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Speaker 1: The Avenger wrote a crime ends in a trap that

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justice sets, crime doesn't pay. The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil,

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is actually Jim Brandon, of famous biochemist. Through his numerous

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scientific experiments, Brandon has perfected several inventions to aid him

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in his crusade against crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable

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of these inventions is the highly secret diffusion consule, which

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pokes him in the black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistance,

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the beautiful Fern Cordier, is the only one who shares

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his secrets and knows that he is the man the

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underworld fears as the Avenger, and now.

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Speaker 2: The Avenger and death rings the bell.

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Speaker 3: I''ll drop you in, fern Off at your office, Jim Okay.

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Speaker 4: Inspector, thanks for taking us to lunch, Inspector.

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Speaker 3: There, you're welcome, fern oh San, Inspector. I have those

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chemical reports ready on the Hadley case. You can pick

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them up if you want them. Go it out.

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Speaker 4: Do that look they must be a big buyer somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Sure looks that way there the whole fire department out.

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This is something big. What do you say we tag along, Inspector.

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I think we're better. Jim there.

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Speaker 4: It is that big Caman house at the end of

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the block.

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Speaker 3: I'm not able to save that. It's going up like

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tender better park here, Inspector, here, come on, I help you.

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Speaker 4: One within that house.

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Speaker 3: It's an inferno, all right. That billing is ready to collapse,

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and turning the hose on the next house lright as well,

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that first one is a gunner. Now that the firemen

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have pulled out and not send turned back to the office,

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how about giving me the lowdown on why you're hanging

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around here, Inspector.

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Speaker 5: Our Gymnast tenement house belonged to a man by the

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name of Roy Wade, and it just happens that this

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is a fourth house owned by Way to burn downs

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in the past few months.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's certainly a good enough reason for a thorough investigation.

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I wants your theory awesome insurance. So what I don't

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know yet, But in two of those other fires a

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life was lost. The same thing happened here today, And

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tell me you'd be willing to call it murder, Inspector.

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Speaker 5: Well, even if we couldn't find a thing to substantiate

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such a theory as other cases, if anyone died in

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this fire, I'm not going to be satisfied.

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Speaker 3: There was an accident. How the world has turned? And

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maybe I should make you convince me of that.

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Speaker 5: Come on, Jim, let's give this place a good going over.

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Speaker 3: Jim. Here's a complete medical report on the remains of

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that body we found in the fire. Who was it, Inspector?

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Speaker 5: An old recluse with the name of Adam Tanner. He'd

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lived in that house of Roy Wade for almost twenty years.

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But the important thing is that Tanner was dead hours

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before that fire broke out.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I thought so. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The doctor says he was killed by a blow on

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the head at least four hours before the fire started.

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Speaker 3: Well, I suppose you've called in Wade for questioning. Yeah,

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I got him waiting outside. I wanted you to be

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here when I put him on the girl. Fine, bring

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him in right, Okay, wait in here.

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Speaker 6: Listen here, Inspector, what's the idea of having me picked

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up like a common criminal?

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Speaker 7: If you had some questions, ask me why did you

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shut down?

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Speaker 5: Mister Brandon? And I will ask the questions. This happened

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to be a murder investigation.

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Speaker 3: Who's murder?

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Speaker 5: Adam Tanner's your tenant? He didn't die, and that fire

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was killed beforehand.

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Speaker 3: That's too bad.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have any use.

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Speaker 3: Potato like you either.

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Speaker 5: And during the past year he wrote several letters of

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complaint on the Board of Health about the rundown condition

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of that house.

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Speaker 3: Of yours he lived in.

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Speaker 7: Tanner was a crank and a trouble maker, always behind

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in his runt too. And it wasn't because he didn't

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have the money he had plenty.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any idea who might have killed Tanner?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: No, I only saw him once a month.

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Speaker 3: When did you see him last?

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Speaker 2: About a week ago?

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Speaker 3: Was that when you threatened to have him put out?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we had an argument.

