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  Speaker 1: Stanley Kaufman wrote this December thirtieth, nineteen forty five mutual broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: In episode two hundred and sixteen of Nick Carter, Master Detective,
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  Speaker 1: the Case of Shakespeare's Ghost, Nick Carter investigates the theft
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  Speaker 1: of a rare manuscript after a death brings an old
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  Speaker 1: legend into the inquiry. Then a corpse disappears and the
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  Speaker 1: supposed ghost is accused of murder. Lon Clark stars as
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  Speaker 1: Nick Carter with Charlotte Manson and Ed Latimer. And now
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The LINEX Show starring Nick Carter, Master Detective. This is
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  Speaker 2: the story of a man known the world over as
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  Speaker 2: one of the most daring and resourceful characters in the
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  Speaker 2: history of detective fiction, a man whose name has become
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  Speaker 2: a symbol of the triumph of right and justice over
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  Speaker 2: the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness. Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 2: Today's exciting case Shakespeare's Ghost, in which Nick Carter tracks
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  Speaker 2: a disappearing corpse and a ghost is accused of murder.
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  Speaker 2: paint or department store. And now for today's exciting case
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  Speaker 2: from the life of Nick Carter. As we look in
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  Speaker 2: on the old brownstone mansion at the corner of Fourth
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  Speaker 2: and Fifth, Nick is clearing up the files on his
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  Speaker 2: desk as Patsy answers the door.
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  Speaker 3: See Land convicted of arson fifteen years Mister.
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  Speaker 4: Carter, my name is J. T. Reid, But I don't
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  Speaker 4: suppose that means anything to you, not.
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  Speaker 3: Unless you're the JT. Read about the original letters of
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  Speaker 3: John Keats, the poet at the Gibson Auction Galleries on
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  Speaker 3: March fifteenth, nineteen twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Why that's amazing, absolutely right even to the day of
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  Speaker 4: the month.
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  Speaker 3: How in the world did you know that, mister Carter. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I've always been interested in literary memorabilia and an important
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  Speaker 3: say like that's back in my mind.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I see. Well, as you may some eies,
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  Speaker 4: I have quite a collection of brad books and manuscripts. Now,
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  Speaker 4: last week a mister Rodney Stone called it my country home.
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  Speaker 4: He was a fully accredited representative of Blackchpoorton Play, the
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  Speaker 4: English firm of Rare book dealer correct and as their
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  Speaker 4: American representative. He offered to sell me a copy of
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  Speaker 4: the Gutenberg Bible. But as all my capital is invested
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  Speaker 4: in books, I told mister Stone that at present I
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  Speaker 4: was more interested in selling some books then.
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  Speaker 3: In buying, and he offered to sell some for you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, his potentials were so good, I gave him my
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  Speaker 4: first polio, Shakespeare and a few other items. He signed
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  Speaker 4: a receipt for them and took them to his hotel
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  Speaker 4: here in town. Well, mister Reed, it wouldn't be here
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  Speaker 4: unless something had gone wrong.
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, just to make sure, I checked those hotel and
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  Speaker 4: he was registered there. But then I sent a cable
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  Speaker 4: to his London office to confirm the details.
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  Speaker 3: And this, mister Carter, is the answer I just received.
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  Speaker 3: We have no American representative named Rodney Stone. His potential
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  Speaker 3: is obviously for suggest to contact Nick Carter immediately to
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  Speaker 3: investigate this brau.
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  Speaker 4: That's I took their advice, mister Carter, and came here
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  Speaker 4: at once.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I've handled two or three cases. Have they bend
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  Speaker 3: a Stone's hotel? Well, I thought i'd better see you
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  Speaker 3: first iphoned however he's still registered there. Well, it's probably
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  Speaker 3: a fairly amateur swindle case, but I don't like it
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  Speaker 3: as people who cable a recommendation three thousand miles.
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  Speaker 4: Then you'll go with me to see Stone. Yes, and
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  Speaker 4: there's another reason too, mister Reid. I've always had a
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  Speaker 4: soft spot for Shakespeare. Come on, let's go rescue old
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  Speaker 4: Master Will from the clutches of a rather clumsy com man.
