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net. Well, today we're going to

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get into the last episode of Ohara. Jack Moyles reprised the role of Ohara

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for seven episodes between May and July
of nineteen fifty six. The series returned

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to CBS October the first of nineteen
fifty six. However, Stacy Harris was

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cast as the lead. Stacy Harris
is probably best known to listeners of this

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program as someone who was often a
supporting character or a heavy in programs like

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dowler and also
Dragnet And if you listen to the aforementioned

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Old Time Radio Superman podcast when I
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heard Stacy Harris as the voice of
Batman. But Harris's best remembered role was

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as FBI agent Jim Taylor on This
is Your FBI. So it was definitely

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up to the task of taking on
the role of O'Hara for five weeks.

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Now, why CBS chose to bring
it back for five weeks it's in only

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five weeks, I don't know.
But this is the last episode of the

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series. The original air date is
October the twenty ninth of nineteen fifty six,

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and the title is The Lost Boy
Oh Huh Hong Kong. October twenty

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nine. Here is the story of
a very unfortunate little boy who got stranded

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down an old McCaw Oh Hurrah,
transcribe reports from one of America's noted foreign

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correspondence who syndicated column appears throughout the
world. Whenever I feel in the need

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of a little excitement, or when
I find myself becoming bored with Hong Kong,

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or I'm running short on stories for
the column, I make the thirty

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five mile trip to the Portuguese colony
of Macau. They call it the Monte

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Carlo or the Orient, and they
boast that if you can't get it in

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Macau, you can't get it anywhere. A friend of mine lives in Macau.

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His name is General Yip Kim Chung, and last Thursday I decided to

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pay him a visit. So a
little past eight in the morning, I

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was leaning against the rail of the
small passenger steamer watching a school of porpoise

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racing along in front of the bow. I've been standing there maybe five minutes

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when he came out of the cabin
to join me. Or they sure can't

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swim fast, can't? Oh yeah, yeah, they sure can. How

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fast you think they're going now?
Oh, maybe sixteen seventeen knots. Well,

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how many miles an hour is there? Let's see that's almost twenty I

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think ye. I should wish I
could swim twenty miles an hour. How

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would you do if you could?
All getting the Olympics and stuff like that.

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You want some gum? It's American
and I like sun how right?

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Now? Are you a sailor?
No? No, not, I look

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like one, not exactly. But
you know all about knots and those porpoises.

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Well, I used to do some
sailing on weekends. A friend of

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mine had a boat. Gee,
sure must have been fun. Will you

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look at the jumps foy, hundreds
of them. They're all fishing. See

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those black ones remind me of pirate
ships. Your suppose we'll meet up with

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any pirates today? Oh, I
doubt it. Pirates were chased out of

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these waters almost twenty years ago.
Well, that's not what my pop says

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in his letter. He said a
lot of smugglers make their headquarters in Macau,

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and he said a lot of pirates
have gone into business there. You

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know something, I have to admit
your pops right, sure he is.

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My papa wouldn't say anything. It
wasnay, you look at those porpoises.

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John, Where do you live?
Tommy in Tokyo with my mom and stepdad.

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We moved there last week when he
got transferred. Before that, we

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lived on Ho'd you know my name? It's on the tag. It's been

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on your coat. Oh, I
forgot about that. Are you traveling along?

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Yeah, I'm going to visit my
pop in Macau for a couple of

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weeks. What's your name? Oh, Harrah Babo Hara. I'm glad to

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meet you, mister Harra. Thank
you. I'm glad to meet ever disappear

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like that again? Oh gee,
I just came on to watch the porpoises.

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Johns matter sturdus, give me your
trouble, not really with your hair,

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but it is my doing to watch
him. And every time I turned

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my back, he's gone, just
like a firecrack. I'm making noise.

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Now you come along inside, Tommy, I want you to finish your milk.

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I talked to the boy once more
before we rounded the point. It

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marks the entrance to the small harbor
of the car. I learned that his

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father was a Portuguese national. He
had met Tommy's mother while in the States

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going to college. And then a
few years after Tommy was born they were

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divorced. It was just eleven when
they lowered the gang plank. I went

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ashore and stood in line with the
other passengers, waiting for the immigration officer

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to check my passport. Hey missed
your hair? Yeah, Tommy, do

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you know how long was take?
How long? I take? A few

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minutes? You got your passport?
Handy? Sure? Can you see your

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father anyway? Tommy? How can
I get so crowded? Very exactly?

