they're taking it out. This roarer must be headed
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for some place in the suburbs. There's nothing inside except that big truck up
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ahead. Why don't you pass it? Because that wouldn't do any good.
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What do you mean? I mean the stolen cars on that truck under that
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big canvas. I never thought of that, never to die, not until
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I saw that the truck was the only thing into side. A favorite way
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of transporting a stolen car, isn't I say? It is a freight train
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coming. Yeah, I better stop back here. I don't want to get
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too close to the truck, and I sneak. The truck's not stopping.
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They struck. They're going to try to get across the tracks in front of
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the train. Can't probably meet it. We can't look at the length of
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this train. It must be a mile long. Worse than that is stopping.
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How do you like that? I don't. But if darn thing gets
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out of my way, that truck will be's the far away. We won't
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be able to pick up the radio. Say oh, certainly looks as all
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lucks against us. Well. So Nick lost the first round in his battle
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to break up the ring of car thieves. But he's lost more than that.
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He's lost a brand new car lean to him to use his dait.
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We'll see what that leads to in just the moment. All back to the
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case of the yocrative Rex. Today is Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you
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by old Dutch Glinter. It was the following afternoon and Nick and Patsy and
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Nick's car are cruising around town hoping to pick up a signal from one of
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the other cars they planted as bait. I haven't been for that gone freight
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train. I might have the gang rounded up by now. Nick. Listen,
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sir, that's the signal from the radio and the Royal Coop that they
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got away with. Yeah, it's getting louder. How is getting saved again?
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And did you notice that it got louder just as that wine colored Royal
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Coop ahead passed us. Hey, that's the car that was stolen from us.
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It's not getting away from us again. What, of course are the
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curb? Hey, hollo, what's the big idea? Stopped? Why not?
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Stupid? What ou say? What's going on here? You tried to
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wreck me? Oh I didn't. I just want to stop you. That's
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a stolen car. You're driving tolen car. You're crazy? I just an
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hour a co paye podcast for it. Maybe, but it's still a stolen
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car. Oh see here I'm judged pears. And then a few things that
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you presen. My name is Carter, Nick Carter. Oh oh sure I've
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heard of you was the Carter. But I still say I bought this car
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legally. Look here's a little sale mm hmm, sold you by a man
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named Elmer Eustace address three one nine two Grand Avenue. They will sales an
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order all right. The engine number gives us wrong, but it can't be
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wrong. Look at the number on the engine and see for yourself. Thanks,
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Judger, will this is a car all right? I recognize that tiny
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scratch on the door. The engine number, Will flinches. Let me get
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let's see D four seven seven seven eight nine. Well that's the number on
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the bill of sale. But that's not the motor number of the coup that
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was stolen from us. No it's not. It's obviously the real motor number
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hasn't been tampered with him anyway. Well are you satisfied? Yes, I
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yes, I've made a mistake. Jud I told you so. Next time,
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better make sure of your fist. Nick. You let him go.
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You didn't even look to see whether the radio was under the back seat.
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Didn't have to, Patsy. That's the car that was stolen, all right,
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even if the engine number is different. Well, Betsy, listen,
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go down to the Motor Vehicle Bureau and find out who originally registered a Royal
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coup with motor number D four seven seven seven eight nine. Right, where
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are you going? I want to drop in on mister Elmer Eustace, the
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man who sold that car to Judge Pearson. Yes, I'd like to speak
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to mister Eustace. Is he in, Yes, she's in, young man.
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I don't know if he'll speak to you. I think you will.
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Maa come in please, Oh no, young man. Elma doesn't live here.
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He lives next door, next door, Yes, right there on the
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other side of the fence. But that's a cemetery. Yes, Elma's been
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dead twenty years. So Elma Eustace has been dead for twenty years. Yes,
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Patsy's very dead. Why did you find out if the Motor Vehicle Bureau?
