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You can follow that at Thewar dot Great Detectives dot Net. Well, now
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it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. This one is called The Haunted
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of the great masters of deduction. Nick Conter, Master detective. Today's strange
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case the Hunted Rocking Chair, another exciting chapter dramatized from the life story of
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Nick Catter. In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick Carter investigated the
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old chair which was supposed to rock whenever anyone in the Trumbull family was due
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life of Nick Carter. Once again we keep our weekly appointment, which takes
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us to the sedate old Victorian mansion on the corner of Fifth and Fourth.
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It is late afternoon, the long shadows fall across the quiet streets. A
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solitary flower peddler ambled slowly down the block. His horse follows sedately, pulling
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a dilapidated truck full of poppet, geraniums and petunias. The peddler is exercising
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a fine Italian tenor voice. Everyboy, once flow, that's a flower.
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I got a petunia? I got a geranium, I got a rest world,
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gotta falling. Wait a minute, a minute, hey, I gotta
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say for the nice young ladies home, got a petunia, got the bigonia.
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It's okay, got the ball. This is a coming gay head.
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A good afternoon with Patsy. Oh it's a fight, Tony. Have you
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got any climbing roses? We lost ours? You know, winter calls.
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No, that's too bad. It's a shame too. You want to pull
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the scarlet or that new dawn or a blazer maybe and got today. But
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I'm gonna get him for you. We'll take one of the miss Patsy,
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and are your boss? He's a home maybe you mean mister. Yes,
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he's upstairs in the laboratory. But are you askingim? I please, can't
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you see Tony? Well, it's after office at I gotta see him,
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Miss Patsy? Please? I gotta my sister Maria. She's she's afraid,
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she's a god afraid to do death? What's you afraid of? To a
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rocking What a rocking chair? That was about? Belongs to an old lady.
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And this old lady is a there a long time ago, but summer
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time, and she has to come back. She sits in the rocking chair,
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in the rock and the rock and a rock, And every time she's
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a rock, somebody gets a dead. H That sounds promising. Suppose you
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tell me all about it, Tony, and I'll see if I can't persuade
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mister Carter to pay your sister visit and investigate that rocking chair. Oh but
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Nick, you could do with some fresh air. We could run a speed
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boat and take a run up of sounds. The island where Tony's sister lives
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isn't very far beyond Hellgate. How does Tony's sister happen to be living on
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an island on the other side of Hellgate? It's the Old Tumble of State
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Shipwreck Island. Tony sister Maria is the housekeeper for Eric Crumble, the famous
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painter, who lives there. Now I see. Old house has been in
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the Tremble family for three generations. Was built by Obadiah Tremble, an old
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sea captain who was suspected of being a free booter at the time of the
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Civil War. The old boy had four wives in succession. I hope,
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Oh, but of course, Oh where does the rocking chair come in?
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Oh? That belonged to the last of old Obadiah's wives. He brought her
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home as sort of an afterthought when all the children of his otherwives had grown
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up. They hated her. The little would skin the color of dark ivory,
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and her face was sort of like a monkey. Some say she was
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a creole, and others claimed she was Portuguese. At any rate, she
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talked with an accent and claimed to have the powers of a voodoo witch doctor.
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Probably hated her because they were afraid of her, probably as soon it
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was Obadiah safely in his grave and the children turned on her. Eric's father,
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who was the eldest, had declared insane, nice people. She was
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locked up in an added room and fed three times a day, but no
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one ever spoke to her, and she never came out of that room.
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No one would have known she was there if it hadn't been for that rocking
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chair. You could hear it creaking all hours of the day and night.
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After nearly thirty years, she was suddenly taken very ill. When she found
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she was going to die, she asked him to send for Eric's father.
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Was a nasty night with the wind howling about you, Andrea come in stupid,
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so you have come me. It's doctors thought you. I am about
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to die, and you think at last you will be rid of me.
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Listen, you poor you will never be rid of me. I will return
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sometimes and shitting that rocking chair where I have spent so many lonely years.
