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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Brooklyn Accent (EP0849) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Thanks so much for your support. Now here's today's Adventure of Frank Race,
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The Adventure of the Brooklyn Acts. The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Paul
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to Bob. The war changed many things, the face of the earth and
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the people on it. Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney,
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but he treated his law books for the cloak and dagger of the oss.
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And when it was over, his former life was over too. Adventure
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had become his business, the Adventures of Frank Race. And now we joined
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Frank Race for the Adventure of the Brooklyn Accent. It was what you might
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call damp nice, the dampness being such that the persistent and sluicing down your
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neck and surging over your shoe tops. And as we slashed along the deserted
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street, I caught a little more from Mark Donald. Oh, brother just
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slapped me with a bottle of champagne and call me the normandy cold Mark.
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That noise you here ain't thunderful. It's my chopper has hammered together. This
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is the sunny sound. Look are you sure we're still in a state at
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Georgia? I figured we walking up to be just outside Montreal. I'm beginning
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to think I'm in a state of confusion. I keep getting the feeling that
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we've turned away from those docks. Have you heard the surf in the last
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few minutes. I don't hear nothing but a ringing in my ears, probably
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the foice sign in the morning. All right, you win. We'll go
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back to that cafe we passed in the last blot. I'm now you're talking,
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and if the place has good coffee, I'll forget all about in the
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morning. It was a short order spot, resided over by an ant and
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counter man who greeted us with a lacktooth grin. At the table, a
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couple of men and a girl said, munching hamburgers in an almost grim silence.
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But the place looked clean, and the old man looked clean. So
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Mark and I slid on the stools at the counter. Yeah, what'll it
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begins? Graham, biggers and coffee and the ass. That's what'll it be?
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All right? Pop? Side him up? Make it heavy on a
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coffee, he names Pete. Pop means wold think you look this way from
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having to listen to guys like you look Pop, I'm just a quiet guys.
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Don't wash hump and nobody. What makes sure the coffee is hot?
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With it? Yeah? How you wanted rack and ruin? Both of them
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straight? Do you know this town pretty well? Pete? Blackam hand?
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Ain't no southern from Jersey City. No, don't happen to know a man
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by the name of Beating, don't you Eddie Beating? Beating? Yeah?
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Let me see little guy pat No I put us names up now? Did
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he live around here as a boat a schooner? And that's another thing to
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get to the docks? Do we turn right at the door or left?
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Yeah? Closed the place like the back of his hand, he says,
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He means the back of his neck. You can't right about chick blocks.
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You're sure you could walk down that way a couple centuries ago? What was
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her name again? Beating? Edward Beating? Yeah, I was familiar,
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right, It wouldn't be told Husky food owns one of them. Coach dogs
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would love pop. We're just looking for the guy. We don't know a
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thing about his dogs, so you're just looking for the guy. Huh?
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Why? This was no native voice either. This was New York, New
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Yorker Hardway, Manhattan, via the alleys of the pool halls, the second
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rate night spots. He had a heavy beard line, and he stacked up
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as being husky, stood eyeing us with the curiosity of a weasel inspecting a
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nest full of eggs. You heard me, I asked you why you were
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looking already beating? You make it sound illegal? What do I have to
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do to get an answer extracted? Look? What do you think you got
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here? Pile a couple of pigeons? You want to talk to us?
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Keep it gentle or waddle back to your table. Both your boys feel that
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way. The words, though, rather an elegant, express my reaction precisely
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Jigger, Yeah, Roxy, come in. Jigger's approach was methodical and practice.
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Casual. Hand inserted itself inside and tells the jacket to drape the squat
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frame his eyes as he glided up to its looked disinterested, almost blazed stare
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of the professional gunman Chevo Roxy. I don't know these personalities come look at
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already beating, and I don't want to say why. I wouldn't call it
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friendly, would you? Jigger Nahn't god friendly at all. We don't mind
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telling you why we're looking for beating. No, who are you guys?
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My name is Race, This is Mark Donovan. Who are you? I'm
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Roxy Clark. Another southern accent in La crowd. Never mind these sides.
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What's the pitch in any beating? I'm done here for the Fidelity Life Insurance
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Company. Edward beating is beneficiary to a twenty thousand dollars policy that's now payable,
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and the company is anxious to make a settlement. Would leave any beating
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twenty thousand fish? The deceased, I understand, was an uncle of his.
