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as an audiobook from audible dot com. Well, now it's time for today's
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episode of Nick Carter. The original air date June the eleventh of nineteen forty
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six. The title is the Case of the Clumsy Forgeries. What's the matter?
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What is it a case for Nick Carter? My study texture. Yes,
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it's the Case of the Clumsy forgeries. Another case for that most famous
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of all men hunters, the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in
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the history of detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective Nick. Do we
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have much more to do on this report? Not much, Patsy? Why
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well, chapter five and I have an appointment with my hairdresser sick. We
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will make it all right. I'll see that you do, Bobby. It
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for me to be rent you from making yourself as beautiful as you can.
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What a thing to say. I was only joking. Patsy really are a
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fine looking girl? Oh, Nick, do you mean that? Well,
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yes, of course I do. Oh that's the first personal compliment you've paid
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me in all the years I've been working for you. I didn't know you
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ever noticed me, except as your assistance. I noticed a good many things
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I don't mention, Patsy. Oh don't I know that? Fine? Now,
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I bet I don't keep that big with a hairdresser after all. Nick
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Carter's office Patty Bowen speaking. His nickname is Bowen. This is doctor bred
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Oh yes, just a minute, doctor doctor Bradford. Oh thanks, oh
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doc, I've been keeping himself all these months. I haven't seen you in
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a dog's age. I know it, Nick, that's the old story.
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Shortage of doctors makes double work for the rest of us, like good ones
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like you. What's new, Nick, I've just run into a very peculiar
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thing, and I think you can help me. I'm glad to if I
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can. Let's have it. I've been treating old Gerald cool for years.
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He's been in bed with a very bad heart for some time now, due
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to pop off almost any minute. Well, in this afternoon, when I
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dropped in for my regular visits at five o'clock, I found him dead.
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Heart failure and the best of my ability to determine so quickly. Yes,
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But when I started to straighten out the body so it wasn't as twisted as
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it was when he died, I found a piece of paper under him and
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which was scribbled. He killed me, he gave me. That's all.
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Looks as if he started to write something and died before he could finish it.
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Could he been having hallucinations? I wouldn't say so, but I'd like
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your opinion before i'd do anything. Maybe you can find something that I've missed.
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It'll show whether it was murder or not. You're at the Gold house.
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Now, Yes, could you take a run over here? Certainly,
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dog, if you really think it'll help, I'm sure it will. But
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just in case, suppose you come as my assistant, say, mister Nicholas,
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how's that? Oh fine, all right, doc, I'll be then
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ten minutes. You see, Nick, this note was under his shoulder,
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just as if he'd rolled over on it in his last moments. This pencil
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was there too. How long had he been dead when you arrived? Only
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a few minutes at most? Tell me, dog, isn't it perfectly possible
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to kill the man with a bad heart such a way as to make it
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look like heart failure is easily in The stimulant that acted on his heart would
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do it pretty short order. But does he show any signs of such a
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stimulut No, But that wouldn't prove anything. No, autopsy is the only
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way to be sure. Yes, of course. Well, let's see if
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you can find any evidence he hud a point in one direction or the other.
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If anything was given him, it could have been in this glass is
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the only one near enough for him to have reached it? Only one person's
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fingerprints on it, see the old man's thumb. Yes, same, all
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right. That little scar makes it definite. It's peculiar, to say the
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least. What do you mean, Nick, Well, if you give a
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person a drink, do you wipe your own prints off the glass? First?
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Of course? Not it. Oh, I see what you're getting at.
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Somebody did give him something deliberately, and to be my guess, you
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just take this along, have the contents analyzed. I can wrap it in
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this wax paper. By the way, have you told the family yet and
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that he's dead? Yes, not that he was killed. I asked him
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to wait downstairs until I was ready for them. Let's see. There are
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two sons, if I recall, yes, Raymond is the elder and Peter.
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What do they like? Well, Raymond is pretty much of a sport,
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but Peter is a quiet, stay at home type, and both nice
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fellows as far as I know. Old have a nurse. Yes, would
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you like to see her? She's in the next room. Yes, please,
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I'll get it. Uh, yes, Waters, this is mister Carter,
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Nick Carter. Yes, I regret to tell you that mister Gould did
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not die naturally. He was murdered. Murdered, but doctor you said he
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died of heart sadia. He did miss Waters that somebody induced that heart failure.