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Speaker 2: What are you two getting at? Do you think I

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killed Tanner?

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Speaker 5: Or We're not ready to bring in a charge as yet, Wade.

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But there's no doubt about it. Tanner's murder puts you

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in a bad spot.

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Speaker 3: That's only your opinion, Inspector.

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Speaker 2: I'm in no spy.

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Speaker 3: Take a look at the facts, Wade.

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Speaker 5: But in five months, four heavily insured houses belonging to

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you have burned down. Now, three lives were lost in

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those fires, and we can prove that at least one

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of those persons was murdered.

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Speaker 7: Well, you can stack up those factiony where you want

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to inspect her. I'm getting a lawyer and I won't

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answer any more questions unless he tells me to. And

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the next time you bring me down here, you'd better

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have a warrant for me, or you'll be in trouble.

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Speaker 4: Jim, all these samples of Brent would look alike to me.

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I don't think you'll find any clues here.

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Speaker 3: I've already found some fren Yes, we believe Tanner was

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murdered in the kitchen of that house, and that the

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fire originated there. Now, this is a piece of burn

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wood taken from over his left of the kitchen wall. Here,

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take a look at it through the spectroscoop.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Jane, It's just another piece of chocolate as

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far as I can see, I know it isn't.

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Speaker 3: That piece of wood didn't burn normally. If it had

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the cross checks on, it would have a definite size.

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Those are finer and closer together than they should be.

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That proves that some outside agent was used to help

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the fire along.

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Speaker 4: Gush Arson isn't what it used to be?

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Speaker 3: Is it? No sciences fighting the fire bug? Every step

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of the way these days.

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Speaker 4: Do you think these fires were the work of a pyromaniac,

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were planned with a motive?

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Speaker 3: Jim. The murder of Tanner rules out the pyromaniac, But

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murder wasn't the motive for those other fires?

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Speaker 4: Assurance.

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Speaker 3: Well, ninety percent of all arson cases or attempts to

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collect insurance, so we can't disregard that.

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Speaker 4: Then the case is solved. Roy Wade was the only

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person who stood to gain anything by all those fires.

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Speaker 3: What may I ask did he have to gain by

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murdering Tanner? Why?

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Speaker 4: That's a simple deduction, Jim. This is what happened. Tanner

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was out, Wade used his pass key to get into

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the house. He was out in the kitchen preparing everything

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for the fire when Tanner came in and surprised him.

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They had a fight, and Wade killed Tanner.

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Speaker 3: Well, not so fast, Inspector Collier. It's been proved that

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Tanner was killed four hours before the fire broke out.

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Speaker 4: Well, Wade was terrified after he killed Tanner. He fled

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When his terror wore off, he realized that he could

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destroy all evidence of the murder merely by setting fire

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to the house.

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Speaker 3: So we went back and do just that okay, No flimsy.

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Speaker 4: Flimsy?

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Speaker 3: Why because so far we haven't been able to place

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Wade at the scene of the crime. Take it furn hello, inspector,

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Why Jim? I just wanted to tell you I've closed

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the wait case. You've closed it, yes, sir, So it

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up tight?

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Speaker 5: Wo How and I found two witnesses who saw Wade

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leading Tanner's place a few minutes before the fire broke out.

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Speaker 3: How you like that? Well, I'll admit that looks bad.

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Speaker 5: But I've sent my man out to pick up.

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Speaker 3: Weight on suspicion of murder.

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Speaker 5: Let's see him trying to talk himself out of that, inspector.

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Not so fast, he shared le scoop Jons when Jim

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so long, inspector?

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Speaker 3: Oh, he hung up? What was it, Jim, The inspector's

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arresting weight on suspicion of murder.

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Speaker 4: You see, it's just like I said, I knew Wade

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was guilty.

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Speaker 3: You may be right, but so far all the evidence

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is circumstantial, and the inspector won't be able to hold

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Wade Long on the strength of it.

