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episode of Boston Blackie the original air
date April twenty sixth and April twenty seventh,

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nineteen forty four. It's time for
Kidnapped for Sale Parts eight and nine.

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What's the matter? What is?
It's a case for Nick Cutter,

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Master Detective. Yes, it's a
case for the most famous of all manhunters,

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the detective who's ability at solving crime
is unequaled in the history of detective

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fiction. Nick Cutter, Master Detective. Continuing the curious adventure called Kidnapped for

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Sale or Nick Cutter and the mystery
of the Missing Babies. Putting together several

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clues he had out uncovered, Nick
Carter learned that Missus Anders baby stolen by

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the baby ring that has been acquiring
babies in any way it can and selling

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them. The couples eager to adopt
them, had been sold to a mister

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and Missus Smith living on Main Street
in mid Bail. Hurrying to Midbaire with

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Scubby, Nick got there just too
late. A man with a foreign accent

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had got from the baby back from
the Smiths and disappeared with it again.

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Nick, uncertain of his next move, gets a phone call from Randolph Phelps,

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the head of the board of the
infant's hospital, who says he is

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eager to help stamp out the gang. Phelps says that the man with the

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accent has made an appointment to call
on him in about an hour, so

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Nick and Scubby start immediately for the
Phelps estate. Gosh, Nick, that

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phone call from Phelps was a great
wasn't it, heyre Scubby. It looks

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as if things are coming our way
at last. Well, it's sure about

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time. So far the gang has
been one jump ahead of us, all

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away every catching ever them, though, I'm only worried about one things.

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Oh you mean the baby, Yes, Kelly, I've got to get that

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baby back safe and sound. After
promising Missus Anders to stopped hunting for it.

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I can't let anything happen to it. Yeah, you're right, Nick,

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I was staking everything. I'm finding
the baby with mister and missus Smith.

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But since the gangs one jump ahead
of us, we've got to catch

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up with them and quickly. Oh
Nick, yes, what is it if

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that man who took the baby is
on his way now to talk to Phelps.

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Maybe he'll have the baby with him. He only got it from the

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smith's an hour ago, Scubby,
I'm afraid not. He's probably left it

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in some safe hiding place. But
if my hunch is right and won't be

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too far away, Gosh, I
hope you're right. Hey, why do

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you suppose he wants to talk to
Phelps. Well? As a member of

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the border directors of the infant's hospital, Phelps us in the position to obtain

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a lot of information that would be
helpful to the gang. Oh sure,

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Nick, if they could get Phelps
to help them, they'd be sitting pretty

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Yes, Phelps would be a big
asset to that gang. Scubby. Oh,

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that cross road just ahead will save
us a mile and getting to rivet

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on. You better turn there,
okay, Nick, I sure hope we

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can read Phelps placed before the man
with the accent, does Nick? That

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must be the Phelps place up there
ahead of us on the hill. Oh

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yes, yes, he said it
was the first estate on River Road after

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we turned off the highway. So
that's the place, all right, And

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that must be the drive leading up
to the house. Oh, shall I

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turn in, Yes, but take
it slowly, Scobby, take it slowly.

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Turn off the headlights. Right,
Gosh, it's dark with the lights

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off. There's light enough. I
could take it easy. All the drive,

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all the way around behind the house
to the garage. Our man hasn't

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come yet. We don't want him
to see our car when he does.

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Yet. Here that must be the
Phelps car outside the garage. We'll up

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beside it all right, Nick.
Well there's no other car here yet.

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So I guess we did get here
before the guy with the accent. I

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hope. So I want to talk
to Phelps first possible. I see now.

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Phelps said to come to the back
door. Yeah, let's see where

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or you're said, is there to
come out? Hey, we really are

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out in the country. Listen to
those crickets. Here you are, I

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am the doorbell, Scotty. Let
me hear you gun? My gun?

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Yes, broke along? Didn't do? Oh? Sure, aquait a minute?

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Here it is, thanks, But
Nick, don't you have it?

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Here comes m Yes, who is
it, Nick Carter? Mister Phelps is

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expecting me. This is my assistant. O. Of course, come in

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please. Mister Phelps is in the
study right this way. Please thank you

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mister Carter and his assistant to hear
mister Phelps. Good come in mister Carter's

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terry to be glad to see you, and I'm glad we could get here

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in time. This is my assistance. Scotty Wilson. How do you do?

