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The Chase: Elliott Preston Is Framed for Murder (EP1250s) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the one thousand, two hundred and fiftieth episode of the Great Detectives
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of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam
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Graham. If you have a comment, send it to me Box thirteen at
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go to support dot Great Attactives dot net. Well, we've got a
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couple of programs We're going to bring you first about a nine minute clip and
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then we'll get into our as they would say on a DVD, a feature
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presentation, the big thirty minute show, and we'll have details on that series
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in just a few minutes. But first I'd like to talk to you about
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team ups. When I was growing up, there was I was a huge
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fan of the Nancy Drew Files, the new Nancy Drew books being put out
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in the late eighties and into the nineties. The one thing I like more
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than the Nancy Drew Files was the Hardy Boys Case Files. And the one
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thing I like more than the Hardy Boys, Case Files was The Hardy Boys
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and Nancy drew super Mysteries to see for favorite characters from different stories coming together.
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It's a very unique thrill, particularly when it's done right, so it's
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not happening like every week or every book, and it's become more common as
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time's gone on. Certainly in superheroes, crossovers pretty regular thing. Detectives are
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not so much, just because they tend to be individual performers. This did
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not happen a whole lot during the Golden Age of radio or in most other
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genres. However, today I'm very pleased to bring you a little comedy sketch
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and again remember it's a comedy sketch featuring the actors who played the thin Man,
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Casey crime Photographer, and Sam Spad along with Colon Oyle Crime Doctor Detective
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series. It's a little bit subpar in my opinion, the host of Inner
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Sanctum and doctor Christian who's wasn't a detective at all, but they kind of
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needed to squeeze them in. This is from Stars in the Afternoon, which
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was an ninety minute program I stumbled across in my search for radio programming.
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Radio program Excuse Me, featuring the Great Jimmy Duranty. This was a program
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in which CBS showcased all the talent it would be offering in the course of
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its fall lineup. And they actually had two separate one and a half hour
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programs they did, and they gave a lot of these comedy and music acts
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a lot of play. The big problem you run into in a situation like
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that is wanting to showcase detective stories and other type of programs that don't lend
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themselves to a three to six minute skit. So they came up with something
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clever. Well. Certainly the way the characters are written are not exactly true
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to their radio presentation, it's still a trait to see. So many actors
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who played great attractives featured sort of in character. So here is a non
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minute clip from Stars in the Afternoon, original air date September twenty second of
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nineteen forty six, Only All Stars Calling All Stars, Rhyme Doctor, the
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host of inter Sanctum, Sam Spade, Kasey, crime Photographer, the thin
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Man, Wake up and going once to the home of Edward Disbube. Stay
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home, wealthy sportsman whose life has been threatened. Hurry on over if you
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don't hurry, it'll be all over over. Yes, yes, who is
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it, doctor Roadway crime? Doctor let me in? Oh, doctor Roadway,
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I'm glad you're here. Read this this stode I got note. Yes,
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yes, they're gonna kill me. There has to be save me,
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help me, doctor Roadway, Thank god, this and may Oh my god.
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Maybe nothing you can do is save you. You will be killed tonight
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at midnight. And it's twenty three minutes to twelve. Now don't let them
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save me. I'm too young to the hobby, old, are you?
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Mister Mayha eighty six? Eighty six is going on eighty seven? I hope.
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Well let's go too. No, they should be that eight of us
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off. First, you must answer for your questions. Oh, anything,
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anything, but with the scurry, it's nineteen minutes to twelve, it must
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be anything. Well, first, who sent this note? Who said it?
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Yes, it's not signed, very untidy way of doing business, Just
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a note that someone's going to kill you and nothing more, no signature,
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no date, no cos I come, mister day Off, I must say
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you're not being ready to co operative. Well I'm sorry, doctor odd Way.
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I know there should have been more clues, but I only got to
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note a half an hour ago. I didn't know what I was doing.
