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well ass saying hello again to some old France. But here now is from
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October thirteenth, nineteen fifty one, The Strange Elopement of Professor Sloan, Mister
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Moto, mister I Ooh murto. Once again, NBC brings you Pula surprise
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winner John P. Mark One's fabulous and mysterious Mister Moto, International Agent Extraordinary,
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the inscrutable, crafty, and courageous little Oriental whose exploits have endeared him
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to millions of Americans. In another adventure in the world of mystery and international
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intrigue, the night's story concerns the strange elopement of Professor Sloane and stars mister
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Moto. Mister i A Moto. I first learned of the disappearance of Professor
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Sloan from my chief Captain Derisford, when I arrived in Washington. In response
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to his urgent message, here are the facts. Moto. He checked out
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of his laboratory at the Ellmpton Project last Friday evening shortly after six o'clock oose.
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He picked up his car in the parking lots drove away toward town.
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The attendant says he stopped at the corner where his assistant, Miss Martin,
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was waiting for a bus, offered her a lift. She entered the car,
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and they drove off together. And neither one of them has been seen
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since. The Professor Sloane was one of the scientists working on the EAH bomb,
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was he not? Captain Professor Sloane is one of the top experts on
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the wave mechanics of the hydrogen ADAM and he's assistant. She's a former student
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of the professors And well, there has been gossip about him and Miss Martin
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for some time. You see, Sloan's wife is an invalid. However,
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missus Sloane says that there was nothing between him and his assistant. It doesn't
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seem likely that she would have tolerated Helen Martin and her home if there had
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been Miss Martin redicted with the Sloanes. She occupied a room in their house.
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I think it there is considerable difference in age between the professor and miss
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Martin. He is fifty five, she is twenty four. Still May and
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November. It sometimes happens. Yes, the professor's car was that never located
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very much, so it was illegally parked on the street in Charleston, AH.
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My men went over it with a fine tooth comb, but no clues.
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I have the complete dossier on the case here. I suggest you read
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it on the train on your way down there, and then destroy it.
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Yes, sir, we want no publicity as yet. After all, a
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professor may just have well, elope, will this girl? It quite so,
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Captain, But I cannot help thinking it would be a very very strange
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elopement. Indeed, Helenton, South Carolina, is a tiny hamlet on the
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Savannah River, and not counting the military and civilian personnelity h bomb project,
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it has a population of less than a thousand. Professor Sloan's house was a
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pleasant rambling mansion on the outskirts of the village, overlooking the river, and
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the door was opened by a uniformed nurse. Come in, mister Mortow.
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Missus lawn is expecting you now. Thank you right through here on the sun
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port. Yes, she's sitting up in her wheel stairs today. I am
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glad of that. I would not like to ring both myself if she were
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too ill. This whole thing is upset or terrible. Try to make the
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interview just as brief as you can. Of course, Yes, dear mister
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Moto has arrived. Ray if you want me to ah last, Thank Heaven
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they've put you on this case. Mister Moto. Those other men, bunglers,
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all of them, sit down, Sit down, thank you. You
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have a very beautiful place here, missus Loan. I hate it all.
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The view is very fine, but when I think of that lovely river being
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polluted with those horrible death dealing atomic poisons. Did you know it's not safe
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to eat the fish? I understood that was only a rumor. Well,
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I certainly wouldn't risk it. I'm sick enough without exposing myself to radioactivity.
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You see, I had none your last year. Oh but you didn't come
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here to listen to my troubles. What can I do to help? Mister
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Moto? Tell me something about your husband, missus Loan. He's a wonderful
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man, a brilliant man, the kind of man who wants nothing in life
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but to be let alone and do his work. Who is not happy working
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on the h bound project. He hated it. We both hated it all.
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When we were teaching at the university, we were happy. We had
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our little settle of friends on the faculty, and we were free. Since
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he's been working on this horrible project, we've never known a moment's peace.
