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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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at store dot Greatdetectives dot net. Well, by way of apology, we're
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skipping a couple of weeks here. The reason for that was that the episode
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we were going to play from January eleventh, it was in such bad shape
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when it got to the denouement, in particular, I think actually throughout most
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of the episode it sounded passable, but when we got to the denoueman,
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sounded so clipped you couldn't really understand the solution to the case, which is
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a big deal when detective fiction and the other episode we may yet find a
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way to acquire, but I don't have hands on it yet and it's not
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easily accessible online. So we're going to January twenty fifth, nineteen forty eight,
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and this episode is the Case of the Invisible Treasure fiction Mick Cotter master
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detection. We'll have to cross the street, makes the bust out on the
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other corner. Okay, oh, let's go. We have a green light.
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That why all the Case of the Invisible Treasure. Today's Adventure starring ron
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As Nick Carter, brought you by a new post war all that strength that
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he has gone shopping with myth in order to help him choose the right gift
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for an elderly friend who has a birthday next week. They finally made a
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selection at Madame Helene's gown shop, on Fifth Avenue and are now working their
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way through the clouds of shoppers towards the sweet door that city. You really
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think you'll like it, you'll love it. May sight my little old black
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lace nightgown. That's exactly why you'll love it. From now, I know
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that's your favorite person. Either that or if you'll never speak to me again.
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Oh Nick, would your man have you say? I'm sorry? I'm
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all right. I found into you and why it's this sorn well as trying
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his vistericla Hello are you doing out of the pen? I thought you,
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saman Bill had a couple of years to run good behavior, and believe me,
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it's gonna be good from now. Glad to hear it now? Yes,
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sit sicklying the jit Now. I did a lot of sinking in the
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pym and it started me on the right track. No hard feelings then,
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not a business. I'm grateful to you. It's fine. Well, I
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got a round I gotta take see you around. Huh heure. Imagine that
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our harp are going straight. Must be doing all right too. It looks
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prosperous, and I just hope it last. Come on, Nick, it's
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over this way. What's over that way. Didn't I tell you I want
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to stop at the perfume powder? Oh damn. Now, now, ladies,
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ladies, please, I'll get you all just as fast as I can.
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After all, I'm only helping out here, and the person the popping's
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pretty violet. That's not just my personality. Show me something, dam you
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only, clerk, I'm in a very great hurry. Would I be with
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you in the moment. I've been accustomer here for twenty years, and I
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give man some considerations. Pert. I know I'm met very well, modem.
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Now we have a very lovely selection. I know exactly what I want.
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It's a cologne called Heavenly Sin. Heavenly Sin, Heavenly Sin. Now
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let me see. I'm stare in front of you, those large bottles with
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a cut glass stopping. Oh yes, yes, let me see one of
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those two. Nothing's doing I'm buying, only hasn't stopped. Oh a hoggery.
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You will see about that, clerk. I'll take a bottle of Heavenly
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Sin. My so first I'm having all you haven't stopped, clerk. I'm
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sorry, mom, but it's against our policy to disappoint a customer. But
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I know you only have a few bottles left, so I'm afraid I'll have
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to set a limit. One bottle of Heavenly sin to a customer. That's
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it, get for being greedy you when you're fating me coke. Oh,
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I'll wrap it up for you. Mom, I fast, you get out
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of here. Only women getting on your nerves. Oh doughful. I think
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shopping fun. I think you are you thinking to me? Yeah? Would
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you do me a great pace? Well? Well, yes, what is
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it? Please? Twenty dollars? Or will you buy me a bottle of
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heavenly stand? Of course? The price is fourteen nine years to rest for
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the you'll need to do that, clerk, just a moment. Bottle you
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can you wrap of the bottle? That for me too, of course?
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Bottom? Alay, what is this stuff? I don't know where about this?
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I never heard of it before. Hey you, I beg your pardon.
