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Ellery Queen: The Adventure of Dead Man’s Cavern (EP1618) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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  Speaker 1: Ellery Queen, and it's the Armed Forces Radio Services version
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  Speaker 1: of the Adventure of Dead Man's Cavern the original air
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  Speaker 1: date April fifteenth of nineteen forty four.
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  Speaker 2: The Adventures of Every Queen.
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  Speaker 3: For all you men and women in the Armed Forces
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  Speaker 3: of the United Nations. A rebroadcast of Radio Thrilling mystery
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  Speaker 3: drama The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Now Here is Ernest
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  Speaker 3: Chapel to introduce the guests and the shaw.
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  Speaker 4: Ellery Queen invites you to match with with him as
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  Speaker 4: he relates another story of a crime heal on unraveled.
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  Speaker 4: Before revealing the solution, he stops the play gives you
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  Speaker 4: a chance to solve the mystery. Our guest armshair detectives
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  Speaker 4: for this evening on missus Marjorie Lawrence, Metropolitan Opera star,
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  Speaker 4: and mister Beverly Kelly of the Ringling Brothers Bartom and
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  Speaker 4: Bailey Combined shows and now Ellery Queen, Master Detective and
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  Speaker 4: your host for the next half hour.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ernest Chapel, and good evening ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Well tonight we tell you the strange mystery of the
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  Speaker 2: Ghost in the mountaintopk I call it the Adventure of
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  Speaker 2: dead Man's Cavern.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, but but mister Queen does know anywhere in Canoco,
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  Speaker 5: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Operator Noca New York. Give me that phone, Nikki, I.
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  Speaker 5: Are the excitement, mister Queen, co Operator.
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  Speaker 2: Ellery Queen, put her on, Please put her on.
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  Speaker 6: Hello Grace, Ellery, how's the master mine?
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  Speaker 2: It's grand to hear your voice, darling joling, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing it? You're ad around that lodge, grace.
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  Speaker 7: Crating my soul?
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  Speaker 2: How would you like to join me this weekend? It's
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  Speaker 2: a date. How about my gang dad really and my secretary?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll have a large pool anyway. Wait a minute, dear,
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  Speaker 5: I'll look at the schedule, you.
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  Speaker 2: Bet, Darling. Hello on ellery queen.
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  Speaker 5: If you think I'm going to kick my heels around
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  Speaker 5: a matter on that love nest while you and some
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  Speaker 5: shameless woman.
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  Speaker 2: Grace, Why, Nikki, she's doctor Grace, Grace and lovely, the
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  Speaker 2: most famous living woman physicist, an old friend. Oh how
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  Speaker 2: old about fifty? Nikkis? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there's a nine forty five grand Central Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take you and your phot up at the canal gustations.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be fun, Grace, I do like that laugh, But
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  Speaker 2: you got up your sleeve.
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  Speaker 5: Scene.
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  Speaker 2: The fact is you can help catch a murder this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, so, who is he?
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  Speaker 5: A gentleman known as the strangler?
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  Speaker 6: Strangler? It sounds grim?
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  Speaker 2: How many people is he killed? Twenty nine as report now?
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  Speaker 6: Saturday Sprangler?
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  Speaker 2: I could strangle you, Grace stringing me along about catching
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  Speaker 2: a murderer?
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  Speaker 6: Who has been dead over one hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't you tell me is the ghost of a
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  Speaker 2: local legend.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wanted to excite your kill you the yellowy
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  Speaker 5: refeel in spect to Queen.
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  Speaker 2: I mind if I do, Doctor Grayson, I'm getting plastered
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  Speaker 2: on this mountain there, so you gotta go stop here.
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  Speaker 2: It's in a cave near this lodge. You said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's called dead Man's Cabin. Your three other guests seem
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  Speaker 2: mighty interested in that haunted cave. Grace, listen, missus Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: and it' it is. Well, I suppose I ought to
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  Speaker 2: warn you.
