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Nick Carter: The Accidental Bullet, Parts Three and Six (EP1650) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: of Prevention. Well, now it's time for today's episode of
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  Speaker 1: Nick Carter, and I'll apologize first that we do are
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  Speaker 1: dealing with missing episodes and also that there are some
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  Speaker 1: sound quality issues, particularly on the first episode we're going
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  Speaker 1: to play. Neither of these can really be helped. We
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  Speaker 1: do what we can about the sound quality, but this
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  Speaker 1: is one of those serials and we had a few
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  Speaker 1: during the Johnny Doller, where one episode would be missing,
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  Speaker 1: in this case there are two. But I still think
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  Speaker 1: that there's enough episodes in this story to enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: and so I hope you do. And I'm really glad
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  Speaker 1: we have been able to play these just because these
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  Speaker 1: weren't even available when we started playing Nick Carter. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: from that, with that said, we have part three and
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  Speaker 1: then Part six of The Accidental Bullet original air dates
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  Speaker 1: June the fourteenth and June the nineteenth of nineteen forty four.
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  Speaker 2: What's another It's the case for Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's a case for who was famous of all manhunters,
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  Speaker 3: the detective whose ability of solving crime is unequaled in
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  Speaker 3: the history of detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 2: Continuing the curious adventure.
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  Speaker 4: Called The Accidental Bullet on Nick Carter and the Mystery
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  Speaker 4: of the Murdered Dog.
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  Speaker 3: Investigating the death of a watchdog belonging to Simon agnewick,
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  Speaker 3: sencovers that the dog was killed by a bullet that
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  Speaker 3: must have come from an old fashioned muscle loading pistol.
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  Speaker 3: Then he learns that Danny Caswell, with a young playboy,
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  Speaker 3: has been killed by a similar bullet in what looks
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  Speaker 3: like an accident. Sensing some connection between the death of
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  Speaker 3: the dog and the death of Danny Caswell, Nick with
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  Speaker 3: Scuvey his assistant, goes to the fifty two Club, a
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  Speaker 3: gambling house located close to Simon Agnew's residence, in search
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  Speaker 3: of clues. They find the club deserted, but as they're
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  Speaker 3: searching it, the floor suddenly opens beneath them.
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  Speaker 2: Dick, look out, we're falling of a scovey. Were here?
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  Speaker 2: I am? You are right? Yeah, yess sir? Oh gosh,
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  Speaker 2: what happened? Said the floor cave in. I'd always just
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  Speaker 2: fell of our twelve feet made a one point landing.
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  Speaker 2: We're standing on a trapdoor, scuby. Somebody pull the lever
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  Speaker 2: that opened it. Goosh, Dick, we were standing on the
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  Speaker 2: tile to the fact of WANs tre door. But it
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  Speaker 2: certainly caught off slice of pries on it. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: now where are we? So dark? Are like the colors
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  Speaker 2: that Dirk floris? Sometimes we had our flash lights in
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  Speaker 2: the hands on a Dirk Flora. Sometimes we've had our
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  Speaker 2: flash lights in the hands on it. No, I can't
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  Speaker 2: seem to find mine, how about you? Uh? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: here it is? If it isn't broken. How good it works? Well?
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  Speaker 2: It seemed to be in a cellar of some kind.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's got a very big room, is it with
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  Speaker 5: all those rocked walls?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they look solid well as the doors can be.
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  Speaker 2: The only door. Uh huh. Something tells me it's solid too.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like it's solid though a flock is it?
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  Speaker 6: Nick?
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  Speaker 2: It seems to be barred on the other side, and
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  Speaker 2: it at least an instinct take a battering ram to
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  Speaker 2: knock that down. Stone walls and the door made out
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  Speaker 2: of solid You think, how are we gonna get out?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know you, but there's only one way to
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  Speaker 2: find out. Come on, let's keep looking. Bill, he's the
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  Speaker 2: trap door shots. Yeah, mister Kent, I just got it close.
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  Speaker 2: Good then we caught them, Yes, and the.
