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Just go to Patreon dot Great Detectives
dot net. Well, now we're going

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to bring you a new series that
will only have for a week. This

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was actually a juvenile targeted series,
but it's not a bad one. It's

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called The Adventures of Billy swift Boy
Detective. And I'd not actually heard of

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this and tell about nine months ago
when a recording was released from the collection

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of the late Joe Hen who was
just a huge collector whole time radio.

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From his collection, we've gotten other
things as well, including the not Beat

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episode and a couple episodes of The
Man called X that we played earlier this

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year. Billy swift Boy Detective was
broadcast in nineteen thirty eight and nineteen thirty

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nine, and followed him as he
solved mysteries around the world. The series

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was sponsored by the California Fruit Growers
Association and was part of a program called

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sun Kiss Time. I don't know
if there was a specific network that this

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aired over, or if it was
syndicated to a bunch of California radio stations.

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We know little about Frank Belan,
who was the star of this program,

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other than that he did go on
to appear in some soap operas later

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on. It's also worth noting I
don't think we have had any detective programs

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with a main character named Bell or
William, and now we actually have two

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at once, playing in the same
week. All right, Well, all

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of that out of the way,
let's go ahead and dig into today's episode

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of Billy Swiftboy Detective. The original
air date was likely October twenty nine,

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nineteen thirty eight, and this one
is young Mountaineer mysteriously shot to day and

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every Saturday morning, The sun Kissed
Gors of California and Arizona Present transcribe for

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boys and Girls the Thrilling Adventures of
Billy Swift, the Boy Detective. This

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week, the Boy Detective upholds law
and justice. High in the mountains,

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Jeff Buckley, a young mountaineer,
has been mysteriously shot. Good morning,

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sun Kissed Timers and members of the
sun Kissed Secret Service. Good morning Ken

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Kapent, Good morning Bill Goodwin,
and boys and girls, And of course

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it's always good morning when you begin
with a big glass of delicious fresh sun

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kissed rings juice. It has a
keen taste that starts the day right.

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But more than that, it's helpful
in keeping those three important training rules.

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Plenty of exercise, plenty of sleep, plenty of good food. It helps

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you make the right kind of gains
and height and wait, helps you build

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sturdy bones, helps you have strong
sound teeth, gives you a better appetite

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for other good foods. So I'll
be sure to start every day the right

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way with a big glass of delicious
fresh sun kissed Storings juice, and be

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sure to listen at the end of
this program when Billy Swift tells you how

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to join the sun Kissed Secret Service. So here we go for the seventeenth

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episode of The Boy Detective, Certain
that his son Jeff has been murdered by

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lem Cole, another young mountaineer Old
John Buckley is determined that Cole shall be

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found and made to pay the penalty
for his crime. Outside his cabin,

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Buckley, mounted on his horse,
is preparing to join in the hunt for

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the murderer when he's hated by his
daughter. Where are you going? I

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reckon? You knows where I'm goomed
Sally? Are you joining up with those

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men the hunt for lamb? I'm
leading him. We'll beat these hills too.

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We find that if you do fun
and promise, you won't do aught

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too. He's pice to be said, a chair to talk. I ain't

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promising enough. Shame on you,
sall. If you're steaming up for a

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curse, would killed your brother?
He's never done it. Poor knows he

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never done it. Who's that?
You're on the coming long trail? See

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him coming a long an a horse? Oh, San, No, I've

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never seen him before. He's f
He ain't going no further than these hills

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that I know. Who are I'm
riding down there to stab him? Ye?

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I'm kind of Oh oh, he
comes? Poor all up? Where

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are you going, old speaker?
Where are you going? Going up to

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see Tom Wallace? What's the idea
of booking that rifle. I mean,

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what's your business with the Wallace?
I don't know that it's any of your

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fair Come on, let me find
it at worry to be we ain't lying,

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no feigners and he's mountain. Lets
me know who they are in their

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business? All right. My name's
Billie Swift. I'm spending a few days

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with Wallace to do some honey and
fishing. Is that satisfy you? I

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don't know. You ain't a lyning
so you think I'm lying? All right?

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Wait a minute. Here's the letter
Wallace wrote me asking me to come

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up. Go ahead and read it. Show it to my god, I

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ain't had no book liner, allow, it's all right, cool gels.

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He wouldn't be aiming to show it
to us. Why don't you leave him?

