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Carter and the Tunnel Is Death goes to the post. What's the matter?
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What is It's another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective. Yes, it's
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today's story opens, it's near the end of the last racing season in World
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City. Nick and Patsy are walking back to Nick's office when Nick suddenly seizes
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Patsy's arm and says, holand Betsy, that woman coming out of the pawn
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chap looks familiar, but I can't place her. She's a good looking woman.
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Allow if that blonde hair of hers is natural, I'm a Chinese grandmother.
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She doesn't seem to be connected with crime in any way yet. And
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look who's trailing her, Benny Retzel. I know him right enough. He's
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a private cop for the Mutual Protective Agency, isn't he? Yes? And
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they're a choice out. But not to get mixed up with the slogan as
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you'll marry them and we trail them, I'll let them go. What do
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we care who's getting married? It was? Can just mind our own business.
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I'm going in the porn shop. I want to ask a few questions,
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But why what's it to us? Probably nothing, Just curious to know
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who that woman was. Go ahead and make a fool of yourself. She's
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probably nobody. Well, mister Cotta here so it's you. Well, yeah,
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I swear to you though I ain't guilty. Watch this. You're not
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guilty of whatever you say. I don't. I ain't, and I'll probably
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have it that. That's not why I'm here. Who is that good looking
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blond that just went out of here? Or no, but I don't such
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a one. She is the life of Colonel Pembuth, no less Colonel Pembrith,
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the big horse race man. Yeah, that's the one. And you
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know, if I was a betting man, carter, which I ain't,
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and see if the Colonel had a horse running at the takt this afternoon,
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I'd put a bet down on him, on the colonel or the horse.
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Such a christ of the colonel. He could have been a horse race maybe
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coin w what's the stary. It's just a hunch, that's all. But
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when a dame asks me to give her three thousand dollars, I'm a sting
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of oiled work, maybe ten thousand, and swear she'll read the twenty four
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dollars. And if she's married to us sling of fast horses, well you
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can make your own guess, and it would still be a guess. Take
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me to the races, Nick, Why should I I want to win some
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money by betting on the colonel's horse? You know, the colonel. Oh?
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Yes, I know I'm slightly but I hardly think. Oh come on,
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Nick, it'll be fun out there anyway. I love horses, all
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right, but don't expect me to pay your betting losses. You're strictly on
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your own out there. Oh, it's always a thrill to me to be
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in the paddock where you can see the horses close to gosh, there's such
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beautiful things. You certainly are. Oh, there's the colonel in this party.
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Let's roll over there. There's a wife too. Yeah, it looks
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more interested than the young man beside her that she does in the colonel.
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Maybe she is. He's much better looking, not so old either. Hello,
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Colonel Pembered, how are you? Oh? Hello Carter? Fine?
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Thanks? I believe you know my wife I don't, but I'm happy to
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thank you. Mister Carter. This is miss Bowen. I do know you
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what a beautiful horse is that yours kennel? Yes, Miss Bowen, that's
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Speed Queen, the winner of the next race. How do you know that,
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colonel? Because she's ready, you run the legs off every other horse
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in the race. Better put something down on it. I'll believe a horse
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is really going to win when I see her trainer putting up some of his
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own money. Well, you'd see that right now, except that I never
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allow my employees to build on any race in which we have an envy.
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That right, Dison, that's right. It's only that rule of yours.
