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dot net. Well, now it's
time for our very last episode of Nick

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Carter. The original air date is
December the twenty fifth, Christmas Day,

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nineteen forty nine, and that Tattle
is the case of the Phantom shoplifter.

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Carter Adventure starring Lawn Clark, The
Case of the Phantom Shoplifter, brought to

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you by New Wonderful Old Dutch Cleanser. It is mid afternoon, a Sergeant

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Mathelson and Nick Carter in a speeding
police car turned into a street of cheap

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rooming houses. You can understand Nick
that Warren's Specialty shop can't stand losing all

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those expensive fur coats, even if
it is a big woman's store. Assure

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it's the work of shoplifters. Sure, and we think Peggy Matthews, the

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girl we're going to see, is
one of the shoplifters. Any reason to

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pin it on her. We're all
one of these store detectives. Spotted her

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on the store this afternoon, which
got away from him. But after she

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left, another fur coat was gone. It just bound out where she lives.

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Yeah, we learned who she was
from a beautiful set of fingerprints she

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left on the plastic case she had
been handling. So I got a warren

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to pick her up. One suspicion. How many fur coats are they lost,

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Mattie? Oh it does no more, Nick, Each of them worth

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over three thousand bucks. Quite a
lost. Yeah, must have been meant

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they were. What do you want? But who are you? This is

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my room in house. I'm the
landlady. We want to see Peggy Matthews.

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What do you want Peggy for?
Take a look at this badge?

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A couple of flat feet. Okay, second floor, turned right into the

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hall. Oh that's better. Monday. Right with your form and break your

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heads. Thanks, he said,
turned right at the top of the stairs.

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I don't hear anything, Nick.
This warrant we can go right in

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door is a lot. Great God, everyone moved faster than we did.

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Maddie. She's been strangled one of
her own nylon stockings. In just a

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moment, we'll return to the case
of the Phantom shoplifter. Today's adventure with

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Nick Carter. Maybe you are up
way past midnight last night, trimming the

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tree, wrapping last minute packages,
planning wonderful surprises to greet you youngsters when

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they hopped out of bed at dawn
this morning. You see, Christmas does

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get here, even though the youngsters
think it's slow in coming, and you

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do somehow manage to get your thousand
and one extra jobs done in time.

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And isn't it wonderful? Right now? Chances are you're all together, the

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whole kitten kaboodle of you, with
your Christmas tree lights glimmering in the twilight,

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your radio turned on, a perfect
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special message. The makers of Old
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privilege of bringing these radio programs into
your home about the year. Happy too

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that Old Dutch Cleanser itself is a
trusted and helpful friend in so many of

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your homes. We hope you've all
had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas Day never

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to be forgotten. Now back to
the case of the Phantom Shoplifter. Today's

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adventure with Nick Carter brought to you
by new wonderful Old Dutch Cleanser. Nick

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and Mattie are back in the murdered
girl's room after unsuccessfully searching the house for

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the killer. Several men from the
homicide squad have just arrived and are going

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to work as Patsy Bowen hurries in
I came as bad as I could.

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Nick. Oh, you didn't tell
me it was a murder. We called

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you, Patsy because we thought this
needed a woman's touch. Oh yeah,

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this dead woman as Peggy Matthews,
Patsy Jesus shoplifter who has seen acting suspiciously

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in the Warren Specialty Store this afternoon, just before another mink coat disappeared.

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Is this the code here on the
chair. No, we found that one

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in a closed closet as she bought
it a month ago in a small fur

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shop downtown. Now there's a label
in the code, and we phoned the

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store to check it. She paid
four hundred dollars for it. Four hundred

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for this rabbit skin. Yeah,
oh, she got stuck. But good.

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That's why I wanted you to see
it, Patsy. I needed your

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opinion. Ah. Hey, Nick, look, I've been thinking maybe we

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ought to bring the manager of the
fur department of Warren's Specialty Shop down here

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to look at her, just to
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Good idea, Maddie. Come on, Patsy, we'll bring it back

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here soon. As McCAT matt So, this girl was murdered before you could

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talk to her in, mister Carter. That's right, mister dadd You show

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you'd recognize her again. Oh yes, this particular girl snooped around the fir

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department for some time, although I
didn't see her take anything like you kept

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anying her. I am afraid I
didn't. You see, I was very

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busy with miss Robart, missus Robart, she's a fashion expert on one of

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the women's magazines. Right, glad, this girl is dead, mister Carter.

