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Nick Carter: The Case of the Talking Tree (EP1332) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Now, we had one last episode between last week's show and this week's.
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This week's show is actually the two hundredth episode of Nick Carter, but no
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real commemoration. Not only didn't they do this at during the time that Nick
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Carter was recorded, but one hundred of those episodes were five day week serials.
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So all right, well, here now is the Case of the Talking
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detective fiction, a man whose name has become a symbol of the triumph of
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right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness. Nick Cotter,
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Master Detective. Today's exciting case the Talking Tree, another exciting chapter dramatized from
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the life story of Nick Carter. In just a moment, we'll hear how
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Today's file index day at the old Brownstone mansion at the corner of Fifth and
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Fourth. The giant study is filled with piles of neatly typed cards as Nick
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and Patsy keep regular tabs on the thousands of criminals the famous detective has encountered
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in his long career. Charlie Buzzburns tried and convicted for forgery July nineteen forty
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one, sentence August nineteen forty one to seven year term in Eaton Penitentiary.
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Checked. Well, that finishes the bees. That ses okay, Nick,
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But it feels like it's going to be a long heart day. Albert Cabell
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tried and convicted the first degree assaulved April nineteen thirty one. Hold it Bell's
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on a parole. Put his card on the active file with a note.
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Last scene in Saint Louis July this year, Right, Johnny Kevin tried and
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convicted. Oh goody, the door that means a five minute vacations. Whoever
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it is sent him away. We've got to finish this hut. I will,
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but my heart will for end. Johnny Canton tried and convicted My Greed
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Murder Life the Eastern States. Yes, I remember Johnny. He was the
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one who swore no private detective whatever dare to take him, and he was
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wrong. Like the rest, have no work for today. Nick, We've
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got a customer I'm pastor has a old friend of mine, Nick, mister
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Peter Simpsons. He takes me writing twice a day, takes your writing twice.
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Oh, I see Streetcark Conductory, Sir mister Carter, I must fall
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and takes my car every morning and every night. It's across town, passes
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right behind this house. Mister Simpson's got a problem. One of his customers
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don't get off the trolley. How's that? Well, it's the end of
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my run behind your house. Or I left the trolley there and run up
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to see you. I remembered Miss Bowen talking about how you help folks out
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when I get in a jam. I'm in a bad one, sir.
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Well, like Miss Bowen said, one of my customers won't get off the
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car. Why not because mister Carter, he's been murdered. This is my
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trolley car. Here, mister Carter, I closed the doors and left everything.
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Wait a minute, I'll open a door for you. Come up,
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sir. He's in the back of the car. You can see him.
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He was the last one, and I says to him, last stop wall
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out. He don't move. I thought he was asleep, Simpson, I
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understand, Yeah, fine, what was Oh? Nikki, he's in stab
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here's a knife sticking in his side. Yes, well it's not dead yet.
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It will be in a minute, bleeding for half an hour, mostly
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internally. It can't be a moved or say no hope for him. Nick.
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Oh wait, he's trying to talk. Listen, where will you can
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you tell us who did this? Stone? What said? Stone? Valley?
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Talking tree? What was that? Talk to three? Killed by talking
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tree? Then h m h m hm. He slop on, mister Carr.
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I can't have no murdered guys on my car, all right, just
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go out and call Sergeant Matheson and his homicide department, and has got to
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work. Passy empty his pockets, Carly Nick, what he means? Killed
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by a talking tree and be sad about a million dollars? I don't know.
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Dying men usually speak the truth. I'd like to know what the truth
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is about that talking tree? Wow, nothing worthwhile in any of his pockets,
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Betsy, torn and empty, no handkerchief, no wallet, twenty seven
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cents and chained total assets. So where do we stand? Exactly nowhere?
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What do you mean? No identification of any kindness, man, Betty,
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Nothing to tell us who he is or why he was killed? What about
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the murder weddings? That knife just an ordinary kitchen knife, no prints on
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the handle. Go here. Killer probably sat beside him, drove the knife
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into his side, got up and left the trolley, and that's all.
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Look at him, clothes shabby and torn, very obviously a tramp. But
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who'd want to kill a tramp? And for what? I don't know yet?
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Perhaps wait a minute, ah, here's something over seems to be a
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hard lump in the front corner of the jacket. Propably slipped down from the
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torn tucket. Here, Wait a minute, what is it? Nick?
