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Nick Carter: The Substitute Bride (EP1062) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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ounce of prevention. Now it's time for us to bring you the greatest of
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all manhunters, Nick Carter. And this is the case of the Substitute Bride.
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What is it another case for? Yes, it's another case for that
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most famous of all man hunters. The detective ability at solving crime is unequaled
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in the history of detective fiction. Her Master Detective, The Night's Curious Adventure,
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Substitute Bride, and The Mystery of the Night. Carry You take your
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hands on me. What are you doing me? Nick? Did the young
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man here to see you? There? He's no offend you. Hello nick
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Ellen, Marvin Well, Helen is good to see her again. What brings
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you to this part of the country? Came east to get married? Nick?
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Well? Congratulations? Wait a minute, I'm afraid your congratulations are a
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little premature. What's the matter? I don't know. I can't find her.
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I can't find her. But what on earth do you mean by that?
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Look at slank this Nick? I was seventh and I have been engaged
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for about four years. For the past three years she's been living in South
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America with friends of her family. She was due back in this country yesterday
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on the galley, so I came on from Chicago to meet her. Her
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boat got in ahead of schedule and my train was late, so we missed
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connections, and already told her I was coming in spite of that. She
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was gone by the time I got to the dock last night. Didn't she
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leave any message for you? No, not a word. It's sad and
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she has no friends in this part of the country that she could stay with
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or didn't anyone at the boat? No? Where as she went apparently not
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Nick, the stewardess, says, the boy brought her a note. As
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soon as she read it, she got dressed and went ashore. There was
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a taxi waiting for her, and she went off in it. Oh later
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an expressman called for her trunks. Perhaps she went to a hotel hotel?
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But why should she do that when I told her that i'd meet her at
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the boat. No, Nick, something has happened to her, I'm sure
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of it. Nick. The morning payment, miss Alice Heavens registered at the
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Hamilton Top Hotel. Would that be the same girl? Hey, let me
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see that really quick. Well, and she did go to a hotel.
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See what a cool I was worrying you, Nick, I think nothing of
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woul Allen. Glad you found her. Well, if you don't mind,
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Nick, I think I will go right ahead. I don't know how anxious
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you are his the ear. Hey, look, Nick, why don't you
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come with me? I'd like very much to have you meet her. All
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this seems highly at the time. Come on, Nick, come on,
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I want you to meet her. You'll like her all right if you insist.
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But I've heard it said the three is usually a crowd, especially after
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two of them and separated for three years Taxi Taxi, second and fifth rabbits.
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Well, Ellen, I gat it that you feel that I visited to
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the young lady was not a complete success. Nick. Something's wrong. I
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don't know what, so I noticed. That's why I stayed until you left.
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She's changed. I can't put my finger up, but she's different somehow.
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Three years is a long time out of some change. It'd be quite
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natural. But it isn't that kind of change, Nick. Doesn't she look
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the same? She doesn't. She doesn't. You mean you don't think she
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is alas Evans? She must be, Yeah, and you're not sure.
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I wish her father were here. He'd know immediately whether she's his daughter or
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not. Where is he Chicago? I don't know. He told me he
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was meeting the book, but as far as I know, he hasn't shown
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up. She said she hasn't seen him, and he probably was delayed in
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getting away. Look, you you don't suppose anything could have happened to him,
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do you? You know? Like so many rich men, he always
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carried several hundred dollars with him, and it's possible, of course, Ellen.
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Why is there anything distinctive about his appearance? Shortish man, stout white
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hair. Oh yeah, he wore old fashioned side with although she should make
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him easy to identify him. I'll have Lieutenant Riley get in touch with the
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Chicago Police and see if they know anything about No Good. Now, I'll
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have Patsy make the run of the hospitals here in town. I'll send Penny
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to the terminal in the face is if you can think of any information about
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him there. We ought to find out something that way, and I think
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my next step will be to visit the galley at her duck see what I
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can learn there. The main reason I'm taking her to see miss Evans pursus,
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and I want you to tell me whether or not Seeese the girl or
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made the trip up in South America with him? I understand, son.
