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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Night Crawler (EP0922) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Frank Race, The Adventure
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of the Nightcrawler. The Adventures of Frank Race starring Paul to Above with Tony
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Barrett as Mark Donovan. The War changed many things the base of the Earth
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and the people on it. Before the war, Frank Race worked as an
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attorney, but he traded his law books for the Cloak and Dagger of the
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Oss. And when it was over, his former life was over too.
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Adventure had become his business. The adventures are Frank Race, and now we
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joined Frank Race, while the Adventure of the Nightcrawler. The telephone is a
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wonderful invention. It can get your company when you're lonely, and food when
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you're lazy. I was staring at the instrument fondly, mulling a list of
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young ladies I might invite for dinner, and dreaming of the delicacies my favorite
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caterer could whip up on the spur of the moments. But instead of waiting
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for me, the telephone acted on its own, reminding me of one of
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its less pleasant functions. It can call it for work. I was going
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to ignore it, but it's hard to ignore things when Mark Donovan is around.
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Well, ain't you going to answer the thing? My instinct tells me
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to skip it. Well, maybe your instinct is gonna louse you up.
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I suppose that is one of the babes you was going to call, and
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she thinks you're weighing around and called somebody else. You got a point,
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Marcus, Hello, ter, Yes, Charter, I've sent somebody over to
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see you should be there in a minute. Insurance case. No, no,
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just a legal line of mine. It has to do with mass murder,
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mass murder. Listen, Charter. If this is another screwy assignment like
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the last one, race, yes, give you a sense of humor at
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handy. You may need it so long. Oh great, that wasn't funny,
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of thanks, no work. I guess we don't date tonight. What
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do you mean we don't. I am going square dance. Oh that I'd
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love to see. All right, scoot, but leave the door open.
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I'm expecting company. Okay. An assignment from Charter Grant may mean almost anything.
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Sometimes it's just routine. But other times, well I sat there thinking
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of some of the other times. I thought about them until a man walked
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into the room, and I knew immediately that this was one of the other
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times. He was wearing ankle tight pants, a nineteen twelve Models suit with
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lapels above an inch wide, and a Derby hat. He was also spotting
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a mustache that prolonged and a barbershop quartet. I looked him over quickly to
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see if a lighted fuse was sticking out of any of his pockets, because
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he seemed ready to explode. I tell you, whoever is doing, they
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have got to find them and make them stop right away before I mount dying.
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They are like flies me and some of them from some murder whoa slow
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down? Who are you calls? My name? Hold up crows Mayer,
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But I will soon change it to mad unless you find some murder us.
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Oh those banners, whoever they are, I love Crousemeyer murders. After the
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police, police, police, what do they care? They laugh on me
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or class Meek alone is killed more than fifty thousand, fifty thousand people.
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People? No, no, no, no, not people who cares for
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people? Do I sell people? I'm talking about burns about the night.
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So Sweets said, Oh you should see did you say work? Yeah?
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Yeah, that's my business. I sell them music in camps. Oh can't
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worms for fishing? Yeah yeah you understand. Yeah yeah, but but some
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some cool blooded we shall kill it till he is wiping them out. Oh,
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who's fool? Little? I can't excuse me, But how could a
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little woman it can defend himself. Look, I must be out of my
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mind, but maybe I can help you. You sell canned worms for fishing,
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and something's been happening to you have any idea what it is? My
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partner with me? You have a partner, Yeah, of course his name
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is Oh. I can't put announce that. He answers card with mine.
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It's welcome a good Worm Company. Rudolph Cross President. Yeah, Jaber's abenety
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vice. Yeah, that's him. That's the fellow that. Yeah, that's
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that. He is my partner. You see if you are both Yankees from
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the mom Yeah, you understand. I had the delicatessen and I sold it.
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A point of the voluntis only now when we are shipping out the worms
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to the sports stores they are getting there. Did did you understand? All?
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Please? You have to hate them? How could a little boy?
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All right, Charles are all right? I see by the car that your
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place of business is on Long Island. I'll come out in the morning and
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have a look around. The Hookham Good Worm Company turned out to be a
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group of long low buildings resembling hothouses, with a modern office structure fronting on
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the road, adjoined by a canning shed and a truck platform. Across the
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road was a diner and I stepped in there to have my morning coffee.
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I was about to down the last mouthful and reach to my check, but
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the hand of the man next to me got their first out by friend.
