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dot net. Now it's time for
this week's episode of The Falcon. The

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original airdate August thirtieth, nineteen fifty
and the title is the Case of the

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Disappearing Doll. Hello. Yes,
this is The Falcon speaking O Peggy.

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I'm glad you called. I have
to ask for a raincheck. Angel,

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I'm all tied up. Mm hmm. An active friend of mine just bought

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himself a gun, and the way
it looks now, he figures to make

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a big hit The Adventures of the
Falcon, starring Less Damon. You met

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the Falcon first in his best selling
novels, Then you saw him in his

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thrilling motion picture series. Now join
him on the air when the Falcon solves

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the Case of the Disappearing Doll.
Now the Case of the Disappearing Doll.

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It's Wednesday evening in New York,
and in a small furnished room on Manhattan's

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East Side, a gentleman named Karl
Hoffman glares at an old clock as if

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commanding it to stop, and when
it continues to ignore mister Hoffman's wishes,

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he holds often makes known it's displeasure. Hey, take it easy, Car,

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I'll tell me to take it easy, sheppey, You went and busted

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the clock. That's not all I'm
going to bust either way. Is Janet

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ever a chance, Carl, She'll
show when she was due here an hour

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ago. Maybe she got hired up
with a jerk Harry Jensen. That's still

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no excuse. I told her.
I doesn't get that. Yeah, just

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a second, hello, Shefie.
Oh you were just in time, Janet.

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What's the matter, Carl? He's
blowing his top don't worry about it,

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you, Janet? Yeah, where
the devil have you been working?

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You would do here at eight?
They were what they call extenuating circumstances.

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You go out with Harry Jensen.
How'd you make out? Well, he's

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loosening up a little, but he
still wouldn't kick through with the information.

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That's a nice How do you do
it? If you think you can do

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better? Maybe I can't take it
easy? Car? You too, Janet?

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Does he get off bawling me out? How long have I had to

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work on Harry? We know it's
only been a week. The time is

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getting short. Vince Dario will be
here tomorrow. Whos Dario? Carl's bringing

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him in from Toledo for this?
Why because he's the best man in the

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business, That's why. And this
isn't the kind of a guy whill hang

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around if we can't promise some action. Well, I'm doing everything I can.

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Yeah, sure she is, Carl. Now, why don't you two

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just kiss and make that all right? I'm sorry, Jenny, forget it,

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honey, give me a baby.
I don't mind me. Folks,

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grab yourself a walk shift, Come
on, fella's break it up and we

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get work. To do. He's
right, sweetheart. When do you think

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they'll have something to report from that
Harry Jensen character? Well, they wanted

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to simulate at night. Maybe tonight's
the night. Maybe how about it,

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Jenna? And I think if you
got him good and plastic, he might

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start talking. It's never been a
problem with Harry. The tough thing is

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to make him quit. We'll get
him started in the right direction, baby,

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and when he stops, we'll be
on easy street. Okay, no

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more for me, Janet? That
would be such a sissy or you are?

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Yeah, let me show you something
in that bottle? Now, Harry?

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Do you think you should watch?
Yep? Woa, Well, well,

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how's that? You're terrific? Hey, you want to know something,

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Jannet? What you are pretty terrific
too. I'm crazy about your baby,

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crazy enough to marry me. Say
the word and we'll do it like bath.

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Don't tempt me, Harry minute.
So why what do we live on?

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What will we live on? What's
the matter with me? I make

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good dough eighty bucks a week?
Is that a sneeze out? No,

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that's wonderful. Yeah, I'm top
man with the outfit. Who do you

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think makes all the important deliveries me. That's go on. Don't believe me?

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Huh, every here of the McGill
company. Yeah, they got a

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payroll out of eighty thousand bucks a
week and I'm the guy who brings it

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to him. When when do you
bring it to them? Oh? I'm

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sorry anyway, we're not supposed to
tell. And you claim you love me,

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tell me, tell me when you're
going to deliver the mcgillpay road.

