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The Ford Theatre: The Adventure of a Bad Boy (EP1678) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: we have something extra special for you. The very first
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  Speaker 1: Ellery Queen over Radio was Hugh Marlowe, a famous stage
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  Speaker 1: and screen actor. Marlowe starred as Ellery Queen in a
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  Speaker 1: series of one hour stories that aired from nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine to nineteen forty. Here, he's brought back by the
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  Speaker 1: Ford Theater to once again take on the role and
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  Speaker 1: with Santos Ortega and Ted de Cortia, who played Inspector
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  Speaker 1: Queen and Sergeant Veeley in the original radio series. This
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  Speaker 1: program originally aired January fourth of nineteen forty eight and
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  Speaker 1: The title is the Adventure of a bad Boy.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Ford Fitter, an hour of radio drama
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  Speaker 2: presented by the Ford Motor Company of Ford, Mercury and
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln Cars and Ford Trucks, Tractors and motor coaches. Today's
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  Speaker 2: play Ellery Queen's The Adventure of the bad Boy. Good afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. Howard Lindsey speaking, Welcome to the Ford
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  Speaker 2: Guins today at second calendar year during nineteen forty eight.
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  Speaker 2: If you care to join us here each Sunday afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: you will encounter at this hour just about every sort
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  Speaker 2: of dramatic entertainment possible to radio. In the Ford Theater,
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  Speaker 2: the plays the thing, and in choosing plays, the management
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  Speaker 2: aims at quality, contrast, and varia. Last week an original
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  Speaker 2: radio comedy, Next week a great motion picture adapted for radio,
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  Speaker 2: and this week mystery. This week the Ford Theater presents
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  Speaker 2: The Adventure of the Bad Boy by Ellery Queen. Now
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  Speaker 2: there's a man I've always envied, Ellery Queen. He gets
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  Speaker 2: around so much, meets so many different kinds of interesting people,
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  Speaker 2: alive and dead. In the last few years on paper
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  Speaker 2: and on the air, Kellery must have averaged one mysterious
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  Speaker 2: murder case per week, each neatly solved in the end,
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  Speaker 2: with the culprit delivered over to justice. And not only
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  Speaker 2: does young mister Queen solve the mystery, he writes the
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  Speaker 2: story too, between calls for help from the homicide squad. Also,
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  Speaker 2: of late, he's found time to wed an excellent magazine
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  Speaker 2: for detective story fans, to pen learned dissertations on the
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  Speaker 2: gentle art of mystery fiction, and to publish, just last month,
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  Speaker 2: an anthology of choice crime tales. He's a versatile man
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  Speaker 2: allery and a busy one. He's also by this time
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  Speaker 2: a legendary hero, an American Sherlock Holmes with thousands of
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  Speaker 2: worshipful followers. We know that he's the son of Gruffs
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  Speaker 2: Steely eydes not using Inspector Richard Queen, who can always
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  Speaker 2: be reached at police headquarters on Center Street, Manhattan. And
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  Speaker 2: we know that he employs as his secretary the beautiful, worshipful,
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  Speaker 2: long suffering Nicki, who even now is typing up a
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  Speaker 2: forthcoming chapter in the multitudinous works of Ellery Queen. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Ellery relaxes in an armchair deep in fault.
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  Speaker 3: Because mister Vegason nature is maddeningly logical, said Ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 3: A bird flies, the sun rising, a river flows, and
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  Speaker 3: the womb.
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  Speaker 2: Sleeps underline and the womb sleep.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter, Ellerie, Ellerie, where are you.
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  Speaker 2: The arm chair? Nikki? I'm finished, lucky girl?
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 2: Hum?
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  Speaker 5: Hm?
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  Speaker 3: All you have to do is dictate these foul mystery
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  Speaker 3: masterpieces of yours.
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  Speaker 2: I have to type them. Remember, I said, Remember what, Nikki?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Skip it.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't actually seen me for years now.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even hear me. Ni, I'm sorry, think nothing
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  Speaker 2: of it?
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  Speaker 7: After all?
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  Speaker 2: Who am I?
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  Speaker 3: Birth of the typing machine girl? Even in the wet
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  Speaker 3: shop the boss made a pass once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Nikki, but I've been deep in thought. Really
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  Speaker 2: about a little boy, Nikki, about a what a little boy? Why? Ellery? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's time I did something about that situation.
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  Speaker 3: You're the screwious character, Allori.
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  Speaker 2: You would find a different way to do it.
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  Speaker 6: What oh?
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  Speaker 2: And I with being coy again?
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  Speaker 3: Most men would start the other way round with the little.
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  Speaker 2: Boy's mother, a very nice woman. I'm told, why thank
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  Speaker 2: you coming from you?
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  Speaker 3: Ellery, that's a lavish compliment.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll have to think about it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to think about it, Nikki. It's really
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  Speaker 2: my problem, Ah, you egotist. Well I didn't think you'd
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  Speaker 2: be interested.
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  Speaker 3: Ellerie, Why do you think I've held on to this
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  Speaker 3: thankless frustrating job all these years?
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  Speaker 2: Interested? The first thing we'll have to do is tell
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  Speaker 2: your father Dad. Oh no, NICKI quite yet, not yet.
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  Speaker 2: Why keep it a secret from the inspector because I'm
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  Speaker 2: not familiar with all the facts, Nikki. Fact. Yes, it
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  Speaker 2: might not even be a matter for the police at all. Police. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll know more about it as soon as doctor Melton
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  Speaker 2: gets here, which concidentally ought to be any minute now.
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  Speaker 2: But would you clear away all this truck? Of course,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to sit in and on it, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be very glad to have you make notes.
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  Speaker 3: Ellery Queen, exactly what little boy were.
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  Speaker 2: You talking about? Bobby Hayes.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby Hayes and the nice woman.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby's mother, of course, Francis Hayes. I see you've seen
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  Speaker 2: why NICKI wants the matter.
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  Speaker 3: Oh nothing, nothing at all. No, don't you dare come
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  Speaker 3: near me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't seem to follow this at all. Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: of course you don't know a thing about this case,
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  Speaker 2: do you and here I've been talking is if you
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  Speaker 2: knew all about it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 2: Well you just said right down here by the fire,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you the whole story, that is, if
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  Speaker 2: you'd like to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: Nicky, Oh, I'm simply fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, to begin with, I first got to know
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  Speaker 2: about it when doctor Melton phoned me. He got the
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  Speaker 2: story from the principals, his landlady Sarah Brinker spinster who
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  Speaker 2: owns a small apartment house in Greenwich Village, and Sarah
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  Speaker 2: Brink's unfortunate sister, Francis Francis Hayes, Missus Hayes, and her
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  Speaker 2: little boy Bobby, who's eight, lived with Sarah Brink. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was four nights ago that it Begair Bobby Bobby.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, can't you say?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Auntie?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Bobby b is not Bobby Brings. It is not
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  Speaker 4: Ansell's Bobby Hayes Bobby House.
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  Speaker 8: Dare you take that tone with me?
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  Speaker 4: It is so Hayes. That's my father's name. That's mommy's name.
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  Speaker 4: So it's my name too, No, my own name.