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Oh yeah, jigga, what do you think about this? To me,
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it sounds like a bullish spaghetti Yeah, that's the way I figured.
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A big company working hard to lay a lout twenty gs. It don't mesh.
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It might seem strange, but with insurance outfits, it's done all the
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time. They consider it to be part of their contract. That makes quite
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a line, race, But I ain't buying it. Boat, don't he?
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Yeah that's right. Pop owns a sail board. Wanted them go to
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sea. Yeah yeah, I know him. No, no way. Two
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the live three four blocks from here at greenhouse. Will you other shutters en?
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I'll talk about water. I'll just said shut up. You said it
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when I ain't paying no attention? The three country in it pickerless warbler jigger,
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Yeah you no, no, no, no, no, wait a
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minute, wait, you ain'tble to come. You get what's left of his
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teeth, jigger, then maybe he won't be so lippy. Give me a
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pipe, No, no, no, you don't know. Don't make me
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come after. It'll be waste. Got a jigger. Just let's drop the
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whole thing. Get out of my way. There's no need to bother the
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old boy. What are you asking for? Sampler? You kid? Try
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this and you appreciate leading with your right chigger. I'm surprised, don't.
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You'll always be the same chicken, even if you come in with an next
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chicken. Can you hear me? Brothers East pretty handy with that stuff,
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ain't you, Race? I haven't met your lady Frank Clark. But I'd
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like you to know I'm sorry for the disturbance. Don't be sorry, right,
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I always admire artistry, and that was your artistry, wasn't it,
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Rockfort Susan, stay out of us, Roxy Darling. I've been completely quiet
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for at least twenty minutes, and that isn't like me at all. You're
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going to be around for a while, Susan. Get out of the car.
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Careful, pet you're a bad temper. Sure, Race, I'm Susan
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Drake. I'm saying it to Jackson was born. It's been a bit boring
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the last time. Why don't you call Race Deares Clark? This insurance deal?
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Is it on the level? Definitely? So you have to keep looking
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for beating? Is that it? That's it? Why I think I can't
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find it? No, No, I wasn't thinking that. I was thinking
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of the message trouble you're gonna find with him? Hey you're there, what's
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the law? Come over here? What are you doing out here this time?
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And then what do you have at seven o'clock curfew? Never mind the
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wise cracks. I'll just take you straight on in on what charge? Oh,
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we can work that out. Vaguatly for one thing, no visible means
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of support. We've means of support, plenty of it. If I say
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you'll wain't, you'll aim. So quit arguing. I'm sorry I said a
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word. I should know better. That's sensible, man. What are you
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doing around here? I told him in the short credentials which made it all
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right. He told us he was Jean Denzy, chief of police, and
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we spent an hour leaning against his car, listening to a confidential report on
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how he brand the town. It ended up with his driving us to the
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Beating house. There was an old fashioned pool bell, and the door was
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answered by a girl of about fifteen. She looked startled. Yes, hello,
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is mister Beating in? Not right now, but my mother's year.
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It's two men, mother, They want to see daddy. She seemed to
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be about the thirty, a handsome woman, even with faded makeup and a
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worried look about her eyes. What is it, your lord? We're looking
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for Edward Beating. Oh he's my husband, but he ain't here now.
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I understand he has a boat, schooner that he operates for hire. That's
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right, but he's already under chater. Would you tell me where I could
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find it. It's called a jenny b and it said Gallahan's landing. Go
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down pastreet as far as the darksn in turn left. Oh and if you're
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going there now, you can do me a favor, surely. Well if
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you see. My husband tend to come home usually hit five meets almost nine.
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I like him. Got mean bother? It still pretty cloudy with no
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sign of a moon. Eight to five says we get more rain. That's
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a happy thought place. What's what is guy beating when you do catch up
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with it? No? No, we know he's here. Can't we just
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let it go? It there? There could be dozens of Edward beatings.
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I have to identify this, fellows the right one. Can't we do it
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tomorrow? I'd much you had to beat the hotel plane cana? What's maps?
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Another car coming up? I've got a feeling we're the ones that's interested
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in Oh, greats alongside a hundred yards of board. Fancy you're right?
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They really got his pike? What's that right? We move apart of anything
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breaks and blast and left headlight. I'll take the right. Okay, Hi,
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a race, remember me? It's jigger right guy? Your slot yeah,
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and now I'm going to play a little too. All right, make
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the alien order fence. He got the pail? Who's got the ten sense?