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My life was at stake. Climsy excuse well, I didn't know which way
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to turn. I called every detective I could think of. Why aren't they
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here? Oh there's somebody now? Seventeen minutes then yes, yes, was
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it? How are you doing, miss may Off? I'm Nick Charleston man.
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That's my wife, Nora is may Off. How do you do?
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Miss may Excuse me, I'm so sleepy. I beg your pardon, madam.
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This is mister Mayhoff. I'm doctor Roadway, but not the crime doctor.
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To say, Laura Darling is Doctor Rodway, the crime doctor we listen
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to every Sunday night, do we, of course? Baby, Doctor Ordway
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is the man who helps to please solve all those difficult crimes by William Deductions.
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Oh yeah, but is it strange you've never been able to catch Johnny
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breaking into those thousands of store windows. He's always coming out of. Oh
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so nice to see you, doctor. Mind if I lie down, I'm
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so sleepy, not at all. I hardly knew you with your eyes open.
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Please, it's fifteen minutes to trolle. My life is a step This
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no knife, got note, the note flitting my life? Doctor Way has
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it? Yeah, they have it. Look, how do you make of
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it? I think can help? Do you die at mid night? Who
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sent this? Who sent it? I don't know, don't know who sent
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us? No, no date, no signature. Come come, mister Mayo.
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Exactly what I told him. Naked people must get threatening letters. At
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least they can do if apply us to some clue or other. Yes,
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she's all right, back good way, always making it as difficult as the
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case. We had a year ago. Last sponsor. I wasn't a sponsor
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before that, nor Darling. What sponsor was there? Oh? Please?
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Oh yes, it's the sponsors nineteen forty four. It was a late autumn
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night. The options were just beginning to fall. We had a client like
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this, hapless man here thirty, well lucky he was going to be killed
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at nine o'clock? Fight? Is it twelve? With this specific coast time
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for the repeat broadcast? By the way, do you ever repeat badcast Broadway?
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Oh? Yes, yeah, keeps me up fright forty late. I'm
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a naked does oh yeah, Sadie. Well anyway, but this man told
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me about the notes. We took every report we folded the doors, barricaded
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the wind. Oh. We had police on every foot of ground around the
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apartment, on police doors, electric eyes, burgler alarms. Every precaution known
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of criminology was taken to see that this man would not be killed. At
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nine o'clock, Christmoster journals what happened to the man? He was killed?
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About until ten o'clock we had all gone home. He were dead, tired.
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He was dead, and he was tired. Nick Darling, please twelve
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minutes the twelve. Won't somebody do something? Mister may if I'm Casey crime
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photographer, hold it, thank you, look for it the Morning Express priest,
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mister Casey, would you please do something? I got this note.
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They're going to kill me midnight, midnight, ant wait till midnight. We
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got a price at once play that I'll take one more, but I don't
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want to lie down on the floor. I'll take this count Hello, shoot
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book, I'll take one of you too. Excuse me flash, I'm Nick
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Child and then man, this is my wife Nora. Oh hello, okay,
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I listened to you every Friday night. I should have known that was
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you ly man as a child, and I'm dot Broadway. The clime,
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not bad. I hadn't know you, doctor. I listened to you on
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Sunday nights. Thank you. Won't anybody say they listen to me on Thursday
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nights. Won't anybody listen to me tonight? I'm going to be killed at
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midnight. I'll have it more a minute, well and fight. They're gathering
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with the client crat the friend clad by the gathering. All we need now
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is Sam Spade. I am Sam Spade. Where's the body? Oh,
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mister Spain, I'm so glad you came, but there's no body here,
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nobody here. What are these people doing here? Oh? Miss the State.
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My name is doctor Roadway. This is Nick Charles and his wife.
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Noah, it's a case of the client photographer. We've all been called in
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on the case. Get going, you guys. I work alone, but
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mister Spain, in nine minutes, I'm going to be killed nine minutes.
