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Here now is today's episode of Rogue's Gallery.

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Cabin on a Lake. The f
W. Fitch Company presents Dick Powell

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as private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's
Gallery. A shampoo Don't dispare us your

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head, Save your hair up,
Jan The f W. Fitch Company,

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makers of Pitchers, dandruf Remover shampoo
and I Do You Hair Tonic presents Dick

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Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue in
Rogues Gallery. Rogue speaking the Saturday Night,

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I'm going to spell behind you of
Vogue caught me a while spending a

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week and the fee from my last
case in zestful living at a summer hotel

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which was so swanky that the help
hardly spoke to the guests. For twenty

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five dollars a day, I had
one of the fifty bungalows on the hotel

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ground, but thirty I could have
had one with a window. Well,

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anyway, there was a girl up
there, isn't there always. She was

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named Janice Cole, a sort of
a social secretary to the hotel. She

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was about twenty eight. Her eyes
were so big in blue they made you

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think of mountain lakes, and her
hair was as black as a jealous rage.

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She had a figure that made you
think you'd seen her before in the

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swimsuit. Oh, she was real
quality, much to my high blood pressure.

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She was engaged to a society playboy
with a dollar for every sun tan

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in Florida, and his name was
Clint Haye. There was dancing going on

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in the ballroom of the hotel,
and Janie was dancing with Clint, but

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she was watching me. I thought
I saw fear in her eyes. They

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finished their dance right in front of
me. Well, I certain enjoyed that

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exhibition. Clint cla'd you like a
drug? Encing with janis as a wonderful

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way to spend an evening. I
believe that. How about the next Jane,

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Oh I can't reach it. I
don't feel very well. Oh yes,

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I think I'll go to my cabin
cleant it. I have a terrible

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headache. I'm sorry to hear that, dear. Is there anything I can

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get for you? I've cut some
asking. Oh no, I think I'll

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just lie down for a while.
I'll be back as soon as I feel

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a little more like enjoying the party. After Janus Cole left, I ducked

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clant and mingled with the crowd,
fencing in an out of polite conversation and

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keeping up a gay front to cover
the worry which was stampeding around in my

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mind. I couldn't forget the lost
look in the eyes of Janus Cole,

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a look that was so full of
fear and hopelessness that had haunted me.

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I decided, after sweating out thirty
minutes of wondering why she was so frightened,

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to drop by her bungalow and have
a fatherly chat with her. I

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casually worked my way along a chain
of conversations to the open door, and

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faded unapprusively out into the night.
There was a light in Janus's bungalow.

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I walked rapidly toward it. The
door was ajar. When I knocked on

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it, it swung open, and
I saw Janus lying there, a red

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pool expanding on the navajo rug under
her head. I took a few steps

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into the room. Oh, I
was on the inside of a giant bell,

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cleaning to the clapper with a strength
of desperation. It swung through eternity

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like a giant pendulum, and at
the end of every arc the universe was

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shattered by the sound of petollion.
I couldn't stand the noise. I let

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go on the tremendous up sweep,
and the cataputed through space at a terrifying,

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breathless speed. The ringing of the
bell grew fainter and fainter, and

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then Oh, there was quiet.
I drifted peacefully for a while and landed

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as gently as a snowflake on a
sparrow's wing. And I rested on claude

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A in the blackness of complete oblivion. Than you better come out of it,

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Oh, go away, you go. Oh, I'm sorry, Roy,

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You've got to get back on the
ball. Are you gonna find your

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shop behind it? Come on now, Oh, you're gonna go away.

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I'm not well. I've been hurt. Thanks going on that you want to

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know about? Roy? I don't
care. I'm on my vacation. You're

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in trouble, Rocky Bedrooble. Remember
that girl? Yeah? Yeah, I

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remember? Well, what are you
going to do about em? Get away

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with it? Oh, I don't
want to talk about it, Let me

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alone. Wow. Well, I
guess you've been hit on the head once

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to off and Rocky most your nerve? Huh what do you mean, midget?

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Don't fight you. I've got plenty
of fight left in me. What's

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going on down there? What are
you going to go down and see?

