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Nick Carter: The Case of the King’s Apology (EP1680) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: dot net. Well now from June twenty seventh of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty eight, Here now is the Case of the King's
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  Speaker 1: Apology with Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 2: New Post War Old Dutch Cleanser, Famous for Chasing Dirk,
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  Speaker 2: presents Nick Carter, famous for Chasing Crime. Every week at
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  Speaker 2: this time two great names are joined as New post
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  Speaker 2: War Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most
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  Speaker 2: resourceful and daring characters in all detective fictions. Nick Carter
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  Speaker 2: Master Detective.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Karda, have you lost your.
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  Speaker 4: No, Pessy, I said, you're going to go crazy?
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  Speaker 3: Me go crazy?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and Mary and I are going.
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  Speaker 5: To chase you.
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  Speaker 3: Why are you going to chase me?
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  Speaker 4: Because you've got the King's Apology and you're going to
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  Speaker 4: run with it until you run into a killer.
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  Speaker 2: And now the Case of the King's Apology Today's adventure
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  Speaker 2: starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: new post war old Dutch cleanser. In his library filled
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  Speaker 2: with rare books, letters, stamps, and coins, wealthy collector Robert
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  Speaker 2: Bixby sits behind a desk and stares coldly at a
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  Speaker 2: small oily man named Thomas gall Gall displaying an open
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  Speaker 2: leather portfolio filled with papers.
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  Speaker 6: Talks excitedly, I'm deeply obliged to you for asking me
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  Speaker 6: to call on you, mister Bixby. He hits an honor
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  Speaker 6: to see your famous collection, I assure you.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all.
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  Speaker 6: At the same time, I have always regated the fact
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  Speaker 6: that I am the one dealer in this city who
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  Speaker 6: has not yet had the good fortune to assist you
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  Speaker 6: in your collecting. Indeed, well, I that is why I
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  Speaker 6: took the liberty of bringing a few of my more
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  Speaker 6: precious items for your esteemed consideration. That several interesting autograph
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  Speaker 6: letters leading from the eighteenth century, especially this note in
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  Speaker 6: the handwriting of King George, the third King of England
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  Speaker 6: during the American Revolution. It is an apology to a
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  Speaker 6: friend for failure to keep an appointment. Hey, his Majesty's
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  Speaker 6: arms on the envelope is leisure now, Yes, mister Bixby,
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  Speaker 6: I did not ask you here to display your stock.
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  Speaker 4: You know, mister Bixby, I want you to answer a question.
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  Speaker 6: A question yesterday, while driving past your shop, I saw
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  Speaker 6: something with the man's full explanation.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see?
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  Speaker 5: Sir? I saw you in.
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  Speaker 7: Close conference with a well known forger, John Pryor. You
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  Speaker 7: saw me, I did, but Prior, the literary forger.
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  Speaker 6: I thank you akings to be Let me warn you, gal,
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  Speaker 6: I'm careful of the Collectors Association. I know you can
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  Speaker 6: blast my reputation with one word. Mister Bigsby, I know
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  Speaker 6: you can put me out of business, and I shall
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  Speaker 6: do so unless you can explain your association with Prior.
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  Speaker 4: I am not associated with him.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Bigspeed, You're mistaken.
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  Speaker 4: You must believe me, sir.
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  Speaker 7: That's all you have to say, That's all I can say.
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  Speaker 4: Very well. I'm sorry, girl, I should like excel at
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  Speaker 4: once you've made up your minds and.
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  Speaker 7: View of the fact that no explanation is forthcoming. You're
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  Speaker 7: going to ruin me.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a question of personal animat today there are
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  Speaker 4: the collectors to be protected. My duty is chairman to
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  Speaker 4: ruin me.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid you're ruining yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I have to know you're lying goal.
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  Speaker 6: I've got too much at stake to let you do that,
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  Speaker 6: mister Bigsby. For five years, I've built up my reputation
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  Speaker 6: just waiting for this chance to make a killing.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm afraid the killing is going to start with.
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  Speaker 4: You in the name of don't.
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  Speaker 6: Always understand, mister, It's not a question of questional animosity.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to protect my.
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  Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Good Bye, mister Bixby.
