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Nick Carter: The Vanishing Lady (EP1278) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for Nick Carter. In today's episode is The Vanishing Lady.
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Today's exciting case, The Vanishing Lady, another exciting chapter dramatized from the life
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story of Nick Catter. In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick Kocher
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today's exciting case from the life of Nick Carter. As we look in on
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Nick Carter today, we find him in his laboratory at the top of the
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old brownstone house on the corner of Fifth and Fourth. It is night.
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The laboratory is dark except for the strange, unearthly glow of a small mercury
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vapor lamp, which casts an eerie light into the intent and watchful eyes of
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the great Detective Nick Carter. There is silence. Someone moves in the shadow.
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You're right, Betsy. The alka violet ray shows that two different inks
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were used in the writing of this will Old jobs a forgery. That's all.
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Turn on the lights, prazede. Now I can go home and get
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a nice sleep for Jane. Oh no, not yet, at the vaporize
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already. I want to test this sheet of paper for a laden fingerprints.
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You want to dinas and pit rock side, pet rock side. I want
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to take pictures, I digest isn't photogenic. I take it easy, Pats.
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He's under the night bell. Somebody's at the front door. So I
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guess I'll never get over having my stomach. Do Nipats. If a phone
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or a doorbell rings suddenly in the middle of the night, here you take
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your stuff. I'll go down and see who it is. It's the cutter
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you are, mister Nick Carter. Why yes, what seems to be the
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trouble. That's my wife. She's disappeared. We had a quarrel and now
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she's gone. I wouldn't be too upset, mister Ashbury, Harold Ashbury,
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But I am upset. Anyone would be. You see, she's gonna have
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a baby when no even I mean any hour. She was on her way
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to the hospital. That's when she disappeared right on the steps of Mercy Hospital.
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Why weren't you with her at the time. I just told you we
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had a quarrel, don't you see it? I look, I think we
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get more information if we gave mister Ashworth a chance to collect himself. Yeah,
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sit down in this easy chair. Thanks very kind, missus Carter,
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because you've been through this yourself. Oh no, my name's Bowen, Miss
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Patsy Bowen. I'm sorry, I mean perfectly all right, miss Ashworth.
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You see, I was one of a large family, so I do know
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a little about these things. Mister Carter. On the other hand, mister
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Ashworth didn't come here quiet and nick. You may be tops when it comes
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to scientific detection, but how you ever passed and applied psychology? Now,
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mister Ashworth, suppose you tell us all about it from the beginning. Yes,
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yes, of course, let's see. Sometimes I have to hand it
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to you. Thanks all right, mister Ashworth. You and your wife are
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expecting a baby. What's her name, by the way, Norah. She
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was Nora Brent. Her two uncles owned the Brent Tubing and Appliance, This
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company that she has money. Oh no, her father was a minister.
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He died before we met. Was never approved of me. You see,
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I've been married before, we had divorced. Divorced. That's what our uncles
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didn't approve of. Besides, Nora's a good ten years younger than I am.
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They say I married her on the rebound. You see. She had
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a childhood sweetheart, Jim Stanley, a boy she'd know one all her life.
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He was reported missing with a carrier that went down on the Pacific.
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That was two years ago. Nora was pretty cut up about it. My
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first wife had just run away with another man. So you consoled each other,
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well, maybe just at first, but it didn't take long for us
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to realize that we were made for each other. You've got to believe me,
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mister Carter. We loved each other. We were ideally happy. No
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arguments, no differences of opinion, no never, That is not until today.
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And what happened today. This morning a letter came for Nora. Was
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addressed to Nora Brent, not missus ashmittt mind you, and up in the
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corner of the envelope the sender's name and address read Chief Petty Officer Jim Stanley
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Tappan. Even in hospital but that's a man. She was in love with
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the man who was supposed to be dead. Now he's in a hospital only
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five miles down the bay. I take it she got excited when she saw
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the letter. I knew she would, mister cutterr And well, maybe it
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was jealousy. Maybe I was afraid of what might happen. You see,
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we're expecting the baby almost any time, so so what so I destroyed the
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letter. Very short sighted, but I realized that now. But I couldn't
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bear to think of losing her. I'd have done anything to provent. It
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would have been much better to have brought the whole thing out into the open.
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It's too late now, it's happened, just what I was afraid of.
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We were sitting in my den after dinner tonight. I was so worried.
