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Let George Do It: The Dead of Night (EP0893) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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This one is called the Debt of not Prison, not as Thanks,
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just my stock and trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle,
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adventure of George Valentine. Oh okay, okay, okay, Hello, mister
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Valentine. Oh, thank heaven, Thank heaven. I punch you in well
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at four o'clock in the morning. The chances are always I must see your
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trophice in an hour. Please please hollait a minute, not so fast.
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Who are you running, Franks Summers. You don't know me, but I've
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heard about you, and I must see your drafts tomorrow morning. Late for
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it. It's a matter of life or death. Me and June were driving
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in from the beach and we just stopped by the phone. We're look,
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we haven't met anybody. Police, I mean police. If you've ever helped
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anybody in your life as a Valentine, you've got to help us. You
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gotta give me some idea what this is all about. Her? I will
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I will waking up someone in the dead of night police matter, life of
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death, the dead of night. Give you a right, oh George Valentine,
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fire horse, run the alarm and offer goes hello, Whether thou goest?
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I goest? Oh George. That was calling an old friend, maybe
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in the office in an hour, bos old friend. It was horrible,
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A boys on the phone. It was horrible. Oh please do you this?
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There's no time to go to piece. It certainly isn't I did I
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hear you say? Your name is missus Milburn. That's right? And h
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mister Summers. Here a friend, a good friend in me. I see
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how's the coffee coming, Brooksy? I think we can all use something here.
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We are a good can you stope from the beginning, Joe. But
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it was about midnight. I'd just fallen asleep in the phone. Man,
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it was a man someone I don't know the voice. Do you remember anything
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about it? No? It was just well dead sounding, no emotions,
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no variations, just phoned on in the night. And that's what was that.
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He said, your husband is dead, Missus Milburn, and you're going
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to dip for his murder. You have no way out, You can do
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nothing to stop it. Just that. Yes, I first June thought it
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was some sort of weird joke. Yes, that's right. I'm separated from
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mister Milburn. But I know he has no enemies. Nobody would want to
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hurt him. I wonder if such a man exists anyway. I sat there
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alone in the house, just the waves crashing outside. I got more and
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more frightened, so I telephoned mister Milburn's house. It's also a beach house,
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some ten miles down the coast, and there was no answer. It
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could have been out. Oh Bert hardly ever, stays out late during the
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week. He liked to get up early. I got more and more panickly,
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so I called Frank and I saw how upset you and was. So
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I said I'd stop buying mister Milburn's place in check, and did you.
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By the time I passed there, I saw a couple of police cars in
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front of the house, and some men were taking pictures. I knew the
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voice on the phone meant what he said, so he went right past and
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up to missus Milburn. Yes, have you well an alibi for this evening?
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Missus milburne alibi when the police determined the time of your husband's death.
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I'm afraid they'll want to know where you were. Then, well, I
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was alone. It's the maid's vacation, and it's a pretty deserted stretch of
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the beach this time of the year. Many of the houses are already boarded
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up. People don't usually have convenient alibis. That's true. Well, just
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what did you want me to do, mister Summers. Is there any chance
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of tracing that call to missus milburn If we could only know who called?
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He himself is probably the murderers. Raising a call like that would be impossible.
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During the evening, I called several people from my house. Would that
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help? The police would say, you could have called from your husband's place.
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You mean after I killed? I didn't? Can I didn't, Mister
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Valentine, find out from the police what really happened and find a man who
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called We have no place else to go for help. Well, now,
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if I get into this, Missus Milburne, I'll have to pass on to
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the police whatever I find, no matter whom it hurts. Until I get
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a chance to talk to Lieutenant Johnson. That's about all we can do.
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There's interest in Milbourne's murder. Valentine, here, you're sure it's what you
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call it? Academic lights. Johnson, the tone of your voice cuts me
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to the quick. You'll heal. I saw the story in the morning paper,
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and it sounded real fascinating. Which part of it? Oh? Well?
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The setting, oh, deserted stretch of beach, all rolling in from
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the ocean, violence, stalking to coin the phrase in the dead of nine,
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a man's as dead at noon as he is at midnight? Or is
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that when the corners at the time of death? No, no ten o'clock.