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Did you say it for you?
You to meet him right here? Worthy?

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Look at your passport. You should
be waiting on the other side of

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the entrance, gape. No,
I told you he said he'd meet me

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right here. Don't you worry about
it, Tommy, here'll show up.

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Oh I'm not mister Harrott. My
pop always does everything he says he's gonna

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do. He'll be here. Because
I go over to Macau quite often,

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most of the immigration officers know me, and a moment later, one of

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them handed me my usual twenty four
hour tourist permit. I said goodbye to

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Tommy and told the stewartist that I'd
be going back on the same steamer that

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afternoon. A few minutes later I
arrived at the business establishment of my friend

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Yep Kim Chung. Kim Chung had
once been a general in the Nationalist Tommy.

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Since his arrival in Macau, he
had acquired the most luxurious gambling house

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on the inappropriated named Street of Happiness. A general seemed taller and heavier than

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I murmured. We had a long
talk and even longer lunch, and then

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I returned with the doctor to board
the steamer. Please, what is it

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store the Castro board Tommy, or
what about him? His father has not

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yet come to meet him when he
feels very bad. That's a shame.

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Where's the boy over there against the
wall watching everyone who comes in from the

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street. I said, did you
try calling mister Castro several times but to

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us no answer? Please see what
you can do to help him. Sure

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he cannot stay here in this place
because he is a child. It will

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not allow him to enter Macaw unless
an Adultisum's full responsibility for him. They

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they want him to go back to
Hong Kong this afternoon. It will be

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difficult to make him leave. Mistro, har take care of Hi Hi I.

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Your father must have his dates mixed
up. I guess I think you're

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arriving tomorrow instead of today. Normal
Stroe Harry, he couldn't be mixed up.

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He bought the airplane tickets and reserved
the seat, and in his litter,

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he's to take this boat today.
Wow. Maybe these little labs in

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minded maybe forgot Tommy. If you
had a son and he was coming to

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visit you for the first time in
seven years, would you forget? Oh?

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I guess you're right Tommy, So, Harry, I must go aboard

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now, will you? Yes?
Sure, I'll catch the lake boat tonight

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or the early one to mom wanting
you. You go right ahead and started.

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Thank you, Tommy. I hope
your father comes for you very soon.

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He will. I know it.
Good Bye, Tommy, Bye,

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Thanks tom You you still got some
of that American showing gam Oh yeah,

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in a raspberry. I don't really
care. Raspberries are best here, thanks

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to you. Mind if I sit
on that beside you? Oh no,

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it's not very clean. That's okay, Tommy. We're gonna have to figure

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out something. I guess you know
those immigration men don't want you staying here.

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I won't come back to Hong Kong
or any place else they can't make

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me. Oh, yes, they
could if they wanted to. But we're

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going to see if we can't fix
it so that they don't want to.

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Huh. Well, if they'll let
me, i'll be responsible for you until

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my permit runs out tomorrow morning.
GOSSA, wait a minute, young man.

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Huh, I don't know yet.
If they'll let me, i'll tell

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you what. You stay right here
and I'll go and ask him how to

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deal. Yes, sir, Oh, Tommy, you know what your father

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does, don't you. I mean, what kind of a job he has.

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Oh? Sure, he's the principle
of one of the schools here.

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Oh do you know which one?
Oh? Sorry, don't worry about it.

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I'll look. Here's what we'll do. I'll call your father's house again,

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and if he isn't there, we'll
find out where he teachers. Okay,

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sure, mister okay. I signed
the necessary papers and then tried to

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reach mister Castro by phone, but
there was still no answer. So with

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Tommy's help, we carried these things
out to a cab and asked the driver

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to take us to the Macanese equivalent
of the Board of Education. It was

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in a large stone building. Tommy
stayed with a cab while I went inside.

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Whoa friend, I'm sorry, I
don't understand you. Do you speak

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English? Yes? I said,
we're closed for the day. Come to

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I won't have time tomorrow. I'm
leaving for Hong Kong on the early boat.

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Suddy said, I wait a minute, Oh hold it. Look all

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I want is the name of the
school where Lewis Castro is the principal,

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the head teacher. You had an
American and you're not, sir, Noah,

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that's right. What are you staying? Do you have your passport?