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Go on? Go along with you
then, but see you go right

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to Wallace a place. Don't worry, I will you have the boy on?

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M hmm. Here's to me like
Wallace be too busy to go and

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having visiting folks well. Being a
furriner himself, I know he wants a

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furner for company, wants in a
while. Huh maybe maybe in this preacher

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covering haty preacher. What was that
yonder that just rid off or some furners

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going into visit term Wallace. Look
at here, Paul, he drapped something

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that boy it's a card life is
not a cell out in his pocket when

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he took that let out? And
what did it? Britain say, they's

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Billy Swift detective, detective, detective
whatever. That meaning means that there is

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business a reckon. A detective is
a fellow what tracks down thieves and murderers

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in the line. So that's what
he had. He's come here a medal

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in the affairs of us mountain Bill. He ain't preachy wall It's invited them

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in to do some hunting and fishing. That's so Bridget and let it from

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Wallace. Well, that be getting
on winds is starting out to hunt for

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them cold. You're coming along,
Bridget now, Buckley, I can't.

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I got other matters to tend to
them. Later in Tom Wallace's cabin,

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So old man Buckley stuffed you with
a rifle, did he, Billy?

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I don't know if his name was
Buckley, Tom, but you say the

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girl's name was Sally's or it must
have been Buckley. Well, I'm not

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surprised. These mountaineer stuff. Everybody
like that generally they do if they don't

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know you. They're fine people,
Billy, but very independent. You see,

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they've lived in these hills since Revolutionary
War days. They haven't had much

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contact with the outside world, and
they don't want any I see. They

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like to mind their own business and
be let alone. That's why they keep

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their eyes open for furriners, as
they call them. Well, in a

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way, you can't blame them.
Would you like a cup of coffee,

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Billy, I can make something a
very few minutes. No, it's hand

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nobody. What's no trouble. No, really, I wouldn't care for any

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You know, that rifle, old
buckley head, was the strangest looking weapon

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I ever saw in my life.
Chances are it was an old flintlock on

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flintlock. Yes, Reilly, the
old timers in this country still use them,

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a regular old flintlock musket that loads
with a ramrod. They mold their

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own bullets. Well, can you
beat that is? You've got to realize

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that you're stepping back about one hundred
years when you come into these hills.

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You'd be surprised at the superstition some
of the older folks have. Yeah,

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some of them still believe in witches
as a matter of fact, Is that

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right? Yeah? Oh, and
speaking of flintlocks, is a legend to

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the effect that the only satisfactory way
to kill a witch is with a silver

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bullet. You don't mean to say
they actually shoot women they suspect to being

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witches. Well, no, it
hasn't been done in recent years, but

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the belief about the witch bullets still
hangs on. I guess we've got a

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caller. Come in. Oh,
hello, Sellyphtim is the switch? I

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see how you out here? All
right? Oh you're the girl I met

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down on a trail. Yeah,
sit down, Sally, thank you,

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mister Wallace. That's like ray now, that's all. Yeah. But I

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come anyhow. I just had to
come, I see, mister Wallace.

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Have you told mister Swift thought about
Limb? Oh? No, I haven't,

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Sally. He just got here a
little while ago. Don't you want

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him to know about lamb? Oh? Yes, I should do. That's

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why I come here, mister Swift. I ain't aiming it before, and

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I knows you're a ferner in all, but but I wasn't thinking you might

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help me out being your detective.
How do you know I'm a detective case?

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You dressed this card over our place? Oh but Sally, Billy came

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up here for a vacation, you
know. Is I'm a known there?

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What's it all about? Time?
Well, all day before yesterday, Sally's

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brother was killed, Billy. He
was shot from ambush over near the coal

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cabin and died a few hours later. And there is seeing Limb Call done

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at mister Swift. But he know, but he couldn't have done it.

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Young Cole's the fellow Sally's been keeping
company with him. Oh, I see

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we we were going to get married, mister Swift. But Noah, Rick,

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you can never be You say they
accused lim Call of his crime.

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What do you mean by they?
But Pau, mostly Paul and some of

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the men is out of hunting for
Limb right now. Yes, Belly,

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you see, right after the shooting, Limb disappeared money after the shooting.

