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June third, nineteen fifty brought NBC listeners the ninth broadcast
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of Dimension X.
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In Embassy, New.
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York, Private detective Broderick receives a visit from the scholarly
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mister Grafius, who brings an ancient document and an extraordinary
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claim a Martian embassy may be hidden somewhere in the city.
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George Lefferts adapted Donald A. Wolheim story for radio, with
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Joseph Julian, Barry Kroger, Daniel Acco, and Norman Rose among
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the cast. Dimension X now presents Embassy, and now our
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story begins.
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Adventures in time and space told in future tents desa
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out of the infinitude of stars and planets in the
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Solar System and other systems in the universe. It is
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almost mathematically certain that there exist other forms of life
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on other worlds. Someday in the future, in a thousand
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years or in the next ten minutes, daring travelers through
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space will make contact with the inhabitants of another world.
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But the question is will we contact them first or
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will they contact us?
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Come man, this is Roderick's private detective agency. Check. My
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name is Gravis Graveyers of Springfield I would like to see,
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mister Prederick check. When is it all?
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There's a guy outside, a kind of a guy, A great,
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big guy with a big shining head and thick glasses
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like the bottoms of Coca Cola bottles.
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And he looks like a professors. I mean, is does
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he look like a client or a bill collector? He
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didn't say, Okay, iron Man, send him in. Check mister
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g Mister Broderick will see you. Thank you, mister Brederick
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in the flesh. Okay, iron Man, step outside. Check if
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you need me, I'll be outside. I'll have to excuse
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mister Dolan. He's a very useful man. If he happened
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to want a house moved or somebody's head unscrewed from
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their shoulders, his reflexes aren't too good. He's what you
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might call under organized. I respected as much, all right,
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mister Graius, let's get down to business precisely. I would
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like your assistance in helping me locate something here in
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New York City. That's what are you trying to locate,
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mister Grafius, the Martian Embassy. Would you say that again?
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Very slowly? I came to New York to locate the
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Martian embassy Martian like in Buck Rogers, agents of the
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government of the planet of Mars. Dolan, what's the trouble,
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Boss Carmard is a cracked part, of course. If you
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wish me to leave, I will leave. But before I go,
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you might examine this. You will find it quite authentic.
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Holy mackerel a five century. No, let me say that, saiddan,
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Mister Grafia saddan like you'reself comfortable, Dolan, get mister Grafs
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a light check. Okay, mister grais her remarks about our
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specled friends, the Martians. I shall ignore this. Being the
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year nineteen hundred and fifty five, I assume you're joking.
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I am completely serious. As it happens, I am interested
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only in Martians at the moment. I see. Okay, yeah, Shoot.
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It occurred to me in the course of my studies
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that we Earth people cannot possibly be the only intelligent
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form of life in the universe out of the infinitude
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of stars and planets. They must definitely mathematically be others.
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Since Mars is older geologically, and since it is also
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an atmospheric planet, its evolutionary history could easily be similar
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to ours. You follow me, so far. I can't say now,
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but if this is true, then they must have been
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watching us, observing us for hundreds, possibly thousands of years,
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work for black male Taptol. And they know then that
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we are not far from achieving space travel atomic rocket
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ships that can travel to other planets. They also know
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we are a militaristic wor you all like race, We
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might conceivably set out to conquer and occupy bars one day,
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in which case that try to get the jump on it. Precisely,
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mister Roger. And how would they do that for a
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civilization as old as there's space traveler would be a
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simple enough matter flying sources I've read about. Relax, iron Man.
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Go on, mister Grafias. If you were planning to attack
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an unknown nation, what would be your first move, mister Proderick? Intelligence,
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find out what the odds are. You have a very
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logical mindset. You would send agents to scout the nerve
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centers of earthly civilization and advancement. Not in Kansas City
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or Equatorial Africa, my dear sir, but here in New
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York City, the most technically advanced spot on Earth. Uh huh?
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And you want me to help you prove this theory
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of yours precisely expense. This does not interest me. This
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might take a very long long time, mister Grafius. After all,
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nobody's ever seen a Martian. I assure you it will
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be very ordinary appearing people. Likely they live together in
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downtown New York, close to the newspapers and publishers, the newscables,
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communications centers, and the financial center of Wall Street. Most
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certainly they live in a private house with no servants
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to pry into their affairs. Some ordinary people will live
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in a private house in downtown New York. I might
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just as well look up martians in the classified section
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of the phone book. There is one other lead which
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might help you. What's that They would be almost certain
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to subscribe to every conceivable type of newspaper, scientific, general,
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foreign language publication. Well, that might be something. Okay, mister Graius,
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it's a deal, excellent. I shall contact you tomorrow, Oh
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well before you leave. Yes, just as a matter of interest,
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Why are you so interested in meeting up with these Martians,
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mister Broderick, I wish to avert the catastrophe of a
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successful Martian invasion of the Earth. Naturally, I cannot go
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to the police of the military, I'd be laughed out
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of existence. So I'm doing this privately. You seem to
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know all the answers, mister Graffias, Not all of them,
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mister Broderick, not quite all the answers. Not quite yet.
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Of course, he's a private address.
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Takes everything from Pick magazine to the Manchester Guardian. Listen
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to this Pick Look, Scientific America, the Daily News, the
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Daily Worker, the Police Gazette, the General of Engineering, Scientific Quarterly,
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American Psychatric.