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Okay, I'll be back. I have a check ready. Oh, I'll
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give you anything, Sad, I'll give you any anything, anything, only
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save me. You'll read it's no, no, no, I want cash
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people have I'm going to be killed at twelve o'clock. Well, let's get
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it over with I got my own broadcast to make tonight. Oh it,
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thank you, mister Day. Let's put it in the morning Express imagine of
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the case we got sponsored before last. Remember, Laura Naky, it's late.
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I'm getting sleepier by the minute. Yes, think it's three minutes to
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twelve. I'm sleepy. I need do something for me to do something a
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statement? Yes, who is this coming? Good evening? Friend? Oh
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it's the host for me to thank him? What No, b they're just
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in time, just in time for murder. Oh, don't rush me.
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I've still got two minutes and once the Inner Sanctum host doing is He's no
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detective. He doesn't even know enough to oil the hinges on his door.
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It's mister Charles, the sinastus sleuth. How are you doing, mister host
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Dracula the detectives call off of the killers like vampire, the vacuum tube,
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A little bit to the batteries and tomboy of television. Become flatterer? How
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business down at your quick joint these Monday nights, mister holl oh, gory
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be we're killing him. Love to have you down some Monday night. Would
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you like me for dinner? I tooes please, please, please, please,
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fellows, it's just a few more seconds. Can't any of you do
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anything safe? Please? Thank Gottshall, thank you. Look for it in
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the money you spread. Oh lovedy Well, we won't beat me here anymore
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anything you said, anything against you? Just a minute talk old way we
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know he said, get him don Let's make sure the corpus is the lec
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time. Somebody looking for a doctor. I'm doctor Christian. Oh, come
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on, doctor Christian? Are you every Wednesday night? I'll dody. She's
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fine, thank you, and I was missus. Charles's eeving any better?
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How's he doing? Fine? Thanks, that's good. That'll be five dollars
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five dollars. Oh, that's my five dollars. Yeah, that's my waylar
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fee for coding on the safe. What's your regular faith? For calling him?
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I'm dead? I'm sorry. I don't understand. We think your face
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is dead so fast I just got here. We think he was dead before
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we called you. My fee is still five dollars all of the chance he
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may not be dead. And if I find he's nut, he okay,
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you're the five dollars here. He is very will no pose, no heart
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beat, no blood, He's dead. Isn't he done? Not necessarily?
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What do you mean if a man has no post, no heartbeat, no
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bloody, is dead. That has been disproven or disproven Rank Sinnatra, welcome
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back. Probably the most out of character portrayal was Doctor Christian, who was
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exactly the opposite about money. But they were just having some fun and I
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hope you enjoyed it. If you do have the app or the premium sit
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we will go ahead and post the whole version of Stars in the Afternoon for
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those of you who are curious to hear all of the music and comedy that
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was pumped into that ninety minute show, which was really quite impressive. Well,
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now we turn to our main feature, and that is The Chase.
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The Chase was an NBC dramatic anthology series. In many ways, I compare
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it to escape, maybe a little bit like suspense, and it introduced this
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theme of chasing or being chased, and the result was often mystery, intrigue,
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and excitement. And today's episode one of the earlier entries in the series.
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The fourth episode, in fact, is a great example of a good
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episode of the Chase. The Chase did not have the big name stars of
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a lot of the earlier Golden Age Anthology shows, but I think they quit
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themselves quite well here, and I hope you will enjoy today's episode. The
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original air date was May the eighteenth of nineteen fifty two. The title is
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Elliott Preston is Framed for murder. The National Broadcasting Company invites you, by
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transcription to join the chase. In the animal world, there is the hunter
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and the hunter, hound and fox, hawk and sparrows, chicken and worm.
