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truly appreciated. Now it's time for today's episode of the Cases of mister Race.
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A man named Judas. Oh, mister Race, come in giving you
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up for the night. You're not alone, doctor Gail. There are a
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couple of minutes back there when I had given myself up for good. As
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close as that closer. Welcome on into the kitchen, coffee s preaking.
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Thank you find a less dangerous way to make a living and being a private
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detective? Sure ever than who supply you with your material for your book on
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criminal psychology? Sure good, sweet and black. Yeah. Thanks. Incidentally,
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the book is coming very well thanks to the Unorthodox point of view,
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I get on the criminal mind through your eyes. Well, what happened to
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you? To know what happened to night? Seems of starter with a man
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named Judas Judith. You mean Judys discarry it from the Bible. Of course,
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that's the guy, doctor Gail, the world's most notorious steel pigeon,
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that it took two thousand years for it to catch up to me. Well,
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I'm listening, mister road I'm listening the Cases of Mister Race, starring
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George rat And produced and directed by Jason J. I hadn't been in my
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office over on sixth Avenue for more than ten minutes. When the hall door
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opened just wide enough to admit a man's eye. Where I sat, I
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could see with steel blue. And when the door opened a little wider,
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I could see whether I belong to a very tall, very thin, very
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blond man. I waved him in. My name Sir is Doran, Richard
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Doran of Doran and Stanton, Fifth Avenue, importers dealers in objects of art,
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curios and such. What can I do for you? I want you
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to deliver a package to a gentleman in Chicago. Go on. That's all
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there is to it. I see. My name is Ace Edward Ace,
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sole owner of Ace Investigation, sixth Avenue in New York, dealer in homicide,
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matricide and patricide, and also in the gentler forms of crime. What
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you want is a worthy boy waiting with his way through reform school. Now
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I know just such a liar who This is no ordinary package, mister Race.
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I am willing to pay a fee of say fifteen hundred dollars for it's
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safe delivery. What you are, as a man named Ace, that the
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package under your arm? Yes? What's in it? Adam bomb? Not
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quite but something perhaps equally as explosive co on. It contains the most priceless
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item ever to come into the possession of Doran and Stanton. You still haven't
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told me what it is. I didn't intend to. I don't like working
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in the dark. What's it worth? In thousand cents? I mean?
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I have consented to sell it to a British gentleman named Colonel Amherst for one
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars. You could get a lot of explosion out of
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that kind of scratch? Is the dingus insured? Unfortunately, mister Ace,
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it is not possible to apply for insurance. I see what you mean.
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Yes, the Dinghis as you call it, has had a most checkered and
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colorful career, mostly read. I suppose you put things so obliquely, mister
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Race, but you're quite right. For many years, Duran Stanton have kept
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it hidden away. Now Colonel Almhurst may have the joy of possession and the
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fear you will find him registered at the Ambassador East. Deliver the package,
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collect the money, and return to me here in New York. Why don't
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you take it to Chicago yourself, or have the colonel come here? I
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will be frank, sir. Neither of us wishes to assume the risk.
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I would advise you to go on. If you accept the assignment, Shall
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I give you a check for your fee? How much cash do you have
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with you? Two hundred and fifty dollars? Why, I'll take that a
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balance when I returned from Chicago with your money. Excellent. Here is your
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retainer and here is the package. I also have your transportation. You'll leave
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on the Commodore Vanderbilt to night Car fifty seven compartment E. Good luck,
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mister Race. Just one more thing, mister Durand how do you know you
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can trust me. If you are wise, miss Race, you will give
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me no reason to regret my trust. Package left in my care. There
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was no larger in the farmer box of candy that evening box under my arm,
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my arm pressed close to the gun, and my shoulder holster I bought
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of the Commodore Vanderbone. Let me just relax in my bunk. When the
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door to my compartment open, I looked up from my berth into the face
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of a small, fragile old man. His hair was glossy and deep black.