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Are you the purser of the gallier probably had as good a chance to see
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her as anyone? Oh why yes, sir, But none of us saw
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her very much. She took ill right after we sailed and died in no
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room almost dan tire. Would you say you'd be able to identify her positively?
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Oh yes, sir. I had an excellent memory for faces, and
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Jay was a real look as she was. Here's her hotel man by Joseph.
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Yeah, take this element three please, this is her card rooms right
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across the corridor. Here. Oh, I'll come in, mister Cato,
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thank you. You of course know this, gentleman. Miss sevens Why,
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Oh, it's hardly fair to expected to remember me, mister Catta. She
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was so ill every time I saw her that I doubt she never really got
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a good look at me the old voyage. Oh, I of course,
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now I know who you are. You're one of the officers of the Gallia
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became U from South America together. That's right, mom, See sir,
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she knows me right enough when you I've seen you somewhere. If if I
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hadn't been so sick, I'd have remembered you at once. I see,
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well, Miss Evans, our call is really in the nature of business.
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First, I found a value of a lot of jewelry left behind in the
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ship, and I was called in to help find the owner as it was
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near your cabin. We come to you first. I haven't missed any of
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my jewels, but I'll let you know if I do. Thank you.
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Have you had any word from your father yet? No, it's not a
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word. Do you suppose anything's happened to him? What did it look like,
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Miss Evans? Why he was? I'll show you a picture you can
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tell better about that. See, young Cardiff, that's my thought. Are
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you a detective? Yes, miss I am, Then you must find him
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for me. I don't care what it cost very well, I'll see what
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I can do. Should we go pushure? He? Oh? Yes,
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sir, good day, miss and good luck yet, goodbye and thank you.
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I'll let you know as soon as I learned anything. This Evans good
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day? Well? Pers Was that the miss Evans who made the trip with
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you in the Oh? Positively, sir, I know her anywhere. You're
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sure there's no question whatever, Sir. I'd swear to it on a stack
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of bibles of foot tire would. I couldn't find a thing, Nick,
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There's nobody in the hospital who enters to the description of mister Eaven. I
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hardly expected you kind of things. We had to be sure we did the
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Chicago police know anything about him? I probably said they had no report of
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anything having happened to him. There. Oh, Penny hasn't come in yet.
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Hey, Nick, I couldn't find any traces of the old boy at
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the tamil. But I did find something at the ferry. But you find
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oh, that'll keep nick right now. I got a taxi waiting outside,
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and the driver of the taxi's the fellow who took Alice Evans from the boat
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to the hotel last night, and he knows something. How'd you find him?
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All? The stewardess on the gallia pointed him out to me, afraid
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if I tried to bring him in here, I'll scare him. I already
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asked him a lot of questions. I'll go outside and talk to him myself.
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A driver, I'm the carter. Tell what I ain't interested, but
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I am. I'm interested in what you can tell me about a young lady
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you picked up at the galley last night. He took her to the Hamilton
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Park hotel. Didn't you all right? So what if I did? Look,
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you'll save yourself time and trouble if you'll answer my questions. You picked
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up about eight o'clock, didn't you? Yeah? About that? How long
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a drive visit to the hotel about a half hour maybe if the lights was
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against you, forty five minutes? And how does it happen that you didn't
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register in at the hotel till ten o'clock. Well, I where'd you go
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between the time and up the gally and the time you meet the hotel?
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I stopped over at the house in twenty second Street for a while. Did
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miss Evans leave the cab? Yeah? She said she wanted to see Winslow's
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daughter said they went to school together. It was David Winslow's house. You
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stop dead, yeah, I said, so, didn't I she did?
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Thanks here, and so pay for watching the meter and for the information.
