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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Store, the eyebook Store, and the Nook Store as well well. Now
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it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter, and we once again have three
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lost episodes between last week's show and this week's. So here now from September
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fifteenth of nineteen forty six is the Case of the Blue Mink and all for
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today's thrilling Nick Carter adventure. The case is of Blooming presented by All Dutch
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Glass. Our story opens Nick and PASTI are entering a large department store very
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early in the morning. I didn't know you were attained by the Fur particular
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Association. Soon you've probably forgotten Past here. It's been years since they've had
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occasion to call on it. Oh, this new series of Firth that's is
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really serious. And you think this department store is the best place to catch
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up with them. I do, except for the biggest losses of any store
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in town so far. Come on, here's the elevator. Oh poor,
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please. And you think I'll be able to spot if I see one?
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I hope. So. As a rule, women with steel furs had a
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large receptacle of some kind, the bag or bundle, in which they can
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hide the furs while they make their getaway. Also, they have a sort
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of shifty look about them. You watch closely. You've had a lot more
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experience with the crooks and more sales girls. I hope you're right. I'll
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try anyway. All right, come on, this is a pretty good one.
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Miss Cheryl. The detective on this floor said she that's right, you're
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miss Cheryl. Yes, And this is his bo who's going to be a
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new sales girl. Oh well for a while. Anyway. I only hope
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I can make good. I'm sure I hope so too. Now you'll come
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with these go and I'll sure you ready to leave the thing? Oh just
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a minute, miss Cheryl. Me suppose I see a customer who looks suspicious?
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What do I do? Call Miss Cheryl? If you can and call
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me, then keep your eyes open and don't leave the customer for a second.
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That you can help it. All right, Nick, I hope this
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works. Push me luck. That's huger common sense, Patsy. That's always
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better than luck. So long, Nick Carter speaking Nick. This is Patsy.
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Ah, Patsy, how do you like being a clerk at the department
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store? And now that you've had a full day of it, Nick,
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I think maybe I have one of those thirties here Now she's got a big
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bundle, just the way you said, and she's acting queer. Where are
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you calling from? I'm using the phone right here in the fur department.
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She can see me, but she can't hear what I'm saying. Anyone else
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there? No the other girl who's usually here at this time. I had
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to leave early, went home at four thirty and I can't find miss Cheryl
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anywhere. There's just this one customer here, and she's she's acting awful suspicious.
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All right, Patsy here for you do. Start her alonglet her see
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everything in the place, but keep her there until I got uh huh.
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What does she look like? Well, she's a rather large woman dressed in
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a brown suit and dark red hat with a yellowish sort of primming on.
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It. Has a big bundle down up and wrapping paper and small bundle and
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a handbag. Oh, she has a largela pel pin in the form of
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a horse's head. I ought to recognize her from manuscription. I'll be there
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in five minutes. Never look at it. Maybe I'll know her when I
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see her, right, Nick, goodbye waiting on me. Miss. I'm
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sorry to keep you waiting. I was trying to get some other fur pieces
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brought over from my warehouse. They just got some new ones in in their
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beauties. Do you like anything you've seen so far? Ned? But I
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want something more expensive. Well, I suppose you look around and see if
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you find anything that suits you better. I think I will. You don't
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need to wait. I'll let you know if i'll find it is. Oh,
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that's quite all right, I have nothing else to do. Oh nice,
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I'll tell you what I really like. When I was coming in the
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stall this afternoon, I saw just the next piece I wanted in the left
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hand main window. Do you suppose you could get it for me? I'm
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sorry, madam, but I'm not supposed to leave the deparm But that's exactly
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what I want. Won't you please see if I can take a look at
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it. As you can see, madam, there's no other girl here to
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watch the stock. I couldn't leave just now, but there are no all
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the customers either. Couldn't you make an exception just this one? I'm sorry,
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madam. Isn't there something here that would suit you as well? You're
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a smart girl, aren't you smart? For your own good? This time?
