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now it's time for today's episode to
let George do it. This one is

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called chance and probability, personal not
as dangers my stock and trade. If

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the job's too tough, are you
to hand it? You've got a job

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for me, George Valentine right full
detail Standard Oil Company of California invites you

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to let George do it in just
a moment, will begin to Night's Adventure

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of George Valentine. But first,
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oil gives extra protection against war and
repair. A fleet of taxicabs used to

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average only thirty five thousand miles between
overhauls. Now using heavy duty RPM,

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these same cabs travel over one hundred
thousand miles before overhauling. And that's your

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proof that heavy duty RPM motor oil
cuts engineware and greatly increases the time between

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overhauls, gives top protection and top
economy of operation the kind you want in

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your car. So next time,
be sure you get heavy duty RPM at

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any independent Chevron gas station or standard
station where they say and mean we take

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better care of your car. And
now the night story Chance and Probability,

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a transcribed adventure of George Valentine.
Dear mister Valentine, Chance and Probability a

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harmless sounding phrase, isn't it,
But it's had a horrible influence on my

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life ever since I first heard it
in a beautiful South American town that has

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pink houses, incredible sunsets of liquid
gold, and Caesars, the fanciest gambling

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can see no outside of Mate Carlo. Oh, yes, it also has

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a murder that everyone but me is
willing to forget. Mister Valentine, I

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need help from a fellow American,
someone I at least know by reputation.

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So please please use these airplane tickets
and come to me sleep, Mary Marston

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Caricathestor LaRue twenty five avientidos soul pullicon
ps. The words chance and probability referred

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to a gambling system which can't fail
to make anyone a million dollars, except

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that its possession is an invitation to
death. Well that was quite an answer,

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thought Abrooks. Yes, George,
And those tickets aren't all that.

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Mary sent here five golden yellow chips
with the name Caesars and a royal crest.

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No, no, less, the
fancier is gambling casino outside of Monte

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Carlo. Five one hundred dollar chips
is a retaining The tickets are on a

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fight. Leaving tomorrow. I'm going
right home in pack but Brooks to go

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all the way to South America.
Just like that. All things we have

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to do here. Yes, after
all, Mary did say the place has

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incredible sunsets, the golden yellow color
of these incredible chips. South America.

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Here we come, you, dancing
teacher, one of the very best,

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Professor Marcel level at yoursel. That's
fine, Miss Mars. You, mademoiselle,

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Oh, you have the born grace
of the natural dancer. Five get

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along on the dance floor. You
get along? Or no, just get

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along. No, I can't teach
you to Marslin. Miss Mars, certainly

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lovely girl lives here like the others. Like the others, I not only

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teach the dance. I also own
this exceptionally fine establishment. No no,

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no, no, not a rooming
house. Really no, like an old

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fashioned little family group. So I
hear all that. Well, of course,

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impos I would naturally not teach the
sumber that can't go. No,

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no, no, here, I
teach the jitter. I hear your students

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are waiting for you. So if
you just tell us, well with moms,

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send miss Mars and you have come
to talk to Earth about about the

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system. No, I mean that
would be the only reason you would come

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all of you away from the United
States. No, mademoiselle, no secrecy

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or such a better missie. I
will pay you anything you want for that

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system. I'll keep that in mind. No, I will not let anyone

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else ever get its first. Please
for remember that Tanny wine. I'll repeat

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it to myself every night, just
before I drop off the Shoh boy,

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they're welcome to policy, or welcome
missie. His name was Bill Shields.

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He lived at the Professors too.
He was the only friend that I had

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here. But what you told us, he must have been a pretty wonderful

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man. Wanted me to go back
home. I didn't know. He left

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me all his money until the police
found his will and somebody killed him at

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Caesars. Yes, because Bill had
the system. Do you really believe there

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is such a thing? May Well, he won ten thousand dollars in one

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week, and he could have won
more. He said that would be enough

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for him, enough for me to
get well and strong again. How long

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have you been down here? Almost
a year? I was singing with a

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show that went broke here and then
I got sick. But weren't for Bill.