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Okay, so long find out anything, Nick, notpany? What does it
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hope he got at the ferry. Well it's like this, Nick. I
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found one of the ferry guards who remembered seeing an old guy with big white
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side whiskers get on the ferry about the time evans train must have got in
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from Chicago. See, well, this guard got such a kick out of
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the whiskers that he watched for the old guy to get off the boat at
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the other side, say, could get another gander at him? And did
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he? Nah? The old guy didn't get off. What are you sure
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sure? And the old guy wasn't on the boat anywhere. That could sound
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as if something might have happened to him during that fairy. Kay O,
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Well, Nick, I've got some news. Mister Evans was alive this morning.
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That's so, how do you know? I'll tell you. I went
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to see mister Evans banker this afternoon to see if he had any word from
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him. He showed me a check that mister Evans had made out this morning,
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check for fifty thousand dollars, dated this morning. Yes, it was
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made out to John Smith and endorsed by David Winslow. David Winslow, you're
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sure about Ellen? Yes? Sure? Why here? Why? Last night?
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A girlh claims to be Alice Sevans, but apparently he isn't. Stops
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off at Winslow's house. I'm away to the hotel. Mister Evans disappears last
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night, and he had a check made up by him this morning. Turns
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up indorsed by Winslow him self. Hey wait a minute, it does look
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suspicious, suddenly does Patsy. Tomorrow morning, you and I are going to
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call on mister Winslow. Very good of you to see me, mister Winslow.
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I'm Nick Carter, the detective. Yes, I've heard of you.
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Mister got him. Miss Bowen, my assistant, what can I do with
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humans? Cut him? Mister Winslow, you know James only very slightly.
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You acquainted with his daughter Alice? None, it got her and not I
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see. Did a check of mister Evans recently passed through your hands? By
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yes? It did? I catch one of his checks yesterday. Did you
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know that mister Evans disappeared the day before the date? I'm not checked,
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but he did. You don't see? Would you be in a position to
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know if the signature on the check were a forgery? Well, the signature
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were genuine, all right, And mister Smith presented for Fayman the check in
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the amount of fifty thousand dollars. I naturally sent to Chake to miss Evans,
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paying for verification. They said it was good, so I paid Smith
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the money. I see you said a few moments ago that you didn't know
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Alice sevens? Yes, I did. But didn't she call here night before
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last? Why? Yes? She did? She calls through my daughter the
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a classed me to school. My daughter was not at home, so she
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talked my wife for a while and bath, I thank you for your troubles
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to myself, not at all. Come on, passy time, we're running
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along Okay, Nick, good morning with Winsaw. Good morning today, mister
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winsor the baby us it. Patsy had intended to believe what he said,
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even if I didn't know that he has an excellent reputation in banking circles here
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in town. What do you telling him? Certainly tuned to stake forward enough
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to see that man going in the house next door. Oh yes, what
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about it? May? I saw that man at court a few weeks ago,
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charged with murderous assault, and now we found him going into the house
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next to the little windflows Patsy, I want you to get back to the
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office immediately. Tell Anny to see what he can find out about that house.
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The addresses eight thirty two West twenty second Street. I want to know
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more about that place. Talk clear, Nick, When did you see that
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interest was eight thirty two West twenty second Street. Rally, No, Nick,
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that's your curious thing. But the boy strict up a boom this morning,
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and when we searched him, we found a slip of paper in his
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pocket with that shaven dress on it. Well, Rally hould him. I'll
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be right down. I don't know I tell you how many times you got
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to keep On, saying that you don't know who pushed the man off the
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ferry, who kidnapped his daughter, where she is now, or anything about
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it? Now, I tell you now who's the girl? Was staying at
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the Hamilton Park Hotel under the name of Evans? Where's the Hammerfon Park Hotel?
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All right, Baker? All right, yes, I must have you
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all wrong. I'll say you have you live at eight thirty two West twenty
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second Street. Well, I don't exactly now who does live there? Oh?