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Hundred spied upon, not knowing whom to trust, afraid to speak for fear
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our words might be misinterpreted. You do not seem to be afraid to speak
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your mind to me, Missus Sloan. No, mister Moto, because I
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feel sure that as an Oriental, you cannot help feeling a revulsion against the
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thing that maimed so many innocent people. In Japan, patomic weapons are a
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very very ober force, but in the world today they are a very very
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necessary boss. So you're like all the others I might have known. That's
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why you want to find my husband, isn't it so he can be put
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back to work on the business of destroying the world. I think your husband
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wants to be found, Missus Sloan. Why do you say that Whene's car
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was found in Charleston. It was parked in front of a fire plug.
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If he placed it there, he must have wanted to draw attention to it
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as quickly as possible. Ah, but did he park it there? I
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think he did. Then you don't think he ran off with Helen Martin?
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No, not voluntarily. My husband is a very obstinate man, mister Moto.
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I've never known him to do a thing against his will. That is
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a useful thing to know, a pallaver. Nothing strikes me as contradictory in
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this case, missus Sloane. If Helen lived in his house, why was
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she waiting for a bus when the professor rode out of the parking lot.
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Did she not usually ride home with him? Not always. We're not on
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the main highway here. If she was going into town, it would be
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several miles out of the way. Nevertheless, he stopped and picked her up.
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Well, he might have remembered he had an errand in town. Things
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like that often slipped his mind, and he would suddenly remember. So did
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he have an hear in his house? Not for me, If that's what
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you mean. Why do you think your husband disappeared? Your guess is as
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good as mine, mister Moto. I only know that he did not like
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the work that he was doing and had every reason to want to run away
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from it, And miss Martin. My husband is a brilliant man, mister
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Moto, and his work is important to the world. I only have a
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short time to live. He will have to go on when I am no
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longer here. Do I make myself peer? I am so sorry, Missus
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Slawan, so very very Sully. Please, sympathy is the one thing that
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I cannot endure. Ah. Now I must ask you to leave me.
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Are you quite sure there is nothing else you want to tell me, Missus
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Sloan. I have told you everything you see. After all, I am
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a weak, selfish woman. For the little time I have left eyes,
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I would like to have my husband with me. I do want you to
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find him, mister Moto. I believe Hi, Missus Sloan, thank you
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and good day. Good day, mister Moto. Well you did tea did
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short? Thanks mister Moto. Miscoff. What is the nature of Missus Sloan's
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illness? Permucious denia complicated by brandy Ah. I thought I could pick to
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an odor, but you haven't been on one of her good days. She's
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a complete, hopeless alcoholic. I noticed an X ray machine in the room.
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No, no, it's not cancer. The professor uses that for his
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hobby. Hobby he collects diamonds. I think they use X rays to detect
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flaws or something. Very curious hobby for a professor. Oh, they're not
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valuable diamonds, just the industrial type. What is your opinion about the professor's
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disappearance? I don't know. I think he may be suffering from amnesia.
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Why do you think that, Miscott? Well, he's been forgetful lately,
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more so than usual. Huh. Several times I awoke in the night and
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heard the X ray machine hunting. Did missus Sloan mention it? No,
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he'd gone to bed and forgotten to turn it off when I need it to.
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He needs fly in a rage, and I'd left it on. That's
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wasn't like him. He knew he was absent minded and used to joke about
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it. How do you come for miss Martin's disappearance? Understand I'm not making
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any accusations, mister Moto, of course, But Helen Martin stand a year
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in Moscow right after the war as an exchange student. Are you suggesting that
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she may have become in doctrinated while she was there? I know it.
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She was terribly against the professor working on the H bomb project, So is
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his wife, so she tells me what the professor himself not in the same
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way. Helen was very bitter about what she called a lack of free exchange
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of ideas between Russian scientists and ours. What I'm driving at is this,
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mister Motte. If the professor did have an attack of amnesia, Helen might
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have taken advantage of it to get in away from the project. And heaven
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knows what else, mister motto, I'm worried about him, terribly worried.
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I too was worried about the professor's state, but not for precisely the same
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reason as Nurse got. My concern was centered on the professor's curious hobby of
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collecting diamonds and the fact that the diamonds had disappeared along with the professor.
