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Nick Carter: The Case of the Flowery Farewell (EP1674) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, now it's time for today's episode of
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  Speaker 1: Nick Carter. The original air date June the twentieth of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight. The title The Flowery Farewell.
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  Speaker 2: New post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt,
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  Speaker 2: presents Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime.
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  Speaker 3: Every week.
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  Speaker 2: At this time, two great themes are joined as New
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  Speaker 2: post War Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the
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  Speaker 2: most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 2: Master Detective.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you suppose he doesn't answer? Doorny?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Betsy. Maybe if we look through this
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  Speaker 5: window weagan.
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  Speaker 4: See hickqu's the matter? What are you staring at?
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  Speaker 5: Look over there on the floor by the sofa, Betsy, Huh?
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  Speaker 4: What is a man lying there? He's been shot in
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  Speaker 4: the forehead.
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  Speaker 5: Confound. He's the one man in the world who could
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  Speaker 5: have told us why a young man who had everything
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  Speaker 5: to live for or should want to take his own life.
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  Speaker 2: And now the case of the Flowery Farewell Today's exciting
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  Speaker 2: Adventures starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, drought to.
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  Speaker 3: You by New post War Old Dutch Cleanser.
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  Speaker 2: As our story opens, we find Nick seated at his
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  Speaker 2: desk in his office, intently studying the front page of
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  Speaker 2: the evening paper. Patsy stands behind him, reading over his
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  Speaker 2: shoulder Nick.
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  Speaker 4: It says he was only thirty five years old.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Patsy, he was one of the richest industrialists in
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  Speaker 5: the world, and he.
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  Speaker 6: Ends up by throwing himself in a lake. Oh, it
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  Speaker 6: just doesn't make sense. Why would a man like that
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  Speaker 6: take his own.
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  Speaker 5: Life on a suicide note he left in his car
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  Speaker 5: tells why it's reprinted here in the paper?
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  Speaker 4: Well is it?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see it right down here at the bottom
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  Speaker 5: of the column.
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  Speaker 6: It is not the number of years a man who
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  Speaker 6: has lived that enables him to say his life was justified.
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  Speaker 6: It is the richness and fullness of his experience. I
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  Speaker 6: say farewell in my own life with deep regret. And
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  Speaker 6: yet I am convinced that it is better for a
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  Speaker 6: man to die in his prime quickly and painlessly than
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  Speaker 6: to let old age destroy him by slow stages.
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  Speaker 5: For hell, pretty flowery farewell, isn't it for?
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  Speaker 4: I say? Imagine anyone sitting down.
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  Speaker 5: And Nick Carter speaking, mister Carter.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Missus Holt, Missus Douglas Holt.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Missus Holt, I wonder.
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  Speaker 4: Whether you can come to my home this evening.
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  Speaker 6: My husband and I would like to speak to you
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  Speaker 6: about the death of our very good friend, Miles Kincaid.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, the man who committed suicide.
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  Speaker 4: The man who died, mister Carter.
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  Speaker 6: Whether or not he committed suicide is what we'd like
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  Speaker 6: you to find out.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so far, missus Holt, I'm afraid you haven't given
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  Speaker 5: me any really solid grounds for your suspicions that Kincaid
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  Speaker 5: didn't kill himself. But Lester Carter, Miles had everything in
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  Speaker 5: the world to live for. He was rich, famous, and happy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, according to his note, he wanted his life to
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  Speaker 6: end at the peak of his success.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but what about his call to me yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: He said he had playing reservations and was leaving for
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  Speaker 6: Florida very soon.
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  Speaker 5: My wife checked on that, mister Carter. It's true, as if.
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  Speaker 6: We were going to commit suicide today, why would he
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  Speaker 6: make arrangements.
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  Speaker 4: For a trip at a future date.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you this. You're implying that Kincaid was murdered.
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  Speaker 5: But do you know of anyone who would have any
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  Speaker 5: reason to kill him?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? No, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: How about you, mister Hope, No, I can't think of anyone.
