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Nick Carter: Death after the Dark (EP1104) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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support the show at support not Great Detectors dot net. Well, now it's
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time for today's episode of Nick Carter, which on one advance is a little
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scary, so parental discretion advised. Here now is Death after Dark? What's
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the Night of What is it another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters. The detective's
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ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter,
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Master Detective. The Night's Curious Adventure Death after Dark for Nick Carter and
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the mystery of the vampire killings. Mister Carter, mister Carter, I've got
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to talk to you. Something has happened to you. Yes, no,
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well that is it didn't It didn't. Well, it might be better if
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you were to tell me just what it was I did or didn't happen to
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her. Okay, well it was like this, sir. Four of us,
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Betty Graham, Gertrude Chase, Dora Mason, and myself were playing tennis
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in the park this afternoon. We played a few sets, and then about
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six thirty we started home, But just as we got to the park gate,
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Dora suddenly discovered that she left her racket in the court. I offered
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to go get it for but she started after it herself. The rest of
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us sat down on the bench to wait for After about ten minutes, Gertrude
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suddenly got up, said something about going to meet Dora, and then started
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up the same path as Dora had done. Betty and I sat on the
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bench talking and waiting for them, until suddenly we began to realize it was
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getting quite dark. All at once, Betty said, what was on my
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mind? I don't like this pill. The tennis court is only about five
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minutes walk from here. They should have been back before this. Yes,
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sir, I know, I was thinking the same thing. Why do you
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suppose to be keeping them? I don't know. Don't you think we'd better
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walk up that way and see what's happened to them? Nothing has happened to
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them, Betty. But if you want to walk up and meet them,
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why, Okay, I'd rather do that than keep sitting here. Oh come
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on, man, But I'll bet we meet them before we get to the
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court. But I judge from the way you would tell us that you didn't
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find them. No, mister Carter, we didn't. When we got to
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the court, it was deserted. We called and called, but we got
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no answer. Then suddenly Betty saw something fair. Look what is it,
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Betty? Look they're on the grass behind you. That's Doris Tennis racket.
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I know those colored strings. But that means that she never came back here
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at all. But where could you have, Betty? Dora have a rose
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in her hair? Why? Yes, she pitched it up on the path
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just before she left us. I remember watching her tie and not in the
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stem, so she could put one of her hair up and sew it to
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hold it in her hair. Why here by the end of the net a
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rose. You're right, and it's got a knot in the stem too.
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And look, Betty, it's been stepped on. Bill. I'm afraid.
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Let's get out of here. Something happened. I'm afraid. And she started
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running across the grass toward the nearest gate. Weren't you scared too? Well?
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Yes, some, but I caught up with her and quieted her down
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a little. And you didn't see anything of the girls you were looking for.
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Well, by this time it was too dark to see much of anything.
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Betty took me by the arm and we made for the nearest gate.
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We weren't running, but we weren't lingering either. Maybe you just a miss
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Wait a minute, I just haven't finished. Before we got to the road
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leading to the gate, we we had to go through a patch of thick
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woods. I'd gone that way before, so I didn't think much about it.
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But Betty was still pretty scared. It's dark here, I can hardly
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see anything. Let's hurry, I want to get out of here. If
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we try to go any faster, we may fall over something. Just just
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take it easy and keep going and we'll well phil What did happen? That's
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just the point, Nick, I don't know. When I regained consciousness.
