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for today's episode of the Case Book of Gregory Hood. The Darringer Society.
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the family that took time to bring you into the story of the Derringer
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Society. Another exciting story from the Case Book of Gregory Hood. And right
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now I'd like to talk about those few minutes you have while you're waiting for
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At the best beginning a good meal ever had, You really feel like
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you're enjoying the good things of life when you take time for a glass of
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Petrie sherry. Pull that glass of sherry to the light. Look at it.
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It's a beautiful dark amber. Yes, and Petrie sherry is clear and
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fragrance, the way a good wine should be now tasty. Ah, you've
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got something that Petrie sherry has a real heart of the grape flavor. And
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look, if you like your sherry dry, you know not sweet. Petrie
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makes a fine dry sherry. It's called Petree Pale dry. And if you
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don't know yet which you prefer, the regular sherry or the dry, why
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not try both. Don't buy one, buy two, but just be sure
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you always buy Petrie. Well, it's Monday night in San Francisco. We
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have a date with Gregory Hood and his friend and attorney Sanderson Sailor. Tonight's
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rendezvous is at that delectable backwater, the Happy Valley Room at the Famous Palace
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Hotel. Let's keep our date, Dolly. Hurrybody, Hell, how are
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you hello, Gregory and he with the sailor. What do you mean,
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Harry? We just ordered a glass of sherry. You'll join us across.
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Thanks, greg be very nice. Make that three Sherry's call. Well,
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gentlemen, which stories if you're selected from the case. But for tonight's episode,
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it's bite remarkable case that we found under the hitting of the Derringer sosiety.
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Well, it sounds exciting, but what is the Derringer's Society. Well,
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surely you remember those wonderful, early semi scientific yawns about doctor Deringer.
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Know, yes, I do, greg Now that you mention it, it's
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sort of Jules Byrne stories, weren't they. Yes, And if you reread
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them, Harry, you'll realize that they predict just about everything, from rockets
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to the atomic bomb. You're both members of the Darringer's Society. I beg
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you certain. In fact, Gregory is the president. Greg I'm always learning
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something new about you. Oh. I've been a Derringer fan for a great
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many years, Harry. So it was only natural that I rounded up a
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few old cronies here who were equally interested in form of the society. We
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meet from time to time in a private romancelario in Maidenly. On the particular
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occasion I'm talking about, started out very quietly, with an excellent dinner,
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fine wine, and lots of good talk about the famous doctor Derringer. And
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then I rose from us, fellow members of the Deringer Society. You will
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already have noticed that we have violated our long standing stag rule. We have
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a lady among us for shame. Oh no, no, George, we've
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broken the president for a very particular reason. I don't have to remind any
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of you that the fabulous Doctor Derringer, that great bade bearded scientific giant,
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was especially devoted to the tricks played by time. Well. Our guest tonight
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is Miss Julia Hayes. She claims to perform exactly the sort of time travel
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prophecy that the Great Derringer foretold. Miss Hayes, gentlemen, claims to be
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able to predict future events. Doctor Barton, our psychiatrist's member, has been
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examining Miss Hayes today, and I shall ask him to introduce her. Thank
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you, mister President. Fellow members, I must preface my remarks by stating
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that if I appear to speak of our guests in a slightly clinical manner,
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I do so with her full permission. Am I right, Miss Hays Yes,
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Doctor Barton, you may say anything you wish. Thank you, Miss
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Hayes, gentlemen. This afternoon I spent some two hours examining our guests,
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and by all known psychological tests, he's simply normal, perhaps a trifle below
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average mentality. But her record has already established the fact that she can often
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predict future events with surprising accuracy. Quite above the laws of charm and now,
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gentlemen, Miss Hayes will be quite willing to answer any question. Yes,
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Sir Sandy Taylor, I think yours was the first hand. May I
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ask you any outstanding events that you're predicted in the past. On May the
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fourth, nineteen thirty seven, I predicted that two days later the German as
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ship Hindenburg would be destroyed. I predicted the death of both Mussolini and his
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son in law Canciano. I was writers to both date and time. I
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am seldom wrong, Miss Hayes. How do you explain your unusual ability?
