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very last two um frame up and
Death of a Mystery Rider. Police Quarters

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Calling All Cause, Attention, All
Cause. Broadcast number fifty six. Beyond

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the lookout for a lights and blue
roaster make unknown, license unknown. I

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believed they've been used in a murder
a few minutes ago. That's all go.

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Man, Oh come in to find
your home. What brings you out

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there late at night? To amazing
One of the boys in my home as

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I did, they'll cut me just
as I write at home. Had a

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murder case started designing. Yeah,
here's the call out over the radio.

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Yeah. H the boys laid the
rest on the call. Yet they took

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I went into custody just a few
minutes ago. I hope they hang it

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on a wrap. Oh that's what
I wanted to come over and see you

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about, Kevin. What's on your
mind to there, Edne. You've been

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one of my best friends for years, ever since we started planning payment together

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during the years. Yeah, mine, Frank, just this young Tommy Evans

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was killed a night. He was
killed just outside the Paradise Club on Grand

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Avenue. He was killed by a
man in a blue roaster. How are

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you getting at, Frank, Roman
Kelly, So the whole thing, he

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said. Tommy Evans came out of
the club and started to call a taxi.

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Tom Fellow had been had been parked
across the street in a blue roaster.

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As Evans came up, they call
I got out of his car and

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killed Evans the thirty eight automatic.
Oh yeah. Roman Kelly says he saw

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the fell quite clearly, that as
he saw how he was dressed, that

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the murderer was wearing a light gray
top coat, a black derby, a

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bright red scar that's a lot.
I take it easy, and you're intimating

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that my son Pat Hell Tommy Evans. He was arrested just a few minutes

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ago. Oh, he didn't do
it. He admits fighting with Tommy Evans.

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Or he fought with him. You'll
admit that just like had drunk.

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Kids always fight over some girl.
It isn't worth a time. But he

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didn't kill Tommy Evans. Of course
the state will have to prove that he

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did. But the state has a
lot on its side. Here it is

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done. Yeah, you know it
is. Yeah, flung to my son's

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Pat was fun at the scene of
the crime. Was who called it?

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Roman Kelly. Once more we traced
the blue Road trick. Kelly gave us

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a fairly good description and said he
fired a couple of shots at it does

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a murder. It drove away When
we found the car at a bullet hole

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and a right rear fender and your
son Pat hmit owning the car. I

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don't believe it's it's it's a frame. Where is Pat? You're taking him

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down? You want to see him
right now? Come on, They're not

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going to frame my boy, no, sir, not when I'm alive eating

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It's just pat the murder. Oh
that's the right, I know, sir.

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And they brought him in yet he's
been booked, noticing bring him in

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right away? Yes, oh,
I don't take it so hard. After

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all, if he is innocent,
he will be able to prove it.

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If he is innocence, your tough
like you believed him Keilly, or have

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to face the fact then and look
bad for him. We will face the

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facts all night. We music up
all the facts and we won't stop until

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we find out who's trying to frame
my son. A man. Then then

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I didn't do it. I didn't
have anything to do with it. That

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was bad, yes, but that
was Timmy Evans, skilled Commissioner ten thirty

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Where were you at ten thirty sevens
I don't know, Dad, No,

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no, sir. You see I
went to the club Jake Hodges Paradise Club,

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but tend to see Millie. I
thought, I told you all right,

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now go ahead. I went to
the club at ten o'clock. I

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met Jake Hodges in the bar invited
me to have a drinking. Well,

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that's all I remember. Dad,
honest, you let me handle this commissioner.

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Sorry, you mean you were dragging? I don't know for sure.

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My head feels like it. Color
doesn't really pass out after one drink.

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Where where are you when you came
to mine? In an alley behind Jake's

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club? I see what? Then
I went to the corner for a cup

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of coffee, Lieutenant Owens and the
homicide squashed on me and pick me out.

