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Nick Carter: The Case of the Imitation Robbery (EP1416) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, it's time for another adventure with the greatest of all manhunters.
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We have thirteen lost episodes between last week's episodes and this week's, so quite
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a few. The original air date on this one is December twenty second,
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nineteen forty six, and the title is the Case of the Imitation Robbery.
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And I'll warn you in advance there are a few skips. You don't miss
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any plot, but there's really a bad clipped ending at the end of the
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episode. But with that said, let's go ahead and take a listen.
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Every week at this time, two great names are joined. All Dutch Cleanser
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brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction,
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Nick Carter, Master Detective, ending that imitation diamond in the crook's pocket is
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certainly proof that he was in on the robbery. Certainly would be, Patsy
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if I had found it there. But you must have. I saw you
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take it out of his pocket. You did. I was trying to start
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something. Oh, I don't understand you at all in this case. Nick,
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You're doing the craziest things and not getting anywhere. Ah, that's where
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you're wrong, Patsy. I expect to catch the robbers before I go to
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bed tonight. And that's a promise. Now, the case of the Imitation
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Robbery, Today's exciting adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by All Dutch
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Cleanser. As our story opens, Nick and Patsy are in the jewelry shop
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off Nelson Stroud talking to the proprietor. It was late fall and there's a
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hint of snow in the afternoon air that Uiller's protective Association tells me. You
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reported that you're being systematically robbed, Missus Stroud. It must have been going
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on for weeks, mister Cutter. So many of my best unset stones have
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been stolen. And it wasn't from hold ups, mister Stroud hould ups.
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No, it a lot slicker than that, you see. It's like this
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day before, yesterday Saturday, I happened to see an imitation diamond in the
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tree with a dozen or so real diamonds. So I became suspicious. You
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say you just happened to spot the corny stone. Yes, So yesterday Sunday
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I came down to the store and checked through all the trays and I found
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twenty nine paste stones mixed in with the real ones. Ah, how much
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for the twenty nine diamonds that are missing be worth? Missus Stroud had a
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rough estimate in the neighborhood of sixty five thousand dollars. And you think somebody
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brought twenty nine imitation gems in here and walked out with twenty nine real ones.
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I know it. How it could happened. None of your clerks spotted
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the fakes. These fake stones are too good, mister Cutter. That's the
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trouble. Here. Look at this one I make that looks genuine to me.
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Yes, his an excellent job, I must admit. Close inspection would
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have course revealed them at once. But about all the clerks do as a
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rule is to run their eye rapidly over the tray after serving a customer and
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check the number of stones before putting them away. But do you have any
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ideas how this substitution might have taken place? I don't think I know.
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Some crook or gang of crooks has come in here time at the time asking
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to see our unset stones and palm the real ones, leaving the fakes in
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the tray. But that would have taken weeks, mister started. Couldn't be
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done too often, and even then the criminal would be taking a long chance
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of not being recognized. But it must have been done that way, or
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not necessarily. Now it looks to me is if the crook or crooks had
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inside helping this non And so all three of my clerks, the fine men
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with good references, that remains to be seen. Show me what you have
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here in the store in the way of burglar alarms. Of course, you
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see there are counters on each of the three sides of the store. Each
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counter has an alarm buzzer under it, operated by pressing a button with your
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foot. Then the vault where the unset stones are kept has a special alarm
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on it. Well, how is that operated, missus Stroud? Well,
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if the dial that works the combinations turned back to ten first, it automatically
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rings an alarm. They're all connected direct the police headquarters and the Protective Association.
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The unset diamonds are kept in that ford. Yes, he'll show you
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there. You see, this vault is filled with little trays only about an
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inch high. Each tray is numbered to identify the different grades of stone.
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Oh, going, there must be a hundred trees in there. That's the
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pown, Misus Stroud. I think I have a plan that'll test the reaction
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of your clerks. More afternon's you'd be a good time. I'll let you
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know definitely the exact hour, because i'll need your cooperation. Of course,
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mister Cutter, what are you planning to do a little unconventional? But it's
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been done before. Now here's the plan About four o'clock. I'll send this
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though, and Nick says he's ready for the test. So would you please
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disconnect the burglar alarm system. You're sure this is necessary, miss Born.