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Answer to your question. Look, it looks like a big lump of crystals
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happens to be an opal. You mean that rough piece of peculiar looking stone
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is a jewel opal, uncut and unpolished. That's the way about thirty carrots
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with quite a bit of money. That's see. This may be the answer
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to why our victim was killed. Still it doesn't answer the question of how
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it came into his possession or explain his dying speech about talking trees. What
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do we do now? Leave the body for Sergeant Matheson and our friends of
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the homicide department. We're hustling down to the jewel center where this opol Tampering
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with evidence again, Nick, or maybe that's what the police would call it,
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but I call it solving a murder. That's here, I'm going to
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give you a lesson in the art of jewels. Average person and doesn't realize
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that jewelers keep track of gyms as closely as I police watch ex convicts.
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Every stone of any real value cut your run cut can be checked and traced.
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Here's our place, International appraising company. Well, there are dozens of
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appraising offices down here as anyone will do. Come on right, who is
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that? Customers, I'm just going out to lunch, but let it go
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the world of pricing across the street. I won't keep you a minute.
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Come on out. I'm Nick Carter. Listen, I got bad a gesture.
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Not good for me to miss my lunch yard. What's in your mind,
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mister cutt of trouble plenty? It's a case of murder. This happens
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to be one of the clues. Mister Fawman. Let's see piece of opal.
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Huh right, I'd like to trace it now. Which stock does come
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from general source? And so on? Who sells this variety? I can
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do better than that. I put a price on this stone an hour ago.
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You what you heard me, lady? This stone was brought into me
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an hour ago for appraisal. I gave him the price and they left.
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Hey, how many two men? Little guy looked like a tramp and the
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other nice looking, kind of professional looking doctor, maybe looked like the tramp
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was trying to sell the stone to the other called him professor Professor Stevens.
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Professor Stevens. Uh, that's good enough for me. Thanks, a lot,
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bowman, what's your feet? I've been paid once for a praise in
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this stone. That's enough. Now go away. I got my digestion to
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worry about. Thanks. Come on, Patsy, let's find a university catalog.
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Maybe we can locate this Professor Stevens and find out about the talking tree.
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Okay, Patsy got going uptown right, nick any luck all the luck
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in the world. Professor W. A. Stephens, Chair of Mineralogy at
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the University Office two twenty seven Geology Hall, Mineralogy. So that you could
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tie in with OpenNI could also tie in with a million wish our dead friend
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had been with a botanist. That would have explained the talking tree. Well,
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maybe we'll find of Stephen's doubles in botany. You've been cut off.
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Watch out, he's coming right over to the curves. That wasn't an accident.
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Stay right by your toe, lady, I got a rod and a
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license to carry it. Well, hello, Coffin. Hats he meets Coffin
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when we get back to our file cards. You'll meet him in the sea.
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Can the double talk routine? Cutta? Now? Look, I don't
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want no trouble from you. Keep the opal if you want, just give
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me the math. What math? This is a friendly talk. See,
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I ain't getting rough because I always like to speak my piece. Voice for
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listening very carefully. Debsy Sammy to bum was my cow. So he gets
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knocked off and a trolley cart. So okay, you want to catch the
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killer, good luck. But being Sammy was my talim is inhurd. Get
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it. I want the map, Cutter, the map you took off Sammy.
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We did. How much is the map worth to you? You ought
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to know. If you don't, it won't do you no good. We
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don't know. Bella's not that much, but it's worth a big piece of
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change to me, not to you. So all right, do I get
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it? Not even if we had it? So okay, you speak your
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piece, I speak mine. I'll be seeing you again, Cutter, and
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I'll let something else talk you into handing over the map. Start carpe so
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long, dus. Remember what I told you at the University of pess Maybe
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Professor Stevens can tell us what's going on? This is it? Nick,
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let's go golly. I'm often mixed up in this case, Nick, Well,
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it isn't simple. The man we found in the trolley was Sammy the
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bum. That's what WZ. Coffin indicated right in here. Well, from
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the way Coffin talking, didn't sound as though he killed him. Could simply
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be talking. I suppose it could. But he mentioned a map. Do
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you think Sammy was killed for that? Very possible up the stairs? Evidently
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there's a map tied up with the ople Sammy was carrying. Yes, but
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it's my belief the Opal is just a side issue. Coffin didn't seem to
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care about that. Sammy try to settle to Professor Stephens. Then what Professor
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Stevens office. Hmm, maybe he's got a class, could be Let's go
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in and wait. Yes, you have to wait a long time to speak
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to Professor Stevens. Patsy. He's been murdered, two murders for an opal,
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a missing map, and a mysterious talking tree. How can Nick tie
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the easy Linux way. And now back to our story. The dying words
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of a murdered tramp mentioned a talking tree to Nick Cotterer. Investigation of the
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murder and the odd statement led the master detective to the office of Professor Stevens
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at the university. When Nick and Passing entered the office, they discovered Stephens.