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I say, I want you to
answer truth for the path. Yes,

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sir, did you and Tommy Evans
fight over Millie? You mean that

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girl who dances in the club.
Yes, sir, I've been going there

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for quite some time, and Tommy
went with me one night. I was

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interested in Millie and Tommy tried to
cut me out. I told him to

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keep his hands off, and you
get me and we mitted it up for

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a few minutes. Then Jake threw
us out. The officer on the beat

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ran us home and let's all the
risk toward Dad. This fight took place

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last night, yes, sir,
about to night. I didn't see Tommy.

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I parked my car across the street
from the club and went in early.

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Did you see this girl? No, she hadn't come down yet.

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Hey, you've got yourself in a
fine mess. I'm going to tell you

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something, your young fool, something
that will hit you pretty hard and take

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a lot of wind out of her. Say os, yes, sir,

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Now, I don't think for one
minute the Duke kill Tommy Evans, regardless

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of what the Commissioner, Lieutenant Oran
or anybody else think. Yes, sir,

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this dame that you've been playing around
with us, and she's just about

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the hardest type of dame you've been
run into it. But tis being old

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enough to be your mother. SE's
Jake Hodes girl? What you mean the

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she this is worth the powder to
take the broad of You're in a jam

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son My job to get you out. Do you think you've done with you

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tonight? Yes, sir, you
would. You had it on you when

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you went into Jake's. Yes,
Dad, you had to keep your car

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in your pockets. Yes, sir, you've been framed. So are you

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going back to jail and tell him
why I that block up? When you're

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sitting there in the dark, just
try to remember what I told you about

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that dame. Yes, Dad,
I would with me. Frank, Yeah,

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said, I've been with you for
twenty years. To light the stuff.

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Now I'm good there, okay,
boy here, thank you, thank

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you. I do over here.
That's well. Place like this on a

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Saturday, twenty five bucks a week. Oh, make me laugh. Come

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on, Frank, are you gonna
do him? I'm going to find out

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what she knows? Do you think
the team? Hell my grandmam. Oh,

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don't get upset, young lady.
Get up out of that door.

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That's a fast Millie, we're coming
in. Oh you ni, Yeah,

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I don't doubt it. Millie,
Get back out of the way. You

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can't man handle me that way.
You do, some copper. That's because

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your son's gonna jam. So you
left the cat out of the back.

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I didn't know if that was in
trouble, and it was it now,

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Chip, I had a phone call. Yeah, we'll call you, Jake.

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Say you leave Jake out of this. You will get me fired.

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Don't make me a laugh. You
can't talk to me that all the time.

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You go to the club to line
about ten. No, you see,

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young Tommy Evans. You like to
make take Hors jealous, don't you.

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What's it to you? You like
to keep him running at you,

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so you'll pay your rent and buy
your clothes. Don't you get out of

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here? You we're going No,
come on, Frank, pretty here.

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Sure. All I wanted to do
is to make sure that she knew all

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about what was going on. Come
on, we got to work to do

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you you think she would put it
over here to the Paradise clumber, don't,

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Jake, I've put it to nothing. I sent one of the boys

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to bring her over. But just
stop worrying. I didn't think it was

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your son that was in the judges
that you're here. You're playing Jake's private

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role listening from slupam man if this
started picking the pockets and drunk, here

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we are sat a class, sweetheart. Come on, Jake, open up,

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open up, hello, Captain and
Commissioner. Well, well this isn't

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surprime, It isn't sit down your
heartboard yet. Hey, what's the We're

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here to arrest you for murder or
there or I don't trying to be funny.

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I'm not trying. I'm naturally funny. Anybody know you wouldn't stand for

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anybody pulling around with your girl,
much less having two guys after early.

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What are you talking about? You
know what we're talking about. You saw

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that my son Patting another young punker
didn't have any more sense, was after

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your girl. You thought you're doing
yourself a favor by getting them all away.