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How should I know? Where's David windsowd Right next, who's David Wentzlow?
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All right, Nick, I'm through with Baker. Now the fellow I
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thought it was all right, Baker. Guys waiting for you just outside the
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door. Take it back to your ten okay, I harpy, Ut what
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you're looking for? Cat? Nick? What did you find? Riley?
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Baker thought he told me in loving but his answers were disclever as he thought
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they were. Actually he told me that Evans was thrown off the ferry into
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the river, and that he was picked up in a rowboat. Because waiting
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for him. Well, I also discovered that he knows David Winslow and that
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he knows what goes on at eight thirty two West twenty second, Kay,
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all of which, well, not conclusive evidence tells me I'm on the right
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f nice gool Nick, what's Nicked Riley? I want you to release this
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man Baker at once. We'll release him Nick from Berg. But why I
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want to be sure the rest of the gang knows I'm on the trail.
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The first thing Baker will do when he gets out of here will be to
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tell him. Leil undoubtedly makes some move to try and stop me, and
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that may bring him out in the open. Anyways, you find out,
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well, ty Nick, whoever's running that gang's keeping it pretty secret. None
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of my old pals know anything about it. All I could find out it
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is that the addresses the hideout of what they call the Secret six. Yeah,
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I ex convict the car they call the butler takes care of the place
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during the day and keeps it cleaned up. That for me, the man
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Patsy and I saw what about David Winsory, Yeah, and nobody connects his
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name with it nowhere. You must be extremely clever or I'm extremely much of
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a dope. Nah, you know, dope, Nick, Well, dope
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Hey, where's Patsy. She asked me to bring her back some peanuts.
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Oh, she wanted to see that girl who was posing as Alice sevens at
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her hotel. Anyway, I didn't realize it. It was so late she
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should have been back by now. Found this note at a desk when I
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came in about lunchtime. Yeah again, Nick, girl who calls herself Alice
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seventh, just called to say she had information on I found his disappearance.
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When I told her you want here, she asked me to go over and
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she'd give it to me and I could get it to you. We'll take
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a run over to the hotel and see what she wants. See you at
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the office when I get back, Patsy. That was almost five hours ago.
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Say look, should we go over there and have a look. See
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my first off phone, Miss Evens, Hamilton Park Hotel. That's sum on
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three two four three. Gee if that bunch of crooks has tried anything on
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Patsy Hotel, Good afternoon, miss Alice Evans. Please I'll connect you.
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Thank you. No, I ain't non Patsy long, but she's a pretty
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swell kind of name for thanks you. Nobody Homed opening and I don't like
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it. I think I better get going in Wait a minute, Thank it's
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Cotter's office. Yeah, who's this? If you want to see your girlfriend
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Patsy again, caught it, keep out of the Evans case. What do
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you mean if you make another move to try and find out what happened to
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old man Evans or his daughter? You can kiss your girlfriend goodbye. It'll
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be Curtins for But look, Nick, just because the Secret Six meets here
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doesn't mean that they'll be keeping Patsy a prisoner here. I know that there's
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a couple of members of the gang go in here a few minutes ago.
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Dinway, Yeah, sure we did. What if I can't make them tell
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me what they downlooked? Patsy? My name isn't Nick Carter? Oh whatever
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you say, Nick? You say that man they call the butler's upstairs in
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the first floor. Now, yeah, he's writing in the back parlor.
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And that's it in the basement. Quick. Oh, but the door's locked,
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Nick, it's got a special Townsend lock on it. That'd won't be
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the first door with the Townsend lock on it. That my little big clock
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there quiet? Now, wonder way this door goes? Oh that leads into
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the basement of the house next door. Nick, Then I'm right, that's
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the basement of the house where that banker Winslow lives. He is in on
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this Hey, Nick, sounds like somebody's coming down here. You're right,
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Benny, you're quick. There's a storage closet. Get it here. I
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leave the door open the cramps so we can watch him. Said Butler,
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Benny, you're not going to gag me again, are you? That must
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be old man. What's that stuff you have there? And if you call
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that food, you can take it away, Penny. If one of us
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stands on the eat side of that door, if you grab the everybody comes
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out. But don't let him call out those other guys. Mind hear him
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what I say? Nick, like that? Go on, get out here
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he comes now, but regoment weavons room here quick now shut the door.
