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you can support the show and support dot Great Detectives dot Matt. Well,
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now it's time for us to take a listen to another case for Nick Carter
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Drums of Death. What is it? Another case for Nick Carter, Detective.
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Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters, the
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detective who's ability as solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction.
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Nick Cutter, Master Detectives, The Night's Curious Adventure. The Drums of Death
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are Nick Carter and the Mystery of the White Witch Doctor. And so,
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gentlemen, you will find and close the compete prose here on the criminal in
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question, plus all the evidence need it for a conviction. Yours, very
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truly, Etctera Wait a minute, Wait a minute, minute, not so
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fast, yours very truly? Okay, what now? What else do we
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have to take care of? Patsy? The only unfinished business I know right
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now is this bunch of letters from that missus Galli. Oh yes, what
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was it this missus Galli wanted me to do. She's worried about her doctor,
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Nick, and she wants to consult you. Oh, let her consult
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another doctor if she doesn't like the one she's gotten. Now throw her letters
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out, Patsy. Let's go celebrate having our old business all cleaned up.
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Well, I would, Nick, except that the letter we got from her
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today throws a new light on her problem. What if she have to say
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today that was so vibal? She says she's afraid of her doctorate. Of
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Oh, missus Galli's that old wealthy dowager I met at somebody's tea a few
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weeks ago. Isn't she who she is? And she she's probably a crotch
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at the old hypochondriac whose hobby is doctors? That, isn't it. Now
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that she's see every physician in town, she wants to start in collecting detectives.
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Does she say why she's afraid of whatever doctor she's going to. Now,
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yes she does, nick, she says he's he's a witch doctor.
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It was very kind of you to come, mister Carter. I hoped you
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would. I confess I wasn't too eager, Missus Galli, until miss Bourne
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told me about your last letter. I well, perhaps it's still to believe
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in such things as voodoo and black magic nowadays. But I don't know what
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to suppose you tell your story and let me be the gent. Well,
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there isn't much to tell, mister Carter. I was what the only the
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wind? Missus Gallley, it's nothing. I'm so unnerved. Well, here's
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my story. Last week my nephew, Walter Gallley told me about a wonderful
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new doctor he discovered, a doctor Congo. I wasn't feeling well and the
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name interested me, so I went to see him. Good morning, Is
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doctor Congo here? Good morning, madam? Yes, the doctor is in.
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Can't say I remember a doctor's office in Vanderbilt Square before you're new here?
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Aren't you? Have you come to see doctor Congo? Madam? Naturally?
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Do I look like an insurance salesman? Have you an appointment? Missus
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Galley? Is the name, Missus Gally. My nephew made an appointment for
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me. Oh yes, Missus Galley, will you step this way please?
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Doctor Congo's expecting you. Thank you. Wait a moment. What's that noise?
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Drums? Madam? Drums? What drums? You'll step inside, Missus
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Gally. You'll find out for yourself very well. Drums. Indeed, what
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a princess this? Good morning, Missus Galley. I presume i'm doctor Congo.
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Good morning, doctor Congo. I want god? What a storm go
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on? Missus gall Why did you scream? Because I thought, I thought,
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yes, what did you see? Oh? White savage? What?
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From his neck to his toes? Doctor Congo was an ordinary man. He
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was wearing white shouses, formal cutaway jacket, wing collar, aspati. He
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was beautifully dressed. But his face, yes, his face was hid shaven
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skull, a horrid grinning mouth, showing his teeth which had all been filed
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to a point. And he had a bone through his nose like a cannibal.
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Yes, it's I was stunned, and then then I thought it might
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be a joke. My nephew Walter was playing on me. I set down
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while the drums throbbed I'm sorry, I screamed, Dr Congo, but you
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gave me quite a start. I usually do that to my clients, Missus
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Gally, Oh what kind of a doctor? Are you a witch doctor?
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You're fooling, aren't you. On the contrary, but it's unbelievable. We
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only talk about things like witchcraft nowadays. I am not joking, Missus Gally.