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  Speaker 5: You say it was the first complete edition of Shakespeare's plays,
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  Speaker 5: mister reed, Why it must be three hundred years.
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  Speaker 3: Old, three hundred and twenty two to be exact, Messie,
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  Speaker 3: Ollios were friend at in sixteen hundred twenty three, and
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  Speaker 3: my copy is of special interest.
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  Speaker 4: The fly leaf is signed by Ben Johnson, Shakespeare's friend
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  Speaker 4: and fellow poet Johnson's copy. Well, yes, ooth, is a
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  Speaker 4: legend about that copy. Very foolish, I suppose, Yes, I
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  Speaker 4: know the legend.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Nick? Three times in three centuries that copy has been stolen,
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  Speaker 3: and each time the thief has been found later with
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  Speaker 3: his head cut off?
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  Speaker 6: Oh slightly grizzly.
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  Speaker 3: What the legend is that Shakespeare's ghost comes back and
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  Speaker 3: slays the thief for meddling with his friend Johnson's copy.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the copy that this man's stone has stolen. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and if this legend is true, then he his head.
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  Speaker 3: No, just a silly Storysie.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Well, if you think it's a silly story, why
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  Speaker 5: if you step on the gas?
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  Speaker 3: Still no answer, I'll try it, never mind, I'll open
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  Speaker 3: the door. But how I always scarry skeleton keys. Let's
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  Speaker 3: doing great. Heavens inside, quickly cut the door.
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  Speaker 6: That man on the floor, his head, just like the legend.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose that's Rodney Stone. Mister Read it was poor child.
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  Speaker 6: We'll just look at this room. They must have been
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  Speaker 6: a terrific struggle.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, overturned, blood all over, clothes almost ripped from the body.
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  Speaker 6: Dat he must have put up to save himself.
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  Speaker 3: One thing certain our simple case of fraud has certainly
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  Speaker 3: become a lot more serious. The bedroom doors open, I'll
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  Speaker 3: go in and see whether there.
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  Speaker 6: Are you going to examine the body in a moment, Bessy.
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  Speaker 3: First, I want to get a novel. I'll over picture
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  Speaker 3: of the room from here. Tell a lot, just understanding
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  Speaker 3: in one spotting kind of a perspective on the crime. Instance,
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  Speaker 3: position of the body, location of the bloodstains, my way
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  Speaker 3: to clothes are ripped, yes, which is just the.
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  Speaker 6: Ghost of Shakespeare is struck again.
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  Speaker 4: The cotton, mister Cotton, come in here quick right when
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  Speaker 4: you look what I found on the window.
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  Speaker 3: Still here, mister Cotton, can't touch it.
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  Speaker 6: I see the sword, a blood stained sword.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sixteenth century claymore century sword.
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  Speaker 6: The thing's head cut off.
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  Speaker 4: Quite all fits well, mister Katta, what do you think
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  Speaker 4: of the legend of Shakespeare's ghost?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 6: Find any clues?
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  Speaker 3: Nick, No, bring me a pillow case from that bed.
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  Speaker 3: I want to wrap up this sort. Yes, Nick, how
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  Speaker 3: do you explain, mister Carter? I don't yet. This is
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  Speaker 3: the twenty third floor. The door was locked from the inside.
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  Speaker 3: There's no fire escape a balcony outside these windows. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: that said.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's it's a good thing we're all intelligent adults,
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  Speaker 4: because it certainly looks like the work of a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the things that bothers me, mister Reed,
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  Speaker 3: looks too much like ghosts. If I'll go back and
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  Speaker 3: give the body a closer examination, for what is it? Dick?
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  Speaker 6: What's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: With the buddy? It's disappeared? Finished? Hand me that microscope
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  Speaker 3: slide besic.
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  Speaker 6: Here you are, Nick, Why didn't you investigate the other
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  Speaker 6: rooms on the twenty third floor of that hotel when
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  Speaker 6: we found no one had been seen leaving the floor
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  Speaker 6: since we came up.
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  Speaker 3: You can't search people's rooms without their permission or a warrant. Besides,
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  Speaker 3: there's more than one way to skin a.
