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Nick Carter: Corpse in the Cab (EP1092) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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and especially want to thank christ for her support. Now it's time for today's
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episode of Nick Carter Corpse in the Cab. What's the matter? What is
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it? Another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective. Yes, it's another
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case for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective whose ability at solving
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crime is unequal in the case of detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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The night's curious adventure the Corpse in the Cab are Nick Carter and the
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mystery of the murder in the park. That's here, mister Ramsey, you
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are very kind, indeed to take it an interest in this problem. Wa,
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dear fellow, I consider it my civic duty. A taxi here's a
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cab now, Yes, okay, jents, make it snappy. We're blocking
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traffic, all right, you get in first, my party? You know
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my party? Thank you? What chance? I guess the quickest way to
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get there is through the park. Yes, drive through the park. I'll
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tell you where to turn. Okay, I believe it is on West fifty
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fourth Street and there's a plague out here. Excuse me driving? Yeah?
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Now, do you mind if I shut this class petition between a skull?
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Right ahead? Boss? Your pay of pay here, let me do it
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for you. Yeah, well that's better. Nice winter evening stars twinkling?
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How to pick us up for the grim busines? Us ahead? A lucky
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thing? I ran into you, lucky thing. Yes, indeed, mister
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Ramsey, it seems faint destined me to make your acquaintance this afternoon. Yes,
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lucky thing, just my little way of keeping air out of the windpipe.
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There you are, my dear fellow. He mighty lucky thing. I
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ran into you tonight. You gotta help me, Nick, you got it.
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They'll slap me and stir. Now take it easy, surety, take
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it easy, and tell me again exactly what happened. Like I said,
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two guys, hail my cap one of them, says to drive through the
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park. He'll tell me where it turned out. And when you get out
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of the park, the one guy opens the petition again and says to pull
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up. He's getting out. He tells me to drive the other guy to
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the precinct police station. And Nick, if I hadn't looked around when I
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came to the intersection and seen what I seen, I'd have driven right up
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to the pullhouse with a dead body in my cab. Me, Shorty Bentano,
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you don't remember what the man looked like, Shorty in the dark,
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I ain't got cats eyes, Nick, gee which you are jumping? And
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just Patsy buzzing me in the talk back? Oh, Nick, in the
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immitible words, mister windshow, my stomach and my backbone are now a twosuit.
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You have to are your office, sandwich, Patsy. We've got work
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to do. Work. Can I and Patsy get me a police headquarters?
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Lieutenant Riley, you're going to turn me in, Nick, I thought you'd
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help me. I am going to help you, Shorty. But the sooner
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the police know about the murdered man outside in your cab, the better it
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is for you. You're crazy, Nick, I done time. I ain't
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got a chance. If the cops find out that stiffing my buggy, it's
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curtains for me. I'm getting naughty. Sure I sit down there, Nick,
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give me the hot seat for something I never done. No, they
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won't, shorty, not well, my name's Nick Carter. Right back,
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stand back, just a little lax, that's all. Get back on our
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sidewalk, buddy. Nobody gets through here. It beats hard, Nick.
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Not one bit of identification on this, buddy. No bullet trays, no
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knife, no nothing. Why don't you want the murder to do? Raley?
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Leave his calling card. I'm always getting stuck with one of these dud
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cases. It takes monsters havel them. We don't even know who this tiff
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is. Flash a light inside here again? Sure, sure you see something
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I'm just looking you see these pockets are turned inside out? The motive was
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robbery, all right? No, Raley, I don't think so. It
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doesn't look prosperous enough to rob Nick. You're always looking for what's not there
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that might mean something. True Now, Raleigh, evidently the murderer I didn't
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care to have his victim's identity uncovered too soon. Say what are you looking
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at his hands for Nick? Rally, have your laboratory analyze this white powder
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under the nail of his right index finger. Say that there is something under
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his fingernail. Yes, I have an idea you'll find it's chalk chalk.
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But sure you're a smart one, Nick, with these lily white hands.
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Hey, this guy was a pool player professional. Maybe maybe I don't bank
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on it. Now, Raley, about Shorty, I'm holding him, Nick,
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never fear about that, now, look, Rally, he's a favorite.
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I mean he don't pull him in here? Oh great jump and Vanshee's
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Nick, I've got to Usn't Rally had nothing to do with his murder?
