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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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Now it's time for this week's episode
of Mister Chameleon. The original aired eight

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February ninth, nineteen forty eight,
and the title is the Case of the

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Marriage of Death. Next Mister Chameleon
and the Case of the Marriage of Death.

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Tonight we again present the famous mister
Chameleon of Central Headquarters in his most

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famous cases of crime and murder,
brought to you by the makers of genuine

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Bayer Aspirin. Now let me tell
you just who mister Chameleon is. A

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college man, he tried from childhood
to live up to the name he bore

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

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

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known as Chameleon, the man of
many faces, the underworld's most dreaded man.

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The listener invariably knows who mister Cameleon
is, no matter which disguise he

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assumes, but the criminal's tracking down
seldom does. Tonight we give you mister

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Cameleon in the case of the Marriage
of Death. Some marriages lead to happiness,

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others to misunderstanding, sorrow and divorce, but few lead to murder.

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And little do Pierre Coudre and his
bride of less than half an hour know

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that theirs will be truly a marriage
of death. Now, as the scene

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opens, we find Pierre and his
bride Tina in Tina's own room in her

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father's home, luggage packed all about
them, ready for their wedding journey,

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and we hear Pierre saying, Darling, my darling, at last, we

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are alone, now for your first
kiss as missus. Pierre, could I

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take you hands away from me?
Pierre? You know why I married you.

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You know what our understanding was as
well as I do. Do you

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think I meant that Dina come here? Stay away from me, Pierre.

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I assure you you can't make a
fool of me. Stop my eye out,

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you get away from you. He's
dead. He's dead, Dina.

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What in Heaven's name, what's happened
Pierre's He's dead, Dina. I didn't

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kill him, father, I didn't
kill him a few minutes later, mister

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Camellion, the underworld's most feared man, the clever and urbane detective from Central

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Police Headquarters, enters the murder room
and speaks to the bride's father, Carlyle

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Wentworth. You are Carlisle Wentworth.
I'm chameleon of the Please. Yes,

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this is an unbelievable thing, mister
Comellian. Yes, most murders are Whose

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body is this Pierre Coudres, married
less than an hour ago to your daughter

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who killed him. I have no
idea who was in the room with him

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when they were shot? Why?
Why no one accept your daughter? You're

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about to say, mister Wentworth,
what are you leading to? You don't

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think she killed him? Do you
now? Listen, chameleon? If you

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think you're being an officer of the
law, gives you license to person you'd

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be, mister Wentworth, I am
here to ask questions and get answers,

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So I repeat, do you believe
your daughter killed her husband? Certainly not.

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She couldn't have. She was here
alone with him when he was killed.

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Who else could have done it?
I have no idea. All I

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know is that my daughter, Tina
didn't all right, tell me exactly what

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happened. I heard shots, heard
my daughter scream. I opened the door

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and saw Pierre lying there dead.
Where's the gun that killed him? The

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gun? I didn't see any who
besides your daughter and yourself was in this

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room after the murder, And did
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We were the only ones in the
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Mister Comeleian, where's your daughter now? Mister Wentworth. I took her into

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another room, the one adjoining this. So both of you left the room

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together. And neither Tina nor I
took the gun. I tell you I

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never even saw a gun. So
if you think the gun was used to

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kill this man and somebody took it, I must say the situation is very

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strange. I've got man surrounding her
house. Mister Camellion, not a soul

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tried to leave it. I didn't
think anyone would, Dave, mister Wentworth,

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This is Detective Sergeant Donald. Mister
Wentworth, please take me to your

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daughter right through this door. And
mister Comelian, but I don't think she's

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up to talking to anyone. Who
she is talking to someone now? I

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heard her. But I know,
Larissa, the police will say that I

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killed you. You'd be silly,
Tina Darling. Just keep your head and

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tell the truth, the truth,
Clarissa, the truth. I simply can't.

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You don't know what you say,
Tina dear. This is mister Camelian,

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the famous detective. Mister Camlian,
I tell you I didn't kill Pierre.