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I've spent fifteen years in the heart of Africa studying voodoo. My face,
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the drums, the African witchcraft apparatus in this room all are necessary part
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of my profession. Profession. Yes, I am a professional witch doctor and
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as such can guarantee miracles that modern medicine would never dream of. Ridiculous.
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I don't believe you really. Oh yeah, Kahda, pardon me, Missus
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Galley. I was just ordering my men to begin the voodoo drum in Cantife.
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None of my clients believe me at first, Missus Galley, but I
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convinced them. Now, if you'll allow me, I have merely remove the
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lock of your hair. Now in spite of yourself, you are officially one
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of my patients, and I warn you my fee is high. You're wasting
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your time. I don't want to be a patient of yours, and I
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won't pay any fee. I'm leaving Potato a moment. Go on my arm.
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You don't understand me, Missus Galley, and I'm afraid you don't understand
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voodoo. This lock of your hair places your health in my hands. Your
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life or death are mine to do with as I desire. And my fee
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for this visage is ten thousand dollars a gipot of my way, ten thousand
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dollars, Misus Galley. I listen closely. Three times. You will hear
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my congo drums roll no matter where you are. If you have not save,
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when you hear them for the third time, you will die. Good
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morning, Missus Galley. Then, mister Cutton, I ran out of that
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office. I'm sixty five and not as strong as I was, but I
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was frightening. I realized he was threatening to kill me with voodoo, and
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we don't believe in that nowadays, do not as a rule. Three drum
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rolls, he told me. And if I don't pay by the third one,
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I die. Stuff nonsense, I said, And then that's very nice.
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When I was alone in this room, I heard the distant role of
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Congo from guy im. Missus Gallay, you must calm yourself. I'm sure
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it's only your nerves. We don't believe in witchcraft today. You've got to
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believe me. Mister Carton, I've already that doctor Congo's frum me one.
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Perhaps you only think you did. Missus doctor Kngo was playing on your nerves.
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Hysteria can make us think we hear anything. No, no, no
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no, I'm sure I heard that wasn't Missus Galley's imagination. I heard it
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too, and show did I Patty? Doctor you have saved me from doctor
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Congo. Mister Carter, you god, I'm lost, will kill me?
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Help me? Help me? Missus Galli. You I never believe, but
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I do not joke, comes Miss Joe, Missy, listen to me.
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I'll take over this case, so don't worry. Now. Where can I
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find your nephew Walter? He's usually in the bubble bar cafe? Up?
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Mister, is that doctor Congo? Get me? I call her maiden,
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tell her to put her to bed. We've got to get out of here.
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You'll go back to the office. I'm gonna look for Missus Galli's nephew.
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Actor Coo isn't he the one you want to see? No, I
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have a hunched this case hinges on Walter Gally. This bar cafes pretty perfecting
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guy place. This is a fancy name. Nobody here about the bar piano.
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Well, let's be too early in the evening. Good evening you now,
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will it be information? I'm looking for someone who Walter Glly. Oh
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him, Walter ain't come in yet? Hang around he do any minute?
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He live around here, Yeah, across the street River apartment. I see
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he owes you money too, huh? How's that? Don't play dumb?
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Pal Golly's clipped us all. Somebody's always coming around looking for him. Well,
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i'd give plenty to get back what he owes me. He's no good
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house chances of collecting zero pal zero. Jolly claims he's got a rich old
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land who's gonna leave him plenty when she kicks off. But I don't for
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the logo. What is it? Spider man turn around and look? Oh
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good evening, mister ah, Doctor Congo, I presume quite right? What's
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that thing he's good for a face? Don't you find it inconvenient walking around
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wearing a bone through your nose? Doctor, Congo. No, mister Cole,
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I don't. It's my business, and what's your business with me?
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You see this African spear I'm carrying, Yes, I'm going to present it
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to you. And why merely are a warning, my impulsive frame? A
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warning? Yes, a warning? Keep away from Walter Galley and his aunt
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or the next time my drums roll, they'll beat for your death, my
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dear witch doc. And just to punctuate my warning, here's the pell I
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promise you you just miss you. Well that spear, mister keep in prosauvenir
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bart Tenner. I'm going after that man. Hey, do corgo do cogo?