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As I started walking back toward Ellenton, an automobile stop beside me, and
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a young man leaned out, give you a let sir, thank you.
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I would appreciate that, young man. You're you went time working on the
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H bomb project and no just visiting and of professor Sloan. You know the
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professor. I you as assistant Helen mart Oh, you are employed on the
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project, not strictly a local yocle. I run a jewelry store. Ah,
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that interests me. I don't andy Hope diamond. But people do get
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engaged and married, even in elegant. By the way, my name is
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hal Lloyd, named after the comedian in the same name. I am mister
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Bottle. Mister I a muttle, I thought so, and the I asked
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one. Well, when the professor disappeared, I figured they put you on
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the case. How well did you know, miss Martin? She was wearing
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an engagement ring I gave her. You seemed very constant to the professor's absence.
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Is the case of disability where everyone in town knows it? And even
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if they didn't, I don't know it. I mean was wrong when Helen
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left without saying any to me. You see, she had a dinner date
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with me that night. She never showed up for it is surely the jewelry
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didn't. Did Professor Sloan ever discuss his collection of diamonds with you? I
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mean those chips she was using for his experiments, Well, I let those
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to him. Did you see what the niche of the experiment was? Oh,
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I mean to do with fluorescence and photoelectric effect. Was he any more
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specific than that? No, but Helen was. It seems that diamonds have
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the highest mounting point of any substance containing hydrogen atom. Yes, I am
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aware of that. But the type of diamonds he obtained from you contain metal
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impurities. Is he hope to obtain accurate results? He should have used the
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purest diamonds available. Maybe the government didn't want to go to the expense.
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I'm trying to doubt that. Professor Sloan wasn't too well thought of by his
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colleagues on the project. He often complained of being short changed on materials and
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equipment in favor of other workers. And mister Lloyd, what do you think
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happened to Professor Sloan angel fiancee? What I really think? Yes? I
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think he went off as rocker and Helen is tagging along with him wherever he
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went to try and keep him out of trouble. How long have you known
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this Martin? About six months? Did she tell you much about her life
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before she became the professor's assistant? You mean that year she spent in Moscow?
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That doesn't make her a red any more than those planned eyes or yours
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make you a samurai, We'll put you. He had taken mister Lloyd,
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Well, here's our main street? What there is of it? Where can
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I drove him at the bus station? Please leaving? So so I have
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found out what I came here to find. You work there by the way.
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I'm driving to Charleston. If you're going that way, I'd be glad
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to take here. May I ask what takes you to Charleston? Same reason
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you're going there, mister Moto, to look for a missing professor and a
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girl named Helen Martin. If mister Lloyd was a trustworthy person, there was
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no reason not to travel in his company. If he was not, it
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the best to have him where I could see my eye on. I did
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have a part company with him for an hour after we reached Charleston. What
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I learned about mister Lloyd during that hour was very, very interesting. Indeed,
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in the sixth months he had known her in Martin, he had mortgaged
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or sold what this thing he owned and borrowed onto level and uncitatous for a
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mount of cash, totally nearly three quarters of a million dollars. He had
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used the money to buy diamonds not the kind of diamonds usually sowed an engagement
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ring, but effective so called yellow diamond. When I emerged from the telegraph
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office with this information, mister Lloyd was kitting in his car in front of
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it. I've been looking all over for you. You do not seem you
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have had much difficulty in finding me. Mister Dyke, I thought you'd probably
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be sending some wires to check up on me. Hell, you are very
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very astute, mister Leyle wait till I tell you. I think I've got
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a lead. Ah, So you have checked on the fishing boats, have
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you right? A man and a girl, supposedly father and daughter, charted
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a boat last Saturday morning. They went ashore a cat k and while a
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skipper was having a drink, they charted another boat and sail off from me.
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I'd like to talk with that skip on, mister Night. What's the
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matter, mister Morrow, you trust me? Thank you? I do not.