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  Speaker 5: Hector Gabriel and it's widders are supernaturalists and their lives
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  Speaker 5: running down.
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  Speaker 2: Go joined to join us on the port. Gentlemen, idiots,
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  Speaker 2: the way you were taken in by that ecoplasm freaking Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: you would have been pulled to with us already. Remember
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  Speaker 2: how I exposed that crowd of fake mediums in Nashville, Gabriel,
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  Speaker 2: but you were ready to tell the whole you annoy me.
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  Speaker 5: That's the way for years ellery friendly enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Gabriel. I'm told you have the largest most valuable
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  Speaker 2: library of psychic works in the world. Yes, indeed, mister
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  Speaker 2: queen with it, lucky dog, you've got books. I'd give
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  Speaker 2: my right arm for. Doctor Greyson tells us you two
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  Speaker 2: gentlemen are up here to investigate that learned cave. Miss Withers,
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  Speaker 2: that tried inspector. We're going to conduct a scientific experiment.
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  Speaker 2: Now see here, Hector Gabriel.
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  Speaker 5: I'll let you and Witherus turn my lodge into a
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  Speaker 5: psychic laboratory, but don't drag the respectable name of science
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  Speaker 5: into it.
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  Speaker 2: Are the actually psychic manifests? Great?
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  Speaker 5: Oh lord, some lugon eighteen forty began strangling people in
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  Speaker 5: that cave, and ever since then it's.
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  Speaker 2: What's that sounds like a wolf or something? Lesson? That's
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  Speaker 2: the moan, Gabriel. The ghost sounds now someone swinging? That's
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  Speaker 2: no ghost, sounds like my wife in this porter took
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  Speaker 2: a walk in the woods and here they come running white.
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  Speaker 2: Missus Gabriel, hold you what happens working in the woods? Instead?
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  Speaker 5: You want that ghastly moaning started from the direction of
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  Speaker 5: that cave. Missus Gabriel got fighting to please.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you and mister Withers come here that cave? It's
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  Speaker 2: on it? Why hold of us? What with us? And
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  Speaker 2: I came here for Yes, missus Gabriel, if those moons
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  Speaker 2: were made by a ghost, is our duty to psychic science.
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  Speaker 5: Now you'll see here those sounds are unnatural phenomena, nothing
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  Speaker 5: ghostly about them.
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  Speaker 2: Then then what made that noise? Doctor, Grace, my dear child.
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  Speaker 5: The cavin probably has a peculiar rock structure which causes
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  Speaker 5: it to catch the wind at the for the mountain
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  Speaker 5: and then excel it with a moaning promic, I said.
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  Speaker 2: And she resounds funny. What do you think? I think, Dad,
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  Speaker 2: we'd better have a look at dead Man's cabin, Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Must we go through these words to get to the cave? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: No way of going around it, sheer cliff on either side.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder why the moon stopped with us exasperating, gave
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  Speaker 2: riled everybody. Someone coming sounds like a big, heavy man.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't the Strangler supposed to be big and having Oh nonsense, Sergeant,
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  Speaker 2: it must be Hank Pete.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I was right.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Hey the moan from dead Men's caravan troo.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they're going to the cabin now, Hey, these are
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  Speaker 5: friends of mine.
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  Speaker 2: A good movie. Strangler's getting pretty restless lately, say Daniel Bone.
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  Speaker 2: You don't believe in that goss bantou Man used to
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  Speaker 2: believe in a lot of things. Mister living alone up
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  Speaker 2: here in the hills. Just what is the story of
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  Speaker 2: the strangler, mister Gabriel. Well, some mountaineer, mister queen over,
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  Speaker 2: tell him, Gabriel. He lowered wayfarers into the cave you see,
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  Speaker 2: and strangled them for their money. Nice fall. What did
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  Speaker 2: he do with his victims' bunnies? There's a natural open
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  Speaker 2: and in a rear wall the cave like a window.
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  Speaker 5: It overlooks the lake and stretched the same light that's
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  Speaker 5: behind my lads.
