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Now it is time for this week's
episode of Mister Chameleon. The original

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aired eight January fifth, nineteen forty
nine, and this one is the Rich

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Uncle Murder Case. Next Mister Chameleon
and the Rich Uncle Murder Case. Tonight

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we again present the famous Mister Cameleon
of Central Headquarters in his most famous cases

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of crime and murder, brought to
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Now let me tell you just who
mister Camelion is. A college man,

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he tried from childhood to live up
to the name he bore Chameleon,

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by taking on the color of whatever
situation in which he found himself, appearing

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in endless guises, finally entering the
police force, where he became known as

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Cameleon, the man of many faces, the underworld's most dreaded man. The

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listener invariably knows who mister Chamelion is, no matter which disguise he assumes,

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but the criminal he's tracking down seldom
does. Tonight we give you mister Chameleon.

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In the Rich Uncle murder case.
It is difficult in your old age

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to have to live with your relatives, and no one knows it better than

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Captain Silas Harper. But he's a
shrewd and colorful old seaman, and he

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has no qualms about using the one
weapon left to him his money. Now

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on the little parlor of the flow
Bear's New York flat, he smiles a

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trifle maliciously at his niece Harriet and
her husband Flowbear and he says, Harriet,

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you're very good to your old uncle. Very good. Indeed, you

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too, flow beh, it's nice
to have a snug harbor to come to

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every year. Show you how grateful
I am. Here's something for you.

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What is it, Uncle Silas.
It looks like a will You got a

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smart husband, Harriot. He knows
you will when he sees one. Oh

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but Uncle Silas, you don't mean
jruel Harriet. Yes, I've left you

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my entire fortune a state. I
guess you land lubbers and call it,

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Uncle Silas, you've left us your
entire fortune. Oh, bless your heart.

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You're a good man, Uncle Silas. Thank you for a but that's

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the first time I've ever been called
that. We can never thank you enough.

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This is your home for as long
as you live. Oh oh,

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but what about Lucy. Lucy,
Yes, my little niece, my little

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chickadee with the light brown hair.
Well, what about it, Uncle Silas.

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She's not sincere. She's always making
up to you, but she doesn't

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really love you at all. Then
you'll appreciate the joke that I'm playing on

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Lucy. I'm leaving her one hundred
dollars and my china clock, Your china

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clock, the one you put up
there on the mantle. Yeap, my

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wonderful old clock that I hit with
me everywhere, My beautiful china clock with

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the cherubs paint on it. Lots
of people think it's a nice especially Lucy.

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And that's what you are leaving to
Lucy and your will. That is

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priceless, priceless. That's the funniest
thing I ever heard of, Uncle Si.

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I thought I would amuse you.
I think like a little air,

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I find it kind of stuffy in
here. But Uncle Silas, you can't

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go out this hour the night.
There's a terrible FuG FuG you think I'm

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scared of a little fog me who
sailed everybody of water on this planet.

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I'm going down to ducks and be
back around midnight. And oh, or

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don't worry about my health. Oh
I don't, Uncle Silas, you outlive

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all of this good night. Well, I suppose it's worth it if he

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leaves, it's all his money.
Oh, but that terrible clock alone,

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it ruin the whole house. Wait
quiet, he may overhear you. Well,

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Frankly, I don't don't believe he'll
outlay of all of us. Howyatt,

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surely you wouldn't do that. Who
said I'd do anything? Flaubert and

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Harriet Flaubert proved to be quite a
prophet. For the following morning, at

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Central Headquarters, we find mister Camellion, the Great Detective, sitting in the

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office of the Commissioner of Police,
and the commissioner is saying, and the

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poor old man was stabbed in the
back. Chameleon. A couple of sailors

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found his body about one am down
there, Peer sixty one. Whoever murdered

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them must have sneaked up behind him
in the fog and struck him down.

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Oh that's too bad. Captain Silas
Harper is a legend, the last of

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the old sea captains. Where is
the body now at the home of his

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niece, Harriet Flaubert. He's a
nephew too in New York, that is

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Harper, A ship's chandler u Sell
ship supplies. Then I suppose that all

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of them grief stricken old man must
have left plendy. Well, I'll get

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right over there and question them.
I'm Chameleon of Central Headquarters, here to

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ask some questions in connection with the
murder of missus Flaubert's uncle, Captain Silas

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Harper. Come in, mister Camelion. I am mister Flaubert, Captain Harper's

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nephew by marriage. Harriet. It's
mister Camelion. It's so awful to think

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that poor uncle Silas, that he
should have died like that all alone.