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One of our most expensive fur coats
was missing right after she left the

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store. Maybe she could have told
us what happened to it. We want

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to know where that coat went.
We'll have to find out some other way,

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mister Doddon. The final curtain has
fallen for Peggy Matthews. Well,

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mister Dodd, is this the woman
you saw in your department store this afternoon,

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Yes, sergeant, I'm certain of
it, no question at all.

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Uh huh. We're okay, mister
Doddon. Thanks for coming down, or

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pats you now'll run you back to
the store, mister Dodd. We want

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to get a full description of the
stolen coats. Anyway, Can we leave

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at once, mister Carter, you
see miss Robart is waiting for me to

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get back. We've been in conference
all afternoon where there's still a lot left

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to do. George, Sure,
we leave in just a moment. Hey,

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Maddie, Yeah, Nick, did
you dig up anything where we were?

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Well, just one thing. Nick. The landlady broke down finally told

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me that Bruno Celia has come here
to seet Peggy a couple of times recently.

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Bruno Celia, that's my character.
I'll have a talk with him shortly.

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Oh well, mister Dodd, would
you give me your expert opinion as

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to the value of this for a
coat? It belonged to Peggy m he

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didn't shoplift that from O. Storms
Bourne. I had roughly guessed it was

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worth about one hundred and fifty dollars
A well, Nick, I guess I'm

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a fairly good judge of fur values. Patsy means that she told us Peggy

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Matthews was cheated when she paid four
hundred dollars for this coat. Mister Dodd,

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you just backed up her opinion.
I see. Well, I don't

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think miss Matthew's minds being cheated anymore. Shall we go, Miss Bourne?

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Mister Carter, this is Audrey Robot, the fashion expert I told you about.

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Come on, miss Robot, how
do you do? How do you

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do? Miss Robot? I I'm
familiar with the work in the magazine Lovely.

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Why thank you, Miss Bowen.
Oh Nick, Just look at all

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these gorgeous fur coats hanging on the
racks here. Mister Dodd, tell me

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just how many coats that shoplift is
taken from this chart? Why? I

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can't say exactly. I don't have
the figures and the prices on the coats.

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I mean, could anyone tell they
were getting the best just by looking

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at the price tags? No?
No, indeed, each coat is marked

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with a code number. Only the
sales lady knows what it sells. Board

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And you have no idea how the
coats were smuggled out of here, none

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at all, mister. Carter.
Store detectives are signed to this department.

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The spotted shoplift is dawdling them out, follow them to the street and stop

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them. But although we found a
number of stolen items, there wasn't a

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single fur coat. Well, I
don't think you're too careful with your coats,

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mister Dodd. All the time we've
been talking, there's been a lovely

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coat lying right there on that display
table with no one near it. Oh

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that's my coat, miss Bowen.
I threw it down there as I came

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in, and it's not as nice
as it looks from here. Well you've

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had it a good many years,
Audrey, nothing last forever. How right

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you are, mister Carter. Why
don't you go up and see mister Warren,

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the owner of the store. He
might be able to tell you things

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I couldn't a good idea. Is
he here? Well, it's almost closing

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time, but I'm sure he's here. He never leaves until later than this.

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His office is upstairs, fourth floor, in the rear. Good,

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I'll go see him. We need
every scrap of information we can get.

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Sit down, Sit down, both
of you all. Thank you, mister

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Warren. I don't mind telling you, mister Carter, how glad I am

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that you're helping us. Tell me, mister Warren, just how many codes

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have been stolen? Fifteen and the
cheapest of them retail for three thousand,

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one hundred dollars. Say they really
made a whole, didn't they? Over

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fifty thousand dollars? Miss Gown?
Why your store detectives haven't seen anything suspicious.

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Well, there is one rather our
thing. What's that? Lately we

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seem to be attracting an unusual number
of professional shoplifters. Many of them are

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known to our detectives, but they
haven't caught them with anything, well,

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just small miscellaneous items, miss Bowen, never anything really valuable. There's no

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way of smuggling the coats out to
a crooked employee. Perhaps absolutely not,

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mister Cotton. Why we've checked that
thoroughly. Yet we're completely at a loss

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to know how the coats get out
of the store. Well, thanks,

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mister Waugh. Oh not at all, mister Cotta, not at all.

