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Speaker 1: The Avenger, the road to crime mend's in a trap.

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Speaker 2: Just as said crime does not pay.

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Speaker 1: The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil, is actually Jimp Brandon,

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

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perfected two inventions to aid him and his crusade against

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crime at the Avenger, the telepathic indicator, by which he

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is able to pick up thought flashes and speakred. The

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fusion capsule, which keeps him in the black light of invisibility.

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Brandon assistant, the beautiful fern Codier, is the only one

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who shares his secrets and knows that he is the

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man in the world fears as the Avenger, and now

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the Avenger and the Ghost murder. At the end of

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a long table in her darkened, sad room, Princess Stella,

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the renowned myistic sits bomless opposite her. A man leans forward,

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nervous and expectant. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a swirling spiral

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of white mist appears, takes shape, and from it comes

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a ghostly voice.

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Speaker 3: I am steer more, your wife, hor Lonesilla. We were

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so happy that it hold many memory stills you to

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me the hall horse, keep you now, I must perceive you.

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Speaker 4: But I will come again. I will read, I will.

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Speaker 3: Mother. Mother, don't believe me, Come back, mother, she's gone,

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Princess Stella, call her back, Call Michael back.

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Speaker 4: Princess Fella, wake up, wake up? Hell?

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Speaker 1: Hell, what's the matter? What happens? It's the princess. I

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can't wake her. Don't be alarmed. I'll up the lights.

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She must have been a manifestation. It always affected this way.

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Speaker 5: Yes, she brought my wife back.

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Speaker 1: Princess, Wake up, Princess Stella. She'll come out of it

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in a minute. Princess wake up?

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Speaker 3: What what is it?

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Speaker 4: Oh it's you?

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Speaker 1: Yes, you all right, Princess. You frightened your clan.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so sorry. Was a sance success?

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Speaker 1: Yes, you recalled another spirit for a lonely soul. Princess.

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I saw my wife. She spoke to me.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: I think we'd better leave the princess alone. Now she mistressed,

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of course this way.

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Speaker 4: Well how much did he pay you, Jordan?

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Speaker 1: Fifty dollars?

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Speaker 4: Tenny, Well, I'm getting sick of going through this routine

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day after day. For that kind of money, you'll promise

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the patient.

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Speaker 1: Stella. I told you that before. We'll be cleaning up.

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Speaker 4: Well, you'd better pull something out of the hat or

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I'll retire.

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Speaker 1: And then will you be joining Stella? That's no way

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to talk. After all I've done for you.

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Speaker 4: After all you've done for me.

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Speaker 1: Shut up. A woman in the waiting room. You've got

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to see her.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, she's in for a disappointment. I've had enough

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goos today.

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Speaker 1: You've got to see her and talk to her at least.

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Oh well, all right, I'll bring her in. Then I

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have to leave. I have an appointment uptown with a

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fellow by the name of friend, mister Jordan. What can

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I do for you, mister Brandon? I represent Princess Stella,

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the mystic. No doubt you've heard of her, yes, I have. Well,

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Princess Stella is going to try for that fifty thousand

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dollars prize the rollins the state is offering for a

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genuine manifestation. Isn't that rather a waste of the princess time?

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Mister Jordan? What do you mean? Well, so far every

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medium always tried for that prize has fell completely. Every

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so called manifestation was properly exposed as a hoax. Or

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Princess Stella is in a class by yourselfs those others

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work for Charlattan's. Princess Stella is a true sighting, a genuine,

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a genuine spirit meeting. Mister Jordan, suppose you come to

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the point what brought you here to see me. You

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may be a scientist, mister Brandon, yet I feel that

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some of your ideas may be in sympathy with those

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of the princess. Why well, you've written some brilliant articles

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about your experiments and the field of mental telepathy, So

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I thought you might be interested in endorsing Princess Stella's medium.

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Your word would go a long way in helping her.

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Just a minute, Jordan, let's clarify our terms. My telepathic

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experiments have to do with the concentrated thought waves of

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the living. That is a sile. But Princess Stella is

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a very clever actress, no doubt, no sale, Jordan. If

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we win the Rollins Prize, we're willing to cut you

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in for ten percent. No, thank you, I'm not interested.

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As a matter of fact, I'm on the other side

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of the fence completely. You mean you're going to fight

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us in a way, Yes, you see, I promised Neil Hayden,

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the Rolins lawyer, to act as a judge when Princess

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Stella puts in her bid for the prize. You what,

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I'm willing to give your client a fair enough chance.