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His eyes were glossy in deep black. But it wasn't his bones,
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or his hair or his eyes that really interested me. It was his right
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hand and looked there was a gun where I lay it. Look mighty,
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did it? Will please clasp your hands to gather at the back of your
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neck. I'll wait a minute, and have even met your sister. I
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intend to take the package. If you'll make one move, I'll be forced
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to shoot you. That makes a problem. You can't get the package unless
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I do move. It's under my mattress. Oh how clumsy this this place
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is so smaller. I forgive me. I am reluctant to permit you to
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rise of course I could shoot you and kill you now and then roll you
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over and take the package. But you won't jus you're not sure it is
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under the mattress, and if you don't find it there, I won't be
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alive to tell you where it is. Yes, I suppose you are right.
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I can never think these things through clearly, very well. I have
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no alternative. You will follow my instructions very closely, sir. Now you
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put your right leg on the floor and stays slowly, slowly. That's it.
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Now say roll over very gently on the floor with your sides so slowly.
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Keep your hands on last all right, get up. I won't shoot.
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Oh but an idiot. I am a stupid, impossible bungler. I
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knew it's I knew it's I had the premonition you wouldn't grab it my leg.
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There, I stand up, permit you to do it this stupid idiotic
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longer. Don't break me up? Get going outside? There? Are you
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taking me for a little fresh air? You don't not, you will not.
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Please do not be angry with me, mister ays, Get out on
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the platform. I beg you miss days. I am harmless, impotent,
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incompetent. If that's what I am, all right? Who set you?
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No one, mister lay who said you? Please? Do not hitting me
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again? Oh? Set you? I'm gonna kim. I'm bare it.
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I'm alone on a little I'm a color of the colored miss days. I
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have no one, no one, okay, over you go, no no,
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no, put me down? Please? Who set you? I swear
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it's no one, no one okay, black plap, relaxed. Thank you,
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stay out of my way. Next time we meet out torush you overboard?
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Yes, yes, my right, excellent, Thank you, sir,
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thank you very much. I left the little man shivering out on the platform
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and went back to my compartment, And just as I walked into the room,
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that's when I really got it. I don't know how long I was
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out when I opened my eyes and the small room looked as though it had
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been searched. It had, and the package was gone. The train was
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just pulling into some joke water stop. I got off at my skull,
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patched up at the local druggist, and hired I hacked to drive me back
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all the way to New York. Two hours later, I got out in
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front of the Duran Stanton shop on Fifth batman. There was a small light
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burning inside. I opened the door and went in. There was quite a
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crowd in there. All of them were cups. Protective Lieutenant Walt ap Thomas.
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I can board he had been talking to the sulfiest looking doll I had
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seen since Minsky closed his door. Where Well, hello, Race, are
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we in for imported art? Now? I want to talk to Duran.
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Yeah, you can talk to Duran if you're like but he won't answer you.
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He's dead. What did he diet? A hole in the head,
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Two bullets went through it, got a smear out of it. Yet U
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valcated burglary. They jimmy the back door. Duran was upstairs with his wife
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here they heard the noise. He came down to investigate. Dang Bang are
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very dead, mister Durand, Well, I'm sorry to hear that, Missus
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Durand thank you mister Ace Eddie Ace who said you wanted to see my nothing
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important? Missus Durand, I won't bother you now you suffered a bad shot,
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A very understanding try. I tried to stop my husband from going down.
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He wouldn't miss. But is there something I can do for you?
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Try? Well? Not right? Now. I I mean, mister Durant
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was just gonna show me a Chinese ring. May I come to see you
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in a few days, Missus Durand, please do. Oh, by the
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way, have you heard from Colonel Amhurst? Colonel Amhurst, I don't know
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the gentleman. All right, watch you, Daddy Durant. I think you
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better go upstairs now. The boys are going to bring the stick. I
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mean we have to take yet, I understand. Thank you for your thought.
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Goodbye, mister Ray. Please call again, and if I should hear
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from a Colonel Amherst, I'll tell him to call you. Missus Durand left
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the shop. She hesitated briefly at the door, lashed over her, shouldered
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me once, and then was gone. Watcher's boys brought the stiff out of
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the back room. I took a quick gander at it, and a longer
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one. It was a very, very dead, mister Durant all right,
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but it wasn't a man who had come to my office that morning. I
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guess I'll hit the road. Walsh, stick around, take your hat off.