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Mister Wilson, how do you do? Please sit down, both of

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you and oh Harry's fell wait in
the front hall until the caller we're expecting

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gets here. Warn me on the
communicator before you show him in thought.

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Now, mister Carter, I want
your advice. Should we try to capture

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this man the minute he gets here, or should we hear what he has

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to say. For I'd like to
hear what he has to say, and

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la mare he talks about himself and
his gang, the better I'll like it.

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That's my idea exactly. But Nick
suppose he brings some of his gunmen

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with him. We have to take
that chance, Kebby. But I have

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a hunch he's traveling practically alone tonight, and he got Missus anders baby from

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the Smiths. We know he didn't
have more than one man with him.

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You say he got missus Andrews baby, Yes, mister Bebbs. We almost

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got it back, but he beat
us to it again. Very sorry to

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hear that you have some clue as
to where is gone. I hope no,

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not a sign of Well that is
nothing very tangible, but we have

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enough to keep us going. I
see. However, I understand you have

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had some success in rounding up some
of the less important members of the ring.

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I suppose with what you've learned from
them, you have a pretty good

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line on the rest of the game. Oh, we don't really have,

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yes, Yes, indeed, mister
Phelps. Raley's working on that now,

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although he hasn't completely analyzed all the
information yet. Oh. I see.

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Well, I hope we can stamp
out the entire gang soon. I agreed

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to talk to this follow with the
accent and the hope that we could learn

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something from him. I'm very glad
you did, and I'm glad you got

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in tough with me. I hope
to find out a great deal tonight.

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But Nick, how are we going
to get him to talk? If he

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sees us, he'll applied to some
place where we can overhear you, mister

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Phelps, Let's see what about that
alcove there where the windows are. Oh,

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yes, yes, of course that
should be just the thing. Oh,

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I see, and when the time
comes, we can jump out and

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take him by surprise. And I
think it'll work yet as much out him

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as you have ten mister Phelps,
trust me for that. Now. There's

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just one other thing. Yes,
what the butler and the maids are out

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tonight? Besides yourselves, there's just
me and my secretary here. Now you

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think we ought to send for any
help? You mean the cops. I

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was thinking of the State Police,
just to be on the safe side,

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all right, can't do any harm. It'll just take a second. Hello,

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operator, operator, operator operator,
give me the State Police barracks on

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Meridian Road. Yes, that's right. We can be sure now that he

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won't get away. Hello, the
State Police. This is mister Randolphelp speaking.

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Can you send two of your men
over at once? Yes, yes,

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it's urgent. You know where I
live, don't you? On River

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Road. Good. I'll expect them
inside of twenty minutes. Thank you.

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H there, Now, I think
we're prepared. Our visitors should be here

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at any minute. You're armed,
of course, Yes, I have a

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garden you engagement conversation, and I
think the right time has come. I'll

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step out and cover him. He
won't get away. Excellent, mister Carter.

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Now he's here. Yes, hello, your car is here, mister

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Phelps. Thank you show him in. Yes, sir, you'd better get

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set. Yes, let's get behind
those grapes. Sure, Nick, the

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gentlemen assume, mister pell Thank you, Harry. See that we aren't disturbed.

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Well, mister Phelps, this is
a pleasure. It's quite a few

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years since we met last. We
never have met, to my knowledge,

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and I like to know a man's
name when i'm speaking to him. Oh,

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too bad, mister Phelps. I
like to keep my name a secret.

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But let's sit down, shall we. I think I have something to

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say that you'll be most interested in. That's what you said on the phone.

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I cannot imagine what you can have
to say that will interest me.

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Nick, that's the guy who's got
the baby, all right. Yes,

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they're still wearing the whip chord slacks. Missus Smith mentioned Nick. I've got

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a funny idea. I've seen him
before, but I don't know where.

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Maybe I saw a picture him in
the paper, some test scub you probably,

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Oh, I place him now fifteen
years ago he grove a truck for

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a rum running gang. He used
the name of Danny the Frenchman. But

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Nick, what are we gone,
scubby? I want to hear this on

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the business and say what you have
to say. My time is limited,

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all right, mister pell it is
you're on the board of the infant's hospital.

