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Suspense - "The Long Shot" (Old Time Radio, 1958) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A financially troubled gambler answers a newspaper advertisement from an
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  Speaker 1: Englishman seeking a companion for a drive from New York
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  Speaker 1: City to San Francisco. That is the starting point for Suspense,
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  Speaker 1: The Long Shot, Episode 9, originally broadcast on February 9th, 1958.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Herbert Marshall stars as Kelly Raymond, whose uneasiness grows as
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: the cross-country journey begins with the talkative Walker Hendricks, played
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: by Ben Wright. Written by Harold Swanton, this was the
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  Speaker 1: second suspense presentation of his story, following an earlier broadcast
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: in 1946. Florence Walcott, Joe DeSantis, Norm Alden, and George
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  Speaker 1: Walsh are also heard. Ladies and gentlemen, suspense, the long shot.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: And the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the
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  Speaker 3: master of mystery and adventure, William N.
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  Speaker 2: Robeson.
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  Speaker 4: The story with the surprise ending is one of the
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  Speaker 4: most difficult to write. Yet, the old switcheroo, as we
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  Speaker 4: call it in the trade, had fascinated readers for a long,
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  Speaker 4: long time before O. Henry virtually patented it. It's a
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  Speaker 4: difficult form because the switch must come logically out of
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  Speaker 4: the characters and their behavior, but it must come suddenly, unexpectedly,
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  Speaker 4: and at the very end of the story. You are
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  Speaker 4: about to hear a modern example, and we'll bet you
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  Speaker 4: all the red flags in communist China you can't guess
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  Speaker 4: the end until 25 minutes from now. Listen carefully. Listen
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  Speaker 4: then as Mr. Herbert Marshall stars in The Long Shot,
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  Speaker 4: which begins in exactly one minute from now.
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  Speaker 2: Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsythe. Joe. Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph. Yeah, yeah, I'm up.
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  Speaker 6: I'm up.
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  Speaker 7: Pour the coffee. I'll be right in.
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  Speaker 2: Relax.
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  Speaker 5: It's three in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: I said relax.
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  Speaker 2: It's three in the morning. I was relaxed.
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  Speaker 7: Daphne, why did you wake me up?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I was just wondering what happened to our savings bonds.
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  Speaker 2: You were what?
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  Speaker 5: I had a dream. I dreamed you lost all of
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  Speaker 5: your money and all we had left were our savings bonds.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 5: So I just wanted to make sure they were all
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  Speaker 5: all right.
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  Speaker 2: They're all right. They're with the other important papers. You're sure?
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  Speaker 2: Of course I'm sure.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I just don't want anything to happen to them.
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  Speaker 5: Savings bonds are the most secure form of investment. Why,
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  Speaker 5: the whole faith and credit of the United States stand
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  Speaker 5: behind those bonds of ours.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: So they're even better than dollars in your pocket, because
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  Speaker 5: the government stands behind them and protects them.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: And they protect us, too, Joe. Every bond is an
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  Speaker 5: investment in our country, in our security and freedoms. Joe? Well,
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  Speaker 5: how about that? He feels so secure he went back
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  Speaker 5: to sleep. Good night, darling.
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  Speaker 2: And now....
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  Speaker 3: The Long Shot, starring Herbert Marshall. A tale well calculated
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  Speaker 3: to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Very well then, Lieutenant. If you're ready to take it down,
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  Speaker 2: here is my statement.
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  Speaker 8: It seems a year, but I guess it's only ten
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  Speaker 8: days since I was sitting in the lobby of the
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  Speaker 8: Astor Hotel in New York with 28 cents in my pocket.
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  Speaker 8: living a dreadful season at the track. So there I was, stony.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody had discarded the afternoon paper and I picked it up.
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  Speaker 8: It was folded to the classified section and my eyes
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  Speaker 8: fell upon a most intriguing ad in the help-wanted column.
