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Nick Carter: The Case of the Professional Beggar (EP1692) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: show so this week's program comes from August the fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen forty eight, which is actually the birthday of
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  Speaker 1: a very beloved family member. At any rate, here's today's
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  Speaker 1: episode of Nick Carter, The Case of the Professional Beggar.
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  Speaker 2: Dutch Cleanser, famous par Chasing Dirt, presents Nick Carter, famous
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  Speaker 2: for chasing crime every week. At this time, two great
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  Speaker 2: names are joined as New post war Old Dutch Cleanser
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  Speaker 2: brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters
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  Speaker 2: in all detective fictions, Nick Carter, Master Detectives, Patsy. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to make a date for you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now a date with whom Nick, the young.
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  Speaker 2: Boy you met this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh but why, I want you to find.
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  Speaker 2: Out why he wouldn't take a tip for delivering a
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  Speaker 2: letter to the wrong house, That's why. And now the
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  Speaker 2: Case of the Professional Beggar. Today's adventure starring Lawn Clark
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  Speaker 2: as Nick Carter, drought to you by New post War
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  Speaker 2: Old Dutch Cleanser. At nine fifteen this morning and rushes
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  Speaker 2: down to the street toward the old brown Stone mansion
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  Speaker 2: on the corner of fifteen fourth. She clutches her hat
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  Speaker 2: in first and starts off the front steps, blindly colliding
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  Speaker 2: with a young boy who has just come running from
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  Speaker 2: the opposite Directionman, Oh, sorry, sorry, Lee, Are you going
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  Speaker 2: in this house?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I work here here, lady, take this?
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  Speaker 2: Where you up this letter? Here? Take it? So what
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  Speaker 2: in the world you take this letter? Pleases for this house?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, but what's your hurry? I gotta be going. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute, I'll give you a kids.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wait for anything.
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  Speaker 3: For the love of Hey, this isn't for us. This
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  Speaker 3: letters for the house next door SNDY. Hey. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: at least to give me an excuse for being late.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good morning, Passion.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry I'm late, Nate.
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  Speaker 5: I'd have been almost on time if I hadn't had
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  Speaker 5: a collision when I was coming in a collision.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I ran smack into a boy on the steps.
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  Speaker 3: He was trying to deliver this letter. But it's not
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  Speaker 3: for us, Well who is it for? It belongs next door.
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  Speaker 3: It's addressed to water Van Dyke Alli. That boy was scared.
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  Speaker 3: She just shoved the letter into my hand and told
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  Speaker 3: off of that the wolves were after him.
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  Speaker 2: The wolves are going to be after us if we
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  Speaker 2: don't settle down to work. Supposed to take that letter
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  Speaker 2: next door and then get busy with your type right.
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Nick, he was such a nice looking voice.
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  Speaker 4: I'd really like to know what frightened him.
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  Speaker 2: Comparison the profile photographs of the missing man and the
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  Speaker 2: person who claims to be him reveals the claimant of
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  Speaker 2: an imposter, especially the upper heeling right here.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Sergeant, am I glad to see you?
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  Speaker 3: Nixt getting to be the worst slave driver.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to see him, Maddie. But we're awfully busy. Well
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  Speaker 2: that's okay, you folks go ahead and work. I just
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  Speaker 2: like to sit here a while. Oh what's the matter, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: I just came from a stinker of the case, Patsy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's depressed me. You go ahead with your dictation. Nick, Why, Maddy,
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen you down in the mouth before? Or
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  Speaker 2: is it an act?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Nick? What a thing to say?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe? But I know, Maddy, he's used tricks to get
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  Speaker 2: me interested in cases before. Oh not this time, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Nick, we can't let an old friend now we've
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  Speaker 3: got to cheer him up.
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  Speaker 2: No, honestly, Patsy, I I'd rather not talk.
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  Speaker 3: Dodge and Madison. Now you tell Papa Nick your.