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  Speaker 2: I guess your father's a bad man.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby He ran away left you and your mother alone.
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  Speaker 4: He did not. Mommy says he's did well.
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  Speaker 6: It'll be unmercy if he were.
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  Speaker 3: At least you and your mother have his insurance insurance.
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  Speaker 4: What's that answer?
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  Speaker 3: Never you, Mr Bobby, Bobby put the funnies down for
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  Speaker 3: a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Do I have to?
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  Speaker 8: Bobby Dear?
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  Speaker 9: Don't you feel just a little bit grateful to aunt Sarah?
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  Speaker 9: And Auntie takes her sister into her home, and her
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  Speaker 9: sister's little boy gives them nice soft beds to sleep
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  Speaker 9: in and good things to eat, even money to bed.
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  Speaker 9: Don't you think the little boy are the sort of
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  Speaker 9: well love his auntie.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get so much money to spay.
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  Speaker 3: You're a wicked, ungrateful boy.
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  Speaker 9: What have you been up to in here while I've
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  Speaker 9: been making supper in the kitchen? Anthony, Bobby, I'm mister Barber.
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  Speaker 3: I do another.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just reading a funny.
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  Speaker 6: Chasing the cats.
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  Speaker 2: Most likely I was not.
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  Speaker 4: I've been reading a radio page.
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  Speaker 9: You miss all those nice programs since your mother's radio
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  Speaker 9: got broken accidentally, don't you, Bobby dear?
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  Speaker 4: And so conn't we have a fix? I got answer
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  Speaker 4: sellers all the time. What's happening to supermankes it now?
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  Speaker 3: Bobby listened to me.
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  Speaker 9: How would you like Aunt Sarah to buy you a
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  Speaker 9: nice new radio, maybe a television set just for you?
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  Speaker 4: She han sol would.
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  Speaker 9: You why maybe if you gave me a real big
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  Speaker 9: kiss once in.
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  Speaker 2: A while, Bobby, who's there?
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  Speaker 3: Fancis?
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  Speaker 2: Is that you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir? Hi Mom?
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  Speaker 2: Superman?
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  Speaker 3: That mug darling?
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  Speaker 6: What did you do today?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Something wrong there?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he was a bad boy, Fancis as usual, I declare,
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  Speaker 9: I don't see why.
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  Speaker 4: Today you're always snitching Bobby. Mom, I've played with the
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  Speaker 4: fellas in the park and a cop chase. It's just
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  Speaker 4: because we were climbing an old tree.
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  Speaker 3: You might have fallen there, and that's not all.
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  Speaker 4: Yay, yes, Nick, some more, Aunt Sera.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby got just a little honk of rock.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't I hurt nobody? And it just happened to break
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  Speaker 4: a window there?
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  Speaker 8: Fancies?
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  Speaker 3: Are you set aside?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 6: That was wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Bobby? And I've told you so many times you mustn't
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  Speaker 3: talk to your Aunt Sarah this group. If you'd stay
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  Speaker 3: home and take care of your child Fancies instead of
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  Speaker 3: prancing round all day.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't prancing, Sarah.
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  Speaker 3: I was walking my legs off looking for a joke.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you and your jobs your first jude to your child.
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  Speaker 3: You know you don't have to have a job.
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  Speaker 9: And it's as long as you live with me, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 9: coming home.
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  Speaker 3: At all hours. Supper's ruined. It is it is my
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  Speaker 3: sew it's.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want your stew. I don't like Stoobby.
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  Speaker 3: Why Bobby, you're not having ste What would you think
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  Speaker 3: to a nice brasbry jelly.
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  Speaker 4: Only jelly on?
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  Speaker 9: Just as soon as I set see two places to
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  Speaker 9: see down now make sure of the Bobby fan says, hurry,
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  Speaker 9: will you.
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  Speaker 3: For pity take Bobby?
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  Speaker 9: Now you stop playing with that canary of cage.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby still hear Sarah said not stop it?
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  Speaker 4: Okay mom?
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  Speaker 9: And can I have proune you to answer my certainty?
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  Speaker 3: You may, Bobby, dear Bobby, bring now see what you've
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  Speaker 3: gone and done? Leaveing the canaries cage open, Bobby, they'll
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  Speaker 3: go to canary. They're a catch houl of old, spoiled
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  Speaker 3: mishaving breath. If we can only being in front, it's
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  Speaker 3: catching catch it on him, No, dar, now it's grown
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  Speaker 3: up on the chandelier. Oh Bobby, coming down here, there
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  Speaker 3: are supper dining room door. You fly, yes, Sarah, stop
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  Speaker 3: bad catching?
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  Speaker 2: Sarah?
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  Speaker 3: See I got him? Well, it's about top your naughty
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  Speaker 3: canary back?
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  Speaker 2: You go there?
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  Speaker 10: Are you?
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  Speaker 3: Are you quite finished factors?
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  Speaker 9: Well, now, Bobby ban, suppose you tell me why you
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  Speaker 9: opened that canary's cage and why you've been sitting at
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  Speaker 9: the supper table and haven't so much as lifted a
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  Speaker 9: finger to help catch him.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. I was just playing with the old bird.
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  Speaker 4: If you'll pass me the dirty old.
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  Speaker 3: Bird, Bobby Hays, what's come over you?
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  Speaker 2: Bobby? Come here?
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  Speaker 3: W Son. You've always been so kind and Sarah's pet,
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  Speaker 3: but now you chase Columbus, torment the canary, go fishing
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  Speaker 3: and the goldfish bowl? Do you like tormenting animals and
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  Speaker 3: birds and fish?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 9: I suppose that lets him off kindness, reasonableness. Trouble is, Francis,
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  Speaker 9: you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Discipline him if he were mind, Sarah, I'm gonna talk
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  Speaker 3: about this supper.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he jus you fancy?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I suppose I might as well eat mine too,
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  Speaker 9: even if it is I say cold by Now, well, well,
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  Speaker 9: what's the matter, Francis?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't my stew good enough? For you Bobby's omelet, Sarah,
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  Speaker 3: you forgot, oh, Heather, Bobby, I'll make it for you down, Sarah, please,
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  Speaker 3: I have told you a thousand time fancies.
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  Speaker 9: I won't have you or anybody else missing in my kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby will wait for his.
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  Speaker 9: Supper, since he spoiled hours well, Sarah, the stew can
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  Speaker 9: be reheated, as.
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  Speaker 3: If my gas bills aren't high enough as it is.
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  Speaker 2: He'll wait, Bobby, I won't eat.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go ahead more mar than way.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not hungry anyway, Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Every time we sit down to eat that awful Sidney thought,
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  Speaker 9: I declare that foreigner does it on Papa stuff to
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  Speaker 9: annoy me.
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  Speaker 4: That's only mister Webber answers. He likes to play that
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  Speaker 4: song Bottle Life.
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  Speaker 2: I must have been insane when.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted that a pop them to him. I'm having
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  Speaker 3: me busy, That's what I'll do. I'll have him thrown
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  Speaker 3: right out into the streets, him and his nasty siddle. Well,
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  Speaker 3: don't stop there ellery what happens then, then, nicky.
