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Speaker 1: The Avenger.

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Speaker 2: The road to crime ends in a trap that justice

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sets rhyme does not pay.

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Speaker 3: The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil, is actually Jim Brandon,

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of 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 cloaks 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 and the underworld fears as

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the Avenger and now the Avenger and the diploma of death.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Jim founders here at Rockland College certainly has brought

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out the distinguished alumni and four.

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Speaker 5: Yes, friend can point out all the celebrities to you, inspect her.

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She was graduated from Rockland a year ago. Oh no almost, Oh,

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I beg your pardon, friend, two years ago, Inspector.

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Speaker 4: I'll hope that lady who just sat down in front

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of us isn't anyone too important, because as soon as

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the track meete begins, I'm going to ask Karwac to

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remove her hat.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's Amy Nottigan, the author's inspector, and you'd better

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be polite to her or she'll make you the villain

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in her next book.

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Speaker 5: Oh look, that gray haired man in the front row

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is a famous brain surgeon, and the two men with

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him were politicians.

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Speaker 1: You see.

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Speaker 5: I know a few famous people too. I guess everybody

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enjoys a good track, Jim.

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Speaker 6: I thought Professor Craig was supposed to join us.

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Speaker 5: Well, he said he would. He's probably become involved in

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some fascinating experiment in the chemistry lab.

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Speaker 1: Okay where they're saying to start, Yes, but.

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Speaker 6: I think they're waiting for Dean Clapper. He hasn't arrived yet.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Fernon, what's the first event on the program?

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Speaker 6: Let me see? Oh, yes, here it is. It's the

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sixty yard high hurdle race.

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Speaker 5: Harold Harkness should be a essential to win, then, Harkness,

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it seems to me I read something about him and

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paper's reason. Well, that's right. Inspector Harkness won the National

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Chemistry Prize a few weeks ago. And by the way,

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his picture appeared right next to yours when you sawve

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the Austin case.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Oh yeah, yeah, that's where I saw it. All right.

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Speaker 6: Oh look, Jim, I don't think they're going to wait

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for the g They're lining up the post for the

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hurdle ring.

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Speaker 5: Oh good, Harkness is number five, Inspector, keep your eye

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on him.

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Speaker 2: There they go.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Jim, what's the matter with Harkness. I don't know

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why I didn't even clear that first hurdle.

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Speaker 6: Harkness has collapsed, Jim, I'm.

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Speaker 5: On, inspector, there's something wrong there. This way, all right, on,

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don't beside stairs.

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Speaker 1: They nea to the excuse us, hand back.

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Speaker 5: Hey're bringing the stretcher on the field telling the hold

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of a minute, inspector, Wait a minute, don't touch him, police,

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all right, step aside, Please.

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Speaker 1: Let us through here A see what you think.

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Speaker 4: Jim looks to me like his neck may be broken.

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Speaker 5: No, it's even worse than that, Inspector. He's been shot

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in the back of the head. Harkness is dead.

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Speaker 6: Jim, wild are you looking for here into the grandstands?

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Do you think the murderer may be hiding in here?

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Speaker 5: It's possible for him, but I think it's more likely

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that he changed his clothes in here, has already made

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his getaway.

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Speaker 6: Jim. It was this shot Harkness, wasn't it.

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Speaker 5: Yes, only one shot was fired, the one that started

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the race.

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Speaker 6: But in that case, why didn't Harkness fall run in

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the starting line?

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Speaker 5: Because he was a trained runner, primed for the race.

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When the shot hit him, he was off to an

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automatic start and he ran forward with a kind of

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reflex motion. No one even noticed that anything was wrong

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until he tripped over that first hurdle.

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Speaker 6: Well, old Jake Norton is the start of Jim. Why

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he's been working here at the college for ten years. Oh,

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I just can't believe he killed Harkness. Listen, what was that?

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Speaker 5: Why he's a groan? Come on, It seemed to come

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from behind those benches in the corner.

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Speaker 6: Jim, Jim, it's a man, but he's all tied up

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and gagged.

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Speaker 5: He's badly hurt.

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Speaker 6: For him, Why, Jim, that's all Jake Norton the starter.

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Speaker 5: He was slugg from behind here. Help me on time burn.

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Speaker 6: All right, Jim, Jake, O, he's wore a jockey cap

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and a yellow sweater when he was on the job.

