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The Long Shot [episode 737], Broadcast 2/9/1958 · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Suspense and the producer of radio is outstanding theater of thrills.
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  Speaker 1: The master of mystery and adventure, William M.
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  Speaker 2: Robeson The story with the surprise ending is one of
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  Speaker 2: the most difficult to write yet. The old switcheroo, as
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  Speaker 2: we call it in the trade, had fascinated readers for
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  Speaker 2: a long long time before Oh Henry virtually patented it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a difficult form because the switch must come logically
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  Speaker 2: out of the characters and their behavior, but it must
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  Speaker 2: come suddenly, unexpectedly, and at the very end of the
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  Speaker 2: story you are about to hear a modern example.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll bet you all the red.
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  Speaker 2: Flags and communists China, you can't guess the end until
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  Speaker 2: twenty five minutes from now.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Listen then as mister Herbert Marshall stars in the long shot,
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  Speaker 2: which begins in exactly one minute from now.
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  Speaker 3: Another visit with Joe and Daphney foreside.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, Joe, Joe, Joseph.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I'm up. I'm a part of coffee. I'll
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  Speaker 4: be right in.
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  Speaker 5: Relax it's three in the morning, huh, I said, Relax, It's.
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  Speaker 1: Three in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: I was relaxed, Daphne, Why did you wake me up. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I was just.
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  Speaker 5: Wondering what happened to our savings bonds. You will what
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  Speaker 5: I had a dream. I dream you lost all of
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  Speaker 5: your money and all we had left were our savings bonds.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 5: So I just wanted to make sure they were all right.
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  Speaker 4: They're all right there with the other important papers. You're sure,
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  Speaker 4: of course, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I just don't want anything to happen to them.
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  Speaker 5: Savings bonds are the most secure form of investment. Why
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  Speaker 5: the whole faith and credit of the United States stand
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  Speaker 5: behind those bonds of ours?
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 5: So they're even better than dollars in your pocket because
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  Speaker 5: the government stands behind them and protects them, and they
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  Speaker 5: protect us too, Joe. Every bond is an investment in
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  Speaker 5: our country, in our security and freedoms. Joe, Well, how
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  Speaker 5: about that. He feels so secure he went back to sleep.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, Darling.
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  Speaker 1: And now The Long Shot starring Herbert Marshall, A tale
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  Speaker 1: well calculated to keep you in there suspense.
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  Speaker 6: There was undew ternant. If you're willed to take it down,
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  Speaker 6: here's my statement. It seems a year, but I guess
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  Speaker 6: it's only ten days since I was sitting in the
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  Speaker 6: lovely of the Esta Hotel in New York, with twenty
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  Speaker 6: eight cents in my bucket. Have been a dreadful season
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  Speaker 6: at the track. So there I was stony. Somebody had
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  Speaker 6: discarded the afternoon paper, and I picked it up, folded
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  Speaker 6: to the classified section, and my eyes fell upon a
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  Speaker 6: most intriguing air in the hope wanted column. Englishmen will
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  Speaker 6: pay one hundred and fifty dollars and expenses to fellow countrymen,
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  Speaker 6: preferably Londoner, in return for services as driver and traveling
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  Speaker 6: companion on automobile trip to San Francisco. This was the
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  Speaker 6: answer to all my problems, and a quarter hour later
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  Speaker 6: I presented myself at the door of my unwitting benefactor's quarters. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I've come about your advertisement.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, sir, step inside, please, thank you? You have
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  Speaker 3: a chair?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: You are English?
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  Speaker 6: I presume, yes, indeed a london I hope, born and bred.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I must say that's a relief. I've been plagued with
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  Speaker 3: applicants all day. Not a Londoner in the lot. You
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  Speaker 3: see the old towns sort of a fetish with me.
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  Speaker 3: A man can't really consider himself civilized unless he's in London.
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  Speaker 4: On quiet.
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  Speaker 3: You say you were born there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, in Vigo Street, just off Saint James's Square August eighteenth,
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  Speaker 6: nineteen ten.
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  Speaker 4: Know the town like the inside of my hat.
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  Speaker 3: Vigo Street. I'm not sure that I know it.
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  Speaker 6: It turns right off Sackville Street and runs some little
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  Speaker 6: way before it reaches Regent Street.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, yes, I place it now. Well, you
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  Speaker 3: seem to be the genuine article to tell me why
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  Speaker 3: are you interested in going to San Francisco?
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  Speaker 4: You know anything about horse racing? Mister?
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  Speaker 5: Do you know?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry? My name is Hendrix Walker, Hendrix mins Kelly Raymond.
