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into the play it again email from Richard who rites in to say, Adam,
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I love your programming listening to it while I work. The shows are
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great, but one you should play again is Near a Wolf. Mister Wolf
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and Archie need a comeback, all right, rich Well, we've had a
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lot of listeners express that over the years, but you kind of left it
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up to me, so I hope you're going to appreciate the choice. I'm
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going to just play my favorite Nero Wolf episode from the New Adventures of Nearal
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Wolf, the Sydney Green Street series. This one comes from January nineteenth,
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nineteen fifty one, and it's called the Case of the Calculated Risk, featuring
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my favorite Archie Goodwin of this series, Gerald Moore. Ladies and gentlemen,
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The ringing of that phone bell means mystery adventure Erol Wolf's office. ACTI good
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one speaking mister Wolf. Yeah, he's right here. Who's this, Achie?
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Hang up? Don't ask questions. You have a wife, Achie.
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It's past your bedtime. Well, I'm afraid mister Wolf, but it's past
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his bedtime, your bedday. It's a client boss, That's what I was
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afraid of. Foodie. Hello, Hello, Well, why do you look
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super weirded? He's coming right over, he says, he's got a date
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with murder ladies and gentlemen. Is the the technic genius who rached the knife
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and fork, the greatest tools ever invented by man the pounders. Brilliant and
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unpredictable Nero Wolf created by Reck Stout and brought to you in a new series
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of adventures over this NBC Network in the person of mister Sidney Greensleet. It's
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night's story. The case of the Calculated Risk was as strange and baffling as
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any nearro Wolf had to deal with. It started late one night when a
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big shouldered man sporting a reddish beard and billing himself as Dave Caffrey, pushed
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his way in, walked up to Narrow Wolf's desk and rocked him with this
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opener tomorrow morning, mister Wolf, I'm going to kill a man. How
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bigger funds? I'm going to kill a man with these two hands. I
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have been doing strange things across this desk, mister Gaffery. This is the
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first time a murderer has confided his intention to me in advance. This man
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is to me. I'm not telling you his name. I'm not telling you
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where I'm going to meet him. Session tomorrow is going to be private in
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person. But if anything happens to me between now and then, I want
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you to take over. Mister Gaffrey. Do you seriously thing I could assist
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you in a matter of private vengeance. That's not what I'm asking. This
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guy deserves to die. I plan to kill him with these two hands,
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me myself, but if I slip up, if he gets me first,
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I want you to see that justice is done. And I assure you I
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told you this guy deserves to die. Let me tell you why. Years
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go down south, there were three men in business together. Partners mean two
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others. You're no Bugatti. Mister Gaffrey doesn't mind you're wasting your time.
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Wolf names I use will be phony. I won't give you anything you can
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check back on. We'll take a chance, sir, please proceed. Happened
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in a town about forty miles from the place where we had our business.
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We go let a collect some money for three of us, Carl, Mitch,
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and me Dave Catherrey. But all we collected was bad news, so
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bandit. Carl hadn't even given our right names at the hotel said it was
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scared some of our creditors to come hitting up on us for what We old
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three of us and had some drinks. And we've been pacing around for nearly
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an hour, and I can still remember the way Mitch stooden, looked at
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me, en up at Carl. Carl suddenly pulled to a stop and came
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out with this idea. Dave, we got six thousand cash on hand,
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you counted the Mitch, but didn't we make it sixty two forty car whichever.
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We've got this six thousand hours plus some slow accounts receivable against deaths of
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thirty eight thousand, the three of us trying to live from the business.
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We haven't got a change. Well, we ain't got much of one car.
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But it's hopeless day with two partners or two partners you reckon on pulling
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out car. I say we cut card for Admitch. Low Man drops out,
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break up the partnership after sticking together all. Wait a minute, Dave,
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wait a minute, maybe because right maybe this could work. Carl.
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You mean low Man drops our clean right now, right now, Mitch,
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other two to take over assets and debts. You see if they can get
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this thing back in the black. Okay, Carl, get the cards out,
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Dave, wam, that's what you guys want. Okay, there,
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here's a new deck shuffle of Mitch all shuffle, cut them, Dave,
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go ahead, Mitch, we'll get first pick, spread them if you like.