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Speaker 4: Well, after all, Jim, there aren't any other suspects.

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Speaker 3: You mean, we haven't uncovered any other suspects, and that

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doesn't mean there aren't any. Come on, friend, let's set

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up that microtome. I'm going back to work, Jim, why.

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Speaker 4: Are we making a check on all the houses? Weight over?

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Speaker 3: I'm just not satisfied with the set pattern of this case, friend,

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A man in Wade's position would have to be awfully

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stupid to believe he could get away with four fires

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and a murder, and Wade is far from stupid.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's the last address on hon Oh. Look, here's

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an ANTIQ shop on the basement.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it seemed to be either selling out or moving.

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Come on, friend, let's go in and have a look around.

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Good day. Anything I can show you? Well, we'd like

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to look around if you don't mind, of course not.

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Speaker 4: There's a nice table.

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Speaker 3: Everything's in pretty much of a mess. I'm in the

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process of moving all Why don't you find this a

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good section for antiques? Oh, the section's fine. Nearly all

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the old people living around here have wonderful old furniture.

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I'm just moving across the street. It's only this house

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I object to. While the house is it's owned by

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Roy Wade. What with him being such a firebug? You

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never know which of his houses will go up next.

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After that last fire, I decided to get out of here.

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After all, I've got a lot of money tied up

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in these antiques. Why you shouldn't have anything to worry

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about now that weighed safely in jail. But he's not

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what they released him. A flash came over the radio

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about fifteen minutes ago. Insufficient evidence. They said, Hello, mister Douglas,

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Hello Winston.

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Speaker 6: I just dropped in to tell you that I think

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I finally persuaded Uncle John to sell you a few

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of those old pieces of furniture you asked me about.

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Oh good, drop around to his house sometime this week

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and look him over and see that you offer him

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a fair pride.

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Speaker 2: I'll do that all right, Okay, let me know how

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you make out the old ud.

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Speaker 3: I will thanks Winston. Who was that young pelle? It

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looked familiar, but I can't place him. Oh he's Winston Maddon,

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Old John Madden's nephew. Oh yes, as Uncle Lis in

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that house roy Way. It owns on Seventh Street.

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Speaker 4: That's rights the table we need for the office.

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Speaker 3: Okay, have it sent Fern.

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Speaker 4: It's that one next to the china closet send it

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to Jim Brandon nine twenty.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, are you Jim Brandon the detective? Yes, well,

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I'm mighty proud to meet you. My name's Hubert Douglas.

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How do you do, say, mister Brandon, maybe you could

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use your int something done about the shocking condition of

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this house. I thought you said you were moving. Well

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I am, but I'm sorry for old mister Forsyth on

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the second floor. He'll be left alone here. And what

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about the top flooropoven While those people moved out three

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days ago. After tonight, old Forsyth will be here alone.

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And I think Roy Wade should be forced to make

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certain repairs for that old man's safety. Why look after

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the matter, Douglas, Come on, Farren, settle the matter of

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that end table. We've got to be getting along.

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Speaker 4: You have the Board of Health summoned mister Forsyth an

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interviews so we could examine this house, didn't you.

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Speaker 3: Well that's right, Burn. Now we'll take this empty top

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of coffin first and work our way down.

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Speaker 4: I felt like a thief sneaking in that back window. Jim,

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why are you so interested in this particular house because.

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Speaker 3: The facts concerning it tally with those of the other

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white houses that have burn down.

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Speaker 4: Jim, do you open that windows? Please? Exciting anyway?

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Speaker 3: Okay, burn right? Hook was cotting to all the house?

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Speaker 4: Why it's mister Wade. What do you suppose you wouln't here?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I intend to stick around and

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find out, Jim.

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Speaker 4: If Wade finds us here, there'll be fireworks.

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Speaker 3: Now, don't worry. There's no reason for him to come

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up to the empty apartment.

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Speaker 4: Hip, Jim, he's leaving rank.