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Now, please don't hesitate to call
on me for any sort of help.

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At any time. I will,
and we may have news for you soon.

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Good. They've got one clue that
may lead us somewhere. In fact,

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we're going to see the man in
question right now. This is the

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place Nick Jelle's bargain outlet. That's
where he called. I wonder how legitimate

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business it really is. Well,
Bruno's already done one stretch of a fence

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for stolen goods. Anybody's in a
position the director shop, if there's ring

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Bruno Silley's the man. Well,
Mattie, come on, let's see what

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he has to see, Nick,
all of her coats that was stolen were

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the very best quality one, according
to mister Warren, they were. But

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Nick and Peggy Matthews got chipped on
the coachy boy for herself. How would

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she know enough to pick out a
really good one? The prices weren't on

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the coat. That's a very good
thought, Petty. If Peggy got cheated

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so badly when she bought her own
fur coat, it's proof she didn't know

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good furs from bad. Hey that's
right. Oh, oh, Patsy.

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It takes a woman to notice a
clue like that. And if I'm right,

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Peggy had nothing to do with stealing
any of those coats, not unless

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someone pointed out the good ones to
do her first. Yeah. Well,

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come on, let's go in and
see if silly can throw some light on

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this. Hello, anybody here?
Hello, that's funny. Hey Bruno,

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Bruno, Hey Bruno. Hey he's
in the back room. Yeah it could

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be. Hey, the back room
is empty too. That sounds like somebody

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in pain. It's coming from inside
that car. Rich gut, it's Bruno.

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He's been stabbed. Beating just a
minute. He's trying to tell us

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something. Yes, Bruno, I'm
Nick Carter who stabbed you don't know him?

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Not his real name. Ah,
Yes, Bruno. See Marge Brunette.

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See Marge Bunnette, Marge Brunett.
All right, Bruno in my pocket

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key most office bus, Clark Street
station, baggage. Neck. I better

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call an ambulance. It won't be
necessary. Maddie, dead Neck and Matty

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are faced with a second murder.
We'll see what happens in just a moment.

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There are no words for Christmas.
The wreath of holly on your front

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door, the mistletoe, the glow
of candles in your window. Yes,

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and the stately Christmas tree, brilliant
with lights, shimmering with tinsel, The

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dinner for gifts and gay wrappings.
All these are merely frosting on the cake

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outward symbols of the deep inner meaning
Christmas. Really, as far as there

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are no words for Christmas, just
as there are no words for the love

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you feel for a tozzle haired youngster, the joy you feel with a close

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friend, a warmth you feel when
you say Merry Christmas. May this day

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be so filled with everything fine,
everything good, that you'll never forget a

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single golden moment of it. That's
the Christmas wish to you from the maker's

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a famous old Dutch cleanser. Now
back to the case of the Phantom shoplifter.

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Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to
you by Old Dutch Cleanser. After

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summoning the homicide squad to take over
at Bruno's store, Matty, Nick and

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Patsy have hurried to the Clark Street
branch of the post office where they have

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just opened Bruno's post office box.
Where here is it a package here?

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But don't worry anything, will open
it upside here, That's what Bruno wanted

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it to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well will you look at

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this what in the world as a
starting a string of beads, string of

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specially shot The price tag has only
fifteen dollars. Yeah, I don't get

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it here. Let me see that, rapper, will you? Yeah?

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Sure? This package is post Mike
early this afternoon at a postal substation near

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the worn store, and this necklace
was stolen from that store to day and

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mail to Bruno. Yeah, rapper
me from my mailbox right in the store

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wall into the branch post office on
the fourth floor. See it's a smart

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idea. You nab something small,
have an envelope all addressed. You just

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slipped the loot inside, seal it
and MAILI but what has all this to

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do with stolen for a comb?
I don't know, Patsy, but we

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can be sure of one thing,
Nick. The murders of Peggy and Bruno

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are tied up together somehow, and
the one man, Maddie Bruno said it

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was a man that we didn't know
who he was. And just who is

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this Marge Barnett. Bruner wanted us
to see she used to be a pretty

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good confidence woman. Petsy Concudens wanted. Yeah, Patsy, latch of these

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confidences. Women turn to shoplifting when
they began losing their nerves by their looks.

