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are gonna skip ahead in time quite a bit here

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on Counterspot. I thought we might have one more episode

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from nineteen forty three, but we don't. The episode was

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actually just to duplicate of last week's show. So we're

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going to play an episode which you might think is

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a duplicate at first because it sounds familiar, but it's not.

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It actually originally aired June thirteenth, nineteen forty five, although

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it's a reuse of a script we've already heard here

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now is the nineteen forty five production of she Lefem.

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Speaker 2: Washington Calling David Harding counters by Washington Calling David Harding counters.

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Speaker 3: By Hearting counters by calling Washington.

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Speaker 2: David Harding counter spy.

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Speaker 4: In Washington, a very prominent bachelor by the name of

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Harold R. Blake stood in the center of his expensive apartment.

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The time eleven twenty five at night. A dim light

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burned on a small ebony side table. Mister Blake stood there.

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His face was ashen white. Great beads of perspiration stood

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out on his forehead.

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Speaker 5: Go on, who the trigger, you coward who betrayed your country?

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Go on, go on, have the.

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Speaker 6: Editor hold the press.

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Speaker 3: Harold R.

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Speaker 7: Blake has just committed suicide in his living room.

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Speaker 8: He left a note seeing it was because of ill health.

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Speaker 9: The quick cut case of suicide into hunting a wealthy

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bachelor and poor health a gun.

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Speaker 3: I had met Peters. Harold Blake probably did commit suicide.

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But remember this Blake held a very critical post in

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our government. We're still at war, and trained enemy agents

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are still at work, and their experts are making murder

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appear to be suicide. Are you going to investigate? Well,

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I think I'll at least ask a few questions. The

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note Blake left that he was committing suicide because of

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ill health. I think i'll phone his doctor and see

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how bad his health really was. You wouldn't know, doctor Wolf,

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if mister Blake was in poor Help.

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Speaker 7: Mister Hardy.

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Speaker 8: I was shocked at mister Blake's suicide from everything I know.

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Speaker 3: He Thank you, doctor, That's all I wanted to know. Goodbye.

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I think I'll go over to mister Blake's bank and

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see if his finances were worrying him.

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Speaker 10: No, mister Harding, mister Blake's finances were in perfect condition.

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He had many government bonds and securities. I'd see was

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worth close to a million dollars. Thank you, Peters.

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Speaker 3: A man commits suicide, it isn't his health, and it

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isn't finances. Look for the woman exactly. That's just what

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I want you to do. Peters. Pick six men and

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turn the city of Washington inside out. But find out

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what woman Harold Blake paid special attention to. Harding.

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Speaker 11: I've just completed that investigation. Blake was described as having

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a spotless reputation and you your social group friendly, but

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never escorted any particular woman.

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Speaker 3: All right, Peters, that ends that lead, but meet me later.

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I want to take a long chance. Now this is

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the accounting firm which Blake employed to handle his books.

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Speaker 12: Why yes, mister Hardy, we have been the accountants for

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mister Blake's phone for eleven years.

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Speaker 3: Mister family, I want you to go to mister Blake's

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office and get his office pat of appointments for the

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past year, note especially on the list lapses of time,

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and compare those dates with his personal check. I want

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to know what personal checks were made out during those

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periods of adminers. They should tell us where mister Blake

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was doing those ads. Miss Darling.

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Speaker 9: We went over mister Blake's office pad and found he

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was absent on his business knowing the past here on

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four different occasions a week at each time.

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Speaker 3: By during of avers, did he make out any personal checks? Yes,

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Speaker 9: His first absence corresponds with the check he made out

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of the Sadoga Hotel, Sir Toga Springs. You missed the

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Clubhouse pine Hill, South Carolina. This third check, it was

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made out of the Hampton Towers Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Chanting at personal checks certainly shows where he spent his

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time when he was asking in his office. Thank you.

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Speaker 7: This is j sixteen, calling mister Harding from Saratoga Springs.