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A couple of minutes later, one of the part gods was bending over me,
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and another was trying to bring Betty back to her senses. And you
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have no idea what actually did happen, No, Nick, no idea at
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all, except that a lot of creatures seem to drop down on us from
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out of the trees. You say, creatures, How do you use that
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word? Why? That word seems to just to be about the only word
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to use. You couldn't see them at all, No, it was so
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dark. I could only see that there were a lot of dark forms around
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me. The thought flashed through my mind that we'd been attacked by a band
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of boy robbers. And they didn't say anything, no exclamations or anything,
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No, Nick, nothing, not a word. The only sounds I remember
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sort of hissing, sounded like a lot of snakes. Then I got a
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blow on the back of my neck and adopted me senseless. What happened to
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Betty? She even doped. She said something had been put over her nose,
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something that felt like a piece of burlap and smelled sweet and she lost
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consciousness after the guards brought her too. I took her home and left her
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there. As far as I know, she was unharmed, except that she
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was almost hysterical. What about the other girls, the ones who played tennis
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with you? Did they turn up later? No? I called both of
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them on the phone, but neither of them were home, and they hadn't
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been home since they were out with us. And our first job was to
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tell the girl's parents what we can and get their permission to take charge of
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the investigation. Then we'll start her investigating in the park. Everything here looks
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so different at night. Mister Carter much rather not have to make this examination
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by night, Phil, But I don't dare wait until morning might be too
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late. There's the tennis court right ahead, mister Carter, and here's the
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tennis racket right where we left it. Don't go any further. I want
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to see what I can find in the ground in the way of marks.
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To Prince m hm, yeah, yes, pretty up, Yes, that
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a number of barefooted persons have been tramping on the grass here barefooted. Yes,
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I found one pretty clear impression on the complete foot look about the size
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of a ten year old boy. Yes, there are lots of prints here.
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Do you think they could be the principal? Come here? What is
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it have you found? I'll take it easy, Bill, take it easy,
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don't care door a Mason? Is she? Yes? Phil, She's
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dead, Poor Dora. Why she almost looks as if she were asleep,
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doesn't she? Yes? Except for that peculiar alabaster whiteness of her skin,
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almost as if there wasn't a drop of blood left in her body. How
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was she killed, mister Carter? I don't know. I don't know.
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The only mark I can find on her is a tiny round hole in her
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neck, a couple of inches below her ear. Well, it's pretty late,
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but I guess he'll forgive us when he knows why we've come. He
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may be in bed by now. I'm sorry if he is, but I
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can't go unto lamorrow. I must fry not tonight. Yeah. Oh,
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hello, Phil, what's up? This is mister Carter. Ed He wants
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to hear the story about you and Ethel how you were attacked in the park
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last week. Are you trying to kid me? Oh? Edward? Quite
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serious? Fill and the girl who was with him were attacked in the same
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way. This evening the girl was killed? What was she? Dora Mason?
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Dora, See that's tough. Well, come in sure, Ed,
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We're afraid gird cru Chase has been killed too. Hey, what is this
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a gang war? Did you think it as gangsters who attacked you? Ed?
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I no, I didn't know what they were. They might have been
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small men, or they might have been boys. How many were they?
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I should say maybe a dozen. I don't know what. I couldn't see
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them. They seemed to drop down out of the trees. They were so
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quiet. I thought maybe they weren't human. Not human. How do you
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mean the only noise I heard was was a sort of hissing when you were
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fighting them? Did you hit any of them? Sure, lots of them.
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What did they feel like? They were small, not very strong,
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and they weren't dressed in regular clothes. I don't know what they had on,
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but it wasn't our kind of clothes. What did they do to They
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swarmed all over us. We both yelled for help, and then they put
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a piece of burr lap over my face, which covered my eyes and nose.
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It smelled funny, made me dizzy. Then they knocked me out.
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How about the girl? Grabbed hold of her and put the same kind of
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cloth over her face. She said to hers had a strange odor, sort
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of like oranges. It made her unconscious, but it didn't last long.
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Some part guards heard us, and the things disappeared as they came up for
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either of you heard. I wasn't, but Ethel, the girl who was
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with me, was wounded in the throat here about, mister Carter ed,
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what was the wound? It was a little hole in her neck, about
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two and a half inches below her ear. And this, this is the
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thing that wounded her. A good boy. Now we're getting somewhere. May
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I keep this well? Of course, mister Carter, Does it help you?
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It does? Indeed, this is our first real step forward. And
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you say that Moren still had the thing that made the hole in her neck.
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Yes, Patsy, it was a wicked little instrument. Scubby took it
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up to one of the medical supply houses to see if they could tell us
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anything about it. What does it look like, Nick, Well, it's
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about three and a half inches long, I should say about half that distance.