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  Speaker 5: And that you both knew him, well, didn't you?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: In fact, well, Miles and I had quite a crush
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  Speaker 6: on each other.
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  Speaker 4: A good many years ago. That was before he introduced
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  Speaker 4: me to Douglas.
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  Speaker 5: See, he and I were partners at that time. We
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  Speaker 5: had a little organization that we called Inventors Incorporated. We
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  Speaker 5: broke up after a while that we never lost touch
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  Speaker 5: with each other. And in all these years he made
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  Speaker 5: no serious enemies.
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  Speaker 4: Of course he might have without our knowing it. And
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  Speaker 4: still doesn't add up to murder, does it, Nick?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Not to me? And you won't investigate this matter for us,
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  Speaker 5: mister Carter. Oh, I didn't say that, mister Oh.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you would, mister Carter. I just know something's
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  Speaker 6: wrong somewhere. I've got a well and.
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  Speaker 5: Intuition about it, very well, missus HOAt, I have a
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  Speaker 5: lot of faith in a woman's intuition. There has been
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  Speaker 5: a murder. I promise you I'll find it out before
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  Speaker 5: the night is over.
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  Speaker 4: Did you talk to that Ja Madison on the phone?
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  Speaker 1: Nick?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: And you should have heard the horse lamp he gave
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  Speaker 5: me when I suggested that Miles Kincaid might have been murdered.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that must mean the handwriting experts are sure about
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  Speaker 6: the suicide now.
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  Speaker 5: They are, Matty says, there's absolutely no question about it.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't a prosery.
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  Speaker 4: Huh, well that pretty well, saiddles it. Then, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps? But at least it won't hurt to take a
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  Speaker 5: look at kin Cage's home.
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  Speaker 4: We're almost there, Nick, it's the house at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the street.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Matty wasn't even going to hold an autopsy?
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  Speaker 4: Did you ask him to? I?
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  Speaker 5: Did you finally agreed to it?
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 5: All right? How about uh, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Whom do you expect to see here?
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  Speaker 5: Nick Kincage's vallat man named Harry Otis Holt says it
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  Speaker 5: was probably the last man to see King Cage alive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but do you think how was that? Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Somebody morning? Someone in pain?
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  Speaker 4: It came from those bushes by the side of the porch.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, come on there he is Nate.
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  Speaker 4: Lying in the bushes.
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  Speaker 5: Give me a hand past.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that doesn't my head.
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  Speaker 5: What happened to you?
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  Speaker 7: Who are you?
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  Speaker 5: Nick? Her a private investigator? Who are you, Harry Otis?
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  Speaker 5: I'm I was mister Kincaid's valet, Sir, what happened to you?
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  Speaker 5: Someone ranging the door bell a few minutes ago? I
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  Speaker 5: opened the door, but there was no one there, So
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  Speaker 5: I stepped out in the porch. It's it's all I remember.
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  Speaker 4: You must have been slugged from behind me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, come on, where are we going? Whoever slugged I
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  Speaker 5: may have wanted to get into the house could still
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  Speaker 5: be there.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Nick, if my aleskin k committed suicide, Nick, what's
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  Speaker 6: this all about?
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  Speaker 5: Your guess is as good as mine. Passy.
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  Speaker 4: The front door is open.
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  Speaker 5: Don't break any noise.
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  Speaker 4: No one in the living room. What are you gone upstairs?
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  Speaker 5: Listen?
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  Speaker 4: Makee someone moving around.
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  Speaker 5: Right behind that closed door over there that's dropping on
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  Speaker 5: him unexpectedly. Right, Oh, confound it?
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  Speaker 4: The door locked?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I guess we'll have to announce ourselves after all.
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  Speaker 7: Open up, open this door.
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  Speaker 5: Him through the door, not hurt you, no, But it
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  Speaker 5: was all a closed Nick. It's all quiet in the now.
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  Speaker 5: Fraid he's giving us a slip. That gunfire was propa
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  Speaker 5: be intended to cover his getaway.
