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Nick Carter: Death by Ricochet (EP1218) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of Nick Carter Death by Rick Oshet. What's the matter? What is it?
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Carter. As we open our story, Nick is talking with a young friend
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of his whom Patsy has just brought in. But if it's not a criminal
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case, John, why come to me? Because it's the next thing to
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it, Nick, Well, all right, let's hear it. I better
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take notes, Patsy in case we want them later. Go ahead, Nick,
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I killed a man this morning. What always an accident, of course,
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but he's dead just the same. Tell me about it. What happened?
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Well, I was shooting in the old gravel pit back of my place
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on the highway. I've been shooting there a lot, getting ready for the
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pistol meat this coming up. Well, this morning I was practicing out there
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when one of my slugs hit something in ricocheted. I never dreamed that ricochet
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could get out of the gravel pit, but this one did and traveled as
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far as the mark was the state you mean that Clara Marky the day,
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that's right, And the man I killed was her son, Randolph. Well,
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that certainly ought to make front page copy. I should say, so
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Betsy got me her file out of the fireroom. Coming right up, now,
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John, where was Randolph when it was hit? At the back of
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the estate, helping one of his nephews rebuild the fence. The nephew,
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Dave Barton, said he heard the shot and then the whine of the bullet,
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and then Randolph fell over. He died instantly. Our file on Clara
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Markley. Thanks Betsy. Now let's see lives in a rambling, old red
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brick mansion a mile out of town along the highway. No servants. That's
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funny. With all her money, relatives living with her take the place of
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servants. Her sound Randolph X as general handy man on the estate. She
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handles all business matters herself. Jolly. Also, I should say, no
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one ever accused old Claire Marcus of being jolly. I've tried to get better
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acquainted with her granddaughter, Teresa, but the old lady won't let me take
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her out or go there to see her. I only know Teresa from what
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little I've seen her around town a few times I've driven her home. Now
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that I've killed her father, I suppose I'll never see her again, wouldn't
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be in love with her with you? No, do you think I can
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be sued for Randolph's dead? What's the coroner's verdict? You know? Well,
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he told me he was going to report it was an accident. John,
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How far is it from the graph a bit where Randolph was killed about
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a quarter mile the Brundage places in between. Old man Brundage was out picking
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berries in the back of his place. He says he heard the bullet whine
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over his head. I suppose there's no doubt about the time. No,
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No, sheriff checked on that Randolph was killed while I was shooting in the
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pit, No mistake about that. I see where the bullet identified is coming
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from your gun? Not exactly. It was too badly mutilated, the sheriff
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said, to be identified as having come from any particular gun. It was
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all flattened and twisted. Well, from what you tell me, John,
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Folks, as if you're responsible all right for the funeral expenses and so on?
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At least, oh, I know that, Nick. I just want
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to be sure I don't get hooked for what money I've got saved by damned
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suit later on. That's why I want you to investigate this for me right
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away. I want to have it proved an accident so that nothing can come
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up later to put me in the wrong more than I am now as I
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say what you mean, John, you want me to be sure that we
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know now all there is to know. Then we file that information away and
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hope we never need it. Right. That's it exactly, Nick, Will
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you do it? I certainly, John, if nothing else on my hands
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for the moment. Shouldn't be a long job or a difficult one. At
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first. I want to have a look at your grab a bit all right.
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I won't be there, but mother, I'll let you in. I
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I don't suppose there's any chance I didn't file the shot that got rand on.
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The chances are you did, John. I want to determine the degree
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of negligence involved. If there's none on your part, you can hardly be
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held liable for the accident. Okay, Nick, I'll leave it to you,
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right John, And don't worry. I think I can clean this up
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for you. It doesn't seem possible that a forty five bullet could get out
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of that gravel pit, and especially not going fast enough to travel a quarter
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of a mile afterwards, Strange things happened with bullets sometimes, Patsy, I
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suppose you heard what mister Browdie said. Yes, according to him, about
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as many bullets come out of the gravel bitter stay In did. He's heard
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them whizzing over his head many a time, and he was probably exaggerating,
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but there's no question but what he heard. The one that killed Randolph Mark
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was this morning, said it went only about a foot or so over his
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head. Is that possible only? Oh? Yes, indeed perfectly possible.