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  Speaker 2: They finished their supper. Sarah Brink made Bobby a jelly omelet,
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  Speaker 2: which he debarred with great relish while his mother began
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  Speaker 2: to care the table.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, that was going?
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  Speaker 2: You like it?
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  Speaker 4: Bob, let an allow stow.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby, The stew is delicious, Sarah, Bobby, you may need
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  Speaker 3: the table, but.
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  Speaker 4: Mommy, why can't I have a piece of amble pie?
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  Speaker 4: I'm especially hungry for a piece.
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  Speaker 3: Of apple pie.
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  Speaker 9: I've already told you, Bobby, if your mother won't punish you,
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  Speaker 9: I believe you get mean me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Bobby, please, I told you to leave the table.
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  Speaker 2: Mom.
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  Speaker 4: May I go downstairs and see mister Gardinia.
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  Speaker 3: You certainly mean not, Sarah. Aren't you forgetting that I'm
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  Speaker 3: Bobby's mother.
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  Speaker 9: I've told you and told you Francis letting a young
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  Speaker 9: child spend all of his time with.
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  Speaker 3: That, that's worthless, greasy.
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  Speaker 8: He's as nice as anyone, you know, Sarah.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby, you may visit mister Gordiny for a half an
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  Speaker 3: hour and then come upstairs to be Bobby. Wait, Bobby,
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  Speaker 3: I forbid you.
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  Speaker 2: I forbid you.
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  Speaker 9: Do you understand you're not to go downstairs and fantas?
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  Speaker 9: Just as long as you live in my home on
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  Speaker 9: my money, you'll do as I say?
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  Speaker 3: Is that clear? I can't stand this anymore? Oh, it's
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: flying up to me how the pended I am on
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  Speaker 3: your charity trying to run my life, my child because
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: you have not the police to live. I'm gonna leave.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather, sir, stop.
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  Speaker 3: That tilly crying. If you move to me, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have visited.
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  Speaker 9: But that's no good husband of yours and the ten
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  Speaker 9: list to support a child. I was good enough to
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  Speaker 9: take you in, and I'm good enough to dictate what's.
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  Speaker 11: Best for you.
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  Speaker 3: No, let's Bobby's gonna well if you want to live
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  Speaker 3: in the street. I suppose you're of age, but you're
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  Speaker 3: supposed to.
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  Speaker 9: Love this child, Well, you're going to feed him on
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: this kissy, mom.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want mister Gordini. It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go right to then, Mommy, you may go down
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  Speaker 3: to please Bobby. Go on now, dear, No, he's staying here,
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  Speaker 3: Bobby brink if you set foot outside this apartment.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Sarah, my friends, I feel so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah, what's the matter, hommy?
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  Speaker 3: Yah? Well, Sarah looks nice, folks stummach.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby run downstairs with doctor Moltolin quick.
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  Speaker 2: Attempted pisoning. I'm afraid so, Nikki curious case, not.
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  Speaker 3: That I condone it. But it seemed understandable. What an
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: old bath.
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  Speaker 2: She owns the house, yes, one of those old three
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  Speaker 2: story brownstones facing Washington Square Park. She's converted it into
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  Speaker 2: her four family apartment house. The Brink's apartments on the
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: top floor. Doctor Melton lives on the ground floor, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the intermediate floor is occupied by two tenants, Webber, a
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: refugee who teaches the violin, and Gordini, who seems to
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  Speaker 2: be an actor.
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  Speaker 3: But ellery they can't possibly have anything.
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  Speaker 2: To do with it. Ah, that's doctor Melton.
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  Speaker 7: I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm doctor Milton, and this is Miss Sarah Brink.
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  Speaker 3: Come in, doctor doptain Melton and Miss Sarah brink ellery.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how you do evening? Miss Brink's the patient I
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  Speaker 2: fall to you about, mister Queen. Easy now, Miss Brink
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  Speaker 2: please chair, thank you, Sit down, Doctor Melton. Oh, this
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: is my secretary, Miss Porter. How are you doing? Miss Port?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I must say I'm a little surprised doctor to see
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Miss Brink with you. She's still pretty shaky, but I
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: thought we'd risk it, mister Queen, even though it's only
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: four days since the accident. The accident, I don't excite yourself.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I told you.
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: Doctor Milton, it was some sort of accident. Oh, I
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: don't know why I've let you bring me here.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: A detective, Miss Brink. It couldn't have enact.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, cheers.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: What do you suspect, doctor, I don't suspect. I know
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Miss Brink was poisoned by accidents. Please, Miss Brink, I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: suppose you're asserting that, not as a theory, doctor, but
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: as a fact judge for yourself. I know you've had
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: some experience with these things, mister Queen. Yes, Miss Brink
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: ate on an empty stomach. About ten minutes later, she
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: fell writhing to the floor. Symptoms burning pain and throat
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and stomach, intense thirst, collapse, cyanosed skin, difficult respiration, cramps
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: in the calves of the leggs. Arsenical poisoning. Yes, how awful.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I suppose you had the remains of Miss Brink's portion
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: of STU analyzed, Doctor Melton. Of course it was heavily
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: dosed with arsenic Miss Brink. Who are your heirs my air?
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: Yes, well, my sister Chrancis.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: She's my only living.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Your sister and her little boy. You mean he's your
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: nebuw isn't he, Miss Brink? Yes, comptably fixed, are you well?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I own my own house, have a few thousand dollars.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Any domestic help I do my old.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: House work and cooking can't afford sence.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: M I see Doctor Melton. Yes, mister Queen, I believe
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you said, missus Hayes. Miss Brink's sister ate stew that
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: evening and showed no ill effects, none at all. Obviously,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: then only the stew on your plate, Miss Brink, was poisoned.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Was your sister in the kitchen at any time during
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the preparation of cooking of the stew?
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Francis was away all day.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: She didn't get back till a few minutes before I
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: fetched the two plates of stew from the kitchen and
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: set them on the dining room table.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Was your nephew in the kitchen while you were cooking? Bobby? Oh?
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: No, No, not at any time?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And after you set the plates down on the dining
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: room table, Miss brig did your sister have an opportunity
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to drop arsenic into your plate? I tell you it
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: was an accident, did she?
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: No?
