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Let George Do It: Human Nature (EP0869) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of Let George Do It. Human nature personal not as stage as my stop
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story Human Nature, a transcribed adventure of George Valentine. Dear mister Valentine,
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if there's one thing I learned in all the years I lived, it's human
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nature, especially when it comes to men. You, for instance. I
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know I don't have to go into a lot of detail except to say that
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another man, a very fine man, needs help, real bad, and
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only you can give it to him. Right, Okay, Then I'll meet
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you tonight here a club bim bam. After the last show is over and
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the people go home, we'll have the club all to ourselves, and I'll
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be very very grateful for your trouble, yours, very truly, Ruby Devlin.
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And I guess Ruby knows human nature all right, Brooklyn. I'll tell
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you more about it tomorrow. Now that a lot of bim bam, the
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best looking chorus in town. Three Susan shows a night. Don't think I
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know human nature too. My friends are angel mine. Unless I were right
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there, I worry about you losing a g Sleeter, we'll just working too
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hard. So yes, ma'am, maybe we came too late to Yeah,
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everybody seems still gone, including Ruby Devil. Well, I guess we could
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ask that cleaning woman over there. Oh, I beg your pardon, Yes,
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sir, we were looking for a lady. I believe she's one of
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the girls in the floor all gone, mister. We thought she might have
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left a message or something. Her name is Ruby Devlin. I am Ruby
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Devlin. Why. Oh, I know I'm not as pretty as those painted
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hussy but I didn't mean it scarier, mister. Oh well, I expected
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your alone, mister Valentine. So I my assistant, Miss Brooks, is
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the worrying type. Yes, that's right. Or I am glad you're along,
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Dearie. Here, let's go and sit down. Yeah sure, no,
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not here. I'd as well take the best table in the house right
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near the dance floor. We have plenty of truth from I am the choosy
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type. That's why I like this job. I don't follow here, This
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one's okay. Oh, nobody telling me how I should work. I'm my
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own boss, and I can make myself feel good as anybody who comes here.
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See this thermos bottle of coffee dairy, well, yes, every night
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I put it in a champagne bucket like this high class. And the sandwich
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I bring from home taste as good as the one they so kill buck and
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a half for. And I can imagine a better floor show than they put
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on. It's all in the way you look at things. And I understand
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human nature, which reminds me Miss Devon Ruby Ruby. That letter. It
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said something about somebody being in real trouble. That's right, Ben Cullum,
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that's fine. I managed you'd want to meet. I worked as a cleaning
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woman for him once, so I aten know us girls can tell best about
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people. Well, what sort of trouble is he in? You wouldn't think
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a man as sweet and trusting as Ben would be in his sort of business.
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Business is da He runs a pawn shop on Laura fourth Street. Oh
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no, and that hole, and he's sweet and trusting. I told you
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it's hard to believe, but I know human nature and then he is besides
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he he proved it to me. You want to know how a darry I
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wouldn't listen for the room? Well, I I had a little ring.
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I was always crazy about my mother's and one day I needed some money,
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so I told Ben Cullum. Ah, he was real sweet. Let's blow
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me the money and let me keep the ring too, fifteen dollars. Of
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course you were right there. I'm working for No, it wasn't bad at
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all. Anyway. I know mister Cullumns is in trouble now because I heard
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somebody say he's a fance. Oh now there's something a lot more in character
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with the neighborhood. Who what are those words of wisdom? Will be?
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Well? It was two nights ago after the club closed, a skinny guy,
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I think his name is Joey Kreeger with a little drunk and oh,
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nobody paid any attention to a cleaning woman. And he was talking to another
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guy and he said he pulled a highs and he said he had a real
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good fence. And he said it was Ben Cullum. That's something police,
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isn't it? No, because it's got to be a lie. Oh I
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read psychology books all at time and magazines. I got nothing else to do
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with my time, and so will be. You're sure Ben's good name has
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been besmirched. I think that guy was lying. But if it's true,
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then it must be the first time, and mister Carr must be in terrible
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to have to do it. What can I do? Find out if this
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man Kreeger was telling the truth, and stop Ben coming from getting into real
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trouble. That's quite an assignment. Well, I've got to help. I
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never forget a favor. You won't turn me down, will you, mister
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Valentine. No, No, I guess I'm a little curious about human nature
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myself, will be, and especially about a sweet, trusting man running a
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four street hawk shop. My clerk told you this room was private, Mischlin.
