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episode of Let George Do It Personal
not as stange as my stock and trade.

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If the job's too tough for you
to hand it, you've got a

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job for me. George Valentine.
Rightful details. Standard Oil Company of California

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invites you to let George do It. Before we begin to night's adventure of

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Now tonight's story Once a crook,
a transcribed adventure or George Valentine.

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You must find my brother. It's
a Valentine before the police find him.

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But if I do find him,
Miss Connor, he'll only go back to

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jail. He mustn't. He's in
us. He may be, dear,

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but from what you yourself told us, the case against him is open and

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shut. Two open and two shut. There is such a thing, well,

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isn't there? All right, let's
go through it again. Your brother

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Ralph went to prison two years ago
because he stole some money from the bank

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where he worked, a large sum
of money. He made a mistake,

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but he paid for it right now. Yesterday he came back to Sageville,

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to your uncle's house, and during
the night apparently tried to rob the safe.

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Your uncle surprised him, Ralph half
killed him with a blow on his

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head, and then he ran away. It's not fair. You're making it

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too simple, too horrible, Betty. Look, mister Valentine is just trying

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to make you see the fact.
Doesn't it matter that I know my brother

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better than anyone else in the world. Does he would have done that to

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Uncle John. He ran away and
the safe is empty. That's one of

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the things that's all wrong. Ralph
knew that Uncle John never kept any real

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money or valuables in that safe,
so why would he want to break into

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I don't know, Betty. He
may have known something we don't know.

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Ralph lived all his life in Sageville. He never knew how to blow a

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safe open, and you learn all
sorts of things in jail. I'm afraid

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Ralph came home from prison with absolutely
nothing but the clothes on his back,

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and he didn't leave the house.
He had no tools and nothing with which

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he could have blown that safe open. Pretty please believe me. I'm not

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trying to be cruel, but the
police will say that he made plans with

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some safe cracker in from jail,
he lent him into the house. If,

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as your uncle says, there wasn't
anything of value in the safe home,

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it's just too bad Ralph failed and
ran. No, your uncle,

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how is he he's in the hospital
pretty bad, but I say you'll pull

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through. He won't stop until Ralph
go's back to jail and stays there.

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He may not do that. You
don't know, Uncle John. He's a

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fanatic on the subject of honor.
But all I could do to talk him

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into letting Ralph come home at all
runs a crook, always a crook.

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That was one of the kinder things
Uncle said, And now he's more convinced

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than ever. After Ralph got into
trouble, people might have forgiven him.

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Stage Builds a small town. We
were raised there after our parents died.

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Uncle John never forgave Ralph. Of
all the people, he never did.

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Benny, let's be practical. You
have no idea where Ralph might have have

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you? No, My chances of
finding him are much smaller than the sheriff's.

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So even if I do raf his
ring, and if we don't find

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them, you'll be running for the
rest of his life, even if he's

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innocent. He's scared, buddy.
Why don't you go back to the hotel.

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Your train doesn't leave till this evening. Well, I'll let you know

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what I decide. Oh, Miss
Brooks, can't you go on Betty,

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what is it, George? Somebody's
outside? Don't you know it's impolite to

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eavesdrop? Must say eavesdrop? Is
that the way you talk to a colleague?

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Valentine, Oh, it's you.
If it isn't, mister Ridley,

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I'll leave the doorl from George.
We need the air always, clown and

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ain't your miss Brooks? Nope?
I thought you lost your private investigators license

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in this state. I got me
another one in another state. I got

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friends, I bet what's on your
mind? Oh? I am on the

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cage, the croner cage. Do
you know the gentleman? Betty? Oh,

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don't worry. I'm hired nice and
legitimate in this cake. You have

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my home professional ethics. That's why
I'm following the little lady. I thought

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i'd give you a chance to join
up with me, Valentine doing what finding

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Ralph Proner and bringing him to justice. The fee will be picking enough for

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both. But you said, okay, punk, you wish you had a

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chance to work with me. I'll
make you sorry you ever opened your big

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mouth. Okay, you scared me. I'll see it. This man,

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Why would you follow me all the
way from Stageville? Maybe he thought you're

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leaving to your brother. Come on, Brooksy, get going. You don't

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have much time to pack a bag. Yes, sir Methic. If a

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character like al Ridley is in the
middle of this case, it's the best

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recommendation your brother has. Betty,
we'll meet you on the train. Staying

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here with Betty, Brooksy, I
want to look around see if there are

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any familiar faces. You didn't see
it, you're really in the Valentine.

