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Leonidas Witherall - Square Nazi Jack Boot · Leonidas Witherall

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Wo R Mutual is proud to present Walver Hamden. Walther Hamden, a great
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adversatile actor, has in his time played many parts, but none quite likely
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all of this with Or all the hero of the adventures which we'll broadcast every
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Sunday evening. We'll meet Leonor this in action and plenty of it in a
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moment. At this moment we invite you to meet Walver Hamden. Thank you.
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Perhaps you know leonorvis with her all through the entertaining mystery stories by Miss
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Alice Tutham. I like the man, I expect to have a good time
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acting him, and I hope you will have a good time hearing his adventures.
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One of the intriguing things about Leonor This is his beard. Because of
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it, he bears a resemblance to William Shakespeare, so that strangers often asked
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Leonodus if they haven't met him in the public library? Are those addressing point
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blank? Is Bill Shakespeare or just a plain Bill? Then too, there
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is leonardous double life. He's the owner of Meredith, an exemporary school for
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boys and a pleasant New England town, and privately, confidentially he's the author
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of the Lieutenant Hazel Time stories. Lieutenant hazel Time is a fabulous hero,
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a master of every situation. On the radio, he is introduced like this,
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hazel Time to the rescue. Yes, now, Leonardus, in his
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own life is always tumbling into strange and unexpected situations. So you can imagine
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his mixed feelings when confronted with a real mystery of his own. And somebody
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says, as somebody always does, you ought to be a Lieutenant hazeltinne on
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the radio. He know what to do. But so as you may discover,
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does Leonordus. As we meet him, he's giving a tea for the
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good ladies of a local club. They're assembled in his living room and they
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chatter cheerfully as they anticipate the the freshman. And you see him, My
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dear, that's exactly like safety, wondering man, ching man, brilliant were
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all down sea. He said he has an unexpected visitor, but he'll be
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up in a this wither all will be with us in a moment. So
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let's dictation, chel were now, I mean looks like about time, ladies,
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there there'll be no tea this afternoon. There's been a murder. So
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this this is some distasteful little joke. Oh no, I'm quite serious,
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maud. There has been a murder, no fault of my own. You
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understand it was completely unanticipated. Mother. To you help the ladies with their
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things and show them to the door. Oh well, I never murder,
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come only, I'm just walk downstairs with me. Now tell me everything that
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happens. Please, been murdered, mord Why don't you just find your things?
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My caps out there as the hall classes in the hall closet? Are
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you sure I've got why I've had my kit there when I came in,
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right in that closet at the bottom of the stairs. It's impossible. You
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couldn't have put your kids there. That door has been locked for day.
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Yes, did you get your things? Had a store? No, he
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says, This closet flock lock. Yes, he says, it's beIN lock
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for days. Did you ever hear of such a thing? Try the door
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if you wander, I certainly will well see. Oh it was such a
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beautiful case too, my dear. You don't need a cape. It would
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be guilding the lily. As a gentleman, I'm supposed to resemble a said
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to gild refined gold to paint the lily to throw a perfume on the violet
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to smooth the ice and more to that effect. Oh sweet, yes,
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good afternoon on. Oh I do hope that awful, awful murder, Oh,
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whatever it is works out nicely, of course, if there was someone
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around like Lieutenant hazel Time. Did you ever hear him on the radio Lieutenant
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hazel Time. Oh yeah, yes, I've heard him, much to my
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own pleasure and profit. Well, if you don't know what to do about
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this murder business, just imagine what Lieutenant hadel Time would do. He's never
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wrong, you know, positively infallible. Have you read the books about him
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too? Oh? Yes, you know. I helped her hand the cake.
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I don't understand this at all. The afternoon more, that was the
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most exquisite case. And well you look for it and i'll call you later.
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Good that's only on this, missus Muller. Now that they's gone.
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Goodness, mister, I completely forgot there was a message for you from a
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mister ra Yes. I spoke to him on the telephone a while ago.
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He's on his way over. I think he said he was coming from the
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BANKX arrived. I've seen him when he was my unexpected visitor. That's what
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delayed me. In fact, he's still here. He is where in the
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hall closet. With all put yess in the closet, mister Yer is hardly
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in a position to complain why he's dead. Well, I'm glad ster a
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dead man in that closet. Yes, he rang my bello while ago I
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opened the door and the yerk staggered in. He was shot in the head,
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probably while standing on my doorsteps. I didn't hear no shot. I
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thought it was a blowout too. He fell over there on the rug.
