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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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today we're going to bring you the
only circulating episode of Crime Fighters. Some

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Fighters is one of those series that
only has one episode in circulation but actually

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had a really long and successful broadcast
history. Prime Fighters went to the air

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in November of nineteen forty nine and
continued to air until nineteen fifty six.

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Over the Mutual broadcasting system originating from
New York. It was an anthology series,

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with each week focusing on a different
sort of crime fighter. I should

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note that this episode was in the
collection of the light old time radio collector

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Joe Hann, who passed away in
twenty twenty, and before that we had

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no American episodes of that series.
Now let's go ahead and take a lesson

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to this episode. Original air date
January ninth, nineteen fifty and the title

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as New England Detective crime Fighters.
Crime Fighters. They are all kinds master

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man hunters who match master criminals through
experts in a thousand brackets, or simple

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men who study human nature. They're
study dicks who work in teams, country

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shirts covering lonely regions, federal men
with a nation to police, Zietist who

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sweatman collaboratory. Each week this program
pollutes a different type of prime fighter and

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his method. This week a New
England Detective. But first, a short

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message from the Ford Dealers of America. Tonight, more than one hundred and

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twenty thousand enthusiastic motorists own you nineteen
fifty Ford. Here's what missus C.

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W. Hass a secretary says,
I've never been so thrilled about anything in

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my life as I am about my
new Ford. Why it's as quiet as

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a dream, and you can't beat
the fifty Ford for comfort. It's relaxing

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as a living room sofa, and
there's just about as much room. And

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it's safe to drive, handles just
like a kitten, and the brakes work

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so smoothly and easily well even in
shorthand. It would take me hours to

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tell how wonderful my new Ford is. We four dealers here comments like that.

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Every day. Test drive the fifty
Ford yourself. Your nearest Ford dealer

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will gladly arrange it. He is
in the classified phone directory, or perhaps

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you know him. Test drive the
fifty Ford for comfort, for power,

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for safety, and for quietness.
Test drive it for the new Ford field.

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Before you buy any car at any
price, Test drive the fifty Ford

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at your Ford dealers tomorrow now.
Two Prime Fighters and a New England Detective.

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My town, I'll call it rock
Ford is a small, peaceable New

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England city and right smack on the
ocean, and maybe a hundred years ago

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it was a busy place for sailing
ships. We build our share fast sailing

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boats too, but today our waterfronts
just for great banks fishing boats. The

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residential sections mostly big white housers with
green shutters, and on top of each

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one's a little railed in space called
the wither His Walk, where worried wives

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could walk to their husband's ships.
And then as to crime piding, I

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read where authorities called this case big
one and that one a little one.

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And in one way, I don't
know what the mean bigness of the case

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is measured by dollars, but by
what happens to the people maxed up in

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it. So that's me Asa Barrows, the only detective, and rock fort

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forty four years old and singles.
The day was born, and one afternoon,

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about five thirty, I took a
mind to go down to the depot

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to see who came in on the
Bangor Express. I kept out a sharp

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eye, but I didn't see the
fellow I was looking for, And after

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a bit the train pulled out.
I got a left dan but express Or

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give the last whistle taking abandon I
wait to hear him. I was turning

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go back to my car when I
saw just one other person left on the

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empty platform, stand alone and stand. I thought it was you as all.

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Well. Good evening, mister Dallas. I take it you expected your

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husband on this train too. Is
he in trouble again? I'm also for

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all after Rockport. He's got to
report to me, report to you.

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He did eighteen months in prison.
Can't you lead him alone. I'm not

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going to hound him. It's all
well. If any idea why he wasn't

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on there his last letter, I
got it yesterday that he would be honest.

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I wanted to meet him somewhere else
danger lady, and then we'd go

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to the Middle West, someplace where
nobody knows. Larry wouldn't have it.