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Rogie? Come on, I'll help
you over the die. Okay, come

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on, give me a push,
you go. Oh, you're a fine

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alter ego and I'm proud of you. Over you go? Oh go.

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I dreaded opening my eyes because I
remember that dead girl lying there, but

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I open them and last and when
I didn't see made me think I'd lost

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my mind. Where the body had
lain staining the navajo rug. There was

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a navajo rug, but no stain, and nobody. I wobbled to my

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feet. My knees were made of
soup. I grabbed the bed for support

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and through my massive intellect into high
There were strange things happening here, and

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they were happening to me. I
decided to stay mum and get back to

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the dance to see what I could
discover from the behavior of the inmates.

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I took out my pocket comb,
dressed my hair around the bump on my

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head so I wouldn't look like I
had two wiped the bed and the door

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knob clean of my fingerprints, and
looking much better than I felt, rejoined

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the party. Clint was talking with
Nancy Bowman, another luscious lady on the

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hotel social stamp. Hello, I've
been looking for you. Oh hi Clint.

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Hello Nancy, Hello, where have
you been? We're getting a little

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fresh air. How about this dance? Nancy? God, I promised?

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Clean? Oh, go ahead out
in noble Janis should be coming back soon

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anyhow, well, all right then
your arms, oh are you, my

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dear? Both of them are later
clean? You don't answer that cleans are

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lucky man? Getting a girl like
Janis. She's what the boys in the

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back room call a dish. I
suppose Janis isn't lucky getting a man with

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a million not my type. Now
I don't have the million of them.

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Let's just been Oh, now that
Janis has her millionaire, I'm not to

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get mine. Your girl's old friends. No, I've worked up here with

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the Summers for a couple of years. She's a grand girl. Everybody loves

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her. She's engaged with this,
this creep of the millions. Yes,

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they're gonna be married in two weeks. Don't you ever read the newspaper?

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I guess it wasn't on the sport
page. Probably not the way Janis stopped

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him. It could have been ut
all right, Frank, at that you

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heard you. I never give up
beautiful ladies to strangers. You don't know,

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Frank, the lady's home companion that
can be taken care of. Introduce

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me, Nancy, mister Rogue.
This is Frank Pitts banda Jannis. Oh,

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glad to know you, mister Pits. Thank you, mister Rogue.

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Where is Janis? Anyway? She
promised me some roombas tonight. Well she

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wasn't wasn't feeling very well. She
went her bungalow to get a little rest.

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You didn't sist. Don't cutting in
unless you have some very fine arguments

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against it. Hell, I guess
I haven't, Nancy. I hope I'll

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see you later. You will.
This is a temporary thing. What happened

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to your dance? Rogue? A
man cut in on me? No,

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that's Frank Pitts. It doesn't belong
here, Rogue. It's all shoulders alone,

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money. I understand that he and
Janis are old friends. That's right.

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Thank Pitts has been in love with
Janis for years from the same time

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back. He's kidding. Oh,
he was the love of that too,

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desperately. But I don't feel sorry
for him. He's not good enough for

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a girl like Janis. No,
no claud a girl's entitled old friends.

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It seemed to be the jealous type. I used to be a little like

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that about Betty Callahan. I am
not jealous, Rogue. Did hate to

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see a girl like Janets making a
fool of herself over and no good like

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that Pitch. Since he arrived today, she's been moody and dejected. That's

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the way it is. Oh,
that's the way it is. Huh.

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You and Janet had a spat over
the old plane. He did not.

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You're being most impolite, mister Rode. Janis and I are happened to be

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alone. Yes, there's a man
outside. We'd like to talk with you

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for a minute. Why it's most
important, mister Rode, please come with

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me. Okay, excuse me,
clem you look a little upset. What's

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a matter? Oh it's horrible,
man, I ask what you're talking about.

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You know, I can't tell you, mister Rode, but in all

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my years and hotel management, this
is the most terrible thing that's ever happened

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to me. Here he is mister
Mills. Mister Mills is our district attorney.

