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Now it's time for this week's episode of Mister Chameleon. The original aired eight
February ninth, nineteen forty eight, and the title is the Case of the
Marriage of Death. Next Mister Chameleon and the Case of the Marriage of Death.
Tonight we again present the famous mister Chameleon of Central Headquarters in his most
famous cases of crime and murder, brought to you by the makers of genuine
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college man, he tried from childhood to live up to the name he bore
Chameleon, by taking on the color of whatever situation in which he found himself,
appearing in endless guises, finally entering the police force, where he became
known as Chameleon, the man of many faces, the underworld's most dreaded man.
The listener invariably knows who mister Cameleon is, no matter which disguise he
assumes, but the criminal's tracking down seldom does. Tonight we give you mister
Cameleon in the case of the Marriage of Death. Some marriages lead to happiness,
others to misunderstanding, sorrow and divorce, but few lead to murder.
And little do Pierre Coudre and his bride of less than half an hour know
that theirs will be truly a marriage of death. Now, as the scene
opens, we find Pierre and his bride Tina in Tina's own room in her
father's home, luggage packed all about them, ready for their wedding journey,
and we hear Pierre saying, Darling, my darling, at last, we
are alone, now for your first kiss as missus. Pierre, could I
take you hands away from me? Pierre? You know why I married you.
You know what our understanding was as well as I do. Do you
think I meant that Dina come here? Stay away from me, Pierre.
I assure you you can't make a fool of me. Stop my eye out,
you get away from you. He's dead. He's dead, Dina.
What in Heaven's name, what's happened Pierre's He's dead, Dina. I didn't
kill him, father, I didn't kill him a few minutes later, mister
Camellion, the underworld's most feared man, the clever and urbane detective from Central
Police Headquarters, enters the murder room and speaks to the bride's father, Carlyle
Wentworth. You are Carlisle Wentworth. I'm chameleon of the Please. Yes,
this is an unbelievable thing, mister Comellian. Yes, most murders are Whose
body is this Pierre Coudres, married less than an hour ago to your daughter
who killed him. I have no idea who was in the room with him
when they were shot? Why? Why no one accept your daughter? You're
about to say, mister Wentworth, what are you leading to? You don't
think she killed him? Do you now? Listen, chameleon? If you
think you're being an officer of the law, gives you license to person you'd
be, mister Wentworth, I am here to ask questions and get answers,
So I repeat, do you believe your daughter killed her husband? Certainly not.
She couldn't have. She was here alone with him when he was killed.
Who else could have done it? I have no idea. All I
know is that my daughter, Tina didn't all right, tell me exactly what
happened. I heard shots, heard my daughter scream. I opened the door
and saw Pierre lying there dead. Where's the gun that killed him? The
gun? I didn't see any who besides your daughter and yourself was in this
room after the murder, And did anyone come into the room and leave it?
We were the only ones in the room, and nobody left it.
Mister Comeleian, where's your daughter now? Mister Wentworth. I took her into
another room, the one adjoining this. So both of you left the room
together. And neither Tina nor I took the gun. I tell you I
never even saw a gun. So if you think the gun was used to
kill this man and somebody took it, I must say the situation is very
strange. I've got man surrounding her house. Mister Camellion, not a soul
tried to leave it. I didn't think anyone would, Dave, mister Wentworth,
This is Detective Sergeant Donald. Mister Wentworth, please take me to your
daughter right through this door. And mister Comelian, but I don't think she's
up to talking to anyone. Who she is talking to someone now? I
heard her. But I know, Larissa, the police will say that I
killed you. You'd be silly, Tina Darling. Just keep your head and
tell the truth, the truth, Clarissa, the truth. I simply can't.
You don't know what you say, Tina dear. This is mister Camelian,
the famous detective. Mister Camlian, I tell you I didn't kill Pierre.
I don't know what happened. Of course she didn't, mister Comeleon.
Tina couldn't kill anybody. It's ridiculous to think she did. I haven't said
yet that I thought she did. Miss uh Larissa Walters, Clarisa Walters,
yes, I remember you were Tina's bridesmaid and my best friend. Mister Comedian.
