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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Embittered Secretary (EP0786) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. This one is called The Adventure of
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the Embedded Secretary, The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Tom Collin. The
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war changed many things, the face of the earth and the people on it.
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Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded
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his law books for the Cloak and Tagger of the Oss and when it was
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over. His former life was over too. Adventure had become his business,
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The Adventures of Frank Race, and now we joined Frank Race all the Adventure
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of the Bitter Secretary. It's avenue and a turtleneckt sweater. The avenue was
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mellow under a mid afternoon sun, and the sweater was mellowing. My sales
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resistance is. I thought of what I would do to a young lady of
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my acquaintance who happens to be the outdoor type and perversion men. I just
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about made up my mind to step into the shop and make the purchasice when
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a reflection in the window sent my glance to the disapproving face of Mark Dunovan.
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Oh no, you ain't gonna buy that? What that's sweater? I
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I was thinking about it. You see, there's a girl I know of
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it. It's nothing like coloring with this girl's concern. It'll make you look
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like a canary, and it ain't good even for a guy with your build.
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I don't think I shouldn't definitely that now I'm a dame. If that
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sweater was a little smallow, yeah, but to race it out, no,
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don't be so unhappy about it. Just stick to women that gwin for
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pinstripe suits. The sippler. What are you doing around here anyway? Catching
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up with you from Max Fain at the coast of Life Insurance Company. And
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since I am plock double and there might be a cop along any sect,
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we must blush. Yeah, first you spoil my day by next thing that
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sweater. Then you want to push my headlong in the word nice. I
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am just trying to be helped, you know, markets, there are times
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when you're so helpful and gladly said the indo slavery. Let's go, Max
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Fain of the Coastal Life Insurance Company, Ready to beautiful office, the Jerry
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the match and a complete set of two fingernaires. He screwed his face into
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a pain, not as he what he met. Go ahead, smoke,
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I have to lay off word along some too bad business. You know Check
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Hardy. Well, there's a Check Hardy who played his third base for the
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Baltimore Oreos, and there's another one who plays polo and rides are down a
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twenty million dollars inheritance. The second one we're talking about. After the build
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up, I have to let you down with a thudden I he's lost some
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jewelry, and because he has a big account with us, he insisted we
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supply an investigator our best. Of course, Maks never can tell where those
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things will lead. There's the house across the street right. It looks like
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you might have a reception. Yeah, I love a story. Here's the
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lad with the bowtime, Markey, listen a minute. He should that Stanny
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Emerald, and he is tough, the genuine and radicle. Stay put,
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Barney, you don't give me another okay, just don't hold back. There
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were three of them standing at the door in the bronstone in front, is
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or waiting to get in. I went up. I ain't got a look
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from me. One of the bow tie, the one market fad is Danny
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Emerald, another name the reputation. I went with him. The bow tie
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was wide and soft, with an artistic group. But looking into that face,
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no one was going to come about it. Where do you think you're
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going, chim Oh, I'm here to see a man man, not about
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a dog. A wise guy. Danny a lippy character. Sometimes I likewise
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guys, I mean even like this one. If he gets as fast as
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door stand back to Guppy. That butter looks at the people and just sees
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this guy. Maybe we'll all go in. I think I'd rather goin by
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myself. I don't like companies at it. You want to be antisocial.
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I just want to go win by myself. Me. I like company.
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I ain't antisocial at all. So I'm going with him, me and the
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boy. You don't really want to do anything like that. It would be
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in bad taste what I tell you? Then, a wise guy. I
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don't think the butler's coming anyway. So if you don't mind the second wise
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guy rushing off like that, then he might want to talk to you.
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Fighting you, Denny, you have a strong grip. Sure I know how
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to use it too. Take it off my arm? Don't like it?
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Huh? Too rough for you? Is it? Wise guy? I said,
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take it off my arm? And if I don't, just what are
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you gonna do about it? Wise guy? Just he had it coming around
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out. I said, hold, you can get another one. What's your
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parlay here, chum? Nothing exciting, I said, I came here to
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see a man. As I told him, you don't scare should I?
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Sometimes he's don't hurt. Sometimes it's smart. I can agree with him.
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What are you doing? For a living. I want to investigate it.
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You already know this guy, Hardy. We've never met him. He's a
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welshit. He owes me, don't he's trying to crow. He's had a
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painting a guy with his money. You wouldn't want to work for a Welsh
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I get the feeling you're telling me that, not asking him. Well,
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would you suppose? I said yes? Then you're a soccer both ways,
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and I think you'll get what I mean. I'd rather had to give it
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to me straight, all right, I will and Grave Hardy and me have
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got a thief. Stay out of it. You do get head. I
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tried to Hardy manage about an hour later, got the same result. No
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respouse. I had it from home after that. Puzzled a little by Danny
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Emeralds placed in the picture, but not particularly Injurgue. Where I looked it
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seemed pretty much like an uninspiring sort of case. In front of my apartment
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house man got out of a car, moved to intercept me, and the
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young blam. His features are impreshly battered by someone's face. You don't happen
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to be mister race to you. That's right. I'm Tom Enders secretary.
