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It's what made the Golden Aide Shine? All right, folks, Well,
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let's go ahead and we'll take a listen to today's episode of Frank Race,
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The Adventure of the Diver's Loot, The Adventures of Frank Race, starting Paul
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Dubove. The War changed many things, the face of the earth and the
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people on it. People the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney,
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but he traded his law books for the cloak and tagger of the Oss.
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When it was over, his former life was over too. Adventure had become
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his business, The Adventures of Frank Race. And now we joined Frank Race
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for the Adventure of the Divers Loot. London under a heavy rush of cumulo,
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nimbus clouds, scunning thunderheads that looked as though they might knock off your
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head at any moments. I just left the embankment was hurrying across Westminster Bridge
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when Rice wed sec Mark Donovan running to catch me. For some reason,
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the sight of a New York taxi driver putt in London seemed in congret enough
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to rate a grin up. What's so funny because the guys the looped like
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a high board. Thank Yella, come up with you, Sorry, Mark.
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I was just thinking how different this is compared to ramming a cab along
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forty second Street. It's so different. Just had to hack my way toward
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Janet was worse than going for access on fight night. Squiz fload on.
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You're wheezing like a sunpump. You know. I even I almost forgot and
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Paula's marathon because a guy wants to say its voiconality named Rhodes. Lawrence Rhodes.
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Yeah, yeah, very pit pit and Cheerio wants to see you Pronto
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orposes in eighteen Squay is No, I can't take on another assignment. We
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should be getting back to New York. But I'll see Rhodes anyway. Everything
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about Lawrence Rhodes was thinned, his weight, his hair, the whispy line
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of his very blonde mustache. He looked as though he might be the operator
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of an exclusive lady shop. Actually, he served as British representative for Acne
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and Dendony and during the war had cracked a Normandy beachhead as leader of a
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tough commando units. Decent of you to come race. We feel it's imperative
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that we have an American inn on this, since it's in a better convention
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to begin with. Well, when it's a case of children losing their lives,
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not forgive me, what were you saying? I was going to say
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that, what's this about kids losing their lives. Little French lad killed aboard
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the salvage vessel Rhodes. I'm afraid you're going to have to start this from
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the beginning, of course, old habit of mine. Assuming people have previous
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knowledge of what I'm talking about, forgive me while this stems from a salvage
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operation just across the channel. But before we discuss it further, I wanted
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to meet someone. He left me for a few minutes and came back with
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a husky looking man of about fifty a manly introduced as Charles Menefee. Mister
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Menifee can tell you much more about this matter than I can race. He's
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charge of the operation. It's a cleanup job. My company secured the contract
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for dragging the harbor of Sherburne. We've been picking up the residue of stuff
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that were sunk there during the war, particularly after D Day. I happened
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to be on the vessel in question when this avert took place. Besides the
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mishafter the boy, we lost, a diver by the name of Joe Danner
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just disappeared, leaving nothing but the broken signal and airlines. How old was
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the boy and how did he happened to be aboard when he was twelve?
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Waterfront kid that had been made a sort of a mascot by the men.
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Apparently they smuggled him on the vessel for this voyage. Pretty much of a
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mix up, and no one seem to know anything about it. That brings
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up an important point phrase acme is indemnifying men if his company against all liability,
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and if this youngster died on that vessel, then we was two moreful
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obligation. But we should know if he really did die on the boat.
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Your opinion on the report will decide that, faulse what sort of accident was
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it? That's the peculiar part of it. The thing probably can't be called
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an accident at all. You see, the boy was shot to death.
