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an anc of Prevention. Now it's time for another case for Nick Carter Death
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in the Pines. What's another What is it another case for Nick Carterive?
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Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective
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who's ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick
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Carter Master Detective Curious Adventure, Death in the Pines or Nick Carter and the
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Mystery of the murdered Driver. Well, let's see, there's a truck coming
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up the grade now and ought to be them. Yeah, just one thirty.
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That's the tape truck. All right now, you guys know what to
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do. We've done it often enough before. Sure, all right, get
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going. When the truck gets close enough, I put the setch like the
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driver's faith like before it stops fast enough, he's tight. Hey, what
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the places goes on here? What's the big idea? Get those hands up,
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Whitey, get down out of that camp. You guys can't get away
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with us. You want to stay alive. Get down out of that cap
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and get quiet and bring help me down with him. You're a bunch of
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crooks. Don't drop, they don't don't bec There ain't nothing we can do.
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Okay, boys, get busy, Get up on that truck and get
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that stuff down down in the road. Shake it up by We want to
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get out of here. Hey, he'd get boys pulled and Jake, we
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got another one to take care of. Meet. Hey, I know that
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voice. So you're the guy who's in back of all this hijacket now I
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know. Yeah, well I hope you'll tie it. Oh what's the idea?
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What you have to kill him for? Shut up, funk. You
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don't want to get bumped off too. But you didn't have to kill him.
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Hey, that changes our plants a little, jake. Get your man
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down off the truck. Pick these two steps up and put him back in
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the cab of the truck, and put a hole in the gas tank and
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touch a match to it. Okay, boys, come on down. There
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won't be much left for the cops to wake on when they get here,
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which is all right with me. I don't like to see him get killed,
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but when they know too much, it's the only way I say,
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corner, Yes, thanks very much, Yes, thanks so long. Might
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as well let me know the worst, mister catter. What I've been through
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a little more or less doesn't matter, is to take I'm sorry to have
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to tell you this, but your driver wasn't burned a dead. He was
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shot murdered before the truck was set on fire. I was afraid of that.
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Reagan was my oldest and best driver, been with me for ten years.
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You're having trouble with racketeers, Yes, have been for the past year.
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How do they work? Well? I operate about forty trucks holding vegetables
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and green stuff from South Jersey to the New York markets. Yes, we've
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done it tonight. So we get to New York market before morning. About
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a year ago, somebody called me on the phone and said he represented a
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protective agency and he'd like to sell me protection at twenty five dollars a truck.
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Twenty five dollars That truck. That's pretty steep, isn't it. He's
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exorbitant. I told him I wouldn't pay it. So what happened Two days
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later one of my trucks were stopped and the drivers were beaten. The produce
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was dumbed and destroyed. Next day the guy called again and I told him
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I wouldn't pay. Did you try getting protection from the state troopers? Sure?
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I did, and they did what they could. Never a trooper followed
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one of the trucks, so when one of their men rode on the truck
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as a helper, these trucks were never bothered. With the other trucks.
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And with the same old story, I say, how do you account for
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the fact that the trucks with the troopers on them were never touched. I
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don't know unless the hijackers had spies at the loading points to watch, if
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the trucks had their regular crewise, and what was the outcome this time?
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In the end, I had to agree to pay the twenty five dollars.
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Then for six months there was no more trouble. A week ago, this
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same guy called and said the end he had been raised from twenty five to
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forty dollars a truck. I told him I couldn't pay that because I didn't
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make that much. And you know what happened last night? Yes, yes,
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no, are you going to try to keep riding the stuff through?
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If you're going to help me, I will. I'll do it and begin.
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Rather like to put my assistant, Patsy Bowen in your office as a
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typist. Sure maybe she could learn something that will start us off in the
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right direction. Well, Patsy, did you have a nice eventful day in
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Tate's office? I learned a few things, Nick, If that's what you
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mean, good, let's have it. Mister Tate makes up the daily schedule
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of operations based on the orders he received. Then he turns the completed schedule
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over to Alaparo. Who's the fleet foremant Only mister Tate, the Power and
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Dave Morgan, Tate's assistant, know what the orders are. As far as
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I can find out, I see any suspicions, not yet. The Power
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has been with Pate nine years and Morgan for about four years. The trouble
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started about a year ago. Both of them rode the trucks. Morgan was
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one of the drivers that got beaten up, but knocked out cold before he
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could see anything. Doesn't leave us much in the way of anything to go
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on, does it. I'm sorry, Nick, That's all I could get
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today. I don't feel bad, Patsy. He did what you could.