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Sure he isn't here. Be careful, Valentine, sure, angels, sure

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lookin for me. Valentine, Oh
yeah, no, wonder I couldn't smell

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you through the compartment door. Keep
cracking wise while you can. You know,

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Marco, don't you. Oh?
The case must really be a big

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one to bring you a killer friend
with you. I could sue you for

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libel jack, but I'm a peaceable
man. We just bumped into each other

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on a train, Valentine. Honestly, that's happy, happy coincidence, and

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we're having a day to get it. See now, I would like you

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to come with me to the black
platform, Valentine. I want to talk

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to you alone some other time.
Busting, I said, now, Oh,

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I see hopped up. Punk with
a knife is a dangerous playmate,

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even for you, relieve, go
with him. Sure, sure, it's

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a shame. That's hardly anybody on
this train. Hey, Jack, Yeah,

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a shame out there. Okay,
I's on your mind. I want

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to tell you something I didn't want
no company, Damn. I think you

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should stay out of this case.
Jack, get on the next train going

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back and blow. That's what I
think. Thanks for the advice. It's

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not advice, it's an order.
You don't say a knife kills somebody too

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quick, Jack, much too quick? You should know. But I've broken

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did by ball, knife and jacket. That could really be some fun before

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a knife finishes the job. Then
that's right, Jackie Jong and again he

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crazy Punk should should of course.
I'm not doing anything now, just talking

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to him, just giving you a
good tip. Now we'll go back inside.

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Forgot we was mad on each other. We can look around the ranch,

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mister Valentine. I'll show you where
the safety all right. Hey,

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this is quite a place, way
from the rest of town and from the

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edge of the desert. Uncle John
always liked to stay away from people.

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Stage brush and cact us all around
instead of a lawn Uncle John says he

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left them to remind himself and the
rest of us that life hasn't harsh responsibilities

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as well as pleasures. Sounds like
a lovable old Fellah. He really isn't

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bad. It's just old fashioned and
strong. Will Yeah, Okay, let's

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get going. Ralph was staying in
his old room. That one right there.

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Let me see the library where the
faces it's well us right down the

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hall. Where's your uncle's room over
there? Oh, it's safe for sure

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enough a mess. I heard the
explosion. I came running. It's dark

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in here. I turned on the
lightning song. Uncle John lying on the

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floor, and well, Ralph was
gone, and these big French doors were

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open. It was a disgraceful assault
and a poor, defenseless man. I

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was waiting for you, Betty.
It's mister Boone, Miss Brooks, mister

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Valentinel. Mister Boone is Uncle John's
lawyer and a friend of the fan,

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and in the capacity of both,
I want you to get off the case,

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mister Valentine. Oh why what are
you talking about? Mister Bowen.

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Mister Croner is determined that no help
whatsoever to be given Ralph. He must

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be feeling better. And I must
interpret anything that Betty does as intended to

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help Ralph. But he's innocent,
I must help him. That's hardly unnaturalism,

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mister Bowne. That's the same.
I must advise you, mister Valentine,

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that Betty is under age, nearly
award of mister Croners, she has

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no money of her all. I'll
speak to Uncle John. All can stay

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very bad. Don't worry about the
money. Forget about that bar. Besides,

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I think mister Bowen's interest in this
case is, shall we say,

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more than just casual And what is
that supposed to mean? Young man?

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Well, I was just wondering who
hired that sterling character al Ridley, And

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now I know it was you.
Wasn't a mister Bowden. Why how else

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would you have known about me so
quickly unless al Ridley reported to his client.

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But I tell you what, all
right, why not? I was

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determined to do what I could to
help the police bring a criminal to John.

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And don't protest too much, mister
Boon. Yeah, yeah, Now,

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I think I'll speak to mister Croner
in the hospital a private little talk.

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Oh dear dear, it's no use, mister valencont how many times must

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I tell you my mind is made
up? But look, look, please,

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mister Cromer, if you didn't actually
see who attacked you, there's at

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least a chance that it wasn't Ralph. There was nobody else in the house,

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and Ralph ran away. You know, as what was I do with

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innocent people? Don't run away and
have it. Ralph deserves the benefit of

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any doubt. I'll listen, mister
Valcot, and I I may be an

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old fashioned man, but I have
some very strong feelings about Honor. Now.

