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Nick Carter: The Mystery of Hangman’s Wood (EP1284) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Carter. This one is the mystery of Hangman's would the Linux Show starring Nick
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This is the story of a man known the world over as one of
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sinister forces of crime and lawlessness. A man recorded as one of the great
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Masters of Deduction, Nick Carter, Master Detective. Today's baffling case, The
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Mystery of Hangman's would another exciting chapter dramatized from the life story off Nick Cotter.
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In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick Cotter discovered what caused the
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ghostly shadow of a long dead pirate to appear at full noon upon the side
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from the life of Nick Cutter. As we joined Nick Cautter into Secretary Patsy
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Boughn this week, we don't find them in the old house in the corner
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of Fifth and Port. Instead, they're watching the sunset on the terrace of
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a little in overlooking the placid waters of the Potomac. But it's only a
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busman's holiday. They've come an answer to a frantic telegram sent by Professor Market.
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That famous archaeologist is explaining his problem to them in cultured but slightly agitated
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tone. You know it's extraordinary, mister Carter, I might even say fantastic.
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Never have I come across a more curious manifestation of local superstition. As
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you know, I've been investigating the so called pirate caves of the Potomac.
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It doesn't sound like a very cheerful thought, doesn't it. Well, there
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been many conjectures as to the origin of these holes, Patsy, but the
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most logical explanation is that they served as hiding places for pirates in the times
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when they preyed on Virginia shipping. As we believe, they were also used
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as hiding places in which to store their loot. And you didn't send for
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us to discuss these pirate caves, did you, Professor? Oh, good
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grief, no chost Carter. I want to see if you can solve the
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mystery of the specter of Hangman's Wood. That sounds promising, Professor. I
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hope you're right, passing our professor, you say it all started night before
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last. You and your assistant what's his name had been working later than usual.
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Yes, with the Karter Harvey and I had become so absorbed in our
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search that we pursued our digging into long past supper time. In fact,
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the moon was just rising above Hangman's Wood when we emerged into the open door.
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Look, Professor, the moon's rising above the treetops. Yeah, should
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I had no idea we'd work so late I had, Professor, I'm starving
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hungry, you know, so, am I? Now you mention it,
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well, let's pick up the shovels. We'll be getting back to the inn.
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Yes, the moonlight is beautiful, isn't It turns the trees to silver,
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with long, mysterious shadows stretching up below. It's eerie if you ask
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me, sir, I wonder why they call this place Hangman's Wood, because
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it was here that they hanged many the pirates and robbers who weigh laid ships
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coming up the river. That great and leafless oak that stands over there,
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hobby between us and the deserted barn, that's supposed to have held as many
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as seven bodies suspended from its branches at one time. No wonder it died
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off out of sheer horror. I'd say, oh, good lord, what's
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that? Oh? Just an howl of some kind. Well, as I
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was saying, hobby during the full moon, the spirits of those hardy buccaneers
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who were hanged there on the gallows tree are supposed to return, Professor.
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Look over there, where the shadow of the tree is thrown against the side
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of that barn. There's a shadow of something hanging from one of the limbs.
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It looks like the body of a man as, yes, Harvey,
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it certainly resembles the shadow of a body hanging from a rope, with its
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head bend sharply to one side, as if the neck were broken. The
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interesting thing about it is that there isn't a body hanging from the limb of
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a tree to cast that shadow. The shadow of a man been hanged,
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but no body to cast the shadow, you investigated, Professor, Well,
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no, as a matter of fact, was to Cotter. Harvey was rather
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upset by the whole thing. And well, I'll admit he didn't have to
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argue too hard to persuade me to leave the facility. You say that local
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superstition says these manifestations occur when the moon is full. That's right, But
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you saw that shadow two nights ago. Wasn't that a bit previous? The
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moon isn't full until tonight exactly. That's why I wired you that it was
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imperative for you to come to see me. I propose to return to Hangman's
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would and see if the phenomenon will repeat itself. All right, how about
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you, Patsy want to come along? Oh? Yes, yes, of
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course I'd love to. Well, here we are, mister Cotter. Now
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this is the gallows tree. There is the old barn on which the shadow
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appeared. Everything is just as it was the other night. I don't see
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a blessed thing. Do you need wait till the moon rises above the tree
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tops. That should be any moment. Now, yes, that's here it
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comes. The shadow of the tree begins to calm on the side of the
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barn. I don't see any hanging body, mick hm as a breeze rising,
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Yes, it often comes up with the moon, they tell him.
