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Nick Carter: Webs of Murder (EP1254) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Serious Adventure with Nick Carterer. As we begin today's story, we find Nick
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and Patsy in Nick's carr returning to town. Oh gosh, there comes out.
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You were able to prevent that poor old lady's home from being taken away
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from us? So am I, Patsy? That was a jip game if
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ever I saw one. The old lady was in the right, but I
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had to find the proof for otherwise you'd have been turned out in the streets.
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But nowhere to go. You ain't right back to the office. No,
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not directly. I haven't stop off and doing aaron for Riley, first
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doing aaron for Raleigh. And when have you tied it that I haven't started
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anything? Betsy. Riley called me this morning just before you got to the
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office and asked me, if I do this job, is a special favor
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to him? What do you have to do? Well? It seems that
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there's a woman on Cherry Street who makes a business of supplying spider webs to
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the army and Navy. Oh, they use him for cross hairs, for
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engineering instruments and sighting devices gun sites, bomb sites and so on. It's
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only a small business, but it's pretty valuable and mighty important too. So
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where do you come in? This woman called Riley early this morning and said
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that someone had tried to break into replace last night. She has a large
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shipment just ready to go out, and she's afraid that someone may try to
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keep it from delivering it. So Riley asked me if i'd stop in on
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my way back and pick it up. Said he had no good man he
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could send for it now because of some special work the police are doing just
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now, and good natured own Nicks that he would. Where do you have
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to take it to one of the naval buildings downtown? Besides being worth about
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ten thousand dollars, the web's very important for the service. Also, I
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thought you might like to see how they collect this web from the spiders.
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Do you want to come with me? Well, I've got a dental appointment
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in about an hour, Nick, but I'll stop off and have a look
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at this fight at conservatory. How are you going to be there only long
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enough to pick up the stuff? I expect unless there's some delay. You
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want to get back to town, plenty of time for your appointment with a
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tooth specialist. Yes, I am Nick Carter. I have come to pick
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up the web that you want to deliver to child. Who told you to
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come here? Riley said, you want the police protection. That's right I
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do. Would you mind identifying yourself? Please? Not at all? Would
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this prove my identity sufficiently? Oh? Of course, come in, mister
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Carter. Thank you, Miss Lewis, Ky Lewis, I own this business.
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This is Miss Bowen, my assistant. You do. The web will
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be ready in just a few minutes. I have one more spiders to take
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care of. This is a new Nana Lewis. I've seen centy of spider
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webs, but I never thought of saving any of them. Well, that's
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a very different thing, Miss Bowen. You can't just save any old web
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you might find around the house. You have to go at it the right
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way and have the right kind of spiders. What kind do you use?
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Black widow? Aren't they? Yes? Their web is very strong and very
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uniform. Black widow. They deadly. Well, there's really no danger if
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I get bitten. A solution of epsom salts injected into the bloodstream will counteract
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the poisons. It's nice to know, but I hope I never have to
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use this right. Oh, look at all the jars, Max, Is
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there a spider in each joe? Not quite? We have one hundred and
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sixty here just now. I checked up last night. My assistant Jim Baldwin
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is out on the field collecting more today. How do you get the web?
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Well, watch me. I let the spider out of the jar,
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and almost at once it starts to spin a web. I'll take the end
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of the web so and fasten it to this small wire frame there. Then
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I just wind up the frame and the web winds up as fast as the
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spider produces it. I understand you had an attempt at burglary here last night,
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miss Lewis. Yes, someone tried to break in the back door.
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We found chisel marks all around it this morning, but they were unsuccessful,
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or else they got scared away. Any idea who might want to steal your
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stuff? No, but I didn't want to take any chances with such an
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unusually large shipment as this, so I ask for police protection. And I
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don't blame you. You say there are one hundred and sixty striders here.
