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Speaker 1: From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham, and

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welcome to Barton Yarborough Week. This particular series was inspired

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by people who were curious about Barton Yarborough after the

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final episodes of Dragon It featuring him Prior to his

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death in late nineteen fifty one, there was some curiosity

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about his work. While his most culturally significant performances in

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One Man's Family and I'll of a Mystery have been

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sadly mostly lost, Yarborough was also a radio character actor

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who played so many characters in so many different types

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of programs, including many detective programs, and that's what we're

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featuring here. Every encore from Monday through Friday features Barton

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Yarborough in a different role, whether it is as a

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supporting character, a sidekick, or the villain. We'll get a

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little bit of a sample of his acting talent, and

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then the whole week culminates over on the Great Adventurers

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of Old Time Radio, where we feature a Barton Yarborough

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Speaker 1: I hope you're going to enjoy it. From February twenty

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sixth of nineteen fifty. Here now is episode six of

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Christopher London The Terrible Price of Sugar.

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Speaker 3: With a knife in his back, a nameless Filipino in

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San Francisco with a bullet in her body, a girl

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in Mid Pacific.

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Speaker 4: There were others. There were so many others, eight thousand

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of them.

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Speaker 5: On an island in the Philippines.

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Speaker 6: The National Broadcasting Company presents Christopher London, created especially for

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radio by the world's foremost mystery writer, Earl Stanley Gardner.

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Are used and directed by William N. Robson and starring

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mister Glenn Ford.

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Speaker 5: I Am Christopher London. The whole Thing started with a

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vague conversation about the murder of an unknown Philippine you know,

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mister Andrews's, president of the San Francisco Sugar Company. Either

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could not or would not say what, if anything, he suspected.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, mister London.

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Speaker 6: I can't tell you what I think because I don't

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know what I think.

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Speaker 5: I get the impression that it is not the murder

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that worries you.

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Speaker 4: Why shouldn't.

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Speaker 6: I never saw the man, no idea who he was

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or why he tried to get to me.

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Speaker 5: The knife in his back for doctors wonder how he

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ever made it to my door a knife in his back,

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with your name and address in his pocket, and his

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body terribly scarred, as if he'd been beaten for years.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's all very mysterious, but the police are investigating,

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and I suppose they learn the truth.

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Speaker 2: Of the time.

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Speaker 3: That's not what I wanted to see you about.

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Speaker 7: Or what else?

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Speaker 4: Then?

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Speaker 3: The price of sugar, The price of sugar exactly.

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Speaker 7: Now, this is all I can tell you.

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Speaker 8: Oh, come in there.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is Christopher London, my niece Lindon.

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Speaker 9: I've heard about you, mister London.

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Speaker 5: No, whatever you've heard, I deny every word.

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Speaker 9: Of it is, mister London sailing with me. Uncle.

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Speaker 3: Uh, maybe I'm the same ship would be a better

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way to put it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, my dear, I wanted to.

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Speaker 5: Go to Manila.

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Speaker 9: Then you've got to go, mister London, whether you want

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to or not. You're as good as a board ship already.

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Speaker 7: Well, i'd better get ashore, mister London.

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Speaker 5: There's still a few minutes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose.

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Speaker 7: How do you like a staple?

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Speaker 5: Oh it's very elegant.

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 5: Now, is there anything else you want to know? You

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want me to find out how a company named Southern

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Cross is able to go on under selling your product?

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Speaker 4: That's all.

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Speaker 5: Frankly, Frankly, mister Andrews, I don't get the reason for

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all this, this outlay of money in the stateroom.

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Speaker 4: Don't you. Maybe it's because if you don't come.

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Speaker 7: Back, I'd like to think you die.

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Speaker 6: The luxurious.

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Speaker 5: Well London, Oh my goshd will wait to call me

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at the Gangway's keep an eye on her, will you, and.

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Speaker 3: Look out for yourself too.