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  Speaker 6: I hope you enjoy your new career collecting fire and brimstone.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter's Office, Sassy Bone, I speaking who Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Does matter? It's gotty proposing in a new and different way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who it is.
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  Speaker 7: Nick.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Hello.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like someone growing on the phone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Hello, This is Nick Carda speaking, Nick Nick Corlor. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: this is Nick Carter speaking.
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  Speaker 5: Who is this?
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  Speaker 4: Nick? Nick Carter? Is something wrong by? Can't you speak openly?
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  Speaker 4: Are you sick?
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  Speaker 3: Come quick?
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  Speaker 4: Who is this? Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 5: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Someone asked me to come quick? No? One named no Adred? Hello? Hello,
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  Speaker 4: and no answers?
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  Speaker 3: Hang up? He'll call again.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, I'll hold onto this line and keep it open.
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  Speaker 4: You'll get on the other phone and call the phone company.
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  Speaker 4: Have this open wire, trace right, and when you got
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  Speaker 4: the address, call Maddie. This is an invitation to trouble.
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  Speaker 4: We might as well be legal about accepting it.
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  Speaker 10: Well, all I've got to say is Nick, if you
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  Speaker 10: interrupted my sandwich to bring me here in a full salaam,
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  Speaker 10: what do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Sark?
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  Speaker 5: All right? I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: For years Nick's been breaking into my meals. I still
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  Speaker 10: haven't figured out.
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  Speaker 5: What to do about it.
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  Speaker 4: There's no false alarm aty.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's answering the door.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, You sure it's the right house?
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  Speaker 4: Sure it is Robert Bixby one oh three five? Russell plays,
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 5: I'd still like to know what this is all about.
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  Speaker 4: So would I? All right if I use a skeletal key.
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  Speaker 5: Look are you sure, he groaned on the.
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  Speaker 3: Phone on my word of honor?
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  Speaker 5: Sergeant, all right, all right, let's go in and have
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  Speaker 5: a look.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you got that door open quick enough, you know, Nick.
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  Speaker 10: Sometimes I'm glad you're on the right side of the law.
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  Speaker 3: Except when Nick interrupts your meals.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and if this is a false alone isn't.
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  Speaker 4: But I know it now? Why look on the left
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  Speaker 4: in the library. Why?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, holy smoked, it.
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  Speaker 4: Says Robert Bixby. All right, and he's dead and were
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  Speaker 4: smack in the middle of a murder case.
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  Speaker 5: He was trigled. Look at the fingermarks only through.
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  Speaker 4: Golly, see the way his head tilts, Maddie.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, his neck's broken.
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  Speaker 4: He died instantly, but he telephoned his neck. No he didn't, Patsy,
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  Speaker 4: not with a broken neck. What someone else called us?
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  Speaker 4: Someone who was here during or immediately after the murderer? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: give me the aluminum part of kit my kid, will you?
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  Speaker 10: I want to dust the phone for fingerprints, right, no matter,
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  Speaker 10: you better look around see if anything looks displaced, are missing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll do thanks. Hm. Not a sign
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  Speaker 4: of a print, Nick, No, whoever telephone may have grown
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  Speaker 4: made sure to wipe all prints off the phone.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the place doesn't look as though it's been searched, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: nothing's been touched.
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  Speaker 4: That's funny.
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  Speaker 10: Several thousand dollars worth of rare books and literary material
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  Speaker 10: in this room and nothing was taken.
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  Speaker 3: Then it wasn't murder for robbery, No.
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  Speaker 5: God found it?
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  Speaker 4: Why was old Bixby killed? And who called me? And why?
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  Speaker 11: Hey?
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Nick, here's something under Bixby's feet. It
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  Speaker 5: looks like a letter or something.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have a look at it where I get it
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  Speaker 4: out of the envelope.
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  Speaker 3: Looks pretty old.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably be part of Bixby's collection. Uh huh, stated
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  Speaker 4: seventeen eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Seventeen eighty. Oh, let me see.
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  Speaker 4: Seems to be some kind of an apology.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 3: It's sign George r R.
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  Speaker 4: That means Rex Latin for king, and.
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  Speaker 5: This was signed by King George.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, King George third. Judging by the date, that.