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  Speaker 4: What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 5: Only one thing to do? Shoot the lock off. Stand
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  Speaker 5: back there, Nikki.
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  Speaker 4: He must have gone out that open window.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know he was going after him in the dark.
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  Speaker 4: Oh shucks. Oh you look at this room. It must
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  Speaker 4: have been Kincaid's study.
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  Speaker 5: That's a mess now. A friend tore it apart, every drawer,
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  Speaker 5: every Friday have been after. I don't know. There is
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  Speaker 5: one thing I do know, what's that? Nick? As of no,
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  Speaker 5: I'm definitely interested in how Myles Kincaid really died. I certainly,
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  Speaker 5: mister Carter, as Miles Kincaid's lawyer, I am happy to
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  Speaker 5: help you clear up any questions you have regarding his death. Well, first,
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  Speaker 5: mister Randolph, who stood and benefit by his death, Well,
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  Speaker 5: all of his wealth is to be divided among various
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  Speaker 5: foundations and charitable institutions. What he left no private bequest whatsoever,
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  Speaker 5: only a comparatively small one to Melvin Dudley.
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  Speaker 4: Melvin Dudley, that's the publisher, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Sirs, Miles had arranged with Dudley to publish his memoirs,
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  Speaker 5: and he left a few thousand dollars to cover the cost.
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  Speaker 5: And Kincaid was writing his memoirs at the time of
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  Speaker 5: his death. He practically finished them, though that fact uncommonly known.
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  Speaker 5: I see, by what about all his property holdings? He
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  Speaker 5: must have had an enormous estate.
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  Speaker 8: Not anymore.
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  Speaker 5: He'd sold everything in the past year. Converted it all
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  Speaker 5: into cash. There's just one piece of land that he
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  Speaker 5: held on to. Oh where's that over in the poorer
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  Speaker 5: section of town on Montrose Avenue. That's to be sold
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  Speaker 5: at auction now that he's dead. I don't understand Randolph.
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  Speaker 5: Why on earth would he disposed of all his possessions
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  Speaker 5: at the age of thirty five.
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  Speaker 4: You'd almost think he knew he was going to die.
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  Speaker 5: He did, miss Boorn what he and his personal physician
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  Speaker 5: and I were the only ones who were in on
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  Speaker 5: his secret? What secret? Mister Carter? In six weeks Myles
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  Speaker 5: Kincaid would have been dead of heart trouble.
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  Speaker 9: Why are we going back to the office, Nick, I
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  Speaker 9: want to call him Mary and check on the autopsy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh Nick, you promise, hope before the night is over
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  Speaker 6: you'd at least know whether or not k and Kate
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  Speaker 6: was murdered.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think he will?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Well I found out so far is
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  Speaker 5: that he had a better reason than we thought for
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  Speaker 5: doing away with himself.
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  Speaker 6: But that still doesn't explain the mysterious visitor at his
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  Speaker 6: house tonight.
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  Speaker 4: And also, oh that's our phone, Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I got to kick good.
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  Speaker 4: Harry, Nick before they hang out.
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  Speaker 5: Nick Carter speaking, and Nick, this is matter, yea man,
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  Speaker 5: I was just gonna call you. What'd you find out?
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  Speaker 7: Kincaid was drowned?
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  Speaker 5: All right? His lungs are full of water. What that
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  Speaker 5: settles that? No, it doesn't make what you mean. His
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  Speaker 5: lungs are full of water, right enough? But the water
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  Speaker 5: was full of chlorine, chlarine. Yeah, but there's no chlorine
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  Speaker 5: in lake water. You're right, Nick, but there's plenty of
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  Speaker 5: it in the city water system. And Myles Kincaid was
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  Speaker 5: drowned before he was thrown into the lake, right, and
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  Speaker 5: that means murder.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Nick knows at last that the wealthy young industrialist
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  Speaker 2: did not die by his own hands. But why Myles
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  Speaker 2: Kincaid left a suicide note, or why anyone would want
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  Speaker 2: to kill a man who was doomed to die from
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  Speaker 2: heart trouble within six weeks are questions that are still unanswered.
