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Nick Carter: The Missing Harold Ascort (EP1098) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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as well as for audible. Well, now it's time for today's episode of
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Nick Carter, which is a little bit of a different episode than he mentioned
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last time. But here now is the missing Herald Escort and matter what is
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it? Another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective. Yes, it's another
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case, but that's famous of all man hunters, the detective who's ability it's
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solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective Fiction Nick Carter, Master Detective,
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The Night's Curious Adventure Missing Harold Ascorn for Nick Carter and the Great Kidnapping
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Mystery. And here's Nick Carter himself to tell you the story. As you've
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probably already noticed, I'm not going to tell you the story that I announced
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last week. Instead, I want to tell you a rather different kind of
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tale, one which started as Patsy and I rang the doorbell at the rather
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magnificent home of Missus Philip Ascort, just off the upper end of the park
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at about ten thirty one morning. Yes, I'm Nick Carter. Missus Ascot's
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expecting me. Yes, mister Carter, won't you come in? Please?
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Thank you? You and the young lady will go into the living room.
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I'll tell Missus Escort you're here. Gosh, Nick, the Ascots must have
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more money than they know what to do with. Just look at it,
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asked Patsy. The Ascorts belonged to one of the oldest families in the city,
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old and conservative, rich, but never ostentatious. So I say,
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see, I wish talking about it. I think I hear Missus Ascot coming.
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Mister Carter. I want to thank you for coming so very promptly.
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I know how busy you are, but I really am in trouble, desperate
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trouble, and I don't know who else to turn to but you, why,
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missus ascot. I'll be very happy to help you if I can.
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This is my assistant, Patsy Bourne. How do you do? What you
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do now? What's wrong? It's my son, Harold, mister Carter.
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He's been kidnapped. I found this note inside my newspaper this morning. What
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does it say? Nick says, We've got your son. If you want
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him back, don't call the cops. We'll tell you what to do later.
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There's no signature. Can you tell anything by that letter, mister Carter?
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The first the handwriting is obviously disguised, half printing and half writing paper
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is good bond paper as a watermark looks like a dragon's tale. Ah.
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At top of the sheet of paper has been cut off a pair of scissors.
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Apparently the cut isn't quite even. Why do you suppose they did that?
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There was probably a letter head on it, and the writer didn't want
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the paper traced, of course, but they didn't cut quite all of the
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pinning off. I can't read what's left but later on it may help to
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identify it. It looks like hotel stationary, doesn't it me? Especially,
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that's what I was thinking. I'll have Scabby mak a round at the hotels
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and see if you can find the one that came from mister Cardiff. Do
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you think you can find my boy? I certainly hope so, missus ascort,
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and I'll do my best. But in the meantime, just sit tight
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and wait until you hear from me again, or until the kidnap gang makes
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its next move. Oh there, oh hi, and Nick, didn't take
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you long to get here. It's no time to waste in the kidnap case,
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Cobby, and never gonna be sure when the gang will get frightened or
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no, he didn't kill their victim. Now you find the same kind of
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newspaper I sure did, Nick, the same size, same watermark, and
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as near as I can tell from what's left in the kidnap note, the
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same printing at the top. Good. But what now, Nick, How
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is knowing that the paper came from here help you any If the paper came
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from here, it's quite possible that whoever wrote the kidnap note was staying here
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in the hotel at the time. Yeah, and if he was, the
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hotel register may give us a further clue. Well, but the handwriting on
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the note was disguise nick, not quite so scubby. But it's impossible to
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completely disguise any writing so that it may not be identified. Even when the
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writing is comparently completely changed, there will always be some peculiar characteristic left that
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will give it away. Oh, I didn't know that, Oh clerk,
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do you mind if we look at your register moment? Not at all?
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Here you are? Well, let's see, young ascot disappeared on Tuesday afternoon,
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and it's possible that the signature we want might be on a Sunday or
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Monday's day. Well, you know what to look for, yes, no,
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skivvy. I memorize the looks of the writing and the kidnapp note,
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and I expect to recognize any similar peculiarities inous signature. Here, No nothing
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here on a Sundays day. It's try Monday, okay? Here and here
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here look at this one James Scannett. I never heard of him, of
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course you haven't, neither of I. But look at that sea and the
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jay note. How hardly they made this signature like the kidnapped notice half written
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and half printed two, evidently the work of a man who learned to write
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late in life and a man who never writes easily. Oh I see what
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you move? No questions, Kebby. This is our man clerk. Yes,
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sir, is this James Scannerton in the hotel? James Scannett? No,
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sir, he checked out this morning. I was afraid of that.