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You're interested in having these fats stopped as soon as you can, aren't you?
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Of course, very well. I will make the necessary arrangements. How
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long before Misscott will be here? From what he said, he should be
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along any minute now. Something I can do for you, sir, Oh
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God, put your hands on the connor, all three of you, and
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keeping there. But this is a stick up, oh monkey business. Hands
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on the connor. Are you with the black hair? And quick? That's
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better? Nah? You too? Get her on the other side of the
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store with goldilocks. Shut up, Go and keep your trap shut all right,
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you are the guys. Get about Goldie, I said, and walk
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slow and nobody looking in will think there's anything wrong. Okay, noah,
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you bally me. Yeah, you open up that vault. I can't.
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I don't know the combination. Open up vault, I said the last time.
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When you open up? All right? All right? Yeah? All
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out all those trays so I can get at him. Wait a minute,
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Balie, don't be picking up just a tray with the cheap stones. I
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want them all all right, Okay, that's enough. You can put them
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back now, all must shroud well, miss Cutter, I hope you learned
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something. Yes, all three of your clerks passed with high marks. Missus
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Stroud. Baldy here turned the vault dial the wrong way, which had set
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off the alarm. The other two stepped on their alarm buzzers. I watched
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their feet. Then if the alarm has been connected, there would have been
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three separate alarms lung and a headquarter. Is Nick right? Passy? Oh?
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By the way, mister Stroud, you better connect the alarm system again
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dust in case, mister Seahan, what's been going on here? I don't
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get it. So this is mister Nick Carter, the Jeweler's protective Association.
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He just wanted to be sure you boys were on your toes in case of
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real trouble. You threw now, Miss Carter all through. Thanks, Then
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let's get back to my office. You can put the trays back. Boys.
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It all seems very silly to me, mister Cutter. Did you really
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learn anything from that little stunt? I did. Who's the young fellow with
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the blond hair. That's my nephew, Bill Evlin. And the middle aged
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man with a bald head, and let's uhor Ryan been here for six years,
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don good clerk, And who's the good looking chap with the black hair
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slicked down? So neatly check the name of Robert Hill. He's new here,
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but as far as I know, he's absolutely okay. I called the
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firm he's been with and they gave him excellent references. Maybe so, but
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he instinctively reached for a gun and a shoulder hoster when I first drew my
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guns. Nothing against him yet, of course, but I'd keep an eye
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on him. Onybe hed they having a job or he needed protection, make
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entirely possible, Patsy, I wouldn't want to say until I knew more about
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him. You said yesterday you thought this was an inside job. Must cut
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her. Well, I think now that you're wrong. What do you mean
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now? I'll show you here. I found this under the silverware account of
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this morning. That's so wow. Why is it? Nick? What a
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chewing gum, Patsy. And there's a diamond inside it. I'm in a
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hunk of chewing gum. Yes, it's an old game. Cook comes in
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palms an unset stone when the clerk's not looking, sticks to stone for the
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unders side of the counter. In the chewing gum. Then a few days
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later he comes in and scrapes the gum off and walks out. That way,
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if the stones missed when he steals it, he can submit to a
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search and there's nothing on him. And I bet that's how all twenty nine
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of my stones disappeared. It's possible, Missus Stroud, but I doubt it.
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I still think it's an inside job. And I'll tell you what rumble
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Max, Uncle Max, you said to let you know if anybody had seen
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before came in to look at unset stone. That's right, idea. Why
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well, there's a man out there now who's been in at least twice before.
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Ryan's waiting on him. Anyway, you can get a look at him
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from in here. That's Drout. Yes, I have a secret panel here
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that lets me watch the store without being seen. All right here? You
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mean that tall, thin man in the brown suits devil him? Yeah,
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yuh, that's a one I think, mister Strout. I'll have a talk
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with that gentleman. I'll be careful, Mistercutter. I don't want a lawsuit
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on my hand. Well, Morgan to sit in diamonds, Nick Carter,
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mind stepping into the office a minute, Morgan, like to have a word
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with you. W you mind your own business, Carter on mine in mind,
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like to help you mind yours. It won't take but a minute,
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and I think you better do as I suggest. Okay, cover there's any
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funny business. I'm telling David Morgan right in here. I don't know what
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right you've got to drag me in here like this. A lot of diamonds
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have been taken out of this store lately without being paid for. You've been
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in here several times to look at unstepped stones. So I just want to
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see if any of those stones have stucked your fingers. Wouldn't be the first
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time. Well, you cheat, We simply can't. We can in this
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case, Morgan's long record at headquarters makes me very suspicious. All right,
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stand still, Morgan. Well, I see what you're having your pocket.