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I cannot explain it. It is beyond my understanding. It is a gift.
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When I let my mind go blank, I can see into the future.
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Miss Hayes. Can you tell me what horse is going to win the
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second race at Arlington tomorrows Chester? Hey? That again? Oh? Sorry,
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I beg your pardon, Hays. I was just saying, let me
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ask you a serious question. Are you able to see into the future at
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will? Yes? If I make my mind a blank, I can usually
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see into the immediate future. Would you consider making a prediction for it?
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Now? I will try. I can promise nothing, but I will try
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Monday. Monday. It is Monday. At a fifteen I see the future,
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but not far ahead. The same night, three hours from now,
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at eleven fifteen tonight, I see a small man, the bald man's with
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glasses. His name is Chester. The jokes quiet, mister Chesse, don't
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spoil it. She's still talk Tonight, mister Chester, at exactly eleven fifteen,
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you will be murdered. I think that was one of the most emotional
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meetings we've ever had of the dinner in Just Society. It certainly broke up
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in a highay when she predicted the murder of jessin What do you make of
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that woman, Gregory? Then it's hard to say time traveled into the future
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is all very well in the daring of stories. Otherwise, I don't care
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for it too much. Life's complicated enough in a straight line these days.
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Wait for me, for Chester, he's chasing us on the double. He
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really must be scared. When I caught you, Fellows before you left.
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What's wrong, mister Chester. You're taking that prediction seriously, but it sounded
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to me more like a threat than a prediction. My reason tells me it's
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foolish to take the thing seriously, and yet, after all I did make
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that stupid remark about the horse races. She's a weird woman. She may
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have some odd powers that we know nothing about. What do you, fellas
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think I ought to do? Get the police perhaps? Now? I think
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it'd be a little hard to convince them that you were in danger. It's
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a quarter of eleven. Now would you like me to come home with you
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until after her eleven fifteen deadlines? Ban? Oh no, no, what,
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I won't bother you. I'm probably being extremely stupid. Well, thanks
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for this little talk. I feel a lot better. Good night, good
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night Chester, goodnight. It really is riding, isn't bad? La?
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Oh? Well, Andy, I don't think we need to take the business
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very seriously. Of course, Just the same, I have a feeling that
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miss Alfred Chester may not sleep too easily tonight. Albert, Yes, there
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it's me. Are you in bed? I'll hang up my things and come
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and tell you about it. It was rather a peculiar evening. There was
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a woman there who claimed to be able to see into the future. I
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know, But the funny thing was she, Oh but that's non sense.
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What's the time? Alice? Eleven fifteen that I'm safe. I need at
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the top of the morning to you stand, Morney. What brings you to
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my office this early in the morning, Stands, Could we interest you in
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the small ming bars for missus Silver's or we have a nice nine in inca
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headdresses you'd look rather fetching in one, Greg, I'm here on business.
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You saw Alfred Chester last night? Sure we both did. Why late last
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night he was murdered? He was what time stand? His wife says it
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was exactly eleven fifteen. God, then the prediction came true. What predictions
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are you talking about, mister Taylor. Chester attended the meeting of the Daring
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to Society last night. A woman by the name of Julia Hayes went into
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a sort of trance predicted Chester would be murdered as exactly eleven fifteen. And
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that's a woman I've got to talk to. We'll all go and talk to
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us then, but before we do, there's one thing I'd like to know.
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How was the murder committed? Jester was stabbed from behind by a medium
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sized, right handed person. No finger prints, no clue. Who are
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you calling, Gregor Boston? He can tell us where Julia Hayes can be
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found. Get me doctor Barton's obviously doctor Barton, I know him. He's
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a psychiatrist, isn't he. That's the man he brought to your Hayes to
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our meeting last night. Oh thanks, doctor Barton. This is Gregory Hood.
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Can you tell me where I can get in touch with Julia Hayes.