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I realized he wasn't exactly a pleasant decoration of at the door when the ladies
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left, so I put him in the closet temporarily. Of course, I'm
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supposed to touch a course. Ever, Lieutenant hadel Time never does that.
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That's another point, Missus Mullett, you almost slipped up when Missus Tavistaw was
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here. I must impressed upon you again the fact that I write the Hazel
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Tine books is our pressure secret. So let's be more careful, eh.
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Are you going to open the closet door? Now? Certainly a cadaver doesn't
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belong in the closet, does it? Who shot him. I don't know
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I have any idea of what this is all about. The last time I
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spoke to mister Yerk, he called me from his bank, said he wanted
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to come over to speak with me as soon as he could. There's something
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urgent, said. The next thing I knew, my door bell rang and
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there he was. Oh it's gracious. Evidently when he spoke to you he
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wanted to confirm the appointment. Oh, would you pick up that phone and
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call the police? Well, it's about time. Keeping a dead man in
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a closet, Why it's it's sacrilegeous. Oh you're going to open that door,
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not just yet? Would you please call? I'll answered hello, Hello,
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Yes, this is Chris. I'm in the library. I have terribly
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important five hundred dollars five hundred dollars to night. I've got the heavens.
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What is it? Could you help me out? What's the trouble? Just
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the second crypt it's Professor Cripps at the school library. Missus Mullett. Wh
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I know him. I look after his room every second Thursday. A very
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nice gentlemen. Oh perhaps you could spare him five hundred dollars from underneath an
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old man it's possibly clips a part of the interruption. I think I can
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dig it up for you, you see, because I need to catch immediately.
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That's all right, I can get it for you. Would you bring
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it here to the library as as you can? This is terribly important.
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Yes, I'll be over. I think I understand by the way that hoop
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you borrowed Hearts of Blaze? It's way over you. Would you bring it
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with you? Hearts a Blaze? I never borrowed a book called Hello,
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Hello, Hello. He hung up. That's odd. He doesn't usually make
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mistakes like that. Now, shall I call the please? Oh? Yes,
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yes, of course. I wonder what sort of trouble crips could be
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in. Did he never ask you for money before? No? Never,
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you know, in missus Mullett, he leads a very quiet life. He's
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been going along smoothly for years, ever since he came to Meredith back in
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nineteen twenty seven. I think it was he came to us right after he
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was graduated from Heidelberds. No, he uh doesn't go out Gallivanton, does
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it? You know, not a bit of it. As far as I
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know. He's completely wrapped up in his work at the school. Library.
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No, suddenly he needs five hundred dollars. Why did you mention that book?
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Well, it wouldn't just be the time to call the police, Missus
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Mullett, Please beadquater Argan mccabell. Sergeant, this is Leana is Wither or
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Shakespeare all their pills, Sergeant Dinald Home you remember forty bert your road.
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I'm calling about mister Yerkes, the president of Dalton Bang. He's been murdered.
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Everything shot through the head. They're just a few minutes ago. Where
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everybody right here? All right, don't touch anything, don't leave when coming,
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let anyone else leave where on our way will be here in a moment.
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Now he take mister Erks out of there. Huh No, I think
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he's been disturbed enough to day. Oh incidentally, yes, that bust over
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the alcohol, the bust of yeah Shakespeare. Is it necessary to put the
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bust on that narrow shelf. You'll have mister Shakespeare in a very precarious position.
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Well you just wait, I dust them off. He looked fine up
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there. You see. He was careful, Missus Mullett, too careful,
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Yes, should never mind about the house. Who should be does he trying
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to find out who shot this the York he was shot by here on your
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doorstep. What is it? We then go on and get Disney. See
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see yorktra shot directly in the back of the head. Therefore the bullet must
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have come from a small area in that direction. It's squad on the lawn
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and have a look around. Now, whoever fired the gun wouldn't stand out
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here in the open. He'd can seal himself. He might have stood behind
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the trees. Now you sound like Lieutenant Hazel tired, missus Mullett, you
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know what he do. Don't shut well? I ought too. He'd stand
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behind a tree like this and see if the murder could have done his sniping
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from there. Another case of time. Touch footprints? Goodness, what kind
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of footprints are then? A very strange kind of shoe I'd say, look
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extremely large, square, definitely not the type of shoe worn by an ordinary
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man. Of course, if we knew why somebody should want to kill yer,
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he was a banker, wasn't he. Yes, well, and it's
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a question of common sense. Who would be after a banker? Someone who
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needs money? And that brings us back to crips, doesn't money? Well,
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there the police they can take over. Hello, will take fair?