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When Ralph stole that money from a
bank, I washed my hands off

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and completely understand. No longer a
nephew of mine. Yes, so I

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heard, so I heard, go
to Honor's a stern one. It must

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have no compromises. I listened to
Betty and told he let Ralph come here

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when he was released from prison.
He didn't disappoint me. Once a crook,

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always a crook. We look,
can I have to say something,

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mister Comer. I haven't lived as
long as you have, but I know

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what you just said isn't so I
don't want you in this case. You

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understand that you'll do yourself a favor, you'll stop meddling in our affairs.

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I've leave Sageville. I feel very
sorry for you, mister Corner. There's

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no place in life for fanatics,
even for fanatics about such noble things as

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honor. Oh my word, mister
Falline, will pay you for whatever expenses

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you've encouraged so far. Now,
please please leave me alone, will you.

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I'm still a very sick man,
George, George Waite, Yeah,

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what is it? Ready? That
does may be very important, mister Valentine.

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I told miss Brooks, and she's
a bit strange, George, and

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so I thought I was sure of
it right away. Okay, okay,

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bother to simmer down with it,
George. We were walking down the street

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and Betty pointed at the man,
and she said she saw him get off

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the train the day she came down
to the station, met the day he

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came from Prison's valent I looked at
the man. Do you know what it

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was? Marco? Marco, that's
right. But al Ridley claims he was

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hired only after Ralph ran away and
his favorite hoard was in stage bill a

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day before. Oh what does this
all mean? There's something wrong here,

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mister Valentine. You aren't going to
leave now, are you? Oh?

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No, No, I just spoke
to the sheriff, Sam Gunter. He

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told me he didn't need any help
from outsiders. He told me to get

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going. Ridley and Marco Born and
Prony and now the sheriff. Yeah,

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the advice is unanimous. Stay out. Maybe that's why I'm going to disregard

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it and stay in. We'll return
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battery checkup at any standard station or
independent Chevron gas station where they say and

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mean we take better care of your
car. Once a crook, always a

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crook. That's the stern code by
which John Kroner swears, and apparently it's

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been vindicated in the case of his
nephew Ralph, for on the very day

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that Ralph was released from prison,
he assaulted his uncle, robbed his safe,

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and ran. It seems open and
shut. But if your name is

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George Valentine, at least two points
need explanation. Why is al Ridley Assended,

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a shady private investigator involved in this
case? And why did Ridley strong

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arm boy and killer stand Marco show
up in Sageville on the very day that

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Ralph returned home from prison. This
room of Rouse hasn't been touched, hasn't,

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Betty? I know? To Valentine, Oh, Sheriff Gunner was in

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here. He looked around, but
he didn't disturb anything. His mind was

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already made up about Ralph like everyone
else's. Oh, I don't know what

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you or I can do for Ralph
raw or at least goin to try to

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get it the true how we buddy, Oh yes, that's all we can

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do, and you must help it. Of course, I'm sorry I tell

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me this. This rome is kind
of barren, isn't it. I mean,

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no personal things to rouse. I
think once your about, I think

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I'm a dresser. Well, when
Ralph went to prison, Uncle John st

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all his things out, didn't want
anything to remind him of a jail bird.

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He said, yeah, no,
he told me that himself. Someday

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I'm going to sit down with this
Uncle John and tell him a thing or

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two. He's as hard on himself
as he is on anybody else. The

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code of honor is a stern test
master. Let's review this as how I

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got it. Ralph came here after
dinner. That's right now, isn't it.

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Oh no, no, I see
he talked to Uncle John for a

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while. I don't know how long, because I went to my room first.

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I see. Well, he must
have sat here and smoked for quite

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some time. All these surette stubs
in the ashtray. Jeff Gunner said that

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proved his point all the more that
Ralph was waiting for Uncle John to fall

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asleep so that he could rob the
safe the closet. Is there anything in

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the closet? Well, I don't
think so. Let's take a look,

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pretty bar, No clothes, not
even What have you found, George?

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What is it? I'm the corner
over there? What a minute? A

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pair of shoes? Rals shoes?
Are you sure the yes had the heavy,

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clumsy shoes they gave them in prison? I know, because you see

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I noticed him when I first met
him at the train. That's funny.