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Now what difference does that think?
I could marry a man who didn't trust

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me, see Jenny, I mean, and it's kind of stuffy in here,

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no, okay, I feel off
of warm. You know. I

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bet I could go to sleep.
Don't you pass out on me? And

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that's Harry, Harry micuil peril when
you deliver it fivey fivey ye? Yeah?

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What do you want looking for?
Karl Hoffman? Who are you all

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right? She let him in?
Hi, Vince, Hello Hoffman, Sheppie,

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Vince Dariol, glad to know you. Thanks once you get in,

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Vince, about twenty minutes ago.
You count the times, it better got

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something hot to be here. Of
the McGill company and the people who make

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all those plumbing fixtures, that's right
now. Tell me you're figuring on knocking

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them off. That's what I'm figuring. I wish you would have told me

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that and you let it. Why
because I wouldn't have wasted my time coming

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to New York. Let him go. Carl, shut up before you make

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up your mind. Vince, maybe
you ought to hear the deal. It's

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no deal. We have to walk
into a plant like McGill's. We don't

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have to walk in, We grab
on the outside. Come again. The

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messenger who delivers the payroll is the
character named Harry Jensen. We know to

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the minute what time he'll get to
the factory. Now you're interested, I'm

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still here. They're tearing up the
street in front of the place. If

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he has to park his bus a
block away, and he'll him down Remsen

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Street. That's where you and I
take over. Check. You'll be covering

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the street with the Thompson from a
vacant room across the way. It sounds

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all right. It gets better as
it goes along. Now we give the

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dough to Janets. Wait a second, who's Janet? A girlfriend of mine?

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I don't like it, Hoffman.
What's the matter now? I don't

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like any capable of babies involved.
You don't know this, babe. How

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do you think we find out when
they're going to deliver the payroll? Oh?

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Yeah, she's a real stylish kid. What's the last name? I'll

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see whitill you meet it. I
like her very much. It's all up

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to you, Vins. What do
you say? We got the time to

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play a girl? What more can
a fella ask? How did you handle

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Janet? All right? I guess
you guess well? I never did like

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driving this kind of weather. Don't
be silly, baby, It's gonna make

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things a lot easier all around,
right, Vince? Sure rain or keep

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them off the streets? Whoa sweetheart? Wait a minute? Right here?

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Will be fine? Should I shut
her off? I keep her running?

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And remember when you start off again, go right in the second and don't

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see the too much gas? Yeah, I got it. What time is

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it, Vince? Make it a
couple of minutes or two? You see

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sheppee cross the street? I think
so well? That does it? Are

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you sure you know what to do? Janet? Ye? As soon as

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I get the bag of head straight
from my apartment. That's right. Don't

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hang around no matter what, we'll
all be over to your place by nine

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to divvy up, supposing your aunt. I don't give it a thought,

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sweetheart, it'll take me out.
What shut our friend of Harry on the

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corner? Yeah, that's all right, Vin says, we go to work.

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Lots of luck. Honey, thanks, baby disagree? Yeah? What

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is that lighter you're so proud of? What do you know it works?

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Here? We comes? Hey,
buddy me? Yeah? Can you tell

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us what Tremont Avenue is? Oh? They're on the wrong side of town.

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I tell you what you better do. I'll tell you what you better

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don't make a move, but not
even a teeny one? What is it?

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Just what it looks like? Past
that gript to my friend? Go

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on? You know how it is? No hard feelings. I hope that's

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all right, mister. I got
a good memory for faces. I won't

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forget you in that case. Let
me give you something else to remember me.

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How is it that should be enough? Carl Vince like clockwork didn't that?

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Yeah it's Jenny. She ain't here, huh wow, No, no,

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no, I was the first one
in. It's like you had a

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key to her place. Huh.
And you're lucky. I don't have a

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suspicious mind. Well I have did
she phone in? You told her to

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come straight here in Chicago? Yeah? I think she had an accident,

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do yeah? No, no,
we would have heard about it. I

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had the radio and the car tune
to the police calls. If the cops

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snapped you, kidd, and there
was nobody would in miles of her.

