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Nick Carter: The Body on the Slab (EP1050) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  Otherwise, not a nonsense. All right, Well, now it's time
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  for today's episode of Nick Carter. The Body on the slab? What's the
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  matter? What is it? Another case for Master Detective. Yes, it's
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  another case for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective whose ability it's
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  solving crime is unequal in the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master
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  Detective. To Night's curious adventure, Lay Body on the Slap and the mystery
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  of the that's Miss Wallace. People disappear every day in a big city like
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  this. Such things are really no concern of mine. There a matter for
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  the police. But mister Carter, it isn't just anybody who's disappeared. It's
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  my husband. I'll pay you anything to find him. Well, I suppose
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  I can do no harm to listen to the story, all right, nonet,
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  Where was the last place you saw him? In? A sort of
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  saloon gambling house on West Street, down by the waterfront, A two story
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  house, a very run down. Wait a minute, Bennette, that wouldn't
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  be the place that's run by a one legged soldier they called Bill. Oh,
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  so you know it? Do you certainly do? My reputation at least
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  here I want you to look at this picture. You recognize it. Yes,
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  that's the place I'm talking about. I thought, so, missus Wallace,
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  I'll take the case. Oh, mister Cartran, you you would.
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  Yes, I ever scored a settle with that old rat with a wooden leg,
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  and this may be my chance to do it. All right, mister
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  Bennett, let me have all the details. Well, Vernon, that's Vernon
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  Wallace. My friend Vernon and I had been making a night of it and
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  we ended up at this Bills place. How don't you happen to go there?
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  Well, Vernon had heard that it was a great place for a fast
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  poker game and he was determined to try it. I'd heard it was a
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  pretty tough place, and I attempted to talk him out of it, but
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  I couldn't do it. So about one thirty or two o'clock this morning,
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  we went down there. We were the only ones that. To make a
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  long story short, Vernon and that old guy who owns the place got into
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  a game, and no matter what the old guy did, Vernon won.
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  I was afraid for him and a dive like that, and I've tried to
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  get him to quit and go home with me, but he refused, told
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  me to get out and leave him alone. And Veron hasn't been home since
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  then, and he hasn't been seen anywhere since then, afraid that he never
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  left that place alive. I see the place to start looking for clues is
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  certainly the old soldier's tavern. I'm going down there to night. I know
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  enough tricks with cards so that I can be sure of winning. And maybe
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  old peg Leg will try to treat me as he treated Vernon Wallace. Well,
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  stranger, I gotta admit I'm late. You broke the bank. Yes,
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  luck's been with me ever since I sat down here. Well, it's
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  getting late. I've got to be getting home. How about a drink before
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  you go, stranger. You'll not refuse me that, Why no, I'll
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  have a drink with you. Only one, sure, sure, one'll be
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  okay, Hey, Mike, two beers make it snappy? Yeah, coming
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  up? You want all my money tonight, stranger. But I don't harbor
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  no ill feelings. Only one, fair and square, and that's all there
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  is to it. He's your beer, stranger, drink hot. Excuse me,
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  stranger. I'll be back before you can take a stick. That's all
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  right. I don't try my drink when you're gone, stranger, Mike and
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  I've taken a fancy to you. We don't want no harm to come to
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  you. Look, why don't you stay here all night? Mice got an
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  extra bed upstairs, and be glad to let you have and tomorrow you can
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  go home and nobody will bother you. Well, if you let me pay
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  for the use of the room in bed, I believe I will shoo.
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  You're a smart man, but we couldn't take no money by doing your favorite
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  Here my show, the gentleman is room. Yeah, sure, will you
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  follow me, mister? Oh, sure, go ahead. I want to
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  get to bed, Thank you, rhymester. No, no, no,
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  no, I'm all right. I don't need any help. Well, I'll
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  come along, just to be sociable. I don't want to be sociable.
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  I just want to go to sleep. Well, here's your room, mister.