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He went away a four the shooting. Well, Sally, I'm just telling

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Billy the story as I heard it. Maybe you've got a different version of

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I sure have. Mister Swift.
Liam told me two days before the shooting

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that he was aiming to leave for
a while because he couldn't stand miss Millie

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no longer. He said it was
going to hunt for a job someplace so

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he could take me out of the
mountains after we was married. Who's missus

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Millie? Shere? A old woman
would come to live with the Calls.

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Long before Limbs pawn Moore died.
She ain't no blood kin of Limbs.

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She shall have been making his life
miserable because it was keeping company with me.

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You see, Billy, there's been
bad feeling between the Calls and the

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Bucklers for years. And even though
Millie isn't really a Call, she hits

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the Buckley is just the same,
I see. And I suppose the Buckley's

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having mighty idea of Limb going with
Sally either, oh hardly. A few

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days before he was killed, Jeff
threatened to get Limb if he didn't keep

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away from his sister, but they
didn't know. Probably I'm shot him.

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Limb wouldn't kill him, my own
blood brother, loving me the way he

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didn't. Nevertheless, Sally, that's
the reason, folks, thank you shouting,

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Oh mister s will Cane. You
see, it ain't true. If

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you only hit me out, I'll
be ever less in the mounting to you,

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you mean you want me to prove
that limb's innocent. Yes, he'll

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have to be done mighty quick too. He might come back on these mountain's

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most any time now and they'll string
him up short as you're born. Did

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they recover the bullet they killed your
brother? Sally? You'd have to ask

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Pritchard about that. Mister Swift,
he took care of Jeff after he was

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shot. He's pritchey to doctor.
He's the nearest thing to a doctor they've

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got around here. But if you
ask me, he's a greedy, unscrupulous

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old skin plant. Yeah. He
makes these people give him the very clothes

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off their back and exchange for his
quick medical services. Oh there comes your

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rings, Sallie. Say I better
get my horse on his shoulders. Yes,

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I'll get my coat. Yes it's
still, so I'll take care of

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him. Where can I put the
horse? Well, there's a lean to

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a round back. You'll see my
horse there. But I better come with

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you. No, I've got my
coat on. No use about both get

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anyway, mister Wallace. Do you
reckon? He will help me out?

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Well? I don't know, Sallie. You must remember it's pretty hard for

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an outsider to do any investigating in
these mountains. It was not a shot,

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Yes it was Billy. Billy here, I am. We hit the

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shot, I'll see right on my
head. But they weren't hit the side

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of the cabin. I'll see who
done it? Yah? Did he go

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hitting the tin by the horse?
It's a man, Pretchard, Pritchard.

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It certainly is Billy. What would
he be shooting at me? Forward?

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He never saw me before in his
wife, Yes he did. He's seen

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you riding away from our place.
Does he know him? A detective?

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He was there when I picked up
the card. Well, I guess he

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doesn't want a detective in these mountains. But I lay enough. Look Sally,

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you bet I'll help you out.
You go on home and wait,

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let's get all horses and go to
Pritchard's place. I want to ask that

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guy a few questions. Thirty minutes
later, Billy and Tom are well on

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their way to the Pritchard cabin.
I'm glad the rains led up for a

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little while time. Oh it's so
am. I we'll get some more of

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it though. Oh, by the
way, there's the cold cabin back there

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through the trees. Is that so? I didn't know we'd passed the cold

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place on the way to Pritchard's.
Yes, right along here some places where

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Sally and Jeff were walking when Jeff
was shot. Was Sally with him when

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he was shot? I guess you
forgot to tell you about that. Let's

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stop here. I want to size
up this place. Whoa boy? Who?

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So that's where Lemon all Millie lived. Yep. Even see how easy

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it would have been for them to
shoot through a window and hit Chat.

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Yeah, but I'm not so sure
Lim did it Tom, and neither am.

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I Im showing you. One reason
why the Mountain people suspect, you

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see, is that Milly over by
that shed, Yes it is, and

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by George. There's Precher too,
Yeah, seems standing there in the doorway

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of the shed. So that's pretching. What's he doing here on one day?

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I don't know. Looks like he
and Millie are having an argument about

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something. He certainly are she.
I wish we could take it in.

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Can't we ride around behind the place
and get close to that shed? We

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can try, Billy, Come on, I'll show you the way. During

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this pause in our story, we
hear from Ken capenter and all. There

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are many delicious foods and money that
are good for you, but it isn't

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often you find one that's both as
delicious and healthful as sun kissed oranges.