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Jersesey that oh Dolan, Dolan. Sometimes I wonder, what's the
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address on this nine West one hundred and twenty fourth Street,
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which happens to be the Harlem branch of the public Library.
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Oh Alliston, noodle brain, check all the renting agents, find
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out every private house in downtown New York, and then
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cross check with the magazine subscription departments of the scientific magazines.
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You got that check. I wonder, Boss, what's the sense
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of all this? We know there ain't no Martian embassy
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in New York.
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This crackpot is paying us one hundred dollars a day,
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and we got to keep them happy, understand. Yeah. Also,
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I've got a hunch that mister Graffius isn't looking for
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any Martian embassies. He's looking for something quite different. I'll
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start making with a telephone, which I says a duller, right,
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tell me number one A way to find out anything,
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not a thing.
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I've been watching the place for a week now. Nobody
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comes out, nobody goes in my it's the wrong, nobody
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knows nothing.
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You ain't been blabbing around the neighborhood that we're looking
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for the Martian embassy, have you? Boss? I'm stupid, but
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I ain't that stupid. Who'd you talk to?
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I struck up what you might call a casual acquaintanceship
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with those two girls standing with the baby carriages up
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the street. The cute one is real cute.
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I look to him. Don't try to do anything intelligent,
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Just keep walking up and down. Say check. I'm going
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back to the office to make Grapius.
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See you later, boss. Hi, a beautiful a flat foot?
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How did you know I was a detective?
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Your socks are bagging at the arches.
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I'll stick around, beautiful.
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I'll be back in a few minutes and a week
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and make some beautiful music together.
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Listen to Romeo Helen, A man's Dolen.
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Honey, iron Man Dolen, your line.
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Is getting rusty.
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Iron Man, you pull along with him, for he reminds
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me of my husband, a big, good natured slag.
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Helen, Helen, look.
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Helen, sorry to ket your waiting.
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Mister Dolan found a house down in Greenwich Village, privately
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rented number one oh eight Conchland Street. Nobody's to know
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anything about who lives there except that they subscribe to
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every paper and scientific journal put out, and also they
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have a peculiar antenna on the roof. You don't suppose
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you are, mister Doolan will try to get inside the house. Nah,
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you know it's better, mister Broderick, I I show you
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if that place is the Martian Membersolan can take care
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of himself. Hill, I wish you would informed me before.
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That's proud of him reporting back now excuse me? Hello, yeah,
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speaking Dolan. Yeah he works?
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What?
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Oh no, No, I can't think of any Yeah sure, okay, yeah,
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I'll be right down, okay, lieutenant, yeah, yeah, right away?
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Something the matter? Uhlan is dead, mister Graffius. They found
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him splattered all over the sidewalk in front of number
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one away Conchland Street. How did it happen there witnesses.
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He said a building corners dropped on him, the corners,
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but how fell off the building next to one o eight,
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right on top of him. Come on, we can get
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a cab. I have to identify the body. I'm Broderick,
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Oh Lasier boy, Prodrick, not very pretty, Oh, mother in heaven.
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That's a thousand pound hunk of concrete. Where did it
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come from? Dropped off the roof of one oh six?
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Anybody say it?
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There's a couple of maids pushing baby carriages. One was
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so shaken we had a center to the hospital. The
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other one is hysterical, but she can talk. Don't seem
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to get any sense out of.
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Her, though, You mind if I talk to her at all.
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I'll be back in a minute. Graphias, I'll read here.
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She's standing right over there with the patrolman on the beach.
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Oh Hanson, Yes, this guy wants a few questions.
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With the girls.
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Please, I told you what I saw? How many times
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I gotta tell you?
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Yes, the dead man was a personal friend of mine.
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Would you tell me what happened? Please?
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Helen and I were standing in front of Redmond's candy
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store up on the corner. We both had the babies up.
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I worked for missus Gillian on Washington Square North. This
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he said alone, joked a little, and he walked down
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the street, just like he's been doing all week. Hadn't
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taken more than a few steps.
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What please, it's very important.
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They tell him. But they don't believe me.
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What do you tell him? Tell me? Do all please?
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Whoop?
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Whoop?
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Thirsty? Well, and then the stump fell on it.
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What do you mean he squashed?
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They don't believe me.
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But Helen saw it too, saw what.
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Then it fell on it?
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He was mashed flat before it even.
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Hit Look, that's the story, Broderick.
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Please please let me alone, Let me go home.
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I told you what i'd done alone.
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Did you let anything, mister Rodrick? Eh, I don't know.
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I don't know what to make of it. It's crazy,
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mister Rodrick. If I made a suggestion at this point,
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perhaps it would be better if we dropped the entire matter.
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What's eating you? First? You come at me with a
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chain of nonsense, at you're stake and real cash on.
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Now when we hit solid trail, you want to call
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off the dogs. Well, maybe you operate that way, but
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Broderick doesn't. May, I ask, then, what do you intend doing?
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As soon as the cops clear out in this place
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quiets down, I'm going to pay a personal call on
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the Marsian Embassy whatever number one oh eight is. Whatever
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you are, open that door two heads or ten fingers up,
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really like a platoon of rookies.