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  I'll leave a candle on the table for you. Okay, okay,
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  thank you very much. Hey, strangers, sleep tight. We'll see you
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  later. Yeah, we'll see you later. Good night, good night.
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  I gotta go to sleep from well, got myself in this easy enough,
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  hopewell find it as easy to get out again. When the time comes and
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  no light handle, why little new to get me a look around? Said
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  the bed. An doesn't look too comfortable. But oh blood, let's see
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  the man lying on this bed. That blood is just about where the dagger
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  would go through his hot The man whore drunk enough had been dragged. You
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  never know what hit him. I must look attle round. Yes, that
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  one. What's in his closet? Uh huh? Locked? Well, that
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  won't keep me out long? That as long as I still have my keys
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  with me? Is no ah? This one doesn't well, that is interesting
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  old clothes. He is a vest with blood on it? And is it
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  shot? In a jacket? Both up bloody? Unquestionably he's came from some
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  of the victims. Wow, nothing to do now. I would wait for
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  that one legged scundrel and this pail to make the next move. M h
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  And I guess I'll be safe if I'm merely sit on the edge of the
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  bed now. Oh yes, I won't be this can of anymore either.
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  Not awake for them. He's asleep all right. I can hear him snore
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  with the slug I put in his big have to be all right, easy,
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  does it? He's still asleep yeah, hold this light, get your
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  hands up, both of you and drop that night you got your hand bill?
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  How how can you be awake when we're really very simple? Keep those
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  hands up. I just poured that drink you gave me on the floor instead
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  of down my throat. What are you gonna do us? I'm gonna turn
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  you over to the police. The evidence of the bloody clothes in the closet
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  and what other evidence they'll undoubtedly find if they search this place. You both
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  should have an interesting time of it. Why don't you kill us now and
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  be done with it? Because I want some information first. Why should we
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  tell you anything? Because if you do, I shall probably be able to
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  get your sentence reduced somewhat. If you don't, I got you. What
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  do you want to know? Last night a young man won all your money.
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  He hasn't been seen since. I mean that fellow with a little mistake.
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  I do you murder him the way you try to murder me? I
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  didn't know, not one with him. Maybe I want to do it,
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  I didn't. Isn't it the fact that this chap's friend tried to get him
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  to leave you and go home, and when he wouldn't go with the friend
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  finally went off without him. That's all why they left, heeargether. What
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  you trying to tell me? One of them didn't leave before the other?
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  Oh, they went out together. You know where they went? How should
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  I know? There was a taxi waiting right outside the door here, seed
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  to be waiting with him to come out. Then the guy with the money
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  gets inside and his friend sits in front with the driver set on top of
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  the driver. But you know that cab if it's out again? Sure that
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  a big gent in the back of the body, handy with the red lead.
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  I've seen him around his father city before. I see. Well,
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  Bill, as soon as I can turn you and your pal over to the
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  law, I'll have penny fine. That taxi with a dent in the bank
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  trail seems to lead direct to him. Nick Carter's office, Hey, I
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  forgot Betsy. You were away yesterday when all has happened. Scotty got a
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  rush a sigmon to cover the Balkan campaign for his paper and had leaving a
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  boat let sailed last night, got be gone without saying goodbye to me.
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  Couldn't Betsy you weren't here? He asked me to do it for it.
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  Oh, Nick, I'm going to miss Gobby, and while he's away,
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  I'm having Penny Egles work on my cases with me in Scobby's place. Who's
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  this Penny? I never heard of him. He is an nold friend of
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  mine, great clever fellow. When he was younger, he was an expert
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  forger. How did you happen to get mixed up with him? Well,
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  he was accused of a murder he had nothing to do with, and he
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  had me got clear and he got interested in law enforcement, turned over a
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  new leaveing's gone straight ever since. You like him, Betsy, I hope.
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  So we should be at a minute now as soon as he shows up.