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Okay, what's this? What are you doing here? Mis Reveens? An't
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you yes? Carter? Oh? Thank heavens. You know where the other
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two men are that we saw them in here a little while ago. You're
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probably in the room where the gang meets at the end of this whole.
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That's Winslow. Quick, Miss reveins yes, what of the Butler's boys sound
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like very much like yours, except that he had a kind of dialect,
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no particular country just before him rest Winslow, just seen wins Yes, Senior
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Winslow, you call me. I've called you several times. Men, I've
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been trying to find something in the back of the story. It's closet.
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You read something, Senior. Yeah, I'm the boys going from amazing tonight.
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Tell them not the lave until I get here, no matter what time
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it is. Then, but of course they must not leave until you come.
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I will tell them, all right. Don't forget that it was amazing,
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mister Carter. It was almost a perfect imitation. All right, Penny,
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you better get this Butler Chap tied up and gang before it comes to
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whatever you saying, mister Reveens. Yes, you know why you were kidnapped
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and brought here? Why, Yes, mister Carter, they want my fortune.
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I know. They've kidnapped my daughter and substitute it in her place,
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a girl who looks enough like her to be her double. They plan to
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have her get possession of everything she cancer. And they forced you to write
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that check for fifty thousand dollars. But mister Carter, do you know where
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my daughter is? I'm sorry, mister Evans, I don't, but I
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expect to know very soon. Come on, Benny, let's get down the
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hall and let those thugs tell us where Patsy is. Whatever you yeah,
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I hold it, Benny. I'll turn the knob on the door gently and
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when I give it a word, you're Russiam. That's in case there may
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be more than two in there? What easy? Now? Right? Answers?
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Nice shooting? Nick? You should have known better than to pull a
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gun on you. All right, you'll get up. It's only your wrist
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that's hurt. Come on, get up, your guns on the floor,
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Come on, let's him all then one of your crooks done with my assistant
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Patsy? What I said? What have you done with there? We are
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not that botter. No. Maybe you don't know it, mister, but
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when I get mad, I can be dirty and mean and somebody gets hurt?
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Is he? I tell you, we don't know why idea winsdow Again,
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Penny, you begun? I need to they open my mouth, let
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him have it and you are killed. But why don't you answer me?
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I don't, senior. We are having no confidence. We did not expect
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you until later. You are coming in here. I just I don't expect
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to be one of my busy windsor I'll hear the telling from now on.
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Why what's the meaning of this, mister Carter? You can set up?
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Where's Patsy? That's who you hurt me? What have you done with my
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assistant? Patsy won? I don't know anything. Where is Doom? Where
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is he? Do you break my arm? Stop for the last time?
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Where is stop it? Stout? Can you? Oh well get upstairs?
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Second? O locked? I suppose? Oh, I'll get a nick.
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I took the butler's the keys away from him. Good wife, Penny,
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make it snappy. I'll watch these two for a nickel. Thugs. Yeah,
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what have you seen? Nick? All right? Winso get over against
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the wall with the rest of your cheap bums. If you've hurt one single
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hair and Patsy's had, you be lucky if you live long enough for me
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to turn you over to the place. She's all right, we did nothing
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to hurt tall lucky for you. Tell me whenso? Why did you throw
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Evans off the ferry boat? It wouldn't have been easier to have kidnapped him
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someplace else. I had the fairies watched for several days. Found at the
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time of night and a bit of cold weather. We've been having a rare
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deck of the ferries, almost always deserted, so we planned it that way.