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Man in question spent week here in company of woman,

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dark complexion, about thirty one, expensively dressed, unusually attractive.

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Speaker 3: All report followers, Jay.

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Speaker 13: Reporting, mister Hardy find him South Carolina. Man in question

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stayed here accompanied by unknown woman in early thirties, dark,

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very attractive, expensively priced. Report father.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is beginning to get very interesting. Yet we

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still may be on a wild ghost chase. Peters, we

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have no idea who that girl was. You may have

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been perfectly all right. How can we ever find it? Well,

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here's a little something I dug out on April was

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second Harold Blake made out a check to the Washington

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Jewelry Company for eight thousand dollars.

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Speaker 9: Pretty sizeable a mom for the bachelor to be making

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Speaker 3: What I thought, Peters, We're going to check that jewelry house.

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Only just what Harold Blake bought with that eight thousand.

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Speaker 6: Dollars, Jay Leven, mister Harding, Mister Blake bought us solitaire

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diamond ring ten and one half carrots platinum setting. Woman's ring.

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Speaker 3: That's all there you well, Peters, Now we know what

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the Blake bought a ring for some woman. But who's

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the woman wearing she? That's our question. Well, let's put

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two and two together and try to make five an

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eight thousand dollars ring. That's an expensive ring. Check all

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insurance companies, Peters, and see it. Within a few days

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after April a second any woman insured a ring for

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approximately eight thousand dollars. Getting somewhere, chief, here's the insurance reporter.

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Speaker 9: On April fifth, a solitaire diamond ring platinum setting was

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insured for eight thousand dollars. If I miss adel Winston

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Hotel Belmont.

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Speaker 3: Washington easton del Winston, so I.

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Speaker 9: Don't have a report out of here.

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Speaker 3: Age thirty two, high, five foot.

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Speaker 9: Five, light hair, light complexion, educated in France and Switzerland.

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Speaker 3: Certainly above for the woman seeing with Harold Blake at

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the resort with dark hair. Was apartment for the same

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both apparently, well think both smart dressers. There's something wrong

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about all that, something very wrong. The problem has got

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to be approached from some unusual angle. Oh a very

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beautiful apartment. Oh thank you, mister hunting Horn. I'm here

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to make a very unusual request. You knew Harold Blake personally,

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didn't you. Oh? Yes, it was his suicide of bona

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fide suicide. They perfectly candid. Colonel Higgins, I don't know,

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and that's why I come to you. I need the

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aid of a citizen colonel who has a very important

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governmental responsibility. You're forty eight, that's correct. The batter a

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confirmed one. No, you're a very handsome man. Oh come now,

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very fascinating your women for thout. Wait a minute, now,

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that's a serious business guy, as I understand it. When

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it's to be an engaged in the Pacific Islands, at

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the very last minute, special charts must be supplied to

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all fraters so they'll know the little harbors where they'll

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have to unload the supply. Yes, it's correct, and naturally

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months before, Hans, I have lists of such harbors so

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those charts can be printed at the last minute. Uhh.

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That's why I'm so careful of making new acquaintances. I

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have a responsibility on your general That's just why I've

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come to you. You happen to know amidst adele Winston. No, No,

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I've never happened to meet her. At the Hauting. But

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she's I'm very gordous woman anyway, she's usually surrounded by

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any number of admirers. Well, I'm going to arrange for

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you to meet her at Colonel. I'm going to ask

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you to make yourself just as interesting to her as possible. Oh.

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In fact, I'm going to ask you to try and

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make it even a constant attachment for a time. Oh no, Harding,

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that's a little too much. Oh not at all, Colonel.

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You could be the principal factor and possibly exposing one

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of the most clever spies in this country today. You

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don't think Adevil Winstone was in any way connected with

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Blake's suicide. You don't think she's actually at the spy.

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That's just what I want to find out, Colonel. Good

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Lord Harding. Now I've arranged with Lady Colin to give

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her reception next Friday. Email. I've given her a list

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of guests that she used to improve. Miss Winston will

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be won. I'd appreciate your being another casually meeting me.