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  Haven't called me at Sharemore three one two two two share More three one
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  two two two Right, I'll wait here, boys call You're right, Penny.
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  That's the taxi we're looking for, and I know that driver? You
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  do? Yes? John Hagen, ex convict acomfidence man, friend of yours.
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  Hardly seen him in court several times, but he's never seen me.
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  What you been doing since you've been watching him? Well all afternoon in the
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  early part of this evening, he's acted like any other cabby, taking whatever
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  fairs he could get the latter part of the evening. He's been fussy about
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  who rides in his cab. How do you mean? Well, I've seen
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  several parties try to take his cab, but all he's picked up in the
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  last two hours were two drunks, and oh were they pie eyed? I
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  see, I think danna what he's looking for, Benny, and I'm going
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  to give him just the kind of a passenger. I think he wants.
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  Wish me lucky? But Nick, what are you going to do? Song?
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  All? I gotta be getting home now. I'll see you tomorrow maybe
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  huh. Okay, so long, but don't take anyone Nickels, Okay,
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  Ball, it's fright. What I want to text you for? I got
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  a I told me to come for you and take you home. Ah,
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  friend of mine? Oh and I saw it. Okay, I can't.
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  What's the address, mister address? It's the corner second and fifth, And
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  don't bother me anymore. But I gotta get me some sleep, Okay,
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  I want and now I'll wait here. It won't be towards second and fifth.
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  Wait a minute, what's that smell? Perfume? I know that's ether,
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  So that's the stunty picks up drunks of our two far gone to know
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  what's happening, then doses them with just enough ether to put them soundly asleep.
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  Well, that won't happen to me. If I open one of these
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  windows a little bit. That'll keep the air clear there. Now, mister
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  Hagen, the next move is up to you. Suddenly, plunny deserted way
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  out here, wonder how much further we're going. I better get this window
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  shut again so we won't suspect anything. So we're near the end of our
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  journey. Very well, mister Hagen, I'm ready for you, sleeping like
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  a baby. Well, let's see what you got in your pockets. Then
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  I'll don't make them move, Hagen, and I'll blow your brains out.
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  Who the sorry, I'm gonna detect him. See this, Well, what
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  do you want with me? I wanted to find out what your scheme was,
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  and I found out. Now I want you to tell me about the
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  man you picked up at peg like Bill's tavern down on West Street last night
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  about three o'clock. I don't know nothing about it. Oh no, look
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  you waited for him outside of Bill's place. He rode in back his companion
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  wrote, up front with you during the ride you gave him either through that
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  devilish device you breaked up in this taxi, if you away and made him
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  unconscious. If you know all that, why do you ask me? Because
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  there are two things I don't know, and if you want to avoid further
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  trouble, my friend, you will tell me now. First. Who is
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  the man who rode up front with you? I don't know? No,
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  no, oh, well I've done a few odd jobs for him in the
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  past, but yeah, I don't know his name. They call him the
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  Captain. He made a deal with me early last night to be outside of
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  Bill's place about two thirty this morning. Can you describe him? He's sort
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  of an ordinary guy, about my size maybe, and he kind of good
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  looking at you. He didn't have a hunk out of one ear Burnett.
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  Now, what did you do with a man who was in the back?
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  After I quieted him? He took him to a friend of the Captain's the
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  other side of the town. What was he address to which it took the
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  body? Hey, that was no body. He's just as live as you're
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  me now. He took him to fourteen Wanton Place, left him all right,
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  get back in your cab and drive me the second and fift and I'm
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  through with you. Unless you've lied to me, you have keep out of
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  my way. You'll go to jail for life. This is where missus Wallace
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  left, Patsy. I hope she's nick. What do you like to find
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  out here? I don't know, Patsy. The thing that puzzled me about
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  this case is why Burnett wanted to do a way with Wallace. Well,
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  it wasn't the money that Wallace won, attempted Burnett, as he could have
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  taken that while Wallace was unconscious. No, there's a stronger reason. You
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  hope Missus Wallace can throw some light on it. I hope so, Patsy,
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  if she can only help him that work. Oh hello, mister Carter.