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And from the way John May's target is set up in the pit, a
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bullet that did get loose might very well come right across Bruddage's berry patch.
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Well, I suddenly hope you'll find some way to prove mister May didn't do
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it. He's such a nice fellow. I don't expect to prove that,
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Patsy, you don't. By the way, how well do you know Teresa
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Marquis not too well? Think you could use her name to get us in
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to look over the grounds case the old ag objects. Oh gosh, Nick,
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that's a big order. Nobody has any say around there but all Claire
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herself. So I understand. I'll try it. What can we lose?
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I had a girl that's attack him from all sides at once. It's so
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nice of you to say us, Miss Marquis. This is Nick Carter.
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He's acting for John May. You can tell John he's made it. We
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won't make him any trouble for the death of my father. I knew you'd
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feel like that. You can also tell him that I never want to see
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him again. Teresa, I'm afraid you're blaming John May for something he couldn't
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help. We've just been to look over his gravel bit and it seems utterly
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impossible that a bullet could get out of there and travel so far after getting
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out. I'm sure you're trying to tell her what happened wasn't May's fault.
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You can get going right now, How do you do I'm merely trying to
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find out just how it did happen, mister Carter. But this is my
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cousin, Dave Barton. He was with my father when he was killed.
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You're in charge of mister Barton. I'd like your permission to examine the grounds
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around where Randolph was killed. Nobody's got the right to say who can snoop
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around here? But Claire Marcus herself. Surely you could have no objection to
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you. Let to get out. If you won't show mister Carter around,
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I will. I know grandmother wouldn't mind. You're a fool, Teresa,
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But well, come on, I think I can do anything else for you.
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Let me know. We were putting up a new fence here. Brandy
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and I. We've been working out here for several days. We could hear
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Young May shooting down in that pit of his all the time. This morning
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it was different. The shots sounded the same, only this time I heard
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the wine of the bullet right after it. There here's where Randy was standing.
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I was down there the time I got to him, was dead in
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the door, Nail. I could get my hands on that Young May garden,
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that fence over there, about thirty feet the edge of your property.
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Yes, the bush is there on Brundage's side. He was picking berries out
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there somewhere this morning when Randy was killed. Nick, would you hear the
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shot before you heard the wine of the bullet going back? Certainly, patri
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he would. With an Army forty five, which John was using, because
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with the size of the bullet, its velocity is slower than that a sound,
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so you'll hear the report before you get the bullet somewhat too. Grandmother
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is very ill. We sent for the doctor, but she heard that you
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were here, and for some strange reason, wants to see you right now,
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says Mark West. Wants to see me. You sure, very sure,
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And mister Carter, she insisted, can you come right away please?
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I've heard about you, Nick Carter. I never thought i'd have any reason
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to hire you, but it's a strange world. I think Heaven sent you
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here today. Well, missus Mark Wis, I've been called many things,
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but Heaven sent no. You are this time. My time has come at
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last. I know it that the Sudden always said a shock would finish me,
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and Randolph's death has done it. I know nonsense, Missus Mark Wis,
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you'll live for years yet rubbish, I'll be dead by tomorrow, and
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I I want you to make the will before I go. That's why I
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wanted to see you alone like this. I'm not a lawyer. I know
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what you are, and I know you're honest. You you can draw up
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a will, can't you? Yes? Of course I can very well then
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do it. I've never had a will, and I want one. Very
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well. You'll tell me what this position you want made of your property.
