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Nick Carter: The Case of the Unwritten Letter (EP1308) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter The Case of the Unwritten
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life story of Nick Cotter. In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick
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Carter investigated the strange murder of a man who died with a blank letter in
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the life of Nick Carter. Breakfast is over in the old Brownstone mansion at
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the corner of Fifth and Fourth and Pat's seeing Nick or on their way into
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the master detective study to begin the morning's work, when suddenly, oh bother.
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I might have known there wouldn't be any peace today. Just we needed
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Nick Carter's office, Miss Bowen, Sergeant Mattheson, I hope this is a
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social cause, Sergeant, We've got a whole morning's work ahead of us.
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Yeah, asked Nick, if you'd like to be interrupted me? Sergeant Mathison
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wants a movie like I have your work interrupted? Ask him for what?
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For what? Sergeant, I don't think Nichol said over anything less than murder?
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Ask him how I'd like to be haunted this morning? Hated? That
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sounds interesting? Tell the porne Hello Manny Aha, gotcha? Hey, Nick,
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I's all this about haunts. Some dame call up this morning from an
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old law filling down on the village twenty three Blaine Street. She claims she's
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being hotter. Not at night, mind you, but during the day.
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Ah, daytime goods. That's a new one. Yeah, she claims they
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rumble at her all day long. I'm just on my way down there.
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You want to come along or spooks that rumble by day? You bet ed
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you in front of the building in twenty minutes, right right at your hat,
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Patsy and put in the call for the car. You and I have
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a date with a ghost. This is a passy twenty three blinds. Golly,
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what an ancient building this is? Which is Peter Stevenson's building. That's
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Maddie coming down the street. Oh your morning, Nick, morning Maddy going
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Hi. So Nick wouldn't settle for anything less than murder? Eh? I
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noticed you beat me here. I take it all back, sergeant. Let's
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go in and meet the ghost who hasn't called you? Maddie. Oh some
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day named Madam Syr. That's your name there on the letterbox, Madam Syr.
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Medium hell if that isn't the payoff a medium afraid of ghosts and in
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the daytime door's locked must be a bail button on a Madam Sear's name plate
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ring its Okay, I will peace better get in that past, Maddy.
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Put your shoulder against the door. Go shooting guncert together? Nick, all
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right again, what's horse to doing? Careful, watch out to the debris.
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Patsy man, money, This isn't totally enough to be the color said.
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I wouldn't say up anything less than a murder Patsy. Huh. You
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were right as a man on these steps, and he's been shot to death.
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All right, quiet everybody, please quiet ut Maddy, I'm not ready
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to examine the people in this building yet. And then we take him to
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a room and kept there right York, get him out of here. Listen,
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all right, all of you get on, all right. I just
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followed it there, follow you, okay, Nick, watch the score.
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I shut this man's pockets. His name is Joe Kane addrest and business unspecified.
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We shot through the chest twice with a forty five caliber slug died instantly.
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Yeah, what do those bruises and scratches on the face mean? Nick
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Caine was killed somewhere on the stairs. He dropped and rolled partway down.
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Anything else. Two clues, one fairly unpromising, the other there you are,
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go ahead. He's got a racing sheet in his pocket, schedule of
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some small race track and a town up state. I've never heard of the
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place or the horse is listed. Then again, Nick, we don't know
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too much about horse racing. And the odd clue in Kine's hand was clutched
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a large blue envelope right here. Apparently the reflex of death made him hold
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tight. But what's hard about that one thing? There's no address, stamp
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or mark on the envelope. There's a sheet of paper inside, nothing written
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on it. Well, for the love a piece envelope without an address,
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the letter was nothing written on it. But what does that mean? Wish
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I knew. I've got a hunch. If we could answer that question,
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we'd know who killed Joe Cain and why? Well, we know what,
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Nick, It's got to be one of the people in this building. We
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cover the front door. No one came out while we were going in.
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That's right, We've already checked the roof. It's sealed shut. No one
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went out that way, and the back door is boldered on the inside,
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the windows all barred with heavy grats. The killer's got to be one of
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the people inside. Good work matting. What about them? Well, there
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are three floors in this billin. Each one is occupied. The first floor
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Madame Cyr, the ghost, fear and medium, the one who called you
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yeah. The second floor a guy named Charles Dower. Business has yet unspecified.