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  Speaker 7: Sake, I better leave them there because you're with I
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  Speaker 7: think I know how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your idea? Boys? You'll see go outside and
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  Speaker 2: get Joe. We're gonna need his help. Yeah right, chest grapes.
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  Speaker 7: They're stealing him in here, gonna take away sure too many?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, talk him with my gut. Tell okay, chef, okay,
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  Speaker 2: shut the cottage down the hill. But you mean they
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  Speaker 2: used to live there.
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  Speaker 7: I mean the pretty soon he's not gonna live. He'd
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  Speaker 7: form the police him up too. Yeah, the boss ain't
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  Speaker 7: going up. He's getting well organized. When we're through, nobody's
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  Speaker 7: gonna know they're they're gonna look like accidents, you understand,
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  Speaker 7: but they better.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's good for you. And don't you worry.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be ragnue to us.
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  Speaker 7: But you've got to take care of Nick Carter and
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  Speaker 7: his assistant.
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  Speaker 3: And I told Jaki should have let me get rid
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  Speaker 3: of COTTERR this morning when we had a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're gonna have your chance now. But I give
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  Speaker 2: plenty to know what brought him back here tonight.
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  Speaker 8: Do you suppose Cutter knows didn't keep.
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  Speaker 7: Guessing Danny Caswell was killed here last night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: But when he spotted him, he was standing up those
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  Speaker 7: brackets where we got the during pistol drop out, just
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  Speaker 7: as if he figured exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he didn't have any clues. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what he knows. He'll assume. Be out of the way, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see to that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, you can get it, dope. And here's what I
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  Speaker 7: want you to do. First, fine cotter's cards, probably hidden
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  Speaker 7: somewhere down the road. Then drive to all Man Connies
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  Speaker 7: and get a half a dozen of those special knockout
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  Speaker 7: gas bombs.
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  Speaker 2: He makes up half a dozen knock got bonds, right.
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  Speaker 7: Then come back here, open the trap door a couple
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  Speaker 7: of inches and throw bombs down.
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  Speaker 2: They're not cotting his man out in the side of
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  Speaker 2: a minute. Okay, mister the cans.
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  Speaker 7: Now, when your sugar unconscious, get him out of the cellar,
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  Speaker 7: put them in carter his car, drive him move to
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  Speaker 7: the river. Then put them in my front seat and
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  Speaker 7: let the car roll into the river. When they're found,
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  Speaker 7: look like an accident.
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  Speaker 2: Say it's a smart idea and it'll work all right,
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  Speaker 2: and that or to satisfy the bus. Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 2: but he still wants to know just what went on
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  Speaker 2: here last night? You know, Philip Man's feel.
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  Speaker 7: A kid who was with cas Well, he's the boss's
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  Speaker 7: nephew and I know, but he won't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: He's too frank. Now I'll get going, all right, Say, boys,
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  Speaker 2: what are they gonna do about agnew here? He's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty near gun.
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  Speaker 7: You'll take him back to his cottage and make it
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  Speaker 7: look at if he died there the first you gotta
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  Speaker 7: finish up here. Now, load all those old guns, roll
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  Speaker 7: the mantle into the car, and out all possible fingerprints.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll take care of agnew Oh gosh, Nick, it's
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  Speaker 2: no use. We've been looking for a way out of
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  Speaker 2: here for half an hour and there just isn't any
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  Speaker 2: and never get a hope, scubby. Come on, let's keep
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  Speaker 2: trying the wall as we may find the weakness.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, hey, Nick, Yes, I wonder if we could do
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  Speaker 9: anything with this whole board here against the wall.
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  Speaker 2: That'scubby, but it's too light to use as a battering ram. Yeah. Besides,
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  Speaker 2: it's all rotten, Nick, Hey, look what is it? Look
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  Speaker 2: at all the little white ants that were underneath that board.
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  Speaker 2: What ants, Scubby? Those aren't ants? That termites? Well, what's
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  Speaker 2: the difference That plenty termites eat wood, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: termites canna turn a heavy tinder into a mere rotting
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  Speaker 2: shell and the moon Well what other? What other? That door, scuby,
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  Speaker 2: it's wood and it's touching the earth floor so that
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  Speaker 2: the termites can reach it. But that door is solid.