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You recall what he looked like, medium high, sandy haired, little mustache.
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He had a crooked little finger on his right hand. I remember him
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because he answered a lot of questions last night. Thanks for well. Do
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you know him? Why? Yes, Keby, But I sent that man
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up the river three years ago for five years straight. Oh maybe he's out.
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I know a man who can tell me. I'll get him a ring
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and see. Oh who did the description fit? Nick? Sounds like Jack
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Vincent Scubby Ford. You're in a con man, an old timer at the
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business. I can't see for the world. No, pardon me for a
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minute. Oh sure, Nick, I'll wait here. Hm should turn on
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to be Jack Ris. This case may proved to be quite interesting for a
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book. Hello, Bill, how are you? This is Nick Carr,
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A fine fine, thanks, say Bill, is Jack Vincent still up at
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state prison? Oh two weeks ago? No, nothing special yet. Well
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thanks Bill, good luck, goodbye. Well what do you say? Nick
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Vincent was pardoned two weeks ago? He's our man? All right? You
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know what's a funny thing. But while you're in there phoning, a couple
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of men went by me and I heard one of them say to the other,
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I saw Vincent Grady's bar last night. Well maybe that's where he hangs
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out. You say you just heard that now, Scubby? Yeah, just
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no, that's queer. Well how do you mean me, Scubby? Things
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are going a bit two weaksily a notepaper that can be traced, the name
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and the register, the description, and now the conversation you say you overheard.
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Do you mean you think it's some kind of a frame up? Might
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be? S Well, gee, if it is Nick, you it is.
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I'm going ahead just as I was before. Just be a little bit
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more careful, that's all. Wow. They don't want me to go to
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Grady's bar. That's where I'm going. See you at the office later,
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Scuffy. And he fell for Jake hook Line and Sinker. Just like you
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said, I got a head it to you, and you told him where
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he could find me. I said it real loud, right beside that stoo
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jays, I said, I'd seen you in Grady's place. Here he's coming
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here now, Yeah, I beat it on ahead. Let you know he
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was coming good. We didn't take care of him when he gets here.
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Gee, you're off of smart Jack. Ain't no wonder I kind of go
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for you, but don't forget I onwhi one too. He's my popular chair
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for bumping off that old rat of a watchman last winter. I ain't forgot
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that. You bet you okay, Gernie cut the gap. Looks like Carter's
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coming in now. He can't see us where we're sitting. Yeah, that's
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him. Aint do I look okay in this april night? Body from people?
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Sure you look like a regular waiter? Ben they got a trade?
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Yeah yeah right here? You sure he don't know you've been a He broke
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up my k at last year, but he never seen me. Gee,
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we all got it in for him, eate we you bet we have.
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And here's where he pays up. Watch a waiter, bring me a loud
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general cook with you coming right up? Wow? Nick? Lots of familiar
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basis every No, but I really know, I wonder if men might have
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moved town. If you get the snatch and that conversation Scubby overheard, if
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you did over here, it sounds to me, yeah, sir, Oh
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thanks, yeah, give a change, thank you, sir. Wow,
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at least this ginger is cold. Doesn't make that bad. It's at the
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odd flavor to it. Though. There must be a new brand of coachs
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that mixed with it. And see that I enjoy it. It's clear isn't
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hot enough in here to make me dizzy like this? It seemed to be
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nick, you fool, you've been doped. Yeah it you've been y Yeah,
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look it it's how cold? Then you must have made it strong.
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But I did. I didn't take no changes. I put three of him
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in. I go on, Gerdy and get the car and make it fast.
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I don't want none of Carter's friends to come looking for him before we
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can get him out of here. Okay, this is the day I've been
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waiting four for three years. Oh, he don't look much like a great
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detective, does he? All tied up in gag like that? God?
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Say, don't he looks more like a trussed up chicken or a dead duck.
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And that's what he's going to be as soon as he wakes up,
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a dead duck. You mean you ain't gonna kill him now? There's no
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fun in killing them when he don't know who's doing it. I want him
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to look me in the eye when I send a bullet into his brain.
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Oh gee, Jack, I got you. Let me kill him. Nothing
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I'm doing. This is my party, private and exclusive. He got his
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guns, yeah, both of them. Hey, we leave him here in
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the backroom for now, Jack, Yeah, he won't come too for another
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couple of hours. He'll be safe here you were, Gerty, stay here
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and watch him. I got some stuff I want to take care of.