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We had other plans ready in case that didn't work. Oh, Nick,
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am I glad to see you, Patsy? You are right? Anybody
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hurts you? No, Nick, they're a little rough, but they got
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as good as they gave me. But that black Eyele, the guy on
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the left, good for you, Patsy. Hey Nick. After I got
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Patsy loose, I looked in some of the other rooms and I found this
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name in the front room up there. Say she's Marion Blake. My name
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is Marion Blake. You're not Marion Blake. You're Alice Evans. No,
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No, I'm not Alice Evans. I'm Marian Blake. Aren't you saying that
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you're Maryon Blake because you're afraid the gang will fetch your father if you admit
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you are really Alice Evans. You're quite safe now, miss Evans. Oh,
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mister Evans, you've come in here, please, yes, my father
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here, I'm free. Yes, miss here he is, Penny. You
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better go get rallied. You'll find him waiting just around the corner. You
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can take over. Now tell me where you were, mister Cutter. I
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can never thank you enough for what you've done me. Who you are,
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our lives hellis and I You don't owe me anything, mister Evans, Getting
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rats like these out of circulation gives me more satisfaction than anything else ever.
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Could this is your room? You two wait here to like call you?
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Have you else? Good morning, miss Evans, Oh, good morning,
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mister Carton. Have you discovered anything about my father? I was about to
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ask you the same question. Have you heard from him? No, mister
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Carter, nothing. Well, let me be the first to bring you the
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good news. Good news. Yes, your father has been found. He's
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been found. Yes, he was kidnapped and imprisoned by some crooks who were
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trying to steal his portune. Oh, my poor father. Where was he
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found in a basement room where the gang was keeping him prisoner? Has he
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told you what happened to him? Oh? Yes, he told us everything.
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Everything. By the way, miss Evans, I wrote a friend with
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me this morning. I thought you might like to meet her. May I
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ask her in. Yes, Yes, of course, Helen. Will you
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bring the young lady in? OK? Do you recognize this young lady?
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Miss Evans? All right, mister Carton, I'm gonna drop that miss Evans
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stuff. Now I see you know the whole story, practically the whole story.
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Yes, who, Elie? Have you met the real Marion Blake?
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No? I haven't. My goodness, she does look like me, doesn't
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she? Yes? But she didn't fool me there. No, I suppose
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I was crazy to believe that I could fool a man with as much in
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love with you as he is. Miss Evans resemblance is certainly close enough to
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fool almost anyone else, though, why she even't sounds like me? Miss
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Blake? Whose idea was it to substitute you for Alice Evans? My husband
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he was the head of a Chicago gang, so a picture on the paper
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and the idea came to him by coming back from South America seemed to be
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the idea of setup for carrying out the scheme, so we came east to
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do it. We knew Winslow from a couple of jobs we did for Chicago.
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Didn't it occur to your husband when you threw my father off the cherry.
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He might get numonia in the icy water and die. We didn't worry
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about that, when you'd live long enough for what we wanted. Why you
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call Alice? Alice? Take it easy? But did you hear what?
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That's all over with there? The police will take care of her. Now.
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I'm not usually blood thirsty, but I hope she gets the electric chair.
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The chair is hardly the sentence for attempted extortion, Alice. By the
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time she gets out of jail, she'll no longer be young and pretty,
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and with the marks that prison will leave on earth, she'll never again be
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able to devil for you. This was another strange experience of Nick Carter,
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master detective called the Substitute Pride or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Night
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Burry, another of the curious adventures of Nick Carr. WHI you're brought to
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you regularly at this time by W O R Mutual And now, Nick,
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what strange adventure are you and Patsy going to tell us about? Next week?
