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The Silver Frame [episode 736], Broadcast 2/2/1958 · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Suspense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
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  Speaker 1: the master of mystery and adventure, William and Robeson.
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  Speaker 2: Almost every malefactor starts yelling, I was framed as soon
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  Speaker 2: as the law puts the arm on him, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they have been. Nobody will ever know how many inmates
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  Speaker 2: of State's prisons are there because of circumstantial evidence of
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  Speaker 2: such a one as our story concerned. Listen, listen then,
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  Speaker 2: as Charles McGrath stars in the Silver Frame, which begins
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  Speaker 2: in exactly one minute.
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  Speaker 3: Another visit with Joe and Daphney Foresight.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Henny, Uh huh, Joe Darling, put down the paper.
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  Speaker 4: I've got something important to ask.
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  Speaker 5: You, Okay, Joe, all right, all right?
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  Speaker 4: What how many savings bongs do we have?
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  Speaker 6: What kind of a question is that a good one?
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  Speaker 7: How many?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure I'd have to count, and I'm reading
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  Speaker 6: the paper, And what do you want to know?
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  Speaker 5: For?
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  Speaker 4: Have we got enough to make things comfortable for us?
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  Speaker 6: Very comfortable? That's why buying a payroll savings plan upon
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  Speaker 6: a month will give us quite an mistake for the.
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  Speaker 4: Future, enough for a college education eventually.
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  Speaker 5: But who's gone to college?
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  Speaker 4: Our children.
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  Speaker 5: Silly, we don't have any yet.
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  Speaker 6: Ah what do you mean, Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Better buy some more bonds.
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  Speaker 5: Honey, Taphaney, You mean we've.
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  Speaker 4: Got a new investment.
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  Speaker 5: How about that? And now.
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  Speaker 1: The Silver Frame starring Charles McGraw, A tale well calculated
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  Speaker 1: to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 5: They checked me out with a ten dollars bill in
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  Speaker 5: the twenty two to fifty suit that the taxpayers give
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  Speaker 5: you when you leave. I took a quick look back
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  Speaker 5: at the place where i'd left you and a half
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  Speaker 5: years of my life in a cell just because a
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  Speaker 5: southern California district attorney had to have a pigeon in
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  Speaker 5: a hurry once had too bad enough to frame a
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  Speaker 5: guy and get a conviction his favorite way, circumstantial evidence.
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  Speaker 5: I started walking, just walking, with no walls or iron
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  Speaker 5: bars or guys we sawt off shotguns to stop me,
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  Speaker 5: and somebody yelled, asked me it was a reporter, A
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  Speaker 5: little rat named Melvin Wester would crucify his own mother
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  Speaker 5: to get a headline. I kept on walking. See see,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, I got nothing to say to you
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  Speaker 5: or the primey rag. You worked for the morons that
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  Speaker 5: read it.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Cante the bygones, be bygones.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just a guy working for a living.
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  Speaker 3: Beat it all right, all right, So you.
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  Speaker 5: Got nothing to say to me?
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  Speaker 8: So what do you say to one thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 5: What about a thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 8: So you say you were framed? How'd you like to
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  Speaker 8: get even with who? The district attorney? All those wise
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  Speaker 8: guys down there in La how'd you like to frame
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  Speaker 8: them for a change?
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  Speaker 5: Glad? I get a grand.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let you buy me a drink, first bell
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  Speaker 5: of booze. More than two years? Okay, what's the pitch, Melvin?
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  Speaker 8: Well, There's been quite a lot of cases like yours lately,
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  Speaker 8: circumstantial evidence, the DA looking for quick convictions and building
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  Speaker 8: themself up for the election.
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  Speaker 5: You know, yeah, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 8: So my publishers tangled with the DA a couple of
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  Speaker 8: times already. So we want to lower the boom on him.
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  Speaker 8: That's where you come in.
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  Speaker 5: How like this? There's a dame See what dame? Well,
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  Speaker 5: that's all arranged. You pay your a little social visit.
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  Speaker 8: See you cut yourself a little with a putcher knife
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  Speaker 8: or something, and there's blood.
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  Speaker 7: She screams.