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  Speaker 2: We'll continue with this baffling adventure in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: and now back to the case of the flowery Farewell.
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  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick Carter drought to you by new
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  Speaker 2: post war old Dutch cleanser. We pick up our story
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  Speaker 2: a half an hour has past Nick and Patsy have
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  Speaker 2: joined Matty at the Kincaid home, and, guided by Kim
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  Speaker 2: Kaid's valet, Harry Otis, have just entered the murdered man's bedroom.
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  Speaker 5: I see the bed's been made, Otis. Did you do
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  Speaker 5: that today? No, sir, no one's been in here all day. Well,
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  Speaker 5: in that case, King Kaid didn't sleep here last night, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: apparently not Maddy.
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  Speaker 6: But he's dressing downs on the bed and there's one
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  Speaker 6: of his ties on the floor behind that chair.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Why has Kinkaid fully dressed when your man found him? Many?
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  Speaker 5: For sure he had on a brown business suit, a
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  Speaker 5: blue shirt and a green tie. A green tie? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: oh no, No, you must be mistaken, sergeant. Now don't
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  Speaker 5: tell me he had on a blue shirt and a
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  Speaker 5: green tie, Sergeant. Mister Kincaid would never have worn a
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  Speaker 5: combination like that. He was very particular about his clothes.
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  Speaker 5: Now listen a minute. This all adds up, huh, Otis.
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  Speaker 5: Take a look around. Does this room seem just about
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  Speaker 5: the same to you as I was? No, sir, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: The bed's been he pushed back farther than usual in
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  Speaker 5: the chairs all against the wall.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, I'm beginning to catch horn.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, Oh, this is where were you when your employer
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  Speaker 5: retired last night? I had the evening off, Sir. I
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  Speaker 5: drew his bath water for him.
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  Speaker 7: Then I went out.
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  Speaker 5: When I got back, I assumed he was asleep he
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  Speaker 5: drew his bath Uh yes, sir, Well, Madie, at least
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  Speaker 5: we know how he died.
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  Speaker 4: But do you think he was killed hearing it?
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  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 5: It was probably getting undressed when the murderer found.
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  Speaker 8: Him and they had a fight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why the furniture is out of place. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that would also account for the bruises on King Kid's face.
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  Speaker 5: We figured they was from being hit against the rocks
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  Speaker 5: in the lake. Yeah, while he was probably knocked unconscious
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  Speaker 5: in this room. Now, the murderer took him into the
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  Speaker 5: bathroom and held his head underwater until he was dead.
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  Speaker 4: Oh how hard.
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  Speaker 5: And he dressed him again, Master benists a hurry. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't see the tie King could have taken off, so
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  Speaker 5: he grabbed one out of the closet without even noticing
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  Speaker 5: the color.
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  Speaker 8: And then he carried him out, shoved him in his
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  Speaker 8: own car, and drove to the lake.
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  Speaker 6: But what about the suicide note, I've got a little
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  Speaker 6: theory about that too.
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  Speaker 5: What sort of theory. I'd rather not say until I've
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  Speaker 5: had a chance to confirm it.
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  Speaker 4: But how are you going to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Dropping in and a publisher named Melvin Dudley and asking
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  Speaker 5: him a few questions.
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  Speaker 4: I guess there's no one home.
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  Speaker 5: Oh there must be, Patsy. I saw a light at
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  Speaker 5: the side of the house. All let's go around the
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  Speaker 5: side porch and take a look in the room where
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  Speaker 5: the light is. Okay, Nick, Now he was wasting time here, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: we can look in through this French window.
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  Speaker 4: Look at all those papers scattered all over the floor.
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  Speaker 5: He looks like a cyphone has been through here. What
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  Speaker 5: ok over there beside the sofa, he said, what sofa?