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Speaker 5: The ship was beautiful, the night was dark, and the

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sea was calm. Hawaii was a long way beyond the

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horizon and Manila and the Philippines still father. The girl

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beside me at the rail was very, very lovely. She

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sighed rather happily and said.

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Speaker 9: My uncle said you'd probably asked me a love question.

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Speaker 5: Did he, miss Anders?

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Speaker 9: Won't Linda do?

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Speaker 5: Linda? Christ We've got that settled. Let's get back to

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the questions your uncle said I would ask. Did he

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say what they'd be?

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Speaker 10: Not exactly?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 5: Did he say what your answers would be exactly?

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Speaker 9: Shall we walk around the deck?

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Speaker 5: We walked once around the deck, and then we went

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into the cocktail lounge and had a coffee and brandy

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Speaker 9: You know, Christopher, I think this is going to be

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a good voyage.

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Speaker 5: I hope it is. Have you ever been out to

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Manila before?

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Speaker 9: Oh, lots of times. I've gone with my uncle every

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time he went, every since I can remember. On my

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parents died when I was a baby. Is that explained anything?

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Speaker 5: It does a little. I suppose you know a lot

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about your uncle's business.

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Speaker 10: Then that's one of the questions.

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Speaker 5: I said you'd ask me, And the answer, yeser is

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he is.

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Speaker 9: I think I know as much about his business as

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Speaker 5: You're a very interesting girl, Linda.

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Speaker 9: You know that's what I always say. I always say, Linda,

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you're a very interesting girl. Oh don't look now at

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the man coming.

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Speaker 4: You don't know me and I don't know you. But

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that ain't no reason why we can't yell at each

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other over the fence. Now is I'm Jim Blake from Texas,

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a lone star state. And where I go I buy

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the drinks a waiter.

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Speaker 9: Uh, won't you sit down, miss Blake?

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Speaker 4: I am saiding milank, ma'am. My name is Blake.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that's what I thought, you said, one of the

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New Jersey Blake's no doubt. Now you know that is

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real funny. Oh, I'm sorry people's always yoking me about Texas.

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Speaker 4: What'd you say your name was?

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Speaker 5: I didn't say. However, it's London, Christopher London.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm mighty glad to know you, Chris. You and

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miss London half.

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Speaker 5: Fifteen or twenty years later, Linda and I pride ourselves

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out of the heart of Texas. She said she was tired,

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so I took her to her stateroom door. Good night, Linda,

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sleep well, come in for a minute, all right, just

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Speaker 9: It's something I want to give you. Sit down while

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I find it. Maria not finished.

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Speaker 5: No, Linda's personal made a pretty girl from the Islands

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was still unpacking trunks, and in a moment Linda returned

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with a small decorated jewel case in her hands.

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Speaker 9: Here it is, Christopher, keep it for me.

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Speaker 7: Will you look?

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Speaker 5: If this is jewelry, you'd better give it to the

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personal keep it's not jewelry, and your mind. If I

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asked just what it is.

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Speaker 9: Well it's nothing.

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Speaker 5: It's just that I'd rather you kept it all right?

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Speaker 9: Good night, Linda, until tomorrow, Christopher.

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Speaker 5: I took the jewel case back to my stateroom and

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found that somebody had shoved a note under my door.

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It read, take off that beard. We know you. The

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writer had a sense of humor, but in my experience,

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the most dangerous enemies are those that laugh. I took

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a closer look at the little jewel case. It had

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one of those intricate Chinese locks that are easy to

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break but not easy to open without the proper key.

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I put the box in a pillowcase and carried it

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to the office of the ship's doctor. No, what can

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I do for you, mister London. Your laboratory is equipped

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with X ray, I suppose, doctor, Yes, of course. Well

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I know this sounds a little strange, but I wonder

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if you'd take a picture of this, this box here,

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just as it is. It was exactly what I expected.