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I doubt if he minded that as
much as he minded dying. You are

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very hard, mister cameleon. But
then you are a cup. I am

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simply determined to find Captain Harper's killer, Missus Flawbair, who survives him besides

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yourself, his niece and a nephew, Thaddeus Harper. Well, there are

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two other nieces, one in New
Zealand and one in Calia. And of

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course cousin Lucy Billingsley. She's an
orphan. She lives here in New York.

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And who are Silas Harpers? We
are, mister Camellion. That is

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to say, my wife, Harriet, is you are his soul lair?

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Missus Floubell. Yes, Uncle Silas
himself gave me his will last night.

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It's right here. He gave it
to you last night, just before he

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was murdered. Very convenient. What
do you mean by that, I mean

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I want to know exactly where you
and your husband were last night at the

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time your uncle was murdered. I
was in bed. That's where I was

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here too, Is that correct,
Miss Slaubell? Your husband was here with

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your I don't know where he was. I was asleep. What are you

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trying to do to me? Harriott? Tell this man, camellon the truth.

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There's the doorbell, flowbear answer it. Oh very well, mister Cameleon.

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Uncle Silas left everything he had to
me except one hundred dollars to cousin

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Lucy and that clock there on the
mantel. But I had nothing to do

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with his murder. This china clock
here, yes, isn't it hideous?

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But Uncle Silas loved that clock.
He took it everywhere with him. Wait

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till Lucy hears that's all she gets
in his will. Oh there, I

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am heartbrook and I am simply heartbroke. Who's that coming in? That's my

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cousin, Thadeus Harper, the one
who is Hellship supplies. How is his

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business incident there? Very bad?
I'm sure he was counting on Uncle Silas

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to pull him through well, Thaddeus
Harriet, Harriet This is terrible news.

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You know the five cousin esther in
California, cousin Myra, New Zealand.

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Yes, yes, I wired them
both. Oh, Thaddeus, this is

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mister Camellian, the famous detective.
Glad to meet you, mister comedian.

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Hope you're looking for Uncle Silas's killer. Uh? Naturally, mister Harper,

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were you very close to your uncle
Silas? Close? So close that he

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left me all his money? What
what are you saying? Are you crazy?

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Thadeus? He left it all to
me. You're the one who's crazy,

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Harry. He gave me his will, told me to put it in

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a safe place. He left his
whole fortune to me. Two people each

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claiming the murdered man left everything to
them. Very interesting. I don't understand

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it. Mister comeleion, there's the
door bell again, Thlawbeart, answer it

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thereeous. Is this a joke?
Uncle Silas couldn't have left you his entire

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fortune. Have you the will,
mister Harper? Oh? Yes, yes,

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mister comedian, here's the will?
May I see it? Lisse?

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Well, this will seems an order, mister Harper. Let me see it.

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Whyat It's just like the one Uncle
Silas gave me. Was it dated

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the same day, Missus Slowburn.
Yes, yes, mister Comellion. And

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it's why it's worded the same way, bequeathing all my stocks and bonds,

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and all my cash in the bank, all my ownership remaining in any shipping

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company. Here's a telegram, all
right, flowbear open it, various.

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I'll fight you in every court in
the lamb. Go ahead, Harriet,

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you bloodsucker. You haven't a chance
to win. Mister Flaubert. What's in

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that telegram you're reading? You a
very strange expression on your face, mister

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Camillion, Nay, I do not
understand her yet. Listen. It's from

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cousin Esther in California. She says, grieved at uncle Sila's death, I

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have his last wheel and testament,
bequeathing his whole fortune to me. What

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she's crazy? Or Uncle Silas was
crazy? Your mister cameleon, what are

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you grinning at? I was just
thinking, Missus Flaubert, in a case

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like this, it's always rather difficult
to tell who is crazy, But I

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don't think it was your uncle Silas. Meanwhile, I am concerned with finding

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his murderer. I might as well
tell you that every one of you has

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a perfect motive for murder. See
what you have done, Haryot. But

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now I'm going to question Captain Silas
Harper's other needs Lucy billings Lead. Yes,

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question her a questioner. I might
as well take her the ugly old

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china clock, which her uncle Silas
will do, don't you think so?