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Somebody shot in Melbourne four times. Two bullets went into him, one
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launched in the wall, and the fourth smister death clock stopped at one minute
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at ten. The Ducks says, that's about all right. The murder weapon
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found you now under the oceans, handy, it may never be fun.
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You will find missus Milburn, though, won't you? How'd you know that
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she wasn't? Oh? Yeah, yeah, the papers? Hey, look,
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any special reason for such hot interest in missus Milburn's whereabouts? The paper?
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I know the paper didn't say, no, Johnson. If I knew
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a little more, I might help a little more. And if we needed
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your help, we'd a score a little tenant. I guess there's no reason
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you shouldn't own why, thanks, Missus Milburn left her house in a hurry
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for a darn good reason. The DA had a letter in the mail this
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morning. It was from the late mister Milburn if anything ever happened to him?
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It said he wanted his wife picked up. Shoot. So if that's
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all you want to know, Valentine, if there's nothing else you want to
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confide in me, oh no, no, thanks, you've been a pale
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Johnson. Yes, Missus Melbourne, I know I'm late, but I had
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some dodging and weaving to do. What's what are you talking about, George?
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Well, Lieutenant Johnson is developing a very suspicious streak Brooks and he had
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a man following me. I had a real job losing him. Do the
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police suspect you of helping me, mister Valentine, I wouldn't be surprised,
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Missus Milburn. Why should your husband have written to the district attorney accusing you
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if anything happened to him. Bert wouldn't do that. There was no reason
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for us. Well that's what he did do. What George of Lieutenant Johnson
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thinks that you're trying to You'd better think and think fast, Missus Milburne.
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Anything you can think about for an alibi? Well, I have none.
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I told you I called a few people. Just what does he mean to
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you? Well? He was birth secretary. Enough. Is he the reason
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why you and mister Melbourne separated? Just one the reasons. But it was
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mean and jealous. We've been drifting apart for a long time, however,
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kill Mister Melbourne must have been very sure you wouldn't have an alibi. Did
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Frank Summers? No, you'd be home alone last night. I guess so,
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But you don't think I'm just thinking at a love. Did Frank called
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you last night early about eight o'clock? Wait, missus Raleigh the judge's wife.
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Yeah, Judge Paul Raleigh. Yeah, we're on the same committee on
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the charity League. She telephoned me at ten o'clock last night. Are you
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sure? Yes? Yes, she said. She checked with me about a
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meeting she was going to the theater, said she would call me during the
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intermission. That could do it. A call coming to my number can be
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checked, caddis. I'm sure enough find out. Take it easy, mister
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Valentine. It will take a few minutes more before I can give you the
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answer to your question. Sorry, mister Fanny. We're pretty efficient here at
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the telephone company, but within limits. Frankly, when you first mentioned missus
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Milburn's name, I thought, my goodness, not another change. I beg
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your part. I'm afraid missus Milburn is a lady, let's say, a
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little difficult to please. On what way her phone's a two party line.
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We have a few out there in the beach area, is a matter of
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fact, some of our older instruments out there. Obviously we replaced them as
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quickly as we can, but the contested city areas get first preference. Then
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we got missus Milburn. Oh, yes, well, she's had her party
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changed several times. In one case she said she was sure the other party
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was listening in on the conversations. In another, the party was using the
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telephone too often and she had no chance to use it. That's understandable.
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And she also had us change the phone from her bedroom to the living room
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and from the living room to the hall to send a maintenance struck all the
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way out to the beach. Each time I see a point the lady's men
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to put it bluntly and expensive. Fest of course, we're anxious to give
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whatever service we can to our subscribing that. Oh there we are. Excuse
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me, yes, oh, yes, I see sold Cale Beach. You
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four or five, eight, six, ten h five and wanted three minutes
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after midnight. Yes, indeed, thank you and thank you thanks a lot.
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Yes, uh huh, Well, I was very kind of you to
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phone me back Missus Raleigh. No, oh, no, thanks, that's
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all I wanted. You did call Missus Melbourne last night from the theater at
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ten. Oh, you've been a great help, more than you know.