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I carried the box back to my stateroom, shoved it

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on the bunk, and went to bed. I don't know

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how long I've been asleep when suddenly there was a

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knock on the door. I was out of bed like

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a shot. Just a second. Yes, time to ask keep

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you will come at one huh. Oh, yes, she's all right.

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I'll be there in a minute. Put on a pair

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of pants and shirt, hurright into the corridor.

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Speaker 8: And collided with Look where you're.

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Speaker 4: Going, can't you? Oh?

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Speaker 7: Sorry, hurry.

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Speaker 9: Christopher.

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Speaker 5: What's the matter?

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Speaker 9: But I just couldn't sleep and I was lonely.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, look, look you realize it's two a m.

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Speaker 9: Well, of course, if you'd rather go.

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Speaker 5: Back to bed, all right, all right, what do you

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want to do?

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Speaker 9: Would you like to play some.

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Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't like to play some general me.

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Speaker 9: No, Well, men love to talk about themselves. Let's talk

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about you.

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Speaker 7: Okay, get the cards?

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Speaker 5: We played a few hands in silence, and then Linda asked.

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Speaker 9: Christopher, what did you think of mister Blake, the lone

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star stranger?

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Speaker 5: Have you ever been in Texas?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 5: Why I wonder if he has. Do you mean you

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think I'm forget him? I've got Jim. And now if

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you think that I've been away from my cabin long enough,

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I'm going back.

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Speaker 9: Away from your cabin long enough. I don't understand.

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Speaker 5: Well, I just wondered if that precious jewel box of

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you r S would still be there.

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Speaker 9: You don't make somebody's taking it.

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Speaker 5: Would it make any difference?

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Speaker 9: You opened it, but you had to break the lock off,

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didn't you.

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Speaker 5: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 9: Because the lock was filled with sudder, it couldn't be opening.

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Speaker 5: Well, I didn't open the case, Linda, And why are

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you so casual about it? Because it was filled to

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the top with just what you said was in it? Nothing.

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But now I'll save you the trouble of asking I

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had the thing extu rydon Oh, yeah, she can say

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that again.

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Speaker 9: I'll forgive me, Christopher. It was just a sort of

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a trial. My uncle and I wanted to be sure

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you were clever enough for this job, and you are clever, Crystal,

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really clever. You're the only man I ever met who

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smarter than I. Dar. Would you consider kissing me good night?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll consider it. When I finally got back to

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my stateroom, the jewel case was no longer under the

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bed where I'd put it, But I think that as

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I went to sleep again, I may have had a

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smile on my face. The days that followed were filled

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with shovel board, and the nights were filled with dancing.

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Jim Blake, the Texas Steer, was usually close by, but

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in time, well, in time, he got used to him.

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Speaker 7: As you would have bad head called.

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Speaker 5: Every night. When I turned in, I could expect to

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find another humorous little message chuck under my door, such

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as roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet,

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and you'll be a long time dead. Meanwhile, in odd

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moments with Linda, I managed to get a little more

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information about sugar growing and refining. One moonlit night when

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we were together on the boat deck.

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Speaker 9: Isn't it magic? Darny, isn't it simply magic? Christopher, I'm

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talking to you.

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Speaker 5: Well, oh, I'm sorry, sorry, what.

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Speaker 9: Are you thinking about?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Sugar?

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Speaker 5: I guess. Oh, now you say this Southern Cross Company

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is selling sugar at a price that is actually below

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your cost. That's right, although your cost higher than they

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should be.

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Speaker 9: There is low in the industry, and I don't want

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to talk about it.

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Speaker 10: Now, Darling.

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Speaker 5: Oh, perhaps they may have developed some noon better method

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of refining.

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Speaker 9: Possibly, that's what you're supposed to find out, Christopher, I'm cold.

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Speaker 5: A few days after leaving Honolulu, on the way to Manila,

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we entered a bank of thick fog, like a damp,

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clinging shroud. And it was in the fog that tragedy struck.