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The top floor is how Trask. He's a printer, Madam, Sir
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Charles Dower how Trash. Right, makes three plus the janitor guy named Olsen,
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who was sweeping around the upper stairs. I see. All right,
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let's go in and have a talk with them, and York Scot him and
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Madame Cyr's studio. You're going to question them separately, Nick, no altogether,
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right, Sometimes when four witnesses gel in a community store, it's easy
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to break them down later individually. All right, all right now, quiet
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phones, quiet, please, Oh this is Nick Carter. He wants to
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ask you a few questions. We've all seen the dead man as any of
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you ever seen him before, seen him alive, Either you have prayed to
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answer or none of you has ever seen him. Now, which is it?
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You? Mister Wilson and you, yes, sir, ever seen the
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dead man before? No, I don't see much of anybody in this building,
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sir. That is right, mister Carter. We are all quiet.
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We all value our privacy. None of us PRIs into these secrets of strangers.
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We do not think of those who walk the stairs. We keep to
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ourselves. Adam Sair, you telephoned to complain about ghosts this morning. It
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was a revelation from the other world. I am ashamed of my first fere.
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I no longer complain and press a guess printerer, low, press up
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on the top. Four. I never seen the dead man before, mister
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Carnor, I see hour, Yes, hello, aren't you bad luck?
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Charlie Dowers served two terms in Atlanta, a specialist in card marking and ten
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horn gambling rackets. Wonder his business was unspecified. Maddy, Hey, what
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a memory you got, Nick, I've forgotten dour He's been out of circulation
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five years. So here we are unknown. Mister Kane, murdered on the
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steps of this building by one of you. Four. All of you claim
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you never saw the man before, and I have the problem of finding which
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one of you is lying, not me all right, quiet, quiet,
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well, what's the program? Nick? All these people that stay inside the
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building. I want to search for the murder weapons, although I doubt if
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you'll find it in a no rap trap like this, stay here hidden for
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one hundred years. Yeah, we'll try. I want the squad to check
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the history of the building and every person in here. We'll do it.
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Patsy and I are going to take the car and run up to Taunton.
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We're back in a few hours. Right, Oh, I got a tornon
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because it's the home of the Taunton race track. Joe Caine's tip sheet with
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the schedule of today's races. Maybe we can find out something about murder there.
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Just no a few minutes, Nicky that Joans had taught in half a
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mile. Right? Why have you been so loum all the way up here,
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Nick, I've been mulling over the case. Patsy, I don't like
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him. Why don't you like about it? The whole thing is a phony,
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ring about it. Three crooks are semi crooks, all operating in that
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building, all probably lying as hard as they can. Yes, how did
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Cain get into the building or was locked when we tried it? Either he
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rang one of the bells, which means that tenants were lying, or he
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had a key, which means Olsen the janitor was lying. That's true in
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the second place. What about that blue envelope containing an unwritten letter. Why
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was Kane carrying but invisible ink? Maybe secret message carried so that we jumped
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to that obvious conclusion. No, no, no, I doubt it.
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Patsy, Oh, slow down. Here's Taunton. We'll go through it before
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we see it. Seems pretty quiet for a racetrack, tom m I haven't
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seen anything faintly resembling a track. I better ask that youngster over there,
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hy Sonny, Yes, your son, come on you mina? Will you?
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Sirs? What's on your mind? Which way to the racetrack? The
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witch? The racetrack, the Taunton racetrack. I don't know what you're talking
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about, lady, live here alone all my life. Here, take a
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look at this Taunton racetrack, Handy cabriy he mister, this is some kind
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of a gag. Pay no track in taunt and we never had a race
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in his town. You're being taken for an awful ride by someone. You're
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telling us this is weird. Thanks Son. Let's get back to the city,
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Patty. True enough, we've been taken for a ride. Believe me,
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it's carried us miles closer to the solution of this case. Nick,
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I wish you'd explain. Don't act so mysterious. I'll explain soon, Patsy.