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That's really hiding. Under those conditions no man could refuse.

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I've held you I feel that way to him. Now

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after you meet her, please don't try to contact me

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in any way. Leave it up to me. Find out

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what you're doing.

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Speaker 13: Jay, mister Harding, March twenty fourth, seven thirty five pm.

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Colonel higgansport and train at Washington after an hour was

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joined by a woman already Andrey. She's a dark complexion,

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expensively dressed, very attractive, black hair, light, approximately five feet

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five inches, Niggan Reed's palms rings.

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Speaker 14: That is all.

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Speaker 9: Believe.

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Speaker 3: That's not the discussion of the Dale Winston.

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Speaker 12: J and Ie aboard New Orleans Limited. According to mister Harding,

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at Washington an hour later, joined woman on train, dark complexion,

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expensively dressed, very beautiful and exotic. Wait about one hundred

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and ten pounds tickets read at Lanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 3: It is who is meeting Colonel Higgins on the Is

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it a del winsoner? Who is it? Well? I got

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on that girl who's been meeting Colonel Higgins. Good beaters.

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What do you find out? You were right sid After.

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Speaker 9: The girl got off the train with the colonel, I

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went into a compartment. There were unmistakable signs of dark

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colored face potu. There were also traces both of blonde

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hair and black hair. The black hair had definitely come

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out of a wig.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 9: Apparently the girl as bore the train get a compartment

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and change her appearance before she comes out and meets

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the colonel, and it is Adele Winston because he's been

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absolute in Washington at the same time as the Colonel

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has Thomas explained to the colonel because of her prominent

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standings in the disguise herself smits a old wins It

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must have been a mysterious woman with whom Harold Blake

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went off on trips before he was murdered.

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Speaker 3: Without doubt he's connected with his murder in some manner.

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Speaker 9: Beach, very much like the Harold Blake set up.

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Speaker 3: And I'm afraid of Peter and we've got to make

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sure Colonel Higgins isn't killed the same way.

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Speaker 2: Back to David Harding counterspy in just a moment. Now

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back to David Harding, counter spy.

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Speaker 3: What a beautiful sunset, Adel.

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Speaker 5: I love to lie on the beach after all the

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is nice.

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Speaker 5: Boy. Sometimes I see a look come over your face.

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Anything problem, No, dear, nothing that. Perhaps you're worrying about

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your responsibilities, those charts you will have to have made

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before Japan is invaded.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think I am.

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Speaker 14: Oh.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I wish we didn't have to go back to

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Washington tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we must know. I've got some important conferences. Well, yeah,

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put these in your bag with your I'm ifay, I'll

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lose them in the sand.

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Speaker 5: We'll quite bring keys out of the beach.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't dare leave them in the hotel room.

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Speaker 5: It's a little snot tea. That's quite an odd shake.

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Speaker 3: It's the key to the secret cabinet in my library

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where I keep the confidential chart.

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Speaker 5: No, raw, don't give me the keys. It's too big

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a responsibility.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll hide them next time under the rug

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at the hotel.

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Speaker 5: Let's go in the water.

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Speaker 3: Come on, all right, I'll beat you too.

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Speaker 14: We'll just try.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I was looking for you harding. Oh, hello, Colonel Accan,

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glad to see you. Good, thank you. I thought it

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might be better for us to meet openly at the

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hotel dining room, rather than me to go again to

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your apartment. And good. Many things have happened since we

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last caught, Hanny. Yes, you have proved yourself a veteran

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that the train Counterspies couldn't have been better anything the matter, Honey, Oh,

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I think the big moment here, it's now I never

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all right, just give me your orders. I'd like to

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have you invite miss Winston up to your apartment Wednesday

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night for an informal dinner. Just you too.

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Speaker 15: Why you don't say thank your hobby. Miss Winston is

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a spy, yes, Colonel, I do it, but cotting I

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kept the key to my secret file where she could

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get it, even called her attention to it hardy. Tell

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me the truth.