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  Speaker 5: You beat it? But you'll leave your hat and your
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  Speaker 5: driver's license. I don't have one, so we'll.
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  Speaker 8: Get you one. The neighbors the scream, they see your
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  Speaker 8: car driving out the driveway, they call the cops. Now
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  Speaker 8: the cops don't find the body, of course, but they find.
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  Speaker 5: Blood in your car. Yeah. Gone.
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  Speaker 8: They pinch you, and you tell a straight story. The
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  Speaker 8: blood is an accident. Then you had a quarrel and
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  Speaker 8: she started to yell and you left. But they don't
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  Speaker 8: believe you. They book you on suspicion of murder, and
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  Speaker 8: we play it up. Big cops picking on x Khan.
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  Speaker 8: You know that angle. You sweat it out and.
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  Speaker 7: You clam up.
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  Speaker 5: What happens to the dame?
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  Speaker 8: Two days later, the Dame comes back from Bob Springs
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  Speaker 8: and we splash it all over the front page. Her story,
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  Speaker 8: your story, circumstantial evidence. Again, we bring up all the
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  Speaker 8: other cases. We just keep right after him, and that
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  Speaker 8: DA don't even dare show his face on the street.
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  Speaker 5: He's dead. Finished.
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  Speaker 8: Well, how do you like it?
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  Speaker 5: I like it? Okay, kid, you're in? Well what about
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  Speaker 5: the dome?
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  Speaker 8: Half now?
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  Speaker 5: Half when we spring it? Okay, A thousand bucks and
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  Speaker 5: the DA thrown in Okay, Leicester, paid my way down
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  Speaker 5: to LA bought me a new outfit and a hat
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  Speaker 5: with my monogram and the Sweatband, rented me a car
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  Speaker 5: and checked me into a hotel. While I was soaking
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  Speaker 5: in the tub, he went over to his boss office,
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  Speaker 5: the big shot publisher L. B Rosson, brought back five
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  Speaker 5: bills and the dame's name and address. It turned out
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  Speaker 5: to be a beach house at Malibu. This was the
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  Speaker 5: first surprise. I sort of expected it to be some
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  Speaker 5: third rate downtown hotel, but the big surprise came in the.
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  Speaker 7: Front door open, mister Gates.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, are you miss miss Fox? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Won't you come in?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks?
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  Speaker 7: It's the matter, mister Gates. You look a little startled,
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  Speaker 7: maybe I am.
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  Speaker 5: Why, well, I hadn't expected you to be so so
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  Speaker 5: what attractive is a polite word for it?
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  Speaker 7: I guess Why aren't you used to meeting attractive women,
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  Speaker 7: mister Gates?
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  Speaker 5: Not where I've been for the past few years.
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  Speaker 7: Oh? Oh, of course i'd forgotten. Can I make you
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  Speaker 7: a drink?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Facts, Why is it you always expect that anyone who
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  Speaker 7: has been in prison will be lantern jawed and have
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  Speaker 7: a scar on his face or something to tell you
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  Speaker 7: the truth. I'm a little startled myself.
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  Speaker 5: Quite a layout you have here.
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  Speaker 7: It is nice, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Right over the ocean?
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  Speaker 7: Uh huh? Look here at this window. You know, from
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  Speaker 7: this window and the tide is in, you can actually
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  Speaker 7: dive into thirty feet of water. I've done it that.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to see, would you?
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  Speaker 7: By the way, what's your.
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  Speaker 5: First name, Steve? What's yours?
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  Speaker 7: Silver?
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  Speaker 5: Silver? Ah? I get it, silver fox kill.
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  Speaker 7: It's my real name too. One of Dad's ideas you as.
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  Speaker 5: A character, I'll bet, and I'm another el what come on?
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  Speaker 5: Come on? What's this all about? What's the angle?
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  Speaker 7: But and they tell you, oh sure, sure they told.
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  Speaker 5: Me, But they didn't tell me anything about a day.
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  Speaker 5: I'm living in a fifty thousand dollars beach house with
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  Speaker 5: a half a grand of clothes on her back.
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  Speaker 7: Steve, if you're hurting my arm.
