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Let George Do It: The Mystic (EP0851) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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enjoy today's episode. The Mystic Personal not as dangers my stock and trade.
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If the job's too tough for you to hand it, you've got a job
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for me. George Valentine. Right full details, Standard Oil Company of California
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invites you to let George do it. In a moment will begin tonight's adventure.
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to ubrication. So for protection for your engine, get heavy duty RPM motor
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oil at any independent Chevron gas station or standard station where they say, Aunt,
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meme, we take better care of your car. The Mystic Transcribed Adventure
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of George Valentine. Dear mister Valentine, I'm worried about my aunt. Perhaps
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you knowah is is John Breckenridge of River Pock Drive. She's under the influence
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of a man whom I consider dangerous. He's known as Calm with the Mystic.
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May I call to discuss my problem. I cannot give you the full
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detail who asked for an a letter? So will you please see me?
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I will telephone later for an apartment. Very sincerely, yours, Riada Morton,
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Calm of the Mystics. Morton called really this morning and I made an
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appartment for ten o'clock. These a Mystic's interest me when I was a boy.
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I ever missed him Like the young lady seems to be ahead of time.
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Yeah, come in, it's Valentine. Yeah. I want you to
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leave my cousin alone. I'll not take it easy, buster r. I
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don't know you, and I don't know your cousins. Don't guide to me.
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Valentine. I heard her making an appointment with you attend this morning?
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Oh is your cousin Rita Morton? Yes, I'm Fat Breckinridge. Any relation
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to missus John Breckenridge. She's my aunt. My cousin readn't want to see
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you about her? Well, if you're interested, why don't you stick around
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and find out? Listen, Valentine, whatever she's offering you, I'll give
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you a trouble to keep out of this. I guess that must be Miss
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Morton. Look, I don't want to know. I've been here. That
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other door lead back to the hall, No, to my private office.
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The officer has a door to the hall, looks fat miss. I'll use
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it. I'll hold one. Are you gonna tell her about it? Let's
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see what she wants? First? Come in, Valentine. That's right,
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I'm George Valentine, Miss Morton, Yes, you know I had an appointment
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at ten. If you're busy, all right? This is my assistant in
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the right arm. Miss Brooks. How do you do aren't you? Yeah?
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Let us said that you were worried about your aunt. Yes, mister
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Valentine, do you know her? Only? Her reputation a very wealthy woman.
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I believe, very and very eccentric. Hy she won't make a move
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until she consults her husband. Oh no, I call that sensible. Her
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husband's been dead for five years. Oh, I see, and that makes
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her easy pray for her fortune tellers and mystics like this. Oh what's his
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name? Callama? I suppose he pretends to get messages from the late mister
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Breckenridge. Yes, and she believes them. Or she never makes a move
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without his advice. Oh what sort of advice? Oh? Everything, investments,
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doctors. Now it's a will? You mean mistake? Who's telling her
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what to do with your money? Mismis Brooks. It isn't that I want
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her to name me and a will. I haven't known a long enough.
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What do you mean by that? Well, I've only been living with her
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for a few months. I was working in an orphanage in the state of
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Massachusetts. I've been left there when my mother died. Mother was Anne and
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a sister. And well, when Anne Emma heard where I was, she
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sent for me. I love my aunt very much. I don't want to
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see you cheated naturally, But what do you think I can do? Missus
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Brackenridge must to have a lawyer. She has, John Chadwick. He said,
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he refused to make out any will the Kalma might suggest. Even Martha's
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talked with Aunt Emma, Martha another relative. Martha's in my aunt's companion ever
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since her husband died. Oh, we've all talked to a Martha Fad and
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my cousin. That that is, we call each other cousins. He's actually
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Uncle John's nephew. Well, i'm at Emma's nick. I see related only
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by Merrit's. Yes, that's right. We've all begged that Emma not to
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listen to Kalma. We told her that it is impossible that he can speak
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with Uncle John, but she just won't listen to us. Well, now,
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if she won't listen to her relatives, her companion, or her lawyer,
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what makes you think she'd listen to a stranger like me. Well,
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I thought perhaps that you could show her what a fake Kalma is. I
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can't just barge in on the good lady and say, there's Kalma. You
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think I want you as a charlatan. Well, tonight, Calm's holding a
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seance at my aunt's. I can arrange for you to be there. I've
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never been to a seance, and Emma told us that tonight Camel will prove
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beyond the shadow of a doubt that he's in communication with Uncle John. Oh,
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brother, I'd love to seek at Emma told me that I might bring
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a friend of mine to the seance. I want you to be there.