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  Speaker 2: Trouble go ahead, Maddy, I had to listen. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: knew Billy Davis, the assistanta. Actually I thought, oh, one
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  Speaker 2: of the best. He was murdered this morning. What Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: at nine o'clock this morning. How he was walking down
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  Speaker 2: Holland Street the Black Sea. Dan drove by and he
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  Speaker 2: got thirteen machine gun slugs drawing ohee.
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  Speaker 3: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Any idea who killed him? Now? It was revenge most likely,
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  Speaker 2: but a dozen rats hated Davis. Could be anyone. Any
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  Speaker 2: witnesses or a few people saw the killing from the windows, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but not one of them can give us any description
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  Speaker 2: of anybody.
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  Speaker 3: What a break?
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  Speaker 2: There was only one other witness who could possibly identify
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  Speaker 2: the killer or with that you know, No, we can't
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  Speaker 2: locate Himnick. All we know is that it was a boy,
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  Speaker 2: a messenger boy. He saw the murder and scooted off
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  Speaker 2: in a panic.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a messenger boy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, perhaps he was Karen.
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  Speaker 3: A letter, A letter we'll get in the blue envelope.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the en flope was blue.
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  Speaker 5: And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Nick. Now look for the love of heaven, Nick, if
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  Speaker 2: you've got anything, spill it. Maddie. You say the murder
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  Speaker 2: was at nine o'clock, Yeah, on Holland Street, right, bath
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  Speaker 2: running would take a boy from Holland Street to this
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  Speaker 2: house in just about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why he was so frightened me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wait a minute, what is all this? Come on, maddie,
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  Speaker 2: I'll help you find who killed David Good, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: start with a visit to mister van Dyke next door. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: mister van Dyke, as you are out of it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm your neighbor, Nick Carter. Mister Carter, so nice to
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  Speaker 2: see you. This is my secretary, Miss Bowen, mister Vandy,
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  Speaker 2: and this is Sergeant Letterson of the homicide squad. This
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  Speaker 2: is quite an honor, mister Carter. I wondered how long
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  Speaker 2: I was going to live next door to a celebrity
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  Speaker 2: without getting acquainted. Mister van Dyke, I want to ask
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  Speaker 2: a favor of you. Yes, did you receive a letter
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  Speaker 2: this morning in a blue envelope? Yes, mister Carter, your
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  Speaker 2: secretary delivered it to me. Will you tell me who
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  Speaker 2: said it? Please? Why? I don't know it was from
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  Speaker 2: a stranger. You don't know, no, but it's an extremely
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  Speaker 2: touching letter. But I don't know the man who sent it.
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  Speaker 2: Why we're trying to locate the boy who delivered it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I don't know him either. Well may we
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  Speaker 2: see the letter? Why? Yeah, yes, certainly I have it
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  Speaker 2: right here. Say you are. Thank you, dear mister van Dyke.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bitter blow to my pride to be forced
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  Speaker 2: to make this appeal to you. I do so only
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  Speaker 2: because I'm connected with your family through your second cousin,
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  Speaker 2: Emily Gray. Because I'm sadly in need of food and clothing.
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  Speaker 2: Wons I suffered in the bone that case, isn't it anything? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Very sad? Major Hector down and the address Nick, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: forty four Poultry Square. Hey, that's a tough neighborhood. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's quite sad, quite sad. Well, thank you, mister van Dyke.
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  Speaker 2: You've helped a lot. I don't quite know what I've
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  Speaker 2: done for, mister Carter, but you're more than welcome, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Come on, Mary, we had work to do
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  Speaker 2: right with you. So long, mister van Dyke, goodbye, do
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  Speaker 2: drop in again, mister c Thank you. So Mary. There's
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  Speaker 2: our lead, Major Hector down forty four Poultry Square. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so lead, All right, suppose you get a dragnet going
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  Speaker 2: to pick up every crook. I might possibly hate Billy
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  Speaker 2: Davis enough to kill him. I'll do that. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: I'll hustle down to Major Dowd and see whether I
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  Speaker 2: can locate the boy who delivered this letter. Right, Nick,
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  Speaker 2: there's a twenty to one chance he's your key witness, Ready, Rodney, Yes, sir, eh,
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  Speaker 2: mister Hulling's last clan. It is a bitter blow to
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  Speaker 2: my pride to be fostered. This appeal to you, full stop, Capita.