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  Speaker 2: We've already found that out. I know it's gobby, but
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  Speaker 2: we were hammering on it. The points several feet above the ground.
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  Speaker 2: That's right close to the ground. And see what happens. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what is it? It'scubby. I think I've hit a rutting spot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not in the door, but in the prame that holds it.
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  Speaker 2: I only had something to hammer at the weak spot with.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, maybe I can kick a hold of it. Nick,
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  Speaker 2: you're kicking right through the frame.
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  Speaker 8: Scummy myself?
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  Speaker 2: Good, kind of close to the ground. Neck. You've done it?
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  Speaker 2: Hold up beg enough for me to put my arm
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  Speaker 2: through hescubby handed the boat. You were just looking at it.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, here it is, but be careful.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty rotten. I think it'll do. And step aside
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  Speaker 2: with this so I can lie down here on the floor. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: but through this hole there and this is just guesswork.
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  Speaker 2: But my poking upwards with it, I may be able
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  Speaker 2: to knock loose the bar that's holding the door shut.
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  Speaker 2: You need me, Nick, there's nothing you can do. I
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  Speaker 2: think I've got it.
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  Speaker 8: Hold up that board it breaks worse, Sulk.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta feel a heavy bar of some kind lifting
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  Speaker 2: a little out of its socking. Nick, Yes, Now I
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  Speaker 2: want to see if the door will open. Stand back, Sketty, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe your gun ready and maybe somebody outside. I'm ready here, good,
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  Speaker 2: Here it goes. It's open. Yes, there's no one outside
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  Speaker 2: there risk a looking by flashlight? No, no one there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Scotty, come on, we're going back upstairs. Follow
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  Speaker 2: me and keep your gun handy. Nick, there's nobody here. No,
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  Speaker 2: apparently the house is empty. Well that's funny. Hey, maybe
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  Speaker 2: they were just going to leave us down in that
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  Speaker 2: room to starve. After all, I hardly believe that's Kebby.
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  Speaker 2: I guess is that they're gone to make preparations for
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  Speaker 2: getting rid of us, and that they'll be back. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what are you going to do now? Nick? Wait for them,
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  Speaker 2: try to trap them. Yes, Kelly, it'll be risky, but
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  Speaker 2: we haven't time to stand for any help. Go I'm
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  Speaker 2: came it. I'd certainly like a chance whoever dropped us
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  Speaker 2: through that crap door. So ill while we're waiting, I
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  Speaker 2: suppose we spend a minute or two looking around. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's safe? Nick? We can't a flashlights well covered,
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  Speaker 2: I think so. Okay, say, hm, here's something funny. All
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  Speaker 2: those old guns that were up over the fireplace are gone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that makes me more convinced than ever. And the darling
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  Speaker 2: pistols found beside Danny Kaswell's body came from that collection
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  Speaker 2: certainly looks like it. What is it, Nick? If he
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  Speaker 2: found something? Yes, something was lying here in the rug.
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  Speaker 2: A little whistle? A whistle? What do you suppose it means?
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  Speaker 2: Me and Simon Agnew has been here? Scubby? That whistle
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  Speaker 2: is the key to his front door. A whistle is
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  Speaker 2: a key to a front door. I don't folly you.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't time to explain, and we can't wait here
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  Speaker 2: for ten to come back either. We've got to go
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  Speaker 2: see if anything's happened to wagn Now, come on, does
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  Speaker 2: this Agnes cottage? Nick? Yes, Scubby, so dark and silently,
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  Speaker 2: he must not be home, But I wanna find out. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you how whistle can be a door
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  Speaker 2: key too. Watch, gosh, the door is open, Yes, open
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  Speaker 2: by an electric mechanism that responds to the sound of
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  Speaker 2: the whistle, one of Agnew's inventions. My name Scuby, right, Nick? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Shall I close the door? Yes, I'll try to find
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  Speaker 2: the light switch. Yeah. Ah here Nick, Look, there's someone
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  Speaker 2: lying there on the floor at the foot of the stairs. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Scubby Simon Agnew, Oh he wants to fallen downstairs? Why?