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He said he had to come back
here. Honey calls. Why, I

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don't know. I feel awesome songs
with sometime. Na na, I'm uh,

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can I drive you home? There's
a local doing happening all. I'd

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wait with you, but I've got
to stop back the office before I go

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to the banquet. Thank you.
Maybe that's why Larry didn't come in What

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banquet for his brother Gerald? If
you're going to wait here or why not

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go in the waiting room by the
stove, Yes, thank you, good

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night, happenings over hey, hey, Larry over here in the car Rice

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to see me. Harry. Hello, okay, hap, No, I'm

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expected Mike, look like to see
me. We spent a whole year in

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the same cund What are you doing
in Rockport? I come to see you,

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have a talk with you for what. I got a room over by

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old pier hop In. Look,
okay, I don't know. You and

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me could work together pretty good,
Larry, especially in Rockport. Work together.

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Yea, your brother owns that farm
chemical plant. I pulled one robbery

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and I got caught. I'm through
with that stuff. Ah, going straight,

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and I've got a nice wife.
I owe er something You'll never pay

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it. Going straight, I will
now. Nobody lets an ex con go

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straight. I tell you, yes, they want to help you, and

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they give you a job. There's
a dominant factory sweepers crummy jobs my rooms

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at fourteen Old Peer Street. You'll
change your mind. Larry, come and

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see me. Hello, Well,
Larry, I missed you the brain I

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hopped off on the other side.
Your wife missed you too, Yes,

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I look, I came into report. Oh sure, sure, I am

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got papers on you a couple of
days ago. All you gotta do is

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check in with me every two weeks
for six months. It's signed here.

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Yeah, and stay out of trouble
and away from the wrong time frame.

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Don't worry, it's still one more
thing, Larry. I am ready to

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help you, help me do what
good job? For instance, my brother's

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gonna give me a job, mister
Barrows. It's fine at leastarted thinking.

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Well, I'm going off this house
now and see him. We're probably not

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there now, Larry Tonight's banquet banquet
Brotherhood Service Club giving him a banquet tonight

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once a year we honor and outstanding
citizens. I thought you knew, No,

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I didn't. Well, I'm just
on my way there now. Can

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I give you a lift home?
You ought to tell your wife you're back.

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I'll see Gerald home later. Thanks
mister Barrows. But don't tell him

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I'm back, will you. And
in combing up these few brief remarks of

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thanks to my good friends of the
rock Port Brotherhood Club for giving me this

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banquet, I have just one more
thought to leave with you. There's not

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enough in this world to be a
success. A man must also think he'll

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look like a success. I thank
you our thanks to brother Gerald orwell for

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his speech. And before I close
up my duties is toastmaster tonight, he

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and reminder about getting your quarterly dues
paid up. Can't run love without du

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I declare the meeting that an end, Gerald, that was a fine part

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of yours. Ah, thank Barrows, good night Gerald. How about my

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taping you right now for your impotly
dures right? I see, I I

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find I have only a one hundred
dollar bill barrels where I got some twenties

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in my cash box here one,
three, four twenty. Thank you,

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and I said enough. Going to
sit around some of the boys. You

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blasted a beer. I never do
that, Barrows. Familiarity of that kind

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makes a bad impression. You can't
make a bad impression. And fellows who've

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known you all your life, appearances
are more important than most people think.

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Good night barl Hello Gerald, Ah, I sprayed i'd find you here all

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right. I wanted to see it'll
be better here in your house than at

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the banquet the housekeeper let you in
at fall. I wanted to promise you

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that with a mistake I made,
it's all in the past. I don't

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want any promises from you. That's
just why I know it was rough on

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any when I got sent to prison. It. It was rough on Nancy

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too, so I came back to
rock Point. I made up my mind

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to make good here where it's toughest. And just what is your idea of

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making good? As you call it? Working, living quiet with Nancy,

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maybe a baby? Will you give
me a job on a plant? What

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makes you think you're entitled to a
job? Not entitled? I just needed

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And you don't think that because you
were a convict, people will cry over

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your I we have no such idea. I just want a job. I

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can't help you. I have no
opening. You're still stored me. I'm

