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sign Well, now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. The original
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air date November the seventeenth, nineteen forty seven. The title The Case of
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the Bearded Queen. Okay, you've just go the mystery all the doctor do
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now catch the killer? But how do we do that by turning you into
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a ghost, by turning me into a lot. That's three I'm going to
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make you up into the scariest dose that I've ever seen. And tonight you're
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going to haunt a chess club now also the case of the dual Grease.
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Today's adventure starring long Nick Carter, brought you by a new pulp war all
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that splendor in his small basement apartment, cut it with chess books and chestnuts.
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Old Jeremy Hawthorn sits over a test board and listens absently while two hot
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eyed men talk to him. Well, yall listen to me Hawthorn man.
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Oh yes, yes, of course he god his name twice already, pals,
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here's my boss, mister month. Oh yeah, yes, where If
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you don't pay attention, I'll do cluse. Okay, yes, Bishop to
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Queen, the only possible move unless nights. When I got a thousand dollars
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for you, a thousand dollars, then welcome up. You remember the old
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National Test Club, the old marble mansion on these twentieth air Oh yes,
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doing, I'm the last surviving member. Ah, what great dude is we
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added the club. It's been closed now for let me see, forty years,
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and it's been falling to pieces all that time. Yeah, that's right.
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If it hasn't been with that terrible scandal, the club would skill me.
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I'm not interested in the club or at scandals. I'm interested in you.
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Oh oh, you're just paying No, No, I'm the guy with
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a thousand bucks. I'll pay it to you. That for what? For
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your right title and interest in the club. My dear sir, you're cheating
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yourself. There isn't anything in the club but old books, no furniture,
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hardly worth fifty dollars alone. I'll pay you one thousand dollars for everything in
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the building. Everything that grew a properly is the last surviving member. All
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you have to do is time a three link mission. My this is ridiculous.
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The pace is a liabilite. It may be so hot one you just
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signed the paper and take this thousand dollars. I'll take the liability. Oh
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why the way, Patsy, I haven't asked you to marry me for over
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two weeks. Oh please God, they don't. You have to get tired
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of hearing me say no, Yade, drop the car quick, sho me.
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I just remembered something murder, the murders and thrown in and it's nothing
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like that. I just remembered old Man Hawthorn. Hawthorn, Yeah, he
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lives right here. That's based the apartment. Scuffy. Who what then?
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Why is old Man Hawthorn? He's a guy I played chess with by Mayra.
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Oh oh no, I've heard everything. I'm not kidding, Patsy.
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I'm up to my neck in a red hot correspondence game with Haplin. I
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just remembered I forgot the mail of my latest move. Okay, you get
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back in the concast, Champion. We're late for dinner already. I'll end
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you a postcard. It's probably sling open the door and howl chest and spear.
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Old man who's onto dead? Oh that's sasy. Did I ever tell
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you the story about the man who won a chess game because he couldn't talk
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Cannibals? Another Nick Kurtis special on the way. It seems this man was
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captured by cannibals down a New Gummack and while they were boiling the pot.
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Scrubby, what's the matter with him? It doesn't sound as though he's making
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a chess movie. Hey, next, you gotta come in Alice place right
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away. This is awful. What's the matter of Scrubby? Need advice on
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your next move, How'll say I do half instead? He's committed suicide,
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Yeah, no doubt about it. Haf On dead all right. He climbed
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up on a chair and hanged himself from one of the water pipes. Why
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Kevy says he didn't have a problem in the world, not outside of chess,
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so he just lived for his chest problems. The old guy was happy.
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He was bothering me. Hush, look at this note hawk On apparently
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left here on the chess table, neatly printed an inch I made years old,
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and I'm tired. Chess is a boy. There's nothing less. Why
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did you say? Hawsthorn apparently left the note? Becus a note that's printed
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an ink? So what Hawford's got an eat stain on his forefingers? Through
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enough to Chevy, But tell me this, where's the ink bottle? The
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what? The bottle of ink? And the pen? Hawf On yous or
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the fountain pill or anything that will write an ink? Holy smoke, you're
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right. I've been through this room thoroughly and there isn't any ink the house
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at Hawthorn writes that note. Maybe there's a pen in his pocket. Oh
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no, I've searched him. There's nothing on it but the small change in
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a handkerchiefs. And he didn't write that note, now, Stubby, he
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positively did not. Some kind friend obligingly wrote that note for Hawthorn with his
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own pen and then kindly helped Hawthorn commit suicide. Do you mean that someone
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murdered him? Go to the head of the class factor. Oh, he
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was harmless. Why would anyone want to kill a nice old man like that?
