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Speaker 1: The Avenger. Road to crime ends in a trap that

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justice sets, crime does not pay.

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Speaker 2: The absence sworn enemy of evil is actually Jim Brandon,

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a famous biochemist. Through his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has

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perfected several inventions to aid him in his crusade against

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crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable of these inventions is

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the highly secret diffusion capsule, which quotes him in the

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black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistant, the beautiful Fern Collier,

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is the only one who shares his secrets and knows

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that he is the man the underworld fears, and the Avenger,

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and now the Avenger and death in mid air. The

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circus is in town, a small wondering circus of the nursery.

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Jim and Fern are on the midway here.

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Speaker 1: You, miss Fern, go ahead, try again.

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Speaker 3: No, I swear those wouldn't you'll follows? Move around back, man,

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I can't.

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Speaker 1: Well about trying something with a larger target.

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Speaker 3: Uh are you in flying that the fat lies with

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my aid?

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Speaker 1: Oh, of course not.

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Speaker 4: I merely think you'd have less trouble hitting the side

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of a bomb than a no bottle.

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Speaker 3: I'm insulted, say using the time for the show.

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Speaker 1: In the big ten. Oh, yes, we better get going.

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Speaker 3: Oh jim, these little wondering circuses are more fun than

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the big one. Oh look gotten candid.

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Speaker 4: Let's get so okay truth foolsk.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it pretty? It's like a big handful of flying right,

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big show.

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Speaker 1: Yes, five minutes, hitch it. Take this side over here

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for the biggest little sircus in the country. Hurry, hey,

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hurry boats.

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Speaker 3: He seems like we got here just in time.

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Speaker 1: Jim. Oh, there's no hurry, fern, unless I miss my guest.

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That barker doubles in brass as ring master. Look at

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his costume.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, Jim, do you know what we forgot to get?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: What a balloon?

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Speaker 4: Whoa, that's easily fixed. There's the balloon man's card on

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the other side of the big top.

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Speaker 3: You mean that funny looking goat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Science has recently come to the aid of the

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balloon vender. That novel rocket device is filled with gas.

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All the balloon man has to do is attach the

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balloon on top of it, turn the valve, and presto,

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your balloon is blown up to whatever size you want.

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Speaker 3: I'll take a big red one, says the man. Now, Hi,

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he's moving away.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, we want some balloons, Yes, two

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balloons please? Orry can't sell any balloons to lap the show?

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Oh why not? They aren't allowed in the big textor show.

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They get loose, get to wear the formers. Oh well,

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will you be stationed here after the show? Yeah? Sure thing.

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Excuse me, I got a wheel less cart round on

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the exit and help you get the animals after the show.

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Oh you're double as a trainer. Huh yeah, sometimes I

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see you after the show. Better go in now if

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you want to get a good sea we'll get the boomslater.

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Speaker 3: Friend, A big show is beginning.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 3: Come on, Jim, I don't want to miss the name. Event.

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Speaker 1: Attention, please attention, ladies and gentlemen. We are now about

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to present the mean affection of our world fame show.

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I give you that great friend, Chatty Sensation, the lartiest

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of the tight rope. This illustrious star of the Ozone

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will perform his thrilling, breath taking giants ride on the

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tightrope and follow it with complete revolution on the trapees.

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Ladies and gentlemen, introducing a great friend.

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Speaker 3: Chaddy, that tightrope and topreatmus be at least sixty feet

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from the ground.

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Speaker 1: And there's no safety, not either freight of look, Franchaty

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knows his business friend nothing will happen to him. Eighties

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and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, quiet, if you please. Franchadi

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is ready to begin his perilous journey across the tightrope.

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Here he goes one step, two three. He's balancing himself.

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Now for the thrilling dangerous giants ride. He's set. Here

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he goes. He waded, and now watch closely, ladies and gentlemen,

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watch friend Chatty perform our most dangerous and daring stunt

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ever attempted. In midair. He will make a complete revolution

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on the trapeze and land back on the type road.

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He's ready. Here he goes. He's on the trapeze. He's

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swinging back and forth. He lets go. He's somersaults. He

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missed the while.

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Speaker 3: Instead of white over here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for polling me, for it was an accident, though,

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wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: We certainly looked that way to me. But I don't

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know what Jim thinks.

