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time for this week's episode of Bill Lance.
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The original air date October the nineteenth, nineteen forty seven, and the
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title as special delivery the American Broadcasting
Company. It challenges you to a startling
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puzzle in crime. The Adventures of
Bill Lance, starring Gerald Boyd with Award
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McNair as Professor Ulyssi Higgins. Hello, I'm Bill Lance. I'm primarily a
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composer, also a criminologist. Well, perhaps it's more accurate to call me
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a student of human nature. I
believe that crime is the result of a
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delinquent society, that the criminal mind
is a sick mind, and that the
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symptoms of that sickness are always apparent
in the behavior of the criminal. Therefore,
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if you would expose a criminal,
look for fingerprints on the door,
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nod, but also look for imprints
on the human mind. In short,
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human emotions are my clothes. Oh
yes, I also play the piano.
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You know, sometimes you can figure
out a lot of things by thinking of
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how you behave under a given set
of circumstances. Well, that is figuring,
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of course, that you're normal,
and who is If so, your
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reactions would be normal. And if
someone behaves differently from the way you would,
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well maybe that wouldn't be normal,
huh. And if it isn't,
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there must be a reason, And
that reason sometimes leads to the solution of
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a crime, as for example,
it did in the case of the stolen
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necklace. Well, it doesn't matter
of fact, it wasn't really stolen.
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I had it all the time it
was given to me. Ulysses he yes,
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listen do you hear that? Doesn't
that sound have a familiar ring to
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you? Listen carefully. Doesn't it
mean something? Oh? Yeah, I
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guess I was lost in Well,
now that you found yourself, answered,
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boy, I'm coming jew again.
There's last here in just a moment,
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Bill as ulysses that imbibing jeweler,
mister George Kincaid is he again? Oh
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George, come in. Thanks for
Billy. I didn't expect to see you
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again so soon, especially sober.
Yeah. Bill, I want to ask
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a favor of you. I need
some help, naturally after what happened last
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week with mister and missus Randolph immediately
thought of you, and then you must
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be in trouble and my safe out
in my store in Beverly Hills. As
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a necklace worth a quarter of a
million dollars, Well, don't bandy the
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information about it. There won't be
Look, Bill, the responsibility of carrying
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out my client's wishes, well,
it's more than I care to take.
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I'm well known across the country as
a jewel merchant, and and I'm not
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as at the idea exactly. I'm
sure you won't be disappointed if you agree
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to meet my clients. Don't do
it, then I'll only lead to trouble.
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But Ulyssies, you never can tell
what trouble may lead to. It
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will lead to your death one of
these days, William Mark Mallares, it
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will lead to your death. Oh, Bill, you are right on time.
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Hello, George, it's a man
you want me to meet. Yes,
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Bill Land sought the banks, are
you? Oh yes, it's my
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associate Professor Higgins. I please to
meet. Well, you gentlemen will want
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to talk privately, so please use
my office. Mister Banks, thank you,
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mister Kincaid, after you, and
mister lam on your listen. Oh
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a mine, you've never been excluded. Have you sit down please, thank
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you, Thank you. Mister Kincaid
acquainted you with my problem. I suppose
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we mentioned something about a valuable necklace. Yes, see for yourself. Yeah,
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oh it's your beauty, large diamonds
and dispersed with them. Agreement.
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It is worth a quarter of a
million dollars easily. As a matter of
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fact, it's already sold for that
amount, so yes, consummation of the
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sale depends only upon delivery. Delivery
mister Lands, I fear is going to
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be extremely difficult, as a matter
of fact, impossible for me. Please
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explain. I have solved this piece
from the your Andre Leclaire in Paris,
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but the piece must be delivered into
his hand before payment will be made to
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me. The money is on deposit
at a local bank and will be released
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to me upon receipt of word from
Leclair that the pieces in his hand.
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And mister Lands, it is known
by certain parties that I possess this piece.
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They are, shall we say,
experts in their profession. Jewel Thiemes,
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yes, big Combine, No,
mister Lands. The man and his
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daughter his name is Hans Oglefeldt.
I beg your pardon ogle who Oglefelt?
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He's a Hollander who his daughter is
Lena Oglefeldt. These two will stoop to
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any depths to steal this necklace.
If I attempt to make delivery to Monsieur
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Leclair in Paris, they would kill
me for it. However, if you
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were to undertake it, don't do
it. Well? You think my neck
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won't stick out as far as yours. There is no way that Oglefelt could
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know of your connection or your mission. You could make the delivery safely.
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If I do, don't do it
well, there will be ten thousand dollars
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here with mister Kincaid for you upon
your return there you've already got ten thousand
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dollars. No, well, in
these times, Ulysses, anybody can use
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a little extra pin money. I
see the incentive will have to be stronger.
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All right, mister Lance, double
it. All right. I'll keep
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a necklace from this moment on.
As for you, mister Banks, don't
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come near me or kin Kaid again
until delivery is completely good. I can't
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tell you how grateful I am you're
willing to undertake. I wish you'd stop
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using that word. It makes me
nervous. Where will I find this?
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Monsieur Leclaire thirty three four Rue de
May thirty three four Rue de May.
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All right, come on, Ulysses, we got to see by clipper tickets.
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Could we please stop with some food
on the way I'm started? You're
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always, Professor Higgins. Are you
a gourmet? Yeah? Spelled glutton Wood
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is one of my fondest pleasures to
Professor Higgins. Yeah, but it's an
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obsession with him. Why when Ulysses
finishes our refrigerator looks as if it had
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been hooverized. Oh that's very good. You mean by the ex president,
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No, like by the vacuum sweeper, completely clean, well as patriotic not
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to waste with these days, that's
an admirable thing. Yeah, and you've
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got a patriotic stomach too. All
right, we'll stop for a snack and
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then we'll get the tickets for Paris. Now that I've got it, I
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want to drop this bundle of ice
as quickly as possible. It may Bill,
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that was an excellent mirror. If
you're completely freshed, you mean we're
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stopped? Hey, Bill, be
careful gun that car pulling around. You're
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offer close to it. It's close
to me, crowding me over. Oh
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no, wonder it's a woman driving. If they're trying to force you to
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current or fine, well we'll just
they've speed it up with you. It
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isn't careless driving unless says this is
intentionally. Now that I get a good
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look, I recognize that car,
Bill, who was parked behind us.
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When you've got those plane tickets?
Three guesses what they're after. I've been
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looking to crash up utulesses. Run
for it. We shouldn't have gotten mixed
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up in me. Stop stop you
there, stop for a shoot? Stay
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where you are? They sing away
from me. Very sensible of you two.
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They my order to stop. Well, shooting is too high a price
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to pay for disobedience. Very sensible. Perhaps you'll be kind enough to hand
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over that necklace. What necklace?
I don't have time to play guessing games.
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Since you won't come play with my
request, I'll have to take more,
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definitely, bill. Oh why does
he have to do? Oh?
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Oh he's alive. Oh thank god, Oh my head. But what happened?
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What? Evidently our friend rocked me
to sleep when he's gone? Now,
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how do you know? I ran
in the opposite direction he followed you.
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I stopped and hid behind another car, and then I watched. No,
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that's fine, he just watched while
he potted my hair with the butt
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of his gun. Did you get
a good look at him? No?
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Didn't you. He made me keep
turned away from him beside it's dark.
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Right after he knocked you down,
he ran back to our car. He
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seemed to be looking through it,
and he jumped back in the car with
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a girl. They drove off.
I see a necklace. What about the
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name. I haven't got it,
Ulyssies. You haven't got it. You
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mean that you? Oh man,
that's good. Good, Yeah, that's
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good. I'm glad I got it. Now we don't have to worry about
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it anymore. I'm glad it's settled
and we're out of it, Ulysses.