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I just couldn't seem to take my eyes off her. Pretty soon I
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realized I was making you nervous, so I said, I thought I'd go
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to bed and read. I just got in into my pajamas. When the
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phone rang, I let Norah answer it, because her uncle, Timothy Brant
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generally called about that time to find out how Nora was feeling. Oh,
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so the uncles had forgiven her for marrying you. Oh, yes, Tim
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Brand's as well. Guy. He came right around to see as as soon
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as Paul, the other uncle died five months ago. Paul never forgave us,
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even cut Nora out of his will. Stubborn old customer. And was
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it Uncle Tim on the telephone? No. I could hear Nora's voice,
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but not what she was saying. She was talking on the extension in the
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dining room. So pretty soon she opened the bedroom door. She was sort
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of quiet, white. Oh, what did you do with that letter?
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But what aboutter Nora? One from Jim Stanley? I just told her.
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But Nora, there wasn't any letter. You mean Jim's alive. No,
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you've never lied to me before. Good you uput you please one of the
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explanations, Norah, Nora, Darling, what's wrong? What's the matter?
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Baby? I got to get to the hospital, please, Darling, don't
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be frightened. Just as soon as I get dressed again, I probably Uncle
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Tam Hello. Oh yes, Uncle Tim, No, something's happened. It's
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the baby. I'm going to the hospital right away. Please call doctor Jenkins
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and tell him that I need him trying to come right away, nor,
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for heaven's sakes, wait just a minute. How I'm going from good?
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I don't ever want to see you again. And she left without you.
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Yes, I heard the front door slam while I was putting on my shoes.
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I ran after her, but it's too late. Old Joe, that's
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the man who has the taxi on our corner, pulled away just as I
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ran out the front door. It was twenty minutes before I got another cab.
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I drove to Mercy Hospital as fast as I could make the driver go.
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It couldn't have taken as more than twelve minutes to get there, but
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it seemed like hours. Is what happened. When you got to the hospital.
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I rushed up the steps into the reception room and demanded that the nurse.
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Asked at the desk to take me to my wife, and they said
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they hadn't played eyes on her. Maybe she went somewhere there, that's what
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I thought. I thought. Maybe she'd been in an accident, maybe the
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baby had been born in the way. I thought all kinds of horrible things.
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Then I remember Joe, the taxi driver owned the cab my wife had
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driven off in. So I drove back home again. Joe swears he drove
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her straight to Mercy Hospital. Even what you go up the steps and open
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the big front door. Very interesting, Betsy, I think we shall have
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to interview both Joe and the nurse at the desk. I was hoping you'd
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say that, mister Connor, I brought Joe along as Cat's waiting outside,
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he can drive us to the hospital. Well, what can Joe tell Nick
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our story. As we see Nick caught her again. He and Patsy and
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Harold Ashforth are an old Joe's cab, which is whirling them off to Mercy
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Hospital, on whose steps Missus Ashforth disappeared less than an hour previously, as
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she was on her way there to have a baby. Nick is questioning the
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driver. Look here, Joe, eh, you're sure it was missus Ashforth.
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You drove to Mercy Hospital tonight. Sure, I'm sure i'd know her.
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Anyways, when you got to the hospital, did you help her up
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the steps? No? I helped her out of the cab, and just
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as she opens the door, a man comes out from under the portico and
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she runs to him. He puts his arms around her. So it gets
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there was somebody she knowed and I drove off. Who was this man?
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What do you look like? Well? I couldn't rightly say, it was
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too dark. I see well he uh here's the hospital. Go wait here,
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Joe, you may need you again. Yeah, sure, the reception
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desk is over here, mister cutter. That's the nurse that told me my
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wife. But he look who's there talking to her? It's uncle Tim what's
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been going on here? Right? Like to know? Well, the baby
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did decide we right ahead of time, Tony hospitalist get to take care of
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places like that. But I tell you, mister Brent, we didn't turn
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your niece away. Missus Dashwood never came here. I swear to you she
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never walked in that. Then why did I just get this wire saying you
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will pull up? Mind if I have a look at that telegram at the
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Brent? And who in places are you? This is Nick Carter, uncle
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Taim. He's trying to find out what's happened to Norah. I am ponder
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didn't you stick with Nora? You've done your duty as a father. We'd
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know where she was. I suppose you Let me look at that telegram,
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see what I can make of it. Oh yes, just course, Mercy
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Hospital pull Missus Ashworth taken elsewhere. Everything under control, No cause for anxiety.
