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Now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter original air date May twenty eighth,
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nineteen forty six, and the title is the Case of the Demented Daughter.
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What's the Matter? What is it? The case for Nick Kutter.
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That's pretty take you. Yes, it's another case for that both famous of
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all Man, the detective who's a bitter here of solving crime is unequaled in
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the history of detective fiction. Mc cocker Master Detective. But styl is it's
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true. I know it's true, But it's not true, June, dar,
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Don't you suppose i'd know it if you were going crazy? But why
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do I hear these noises all the time? Why am I so cold but
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it's really warm in here? Why don't June you're just looking yourself up over
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nothing? Now? Why don't you told me my mother acted the same way?
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Sil My husband didn't mean that mother heard noises like the thunder in her
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ears. He told me that she was cold and shivering, no matter what
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the temperature was. Alex told me that he believe if that's true. It
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doesn't prove, does it does. I'll kill myself before I let them take
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me away. I won't go to an asylum. I won't. I won't.
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A young girl convinced that she is going insane. A fiance who is
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not convinced, who doubts that it can be true in spite of the evidence,
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an appeal to Nick Carter, master detective, the uncovering of a strange
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and unnatural plot. Not for money, not for power, but for hate.
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This is the story unfolded in the cases of the demented doctor that must
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be Randy Wyatt. I made a date for him to see you at ten
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thirty. Is missus Carter here, Yes, yes, he is, once
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you come in. Thank you, mister Carter. Yes, I'm Randy Wyatt.
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Your father and mine used to be pretty good friends. That's why I'm
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taking the liberty of asking you to help me now. I no liberty at
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all commands it now, Thank you, sir. It seems to be the
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trouble. Last night I got this note from the girl I'm engaged to.
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She sent my ring back with it. May I said, it's no use,
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Randy Darling. I'm doomed and I won't have you a burden with an
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insane wife. So this is goodbye, your heartbroken June. I tried to
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call her as soon as I got the note, but the housekeeper wouldn't let
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me talk to her, says she was too ill to come to the phone.
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Well have you seen any signs of this insanity? She speaks of I
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know, and I don't believe it. There's been something funny going on somewhere.
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She's been a little more nervous than usual when we've been out together this
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past month. But that isn't insanity, you say, when we've been out
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together, Does that mean that you don't see it home much? Well,
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for the past month, she seemed to prefer to get out of the house,
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doesn't want to stay home anymore. Have you seen her at home at
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all? Well? I was there one night about a week ago. Her
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sister Phyllis and her brother in law Alex Benson were out, and we spent
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the evening there alone. Did she seem to be the same as usual?
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Why? Except for one little thing? Yes, she complained that she felt
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cold, almost shivery. The house was cold even for me. The thermometer
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said seventy eight, but it wasn't as warm as in there. But the
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fact that she was cold when the thermometer said seventy eight seemed to prey on
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her mind. I tried to tell her that thermometer was wrong and that I
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was chilly too, but she insisted I would just being nice to her.
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I see, unless she any reason to be afraid of going out of her
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mind. When I was waiting for June the other night, Alex, her
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brother in law, warned me that she was acting queer, said he fell
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out a no, told me your mother died in the Hallah Hill Sanitarium.
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I tried to laugh at him, but he insisted he and Phyllis had seemed
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definite symptoms. Anyone else lived there with June Beside Phyllis and her husband,
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the housekeeper, Miss Everett Cook, and a maid. They must have plenty
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of money. Oh. Yes, June's father was a rich man, and
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he left his entire estate to be divided between the two girls. How long
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ago did her mother go to the sanitarium? Let me see, June was
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six then, so it must have been nineteen thirty two. She died there
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in nineteen forty. I see, what doeses Alex Benson do. He has
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a very good business, I understand, doing very well. And this housekeeper
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you spoke of, have you been with them long since a couple of years
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after Miss Campbell was taken away. She's a peppery old lady, but an
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excellent housekeeper. She and Phillis brought June up. I'd like to talk to
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you if youance wired, can you arrange it? That's what I'd hoped you'd
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say, mister Carter, June is crazy. I know that, just as
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sure as I know my own name. One. Can we see her around
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five this afternoon? Perhaps we can try. Where shall I meet? You?
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Better be here at the office about four thirty. We'll go up together.