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  Speaker 3: Well how do you do, miss Raymond? No, I can't
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  Speaker 3: say that I do, particularly being to have some downs
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  Speaker 3: on a few occasions.
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  Speaker 6: I see, well, I've become rather fond of the horses,
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  Speaker 6: I might even say financially dependent on them.
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  Speaker 4: And with Bay Meadows opening.
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  Speaker 6: Shortly Bay Meadal as a racecourse near San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see, well, you have business. It takes you
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  Speaker 3: to San Francisco and so I and I just couldn't
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  Speaker 3: face making a trip alone or even worse, with an American.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I advertised there. What a stroke of luck
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  Speaker 3: to find you not only a fellow countryman, but a
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  Speaker 3: fellow London excuse me, hello, Oh yes, yes, well I'm
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  Speaker 3: dreadfully sorry, but I just hired a man.
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  Speaker 4: I was sitting pretty.
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  Speaker 6: The only thing I was afraid of was death from
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  Speaker 6: sheer boredom, because from the moment we started out, or
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  Speaker 6: mister Helwick's talked about was London?
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  Speaker 3: Have you spent much time in Soho?
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  Speaker 4: Raymon? I never lived there. That's what you mean.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the restaurants and so on, you know them?
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  Speaker 4: We see now there's the Moroccan No, what was it?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: The Algerian cafe in Dean.
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  Speaker 3: Street, isn't it quite right? The Algerian in Dean Street.
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  Speaker 4: A big French woman ran it. We used to call
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  Speaker 4: her Madame couspouse.
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  Speaker 3: Quite As a matter of fact, I saw her there earlier,
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  Speaker 3: a short time ago.
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  Speaker 4: Seems to be she died a few years back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you probably met her daughter, There's no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: There's a sign Cleveland, thirty eight miles.
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  Speaker 7: Spend the night there.
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  Speaker 4: I've spent a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's see where we're Oh, yes, we were talking
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  Speaker 3: about Soho.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, we were talking about Soho. And we continued to
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  Speaker 6: talk about it the rest of the way to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 6: The most of the night in the hotel room, I
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  Speaker 6: began to think the man doubted my authenticity and was
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  Speaker 6: trying to trip me up. Next day we covered Whitechapel Feet,
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  Speaker 6: Sweet Bloomsbury, Mayfair. He still hadn't stuck me, but I
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  Speaker 6: was beginning to feel like a well found Baedeker's guide
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  Speaker 6: by the time we reached Chicago. As soon as we
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  Speaker 6: checked into our hotel room, I tried to get away
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  Speaker 6: from him for a while, say as Hendrix, I wonder
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  Speaker 6: if I might have a small advance on my salary. Well,
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  Speaker 6: I suppose so's still rather early, and I thought I
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  Speaker 6: might look over the window city.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course, Raymond. Here, let me open my release.
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  Speaker 3: This infernal lock is always acting up. Ah, there we are,
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  Speaker 3: twenty are enough?
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  Speaker 4: Fine? Thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, look here, I believe I'll join you. Stretched the
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  Speaker 3: eggs a bit.
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  Speaker 6: There was a horse choking wad of bills in that release,
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  Speaker 6: but I was so burned at him tagging along I
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  Speaker 6: didn't give it a thought.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 6: My favorite joint was just around the corner from the hotel,
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  Speaker 6: hangout for touts and bookies, but I didn't see anybody
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  Speaker 6: I knew. At first, we had a club sandwich, and
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  Speaker 6: at mister Hendrick's request, I was expounding scholastically on the
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  Speaker 6: difference between Chicago and London bacon when.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly tom me good to see it.
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  Speaker 4: Kelly, I thought you were in Miami later in a
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  Speaker 4: couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: How about coming along?
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
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  Speaker 6: I'm on my way to San Francisco for this is uh,
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  Speaker 6: mister Hendrix, Tommy the wit?
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  Speaker 3: How a how do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Kelly, I gotta talk to you. I got a
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  Speaker 4: big deal cooking. I'm afraid I don't mind excusing us
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  Speaker 4: for a minute. To you, mister Hendricks.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, go on, please, Well, Kelly.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get right to the point. We bought us some jockeys.
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  Speaker 4: It's coming up next week at Hialaya. Five hundred will
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  Speaker 4: get you ten grand on of the parley. But I've
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  Speaker 4: got to drive that stiff to San Francisco. Well, if
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  Speaker 4: you just walked down as I could. But where I
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  Speaker 4: get five hundred? Has he got any money? No?