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I'll sue you for this. I'll sue the store too. See if I
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a what's this huh here in your vest part? So he is I never
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saw that before? I swear, Well, you confess to him that before.
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Look there's something wrong. I tell you, yes, something is.
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Let me see that stone. Hmm, certainly here you are. I thought,
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so it's a fake. Sure, of course, I'm sure, and
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I still say I never saw that thing before. But it don't make no
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difference. Now. See, you can't arrest a man for him with an
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imitation diamond in his pocket. Oh, Margan, you're quite right, you
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can. You can go now. I'm going fast enough, but I ain't
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through with this. I'm gonna sue this poor You'll hear from my lawyer later.
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But you can't let him go like this genuine imitation. He's at the
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bottom of this. Yes, I think you're right, Missus Stroud. So
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why did you let him go? Here? Finding that imitation diamond in his
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pocket is proof, isn't it? Well, yes, it would be if
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i'd found it there. What I mean you didn't. No, I put
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it there and I pretended to find it the fake stone, Missus Stroud showed
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me yesterday. I hope you know what you're doing, mister Cotter, this
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is all great to me. Yes, Nick, What in Heaven's name are
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you doing? Playing games? Why? Patsy, you know me better than
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that. By the way, mister Stroud, didn't you tell me none of
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your clerks knew of these debts? That's right? I left the fake stones
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in the trees where I found them. And if you were so sure this
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wasn't an inside job, why didn't you want the clerks to know about the
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laws? Well, you see, well, it was really only when I
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found that wad of chewing gum under the counter that I finally decided it was
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an outside job. I see, well that, Kate. I believe I'll
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search your clerks before they go home tonight. What may turn up something?
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What time your clothes five thirty, five thirty hours or five o'clock now?
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Rather so, I guess I'll wait if you don't mind. I don't like
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it, but I guess you'll do it anyway. Go ahead, wait if
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you want to better, take your overcoat off and that's pretty warm in year,
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Thanks Patsy. I'll do that. Might as well be comfortable as I
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can while we're waiting. I ought to be throwing the store by now.
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I told them to come in here when they were ready to go home.
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I can wait. I you still say this is the craziest way to find
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out, No, I did, gentlemen. A number of on set diamonds
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have been stolen from the store recently. The crowd says, you're all okay,
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but that's as matter of routine. I'd like to search each of you
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before you leave tonight. Any objections, all right, Devlin, I'll take
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you first. You're clean, now, you hill nothing on you? All
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right? Ryan? Your neck right? You can go now, thank you?
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All right? Nick, was the least exhibition ever seen. You give
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why those men could have a dozen stones concealed neck cloth? He never have
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found them? The girl right, that was no such at all, And
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you didn't really think one of them would be fool enough to try to walk
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out of here tonight of all nights, with a diamond hidden on him.
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Perhaps I was looking for something else, something else. Did you find it?
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I won't know the later, Patsy. I'll go and see that everything
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locked up for the night, if you'll excuse me. I got the names
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and addresses of those clerks before I go. Oh, where did I put
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my pencil? Had it earlier this afternoon? In your overcoat pockets? Now?
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Maybe I have a look anyway, Well, Nick, you're looking in
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the wrong coat. That's Missus Stroud's coat. Yeah, so I've just discovered
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and look here diamonds too, beautiful diamonds yes, and these aren't ponies,
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they're the real things. Coat, yes, Betsy too, genuine unset diamonds
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and Missus Droud's overcoat pocket. Now back to the case of the imitation robbery,
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to day's exciting adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by all Dutch
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cleanser. It's a few minutes after Nick found the two real diamonds in the
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overcoat pockets mister Stroud the jeweler, and Stroud has just returned to his office
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and is locking up the store for the night. Anything else, mister cut
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him? Hey, f yes, just one more thing, Missus Stroud.