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If Prince Astella really can produce her ghost, I'm sure

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the whole scientific world will sit up and take notice. Well,

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thanks for being such a sport about it, Brandon. I

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think you understand my position. Neither true artists needs a

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little clever exploitation. Yes, that seems to be a generally

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accepted idea. Anyway, I feel we'll get a square deal

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from you, Brandon. I'm merely interested in keeping things in

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their proper places. Jordan. I think Princess Stella's so called

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manifestations belong strictly in the field of entertainment, not to

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be confused in any way with any branch of science.

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Perhaps the Princess can convert you well, I won't take

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up any more of your time. I'll see you at

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the say once next Thursday. Right, I'm looking forward to it.

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I can find my way out. Thanks for the interview,

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not at all.

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Speaker 6: Goodbye the nerves trying to offer you a broad Jim,

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that's the limit. I don't see how you kept your temper.

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Speaker 1: Friend Jordan is playing for big stakes, and he's not

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the sort to leave any stone unturned.

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Speaker 6: Well, I don't trust a man like that. He's not

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only too glib, but too well dressed.

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Speaker 1: He's a dandy, all right. You notice the spats?

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Speaker 4: How could I miss them?

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Speaker 1: Jim?

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Speaker 4: I can know you've been asked to be a judge

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at this same.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Princess Stella is by the cleverest medium to try

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for the prize. I kneil paper isn't going to take

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any chances of being duped and carrying out the extraordinary

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terms of the robins.

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Speaker 4: Will Who are the other judges, Jim, you've.

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Speaker 1: Met the both Professor Gans and doctor Strong.

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Speaker 4: Princess Stella isn't going to have an easy time of it.

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Speaker 1: No, even though Gans are Strong are constantly at odds.

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They'll probably agree this once that Princess Stella is a

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colossal fake.

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Speaker 6: Jim, can you arrange for me to go to the seance?

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I don't believe in ghosts.

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Speaker 1: Would you like to see one?

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Speaker 6: Well, yes, I'd like to see what fast is for

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a ghost, all right, Vern, But.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime we have a great deal of research

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Speaker 4: What kind of research, Jim.

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Speaker 1: We're going to look into all the tricks that mediums use,

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all the accoudiments that the earthly ghost is heir to,

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the blaring horns and trumpets, the moving tables and the

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tilting chairs, and all known devices that have ever passed

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for ghosts.

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Speaker 4: Sounds interesting, Jims.

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Speaker 1: We must have under up made, Princess Stella Vern. This

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seance will be a kind of challenge, and we can't

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let science take a back seat.

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Speaker 5: You're late, Brandon, Strong and I have finished for that

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side of the room. Nothing unusual there.

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Speaker 1: You don't mind if Fern and I have a look

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Fortess again. Well, if you're not willing to take our

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work for you, ahead, Brandon, there's plenty of time. Thanks.

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Wrong this way, Fern.

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Speaker 6: So this is what a seance room looks like. I

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always thought they were done in black velvet. This one's

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completely in white.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the princess knows the value of contrast. She's a

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showman all right. Now for the inventory, white painted walls,

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white rug that completely covers the floor, eight straight back

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white chairs. Help me examine them, Fern, Right, Jim, They're

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all metal, no false bottom.

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Speaker 4: Nothing could be hidden in these chairs.

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Speaker 1: Let's take the table next to Hm. That's all metal too.

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Examine the legs, Fern, there's.

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Speaker 6: Single strips of metal, Jim. Nothing there, Nothing under the rug, Jim.

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There's no place to hide any ghosts in this.

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Speaker 1: Room certainly doesn't look that way. No windows. In fact,

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there's only one thing about this entire room that strikes

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me as a little odd.

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Speaker 4: What's that, Jim?

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Speaker 1: There are four radiators, two at each end.

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Speaker 6: Well, this is a very large room in cold weather.

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I imagine all four of them are needed.

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Speaker 1: They're all cold today. Are you ready, Brandon, Yes, strong,

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I think so. Or just one other thing? Did you

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and Gans go over the room for hidden wires? Yes,

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we covered the walls and floor with the detector. I

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guess that takes care of everything. Then I'll tell Jordan

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we're ready to begin the seance.

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Speaker 4: Who call, Who call?

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Speaker 1: Quick? Gans, put your flashlight on that corner.