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I want to know where were you when mister Gould died? Why in
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the kitchen? Nice balls? You see every day doctor Bedford comes to see
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mister Gould around five o'clock, so about four point thirty, I've a down
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to the kitchen to get his supper ready. He likes to eat right after
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doctor goals. And I was there till doctor bread Wood called me to tell
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me mister Gould was Is anyone there with you? Cook? Was Sames?
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Always? You don't think I did it? Do you? Yeah? Checking
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up? That's all? Did you give him anything except his regular medicine today?
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No? You ever used the glass that was here in the corner of
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this table, Well, that was mister gouldwater glass. Anybody could have used
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it to give him a drink. He drank lots of water. Mister Gould
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keeping in valuables here in this room. The only thing I know about is
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that box of page on the shelf under the table over there. He used
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to well clear it's open. Did you use the caplock? He never saw
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it open before unless he was using it. And look at the keys there
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on the table. They was always kept under his pillar. So look at
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that. No, no, don't touch it. Maybe prints on it that
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will need this copper surface shows up the prince excellently. What is it?
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Nick? This is strands? Only one sat a prince on this too,
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are they, mister Gould? I don't think so. I can't be sure.
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I don't see what's inside started papers letter from his lawyer. You notes
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ah, no will signed and witnessed by Amelia Waters and Delphina Hayes. That's
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Cook and May one thousand a year to Peter and the rest of Raymond.
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You must be mistaken, Nick. He'd never leave everything to Raymond. That's
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what it says here. That's queer, that's very queer. Indeed, does
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Raymond know about this world? Oh no, sir, he doesn't. Cook
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and I were told to keep it a secret, and we have. I
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see both the boys here now, doctor yes, downstairs in the living room.
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Good, I'll take the dead man's prince and we'll have a talk with
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the two sons. You know, the law says you have to report a
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murder as soon as it's discovered. Why ask me a fool question like that.
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I just wanted to be sure, Maddy. Hey, Well, here's
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the report. Eryld. Gould has just been found dead in his bed,
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apparently died of heart failure. But that ain't murdered, Nick, that's good,
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Well, that's but it is murder, even though the only real proof
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at the moment is my own hunt. Why didn't you say so, we'll
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have a man up there right away. Oh, yes, matter, you
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won't find anything. But I won't find anything. Why not because I've got
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all the clues with me, So don't bother sending anyone up here. But
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Nick, if there's a murder right now, not at this time, Maddy,
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leave everything to me, see you know, at a while, come
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by and wait, did you say father was? This isn't really my assistance,
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it's Nick Carter, the private investigator. Nick Carter. My always seems
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a bit little questions. But but your father died of heart failure induced by
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someone who wanted him dead now rather than later, and that's murder. Can't
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believe it, either of you know the terms of your father's will. No,
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I don't. I've always understood he was planning to leave most of his
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money to Peter. He didn't exactly approve of me. Where have you two
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been this afternoon. I've been right here in the living room since after lunch.
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I came home about three o'clock and I've been in my room ever since.
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Did either of you go to the sick room this afternoon at any time?
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I didn't. I didn't leave my room. I haven't been near it.
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Have there been any visitors? No? If there had been, I'd
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have seen them come in. It's a Carter. What makes you think father
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was murdered? He left a note which said so, and also there's additional
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evidence to support that fact, and the fingerprints and the glassy huge and on
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the strong box he kept in his room. Could you explain what you mean,
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mister Carter? Not just now? Then? I suppose that no one
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came in from outside. All of us here in the house, the cook,
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the nurse, Raymond and I are all suspects. You are how'd you
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take your fingerprints? If I mean, why, I'll need them as evidence.
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Just put your fingers in this ink pad and on this paper I did,
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all right, Peter, you don't mind, not at all right?
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All right? Thank you both of you. Now, either of you will
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leave town until I say so. Well, but how do you go about
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finding a killer? In a case like this, routine investigation to start with
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looking to the backgrounds and personal lives of everyone concerned. That brings out the
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motives and frequently gives us information that will help determine guilt or innocence, together
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with actual clues present at the scene of the crime. Of course, it
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sounds pretty complicated to me. Sounds complicated to me too, But there's one
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thing about Nick Carter. He has your reputation for always uncovering the guilty party.
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Once he gets on a case, nothing gets away from him. Well,
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I wish you luck, mister Carter. You better let me wish you
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luck, because I won't be lucky for whoever killed mister Gould. All right,
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doctor ready? All right with you? Nick? Gooday boys by doctor
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Brantmans. Well, Nick, where do you start this investigation of yours?