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Yes, yes, get that terrible
thing out of the house. And mister

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Camellion does take the ugly old china
clock to Lucy Billingsley, and we find

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him now with Lucy in her living
room. She is saying, I couldn't

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believe it, mister comedian. Uncle
Silas was so alive. I can't believe

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he's gone, that he's been murdered. You sound as if you were really

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fond of him, Miss Lucy.
I was underneath his bluster, he was

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very warm and kind. You can
still say that when all he left you

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in his will was one hundred dollars
and this hideous clock, this perfect monster

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of the clock. I didn't want
anything from him. What about that note

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that you said you received from him
this morning. Uncle Silas must have mailed

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it yesterday, mister comedian. He
spoke of this China clock. He said,

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if it got too much on my
nerves, I had permission to smash

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it after six weeks. That is
strange. That's very strange. Yes,

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Dave, come on in. That's
Detective Sergeant Donald. Well, mister comedian,

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we caught this character here. He
was seen hanging around the water front

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following Captain Salas Harper last night.
Oh his name is Marcus Smith, so

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he says, that's my name right
enough? Oh you an accent, haven't

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you? What is it the Australian? No? Wait, New Zealand?

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So what does that prove? That
don't mean I'm murdered a man, does

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it? No? Indeed, mister
Smith, you have a very strange color.

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Do you get out of prison recently? Well, answer me, did

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you? Yes? I did?
That don't prove I'm a murderer either,

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Comedian, what were you in for? What were you in prison for?

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A sultan robbery? But I'm trying
to make a fresh start. That's why

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I came to this country. Why
were you following Captain Silas Harper? What

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wait a minute, miss Lucy.
Uh didn't your uncle Silas have another niece

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in New Zealand? Yes, of
course, mister comedian. Her name is

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Sally Marcus Smith, did you know
Sally Harper? You might as well tell

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me. We'll only find it out
in the end. Yes, I'm a

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foster brother, but so hel me, mister comedian. I had nothing to

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do with Captain Harper's murder. Why
would I? What was the rented for

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me? I? I am not
sure, Marcus Smith, but I have

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a pretty good idea, Dave.
You take him to Central headquarters and hold

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him for questioning. Mister chameleon.
We can't get a thing out of Marcus

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Smith. He still swears he had
nothing to do with Captain Harper's murder.

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But does he still swear there was
nothing in it for him, Dave,

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because if he does, he is
lying. I wired miss Sally Harper,

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Captain Harper's niece in New Zealand.
I received a return wire telling me that

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she was Captain Harper's sole heir.
He gave her as will too. What

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so Marcus Smith did have a motor
for killing Captain Harper? A cut of

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the old man's estate. That's right, Dave. The candy old devil Captain

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Harper giving all four of them identical
wills, leaving each one his entire fortune,

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and making himself welcome wherever he went, and making himself a target for

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murder. Mister in a Dave,
what seems so strange to me is that

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Lucy Billingsley the only decent one of
the lot. All she got was that

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china clock. Dave, what's the
matter? I am going to see Lucy

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Billingsley. It just occurred to me
that Captain Harper might have had a reason

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for leaving her that clock. And
my idea, Miss Lucy, is for

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you to break open your Uncle silas
china clock. And mister Camellion, I

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can't Uncle Silas adored that clock,
Miss Lucy. Was your uncle a sentimental

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man? Well, no, no, he certainly was not, judging from

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his actions. But I believe that
he loved you. I also believe that

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he had no sentimental attachment at all
for that clock. Mister Camelion, Now

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we can't open the clock. The
bank is being sodded on. The only

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thing to do to take this hammer
and break it. You think that that

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breaking this china clock will help you
find Uncle Silas's murderer. It may in

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a sort of roundabout way. Then
I'll do it. Mister Camellion. Good,

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good, there's a hammer. I
hate to but here goes mister Commellion.

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Mister Comellion, good, heavens,
this is amazing, even though I

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half expected. It's amazing. Miss
Lucy. You must promise me that you

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won't tell any one what we found
in this clock. Now, if you

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value your life, you won't tell
any one, mister Camellion, And the

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rich uncle murder case continues in just
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apiece. And now back to mister
Camellion and the rich Uncle murder case.