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But I want to hear now. He will, just as soon as
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I've spoken to Maddie and ask the janitor a few questions. Here we are
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twenty three Blaine. I hope Maddy's inside. Come on, Nick, sometimes
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you can be so aggravating nations, Patsy, come on the side, Nick,
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for Pea's sake, am I glad you're back. I got a fresh
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lead, Maddy, fresh lead, fresh trouble, That's what I got.
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Well, I'll learn it out as soon as I've spoken to Wilson the janitor.
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Oh, since my trouble, Nick, He's just committed suicide, an
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back to our story. A complaint about a haunted loft building brought Nick catter
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Patsy and Sergeant Mathieson down to an ancient office building in time to hear,
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but not witness, the murder of Joe Caine. Curious clue to the murder
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was an unwritten letter in the dead man's hand and the racetrack program for a
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non existent race. Then the janitor of the building, Sergeant Mathison, announces
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suddenly has committed suicide. Now Nick, Patsy and the sergeant examine the dead
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body. Pretty careless of you, Maddy, Oh honest, Nick, how
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was I to know? I was down in the cellar with the squad looking
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for the murder gun, when all of a sudden we hear the shot.
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We never thought that you'll ride the weapon in Olson's hand. Yes, I
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understand if I will get your ten. This is a gun that killed Kane.
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Why should Olsen kill himself? I probably thought we were hot on his
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trail. Maybe, but I'm not so sure Olsen did kill him though?
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Why not? Too pat too convenience? I worked on thousands of cases,
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Maddie, I never yet had to kill I give up so easily. But
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it looks legit ate. Bullet wound in the right temple gun in the right
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hand. I happen to know Olson was right handed because I saw him sweeping
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their powder burns around the wound. The gun was fired a close range way
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the by losses, though it had fallen naturally. Maybe, but I doubt
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it. I'm going to take the gun back to my lab for a quick
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check. Have a man sent over the fingerprints with the entire crowding Maddy,
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right, Oh, any of those reports come in yet about the building and
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the people. I expect him any minute. Wait here for me when you
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got him, that's say, I'll be back in half an hour. Oh
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and by the way, Maddie, Yes, Nick, how much would you
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like to bet that Olson never was janitor of this building? Oh? All
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right, Patsy, there you are. Every print on this gun, dusted
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and brought up and all up and sharp and clear is crystal. Now what
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now, compare? Let's have that sheet Mattie sand over here. Thanks?
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What are you looking for? Nick? Oh? I found it already,
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checking to make sure. What don't be so mysterious? Nick? Look for
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yourself, Betsy. Every print on this gun belongs to Wilson. You can't
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miss it. Yes, I see, Nick, Will, doesn't that prove
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suicide? Think hard, Betsy. What happens when you shoot a forty five
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automatic? It fires a bullet? And then what happens to the gun?
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Lay's in your hand? I guess gently, quietly, without a press.
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Oh no, no, it kicks exactly. And would you explain why Olson's
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prince and the gun are sharp and clear as crystal. Obviously, if he'd
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held a gun and shot himself, his prince would have been smudged and smeared
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by the recoil. But they aren't, nickh You get it now. Olson
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was murdered by the same person who killed Joe Caine, and the gun was
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white, clean and carefully placed in Olson's hand. That's why the princess are
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clear. Oh, that just mixes the case up more than ever. Oh
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no, Patsy, it's becoming clearer than ever. That's hustle back to Maddie.
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I only hope there haven't been any more murders while we we're gone,
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all right, Maddy, we're back. Oh Nick, Hey, Nick,
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you're fantastic. How did you know man. How did you know about the
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murder? Oh no, no about Olson. Reports just came in. You
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were right, he was lying. He wasn't the janitor of this building.
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The janitor of this place is a guy up on the corner. He takes
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care of this whole row of building. And everybody in here was lying when
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they accepted him as the janitor. I don't think so. This is a
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dark little place, and the real janitor probably doesn't spend more than a few
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minutes a week here. Yeah, just about. They're all pretty careless.