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Mister Rogue. Oh, I'm glad
that I mister Miles, we gotta

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do for you. You're Richard Rogue, the private investigator from Los Angeles.

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That's right away. I'd like to
talk with you, mister Rogue about a

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murder. Oh yes, why sure, sure. Mister Mills. Always glad

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to lend my talents to law enforcement. That's nice for you, mister Rogue,

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because you can help a lot on
this case. Why did you murder

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Janice Cole? We'll return to our
story in just a moment. First,

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dandruff on the shoulders and coat collar
of a well groomed person is as out

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of place as snow and July.
That's why so many persons who want to

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have a smart, well groomed appearance
use Fitches dandreff Remover shampoo regularly. For

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Fitz, shampoo has a special salvent
action that dissolves unsightly dandruff. When you

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apply Fitches to your hair and scalp
before adding water, this salvent action goes

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to work, though it's important to
remember not to wet your hair before the

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shampoo is applied. After massaging your
scalp briskly for a few minutes, then

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apply water, an abundance of cleansing
lather will form to carry away the dissolved

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dandruff. Then the lather rinses out
easily and completely leaves the hair immaculately clean

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without a trace of dandruf Yes,
Fitch's Dandrefreemover shampoo is a relaid to good

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grooming. Use it regularly. You
can buy an economical bottle of Fitch's Dandrefreemover

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shampoo at your drug or toilet goods
counter or have a professional application at your

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beauty or barber shop. Now back
to Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue

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in Rogue's gallery, my guilty conscience
was calling me names and getting me bad

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advice. As I stole out of
the ballroom with the d'a he had accused

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me of murder. I knew who
was murdered. I've seen her in her

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bungalow. Dead. Janice cole Da
was as quiet as a grave during that

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walk, and not a bit more
cheerful. I made a couple of abortive

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attempts at conversation, but I might
as well have been talking to a totten

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pole. I couldn't understand why he
was heading for my bungalow until he opened

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the door and I saw Janis lying
there on that blood stained not a whole

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rug, just as I had seen
her a half hour before in her own

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bungalow. I tried to say something, but the words couldn't get by the

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lump in my throat. I just
stood there, my mouth hanging open and

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my stomach frozen, and the hangman's
not I could feel the day's eyes boring

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into the back of my head.
Well, Rogue why'd you do it?

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Why didn't I didn't kill her?
Had he explained the fact that she was

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killed here in your cabin? If
she wasn't, I? Look, rogue,

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you'd better organize yourself. Huh.
You're supposed to be a smart investigator.

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Give me a gun. I haven't
got it on me. It's in

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that drawer there. Yeah, we
found that one. This girl was shot

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to death with a twenty five automatic
and the crench on it. We gotta

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take your for comparison. Am I
on a suspicion for this murder? At

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the moment? That's all you're under
it. I finally hope you'll be under

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arrest for it the next half hour. Oh, you do mills and a

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homicide. You usually have to have
a motive. What's that? Why are

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you waving those newspaper clippings in my
face? What are they as the motive?

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You were blackmailing miss Cole? Rogue? We found these clippings in your

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briefcase. What do you mean I
was blackmailing Earth? I didn't even know

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are now? Look, Rogue,
you're smarter than that. There's a whole

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envelope full of clippings covering miss Cole's
trial for the murder of her first husband

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back in for Saic, New Jersey. Her name was Jane Sherman then,

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and she was released for lack of
evidence. Remember the trial, of course,

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I do poisoning. Do you found
out that this Jane Sherman now known

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as Janice Cole was all set to
marry a million dollars and you've been blackmailing?

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Oh? I don't know anything about
it. I tell you, I

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don't know how those clippings got into
my briefcase. It must have been planted

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there when I was knocked out in
Janis's bungalow. It's a switch rogue.

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You were knocked out in her glory
went h Look Mills, I know this

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whole thing is going to sound fantastic, but I want to tell you the

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whole story. I came up here
on my vacation. I never saw Janice

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Cole or whatever her name was before
to night. Disbelief walked across the DA's

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face as I unspun the web of
circumstances which tied me into this murder.