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After you chucked the bag into a
car she took off to show up,

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Then she better, she's got all
the dough. Just what do you get

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mad? You told me yourself she's
a very smart girl. Women who are

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beautiful shouldn't be brainy. Meaning I
think we got a double cross your nuts.

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I'll leave it as ship. No, no, no, Janet wouldn't

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do that thing. Why not?
Well because she never did it before.

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You ever have eighty grand before?
What you're worried about. It isn't even

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nine o'clock. I poses she doesn't
show by now, and I'll start looking

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for her. And if she isn't
dead when I find her, your wish

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to heaven. She was, Hey, you guys got to butt them fresh

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out as a pack of my coat
pocket, Sheppie, thanks, You wouldn't

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have anything else in that pocket,
like what Vince like Katie grand boton me

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for point. But it's twenty half
to nine. Your girlfriend hasn't shown up

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yet, so so I think we
ought to start looking for her. Suppose

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she comes back in the meantime,
you can always leave a note. No,

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no, I think one of us
ought to hang around here, for

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instance, why do you want to? Maybe I better? Okay, you

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wait here? Sheppy? You cover
the east side? You know the places

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Janet likes? I got you?
What are you gonna doffman? I got

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an angle? I want to try
it? Like what? Never mind?

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But if Janet's tossing us a curve, I think I know the one guy

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who can throw her out at home. I'll let you know how I make

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out. Yeah, i'd like to
see Mike wearing the falcon. Please you

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are now? Oh? Well,
my name is Karl Huffman. Yeah,

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I come in. Oh sorry,
thanks, Sittar, that's oblige. What's

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on your mind? Well, I'm
looking for a girl, aren't we all?

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No? I mean this is a
special one. Her name is Janet

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Halsey. Janet Halsey. Yeah,
she's my girlfriend. Maybe we better take

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us from the beginning. Well,
Janet and I were supposed to be married

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next Sunday. So I opened up
a joint account for us at the bank.

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How big, two thousand dollars And
she skipped this morning. She lived

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at the Brighton Towers. How do
you know she didn't meet with an accident.

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Well, she's done the same thing
before. Oh she has. Yeah,

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she served three years and the women
Spenitentiary under the name of blowis Hot.

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She got out in forty eight.
How come you trusted her with your

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money? You know how it is
Wearing. You always hope that this time

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it's going to be different. Well, I'll see what I can do.

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Happen if you say the first problem
is to locate the girl. Yeah,

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and the moment you do, when
you give me a call, I'll be

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waiting at the Brighton Brighton. Didn't
you say that's where your girlfriend lived?

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Yeah, I'm using her apartment to
operate from. You see how I wouldn't

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want to miss her she came back. Well, I guess that does it,

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Falkin. I'll be waiting for your
call now. Back to the Adventures

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of the falcon An hour has passed
since Carl Hoffman recruited Mike Wearing in his

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search for Janet Halsey. And now
as we find Mike, he is making

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a tour of some of the shadier
spots on New York's third Avenue. Look

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at the someone, mister. As
a matter of fact, I am Falcon

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Hello Joey A long time to see. What can I do for you?

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Mike? Well, you're a man
who knows all the wrong people. Ever

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hear of a girl named Janet Halsey. We seem to have an audience.

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Yeah, and I like your act, mister. I missed the last line.

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Would you mind repeating it now?
Kind of that? Shepy? This

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is Mike Wearing. I'll give a
rap who he is? What do you

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want with Janet Halsey? I don't
think there's any of your business. All

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right, suppose we take a little
walk outside. No thanks, it's too

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hot. That's all right. I
got stepped into my pocket to show you

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off. I take it easy.
She keep out of this show. What

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do you say, Wearing? I
don't gonna have much choice in the matter

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now, so start walking. I'm
sorry, Mike, Sorry, Joey.

