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Nick Carter: The Case of the Wandering Macaroni (EP1488) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now it's time for us to go ahead and get into today's episode
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of Nick Carter. I should warn you in advance that there is a bit
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missing from the episode, a plot point that you kind of figure out.
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I do apologize, but no source of the program had it. It's in
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the middle, so we'll do the best we can. Original air date for
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this episode is July the twentieth of nineteen forty seven, and the title is
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the Case of the Wandering Macroo. All Dutch Censor Famous pur Chasing Dirt presents
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Nick Carter, Famous Purchasing Crime. Every week at this time, two great
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names are joined as All Dutch Cleensor bring to one of the most resourceful and
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daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective. This is
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the silliest business I ever heard of, Nick, ordering a dish of mcaroni
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just so somebody else won't get it. Yes, Patsy, but it's this
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particular dish that holds the fortune. But what if you don't get it before
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Breenhat does? And I failed and what I promised to do? But what
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happens after you get the dish of macaroni? Nick? We search it for
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what it contained, and after that anything can happen. Now the case of
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the Wandering Macaroni. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by all Dutch
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Cleanser. It's been a busy day for Nick Carter, who has been cleaning
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up the routine business that is piled up on his desk. Now it is
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late afternoon and Nick is still dictating letters to his recording machine while his secretary,
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Patsy, sits at a desk and taps her foot impatiently. Dear mister
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Gaylord, have received your letter dated January seventeenth, semi colon. However,
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it is my policy to accept cases of this nature period. I find the
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activities of the sort you suggest they're incompatible with a general standing that I have
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attempted to the Pertsy it turned off the machine. That's right, it's five
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thirty. I won't transcribe those letters till tomorrow anyway. And besides, it's
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my birthday, Catty. You promised me six months ago that we'd go out
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to dinner to celebrate my birthday, and I'm going to drag you away from
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the office. I have to use a black chat all right, all right,
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Patsy, I didn't forget. We'll close up the office right now and
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go out and celebrate. Well, that's better. Which do you think would
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be nice to Nick? The Penguin Room or the Moonlight roof? Your choice,
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Patsy, you're the birthday child. I think the Penguin Room. They've
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got that big name band and all the the door. Oh no, not
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another case. Let's keep very quiet and maybe he'll go away. I'd like
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you, but it might be important. Don't worry about the dinner, Patsy.
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I'll see to it that you'd come in. You're Nick Carter, the
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detective. That's right, this is my secretary, miss Borne. How do
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you do how do you do? What can I do for you? I
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want you to get me a dish of macaroni. I beg your pardoner.
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I thought you said macaroni. I did what. Perhaps i'd better explain why
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I should thank so. My name is Griswold, Ben Griswold. Years ago,
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I used to work as a contact man for your father, sim Carter
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when he needed an inside track and unusual circles. Say wait a minute,
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Ben Griswold, I remember you. I hoped you would. You used to
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come to the house when I was a boy and help me with arithmetic.
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It's right, Nick, but I need your help now. I can't go
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to the police. I can't afford publicity of any sort. It would ruin
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me. I'll be glad to do what anything I can. Ben, I
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pay any fee you asked, now, don't worry about that. For an
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old friend of my father's. That's on the house. But you said you
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wanted a dish of macaroni. Here. Now here's the whole setup. At
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seven o three tonight, a man wearing a green hat. We'll go into
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the cafeteria at forty seventh Street and Avenue M. Yes, exactly one minute
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later, he'll drop a glass on the floor and break it. But five
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that's an identification signal. Then at seven oh five he'll go to the steam
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table. There'll be three dishes on top of the counter. The middle one
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will be macaroni, Nick, and I want you to get that dish before
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the man in the green hat dies. What's in it? And why is
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it so important? In that macaroni dish, you'll find a metal container.
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I can't tell you what's in it, but I'll meet you here tomorrow,
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and before you hand it over to me, I'll give you legal proof that
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it's really mine. I can't go myself, Nick, they know me by
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sight. I see. Let's say now green hat comes in at seven o
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three, at four after he breaks a glass, and I'm to beat him
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to the macaroni at five after that's right, And be careful, Nick,
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it'll be dangerous, all right, Ben, You've got yourself a detective.