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Speaker 3: You don't think miss Winston was the girl who was

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with Blake on those tips before he committed suicide. Yes,

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his blood is on her hands, Colonel Once he's probably

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been responsible for the death of a dozen other men.

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On Wednesday night, after you've had dinner, I wish you'd

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go with her into your library for coffin. But under

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no conditions, Colonel, drink the coffer I'll casually drop in

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a little later. You intend to break her Wednesday night

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if I can, I hope I can. As a matter

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of time. White is a sheep I'm all right something. No,

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you can tell me how I've fallen in love with her.

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Don't mean that. Yes, yes I do. I love her

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with the heavens. You can't, but I do. I think

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she's innocent. She didn't even try to duplicate the key. Yeah,

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she's never even tried to ask me questions about secret

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government affairs with their murderers. Carol, he double cross you

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in a second. I didn't realize how lonely I've been.

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She's so clever, smile, beautifully, everything about her. I can't

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stand it. They're not thinking of going what Harold Blake did. No, no,

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not that. I guess I can see it through terribly. Sorry, well,

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I guess there is no more to be said. We'll

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go through with it tomorrow as planned. Yes, remember, do

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not think any coffee that's bored. I wish I could

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say something to Higgen. I feel for you from the

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bottom of my heart. But this is bigger than you

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or me, I know. But still I think she's innocent.

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The more Champaign, that's a stunning evening gone that I

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and James, mister Dell and I will have our brandy

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and coffee in the library and I yes, and I'd

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like to have you remain this evening very good. Oh,

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by the way, you don't did you ever know how

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old Blake?

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Speaker 5: Blake? Hey, what did you demand? Just committed to us

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out about four months ago? Yeah, I guess I'm to

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see him. I don't think I've nothing.

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Speaker 3: An awful thing, wasn't it?

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Speaker 5: How did there's some talk it wasn't yourself?

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Speaker 3: All rumors?

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Speaker 16: I suppose, Oh like subway he got me looking at

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it all. Yes, I do, Like you know, I had

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thought I was perfectly contented, Now insignificant. They have something

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really worthwhile, you've got to have someone to share it with.

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Speaker 5: I've found the same.

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Speaker 3: Thing to.

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Speaker 5: Christmas and comradeship.

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Speaker 3: He answer, So I have, James said the coffee band

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in the library.

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Speaker 5: Now I'd rather sit on the divan with you.

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Speaker 3: And now you look like the most sophisticated woman in

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the world, like one of those gorgeous paintings. And then

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you'll say something so tender.

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Speaker 5: A woman should be a mystery to a man.

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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, I know if you don't know how much?

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Speaker 5: Yes I do. My heart's been not in the same way.

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Speaker 3: And since that la, do you love me? Adel? Yes? Yes, Oh,

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pardon me, sir, But mister Harding and his friend have called.

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Oh yes, yes, James show them in him.

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Speaker 5: Yes, why did they have to become a Justice moment?

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Speaker 3: Harting is a very good friend. I guess he's just

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dropping in. We were on our way to the club,

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so we stop in. Colonel Oh, I'm glad to see

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you Harding. Have you met missus Winston. I don't believe

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I've had that bevilege. Good evenings is a friend of mine,

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mister Peters.

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Speaker 5: Good evening, mister Peters.

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Speaker 3: Pleasure, Colonel Higgins, Peter believe ning. Mister Peters. Won't you

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join us in brandy and coffee? And now thank you?

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Let's sit down, gentlemen, make yourselves comfortable with you.

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Speaker 5: Whoa while you men chat. I think I'll go and

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freshen up a bit.

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Speaker 3: Wow, we'll miss you.

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Speaker 5: You men stay here and talk. I'll be back in Justice.