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Look in your coat pocket, Michael, you mean the necklace. Yeah.
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I figured they'd expect it to be
on me, so just as you jumped
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out of the car, I slipped
it in your pocket. Celia, haven't
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lost it after all. Worse luck
if you asked me. I knew this
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thing would get us into trouble.
And that's right, Ulysses. As sooner
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we get to missieur Leclaire in Paris, soon our trouble is going to be
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over. George Kincaid Exquisite Jewel Appointments. Yes, yes, this is mister
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Kincaid speaking. Oh hello, yes, oh, yes, I suppose such
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a job could be done. We
already have the original. All right,
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all right, I don't know what
you're getting at, but I'll do as
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you say. Yes, all right, good bye? Why I ever let
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myself get mixed up in these wild
escapates of yours? Ever, just never
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know, why don't you just relax
and enjoy the flight in the scenery?
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You call it just plain old sky
and gray ocean scene. Certainly, what
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do you call it monotonous? You
know, something tells me your bottom is
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going to be very short lived,
Professor. Unless I miss my guest,
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that first attempt to get the necklace
won't be the last. Obviously, the
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jewel thieves Banks was afraid of,
but the same tool cut me out last
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night. That means they know we've
got the necklace and have a pretty good
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idea we'll be hearing from them.
Excuse me? How fast can my prediction
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come true? I wonder if I
might ask a favor, mademoiselle. If
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I knew what you wanted, you
wouldn't even have to ask. Just time
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table. I'm so mixed up with
the time changes. Do you understand,
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mademoiselle at the time like this,
I behooves a man that can't. You're
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up all the understanding possible. Just
what is it you'd like to know?
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Exactly what time? Do we arrive
in time? Just in time for a
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step dinner together. I'm stopping at
the creon? Where are you stopping?
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Now that I think of it,
I believe I'm stopping at the creon too.
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How charming. Perhaps we'll see something
of each other, Yes, yes,
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perhaps we will. Now what was
it you wanted to know? How
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have you already found out? O
these Paris street? How are anyone's going
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to go find the very three four
rudomet This is the place came up here?
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Driver? Please? Good? What's
good? There's a light on,
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Monsieur Leclair. At least somebody's in
Ammi, ulysses, Oh, driver,
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perhaps you better wait. Yes,
we may have to leave in a hurry.
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Oh, it's such an optimist,
Juless. He's always expecting the worst,
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and usually right now here we are
nice setting for danger, narrow dark
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street, smallly lighted shop, and
that man behind the count just opened the
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door, Ulysses, sittainly, masters, Oh there's something you wish? Yes,
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we'd like the same as Andre Leclair, if you please, I am
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Monsieur Leclair. Oh are you well? I'm Bill Lance Loves, Bill Lows,
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Yes, and what is your business? Monsieur loves He's a piano tuning.
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I am not I no attention to
my friend him is here to tell
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the truth. I'm a I'm an
errand, boy, errand, boy,
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that's right, that's fine. I'm
running an errand for mister Arthur Banks,
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Beverly Hills, California. I have
a necklace they handed over to you,
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Monsieur Leclaire. Oh yes, yes, now that you explain your mission,
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I understand. I've been expecting you, although I was not acquainted with your
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name, imppy to say you have
negotiated the trip without mishap. And now
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the necklace. Oh, I don't
have it with me? Well, whay
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is it? Surely you brought it? Oh? Yes, yes, I
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brought it. But you wouldn't expect
me to carry it around with me until
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I make contact with you, would
you? Of course, caution is necessarily
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extremely But you do have the necklace? I mean it is here in Barby.
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Oh yes, yes, it's her
in safekeeping. Well, then,
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now that you have contacted me,
you will of course make the deliver of
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it once we are anxious to have
the transaction completed. I'm sure you don't
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wish to keep as you can gage
in Monsieur Banks waiting for them money?
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Oh of course not. How long
will you be here? I can wait
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until you have returned, all right? Shouldn't take too long. You'll wait
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right here. I'll get the necklace
and bring it to you. Thank you
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so much, Monsieur laurs, not
at all, thank you, Monsieur Leclair.
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All right, try but take us
the prefactive police. Hurry? Will
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you prefactive police? But it wasn't. I haven't naming you. How would
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Andrea Leclair? Nob George can care? A couple of things the police may
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be able to straighten out for me. I certainly appreciate your cooperation, inspect
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That is perfectly a high Monsieur last
We are always happy to assist in such
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matters. No, yeah, he's
the material you ask for. Thank you,
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M. Dossier. Andrea Leclaire Jewels
arrested my second nineteen forty six passing
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reproductions Arrested October seventh, nineteen forty
six, in Vezzelement, m Inspector.
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Is there a picture of Andrea Leclaire
here? Last page? Oh, he
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ulysses, take a look at this. You have to see this man before?
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No, no, no, canci
what this is an authentic picture of
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Andrea Leclair? No? But the
man we met with short stocky, nothing
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about him resembling Andrea? And right, what does it mean? I have
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a hunch that it means our Monsieur
Leclaire, not Monsieur Leclaire at all.
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Perfect. Obviously, Monsieur le Claire
wouldn't turn over a shop to a well
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known jewels deep except by force.
So if we want to deliver our necklace,
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we better find Monsieur le Claire.
Come on, monsieurs, you have
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a return. Yes you have brought
the necklace. Yes, yes, we
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have brought the necklace. No,
all right, monsieur, put up your
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hands. What is the meaning of
the south wage? Your meaning is we
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want to see Monsieur Leclair. I
have told you already that I am.
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A lack of resemblance between you two
is cataclysmic. Now where is he?
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You're mistaken? I okay, ulyssies, keep this monkey covered. Here's my
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guy, Yes, keep him covered. I'm gonna have looks with the back
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rooms of this place. Are you
be careful? But you can't tell what's
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what the monkey bank you running through? I'll be very careful. You listen,
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Just keep your eye on our friend
there. M hm. Empty.
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Doesn't look as though even kilbroy was
here, So the heavy mister lost?
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Well, Hello, I am more
or less expected at the meet there.
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Now, that's definitely yeah. I'm
sure your pardon me for mentioning it,
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but your gun and showing and Monsieur
Lance, I understand how to use it.
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Yes, I'm sure you do.
Lena, you know my name?
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Yes, yes, I know your
name and your purpose. I have an
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idea that I know the gentleman on
the floor too. He's pretty well tied
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up is name very securely, and
Monsieur Lance, I advise you not to
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make any attempt to free him.
It might cost you your life. Well,
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everything comes out of these days.
You're a very determined young lady.
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Answer yes, you know. Of
course you're never going to get away with
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it. Even if you get the
necklace, I'll be able to tell the
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police who stolen, will you,
Missieur clat Well, maybe I won't.
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You know, somehow you don't quite
fit into the role you're playing, Lena,
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meaning you're a charming, beautiful,
intelligent girl. You don't fit the
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pattern of it. You will be
You probably know the pattern better than I
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stop. I told you to come
no closer. Well, surely you can't
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object. If I ever a look
at Monsieur Leclaire, I'd like to find
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out if he's still alive. He's
alive. He's been given something to make
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him sleep, something like a good
suck on a nuggin. He's all right.
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Now tell me, mister Lance,
do you have the necklace with you?
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Very well? I can find out
for myself. Turn around you laugh.
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That's right, face the world now, put up your hands higher.
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I am glad to see that you
are willing to cooperate, Monsieur Law.