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Speaker 1: Worries Jim.

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Speaker 3: He's in that tent talking to Baldwin, who's Baldwin, the

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manager and ringmaster. They're waiting for you instead.

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Speaker 1: They're coming along.

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Speaker 3: No, I'll wait here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this shouldn't take long, eh, Jim, I'll come in side, Inspector. Hey,

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what's on the fire here? Inspector? This is mister Baldwin.

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How do you do I'll just requested mister Baldwin to

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hold the circus over for a few days, inspector, and

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I have refused to do it. Inspector, we're scheduled open

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and recard him on. I don't see why we should

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have to cancel and gates because of an accident. He's right, Jim.

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Unless you've got some mighty good reasons, we can't hold

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this circus up here. I don't realize they can be

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sued for bridge contract if they don't fill their engagements.

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If Francharty's death was a natural accident, yes, but if

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there's a reasonable doubt of that, the law is well

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within its right. Say what are you getting at, Brandon

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Franchotty's death was accidental? Oh how can you prove it? Well? Well,

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I was standing right underneath him. I don't know what happened.

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He just missed the rope and fell. That's all I'll

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at that's the way it looked, Earl Jim while all

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is fuss then, oh, he's just trying to put the

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squeeze on us to get some publicity for the police department.

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Just a minute, Baldwin, correct me if I'm wrong, But

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I mean to remember that this is the third accident

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that's occurred in this circus so far this season. Two

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other arealists met their deaths before Franchotti that ride. Yes,

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that's right, Inspector. But we've just had some bad breaks

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this season, that's all. That's the weird colds in this business.

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Sometimes we get through a whole season without a single mishap,

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and other times we don't. You know the old superstition

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about accidents happening in threes, Well, Franchotty was the third.

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I tell you, he just missed the rope. That's the

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risk these arealists tape ell those previous accidents put a

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different light on things, Baldwin. Different light why we got

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clearances in the towns where they happen, and you'll get

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a clearance here when we're satisfied about Franchoti.

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Speaker 4: You see, Baldwin, in this town, we're inclined to believe

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that one death may be an accident, two deaths may

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be coincidence, but three deaths just may be murder.

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Speaker 1: Murder. You better tell your men the circus is staying here,

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will Baldwin. I saw they were beginning to pull up stakes,

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and I came in here. Well, all I can say is,

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if you fellows, hold this show up here for more

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than forty eight hours, the yell Darts circus will be ruined.

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We'll work as fast as we can. You can depend

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on that. Well, you're better because if you can't back

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up your statements, mister eld offers the kind of man

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who will make you pay through the knowledge. Yes, Brandon,

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that's the rope. This is the trapeze Franchotty worked on

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during his last performance. Thanksfulman, This rope looks perfectly okay, inspector,

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Let's see if there are any weak spots on the trapeze.

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I take hold of that end, right, you got it?

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Pull There's nothing wrong with that, Jim, No, I told

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you Franchoty just lost his balance and fell. After all,

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he wasn't such a young man anymore.

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Speaker 4: After those first two accidents, why didn't your aerial office

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use a net Baldwin.

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Speaker 1: They refuse to using a net lower as an artist's

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prestige and cuts down his chances of hitting the big time. Hey, Jim,

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this rope's been waxed. Oh that doesn't necessarily mean anything, Inspector.

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Some arialists wax the ropes to lessen the fiction and

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the stride. Uh, hey, how come you know so much

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about this circus stuff? Believe it or not, Inspector.

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Speaker 4: I traveled with a circus in Europe one summer, worked

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my way straight across three countries that way, doing what

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practically everything. I was beginning to show promise as a

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trick bicycle rider when I had to leave and go

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back to school. Well, how does this case shape up

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to your professional eye?

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Speaker 1: I'm not convinced now. Don't ask me why, But somehow

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this whole affair just doesn't look right. Let's take a

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little more time on it, Inspector. And that's the situation

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we're in. Mister Elder wired you to come because I

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know this delay we'll put your circus in a bad

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way financially. Uh, it certainly does, Bolin. If Carver won't

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grant us another loan, and the old off circus is

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washed up that's what I was afraid of. What is Carver?