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I meant what I said. I was not surprised, however, to
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find that his account of the skipper's story checked in every particular. Obviously,
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he was as anxious as eye to locate possessorsloan, though for what motive I
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was still not certain. He had already started a small plane to histen the
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search, and at one p m. We took off a catcake. From
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there we started the tortuous trail from island to island until the trail ended at
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Porto Plans, at a hotel called the Excelsior. The proprietor, a Romanian
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gentleman named Setti Eminescue, was very very affable, but not very very helpful.
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They're staying one night only in separate room, nice quiet people. Then
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they're telling me that they've taken a house. They settled bill and go away,
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no forwarding address. So they were here, mister Morrow and mister Lemsque,
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you are quite sure they were a man and woman in this potcrass?
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Yes? And no? How can I say? The man in the picture
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has a beard, the woman is more plunder than this, And excuse me
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more fix here? If I squint my eyes, I say yes. If
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I do not deceive myself, I say no. She is what we call
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in my country a dall. And they said they were taking a house on
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this island, darling, How should I know if they are remaining here?
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They are not walking the streets, or say, would have seen them?
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Surely you must know what houses are available, Darling, what are you wanting
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with this cup? It is not I who want them, mister Lemnesque,
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it is the United States government. Yeah, mister Morrow is a secret agent.
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If you know what's good for you, you better talk, mister Lloyd.
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Then you are a secret agent. While you don't say so, Darling,
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why did you lie to me before, mister Mnescu darln honeymoon, honey
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of birds, Daddy, they are not wishing a disturbance from visitor. And
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see talking about the professor and the young lady. I'm eloping secretly by reading
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that the professor's wife is not yet dead. I was reluctant to believe it.
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But when we arrived at the Seaside cottage to which Effie had directed us,
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we were admitted by a bronze, vigorous looking middle aged man whom the
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parents had altered so readially that even mister Lloyd did not at first recognize him.
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Well, Lloyd, I can't honestly say I'm glad you've found us,
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But since you have, I hope there won't be any ill feeling. Where's
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Helen in the patio? Come along, She'll certainly be surprised to see you,
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Helen, their way are visitors now. Now, don't be ungracious,
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my dear Helen, this gentleman is I'm afraid I forgot the name, Sir
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a Moto. Mister I a motive, yes, my dear, he's a
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federal agent. But no matter, we have nothing to conceal from him.
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I am so very very happy you hear that Professor Sloan. In that case,
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you will surely oblige me by telling me the whole story. Well,
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I'm pretty inarticulate when it comes to this sort of thing, Helen, perhaps
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you had better. It's quite simple, mister Moto. It's Addeus and I
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have been in love with each other for a long time, but because of
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Missus Sloane's illness, and there were other reasons too. Please be specific,
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miss Martin. Well, I imagine you know how it is with faculty members
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of a small college, even a breath of scandal. Lest I am quite
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aware of that. Well, Missus Sloane had been told she didn't have much
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longer to live, and had made it quite clear that her only concerns for
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the Professor's future happiness. Since we wouldn't be hurting anyone. They didn't seem
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to be any reason. I mean, didn't you realize that the Professor's unexplained
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disappearance from a secret government project of her first importance was dangers us both to
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you and to the security of your country. But help you don't have the
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your next or do not make any unnecessary movement. I did not expect you
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quite so soon, mister Emery. Why do you think safe gave you the
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address? Darling? It is a small island. You would have found them
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anyway, But this way I have you all together. I want you.
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One false movement, I will shoot to kill that goes even for you.
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Professor? Who are you? What do you want of us? We only
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want you profess already. Others we will have to bury at sea. It's
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a joke. It's all some kind of a crazy joke. Yes, not
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a very funny joke, but a joke, Miss Martin. You will see
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how fafee jokes. Mister Motto, you won't get away with, Darling.
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Do not waste any more time. The carriage waiting in front of the house.
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Now ship sails with the tire ship. Where are you taking the book?