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You know there's something about a load
of gun that brings out my sense of
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cooperation that is extremely white can perfectly
still, mister Lance, I am going
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to search you. I could never
hope to have it done by more charming
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faith. Calling names will get you
nowhere, Missie Lance. I'm sorry,
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Mom's head. I might as well
save you the trouble. The necklaces in
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my inside coat pocket. Shall I
get it for you? No, thank
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you, I'll get it. Ah, thank you, Monsieur Law. I
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don't suppose I can convince you you
shouldn't take it that I could wish you
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were an honest person. I like
you, Lena, I stop it.
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I know what you are, Monsieur
Laan, and I can assure you that
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I am not at all interested in
your opinion of me. I just thought
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i'd try. Now. I want
you to walk straight ahead of me through
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the next woman into the shop,
and then I imagine we'll find your friend
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there. He may have a gun, but with you directly ahead of me,
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he won't be asked to use it. Tell me, Lena, will
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you ever command or walk Monsieur Laan, Oh, yes, yes, we're
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gonna leave Monsieur Leclaire like that.
I'm not worried about Monsieur le Claire.
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When he comes to he'll call for
help. Someone will come in the meantime.
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He just had to stay there,
all right, Monsieur Lance. Open
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the door to the shop. Remember, stay squarely in front of me.
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Yes, I assured them. All
right, Minsieur Lance, walk straight to
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your friends. You with a gun, you can see what may happen to
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your friend if you fail to co
operate. Yes, yes I can,
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I will. Father. Do you
have the necklace? Yes? Now you
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hear me, Professor Higgins, Lena
will go out. Oh how do you
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do Bill? What? Yes?
That's right, isn't it, Lena,
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Yes, that's right now your gun, professor? Thank you? All right,
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father, let's go. I'm proud
of you. Good time is a
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long it's been so nice me.
Yes, hasn't it incomfortable too for you?
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Does she have a necklace? Yeah? Bill? Come on Bill?
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After the Bill escape, Well,
you can go after him if you like.
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As for me, I have no
intention of chasing two people with guns
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when I don't have so much as
up and night. I mean, you're
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going to look them get away.
Look, Ulysses, they already got away.
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What do we do now? We'll
go into the back room free missie
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Andre la Clare and then get back
to the United States just as fast as
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we can. I mean, you're
not going to make any attempt to get
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that necklace. Wait, net girl, Ulysses. I have a strange feeling
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that she thinks more of that necklace
than she does of my life. But
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I cannot understand you. We traveled
halfway across the world to deliver a necklace
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and then you'll let it slip right
through your fingers and you give up.
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Excuse me? Hello, we we
oh, we want to place a phone
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call to George Kincaid, Beverly Hill. Oh, Beverly h. Don't you
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ever go to the movies? It's
in California. His phone number is Evergreen
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two four or five? Four or
five? How soon can you get the
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call through? I do not know, Zeez, Beverly Hill. You just
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tell her to the New York operator. I'm sure she's heard of it.
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I must say, Bill, and
I'm going to relish meeting George Kincaid and
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mister Banks. Not half of the
dismal failure. You managed to cheat?
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Yeah? Too bad? Is now
at least we're back in the live.
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Oh good, George must have received
my message. He does a light in
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the shop. Oh oh my,
hello George. You got my message message?
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Oh yes, yes, Bill,
I got it. Oh no,
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George, not again. A bell, I'll bell, I'll bell, I'll
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bell, I'll bell, I'll bell. Yeah, that's me. He Bill's
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olive. Why you're not, Bill, You're supposed to be in Paris.
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I've been, Thank you. Hey, you welcome. You're bike. Oh
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it was a quick trip. Look, I hope you'd be of some help
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to me. But in your present
condition, I think you better just go
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into your back room for a little
nap. Well all right, why mean
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you got ze gonna sit out a
long wait here in your shop? Why?
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Bill? Because I'm expecting visitors I
cannot understand it, cannot understand it.
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I have to sit here in this
dark and sharp waiting, waiting,
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waiting for what I told you.
Visitors, Billy, you exasperated me?
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Why I get mixed up in these
injuries? Ussers arrived a man and Bill.
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Do you see who that is?
Sure? Is that woman in her
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father's We live it in Paris?
How they get back here? We don't
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have a monopoly on clippers, ulysses. We get back then? Yeah?
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What do they want? Probably the
next place they already have. The next
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two cents are yourself. Look,
maybe they didn't like the one they got
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in Paris. Let him in waiting, all right, But the vitalo my
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life? Hell, Lena, mister
orgel Fell, we've been expecting you.
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You're very clever. You're put up
your hands, both of you again.
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This time we won't fail. So
stupid to me not to see that the
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Jews I thought from you are past. Of course my father recognized it,
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proud immediately. Oh of course I
was sure he would. You can put
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your guns down, they won't be
necessary. Here's the necklace. Just a
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minute, I'll get it for you, Oh George, Oh Bill, Oh
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why what's are you sober enough to
open your safe? Bill? I resent
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your Stop picking your wounds. Get
the necklace. The legal owners are here
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for it now, Lena, mister
ogil Fellop, you just be patient,
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mister King Kay will bring you your
necklace in Heaven's name William Pernet if you
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lost your mind. No, mister
l you mean you are willing to turn
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it over to us. Yes see, I did a little checking and I
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found out what your father's occupation really. He's a Juel thief. No,
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no, no, is it Juel
Smith, the best of the business.
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And why should hear this woman try
to steal a necklace because they thought we
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were working with the real thieves.
You seem to know a good many things,
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mister l I do. Let's see
if I'm right. This necklace was
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given to you by a prominent actress
for re setting. Right, that is
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correct. Mister Arthur Banks or whatever
his name, has stole it from you.
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He can't like that. Kincaid.
Kincaid came to me. You see,
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Banks knew we couldn't get the piece
out of the country. He also
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knew that I could. You and
your charming daughter thought we were in with
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him. We had no reason to
believe otherwise. No, if you thought
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we were stealing the necklace, why
didn't you go to the police. I
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can answer that one to ulysses ogil
Felt would have been ruined if it had
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become public. That had been careless
enough to lose a valuable necklace left in
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his care. Oh here's something,
who gets it? Bill? Here you
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are leaning Lance? I can't tell
you, don't try, but remember what
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I was trying to tell you in
the back of Leclair's shop in Paris.
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I'd like to finish what I was
saying. If you don't mind, how
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about dinner at the Marner Monsieur Lance. You have done as a great favor.
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I am deeply appreciated and I should
like to see you again. But
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it is impossible, impossible. Why
I'm strictly available, mister Lance. Let
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my daughter is trying to tell you
is that she is not available as you
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put it? Why not? She
used to be married next week? Oh?
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Is there anything I can do?
Bill? May call inspector Holland haven't
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think about the banks and a jew
of that child? Bill? That isn't
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your composition, isn't it polyat?
Yes? Why are you playing with I
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don't know it seems appropriate, Ulysses. I'm a broken man. That girl
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she's cut me, Ulysses, I'm
bleeding. Oh you mean Lena as the
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most interesting woman I've met in years. She's going to be married next week.
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He serves you. Right, you
hadn't gun chasing off to Paris.
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If you'd have given her the necklace
the first place, you wouldn't getting so
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involved, Ulysses, I didn't know
the answers in the first place. I
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still don't. What about that phony
necklace? How'd that game? I believe
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banks the story at first, but
if there want us to be such a
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desperate attempt made to steal the necklace, I wanted to be sure the thieves
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didn't get the real one, you
see, But I wanted the attempt made
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so that the thieves could be taken
into custody. So before we left,
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I called kin Kaid and had to
make up a duplicate out of pace.
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He worked all night. It's over
a hot bottle of bourbon. Yes.