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If he were a party to it, he had dump the body out somewhere,
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wouldn't he where? Certainly what Seordy's been on the right side of the
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fence ever since I got out of the big house, and he's given me
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a hand on cases from time to time. I know you owe him a
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hero, and I owe you a barrel of him. Much about it?
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Well, lokay, I'll shut my eyes for twenty four hours. No longer,
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though, mind you? Thanks rolling, Nick, Well, where are
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you going to find a murderer. Oy, this is some buggy you got
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here? Nick, four speeds ahead a sirene two search lights. Anytime you
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need a show for a regular, I'll hire ron. Like driving my car,
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it's like handling a baby carriage. Oh, we're turning into fifty fourth
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Street now, Nick, all right, shorty, slow down a little now.
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What was it you heard your passenger say? One says the quickest way
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to get there is through the park. I'll tell you where to turn off.
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And any other guy says, it's on West fifty fourth Street, and
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there's a flag out, and any other guy shuts the partition, and I
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don't hear no more. On fifty fourth Street doesn't run very far here on
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this side. I don't see nothing on this block. Plays plays usually in
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public buildings, aren't there? You think maybe this is going to be a
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clue, Nick, surely everything's a clue when you don't have much to go
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on. Nick. Look, flagpole, hell, very handsome flagpole. Yeah,
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but it's a police station, a police vision. Good, what's good
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about it? Let's get out of here. You're safe until tomorrow night.
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Y Riley keeps his word. You want they should keep going slow? Nope,
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I got the first linking out, Shaine, you can put the speed
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on again. Where to now to pick up Patsy? I sent her to
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the Bureau of Missing Person's on thirtieth Street, Ah, Nick, another cop
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house. I don't like them places. George Day twenty three, forty five,
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Elmhurst Drive, occupation truck driver the last scene was wearing gray coverall.
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No, he's not the one, Jane Nick. The guy ain't been missing
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long enough for anybody to get excited about it. He's only been dead a
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few hours. I'm playing a hunt shorty. Ah, you want me to
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read the rest of the names in the listenck, Wait a minute, Petsy,
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do you have a school teacher on the list? Yes? How did
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you know? Never mind? What did it look like? Well, let
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me see and yeah. Ivan Johnson number two, Saint Anne's Drive, occupation
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professor of ancient history. Good. The lastine was wearing dark blue overcoat,
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gray hat, white shirt, blue tie, and always wears wears Pince Nez
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glasses. Yes, so did our corpse. The glasses were missing at the
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time, but the bridge of his nose bore prints of them. Boy,
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I'm glad I'm going straight even at dead wake up and talk when Nick Carter
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gets you on the Nick, how in the world did you know it would
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be a school teacher? Well, I didn't for sure, but nose glasses
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plus chalk under the nail of the index finger, plus a sensitive face,
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and the general appearance had it up to teacher for me. When I looked
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at the corpse next, I figured if he were a school teacher, he'd
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be expected home by five o'clock. His wife or family would be on Julie
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worried if he hadn't showed up by eight or so, and would call the
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missing Person's Bureau. But who want to murder a poor school teacher? One
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step at a time, busy, and we know this much already. Our
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mister Johnson intended going to the fifty fourth Street police station when he and his
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murderer Hails shot his cab. Oh, I see, Nick, Then you
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think that Professor Johnson was killed because of something he intended to tell the authority?
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Mmmm? Simple the way he calls it, ain't it? One?
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Two? Three? Yes, you're very clever, mister Carter. But don't
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you think maybe his wife could tell us what it was he was going to
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tell the copse? Perhaps he told her first. Yes, Patsy, that
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says what I do think. Uh? What was his address? Just a
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minute? I mean as here? It is number two Saint Anne's Drive.
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Right, okay, shorty, take us to number two Saint Anne's Drive and
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hurry, missus Johnson. I'm Nick Carter and this is my assistant, Patsy
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Bow. How do you do? How do you do? Missus Johnson?
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Did the police send to mister Carter? Did they find him? Did they
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find my husband? I'm only here to ask you a few questions concerning your
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husband. Oh, then they haven't found him. I really can't say.
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Now. Tell me did your husband mention whom he was going to see after
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school hours today? I haven't always comes right home after his classes. I
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thought that he might have had some special appointment today. Oh no, no,
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missus Johnson. How is your husband feeling when he left the school this
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morning? Oh? He was in such a mood this morning, talked about
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ride and justice until my head. Fairly world. You know, he doesn't
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like to see people cheated. Mister Carter, Ivan's a very honest person.