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  Speaker 8: Englishmen will pay $ 150 and expenses to fellow countrymen, preferably Londoner,
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  Speaker 8: in return for services as driver and travelling companion on
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  Speaker 8: automobile trip to San Francisco. This was the answer to
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  Speaker 8: all my problems. And a quarter hour later, I presented
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  Speaker 8: myself at the door of my unwitting benefactor's quarters.
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I've come about your advertisement.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes. Step inside, please.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: You have a chair.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: You're English, I presume?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 7: A Londoner, I hope?
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  Speaker 2: Born and bred.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I must say, that's a relief. I've been plagued
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  Speaker 7: with applicants all day, and not a Londoner in the lot.
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  Speaker 7: You see, the old town's sort of a fetish with me.
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  Speaker 7: A man can't really consider himself civilized unless he's a Londoner.
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  Speaker 4: Quite.
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  Speaker 7: You say you were born there?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, in Vigo Street, just off St. James's Square.
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  Speaker 8: August 18th, 1910. Know the town like the inside of
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  Speaker 8: my hat.
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  Speaker 7: Vigo Street? I'm not sure that I know it.
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  Speaker 8: It turns right off Sackville Street and runs some little
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  Speaker 8: way before it reaches Regent Street.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, yes, yes. I place it now. Well, you
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  Speaker 7: seem to be the genuine article. Tell me, why are
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  Speaker 7: you interested in going to San Francisco?
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  Speaker 8: You know anything about horse racing, Mr... No, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Hendricks. Walker Hendricks.
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  Speaker 2: Mine's Kelly Raymond.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how do you do, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Raymond?
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  Speaker 7: No, I can't say that I do particularly. I've been
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  Speaker 7: to Epsom Downs on a few occasions.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I've become rather fond of the horses. I might
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  Speaker 8: even say financially dependent on them. And with Bay Meadows
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  Speaker 8: opening shortly.
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  Speaker 2: Bay Meadows? There's a race course near San Francisco.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I see. Well, you have business. It takes you
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  Speaker 7: to San Francisco and so on. But I just couldn't
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  Speaker 7: face making the trip alone, or even worse, with an American.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I advertised. What a stroke of luck to
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  Speaker 7: find you. Not only a fellow countryman, but a fellow Londoner.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, well, I'm dreadfully sorry, but I just hired a man.
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  Speaker 8: I was sitting pretty. The only thing I was afraid
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  Speaker 8: of was death from sheer boredom, because from the moment
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  Speaker 8: we started out, all Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hendricks talked about was London.
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  Speaker 7: Have you spent much time in Soho, Raymond?
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  Speaker 2: I never lived there, if that's what you mean.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no. I mean the restaurants
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  Speaker 7: and so on. Do you know them?
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  Speaker 2: You see now, there's the Moroccan... No, what was it? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the Algerian cafe in Dean Street, isn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Quite right, the Algerian in Dean Street.
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  Speaker 8: A big French woman ran it. We used to call
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  Speaker 8: her Madame Couscous.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, quite correct. As a matter of fact, I saw
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  Speaker 7: her there only a short time ago.
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  Speaker 2: Seems to me she died a few years back. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: You probably met her daughter.
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  Speaker 7: No doubt, no doubt. There's a sign. Cleveland, 38 miles.
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  Speaker 2: Spend the night there, I expect.
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  Speaker 7: Good idea. Let's see where we're... Oh, yes, we were
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  Speaker 7: talking about Soho.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we were talking about Soho, and we continued to
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  Speaker 8: talk about it the rest of the way to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 8: and most of the.
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  Speaker 2: Night in the hotel room.
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  Speaker 8: I began to think the man doubted my authenticity and
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  Speaker 8: was trying to trip me up. Next day, we covered Whitechapel,
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  Speaker 8: Fleet Street, Bloomsbury, Mayfair.
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  Speaker 2: He still hadn't.
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  Speaker 8: Stuck me, but I was beginning to feel like a
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  Speaker 8: well-found barracker's guide by the time we reached Chicago. As
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  Speaker 8: soon as we checked into our hotel room, I tried
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  Speaker 8: to get away.