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I'll row it up for you. That's easy. Half my estate goes to
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Teresa. The other half is to be divided between my other five grandchildren I
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see, and who's to be executive. Theresa is the only one of the
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whole bunch i'd trust. Of course, I'll have to have the names of
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the five grandchildren push Will, Push Will. They're Buttons, David, Burst
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and Jack. The twins Myrtle and Hazel. Very well, missus marquis,
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I'll have this ready for your signature in the morning. Well, morning,
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nothing. You'll have it ready for me just as soon as you can get
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it written down on paper. There's an old typewriter in the library you can
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use, Nanda. Hurry up, mister Carter, and let's get this over
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with me. May I come in neck? You've been writing out the old
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ladies will? What makes you think that? I can't think of any other
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reason why you should lock yourself up in this musty old library and spend an
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hour pounding on a typewriter. You're quite right, Patsy, I'd keep it
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to yourself, does she take good care, Teresa. None of your business,
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my inquisitive young assistant. All right, suit yourself. I came to
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tell you the doctor's here, he says. You'll have to wait before you
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can see Clara. She's lapsed into a coma. Why so she may come
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out and she may not, But if she does, her mind will be
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clear enough to sign the wills in case that was what you wanted. What
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a bunch of mind readers around here. Okay, I'll wait. Oh,
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by the way, Nick, we're invited to dine with the Bartons tonight.
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Oh good, I'm getting hungry. You haven't seen the rest of them yet.
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Maybe you won't be so happy about it when you do. Why you've
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seen them, I'll say I have. Besides Dave Barton, the man we
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met when we first got here, there's Forrest. He's done sort of a
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dope, apparently. And there's Jack, a rather good looking kid of about
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twenty. And last, but not least, there are the twins Merphle and
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Hazel. They cute, cute. There's thirtieth. They're a day they look
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forty and act fifty. Are a pair and no mistake. And incidentally,
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we're eating in the kitchen if it interests you where we eat a secondary Patsy,
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it's the eating part of it that really interests me. That kitchen is
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something too. I just saw it the most homelike part of the whole house,
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cozy and comfortable. I don't think it's a bit bigger than Madison Square
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garden, and with a shotgun behind the door to add just the right touch
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a passy. I want you to take care of this will. I've drawn
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up a moment old Clare comes to have her sign it, and if you're
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fond of Teresa, pray that the old lady does come to before she dies.
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All right, Nick, I'll take care of it. Good. Now
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I'm going to call John May tell him to come here to the Marqui's estate
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about eight o'clock. Well, why do that? Nick? You may start
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something maybe, but I think it's the wise thing to do. I want
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you to find Teresa and persuade her to go and meet him in the drive
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when he blows his horn twice. Now that's important, okay, Nick,
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She's to meet him in the drive when he blows his horn twice. I
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still don't get it, Nick, couldn't you find a better time and place
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for me to meet Teresa. A better time perhaps, but not a better
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place. John, I want you to take Teresa away from here at once.
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Are you kidding? I am not. They add sir that you'll be
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saving her life to good morning. She may be in deadly peril. Lave
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me, okay, Nick, I'll take her if she comes. John,
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Teresa, Oh, darling John, which is my cue? Early this morning
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a shot rang out and Randolph Marks fell dead once again. A shot has
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startled the Marks household. Who is dead this time and what will be its
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effect on Nick Carter and his attempts to learn the real facts behind Randolph's death
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our story. The report of the shotgun, which startled Nick and the rest
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of the Marquis household, seemed to come from the room where Clara Marquis lay
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dying. Nick and Patsy raced to the door of the room, only to
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find the twins Myrtle and Hazel standing in the doorway, staring fascinatedly at the
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old lady's bed. What happened? Ghastly face has been blown away? Why
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she's for doctor Sutton, Doctor Suckon? What's happened to him? Nick?
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Why I'll blow in the back of the head, I should say, doctor,
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what's happened to you? Doctor? I don't know. I alone here
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with the patient piece. Something hit me, that's all I know. I
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don't even know where whoever hit me came from? Was whoever hits you did
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for the old lady? All right? Did either of your girls see anything?
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No? They are your brothers. Why were they when this happened?
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Oh? Come on, you might as well tell me if you know?
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All right, I'm going to call the Sheriff's office. You suppose you too,
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could sort of stay here with the body until someone gets here. Will
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stay? Well, there's nothing more I can do for her now, and
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go get some fresh air. One to step outside with means to Cutter?