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sorry. Well did you expect me
to shout Hosanna's over you? I'm rubber

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rubber jailbird coming back to Rockport,
especially to the black bail me and given

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him a job blackmail. You think
I'll give you a job because I'll be

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ashamed not to. Don't you admit
it? I told you I want to

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lead a decent life. That's why
I came back here. Don't mean more

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than me and the Nancy. One
thing I will do, I'll give you

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money to leave Rockports. You and
your wife go to the Middle West,

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or the South, or wherever it
is. Your founder don't get high for

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looting about Nancy. She's all right. She worked and laid him store the

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whole time I was away, and
I'll bet you never even saw her.

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I'll give you a thousand dollars Larry. Now, No, you got some

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trouble once being hot headed. Don't
be hot headed again. I did a

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lot of thinking. And it's cool. They're inside the walls. I'm staying

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in Rockpoints. I won't live for
any reasons. Hey, I'm sorry,

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Larry. Maybe I spoke to I
want to get to the plant in the

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morning. Now i'll see if there's
some kind of a job open. Oh,

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you need any money? Now?
I use most of the ten dollars

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I got leave in the prisoner.
Get here, here's some cash all I

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happened to have on me, eighty
dollars. Give it to Nancy. I

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don't want to see her until that. Well, thanks very much. How

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funny tomorrow at the plant or not. You'll never be sorry for doing this,

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Jerald, good night, h a
fretter. Connect me with the police

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station, will you? And now
a brief message from your Ford dealers.

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More than one hundred and twenty thousand
happy owners of the new nineteen fifty Ford

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will tell you that it's just common
sense to test drive the fifty Ford before

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you buy any cards. Ten minutes
will convince you that the fifty Ford tops

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them all. That's why you're for. Dealer wants you to test drive the

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quiet new V eight engines. It's
the type used in America's most expensive cars.

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He wants you to test drive the
King's Size breaks, which are thirty

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five percent easier to apply. He
wants you to test drive the fifty Ford

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for the feeling of security of its
lifeguard body and the comfort and spaciousness of

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its midship rise. He wants you
to test drive it for the Ford field.

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If you don't know your Ford dealer
personally, you'll find his name in

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your classified phone book. Even a
ten minute test drive of the fifty Ford

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will open your eye. You'll discover
there is one fine car in the low

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flight field, and only one,
the nineteen fifty four. Now back to

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crime fighter. Hey, Larry,
what you're telling me around fourth case?

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Just keeping tabs? How'd you do
with your brother? He gives you a

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job. He's going to pop in
Larry, Oh, walk thanks, I

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don't be a creed it's after eleven
and the pluses don't run this lake hopping.

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Well, I'll drop you in town. Well, okay, you know

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place. Time I got out of
the can, my old boss said,

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he take me back. Now what
he done? He phoned every guy in

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the neighborhood and warm them again and
then kick me out. He wasn't your

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brother, he was my own man. Then what do you do? Then

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what'll I do? Yeah, after
you find out he's playing your double,

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shut up, you'll see and I'll
be wait. And mister Pilkington, bless

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your soul always used to say,
Hepsiba, you'll certainly know how to make

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an uncomfortable and content on this mortal
thing happy, no matter how you hit

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around. I'm not going to ask
you to marry me, bless me so

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as I had no such idea,
nor have I ever entertained such an idea

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in eight years of doing for you. For a lonely bachelor man you are.

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I left the cheese and crackers on
the kitchen table for you, and

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I'll be going, thank you happy. Oh. I ought to warn you,

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mister Pilkington, blesses soul, exis
every night and die happy year.

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Seventy four. Good night, see
you tomorrow. Somebody to the door.

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Your mind to you? Not at
not at all, young man, let's

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meek come in. Thanks, it's
young Larry. Oh, mister Barrows.

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I'd like to ask you a big
favor name. Have you got a spare

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bed? I could use overnight fair
Bear. I know you think it's funny.