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And then when I got to look
at Andrea Leclair's record in Paris, I
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realized that a legitimate jewel merchant in
America would have nothing to do with him,
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and somehow I could never believe that
Lena was a thief. You know,
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she and her father, their efforts
were so clumsy. They were more
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desperate than professional jewel thieves would ever
have been. So when we got back,
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I checked up on our father,
and once I discovered his occupation,
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the restpite perfectly. And I knew
when they discovered the necklace they got was
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a fake, they'd be back at
Kinkaid's shop as quickly as they could.
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Nice and now you're in love with
the girl. I'm afraid, so,
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Ulysses, what are you doing about
it? Just suffer? Really only cure
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for love? His love will him? I suggest a company of some other
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charming I know a couple of ladies, Ulysses. Compared with Lena, the
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girls that you know would be shallow, giddy, tippet, pale and interested.
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You're gonna lead a very boring life
from aren't you? Bill? You've
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been listening to? Another in the
series of Intriguing Mysteries starring Gerald Moore as
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Bill Lance with Howard McNair as Ulysses
Higgins. Tonight's supporting cast included Alma Lawton
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as Lena, Charles Calbert as kincaide, Bill Conradisogulfelt, John Newland's Arthur Banks,
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Michael Diners the Inspector, and Nina
Barre as the phone Girl. Music
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composed and played by Rex Cory.
Join us again next week, same time,
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over most of these same ABC stations. When Bill's composing as again interrupted
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by Hello, mister Lance, Lena, Lena Darling, you came. I
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need your help. Don't tell me
you've lost that necklace again? No,
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but you remember I told you I
was to be married next week. Yes,
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missie, my fiance has disappeared.
Ah. Yes, well, Ulysses,
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get your hat. We got to
chase down a fiance. This Bill
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Lance Adventure was written and directed by
Dwighthauser. Now here's a special program note.
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Next it's high powered excitement on David
Harding Counterspy with today's case of the
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International Food Racketeers. Don't miss Counterspy
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Welcome back. Well, a really
enjoyable episode, and it definitely leaves me
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one any more. I like the
way the story was told, as well
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as the solution to the mystery,
which by explaining they were amateurs really did
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answer a lot of questions. I
also do like the sort of light continuity
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in between episodes. It's not a
situation where if you would listen to this
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episode without hearing the previous week,
you would be totally lost at sea as
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to what was going on with Bill
Lance. The episodes managed to be self
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contained, but you have this very
a lit bit of continuity going from one
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episode to another, with the jeweler
carrying over from the previous episode, and
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then you have the disappearance of the
fiance, which we assume we'll carry over
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to the next one. There were
only fourteen episodes made of the series,
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which is kind of a shame,
but I guess if it had not ended,
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then Gerald Moore may not have been
available for the Adventures of Philip Marlow,
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so perhaps it was all for the
best. Well listener comments and feedback
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now. Joey writes over on Facebook
after the first episode, I wonder if
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Howard mcneir does a plug for the
show every week. I think it does
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vary a little bit as to what
the plug is here. I think the
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bigger thing was the missing fiance,
and then we also have David who writes,
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really enjoyed this. And then I
have a couple of questions over on
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Twitter regarding Squadroom. David Riots really
enjoyed this. How's it possible to her
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shows you've never heard of before?
Well, great question, David. I
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would say that I've heard of all
the old time radio detective programs out there
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that have episodes in circulation. Man, I've heard a few that haven't.
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The ones that I haven't heard of
tend to be those programs that don't have
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any episodes and also don't have much
of a reputation and therefore have kind of
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didn't leave much of an imprint on
the listeners. And I think that may
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be the case with a lot of
the programming that was only on the air
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a short time, with for example, the Adventures of Bill Lance that was
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on the air about one hundred days. And then you had some of the
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New York output from Mutual in particular, where they released a lot of different
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police programs, but they didn't really
gain a national audience because you know,
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the audience for radio drama was declined
in already didn't get a whole lot of
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newspaper coverage. So even though they
ran for several years. They just did
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not leave that huge dent. They
did a lot of crime programs in the
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nineteen fifties on Mutual, but so
many of them are forgotten. I remember
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when we were playing Treasury Agent,
we got to some of the New York
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programs from there from the mid to
late fifties, and they had an ad
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for other crime dramas, and they
had two that I had never heard of
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it. I remember one was Brooklyn
Cobb, and I forget what the other
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one was. And many of these
I don't actually know of until I find
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episodes. In the case of Squadroom
that didn't even make it into John Dunning's
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Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio. So
there are lots of programs that aren't remembered
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well. There are other programs that
have a relatively few transcriptions, like the
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US version of The Fat Man only
has ten episodes out, but if you
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knew anyone from that era, so
many have memory of that series of the
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opening, even though there's not a
whole lot of episodes around. So I
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guess, in short, the answer
is that a series I don't know about
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are those that just don't have any
episodes in circulation, and that no one
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is really aware of. And then
we have a question here from Lynn Len
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Rights Adam love listening. How do
you find these shows in the first place?
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And do you have to clean up
the audio? Well, thanks so
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much for the question, Len,
and answer. The vast majority of the
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episodes that we play are founded places
like archive dot org. They are just
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generally available old time radio programs that
we bring over. Now, there are
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others that we acquire through different means. One is just checking a lot of
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old time radio websites. I remember, like a couple of years back,
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I found a previously uncirculated episode of
Police Blotter while digging through like a bunch
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of FRS files that people added to
the Internet. There are also some purchasing
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groups that I'm part of, an
occasionally we'll get a program that we can
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use for a podcast, though those
do have restrictions like you cannot share it
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for six months or for a year, and so we always want to be
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careful to honor whatever requirements are put
on the particular file. So it's some
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dedication, some due diligence, some
just searching around to try and find the
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best way to get the best file
we can In a reasonable manner. Thanks
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so much for the question. And
now I do want to go ahead and
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thank all our Patreon supporter of the
day. Thank you to Melanie, Patreon
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support, Melanie. And that'll do
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channel, and mark the notification bell. We'll be back next tuesday for Jeff
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Reagan and join us back here tomorrow
for the man call backs where account seems
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to be a winning so far.
Oh, this score keeps changing. Evan
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is now waiting for a cable gram. Is this in points, pounds or
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dollars? American dollar has become standard
everywhere, hasn't it? I guess,
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well, maybe a challenge is in
order. A challenger, Ah, this
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tongue will double anybody's high as score. That is quite a challenge. Yes,
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indeed, you already ought to toss
a data too, old boy,
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pack it up? You know,
all right? Fine here you are?
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Thanks? Ah, let's see well, Bertie two bulls eyes. Does that
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answer your question? Yes, yes, smoke. Americans always know everything.
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I didn't learn that in America.
You esn't prove whether they use poison on
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the dots, gentlemen. Something Tragically
the boy found mister Khn in his room
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dead. It's apparently a heart attack. It's too late to inform the authought
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his utill morning, But I did
think you ought to know. And if
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you excuse me, now, wow, one down and five to go.
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That leaves you with high business Dan. I suppose you mean high score,
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mister Thurston. But aren't you forgetting
your offer to double anybody else? Yes?
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Actually, your high man old boy, care to toss another dot?
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No? I think I'll quit while
I'm ahead, at least for the night.
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Is it nothing little dangerous to be
ahead? Thurston? Mister Kanyo mean,
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oh, I'm pretty hard to poison
poison? It's an idea, isn't
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it? Thru They use it on
the dots. Yeah, they use it
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on the players. Well, I'm
in room twenty one, second floor,
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third door from the stairway. Good
night, an't I hope you'll join us
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there in the meantime. Send your
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net. Well, now it is
time for this week's episode of Bill Lance.