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Oh apprently you're still in the mood for music. I'm gonna moved to
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offer up nights. Let's it closest squawk I've had since I stole a cabin
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front of the Chicago Express that goes for your I agree, but I think
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we win one of them. Brother, I already yelped back then it was
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no crime to life. Imagine that guy coming after us with a chatter box
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just because you called them a little wonder Maybe it wasn't jiggers idea at all.
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Right now, I wouldn't put a slot machine, slug or nothing.
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Oh there we going next? Still keep looking for that s corner. I
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might be crowding our luck a little. Let's go back to the hotel and
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get a nice prest race race. Come on, wake up when you wake
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up? Something funny? Corn, what tibe is? Come on? Get
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with It's about five five o'clock in the morning and you want a chat?
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Go back to sleep. Look, look, chum, I'm not kidding.
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Is a mob or something outside? Can't you hear it. Yes, yes,
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I do hear it. Sure you hear it. That's just that's it.
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Just barge in. We always receive visitors at this hour. Get up
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and get dressed. Race. We have to get you out of here.
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What for We got a lynch mob outside, So that's what it is.
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What does a lynch mob have to do with us? It seems like a
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lot of people know you boys have been looking for breath beating. Now he's
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been found murder. The ambles string you up for murder. That's moving a
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little fast, isn't it. Yeah, we better move fast us. I'm
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gonna have to place you under a rest. We'll return to the adventures of
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Frank Race in just about one minute. And now back to the adventures of
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Frank Race. Here was a venture with all the qualities of a nightmare,
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one of those things where nothing makes sense. We've been in Ton only forty
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eight hours, and now we were threatened with lynching. I tried to figure
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the angles as I got dressed. Nothing, Joe, you fellas got a
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crop right down this. I can't guarantee to get you the safety. Well,
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well let's be your voice lynch in shape. It will and they ain't
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good for men in my position. Well, I ain't good for guys in
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opposition either come election time. And one side won't put for you because you
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tried to stop it. On the other side won't bote for you because you've
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failed to stop it. We understand. Are there's something peculiar about this business?
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Chief? Yeah? I said it right. We'll pick a lesson out
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here. Race. Most got of guys. What's going to yell? And
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I've got Brooklyn accents? Are you sure? Are you kidding? Lessen than
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have bronze cheers? Were getting? You think when with a giant said Everitt's
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fail. Here's your answer, Chief, It's not a real lynching party at
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all. It's a frame up. What do you mean? No, a
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man by the name of Roxy Clark, I certainly do. He charters Eddie
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Beaton's boat. Nobody charters it for gambling, brings down parties to them wealth
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in New Yorkers, and they go out for three or four days at a
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time. Ana my fa. As long as they do it on the high
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seat. Well, for some reason, Roxy Clark thinks I'm in his way.
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That's the reason for this phony lynching. Bea where did you get the
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tip that brought you here from a woman and her name. When a woman
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gives out information like that over phone, you ain't gonna get a name.
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You won't, No Southerner, how do you plan to get us out here?
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I ain't figured it yet, But why don't you live at school by
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ourselves? So I don't know why you'd never make it. You'll have a
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better chance than with you trying to buck that mom. Well you might be
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a right. Okay, it's a deal. But if you don't make it,
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don't blame me. If we don't make a charm, we probably won't
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be around the blame you what This guy Cloth must have quite a mob with
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him. It's a big crowd. Start feeling about something, and you can
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always draw people who have nothing else to do. Look, tell me what
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are we looking for in his cello, window, the door, and here
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it is? Take a head and clut off. I don't get it.
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We go out of here carrying something? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
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we can use these empty cut good enough. Let's go better take a look
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for it doesn't seem to be anyone around. Come on, hey, you
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guys, hold it. I didn't see this man. You must have been
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leaning against the side of the door. Oh great, and he's got that
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shot going right on us. Who are you guys? Uh? We all
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worked for the hotels? Yeah, I'm thinking different. But Anna's boxes and
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started moving around up front. All right, you're the boy. Jack's a
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hotel. Does Miss Drake come in yet? How connect? Hello the Strake,
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This is Frank Race. I'm making that call you suggested. Oh well,
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hello, you called earlier. Yes, I want to express my appreciation
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what you did for what I did for you. Someone told the chief of
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police that I was in danger of being lynched. I got the impression it
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might have been you look great time a rotten phone conversation list. I tell
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you what, why don't you run over here and we could have a drink
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while we chat. I'd better see you somewhere else. I got out of
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the Jackson Hotel this morning with some typicualtyre you now bar called the Flamingo Club.