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A big sun kissed orange is just
the thing for dessert with your school lunch.

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It's a good thing for between meals, eating in the morning or afternoon.

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It gives you a quick energy,
but doesn't spoil your appetite for lunch

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or dinner. Ask your mother.
Now back to our story. Behind the

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underbrush near the shed, Billy and
Tom listen to Pritchard and Millie talking.

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Well, it ain't gonna do you
no good to take on about it.

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Oh hay, oh, I got
to say to you, Pritchard here,

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that's your riskcound running a thief.
That's about it enough. Now, well,

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yeah, you ain't going to be
satisfied just taking the cow. Next

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thing, I know you'll be making
me give Wow, he'd be getting off

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lucky after night. Did I get
out of my way whilst I lead this

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cow out of here? There he
goes down the street. Millie, this

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is Billy Swift, a friend of
mine. How do you do we so?

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Pritchard leaving your cow down the trail. Well, what about it?

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Nothing? Only we were just wondering
if you'd sold her. No, I

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ain't solder the cow stick. He's
taking her over to his place to give

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her some medicine. Well couldn't he
bring the medicine here? What business is

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it? A yearn Why did you
come here for bringing that boy? Where?

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Mary? Where had he go here? I am say, what's this

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thing here? Well, that's Millie's
bullet, mold billy. You'll keep away

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from there. I had no idea
that's what it was. You leave from

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there? My business? You got
crowd and around the cabin. Oh,

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Millie, don't get so mad.
Is there any way to treat company?

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I ain't want to no company.
I want you both to clean out.

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All right, let's go tom Oh, I guess we're better. I hope

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you're in a better humor next time
we call Millie. Well, did you

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hear what she said about the cow? Yeah? I did. She's afraid

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to tell the truth. She's afraid
of Pritcher and she must be. What's

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it all about? Anyway? Thanks
for us to find out. In the

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meantime, I found something that may
help a little. Yeah, okay,

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I found this in a crack on
the floor right under that bullet. Bold,

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Why it's silber. Sure she's been
molding a silver bullets on remember the

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story you told me about the witch
bullets. Yes, but I don't see

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any connection between a witch bullet and
the murder of Jam. I think I

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do. Come on, let's get
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Meanwhile, in a dense thicket near
the Buckley cabin, Lam, Lam,

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it's you, know, Sally.
I thought you never worked going to Jemmy.

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Has anybody seen you? No,
Sally, Thank the Lord for them

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all. Then the terriblest thing has
happened while she was away. I know,

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honey. I heard about Jeff down
and weaver crossing. I hear they

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think I done it. They do
him pull in the manner out of hunting

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for you right now? Yeah,
I see him. You see him?

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Hu. It was just down a
little piece down the mountain from here.

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If they never see me, Honey, I won for I cut around through

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the timber. I were wanting to
see you. Sally. Tell you I've

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never done it. I know you
never done it, But you can't stay

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in these mountains. You'll get you
what they are I gonna do r I

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don't know. I reckon. You'll
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I could john him later on.
You you have to join me,

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salad, But you can't make a
move till night for you stay right here

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on the brush. I have to
stop. Come out your mud. Oh

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no, no, you have on
your legs lamb taking it free. He's

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good hanging three. Back to billion
Tom arriving at Pritchard's cabin. They opened

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the door and walk in. Well
you're here, I see, Pritchard.

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Why don't you mean walking in my
house without knock? We want to talk

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to you, and we're not standing
on ceremony. Yeah, what was the

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idea of taking a shot at me
a while ago? Oh you don't try

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to denoy it. Tom Sawyer and
Sally Buckley saw you. You're crazy fun

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night. You wanted to get me
out of the way, didn't you.

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You'll get out of my house,
get out. Watch to come mind that

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rifle, Pritchard. I've got your
cupboard. Stop and that gun at me.

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You'll sit right there and we point
out where we want to know where's

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the bullet that killed Jeff Buckley?
Well, yeah, the bullet. We

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know you've got it, well,
I ain't. What'd you do with it?

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All it away? Oh? I
know you didn't. Might as well

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tell us where it is, because
we're gonna get it. It ain't.

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Yeah, yeah, I guess you
better have a look for it, Billy.