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Then you'll be able to judge for yourself if he's cheating her. Oh,
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I can tell you right now he's cheating her. But Brooklyn and I'd love
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to be president and see how it doesn't. Oh, thank you, mister
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Valentine. I'll expect you both about eight at Emmatty's and my friends, mister
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Valentine and miss Brooks. How'd you do? I trust you are not scoffor.
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Oh, we promised to behave ourselves, Missus Bregan Ridge colas seekers rather
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than scoffers. Missus Breckinridge. Oh, and this is my cousin Dad,
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how do you do? And this is missus Hadley Martha. Well, thank
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goodness you're hearing to Valentine. We need people with fans. What are we
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to expect manifestations apparitions? Well, if so, I want to sit close.
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I'm rather nearsighted. Nothing like that. Calman heels me that they used
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to ask the spirit to appear, but never anymore. Now he hears voices.
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I suppose he's willing to make an entrance. Colman's in the silence alone
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with his soul, same old stuff, broxy Whyn't you think they try something?
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Who's coming? Good evening? My friends? Are we all here?
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Yes? Calm, this is my niche week. Please, I would rather
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you did not introduce anyone to me. I would prefer to think of you
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all as I think of myself, a medium through whom the spirits may communicate.
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Would you like me to turn out the lights, Professor? That would
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be unnecessary, sir. Darkness is essential only to the uninitiated. Will you
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all be seated any special place, oh, wherever you will? Missus Bragley,
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well take this chair, i'd mean, mister Valentine and miss Brooks on
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the other side of your her and reach you and Fanti, Christopher and Martha
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over there in the big chair. My friends, there are seven of us,
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and the number seven is very helpful to the proper atmospheres. Approach and
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please keep quiet. I must ask you to be as quiet as you can,
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and to concentrate. I am very conscious of distracting sounds. Now,
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Missus Brekenridge, will you tell your friends what you have asked me to do?
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As a supreme test, I have asked Kalma to tell me what my
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husband wrote to me on our tenth anniversary. Pardon you mean you would like
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your husband to tell me what you wrote? Brother? There is a disturbing
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influence here. I'm sorry I've brought me to come. No, no,
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no, dear lady, it is not you. I guess I'm the one
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the professor means. Can't you do your little act while I'm here? Mister
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Valentine, please, Missa, who is this friend of your life? I
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can answer that, Missus Breckenridge. Mister Valentine is a private detective, and
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they believer in the occult. He would be happy to see me fail.
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I don't get me wrong, Valentine. If this is true, I must
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ask you to leave. Oh, dear lady, No, that would be
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playing into his hands. That would brand me as a charlotte and a trickster.
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If I cannot give you the answer you seek with mister Valentine here,
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the proof would be worthless. YO might assure yourself bastin. Mister Valentine,
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if Karma can do what I ask, I'm sure that even you would have
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to admit that he's able to communicate with those beyonds For me a reading about
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message, it is more than that. At tent anniversary, just a month
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before he let me, my husband wrote me a message. No one ever
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saw it but John and me. There's been an ours tape, little one
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in my bedroom wall. But I keep all my valuable and I believe you
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said, dear lady, that only you know the combination of this safe.