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For sure? But may I see
it? Please? I look? Don't

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you understand all I want? All
right? Thank you? Anybody? Mister

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n Hannah, you're satisfied now that
you're an American? Yes, excuse me,

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I hope you don't mind talking out
here in the whole. I found

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it to be much safer, safer
from what your mad school still had.

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A Why are you so interested in
locating, mister custom because your son is

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waiting outside now. Castor was supposed
to meeting this morning when the boat docked,

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but he didn't show up, and
I'm helping the boy find him.

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Okay, that is your only reason. And I look, mister, I've

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answered all the questions I intend to
tell me. The name of that school

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is in him, does not matter. Castre is not there right Where is

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he? I don't know. All
I do know is that he telephoned his

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school's office this morning before the first
class. He said he would not be

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in today. That's all. It
didn't He didn't say why or he isn't

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seconding no, and he has not
been at home all day. We know

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that already. Well. Next thing
to do is check the hospital. He

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is not in a hospital, mister
Haa, I inquired this afternoon. Why

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would you do that? Mister Hannah. I'm sure I could be more helped

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you later tonight, if you would
care to meet me all right where any

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public place where we would not be
conspicuous about general yeps, gambling callas.

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Fine, say at eleven oh it
is usually a very crowded. Perhaps we

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should arrange to meet in a particular
section. I'll be right outside the General's

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office. I shall find you.
Mister mahah. You better. I didn't

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trust the little clerk anymore than he
had trusted me, and I knew we'd

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be watching. As I walked to
the cab, so when I reached it,

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I had Tommy step out on the
curb for a moment. Then we

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started for the Bella vistore. I
was wondering why that clerk had been so

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cautious. When I noticed that Tommy
was watching me, I smiled at him

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and hoped he hadn't realized just how
worried I was. There's a terrorist dining

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room with a dance floor, orchestra
and a view with the billavista, and

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to give our morale a boost,
I decided that we should have dinner out

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there. We finished our dessert and
we're watching the dancers when a waiter approached

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and handed me a note. Who
is it from mister hair, mister Harris.

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I'll let let me finish one.
I'm not sure, Tommy, isn't

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it signed? Yeah? Yeah,
But Tommy, you're getting to be a

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big boy. Now, you're almost
a man, and it's time that you

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know that people have to do things
sometimes it seemed cruel to other people are

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really the best thing for everybody,
Like mom making me to kiss that's right.

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Well, sometimes when they do these
things, they can't always explain why

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they're doing it. Nothing do you
understand, right? Yes or I think

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so. I'm good. I'm Tommy. Would you recognize your father's handwriting as

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you saw? I'm sure you write
from my pap? Isn't a misty hair?

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Yeah? Tommy, Tommy? Is
it going to be a nighter in

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the morning? Tommy? Will Tommy
stop it? Will you? Oh?

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Look, wait a minute, you
read this, but first I want you

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to tell me if that's your father's
handwriting. Let's see. Yeah, are

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you sure? Yes? Or Pop
Roth? And this we always signs his

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name. Didn't you believe me?
Rude? I just wanted to be sure.

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Tommy, I'll let you. You
go ahead and read it now,

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Okay, dear mister Harrod, how
come I didn't send it to me?

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Just read it to me, will
you? Yes? I regret not being

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able to thank you personally for the
great kindness you have acted. Oh yeah,

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for the great kindness you have accorded
my son, Tommy. However,

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business affairs which arose while my son
was a root allow me no time to

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see the boy, much as I
would care to go on. Go on,

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smers, remember what I told you. I'm closed. You will find

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his return Plaine ticket. Please see
he leaves at the earliest possible moment.

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Thanks again, who was Castrol?
I'm sorry? Someone he could have at

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least found time to see how low
to me? He could have brought this

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letter himself called on the phone.
Why didn't he, Mistra Hera, It

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isn't fair, she We made all
kinds of plans. We're gonna go hiking,

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do so many things, so already
got busy. But why couldn't he

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take time on just to see me
for a minute. Why, mister Hera,

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why couldn't he? I don't know, son, I just don't know.

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I've been around a long time.
I've seen a lot, and there

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isn't much that one human being can
do to another. We'll really bother me,

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but this did upstairs. I told
Tommy I was sure his father really

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wanted to see him, and he
probably felt just as bad as Tommy did

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because he couldn't. Tommy didn't believe
me. I didn't believe it myself.