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Why, of course it'll be right by you. Oh, Patsy, Will
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you pack up the doctor's things and bring them out to the car. All
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right, doctor, and let's get out of here. Terrible thing, mister
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Cutter, terrible, Yes, it is, old lady. She wouldn't have
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blasted the night anyway. What I wanted to tell you was this, Betsy
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said. It was very important to Theresa to get that will signed. So
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I gave the old lady an injection which revived go alone and to read the
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will, and she signed it, and Patsy and I witnessed it was that
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right, perfect, doctor, perfect? You have the will now? No,
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I gave it to Betsy. What well you trust to do with it?
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So I did. Clara's murderer finds Patsy has it. Patsy will be
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the next victim. Come on, wonders to still in Clara's room? Or
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we left her? I didn't know I should have Patsy. Patsy, she's
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not here. Either of you twins know where she went? No, she
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left. We thought she was with you, didn't we merdle Yes, we
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thought she was with you. Come on, doctor, I've got to search
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the house. There's no time to lose doctor. We've been through this house
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from cellar to radic. She's not here anywhere. I don't like it.
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How about the carriage house. There's a light upstairs there A yes, so
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there is. Well, let's have a look up there. That's fun.
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John May's car is still here. Didn't take Teresa away? After all?
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I wonder why? I hope we find Patsy up here. Merciful heavens bid
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and stop that let John alone. You keep out of this. This dirty
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murderer is getting what coming to him. The law won't do nothing to John
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May, but we will widen. If you touch him again, I'll shoot
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to kill. You. Wouldn't have the Nils plenty of nerve for cors like
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you. All right, you're on top of now, but we'll get him
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later. See if we don't, are you too? Bors and Jack let
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Terrasa go? All right? That god guy got up her mouth. Take
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quick about it, mister Carr, I thank Heaven you've come. Oh doctor,
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you better have a look at me. He's pretty badly beating up.
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Only thing holding him up with the ropes tying him to that post is they
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must have hit John at least twenty times. What happened, Teresa? They
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got John right after you left. It made me come with him. They
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brought us up here and tied John to the post so that he couldn't defend
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himself. Then they gagged me. You mean that all three of them,
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Borist, Jake and Dave had been with you since right after I left you
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with John. Yes, why has anything happened? Take care of thanking doctor.
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I've got a job to do. How where is she? Why have
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you gon her? What have you done with her? And in the closet?
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I suppose what why that son? Drop that gun. Don't be a
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fool. Take that shotgun out of the middle of my back. You're the
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fool. Drop that gun very well? Yeah it is. The body in
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the closet is that of old Claire? I suppose you must have Patsy under
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that sheet on the bed. Yes, what have you done with? Not
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much? We had to twist her arm a little to make her tell us
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where she puts the will. That's all, isn't it, Mertle? Yes,
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we have it now, it's torn in little pieces. All right,
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you've got what you wanted. Now let us go. No, we got
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us a lawyer too. We know you and your girl could go to court
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and tell what the will was, and that would be as good as a
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will. Yes, we aim to take care of you both. You can't
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get away with us, I warn you, Yes we can. Easy.
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We'll say Teresa did it, Yes we will. You didn't, suspect dosneither
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will anyone else. We'll blame Teresa. Well, Patsy, I've heard about
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it enough, haven't you. Oh you don't sorry to hit a woman.
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All right, Patsy, that takes care of the twins for now. Now
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let's see what you look like under that sheet. Wait a minute, Wait
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a minute, we'll I get this gag out of your mind. I thought
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you'd never get here. How'd you ever get away from that gun she was
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holding in your back? I've studied command of tactics, Betsy. One thing
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I learned was that if someone is holding a gun at your back, you
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can twist away from the gun faster than then someone can pull the trigger.
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Try it sometime, thanks, I'll take your word for it, gladly.