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Look, I can get her addressed
from our records, Nick, and

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you and Patsy can go and say. Sure, Maddie, I'm going back

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to Bruno. Seely's story. I
want to finish my report, Okay,

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Eddie, Patsy and I'll see you, h Ben. Eddie better hurry because

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the murderer may have the same idea. Oh, Nick, this is Marge

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Barnett's department. Here's a name below
the bell. Hope she's home. The

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police certainly keep an up to date
file on crooks. Don't say George Madison

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got his addressed for us and only
a few minutes. Yeah, Patsy people

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on a new house. Yeah,
hello, Madge. I think your pardon?

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Am I supposed to know you?
I know you. You must have

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slipped to turn the shoplifting. Who
are you? I'm Nick Carter? Ah,

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Nick Carter? Oh what do you
want? Shall we talk out here

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in the hall where everybody can listen? Oh, come on in snoop and

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covers. Give me a pain.
Thanks. This is Patsy Borne, my

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assistant, trying to make a cover
to her too. You gotta be ashamed,

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boy, I like it, Madge. Bruno's dead. Bruno dead.

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It was murdered, Mudge, So
is Peggy Matthews. Who did it?

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Suppose you tell me? Oh goodbye, cut I'm not talking about nobody Waite.

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Bruno was stabbed. Let me found
him. He still at a few

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seconds to live, and the last
thing he told us is to come and

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see you. Bruno said that,
did he he did? I wonder why?

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Maybe he was trying to save your
life. Come on, tell me,

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how did you get into this anyway? Oh, I'm getting old cutter,

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as you know. I've been everything
from a cheap shield of the operator

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of a big store, from the
best ropery episode of a plain subway dealer.

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You've been hot. In English,
patsy, she means she fronted for

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conment and rose to become the operator
of an important conman con game herself.

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She went from the top as a
smart, pretty girl that brings in the

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suckers. Being a subway dealer means
she was reduced to dealing cards from the

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bottom of the deck. Well,
it sounds almost fascinating if I could understand

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it. How many of these small, inexpensive items did you steal, put

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into a package and mailed to Bruno? Minds they're wise to that. I

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thought it was pretty good. Yeah, it was until fur coats and murder

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got mixed up in it. Where
do fur coats come in? Look?

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Bruno Pagrier to steal these small articles
for him and Pagrio more than you could

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get anywhere else, didn't. Hey, Yeah, he said he had a

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particular customer for a lot of that
junk. All right, Just what orders

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did he give you? Well,
I never did understand it, Carter.

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We were supposed to show up at
once specially shop at a s some time

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and just wander around. Did those
instructions include visiting the fir department? Why?

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Yeah, yeah, we had to
pass through the fir department on our

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way to the counter where there certain
kind of glass junk was sold. And

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you lingered in the fir department.
What woman wouldn't She's got a point there,

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Nick, Yeah, and this business
is getting a little clearer. Well,

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so help me. That's everything I
know. Well, thanks much,

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all right, Patsy, Come on, we'll make another call on Hugh Warren,

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who owns the store. I think
we can do something for him if

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he'll do something for us. First. I hate to bother you at your

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home like this, mister Warren.
It's perfectly all right, mister Carter,

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perfectly all right. I hope we're
not interrupting your dinner, mister Warren.

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Dinner, Why, miss Bowen.
It's after nine o'clock, so it is

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you've been pretty busy, well,
learned anything enough, so I think we're

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in the right track. Mister Warren. Good good. We'd like to key

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to your store and permission to go
inside tonight. I want to look around

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a bit. Why I think that
could be arranged. But a word of

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warning, mister Carter. This store
is wired for burglar alarms, not only

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the outer doors, but many places
inside the store. For example, the

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door to the cashier's office will flash
an alarm if it has entered without a

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key. And there are other things
to look out for. Two. We'll

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be careful, mister war I think
you'll have no trouble if you'll follow my

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directions. Now, if you have
a pencil, i'll give you a list

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of things to watch out for.
Golly, Nick, I never realized how

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lonesome a store like this can be
after everyone's gone. Yeah, I wonder

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where the watchman are. The warrant
said there'd be two of them here.

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We haven't run into either one of
them yet. That's positively eerie. And

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with just two flashlights for company.
Let's see, according to mister Warren's directions,

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return right here. Yeah, that's
what I'm looking for. Hey,

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white surrounding. Oh, Nick,
look at all the fur coats, dozens

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of them all second huh oh,
yes, so they are, but some

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of them are still lovely. I
know. I that's funny, Nick,

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what's funny? Remember how I fought
for a minute this afternoon that Audrey Robart's

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coat was a new one? Yeah, what about it? Well? This

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coat here is her coat, the
one I saw this afternoon. You're sure

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positive. I took a close look
at it as we went by, and

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I noticed this funny jagged tear in
the lining. I'd know it anywhere.