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Suddenly and without warning. I was standing at the rail

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the stern, looking out of nothing, listening to the fog

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goorn on the beat of the ship's engines. When I

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couldn't see a thing, I ran in the direction of

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the sound. Groping through the fog, I found I found

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a white coat flapping emptily cotton of boat.

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Speaker 3: David.

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Speaker 5: It was Linda's coat.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to, Christopher London, starring Glenn Ford.

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Speaker 5: It was an apparently harmless mission that Anders had asked

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me to undertake, simply to find out how it was

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possible for a rival sugar refining company to undersell his product.

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Mister Anders had warned me that the job might be dangerous,

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and so it was. I stood on deck in the

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swirling fog, holding Linda's coat in my hands, and feeling

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sick at heart. The liner's searchlights were vainly glaring through

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the mist, but it was useless and everybody knew it.

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I started for the radio room to send a message standers,

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and a big figure moved behind me.

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Speaker 9: Christopher, Linda, what's the matter and what are you doing

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with my coach? I told Maria to weare it when

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I sent it?

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Speaker 6: To look for you?

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Speaker 9: And then Christopher? Was it?

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Speaker 4: Maria?

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Speaker 5: I'm afraid, so, oh Maria. An hour or so later

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I found Texas Jim Blake in the bar.

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Speaker 4: Well how in London double Scotch, and sold of my

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friend here. That was right in my asty business about

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miss Ander's maid, wasn't it. Don't understand you think you

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heard a shot?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I heard a shot real.

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Speaker 4: Only who do you think would the one that killed

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that poor girl if I was in charge of this boat.

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I looked for a gun that had been fired lately.

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I doubt if you find it at the bottom of

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the ocean. You think you throw it overboard, wouldn't you? Well,

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now I suppose I would. That reminds me of the

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story I heard about a cat folk back in Texas.

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Seems to you, mister Blake, Do you ever get tired

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of that action? How's that what I just talked? The

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way folks talk in Texas. This ain't no accent, son,

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that's Texas thought.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay. Oh, by the way, were you in Dallas

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or Galveston when Maria was shot and fished over the

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side running?

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Speaker 4: Let me ask you a simple question. Why do you

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care where I was at when that shot was fun?

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You think I killed her?

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Speaker 5: Did you in Texas? Yes? Yes, I know in Texas

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they shoot men for less than that.

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Speaker 4: You're joking me again, London. You know Lonnon, I've been

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thinking now. Naturally, I know miss Lennon. Her uncle is

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interested in the sugar business in the Philippines, And just

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as it happens, I got an interest in yogar myself.

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I'm from Starkman company named the Southern.

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Speaker 5: Cragl Do you ever hear of the Southern Cross sugar? Sure,

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I've heard of it. They got a plantation of something

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like fifty square miles on the island of Negro saven'.

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Speaker 4: Here fifty square miles of sugar cane. That's what they

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tell us four stockolders. But I'm from Texas and I

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don't believe nothing that I don't see folks that run

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this year, Dick say we can sell more sugar and

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cheaper than any other company in the world. Well, I

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got money in this proposition, Chris, good Texas money, and

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I won't see for myself. You and Miss Linda wouldn't

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want to come along? Would you sort of look over

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plantation with me?

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Speaker 5: Why, mister Blake, I just bet Miss Lindon I would

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be charmed to look over the Southern Cross plantation with you.

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Or you're always joking in London, but I may not

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invitation seriously, and I'm in it seriously.

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Speaker 4: Well, I lend that is yes, wonderful. Tomorrow we'll be

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in Manila. I got me boat waiting for him, and

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then tell me that trip the Negroes just ain't nothing.

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Have another drunk.

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Speaker 5: A little later, I went down to Linda's state room

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to escort at dinner, Christopher, I'm ready, Linda. I've been

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talking to Jim Blake.