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As I listened to my own story, I knew I wouldn't believe it myself

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if I hadn't been there. I
showed him the bump on my noggin.

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He just nodded. I talked on, and as I talked, I realized

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that I was acting like every murderer
I'd ever questioned. I know. My

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face was red, my eyes were
shifting as I bobb eat my brain and

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trying to think of some circumstance which
would at least give me the benefit of

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a reasonable doubt. Finally I stopped
talking. He took my fingerprints and we

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went to Janice Cole's bungalow. There
I got my first break. All right,

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rogue, Now where was the buddy
lying when you first? Right here?

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Right here? Come on, look
look here, Look on at this

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rug. Blood on the floor where
it's seeped through the rug that's now in

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my bungalow. Do you see it? Yeah? Blood? All right,

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all right, that's the first thing
that's made sen since we got together.

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I suppose there is an outside chance
that somebody's trying to frame you. Enough

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of a chance saw a conviction would
be hard to get, mister da Look,

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you'll know me. I've got a
little standing in my professional, little

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substance. Give me twenty four hours
to get this thing hung around the right

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man's neck. All right, I
don't have you locked up tonight. Will

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you try and have the right man
for me in the morning, I'll have

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him. Now tell me who knows
about the murder. Well, the maid

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who wanted in your cutage to turn
your bed down for the night, and

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the manager, though I've told him
both to keep quiet until I get in

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the go ahead to talk. Then
none of the guests know about it.

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Yet it kept the killer. That's
right as far as I know. Okay,

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okay, Now you keep it that
windled morning and I'll come up with

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a guilty man for you. Big
talk. I had been framed with loving

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care, like a sweethearts picture.
The DA shoved off to take care of

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the grizzly details of moving the body
from its temporary resting place on my bungalow

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floor, and I started shaking Janie
Cole's bungalow down. There were particles of

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curved glass on the floor near where
the body had been lying. I picked

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him up carefully and fitted the larger
pieces together. They could only have been

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the crystal of a small square wrist
watch. It might be the clue to

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the killer. I went back to
the main hotel building. The Saturday night

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party was still going strong. I
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He seemed to me to be the
logical suspect. He was from Janis

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Col's hometown. He would have known
about her trial for murder. I found

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him talking with Nancy in a corner. He had on a large round wristwise,

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Nancy's watch was a dainty diamond and
ruby affair, small and oblong.

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I have not I just why you
disappointed? I wanted to get rid of

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brains that. Wow, this is
a good time, is it, Amy?

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I have the next one? You
may have all the rest of the

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movie life. Where what's about?
At you? You have a pencil?

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Look, bar was just trying to
figure something out. I was supposed to

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have a dance with you at nine
o'clock? Where were you? I was

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here. I got here just at
nine, didn't I? Friend, you

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don't try to prove anything by me, baby, I don't know. At

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nine o'clock I was having a drink
with Clint Hayes in my bungalow. Well,

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it goes your alibi and Nancy,
you weren't here, alibi? Why

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would I need an alibi? I
was here, you weren't. I looked

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all over for you. No,
let's not argue about it. It's out

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the next one. Huh. I'll
be right back. Okay, no trip

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now all right, Clint? Why
oh, how come you're sitting this one?

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Not? Oh? I am hello, r I'm sorry I started you.

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I was just in a deep fuck. Nancy, come back in.

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No, Nancy, I just changed
her name there, if you don't mind.

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I'm kind of worried about her.
Well, she's subject to headaches like

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this, pook kid. Maybe you'd
better run over and have a talk with

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her. Huh. I hate to
bother when she's feeling bad. Look,

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Clant, just to settle a little
argument, are you and Frank Pitts having

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a drink in his bungalow at nine
o'clock? Yes, a matter of fact,

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we were. How do you know
that? He just told me that's

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a silly little argument. I was. Janni would hurry back in time for

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the last dance. At least.
Clant Hay has had on a large square

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wrist watch, and he and Frank
had unbreakable alibib. Nancy had none.