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Mister Camellion, the famous detective,
is trying to track down the murderer of

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a wealthy old sea captain, Silas
Harper, who is found stabbed on the

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waterfront. It is a few hours
after Camellon has broken open the hideous china

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clock belonging to the murdered man.
He is now at the home of Harriet

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Flaubert and her husband, two of
the suspects in the case. As he

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enters, Slowbert says excitedly, mister
Camellon, I tell you my wife is

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insane. She is trying to pin
this murder for uncle on me, an

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innocent man The woman is mad,
I tell you mad, and not Flobert.

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She is putting you in a very
dangerous position. But why should I

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kill my wife's rich uncle. I
loved him like my own uncle. Oh,

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very touching. But the fact remains
that you knew by killing him your

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wife and yourself would come into a
great fortune. Oh no, it is

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there. Tell me exactly what went
on between you and your wife after her

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uncle, Captain Silas Harper, gave
her a will, leaving her his entire

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fortune. What did you say?
And what did she say? Ster Chamelion,

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I love my wife, but I
will tell you the truth. No.

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Sooner than her uncle left the house, she said, I do not

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believe he will live very long.
And I said to her, Harriet,

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surely you would not do that.
You think she killed her uncle? I

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don't think anything. That's the trouble
with you cops. You twist everything.

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One more question, flow beer,
How are your finances? Are you up

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against it? For money? Certainly
not. I make plenty. That's all

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for now, Flawber, goodbye,
goodbye, mister Camelion. Well thank you

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to take the sergeant Ann for waiting
outside for me. Did you get anything,

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mister Camellion Flowbert accuses his wife Harriet. The whole trouble is that any

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one of those hungry heirs of Captain
Silas Harper could have been the killer.

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Yet we haven't enough evidence to make
an arrest. We can't even hauld that

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crook from New Zealand, Marcus Smith
any longer. Well, the main thing

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I'm depending on now to break this
case is a clock, a hideous hand

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painted china clock. I get you
the clock. Mmm. We also know

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that the flow bears and Thaddeus Harper
too frequent that waterfront gambling house, which

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means that all of them must want
to make some quick money. Yeah,

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Dave, they're going in there disguised
as a croupier at the roulette. Will

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what my name will be, Biff
Logan. I'm an old time croupier and

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once during my travels I met the
murdered man, Captain Silas Harper. That

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will give me a chance to mention
his china clock. Hey, you're not

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going to mention that clock? Oh, just mention it, Davis. Which

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reminds me, when you release that
crook Marcus Smith, you mentioned to him.

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Isn't this dangerous mister Commingland just say
that, with everyone battling over Silas

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Harper's wills, maybe Lucy was lucky
to be left that clock. Meanwhile,

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Dave, tonight, I shall go
into that gambling house, get still another

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look at Captain Harper's heirs. And
that night, in the shoddy little gambling

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house near the waterfront, we find
Chameleon in his disguise as Biff Logan,

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and seated at the roulette table are
Harriet and her husband Flaubert, and mister

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Camelion, in the nasal twang of
his disguise, is saying, okay,

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ladies, and chance make your back
twenty five dollars on the red. Okay,

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mister Flaubert? Are you crazy?
Flobert? Haven't you lost enough for

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one evening? If I keep on, I may win? Harriott, I've

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got to win? What for?
What do you do with your money anyway?

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Are you please? Here comes your
cousin Fedius well theddeous. Hello Harriet,

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Hello Flobert, Come on, ladies
and chance make your back. You're

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quick getting to be quite a gambler, aren't you, Thaddeus? What are

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you trying to do? Win enough
money to pay off your desk? Shut

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up, Harriet? I'll put fifty
dollars on twenty one. Okay, fifty

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dollars on twenty one. Hey,
you're a new croup. You're here on

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you? Yeah? What's your name? My name is Big Flogan. I

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know your uncle, Captain Silence Harper. Is that so you did doing well

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back in the old days in Shanghai. I like to get my hands on

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whoever killed him? So would we? But now let us play, Let

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us play. Okay, everyone put
up their money. There we go thirteen

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the number who swings as usual?
What terrible? Look? What are you

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crabbing about? Flow there? You
only lost twenty five dollars. I lost

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fifty twenty five? Is enough?
Now? Will you stop betting? Flogan?