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Speaker 5: Yes, someone must have stolen those clothes and impersonated Norton

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out there. On the field. His gun's not here either.

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Speaker 6: Should I get the inspected.

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Speaker 5: Jim, Yes, but call an ambulance first. Norton's in bad shape.

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I doubt if we'll pull through this.

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Speaker 4: Ah, They've got word in the hospital, Jim, Jake Norton

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is dead.

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Speaker 5: Oh what did he regain consciousness at all? Inspector?

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Speaker 1: Now, whoever had him meant to kill him?

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Speaker 5: Jim? Well, that means we'll have to start from scratch

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on these murders. Inspectors.

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Speaker 4: That looks like we're up against the too well planned,

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premeditated killing.

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Speaker 1: Jim, where do you think we should start?

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Speaker 5: We'll have to question every single person who wasn't present

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at the track meet. Absent students, teachers, and guests will

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have to explain their whereabouts. But I mean two o'clock

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and two forty five this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Huh, that's a big job. Let's go to work on.

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Speaker 4: Are you two men were called back here for further

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questioning in this murder case because we have not been

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able to substantiate the alibis you offered earlier this afternoon.

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I'll expect you to answer all questions carefully and truthfully.

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I'm warning you that any discrepancies in your stories will

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have serious consequences.

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Speaker 5: Whose first gym? Robert Atwood student? According to earlier questioning,

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Atwood claimed he was in the library from twelve o'clock

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to three doing chemistry research. But this has not been

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substantiated by the librarian on duty.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how do you explain that?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 3: You see, so I was up in the cupola of

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the library. I was consulting some rare old manuscripts and

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books that are.

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Speaker 5: Kept up there.

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Speaker 1: How does it happen that the librarian didn't see you?

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Speaker 5: The pupila is reached by a backstair case.

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Speaker 3: A few senior honor students are given a key, and

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we're permitted to go and come.

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Speaker 5: As we please.

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Speaker 1: Were you alone there?

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Speaker 5: From one thirty on? I was?

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Speaker 1: Who is there? Until one thirty?

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Speaker 3: Clarence Treat who is a A mister Treat is an

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alumnus of Rockland who lives here in tom He's writing

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the memoirs of Matthew Forrester, Man of finance the new Library,

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just before he died a few years ago.

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Speaker 5: Say Treat also has a key to the cubila.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, he does a great deal of research there too.

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Speaker 5: May I ask a question Inspector, I go ahead, you Atwood,

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isn't it a fact that you and Harkness were the

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only two students who rated a key to the cupola

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this year? That's right, mister Brandon. And is it also

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a fact that such rivalry I developed between you, that

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you were no longer even on speaking terms? Well, yes,

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exactly what was the reason for that rivalry?

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Speaker 3: But well, since Harkness is dead, Ike prefer not to

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discuss that, Inspector. Since Attwood does not wish to discuss

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this subject, I think you'd bet ask Professor Craig what

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he knows about it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Professor Craig, suppose you answer the question

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Speaker 5: Perfectly frank inspector. Both Heartness and that Wood hope to

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be chosen to succeed me as associate professor of chemistry

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next term.

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Speaker 1: Ah, you mean they were gunning for your job, Professor?

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You might put it at the inspector.

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Speaker 5: What makes you so certain of that, Professor Craig, Well,

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the regular associate professor died at the beginning of the semester.

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I was elected as a temporary substitute. Hartness and that

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Wood were brilliant students, and both of them did all

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sorts of research in an attempt to outrun me and

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show me up. They frequently embarrassed me before the class

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by putting obscure questions and problems which they are wide

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researched and covered, problems which which I admit I was

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not able to solve.

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Speaker 4: A lad gives Atwood a reason for wanting to get

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rid of Harkness all, but also gives you a modive

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for wanting to get him out of the way. But Inspector,

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my job is no safer now than it was before.

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I told you Atwood was also a rival. That may

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be true enough, but your alibi doesn't stand up the Professor.

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Speaker 5: I was in my room alone, studying between one thirty

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and three o'clock, just a minute in, Professor, when this

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corner and I met you on the campus just before lunch.

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You said you'd try to join us at the track meet. Yes,

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that's right, Brandon, But why was merely being polite? Naturally,

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I didn't want the whole world to know I was

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literally chained at the Grindstone car.