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I'll be back by the time he wakes up. Okay, here you go,
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mister master. He checked him. Ja stayed the way ready for you.
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Have I nice sleep, and keep your eye on Gertie Ben. She
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might forget and bump him off all by herself. Nicholas Carter's office, Well,
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I know he isn't. Has something else come out? Yes? Good
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heavens one hundred thousand dollars. I have no idea where he is. He
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should have been back here long ago. You better just do nothing, as
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he said, until we hear from him. He's down the call me pretty
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soon, unless unless something's happened to him. Yeah. Oh, what a
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headache that's leaves behind that. That's certainly right for being such an idiot.
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I knew what I was walking into, and I walked right into it.
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Gosh, it's dark in here. I wish I could say what h okay,
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you sent my top of a chair. Never send nobody else there,
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because you ain't gonna live no longer. I'm gonna fix you right now.
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I'm gonna so. I'd have to be so rupp with your lady, but
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it's my life for yours. You're only stunned. Now I can roofs that
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knife she had rapped before she gets her senses back. I can cut these
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roots and can get free. That's a little more. I can only see
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behind my back. Where is that knife? I don't want to be able
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to reach it now. Just ah. Now, i'd got this rope in
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my wrist a little bit more there. That's kind of for the leg ropes.
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Oh white quiet, you'd try to call for help, I'll be forced
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to kill you. You did you? I heard you coming in, so
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I sat up, stuck my legs out and tripture. He dropped your knife
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and knocked your head on the floor, and I stunned you. Then I
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found the knife cut my ropes. Now I'm getting out of here. No,
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no, no, no, you can't. Jack will kill me.
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You'll murder me before I don't try anything. Your friends overlook this little pistol
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like carrying my shoulder host to It's very small but effective. I assure you,
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what are you going to do? Why do you dope and bring me
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here? You kill me? Jack and Ben were scared you try to break
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up their plan for the kidnap job. I listened carefully. Who else is
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in this house? Now? In the next room? And when I tell
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you to call Ben? Tell him you're afraid I'm waking up. Ask him
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to come in here. But don't you want him? You want me to
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ask him to come in here? Yes? No, funny business. Now
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call him, all right, Ben, Ben, I think Nick Carr is
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waking up. You better come have a look at him. Yeah, I
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won't, Joe, now stand aside. I'm leaving here, and don't try
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to stop me. I'll be seeing you both later under different circumstances. How
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Nick, we're in the world. Have you been We've been waiting for you
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for hours? Sorry, Patsy? Anything special? Have been going on?
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Anything special? I should say? So? Missus Ascott is called five times.
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She got a note from the kidnappers telling her it would cost her one
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hundred thousand dollars to get her son back, and she's going crazy waiting for
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you to tell her what to do. Nay, Patsy, have you heard
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anything from me? Scubby? Well? Nick, what happened to you?
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Jack Benson laid a trap for me and I walked into it. Did you
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learn anything? No, Scubby, I didn't accept that. It all has
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to do with the kidnap case we're working on. Oh did you have any
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trouble? Well, it depends on what you called trouble, Scubby. More
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of that later. What about missus Ascott? She wants you to call her.
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As soon as you come in, I'll get her for you. Hi,
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Patsy, I got to move past, maybe too late. Even now
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my being there and getting away, it doesn't help any Missus Askert just a
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minute, please? She isn't Hello, Missus Ascott. So I've been held
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up where you couldn't get hold of me. What's up, Oh, mister
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Carter, I received a note from my son. It says that I'll have
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to pay his kidnappers one hundred thousand dollars if I want to get him back.