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Will you give me the addresses of your three clerks here? They are on
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that phone list? Oh yes, copy them down for me, will you,
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Patsy? And will you let me look in your vault once more before
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we go? Missus Stroud? I you suppose so, but I'd like to
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get home sometime to night. You would like to stop the robberies too,
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wouldn't you? Naturally? I think where you are going at it? I
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can't see you are now what I'm going to pull out certain of these drawers
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if on set stones? Yes, this, these two, this and these
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do now missus Stroud, will you tell me please whether or not there are
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any phony stones and any of the drawers I have not pulled out? Let
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me see. I know you've pulled out every tray that has a fake stone
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in it. How did you know? I have a good memory, Missus
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Stroud. You can close the vault now ready to go? Nick, Yes,
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Passy all said, how could you tell which trees had the phonies in
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the mister Catter? Those seven trays are the ones Ryan pulled out first when
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I pretended to rob the plate, and that shows he's a good man.
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Wanted to get rid of the bad stones and keep the good ones if you
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could. That's really clever. Now look, I don't want to hurry you,
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mister Carter, but I'd like to get my dinner. If you need
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me, you can reach me at Deal's restaurant. I eat there every night.
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That is, unless you'd care to join me. No thanks, Missus
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Stroud. I have something else to do right now. I'm on Passy all
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right with you? Nick? After you, Mamzelle, Oh mercy, monsieur
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expect any results in the near future, mister cut Her, I do the
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very near future, I hope, so well, good night, good night.
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Get in touch with me when you have anything. Definitely, good night.
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It certainly doesn't sound very optimistic me and I can't say I blame him
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much. The way you've been acting today, it isn't like unique. This
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case isn't like any other either, Patsy. It's always a good idea to
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fit your methods to what you're trying to do. Well, good night,
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I'll see you in the morning. You're not going back to the office,
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No, indeed, I expect to finish up this case this evening. I
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have something else I want to do tomorrow. There's a bucket of mine.
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He's the darkest hole. She just put a dog on light switch at you,
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Morgan. She gave me a scare. For a minute, I thought
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you were a cop. Oh you're getting scared at last day. Yeah,
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it's about time and trying to tell you we can't keep this up forever.
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But no, you knew it all. Now. Look where we are you
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doing here? Why did you come here to my apartment? I came here
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from my share eyes. I'm through washed up after what happened and strouded off
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of the day. I ain't sticked. Did happen that copper. Nick Carter
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searched me, still what He didn't find anything, did he? That's the
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beauty the way we got this rankeet fixed. They can search any time they
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like and find nothing. You know so much, Ryan Carter did find something.
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He found a fake diamond in my best pocket. You wlondering for why
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the devil did you have one? I don't have it. Carter planted it
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on me. I was praying, framed why? I don't know. I
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do know he wouldn't have framed me if he wasn't onny me now and I'll
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be washed like a hawk. So I'm leaving town on the first train.
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Now. Anybody follow you here? And not a chance a bloodhound couldn't have
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trailed me the way I came here. And I climbed up the fire escape
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in the back, and I got in through the kitchen window. And I
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ain't had a light in here either, in case somebody might be watching from
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the next door roof. Maybe I hope you're right more, don't worry.
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You're in the clear, but I ain't see. So I'm getting out of
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here soon as I get my half of the stuff you find up in my
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dark. Sure I can find it all right with the lights off, but
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a dozen detectives couldn't find it with the lights on. In the base of
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this lamp, right, yeah, very cleverly concealed in a hollow special wall
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they packed in cotton. Suse you can shake this thing. Come on,
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never mind the lecture. Let's have the stone. I gotta get him first,
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don't I an? I ain't kind them. Let me see there ought
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to be twenty eight of them, twenty nine we got away with when we
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left in the gun for a phony clue. I have to some like to
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see how we're divide him. I'll get a plank to watch some light.