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Arrest Darling? It is a filthy city, but we are most kind
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to scientists. A private will also yourselves with indoor plumbing. Now, please
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to come forward one time and walk out of this door, and do not
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forget darlings. Once out of the door, there is not one but four
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guns on you. The gentlemen in the car are well armed. You first
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profit, mister Motor. You had better do as he says. Put this
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up very well, now, mister Moto. As I emerged from the patio,
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I saw that Deffi's threat was far from idol. Parked at the door
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of the house was a car containing foremen, each with a carbine train directly
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on a screen. They got out of the car, and while two stood
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god, the other two carefully searched us for weapons. Before the search was
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complete, I heard a gun fired behind me. The wounded man who stumbled
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up the house door was steady im as he did. I believe he is,
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mister Lloyd. Let me look at him. I want to make sure.
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Yeah, yeah, I fixed him. Arena you all right? Yes,
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my dear Yanna sure took off in a hurry, didn't I yes,
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I was quite surprised. I wonder why, for the same reason that mister
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MNEs could preferred to bury the rest of us at sea rather than kill us
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on the spot. They did not wish to become involved with the island police
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or by the wains Lloyd, how did you manage it? I had a
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twenty five caliber of barber strapped to my leg with adhesive tape. Indeed,
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a wise precaution. Where are we going from here, mister Mono? I
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think we had better get the professor aboard a plane and back to the States
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as quickly as possible. Next time we may not be so lucky with your
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systems for local government. We obtained special plane in a matter of minutes,
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and in less than three hours we were back in Ellend and South Carolina.
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When we arrived at the professor's house, both missus Sloane and the nurse had
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retired for the night. The professor too, was looking as though he needs
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the mess. I do not think we should disturb my wife. She has
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probably been given a sedative, and Heaven knows she needs all the sleep she
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can get. Mister Moto, I don't know how we can ever thank you.
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On the contrary, you have mister Lloyd to thank for everything, and
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they accompliment you on your quick thinking, mister Lloyd. Coming from you,
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that's a real compliment, mister Monol. However, I should like to know
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what you abstracted from Feffy's pocket when you leaned over him in your anxiety to
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make sure he was dead. Okay, you caught me here. They are
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honest, Hellan, I wouldn't have known he had the diamonds if one of
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them had nam rolled out of his pocket when he faust. I would like
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to believe you, mister Lloyd, if only to clear Professor Slowe. But
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I don't understand these diamonds. I was using them experimentally. How did that
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fellow get hold of them? We better tell him everything? Hell I guess
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you're right. You see, mister Moto, the professor was experimenting with the
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diamonds in order to study the behavior of hydro carbon at very high temperatures.
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And when mister Lloyd learned that a side effect of the atomic radiation was to
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turn cheap yellow diamonds into high quality blue diamonds, he was very, very
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interested. How did you know that I know that radium will destroy the impurities
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in diamonds. When I learned that you had invested heavily in yellow diamonds.
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Mister Lloyd, I suspected that you might have learned another method of making expensive
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diamonds out of cheap ones through Miss Martin's knowledge of the professor's experiments with diamonds
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under atomic radiation. Helen had nothing to do with all this, mister Morty.
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You've got to believe that I do not know what to believe, mister
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Lloyd. Okay, if that's the way you feel about it, try to
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prove that those diamonds are the ones I've bought. Just try it. Mister
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Lloyd was, of course quite right. I could prove nothing. I accepted
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the professors in the to stay the night and retired the guest room, but
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I could not sleep. The puzzle of the professor's strange elopement was still not
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solved to my satisfaction, and I was still unable to form a link between
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that and the mystery of the diamonds. As I lay awake, struggling with
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the problem, I became aware of curious honey noise rising through the floor from
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the room directly beneath me. I put on a robe and tiptoed down the
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stairs. Half Way down, I observed the figure of a young woman moving
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about the sun porch. She had rolled an X ray machine over against the
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wall. I was standing directly behind her before she was aware of my presence.
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Mister Motto, you surtled me. That is not surprising, MISSGUSSI I
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woke up and heard a humming sound. The X ray machine must be out
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of order. You would only have to unplug it from the electric outlet if
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that were the case. Miscuff, Oh, yes, because I must be
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had to sleep. I never thought you had been thinking very busily, miss
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Guff, but unfortunately in the wrong manner. What do you mean? First,
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let us stop this machine? There? You see how idiot is Miscuff.