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What's the next step. I want to talk to the State who found the
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truck in which Reagan was killed. He may be able to tell me something
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that's been overlooked. You say you read my report, mister Carter, I
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don't know that I can tell you anything else. Were you on the State
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police force when Tates started having his trouble about a year ago? Yes,
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I was well. That business of the hijackers never picking in a truck guarded
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by state troopers needs explaining. Could there have been any leak from this end,
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absolutely not. I wrote several of the trucks myself, none of having
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knw where we were going. Into Tate's office, gave us our arts,
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and we went out on the road. Just as soon as we got those
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orders. Good, then the leak must be on Tate's end. Now,
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the next thing, your report gives the impression that the thug simply stopped Tate's
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truck, killed the driver in cold blood, and then burned the truck for
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good measure. Was that your personal impression? Well, no Ah. When
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I first got there, I was suspicious because the truck hadn't gone off the
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road or collided with anything that would cause a fire or a wreck. Then
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I remember the Tates trucks had been having trouble a while bag So I took
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another look around, and the result of that second examination the truck was surrounded
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by crates which had been thrown off the truck, crates that were smashed and
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broken, but not burned. Now, if the hijackers were going to burn
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the truck, why bother to throw all those crates off the truck first?
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It just didn't make sense. That's what I wanted to know. I'd say
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the gangs started out to do the usual job, smashing the cargo and manhandy
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the crew. But then something happened, something that made them switch the tactics,
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and they did something they had never done before. They killed the driver.
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Yeah, that explanation would fit the facts as I saw them. But
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what do you suppose caused the change in plan? But I could make a
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guess. Maybe Tate told me that Reagan was his oldest driver. Yeah,
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how somebody in tates out that must be in league with the hijackers. That's
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the where they could know as much as they do. I believe that Reagan
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recognized one of Tate's men in the high Gang. Sure, and that fits
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right in with the idea that somebody in takes out but was crossing him.
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Yes, mister Carter, I believe you've hit something. Have you arranged with
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mister Tate for me to go to work for him? I oh know,
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Kebby. I haven't said anything to him. I don't want him to know.
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Well, then, how do you know I can get the job?
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Tate's lost so many men since Reagan has killed a couple of nights ago that
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he'll be glad to hire anybody. Patsy you'll fix you up with the necessary
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papers, licenses, references and so forth. Were you'll close and don't wash
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your neck, and you'll have no trouble getting hired. And what do you
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want me to look for? Especially according to what Patsy says, the leak
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either goes through tape, which hardly seems lightly, through Laparo or Morgan,
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or through somebody else we haven't found hot about yet, So get a line
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on things in general, not anyone who may look suspicious. Oh and if
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you're riding a truck that gets held up, don't try to shoot it out,
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skebby. That's that thing's right. We'll see about that when the time
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comes. Forty to one shot against her getting stopped. But that's the same.
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Watch your step. These men, whoever they are, have two murders
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on their head, and they won't balk it a couple more, all right,
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Men looking for jobs laying up over here, new men over here?
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Hey, buddy, who's the guy over there to death? Oh? That's
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all a paro the fleet foreman. Oh that's the guy. Looks like a
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tough eight dove. Worry fella, he ain't turn of nobody down these days.
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This outfit's got the finger on it. They had forty men walk out
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on him yesterday, and I got to hunch this new gang ain't gonna last
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long either. Are you meaning a kind of the killings the other day?
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Yeah? That and the beating up of a couple other drivers recently. Yeah,
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night before land. Hey, daddy's so good? Is a tib what's
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the difference a job, ain't it? Hey? Who's the other guy?
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Oh? That's Dave Morgan, old man takes the system? All right,
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report to the garage at once, Next Mike Cousins and then listen, Toparo,
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hear on me papers, m you worked here before, and Jim sure
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I drove for you, But never mind, Dad, you ain't working here
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no more? Right Morgan? Right, Aparo? Nothing doing on that guy,
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Abert. What's the matter? I got a good record. I ain't
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in my head one maybe not? But Jake warned here, get out next
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that big farm. Who's next? Off me? Uh? The name's Wilson.