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  Speaker 5: Holy smoke, Nick, there's a man line. There's a master
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  Speaker 5: the glass that he revolver. We got to get in there,
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  Speaker 5: I'll say, we have or I stand back to reach
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  Speaker 5: the latch. Yeah, yeah, I got it. Holy smoke. Look
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  Speaker 5: at this skinnig, Yeah, shot through the head.
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  Speaker 4: That's Melvin Dudley. Nick, I've seen his picture in the paper.
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  Speaker 5: Well you'll see it again the more Patsy all over
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  Speaker 5: the front page. Hey, Maddy, Yeah, Nick's paper's on the floor.
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  Speaker 5: Ever seen any just like them. Yeah, yeah, sure. They
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  Speaker 5: are the same kind of paper, the same handwriting as
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  Speaker 5: the suicide note. But I figured and look, here's a
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  Speaker 5: typewritten letter among them to Melvin Dudley from Myles Kincaid.
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  Speaker 5: I'm enclosing the manuscript of my memoirs. Everything is here
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  Speaker 5: except the foreword, which I'm working on. Now. Well, there's
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  Speaker 5: the answer to your suicide note, Maddy. Well, it was
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  Speaker 5: written by Miles Kinkaid, but it wasn't intended as a
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  Speaker 5: suicide note.
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  Speaker 7: And what was it? Nick?
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  Speaker 5: A page from the foreword to his memoirs. The murderer
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  Speaker 5: stole it last night from Kinkaid's house and planted it
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  Speaker 5: in Kincaid's car as a suicide note.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, wonder it sounded so flowery.
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  Speaker 5: We're up against the smalln operator, Nick Planty, smart Matty,
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  Speaker 5: but he's made one big mistake. Uh, when he killed
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  Speaker 5: Melvin Dudley. He should have taken those memory with him.
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  Speaker 7: Oh morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Oh hello, Maddy. I've spent a very dull night reading
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  Speaker 5: Kinkaid's memoirs.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, find anything interesting in him?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Not?
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  Speaker 5: The most interesting part, isn't there is? I don't get
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  Speaker 5: you Maddy. Unless I'm all wrong, these memoirs should hold
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  Speaker 5: the key to Kinkaid's murder. What do you mean? Well, apparently,
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  Speaker 5: when kin Kid learned he was going to die, he
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: decided to leave behind him a document that would expose somebody,
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: somebody he hated.
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: And you think this.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Somebody got twinned of it and knocked King Kaid off
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  Speaker 5: so as to get hold of the document. I do.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: But he didn't get hold of it because kin Kaid
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: had already sent it to Dudley.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: Uh huh.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: The murderer realized that after he went back and searched
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: kin Kid's study, so he went to Dudley's house to
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: get it and ended by killing Dudley. Right, But look, Nick,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: why didn't the murderer take their memoirs while he was there?
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: He did, at least he took that part of them
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: which incriminated him as one whole section missing from the manuscript.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, got any idea?
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: What was in that section? Yes? Mary, I have good
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: wall Boy. When Douglas Houlton, his wife, put me on
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: this case, Holt told me that he and Kincaid were
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: once partners in an outfit called the Inventors Incorporated in yeah,
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: but there's no mention of any such organization anywhere in
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: the memoirs. Hey, Nick, then maybe, yeah, what'd you find
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: it the newspaper? Morg passy, you get any dope on
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: kin Cag's background planning?
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Nick?
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: And about that company called Inventors Incorporated? There's something funny
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: about that?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Funny in what way?
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Well, there was a third partner. Third partner, uh huh,
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: a man named Peter Jarrett.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Peter mh No mention of him in the memoirs either, Hey, Nick,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: are you thinking this Jared.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: Guy might be our man?