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  Speaker 6: Cat and catch a murderer, right Now I just want.
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  Speaker 3: To check the blood cell structure from the stains and
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  Speaker 3: the sword.
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  Speaker 6: How can you tell whether it was Stone's blood?
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  Speaker 3: Can't? But I can be sure it's human blood. Evidence
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  Speaker 3: can be framed, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Uh huh, Well about it?
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  Speaker 3: Human blood been on that sort about seven hours, which
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  Speaker 3: means about six hours before we found it.
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  Speaker 6: What does that prove?
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  Speaker 3: Could prove or disproved a great deal. That's gonna steal
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  Speaker 3: punt it.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, I just want to take a small chip.
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  Speaker 3: Off this sort of obviously hand for it. Now, I'll
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  Speaker 3: smelt down this little piece over a high heat flame.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a crucial now, passy. While you're waiting for that
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  Speaker 3: steel chip to melt, we should look up j t
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  Speaker 3: Reading our file.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Nick, are you sure we've got him?
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  Speaker 3: Lucy, you gotta be there.
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  Speaker 6: Here's his card, Joseph t Read chief interest books, manuscripts
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  Speaker 6: and curios and mm hmm, quite a patriotic citizen. Toun
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  Speaker 6: did a lot of hotea warwork.
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  Speaker 3: Very interesting. Let me see.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, there's a signal on the heat cage. Nick steels
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  Speaker 6: melted first.
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  Speaker 3: I just have this catalyst.
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  Speaker 5: Mh Just as I thought it was the sort of
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  Speaker 5: modern take on the.
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  Speaker 3: Contrary, Patsy, the chemical is used in this manufacture, prove
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  Speaker 3: almost conclusively that it's authentic Elizabethan. Now let me see
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  Speaker 3: he reads filecard.
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  Speaker 6: Here you are, Nick, Why are you so anxious to
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  Speaker 6: prove the sword as genuine?
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  Speaker 3: It shows someone is trying to throw suspicion.
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  Speaker 6: Great Scott, what is it? What do you see on
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  Speaker 6: the card?
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  Speaker 3: Betty? Send a wire to JT. Reid Call, I'm coming
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  Speaker 3: out to report room tonight.
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  Speaker 6: That's more like it. A little action.
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  Speaker 3: Read can tell us if Anita know, we may crack
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  Speaker 3: this case tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Tell me what your mind please.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you two things, Betty. First, there was
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  Speaker 3: more than one criminal involved.
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  Speaker 6: There was.
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  Speaker 3: And second, they're among the most cunning and cold blooded
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  Speaker 3: men I've ever met.
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  Speaker 6: You haven't met them yet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh we made a knife and in might cold automatic.
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  Speaker 3: Then we're on our way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a swindler murdered like other men before him who
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  Speaker 2: stole the same rare book. The legend of Shakespeare's ghost
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  Speaker 2: brought to life as a genuine Elizabethan sword is found
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  Speaker 2: in the room. Then the body disappears. Where will this
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  Speaker 2: mysterious trail of bloodshed and theft fleet next? We'll see
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  Speaker 2: and Patsy are investigating a strange murder, a vanishing corps,
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  Speaker 2: and the disappearance of a coffee of a first Polio Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 2: The entire crime seems to be linked to a legend
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  Speaker 2: about Shakespeare's ghost. They are now in a small suburban
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  Speaker 2: railway station waiting for their clients JT.
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  Speaker 6: Reid, Nick, what do you suppose is keeping mister.
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  Speaker 3: Reed or station master? Yeah? Are you sure mister Reid
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  Speaker 3: got the wire? We sent this afternoon? Sure it's for
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  Speaker 3: the telegraph purpose too. That's your wife, Jane. You was
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  Speaker 3: arriving in this every twelve and changed it right up
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  Speaker 3: to mister Reed. I imagine, why isn't here almost seven
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  Speaker 3: point Well?