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Corgo? Thinks you can scare me off of that voodoo nonsense? Hango
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hao, it's cutting across the street. Well see if up front me?
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Hey han Nika, you all right? Nick? Oh what happened then?
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Oh? Yes, as I remember? Now? Oh is that you passy?
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It's me all right? That was close. What happened? I got
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here just as that car must mind you down? Whoever it was. He
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tried his best to get rid of me. But why probably because I was
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chasing doctor Congo. Doctor Congo, yes bade me a visit when I was
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looking for water. Gally at the Bubble Bar cafe. Yes, Congo threw
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an African spear at me. I chased him out to the street. Probably
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had an accomplice waiting with a car for just such an emergency. We Nick,
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might have killed you. They certainly tried hard enough, must have jumped
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a mile trying to dodge that car. Nick, listen, I came down
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here looking for you. What's happened Missus Galli's maids in the office Just as
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I got there, she was hysterical. She could hardly talk. What happened?
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Peessy, Missus Galli has done? Mister Carter. I'm so glad you
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can Missus gillis disappear. You mean Missus galliher she must filtered the way monsieur
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by witchcufts. It's horrible. She's simply vanished. When did you say,
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Missus Galli last? After you leave? I put her to bed. She
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has been a faire you remember, remember she does not rest, she cannot
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sleep. She scream and laughs. So I can I will get her?
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They off me. I mean the kitchen when I yell scream upstairs and Senior
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said, she does not scream. She's are you saying cut off. I
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enter the bedroom and and what you must look for yourself? Monsieur, I
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do not go into this room again. Come on, okay, oh Nick,
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do you really think doctor Condom made missus galliy Vanish? I don't know
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what to think yet. But the rud drum. We heard them when we
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were here before, Yes, we heard them. That's the bedroom. Yes,
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m hm. Broom looks all right, nothing upset, no sign of
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a struggle. But look on the bed, the bed, ah, what
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is it? Nick? Looks like dust dust forming the outline of a human
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figure. There's any truth in voodoo, Patsy. That's what's left of missus
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Galliyh. Nick. This is awful, steady, but this must be real
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witchcraft. Nick. No human agency could do this to missus Kelly. The
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drum, the congo drum. Let's get out of here. If I have
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no drums again, I'll scream. That's horful. You better get ready to
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hear plenty more, Patsy. Right now, we're going to pay a visit
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to doctor Congo. This is Vanderbilt Square, Patsy. Look for doctor Congo's
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sign. Do we have to come here? We do, Patsy. I
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want to have a look at doctor Congo's office, A nice little residential section.
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It's awfully dark, no lights in the houses anywhere. I'm Nick.
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There it is the doctor sign. Yes, Congo w D probably stands for
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witch doctor. All right, Patty, come on, certainly you don't believe
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in voodoo, Patsy. I never did before, but doctor Congo seems to
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change my mind. Maybe would you rather wait in the car? What desert
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you? I may be scared, but I'm no coward. That's the girl,
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Petsy. I'm trying, but it's nice. My teeth chattered too loud.
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Well, here we are, a nice side window, going to have
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a peek inside, going to break in? What's that? Just a gadget,
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Patsy for unlocking locked windows? Now we turn the catch and there we
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are. I'll go first, Patsy. Okay, all right, I'm gonna
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give you a hand. Patsy. Right, and here we are in the
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den of the witch doctor. What are you looking for? Any clues?
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It'll help us rather do it by daylight, but this flashlight will have to
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serve. Hurry up, Nick, I want to get out of here.
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Well, sorry to interrupt mister Cutton again. I believe just paying a friendly
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call. Doctor Congo interested in Missus Gally's unfortunate disappearance. Eh, you know
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about that, naturally, my voodoo did it. Missus Galley was too stubborn
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to pay the fee. She owed me. I would advise you to raise
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your hands, mister Cutter. You see the young lady understands a native archer
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is eager to shoot. You'll not miss next time. What do you want,
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Congo? I thought it was obvious money, and I'm going to get
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it in spite of you, because unfortunately you're helpless. Cutter. You cannot
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fight my voodoo, and no law court will convict me of murder by witchcraft.