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How do you mean, Matt? Just this? Oh? Won If
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Patsy's just taken about this woman, Nick, he could be you know,
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I doubt if you'd call me well unless you were sure of the fact at
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it. But you know women always hat Yes, what are you stopping for
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me? That's the woman pats A call about it? You sure, I
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am? The description misses exactly? Come on, Nikki, you you can
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arrest her without some kind of evidence. I'm not going to arrestler. Well,
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no, we're going to follow her. I want to find out where
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she goes we didn't watch. Then I'll find some excuse to take a look
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into that bundle she's carrying. Uness, I'm greatly mistaken. They're firs stolen
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furs. When you look at that line at the ticket window, I've never
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knew so many people went to the offer just fifteen half an hour before the
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performance starts. So why in the world you had to get us down here
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so early? I can't see. Well, I had to be here to
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see if that woman walks through this lobby, Miss Boone. And suppose we're
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wrong about this, oh, missen mis Sheryl, How can we be wrong?
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It was right after that woman left that we found that water gum folded
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up in this envelope? Didn't we right where she was standing when she knocked
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me out? And it wasn't there before? Yes, that's true, but
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we don't really know. It's a ticket broker's envelope. And cause the four
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seats for tonight's performance here at the opera, don't we yes? And with
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the tickets that we're in. This envelope belong to her. She'll be here
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tonight and I'll recognize him. Oh I wish mister Cotter went here. Oh
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so do I. But I've been calling in for the past three hours and
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no answer. What's even Wodo's gone? So we've got to find out for
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ourselves who's sitting in R two, four, six and eight. I guess
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you're right, miss Bowen, But don't you worry. We'll work it out
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somehow. Oh look at that gorgeous for a coat on that girl just going
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in. It's blue, it's blooming. That's all blooming. That was stolen
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from our store. Are you sure? Certainly? I am. It's the
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only one in this city. There are only three of them in the world,
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and the other do are privately owner the West coast of bed Nuts.
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A little girl wearing it couldn't be a third room. She's got off,
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That's all I know. We've got to get inside and get back. Yes,
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but how about nothing I'm going in the label? Oh no, it
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won't. The first thing a thief does is to change the lining and the
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label. You've got to be sure before you accuse her. But I am
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sure, that's cool. In a minute, where she's sitting in R four,
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one of the seats, looked on the envelope. Ooh, she's a
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thief, but she's not the one who was in the store. We've got
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to wait here and see who sits in those other three seats. Then we
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can capture them all at once. We've been following this deal through all these
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little towns for a heck of a while. Now do you think she's gone
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anywhere? Either she's taking a very roundabout way to where she's going, or
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she knows we're following her, and I am going to see where she goes.
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And it takes all night. The whole first act is over, and
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nobody is in those other three seats, and I'm not going to wait me
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longer. I want that. Wait. She's going into the lobby and she's
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leaving the coat my seat. Let's go down and casually take it, take
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it? What about her? We want her to come on? Follow me?
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I have an idea. But easy now, and no, no,
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don't hurry now, let's just sit down here in these end seats. I
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don't like this. I don't like it either, but I think it's the
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best way well, now what, we'll get up and the coke goes with
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us. What this nobody's watching. You've got more news than anybody. I
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have a saw. And now walk up the aisle slowly, don't hurry.
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Yeah, that's you. See that girl who had the coat. Yes,
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she's over there, the drinks dead. If she should you won't come over
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here behind this pillar. Now here's my idea. She must be one of
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the thieves, but she's not the one I want. You take the code
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back of the store and I'll wait here and follow her after the show.
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Maybe she'll take me to the rest of the game. But she'll make a
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wheel of a fuss. On't you find out? Like a coat's gone?
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Which is stolen code, isn't it? So let me look at the label.