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It's the size of a lead pencil. Then it tapers down to a
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needle point. But just before you reach the point, there's a small swelling
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like a little bob about a quarter of an inch long. What's the idea
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of that? Well, if I'm not mistaken, once the point of this
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instrument has been stuck in the flesh. The little bob holds it. This
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we I'm loose, you know, something like the barb and a spear.
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In fact, that's how Moran happened to have this one. After he and
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his girlfriend have been attacked by these these things, they found this still hanging
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in the flesh of her neck. Through the center of this needle. There's
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a hole the size of a hair at one end and slightly larger at the
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other. What is it gadget? Used for a nick injecting something into the
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blood? No, Patsy, I don't think so. I feel sure it
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was used for taking something out. Did you see that early this morning the
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police found the body of the other girl who was with Phil yesterday. Yes,
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I know, and she died exactly the same way door I didn't.
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That's the thing that puzzles me about this whole thing is this The killers don't
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act like human beings, and yet they must be nick. This couldn't be
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a sort of repetition of Edgar Allen Poe's story Murders in the Room Morgue.
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No, no, no, no, Patsy, there are no monkeys or
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apes in this killers must be human beings unless unless what Patsy, Well,
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there's one very obvious idea suggested by the fact that each body had a hole
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in the throat, and that each body was practically drained of blood. That's
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true, particularly as there was no blood found on the ground near the bodies.
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That's just what I mean. It certainly suggests, I mean, you
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can't help thinking of well, vampires, isn't that what you mean? Well,
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yes, of course I don't believe, Bessy. What is a vampire
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actually? Why? It's a sort of huge back which kills its victims by
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sucking the bloods in the tropes. Eh. Have they ever been known to
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attack men? Why? I don't think so, except in stories. Could
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about leave footprints like a ten year old boy? Of course, not bats
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of clause. Well, I know it's silly, Nick. I don't believe
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in them. I know there are no such things. It's just that I
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know, I know, Betsy. It's just that it looks so very much
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like what we've heard about vampires that it's an easy, if impossible solution.
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But Nick, these girls were murdered, so there must be an answer.
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Of course, Patsy, of course, but I refuse to believe in the
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supernatural. I feel sure that the answer must be that somewhere there exists a
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sect or creed that uses human blood and its rituals religious or otherwise. Do
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you think the blood is the answer, not the killing? I do.
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I feel certain, Betsy that these girls were not, in the strict sense
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of the word murdered. Not Nay, no, Betsy. They died because
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for some reason the blood was grown out of their bodies. Is this the
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patch of woods where Phil Morgan and his girlfriend were attacked last night? Nick,
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Yes, Scubby and I think this is probably the best place for the
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test. Well, gee, this is dangerous business, Nick, letting yourself
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be used as bait for these creatures. Suppose they get the best of you.
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Well, that's a chance I'm taking, Scubby. I had a long
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talk with my friend Rayship and Anders yesterday. You know, he's an explorer
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and scientist, has been over the word Babio knows more about the peoples of
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the Earth than anyone else, But they can't tell me the answer to this
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puzzle. He agrees with me that I'm on the right track. Oh,
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I don't like it, Nick. Even if these are human beings, they
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can still be fiend. Would you say you're going to do it? I
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know better than to waste my breath arguing with you. Thanks, Kevvy.
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No, you'll help me get ready for the test. Oh sure, sure?
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What do I do? Well? First, I'll set this camp chair
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up here in the center of this little space in the trees. I'll hold
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the lights while you sort out those ropes you out there. You find there
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are twelve less sues. I want you to lay them on the ground around
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this camp chair so that the whole space is covered with them. Oh you
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mean so that nobody can come near the chair without stepping in one of the
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last shoes. Oh I get you. Yeah, like this, that's right,
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Scuby. Then bring the free end of each rope here to the chair.