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The original air date October the nineteenth, nineteen forty seven, and the
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title as special delivery the American Broadcasting
Company. It challenges you to a startling
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puzzle in crime. The Adventures of
Bill Lance, starring Gerald Boyd with Award
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McNair as Professor Ulyssi Higgins. Hello, I'm Bill Lance. I'm primarily a
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composer, also a criminologist. Well, perhaps it's more accurate to call me
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a student of human nature. I
believe that crime is the result of a
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delinquent society, that the criminal mind
is a sick mind, and that the
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symptoms of that sickness are always apparent
in the behavior of the criminal. Therefore,
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if you would expose a criminal,
look for fingerprints on the door,
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nod, but also look for imprints
on the human mind. In short,
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human emotions are my clothes. Oh
yes, I also play the piano.
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You know, sometimes you can figure
out a lot of things by thinking of
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how you behave under a given set
of circumstances. Well, that is figuring,
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of course, that you're normal,
and who is If so, your
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reactions would be normal. And if
someone behaves differently from the way you would,
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well maybe that wouldn't be normal,
huh. And if it isn't,
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there must be a reason, And
that reason sometimes leads to the solution of
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a crime, as for example,
it did in the case of the stolen
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necklace. Well, it doesn't matter
of fact, it wasn't really stolen.
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I had it all the time it
was given to me. Ulysses he yes,
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listen do you hear that? Doesn't
that sound have a familiar ring to
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you? Listen carefully. Doesn't it
mean something? Oh? Yeah, I
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guess I was lost in Well,
now that you found yourself, answered,
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boy, I'm coming jew again.
There's last here in just a moment,
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Bill as ulysses that imbibing jeweler,
mister George Kincaid is he again? Oh
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George, come in. Thanks for
Billy. I didn't expect to see you
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again so soon, especially sober.
Yeah. Bill, I want to ask
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a favor of you. I need
some help, naturally after what happened last
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week with mister and missus Randolph immediately
thought of you, and then you must
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be in trouble and my safe out
in my store in Beverly Hills. As
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a necklace worth a quarter of a
million dollars, Well, don't bandy the
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information about it. There won't be
Look, Bill, the responsibility of carrying
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out my client's wishes, well,
it's more than I care to take.
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I'm well known across the country as
a jewel merchant, and and I'm not
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as at the idea exactly. I'm
sure you won't be disappointed if you agree
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to meet my clients. Don't do
it, then I'll only lead to trouble.
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But Ulyssies, you never can tell
what trouble may lead to. It
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will lead to your death one of
these days, William Mark Mallares, it
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will lead to your death. Oh, Bill, you are right on time.
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Hello, George, it's a man
you want me to meet. Yes,
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Bill Land sought the banks, are
you? Oh yes, it's my
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associate Professor Higgins. I please to
meet. Well, you gentlemen will want
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to talk privately, so please use
my office. Mister Banks, thank you,
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mister Kincaid, after you, and
mister lam on your listen. Oh
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a mine, you've never been excluded. Have you sit down please, thank
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you, Thank you. Mister Kincaid
acquainted you with my problem. I suppose
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we mentioned something about a valuable necklace. Yes, see for yourself. Yeah,
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oh it's your beauty, large diamonds
and dispersed with them. Agreement.
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It is worth a quarter of a
million dollars easily. As a matter of
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fact, it's already sold for that
amount, so yes, consummation of the
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sale depends only upon delivery. Delivery
mister Lands, I fear is going to
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be extremely difficult, as a matter
of fact, impossible for me. Please
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explain. I have solved this piece
from the your Andre Leclaire in Paris,
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but the piece must be delivered into
his hand before payment will be made to
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me. The money is on deposit
at a local bank and will be released
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to me upon receipt of word from
Leclair that the pieces in his hand.
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And mister Lands, it is known
by certain parties that I possess this piece.
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They are, shall we say,
experts in their profession. Jewel Thiemes,
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yes, big Combine, No,
mister Lands. The man and his
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daughter his name is Hans Oglefeldt.
I beg your pardon ogle who Oglefelt?
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He's a Hollander who his daughter is
Lena Oglefeldt. These two will stoop to
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any depths to steal this necklace.
If I attempt to make delivery to Monsieur
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Leclair in Paris, they would kill
me for it. However, if you
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were to undertake it, don't do
it. Well? You think my neck
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won't stick out as far as yours. There is no way that Oglefelt could
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know of your connection or your mission. You could make the delivery safely.
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If I do, don't do it
well, there will be ten thousand dollars
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here with mister Kincaid for you upon
your return there you've already got ten thousand
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dollars. No, well, in
these times, Ulysses, anybody can use
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a little extra pin money. I
see the incentive will have to be stronger.
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All right, mister Lance, double
it. All right. I'll keep
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a necklace from this moment on.
As for you, mister Banks, don't
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come near me or kin Kaid again
until delivery is completely good. I can't
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tell you how grateful I am you're
willing to undertake. I wish you'd stop
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using that word. It makes me
nervous. Where will I find this?
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Monsieur Leclaire thirty three four Rue de
May thirty three four Rue de May.
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All right, come on, Ulysses, we got to see by clipper tickets.
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Could we please stop with some food
on the way I'm started? You're
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always, Professor Higgins. Are you
a gourmet? Yeah? Spelled glutton Wood
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is one of my fondest pleasures to
Professor Higgins. Yeah, but it's an
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obsession with him. Why when Ulysses
finishes our refrigerator looks as if it had
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been hooverized. Oh that's very good. You mean by the ex president,
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No, like by the vacuum sweeper, completely clean, well as patriotic not
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to waste with these days, that's
an admirable thing. Yeah, and you've
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got a patriotic stomach too. All
right, we'll stop for a snack and
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then we'll get the tickets for Paris. Now that I've got it, I
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want to drop this bundle of ice
as quickly as possible. It may Bill,
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that was an excellent mirror. If
you're completely freshed, you mean we're
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stopped? Hey, Bill, be
careful gun that car pulling around. You're
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offer close to it. It's close
to me, crowding me over. Oh
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no, wonder it's a woman driving. If they're trying to force you to
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current or fine, well we'll just
they've speed it up with you. It
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isn't careless driving unless says this is
intentionally. Now that I get a good
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look, I recognize that car,
Bill, who was parked behind us.
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When you've got those plane tickets?
Three guesses what they're after. I've been
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looking to crash up utulesses. Run
for it. We shouldn't have gotten mixed
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up in me. Stop stop you
there, stop for a shoot? Stay
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where you are? They sing away
from me. Very sensible of you two.
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They my order to stop. Well, shooting is too high a price
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to pay for disobedience. Very sensible. Perhaps you'll be kind enough to hand
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over that necklace. What necklace?
I don't have time to play guessing games.
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Since you won't come play with my
request, I'll have to take more,
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definitely, bill. Oh why does
he have to do? Oh?
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Oh he's alive. Oh thank god, Oh my head. But what happened?
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What? Evidently our friend rocked me
to sleep when he's gone? Now,
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how do you know? I ran
in the opposite direction he followed you.
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I stopped and hid behind another car, and then I watched. No,
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that's fine, he just watched while
he potted my hair with the butt
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of his gun. Did you get
a good look at him? No?
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Didn't you. He made me keep
turned away from him beside it's dark.
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Right after he knocked you down,
he ran back to our car. He
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seemed to be looking through it,
and he jumped back in the car with
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a girl. They drove off.
I see a necklace. What about the
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name. I haven't got it,
Ulyssies. You haven't got it. You
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mean that you? Oh man,
that's good. Good, Yeah, that's
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good. I'm glad I got it. Now we don't have to worry about
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it anymore. I'm glad it's settled
and we're out of it, Ulysses.