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  Won't you come in? Thank you, Missus Wallace. May I present
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  my assistant, Patsy Bowen. How do you do, miss Helen? Place
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  it down? Thank you? Tell me, mister Carter, have you found
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  out anything about my husband? Well, nothing definite. I'm sorry to say.
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  We have learned though that he fell into bad hands, but we don't
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  know what happened to him after that. Arthur assured me you'd find out the
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  truth if anyone could. I thought, Oh, you mean mister Burnett.
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  Yes, yes, he's been so kind to me. He's done so much
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  to cheer me up. I except for his kindness, i'd have gone crazy.
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  You've known him long, Missus Wallace, all my life. We were
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  brought up together, and then two He and my husband have been business partners
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  for all the best of friends for years. You think a great deal of
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  him, then, yes, indeed, mister Carter. At one time,
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  before I met Vernon, I would have married him if he'd asked me.
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  Then I met Vernon and really fell in love with him. But even after
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  I married Vernon, Arthur continued to be my best friend. I think very
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  highly of him, and you're lucky to have such a friend, Missus Wallace.
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  But he could never take my husband's place. You must find Werner,
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  mister Carter, if it's possible to find him. Nickel Dibert, Yes,
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  Missus Wallace, you may rely on me for that. Well. Shall we
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  be running along now, Patsy? Where did you say you're calling from,
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  Penny? I'm at a pay station near the house where Hagen left Pace that
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  night. It's owned by a quarrel gag and they call the weasel he works
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  in a cream story about a mile down the road. I said, well,
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  Hagen's story seems to be strand up. A couple of guys in a
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  salooney says they saw the weasel and another guy carrying a man's size bundle into
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  the Weasel's place about date break, a couple of mornings ago, and it
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  hasn't come out again as far as I can find out. Why did you
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  learn anything about the firm of Wallace and Burnett? Yeah, yeah, I
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  picked up a lot of rumors, Nick, but not many things. Here's
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  how it goes. Burnett ruins the firm and throws the blame on Wallace,
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  and those who know don't think that Burnett lost much money when the firm failed,
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  but Wallace did, so I was right. What else, Well,
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  Burnett was the one who started Wallace gambling and drinking. Wallas is a nice
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  guy, but he seems to be the weak sister. But nobody seems to
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  know what Burnett's got against you. Putting together what missus Wallace told us and
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  what you've learned, Penny, I think I begin to see the answer.
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  I think that the guy who looks like Barnetti is going into the Weasels place.
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  Good, don't let him get away from you, Penny. I'll meet
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  you there as soon as I can. Yep, you're right, you're right,
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  Nick. They did bring that casket here to the creamatory. I thought
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  they would, But I wish I could get closer and see what they did
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  with it after they carried it inside. Look, Nick, that window over
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  there is open a little. Maybe we could hear something from there. Good
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  idea, Penny, Come on, quiet you but Weesel. Are you sure
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  they won't be suspicious? Not a chance, Captain. That's why we're doing
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  this tonight. The owners of the crevatory, you're going to make a test
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  of a new heat and fixture tomorrow morning. And they told me to have
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  the ovens hot by ten o'clock. I ain't just getting them hot little ahead
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  of time. What do you use when you make a test like that?
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  Well, they send me the body of a dead chair for tod in the
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  closet. But the test we're going to make tonight will be even feller.
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  Captain. Yes, how does this thing work? Oh? Simple? The
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  body's laid here on this slab and strapped down the way. You show me
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  fix this fellet and the next room there's a lever attached to the slab.
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  When the leaver's pulled, the slap slide into the up The door closes behind
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  it, and the destruction of the body begins. Do we have to watch
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  it burn? You can't see the slap nor the ovens from the room where
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  the lever is. How long does it take to reduce the body to ashes?