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  Speaker 3: Must be the World Code of Arms on the envelope.
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  Speaker 5: Do you really mean that letters from a king?
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  Speaker 3: It's a royal apology, Sergeant. Isn't that exciting?
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  Speaker 4: Not only exciting, Patsy, but it also gives us an
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  Speaker 4: angle on this case. What's done a letter's a forgery?
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  Speaker 3: It is, how do you know?
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  Speaker 4: Never mind that right now, Patty my word for it.
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  Speaker 4: But a man like Bixby would never have a forgery
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  Speaker 4: like this in his collection. Evidently his death was in
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  Speaker 4: some way connected with this king's apology. And I have
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  Speaker 4: an idea. What's not going to suppose you go ahead
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  Speaker 4: with the departmental routine, Mary, sure, Nick, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to check our files for a forger who can do
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  Speaker 4: this kind of work. And if we find the man
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  Speaker 4: who forged this letter, we may find the man who
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  Speaker 4: murdered Bixby.
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  Speaker 7: Tom, Tom, stop that pasting.
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  Speaker 3: You're giving me a headache.
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  Speaker 7: I can't help it.
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  Speaker 6: I could strangle him all over again, sitting there so
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  Speaker 6: he were my judge.
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  Speaker 7: But he did, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: And I could kill him again, and I could kill
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  Speaker 6: each day forever, to ruin the work of five years.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks what he wanted.
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  Speaker 7: One word from Bixby and we would have been finished.
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  Speaker 3: But we're not.
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  Speaker 6: For five years, I've been honest for five years. I
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  Speaker 6: built up a reputation for this moment.
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  Speaker 4: It trust me.
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  Speaker 6: Now, those fools who buy letters and autographs. They believe
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  Speaker 6: in me, and in six months we'll unload every fortuery.
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  Speaker 5: We'll make a fortune.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I've been waiting for.
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  Speaker 6: You've been a good wife, Rita. You played along with
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  Speaker 6: me during those years when we had to be honest.
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  Speaker 7: And don't think it didn't hurt ah.
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  Speaker 4: But now comes the payoffs.
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  Speaker 6: We'll make two hundred thousand, maybe three, and we can't
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  Speaker 6: pissed up. Now that Bixby is bad, we can rise
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  Speaker 6: twenty Okay.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, girl, Yes, this is prior. Yes, I want you
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  Speaker 12: to come over to my place for a talk. Why
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  Speaker 12: I got bad news.
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  Speaker 4: For you, girl? Talk straight?
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  Speaker 12: Prior when Fixby got you up to his place.
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  Speaker 4: How did you find out about that? I was there? Girl?
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  Speaker 9: What FIXEDV had me hidden in the next room?
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  Speaker 12: He was going to confront us?
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  Speaker 4: Girl, you get it all set up.
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  Speaker 12: That's right, I know all about it.
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  Speaker 9: I think you better come over to my place for
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  Speaker 9: a talk right away.
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  Speaker 12: It cost you money if you want me to ford
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  Speaker 12: you an alibi for murder.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's see Nick.
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  Speaker 11: We've been to see Joe Dyer, Eddie Barker, Sam Browning
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  Speaker 11: and Billy Webster.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Not a reaction, not of any.
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  Speaker 11: Of them, leaving John Prior, Henry Foster, and Steve Screenner
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  Speaker 11: as the possible forges of the King's Apology.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hope we have some luck with at least one
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, who are we visiting now?
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  Speaker 4: The next man on the list, John Cryer?
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh, Well, what's your attack going to be?
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  Speaker 4: Within same as the others? Surprise, sudden shock. Got a
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  Speaker 4: ground floor apartment in the rear. Now that must be
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  Speaker 4: the door down there. That the hole right.
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  Speaker 3: The way. Do not give me to shanksnake so Stern
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  Speaker 3: and officials.
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  Speaker 4: Which is precisely why I do it, give us a
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  Speaker 4: psychological edge. Yes you're John Pryor. Yes, I'm Nick Carter
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  Speaker 4: working in a murder case. I want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 4: I bought my secretary a longer take note. No, no,
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  Speaker 4: wait a minute, mister Carter.
