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Nick Carter: A Cat Brings Death (EP1146) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now, folks, it's time for today's episode of Nick Harter.
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A Cat Brings death? But the matter? What is this another case
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for Nick Carter, Master Detective. Yes, it's another case for that most
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famous of all manhunters. The detective was ability at solving crime is unequaled in
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the history of detective fiction. Nick Cutter, Master Detective. The Night's Curious
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Adventure, A cat Brings Death for Nick Cotter and the mystery of the missing
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persian, all the confounded dog gun things to have. You don't seem very
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happy to see me this morning. I ain't something I've done or just things
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in general, things in particular. Here's your glass of water? All right?
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What do you get it so cold for? Is alright? All right?
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Get out? Get out? Would I put them pills? Taking your
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items recommenly, I see excellent idea for anyone in plan to be nervous.
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Vitamin's nothing, them's asked for tablets for headaches. But Riley, do you
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mind if I sit down this lovely morning? Get down, but don't bother
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me. I've got too many troubles of my own to be bothered with yours.
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But I have no troubles with tenant. I feel freeze about. You.
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Would care to tell old Uncle Nick with the trouble, in case you're
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interested, Mister Nicholas, kind of shut up if you want to hear this
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sorry plea, In case you're interested. I just had to release Colley Greer
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from his temporary residence in my jail. I couldn't get enough on him to
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hold him for a jury, in spite of the fact that every cup in
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town knows he's guilty, and we've been trailing his hidekicks sabing for more than
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a week's teddy without a sign of results. The same with that blonde.
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What do you call a riba dows? You're right back where he started.
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Three smooth jobs pulled this month without a smell of a clue, three big
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jewel robberies, and my little boy scouts are still out chasing rainbows. You
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know, Raley, I haven't been following this case very closely, but I
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have a hunch. Hunch you can't hold a crook and a hunch there's been
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enough high class Parker's lifted around here in the last thirty days. Just tuck
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a pawn shop and we can't put a finger on nobody. Now, you
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got a hunch you can't. I know you can't hold a crook. On
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the hunch you gotta pin something and I'm gonna make it stick. I've heard
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you say that before. That's true, Why Nick, right, Lieutenant Riley,
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Police Headquarters Commissioner. Oh yes, yes, yes, Sir, Commissionery.
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Hello. OK. If somebody doesn't turn up something on these duel robberies
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pretty quick, now, there's gonna be some changes around here. We've been
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working hard, Commissioner, and I ain'd hardly been home long enough to eat
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her. That's a fact. So trouble with you. Rally in your head,
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not in your stomach. Maybe we need some new blood in that department.
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Now, Commissioner, we can't find clues, whether it ain't none to
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find. We're doing all we can, so you'll have to know better.
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I expect results within forty eight hours. Goodbye, goodbye, Commissioners. I
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take it that was the commissioner, you take it. Oh look, Nick,
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couldn't you go someplace else for a while? By Riley, your lack
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of hospitality amazes me. I only came down. Yeah, yeah, the
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buzzer looks at all. Right, Well, what is it now? More
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trouble. There's a woman out here demanded to see you, and I mean
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demand. I ain't receiving visitors today. It'd better be. It's Missus Dudley
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Banks herself, Missus Dudley Banks, you know, Commissioner's favorite aunt. I
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know who she is. What does she want some more contributions for that?
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She's been robbed, lieutenant robbed? Oh don't tell me we got another case
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to break. I can't stand much more than all right, tenderly, And
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you know, Riley, I remember reading recently that Missus Dudley Banks had the
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finest collection of ruby is in the country. Or nonick, not rubies.
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You don't suppose, Missus Dudley Banks. Lieutenant Riley, Lieutenant Riley. Now
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I have come to you personally to report a most distressing thing. I've been
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robbed in broad daylight and under the most distressing circumstances. Youbbed, I most
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certainly have, and I shall expect you to take immediate action. You can
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depend on us, Missus Dudley Banks. You know just what was the nature
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of your loss? My cat? Cat? You said, your cat?
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Precisely? My cat a lemon colored Persian of the female sex. She's known
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as Fluffy. She disappeared from my upstairs living room sometime this morning. Will.
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Isn't it just possible that she's the cat just straight off the premises?
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Like Fluffy? What stolen of that? I am certain she's not given to
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wandering away, is of course, ma'am? He Will? What do you
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expect me to do? Why do you suppose I came down here for sympathy.