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We in the topmost species have also joined the hunt. But who is
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to judge precisely which of us are hounds or foxes? As we enter the
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chase. It was all very simple, really, and yet so complex,
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a nightmare with partial overtones. The love dear Chap was on me, I
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must confess I failed to find it amusing. I remember meeting Noreen in a
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Soho pub. Our reunions were brief at that time and clandestine, who were
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very much like two frightened mice, snatching moments of comfort together while the tomcats
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slept and scurrying to cover when the beast would stir. It's degrading, unwholesome,
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and I had made up my mind to put an end to it.
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Uncle Alfred'll never agree, Elliot. Oh why shouldn't he agree? I don't
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understand it. What is he have against me, Noreen, I don't know.
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He'll never really give me a decent explanation. I suppose he's a snub.
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He'd like me to marry someone prominently listed in Burke's peerage. I imagine
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some doddering old Fooley could boast about it and play chess with You're much too
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young and attractive for my guardian, Darling. Besides, you don't like chess.
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Do you love me? No? Ring? Would you prefer an earl
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or a duke? I wouldn't exchange the House of Lords to your little finger?
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Well, then that settles it. That settles what. I'm going to
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have it out with Sir Alfred today. You'll either grant permission for our marriage
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or I'll know the reason why. No, Elliott, I'm afraid you're afraid.
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I'm afraid of what. Uncle Alfred's such a beastly temper. You can
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be rather touchy yourself at times. Don't want any unpleasantness, Darling, particularly
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for you. Unpleasantness. I'll simply put it to him, just like that,
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A good reason for standing between us or stop meddling in our affairs for
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Elliott and I don't argue Darling. My mind's made up. Is he at
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home now? Yes? He should be well. Then I'm off to be
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at the Lion whish me like. The Ainslie House was near Grosvenor Square,
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rather large forbidding place that had been fashionable in the Edwardian era. I never
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liked it to begin with, and it took on an even stronger order of
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seediness and disrepair. As I stood before the door, on the verge of
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what would be a sordid and uncomfortable scene at best as Noreen's legal guardian,
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there was no answer to my ring, which I repeated several times. I
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was rather disappointed. Now that I had made my resolution, I wanted to
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have done with it. It soon became apparent that the house was empty,
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and I reluctantly started to turn away, because at that point I first noticed
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the blood on the outer door. I realized then that the door was ajar,
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and as I pushed it open and stepped inside the narrow hall, I
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had a premonition and a sudden, almost overpowering impulse to flee. At that
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moment, I reached Sir Alfred Ainsley's drawing room, and so I'm sprawled out
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on the floor near the telephone with a twelve inch carving knife protruding from his
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chest. Yes, yes, no, Reen, I was worried about you
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and Uncle Elphick. Where are you calling from? Is anyone with you?
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Come over to you uncle's house immediately and say nothing to anyone something frightful?
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How are you no ring? My first thought, of course, was to
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notify the police. Some instinct made me hesitate. Instead, I decided to
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make a thorough check of the body and the room, and what I subsequently
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discovered was enough for me to thank my lucky stars that I hadn't called the
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authorities. Uncle Alfred, It's horrible I found him lying here like that just
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before you've phoned. Well, well, what do you believe me? Believe
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you? Darling? Darling? Do you think for one moment that I even
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imagined you could do a thing like this? Perhaps you'll change your mind,
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Noreen, After you see what I'm going to show you what you're saying,
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Elliott, stand looking at him any closer? Try come over here. There
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is outstretched hand. Can you make out what is clutching in his fingers.
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Morena looks like a piece of silk, part of a necktie ripped from the
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bottom a necktie. Mine, what there's a particular pattern, very unusual.
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I'm here to this desk for a moment. I want to show you something
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else. What is it, Elliot? There's a letter here, evidently written
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by your uncle before his death, and plain enough view, isn't it wow?
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The letter warns me and no uncertain terms, to keep away from you.
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The first to me is a hot headed scoundrel and suggests that I'll be
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turned over to the police if I cause any further trouble. Furthermore, the
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knife now embedded in Sir Alfred's chest came from my kitchenery. I can recognize
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it by the nick and the handle. I only bought it a little over
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a week ago. On top of that, I found a second note,
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presumably from my own pen, threatening your uncle with violence. I shouldn't be
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surprised if I even found my own fingerprints on the walls the furniture, on
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the weapon itself me means that I'm being made the goat in a diabolical plot.