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So, with Hazel or Myrtle not cold from the recoil of that ten gage
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shotgun and Myrtle or Hazel out cold from the sock on the jar, I
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was forced to give it. We have peace, temporarily peace, blessed peace,
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even temporary peace. I hope the sheriff gets here pretty soon. Now.
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I'd like to get rid of these two vipers vi viparesses before they try
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biting someone else. We had to pulled completely at first, Sheriff. I
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didn't believe either of those twins could handle as big a gun as a ten
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gage shotgun. Yet I felt sure, as soon as I saw that shotgun
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that the forty five bullet that killed Randolph Marquis came from its barrel. But
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why old man Brandage said he heard it wine over his head. Well,
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the wine of a ricocheting bullet, John is one of the most deceptive sounds
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in the world. You can't tell really where it comes from. But I
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was right with Randy. I didn't hear any gun fired close. Was fired
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from the gravel pit, and the bullet came whining. Of course it did,
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Barton. The twins were clever enough to pick a mutilated bullet out of
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the gravel pit where John May shoots. They loaded it into a ten gage
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shelf and fired it from behind the bushes On branded his property. The bushes
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acted as his silencer. Probably both Brandage and Dave heard the wine that's set
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up and assumed it was a ricochet from the pit. Who'd ever think a
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woman would figure out a way to load a ten gage with a banged up
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bullet and then lay for a guy and shoot when somebody else shoots a quarter
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mile away. Why did they do it? Mister Carter? Money Teresa money,
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they'd inherit from your grandmother Clara Marquis. But I don't get it,
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Nick. Howard Randolph being dead benefit the twins. His daughter would get his
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shoe, wouldn't she not? If Claire didn't leave a will. That's the
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point around which everything else revolves, Patsy. But how did that work out?
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Mate? According to the law of the state, if the old lady
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left no will, Randolph would inherit one half the estate, and the five
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Bartons would inherit the other half, or one tenth each. And if Randolph
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was dead. With Randolph dead, the five Bartons and Teresa, Randolph's daughter
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would each inherit equally or one sixth of the estate apeace. How much difference
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would that make? We'll figure it out, Pantsy. If the estate amounts
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to three million dollars, as I understand it does, each twin would get
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three hundred thousand dollars if Randolf were alive, but with him dead, they
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would each get five hundred thousand dollars or two hundred thousand dollars more. Wouldn't
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that be worthwhile for them? Gosh, that is some difference, isn't it.
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So when they found that old Clara was about to make a will,
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they had to stop it. Of course, the new Teresa was a favorite
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that would get most of the money, so they killed Claire before she could
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sign the will. I drew up. Well, then they must have found
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out afterwards that old missus Marklis had signed the will before or she was killed.
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How they learned that now that John will never know. Somebody said too
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much or too little. At any rate, they found out just enough to
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know that Patsy had their will and that it was signed, So they bited
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that time and got it away from Patsy. Then they laid for me.
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They get rid of any possible witness to the existence of a will. Do
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you suppose they would have killed me, mister Carter, No, Teresa,
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not if they had got rid of Patsy and me. I asked John to
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come here and take you away because I didn't know which way the cat was
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going to jump, and I was afraid the killer would try to nullify the
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effects of the will by killing you. But fortunately the dear twins elected Patsy
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and me as the victims, and you for the logical suspect. Well,
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anyway, I'm glad you asked John to come over here. No matter what
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the reason was. It settled things for him and me very nicely. It's
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just the way I wanted it to be, Nick, although I hadn't hoped
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to get it for a long time yet, which proves that you never know
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where your blessings are coming from or something or anyway. Good luck to you
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both. In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview
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of next week's exciting case. But first, here's the suggestion. On a
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winter night, as the family gathers cozily at home for an evening of fun
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together, every moment is more enjoyable when home looks its inviting best, and
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it always does when you depend on the three Great LINEX home brighteners to keep
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woodwork, floors, and furniture sparkling. Your furniture, for example, regains
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its original gleaming beauty when you use Linux Cream polish. For Linux Cream Polish
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cleans as it polishes, removing in one quick application all the cloudy accumulation of
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dust and previous polish. Yes, you save one whole step in your cleaning
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day routine when you use Linux Cream Polish on your furniture. It's truly the
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modern shortcut to furniture upkeep, taking only half the time. You'll find that
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Linux Cream Polish vanishes messy fingerprints for your furniture helps to high ugly scratches too.
