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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A rookie Manhattan newspaper reporter receives his first assignment at
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: the city morgue, identifying a young woman recovered from the
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: East River linked only to a small doll. That assignment
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: sends Willie Harper of the Morning Blade from newspaper files
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: to Washington Square and the lower city waterfront, following a
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: trail that leads toward painter Bo Cousins and the name
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  Speaker 1: Cara Nana. From October 18th, 1948, this is Inner Sanctum Mysteries,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: episode 392, Death.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Of a Doll.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Matho wrote the broadcast, with Mason Adams as Harper,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Osborne as Cousins, and Paul McGrath as the Inner
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  Speaker 1: Sanctum host. CBS listeners heard it with Lipton Tea and
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Lipton Soup as sponsor. And now, we return to the
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Good evening, friends. This is your host to welcome you
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  Speaker 3: through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Slither in,
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: won't you?
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  Speaker 2: Hmm? Sorry the place is such a mess.
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: I'll sweep it up later. Those are just chips off
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: the old block. Been doing my bone work.
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, didn't I tell you?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, I'm going back to Skull this time. All cozy now.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to swing along with us for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: After all, this is a newspaper story. If you feel
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  Speaker 3: a little cold as we go on, it's only because
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: we have a story to tell you. Tonight's inner sanctum mystery,
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: Death of a Doll, was written by Fred Matho and
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: stars Mason Adams in the role of Will with.
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  Speaker 2: Ted Osborne as Bo Cousins.
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  Speaker 3: This is the story of Willie Harper and the Devil.
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  Speaker 3: And how Willie, on his first assignment for the morning blade,
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  Speaker 3: finds himself at two in the morning, sweating nervously in
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  Speaker 3: the murky shadows of a riverfront street. Willie has a
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  Speaker 3: gun in his pocket and a doll that belongs to
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  Speaker 3: a dead girl tucked under his arm. A block away,
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  Speaker 3: leaning against the one streetlight, impassive.
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  Speaker 2: Grotesque, ape-like, is the devil waiting for Willie. I keep
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  Speaker 2: saying this is 1948. And I keep saying this is Manhattan.
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  Speaker 4: And I keep saying whether you believe in the devil
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  Speaker 4: or not... You don't meet him till you're dead. But
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  Speaker 4: believe me, that's the devil over there under that lamp.
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  Speaker 4: At three o'clock, he's coming for me. Sure, you've got
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  Speaker 4: a right to think I'm crazy, standing around waiting to
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  Speaker 4: be killed with a doll under my arm. This all
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  Speaker 4: started ten days ago around five in the afternoon at
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  Speaker 4: the city morgue. Grundy, the night editor, sent me there
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  Speaker 4: on my first assignment. The morgue, he says, is a
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  Speaker 4: good place to start for stories.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like you might be in luck soon.
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  Speaker 2: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: Come along with me. What's your name?
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  Speaker 2: Will Harper.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Willie. Come down to the coolers with me. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm very wrong.
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  Speaker 6: I've got a story in there for you. The girl
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  Speaker 6: in locker number seven. She's been here four days.
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  Speaker 5: Tomorrow we close the case on her.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean, Mr. Jackson? It means....
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  Speaker 6: In spite of everything the police have been able to do.
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  Speaker 2: we.
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  Speaker 5: Can't find out her name... where she lived.
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  Speaker 5: Or anyone who knew her.
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  Speaker 2: How was she found?
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  Speaker 5: Tugboat crew fished her at the river. Tomorrow, she goes
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  Speaker 5: to the city.
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  Speaker 6: Burial grounds in a plain box marked Jane Doe.
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  Speaker 2: That's horrible. Just dying and nobody... Do you think she
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  Speaker 2: was murdered?
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  Speaker 6: There's not a mark on her. They say she wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: But I want you to look at her face and
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  Speaker 6: tell me what you think. This is Jane Doe of
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  Speaker 6: number seven, sir. Jane, this is Willie Harper. I want
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  Speaker 6: you to see her face, Willie. Tell me what you
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  Speaker 6: see in it.
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  Speaker 4: A strange emotion shook me. She didn't seem dead to me.
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  Speaker 4: Her skin was perfect ivory. Her hair was fine spun copper.
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  Speaker 4: Her lips twisted slightly. I blushed and turned away, catching
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  Speaker 4: myself imagining what those lips must have looked like with
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  Speaker 4: life's color in them.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson led me back to his office without speaking.