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I'll get it. How's it, n Carter? Do you let my gun
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scare you? If life pretty, I won't have to use it. But
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if you get rough, so do I? Okay, Carter? What do
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you want? So a dozen detectives couldn't find the diamonds that boli, I
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thought you haven't hidden away pretty well. So I've been waiting in the bedroom
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until you found them for me. You mean you mean you was here?
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One argon you passed, then two feet of me when you came in.
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I should have known you was here. I don't doubt it. Oh boys,
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that was a very interesting conversation I heard you two having. You can
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put it in writing later when we go down and see Sergeant Mathieson, you'll
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be very happy to right. Didn't want to shoot you guys if I didn't
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have to, And it looks as if I didn't have to homicide Sarger Madison.
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Hi, Marry, Nick got a couple of crooks for you. You
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want them for a Christmas present? Sure? I want to tell me more,
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Santa Claus, tell me more. All right, send a squad car
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up to one seven five three North Garvan Street, And now we return to
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Nick Carter. As we pick up our story, we find Nick and Patty
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at headquarters. In Matty's office, Missus Stroud, the jeweler, has come
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down to identify the stolen gems. You're sure these are the diamond stolen from
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your store, mister Stroud, as near as I can identify unset stones,
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I'm sure. But there are only twenty eight here. Twenty nine were stolen.
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You forget the one you found in the wad of chewing gum. Of
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course with Cutter, I didn't think he did. Those two men confess chargeant
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yeap get everything down in black and white. Now Nick knocked all the fight
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out of him. I seemed to have been all wrong in my opinion of
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your ability, Miss Cutter. I apologize. I thought you were just pulling
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around today. I almost thought that myself, But knowing Nick, I should
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have had more faith in me. Look, Nick, don't fool around without
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He's got some idea in mind. But you have to admit, mister Carter,
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you would have been stuck if this accomplice of Ryan, this Morgan fella
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hadn't come into the store while you were there. So that was a help,
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certainly, But I could have got along without him. How do you
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suppose I happened to be in Ryan's flat in the first place? What I
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suppose you drailed him there? All wrong with the drought. I beat him
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there. I was waiting for him when he got there. But how could
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you do that? Nick? You ain't told me the whole story. Now
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take hold up. Told me all about that perk Ryan. We'll go on,
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Nick, give out no secret. Rick. I told you that Ryan
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started pulling out certain trays of diamonds from the vault before I made him pull
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them all out. Uh huh. Later, when I pulled out those same
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seven trades. Mister Stroud, you told me those were the trays that contained
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all the thorny stone. Yes, that's right. I told you that he
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was trying to be sure that if any diamonds were stolen, it would be
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the fake one. But you forget, at that time none of the clerks
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were supposed to know there were any fake stones, so he could only know
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where they were if he himself had put them there. Of course, Nick,
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it's so simple when you tell it. His real idea was to get
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rid of the thorny stones before they were discovered, if possible. But it
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couldn't have been Ryan. You searched him and found nothing, missus Stroud.
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You really wouldn't expect him to walk out of there with a diamond on him
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when he knew he might be searched any time, would you. No,
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No, he was too clever for that. Well, for the love of
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Pete, who did take them out of the store. It couldn't have been
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Morgan, could it. That would have been just as dangerous. Quite right,
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Maddy, Quite right. Neither of them carried them out. Huh,
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mister Stroud took the stones out for them. Now look here, carter if
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you're insinuine, easy, mister Stroud, I'm not saying you knew you were
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taking them out. Now, Here's what happened. Morgan came in the store
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every few days, always being sure Ryan was free to wait on him.
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He gave Ryan the pony stone. Ryan substituted them for the genuine ones.
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Then put the real stones and your overcoat pocket. Want make you mean those
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stones you found at the shacknoon will put there by Ryan? Exactly that?