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  Speaker 10: West Darling Pryor, you're in a bad gem and you
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  Speaker 10: know it. I don't know anything of the kind.
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  Speaker 4: You look at this letter, what don't dummy up Prior?
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  Speaker 4: This is a forged manuscript, the King's Apology, dated seventeen
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  Speaker 4: eighty and it's your Well, mister Kaylee, you went to
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  Speaker 4: the murder of Robert Bixby so tight you won't get
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  Speaker 4: out of it with a crow. We're nuts better than
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  Speaker 4: my work. No objections if I take your fingerprints fingerprints
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  Speaker 4: he w hurt me. Prince were left on this letter
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  Speaker 4: on the inside flap of the envelope. I want to
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  Speaker 4: compare them with yours.
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  Speaker 9: Sure, I've got no objections in kinner, Just let me
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  Speaker 9: go into the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: Get the grease off my hands. Okay, I'll get the
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  Speaker 4: equipment ready while you're Give you all the princes you want.
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  Speaker 9: Soon as I get my hands clean, go. Hey, Yes,
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  Speaker 9: you've been haggling long enough. I make up your mind fast.
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  Speaker 9: Do I come upore you?
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  Speaker 4: But he said he had your finger clean.
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  Speaker 9: I think I didn't leave any prints on that letter,
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  Speaker 9: and you think I'm a baby one hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Grand that's my pride. Make up your mind? No what
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  Speaker 4: I said?
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  Speaker 6: No, Prior, I can't trust you, not with nik kat
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  Speaker 6: or so close to my task'd sorry, Prior, No, I see.
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  Speaker 4: Wait waiting, Prior, make it snappy?
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  Speaker 12: Am I not?
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  Speaker 5: Ryer?
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  Speaker 4: You've got any idea disguising those pretty lover?
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  Speaker 3: He's instead he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Nick and Patsy stare at the body of John Pryor
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  Speaker 2: stretched out on the kitchen floor, a kitchen knife through
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  Speaker 2: his ribs. We'll see what they do in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the case of the King's Apology. Today's
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  Speaker 2: adventure with Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
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  Speaker 2: war old Dutch cleanser. Nick and Patsy stand over the
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  Speaker 2: dead body of John Pryor, spalled on the kitchen floor
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  Speaker 2: of his apartment. Quickly, Nick's eyes taking the few clues
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  Speaker 2: before them.
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  Speaker 4: Pat They gotta work fast. All right, Nick, we're going
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  Speaker 4: out to that kitchen window.
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  Speaker 7: Tone.
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  Speaker 4: It's only a short drop to the back. Harry, I'll
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  Speaker 4: go first, Yep, all right, come on, I'll catch you
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  Speaker 4: all right. Now down the other Nick, do you know
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  Speaker 4: wherever kill prior is? More than twenty six He was
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  Speaker 4: ahead of it when we have a chance of catching
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  Speaker 4: up with him. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's been hiding in the kitch him while we were there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I probably went back to cook up an alibi
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  Speaker 4: and was killed to keep his mouth shut.
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  Speaker 3: This is a dead end. We've got to go back
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  Speaker 3: to the other way.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, that's a dead end too. I noticed it
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  Speaker 4: when I came through the window. But wait, here's the
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  Speaker 4: cellar door and look at the handle, got blood on him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he must have gone in here.
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  Speaker 3: Hm, it's full straight, doc.
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  Speaker 8: And yeah, wait a minute, I I think I hear someone.
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  Speaker 4: Probably the killer. Let's go now quick. Did you hear that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it seems to be a story to him. He came
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  Speaker 4: to me said, we'll.
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  Speaker 8: Have to go in after him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll stay with me. Be careful. It's almost pitch dark, Hick.
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  Speaker 3: Can't you use your flashlight?
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  Speaker 4: No, he's got a gun.
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  Speaker 8: You can use the lightboard dark.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, someone closed the door behind us.
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  Speaker 5: Killer.
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  Speaker 4: He was waiting in the back of it, founded his chores,
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  Speaker 4: fastened on the outside with an.
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  Speaker 5: Iron bar and locked in.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, instead of trapping the killer, he's trapped us.
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  Speaker 3: And why why is nipping?