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I'll be here, Oh, mister Carter, I do hope you can
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straighten this out. I'll certainly do what I can. You're swell, mister
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Carter. Well, see at four thirty? By so long? About it's
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why? Oh? The poor kid losing her mind at her age? I'm
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not gonna sure she is, Betsy. Huh. Look at this note she
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sent Wirt, Well, what about it? Writing looks so awkward, but
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she was probably upset. Closely see how the pencil bears down much harder in
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some places than another's. Yes, it's not alwaysn't the places where the lines
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would naturally be heavier, which means one explanation would be that somebody was guiding
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her hand, poising her round this. Oh, let's see, I think
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we'll do some checking out. Okay, what do we do? Uh call
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scupy of the paper. Ask him for a full report on both Phyllis and
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Alex Benson society doings and any other information to be finding them more. Also,
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tell him to check up on Alex's business and financial rating. All right,
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anything else, Yes, I want you to call him the housekeeper,
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give us some excuse. Find out all you can about it. I'll tell
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you what. I'll pretend I'm making a check up of the conditions under which
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housekeepers work for some magazine, saying that'll do it good. While you do
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that, I'm going down to the surrogate's office and take a look at the
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father's will. Is any conspiracy going on, that's very likely it'll be money
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involved. Okay, Nick, see you here as soon as I get the
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dope by Missus Evritt. As I told you when you call it, young
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lady, I can give you only a few minutes. Well, I'm glad
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you could see me at all, Missus Everett. We can sit here in
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the breakfast room. Thank you. Now, ask your questions and I'll answer
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them. If they're not personal, well they are personal, but only in
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a general way. How long have you been here since nineteen thirty six,
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the year after Missus Kemple died? Had you worked previously? I had fourteen
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years, two jobs in each case. I left because I was offered more
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money. If somebody offered me more money than I'm getting here, i'd leave
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tomorrow. Are you married, missus Everett? I was? My husband died.
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Any children I have not? I hate them? How do you find
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working conditions here? I've seen, but then I've seen worse. How do
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you get along with your employers? Mister Kemple was a fine man. We
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got along well. Oh do you mean you're having trouble with mister missus Benson?
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No, Phyllis and Alex are all right. We got along well enough.
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But that June I can't stander. I never caught. Oh. Do
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you have any special reason to feel that way? Or is it because you
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don't like children? She was a Brett always. What used to play kicks
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on me when I first came here, left a toy wagon for me to
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stumble over when she was little and I fell and broke my ankle. I'd
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have left here then, but mister Campbell offered me so much money I couldn't
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afford to go that. I've made that June pay for what you did why
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I I'm talking too much? What else do you want to know? You
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wouldn't want to tell me what they pay you here, would you? I
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wouldn't. I told you not to get personal. Now I got to go.
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Good day, goodbye, and thank you Missus Everett. All right,
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Scabby, I'll helen. Thanks goodbye. Hi, Patty, how do you
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make out? Here's a tight written report in my interview? I didn't like
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that Missus Everett at all. If he doesn't like June, how good work,
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Patty? That covers it? You really like it? Nick, I
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do get your We're taking a ride out to Harrow Hill the sanitarium or missus
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kempele died. I want to talk to the doctor out there? All right
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with you? Nick? Walter went out after your phone, but he'll be
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back pretty soon. Have you hurt and discoverer? Oh yes? He says
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he found plenty of stuff about Phyllis and Alex, but nothing you want,
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except that Alex's business is in a pretty bad shape. He needs to expand
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and has been having trouble getting capital to do it, Guppy, because he
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couldn't find out whether he'd put any of his wife's money into it or not.
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I say, why'd you find out sarrogate's office. I found that mister
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Kemple left a large fortune he fired equally between the two girls. There were
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two interesting clauses in the will. One was that should either daughter develop a
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mental weakness of any kind, the other daughter would be in control of the
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money and administered for the other's benefits. Make that something the other peculiar.
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It's a statement that since the circumstances surrounding the birth of the two sisters were
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fully taken into account and drawing the will, no claims on that basis were
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to be allowed on the penalty of parfiture of all rights under the will.
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What in the world? What does that mean? Wish I knew? I
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call the lawyer drew it, but refused to talk about it. So I'm
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having Walder look up the birth certificates of both girls. Might be some help
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there. Uh huh. You think the doctor of the sanitarium could help you?