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Yes, all widows. Okay, in here, Jim, that's my assistant,
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Jim Baldwin. Not much firs time, Kay, I only got a
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level more of black widows. The woods are too dry. Just now,
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Oh, Jim, this is mister Carter and miss Bowen. What do you
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do? How do you do? Mister Carter is taking the shipment of web
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the naval building for me to be sure it gets there. Oh, I
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see you know. I can't understand why anyone who want to steal the webs
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really only collectors in this part of the country, and no one else could
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sell them without attracting attention. Well, I know it sounds cool. I'm
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not criticizing you. I'm just thinking out loud, that's all. How much
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longer before the web will be ready? Oh? Not long. As soon
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as I finished this one web, I'll pack them in those cases and they'll
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be ready to go. Not over half hours the most. I think I
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better get along, Nick, I can take the subway. I don't want
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to be lay in my appointment with a dandy. Okay, Bessy, I'll
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see you in the office about noon. All right, Thanks for the demonstation
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to show it. You're very well gone. Goodbye. I'm sorry to keep
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you waiting, mister Carter, but you can't hurry. The spiders squat all
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right, I don't ever hurt, Oh Jim, get that? Well,
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sure, I'll take it. In those cases you'll pack the web in look
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like boxes of fishing tackle, don't they. Yes, you can pack a
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lot of web into a pretty small space. It's for you, Korrow,
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Pete, Oh, thank you. I'll only be a moment, Pete Tomorrow.
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Isn't he that small time gangster that runs a garage. That's the one
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tells black market tires and gasoline. That's him. What's her connection with him?
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Nothing? I guess they've been out together a few times. Well,
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it's time to feed the spiders. Each one gets a fresh guill fly once
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a day. Watch this, I watch her go after it. She does.
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Yes, Oh, I don't think i'd care to be Oh oh what
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hit me? Oh my head? You'll just ship a thousand hammers too,
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How do you too? Huh? Wonderful? By the web are gone?
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What cases? My grief? Miss Lewis the Lewis Are you dead shot right
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through the head? Wait, that's my gun there on the floor. Why
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was shot with my gun? Hey bottom, ballollum, wake up, wake
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up? What happened? Balloon? Can you hear me? Yeah? What's
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the matter? Hey? Lewis has been murdered, okay, murder, Yes,
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shot through the head and the web's gone, all of it, the
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web gone? Yes? Did you see the guy who's like us? No?
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I looked around as you went down. I saw someone behind me and
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then I got it and got it good. And come on, come on,
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snap out of it? Will you'll get on the phone and call the
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police. Puise of course, get in the office and call him. Now,
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all right, I'll call him. I'll have a look around, see
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if I can find anything to tell us who's behind this m whoever it was,
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use my gun? Wife to all the fingerprints on trains? A whistle?
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Now? Hello? What's this? Wasn't here before? And I'm sure
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ticket for a parked car Morrow's garage. Pete to Morrow phoned here just I
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got wet. They're coming right now, look here about them? Are you
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sure that was Pete Morrow on the phone a few minutes ago? Who sure
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it was? I know his voice? Why? I just found this on
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the floor here a parking ticket for Morrow's garage. Probably just a coincidence.
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Somebody who had parked at Morrow's place did this. You're on there. This
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is the other end of the ticket then held by the garage. So it
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is so what I know that was Morrow on the phone. Besides, he
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was still talking to Kay when we were slugged. Yes, you're right there,
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Lewis was still talking last day. Knew. I wonder this ticket wasn't
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here before the killing, and it's here now a little of a better clue.
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I think I'll take a run over to Morrow's place and see what I
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can get out of him. I wish you luck, Curlie. And by
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the way, how long have you been in business? Here? A bout
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of years? Who started the business? Tell you this? How'd you get
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into it? Well? She knew I was a zoologist, so she asked
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me where she could get some black woods spiders the eye Hada interested me in.
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I finally gave up what I was doing and came over here. I
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collected the spiders, and she collects collected the webs. We've been very successful.
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You know anything about her past? No, nothing, never talked much
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about it before. But why all these questions, Curtier, I just want
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to learn what I can before I talk tomorrow. Sorry, I don't know
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anything more than I've told you. All right, brother, wait here for
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the police. I'll have a talk with our friend Pete tomorrow eight morrow around
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Yeah, Jesus j office anybody with him? No, you could go with
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that you wanted. Thanks, I will come in eight morrow. Yeah,
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that's me. What do you want with me? I want to talk with
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you. Okay, you got the floor about you. Keep your hands on
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top of your that's while we talk. Well that's said. Still keep your
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hands in sight. Hey, who are you anyway? What do you work
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with me? I'm Nick carter Us. I don't want to talk to you.