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Might not going to my wife,
but my brother may give me a

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job when I see you. The
first time I want to have something heap

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is the bed Nance Bear room next
Parla Maid. No bed in this house

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is ever made up? That door
there, Gerald, don't give your job?

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Will You're gonna try, mister Barrows. I want to pay for my

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lodge and DA forget it. Larry
Gerald gave me some money. Let me

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pay. I'll feel better about it. You could go to the hotel.

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I'd see people I know and Nancy
might find out too soon as he's talking.

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How much bound payl Aaron two dollars
and give me a change your twenty

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cheryld lent me four twenties. Well, if you insist, I guess I

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got the change in the brotherhood cash
by eighteen dollars. Thanks. Do you

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mind if I hit the second right
in there, and let's just Polkington.

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You. You won't tell anybody you
saw me, will you? I knew

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the worst about mister Pilkington, less
you so for over twenty years. Another

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breathe the word thanks, good night. Asha. You're going to leave the

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cash box there all night on the
table? Oh no, I'll take it

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up from the room. I noticed
how I looked at it. How much

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is in there? All I collected
and dues at the banquet tonight about seven

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hundred dollars that boil rise up to
the night and steal it. That boy

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needs encouragements. He needs people to
show a little faith in him. Show

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your faith, Lock up your money
and your faith won't be destroyed. Ever.

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Read a book called Lemmons Arabbed,
a French book. In it,

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a priest show's faith in a convict, not by hiding in silver candlesticks,

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but by showing the convict where they
were kept. You ain't got yourny silver

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candles. No, but I'm leaving
the cash box here on the table.

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Oh night, all right. Hello, mister, I'm terribly sorry to call

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you so late at night. Oh
this is Nancy, Larry's wife. The

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biggest view want. I'm so worried
about Larry. He was supposed to come

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in on the bank or Express this
afternoon, and I thought maybe you'd heard

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from Oh did you really come on
and happy breakfast? Ready? What's the

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matter? I'm gread you're left to
be clearer than that. The cash box

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A lot of face you had in
the Barrows after all that speech. You

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took it upstairs like I told you
you after all? No, I left

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it here on the table, as
I told you I would. Then I

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dare say the boy's gone from that
room again seven hundred dollars and you will

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have to make it up from your
savings. And that's why I always say

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a man needs a woman to take
care of Larry, one of miss of

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a sleeper. What's the matter,
Larry? Last night? I left my

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cash box on that table? Yeah, I remember you? Where is it?

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Do you know? I didn't take
it? Mister Barrows? Polish god?

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You're leave it right out here where
anybody where? Anybody? What?

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Larry? I just got an idea
who did take it? Maybe? Oh,

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will you let me get it back
for you? What does that mean?

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You? And let's just poke and
can think I took it. I

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want to get it back old pear
Street. I better go with you.

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You want to go right now,
but let me go in alone. Please.

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II a case? Ah Hi,
Larry, I had a plate?

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Yeah kind of how much in the
cash box? You're all right, Larry,

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getting that capital? Leave it out
all night? How did you work

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it? You got the box here? Yeah, under the bed, let's

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see it. I didn't count the
dough yet, but it looked pretty full.

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There was a sense getting it into
that house again. Do here's the

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box. I want to count the
dog. Did you take any I told

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you habit? Hey, what's the
idea? I didn't leave the box.

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Barrows did because he wanted to trust
me. I'm taking it back, and

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that pikes what you are? Now? Come and get it? You bet?

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I got you now, Case get
up, No, no, let

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me alone, Larry, take all
the dough. Look at habits make out

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all right. There's your box,
mister barrossh there's the guy who stole it.

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Case, Barrett, you're rotten double
across your bank. Clary, handcuff

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for you, young. It's nice
work, Clary on what we see.