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  Speaker 6: Nick?
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  Speaker 2: He's dead?
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  Speaker 3: Nick and Skin they have escaped from the death trap
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  Speaker 3: in which they were caught.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently Nick is as far.
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  Speaker 3: As ever from solving the mystery of the strange case,
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  Speaker 3: which began with the seeming murder of Sun and Agnew's watchdog.
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  Speaker 3: Now Sun Agnu himself is dead.
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  Speaker 2: How will Nick track down the killers? Listen tomorrow? What's
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  Speaker 2: the matter? What is It's a case for Nick Carter
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  Speaker 2: Master Detectives.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's a case for that most famous of all manhunters,
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  Speaker 6: the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequal in
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  Speaker 6: the history of detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective. Concluding
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  Speaker 6: the furious adventure called.
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  Speaker 4: The Accidental Bullet on Nick Carter and the Mystery of
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  Speaker 4: the Murdered Dog.
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  Speaker 6: Investigating the death of a watchdog belonging to Simon Agnew,
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  Speaker 6: eccentric inventor, Nick Carter discovers that the dog was accidentally
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  Speaker 6: killed when Howard Kent, a gambler, murdered millionaire playboy Danny
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  Speaker 6: Caswell at the Fifty two Clubs. Nick is certain that Kent,
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  Speaker 6: manager of the club, was only working for a higher up,
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  Speaker 6: the mysterious head of a local gambling racket, and he
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  Speaker 6: feels sure that when Kent is caught, he will reveal
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  Speaker 6: the name of the man behind him. But before Kent confined,
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  Speaker 6: he found Nick and Lieutenant Riley get word from Sergeant
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  Speaker 6: Jamison of the State Police that Nick's car, stolen by Kent,
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  Speaker 6: has been found. It has been hauled out of a
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  Speaker 6: river by state police and in it are the dead
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  Speaker 6: bodies of Howard Canton, his assistant, Nick, Riley and Scubby hurried.
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  Speaker 2: To the scene. There, he arms the cutter. There's your car,
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  Speaker 2: just as we dragged it out of the river this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Where are the bodies that we're in A sergeant right
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  Speaker 2: here under the canvas? Yeah, mm shoo, that's seem eh,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's how it canted at assistance all right. We
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  Speaker 2: were both shot through the heart thirty two mm. Who
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  Speaker 2: do you suppose you wanted Kent out of the way?
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  Speaker 2: He can only have been the man behind them, the
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  Speaker 2: head of the gambling meaning they're fraid we might catch
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  Speaker 2: Kent's and don't get a lead back. Well, hey, he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't stop it anything, does he? H The murderings counterh
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  Speaker 2: the gambling racket's gotten pretty bad. He's last few months.
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  Speaker 2: You canab the man who's running it. You sh'll be
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  Speaker 2: doing us a favor. Why that's what's that a thing?
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  Speaker 2: M What is it? Nick? Hearing us? Pebble lotted in
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  Speaker 2: the tread of the rear tire. Look, yeah, well that
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  Speaker 2: probably came to the bed of the river. Now it's cuting.
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  Speaker 2: If if we're a river pebble, the edges will be
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  Speaker 2: rounded by the action of the water. But on this
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  Speaker 2: one the edges are quite shot. And here's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: This pebble is blue flint, a type of rock sometimes
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  Speaker 2: crushed and used to cover driveways. Hey wait a minute, look,
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  Speaker 2: I reiber seeing blue gravel on the driveway only the
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  Speaker 2: slow we drove out to Morton Westle's house. I thought
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  Speaker 2: you remember savvy Martin Western? Are sure, now, Nick? You
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's tight up with this case?