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I'll get that macaroni for you. May even bring back some salt and pepper
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for season. He Nick, you're proud, must it take me to the
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penguin room for dinner? It's my birthday, that's right. Well, never
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let it be said that a carter broke a promise. We're off to dinner
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at the Penguin Room. No Patsy at the cafeteria. Hmmm, big things
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for a birthday dinner. We'll make it up later, Patsy. We're taking
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the Penguin Room and the Moonlight Room. Oh there he is, Prenat behind
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you by the water cooler. I see he's looking at his wristwatch. He's
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awfully big. Nick looks as though he could walk upstairs with a piano.
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Want to reach arm. I don't like that bulge in his prote that's a
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shoulder bolster. Here goes to the broken glass. Right on schedule? Have
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you got enough change a whole pocket? Pro com right? You keep away
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from bringing that Patsy. You see me start for the door, Get going
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fast and beat me outside? Right, Nick, wait a minute, I
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help you. Bud coffee black and plenty hot. Oh you want coffee for
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now? Nick might come in handy. There you are five cents nice.
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Now down to the steam table. He comes green hat fast. We'll beat
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him. Here's the macaroni in the corner. I'll drop a quarter and grab
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it. Hey, you give me the macaroni? Why should I I paid
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for it? Hand it over. I look up what that coffee is forgot?
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Walk as fast as you can. I'm un coffee's built on green hatt
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Getting busy for a while. Could you get the container out of the dish?
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I had a fish the macaroni to see when Brizze comes for tomorrow.
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Around this corner quick? Yeah, okay, wine sky up with the hands,
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green hat there. This must be my lucky day. Boy. That's
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just the way to treat a new pair of nylon. That's the door,
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Pa, it's open too. I think it leads to an alley. Yes,
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flash air, green hat. Maybe around some place. I've got ashes
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in my shoes down the back of my neck. The first thing I'm going
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to do is go home, take a shower, and get into some clean
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clothes. Why I am too right now? I got a phone call to
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make, and I'm running a race, very important race. Have you feeling
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all right? Never felt better? But it's right or to run a race?
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Patsy with a Department of sanitation covered with dust and ashes. Nick and
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Patsy hurry through the city on a mysterious race. Their goal the secret of
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the container in the wandering macaroni. As their cab koreens through the streets.
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Nick wonders what lies behind the struggle for this puzzling prize. We'll see how
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he finds the answers in just a minute. Now back to the case of
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the Wandering Macaroni. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by all Dutch
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cleanser covered with ashes. Nick and Patsy hail a cabin. Hurry back self
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pounds. It is after midnight when they are dropped on a corner, and
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now they hurry along the dimly life and deserted speak. Patsy is still trying
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to brush the dust off her hair. Snick, I don't see why I
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can't go home and clean up later. Hurry now, there's a cafeteria down
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the street. We just look at myself and there is enough left for them
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to make a pair of Bobby sacks. We are Why is it the same
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wonder where green Hat held us up? Snick? What are you diving into
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that trash can for? Maarona? I twisted him here when I went picking
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up your purse, so that's why green Hat couldn't find it when he searched
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you the sanitation here first? And oh, what's the matter? In here
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you find it? No, not yet, Yes, here it is good.
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Our little macaroni covered grimck is a coupling up a police car. I
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know Sarget Rats said he'd meet us here when I hold you know one of
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these days, Nick Corner, I ain't gonna come running when you call hi,
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sergeant, Hi passy. Hey, what have you been doing? Playing
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hide and seeking that garbage can? In a way, we've been chasing a
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dish of macaroni At this time of night. You're both going off your rockers.
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Now, just stay nice and quiet and Uncle Matty will call the wagon.
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I'll be funny, Maddie. I'm on a case. I need your
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help, and how like to look through your files and check a few things?
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Okay, Nick, hopping back and I'll take you downtown. Now what's
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all this about? I can't tell you much now, Maddy, but I
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have a hunch run a trail of something big. All right, Sit down,
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Nick Cordra, I'll have those fingerprints for you in a minute. Where'd
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you get him from my notebook cover? The ape of the green hat had
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his paws all over it when he searched me. They kept the wallet he
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gave me back the notebook. What about the other guy, the colonel.
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Yeah, there, Maddie is a smooth operator. Didn't touch anything and tryed
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to keep his face in the shadow, but he leaned forward when he reached
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for my wallet. Why don't you check to our Nick and see if you
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can spot him from the photographs. Good idea, Betsy, sound too,
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she can help. Hey, where is Bessie down the hall washing up?
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You produce some soap too, Nick. I haven't time to crack this for
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tomorrow morning when I see Griddlin. Any luck in the filing so far?