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  Speaker 2: See, strangler threw his victims out of that cave window
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  Speaker 2: into the lake fifty feet below. Never since them folksy strangled.
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  Speaker 2: Keep them moaning like you'll.
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  Speaker 5: Heard, Oh of all the succotash hanged. The brute was
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  Speaker 5: finally caught and hanged it.
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  Speaker 2: The goes to this strangler murdered one of his victims
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  Speaker 2: all over again. Well here we are, right at the
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  Speaker 2: top of my mountain. Well, there's a cleaning here between
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  Speaker 2: where the woods stop and the entrance to the Hey, hi,
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  Speaker 2: ain't got a wooden door covering the entrance to the camp.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, let's cross the carrying.
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  Speaker 2: How come a door? Grace?
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  Speaker 5: Hank Pete knows more about it than I do.
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  Speaker 2: Some city for a few years back with the door
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  Speaker 2: and charged admission to see the under cave? Was his
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  Speaker 2: name pt behind him. One night he was in here
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  Speaker 2: alone and the morning started he lit out like a
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  Speaker 2: buck den. He ain't been seen since.
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  Speaker 6: Good stop door, Let's go in.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll stick behind out by the end.
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  Speaker 6: Sergeant, you would never make.
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  Speaker 2: A physicist psychic, said, what did either interesting? Kevin name,
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  Speaker 2: mister Queen. Yes, butter Gabriel from what I can see
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  Speaker 2: of it in this gloom, sallenger, Oh, ruth, the ruth.
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  Speaker 5: Is really the inside is a very crest of the mountain, Inspector.
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  Speaker 2: There's the window in the rear wall. Yes, this opening
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  Speaker 2: looks right out over the lake drop at his feet.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of experiment, are you, gentlemen, intending to get
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  Speaker 2: that the innerge with this? Well, Gabriel and I plan
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  Speaker 2: to spend an entire twenty four hours in this cave,
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  Speaker 2: Inspector Queen, from six tomorrow morning until six a m.
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  Speaker 2: The following day. We'll take food, water, blankets, oil, lamps,
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  Speaker 2: and a sound recording appreface. We want to be in
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  Speaker 2: here when the morning begins, very time to take you day,
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, year, you female philistine. Really, that's why coming
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  Speaker 2: in all I got lonsome out there say support you
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  Speaker 2: meet up with this, because don't you gents think you
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  Speaker 2: better pack a run just in case of what's making
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  Speaker 2: them sounds could be shot, be a dead ghost long ago.
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  Speaker 2: We're taking every precaution against the possibility that the moons
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  Speaker 2: are caused by a human agency. We pick tomorrow for
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  Speaker 2: our vigil because the weather forecast for tonight is heavy rain,
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  Speaker 2: and the rain will soak down the loose earth of
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  Speaker 2: the clearing in front of the cave. Yes, get it
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  Speaker 2: so soft that anyone approaching the cave will have to
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  Speaker 2: leave footprints in the mud. Well let's go back, eh,
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  Speaker 2: you gentlemen will leave footprints when you cross the money
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  Speaker 2: clearing tomorrow morning. We'll cross it there for to identify
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  Speaker 2: our own appears to me like your true fellow, ashamed
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  Speaker 2: to tinker with trouble, my dear Pete's gooest. Don't scare us, Gabriel,
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  Speaker 2: you have that new luck we brought out.
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  Speaker 4: Ye, Yes, we is.
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  Speaker 2: Ah there and the key remains in my pocket. Well
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  Speaker 2: that's all until tomorrow morning at six. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to see us off, you'll have to be up early.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be up early, mister Gabriel.
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  Speaker 5: Oh guys, shine, sleepy yellerie. Missus Gabriel and I had
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  Speaker 5: to double up last night, and she moaned all night long.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever stolen it? Tack to Gabriel? Where Gabriel is?
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  Speaker 2: He bunked with me last night, but when I woke
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  Speaker 2: up this morning, he was already gone.