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Oh, well, Nikaya asked about was registered several days ago by a
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man named Robert Anderson. He lives only a few blocks here or so on
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the way back I stopped him to see him. What did he say?
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Well, his story, Nick, is that he bought a wine colored Royal
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coop and wrecked at the same day. He gave the wrestler man named Frank
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Dyllan to pay for damage the car did to Dylan's bomb when it ran off
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the road. The car, I mean, not the barn that backs up
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very completely. Patsy, how would you like to join me in a nice
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cacophonic auto accident? Oh's that, Betsy. I guess my football helmet son's
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had enough. Nick, I feel just like a movie stunt girl who was
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about to be pushed off a cliff. Oh, that's all tight, It
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won't be any danger, you hope. Well, looks Dylan's barn just around
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the turn down at the bottom of the hill. I can see it in
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the headlights. Nick, My hunch is right. Dylan spotted the gang.
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My bed is that he's responsible for the accident young Anderson had and somehow or
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other got Anderson to turn the wreck car over him. And if you think
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the gang also stole the Royal crew we used as bait, it was the
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same model as Anders, Patsy, only they took the engine out of Anderson's
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car and put it in the stolen car. Why would they do that Because
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they got the bail of sales from Anderson, and when they put the engine
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from his car into the car they stole, the whole deal looked very legal.
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So that's how they disguise the cars they stole. That's how. And
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now we're going to have the same current of accident Anderson. Okay, Patsy,
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here's the curve. Hold tight. You are right, Patsy, whole
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things considered. Quick, give me your helmet. I'll put it in a
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suitcase of mine. Now they're on a site. Hey, you pretend to
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be unconscious. Psy. I'm going to pick you up and carry you.
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I could learn to like this. Hey, you too. Don't try to
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get away. What do you mean get away? We've had an accident,
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Yeah you have. Darner knocked my barn down. Must have gone thousands one
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of the damage to I'll huddle for the damage. But this lady's hurt.
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You gotta get on the house and call a doctor. What about my ball,
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I'll take care of that later. You can keep the car for security.
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Well, all right, come on this way, all right, I'm
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following you and keep on following them cutting. This is a gun against your
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banks, so no funny business. All right, gotta put the damon a
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sofa and sit down here with her. Anything you say, tell you what?
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Oh, make yourself comfortable. Cut in. Thanks, I'm calling the
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big boss. Ask about your funeral. See that there're lots of flowers.
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Why you won't be smelling them up for arsts, eh Williams. Listen,
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Rocky and mere Rid Dillens. You're giving him his payoff tonight when he walks
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Nick Cotton. Yeah, tried to pull a fake accident, but me and
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Rocky got the drop on him. Now, look, boys, you've got
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an idea. He's already wrecked his cars. He said, why don't we
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put it on the truck and haul it out to the old Morgan for it's
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about sixty feet. See me sure we can put him in the girl in
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the car and push it off. Ye're going to kill easy bets you would
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not do yet, that's the idea. Yeah, just a nice clean accident.
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Okay, goodbye, Well Caddy, you can pick up the Dame again.
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The four of us are going for a little ride, but only me
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and Rocky are coming back. Gee, gott it. You should make up
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pretty picture standing there on the edge of the quarry holding that dame in your
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bund. Rocky, give me your hand, thank you. Yeah, okay,
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I'll be right with if I've got the car balance right on the edge
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of the quarry. Means they won't have to push the very car. And
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once they get us inside, I see how ian I swim? Are you
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the quarry is almost build with water. You can't see it rippling the home.
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Yes, it's only about twenty feet from the top. Okay, we
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were to put a fast one on these thugs. Okay, got it.
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We're all set now if you that's what you think? It's hot? Hey,
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you can't They jumped into the quarry, all right, I do so.
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I think it easy enough. Make as little noise as you can.