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Where's your papers? Oh? Yeah here mm hmm Wilson man. Yeah,
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okay, you're high. Report to Matt Steigun truck number eleven. You
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start as helper at twenty three bucks a week. Satisfied. Sure, boss,
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Okay, for I mean tell Steiger picks up his love tonight at Freeman's
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farm. Damn stop, Jaycey, he knows where this is get going?
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Right? Thanks? So they took you on to this, Scubby. I
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thought they would. Yes, I falling from a lunch room where I just
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ate anything happened yet. Well, just before they gave me a job,
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an old timer named Mike Clawson was turned down. He used to work for
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ten years ago. A plaparel wouldn't take him back. I see, maybe
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they didn't want to take on anyone who ever worked that before, or who
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has been there for long. Well maybe it doesn't mean anything, Nick,
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but it looks at what the trouble, Scubby. I'm not sure Nick.
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If I just realized the guy in the poolt next to me here is I'm
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saying a word when he hits booth if I came into this group. But
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he hasn't dialed in number, said anything yet. Looks as if somebody's on
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to you already. Any idea of who it could be, no idea at
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all. How could anybody know about me so soon? There's always a chance
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that somebody's recognized you I'll keep your eyes open, scuty, don't start anything
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any worse. No, I've been to at once if anything worthwhile happens,
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and good luck to you. What are you going to be doing? I
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have several lines of investigation that I want to follow up here in the city.
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There are certain angles of this case that I want to clear up here
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before I do anything else. So long shad we see you soon? I
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hop gosh, man, driving one of these trucks is nonsense, is it?
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How are your main chads? Well, I've been driving the truck around
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at the city and today's being like this at all. We spent the afternoon
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loads of the stuff on the truck. Now we got to spend all night
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riding it back. It sounds you don't like it, huh, I beginning
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to say it wasn't such a bright idea. I aren out of this paid
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doctor, especially with the kids to get indeat. I'm throwing in free a
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chair up to my applies for weeks. And what's the matter? What's your
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stopping for you? Somebody is signaling us with a flesh like to stomp like
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when the dot don't stop? Man, may be a hold up? Remember
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Roman Tate's artists. No truck stop for nothing. Oh it's a state Trooper's
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nothing to worry about. Oh yeah, you ain't see the uniform now,
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okay, I'll get out and see what he wants. Hey, what's the
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matter of what? Hey that's our Parny uniform. Yeah in no regular cop.
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This is the guy, all right? What are your fellows? Take
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care of the drive? Look you know trap takeing? No move? I
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got your covering out. Yeah, that takes care of you. Get right
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now for you can here? You are man? Yeah? You want to
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do no more fighting for a while, Okay, fight, Come on.
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Gosh, I'm tired, Patsy. I've done more of my own leg work
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today than I've done in years. I'm almost wishing it kept Scubby here to
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do the walking around going out on the truck myself. Did you find out
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anything, Nick, Yes, Patsy, I think so, but I can't
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be sure for a little while yet, not until I get some more answers
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to some of the thousands of questions I've asked today. There have been several
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messages for you. I think this is probably the only one that's really important.
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Yeah, I thank you, m M. I thought so. He's
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trying to borrow money. At least all that much of it makes me positive
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on the right track. Any report from the state troopers, Percy, Yes,
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I think they've located a place. They're going to call you later this
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evening when they get the details. Good. That'll give me time to join
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them before they make a raid. I don't want to miss being in at
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the kill. No. Hey, oh you're awake, Wilson. Uh?
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Yeah, who are you? That's Tiger your driver? Oh? Yeah,
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I remember now they stopped us. I tried to fight, and they not
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beyond How about you? Yeah, they count me too. Yeah. I
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wonder why they didn't shoot us and be done with it. Yeah, I
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wonder, Hey, where are we now? Any idea? No, but
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I seem to remember taking a long ride last night after we left the trucks.
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I wonder what time it is. I don't know. It's still dark
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though. Yeah. Hey, Wilson, I've been wondering. I heard one
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of them thugs call you Dick and Copper when they were scrapping with you.
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Are you a copper, well kind of one? Yeah. Just trying to
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get a line on what's going on in the state, don't you. Yeah,
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how in the heck did that guy know what was me? Did tight
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know what? Y'all? No, nobody knew about me working for tape at
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me and my boss. Hey, wait a minute, what Right after I
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got the job, I phoned my boss and somebody in the next phone booth
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overheard what I told him. Boy, they drapped me neat as you please.