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Someone has deliberately and brilliantly planted enough evidence against me in this room to
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send me to the hangman. The necktie was torn from my flat. I
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missed it several days ago. The kitchen knife was also stolen. Your uncle
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wrote his no doubt about that mine was cleverly forged. Frankly, I couldn't
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tell the difference myself. If I hadn't known, I didn't write it.
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Some genius has gone and do great pains to arrange a tight little frame around
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my neck, noring a hangman's noose who I don't know. I'd better find
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him before the police find me. We could destroy the evidence that would help.
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So it was planned too clever, in probably just the beginning. It
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must be more of it around the house I've hidden in my rooms or sent
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to the police. So I was seen coming in here just now, Sir
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Alfred's name, but he was leaving his house as I rang his bell.
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He had a good look at me. What should we do, Elliott?
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Fight of all the evidence and everything, you you still believe I'm innocent,
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Darling, I love you. Isn't that enough? I'm sorry that Sir Alfred
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that doesn't matter now, Elliott. I was fond of him. It's height
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of his composity. I really thought he did everything that for me. Please
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dead, Elliot, and you're alive and in great danger? Where can I
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start and even begin to look for this villainous cutthroat? Well? Why should
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I have been made the escape? Good? Who is he? Where is
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he? Elliott? Shall I answers? Wait? Let me are you there?
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Yes? Please? Who's calling? H I'm a secretary. This is
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Thomas Travel Agency. So Elford wished to book two seats on the Bow Train
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to Paris and Cape and the Orient Express to Zurish. Two seats. Yes,
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we booked him and he can pick them up at Victoria's station. I'll
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tell him thank you. Were you supposed to go to Switzerland with the Uncle
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Mareen? I know? Did you mention the prospect of a trip to you?
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No, he has booked two seats. Who would his companion be.
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Can't imagine it unless unless what there's been something mysterious going on concerning Uncle Alfred
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and another man don't know his name. Uncle Alfred's being very busy for the
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past few weeks. Quite unusual, I mean, well with what I took
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to be business matters. Sir Alfred retired two years ago. Yes, I
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know, it in spite of that, he's been conferring with some one regularly.
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I asked him about it once, and he seemed to be taken aback.
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I remember he was short with me and told me to mind my own
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affairs. One chance, one in a million chance of what, But this
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business acquaintance may turn out to be the man we want. If he is,
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he may make use of one of those tickets to get away, possibly
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grasping for a straw, I know, but nothing else to cling to it.
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In any case, if you use one of those tickets, you can
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leave the country. I thought of that too. I'm picked up now.
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I won't have a chance. Pleast this will give me a breathing space and
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something may turn up. I think you can evade the police, Elliot,
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even for a while. Follow me, There's no question about it. Well,
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I'll be chasing someone else, the man who killed your uncle. Then
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there's a question of who catches up with whom first. Eliot at the service
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door in the rear, quickly, what about you? Never mind about me.
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They can't hold me for anything. Don't argue, Eliot. Maybe the
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police, run Darling, call the hotel alp and and Sura can ask for
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Noel Darnley. Perhaps you can join me later, Darling, wish me luck.
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The seats were reserved in the first class compartment numbers one and three,
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facing each other, and I'd left ticket number three at the station for my
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companion. When I entered the train, the compartment was empty. Just before
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departure time, my fellow passengers arrived. The first to enter was a woman,
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an American, evidently judging by her clothes, and the second as an
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elderly gentleman who supported himself with a cane. I watched this chap from the
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corner of my eye, wondering if he was my quarry. Just as the
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train started to move, a burly fellow over the pipe in his mouth.