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You have connections with other nursing calls. What of it? Well,

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just this. We want you to
give us the names of people coming to

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the hospital to adopt babies. Also
the names of all mothers in the hospital

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records who are in financial difficulties.
That's perfectly preposterous, Oh is it not?

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For fifty thousand dollars a year?
It is whatever. I'd agree to

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such a proposition, because, mister
Phelps, that's quite a bit of money.

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And think how easy it is to
earn. And in a way you

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will be a public benefactor. Think
of all these well fixed people who desire

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to adopt fine little babies, who
will be just making things easier for them,

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and you will being well paid for
it. Nobody will be hurt.

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Everybody would benefit that Nike, and
maybe not. But I certainly wouldn't dream

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of associating with you unless I knew
more about you. How did your organization

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work? Are very simply, mister
Perris. We have men constantly on the

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lookout for mothers who wish to part
with their babies, and also for couples

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who want babies to adopt. We
shall, I say, we act as

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middleman for a fee, of course, a large feel that doesn't tell me

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much. I'm afraid you will learn
more later when you have joined us.

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You see, with your context,
mister Phelps, we will be able to

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dispense with many of these other men, and the profits will be that much

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greater. What about the risk?
Suppose Nick Carter and the police catch up

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with you. Nick Carter, yes, yes, he's been a little fathersome

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of late. I have lost three
of my best men because of him,

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one of them my chief lieutenant.
For me, it seems very important very

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soon now I shall take care of
Nick Carter and they police so much too

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stupid to be a danger. Suppose
I turned down your offer, Well,

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that would be very unwise, mister
Phelips, very unwise. Yes, yes,

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I see what you mean. But
but you've got to give me a

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little time to think. Oh as
long as you wish, mister Perris,

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up to two minutes. Helps us
sure doing a good job of acting,

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Nick, ask him a very good
job of acting. But I'll say so,

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Hey, Nick, I think I
heard a car stop outside the house.

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Then I sort of die. Supposed
to be the stay Troopers. W

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Phelps sent for Scobby. I think
good damas. Come for action. Up

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with your hands, Danny, I've
got your covered. Don't wait for that

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gun, or I'll let you have
a good work Carter, Nick Carter,

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Yes, Danny, Nick Carter,
and I'll stand up. That's right.

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I keep your hands up. Say
what is this? Get his gun,

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Scubby, I'll get it. Never
mind, mister Phelps. Scubby would they?

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Yeah? Okay, I got Nick? Now what give me the gain?

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Yeah? No, I'm up first, and then he's going to do

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a little more talking. You will
regret this, Phelps. The Phelps you

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put in a call for the Steak
Troopers. Yes, I did come in.

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Come in, lefty. Hey those
are two of the toughest looking Stay

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Troopers I ever saw. Hey one
of them's got a Tommy again. Ask

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you all right, Carter, you
when you're chump, put up your hands

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or I'll click your pot on half
with this gun. I got here.

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But hey, you don't want us, you want him, that's what you

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think. Hut up your hands quick. You'll tell Phelps that's better. But

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you're making a mistake, I'll say
you are. I don't think they discovery.

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I've been afraid of something like this
all along. These men mean what

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they say. You'll bet we do. Danny, collect a gun. It

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will be a pleasure. I'll take
my gun back again, mister Carter.

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And you're own done? Thank you? Have you any other weapons? No,

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you're clean. You have not done
Wilson. No, no, no,

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you're clean also, and you don't
carry one, do you? Mister

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Pellis. I don't know what this
means, but if you harm us,

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you'll have every cup in the state
after you by morning. Ah the police

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when Nick Carter dead, the police, do not worry. I'm not dead

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yet, Danny. No, that's
very nice point, hardly worth considering.

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Trigger tie these free up, should
think, Danny, who'll let's have pleas

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uh? Tie Helps first? Okay, Danny? All right, boys,

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ten around and put your hands behind
you. Boss. So I was right.

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You are ahead of the game.
That's up. Sorry, I know

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it isn't. This gunman of yours
gave you away when they called your boss.