Now, mister Wentworth, I'll ask you and Miss Walters to leave the
room when I talked to Tina, but I think I should be with my
daughter. Mister Cameleon, you can see Tina's all to pieces. Don't be
worried. Father, I'm not afraid of mister Camellia. That's the right spirit.
Tina. Oh, I'll see you in a minute, mister Wentworth,
and Miss Clarissa very well. The whole thing happened in a second, mister
Comedian. It was the first time we've been alone since the wedding, and
Pierre held out his arms and said he was going to kiss me for the
first time as missus Kudi. And then with terrible I heard two shots and
Pierre fell dead. He hardly even moved that. My father ran into the
room. How old was your husband? How old? Yes? How old?
From the quick look I had in his body, I'd say between forty
five and fifty. He was forty seven, and you are about twenty.
Misterina. It's not often that a girl of twenty fours in love with a
man of forty seven. Well I did. He was a wonderful person.
I never thought of his age, peras you thought of his money. His
money. The gossip columns referred to him as the fabulously rich Frenchman Pierre Coudray.
I married him because I loved him. It was really my first love
affair. I thought. I read about a year ago that you were engaged
to young Ted Gordon. Oh, Ted, that was just a silly boy
and girl affair, mister comedian. Ted's in the house somewhere now. Father
invited him to the wedding, and so did I. He's almost like a
brother to me. Really, he wouldn't give me a second look now without
attempting to compliment you. That is very difficult to believe. Now, suppose
we get away from social chatter, Tina and get down to a few facts.
Facts. What do you mean? I mean that I don't believe you
and Ted Gordon are like brother and sister. I mean that from the very
way you speak of Ted Gordon, you are in love with him, and
everybody in town knows that he is in love with you. They don't know
what they're talking about. What happened between your husband, Pierre Coudre, and
yourself when you came back to this house from the wedding? Did you quarrel?
Did realization come to you that you had given up Ted Gordon, whom
you loved, for a middle aged frenchman who was ritten? And then something
snapped in your mind? Everything went blank. You couldn't bear the thought of
being his wife, and so you shot him to death? Is that what
happened? We did quarrel? He was ghastly, a brute, but I
didn't kill it. I didn't kill him. I did well. Was Ted
Gordon when you were quarreling with your husband? Did he overhead? I don't
know where Ted was. I know, though, that he didn't kill Pierre,
or somebody did, and I propose finding out who you know. I
advise you to think things over for a while with this thought in mind.
You are not clever enough to fool the police. Oh and I see you
again. I shall expect a very complete story of your relations with Pierre,
the man you married, and with Ted Gordon, the man you didn't.
Oh, here you are, David. Did you get anything out of the
bride Tina? Mister commillion plenty day. I'll tell you later. Did you
see a jap named Gordon in the house. I'll say I did. He
almost knocked me over trying to get out of the house. He demands a
lawyer, says you were giving Tina the third degree, And I told him
the first thing a criminal asks for when the cop gets him. As a
lawyer, Well, Dave, you know I studied law. Maybe I will
do. Bring Ted Gordon to me half a second. Mister Communion, I've
got a cop houlding him outside this door. You can't do this to me.
I command my rights. I want a lawyer. Ted Gordon nagged like
an idiot. All I wanted answers to a few questions. What are the
questions? Where were you when Pierre Kudre was murdered. I was coming up
the stairs to tell Tina and Peerre goodbye. The stairs leading to the hall
outside the murder room. The only stairs is in the front part of the
house. It was pretty tough for you, wasn't it end? When Tina
married Pierre Coudra. If you're implying I was in love with Tina. The
answers yes, and love and jealous you go hand in hand, all right?
And I was jealous. Where did you hire the murder gun? The
murder gun? Oh so that's the trick. Isn't write this in your book,
comedian? I never saw the gun. Do you own a thirty eight
automatic? Why? Yes, and I've got a permit for it. Where
is that now, Garden? It's in my pure draft home. You shure
it is, of course. I'm sure. Tell you what I'm going to
do, Gordon. I'm going to send you back to your house with the
policeman. If you bring the gun back here to me, that lets you
out. Shall I go with him? Mister Comillion, No, Dave send
Foley. I want you to stay him. Hey, Folly, Yeah,
go with this man wers apartment. He'll give you a thirty eight automatic.