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To the color ah. Yes, the full moon rides player of the top
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branches of the old oak tree. The wind freshens the branches murmur goodness neck,
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did you hear that? Yes, Patsy. The screech owl and a
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screech owl in this vicinity, mister Carter is supposed to be a harbinger of
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ill fortune. I rather suspect that particular screech owl, Professor, is even
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more ominous than that. There herk of that shadow is shaped, slowly materializing
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the moonlight on the barn door. Naked's just as the professor said, the
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shadow of a man hanging by his neck. Yes, And as you can
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see, there's nothing hanging from the tree which would cause that shadow. Nothing
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at all. That's not too significant, pet, professor. The interesting feature
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of that shadow is that it doesn't sway in the breeze. What's that?
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Yes, this breeze is strong enough to move any object hanging from the limbs
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of that tree, provided it were hanging. I do wish that bread would
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go away. He's probably got a nest somewhere in that old barn. I
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think we better investigate that bonn, professor, particularly that door that frames the
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hanging shadow. Oh, Petsy, while we investigate the barn at rest on,
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you wouldn't care to climb the gallows tree and see if you can discover
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the origin of the shadow, I would not not that. I think there
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isn't a perfectly normal explanation of some sort for that apparition. Mind you,
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well, then, but nobody in his right mind has any business to go
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climbing trees in the dark. Okay, Patsy, we'll come back tomorrow on
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the daylight. For the tree at the barn door, I think we'd better
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investigate that right now, very well, mister Carver, if you think it
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best. Let's see. I know this barn door is interesting, very interesting.
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This old lock is rusted with age, unbroken coboebs cover all the hinges
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and lintels. That means no one's been inside the old relic for a dog
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day. On the contrary, bas someone has been inside, and very recently.
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What he was driving a horse and wagon for Here the ruts in the
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soft earth, Oh, the ones going into the barn or rather light.
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But here, look at these that are superimposed on the first one. Yes,
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notice how much deeper they cut. How the horse, coming away from
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the barn dug his hoops in as though pulling a heavy load. Oh,
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good heavens, mister Carter, You don't mean it's another mistery besides the shadow
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of the hanging man. Oh dear, Now we have a horse and wagon
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that can drive through a barn door that's been locked for years. Maybe the
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driver just said open sestany and the door disappeared into thin No, the trick
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is slightly more obvious, Betsy. I'd like to have a look a little
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higher up, professor. Yes, bendover so I can climb up your back.
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I want to stand on your shoulders like this. Yes, that's it,
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all right, not steady, all right, I've got you, all
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right, Yes, yes, I was right. There's a long crack running
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parallel over the ground. That means the hinters r on the inside. The
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whole wall swings inward, I study, professor, I'm coming down. I
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sure. Now, let's see what happens if we push the bottom of the
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wall right about here, all right altogether now naked swinging, say, that's
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neat. That must work on a system of pulleys and cudweeds. Gosh,
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naked dock in there. Well, it's not too dark when you get used
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to it. I've got an idea that maybe something interesting isn't then here,
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something at. Someone has gone to great pains to keep secret. The hidden
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door, the body of the shadow are all part of the plot to keep
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it. A loopers from Nick makes something swished at me, commer shop patchie.
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It's only a bat of old bards usually pull of it. Yes,
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there's another. I definitely don't like that. They get in your hair.
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Nothing here, nothing but a bit of old hay in this corner. Ah,
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there's nothing in it. Nothing here. Wait a minute, hold on,
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what is it? Man? There's a hole under the hay a hole
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leading down. Give me the flash like Patchick here, thanks, great Scott.
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Look there it's the entrance to another pirate hole with a ladder leading down
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into it. That looks like one of the deeper ones. Nick, You
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don't expect us to call down there. No Patsy. Whatever was hidden down
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there was removed. And the heavily laden cart whose tracks we saw outside the
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barn. See, here's the imprint of cakes that had been rolled across the
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soft ground. And here one stood on end. And look here one of
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them sprung a leak, a small trail of blackish powder. Why what do
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you make of that? Passy? No sort of active knit like gunpowder?