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I don't know what happened. Of
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Tina couldn't kill anybody. It's ridiculous
to think she did. I haven't said

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yet that I thought she did.
Miss uh Larissa Walters, Clarisa Walters,

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yes, I remember you were Tina's
bridesmaid and my best friend. Mister Comedian.

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Now, mister Wentworth, I'll ask
you and Miss Walters to leave the

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room when I talked to Tina,
but I think I should be with my

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daughter. Mister Cameleon, you can
see Tina's all to pieces. Don't be

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worried. Father, I'm not afraid
of mister Camellia. That's the right spirit.

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Tina. Oh, I'll see you
in a minute, mister Wentworth,

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and Miss Clarissa very well. The
whole thing happened in a second, mister

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Comedian. It was the first time
we've been alone since the wedding, and

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Pierre held out his arms and said
he was going to kiss me for the

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first time as missus Kudi. And
then with terrible I heard two shots and

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Pierre fell dead. He hardly even
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room. How old was your husband? How old? Yes? How old?

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From the quick look I had in
his body, I'd say between forty

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five and fifty. He was forty
seven, and you are about twenty.

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Misterina. It's not often that a
girl of twenty fours in love with a

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man of forty seven. Well I
did. He was a wonderful person.

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I never thought of his age,
peras you thought of his money. His

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money. The gossip columns referred to
him as the fabulously rich Frenchman Pierre Coudray.

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I married him because I loved him. It was really my first love

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affair. I thought. I read
about a year ago that you were engaged

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to young Ted Gordon. Oh,
Ted, that was just a silly boy

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and girl affair, mister comedian.
Ted's in the house somewhere now. Father

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invited him to the wedding, and
so did I. He's almost like a

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brother to me. Really, he
wouldn't give me a second look now without

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attempting to compliment you. That is
very difficult to believe. Now, suppose

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we get away from social chatter,
Tina and get down to a few facts.

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Facts. What do you mean?
I mean that I don't believe you

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and Ted Gordon are like brother and
sister. I mean that from the very

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way you speak of Ted Gordon,
you are in love with him, and

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everybody in town knows that he is
in love with you. They don't know

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what they're talking about. What happened
between your husband, Pierre Coudre, and

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yourself when you came back to this
house from the wedding? Did you quarrel?

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Did realization come to you that you
had given up Ted Gordon, whom

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you loved, for a middle aged
frenchman who was ritten? And then something

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snapped in your mind? Everything went
blank. You couldn't bear the thought of

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being his wife, and so you
shot him to death? Is that what

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happened? We did quarrel? He
was ghastly, a brute, but I

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didn't kill it. I didn't kill
him. I did well. Was Ted

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Gordon when you were quarreling with your
husband? Did he overhead? I don't

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know where Ted was. I know, though, that he didn't kill Pierre,

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or somebody did, and I propose
finding out who you know. I

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advise you to think things over for
a while with this thought in mind.

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You are not clever enough to fool
the police. Oh and I see you

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again. I shall expect a very
complete story of your relations with Pierre,

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the man you married, and with
Ted Gordon, the man you didn't.

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Oh, here you are, David. Did you get anything out of the

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bride Tina? Mister commillion plenty day. I'll tell you later. Did you

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see a jap named Gordon in the
house. I'll say I did. He

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almost knocked me over trying to get
out of the house. He demands a

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lawyer, says you were giving Tina
the third degree, And I told him

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the first thing a criminal asks for
when the cop gets him. As a

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lawyer, Well, Dave, you
know I studied law. Maybe I will

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do. Bring Ted Gordon to me
half a second. Mister Communion, I've

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got a cop houlding him outside this
door. You can't do this to me.

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I command my rights. I want
a lawyer. Ted Gordon nagged like

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an idiot. All I wanted answers
to a few questions. What are the

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questions? Where were you when Pierre
Kudre was murdered. I was coming up

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the stairs to tell Tina and Peerre
goodbye. The stairs leading to the hall

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outside the murder room. The only
stairs is in the front part of the

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house. It was pretty tough for
you, wasn't it end? When Tina

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married Pierre Coudra. If you're implying
I was in love with Tina. The

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answers yes, and love and jealous
you go hand in hand, all right?