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Well, that's very kind of you. But since we've never met, why
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the treat. I like to make friends and influence people. I'm betting you
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and I are going to get real friendly so you can influence me. Maybe
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going across the road, maybe I'll deal with you. As for the coffees,
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mac right, don't you watch your church? No, keep it well,
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now that we're outside, what are you selling? Let's call it advice?
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Race. Oh you know my name, you're one up on me.
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I'm Buddy Tanner. I worked for Joey Craig, which means you'd break a
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man's arm for twenty dollars or kill him for a hundred. That's just nasty
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newspaper prop. Again, you've got Joey all wrong. He loves people,
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especially you twice had me out to talk to you. Start talking, Joey
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says, worms of the fish, So that guy'd have to be a poor
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fish to get mixed up in this thing. And don't nibble. You might
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get hooked. I might. And on the other hand, I might land
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a blowfish like you. Here's the dime you put out from my coffee,
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But I wouldn't give another dime for your chances of keeping your teeth if I
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see you around here again. I turned my back on him and started across
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the road. And that was a mistake. In the middle of the highway,
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I waited for a car to go by, but as it approached,
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Tanner came up behind me and pushed, and I went scrolling in the road.
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Did I hit you? No? No, no, a near miss
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thanks to some very neat driving. Oh you're lucky. I slowed down to
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turn in here. Didn't that other man push you? Yes, he did
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well. He ran into the trees on the other side of the road.
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No need to go after him. Now he'll keep We better get out of
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the road. That's a good idea. You look, if you want to
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catch your breath, come into the office. My father's one of the owners.
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Oh Krausmeyer or Abernaffy. I'm Gloria Abernaffy, And from the looks of
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you, that's a nice thing to be. I'm Frank Race. If you're
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a fishing mister Race, this is a good place to get your faint.
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When we got inside the office, Krausmyer was waiting with all the patients of
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a man who's been sitting on a hot stove. He was bouncing around like
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a basketball being dribbled towards the goal. Already they're closing in. You understand,
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Oh, I should only have back my knife, quiet delicate, But
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I asked of my life, I would fries malogney and never would of complaining.
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What's wrong, mister Kraftsmyer, where's my father? Oh? He is
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in the end at the office with crazy boyfriend that he also played baseball,
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and how he's talking about Jed Walter and mister Race the polo playing Walter?
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Yes? Or is mister Kraftmyer calls it baseball on horses? Jed and I
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are engaged building Yeah, yeah, so if he is such a hot lover
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boy, he keeps trying to take your fab on me and follow us out
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with all the poor little baby worm. She wasn't trying to get possession of
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the building. You know, it's really very funny. Dad took a long
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term lease, but Jed didn't know what the build we're going to be used
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for it? You see, he's a sportsman, and he has certain very
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definite ideas, especially about fishing. I think I know what you mean.
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He's supposed to worm fishing. Many sportsmen are. That's right, he says.
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It isn't cricket fisherman should use lures and dry flies. That's his idea
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of sport. He says. Anybody can get a fish to bite at a
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word sports sport. It's such a spot. But the poor fish should get
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pulled me a piece of tin or a piece of painted wood, not flash
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board, at least if he gets caught with other and he has for the
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last time something to eat. This goes on all the time, mister Trace.
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Oh, here they come down. So I thought it over, and
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there's now years trying to change for mine, barging to bargain. We're staying
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yourself. Hello darling, Hello, Jed Oh, this is mister race Jed
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Wall. How are you hello? Right? Coming out to watch me play?
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Ready? Yeah? Goodbye all. Don't forget the future father in law.
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Things keep going badly. I may be able to take the buildings anyhow.
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Bye is follow him, but it's him, but the snake and hate
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thak you are looking for. Don't talk like an Addie Rodal. Just because
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he wants the building's back doesn't mean it's killing start. I saw who it's
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killing them? Then? Who am I? I can't even stay to talk
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to him. I can't stand talking to you. I'm okay, right,
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it's my partner hired you, and it's all right with me. If you
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can find the trouble. If you do, you get paid. If you
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don't, we don't know. Nothing is the bagging. It's a bargain.
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I have an ethic, all right. Then take them out and show them
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through the building Bedrudolf, I'll go with you, but I'm expecting Blake callin.
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Who's Blake Carlin? And that's a woolf for Reddy? We bye from
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him. I can't for shipping the world back. I mean you must see
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them all the other sweetos feeders nicet lit, the worms you ever saw in
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your own out in the buildings that resembled hearth houses. I was given the
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load on the breeding of worms. Ultraviolet rays, control temperatures, and other
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scientific apparatus combined to keep perfect atmospheric conditions. Poppy substance like wood shavings fill
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the beds, and Rudolph Krausmeyer filled me in on the love life of the
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speech lowly. You know, at first I did not like the buildings,
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but when you get to know them, they are so wonderful, all the
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affection of the go personalities, job just like people you know best. Even
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who's that done at the end of the row over there? Oh that's mister
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Nick them a tees and charge of the place. Let's talk to him.