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  Speaker 6: To you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure, Isley. Oh, I'm afraid you'll run
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  Speaker 2: into trouble if you started working on that line. Mister
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  Speaker 2: Carter Western is a pretty important man in this Cabby. Besides,
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  Speaker 2: he's always been against Camby. I know that driving, and
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  Speaker 2: that might adjust the clever way of a earning suspicion
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  Speaker 2: will now, ye, you can't go and accuse him of
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  Speaker 2: anything just on the evidence of Wonder's a pebble. Now. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't intend to Raby, But the more I think
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  Speaker 2: how calm Western was when I've talked to him about
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  Speaker 2: his nephew's death, the more I want to pay him
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  Speaker 2: another visit. Only this time I'm going to make a
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  Speaker 2: few preparations first.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, gosh, Patsy, what do you supposed to make?
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  Speaker 2: Has been doing? Lable? Asked Wis. He won't even let
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  Speaker 2: me in the talk. Truth. He's cabby. He's making something.
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  Speaker 2: When I offered to help, he said, no, thanks. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, he doesn't want us to know about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: i'd somebody talking about me make you scared me. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't need you opened the lad door. Gosh, Nick, where
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  Speaker 2: did you come from? Why? I haven't standing here for
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  Speaker 2: sever a second listening to a very interesting conversation. MM.
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  Speaker 2: They say eavesdroppers never hear any good of them, said,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to eave drop aty. I was just
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  Speaker 2: seeing if I could still move quietly enough to do
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  Speaker 2: a little burglar the burglary, what do you mean you
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  Speaker 2: up to now? Man, I'd rather not say fatty in
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  Speaker 2: case you're asked if be honest, you say you don't
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  Speaker 2: know anything about it. Yeah, I suppose that means you
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  Speaker 2: aren't going to let me go with you. I'm afraid not.
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  Speaker 2: But what about me? Whatever you're up to, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to need some help, aren't you. We might end up
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  Speaker 2: in jail, Scuby. Well, some of my best friends are
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  Speaker 2: in jail. You're all right if you want to take
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  Speaker 2: the risk, I'll be glad to have you come along.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, jail couldn't any worse than some of the
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  Speaker 2: spots we've been in together next the seller of the
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  Speaker 2: fifty two club, for instance. But we thought we'd been
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  Speaker 2: left there to starve. In that case, we might have
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  Speaker 2: got get started. It's almost midnight, high time for good
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  Speaker 2: Burgers to be at work.
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  Speaker 8: M oh Nick, Now I know where we're going. No,
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  Speaker 8: just come in sure.
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  Speaker 2: We're heading for Morton West this place, aren't we right?
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  Speaker 2: That's it over there, you can just see it in
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  Speaker 2: the moonlight. You mean you're going to burgle his house? Mick?
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have a try at its Cobby. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to get evidence against him. Somehow I'll stop here. Okay,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: full off the road under those trees, right Nick, Well
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: here we are, No what do we do next? For
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: the next half hour? I want you to stay here
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and wait for me. Wait for you, Oh Nick, now
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: have a heart. After all the power's Coby's sorry. It's
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: going to be difficult enough for me to get into
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Western's house alone. You'll be helping me more by waiting here,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Ready to make a fast get away for any alarm. Well, okay,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna slip across these fields and approach the house
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: from the rear. I don't think I'll have too much
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: trouble opening those French windows and o this in the
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Western's library this morning. But what's that suitcase you brought
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: along for you? Well, I might be going to use
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: it to carry any incriminating documents go by. Oh I see,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: or I might not. All right, Skevey, this won't take
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: any longer's half hour? I hope see you later. Hey,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: is that unique get cock started? Okay? I kept going.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Crop of dogs started barking at that leaf. Well, I
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: can't have any Lutch bricks, not much. I found Western's
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: safe and got it open. But Western's apparently are too
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: cagy to keep written records till you took all that
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: risk for nothing, not entirely more. Do you move? You'll
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: find out later, s Kevy A right, And now we've