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Right? Good, great professor, put out your pipe? What for it's
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dangerous to smoke a pipe in the place that's bouting with gunpowder? Well,
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it's not bolting with a patsy. There isn't enough left here to fill a
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firecracker. Someone's got wind of the fact that Professor Mackett called us in,
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and the whole lot's been removed. Yes, but where mister Carter, for
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what purpose? And I wish to heaven I knew the amount of explosive that
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was carried away in that heavily laden cart can do a great deal and rather
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serious damage. Nick, What doing you suppose they're planning to blow off?
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I don't know yet, but I hope you find out shortly. First to
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send off two telegrams. Wonder the FBI asked him for any information they may
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have regarding Dynamite Joe Porter and his gang. Dynamite Joe. Yes, I've
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heard of him. He's the notorious English criminal who specializes in flowing up banks
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and also rex railroad train if he thinks they're carrying anything that might interest him.
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Who rates the second telegram down to Annapolis? But why Annapolis? Because
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Annapolis, which is a bare five miles up the river, is the site
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of a government powder magazine. I want to know if they've missed any of
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their stores lately. Yes, and I think I may even send another telegram
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to the port authority at Norfolk. Come on, better hurry back to the
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telegraph office before quotas there are a great many things to do and too little
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time to do them. Well. Nick must suspect that big things are afoot
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we rejoined Nick Carter and his assistant secretary and right hand man or should we
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say woman, we find them at breakfast the following morning. They're at a
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little hotel near the site of Hangman's Wood, and it's somewhat later than their
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customary hour for breakfast. As Nick well known, I knew I should have
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ordered another post day. I'm hungry as a bear. This morning must have
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been the night air Patsy, Nick, I wonder what caused that shadow of
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the hanging man we saw last night? This sneat little device I have here
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Heaven's name? Is there a little tube I found fastened and one of the
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lower branches of that dead tree. I took a stroll out of Hangman's wood
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before you were up this morning, and certainly you didn't wake me. I
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hate early morning. More precisely why I didn't wake you. This gadget I
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found out There is an ingenious telescope like lens with a small black silhouette inserted
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somewhere in the middle. The light of the moon shone through at a certain
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angle. Of course, a silhouette was projected and made a shadow in the
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barn door. So how could you know what to look for? Had to
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be something like miss Patsy. Anything hanging from the trees would have moved.
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And last night's breeze the moment I saw the shadow was stationary. I knew
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the answer. I'll pack them up a morning, professor, Oh, good
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morning. And the innkeeper gave me these telegrams for he was caught and they
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just arrived. Oh thanks, thanks, ah Dinah. My Joe Porter released
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on singh saying prison beginning of last month. I believed to have left the
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country. What makes you think that Dynamite Joe is in back of business?
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Oh, I just have a hunt that this is one of his jobs.
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Let's see what Annapolis has to offer. Twenty four kegs latest super gunpowder missing
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since Friday week? Have you located it? I wish to have an I
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had? But what is there in this neighborhood that would interest dynamite Joe.
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It had to be something big to tempt that Hyghena, I know banks for
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this trouble. You can't be planning to blow up a train. One keg
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of gun part would be more than sufficient for that job. What neighborhood would
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take twenty four tags of him dead? This stuff? Maybe he's going to
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blow up an apple. No, no, in that case, he'd have
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finished the job when he stole the kegs, great Scott. Maybe he's going
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to blow up the Capitol. No, Washington is upstream. He would wouldn't
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have hidden the dynamite five miles downstream. That was what he had in mine.
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Oh, of course, besides, neither of those blastings would interest Joe.
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He only dynamites for personal profits. And what did that be if he
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can't here? Well, there's nothing between here and Annapolis, mister Carter.
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But the Smithfield marshes about the dreariest, stretching the whole Potomac Valley. As
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you know, the ocean's tides are still in evidence of this district, and
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from here to Fort Whitney, the flats are marshes behind the river wall are
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well below the level of the river at high tide. You know, the
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last time the river wall broke, the water level of the river dropped so
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fast that several boats were left stranded on the shoals. That's it, of
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course, the river wall. And what a fool I was not worth thought
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of it before. There must be some boat coming up the river where the
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car go valuable enough to attrac Joe's attention, profess I get your hat,
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yeah, Patsy, tell the innkeeper to provide us with a small boat suit
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abo for rowing. I need two pairs of oars, one for you and
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one for the professor. What are you going to be doing while we row?