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Good for you, Patsy, now
I know I'm right. What do you

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mean by that? He means you
have good eyesight and an excellent memory.

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Miss Bowen's robarts. Don't move either
of you. My father taught me to

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use a gun when I was a
girl. I see Jason Dodds with you,

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showing you all those coats he has
in his arm, no doubt.

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Keep your hands up, Carter,
you too, Miss Bowen. Yes,

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Jason and I stole those missing coats. We knew you'd find out, so

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we came back tonight to clean out
the place, and we're going to You

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can't stop his Carter. Jason had
his own keys, and he's arranged for

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the watchman to be in another part
of the store for a while. Too

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bad, we came in just when
we did. Yes, it's too bad

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for you, Carter. Jason put
down those coats and walk around behind Carter

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and search him. Look, I
do as I say, you fool,

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I know everything. We heard that
much. Yes, we've got keep your

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hands in the hair, both of
you, and don't reach for your person.

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Miss Bowen. I know there's probably
a gun in it. Looks as

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if you hold all the cards,
Miss Robard. Jason stand right behind Carter.

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I reach over his shoulders, probably
carries his gun on his shoulder thanks

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to the carey. What happened with
your fool, Jason? Hutting him?

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Throw your life back. I couldn't
help it. He moves to fast when

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I reached never mind. They're headed
for the cashier's office. To Powell.

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We can stop that. The switchboard's
right over there. I can even find

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it in the door and then find
it. If we can stop them from

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calling for help, we've got them
cornered. Carter. Carter, I know

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you're in that cashier's office, Andrey, let's get out of here before I

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take care of Carter and the girl. How are you going to do it?

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They're in the cashier's office, and
that's the only door right ahead of

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us. But stop sniveling. We've
got Carter's gun. Miss Bowen dropped her

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hand bag and I found her gun
in it. That means they're are on

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week. We can smash the glass
panel in the door of the cashier's office

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and get them back way. Audrey, grab one of those chairs, throw

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it through the glass. Oh,
I guess you're right here goes there?

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That does it? Carter, you
can come outside and get it, or

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I'll come in after you. It
makes no difference to me. They can

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patsy your trapped in a small office
without weapons, and with the telephone cut

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on, We'll see what happens in
just a moment. Once again, the

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makers of Old Dutch Cleanser and the
entire cast and the director of your Nick

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Carter program join in adding their warmest
Christmas wishes to the many you have already

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received. We hope that today has
been a truly beautiful Christmas for you,

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and that the coming year will be
filled with an abundance of pleasure, prosperity

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and peace. Now for the conclusion
of the case of the Phantom Shoplifter.

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Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to
you by new Wonderful Old Dutch cleanser cautiously.

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Audrey Robard moves up to the broken
glass on the door, reaches inside,

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and unlocks it. Jason Dodd hovers
uncertainly behind her carter. Are you

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coming out? All right? If
you won't come out, I'm coming in.

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Stay beside me, Jason. There
aren't many places they can hide.

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Please hurry. It's but at least
ten minutes since I smashed that door.

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You're so dawn careful to take it
easy without a gun cartaice? Okay,

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Oh, can't we give up?
You do take those guns my way.

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That's better, ain't it? Are
you in there right here? What kept

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you? What kept me? Listen? It's not ten minutes since the alarm

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came into headquarters? What alarm are
you talking about? The alarm you sending,

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miss robot What I made you smash
the glass panel in the door to

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the cashier's office. When the glass
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and police headquarters? You turned yourselves
into the police, all right?

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Nick, give with the details.
You say it was worked with secondhand coats.

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That's it, maddie, Miss roboty
go out and buy a cheap secondhand

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fur coat worth practically nothing. Then
when she came to the store to see

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Dot, which was practically every day, she'd leave the old coat and walk

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out with a new mink coat.
She was well known in the store,

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so no one ever thought of this
thanking her. And when she came in

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with the cheap coach, he'd carry
it over her arm so it wouldn't show

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how cheap it really was. What
a rackety and Dad would put the old

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coat with a used coats the store
ahead for sale and fixed the records to

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account for it. And another nice, new valuable mink was missing without a

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trade, and the shoplifters were just
part of us set up to confuse us.