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I probably was afraid of it looks like it. Well, the first
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thing to do is to get out of here. Well, I've been working
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at the rope suits. They got my tied hands tied together with and I
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can't budget my dole. They're too tight for me. Well, I think
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maybe I can get mine and lose it. I have time. It's my
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boss taking me several tricks to get out of ropes like this. Yeah,
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the show to get us out of this one. Then I can't hold it
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that. Yeah, somebody's coming and we got that read head of punk waked
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up horses doing a minute now with flash here. Come on, you leave
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me, assist you to a chair. Sorry, you can't walk by yourself
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tied up like that, but that wouldn't be etiquette. Come on, come
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on, cut the comedy, wake up you, come on, Copper,
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get him on his old fool. Hey, what's the matter, Hey,
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what's just trying to do here? Yeah? I might want me to soften
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him up for you. Let's see if he talks first, maybe he'll talk
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without any sweet Okay, but I hope he needs some waking over. I
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enjoyed that. All right, Punk, you're gonna talk talk about what's no
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use stolen them? We know your Nick Carter's man. Well, if you
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know that, what she's want me to say? We know your cold Karter?
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Yesterday before you left New York. What'd you say to what'd you tell
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him? Hey? I know you. Eh, you're the guy who wore
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the Phony State Troopers uniform and you held us up last night. Yeah,
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well, knowing that ain't gonna up you. And then come on, spill
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it how much? See you know? Okay, he ain't gonna talk,
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Mike. Kid's gotta be a real job. I gotta go to Wike on
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him. Yeah, I guess you're right, Jake, go ahead and make
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it good. Sure. Oh, let me take my coat off, iace
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so I don't feel cramped. Let me have it. I'll put it on
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the back of the chair. Thanks, Mike, you better put my gun
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in the pocket and my coat so they won't get me away when I really
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get going. Okay, now let's see some action, all right, you
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redheaded stool pigeon. Now spill it, spill it all round. Come on,
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Jake, there's trouble off the wall. That's a funny fast Do you
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see what I see? What? What do you mean? Jake left his
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coat hanging in the back of that chair. There there's a gun in the
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pocket of that coat. Oh boy, want to break if we can only
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get loose just a minute. My hands are almost freak good. Yeah.
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Ye, now I get the feet loose. That doesn't now the gun?
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Now let me come back. Hey, what's drop that gun here? Cupboard?
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Oh yeah, well this will show. Oh yo, what what's it
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here? You killed me? You give you got me? Wilson, get
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me loosen, I'll give you a hand. I'll be back in the right.
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The gun is empty. See we're in a spot. Come on,
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get here, yeah, go on, listen, leave there here man.
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Oh see, thanks, Wilson. Gosh am, I plad to get out
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of them ropes. Hey man, this is the screwiest thing I ever heard
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of. Yeah, why do you suppose they beat it off like that.
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You got me, But come on, let's get out of this place.
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They might come back as fast as they went out here. Okay, give
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me a chair. I'll break this store down for you. Okay, gosh,
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there he is on the floor, the boss and two holes threw his
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forehead. You sure hit him square in the bulls. Where'll I take off
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his mask and see if I know? Man, it's mister Tate. Who
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the owner of the trucking company. Mister Tate. Yeah, Tate bracketeering his
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own business, attacking his own trucks. But that doesn't make sense, man,
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boy, I'll say it doesn't. Why should he want to destroy his
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own business? Hen, why would he ask it to investigate? Hey,
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we got to get out of here. Where there can you see him?
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Yeah? Oh, they say troopers, come on your head, Come on
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here, ram number, don't shoot, we're coming out. Get that door
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open before they shoot. Who surrender? Get your hand up? Yeah to
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him? Man, watch the back of the house. Oh gosh, are
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we plan to see you? Eh? Keep your hands up? Oh yeah,
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sure sure. Look I'm Scubby Wilson and this is Matt Steiger. I'm
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Nick Carter's assistant. Yo. Look at who's a dead man lying there?