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Speaker 9: The Texas Steers.

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Speaker 5: He's not funny. I think he's a killer if I

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think he tried to kill you and got Marie instead.

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Now he wants you and me to visit the Southern

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Cross Plantation. Says he has Texas money in it.

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Speaker 9: But why, Christopher, I don't understand.

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Speaker 5: Why would he either a trapper a showcase? I don't know.

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I still don't know, neither do I. Whatever it is, though,

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you're gonna stay in Manila while I take a look

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at it. There's no point in it's both taking a chance.

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I left Linda and Manila at the local office of

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her uncle's company. Blake and I went on together to

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the island of Negros and a huge Southern Cross plantation.

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It rained constantly, and the growl of distant thunder was

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almost continuous. The director of the plantation was a suave

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expressionist fellow named Juanibara, who used words as if he

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were translating from another language coming from the South. He's

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the artists, daddy bout.

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Speaker 4: If you haven't been in a Texas storm, you don't

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know what a storm is really alive? What time is

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it quit?

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Speaker 5: That's about four?

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Speaker 4: Well, now let me see if We've done pretty well

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for one day's inspection. They're going through the refiner from

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top to bottom. Saw the load and dark drove through

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one of the fields of sugar king Well, what do

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you say? Would go back to half and have a

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drink as.

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Speaker 5: I could use one, blake.

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Speaker 7: We drove back to the director's house.

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Speaker 5: I asked a few innocent questions. Uh iy borah changing out.

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Tell me how many men does it take to do

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the work in a place for science? You think seven

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may thousand, maybe shoven. Oh, that's a lot of men.

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Where do you keep them? Where do I keep him?

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I mean, where do they live? See on the plantation here?

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I know that. Hey, Chris, I'm in thinking about that refinement.

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Are you much of an engineer enough to understand the

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simple process of refining sugar? It seems like a good plant,

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as you say, shang out London, the plant each but

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he is just the same like many of us, no difference. Yes, yes,

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I suppose. So I was asking about the workers on

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the place. What's that? Wait a minute, stop the car, I.

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Speaker 8: Said, to stop the car.

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Speaker 5: No, it's not to be wished to interfere.

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Speaker 6: The whipping that poor devil to death.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he deserved it, all right, bar.

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Speaker 5: Nobody could deserve punishment like that if it's the only

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thing the bad ones understand saying your love.

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Speaker 7: And the subject was dropped just like that.

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Speaker 5: A few moments later, the bar led blaking me out

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in front of the plantation house and drove the jeep

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way to the garage. For a moment we stood together

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in the rain. He seemed a little subdued, too.

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Speaker 4: Bad about what we've seen back there? I guess say

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we are human. No, they're more like.

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Speaker 5: Ann would you beat a horse or dog to death?

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Speaker 4: Here's a stockholder, this yere plantation. I'm gonna talk to

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the bar about that. You coming in? Uh?

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Speaker 5: No, No, you're going ahead.

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Speaker 7: I'll be right with you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sure I am talking. Rain ain't nothing locked extas.

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Speaker 5: There was something ominous about the place. Not just the

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steady rain, nor the thunder grumbling in the distance, Not

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just the cruelty I had glimpsed in a sudden jungle.

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Not was something more. It was something worse than I

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was willing to let myself believe. As I entered the house,

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I saw that the living room was dark and apparently deserted,

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But there was a log blazing in the fireplace, so

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feeling damp and cold, I went and held my hands

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to a swamp sen your London. Well, oh, hello, I

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am dolorous Senor London.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Dolores.

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Speaker 9: I was told you like Scotch and Tuda. Yes, yes,

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I have a drink or ready for you here by

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the fire. He drinks for me too.

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Speaker 5: Well, you or somebody seems to think of everything. No thanks,

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Hey you're missus Ibarra.

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Speaker 9: I suppose Signora, I am just dolorous.

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Speaker 10: Did your drink as you would have it?