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, Nick, we had a cozy place to wait during
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  Speaker 6: the shower. It was short, but awfully wet.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not interested in wait, they gonna wear cozily, I'm
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  Speaker 3: when I look it going.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if he's supposed to be here, he will be
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  Speaker 6: new paint men.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Reed, I'm respirted with some bonds. He even shaved
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  Speaker 3: it a volunteer up to the county hospital.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the car, now, is mister Reed.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go then, Thanks for your hospitality, Station Master.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're comfortable with ball and mister Carter, I'm just today. Sorry,
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  Speaker 4: I'm latey.
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  Speaker 6: Oh that's all right, mister Reed.
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  Speaker 4: Well I surprise you. No, no, it wasn't that. I
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  Speaker 4: had trouble starting my car. Couldn't even get it out
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  Speaker 4: of the garage till ten minutes ago. Oh no, right
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  Speaker 4: this way. No, and my butler, Everans, insisted on helping me.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I thought the motor was ready to run,
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  Speaker 4: he'd reaching under the hood to adjust something and bang
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  Speaker 4: it would stall again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's hope it wants to stall on the way back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm rather anxious to see your place and your butler.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Carter. I do hope you can get my beautiful
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  Speaker 4: books back for me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do my best, mister Reid. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: where they am? Sure?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, thank heaven. But I want my books back,
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  Speaker 4: mister Carter. Shouldn't we notify the police.
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  Speaker 3: Now, mister Raid, you can't make a murder chart stick
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  Speaker 3: without a corpse.
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  Speaker 4: But I saw it. I could testify that no corpse,
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  Speaker 4: no case. Oh well, just around the next turn and
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  Speaker 4: we're home. Huh, there it is.
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  Speaker 6: Oh what a lovely place, isn't it, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed charming place.
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  Speaker 5: A whole scene is so nice. Snow curling from the chimney,
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  Speaker 5: that's fun.
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  Speaker 3: What is miss Bowen?
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  Speaker 6: Snow curling from the chimney on a warm summer night.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that that's the hot water he does.
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  Speaker 3: Really awful lot of smoke for one of those things,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, it's a nuisance. We have to bring this
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  Speaker 4: off cold. Oh we can get right now. Who tends
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  Speaker 4: the boiler muster? Read? Why Evans the butler? Even though
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  Speaker 4: he consists of a little beneath his dignity?
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  Speaker 3: Why do you ask? I don't know a particular reason,
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  Speaker 3: just curious.
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  Speaker 4: I'll leave the car here in case we wanted later,
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  Speaker 4: let me help you passing.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, good evening, Oh, good evening is come on in
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  Speaker 7: both of you. Thank him Evans, this is this bone,
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  Speaker 7: and mister Carter they will be staying the night.
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  Speaker 4: Very good, So mister cutter deive me, I asked, yes, fine,
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  Speaker 4: nothing's nothing at all.
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  Speaker 3: Would you care to wash up either of you?
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  Speaker 6: No, thanks, I freshened up on the train.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to wash please, I know. I'll take you upstairs.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Evans, will you show miss Boone into the library.
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  Speaker 4: The library is, yes, the library. Perhaps Smiths Boyne would
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  Speaker 4: like to see the goden.
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  Speaker 3: The holly hawks are quite lovely now and there's still
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  Speaker 3: enough I look.
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  Speaker 5: At the garden in the morning, if I may, sure
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  Speaker 5: was born.
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  Speaker 3: To the library. Yes, very well, sir, it's sweetly.
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  Speaker 8: Oh what a collection of books? First edition Paradise lost
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  Speaker 8: the top of yell in the original part. Oh, Evans,
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  Speaker 8: you surprised me.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't hear you come in.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry to miss spoke.
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  Speaker 6: You might like some teens, Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: And Evans, could we have a little more light in here?
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  Speaker 5: You've only this one lamp on the whole other half
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  Speaker 5: of the room is dark.
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  Speaker 6: Makes it gloomy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gloomy.
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  Speaker 6: Miss I do have we have a little more like
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  Speaker 6: Please look at that other wall. It's covered with armor,
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  Speaker 6: swords and things very interesting.
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  Speaker 3: If you need anything, you will be ring.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. M hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, I'll take a look suit of armored time of
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  Speaker 6: Henry the Second well and good fourteenth century crossbows. It's you,
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  Speaker 6: I thought one.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind, we've got work to do.