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They can't see us, might judge whatever you are by the sound. I
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think you're a white guy. Don't get cut it. Let's see how you
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like this and here someone Well for the moment, at least, Nick and
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Patsy have beaten the crooks at their own game. But they're not out of
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danger yet. We'll see what happens next. In just a moment. Now
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back to the case of the Yucrative Wrecks. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought
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to you by All Dutch Clinchers. We pick up our story with Nick and
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Patsy in the water in the old quarry ace and rockies standing at the edge
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of the quarry are shooting at them through the darkness. They stopped firing and
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they haven't en us. That doesn't mean they won't stay close to the edge
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of the quarry right over list as they move to the other side. I
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suppose they do. I guess is that they have no more bullets. Shots
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that were twelve to six apiece. Maybe they're reloading. Sneak your rock here
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as well. You can pull ourselves up on a tree. Yeah, you'll
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never get out of there alive. What are you going to do? Shoot
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us with empty guns? That's why you're wrong. I always carry a little
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spar and a waterproof case. Quit your kid, You call this kidding?
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Yeah, it's kind Yeah, but don't worry. Doesn't never get out of
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there and don't drown like rats in a track because he right, Maybe we
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can't get out of here, Maybe not like we're going to try. Well,
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Patsy. That wasn't so bad, was it? Now that it's all
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over, It wasn't so bad before. For a few minutes, Nick,
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I thought we'd never lived. To get back here to the office. Wow,
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we made it. And that's all that comes. Dry clothes held too.
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I'm gonna have these extra things here at the office. What now me?
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We've got an important phone call of me. As soon as I'm through,
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I'm got going again. Hello Hello, Mss Collins, this is Nick
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Carter. Oh, yes, I have an important message for mister Benson.
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He doesn't seem to be home. If you take it down and try to
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look at him, why of course, what is a message? Just tell
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him that I've identified three of the gang and have a police drag net out
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for them. Hope to have them in custody by morning. Mister Benson will
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be delighted to hear that, Miss Carter. I'll see that he gets a
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message as soon as possible. Thanks very much, Miss Collins. Good night.
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Ah what's that? And now I'm going off to find that gang's headquarter.
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Find their headquarters. But Nick, they didn't give us a single clue
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to its location. Oh yes, they did, just one clue and I'm
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going to build that clue into a whole court full of convictions. But Nick
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used to hear by the phone. What I call I'm running with starts at
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Matheson and every man I can get his hands on. Look, you two,
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the boss will be here in a minute, and I'm doing the talking.
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You understand, Yes, sure we understand, And it's a boss.
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Now open the door, Rockie, sure coming boss. We're all here like
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you wanted close that door. Yes, shut fools, bunglers. What do
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you mean? So you got rid of Nick Carter? Did you shure?
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We did? And I suppose it was his ghost that just telephoned me,
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just just telephoned you, Nick car He did, and he's identified all three
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of your fudd It ain't possible you didn't kill him, So now I gotta
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kill you all of you. Listen, you fail, and you put me
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in a dangerous position if I let your list You know what where did he
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come? Pretty good act you put on this morning when I came out to
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question you, and I didn't stay food. You won't show the first man
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that moved I got that gun, missus take it over this way. Look,
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how did you find us? You find out at first. If Missus
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Eustace doesn't mind, I'd like to remove her. Wait, this is going
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to be quite a shock to mister Benson, isn't it. Miss Collins?
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Hey, what's this Miss Collins stuff? Yeah? I thought she was Missus
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Eustace. You see, boys, By wearing this gray wig, Miss Collins
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became Missus Eustace. At the time Miss Collins gets out of jail, she
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won't have to wear a wig. Her own hair will be gray. Well,
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I'll be darned. So Miss Collins was the mastermind of the car stealing
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ring. That's right, Patsy at Benson's secretary. Working right there in the
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office of the Underwriter's Association, she was in a perfect position to furnish the
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others with the information that made the rack at his success. So why did
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she play the part of Alma Houstace's poor old widow. Oh there was a
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smoke screen to hired her real identity from the gang. Ah. I imagine
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her original plan was that when the racket petered out, Missus Eustace would just
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vanished. Since none of the gang knew that she was also Miss Collins,
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they wouldn't be able to blackmail her later or infiplate her in any way.