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Okay, so you're in the carner. So what I just want to
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ask you if you know anything about this bump on the back of my head,
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bump on the I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you don't,
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Maybe you do. You know kay Lewis? Yeah? Sure I know
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her? Good looking? Dan been not with her? Yeah? What's it
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to you? You know what business you was in? Sure? I knew
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about them spiders, and you also knew the webs were with a lot of
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money, didn't you? Hey, what are you getting there? You're trying
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to pin something only down? Did you telephone Kayler was about an hour ago?
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Huh oh, yeah, sure, sure I had to talk to What
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about why you're lying more? I'll stay right where you are. I want
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to have a little look around this office of yours. I don't know what
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you're trying to do cover, but I'm telling you I one of those boxes
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under your desk, Morrow, boxes, yes, boxes, What are they?
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They're tools? Mechanics tools. Yes, I suppose you shoved those tools
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out from under your desk and let me have a look at them. But
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there ain't nothing there. Don't try reaching for your gun again. Next time
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I layim lord, I'll shove those boxes out of here with your feet.
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I don't see why you're so interested in them boxes. They just enough.
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Why there's enough spider we having those cases to send you to the chair.
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The chair. You shouldn't have killed kay Lewis Morrow. I took the web
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Shore, but I didn't know anything to her, But you stole the web.
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Sure I got the ruin. It wasn't my fault. It was Well,
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department stores everywhere. Nick had just made Pete morrow small time gangs to admit
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that he had stolen the missing Spider webs when two shots were fired in rapid
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succession. It's a few minutes later. You must very Nick, neither hit
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you. Only the second one was aimed at me, Bessy. The first
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one went right through Pete's part. I dropped behind the desk, and the
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other one went over my head. Not yet try to get him, but
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he got away. Why would anyone want to kill Pete to keep him from
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talking too much? Probably Peter had just admitted he stole the webs and was
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about to tell me something else when he was shot. I imagine the killer
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himself was listening, and when Pete started confessing, shot him to keep him
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quiet. Did you get the yes, Both cases in my car. Now,
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I'm going to take them back to the Spider place. Raley should be
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there by. Now. You walked into something when you agreed to deliver those
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cases, didn't you? Apparently I did, But Here's what I called you,
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Petsy. I want you to look into our files. You have to
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gather all the information you can find on Kay Lewis and their business. Call
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me at the Spider Place as soon as you get it. There's something very
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peculiar going on around here someplace I never saw them. Piece of it,
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Nicks do We are always around when somebody gets killed, and I suppose you
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know nothing about It's the same as useful. Oh, I wouldn't say I
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know nothing about it, Raley, But I certainly don't have the solution all
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ready to hand over to you. Have you made any of your usual startling
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discoveries yet all of your wife christ cut here. I'm doing all right,
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a fine fine? And what have you found so far? Have we got
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the bullet that killed this Lewis woman? And it came from a forty five?
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That bullets gout? Who identified the killer for us? I doubt that,
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Rally, and quite you don't, because I'm pretty sure the bullet was
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fired from my gun. From your you mean news hundred, I mean nothing
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of the kind. After I was knocked out, someone stole my gun,
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shot Miss Lewis and left the gun on the floor beside her. God got
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it. That's the only real clue we had. Are clues rally, although
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I doubt that you would get much out of them. Why, For example,
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I know that Pete Morrow, small time gangster and black market operator,
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stole the spider webs that are missing. Pete Morrow, is it, hey,
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sus send it to Pete Morrow. That won't do any good rally?
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Why not Pete thought to be able to give us some d up on this.