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Speaker 4: I'll be off an now, hold yourselves available for questioning

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at any time.

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you, mister Treed. Your story check with what

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app told us just for the records. However, would you

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mind telling me what you did after leaving the library

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at one thirty.

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Speaker 7: I I came straight home, mister Brandon. I went to

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my study to advise the notes I'd taken to the library.

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Speaker 1: I'm fraid you'll have to take my word for that.

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Speaker 5: I live alone here, I see. Oh for me, mister treet.

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But is that your college ring you're wearing on your

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little finger?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yes, Why why was admiring it? That's all? Well, thank

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you very much, mister treat mm what do you suppose

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Dean Clapper wants with us? Inspector?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Jim here, this is his.

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Speaker 2: Office, Inspector White. Mister Brandon, come in, please.

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Speaker 5: To d Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Why did you wanna see us about Dan Clapper.

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Speaker 5: I've just been informed that you have subjected Robert Edwood

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and Professor Craig to a second questioning, and I wish

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to protest it. Protest it. Yes, you will not find

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the murder of Harkness in Norton. Here at Rockland College. Gentlemen,

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there are no murderers. Rockland is almost one hundred years old.

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The breath of scandal has never touched it. I refuse

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to allow you to drag my students in faculty through

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the mud in an attempt to locate some fanatical criminal.

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Just a moment in Clapper, this is a police matter,

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and it's not within the realm of your authority to

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dictate who shall be questioned. Two men were murdered here

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in cold blood this afternoon, and we intend to find

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out who murdered them. Surely a respectable UB student and

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an esteemed faculty member should be above suspicion in a

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violent criminal case of this.

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Speaker 4: Can no one here at Rockland or anywhere else as

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above suspicion, Dane Clapper, Uh fact, I have a few

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questions for you to answer.

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Speaker 1: What did you say?

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Speaker 5: The inspector would like to know where you were between

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two o'clock and two forty five this afternoon, Dean Clapper, Well,

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of all the IMPETI I'm afraid you'll have to answer.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you weren't at the track, maid and all that.

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Speaker 5: I was at home in my study, preparing an address

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and to deliver tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Who knows you're in a study of that time?

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Speaker 5: No one except myself, my wife and daughter had gone

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the athletic field when did you first hear about the

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death of Parkness. My daughter came running home to inform

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what time was that? I don't know, and I refuse

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to subject myself to this foolish inquisition another moment. Then

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you'd better get yourself a lawyer, Dean Clapper, because we

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intend to get to the bottom of these murders.

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Speaker 2: In a.

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Speaker 3: Now back to the avenger and the diploma of death.

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Speaker 6: Well, there's nothing here in the chemistry left to give

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us any lead.

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Speaker 4: Inspector, look at this piece of paper I found on

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the back of that Woods notebook.

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Speaker 6: What do you suppose those letters stand for? Inspector?

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Speaker 4: If I know, capitals O E L and right Underneathan

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capitals w XV, probably two sets of initials.

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Speaker 6: And look on the other side of the paper, Inspector,

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Roaring Goode is printed.

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Speaker 1: Out, Roaring Gorge. Where's that?

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Speaker 6: Why? That's what the fraternity initiation is place. We'd better

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show this to Jim.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we're supposed that made him in front of Science

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Hall at seven point fifteen, or just have time to

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make it.

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Speaker 5: Capital's O E L over w xb written simply without

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any curlicus.

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Speaker 6: What do you suppose those initials stand for?

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Speaker 5: Jim, they're not initials, kirn.

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Speaker 6: They're not What are they? Then?

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Speaker 5: Look if you turn this paper upside down there, what

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do those letters become?

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Speaker 6: Why? Jim? The W XB becomes the Greek letters for

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Lambda kaimeu, and the O E L becomes seven thirty.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, don't get it.

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Speaker 5: Lambda Kaimu is an honorary club for Rockland graduates, isn't it?

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Speaker 6: Yes? And I heard today that both Harkness and Atwood

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were obledged to it.

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Speaker 5: Where's Roaring Gorge?

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Speaker 6: Friend? Well, it's about a twenty minute drive from here,

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although we could make it through the woods on foot

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in about ten minutes.

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Speaker 5: Let's take the car, Jim. All right, but we'll have

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to hurry.

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Speaker 1: What time is it now, Jim?