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So you're putting knockoff drops in Pat's
bear, then dressed up in his

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hat, poat and scarf and killed
Tommy Evans and then beat it in pat

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car. You're just dishing up a
lot of hot am I we've got it

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down in black and white. Yeah, we're you're lion, Oh I am

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am. I join him at confession
we got from Millie commissioner to that signed

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confession from Millie ye, I'll read
it to you. You had Dom Yeggs

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say the let's get that pot?
Yeah, yeah, it's what the one

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and so because of these things,
Jake Hodges lord Tommy Evans into a spot

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in front of the club and killed
him with hat. Weaver's done signed Milly

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Devo witness that crazy damis bring her
in, Jake, Millie Devale, do

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you identify this man as a man
who planned to kill Tommy Evans? So

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you're Nicks Day or you're I don't
hold him. I don't think I killed

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him, Jake, You mean you
still care for him after I tried to

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kill you. I know you didn't, Mellie. That's why I spoke before

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you a chance of warning. I
caught him off his guy. He thought

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you really signed a Confession'll come on, Frank. I don't have his fillerdal

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But now mm hm m m m
m. I'm gonna take a sence.

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I m m. At least he
bars just the second place that could be

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a captain right. This is Vincer
Marrow, the public apps. Mister Marrow,

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I'd like to think you was that
is very easy, very well at

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your office. Law. We'll be
at the offices of the Peacon magazine that

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as low as I know where it
is, I'll be there in twenty minutes.

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D front comment card at the rear
door. I mean cap nine,

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Yes, I know I have mister
lera. What are you doing? This

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is mister Peters? You right?
A nine? How do you do?

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Sit down? Cap? All right? Peters here called me at home this

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morning. It was a very strange
story. Are you telling Peters? That's

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as you told me? That's it? Have you know Hunston censured writer?

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Yes, he's probably the best known
of modern detective story writer. Yes,

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I know I'm doing a series for
us. Know it's the perfect Murder.

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You may have read it, No, I haven't. Well, nevertheless,

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we contracted for a series of eight
episodes from them. We go to press

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this week of the last the series. Well, the last episode is due

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to day before. Yesterday I telephoned
apartment to find out one of it to

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be delivered, and I received the
answer. Yesterday. I said a message

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the attention tone. Is there a
time? This morning I received this in

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the mail you read the prony room. It's a letter from structure nay last

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back from the post offer station.
There is apartment read It said, the

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perfect writers shall never be completed.
When you read these words, I shall

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be dead nine century. Are you
sure the signature is genuine? Yeah?

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And have you called as an apartment
today? A secretary is the pony all

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morning? I expect the best course
to follow will be to go to the

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apartment ourselves. Exactly, come Captain
right, they're going in my cards waiting

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downstairs. Trencher's apopular just down this
part. You're acquainted with him to my

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own truly, mister Trencher is unmarried. Yeah, he was married once years

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ago. I believe here it's this
door that doesn't seem to be anyone stirring

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about him side. Not a good
try. The door door seems to be

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locked on the inside. I'm thinking
better for them. Yeah, Allen's ahead,

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Yeah, there's a lights just to
deside the door, captains and I

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found it doesn't seem to be anyone
at home. This may be some sort

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of her. But what is it
Peter in that ship? Look trencher steady?

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Huh? Don't rather want to get
sucking good? They wouldn't get a

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little more alive in here? Fire
raising that find at that end of the

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Rooman's morrow. This is a terrible
thing that happened just now. Murders a

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bad business at any time. This
is a ghastly things as if he shut

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himself on the forega. Here's the
gun and the attitude of the body is

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normal enough. I only had an
idea what he was planning to do.

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I I could have perhaps prevented this. How long has he been dead?

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I won't be able to say definitely
into the coroner I got there, I'll

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hand I'd say twelve hours at least. Then he probably killed himself sometime last

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night, after he'd mailed a letter. What's this in the firefighter. It

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looks like a burned manuscript. Better
leave that the amen of them the identification

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girl. All right, I just
wanted to make sure it was a manuscript.

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It's the one we've been waiting for
two mister merrow, the last episode

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of the Perfect Murder. Yester.
Yeah, let's place as this in a

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fighting predicament. Can you get a
ghost writer other than the time for press?

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I'm afraid not to. But then
do it yourself. Yes, isn't

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it the usual thing for a writer
to make a carbon cop his material?

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Yet, then, before we get
all excited about it, I suggested we

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look around for the carbon copy.
Not now, I want to telephone the

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headquarters for the fingerprint. Man,
I'm not so sure that this is a

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sewer tide your finish Devons, asked
Captain. Everything's clean as a whistle.