Bring him on the gun back here straight away, Detective Sergeant Autod All right,
mister Gordon, Folly, I'll run you out there in the squad car
up. Wow, that was a nasty curve you pitched him, mister chameleon.
I'll bet fifty to one foll he'll bring him back without the gun.
Don't be so careless with your money, Dave. Now I won't have a
few words with the bridesmaid, Miss Clarissa, another ardent protester of the bride's
innocence, But the question is will she protest Ted Gordon's innocence as strong them.
Don't be afraid, miss Clarissa, to tell mister Camelion everything you know.
He's the nicest and most understanding guy in the world. That's just what
I thought about him when I met him with Tina a little while ago.
Detective Sergeant Arnold, he is just as anxious to find the innocent party in
a murder case as he is to find the guilty one. In fact,
he's got a model hanging over his desk at headquarters, winding up with the
innocent must be protected. He sounds awfully nice. Oh here you are,
Dave, and Miss Clarissa, come in. The Detective Arnold's been saying some
terribly nice things about you, mister comedian, about how you don't care nearly
so much about finding a person who kills somebody as you do about finding somebody
who didn't. What wonderful reputation for the cop, isn't it? Of course,
Dave is very fond of me. Thanks a lot of man, I
Commissioner of Police will be delighted to know this about me. I'm sure now,
miss Clarison, have you any ideas about this murder? For one thing,
mister comedian, I'm sure Tina had no part in it. She's simply
not that kind. Yes, so you told me before, Miss Claricas.
Everybody loves her, mister comedian, I can't understand why anybody would try to
harm her like like whom. Please don't ask me. I don't want to
put anyone in a bed light. And besides, there may be an excuse
for it that I don't know anything about it. I think you'd better tell
me, miss Clarison. Well, it's about Tina's father. Carlisle went with,
do you mean that you think he killed Pierre Coudray. He literally forced
Tina to marry Pierre. She told me only day before yesterday that she couldn't
go through with it. Oh, mister Comellion, I was so sorry for
and I even went to Pierre and and uh what, Clarissa, Well,
I told him he'd never be happy with Tina, and he he said that
it was none of your business. Wasn't that it, Clarissa, Yes,
that's exactly it, mister comedian. And what did you tell him? I
told him he was a fool, an old fool to think of his marrying
a twenty year old girl. He at forty seven when he acted terribly.
Then he went into a rage, told me to mind my own business.
Yes, well, there's no point in working yourself up about it now.
It's all in the past, and Pierre is dead. Yes, dead,
and it's a good thing he is. You hated him, didn't you,
Farissa? I only hated him for what he was doing to Tina. How
long have you known Tina? About year? I think I met her at
a party when I first visited New York. New York isn't your home?
Then? Where did you live? Oh? Pittsburgh is my home? Oh
you have no a family named Burton, There are quite prominent socially. I
was shocked to hear that they'd been killed in a motor accident. Oh,
yes, I knew the mister Comeedion. In fact, I last saw them
the week before the accident. How long did you know the murdered man,
Pierre Coudray before he became engaged to Tina Carlisle. Oh, I didn't know
him at all. I'd never met him before. You sure, are you
trying to trick me into something? No, No, not at all.
I'm simply a policeman asking questions. Well, I'm not here to be insulted
or to have my word. Who's that? Oh, come in fally Ar,
mister Comeedion. Here's your man Gordon and not hiring a hair of a
gun in his apartment. What did I tell you, mister Cammillion? All
right there, Ted Garden, Now what have you got to say about that
gun? The gun that you told me was in your apartment, mister Camelion.
I left that gun in my apartment and I believe it's still there.
It was a thirty eight caliber gun, the exact caliber used to murder Pierre
Coudre, the man who married the girl that you love. So you killed
Pierre. That's just what I suspected, mister comedian. I saw Ted Gordon
sneak up the stairway and put his hand on the knob of the door of
the room where Pierre was murdered. In love with Tina, was he?
Well, I tell you, he murdered Pierre and he's trying to pin his
crime on Tina. He quiet Lisen, Ralph start talking. I don't think
I don't know all about you and Pierre. Don't let him fool you,
mister comedian, he's the murderer. Mister comedian. You must believe me.