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Pete is not going to tell anybody anything anymore. Someone put a slug
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through his head while I was talking to him. Another children. We ain't
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even solved this one yet. When you solve this one, Riley, if
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you do solve it, you'll have the answer to both of them. I
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believe the same person killed both Kay Lewis and Pete Morrow. Did you learn
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anything from Pete before he was killed? Only that he stole the webs and
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that someone else was back of it. Where are the webs? No?
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Outside? My Cary's safe, Nick. Maybe the killer will be bad to
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get them. They'll be safe enough. I left them in charge of one
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of your men out there. Hey, Jim, who's Jim tayloris his assistant?
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Jim Bowdman. Oh him, sure, he was here fire to go,
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but he said he was feeling pretty sick after kind of missus Lewis shot
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the way she was, so I let him go to the drug store something
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to make him feel better. How long has he been gone? Only a
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few minutes. Let me see you, Gosh, you reach longer than I
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thought. He's been gone about three quarters of an hour. He ought to
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have been back here before. This very interesting. What's going on out there
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at that time? Oh, Scott here, what's the trouble you? Well,
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mister Carter asked me to keep an eye on his car, so no
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one had Bob, but I just took a look at it. I found
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this fellow fooling around, so I brought him in. That's ridiculous. I
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didn't know it was Connor's car. What were you doing with it? I
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wasn't doing anything with it. I was on my way back from the drug
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store, and as I passed the car, I just happened to glance inside.
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I thought I recognized the cases we used to pack the spider webs in,
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and I was us having a look to have them to make sure.
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When when this dumb cop came up and grabbed me. Dumb cops? Did
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you say that? Chars CUTI go back and watch the car like you wis
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school? Yes, Jim, have you been at the drug store ever since?
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Donnant? Riley? Let you go for sure? I have. Oh,
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that's what i'd be doing, exactly what i'd like to know? Are
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you? And see? I haven't insinuating nothing. By the way, you
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said someone trying to break in here last night? That's right? Which door
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on right now? Yes, you can see the children march all over the
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outside where they're trying to break the log. That's just what I do want
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to see. All right, back, take your time, take your time.
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I got nothing else to do, but what you play around here?
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Shall I answer? Geutnant? Why shouldn't answer? Well, I didn't know,
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Now that you're in charge, Oh and answer sure? Sure? Hello,
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sure, Wait a minute, a car tell a home for you?
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Okay, my cheer about me? Boat? You said you got back here
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with them spiders he'd cut just before the killing this morning. That's right.
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The weather was bad for spiders, and I hadn't had much luck. I
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only got eleven spiders for twelve hours work, or sometimes I got as money
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as thirty five from maybe forty in the same length of time. This time,
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all I could time was eleven. Hardly worth the trouble. M h
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you say you got eleven spiders? Jim, Yes, you saw them when
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I brought them in this morning, So I did, so I did.
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How's your arithmetic rhythmetic? I don't get you. How much is one hundred
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and sixty and eleven added together? Are you being funny? Carter definitely not
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had one hundred and sixty and eleven. And see what you're getting? Any
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fool could asses at Nick? I know the answer myself. You get one
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hundred and seventy one. That's what I make a tour? Ally? What's
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is all about? Nick? That's count the spiders here in this room and
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see how many of there are? What do you want to do with that?
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For me? That's a satisfying my curiosity. Now what do you say
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you, Surrey? You are right hard right. Let's count the things and
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get it done so we can get to something important. This is important.
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Rally, you take that side, I'll take that one. Who were don't
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go, I'll shoot you do it? Your hands up high. He broke
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the charge and some of them spiders is rules in the implasons. Just step
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out of rally. They got back to it. Unless you get out the
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spiders don't get you, gentlemen, I will with my little forty five tell
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me he's gonna fight me. I got off rally. You're not yet,
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not yet but soon. I missed you in Pizte's office this morning, Carter,
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because I was in a hurry. But I won't miss you this time.
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You mean you killed Pete Morrow? I did just as I'm going to
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kill you. Thank you, am, And why not let's know what you'll
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see. You can't fool me that way, Carter. I'm no chump Goods
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all right? I take you out of night, I said, been one
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of the spiders down along my funny friend. Try and get under these good
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rally. Get some of the excel soft before I die. You're in the
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print. Take coming up there. You'll kill k didn't yes? Yes?