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And I was jealous. Where did
you hire the murder gun? The

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murder gun? Oh so that's the
trick. Isn't write this in your book,

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comedian? I never saw the gun. Do you own a thirty eight

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automatic? Why? Yes, and
I've got a permit for it. Where

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is that now, Garden? It's
in my pure draft home. You shure

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it is, of course. I'm
sure. Tell you what I'm going to

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do, Gordon. I'm going to
send you back to your house with the

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policeman. If you bring the gun
back here to me, that lets you

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out. Shall I go with him? Mister Comillion, No, Dave send

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Foley. I want you to stay
him. Hey, Folly, Yeah,

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go with this man wers apartment.
He'll give you a thirty eight automatic.

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Bring him on the gun back here
straight away, Detective Sergeant Autod All right,

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mister Gordon, Folly, I'll run
you out there in the squad car

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up. Wow, that was a
nasty curve you pitched him, mister chameleon.

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I'll bet fifty to one foll he'll
bring him back without the gun.

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Don't be so careless with your money, Dave. Now I won't have a

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few words with the bridesmaid, Miss
Clarissa, another ardent protester of the bride's

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innocence, But the question is will
she protest Ted Gordon's innocence as strong them.

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Don't be afraid, miss Clarissa,
to tell mister Camelion everything you know.

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He's the nicest and most understanding guy
in the world. That's just what

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I thought about him when I met
him with Tina a little while ago.

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Detective Sergeant Arnold, he is just
as anxious to find the innocent party in

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a murder case as he is to
find the guilty one. In fact,

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he's got a model hanging over his
desk at headquarters, winding up with the

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innocent must be protected. He sounds
awfully nice. Oh here you are,

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Dave, and Miss Clarissa, come
in. The Detective Arnold's been saying some

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terribly nice things about you, mister
comedian, about how you don't care nearly

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so much about finding a person who
kills somebody as you do about finding somebody

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who didn't. What wonderful reputation for
the cop, isn't it? Of course,

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Dave is very fond of me.
Thanks a lot of man, I

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Commissioner of Police will be delighted to
know this about me. I'm sure now,

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miss Clarison, have you any ideas
about this murder? For one thing,

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mister comedian, I'm sure Tina had
no part in it. She's simply

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not that kind. Yes, so
you told me before, Miss Claricas.

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Everybody loves her, mister comedian,
I can't understand why anybody would try to

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harm her like like whom. Please
don't ask me. I don't want to

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put anyone in a bed light.
And besides, there may be an excuse

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for it that I don't know anything
about it. I think you'd better tell

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me, miss Clarison. Well,
it's about Tina's father. Carlisle went with,

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do you mean that you think he
killed Pierre Coudray. He literally forced

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Tina to marry Pierre. She told
me only day before yesterday that she couldn't

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go through with it. Oh,
mister Comellion, I was so sorry for

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and I even went to Pierre and
and uh what, Clarissa, Well,

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I told him he'd never be happy
with Tina, and he he said that

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it was none of your business.
Wasn't that it, Clarissa, Yes,

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that's exactly it, mister comedian.
And what did you tell him? I

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told him he was a fool,
an old fool to think of his marrying

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a twenty year old girl. He
at forty seven when he acted terribly.

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Then he went into a rage,
told me to mind my own business.

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Yes, well, there's no point
in working yourself up about it now.

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It's all in the past, and
Pierre is dead. Yes, dead,

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and it's a good thing he is. You hated him, didn't you,

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Farissa? I only hated him for
what he was doing to Tina. How

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long have you known Tina? About
year? I think I met her at

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a party when I first visited New
York. New York isn't your home?

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Then? Where did you live?
Oh? Pittsburgh is my home? Oh

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you have no a family named Burton, There are quite prominent socially. I

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was shocked to hear that they'd been
killed in a motor accident. Oh,

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yes, I knew the mister Comeedion. In fact, I last saw them

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the week before the accident. How
long did you know the murdered man,

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Pierre Coudray before he became engaged to
Tina Carlisle. Oh, I didn't know

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him at all. I'd never met
him before. You sure, are you

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trying to trick me into something?
No, No, not at all.