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  Speaker 4: Got bad news for you? He's opened a gas pipe
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  Speaker 4: somewhere in this room. You don't work fast, wear a
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  Speaker 4: couple of dead ducks.
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  Speaker 11: Tom, Here's did you get everything arranged with car?
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  Speaker 7: He who prior? Hand with Nick Carter?
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter?
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  Speaker 6: I took care of that, gentlemen, after I took care
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  Speaker 6: of prior.
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  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: I trapped Nick Carter and just about now he should
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  Speaker 6: be dead and least he can hold his breath for
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  Speaker 6: half an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Did Prior help you?
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  Speaker 7: I told you I took care of Prior too. What
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  Speaker 7: do you mean I closed his mouth for good?
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  Speaker 4: Tom, He's dead, Rita.
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  Speaker 10: You killed him?
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 7: Better, I see you're in love with him, an't Jo Andcho.
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  Speaker 4: What's the idiot I've been?
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  Speaker 6: You had this all worked out with pride, didn't you.
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  Speaker 6: You'd take every nikola I made in this game to
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  Speaker 6: go off with Priye ain't net was the idea. You'd
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  Speaker 6: help him blackmail me for the rest of my life
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: and you would be laughing at me, the two of
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: you to don't.
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  Speaker 4: No, don't try, I won't kill you. Maybe it's just
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  Speaker 4: as well this happened. Now. I've got what I want.
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  Speaker 6: I got plenty of money waiting for me, and I
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: got you whatever.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Coman Hey, Nick.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: We haven't gotten anywhere and a part with us. But
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: for the love of heaven, what happened to you too?
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Hello?
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Sergy, Hi, Maddie, come help Patsy and me somemere ointment
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: on our faces?
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: I repeat what happened to you?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: We met the killer?
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Did you get him?
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: No?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: He nearly got up.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Look, I'd better sit down.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, do you see made? We were at trapped in
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: us a storage room with.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: An open gas pipe.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: With an open gas pipe.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, an open gas pipe. The killer renched the fixture
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: off and left the gas pouring into the room. But
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: what did you do?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Well, Nick, found the pipe and light of the gas.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: That's how our faces got burned.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yes, that stuff flamed out like a volcano. Luckily there
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: wasn't enough gas in the room to cause a real explosion.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: I'll be dawned.
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  Speaker 11: Then we pounded on the door and yelled until the
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: janitor came and let us out.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Of course, by that time the killer was gone forever.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Oh no, we're not licked yet, Bessy, that a boy.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Nick's okay? But have you got any idea I have?
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: We're going to catch this killer with a king's apology?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: You mean the pogery?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Well what do we do?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: While I've been nursing my blisters, I've been doing some thinking.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Betty Prior wasn't working on this forgery alone.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Oh you don't think so, I don't now.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Look, Look, have a heart, I'm not caught up on
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: this case yet. Who's Prior?
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I'll brief you later, man, if they worked this out
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: with Patsy. First, we haven't much time, Okay, go ahead. Now,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Prior was a forger, but he couldn't sell his forgeries himself.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: He needed a front man, a dealer to do that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: So there's a strong chance he was killed by the
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: dealer who was working with him. Good day, go on,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: that's where our trick starts.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Hill. Wat's the track.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Well, first, you go crazy, go crazy? Yes, man, Mary,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: and I chase you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: So why do you chase me?
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Because you've got the King's Apology and you're going to
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: run with it until you're running to the killer.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Patsy takes the forged letter and listens carefully to her instruction,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: her face brightening as Nick unfolds the mechanism of the trap.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We'll learn what it is in just a moment. Now
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: for the conclusion of the case of the King's Apology.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: post war old Dutch cleanser. For an hour of Valentine Street,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: where most of the city's autograph dealers have their shops,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: has been watching a curious spectacle. A girl has walked
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: into one shop after another displayed a letter screamed at
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the astonished proprietor, and then run out. She is followed
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: cautiously by two men who make profound apologies for her. Finally,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: she enters the shop of Thomas gaul.
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  Speaker 3: Yit madam, May I.
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  Speaker 4: Be of service to you?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Do you tell autograph?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, madam, I have a very fine stuff for your consideration.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh do you buy them too?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Wait?