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Oh he's outside. I haven't looked around, but he has

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a size up as a poor risk. I can tell

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my his attitude, mister Eldhart. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn,

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but I don't trust Carver. No, why not bowling? Well?

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If we have to close up, Carver can claim most

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of the circus as a payment on the loans. He's

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already advanced. You can't he that's right. Then he stands

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to gain more by not lending us any more money,

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doesn't he? Yeah, he does. But I've done business with

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Carver for years. Surely he wouldn't caple well, commer, what

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do you think if you're ashamed to close the searches

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down for one of another small loan? Wouldn't Maybe it's

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held off? But I can't lend you any more money

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on this outfit. I don't. Why not? Because that Manidrea

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is the only thing that's worth him out. I've already

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advanced yet. No wait a minute, car Oh, that's not

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men's words. Held off one horse second is through. As

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soon as you face it, the better it'll be for

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all concerned. You might have pulled through this season if

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it hadn't been for those accidents. The way things stand now,

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you don't suppose that anyone would be deliberately forcing me

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into this position to get the control of the fift

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Do you come. I don't know exactly what you're getting.

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I held off, frankly, I don't care as far as

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that loan is concerned. The answers. No, those other notes

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that do at the end of the month. And if

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you don't pay up off a clause, good day. How

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do you like that? It's like I said, mister older

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Carver's out to get this circle. I won't let him.

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I'll fight to the last dip. Well, what can you do?

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We have to have money to pay the artists and

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help every Saturday, or they'll quit. There must be some

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way we could sell the menagerie to that jungle circus

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outfit that keeps offering to buy it. No bodowin the

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managerie is what brings in the customers. Without that would

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be nothing more than a fourth rate tenth show. Well,

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what's the answer that we've still got to the end

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of the month. We'll hang on. Only you've got to

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see to it. No more accidents happen. One more and

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Carvers got us right where he wants this.

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Speaker 5: To a.

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Speaker 2: And now back to the Avenger and death in Mayor.

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Speaker 3: What sort of clues do you it' step to find

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here in the menagerie. Don't tell me you even suspect

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these animals, no.

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Speaker 4: Friend, I'm merely trying to track down something that could

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have furnished the motive for those three debts.

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Speaker 3: Those jungle red lines are ferocious looking to be starting.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they're dangerous. The cheap positive though, Say there's a liger.

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I didn't know there were any of those in captivity

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in this country.

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Speaker 3: What's a ligry, Jim?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a very rare animal friend part lion and

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part tiger. I know there are a few of them

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in foreign zoos, but I'm certainly surprised to see one

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in a broken down circus. They're worth a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: Well, I like the looks of my study. Better, say, Jim,

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what's all this I hear about you arranging to have

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a friend of your appear on the trapeze than that.

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Speaker 1: Name who told you about that?

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Speaker 3: Will read the bloom vendor, he said, mister Baldwin told

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him about it. I never knew you were appointed with

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any typeze artists.

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Speaker 1: Well, Fern, it's a kind of a secret. I wonder

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if I should trust you with him.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forgive you if you don't.

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Speaker 1: Well, don't breathe a word of this.

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Speaker 4: But the Great Gilberto who will perform this afternoon is

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none other than your Austro league, Jim. No, it's the

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only way for And we're pressed for time on this case,

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and so far we have no solid evidence against anyone.

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Speaker 3: But Jim, why should you risk your life on?

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Speaker 1: And I don't worry. I won't be taking any risks.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell me Inspector he'll put a stop

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to this.

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Speaker 1: Inspector knows all about it, and he agrees that it's

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a good idea.

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Speaker 3: Jim, Please don't something's sure to have happened to you

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while you're a rank amateur at that sort of thing,

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even if you did play around at it one summer.

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Speaker 4: Your concern is very flattering. But believe me, Frind, I'll

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be all right. Now come along. I want you to

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get a good seat in the grandstand because this will

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be the one and only performance of the Great Gilberto.

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Speaker 1: And now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you our star

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attraction this afternoon intro to seeing one of the greatest

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sterialists this country, a great Gilberto, Ladies and gentlemen, A

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great Gilberto will ride his bicycle across the entire length

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of the title to our friends. Him knows what he's doing. Look,

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he's on the bicycle, ready to go. A great gilvers

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All begins his perilous ride. Watch closely. He's on his

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way now, a quarter of the way across. Now, during

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all laws of gravity, he's reached the half mark. He

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his bicycle is waddling the count below. He's blowing burn burn.