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That is true, mister Valentine. If Karma can tell me what is written
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in the message, won't you be satisfied? Possibly not, Missus Beckinridge,
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but I'd be impressed, because if the test is as rigid as you've hadlined,
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I don't think it can be done. Oh, the gentleman's dots will
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make success. All the sweets go ahead, us to go ahead. It's
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your show. I dislike the words show, mister Valentine. Rather let us
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say tests. Missus Breckenridge, you have asked me what your husband wrote to
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you. I hope he will tell me. Now, my friends, I
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do not ask you to believe me. I only request that you will favor
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me with quiet. I wish to be allowed to listen to the voice to
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beyond, which cannot be heard over the din of the present, of the
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new slicing, and the obal come out. He asked for quiet. The
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silence surrounds me. The voices of the mortal world are fading. John Breckenridge,
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if you can here, speak to me, tell me the words that
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we are anxious to hear. Tell me what you wrote. Help me convince
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these kind people that the riddle of the universe is not unanswerable. Wait,
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I hear you faintly come near at John Breckenridge. Yes, yes, it
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is written in verse. There are four lines. The first letters that begin
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each line spell out something the name Emma, John E, M, M,
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A E each happy year that you have been my wife, M,
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my dearest love. You have been the world to me. M. May
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we have many days in this short life A and stay together in the world
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to be voice fades, the mortal world returns. Did I say in you're
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sure dead? Brother, show my husban quick, get some water, missus
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Mark and registinated in just a moment, will return to tonight's adventure of George
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Valentine. Right now, let's talk a minute about gasoline. When you come
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right down to it, there's really only one selling point for gasoline, and
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that's performance. All gas looks much the same. The one big difference is
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the way it performs in your car. That's why it's so important for you
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to know this fact. Any gasoline can be made to stress a single performance
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feature, but Chevin Supreme gives you all eight high performance qualities in correct balance,
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quick starting, fast warm up at a knock, vaporlock prevention area,
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blending, smooth acceleration, economy, and full power. They're all yours in
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every gallon of Chevern Supreme. So if habit has you buying a one featured
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gas, that's robbing you of real driving pleasure. Better switch over now to
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the gas with all eight Chevron Supreme. Remember, the one big difference in
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gasoline is the way it performs in your car, and Chevern Supreme has all
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eight high performance qualities. Drive in soon and fill her up with Chevern Supreme
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gasoline. At any standard station or independent Chevron gas station where they say,
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aunt, mime, we take better care of your car. You are asked
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to attend a seance by Rita Martin, niece of the wealthy missus John Breckenridge.
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Rita tells you that her aunt is under the influence of a mystic who
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calls himself Comma and wants you to investigate the miss Dick presents a seemingly impossible
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manifestation, but if your name is George Valentine, you aren't satisfied. So
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next day you decide to call at the breakfon Ridge home. Hello, right,
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mister Valentine, Missus Brooks come in, please? Thank you? Have
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you found out anything? No, I'm afraid not. We haven't very much
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information, you know. Would you mind if i'd ask you a few questions?
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Oh? No, of course not come in the library. I suppose
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you'd like to talk to my aunt. Yes, your aunt, Sad and
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mother. Well they're all out now I'm the only one here but still down.
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Won't you? Thank you? Tell me? Rita? Could I understand
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you to say that Missus Hadley found you in an orphanage in Salem, Massachusetts,
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the Peabody Orphanage. Yes, that's right. Have you any idea how
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she found you there? I'm afraid you'll have to ask her that yourself.
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Ask me. Well, my I didn't here come in you're a name in
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Missus Brooks, and mister Valentine, I didn't see who it was without my
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glasses. Mister val Time was asking me some questions about how you found me
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at the aphaning, Yes, that's right, Missus Hadley. How did you
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know Rita was there? Well, I'd always known where she was. Mother
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was a friend of my mother's. Why it's no secret, mister Valentine.
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I'd known Rita's mother for a good many years. The sisters became as strange
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when Marguerite married against her family's wishes. Mother married an actor. She wanted
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to go on the stage, And now I don't think that would interest mister
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Valentine. On the contrary, everything about Rita interest me. Missus Hadley.
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How did you persuade Missus Breckenridge to invite Rida here? Well, I didn't
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have anything to do with it. Missus Breckenridge was always having her fortune until
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going to mediums and paraboyants. Someone told her she'd be unlucky if she didn't
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do something for her sister's child, And you told her you knew where Rita
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was. That's right. Do you remember who the medium was, who advised
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Missus Breckenridge. Well, there were so many of them. I don't recall.
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You said you were a friend of Rita's mother. How did you and
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Missus Breckenridge me? Well, when Rita's mother died, I brought Missus Breckenridge
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some of her sister's things. We saw quite a bit of each other,
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and we struck up a friendship. And one more question, what type of
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acting did Reader's mother do? Well she was in Vodeville, Mister Valentine,
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I found some more programs in the library and Emmett kept them. Mother was
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in an act called Raja and Reader I was named after mother. You know
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who kind of an act was it? I don't know the program, just
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said, Roger and Reader, have you the program handy? Yes, he
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has it in the scrapbook eight in one of the Destroyers. I'll get it.
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Good, good, thank you. But what difference does it make what
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Reader's mother did? Or just interesting to know our background? That's all I
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look at the other day. Oh, thanks Roger and Reader, Tom dorri
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Eva, what was the act Missus Haley, do you remember why? I
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think it was a juggling or a tumbling act. You can see they came
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on next to closing. Yes, that's right, interesting Bill Harrison's dogs.