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  Speaker 5: Let's be waiting for us at the cave. Oh. Look,
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  Speaker 5: is that the old woodman doctor Grayson mentioned last night?
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  Speaker 2: Thank Pete, So yes morning, hank up early to see
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  Speaker 2: mister Gabriel and mister Winners start there watching the cave.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Crane. I just brent over to the clear and
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  Speaker 2: at the edge of the woods. Somebody's in that cave
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  Speaker 2: caved doors open, but that hang cave door open. Why
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  Speaker 2: it can't be Gabriel. And I put a new lock
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  Speaker 2: on it yesterday, and he has the only key from see.
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  Speaker 8: For here, So.
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  Speaker 6: I must be your husband, Missus Gabriel.
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  Speaker 5: Well I don't understand it, sergeant, But weren't mister Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Willis to go into the cave together. Yes we were,
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  Speaker 2: Heph Withers. Look the prince of a small man's bare
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  Speaker 2: feet and they go perfectly straight across from the clear
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  Speaker 2: into the cave too. Just one said the prince in going.
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  Speaker 2: Why he's tricky. It's world of honor we'd go into.
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  Speaker 2: Yet by his word of.
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  Speaker 5: Art, I'm sure Hector wouldn't do anything disimble.
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  Speaker 2: Well, these are his footprints, aren't they. There couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: anyone else's here. They're so small sheet mister Withers, you're
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  Speaker 2: a dreadful man. It's probably a joke. He's the Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Gabriel. I grow, something's wrong, Dad, I'm crossing.
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  Speaker 2: That's clearing alone on the tour to keep out of
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  Speaker 2: the way of Gabriel's footprint.
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  Speaker 6: If you have to follow me the tour. Two h sen.
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  Speaker 2: Dad, Billy telling me come on, meaning I'm coming, sending wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Send what isn't mind? Strong? Look Gabriel and the gay
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  Speaker 2: floor with all the supplies around him dead at about
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  Speaker 2: an hour, I'd say, since my they am. He's contorted
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  Speaker 2: by a.
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  Speaker 4: Horrible fear and no wonder look at his neck.
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  Speaker 2: He's been strangled that, and I don't get it. Even
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  Speaker 2: these mass of strangulation are queer. You mean the upward pointing,
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  Speaker 2: some impressions at the back of Gabriel's neck. Yes, why
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  Speaker 2: we want the temp prints and his windface? Oh that
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  Speaker 2: it's grace Grayson, Sergeant, You and Hank Fiece didn't mess
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  Speaker 2: up Gabriel's footprints and crossing the clearing, did you?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 2: Lray, we detoured too, poor Gabriel. I can't believe it yet,
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  Speaker 2: hangs Look Grocer, the stranger right told well you stop
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  Speaker 2: tapping about ghost. Daniel gome scared.
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  Speaker 5: Stop it, Hank, Why are we going to do? Poor
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  Speaker 5: holders in a state of collapse. Nick is trying frantically
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  Speaker 5: to calm her down. And that man with us happened
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  Speaker 5: out of the words. Since this happened, who did it?
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  Speaker 5: Come outside?
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  Speaker 2: I want to show you something. The only way Gabriel's
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  Speaker 2: murderer could have got into the cave with the way
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  Speaker 2: Gabriel got in by crossing this muddy clearing. Well, well,
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  Speaker 2: where are the killer's footprints? You didn't seen our prints
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  Speaker 2: in this mudain we got here this morning, except the
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  Speaker 2: ones at Gabriel's bare feet, did you? I see?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously the strangler entered the cave some other way, oh, Grace.
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  Speaker 2: The only other opening into the cave is that natural
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  Speaker 2: window in the rear wall, which overlooks the lake. That
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  Speaker 2: opening is fifty feet above the lake, at the top
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  Speaker 2: of a sheer cliff and root of the cave. Not
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  Speaker 2: a rope down. We've been up there. It's covered with
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  Speaker 2: smooth mutton and no human forever stepped on it. And
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  Speaker 2: at the sides of the cave its sheer precipice too.