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, that release? Eh, you're sure this can't
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  Speaker 6: lose Prisys. You go back to the booth and keep
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  Speaker 6: Hendricks busy for a few minutes tell him I how
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  Speaker 6: to make a phone call or something. I'll meet you
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  Speaker 6: at the icy station in half an hour. I stepped
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  Speaker 6: out through the kitchen, and in two minutes I was
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  Speaker 6: back in our room at the hotel. There was the release,
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  Speaker 6: just as he'd left it, and to make things even easier,
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  Speaker 6: the faulty catch wasn't locked. There were six hundred and
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  Speaker 6: eighty dollars and twenty dollars bills in the wallet, and
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  Speaker 6: a chief of legal looking documents in the portfolio next
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  Speaker 6: to it. I glanced at them idly as I pocketed
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  Speaker 6: the money. On top was a letter from a law
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  Speaker 6: firm in San Francisco. It was dated two months ago
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  Speaker 6: and addressed to Hendrix in Bedford Park, London. It said,
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  Speaker 6: since you are completely unknown personally to either relatives or
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  Speaker 6: legal counsel in the United States, it has been necessary
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  Speaker 6: to establish proof of your right to your uncle's estate
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  Speaker 6: entirely by documentary evidence, and we are happy to state
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  Speaker 6: that such proof is now thoroughly established. We ask that
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  Speaker 6: you present yourself at your earliest convenience at our San
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  Speaker 6: Francisco law offices, so that final disposition of the estate
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  Speaker 6: may be accomplished. Birth certificate, affidavit's from friends, notorize statement
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  Speaker 6: from the Department.
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  Speaker 4: Of Records, a chef of letters.
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  Speaker 6: It was a long shot, a long shot that would
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  Speaker 6: pay off at least one hundred thousand dollars everything. Every
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  Speaker 6: Affidavid's statement was a guarantee of Walker Hendrix the bearer,
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  Speaker 6: and to try it up tighter. One of the letters
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  Speaker 6: said pictures wouldn't be necessary, just a passport, and I
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  Speaker 6: knew a place in San Francisco that made passports. To
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  Speaker 6: order a long shot, But did you ever see odds
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  Speaker 6: like that?
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, we can you with the second act
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  Speaker 1: of a suspense.
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  Speaker 8: of the armed forces of the United States and of
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  Speaker 8: and Lesionnaire, depending upon the degree of the service we honor.
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  Speaker 1: And now starring Herbert Marshall, Act two of The Long Shot.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it was a long shot in a way.
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  Speaker 6: I put the papers and the money back in the
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  Speaker 6: valise and called Tommy de Witt told him to highly
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  Speaker 6: ideal was off if.
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  Speaker 4: There wasn't any money in the room.
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  Speaker 6: And the next morning Hendrix and I left Chicago with
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  Speaker 6: bound on Route thirty and Old London Town rode with us.
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  Speaker 3: You are saying, you know that Georgian Raymond.
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  Speaker 6: But it's not in London proper it's in southern Gone,
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  Speaker 6: the other side of the river.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I believe you're right at that rare road in
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  Speaker 3: the George, in its posting yard.
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  Speaker 6: I did a lot of thinking during those long, dull
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  Speaker 6: miles across the plains. You know, my heart had looked
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  Speaker 6: like a sink. But by the time we had Chai
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  Speaker 6: and I began to waver a little. And when we
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  Speaker 6: rolled in the Salt Lake city, I was almost ready
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  Speaker 6: to give up the whole idea. It was too cut
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  Speaker 6: and dried, too easy for a long shot, almost like
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  Speaker 6: a trap someone set for me with one hundred grand
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  Speaker 6: as the bait, and once I went for it, there'd
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  Speaker 6: be no turning back.
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  Speaker 4: It was a good gamble, but the stakes.
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  Speaker 6: Were too high, and there was no way of telling
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  Speaker 6: what the payoff would be without tossing anything on the line.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I was thinking at about six o'clock last
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  Speaker 6: Wednesday night when we pulled up in front of the
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  Speaker 6: war Such Hotel in Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 3: Jove, I'll be glad to wash up. That prairie country
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  Speaker 3: is appalling.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to have some trees for a change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty town, salt Lake. You have an aunt here,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how long since you've seen her.
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  Speaker 3: We've never seen her. I don't intend to. She's a
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  Speaker 3: sister of my mother's, Marguerite Studdard, thoroughly americanized, I understand,
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  Speaker 3: and probably a frightful bore.
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  Speaker 4: Probably that was.