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: No, Just as I set the plates down, Bobby let
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: me can nearly escape, and Francis and I beg to
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: chase it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I know that, miss Brink, I just wanted to be sure.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: By the way, what was your nephew doing while you
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and missus Hayes were chasing the canary?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Why Bobby were seated at the.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Table, alone, alone and unobserved? No? I mean, yes, yes,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: facts very often on Nikki dor Milton, take me home,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Miss Brink. You can't let this drop.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I won't have enough of birds sat uppy in tom Meta.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Understand. You may have no choice, Miss Brink. This is
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: a tempted murder. It's not.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: It's not anyway. If you want to, dear mister Quen,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I I'll deny everything, yes, and you needn't try to
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: set me up here.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I won't pay it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Boo, mister Queen, I didn't realize who was involved. I mean,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I think you ought to know though, that she's concealing
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: her real financial status. She owns half a dozen buildings
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: in Greenwich Village and she's one of the wealthiest women
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: in the neighborhood. I'm sure of that, Doctor Melton. Well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: i'd better get her back home. She's still pretty weak,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you know, and at her age it was a narrow escape.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's all right, doctor goodbye, goodbye, goodbye ellery.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Isn't there something you can do if she denies the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: story and refuses to press charges, Nikki, I'm afraid not,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: but I just can't believe it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: It's frightening an eight year old boy ellery.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, Apparently the boy released the canary deliberately to lure
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: his mother and aunt away from the table so that
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: he could poison his aunt. Stew unobserved.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I don't care how much of an old witch Sarah
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Brink is to do a thing like that, a boy
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: of eight, He must be a thene dellery psychopatha keys Well,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: something ought to be done about it. The woman's in danger, that's.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Quite true, Nikki. Unsuccessful poisoners usually repeat, Nikki, what kind
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: of stew did Sarah Brink say she cooked that night?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Kind of stew? Yes? I don't know, Ellerie. I don't
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: think she said, oh, careless of me. I should have
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: asked her. Well about all we can do, Nigg is
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: to try to enter some social service agency and hope
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: for the best. Hand me the phone, will you? But
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: it wasn't to be.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Everything was closed for the New Year's weekend, and then
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: it was just yesterday afternoon. Elleri Queen's residence.
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: Not truly.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Inspect the queen, right, Ellie, Yeah, your father, Oh.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, Dad, Alia never forget me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: But I didn't let you on this.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: You know on what Dad?
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: That guy is gays. I ever was all, can you
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: get down here in fifteen minutes?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Talk gime, hold hold them, hold home.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Witnesses to the crime.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Three three dozen?
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: What you don't know either'll probably be three hundred.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Of them dead.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: I don't see what he's washing A square.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: No, make it snappy area thirty six B Washington Square North.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: What are you mumbling about?
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Ellery? What are the inspector on?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Nicky? Nicky? That's the address of doctor Melton's poison case.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: There I'll bring yes and death. There's been another crime.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Come on, three dozen witnesses. An inspector. Queen, usually the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: coolest cop between the battery and the Bronx, is in
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a state of considerable excitement. We'll meet the witnesses and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Queen the Elder in Act two, along with Sergeant Feeley
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: and the quorum of suspects. In the meantime and in theion,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: we'll meet with Kennethanghart, who speaks for the Ford Motor
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Company and among the hardest working and most respected people
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: in our nations are the country doctors, the men and
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: women who bring healing knowledge and skill to even the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: most remote farms and homes. Day after day, in all
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: kinds of weather. They make their rounds through forests and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: mountains and deserts, going wherever they needed. And because their
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: work is so important and their travel is frequently difficult,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the Ford Motor Company is proud that so many doctors
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: prefer to drive Forward cars. One of these is doctor H. F.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Lawson of Crossville, Tennessee. The people who live and work
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: in the hills around Crossville know doctor Lawson very well.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Summer or winter, dust or snow or mud, over the
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: roughest roads and steepest hills, doctor Lawson gets there when
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: he's needed. Recently, doctor Lawson wrote to the Ford Motor
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Company to say why he preferred to drive a Ford.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: He said that he can always start his forday any
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: kind of weather, that it rides comfortably, that his Ford
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: always takes him where he wants to go, no matter
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: how bad the driving conditions, My Ford has never failed
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: to come through, he wrote. As a rural doctor, I
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: am qualified to say that no other car can beat
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: a Ford for all round performance under all conditions. That's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the kind of service and dependability that millions of Americans
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: have learned to expect from Ford products. That's the kind
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: of performance you can expect from any products made by Ford.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: BacT Too of The Adventure of the Bad Boy will
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: be presented after a brief pause for station identifications the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Ford Theater The Adventure of the bad Boy Act Too.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Our intermission turned out to be just long enough for
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: ellery Queen and Nikki to hail a tab hop in
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the same and head for thirty six B Washington Square North,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the scene of the crime. We picked them up as
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: they swing around the lower fifth Avenue corner of Washington Square.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Stop it, Nikki, Come on, gentleman, waitful lady, excuse me,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: please by letting us.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Through, or you might cardy what me?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Officer, mister greed here?
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: What chide you? Queople Stand back there, stand back.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: You're still with me, Nikki, not your qualifiab.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Hillary. You don't think they've been another.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I'm trying not to come in, my sir, come hall
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: he leaves above time. Well, y'all sat for a little surprise.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: What's happened to your talking pop?
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: This way, folks, inspectors waiting for deem?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: What told the mystery about?
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: I got my orders, my snow you'll say surprise. I'll
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: say it to surprise.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: One more flat huh the Brink apartment.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: That is correct, Hey, you know the all day myself? Really? Yes, sir,
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: dead on again and taker.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Let you see this then you won't believe it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Try mepker this we please, this is the alpoholty goes
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: up here or lead the various rooms of the apartment
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: that occupies the whole floor. Yeah him in.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Ready, yeah, ready, yes, take it like.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: Them we do a repeat. Huh oh in fact.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: The queen, we don't have to go through all fatties once.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: Auld be enough.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not mad they are all of them?
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: Dad, will you please said joke?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Isn't it infector I'm joe? All right, boys, take a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: position just outside the door.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: It is exactly what we found when we got here
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and opened this door. Yeah, open it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: I remember, fellas.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: This is all for Gerald n Yu two fourteen eighty nine.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Half the.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: One getting away. That's what you have.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Rabbit Rabbit, yes, rabbit heard of him when half an
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: hour chasing through the house trying to recatch you that
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: dad blanted funniest come out of this bedroom? Matter whose
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: room is?
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: A dead woman named Sarah Brink, owner of this house.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Sarah Brin, No, Nikki, stay in the.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: Hall, ep Son.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: That's just what we found when the rabbit scooted faster.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: What Sarah Brink did? Uh huh? Yeah. Now let's see
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the append to these bedtros. Not looks like there was
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a struggle. Sure there was a struggle, inspector with old
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: man death. Uh huh yeah, you struggle too if you
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: die of what she did.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Now let's see, Well, what was it you tod a mechanic.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Na dick your blood pressure?
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: That was a fine time for a pedal.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Who's a thumb.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: Peddal teacher that lives downstairs named Webber Paddy.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: The family lunched on rabbit stew today, Yes, and right
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: after lunch the old girl came ahead to lie down
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: for a nap, had some vittles in her stomach. I'll
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: bet before she ate that stewl that buys you to
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: passed out at table. Well, gentlemen, it's our cenical poison.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Ah wow, myself, guys begin to think we weren't speaking
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: all right, Yes, sir, our cenical poison, your positive, doctor,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: proty sunken features, cyanose, skin irritation, eyelids, and skin eruptions.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: That can't possibly be a mistake. Doubt my boy is
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the deity of science. But in this case I'd staked
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: my professional reputation. It was our seniors. Oxide white aw
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: snake bet a no an autopsy right away, Pratty, make
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: sure naturally runches test to do the trick. She'd have
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: been luckier if she'd been born a rabbit. Arsnik won't
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: kill them their immune Okay, call a wagon on the way, Doc,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: and uh, here's your removal order. What's this?
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Ten?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: This top hat on Sarah Brink's night table dead?
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Ah, you spotted it? Y?
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Wh was she a male in person?
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: Here?