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What do you mean cheated, Missus Johnson? He said he wasn't going to
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stand by and see the students in his school tricked out of their dimes and
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quarters. He was going to see right and justice done. What school is
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this? Central High School? Ivan is the ancient history professor. He's taught
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there for twelve years. And where's his office there? Why he's at the
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same office all that time, Number twelve on the first floor. I've always
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been happy about that. It's such a sunny little room. Well, missus
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Johnson, you've been very helpful. Do you think they're fine in tonight?
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Do you think something terriblests happened? The police will keep you informed. Good
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night, Good night, missus Johnson. Try to get some sleep, thank
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you. But I couldn't not till Ivan's home. Same But Nick, I
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thought you were going to the school with Professor Johnson Todd. That's not over
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here in the West Side Business district. Glad to see on your toes Patsy
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working in all four cylinders, nose to the grindstone shoulder of the wheel roll
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that. I'm proud of you. All right, oh right, but what
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are we doing over here? And that's the moment you'll see for yourself.
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This is the place, Nick, right chunn oh wait, come on,
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Passy want me to go with you, Nick, No, you stay here
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and keep your eyes open, okay, and good luck. Come on,
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pssy. We still got a lot to do if we want to keep Shorting
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out of Lieutenant Riley's fowl clutches. I'm glad they didn't lock the front door
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on this office building, tonet Hey, it's funny there's no night watchmen here
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usually well, Patsy never look a gift horse and the teeth. No watchman,
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no trouble. It's spooky in here. There's one little in this whole
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foy which we brought Shorty in with us. He'll do us more good keeping.
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Watch outside. Do you really think this is where Ivan Johnson was this
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afternoon? We know Shorty picked him up in front of this building. And
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this is the only office building in this block. All the rest of warehouses
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it's pretty deserted if you ask me, m H. And the elevators of
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course have stopped for the knife. And this is a ten story building.
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Well, Nick, maybe if we look at the directory board we'll be able
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to figure out what office Professor Johnson might have visited. That's what I'm hoping.
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Let's see, h A doesn't seemed to be a name on this directory
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that helped us out at all. There isn't isn't, Oh, Nick,
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what'll we do? Doesn't take much brain work to figure that one. Maybe
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we can tell if we have a look at the doors of the offices in
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this building. So we just have to go from office to office. Come
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on, let's stop climbing. There's nobody on this floor. All doctors,
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and don't think Johnson's business was with any of them today. Come on up
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we go. Is there anything on this floor? Nick, No, nobody
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or nothing to enter with the school teacher, Nick, I just don't think
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I can make another floor. You've got to, Betsy, we must cover
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every floor. Well, this is the top. Yeah, and we don't
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know any more than we did before. Nick, This place is as empty
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as the number two ration book. What is it? But I heard something,
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Nick, someone in that office. Yeah, and yet the lights are
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ound. The name of the doer, says Gerald Ramsey, Promotion council.
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Let's pay him a visit. Stay behind me now to the left of my
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flash, right, and who is flashing that pretty light in my office at
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this time of night? Mister Ramsey, that's my name and yours, Nick
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Carter. Surely you don't mean that. You're Nick Carter, the great Detective.
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Sorry to value, mister Ramsey, and my assistant and I were just
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having a look around this building. Oh well, too bad, diffuse is
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blown out of my office here, or you could have a good look.
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Who are you happy? You don't happen to know of any business in this
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building that might have dealings with a school teacher? Do you a school teacher?
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Let me see a school teacher? I know, no, it is
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I never heard of it. But then it's such a lot. I never
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heard of you. Over that whole stack of packages. Oh I'm so sorry,
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mister Ramsey. I dropped my handkerchief and I was leaning over to pick
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it up. Anything breakable in them? Oh no, no, no,
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it's quite all right. Oh thank goodness for that. Yes, just some
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things a friend of mine left here until he came back. Just leave him
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there, I'll take care. No, let me pick them up. No
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no, no, no, never mind, he just leave them there.
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They won't mind staying where they are for a while. I'm sure. Well
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all right, if you say so, yes, I do, so you
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can just run along and continue your search for whatever it was you were looking
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for good evening, good evening. I'll pat see if you're okay. We
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better be on our way. Sorry we disturbed your reverie, mister Ramsey reverie.