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Yeah, oh well, young.
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Man, excuse me, ma'am is the lady of the house
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at home?
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I'm the lady of the house.
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Well, my name is Broderick. I represent the Manhattan Child
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Adoption Center. We're so listening funds and clothing for stranded
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and unadopted children.
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I wonder, Oh, won't you come inside?
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Oh we don't usually nonsense.
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I'm old enough to be your grandmother. Besides, my son,
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Lauren is working at home.
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Your son.
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He's a bibliographer.
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He writes summaries of articles and books from scientific journals
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and publications for libraries and universe. I see you sit down,
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mister Broderick. We get so few calls, and I do
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like to visit.
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Oh, thank you.
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Now, what was it you wanted to talk to us about?
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Oh? Well, I uh, I wondered if you were your son.
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There's nobody else living here.
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No, just Lauren and I. I'll have to ask him
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about the contribution, but i'm sure he'd like to.
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Good. Thank you very much. I'll send the representative to collect.
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Well, please stay a moment. I was just about to
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have tea. Let me pull you account. Well, No, thanks,
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really now, young man, I insist, well, thank you. I
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was getting awfully tired of having tea by myself every afternoon.
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You know, I'm not very much of a tea drinker,
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but this seems to have a strange taste.
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It's my own recipe. The secret is in the brewing.
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It's sweet, it almost talic.
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It takes a few SIPs to get used to like
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al it.
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I think I had better be running along.
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But you haven't finished your tea, mister b I better
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be going.
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I'm late.
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Oh you're not being there, polite, you finish your teeth.
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You're funny.
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Call Lauren.
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No, I'm leaving that.
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I'm sure Lauren can help you.
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I'll call it, but I must.
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Besides, you aren't well, Lauren. Lauren, Lauren, hurry out of
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my way. No, you must stay drugged my teeth, get
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out of here. The other one, Rodrick, he was here
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I drugged his teeth.
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He got away.
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Cool it is, go after him, use the pressure ray.
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Risk another murder on our doorstep. Are you insane?
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He suspects.
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We'll have to take our chances. We'll have to think
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of some other way.
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How did they find us?
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I don't know how, but I'm certain someone else sent them.
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I don't know.
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I'm afraid to let myself think it might be them.
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What's where you're going? Drunk Please? I get away from it? Out, miss,
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please help please? You know what's the trouble, hairs Drunkard.
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Is insulting people.
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I saw him come out of the house there, that's
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the one he bumped into a gentleman.
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Then you pulled it my arm.
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All right, miss, I'll take care of it. Come along, mister.
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I'm going to give you a break and take it
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back to the wife and kids.
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No, no, you can't sick. What's the matter? They drug me?
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Old Roger number one ol A. Martians, Oh, Martians number
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one o A. It's Martian Embassy.
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Well, I've seen him with pink elephants, rabbits and mice.
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But you're the first one who's got my head.
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I tell you, come a law. Let's listen, don't take
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me back there, don't come tell me.
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I gotta make you.
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Under Yeah, I'll help you off the stand. My name
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is Roderick. I'm a private thick.
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We will find out about this there, don't find stop it.
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Please letten.
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I'll give you anything.
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I'll give you a thousand dollars. Please listen, God listen, Yes, Roderick,
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you know this.
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Why that's my son, roder.
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He's in pretty bad.
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He was doing so well at the Alcoholic Society. He
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must have gotten off again.
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Looks like he's ready to pass out. What is it?
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Mother, Your brother Broderick has been drinking again.
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Look out, he's passed out. I'll take care of him. Officer,
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we've handled this sort of thing before. Can you manage? Okay,
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we'll be fine. Thank you.
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You've been very kind.
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We're nothing at all, Brownie. I know how it is
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with these alkis well. I'll be seeing you, Martian Embley, Martian.
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Oh my head. Mister Broderick is regaining consciousness. Mother, what happened? Oh?
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Get get up.
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You're not struggling, mister Broderick. It'll be impossible for you
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to rise from that chair. The pressure from this ray
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will keep you.
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Hooray, who are you?
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You've already guessed, mister Broderick. You mean this really is
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the Martian Embassy. Yes, you have the honor to be
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the first prisoner of the Imperial Government of Mars.
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Yes.
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After the invasion, of course you will all be our prisoners.
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Hello, what sever business? Says? This?
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No business, mister Broderick, as your people will soon find out,
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our preparations for invasion are nearly completed. On as soon
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as we give the signal, our armed forces will launch
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a surprise attack, and then the earth will be ours.
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Look crazy, not half as mad as you, mister Broderick,
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to come muddling so foolishly into our affairs.
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That was a fatal mistake. So Stolen's death. There's no accident, then,
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assuredly not.
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We found it necessary to use a pressure ray on
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your friend. The block of concrete was an afterthought. We
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thought it might help to avert suspicion.
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All right, what happens now?
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If you cooperate, you can look forward to a quick,
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painless depth like your friend, mister Doolan. If not, this
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pressure ray as many delicate adjustments.
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It can move a pin, but it can crush a boulder.
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Let me demonstrate.
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You see, mister Brodrick, as if an invisible vice for
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crushing you.
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What do you want the name of your client?
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We are interested in knowing who is so anxious to
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locate the Martian embassy, and.