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  Speaker 2: I do so only because I am connected with your
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  Speaker 2: family through now one moment's run name Yes, advancing Who's
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  Speaker 2: who to refresh my memory? H h uh Hollingsworth. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we will continue, Runny, connected with your family through your
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  Speaker 2: great aunt Comma Sarah cream Comma. And because I am
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  Speaker 2: certainly in need. That idiot wants your pen. Your blood
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  Speaker 2: is a page had Major, You're raisy Kenny sympion and
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  Speaker 2: you're hurting me. Make sure counting at all, David write
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  Speaker 2: if your letters and had a level, then you'll write it. Boys,
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  Speaker 2: do you expect me a right to myself? You know
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  Speaker 2: your handwriting is much more genteel, And I'm sorry I
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  Speaker 2: made the blot Major. I'm kind of nervous. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I thought this morning. It scared me. What I just say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm withering ass. I saw it the slade, the hoodlum
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  Speaker 2: who pretends to laud it over this neighborhood. A man
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  Speaker 2: called gas Fred. I saw him kill somebody. What when
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  Speaker 2: I was taking a letter to mister van Dyke, I
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  Speaker 2: first slay, drive up the street in the car and
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  Speaker 2: kill a man. Or if a man killed, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You're sure you saw this trade kill him? Yes, measure,
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  Speaker 2: I'm positive, m I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, Yes, rub me.
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  Speaker 2: My dear dear boy. You know that I have only
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  Speaker 2: your best interested, don't you well? I yes, Now you
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  Speaker 2: must listen to me carefully. Yes, you're in great danger,
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  Speaker 2: dear boy. We must protect you. Nature believe everything to me.
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  Speaker 2: You're not me. Your's not the reason why you'res what
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  Speaker 2: to do and for my honor. Yes, you must scuttle
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  Speaker 2: down to the basement of this house at once, the basement. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: go at once, and remain in hiding there until I
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  Speaker 2: come home. In nature arguments, my boy, I'll pay your commander.
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  Speaker 2: Now go all right, maj Now slave speaking hahah, mister
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  Speaker 2: slave this is a neighbor of yours, Major doubt the
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  Speaker 2: Major Ham, I kind of thought i'd be hearing from you.
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  Speaker 2: I've just perceived a thurtling piece of information. The boy
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  Speaker 2: told you. Huh, Yes, Rodney told me. Oh that's too bad,
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  Speaker 2: too bad for yourself. Yes, I think of your wise.
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  Speaker 2: You'll come to my quarters at once. We have business
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  Speaker 2: to discuss your fifty and my pocket. All right, Major,
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  Speaker 2: let's get the steel going. I know this is wide
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  Speaker 2: open on a stand. You know all about me, I
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  Speaker 2: know all about you and your phony letter racket. A
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  Speaker 2: kid saw me this morning. Hey good that where is
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  Speaker 2: he in a safe place? Oh? He got him hidden? Man,
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  Speaker 2: that's a layer. I must look out for his welfare. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how much you want for him? Well, come on, how
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  Speaker 2: much for the boy? You I ain't worried about. You're
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  Speaker 2: rolling up the scare. You'll keep your mouth shut? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's you can scarce sens and of what kids had.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta close his mouth myself, mister Slade, how much
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  Speaker 2: you want for the boy? You asking me to deliver
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  Speaker 2: a rock? They over to you my own flesh and block.
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  Speaker 2: Don't kill me that may jay. You got that kid
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  Speaker 2: out of an orphana stylum. He's no kin to you,
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  Speaker 2: even so, how much I couldn't possibly look at Hey?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's the kid. Now, I'll wait in the bedroom
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  Speaker 2: when you figure out your price. Send him in. I
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  Speaker 2: a yes, one moment, Major, Dowd, Why my name is
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  Speaker 2: Nick Carter, Nick cottor find if I come in my No,
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  Speaker 2: not at all, Thank you, Doud. I need your help.