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  Speaker 5: Talk, I'm doing this job for a lousy grand about
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  Speaker 5: what your kind would spend on a weekend in Las Vegas, Gon.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, you're not in this for dough. You're in
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  Speaker 5: it for something else, and I'm going to find out
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  Speaker 5: what it is when you will.
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  Speaker 7: You were hurting me, well.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't have to bite clear through my hand, did you. Well?
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, now you won't have to lie about our having
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  Speaker 7: a quarrel, will you. Oh it's bleeding here, I'll get something.
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  Speaker 5: Never mind that, Just talk all.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Steve? I am doing it for the money.
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  Speaker 5: Really, what about all this?
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  Speaker 7: The house is rented for only a month and the
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  Speaker 7: clothes go back to Western costume. Oh, Steve, you.
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  Speaker 5: You hurt me. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: You know what my father used to say when I
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  Speaker 7: was a little.
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  Speaker 5: Girl, a character, Uh huh.
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  Speaker 7: He'd say, I'll kiss it and make it. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 7: like this, like this.
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  Speaker 5: It must have been a couple of hours later when
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  Speaker 5: we heard the car that was supposed to pick her
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  Speaker 5: up blowing its horn down the road, and I let
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  Speaker 5: her out the front way as quietly as I could,
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  Speaker 5: and went back to finish up the rest of the job.
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  Speaker 5: I knocked over a couple of chairs and shoved the
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  Speaker 5: furniture around some to make it look as though she'd
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  Speaker 5: put up a good fight. And I threw my new
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  Speaker 5: hat with the initials in the band over in the corner,
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  Speaker 5: and dropped the bloody handkerchief that I'd wrapped my hand
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  Speaker 5: in on the kitchen floor. About an hour after that,
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  Speaker 5: I was back to the hotel. I corked off as
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  Speaker 5: soon as I hit the sack hel Hello, Hello, excuse me,
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  Speaker 5: I must have the wrong number. Oh what number do
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  Speaker 5: you want? Excuse me? It was already dawned, so I
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  Speaker 5: got up a little later. I know it's going to
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  Speaker 5: have a pretty busy day, and besides, I'd ordered all
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  Speaker 5: the morning papers and I wanted to read about myself.
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  Speaker 5: When I opened the door to get him, there was
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  Speaker 5: a little guy standing out there. Oh excuse me, I'm
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  Speaker 5: so sorry, Not sorry, excuse me. I looked after him
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  Speaker 5: for a second because his voice sounded exactly like the
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  Speaker 5: one who had wakened me on the phone. So what
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  Speaker 5: I went back to bed to the papers. Sure enough,
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  Speaker 5: there it was, right on the front page, how a
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  Speaker 5: young woman tentatively identified as miss silver Fox had been
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  Speaker 5: murdered in a swank Malibu beach house, and how the
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  Speaker 5: police expected and arrest momentarily, and how the remains, charred
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  Speaker 5: almost beyond recognition, had been found in the incinerator. That's
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  Speaker 5: what it said, right there, in black type, they'd found
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  Speaker 5: her body. I was still lying there, shaking and looking
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  Speaker 5: at the ceiling when the da came for me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Gates, Let's go downtown and.
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  Speaker 5: Talk it open.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, we continue with the second act of.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense. What constitutes a symbol of heroism when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to one of our best known military medals, the Purple Heart.
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  Speaker 5: The symbol is a purple enameled heart within a bronze border.
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  Speaker 5: Superimposed is a profile of George Washington in his uniform
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  Speaker 5: of general in the Continental Army. Above is his coat
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  Speaker 5: of arms between two sprays of leaves in green enamel.
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  Speaker 5: The ribbon is purple with white edges. The Purple Heart
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  Speaker 5: was the first American military decoration and was created as
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  Speaker 5: the badge for military merit on August seventh, seventeen eighty two,
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  Speaker 5: in an order from Washington's headquarters at Newburgh, New York.