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No? And I say you will. Hey, whatever I happened to

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that china clock? What was that? What did you say, mister Logan?

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I was asking whatever became of that
china clock? The Captain Silentce Harper

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used to lug around me. There
was an awful lot of talk about that

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clock. What kind of talk?
Wow, you know how it is,

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mister man. Lots of weird talk
about Captain sires too. Okay, ladies

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and Jace, make your back.
What kind of talk. Did you hear

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about the clock? Oh, there's
something mysterious about it. He used to

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guard it with the gun he did, and when I heard it was dead,

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I wondered, well, who got
the clock? There's a matter of

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fact, one of his nieces,
Lucy Billingsley, got that clock. The

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following day, in Lucy Billingsley's little
flat, mister Chameleon, no longer in

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disguise, is eagerly reading a note
Lucy was handed to him. Lucy,

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I got quicker results in I'm hoped
for. This is quite an offer.

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Your uncle's killer's hot on the trail
of that tin o'clock. But to offer

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me three hundred dollars for it cheap
enough, I'd say. No. What

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amuses me is this note. I
would very much like to have this clock

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for sentimental reasons. I was an
old friend of your uncle. Signed Biff

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Logan, Biff Logan, if you
please. That was the name I used

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in my disguise last night. Someone
is using my disguise as a disguise.

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What'll I do, mister Camellia meet
them tonight, Miss Lucy. They say,

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eleven o'clock near pair sixty one.
By the way, your cousin Harriet

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is quite a shrew, isn't she. I'm afraid she is. But what

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has that got to do with it
with Uncle Silas's murder? My dear,

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you would be surprised how often personal
traits can lead to murder. What time

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is it, mister cameleon. It's
almost eleven day. Lucy should be coming

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along the waterfront any minute now,
and so should Captain Silas Harper's murderer.

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On a foggy night just like this, That Captain Harper was stabbed in the

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bank, not fought away from he
and you think they intend to kill his

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niece Lucy too. Here she comes, dad, Uh huh, she's carrying

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a package. Here's the china clock
supposedly, Dave, you got your gun?

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This may be a tough one.
I'm all set, mister, comeleon.

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Watch, watch carefully, look look
someone stepping out from behind the entrance

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to the pier. Wait wait until
I step up to Lucy. All right,

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Dave, let's go. Put up
your hands. We've got your come

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out. I'll try to get away. What is this, mister, comeleians

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Dan still, Marcus Smith, don't
move, Dave frisking. Oh, mister

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Chamelion. I couldn't see you.
I was afraid you weren't here, all

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your rotten little squealer. You tipped
him off, Lucy, didn't you?

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Of course you did, Dave to
find anything gun good good? A gun,

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Marcus Smith can be a very dangerous
thing for an ex convict like you

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to have on his person. Now
we're ready to do business. What do

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you mean, comedian, Marcus who
murdered Captain Silas Hartburn? How should I

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know? All I was trying to
do is to buy that clock. Who

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were you buying it for? Marcus? Answer me? Who hired you to

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come here? Nobody? Honest,
miss comedian? It was my own ardea?

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Was it your own idea to sign
the name of Biff Logan to that

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note you send Lucy? You see
I am Beff Logan? What yes,

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Marcus, I disguised myself as a
gambling house attendant named Biff Logan, and

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you couldn't possibly have known that name
unless somebody else told you. Who was

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it? Listen, mister comedian,
Marcus, I know that you're scared.

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The killer is probably right behind you
in the shadows, but you have got

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to tell me his name. I
can't I can't. Well, then I'll

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tell you loud enough for him to
hear. I shall bring him out into

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the open. What do you mean
to say that? Flow bear? Silas

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Harper? Heave quick? I think
I got him, Marcus? You all

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right? Yes? Hey? Meshed
me, mister chameleon? Was it,

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Flaubert? Did he kill uncle?
Silas saved? I get him? You

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got him, all right, mister
comedian. That's not very serious. My

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leg? You shut me in the
leg. Oh that's too bad, Flobert.

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You intended to kill Marcus Smith,
and you would have killed Lucy as

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you killed Captain Happer. I didn't
kill Harper. My wife killed him.