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  Speaker 2: My help is to coacer. Yes, I want to know
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  Speaker 2: who delivers your letters. I don't think I understand. Luck down,
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  Speaker 2: I know you're a professional beggar and let Your specialty
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  Speaker 2: is letter supposedly sent by a poor but worthy gentleman,
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  Speaker 2: usually written to rich but not overly intelligent suckers. How
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  Speaker 2: dare you send those letters by messenger to avoid arrest
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  Speaker 2: for illegal use of the mails? Your messenger is a
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  Speaker 2: young boy? Who? Oh? I see he lives here with you?
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  Speaker 2: That's I live alone? Oh? Do you make model airplanes? Major?
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  Speaker 2: You wear a junior science windbreaker sneakers in the baseball camp. Well,
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  Speaker 2: head it out, I want that for I don't. He's
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  Speaker 2: the sole and vital witness in a murder case. We
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  Speaker 2: need his evidence more important than that. I think his
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  Speaker 2: life's in danger. I don't know what you mean. H.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I mean. This boy saw the man
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  Speaker 2: who killed Billy David. It's very likely the killer saw him.
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  Speaker 2: And then you rat who would cut down an assistant
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  Speaker 2: DA with a machine gun, wouldn't hesitate to murder a boy.
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  Speaker 2: It's the corta. You must wear it. I can't tell
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  Speaker 2: you you mean you won't. I don't know. You're lying down.
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  Speaker 2: It's the care and you're lying. Wait a minute, eh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just possible if someone got here before I come
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  Speaker 2: out of there.
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  Speaker 6: You see what a thing the way your eyes kept
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  Speaker 6: watching this bedroom door. I thought there might be someone
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  Speaker 6: in here. Oh, I see the only thing worrying you?
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  Speaker 2: With this money on the bed, eh, money you usually
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  Speaker 2: leave a thousand dollars lying around like this? Why here,
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  Speaker 2: let's get back to business, dud. Where's the boy but
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  Speaker 2: the corta. I'll trouble you to hand that money over
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  Speaker 2: to me and get houses here. And I know nothing
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  Speaker 2: about this boy. You seek nothing that and I know
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  Speaker 2: you're lying. You're touching the story of his danger is
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  Speaker 2: loose pacific. I'm afraid I'm in no position to put
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  Speaker 2: a vent for this of a boy I know, nothing about.
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  Speaker 2: Nick turns and leaves the apartment. Major Dowd watches him
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  Speaker 2: with quick, cunning eyes, one thousand dollars firmly grasped in
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  Speaker 2: his hands. We'll see what happens in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the case of the professional Beggar. Today's
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  Speaker 2: adventure with Nick Carter rock to you by new post
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  Speaker 2: war old Dutch cleanser. Outside the tenement in which Major
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  Speaker 2: Dowd lives, Nick sprints across the street to a candy store,
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  Speaker 2: dashes into a telephone booth, and hastily dials a number,
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  Speaker 2: his eyes watching the tournament house entrance through the window.
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  Speaker 3: Nick cart how while Nick Carter is office Patty Bourne speaking.
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  Speaker 2: Patty, This is Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Oh any lock?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet? I look Patty. I want you to come
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  Speaker 2: down to Poker Square right away, of course, Nick, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Major Dad's got that boy hidden somewhere down here. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to stick to this place until I locate him.
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  Speaker 2: And since you're the only one who's seen the boy,
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  Speaker 2: I'll need you to identify him for me.
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  Speaker 3: You're over here, coming, Well, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Major's still inside.
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  Speaker 3: How about the boy?
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  Speaker 2: No boy? If any description has been through that door
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  Speaker 2: since I've been here. He should. The boy lived with him,
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  Speaker 2: positive and we've better work fast, Betsy. Yeah, Dowd's been warned.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's trying to use the boy for his
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  Speaker 2: own advantage. Well like blackmailver a fool exactly. So he's
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  Speaker 2: got to be located at once.