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Stevens was shot at close rand with a sowd of shotgun, Betsy,
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a typical gangster's weapon. He had practically torn to pieces. It's awful,
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Nick. Nothing in his pockets to help us either, nothing, So where
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does that leave us? I want jump ahead of the homicide squad and they
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won't be pleased with the way I've handled this case. Sergey Mathieson would call
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it misshand and they won't be far from wrong. I'm not happy myself.
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Wow, let's get on the ball, Betsy, Let's do some thinking.
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That's your department, Nick, I'm just the audience. Sammy got hold of
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an opal and a map. We know he showed the opal to Stevens.
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They don't know about the map. Stevens and Sammy were killed. The map
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disappeared. Now what's so valuable about that map? It showed the mine where
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the opal came from. But Patsy, oples don't come from mines. They
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a what is it? Nick? Suddenly my brain started to work. Suddenly,
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I'm getting a glimmer. Patsy I think I know what this talking tree
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business is? What Nick? Look here, Stephen's desk as an atlas open
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to this state. Now look across the page where the light haitts it.
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They only see what I want to show you by reflected light. Are you
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see anything unusual? Wait a minute, my eyes aren't as sharp as yours.
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Yes, I see a faint pencil mark, as though a pencil point
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that tap the map lightly. A small town, a town of dead tree.
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Remember that that's a dead tree. But that isn't talking tree? True
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enough? And I think that a dead tree. We might find a talking
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tree, and Patsy, it's going to speak a language that'll astonish you,
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who don't be so mysterious. Nick, All right, here's another clue.
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Opals don't grow in mines. They grow on trees. You're crazy, you
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think so. Come on, Golly, I'm getting inferiority complex, going through
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light three laps behind you the way I do. The only trouble in this
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case is that I happen to be three steps behind a killer Well that puts
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me out of the running all to his corner. Nick, Just my luck,
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Kevin got m gun on me down the hall. Run it's the killer.
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This is the well wisher of this hot dead and would try here?
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Throw this stark patch quick? Oh that was close. That's too close knocking
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to us. That door wasn't locked. Did you see who was doing the
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shooting? Oh? The trouble is he saw where we went. What are
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we going to do? See what we can find to repel the attack.
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There's a small labor it soun sort if I can only find hurry up,
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Nick, I can hear skips. Get off some matches, quick, matches?
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You heard me? What are you going to do with matches in that
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bottle? You're going to light a whole pack of matches and throw it out
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into the hall. This bottle is either I'll break it near the burning matches.
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I'd like the matches quick. They're burning, Nick, right, throw
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them out as soon as I open the door, and I'll throw out the
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bottle right now. All right? Passed the all play? Now you can
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come out. Is he still here? Yes? Knocked out and burned by
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the explosion, you'll live and regret it. Who is it me? One
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of Dubs Coffin's gunmen, hophead kid named burn. I guess Coffin wasn't kidding
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about letting something else talk for him, But he forgot that some people talk
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back. In about twenty seconds, this place is going to be like a
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bee hive. I can hear people coming now. It wasn't Saturday afternoon.
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The place of becrowded already. Now we've got to get out of here.
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Up together, we picked up, They see us running. We'll separate and
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meet at the car. Try to stop at a drugstore and pick up some
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sandwiches. And got a long drive ahead of us. Where to dead Tree?
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Right? I'm going a dead Tree to find the Talking Tree. Another
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sandwich? Nick, No thanks, you can finish them. Oh, I've
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eaten too many already, and I'm supposed to be on a diet. They
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weren't the best sandwences I ever had either. I feel as if I were
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getting Bowman's indigestion. Oh how much further is it? Nick? It's getting
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dark. I should be in Dead Tree any minute. We've passed six signs
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in the last six miles, each one set dead Tree half a mile.