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  Speaker 5: Only three were awarded for action during the Revolutionary War,
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  Speaker 5: and none after that time until the Order of the
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  Speaker 5: Purple Heart was reinstituted on the two hundredth anniversary of
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  Speaker 5: George Washington's birthday February twenty second, nineteen thirty two. The
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  Speaker 5: Purple Heart is awarded to individuals wounded in action against
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  Speaker 5: an enemy of the United States or as a direct
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  Speaker 5: result of an enemy act. The Blood often the lives
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  Speaker 5: of many brave servicemen, backgrounds The Purple Heart, a proud
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  Speaker 5: tradition of service and sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: And naw starring Charles McGraw, Act two of The Silver Frame.
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  Speaker 3: Why why did you kill her?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't you was in love with there, wasn't he? No,
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  Speaker 5: you just got out of kull, you went to see
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  Speaker 5: you found out you had double crossed you. See you
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  Speaker 5: killed her? Come on, come on, there'll be a sad talk.
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  Speaker 9: He's right, Steve, Why don't you make a full statement.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe they were extenuating circumstances. Maybe we can make a deal.
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  Speaker 5: I've talked, told you, I've told you the whole story.
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  Speaker 3: I've been framed. Sure, you're always framed. What about the blood?
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  Speaker 5: What about your hat?
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  Speaker 3: What about the body?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know anything about a body. The blood's where
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  Speaker 5: she bit me.
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  Speaker 3: You admit you had a fight.
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  Speaker 5: With her, Sure, but what about love? Look, what's the
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  Speaker 5: use of putting me through this routine? Call a paper
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  Speaker 5: like I told you and talk to mister Rawson.
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  Speaker 3: I've got news for you, Steve.
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  Speaker 5: We did.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, he says, it's the most cut guided story he
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  Speaker 9: ever heard in his life.
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  Speaker 3: In short. He says, you're a liar.
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  Speaker 5: Look he's covering. He's scared, all right, Then get ahold
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  Speaker 5: of Malvin Leicester. He's a rat. But he can't be
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  Speaker 5: raight enough to letting this man go to the gas
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  Speaker 5: chamber just because his boss tells him to.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid we can't get a hold of Lester.
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: He's in the morgue.
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  Speaker 5: Who killed him?
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  Speaker 3: That's a worry.
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  Speaker 5: It shouldn't worry me a bit. Huh, Steve, be smart.
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  Speaker 3: Do what I tell you.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe we can reduce it to second degree. I can
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  Speaker 9: almost promise you the worst you'll get his life. Oh thanks,
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  Speaker 9: but I'm warning you if you make us go to
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  Speaker 9: trial on a first degree murder indict but I'll send
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  Speaker 9: you to the gas chamber just as sure it. Okay, Oh, okay,
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  Speaker 9: I'll talk now you're using your head. Yeah, here's a statement,
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  Speaker 9: all made out, just a general confession.
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  Speaker 5: You understand.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get the details later. All you have to do
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  Speaker 3: is sign.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to sign anything you wrote.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, write your own statement.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to write anything.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you want?
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  Speaker 5: You? Just love it? Take me out there to her place.
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  Speaker 5: I'll go through the whole thing for it, just the
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  Speaker 5: way it happened, every word, every move. You can have
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  Speaker 5: a sonographer take it down and then I'll sign it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
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  Speaker 5: It's a deal, then it's a deal. It was dark
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  Speaker 5: when we got out to the beach. I was taking
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  Speaker 5: a long, crazy, desperate chance, and I knew it if
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  Speaker 5: it didn't work well the spot I was in, it
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't make much difference anyway. And then we were inside
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  Speaker 5: of the house and they were all standing around and
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  Speaker 5: I was in the center of the stage.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, Steve, do your stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we had a few drinks and well I hadn't
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  Speaker 5: been the same room with a woman for two and
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  Speaker 5: a half years, and I well, anyway, she fought me off,
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  Speaker 5: and that's when she bit me. It that happened here,
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  Speaker 5: we were standing right here.
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  Speaker 3: Then what happened?
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  Speaker 5: Well, she broke away and ran across the room and
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  Speaker 5: to about where you were standing, only back a little further. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: about there, And what did you do? She bit me?
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  Speaker 5: It hurt. I was startled. I backed up a couple
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  Speaker 5: of steps toward the window until I was standing about here.