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What a liar you off? Flaubert? He killed my uncle, mister chameleon,

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he killed him? I tell you
whoa harriet I thought you'd be.

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Of course, she tricked me into
coming here with her tonight. I'll tear

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your eyes off for bed. She's
got a guy, that's right, I

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ta Chameleon to think of me.
Le Flobert, are married to a murderer.

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That's enough out of you. Flobert. You and your wife both killed

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Silas Harper. That's a dirty coppers
lie. You and your wife followed your

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uncle. Out the foggy night he
left your house and brutally murdered him.

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It weren't so hideous. It could
be a joke. Joke, What joke

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that the old and ugly China Clark
went to the only decent one of you,

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to Lucy, that the old clerk
held well over a million in emeralds

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and diamonds. No, it can't
be, Jools, Hilas Harper had converted

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his whole fortune to Jules. You
killed him for nothing, but you will

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both pay for it and pay well. Dave, you put them in a

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carpet. It's a lie, you
dotty coup. I'd like to kill you,

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chameleon. No, I'm sorry,
but I'm afraid that you'll never get

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the chance. We cops have a
firm way of holding people anyway. What

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a charming pair you are out with
them, Dave. And with these words,

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mister Chameleon concludes tonight's murder case.
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Camellion, the Man of Many Faces
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Man, listen for mister Comeleon in
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next Wednesday night at this time.
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Welcome back. This was a fun
one. I love when mister Cameleon

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gets a bit of a twinkle in
his eye about a case. And he

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was definitely amused by the uncles leading
all of his nephews and nieces to believe

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that they were his sole heir.
Admittedly it backfired on him. Obviously,

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the ones who would be nice to
him because he made them the sole air

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would have also capitaliitting him come around
for hopes of getting that distinction. He

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wasn't crazy. Hiding what was in
the clock after it was broken into was

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kind of pointless as far as I'm
concerned, because you figured out, I

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think pretty quickly once it got open
that whatever was in there was actually valuable.

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I mean, it doesn't matter whether
it was worth one hundred thousand or

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if it was worth a million.
We're not like revenue men. We're just

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listening to the radio show. I
have to say it must have been pretty

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high quality diamonds and emeralds, because
you couldn't have had many in the clock

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for it not to wag a ton. I did like that the murderers were

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so taken in by mister Chameleon's disguise
that they signed his fake name to the

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note. That was a really nice
touch. Now on to listener comments and

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feedback, and we got some our
responses to the episode Mister Chameleon's Strangest Murder

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Case, which, as I said
at the time, was really not all

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that strange. But Austiner writes over
on Spotify, I hate it with a

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little more detailed David writes on Facebook. Thanks for calling out the exaggeration the

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title This seems to be becoming a
quirk of mister Cameleon where he proclaimed something

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the most extraordinary case I've ever seen
or something, and then it turns out

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to be quite ordinary by old time
radio detective standards. Also, did I

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miss Dave's use of the word black
provided a clue? Was that the association

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with blackmail that really wasn't clear?
And yeah, it does feel like there

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are occasionally some drop clues in the
series, like I honestly don't get how

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the wife being a shrew had anything
at all to do with the solution to

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the case. Doing that, it's
kind of a way to be follow your

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listeners if it doesn't really have a
big direct bearing. But David goes on

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the intro to the series had me
wondering about his life before he became a

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detective. I kind of want to
hear young Chameleon stories about him learning to

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blend in with different situations, you
know, David, That kind of ulped

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me thinking, because I think a
Young Chameleon series might be really fascinating.

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I think the first thing that to
me would make sense to answer would be

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the origin of his last name.
Now, I suppose you could do a

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series where you just kind of accepted
that he was named chameleon, even though

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that is not a real last name. But I think that it would be

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more interesting to imagine how he might
have gotten his last name or what his

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family origin was, since it says
his name was chameleon from birth. Now,

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the obvious a answer would be that
his parents' last name was changed to

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chameleon, And how might that have
happened. A good answer might be Ellis

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Island. There are lots of new
citizens' names were changed from names that were

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viewed as hard to pronounce or hard
to spell, to more common standbys like

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Smith, Brown, and Jones.
Obviously, Chameleon wasn't on the list.