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I'll tie them together and then tie them to my wrist and I can
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tighten them all at once with one pull when the time comes. Hey,
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this is quite a stunt me, But from what the young people told me,
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these creatures are weak enough, so why should be able to hold several
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of them without difficulty? Are Is that what you want? Nick? Yes,
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Yes, that's fine, Scubby. Now I'll sit in the chair,
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hold the end of the ropes, spike. Now, if you'll take this
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bag of corn meal, sprinkle it all around this space, over the ropes
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and everything, and I'll be all set. Okay, Nick, Hey,
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what's this corn meal for? I hope to get some footprints, and I
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may also serve as a trail that we can follow afterwards. Oh I wish
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I were sure you were going to be safe. I don't like this whole
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business, neither do I. It has to be done. This is the
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only way I can see to do it. There had enough corn meal spread
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around, Nick? Yeah, fine, Scubby, all right, I'm all
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set. I remember Nick, I'm going to be just outside the woods with
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a couple of Rowley's men. One shout out of you and we'll come and
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running. Fine, Scubby. I hope I won't need you, but I'm
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glad to know you're there all So long for now? Oh so long?
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Nick, Hope you come out of this, Okay, HI will don't we
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h? I wish I felt assured of that as I sound. Oh,
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come on, come on, you're coming, Let's get this over ah.
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But what really did happen? Well, after Scubby left me, I waited,
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awhile nothing happened. I waited some more. Still nothing happened. Then
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I heard some funny noises overhead. Suddenly a swarm of somethings dropped on top
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of me out of the trees. I tried to fight them off, but
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in spite of the fact that they were weak, there were so many of
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them I scarcely move tried to catch one of them, but I couldn't seem
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to get my hands on anything. Gosh, what a feeling that must have
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been. Yes, I say so. And I felt a piece of that
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bur lamp over my face and smelled a strained, sickish sweet odor like oranges.
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I felt dizzy almost at once, and something get me in the back
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of the neck. And that's all I know. Did you see anything,
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Scuby, No, Patsy. After I left Dick, I waited for a
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few minutes, and then I heard those queer noises, so I dashed into
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fight all that was going on? What did you find? Well? Nick
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was flat on his back the burlap over his face, footprints all over the
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corn neel, and nothing else in sight. Did you try to follow any
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of the princes? Oh? No, they were all over the place they
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seemed to go in all directions. Would have been hopeless to try to follow
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them, so that the net result of the evening's expedition was just exactly nothing.
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A fine thing. Nicholas Carter's office. Oh yes, lieutenant, what
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how long ago? All right, I'll tell him? Yes, thanks,
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goodbye. That was Lieutenant Riley Nick. He said that they just found a
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third girl in the park, murdered in the same way as the others,
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the same hole in the side of the neck, and no blood left in
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the body. Now I know I'm right. The tachers don't want any blood
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except from women or girls. They won't touch men. That's why they did
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nothing to me after getting me completely at the Mercy last night. Well,
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I'll try it again tonight. I've got a different setup. How different,
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Nick, I'll address myself as a woman. Oh that's silly, Nick.
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If they want women's blood, they'll know fast enough you're no woman. And
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besides, there's another reason why you shouldn't do it yourself. What's that while
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you acted as your own decoy last night, you were so busy defending yourself
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that you didn't have a chance to do anything about catching one of them.
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Yes, I know, I know that's true. But there's no other way
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to do it' Scubby. There is one other way, Nick, A much
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better way. What's that, Patsy? Use me for bait but nothing doing.
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Patsy, you think I'm going to risk your life, You risked your
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own life. I'm no better than you are. That's different. No,
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Patsy, I won't let you, and that's final. It's not final,
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Nick. Three girls have been killed already and two others attacked. If I
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can help put an end of these killings by serving his date for these awful
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things, I want to do it. But Patsy, you know Nick,
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no bud's about it. I want to do it, Patsy, I Nick,
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you've just got to say yea yes, I'm serious. You and Scubby
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can stand by to protect me as well as to catch one of these creatures.
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Gosh, Nick, looks as if you got yourself a decoy, whether
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you want it or not, If the lives of other girls can be saved,
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it's worthwhile for me. To do it all right, Pantsy. If
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that's the way you feel about it, I'll use you, thanks, Nick.
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Now, what are the plans? That's going to require some real thought.