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Here goes Star six. Your turn, Dave. Okay, nine o'clock.
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Lucky guy, Dave. That puts you in whatever car pulls, I
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pull it fast. This is Denise. Sorry, Mitch, that leaves you
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elected. Well, Mitch, I'm sorry too, and yes we all had
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a fair whack at it. But hey, wait a minute, wait a
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minute. Let me see that ease again, Paul, easy bitch, I
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said I was sorry up day, Yeah, what is in me? All
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the eases are marked? Carl, I'm gonna cram this dick right down.
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You'll cook it, throw hot make he's got a knife. Sure, oh
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car, you all right? I've cut him for keeps? What do we
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do? Now? What are we doing? Look? Card, I did
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monk those card I didn't kill Mitch. And what's more, up, Dave,
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we're both in and not. Now come on, let's get out of
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here. Now what car? Lookkay? This is where we split up two
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men together, easy to trace. Who head one way? I go the
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other? Help with the door. I got no money here, I'll split
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up the six thousand. This is your hat. Yeah, stick the end
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broke from your pocket. Now prab that trace gets hit, I'll catch the
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next one going the other way. Get called deep. That's how it was,
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mister Wolfe. It all happened so fast that I hmm. This man
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you called Carl, he seemed to be one of the worst choice creatures,
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mister Geffrey. When I thought to look in an envelope he gave me,
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I found forty dollars and a few folds of ripping paper in it. I
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was smart enough to well. I got off the freightmanin tended to go back,
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and I picked up a paper and read all about the murder of your
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friend Mitch with the statement that Kyl had accused you of the crime and that
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the priest believed him in view of your escape. That's it, classic old
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but not at all original him. I was young, man, I'm stupid.
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I'd had those drinks to start with, and you spent the intervening years
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handing down the man, carl am I correct. Yeah. I trapped the
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country from east to west, from north to south, tramped her for years
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searching for him. Yesterday I look heated him. He's a big wheel these
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days up on that thirty heaven floor hears. But tomorrow when I get yes,
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mister gaffree, the thirty seven floor, never mind what building. I'll
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wait a minute, Caffrey. If you expect mister wolf to help you,
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I don't want him to help me. I'll help myself if I slip up.
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I know Wolfe's reputation well enough to know that he'll never rest till this
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rotten Chiselin murderers sitting in the chair. That's why I've come here, just
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to provide a backstop in case my dear friend of long ago managers to get
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the best of me. How we know you see this envelope, read what
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it says near Wolf six one West thirty fifth Street in New York, delivered
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to him in case of my dad. That's right, and this envelope is
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five hundred dollars, nearly all I've got in the world. Along with it
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the full details on that knife, in real names dates, the proof you'll
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need in case I don't finish it up. Who are tonight, mister Wolf.
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I'm going to give this envelope to the manager of the hotel where I'm
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stopping. I'm calling on well Carl tomorrow. It's now right after his secretary
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goes to lunch. I'm not back in my hotel at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
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A hotel manager will deliver this envelope to you exactly every day. But
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you don't think I'm going to allow you to go through with this wire Brandrea,
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you can't stop me, and don't have a good one follow me.
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I'd lose him in two blocks. Good night? Shall I try to tail
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him? Bossed? It? No use? Argie, Get Inspector Kramer on
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the phone at once. I want the police to help us head off this
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murder. Near a Wolf speaking it's Archie. I'm calling him the Morgue,
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and they found Cabri's Bundy in a subway washroom, mugged and stabbed while it
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gone, pockets cleaned out, no envelope. Just two hours ago he was
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here, no vb gone. Witnesses done so far homicidees calling it straight mugging
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and robbery as it well might look except for except for a guy named Carl.
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How much do I tell Crame? All of it I see inspected to
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start queer is throughout the South on the original killing, the original killing.
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It's our best chance of getting a description of the man called Car original killing
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and the partnership, starting from say eight years ago and working back to the
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middle twenties. Tell him to concentrate on towns on railway lines, putting out
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pictures of Caffrey, and the pictures and dentistry finger prints to Washington, Cramroo.