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Yeah, mister Cullin, and I told him I had to talk to
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you, not to him. The excuse the appearance of the room is as
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you see, I live here in transact business. Up front says carfare saves
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trouble. Besides, I'm a bachelorist does fine for me. Well about your
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business, mister Valentine, Well, as I told you, Miss Devlin thinks
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you're in trouble, and because you're in trouble, you might be tempted to
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turn crooked and fence. I'm good. Yeah, I did rub be a
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favor once. Now I'm sorry. She's imagining things. A big cheap safe
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in the front, a real fancy one back here, and so many bars
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on the windows you'd think this was fortnot I have valuable things. Yes,
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the window on the front is full of them, mukul ales and secondhand cameras.
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I'm a poor man. I worry about the things I have. Huh
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about this Joey Kreeger character. Yeah, there's your answered. I couldn't have
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timed it better. That's one of the things I like, miss, and
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I would never want to lose my cuckoo clock. The cuckoo's off pitch,
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and so is Ruby Devlin. So now get out both of you. Surebuster,
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Sure, Jimmy come here. Yes, mister Kurlum, he showed these
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people out, and if ever they want upon anything here, it's no goal,
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understand. Yes you know something, mister Klum. You're making me more
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and more curious. So long of my department, Valentine, But I actually
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thanks sounds. That's the verdict to tennis the boys and robbery have had their
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eyes on column for a long time. He's much too slick. They've never
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found any evidence against him. Maybe this is that lucky break, that's because
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some cleaning woman heard a drunk blab about fencing some goods. Did you ask
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the robbery squad of his joy trigger character was involved in it? Shoot?
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Sounds like no. So if he's a specialist in his kind of work,
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that particular kind of robbery has been conspicuous by its absence. Joey could have
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changed his style of work just for laughs. I told you he's a specialist
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and proud of it. Guys like that stay in the grove. H Well,
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George, there's much we can do as long as the police already have
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their eye on mister Cullum. And apparently he isn't a sweet innocent man being
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forced into a life of crime, as Ruby seems to think it. Excuse
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me, Yeah, okay, when I'm on Sergeant Lay in the robbery squad.
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Yeah, la, I fine, well you did when let's see you
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couldn't uh sure? Sure? Okay, okay, thanks? Anything new?
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Yes, Sergeant Lay was out the lunch and the other guy I spoke to
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just didn't know that there was a Joey Krieger type of robbery? Is that
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a lieutenant where five thousand dollars were the jewelry. They brought Joey in but
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couldn't get anywhere with him, and believe me, they tried, And there
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is something that Ruby told us. I'm afraid. So as long as Sergeant
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Lay and his playmates have already talked to Joey Krieger, because you get me
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his address, Johnson, I guess I'd like to talk to him. Sure,
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but I know the kind You'll say nothing. Oh, I got no
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secrets volumtimes I liked the thought. Johnson is no good as a judge of
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human nature. Either talk and say nothing. Hey Joey, you know your
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friend has got a suspicious nature. Miss. That's no good for a guy
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I eat you up from the inside. You know you should all have a
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talk with him at the moment he prefers conversation with you. Okay, walts
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me, you're on again, madild it. I had nothing to do without
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highest. I don't know no Ben Cullum, and I'm liable to say anything
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when I'm drinking. Waltz is over come on Brook seeing it's getting lad.
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Okay, okay, I have some respect for the hour. Hello, come
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on, come on Valentine, rise and shine. Oh Johnson, it's only
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a little after six. Your energy is almost a decent, especially in this
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case. What are you talking about. I'm on my way to Colin's pawn
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shop friend to check up on Ben Collin's murder. Somebody made him open that
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fancy safe, then made sure Colum would never tell us who at once.
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Yeah, easy enough to tell what Column's last thought must have been, the
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way his hands still reaching for that empty safe. And this other clerk,
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the one who called the police chick brine. Now, Sergean Malloy's got him
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up until we're ready for him. Huh, hewn farthers mean most Johnson.
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I'll be done if I see anyway the murderer could have come in here.
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He was here, Look exhibit a as big as life. I mean that.