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Speaker 5: It's uh seven thirty.

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Speaker 6: Inspector, Roaring Gorge is just beyond that next hill.

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Speaker 5: Give the car everything it's got, Inspector, all right, Jim,

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that was a shot.

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Speaker 6: It came from the gorge. Turned that lane at the right, Inspector. Okay,

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here's the gorge.

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Speaker 5: Pull up, Inspector, quick, come on, okay, h doesn't seem

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to be anybody here. Inspector over this way, eh?

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Speaker 1: What is it? Jim?

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Speaker 5: Hey, who is there? It's Atwood. He's been shot through

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the head, Professor.

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Speaker 6: Craig must be guilty, Jim. Why he was the only

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one who had a motive for killing both Hawkness and Atwood.

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Speaker 5: Whoever sent that note at would killed him? Certain, But

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I'm not quite ready to believe it was Craig.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Jim, why it must have been.

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Speaker 5: Well, everyone at the club disclaims all knowledge of the note.

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Speaker 6: Really, Jim, I can't understand you. A motive is always

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the first thing you look for in a murder case,

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and well, here you have a perfect motive and you're

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not willing to accept it.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jim, we can all go home now. The Rockland

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murders are solid.

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Speaker 6: Oh, that's wonderful, Inspector. Who did it?

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Speaker 1: Professor?

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Speaker 5: The evidence against Craig is purely a circumstantial Inspector, Not quite, Jim,

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I have a witness who saw him leave his house

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at seven o'clock last night and head toward the shortcut

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to Roaring Gorge. You check the distance, I suppose.

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Speaker 4: Sure a man could cover the distance between Craig's house

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and the Gorge in twenty three minutes by walking fast.

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Speaker 5: Who's the witness? You spoke about Lawrence Tree. Craig admit

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he left his house at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 4: No, No, he claims he left his seven to fifteen,

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but he admits he walked toward the woods behind the library.

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Speaker 1: Welled him, I'm driving Craig into headquarters.

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Speaker 5: You're coming along, No, Inspector, I'll join you later. You're

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not convinced about Craig, Well, I'd like to check a

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few more things here before I close my books on

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this case. Now, let me get these facts straight. Mister Treet.

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You say you were walking past Professor Craig's house at

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seven o'clock and saw him come out and head for

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the shortcut to Roaring. That's right, mister Brandon. Then you

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strolled up ma a walk leisurely, noticed miss Collier, the Inspector,

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and me in front of Science Hall at seven fifteen. Yes,

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none of us remember seeing you on maple Walk.

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Speaker 7: All of you seemed to be interested in a piece

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of paper you were holding.

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Speaker 5: That's right. Where did you go after seeing us, mister Treep?

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Speaker 1: I turned back and headed for home.

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Speaker 5: Craig claims he left his house at seven fifteen, But

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since you were opposite Science Hall at that time, you

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must have passed Craig's house ten or fifteen minutes before that.

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You see the whole question of Craig's innocence or guilt

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hinges on that time element.

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Speaker 7: I understand if Craig didn't leave his house until seven fifteen,

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he couldn't possibly have arrived at robbing Gard's at seven

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point thirty when you had the shop.

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Speaker 5: That's right, But the time schedule of your walk is

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conclusive evidence that you saw Craig Leave's house at seven?

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Speaker 7: Will you say Craig admits to that little incident about

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sending his dog back into the house as he was leaving.

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Speaker 5: That proofs I saw him, Yes, Otherwise I'd be inclined

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to believe you saw someone else come out of this

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house at seven o'clock. I'm sure it was Professor Craig.

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Mister Bradman. Well, the inspectors had the case basault, and

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after this little talk with you, mister Treat, I'm inclined

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to agree with him.

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Speaker 6: Jim from the world do you expect to find up

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here in the tower at Founder's Hall?

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Speaker 5: I want to get a bird's eye view of the

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entire camp is farn what for? There's a strange angle

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to this case. That Ferren, I've got it. The library

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cupola is the focal point, and it's within ten minutes

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walking distance of the gorge.

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Speaker 6: The library cupola, what does that have to do with it?

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Speaker 5: Come on, Fern, I have that War's key. We're going

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to take a look at that cupola.

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Speaker 6: Well, Jim, the first part of your theory was right.