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Signed Missus Mary Brown. Who's Missus Brown? Ever heard of her?
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Ju Harold? Name means absolutely nothing to me? Mary Brown, nice,
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indefinite son a name. Let's see. This telegram was handed in at the
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Midtown station at ten forty five. That was only a few minutes after Nora
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left the house. Yes. Interesting. Why did you receive the telegram at
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the Brent about ten minutes ago? I came right over here. I only
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lived three blocks away. Why did you receive it earlier? Should have had
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it three quarters an hour ago? I suppose I would have if I'd been
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home, but I went to a late movie. Patrick yet me. Suppose
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you go to the telegraph office is where I was sent from, so you
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can get a line of new handed it in and get hold of a nurse's
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registry. That's possible. There may be a nurse by the name of Mary
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Brown. Okay there is. Find out what hospital or senatorium she works out
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of. Report back to mister Ashford's apartment, right and you, mister Ashford,
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I suggest you go home. I have a hunch you will get a
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telegram yourself in the not too distant future. Do you think so? Maybe
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there's one there already. I'll see you later. Mister brand tell me you
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really think your niece is still in love with this fellow Jim Stanley. It's
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my personal opinion, mister Carter, that she found she didn't love her husband,
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and she took that way out to sort of keep Madame's lamb. Well,
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yes, I'm getting on home. This is something more I can do
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for you. Oh. I think you've done everything we could expect, mister
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Brandt, But there are still a few questions. I'd like to ask the
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nurse at the reception desk good night, good night. Oh then, sister
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honest, mister Carter, missus Ashwood didn't come here tonight. We don't turn
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away cases like hers ever. Mister Ashworth's doctor what's his name, Stevens.
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He takes care of all the Brents and the Ashwood Did you show up at
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any time at night? Oh? No, sir, he hasn't been here
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all either, and yet nor I told her I'll get hold of him.
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I wonder see there's a telephone down the hall. I suppose you asked the
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operator to connect me with the ambulatory ward to tap And based hospital. And
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while I'm getting that, Carl, you might phone doctor Stephens's house and find
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out for me why he didn't get round to deliver the Ashworth baby. Oh
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let him think it's a routine inquiry from the hospital. Will you do that
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for me? Oh? Anything I can do for you, is that tisure,
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mister Carter? I'm sure, Thanks sister, I'll take a call down
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here, gee idol and connect the gentleman on the whole phone with a tap
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and based hospital. Yeah, the tap and based hospital, the ambulatory ward.
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Yes, mister Nick Carter, the detective Harry up William Myrdle. Hello,
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is this the doctor in charge of the ambulatory ward? That's right,
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Nick Carter speaking. I want to find out about a patient named Jim or
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James Stanley. Oh, yes, of course, mister Carter. What would
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you like to know? Where's he? Now? Well? I don't know.
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He made a telephone call earlier in the evening and apparently it upset him
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very much. He said he had to get into town at once, so
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well we let him go. He didn't say where he was going, no,
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but I gother it was somewhere in town. If you like, there's
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anything that I can no, no, no, that's quite all right.
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Thanks. Oh, mister Carter. I got back to Stephen's house. He's
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out on an emergency. He never got the call about missus Ashford. She
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must have been a big emergency. Hey, where you're going, mister Carter?
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We ran another emergency, I hope, thanks, Joe. Okay,
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which is the ashbourth apartment. Well, for all right, just inside the
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front door. Thanks, Oh there's somebody there all right? Light slits shades,
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jarn, what's that? Two figures mail read jupter. One of them's
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got a gun, they called bind. No time for a door, Go
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out of the window, right up with your hands for of you. He
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shot at Byby, but he didn't hit you. She un doubt of me
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would ever be meant to kill you? That's right. I well, I
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was just trying to keep him off me. He's got some crazy idea that
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I ran away with his wife. I take it you're Chief Petty Officer,
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Jim Stanley. That's right. I found out today this I had married Nora.
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Well, she sounded sort of upset when I talked to her on the
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phone, so I thought i'd just drop around and size up the situation.
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If he wasn't treating her right, I was going to beat his ears in.
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Nora and I grew up together. We were like brother and sister,
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you see, mister Stanley. Unfortunately, mister Ashworth's wife disappeared just after you
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talked to her, and samo he rather imagine she might have run away with
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you. So that's why he jumped me. Nobody's got it all wrong about
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me and Nora. Oh, we had a crush when we were in school.