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Menophie and I left Rhodes office together and stood talking on the street while waiting
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for cabs. I was to fly across the channel that evening. He would
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meet me in Cherbourg on the following day. And as we planned this,
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a car sidled up to the curb. A gleaming new sedan with the racishness
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of a destroyer. Stopped directly alongside us. An a quiet voice spoke from
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the rear seat. Don't you guys try rushing off anywhere you'll developmall hole in
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a bar maliby. And the look at him, he might have been an
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usher at your sister's wedding, even had the carnation on his lapel with the
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manner of a maestro handling a rare fiddle. He lifted the submachine gun had
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been holding in his lap Get your hooks behind your head and get in here
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with me. Should be an enjoyable ride. It's a beautiful car, a
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most beautiful car. Ain't bad for the farm. Jabb okay, Connie,
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take it easy. We don't want to have to brush off any nosy car.
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Now you're being discreet in this country the object to people who carry artillery.
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We carry what we like anywhere we go. Nothing like self confidence.
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We haven't met before, have we? I never forget a face. I'm
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Frank Race. My friend's name is I've realized I was so remount. How
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about your identity me? I'm Freddie Troy, an independent voter. I run
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a little business in my own How he is business don't pay like a Houston,
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especially over here. I'd got to take what he can get well.
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From the looks of this car, Menefee, I'll give fat odds at the
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owner of this car hasn't the slightest ideas to who's driving it at this moment.
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You're a real you have personality, right, Do you mind telling us
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what this is all about? No, I don't mind. I'm taking you
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out of the country, all right, a real old fashioned man. But
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what for some people in Sherbet? They think you're in a way. So
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I'm taking care of it. When I take care of somebody, I do
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it right. He let his own words send them a little, just enough
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to relax the vigilance that had been in his attitude for an instant. The
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nose of the submachine gun wanted upward, away from Menaphee and myself. So
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I lund sr. I didn't have to yell at Menifee was already on top
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of the drivers. The forum was strange. Now look at the don un
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May you all right? Roy, Now here's a little payment in kind.
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Race the machine gun. I'll get him doctor Cole. Hey, all right,
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Race, I think so you deflected that gun up with justin time.
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He'd have killed a dozen paper what's Troy? Troy very much they could large
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lacron well. Conditions are getting better in London. Last time I was here,
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I had a dodge bombs. This time it was just machine gun bullets.
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Sharebourg is still a disabled war venner, showing gaunt open spaces and bombed
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out buildings his mute testimony of the travail she endured. I met Menifee again
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at the Creole, one of the larger hotels. With him was a man
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and woman he introduced as Jim and Sandra Whalen. Jim Whalen worked as Menifeees
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head driver. He must have seen too many George Raft pictures, judging from
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the way he persisted in twirling a key chain all the time we talked.
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The woman slim, young, redheaded, rated seconds on any man's plans?
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Send up anything Yetri nothing but I have marked Donovan out looking for Leeds.
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You haven't met him. He stops when it comes to crying out clues.
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I want you to know answers, ending all operations for the time being.
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The local police seemed pretty well stopped by it. The four of a set
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in the lobby and watched it begin to rain outside, the conditions that turned
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the city gray and dismal, looking so coming to the effect of the weather,
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Menepee and Jim Whalen presently left to take on a few drinks. Sandra
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Whalen immediately crinkled her nose at me. At that time we had a chance
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to talk to each other. I get pretty tired of hearing nothing but diving
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and salvage. Oh what would you prefer to discuss? You and me?
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Somehow? I get the feeling that that could become rather complicated. Oh,
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I'm counting her, you might. What's the matter? Bored? I was
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until you came along, But I'm not bored now. I'm not bored at
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all. Sorry, ducky. There are certain conditions under which I never moved
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in, and this seems to involve all of them. Oh, well,
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you better tell me about it. You see, I've always been led to
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believe I was rather attracted. You're most attractive. But there happens to be
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a guy in the background, a guy by the name of Jim Whalen,
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who also happens to be my brother, your brother, your data. Go
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and ask him. I'd look pretty silly doing that. No, I'm more
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than willing to take your award for it. And now would you begin all
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over again again? More those ideas you were advancing, those very provocative ideas,
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says I've given you too much of a need to me. Let's not
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waste time with regrets. Isn't there another spot, perhaps a little music?