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It's keeping me from picking up a fortune on this race. I still say
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I'll believe it when I see it. The end of the race is the
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time to tell how good Speed Queen really is. Shall we go, Patsy
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m hmm, right to the bedding window. I want to put two dollars
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down on Speed Queen. She's too beautiful to lose a race. Sonny Boy
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filling the lead with nim Rod and Golden Spurs behind. Funny Boy pulling away
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from Nimrod looks like a strong winner. But you can't tell you a horse
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tim Rod is getting a good lead on Golden spur well, Petsy, come
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run, Speed, Queen. There's pretty far back on the bunch. If
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I can see this straight from here, doesn't mean a thing, you know
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it, nothing except that you're probably way out two dollars. I am not
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going to win. She's starting to come out, say she is at that,
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But now things need to be changing. Speed Queen, who's been hanging
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in the back of the bunch so far, it's beginning to pull out,
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passing the other horses. And if they were standing still, sunny boys don't
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leave with men right flows behind now Speed Queen at third and still growing from
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almost incredible the way he's running a beat Queen off the ground man when her
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dogey's mom a wife to get around the leaders are too bad. He's coming
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out and making neck with Funny Boy and coming down the bread together. There
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now be Queen pulling ahead. She's got looks very possible. Now, Betsy,
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he's certainly showing her heels to the rest of them. If you can
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pass sunny Boy now she may make it. That was awful, Nick.
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What do you suppose happened to speed Queen's jockey? We may never know,
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Patsy, he wasn't dead when he fell off his horse. The horse is
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coming up behind him trampled him to death. Do you suppose he had heart?
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Maybe and maybe not. When a horse that isn't a favorite suddenly comes
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up from behind to take the lead away from the favorite, and then something
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happens that that's the favorite win after all, I'm just naturally a little suspicious
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high neck. Oh hi, at Tien, do you have anything on this
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race? Patsy had two dollars on Speed Queen, but he saw what happened,
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as she must have gotten the same tip I did. The Speed Queen
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was all set to win, but the big money didn't know it. I
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was so sure the tip was good that I put one hundred bucks in her
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nose. Oh here's one ticket I'll never cash you. Wait a minute,
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Wait a minute. Huh, don't tear up that ticket. You don't want
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it, Give it to me, will you? Oh you want a superna,
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Sure you're welcome to it and anything it can collect on it. Thanks.
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You know, Speed Queen had one that'll be worth fifteen hundred bucks.
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Now it's just waste paper. Perhaps you're right, Jim, but I have
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a hunch. Come on, Patsy, let's stroll down to the payoff windows.
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Well, look who's at one hundred dollars window. Pinky Demes never had
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over five dollars on a race in his life, Nick, Would you look
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at the handful of tickets he has. Those are all winners. It must
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be five or six thousand dollars there easily that much, no question about it,
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Patsy. Somebody knew something was going to happen to make sunny by the
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winner, and for the sake of the poor dead jockey and speed Queen.
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I'm going to find out what it was. It did happen. Wait a
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minute, I'll be right back, Okay, Pinky, Pinky Demes, huh
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oh, you got it, and you give a guy that jumps grabbing at
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him. Don't wait. I didn't think you touts ever believed in your own
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tip, Spinky, not enough to bet all that money on him. You
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got me ruined. Connor, I didn't have noth none of this race.
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It was just hanging around. I only got bust fear back to town.
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I hold one hundred dollars ticket on speed Queen. I hate to be a
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sucker. Sucker, Oh yeah, yeah. Jill was tough about the jack
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falling dead just when he was winning like that. Yeah, lucky for those
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betting on sunny Boy. Yeah yeah, look, Carter, I gotta go
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see it. Thirteen to one. The ticket I have is worth thirteen hundred
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dollars. I'm keeping that ticket. Might be a smart idea for somebody to
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buy it from me. Huh. I'll be in my office until four o'clock.
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After four will be too late. I don't know what you're talking about.
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Just pass the word along. That's all all right, Patty, that's
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enough racing for one day. Let's get back to the office. I really
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think you're going to hear from somebody before four o'clock. Is that? Now
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we have pollers, I'll get it. Yeah, okay, thanks very much.
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Not a caller. Neaked package package, I tell you, well,
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what is it? Look? Somebody's e oh, Nick, how horrible.