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A few times he was seen wasn't enough to make an impression. So when
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Olson said he was a janitor, he was accepted. But the killer,
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the killer was lying naturally. They wait a minute, Nick, how did
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Olson get in here? Oh? Joe Cain let him in. Joe Cain,
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the dead man. Yes, when probably a few seconds before we arrived,
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Olson followed Cain into the building. Uh huh. How did Cain get
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in? Pretty sure? Kane let himself in? How with the key?
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Nick, You sound as though you got the whole business washed up and finished.
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Think I'm pretty close to it. You know why Cain carried that blank
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letter? I do? And about the non existent horse race. Yes,
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and why Olson killed himself. He was murdered and I think I know why?
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Then? Would he please talk? One more little test? Many and
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the murderer talking person? What's the test? We've got three people in Madam
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Sear trasped the printer and are the gambler? Yeah, all of them claim
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they don't know Joe Caine. Well, one of them's lying, and I
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want to find out which how. I'm going to make some arrangement with Patsy
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and then we're going to meet around Madame Sear's crystal globe, all of us.
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Holy smoke, more ghost touff, so to speak. The body of
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Joe Caine is going to walk into the room and we'll see who recognizes him.
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Oh, that's silly me. They all saw Kane's body. There's a
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tremendous difference between recognizing a living man and a dead body, Patsy, totally
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disimilar. People look identical when they're dead. We've had hundreds of cases of
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husbands identifying dead strangers as their wives in the morgue and vice versa. It's
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it's true, Patsy, I see Nix BOYT. Are those suspects who really
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don't know. Kine will not recognize a living imitation after having seen the body
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only once, but those who knew him, I get it. I get
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it. Let's get moving. We'll meet the dead body at seven tonight.
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All right, everybody, all right by, we've gathered together in Madame sers
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studio for a last attempt to solve this murder. You do well to trust
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the world of the medium, mister Carter. It is capable of miracles far
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beyond your mere earthly efforts. Quite I've requested Sergeant Mathieson to have present the
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only surviving occupants of this building. That's the Trask, that's the Dour and
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Madame sr. Of course, Miss Bow and my secretary will act his witness.
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Sergeant Mathison will preside, and I'll asked the question, will you all
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be seated? Please? Everybody down, folks, come on, I presume
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you work best with the crystal in the dark. Madamiseeur is correct, please
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mad right, thank you, And now Madamsieur, with your help, we
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will try to recreate the murder scene in the magic crystal. First, there
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must be silence, and silence you shall have The crystal is cloudy tonight.
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There is much antagonism. In this room, the veil can be parted only
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with difficulty. Ah. Now the clouds begin to vanish from the glass.
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I see faint lights, faint palms swirling in the blackness. I see a
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figure. It is a man. It is the dead one. He walks
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through night, followed by shadows. There is one shadow I see with a
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gun. So I did madiicine. I hear it again, that the spirit's
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talking. Did you hear it rolling in the running of the dead. This
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is what made me a telephone this morning. Never protect me, you hear
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it? Joe away, Listen, someone's coming to the door. Which is
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the other world coming to us? In the name of heaven. Do not
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do nothing in here. It's Joe Caine, the dead Man. Yes,
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Joe Cain, or I thought he was killed, and that ladies and gentlemen
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winds up to say, as in our case, lights, Please Maddy,
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no excitement, Please quiet, The show's over, said madam. Please be
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car It's not Joe Caine, mainly an actor appropriately costumed, gun made up.
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They both recognized him. They were both flying Madam Syr Mister Dr Prass
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never batter than eyelash. She told the truth, Yes, Patsy, And
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I might add it's because mister hall Trast told the truth about not knowing Joe
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Caine that he'll be executed for his murder. He'll know you don't brother,
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never cry, mister Trask, I go an unusual record. Yes, Patsy,
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you were right. Trass told the truth. He did not know Crane
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and Madam Cyr lied they knew him. They'd seen him in the building frequently,
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but they didn't know he ran the Globe print shop upstairs. We figured
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it'd be better to say we never saw him before. Naturally, both of
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you are afraid of the police. Try to keep clear of murder. By
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line, you didn't know that Joe Kane's racket was printing forenty programs of non
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existent horse races, and that I used these to induce innocent victims to book
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bets with him, bets which he pocketed and disappeared with you, all right,
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Connor Caine had a hot racket. We heard about the door he was
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making. It was a good thing, so good that you and Osen decided
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to come up and acquire a piece of his money, a big piece.