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I I was Bill doing him polic
song. Well, he'd been an

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engineer on some kind of construction job, but then he got interested in this

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system, this business of chance and
probability. What was that? Well,

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Bill said, the answer to any
system had to be in mathematics, so

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I always had me getting books on
mathematics, chance and probability, and then

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he succeeded mister Vallington. I can't
use any of Bill's money until I find

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out who killed him. You can
understand that, can't you. I'll do

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what I can. Why did the
police say about all this? Well,

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not that Bill was killed. There
was a robbery at Caesar's. They say

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the robbers killed Bill just sort of
accidentally. But it didn't So somebody killed

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him deliberately to stop him from using
his system. Caesar Coppa would be interested

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in doing that. Oh, somebody
might have tried to get the system from

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Bill and failed. Has Bill ever
written this system down? Very No,

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no, not that I know of. Has he ever explained it to you?

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I'm afraid I wouldn't be smart enough
to understand it anyway, Now you

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feel and nobody will do anything to
find out who killed Bill? Is that?

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And mister Valentine, you can get
all the facts from the police and

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from Caesar Cappa. They'll be delighted
to give you the fact. That's not

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enough. I must know who killed
Bill. Allie Murray, I already saw

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all the fabulous pink houses of Polies. On this evening, we'll see the

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sunset and maybe tomorrow we can complete
the points of interest and look for the

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murderer. Say you're Valentine. I
assure you we are doing all we can.

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Yes, so I've heard Lieutenant the
customer at anything you can do to

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help, Senor, we would be
honored. Thanks about the Caesar couple,

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A fine man, fine everyone in
Polazon seems to be an exemplary character.

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That is the way it would appear, Miss Brooks exactly. Still a man

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is dead and the system nah,
that is something I would not venture an

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opinion on, Senor. You ever, seems to Shield's play at the casino,

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oh see, and saw him win
again and again. Wow, could

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have been just a run of luck
that could happen. But before each player.

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I even saw mister Shields figure out
things on a piece of paper and

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always burned the paper with this cigarette
lighter. That could have been just window

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dressing him. I beg your pardon
over mind now, thought that robbery a

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very unusual thing to happen in mister
Copple's establishment. I'm sure it is our

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theory that poor mister Shields was merely
in the way of the thief, and

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so we should ever catch the thief
a rather death or possibility. Rankly,

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Yes, you see, our police
force is not large, and there are

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so many different ways to get in
and out of police on But naturally,

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if there is anything we can do
to cooperate, thanks, thanks very much.

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I think I've had all the cooperation
I can stand. And just one

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more thing, Yes, should you
come across the late mister Shield's system,

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the one you're not even sure exists, Lieutenant the Castle, It would be

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more pleasant and more profitable for you, mister Valentine if you were to get

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in touch with me. First good
day. But you have me wrong,

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mister Valentine. Mister Sild's death was
a very unpleasant shock to me. Yeah,

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you must have cried all that.
I am serious. You must admit

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your grief does seem hard to believeable
to Capital Season, they lay a much

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nobler name. Well, the frank
remains Season. But Shields want a great

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deal of money here at the casino, and presumably he could win as much

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more as he wanted. However,
that it's just the point, mister Shields

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was a gentleman. The night he
was killed, he came hire to say

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goodbye. He apologized for winning the
ten thousand dollars at my expense. See,

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it was all in needed. Adventured
the guests that I would survive,

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And as I see, you have
quite well. Yes, this is a

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beautiful place, isn't it. You
ought to see it in the evening when

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the play is in full swing.
It is truly worthy of season. I

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know, but I still don't care
what you're driving out about Shields. This

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isn't on this casino, mister Valentine. I do not have to, but

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obviously I cannot survive it through the
genuine system. Mister Shields is dead.