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  Speaker 7: Madam, if it is of it?
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  Speaker 11: What may it's rarero letter a king's apology, King George
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: the third of England.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Where did you get that letter? Madam?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Oh I I.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: Found Where did you get the letter?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Well? Maybe it isn't legal, but I found it and
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: find your keepers. I was outside a house on Russell
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Place this morning. Uh huh, number ten thirty five rec
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Ad Place. A man came running out and he dropped
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the slater.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: What did he what?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: You're the man? I know you're the man. You're the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: man came running out.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: He said, come quick, you're the mail man.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Out of the house, and that she was murdered. You
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: dropped the sweater.
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: I know it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I want you want the arrested.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Your hands on me. You're not.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: Where we are not nothing till we get.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Help.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Me get her into the bank of the store.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: You want to burn from murder?
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: No, I know in this with me, it's got to
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: be shut up for good. What h You left the
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: transom over your door open.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: We heard everything.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: It's a sergeant methods an No, the homicide squad. You
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: heard the confession, mattery, every blessed word, Nick, do you
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: mind releasing the young lady. She's my assistant, Miss Patsy Bowen,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: You're assistant, that's right. She pulled his act. And every
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: dealer in the street.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Huh what famous to all think I'm crazy?
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Pat We explained as we followed you. Mister Gall's confession
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: will do the rest.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: But you were luck.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: He must tell her you couldn't be here.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Oh girl, I'm not an optical illusion. I'm just the
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: man with a bad news. Sergeant Mathieson wants you for murder.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, murder.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid you're invited to keep a date for the
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: state's executioner with no apologies accepted.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Nick, there are a couple of things about this case
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I haven't figured out yet.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, beby well.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: First, who killed Bixby Goll?
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Did?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Okay? Then? Who called you from Bixby's.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: House Pryor, Why did he do that? Gall said in
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: his confession that Prior was in love with Rita and
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: wanted her for himself. Uh huh, was apparently willing to
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: help him double cross Gall, and then turned Gall over
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: to the police for murder.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, so when Prior found you, he was setting up
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the case.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: That's right, one of the police to close in on
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Goal quickly. That would increase the pressure and make the
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: blackmail easy. Then after he had all Gall's money, he
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: could turn him in and go off with Rita.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Well, I see, now one last thing. What since when
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: have you been an autograph expert?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I am not.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Then how did you know the King's apology was a
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: forgery the minute youre looked at it?
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Oh that's simple.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: You were playing a hunch.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: No, I knew, and happened to be one of the
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: odd bits of information I've picked up here and there.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Well, how did you know?
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Well, the letter was dated seventeen eighty and the envelope
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: or the Royal Arms of England.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: The addressed on the envelope was in the same writing
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: as the letter. Besides, the envelope matched the paper and
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: looked just as old.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that makes it sound genuine.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Maybe so, but it proved it was a forgery. You see,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: pass while the letter was dated seventeen eighty, envelopes were
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: known before about eighteen thirty. Ah Bryer made a mistake.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Well how about that, And all the while I thought
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: you were guessing, Nick, I.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Fouled the Master quite all right, Ptcy, Your apologies accepted.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Nick Carter.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Master Detective is presented each week at this time by
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the KudaHe Packing Company. It is produced and directed by
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Ed Latimer plays Matty.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Today's script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is
• 26:54
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• 26:57
  Speaker 2: resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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  Speaker 13: with Adam Graham. Now let's get back into the show.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Well. I was kind of surprised to see
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the uh teaser scene actually worked into the episode, but
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: they managed it and it worked fairly well given that
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: we knew who the killer was from the beginning. Now,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: as much as I love Colombo, I'm not a huge
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: fan of episodes where during the golden age of radio,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the audience knows who the killer is, because usually it's
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: not a clever inverted mystery going on, but it's a
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: little bit more melodrama. This one didn't play out so
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: bad because I thought there were some great scenes, particularly
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: with Maddie that were kind of funny, and also some
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: good moments between Nick and Patsy. But at any rate,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: with yours truly, Johnny Doler, and then next Thursday, be
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: sure and join us for another episode in Nick Carter
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: but from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Grahamson
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and off