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Hello, I take fair? Where's my Yark in my house? In the
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wall, closet in the closet, I moved the body and themselves. You
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move the body, you see. I had a few guests upstairs and he
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was in the way. Oh okay, all right, boys, get Yarks
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out of the closet. Usual routine pictures, medical report. Now tell me
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Bill exactly what happened. Mister Yerkes telephone to see he was coming over.
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He wanted to talk to me about something absolutely vital, he said. I
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never found out what it was. He rang my bell. I opened the
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door, found him shut in the head. Did you see anyone around?
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But this is mother and I were just looking at these rather grotesque footprints.
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Where oh here? Oh say, that is a funny kind of print,
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isn't it. I'll have a photographed the wizard right now, I'd say,
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the next top is mister Yerk's bake. You'll come along with open. Isn't
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necessarily have me to go to the bank with you. I'd much prefer to
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leave the entire matter in your hands, loves. Bill Yerkes was shut on
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your doorstep. The matter is very much in your hand. Shakespeare. Yes,
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sir, you and I are going to the bank. You're mister York's
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secretary. Yes, I am. Helen is missus Mullett's daughter. Did you
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know that? At him here? And she said, mister York's secretary here
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in the bank quite some time, haven't you, Helen? Yes, for
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about three years. But the kind of a fellow worthy friendly Oh yes,
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he was always very nice to me. He even tried to help me get
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into the Dalton Summer Theater. Helen's ambition is the stage. All she hopes
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to become an actress. Yes, Now, Helen, what we want to
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know is, do you remember anything about mister Yerkson, anything that took place,
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retion played, anything that might be a clue as to why someone should
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want to kill him. Well, there was mister Cripps. He was here
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this afternoon. Him again, go on, Well, I was typing outside
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of mister Yorke's office. Mister Cripps wanted to borrow five hundred dollars. I
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gathered that much, he said, So you're going to turn me down,
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and mister York seems very upset. He said, get out of here.
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I won't be responsible for what happened to your cripps. Besides, I don't
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believe leave your story at all. Very good impersonation, Helen, But what
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was the story he didn't believe? I don't know. Where are you going,
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Bill? Well, if you excuse me, sergeant, I'm going to
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library to see crips. That's right, quite poor. I want to return
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a book. Do you have a liny book with you? That's just the
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point. I'm going to return a book I never borrowed. I'll see you
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later, Sergeant. Who is there? Opened the door? Janks? It's
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will all Ah, Hell, mister Willer, the shiny libraries? Good?
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I see, didn't you close very earlier today? Yes, the pleasure.
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He's been having me locked up early these days. Where's it you're still here?
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Where's the quid? No? I'm all jank you mind? If I
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man believe everything is locked up, we'll be doing a very great favor from
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her. I want to turn a set in books, a book called Hot
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the Blaze. You reading that stuff. I realize it's against the rules to
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allow anyone inside, but it won't take a moment, and it's so important,
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all right, but you will have to find you way in the dark.
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I don't dare turn on lights. Mean my job and I have pleasure
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like thought might help you? How's yet excellent? Thank you? There's a
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card catalogs y. Yeah, let's see. H h e h e A.
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You aren't going to go downstairs. I'm going wherever the cod says,
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I'll find the book. Tell cools, it's it's miney spooky down there.
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For the last few days, I've been hearing lots of noises. Do you
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believe in goose? I had an uncle once. She didn't believe in ghosts.
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One night he went to a house on Graystone Cliffs, then quicks Does
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you wink? He ends up in the mart? Couldn't you? Couldn't you
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wait till tomorrow when everybody's here, I'll go along. How's that? I
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wish you wouldn't go talk? It's a wood. I could swear. I've
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been hearing creatures from the other world? Do you hear that? What?
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Listen? There are noises and every building drinks. It's because the beams become
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warped. And here we are hot, hot hot the blaze room three stack
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seven good. I'm going downstairs. I wish you wouldn't Oh, will you
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be all right? Without your flashlight? To expose the spooks. Don't joke
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about the subject like that. I had a cousin once. She was always
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joking about graves and coffins. And do you know where he ended up in
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the morgue? Because it wink? How'd you guess? Room three tack seven?