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So let's put our heads together right now. Any mistake this time would
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be fatal. There. That's the last of the steaks you wanted. Nick,
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Good work, Scubby. I will fasten six traps to which are the
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four stakes, with this heavy wire, and I'll keep them from dragging their
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traps away once they're caught in them. Well, the traps break their legs,
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nak No, Petsy, I think not. They're just up us strong
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enough to clamp firmly on their ankles and keep them from getting loose without breaking
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any bones. Okay, and with the twenty four traps and a double circle
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around you, one of them's bound to get something. How far away are
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you and Scubby going to be? Right at the edge of these woods,
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Patsy? Only about one hundred feet away. You don't think our being here
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will scare them off? To you, Nick, you're being around where I
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was last night didn't keep them awaited it? No, it didn't, you
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know. I don't think they're afraid of anything. I take what they want
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when they want it, and I'm going to be close enough so that I
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can reach Patsy and nothing flat when the time comes there, Well, if
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it takes care of all the traffstick now, anything else, No, I
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guess that's all. I will just have to wait, Nick, ass Patsy.
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There's just one thing that scares me a little. Listen, Patsy,
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if you'd rather know? No, Nick, no, listen. What if
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one of those those things should get that piece of brill lap over my face
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before I could scream and let you know that they're here? How would you
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know I needed help. I've already thought of that, Bessy. And here's
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what I want you to do. As soon as we leave. You start
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talking quietly to yourself. Be starte poems, tell yourself stories, anything you
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want, but don't stop talking, no matter what silly things you may have
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to say. Then, if for any reason at all we do here you
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stop talking, we'll come rushing in after you, and that way, silence
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will be a signal that can't fail. Oh, Nick, you're wonderful.
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I might have known you'd have an answer. I feel better already. Anything
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else, passy, anything at all? No, Nick, I'll be all
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right the center of a circle of traps. I've got one of the Watchman's
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big electric glan has really the instant we hear you scream, or hear you
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stop talking, we'll turn the light on. Oh kay, Nick, you're
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leaving now. Yes, yes, we'll be going now. Good luck,
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Betsy. So long, kid, have fun, so long, and I
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hope it will be fun. Better start talking? Passy? Okay? Nick?
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Well, this is it the sun that brief December day rose chairless over
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heels of gray, and doctor Certling gave it noon a saddle, lights and
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waning boom. It's white as snow and everywhere that Mary web is she wearing
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that leather collie you got for her, Nick, Yes, I hadn't made
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so. It covers her neck, her back, and her chest. I'm
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sure sex not protection. No. I wonder how much longer the poor kid
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will have to keep this up. She's been going for almost an hour.
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She's beside of Paul Revere's ride ten times. You don't get some action pretty
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soon now I'll begin to get, Yes, but the little men are leaving
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them running away. Oh Patsy, Patsy, how you feel you? All
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right? Petsy? This Dizy's hood take care of us, Gubby. We've
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got two of those creatures, not traps. Are they dead? Nick?
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They look so No, No, they're just unconscious. The treatment was too
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rough for them, maybe, So what are they? Can you tell?
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They look like little man, That's all I can tell now, some sort
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of pigmies, obviously members of one of the Yellow Asiatic races. I should
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say, well, Patsy, what you've done is solved the case. How
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do you feel now? All right? I guess, and then let's get
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back to the office. We'll formed my scientist friend and me to stay between
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us. We ought to be able to find out what this is all about.
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You're feeling all right now, Patsy? Yes? Gobby? Oh,
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I still get the shivers. I think of all these little hands clutching me
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all over, mister Andrews and Nick getting anywhere. I don't know. I've
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been in the inner office there with those two creatures for almost an hour.
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Now and Andrews talk their language, Patsy more or less. Nick says they
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speak a dialect. It is some variation of an East Asiatic tongue. Anders
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knows one that is close enough so that he can talk to him, so
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they can talk anytime except when they're hunting. Well, Nick, what's it
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all about? Did you get anything out of a nick? Well, it
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turns out that they're not men but women. Women have belonged to some tribe,
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and they outskirts of China call themselves Tucks. There are one hundred tribes
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in those deserts. We know nothing about. This tribe of Talk must be
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one of them. Who did you find out why they killed those girls?