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I'll be doing the investigating A command our owner. We had a reply
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to the wire I sent to Norfolk. We might have the answer, but
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in any case, there's no time to lose. We must keep Joe from
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blowing up that river wall. Faster, you too, faster. I'm prouding
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as fast as I can. You wouldn't insist on hugging this ripper ball.
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That's a nice breeze in the middle of the stream. No signs of the
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dynamite yet, you got to find it. Sent for the River patrol to
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help us, but it'll probably take hours before their speedboat can get here.
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Yeah, oh, Nick, I just remember sample what No a telegram came
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to you. What you're seeing about the boat must be from Norfolk. Oh,
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happy to have it please. I'm sorry, Nick, but you rushed
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us off in such a flurry it went right out of my mind. Here
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are thanks the Nancy can Lip, Harry and Cargo have captured German gold found
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in salt mines due to reach due to the point at ten thirty. This
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a m but so that's what dynamite Joe is after. Quick to both of
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you back to your oars right now. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
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Here's something something in a cylindrical tin container. Tucked him to the side
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of the wall, just above the water line. And here's a wire connecting
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it to another and another. Yeah, professor, this whole section of the
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wall is mine. If you want to set it off by an electrical charge
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running along this wire. What time Is it now ten twenty one? That
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boat is due at ten thirty. The explosion is due in a minute.
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Let's get out of here. We've got to go on slowly, slowly.
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There's something I've got to do. Got to find out where this wire leads,
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where he's hidden the machinery with which to set off this explosive. It
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seems to lead to that little shack half overhanging the water, doesn't it the
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one over here at the end of the river wall. Yes, yes,
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this is the place right stop it. Okay, guy has passed. We
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want drift away. No Granny, notts. Please, you can depend on
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me, Nick, I used to be a group out. Let's see.
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There's a little trap door on the floor of a strack where it hangs over
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the river. I hope it's not locked open. I'm going to take a
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look inside. If I stand up, I should just about be able to
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see. Yes, yes, this is the place to pull myself up.
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You can follow soup steady you next, you'll just give me a hand,
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mister collar un as angile as you are. I come on, Patrick,
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I think we can pull you through between us. I can make it myself
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maybe, but I'll give you a hand anyway there. You didn't have to
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be so rough about it. I made it right. Oh you know,
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yeah, get your hands up in the air. Nick lock this, unless
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I'm mistaken, would be dynamite, Joe Porter, stick him up, as
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you say, on your side of the ocean. Seems to be determined,
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all right, Joe, they're up eye. What keeps you blokes? I've
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been waiting for you all morning. I just wasn't going to be late for
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the big event. I want you to show this, mister and Nick Carter.
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Now it's done on our side of the big pond. Well, now
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that's right, neighborly, Joe, are you going to search us first to
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see if we're armed? Not me in the first place. I ain't giving
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nobody a chance to do me dirt whilst I'm busy with another chap. It's
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odds weapons will there you no good? But don't take your ends down.
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I've got one post more when you're a goner. What are you going to
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do with us, mister dynamite Joe? Oh, I got that all playing
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that, sister. It's a little steamer coming up the river in a few
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minutes, and Nancy canlift not wants to look at. But he's got a
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cargo of gold bars in her old that'll make me as rich as mister Rockefeller.
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Delightful, You and me and mister Carter here going to wait, wait
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eve until the Nancy canlift runs around the bin. You keep your ends in
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plain sight all the time, and we don't have no trouble. See in,
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the boat shows up, I blows up the river wall. The water
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rushes out across the low lens, and the boat finds she ink got water
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enough to sail in and runs a grand in my legs ever launch already in
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waiting, they knows what to do. He takes over while I finishes off.
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You nosy snoopers, so you won't never bother no one again. Understand
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what I'm ditting, ned, I'm afraid I do, but I don't quite
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like it. Or maybe something will happen to preventy of them carrying out his
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unpleasant little scheme. Don't get discouraged. Yep, that's spoken like a man.