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I am. Let's come and do
this alone. For the war between us

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kind of. But now I am
well. I just got word of a

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charge that you stole eighty dollars last
night from your brother stole it. I'm

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sorry, Larry, I got to
arrest him. Larry, Ry, why

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didn't you come to me right away
last night? Why did you let me

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find out this way? Who's old? Jealous? Here and jail, Nancy,

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mister Barrows and see human all right? Lonely. You didn't have to

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stick I wanted to. Maybe you'll
have to stick again. It's worse for

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a parole guy than if it's the
first time. She didn't do it.

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People believe me or Gerald. Next
time we will go somewhere else. I

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certainly did great by you. You
can divorce me. Nancy. No on

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you too. I know I overstayed
my time as to Bart. I'm just

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going no, both of you come
with me. Let's go. Nancy.

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Don't you know where the court I
shot? We charged to something. Your

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brother Gerald's in his house. We're
going up there to see him. A

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gel. I'm gonna do something pretty
straight talking. If I'm wrong, I'll

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apologize afterwards and resign from the Brotherhood
club. Anything else comes to mind,

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but here goes have a scar.
No thanks. They're two doors to this

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parlor, yours, and I've closed
the boats. Behind that one a police

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officer waiting to take your brother back
to jail till he's tried. Behind the

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other door is your brother and his
wife waiting to see what you do.

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I know what I'm going to do, Barrel. I'm going to give you

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a chance to open one of those
two doors. Say what you do to

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your brother's life and his wife yours? I told you I know what I'm

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gonna do. I ask you to
reconsider your charge of burglary against your brother.

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You're making a pull of yourself,
Barrows. I insisted making a charge.

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Came home last evening to find Larry
waiting for me. After he left,

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I discovered he'd stolen eighty dollars from
my desk. Well having to recall

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and what denomination? Yes? It
were four twenty No, no, I

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don't remember. Last night asked a
banquet. You paid your dues with a

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hundred dollars due? Yes, and
I gave you four twenties in change?

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Oh was it or twenties? And
one of those bills I happened to notice

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had a corner torn off. Maybe
half an inch of fraud. You happen

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to notice that I told you no, I didn't. Well. Later last

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night Larry came to my house and
wanted to bed and insisted on paying for

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it, and I gave him eighteen
dollars chain for a twenty dollar bill.

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That scene twenty dollar bill with a
corner gone off. Well, then you

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see that proves his stall of money. It looks like a donor. But

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you said he took the money before
you got back home. Wow, gesh

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him. He must have a gerald. You didn't have this bill before the

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banquet to leave and you are dead, and you didn't claim he burgled it

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afterward later in the night, I
figure you gave him those four twenties like

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heat told me, why do you
want your brothers back? Well, how

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do you think it looks for me? Have a jailbird brother? As the

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two doors, Geryl, you can
open that one where the police off to

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is Larry. You'll go to trial
and even if he's cleared, you know

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it'll break his heart. Let alone
his wife, or open Larry's joor and

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tell him you made a mistake on
which Jory's going over? Officer, Officer,

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you don't have to wait, you
can go. I figure that was

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as neat a job of crime fighting
as ever did. Gerald dropped the charge

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for Larry never did take any job
Gerald offered him. He got another at

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a garage, and Nancy's still working
and laying store. And it all hung

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on eighty dollars a small key.
Mm hmm, I called the big one

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because Gerald orwell had the with himself
the rest his life, and even he

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mightn't have found that comfortable. And
he put his brother back in prison.

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Then there was Larry and his wife. Their future hung on that eighty dollars.

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To in my crime Fighter's book,
realize hanging on what happened makes it

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a big game. Here's another of
the more than one hundred and twenty thousand

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happy new Ford owners. Here's what
Betsy Cohn, former fashion editor of Mademoiselle

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and one of the most outstanding designers
of junior clothes in New York, said

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about her Ford convertible. I consider
fashion an index to the way people live.

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Cars, like clothes, must meet
the demands of the active and busy

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life of a young person. They
must be smart and comfortable. Need a

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budget. After looking at all the
new cars, yes, and having driven

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them too, there wasn't any question
that the nineteen fifty Ford was the outstanding

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value. It's perfect in appearance and
the answer to my every requirement in a

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car. It's the finest car I've
ever driven. Until you get behind the

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wheel of the fifty Ford, you
won't be able to believe how good it

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is. That's the reason we want
you to test drive the fifty board.