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I don't know. I hope. So that's one reason when I have
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a talk with him. I'm sorry I can't be of more help to you,
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Miss Carter, but my knowledge of the Kempbell family is limited to missus
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kempbele herself. As I said, doctor, tell me that missus Kemple know
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what was happening to him. Yes, some years before it actually happened,
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it became evident that sooner or later she would have trouble. Hers, as
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I said, was a case of schizophrenia, split personality, and in her
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case, the other side of her was homicidal. But you say it can
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be inherited, doctor, it can be, but fortunately it rarely is.
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Well. Thank you for your time, Doctor Lennox, and for your information.
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I think it will help us to get to the bottom of this.
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Turn left here, mister Carter. The Kembel places halfway down the next block,
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Nick, did I hear what they're telling you? He could find only
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Phyllis's birth certificate. That's right, Patsy. No record of June's worth at
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all. Why do you know where June is born? No? I don't.
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Oh, by the way, mister Carter. I tried to get in
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touch with June to tell her we were coming, but the housekeeper wouldn't let
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me speak to her, said she was asleep. Done that woman. I
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don't trust her at tall. Is this the house? Yeah, that's it.
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He'll have to wait in the car, Patsy as ever. It knows
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you, right, Nick, I hope we can get in. Oh,
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I think we'll manage somehow. If Phillis is here, she'll let me in.
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There's nobody here. I think I hear someone coming. When there's somebody
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sick in the house, you already know better than to make so much noise.
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Missus Everett. I'm sorry, but we must see June Kempbell at once.
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She's in her room and in no condition to see anyone at once.
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Who are you? This is mister Nick Carter and miss Everett. Please let
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us see June. What's a detective doing here? I'm not here as a
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detective, well as a friend. Hey, we see June very well.
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She's in her room. You can go up, but make it as short
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as you can. She's sick. Thank you. Come on, mister Carter.
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I can't understand Miss Everitt's dislike, but June. She never has a
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good word for her. Some people are like that. Wif hell does June?
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Come on? Youne know me what's wrong. I couldn't open the door.
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I couldn't make my hands open. The door was probably stuck, you
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know. It wasn't the door with me by hand. Why what do you
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mean by that, Miss Kevin. It's just why my mother acted when she
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was sick. Alex told me about it last night. She couldn't make her
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head do what she wanted. I tried to open my door and I couldn't.
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I just couldn't. If I had to try and try before I could
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get it open. Oh, it was like a nightmare. Come now,
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Honey, don't cry like that, please, honey. Why here? Oh?
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What is it? Sir? Whyet all? That's wax, isn't it.
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It is wax. Had someone stuffed in the latch of her door to
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make it difficult to open? Not impossible, that's difficult. Then there is
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a plotter drive her insane. I knew it either there or a plot to
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make her think she's insane. Nothing very mental about a piece of wax and
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a door lock. Listen, June, Honey, marry me right now.
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Let me get you out of this house. You'll be safe once I get
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you waiting here, No, Randy, I can't. It wouldn't be fair
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to you. Listen, someone just came in. I'll tell you about that.
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Why. I've got a detective, but I'm talking to June, and
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she shouldn't be seeing anything, but I couldn't. I'll go up and see
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if Dus is everything all right too, Yes, miss Benson, there's nothing
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wrong with June. I'm surprised you felt you had to see her when she's
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so ill. Miss Benson. This is mister Carter, a friend of mine.
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How do you do? And I wanted him to see June. Well,
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now that you've seen her, you better go. Come June. I'll
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take you back to your room. You better lie down and be quiet,
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all right? But know you well, mister Carter, I guess yes,
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come my wife. I'm sorry, Philip seems a little abrupt, but we're
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really very much worried about June. I told you, Randy, she's exhibiting
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all the symptoms her mother had just before she was taken away. Alex,
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this is mister Carter. He knew my father years ago. I worry you,
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mister man. How do you do? Sir Benson? Do you happen
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to know June was born June? But no, I don't think I do.
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Wait a minute, it seems to me I've heard Phillis say that she
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was born in Barnstable. And where's that what's about an hour out of the
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city. I believe on the river turn fight Phyllis. Wasn't June born in
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Barnstable? Yes she was, Oh, Alice, I don't know what we're
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going to do with that girl. She's possessed with that one idea and since
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mother, well I don't know what to do. Come on, mister Carter,
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we better get out of here. Yes, our work is finished here
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for now, But nay gone't you're going to eat anything before you go?