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Remember, I repeat, I had
nothing to fear from him anymore. But

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whoever has this system now? Has
someone else been very lucky around here lately?

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No, but I think that somebody
will someday. Why. Needless to

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say, I watched Shields every move
during the play. One evening, in

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the excitement of winning, he dropped
one of the pieces of paper on which

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he was making his calculations. The
paper was an unusual shade of yellow.

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Shield's system was the talk of the
town. How many people were trampled in

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the Russia. As a matter of
fact, only one other person noticed it,

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shift the individual around town called the
Nickel. I wasn't fast enough to

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stop him before he reached the door, the penalty of overweight. I'm sure

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you had a talk with the impetuous
Nickel a later. It didn't private,

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but he said he couldn't make any
sense of the figures on the paper,

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so he destroyed it. A likely
story, precisely, especially since Niko has

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lately been seen spending more money than
he ever had in his life, and

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more especially since Nko is now nowhere
to be found. So you figure Nko

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sold a precious piece of yellow paper
and was told to make himself scarce.

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Mister Valentine, I will pay you
handsomely. I must know if these systems

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did exists, and who has it. I already have a client sees here,

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but you're welcome to tag along if
you'll help me, of course,

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and I want to know all the
details at the robbery. How do I

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get him? I will arrange for
you to speak to Carl Sebring, my

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manager, and Freddy Griggs, the
cashier's loyal Valentine, I merely think my

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employe is dramatizing himself again meeting Rod
Sebring. There's no such thing as a

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winning systems. The tune we've heard
before. It's usually followed by another tune

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when you find it. Remember me
first. I've been again, But for

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many years was Brooks Gamblings my whole
life, and I never found a system.

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As you notice, I'm an employee
off Caesars the Magnificent who gambles not

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at all. The models an obvious
one, so it is, and amen.

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But the moment I'd like to know
about the robbery. It took place

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just about here at this roulette wheel. The lights suddenly went out. Aren't

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the extra ones an emergency lighting system
most gambling places have on. The switch

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to the auxiliary lighting system is near
the cashier's cage. When Freddie turned it

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on, he found it had been
tampered with. Oh that was convenient.

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By the time some other lights went
on, the croupier was neatly knocked out,

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the money was scooped up from the
racks, and in the excitement,

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mister Shields was shot with a gun
which must have had a silency. The

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lights were tampered with, I and
inside job wouldn't you say, seving,

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I would say so, but Caesar
shies away from the ideas if it were

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a reflection on his own honor.
The men Caesar has chosen can do no

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wrong. That sort of thing.
Again, I get the idea you're not

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very fond of mister Kappo. Fond
of him better than that. I admire

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him his colossal ego. He actually
has that phony royal crest on every handkerchef

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he owns, and every cigarette smokes. So obviously they stolen money incident had

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to be put on a grandiose basis, including the Niko incident. Now,

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if you'd like to see the cashier, yeah, lead on spring. Yeah,

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I give ten years of my life
for a system like that. Miss

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always knew somebody would be lucky and
work one out, and the man who

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did wasn't very lucky, it seems, sir. Oh, yes, sir,

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I see what you mean. Funny, Yes, sir, you can

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turn the emergency lights on right here
near the cage, right right. In

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fact, I'd tested them myself just
before the casino opened, mister kap I

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was right with me. The old
thing is a running mystery. Yeah,

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But later when the lights went out, didn't you do anything? Governor?

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I have a game leg see got
it in an accident. That's why I

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took this cashier job, so I
wasn't going to run anywhere. Besides,

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it might have been a trick,
Sir. I do just then? Did

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it leave the cage? You got
it? Miss? So I just take

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the ear in the dark set you
with a gun, A gun with a

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silencing holes. Sir? Why not? Just an idle question? Yes?

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Did you notice Nico here at the
casino on the night mister Shields was murdered?