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I wanted to meet this Lewis Castro. I wanted to see a man who

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was so busy he couldn't spare five
minutes for his son. Finally I managed

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to get Tommy into bed, and
about an hour later he was sound asleep.

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I asked one of the bellboys to
keep an eye on our room,

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and then I walked down to a
General Yip Kim Chung's gambling colors. I

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had told the general at lunch that
I was leaving on the afternoon steamer for

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Hong Kong, so I knew he'd
be surprised to see me. Oh,

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miss Oha, you go all right
in your please thank you pan. No,

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by my troll, no man who
is mottle can possibly be here in

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this I need Hong Kong at the
same time. So whold fiend or double

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whatever you'd be a staid, your
papas or else. I won't buy you

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a drink after that bit of literary
murder you ought to buy Shakespeare? And

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how I would like to what wonderful
gutty stuff that man wrote? What I

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sold you I could have made of
him. General you probably would have ah,

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I see your point. Well,
I'm glad you're staying overnight, but

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you should have let me know earlier. We could have a rinked something.

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There. You are, my friend
nice. I really didn't know until after

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I reached the boat that I was
whoa gol nah no a little boy's father

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didn't show up to meet him,
so I'm taking care of him. Oh,

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where is his father? He's busy, too busy to see him even

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once. Instead, he sent a
note telling the boy to go back home

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to his mother's. So he's doing
that in the morning. Father and mother

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are divorced. H that is sad. Excuse me? Who is sap?

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Yeah? I have heard you tell
miss o'harror, miss o'harror. There is

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man. He saw you and here
portuguee man. He say he mean with

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you. Now you're telling to forget
it? Pan, Tell him that isn't

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important anymore. Yes, I tell
you, mag say who who is it?

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Portugue man? Oh? Man?
Who might know where Tommy's father is?

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All right now, I don't care
if you drink my friend. Oh,

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it's fine, it's just fine.
You know you're tired. You should

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elect more O'Hara. Sure, he's
a good thing. You're not in my

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business. You would soon be bancroft. Now it makes you think. So,

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oh you let the troubles of other
people become your own. Sometimes I

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can't help it. General how many
Portuguese live here? Macau last sent us

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twelve hundred on four of which almost
seventy three per Some favorite this house when

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they play more than you know most
of them, or not by their faces,

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but by their characters on wealth or
lack of wealth? Or do you

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know a man named Louis Castro.
He's the principal head teacher for one of

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the schools here. Oh, I
know of the man. To my knowledge,

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he has never been inside this husband. What do you know about him?

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Only would I have heard the two
sons of my nephew attend his school.

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My nephew believes that mister Custro is
a man who should be much respected.

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Already. Well, I have a
story for your nephew. Castro was

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the man who's too busy to see
his own son, Luis Custro. No,

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I find that hard to believe.
I can show you the nobody sent

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me. Oh, I don't doubt
your word or horror. But for a

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man who loves children as Castro does, enough to have made them his life's

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work, it is indeed strange you
would treat his son the way you have

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described. What was? You're not
listening when I speak? No, No,

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I heard you, general, I
heard you. Fine. What the

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general had said was an obvious fact, a truth. Yet it hadn't occurred

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to me because I had wanted to
believe only the worst of Lewis Castro.

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I'd started disliking him at the dock
when he hadn't shown up to meet Tommy.

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And this with the effect the note
had had on me, had made

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me blind to the facts, so
blind that someone who didn't want me asking

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questions about castor disappearance had been able
to make a first class fool of me.

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I looked around the gambling hall a
couple of times, and then went

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outside, said, are you a
doctor? No, No, I'm not.

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Excuse me, I must blinding a
doctor. I might husband sad.

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He ran on into the gambling police, looked down into the street where several

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people were gathering, and then I
started down towards him. Excuse me,

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high, let me throw a excuse
me, Please, don't don't try to

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talk today. Yeah, one miss
asked him to it. I will.