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I know, justice spot. Come on, we can slip away before they
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get back. Chairbourg no longer seemed gray and dreary for me. It had
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suddenly assumed the atmosphere of a Mardi Gras, a mama's parade. But at
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the daughter the hotel there came an interruption. Going somewhere that's rather obvious,
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isn't it, Sandra? This is Mark Donovan. I don't blame music going
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somewhere, but I'm afraid I gotta clark to get lost. Mark. I'm
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sure that whatever you have in mind can wait. Look, Race, you
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will probably want to flog me from here to Paris, but it won't wait.
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It's a red hot break. It's got to be handled. Now we
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go with him, raid, we can make it later, shall we say
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tomorrow at a very understanding person. I'm a very persistance see your later by
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Marcus. This lead of yours had better be good. It's good, Jo,
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Let's go where spot call a body book. It ain't the Krion a
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cRIO. Like I said, it ain't the Crillon, but it has its
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points. It definitely has its points. I ain't there something race makes you
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forget all about the rain outside? Who are we going to talk to?
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And at table in a corner? Guy in a dame is the American?
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I was telling you about it. I want to give it a knockdown to
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it. Look, I yea, I know you just left the pet,
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but ain't this girl something? She was wearing a black suit and a beret.
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She had dark eyes and honey colored hair. She was smoking a cigarette
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and a long holder, and she looked like something Renoir would have put on
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canvas. We went over and Mark made a snow on one another, identifying
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the girl as Annette. The man is Phil Benson. We had drinks and
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began a casual conversation. Benson turned out to be a paving contractor dickering with
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the city or Shareboat for some of its road rebuilding works. That's kind of
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tough. They don't want to give it to anyone but a Frenchman. I
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don't blame them in a way, but I could certainly save them a lot
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of money on nohow Annett. Mark Donovan tells me you know something about what
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occurred on that salvage boat last week. Yes, Race, I know something.
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Wouldn't want to tell me about it, would you, nice? I
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will only speak of what I know that the man was in shows of the
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book. Is it a question of money? I ars I could get it
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for No. No, I will only speak to that Mini. Then the
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men called mina fee. All right, we'll make it tonight, Sweet J
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at the Creon at eight o'clock. All right, it is all right,
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Sweet j at the Creon happened to be the apartment Mark and I were occupying,
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and I had a mena fee there. At seven thirty. He came
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in with a serious face, in the morose attitude for a couple of drinks
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to bring him to the point of unburdening his mind. Sandra, I don't
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suppose you have any idea that she and I are and gade engaged. No,
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I didn't have any such ideas. Sandra didn't say anything about it this
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afternoon. Sandra's like that restless. I was on the lookout for excipment,
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but I have hopes that. Of course, I'm sure she will that must
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be our call it I know. Come in there. This is mister Menaphie.
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Whoa and that some information? Yes, mister Menacy, I have three
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things to tell you. First that I consider you a murderer, Second that
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I am the mother of a dead child. And furtherect I know intend to
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kill you with his bits. We'll return to the adventures of Frank Race and
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just about one minute and now back to the adventures of Frank Race. Benefit
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was down, but I couldn't tell how badly he had been hurt. I
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was too involved with a twisting, writhing woman whose intent was to send more
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bullets into his body. Idiot, you're not solving anything by making a play
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like this. Give me that gun. That gun. I'm sorry you left
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me no alternative. If you're smart, you'll get out of here. Your
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police don't like people who use guns. Yep, I'm not going to hold
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you. No, get going anice? Nice? See better stay put?
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Manafee? Do I get some help here? Too? Bad? He saved
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my life by grabbing it the way you did. She had me fool right
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down on the ground. Where were you hit? It seems to be we
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have a show here. I'll pack it then I'll get you a doctor.