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  Speaker 4: As I lit a shaky cigarette, he fished a brown
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  Speaker 4: paper bag out of his desk.
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  Speaker 2: He handed it to me, tilting it forward as he
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  Speaker 2: did so. What the devil? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And when they pulled her out, she was clutching this
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  Speaker 6: doll close to her. Even the doll hasn't helped trace her.
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  Speaker 6: The police are through with it.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Jackson, you'll think I'm nuts. I suddenly feel sore, boiling mad.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why, but I think she was murdered.
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  Speaker 4: The look on her face.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of ask her help?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Dead girl, nobody wants.
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  Speaker 2: And the doll.
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  Speaker 5: Here's your story, Willie. Too bad you didn't know her before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, thanks. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Take the doll along with.
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  Speaker 4: You. I beat it back to the paper on fire
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  Speaker 4: to do a story about the dead girl and her doll.
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  Speaker 4: As I gave McGrundy my report, he stared at me.
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  Speaker 4: When I got through, he had a sort of twisted
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  Speaker 4: grin on his face, sort of know-it-all. He grunted and
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  Speaker 4: tilted the paper-wrapped doll forward.
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  Speaker 5: Think she was murdered, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. The cops don't think so? No. They're closing her
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  Speaker 2: case tomorrow? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: No clues, facts, or anything outside of this, doll?
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  Speaker 2: None. All right, Hopper.
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  Speaker 6: I'll give you another day to find the nasty character
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  Speaker 6: who did this horrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: Cops have been wrong before. Go ahead. Thanks. I'll get
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  Speaker 2: a story.
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  Speaker 6: Here. Take your dolly along.
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  Speaker 2: And keep falling for the dead ones, Harper.
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  Speaker 5: You're better off.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know why I resented that crack of McGrundy's.
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  Speaker 2: You must have guessed.
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  Speaker 4: Before I did.
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  Speaker 2: That I had fallen in love with the girl in
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  Speaker 2: the morgue. Half hour later, disgusted with my own morbidity...
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  Speaker 2: I went to my room before going out to eat.
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  Speaker 4: slammed the door and tossed the doll onto a chair.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't shake the feeling that the nameless girl in
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  Speaker 4: the morgue had something to say to me. If only
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  Speaker 4: the doll could talk, could tell me about her.
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  Speaker 2: What was she like? Was her voice soft? Was it kind?
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  Speaker 2: Who was cruel to her? Where did she live? Who
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  Speaker 2: killed her doll? Who? Who? I grinned sheepishly at myself
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror.
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  Speaker 4: And with that gesture, this story really begins. The next
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  Speaker 4: few moments remain electrifyingly vivid. I had set the doll
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  Speaker 4: down in the bureau. I didn't touch it. Wasn't even
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  Speaker 4: looking at it when a new sound came from it.
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  Speaker 4: I stared at the crumpled, ridiculous little fool. Almost afraid
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  Speaker 4: to touch it again, but I did.
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  Speaker 2: I had to. I picked it up and tilted it limply.
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  Speaker 4: Caranana.
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  Speaker 2: Caranana. That was what I had heard. A sound. A
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  Speaker 2: sound only.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow I thought it was more than a sound. A name.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a name. A name.
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  Speaker 4: Half because I didn't want to stay alone with the
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  Speaker 4: doll any longer, and half on a hunch. I stuffed
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  Speaker 4: the doll in his bag and went back to the paper.
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  Speaker 4: I went straight to the reference room, filed the doll
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  Speaker 4: under my arm.
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  Speaker 7: What are you looking for?
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  Speaker 4: I want to know if you've got anything in the
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  Speaker 4: files on someone named Karanan, spelled with a K or
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  Speaker 4: a C.
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  Speaker 5: That's funny.
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  Speaker 2: You seem amused. Don't tell me he's around again.
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  Speaker 3: If you've got a lead on Karen.
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  Speaker 2: You've got some stuff. Oh, will you get me the
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  Speaker 2: clips on him?
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  Speaker 7: I'll get you, Myers.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for apologizing for your face shit. He's in there. Anthropology? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Who is he? The devil. Caranana. Of course, an almost
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  Speaker 2: forgotten myth from Asia.
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  Speaker 4: Lucifer on Earth wearing out one body after another, walking
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  Speaker 4: the earth always.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it now from college.