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Oh that's mister Tait. I just shot him. Oh you did let him
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send you to the chair, all right? Oh no, well you don't
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understand. He's the chief of the hijackers. Well, he was holding us
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prisoners here, it's said, good one. Where's that gun you killed him
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with? It's in the other room. Gave your hands up. But officer,
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you know, said pose, you're gonna tell me you shot him in
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self defense. Yeah, that's just what I did. Well, look,
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you could ask Matt. That's right over, sir. He was gonna kill
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a spool. Yeah, sure, where's that gun he was gonna kill you
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with? Oh, but it was in his hand when I saw it last
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Well it ain't here now, you're a bum liar. However, I suppose
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I after you shot him between the eyes, killing him instantly, he walked
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over to the windows. Who is gun away? And then came back here,
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lay down and died. Oh but gosh, officer, I saw him
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put your hands out. Huh what put your hands out? How about you
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can't put handcuffs on me? Ah, watch me sure they're good and tight.
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So yeah, well that's Nick Nick. Oh hello, Scubby having a
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good time. You'll know this guy mis that cotter and does he know me?
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I'll tell him who I am? Nick, Yes, sergeant, I'm
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afraid I have to confess that I do know him. He's my assistant,
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although he hasn't been much of assistance in this case. Shall I let him
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go then, yes, he is. I'll take charge him. Okay,
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if you say something? Oh gosh, Nick, am I glad to see
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you? Oh? This is Matt Steiger, the guy who was driving the
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truck. I was on Hello's cot Hey. Look, I heard some shooting
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a few minutes ago. Did you get some of the gang? Yes,
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Scubby Morgan and four men who ran the car off the road and caught him
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all. Morgan's pretty badly wounded, but he pulled through. So Morgan was
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in audit after him. Morgan was the head of the gang. Oh no,
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No, Morgan was ahead of the gang. Nick. The head of
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the gang is lying there dead and I shot him, put two bullets in
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him in self defense. Who is he? You know him? Know him?
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It's mister Tate, mister Tate. I he had nothing to do with
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this, He sure did, Nick, Well, he was holding us prisoners
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here. Sure Matt can tell you that's true, mister Carter. He tried
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to kill Wilson, and Wilson shoty. I tell you Tate had nothing to
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do with his Gangscully, Oh what makes you so sure? Nick? I
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did a lot of investigating in town today, and I've found that Morgan has
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been trying to borrow money anywhere and everywhere he could to take advantage of what
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he called a chance to get going a good business dirt cheap. Well,
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that obviously meant Tate's business, especially since the forty dollars a truck the racketeers
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asked was unquestionably intended to drive Tate out of business rather than to get the
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money out of him. But Morgan was one of the drivers who got beaten
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up nick who said, so Morgan, nobody else knew anything about it,
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and he gave him a swell alibi. I think that Reagan, the driver
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was killed the other day, probably was shot because he recognized Morgan. But
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everything you say about Morgan could have been true of Tate just as well.
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Not quite scubby. I found out several other things during my investigation today that
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proved definitely that Morgan's the one. But Nick I shot Tate not five minutes
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ago? Well, he was trying to kill me. I wonder you shot
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him five minutes ago? How does that happen that he's been dead for at
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least three hours? Dead for three hours, no question about it. Gregor
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Motis is already begun to set in. Scub me. Somebody's putting one over
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on you. What do you mean, Nick, where's the gun you shot
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him with? Well, the trooper took her. Yeah, that's right here
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it is, mister Carter. Thanks, mm hmm. Look yeah, how
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does it happen that you shot him with blank cartridges? Oh? Nick,
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don't hear the shells I just took out of that gun you used? Four
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of them have been fired previously, and you can see that the other two,
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the two left for you to fire, have had the bullets pried out
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of them. They see the mark the edge of the shell. Yeah,
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so you couldn't have shot it. What, mister Carter, I saw Wilson
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plugg him. I saw him falling dead as the door closed behind him.
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There's no question that, There's no question. But what you thought? You
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saw that? But it was all planned, just that way planned certainly?
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How come you were able to get out of the rope you were tied up
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with so fast? How come there was nobody in the room when you got
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hold of the gun. Why do you suppose that gun was left for you
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could get your hands on it. That is what happened, isn't it?
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Yes, Nick, as right as if you'd been here to see it.
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It couldn't have been any other way. Date probably had a hunch Morgan was
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guilty and trailed him here. Morgan caught him, shot him with his gun.
