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at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's Tom for today's
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episode of Mister Moto The basiloff Papers. Is Mister Moto, Mister I A
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Moto. NBC presents the world's greatest international secret agent, Mister I A Moto,
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based on the popular Japanese character created by Pulitzer Prize winner John T.
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Mark Ian. Mister Moto is fighting communism and its attendant evils quietly, courageously,
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constantly. Tonight story the basiloff Paper. Sorry, mister Moto, Mister
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I A Moto Everything, my frame, my ancestry, and my vote.
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We voted at the desecration of Commander Hill's grace. He was very ferious in
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the American Cemetery at Yokohama, but that the last paper had been buried with
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him, hidden in the heel of his right shoe. I had no choice
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but to rob his grace. With the help of Major Grant on loan from
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the Occupation Army as my assistant. It was done quietly and respectfully. We
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dug silently from midnight until two in the morning. Fortunately, the cemetery in
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Yokohama is outside the city, and we were not disturbed. When Commanda and
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Eily's coffin was exposed, he bowed up in our respect. Commander Haley,
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the paper is in the heel of the right shoe. Make a grand cant
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we risk of light? No, no, you look at howma even the
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graveyards. Have I open the coffin? Yes, sir, shall I chuck
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take it? Commander Haley had already given his life for his country. He
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would not have qubbable acuity for small an item as his right shoe. Yes,
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remove it, okay, yeah, now close the coffin all right.
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I want to make sure of the papers in the shoe. I am sure.
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Let us git back to my hotel quickly. He will in the grave
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meet to Grant and let the earth fall again. Here O deserved repose that
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he is undisturbed. Go ahead, make your bays right. Everything has gone
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very very well. I am very very pleased. I don't mind telling you.
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I'm glad it's over. Lukahama is a nervous city. It's more than
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that. It's evil. I can almost feel Louke Tayang watching it, that
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great yard. Just thinking about that man gives me cold shivers. I know
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he is probably the most evil man in the world. How can men like
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him get started, even even in China Opium standing muckling, he is rich.
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He can buy then to murder, terrorise black Mister Molow, just exactly
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what is the Basilov take? It affects the entire balance of power in the
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Pacific. The nation who owns it could send a submarine across the Pacific four
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times without the Suli Commander Sini, I'd followed this paper all over the oience
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at last he founded, but the communist murdered. Before he died. He
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told his seventh when it was hidden. The seventh told me, now,
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have you a pen? Nice? Yes? Yeah, thank you? Yes?
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Can you get the heel off? Yes? Ah, mister grant to
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night. The gods have smiled on our effort. Is that it? Yes?
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Huh, but this is incredible? What he don't read it? I
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can't reach Chinese. I was so very very shoe was tomto what is it?
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What's the matter? It is not the battle you Maybe it's set The
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paper itself is hidden in the house of Markushan. I fool you. It
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is a village in China, near Hong Kong. I have failed. Look,
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you did everything you could, sat to food. You are you not
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who you was? An enemy terror? I know that you'd be thought to
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fast. You wouldn't know what happen. I will not allow luke I Yang
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and that. But women who I remember, they haven't got it either.
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My mission was to get the fact of Off pat Off or the United States.
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I have failed. At the moment. It is hidden in a remote
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Chinese village until it is either in my possession or destroyed. I have failed.
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Nata. Yes, the Marioka sales from yokaham Up or Hong Kong in
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the month and the manager get off at Hong Kong. You'll be dead getting
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me a ticket some moordo. This is so dangerous. I clewe p.
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Thirty eighth in the war. I'm not a coward, but well, I'm
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telling you I've never been so afraid of my life as I've been in the
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last three days. Luke Kayang is a humanist? Is sure? Terrorism?
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Nature Grant? I am not asking, no, I know, I know
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you're not. You think I'd let you tackle it alone. Thank you Nature
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Grant very very much. You are a loyal friend. I'm not Okay,
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get our tickets and make the necessary link. We will go aboard the Marioka
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as early as possible to morrow. Money, let the mono. Let's go
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down to our cabin. Staying on Beck is dangers, but a view of
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the docks is beautiful. We were followed from the hotel, the coolie,
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I know, the walking right into their backyard, one foot outside the International
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Settlement in Hong Kong, and we're dead, just like that. Please make
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a dance. Let us be cheerful, cheer. We are sailing from Yokohama,
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one of the most famous pops in the world. Is the moment?
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What did it? Quick in the back again? I told you they wouldn't
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let us out of Yokohama. Yes, with about ten servants to look like
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professional wrestlers, I'm not rushing a woman that wouldn't have they seen him.
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It'll only be a matter of time. I will go, w did you
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to the cabin? Join me? They have a moment. They based the
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game. I tell you we're both gonna end up the corpses in the middle
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of a China seat. Whose it there? Let me go? I don't
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think they saw me? Well, O, Kayang will get to the crew.