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She will not see me, but I will be there. Sometimes the chair
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will rock, and that will mean there is to be a death in this
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family. There is about to be a death night, I think, yes,
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see the jails. Oh maybe it stops so sweet the time you smite
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it, but it would walk for you, all you and I. The
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chair rock fast and faster. She died. Eric's father saw it, probably
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a form of self and jutypnosis brought about by the old girl's suggestions. Possibly
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the rocking chair heard from again. Yes, every now and then. But
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the funny part is that almost every time, according to Tony's sister, someone
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in the family died within the year. The family that's size is just by
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the law of averages, someone is a to die within the ear, whether
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the rocking chair rocked or not. Oh, I hadn't thought of it that
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way, Nick. Anybody living in the old house now except Eric and Tony's
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sister. No, they came back a little over a year ago. Eric
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was too broke to live anywhere else. Has Tony's sister ever heard the famous
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rocking chair? Not until lately. Seems that everything was going along as well
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as could be expected until Captain Ralph Trumble, Eric Trumble's cousin, and his
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wife moved in. I gather the captain's wife is very attractive, and the
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captain isn't always home, and Eric is a notorious ladies man. That's about
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the size of it. And to top off the whole thing, the rocking
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chair seems to have started to rock again. Well, what do you expect
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me to do? I just want you to find out what makes that rocking
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chair rocks so Tony's sister can stop being frightened. All right, I'll look
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into it if you can get them to rent us that new speedboat. I
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remember, I don't want any hard boiled eggs in my lunch. Now you'd
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like to kick Do you have a see that you haven't made? Going to
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be a storm before night? Oh? Nick, there isn't a card in
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the sky. Tony said, he get where to insist him. We were
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coming to be waiting for her on the docks. That must be the island
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up ahead, Nick, No doubt we'll pass it. Well, you look
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at that house, got everything? You below? Way? Do us walk?
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I'll bet there's even an iron deer on the front lawn. And I
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could certainly use a coat of paint. Look there on the end of the
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dock. That must be Tony's sister. She's not exactly what you'd call a
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silk fishy. Oh hand me that line, will you? Hello? Are
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your Tony's sister? See, I'm for the money. You want to miss
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the mixed and the missus? No, no, I'm Catty Bowen, mister
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Carter's secretary. Give me your hand, I help you, thank you?
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Oh, be careful, please, so many of these boards the souls.
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Okay, we'll be careful. Well, Maria, how about it? You
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think I can get a look at this notorious rocking chair that's causing all the
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troubles. See, that's easy. The captain is away on a cruise.
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He won't be back until next week. Mister Eric and the captain's wife in
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the studio. He's a painting her picture, painting a picture, or he's
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always a painting. How when the captain is away. The studios in the
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front on the second floor, the room over the rock, and the chase
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on the third floor over the kitchen. Will take the back stage. No
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one will see us. This is the room, and mister Glass see it
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has not been named since mister Eric's father was found the hanging to the raptors
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and they threw the key into the wind. Is there any way we can
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crawl in through a window? The only window is two floors above the roof
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of the kitchen. There's a three outside, but the branches are two small
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to hold anybody. Then I'll have to pick the lock. That doesn't be
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much, but yeah, with my picklock. The old house is so quiet
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you almost breathe. Wish it was a dark up here. Nick, Did
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you hear that? This is the chair again? The rocks. Someone want
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to die? Someone want to die a minute now? The lock isn't as
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simple as it looks there. That didn't pick now, No one needs to
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bring The room is empty. Look over there right beside the window. The
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rock is still rocking, and the dust all over everything to be prince of
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some sort, But there aren't neck. It's not a mark on the floor
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anywhere, just spirits to living for the prince. The window, a little
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pane at the lower left hand corner is missing, but the window is a
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lot to fight. Nobody could crawl through an opening, so a little that
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nick the cushion. The cushion on this chair is still warm, he said.
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The company's come home. He's looking for his wife. You better run
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down the reel see if you can't stall him. And well, a locked
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room and a rocking chair that rocks all by itself with nobody around to set
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it rocking, and an angry captain trying to find his missing wife. How
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everywhere. And now back to our story. Investigating an old house in which
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an ancient rocking chair started rocking without any cause or reason, Nick runs into
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a complicated set of circumstances. Eric Trumbull is painting a portrait of the captain's
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beautiful young wife, much against the captain's wishes, and Maria, Eric's Italian
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housekeeper, is scared of both the rocking chair and the quick tempered captain.
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As we pick up our story, the captain is storming through the house looking
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for his wife, Maria. Maria, Oh, hey are fair and thunder
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is my wife is not in her room? A coup the crumb. You're
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not blame? Well, she's not, I remember now, she's gone to
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the mainland to the market. No, no, she hasn't. Her hat's
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right here on the table, and the robot's tied up to the dock.
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Maybe she got a lift when places her YouTube got friends and Maria's brother.
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The Trembles don't like visitors, Captain Trembles, don't you think you're a bit
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hasty? Suppose your wife is posing for Eric Cambell not a perfectly nice women,
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not only days not my wife. It's the door of his studio.
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Hey, Harry, coping up. I know my wife's in there. Open
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this door. I'll break it down, all right, all right, really,
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Ralph, you have to be so boisterous, not yelling into a gale.