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Oh, this is a parent's label. There never was a blooming coat
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made in Paris. That's what I told you. The thieves change the label,
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so it must be the coat stolen from your store. Now you go
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ahead and i'll hold you. Want to stay healthy, you just walk quietly
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after the one on the left. Don't look around. Hey, you can't
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walk run, I'll be right behind you. Come on, that'sy bell of
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walks. Here's sir, I guess we better. That's it? Ah,
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you see that dark blue sid dianapuste a little way. The tall girl gets
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in the front seat, the short one gets in fact, no argument.
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Where where are you taking us? You'll find out by and by when you
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do your more like it. I got movie. In the case of the
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Blue Mink Patsy, together with ras Ali Errol, though detective for a big
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department store, recovered a blue mink coat which had been stolen from the store
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while Nick and Waller were on the trail of a suspected purpeep. But just
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as the girl got the coat back, they were pounced into a strange car
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at the point of a gun, bound for an unknown destination. The time
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is now a few minutes after intermission. Sergeant Matheson of the Metropolitan Police has
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just arrived at the office of the off the House and answer to a summer
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The coat is a beautiful blue fur coat. Look, mister hell By,
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and I can't make heads and tails out of this. Watch this blue fur
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coach. He keeps talking about. I don't know sort you're gonna mention.
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After the first accident order when this girl says a ball. You can hear
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three blocks of women. Yeah, here's we can make out you had a
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blue fur coat that disappear. She's been practicing stics ever sad. Remember you
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could get the story out of it. There's some job you wish you on
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me? All right? Here? What's your name? Bomb Wood? All
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right, gus? See what happened? I have a loop circle. I
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go outside to get a drink too. When I go back, it's gone.
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And she was kidding me. A you mean the coat was stolen?
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No, no, no, I do not feel it. No no,
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no, no, I don't mean that. Did somebody steal it from you?
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Yes? They steal it? And we need more? Did you see
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who tuk it? No good? I got to get a here before,
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but I couldn't get away from a pussy old game up front. I'll say
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there is just when intermission is about half over. I saw a man forced
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two girls to walk out of the lobby and get into a bluesy dan park
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just down the buck, and I could see you had a gun in his
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pocket, and I heard him say, when you find out where you're going,
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you won't like it. All right? Wait a minute, Wait a
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minute, you're sure of this. Yes, yes, I'm the dorman here.
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You know, I was downing just outside. I heard it, as
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friends, I can hear you out. Kind of a man was he?
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He was, well, he was an ordinary man, like a businessman on
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a pretty hot boil, he was. And one of the girls had a
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blue firt coat with it, a blue coat. Did you say bluefirt coat?
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Yeah, that's what I said. Why so two girls stole Gussie's coat?
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Then somebody stole them, and you're described these girls? Oh, yes,
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yes, it's one of them. Was the sort of a Yeah,
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I want that description of the two girls sent out to all precincts at once.
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Yes, sir, let me know as soon as anyone gets a lead
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on them. Yes, sir, I want my school. Now. Look
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here, Gussie, I brought you down here to headquarters so I could talk
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to your quiet like without nobody button in. Now, where'd you get that
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coach you had? Oh? Please, mister, I do not see it?
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Oh hello, Nick, what you got there? Bunch of fir all
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stolen? Patsy called me from the department store where I planted her and told
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me a customer she had was acting funny. Yeah, the world when I
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started down to have a look at this woman. I met her coming out
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of the store. I recognized her from passy description and followed it. She
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led us write to the old factory building where they remodeled the stolen furs.
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I found the workmen they're realigning the coach and brought them both in. Nice
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Nick, say, you're on a stolen per case yourself, right, Nick?
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One with a twist to it? What the twist? Well, it
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seems that Gussie wore this blue furd of the opera and a couple of girls
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stole it from her and some fellow the dorman says was hanging around before pulls
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the gun on the two dames and forces them into his car. Looked as
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if he was waiting for him. Any descriptions of the man girls, Yeah,
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the dormant at the opera saw the whole thing. One of the girls
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is about forty five, short, kind of blonde, gray hair, blue
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eyes, wore a dark blue suit without a chaw. But you know what,
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Nick, The description of the other girl fit Patsy. But hi,
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George, I believe it worried it you think it was? Mate? Heavens
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Patsy and miss Cheryl a f lord detective at the Star doing a little detecting
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on their own. Man, it may be in trouble, real trouble.