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Yeah, you snap it up and then a hurry. I'll be right
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with you, sir, now a bottom that would be fourteen ninety eight plus
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tuck let them games. Wait, you've got me heavenly sins. I'll be
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with you in a minute. You'll be with me right now. How many
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bottles you got left? First, only two, take them both. I'm
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sorry, one bottle to accustomed nude. Say that. I said I'd take
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them both yet, but here want me to get tough about it. Oh,
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I'll wrap them up for your immediately, sir. What is I don't
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know, but I'm getting interest in it. Here's your money class, Oh
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thank you, madam. I'll have your change the moment. Well, how
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about my bottle of Heavenly saying, oh here it is, mom, that
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will be fourteen. Wait a minute, I said, I'm buying all you
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guys. Give me that. Oh no, you don't get your hands off
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that bottle. I'll pay you for it. Lady, let go, I
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said, get your hands off, but I'm gonna pay hi finger on this
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bottle. I'll swing for the police. Oh no, look, lady,
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I'll give you twenty five bucks for that bottle of Heavenly. Ten. No,
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you can't call me nae bus. I'll have you know. I don't
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need your money. Get out of mind. I wouldn't give you this bottle
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of cologne for a million dollars. Here's your money clip just the moment,
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madam, and you have twenty six cent pain coming. Keep it and you'll
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never see me in this show again. I never want sewing stuffy at all.
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Oh touch the steam. No, see this other bottle goes to with
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a young lady. Here, I'll pay for it, but make I have
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the money. I'll give it back to the young lady who gave it to
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your bat. Now wait a minute, who's buying that for me? I'm
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afraid not. There's something about this Heavenly Sin cologne that interests me too.
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Right, you'll keep the money, We'll keep the heaven with Sin. Well,
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that's cross the street. Make I get the bugs on the opposite corner,
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I know, but wait for the light. Thank yeah, Stay in
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the world did you buy that colone? It as? I'm curious to know
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why everyone wanted a corner the market on. That girl in the name che
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could have murdered us first, after all, I did promise to buy it
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for her. Awfully pretty girl wasn't here. Oh you like please blonde fat
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me? What could there me about that cologne to make even a thug like
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that other character off for one hundred dollars, I can't imagine unless it's gefully
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scared. Well, go to take it back to the office with you as
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soon as I get there, we'll see what's in the bottom. No,
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I have to pick up some new chemicals from my lap. I'll be there
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as soon as that. Oh, here's the last month. I guess not
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in my knee. Lucky, that's tacks. They had good breaks. Are
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you all right? Oh? Hello, Hell, I'm okay, but I
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got to tell you something. Let me have to pick up those packages.
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Thanks, Well, I've got to less of them. Yes, you tell
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me about it later, Patty, here's a tax deal. Get in,
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but in you though, I want to stand up on a crowded bus after
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they shake up, you better tell the driver to take you home or change
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your stocking first. I'll see what's the office in about an hour, slo
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and it's not a thing. How do you feel after your accident? I
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tried to tell you, Nick, it was no accident. What someone pushed
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me in front of that taxi pushed you? Are you sure? Of course?
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I am. I distinctly felt a hand in the middle of my back.
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That was just about the primate I'll hump a short. No, No,
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it was now. I saw him in the crowd ten or fifteen feet
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away, just before it happened. Besides, I know who it was.
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You're jewels? Who that same man? Or try to buy off all the
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heavenly sin cologne? What not? That these them and those characterists that perfume
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Carter, that's the one. I heard his voice behind me just as I
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was pushing, and I was right, there is something important about that Colonne.
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Let's have a look at the bottle. Oh, who can't, poor
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cat, it's all mess. I had to throw it away. I didn't
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notice it was broken when they picked up the packages after the accident. We
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must have been too excited. But so I got in a taxi began to
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notice the air just reached the cologne. So I looked down and there it
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was, running out of the passage. It was a mess. Did you
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know what that's anything unusual about the cologne itself? No, it smelled very
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ordinated me. There wasn't anything inside the bottle except cologne. No, I
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a thing, Oh right away, you have my bott of bath sauce.