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All the day's work with Gavin.
Come on, I haven't got all day.

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Look, if you'd like to put
this office, I'll be a wise

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guy. Okay, where do we
go from here? Let's dry that alley?

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Now, look, you've heard me? All right, hold it,

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this is fine. Now let's pick
up where we left off. What do

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you want with Janney? It's a
long story. It's okay, You're not

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going anywhere. Might surprise you get
a hand out of your back door?

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All right? Punk on your feet? Let mean along, I said,

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on your feet? Why are you
so interested in Janet Halsey? Maybe I'm

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looking for it too, Maybe,
and then again, maybe you know where

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she is? No? Where can
I find? I got no idea?

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Well get one? Let me cold, Come on shop. You can keep

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this up all night. Have you
been of the Brighton Tower? No?

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But someone else hasn't. She wasn't
there. You might You might try the

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Riverdale Amy, Thanks a lot,
fella, been a great help. Let's

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do it again sometime. Who is
it? Where is shepy? Evince out

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looking the phone in? No,
I guess you had nothing to report.

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How did you make out? Not
so hot? I guess that leaves me

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up the well known Greek with you
grapping about, we're all in the same

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boat. Yeah, but I didn't
bring Janning into the accu did Hoffman?

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Okay, and I'll find it.
I don't see him making any progress.

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Maybe not, but I hired somebody
who will oh fellow named Mike wearing a

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private dick. That's right, what's
the idea you're going off your trolley?

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Relax with you, Evince. I
gave him a song and dance about wanting

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to find you at this guy wearing
his plenty of context? Well, I

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don't like it you the boy was
belly aching that. I wasn't doing anything.

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You didn't have to go that far? How far would you go for

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eighty grand? I guess you're right. Thanks, that must be shippy.

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I'll take it. Yeah, what
do you want? I thank your pardon.

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I must have the wrong number.
Wait a minute, is that you

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Janet? Hello? Hello? What's
trouble? I think that was Janet?

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You don't imagine it? Don't tell
me. I'd recognize her voice anywhere.

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What made her calling? And hang
up? You know something? Then?

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That's just what I was wondering.
I'll be back in an hour. Hello.

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Hello, is it janath Hal's apartment? Yeah? How offman? There?

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Who's calling? Wearing? We just
stepped out for a while. I

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want to leave a message. Who's
this so? Okay? I'm a friend

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of his. My name is Vince
Tereo. I'll tell halfman I'm going to

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lead on his girlfriend. He's supposed
to be at Riverdale Arms. If you'll

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meet me at the eighty six o'clock
we'll go over together. Thanks a lot,

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mister Worry. I know Kyle'll be
glad to hear that wearring wearing over

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here. It's about time, Hoffman
marry. I'm late, but I just

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got your message, which get your
dope from a punk named Sheppie Oliver.

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What hey? He pulled a gun
on me. That's the funniest thing I've

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heard yet, is it? Yeah, Sheppie's a friend of mine. That's

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so sure. When he heard you
asking for Janet, he must have gotten

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suspicious. Why and he's not very
brillan? What was that address he gave

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you again? Riverdale Arms? That's
what I thought. It's a bump stair.

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How do you know that's where Sheppie
lives himself? Why would he give

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me his own address? Probably rattle
limbs of badly. He was the only

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thing you could think of. That's
one possibility, and you didn't of any

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other. Yeah, maybe Janet had
a partner, I mean Jempi. Why

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not? He's my best friend.
Janet was your best girl. Let's go

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see who's playing on whose team?
Cory the last one down the hall wearing

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you know. There's one thing that
throws me. Only one after I left

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your office, I went back to
Janet's apartment. I was talking with Vince

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Dario when the phone rang, so
the girl got on. I would have

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sworn it was Janet, but she
claimed it was the wrong number. Maybe

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she's trying to get in touch with
Sheppey and she got frightened when she heard

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your voice. Could be but I
never thought Sheppy was theod type. This

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is the place. I just can't
believe that. What's the matter? Unlocked?