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You bet I'll have a look for
it. You'll get run out of

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a company for this. We'll see
about that. Try some of the drawers

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and that all covered over there,
Billy, I'm going to I swell,

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have you a bat raw? Hide
it down the mountain for this had to

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come in an honest man's house.
Honest, Why you old truck? You've

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been cheating the people around here for
years. I found its home. I

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found good here it is. He's
your silver bullet. So you threw it

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away? Did you bridge it?
It ain't the bullet that killed Jeff.

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I play no. You'd be surprised
if I proved it was, wouldn't you.

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It's Sally come in. Sally got
him. What do the fund to

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take him to Oak Creek to hang
him? Oh? Can't you do something?

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Can't you? Stuff? You bet? I can do something, Billy?

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Can we get there in time?
I don't Billy, Tom I'm going

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with Sally. You bring Pitcher to
Oak Creek. I don't care how you

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do it, but get him there. Bring all Millie too, and bring

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a rifle. Get there as fast
as you can. Tom As the driving

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rain once more descends over the hill
country, the angry mountaineers with lem Cole

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and Custody arrive at Oak Creek.
Right here, Oh boy, all right?

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Getting down off that horse night.
Then you throw his yard rope over

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that limb, and be sure to
make a good sniff. None you leave

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me, I never tell I'll never
get out, old head horse or a

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greg get out. You're all are
making a bad mistake. You ope be

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sorry. Can't you even give my
chance to say? Nothing? Chance?

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A chance? You want? What
chance did you give my poor boy jeff

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Hey? Answer of that? None? Whatsomever you shot him in the back?

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I know him. I swelled ahead, but I never gotten that rope.

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Ready, Ben, if you're a
ready, good, get him overlar

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man. You're all are gonna be
sorry for this. You're gonna be plum

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sorry. Get the noose around his
neck. Ben, you're hanging a man

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your head, your gillies. Sin. I never done it, but I

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was on my way to weave a
crossing. When Jeff was shot, you

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asked, Millet, we're done,
Ask Milly, he says you right out

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of the shooting. She said there, sure, sure, Milly said that.

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No, what do you got to
see? If you said no?

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No, no, he didn't through. Let's star listening, old more its

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puppy dog. Wow. Come on, man, I'm on man, come

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on, live, you on this
roope and string him up. Hold on,

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hold on coming, you're on it. Oh it's selling man, Farner.

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Stop, don't ain't that man?
O? Wait, thank goodness,

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we got here in time. Buckley, m call didn't kill your son?

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What do you mean he's sailing bringing
this middle and foreigner here? William's ain't

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standing for no interference? Sure now
wait a minute. Sure I'm a stranger,

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but I'm going to see that justice
is done. A you men of

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the men I think you are,
you'll want to see that justice is done

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too. Sure, sure we want
to see justice. Donn that's why we're

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hanging in Lim didn't kill Jeff,
I tell you, mister Buckley, old

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Milly he did. Yes, she
didn't see this bullet, see this silver

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bullet? Why why that are a
witch? Bullet. Certainly it's a witch

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bullet. Billie molded it itself and
killed Jeff with it. He trying to

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tell Winds a minute, took Jeff
for a witch. She didn't say anything

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of the kind. Sally was walking
right beside Jeff when he was shot.

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Sali, you tell him about Aunt
Millie, Well, she hated me because

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if I'm mounted them, she wouldn't
have no support. She's been telling folks

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I was for witch. You see, she molded the witch bullet for Sally,

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and she intended to kill Sally,
but her rain wasn't very good,

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and she hit Jeff. That are
a crazy story you're telling. Oh no,

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it isn't. I think I can
prove it. When Tom Wallace gets

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here with Millian Pritchet, Ritcheff,
we're gonna have a shot on on this

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all the way around. What's Pretchey'd
got to do with it? Money?

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He's known all along that Millie killed
Jeff with his silver bullet, and he's

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held it as ad over Milly's head. What do you mean? I mean

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he's been blackmailing it, threatening to
exposure if she didn't give him a property

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Wallace and I saw him taking Millie's
cow away from this afternoon. Told up,

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there's Wallace bringing him into part of
a gun. Who they are,

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Billy? Everything? All right?
So far a time I play. This

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hasn't outright one minute, Pritchet,
hold on he look yeah, Millie,

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he fairly say you shot my boy
with a witch bullet. You're a lie,

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yeah, Pritchard, Richard is a
scene. You know it all along?