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Yeah, we'll grab a sandwich and a cup of coffee on the way.
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Why, Simon, you're expecting to find a Barnstable June was born there?
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Her birth certificate doesn't give us a clue to that clause in campus. Well,
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I'll find somebody there who can. That's how you wait here at the
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office for me. But what do you expect from me, mister Carter?
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You say you found a birth certificate in good order after we finally got that
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guy to open up town halls, who we could have a look? Boy?
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Was he up and mad at being called away from his supper? Doctor
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jessep You signed the birth certificate, so you should be able to answer my
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question. What is there about June's birth. That would cause her father to
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put that strange clause, And as will, I couldn't tell you, mister
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Carter, missus Kemball came up here for a rest, and June was born
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while she was here. Hectar Joseph, suppose I should tell you that I
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think someone is trying to make June think she's losing her mind because her mother
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did. Would that stir your memory? Losing her mind because her mother?
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Oh no, that's impossible. Pardon me. I must see who's at the
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door. Certainly, we'll wait. It's strange that they should come to the
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back door know something, sure as you're afoot he knows something, yes,
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Fllow, I think it does. And I think he's going to Nick.
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Sounds as if he's Donctor Jesse. What's wrong, doctor Jesse? You're right?
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See Leona Perkins. See look at Nick. He was shut twice right
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through the chest, so I see, but we didn't hear no shots,
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silence, sir, apparently Waldo. See if you can spot anyone out there,
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right Nick, I'll get him. Poor guy. I didn't come here,
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Fallow Wallow, no cord. Nick. I thought I saw a guy
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Hiden in the trees there, so I took a couple of shots at him.
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Yeah, I guess it was just shadows. You ought to know better
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than I go shooting off that or forty four of yours blindly that way.
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But Nick, I all know you stay here. Call the sheriff, tell
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him what happened. I'm going to finally own the Perkins before someone tries to
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eliminate her tool. You got that, Betsy. Tell Mary to have his
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man keep constant watch on the temple house and tell me just who goes in
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round uh huh, And he's to wait until Yukon and report to you.
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Right. I'll take you up at the office on my way back. Oh,
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and have Randy Wyatt there too, so we can go with us.
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Oh where did you say you are? Now? And bunstable at the home
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of Leona Perkins. She was June's nurse after she was born. She knows
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the answers if anyone does. All right, I'll see at the office,
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Betsy. Sorry, missus Perkins, but I had to get that call through
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without delayed. Now you know doctor jessp of course, Yes, of course
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I worked with him for fifteen years. He sent you to me. Yes,
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I'm I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but doctor Jessep has
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just been killed. Doctor Jessep, yes, shut is someone who wanted to
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keep him from telling me what I came to Bunstable to find out. Doctor
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Jessep dead. I can't believe it. Before he died, he told me
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to come to you and you would tell me what the mystery is about June
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Kempbell's birth. Why are you asking these questions, mister Carter because June's sanity
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is in danger. June insane, she can't be Why not her motherwise,
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I understand died in the sanitarium, and you understand wrongly, mister Carter.
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Her mother is perfectly sane, and she is still alive, alive, And
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well, what's that you say? Do I look insane to you? You?
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Why? I know? No, of course not, mister Carter.
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I am June's mother. You you are June's mother. I am June is
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really my daughter, as persons are afraid, I don't understand. Why was
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she brought up as the Campbell's child. Missus Kempbell had one daughter and she
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wanted another desperately, but she knew she was gradually going out of her mind,
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and she was afraid if she bore another child, it too might be
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susceptible to the same red disease. So she decided to adopt a bee,
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but secretly to prevent any possible discrimination against it, she made inquiries in several
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places. Doctor Jessup heard of her search and came to me. How did
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it happen to come to you? He was my doctor. My husband had
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just been killed in an accident, and my baby was to be born in
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three days. We were very poor, and I was frantic with worry.