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Maybe you could, But I tell you something I can't. I cannot understand
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him. He has the most talkable accents. I'll try it. Hello,
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you loves cross my eye. What do these worms feed on? Oh?
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Just a pulp in the bed, that's all. Could they suffocate when packed?
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Oh? No, the tops the cans have hordes and prayer. I
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check those two all all over them. They should live for as long as
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a year after shipping. But they reached the stores dead afraid. That's right.
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He is a kenn here home full of this door here you would like
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to go in there? Let as welcomplete the tour. Thanks McDermott. Here's
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my card. Call me if anything unusual turns up. Checked every load of
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pomp Oh all right, you finished yours? Back cha? No, let
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me disturb you. Oh you're not disturbing is I'm Blake Carl and I supplied
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again, so naturally I'm interested in your an investigation too. Got to keep
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the customers in business, you know. Well, we've been double checking the
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air holes and they're all right, yeah, yeah, they hold this.
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It's all right. But the price is all wrong for the can. They
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should be cheaper. Okay. We made a five year deal on the cans
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of gas. We'll pay you. It's the best I can do. If
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you want out on the contract, I'll let you go. We want out.
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We do not a bag and to wagon, all right? Any ideas
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a few I'm going home and study up on the habits of worms. The
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worms I had in mind with the human type Buddy Tanner and his boss Joey
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Craig. But like the nightcrawlers of the insect species, they can be found
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most easily in the late hours of the night. I curled up with a
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book on insect life to wait for the coming of midnight. When Mark was
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due to arrive with a car. A few minutes before twelve, the phone
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rang Hello, three is this is mcdoor forming out of the Hookham? Good
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world? Copy. Oh yes, mcdemot, I have got jumped to show
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you can I come up? Where are you? Gosh don on Broadwind or
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fifty night. That's only three blocks, come on over five minutes, Good
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boy, goodbye. The five minutes passed and the clock struck midnight. I
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listened to the beat of it, but there was no sign of McDermott.
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Another ten minutes past fifteen twenty then the door banged open. Oh oh,
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I thought it was somebody else, MARKO. I'd been here before, but
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just aways turned off Broadway at fifty night. You know what happened? You
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saw a killing? Yeah, yeah, See a guy comes out of Segastos
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seeing blacks are Dan, pulls up to the cob and goes bang with a
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sort of shotgun. It jumped the light. In a minute, the street
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is jammed and the cops come up and at fist. I think it's a
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gang killer, but it kinds out they'll be just an ordinary joe awaking guy
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by the name name McDermott. Wait a minute, it couldn't be on a
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radio yet even how did you know? It was just a poor fish Mark
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hooked by a nightcrawler, or maybe it was an angle worm, a human
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worm with an angle. We'll return to the adventures of Frank Race and just
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about one minute now back to the adventures of Frank Race. You can't get
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information from a dead man. Mark drove me down to the morgue and I
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identified mcdermot's spotty. We checked the club thing he'd wore on his keys,
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A few cents and change in a subway transfer. That was all. Mark
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said that McDermott had been carrying a small package, but there was no trace
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of it. Might have been lost in the street, or somebody who wanted
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it might have picked it up. They went out to the car and headed
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cross town in all race. If that was some racket here on that slap
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back, yeah, I wouldn't care. But when it's an ordinary, everyday
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citizen, you care very much, So do I. A lot of paper
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mixed up in this, What do you think might have pumped up? This
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was the work of a professional killer. The weapon points to it, so
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does the kind of car use. Plus the fact that he was killed on
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a very busy street corner, even though it was late at night. Wait
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a minute, that that fits in with a guy who tried to shove you
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wanted a car buddy, yes, him, or somebody else in Joey Craig's
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gang. But we want the person who paid to have the job done.
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But the only guy which can tell you that is a guy who pulled a
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trader. Right, So my plans for the evening haven't changed any Dropped me
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off at the Underground Club. Oh, brother, we're really getting into something.
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Look that place is always jammed with torpedoes and mobsters and act and wait,
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wait, wait, await, what do you mean drop you off?
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I mean you're not coming in with me? Are you off? You want
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them to make a play and they may not if there are two of us.