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Quick? And you kill Pete Marrow too, didn't you? Yes? Do
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something? He stole a whim as part of your day, didn't he for
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the love of that when your hurried out? Didn't he? Yes? Yes,
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yes, I'll find it? What you me? Would you do something
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before I saw yes, I'll give you. They have some selts. I
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want to save you for the electric chair. Well, nig, you had
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quite a day, yes, Bessy, quite a day. Now everything's quiet
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and peaceful. Spouse, you give out with the missing details. Did you
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know Jim Bowden was behind us and you started out? Oh? Not in
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first, Betsy, I didn't seem to be any motive for him to do
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it. But as soon as you told me that our file show kay Lewis's
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partner and not an employee, I got suspicious. Go on, tell me
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all about it, all right. Slave driver Jim Baldwin knew there was a
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big ship and of webs going out this morning, and he wanted it for
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himself, so he planned everything to look as if he couldn't possibly be mixed
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up at it. We told miss Lewis he was going out after a new
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batch of spiders, but instead he came back after dark and chiseled around the
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lock on the door to make it look as it's someone to try to get
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in. Oh, as soon as I examined the door, I knew it
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was a phony attempt. Then he arranged with someone to call miss Lewis at
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a certain time. This morning, just as he got back in with his
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eleven spiders, he answered the phone himself and told us it was pieced.
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Morrow said he recognized his voice that gave Moro when alibi, as well as
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himself. Then he knocked me out, and Morrow, as they had arranged,
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came in and took the webs. Jim says he never planned to kill
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miss Lewis, and I think that's true. When he found me there,
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he was afraid as he hadn't expected any witnesses, so probably thought it would
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look more legitimate if she were killed, So he took my gun and shot
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her, then tapped himself in the head hard enough to raise a good pump,
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just to fool Then, if you hadn't found the parking ticket for Marrow's
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garage, you wouldn't have had any reason to suspect Marrow, won't you.
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No, that was a lucky break for me, not Formorrow. How did
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Jim get away to kill Marrow? He stayed at the spider lab, didn't
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he Well? After Riley got there, he talked Riley into letting him go
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to the drug store for some medicine. Instead drove Tomorrow's place and got there
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in time to overhear our conversation. Then, being afraid Morrow was going to
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confess that he Jim was behind the deal, shot him and on his way
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back he saw the wedds in your car and tried to steal them again.
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Right, Nick, And if Jim didn't go out gathering spiders as he said
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he was going to do, when did he get those eleven spiders he brought
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back with him? Took them out of the stock at the lab when he
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was there last night, trying to make the lock look as if someone had
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try to break in. Oh, then that was why you wanted to count
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the spiders exactly, Bessy, I get it. Miss Lewis told us in
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the morning that she had one hundred and sixty spiders on hand. Remember well,
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if Jim had brought in eleven more, that would have made one hundred
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and seventy one in all right, So I wanted to count them to see
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how many there actually were. And when I started to do that, Jim
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knew the game was up because he knew we'd find only one hundred and sixty
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which had been there before. So we tried to get rid of us by
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breaking several of the jars in order to let some of the black widows out,
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hoping they'd bite us. That one did him instead. Yes, I
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saw one heading for him, so I kept talking, hoping he wouldn't notice
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it. Then when it did bite him, I shot his gun out of
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his hand. It's an old story, isn't it, As has happened many
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times before, a widow caused his downfall poor man. In just a moment,
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his side. And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Well, Nicholas,
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what's your story about next week? Passy and I went to the races
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one afternoon, just before the season closed, and so one of the most
28:33
exciting races I've ever witnessed. But as the winning jockey came down the home
28:37
stretch, he suddenly fell from his horse and was instantly killed. And Nick,
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being a detective born and very instantly snail the murder. Nothing to go
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on. Just one of his hunts, wasn't murdered Nick. Even in the
28:48
absence of proof, can I knew it was murder? The only job was
28:52
to get something concrete in the way of evidence, which Nick, being Nick,
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presided to do, much to the annoyance of a great many people try
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to do something about it. What do you call a story of yours?