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Sure shot Maddie, Victor and Clark a great Friandini. And see what difference
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it makes that Rita's mother was a performer? Were you ever on the stage?
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Missus hand? Oh? Heaven? No? Whatever makes you ask that?
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Well, I'm just curious, that's all. Well, if you ladies
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can't give me any more information, will we'll get going. If I find
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not anything about Calma, I'll let you know. Thank you. Certainly is
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a beautiful place you have here. It was a wonderful old tree. Missus
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breckon Bridge is very proud of her ground. I should think you'd get lonely
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way out here in the woods. How far away are your nearest neighbors?
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About a mile? I'd say? Well? Goodbye again? By George,
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what were you trying to find out? You heard my questions? I heard
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them, but sometimes I don't understand why you're asking? Well you tour here
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again? Oh? Hello? Said read them on? Need you any more,
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Valentine? So will business is settled? Calma talked to my aunt this
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morning and advised him not to change her present will, and I'll bet that
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leaves everything to you in our clients interest. Could we know the terms of
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the will? I see no how I'm in telling you this house and money
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were my uncles. So outside of a few small legacies, I get fault
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of your state. But you needn't worry about Reader. If anything happens to
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me, she'll get everything. If nothing happens to me, we'll share it
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anyway you seem Valentine. I love Reader. I want to marry her.
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If she'll have me, it won't make any difference who gets the money.
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I'll get an end nor time Rucksy'll drive me. Let me help you.
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No one has a right to hunt. Please get me. There is hospital
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A fine thanks during me after death. If you weren't hurt wanting to fall
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down, You don't think I wanted them to keep shooting everything that you've been
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killed? Oh I I'm sorry, Angel I thought whoever did it? It
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feel more secure if they thought they winked? What do you think it could
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have been Martin Reader herself. He'd a want had time to get out of
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the back door and hide among the trees while we was someone from outside.
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I don't know, Maybe it wasn't said. Well, if it was,
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I'll bet it was open season for either that or me. But why?
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Maybe someone thinks I'm asking too many questions. I look, Brooks see.
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I have a call to making an old friend of mine who runs the theatrical
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agency downtown. While I'm there, would you send a wine to the Peabody
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Orphanage at Salem, Massachusetts? Ask him to let you know all about read'em
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or how she came there when she left? Everything pop? Well, I
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thought, at Jorge Valentine, long time, nour sy, what brings you
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here now? Flora? You know more about Vaudeville than anyone I know.
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I need joy help you want to buy some good acts? I got him
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by the desk. They tell me, did you ever hear of a juggling
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a called Raja and rita? Jager and reader was a mind reading act.
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I knew all the mind reading acts. Honey, dozen Zigs, the Phase,
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the Great Tremation. I played with him many times. They were headliners.
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Used to share the building with a great fran Deny, Oh yes,
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I remember that name. Well? What did he do? But he was
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an escape artist? But he worked for the rajer on the side. I
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don't understand. He was under stage. Man Rita sat on the stage dressed
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and Ori under clothes. Rajer went through the audience, got the folks to
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write their questions. Then he'd pretend to burn him in a big fish bowls.
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Actually, he'd passed him the Pearly Gates under the stage. That was
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a great fran Deni's real name, Pearly Gates. Peary'd read the Questionsctor.
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He looked through the earphone. She warphone. Yeah that's right, honey.
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She had him under a turban. Oh boy, did they amaze the yokls?
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Yeah, it sounds like a good neck. Did I engage them?
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No, I'm afraid not. George. You reader's dead. I was on
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the same bill with him when it happened. Oh, I'll never forget it.
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I took eight bows that night. I could hoof in those days,
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honey, ask girl reader. Sheean Rodya had a little baby two years old
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old. Rodgers took on awful, had to put the baby in home.
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I don't know he's got another partner. Girl. He used to be a
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sharp shooter, not an any Oakley, but good till her eyes went bad.
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Nope, she wasn't a performer. Reader was so the act folded and
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Perry was the only one who went on, Pully, you mean the great
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Friendini. Yeah. Yeah, Perry was a good performer, and he's own
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right. He'd only helped rod Guy out because they were such good friends.