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Interesting myself? Well i'll be observe.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I have nothing of my sleeve. I insert my right
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: hand in the hat. Hocus pocus open sesame to erlen Spiegel,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: presto a rabbit?
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Very interesting?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: So what? Uh? Merely one bunny too scared runaway when
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: you boys opened the door. Sergeant took refuge in this
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: so tougher h top hat and rabbits the murder must
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: have been committed by a magician.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: Huh did I tell you really?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: My star?
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: You throw me your thrownck over that butt here?
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Did I tell you say that?
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I bet your friend more but death. I wasn't serious,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: that I am. He was poisoned by a magician. All right,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I've got him in the living room right now under arrest.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: You mean there's actually a magician mixed up in this Oh?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Of course the actor uh huh live downstairs across the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: hardened weber, the violin teacher and Bardo magician.
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: Manestra calls himself Guardini, the great.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Mmm. I want to see him plenty. Spector didn't even
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: acting up, uh jealous or rabbit. I don't mean to
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: tell you how to run your business, Inspector. But believe me,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't poison Sarah Brink. I know, Gardeini, You're just
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a victim of a plant. Is my SONII. He wants
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: to tell you, mister Gardini, I'm very much interested in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Sarah Brink's death. I'm told you were home today in
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: your apartment of her around noon when she was poisoned.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: That's right, mister queen. I'm temporarily at Liberty you gotta
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: use your.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Time to better advance just a moment, sergeant. I'm told too,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: mister Gordini, that the fire escape makes it possible for
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: you to have been just outside Sarah Brink's kitchen window,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: while the two plates of rabbit stew, which Miss Brink
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: and her sister, missus Hayes ate for lunch today, stood
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: on the serving cabinet near the kitchen windows. Yes, mister queen,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: but the kitchen window has an iron grill which can
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: only be opened from inside. All the windows at the
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: back of his house have How am I supposed to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: have got past those bars?
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Well, there's thing that jake god Denny.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Where'd you get my lazy tones?
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: It's not a lazy time? And what are they?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Inspectors like a para, says Babie, opens and shoots out
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: and criss crossing slats like this.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: What's time? You missed my schnoz by half an inch?
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: I missed, didn't I?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: You got the idea entry, Yes, it's part of Gordeny's
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: magic equipment comes from his stuff downstairs. The Denny used
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: too on the fire escape outside the brink kitchen window
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: and dropped Darsonik and the Sarah's plate of stew from
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: the end of these tongs through the grail.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: What can I do but deny? And it's not true.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: The top hat that's packets inside, Guardeeny, a regular magician's hat.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: You admitted your of course it's mine, but you're innocent.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: How did it get into the brink woman's bedroom. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: don't know, dead.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: I didn't.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I've had you check this afternoon. He real handles Gardon,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Algan and Gardon. And you were a chemist before he
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: became a stage magician, and you'd know all about arsony.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't you miss that garden, GUARDEENI, I see, I'm to
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: be convicted on coincidence, no coincidence, that you've been quarreling
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: with the murdered woman, Gardeeny.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: The whole neighborhood knows about.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: It, calling about what all, saying as the young lady
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: told him to keep away from her sister Francis and
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the kid bombing. Oh that's pretty circumstantial, Dad, and bat
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: this around, Ellerie. I've got a witness who lives in
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: a McDougall Alley house opposite the back windows here.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: My witness say she saw Gordeeny's.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Standing on the fire escape outside sarah brings kitchen window
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: at just about the time that rabbit still must have
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: been poisoned. Is that true, Gordeini?
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, mister Queen, I was there.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: What I was? Well, Snoopy, Why I'd rather not say?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Very lame God, Denny, that's the best you can do. Dad,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: There's one fact you've overlooked. The punch is a pretty
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: big hole in your Gardeeny theory.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: My, that's done.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Francis Hayes had stew for lunch today, too, didn't she. Yes,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: she wasn't poisoned, was she now? But both plates of stew,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: you say, the one which Sarah ate and the one
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: which Francis ate were on a serving cabinet near the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: kitchen window accessible to Gordeeny on the fire escape through
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the lazy tongs. How could GORDEENI have known which plate
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: was Sarah's? Yes?
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: How could I have known?
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: Maestro's got something there?
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Inspector. As for Gordeini's top hat being in Sarah's bedroom,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Bobby Hayes told me he brought it there this morning.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I'd forgotten that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: That's quite possible.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Bobby often plays with my paraphernative.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Furthermore, the rabbits aren't Gordeeny's. They were Sarah Brinks. She
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: sometimesn't sped them in her room. I think that pretty
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: well explodes the circumstantial case against Gordeeny.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: Thank you, mister queen.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: But I'm not through with you. You're obviously conceiving something.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: What is it? I don't know what you mean, Gardeeny.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I think you know poisoned Sarah Brink? Do you you do?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Don't you?
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Talkie, see if you can make Gardeeny change his mind?
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: Dad?
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Where you going?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Oh? The snoop around?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I knew something horrible would happen in this huse.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I knew it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I knew it. Honey, missus Hayes, you've got to control yourself. Yes,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Bobby Son, it's all right, And don't befried, baby. And
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Sarah's just gone away, Bobby, Why she's dead?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Long? Bobby? Who is that?
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: He's probably an officer?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Come in? Oh, Nicky, ellery well led you with missus Hayes. Nikki, Hi, Bobby, Hi.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Miss Porter's been a great help, mister queen.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: You are real detective.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Well sometimes I wonder, Bobby, Missus Hayes, all the pets
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: in this house Canary cat goldfish. They were your sister Sarah's,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: weren't they? And the rabbits too, mister queen. Oh yes,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the rabbit. I assume she didn't quarter them in her
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: bedroom permanently. Where did she usually keep them, missus Hayes.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: In the backyard, A real rabbit hatch.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: That's so bobby, Yeah, Sarah, missus Hayes who fed them?
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Sarah wouldn't let anyone else take care of you remembered something,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: missus Hayes. Yes, Sarah had an argument last week, mister Webber.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: She caught him feeding her rabbits in the yard.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: Why did she tell him off?
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Webber? Must be Webber playing the violin. Now excuse me dodging.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: You have my straw?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Have Webber brought up? Will you? Now that's constructed? Anything
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: to stop that? Siddle or missus Hayes. You had rabbit
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: stew rather often, didn't you, at.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: Least once a week.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Sarah is was very fond of it. She killed her
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: own rabbits. They were multiplying so rapidly.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I don't like rabbit stew. Yeah, Mom doesn't either. She
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: only ate it because Aunt Sarah made.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: A Bobby just after your sister brought the plates of
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: stew into the dining room for lunch today, Missus Hayes,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: did the did anything unusual happen unusual? Well, I don't
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: think I well, like uh, like the escape of the
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: canary last week.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Well, you mustn't think Bobby's a bad boy, mister Queen.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: He's just mischievous like most boys of his age.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: And he didn't he did happen at lunch today?
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Are you can telling mom? I pushed over a fishbowl?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, Emory, Sorry, Nikki. And while your mother and aunt
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: were rescuing the goldfish. Bobby, what were you.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Doing sitting at the table? Aunt, I'm always yelling at me,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: she said, get it that I couldn't have chocolate cream pie.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: I'm glad she did all he yelled me.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Bobby, you mustn't talk that way about.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Well, Inspector, Sergeant.