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  Speaker 6: Just as if I had asked for it, a way
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  Speaker 6: of telling about that pay off ahead of time. A
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  Speaker 6: laboratory test right there in Salt Lake City was nothing
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  Speaker 6: to lose if it didn't work out. I got away
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  Speaker 6: from Hendricks after dinner, found Marguerite's starlet Supress in the
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  Speaker 6: phone book, and took a cab out to our house. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: good evening, are you, missus, Marguerite started, Yes, I'm Walker,
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  Speaker 6: Hendricks Walker.
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  Speaker 9: I just can't believe it. Come in, Come in, Please
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  Speaker 9: make yourself comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: You're a pleasant surprise Walker.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose I am, and I may call you Marguerite, And.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you may.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 9: I expected you to be a little more like him,
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  Speaker 9: like who. Perhaps i'd better not mention it.
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  Speaker 4: Please do I think we should discuss everything, don't you?
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  Speaker 9: Of course I do. You'll never know how much your
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  Speaker 9: uncle Jerald regretted what he did. You mean, the will
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  Speaker 9: no long before that your mother never told you I suppose.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, she never mentioned her family.
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  Speaker 9: I don't suppose she would. After all, she loved your
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  Speaker 9: father and your uncle Gerald hated him.
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  Speaker 4: And so Uncle Gerald forced her to leave home.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I know Jeryl would have been the last to
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  Speaker 9: admit it, but I've always felt the will was his
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  Speaker 9: stubborn way of making it up to her. Perhaps I'm
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  Speaker 9: sure of it, but at least you will benefit Walker
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  Speaker 9: now that there's nothing any of.
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  Speaker 7: Us can do for your.
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  Speaker 6: If there was any doubt in my mind, that disappeared
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  Speaker 6: then and there. The American branch of the family knew
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  Speaker 6: absolutely nothing of Cecaly Hendrix from the time she left
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  Speaker 6: home until her brother Gerald died, leaving her one hundred
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  Speaker 6: thousand dollars. At that point, they made a pretty thorough
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  Speaker 6: search fo on Both she and her husband had died
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  Speaker 6: in England and their son, Walker was the only heir. Everything,
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  Speaker 6: everything I needed was back in the hotel in that valise.
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  Speaker 6: It's five hundred and twenty one miles from Salt Lake
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  Speaker 6: to Reno, but I convinced Hendrix we could make it
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  Speaker 6: in one jump.
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  Speaker 4: I had a special reason.
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  Speaker 6: We had to hit the desolate section of Central Levado
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  Speaker 6: about midnight. When you get right down to it, killing
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  Speaker 6: a man is a bit of tough job when it's
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  Speaker 6: as perfect as this was going to be.
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  Speaker 4: For once, I was thankful for London.
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  Speaker 6: It gave us something to talk about, and there was
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  Speaker 6: so much in my mind that I might have given
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  Speaker 6: myself away in silence. So I prattled on like a phonograph,
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  Speaker 6: a good old wares.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it was a lovely pub. They are called the
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  Speaker 4: Prospect at Whitby.
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  Speaker 3: Oh don't believe I know it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not surprised. Is amazing thing about London. It seems
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  Speaker 6: that the Greenish tourist knows more about it than the
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  Speaker 6: Londoners themselves. Sir, I'd say, you've done rather well, mainly
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  Speaker 6: because I've been on my own since I was fourteen.
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  Speaker 6: Now now you take yourself, for example, ten to one,
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  Speaker 6: you've never been in Petticoat Lane. Were in Marvel's Place,
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  Speaker 6: regular oriental bizarre, right in the heart of the city,
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  Speaker 6: booths and pedlers selling every kind of junk of can
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  Speaker 6: imagine in At midnight. We were somewhere between willim Mucker
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  Speaker 6: and Reno, passing through and Barren Hills. I knew the
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  Speaker 6: time had come, and my hands began to shake so
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  Speaker 6: much I had to grab the wheel with both of them.
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  Speaker 6: I felt, but he's a cushion. When I had put
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  Speaker 6: the wrench, we're still there. Finally, I held my breath.
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  Speaker 6: Pulled over on the.
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  Speaker 3: Shoulder, I say, what are you stopping for?
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  Speaker 4: Look over there the moonlight on that cliff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I say, said, he's lovely.
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  Speaker 4: It was all over. I never knew what it did.
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  Speaker 6: I turned up the lights and pulled the body out
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  Speaker 6: on the right hand side. We hadn't passed the car
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  Speaker 6: for an hour, so I wasn't worried much about being seen.