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So your interest was academic, Kave Valen Angley went through that, Johnson,
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I couldn't betray the confidence of my client. Please try to understand the tenants
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he does. He's just saving up ammunition for next time. Miss Brooks,
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What would I do without you? And why don't you give me a chance
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to find out? All the huffing and puffing is well academic at this point
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anyway, isn't it, Johnson? Well, a telephone call does give missus
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Milburne a pretty good alibi. A telephone call from the wife of the judge
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gives her a dying good alibi. Thank you. It was just a piece
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of good luck to this happened there's one more thing that helps prove you and
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the clear, Missus Burnes, a letter from your husband. What about it?
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It's a forgery. Our handwriting expert compared the handwriting with that, am
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mister Milburn, nothing like it. Besides, the letter was mailed from a
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post office station not far from mister Milburne's house. Some time after mister Milburn
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was murdered. The man, the man who phoned he sent the letter to.
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Oh no, missus Milburn. Oh I'm afraid, mister Dallantine. We
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have no way out, he said, We're going to die for it.
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Let's go, Johnson. We have work to do, if you'll stop sputtering,
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mister Drema. So I'll explain to you why Sergeant Collins detains you here.
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I am an attorney, lieutenant, and I assure you I know my
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right. I left orders that anyone has showed up here at Milburne's place beheld
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for me to see. And so here we are. I was mister Milburn's
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attorney, attorney and friend, I might add, so obviously I came out
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to see if I could be of any help in finding his murderer. Well,
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and that's just fine if you can tell me what you know. Well,
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let you have suddenly become a bit close mouthed, mister Dramis, because
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I find it unpleasant to implicate anyone, even anyone I haven't particularly liked for
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a long long time. It better be more specific. I mean, missus
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Milburn, what is your particular reason for pointing a dainty finger in her direction?
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And she stood the benefit greatly by mister Milburne's death at this particular time,
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meaning mister milburn was about to change his well, leave his wife completely
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out of it. However, there's one thing that puzzles me to be completely
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honest. To be completely honest, it's very desirable. And told me I'd
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be the only one to know of his plans. He would tell nobody else,
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especially Missus Melbourne. You're sure I'd swear to it. Milbourne spoke to
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me on the telephone only, and I told nobody so, mister Dramas,
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there's really no reason for you to think that miss Missus Milburne's an ambitious,
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driving woman. She made mister Milburne's laugh miserable. She had an eye on
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young Frank Summers. Became so obvious that mister Milbourne and Somers had a big
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fight. You're on that's very interesting. I might be prejudiced, but in
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this case I'd nominate Missus Melbourne first, Frank Somers and yourself third, mister
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Dramas. Why how dare you there are only three people involved in this big
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mystery at the time being. We can't leave any of the three out of
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our thinking now, can Ley, We'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine
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A brutal murder in the dead of night, a lonely beach house, in
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which violence flares up for a brief moment and then, like a stone thrown
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in the nearby ocean, leaves widening circles of suspicion. The leading actors the
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widow who has an unbreakable alibi but still has a very good motive, an
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earnest young man who has come between her and the husband, and the dead
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man's attorney, who seems to be an enigma. In one breath, he
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admits he hates the widow. In the second, he defends her by saying
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she couldn't have known about the all important change in the will. Yes,
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even if your name is George Valentine, you planned the case a real challenge.
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Well, I told you Frank wouldn't be home Johnson, and not too
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luxurious at home a bed chair, a chest of drawers. Be never so
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humble. You're gonna have it well as I get it. Frank's only been
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out of college a couple of years. Syracuse. The army had it for
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three years. Suits he's still in the closet. He isn't running Johnson.
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Why should he be? H What is it? FOW came for you on
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the car radio. Yeah, they want you to go over to age six
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three moston a place rendered to our mister Draymus. Draymus, Yes, sir,
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they said it was a case for homicide. No finger prints on the
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other guys, now were so white clean. Draymus was having a drink with
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somebody and they had a quarrel, a big fight. Yea chairs churn and
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over lamp broken. Is a duck on his way? Yes, I'll check
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it again. Man. Let's see when awake and find huh m hmm,
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not that much in the pockets. Key's some money handkerchief wallet. Let me
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see nothing much in his jackets? Each year four five eight six, Beach
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View three nine five nine. Why missus Melbourne's telephone number and the number of
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the telephone and missed him Melbourne's house? So why he was their lawyer?
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So we had their numbers. I know, that's funny. They're written on
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a page torn out of a calendar, a page dated today. That's nice,
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but huh, what did you find Ramis's hands? Ran in his hand?