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I expect you to recover the animal, apprehend the criminal and punishing.
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Oh sure, sure, I should be home after four o'clock. At that
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time you will be at liberty to inspect the premises. You have my address
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of course, good day. Hm hmmm mm hmmm, a persian cat.
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I'm all the confounded number, Riley. Riley, think think how lucky you
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are that it wasn't her Ruby's lucky you call it? Well, Lieutenant,
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what do you want to do about this? Pardon my pardon, catastrophe?
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Do? But it is if I didn't have enough troubles now that old clock,
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maybe the commissioner's free times. But here she thinks I'm going to assign
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anybody to round up a tray cat. She's a little Riley. This case
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interests me? What? Yes? Why? Case like this might develop some
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startling angles before we get through with it. Oh, Nick, quit your
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kidden No, No really, Riley, I'm serious. This, I feel
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sure is a case worthy of my talents. There'll be a pleasure for me
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to turn from the pursuit of murderers and other such small time criminals to the
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really important work of discovering who walked off with a lovely feline pet of Missus
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Dudley Banks. Are you kidding? Nick? Definitely not, Riley. At
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four o'clock this afternoon, I shall ring Missus Dudley Bank's bell, wipe my
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feet on a door, mat, hand my hat to the butler and see
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what I can uncover about the mystery of the missing persian. So long,
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Lieutenant. Yes, sir, I'm from police headquarters. Lieutenant Riley sent me
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to investigate the loss of Missus Dudley Banks cat. Oh, yes, sir,
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Missus Dudley Banks is expecting you. Come in. Please thank you this
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way please. Missus Dudley Banks is in her sitting room. Thank you.
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A police person, madam, A police person, Yes, madam, about
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the cat, madam? Oh, yes, of course, come in.
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That would be all Carrington. Very good, madam. My name is Carter.
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Missus Dudley Banks. Lieutenant Riley sent me here to see if I can
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find your cat, to see if you can find her. You must find
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her, That's what I mean, madam. Now, will you please tell
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me what you know about her disappearance. She's very little to tell. I
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was obliged to be absent from the house this morning for about two hours.
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I left my poor fluffy right here in her own little basket. Hit that
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one there with the pink ribbons on it? Yes? Oh, who was
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here in the house while you were gone? My butler and my maid were
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both here but neither of them paid the slightest attention to poor Fluffy. It
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was not until I myself returned at noon that she was missed. She was
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a lemon yellow colored Persian I believe, yes, yes, a beautiful little
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creature. Here. Let me show you her picture. Oh, I don't
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think that'll be necessary, missus, do win bank? Not necessary? That's
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absurd. Surely you can find her more easily when you know what she looks
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like. Very well, madam, if you insist, of course I insist
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here now this one was taken about two months ago. It's not a very
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good picture because this stupid photographer sent his assistant instead of coming himself. Oh,
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I see hall A very pretty cat, isn't it she she is?
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That picture doesn't do her justice. Now what happened when he discovered she was
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missing? I was hearted? No, I mean, did you look for
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her? What silly question? Of course we'll look for her. Who searched
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the whole house thoroughly? But Fluffy was gone? Has she ever run away
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before? I should say not? She adored me. I see, madam,
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this is a very baffling case. There are a number of angles.
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Are you sure nothing else is missing? Beside the cat. Nothing. We
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checked everything and there were no visitors this morning while you were out, No
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one, No one except the young woman from the ladies auxiliary of course.
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Ah what did she come here for? Every Wednesday afternoon, my friends and
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I meet here to roll bandages, and this young woman comes the day before
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to bring us the materials. She's been coming here regularly every week. Do
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you know her name? I believe this young lady's name is miss Conroy.
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She took over the job only last week. Oh, she hasn't been here
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before last week. No, not a girl did it before that? But
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why are you asking all the questions about her? Surely you can't think she
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had anything to do with it. You never can be sure, madam.
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But she's such a sweet girl, a blonde with beautiful green eyes, just
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like my poor dear. Yes, yes, thank you, missus Dandy Banks.
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I be getting back to headquarters now. You mean you solved the mystery
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of dear Fluffy's disappearance. Perhaps, will you have your butler show me up
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please? Yes, of course, of course, Kennington, Yes, show
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mister Carter out, Yes, display sir. Good day, missus Dandy Banks.