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  Six eight hours? It'll be all over by daylight, even if the
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  body isn't you mean, even if the body ain't dead yet. Yes,
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  that's what I mean. And Wallace is still alive. Well, it's a
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  little unusual to cremate a live body, but it works just the same.
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  You'll never know what happened. It'll be all over in an instant. Well,
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  we got lot more to do here. Might as well go in the
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  next room and wait for the ovens to get hard enough. Then you can
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  pull the lever and slide the body. You mean, I have to pull
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  the leave of it sends him into a show. He's your friend. Come
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  on, Penny, there's no time to waste. We have to work fast,
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  mister Burnett to see you Nick. Oh, yes, come in,
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  mister Burnett. I just want to take enough of your time to tell you
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  that Bernon Wallace's body was found last night. Really where was it floating in
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  the river? Missus Wallace has identified it by a ring and certain other articles
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  found on the body. Must have been a terrible blow. She's badly broken
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  up, naturally, but I hope to be able to console her in part
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  at least for her great loss. I'm sure you will. Uh will this
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  repay you for your trouble? Oh, I'm play, mister Bennette, and
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  thank you. Good good day, mister Cutter, Good day, mister Burnett.
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  But if you think I'm going to drop this case now, mister Burnett,
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  you're crazy. Nick here, I am over here. I got here
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  as soon as I could have forgot your call. Penny brought my new helper
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  too, as you see. Yeah, so I see hi there, helper.
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  Hello, Penny. I hope I'm gonna be able to help you and
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  Nick, you'll do all right on this case. Now, what's the dope,
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  Penny? Well. A couple of hours ago, a taxi pulls up
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  in front of Missus Wallace's house. The driver goes into the house about fifteen
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  minutes later, he comes out again with Missus Wallace and her maid. They
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  get in the cab drive away with you after him. Of course that's right.
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  Well, they drive around and finally end up way out here. There
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  must have been a couple of guys in the cab when the women got in,
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  because when they got out there they were both gag and their hands were
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  tied behind them. Well, they took him in the old house. I
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  found a phone to call you. Did they hurt them? We're not,
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  so far as I could tell. Gee, I wish I could see what
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  they're doing now. I hope they'll all right. This is terrible. And
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  Martha still saw from a dirty old cloth that used for a gig. Where
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  do you suppose we are? Oh? I don't know, Missus Wallace,
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  I've never been this far from town before. Could you see anything out of
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  the window? Nothing recognized? How I should have known better than to be
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  fooled by such a simple trick. I might have known that old Missus Parker
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  couldn't be so sick she had to see us at once? Why I saw
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  only the day before yesterday? Oh pulled me all right, I thought,
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  I hope you're comfortable ladies. We are not. We certainly are not.
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  What's the idea of bringing us here? Well, i'll tell you. The
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  Cap says, that's how he's gonna collect some big dough from you too.
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  You mean we're being held for Ransell? Well, how much money do you
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  want? Well, Cap says he won't take less than fifty thousand dollars.
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  Oh, we'll never get out of here. Nonsense, he must be insane.
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  You expect me to pay him that amount of money? Real, he
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  says he won't take us less, but he won't get it never, And
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  he's a dangerous man. You better not getting mad at you. I'll be
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  back at eight o'clock tonight for your answer. Oh kill us, I know
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  he will. He quiet Millie. He won't kill us as long as he
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  thinks there's any chance of getting the money out of us. But what if
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  we get Oh man at the window, it's mister Burnett. Oh, Arthur,
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  I hoped you'd come here. You are you safe, Louise? Have
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  they hurt you? We're both saying, how did you ever find us?
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  I just climbed off the porch to the roof, then over your window.
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  Have they told you why they brought you here. Yes, they want ransom
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  fifty thousand dollars. They'll kill us if you don't safe. Not while I'm
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  here. I'll see that no harm comes to you. But what can you
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  do? You're only one against the two of them. They're both vicious criminals.