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They're all Chinese. Tell you we're dead, interplant. We are on
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a Japanese boat down for a city under British control. Most important of all,
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we are American citizens, Oh dying crew. Every one of them it's
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Chinese Yanks traveling with ten servants, and one of them is that big newte
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let us. We can suck what they are thinking. They believe I have
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the black of Us tea. That is why they are found. They will
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search his cabin. When they find nothing, they will assume I am telling
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it, I'm my person. They will not dare to attack me on the
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ship. They will wait until we talk in Hong Kong. Do you agree?
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No. If they search the cabin and don't find it, they will
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tut you overboard. Look, Kayang will find some way of killing you on
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a roster ship won't matter. Where is this cabin or he's traveling to luck
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Aday? Five cabins in a row, ten servants, the Russian woman and
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himself. She is a mystery, probably playing both sides against the middle.
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I'm not sure she is Russian. She calls itself Alexandra Carnsko. She is
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what we would call her home ad. Oh yes, indeed, garbo Iring's
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down. Alona Massey, all roll in the one. Find out if she
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knows it was not the fasting us thing about, but only a message that
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I'm coming to grant. You are thirty three, You are good, lucky
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and strong. You would have no difficulty to up an acquaintance in the bar.
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Talk to her, find out if she knows that's what we have is
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not the best of us. Paper need to grant. We have worked eleven
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times around this miss will be suslinky. Oh, I'm sorry you're tired.
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I see no point in moving in my feet stand here all right? Well
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night, isn't it very beautiful? Those must be the lights of cover sack.
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He will soon let the assuming street. Ye need to grunt? May
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we drop the amenities? Now? What do you mean you are trapped with
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mister Moto after all them all yokas not the clean mince. May need to
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grant that. I wish you would trust me. I do not want the
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Chinese Communists have a bad a lot of paper ease. That's whose side are
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you on? What is it in? Commander Haley Shoe? Please tell me
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did mister Moto get it? You don't know? I wouldn't ask. Well,
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that's exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks for a charming evening.
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If you'll excuse me, you would come this way, need to crust.
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Look, let's not be dramatic. You can't shoot guns off on a boat
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like this. You have the whole shipping and uproar. We're acting like a
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fleabit matter Harriet, Holy oh, this is Cheng. Here's a mute.
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His tongue was torn out in the wrestling competition at the Imperial Talent and the
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King. Yes, the need to break commends make quite silently and for seconds
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he's quite by. That's that's need to grant you a chance this lately?
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Oh as going visiting Luke Ian would like to talk to day His parties must
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be dotes. Huh, Yes, don't turn up. He just reached their
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next quite a sense of humor? Have you lost? He thought? Wait
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on the fun if he laid a singer on me? I tell you how
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screen's good? Oh wad your grunt? I resume your dough. I don't
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want to argue about it. And would you mind asking busting here to stop
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breathing down? And net remind me a rope for cheese thing? What you
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and Alexandra have had a visit? I did not think forgot? Did you
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find out? No, let's see, little grunts. This is all very
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very thankfrous. I know you will thought you or mister motto, but I
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mean to have that people if you were not an American citizen, what have
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you stepped them from over boat? Instead? You will give me your passport?
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Trying yet sing thanks? One quiet you can, Oh, Alexandra?
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Will you go through the barbarian's pocket? To touch him? Makes me ill?
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Even the smell of him is discussing. Yes, there are the pages,
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excellent, the most defective way of preventing major grunts from this embarking at
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all in Hong Kong. And now, Alexandra, you may work, mister
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motto without interference. Begin immediately. Oh, and Alex Santa. Yeah,
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the man who holds the battle of paper also holds the Pacific. I intend
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to have it. I intend to be that man. I know you would
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not be so truly, that's so too. But no, you would not,
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otherwise I would turn you over some chain. Okay, I am now
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you may begin on mister motto. So wait, did mister mooto hit me?
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And please? Ah? Even quickly he did? Watching what I'm doing
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it to change? So the interest beautiful Russian. I'm not Russian. I
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was Russian. You will Russian. My real name is Sanya Basilova. Basenough
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Peter Basilov was my father. The bable of paper belongs to me. One
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night, you are playing both the sides against the middle. My father and
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I got out of Russia when I was a little girl. He didn't think
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the regime could last. It did last, as they wanted him as scientist
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to invent according to the party line. His molecules were cut with and products.
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We escaped and took the Battle of paper with him. But all he
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had, all he was able to say, I am so very very interested.