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What is five ad of kappa key Syracuse? Come on now, we're
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gonna look for Frank Summers for real. Thanks for visiting the jail, mister
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Valentine, but it's no good. Nobody believes me. Why should you.
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I'm stubborn. I didn't kill Dramas. I wasn't even there, But you
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can't prove where you were. I was walking all by myself, trying to
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waste some time before I went to pick up June and take her to dinner.
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That's where you and Lieutenant Johnson found me at June's. I wasn't running
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away, and you have no way of explaining the five way to Campucky and
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to Ramus's hand. Johnson insist a ramus tore it away from you in the
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struggle. I don't know where the key came from. I never missed it.
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I thought I had it. Are you playing this hand faced up with
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me busting? Yes? Yes? Do you have any idea who might have
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phoned missus Melbourne that night after the murder? No, Kenna Johnson is sure
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it was me because I was the only one who knew June would be alone
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that night. He said, I disguised my voice. Frank man the man?
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What kind of fellow was Bert abby? Huh? What was he?
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Was? He mean and nasty? Did he have many enemies? No?
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Makes me feel like a hum but he wasn't. I couldn't help falling in
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love with June. She had me spinning on my head. I fell in
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love with her. No, I don't care kidding. Keep your chin up,
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George. Let's get out of here. We can't just sit here in
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the office all even. I gotta think, Brooks, there's something about this
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case that sounds as funny as a lead quarter. The case is closed.
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My Johnson has enough evidence on Frank Summers to lock the selling through the key.
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Oh I SA sorry for Missus Milburn, my first husband and then Frank.
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She just sat there in Johnson's office, stunned, not even listening to
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me. George, he's more trapped. There's no typewriter ribbon. Now it's
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the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
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Now is the time for all good men who's come to the aide of the
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party? Party? That's it. Oh, Brooksly are wonderful. You're the
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smartest and most talented, don't I You just hang on. I know it's
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a lot of nerve dragging you down to your office at this hour of the
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night, mister Fanny, But believe me, it's important. All right,
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young men, all right now just let me look to ask me again what
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this is all about. To help me Hanner, how about mister Fanny.
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Yes, yes, here it is each you three nine five nine, huh.
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It is a party like god good And who's the other party on that
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line? Beach you four five eight chick? Shit is ever very very un
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you a most unusual coins you've been swallow, mister Vanni. Good night,
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Yes, Lieutenant Johnson. We just finished the report in the door Remus case.
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Was it showdoc? Because of death poisoning by Vanilla side phenolo side something
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new, a particularly we can one, just we'll get it. No,
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I am afraid not, young lady. But people have been known to forge
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prescription blanks. Oh and it'll take some doing a trace down the drug store
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where it might have been brought, just a hunt Stock department. Yes,
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but exactly how does this poison work? What do you mean? Well,
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it doesn't work slowly the way some poisons do. Huh. It works instantly,
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doesn't it? Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it
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does. It had to be something like that. Listen to this, stunson.
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Just how quickly does it work? Every muscle and the body becomes rigid
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all at once. George, what are you driving? Yet? You'll get
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it, don't you, Lieutenant? If the Remus's fist was clinched like that
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at the moment the po reason took effect, how did that college key get
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into his hand? It was forced into it, and certainly Frank didn't do
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it. Come on, let's go to the jail and talk to him once
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more. I can't understand any of it, mister Valentine. I know I
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didn't put the five at a captain to mister Doremus's hands. I told you
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before he was innocent. What else can either of us do? We could
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throw away all the fancy father or alive agin telling the truth all of us.
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Okay, Valentine, your mind spill it and fast? All right?
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All right? I suppose we started at the very beginning with a little matter
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of party falling. Now's the time for all good men to come to the
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aid of their party. What's that, net Brooks? I wish I knew.
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Isn't it more than unusual that mister and missus milburn were the two parties
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on the party line? Jensen? Yeah? A coincident? Ever? Was
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it? There are comparatively few party lines of the Beach area. Couldn't the
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thing of an arranged by someone who made sure she'd be considered by the telephone
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company as merely a pest who didn't like this party on our line, or
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that party who didn't stop until the two phones she was interested in were on
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the same line. Are you talking about me, mister Valentine? I wouldn't
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be surprised, Valentine. Missus Milburne you expected a call from missus Raleigh.