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You know where are you, Claire? You're right, I am here.
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Oh really, Ralph, this is too naughty. At I'm getting my
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project. Anything you have birthday. It's a surprise there it is. Eric.
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I told you to keep away from my wife, but when I come
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back unexpectedly, I find you both in the studio with a door locked.
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Don't be so Victorian Darling. Eric hates to be interrupted when yes, I
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do go away, old boys. Wait to get on with the portrait.
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The players with a portrait you'll never do any more. Penny on this canvas,
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Nicky carrying the picture to say, rugged, I hope you realize you've
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destroyed a priceless work of awe. Don't worry, I'll pay you for it,
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although I have my doubts about how priceless it is. Claire, get
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your things together. We're leaving this house this minute. Let's loan and I'll
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be decided to take it to the main lander us. Good, you go
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ahead. I'll join you on the dock as soon as I've made out a
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check for my cousin's priceless work of art. Think. I don't see why
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you insist on going back to shipbregg Island. We just left it a short
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while ago. I know it passed people. I got to thinking Eric Tremble
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may not be the nicest guy in the world, but I'd hate to see
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anything happen to him. I think it ought to be fair to warn him.
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What about what about the captain's crazy jealousy? From the things he said
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as we were taking him and his wife back to the mainland, I suddenly
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realized how intensely he hates RK. I don't think Eric realizes. Good,
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great, look hide off to the Tremble top. It's a police launch.
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Yes, A'm too late passing. What a pool? I was not to
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come back right away. Oh, Mick, look this petendants Riley standing on
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the breakwater. Something serious must have happened. If he's been called in.
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Oh then it's not should be back when you heard the news. But you're
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too lately, right, the whole thing's home? What off, Lieutenant?
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You trumbled dead with a crazy back. What happened? Hanged himself? You're
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just waiting for the photographers to finish before we cut him down. All right,
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I don't touch him, don't touch a thing. Did I have a
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chance to say him? But that doesn't suicide. It's murder. And would
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you mind telling me why you're so sure that he's suicide? Because Eric Trumble
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was psychologically and capable of killing himself. Do you think the captain came back
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and did it. No, the captain wouldn't have hanged him now if he'd
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been beaten to death, couldn't where it's the housekeeper's just down the hallway,
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taking it awful hard. She is okay, Nick, after you mm hmm.
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He played the ground that best sixth senses. Each inches is enough.
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Examiner took a look at him and says it's death placed tangulation. Me,
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by no mistake. I'm not doing that. Is there? Nothing can touch
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rawling, not to thing, Nick, And it's definitely murdered. Ah no,
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you don't, Nick. Just take a look at this here. Suicide
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note can there in his chest. I can't live without her and I won't
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done very Trumble. Let's be praised in his own headwriting chicks who the writing
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we found in his diary possible. But this is only part of a piece
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of paper. The upper part missing is so good. It's a suicide note.
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That's enough for me, Rile. If a man's going to commit suicide,
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he has to stand on something, puck, tear even a few books,
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and then pick them away from him. But there's nothing here, nothing
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within fifteen feet of the spot where the body's hanging. You're right. Consequently,
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Trumble was strung up by someone else, someone who threw the rope over
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that beam, all the body up, and then tied the rope to that
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bright and not await him. What would mister Trumble be doing all that while
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there's no signs of a struggle here? Travelway, because the murderer was careful
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to sneak up behind him and knock him unconscious. First, you're medical examine.
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I will take a good look, Riley. I think you'll discover a
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lump at the base of the brain somewhere. He had better go and talk
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to him. Who would ever think I'm looking for a lumpy was hiding Nick
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right away, Patty, then as Ion pined, the so called suicide Now
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all right, what's up. It's Maria here. You want to talk to
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you. I hear what you said that it is not a suicide, and
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that the truth. I'm afraid so, Maria, I knew it. I
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knew it. It wasn't a captain. They had a terrible by the fight
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after you left to go to the boat this morning, Maria, what makes
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you so sure that Captain Trumble killed his cousin that knows you have a new
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hands. It's part of a letter, miss Eric, since the three days
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ago to New Bad Food, where the captain and ship are gone. Mister
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Eric was in love with the captain's wife. He was a pictures. Yes
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we know that. I know what's the welly you fight it on the dock.
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We were there less than five minutes for him, five minutes of the
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prity. What makes you so sure it wasn't somebody else, somebody who came
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to the island after we left, Because when you were gone and lock all
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of the doors in the window, I go to the kitchen to fix me
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to airs to the lunch. You gon I pick it up to him that
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and you're sure no one else was here. You didn't open the door to
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anyone's straight on the Bible. Tell me, Maria, why did you kill
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Eric? You're wrong, the captain level of this letter was written for him.