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And if I come across a haystack, do I keep my eye on
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for needles. We're going to find car Aargie. You're going to find him
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if it takes some natural doomsday, mister wolf, let's face it, we'll
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lacked he Chargie. Three days now, we found Caffrie's hotel here in New
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York, no traceable phone calls, not a witness has turned up on that
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subway washroom party. Kramer says he's getting nowhere with those answers from the Southland.
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The original story is bound to come slowly. Aargie, we're asking a
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check on the unsolved killings of a dozen states over twenty year period. And
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what now you start trudging, Argie Frugiic through office buildings, through thirty seventh
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floors, and many office buildings you keep trudging to be finding. Oh no,
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wait a minute, mister wolf. This is a big city. Remember
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I might have to go through hundreds of buildings this morning. Je. The
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municipal reference that Iry informed me is that exactly thirty four buildings and thirty seven
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floors are high in Manhattan. Now, when you rule out the United Nations
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building hotel, okay, okay, maybe not so many thirty seven floors,
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but lots of offices per floor, maybe forty or fifty, call it thirty
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times forty. And you've still got twelve hundred to start with. And you
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don't know what kind of business. You don't know what car's real name is,
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you don't even know what he looks like. There could be four thousand
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men like him, four thousand affluent men ergy. Yeah, well, all
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right, Caffrey said he was in the chips though. You know, for
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guy who've been bumming around, that could mean anything from ten grand a year.
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Up. Wait a minute, that cuts your field to one thousand thousand
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tall men tall. Ha been over those notes. Jeffrey didn't say it was
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tall as plainly as you could ask. Jeffrey was almost your height, but
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he said, Mitch stood and looked at me, and then he looked up
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at Carl. Up, Archie, that meets kyl you're a higher taller.
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Or maybe Caffrey and Mitch were sitting down and Carl was. Caffrey told us
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the three were standing at the time. Check your notes, I've studied him.
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Okay, maybe that does cut it down some. Yeah, it's still
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a lot of citizens to start checking for a Southern accent. Don't rely on
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accident, Archie. Carl has had many years to lose any accent he might
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have had. Yeah, that's true, And so we narrowed Archie. A
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man almost surely tall, a man not using the name he was born with,
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A man with an unexplained gap in his past. I ought to be
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able to reach right out. What's happened? You go skeptical again, RG,
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that was still a pretty big haystack. Let's see if we can't primit
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some more on needs building this I've been doing away. I ruled out for
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now the members of professions requiring lengthy formal training medical man, lawyer, scientists
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are most kind. Yeah, that's chopping it down. I'll admit that I'll
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have further eliminations as we get into it. And I'm putting soil panza on
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a second this this afternoon. Some of the credit references are handled by phone.
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So I start trudging. You start trudging, and remember, arg since
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you'll probably be operating through secretaries, you're looking for a murderer named Carr,
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not for a new set of telephone numbers to brecken your window. Tall.
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Well, I don't know what your pedlin, Goodwin, but if my boss
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put his elevator's shoes on and stood on a box, he'd still be down
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somewhere around my necktie. If he stood on his money, though, we'd
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need a helicopter to get up near his shooters. Oh, miss Jonas,
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do you mind if I sit down? Why? Of course not mister Goodwin.
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Oh thanks. You know, I've been in twelve offices on this floor
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and you're the first girl who seeing the importance of this survey first crack out
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of the box. Well, I'm sort of new here, and I try
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to pay attention. Oh you're not just beautiful, You've got a head on
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you is mister Mcleanan, Well he's at lunch right now. Lunch. Oh
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that reminds me. Now, any good restaurants up this way. Well,
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I was just going to the downstairs drug store myself, but I wouldn't say,
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oh, come on, put your bonnet on and let's get the drug
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store. This meal is on the executive or a Sauces survey. Yeah,
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I boss the boil down his name, McLaine, Fernand's, Testro and Caplin,
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all five of them tall, all five, a little misty in the
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background, and so all have done well, Archie very well. But I'm
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crossing off Fernandes and Caplin. Why credit bureau report tears Fernand's and Kaplin was
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on a special war job the FPI X rade his record twice saving JP Tinsley,
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Carson, McLain and Philip Tesrow. I'd like to see all three here,
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Archie, get them here one way or another. So you do admit
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that Tinsley isn't your real name, the Wolf of you're BLACKMAILO what. I'm
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a licensed private investigators, sir. Any disclosure you make will be kept in
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confidence, provided it doesn't touch on the case. I'm engaged. You haven't
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said what the case is. I don't intend to. If you prefer to
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explain this mysterious gap in your bad background. Had the District Attorney's office.