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Nico? You know I'm don't you? Just enough not to give him

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credit. He hasn't been around in
days and days. No idea where I

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can find him, George, I
think Lieutenant the Caurst was looking for you.

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Oh good, maybe he can help
us find Nico, the only leader

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we seem to have all the talent. I was very anxious to find you.

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Yeah, what's up? It seems
we have had another murder committed by

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the same man who killed mister Shields. The bullets match who was killed,

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and that is the mystery. A
very unimportant man, a man who cannot

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have any connection with this case at
all, A man called Nico in just

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a moment will return to tonight's adventure
of George Valentine. I'm sure that you've

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heard me say before that any gas
can be made to stress one performance feature

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at the expense of others. But
Chevern Supreme gasoline gives you not one,

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not two, but all eight high
performance qualities in correct balance. And it's

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true, but the one real test
for any gasoline is the way it performs

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in your car. That's why I
also say that you'll never know real driving

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pleasure until you try a tankful of
Chevern Supreme. Those eight high performance qualities

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make sure that Chevern Supreme performs best
under all driving conditions. Quick starting,

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fast warm up, smooth acceleration,
area blending at enoch vaporlock prevention, full

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power, and economy mileage. Those
are the qualities you get in every gallon

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of Chevern Supreme. So if a
sluggish, choked up motor azure car hugging

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the side of the road, letter
switch over now to the gas with all

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eight. Remember, Chevern Supreme can
make your driving a pleasure instead of a

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chore. So next time you gasoline, stop in and say fill her up

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with Chevern Supreme at any standard station
or independent Chevron gas station. What they

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say and mean, we take better
care of your car. Chance and probability

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the heart of a winning gambling system
that brought luck to nobody, not to

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Bill Shields, the man who invented
it, not to the shifty little South

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American Niko who tried to cash in
on it. Both were murdered. Yes,

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you're up to your neck in this
very strange case that brought you thousands

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of miles to the little town of
Polisar. And even if your name is

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George Valentine, you've been to think
that the chances for success are small,

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and the probability off you're getting a
bullet next is great. Still, you

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stick to your job, which at
the moment is again talking to the huge

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and egotistical owner of the casino.
Sees a couple the murder a kid,

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and he goes so that he would
be the only one at the system.

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Now he'm at his mercy. Cut
that out, Caesar. His place isn't

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worth a center. A man can
come in and win as much as he

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wants anytime, d man I did. That's a little more important than the

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money you might lose. I built
up this casino from nothing. I built

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it beautiful and strong because I am
Caesar Cappo and I am not going to

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see it destroyed. I am Yeah, you know what, I don't know

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what I can do? Okay,
then listen to me and trying to help.

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Yes, who was here the nice
shields were shot? Was Mary Marston

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here? The American girl? No
professor la room let me think. Yes

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he was here, but not that
he had any money to play with you.

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But he was here. And the
lieutenants, Yeah he was here.

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But the one more thing, the
emergency lights. You were with a cashier

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when he tested them? That is
right, they worked. Have you any

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idea how they could have been tampered
with? I would swear it wouldn't be

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impossible for anyone to do that without
Freddie seeing him. Impossible, impossible,

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But it was done. Yeah,
Murder doesn't have to come here by himself

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ever, he has can have dozens
of people come to you use this system

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ruined me? He she is a
cop boy. The Mercedi's address? What

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Freddie Griggs the canshier? Where does
he live? Carl Seabrigg must know?

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But why I don't see? I
want Freddie's address and an oversized portion of

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good luck. It's overdue, George. What if Freddie decides to come back

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here, after all, this is
sits home and climbing in through a window,

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isn't he stop worrying looking for I'm
sure good that always helps. I'm

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hoping it might be money, lots
of money. The money stolen from the

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casino would be Maybe you ought to
believe Caesar that it was impossible for anyone

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among you the lights, and it
would have to be Freddie himself. Surely

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he wouldn't keep the money he earth
couldn't very well take it to the bank.