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Look in your coat pocket, Michael, you mean the necklace. Yeah.
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I figured they'd expect it to be
on me, so just as you jumped
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out of the car, I slipped
it in your pocket. Celia, haven't
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lost it after all. Worse luck
if you asked me. I knew this
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thing would get us into trouble.
And that's right, Ulysses. As sooner
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we get to missieur Leclaire in Paris, soon our trouble is going to be
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over. George Kincaid Exquisite Jewel Appointments. Yes, yes, this is mister
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Kincaid speaking. Oh hello, yes, oh, yes, I suppose such
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a job could be done. We
already have the original. All right,
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all right, I don't know what
you're getting at, but I'll do as
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you say. Yes, all right, good bye? Why I ever let
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myself get mixed up in these wild
escapates of yours? Ever, just never
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know, why don't you just relax
and enjoy the flight in the scenery?
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You call it just plain old sky
and gray ocean scene. Certainly, what
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do you call it monotonous? You
know, something tells me your bottom is
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going to be very short lived,
Professor. Unless I miss my guest,
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that first attempt to get the necklace
won't be the last. Obviously, the
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jewel thieves Banks was afraid of,
but the same tool cut me out last
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night. That means they know we've
got the necklace and have a pretty good
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idea we'll be hearing from them.
Excuse me? How fast can my prediction
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come true? I wonder if I
might ask a favor, mademoiselle. If
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I knew what you wanted, you
wouldn't even have to ask. Just time
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table. I'm so mixed up with
the time changes. Do you understand,
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mademoiselle at the time like this,
I behooves a man that can't. You're
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up all the understanding possible. Just
what is it you'd like to know?
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Exactly what time? Do we arrive
in time? Just in time for a
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step dinner together. I'm stopping at
the creon? Where are you stopping?
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Now that I think of it,
I believe I'm stopping at the creon too.
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How charming. Perhaps we'll see something
of each other, Yes, yes,
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perhaps we will. Now what was
it you wanted to know? How
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have you already found out? O
these Paris street? How are anyone's going
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to go find the very three four
rudomet This is the place came up here?
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Driver? Please? Good? What's
good? There's a light on,
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Monsieur Leclair. At least somebody's in
Ammi, ulysses, Oh, driver,
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perhaps you better wait. Yes,
we may have to leave in a hurry.
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Oh, it's such an optimist,
Juless. He's always expecting the worst,
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and usually right now here we are
nice setting for danger, narrow dark
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street, smallly lighted shop, and
that man behind the count just opened the
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door, Ulysses, sittainly, masters, Oh there's something you wish? Yes,
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we'd like the same as Andre Leclair, if you please, I am
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Monsieur Leclair. Oh are you well? I'm Bill Lance Loves, Bill Lows,
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Yes, and what is your business? Monsieur loves He's a piano tuning.
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I am not I no attention to
my friend him is here to tell
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the truth. I'm a I'm an
errand, boy, errand, boy,
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that's right, that's fine. I'm
running an errand for mister Arthur Banks,
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Beverly Hills, California. I have
a necklace they handed over to you,
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Monsieur Leclaire. Oh yes, yes, now that you explain your mission,
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I understand. I've been expecting you, although I was not acquainted with your
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name, imppy to say you have
negotiated the trip without mishap. And now
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the necklace. Oh, I don't
have it with me? Well, whay
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is it? Surely you brought it? Oh? Yes, yes, I
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brought it. But you wouldn't expect
me to carry it around with me until
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I make contact with you, would
you? Of course, caution is necessarily
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extremely But you do have the necklace? I mean it is here in Barby.
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Oh yes, yes, it's her
in safekeeping. Well, then,
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now that you have contacted me,
you will of course make the deliver of
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it once we are anxious to have
the transaction completed. I'm sure you don't
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wish to keep as you can gage
in Monsieur Banks waiting for them money?
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Oh of course not. How long
will you be here? I can wait
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until you have returned, all right? Shouldn't take too long. You'll wait
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right here. I'll get the necklace
and bring it to you. Thank you
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so much, Monsieur laurs, not
at all, thank you, Monsieur Leclair.
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All right, try but take us
the prefactive police. Hurry? Will
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you prefactive police? But it wasn't. I haven't naming you. How would
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Andrea Leclair? Nob George can care? A couple of things the police may
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be able to straighten out for me. I certainly appreciate your cooperation, inspect
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That is perfectly a high Monsieur last
We are always happy to assist in such
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matters. No, yeah, he's
the material you ask for. Thank you,
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M. Dossier. Andrea Leclaire Jewels
arrested my second nineteen forty six passing
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reproductions Arrested October seventh, nineteen forty
six, in Vezzelement, m Inspector.
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Is there a picture of Andrea Leclaire
here? Last page? Oh, he
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ulysses, take a look at this. You have to see this man before?
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No, no, no, canci
what this is an authentic picture of
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Andrea Leclair? No? But the
man we met with short stocky, nothing
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about him resembling Andrea? And right, what does it mean? I have
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a hunch that it means our Monsieur
Leclaire, not Monsieur Leclaire at all.
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Perfect. Obviously, Monsieur le Claire
wouldn't turn over a shop to a well
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known jewels deep except by force.
So if we want to deliver our necklace,
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we better find Monsieur le Claire.
Come on, monsieurs, you have
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a return. Yes you have brought
the necklace. Yes, yes, we
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have brought the necklace. No,
all right, monsieur, put up your
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hands. What is the meaning of
the south wage? Your meaning is we
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want to see Monsieur Leclair. I
have told you already that I am.
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A lack of resemblance between you two
is cataclysmic. Now where is he?
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You're mistaken? I okay, ulyssies, keep this monkey covered. Here's my
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guy, Yes, keep him covered. I'm gonna have looks with the back
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rooms of this place. Are you
be careful? But you can't tell what's
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what the monkey bank you running through? I'll be very careful. You listen,
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Just keep your eye on our friend
there. M hm. Empty.
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Doesn't look as though even kilbroy was
here, So the heavy mister lost?
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Well, Hello, I am more
or less expected at the meet there.
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Now, that's definitely yeah. I'm
sure your pardon me for mentioning it,
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but your gun and showing and Monsieur
Lance, I understand how to use it.
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Yes, I'm sure you do.
Lena, you know my name?
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Yes, yes, I know your
name and your purpose. I have an
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idea that I know the gentleman on
the floor too. He's pretty well tied
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up is name very securely, and
Monsieur Lance, I advise you not to
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make any attempt to free him.
It might cost you your life. Well,
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everything comes out of these days.
You're a very determined young lady.
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Answer yes, you know. Of
course you're never going to get away with
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it. Even if you get the
necklace, I'll be able to tell the
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police who stolen, will you,
Missieur clat Well, maybe I won't.
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You know, somehow you don't quite
fit into the role you're playing, Lena,
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meaning you're a charming, beautiful,
intelligent girl. You don't fit the
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pattern of it. You will be
You probably know the pattern better than I
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stop. I told you to come
no closer. Well, surely you can't
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object. If I ever a look
at Monsieur Leclaire, I'd like to find
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out if he's still alive. He's
alive. He's been given something to make
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him sleep, something like a good
suck on a nuggin. He's all right.
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Now tell me, mister Lance,
do you have the necklace with you?
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Very well? I can find out
for myself. Turn around you laugh.
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That's right, face the world now, put up your hands higher.
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I am glad to see that you
are willing to cooperate, Monsieur Law.