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Well, I'm using a name gensely because I've got an un divorced first wife
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out on the coast. You broke up twenty years ago, but she said
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she'd see to it that I never married again, and she knew where I
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was today. Well, I don't say I'm a saint, but she's a
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vindictive woman. I see. May I have names, dates and places start
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in nineteen twenty four. I can't quite understand your interest, mister Wolf.
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It's rather complicated to pretty briefly, mister McLain, I'm working in the interest
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of a kind. Our people have found this puzzling gap in your background,
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and i'd appreciate such clarification as you may be able to supply but I told
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you, mister Goodwin, I was raised and educated in the Orient until thirty
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two. I was in business with my father in China, where you say
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your father died died with ession. I returned to New York started this important
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business in a small way, whether it's through the early thirties, and I
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think my bankers can assure you of my standing today. They've done so.
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Carson MacLean and Company has an excellent credit rating. Thank you, mister Wolf.
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To switch some out of brapley, Mister McLean, would you happen to
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remember how you spent the evening of the nineteenth of this month and this month?
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Well, I could hardly agree. You say the nineteenth, Would that
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had been on a Tuesday? Yes, it was Tuesday, and that simplfies
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it. I nearly always at the office on Tuesday nights, dictating the revisions
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in our weekly wholesalers lists. Let it's see, Yes, I was there
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on the nineteenth at a trade center, Miss Tunis, and I worked till
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just after midnight. It's Helen Junis, the secretary mister Goodwin's book of She's
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been with me for two or three months. Miss Juniors can confirm this dictation
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on the night of the nineteenth, of course, And mister Wolf, your
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manner is so persuasive that I'd scarcely realize you're asking some extraordinary researching questions.
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May I ask why in the world if you're indulge me, Mister McLain,
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my crying is nearly concluded. You say you were in China until nineteen thirty
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two, Mister Tesro, I'd be brutally frank. We know that your name
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is not Tessro, and we know that you served a prison term from thirty
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four to thirty eight for arson. And I had some straight answers. I
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didn't say I wouldn't answer your questions first, can remain your own provided.
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And look, mister Wolf, I've been going straight for twelve years, and
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this business of mine is on the level. Now this is a shakedown.
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I'm asking you where you were on the night of the nineteenth. I'm telling
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you I stayed in town. I ate alone, and I went to a
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movie. I caught the eleven thirty five for Stem And that's all there is
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to it. You're denying that you were ever in business in the South.
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I was born in the South, but I haven't been back there since I
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was a kid. What about the arson I put in four years squaring for
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that mistake. Let's start again, mister tester. You say you were in
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Cincinnati in nineteen thirty one. Okay, mister Wolf. Three candidates, and
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we're still on the one yard line, our one yard line cesso McLain Tinsley.
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Now rule out McLain. He gave references enough for those years in China,
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and with Helen Suness, he's got the one firm alibi we've laid onto
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Caffery was killed before midnight with conditions as they are in the Fire East Archy,
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It'll be weeks before Cables came back on McLean's claim claims you figure the
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whole Chinese backgrounds are fake. I want you to see Miss Junis again,
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Archie taking all precautions for her safety, and this is one time I give
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you permission to play her with all the attentions you can contrive. Are we
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far enough to pull tales on any of these three? You've got Sore Panza
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on Testro and Sore promised to have men on Tinsley and McLean. Pictures of
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the three have gone to cream And for circulation in the South from the coast
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on Tinsley. I care in the moment I see you, will concentrate on
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Helen Tunis Helen. I've got to see you tonight. I'd love to at
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Helen. I phoned you to come out on the CARDI this way because I
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didn't want McLean to know we're talking. Do you still say you got that
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new make coat on your own money, mister Goodwin, I don't know what
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right you have you get five guys to buy your stuff at your business.