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: Doctor Multon and Hair Webber. What is now an Oh?
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: We've just been chewing the fathom here dad, mister Webber,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: you're the violinist we've been hearing all afternoon.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, missus Hayes, I'm terribly sorry about your schveesta.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Miss Brink, I hear what happens?
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: If you're sorry? Why have you been playing your violin,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: and my sister lie dead.
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: Up here about the sister, how do you say sad music,
• 41:37
  Speaker 10: missus Hayes, I have sad feelings. I play sad music
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: what I am from where I come, and it's all
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: sad everything everyone, even here.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I cannot forget, mister Webber. I understand you fed Sarah
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Brinks rabbits last week. Yeah, yeah, mid letters. Hmm. She
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: was very angry with you, and tell.
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: I sit in the backyard, say, thinking of khne Stutta
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: sue Cow. I play my violin, I lay it on
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: the bench, I feed the bunny.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Miss Brink.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: She comes out, she takes my violin. She breaks it
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: in little pieces. She is like a crazy woman. That
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: is my good violin. The other, the one I play
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: now on, that is not so good.
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: There I had a vile temper.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Webbert, I didn't.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Know about that. Cheerly.
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: I want you shall pay for my instrument. I am poor,
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: But she says no, I should move.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: I move tomorrow, and doctor Melton he's moving also.
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: Oh really, and try doctor Melton.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, as soon as I can find new quarters in
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: this neighborhood. Why are you moving, doctor, Well, my patients
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: are all pretty poor, mister Queen. They don't play very well.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I've been behind in my rent. The other day Miss
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Spring said she wouldn't wait any longer. That well, i'd
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: have to get out, doctor Melton.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that either.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I know, missus Hayes, I.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Suppose I own this house now, or you don't have
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: to move.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: You've been here so long, doctor. That's very decent of you,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Missus Hayses.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: And you too, mister Webber. You stay on and as
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: soon as I can, I'll pay.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: For your broken violin. Donkys shuld dunk?
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: You shouldn't take your call.
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: Last it for then?
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: This rank is one part luck, ninety nine parts waiting reports, reports,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Where are they inspector?
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: You want to be ashamed of yourself kicking that cat here?
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Pause?
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Don't but the nasty old man hurt your feeling.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: That's goldfish, canaries, rabbits, regular zoos.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: No, look at me, that winnepe.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: I didn't kick the confounded beasts.
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: I didn't know he was there there.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: He's apologized.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Course, he's a nice, nasty old man. I mean, what's
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: the answer to it's blanted ridder if Cardini didn't point
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: in the stew I've got a notion, Dad, just the
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: vegus notion. Oh, the great.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Man has a notion.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Imagine that course wood ever grow up to be a
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: great big idea.
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: Won't swipe my gun? My gun, Inspector, my rod? Somebody
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: left him right out of my horser? Was that one?
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: I don't come on, was it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: Dogeant?
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I'm ashamed of you.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: You better find it, biy before it turns up on
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: the scene of a crime.
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: No, I'll never hear the end of this.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: It's the funniest.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Who is my handkerchief? Funny?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Sure it was in my bag?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Your handkerchiefs missing, Nicky?
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: No, well in my compact. Wait, it isn't here.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: What is now?
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: You better take a look at yourself.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Son, my f it's gone. Hey, why snuff box?
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: Inspector, Oh flint, what is it?
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Doc? Probably just hold from the morgue. He said something
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: about some mucus hemorrhages showing up in the PM or something. Anyway,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: the old dames dying of arsenic poison. And he says, well,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: that's bank plant. When you know that, Well, there's a
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: report from the city taxa cologist too, you know that
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: white stuff looked like flower we scraped up from the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: floor of the rabbit hutch. Dead. You found a white
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: powder in the backyard rabbit.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: Hutch, cheers hand before you got here?
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: So what well?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: The toxicologists says, that's arty too, Arsenick and the rabbit hutch.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Why didn't someone tell me, I, inspector, h.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: I chill again.
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: I found my gun on the downstairs hall table. My gun,
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: and you're a snuffbox by the way.
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: Uh give me there.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: You didn't find a com backed by any chance, Sergeant.
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: I'm sure, Dad, yess yours? Miss pointer? Thank you don't
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: tell me?
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Am?
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: I sure this fountain pen of yours?
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, sergeant, Thanks, they're all downstairs, whole table. Uh uh.
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: Awful funny around here.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Someone swiped something for me, each one of us. It
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: was a plain sight to be found.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Thief who returns his loot that he didn't.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: Want to stop bay in saying that he steal it
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: in the first place.
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: That's it.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: What is the key to the whole case? Ellery?
• 46:33
  Speaker 13: You mean the one.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Who's stalling the key, the key to the whole case,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: The key to the whole case somewhere around this point.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I believe it used to be novelist queen's practice to
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: challenge the reader to name the culprit with all the
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: pertinent facts at his disposal. My guess always goes wrong,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: and in this case I suspect so as yours act
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: three will shall we say let the cat out of
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the bag or the rabbit out of the hat? And
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: so you might just as well give up, stop guessing
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: and relax and listen to Kenneth Stanghart for the Ford
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Motor Company. During the past forty four years, the experience
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: of millions of people has proven countless times that Ford
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: products are outstanding for their reliability, economy, and service. Three
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: generations have recognized the name Ford as an American symbol
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: of quality and dependability. And now there is another definite
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: scientific proof of Ford quality on a large scale. A
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: recent study conducted by independent life insurance experts determine the
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: life expectancy of the five largest selling makes of trucks.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: The experts tabulated and studied the history of almost five
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: million trucks and established the average life expectancy of each make.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: That study proved that Ford trucks last ten percent longer
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: than the average truck it proved that Ford trucks last
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: up to nineteen and six tens percent longer than their
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: four principal competitors. This scientific study is conclusive proof of
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: what Ford truck owners have known for a long time,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: that Ford trucks last longer. It's an unusually important tribute
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: to the quality of Ford products. But even this outstanding
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: record is not good enough. True to the Ford tradition,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Ford trucks are constantly being improved. Soon there will be
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: new model Ford trucks with new power, versatility and beauty.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: They will be built on a basic principle of engineering,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: which assures even longer life for Ford trucks. And you
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: will be served better because the organization that has built
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: more trucks than any other, Ford builds trucks stronger to
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: last longer. You can depend on Ford. As the previous attendant.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: You will recall Ellerie Queen had just discovered the keys
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: for the whole case to which as are curtain rises
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: once more, Nicky makes replies.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: You know, Ellerie, you're the most exasperating man alive. You
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: mislead people me.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: For instance, what NICKI, oh, I know you're not listening.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: You never do make people think things, then it turns
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: out to be something entirely different. The inspector can't help himself,
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: after all, he's your father. But someday I'm just what this?
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Nikky? Oh? Why do I always fall for an.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Old closet key to the whole case? What key?
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: No answer?
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: The great man wraps himself a mystery, Hush hush, top secret, Elloie,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Will you come out of that closet and listen?