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A man could stand right here in this cupola and

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with the aid of binoculars, command of view of both

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Craig's House and the front of Science Hall.

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Speaker 5: And he'd be within ten minutes walking distance of Roaring Gordon.

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Speaker 6: That's right, oh, Jim. Book, mister Treat and Dean Clapper

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are in a huddle down there at the side door.

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Do you suppose they're coming up here?

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Speaker 5: Fern. We've got one minute to muff this case or

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solve it. Here, take these old chemistry books, Harkness and

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Appwood used as open them up and pretend you're taking notes.

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All right, You tell anyone who comes into this room

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that Jim Brandon has found the motive for the Rockland murders,

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and that you know what that motive is.

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Speaker 6: Jim, where are you going?

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Speaker 5: It's time for the Avenger to enter this case, Fern. Listen,

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someone's coming.

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Speaker 6: Get to work now.

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Speaker 2: He will think you are alone before he can't see

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the adventure.

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Speaker 7: Why why, miss Collier, what are.

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Speaker 5: You doing here?

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Speaker 6: I'm doing some re search work for Jim Brandon, mister Treat, for.

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Speaker 7: Search work in those books, my dear.

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 6: Yes, you see, mister Brandon has found the real motive

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for the murderers.

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Speaker 7: Brandon just wouldn't give up until he.

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Speaker 5: Found my secret?

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Speaker 6: Would your secret?

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Speaker 8: Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about, Miss Collier.

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Speaker 5: I've caught you red.

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Speaker 6: Handed, mister Treat. Put that gun away.

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Speaker 8: No, I intend to silence you and Brandon with this

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same gun that silenced Artmus And that would.

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Speaker 5: Where is Brandon?

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: Well, I'll find it, but I'll take care of you first,

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so you know the secret to you? Well, Harkness Sinnat

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would almost worked out the puzzle of the Forester formula

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in that book too, But they didn't live to.

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Speaker 5: Profit by and neither will you. Lawrence Treet, The Avenger

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is here to take care of that. The Avenger? Where

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is he?

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Speaker 1: My hand?

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Speaker 6: Oh? I have begun, mister, Your aim.

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Speaker 5: Was perfect that heavy book. Get him right, on the wrist.

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Put your hands up and keep them up, mister Tree.

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Speaker 9: No, I chose to play a dangerous game, and I'll

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play it to the end. Lawrence Treat was not afraid

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to kill, and he is not afraid to do.

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Speaker 5: Treat, Ju, Jim, gather up those books, Burn and take

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them to the car. I'll meet you there.

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Speaker 6: Because, well, Jim, now that you figured out the formula,

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what does it mean?

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Speaker 5: It's the famous Forester formula for dinat Burn. Everyone thought

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that old Forester had taken it with him to the grave.

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Speaker 6: How did get it?

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Speaker 5: Treat stumbled on references to it and Forester's journals when

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he was writing his memoirs. He discovered that the key

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to the formula could be found in one of those

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his old chemistry books Forrester had donated to the library.

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Speaker 6: What was the key, Jim?

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Speaker 5: Certain words and chemical formulas throughout the book were underlined

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an indelible pencil, but that information had to be arranged

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in a certain order to make sense. Treat went to

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work on it, but discovered that both Harkness and Atwood

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were working on those underlying passages too. Those two boys

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were exceptionally brilliant, and Treat must have been afraid they

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beat him to the solution, so he killed them.

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Speaker 6: But all the evidence pointed to Professor Craig. Jim, what

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made you keep faith with him in spite of that?

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Speaker 5: Because I knew that the person who sent that note

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to Atwood wore a heavy ring on the little finger

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of his right hand. The ring had made deep marks

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on the paper.

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Speaker 6: Oh and Professor Craig didn't wear such a ring.

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Speaker 5: No, but tret did. I noticed it the first time

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I met him, so I decided to concentrate on him.

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Speaker 6: And it's a lucky thing for Professor Craig. You did well.

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I guess this is one founder's day that Rockland College

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would rather forget.

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Speaker 5: Well, don't invite me out to your alma mater for

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the track meet next year, for an I can find

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enough murders to solve right here in the city or Characters, names, places,

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and plots used in the Avenger program are fictitious. Any

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similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is.

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Speaker 5: A thought, A thought, a thought. Remember listen for another

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adventure of

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Speaker 1: The Avenger