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Only Olsen acquired nothing but death. And you've acquired a one way trip to
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the chair. In just a few minutes, Nick will be back to give
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let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Nick, I understand the motive for Joe
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Kine's murder, But what about that unwritten letter? We'll get the picture again.
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Trask and Osen decided to rob Joe Kine. They'd heard he was making
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a fortune out of his racetrack fraud, and they wanted a piece of it.
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But neither of them knew him. Though obviously, they couldn't take a
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chance of Kin arriving in his office while they were rifling the place, so
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Olson remained downstairs to watch while Trask went up to rob. But how could
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Olsen watch for Kaine if he didn't know him. By a simple thugs trick,
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he placed a large blue envelope in the Globe print Shop letterbox. All
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he had to do was watch that. He knew whoever took the blue envelope
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out of the letterbox would be Joe Kine. That's clever enough. When Kane
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arrived and picked up his letter, Olsen quickly followed him into the building,
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first signaling upstairs on the buzzer to Trask. Olsen followed and case Trask couldn't
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get away in time, inevidently he couldn't write. Cain saw Trask leaving his
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office, he pulled a gun, the forty five automatic. Olsen closed in
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from behind. Cain was killed and rolled down the steps. I doubt if
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Trask ever got a really good look at Kane. Then as we pounded on
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the door below, they thought quickly. Trask pretended to be the proprietor of
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the print shop. Olson grabbed a broom and played janitor Golley. But later
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Trask realized Olson's pose would be uncovered, so the first chance he had he
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murdered his partner to keep him quiet. He tried to get rid of the
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gun by planning it as a suicide weapon. But how about the ghost that
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Adam Sea thought she heard? We heard them too, when he kidded her
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into staging a seance. Well, that's the strangest thing about the case.
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If it hadn't been for Madam sears ghost, we'd never have entered the case
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and never have broken it. And if it hadn't for the ghosts, there
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wouldn't have been a case in the first place. Why not, Because Madame
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Sears's ghost was a distant rumble of a new printing machine Joe Caine had just
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had installed so we could print more of his phony race sheets. I had
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an officer turn it on to haunt seance. Well, Nick, I hope
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you have as exciting as story for us next week. What's it going to
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be? Well, Can? Next week we're going to meet the champion apple
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pie maker of the East, who, fortunately for me, also happens to
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be an old friend of mine. She came to complain that her landlord papered
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her walls without her permission. Unfortunately, when we arrived, we discovered that
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the paperhanger had not only hung the wallpaper, he'd hung himself. Sounds like
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a strange story. What do you call it? Nick? The case of
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the Hanging Paperhanger? And now an important message from Nick Connor. Remember what
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happened after World War One, the inflation and the boom period, then the
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crash and the worst depression has ever known. Let's not permit that to happen
29:03
again. Let's resolve to buy only what we need, paying ration points in
29:07
full, paying no more than sealing price. Let's resolve not to profiteer on
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our own services or produce, and let's buy and keep war bonds to protect
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America's future and our own. Nick Carter Master Detective is copyrighted by Street and
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long until next week. This is the mutual Broadcasting system. Welcome back.
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Well, I like this episode. If nothing else, it really got your
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thing in with all the clothes, the medium, scared of ghosts, the
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unwritten letter, the uh race which wasn't the janitor that wasn't so much stuff,
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just a lot of fun in this episode. All right. Well,
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on to some listener comments and feedback. Brian had a comment on the Haunted
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rocking Chair. He says, I was disappointed with the ghost rocking chair episode.
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I totally agree you're with your comments after that episode, I was looking
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forward to it. The explanation of a cat rocking the chair was so bad.
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I definitely agree. And I like this one too because the explanation here
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that it was the printing press really ties into the solution, so it really
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just kind of compleats the circle. This one was just really nicely done.
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So I hope that you enjoyed this. All right, Well, that will
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do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny
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Dollar, and join us back here next Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter.
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