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I'm simply a policeman asking questions.
Well, I'm not here to be insulted

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or to have my word. Who's
that? Oh, come in fally Ar,

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mister Comeedion. Here's your man Gordon
and not hiring a hair of a

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gun in his apartment. What did
I tell you, mister Cammillion? All

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right there, Ted Garden, Now
what have you got to say about that

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gun? The gun that you told
me was in your apartment, mister Camelion.

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I left that gun in my apartment
and I believe it's still there.

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It was a thirty eight caliber gun, the exact caliber used to murder Pierre

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Coudre, the man who married the
girl that you love. So you killed

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Pierre. That's just what I suspected, mister comedian. I saw Ted Gordon

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sneak up the stairway and put his
hand on the knob of the door of

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the room where Pierre was murdered.
In love with Tina, was he?

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Well, I tell you, he
murdered Pierre and he's trying to pin his

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crime on Tina. He quiet Lisen, Ralph start talking. I don't think

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I don't know all about you and
Pierre. Don't let him fool you,

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mister comedian, he's the murderer.
Mister comedian. You must believe me.

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I left that gun in my apartment. If it's gone, somebody stole it,

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and I think I know who.
Oh, I want to be sure

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it's stolen before I say. Let
me go back and look for it again.

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On my honor, whether I find
it or not, I'll come back

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to you and give me the gun, or tell me whom you think stole

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it, Right on my honormist,
chameleon, I will in one hour.

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I'll expect you at Central Police Headquarters
with the gun, with the name of

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the person you say you believe stole
it, or with your confession. I'll

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be there in the meanwhile, don't
believe anything that scatter brain didya. Clarissa

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tells you she doesn't know what she's
talking about. A mister Camellion and the

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case of the marriage of death continues. In just a moment, when you

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A. Now back to mister Camelion
in the case of the marriage of Death,

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the case in which Pierre Coudre was
murdered less than an hour after his

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marriage to the glamorous Tina Wentworth,
whose friend Clarissa Walters has told mister Camellion

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she is certain Ted Gordon, Tina's
former fiancee, is the murderer. We

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find, mister Camellion talking now to
Carlyle Wentworth, the bride's father. You

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may as well settle down, mister
Wentworth and answer the questions I ask you.

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I've heard you say I don't know
anything about it. Ivan enough,

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I say again, Chameleon, I
don't know anything about the murder. Why

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did you force your daughter Tina to
marry Pierre Coudre. I didn't force her.

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Stop lying went with. Everybody I've
talked to in this case has told

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me that you forced Tina into her
repulsive marriage. It's a dirty business for

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her father. I'll admit I encourage
the marriage, but force it. How

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the devil could I do that?
What hold did Pierre Couldray have on you?

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Answer that one? No hold that
any of your business? Comeleon,

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you will tell me what hold Coudrey
had on you? What threat he used

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to force a marriage with your daughter. Or I will arrest Tina right now

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and charge her with a murder.
There's enough evidence against her to make any

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jury convictor. You can't mean that, Comeleon, You know dash well Tina

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didn't kill him, all right,
When your daughter stands convicted of murder,

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it will be to save your own
height went with. That is the ticket

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that you're writing for her. That
filthy swine could rap planted a bogus theft

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on me, a theft of over
one hundred thousand dollars his securities. That's

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what it was. Sounds absurd.
I did planned a theft of one hundred

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thousand dollars on you. You don't
believe it, Nobody would. But the

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swine got into a stock deal with
me, worked it out in this house

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one night. The next day I
opened the drawer of my desk and found

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one hundred one thousand dollar treasury bonds
staring me in the face. And then

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what Couldray burst into the room with
a private detective accuse me of stealing the

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bonds from him. He showed them
to me the day before, and of

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course my fingerprints were all over them. And then could Ray's detective threatened to

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arrest you. Coudray intervened for a
price. Of course, Oh what a

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fool you were went with My daughter
Tina found out about it, and when

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Couldray asked her to marry him,
she agreed, And when she married him,