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I know where it is. You say, they're Race, I'll join.
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She took more than a few minutes, but when she came into the
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Flamingo Club, I was willing to admit that the weight had been worthwhile.
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What are you drinking? Gotch soda. That is a fetching out it.
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Do you really like it? You're a very fancy dish baby? That the
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crazy? Is that? Starling? What do I have here? Resinic?
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How about the drink? Martini Manhattan Maga discatch into them bartender? Mind?
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If I tell you something about yourself, mis Drake, maybe not. You're
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the wealthy Susan Drake of New York. You've been amusing yourself with the excitement
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that surrounds Roxy clock. So you know what he does down here, don't
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you? Is that why you brought me to this place to answer question?
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If it was, I've already changed my mind. Of course. I know
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why Rocks is down here? What's the story I'm beating? Why was he
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killed? Oh? Come? What do you think? I am? A
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police blotterer? If you think you could grow fond of me, give because
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I'm in need of it, baby, I'm in need of it. Well.
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The only thing I can tell you about Beating is that he didn't like
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it when he found out what Roxy was doing with his book. Beating didn't
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know about the gambling setup when Roxy first charted the schooner No, and when
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he did find out, he wanted no part of it. You see,
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I happen to hear the blow up on that beating was going to castle the
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chart. Maybe he's absolutely answer. Maybe that's the answer to everything. About
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an hour later, I dropped in at the beating house. Missus Beating swollen
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an eye from crying with baking pies. There's lack a woman in it,
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but I have to do something. They smell wonderful. I bet you're a
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fine cook. Yes, I'm pretty good, Maybe because I love it so
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much. I told her about the insurance, and a noticeable lift came to
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the depression of the crypt. She got out family documents for me, birth
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certificates and a marriage license issue to her and Edward beating in nineteen thirty eight.
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But what about the money now that he did when it still come to
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us? Certainly it belonged to your husband. Oh excuse me, won't you
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hello? What? Why yet he's right here? You? Thanks? Yes,
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I hadn't. Aren't you guess who I'm with? Why don't you tell
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me roxy clock? He claims you didn't have nothing to do with that machine's
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gonna do? How about the lynching frame of claims? He did that just
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to scare us out of town. So wait a second, I'll let you
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talk with him. Oh, Race, that's on the level about the gunning.
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That was Jigger Menton's party. Give my regards to Jigger. I want
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to talk to you, Race. This thing is getting sticky, no sense
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of me being hooked by it? Are you protesting your innocence? Roxy?
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I want to talk to you. I'm going back to the Jackson right now.
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Can you meet me there? All right, I'll see you there.
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But he didn't see me, even though I saw him, because by the
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time I got to a swede at the Jackson Hotel, someone else had already
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been there, someone who had put two bullets into Roxy Clock's body. I
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couldn't good, but after all, it was actually none of my affairs.
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I had come to find the right beneficiary to a twenty thousand dollars life insurance
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policy, and this I had accomplished even though Beating was dead. The money
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would go to his family. So five days later, Mark and I were
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at the local station waiting to board a northbound train with Susan Brake along as
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a fellow traveler. We also ran into other people we knew, Chief of
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Police Densey and missus Beating and her daughter Mary. All set, Race all
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set. I guess this is goodbye. That's yet. I'm going to ride
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aways with him, Cajun and pops up like that, lynchin Bean. We
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can take care of ourselves. Chief just the same. I'm coming along.
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How about you, Mary, because though you're traveling too. Yes, Mother
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and I are going to Daddy System, North Carolina until Yeah, we understand,
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Anne, but you got in the basket some of your mother's well couldn't.
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That's right. Our better includes apple pie. Not this time. Mother
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burned the pie she was baking the other day. Why yes, you go
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right? What are you doing prowl around in the middle of the night.