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Well, it won't help the case
much. They'll say he took his shoes

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off before he went into the library
so he wouldn't make any No, Ralph

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had no other shoes, No,
no house slippers, nothing like that.

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No, I told you before.
No. All right, take a look

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right here in the other corner,
on the dust on the floor. Ralph's

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room was closed all these years.
Yeah, but not the big heavy ones

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for ralph shoes. The man who
stood here wore smaller shoes with pointed toes.

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What does that mean, mister Valentine. I'm not sure, But come

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on, Betty, you've got to
be our guide while we go sightseeing,

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says, brush and cactus and the
house straight up to the bench. Road

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up there, desert as far as
the eye can see, and mountains in

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the distance. Those are the Dead
Hills. Dead Hills bandits are supposed to

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have hid out there in the old
days. They tell me that road up

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there? Where does it lead both
ways? Well, this way it goes

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into town. The other way it
goes into the hills. Any other way

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of getting out of the hills only
a much longer way. About four or

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five miles from here, there's a
fork in the road. Well, the

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fort follows the hills and hollows across
the highway, fifteen miles after it leaves

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the main road. George, what
are you trying to find out? I

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think I have foundered what and you'll
go back to the house of Betty.

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I want to get together a little
meeting in John Crowner's hospital room, mister

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Valentine, I told you what the
nurse said. Mister Croner is a sick

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man, and it's late. Yeah. Let the young fellow have his sayboard,

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thanks, Yeah, let him have
his say and get out of town.

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I can help him leave. Never
mind, Ridley, all I have

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to say, gentleman, is very
simple. Ralph Croner didn't run away.

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He was kidnapped. This guy is
I said Ralph was kidnapped. That's clear

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enough. What makes you think so
Ralph was raised on your ranch, mister

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Croner. He knows this country well. He knows he couldn't get very far

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along the cactus and sage brush without
his shoes. What shoes are you talking

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about? I'm talking about his prison
shoes, the only Perry owned. Oh

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nonsense. If he did a selt
you in the library, mister Croner,

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all he had to do is spent
another couple of seconds to go back to

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his room, get his shoes in
the closet, and then run. Who

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kidnapped a kid? A ghost?
Yes? Who is nobody else in the

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house? Are you sure? I
saw the footprints of another man in the

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closet, Ridley? Could it have
been your playmate Marco? But I don't

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know what you're talking ab? You
know? And I think that whoever was

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hiding in the closet slugged Ralph then
dragged him out through the French doors in

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the library. But why, yes, that Ralph is innocent. Why would

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anyone take a chance on kidnap me. Why not leave him behind him?

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That's something I don't know yet,
but I have a little theory. I

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think that Ralph is being kept prisoner
by someone up there in those dead hills.

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You you're just guessing, aren't you, mister Bellentine. At the moment,

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I am yes. But mister Croner, you ought to help me make

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sure in the morning, i'd like
you to arrange a searching party. Well,

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you owe that much to a man
you think is guilty. It's a

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waste of time. Still, I
can't see in the arm in it,

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okay, And gentlemen, that said, unless there are other questions, no

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questions, friend, no, no, nothing good good. Then we'll see

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what tomorrow morning you'll bring. And
I think we'll do for a little surprise.

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I know it's lad Sheriff, but
I think what I told you it

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really were. Well, I don't
know, Valantine, and only you can

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help me. Look, please,
Sheriff. We know there's no other way

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out of the hills except the Fork
road, and any car will have to

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go into second gear to go up
that mountain at that point she told me

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about that's for sure, all right. Then I think we better get going.

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Can we get out of town without
being seen? I don't want anybody

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to recognize your car. Shuff use
the car as being painted in Matt Green's

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gruge, as long as the cousin
of card Greg get out through the side

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doors. All right, thank you. Don't make me feel like one of

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them big city police Lutherans. And
this would takeular said you're pushing car.

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I wouldn't try to slough of them
for one of you. And quiet,

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it's all early. A soul ever
pairs is on this road. Valantine.

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Oh, i'd like you to have
a full moon. Look, they have

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a spot where we can hide and
not be seen. How long we're gonna

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see you? Robert grinding Sharon,
y'all guess this is as good as mine?