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There's a note says Pinky listen too hard. You won't hear you the next
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time you talk too much if you do so. I was right. It
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was murder. You mean speed Queen's jockey exactly. Give me the phone,
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Nick, I don't know you will. Hello, there you go, put
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Tim Rock on. What are you going to do? Oh? Tim This
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is Nick Carter works on your mind. Got a hot special for your final
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edition. Quote me this way. The death of speed Queen's jockey in the
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third race this afternoon was not accidental. It was murder. An run to
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just that way and quote me. Then you'll be in the clear. Yes
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you can. I've never given you a bump stair yet have I? Thanks
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to him so long i'd understand something. Maybe somebody will try to buy one
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hundred dollars ticket for me yet, Nick, you can't mean you're trying to
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blackmail somebody and they paying you fifteen hundred dollars for not investigating. Oh,
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you know me better than that. I hope somebody will try to pay me
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the money so I can get a lead on where to look for the jockey's
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murderer, because it was murder and no mistake. Well, we've never known
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Nick to be wrong when he finally makes up his mind, But this looks
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like pretty slim evidence on which to make a charge of murder. Is Nick
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on the right track or is he sticking his neck out looking for trouble?
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stores everywhere. Now back to our story. Nick is convinced that the death
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of the jockey on Speed Queen was not an accident. In fact, he
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believes it was deliberate murder. But it's going to be a long, hard
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road proving it. It's late the same day as we look in on Lieutenant
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Riley's office at headquarters, just as Nick drops in, how are you,
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Nick? I haven't seen you around here in dodgy Age. Riley? How
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many murders does it take to interest you murders? I haven't heard about any
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murders, but if you tell me where you hit the bodies, I'll be
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glad you look into it for you. One of the bodies was the jockey
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in the third race this afternoon. How's your report on him? Unavoidable in
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the doc says it was a heart attack and the other horses was bunched so
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close they couldn't get out of his way when he fell off. Better change
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that to lead poisoning, rally lead poison. You're nuts? Can you prove
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it? No? Not yet. The docs didn't mention any bullet warns,
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that's why not? How could he with a jock his head all smashed up?
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But another thing, a small time tout by the name of Pinky Dems
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won't be doing any more touting from now on. Why not? He's dead
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murdered. If you don't believe me, put out a pickup order on him
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and see if any of your boys can find him. Do you know anything,
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Nicker? Is this all guess work? Two murders in the last couple
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of hours, rally, and I may be the third. Yeah, come
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in, I get it rightly. I'm mad and I want hello Colonel Pemburg
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or something bothering you? Oh it's you. Yes, you're bothering me.
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Why do you have to shoot off your big boss of the papers where you
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Did you approve of murder? Colonel? No? I don't. I don't
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approve of rumors of murder either. I demand that you retract your accusations or
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produce some concrete proof to back them up. I didn't accuse you of anything,
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Colonel. I didn't say you did. It's a reflection on my stable,
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on the glorious sport of her bread racing. It's really all your fault,
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you know. My fault. Yes, you recommended Speed Queen so highly
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that I watched the race much more closely than you you wal and what I
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saw led me to make the statement you see there in the paper. You
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will say the death of my jockey was murdered. I do. I say
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you're a fool. Maybe, but I'm gonna keep on saying it's murder until
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someone does something about it. But Nick, you you must have something to
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pack up this claim of yours. I have, but none of it's evidence
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yet. For one thing, don't forget with Speed Queen out of the way,
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Sonny Boy won that race at very attractive odds. John Gailey, Sonny
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Boy's owner, made a sweet out of money on the deal. John gainley'
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is a crafty old bird, but he wouldn't murder my jockey, A Colonel
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Pember. Before I go any further with this, I'd like to talk to
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your trainer, Dyerson. Is it Deerson is no longer my trainer. I
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fired him a couple of hours ago, fired him. Why you saw the
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race. You saw the way Speed Queen's jockey pulled white on the turn,
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failed to take the fence. Probably just missus cue. That's all My trainers
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are responsible for all such things. I will not tolerate such blood. That's
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a little thin, Colonel, are you sure you didn't use that as an
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excuse to get rid of this? You'll see here color. I don't have
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to, Carmian Caban. I demand that you. Hello, Pembert, are
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you responsible for this? This stuff in the paper? I am not What
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makes you think I'd do a thing like that. It sounds like one of
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your trees entirelym my idea, mister Ganley. Oh what you have two butts
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on speed Queen's nude? My gripe, mister Gailey, is that a jockey
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who was supporting his mother and a little sister was killed so somebody could make
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money. And I don't like things like that. Oh so I have one
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hundred dollars ticket on speed Queen's Nose That isn't worth anything now, Oh blackmail?