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  Speaker 3: Then what did you do?
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  Speaker 5: Then?
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  Speaker 3: I jumped.
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  Speaker 1: In just a moment. We continue with the third act.
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  Speaker 3: Of suspense another What is it with Joe and Daphne?
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  Speaker 5: Forsyde?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Daphne, the slides are all set. Turn off the
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  Speaker 6: lights there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh Joe, isn't that pretty? Where was that?
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  Speaker 6: That was veil pass on the Grand Divide? Remember how
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  Speaker 6: hard the wind blew?
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  Speaker 4: I certainly do. And it was cold too. Next time
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  Speaker 4: we go on a vacation, let's get an earliest start.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we saved money by waiting until fall. Remember this one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Sure that Zion National Park.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was lovely.
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  Speaker 6: We sure had a lot of fun on that trip.
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  Speaker 6: Was worth the money.
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  Speaker 4: It was a good investment, all right, almost as good
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  Speaker 4: as savings bond.
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  Speaker 5: There you go again.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just can't get over how good a bargain
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  Speaker 4: they are. We women like bargains, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I know, I know that.
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  Speaker 6: And four dollars back for every three investors is a
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  Speaker 6: pretty good bargain, right.
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Was that where I've had the bear?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Yosemite.
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  Speaker 6: We were lucky the bears weren't already in hibernation.
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  Speaker 4: How do they live when they hibernate?
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  Speaker 6: Un fat They store up during the warm months.
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  Speaker 4: Just like say Anything's bonds, huh, where you buy a
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  Speaker 4: saving bond a month, right, Yeah, And it's a great
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  Speaker 4: way to save the way those bonds rack up interest
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  Speaker 4: right right, So we're just like the bears. We're stirring
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  Speaker 4: up fat for our future use at interest rates that
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  Speaker 4: give us four dollars at maturity for every three invested.
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  Speaker 6: A very interesting idea.
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  Speaker 4: You can learn a lot from nature.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just imagine smoking the bears selling savings bonds.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Joe show the slides and.
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  Speaker 1: Now starring Charles McGraw, Act three of the Silver Frame.
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  Speaker 5: One thing I can do is swim, brother. I did
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  Speaker 5: some plain and fancy swimming that night, even with my
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  Speaker 5: clothes on. I must have made thirty yards underwater before
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  Speaker 5: I had to come up for air. I could see
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  Speaker 5: them running around with flashlights on the beach, but out
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  Speaker 5: where I was it was dark as a pocket. There
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  Speaker 5: were only five of them. They couldn't cover the whole beach.
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  Speaker 5: I made for a little rocky point about one hundred
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  Speaker 5: yards north and pulled myself out of the water. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: could see the flashlights all huddle together down by the house,
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  Speaker 5: and I started crawling up the embankment to the road.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: At the top, I stopped for a second or two listening,
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  Speaker 5: and then poked my head over the edge and right
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: into the face of the little man i'd seen that
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: morning in my hotel. I grabbed him hard. Please don't
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: sound and I'll kill him. I won't. I want to
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  Speaker 5: help you.
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  Speaker 2: That that's why i'm here.
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  Speaker 3: You got a car, of course, right here, right by
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  Speaker 3: the side of the road.
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  Speaker 5: Then head for it. I'll be right behind you. One
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: funny move and I'll break your neck and immune.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, follow me.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Here's the car, you see.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll get in hurry.
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: Oh boy, you sure let me some wild goose chase today,
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: Up down, down, down, out to the beach, and then
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: you jump out the window into the ocean. Oh boy,
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: I should.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Earn my money today from who pays you your money?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: What the person I work for, who's d well, someone
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: who's interested in your welfare?
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Come on, come on, what's behind all this?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Please, mister Gates.