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  Speaker 9: But Nick, look look here at the collection of armor
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  Speaker 9: and swords. So I see a good collection of British
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  Speaker 9: battle swords too. Look here next to this, Yes, one
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  Speaker 9: sword missing and.
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  Speaker 5: The label says it was a sixteenth century play. More
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  Speaker 5: good for you.
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  Speaker 3: We've got what to do.
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  Speaker 6: Where are we going.
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  Speaker 10: Out through the French windows into the garden before to
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  Speaker 10: see the pollyhocks and other things? Come on, the hollyhocks
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: are beautiful, Nick, But what.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Do we want with flowers at a time like this?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: You'll see in a minute.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: You know, Nick, I just.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Realized why you were so excited when you saw mister
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Reid's firecard. You knew that curios meant swords and armor,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: didn't you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I knew there was some reason why that butler was
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: so anxious to keep me out of the library. He
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: didn't want us to notice that that sword was missing.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: So we got an Adam Kristin can make a get away.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Not just I found what I came out for.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Her door, the door to the house. But why come
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: out here to find a door going back into the house.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Unless I'm much mistaken, this is the door to the cellar.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Oh, the seller.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Blocked, of course. Oh I'm curious, key who my picklock
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: was made for just such unusual locks. Let's see.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Oh do we want in the selling?
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: That's you. When we arrived, you noticed smoke pouring from
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: the chimney. Reed said it was the hot water heater. Well,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I made a point of going up to wash my
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: hands the water and the hot corset was only you
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: form With all the smoke we saw, that water should
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: have been boiling hot.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: That means that.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: It's not the hot water boiler that's burning. Something else
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: is burning in the cellar or being burned. I thought
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: that would do it? Now, would I turn on my flesh?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: All right down those steps? Easy?
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Thanks you? It's hot down here, and the.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Big fire going in that Price didn't see it's still
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: blowing over there.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Nick, that smell, it's like, you're right, that's.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Just what it is. Take this slice bar and opened
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the front of the door. Oh, Nick, just as I thought,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: look it the toe of the shoe. Yes, unquestionably one
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: of the shoes we saw on the body of Rodney Stone.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Shut the door, please. It all fits together.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: That butler, he probably overheard everything about Stone in the
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: first folio of Shakespeare, then stole the sword, then followed
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Stone to the hotel and killed him.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: And Nick remembered when Reid came to the station, he
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: said he.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Was delayed because Evans kept stalling the car. And Evans
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: has charge of this cellar, and he thought he'd had
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: time to burn the body, but our wire surprised him.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: He kept laying read so we wouldn't get here too soon.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Things together, quiet well, Evans, just keeping the home fires burning.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Drop that talker, Evans said.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: All right, blood and fiends, How.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Are you going to tell us why you've hiten those books? No? No,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: he who you are. I've got a.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Gun, so have I.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I've got to drop on your carter, ctor of your pistols.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Very well, now take it over here. Good.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I congratulate your carter. You're cleverer than I thought. But
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: from now on things will go my way. And what
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: way is that? I'll tell this boone over to my associates,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: whom you haven't met.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: They'll take excellent care of her.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Then tomorrow you and I will visit the police and
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: the insurance company.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: And if you.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Don't testify as I wish it's going, Nick, you see
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I don't want the books back. I want the insurance.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: It's a great deal more than the present market value
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: of those books. And you're too clever, you really might
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: find those books.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: You're done righty? Would Nick Cardigan sign?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Look home? Behind you? You shut over a barded man?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Shakespeare's good, How mister Reid, I have the drop on you?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Well, boys are always fooled by the simplest tricks.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: A burner's doorways open, and by manipulating my fingers behind
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: my back, I cast a shadow a bit of man,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and that wall behind you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Nick, I wouldn't have liked to meet Shakespeare's ghost.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I think I'm much more attractive with my head on.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: No, I'm sure you won't be too reluctant about naming
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: your accomplice, because you won't want to go to jail
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: for both of you. And we'll turn over to the
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: police two of the most cold blooded thieves I've ever met.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Thieves you mean, murderers.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Ard guillia Lette. They couldn't have murdered rodding Stone because
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Rodney Stone never lived.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: In just a moment, Nick will be back to give