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It's good. Really was an odd specimen. I think he knows anything.
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If he does, he isn't talking. Come on, Oh gosh,
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Nicoll like climbing up and downstairs just for nothing. I'm worn out. Maybe
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it wasn't all for nothing. Patsy, you mean you found a clue somewhere
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here. I don't mean anything yet, but Nick, I hope you could
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still walk well enough to get down the ten flights of stairs ahead of us.
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Patsy, I don't feel quite like carrying you just now. I guess
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I can make it under my own power. Where to now? Central High
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School times are wasting and we still haven't uncovered a clue to the murder of
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the man and short his cab. Gosh, Nick, what do you expect
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to find in the schoolhouse at this time of night clues to Johnson's murderer?
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I hope it's no use, Nick, Janet is not here. I have
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one more dry that racket should wake up the ghost of him. No answer,
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so Nick Carter's trusty picklock will do the trick. M Oh, it's
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black as pitch in there. Stay right beside me. It seems to me
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I heard that one before tonight. And look, Nick, I bought my
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machines in the dark and that that character's office. And so if you don't
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mind this time, I'd like to see where I'm going. Okay, Betsy,
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I'll use my flash and keep it down low shin height. Well that's
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better. Now, come on, better hurry he or our friend Shorty's going
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to be sitting in the clink with a murder wrapping on him. Okay,
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And she said his officers on the first floor, didn't he Yes, number
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twelve, all bright and sunny here we are, Nick, number twelve.
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I wish it were bright and sunny in here. Now this time, we'll
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just spencer the formalities of announcing ourselves. The door's open, Nick, Yes,
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so it is. One snap on the light. Patsy switches right behind
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you. Okay, Hey, looks like somebody else has given mister Johnson's room
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of going over. I'm afraid we got here too late. Paper's all over
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the floor, window wide open. What do you suppose they were looking?
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For same thing. We are Betsy Clothes, except for a different reason.
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You think it was the murderer. Could be what are you reading? Nick?
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This poster in the wall here a dollar buys a destroyer. High school
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students subscribe just one dollar to the high School Victory Leap and help buy a
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destroyer. That's a second time tonight I've seen something like that. Oh where's
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my Handky, need any help? No, I've got one right here in
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my pocket. Hey, wait a minute, where'd you get this? What
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the sticker that came out of your pocket with a handkerchief? I don't know,
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Nick? Why? Why? It's got the same legend stamped on it
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that That poster has Victory League, so it has. Did you buy this
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sticker? No? I buy my destroyers by buying war bond. Well think,
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Patsy, what did you get it was in your pocket with your handkerchief.
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Well, I don't know, Nick, I never put anything in this
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little pocket except my handkerchief. I can swear this stick away. See anybody?
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Oh, oh, nobody here? Now you okay, Patsy, I
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guess so what happened? I just happened to look up in time to see
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a man poking a gun through the open window. So that's why you pushed
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me out of the way so fast. Yes, there was no time to
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be plagued. Thanks Nick. Did you recognize the man at the window?
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No? Too bad, he got away, g Nick, you certainly shot
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that light out fast. Well, if he can't see us, he can't
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shoot us a very large mister Carter. Hey, Patsy, give me that
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sticky you picked up tonight. Do you think it means something to this kill
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you? Bet? I do. I've just remember where I've seen one like
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it. Never mind, now, well, Patsy, this case is beginning
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to add up. I'm not mistaken. The sticker splits it wide open.
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Come on, I've got a job for you to do on your own,
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and right now. That means you've got a job that you're going to do
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on your own right now. This is the plan, and if it works,
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we'll nail our murderer red handed. What you in here, my dear
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fella, you know I'm in here. Did you get the fuse fixed?
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Yeah? While I was fixing it, I got something else too. Come
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on in you snap on the light and see what I picked up. Snooping
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around down the basement of this building, see Nick Carter. Well where mister
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Cattery back again, still looking for the same thing. No, I found
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what I was looking for. Oh, good, good, it's very fine.
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I already lifted his rod buss. What do I do with him?
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Now? You've had your chance, my dear fellow, Now it's mine.
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You know I have a general impression you men don't like me very well.