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Mister Hardy, he's out at the Larches and he'd like to see you there.
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And where is the Larches. It's his estate up the river, about
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twenty miles the other side of Yonkers. You don't need to bring anything.
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I've got the car ready. We should pick up a couple of tooth persons.
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We had those two. We have everything at the Larches, including trouble.
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That's the same. I took time to pack a bag, and I
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sat beside Andrews while he knows the nineteen forty nine Cadillac convertible out of the
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city and northward a long Hudson river. I understand you're coming up to investigate
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the missing jewelry and see near a few hundred bucks worth of medals, and
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Hardy goes crazy. Sound better? I saw that way all the time.
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It's my natural tone. Why does Danny Emerald have to do? Without it?
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I wouldn't know who is Danny Emerald? A ladder has learned to make
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a gambling pray better. You've been better. What's the story. My boss
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doesn't trust me, Hardy. Mister Hardy, for a while he had the
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idea I might have taken the stuff you because I wouldn't admit it. Mister
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Hardy became angry, and when he gets angry, mister Hardy likes to more
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people. Mister Hardy is very good at molling people. Whose Olympic light heavyweight
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continue thirty six? Well, what do you do about a situation right then?
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Me? I just stand there and take it. I got a wife
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from a couple of kids. I'm thirty three years old. During the war,
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I spent almost four years in the army, and that picks the chunk
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out of a man's life. Gets to be that job's a job, so
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it seems worth it, not to me alone, it doesn't having a wife
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from the kids. Well, a job's a job. Who was beside Hart?
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It will be at the Largest quite a few people, including a woman
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who will make you forget everything about your name. We all way at the
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Largest looked like a b picture nightclub, and I got the feeling that the
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rest of the house would matted, both as the size and decorations and as
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night. I took a small elevator up to a custom build gymnasium. We've
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been finished in leathern chrome, finally stained wood, but it smelled like all
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gymnasiums and affected me as being the first really human thing about the place.
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As I watched the vicious blonde pin wheeled across a large mat, watching I
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would live as a man with the features of the colorade and eyes like that
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wishes. And I walked across to it, and I met Chuck Hardy nine
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gold Polo Man. I've been wondering when you'd get here, and I called
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it your place in town. You had another business at the same time,
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like by the name of any Emerald, Oh, you have designs on your
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piece of mind. Emerald and I had a disagreement about a bet I wired
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him this morning and to get the money from endors tonight. That doesn't really
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concern you, does it. I had not everything news might be of some
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interest to you. My only interest lies in getting back the items that were
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stolen from me. I understand that what your loss doesn't have a great deal
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of value. It does to me small stuff sometimes, Henri, look,
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Junior, I want those things back. I'd like that understood, and I'd
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like something understood too. I have suddenly developed a conviction that you and I
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aren't going to be compatible. Maybe no one's ever mentioned it to your hardy,
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but you're about as agreeable as a wad of gum and a throttle pedal.
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Get yourself, another boy, I'm going back to time. I don't
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want to know further part of the Hardy set up, so I found a
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phone called the nearest village to check out on train reservations. I learned that
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the next train out wouldn't be leaving for another four hours. I also landed
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the village had no taxis it was available. Mulling over the prospect of a
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six mile hike, when I noticed the girl who had been gyrating in the
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gym, where there was another young woman, tawny skin, flame headed girl,
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who'll give me a what are you going to do about it? Look?
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That made me deeply to maintain my poise. Is this one who spoke
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to me running away? It's got no plan. Where do we go from
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there? I'd like to see you stand. Anyone with the nerve to say
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no to Chuck Hardy is needed around this place. I would believe that you
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can't swim, not I or any other woman in the way. Not chide.
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He doesn't go for you. He's kidding himself that he's alive. Mary,
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I knew I was going to like this name. Get the impression you
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don't care for our host, but why stick around to share? You can
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be very direct, mister me. You get along with Juff once you know
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him. Merril here likes polo. That's why she likes hard. People who
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go for polo all ador hard. There's nothing quite so fascinating as a lovely
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woman who uses earthly language, particularly which he has read here, what's your
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name? Jake Corner? And in case you don't know this is Merrill read
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both interesting people. Sorry, I can't stick around to know. You're better
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if you stuck for transportation, take my car, just leave it Nakel's garage
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for me, be still narrow. I don't want him to go back soundly
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lovely, but this place curdles my ego. All right, Mary alone,
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take you up in a line of the car, the green Town Country.