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Well, at least we're holding our own. They should have added a prox.
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I think we're a prox there. Now this looks like a town,
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But there is a it. I'll give me a second to get used to
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it. Yes, it's a town, all right. And the three point
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landing in front of our objective, the sheriff's office, right man, Oh,
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we're not going to get into trouble again. Are We have got visions
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of Sergeant Mathieson waiting for us back in town. You agree, that's with
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comparatively open arms if we bring him home a solution alight? That's going.
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Yeah? Is this the sheriff? Yeah, my name is Nick Carter.
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Yeah, Chef Denson, I'd like to ask you a few questions. Yeah.
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I assume that means go ahead and ask Yeah. Do you keep any
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kind of a check on vagrants passing through Dead Tree? Yeah? Do you
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recall whether a tramp answering to the name of Sammy the bum passed through here
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last week? Yeah? How long was he in this section? Don't know,
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maybe a couple of days, Kelly, he can say something else,
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Candy, please, Betsy, I can talk young lady when he's something worth
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waisting breath? Or why is this town called dead Tree? On? Kind
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of sex? Is sandy waste up in the hills? You mean desert?
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Yeah? Kind of like the desert up main windswept section about ten miles square,
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nothing but sand and rocks, all e roaded. I thought so.
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Probably petrified trees up there too. Huh, that's what gives the town's name.
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How do you know, Nick, couldn't be any other answer, Betsy.
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Two more questions, sir. That desert there he is constantly enlarging and
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changing as the wind sweeps it. Uh. Yeah, will you show us
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how to drive there close as possible? Yeah? Ueff are you one hundred
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and seventy years old? No, Petschy, for the love of Pete,
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I'm sorry. I just wanted to hear him say no, and I did.
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Right. We can't drive any further, Betsy, We'll have to hope
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it through the desert. Golly, it looks just like the real thing,
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doesn't it, Sand and rocks and petrified trees. Come on, we'll have
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to keep pretty quiet now. This sand will dead in our footsteps, fortunately,
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because there's a strong chance to killer maybe up here ahead of us.
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Oh do you know where to look from, Nick? I do. We'll
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find him under the talking tree. Oh, Nick, I'm not fooling all
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right if you say so. But well, we find the talking tree I'm
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not sure. We'll have to listen for it. Listen through ten square miles.
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We won't have to cover that much. See, if Simon located it,
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it couldn't be very far off the road. Probably he turned off the
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road we drove down to sleep in the warm sand at night, so the
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tree can't be far from here. Olly, I'm listening for it like mad.
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I don't hear anything, yet, keep trying. It's awfully dark,
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Nick, can't we use a light? Say for not to keep your ears
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open? Okay, Golly, those twisty black trees jumps, they look so
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spooky. Has petrified trees batch dead thousands of years? They can't hurt you.
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Well, I wish they'd talk to me and get this over. Maybe
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they will keep listening, Nick, Yes, I think I hear a funny
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noise, like water running not here in this desert. No, not water,
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It sounds like like music. He's listen. Yes, I hear it,
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Patsy. That's what we've been searching for, the talking tree. That's
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the way those trees talk. Oh, it's coming from around that small hummock.
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Oh, come on, let's go interview it. Careful now, very
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careful now, right, I think I hear someone digging or something. The
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killer here told you we'd climb him under the talking tree. Quiet and watch
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what's he digging up petrified tree for? Let's go down and ask him.
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Oh, be careful, you haven't got a gun. I've got something.
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You'll take its plase, good evening. Can I help you call it what
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it's? The man from the appraises Bowman. Don't move, you'll call it
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I am I. That's rough talk. Must be difficult for a man of
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your culture, mister Bowman. Why should I call you by your real name?
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Professor Stevens? All right, Cody, you're asking for this god Nick.
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Professor is a rank amateur when it comes to handling a gun. Oh
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nice going, Nick, how'd you do it? Barely? Threw a handful
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of sand in his eyes and when he was blinded to hit him. That's
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all. That's all. Well, that's enough. Now you have his gun
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and he's out cool, and he's also on his way to the electric chair.