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The police will laugh at your evidence, at my evidence. I wonder
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you can wander on your way home, mister Cutter. This way out,
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and let me warn you never to return, or you'll not go out alive.
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Come on, neck, one last word. I've already spoken to Walter
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Gallley on the phone. He refuses to pay the money. His hand owed
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me. Walter has no money now, but he can raise plenty at a
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moment's notice on the inheritance he'll receive now that his aunt is dead. That's
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true. If his aunt is dead. You had better use your influence on
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him, if you have any, and persuade him to pay before it's too
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late. Another threat, Doctor Congo. Listen, mister cutter, I do
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not make empty threats. You've already seen the power of my voodoo in the
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case of missus Gaily. I'm not joking now. My black magic is already
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cutting away Walter Gally's life. Unless he agrees to pay I ask, in
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a very short time, he too will rot to dust. Good light,
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Nick, I can't believe it. He let us go HALLII. Yes,
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Passy, this time Congo over played his hand, and I believe a visit
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to Walter Galley's apartment will prove it. To Galley. Mister Galley, it's
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the Galley. No one home, and we'll just go in and wait.
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This looks like an easy lock to open. I'm almost afraid to go in.
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Do you like Passy worrying already? Radio playing the lights on? You
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must have just s What do you think, doctor Congress. Let's look around.
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Wait a minute, the rail Yeah, that's better. I wonder where
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Gally is. Maybe he went to pay that money to doctor Congo. Perhaps,
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but I doubt it. Nick, look what is it, Betty.
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Look at that couch beside the radio. It's covered with dust. Yes,
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I see, it's shaped like a human figure, exactly like the dust.
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And missus Galley's bed. Then Congo's killed water Gally too. The eviden seems
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to point that way. But how can Congo do his nick by voodoo?
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So Congo says, beat a few drums, melt a wax figure, and
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your victim ruts to dust. And there's the dust on the couch. And
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you believe it too. I didn't say that, Bessy. Listen the drama.
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Can oh, Nick, let drop this case. We can't fight the
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supernatural. We don't understand it. It's like trying to stop the wind.
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Trying to stop the wind. Of course, Betsy, that's the one last
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explanation I was looking for. I just thought of that myself. What I
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mean, this case is solved. Give me a moment to write a note
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here at Galley's desk, not writ doctor Congo. Right here, doctor Congo,
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you are right, I have no case for the police. I have
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just discovered that both your victims committed suicide. Sign Nick Cusher, that's a
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peculiar note. What does it mean? Doctor Congo will understand it. But
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naked couldn't be suicide, but missus Galli and water vanished, no bodies were
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fat. Congo will understand what it means. Pacy, Oh, naked just
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deliberately mystifying me. No, Patsy, you will understand too later, But
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right now I want you to deliver this note to missus Galley's made no questions.
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Now deliver it and hurry back to the office, because very shortly we're
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going to hear doctor Congo's drums beating again, and this time they'll be beating
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for us. Nick. Nick over here, Peessy delivered not yes, what
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in the world are you doing? Just setting up my motion picture projector?
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Oh, Nick, this is no time for movie. The police written Missus
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Galley's news about his disappearance is getting around. I understand the whole social set's
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going crazy. That's exactly what Congo wants. If you fail on this case,
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Nick, everyone would be afraid not to pay Congo. As I said,
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that's exactly what Congo wants. Said he was after money, didn't he
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Who do you think Kngo will attack Nick bru Congo brum. There's your answer,
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Petsy, you mean he's after us exactly. I know. It's got
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a quicker response than I thought it would. Bet. You put out the
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lights quickly, now what, No, the projector there, you see,
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I've got a set in the shape. Why that's why. It makes it
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look as if we were standing in front of the window talking. The shadows
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on the person look as natural as mine. Right now, get over to
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the side of the room, away from in front of the window. No
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butts. Final instructions were playing against the killer Patsy you mean congo. Yeah,
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I'm a floorer, white flat. I wish you Why what am I
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supposed to do? Wait? And when you hear shots, scream? Scream?
