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Speaker 1: No Way Out by h. A. Ripley. On a battered

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desk in the small dark room lay a penciled note

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in handwriting resembling that of the dead man. Dear John,

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you know the trouble I'm in. There's only one way

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out and I'm taking it. You're my pal and we'll understand.

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Good luck, Signed Paul. The only other furniture consisted of

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the chair in which Paul Morrow had been found with

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his throat cut, a bed, and a high ornate an

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apparently brand new waste basket. It had been definitely established

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that the dead man had not left the room during

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the twenty four hours before he was discovered. Finishing his

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examinations of the contents of the dead man's two twenty

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dollar bills, a cheap watch, and an expensive wallet in

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which there was a picture of a beautiful woman, Fortney

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turned his attention to the meager inventory of the room.

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That's all we can find, said Inspector Kelly, indicating a dictionary,

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scraps of a letter in a feminine handwriting found in

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the ornate waste basket, a pen, some cheap stationery, a

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few clothes, pipe and tobacco, and a bloody razor. Sharp

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knife certainly has all the appearances of suicide. He continued,

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This door was locked and no one could have left

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by the window. What do you make of it? Fortney?

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The professor didn't reply at once. He picked up the photograph,

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studied it a moment, and then, with a slow searching

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look around the small room, said, better try to piece

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those bits of letter together. This isn't suicide, it's murder.

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I believe you are right, exclaimed Kelly, with dawning comprehension

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number thirty three No Way Out. The note was written

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with pencil, yet there was no pencil found in the room.

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Apparently the murderer wrote the note to resemble the dead

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man's handwriting, and through force of habit, put it in

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his pocket. Men are men the best. Sometimes forget Shakespeare.

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The end of No Way Out by H. A. Ripley