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Found the ejected shell, and it
looks like it's the one who did the

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dirty word. Ballistics will call you
just as soon as they finished. All

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right, what about the carbon copy
of the story, Captain? Right,

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our men found nothing. Test As
I thought, Frenchhart must have gone crazy,

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burning the manuscript and then shooting himself
that way. Well, you'd better

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get busy Peters. That story must
you're in our next issue. I'll do

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my best, mister Merrow, If
you will wait it a minute, I'll

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see what I can do about it. I must be a copy of that

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story somewhere were approximately thirty pages found
burn one complete episode. There must be

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another copy. Where can it be? That's a very difficult question. Just

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now, mister Morrow, if you
and an Interpeter that will return to your

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officers. I'll see what I can
do. In the meantime. If anything

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new turns up, i'll call you
once very well. Do what you can,

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captain right, I'll appreciate it our
magazine. Let's have the final episode

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of that story by midnight tonight.
I'll do my best. Good night,

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gentlemen, good night. Oh right, Evan's ring the girl in Yes,

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I see please, Miss Saunders,
thank you. You were mister Trunchard secretary,

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I believe me. Yes, you
were fairly close to his personal affairs,

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reasonably so. Did you do the
typing on his last story, The

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Perfect Murder? Yes? Did you
make a carbon copy of the work?

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Yes? Do you know where that
copy is? A president, No,

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I don't. I finished it sometime
last week. I left both copies of

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mister into see. Do you have
any idea where mister Trunchard could have put

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the garb and copy? We failed
to find it in his files or on

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his desk. It wasn't in the
file and I don't know where it is.

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Mister Trenchard was very particular, Miss
Saunders. Do you know of any

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reason for mister Trunchard killing himself?
Certainly not, That's what do you mean

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by that answer? Well, I
mean I know of nothing which would cause

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mister Trencher to commit suicide. He
was very much against suic tide why and

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several of his books he had branded
it as a cowardly ass. You're familiar

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with mister Trunchard's handwriting, yes,
Would you tell me if this is his

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signature at the bottom of this letter? Well, it looked very much like

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his signature. This letter was mailed
to mister Peters some time last night and

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was posted sharply before eight o'clock.
But I wasn't your mind, Mis Saunders.

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Oh, but that's impossible. Why
mister Trenchard would with me last night

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from sixteen till eleven o'clock. He
couldn't possibly have posted the letter. Does

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throw a different light on the matter. How was your memory, Miss Saunders?

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Fairly good? I believe all.
If you have no objection, I'm

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taking you to lunch, and while
we're launching, i'd particularly enjoy hearing as

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much as you remember the last episode
of Winston Flinchers, The Perfect Murder.

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Oh, I mean can I'd expected
to hear from you last night. I'm

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sorry I disappointaged you, mister Morrow. You know, Miss Saunders, Yes,

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how do you do? I'm very
well? Thank you? You made

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out all right with the story.
Yes, Peters finished at last? Lad,

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I was reading the gallat Bruce as
you came in, and I say,

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I'm too late. I thought you'd
enjoy receiving the original. The original?

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Oh is mister Peters about I believe? So would you mind calling in?

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Yes, ask mister Peters to step
into my office. I've been doing

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a lot of work, mister Morrow. That's why I had no time to

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call you last night, as I
promised work. Yes, and Miss Saunders,

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there has been invaluable to me one
of the seamen tomorrow. That's the

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right. How do you do?
Commends Spears? You know, Missaunders.

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Certainly I'm going to ask both of
you gentlemen to sit down while I'll tell

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you how I found out that Winston
Trenchard was not a suicide. Not a

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suicide exactly. Winston Trenchard was murdered, murdered at his own suggestion, insidulous.

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Nevertheless, it's true Winston Trenchard was
murdered by his own suggestion. But

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I'll ask miss Saunders to read from
a portion of the original manuscript. The

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killer turned for a last surday of
the room. Then stealthily he closed and

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bolted all the windows from the inside. Next, he withdrew from his inside

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pocket a small portion of fishing cord
and two pins. Kneeling beside the boat

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on the door, he worked feverishly
for a few minutes. Daughters, rdit

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your pilot. Let I don't interrupt
his peers, Go ahead, Missaunders.