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How I think that before I do anything else, I've had to turn these
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documents I found on the strong box over to mister Lynn rules lawyer. Oh,
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I can take them down for you. I'm going that way. Oh
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what are your thanks? Glad to do? That'll let me get to police
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who had quarters a little sooner? Man, he must be ready to hang
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me right now. Well it's done their time. You got here, you
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tell me there's been a murder, and then you tell me to stay away.
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Well, I sent a couple of men up there anyway, man is
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I told you on the phone they won't find anything. I thought the only
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clude with me right here in the bag. I'm saving your time, saved
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me time. Yeah, give me heart failure? What a pal? All
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right, here we are. Here's a drinking glass, contents unknown, with
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only the dead man's prints on it. Habit analysed to see what was in
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it? William? All right, mister Carter, whatever you say, thank
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you, Yes, come in here. Oh what else? Nick, here's
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a copper box with some fingerprints on it. Who kept his will and some
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other papers in it? And here for comparison, now the prince of the
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dead man and his two sons. See if the prince in the box can
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be identified? Yeah, take this glass to the chemist, tell him I
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want to know what was in it, and have the fingerprint. Boys.
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Look this box over, and here, Mary is a note found under the
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dead man's body. Here, let me see that he killed me, he
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gave me. Well, I suppose he just had time to write this before
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he passed. Out That's what I thought too, But then when I found
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this pencil under the bouty and what was it? Sure? How do you
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mean the note was written with a soft pencil. The pencil I found is
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a hard one. So the whole thing is a put up job murder.
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I told you that before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you
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did it. I'm just thinking I can think too, can I? I
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hope? So why you don't? Okay, okay? Shell? Now look,
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Nick, would you mind telling me about the murder? Very simple?
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Maddy Gerald Gould had a very bad heart. Somebody gave him a stimulant,
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started his heart raising over attack, sitting stopped, he died. So and
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without the clues you picked up, it would have looked like a natural death,
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not bad, not bad started. Oh we'll see less contained then's a
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dream and water. It's an awful, deadly combination, certainly is if the
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victim had a bad heart, as mister Gould did. How about the prince
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of the box. The only prints on the box are Raymonds? And that
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means what Considering that the will, which was in the box leaves practically everything
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to Raymond, it's interesting to say the least you mean he did it.
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I do not, but I'm going to start finding out who did it if
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I can. Where you're starting garded doors of research work on the two good
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boys. Well, good night, matter, I'll see you soon. Okay,
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Hey, now look Nick, will you keep in touch with me?
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Oh? By the way, madam, is Demler Street open again? Yeah?
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They finished it up yesterday. Why the short cut for me? Way
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back to the office. Less traffic saves time? Okay, okay, so
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long I'll be seeing you even less traffic eve than usual. I wonder if
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Patsy's back yet. Me Just like her to wait for me when there's no
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need of it. Calling Patsy Bone, private investigator, calling Patsy Bone,
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Patsy Bone. Are you in trouble? No, indeed, I just want
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to tell you to go on home. Oh did you get your hair fixed?
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No, I've been waiting here. I never know when you're going to
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need me. Oh sorry, Patsy, go on home, go to bed.
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I'll tell you all about it in the morning. Oka, good night.
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Pots always gets done on him busy. What are you doing driving through
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a red light like that? Oh? You're driving through a red light wall,
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you big Pelukah, No matter your color blind. Look at the radiator
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of my car and the fender while you smash the whole front in. I
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don't see nothing. Show me where I hit you. Show you look here,
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man, say the way that? Huh, Patsy, Hello, Hello
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yoursel Oh gosh, Nick, Am I glad to hear your talking sense again?
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Huh talking sense? Yes, you've been lying here in the hospital for
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almost two days now, muttering and making no sense at all. Did you
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say two days? Practically? That shock you got when you hit your head
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against the wind she almost gave you concussion of the brain. What say that
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again, Betsy, I said that shock you got when you hit your head
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against the winds. She is that? What do you think happened? Of
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course one of the prowl cars sounds. You're lying on the wheel of your
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smashed car with your forehead old cut, bloody Cat's see, it's a plot.
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I wasn't hurt when the smash up occurred. To me, does your
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head hurt? Yes, it does, but I'm not out of my mind.