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  Speaker 5: Oh well, of course, the killer came here during the rain,
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  Speaker 5: which wiped out his print, lay in wait for Gabriel,
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  Speaker 5: who came with the rain.
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  Speaker 2: It stopped right oppened to the Prince the killer made leaving.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the important point. That the killer couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: got into the cave before Gabriel, Grace. The door was
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  Speaker 2: locked with a new lock, and only Gabriel had the key,
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  Speaker 2: which is still on his person.
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  Speaker 5: Then the killer used a grappling iron at the end
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  Speaker 5: of a strong line.
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  Speaker 2: You mean, throw a line up from the lake, Grace.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Summon stood in a boat on the lake below
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  Speaker 5: and threw up a grappling iron which caught the window.
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  Speaker 2: Yes again, Docter Grayson and I would have left scratch marks,
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  Speaker 2: and the same at the Rocky opening and there I
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  Speaker 2: ain't no scratch marks. And how do you explain it?
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  Speaker 2: You're wasting your time. Ghosts don't need grappling irons madly footprints, Yes, Grace,
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  Speaker 2: remarkable as it seems. It looks as if Thank Peter
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  Speaker 2: is right the setup Hector Gabriel could only have been
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  Speaker 2: strangled by a ghost. I don't know all this. You've
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  Speaker 2: been crying a whole day and night. But but they
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  Speaker 2: took Nicky. Why don't they let me go? I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say. What's the inspector up to keep telephoning?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? I don't know, Grace. I'm still grappling
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  Speaker 2: with a problem and the strangler ghost against don't be stilly, Nikki.
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  Speaker 2: It's the it's the ghost, the ghost. Yes, you where
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  Speaker 2: you're going, missus Gabriel? Dad really shut that down on
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  Speaker 2: such a back again, Inspector ghost sir as Gabriel as
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  Speaker 2: I hear you say you were going somewhere, yes, Tector
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  Speaker 2: home and you can't stop me. It's Gabriel. I've been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of investigating my phone in the past twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours. One of the things I've discovered is that
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  Speaker 2: your husband was a rich man. He I suppose so,
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  Speaker 2: but why is it? Dad? And then Gabriel's will check
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  Speaker 2: Hillery leaves nearly his entire estate, worth a couple of
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  Speaker 2: million dollars to his wife holder. See you mean you
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  Speaker 2: think I killed Hector? Your husband was almost twenty years
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  Speaker 2: older than you, missus Gabriel, Oh, yes, quite possible. Well
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  Speaker 2: you're crazy. Next thing we know, you'll be accusing me
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  Speaker 2: of strangling Gabriel. Exactly what I had in mind, mister Withers,
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean, Inspector? You and Gabriel read each
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  Speaker 2: other's throat for over twenty years with his enemies. Why
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  Speaker 2: we were friendly enemies. Also, we owned something you wanted bad,
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  Speaker 2: mister Weathers. Gabriel's library the most valuable collection of books
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  Speaker 2: on psychic phenomena in the world. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: I found out in the past twenty four hours is
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  Speaker 2: that Gabriel with the psychic library to ernest with us.
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  Speaker 5: But that's so absurd, Inspector, to kill a man's possession
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  Speaker 5: of some books.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think so, Doctor Greyson?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you'd agree that your motive was stronger my motive
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  Speaker 5: to kill Hector Gabriel dead.
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  Speaker 2: Grace involved Gabriel. He was his first wife, Gabriel's first wife.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that ellery? No, I didn't think he Grace.
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  Speaker 5: Surely you're joking, Inspector. Depends in your sense of human
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  Speaker 5: doctor Grayson. The fact is Hector Gabriel ditched you the
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  Speaker 5: matter elder.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what they say about a woman's scorn.