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Thank you Carrington. Not at all, sir, good day. Very
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interesting. This may produce results, after all. This is the headquarters of
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the Ladies Auxiliary. This is the office of Brown, Brown, White and
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Brown Attorneys. Yes, would you give us the address of a Miss Conroy
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who works with you. We have a legal communication for her, Miss Conroy.
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Wonder please, Andrew, things have happened. Miss Conroy lives at seventy
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sixth East Dover Place. Thank you, not all the driver. Why are
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you stopping here? Man? This is the address you'd give me. Mister.
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This is seventy six East Dover Place. Well, it's as near as
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I can get to it. This is an empty lot. I can't help
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that, mister. It's seventy six East Dover Place. Just the same,
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okay, take me to the Mayflower Restaurant fifty six and thirty fourth. Right.
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You're a little early for dinner tonight, mister Carter. Nobody gets in
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here before six generally, I'll never mind. Katy, bring me a nice
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thick slab of roast beef. Oh, you're just fooling, mister Carter.
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This is meatless cheesby. Oh, yes, so it is, Katy.
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I never seen your remember that. Well, what's on the menu here you
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can look for yourself. If you had to buy meat for a family the
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way I do, you'd remember it's a job getting things these days. Why,
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just this afternoon, before I come to work, I went to the
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butcher shop to get some liver. My husband calls it cat food, but
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eats it just the same. Well, I got some and a nice piece
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it was, too, but I had to fight for it. Fight for
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it. Yeah, blonde, little chit, try to get it away from
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me, last piece there was, but I got it. I slapped her
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face too, I did. And she didn't want it for herself at all.
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Wanted it for a cat. Imagine her cat? What kind of cat?
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What's the difference? What kind of a cat? It was the idea
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of hard working folks having to go without for some cat can eat the best?
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There is this blond She wouldn't be young and pretty. Would He lives
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in the neighborhood. Maybe, Oh she's pretty to look at? What the
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language she used to make your hair curl? Yeah? Yeah, she lives
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around here. I've seen her going in and out of the Mecca apartments across
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the park. She's a movie actress. Maybe apartment Well, I wonder if
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she's home now here. Don't you want any dinner? I thought you'd come
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in here to eat. Oh sorry, Katie, I'll be back later.
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Right now, we have to follow a hunch and see a girl about a
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cat. So long Verma does the name of the donor is big his life?
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Hey, that's the young lady. Riley's been trying to pin something up
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for the past few weeks, if I recall correctly, Well, Nick,
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let's see what happens. Well, very well, thanks here. What's the
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idea of pushing into my apartment like that? We'll just dropped in the sale?
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O? What do you want here? Kitty was right? You are
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good looking. Listen, fella, if you don't clear out of here,
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all pretty catch? He goes there too. Persian, isn't it? Never
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mind the cat? What's the game? Come on? Talk up or get
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out? All right? Here? It is you call yourself Conray. You
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get to be a worker for the lady's auxiliary, get chumming with missus Dudley
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Banks, and then walk off with a pet persian under your raincoat. What's
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the answer? Oh what dick are you could be? I think Lieutenant Riley
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would like to have a chat with you down at headquarters. Lieutenant Rally had
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me down at headquarters and had to let me go. He's got nothing on
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me. Then you won't have to worry, will you. We'll go down
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to confer with him anyway. We'll take Fluffy along with us. You let
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that cat aloan. I'm not leaving here for you or anyone else. No,
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missus, Dudley Banks didn't like the idea of you taking Courby. He
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better answer that it's somebody I'd like to see and be yourself. I don't
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want to have to get rep watch yourself. I'll be right behind these curtains
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watching you. Oh, Scully, it's you. Sure it's me, babe?
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Who'd you expect? Oh? I don't know. I just surmed a
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babe. You look scared. No, I'm not scared. Ready to travel.
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We're rolling the nice Scully. I say, you did a nice job
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getting us the lay out of the old lady's place. Time proud out of
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you. You know that lady's auxiliary right get worked out? Okay? Me
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and Saban turned the trick in no time. The wall safe was a pipe
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deck crack, and we cleaned it. We put the maid and the old
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lady to sleep and dumped them in the closet. Never got a squint at
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us at all. You had to get rough with a butler. You old
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try to make a getaway, and we had to give him awake. Kelly,
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say, are you sick of something? I got something to tell you
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because I dicked me on the curtains. Want to keep your hands in side?
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Get him up, Scully's see, if you're carrying a gun, just
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keep him up, Scully, and you too, read. I'm not pointing
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this gun of mine at you for exercise. Oh no gun? Huh?