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  Speaker 3: You have a plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to phone Major Dad and get him
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  Speaker 2: out of the house. Then you and I go in
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  Speaker 2: and look for the boy. Well, if he's in there,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take him with us. If he isn't, well we
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  Speaker 2: wait for him. All right, there's a phone in the
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  Speaker 2: candy store here. I'll call him from you. Keep an
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  Speaker 2: eye on the door.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, this is Major Dowd speaking beja do this is
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  Speaker 7: Walter van Dyke fool, Yes, heartler that you should call sir.
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  Speaker 2: I was impressed by your letter. Major. I should hate
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  Speaker 2: to think that a relation of cousin Emily was in need.
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  Speaker 2: That's very kind of you, sir. Can you come to
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  Speaker 2: my house immediately? I have a check for you. Why,
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  Speaker 2: mister van Dyke, this is too kind, too kind, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I should be delighted to renew my acquaintance with dear
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  Speaker 2: Emily's favorite cut in, But it would be difficult for
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  Speaker 2: me to come immediately. I have some business at hand,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a rather large check major, and I'm leaving
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  Speaker 2: town within the r I want to make sure you
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  Speaker 2: have no trouble catching it. Why she is most generous, sir,
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  Speaker 2: most generous. Yes, my business can wait an hour or so.
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  Speaker 2: I shall call on you immediately.
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  Speaker 3: No sign of the major yet, Nick, Give him time.
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  Speaker 2: Give him time, Petty. It's only a few minutes since
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  Speaker 2: I called him cave. But I wonder what's keeping him
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  Speaker 2: off hand. I'd say he was putting on his best
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  Speaker 2: clothes for the big touch yick.
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  Speaker 3: Look that big car's gonna pop right in front of the.
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  Speaker 2: Door, cutting off our lineup the sight.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to move, Nick, Look who's getting out.
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  Speaker 2: It's water van Dyke and he's going into the house,
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  Speaker 2: going to see dolls confounded.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he'll blow your plan higher than a kite.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm afraid you're right, Petty. Well, a lot we
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  Speaker 2: can do now is sit tight and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see spat bowler stick all you know that
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  Speaker 2: and concund that boy I might have polished me both
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: better foot. They'll do well. I should have a flower
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: for my button and Joonah, look at that day. Surely
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: not cut her. I'm persitive. I'm putting off the face.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Hurry coming, a major, hector Doug. I am Major down, sir,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: but I'm afraid you have the advantage of me. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: received your letter this morning. I'm Walter van Dyke. That
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: was the most touching letter you sent me. It bothered
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: me all day. Oh. I decided to come down to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: see you, mister van Dyke, still with no deed to
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: bate the trip. When I spoke to you on the phone,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: let's than a quarter of an hour ago. I'd spoke
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: to me on the phone. You called me, didn't you.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I never called you, Major Dowg. You'll never one no,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I say, I'm afraid I've been juilked. Will you excuse
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: me as a van Dyke? Stop Major Dowgs on times?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Can I beg you some of the time. We've just
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: had some shocking information. I must leave at once, miss
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: at once.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Mister van Dyke's coming out of the house and Dowd's
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: right behind him. Oh, he's on to your trick.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh naturally.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But the Major's not getting into the car with Van Dyke.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: He looks worried, and he's moving fast. That could mean
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: trouble for the boy.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: What are we going to do?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I think I better follow the major?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: What about me?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You go up to the Major's apartment second floor raiders,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: see whether you can find the boy. Either you'll find
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: him or Major Dad will lead me to him. We
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: gotta be quick about it, Patsy. In another hour, the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: boy may be dead.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Hello, anybody home?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Sonny?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You in here? Maybe he's out delivering more letters.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I better talk.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Quite a surprise. Huh. I'm looking at a major and
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I find you. You're a patchy bowen. Huh, you're yes late,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I know you. I've been hanging around the bank alley
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: waiting for the kid to show up, and I decided
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to come upstairs. Do you mean they saw me knock
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: off Davis? Yeah? You know, one trouble with a killing
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: is you're never finished. First, I got to take care
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: of the kid. Are you your Conna's girl? See that
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: means your trouble of me? The major squeal of Connor?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Why I thank you, mister.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think you better take a walk with me. It
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: is a nice quiet facement in this building. You and
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: me will go down and have a talk between us.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: We'll figure out how I'm going to get rid of
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the Major, the boy and you. His heavy hand fastened
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: on Patsy's arm like a vice, gas Blade leads the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: girl down towards the cellar, where, unknown to him, Rodney
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: is hiding. We'll see what happens in just the moment.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Now for the conclusion of the case of the professional beggar.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you my new
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: post war old Dutch cleanser. Five minutes after Major Dowett