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  Speaker 5: So you think I killed Hector out of revenge for
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  Speaker 5: having thrown me over. I can see your point, Inspector,
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  Speaker 5: Only I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It's not any one of us. It was the ghost titaner,
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  Speaker 2: the ghost stars, a lot of cameoufly. Yes, one of
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: your three stranger Gabriel and that cave. The only question
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  Speaker 2: is which one? Who would that? Sad?
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  Speaker 6: See what.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know? Oh, it's just all hank the woods right,
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  Speaker 2: you'd want to know. We want to know what hank.
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  Speaker 2: Right at the edge of the woods where you entered
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  Speaker 2: the trail from here, just a couple of yards from
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  Speaker 2: the lodge, there's a lot of loose stones. Them stones
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: are slippery from the rain. Eh Alongside them slippery stones
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  Speaker 2: is a couple of small juniper bushes. They've been smashed
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  Speaker 2: flat I figure's how this Phela Gabriel slipped down them
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  Speaker 2: stones on his way to the cave yesterday morning, fell
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  Speaker 2: under them junipersh Hack answer, how fatter it? Certainly a sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it clears up the mystery.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I mean that that now I know the identity of
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: the ghost of dead Man's Cabin. And there, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: you have the mystery of dead Man's cavern.
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  Speaker 6: Have you an answer to it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, suppose you compare solutions with our guest armchair detectives. Nikki,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Will you please introduce our guests, Well, eurie.
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  Speaker 5: Our first guest tonight is Miss Marjorie Lawrence, famous Metropolitan soprano.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Stricken with infantile paralysis a couple of years ago. Miss
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Lawrence has fought against this dread affliction courageously and successfully,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: as evidenced by her recent triumph and the role of
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: the Solda as the net. Our second guest tonight is
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Mitch Beverly Kelly of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Combined Shows, or as All America calls it, the Circuit,
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: now playing at Madison Square Garden.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Mister Kelly has described the big top.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Two millions over the radio and his well known author
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: of books and stories on circus life.
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  Speaker 2: All right, err, thanks nicky Ms.
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  Speaker 6: Lawrence.
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  Speaker 2: Who strangled Gabriel? Well, I don't think anyone strangled him.
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  Speaker 2: I think that he slipped and.
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  Speaker 7: Fell on those stones under the juniper bushes. I think
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: the moaning sounds came from a natural means, somehow the
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: wind through the rocks or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what I would say. Thank you, is Lauren. Now,
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  Speaker 2: mister Kelly, who do you think strangle Gabriel? Well, glory
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of those footprints outside the cave weren't so small. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: think we could blame it on Gargantua. But I think
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to put my money on Gabriel's first wife
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and say that he fell from grace. Thank you, mister Kelly.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Well, how about it, Gang, I think you've got the answer.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: The guests have had their say, and Elerie Queen will
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: tell you the solution in just a few moments. So
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to give you a little time to talk it over
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and make your guesses, here's music by Frank Duvall and
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: his orchestra Soliloquy.
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  Speaker 2: Now, first, let's lay the ghosts. No ghost killed hector Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: The strangler's hands were human hands. They left human fingerprints
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: deep in the flesh of Gabriel's neck and throat. Wow,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: sure that's right, then those moans we heard must have
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: been made by the wind through the cave. Like doctor
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Greyson sat right sided. Now, since the strangler had human hands,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: he also had human feet, and human feet leave prince
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: in mud, but only put prints in the mud with
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Gabriel's one set in going.
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  Speaker 5: I know Gabriel choked in the wood and then staggered
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  Speaker 5: across the clearing alone.
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  Speaker 2: To the cave to die. Nikkote, you yourself pointed out
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: that the trail left by Gabriel's feet across the mud
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  Speaker 2: was perfectly straight.