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Names of my clients are confidential. Oh well, I got
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it off, mother. Mister Bardwick has seen the wisdom of speech.
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His name is.
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An unusual name for an earth man.
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Describe him. I don't know if I really it can, Mother?
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Describe him. He's tall, got a big forehead, about sixty.
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He wears the glasses he's.
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It sounds like one of them.
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Yes, it does contact the planet. Tell them we suspect
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that our plans are known. Ask for an acceleration of
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invasion day for what about me? I am sorry, mister Broderick,
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but I am afraid you know too much. Now, exactly
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five seconds you will feel the full impact of the
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ray which faces you. I would suggest that you relax
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and meet your fate calmly. Now, I am you will
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feel no pain, just a wall of force and golfing five.
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No, you can't do that.
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This is a human I know, but we are not
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human free.
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Now, Laren, it didn't work.
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Something's happened. The magnetic field is dead.
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Get it working. We've got to get rid of this one.
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I can't understand what's going wrong with the Why would
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it suddenly stop like that?
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Perhaps I can explain what it's you. Yes, sorry, stand
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back from the pressure rape please, it will not function anyway.
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I have decontrolled your heels, Lauren.
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It's one of them. They've found us.
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Did you think we wouldn't? I trust you have not
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harmed my friend, mister Roderick. He's being very useful to me.
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Rather am I very glad to see you talk about
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the Marines landing in the neck of time. You're free
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to move now, mister Roderick. I don't know how you
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got in here, Graphius, but sticker on. These babies are
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really marchigans, just like you said. They're planning to invade
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the Earth and take over. There will be no Martian invasion.
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You'll keep these characters covered. I'll get the police, there
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will be no need for the police, and tend to
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enter them myself. But the police will not call the police.
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Why not, you.
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Fool of an Earthling? Don't you realize with whom you
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are dealing? The invasion of Earth by Mars will be
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like Charles Plague.
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Compare Holy They just flattened out, like your friend, mister Doolan.
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And it tastes the use of violence where the intellect
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can rule. But unfortunately the Martians are a threat to us.
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It must be destroyed. I believe you now, Rather five
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seconds had to finished me. I'm glad you didn't waste
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any time. There is little time to waste. The Martian
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invasion was to have taken place next week. Yeah, hey,
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they never said that. How do you know you would
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not comprehend? Wait a minute, there's some things here. I
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do understand. A second ago that pressure right didn't work.
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Now you're using it like I was a toy. How
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did you get in here? Anyway? Who are you another
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one of those Martians? No, mister Brodrick, I happened to
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be a Venusian? What sentative of the planet Venus? Venus?
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That's impossible, not at all. The Martians are really an
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inferior race. We've adduce to much farther advanced as much
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as we are over you, mister Broderick. The Martians would
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simply have conquered and enslaved your people. We have Innusians
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felt compelled to exterminate you completely. That's impossible. No, now
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that we have disposed of the Martian threat, what is
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there to stop us? Our invasion begins tomorrow at noon.
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By nightfall, the earth will be out rather than heaven either.
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I'm completely cuckoo. Oh well, this is really an ledant
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edge toward the door. Mister Broderick. You're thinking of running
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for help, aren't you. Now I can read your thoughts
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quite clearly. Suppose you're going to knock me off like
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our Martian friends of the countrary ahead, leave? Why not?
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Why don't you try it, mister Brederick, because the minute
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I turn my back, you're gonna let me have it.
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Suppose you try it and see I have that interesting stuff?
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Go ahead, all right, Buster, you asked for it. Will
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do you no good? No God, you will see hair.
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Why do you think you're running track the officer?
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Listen to me. Oh, it's you, the one with the
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marsh Yeah, that's right. Listen, that story is true. They're
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inside that house inside number one O eight. He killed them,
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who killed Raphius. He's the leader of the Venusian invasion.
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Venusian invasion, that's right. Tomorrow at noon. They're going to
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take over the earth. Alisten, go in that house, Marshals
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now Venusians. Eh, okay, that's enough for me. Come along,
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good man, got much time? Wait where you're taking me?
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Bellview psychiatric word, my friend, con you know I'll come.
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Aloe, listen to me.
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Why isn't your fool oh me a thread for corn.
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I think it's going to be an invasion.
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The Velutians are going to invade.
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It's not us man.
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You gotta believe me.
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You gotta believe me. Alla, Why don't say listen? Why
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don't lead?
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You have just heard Another adventure into the unknown world
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of the future, the world of.
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Dimension Next week the story of Reesling, the strange blind
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singer of the Spaceways. He traveled with space lines from
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Mars to Venus to the moons of Jupiter. No captain
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could refuse to carry Reasling and his battered guitar. He
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sang of all the wonders of the galaxy, but his
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greatest song was of the sight he would never see,
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the green hills of Earth. Tonight, The Mansion Acts has
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presented The Embassy, the story by Donald A. Wollheim has
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adapted Barettio by George Laffards. Joseph Julian was heard as Roderick,
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Barry Kroger as Graphius.
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Our narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman engineer
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Don Abbott. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and
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directed by Edward King. Tomorrow Here High Adventure, Now It's
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Truth or Consequences on NBC.
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That was Dimension X with Embassy.
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Thank you for sharing another broadcast from radio science fiction years.