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Oh, Purley wasn't no Houdini, of course, but he certainly could get
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out of handcuffs, note laps. Why sometimes he'd pick pockets, no audience.
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He never took money, of course, but he'd read people's cards and
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licenses and note books and paths on the information to Reader, Well, maybe
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I could locate Friendini. He might just fit into the bill. I haven't
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Morrow. Oh honey, I haven't seen Purty in years. I see what
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I can do for you, though. Good good, Thanks for her.
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You've been a great help. See you're on You find out anything, George,
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Yeah, plenty. Floria was a perfect mine of information, and he
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replied from say yeah, it says. Rina Morton left in hospital March DWNCE,
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nineteen thirty four by father and stepmother, Harry and Maddie Morton, known
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in vargill as Roger and Rita. Rita left home September sixth, nineteen fifty
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one. With step mother's listening. George Downtime's office, Square Brook speaking Ridge.
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Oh yes, mister breck and Ridge kelt. I'm not expected to pull
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through Valentine. Oh, he's very low. I'm sorry. I wanted to
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apologize to him the way I talked three to explain things to me. I
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wanted to tell them too. There will be another stay once tonight at nine
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o'clock. Going to be another tonight. You'll be there. George won't be
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able to make it. Of course, I'll come unless he needs me.
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We'll expect you. Sorry to hear about Talentine. Goodbye. He's sorry you
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won't be here. Oh, I'll be there, but i'll go in the
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back way. I have enough information how to make the spirits talk their heads
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off. I have asked you all to come here because we were so successful
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at our last meeting. Is sympathetic for us surrounds us, Miss Brooks.
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I'm glad to welcome you, but I'm sorry about mister Valentine. Hollies,
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haven't your voices told you you must not jest about the supernatural? My dear
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ladies, I'm not jesting. I'm just taking I know you hear many things
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we don't. May I ask you something? Of course? Did you ever
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see spirits as well as hear them? You may not believe me, but
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I have. When the atmosphere is right, when there is a proper silence,
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Do you hear me? Who is that lights? The lights will not
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go on until I have spoken with you, John breckon Rick. No,
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this is one who has only recently joined your band of spirits. I have
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messages for you all, missus Breckenridge. Do you hear me? Yes?
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I hear you? Don't change your will? What? That's why you called
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them all back tonight, wasn't it? Colma? John Breckenridge was going to
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tell his wife to divide the money, have to Rita and have to Thad.
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Half a off is better than none and safer than asking for all.
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You decided that when the shot didn't kill Thad, what did you say it
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was meant for you? Thad? If it hits you, there would have
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been no need for tonight's seance. Isn't that right? Martha? Then the
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money could have gone to Rita and eventually to you and Comma, who are
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you your victim? Martha? Too bad? Your aim isn't as good as
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it was in the old days before you had to wear glasses. But when
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your eyes get used to the dark, they'll be able to see me.
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I see something. I see his paste. There's a bood on his head,
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Gege Valentine. Someone turned on the light. That's right, Colma Valentine,
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come back to Haunch. The dead, don't come they I'm here to
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reveal a secret more wonderful than John Breckenridge's message. Raja and Rita not Juggler's
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Martha, but mind readers. Rita died and the place was taken by another
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reader, who was formerly known as Mattie the shore Shot. Rita and Raja
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had a daughter, a little Reader. When Mattie joined Raja, the little
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girl was put into an orphanage in Salem. It was easy to find it.
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When Emma Breckenridge asked about a sister's child, wasn't in Martha You had
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it all worked out, Matha? Is this true? Did you bring an
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imposter into mind? She's your own niece, Missus Breckenridge, Your sister Reada's
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child or reader? The black sheep of the family, The girl who ran
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away from home to be an actress and ended by being a fake mind reach
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what with me? Little Rita's father and the woman who was taking her mother's
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place in the act decided to get hold of some of the ants wanting they
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knew the ant believed in spirits. Shall I go on from there? No,
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you fixed me coming into my home. Rita didn't know. He wasn't
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a party to the plan. It was all my alias Mattie and Purley,
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the man who could open locks and Rajah or as you know him, Comma
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my father, Oh no Puss to keep an eye on market. I'll tell
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him, mister Valentine, find the information. Some guests working a little luck.
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Wait, don't I get this makeup off? And I'll tell you just
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one of the many extras you get from your car savers is a sparkling windshield
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service. Nothing can spoil a pleasure drive like the kind of eyes stream caused
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by a grimy windshield. Car savers use plenty of elbow grease and really get
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him clean. You're welcome anytime, so stop in soon for sparkling windshield service.