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After the accident, I got out and started to argue with a mugger
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ran into me when he suddenly stocked me on the head. When I wasn't
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looking. Is a car that ran into me? Still there? No,
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that was a funny thing. The other car was gone. Somebody wanted to
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get rid of me and apparently thought they had, so they told the other
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wreck away. But Nick, who would want to kill you? Or?
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I guess I'd say the same person who killed Jerald Gould was afraid I'd find
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out too much when I started investigating him. He failed this time, and
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he won't get the chance again, and I'll find out what he was afraid
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I'd find out just as soon as I get out of this bed. Well,
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the doctor said you'd have to stay here at least another three or four
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days. Nonsense, I'll be out of here tomorrow at the latest. Oh,
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by the way, have you heard anything more about the gold case?
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Uh? Sajia Mathison called this morning to ask how you were that he was
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getting nowhere rapidly. Oh what he said? He heard the gone wheel which
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be read tomorrow afternoon at the lawyer's office. Oh, I know, I'll
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be out of here tomorrow. Gotta be present when that will is read.
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Oh, but Nick, you can, and why do you have to be
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there? I don't know, Patsy, I just know I've got to be
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present when mister Lynde reads that will. Not the doctor, doctor or no
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doctor. I'm going to be at Lynde's office tomorrow afternoon. Now that mister
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Carter has arrived, I shall perceive the reading of the will. What's the
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idea of having a detective and a cop here? This is a family affair,
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Raymond, mister Cutter and Sergeant Mathieson are here at my invitation. And
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now, if you're ready, in mister Lyn, I shall be brief.
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This will, drawn up by mister Gould six days ago, directs at his
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funeral experienses and all other outstanding debts be paid first. He then directs that
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one thousand dollars a year for life be paid from his estates to his youngest
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son, Peter. What's that I said? He leaves you one thousand dollars
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a year for life. That's a dirty chip. He always said, I
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was to have it all. Please, Peter, this is no time for
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an augumble. Well, I can't live on that. Who gets the rest
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of the money to his eldest son, Raymond. Mister Gould leaves the balance
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of his estate. Father never wrote that will. This is amazing, Father
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always said, I'll get practically nothing. I'll bet you had a hand in
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this. Ray Father would never do a thing like that to me, not
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unless he's been influenced. Peter, How can you think that you don't have
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much more influence with father than I if I did. Let me see that
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will. Certainly here it is. See I told you something was wrong.
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That's not father's signature. Can your father never signed that will? That signature
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is a forgery? Are you sure, Peter? Of course, I'm sure.
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Get an expert he'll tell you no. But I look at it closely.
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He does look wrong. Excuse me a moment. I know Father would
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never do that. Why did you expect me? I expected, but I
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wasn't sure what this changes the whole case. Yes, certainly puts a new
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line on things. I think I begin to see where we're headed. It's
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a goodness. Take here's lind again. There's no question about it, gentlemen.
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This will is a fortray I see it now. Ray Ford will forced
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the will and then kill father to get the money. I did no such
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things. It was you who killed father. I why should I kill him?
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I don't get anything out of the will. The boy's right and it
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was Raymond's fingerprints on the strong box. Raymond Gould, I arrest you.
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You don't why he gonna help catch him? Made no, no matter,
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You'll get him. He's got the whole police force at his command. I'm
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more interested in something else. But don't you think Raymond is the eld?
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Certainly looks that way, doesn't it. Oh, mister Lynn, Oh,
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mister Cutter. This is terrible. Never before such a thing happened in my
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office. Mister Lynn. Did you ever see this will before? Yes?
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And that's why I can't understand it. I stumped in to see mister Gould
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the other afternoon, and he showed me the will he had just thrown up
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by himself. He bragged about saving a lawyer's fee by using his own typewriter
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and copying a will I had drawn for him some time ago. He said
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he'd changed the names of the ears around, but otherwise it was just the
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same. What is this will? You now have, to the best of
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my knowledge, it was and is, and get the signature to say why
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he changed the will. Simply said he'd learned something about his son he never
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knew before, and that he'd be done if he was going to leave his
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money to a chief like that. So this fake will is a copy of
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mister Goold's own will as he drew it up. I think so, as
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far as I can remember. Oh, it's incredible. Well, Percy,
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let's go back and talk to him as Waters again. Right, situation has
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changed somewhat since I last saw. Oh, by the way, mister Lindy,
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you mind if I take this pony will along with me, not at
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all it will do any good in finding out what's happened. I think maybe
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it will. Thanks. I see you as soon as I learned something I
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mus Waters is that you and the cook witnessed the will which mister Gould drew
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up himself. Yeah, we did. Is this your signature? Why is
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why? How could he say? Because this will is a forgery? Signatures
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and all? Did either of the sons ever borrow their father's typewriter? L
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They did most of them? Every little while. Patrick, go upstairs and
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get me a sample of typing from that machine. Of course, Nick,
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bring you back every letter there is, good girl, how much Waters tell
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me? Was there any friction between mister Gould and either of the boys.