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I am not going to waste any words with you. You have your
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choice. Missus Sloane will probably die either you stand trial for her murder or
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you take your chances with another charge. What do you want to do?
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How much do you now? You are employed of a nurse in this house.
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When Missus Sloane was ill of pneumonia, something happened that made it convenient
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to you that she remain ill. You achieved that by training X rays through
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this wall to her bed in the next room. The effect of those rays
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was to make her a chronic invalid, suffering from punishing anemia. Why would
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I want to do a thing, I said, because of her diamonds.
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The professor never thought of the manner cherry significance of what he was doing.
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When he got a certain reading under X rays, he recorded it and forgot
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about the diamond They weren't valuable as lawing. On the contrary, they had
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become very valuable, so valuable that mister Lloyd could not put them on the
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market without exciting suspicion. You finally contacted a group of international criminals who agreed
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to market the diamonds for you, but for a price or christ That price
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was to deliver Professor Sloan behind the iron curtain. But mister Lloyd was not
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a traitor. He told Miss Martin the whole story. She decided on our
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own that it was necessary for the professor to disappear for a while. Since
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the Professor was attracted to Miss Martin, it wasn't hard for her to talk
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him into an elopement. It might all be true, she said, I
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have a choice, Yes, Miss Guff, would you rather be hanged for
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murder or treason? That's not much of a choice, mister motto. No,
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but at an eminent Japanese sage once said, he who has a choice
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has trouble. You have just heard the world's greatest sacred agent, Mister I
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a Moto in the strange elopement of Professor Sloan. James Monks has starred as
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mister Moto. The script was written by Robert Tolman and directed by Arthur Hannah.
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Mister Moto is produced by Doris Quinlan for Carol Irwin. Members of the
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cast were Julie Stevens, Laurada Freebus, Mason Adams, Bill Smith, Frank
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Silvera, and Jane Gillespie. The music I was transcribed and this is Ray
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Barrett speaking, And now here with a preview of next week's story is mister
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I a Moto. Next week a story of intrigue involving a band of smugglers,
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a faithless wife, and a very potent cocktail in the case of the
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Dragon Martini. And now may the sevignity of an October evening brings sleep to
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your waking eyes, and there you away upon a fragrance of nice blooming jasmine,
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in the tranquility of a summer Garden reflected in the still Pool of Untroubled
31:23
Dreams. Good Night, The Night's program came to you from our NBC studios
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in Radio City, New York. Raymonland and Joan Fontaine star on their gil
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tomorrow on NBC Welcome Back Well. I love motos jab at the end,
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clearly disgusted with the treacherous person. A definite return to form because I was
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thinking, after the strong method and the crooked log, we were kind of
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getting away from the the whole thing that made Moto distinct, But definitely a
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return. The one thing that I noticed in this episode that I really found
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humorous is mister Moto is a secret agent and everybody seems to know it,
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so it's not much of a secret. Now we are about to announce our
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planned news shows for our fifth season coming up. I should mention that during
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this listener support campaign, we will actually a presenting the John J. Malone
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Store starting on September the third. Those will carry us into the next season.
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But samit emailed me to ask about missing shows or how many episodes of
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Mister Moto we had, and Sam Wright's thanks. I find it heartbreaking to
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realize that when I saw a radio station throwing away thousands of records of OTR
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shows when I was a kid. That missing gyms, like the missing shows
33:24
from this and other series could have been tucked away in that collection as it
33:28
went into the landfill. The probability of new shows emerging today are pretty much
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wishful thinking. I subscribe to many old time radio podcasts and find yours to
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be the most informed of you clearly take time with the project and enjoy what
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you are doing. I'm hardened to see you making new media projects and generating
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revenue with them. Well, thanks so much, sam Well. I do
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want to say that there are some shows that are emerging lost episodes and those
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will actually be included in our in our program is when we get into the
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announcements. But I definitely feel, I definitely feel you that it is a
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you know, it is a sad situation that there are so many episodes that
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have been lost and so a few of them are really cared for by producers.
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What we have today is the result really of grassroots fans efforts to preserve
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these programs, and there are some that I think that are in collections.