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I had no money, mister Carter, no relatives. I never worked a
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day in my life. I could see no way to provide for the child
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who was coming. And you agreed to give up your baby. Yes,
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in a moment of weakness, I did. When June was born, doctor
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Jessup registered her as being born and missus Kempbell instead of to me. Perhaps
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it was wrong of him, but he felt it was the wisest thing to
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do. You've never seen her since, no, mister Carter. Bitterly,
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as I've regretted my decision, I'd sworn i'd never try to see her again,
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and I never have had anyone else beside you, the doctor, and
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the Kemples know of this. No, not a soul. Even Phyllis was
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never told she believed June to be her own natural sister. I doubt that
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she does. Now, missus Perkins, you must go back to the city
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with me at once. Not only June's sanity, but her life may be
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in danger at this very moment. And you say you've found some real evidence,
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Nick, well, best in the world passing I found Missus Perkins here.
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Well, I understand, Nick. You'll know the roll star in a
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few minutes. That's as soon as we get to the Campbell's house. Is
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it a plot against June, mister Carter? Is she really all right?
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Yes? Right? And I believe so. It'll take time to get her
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back on her feet, But basically she's as sane as you were. I
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but who would want to do a thing like this? Could only be one
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person? And how she found out about it, I don't know she did
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obviously, mister Carter. How much further? I promised once I'd never see
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June again, But now that's one promise that it's better broken than Kevin.
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Here we are. Huh. Oh that lets you madiest man across the street,
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you three go in? How do you with you? As soon as
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I get his report, I'm as protestless to call her. This is outrageous.
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It hasn't been done this way. Everybody's here, Nick, all except
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Phyllis. She's been in bed with migraine headache ever since dinner. I will
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go ahead without him. June, you say various things happened to you that
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seem to indicate that you're losing your mind, just like my poor mother when
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and she was losing her mind. How do you know about your mother?
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By Alex told me? Alex told you dependson? May I ask if you
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knew missus Kempbell? Why No? I didn't she before I met Phyllis?
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And how do you know how she reacted while she was going to pieces?
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Well, I've heard the story from Phyllis, complete with details. Why yeah,
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recently? Why? I guess she has told me more in the last
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few weeks than she ever did before. But what are you getting at?
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I won't let them take me away. I'll kill myself first. I will
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steady, steady, that won't be necessary. There's nothing wrong with you mentally?
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And then never has it in it? Every single one of those things
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there's a trick suggestion planted in your mind. My mother died in that place.
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No, June, You're wrong, she didn't. June's mother is alive
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and well today. I'd like to introduce her to you, Missus Leona Perkins.
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This is the most fantastic story I ever heard. Are you sure?
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I am? I have positive proof doctor Jessup's story and Missus Perkins' story which
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can be backed up with documentary proof. And if you want something you can
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see for yourself, look at June's little finger. I've just now noticed how
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she has the same peculiar little crook at the end of it that Missus Perkins
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has. By golly, Nick, you're right, it's just the same.
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My mother, my real mother, Yes, June Darling, your real mother.
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Oh, mister Carter, Who in Heaven's name would want to do this
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to June? A person who was afraid that she might be susceptible to the
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thing that killed her mother and consequently hated the person who wasn't, A person
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who wanted to prove that it was someone else, not her, who was
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the weak one card? Did you realize what you're saying, Buttuary Benson?
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I do what you mean that Phylliss. Course he doesn't, Alex, that's
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she nons. Missus Benson. Didn't you help June write the note that broke
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her engagement to Randy Wyatt? Yes, at her request, after you talk
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me into doing it. And didn't you suggest that June heard things and felt
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things? And then when you gotta believing she did, didn't you suggest to
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Alex that those things were a sign of mental weakness? She did? I
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can tell now. She was always asking me if I didn't feel this,
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to hear that I thought she was trying to help me. But I was
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trying to help. Why have you been the last two three hours in my
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room with a headed No you weren't You go up to barnstables, shot doctor
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jessup so he couldn't tell me the secret, and came back here. My
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man saw you come in. You sneaked in the back door and up to
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your room, changed your shoes because they got money in the doctor's backyard,
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and then you came down here to brazen it out. Randy. If you'll
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look, I'm sure you'll find the muddy shoes in her room, and you'll
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find the motor of her car still hot and probably you'll find a gun in
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a car too. I'll take a look right here, say where you are,
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all of you. You may find the muddy shoes, but I've got
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the pistol right here, and I'm gonna kill you all. You're a pack
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of sneaky you're taking away opposite of course you hurt someone, officer, I'll
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take all right, all right, go hand, don Alex, take her
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upstairs, keep her in her room. It's mister cut Come on, Phillous.