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Do you mean to tell me, Professor Stevens murders tell me the bum,
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Yes, Patsy, and that pretended he was killed himself, And he
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did all that for the sake of a dead tree. I'll take my flashlight,
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Patsy, and look at that dead tree. Golly, it's a crystal
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and flittery, and oh, it's like a tree of jewels. Pure Opal,
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Patsy, an opal tree worth a fortune. Too bad we don't hang
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killers in this state. Would be an excellent place to hang, Professor Stevens.
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Nick, you'd better start at the beginning and explain everything. I'm entirely
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at sea now, all right, Patsy. The story started millions of years
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ago when the trees of Dead Tree Valley died started petrifying. After untold centuries
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deep under the ground, they turned a stone and then began to crystallize into
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opal today's The wind slowly ate away the sand and earth covering them, and
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were brought to the surface. And when Sammy went out to sleep in the
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desert, he slept under this opal tree that had been uncovered by the wind.
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Right, the talking part was the tinkle of the crystalline branches swaying in
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the wind. Oh, Sammy broke off a piece of the tree and took
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it into town, went to Stephen's for advice, since he didn't know the
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value of that opo. Well then what Stephen saw the maps Sammy had made,
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and of course the jewel. He went with Sammy to have it a
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praise, just to make sure it was valuable enough to pay him to commit
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murder when he found it was. He killed Sammy for the map, but
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he staged his own murder too. Why Sammy talked too much? Stevens didn't
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know Sammy had told his old pal Dubsy Coffin, but he didn't know Sammy
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told the real Bowman, the appraiser, So to protect the secret, he
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killed Bowman, probably on a few minutes before we entered the store. You
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remember he stalled before coming out to talk to us. Oh, that's right,
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I remember. He talked about his indigestion, pretended to be Bowman,
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then rushed the body to his own office at the university, perhaps in the
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laundry basket or a bag, and there staged his own death. He didn't
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know it, Nick, but that was just a preview of what's really going
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to happen to him. It doesn't pay to play act with Nick cartif.
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Well, that was an unusual tale, Nick Thoull hop out a preview of
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next week's story. What's it going to be our next week? Ken,
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I'm going to tell you about the case of an eighty year old man,
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feeble, sick, harmless, who suddenly began driving down the highways like a
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savage, injuring people, raking cars, and generally behaving like a mania.
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Oh I remember it was all because of a beautiful Egyptian queen who died three
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thousand years ago. Breaking traffic laws because of a dead queen sounds good.
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What do you call the case? The Case of the Queen's Eyebrows? Nick
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Carter. Master Detective, which is produced and directed by Jack McGregor, is
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copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Long Clark is starred as Nick
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at Manson plays Patsy. Original music is played by George Wright. Script is
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by Alfred Bester, and any resemblance in these programs to actual persons living or
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dead is purely coincidental. Nick Carter Master Detective is presented at this time and
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over these same stations each week by the three great Linux Home Brightness, Linux
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Self Polishing, Wax, Linux Cream Polish, and Linux Clear Glass. This
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is Ken Powell speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America and saying,
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so long until next week. This is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome
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back. Well, I continue to be entertained by this. These are not
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the in terms of mystery, the greatest, but there are just so many
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moments. I think the overall puzzle is always great. And then there were
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a few things in here. Now you know that you are a tough detective,
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that you have earned that title of greatest of all manhunters. When just
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briefly recapping where all of the people you have ever arrested takes that long,
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you know they were only up to be they had twenty four letters of the
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alphabet. Now, for most of us, we wouldn't have had many enemies
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whose name started with X or Q, but Nick Carter on Betting has quite
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a few. And you had that trolley conductor who left a guy who wasn't
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dead but was just dying in the back of his streetcar to go and get
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Nick Carter. It's just like you should have checked a little more carefully.
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And then you have that part at the end where Nick suggested that tree as
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an appropriate execution spot. Okay, but it's just some of those nice little
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touches. It's a very interesting show. Maybe a bit of an acquired taste,
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but I've definitely acquired it. So I hope you enjoyed today's episode at
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least a little bit as much as I have. And the case that we
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were missing last week was the Factory of Death. We're gonna have a lot
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more lost episodes over the next few weeks. Of the next thirty five episodes
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of Nick Carter, we only have six that are actually in circulation, but
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we will bring them to you. So be sure and listen here for a
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next week's episode of Nick Carter in time. Send your comments to Box thirteen
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