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  I know. Do be careful, Louise, if I save you from
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  these rats. Do you think that you ask me now? Don't tell me
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  what time are the men coming back again? Do you know? Is the
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  man we talked to said they'd be here at eight o'clock. That gives us
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  just over an hour. Here's my plan. When they come, I'll be
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  here now. You each know what you're supposed to do, don't you sure?
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  Nikki? Sure? You know? This ought to be fun. I
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  haven't played cops and robbers since I was a kid, same hair. This
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  should be good, and I hope you too are disappointed. You can't tell
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  about these things, so watch your step, both of you here. They
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  are everything to me. You may have your mind. They pay their answer
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  and they can't watch. We'll pay you nothing, not a cent. You
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  know what that means down. It means that you better get your hands up,
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  all three of you, if you want to live. Oh are you.
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  I'm here to save these two ladies from you and your gang? Oh
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  yeah, let him have it. I want you. You killed them all,
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  it's their own fault. I want them. You are wonderful always,
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  dear fortune was with me. I'm not even scratched. I never in my
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  whole life. So anyone who's brave as you, any man would be brave
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  on defending the woman he loves. You. Promise, I'm sorry. I'll
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  take you home now. Just let me drag these bodies out of the way,
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  and I'll not yet you want you can't. What's the matter with you?
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  Man? What's that deal? Shut up you, Wallace. Time has
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  come to explain a great many things. First, let me remove this beard
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  there. Recognize me, now, don't you? Mister Carter? Nick Carter,
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  mister Carter? What are you doing to Arthur? Mister Burnett. I'll
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  answer that later. First, I want you to meet my assistant, Penny
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  Eagles, your assistant. Sure, hi? The other man is an old
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  friend of yours, missus Wallace, an old friend of mine. I'm sure
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  I don't. Perhaps if you took off his makeup, you might recognize you?
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  Know me? Now? Oh Louise my darling. But then Arthur told
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  me that you that I was dead. Oh yes, Arthur Burnett told you
• 27:36
  a great many things that were not true. But then he showed me your
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  ring, your launch pi, and he said he took them off of your
• 27:41
  dead body with the police down in the river. Barnett took those articles from
• 27:45
  your husband's body. Right enough, Missus Wallace. But it was while your
• 27:48
  husband was still alive. And it's no fault of his that I'm not dead.
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  Now, you don't mean that, author, That's exactly what I do
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  mean. He's been lying to you for years, Missus Wallace. It was
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  he who ruined your husband's business and him to lose so much of his money,
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  because he who first induced her husband to drink and gamble, And it
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  was he who was responsible for your husband's disappearance a few days ago. That's
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  a lot. Oh no, it isn't. As a matter of fact,
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  Louise dear, if mister Carter hadn't fooled him by putting a dead calf in
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  my place on that crematory slab, Arthur Burnett would have been my murderer.
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  Oh no, no, that can't be true. Furthermore, it was Burnett,
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  who arranged for your kidnapping this afternoon. Oh he did it so that
• 28:25
  he could suddenly appear and rescue you from the members of the kidnap gang,
• 28:27
  who in reality men in his employe. But why should he do all this
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  horrible things? Because he's been in love with you ever since he first met
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  you, and ever since your marriage to Wallace. He's been insanely jealous of
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  him. Everything Burnett's done has been to make you despise your husband and turn
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  instead to him. That's a lie to cattle. Oh no, it isn't,
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  Burnett. I can easily prove it, Penny. I may have the
• 28:47
  gun with this Burnett shot us during the battle a few minutes ago. Sure,
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  Nick, here you are, thanks. Look here, Missus Wallace.