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See him? And Raymond used to argue all the time. Mister Goole didn't
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like the way Raymond carried on, but him and Peter got along all right.
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Mm hmm. Did mister Goule have an argument with anyone shortly before he
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drew up the new will you know? Yep? He did. I was
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going by his room the evening before and I could hear him giving somebody what's
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forward? To whom was he talking? Well, no, I couldn't tell
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you. The other voice was so low. I don't know who it was.
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But mister Goole got a letter that afternoon made him all excited. Maybe
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that was what we were talking about. Yes, maybe it was. And
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that reminds me, mister Katta another letter come today for that same party,
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you mean, the one that got him so excited before. Yeah, recognized
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the fancy henwriting. I want to see it. Yes, I think I
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better. Dear mister Gould, I haven't you answered my last letter. I
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can't wait any longer if you don't do. But I asked you to.
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In three days, I'm going to start something and you don't want that to
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you? Your friend, Alice Fenwick, you're an address and I'm blessed one
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place. Oh thanks, Yes, that's the typewriter that was used to type
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the phone and will be on any questions. Well, Patsy, if you've
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come along with me, I'd like to introduce you to miss Alice Fenwick.
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Who in the world is Alice Fenwick? Well, after I introduce her to
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you, you can introduce her to me. I don't know her either,
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but I expect you shortly. Gosh, this is a lonely section out here,
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pretty well out in the suburbs. I remember then, now? Is
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he that car parked in the dark shadows under that tree? Yes, why,
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that's the car that ran into me the night I was hurt. Are
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you sure? Of course, I'm sure. I recognize that patch of light
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colored paint on the rear fender. What's you're doing out here? I wonder
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maybe there's some connection between that car and the Fenwick girl. He lives in
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the next house. Harry, let's find out, mabbe it's more trouble.
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I hope we're not too late to prevent it. If there is, Mugo
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knocked me out. Plays all together too rough? All right, this is
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close enough. Okay, don't make any more noise than is necessary that I
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won't. Somebody's having a fight in their nake sounds that way. I looked
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there through the kitchen window. It's streightening her. I'm got to get in
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man fast. He's shocking her. All right. You take your hands off
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that car. Stop with your hands where you come? Take your hands up
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in your mouth? Shut? Pat is? Yes, here your egg?
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How are you? What are you doing here? None of your business?
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Who sent you? They've got your calls for your only chances to tell what
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you know? Jack sent me? Tell me to scare so she'd shut up
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a bus? Jack? Who Jack gool? Who's Jack good? Old man
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gold Son, the guy who killed the old man? You sure his name
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of Jack? Well? How should I know? It's what they call him.
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How's the girl passing? She'll be all right, Nick, more care
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than heard, I think. Okay, I'll call Maria and tell him coming
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down. If you picked up Raymond, if he can get Peter to join
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us, our car party will be complete and we can settle this case.
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Are you caught Raymond at Madam? Yeah? Excellent? Didn't get fired,
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I'll say, didn't. I'm glad you didn't let him get away. He
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has to pay for what he did. I didn't do it. I tell
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you no matter what, you go all right? All right? You know
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what? Nick Raymond here says he only run away because the evidence looks so
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black at and Stephen that he was afraid he'd be convicted. And that's just
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the way the murderer wanted her to look. Maddy, you mean he didn't
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do it, Nick, He did not. Peter killed his brother. No
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better, sepparate where you are, Peter. I want to check my story
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for me. You haven't done anything against me, not a thing. As
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a cop outside the door, souns Hod wouldn't try nothing. Are you sure
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you don't want those other two brought in? Nick? Not yet, Maddy.