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Follow Old Time Sci Fi Radio for more classic science
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fiction broadcasts.
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June third, nineteen fifty brought NBC listeners the ninth broadcast
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of Dimension X.
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In Embassy, New.
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York, Private detective Broderick receives a visit from the scholarly
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mister Grafius, who brings an ancient document and an extraordinary
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claim a Martian embassy may be hidden somewhere in the city.
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George Lefferts adapted Donald A. Wolheim story for radio, with
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Joseph Julian, Barry Kroger, Daniel Acco, and Norman Rose among
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the cast. Dimension X now presents Embassy, and now our
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story begins.
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Adventures in time and space told in future tents desa
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out of the infinitude of stars and planets in the
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Solar System and other systems in the universe. It is
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almost mathematically certain that there exist other forms of life
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on other worlds. Someday in the future, in a thousand
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years or in the next ten minutes, daring travelers through
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space will make contact with the inhabitants of another world.
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But the question is will we contact them first or
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will they contact us?
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Come man, this is Roderick's private detective agency. Check. My
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name is Gravis Graveyers of Springfield I would like to see,
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mister Prederick check. When is it all?
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There's a guy outside, a kind of a guy, A great,
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big guy with a big shining head and thick glasses
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like the bottoms of Coca Cola bottles.
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And he looks like a professors. I mean, is does
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he look like a client or a bill collector? He
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didn't say, Okay, iron Man, send him in. Check mister
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g Mister Broderick will see you. Thank you, mister Brederick
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in the flesh. Okay, iron Man, step outside. Check if
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you need me, I'll be outside. I'll have to excuse
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mister Dolan. He's a very useful man. If he happened
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to want a house moved or somebody's head unscrewed from
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their shoulders, his reflexes aren't too good. He's what you
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might call under organized. I respected as much, all right,
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mister Graius, let's get down to business precisely. I would
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like your assistance in helping me locate something here in
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New York City. That's what are you trying to locate,
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mister Grafius, the Martian Embassy. Would you say that again?
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Very slowly? I came to New York to locate the
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Martian embassy Martian like in Buck Rogers, agents of the
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government of the planet of Mars. Dolan, what's the trouble,
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Boss Carmard is a cracked part, of course. If you
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wish me to leave, I will leave. But before I go,
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you might examine this. You will find it quite authentic.
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Holy mackerel a five century. No, let me say that, saiddan,
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Mister Grafia saddan like you'reself comfortable, Dolan, get mister Grafs
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a light check. Okay, mister grais her remarks about our
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specled friends, the Martians. I shall ignore this. Being the
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year nineteen hundred and fifty five, I assume you're joking.
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I am completely serious. As it happens, I am interested
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only in Martians at the moment. I see. Okay, yeah, Shoot.
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It occurred to me in the course of my studies
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that we Earth people cannot possibly be the only intelligent
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form of life in the universe out of the infinitude
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of stars and planets. They must definitely mathematically be others.
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Since Mars is older geologically, and since it is also
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an atmospheric planet, its evolutionary history could easily be similar
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to ours. You follow me, so far. I can't say now,
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but if this is true, then they must have been
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watching us, observing us for hundreds, possibly thousands of years,
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work for black male Taptol. And they know then that
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we are not far from achieving space travel atomic rocket
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ships that can travel to other planets. They also know
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we are a militaristic wor you all like race, We
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might conceivably set out to conquer and occupy bars one day,
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in which case that try to get the jump on it. Precisely,
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mister Roger. And how would they do that for a
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civilization as old as there's space traveler would be a
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simple enough matter flying sources I've read about. Relax, iron Man.
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Go on, mister Grafias. If you were planning to attack
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an unknown nation, what would be your first move, mister Proderick? Intelligence,
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find out what the odds are. You have a very
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logical mindset. You would send agents to scout the nerve
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centers of earthly civilization and advancement. Not in Kansas City
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or Equatorial Africa, my dear sir, but here in New
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York City, the most technically advanced spot on Earth. Uh huh?
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And you want me to help you prove this theory
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of yours precisely expense. This does not interest me. This
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might take a very long long time, mister Grafius. After all,
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nobody's ever seen a Martian. I assure you it will
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be very ordinary appearing people. Likely they live together in
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downtown New York, close to the newspapers and publishers, the newscables,
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communications centers, and the financial center of Wall Street. Most
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certainly they live in a private house with no servants
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to pry into their affairs. Some ordinary people will live
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in a private house in downtown New York. I might
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just as well look up martians in the classified section
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of the phone book. There is one other lead which
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might help you. What's that They would be almost certain
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to subscribe to every conceivable type of newspaper, scientific, general,
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foreign language publication. Well, that might be something. Okay, mister Graius,
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it's a deal, excellent. I shall contact you tomorrow, Oh
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well before you leave. Yes, just as a matter of interest,
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Why are you so interested in meeting up with these Martians,
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mister Broderick, I wish to avert the catastrophe of a
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successful Martian invasion of the Earth. Naturally, I cannot go
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to the police of the military, I'd be laughed out
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of existence. So I'm doing this privately. You seem to
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know all the answers, mister Graffias, Not all of them,
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mister Broderick, not quite all the answers. Not quite yet.
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Of course, he's a private address.