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  Speaker 4: He was pretty heavy, but I managed to carry him
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  Speaker 4: over from my shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: About a quarter of a mile from the road, I found
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  Speaker 6: a small cave at one side of the ravine. I
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  Speaker 6: shot the body in and rolled a large rock over
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  Speaker 6: the opening. It started a small landslide which completely covered
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  Speaker 6: the whole.
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  Speaker 4: No one could possibly find it.
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  Speaker 6: I had just about gotten back to the road when
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  Speaker 6: I saw something that stopped me dead in my tracks.
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  Speaker 6: There behind my car was another one with the seal
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  Speaker 6: on the door, the seal of the state of Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: In just a moment, we continue with the third act of.
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  Speaker 10: Suspense, we have together ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom.
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  Speaker 7: This is NATO.
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  Speaker 10: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The extensive and varied grouping
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  Speaker 10: of NATO military forces called for the establishment of several
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  Speaker 10: unique supporting organizations, among them the Military Agency for Standardization London,
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  Speaker 10: the Advisory Group on Aeronautical Research and Development, Paris, and
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  Speaker 10: the NATO Defense College, also in Paris. All are vital
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  Speaker 10: subordinates in the complex of the NATO Defense program. The
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  Speaker 10: United States of America is a part of NATO. You
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  Speaker 10: should be aware of and alert to the programs and
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  Speaker 10: objectives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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  Speaker 4: And now.
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  Speaker 1: Starring Herbert Marshall, Act three of The Long Shot.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody was in the patrol car. The officer must be
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  Speaker 6: wandering around looking for me. I lifted the hood of
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  Speaker 6: my car and knocked the battery cable off one of
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  Speaker 6: the terminals. Then I waited and waited while the coyotes
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  Speaker 6: jeered at me from the hills. At last he appeared
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  Speaker 6: from the other side of the Highwayhi, there, what's trouble.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, officers, she just went dead on me.
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  Speaker 6: I was having a look up the road when you arrived.
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  Speaker 7: Say she went dead on you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, lights went out, motor just died.
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  Speaker 7: Then under the hood, wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Do much good. I'm afraid I'm pretty green at that
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  Speaker 4: sort of thing. Let me have a look at it,
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  Speaker 4: would you please.
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  Speaker 7: See? Hey, battery cable, Jared loose, mister you got a ranch?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you, we'll see. Hey, eh try now.
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  Speaker 4: Let look pretty simple words.
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  Speaker 6: Ah as she goes, Thanks ever so much.
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  Speaker 7: It's okay. Let's see. Your name's Hendrick. Suh. Yes, checked
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  Speaker 7: your registration slip. You're a long way from home.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's why.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks a lot. You're welcome, sir. Good night.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Well they're just, Lieutenant, because the long shot was a
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: shore thing that I've found you waiting for me in
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: the attorney's office. Even then, I'd have gotten away with
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: it if she hadn't told me that the body had
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: been found. Well, aren't you going to say something? Don't
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: you still think I could have carried it off?
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  Speaker 4: Lieutenant?
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  Speaker 11: Well, Raymond, we arrested you for the murder of Walker Hendrix,
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  Speaker 11: but it appears we were wrong.
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  Speaker 4: M What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 11: It was a long shot, Raymond, and it was almost
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: a sure thing. Maybe that's why both of you gambled
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  Speaker 11: on it.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean both of us? You and that
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  Speaker 4: guy you bumped off in Nevada. That guy that was Hendrix.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, Hendrix was murdered, all right, but you didn't do it.
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  Speaker 11: Why you see, he beat you to it, Raymond, who
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: beat your traveling companion? He wasn't Hendrix. Here's an out
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: of work actor. He wasn't even an Englishman. That was
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: why he was pumping you so much about London. He
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: was what the actors call it, getting up in his part.
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  Speaker 11: What are you talking about? I thought you found Hendrix's
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: body in Nevada. We haven't found a body in Nevada yet.
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  Speaker 4: But one thing sure, Hendrix was never Nevada. Poor guy
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: never left New York.
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  Speaker 11: The New York Police turned up the real Hendricks in
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  Speaker 11: the East River the day after you left town, chauffeuring
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  Speaker 11: for the guy who killed him.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Suspense in which Herbert Marshall starred in William and Robeson's
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: production of The Long Shot by Hals Swanton, supporting mister
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  Speaker 1: Marshall in the Long Shot, where Florence Walcott been Wright,
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  Speaker 1: Jo DeSantis and Normalden. Listen Listen again next week when
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: we return with another tale. Well calculated to keep you
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  Speaker 1: in suspense ha ham.
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