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Oh, here's the story about a week ago, mister Gould got a
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letter from a girl named Alice Fenwick telling him Peter had promised to marry her,
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and then, on the strength of that promise, she had loaned him
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almost every cent she had, several thousands, she says. Eh, Peter
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gambled away and then told her he was through with her. She told him
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there was a baby coming and insisted he marry her. He left at it,
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so she wrote his father. After a row with Peter, which Miss
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Waters overheard, Goold changed his will. Somehow Peter found out about it and
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got the idea that if he copied the will, which left everything to Raymond,
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copied it just as it was, and porged it's a he could claim,
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just what he later did, that Raymond had forged the will and killed
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his father to get the money. Nick, That's just what he said in
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the lawyer's office. That was part of his plan too. Raymonds running away
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was the action of an innocent man who was scared, so Peter faked the
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will then killed father. Correct And if the plan had gone as Peter had
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expected it too, I would have been executed for father's death and Peter would
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have inherited all the money. You can't prove a word of what you said
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caught out. I can, or I wouldn't be saying it was you,
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not your father, who wrote the note saying he'd been murdered. You did
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that to be sure nobody thought he had died unnatural death, and you might
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have gotten away with it, But you left the wrong pencil with a note.
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Do you call that? Prow And after my interview with you two boys
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that afternoon, you heard the thug to kill me and it was just pure
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luck. That he failed. That's a lie. And then this afternoon,
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when you saw me up and around again, you got panicky that Alice Spenwick
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might be found to tell her story, so you sent the same thug to
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kill her too. Peter did all that he did. The thug didn't know
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your correct name, so I asked him to come down here and identify you,
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all right, get him with your patrick? All right, Hugh?
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Is this man sitting here the one who hired you to bump me off and
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kill the Fanwick girl? Yes, the guy you lie. I never saw
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you before. Oh that's too way it is. You're gonna leave me to
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take the ref alone. Huh, that's doing jack here, This is me
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now white a minute at you, Nick, you're a wonder. But this
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one thing that bothers me. Why were the only fingerprints we found on the
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strong box? Im? That's easy, Maddy. You were a criminal and
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wanted to be sure you didn't leave any prince on a shiny copper surface.
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Would you wipe off the box before or after you handle it? Oh that's
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a silly question. Why after? Not? True? Well? Huh oh
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yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. It was the guy who
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handled the box ahead of Raymond, who was really the guilty one. No
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one ever wiped the box off before you handle it, Raymond, is a
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matter of curiosity. When did you touch that box? Why that's the father's
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death? Well, the doctor I looked in the room, and so the
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bus was unlocked, so I sneaked a quick look at the will. Well,
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all I got to say is Son, that your curiosity almost got you
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executed. If it hadn't been for Nick. Here, suppose you watch out
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next time you feel nosy, you may not get off so easy. Well,
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Nick, it's about time to hear something about next week's story. I
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think how about it? Next week, Ken, we're going to hear about
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a moving picture in with Waldo took an active part, but not an active
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enough part. Other clues were a few yellow hairs, a pair of Hollywood
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sunglasses, and a movie director who's looked in fifty years didn't change at all.
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And what do you call this mixed up mess? I call it the
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case of the Make Bee Leave Robbery. Nick Catter Master Detective, which is
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In the broadcast of Nick Cotter Master Detective, Long Clark is starred as Nick.
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purely coincidental. Nick Carter Master Detective is presented over most of these Mutual stations
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each week at this same time. This is Ken Paul saying so long until
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next week. This program was heard in Canada through the facilities of the Canadian
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Broadcasting Corporation. This is welcome back, well as usual, a rite complicated
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plot for Nick Carter, with the murderer trying to make the trying to really
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twist things around, but it's not overall satisfactory. Conclusion. I do like
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Maddie here a bit, at least, giving some sarcastic pushback to Nick's request
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for or demands for constant police cooperation. Nick does get caught flat footed here,
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and it's somewhat amazing to consider, you know, the thing to do
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with Nick Carter's not to attack him directly. You just attack his car,
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and you wait for him to get so mad about the car that you can
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go ahead and try and get a good blow in. And that does appear
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to have been the key and pretty much the only way to stop Nick Carter.
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And I've heard that long Clark give that type of performance before, just
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not in this sort of context. Is the angry you know, going from
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master detective angry guy, you just hit my car. Well, uh,
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that's how I'll actually do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with yours
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truly, Johnny Dowler, and then join us next Thursday for Nick Carter.
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