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  Speaker 2: From him for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Say, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hendricks, I wonder if I might have a small advance
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  Speaker 2: on my salary. Well, I suppose so. It's still rather early,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought I might look over the Windy City.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, of course, Raymond. Here, let me open my release. Now,
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  Speaker 7: this infernal lock is always acting up. Ah, there we are.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty AB enough?
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  Speaker 2: Fine, thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, look here. I believe I'll join you. Stretch the
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  Speaker 7: legs a bit, eh?
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  Speaker 8: There was a horse-choking wad of bills in that release,
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  Speaker 8: but I was so burned at him tagging along.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't give it a thought then.
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  Speaker 8: My favorite joint was just around the corner from the hotel,
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  Speaker 8: a hangout for touts and bookies. But I didn't see
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  Speaker 8: anybody I knew at first. We had a club sandwich,
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  Speaker 8: and at Mr. Hendricks' request, I was expounding scholastically on
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  Speaker 8: the difference between Chicago and London bacon when.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly! Tommy!
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  Speaker 7: Good to see you, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were in Miami. Leaving in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days. How about coming along? I can't. I'm on
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  Speaker 2: my way to San Francisco. Oh, this is, uh, Mr. Hendricks?
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  Speaker 2: Taught me to wait. How are you?
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  Speaker 7: How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Listen, Kelly, I got to talk to you. I got
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  Speaker 2: a big deal cooking. I'm afraid I... You don't mind
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  Speaker 2: excusing us for a minute, do you, Mr. Hendricks?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, go on, please.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Kelly, I'll get right to the point. We bought
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  Speaker 2: us some jockeys.
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming up next week at Hialeah. 500 will get
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  Speaker 2: you 10 grand on the parlay. But I've got to
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  Speaker 2: drive that stiff to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: What if you just, uh, walk down? I suppose I could.
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  Speaker 2: But where do I get 500? Has he got any money? No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. Wait a minute. That's the lease. Huh? You're
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  Speaker 2: sure this can't lose? I'm positive. All right, listen.
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  Speaker 8: You go back to the booth and keep Hendricks busy
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  Speaker 8: for a few minutes. Tell him I have to make
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  Speaker 8: a phone call or something. I'll meet you at the
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  Speaker 8: IC station in half an hour. I stepped out through
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  Speaker 8: the kitchen and in two minutes I was back in
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  Speaker 8: our room at the hotel. There was the police just
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  Speaker 8: as he'd left it, and to make things even easier,
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  Speaker 8: the faulty catch wasn't locked. There were $ 680 in $ 20
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  Speaker 8: bills in the wallet and a sheaf of legal-looking documents
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  Speaker 8: in the portfolio next to it. I glanced at them
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  Speaker 8: idly as I pocketed the money. On top was a
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  Speaker 8: letter from a law firm in San Francisco. It was
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  Speaker 8: dated two months ago and addressed to Hendricks in Bedford Park, London.
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  Speaker 8: It said, since you are completely unknown personally to either
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  Speaker 8: relatives or legal counsel in the United States... It has
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  Speaker 8: been necessary to establish proof of your right to your
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  Speaker 8: uncle's estate.
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  Speaker 2: Entirely by Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Evidence, and we are happy to state that such proof
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  Speaker 8: is now thoroughly established. We ask that you present yourself
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  Speaker 8: at your earliest convenience at our San Francisco law offices
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  Speaker 8: so that final disposition of the estate may be accomplished.
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  Speaker 8: Birth certificate, affidavits from friends, notarized statement from the Department
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  Speaker 8: of Records, a sheaf of letters.
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  Speaker 2: It was a long shot. A long shot that would
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  Speaker 2: pay off at least $ 100, 000. Everything.
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  Speaker 8: Every affidavit and statement was a guarantee of Walker Hendricks,
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  Speaker 8: the bearer. And to tie it up tighter, one of
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  Speaker 8: the letters said pictures wouldn't be necessary, just the passport.