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Still, it's sort of in the
dream department. Igness shirts sucks hand

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Kerchen. What is it, George? A piece of yellow paper, a

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very unusual shade of yellow, the
system, the piece of paper that Nico

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sneaked out of the casino on which
Bill Shields figured his play. Let me

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see the square root of C three
D over A plus b equals the square

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root of C three d parenthesis A
plus b over parenthesis A plus b times

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too. A real fascinating. Well, it must be the key to the

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system. But George, what's it
doing. You're at Freddy's If Freddie bought

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the piece of paper from Nico,
then he must have killed him and shields.

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That's what follows me books. See
how come this paper was left where

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I could be found. Freddie's too
smart for that. Yes, well,

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what are we doing next? Come
on, I'll get the lights. At

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least we can leave through the door. Well, the police can make pretty

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talk if he knows anything about this
piece. No, don't, did you

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see what? Not? Too dark? I just hearn him move off finally

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never getting George. Please murder.
It's getting more and more desperate, Dolly.

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Let's leave this case in the castro, and in your life you still

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have this piece of paper and a
client who has a conscience at a heartache.

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Come on, Brooky, we gotta
see people. I just got here

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to the casino Valentine first one,
huh Caesar around seabring. Oh no,

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he didn't come down necessarily. He's
probably home getting his daily manicure and shade.

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Preddy here should be here any minute, all right. Took a little

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walk after dinner or dude always likely
constitutions it's might to be walking alone.

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You don't have a lot of people
watching what you do. Yes, miss

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I do like my solitude, just
to do a little thinking, meditate under

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the stars and let the bomb of
the evening. Yeah you're a poet,

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Reddie. Nice to talk to you. So you were here in your apartment

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all evenings since I am a lazy
man, mister Valentine, have you nails

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manicured with the barber here? No? No, no night. I was

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here all alone. Even Caesar has
his moments of loneliness. But it was

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terrible, as you will, until
your calmed down the room, boy,

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I was just to call the police
or Mary, poor Mary, it makes

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sense. Were you. I was
in the other room, teaching a group

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or to do the Charleston, and
I heard Mary's screen. I went to

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their room as she was gone,
romis this way, isn't who? Yes?

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Miss you used and in one of
his students ran over to the window.

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There is that big garden you crossed
before you get to the street.

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Yes, yes, yes, we
know. Students are men dragging marry A

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throws the garden and she was struggling
with him, and he could not you

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with them, and whiles the kidney
to go. Yes, yes, yes,

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could desire hold on already put up
a fight alrighty and I think I

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know who she fought with. You
get Lieutenant the Castro Angel and meet me

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at Freddy's place as soon as you
can. Honey, no lights. I

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guess it's the window again. Nah, I was shay down and wrists.

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Yeah, something is different. I
swear what the mary? Wait? Wait

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on how old mister Valentine? Well, I have to gag her again?

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Wow? I was right about you. See Bring, please do as a

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girl. I'll have to kill you
now instead of later. Move okay,

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and makes you a much bigger man
than me, so you'll get no argument.

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Bust. He said. It was
going to make me tell him about

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the system, even if he had
to torture me. That's what I'm gonna

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do. And then you'll have to
go. But Valentine joining you Later,

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the police will say Freddie killed not
only Shields and Nico, but the two

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of you as well. After all, I already planted the paper. You're

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wasting your time. See Bring,
he doesn't know the system. I don't,

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really, I don't. I must
contradict you. Shields was your friend,

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miss Marston, good enough friend to
leave you all his money? You

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got him all those books. Oh
he can fide it in you all right,

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No, no, he didn't.
Can I get through with y'all?

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Know for sure? It's a matter
of curiosity, Valentine, how did you

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know that I took the girl here? Well, if I'm gonna satisfy your

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curio, said Eli, and at
least be civilized and have a cigarette,

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togetty, I can offer you a
good American brand later start talking. Okay,

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all the people in this case,
only you, whose passion is gambling,

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had no interest in the system.
Insisted that you didn't believe in one.