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I've been keeping a deathwatch, Mark dead Watch. I think I've got the
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key to those killings. I'm going to have to wait for a play to
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be made. Chum, there's something else to what we have Another acquaintance on
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his trainer, Jigga men Tone Old Home Week. Yeah, but what kind
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of pitch you're making my I don't know yet, but I wouldn't close that
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door, missus beating race mind if we go in mine, of course,
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I'm mind. Sorry we're going in anyway. You better stay with us.
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Yeah, all right, look at up coyles. She's missus slug. Yes,
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And the next move would have been a carrier to the rear platform and
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toss her off the train, wouldn't it. Missus beating my own daughter,
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You're insane. Not your daughter, missus beating your stepdaughter. Mary is fifteen
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years old and you weren't married to her father until nineteen thirty eight. Figure
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it for yourself. You'll get out of here. What was the motive your
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husband's will leaving everything to the girl. You've fought with your husband, didn't
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you because he objected to roxy Clock using his schooner as a gambling ship,
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because he was going to revoke the chrotter. You didn't like that, did
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you. Missus beating was letting too much easy money get away, so you
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murdered your husband. You're just talking. You don't know that. I know
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you killed roxy Clock. You killed him because he didn't like being implicated and
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was going to talk. I know you've killed him because you burned your pies
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that day. The good cook won't burn pies, Missus beating, not unless
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she leaves them suddenly to kill a man. Perhaps get some water for the
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girl mark She should have plenty to say when she comes to you. Ain't
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getting water from nobody? Move back before this thing in my hand starts talking
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about time you got here? Sorry, Mark, I missed on this one.
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So you thought you'd cut in, did you? Jigger? What are
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we gonna do? Jigger? We can't shoot them right here? No,
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but I can do the same to them that you could do the kid.
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I owe this guy something anyway? Too slow again, jigger? Yeah?
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Well if she if stuck right, man, this time jiggers, jag is
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up. Don't try to get away, lady? Where did you find that
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pistol? Mark must belong to the lady is in this open bag right here.
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All I had it though, was rich for it? Ironic if it
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turns out to be the gun that killed Beating and Roxy Clark want it here.
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I'll get the water for the girl from this sing Hey, get on
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some race. This has been a funny deal. We started out to find
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a guy in a boat. We never got near rita one of'em?
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Rates? What's going on? Give me a handlet this girl? Will your
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baby? You smell good? Race? Never mind the perfume. What's been
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happening? Something rather unpleasant? Baby, but you know before we reached New
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York, this trip may turn out to be most and joy. The Adventures
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of Frank Ray, starring Paul d Above with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes
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to you from Hollywood. Others heard into night's cast were Frank Lovejoy, Williams,
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Herbert William Baia, Bill Johnstone, and Michael Anne Barrett. This series
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is written and directed by Buckley Angel and Joel Murcot. The music is composed
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and played by Ivan Ditmar. Be sure to be with us again this time.
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Next week we're another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of Frank Ray. Michael
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Roy speaking. This is a Bruce Elves production. Welcome back. While those
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who live in the South, places like Tennessee in Florida, We'll tell you
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that the Brooklyn accent is not an uncommon sound at all in the modern South.
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It may even a little more unusual in the nineteen fifties, but certainly
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not today. Now we turned a listener comments and feedback, and we start
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with an email from Joan who writes in Hi Adam, I like Tom Collins
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as Frank Race debate best and I never had any trouble understanding him. This
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was in regards to a listener question or suggestion that Paul de bov was the
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better Frank race. While we did ask listeners on Facebook. The result after
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a week and I pinned it to the top of the Facebook page so it
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wouldn't get buried under show announcements and things like that. We had three votes
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for Tom Collins and one vote that they were equally Willie Good and no votes
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for Paul to Bov. So Tom Collins wins among those who stayed a preference,
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but it may not have been the most scintillating debate among our listeners.
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Speaking of Tom Collins, we do have a question over on Twitter. De
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Coody says which came first, the actor or the drink? The answer is
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the drink. The drink Tom Collins actually was first made in eighteen seventy six.
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Tom Collins, the actor was born in nineteen thirteen. His birth name
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was Beryl William Collins, so it's easy to see how he might need a
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nickname. Beryl is not perhaps the most b e r y l most popular
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name. How he arrived at Tom. I don't know. Bill would seem
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to be a more natural nickname Tom Collins. It was and that's what he
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worked under. I think so much. Sure you're qu and that'll do it
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for today. We'll be back tomorrow with a life in your hands, and
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