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  Speaker 8: And I knew a place in San Francisco that made
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  Speaker 8: passports to order.
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  Speaker 2: A long shot. But did you ever see odds like that?
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  Speaker 3: In a moment, we continue with the second act of.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 9: Memo on Medals. Information about our military awards and decorations.
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  Speaker 9: The highly honored Legion of Merit is a five-pointed white
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  Speaker 9: star of heraldic form bordered by purple-red enamel. In the
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  Speaker 9: center of this beautiful decoration is a constellation of 13
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  Speaker 9: white stars on a blue field, breaking through a gold
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  Speaker 9: circle of clouds. Backing the star is a green enamel
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  Speaker 9: laurel wreath, interlaced with crossed war arrows in gold, pointing outward.
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  Speaker 9: The ribbon is purple-red, edged with white. The Legion of
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  Speaker 9: Merit can be awarded to any personnel of the armed
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  Speaker 9: forces of the United States and of the government of
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  Speaker 9: the Philippines, and to personnel of the armed forces of
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  Speaker 9: friendly nations who have distinguished themselves by exceptionally meritorious conduct
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  Speaker 9: in the performance of outstanding services. When awarded to the
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  Speaker 9: military of other countries, the Legion of Merit is divided
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  Speaker 9: into four ranks. chief commander, commander, officer, and legionnaire, depending
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  Speaker 9: upon the degree of the service we honor. Since its
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  Speaker 9: creation by active Congress in 1942, the Legion of Merit
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  Speaker 9: has become a highly honored symbol of our nation's acknowledgement
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  Speaker 9: of the bravery and dedication of free men.
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  Speaker 3: And now, starring Herbert Marshall, Act Two of The Long Shot.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was a long shot.
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  Speaker 8: Anyway, I put the papers and the money back in
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  Speaker 8: the valise and called Tommy DeWitt. Told him the Hialeah
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  Speaker 8: deal was off, that there wasn't any money in the room.
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  Speaker 8: And the next morning, Hendricks and I left Chicago westbound
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  Speaker 8: on Route 30 and Old London Town Road with us.
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  Speaker 7: You were saying you know the George Inn, Raymond?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but it's not in London proper. It's in Southwark,
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the river.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I believe you're right at that. Rare old Inn,
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  Speaker 7: the George, with its posting yard.
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  Speaker 8: I did a lot of thinking during those long, dull
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  Speaker 8: miles across the plains. In Omaha, it had looked like
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  Speaker 8: a cinch, but by the time we hit Cheyenne, I
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  Speaker 8: began to waver a little. And when we rolled into
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  Speaker 8: Salt Lake City, I was almost ready to give up
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  Speaker 8: the whole idea. It was too cut and dried. Too
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  Speaker 8: easy for a long shot. almost like a trap someone
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  Speaker 8: set for me with a hundred grand as the bait,
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  Speaker 8: and once I went for it, there'd be no turning back.
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  Speaker 8: It was a good gamble, but the stakes were too high,
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  Speaker 8: and there was no way of telling what the payoff
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  Speaker 8: would be without tossing everything on the line. That's what
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  Speaker 8: I was thinking at about six o'clock last Wednesday night
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  Speaker 8: when we pulled up in front of the Wasatch Hotel
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  Speaker 8: in Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 7: By Jove, I'll be glad to wash up that prairie
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  Speaker 7: country is appalling.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to have some trees for a change.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, pretty town, Salt Lake. Have an aunt here, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how long since you've seen her?
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  Speaker 7: Well, never seen her. I don't intend to. She's a
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  Speaker 7: sister of my mother's, Marguerite Stoddard. Thoroughly Americanized, I understand,
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  Speaker 7: and probably a frightful boy. Probably.
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  Speaker 10: There it was.
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  Speaker 8: Just as if I'd asked for it. A way of
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  Speaker 8: telling about that payoff ahead of time. A laboratory test
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  Speaker 8: right there in Salt Lake City with nothing to lose
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  Speaker 8: if it didn't work out. I got away from Hendricks
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  Speaker 8: after dinner, found Marguerite Stoddard's address in the phone book,
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  Speaker 8: and took a cab out to her house.