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It's all right. Jim's safe. Yes, he looks in the air. Yes,

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he had two wires attached to his safety belt. They

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hold him up until the net is stretched below him,

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and he'll cut the wires and jump into the net.

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That's almost ready. There, you see, it's ready.

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Speaker 3: Jim's cutting the wires.

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Speaker 1: There he goes. He made it.

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Speaker 3: You're sure that you're all right?

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Speaker 4: It is a fiddle, friend, I just wear it all this,

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gearest Jim inspector. There was nothing wrong with that wire,

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and nothing wrong with the bicycle. Whatever happened up there

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happened to me. I got dizzy and lost my balance.

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Speaker 1: That was quite apparent. Oh here comes Baldwin. Look out

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for fireworks. Oh it was you have, Brandon. Just what

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were you trying to prove by that fiasco? One thing?

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And I did prove it, Baldwin? What was that?

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Speaker 4: You'll find out later. Right now, I want you to

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take a message to mister Eldorf for me.

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Speaker 1: What messy? Tellaldorf he can pull up stakes after this

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evening show. You mean the cases solved? Brandon? It will

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be by that time. Mister Elsdor will be glad to

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hear that. I'll go tell him. Is that true? Jim?

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Do you know who's behind all this? Not yet, Inspector.

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Speaker 4: But all I've got to figure out now is why

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I lost my balance. Up there, then I think I'll

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have the solution to this mystery. Hello miss Brandon, Hello Lowey,

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how's the balloon business?

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Speaker 5: Ah?

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Speaker 1: That's good. Hey, you're on the way of that meeting

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in the cook tent. Yes, you coming, y thing? Wait

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a minute, I'll pack this balloon machine inside of Big ten.

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Be waiting in a minute. Say know what this meeting

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is being health for? Louis sure, it's Brennan. About half

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the performers want to leave the show. Have fed up with

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all a bad luck we've been running into it. Couldn't

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stance over this way? How about you, Louis you going

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to stick? Well?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's Brennan. I hate to leave the animals. What the

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fella's got to look out for the future in this business? Oh,

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here we are, we are where it's meetings, all right?

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It begin from then on. There's no reason to believe

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we can't meet our schedule and make some money. How

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is everybody satisfied? The stick until the end of the month,

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at least to give me a chance to make the

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proper replacements. I'm not I'm leaving this out tonight. This

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show won't last the season out and you know it.

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Ball listen, Slim, that's just an ugly room or somebody started.

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Speaker 2: Tell us your suckers, if you let them talk you

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into it, If you wait till the end of.

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Speaker 1: The month, you're killed for the season. With other ten shows.

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Speaker 3: Slive a to night.

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Speaker 1: It'll be better off the time. Wait, wait a minute, well,

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all right, take your time and talk it over. Louis you, sir,

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come along with me over to my office and get

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some paper. Then you can come back here and give

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everybody a chance to vote by ballot. Okay, mister Borlin,

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mister Brandon as Bolin, would you be kind enough to

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collect the ballots and deliver them to my office when

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they're ready? But certainly all right? Then come on, Loie, Well,

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where's Louis with them?

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Speaker 3: Ballast?

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Speaker 1: Does Baldwin expect us to wait there all day?

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Speaker 3: It shows how a jings on. It ever sits me stuck?

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Speaker 1: Listen, what's that? It's the animals they're run loose? That's

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how wrong.

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Speaker 3: About general the animals accounted for?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I heard some shots.

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 1: Louis shot a lion and one of the hippos.

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Speaker 3: Oh in the world did those animals get loose?

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Speaker 5: To?

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Speaker 1: Simple enough? Somebody they deliberately open the cages.

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Speaker 3: Who would do a thing like that.

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Speaker 4: I don't know who did it, but I think I

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know why it was done. Yes, someone wanted to make

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sure the circus wouldn't continue its tour.

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Speaker 3: Who all the circus people were in the coop? To

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not all?

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Speaker 4: Fern Baldwin, Louis and Aldof the owner weren't there.