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Speaker 3: Yes, come on, Farren, let's continue with our investigation. We

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haven't any time to lose him.

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Speaker 4: Is it my imagination or do I smell smoke?

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Speaker 3: You're right, person?

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Speaker 4: We better get out. Isn't here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? This way, this trolley stairway. Ooh, Berne, get back.

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The whole tour bulow is in.

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Speaker 4: Plain Jim, what are we going to do? Wit s up?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Back to the Avenger and death ring the bell, Kim.

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Speaker 4: We can't stay in this room another minute. The whole

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wall is burning.

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Speaker 3: The engines of a ryeburn, they'll have the ladder up

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in no time. Turn over here, that won't kicking it?

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Run out of a ledge. I'll already from the inside. No,

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I won't go and let you come to Well, all right,

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take hold of my hand and go ahead the hole

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tight y.

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Speaker 4: This ledge is only if you.

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Speaker 3: Don't look down. Steady now, it'll want to be for

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a minute. They're putting the ladder up. We're perfectly safe.

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I'm holding onto the window sash. Keep your nerve, burnt.

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Speaker 4: I will kim there.

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Speaker 3: The ladders right at your feet. I'll steady you while

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your step onto it.

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Speaker 8: Okay, you'll come on, Jim, inspector, I sent to you

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to come over here for the laboratory to watch up

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the EXPERI.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's not why I came, Jim. I want an

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explanation of that statement you made on the phone, or

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you mean my warning that you'd be making a fool

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of yourself if you're arrested. Way to get it.

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Speaker 5: Yes, now, you yourself admitted that you saw a weight

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at fores size house just before the fire broke out.

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Speaker 3: I said, in front of the house, not inside it. Oh,

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we must be guilty, Jim.

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Speaker 5: Now, why don't you try to help me prove that

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instead of fighting me every step of the way.

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Speaker 3: Because I know now how those fires were started and

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there's an even chance that someone is trying to frame waves.

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Come out of the kitchen and I'll show you the kitchen. Yes,

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Brandon and I have everything ready for the demonstration.

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Speaker 5: Ah better be good.

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Speaker 3: One more fire and I'll be back in the harness.

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Founding a bead I don't know exactly, Hold, fern, what

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are you up to over here? Inspector take a look

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at this doorbell. This is where it rings when anyone

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presses the bell out front.

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Speaker 5: Oh jim, what does your doorbell have to do with

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an arson and merricase?

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Speaker 3: Do you notice anything peculiar about this bell? Oh? Good,

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because right inside that bell, I've rigged up a tiny

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container of sulfuric acid. Directly underneath is this waste basket

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containing paper and rags soaked and oil. When the bell rings,

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when the hammer breaks the acid container, the wasted knights

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and presto, our fire has a good start. Now, if

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I really wanted to make sure this whole house would

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burn down rapidly, I would spray that wall with gasoline,

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gunpowder or flashlight powder. In a matter of seconds, the

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whole place would be in flames. Or the fire extinguish

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is ready for now here. You take one of them, Inspector,

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and I'll take the other. Be ready to put out

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the blaze in that basket. Okay, Fern, you can go

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out and ring the bell now er tastes.

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Speaker 5: Like this gim perfectly innocent person might press the door

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bell and set the fire going precisely the point of

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this demonstration, Inspector.

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Speaker 3: That's why I didn't want you to arrest Weight again

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until we're certain he did the rigging as well as

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the ringings.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 3: How do you like that? Get that instiguish you're working?

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I haven't much insurance, Jim.

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Speaker 4: Why are we going to Douglas's antias shop again?

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Speaker 3: I want to find out Douglas or anyone going in

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or out of Forescience House yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Friends, that demonstration you made this morning certainly leaves to

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a wide open as far as sus Sex a concern, doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Oh you mean you're no longer convinced it was Wading?

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Speaker 4: No, but I'm not convinced it wasn't either.