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But I married a girl in Australia three years ago. I wrote Nora
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at the time, and she wrote back wishing me luck well. She never
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told me that we women do strange things sometimes to keep my boyfriends gets.
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Oh, Pattie, stay away from that broken window. Wait from me outside.
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Don't worry. I'm not the one who take chances. Oh look,
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nick, I found out about the telegram and has no Mary Brown miss or
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missus, and the nurse's registered and the telegram was handed in by a man.
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In fact, I think he sent another. I ran into miss Patsy
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coming on the corner. Oh, miss brand hello, as I had a
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hunt. Should get another wire. Let's have a look. No, don't
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try to come in, Patsy, you'll hand it up. Hey, you
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are it same? Your grandniece and her mother doing beautifully at play sanatorium.
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Come and bring the papa. Missus Ashforth keeps asking for him and no signature.
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She wants me, Norah wants me. And the baby's here. I
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have a little girl. It's wonderful. Where's my hat. Now I have
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got time. Come on everybody. Well, Joe, we seem to have
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kept you rather busy tonight. That's all right by me. It just shows
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me me that keeps taking. I'm a father father. Oh baby girl,
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sure up out if you'll have better luck next time. After all you and
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are are still young. And that's what you mean, mister brand about better
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luck next time? Anything unlucky about a baby girl. My brother, as
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you probably know, disinherited Nora. However, he did leave a cottasulto as
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will. He couldn't better think of the Brent factory going out of the family,
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so he said that if Nora ever had a son, he would inherit
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my brother's share of the business. You see, my brother was a woman
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aid or attired. So having a girl baby because Carol, I have a
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million dollars, I see. Well, here are Clay Sanitarium. Fancy look
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complacated, fancy and expensive. Well, some of the very best babies get
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themselves born here. Oh, doctor Jeremia Clay is famous for that. He's
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brought more millionaires in the world. And you can shake a stick at so
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that mister Ashwood's daughter isn't a millionaire jo All, money doesn't matter. It's
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my wife and daughter who really count. Now. Well, well, well
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I'm glad you come. Welcome mister Brent, and congratulations you sir. You
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must be the father. Sorry, I haven't that, honor. This is
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mister Ashford. Oh yes, yes, of course, this way, mister
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Ashworth. Please. The new mother is so anxious to see you. This
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way, please, such a curious case. Women are often most unreasonable at
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these times. Didn't want the family informed. Of course, the minute it
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was all over, when she saw the baby completely turned to normalcy one of
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the family at once. This is her room. Sorry, I'm afraid only
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the father can go in. Just at first, you go, Nora,
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Nora, don dear. Really wasn't so bad. I had a very easy
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time. It's girls, you know. I'm sorry, dearest. I don't
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care what it is, just as long as you love me, phill I
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do. Anyway that showed her to me, I can introduce to a perfect
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strain. We'll get acquainted with her together. Well, come on, Nick,
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our job's finished. Let's go home. Oh, doctor Clay, I
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think i'd like to have a look at missus Ashforth's baby. Of course,
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I'll have a nurse show it to you just a moment, please. Is
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the first time I ever knew you to show an interest in the nursery.
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I'm playing a hunch, Patsy, Oh, a hunch that may split this
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case wide open. Mister Carter, this is where we keep the babies.
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I'm sorry you can't go in, but I've asked the other nurse to bring
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the baby to the window. I'll motion to her. You're having many babies
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here, have you? And no, this is a small private hospital.
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You see. Oh, there she is. It's a fine, healthy looking
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little girl, isn't she? So that's supposed to be the Ashforth baby?
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What do you mean supposed there's a name on a tape. I put it
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there myself. That baby's at least three days old. Morrow reporce if for
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use at her delivery. Betsy, you heard missus Ashworth say she had a
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very easy time. You mean it's been a miss Cake mistake nothing, It's
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been a criminal substitution nurse. How much did mister Timothy Brent pay you to
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substitute a girl for a boy baby? How dare you? I'll call doctor
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Clay and have you arrested for slam. Oh? No, you won't.
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Of course. If you do, I'll insist that the police take a blood
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test of that baby, and if that test proves the baby's blood does not
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belong to mister and missus Asforth's blood group, you will end up in behind
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bars for a long, long stretch. Oh no, no don't, I'll
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tell you everything. I did it for Timothy Brent. He said his niece
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would lose her mind if she had a boy baby. He said, why,
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I had nothing to do with you, did mister Brince? You brought
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her here, you arrange for the whole thing. Well, you double crossing?