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You know there's something about a load
of gun that brings out my sense of
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cooperation that is extremely white can perfectly
still, mister Lance, I am going
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to search you. I could never
hope to have it done by more charming
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faith. Calling names will get you
nowhere, Missie Lance. I'm sorry,
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Mom's head. I might as well
save you the trouble. The necklaces in
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my inside coat pocket. Shall I
get it for you? No, thank
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you, I'll get it. Ah, thank you, Monsieur Law. I
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don't suppose I can convince you you
shouldn't take it that I could wish you
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were an honest person. I like
you, Lena, I stop it.
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I know what you are, Monsieur
Laan, and I can assure you that
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I am not at all interested in
your opinion of me. I just thought
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i'd try. Now. I want
you to walk straight ahead of me through
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the next woman into the shop,
and then I imagine we'll find your friend
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there. He may have a gun, but with you directly ahead of me,
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he won't be asked to use it. Tell me, Lena, will
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you ever command or walk Monsieur Laan, Oh, yes, yes, we're
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gonna leave Monsieur Leclaire like that.
I'm not worried about Monsieur le Claire.
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When he comes to he'll call for
help. Someone will come in the meantime.
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He just had to stay there,
all right, Monsieur Lance. Open
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the door to the shop. Remember, stay squarely in front of me.
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Yes, I assured them. All
right, Minsieur Lance, walk straight to
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your friends. You with a gun, you can see what may happen to
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your friend if you fail to co
operate. Yes, yes I can,
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I will. Father. Do you
have the necklace? Yes? Now you
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hear me, Professor Higgins, Lena
will go out. Oh how do you
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do Bill? What? Yes?
That's right, isn't it, Lena,
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Yes, that's right now your gun, professor? Thank you? All right,
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father, let's go. I'm proud
of you. Good time is a
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long it's been so nice me.
Yes, hasn't it incomfortable too for you?
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Does she have a necklace? Yeah? Bill? Come on Bill?
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After the Bill escape, Well,
you can go after him if you like.
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As for me, I have no
intention of chasing two people with guns
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when I don't have so much as
up and night. I mean, you're
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going to look them get away.
Look, Ulysses, they already got away.
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What do we do now? We'll
go into the back room free missie
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Andre la Clare and then get back
to the United States just as fast as
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we can. I mean, you're
not going to make any attempt to get
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that necklace. Wait, net girl, Ulysses. I have a strange feeling
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that she thinks more of that necklace
than she does of my life. But
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I cannot understand you. We traveled
halfway across the world to deliver a necklace
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and then you'll let it slip right
through your fingers and you give up.
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Excuse me? Hello, we we
oh, we want to place a phone
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call to George Kincaid, Beverly Hill. Oh, Beverly h. Don't you
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ever go to the movies? It's
in California. His phone number is Evergreen
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two four or five? Four or
five? How soon can you get the
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call through? I do not know, Zeez, Beverly Hill. You just
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tell her to the New York operator. I'm sure she's heard of it.
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I must say, Bill, and
I'm going to relish meeting George Kincaid and
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mister Banks. Not half of the
dismal failure. You managed to cheat?
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Yeah? Too bad? Is now
at least we're back in the live.
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Oh good, George must have received
my message. He does a light in
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the shop. Oh oh my,
hello George. You got my message message?
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Oh yes, yes, Bill,
I got it. Oh no,
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George, not again. A bell, I'll bell, I'll bell, I'll
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bell, I'll bell, I'll bell. Yeah, that's me. He Bill's
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olive. Why you're not, Bill, You're supposed to be in Paris.
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I've been, Thank you. Hey, you welcome. You're bike. Oh
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it was a quick trip. Look, I hope you'd be of some help
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to me. But in your present
condition, I think you better just go
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into your back room for a little
nap. Well all right, why mean
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you got ze gonna sit out a
long wait here in your shop? Why?
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Bill? Because I'm expecting visitors I
cannot understand it, cannot understand it.
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I have to sit here in this
dark and sharp waiting, waiting,
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waiting for what I told you.
Visitors, Billy, you exasperated me?
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Why I get mixed up in these
injuries? Ussers arrived a man and Bill.
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Do you see who that is?
Sure? Is that woman in her
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father's We live it in Paris?
How they get back here? We don't
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have a monopoly on clippers, ulysses. We get back then? Yeah?
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What do they want? Probably the
next place they already have. The next
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two cents are yourself. Look,
maybe they didn't like the one they got
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in Paris. Let him in waiting, all right, But the vitalo my
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life? Hell, Lena, mister
orgel Fell, we've been expecting you.
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You're very clever. You're put up
your hands, both of you again.
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This time we won't fail. So
stupid to me not to see that the
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Jews I thought from you are past. Of course my father recognized it,
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proud immediately. Oh of course I
was sure he would. You can put
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your guns down, they won't be
necessary. Here's the necklace. Just a
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minute, I'll get it for you, Oh George, Oh Bill, Oh
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why what's are you sober enough to
open your safe? Bill? I resent
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your Stop picking your wounds. Get
the necklace. The legal owners are here
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for it now, Lena, mister
ogil Fellop, you just be patient,
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mister King Kay will bring you your
necklace in Heaven's name William Pernet if you
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lost your mind. No, mister
l you mean you are willing to turn
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it over to us. Yes see, I did a little checking and I
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found out what your father's occupation really. He's a Juel thief. No,
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no, no, is it Juel
Smith, the best of the business.
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And why should hear this woman try
to steal a necklace because they thought we
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were working with the real thieves.
You seem to know a good many things,
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mister l I do. Let's see
if I'm right. This necklace was
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given to you by a prominent actress
for re setting. Right, that is
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correct. Mister Arthur Banks or whatever
his name, has stole it from you.
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He can't like that. Kincaid.
Kincaid came to me. You see,
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Banks knew we couldn't get the piece
out of the country. He also
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knew that I could. You and
your charming daughter thought we were in with
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him. We had no reason to
believe otherwise. No, if you thought
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we were stealing the necklace, why
didn't you go to the police. I
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can answer that one to ulysses ogil
Felt would have been ruined if it had
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become public. That had been careless
enough to lose a valuable necklace left in
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his care. Oh here's something,
who gets it? Bill? Here you
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are leaning Lance? I can't tell
you, don't try, but remember what
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I was trying to tell you in
the back of Leclair's shop in Paris.
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I'd like to finish what I was
saying. If you don't mind, how
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about dinner at the Marner Monsieur Lance. You have done as a great favor.
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I am deeply appreciated and I should
like to see you again. But
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it is impossible, impossible. Why
I'm strictly available, mister Lance. Let
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my daughter is trying to tell you
is that she is not available as you
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put it? Why not? She
used to be married next week? Oh?
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Is there anything I can do?
Bill? May call inspector Holland haven't
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think about the banks and a jew
of that child? Bill? That isn't
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your composition, isn't it polyat?
Yes? Why are you playing with I
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don't know it seems appropriate, Ulysses. I'm a broken man. That girl
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she's cut me, Ulysses, I'm
bleeding. Oh you mean Lena as the
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most interesting woman I've met in years. She's going to be married next week.
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He serves you. Right, you
hadn't gun chasing off to Paris.
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If you'd have given her the necklace
the first place, you wouldn't getting so
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involved, Ulysses, I didn't know
the answers in the first place. I
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still don't. What about that phony
necklace? How'd that game? I believe
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banks the story at first, but
if there want us to be such a
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desperate attempt made to steal the necklace, I wanted to be sure the thieves
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didn't get the real one, you
see, But I wanted the attempt made
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so that the thieves could be taken
into custody. So before we left,
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I called kin Kaid and had to
make up a duplicate out of pace.
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He worked all night. It's over
a hot bottle of bourbon. Yes.