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Yo, what a bath saw? They were in a package just about the
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same size as the Colonne bottle was I thought you picked it up and I
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fell down? You mean a package the same size and shape as the one
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The cologne was in is missing. But if you don't have it, it
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must be That's why you were pushed in front of that taxi so that you
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dropped the packages and in the excitement somebody could get away with one. But
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who want my bath sauce? They got the bath sauce by the speak passage,
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but the cologne they were after, and they wanted it badly enough to
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risk killing you to get it. Oh, of course the tatas looked right,
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and they show the wrong run exactly. Oh I wish I had you
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broken that model so they never know what mode is so valuable. Well,
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whatever it was, that blonde and the mink coat knew it too. How
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about the other woman the battle act? Oh no, she didn't know because
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she wasn't even interested until I try to get the cologne away from her.
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Right, she only brought it out of stubbornness. And if we could locate
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her, if he still has the cologne, maybe we can find the answer
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that way. We don't know who she is, No, we don't,
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but he said she'd been a customer of Madame Helene's for twenty years. I'll
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see what I can find out in the store in the morning. I'm porry,
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sir, But I never saw the ladies before. I see. Well,
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are you a regular clerk in the perfume sector? I am not a
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clerk at all. I'm the department supervisor. I was just helping out yesterday.
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In the movie an Emergency again, miss o'chet our buyern, she stays
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lady in perfume had to be rush of a hospital with a cute peddicider.
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She was operated on yesterday afternoon. Uh uh, And I won't be able
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to see her for a day or two. No, I'm afraid not say.
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You know. I've been wondering why everyone was so anxious to buy up
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our stock of seven. I wonder too, But it looks as though I'm
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going to have trouble finding out. How'd you they got me? Oh?
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I didn't. Nobody at the store has any idea who that woman is.
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Well, I think I know you do. How did you find out?
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I writ in the morning paper enough widow slain and westside rooming house body of
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missus Aldura Telford forty seven is discovered teagraph in a shabby room, wreaking a
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strong cologne. That's what I mean? Yeah? Does try in? Nobody
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go on Saton door as the Telford evidently put up a determined fight for a
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life breath in her right hand with a broken cologne bottle of heavy cut glass,
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a label reading ironically enough, Heavenly crim Now tell me I'm wrong,
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Now, Petty, you're right. We've found out they were looking for too
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late. With the brutal murder of Missus Telford and the destruction of the only
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other bottle of cologne Nick knows about, it seems that his chance of solving
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the riddle has vanished. We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now
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back to the case the Invisible Treasure. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought you
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by a new poufo old Dutch cleansor. Nick believes that Missus Eldora Telford was
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murdered because she had in her possession a bottle of cologne called Heavenly sim But
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what's the secret of the cologne, may be he doesn't know. Nick and
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Patsy are now in Missus Telfert's rooms to see whether they can learn anything there.
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The lodging house Gianaka is with him. Wow, Patsy, there's no
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stance for finding out anything from the Colonne's stairs bottles completely slanted. It looks
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as though she used it as a weason to the family self. Yeah,
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nobody's Sam mis Telford to get mine to her home. I can tell that
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at the story yesterday from nobody heard the fright me thinking maybe you captain early
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last night. In most of my room it is out, So you think
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somebody would hear that? That new girl across the house she got to on
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tolad I got the pound team fight three times. Frame up, Yeah,
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one of those story program all stream shuiting Ellen carrying, he said, a
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new girl. Yeah, sure, she used to him last night, right,
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because Paul, come on, let's go over there. Yea a radio
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blasting away. He might have covered up the sound of a face. Yes,
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especially if the house was almost deserted. That's the room. Yeah,
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I mean, I don't think she'd be home and I we'll see what's your
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new room or look like mister Hanson. Well she was so pretty like anything.
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She dressed so good and fine, her coat with a brown first.