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You made sure she'd call you at a very specific time, and she did.
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Oh yes, yes, The equipment on those phones is still the old
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fashioned kind. Now that's important. How for Pete's sake, Missus Milburne,
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you had your hand on the telephone box and your husband's house, and you
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heard the slight vibration. The phone was ringing in your house miles up the
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beach, and it was ringing on time. So you picked up the phone
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and spoke to Missus Raleigh, and the judge's wife provided you with a perfect
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alibo. You're lying, keep tagging, Valentine? What about the phone call
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from this mysterious street? She found her own house from her husband's place.
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You wroted, Missus Melbourne and mailed it hours after you killed your husband.
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But why would I do that? I'm not crazy? Doesn't it You knew
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he'd be the prime suspect, Missus Melbourne, So why not make it look
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as though someone were trying to implicate you? Get yourself accused and get it
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over with early in the game. Missus Milburn, what about the lawyer.
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I'll answer that Johnson, the ramus got was a little quicker than I did.
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He knew She must have overheard his and Milburn's conversation about the will somehow
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accidentally perhaps so he checked and found out about the two party gimmick. That's
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why he put the two numbers down on that piece of paper. I didn't
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kill him, Frank, did you know that? Lieutenant? Let mister bellentangle
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on to you. Stay over there. You gram is trying to blackmail Missus
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MILBURNE George. He was, wasn't he, Missus Milburn? It had to
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be you who killed him. The poison killed the Ramus instantly. The college
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key was forced into his hand, and you were the only one who could
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have easily gotten that key. I had the killing. After everything I did,
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he was going to take it all away from me. You were willing
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for me to be held for his murder. I killed Bert so you and
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I would be happy, Frank, believe me, Stare, but I couldn't
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think of anything but saving myself when I killed Ramus. I couldn't. I
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George, it's over. Stop thinking about it. Yeah, but this thing
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really hit me for one, saint jump The night can be beautiful too.
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Look at the moon over the ocean, the long range plans she made.
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I bought a man she once loved, and then carefully carried them out with
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him lying there dead. Yeah, I know, and shooting at that clock
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to fix the time so that the telephone gag would work, making all those
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preparations with a hi argue. You're tired and cynical and discouraged. You don't
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believe in womanhood at all? Do you You need consolation and prove that you're
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wrong? Oh? Thanks, think nothing. I would die. Now is
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the time for all good women to come to the aid of their party.
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I really did suspect the the wife throughout the history kind of a replay of
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in terms of the famous Operation Europe. Of course, different methods, situations
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where George seems to find evidence to clear someone but actually they're guilty, though
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I didn't suspect how they did that, of course, is a more nineteen
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fifties technology when dealing with party lines, although somewhere when we were in Washington
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State in the nineteen eighties early nineties, we did actually have a party line,
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so those lasted a bit longer. The one thing I was somewhat curious
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about here in this episode was Brooksie topping that phrase when they were that now
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is the time for all men to come to the defense of their party.
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And that stood out to me because I remembered from the Columbo episode Now you
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see him, Now you see Them that the sergeant in that episode tested a
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typewriter by typing that, and so I wondered if Jackson Gillis wrote this and
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that. But when I heard David Victor had writing credit, I researched it
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a little further and it turns out that this was a fairly standard phrase for
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typing textbook. It was a typing drill by teacher Charles E. Weller,
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So a lot of people who learned to type, they learned to type that
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phrase. And I think it was originally said by Rutherford Hayes, although some
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sources indicate that it was Weller himself. It was the source of the quote,
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which might make sense because that was just not a Rutherford Hayes type thing
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to say. Well, we turned down a listener comments and feedback, and
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Louise Hall asked if we'll ever do Richard Diamond. The answer is yes.
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It is on our list of programs today. You can view all the programs
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we have on the list at biglist dot Great Detectives dot net, and provisionally
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I'm planning on doing Richard Diamond once we finish the Johnny Dollar Serial podcast which
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will take fifty eight weeks, and then the Philip Marlow Program podcast which will
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take about another two years, so we're about three point two five years away.
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But it will be on Wednesday that we'll be playing Richard Diamonds, So
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keep listening, be patient, and he'll be along in a little while.
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