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  Speaker 6: Men dying of.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Strangulation don't walk in a straight line. No, When Gabriel
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: crossed back carrying, unlocked the door and entered the cave,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: he was perfectly well. So the murder was committed in
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the cave, and for the murderer to have choked Gabriel
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: in the cave, he had to get there. Problem, how
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: did the killer cross that muddy clearing without leaving footprints?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And the more you think about it, the more obvious
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the answer gets well, dear man. He crossed it on
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Gabriel's back. Gabriel, Gabriel carried him, Garry. I know ded
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: other theories are possible, but my theory can be backed up.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: What was the exact position of the strangler's thumbs on
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Gabriel's neck? The del mark spoited upwards in the back
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: of Gabriel's neck, which is possible only if at the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: time he committed his crime the strangler was behind Gabriel.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Strong confirmation that the strangler rode across that mud on
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Gabriel's back, and when Gabriel entered the cave, the person
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: he was carrying began to choke him before even getting down. Oh, button,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: my store. How did the killer made Gabriel carrier? Important question,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Sergeant grown, men don't play piggyback. At five o'clock of
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: an hat around that morning, one person carrying another suggests
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: that the person being carried had to be carried an injury. Yes, Dad,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Hank Beet just told us he'd found a place in
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the trail where someone had slipped on loose wet stones
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and fallen into some juniper bushes. Hank of Pine. It
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: was Gabriel, because he thought Gabriel was alone. But since
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: we know Gabriel carried someone, isn't it evident that it
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: wasn't Gabriel who slipped and fell but his companion Kenneth
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: faked deptember tended to twist his ankler some thing said
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: he couldn't walk. Gabriel ed him all the way through
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the woods to the cave exactly. And why deliberately to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: leave only one set of footprints in that mud Gabriel's
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to make us believe that the murder had been the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: work of a convenient strangler ghost of the haunted cave.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: All right, Harry, you've accounted for how the strangler got
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: into the cave without leaving Frinch?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but how did he get out my stroll without
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: leaving him after Gabriel was dead? And the only way
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: possible through that natural window in the cave wall. Yes,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: For while no one could have got into the cave
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: who the opening in the cave wall, someone could have
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: got out simply by diving out into the lake below.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Two did all his son dad? Where did Hank say
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: he found the crush bushes at the edge of the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: woods as he went to the train leaving doctor Grayson's rage.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yet yet in fact, Hank said it was only a
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: few yards from the lodge. But observed the killer pretends
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to injure himself a few yards from the lodge, yet
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Gabriel carried him all the way through the woods to
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the cave. Why why didn't Gabriel carry him fact a
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: few yards.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: To the house.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't he have done that if, say, his companion had
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: been his wife, or doctor Grayson, or in fact, anyone
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: except one person, one who pressure. There can be only
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: one reason why Gabriel carried his companion all the way
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: to the cave, and that was because he and the
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: killer were bound for the cave, because he and the
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: killer were supposed to share the cave for the next
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours. Over, yes, Gabriel's companion, the man who
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: got his victim up an hour earlier than planned on
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: some trumped up excuse, wanted to kill Gabriel because he
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: hated him for over twenty years, and because Gabriel had
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: willed him his union week and valuable psychic library. That
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: man could only have been earnest with it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And there you have the solution to the mystery. How
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: did you gi detectives do did you have the right answer. Well,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: we have a few minutes remaining, so here's more music
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: by Frank duvalin his orchestra Dancing in the Dark.
• 26:30
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• 27:00
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• 27:03
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• 27:10
  Speaker 8: Welcome back. Well, I have to say that I was
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: disappointed that whoever preserve this cut out the musical cues. Unfortunately,
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: unless somebody out there has got an orchestra, not a
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: whole lot we can do about it. They did preserve
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: the armchair detective part, and I did enjoy that. I
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: love puns and I think I don't know if the
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: star actually thought he had a solution, but basically when
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: ahead and decided to go ahead and just at least
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: get off a good pun. Overall, a pretty interesting story.
• 27:54
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• 27:59
  Speaker 8: We started off with Dave, who comments, just loving all
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• 28:14
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• 28:17
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• 28:23
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• 28:27
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• 28:30
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• 28:36
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• 28:40
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• 28:45
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• 28:51
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• 29:25
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• 29:34
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• 30:01
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• 30:10
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• 30:14
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• 30:17
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