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Walking to the compartment. He settled himself in seat number three. I beg
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your pardon. I do you have a match? Matt? I think so?
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Now what I hear? They be by Gumman. The accent was Yorkshire.
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My hands were large, eyes were bulging, and the jowls hung loose.
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The thing I noticed that made my heart taken extra beat was the small
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automatic revolver attacked inside a shoulder holster, revealed for a fraction of a second
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as his coat bulged open when he leaned over to offer me a light.
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Terrible, sir, is here a crime wave in the news? By gum,
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it's terrible now the chap was done in last night? Bugeted like a
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bloody goose. You mean the murder I they caught rually killer, though turned
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out to be poor man's business partner. What'ses country coming to? I wonder?
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I wonder too well. I'll be away from it all in a day
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or to rest in myself in a little chalet where a man can find some
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peace and quiet. You're you're on a holiday. I first won in two
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years in Switzerland, I take it. How do you know that you mentioned?
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Ah? So I did, but it's more likely it'll be a small
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hotel. I don't think I can afford to rent house of me own.
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Well, Uh, where are you found for in Switzerland? Zori? And
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then j Larkin? I've always wanted to see the ruddy young Frow. My
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name is spy by the way, her, but spy man's Dunley. No
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dundee ye Darnley. Oh something wrong, mister spare wrong? My name?
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Nothing wrong with it? Chappy, As far as I can see, you
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want to already do not business. Yeah, maybe we're running into each other,
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I hope so, mister Spain. Yeah it's funny. I could almost
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swear I've seen you somewhere before. No, I don't think you live in
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London. Yeah, yeah, my home is in Yorkshire. That I've been
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living in London now for some time. I see here, here, here,
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here. What's that on your code? Oh yeah, on the bottom
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looks like a speck of blood. That's paint. And yeah, I was
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touching a piece of pottery in my flat. I must have rushed against the
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paint pot Oh. Oh, excuse me leaving. I want to get a
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drink of water. I'll go along with you. I can stand and drop
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me soud man, I'll just push So here we are after you, mister
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Sky. This train's gotta rock to it like a roady board. The water
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crops at the end of the car. Wow, look at this. The
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train doors open. Some fool who forgot to shut it. A man could
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kill himself by falling through that all. Yes, it's it's it's dangerous.
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Reminds me of that poor frenchman. What french more you must have read about
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him? He was traveling on a Paris Express when he was pushed through an
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open train doors. Right, it was murdered, no question about it.
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Who pushed him? Nobody knows, they say, They say he learned too
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much about what? Oh a little affair that took place in Montmarch. Girl
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was killed and he knew something about it. They followed the poor lad and
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shoved him out, just as the trainman into tunnel. How horrible? Wasn't
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much left of him when they picked him up? Yes, yes, I
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can't imagine. If you lean over a bit, you can close that door.
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No, no, thank you? What's trouble. It makes me a
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little ill to look out this way? Yeah, let me laddie. Yeah,
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that's better much. Well, here's our drink. Thank you? Oh,
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by god more, it taste like he's been run through coal mine.
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Shall we go back to the compartment? Go along? Hey we are?
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Is this right? Numboot? Yes? Of course? Odd? Now what
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did I do with my ticket? Oh? Sorry, ma'am. No,
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let's have a look at that ticket of mine. Seems to me. Yes,
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something in the matter, mister spair. What was your name again,
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Chappy Dundee? No Dundee, so you said before he looked suspicious. For
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a moment, I wondered if he could actually read my mind. Then I
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saw him glance up above my head to my suitcase on the luggage track,
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where the initials plain enough to see were E keep darny eh. From that
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point on he buried himself in his paper while I fixed my eyes on the
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darkness rushing by my window. But I overplayed my hand so early in the
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game, and after an interval, the train roared into a tunnel as black
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as the darkest pit. And when we emerged into the gathering twilight, mister
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Herbert spy newspaper, pipe and baggage. It's gone. Are you there?