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Carter. You don't disappoint me. You don't. I heard you was
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a game, and thank you? How much longer we have to wait for
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the Nancy kinda to appear only a few minutes more. Maybe just make yourself
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comfortable while they're waiting. I don't finish you off now, but the boat
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might even side in the middle of the execution, and I can't make nothing
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interfere with that part of the plane. That's the boat. Then, you
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blokes, that's the way I planned it, and that the way it goes.
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Yes, no, I hate it too, mates. The times come
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when she gets a little further upstream. I'm going to press this year lever
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in this box, and when I do, it'll be the biggest rerecords you
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ever heard. All right, now, if you go and I can'ttinue,
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how happy I am to have your years audience. And then when two three?
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What that is? Something gone wrong? Joe? What could go wrong?
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I'll fix this up myself. It's got to be right. Get your
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hands, my hair fast myself. That's fair. I'll kidnap o. Good
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for you, Nick, Oh, that was excellent, mister Carter. I
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feel much relieved, Professor. Get that rope over the corner and tie up
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this big shot from overseas. I think the authorities would like to take care
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of him for the rest of his life. In just a moment, Nick
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will return to tell us about the clues which enabled him to solve the mystery
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hear from Nick Carter himself. Well, Nick, that was a pretty close
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call you in passy had a not as close as you might think. Ken.
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No, why if something you hadn't gone wrong with Joe's apparatus, the
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gunpowder would have gone off, and you wouldn't have had as good a chance
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to capture him the way you did. But I knew the gunpowder wouldn't go
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off. How could you possibly know that? Well? It was this way.
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As we rode along the sea wall, I punched a hole in each
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can of powder with my knife, and as the tide came in, the
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water flooded the cans and soaked the powder so it wouldn't explode. I'll make
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your wonderfulce, I'll say, But suppose the tide had been going out instead
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of coming in, wouldn't have made any difference, can because just to be
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sure, after I punched holes in the cans, I also cut the wires.
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You always think of everything, Nick, Thanks for the good of Nick.
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Tell me when did you first the sect that it was the work of
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an English gangster? When we heard the voice of that screech owl, which
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was the way that Joe's gang warned each other. You see, our screech
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owls are quite a different species from those in Great Britain. When I heard
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that peculiar, eerie call, I realized it was an imitation of the British
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screech owl, which is a bird definitely not found in the woods of Virginia.
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Well, well learn, I always say. Now, how about a
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hinters all about next week's story. I don't see why not, Ken,
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It's a story about one of New England's most famous possessions, the rocking chair.
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Rocking chair has a good homing sound, hasn't it. But this rocking
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chair only rocked at certain times, certain very definite times, just before some
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member of the family was the die has a nice homeye sound, doesn't it?
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But nothing homey about the deaths. They happened in all sorts of ways
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until Nick took over the case. Then both the rocking and the death stopped
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suddenly and for good. What do you call this exciting story, Nick?
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I call it the Haunted Rocking Chair. Nick Carter Master Detective is copyrighted by
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Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Ln Clark has starred as Nick, with
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Helen Choult as Patsy. Original music is played by Lou White. The programs
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are written by Edith Miser and then he resemblance their into actual persons living or
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dead is purely coincidental. The entire production is under the direction of Jack McGregor.
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Nick Carter Master Detective is presented at this time and over these same stations
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each week by the three great Linax Home Brighteners, Linux Clear Glass, Linux
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of ACME Fine Quality Paints. This is Ken Powell speaking for the thousands of
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Linux dealers all over America, saying, so long until next week. This
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is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Maybe the most difficult thing about
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being a fictional detective is all of the miscellaneous stuff you need to just be
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able to pull out at a moment to solve a crime. I also thought
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the British dialogue or dial like in this episode was a bit overdone, but
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maybe that's because I've been listening to some British radio drama a little spoiled by
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actual accents. All right, Well, on to some listener comments and feedback,
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and we have this from bert who writes, I have been entertained by
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old time radio for years, and it's about time I said something. Thanks
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for making commutes to work and for extra patients, a good detective story to
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give a slow to give to a slow snowy drive home. Well, thanks
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so much, Berta. I appreciate your comments and it is definitely nice to
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be able to have that to listen to. All right, Well, that
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will actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar, and then join us back here next Thursday for another episode
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of Nick Carter. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at
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