I left that gun in my apartment. If it's gone, somebody stole it,
and I think I know who. Oh, I want to be sure
it's stolen before I say. Let me go back and look for it again.
On my honor, whether I find it or not, I'll come back
to you and give me the gun, or tell me whom you think stole
it, Right on my honormist, chameleon, I will in one hour.
I'll expect you at Central Police Headquarters with the gun, with the name of
the person you say you believe stole it, or with your confession. I'll
be there in the meanwhile, don't believe anything that scatter brain didya. Clarissa
tells you she doesn't know what she's talking about. A mister Camellion and the
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A. Now back to mister Camelion in the case of the marriage of Death,
the case in which Pierre Coudre was murdered less than an hour after his
marriage to the glamorous Tina Wentworth, whose friend Clarissa Walters has told mister Camellion
she is certain Ted Gordon, Tina's former fiancee, is the murderer. We
find, mister Camellion talking now to Carlyle Wentworth, the bride's father. You
may as well settle down, mister Wentworth and answer the questions I ask you.
I've heard you say I don't know anything about it. Ivan enough,
I say again, Chameleon, I don't know anything about the murder. Why
did you force your daughter Tina to marry Pierre Coudre. I didn't force her.
Stop lying went with. Everybody I've talked to in this case has told
me that you forced Tina into her repulsive marriage. It's a dirty business for
her father. I'll admit I encourage the marriage, but force it. How
the devil could I do that? What hold did Pierre Couldray have on you?
Answer that one? No hold that any of your business? Comeleon,
you will tell me what hold Coudrey had on you? What threat he used
to force a marriage with your daughter. Or I will arrest Tina right now
and charge her with a murder. There's enough evidence against her to make any
jury convictor. You can't mean that, Comeleon, You know dash well Tina
didn't kill him, all right, When your daughter stands convicted of murder,
it will be to save your own height went with. That is the ticket
that you're writing for her. That filthy swine could rap planted a bogus theft
on me, a theft of over one hundred thousand dollars his securities. That's
what it was. Sounds absurd. I did planned a theft of one hundred
thousand dollars on you. You don't believe it, Nobody would. But the
swine got into a stock deal with me, worked it out in this house
one night. The next day I opened the drawer of my desk and found
one hundred one thousand dollar treasury bonds staring me in the face. And then
what Couldray burst into the room with a private detective accuse me of stealing the
bonds from him. He showed them to me the day before, and of
course my fingerprints were all over them. And then could Ray's detective threatened to
arrest you. Coudray intervened for a price. Of course, Oh what a
fool you were went with My daughter Tina found out about it, and when
Couldray asked her to marry him, she agreed, And when she married him,
you killed him. I didn't kill him. I didn't. The man
I think killed him was Ted Gordon. He was so insanely jealous. The
boy was wild with jealousy, Chameleon. And a short time later, back
at police headquarters, mister Cameleon is saying to the Commissioner of Police. So
there is the story. Commissioner Clarissa Walters has convinced Ted Gordon's the murderer,
and so is Carlyle Wentworth, the Brian's father. Then Carlyle Wentworth forced his
daughter into marrying Pierre Coudrey. You think he could have done a Chameleon,
It's possible, seems so. The next question is did the bride teene herself
do it because she was in love with a very attractive young man like Ted
Gordon. So facer, all right, Chameleon, the murder weapon is still
missing. Eh, well, in five minutes it may not be missing.
Commissioned I have a pretty powerful belief in Ted Gordon's word of honor. I
believe that he will come into this office with the gun or just a minute,
Hello, what's that Ted Gordon? You say, Wait a second,
Dave Million, it's Stave Honold for you all things. Yes, Dave.
A car just came in from the twelfth Precinct and another apartment where Ted Gordon
lives has reported that Gordon has been shot murdered. Where are you downstairs?
Yes, Hop into a squad car and get out there instantly to Ted Gordon's
apartment. Dave, aren't you coming with me, mister Commillion? No,
you cover everything out there. Meet me back at the went with house when
you finished there. So Ted Gordon got a two chameleon, Yes, Commissioner,
and I am responsible for that boy's death, and I ever forgive myself
for letting him go back to that place alone. What do you mean responsible?