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I remember now, as Cheryl told me, a blue mink cork was stolen
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from the store a couple of weeks ago. Somehow they got on the trail
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of it, and someone got on that trail. We've got to find out
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about this in a hurry. Gussie, Who's cork was it? Do?
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I got the ged you she killed me? Show you certainly do? Gotta
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tell me and quick? It was the lady how it hurts for she always
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gets smooth for coats all the time. So I just took this Wonterpool the
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up all with anybody home when you left. It was the littest girl,
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Virginia. She maybe you could see me. Did you know where father mother
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were tonight? Oh? Yes, her mother left her the telephone numbers.
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It was in Oakdale. Yeah. What are you gonna do? Nick?
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Find out if it is Virginia called her mother to tell her Gussie's taking a
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coat from what Gussie says today life that she did to go out with a
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coat. Yeah, but Nick, I read this is Nick Carter. I
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want to find out if a call was made tonight from the Tutton residence and
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Cedar Ridge to some place in Oakdale. Here's that right? For the love
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of Pete, Nick, what's the connection between this kid and a guy kidnapped
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and Patsy looked? Maddy Gussie said, Missus Dutton was always getting new fur
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coats, didn't see. Yeah, well that looks like part of the fur
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gang. So if this kid phoned her mother that Guessie was wearing her new
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fur coat, her father was probably the head of the gang. Drove into
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town as fast as he could to get it back before it was spotted as
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a stolen coat. Why sure got to the opera house after the show started,
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so he hung around. That would a dormant saw it? Yeah,
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I probably missed Guessie in the crowded in a mission, but saw Patsy and
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miss Cheer, so he took them and the coat, which is what he
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really wanted. Well for the day. Wait wait, wait, what's that?
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Operator? Other was about seven fifteen? Thank you, that's all.
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See Dunton got to call her on seven fifteen. He could have driven down
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on about an hour and a half. They should get him to the opera
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house after the show started chicks. Yeah, but look, Dick, if
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Dunton has got the girls, he certainly wouldn't take them to his home.
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And where would he take him? And what would he do with him?
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Matters that we've got to figure out and fast. What did dirty old place
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business? It was going to lock us up somewhere. He might have picked
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a pleasanter place in this. We well, maybe we could figure out some
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scheme to let somebody know if we can comes back in this. Huh,
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what do you tell somebody else about the coat? Did you? No?
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Yes, yes we did right after we found it. And hold you tell
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speak up. I called Nick Carter and gave him all the detail. I
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thought, So somebody's been here and taken all the first and worn't in a
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storage fall in the basement with my tailor away too. Just call his home
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and they haven't seen him. Do know what's happened to him? Why did
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you tell this? Carter? And no funny business? Oh well you see
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we we told them. How soon you stop stalling? If you want to
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live a while longer, give us the details and make it snappy. Well,
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the girl had the coat of the offer. Do this your names?
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And when I called him. I told him your names and where you live?
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Where do I get my hands on that? Gussie? I'll ring a
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netlick was a chicken stealing my cocon clap and everything she knows? But what
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do we do now? Eddie think? Yeah, I have it, young
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lady. You're gonna call you Nick Carter on the phone. There's an old
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abandoned hunting shack out in the woods about two miles off Root forty seven.
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You're gonna tell him you've caught the first evening that you're stuck on. While
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Nick is conferring with Maddie at headquarters, walders it in Nick's office, waiting
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for the next development in the case. Nick got his office, Nick got
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his first assistant to Waldo McGlenn speaking is Nick and Walder. This is Patsy.
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Oh no, Patsy, he ain't. Can I help you put him
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on? Will you? I tell you? Nick ain't here? Do you
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want to go? Nick? Oh? I'm so glad you're there. Nick.