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you killed him. I didn't kill
him. I didn't. The man

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I think killed him was Ted Gordon. He was so insanely jealous. The

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boy was wild with jealousy, Chameleon. And a short time later, back

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at police headquarters, mister Cameleon is
saying to the Commissioner of Police. So

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there is the story. Commissioner Clarissa
Walters has convinced Ted Gordon's the murderer,

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and so is Carlyle Wentworth, the
Brian's father. Then Carlyle Wentworth forced his

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daughter into marrying Pierre Coudrey. You
think he could have done a Chameleon,

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It's possible, seems so. The
next question is did the bride teene herself

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do it because she was in love
with a very attractive young man like Ted

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Gordon. So facer, all right, Chameleon, the murder weapon is still

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missing. Eh, well, in
five minutes it may not be missing.

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Commissioned I have a pretty powerful belief
in Ted Gordon's word of honor. I

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believe that he will come into this
office with the gun or just a minute,

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Hello, what's that Ted Gordon?
You say, Wait a second,

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Dave Million, it's Stave Honold for
you all things. Yes, Dave.

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A car just came in from the
twelfth Precinct and another apartment where Ted Gordon

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lives has reported that Gordon has been
shot murdered. Where are you downstairs?

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Yes, Hop into a squad car
and get out there instantly to Ted Gordon's

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apartment. Dave, aren't you coming
with me, mister Commillion? No,

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you cover everything out there. Meet
me back at the went with house when

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you finished there. So Ted Gordon
got a two chameleon, Yes, Commissioner,

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and I am responsible for that boy's
death, and I ever forgive myself

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for letting him go back to that
place alone. What do you mean responsible?

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Well, I'm responsible because Ted Gordon
knew who murder Pierre Coudre and whoever

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that person was followed Gordon out to
his apartment and sealed his lips by murder.

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But chameleon, you shouldn't know.
No, no, no, there's

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no need to tell me that I'm
not responsible, commissioned. It's no good,

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but I tell you I will get
the killer, and when I do,

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it won't be as mister chameleon,
but as you mean you are going

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into disguise. Yes, yes,
in disguise as Larry O'Brien, an inspector

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for the gas company looking for leaks
in the pipes. Undisguised as Harry O'Brien,

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the gas inspector. What do you
hope to find? The murder gun

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that somebody hid somewhere and the murderer
who hit it? Mister comedian. If

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the Commissioner hadn't tipped me off by
phone that you were going to turn up

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as a guess man, I'd never
have known you. Easy, Dave.

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My name is Larry O'Brien, and
you stick behind me an act suspicious of

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name. I've got your mister,
Commion the guess inspector huh, well your

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card looks okay. I'll let you
in. Who is this man? The

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detective side? D I am a
special inspector from the gas company, Larry

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of Ryan's been named. You're a
winter I guess what do you want?

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But I've got harders to inspect all
the gas crates in this house for leaks,

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then a lot of explosions. Listen, the company wis to check up.

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Well, there's only one gas grade
in this house and it's not leaking.

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Well, sorry, I can't take
your word for that. Miss,

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I've got to say it for himself. It's in my daughter's room and she's

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not well. I'll bet there's a
gas lake in the room she's in.

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That's just making a sick. That's
stupid. She's not ill from any you

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better let the guy in, mister
Wentworth. I'll stick right with him.

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I don't like his luckst you don't, don't you? Well, that's too

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bad, but you don't like don't
worry me. Come on, show me

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that gas. Great, the lady
may be as asphyxiated before we get up

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there. I'm on then, wise
guy, I'll take you up there,

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Dave. When we get to Teama's
room, tell her the ted Garden has

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been murdered and get her out of
the room. Okay, but what are

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you looking for, mister Commillian.
I've got to hunch the murder guns in

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her luggage. Oh, so she's
the one knock on the door again.

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It's an inspector from the gas company. Miss. You know he wants to

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test the grade in your room for
leaks. It is lonely. Take a

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minute, lady, Miss Tina,
I've got bad news for you, bad

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news. Mind down the hall and
I'll tell you. There's no point in

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letting this guy Hearris. We'll go
into the front room. Now, what

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is the bad news? Detective Sergeant
Arnold tid Gordon has been murdered. Murdered.