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I know one that even looks like grandmother, and come in. There's a
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record on the Prince Sergeant. Mister Carter is right. This guy's got a
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record as long as your arm. Okay, Carter, Thanks, I'll read
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it after Melia, Maddie, I'll keep looking for the colonel. Let's see.
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Now, quite a guy. You're a man in the green hat,
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Nick, Yeah, named ship goarse convictions three six nine, everything from dope
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and hot cars to making book. Wanted by the Treasury boys for smuggling.
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I better have him picked up. What's the latest they got on him?
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Well, here, he's been spotted down in South America Port San Luisorro.
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Looks like the Treasury has been keeping a close eye on that baby. Nick.
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Hey, ib well, what is it, Nick? You're finding the
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colonel's car up on my client's picture. What do you mean here in this
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card? And Grizzwold convicted nineteen twenty three illegal stock manipulation, served two years
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in stayed prison. Ben Grizzwold say, I'll remember that case. I was
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a rookie when it broke. Remember anything about him, an Ny? Well,
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now let me see. Yeah, he was a research signist, but
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he got mixed up with a couple of stock juggling wizards and took the rap.
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Huh, he's been going straight ever since, as far as I know.
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The liquor that's what he meant when he said he was a contact man
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for my father in unusual circles. Huh, must have been an underworld agent.
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After I got out of prison. Could be mattery. After I checked
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these piles. And I want to borrow your laboratory for a while, all
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right, Sure thing, Nick, I've got a little special work to do,
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all right. I'll have Carter opened it up for you. Well,
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how about the container from the macaroni. They can't wait a morning for the
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unveiling. Can you pick Grizzold up to night if we need him, that's
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no problem. We'll find him somehow good. And if you can get him
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down here and hold him to my call, I think we can break this
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tonight. Well back at the opposite last, Matsy, you're sure you don't
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want to go straight home? No, no, I couldn't sleep anyway.
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It is never a girl that gets kidnapped on a birthday instead of being taken
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to dinner. I'm sorry about that, Patty. Maybe I shouldn't admit it,
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but I was looking forward to that party too. Thanks for telling me.
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Oh, here we are. I think i'll finished those letters before.
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Didn't you leave the light on when we went out? I don't know.
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I think I did. I get to turn them out though it's dark.
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Now. Do you think something's wrong? I don't know. There's only one
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way to find out. Wait a minute, I got the right key,
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okay, Petty, I'll get the light. Think it's green hair, Yes,
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it's dead. Yes, my dear the colonel, I've been waiting for
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you. Sit down to your desk. Cotta bother reaching in the drawer.
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I've removed the revolver from it. I warn you, I shoot quickly,
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inaccurately, So don't attempt any heroics. You think of everything, don't you,
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Colonel, I try to. I find it necessary in my business,
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your business. Perhaps I should say profession I'm a smuggler and a very good
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one. Don't move, miss Bowen. I have no scruples against using a
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gun on my lady. I'm sure you haven't. Say air conditioning works in
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an automatic thermos dead, I say, cowper. I think i'd better convince
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you that I mean business. We're convinced of that already container you manage to
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get out of a hands. Those microfilm plans plans photographed on small film.
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Oh we know what microfilm is. Out of those plans are, Colonel,
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a new and secret process for casting aluminum which doesn't belong to you. Know
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you see, Old Griswold discovered the process in South America. But it wasn't
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too careful about guarding his property. You mean you hijack it of him?
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Uh, you could call it that. I knew it would be worth millions
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to the automobile industry, which would pay heavily to the first man to secure
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an American patent. I planned to have a quntman patented, but you couldn't
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get it into the country because the treasurymen were watching your gang too closely precisely.
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That's why we had to adopt that complicated method of delivering the container.
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And I my dad, your shrewd guess decreases your chances of surviving this meeting.
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You're pretty careless with murder onn't you. I'm afraid there's been a trail
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of debt following that container, starting with the original inventor of the process in
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South America and ending in our unfortunate friend in the green hat be Pale,
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and I was forced to remove him. And he may not be the ass
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mister Carter, you won't get Claire on that wrap. Colonel. On the
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contrary, it's a perfect setup. Briswold couldn't call the police. Any publicity
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would call attention to the new process before he could patent it. You'll slip,
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Colonel, it won't work. I've told you this, Carter, to
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convince you that I am deadly serious. I'm going to get those films,
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and I don't care particularly how I go about it. I think that corpse
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cooling on. Your pressure should prove that looks as though you're holding all the
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races. Donness exactly now the container, please, I grow impatient, mister
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Carter, you don't hand it over by the time I count three, I
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shall proceed to shoot your secretary right between her very pretty eyes. Next it's
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watching on wavering gun in the Colonel's hand. You must act now or the
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soft spoken murderer will kill again. We'll see what he does in just a
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minute. Now for the conclusion of the case of the Wandering Macaroni, Today's
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adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by all Dutch cleansering man. Nick's office
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is quiet as the Colonel covers Nick and Patsy, his finger typing on the
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trigger. The only sound is the Colonel's voice. One who hold it?