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Yeah? Uh, just as I
figured. And I guess I better

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call the police. Eh take a
good look. Oh smoke, it's hippy.

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Yeah. And with that slug in
his head, I don't think he's

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in any position to call the cops
himself. Where's the phone? Come on,

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Vince, open up. What took
you so long? I was busy.

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Who's your friend? Oh it's right. You boys haven't met Mike.

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This is Vince Darian. How do
you do Hi, how did that lead

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pan out? Not too bad?
You find Janet there? No, we

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found Sheppy. I don't get it. He was murdered by who Janet.

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That's one way to look at it. I suppose Janet was working with a

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man. You mean Sheppy? I
don't see it. That's just what I

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said. Look, I suppose we
forget the whole thing. What do you

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mean we gambled and lost? Now
you surprised me, Vince. A couple

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of hours ago you were botting me
up and not doing anything. Now you're

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wanting to write the whole thing off. There's no use crying over spilt milk.

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Sure, with Ady Grant in your
pocket, you can always buy yourself

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another quart. Oh you say something
wearing just though. Look you've been hitting

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it something all along. What is
I think you know where Janet is?

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I was a sucker not to see
it before. We are fool Kyl.

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Can't you see what Janet's doing?
Jane might have Sheppie. Now she's turning

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us against each other. Somebody put
her up to it, and I got

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a feeling it. Witt you drunk? Cut it out? Hoffmann? Of

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this Mike? Where is come on? Hoffman? Break it up, Mike

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let go, I said, break
it up, Oh, Therrio, that

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was the idea, Hoffman. I
don't like double crosses. Het the keys

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out of his pocket. What for? I got to hunch Janets hold up

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in his apartment, and I'm going
to play it to the hilt. Now

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back to the Adventures of the Falcon. Only a few minutes have passed since

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Karl Hoffman decided that Janet might be
hiding in Vince Dario's apartment. Now he

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and Mike are at Dario's, but
so far there's been no sign of Janet.

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Looks like your hunt was worthless.
Hoffman. You try the kitchen.

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I've been all over the place.
There's no one here, and I still

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believe the Janet was worked out.
Wait a minute, open that draw again.

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I thought I saw an envelope in
there. You're right, mister,

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Vince Dario twenty seven, nineteen,
Bolton Avenue, Troyed. Look at the

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postmark, Bedford Hills, March sixteenth, nineteen forty eight. Now look at

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the return address on the other side, Janet Halsey State Penitentiary for Women.

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You get it, And I was
right. Vince knew Janet all along.

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Weller could build up a convincing case
on the face of it. But where

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is she now? Can't you think
of somewhere she might go? We've covered

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every possible high up. Oh we
haven't. There's one place you're Forgettinghuffman,

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who's yours? What are you talking
about? You are the man who put

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Janet up to this. You plan
a double cross your mob from the beginning.

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Yeah, yeah, and I thought
you did pretty well. You murdered

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Sheppy and framed Vince Dario, and
that only left Janet to be taken care

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of. What about you? I
don't think you're man enough. That just

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goes to That's a matter, huff
When you lose something, that's what you're

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looking for. Where'd you get that
gun? I lifted it off you when

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you were shoving Dario around. You
Say the word friend, and I'll give

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it back to you a slug at
a time. Well, what happened after

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that, Mike? You know the
rest, Jennifer. As soon as the

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police picked up Carl, I went
to his apartment and picked me up.

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And not a bad day's work event. Thanks. No, No, I'm

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talking about the little bag you had
with you containing eighty grand belonging to the

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McGill company. Oh, now what
gets me is are you people knew exactly

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what time the payroll was to be
delivered? Oh, I had inside information

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from the boy who delivered it.
How did you guess it figured? And

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what did you do? Use your
feminine wiles? You didn't take much.