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: leaves his apartment, he arrives in front of a tenement
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: door across Poultry Square and knocks energetically. Mister slave, mister
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: open up. This is Major dald There's been an unexpected crisis,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: a well known detective. He got out of the scene
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: and were a complete up. Is this is miss mc
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: gunn at once Major Dad all right, a well known
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: detective everywhere just ended the same. Where's the boy? Dad?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The slave? It wouldn't be gas Blade, would it. Why
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I left that thousand dollars for you? Didn't he you
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: were gonna sell it. I'm the witness. I thought I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: wanted to Actually, where's the boy? I don't know what
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you're referring to me. I think you're going to know
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: very soon. Major. Let's go back to your apartment and
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: see whether we can refresh your memory. Well, ain't this
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: nice and cozy? Miss boyn? We marched down to the basement,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and who do we run smack in it? But little Rodney.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Now look, mister Flake, Oh, we got my problem? All Son, Uh,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you haven't got the Major. That old gimpster or keep
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: he's too scared to do an he's talking.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I don't stay scared long.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I'll get him before he gets his noise back, after
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I've taken care of of you. Okay, let's get it
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: over with. Well, please, mister you don't kill us, Mister Blake,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: not turn around. Look mister Clay, oh brother, if I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: haven't get your ten, it's the Major looking for Rodney.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: This is my lucky day. Now I get all three
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: of you. Come right in, Major, Great, I found your
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: little friend of Rodney. Majen No, we not plight there
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: not gas you got caught a plug in your hands?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Did find me?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, Betsy, thanks to your cleming us. Nick.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: This is Rodney, are you mister Carter?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Hell? Hello Rodney that they gave us a lot of
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: trouble today. I'm sorry. All he wanted to do was
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: tip you for delivering the wrong letter to the right address.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: That was a lucky break for you, but a bad
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: one for our friend Slade, and he'll soon find out. Well, Nick,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: it turned out to be a nice day after all.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Your blues all gone now, Argan.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Sure, why not? We got gas plate on the murder
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: rep we got down on the charge of Flord, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: we also got the kid away from him. Yes, Maddy,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: he'll go into the Downtown boys Club and he'll be
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: all right there, Oh I will. Hey, but look, Nick,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you said, Dad refuse to say you where he had
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Rodney hidden? That's right, all right? Then? Howld emblazes did
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: you trail Patsy right to the basement?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Why he followed the trailer left for him?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, a trail of what trail of lipstick? Maddie? Now
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, what are you giving me?
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: It's a fax, sergeant. When daz Lade said he was
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: going to take me.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Down to the cellar with him, I got my lipstick
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: out of my bag and whenever I could, I made.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: A mark on the wall with it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Well, now, how comes Slade, Lets you do that?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Oh he didn't.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: I refused to go along with him willingly, so he
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: had a drag me and I kept struggling and swinging
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: my arms around and.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Making a mark on the wall or the minister with
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: each wing. Aunt, Bethy, that's it, Nick, But Nick, how
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: did you know it was Patsy's lipstick? And how did
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you know it was a trail you were supposed to follow? Well, Maddy,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you. The first mark was in the apartment
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: living room, just inside the door, and I knew I
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: hadn't seen it when I was there a short time before,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: so it seemed logical to think it meant something. So
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I followed it, and it did. Patsy. I sure, I'm
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: proud of you. That's what I called fast.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Why, thank you, sergeant.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, Maria, I just followed the line of red lipstick
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and caught up with a killer. And whilst Slade follows
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a line that leads to the electric chair, he can
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: remember that red stands for danger. Nick, what sort of
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: adventure does new post war old Dutch clensor have for
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: us next week? Well, Mike had started when a man
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: was murdered back in the year eighteen fifteen, and it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Ended when his great great granddaughter was killed in the
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: same room, with every door and window locked on the inside.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Of course, we had plenty of clues, but they all
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: seem to prove that the murderer was an Indian chief
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: or an Indian chief. H uh huh.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: But it made things a little difficult night because the
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: chief had been dead a hundred in sixty years.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Look, how wait and listen, But what do you call
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: this adventure? Nick? I call it the Case of the
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Red Arrow? Nick? Carter Master Detective is presented each week
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: at this time by the Cutter heat Packing Company. It
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: is produced and directed by Dock McGregor and is copyrighted
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: by Street and Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: as Patsy ed Latimer plays Matty. Today's script was written
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: by Alfred Bester. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: living or dead is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: saying one minutes count use new post war old Dutch twinser.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: This is a mutual Bob.