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Speaker 5: It's just right dolorous, yes, Doloris, just right?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 10: How can I say I had expected you to be

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the same. I got a friends of the peaky bar,

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but you are different, so very different.

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Speaker 5: I suppose you were told to get me to talk

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another time. It might be kind of pleasant to play

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that game, but not tonight. There's something I want to

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ask you, even though I don't expect an answer. If

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I asked you to come away with me away from

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this plantation, right not tonight, would they let us go?

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Speaker 10: Right?

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Speaker 5: I do not know that's the answer I expected, and

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I'm want to change it to some dry clothes. How

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long she'd been standing there in the doorway. I don't know.

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I hadn't heard a sound. But as I turned away

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from Dolores and started to.

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Speaker 9: My room, Hello, Christopher.

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Speaker 5: Linda, I told you not to come.

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Speaker 9: Aren't you glad to see me?

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Speaker 5: Ah, Linda. I wasn't hired to be your companion or

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your bodyguard? Now, I was hired to make one single investigation.

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Speaker 9: Yes, how's the investigation?

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Speaker 5: You don't Your uncle wants to know how Southern Cross

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is able to undersell him. I think I'm beginning to understand.

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Speaker 9: I got a wire in Manila from my uncle. He's

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making some kind of a deal. He wants you to

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drop the whole thing.

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Speaker 7: And that was that.

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Speaker 5: I was just to drop the whole thing. But the

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whole thing was something I couldn't drop. Too much blood

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had been shed. Late that night, when the others were asleep,

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I stole out of the house. The center of the

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storm had veered around the east and seemed somewhat nearer.

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By the flashes of lightning. I found the road I

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was looking for. The roady bar had avoided during our

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tour of inspection. The path wound through the jungle for

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perhaps a quarter of a mile and then came to

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what was unmistakably a concentration camp. The miserable collection of

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shelters was completely surrounded by a high stockade of steel

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and barbed wire. The single gate was guarded by a

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sentry with a stommy gun. One look was another. Now

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I knew the secret of the Southern Cross's success forced

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labor slavery. I returned to the house and cautiously opened

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the door.

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Speaker 4: Well, hardy, Chris, I enough walking, he dick your gun, boy.

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Speaker 9: It will be better you do not do things glass, Christopher,

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I told you to drop the whole thing. Now, see

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what you've done. You've ruined everything.

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Speaker 4: It's late, but I guess we don't feel much like

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sleeping doing so let's just sat down in front of

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the bar and swap yarn.

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Speaker 5: Isn't one of the mob mission? Where's the Lord?

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Speaker 4: We don't need her for this little party. Tell me here, baby,

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come here and sit down beside me. All right, No, now,

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if we're all together, I'll call the meetings water. What

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happened to that Texas draw partner? I guess I'm just

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a big cam at heart, but it serves a purpose.

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With that twang, you can talk to anybody and get

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away with practically anything.

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Speaker 9: Christopher the night we sail.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, London's smart. He's a lot too smart for his

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own good. I kept telling him that on those notes

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I left for him under Kevin noise.

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Speaker 5: But will I be interrupting if I ask a few questions? No?

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Speaker 4: No, no, go ahead?

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Speaker 5: Well, first about me, I assume you have some kind

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of plan in mind. Oh yeah, yeah, yes, that's what

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I figured.

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Speaker 9: If only you'd listen to me. Christofore it was too late.

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Speaker 5: Do youse talk of answers?

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Speaker 4: Nothing?

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Speaker 7: Why can't we not dispose?

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Speaker 5: I'm showing your London without the lay program.

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Speaker 4: Take it easy. There's no hurry anything else you want

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to know London.

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Speaker 5: I think I already know most of it. I suppose

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the Filipino who was killed in San Francisco came from here.

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Speaker 4: That's a right, managed to sneak off to place somehow,

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I see. Naturally I had to kill him. That was closer.