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Speaker 3: Hardy. It can't be true that woman is innocent. To

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Colonel Higgins, ordinarily I wouldn't operate this way, but I

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owe it to you. Tell me Harting, tell me she's

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really one of your agents working with you. Tell me

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that you suspected me and really did did this so

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she could check on me. Tell me that he is

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my madlonel. Would you ring for the butler? I guess yes, Hardy,

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the butler. You'll really have to to me. It's here,

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not Adele, isn't it, Colonel. I know how upset you are.

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I sympathize, but I can't change the facts. I don't

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see anything. Did you ring from me, sir? I believe

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the Colonel wanted you to pour some brandy for me. Please, yes,

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thank you, sir. This is a gun on your stomach.

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Don't move, Hoty, Sorry, Colonel, put the cups on it. Peters.

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I've got him, and he's the man You'll have to

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not Adele. And I believe he don't there that he's wig.

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He looks more natural like his pictures. Your butler, Colonel Higgins,

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is Victor Strutz, one of the cleverest international spies.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not I don't know what you're talking about, Colonel.

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Speaker 3: You might be ableted to know that when your former

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butler was hurt by a car six weeks ago, it

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was a plot. The man at the wheel of the

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car which ran down your butler was this man standing here.

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He wanted to pose the butler so we could get

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into your house. Here, we've been checking him for a week. Here,

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you drink this coffee you serve the colonel. You don't

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like dope coffee? Answered, Adele's coming back. What will I do?

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Watch her when she comes in. I think she'll be

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pretty surprised.

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Speaker 5: Sechual butler.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Miss Winston will removed his wig. Why well, for

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the reason he happens not to be a butler, but

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Victor Strutz, a very noted international spy. A spy. He's

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a spy, yes, and quite a catch.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm so glad you caught him.

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Speaker 3: Peters takes trots over to the other side of the room.

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Speaker 5: War you must feel terribly about this taking place in

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your apartment. He had take this Brandy look.

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Speaker 14: Like a ghost.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all. Thanks, Colonel Higgins. I have a recording

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i'd like to play for you. Would you mind my

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using your machine? Why no, No, we switches right on

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the side of the radio. Than just a short recording.

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I feel a little dizzy. I guess i'll sit here

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by you. Adel.

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Speaker 5: What kind of a record is it, mister Harney, what's

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the purpose of it?

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Speaker 3: Well, I believe it'll be self explanatory. It was made

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last night. Yeah, the voices were speaking rather softly at

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the time. But I'll turn on the full volume so

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we won't miss anything.

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Speaker 14: It must be here.

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Speaker 6: You're the camera ready. Oh, nothing but personal papers.

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Speaker 17: Colonel told me he kept them in the wall, safe

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in his library. If we don't find them, you will

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just have to keep on playing all mettle. I want

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to spin in his face every time I get it.

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Speaker 8: Well, the plans aren't here. We fail tonight, you'll probably

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put them in here tomorrow night.

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Speaker 6: I hope tonight would be.

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Speaker 8: We must break him and torse him to commit suicide

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the way Blake did. If you won't, we poisonous carpet.

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Speaker 3: What are you saying, fortunately, Colonel Higgins, the plans weren't there.

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If they had been, you wouldn't be alive and night

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there they'd gotten Limadel Winston would have taunted you. She'd

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have gotten you intoxicated. She'd have told you she'd gotten

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the plans. You'd be disgraced. She'd have broken your heart.

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Or you'd have done what all the other men have

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done she's worked on. I would have blasted a stupid dog, Colonel.

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Her real name has Garta Stenia of Hungary, and perhaps

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of Japan, a paid spy who goes to the highest bidder,

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and that man Victor Strautz is her husband. No, take

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them all the white Peters. The other agents are out

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in the front hall.

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Speaker 2: Me.

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Speaker 3: I'm awfully sorry, Colonel. I had to expose the whole

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plot in front of you so you'd never have any doubt.

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I didn't know a person could be hurt quite as much.