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But I still don't see what made you suspect her. At one clue,
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I mentioned Betsy one acepone from Dylan's place. I counted the clicks as he
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dialed. Three three, three four four four was a number he called.
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That was the same number Benson that previously gave me in case I ever had
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to call Ms. Collins. That was all I needed to know, Jee,
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But it sounds simple when you explain it now. Perhaps you'll tell me
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how you found the hideout. Oh that was easy, you see. When
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I phoned Miss Collins and in that way let her know you and I had
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escaped, I knew she'd head straight for the hideout. Why, of course,
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Well I got to the place she lives just before she left. Oh
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but how'd you find out where she lived? Had Maddy trace her phone number?
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He gave me her address this morning? And where did she live,
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nick Wright? Smack across the street from where Missus Eustace lives. Well,
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what do you know? From there on? It was a cinch. I
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saw her when she came out of the house, fixed up at Missus Eustace,
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and then followed hers straight to the hideout any more questions. Hmm,
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oh, yes, teacher who owns that spiffy youth of dan parked outside of
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the curb that well pats it. It just happens that was on order for
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miss Collins, but since she won't be needing a car for ten years or
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so, the underwriters brought it and insisted on presenting it to me. Oh
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that's wonderful, miss b May I give you a ride home by mister car.
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It will be a pleasure. It isn't every day that a poor working
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girl it's going to skinned rider for my car. Nick, honest, break
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here, I got a brand new car and don't even get a chance to
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blow the horn every week. At this time, two great names are going
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welcome back. Well an interesting scheme. I won't say it was clever,
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just because this time of scheme, it just seems like there is so much
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that could go wrong. It really depends on people having car accidents that leave
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the engines attack, and also on everybody who has an accident been able to
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be a snow particular, you know, in particularly you're doing this out there
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on a rural road, is what I'm gamming from the description. But there
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were also some good twists and perilous situations For Nick Carter. I think he's
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the only one of our detectives who carries a gun in a water water safe
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pouch just in case. When Nick Carter says he's got something, no matter
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how weird it is for most other detectives, I just tend to believe him
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because usually he does. Sometimes he's bluffing. But Carter, there's a reason
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he's able to stay around and keep breathing despite being a very famous detective,
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which, when you think about, is a pretty dangerous thing to be.
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All right, Well on to listener comments and feedback, and I have an
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email from Randy's who says I have a suggestion. I would think it would
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be neat if you and Andrew if Needa did an audio montage of various Virginia
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Grade voices. Unless she's the only female character in the show, I can
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never be sure which person she voice, beyond the fact that I don't always
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know which character she voiced, and if I could, I would never be
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able to remember the voices with great detail from show to show, week to
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week. I know you once mentioned people used to say she could do many
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voices from age eight to eighty, So hearing several altogether I think would be
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interesting would help those of us who aren't greatly educated on OTR shows to hear
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how impressive her talents really were improved right the eight to eighty statement, thank
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you for your time, hard work and dedication to your shows. We fans
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greatly appreciate it. Well. Thanks for the email at Randy, and it's
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a good suggestion. My big problem would be some voices I have to actually
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think about whether Virginia Greg did it or not. I would foresee that being
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a somewhat tedious project, not just saying it wouldn't be worth doing, but
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just probably not something I'll do right away. It might be possible, too,
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with a larger group of fans to kind of get a sampling of her
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who know her voice and know her shows, because we don't usually have cast
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list. The ones were most sure Virginia Greg did it are the ones,
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like you said, where she's the only female voice, and you notice she
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did two or three different roles, And certainly there are times that you can
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kind of tell the quality of her voice from another, despite the way she
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disguises it and the way a character's voice differs but it'd be a big project
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and interesting one, so I'll keep that under consideration. Thanks for the email,
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