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And there's no oily film on your furniture to attract more dust to make
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more work. So do ask your dealer for Linux cream polish. Ask for
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all three great Linux home brightness. Remember that's Linux spelled l n dash X.
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You'll find them all Linx self Polishing, Wax, Linux Cream Polish,
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and Linux Clear Gloss Varnish at your nearest hardware paint or department store. And
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now let's hear from Nick Cartter himself. What about it? Nick, have
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you an exciting story for next week? Well, next week, Ken,
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I want to tell you what happened when I stopped off in a little town
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upstate to tell a rookie cops family how sorry they were that he'd been killed
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in line of duty. Well, that doesn't sound very exciting to me.
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It was what happened after Nick stopped off there that makes the story. He
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found a household rule by fast, fear and hate, a mad old woman
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at the head of it who was convinced that she had been divinely appointed to
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set the world right. Oh that's very different, Nick, Where did you
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come into it? Nicked up the well laid, planned to commit wholesale murder,
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save the daughter of the House of Fortune, running into the million just
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because the killer forgot to quote the right Bible verse at the right time.
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What do you call it? And I for an Eye or the Mystery of
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the Upstate Murders. And that's all for now, So long, so long,
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everybody solong to you both, Nick and Patsy. We'll be seeing you
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again next week. Next week, at the same time, listen to another
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curious experience of Nick Carter Master Detective entitled and I for an Eye or Nick
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Carter and the Mystery of the Upstate Murders. Nick Carter Master Detective is featured
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in Street and Smith magazines. Lon Clark is starred as Nick with Helen Chotis
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Patsy. Original music is played by Lou White, and the programs are written
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and directed by Jack McGregor. Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at
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this time and over these same stations by the three Great Linux Home Bright News,
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by Acme America's great producer of ACME Fine Quality Paints. This is Ken Powell
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speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America and saying, so long
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until next week. This is mutual welcome MAC certainly an involved scheme. I
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do have to admit that anytime somebody bets on Nick Carter not being willing to
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do something or not having the guts to do something, they really are placing
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a very poor beat. As he continued to show in this episode. I
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actually will say for myself that I suspected the twins all along. They were
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just acting so sinister throughout the story, though I guess Nick did have his
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own point for why he didn't suspect them all Right. Well, now we
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turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have this from Matthew, and
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Matthew writes in at the end of every show, I always enjoy to hear
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your criticism of what you thought of the show, and always seemed to agree
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on and mention something that I didn't pick up. I couldn't ask for a
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better host. Keep up the great work at him. What are your thoughts
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on the Avengers with Johnson? If you ever can even consider him a detective
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and we'll ever showcase the series. Thank you well, thanks so much for
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the question, and I'll be honest with you, Matthew. There are three
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categories of detective programs. There are those which I have obsessively watched every episode
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or in the process of doing some. There are those that I saw as
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a child growing up and have some remembrance of. And then there are those
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I don't really know about, and The Avengers unfortunately falls into that category.
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I tend to be very much a completest and so I'll watch a series all
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the way through before I take a look at something else, and so I've
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not quite gotten to The Avengers. I've heard some interesting things about it and
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would certainly be willing to watch it, but yeah, I could not answer
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that question in terms of showcasing the program. The only Avengers radio series that
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would be a possibility was the South African radio version of The Avengers, and
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since I am unfamiliar with South African copyright law, I pretty much wouldn't do
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a South African program. But thank you so much with suggestion, and I'll
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keep it in mind. There were so many great programs in the nineteen sixties
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that I'd love and even some of the seventies I'd love to really watch through.
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Well, that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow
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with yours truly, Johnny Dowler and Manhunt, and then join us back next
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Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. In the meantime, send your comments
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