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I suspected you all along, he
Helps, but I couldn't prove it

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until now. Trigger, you're a
fool. But Jay Buss that forgot well,

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Helps, what have you got to
say? Very well, Carter,

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you're right, but it's a little
late, don't you think? Tie them

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up? Trigger? Boys? Yes, what's the matter? I just remembered

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I left the rope in the car, you fool, go get it?

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Yeah, yeah, Boss, right
away? Well, Phelps, it seems

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to have to wait. Hope we
can at least sit down, been rather

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than not expected it, of course, Carter, sit down by all knees.

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I don't wonder your knees are feeling
a little weak about now. Thanks

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you too, Wilson, sit down, No, no, no, over

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there, father away from Carter's okay, you're the boss. I'm glad you

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realized that I suppose that you're going
to kill us in such a way that

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it looked like an accident, Yes, Carter, and such an unfortunate accident

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too. You recall as you came
down the river road, that spot just

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at the turn where there's a sheer
fifty foot dropped into the river. Oh

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yes, yes, I remember that
is going to be the scene of your

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death. Your car, Carter is
going to go off the highway right there

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and roll down the bank into the
river. You and Wilson will be in

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it. Of course you'll drown,
and that will do that. You're overlooking

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something, Phelps. Riley knows we
came here, yeah, and saw us,

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Patsy. They'll ever believe it was
an accident. I think they will.

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Every sign will point to the fact
that on your way here you ran

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off the road into the river.
As for your Miss Bowen, I think

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I'll take care of that right now. Hello operator, what's he up to

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now? Nick? I think I
can guess. Operator, give me Downtown

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one seven, Nick, that's your
office number. Man, shut up your

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tool. Hello, miss Bowen,
Miss Bowen, this is Randolph Phelps.

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I'm rather worried about mister Carter.
Yes, you see, an hour ago

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he phoned me that he was on
his way here, and he hasn't shown

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up yet. You haven't heard from
him, Well you do let me know

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and you might get in touch with
Lieutenant Riley. Perhaps you know something.

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Yes, I'll have linked to Carter
call if he gets here. Good night,

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Oh Carter in the morning when you're
secretary here's you have had an accident.

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It will seem quite natural both to
her into Riley. You're forgetting one

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important thing, Phelps, And what
is that? Riley is already suspicious of

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you. Indeed, why should he
be. Remember that first time you came

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down to headquarters to ask about missus
Ander's baby. It was a bad slip,

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Phelps. Nobody knew anything about the
baby except myself and the police,

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and we hadn't talked. You could
only have known about it if you yourself

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were connected with the gang. If
you suspected me, then why didn't you

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do something about it? I couldn't
just any I was principally interested in getting

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the baby bank, and I knew
if you were part of the gang,

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I'd round you up when I got
the rest of him. And you've rounded

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me up by getting yourself into a
death trap from which there's no escape.

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Brilliant Carter, say, I don't
get it, Phelps. If you were

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planning all along to grab us,
why all the hope's focus. Why don't

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you just nav us the minute we
came in the house. Frankly, Wilson,

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because I didn't want to try anything
with Nick Carter until I could have

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enough of my own men here to
make sure we would win. I couldn't

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risk any slip up, so that
call to the state police was a fake.

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Of course. I simply held a
hook down and talked into a dead

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phone. Lefty and Trigger were already
on the way from town, but I

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had to play you along until they
arrived. Okay, I got the rope.

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I took your solong well, Harry, And maybe it was figuring out

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the best place to run the current
to the rim you were figuring out.

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I do the thinking around here.
Now get busy and tie Carter up.

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Boys, All right, stand up, Carter. I got a special treat

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for you, a silk rope.
It's an old Chinese triak. Once it's

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tied, nobody cannot tie. It's
gotta be cut loose. And suppose I

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don't stand up, then you'll get
a load of lead and you won't be

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able to stand up. I see, Belt, you have a nice plan.

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I suppose I don't cooperate. Suppose
I make your shoot men instead of

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letting you drawn me later, and
your whole accident story be out the window.

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I could change it if I had
to, but I'm warning your carter,

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you're going to die anyway, so
you'd better take it my way.