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That scubby is what I'd like to find out, So would I Where
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do we start? Well, here's the picture as I see. You know,
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someone was here with Hawforn just before he was murdered, someone who had
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the pen that Hawthorn used to write with, accounting for the ink stain on
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a finger. Right, but what his Hawkhorn right of? Certainly not the
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suicide note that was written for him after he was killed. Now when that's
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some But they're on the floor on the Hawthorne speak rhyme stone medallions. See
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the letter M in the center. A medallion was a letter recognized the scubbish,
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I do. That's from the club Monks like club on the west side.
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Yeah, there's a dancer there named Jenny Valentine. He does a solo
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tap dance and froze the souvenirs to the customer. Hole. What would an
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old chess player be doing in a nightclub catching souvenirs? You mean, what
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would a nightclub dancer be doing in Hawthorne's room playing chess? Maybe that medallion
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is the key to this murder. Hey, look, you could stand by
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and wait for Maddie in the homicide squat. Huh, Well, what are
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you going to do? I'm going down to the Monk Club. I'm trying
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to catch a souvenir. I can't do you anything but live. Oh?
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Hi, money is it? Okay? Mister month? Is what? Okay?
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Well? The money I owe you? The five grams? Oh no,
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I told you how to get the queen. Didn't you believe me?
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Yeah? Well did you see how hole? Did you buy it for him?
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Yeah? You owe the club six thousand? Now what do you mean?
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Now? Listen it's Tony, Yeah, come here to that club and
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you have dropped five grands you can't pay. So you had the story about
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this. This is the quest your uncle leftter the Chess club. It's true.
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I swear the club was closed before they had a chance to find out
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what he gave me. I never knew what they had, mister monk.
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That queen is worth twenty thousand dollars maybe thirty. Oh well that was the
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If I fear you into it, you'd cancel the money I owe you.
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Lessons puts the word worth. It's what you said. I haven't got that
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queen yet. It cost me another grand already. If I get it,
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you're clear. Get that through your head, Hopkins. I don't sucker so
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weeky for fancy story, but that's all I want yelling? Will you?
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Everybody in the clubs can hear you? You're making so much noise? Oh
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Jenny, oh happy? Hello? Oh no, No, that's a man
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for you. Jason ast to me for three months dollars and all of us
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sudden bump suffering. Don't be mad at me, Hopey, you played me
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for a sucker, Jenny, five thousand dollars worth a sucker. Ye,
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I'm going to the far see you here, mona, ye, get the
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dope and haul them. Everything's okay and we get to see the night sat
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going over with crews. Are you gonna you take care? You just say
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that some from tomorrow one that's going to do you lead? And forty brandt
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a breath now whose naked ideas there? Say it again that you mean month
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you and me? And forty to oh, I mean you stay the sweetest
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thing I dressing room now, it's like I'm taking the fa hope I don't
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have to say. Sure what we do with her dad? Huh mm hmmm
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Valentine. Yeah, the dormond told maybe you all right to wait and you're
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resting? Hm hm hm you shall we say, uh you admire? Perhaps
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get away? Mmmm, very good luck to me? Well night. Then
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I haven't seen it, so I wouldn't know. And what are you hanging
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around my dressing room for, Mis Valentine? I am Nick Carter. That's
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right now, get out of here. I'm not quite ready to leave yet,
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Miss Valentix. I'd like to ask you about this medallion? What about
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it? Why did you give it to Jeremy Hawthorn. Jeremy hey, hey,
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look, I got hundreds of those things around every nine, but I
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just you know who catches them, of course, Ms Valentix, But you
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do know Hawthorn. M I showed it on your face when I mentioned his
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name. Get out of here, I came up here to ask you what
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you know about a chess player who has the misfortune mant Carter. I'll ask
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the questions around here. Oh hello, mom, Do I also say hello
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to the forty five? You're playing with fancy plate cutter. You can get
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into it with a don't you enough when you sneak in the dressing room?
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No, besides you and I are gonna swoop right now. This is my
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place, Jenny, let me take it. Okay, okay, but n't
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get on your feet. Cut it. We're going up to my office.