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Okays? And you took the witch
bullet out my boy. He are

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alive, Parna. He stole a
silver bullet from my place, but it

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won't tak out a chap. Oh
no, listen, man, I'm so

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sure I'm right about this that I'm
going to prove it to you right now.

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Tom did you bring Millie splint block? Here's Billy here? It is

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all right. There's a way of
telling him a certain boy came out of

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a certain gun by the marks on
the bullet after it's fire. And so

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I'm going to fire a shot from
miss plint lock into one of these trees

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and we'll dig it out and compare
it with the silver bullet. Ain't got

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to get that man? What are
you so anxious for him to get?

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Richard Bourmelli he's a card to me, thief. He ain't going to leave

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me hard and catch all the blame. Oh so you met, you've got

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some blame coming. Sure, I
ain't gun Hitch used to do it?

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Hey you are, mister Buckley.
We don't need to fire that gun.

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But that Richard ain't gorn to go
free. He's been making me give him

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the very bright arm ask ke Chell. He won't go free. They got

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him now, so enough how they
come with him? Well, mister Buckley

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wanted to see that justice was done, So now you know how to go

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about it. Ricking, you're right, boy, you know, I'm I'm

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sorry. But lim Well, if
that's the case, why don't you get

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him over here and bury the hatch? It means everything to your daughter's happiness,

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mister Buckling, Yeah, Rickon,
you're right, button man, Lam

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Yeah, damn come here, yeah, Berkley, m yeah. Kind of

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hard for me to see this,
but Reckon, you can never forgive a

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hard headed old fool like me,
right right, short, cam h Limb

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if new and Sally wants to get
Hitch and go right ahead, because you've

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got my blessed oh Paul, Well, Tom, I guess we'd better get

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back to your cabin. We've got
a lot of hunting and fishing to do

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well, boys and girls. Right
now, here's Billy Swift to give us

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a few words about the sun Kissed
Secret Service. I should say so.

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A lot of members are writing us
that they are forming sun kiss Secret Service

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clubs in their neighborhoods with everybody joining. And that's fine because we want to

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have every boy and girl who has
a liking for adventure, mystery and detective

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word. When you join, we
send you the official Sunkiss Secret Service Membership

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god and tell you how to get
your detectives badge, your fingerprint outfit,

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your secret automatic code maker, and
lots of other equipment you need in secret

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service work. But the first thing
to do is to send for your membership

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card, and if you listen carefully, I'll tell you the easy things to

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do to get it. First,
write down the passwords sun Kissed Secret Service

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on a card. Second, below
that, print your name and address.

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Third, cut the trademark from the
skin of one sun Kissed Orange for it.

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Put the card and trademark in an
envelope and mail it to sun Kissed

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care of this radio station. That's
all there is to it, but be

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sure to do it right and right
away, so that you get your Operatives

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card with Billy Swift picture on it, be a member and enjoy all the

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advantages of the sun Kissed Secret Service. And so that's the end of chapter

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seventeen of Billy Swift The Board Detective
and chapter two hundred ninety four of sun

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kiss Time. And here's ken Coppenter
the reminder to keep those training rules.

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Plenty of exercise, plenty of sleep, plenty of good food, and be

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sure to start every day the right
way with a great big glass of delicious

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fresh suncast starrings juice like Suncist Time. It'll bring a good morning to you.

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Good Suncist morning to you. Welcome
back. Well, we don't know

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much about the star, but those
two announcers really went on to have some

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power house careers in the world of
announcing. Ken Carpenter, Bill Goodwin all

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over the golden age of radio,
Ken Carpenter working on programs like The Red

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Skelton Show, Bill Goodwin working with
Bob Hope and later with Burns and Allen,

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where in my opinion, he did
some of his most enjoyable work in

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a great comedy work. The story
in here was not bad, and I

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thought I actually enjoyed it. I
liked Billy. The accents in the story

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I think were something else. I
don't know if anyone has actually talked like

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that or this seems like it was
entirely concocted in Hollywood, though what basis

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there might have been for it,
I have no idea. Now, I

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will note that the only other evidence
of this program being around that I've been

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able to find is there were a
couple of differents where you could buy Billy

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Swift pens. Both the places I
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thirty dollars. They seem to be
in pretty good condition, and I think

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that's probably about a moderate price for
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