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But let's imagine a man might change
his own name to chameleon. Why might

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he do that? I thought about
this, and I came up with the

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idea that mister Chameleon's father came to
this country from a place where his family

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had suffered a persecution, either for
unpopular political views or for their ethnicity,

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and he came to the belief that
the key to survival was to blend in

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to your environment. That was how
you were going to stay safe. That

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was how he was going to stay
safe. The rest of his life.

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He was going to blend in.
So he's heard all of these people having

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their names changed, and so he
decided when they asked him what his name

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was, he would say Chameleon,
a name that would remind him of his

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overall goal to blend into his surroundings
wherever he was. We'll say that he

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was professor or a doctor, already
had like an existing knowledge of English when

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he came to this country. Long
story short, Professor Cameleon finds a good

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job and really works in blending in
everyone around him, not just your typical

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assimilation of immigrants, but a pathological
drive to fit in to his environment and

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to not stand out in anyway,
which he passes on to his children.

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As a boy, mister Chameleon,
I would imagine had a great interest in

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people. His father may have been
comfortable blending in in particular, maybe two

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or three different settings, mostly you
know, upper middle class sort of circles

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that he moved in. Young Chameleon
had an interest in being in more situations

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and knowing more types of people,
and the way he was taught to relate

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to people was by blending in.
And he realized that his clothes, his

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style, his manner might help him
fit into the fancy school he went to

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and the social occasions that his father
took him to, but would really make

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it hard for him to fit in
with different classes and groups of people.

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So he set out to learn how
to blend in, to learn the arts

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of disguise and different clothes, different
ways of wearing his hair, to find

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ways to transform himself to fit into
different situations. And I could imagine him

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having an adventure where he decides to
run away from home and pretend to be

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an orphan, get taken into an
orphanage, and then eventually run away from

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the orphanage and go back home.
And you might even have it be a

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situation where the manager of the orphanage
read a newspaper about the missing Chameleon boy,

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and then later, once Chameleon was
back with his father, his father

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read an article about the missing orphan
and they never connected that it was the

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same boy. And then of course
you could have other things happen, like

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mister Cameleon wanting to be an actor, but his father pushing him to go

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to instead, And then you would
have to have some major inciding event that

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changes the trajectory of Chameleon's life,
where he's trying to fit into every situation,

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leads him into trouble when he gets
in with the wrong group of people,

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and he eventually realizes that just trying
to fit into a crowd constantly without

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any sort of moral code is no
way to live life. And then he

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pledges himself to use his abilities on
the side of justice and they could work

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in the first meeting with Dave Arnold
and they could have a second season Chameleon

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of the Oss seen his abilities on
the side of the Allies. You're right,

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Young Chameleon is not a series that
people would think of, but it

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is a series that I think we
all need and it could be great.

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I done right, So yeah,
I definitely wish that there were series like

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that. Thanks so much for the
comment, David. We then go over

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to YouTube for a couple comments on
Death in the Blue Peacock, and Betsy

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says, Detective Dave Arnold was just
going to shoot a potential witness on the

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street. Good question. I real
listened to the scene and essentially when the

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guy who wanted to identify himself as
John Smith knocked Dave over and ran,

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Dave got up andrew his gun,
but they witness was gone. Now I

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don't know if I would necessarily say
Dave was going to shoot him, although

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I think it's a good rule not
to draw a gun unless you're willing to

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use it. But if the witness
were still around and Dave shouted freeze,

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most people are not going to sit
there and analyze, well, is he

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actually gonna shoot me? In this
situation, I wouldn't necessarily read into it

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that he was going to shoot him, hopefully not. Uh and then saysoft

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highlighted a line I was in a
state of prostration. Yeah, I need

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to remember that line. I might
be able to use it myself someday.

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Hopefully not. But thanks so much
of the comments, say Soft, And

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Thursday with another episode of Mister Chameleon. But join us back here tomorrow for

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the conclusion of the Purling matter.
Where your numbers ringing? Now, mister

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Dollar Aimwell Agency Aimwell Detectives is want
to talk to mister Ainwell. My name's

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Johnny Dollar. I understand your agency
has been looking for the Perling girl for

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about a year now, Oh you
do? Huh? And who told you

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that missus Perling? I never heard
of you or her or a girl saloon.

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This is the operator where you cut
off, mister Dollar. I'll call

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them back, never mind, call
me a cab, honey, I'll talk

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to them in person. I hope
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