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Mister McLain said his wife might be detectives around, but you can go right
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back to your old missus, McLean and tell her right. He was dictating
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to me. No, Baby, the harder you lie, the prettier you
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look. But if this is a fake alibi, and if you keep propping
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it up, you're gonna find yourself in trouble, bad trouble. Now,
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how about it? Do I see you at your apartments tonight? Would you
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rather come down with me? Nero wolves right now? Archie, I all
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right, I can't go with you now, and I've got a dinner date
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with my aunt tonight that I can't break. But I'll try to be back
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at my apartment by eleven Archie, Yeah, wolves beings Archie, mister Wolfe
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and Helen Sullis's apartment. Well, I could cut my throat for not making
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it. Come with me this afternoon. Trouble not for her anymore, poor
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kidd. I got here three minutes ago and found a strangle. It happened
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more than half an hour ago. McLane, McClane. That's all pants say.
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He was getting a tail on him. He was a new man and
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he lost him. I should have left you on McLean, Argie. We
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were both wrong. What do you want me to do? Phone them please
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immediately. This is thirty second street. I'm only three blocks in a job
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from the office. What have I come back and called from there? Come
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back then on creaming myself the wolf are still kicking myself for that. Yeah,
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actually late to Wolf. Keep coming right in Goodwin with your hands up.
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No, I wouldn't try that. McLean and keep your hand out of
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that desk. Draw Wolf this time you are too late. McLean. My
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hands in the drawer and I think I'll leave it there. You don't think
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I should. I am sure you would. And you've got two of us
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to govern now, No, Art, you don't try to draw yet ad
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you get in here? McLean? He surprised me after making his way in
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through the area way below. And of course it had to be Fritz's night
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out. I caught your fat friend just two seconds before he could get in
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his call to the police, Goodwin. I overheard his talk with you from
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the hallway here. My apologies for not crying out sooner, Archie. Get
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your hand out of that draw. Pull it out without the gun. Wolf,
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I'll let you have it now. I refuse to McLean. Seems ob
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is it? You mean to kill us? In any case, I'm afraid
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that's true. Wolf. When you called me here and Goodwin started making dates
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with Helen Tunnish here, I told her not to talk to you. He
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didn't. Good I've been scared of you and Wolf since I followed Colby here
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that first night. Colby, you knew him as Caffrey. I caught up
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with him afterward in that subway wash. No, he got hand up.
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What's that going of yours? Wolf? I found that envelope on him and
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read the letter to you contained in it. I knew we hadn't spilled the
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whole South Carolina story to you South Carolina. Whether your original or kniving have
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mean taking place anywhere near Hampton or Jasper Countiss Hampton County. But our business
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is over the line in Georgia. Doesn't matter now, pretty Argy. We
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learned this afternoon and we were growing warm on South Carolina. Mister Magnane,
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may I ask what you hope to achieve by this insane traject of disposing of
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mister Goodwin and myself and buying time Wolf. I have ninety thousands of small
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bills in that bag there. That's a plane ticket of Buenos Aires. I've
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got a silence on this gun. If you two aren't found old tomorrow morning,
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I'll be out of the country before they start looking for me. You
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don't think the police will put out an alarm view and they find the body
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of heading Tunis Goodwin left it to you to report that. Remember, let's
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remind ourselves to be prompt and reporting deaths Achie, starting with our own.