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That's this way. I'll be back. So no, no way,
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Well if if, if you're not afraid, I'll go along to and hold
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the flesh light skating too long? And let's hear it? Can you see
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you? All right? Go ahead? Room trees down this stairway, he's
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careful us take your head to that door. I open it. Shepherds to
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the left. Do you anything this time? I did? Yes, sounds
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like somebody's in this room flesh and the lights around and see look on the
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floor. It's Professor Critch. So it is James, the late professor stared,
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indeed, let me see yees stop to the back of the head,
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same story as yours. Let's let's get out of your eyes. Are you
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can't see what's happened? Don't move? Who are you? This is a
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forty five in your back? And don't own my friend? What is your
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name? You know? The swither or I thought, of fine, and
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you were then as much fun ordin of the army of the Great Right?
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Who rather saw from where you belong? Don't you I will get back?
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Of course? What do you mean? Well, I won't ask you how
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you got here or why. I thought if your answer would be reliable information.
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You may doubt you were going to bring my uncle five Mamadonna's you have
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it with you? Your uncle Krips was your uncle? Yes, that's right.
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He did mention it. Part of the family who was still in Germany.
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He was helping you with your escape. I fool him completely. I
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told him that I was a member of the anti Nazi underground. I told
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him that the Germans were pursuing me to all the corners of the earth,
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but I was safe nowhere that I needed money. Oh, he tried,
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mister yuk Yurke didn't believe the story and turned him down. Yes, then
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Yerk's went running to your house. I an idiot. I knew they might
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be tumble, So you followed Yerk hid behind tree and shot him At the
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others my place said I your shoes give you a way, my shoot a
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never mind? Why did you shoot your uncle? My uncle suddenly realized for
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toe, So you have the money. I didn't bring it with me,
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And you and I go into your house and you will give it to me
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there after which I shall kill you too. Prospects, I must, I
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must leave no one who knows about me. Of course, Come on,
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you'll walk up pairs and out of this library. You'll go together down the
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freet to your house, and you will be perfectly quast. Remember my forty
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five is in my pocket. You will give no sign, no signal.
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Fast walking, mister Weatherall walk, faster Weather all. Every minute was precious.
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We have much further to go. Just around the next corner. See,
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I knew that my uncle sends the truth about me. When you mentioned
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that book for you on the telephone parts the blaze, it was obvious that
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he was trying to tell you to go to room three takes seven. You're
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very precipitive. Oh, her good evening? More was that just a friend?
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Remember I have a forty five. Watch what you say? Well,
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did you find my case yet? I beg your pardon. Mister Heavistro,
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Mister Bed, Mister Herbstrow, Mister just arrives in town. He's touring.
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Oh, really, is this your first time in this part of the country,
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Yes, it is, it's and have you been in darsh in law?
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Not very law? Where you must let me under this show you everything
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where you come from? Out there? Recently arrived from Europe? No more
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exciting the next first of European affairs, especially on the problems in occupied Europe.
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Why that's wonderful. The staying in Dawson for a while, I hope
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No, I'm sorry, I have had fan, but you must stay for
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a few days. I'm simply dying to talk to you. As a matter
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of fact, I'm having a little luncheon tomorrow at my home. Just if
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you were by friends and some of the Meritive's faculty, and they'd be delighted
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to leave you. Won't you come over and tell us about your experience?
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I'm afraidable. Please it's o'clock. M afraid that's impossible, Leonor does you
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persuadem? Won't you? I wish I could. I do wish there was
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some way to keep him here. Are you on your way home? Lea?
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You must come to the luncheon too. I don't know if I'll be
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available where I'm going to dart In at the tailors, and then I'm coming
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by for my cake and you are going to find it. Bobby Leander,
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this if you have to turn your whole house upside down? To you both
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later, good bye, good bye, all right weather or start walking?
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I saw you a housekeeper at the window of the last time I was here.
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I want to warn you again when we go in fine, Why shan't
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say anything to missus Mulletts. Come on, Oh hello, I've brought a
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guest. This is mister van Odin. How do mister van Oden? Would
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you like some tea? I haven't much time to work up a half teeth
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tonight, I think, and add some chocolate cookies to you. How do
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it for you? In a second? Sit down? Don't you might like
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this chair? Very comfortable, sir. It gives you a view of the
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room, and I could hardly make trouble for you, could I with you
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and your revolver commanding the room from there? And if you try, scientier,
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isn't it you'll sit in that one there where I can watch you.
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Well, you look like some one I think somewhere. Yeah, Shakespeare,
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my good friends call me Bill. If you look up at that bust over
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your head. You'll see the resemblance. I tell your look, it's nothing
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to me whether or whose get the money, as you can't get up from
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that chair for that get the money? Why are you staring at me?
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You know you're the first genuine Nazia I've ever seen. What of it?