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Please go on always. The hounds the most out of Paris and New
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York to Buea Theris, then finally to Shanghai. Always the secret police were
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two steps behind us. One night, when I would beat the thing's friends,
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they broke into our house in Shanghai. They beat my father so badly
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that he died. He gave the Battle of paper to a sateful Chinese servant
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named Makushan. Makushan took it to Commander Haley. When he left Commander haley
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hotel, he was shot. The next morning, Commander Haley was also murdered.
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Luke Ka Yang had been killed. You are making muddy water clear,
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my child. I've got to get it, mister motto. I have no
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money, no country. The battle of papers all, I haven't a rightfully
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beloved to me? I you, luke Ka Yang, have you a major
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grant watched the night you opened Commander Hailey que Please tell me did you get
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it? This battle of feet the labor happened? Miss Granska. What have
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you done with Mata Grant? Lu Ka Yang has been tied up in one
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of the cabins. Don't eat it, can you really, SENI? I
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can want lucayand kill me. He saus Now you'll get me to check it
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up. I'm so tired, so tired, so I will make a Bobby
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release. I will tell you where the battle of paper is, immediately provide
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it. I arive safely at the Imperial Hotel in Hong Kong. Somehow,
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you must get off this boat before we go. Ad. Suppose we begin
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by your securing Major Grant's release. You do not have the consumption of what
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you ask me to do. It's like making it up to death, to
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horror. You want to know where the paper is. I need Major Grant's
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help to get off this boat. It is a fair exchange, all right.
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I'll do the best I can. Let us hope, my child,
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you exceed your best or why otherwise the Battle of Paper will be lost to
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the world. Whatever her exquisite rial face was, twist terror rightly or wrong
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way, I believed her. The Moneyoca urged through the black night, and
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the flat threatened South China Sea. By noon the next day he was approached
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quite close to the south coast, and I could see from my portal the
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sisters keen world China, with its quality, its despairs, its communist They
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were launching hugged Chinese junk fudder sailor moving wondrously under great banks of bound canvas
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lighted with bamboos. By three we were entering the approaches to Hung Kong Harbor.
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In another two hours we were duck and still no word from Jagrat.
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The beautiful Russians had either finned or lost her nerves. I stooped down to
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nothing but my prowdings and resolved to wait until the last quossible moment for Mitigrat
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going it. Maybe grand you are all right. Yes, the girl got
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me out of the house, made up a story about my having a heart
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condition. So Luke Kayang, with divide died. The whole US Navy would
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want to know why he tore up my pass up your passport. Girl.
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To a paring Luke Kayange gave the orders, mister mode, I will not
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a passport. I'll be on this boat for life. Listen, Major grand
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Very Kvil. I suppose that at this moment the back of loft paper is
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one of the most vital pieces of information in the world. Every foreign agent
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in Europe had been after it one month. The whole balance of power in
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the Pacific hangs on this one piece of paper. I have got to get
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it first. You've got to get off this. Oh, I intend to
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jump over for it. Jump over for it. Listen, kay, man,
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you'll drown. I'll be crazy. Do not interrupt. I will swim
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ashore and make my way to the International Settlement. Then I will register at
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the Imperial Hotel. Right, I will go to Sir John Redding at the
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British Embassy. He can easily arrange for an American citizen who disembark in Hong
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Kong without the benefit of passport. He even have somebody from the embassy meet
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the Marioka when it duck and see that you get ashore safety. Okay,
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what's next? The message says the battle of paper? What's hidden in the
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house of Mafu Shan? At who you? Mafu Shan has a son living
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in Hong Kong. I will visit him while I am doing this. There
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is call answer John Redding as a British empathy got up. What for?
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Tell him the whole sun everything. You can trust him completely, all right?
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Then ask him if we can borrow a plane, any kind of a
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plane. If that is where the battle of paper really is. But it
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says that in the message the House of Marfu Shan, And for you,
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I suspect. The message we found in Commander Harry Shoe is online. But
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never mind why. I will find out from the son of Marfushan. Now
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give me you'll go with tobacco pook. I just don't say basically quickly,
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Major grant, it is watertight. Thank you. Now, Papa good.
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You will have to carry my passport right some money? Yeah good? Now
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open the pottle. Are you sure you can swim that? I would rather
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ground and bruise the backle of paper. Open the pottle? You know?
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How do you make a lance? We will dying? You go back in
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a book. Care of the season. Help me up. I'm sure,
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I'm glad. I'm with you, not against you. I can just get
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um. Sometimes it is good to be small. Mister Moto, I am
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Lou Kayang. Welcome to my humble house. Your lunch might kill me.
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Life is cheap in the Orient. I thought you might attempt something like this.
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I arranged to have my launch follow the Marioka from the moment he entered
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the Hong Kong estuary. You have been faith and faith you are standing before
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me on my cause. The low way of Chinese schooling would have powed and
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thanked me. However, you have already a sung for your supper. Missmoto.