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Here the keys. There was no one around. As I went to the
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garage, found meil Reach's car climbing. I stuck the key in the ignition
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locker. I was about to stab the start. I'm gonna glance at a
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review of mirror brused all my actions. There was someone in the seat behind
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me a man sitting grim silently. I turned very slowly, and the light
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of the dashboard pattern I saw that there was Andrews. He seemed to be
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smiling, until I realized that the expression was really a distorted grimace. Andrews
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was dead. Something or someone had broken his neck. We'll return to the
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adventures of Frank Race in just about one minute. And now back to the
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adventures of Frank Race. Crime is a funny thing. You get into a
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part of it that starts out in a small way, and suddenly you find
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yourself in the middle of something big. I crawled into the back seat of
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the Chrysler. In addition to his neck, Andrew's right arm had been broken,
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along with one of the fingers of his right hand. At his feet,
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I noticed one of those new pencil cigarette lighter combinations. I stuck this
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in my pocket and went back to the house. I found Hardy in his
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study within a middle aged woman with a sweet face and a quiet smile.
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Hardly made no effort to introduces. I thought you were getting lost. I
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was on the way, but I thought I'd better tell you that your secretary
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is Danny Enders. Then what is this a gag? Are you sitting in
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the back of that green question sounds like a job for you, Martha or
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the coroner. Mister Race had better introduced myself, since Charles never bothers its
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triviality. I'm doctor Clemson, a hardy family position. I'm sure you can't
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do anything for NDErs doctor, which might take a look. I'll come right
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away. I stuck around another hour till the local peace officer became satisfied I
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could tell him no more than my only head. Then I talked one of
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hardy chauffeurs and taking me to town. I got the station with fifteen minutes
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to wait for the outgoing train. I wasn't much to call a busy station,
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but I assume had company. Hi Jim, Hello, Irold, what
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are you doing in? I got some dough coming. Be grand guy would
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go anywhere for fifty grand. I'll do anything. I'm sound rather appointed it
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is. You see, I've just been talking to check Hardy. He was
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telling me about Endres. You know, it was rough, bunny, rough,
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understandable, good, and there's had that fifty grand on him for me.
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How do you know howd he just told me that. Quite a fun
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conversation. Me and hard it what else did it? He told me that,
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so far as he knows, the only other guy that knew about that
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fifty grand was you, so so you could save hisself a lot of grief
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by pony and that right now, what makes you so sure that Hardy was
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moving with Hardy? Don't lie, he said, healing. He's stubborn,
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but he don't lie. You don't have to not going. It comes to
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dough, So I ain go down in your diary. Is a wrong guy?
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Not yet. I don't mind a guy trying to turn the book.
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I just don't want to be the loser on the deals. Whet the kind
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of money on me. I'll let you look at the suppose I give you
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an hour and how I can make up your mind. Now I to show
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up with it at a hearty s place, a very reasonable man. So
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my friends tell me and I got lots of things. I got three.
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I'm in the neighborhood right now. I'm sold the three go I get it.
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So you meet me at hartest place in an hour. I had smart
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press be there. It's a dough. I went to the local drug store
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and called New York City. It was lucky enough to get marked down up
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and run away? Hey, what are you doing? Having a wonderful time?
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What you were here? How soon do you think you could get here?
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At least called the larches six miles west of Glenville. That'll do,
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and mark ye look along that end wrench of you. Room. Back at
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the Hardy place, hand counted only a couple of servants who eyed me lately.
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And I wanted about for a few minutes, and finally blundered down to
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a rather spectacular mezzant even overlooked the gigantic dining room as I stood here,
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but merrill read appeared. Do you mind if I say I'm surprised that seeing
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me, it was definitely about your intentions to leave of force. It's beyond
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my control have entered the picture. There's a big room, isn't there?
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It is. I didn't have to stretch my imagination to see Hardy sitting at
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the head of the table throwing bones to his boarhouse. Never mind hurting,
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rather concentrate. You're quite fetching him. Jade got the same reaction. Justice
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matter. In short, didn't you Nobody's going to overlook you, but expect
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the places. Don't try to take me away? Unless you how can I
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know what I mean? No, I have my arms round, but she
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twisted sharply away and let me. Standing there feelings a male usually feels under
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sad circumstances. Left incredibly, waited a few minutes, then moved out into
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a large hall where I had in doctor Clemson. You look like a man
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with a purpose. I'd like to find her name, yeah, I asked
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fo. Yeah, you're a family friend. I'm afraid you might not be
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incentive with my plans. I like yours. No newscas very long enough to
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say hello, but I like so I'm going to give you a warner.