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Doctor. I'll take care of this myself. You've forgot to have a doctor,
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manafee, it would be turned. No, I'll take care of it
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myself. Bringing a doctor, and you're bringing the police. And I had
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enough publicity on this thing. We're likely to need the police. A girl
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might try this again. You can take care of that from me. They'll
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find a persuaded that are not at fault. I'm doing all I can to
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clean up the situation. No doctors, no police. There was no doubt
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but that Annette would be in hiding. The next morning, Mark and I
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looked up Phil Benson, the robing paving contractor. Yeah, I don't know
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where she is. Why should I tell you, guy? Or you can
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make trouble for her. Lord, don't be a dub when you ain't going
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to give her no grave. That's what's a helper, that's right, Benson.
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I'll give you my word, all right. And I wouldn't want to
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give her a bump staired. She's a widow going through a bad time,
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and I'm nuts about it. He took us to a small flat over a
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wine shop on a backstreet. Here Annette perceived us casually, as though nothing
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unusual had happened. A moment I mentioned Menaphee, her eyes filled with storms.
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I get another chance, the same thing again. But why you're not
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sure that he caused the death of your son. My son died on that
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man's book. For me, that is not Race is only trying to find
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out what really happened. He's only trying to help it. I can promise
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that Ben, if he won't go to the police, if you'll agree to
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let him alone. Yeah, why don't you relax and learn the liver game.
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Give a guy like me a chance to make things different. Me alone,
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I don't want to talk about You've got to talk about a day for
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my sake. You know how I can go about you. Just give me
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time to make one of the paving deals, and oh things will be different,
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that's all. Please let me alone. She stalked out of the room,
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and I realized the futility of trying to deal with a woman stricken as
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she had been. Benson looked stopped. I can only get a break so
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I could take her away from here. Are you having any luck that to
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the city of Sherburg. They just don't listen, and I could do their
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cement paving cheaper than anyone on a compliment. It looked as though I've got
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about as much chance as a plug bullseye take with its war time. They
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have a way of doing that. We'll see you later, Benson. Are
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you right? Remember n Hello Samma? Why aren't you gonna invite me in?
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Of course? Or are you relucant to receive the lady at this late
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now? And I think you would drink. I've already had a drink.
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I've already had several drinks. Well, you're a big girl, now,
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they shouldn't hurt you. I thought we had a date tonight. Date you
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know it did well, something came up, something I couldn't avoid men as
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they talked to you, didn't I told you I was engaged to him.
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Well, aren't you talked to you? You know you had me? Well,
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I didn't think you'd let a thing like that slow you down. A
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lot of things slow me down. That's just one of them. Virtuous man.
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Well, I hate virtuous men. That should simplify everything. Then shit,
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because after I decided I hated your I couldn't stop thinking about you.
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Butt that drunk to make a very lovely drunk story. Then I dare you
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to do something. I dare you to put your arms around me and say
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that you think I'm not tempted, put your arms around me and say I'll
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make you another drink instead. Sit down, Ducky, you're a little unstrung.
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A matter of fact, I'm getting a little unstrung myself, right,
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I know it. At this moment, I'm probably the biggest fool in share
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book. In fact, I'm surprising the very devil out of myself. I'm
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keeping it's light, Ducky, just enough glory juice to give a taste.
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Do you think menafees worth being royalty? Well, he isn't. He isn't
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worth it at all. Yeah, refresh yourself. Then you'd better go home.
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See the salvage operation. Do you know why he's not letting anybody get
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aboard that boat. I haven't the slightest idea, Ducky, Because they have
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gold, a fortune in gold gold. That sounds a little fantastic sunder.