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This is Nick. It's all right. We've caught the first these we
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were after. But this ain't Nick. Patsy carefully, very carefully, this
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is extremely important. You must be crazy for namelessness. We chase the thieves
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way out of town in the Cheryl's car, and just as we finally caught
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up with them, we ran out of gas. Nick, I want you
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to come out and bring us all back to town. I don't dare leave
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the thieves look for any gas because they might get away. But we caught
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them thieves. We'll get these directions straight, Nick, better write them down.
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Write them down now. We're near an old hunting shack on a small
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side road that turns off Route forty seven, about three miles north of Woodmere
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North. You got that, yeah? Yeah. The shack is about two
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miles in off the main road. We'll be waiting for you inside the shack.
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Hurry up, will you, Nick. It's awful lonely out here.
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Hurry. He's offul worried about you. Yes, about two miles. But
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we caught them, Nick, palloluja. We caught the Brooks five. Well,
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if that ain't the crazy I gotta get this to Nick immediate here.
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Hell lujah, caught the crooks' the sities. This is Wado. He's Nick
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here. Yeah, sure, hold on here and nugget swallow. Nick,
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I just got the dog gone. This message from Patsy, passy, where
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I keep your shirt hand while I tell you this is She kept calling me
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nick. I told her it was Waldo. But what did she say?
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She said she got the thieves and ran out of gas in an old hunting
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sad about two miles out on a small road that turned off Route forty seven,
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about three miles above Woodmean, and she's waiting there for you. Is
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there anything else that's hard? Do you know how she ended up? Well?
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Naturally not? What was it? She says? Hallelujah, we caught
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the crooks. Hallelujah. You sure sure? I'm sure? I et deef
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you know. Thanks Walldo, goodbye, Grab your hat and your gun,
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Marry, we're going places. You're sure the whole thing is a frame up?
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Cars, I am mad. I told you. When Patty wants me
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to know she's in trouble, she uses the word hallelujaes I'm we're in the
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conversation. We set that up years ago. Probably the guy who kidnapped her
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Meters sent the message exactly. He thinks he set a trap for us and
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that we'll walk into it. Well, we'll string the trap on him.
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That's dead. It was about time for a friend. Carter to her,
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rhyme, all the lights you changed your plan. Let the car stop out
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the shank. When I start walking in, I'll freaking them off. A
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chance with this moon and I can see them. You are you all right?
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She was going to kill us after he shut you? Hey, you
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shut up, shut up with you. I about the guy. That's pretty
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bad, Maddy. How do you live to pay that penalty? I'm happy
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to say. And after I finished talking to you, or rather in the
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world, though, he took us to that shack to wait. Oh,
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Nick, I was scared. She certainly welcome to call, but not so
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much on her own account. She was afraid that you might I was afraid
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somebody might get hurt, maybe killed, and I didn't want it to be
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the wrong person. Well that's how comm Oh just think if Gussie hadn't borrowed
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the blooming Patsy and I might not be he oh please, that's not exactly
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a cheerful thought. Actually, there's one thing I still don't understand. When
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you two found that ticket broker's envelope with the Saints marked on it, why
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didn't you go to the police and that are trying to handle it? Yourself.
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Well, well, to tell the truth, Nick, I just didn't
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think of it. I suppose it's because well, as a rule, we
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don't go to the police for help. They usually come to us. Nick
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Carter Master Detective, produced and directed by John McGregor, is a copyrighted feature
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by Sweet and Smith's Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark has starred as Nick, with
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Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Matty is played by Ed Latimer, waldo by
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Humphrey Davis. Script written by John McGregor, storylined by Peggy Mayer. This
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is Bob Martin saying why minutes count use old Dutch cleanster? Welcome back?
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A case that really gets Patsy involved is a lot of fun and I enjoyed
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this as the case got worked from both hands. Of course, of course,
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Hallelujah is kind of an interesting clue and it doesn't seem like one the
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crooks would notice. But in this case we're able to work it in in
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a way that was, I guess believable enough. Well, now we turn
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but from Boise, Idaho. This is Adam Graham's son and off