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The note also says I've got to take you off the case. He
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will be kill He says that so far they've not mistreated him, but he
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begs me to pay the money and getting free. Is the note in your
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son's handwriting? Oh? Yes, yes, I'm sure that. What shall
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I do, mister? Or does the note give you any way of getting
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in touch with him? Yes? Yes, kid says to put an ad
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in the personal column of the clarion, address the safety and let them know
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what I decide. Good, Put the ad in the clarion, tell them
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you're willing to pay the money, and ask them how they want to pay
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it. All right, mister Carter, But but how about well what they
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have to say about getting rid of you? You know what I understand,
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missus as good? Tell them in the ad that you will guarantee that I'll
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have nothing further to do with the case. But that that would be alive,
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wouldn't it, Yes, of course it would would you prefer that the
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kidnappers kill yourself? No, of course, not all right. Then put
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the ad in just as I said, and let me know the minute you
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get an answer, then we'll plan a next step. Oh, mister Carter,
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I'm so glad you've come. An answer to the ad that I put
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in the paper, just came in the morning mail. Here it is,
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thank you, and route seventy seven, B five and two tens miles north
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of Roote thirty one, there is a large, single oak tree. Great
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to say the road. It's the only tree around. Make up a bundle
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of ten, twenty and fifty dollar bills one hundred dollars more. Throw the
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bundle out at the foot of the tree this afternoon at five o'clock sharp,
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drive by it not less than twenty five miles an hour, and do not
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stop. Your son will be sent back to you tomorrow morning. You'll be
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alive if you follow directions, you'll be dead if you don't. Gosh,
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passy, where's that map I asked you to bring along? Here? It
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is, Nick Well, I still don't know how you could tell what section
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of the state we're going to need a map up, Well, Patsy When
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I went back to the gang's hideout yesterday afternoon, it was deserted. The
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only things I could find that interested me were a rough draft of the original
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kidnap note made in the back of an Endloe addrest to Jack Vincent, and
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also a timetable showing trains running to a certain part of the state. What
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part was that? The part I asked you to bring the map up?
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Very simple, very simple to you? Well, where is it here?
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Now? Let's see Route seventy seven B is here. Route three sixteen crosses
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right here. It's about forty five miles out of the city, in a
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very thinly saddled section. What shall we do about it? Mister Carter?
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Well who just exactly as the note says, have your bankers make up the
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bundle of one hundred thousand dollars and tens, twenties and fifties, take Patsy
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with you and have your chauffeur drive you up to the spot designated this note,
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throw the bundle out, and then leave the rest to meet. I'm
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sure glad it's clear today, otherwise we'd be out of lock. See anything,
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Scubby, No, not you? Hey, Nick? Do you suppose
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anything has gone wrong all I doubt it. I have entire faith in Patsy's
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ability to follow instructions. Gee, sure has started around here, is it?
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Yes? Only a few scattered housesn't bad? A little traffic? Oh
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yes, Scubby. Suppose you take over the control to the plane for a
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while while I take the glasses and have a look around. Oh sure,
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Nick, Hey are thanks got stick? Yeah? Fall set? These glasses
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are really high powered, aren't they? Hey? I think I yes,
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yes, no, they are and right on time. Are you sure this
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is the right road, James, Christmas good? This is the right road.
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Oh. I feel so much safer, mister Cardaway here. Why if
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any little thing would to go wrong, it might mean my boy's life.
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That's why I'm here and missus Askert, just to see that nothing does go
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wrong. The place you want is about a half a mile ahead, Missus
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ascort. We'll dear so soon. Oh I'm all of legitimates, Bowen,
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you have to throw the package out. I just can't do it now,
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don't you worry, Missus Askert. I'll take care of everything. Slow down
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just a little, will you please, James? Yes, miss I wish
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I knew how Nick is planning to get the money back. The gang could
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go anywhere from here and we never know where it was. Oh, I
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hope mister Carter won't do anything to winterfere with my getting my boy back.
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He's worth all the money I have. You can trust Nick to do the
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right thing. There's the tree just ahead too. Now help me up with
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the package. All right, that's it. Yeah, no, I'm gonna
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let it go out the window. Here it goes. Well, that's that.
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Oh your wonderfulness born. Did you say anybody? No, no,
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nobody, not a soul around him anywhere. I still can't see anybody this
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one who was still right by the side of the road where it fell.
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I heck, this turf cuts off of you entirely. Well, at least
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we've done our part. We've done our pot. The rest is up to
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Nick. Yep, those are Nick's ard Sheriff. Drive as close to the
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house as you can and then park your car in the bushes just off the
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road. Okay, here where's Carter? And now? Oh well, he
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went on the head to get the layout of the place. Wants to get
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his plan set by the time we get there. I don't understand how you
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know them fellers are hiding out there. You sha ain't need a owner car
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had ever been near the house. Well, I'll tell you, Sheriff,
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it's really very simple. When missus Lascart dropped the bundle of money out of
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her car this afternoon, Nick and I roll her head and Nick's plaine watching
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everything through his extra high powered field glass. Eh. Yeah, we saw
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the crooks come and pick up the money, and then we watched them beat
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it back to the farm house. They took every back road and cole PATHI
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gets fire to keep from being following, but we could see them no matter
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where they went. Yeah, all the time. The one matter they're really
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afraid it was up there over their heads watching it. Hey, that's quite
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a stunt. I've heard tell me. Nick Carter is quite a fella.