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It's just one of the many reasons why the car savers at independent Shevron
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gas stations and standard stations say and mean we take better care of your car.
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I'm deeply indebted to you, mister Valentine, all in the day's work.
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Missus Breckenridge, I don't see how you knew it was Missus Hadley's shot
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at you. Well, I couldn't have been that he was with us.
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The odds were against Missus Breckenridge and Rita. I already suspected Martha Hadley.
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Why well, I had a hunch that she'd been in vaudeville herself. You
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know, most people call a man or a woman from the stage an actor
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or actress. The people from Portville usually say performer. She also used the
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expression next to closing. Then, when I found out she'd lied by telling
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me Rita and Raja was jugglers, I knew I was on the right track.
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And I remember that had been an act on the bill call Shore Shot
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Maddie Florie's information Clinston. Oh, you're really frightened me, mister Valentine,
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when you appeared in that have light with her to fight face in the wound
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down your pardon? You frighten me too, George didn't know I expected to
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see you. How see did you get a handsome check? I or you
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were a love for showing up that Charlatan. Thank you missus Bregaz. I
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hope to see you again some time. You will tell me how these mediums
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do some of the I'd be happy too, and you could do something else
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for me. Yes, mister Valentine, Well try and make it easy for
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reading. She feels barely enough about Comma being her farther. I will,
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mister Valentine, goodbye, bye bye. Oh that was nice of you to
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think of reader George. After all, she wants our clients. I get
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sad, will help us forget. You know, they invited us to their
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wedding. There go. I don't like weddings. Well there's one wedding.
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I hope I can get you too. Yeah, who's the spirit? Garnan
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will tell you Mike's transcribed adventure If George Valentine had been brought to you by
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throughout the West. Robert Bailey has starred at George with Virginia Gregg at Brooksey.
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Let George Do. It was written by Davis Kapton, directed by Kenneth
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Webb Larry Dobkin, was heard as Kalma, Virginia Eisler Adrita, Frank Hale
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as Martha, Tom McKee Astad, and Ruth Parrott as Emma. Music was
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composed and presented by George Wright your announcer John Heaston. Listen again next week,
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This is the mutual dun Lee Broadcasting System. Welcome back, Well.
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I have to say this was actually a pretty impressive episode. Obviously, they're
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training on familiar ground for any mystery program. I did like. I did
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like the whole idea of George pretending to come back from the dead. Now,
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that is drama well played, and also it helped the mystic was a
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little less obvious in some ways than usual. You know, the usual mystic
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of these stories will be all about the dark lights and the obvious scams in
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terms of moving parts to prey on the gullible, but lawn stop and played
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the character as a lot more smooth. So this is one of the more
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better written episodes I think we've seen in quite a while. So very nicely
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done all right, When we do have a one listener question and it comes
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from Jim who says, Hi, Adam, I enjoy your podcast cast.
31:45
My question deals with the use of the term transcribe, which is used in
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various ways transcribe from Hollywood, etc. What does it mean the dictionary definitions
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haven't helped. Transcribed in this case means recorded previously and you will you will
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hear that on quite a few episodes. And from what I gathered, this
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was something the FCC at the time I wanted because early on in radio they
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feared that radio could become nothing more than people playing a bunch of records,
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and they wanted more live entertainment and live programming, and so it was hoped
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by putting the transcribed on it, making them put transcribed on it and encourage
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more of the live programming. But it just tended to work as this was
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recorded previously, so transcribed in Hollywood that just means it was recorded in Hollywood.
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And there are a wide variety of different reasons that this was done.
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Certainly the convenience of the actors transcribed aloud. You know, some actors even
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appear on different programs on the same day. Some people even manage to do
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that without transcription. Phil Harris, who worked on The Jack Benny Show for
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CBS, also had his own show on NBC, so he would actually be
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in The Jack Benny Show for only about the first half of the show,
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then he would get up and go across to NBC to record his own program,
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The Magic of Early Radio. Well, I hope that answers your question,
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and I think I may have more than answered it. That's the one's
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just a freebie, all right. Well, that'll do it for today.
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Join us back here tomorrow for Sherlock Holmes, and then be with us next
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Wednesday for another episode to let George do it. In the meanwhile, send
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