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Speaker 9: I hate this story.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know you scared so easily. Linda. Oh, by

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the way, was it you who killed your maid?

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Speaker 4: Maria?

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Speaker 9: Well, I had Christopher. She caught killing me together. And

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guess how it was, she said, you were going to

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tell you so, so I had to.

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Speaker 5: You know, Linda, for a nice girl, you're something out

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of a nightmare.

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Speaker 10: Christopher.

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Speaker 9: You shouldn't talk to me like that. After all, it

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it wasn't it.

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Speaker 10: Like that?

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Speaker 5: Did the house listen?

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Speaker 1: This is not honest, I would go.

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Speaker 5: That was a split second of confusion, But a split

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second can be the difference between life and death. I

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threw myself at Blake, slamming my shoulder with I got

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out of there with a broken left arm and a revolver.

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I don't know whether it was Blake's ory bars. I

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don't know how much damage I did, but at least

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there was nobody following me. As I retraced the road

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to the slaves stockade, the century was standing at the gate,

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holding a Tommy gun cradled in his arm. I got

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as close to him as I could, sheltered by the

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trunk of a huge mahogany tree, less than fifteen feet.

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Speaker 8: From the gate, and then he heard me, Well, who

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about there, I'll listen to me very carefully. I'm giving

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you a chance to save your life. Drop your gun

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and open that gate. Who are you a friend? Open

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the gate and let those men out and I'll give

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you one more chance. I don't want to hurt you

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those men out. That's the way it's got to be.

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Speaker 5: I'm Lilda. She's dead too, yes, Miss Randers with the others.

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When the men streamed out of the stockade, there was

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not stopping them, but she died instantly with her bullet

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through her heart.

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Speaker 3: What she did sounds as impossible as all the rest

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of it. Then, actual slavery sounds impossible too. Have you

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any idea how much actual slavery still exists in the

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world today. It's not a companying thought, but one we

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can't afford not to think about. Freedom is still something

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to fight for.

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Speaker 6: That was Christopher London, starring Glenn Ford and created especially

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for radio by the world's most widely read mystery writer,

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Earl Stanley Gardner. Christopher London is produced and directed by

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William N. Robeson and was tonight written by Mindrid Lords.

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Musical score was composed and conducted by Lynn Murray. A

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support supporting company included John Banks, Virginia, Greg Barton, Yarborough,

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Ted Decarfier, Alan Reid and Ben Wright. Mystery fans, you'll

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find two other great house packed adventure programs on most

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of these MVC stations every Monday Night. Listen Tomorrow night

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for Night Beat and Dangerous Assignment in one hour of

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intrigue and adventure on MVC. On Night Beat, you'll meet

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Randy Stone that's portrayed by Frank Lovejoy. You'll travel to

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night Beat of a newspaper with Randy as he searches

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the big city for the story to make good reading

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in the morning editions. Then it's time for Brian Don

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Levy in Dangerous Assignments. Wherever there's trouble brewing throughout the world,

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there you'll find Soldier of Fortune Don Levy chasing down

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the forces of evils of their very layers. These two programs,

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Night be and Dangerous Assignments add up to one hour

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of the best in action packed adventure mystery, and you'll

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hear them both Tomorrow night on NBC and be with

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us again next week at this time when Christopher London

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returns with another exciting excursion against crime. Stay tuned for

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the Phil Harrises and then Sam Spade on NBC.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Back Well. This was one of the more dramatic

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radio programs. This is actually one of my favorite ever

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of any program This was well done, dramatic, with a

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lot of surprises in twists and turns, and I loved

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it as much the second time as I did the

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first time I listened to it quite a while back.

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This is definitely a show with some staying power and

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this timeless battle for freedom. All right, Well, that'll actually

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do it for today. Comments from podcast ally greatly enjoy

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the shows. Thank you so much for your support. We

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will be back on Wednesday with Let George Do It.

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