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What's the matter? Don't you wish I had one and you could pull me
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for carrying a concealed weapon? Nothing doing, Copper, I don't carry any
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hardware outside of business. How I see? What are you doing here anyhow?
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I've just been waiting around for you to show up. Hey, look,
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baby, how come this dick's parked here in your place? I tried
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to tell you, Scully, he just busted in on me just before you
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came. Must I had some reason for busting in. I'll never mind that
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now, Scully. That's all. Go down to see Riley. You should
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have held you in jail a little longer today it would acquired the job you
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just pulled it, Missus Dudley Bank residence. Well that's the answer to my
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problem. I'll just stand there, you two while I give Riley a ring.
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Life will be a great deal happier for him when I tell him he's
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coming down to see him least headquarters. Lieutenant speak, Oh, Riley,
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I have a surprise for you. I already got one. Nick. You
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know what was pulled off not half hour ago. I do if all Missus
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Dudley Banks and her maid bottled up in her closet and the butler shot to
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death, probably the walls safe have been cleaned up, and Missus Dudley Banks
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prize collection of rubies is missing. Nick, how did you where did you?
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Simple? Riley? Katie had liver for supper tonight, see and help
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put on those lights again. Don't try it, okay, River, end
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of light? Sun? What's going on now? You stay put right way?
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Yeah? Okay, Skelly, just as you say, good way,
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Babe, you tend the lights Sun just at the right time. We better
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pick up the table and put that phone back, okay, lights which was
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just behind me. I figured we'd have a better chance you off for quickskelleyin't
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too quick for that copper. He didn't get a chance to spell anything to
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Riley. We ain't in the picture at all, and we won't be either.
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I was pretty scared for a minute. Hey, we're saving We're meeting
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him. Had Jake bring me here to get you. He's waiting for us
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downstairs. Nowre you ready to travel? You're up and ready to pass the
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hour? Thought it was you at the door in this Dick not, That's
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why I opened it so quick. May let's get going there. Hey,
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ain't you going to take care of the flat foot before we leave? Not
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here? The one he did? Dick's tie you up with it and maybe
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hook me in two. Just take him along with us for a while.
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Keep Riley guessing too, how right? And n I see you to take
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me along and meet Saving Skelly. Then i'll have all three of you together
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in one place where it'll be easier to take you in. You know,
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Riley'd hate to see you leave town. That kept that comedy copper. You're
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going along, but not far so. Pick up your hat, big boy,
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and match yourself downstairs, and don't forget I'll be right behind you.
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All the way. Okay, Skelly, you're the boss now that you've got
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my gun. Oh, don't forget your cat reb Gosh, that's right.
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I almost did. Come Come on, Fluffy, Okay, where'd that thing
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come from? And she a dear picked her up today, just couldn't resist
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her. You're gonna drag that along with you? Sure? I can't leave
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her behind. She won't be any trouble. Okay, let's get going.
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I don't want to keep Jake waiting anybody, buddy. While he was waiting
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Jake, so it was there with your Scully when o' riley's Bloodhounds, he
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was that in front with Jake. Kay. Right, Hey, what's happened?
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Scully? Get going? And we're behind schedule now on account of this
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guy. Okay, but I don't like it. You gotta get rid of
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him. Wait, well when the time comes. Hey, look, gum
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shoes, how come you happen to drop in on Reeby to night? Just
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a hunt? Yeah? Yeah? How things break, isn't it? You
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See you're all started when Katie had liver for supper. You said that before?
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What about it? So here we are the three of us. Funny,
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isn't it? Yeah? I can't stop laughing. What's so funny,
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Scully? Yes, that dick, he knows the answers. I'll tell you
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when the time comes. But first let's find Sabin. Yeah, here's the
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place, Scully. That Yeah, well right inside. Saban will be waiting
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there for us. Right, yeah, Hey, where you been? If
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we don't get upstate before morning, we're gonna be who's that with you?
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Keep your shirt on and close the garage doors for some fool. Cup shows
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up and begins asking questions. Okay, come over here, Saban. I
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want to show you up price package. I picked up tonight, a real
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live blood hum straight from Riley's kennels him. How do you get into the
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picture? Walked him on his own two feet, and he won't go out
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that way, and I have to carry him when we get through with him.
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Yeah, that's what I've been telling him. But it don't seem to
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worry him none. Qu's the use of worrying. I can't do anything about
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it yet, not yet. I have a copper. You're a dead duck.