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You may have saved the lives, Colonel, of thousands of

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our men, I hope. So there have been a lot

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of people who've given all they had in this war. Hellok, Colonel,

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through the window, veterans coming down the street. You've done

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them and men like them a great service. Garnleagan. No

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one will probably ever know about it, but you will.

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I will, I know. And Harding, I'm glad I was

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able to help. Oh. War isn't over yet. Every one

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of us has still got to sacrifice some one way,

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some another. I guess this way this is mine.

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Speaker 2: In just a moment, we'll tell you about next week's

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counter spy case with David Harding.

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Speaker 3: This is David Harding speaking of the hundreds of counterspy

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cases handled by my office. I feel the case we're

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going to dramatize on next week's program is the most unusual.

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It concerns probably the smallest thing ever sabotized, so tiny,

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it is invisible, so important that potentially it may affect

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every single one of us and be considered one of

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the great discoveries of all time. I invite you to listen.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday, June twentieth, same time, same station, David Harding, Counter Spy,

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David hadd Encounter Spy is the Phillips h LAYD production,

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Don Lowe speaking. This is the Blue Network of the

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American Broadcasting Company.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. A fairly adapt adaptation. Nothing certainly that a

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audience in nineteen forty five would say, Hey, did they

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use this before? The big difference in that one is

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that it was looking forward on a lot of sacrifices

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which were to be made, and this one ended looking

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back on those that had already been made, with the

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prospect of a few more to come. You also noticed

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that the opening no longer mentions the other foreign spy services,

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as they kind of been taken off the map. A

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few bad things that happened, I guess. And the other

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big thing is the addition of Peters. Now, in most

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of those episodes, he has assistants who perform some sort

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of functional role, and even those who just gather information,

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but they tend to be a disposable sort of character.

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Roles Peters isn't like that. Peters is a recurring character

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played by Mandel Kramer and in effect becomes David Harding's

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leg man, and Peters really allows David Harding to feel

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like the head of a counterintelligence agency rather than a

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poor man's man.

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Speaker 3: Cald X.

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Speaker 1: Peters is played by Mandel Kramer, and he would remain

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in this role for many, many years, and it would

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be one of his early major roles. He'd been working

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in radio back into I believe the late thirties, if

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not at least nineteen forty, and his work really had

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been as a character actor, he described working on soap operas,

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and this was a significant break for him. It would

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set Kramer up with regular work that he would continue

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to do while also doing other character work in radio.

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We've heard him on so many series on the Great Detectives,

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including the Adventures of the Falcon and those sort of

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shady underworld characters. And then when you got to the

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tail end of the golden age of radio, Kramer was

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looked at as someone who could incredibly be a leading

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man in programs locked The Adventures of the Abbots and

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of course Yours truly, johnny'd all. Now, I will say

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the presence of Peters does create like the only real

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problem with the episode logically is in the original it

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made sense with Harding as the only person who could

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credibly contact him to say I won't contact you here,

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though Peters is around, and it seemed like there could

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have been a way to have Peters meet serretitiously with

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the colonel to ask what was going on with the

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woman he was being seen with, rather than having to

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sleuth it out. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback,

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and we start over on YouTube with Harrison, who had

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a comment regarding the episode indust real spiring, thank you

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for the information on Craig McDonald as the laugher. The

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more I listen to old time radio programs, the more

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I appreciate cast listenings. I'm with you there, and I

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also appreciate where we don't have cast listenings, at least

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we have the whole script with the big story. And

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then over on YouTube regarding the case of the gasoline

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bards Angel writes, not everybody could walk in David Harding's

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open toad pumps.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for the comment. And now

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it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

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and I want to thank Charlie, Patreon supporter since July

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of twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast at the secret

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Agent level of four dollars more per month. Thanks so

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much for your support, Charlie, and that will do it

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for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us

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Speaker 1: We'll be back next Saturday with another episode of Counterspy

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on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. We will

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return on Monday with an Adventure with the Saint and

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for the Great Adventurers, we will return on Tuesday with Tarzan.

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In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen

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