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Dog sure, mister Carter, we love you, but we'll love you a
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lot better when you don't talk no more but very bruntly, mister carry But
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that is the idea. Now, mister Ramsey, just what do you think
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I could say that would harm you? Don't let him fo your boss.
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When I was hiding in the bushes outside the window back there at the schoolhouse,
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I heard him tell that in the case was wide open. That up
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lefty. Oh so as you who took those shots at us through the window.
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Yeah, and you ain't gonna do nothing about it. It was pretty
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smart though, figuring out it was mister Ramsey what rubbed out the school teacher.
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You already complete idiots. Stop that full tongue of you. Yeah,
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what's a deep boss, He ain't gonna lift it? Tell it true.
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That's true. Yeah, since you know so much, or we have only
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one recourse, mister Carty, give me the gun left here. This one's
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on me. That's a matter, Ramsey, as long as I'm not going
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to live to tell it, maybe you'll confirm a deduction I made. Shade
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made. A condemned man is always grand. At one last request, speaker,
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This high school Victory League's at Florna, isn't it. You're playing on
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the patriotism of school kids to get them to donate them money to build destroyers
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and planes, but the money never gets any further than your own pocket,
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isn't that it? Oh? Yes, mister Curdy, since you put it
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bluntly that way, I am forced to admit that you're entirely correct. But
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may I ask what it was that led you to believe that I was behind
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the league. Yes, when I was at Professor Johnson's office, I saw
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a poster ru on the wall advertising your dirty leap. Please, mister Cay,
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I mean just that, swindling high school students out of the few dollars
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in the name of a patriotism that you never do the meaning of us about
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the lowest form of stealing that I know, just let me take a pocket.
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We could afford to be good natured. Mister Carter hasn't much time,
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you know. You go on, mister curty, As I said, I
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saw the poster on the wall advertising your dirty racket. And then Patsy found
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one of your stickers in her handkerchief, where she'd pick it up off your
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floor. I recalled. Then, seeing that each of the packages he knocked
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over in here had a sample sticker pasted on it. It was easy enough
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then to put two and two together and get the required four. It's too
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bad that your undoubted excellence in mathematics can't save you. And oh, because
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one little school teacher suspected his kids were being cheated, Poor professor Johnson.
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It is too bad for him that I found him wandering around his building looking
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for the offices of the High School Victory League. He told me he suspected
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it with a phony outfit, and he was going to see right and justice
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done. I offered to take him right to the police station, and I
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did, although I wasn't with him when he got there. Very funny,
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very young boss. We got wait to go. Yes, well, mister
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catty, this is it. Blast and Banshee's, Nick, don't do this
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to me again. I tell you, my nerves won't stand it. Oh
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it's the matter, Riley. You got your men lying on the ground here,
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howling like stuck pigs. Sure, but what if I hadn't hit him
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when he aimed at your NICKI what if i'd missed? Tom, Nick?
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Your plan work beautifully, the whole thing, getting yourself found by Ramsey's henchman,
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and my getting rally up here to hear the confession and everything patch.
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But don't run such a split sec intensive life and death again, NICKI.
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But my heart won't stand it. But it was worth it just to see
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Ramsey walk into the trap like a bear looking for honey. Oh, shurey,
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come on in. Take a look at her handlework. Gee, shut,
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that's the bomb who tried the primate to the hotsheat. You'll be getting
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it themselves before long thanks to Nick carter Aly. I want to tell you
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something. Of all the criminals I've tracked down, catching Ramsey gave me the
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most pleasure. Trading on the patriotism of school kitchens about the lowest ret in
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the world. Why that is a nazisar. A guy like this is worse.
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You're right, Nick, use headed, Nick, oh rally, You've
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got all the evidence you need, the package of posters in the next room,
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the package of stickers here, and the confession. Right, Nick,
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we can take over from here, thinks Okay, Riley song hellong, Nick,
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so long, Oh Patsy, come on, chin up, carry on
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and all that sort of O my chin. That's worrying me, Nick.
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It's having to walk down those ten flights of stairs again. That'll be the
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fourth trip tonight. Why Patsy, and at your age too, Nick,
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can't we just sit here on the top step for the next six hours?
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You think you'd be arrested enough then to walk down the tent flights. I
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think that by then the elevators will be running again. And what a wonderful
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invention the elevator is. This has been another of the strange adventures up Nick
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Carter Master Detective, which are brought to you regularly each week at the same
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time by w R Mutual. Now tell us a little about next week's story,
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Nick, Well, next week's story includes rather more adventure than actual detecting.