Well, I'm responsible because Ted Gordon knew who murder Pierre Coudre and whoever
that person was followed Gordon out to his apartment and sealed his lips by murder.
But chameleon, you shouldn't know. No, no, no, there's
no need to tell me that I'm not responsible, commissioned. It's no good,
but I tell you I will get the killer, and when I do,
it won't be as mister chameleon, but as you mean you are going
into disguise. Yes, yes, in disguise as Larry O'Brien, an inspector
for the gas company looking for leaks in the pipes. Undisguised as Harry O'Brien,
the gas inspector. What do you hope to find? The murder gun
that somebody hid somewhere and the murderer who hit it? Mister comedian. If
the Commissioner hadn't tipped me off by phone that you were going to turn up
as a guess man, I'd never have known you. Easy, Dave.
My name is Larry O'Brien, and you stick behind me an act suspicious of
name. I've got your mister, Commion the guess inspector huh, well your
card looks okay. I'll let you in. Who is this man? The
detective side? D I am a special inspector from the gas company, Larry
of Ryan's been named. You're a winter I guess what do you want?
But I've got harders to inspect all the gas crates in this house for leaks,
then a lot of explosions. Listen, the company wis to check up.
Well, there's only one gas grade in this house and it's not leaking.
Well, sorry, I can't take your word for that. Miss,
I've got to say it for himself. It's in my daughter's room and she's
not well. I'll bet there's a gas lake in the room she's in.
That's just making a sick. That's stupid. She's not ill from any you
better let the guy in, mister Wentworth. I'll stick right with him.
I don't like his luckst you don't, don't you? Well, that's too
bad, but you don't like don't worry me. Come on, show me
that gas. Great, the lady may be as asphyxiated before we get up
there. I'm on then, wise guy, I'll take you up there,
Dave. When we get to Teama's room, tell her the ted Garden has
been murdered and get her out of the room. Okay, but what are
you looking for, mister Commillian. I've got to hunch the murder guns in
her luggage. Oh, so she's the one knock on the door again.
It's an inspector from the gas company. Miss. You know he wants to
test the grade in your room for leaks. It is lonely. Take a
minute, lady, Miss Tina, I've got bad news for you, bad
news. Mind down the hall and I'll tell you. There's no point in
letting this guy Hearris. We'll go into the front room. Now, what
is the bad news? Detective Sergeant Arnold tid Gordon has been murdered. Murdered.
Oh no, no, not Ted. It can't be true. Who
I loved him? So mister Camellion's working on the case now. He says
he knows who killed him. Where's my father? Mister Comelion doesn't suspect him,
does he? I can't say, Miss Tina, he didn't tell me
who he Lady, I'll finish with the gas crat there's no leak. Oh
yes, I'll go back to. What's that in that man's hand? You
gas man? What's that in your hand? The gun that killed your husband?
Tina? Why you're not the gas man, you're mister Comeleion, Dave,
take it downstairs in the living room. Get a father down there too.
And is Clarissa Walter still on? Mister comedian? You can't acute me
of murdering Ted Gordon. I loved him and I didn't kill Pierre either.
I found the gun in your traveling case, Tina, Dave, take it
downstairs. Father. I am know what's happened now, Gina Darling, what's
wrong? Mister Camellion found the gun that killed Pierre in my luggage, Clarissa,
Oh, how terrible. But where is mister comedian. He's disguised as
this gas man. That's how he sneaked into my room. I have here
a gun, a murder weapon, and I have a handkerchief scented with midnight
Guardania perfume, a lady's handkerchief. And Tina, mister Comellion, found them
in your luggage. Oh, why didn't you have sense enough to throw them
away? Because she didn't know they were there? Clarissa, She didn't know
because you, Clarissa Walters, planted them there. That's a lie. I
saw Tina put them there myself, Clarissa, what do you say? And
that's not all I saw, mister comedian. I saw her kill Pierre with
my own eyes. Flaresa. She pulled the gun out of her traveling called
pocket and Shotty I'll kill you for this. Clarissa, hold while I've got
a mister Chamelion, Calissa Walters, I arrest you for the murders of Pierre
Coudre and of Ted Gordon, not before I kill you. Comellon, No,
I don't want to shoot down a woman. Dave, take a gun
away, all good. Now, I'll tell you how and why you did
this. Yes, tell me. You were insanely jealous of Pierre Coudrey when
he chucked you out to marry Tina. You set out to kill him,
and you used this gun, which you stole from Ted Gordon. But you
made the mistake of leaving your perfumed handkerchief with it. It's all a lie,
Comedian. You faked a social background to me, the lady from Pittsburgh.