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She's here in my office now, and I found out something very interesting about
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it, so have I. Boughton, please keep her there until we arrive.
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We're leaving right away. I've been examining miss Hayes again this morning,
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gentlemen, and I've uncovered a very interesting fact. Miss Hayes was left handed
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in her childhood, but she's been forcibly trained into right handedness since it's a
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situation there as often as unpredictable psychological results. Though I'll confess never precisely like
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her. She is extraordinary. Shebarton, Lieutenant Silver's will tell you just how
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extraordinary. Doctor Barton Alphert Chester was murdered last night, murdered by a right
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handed person. What and her prediction came through to the exact minute He died
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at eleventh fifteen. He did die right. I don't know what to say
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one thing I can assure you, gentlemen, Miss Hayes did not commit the
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crime myself. How do you know? Because I brought her back here after
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the meeting last night. I was working with her until twelve thirty. Where's
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Messes now in the other room. You want to talk to her, Yes,
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Doctor Barton, I certainly do. I've caught her in. Come in.
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Yes, these a gentleman want to ask you a few questions. What
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questions? And you predicted the murder of mister Alfred Chester last night. Yes
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it happened, of course, Yes, I knew it would. How do
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you account for the fact that you predicted it three hours before it happened?
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I cannot account for it. It is a gift that I cannot explain.
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I can see things in the immediate future. I can tell you what is
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to happen today before the day is out. I can tell you again,
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what can you tell us, Miss Hayes. I see a large man,
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red faced man. His name is Helton, George Shelton, another member of
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the Dinger. What you've see, Miss Hayes. He will die tonight,
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he too will be murdered. Hecky well, this is one murder that isn't
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going to take place. You're's Helton speaking, Lieutenant Silver's again, Silvers,
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why don't you leave me alone? I don't want any police protection, and
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I won't have anything, mister, and I told you that. Now.
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Rochester was murdered last night, right after he's been threatened by this woman.
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If that was a coincidence, Silvers, there's probably a prowler. But I'm
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not easily scared, and I don't believe in supernatural powers, even though I
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am a member of the Drengers Society. I wish you'd let me come over,
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mister Belton. We don't like to take any chances. Now, look
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here, Silvers, it's nearly midnight. My wife and I are going to
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bed. Don't you worry about us? If anyone murders me during the night,
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I'll get in touch with you first thing in the morning, Lieutenant Silvers
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again, still worry about that threat on your life? Yes, that's the
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fifth time he's called me today, Darling. He must take it seriously.
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And if you don't, oh, now, don't worry, you'll pretty had
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about it. India, you run along to bed, Dear, I'll lock
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up. I suppose you know best, Oh, what's that I heard something,
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Gregory. I blame myself for mister Felton's murder last night. You did
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your best stand, yes, Lieutenant, not for all you. You tried
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to force him to take protection, but he wouldn't hear of And I know,
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but I do blame myself. Well, let's see what Julu Hayes has
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to say about this one. He's waiting outside. I meant no, Miss
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Hayes. I want to know how you knew this latest murder was going to
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take place. I cannot tell you how I knew. It is just that
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when my mind is a blank, I have the ability to see into the
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future. Now look, Miss Hayes, I'm a plane, straightforward police officer.
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One coincidence I can take, but not to And I can't write on
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the police report that you knew about the murder because you can see into the
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future. You know, why not tell me the truth? I am telling
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the truth, Oh, Gregory, see if you can get anything out of
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us, Miss Hayes. I understand about your being able to travel into the
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future, but surely you must be able to remember more about what you saw
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when you had that vision. Try and think back. Will you think back?
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Back. No, I can only see forward forward, Scott mind's banking
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out again. I see another death in the immediate future, sudden death.