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Respect for the dead. I'd like to see the rest of that adheat
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your patch, don't be bothered, and maybe ask you a few questions,
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like once you really came here for this hour? Where you were an hour
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ago? Look walks just between us. An hour ago. I cracked the
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back door of the shop and threw a couple of slugs into Duran when he
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got in my way. I came back to see if I dropped any clues
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that might lead to me. If you find anyhow I'll be at my office.
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Bring him up and we'll split him fifty fifty. Well, the little
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man with the big gun, I thought I took that away from you on
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the train. I have many of them, mister Ray. First I must
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ask you to forgive the liberty I took an entering your office to wait for
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you. What else to find you? I did not know? Eventually you
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must return here, all right, eventually I did. What's your problem,
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mister Race, I have a grievance on the train. You caused me a
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graze, you militation miss, Yes you did. You slap my face.
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You did not even have the decency to punction me man like next time,
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I promised the pundas hard. There will be no next time as trace for
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you. I have the greatest resemblement, Yes, yes I have. If
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you give me the slightest provocation. I promised to shoot you. Really really
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I will. All right, I want your queue twice. You're Underson.
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You will come with me. Mister Day. Where are we going? He's
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waiting to speak to you. Oh, conel, gradually come in the days,
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come in, come in. Uh, well done, this time,
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well done it is. Oh, thank you, thank you? What's him?
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Thanks? Nice player? You got here? You like it? You
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really like it, sir. It's so difficult to get proper accommodations these days.
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And to the point, where is the coin? The coin? Precisely?
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You mean the coin that was in the package that I think of.
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You do not blame me for the Simpson. You know full world which coin
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I have difference? Now, where did you suppose you tell me? Ben?
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Will both know? See you see I thought you he was uncomfort if
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I put gently gently, But don't you see he's a terrible person, a
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liar, a fun If you don't take that mucky away, colonel, I'll
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break us late. I'll do be quietly needed, or I should let him
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break your leg the bizarre fall. Indeed, now I shall put it bluntly,
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concitly and simply. I believe you had the coin. I believe that
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you are in Stanton Rand's partner, are working together, and you both mean
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to hoodwig Noran simulate a test on the train, and then dispose of the
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coin, sharing the proceeds between you and Stanton. So you got a phony
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coin when you slug me on the train. You know full well I did,
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sir. You'll see, you'll see how he twits. He quiet.
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I thought you were supposed to be in Chicago waiting for the coin. That
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was the business arrangement. You cannot blame him for coming here before the coins
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delivered in an effort to gave a little money. And you even know which
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train and compartment I'd be occupying in my business, I must do anything.
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I even know when I'm beaten and forced to pay, and that time has
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come, I shall pay how much fifty thousand dollars? Price was one hundred
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and fifty thousand, eh, that is when I planned on taking it by
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storm. Now I am willing to tender wealth of the realm, a quantitative
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and relative difference. If you can say that again, You've got a deal
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on one condition. At first, you tell me what this coin is all
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about. Hell, you want it you mean you don't that standing hasn't told
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you what He's slippery. He's life of my sons, Jared, I sit
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in bargain with you for you ahead. You know what the coin is?
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I don't, but I know where it is. You don't. I'm still
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in the drivers. Indeed you are. For you, miss years very will,
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sir, I should show my good faith, please please, Colonel,
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I beg you be careful what you say. He is the stag live of
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coundl and em you start me again. You struck me again? Yes,
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and it served you well. Do dequire you were saying, colonel, and
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the coin? Yes, Tell me, sir, what do you think it
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is? Come to the point, to the point, dear me, sir,
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how much do you know of your Bible? I told you I'm a
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normal as guide. It is very much to the point you know of because
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if one Judas is Carryott the great betrayers, yes, yes, And for
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his betrayal he received from the Roman authorities his promised wage thirty pieces of silver.