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But if Nick hadn't been able to make the first few deductions that really
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started him off on the right track, there would have been no advance,
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and there was adventure, and plenty of it. I came nearer to meeting
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my match when I met doctor Donaldson, then an an the other time in
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my career. This doctor Donaldson was a specialist in secret and dangerous poisons,
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and he tried one of them out on Nick. But in the end I
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managed to get the better of him and solve a mystery that had the police
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completely stopped. We call it the Empty Coffin because it was an empty coffin
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that gave us the first clue. And it was two different doctors making out
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two separate death certificates for the same death that led to that first clue.
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Well that's number. Now join us next week for the story of the Empty
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Coffin. So long, so long, folks, and so long to you
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Nick and Patsy until next week. In the Strange Adventure you have just heard,
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Nick Carter was impersonated by Lawn Clark, Patsy by Helen Choate. The
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story was written for Nick Carter by Bart Conray. Original music was played by
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Lou White. The entire production was under the direction of Jack McGregor. Next
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week, at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter
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entitled The Empty Coffin or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Doctor's poison Them.
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This story is a copyrighted feature of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. The
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Return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios of w o R and is
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broadcast over most of these stations every Saturday evening at seven o'clock Eastern wartime.
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And don't forget that The Adventure of Nick's adopted son, Chick Carter broadcast over
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most of these stations Mondays through Fridays at five thirty pm Eastern wartime. This
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is mutual welcome back. This was, of course a wartime episode of Nick
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Carter, and it definitely showed. In fact, I think it's safe to
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say that we don't have many any other detective series that has so many wartime
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episodes around. Usually, if there are wartime episodes, you have a maybe
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a scattering, but most of them post war because of the issues we've talked
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about with preservation. But Nick Carr, there's one series where the later years
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of the show are actually the sparcer. I don't know if in retrospect I
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would compare the people running to the rackets to the Nazis. But during time
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of worry, it does have a certain logic. I am. I continually
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am trying to find out who plays the voice of that of the heavy in
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this episode. I've heard him in quite a few things. The first thing
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I heard him, he actually was playing the apostle Peter in the radio version
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of The Greatest Story Ever Told. And cannot find his name. So if
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there's any listener out there who knows, I would love to hear from you.
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All right, Well, now on to listener comments and feedback, And
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we have this from Joan who regarding Records of Death, and she said that
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I was thinking I'd heard it all before, but with different characters. It
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was not Nick Carter in it, but I cannot remember who. And the
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lady who was recording the records had a softer voice, but basically everything else
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was the same. And she says that it's a good show to broadcast just
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before Halloween. It keeps you at the edge of your seats waiting to hear
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what is going to happen next. I believe it was made into a movie,
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and I remember them listening to records and trying to figure out who she
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was and where it did happened. Excellent black and white movie to watch too.
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Okay, if anyone's aware of the title and that love to hear on
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that. He says, I was going to tell you before I'd watched two
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movies on TCM, two Saturday Mornings in a Row with Walter Pigeon as Nick
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Carter and Donald make his Beeswax follow me. I like him. He puts
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in the comic touch and does help Nick Carter out of some difficult situations with
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bees. Tom Connickway was in this one to have forgotten its name, but
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it was a nineteen fifty forty movie. The second one was the called Sky
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Murders. It was nineteen forties. Also in regard to that, the other
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one would have been Phantom Raiders. We're only three not Nick Carter movies,
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and the other one was a thirty nine. She also says, I've noticed
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lately at the beginning of your shows that your voice has mellowed and you were
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speaking in a more relaxed way. I like this new style and has proved
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the quality of your presentations. Too. Well done, Adam, Well,
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thanks so much, Joan. I appreciate you listening, and I'll continue to
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watch and let you know what I think of the other Nick Carter movies.
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Right now, I'm working through the Saint movies, and I've also got one
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Philip Marl movie from the nineteen forties I haven't seen yet, so I'm kind
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of alternating in the Nick Carter movies as I get to them. All Right,
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Well, that will actually do it for today. We will be back
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tomorrow with the conclusion of The Calicles Matter and also with an episode of Doctor
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Tim Detective. In the meantime, sendra comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives
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