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I get it just because my horse was a better horse than pember It's
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you kick when you win. Your horse was beaten to a stamp still when
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a rifle bullet gave him a chance to win. You think you're staring,
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mister Ganley. I'm only trying to do one thing. I want to know
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who kills speed Queen's jockey and why I was there this afternoon. I saw
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nothing to indicate murder. You men have ever seen a rifle bullet actually at
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work? But the medical report cost steel jacket. A bullet won't need much
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evidence of its passage in the skull it smashed a few seconds later by a
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dozen iron shot hoops. Oh, rally, you gotta have to start on.
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I don't see where to begin. There's no evidence. Okay, don't
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blame me if the commissioner gets on the phone and starts asking questions, was
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Nick Kak come in? Colonel Pembert just a minute? I want to talk
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lu Cann't rack you come on, Carnor. I want to talk to you
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anyway privately. Why of course, mister Gailey, I'll be seeing you rally.
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It's a long. It's a long, colonel. Now, if you're
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stepping my car with me for a minute, we can talk quietly, all
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right, But I don't see what you and I have to talk about.
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It won't take with a minute now, all right, Carter, what's your
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game? I told you that upstairs. I don't believe you. You're sore
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because you failed to when you're better on speed, Queen, you don't really
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care for the jockey who was killed. You're welcome to think anything you'll like,
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mister Gailey, you think if you talk long enough and loudly enough,
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somebody's going to pay you to shut up. Go on. Unfortunately for me,
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your accusation points directly at me, as the owner of the winning horse.
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I profited by the he's dead, but I certainly didn't murder him.
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No one has accused you of murder yet, but they will. There'll be
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fingers pointed at me. There'll be investigations by the racing Commission. How much
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was the ticket you have on that rage? One hundred dollars? A thirteen
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two hundred share, thirteen hundred dollars? They are I trust. We understand
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each other. Now. I understand that you've just given me thirteen hundred dollars,
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and I also understand that a jockey was killed in cold blood. But
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Carl, he said we had nothing to talk about, mister Gailey, and
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I was right. So long. Oh there you are, Nick, Missus
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pemble its been waiting over an hour to see you. Hello, Missus Pemblett.
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What's on your mind? Could I speak to you alone. Whatever you
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can tell me, you can tell Patsy we work together. Well, all
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right, mister Carter, I know everything. My husband told me this afternoon
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that you've been spying on me. Yes, Colonel Pembert was in a dreadful
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temper. He fired Dick, mister Deson, and then told me about having
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you follow me. So that's why he fired Deerson. Yes, I don't
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know what came over me. I really loved the colonel, but mister Dearson
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swept me off my feet. I guess I'm just weak. Why have you
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come here now? I must know, mister Carter. Have you told the
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colonel that I pawned my necklace this morning? Why is that important? If
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the colonel knew that I pawned my pearls and gave the money to Dick to
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bed on speed Queen, then he must be the one behind the jockey's murder.
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He wanted to be sure that Dick would lose, because it is one
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I was planning to run away with him on the winning as we'd make.