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Sure locked me up so the way they locked my mother up. You
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think I'm crazy, but I'm not. I'm as say as any of you.
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I'll show you all, show you how could you do such a thing?
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Phyllis, Why should you hate me so? Why? And I hate
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you? I hated you from the moment I found those old letters of father's
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after he died, those letters from doctor Jessop, which gave away the whole
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story. Doctor Jessop said he I'd never suffer as my mother did, said
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he could understand how pleased father was to know that there was no possibility of
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you having inherited any tendency to a mental weakness. I knew what he meant,
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and I hated you for it. I wish i'd killed you long ago.
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Come, Phyllish, you'll feel better in your own room, and missus
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Everett, will you come with us please? Of course, misters take your
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hands off a terrible thing. Yes, you never found those letters. This
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own thing might never have happened, And I only turned her against June.
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They planted the fear of insanity in her own mind, and they hate,
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and the fear together grew into a phobia that was too strong for her.
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Mister Carter, I don't know what to say. If there's any way I
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can repay you, you have only to name it. Oh, yes,
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mister Carter, I feel as if a load had been lefted off my heart.
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This is a wonderful thing you've done, mister Carter, A wonderful thing.
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God bless you for doing. Hey. In the excitement, I forgot,
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forgot what I was being held in bonnstable in charge of killing doctor Jessop.
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What Yes, he called us before you got back, said he'd tried
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to explain what happened, but the sheriff didn't believe him, especially since two
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shots have been fired Miss Pittol and two shots killed doctor Jessop. Oh poor,
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I suppose the more the questions I'm the more excited. He guy that
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if only talked himself right into hisself, you better do something about it.
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Nicky pol Waldo goes crazy before Okay, okay, pathy, Now here's your
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phone, June co Op reader, I want to Shaff's office in Bunstable,
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as the chriff offer that I want to talk to the cheff himself. Well,
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then how about a little look in the next week's Story's gonna send it
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down? H. It all started the man being strangled in his hotel room
29:02
in the very early hours of the morning, and then went on to include
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a piece of silk torn from a shirt, a dictaphone record, and a
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missing wife who was missing because her husband wanted it that way, but he
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refused to stay missing. When she received a letter containing a railroad ticket,
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it was read the hotel me, oh pa, say something for next week?
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H What do you call your story? Nat? I call it the
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Case of the Dictaphone Murder. Nick Carcker Master Detective, which is produced and
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directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and Smith's Publications Incorporated. Pictured
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stories of Nick Cocker appear in every issue of the shadow comics. In the
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broadcast of Nick Cocker Detective, Lon Clark has starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson
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has featured as Patsy. Original music is played by George Wright. Script is
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by Josh McGregor and Peggy Mayer. Any resemblance of these programs to actual persons
30:11
living or dead are the actual places as purely coincidental. Nick Carter Master Detective
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is presented over most of these mutual stations each week. At this same time,
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this is Hu Sanders saying, so long until next week. This program
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was heard in Canada through the facilities of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Welcome Back
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when there was the difference between the two daughters that really did give away the
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solution to the case. It's interesty when you look at the portrayal of adoption
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during the Golden Age, it was often just a very negative thing, particularly
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in mysteries, and some of that can go back to Agatha Christie, whose
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own sort of feelings about adoptions really covered her stories, which tend to feature
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a lot of adoptive children and parents menting all sorts of horrific acts against one
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another. Even those media presentations that dealt with adoptions in a positive line,
31:33
tend to do it strictly with adopting orphans. The idea of giving a child
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up for adoption was really shrouded in a lot of shame, which tended to
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exacerbate a lot of issues that people had around the whole process. As for
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the mystery itself, the content of it, really, when I was listening
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to it, my thought was, this doesn't really sound like a Nick Carter
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case so much as it sounds like something that was borrowed from mister Keene Tracer
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of Lost Persons, which was much more into the melodrama, which is where
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this falls a lot more than the typical sort of pulp fiction story that Nick
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Carter does so well. Well now who listener comments and feedback, and Joel
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commented that the story the Little Old Ladies was evocative of arsenic and old lace,
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and that's certainly a good reference and probably the most iconic example of this
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whole idea of turning someone who's typically frail or considered helpless than to someone who
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is far more dangerous. Well, I will do it for today. We'll
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be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dahler. Next Thursday, join us
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for another episode of Nick Carter. In the meantime, send your comments to
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and off.