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: got to get back to town and get some sleep,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: because tomorrow morning we're going to pay another visit to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Morton Western. Another visit, yes, this time by appointment, since
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: we can't find any evidence. We'll see if we can't
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: make him give us something. Mister Weston, this is my assistant,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Kevery Wilson. Oh, how do you do? How do you do?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Won't you gentlemen to down? Uh? Tell him? Mister Carter,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: do you happy luck when he's down? The man who
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: killed my nephew? Not yet, but I hope to put
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: my hands on him shortly. I'm glad to hear that. However,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: we have located Howard Kent and his assistant, the two
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: men who killed Danny Caswell. They're dead, yes, But who
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: killed in, mister Copper, The same person who was really
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: responsible for the death of your nephew, The man behind Kent,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: no doubt, the head of the gambling ring. Are you
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: sure he was working for someone? Mister Connor, I am,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and I think I know who it was who, mister Carper.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: To cut it short, Western, you where a very interesting conclusion,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: and may I ask how you reach it? You may?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yesterday when I told you your nephew Philip Mansfield had
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: been shot, you were quite calm about it because you
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: knew it already, didn't you? One of your men shot him. Well,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid you're just getting am I man? Listen, when
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I made my appointment with your nephew, he promised to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: keep his door locked and had met no one until
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I arrived.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: So and what of it?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: But he did admit someone Lethago killed him. That means
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: the killer must have been sent by someone whose name
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: would cause Philip to let him in. I'm the only
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: person in this city that he would trust, a you
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: his uncle. And it's a very interesting deduction. Oh go on, please,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: somehow Philip must have let slip. He was going to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: tell me everything, and your thug shot him by see well,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, that's perfectly true. What you
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: mean you admitted? Why not now? Six still? Both of him?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I might have had you covered for the last five minutes.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Wipe Carter, Make him move over. Make two men with
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: guns are covering us from the doorway, so I see Skenvey.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Apparently Weston was too smart for us. When you were
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a secretary phone to say you was coming, I had
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: decided it was time to put you out of the way. Cotton,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you've been entirely too persistent in this case. Uh, Jake,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: keepman covers from behind. Joe, you cover them from the side,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: my boy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Don't worry.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Boys, we get this situation and make it looks like
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they've got us. I'm afraid it does, Key, but we're
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: not out of the way yet. To see this gun, corpress,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I was going to dispose of it, but first it's
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: going to dispose of you. I suppose that's the gun
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you killed Howard Kenton as assistant with them exactly, that's
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the r gentile desire the gun an acid. Then the
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: police can search forever without being able to place the
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: slugs they'll find in your bodies if they find your bodies. Yes,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: v he does. We've come too close to one covering
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the mask of respectability he's been hinding behind all these years. Exactly, Copper. Yeah,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the best to suspect that I control all the gambling
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: in this county. Oh, you must go now, Western, you
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: admit you're the real owner of the fifty two club,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: do you? Why not? And then telling Danny has Well
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Howard Kent was acting for you. I suppose the law
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: would look at it that way, and you, in turn
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: killed Kenton as assistant, had their bodies put in my
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: car in order to run to the river. That's all
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: so right. And by the way, Jones, I told you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to pick a spot where the water was deep. Gosh,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: you do a good job bearing Cottlin Wilkeson and I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: love a look your blender. Why you can count on me?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I know an abandoned gravel choiry would on never be
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: find No, I think it's time to put an end
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to talking. Go take this gun a moment, Leston, Yes,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: he told you do anything more. Take a look at
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the windows there? Why what? Oh? J H got that
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: gun there? Why are you here? Don't you sick?