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Good evening. Are you Mrs. Marguerite Stoddard?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Walker Hendricks.
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  Speaker 5: Walker? I.
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  Speaker 2: I.
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  Speaker 11: I just can't believe it. Come in, come in. Please
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  Speaker 11: make yourself comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: Well, you're a pleasant surprise, Walker.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose I am, Aunt... I may call you Aunt Marguerite,
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  Speaker 2: mayn't I? Of course you may.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I expected you to be a little more like, um.
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  Speaker 2: Like who?
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  Speaker 11: Perhaps I'd better not mention it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please do. I think we should discuss everything, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Of course I do.
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  Speaker 11: You'll never know how much your Uncle Gerald regretted what
• 15:18
  Speaker 11: he did.
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  Speaker 2: You mean the will?
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  Speaker 11: No, long before that. Your mother never told you, I suppose?
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  Speaker 2: No, she never mentioned her family.
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  Speaker 11: I don't suppose she would. After all, she loved your father,
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  Speaker 11: and your Uncle Gerald hated him.
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  Speaker 2: And so Uncle Gerald forced her to leave home?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: I know Gerald would have been the last to admit it,
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  Speaker 11: but I've always felt the will was his stubborn way
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  Speaker 11: of making it up to her.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps. I'm sure of it.
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  Speaker 11: But at least you will benefit, Walker, now that there's
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  Speaker 11: nothing any of us can do for your poor mother.
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  Speaker 8: If there was any doubt in my mind, it disappeared
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  Speaker 8: then and there. The American branch of the family knew
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  Speaker 8: absolutely nothing of Cecily Hendricks from the time she left
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  Speaker 8: home until her brother, Gerald, died, leaving her $ 100, 000. At
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: that point, they made a pretty thorough search, for both
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  Speaker 8: she and her husband had died in England, and their son, Walker,
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  Speaker 8: was the only heir. Everything, everything I needed, was back
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: in the hotel in Latvanese. It's 521 miles from Salt
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  Speaker 8: Lake to Reno, but I convinced Hendricks we could make
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  Speaker 8: it in one jump.
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  Speaker 2: I had a special reason.
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  Speaker 8: We had to hit the desolate section of Central Nevada
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  Speaker 8: about midnight. When you get right down to it, killing
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  Speaker 8: a man is a pretty tough job, even when it's
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  Speaker 8: as perfect as this was going to be.
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  Speaker 2: For once, I was thankful for London.
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  Speaker 8: It gave us something to talk about, and there was
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  Speaker 8: so much in my mind that I might have given
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  Speaker 8: myself away in silence.
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  Speaker 2: So I prattled on like a phonograph.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, good old Wapping.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Wapping. There's a lovely pub there called the
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Prospect at Whitby.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, don't believe I know it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not surprised. There's an amazing thing about London.
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  Speaker 8: It seems that the greenest tourist knows more about it
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: than the Londoners themselves.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'd say you've done rather well.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Mainly because I've been on my own since I was 14. Now,
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: you take yourself, for example. Ten to one, you've never
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: been in Petticoat Lane.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: It's a very marvellous place. Regular oriental bazaar, right in
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the heart of the city.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: Booths and peddlers selling every kind of junk you could imagine.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: At midnight, we were somewhere between Willimucker and Reno, passing
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: through St.
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  Speaker 2: Barron Hills.
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: I knew the time had come, and my hands began
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: to shake so much, I had to grab the wheel
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: with both of them. I felt beneath the cushion where
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: I'd put the wrench.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: It was still there. Finally, I held my breath, pulled
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: over on the shoulder....
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: I say, what are you stopping for?
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Look.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Over there. The moonlight on that cliff.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: Oh, I see. I said he's lovely.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: It was all over.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: I never knew what hit him. I turned out the
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: lights and pulled the body out on the right-hand side.