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You heard me? But who's going to do the shooting? Our old
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friend, Nick? You are right quiet, everything's all right. All that
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shot was the movie projector in about ten seconds. Now they're coming in here
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to check up on the results. Nick, did you say they just as
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soon as you hear the doors, I am turn on the lights. Don't
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argue, Betsy, Okay, not quiet. They took care of them.
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Yes, I think that, Betsy. Now as you see you're covered with
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this gun I hold in my hand. Nick, I told you Walter he
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was that Tommy Gun you have light on the table doctor Congo. But Nick,
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that's missus Gally. I thought you would say, that's what you were
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supposed to think, Petsy, and the chap with her is our nephew,
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Walter. But I don't understand me, Very simple, Ptsy. This clever
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pair created doctor Congo, a phony witch doctor played by Walter Gally. Their
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motive blackmail, and they pretended to be their own first two victims. I
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see, so they could disappear and then spend their entire time playing Doctor Congo,
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and also so that their fates would terrify future victims into paying Doctor Congo's
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exorbitant fees without any protest. You are indeed clever, mister Cutter, very
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clever. Then all that voodoo was make believe phony. Yes, Petsy,
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as phony is the shadows on our window shade, which this precious pear attacked.
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As phony is the makeup that turned Waller into a witch doctor. That's
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why I wrote that note Petsy about having learned that both disappearances were really suicides.
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They knew then that I'd seen through their whole Scheme's those mysterious johnbi to
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be heard even outside our own wind. Let me show you how that was
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done. Ah, yes, here is is he, Patsy? A simple
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gadget attached the outer frame a windmill connected to a small drum. When the
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wind blows hard enough, the drum beats. Watch, I'll spin it.
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So that's what scared me. That plus your imagination. It was imagination you
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two counted on. Most wasn't the doctor Congo? You conducted the voodoo tail
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planet your own clues, and then vanished the rest. You left the human
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nature, right, Jim? So why did they call you in, Nick?
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Why didn't they let well Enough alone? They were playing for high stakes,
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Betsy. They thought they had a perfect record and if I failed to
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break it, the victims wouldn't fight back. But the phony doctor Congo was
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far too eager to let us escape. That was the second important clue,
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The second What was the first? Missus Gally claimed she was in Congo's power
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because he'd cut off a lock of her hair. Remember, yes, but
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isn't that according to voodoo traditions? Certainly, but it couldn't work with Missus
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Gally? Why not? No, Patsy, you disappoint me. Look at
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Missus Gally. Now you're close enough, I see missus Galli where a wig,
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of course, Betsy, and a lock of hair cut from a wig
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would hardly put the wearer of the wig under the spell of even the best
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witch doctor in the world. Look here, Kutter, we can't stand here
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all night with our hands in the air like this. No, what are
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you going to do with us? Sorry to treat you to this way,
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but I don't like visitors, or bring Tommy a guns in my office.
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A fool to let you go when I had you in my office, Cutter,
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there were all kinds of a fool. Galley or do you prefer to
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be called doctor Congo. Ah, you hadn't been in such a hurry,
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your plans might not have been quite so apparent. And if you hadn't been
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so obvious and sunning me to see Walter Gally in the middle of the night
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when he hadn't had time to raise the money to pay you, even if
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you wanted to, I shouldn't have been quite so sure what your schemes were.
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Your eagerness to begin collecting from your victims was your downfall, all right.