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Western slip? Yes, but keep Tom scummy?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: All right, you two dogs, put up your hand, Sarjan,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: look out, i'd won. She'll ke you up.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: It's better trap minute.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Take him out of the car, right, Sarger, All right,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you'll come along here. You're Pilot's gonna wait for the.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: Mars, Nicky, you all right, Dolly naked, Sargeant Jamison and
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: Riley for the whole squad of state cops.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, Keppy, I have been expecting that you're all right. Yes, Riley,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: a good timing. Another minute and you've been too late.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: We followed your instructions, said the got miss Kata.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: We gave you just five minutes, then crashed.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: In your instruction. Nicky Moon planned all this I did.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I said that if we couldn't find any evidence, we'd
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: have to make Western give us some. So I tricked
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: him into doing it. Oh how is he ted? Wow?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: He lives, mister Tata to be tried and electric cuted. O, Sergeant,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: take a look in that filing cabinet over the bay.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Why did take the phone recorder on here? Right one?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I planned last night? Servant, you will find Western prole
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: admission recorded at it. Glory be, nick I see the
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: very smart work. I'll say it was. And whoever made
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: that dictaphone is a genius.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: I never saw one so compact.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Friend of mine, so I'm an agnomator. Nor at least
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: they made the original. That's one I made after examining
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: his He that's what you were making in your lab yesterday, Nick, Yes,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Kuby and I had it in that suitcase you were
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: curious about last night when we came out here. Kept
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: it safely because if you'd known about it, you might
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: not have been able to act natural this morning.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Who I'll say, I wouldn't find though we're going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: be rescued by a bunch of state cops. I had
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: kept treading around to look for them, Genick, I hate
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: to admitted this for a while, or I was really
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: scared about this.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Case as a murdered dog was going to wind up
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: by being the case of too dead detective. You mean, Nick,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: you're trick him into putting everywhere to the sensation that walky, Yes, passy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Now you're up to date in every detail. I haven't
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: left out a thing. Oh, starting with a dead watch dog.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: You wound up by papping ahead of a gaming racket.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Told her I thought would be an interesting experience to
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: investigate the murder of a dog, didn't I? Well, it was,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: yare a little too wish to see. If he asked
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: me and Simon Agne regains consciousness, I think he'd pleased
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: to learn that not only did he start us on
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the track, of that gang, but that the actual that
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: wound up the case too. And now without that recording
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: device he invented, I never would have been able to
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: pain anything on Western That's not me, and I'll patchy
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: for the next couple of days. I'm plawning on you
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: not to let me be disturbed, because I'm not going
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: to do anything but loaf for a while. Truth is,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: now that we've wound up the case of Agnes's murdered
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: watch dog, I'm gonna brace yourself dog time. Oh mother, Oh.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Nick Carter wants to loaf for a while, but he's
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: not going to get the chance. In fact, he's just
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: about to be plunged into the most startling case of
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: his career, the case of the criminal who issued his
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: own currency bills, which could be cash for a million
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: dollars in any part of the world. Don't fail to
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: listen tomorrow. The Strange Adventures of Nick Carter, Master Detective,
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: features Ron Clark as Nick Carter. Patsy is played by
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Helen Choke. The stories are written by Bob Arthur and
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: David Cogan, and original music is played by Lou White.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: He's sure to listened tomorrow to a new and thrilling
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: adventure of Nick Carter in the case entitled The Frightened
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Refugee for Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Money
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Master's Millions. The Return of Nick Carter, a copyright feature
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: of Street and Smith's Publications, Incorporated, is presented by the
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Mutual Broadcasting System from the studios of w o R,
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: New York. The adventures of Nick's adopted son, Chick Carter
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: Boy Detective, are broadcast over most of these stations Monday
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: through Friday at five fifteen pm Eastern wartime. Nick's own
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: show is presented over most of these stations every evening
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Monday through Friday at quarter past eight Eastern wartimes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: This is Mutual. This is Andrew J. Graham, author of
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: the web Surface series and a Man of His Wife.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time Radio.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Of course, I wonder a little bet why
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Nick didn't end up in trouble for the burglary after
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the fact, But this is dealing with nineteen forty four
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: rules of evidence and nineteen forty four radio detective rules
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of evidence of that, so it all works out, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I like the cute little pun at the end. A
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: nice little twist, and I really wish we had more
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of these serialized stories, and I will keep an ear
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: out and if we have some more come up that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: are complete or semi complete, we will bring them to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you with the lost episodes. And if, of course, we
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: get a more complete version of the Accidental Bullet, we'll
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: revisit that. But I hope you enjoyed this trip back
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to nineteen forty three, and I hope you enjoyed some
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: of the excellent inventions. At any rate, next week we'll
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: be returning to nineteen forty eight and those later Nick
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Carter episodes. But now we do turn to some listener
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: comments and feedback, and Benton says, dig the shows, at them,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: keep them up. Well, thanks so much, Benton. I definitely
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: do appreciate that. That will actually do it for today.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: then next Thursday join us for another case with Nick Carter.
• 29:31
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• 29:49
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