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: You come into this closet and listen.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Huhh here it Nikki, sound hollow? Something funny about that wall?
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: This is Bobby's bedroom.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Look sliding panel? Who medieval?
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: Isn't it?
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Ery? No, Nikki, simply eight year old boy Bobby saw
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: him through the back wall of his closet. Let's see
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: what's behind this panel? Secret passages?
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: Yet here?
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Give me that flash, Nikki, slight of wooden stairs going?
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: How are you rich? You've got the flesh here?
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Nikki, watch your step, ELLOI.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: Doesn't that violin of webber sound louder?
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: This passage apparently ex as an amplifier word leaves the
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: door just an old attic?
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: Uh, Pobby couldn't have.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: DOLPHI stairs hardly an old house, Nikki. Part of the original.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: The stairs were probably boarded up during some red elevation
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: and Bobby's rediscovered them. What's that if you leave me and.
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: You're in the dog Come here, Nikki.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Look at this sign sign Robert Hayes, magician Bobby's handiwork. Oh,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: what's this box?
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: You're also messing there?
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, card tncuffs, trick, coins on handkerchiefs, ropes, collapsible knife,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: the usual magician's truck. Ah, don't try to impress me.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: What's the mad packet?
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Magic? Halty?
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid, Nikki, it is the more deadly magic than that.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: I'm more deadly a white powder, Nikki, white arsenic. Can't
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: believe that.
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: I just can't do.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: I wonder why Gordeini didn't tell the truth. He knew
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: all the time, miss.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: A boy a boy of aid.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go downstairs, Nikki and get it over with.
• 52:30
  Speaker 11: Well, despot, the discouragement of our host against trying to
• 52:35
  Speaker 11: solve this baffling puzzle, We're gonna make a stab at it.
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: And joining me to as our armchair detective is Christy
• 52:45
  Speaker 11: from Spokane Valley, Washington. She's a writer and a jewelry designer.
• 52:51
  Speaker 11: And Christy, you've listened to the case, and what is
• 52:56
  Speaker 11: who do you think didn't.
• 53:00
  Speaker 12: I listened to it two and a half times, and
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: about the only thing I've come up with is I
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: don't think the boy did it. I have a suspicion
• 53:11
  Speaker 12: that the aunt actually potentially poisoned herself the first time
• 53:18
  Speaker 12: as a means of teaching the boy a lesson and
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: getting him in trouble, because it just seems like something
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: based off of what we were hearing she would have done.
• 53:28
  Speaker 12: I don't think the mother or the boy actually did
• 53:32
  Speaker 12: the poisoning for the action for the killer, but I
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: could not figure out who would have had enough motive
• 53:41
  Speaker 12: to do the actual killing for that final poisoning.
• 53:47
  Speaker 11: Well, we've got a negative guess that it's not the
• 53:53
  Speaker 11: boy or his mother, right.
• 53:57
  Speaker 12: I just don't think that. I, you know, if anything,
• 54:01
  Speaker 12: if he did it the first time, it would have
• 54:02
  Speaker 12: been I don't think it was on purpose, But I
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: think that she actually poisoned herself the first time, just
• 54:10
  Speaker 12: to further corral the boys, you know, her sister into
• 54:19
  Speaker 12: submission as a see, see this is how bad your
• 54:23
  Speaker 12: boy is? And see aren't I doing a nice thing
• 54:25
  Speaker 12: by taking care of him? Despite the fact that he
• 54:29
  Speaker 12: tried to kill me. Just sounds like something she would
• 54:32
  Speaker 12: have done.
• 54:34
  Speaker 11: Okay, well we will see if you're right in just
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: a second. And thanks so much for joining us today.
• 54:43
  Speaker 12: Thank you.
• 54:44
  Speaker 14: All right, Well, let's get now back to ellery queen
• 54:47
  Speaker 14: and the solution to our mystery.
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: You know I've seen everything you have.
• 54:58
  Speaker 7: I've got all the fats.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: They don't add do a thing bad mathematics.
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: Dad, Unless.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Again, mister Bobby hay a chat.
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: I'm not simon the wrong racket.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: E will please do it quickly?
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: His poor mother is so upset.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, let's go, but I'll be balling
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: in a minute.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: Why please, please, Bobby, Bobby, dear hand, mom?
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: What are they going to do now?
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: If everybody so quiet?
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Bobby, I want you to do something for mother. I
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: want you to go to my bedroom and stay there.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: Oh Mom, I want to see I never saw a
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: real detective. Get his name.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I want to send Bobby. Please go, Missus Hayes, Missus Hayes.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: I prefer Bobby to remain here here Green.
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: Why don't you let the boy go? This is no
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: place for a child eight years old?
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: And suppose you tell us mister Gordini, who poisoned Sarah Brink.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Tell us and I'll send Bobby away.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: No, I don't want to go away.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Why won't you tell us? Mister Gordeini?
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: Of course I've got no proof.
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: You wouldn't believe me.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I see, Gardeini, when you were on the fire escape,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: you were looking for proof, weren't you. Yes, Bobby, you
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: and mister gordeeny are great pals. I take it, Bobby.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: Quiet, Oh, mom, sure, and mister Queen were.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Just like that.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: And Bobby's at the age Gordeini when he's most susceptible
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: to the fascinations of secret passages, sliding panels and magic. Right, Gordeini,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: you've been teaching Bobby magic.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Haven't you want to see all the tricks mister Gardini
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: showed me?
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: Bobby, don't say anything.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: And when mister Gordeni showed you all these marvelous magic tricks, Bobby,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: just what he tell.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: You when I had a practice all the time. Practicing
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: is the way you get to be a great magician.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: And the Sergeant Peeley's revolver, Bobby my fountain, pen, inspector
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Queen's rough box, and oh, miss Porter's compact when you
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: took them from us under our noses. Bobby, you were
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: simply practicing, weren't you.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Bobby stole things?
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: He couldn't.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: He's only a boy. He didn't know what he was doing.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: I too, mom Oh ye, I wasn't stealing him. I
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: left him right in the downstairs hall table, didn't I.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: That's how I knew it was you, Bobby.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to see about Cord, mister Queen.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: That's not stealing, Bobby.
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: Bobby, I didn't steal.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't steal, and didn't getting it over with when
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: you and Bobby, you took that packet of white powder too,
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: didn't you? White powder and hid it in your attic hideout? Mmm?
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: I Bobby, don't answer.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Let the boy answer, Missus Hayes, please, Bobby.
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: Mister Gorde he told me to look for packages of
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: white powder like sorry. He said to take him and
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: give him him to the coastals clear, but that one
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: he had it. I didn't get the chance, mister Gardeeny,
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  Speaker 4: I was going to give it to you.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby.
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  Speaker 6: Don't say anymore, not Gordeeny.
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  Speaker 2: What is this nry? Bobby? What else did mister Gardeeny
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  Speaker 2: tell you to do?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Then he didn't tell me nothing, Bobby. Bobby, you can
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  Speaker 2: tell me because I know you do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, you're the doctors know everything. But
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  Speaker 4: I have promised not to.
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  Speaker 2: Tell well, and suppose I tell you, Bobby, and then
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  Speaker 2: it won't be breaking a promise, will it. Mister Gordeeny
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  Speaker 2: told you there was something you had to do to
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: save your mother's life. Isn't that right?