• 28:55
  This pistol has eight shells in it. Burnette fired five shots at us,
• 28:59
  but the rest still three shells left. And here they are. Why those
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  are blanks. They couldn't hurt anybody, exactly, Missus Wallace. And the
• 29:07
  shells and the pistols that his men were to use in the fights for blanks
• 29:10
  also. And if I were a beautiful woman in distress and a man came
• 29:14
  to my rescue with his pistol loaded the blanks. I think I should find
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  it extremely difficult to believe that he was being on the level with me.
• 29:37
  That was another strange experience of Nick Carter, Master Detective called the Body on
• 29:42
  the Slab or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Missing Husband, another of
• 29:47
  the curious adventures of Nick Carter, which are brought to you regularly at the
• 29:51
  same time by W O R. Mutual and now Nick, how about a
• 29:55
  few hints on next week's story. It's the story of a body which was
• 29:57
  washed up on the beach, and the only identifying mark on the body was
• 30:02
  one of Nick's carrs. I had to solve that murder to prove I didn't
• 30:04
  do it myself, and I found that the real comfort was the killer,
• 30:07
  who used a clue that founded directly to him to prove that he couldn't have
• 30:11
  done it. And the killer tried down both Nick and myself when the chase
• 30:15
  got too warm for comfort, but as you can easily see, he didn't
• 30:18
  succeed. So so long until next week. So long and so long to
• 30:22
  you and Nick, pernow Patsy. In the strange adventure you have just heard,
• 30:26
  Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark, Patsy by Helen Choke. Original
• 30:32
  music was played by Loue White. The entire production was written and directed by
• 30:37
  Jack McGregor. Next week, at the same time, listen to another curious
• 30:51
  expensure of Nick Carter entitled The Murder Nick Cornor and the Mystery of the Lift
• 30:57
  and a Killer. This story is a copyrighted feature of Street and Smith Publications
• 31:07
  Incorporated. The Return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios of WR and
• 31:12
  is broadcast over most of these stations every Wednesday evening at eight thirty Eastern wartime.
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  This is mutual welcome back. Well, I love the title of this
• 31:36
  episode really, I mean, just so evocative and you know, a little
• 31:41
  scary at the same time. The body on the slab, it definitely has
• 31:48
  a pulp fiction feel to it, as does the whole episode. And this
• 31:55
  is really, I think one of the special things about Nick Carter of how
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  it manages to have to combine the best elements of pulp fiction and the traditional
• 32:07
  detective story to produce something that's exciting and maybe a little bit scary at the
• 32:12
  same time. So I hope that you enjoyed today's episode and now we turn
• 32:17
  to listener comments and feedback. David writes, really enjoyed the play it again,
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  Adam shows well, thank you so much, David, and it's something
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• 32:39
  that later. Kelly writes, thanks again for all you do to bring us
• 32:44
  this great podcast. Thanks so much, Kelly, and I was pretty happy
• 32:50
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  She says, thanks so much for introducing me to Hillary Kane. Seriously
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  fun stuff. I listened to the entire four hours of the episodes in the
• 33:02
  last four or five days. It was awesome too, very big think thumbs
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  up to you for choosing to include this is a gift in this year's listener
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  support campaign. I wish there were more. Hillary. Well, thank you
• 33:14
  so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I strive to offer these programs
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  from the Colonial Radio Theater and also from gim French productions, because I think
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  it's definitely important for those of us who are in the United States that we
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  have great radio still produced in the US, and they're doing it on much
• 33:37
  smaller budgets, but they're putting on some great productions with a pretty high production
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  quality. Of course, Hillary Kane Mysteries, even though they're recorded in Seattle,
• 33:47
  is about a British sleuth. So it's a lot of fun and I'm
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  glad you enjoyed it, and it's definitely one we will bring back for our
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  next campaign. All right, well, that will do it for today.
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  We will be back tomorrow with the conclusion of the Clinton matter, and then
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  we'll be starting off with a doctor Tim detective. So send your comments to
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  Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot net. From Boise, Idaho, this is
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  your host, Adam Graham signing off.