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Next week, I want to tell you about a case that never seemed
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to be twice the same. What do you mean by that, Nick,
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Well, what Nick means is this the case shouted out as a suicide,
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turned into a murder, and then disappeared entirely, and I disappeared with it
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till all this sounds very screwy to me? Are you sure you're talking about
29:26
next week's story? Nothing else? But but I'm afraid that if you want
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any more details, you're don't have to listen to the story itself, and
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if you're wise, you won't miss it. With one of our breads that
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it is for now. So long, folks, so long, and so
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long to you both until next week and the strange adventure you have just heard.
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Nick Carter was impersonated by Lone Clark, Patsy by Helen Chot. Original
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music was played by Lou White. The entire production was written and directed by
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Jack McGregor. Next week, at the same time, listen to another curious
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experience of Nick Carter, entitled Disappearing Cops, Nick Cornor and the Mystery of
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the Apartment House Murder. The story is a copyrighted feature of Street and Smith
30:33
Publications, Incorporated. The Return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios of
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w R and is broadcast over most of these stations every Wednesday evening at eight
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thirty Eastern wartime. This is mutual welcome back. Well, another good case
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for Nick Carter, and we turned out a listener comments. Joel says,
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I was thinking, just as the body on the slab ended that this program
31:17
was more like pulp fiction book than most radio dramas. Then you come in
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and make the same observation. Great stuff to hear. I'm sorry, mister
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Moto has finished. I enjoyed that very much. Well, thanks so much,
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Joel. Well, mister Moto. Of course, there are episodes that
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were not played just because they were in existence at the time of the program,
31:38
so there's always the hope it comes back. But I'm glad folks enjoyed
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it. It was one of those ones there. Coming in, I was
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a little nervous, but I'm glad it worked. But definitely, Nick Carter
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has a very strong pulp fiction feel to it, and we see that in
31:56
really most of these episodes, and I don't think that that's a bad thing.
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You know, it really gives it something that's unique where it's pulp fiction,
32:07
but it's not quite to the extreme of say the Shadow, So you
32:13
know, it's nothing wrong with the Shadow, but it you know, basically
32:16
puts it in another genre. But this is a series I think is a
32:21
lot of fun. Let's see other listener comments and feedback. Had one listener
32:28
say that he really did not enjoy my voice and offered to find out how
32:35
much it would require to buy me off from actually doing the podcast, how
32:38
much you would have to donate. My response basically that I talk about old
32:46
time radio at the beginning of the show and at the end because I love
32:52
it, not for money. It's been my pleasure to share my love of
32:53
radio with listeners around the world and to talk to them like friends and share
32:57
what I've learned and know. We speak to people who are far from home
33:02
and bring a little bit of home to them and share the fun of listening
33:08
the shows as well as our thoughts and insights, not just Mom, but
33:13
other listeners. We really appreciate that listener relationship. So if he's got spare
33:19
money around to try and bribe podcasters, I suggested might want to just donate
33:24
the money to the hungry. And then at a comment regarding our one thousand
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and fiftieth episode from Joan, thank you for bringing us the Crime Crime Club.
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I really enjoyed The Crime Club episodes as I've listened to them for a
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few years now. It'd be nice if you'd add this to your list of
33:38
shows, but I expect your list is getting pretty long as it is.
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Thanks so much, Joan and listeners can take a look at the list of
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shows and we don't make a ton of updates. We'll hopefully get one made
33:54
by the time this airs, but the list is getting along. The big
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thing with a pro like The Crime Club is that they don't have a consistent
34:06
hero from show to show, and really that makes them great for specials.
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So I have quite a few episodes of suspense. The Crime Club is the
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only series where I'm looking at all of the episodes to eventually play one of
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these days, because I like to have a special every fifty episodes or so.
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And if I be sure I'm on those anthology programs with a detective in
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them, be sure that we'll be able to continue to do that for a
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long long time to come. All right, Well, that will actually do
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it for today. We will be back tomorrow with the final part of the
34:54
Lamar Matter, and then join us afterwards for Doctor Tim. In the meantime,
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