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All right. It's nice to sand proves up there. You can play just
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as us as you want to. And if you want to play some toiler
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games, that's all right too. Just one game. I'm not in the
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mood for him. Up. Oh, it's that two men play with a
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gun or a rope. It's called murder. Oh. Nick was writing his
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guests, but Hawkorn was known to both Jenny and Monk. Okay where that
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leads. And in just a moment, when we hear what Monk has to
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tell him in his private sound proof office, all back to the case of
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the Due Old Queen. Today's adventure with Nick Carter bought you by you full
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four all that splendor. At the point of a gun. Nick is ushered
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into Monk's soundproof office on the second floor of the Monk Club. Monk closer,
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the door sharply and the term card. Thanks now, listen, I
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had trouble with you before. I know you're a smart cookie, and I
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know you're dangerous. That's why I use a rod when you're around. Put
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your cars in a table, Monk card. This is one deal that's on
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the levels. What deal the deal with hawkun? Oh? Well, this
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is very interesting. Go ahead, Monk sang your song. Well, a
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rich kid named Hopkin's gotten a red forenty for five grams, so so couldn't
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pay, and so his old man wouldn't hand over the dough. So Hopkins
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steers me into a deal of squid deal. He going for history, and
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I've read a book or two. We'll get a load of this. Back
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in the fifteen hundreds, there was this English queen Elizabeth. I've heard of
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her. Oh no, there was a tournament held in Rana once to kind
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of joust. Now, Elizabeth was impressed with a way a guy by the
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name of Sir Charles Blunt spot He was so impressed that he sent him a
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present the next day, a chess tea. It was a jewel queen.
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And I think I've read the story well now. According to the book,
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Essex was so jealous of they gift, he had some fights, a duel
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with a blunt, and afterwards the chess queen disappeared. So I've heard now,
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Carter, that queen's worth a fortune, and I own it, all
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legal, all fair, all square. How so well, Hopkin's uncle uncovered
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it fifty years ago. He sent him to the National Chess clott But the
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quest, along with some books and stuff. Well, he died right after
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that, and the club went bust before they knew what they owned. That
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jew queen is stored away somewhere in the club cellar, and you own it.
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I do. I bought a fair and square from the last living club
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member, old Jeremiah Hosteling. I got a bill of sail with the club
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property signed by him this afternoon for a thousand bucks. So that's how exactly.
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Ain't staying on a finger h nothing. Now a night, I'm going
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down to the clubhouse and get what I owned, all legal and above board,
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right, except for one little detail. Monk name somebody murdered house order,
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but I get out of here. It's a dirty double cross and four
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hundred been murdered and I didn't have a thousand dollars. I told you to
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get out. And if you know what's good for your card, and don't
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try to hang this wrap on me, I won't have hill monk. I'll
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just help you hang it on yourself. Your hair, mister Carter, but
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don't you lost the Moss Club? Miss Carter? Sure like a fine,
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but I don't like the people in it. Don you're not a minus well,
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mister Elphick Cruz, isn't it? I want your Alphand last time we
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met, what do you want with Jenny? Take your hand off me?
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If I don't, we get down at Jenny's dressing room. Don't see why
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that's any of your business. It's you're is he's trying to be my wife.
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That though when a couple of months it's a beautiful kid. Everybody ate
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like that kid, Hoskins, even months. I don't want you around it
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too. I have no intentions of shaping your Elford. Now, will you
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please get out of my way? It don't bless me with fancy talk car.
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I swear I'll break your neck if you go near. You don't want
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to stamp you, don't set aside and don't put it nasty how you like
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to do. When you get up again, I hope you have more tense.
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Hey, Mick, this fling your car quick matter discovery. I was
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coming out to meet you and I saw your cars are doing. We'll take
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a look inside. You don't know me. You've discovered in good heaven Jenny
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vallam trying? What a miss? What a confounded mys ur talk on and
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Jenny's ballance? Oh, stop pacing, Mick. You're making the office whirl
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around in circle. Nick, Why do you bring Jenny back to the car.