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Then he wiped his prints off it, and he planted it where you
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could get at it. Then, at the psychological moment, Morgan, with
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a mask over his face, opened the door so you could see him,
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and shot at you. Then you shot at him, as he knew you
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would, using the two shells he had left in the gun for you,
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the two shells with no bullets in them. Then he pretended to Paul dead,
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carefully shutting the doors. He did so so that you couldn't see what
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happened. Next, Oh, I see it. And then he put Tate's
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body there by the door with a mask over his face. Right, gosh,
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When you opened the door, there was Tate's body shot through the head
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with a very gun you held in your hand, A gun on which the
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police would find your fingerprints and yours. Only Morgan would have made sure they
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found it. Boy, what a set up. It was perfect. Matt
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would have had to swear he saw me do it, and I was so
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completely fooled. Boy, I would have confessed to the murder in any court
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in the country. Ask you still trust too much to what you hear and
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see. Before you can be the really first class detective, You'll have to
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learn to distrust everything until you vanalyzed it in the light of all the evidence.
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This has been another of the strange adventures of Nick Carter, Master Detective,
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which are brought to you regularly at this time by W. R.
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Mutual. Well, Nick, what about next week's story? Can you give
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us a hint? Next week? My story concerns a murderer who killed his
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victims according to the sign of the zodiac under which they were born. A
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very unpleasant and dangerous man, I might add, yes, definitely, Patsy
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and I got to close in his trail that he tried two different times to
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get rid of us. But in his attempts to be very clever, he
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made a bad mistake and Nick caught him and caught the murderer too, I
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imagine, quite right after a chase. I call the story The Horoscope Murders.
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So long, see you next week. So long, So long to
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you Nick and Patsy in the Strange Adventure you have just heard. Nick Carter
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was impersonated by Lon Clark, Patsy by Helen Choate, Scubby by John Ka.
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Original music was played by Luke White. The entire production was written and
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directed by Jack McGregor. Next week, at the same time, listen to
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another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled The Horoscope Murders or Nick Carter and the
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Mystery of the Avenging Astrologer. This story is a copyrighted feature of Street and
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Smith Publications, Incorporated. The Return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios
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of WR and is broadcast over most of these stations every Saturday evening at seven
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o'clock Eastern War time. And don't forget that the adventures of Nick Carter's adopted
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son, Chick Carter, are broadcast over most of these stations Mondays through Fridays
29:45
at five point thirty pm Eastern War time. This is mutual welcome back.
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Well the villain's plan here was not the worst possible plan, but it did
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depend on everyone being inattentive and not digging deeper to things, which is probably
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not a good basis for planning when you're going up against Nick Carter. I
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also loved at the end when Patsy was talking about the serial killer, making
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the observation that he was unpleasant. I guess that's something we can all agree
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on. All right, Well, on to some listener comments and feedback,
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and we actually have a couple regarding some Nick Carter episodes, and we'll go
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ahead and start with Renee, who has a comment regarding episode eleven oh four,
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Death after Dark her and she says, the Nick Carter episode reminded me
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of Sherlock Holmes. As I was listening, I kept wondering how Nick was
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going to get pigmies into World War two America. Thanks for the great work
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you do. I'm also enjoying the war podcast. Well, thanks so much,
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Renee, and that's available at Thewar dot Great Detectives dot Net. Pigmies.
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There's definitely a good reason for referencing Pigmies regarding Sherlock Holmes, because the
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pigmy features very prominently in Sign of four, which is my favorite Sherlock Holmes
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novel. Sparky writes in regarding episode ten eight Nick Carter Records of Death,
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it reminded me of this movie My name is Julia Ross, where the heroine
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is kidnapped and held in a beautiful mansion. Sounds like an interesting plot.
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It's available if you have the mind to check it out. It is available
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on DVD through the Columbia Film War Classics three collection, which is eighty dollars,
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so a little pricey on that part. But thanks for the tip,
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Sparky and Finley. Charles Quel Enters emails in love your podcast as I'm a
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huge Neurowolf rex Stout fan. Well, thanks so much, and we will
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have actually rex Stout on the War in six days so and that again is
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at the wart Great Detectives dot Net. Well, that will do it for
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today. I want to wish everybody in the United States a very happy Thanksgiving
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Day and we'll be back. We'll be back tomorrow with the final part of
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the Shady Lane matter and also the next part in Belladonna was poison in the
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