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They were my three prime suspects,
and it looked to me like Nancy was

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about to be elected. I was
sitting there and looking for Nancy and carrying

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on a pointless discussion on headaches there
causing cure with Clant when Nancy came running

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over. Come on, Clant,
you too, Richard. We're all going

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down to the pool for a moonlike
dip. And I don't think I wanted

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to Nancy. Oh, come on, it's because Janie is feeling rocky.

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Den. There's no reason for you
to be grumpy. Come on, Richard,

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get your swim trunks and give the
girls a tree. All right,

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all right, I'm in Come on, Clant, a little depity'd all.

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Come on, Clant might as well. Clant. Sounds like a good idea.

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Yes, Richard and Clint are crazy
about the idea, aren't you.

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Oh okay, I'll join you for
a while. Nice man, Clant,

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hurry up now see it's the pool. We'll continue our story in just a

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moment. First, a word to
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your wave looking lovely. I'll back
to Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue

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in Rose Gallery my performance in the
pool that night may Nero's fiddle Solow when

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the light of a burning room seemed
like the height of propriety. Here was

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Richard the fall guy Rogue, swimming
and laughing with Frank, Clint and Nancy,

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a bunch of murder suspects a matter
of hours before the law put a

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pair of stylishly playing bracelets on me
and claimed me for its own. If

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I hadn't solved the murder of Janis
Cole, but there was method in my

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madness. That swim gave me the
information I wanted. In fact, it

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gave me the murderer. I left
before the swimming party broke up and went

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to one of the guest bungalows.
An open window made the job of getting

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in as easy as falling in love. I thound of what I was looking

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for in a chest of drawers.
Then I sat down and waited for my

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victim to come in and turn on
the lights. Rugue, what are you

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doing here waiting to talk of you
about a murder? Clint? Shut the

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door, Come in and sit on, Clint. I want to know all

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about what happened to Janie Dennis.
Something's happen to Genis. Yes, Janison

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don't actually Innison? Well do you
know about her murder? I didn't kill

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it. What makes you think I
killed her? I didn't say you killed

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her, but I'm sure you know
something about it. You know you shouldn't

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get involved in murdered Clant, it's
too complicated. You're just talking rug.

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You killed her. You were blackmailer
when you killed her. No, No,

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Clant, you weren't supposed to know
anything about that. In fact,

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you couldn't have known anything about it
unless you were the guy who framed me

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so nicely. I'm a little mad
at you for that. You know,

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I'm going to get a confession of
that murder out of you somewhere or other.

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And do you feel like talking?
You do? I have to beat

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it out of here? That makes
you think I did it? Rud?

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Take off? Take off your wristwatch. Yeah, now look at your wrist

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right. You see that small square
of white skin where you used to wear

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your small square wristwatch. That was
the giveaway, Clint. You see this

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watch here, the one I found
hidden out of the shirts and the chester

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drawers. There the crystal's broken Clint, that was broken in the struggle with

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Janiston I just before you out here. Broken glass was found on the floor

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of the cabin right where the body
was before you moved it to mine.

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How do you feel anymore like talking? Clint? Why did you kill her.

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I didn't kill her. I didn't
kill her. I got until morning

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for you to start talking, and
I've got more socks in a ten story

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laundry. Letn't know when you want
to start singing. You don't know what

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happened in that room, And you're
gonna tell me I didn't kill her.

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I didn't. I swear I didn't. Rogue. I was there, Sure

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I was there. But you didn't
kill her? Who did? I can't

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tell you. I come on,
Clint, you're not smart enough to work

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out that frame on me. Who
was in this with you? I wouldn't

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answer that if I were. You
drop the gun, Roge. Oh oh,

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hello, Frank, you're mixed up
in this too. Huh wow.

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Maybe we can arrange a double execution. I didn't tell him anything. I

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didn't tell a thing. I know
it. I was listening, sure sure

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that due to you were the brains
of this deal, weren't you, Frank?

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It's pretty obvious that that quivering mess
over there wasn't, isn't it?