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  Speaker 5: She help you know that?
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  Speaker 2: To save my life, mister queen, and Bobby, my life.
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  Speaker 2: You had to do that thing every time there was
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  Speaker 2: rabbit stew for lunch or supper, didn't.
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  Speaker 4: You, Yes, sir, it was something fierce. I had a
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: watch all the time. I had to save my mother's wife.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why, but that's what mister GORDONI to Bobby.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: And when you couldn't do this certain thing that mister
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Gordeeny had told you to do, Bobby, when you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it without your mother not seeing you, you were
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: a very smart boy. You decided to distract their attention.
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  Speaker 4: The what magicians do when you don't want them to
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  Speaker 4: see a trip.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Bobby, that's right. So last week you purposely
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: left the Canary Escape. This afternoon you purposely upset the
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: fish bowl. That was right, son, They love a bit
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  Speaker 2: had diversion. Dad can only have one purpose to mask
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  Speaker 2: an act. When his mother and I were chasing that
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: canary last week, while they were saving the goldfish today,
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  Speaker 2: Bobby took the two plates of rabbit stew, his mother's
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  Speaker 2: and his aunts and switched them off. That's what you
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: told Bobby to do every time they had rabbit stew,
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  Speaker 2: Gordini to switch the two women's plates because you knew Gudini.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: You knew the secret of those rabbits. What secretary, what
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  Speaker 2: are you talking about?
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  Speaker 7: My strong Bobby?
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  Speaker 2: Will you leave the room now, please, yes, sir, I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand either. Ri. Doctor Prowdy said today that rabbits
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  Speaker 2: are immune to arsenic. So if you fed rabbits lettuce
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  Speaker 2: or carrots which had been dosed with the poison, it
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: wouldn't hurt them a bit, but their flesh would become
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: permeated with it. Then if you made a rabbit stew,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: you'd be arsenically poisoned dead. You found arsenic in the
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: rabbit touch. That proved the animals were being fed the
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: poisons while they were still alive. Then they were slaughtered
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: and cooked into a stew, and yet only one portion
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: of the stew was poisoned. How is that possible. Who
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: could have controlled the preparation of the stew so rigidly
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  Speaker 2: that one portion was cooked with poisoned rabbits and the
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  Speaker 2: other with unpoisoned rabbits. Only one person, the person who
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: wouldn't let anyone else feed the rabbits, the person whouldn't
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: let anyone else prepare food in her kitchen, the cook herself. There,
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  Speaker 2: my sister Syah. Yes, Missus Hayes, your sister Sarah. She
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  Speaker 2: obviously wasn't trying to poison herself or Bobby's who always
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  Speaker 2: refused rabbit stews. She could only have been trying to
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  Speaker 2: poison you. Oh Gordini used to be a chemist. You
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  Speaker 2: saw Sarah brink sprinkle a white powder on the rabbit's
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  Speaker 2: food in the hutch. One day, you scraped some of
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  Speaker 2: it up, analyzed it, saw the whole thing in a flash,
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  Speaker 2: And to save Missus Hayes life, you got Bobby to
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  Speaker 2: switch place every time the sisters had rabbit stew. And
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Bobby did so, never realizing the significance of his act.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: And so you got Sarah brink to poison herself. But why,
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  Speaker 2: mister Queen, why didn't my sister want to kill me?
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  Speaker 3: I have nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you you underestimate your wealth. Missus aids, you have
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  Speaker 2: a boy, a son, and all your sister's possessions couldn't
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: buy her that she wanted Bobby.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Nikki, she wanted Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that all of you are as happy as
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  Speaker 2: I am to learn that Bobby was not the culprit.
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  Speaker 2: The first time I heard the play in rehearsal, my
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: money went down on the doctor. But as I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always wrong about these things. Our performance engaged the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: talents of three members of the original cast of the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Ellery Queen series, Hugh Marlowe, prominent star of the Broadway
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: stage and motion pictures, who created the role of Ellery Queen,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: fantas Artaga has inspected Richard Queen, and Ted Decarcia once
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: more in the part of Sergeant Vley. Nicky was played
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  Speaker 2: by Charlotte Keane. Next week, Storm in a Teacup as
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: a motion picture, Storm in a Teacup was one of
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: those all two rare events, a comedy of solid warmth
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: and character, a photoplay about real people. If you join
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  Speaker 2: us next week you will find I think that the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: story has lost none of its warm humor in translation
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  Speaker 2: to radio for the first time. Next Sunday, then you
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: have an appointment to meet missus Honoria, Hegety, her dog Patsy,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: and the people they stirred into a storm in a teacup.
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  Speaker 2: The Adventure of the Bad Boy was written by Ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 2: The continuity was by George Faulkner. The original music was
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  Speaker 2: composed and conducted by Lynn Murray. Our editor is Howard Teichmann,
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  Speaker 2: and the entire production was under the direction of George Zachary.
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  Speaker 2: The other players turned in today's broadcast were Brad Barker,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Harold Durnforth, Sarah Fussells, John Gibson, April Harris, Jane Houston
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  Speaker 2: and Seymour, Walter Vaughn, and Guy Wallace. The board Theater
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  Speaker 2: is presented by the Ford Motor Company, makers of Ford
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Mercury and Lincoln cars and Ford Trucks, trackners and motor coaches.
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  Speaker 13: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
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  Speaker 15: with Adam Graham. Now let's get back into the show.
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  Speaker 14: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a very fascinating and involved mystery, and that's not
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: entirely surprising, but still I found it pretty interesting. This
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: episode actually was a remake of a play from the
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Ellery Queens series that aired between nineteen thirty nine and forty.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Venture of the Bad Boy was actually the seventh story
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: that was aired back in nineteen thirty nine, and that
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  Speaker 1: may also explain why it seemed a little perhaps a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: little bit more melodramatic than your typical Ellery Queen story
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  Speaker 1: or most nineteen forties detective story scripts. And so the
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Ford Theater really did radio listeners then and particularly radio
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: listeners of the future such a great service because none
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: of these original hour long Ellery Queen mysteries are in circulation,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: but this episode of the Ford Theater, which recreated one
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: of those episodes is, and that was definitely a treat.
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  Speaker 1: There are a couple other notes I should add. They
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: didn't actually do the armchair detective thing for the the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Ellery Queens series back in these early episodes. That was
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: something that was a later innovation. But I thought that,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: despite the urging of the host, that our armchair detectives
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: would take a stab at it. And the one thing
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: I do kind of wonder about is when I look
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: at the date of this program January fourth of nineteen
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: forty eight, there actually was an ongoing Ellery Queen's series
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: airing on ABC that we've been listening to with Lawrence
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Dopkin and then Howard Culver. I'm curious how they managed
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: it from a rights perspective, but I honestly don't know
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: how they would do that. But at any rate, however
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: they did it, it was a very enjoyable hour. But
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: we're not quite done with Ellery Queen yet, even though
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: we've listened to all the American Ellery Queen episodes, because
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  Speaker 1: next week next week we're heading down Under for an
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Australian episode of Ellery Queen as we wrap up the
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