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Why haven't you reported her murder the Maddy. I'm going to just as
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soon as I figures it out. But maybe I was meant to find her
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and reported he's still out in your car. It's anybody fine? I know,
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I know, I know. It was the bank's feat for the next
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twisted strangler. You know she'd come to the car and I was waiting to
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teach me after I left the club. Only the killer came along and spoke
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to her first. Makes you've got to do something I know, I know,
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I do. I'm trying to think, well, my money's on most
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these are me maybe? Oh what did Jenny tell you anything? Make you
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help? No? Although she was friendly enough, because if I'm not who
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I was, ha this, I already know how. Oh I know a
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clue when I see it. See that big smudge of powder and make up
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she left on next please murder a makeup? That's who your magnificent. You
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saw me? I saw you just told me who murdered half Horn and Jenny
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Valentine. And all we gotta do is catch up? But how by turning
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you into a ghost, by turning me into all what that's you? I'm
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going to meet you up into the scariest ghost that I've ever seen. And
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to night you're going to haunt that chess club. I guess fucking just right
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a boat chess club stuff must be stored on on the cellar. Okay,
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come on, look the hawks instead of topping package sun hair the rack,
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make a tray off. Well that's can these books, but they can't be
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gold and diamonds. You'd see telling yourself and I'll take it easy. This
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is the bottom flash around your lights? Mark? Yeah, over there,
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against the wall. They had a case, says Hopkins. Ok come on,
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it's one of the pieces. You gonna get an open racing the box.
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That's what the kids said. Beside wants to go out box pure frying
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in a fix beer. Yeah, yeah, there it is, Okay,
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right, hand it over Harry and much interested in work in Harry view,
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I got news for your cruise. You're not taking it out of here last.
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I'm taking the Queen cruise and I'm leaving you behind. Oh you're dirty,
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but what I robbed? Jenny wants it that way, Cruise, It's
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too bad. I'll give me the queen dirty drop across you and Jenny ain't
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gonna corrupt me your mark. Monk and Cruise stand in the death of the
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cellar, staring up at the head of the stairs in horror. We'll hear
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what happens next in just a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case
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of a Dual Queen, Today's adventure with Nick Carter, stop you by you
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both war all that Scander and Monk and Cruise stand transfixed in the cellar of
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the National Chess Club. Nick cispers to Patsy, who stands at the head
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of the stairs in the blowing green grape, and Patsy say, he's coming
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down the stairs, coming down towards us. Wait a minute, Marks,
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you look like Holy mostly Journey say, for the love of mud day when
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you're trying to do by the some of the upper Jenny, what if I
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can see you a fight? I can't be a fool, Jenny Clay,
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I can't say, Jenny. Jenny said, how do you know that,
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Cruise Cotter? How do you know? Jenny zaid, only the man who
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killed I don't know that one of Tenny said, who says my assistant Patty
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bow and made up to look like Jenny the bad light. He was able
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to fool you, just as I plan you killed Jimmy wise guy. He's
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like he was going to cross me up with it. Huh, like a
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sucker out of me, like he made out of Hosky. But I show
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again, I show you more. You don't howl, laugh shut That went
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to your You don't hear you by the time you're due to take forty thousands
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boats setting down, that's not past the old story of Steve's falling out.
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So what do you know? Well, Cruise knew he was being double crossed
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by Jenny and Monk, so we decided to return the favor and double cross
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them. Oh well, that way he went out and killed Horthorn after month
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made the deal, tried to flame Monk by dropping up medallion m Then to
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fix Jenny, he strangled her and left her in my car. And in
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that way he said that Monk would take the rap for Horthorn's murder and Jenny
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would be dead and boats would be out of his way. Exactly, he
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selected Jewel Queen and lived happily. At leest, God did it? I
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still understand how I solve the CLEA was that to? You? Did it
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when you saw that smudge of makeup on my arm? Will you please explain?
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I most certainly will explain. I think the only person who could have
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touched me while I was in the Monk club who had makeup on his hand
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was Cruise. Remember I told you how he knocked my arm, Yes,
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just before you hit him and knocked him down. That's right. They must
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have smudged my arm with makeup, which means he must have done it on
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his hands. From Jenny's neck. Well, I'll be done. So he
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had to be the man off. Yeah, but what about the your queen
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you were queen wrote to monk. He bought it legally, so he's entitled
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to it. Oh suck. Oh, don't feel bad, Patty. If
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you want one, I'll buy you a doesn't tomorrow. I didn't think it
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out sixte bllance. The velvet box contained one very elated about one dollar and
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fifty to your queen. No, Patty, it wasn't Queen Elizabeth chest still
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a large I'm wearing a white white wave up. Maybe cui able to ask
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to see where it is the pay. That's some nice thing to imply,
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except why I certainly hope good, Queen that isn't going the same place.
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Who's going to then it'll be too late to do him any good. Welcome
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back, A welcome working in a little bit of actual history into the story,
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though the idea of a fake ghosts is kind of a tired idea,
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even for our program from nineteen forty seven. But anyway, let's get into
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I'm keeping it in mind. Thanks so much for the comment, and Eatie
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road. Keep up the excellent work. Well, thanks so much, Eadie,
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