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Within a few minutes he had instead
at the loose end of the string through

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the keyhole, and entering the hall, closed the door softly behind him.

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Falling gently on the cord, he
heard the boat inside the room slip into

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place. Applying more pressure, he
felt the pin straighten, and with a

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slight jerk, he would drew it
from the keyhole with a layer on his

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cruel lift. He stepped back and
tried the door. It was locked,

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locked from the inside. At last, he had committed the perfect murder.

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Captain right, that was the method
the killer used, A killed Clentured.

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He used trentchured own murder scheme.
But he didn't there that clentchured solution of

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the crime appear in print. He
was afraid that it would set someone to

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thinking, so he carefully destroyed the
remaining copy of the manuscript copy. Yes,

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the burned portion which we found in
the room was the carbon copy.

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The killer already had the original in
his possession. But this is ridiculous,

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Oh, not so much as you'd
think. How much were you paying Trenched

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for the story in this tomorrow five
thousand dollars an episode, payable upon publication

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of each episode. You signed the
checks personally, Yes, then they were

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sent to the officers of the magazines
for delivery to Peter's here. Yes.

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Would you be surprised to know,
mister Merrow, that those checks never reached

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their destination up to right. That's
a lie, study Peters, not a

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move out of you. It's true, mister Merrow. Those checks were cashed,

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but not by Trenchard Peters cash those
checks forging Trencher's name, I repeated

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to lie. Peters made arrangements to
pay Trenchard after the last episode, thinking

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that his winnings on the market would
replace the money. Unable to pay,

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he read Trenchard's last episode and using
it as a guy killed him. Why

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you're lie, Oh no, I'm
not, Peters. I searched your home

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this morning. I found the fish
cord, the bent pin, and best

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of all, the original manuscript.
Where you made your mistake, Peters was

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in taking Trenchard's story too much to
heart. There's no such thing as the

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perfect murder. Welcome back. Well, a couple of observations. I think

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these were two fairly good episodes to
close out the series. The first episode

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was somewhat interesting in the fact that
the that the captain basically seemed to be

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of the view that when you are
a police captain, it's like being able

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to send your kid to the room, except you're now using the jail cell,

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just the way that he talked about
sending him back to jail. The

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second one was good, and I
think that's probably one of the worst things,

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or worst possible timing with writer Today's
when there is some unfinished work.

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Probably the most famous instance of that
is Charles dickens Mystery of Edwin Drowd,

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where he died before finishing the work. Well, folks, that's it for

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Police Headquarters and you know what that
means. Next week, Jack Webb Barton

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Yarborough in the series that would redefine
police procedurals forever, Coming next Saturday,

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it's drag Net. I'm excited and
looking forward to going through that series with

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you. This will also be probably
the last split episode we'll do for a

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while. Ever since we started the
Bob Bailey Johnny Doller serials, we've had

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at least one show a week where
we would have two episodes of one series,

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or one episode of one series one
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for quite a while unless we find
some additional episodes of Police Headquarters or some

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other fifteen minutes show probably won't happen
again until we go through Keen Tracer of

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Lost Persons. Now for some listener
comments and feedback from our feed review in

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Canada, Magnificent Terrence says, thank
you for making these wonderful shows, and

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Jones says, Hi, Adam,
as always, you have the most information

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about each show, and I finally
got caught up to date with yours,

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truly, Johnny Dowler, keep up
the good work. That's Joan from southern

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Ontario. Guess one one one rights. Hi, Adam Fall is here.

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This was from October twenty twelve,
and rain is coming down in full force

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up here in British Columbia. We're
so thankful to have such wonderful programming to

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keep us cozy during these windy months. Thanks so much. And heavy Halloween.

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Well that's the peril when you realize
you have reviews on the Canadian Tune

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Store after five years of doing the
show. Sorry we didn't get to that

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sooner, but I appreciate the wish
and thanks so much to Ryan and Christine.

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That will do it for today.
We will be back Monday with Pursuit

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