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Speaker 3: We can't eliminate Wade. But on the other hand, the

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criminal could be someone we've had no reason to suspect

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so far.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Jim, there's all mister Foresize's he said, it's a

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Douglas's door too.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I'm good afternoon, mister FARSI.

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Speaker 4: Today she now you're mister Brandon Dodger.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: Had you found another place to live, mister four side?

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Speaker 9: Yet miss spent the night at the settlement house?

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Speaker 3: Everything I had went up in that fire.

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Speaker 9: That's oh yes, everything, even my wife shan't take jewelry.

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Speaker 3: I'd held on to it. Holdy, here's to chickens in?

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And was it valuable? Joy mister Porshart, Oh yes, she

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has indeed tic.

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Speaker 9: And mister Douglas sharp had made two thousand dollars for

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I'd more than once, but I would never bring myself

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to sell it.

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Speaker 4: Oh, here's mister Douglas shop. Are you coming in?

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Speaker 9: Oh yes, yes, she's the only friend I have, the

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only one who's ever bothered to be very kind to me.

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Speaker 3: Oh, mister Douglas, it's was I be right with you.

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Oh he has some wonderful old furniture here.

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Speaker 9: Hasn't it often bought old pieces?

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Speaker 3: Oh, mister Brandon, good afternoon, Douglams Douglas.

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Speaker 9: I came in to see if you could let me

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have some of that old furniture back I sold him.

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I thought maybe I could rent a little room someplace

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to see.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, mister Foresight. Oh that's furniture has been sold.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's too bad.

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Speaker 3: I have a little room on the second floor that

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I don't use. Why don't you stay there for the time? Ding,

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that's very kind of your Douglass mention it. Go up

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now and take a look at it right at the

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head of the stairs.

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Speaker 9: All right, I won't impose on your kindness long I

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find someplace.

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Speaker 3: Oh, mister Brandon, Douglas, do you see anyone entering or

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leaving Fortey's house yesterday before the fire? Well, I wasn't

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going to say anything about it, but I did see

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mister Wade going towards the house just before the fire

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broke out. No one else, No, Well, I guess you're

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a hunt right, you move just in time. There's no

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cure for a firebug, mister Brandon. I wouldn't live in

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one of Wade's houses if he paid the rent for

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the privilege. Well, thanks, Douglas, concern.

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Speaker 4: Well, who seemed to be a disappearing commodity these days.

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Speaker 3: Of course, I've gave us a clue, Fern. I'll tell

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you later right now, we're going to call on John Madden.

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Madden lives in the last remaining house that Waite owns.

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Speaker 4: I know, but you checked him on him and the

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other day. Seem surely you don't think that, Wade.

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Speaker 3: I'm not stopping to think fren this time. I'm not

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going to give death a chance to ring the bell.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, l there's old John Madden's house, Kim. He doesn't

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live in that big place all alone, does he.

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Speaker 3: Yes, his nephew Winston has an apartment on the upper

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side of town. I'm going to lose the knocker on

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this door.

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Speaker 4: And just to play safe, Jim, you don't think Wade

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intends to turn down this lovely.

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Speaker 3: Old house grew No, I never said any such things.

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What do you want? Please? You're Winston John Madden's nephew,

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aren't you. That's right?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 6: I saw you in douglas a shop the other day.

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That's cose Douglas sent you to pick up the furniturey board.

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That's it there on the hall.

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Speaker 3: Oh, mister Douglas did buy that furniture from your uncle Lenny.

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Of course, See, aren't you from Douglas? No? Where is

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your uncle Uncle John was taken in last night. He's

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in the hospital. Nay weeken in. Please, I'm Jim Brandon,

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connected with the police department. Oh what do you want.

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I'm busy packing. I'm taking uncle. Want to live with me?

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We're coming in, step aside, step aside. Come on, friend, now, Winston,

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what's wrong with your uncle? I don't know.

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Speaker 6: There's something he ate doctor said. Anyways, none of your business.