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Mister wool glad you can take it that way, Goodwin, you actually think
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you can knock the two of us off. I'm about to find out Goodwin
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one moment. McLean, You've never been a real gambler, you know that
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with Mack cars, of course, but you're not the man to face the
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suer loss now a sure loss, the loss of your life, and in
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seconds after you try to pull that trigger. I told you I had a
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silencer. You think anyone will hear the shots? There will be more shirts
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than you count on. My hand's on a pistol now in this drawer,
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and mister Goodwin has a thirty eight in his shoulder. Hoster. You can't
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thoo through the desk, and Goodwin won't get a chance to draw. You're
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an intelligent man, McLean, vicious but intelligent. May I describe the certainty
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of your immediate death if you don't throw that pistol on the desk and give
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yourself up. There are two of you. I know that, but McLane,
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you must be aware in the actual fact, exceedingly few men are killed
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instantly by a single shot, even from a pistol of heavy caliber. The
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one you hold is thirty two, and it's a forty five in that draw
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McLane, I assure you, McLean, and neither of us will surrender the
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weapons we have should you start shooting. We are both do our best to
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draw and keep firing till you're dead. You're starling Wolf. What have I
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got to lose by trying for you both? Now you're alive, I'll correct
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that the loss of some six or eight weeks of your life, possibly months,
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whatever the time necessary to bring you to trial and to convict you and
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execute you for the murders you've committed. Suppose I canceled you are, and
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then take my chances with Goodwin. I better choice, but still a dubious
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one. I am fat exceedingly and perhaps the first time in my life,
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I'm thoroughly grateful for that. My belk affects the calculation. McLean, McLean,
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you could pull off all seven shots and still not hit mister Wolf where
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it counts. You have to start. You better start on me, you
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sederate Thatch, and I thank you for the gallantry of it. No,
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it's quite likely that with two or three shots McLean might well dispose of me.
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But not with your first shot, McLean, and may not permit you
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many more than your first look. If I promise to do no more than
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tie you two up to give me my head start, you're tossing your guns.
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Of course, Now do I speak for his berth argy check, I
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say let's start it now. Well, if I could do half of what's
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in that bag, would you forget these admissions I've made and help on my
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defense I've to do. I refuse to bargain. I think that they should
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count fight if your weapon hasn't been touched on the desk. But then I'll
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do my best to get my pistol into it. How are you in the
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corn ugine? Start counting? Wait a minute, mister wolf one. If
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I trade half that bag for no shooting and one hour start no tying up,
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just joe promise that two all the bag for a half hours? Top
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ninety thousand three? Are you ready? Argy, all said sir, except
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if you're the one who walks out of this, call up every number in
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my little red book. Huh and tell each girl I was thinking of her
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just before you got the five. Agreed, I resume four. Okay,
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you'll win. Holy Sweet Susan mid White. They work, Commander, But
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Joey's McLean for us at least you see. I'm afraid I forgot to mention
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one slight factor which might have operated in your framer. What's that, boss,
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I'm asking face Archie that my forty five is in the mpstairs Dan where
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I took it to oil last night. Holy cow, you didn't have a
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gun. You get asy McLean. I've really got one. Oh. By
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the way, mister Woolf signals off on those women, but my heart gets
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back down out of my throat. I'll call them myself. I'll trouble you
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for a beer first at Jane, and then if you'll be good enough to
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phone inspected cream now you can meet him pick up his triple murderer, the
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one time cutter of cards. Fortunately for us who's never been a real gambler.
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You have been listening to the New Adventures of Nero World, starring Sydney
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green Street. The Nice Transcribe story was based on the characters created by Rex
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stnd. This is an Edwin Fatiman program Produceton directed by Jay Donald Wilson in
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the cast where Gerald Moore as Archie Goodwin and Lorraine Catter, Bill Johnstone,
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Howard mcneer, Herb Butterfield, and Vic Rodman. Next week at the same
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time, Nero Wolf and Archie will bring you the Case of the Phantom Fingers
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Don Stanley speaking three chimes mean good Times on NBC Welcome Back, I Love
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that scene at the end, that's just such a perfect, you know,
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very daring scene. Now there's a lot of that's off about it, you
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know, if you want to be a nero Wolf purist, because nothing in
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the books indicates that Wolf keeps the forty five in his desk or that he
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antle's weapons at all. But Kake and just within the context of the episode,
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it's just so clever and so classic. And I do love Gerald Moore
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as the as Archie Goodwin. I find myself somewhat curious about the Elliott Lewis
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version from the Amazing Neural Wolf story from nineteen forty seven over Mutual, but
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we only have one episode with him, so it's kind of hard to evaluate
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