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  Speaker 4: I'd have done the long walk and headed down Fifth Avenue,
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  Speaker 4: my head whirling with a maddening conflict. I think I
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  Speaker 4: would have given up the whole thing then. But always
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  Speaker 4: at the point of going home to bed or of
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  Speaker 4: chucking the blasted doll in a can. The face of
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  Speaker 4: the girl in the morgue blanked out her other thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: When I reached Washington Square, it was dusk. The sidewalk
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  Speaker 4: artists were packing up their canvases.
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  Speaker 2: As I passed them. All but one, that is.
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  Speaker 4: He was a tall, angular man with a completely bald head.
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  Speaker 4: whose four or five paintings had the advantage of a
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  Speaker 4: street light.
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  Speaker 2: The man paid no attention.
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  Speaker 4: To me until at the sight of one painting I
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  Speaker 4: stiffened another shock.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter, friend? The stuff that bad? That one.
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  Speaker 2: The one of the girl. It's... Woman with a doll,
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  Speaker 2: I call it. Like it? Who's the girl? Do you
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  Speaker 2: know her? Tell me!
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, I'm selling oil paintings, friend.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a dating bureau. No, no, no, no. You've
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  Speaker 2: got me wrong. I've got a good reason for asking. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I'll prove it.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Here. Here. Isn't this the doll you fainted with the girl?
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get that? I haven't seen Hazel in a week.
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  Speaker 2: She left for the coast. I gave her that doll
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  Speaker 2: to pose with. What's wrong? Hazel is dead. Dead? Where
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  Speaker 2: is she? If I tell you, will you promise to
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  Speaker 2: say nothing for a while? I'm a reporter for the Blade.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Will Harper.
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  Speaker 7: I won't say anything unless I believe you had something
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  Speaker 7: to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: Where is she? I'll take you to her. She's at
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  Speaker 2: the city morgue.
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  Speaker 4: An hour later, we had come out of the morgue.
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  Speaker 4: Bo Cousins had simply nodded at my questioning look. Seeing
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  Speaker 4: the girl again, knowing her name now, added to the emotions.
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  Speaker 2: I already felt for her. I had a sudden impulse
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  Speaker 2: and handed the artist Hazel's doll. Are you giving me
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  Speaker 2: the doll? No, no, I want it back.
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  Speaker 4: But I want you to tilt it, make it cross.
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  Speaker 2: What did that sound like to you? What did you hear?
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  Speaker 7: The doll said, Caranana.
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  Speaker 2: You heard it, too. Again, say that name again.
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  Speaker 4: What did you hear the doll say?
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  Speaker 2: I distinctly heard it say, Caranana. Then I'm not crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And do you know who Caranana is, Mr. Cudden? I'm
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  Speaker 2: afraid I do.
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  Speaker 6: Oh!
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  Speaker 7: The most fantastic coincidence I ever encountered.
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  Speaker 2: Why? Do you know who Caranana is? The devil. Lucifer. Satan. Twice.
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  Speaker 7: I think we'd better go to my place and talk
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  Speaker 7: this out. Certainly if what I think is true is true.
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  Speaker 7: No one will believe us.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? That Hazel was murdered by Caranana.
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  Speaker 2: I followed.
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  Speaker 4: Bull Crudden silently along the dark streets of the lower city.
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  Speaker 2: His long legs led us finally to a dingy.
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  Speaker 4: Narrow, fish-fowl street where we climbed.
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  Speaker 2: An outside stair to the loft of a warehouse. You're
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  Speaker 2: in love with her, aren't you? An amazing circumstance to
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: be in love with someone you met too late. I
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  Speaker 2: could have loved her, yes.
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  Speaker 7: I met her at a Bowery Mission house. Conceived the
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  Speaker 7: idea of painting her with a doll. Somehow that seemed.
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  Speaker 2: Right to me. Go on.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we worked here for three weeks on the painting.
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  Speaker 2: I paid her enough so that she could go to California.
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  Speaker 2: Dream of hers.
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  Speaker 7: One night as we walked the streets nearby, Caranana appeared.
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  Speaker 2: Caranana? Yes, Caranana.
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  Speaker 7: Or a man who calls himself Caranana.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: The devil or the human form of the devil. However
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: you choose to think. There can't be such a thing.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: The devil is just a myth. Is it? I met
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  Speaker 2: him in Istanbul eight years ago in a cafe. Did
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  Speaker 2: a painting of him. What's he like? Squat, massive man. Ape-like.