You told me that you knew a family named Burton who were killed in
a motor car accident. No such people ever existed. What's that got to
do with it? You left this house with the murder gun, followed Ted
Gordon to his apartment, where I made the dreadful mistake of letting him go
alone, and you killed him in cold blood. I was never near Ted
Gordon's apartment Dave. Bring the superintendent Ted Gordon's building in please, I'm in
now, mister Blackman. Yes, sir, mister Blackman, you are the
superintendent of eleven East First Avenue. I am mister Camilia. And you again
identified this woman as the one you saw leaving Ted Gordon's apartment at four forty
five this afternoon. She's a woman, just as I said she was from
her pictures. He's a liar, no, just a witness for the prosecution,
Larissa Walters. Dave take her along, have her booked for first degree
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next Wednesday night. At this time. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
System. Welcome back. I think we're beginning to get into the more superfluous
uses of mister Chameleon's talents. If a police officer wants to search your room,
they get a warrant. They don't have to put on makeup and use
a silly accent. I don't know, maybe they should. Also, mister
Commie arrived in minutes and the victim had been married less than an hour before,
which makes me wonder if there is like a quick service subscription that people
can get for NYPD service. Also, I loved how Dave Arnold fumbled the
explanation of mister cameleon slogan that got just so beautifully tangled and was, without
a doubt, the best part of the episode. I also liked when mister
Camellion showed up and the father said, of the murder. This is an
unbelievable thing, and mister Kamillia just said really quickly, most murderers are.
It's really subtle, but it's one of those little jabs at the assertity of
the whole thing that shows a nice bit of self awareness. Well, now
we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we go to YouTube with some
comments on the rich Uncle murder case, and we start with Catherine, who
rides great episode. Did I miss it or did mister Cameleon not use his
catchphrase this episode? I think that's possible. Now we have heard later episodes
just because of when some of these uncirculated episodes came into circulation, and by
that time reference to the catchphrase slash slogan is gone, and I don't know,
maybe Dave Arnold killed it. We'll have to see with next week's episode.
But by the time you get into nineteen fifty, it's not a thing
at all. And then we have a comment from Betsy who rides good one.
I love the bad guys in it. They are deliciously evil. And
then our ron's a wrotes. I think listening to old time radio is a
very interesting look at our society in the forties. Could mister Comeleon make it
as a popular inner in today's society, but it played for many years back
then, Well, thanks so much, and I think that is an interesting
observation. Mister Comellian ran for five years, which is longer than a lot
of series that are more popular with modern day audiences. Ran for about the
same length of time as Sam Space. The Adventures of Philip Marlow with Gerald
Moore was on the air for two years, plus a summer series, Arro
Wolf was only on the air for six months, the New Adventures of Near
a Wolf, And of course, the longest running radio series outside of perhaps
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was Mister Keen Tracer of Lost Persons, which ran
for more than us seventeen years, and both these shows enjoyed very solid ratings,
both Missed Keen and Mister Chameleon. Now, of course, it's possible
to reach the wrong conclusion from that data alone and kind of just even judge
the audience of these type of programs just in the same way as people who
today enjoy Hallmark movies. But I think, like the Hallmark films, these
programs definitely filled a specific need for something to enjoy that isn't too complex,
just kind of relaxing, and if you have to get called away for a
second, you're not going to get caught up on the plot. Now.
People will often complain about Frank and Anne Hummer, but whatever you accuse them
of, you can't say they didn't know their audience's needs and that they didn't
know how to fill them. They produced so many programs that ran for more
than ten years, and some that ran for upwards of twenty years. They
knew what they were doing, and while these aren't all to my taste,
you have to appreciate that. So thanks so much for the comment. Now
it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
go ahead and thank Mike. Mike has been one of our Patreon supporters since
July of twoenty fifteen, currently supporting the podcast at the rookie level of two
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