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We found a message in your tobacco pouts. Yeah, it's the pouch.
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Your money is still in it. Thank you. My chauffeur will now
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drive you to the Imperial Hotel. The clothes you may consider as the grateful
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gift of Lou Kayang is battle Off. You're looking very beautiful here from mister
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Moto to give me the message if you got safety to the Imperial Hotel.
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You are here, I release the American I've kept my part of the bargain.
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Now tell me clean. Major Grant will be here directly. He's arranging
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for a plane. What's the message? You promise the message in Commander hilly
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Shoe said that the battle Off paper was hidden in the house of Masu Shan
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at Fu You. Masu Shan's son lived in Hong Kong. I have talked
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with him. The message is alive. Masu Shan never lived in for you.
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He lived at a farm village. Why ten, a few miles outside
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of chin Job. Yes, yes, ten, I know it will excellent.
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Well I got it. God bless the British Empire. Plane will be
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warmed up. And waiting for us at six tomorrow morning. Excellent, very
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very good. By the time Luke Kayang discovered the messages alive, we will
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have the battamof papers before we go antle. Somebody please tell me exactly what
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the battle of paper is, missus Basilov, if you please, basil Yes,
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I am his daughter. My father worked the crude petroleum nature turn.
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He invented a catalytic process of cracking crude oilso that one gallon will do the
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work of tree. The batil of paper is a chemical analysis of this process
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based on the Twista formula. It enables an oil driven battleship or a submarine
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to crude almost indefinitely without refusing. Wow, now quickly, Major Grant.
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The man yes I got fine. Ten is near chin Chow there along the
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line of the Mutton Chinton railroad. We will fly over the sea to the
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Poe High Gulf, otherwise we will be shut down by the Communist a necessary
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risk. Then inland to the village, Miss Battolov. Once we have landed,
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how long will it take us to locate the house of Mafushan, get
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the paper and return to the plane. The village is small ten minutes.
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Major Grant will be our pilot. The plane is adequate. We take off
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at six in the morning. Then is it not very very nice that American
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and British are such very very good friends. We flew without introduce to the
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village of wine Can. In three hours the side of us appearance, for
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suddenly from the sky brought out the entire village. The simple kind faces watched
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the eagle. Major Grant paved with the plane. A man took Alexandra battle
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off and knee quickly to the house of Masu Shan. It reminded me as
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a pet. In fact, the floor was mud. There was a store
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made in Illinois, a cool wooden dresser with cooking mutton. Marsu Shan's nephew
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fly Down took the paper from its hiding place and gave it to us,
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if you please, mister Moto, Sir, I will hand paper only to
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daughter of bad lust. Thank you fine, believe, but if soldiers have
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seen framed, it will soon be to relate to lave it. Oh,
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we will hurry. Good ye, mister Moto, good bye. I am
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staying here. This house is quiet. I am tired. Then give me
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the paper, not give it to me, keep away, not in the
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stove, don't put it out bit you give it to No, I will
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pay you one minute another No in American money. No, no one will
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have it. I am sick of war, se sick of it. All
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my life that has been guns and murder and terror. And mister me,
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my father invented this thing for peef. Is that not in the stove?
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Please? I tell you there can be no more guns, no more soldiers,
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no more a managhip. For all of history, men have been fighting
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kill, kill, kill, murder for freedom, murder for religion, but
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kill always killed the boy it has gone and saying, mister Roto and my
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father will not contribute to that paranoia. There is not enough money in the
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world to buy his favor. Are you been hooding it for you? Who
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would be for you? I I think your father would approve now at least
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no one would had my mission is not a favor, miss. That was
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a very brave, brave thing for you to do, and unselfish thing to
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know you and to be your friend. That's been very, very pleasant.
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You have just heard the world's greatest international secret agent. In the Basilov Paper,
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James Month starred as mister Moto. The script was written and directed by
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Harry W. Junkin, produced by Carol Irwin. The cast included Bernard Grant,
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Garnie Lemke, and Ross Martin. The music was transcribed. This is
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Fred Collins speaking, and here was a preview of next week's story. Is
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mister I a Moto? Next week the terrifying story of a man caught in
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a web of mania and fear. The famous listen in which a young American
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played the victim. And now may the moon be your comfort along the gentle
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river of seet maw y'll green, beauty, cow within, and enjoy the
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very best medium. Be sure that's Dylan likes like a very best cimade on
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morning, noon and night. Is from this day, Morning, noon and
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night ended Welcome back, while another dramatica ending here I will say mister Motto
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said that he mission wasn't a failure. Well, given that his job was
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to bring back the Baswoff papers, wasn't exactly a success either, But again
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tins to be kind of a philosophical show. I don't want to remind you
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