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: We hadn't passed a car for an hour, so I
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: wasn't worried much about being seen. He was pretty heavy,
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: but I managed to carry him over my shoulder. About
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: a quarter of a mile from the road, I found
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: a small cave at one side of the ravine.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I shoved the body in and rolled a large rock
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: over the opening.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: It started a small landslide which completely covered the hole.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: No one could possibly find it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: I had just about gotten back to the road when
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: I saw something that stopped me dead in my tracks. There,
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: behind my car, was another one with a seal on
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: the door.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: The seal of the state of Nevada.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: In just a moment, we continue with the third act of.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: Suspense.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: We have together ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: This is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The extensive
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: and varied grouping of NATO military forces called for the
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: establishment of several unique supporting organizations. Among them, the Military
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Agency for Standardization, London, the Advisory Group on Aeronautical Research
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: and Development, Paris, and the NATO Defense College, also in Paris.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: All are vital subordinates in the complex of the NATO
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Defense Program. The United States of America is a part
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: of NATO. You should be aware of... of and alert
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: to the programs and objectives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: And now, starring Herbert Marshall, Act Three of The Long Shot.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: Nobody was in the patrol car The officer must be
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: wandering around looking for me. I lifted the hood of
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: my car and knocked the battery cable off one of
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: the terminals. Then I waited and waited while the coyotes
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: jeered at me from the hills. At last he appeared
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: from the other side of the highway.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: What's the trouble? I don't know, officer. She just went
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: dead on me. I was having a look up the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: road when you arrived. Say she went dead on you?
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The lights went out. The motor just died. Been under
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the hood? Wouldn't do much good, I'm afraid. I'm pretty
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: green at that sort of thing.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Let me have a look at it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Would you please? See, the battery cable's jarred loose, mister.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: You got a wrench?
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, here.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Twist this. There you are.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Try it now.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That looked pretty simple. It was. Ah, there she goes.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks ever so much. That's okay.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Let's see.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Your name's Hendricks, huh? Yes.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Checked your registration slip.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: You're a long way from home. Yeah, that's right. Thanks
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: a lot. You're welcome, sir.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: Good night.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Well, there it is, Lieutenant. It was a long shot.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: It was a sure thing until I found you waiting
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: for me in the attorney's office. Even then, I'd have
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: gotten away with it. if you hadn't told me that
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: the body had been found. Well, aren't you going to
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: say something? Don't you still think I could have carried
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: it off, Lieutenant? Well, Raymond, we arrested you for the
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: murder of Walker Hendricks, but it appears we were wrong.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: Huh?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: It was a long shot, Raymond, and it was almost
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: a sure thing. Maybe that's why both of you gambled
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: on it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, both of us? You and that
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: guy you bumped off in Nevada. That guy? Well, that
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: was Hendricks. Oh, Hendricks was murdered, all right. But you
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: didn't do it. What? You see, he beat you to it, Raymond.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Who beat me?
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: Your traveling companion. He wasn't Hendricks. He was an out-of-work actor.
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: He wasn't even an Englishman. That was why he was
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: pumping you so much about London. He was, what do
• 22:43
  Speaker 12: actors call it, getting up in his part?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I thought you found Hendricks'
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: body in Nevada. We haven't found a body in Nevada yet.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But one thing's sure. Hendricks was never in Nevada. Poor
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: guy never left New York.
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: The New York police turned up the real Hendricks in
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: the East River the day after you left town, chauffeuring
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: for the guy who killed him.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Suspense.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: In which Herbert Marshall starred in William N. Robeson's production
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: of The Long Shot by Harold Swanton. Supporting Mr. Marshall
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: in The Long Shot were Florence Walcott, Ben Wright, Joe DeSantis,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and Norm Alden.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Listen again next week when we return with another tale
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: well calculated to keep you in suspense.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Suspense has been brought to you through the worldwide facilities
• 24:39
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• 24:41
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• 24:53
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: This evening's suspense presentation was The Long Shot. Follow suspense
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