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Oh no, no, not Ted. It can't be true. Who

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I loved him? So mister Camellion's
working on the case now. He says

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he knows who killed him. Where's
my father? Mister Comelion doesn't suspect him,

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does he? I can't say,
Miss Tina, he didn't tell me

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who he Lady, I'll finish with
the gas crat there's no leak. Oh

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yes, I'll go back to.
What's that in that man's hand? You

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gas man? What's that in your
hand? The gun that killed your husband?

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Tina? Why you're not the gas
man, you're mister Comeleion, Dave,

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take it downstairs in the living room. Get a father down there too.

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And is Clarissa Walter still on?
Mister comedian? You can't acute me

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of murdering Ted Gordon. I loved
him and I didn't kill Pierre either.

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I found the gun in your traveling
case, Tina, Dave, take it

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downstairs. Father. I am know
what's happened now, Gina Darling, what's

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wrong? Mister Camellion found the gun
that killed Pierre in my luggage, Clarissa,

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Oh, how terrible. But where
is mister comedian. He's disguised as

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this gas man. That's how he
sneaked into my room. I have here

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a gun, a murder weapon,
and I have a handkerchief scented with midnight

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Guardania perfume, a lady's handkerchief.
And Tina, mister Comellion, found them

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in your luggage. Oh, why
didn't you have sense enough to throw them

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away? Because she didn't know they
were there? Clarissa, She didn't know

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because you, Clarissa Walters, planted
them there. That's a lie. I

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saw Tina put them there myself,
Clarissa, what do you say? And

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that's not all I saw, mister
comedian. I saw her kill Pierre with

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my own eyes. Flaresa. She
pulled the gun out of her traveling called

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pocket and Shotty I'll kill you for
this. Clarissa, hold while I've got

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a mister Chamelion, Calissa Walters,
I arrest you for the murders of Pierre

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Coudre and of Ted Gordon, not
before I kill you. Comellon, No,

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I don't want to shoot down a
woman. Dave, take a gun

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away, all good. Now,
I'll tell you how and why you did

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this. Yes, tell me.
You were insanely jealous of Pierre Coudrey when

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he chucked you out to marry Tina. You set out to kill him,

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and you used this gun, which
you stole from Ted Gordon. But you

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made the mistake of leaving your perfumed
handkerchief with it. It's all a lie,

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Comedian. You faked a social background
to me, the lady from Pittsburgh.

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You told me that you knew a
family named Burton who were killed in

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a motor car accident. No such
people ever existed. What's that got to

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do with it? You left this
house with the murder gun, followed Ted

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Gordon to his apartment, where I
made the dreadful mistake of letting him go

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alone, and you killed him in
cold blood. I was never near Ted

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Gordon's apartment Dave. Bring the superintendent
Ted Gordon's building in please, I'm in

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now, mister Blackman. Yes,
sir, mister Blackman, you are the

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superintendent of eleven East First Avenue.
I am mister Camilia. And you again

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identified this woman as the one you
saw leaving Ted Gordon's apartment at four forty

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five this afternoon. She's a woman, just as I said she was from

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her pictures. He's a liar,
no, just a witness for the prosecution,

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Larissa Walters. Dave take her along, have her booked for first degree

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murder. And with these words,
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at the same time for mister Cameleon,

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the man of many faces in the
case of Murder and the Smoking Gun.

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The part of mister Camelion is played
by Carl Swenson and is written by Frank

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Hummert. Music directed by Victor Arden. Your announcer is hard cleaning. Now

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brighter by far than any other toothpaste. New Lions toothpaste does this because

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it's a new kind of toothpaste with
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taste that cleans without soap, polishes
without chalk. Cry it bye, Lion's

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Toothpaste. Listen for mister Comeleon in
the Case of Murder and the Smoking Gun

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next Wednesday night. At this time. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting

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System. Welcome back. I think
we're beginning to get into the more superfluous

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uses of mister Chameleon's talents. If
a police officer wants to search your room,

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they get a warrant. They don't
have to put on makeup and use

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a silly accent. I don't know, maybe they should. Also, mister

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Commie arrived in minutes and the victim
had been married less than an hour before,

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which makes me wonder if there is
like a quick service subscription that people

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can get for NYPD service. Also, I loved how Dave Arnold fumbled the

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explanation of mister cameleon slogan that got
just so beautifully tangled and was, without

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a doubt, the best part of
the episode. I also liked when mister

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Camellion showed up and the father said, of the murder. This is an

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unbelievable thing, and mister Kamillia just
said really quickly, most murderers are.