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I have something else for you to do. Find Charter Grant, get
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him out of bed if necessary, Ask him to brief you under the details
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of the partnership between Rudolph Krausmeyer and Jabe's Abernethy. He's the returning Oh that's
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fine. Then want a white doll. Go back to the morgue and wait
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till they put you on a Yet you slab next to mcgunn. Oh,
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I'll be all right, Marcus. Go back to the apartment and wait for
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me. If I don't show by morning, call police. Headquarters and ask
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them to play Button Button with Buddy Tanner and Joey Craig. Okay, you
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say so, I'll take it to the Underground Club. I hope you don't
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become appointmanent member. The Underground Club an expensive atmosphere that almost bordered on good
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taste, but it missed. Most of the patrons belonged to the group who
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had a lot of trouble explaining their earnings. When March fifteenth rolls around,
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others who came there were only slumming looking over the bad boys. Among those
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who may or may not have been slumming were a couple of new acquaintances.
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They hailed me, Race over here, Race at the end of the bar.
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Oh hello, come, I have a drink. What are you doing
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here? Gloria ted seeing how the other half lives? Everything else, duben
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a cocktail. I recommend being lucky you having a long I have sent business
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to attend to, and Glory girl here wants to stay and watch the gangster
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here to take over? Is my escort. Race just stay here alone if
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you don't. She's a very determined woman. I have a little business myself
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with the gentleman at the corner table. Oh, Joey Craig. Yes,
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Joey Craig. Well that's the same man you just did business with, Darling.
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Why I had a gambling debt to pay. Well, I'm going,
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Oh wait here for Ris good night. Don't grow old waiting, baby.
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My business may take quite some time, or I may leave suddenly. Oh
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how interesting. I'll be right here, so'd yourself. Hello, Joey.
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When I'm sitting at a table race and somebody comes up and joins me without
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being invited, I always figure it's a pretty stupid guy. Why because I
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might resent the intrusion the hard way. You did that once before, two
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years ago, and I had to break your pretty nose. You lost face
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with your boys. But quite a while. What do you want? You
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mean? Who do I want? One of your boys? Buddy Tanner,
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he tried to kill me. Very inefficient. I'll cut his salary. He
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was efficient enough a few hours ago when he killed a workman named McDermott.
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Where is he, Joey? And right behind you? Turn around, there's
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a gun in your back. Get up and walk out the side door.
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Yeah, raced in the alley. We're having a party just for you.
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Get going, all right? Tanna, let's go to work. Oh no,
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Race, don't touch your head. You're pretty badly cut off. Oh
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they were pistol whipping me. I get away. When I saw them force
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your outside, I called the police, scared them off. I was able
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to get you into my car and bring you home. You probably saved my
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life. Well, I think that might be a fair estimate, even if
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you did tear me down at the bar Real house present. He's all right
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now, Dad, thanks to your daughter. She thinks fast. It's a
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long line of wheel happeners. Got the thing fast, Race, there's a
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print of yours outside. You want to see him, Mark Donovan, Yeah,
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have him come in. Holy look at you? I know it.
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I need get you. What did you find out? Mark? You all
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right? Yeah? Not plenty? Look do you know that there is though
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in that wine business? They grossed about a quarter of a million last dollars.
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That is not woims. How about the partnership agreement? Oh it's a
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that that crows my character. He put up the door, say Ebenett,
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he had the idea how much he saw this dell like a pessant. But
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look at it. He's the kicker. They been added almost five years,
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and at the end of five years to be the one ain't happy. He
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can buy the other guy out from fifty gees and if the business start paying
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off, one of them might be unhappy. Hand me my clothes. Bid
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a minute, What do you think you're going to make somebody unhappy? But
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don't you understand I don't want to sell my business out. I love the
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one. If it's like the contract it's got yet two more months, you'll
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be on of it in two months. Anyhow, do as I say,
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and I might be able to clear this up. Oh this is awful.
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Look evenly, let's take up under them a cushion to land on, but
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not me. If it goes to pieces the business, my partner he could
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start over can without me. That Wolton who plays the bass small and horses.
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He could range his feelings to somebody else, and even calling with the
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cans, he could sell them to the salt company. What salt company,
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Oh, some crazy salt company that puts all the find of salt in the
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bags. Now they got an idea that they sell it in can so you
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could shake it right out and not pass out. The fields are shake it
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all right? Now, do as I say in call Ebenet. Oh,
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how could I get poliple state Little Devils? I don't know. Hello,
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this is a hold. I I want you should buy me out right now,
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track I'll buy, Yeah, but I want to sell now. You
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don't have to give me the fifty thousand dollars. I take care. Yeah,
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I think so too, Mama. If you want to get it down,
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you can never good bye. Oh he's hanging up on me now I
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am all up. Hey, Hey he said no, he wouldn't do it.