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Colonel, I don't see why I should stick my neck out for a client,
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Nick, Intelligence, How can you gave you all I's use of hiding
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it in the heel of my shoe if you're going to double crush a client
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anyway, clever, I see the heel and screws here it is because there's
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nothing left to do, Colonel, here's your container. Don't leave you'll chair
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put it on the disk. Okay, I'll sit back a move cotton that
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you finally the state the reason before we decide what to do with him,
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we'll see whether this is the real container. It opens on this end,
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stuck. I have got the gun now, colonel, and now we'll see
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how you like looking down the barrel. Well, it's all said, we
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got the colonel book murder in the first How about the rest of the gang.
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Maddie all locked up as soon as you call, and Tomy green Hat
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was dead and you had caught the colonel. Where's wool led us to the
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guy who tipped him off about the macaroni deal, and he squealed on the
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rest. Good. I turned the plans over to Griswold, and he's got
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him in the bank, bolt, and he better get the patent papers filed
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in a hurry before anybody else gets any ideas. You know what burns me,
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Nick, that rat. The colonel will probably hire six genius lawyers.
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Oh no, he won't, Mate, He took plenty before you got here,
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but he will mind of scaring at her handing over the container. He
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even confessed to murder. Well, that's fine, but can we prove that
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to a jewelry, we could let them hear the confession with their own airs
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that Just before he started talking, I kicked the switch on my recording machine
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under the desk. Well, I'll be got everything, he said. He
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thought the noise was the air conditioning, but he was really dictating his own
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Dessen. But Nick, how the devil did you get out from under that
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gun? The colonel looks like a pretty cool customer, Demean, Yes,
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Nick, just what happened? First, I'm looking at that gun too,
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scared debris, thinking you were double crossing their client. And then the colonel
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screaming that he can't see Well, I knew the colonel would come to visit
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me sometimes. He had my wallet and my address in it. Well,
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that's true. The only way he could locate the and it was to come
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after me. So I stopped in the police laboratory and fixed a surprise for
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him while I was washing up. Yes, I took the films out of
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the container and rigged the little booby trap inside it with tear gas. Well,
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I'll be dog gone, but that stunts with the heel of my shoe,
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Patsy, he'd have suspected me if I had just had it in my
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pocket, I knew he'd open it up immediately to check, and that's exactly
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what he did, and he got it right in the eyes. Well,
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there's still one thing I'm not satisfied with me my birthday dinner. Even if
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we do go to the penguin room, the head waiter will probably get murdered
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and you'll take the case. Well, then how about going back to the
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cafeteria for a dish of macaroni? Oh? Well, Nick, what about
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the adventure Old Dush Cleanser is going to bring us next week. I'll get
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to that just a moment, Bob. First, I want to wish,
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or rather I wish to call attention to the fact that this is the first
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day of National Farm Safety Week. I want to remind every farmer I possibly
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can that's the best way to prevent accidents on his farmers, to be sure
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that everybody knows his job. Safety records and industry are achieved by training and
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watchfulness. The same thing is true in the farm. So don't take chances.
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The life you save may be your own. Ow, Bob, next
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week, we're going to be the man who was murdered because he was cured
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of a disease he didn't have. And the most amazing thing about him was
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the fact that his face could take pictures after he was dead. A man's
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face that could take pictures after he was dead. That sounds fascinating. What
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do you call the story, Nick, I call it the Case of the
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Dead Camera. Nick carter Master Detective is presented each week at this time and
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written by Ernest Canoy. Original music is played by George Wright. This program
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This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes come use Oh that's clem.
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This is the mutual Broadcasting system M. Welcome back. Gee. I'm sorry
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for poor Patsy, though I can't help but think she might have had a
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point about the restaurant at any rate. Hopefully Nick will replace it since he
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was so magnanimous as not to build a client. All right, Well,
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