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Honey, Yeah, Maddie. Dad
arranged that with Bruno. The shoplifters

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stole some small object and mailed at
to Bruno's post office box, righted from

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inside the store, in previously prepared
envelopes, just so we'd think the professional

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shoplifters were stealing the furs. And
they killed Peggy Matthews because she got wise.

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In one of the cut Nod admitted
that he killed Bruno too, Yeah,

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and reconnected Bruno and Peggy. I
suppose Dad was afraid of how much

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Bruno might know, so we had
to put him out of the way too.

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So he sent Patsy and you to
see mister Warren so you would be

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out of the way while he killed
him. Yeah. Well, I think

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I'm gonna let him lock up the
store now. Oh in just a minute,

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may Patsy, where you're growing into
the fur department? Drew the woman's

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privilege to look at those beautiful mink
coats, even if she can't have one,

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Nick, I want a quarter.
Come on, come on, Patsy,

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you've had enough lemonading hot dogs.
Let's go ride in the Carrizane.

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Oh no, I want to have
my handwriting analyzed in this machine and riding

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analyze. Yeah, hey, Patsy, remember that case down in the Smokies?

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Oh do I? How could I
ever forget? Sheldon Corey the manor

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wrote letters to his uncle jes so
he could corridge a will. And will

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you ever forget how the chef trapped
us in the cemetery when I was trying

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to have a look at a dead
man's hand. Yeah, wouldn't that make

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an exciting adventure to tell about next
week? Yeah? What's that? And

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I'll call it the case of the
Perfect Penman. It's been only a few

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short years since dell Rich margarine was
first introduced, but in those years del

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has won many many friends, more
than any other margarine in fact, and

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at this holiday season, the makers
of Delrich want to thank you most sincerely.

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In many homes, Delrich has played
an important part in your big and

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bardiful Christmas dinner today. We hope
this has been the merriest Christmas you've ever

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had, and that next year's will
be even better. Nick Carter Master Detective

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is presented each week at the same
time by the Cuttahay Packing Company. It

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is produced and directed by Jock McGregor
and is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications

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Incorporated. Lawn Clark is tarred as
Nick, and Charlotte Manson is featured as

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Patsy. Ed Latimer plays Mattie.
Today's transcribed adventure was written by Norman Daniels,

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where the original music played by Henry
Silverne. This program is fictional and

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any resemblance to actual persons living or
dead is purely coincidental. This is Michael

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Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count,
use new wonderful old Dutch cleanser. This

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is the mutual broadcasting system. This
is Andrew J. Graham, author of

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the web surface series Oh and a
Mana's Wife. You're listening to the great

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detectives of Old time Radio. Welcome
back. Well that mentioned at the start

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of the episode that they were going
to that this was transcribed especially so people

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could be home with their families during
Christmas. I thought that was great.

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I just wish they would have transcribed
a few more episodes, may have made

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the series a little less rare.
It really is a good final adventure for

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at least what we have in circulation. I really did like the way at

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the end that they tease the next
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which I think is a little more
personal, bolling engaging. It should

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be mentioned that Nick Carter actually had
a much longer career on the radio.

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It aired throughout nineteen fifty, fifty
one, fifty two, fifty three,

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fifty four, and right into the
middle of nineteen fifty five. However,

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none of those episodes are in circulation. However, Radio Gold Index Catalog is

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the existence of many of these episodes, so they may be in the hands

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of private collector somewhere just waiting to
be discovered, and I certainly would enjoy

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hearing more Nick Carter. I found
this to be a fairly solid series.

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Yeah, it has its problems,
it's tropes, a few plot issues,

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and the ever changing relationship between Nick
and Patsy, but the mysteries were generally

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well written and long. Clark,
I think it is just perfect as Nick

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Carter as this brilliant detective who,
even though he's a bit of a new

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at all, is a lovable new
at all and a very tough character.

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And it's definitely been entertaining bringing you
this series for the past two and a

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half years, and I hope you've
enjoyed it. Well, that will do

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it for now. Tomorrow we'll be
back with yours truly Johnny Dowler, and

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coming up next week we're going to
bring you a two part presentation of The

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Moonstone on Suspense, so be sure
and listen to that. In the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at
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your host, Adam Grahamson and off