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Give Jake the guns, Cully, he can stay here and hold it
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on the gum show you and really be coming to the house with me a
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minute. Okay, Saban here, Jake, keep this pointy that that Dick's
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hot. Yeah, I have to live when I think it's his own gun
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that's keeping him quiet. He'll keep quiet, all right, something's gonna happen
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to him. Hey, how long you're gonna be gone? There's a couple
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of minutes. We'll be right back. Everything's all set to go as soon
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as we finish what we gotta do. Okay, but don't forget. We
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got a long way to go yet tonight we forgot. You'll just keep your
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eye on the compitol we get back. It's a pleasure. Hey, Can
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I knock him off? Not yet? Wait'll we get aways out of town
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and you can finish them anyway you like. Here, that coppy you and
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me is gonna have fun. I don't like cops, and I'm gonna take
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it all out on you. I'm sure that'll be great fun. You won't
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think so. Hey, Dick, don't stop moving. Stay away on that
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back. See now, one more move and I'll plug you. Scully said
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not to shoot Dick. There might be cops around here comingy cross. I'll
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let you have it. Cops and no cops, remember, Jake, cops.
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I want you must have gonna be wrong somewhere on. Yeah, there
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it is now, my friend. If you a little better, I'll just
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put this piece of wire around your wrists and around your ankles and slip this
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rag in your mouth. Tie it back now. Don't take your bother me
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any and I'm gonna have my hands full in a few minutes. I'm going
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to take you in your three pairs back to rally. I'll just go over
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here and stand behind this door, and when they come back, I'll be
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a one man welcoming party. Okay, come on, you lugs. I'm
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waiting. Well, mister Copper, you're about to take your last ride.
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I hope it takes. How cold its dropping loose? Look out with their
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hands and get your hands on the air. I've been fast, saber,
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not that fast. I don't choke. Don't choke. You know I ain't
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got no gun. Just have another look to make sure you're clean. I'll
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just take savings again. I'll make sure he doesn't have another one on him
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anyway, he's clean too. I'll keep those hands where I can see them.
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Really, just want to get a handkerchief out of my hand, all
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right, But no tricks. Can't a girl use around handkerchief when she had
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the block? Sorry to have to suck you on the jaw, lady,
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I suppose I might have known you'd have a gun in your handbag. All
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right, you too, pick her up and put in the back of the
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car, and then get in yourself, Sculler, you drive save when you're
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sitting back with rib and me just pushed Jake over, Scully. He won't
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bother you. How I get going? Okay? Then we'll all drive down
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and surprise with Dennet Riley. Won't that be fun? And after they left
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you alone with Jake, then what well, Patsy? When the three of
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them went into the house, I knew the chance I've been waiting for had
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come. I was in the back seat and Jake was in the front seat
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holding my gun on me. So I got up out of my seat,
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moved over to Jake, took the gun away from him, and punched him
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in the jaw. He went out like a light. Nick, You moved
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up on a man holding a pill on you. Why in the world didn't
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he kill you? Sounds to me like a hair bred Harry's story. He
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tried to kill me all right, Patsy, but he didn't know what I
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knew. That's why I had the advantage on him. No, stop teasing
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it. Tell me why in the world didn't he shoot you, as I
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said, Patsy, He tried to, but the gun wasn't loaded. Wasn't
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loaded. No, That's why I felt perfectly safe and just taking it away
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from him, Patsy. You should have seen the look in his face when
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he pointed the gun at my heart and pulled the trigger three times. But
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I thought you said it was your gun. He did, Patsy, And
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it wasn't loaded. No, Patsy, with shame and remorse, I admit
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it wasn't loaded. You see when Scully jumped on me in Reaver's apartment to
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try to shoot him with it, but the trigger simply clicked me and I
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suddenly remembered that I've been cleaning it the night before when I got that long
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distance phone call, and I just forgot loaded again. That's a dangerous mistake
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to make, Nick, even if it did save your life this time,
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tried write, Patsy. Quite right, I certainly had a lot of fun
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watching Scully pointing that empty gun at me all the time. We were going
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to meet Saban. You know, I really enjoyed it. I wish all
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my mistake Skitzernat as well. This has been another of the strange adventures of
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Nick Carter, Master Detective, which are brought to you regularly by w R.
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Mutual. Well, Nick, what's next week's story going to be about?