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Now then that was two thousand years ago. Mark Well would aim about
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to say, sir, there are in the connections of you, miss Mattis,
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certain coins of antiquity dating back to the days of the Arrows two thousand
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years before the day is a great betrayal. Eh, Now, sir,
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you begin to comprehend. I'm still lestening that very well. To the point
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of all the thirty pieces of silver pager Judies is carried only one. Only
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one, I say, has been on earth. The rest for all we
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know who gone into the dust of the bones of the Judies. But that
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one coin, sir, with the imperial headed arms of Caesar stamped upon it,
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has been stought for fourt for kill friend died for through bloody century off
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the century. H What do you say to that? I say, I'm
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nuts. Ah, but my fifty thousand dollars there's otherwise it days another the
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coin. If you please, I'll have to see stand first. You say,
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you see he cannot be tracted. Is Leonidas correct in his analysis of
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your character? Sir? Sure, but I still have to see stand first.
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Very well, there's nothing for it. I suppose as edded inducements earth
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a bonus of ten thousand dollars for yourself. We nidized the destension of it.
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If you delivered the going to meet here before dawn. I stay with
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the tide for Montevideou tried to earn, but pen g Hammurst didn't have the
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coin. Stanton was on the loop. He might or might not have it.
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That existed at all, That had to be someplace. I hustled on
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back to the shop of Duran and Stanton. I never got a good look
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at the little man who was tailing me. Every time I glanced back,
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he had his face draper in a foreign language newspaper. I made sure he
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was still pounding along behind him. When I turned in at the door of
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Duran and Stanton, I didn't expect it to be opened. I was wrong.
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I didn't expect to find anyone there. I was wrong again. I
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walked slowly to the kid the far end of the shop. She was no
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more than sixteen or seventeen, and her face was white, her eyes loaded
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with fear. She stood in front of the safe under a small yellowish light.
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I look, Kathoe for a gun on the right hand. It's always
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these fright and white, white faced kids believe that you have it. She
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was unarmed. I left my breath out and frozen on it. I'm the
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police. Who are you? What are you doing here? Oh? I
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know se Duran. You mean missus Duran is your mother my stepmother. I
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was at the school when I heard that that my father had been I came
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here at once. What were you looking for in the safe? The safe
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or were you putting something in it? Like? What? Look infant?
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No time for guessing games. Now give me a small package there if I'll
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do it, You stay here. Part that right now. Don't leave till
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I get back. Keep that door locked. But why I don't take this
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gun if anybody breaks and use it and put that gold chain you're wearing around
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your neck and side of your dress. It might tangle your gun. I'm
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when you need it, but I've never fired a gun before. Maybe you'll
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be surprised how natural it will come to you if you have to. I
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left the kid in the shop, strode down fifth across thirty fourths from my
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office on sixth. The little man on my tail had dusted. I took
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my time. I figured there'd be somebody waiting for me at my office.
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That was I figured he'd be holding a gun on the door he was.
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I figured it would be the little man. It wasn't all right, miss
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Rays, I'll take that package. What name are you're wearing now, Stanton,
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give me that package. You're sure you want it. Your life is
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a mighty high price to pay for it. You'll forget I'm holding the gun.
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Okay, he headstrong. Here's the package that's better, mister Rays.
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All the time I was talking to Stanton, I watched the little man across
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the street. If our language page it was still covering his face. After
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stand left my office, I watched Born through the wind. He came out
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of my building. I didn't hear the shot, but I saw the gun
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flashes of fired. Stanton slunted the pavement. By the time I made it
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downstairs, the little man was far away, and so with Stanton. His
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body was still lying where it had fallen. The street was deserted. His
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wallet had been first to make it look like a clumsy hold up. The
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package, of course, was gone. I picked up the wallet, cased
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the contents. Among the usual stuff. There was a small clipping on glossy
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paper. It was a crude picture of a coin. The caption under it
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red coin of Judas. I didn't have to wreck my brain to figure out
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where i'd seen it before. He open up and don't shoot well. Mister
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eighth, I've been so frightened. Give me that goal chain from your neck,
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my change, Stop playing simple. You can keep the chain after I've
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taken the coin from the end of it, so you know I have it.