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Yeah, sure you brown hair, did she? Yeah, that's a long
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yellow hair. You know her house wouldn't be surprised. We're not getting anyone
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knocking. I'm going in. She wasn't even last, no reason why she
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is happy. She's gone again. You want to go to Madame Hallayne's downshop
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again. There's one more thing I want to check. They handle that cologne
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regularly. They may have the address of someone else who's thought a bottles sometime
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in the past. An you want to charge your count Oh, either that
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my record of delivery. If the colonne is so ragguable to these crooks,
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I can't understand why they let Missus tells the stairs all over the room,
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Patty, I'm not so sure it's the cologne thereafter? And what is it?
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Well, it's one thing missing and Missus Telford room the stopper to that
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bottle. But it's right. I didn't see it either, and it's the
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sort of thing that they should have noticed. Right. It's very large and
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made it look like cut glass, wasn't it? Uh huh? We don't
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only saved the pieces of the bottle you today. That package was such a
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mess. I didn't like to leave it in the taxi, so I'd carry
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it up to my room and through it in the room. Fash, that's
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great, I'll stop it the next corner you can get a taxi, go
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home and get that glass stopper and take it to the office for the less
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than an hour my home tom early that when I'm gonna right out again.
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Ruby, he's still visit. Good, I say, no time to be
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laying down my job. Ruby, yet, come out and sister and make
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yourself at home. Yeah, we've been waiting for you. But cart it
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would be a tremendous amount of work to check to all those records. Sorry,
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but I don't care how much work it is. I want to find
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out whether you know anybody who ever bought a bottle of Heavenly Sin cologne.
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Well, I suppose it could be done to drug Do anything you can tell
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me, I will say not. If miss Brochet was in the hospital,
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she might know for yourself. Very much of that cologne, so very little
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as a matter of pat haven't seen is an important sense? We get only
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a half dozen bottles every now and then. Where is it imported from?
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You buy small concern and France. If Brochet attended to be ordering, hey,
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come to think this, I've never even seen it on the counter to
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yesterday. Why was it there? Then? When Miss Brochet was taken to
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the hospital so unexpectedly. Well, I have to step in. The chipping
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had just arrived, so I put it on display that she usually unpack it
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herself. Lie and I and so I appear. But please have those records
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checked as soon as possible. I think I'm beginning to understand what this is
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all about. Well, I turn you were shy? Did I know miss
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past in the room at the cat when I see that back two hours?
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Those who says he's going on outgain? I know? I know you were
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supposed to make me at my office? Thank well, would you look at
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that? Don't struck it me anywhere that's curly and have to clean? Then?
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Only this man waste? I told you made it to rooms. I
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don't all that stuff out the waste past liancinerator. You're there? Oh good,
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well and except we're no video, pizza glass and some kind of bottle
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stop. I did take that stopper? What did you do with it?
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Stopper? Well? How does think ms Pottery cares? How he started the
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roll? So pretty out and take it all smile play? Will you hold
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on to that stopper? I'll see that you get the biggest tips you of
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her head? Yes? No, no, not now, I haven't time.
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I gotta find Pasti's the big This is Nick Carter. Oh did you
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find out anything about the people who bought that colonne? Yes, mister Carter.
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And it's rather surprising too, I wanted to find Well, Mis Brochet
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must have stopped it just for a few special customers. Because each shipman contained
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only six bottles. You know who got them? I'm coming to that.
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I suppose it's why she never put them on display. What do you mean
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all six bottles went out on the delivery truck every time, and always to
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the same customers, the same customers. Yes you have the name, Yes
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they yes, list is right here, missus Lillian Lamont and mister William Avery
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and missus George Nestor mister Alan Harper. What mister Alan Harper, three seventy
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four West Corey Street. And then never mind of that, I've got what
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I need to know. I'm asking you for the last time, sister,
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what did you do with that stupper? Tell you I don't know she's lying
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out. Let me slap a little. You'll get your chance, curly if
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she doesn't open up. When that man plussed me in the bottle brook,
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I wasn't interested in it anymore. I throw it away now, don't try
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to kid me. I started to get into that taxi with it and little
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courage all the way home in another cab. You didn't throw anything out of
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that tab bell. I'll swear to that. So you had it when you
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went into your house. Now where is it? I don't know? Oh,
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that'll teaching. What did you do with that stopper? Throw it in
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the ways? Starling again, al Curlly and I tore that room apart.