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: If you'll just be patient a little longer, I promise
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: you that while I'm digging.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: You, you'll get all the answers.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: After climbing up through the Malibu Mountains for a quarter
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: of an hour, we turned into a big iron gate
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: and drove through about three acres of a state. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: had a hunch whose place it was, and the house
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: made the hunch look even better, big and impressive and
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: strictly top bracket. Milton rang the bell, but when the
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: door opened, my hunch blew higher than a kite, because
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: standing there was the girl I was supposed to have
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: murdered Silver Fox.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Steve.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: He escaped out of the beach house here.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: Don't be easily, darling. We've got to let him in now.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: I kind of thought i'd find you here, mister Rawson.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: It is mister Rawson, the eminent publisher, isn't it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: I don't know who you are.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about. Uh uh, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: think you do.
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: We better kill him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Now, mister Rawson.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: That's the best thing to do. That's why I brought
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: him here.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: You put away that gun, Milton, and stop acting childish.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: All right now, just for openers, who's Milton.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Let's say he's my brother, all right.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Let's ah, you're very foolish not to let me kill
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: him now.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: He's a very dangerous man.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Please please don't talk about things like that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: Well, Steve. It looks as though we'll have to come
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: to some sort of an arrangement.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: You want to tell me about it?
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Yes, you see, Charlie, that is mister Rawson. But he's
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: been very good to me for the last year or.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: So, and the house was rendered in the clothes. Go
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: back to Western custom.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: You don't expect a girl to tell a man everything
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: the first.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Time she meets him, do you okay, So he's been
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: very good to you.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Yes, In fact, he even ensured my life and made
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: my brother Milton the beneficiary for how much? Three hundred
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: thousand dollars Gates.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: I swear to you I knew nothing about this. The
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: proposition that Leicester put to you was absolutely genuine. Well
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: maybe it was to start with, But mister Rawson, I
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: think I could make a pretty accurate guess as to
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: who suggested the little stunt of framing the da It
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: was silver, wasn't it, Yes, it was, I thought. So.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: She's a very smart girl this one. By the way,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: what happened to your reporter, Malvin Lester? Who can trust
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: a man like Leicster? Something had to happen to and
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: the girl and the incinerator.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It's just a.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Girl a friend of mine, and nobody really So.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: You kids collect the insurance and I hold the bag.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Is that the way you want it, mister Rawson?
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: No, No, I had no idea Silver would do a
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: thing like this.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: How long do you think an old goat like you
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: was gonna hold a doll like this? When once she
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: gets her hands on heavy door, I think we can
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: settle this, mister Rawson. Of course, there's been a couple
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: of murders before we can get the cops off her.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Next they're gonna want somebody to pay for them. If
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: it's money you do, no can do, not a murder rap.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: They want to victim a patsy. I don't understand. Why
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: not Melton here he actually did the killings?
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Why all right? I want you tootsy?
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Thanks? Baby? You really have got everything, haven't you? Even
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: your own gun? Well?
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: A girl and he's protection sometimes.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Well, there's our patsy.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: Get the money s to you. Milton's got it on him.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: You got it that quick.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Big newspaper men have ways of arranging these things.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Three hundred thousand bucks cash.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: It's pretty, isn't it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Steve, Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I've been thinking about something.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: So have you?
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: And me.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: What about your sugar daddy here?
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Oh he couldn't say anything. You wouldn't dare.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, silver baby, how could you?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: We've got the dough. Yeah it could work.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Oh I know it would, Darling.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Okay, but you'd better give me that gun of yours.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: All right, Steve, Thanks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: But what are you doing getting some law to clean
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: this up? Give me the DA he'll talk to me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Tell him it's Steve Gates Farley. Well, I've solved your
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: case for you. You'd better come out here. Eleven twenty
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: four Blana Canyon, No, No, No, two of them, A
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: little stiff named Milton and a dame named silver Fox.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I got drunk the night she went to the gas chamber,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: but I couldn't get drunk enough. I heard all the
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: reports in the radio, and you know the funny thing.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Right up to the last minute, she was still saying
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: she'd been framed.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Suspense in which Charles McGraw starred in William N. Robeson's
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: production of The Silver Frame by William Spear, supporting mister
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: McGraw in the Silver Frame or Tracy Roberts, Jerome thor Chester, Stratton,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: John Hoyt, Dawes Butler, and Jack Crouchin listen. Listen again
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: next week when we returned with Herbert Marshall in The
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Long Shot. Another tale, well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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