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Takes everything from Pick magazine to the Manchester Guardian. Listen
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to this Pick Look, Scientific America, the Daily News, the
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Daily Worker, the Police Gazette, the General of Engineering, Scientific Quarterly,
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American Psychatric.
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Jersesey that oh Dolan, Dolan. Sometimes I wonder, what's the
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address on this nine West one hundred and twenty fourth Street,
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which happens to be the Harlem branch of the public Library.
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Oh Alliston, noodle brain, check all the renting agents, find
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out every private house in downtown New York, and then
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cross check with the magazine subscription departments of the scientific magazines.
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You got that check. I wonder, Boss, what's the sense
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of all this? We know there ain't no Martian embassy
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in New York.
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This crackpot is paying us one hundred dollars a day,
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and we got to keep them happy, understand. Yeah. Also,
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I've got a hunch that mister Graffius isn't looking for
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any Martian embassies. He's looking for something quite different. I'll
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start making with a telephone, which I says a duller, right,
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tell me number one A way to find out anything,
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not a thing.
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I've been watching the place for a week now. Nobody
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comes out, nobody goes in my it's the wrong, nobody
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knows nothing.
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You ain't been blabbing around the neighborhood that we're looking
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for the Martian embassy, have you? Boss? I'm stupid, but
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I ain't that stupid. Who'd you talk to?
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I struck up what you might call a casual acquaintanceship
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with those two girls standing with the baby carriages up
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the street. The cute one is real cute.
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I look to him. Don't try to do anything intelligent,
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Just keep walking up and down. Say check. I'm going
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back to the office to make Grapius.
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See you later, boss. Hi, a beautiful a flat foot?
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How did you know I was a detective?
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Your socks are bagging at the arches.
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I'll stick around, beautiful.
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I'll be back in a few minutes and a week
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and make some beautiful music together.
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Listen to Romeo Helen, A man's Dolen.
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Honey, iron Man Dolen, your line.
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Is getting rusty.
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Iron Man, you pull along with him, for he reminds
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me of my husband, a big, good natured slag.
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Helen, Helen, look.
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Helen, sorry to ket your waiting.
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Mister Dolan found a house down in Greenwich Village, privately
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rented number one oh eight Conchland Street. Nobody's to know
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anything about who lives there except that they subscribe to
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every paper and scientific journal put out, and also they
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have a peculiar antenna on the roof. You don't suppose
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you are, mister Doolan will try to get inside the house. Nah,
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you know it's better, mister Broderick, I I show you
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if that place is the Martian Membersolan can take care
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of himself. Hill, I wish you would informed me before.
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That's proud of him reporting back now excuse me? Hello, yeah,
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speaking Dolan. Yeah he works?
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What?
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Oh no, No, I can't think of any Yeah sure, okay, yeah,
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I'll be right down, okay, lieutenant, yeah, yeah, right away?
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Something the matter? Uhlan is dead, mister Graffius. They found
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him splattered all over the sidewalk in front of number
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one away Conchland Street. How did it happen there witnesses.
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He said a building corners dropped on him, the corners,
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but how fell off the building next to one o eight,
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right on top of him. Come on, we can get
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a cab. I have to identify the body. I'm Broderick,
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Oh Lasier boy, Prodrick, not very pretty, Oh, mother in heaven.
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That's a thousand pound hunk of concrete. Where did it
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come from? Dropped off the roof of one oh six?
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Anybody say it?
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There's a couple of maids pushing baby carriages. One was
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so shaken we had a center to the hospital. The
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other one is hysterical, but she can talk. Don't seem
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to get any sense out of.
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Her, though, You mind if I talk to her at all.
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I'll be back in a minute. Graphias, I'll read here.
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She's standing right over there with the patrolman on the beach.
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Oh Hanson, Yes, this guy wants a few questions.
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With the girls.
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Please, I told you what I saw? How many times
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I gotta tell you?
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Yes, the dead man was a personal friend of mine.
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Would you tell me what happened? Please?
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Helen and I were standing in front of Redmond's candy
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store up on the corner. We both had the babies up.
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I worked for missus Gillian on Washington Square North. This
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he said alone, joked a little, and he walked down
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the street, just like he's been doing all week. Hadn't
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taken more than a few steps.
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What please, it's very important.
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They tell him. But they don't believe me.
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What do you tell him? Tell me? Do all please?
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Whoop?
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Whoop?
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Thirsty? Well, and then the stump fell on it.
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What do you mean he squashed?
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They don't believe me.
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But Helen saw it too, saw what.
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Then it fell on it?
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He was mashed flat before it even.
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Hit Look, that's the story, Broderick.
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Please please let me alone, Let me go home.
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I told you what i'd done alone.
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Did you let anything, mister Rodrick? Eh, I don't know.
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I don't know what to make of it. It's crazy,
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mister Rodrick. If I made a suggestion at this point,
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perhaps it would be better if we dropped the entire matter.
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What's eating you? First? You come at me with a
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chain of nonsense, at you're stake and real cash on.
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Now when we hit solid trail, you want to call
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off the dogs. Well, maybe you operate that way, but
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Broderick doesn't. May, I ask, then, what do you intend doing?
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As soon as the cops clear out in this place
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quiets down, I'm going to pay a personal call on
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the Marsian Embassy whatever number one oh eight is. Whatever
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you are, open that door two heads or ten fingers up,
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really like a platoon of rookies.