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  Speaker 7: As I painted him, he admitted to me such crimes
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  Speaker 7: that I could hardly hold my brush.
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  Speaker 2: Like what?
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  Speaker 7: He made his living as a professional murderer. Very discreetly,
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  Speaker 7: very cleverly, very effectively.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't you turn him in? Really, no.
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  Speaker 7: I liked to think and to live. He was so
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  Speaker 7: pleased with the picture I made and gave him that
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  Speaker 7: he told me any time I needed to rid myself
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  Speaker 7: of some embarrassing person, He'd be around.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky you, but who'd believe that story? We do, Willie.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: And that's the important thing. Do you have any spare cash? Why?
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  Speaker 7: I have about $ 150. If you could make up the difference,
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  Speaker 7: I think we should claim Hazel's body and give the
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  Speaker 7: child a decent burial.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: I fixed it up with Jackson at the morgue.
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  Speaker 4: And at three that afternoon, Bo Cousins and I, plus
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: two grave diggers in Simeon Cemetery, were watching a bright
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: new casket being lowered.
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  Speaker 2: Into a new grave.
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  Speaker 7: Man that is born of a woman hath but a
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  Speaker 7: short time to live and is full of misery. He
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  Speaker 7: cometh up and is.
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  Speaker 2: Cut down like a flower.
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  Speaker 7: He fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth
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  Speaker 7: in one stay.
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  Speaker 2: In the midst of life, we are in death. Thanks, Paul.
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  Speaker 2: I like her too, Willie. Very much. You're a nice guy, Willie.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't you rather go now? No, no. Let's wait till
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: she's covered over. I want to talk to you. I've
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: just gotten an idea. Paul. I know how to make
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: things come out even for Hazel. I know how to
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  Speaker 2: get Caranana.
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  Speaker 7: And I will be very glad to see that you're buried.
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  Speaker 2: Next to Hazel here.
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  Speaker 4: I see things a lot clearer now that Hazel has
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: a name and a past for me. If there is
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: a man named Caranana, as you say, I think he's human,
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  Speaker 4: and that's an even chance.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Caranana isn't the one, and I'll find out. Do
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  Speaker 2: you want to help?
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  Speaker 7: In any way, short of being discreetly disposed of?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Caranana said he'd do a little job for you
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  Speaker 4: whenever you wanted him to, right? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Then you get in touch with him and.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: Sorry, Willie.
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  Speaker 2: My merchant's death is unreachable. He shows up when he
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: wants to. All right, I'll wait.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: But when he does, you've got a murder for him
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 2: I have? Who? Me. That was a week ago.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: An exciting week for me, covering all sorts of stuff
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: in the paper. I'd begun to think Bo Cousins was
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: an imaginative phony. Even my editor, McGrundy, had stopped kidding
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  Speaker 4: me about Hazel's doll perched on my desk. Then this
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: morning at 9.30, I got a call.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Blade. Willie Harper. Greetings and farewell, Willie. This is
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Bo Cousins. Bo. What's up? The devil is in town, Willie.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: He wants to see you. Coronado? Yes. I saw him
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  Speaker 2: last night. He was delighted to help me get rid
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: of you. I see.
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  Speaker 7: I told him you were a reporter who was planning
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: a story about art which tore my work to pieces.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Willie? Changed your mind? No, no, no.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Did he say where? He never lets his.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Clients in on the details.
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  Speaker 2: But he did say I'd be rid of you by
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: three o'clock tomorrow morning. Thanks, Bo. I'll be seeing you.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Quite seriously, Willie. I hope so. Be careful. Remember, bullets
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: don't work on something. So long. By three this morning,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you said.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't know where, exactly when, or even if I
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: could get the drop on the devil and.
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  Speaker 2: Force the truth about Hazel out of him.
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  Speaker 4: I stuffed the doll into a bag and started out,
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  Speaker 4: but McGrundy caught me.