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Is this London? Where are you going? From Ny Paris? I'm just
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about aboard the Orient Express? Well, I think I found my Mannora.
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I lost him on the boat train and I picked him up again on the
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platform when the train reached Paris. I'm stay clear to him now, although
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he doesn't know it. I can see him from here waiting at the gate
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for the train to Zurich. I'm going to join you, darling in Switzerland.
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How are things getting on? Awful? It's been spread all over the
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papers. I've been questioned twice, and I didn't know exactly where you were.
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They released me. Will you stay zor again? No, I'm going
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on to Interlakin. I'll find you there. Are you sure you want to
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come? If I'm caught and you're with me, you don't care. I
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can't stay here alone any longer. I want to share the danger with you,
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Darling. I love you. So the train gates opened, i'd better
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go. Be careful you're not followed when you leave. Good Bye, Darling,
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goodbye, and wish me luck. I was careful not to let him
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see me on the way to Zurich, and when we changed trains for inter
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Larkin, I rode once again in a different car. I was right behind
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him a few hours later, as he entered the door or to the hotel,
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Yoch perched like a bird house on a hill with a mighty young crow
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as a background. An erman of terror against the sky couldn't happen? Good
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enough? Do you speak English? Resciancy English? Yeah? A little?
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You wish a room? Please? We have something here which is very nice.
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The view is excellent. Mayor have your registers. The name above mine
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was Herbert Spies and they've given him room number twelve, I asked for ten
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across the hall, then wondered what my next move was going to be.
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I found that decision wasn't mine to make. Some twenty minutes later, as
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I finished unpacking my bag, come in, spy, I believe I,
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mister spy, this is a coincidence. Is that? Well? I mean
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running into each other this way? You've been following me. Oh no,
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it's not quite true. Don't lie by gum. I let you trot along
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behind me, just to see how far you go. Now watch your game,
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chappy, what's yours mine? I'm on holiday, so I yeah.
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Why are you sticking to me like a roady plaster? Chappy? Now?
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Why are you trying to run away? Run away me? You left your
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compartment seat in the boat train to Paris to pause. If the seat wasn't
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mine, I'd made a really mistake. That's what my reservation was put to
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the car. And I'm sorry, mister spy. Sorry for what? For
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making a nuisance of myself? I mistok you for someone else, someone I've
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been searching for. Are you sure you? I want to know you again?
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You just make certain that happy. That's all I've got to say.
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I was more convinced than ever now that spy was my man. My time
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was growing short. I had to locate my evidence before Scotland Yard located me.
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There's a room, perhaps there might be something. He didn't leave it
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for the next twelve hours, and by the time Noreen arrived I was getting
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a bit nervy. You're quite sure no one followed you, Noreen. Positive
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and the London papers, what do they say? You've been marked? Elliot?
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It doesn't seem to be any question in their minds that I'm set for
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the news. Darling. We've got to do something. So what I intend
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to spy is our man. I'm sure of it. Here is a gun,
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he does in this room's luggage. There may be evidence, but stating
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so close to it, I can't break in. I'll get him out,
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Darling. You oh, a woman can manage those things one way or another.
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I don't want you getting mixed up with spy, Noreen. It's too
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dangerous, yes, but no, Rain, I suppose you'd say I was
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a can letting the girl. I love risk and safety for me. I
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had no choice. Besides, I was nearby in the room across the hall.
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If she needed him. He's gone, Elliot, the room's empty.
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I was not to force the issue before this. It's not too late.
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I know where he's gone, you fare There's a hotel near the summit.
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One of the porters told me. I met him in the hall. Will
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wait here. My dad going to follow him up the mountain. No choice,
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say his life now or a mine. I'm going to see this through
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clear to the finish. Whish me lucky. It's eleven thousand feet straight up
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to the Young Frayer. You're carted to the top by the highest rack railway
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in the world. The scenery is magnificent if you're enjoying it as a tourist,
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but one has little time for landscapes when one's very life depends upon the
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trip. It was four hours to the summit when I arrived. I had
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a bit of luck. As I was signing the register at the only hotel,
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I saw a spy walk into the restaurant for his dinner. I knew
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this was my chance to search his room. A pound note to the concierge
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that jured me a passkey, and a few minutes later I was going through
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his luggage forere the fine to his goney there's no need for that revolver.