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Give us any trouble and we'll kill
Leander's baby immediately. So you have the

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Vander's baby here, yes, right
upstairs, in this house, and its

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life depends on your good behavior.
If you give us no trouble, we

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will see that the baby gets back
to Missus Andrews safe and sound. That's

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the one thing I wanted to know. All right, Trigger, I'll stand

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up and start still with you in
front of me like this. Trigger.

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I don't think your pails will shoot. They do. They'll get you first.

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Get him left you. He's got
a gun, got trigger, so

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then get a shot out. I
can't if he's following me too tight,

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and I'll have to shoot. Takes
care of you and Lefty you better drop

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your gun. Danny you I hear
you got triggered. Anybody not me,

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but I'll get you good. Just
call him Nick right through the shoulder.

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Nick helps got away and he's like
us in here. Sit back, Scarry,

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it's time. I our lefties will
take care of the door. There

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goes the lock, and here it
goes the door. Nick. The car

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they're going to get away. Let's
see about that father. Halfway down the

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drive day everyone can still stop them. No, you missed them, Nick,

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you missed them. I don't think
so. Wat's got me the curve.

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They're not taking Cary. Nick,
you'll stopped him, all right?

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Yes it was the secretary that we
will think I winged him. Hey,

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we gotta go down and see if
there's anything left to him. Gosh,

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Nick with triggered head and Lefty and
Danny and they're ready for the hospital.

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And now phelps in the secretary down
there in the wreck plants practically Bengal scabby.

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I think the gangs finished. Now
you can bone the state troopers to

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come and take him off her hands. Before I give those wrets in a

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first date, I'm going to make
sure missus Ander's baby is all right.

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Oh gosh, the baby. I
was almost forgetting him. I wonder if

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he's okay? What he there?
He is now, Paul, listen to

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those yells, I'll say he's all
right. He couldn't yell like that if

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he didn't like to shoot about it. Isn't that just like a baby.

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He waits till everything is over,
and then he starts yelling home home on

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the range where the dear play whenever
is heard a disc what's the matter?

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Nick? Your voice give out?
No, No, he's asleep as oh,

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and it's about time too. He's
been yelling ever since we left Felt's

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place. Yes, I certainly hope
Patsy has missus Andrews at the office.

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When we get there, I'll be
glad to give him back to her.

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Yeah, Hey, Nick, when
trigger started to tie you up? Where'd

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you get that gun? All of
us sudden it was in your hand and

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you were using trigger for a shield
and bang bang bang whit what? It

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was just like in the movies?
That gun, Scabby, was my as

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in the hole. I planted it
behind the cushion of the chair I was

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sitting in when I first entered the
room. There's your gun, the one

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I got from you before we entered
the Felt's house. Well, may I

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be kissed by a whale? Try
the baby? But Nick, what made

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you plant the gun? Anyway?
Scubby? I was suspicious of Phelps for

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the first His visitor headquarters the other
day put me on guard, but I

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had no proof, And besides,
my main purpose was to learn where the

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baby was. I was afraid we
were stepping into a crap to night,

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but I had to take that chance
in order to find out exactly what had

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become of the baby. Oh yeah, of course, no planting your gun

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in the chair when we first sat
down was the safety precaution. Well,

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it sure saved our bacon, Nick, and cooked mister Felt's goose. And

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I'll certainly be glad when I turned
this kid over to its mother, you

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know, Scubby. It's funny.
I almost break my neck trying to find

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the baby, and then when I
do find it, I can't wait until

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I can get rid of it.
Oh Am, I had to be rid

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of that baby. I don't mind
tackling a few gunmen, but I hope

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I never again have to hold a
crying baby for an hour. Who Maybe

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he didn't like home on the range, Nick, you should have tried something

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else. That's the only two Nick
knows. Now, Nick, you're not

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going to get away with it,
get away with one with acting as if

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you're too tired to talk. You're
going to tell me what happened or else?

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Yeah, Nick, there are still
some things I want to know too.