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But you saw the alarm and worse from a switch right near the door
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from the street, as fine an alarm as money can buying to protect out
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the junk in the store. But whatever was here in the safe a great
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alarm, but it didn't do cal him any good. Now if the wires
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were cut. If anybody even went fooling with the lock, the protective service
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Kang would have been here. Now it's a cinch. No one could have
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come in from the back. We've gotta bars on those windows. I notice
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em before. Cola must have been in bed after the very minute to come
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in on him, or they have something on besides that night share. That's
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right, See slippers there at the foot of the bed. Didn't even have
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time to get into them, all right? The birds said cuckoo eight times?
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Good, you can count. It's only seven twenty. So why did
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all those fancy clocks go conck eyed after a while than you? So?
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I still wish I knew how the murderer got in here. There must be
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an incident. Yeah, there's only one explanation. Column must have made a
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date for somebody to come when there wouldn't be any click around for a witness.
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And whoever that was, is the guy we want. Huh, it's
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easy enough to gop out. Column was in a big deal in hot Stone.
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Maybe there was an argument about the price stop saying that it's a good
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theory, even it won't work. Why, well, you yourself pointed out
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column's bare feet. Wouldn't he have had more than a night shirt on if
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he was winning in company? Yeah? Yeah, I guess you wouldn't he
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jusin I'm afraid this is a mystery and it will take a lot of solving.
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When a man is murdered in a room that's guarded by stout bars at
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the windows and a very efficient burglar alarm at the door, you really have
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a mystery, especially when the murder is complicated by such hard to explain things
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as a cuckoo clock that keeps atrocious time, a cleaning woman who spends her
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time reading psychology books, and a specialist in the field of robbery who talks
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too much when he's been drinking. Even if your name is George Valentine,
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you find this combination of factors, shall we say, challenging. Let me
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get this straight right now. You walked in, found mister Cullum's body in
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that back bedroom and called the police. That's right, mister Valentine, you
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got here about five minutes to six. It's cold nasty this morning too.
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Wasn't that kind of early for a pawnbroker's clerk to be coming to work.
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Well, mister Cullum paid us well, so we worked the way he wanted
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us to and didn't ask any questions. Kibby a night, Oh yeah,
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I went him yesterday. You see, we changed our shifts around twice a
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month. Go on. This is a day and night pawn shop. It's
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right for the neighborhood, open from seven in the morning till midnight. Well,
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today, like always, I was supposed to come at six, sweep
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up the store and move the trays out of that big safe, and then
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I'd work till six at night, thank Kivy. Then he comes in at
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noon, closes at midnight. Real along arms, you're telling me anyway.
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Then it's only from midnight until six that Culum was always alone here, and
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that's when he'd have that burglar alarm set right the last thing at night.
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He'd turned it on first thing in the morning. He turned it off six
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hours a night. Not too much, isn't Colum must have done some of
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his sleeping in the daytime. Huh, No, No, he'd he'd go
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in and lie down every evening at nine o'clock, sort of had himself trained.
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He'd sleep from nine until twelve. Then the last thing before he went
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home, the night man would call him. The boss would get up and
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come here to this curtain and his slippers, And after clerk had gone out,
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mister Cullum had beat around the partition like this and put on the switch.
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I don't suppose that he ever forgot it. Maybe forty or fifty thousand
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dollars in that little safe inside there? Would you forget forty or fifty thousand
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dollars? Well, of course, I was just guessing. I suppose you
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don't know anything about any business that was done back there? How would I?
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Sometimes people would come in ask for mister Cullum personally, and then we'd
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call him, and mister Cullum would take them in the bank. Sure,
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nobody but mister Cullum had the combination to the little safe. I got the
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reports from the medical examined or balance good? Good? What's the story?
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Johnson? He put the time of Cullum's death at five o'clock this morning,
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half far one way or the other, but none more. He's positive.
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Oh well, I didn't get here until five minutes of sex, and the
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alarm was turned off, so you see I didn't have anything to do.
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Yeah, sure, that's a mystery, all right. A dead man turns
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off the alarm and by the time being, all we could do is wait,
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wait, sure Johnson, I sent Miss Brooks to get Ruby Devlin.
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Sergey Malloy is out rhynending up Joey Kreeger in the night, clerk kibbing.