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It wasn't there. Give me you love me, Team shot. You're gonna
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get your chance in just a minute's sister for the last time, are you
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gonna tell me? I don't know where you I don't know. Okay,
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you're asking for it. Curry, you can take over, Yeah, yeah,
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do that, But turn on the radio and turn it up good loud.
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We don't want nobody to hear Curly marking advances toward Patsy as the radio
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Blair's fort loudly to cover the sound of her screen. We'll see what happens
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in just a minute now for the conclusion of the case of the Invisible Tracker,
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Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought you by you, pulf war All that's
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glensor, the cup glass stopper of a cologne bottle is so in party to
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Al Hopper and his gang. But they've committed murder to get possession of mine.
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Now they've taken Patty to Hopper's home to foster reveal where the stopper she
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had is hidden? Can that radio will blood? A little? Okay,
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Kelly? And now it didn't fight? I guy, I don't know,
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Kelly, passon sence it awahead door down. I'm gonna shoot say right where
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you are? Er any more scary to be Don Hiles doing? You're fruit.
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It was a lot of thing. You were on a fire or sweep
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outside the window when Al started a stouping not all love, Patty. When
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I learned that Al Happer was one of the people to whom those bottles of
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cologne were delivered, I felt pretty sure they'd take it to hit place.
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So you brought the police with you. That's right. They went up inside
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the house while I came up the fire escape. Uh huh. But Nick,
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have you found out what's so important about that cut glass bottle stopper?
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M hm? And here it is. I'll show you. Oh it is.
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Look how it SPARKLEA wait a minute and I'll show you some real sparkle.
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Oh what are you going to do with that hammers? Oh roked,
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I certainly did. I was fut of water mm hmm, peeled in And
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that's not all. Look, damn, why about twenty thousand dollars worth in
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every bottle of that cologne seat Patty and her diamonds are almost invisible, and
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inside that cut glass stopper they were completely sold and Allen's gang were smuggled.
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You guess it that heaven Its in Cologne was battled in France by a company
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which was really only the front for a gang of crooks, and the perfume
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buyer, Madame Elane's downshop was the receiver on this in that's right, Madam
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Helene didn't know anything about it. Clire I ree Bouchet unpacked every shipment personally
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and sent it out on the delivery truck to the members of the gang.
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So when she was suddenly taken to the hospital with a pandaciitis, it upset
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all their plans, I'll say it did. The big shipment was due that
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day. She knew that if she wasn't there, he'd be put on the
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corner. Uh huh. So from the hospital she managed to get word to
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well on the others and they all came down to buy it up. Ifore
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anyone else had a chang right, and if it hadn't been from Missus Telford's
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seven, that they'd have got away with it. God, Nick, was
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it lil who art of missus Chelsea? No, Curly Leo took that room
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across the hall, keep an eye on mister Kildred as they did back Curly
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into the house when nobody else was there. By the way, doesn't the
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custom Bureau pay a reward to turning and smuggler? It does, and you
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will get your share of it. Only that I'm going to get to a
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nice present that makes you up for all the trouble you have. How wonderful?
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What kind of a present? A nice big bottle of clone? Welcome
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back, well, Nick Carter. The strength of the series is its mystery,
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and this is definitely no exception. Uh. I've had just a great
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job of drawing you in, making you wonder you know why is everybody so
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excited about getting their hands on this perfume? And I like the whole setup
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and a really nicely worked out solution. The episodes that we're missing, I
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should mention, were the case of the Graveyard Gunman, which you'll find on
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a lot of websites, but it cuts off too much. And then there's
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the case of the Man who Died Twice and this one I am looking into
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seeing if we can get for a future episode of the program, and if
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we can, we'll come back to it of course. All right, Well,
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on to some listener comments and feedback, and we have just a couple
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of general comments on old time radio. Rachel just says love old time radio
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and Kevin says, listen to old time radio every day. Well, definitely
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good habit and appreciate those who listen to the Great Detectives old Time Radio.
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And that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with yours
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