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know about that, Mary, but I am thinking
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: that it's strange that Holton, his wife didn't tell me
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: about this Peter Jarrett. I wonder why I know I
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: should have mentioned Peter Jarrett too, you, mister Carter. But frankly,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: I was sticking to an agreement that Myles Kincaid and
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I made long ago. What sort of agreement, mister Hope,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: the cover up for Jarrett in spite of the raw.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: Deal he gave us?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Oh well, he gave you a raw deal.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: He certainly did.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Jared wrecked and Vendors Incorporated by walking out on us
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: one day, taking with him what little capital we had,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: and you never saw him again, No, never, But I'm
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: confident he's still alive.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Nick, Peter Jarrett must be our man.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I certainly had a motive for killing kind ken Kada
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: is planning to expose him and the memoirs he was writing.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: You say Miles was writing his memoirs, mister Carter, Yes,
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: he was.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: They were practically complete when he died.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Well, then it all adds up, doesn't it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Only a man like Jared who wanted to get hold
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: of those memoirs before that were published, would have had
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: a movie for killing a man who was going to
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: die anyway. Yeah, but the question is how can I
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: get our hands on Jaed. Well, I can tell you
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: where his wife lives. She ought to know where he's
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: hiding out. If anybody does, oh good, we'll go see her.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I have an idea that we will find Peter Jarrett.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: We'll have this case sowed up. Yeah, you, missus jarreted,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: what's it two years? I'm Nick Carter, a private investigator.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Dick huh, you'll get out of here this moment, missus,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: I said, get out, jus, Jared, don't do that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Butt that gun away?
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Please you come one step closer and I'll start shooting,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: So help me.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to shoot anywhere with that gun.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: And the next time you want to fire a gun,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: missus Jarrett, remember to lift the safety catch.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Nice going, Nick, pretty darn smart.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Perhaps you better talk to us.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Ain't talking to no cops?
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Because I'm sick of you guys. You've been holding me
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: for ten years, ever since Pete he disappeared.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't know where your husband is, would you?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Are you crazy? I wouldn't be living like this if
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I knew him with all that dough.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Why did you see him last?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I ain't seen him since the day he went to
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: work and didn't come home.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: And where was your husband working the day it disappeared?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: He was working over that house on Montrose Avenue. Montrose Avenue.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: But that's the one piece of property that milest and
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: kid held on to after he sold everything else.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, thank you, missus Jared. I'm very grateful to you.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: What I didn't do nothing for you?
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, you did. You just gave me the last
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: piece of a very complicated jigsaw puzzle.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Oh Nick, what a horrible, musty old plate should be musty.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, nobody's been done in the cellar for over ten years,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: not since myleskin Kad and Douglas Holt closed up the
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: business they called Inventors Incorporated.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: What do you expect to find here, Nick, A.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Key to three murders?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I three, but only two men were killed.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Patsy, If my hunch is right, Wait a minute, what
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: do you see, Nick? Look where my flashlight's parting. Notice
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: anything about that slab of concrete over there.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a different color from the rest of the.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Cellar floor right because it was laid at a different time.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Let's see, it's about three feet wide and six feet long,
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: isn't it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Nick? Do you think that's a great I do I.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Think A man who has been buried under that slab
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: of concrete for ten long years? Patsy stares at the
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: circle of light from Nick's flashlight. Who was buried in
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: the musty cellar on Montrose Avenue And what bearing his
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: death has on the murders of Myles Kincaid and Melvin Dudley.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: We'll find out in just a moment.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: And now for the conclusion of the case of the Flowery,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Farewell today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you byen
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: You post war old Dutch cleanser. Almost an hour has
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: passed since Nick and Patsy discovered what Nick believes to
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: be a grave in the cellar of the abandoned house
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: on Montrose Avenue. They left the cellar for a time,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: but have now returned to it and are waiting impatiently.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: A sign of him yet, Nick.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: He'll be here, all right, can't afford not to come.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I still don't understand why you're so sure he's the murderer.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: You will before long?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but hold it here he comes.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, we're here, Come on down.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: What's this all about?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Anyway? Familiar territory to you, isn't it. It's been a
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: long time since I was here. This is where Myles
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Kincaid and I had our laboratory. You, Miles Kinkad and
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Peter Jarrett. Don't forget Jarrett. Mister Holt's right by the way.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: Have you got a line on his whereabout? Yet?