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Man is tall and dark. His name is Hood, Gregory Hood. You'll
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hear the rest of Gregory hood story in just a second. So I'll tell
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you quickly about a wine. I know you like. That. Wine is
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Petrie California muscatel. Petri muscatel is really marvelous. Fact, I'm willing to
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bet you like everything about it. Petri muscatel is good. Just to look
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at the color of sheer gold and say, if you've ever tasted plump,
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luscious muscat grapes, it's there, sun ripe and best. Well, then
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you know what to expect when you taste Petri muscatel. Petri muscatel brings you
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that same wonderful muscat flavor. And you like Petri muscatel after dinner by itself
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or served with fruit, for instance, peaches, or with cake. Just
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be sure it's Petrie Petrie muscatell, because Petrie wine is always good wine.
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Well, Gregory, so yours was the third murder to be predicted, considering
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the first two had taken place. According to schedule, you must have felt
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a little nervous for the first twenty four hours. I was a trifle sensitive
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to sudden sounds, Erry. But when forty eight hours had passed without anything
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happen, I mean I began to feel rather let down. Down. She'd
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have thought you'd have been grateful, and Gregory has an ingrained sense of mata
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drama. Harry. I think he felt cheated because the spotlight was on him
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and he didn't have a scene to play exactly Sandy, As my old father
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used to say, if you are fortunate enough to hit the headlines, for
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Heaven's sake, make the most of it. But how could I The other
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two killings had followed right on the heels of the prophecies. Now mine had
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been predicted, and nothing happened at all. It was rather humiliating, That's
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one way of looking at it. In any case. I'm sure you didn't
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just sit down and wait for someone to try to kill him. Oh no,
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no, Harry. As soon as Julia Hay thought it her dia threat,
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Lieutenant Silvers and I went into action. We questioned everyone and checked alibias
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till we were as black in the face as a couple of end men.
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But after three days of this, we had progressed exactly nowhere. On the
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night of the fourth day, I remember, Sandy and I sat in my
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apartment while you look at our Silver's have been doing the legwork. I've been
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doing some serious thinking blended, Sandy, what conclusions did you arrive at?
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I think there's only one answer to this case. Answer is doctor Barton's a
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psychiatrist. Julia Hayes is slightly subnormal. I wouldn't mind giving you odds that
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he hypnotized her into performing the two murders. She'd be an easy hypnotic vict
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him. I've thought of that possibility. Have you figured out his motive?
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No, but I'll skipped that for the moment. One thing we do know
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he had the opportunity. He was the only person who was alone with the
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woman for any length of time between her arrival in San Francisco and her first
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prophecy at our meeting. Very true, and I think I could provide your
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missing motive, Sandy. We've checked on doctor Barton thoroughly. The wife of
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George Felton, the second man murdered, was a patient of Barton's. There
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was also a beautiful woman. No doubt is now a very rich one.
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I've gleened rumors that her relationship with Barton was a little more cozy than that
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which usually exists between doctor and patient. In that case, how would you
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account for the first murder, the stabbing of Alfred Chester. Well, that
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could have been a blind to establish a pattern and conceal the motive. Well,
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that was the case, your death would be necessary. Also true,
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true done at Sandy. This is our supposition. We haven't a real lead
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to follow. There's one thing I will say about. Who are you calling?
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Doctor Howell? Is staying at the Fairmont. He's probably the greatest psychiatist
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in the country, Doctor Eustace Howell. What can he say whether Julia Hayes
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could have been hypnotized into committing murder? Doctor Howell? This is Gregory Hood.
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I'm fine, Thanks, Yes, I'd like to in the meanwhile,
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do you mind if I pick your brains? Yes? Here's my problem.
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Is it possible to hypnotize an individual to commit a criminal act against his will?
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Thanks? Thanks? I thought so. I'm much obliged to. I'll
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call you in the day or two. Goodbye to do huh No, he
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says. The answer is an unqualified no. Well, I'm going to accelerate
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my own murder. Just tell me what plowers you're like. First, I'm
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very fond of trans valid days, is Sanday, But don't worry about my
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funeral life. Yes, Lieutenant Silvers please? Who can play at this game?