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But the next time they all say, my friend, But they won't
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be any next time. Nick Carter plays for Keats. This has been another
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of the strange adventures off Nick Carter, Master Detective, which have brought to
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you regularly at the same time by w R. Mutual and now Philip Clark,
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who played Doctor Congo in our story Tonight has a message from our government
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that I want you all to hear. Go ahead, sill. A friend
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of mine asked me the other day, why do we need to save waste
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paper? And how come the supply of paper is limited? Well, the
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answer to that is obvious. An army needs men and lumberjacks, among others
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join the army. Fewer trees are cut down. Consequently, there's less paper
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made because there's less wood pulp available for making it. But that same war
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that cuts down the available supply of paper demands an ever increasing quantity of paper
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for many vital war needs. Paper goes into cottons and containers for food,
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weapons, and equipment needed by the armed forces. Paper is necessary for many
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of the actual weapons of war, such as incendiary bombs, bomb fins,
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wingtips, airplane signals, parachute flares, ration containers, and ammunition containers.
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And the American home is the greatest potential source of waste paper every kind is
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needed, bags, wrapping paper, newspaper, magazines, all containers, and
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so on. So if you're not already doing so, start to day salvaging
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all the waste paper you possibly can. Then sell it to your junk dealer
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or donate it to some charitable organization. But don't throw away a single scrap
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of paper. Make it help us win this war. And now, Nick,
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what about your story for next week? Well, let's about a gang
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of super crooks with stolen a very valuable invention and kidnapped the old inventor and
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his beautiful daughter to hold them as hostages. And even though I accidentally knew
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in advance what was going to happen, I was too late to stop them
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due to an unfortunate accident. But Nick more than made up for it the
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way he went after those crooks. Within twenty four hours he succeeded in capturing
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the gang and rescuing the professor and his daughter. Yes, Bessy, but
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it was fast and furious, well at lasted. Scovey and I were in
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hot water right up until the end of the chase. What do you call
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the story, Nick, I've called it The Professor's Secret for the Mystery of
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the z Rays. That's all until next week. So long, So long,
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everybody? So long? Do you both Nick and Patsy? In the
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strange adventure you have just heard? Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark,
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Patsy by Helen Schote. The story was written for Nick Carter by Alfred Bester.
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Original music was played by Lou White. The entire production was under the
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direction of Jack McGregor. Next week, at the same time, listen to
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another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled a Professor's Secret or Nick Carter and the
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Mystery of the z Raise. This story is a copyrighted feature of streetent Smith
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Public Ad Incorporated. The Return of Nick Carter has produced in the studios of
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w o R and is broadcast over most of these stations every Saturday evening at
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seven o'clock Eastern War Time. And don't forget that the adventures I've Nick's adopted
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son, Chickcutter, are broadcast over most of these stations Mondays through Fridays at
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five point thirty pm Eastern War time. This is mutual welcome back. Another
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mostly solid case where a listener might be tempted to think that there's some truly
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spooky he's in behind the Witch Doctor's machinations. Oh that's put to rest in
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the end. I will say, the one thing that really disappointed me about
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this episode is the role that Pansy played in it. In this episode,
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she really is Nick Carter's only sidekick, and the way the writers wrote this
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was horrible. I mean, she couldn't seem to do anything. She needed
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Nick to tell her everything to do, including flapping the supposedly hysterical person who
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had appealed to Nick not even able to notice that she was wearing a wick.
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Patsy has been portrayed much stronger. You take a look listen a few
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weeks previously in Death after Dark, and she was really courageous and tough and
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willing to take a risk. So disappoint the inconsistency in this portrayal and just
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the way that it worked. But hopefully the other writers will be better.
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I should mention the two episodes that are lost in between Death and the Pines
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in this one, the Horoscope Murders and tigered It and Death. All right,
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Well, we have one listener comment before we go, and this one
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comes from Aloma says love your shows. Listen every day as I craft in
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the craft and in the car when I'm on the road. Don't even bother
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with TV anymore. Keep them coming. Well, thanks so much, Aloma
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will do all right. Well, we'll be back tomorrow as we wrap up
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two different mysteries. Join us for part five of the Matter of Reasonable Doubt
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and part four of Belladonna Was Poison. And next Thursday we'll be back with
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another episode of Nick Carter. In the meantime, sendor comments to Box thirteen
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