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I've done better than that. I've found it. Well. Where
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: is he right where you and Miles Kinkaid buried him
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: ten years ago? What are you talking about, Carter? I'm
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: talking about murder. You and Kinkaid killed Ert and buried
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: him down here.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: That's ridiculous.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Probably did it so that you could seal an invention
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: of his, and you spread the word that he'd run
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: off of your fun.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: You must be out of your mind. No, but I.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Imagine you were nearly out of your mind when Melvin
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Dudley happened to mention to you that Kincaid was writing
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: his memoirs.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Why should not worry me because you guessed.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: That he was planning to expose your part in the murder,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: something he couldn't have done during his lifetime without incriminating himself.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: When the police dig up Jarrett's.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Body, I'll never take it up because you won't be
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: alive to tell him about it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: Don't wait for your gun, Carter. I've got you both covered.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Hope. You made a bad mistake when you admitted that
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: your knew Kincaid was a dying man. That was a
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: tip off on you, especially since you neglected to tell
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: me that fact when you hired me. Well, I slipped
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: up once, but I won't slip this time. I'll take
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: you first, Carter, I'll hold.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I'll take you.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: Drop your gun hold, I'll kill you.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: You.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Oh nice shooting Nick.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: You cut that gun right out of his fan, and
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: you made a nice dramatic and Prince Mary, well, you
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: set the stage for it when you put me behind
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: that packing box.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, I thought you'd never come out of their sargean.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of ben out sooner, Patsy. Only my
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: pants got caught in the nail. Yeah, oh sarge Yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: and my new suit too. Okay, hope, let's get moving. No,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: you're just hanging around this damp cellar and we got
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: a nice drive cell waiting.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: For you down at headquarters.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Then Jared's thought he was buried in the saillar neck.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Yes, Patsy, and the case is closed.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Uh uh, not quite, m Harter, Not until you've told
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: me how Hole found out that Kincaid was dying of
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: heart trouble.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Well, according to his statement, Holt gave Maddy down at headquarters,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Kinkaid told him he did m When Holt went to
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: inquire about the memoirs, Kinkaid gloated that he'd be dead
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: in six weeks and that everybody would know that Holt
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: was a murderer.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: But why on earth did Kincaid want to expose Hold.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Patsy, don't you remember what missus Holt told us that
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: she used to go with Kinkaid. Well, kin Kate never
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: forgave hold for taking her away from him.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: He couldn't get eaten with Holt until after he himself
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: was dead. That's right, Yeah, But I can't understand why
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Holt brought.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: You in on this case.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: He didn't his wife did.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: What do you mean it was her idea to are
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: you sure?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: She knew nothing about the murder of Peter Jareded and
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: she had no idea that Holt had killed kin Kaid.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: She just didn't believe that King Kid had killed himself.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: M m.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: And when she wanted to call you, her husband had
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: to agree with her so she wouldn't get suspicious of him.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: That's just oh, brother, When you walked into that house
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: and took the case, it must have been the life's
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: darkest moment for Douglas Holt, the.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Darkest so far, Betsy. The state is planning an even
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: darker moment for him in the very near future.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Can you tell us something about the adventure new post
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: war old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us Next week, Nick,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: next week, Mike, we're going to be the man who
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: is honest and upright for five years in order to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: build up to fraud worth half a million dollars.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Only his plan broke down because he put his fraud
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: in an envelope.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Of fraud in an envelope. Well that sounds exciting. What
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: do you call this adventure? I call it the case
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: of the King's Apology. Friends. This is Nick Carter again,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: and I'd like to take this opportunity on behalf of
• 26:22
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• 26:25
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• 26:29
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• 26:37
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• 26:40
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• 26:55
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• 26:55
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• 27:01
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• 27:44
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• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, Nick's voice was a little bit too
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: cheerful when he found out that the people calling him
• 28:03
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• 28:08
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