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Fine, that's all I wanted to know. I'll be seeing you later,
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Rudolph. So I wouldn't like crossmard at price? All right? What
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is that pool? It proves it. Aben Ethy is exactly what he seems
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to be, a solid New Englander who sticks to his bargains and holds other
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people to theirs. He isn't ruining the business, so he can take it
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all over here. Turn this next corner. Okay, all right, wait
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a minute. He underground clubs on his street. Yes, my boy,
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turned into the alley and go to the back of the place. Ok.
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You ain't going in there again? I would you'll have bandages on your bandages.
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Oh, Marcus I'm not going in. We're gonna wait for two gentlemen
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who are addicted to side doors. When they come, I've got a score
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to settle. That guy. Race may show up again. If he does,
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we'll take him in the car and do the job. Right. You
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bet at the jet package inside? Now, Mark, and this is the
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way of the madage. You got the right. This is one I wanted
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up. I quit Race. Who wired you? Nobody? Beauty real Pippin,
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Thank you, Marcus, my boy. Hi, I'm up and drive
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him down the police headquarters. Tell the inspector to book them for McDermott's murder.
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I'm going after the man who hired them. Okay, who was it?
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I'll know for sure when I find the package McDermott had. It's hidden
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inside. If I get it, I'll go pick up the third singer for
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this trio. Oh hello Race, Hello Carlin Manufacturing can seems to call for
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late hours. Well, I've I've got a big new account Canning Salt.
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I heard you had to cancel all your other business to handle it, but
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Abernathy wouldn't let you cancel with him. A bargain's a bargain, So unless
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you can give them your entire output. You lose your salt company account.
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That was bad, so you had to figure out a way to put Krausmeyer
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and Abernathy out of business. Could I heard that? I only supply the
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can. I know cans like these, A pair of them, and they
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look the same. Where did you get those from? Joey Craig and Buddy
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Tanner, who are now in jail charge with the murder of McDermott, the
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murder you hired them for. When McDermott got wise to your stunt. Yeah,
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watch me, I'll unscrew the top of the can. Look worms,
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and one of them alive and the other dead. McDermott found an old can
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and filled it. Nothing happened the latest batch of cans. Those are the
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ones you washed out with a very strong DDT solution before you sent them over.
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Aren't they DDT to kill the worms before they reach market? That's a
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silly theory. Race, I'll show you why. It's in this draw.
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See a gun, I see, but you won't use it. You'd pay
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somebody to kill me if you had a chance, but you can't do it
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yourself. So I'm going to take that gun away from you. Race.
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I warned you drop it, drop it, and it all right, Colin.
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I'll take it on the police headquarters. As Cosmiers said, when a
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fish get took for the last time, he's at least got a right to
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something to eat, and you will be able to order anything you want in
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the Death House. The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Paul Dubove with Tony
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Barrett as Mark Donovan, comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's
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cast were Michael Lann, Barrett, Gunner, Peterson hal March, Bill Crawford,
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Wilms Herbert, and Dick Ryan. This series is written and directed by
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Buckley Angel and Joel Murkot. The music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmarks.
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Be sure to be with us again this time next week or another drammatic
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chapter in the Adventures of Frank Race, Ark Gylmore speaking, this is a
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Brusel's production. Welcome back well with the man who sold those cans caught.
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I think Race has put together a solid case and there won't be any worming
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out of it, all right, if space generously added for any possible laughs
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we do. I have to say that it was interesting to hear his description
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of what the phone was for, because obviously I've had the experience that online
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and texting kind of works the same way, though, and more and more
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we're not actually meeting people but ordering food. I think I ordered my last
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pizza in a sandwich delivery, both off the internet. So same concept,
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different technology, all right. When we do have a note from Bob in
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Texas, he says, I love the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.
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minute walk, and right before I leave the house, I start your show
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on my iPhone. My dog Jenny recognizes the theme song for Great Detectives and
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starts running in circles and anticipation of her walk. I guess you would say
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that not only I love your show, but my dog Jenny is a big
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fan too. Well. Thanks so much for sharing, Bob, and I'm
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glad you enjoy the show and that it fills Jenny with anticipation. So have
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a great walk and a great rest of your day. That will actually do
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