• 28:12
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• 28:15
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• 28:17
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• 28:29
  Speaker 8: You're listening to the great detectives of old time Radio
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: with Adam Graham. Now let's get back into the show.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Welcome back a good trick by Patsy. Though to be clear,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Nick and Patsy weren't necessarily piing against the criminal eighteen
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: this week and this one being suspense and mostly just
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: okay suspense rather than a traditional mystery. And by the way,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: one lost episode that was between last week and this
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: week was mean the case of the curtain corpse. All right, Well,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: here are some listeners, comments, and feedback regarding the Ellery
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Queen in Australia Stories. Christine said, I just took a
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: listen to Australian Ellery Queen man. I wasn't overly impressed
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: by it. After the last couple of weeks of a
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: really strong Nicky Porter, Australian Nikki Porter was so wishy
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: washy I almost wanted to smack her, But I don't
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: think I'm mistaken to say that the intra music was
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the same used by Barry Craig. Am I correct, No, no,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: not the I guess if you what you mean by
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the theme music. No, there was some incidental music in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: this that sounded like it had been borrowed or re
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: recorded from American radio. And Wes also has an interesting point.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: He says, because I mentioned that Australian law basically was
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: meant to make it so that you couldn't just import
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: radio and television programs from the United States or from
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: other countries, but there had to be Australian made programs.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Wes says it's interesting that Australian laws would have protected
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the jobs of Australian actors but not those of Australian writers. Well,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that is an interesting point. I would say that it's
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: economically for the entertainment industry a bit different have stuff
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that is written overseas versus stuff that's acted. Because everything
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that was done on an Australian old time radio program
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: had to be recorded and done in Australia, oftentimes adapted,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and in many ways that's a little different from a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: man American radio, where you have a lot of scripts
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that were based on foreign stories, most of them in
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the public domain, but certainly there would be borrowing of
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: materials from other countries. And I should be clear too
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that Australian Radio was by no means just someplace where
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you went to hear American radio performed by Australian actors.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: That was one thing that they did. But they did
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: their own original programming too, and there's some of it
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I'm a pretty big fan of their
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Gregory Keane programs, great Cold War SPA stuff, particularly the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: last one twenty six hours, Well that wasn't the last one.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That was the last one with the first Ellery Queen.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And they also did a very interesting, totally original story
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: based on the Man with the Iron Mask, and there's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a lot more. It's not as well preserved as as
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: American radio, so it's really a hodgepodge. And many of
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: their much longer stories just simply don't survive. They serialize,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: for example, the Philip Marlowe novel Lady in the Lake,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: but they did it in that very popular fifteen minute
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: serialization format and only two parts of it survive. And
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: generally their serials ran between either fifty two or one
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: hundred and four episodes, so there was certainly plenty of
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: work for Native Australians writing in radio, even if some
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: very popular programs just read it American material. All right, well,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: with yours truly, Johnny Doller. All right, well, that will
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: do it for today. If you do have a comment,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: send it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
• 32:54
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• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Radio Detectives. But from Boise, Idaho, this is your host,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Adam Graham signing off.