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Yeah, oh well, young.
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Man, excuse me, ma'am is the lady of the house
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at home?
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I'm the lady of the house.
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Well, my name is Broderick. I represent the Manhattan Child
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Adoption Center. We're so listening funds and clothing for stranded
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and unadopted children.
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I wonder, Oh, won't you come inside?
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Oh we don't usually nonsense.
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I'm old enough to be your grandmother. Besides, my son,
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Lauren is working at home.
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Your son.
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He's a bibliographer.
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He writes summaries of articles and books from scientific journals
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and publications for libraries and universe. I see you sit down,
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mister Broderick. We get so few calls, and I do
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like to visit.
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Oh, thank you.
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Now, what was it you wanted to talk to us about?
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Oh? Well, I uh, I wondered if you were your son.
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There's nobody else living here.
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No, just Lauren and I. I'll have to ask him
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about the contribution, but i'm sure he'd like to.
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Good. Thank you very much. I'll send the representative to collect.
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Well, please stay a moment. I was just about to
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have tea. Let me pull you account. Well, No, thanks,
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really now, young man, I insist, well, thank you. I
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was getting awfully tired of having tea by myself every afternoon.
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You know, I'm not very much of a tea drinker,
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but this seems to have a strange taste.
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It's my own recipe. The secret is in the brewing.
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It's sweet, it almost talic.
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It takes a few SIPs to get used to like
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al it.
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I think I had better be running along.
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But you haven't finished your tea, mister b I better
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be going.
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I'm late.
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Oh you're not being there, polite, you finish your teeth.
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You're funny.
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Call Lauren.
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No, I'm leaving that.
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I'm sure Lauren can help you.
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I'll call it, but I must.
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Besides, you aren't well, Lauren. Lauren, Lauren, hurry out of
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my way. No, you must stay drugged my teeth, get
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out of here. The other one, Rodrick, he was here
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I drugged his teeth.
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He got away.
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Cool it is, go after him, use the pressure ray.
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Risk another murder on our doorstep. Are you insane?
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He suspects.
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We'll have to take our chances. We'll have to think
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of some other way.
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How did they find us?
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I don't know how, but I'm certain someone else sent them.
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I don't know.
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I'm afraid to let myself think it might be them.
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What's where you're going? Drunk Please? I get away from it? Out, miss,
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please help please? You know what's the trouble, hairs Drunkard.
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Is insulting people.
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I saw him come out of the house there, that's
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the one he bumped into a gentleman.
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Then you pulled it my arm.
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All right, miss, I'll take care of it. Come along, mister.
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I'm going to give you a break and take it
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back to the wife and kids.
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No, no, you can't sick. What's the matter? They drug me?
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Old Roger number one ol A. Martians, Oh, Martians number
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one o A. It's Martian Embassy.
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Well, I've seen him with pink elephants, rabbits and mice.
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But you're the first one who's got my head.
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I tell you, come a law. Let's listen, don't take
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me back there, don't come tell me.
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I gotta make you.
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Under Yeah, I'll help you off the stand. My name
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is Roderick. I'm a private thick.
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We will find out about this there, don't find stop it.
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Please letten.
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I'll give you anything.
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I'll give you a thousand dollars. Please listen, God listen, Yes, Roderick,
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you know this.
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Why that's my son, roder.
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He's in pretty bad.
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He was doing so well at the Alcoholic Society. He
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must have gotten off again.
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Looks like he's ready to pass out. What is it?
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Mother, Your brother Broderick has been drinking again.
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Look out, he's passed out. I'll take care of him. Officer,
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we've handled this sort of thing before. Can you manage? Okay,
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we'll be fine. Thank you.
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You've been very kind.
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We're nothing at all, Brownie. I know how it is
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with these alkis well. I'll be seeing you, Martian Embley, Martian.
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Oh my head. Mister Broderick is regaining consciousness. Mother, what happened? Oh?
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Get get up.
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You're not struggling, mister Broderick. It'll be impossible for you
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to rise from that chair. The pressure from this ray
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will keep you.
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Hooray, who are you?
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You've already guessed, mister Broderick. You mean this really is
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the Martian Embassy. Yes, you have the honor to be
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the first prisoner of the Imperial Government of Mars.
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Yes.
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After the invasion, of course you will all be our prisoners.
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Hello, what sever business? Says? This?
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No business, mister Broderick, as your people will soon find out,
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our preparations for invasion are nearly completed. On as soon
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as we give the signal, our armed forces will launch
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a surprise attack, and then the earth will be ours.
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Look crazy, not half as mad as you, mister Broderick,
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to come muddling so foolishly into our affairs.
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That was a fatal mistake. So Stolen's death. There's no accident, then,
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assuredly not.
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We found it necessary to use a pressure ray on
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your friend. The block of concrete was an afterthought. We
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thought it might help to avert suspicion.
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All right, what happens now?
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If you cooperate, you can look forward to a quick,
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painless depth like your friend, mister Doolan. If not, this
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pressure ray as many delicate adjustments.
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It can move a pin, but it can crush a boulder.
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Let me demonstrate.
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You see, mister Brodrick, as if an invisible vice for
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crushing you.
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What do you want the name of your client?