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No, we can discuss this thing. How would you like to talk it
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over the constable? Don't try to fluff me, spy. Ah, you
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wouldn't turn me over to a constable and you know it. Why not?
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Because you murdered Sir Alfred Ainsley. I what, you killed him and arranged
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things so they'd told me for the crime. You must be young, Elliott
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Preston. Why why did you choose me? You never even met before.
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How in the name of heaven were able to steal those things from my flatten
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word your note in my name? Preston, You're a fool. Amma should
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have run away. No, what would you have preferred me to do?
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Take your place on the scaffold and you eat German? Oh what's that got
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to do with it? You might have read the evening paper with the latest
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London news. I saw it while I was having my dinner. What news?
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You've been cleared? The good thing for you. I took my holiday
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before Sir Alfred's murder was printed in papers. Otherwise my friend would have put
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you in handcuffs before that train left the London RAI lyards, I mean you're
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an Officer Scotland Yard and Chappie, I am on a holiday, a boatman's
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holiday, that appears to me now, she said, I was cleared.
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Oh what why? Simple enough they managed to find the real killer. They
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haven't made an arrest yet, but they're getting close. Whom are they looking
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for? Why, mister spy? The ball of shots came from behind me,
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and as he crumbled like a sack of flower right before my eyes,
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I wheeled to face the open door. She stepped into the room. The
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gun is still smoking in her hand. Noreen, Yes, Di, I'm
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so sorry. It was you, yes, who killed your uncle and then
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arranged it so they'd look for me. Too bad. It was wasted,
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had spent so much time. You have no idea how long it took me
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to pourge that letter in your hand, Elliott was absolutely nerve wracking. But
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they found you out. Yes, evidently I heerd in one way or another.
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Now it's my name, it's in the new day, and poor mister
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Spy just paid with his life for finding that out. Wow, why did
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you killself? He was opinionated that I was insane. Those two seats to
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Switzerland, Darling. He was bringing me here to consult as the charatrist.
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Then that was why all the time you were mad ridiculous, wasn't it.
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Don't be silly. Don't come near me, Elliott, give me the gun
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one step further and now shoot Narien. There was a large French window right
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behind her, and she tried to step backward out of my reach. She
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lost her footing and stumbled through the glass. It was eleven thousand feet straight
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down, and I hit my eyes with my fingers as she hurtled back like
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a stone into the void. But she disappeared from view. I almost thought
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I heard her voice as it reverberated like a frightful echo between the alpine piece.
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Na your turn, Donnie, wish me luck. In the animal world,
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there is the hunter and the hunted fox, hawk and sparrow, chicken
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and worm. We in the topmost species have also joined the hunt. But
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who is to judge precisely which of us are hounds or foxes as we enter
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the chase. The chase was created and written for the National Broadcasting Company by
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Lawrence Clee. Featured in tonight's cast were Joyce Lindon and Lester Fletcher. Others
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in the cast were Horace Braham and Guy Repp. The Chase was directed and
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transcribed by Walter McGrath. Next week, you'll hear another suspenseful story of a
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reporter pursued by sudden death in South America when you follow The Chase next,
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it's First Night Her on NBC Welcome Back. I did not see the incoming
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they really when I first listened to it, because they really did a good
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job of pointing the direction every way except the girlfriend, though perhaps you know,
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as I was listening back through it, you might have seen it a
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bit more obvious. There again, no real big names in this show,
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but I think it was a very professional, well done job, and perhaps
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we'll end up playing another episode of The Chase one of these days. All
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right, well, we we will continue on Monday. Remember we will be
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