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But we will get onto that in a moment. All right, we have
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some additional listener comments, but I do want to just go ahead and list
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off the programs we will be bringing you next year. Now, as I
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mentioned, we'll be playing the Mister Malone series for the first part. It'll
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basically start this season and go into next season. Then the series that we
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will run will include Mister Chameleon, the Case Book of Gregory Hood, the
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Man from Homicide and Homicide. Okay, and then I'm going to do something
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I have not done the entire series yet, and we're going to repeat a
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series. This will be followed by Pat Novak for Hire. Now. The
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reason I'm repeating Pat Novak for Hire, Now, there are two reasons I
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do this. On one hand, we've had a lot of listener requests to
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repeat. That's not the main reason. The big reason though, is I've
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always been fascinated by how the original listeners of Dragnet that Pat Novak for Hire
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and Dragnet actually overlap. There were a number of weeks where you would have
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Jack Webb Plane Pat Novac, you know, who was constantly battling with rupton
36:10
incompetent police force, and then also in the same week you could hear Jack
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Webb Plane, Joe Friday on UH and I find that just such an interesting
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juxtaposition. So we're gonna have that juxtaposition of drag Net and Pat Novac for
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Hire for four weeks, and then Pat Novac for Hire will be followed by
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Johnny Dollar the Lost Episodes. The situation is that we've come across some episodes
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of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, that were not available when we played some
36:49
of the previous Dollars. Now, usually I would if it were the same
36:57
actors, I would just go ahead and play the shows. However, in
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this case, these were actors prior to Bob Bailey. I don't want to
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wait till after we finished the Bailey shows, which will be four years away.
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So we're going to do these programs. We have three episodes where we
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just have never played them before. Plus we'll have one episode which we only
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had as a rehearsal, but we'll be able to bring you the network version,
37:30
which will be a much nicer one. So for four weeks we'll have
37:35
Johnny Dollar the Lost Episodes. And we're also waiting till after we finished the
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three days a week with the Johnny Dollar serials because that would be too much
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of a good thing. Then we'll have Easy Money, which is one of
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my favorite series, and then the very last week of the season will begin
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Crime in Peter Chambers, a very solid lineup. I hope you'll be lessen
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all right. Some listener questions about other series. Rebecca ask do you ever
38:07
get any Perry Mason shows? The answers no, Perry Mason shows during the
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Golden Age of radio were serialized in soap opera fashion, and basically there's no
38:21
complete case story arc available, so we'll not be able to do Perry Mason.
38:28
And Robert asked, can you not get the Shadow shows? The answer
38:34
to that one is also a negative. Most of the Shadow wouldn't fit into
38:39
the overall theme of the great detectors of old time radio really more horror and
38:47
adventuring. But more than that, that tends to be one where there's a
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copyright claim by the owners of the Shadow. I'm dubious about that, and
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I don't believe it is particularly valid, just because old time radio shows were
39:10
never a part of copyright protection. In other countries such as the UK and
39:15
Australia, it's basically part of their law that broadcast prior to a certain date.
39:22
Nineteen fifty seven in England and nineteen sixty nine in Australia are not covered
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under copyright, but there's more ambiguity for people to wiggle with, and I,
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you know, I do my best to stay ahead of that, which
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you know, was one reason why I did not include any William Johnstone episodes
39:46
of The Shadow as part of the the app extras, because I want to
39:52
be sure that we're able to keep this show, you know, not you
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know, running into difficulty or going dealing with lawsuits or with the issues around
40:07
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, rather just bringing you some the best quality shows
40:14
we can. And then we have Doug who says, just found your podcast.
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Love it got to catch up? Well, thanks so much, Doug.
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A lot of people have tried and several have been able to catch up,
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and thanks so much for commenting. All right, well, that will
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do it for today, and I think we'll have a shorter after show since
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we don't have nearly as many new programs to announce, but join us back
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here tomorrow. We'll have some new Wednesday programs to talk about, and we'll
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also continue on with the Bennett matter. In the meantime, Senor comments to
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is your host, Adam Graham signing off.