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Before I tell you that, John, there's something else I want to
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say, something very special, And this is addressed to you, our audience.
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We've been with you every week for the past year now bringing you the
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strange and exciting adventures of Nick Carter, and now I'm very happy to be
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able to announce that, beginning next Monday, April seventeenth, we're going to
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have the pleasure of being with you five times a week, five quarter hours
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a week Mondays through Fridays at nine to fifteen pm Eastern wartime over most of
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these stations. And I assure you that we're looking forward to these meetings with
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you very eagerly. So remember we won't be back Saturday nights anymore, but
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we will be here every evening Monday through Friday at a quarter past nine Eastern
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wartime, beginning this coming Monday, April seventeenth, and we hope you'll be
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with us as regularly in the future as you have been in the past.
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Genick, that's well, isn't it? Five times a week? And do
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we have a lot of exciting stories to tell? How? You bet?
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We do, Patsy, a lot of really exciting cases. And I think
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we'll start next Monday with a story which I call Kidnapped for Sale or the
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Mystery of the Missing Babies. Have you heard of the latest racket stealing young
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babies from their parents, not for ransom, but to sell them to people
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who want the baby for their own. Well, it's one of the dirtiest
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and lowest forms of kidnapping phone on the underworld to day. And when a
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young mother who'd lost a baby became to Nick for help, he was glad
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of the chance to break up the kidnap ring and catch the fiends who stole
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innocent and helpless children and then sold them to the highest bidders. So,
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if you want to be in on the beginning of one of the most exciting
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chases I've ever had, this next Monday evening at nine to fifteen Eastern wartime
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to the story Kidnapped for Sale. So long everybody so long and solong to
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both of you, Nick and Patsy. In the strange adventure you have just
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heard. Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark, Patsy by Helen Choate,
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Lieutenant Raley by Humphrey Davis. Original music was played by Luke White. The
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entire production was written and directed by Jack McGregor. Next Monday evening at nine
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fifteen Eastern wartime, listen to the beginning of another curious experience of Nick Carter,
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entitled Kidnapped for Sale for Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Missing Babies.
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This story is a copyrighted feature of Streudent Smith Publications, Incorporated, and
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beginning next Saturday night, the popular series True Detective Mysteries will be broadcast over
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most of these stations every Saturday night at ten fifteen Eastern wartime, in addition
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to Wednesday afternoons at four thirty Eastern wartime. This is mutual welcome back.
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I have to admit that I both liked and dislike the closing a commercial.
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It was a great taser. It made it so you couldn't wait to get
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to those serial episodes. Unfortunately, none of those serial episodes are in circulation.
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So I can't bring them to you and I can't hear them, which
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is a bummer. In fact, that entire five day a week serial run,
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accounting for five months was missing. But it sounds so interesting, so
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good, and I think, as we're hearing with the Johnny Dollar program,
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uh there, you know, you can really do some fantastic things with five
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shows a week. I will say I would not say that these are lost
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Radio Goold index dot com a website I mentioned before. If you go there,
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they have a little summaries and snippets on just a huge catalog of shows.
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It's certainly not complete, and it's not one accurate, but it does
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give you an idea of what may be out there among collectors. And they
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have around two hundred more episodes of Nick Carter, including I think three or
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four of the serial runs complete. That doesn't mean that it was that it's
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in the possession of the people who run that website, so don't email or
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contact them or anything. But it means that they were able to catalog it,
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which means that it was out there once and hopefully is still out there.
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So maybe one of these days we'll be able to listen to that.
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Well. Another thing, I you know, and this was I think just
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a fun story. One thing I found interesting was people fighting over liver,
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you know, just going to such ends. You know, in our country
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today, we are far more logical. We don't get into those fight fights
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over things other than if it's the latest tech or toy on Black Friday.
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But I imagine it was a little more orderly than that most times. But
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you know, at least the woman whose family needed the meat got the meat.
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And I guess, you know, and liver obviously not the favorite meet
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by most folks, but any meat during World War two was much sought after,
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and I guess that's a good opportunity to remind you if you are interested
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in World War Two. We have another podcast, The War, in which
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we examine great old time radio war programming, and this week I'll have Adventures
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of Superman on Monday, Life of Riley on Tuesday, the Pacific Story on
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Wednesday, and Man Behind the Gun and Cavalcade of America, with our weekend
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music portion being from the Melody roundup in the National Barn Dance. So you'll
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want to go ahead and check that out in the meantime. Sendor comments to
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