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I'll get him for what you wanted
to know. It numbers dragon society one

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Castro. He wouldn't listen. The
chack him. No priest. All the

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time I found a priest, work
was dead. I needed a couple of

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stiff drinks and a lot of help. So I went back to the General

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and I told him what had happened. But it was not your fault,

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and I don't try to con me
General. Of course, it was my

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fall. All I had to do
when he came here with stand up and

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walked to that door and ask him
to come in, and then our leader

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you would have had a knife in
your back maybe, but in the meantime

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we'd have known where to find Castor. We can still know this. Oh

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wow. The Dragon Society is not
a large organization or her, but it

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is a rich one. Most of
the members are merchants, and most of

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them play here. Among the names
in my fire, I am sure there

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are many who belong to this society. I will choose one with a little

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courage, right, And we asked
him to take us to Castro, and

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of course he does, yes,
exactly. It may take a few minutes

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before he's willing to do this.
If you do not care to witness the

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interrogation to her, you may wait
outside. I played fan Tan, lost

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a few dollars, then tried Majng
and lost a few more. Then pne

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general servant told me it was time
to go back into the office. A

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friend or horror, Allow me to
present another friend of mine. This is

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mister Sun a yee. He is
a member of the famed Dragon Society and

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has asked to meet you. Yeah, I'm just bet he is. Is

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he not a miserable specimen? You
will never imagine where my men found him?

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Okay, I give up? Where
playing fantan amusing? Oh and before

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I forget this night, you may
have for a souvenir. It was his

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duty to silence the clerk. He's
the boy, probably chalk like a magpie.

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Oh please I tell you anything?
Please? Alright? Alright? Where

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is Castro here? He is being
held at the loom Cheap You know where

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that is? General? Oh yeah, it is a what tell not far

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from here? Why are you holding
him prisoner? What did he do to

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you? He did nothing to me
personally, but to the Dragon Society he

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is a dangerous man. Tomorrow they
send him to China. Keep talking,

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mister Sun please, yes, yes, Dragon Society members are merchants. Traders

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do most of business with the Red
China. If trade with China stopped,

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we would be bankrupt. Mister Castro
dangerous mind? But why how could he

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hurt your trade with China. He
is a strong anti communist. He's teacher.

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He teaches communism not good. He
is respected by many people. They

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listen to him, they believe what
he say. And now he is to

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be given government post. Who can
say what changes he will make, of

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course to be made. Perhaps China
become angry with us a lot more trade.

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Ah or general, I think it's
time we call the police. Oh

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please, my friend, not the
police. They would raid long cheese and

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find only the usual fifth. So
you're a general, you tell me.

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I have ten Koreans working here.
They are very tall, very large man.

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They would welcome the exercise. You
knew what you are to do?

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Oh, yes, I know?
Repeat it please. I do not want

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you to have any trouble. All
right. I'm to wait out here and

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at the entrance until you bring Castro
out, and it will be my job

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to get him away from here.
That is correct, No, you wit

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here. It was dawn by the
time I got back to the hotel.

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I had Tommy get up and dress. I didn't tell him where we were

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going on Hawaii, and he didn't
care. He sat beside me, quietly,

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expressionless, like a little lost boy. At the hospital. I asked

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him to go inside with me to
visit a friend. Okay, tell me,

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go on in. This is my
friend's rooming. Go on in,

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go on. I waited a few
minutes, and then I went in to

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speak to mister Kestro. He told
me he had known Dragon Society men were

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after him, and just before they
caught him, he had talked to the

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clerk from the schoolboard. Then he
sent the note to me so that Tommy

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would not become involved. It's funny
about kids. In a moment, Tommy

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had forgotten everything bad that had happened
to him. He wasn't lost anymore.

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I don't think he ever will be
again. Oh Harrow stars Stacy Harris.

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It is transcribed and directed in Hollywood
by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's story was written

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by Charles B. Smith. Featured
in our cast were Richard Beale's Virginia,

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greg Don Diamond, Charlie Long,
and Ben Wright. Musical supervision by carl

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Fortina. Hello as is Stacey Harris
stepping out of the role of O'Hara to

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say that one thing for an assignments
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November sixth, you have a chance
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CBS Radio. Welcome back. The
one thing I did question about this episode

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was the way that O'Hara jumped to
a conclusion about the father even after he

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had talked to the clerk of the
school, who gave an impression that something

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else was going on. Also,
I have to say that I really enjoyed

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that closing music on this just a
solid piece for the music and listen to

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that for quite a while. All
Right, Well, I do want to

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the Man called X, and then
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photographer. Next next Tuesday, the
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