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The captain didn't do it, Maria. But two reasons. One,
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the letter, though undubtedly written by Eric, was never sent. But how
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could you possibly know that? Because this torn suicide note covers more than half
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a sheet of notepapers. Any letter that's gone through the mail has been folded
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at least one. This one was never folded, consequently never sent. The
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second and the most important reason. As we left the island this morning with
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the captain and his wife, I happened to take a look at the house.
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Crumble, alive and healthy, was glaring at it from his studio window.
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No. No, consequently, Maria, since no one entered the house
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after we left, and since you were alone with Eric Trumble, the only
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person who can possibly be responsible for his death is you, Maria. Your
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last name is Trumble, Maria Tromble. I was there. It's wife,
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That's why I was killed. Yes, I had an idea that was a
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reason marriage. It's twenty yeth it on the sorrento when I nursed him battle
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from the bed. During all this time, no one has evern known.
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I told him my house and a man in the farm. It was that
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money paid for his first exhibition. So I do not begrudge him that he
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was a genius or they are not like other men. After e a little
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while, I did not even mind h a love of faith, so long
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as it was only his mother. You see, I knew they would not
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have last. But the assignment was a difference. The captain's wife, she
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was a woman of he's on the class. He wanted her to divorce to
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the captain and markim. I don't know what would have become of me this
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afternoon, and I found the later he was ride into the captain. I
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know it was all but between its I know he was true with me.
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After all the hardships, all the insults. Something in a strange, and
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of course I'm not sorry. Do you think that it's strange? No,
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I got the berthy lost monster. You're right again. He turned a love
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as biggest eggs behind his left ears. You got, you got any idea
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who could have done it? Maria Rallian m with Eric's wife. I have
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no doubt she'll be glad to tell you whatever you want to know. In
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just a moment, Nick will be back to give you the final details of
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himself. Nick, what happened to Maria? Did Riley arrest her as Kenny
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did, but he died before he could be brought to trial? What about
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the rocking chair? After considerable observation, we found out it was just a
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trumbled cat. He used to climb up the trees, jump through the broken
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pane and into the chair which stood right beside the window. He'd sit there
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in the old chair and wash yourself, and her movement would make the old
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chair rock. But how come the cat just started recently to sit in the
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old chair like that. How we learned it was only recently that the cat
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came to live at the house. Disgustingly simple, when you know the answers.
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That's what I always say, and Nick always laughs at me when I
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say it. It's true. Well, what's about your story for next week?
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Nick got a couple of not too well veiled hints on that one.
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Well, I don't see why not. Ken, Patsy and I were taking
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a short cut to the park one day in my car, which is more
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like a police flood car than a pleasure car, and we heard a police
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call over the radio directing the nearest squad car to a certain address to take
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care of the dead body, and were really interested to find that the address
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where the body had been found was our own office at forth and Sis,
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Well, that sounds like an interesting start to his story. And when the
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band of thieves kidnapped me and to say, jumping for nector, Well,
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Nick, what do you call a story? The body on the doorsteps?
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until next week. This is a mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. I
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have not been enjoying the new directions and scripts this one's and it does,
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I guess come from part of it, I think is from the fact of
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having so many missing episodes. But this definitely sounds very familiar. We've heard
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the plot of the thing that goes does something and then somebody dies, and
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also we've heard the plot of the killer being terminally ill. Anyway, so
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really beyond the means of any meaningful punishment. The good news is that the
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writing on this series is going to change to out so hopefully it will get
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better again. I miss the more daredevil Nick Carter exploits we had that were
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much more in keeping with the pulp style, but we'll see if we get
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back to them in the course of the series. Well, now we turn
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to some listener comment and feedback, and we have an email here from Gary
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who said, I just wanted to ask if the Charlie Chan Radio show is
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any good and if you ever planned to air it. Well, it's tough
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to say whether it is actually any good because we all well, to put
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it simply, what we have of Charlie Chan Radio Program is we have scattered
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episodes of the nineteen thirty serials, not so much that you could actually put
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together into a complete story. The other thing that we have is we have
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one episode of the nineteen forties Charlie Chan Radio program with At Bagel and actually
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played that over on the war. But that's the only thing that survives from
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Charlie Chan in the US and the nineteen forties. And then we have a
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series of Australian Charlie Chan dramas which actually we're pretty good. We do plan
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to get to them eventually on this series. You can in the meantime check
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out episode one ninety three of the war. And I do think it is
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too bad there aren't more episodes out there, but we will get to them
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eventually. But that'll do it for today. Sendor comments to Box thirteen at
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