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Sandy? Oh stam? This is Greg Hood. No, no,
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no more leads, But I have got a brain wave. Pick up Julia
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Hayes and bring her up to the apartment as soon as you can. Yes,
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we'll be waiting for you. I cannot answer any more questions, mister
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Hood. But miss Hayes, you predicted that I would be murdered in this
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apartment. Doesn't the setting ring a responsive chord in your memory? No,
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no, it does not. Your other prophecies came through. What happened to
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this one? I do not know. I cannot explain it. Perhaps you've
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lost your mysterious power. May oh, perhaps you never had it. Perhaps
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you made the whole thing up. Why not admit you're a murders who poses
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as a prophet. I am no murderers. I can see the future,
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or I could. Something has happened to me. You never could see the
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future, and you never will. But I'll tell you your future misses.
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If you don't tell us the truth, you'll end up in the gas chamber.
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And I don't have to be a clairvoyant to know that. Stop talking
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like that. Leave me alone. I won't see here. Come No,
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no, Stan, let her go. I'll Taylor though, Greg good idea
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he's upset. She might show her hand. I'll be back later. Well,
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I've still known it. Other solution, rigger, I don't know.
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I swear there's still hypnotism in it somewhere. I have a hunt that Julia
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Hayes isn't conscious of it, that alibi of hers for the first killing might
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be a true one at that Hello, gree this is doctor bod Yes,
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Barton, my brother, a serious confession to make you. I lied to
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the police about what I'm seeing that Julia Hayes was with me at the time
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of the first murder. She was. Why did you lie? Well,
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the woman seems such a unique psychiatric steady. I wanted to complete my examination
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before the police her. No, I've finished my research with her. Tell
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him yourself, Barton, and I wish you the worst of luck in explaining
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it to them. There's a man that danced at his father's wedding. What
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did you say, Grigor? He dynamited Julia Hayes Alibi for the first murder,
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but in doing so, I'm pretty certain he's put the thing around himself,
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Doctor Howell. Please, and I think we're on the right track at
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last. I certainly hope, sir, doctor Howell. This is greg Hood
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again. I want just one more piece of information. Please. Can a
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post hypnotic suggestion include persuading the patient that he was never hypnotized at all?
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It can, Thank you, doctor, I'm immensely obliged to you. There's
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our answer, Sandy. When Barton demolished the woman's alibi, he also demolished
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his own. Then he did hit meatish sure. Then he planted the apparent
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prophecies in her mind after she'd made them public. He committed the murders himself.
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I get it. And he thought that. When he's cuttled Junior Hayes
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Alibi, we think she tried to make her own predictions come true. That's
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it, Sandy. Fortunately for us, he's outsmarted himself and walked into his
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own trap. We've got him. Who's that is that? You? Stan's
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who turned off the light? Oh? No, you know Greggary. Greggary,
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Well, ay, what happened at the light switch? Got a knight?
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Break a man? Okay? Why the light sort? What's going on?
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Stand? The killer's here. He's got a knife. She's got a
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knife, Hayes. She got away from it when I praised her back.
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But it can't be again. Here it is Julia Hayes. Gregory, you've
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got your call, Miss Hayes. Knife's in your hand at all? Well,
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I have you got to say for yourself? I'm sorry I did not
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kill you, mister Hood. Well that's very friendly of you, Miss Hayes.
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But I'm completely confused. So am i? Gregory, who just finished
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proving to me that she couldn't be the killer? Well, I don't know
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what more evidence you want, greg The knife's in her hand and she admits
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she wished she'd killed you. Yes, I admitted you all made fun of
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me. You did not believe in my gift. If you had died,
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then all my predictions would have come true. But I am no murderers.
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Of course you want, miss Hayes. What are you talking about? Gregory?
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But don't you see she's holding the knife in her left hand. There's
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the answer. Come on, Lieutenant, Let's go over and see doctor Barton
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as fast as the squad car can get us there. This is all very
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dramatic. The police inspect her, and amity detective and its attorneys stand in
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my home and accuse me of murder. Is this some form of practical joke.