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Are you moving your uncle's things out of here? With

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or without his consent?

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Speaker 3: Now this is a private matter.

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Speaker 6: I don't like your attitude, Brandon.

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Speaker 3: Get out of here and don't go back without a war.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's the way you wanted, well, mister Brandon, I

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think that is what is known as the bum's rustle.

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Speaker 3: Turn. Go back to the office and call the inspector.

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Tell him to stand by for a call from me.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Jim, it's that nephew with her. He's a guilty one.

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Speaker 3: You'll know everything within a few hours. I'll run them off.

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Speaker 4: What are you going to do.

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Speaker 3: Jim, I've got a date with a firebug as the

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avenger find No, Old Madden capital is money in this bureau.

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Gotta be here somewhere. What's that? Who's in here. It's

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the Avenger, Douglas. I've been waiting for you, the Avenger.

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What do you want here? I've taken the precaution of

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removing the money and valuables you hope to find in

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this apartment. I don't know what you're talking about, Avenger.

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I bought this furniture from Madon. It belongs to me.

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You took the furniture you bought out of here an

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hour ago when Winston went to visit his uncle. Then

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you came back to rob and burn this house. I'll

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make you wish you didn't know so much, Avenger. You

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might as well give up, Douglas. The house is surrounded.

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Oh no, I have another plan. When the police bring

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the bell, they'll set this house a fire. We'll be

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trapped here, Avenger, you'll die with me. You would prepare

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death by fire to a trial by Jordy Douglas, But

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the bell will not set off the fire. This time.

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The Avenger removed the acid from the bell. Your schemes

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are over, Douglas. You'll stand trial for arson and for murder.

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Speaker 4: Contests.

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Speaker 3: Yes, friend, and you were partly right in your deductions

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about the death.

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Speaker 4: Of Tanner, except that I accused Wade instead of Douglas

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of his murder.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Douglas's motive throughout was robbery. He used his antique

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business as a means of getting into the homes of

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old people he thought had money under the pretext of

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examining various pieces of furniture, he found out whether both

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were hidden.

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Speaker 4: Then later when he went back to load the furniture,

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he stole the valuables, rigged up his fire device and

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lift the first person to ring the bell, set off

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the fire, and all the evidence went up and plain right,

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then those first two persons who died really were caught

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in the fire.

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Speaker 3: Yes, But Adam Tanner got wise to what Douglas was

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to do, and Douglas killed him.

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Speaker 4: But what led you to suspect Douglas.

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Speaker 3: Jim Douglas had bought furniture from every house where a

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fire occurred. That in itself was suspicious but not conclusive. Oh,

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mister forsythe gave me the real clue. He told us

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Douglas knew about that antique jewelry he had. I knew

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that jewury hadn't been burned because we had put the

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ruins of that fire through the sieve Therefore, the jewelry

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had been stolen, and since Douglas knew of its existence

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and value, he was the logical one to suspect.

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Speaker 4: But why did Douglas concentrate on Roy Wade's houses?

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Speaker 3: For several reasons. He knew it would be easy to

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throw suspicion on Wade because Wade's houses were ensured for

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all the traffic would bear perfect fire traps. Also, besides,

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Douglas knew enough about Wade's business to know when he

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made his rent collections.

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Speaker 4: You mean he deliberately stayed some of those fires so

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that Wade would be the wonder ring the bell exactly, Frin.

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But Jim, what made you so sure you could cap

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Douglas at Maden's house?

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Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't sure, friend. As a matter of fact,

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I wasn't sure until I discovered that Douglas had bought

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that furniture from Maddens. Then I knew the stage was set.

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Speaker 4: Yew, who do you suppose that.

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Speaker 3: Is probably the inspector bringing us the Afternoon papers his

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pictures on the front page of every one of them.

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All characters, names, places, and plots used in the Avenger

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program are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead

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is purely coincidental. This is a thought, a thought, a thought.

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Remember listen for another adventure of the Avenger.