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I'm dying if I don't believe it now, Well durned. If you don't
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have better, Well we better stop here. Huh, don't there go no
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closer to the house with the car. I'll just runner off into the bushes
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here. Well, I wonder where Nick is you gotta be here anymore?
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So far, so good. I haven't seen me yet. Yeah, this
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is the wouldn't do where the boys could be if I'm right mm hmm to
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the doctor, see what's inside the room. I don't have to take a
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chance and find to the window and z for myself. Lot. I want
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to be able to slip the latch, and I know a window like this,
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this snipe will do what I think. M hm hmm. Yeah.
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Oh, my lord calls it all my longer. I guess it's safety use
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my last night here. Yeah, there he is. Oh, Harold,
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Harold, Oh quiet quiet, got a sound, keep you pretty quiet?
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You all right? Yeah, quite a pretty bad cold yesterday though with who
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are you? You're not one of the kings. I'm not one of the
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gangs. I'm a Nick Catterick. Yes, gee, I've heard of you.
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You're gonna save me, huh, That's just what I'm gonna do.
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And I'll get these ropes off your on the lights versus h that way.
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Are I feel better? Gosh? Yes, I'll see if you can stand
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up. Well, it's not very easy yet, but that'll be all right,
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good boy. We got to get you out of here pronto before one
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of the game comes up to have a look at you. All right,
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how do we get out out of the window? Same as I came in.
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Come on now, quiet, okay, what have you seen, mister
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Carter? I'm out the window under the roof. Easy now, easy,
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Yeah, that's the boy gee Jack out here, can't see anything hardly.
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Just follow me. There's a post in the corner of the porch. We
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can slide down. I came up it careful now here it is here we
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are, okay. I'll come right behind you. You go ahead, mister
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Carter, Not mister Carter, Harold, just call me Nick. Gosh,
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Nick, am I gonna have something to tell a fellas when I get back
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home. All right, he'll come. Hey, boy, gee, that
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was easy, wasn't it? All right? Son? Sure, let's get
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going away from here? All right? My friend's scubby in the sheriff want
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to be over there on the edge of the brush. Hey, is that
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you, nick Yescubby? And I have the boy too, suffer and catfish?
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Mister Carter, how on Heaven's names you can get him out of there?
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Are getting caught? It was easy. Nick's a good detective. I
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bet he can do anything. Well. Thanks for the plug, Harold.
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Now here's my idea. Are the three of them still in the living room
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where they were a few minutes ago. Yeah, I just took a look
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and they still there. What's your idea, Carter, Well, this is
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it. I think Harold is still tied up nice and snug in a static
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room. Now. If they should happen to hear him out here in front
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of the house, they've probably come rushing out to see what's up, wouldn't
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they? Sure? Go on, Well, I don't want any shooting if
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I can help it. Somebody might get hurt. So you and I will
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stand one on each side of the front door, Scubby, while the sheriff
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goes round to the back door ready to come up from behind him, and
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Harold will stand out here in front of the house and shout good and loud.
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They'll come out to see what's what, and we will poke our guns
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in their backs. No shooting, no trouble, all nice and simple.
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Gee, that's well. What'll I yell? Nick? Oh? Whatever comes
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to your head? Anything at all? Okay? Sure, yep, sounds
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nice and simple. If it works, well, here goes rear guard.
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Come on, sco and get your guns ready. Okay, and hell,
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if anything goes wrong, you run for the woods. They'll never find you
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out there. At a back night like this. Okay, Nick, when
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do I yell count five slowly? That'll give Scubby and me time to get
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into a position beside the door. Okay, one, two, three,
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four, five? Winds will in the mounted yet me? Whoa? What
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the little doing off here? He gets your hands out of my past.
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Don't drive meto beer guns. We've got you surrounded, Nick Carter, I'll
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just keep those hands in the air, Vincent, All right, Scotty,
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get the guns, okay, Nick, Only one on them and two on
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our friend Jack. I here, stop it. Why this girl trying to
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skip out the back way? So ill brought along? He blows us outfit.