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If you think it is, you must have a very warped sense of
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humor. I don't think the judge will find it funny, Doctor Barton,
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and I know that your attorney weren't. But this is ridiculous. You're suggesting
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that I hypnotized Julia Hayes into making murder prophecies, and then that I carried
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out the murders myself to coin a phrase. Yes, but my dear hood,
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you've just admitted that she attacked you tonight. Yes, you suggested the
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idea and the three of us by taunting her with her failure as a prophet
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earlier on helped her never too stable mind snapped and she attacked me to fulfill
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her record of prophecies. But why couldn't she have committed the two murders.
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You overlooked one thing, my friend. You didn't know that under strong emotion
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she reverts to her childhood left handedness. She attacked me tonight with her left
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hand. The murders were committed by a right handed person. I want to
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argue any more. I'd like to know, Oh what you think my motive
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was heard? Oh that's easy. Missus Felton, the widow of your second
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victim, broke down half an hour ago and spilled quite a few beans.
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She did, I mean, yes, she did. Sure. Cynthia has
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been talking. That had come with me. Doctor very well, Lieutenant,
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I should prefer not to talk anymore, and I've seen my attorney good night.
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I see you in court. Barton Quaker, you tell the most convincing
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lies. That story about Missus Felton talking. How can you do it?
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Oh? It takes years of training. My old father always used to say
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that if you couldn't think of a really convincing truth when you wanted to make
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a good point, then tell us something great life. You're a chip off
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the old blot, Sandy. I'm worried, conscience bothering, mm hmm.
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I'm thinking about the Derringer Society. What about it? Gregor? Well,
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Sandy brood about it? With two of our society murdered and the third headed
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for the gas Chamber. We can certainly use some new members. Greg,
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that was an exciting story. How do you get mixed up in these things?
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Harry? I guess I'm just around when they happen. But why is
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it I'm never around? Harry? Maybe you're just the kind of person nothing
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ever happens too lucky you you mean poor me? I bet if I were
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a member of the Darringer Society, things would start happening to me. Oh,
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I don't know. But before you can become a member, you must
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be able to contribute something to the society. Have you a scientific mind?
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I'm a genius with a tinker toy. Oh no, No know anything about
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psychiatry, No hypnotism, no precognition, don't even know what it means.
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Well, in that event, Harry, what in the world could you possibly
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contribute to the Dringer Society the case of Petrie wine, I should have known
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they love me, Greg, because Petrie wine is such good wine. Well,
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it's just got to be with the Petrie family. That growing of perfect
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sun ripe and grapes, in the art of turning millose grapes into fragrant,
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delicious wine is a heritage It's a heritage passed on down from father to son,
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from father to son. Now wonder Petrie wine is so good? Yes,
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the making of Petrie wine is a family affair, and the Petrie family
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has every intention of keeping it just that. So you know, the name
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Petrie on a bottle of wine is more than a trademark. It's the personal
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assurance of the Petrie family that Petrie wine is and always will be good wine.
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Well, Gregory, which adventure out of the case book are you planning
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to tell us next week? Next Monday, Harry, I'm going to tell
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of a weird adventure that send In I had in Mexico City some months ago.
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During the course of the story, I've succeeded in getting myself kidnapped by
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a female shop shooter nearly ended up with an extremely beautiful wife. I'll see
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you next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by
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Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed and played by Dean Fossler.
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Gail Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood, and Sanderson Taylor is played by
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Carl Harbor. The Petrie Wine Company of San Francisco, California, invites you
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to tune in again next week, same time, same station. The Case
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Book of Gregoryhood comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel
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Michael Shane, followed immediately by the Casebook of Gregory Hood. This is the
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Mutual Broadcasting System. Welcome back. Another great story and I love how they
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really just confuse things towards the end. It seemed like within the last five
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minutes they changed between the psychiatrist and the quote unquote prophet something like three times.
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And again. This is just a great series and I definitely wish there
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were more episodes. And I wish they could keep a Sanderson Taylor. We
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have a new actor with playing Sanderson Taylor. Sounds kind of British. Carl
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Harberg. Actually, beyond the Case Book of Gregory Hood, he appeared in
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one episode of Dark Venture and then several episodes of Whitehall twelve twelve, which
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