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There's one thing I don't think you notice, though, Johnson hu the clock
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here in the store. Look at him like the cuckoo clock. It too
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is forty minutes fast. I know human nature. Mister Cullen was a sweet
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gentleman. Now he's dead, yes, Miss Devil, and we're trying to
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find out who killed him. Don't you might be able to help us?
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You want it, don't you? Yes, anything I can do, Mister
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Valentine, all right, he used to work here at the punch shop almost
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a year ago. Now it's just a hunch. But you do you notice
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anything different about the store? No? Please, We'll be looking around and
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careful. You must be sure everything's the same. Miss Brooks, just like
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everything's the same back there? Oh great, Well, I really didn't know
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what I expect. The phone? What's that? The phone? He used
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to be connected way over there here the hall, so i'd be near the
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store in the bedroom, and now it's been moved close to the front door.
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So you asked me to tell you what's different, Lieutenant? I told
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us? Can we see him? Antine? Well, let's telephone. It
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was moved recently, wasn't Yeah, a couple of weeks ago? Why kidding?
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His speed bother him, so he asked mister Cullum to save him.
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Steps Kibby and I always had to stand near the door, Like I said,
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mister Cullum was a nice, considerate man. Huh. Kibby saw him
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a bella. Guds told him when he had to go away from the door
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to answer the phone, somebody from the street might swipe something and run,
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young man. Never mind, never mind? What do we do now,
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George? Well, it's beginning to sound like a refrain, brook see,
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but we wait? Excited? What am I supposed to do? Have his
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cheeks? No? Nothing as violent as that, Kimby. Of course,
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I knew something must be wrong when the cup came and asked me to come
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here to the store. Could have been a robbery or something it could do.
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But you were here with this gentleman yesterday, Miss, Yes, you
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saw her violent. Mister Cullum could bed, didn't you. Well? He
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said he was mixed up with some pretty hard people. You knew he was
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uperating as a fence. Yeah, don't get me wrong, Lieutenant. I
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wasn't in on any of that stuff, miss self as the thought, but
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you can't work for two years for a man in this business without well,
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without getting a pretty good idea what's going on. Maybe it's just a guess
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now see, but maybe mister Cullum do will cost one of his customers.
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And that was the first thing we thought of. But it's no go he
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kimmy. Yes, that was funny that the burglar alarm didn't work, wasn't
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that? Yes, that is funny. You saw mister Cullum turn on the
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switch when you left last night at midnight? Didn't choose sure? Like all
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ways? How did you see it? He closed the door after you.
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The door closes behind me with a snap block, Miss, And when mister
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Cullum hears it click, I see his arm coming through the curtain. The
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night light I leave on in the store is right over the burglar alarmed switch
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and shows me that it's closed. Mystery gets darker and darker. All right,
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Kimmy, thanks, wait out there with a sergeant. Anything you say,
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Lieutenant? What do we do now, Valentine? Wait some more?
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No, no, no, Now we go to work. There's a desk
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and column's bedroom not far from the safe. There's something in that desk.
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I want a blank envelope. Huh, that's a part of it. What
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can that do? A world of good? I hope. Now I need
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something with columns writing on it. Ah. Here we are, Valentine.
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If you don't tell any Johnson, I want you to send two clerks,
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Miss Devlin and Joey Figger inside while you and Bussy stay outside with your ear
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glued to the keyhold an uncomfortable position if I ever heard cut out our horse
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play, Valentine, tell me what you're gonna do. I'm going to write
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a single word and what I hope will pass for column's handwriting. All right,
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all right, all right, all right, false, all right,
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quiet quiet, Please, I know this this may sound like a dirty trick,
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but what Lieutenant Johnson, and I didn't tell you people. Is that
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mister Cullum didn't die immediately. That's right. He was able to reach a
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pencil and a piece of paper and put down a name, a single name.
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It must be the murderer. Yes, yeah, who was it?
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Do you know why we didn't mention it before? Joint? Are you gren?
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I wouldn't know, mister Valentine. We didn't because it really was no
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proof. Mister Cullum might have been writing a message to the person whose name
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we have, and not about him accusing him. But now we have additional
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proof. Who was it? I'm your client, mister Valentine. You you've
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got to tell me? Yeah, Ruby, I think I do. The
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name is Grannell. Me. Oh here, look for yourself. You know
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mister Cullum's handwriting. Of course, it's a little shaky. He was dying.