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Nick, Death Goes to the Post or the Mystery of the Murdered Jockey.
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And that's all for now. So long the pay next week. So long
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everybody, and so long to both of you. We'll be looking forward to
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seeing you next week as usual. Next week. At the same time,
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with Helen Chot's Passy. Original music is played by Lou White, and the
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mutual welcome back. Well, and it started out a guy I didn't even
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intend to murder. I guess with comments about tangled webs we weave would just
31:03
be a little too much on the Pannel meter. Well, now we turn
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to listener comments and feedback, and I have a comment from Javier regarding Nick
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Carter. Hi, And I'm been biting my tongue about Nick Carter since the
31:21
beginning, but can't hold it any longer. Still don't know what to make
31:26
of this series. It started with some situations that were frankly insulting to the
31:30
listener's intelligence, being trapped in a glass box that was being slowly filled with
31:34
water and using a glass cutter not to cut around the lock or to cut
31:41
a big hole to crawl out, but to cut a hole from which to
31:45
get his hand out and pick the lock. I mean, really, This
31:48
was made worse with the intro in which they say that Nick Carter was the
31:52
best Detective. Ever, this annoyed me so much that I changed the name
31:57
of the series in my mind to the Insulting Adventures of Nick Carter. Then
32:02
the series got a lot better and I started to enjoy it. That is
32:07
until episode twelve thirty, which is just ridiculous, in which at the end,
32:12
someone who had an employee, his whole family, and his dog murdered
32:15
in cold blood and was almost murdered herself, says she's quite fond of the
32:21
murderer and doesn't want to call the police. Then the murderer, who is
32:24
in the same room as four people, including Nick Carter, says that when
32:29
you weren't looking, how could they not see it? I've just drunk the
32:32
bottle of poison that I happened to have on me justin gaze hopes the series
32:37
gets better, because at the moment, I don't know if I'm going to
32:39
get a decent mystery or a ludicrous one. Did you say we have over
32:44
a year of it? Anyway, love all the other shows, and I
32:46
will still listen to Nick Carter. Thanks for all the hard work and for
32:52
many hours of listening pleasure. Cannot imagine driving without this podcast. Well,
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thanks so much. For the comments, and we have a total of about
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two and a half years and were most of the way through the first year
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of this series. I don't know whether it was so much an insult to
33:15
people's intelligence. In fact, I'm fairly certain it wasn't, but a tendency
33:19
for I think, particularly some people, older radio listeners in particular, who
33:23
had begun their first exposure to drama probably being theater to a really suspend this
33:31
belief and just let their imagination go. Plus, I think that this was
33:37
also really written in the tradition of the pulp stories, which had all of
33:44
these improbabilities. And even more so, I've read some of the Nick Carter
33:49
pulp stories and some of these theories they had, particularly about electricity, were
33:53
well interesting, to say the least. After the whole glass cutter thing.
33:59
I kind of really set my expectations for this series, and I think that
34:04
there are certain expectations of realism and believability that you have for a show,
34:12
and that you know with Dragnet it's very very high, and Adam twelve very
34:17
very high. With a lot of modern shows, if I watched a lot
34:22
of them, it would be, you know, like a CS. I
34:25
think it'd be very very high this one. I have a standard of believability
34:31
for Nick Carter similar to that for which I have for the A team.
34:37
I do hold it to a higher standard than I might oh Spider Man,
34:40
and usually I can forgive most of their lapses into silliness as long as Nick
34:45
Carter's doing something amazing, death define and generally stunning. And this really,
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as I've said before, this series really built on the pulp fiction ideals,
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and so a lot of the stuff in here, no matter how improbable,
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you can trace it back to the polls. But thanks so much for the
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comments. Do appreciate it, and I hope you enjoy not only the shows
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we were playing before, but also those that we are adding this week.
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Well, that will do it for today. Coming up tomorrow is yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar. And don't have to admit it feels like it's been a
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while since we've heard from him, even though it's just been a week.
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So I'll look forward to bringing you yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and then
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join us back here next Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. The Meanwhile,
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