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That was strange to say the least. Perhaps I did overplay my hand

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a little. Help me, Please
help me, mister Valentin too, after

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somebody took those shots at me,
I heard him run. Certainly it couldn't

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have been Caesar, who waddles,
or Freddy, who has a bad lay

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shot up point three. Freddy couldn't
have dragged Mary across LaRue's garden, and

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Caesar, who only wants the system
destroyed, would have killed Mary in her

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room, not take any chance of
being seen. So again, it had

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to be you. Yes, it
was me all along, it was made.

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But why why did you kill Bill? I took advantage of Freddie's rather

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obvious maneuver with the lights and is
stealing the money that kills Shields and confuse

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the motive. But I'd never get
the system from him. With him dead,

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I could solve a piece of paper
I bought from ko Or as the

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last resort. Get the system from
you and I will. Now the paper

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was a fraud. Wasn't it a
problem? Annouge? But that's all.

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Oh, what a last Shields must
have had when he delibered. He let

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that piece of paper fall to the
floor in the casino cigarette. No let

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me you can have this in the
fake Cellivane Burns even put it into the

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bike. Second chance blush except from
me dout in time. Oh okay,

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alright, okay, it's all right. And I think I hit a lieutenant

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as polite and vague as ever I
bet, and almost too late. With

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Chris fall Day's already making an appearance. The battery in your car will be

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getting more and more of a workout
as winter approaches, so better take time

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now to be sure it's in good
condition your car. Savers are equipped to

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offer complete battery service. I'd be
glad to test your battery and if necessary,

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give it a recharge. But don't
wait until it's too late. Stop

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in soon for a battery check up
at any standard station or independent Chevron gas

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station where they say, and meme, we take better care of your car.

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Number two hundred and eight passengers will
please come aboard. It's nice to

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be going home with you. You'll
get well and strong again, Mary,

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Bill would want that, and you'll
forget all this, sure, sure,

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And the sun sets back home are
pretty nice too, and you can paint

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your house bullers on pink anytime.
I wouldn't even try to thank you,

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mister Valentine. Well, that's the
smartest thing I heard anyone say today,

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George. I wonder if Joe ever
did find us. Don't whether he was

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looking at the cast or said it
was just a sensational run of luck.

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What do you think, Mary,
I don't know. We'll never know.

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Now that's right, Maybe that's best. Caesar the responded, I have a

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person for you, a token of
my gratitude, Catlings, the most beautiful,

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the most expensive, and made just
for you, so personal, plan,

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so personal. See well the crest, of course, to let you

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remember that once you helped. Caesar. Goodbye, Bob boy Eyes, Goodbye

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the Night's transcribed adventure of George Valentine
has been brought to you by Standard Oil

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Company of California on behalf of independent
Chevern Gas stations and Standard stations throughout the

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West. Robert Bailey is starred as
George, with Virginia Gregg as brookste Let

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George Dooitt was written by David Victor
and directed by Kenneth Webb. Virginia Eiler

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was heard as Mary, Ted de
Corsia as Caesar, Harry Bartell as Carl,

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Eric Snowdon as Freddie, and Larry
Dobkin as Nicastro. Music by Gaylord

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Carter, Your announcer John Heaston.
Listen again next week, same time,

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Don lead broad Got Things that Welcome
back. Well, this was a pretty

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solid episode of Let George Do It. I liked how all of the clues

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could be easily deduced from things we'd
heard on the radio program, particularly as

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it had to do with people's walks. All the clues had been there,

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I'd probably overlooked, well I had
overlooked a couple and I'm certain you did

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too. But if that's you know, if that's the case on this particular

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episode, we only have ourselves to
blame with missing out on getting to the

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solution. All right, Well,
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