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I must have been blind not to knowing it before. Did your father
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give you the coin? Yes, he told me to keep it at school
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it was the factest place. But after i'd had he'd been killed, right
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this eighth fout no need for alarm, my dear you see you see colonel
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I told you here again clearly as well, Miss Days, I must say
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I'm disappointed in you. I did consider you a man in some peculiar enough
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that was your idea. I sent le Anitas with fifty thousand dollars coin of
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the realms to purchase from you, opening above board the coin, and what
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am I given for this honorable gesture? This? This uh? Two porter
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shell combs. I'll look here on Leonias, this times, uh, I
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mean business. This gun will lend us gool my intention. Now the coin,
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mister eighthen my fifty thousand dollars. You're not even imbers in your fat
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clown. Leonis never gave me fifty cents. He knocked off Stanton for those
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combs. But that was the most hidstrong, and he was hidstrong coming to
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me with his baggage. You're in telling me he wasn't all an arrow,
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My dear colonel, I intended to return the money to you, but in
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my distress over learning that I had failed in my mission, it he just
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slipped my mind, A mind like a ski run in behood. He SIPs
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your mind again, my dear fellow, I suggest, yes, you have
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his conel. I shall deal with you later. Lenitas, well, mis
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days. I've got the coin, oh Land, but I can't sell it
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to you. You'll have to deal with mister Duran and her stepdaughter. It
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belongs to them. Oh, my dear, you are indeed the soul of
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honor. But the fact of the matter is that Marline Duran called me after
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you talked with her. Oh, come in money. He was just telling
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which one of you killed Stanton Bally put anything he his pistol away, which
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one of you? It was quite on the intense more, missus Dorrand,
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a regrettable and medom coolly accident. I assure you I never meant to task.
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Oh you know, I said, And you send him to do it.
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No, no, no, no, I I you did. I'm
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going to kill you too. Say for him and say she's mad. Stupid,
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stupid, shut down man. You see, I killed him. I
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loved Stanton, so I killed his killers. Yeah, just like you and
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Stanton killed your husband. He got wise of the fact that you and Stanton
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were going to run out on him, so he sent Stanton delivered the pony
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package. He knew that Amhurst was in New York. He tipped Amhurst doff,
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figuring out leamy. This would be sent to kill Stanton for the package,
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but Stanton was wise to it. He sent me instead. When he
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saw that I was attacked, he came back here and killed your husband.
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He asked my husband, and he deserved it. All right, Marline,
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come along with me. I'm not going with you, mister Race, because
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you and Elsie are going to the morgue. And so Elsie used my gun
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to send two bullets into Marline. How do you like that? I'd forgotten
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the kid was holding it. But what about Elsie? Won't she have to
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stand trial or No, it's been settled down at headquarters. After all,
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Morlene did kill two men, and then Fat and Elsie and me with a
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gun. So Elsie you'll be okay? And what about the coin? Does
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Elsie keep? Yeah? She's having him melted down into what a small silver
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crucifix? H I see, I like that. Good Night's Chase. Good
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Night, Doctor Gail. In a moment, George Raft will be back as
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mister Ray's to tell you about next week's case. But first a brief word
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the cases of mister l Welcome back. It's rare that you find an episode
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of any radio program that borrows so much from Casablanca. You had the Sydney
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Green Street sound alike, and you also had a combination of Joe Cairo,
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who was played by Peter Laurie in the movie Anne Wilmer. This is somewhat
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interesting because George Rapp famously turned down the starring role in The Maltese Falcon because
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story has it he wasn't comfortable or familiar with the director, and of course
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Humphrey Bogart took it, and of course the rest is history. Here we
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get the idea of what a little bit of what it would have been like
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George Raft in The Maltese Falcon and a Sydney Green Street that repeatedly said coin
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of the realms, the coin of the realm, a classic phrase, I
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admit, from emotional and thematic standpoint, I like the end. I like
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the way it ended, with them going ahead into melting that whole thing down
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into a crucifix so nicely down there on that. Some listener comments and feedback
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