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Have a heart. Well that's one
am, all right, Nick,

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I'd be easy on you. Just
give me the gist of it and I'll

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say my questions until morning, all
right, Patsy. Well, first of

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all, Phelps is the head of
the baby selling game. Of course I

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gathered that as a member of the
board of the infant's hospital. He got

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wind of the rackets some months ago. He needed money badly, so we

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took it over and organized it.
Hospital records were great help in locating unwanted

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babies and the contacting couples seeking to
adopt babies. Of course, yeah,

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Patsy, we got all that from
Danny the Frenchman before the state police came

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to take him to the state hospital. Phelps in his secretary were both killed

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outright when the car crash I see. And of course Phelps all with work

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to someone else. Yes, up
to the Practically none of the gang new

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his identity because he always gave his
orders over the phone. There's only desperation

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that made him go after missus Ander's
baby himself, same desperation that made him

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set his trap for us. And
what a trap Phelps was. One smooth

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article. Believe you me as your
betty was. Of course, all the

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elaborate interview between Danny and Phelps was
for the purpose of keeping me interested until

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Lefty and Trigger could get there.
Oh, Phelps did have another reason for

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it too, Love was that Nick
wanted to draw me up, find out

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just how much the police and I
knew, so that after he killed us,

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you'd know just what kind of a
story to tell Riley to pull him

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as from his Stanplunt was a good
plan, perfectly worked there, there's only

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one thing wrong with it. But
what was that? Nick? It didn't

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work? Let me stop. I
want to make a suggestion. What do

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you say we all take a vacation. All A vacation is just what I

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need after tonight. Hey, how
about you, Patsy? He did the

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ride right out of my mouth.
Where would we go? How about Greensboro,

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tey little town up in the mountains, fishing, hiking, and horse

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back riding. Greensborous like another name
for heaven. All but that part about

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hiking and horseback riding. I like
to vacation, sitting down, and we

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can sleep all day and never lift
a finger, and there'll be no robberies,

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no murders, nobody's shooting at us. In fact, for a whole

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week, we'll be able to forget
there is such a thing as crime.

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Well, what do you say?
All in favors? Ay, ay ay.

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The motion is carried good Willie for
Greensboro the first thing in the morning.

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So Nick and his two associates are
going to take a vacation in a

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little town of Greensboro where there's no
crime and no criminals. All they're going

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to do there is low. I
wonder what they'd think if they knew that

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in Greensboro they were going to meet
a magician who walks out of luck prison

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cells at will and a dead man
whose body disappears in the thin air the

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instant after he's murdered. No excitement
or at the beginning of a new and

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thrilling adventure with Nick Carter. Listen
Tomorrow The Strange Adventures of Nick Carter,

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Master Detective features Lan Clark is Nick
Carter. Patsy is played by Helen Choke.

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The stories are written by Bob Arthur
and David Cogan, and original music

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is played by Luke White. The
entire production is under the direction of Jack

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McGregor. Tomorrow Night, at the
same time, listen to the opening chapter

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of a new and exciting adventure of
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Now let's get back into the show. Welcome back. Well, there

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were a few issues in this particular
installment. I think that the villain calling

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in and us hearing his voice really
does give away the game, because if

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attentive members of the radio audience would
know that just based on voice who the

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boss really was. And I also
thought the way it was revealed in the

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final episode was just a bit clumsy. You know, it relies on the

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stupidity of the thugs in order to
carry the plot forward. One thing I

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did like about this installment is I
think that the way that Nick avoided ultimate

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captured defeat was a very clever but
simple approach. It wasn't something that would

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strength rdulity. You could absolutely see
him doing it and it made perfect logical

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sense. So I like that part, and overall I really did enjoy this.

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It was very well produced, It
had some good cliffhangers and an interesting

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problem, and I thought the villain
was superb in portraying this sense of menace.

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While there were a few things that
could be improved on, I think

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this was up to the quality of
in Average Yours truly, Johnny Doller Cereal.

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Unfortunately, we don't have any additional
serials. We of course do have

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the Accidental Bullet, which we played
when we were going through Nick Carter.

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Originally, hopefully we'll have more episodes
of Merge so that we can enjoy more,

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but we are by no means done
with Nick Carter. We have three

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previously uncirculated half hour episodes of Nick
Carter will bring you over the next three

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weeks, and then for the rest
of the season we'll bring you Security Agent

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USA and following that it will be
that strong guy in the meantime. Send

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