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Look easy, easy, you'll wake the patients. Now, the nurse,
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where's the real? Last word? Baby? The boy in the first
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crib by the door, mister Carter, you're sure there's no mistake this time?
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Yes, that's the Ashworth baby. Very well, that's see. I
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think we'll introduce him to his mother. We'll talk to you later, nurse,
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and to you, mister. I wouldn't have done it, but mister
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Prince said, I have nothing to do with this. Later, Brent later.
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All right, Patsy, go get the baby. Don't you want to
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carry him in? Nick? Good? Heavens nofraid I might break him.
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Ah here we are all right, Come on, come on, come on,
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missus Ashford. It seems has been a slight mix up. Maybe they
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brought you before. I belong to someone else, so we we thought you
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might like to see yours. It's a boy. Bring him in, patsy.
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Okay, young man, this is your mother. Oh give him to
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be pleased. Well, look at him, screws so homely and so darling.
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I know he belonged to us anywhere. In just a moment, Nick
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will tell you the clues that enabled him to solve the case of the vanishing
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in one hour. Now, let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Nick,
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why didn't you have that old reprobate uncle Tim Brand arrested? Yes? Nick,
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how come you let him go free? When the DA's office goes over
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his books in order to straighten out the kid's inheritance, they'll do plenty to
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him without my help. Oh, of course, So that's why he had
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to change the boy for a girl. He's been up to some shenanigans with
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his brother's fortune. Obviously, Nick, when did you first aspect the uncle
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right away? Oh? Just like that? Eh, it couldn't have been
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anybody else. A man who met Nora on the hospital steps had to be
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responsible for her disappearance. Only two men knew she was on her way to
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the hospital, her husband and her uncle. That's right, Her husband was
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left at the post never caught up with her. Therefore it had to be
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the uncle. Well, Nick, it was quite a story. Now,
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what can you tell us about next week's Kates? Well, let's see.
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Next week. I think I'll tell you about the pompous chemical magnet who rang
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our doorbell one evening, clad in pajamas, overcoat and bare feet, and
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the pajama legs were partly burned off. In fact, that was the third
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night in a row that the old boy had been thrown out of a hotel.
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Hold it, Patsy, Let's not give the whole plot away. That
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comes next week. Well what do you call that story, Nick? I
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call it the strange case of the Involuntary Firebug. Nick Carter, Master Detective
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is featured in Street and Smith magazines. Lon Clark is starred as Nick,
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with Helen Chot as Patsy. Original music is played by Loue. White.
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living or dead is purely coincidental. The entire production is under the direction of
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Jack McGregor. Nick Carter. Master Detective is presented this time and over these
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This is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Well. A nice
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mystery and a few good twists and turns along the way, and just a
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pretty overall interesting plot makes us one better than last week's, though I think
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this may be the last one we hear from Edith miser. Well. Now
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we turn to some listener calm and feedback. I've talked before about the rarity
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of people in their thirties and unders being old time radio listeners. And listener
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from Winnipeg, Canada. Her name is Sheila. I believe I apologize if
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I'm mispronouncing it well, she writes in plays consider mister Graham that even those
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over forty find their friends do not understand why we like old time radio.
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I am fifty this year and do not personally know one person who listens to
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old time radio. I didn't grow up listening to radio shows. If there
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were any on, we didn't listen, and I never heard any of my
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friends talking about them. I first got access to them on because said in
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my twenties, and again knew no one else who listened. People under forty
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like them for the same reason that we will forty like them. They're entertaining
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and fun and the slice of life they show us from back then is fascinating.
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There's certainly something to be said for that. And at the age curve
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on the listenership of this program, the top age bracket is forty six to
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fifty five, and if you are fifty five, you were three years old
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at on September thirtieth of nineteen sixty two, when the last of the Golden
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Age radio programs ceastaring. And usually when we hear from listeners about their associations
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with old time radio in their childhood, it involves tapes, or it involved
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traveling with someone and listening to the radio late at night i'd or involve some
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other program like the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. So in some ways. It
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is an oddity at or I should say, maybe unusual be a better word,
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at any age, though it may seem a little more unusual the younger
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the person that we're talking about. All right, well, that will do
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it for today. We will be back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler,
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and join us back here next Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. In
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