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I'll see she does. She was the one who watched me while the
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men went out for the money. Well, looks like we got everything go
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on it. It certainly does share everything but the ransom money, which must
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be here in the house somewhere. Nickon, Can I hold a gun on
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one of them? Right? Sure? Son? Yeah? Take Jack's gun
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and keep it pointed right at him all the time. Hey, Cotter,
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don't I kid have that gun. You don't know nothing about guns. It
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might go wolf and somebody get hurt, quite right, Vincent, But would
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it interest you to know that? I wouldn't care if it did. As
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far as I am concerned. Kidnappers are pretty filthy things, the lowest of
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the low. Oh, mister Carter, how can I ever repay you for
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what you've done for me and my boy? I'm very happy that we were
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able to get the boy back for you, Missus Ascot, and the money
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too. Please tell me how much I owe you, mister Carter. I
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want to send you a check at once, a big one. You owe
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me nothing, Missus. But mister Carter, you really want to repay me,
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I suggest that you put at least an extra ten thousand dollars the war
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bonds in this fourth Warlorn Drive and give the bonds to the Associated Boys Clubs
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of the city. I can think of no better way to spend money right
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now. Buying the bonds helps the boys who are fighting for us today,
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and giving the bonds to the Boys Clubs helps the boys of tomorrow. It's
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a wonderful combination. This has been another of the strange adventures off Nick Carter,
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Master Detective, which are brought to you regularly at the same time by
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W O R Mutual. What can you tell us about next week's story.
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Nick, Well, all I'm going to tell you about it is this.
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There's such a weird and unusual case that, for the only time in my
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life, I was almost compelled to believe that vampires really do exist. I
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call it Death after Dark or the Mystery of the Vampire Killings. So long,
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So long, Nick, See you next week. In the strange adventure
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you have just heard, Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark, Patsy by
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Helen Choate, Scubby by John Kine. Original music was played by Lou White.
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The entire production was written and directed by Jack McGregor. Next week,
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at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled Death
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after Dark or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Vampire Killings. This story
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is a copyrighted feature of Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. The Return of
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Nick Carter is broadcast in the studios of w o RN is broadcast over most
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of these stations every week. This is mutual welcome back. Well. Our
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cautious team of kidnappers apparently thought that the plane that was travel following them back
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to their hotout was just a coincidence and there was nothing like the scene after
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the kidnappers were caught to remind us that we weren't listening to something from the
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twenty first century. Speaking of that, we turned a listener comments and feedback,
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and we have a question from Lexi, who says, what are you
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going to do another Sherlock Holmes episode? Thanks for the question, Lexi.
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We will continue to play video theater programs and that features Sherlock Holmes. However,
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we are done with the radio version unless somebody comes up with some lost
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old time radio versions of these programs, and if we do play it again,
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I would be happy to entertain playing Sherlock Holmes again. But Lexi's not
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alone and missing Sherlock Holmes. We'd also received an email from Christine who says,
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as usual, the so is awesome. I just wanted to give my
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two cents about Nick Carter. It's got to be the worst old time detective
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of you've played, really the police Riley, excuse me. The policeman is
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so stupid that I keep wondering who he paid to get his job. Also,
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everybody's opinion of Nick as the world's great detective, the greatest detective ever
32:54
is just annoying. Now, maybe it's because I'm a diehard Sherlock fan the
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last series. Notwithstanding that, I find this claim to be so offensive.
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But I have yet to be impressed by Nick. Love the show as always,
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but can't wait for Nick Carter to be over. Well, I appreciate
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your opinion. We have quite a ways to go with Nick Carter about two
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more years, and there are shows that I don't like. I felt like
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one show that we won't play is the syndicated version of Final Vans. We'll
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play some of the other episodes that were aired over NBC, but the syndicated
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version, I thought the police were just too incredibly dumb. I don't quite
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get the feeling about this series. In no way are Nick Carter cases as
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good from a mystery standpoint as Sherlock Holmes. There's something to be said for
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his longevity. There were more than one thousand stories about Nick Carter in Street
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and Smith in a magazine that ran for a total of thirty two years.
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Clearly there was something there that kept audiences reading and also audience is listening to
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the radio show. While Nick Carter rarely shows amazing genius, he shows cunning
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and dairy and is the toughest guy this side of the hard boiled eyes,
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and added all that in today he managed to work a PSA into collecting his
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fee. So I understand folks that disagree. I think this is a good
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series and I hope it'll grow on some listeners who are a little reluctant about
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it. But if not, that's why we have the other five days a
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week. But as always, Christine, thanks so much for your comments,
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truly appreciated. All right, well, that will do it for today.
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We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Doller and our final episode of
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Doctor Tim. And next week it's another episode with Nick Carter. Send your
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