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What why missus Strout had dinner in that restaurant he said he went to every
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night. He hung his overcoat on a hook, and Morgan, an expert
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pickpocket, picked the stones out of his overcoat pocket. In that way,
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neither Morgan nor Ryan had the stones on them at a time when they might
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be searched. H the wondering ever felt them in my pocket while I was
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on my way to the restaurant. You wear heavy gloves, don't you,
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Yes, And you put them on as soon as you leave the store,
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don't you. I do, well, see, practically no risk. Diamonds
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aren't very big in an overcoat pocket. You know well, I'll be dog
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gone. Oh, by the way, mister Brown, here are two diamonds
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that I found in your overcoat pocket this afternoon while I was waiting in your
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office. Morgan must have been the prize when he stretched your pocket for him
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tonight and didn't find them. Thanks, mister Carter, you seem to have
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taken care of everything. If Morgan hadn't waited to try to get those diamonds
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on you as you left to night, I might not have been able to
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beat him to Ryan's room, but he did and I did. Oh there's
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one more thing, Nick, you said when you held up the store that
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Ryan turned the doll on the vaut the wrong way so as to set off
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the alarm. Why should you do that if you really wanted the fake stone
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stolen, actually had nothing to lose. He knew the other two men had
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already pressed the foot buzzers and sounded the alarm that way, and it was
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safe for him to do it the way he ought to, and Kate,
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either of the other clerks, was watching him. Oh, I gotta admit
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it, Nick, You're own wonder. I suppose your planning the fake stone
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on Morgan like you did, so as to put him on his guard and
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start him worry. That's the answer may awful. And then I was saying,
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you remember when thieves fall out, honest men? Get that, genter.
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Yeah, well, these two thieves decided to fall out when they saw
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what was us and mister Stroud, an honest man, gets his diamonds back,
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which is as it should be. Quite a tale, Nick, what
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happened to Ryan and Morgan? They were brought to trial, Bob and sentenced
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to spend many long years behind bars. And believe me, they'll be a
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lot older than they are now when they get out. I'm glad to hear
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it. But what about the cleric who reached for his gun during the stake
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hold up? Did you ever find out about him? Oh? Yes,
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yes, it seems that he used to be in the state police out west
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when he was younger. Really very simple when you know the answer is fast,
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he says, Now, what can you tell us about the adventure that
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old x Clinch is going to bring his next week? A ib's the story
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of what happened, welcome back. We have to keep in mind that there
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were thirteen weeks between programs. Less we think that's the whole idea of Nick
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being called in as a propective organization is overused, and this is actually an
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interesting case in that it gives Nick a chance to really play the magician detective,
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and it's an interesting function. And it's one way, particularly when you're
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dealing with a very clever detective that keep so much of their thought processes hidden
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and it's all inexplicable and mysterious what they're doing, and whailaw, they have
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been the truly clever ones in capturing the criminals. You definitely had to use
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your imagination to follow this. It's kind of curious. Matty Mallet Mathison got
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called in and of course you know he answers the phone homicide. Of course
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there's nobody and no homicide. But this episode aired right before Christmas, and
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some of these detective shows, not all of them certainly, but many in
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episodes leading up to Chris or right around that time of year, is off
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on murders to have the detective soft cases such as thefts and robberies, and
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certainly that's the case here, and it is something that does recur with Nick
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Carter quite a bit, though there was no mention of Christmas, though that
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may have been in the lost portion of the episode. And by the way,
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for those who'd like to know. The episodes we missed include the Case
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of the Disguised Identity, the Case of the Studious Professor, the Case of
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the Asphyxiated Cat, the Case of the Supervised Robberies, the Case of the
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Reformed Redhead, the Case of the Mutilated Matchbook, the Case of the Insufficient
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Bank Account, the Case of the Stock Exchange Murder, the Case of the
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Extra Confessions, the Case of the Emerald Murders, the Case of the Restless
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Saint, the Case of the Persian Dagger, the Case of the Avenging Dead.
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So quite a few. This is one of the oddities about Nick Carter.
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With most radio programs, the major era for lost episodes of the show
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is during World War Two a lot of episodes that are missing, and then
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after the war tend to have more in circulation. With Nick Carter seems to
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be almost the opposite, although in nineteen forty eight it looks like we'll have
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quite a few available in a row, but no year as many as from
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nineteen forty three and forty four, which is definitely as I said an audity
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about this series, but between August twenty fifth of nineteen forty six and January
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nineteenth of nineteen forty seven, only two episodes are in circulation. Of the
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next three episodes will all be in order, which is a nice thing.
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