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It's really subtle, but it's one
of those little jabs at the assertity of

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the whole thing that shows a nice
bit of self awareness. Well, now

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we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we go to YouTube with some

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comments on the rich Uncle murder case, and we start with Catherine, who

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rides great episode. Did I miss
it or did mister Cameleon not use his

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catchphrase this episode? I think that's
possible. Now we have heard later episodes

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just because of when some of these
uncirculated episodes came into circulation, and by

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that time reference to the catchphrase slash
slogan is gone, and I don't know,

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maybe Dave Arnold killed it. We'll
have to see with next week's episode.

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But by the time you get into
nineteen fifty, it's not a thing

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at all. And then we have
a comment from Betsy who rides good one.

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I love the bad guys in it. They are deliciously evil. And

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then our ron's a wrotes. I
think listening to old time radio is a

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very interesting look at our society in
the forties. Could mister Comeleon make it

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as a popular inner in today's society, but it played for many years back

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then, Well, thanks so much, and I think that is an interesting

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observation. Mister Comellian ran for five
years, which is longer than a lot

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of series that are more popular with
modern day audiences. Ran for about the

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same length of time as Sam Space. The Adventures of Philip Marlow with Gerald

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Moore was on the air for two
years, plus a summer series, Arro

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Wolf was only on the air for
six months, the New Adventures of Near

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a Wolf, And of course,
the longest running radio series outside of perhaps

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was Mister
Keen Tracer of Lost Persons, which ran

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for more than us seventeen years,
and both these shows enjoyed very solid ratings,

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both Missed Keen and Mister Chameleon.
Now, of course, it's possible

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to reach the wrong conclusion from that
data alone and kind of just even judge

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the audience of these type of programs
just in the same way as people who

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today enjoy Hallmark movies. But I
think, like the Hallmark films, these

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programs definitely filled a specific need for
something to enjoy that isn't too complex,

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just kind of relaxing, and if
you have to get called away for a

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second, you're not going to get
caught up on the plot. Now.

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People will often complain about Frank and
Anne Hummer, but whatever you accuse them

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of, you can't say they didn't
know their audience's needs and that they didn't

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know how to fill them. They
produced so many programs that ran for more

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than ten years, and some that
ran for upwards of twenty years. They

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knew what they were doing, and
while these aren't all to my taste,

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you have to appreciate that. So
thanks so much for the comment. Now

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it's time to thank our Patreon supporter
of the day, and I want to

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go ahead and thank Mike. Mike
has been one of our Patreon supporters since

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July of twoenty fifteen, currently supporting
the podcast at the rookie level of two

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dollars or more per month. Thank
you so much for your support, Mike,

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and that will do it for today. If you are enjoying the podcast,

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please follow us using your favorite podcast
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with another episode of Mister Chameleon,
but join us back here tomorrow or yours

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truly, Johnny Dollar and the conclusion
of the Star of Cape Town matter where.

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Oh, Helen, I'd like to
talk to you. Hello, that's

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a switch. What do you mean? Ever since I got aboard this ship,

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I've been trying to talk to you, but you weren't having any I

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don't know what this is all about, but you've gone to farms to Dollar.

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Come in. Don't try to pretend
when I find my room all torn

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up just now. Hey, wait
a minute, your room's been torn up?

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Two? What do you mean by
two? Mine got the same treatment

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a while ago. I don't understand. I thought it was you. Look,

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Helen, I think you and I
had better have a little talk right

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now. I hope you'll be with
us then. In the meantime, do

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