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Speaker 3: And mister Carber hasn't left yet. I saw him over

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near Baldwin's office about an hour ago.

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Speaker 1: Brandon, have you seen mister Oldafrand anywhere?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: I haven't Baldwin say this animal break leaves you in

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a bad spot, doesn't it say?

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Speaker 1: It does? Well, we went completely off his head and

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shut two valuable animals. Yes, then he took his life

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in his hands to say that Liger, that crazy fool.

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The doorf will probably fire him for this.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's aldof going into the office now. Well, I

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might as well give him the bad news. You'll have

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to decide what's to be done, Fern.

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Speaker 1: Come on over to the midway. I've just hit on something.

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I think we can close up this case in short order.

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Speaker 3: You called the inspector and order half a dozen men

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to s announced chank, What are you going to do?

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Speaker 4: Then we have a whole hour before the main show begins,

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and within that hour the criminal will enter the big

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tent and encounter the Avenger.

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Speaker 1: What with that noise? There must be something wrong with

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that machine. Yes, there's something wrong with that machine, Louise.

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It's an instrumental murder. Turn that gas off. Who's in

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this tent? The Avenger is here is an invisible witness

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against you. Louis the avenger. Hh. What good is an

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invisible witness as good as the evidence he can produce?

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What evidence? That balloon inflating tank you have there? That

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is all the state will need to prove your crimes

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against you. Take the average, then no mere voice can

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deliver me into the hands of the law. I can escape.

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You won't get commanded time avender by all means. Plea Louis,

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it's I just meant awake.

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Speaker 3: You gush, Jim. The show was good tonight, too bad?

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This is the last performance here.

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Speaker 1: There anxious to move a long fern and catch up

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with their schedule. Well, the crownsall clear out of the tent,

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now shall we go? I dissemine that, Jim, A few

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things I've got to get straightened out here. What's bothering you? Inspector?

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That gas Louis released in the tent here when he

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wanted to get rid of an area list. If he

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released it before the performance, why didn't he defect everyone

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in the tail?

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Speaker 4: Because the gas rose to the top of the tent,

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displaced the oxygen and formed a pocket or straight him

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up there That caused the aeralist to grow dizzy and fall.

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Speaker 1: But what was Louise's motive gym. After all of the

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circus closed, he lost his job as Louis was after

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that liger in the menagerie. That rare animal is worth

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more than fifty thousand dollars. Eldorff picked it up in

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South America a year ago, but had no idea how

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valuable it was. And when Louis joined the circus at

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the beginning of the scene and he recognized his value.

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That's right.

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Speaker 4: So Louis began making offers to buy the menagerie through

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an outfit called the Jungle Circus. He couldn't bid for

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the liger alone because that might give away its value.

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Speaker 3: Mister Veldorf was fentimental about the managering. He one self,

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yes and.

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Speaker 1: His sentiment will pay big dividends in this case. After

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all this publicity, that liger will be worth a dollar

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a look.

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Speaker 3: Jim up until the time the animal's escape, he didn't

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know who the criminal was. What tipped you off that

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it was Louis.

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Speaker 1: Louis risked his life to get that liger back in

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his cage, but he shopped that two other most valuable

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animals needlessly and ruthlessly. That meant one thing, he knew

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the value of the Liker, But why did he arrange

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that brak so that he'd have an excuse to shoot

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some of the animals and strengthen his chances of buying

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what was left of the menagerie, including the Liger. His

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motive all the way through was to force the circus

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out of business. Where Well, that ties it up, Jim, hell,

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I'll run along their headquarters and file my report. A

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good night to both of.

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Speaker 3: Jim. It's one of the little things that I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: All about the balloons, right, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't Louis seldom to keep go into after.

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Speaker 1: They came out of the victory, because if those balloons

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were brought into the temp they might get loose, and

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if that happened, they would fly up only as far

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as the gas pocket or remain suspended there. That would

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have given the whole scheme away satisfying perfectly.

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Speaker 3: Well, come on, Jim, I want to see mister Baldwin

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before he leaves. Baldwin what for I've decided to manage

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the great Gilberto. I want to see if I get

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him some booking.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 1: This is a thought, a thought, a thought. Remember listen

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for another adventure of

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Speaker 2: The Avenger