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He wanted to prove what a great
big man he was. Well, you

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have that effect on the opposite takes. Yeah, it's just too bad you

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had already worked for nothing. Yeah, I guess when you come down Wood,

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I was pretty lucky at that.
You sure were. There's no doubt

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that with Sheppy and Vince Dario disposed
of, you were next don Carl's list.

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Dirty double crossing Hannah. Now there's
no reason to be angry. After

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all, you were in on ninety
nine percent of the plot. He just

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neglected to tell you the big finish
he planned for you. Oh went steadily

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when you called your apartment and got
Hoffman on the phone, Why did you

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pretend it was the wrong number?
We had it arranged. When Carl picked

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up the phone and said, yes, what do you want? I knew

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he wasn't alone, and that was
my cue to hang up. Pretty cute

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that was the second way he convinced
Dario he was acting above board. What

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was the first mike hiring me?
He had to go through with the motions

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of trying to find you, and
what would make him look more innocent than

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hiring a private detective. I still
don't see what proved you he was guilty.

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Well, the return address on the
envelope I found in Dario's room gave

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you your name as Janet Hawsey,
and Carl told me when you were up

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at the women's pen he served time
under the name of Lois's Heart, So

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obviously the letter was a frame and
Carl was the only one who could have

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played That's right. You know you're
pretty wonderful, honey, I mean,

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mister wearing. Oh, I don't
mind you getting affectionate. After all,

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we're going to be seeing lots of
each other, Jenets. Are we almost

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past our destination? Is this where
you live? That's the matter with you,

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Jennet. Don't you recognize the building
police headquarters that you know? Good?

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Double cut? Now what are you
complaining about? Angel? I promise

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you we'd be seeing a lot of
each other. Can I help it it?

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For the next ten years? It'll
have to be through Boz Welcome Back

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with the Falcon coming in so light
in each episode. The value of a

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given episode really depends on the quality
of the mystery, and this one I

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think was just okay. It's a
really basic story of which Cook is trying

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to double cross the others, and
there's not a lot more going on to

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make it more interesting, particularly in
the personality of the crooks. Kauffman's motive

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for hiring Wearing seems particularly dumb.
Plus the fact that he told Wearing the

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name that Janet was prison under and
had framed documents with the wrong name makes

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him seem even more dumb. I
don't think he's quite ready for the File

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Advance universe, but still pretty close. I did hear enough of Kaufman's voice

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that I'm pretty sure he was played
by Mandel Kramer, aka the Last Johnny

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Dollar on radio. Kramer often took
on these sort of underworld parts on radio

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in the early part of his career, until later on in the mid to

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late nineteen fifties, he started to
play more of the heroic parts as the

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more seasoned actors tended to migrate towards
television, as that's where the money was

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well. Listener comments and feedback now
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your podcast have kept me company driving
to visit my mom and assisted living and

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now in the hospital. The podcast
is like an old friend. Well,

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thank you so much, Becca,
I really am collaborable to help in some

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way and you have no idea what
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Well again, thank you so much. Really appreciate your comments and all the

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best to you and your mom.
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but join us back here tomorrow for
the start of another Yours truly, Johnny

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Dollar Siri aware. I've known Donald
since school, mister Dollar, and we

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hope to get married at least Donald
does. Oh and what about you,

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Well, I don't know. I
don't know. I got the impression for

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mister Turnbull, you were doing a
pretty good job of getting Donald into your

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clutches. That isn't the way it
is at all. We've been seeing a

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great deal of each other, and
Donald has asked me to marry him,

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and I'm fond of him, mister
Dollar, terribly fond of him, so

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far as Mary is concerned. I
I'm not sure. What do you mean?

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I can't help wondering all the time
if he isn't hoping to marry me

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just as a well as an escape
from his uncle. Huh would you marry

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him? If I was sure of
him, you'd be sure of an awful

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lot of money. Dorothy Aminity reached
thirty. That is, mister Turnbull has

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poisoned your mind. Mister Dollar.
What money Donald has or may have,

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has nothing to do with I hope
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