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  Speaker 6: Harper!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Woman shot through the back of the head. Blank solitaire,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: 147 Parkway North.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Husband with her. Run out on him and phone it in. Right.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: When I hit the lobby downstairs, an unaccountable chill got
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: me in the small of the back. Something made me
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: stop short and turn around. It was my first look
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: at Caranana. He was leaning against a phone booth, a heavy, set,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: ill-shaped man whose arms sloped weirdly from his neck into
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: a heavy stomach. He was eyeing me impassively. The game
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: was on, I knew it. I grabbed a cab to
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: get my story just in time. I phoned the stuff
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: in from the cigar store across the street. When I
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: stepped out of the booth, I ran on.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I just bought some cigarettes. He turned to me as
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I froze, waiting.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Some murder across the street, huh?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. How'd you know? I got around. Murder a hobby
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: of yours, mister? No. It's strictly a business. So long.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: That's the kind of thing that went on all day.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: McGrundy kept me on the hop, but no matter where
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I went, Caranana was there ahead of me. This afternoon,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I got to my room long enough to pick up
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: my Luger pistol.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And the license I've got to carry it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He was waiting for me when I came out.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Better put it in your inside coat pocket.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: It shows on your hip. Be seeing you. It's a
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: quarter to three now. Fifteen minutes. And he hasn't moved
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: from under that lamppost in two hours. I'm not waiting.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not waiting another minute. I'm going to meet the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: devil and have it done with. He doesn't move. Will
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a bullet do it? Can I trick him into admitting
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Hazel's murder? Or will he kill me first? Well, here
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I am. Yeah. I see. I see. What can I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: do for you? It's almost three o'clock.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: You know, you're right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Time sure flies.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Well, time for.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Me to get on home, I guess.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: So long, Willie. A fiend's trick. He's deliberately leaving me
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: with only a few minutes to go. I've got to
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: stop this. I can't go through with it. I'll go
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to Bo's place. I'll tell him to call it off.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to die. I don't want to... Bo!
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I was running for your place. That's right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: You might be down this way.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You look scared to death. And you should be, I guess.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I've got to hide, Bo. Let's beat it somewhere. It's
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: almost three. All right. Quick. Cross the street, Willie. There's
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a broken-down pier there. Come on. It's pretty dark here, Willie.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: But we'll stay for a while. You certainly have worked
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: yourself up. Got the doll? You've got the doll? Yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I carried it. Glad you did.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Got a gun with you?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my Luger. Let me have it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: You're too wrought up.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Here.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Good. Now be still a moment. Three o'clock. Yes. Three o'clock, Willie.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Time for us to part. What do you mean?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: You're not a very astute person, are you, Willie?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Why? Maybe Hazel's doll can tell you. You! No! No, Bo,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: this is crazy!
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: The same water that received Hazel is at your back, Willie.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: The time is free, and tomorrow you will be fished
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: out with the doll under your arm.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You're caranana! Quite. Farewell, Willie.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Hazel, poor sweet child, learned the same truth by accident.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You dirty, filthy... Farewell, Willie. And you shall take your...
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Drop him, Cousins!
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Drop him!
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I said drop the kid, Cousins! Drop him! No! No,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I will not!
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: No, no, no!
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Never die! How's the head feel now, Willie? Better, Mr. McGrundy. Thanks,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: much better. My professional pride hurts more. Well, it didn't.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: You followed through like an old timer on that story,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: didn't you, Shea?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, he'll do. How could I have taken you for
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the devil, Inspector Shea? I've been called worse. How did
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: you know where I was going to be and all that?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: How come you were on hand at the end? Well,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I cover the morgue, Willie. When a young guy suddenly
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: decides to claim a nameless corpse, it's.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Time to follow up on it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: You seemed okay. But Cousins turned out to be wanted
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: as a professional killer. So you tagged me to get
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: to him. Sure. He was after you, no doubt about that. Oh,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: there's your doll, Willie. Yeah. Well, I tilt the doll
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and nothing happens. No sound. Must be broke. I guess
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: she doesn't have to speak anymore, Mr. McGurney. I think
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the doll is dead. Hey.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Want to buy a doll? I'll sell it to you,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: but there'll be the devil to pay. Take a tip
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: from Willie Harper. There's no romance at the morgue. You'll
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: find nothing there except cold, hard figures. Sorry I've got
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: to skip along now, but I've got a date.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: With Hazel Dahl.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: She promised to help me in a grave situation.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I've just got to.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Dig up something for next week's show. I think if
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: we work at it long enough, we'll turn something up.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Don't you? Hmm... Good night.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Pleasant dreams.
• 24:43
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• 24:46
  Speaker 6: voice of information and education.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 25:53
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• 25:55
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