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They found the plane on the harbor bottom while they were grabbed, a Royal
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Air Force plane that had been shot down during the war. You've been carrying
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gold occupied plants to pay agents who wouldn't work for paper money. Yes,
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yes, they did that during the war. That's why the child, Yes,
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you happened to be a boy that day and someone shot him to keep
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him quiet. That's why that diver returned up. Miss j're donna. Doesn't
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that a sander? But did? Why didn't Menafee just take the golden clear
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off? Because he can't find it, that's the joking. It's somewhere on
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the boot, but he can't find it. Either the boy or that diver
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hit it before. They were moved everywhere for that, but he's been looking
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for the chest it was founded. If I could get a board, just
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how drunk are you sounder? I'm pretty thanking. I'm not, teacher,
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I'm not If you could get a board, do you think you know where
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it is? Let's go out to that vessel, Saunder. Let's go out
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just for the ducks of it. Can you see well enough to hold your
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course? Mark? Kid? And I ain't seeing my way. I'm feeling
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it is. What a break We hit almost alongside the ladder. Get the
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bower around, Mark, all right? Sober I watch a step with him?
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To stare with a fucking im palatine. There's a light. Ay,
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come on, you know it could be walking right into something. Here's something
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rough and tough. You can stop right now, pal, you've already walked
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into it. It was Freddy Troy, the killer I'd met in London,
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and the light shafting passed an open bulkhead. I could see that under one
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army cradled the bag of some sort, while at the same time he held
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a gun on us. Well, well, but ain't the chairman met in
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England? You go round button into all kinds of things, don't you.
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You don't seem as well equipped as you were last time, Troy. Then
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it was a Tommy gun. Now it's just a forty five. That's enough
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for this job. Get back against the Wallas. He's going to shoot us.
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I just guess it'sisted. That's fine enough, Punk, I mean me,
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yeah, you now, folks, I'm sorry, But Mark, how'd
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you get that hand in your pocket? It wasn't raging for cigars, Junior.
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You had to do it. It was him or us. Lady can
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put music in a minutes. Look that bag, he dropped it and spilling
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gold coin. We'll have a look at that later. First, let's see
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if we can do anything called Troy. But I'm afraid we're just wasting that
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time. Park was right. It was a case of too much c too
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much darkness. So we turned back to the lighted cabin and here it's the
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watchman. He's dead, shot by Troy. Oh, I guess I won't
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have to feel so bad. Let's look look where the coins had been hidden.
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What do you know with a fire horse? But this is only part
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of it, a small part. We're too late. They've been carrying it
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away. Yes, they've been carrying it away. But I've got a small
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hunch that I know where we might find it. They were both at the
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flat, and I got the feeling that he'd been talking to her again about
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going away. From the look of her, she hadn't been too responsive to
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his words. Hello, Race, what did you want to tell? Money
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in Itte? A lot of money, money that caused the death of your
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child, killed my booty, Benson, would wouldn't you? Benson? Hey,
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what are you talking about? I'm talking about a paving contractor calling himself
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Benson, who's really a deep seed diver by the name of Joe Donna.
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How long have you known this man? In it? Only a few basic
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yes, he came to you so he could keep in touch with what was
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going on. It makes a grim thought, Benson courting the kid's mother after
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what happened. Crazy, you tripped yourself in a couple of ways. But
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one thing. No real paving man would say cement when he actually meant concrete.
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But you were authentic enough when you mentioned the bull's eye today, because
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that's the term a lot of divers used for the eye pieces and their helmets.
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You and Freddie Troy were in this together, weren't your daughter. You
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were the diver who brought up the chest of coins, which you knew would
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be confiscated by the government, so you took advantage of the excitement and hid
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the stuff. And you murdered that boy because he happened to see you,
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and you made it look as though you didn't kill yourself, so you can
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hide out and pick up the coins later. A good food. Ask him
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to open that bag he has at his feet, and I'm not opening anything.
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I'm just going out of here. Don't go for that Gunnett. I
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know you've got one, but don't go for it. Crazy, he stopped
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me. You let him get away. He won't go far. Not in
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France, and the bank still there. Baby didn't get away, but it
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killed him. You stopped me, and right now you hate me for it.