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Are you saying that your husband killed the jockey so you and Deerson couldn't run
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away together? What must be there? Must love me very much. I
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thought he didn't care. Did the Colonel tell you I'd been following you,
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spying on you? We said he'd hired a private detective to report everything I
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did. Missus Pember, I'm a private detective, but I wouldn't touch one
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of those divorce investigations if I starved at death. When these things I've told
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you, you didn't know them, not positively? You give me some valuable
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information. Thank you. I'd guessed that most of it, but had no
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confirmation. Nicholas Carter's all this, mister Carter busy? Just now? May
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I take a message for him? Very well? I'll helen. That was
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short and sweet? What was it? It was Colonel Pember? Colonel Pember.
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Yes, he said to tell you, Nick that he was sending you
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thirteen hundred dollars by messenger. He said you'd know what he meant. So
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the Colonel's decided that he can't ignore my charges and he wants me to drop
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them. Doesn't that prove what I just said, Mister Carter, I don't
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know, does it? He must be behind it? Oh, the poor
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man. I must go him at once. Better not tell him you were
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here when his message came. Oh I won't Betsy had been a mutual protective
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agency. Joe Brown. Okay, maybe it's not blackmail, mate, but
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it's certainly producing results. Originally I let it be known that I'd lost one
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hundred dollars on speed Queen, just to see what reaction that stirred up.
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Wanted to get a lead on the killer. Now the money comes in by
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itself, well we'll give it to the Red Cross. There's no better use
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for any money than that. Hello, lister Joe Brown, Please wish I
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had more to give him? Just a minute, Nick Carter calling, Thanks,
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Hello, Joe. Have you finished that job for Colonel Pembert yet?
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And his wife? His wife and Dick Dison? Oh yeah, just delivers
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the final report. Why if you finished with it, you won't mind giving
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me a Dierson's address? Will you you move from his old place? Recently?
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I find and left no forwarding address. Willow Road? You know the
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Colonel Bouncer just a little while ago. Yes, I know, forty seven
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East Willow Road. Thanks Joe much for you someday so long. What makes
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you think Colonel Timber's train is mixed up in his mid How could he get
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in on it? He has some information I want. That's all. Oh,
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well, now, so you better drive me out to forty seven East
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Willow Road and fast, mister dearson, he's left already, any idea where
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he's gone, no stuff, and went out. Expressman's coming for his stuff
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in a few minutes. Now he's meeting him at the station. This is
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stuff here, yes, and three bags and trump mind if I look at
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them? Suit yourself. That's a new trunk. Yes, the bags look
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quite new too. I wonder how many tags. Here's a tag on the
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trunk. William Stewart, seven to eleven Fourth Street, Evansville, Indiana.
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Yes, a new trunk. And yes, well what is it? Come
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on, Betsy, let's meet dearson at the station. See this headline?
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Dearson, huh what? Oh it's you? I said, Have you seen
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the headlines? Says speed? Queen's jockey was murdered? Who said, so
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I do? What do you know about it? Practically everything? How come
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you know so much? I get around and I keep my eyes and ears
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open. For instance, I know that there's some connection between you and a
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certain William Stewart of Evansville, Indiana. What are you talking about? The
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tag on your trunk, your nice new trunk, the trunk with the bloodstains
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on it. I don't give your hands in side this. You don't,
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I'll shoot first. That's better. I suppose we forget about taking the train
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and Carlin at Riley instead. He thinks I'm nuts. But when you tell
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him what you know, he'll find out I was right all along. Will
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you get to the point, Carter, You didn't ask us here just to
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talk about the weather. Very well, now that mister Gain lives here,
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let's get on with it. You have each paid me thirteen hundred dollars to
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hush up the investigation into the death of speed Queen's jockey. You thought I
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was blackmailing you. If you'd known me better, you'd have known I can't
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be bribed. I took the money and I'm turning it over to the Red
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Cross. But I kept on looking around, and now I have the whole
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story. If you've got the answer to this business, you can turn my
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money over to the Red Cross and welcome, and I'll put as much more
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with it. And that goes for me. Carter. Now, now what
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is the story? Repleas this missus Pembert Ponder necklace and gave the three thousand
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dollars to Dyson the bet on Speed Queen. He thought Dyson was in love
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with it, but he wasn't. Just wanted the money. So we bet
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the money and honey Boy to win, and arranged for having Speed Queen's jockey
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shot at the turn. If Speed Queen took the lead. Pinky Deemes put
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the bets down for him and collected his winnings. But I saw Pinky do
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it, and I spoke to him. I told him I should expect some
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action by four o'clock. Instead of what I expected, I got Pinky's ear
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as a warning to lay off. And I suppose that when I paid you
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that thirteen hundred dollars, you thought I was behind it. No, Gainley,
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I knew that you paid me to keep the scandal out of the papers
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if possible. You didn't want racing to get a black eye. Yes,
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that was it. And you, Colonel Pembert, you paid me thirteen hundred
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dollars to keep your wife from learning what a fool she'd been, didn't you.