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Don't cross child's heart, he said strongly. Is arrogant, and he has
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the power to be more vicious. Thanks for the table. You know if
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the police no, no, they left but half an hour ago and took
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that boy's body with him. How do they figure this day? They planned
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to eagle to aspectid it. I think Indis might have fallen going down those
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concrete steps inside the bredage and then planted himself in that car. He would
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have crawled to the car raised it's possible. Yeah, yes, I suppose
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it is possible. You don't even think that anything could be possible around this.
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But leaving doctor Clemson, I went out into a night as cool as
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a preoccupied woman. Then about a hundred feet from the house, a grim
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looking figure suddenly loomed up in front of him. You going race, Trigger?
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Yeah? Trigger? What do you want? They were your race?
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I got on the moon just like so. I am properly lighted. Now
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what they give you? An how I didn't it? I have been giving
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track. I still have eight minutes. That ain't a very long time,
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as it race, not when a guy like me is waiting for I still
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don't have the money. Trigger. That's gonna make Dannick kind of sad.
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But they they're gonna bother me at all. You know what, I can
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imagine you like your pound of flesh. Trigger? And after all, I
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did break your watch. Yeah, you broke my watch and I couldn't get
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it fixed. Know how I got that watch? Race? No comment.
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I wanted the contest singing on the stage, and you have to go breaking.
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I'm sorry about the watch. Trigger. You're being sorry. Don't make
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no difference. Yeah, I felt reasonably sure of that, but I thought
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to make the gesture. Its deadly. You're obstructing progress. I was on
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my way to get that money, but I can't get it standing here,
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can't I you're lying. I might be, but you can't have to gamble
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canyon. Danny Emerald isn't interested in watches. He wants that fifty grand.
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You're stalling. I'm gonna plan him slug in it, but not for several
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more minutes. If you're fired before the time's up, Danny might not like
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it. I just thought of That's why I really don't need to stick around
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here, do I. I paid no attention to his yell, just kept
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leaking into the house, waving that gun in his hand. Can hear him
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coming right behind me? Then from up behind, right overhead Marcus Marcus boy
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to say the least time. Are you happy to see you? It?
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Gay ain't so tough, and I didn't like get slug. I sent him.
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Look what goes on here? I'm in trouble any of it. Danny
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Emerald thinks I'm holding out fifty thousand dollars. It belongs to him. Oh
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daddy, any good? When the guy is Emerald, everybody says who was
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Emerald? Rubbed down? Orgie called Emeralds. We always know he was trying
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to run away from him. Let's go into the house. Didn't you get
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him out of any kind of thing? I've been wrestling with it every wait
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it comes, I think fling understanding. Ye, yeah, come on,
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Mark, I wanted to do something am I in race? Kind of wait?
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Look like the gathering of the clan. There was hardly in these three
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family guests, and Emerald had with him two of the friends he mentioned.
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I told myself I could probably expect three good in a second race, though
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it is shock another important doctor Clemson missed Emerald. I may as well give
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it to you straight. I don't have that money. I've never had it.
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What are you trying to approve? Race that you don't scare and run
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that kind of thing into the ground that's quiting to leave. Now you're in
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trouble. He ain't that kind Hannah? Are you here? Merrow? Have
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U welcome? Calm damn? Try this letter man, and you may as
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well keep it. I believe it yours anyway, Guys, yes, would
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you find it alongside enders? Bunny? What are you talking about? Merrow's
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a rare girl. She knows judo or jiu jitsu. If you like that
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term bet him, and that's what she used on enders as he came down
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into the garage. A wristlock, wasn't it, Merrow? Wristlock often breaks
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a man's arm, doesn't it. And there's neck too if he crashes against
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concrete steps. And I suppose you think you're going to the police with that
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story. I've already called him, and I think if we hold misread here,
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they won't have any trouble finding me A fifty. I don't care about
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the money, but I'm not sitting still for the kind of publicity that'll come
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from this. Merrow Merrill isn't going anywhere, is she might? Well?
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I'm standing here, frist Listen. There's no reason we can't make a deal.
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I don't know what you can arrange with the others, Horday, but
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I'm not going to agree to a cover up for murder. What do you
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want me to do? Ram your teeth on your throat. I've been hoping
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all along you might take that attitude, all right, you've been asking for
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it. Try this for size, not bad, A little high. Yeah,
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I felt and you're gonna feel this one. Sorry. I felt that
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one too, right up to my wrist. How did you get up party
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and we can both try it again? Just wait, oh oh, mister
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hid Let's all stay putting until the please get in and that goes for you
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two. Emerald, I ain't making a single move Race. Will you teach
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me to handle myself like that? Thank you the interesting things I could do,
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all the moral and nails on me. I don't know. Sugars got
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plans for you, but they don't include boxing lessons. The Adventures of Frank
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Race starting Tom Cars with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to you from Hollywood.
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Herbert, Paul Dubob and Gerald Moore. This series is written and directed by
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Buckley Angel and Joel Murcott. The music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmars.
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