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Good thing? I was keeping my
eye on him to night. You see,

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Rogue, When he opened the door
and turned on the lights, I

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saw you sitting there, and that's
why I came in the back way for

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the parade, that Clint would talk
too much. You think of everything,

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don't you try? What are we
gonna do now, Frank? This this

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rogue he he knows I was there
when Janus was murdered, knows you were

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there. Well, you might just
as well know that you shot her?

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Then? Uh you did you know
what? It was? An accident?

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Was it? I'll decide that forgetting
me Fellas. Oh no, no,

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we're not forgetting you, mister rogue. It really doesn't make any difference who

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killed Janis as long as you disappear
with all the evidence pointing to the fact

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that you did it. No,
no, no, Frank, I want

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any more killing you. Shut up. I'm handling this affair. I'm going

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to keep you out of the gas
chamber. Clint, if you'll just shut

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up and do as I tell you, take Rogue's necktie off and tie his

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hands. We're gonna knock him off
and throw him over a canyon. We're'll

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never be found. Ah, well, I might as well take a crack

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out of Give me that gun.
Grab him, Clint, grab him?

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Well, oh thanks, Clare,
very handy with that chair. How come

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you hit him? I couldn't.
I couldn't let him. I just couldn't.

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All right, all right, take
his necktie off and tie his hands

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with it. We're gonna take him
for a ride down to see the district

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attorney. I killed her, got
killed Janis, But it was an accident.

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I sweat with an accident. You'll
have a dandy chance to explain that

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to Jorry. Clint. Nah,
come here, I've I've got something for

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you that's helping to frame me.
Oh brother, is that da gonna love

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me? Well? That was the
end of the cave. Frank had been

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blackmailing Nancy Janis Cole ever since her
engagement a wealthy playboy Clint Hayes was announced,

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and that night, when Frank went
to Janis's cabin, Clint followed him.

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When Clint arrived on the scene,
jealousy took over. Frank grew a

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gun and Clint jumped him. In
the struggle which followed, Janis was shot

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while the gun was in clint hand. Helpful, the Q scared plant at

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the murder and talked me and talked
to him. In the framing need,

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Frank saw lovely visions of many happy
years of blackmailing a millionaire. That broken

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watch crystal was the only thing that
kept the frame from working. So I

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get my brains beat out. I
put the arm on a killer and blackmailer.

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My vacation is broken up like a
drop light bulb, and I didn't

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make a dime. Oh well,
let's face it. If I hadn't been

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so clever, I'd be doing a
life sentence instead of Clinton. Frank,

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I would like that. No,
I've heard. I've heard that stone walls

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do not a prison make, nor
iron iron bars a cave. But it's

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hard to illustrate the truth of that
old saw to a guy who's behind the

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farmer looking through the latter. You
know what I mean. This is dick

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mushmouth power again, Ladies and gentlemen, hope you enjoyed our story Tonight,

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Ray Buffon wroughte it Leith Stevens composed
and conducted the music in d Engelbach produced

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and directed Be with Us Again Next
Sunday, will you we have a story

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for you about a doctor, a
dentist, and a mightily old lady who

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comes up dead. We call it
where there's a will, there's a murder.

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Thanks for listening. Now he's James
with a hair Doyle. Listen again

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next week at this same time to
hear Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue

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in Rogue's Gallery. By the way, Dick will soon be seen in his

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Bushmouth Poll. Indeed, he was
really struggling with the script. There pails

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of live radio I could also be
an indication he was just getting worn out.

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As I mentioned before, Rogues Gallery
began as a summer series summer of

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nineteen forty five. He'd pretty much
done an episode a week every week for

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now. This was fifty six straight
weeks, and it'd be sixty seven straight

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weeks before that was done, which
of course other radio detectives did. But

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he was also knowing a lot of
film work, so this might be why

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he waited a few years to come
back to radio and do Richard Diamond.

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Well, this is actually our second
to last episode of Rogues Gallery with Dick

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Pye. We have two additional episodes
these from actors who took on the roles

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later, but it'll be all for
Dick Pile next week and then coming in

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four weeks is Kendy Madson and you'll
definitely want to be listening for that.

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Well, I do want to remind
you that we do have other old time

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