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I'm interested in your dimensions, your chemistry. I don't follow you. The
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shoes, for instance, the hard square shoes that left the footprints on my
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front lawn. I see them as the boots kicking up frenchman in the stomach,
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then swaggering away as he coughs out his life on a Parisian street corner.
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Be careful whether or what's your tie? Your hands when ed in I
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can see the precise fingers jabbing a needle into the vein of a starving school
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child in Poland to provide more blood for your degenerate warrior. Whether or you'll
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say one more word like that and I'll oh, you're not going to kill
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me it you don't know where the money is. And your eyes, Lieutenant,
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there the eyes at the bomb site over an English town, getting school
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so accurately in line, making the death of the children a mathematical certainty.
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You're wasting time. You're patstly wasting time, and your mouth the obscenities it
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must have spewed out the same vile words that were poured into your ears by
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the leaders measure, and then poured as a pharmacist would weigh a deadly grud.
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That's why I'm staring at you. When you told me that you were
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in the German army, I wanted to put you out of our way forever.
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But that would never be enough. It's not going to be enough to
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rip the swast girl from the brown house in Munich. Money are no money
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if you don't shut up. I feel that unless we go beyond that,
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unless we understan stand you, we sha'n't have won anything at all. We'll
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have to do the same dirty, heart breaking job all over again. That's
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why I should like to get at the roots of your hate and your frustration.
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And while you're theorizing we shall overrun the earth that who can appy you?
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For instance, at this moment, I am winning, is that right?
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Yes, at this moment you are. But you Germans always make the
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same fatal error. You overlook the simple things. You always fail to see
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something very simple. Here we are type and hot tea and some delicious cookies.
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Thank you, missus Mullett. Oh that bust of Shakespeare on the shelf
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for you. You haven't dusted it all? Why are certainly did? Don't
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you remember? No? Why don't it looks very dusty? Would you creep?
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I'm all right if you say so, but I know why did it?
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Well? Do it again? You're just seeing a fuss budget. I'll
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just see so. Oh my, I am sorry. I must have dusted
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too hard. It was an appault. Really, I guess I'm not your
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fraying cold. That's exactly what I hoped you would do. It's a miserable
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way you feature. Guess, first your soft one into a closet, then
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you have this one bottom the bean. Missus Mullett, you've just captured a
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portion of the German army with a fether duster. Congratulations, and may I
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present you with his revolver. I don't know what you're talking about, and
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I don't want that thing. Oh hello, barely on the this you find
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my face? I did. It's on a chair in the living room.
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I'll give it. Well, it's about time. And I just said it
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was in that post too. All the time. Oh dear, isn't that
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that nice mister Vanodin on the floor? Yeah? What's he doing there?
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Only honor this, After all, there's a robbery or something in this house.
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And now that charming man sprawled on the floor. What is this all
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about? Maud? As the gentleman, I'm supposed to resemble as written,
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I quit a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze
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thy young blood, make thy two eyes like stars start from their fears.
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I nodded and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on
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end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine. He's been acting strangely all day.
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And I suppose, Maud, we just say that mist if a node
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in being guilty of two murders, will not be at your lunch in the
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morrow. Two murders. Oh, Chrisius, this is just like one of
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those with ten fatal kine affairs. How'd you ever catch him? He made
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a fatal error. He didn't notice something something very simple, missus Mullett,
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would you call Sergeant maccabble. Certainly Will Odd has some tea, how you
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o, arvious? Will has been partly presented the singuished American actor Walter Hampdon
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as Leonidis Witherall in the first of Leonidas Witherall's radio adventures. And now,
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mister Hampton, what have we for next week? Well, graduation time seems
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to be arriving at Meredith, the excellent school of which Leonidis is proprieta,
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and Leonardus is making plans for an unusual party of the alumni. It involves
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a place that is a skating link in the summer and a swimming pool in
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the winter, and a homicide. Next week when we meet up again with
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the adventures of Leonidas Witherall. Thank you, mister Hamden. The radio script
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for tonight's Leonodous Adventure was written by Howard Merrill. The producer Roger Bauer.
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If you'd like to attend one of these broadcasts, well, if you're in
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New York or expect to visit here just right to Leondad Witherolls, or if
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you prefer to Bill Shakespeare Naked, Bill Shakespeare, Kris wor New York eighteen.
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We'll be happy to send tickets without charge. The program originates a wor
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Walter Hampden and the Adventures of Leander. This Weatherall is heard over most of
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these stations Sunday nights at nine o'clock Eastern war time. This is mutual