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: you the final details of today's adventure and tell you
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: how he followed the mysterious trail of Shakespeare's ghost. Fingerprints
• 24:28
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• 24:35
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• 25:03
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• 25:13
  Speaker 2: And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. You see
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: pension whatever was such a man as Rodney Stone. There's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: all a scheme that Reid and his accomplice cooked up
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: to collect the insurance in those books.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: You see. Red's filecard told me he'd been a volunteer
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: worker at the county hospital. That's what excited me because
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: that meant he had access to the hospital Morgue and
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the blood bank.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: You mean they stole a corpse.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Right, some poor nameless pauper probably, And they also took
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: a couple of pints of blood from the blood bank.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: His accomplice took the body and the blood to the
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: hotel in the trunk, hired two suites and set the
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: scene we saw in one of them. Meanwhile, Reid had
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: sent his cable to London, knowing full answer, full well
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: the answer he'd did.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Why did he want you in on it?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: He needed a reputable witness to the murder and the theft. Then,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: as soon as I had seen it, they had to
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: get rid of the body. It wants to avoid a checkout.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: But how did the body disappear?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: The accomplice was hiding in the closet when Reid called
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: us into the bedroom to see the sword he'd planted there.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: His pal slipped out and took the body into the
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: suite next door. Oh, he put it in a trunk
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and as soon as we left, brought it back to
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Reed's house so Reid could burn it up.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I thought Evans was the guilty one.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Now, Patty, I was convinced Reid was lying. When he
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: met us at the station, he said he'd started only
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: ten minutes before, yet his car was wet.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: I remember the sudden summer shower right.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: The rain had stopped fifteen minutes before, which meant that
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Reid himself that he laid along the road in the
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: shower so that cremation would be over before we got
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: back to the house. Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: But Nick, when we were in the cellar, it was
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Evans who came down to see if the body were consumed.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Patsy Evans told me that he knew nothing of this
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: window readed plane until he accidentally found him putting the
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: body in the furnace. Then, having been with the Reed's
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: family for years, he loyally did what he could to
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: help him out.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, Nick, why didn't you try to trace the body
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: when it disappeared?
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Because I had a strong hunt that there was something
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: funny about the murder, and I felt sure I could
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: catch the crooks another way.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Look at for real to me, with all that blood around.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: That was one reason why I suspected as genuineous. If
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: the man had been killed, as we were led to
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: believe he had, he would have dropped on the spot
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and there had been no blood in the far corners
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: of the room. Oh, Patsy, there was too much blood
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: in too many places?
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Why of course?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: What's more, the body was too dramatically arranged. Murdered people
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: usually sprawl and almost ludicrous and unbelievable positions. But the clincher, Patsy,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: was the corpse's elbow.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, Nick, fuck? Could you tell from an elbow?
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Let's see you recall that the blood analysis showed the
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: blood was at least six hours old.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: Uh huh.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Well, when a body lies as long as six hours
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: in one position immediately after death, gravity causes the blood
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: to settle into the parts of the body touching whatever
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: it's resting upon. As a result, the skin becomes purplish
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: at that point. Well, the corpse's bare elbow was touching
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the floor, yet there was no sign of any purple color,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: which meant something was not as it should be.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Well, well, work for Nick Carter and learn why you were?
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: And I always say, and so do I.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: What's next week's adventure going to be? Nick? Well? Can
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: next week? I have a rather unusual story for you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: A man came to my office and told me he
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: had just killed a man, so that's all. I suppose
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: he came to give himself up.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Oh no, he came to ask Nick to find the
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: body of the man he just killed.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: We wound it all right, and it took a black
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: mirror and a pinch bar to find the kill him.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Well, but you said he confessed he did, and that's
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: what makes the story.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I give a what do you call the story? I
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: call it the Case of the Wandering Corpse.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Nick carter Master Detective, produced and directed by Jack McGregor,
• 28:44
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• 28:48
  Speaker 2: has starred as Nick, with Charlotte Manson as Patsy. Script
• 28:52
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• 28:56
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• 28:59
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  Speaker 1: That concludes Nick Carter, Master detective in the case of
• 30:11
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