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I don't know why I should write my name? I tell you,
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I don't know. Don't work at me, like, what's the matter with
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all it? Tell me, Grinnell, don't you have any idea of how
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a fella could beat that burglar alarm of columns? No? I suppose I
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tell you. You can see how closely we check. No, I work
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for them culum, and it burns me up that I've got to handle his
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money all day long with never a chance of a dollar. It's sticking in
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my hands. What I could grab and run with wouldn't be worth it.
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You're on, I haven't leave him talk Kimmy. You know I wouldn't go
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ahead, and mister Valentine, I keep thinking about that other safe, that
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column keeps back in his bedroom. Forty and fifty thousands. You said so
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yourself, remember Grinnellen. Yeah, but I was just taught on there pulling
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anything when I want duty. If I take a stick up, the cops
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are too likely to smell an in such job. Sure I can have a
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key made, but that doesn't mean a thing. The burglar alarm. That's
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the problems, Like yeah, yeah, yeah, So what do you do,
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Valentine? Hell, well, what do you do? I get an
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idea? Say, fool, prom it's last night. Nine o'clock. Column
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turns in, left alone in the store. When I go back to wake
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him up, I've already pulled my little stunt. I've set the cuckoo clock
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in his bedroom and the other one in the store forty minutes ahead. I
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was here last night, not Grenell. Colum let's me out and throws the
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switch. Dan a few minutes after five in the morning, I go into
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a booth and call the store, keep bringing huntil Column gets up and answers,
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last night, I was here. I disguised my voice and tell Colum
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it's a wrong number. He swears at me and looks at the clock.
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It's forty minutes fast, so he thinks there's only a couple of minutes left
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before he has to get up and turn off the alarm. Anyway, He's
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only human, remember the phrase will be yes. He doesn't like the idea
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of getting up in the cold again. It's a raw, nasty morning.
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Why wait for Grennell? Column figures he'll turn the switch off now shut out.
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The phone was conveniently located, now, wasn't at Kibby. From where
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he stood, Colum could reach the burglar alarm switch. And after he did,
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you saw him through the door, and you came in and made him
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open the safe and then and killed him. Yes, I'm clean to kill
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you. He'll live. I got him in the arm. He'll die,
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but not from my bullet. You see, he did something very human too.
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He forgot to set those two clocks back to the right time. Which
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take better care of your car. I understand why it had to be one
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of the two clurks, George, But why were you sure it was Kiddy?
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Well Grennell left for home at sex Angel He couldn't have set the two
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clocks back then, columns of caught wise long before morning. Well Kivy left
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at midnight when Karam was already half asleep. Sure, and there was that
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business of changing the place where the telephone was connected too. But George,
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if you suspected Kiby, why did you accuse Grennell? Human nature? Eh?
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Robin? Why it's only human to let your guard drop when you think
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that somebody else's in danger. I'm a fine judge of human nature. I
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am, then Curam. He's been crooked for years. The police couldn't get
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wise to him either, Ruby, So don't blame yourself too much. Side.
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It's a lot easier to predict what people will move and what they are.
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Hibby knew what column would do. You knew what Kiddy would do.
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I know what you're gonna do too, Dolly, you do when I really
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set my mind to it, you're gonna marry me a bit. The Night's
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Don Lee Broadcasting System. Welcome back. Well. I love the pivot in
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the middle of the nation where we go from one suspect to another. I
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don't know if I've ever seen anyone go that far into depth into accusing one
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suspect to switch it around to the other, but it was a good turn
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and a good twist on a solid psychological story. I do have to say
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that after so many years, the George Brooksie thing kind of loses some of
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its charm, which I guess is one of the downsides to Golden Age production,
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because you tended to have these quasi romantic relationships which just kind of angled
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with the writers having no intention of resolving them. That'll do it for today.
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We'll be back tomorrow with Sherlock Holmes. Oh, I should let you
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know before we go. We had a couple of lost episodes. This era
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episode aired here on September fifteenth, and there were two missing episodes, The
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Bust of Plato and the Impossible Day. But we're not going to have any
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more lost episodes to deal with for a few weeks anyway. All right,
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Well, allow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.