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And then when I got to look
at Andrea Leclair's record in Paris, I
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realized that a legitimate jewel merchant in
America would have nothing to do with him,
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and somehow I could never believe that
Lena was a thief. You know,
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she and her father, their efforts
were so clumsy. They were more
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desperate than professional jewel thieves would ever
have been. So when we got back,
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I checked up on our father,
and once I discovered his occupation,
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the restpite perfectly. And I knew
when they discovered the necklace they got was
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a fake, they'd be back at
Kinkaid's shop as quickly as they could.
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Nice and now you're in love with
the girl. I'm afraid, so,
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Ulysses, what are you doing about
it? Just suffer? Really only cure
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for love? His love will him? I suggest a company of some other
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charming I know a couple of ladies, Ulysses. Compared with Lena, the
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girls that you know would be shallow, giddy, tippet, pale and interested.
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You're gonna lead a very boring life
from aren't you? Bill? You've
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been listening to? Another in the
series of Intriguing Mysteries starring Gerald Moore as
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Bill Lance with Howard McNair as Ulysses
Higgins. Tonight's supporting cast included Alma Lawton
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as Lena, Charles Calbert as kincaide, Bill Conradisogulfelt, John Newland's Arthur Banks,
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Michael Diners the Inspector, and Nina
Barre as the phone Girl. Music
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composed and played by Rex Cory.
Join us again next week, same time,
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over most of these same ABC stations. When Bill's composing as again interrupted
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by Hello, mister Lance, Lena, Lena Darling, you came. I
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need your help. Don't tell me
you've lost that necklace again? No,
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but you remember I told you I
was to be married next week. Yes,
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missie, my fiance has disappeared.
Ah. Yes, well, Ulysses,
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get your hat. We got to
chase down a fiance. This Bill
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Lance Adventure was written and directed by
Dwighthauser. Now here's a special program note.
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Next it's high powered excitement on David
Harding Counterspy with today's case of the
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International Food Racketeers. Don't miss Counterspy
over the same ABC station. This is
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ABC, the American Broadcasting Company w
jay Z, New York's first station.
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Welcome back. Well, a really
enjoyable episode, and it definitely leaves me
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one any more. I like the
way the story was told, as well
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as the solution to the mystery,
which by explaining they were amateurs really did
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answer a lot of questions. I
also do like the sort of light continuity
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in between episodes. It's not a
situation where if you would listen to this
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episode without hearing the previous week,
you would be totally lost at sea as
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to what was going on with Bill
Lance. The episodes managed to be self
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contained, but you have this very
a lit bit of continuity going from one
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episode to another, with the jeweler
carrying over from the previous episode, and
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then you have the disappearance of the
fiance, which we assume we'll carry over
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to the next one. There were
only fourteen episodes made of the series,
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which is kind of a shame,
but I guess if it had not ended,
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then Gerald Moore may not have been
available for the Adventures of Philip Marlow,
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so perhaps it was all for the
best. Well listener comments and feedback
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now. Joey writes over on Facebook
after the first episode, I wonder if
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Howard mcneir does a plug for the
show every week. I think it does
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vary a little bit as to what
the plug is here. I think the
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bigger thing was the missing fiance,
and then we also have David who writes,
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really enjoyed this. And then I
have a couple of questions over on
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Twitter regarding Squadroom. David Riots really
enjoyed this. How's it possible to her
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shows you've never heard of before?
Well, great question, David. I
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would say that I've heard of all
the old time radio detective programs out there
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that have episodes in circulation. Man, I've heard a few that haven't.
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The ones that I haven't heard of
tend to be those programs that don't have
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any episodes and also don't have much
of a reputation and therefore have kind of
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didn't leave much of an imprint on
the listeners. And I think that may
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be the case with a lot of
the programming that was only on the air
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a short time, with for example, the Adventures of Bill Lance that was
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on the air about one hundred days. And then you had some of the
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New York output from Mutual in particular, where they released a lot of different
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police programs, but they didn't really
gain a national audience because you know,
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the audience for radio drama was declined
in already didn't get a whole lot of
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newspaper coverage. So even though they
ran for several years. They just did
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not leave that huge dent. They
did a lot of crime programs in the
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nineteen fifties on Mutual, but so
many of them are forgotten. I remember
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when we were playing Treasury Agent,
we got to some of the New York
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programs from there from the mid to
late fifties, and they had an ad
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for other crime dramas, and they
had two that I had never heard of
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it. I remember one was Brooklyn
Cobb, and I forget what the other
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one was. And many of these
I don't actually know of until I find
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episodes. In the case of Squadroom
that didn't even make it into John Dunning's
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Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio. So
there are lots of programs that aren't remembered
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well. There are other programs that
have a relatively few transcriptions, like the
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US version of The Fat Man only
has ten episodes out, but if you
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knew anyone from that era, so
many have memory of that series of the
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opening, even though there's not a
whole lot of episodes around. So I
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guess, in short, the answer
is that a series I don't know about
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are those that just don't have any
episodes in circulation, and that no one
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is really aware of. And then
we have a question here from Lynn Len
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Rights Adam love listening. How do
you find these shows in the first place?
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And do you have to clean up
the audio? Well, thanks so
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much for the question, Len,
and answer. The vast majority of the
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episodes that we play are founded places
like archive dot org. They are just
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generally available old time radio programs that
we bring over. Now, there are
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others that we acquire through different means. One is just checking a lot of
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old time radio websites. I remember, like a couple of years back,
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I found a previously uncirculated episode of
Police Blotter while digging through like a bunch
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of FRS files that people added to
the Internet. There are also some purchasing
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groups that I'm part of, an
occasionally we'll get a program that we can
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use for a podcast, though those
do have restrictions like you cannot share it
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for six months or for a year, and so we always want to be
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careful to honor whatever requirements are put
on the particular file. So it's some
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dedication, some due diligence, some
just searching around to try and find the
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best way to get the best file
we can In a reasonable manner. Thanks
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so much for the question. And
now I do want to go ahead and
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thank all our Patreon supporter of the
day. Thank you to Melanie, Patreon
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Reagan and join us back here tomorrow
for the man call backs where account seems
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to be a winning so far.
Oh, this score keeps changing. Evan
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is now waiting for a cable gram. Is this in points, pounds or
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dollars? American dollar has become standard
everywhere, hasn't it? I guess,
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well, maybe a challenge is in
order. A challenger, Ah, this
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tongue will double anybody's high as score. That is quite a challenge. Yes,
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indeed, you already ought to toss
a data too, old boy,
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pack it up? You know,
all right? Fine here you are?
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Thanks? Ah, let's see well, Bertie two bulls eyes. Does that
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answer your question? Yes, yes, smoke. Americans always know everything.
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I didn't learn that in America.
You esn't prove whether they use poison on
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the dots, gentlemen. Something Tragically
the boy found mister Khn in his room
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dead. It's apparently a heart attack. It's too late to inform the authought
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his utill morning, But I did
think you ought to know. And if
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you excuse me, now, wow, one down and five to go.
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That leaves you with high business Dan. I suppose you mean high score,
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mister Thurston. But aren't you forgetting
your offer to double anybody else? Yes?
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Actually, your high man old boy, care to toss another dot?
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No? I think I'll quit while
I'm ahead, at least for the night.
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Is it nothing little dangerous to be
ahead? Thurston? Mister Kanyo mean,
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oh, I'm pretty hard to poison
poison? It's an idea, isn't
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it? Thru They use it on
the dots. Yeah, they use it
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on the players. Well, I'm
in room twenty one, second floor,
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third door from the stairway. Good
night, an't I hope you'll join us
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there in the meantime. Send your
comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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