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Well, mister Anders here knows more about that than I do. Well it
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seems that in the Talk tribe, according to the tribal laws, when a
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woman's husband dies, she has to kill herself to provide him with female companionship
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in whatever heaven he goes to. Now, the only she can avoid this
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is to draw the blood from a female animal and sacrifice it to her husband.
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This he'll accept instead of hurt, and it must be done within six
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months after his death. But these women, being here in the city,
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couldn't get any animals, so they had to use these girls instead. As
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far as they were concerned, it made no difference. Any female animal would
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do for them. There were several widows in the group, and the end
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of six months. Time was drawing near, so they had to work fast.
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They didn't want to hurt the girls, but they hadn't to have the
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blood for the sacrifice. But what are they doing here in this country if
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they come from somewhere over in East Asia? They say that John Bailey and
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Explorer made up a band of ten men and twenty women and took them on
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a world tour, doing their native dances and their native costumes and chanting their
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weird little songs and rituals while he lectured about them. Since the war started,
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he's been touring the United States, playing in theaters, nightclubs, anywhere
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else they could book them. They've been at some nightclub away uptown for the
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past two weeks. They say, Is there any way we can stop any
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further killing. Yes, and we'll round them all up and turn them over
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to the federal authorities for detention until they can be deported back to their own
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land. Too dangerous to be allowed to run loose in a civilized country.
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Nick, and I think we owe you would bet a gratitude in this boyn
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for what you've done. It was nothing. I was glad to do it.
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Well. The women and children want to use the park. Wouldn't call
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it nothing, Betsy. But I didn't do it for them, Nick,
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I did it for you. This has been another of the strange adventures of
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Nick Carter, Master Detective, which are brought to you regularly at the same
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time by w R Mutual. What's your story going to be about next week?
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Nick? Instead of a preview of next week's story, I want to
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talk seriously for a moment about a problem that confronts every owner and driver of
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an automobile today, a gasoline black market. At the present time, there
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simply is not enough gasoline available to supply the needs of our armed forces and
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the unlimited wants of civilians as well. Gasoline is more and more necessary in
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prosecuting this war. Gasoline in its byproducts for every branch of our ever increasing
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armed forces must be filled first, and gasoline rationing is the American way of
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seeing that each of us gets his fair share of that limited supply which remains
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after war needs have been satisfied. But gasoline rationing can be made to work
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only if you and I and every one of our pall of Americans follows the
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rules and plays fair. The rules are very simple, and the very easy.
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One, write the license number of your car and ink on each of
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your gas coupons. Two never buy gasoline without giving up the proper amount of
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gas coupons. And three never buy or accept gas coupons that are not rightfully
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yours. The black market on gasoline thrives on people who think it's smart to
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get more than their fair share, even at the expense of their neighbors.
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So play fair with your fellow citizens by playing square with gasoline rations. When
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you get more than your share, someone else has to go without. The
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Return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios of WR and is broadcast over
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most of these stations every Saturday evening at seven o'clock Eastern wartime. This is
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mutual welcome back. It goes back to the pulp roots of this show.
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You know, I don't think there's any other detective show we could air where
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the answer ultimately is that the strange pygmy women did it. But that'll work
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here. Definitely a spooky story though. All right, well now on the
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listener comments and feedback, and Kevin offers the identity of our mystery. Heavy
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of the villain in Body in the Cab says isn't the heavy Wendell Holmes.
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It sounded a lot like him to me anyway. I enjoyed it. Hope
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this helps a bit again, Thanks for all you do well, Thanks Kevin,
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and sounds like a potential solution. Wendell Holmes is a New York based
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actor and many of the programs he appeared in. I back most of them.
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Nick Carter, Ellery, Queen, Secret Agent K seven and the Greatest
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Story ever told. We're based in New York, so that could work.
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If anyone disagrees, I'll let me let me know. But I appreciate the
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answer on that, Kevin. And that'll actually do it for today. We'll
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be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Doller. Be sure to follow us
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