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But after a while you'll be glad I did. After a long while,
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you'll be very glad. The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Paul Dubove
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with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan, comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard
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in tonight's cast were Lillian Bayeth Wilms, Herbert Paul McVeigh, Michael Anne Barrett,
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and Herbert Butterfield. This series is written and directed by Buckley Angel and
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Joel Murcott. The music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmar. Be sure
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to be with us again this time next week for another dramatic chapter in the
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Adventures of Frank Race. Art Gilmore speaking. This is a Brucel's production.
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Welcome back. Well, I don't We've got a lot of complaints about Race
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from my listeners. First time I've heard anyone refer to him as virtuous in
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that regards, But I think in this case it definitely fit with the character.
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One thing I think some history writers need to watch is the resolution of
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the case where it's well, somebody of that occupation would not have said this,
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or they would have said that can get over used. I remember this
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than doing this using that same sort of clue that they used today in one
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of the last Tom Collins episodes. Well, now we turned to an email
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I received from Bill on that sort of on that topic, I just listened
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to the first Frank Race episode starring Paul Dubov. I have to disagree with
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you about the voice quality differences between Tom Collins and Dubov. In my opinion,
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mister du Bob's voice was much clearer and easier to understand. Frequently it
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seemed to me that Tom's Tom Collins was mumbling. I would turn up the
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volume on my headphones and still not be able to understand what he was saying.
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In contrast, I understood every word that Paul d Bob said in the
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Adventure of the Green to Blue. Just my two cents and thanks so much,
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Bill. And I wasn't necessarily saying that Collins was better objectively, just
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that I was boring. I think more used to Collins's voice. Clearly,
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both of them are strong actors. I always thought there was something debonair and
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adventurous in the way that Collins delivered his lines, I'd be interested on I'll
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put a pull up on Facebook ask listeners which Frank Race do you prefer.
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We've now had three episodes with Paul duvov as Race, so we've got some
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basis for comparison. Here then turned to an email from Kevin who rides High.
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I'm writing again to say how much I'm enjoying both your Great Detectives and
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Dragnet podcast. I'm listening via iTunes and going back as far as it goes.
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I've heard every episodes of Great Detectives now, and I'm very close to
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catching up on Dragnet. As others have mentioned, this is a mixed blessing
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since it means I have to wait for new shows, but that's okay.
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He goes on, I ask a question relevant to Race ivocable questions. This
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one is not directulated to the podcast or detective shows in particular, but I
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figured you might have some information. It seemed that many syndicated shows, instead
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of leaving a five to ten seconds spread for commercials, played a one minute
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piece of music. Did they expect an answers to read commercials over the music
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or was it done to keep the program link consistent if commercials weren't used,
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or was there another reason. This seems to happen consistently in such shows as
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The Lone Ranger, The Green Horn and Final Vans, The Avenger Five Minute
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Mysteries, and I think even Frank Race, although I don't know if it
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was original or added in later copies. Also, any idea what the waltzy
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little song during the Avengers break is sure doesn't fit the show at all.
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I've never listened to The Avengers, so I can't tell you. I think
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your explanation about keeping show links consistent if, for example, of shows not
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able to get a sponsor for particular week, I think that that is probably
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the best explanation. It's not the reading overpart. We don't have, as
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far as I know, any episodes of Frank Race that have the commercials in
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them, some of the local inserts. There are some radio programs where there
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exist copies of the radio programs with some of the local commercials inserted, and
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in those cases they basically take out the long musical bridge if they're not able
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to get the commercials, or because there are multiple segments. If you say
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they're selling spot ads and they don't get an ad for every spot. Then
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they've got those musical bridges instead. A good question, and thanks for listening,
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Kevin. All right, well that'll do it for today. We will
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be back tomorrow with a life in your hands, and then join us back
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here next Monday for another adventure of Frank Race. And be sure and let
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us know on Facebook which Frank Race you prefer, Paul Devov or Tom Collins.
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