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Yes, I knew she'd made a fool of herself over Deerson, and
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he wanted to protect her. I love her and she loves you, Colonel,
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I know that. Can you prove any of this car, not much
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of it unless Deerson confesses, which I feel sure he'll do. So why
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should he confess naked? You can't prove anything on him, because there's one
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thing we can hang on him, fairly and squarely. What's that Pinky's death.
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If you were to look in the trunk which Dison just bought, you'd
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find Pinky's body minus one, here being shipped to what is undoubtedly a fake
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address, never mind new traces of blood on the trunk when I examined it.
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That alone will take care of our mister Dison, who seems to have
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double crossed ever when he came in contact with except himself next to me,
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as if Fate had double crossed him. The way it turns out, quite
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right, Betsy, Fate is away of double crossing those who don't obey the
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laws of right and wrong. In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will
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Well, Nick, would you care to give us a peek in the next
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week's story he'd be delighted to he's been waiting for just that very question.
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Thanks for the build up, Patsy. That's a story of an actor,
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an actor who, for some strange reasons, seemed to be followed by a
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constant procession of almost fatal accidents. He was hurt several times, but always
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escaped death. What was it all about? The manager of the theater,
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A friend of mine called me in to find the answer to that same question,
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which Nick found, of course, and just in the nick of time,
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Well what do you call it? Nick? Death behind the Scenes or
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the Mystery of the Persecuted Actor? Complete details next week, So long,
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So long everybody, and so long you both, Patsy, Nick, be
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seeing you next week, same as usual, next week, the same time.
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America and saying, so long until next week. This is mutual welcome back.
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Well. A great episode and it really illustrates what I like about Nick
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Carter. This is Nick Carter at his best. You have a pretty clever
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mystery, and then you just have Nick continuing to be dairying and audacious,
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and really this episode illustrates a lot of what's really unique about Nick Carter as
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a character. Because, probably with the exception of Nero Wolf and Sherlock Holmes,
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of the characters we've heard on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio,
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none of them are particularly famous within the context of their own world. Nick
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Carter is, and kind of see the power of that with his ability to
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go to the press in a way that character like Sam Spade couldn't or even
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Sherlock Holmes probably would not. I'm not saying one way is better than another,
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but certainly this is a unique perspective In next personality, I just as
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I listened to the show and I hear the things that he does, I'm
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just like, Wow, that's an interesting approach, taking the one hundred dollars
32:17
ticket to try to see what sort of bait he got. I also like
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the way that the marriage plot was dealt with, and that the way it
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turned out was a little was quite a bit different from what the vast majority
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of detective shows do in terms of the view particularly of a straying younger woman
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married to an older man. A truly enjoyable episode, and of course next
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week we'll be back with even more Nick Carter Tomorrow join us for another episode
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of That Man with the Action Packed Expense account. Yours truly, Johnny Doller,
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