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We are interested in knowing who is so anxious to
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locate the Martian embassy, and.
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Names of my clients are confidential. Oh well, I got
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it off, mother. Mister Bardwick has seen the wisdom of speech.
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His name is.
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An unusual name for an earth man.
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Describe him. I don't know if I really it can, Mother?
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Describe him. He's tall, got a big forehead, about sixty.
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He wears the glasses he's.
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It sounds like one of them.
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Yes, it does contact the planet. Tell them we suspect
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that our plans are known. Ask for an acceleration of
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invasion day for what about me? I am sorry, mister Broderick,
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but I am afraid you know too much. Now, exactly
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five seconds you will feel the full impact of the
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ray which faces you. I would suggest that you relax
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and meet your fate calmly. Now, I am you will
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feel no pain, just a wall of force and golfing five.
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No, you can't do that.
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This is a human I know, but we are not
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human free.
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Now, Laren, it didn't work.
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Something's happened. The magnetic field is dead.
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Get it working. We've got to get rid of this one.
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I can't understand what's going wrong with the Why would
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it suddenly stop like that?
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Perhaps I can explain what it's you. Yes, sorry, stand
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back from the pressure rape please, it will not function anyway.
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I have decontrolled your heels, Lauren.
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It's one of them. They've found us.
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Did you think we wouldn't? I trust you have not
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harmed my friend, mister Roderick. He's being very useful to me.
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Rather am I very glad to see you talk about
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the Marines landing in the neck of time. You're free
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to move now, mister Roderick. I don't know how you
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got in here, Graphius, but sticker on. These babies are
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really marchigans, just like you said. They're planning to invade
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the Earth and take over. There will be no Martian invasion.
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You'll keep these characters covered. I'll get the police, there
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will be no need for the police, and tend to
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enter them myself. But the police will not call the police.
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Why not, you.
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Fool of an Earthling? Don't you realize with whom you
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are dealing? The invasion of Earth by Mars will be
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like Charles Plague.
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Compare Holy They just flattened out, like your friend, mister Doolan.
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And it tastes the use of violence where the intellect
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can rule. But unfortunately the Martians are a threat to us.
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It must be destroyed. I believe you now, Rather five
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seconds had to finished me. I'm glad you didn't waste
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any time. There is little time to waste. The Martian
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invasion was to have taken place next week. Yeah, hey,
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they never said that. How do you know you would
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not comprehend? Wait a minute, there's some things here. I
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do understand. A second ago that pressure right didn't work.
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Now you're using it like I was a toy. How
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did you get in here? Anyway? Who are you another
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one of those Martians? No, mister Brodrick, I happened to
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be a Venusian? What sentative of the planet Venus? Venus?
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That's impossible, not at all. The Martians are really an
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inferior race. We've adduce to much farther advanced as much
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as we are over you, mister Broderick. The Martians would
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simply have conquered and enslaved your people. We have Innusians
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felt compelled to exterminate you completely. That's impossible. No, now
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that we have disposed of the Martian threat, what is
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there to stop us? Our invasion begins tomorrow at noon.
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By nightfall, the earth will be out rather than heaven either.
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I'm completely cuckoo. Oh well, this is really an ledant
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edge toward the door. Mister Broderick. You're thinking of running
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for help, aren't you. Now I can read your thoughts
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quite clearly. Suppose you're going to knock me off like
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our Martian friends of the countrary ahead, leave? Why not?
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Why don't you try it, mister Brederick, because the minute
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I turn my back, you're gonna let me have it.
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Suppose you try it and see I have that interesting stuff?
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Go ahead, all right, Buster, you asked for it. Will
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do you no good? No God, you will see hair.
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Why do you think you're running track the officer?
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Listen to me. Oh, it's you, the one with the
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marsh Yeah, that's right. Listen, that story is true. They're
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inside that house inside number one O eight. He killed them,
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who killed Raphius. He's the leader of the Venusian invasion.
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Venusian invasion, that's right. Tomorrow at noon. They're going to
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take over the earth. Alisten, go in that house, Marshals
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now Venusians. Eh, okay, that's enough for me. Come along,
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good man, got much time? Wait where you're taking me?
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Bellview psychiatric word, my friend, con you know I'll come.
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Aloe, listen to me.
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Why isn't your fool oh me a thread for corn.
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I think it's going to be an invasion.
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The Velutians are going to invade.
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It's not us man.
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You gotta believe me.
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You gotta believe me. Alla, Why don't say listen? Why
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don't lead?
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You have just heard Another adventure into the unknown world
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of the future, the world of.
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Dimension Next week the story of Reesling, the strange blind
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singer of the Spaceways. He traveled with space lines from
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Mars to Venus to the moons of Jupiter. No captain
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could refuse to carry Reasling and his battered guitar. He
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sang of all the wonders of the galaxy, but his
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greatest song was of the sight he would never see,
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the green hills of Earth. Tonight, The Mansion Acts has
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presented The Embassy, the story by Donald A. Wollheim has
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adapted Barettio by George Laffards. Joseph Julian was heard as Roderick,
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Barry Kroger as Graphius.
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Our narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman engineer
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Don Abbott. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and
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directed by Edward King. Tomorrow Here High Adventure, Now It's
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Truth or Consequences on NBC.
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That was Dimension X with Embassy.
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