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Oh sure? Getting cold? Yeah? That is that? That's I

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hear it going in the second.
That's to slow down. He recognize it,

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recognize car but not Shad good?
Wait, whoa why old? Let's

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Billie Billie Johnson Shilopy Shore. Yeah, the girl with him just out enjoy

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riding into Oh great, you know
I think you were all up on a

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goose chase fellas. Oh but sheriff, they wouldn't take a chance on the

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highway. They must take this road
now, please please, sheriff wait a

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little longer, wait, I guess
wait a minute, hey listen, this

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could be in ready getting closeh this
is a strange one. That's it.

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That's it, and I wait,
okay, okay, let's go. Hey,

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hold on, stop that car,
this is the sheriff. Stop.

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They will light you waiting to hot
right in the shoulder. We got him,

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shoff, we got him. Come
on out of that car and keep

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him hot. Hold on, let's
start shooting. You got me? Thank

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you? Up stand there? Well? Well, will company Marco and Ridley

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go enjoy writing? All right,
and surprise Ralph Kroner, I guess sure,

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oh Christ up and Gay well,
not sure we'll get the whole story

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straight. I know it might have
been foolish, but I wanted to be

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the one to return the money that
I stole well by. I never suspected

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that you still had it. At
first, I thought it would buy me

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anything that I want. But then
somehow I knew I couldn't do that.

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And you knew that, didn't you, born Hell, I suspected it.

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I didn't think Ralph had a chance
to spend it. Then I paid him

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a visit in jail. He told
me he was going to do something that

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would make mister Kroner believe in him
again. So you hired Ridley to help

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you find the money, and that's
why Marco came here. Yes, yes,

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but Ridley double across me. I
thought Ralph had really run away.

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Those two men were going to make
me tell them where the money was.

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The safe was broken into to confuse
the issue. I guess I was waiting

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for everyone to go to sleep so
I could get the money. It was

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hidden outside the house. I heard
the laws of the library. Must have

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been Ridley who knocked me out.
Ridley and Marco came out to the shack

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tonight, said the place was going
to be searched tomorrow morning, and he

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had to get me out of there
tonight. Why that's that's what you hadn't

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mind all along, mister Bellon.
That's the corner. I was hoping a

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little trick might flush out the birds. It'd be a pretty hopeless job searching

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those hills. No, I want
to make an ass for you, Born,

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just explain it to the sheriff.
I got my work cut out for

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me explaining all this to a couple
of curious ladies who missed all the excitement.

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If anywhere is important to you,
then this performance report should be two.

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Here's more proof that heavy duty RPM
motor oil cuts where in automobile engines

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using heavy duty RPM and engine in
the Northwest ran over one hundred thirty thousand

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miles, yet showed less than half
as much wear in that time as other

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engines did after only seventy five thousand
miles when lubricated with another oil, heavy

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duty RPM kept oil consumption way down
and greatly increased the time between overhauls.

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It cut wear rate to a minimum, gave top protection against acid, gum

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and corrosion. So get what's best
for your car. Get heavy duty RPM

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motor oil at any independent Chevron gas
station or standard station, they say,

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and mean, we take better care
of your car. The way Ralph looked

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at you before must have told you
how we both feel. Me Advalance,

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Marco and there so mad at each
other. They haven't stopped selling the beam

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yet. Yeah, and Bowen will
need all his lawyer's eloquence to get off

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with a short prison term. I
think the stopist man and all this is

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Uncle John. I wouldn't be surprised. I think it'll be a lot less

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positive about things in the future,
such things as honor, for instance,

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its code of Honor bud, he
said. Even cactus isn't all severe and

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unbending. It has beautiful flowers to
start in it. Miracles of nature all

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around this. Even bachelor's buttons he
couldn't suddenly change into orange blossoms. This

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is that, I think your pardon, it's a prop joke of longstanding.

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I'm sure mister Valentine can explain.
The only thing mister Valentine will say at

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this moment is a good night.
Tonight's transcribed Adventure of George Valentine has been

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with Virginia Gregg as Brooksy let George
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Victor and directed by Kenneth Webb.
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Betty Lester, j as Marco,
Frank Gristle as Ridley, Victor Rodman as

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Croner, and Bill Bouchet as Born. Music by gay Lord Carter, your

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at least in terms of the overall
message that even honor has to be tempered

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with mercy, and of course a
pretty good capture by George Valentine. Good

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job of setting the trap, and
we're all pretty nice episodes. So all

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