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The classified phone directory has the name
of the nearest board dealers, or perhaps

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you know him personally. Why not
phone him tomorrow before you buy any car

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at any price. You owe it
to yourself to test drive the fifty board.

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Rhyme Fighters have presented each week at
this time. Produced and directed by

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Winwright, the script was by Paul
Our Milton Asa Barrows was played by Raymond

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Edward Johnson, Larry by Alan Stephenson, Gerald by Ian Martin, Nancy by

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Abbey Lois, and Kate by Rock
Rushers. Music is by Milton Kay Crime

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Fighters. They are all kind master
man hunters to match master criminals, rude

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experts in a thousand rackets, or
simple men who study human nature their city

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dicks who work in team country shrance
covering lonely reaches federal men with a nation

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to police scientist whose weapon is laboratory. Each week this program plutes a different

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type of crime fighter and his methods. Next week a detective and im foreign

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language distance. This is the mutual
broadcasting system Welcome back. While an interesting

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story, a bit different than your
typical Great Detectives program, but I thought

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it was engaging and entertaining, and
it also seemed pretty typical to but a

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small town New England detective would deal
with and handle capably on their own.

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I would love to hear more of
the series and the different types of cases

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they did. I should note that
while this is the only American episode out

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there, like mini series, this
was re recorded in Australia and Grace Gibson

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does sell the Australian episodes. I've
not had a chance to listen to them,

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but that would be one other way
to experience this series further. Of

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course, Raymond Edward Johnson is best
known as the host of The Inner Sanctum,

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and we've heard him as the host
of the Crime Club quite a few

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years back, and he was also
in a couple of episodes of Fill Evans

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a few months back er, using
a different voice than his typical radio voice,

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so this is a bit of a
trait just to be able to hear

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Johnson in something a bit different.
I do wonder whether Abby Lewis did doubles

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here. She's credited in the role
of the convict's wife, but she's the

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only female cast member, so did
she also double as the housekeeper? At

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any rate? This was just a
really fun listen and I hope you enjoyed

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this rare program. Now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.

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Thank you to Robert, Patreon supporter
since December of twenty eighteen, currently

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Thank you so much for your support, Robert, and that will do it

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Tomorrow listen for a sneak preview of
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Monday for the adventures of Sam Spade
where of course you're Sam Spade. I

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am mister mclownan. You came at
an opportune time. No one around it

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will be here our conversation. I
suppose you wonder why I hired a detective

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for a place like this, Well, not especially, I go where the

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people go and the money. You'll
be paid well for your time and trouble.

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I must be quick. In essence, this is my situation. Yea

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earlier this week I received an anonymous
letter saying that if I invited the guest

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list I'd planned for this weekend,
I might be serious trouble. Here's the

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letter. Keep it to yourself.
It's a Los Angeles postmark. I see,

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Well, we might start by tracing
down this typewriter through an LA detective

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agency. Every one of my charming
guests is from Los Angeles. One of

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them wrote it, if you ask
me, very likely. I want to

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know who wrote it if I can. But more than that, I wonder

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what serious trouble the writer is referring
to the girl you send to pick me

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up, said you had a very
volatile group of people assembled. Yeah,

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perhaps they're high strung individuals, but
they're civilized. I'm sure their conflict would

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never get beyond a cutting phraser two
or perhaps a punch thrown. Here are

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there? Well, then you really
don't believe you will have any trouble.

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Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know. I thought it would be

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advisable to have a man like yourself
or on one who deals in trouble professionally.

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Perhaps if things do get out of
line, you can help repair the

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damages or even prevent things from occurring. Well, I'll do my best,

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mister mclough, but it's not easy
to look for something when you don't know

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what you're looking for. I hope
you'll be with us then. In the

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meantime, just send your comments to
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