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Speaker 6: There's someone there, Jim, Look something white, something there near

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the wall.

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Speaker 4: It's a ghost.

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Speaker 1: I see a Turn on the lights. There's something there.

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All right, I'll do it. Hurry, Yrdon, it's gone good.

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Speaker 6: Heaven's Jimmy, it must have been a ghost. Look at

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the Princess Tower.

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Speaker 1: Wake up, my princess, George figure out, of course, Princess Stella,

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Princess wake up.

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, Jim, this is more than I bargained for.

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Speaker 1: She's coming too. What happens, Brandon? Strong?

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Speaker 4: Help me?

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Speaker 1: Justus enter the room early. This sort of engish is impossible.

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That was the strangest thing I ever saw, A truly

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wonderful performance that doesn't seem to be a trace of

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anything to mark the passage of that ghost. Well, fellow scientists,

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what are we going to do if we can't explain

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this manifestation? We have to award the prize to Princess Stella.

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You aren't so fast, Strong, Well, what do you suggest? Cans?

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I don't know. What do you think, Brandon, there's no

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denying it. We saw the ghost and it's up to

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us to explain exactly what it was and where it

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came from. I think we'd better call for a repeat performance, right,

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I'll tell Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, come over here, Yes, yes,

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what is it? Professor? We're not convinced, Jordan. We're calling

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for another chance.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I cannot. I am exhausted. I cannot.

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Speaker 1: Princess. The judges are within their rights. The terms of

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the will stipulate that two tests may be demanded.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I think I cannot go through all.

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Speaker 1: This, gentlemen. The princess is nervous and upset. Could we

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postpone the second seance until tomorrow? Well? I don't see

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why not? What do you say, Brandon? I think that's

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an excellent idea. Are you agreed dance? Yes?

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Speaker 5: In fact, I prefer that I've just remembered something that

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may prove helpful to us.

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Speaker 1: I'll need a little time to check on it. We'll

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meet tomorrow then, yes, Jordan's However, I'd like to speak

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to you privately for a few moments. Now, certainly, come

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into the other room this way, professor.

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Speaker 5: Have you and the Princess traveled much abroad? Yes, widely,

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about twenty years ago. Did you build yourselves as the

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Countess and the clown?

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Speaker 1: Why? No, that must have been someone else. Why do

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you ask?

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Speaker 5: They were a popular carnival act in Austria when I

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was teaching there, Something about you two reminded me of them.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Princess and I are not exactly a vaudeville team, Professor.

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Speaker 5: I wonder what became of that act? I must find

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out before the seance tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Really, Professor, what can that have to do with Princess

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Stella on the Rawleans prize money?

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Speaker 5: It may have everything to do with it, Jordan, I'm

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rather certain that the Countess and the clowns are fugitives

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from justice.

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Speaker 1: And now back to the Avenger and the ghost murder Fern.

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We can't let Princess Telly get away with this ghost business.

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There's got to be an answer here in the seance room.

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Examine that radiator, friend, I'll take this one.

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Speaker 4: This one's cold, Jim, that's strange.

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Speaker 1: This one is warm. Turn it out, friend, Maybe the

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heats turned off. I'll see about the other radiators. Warn.

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One of these radiators is warm and one is cold.

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Speaker 4: What do you make of it, Jim, I don't know yet.

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Speaker 1: I turned the heat on. We'll give them a chance

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to warm up. Even though we never held the same

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idea as Gans, I never thought you'd deliberately opposed me

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in a thing like this.

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Speaker 5: I have a good authority that your vote was the

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only one against me. I admit it, strong. I don't

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think you're fitted to be head of a research foundation.

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Such a position requires an older man quite experience like yourself.

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Speaker 1: I suppose, so that was the reason for it. If

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you want the position yourself, I'll listen here, Strong, mind

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your commons. What's the trouble, Brandon, Professor Ganz blackfault me?

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I'd have been elected head of the Landsdown Foundation if

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it hadn't been for him and his petty personal ambition.

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Speaker 5: The matter between you and me, Strong, Let's keep it

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that way. I voted in good faith for what I

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believe to be the good of the foundation.

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Speaker 1: Your day is coming, Gans, I'll get you for this.

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Are you, gentlemen ready to begin? Everyone is waiting well, Jordan,

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I see you decided to brazen it out. If you

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have anything to say to me, Professor Gans, say it

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in private.

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Speaker 5: I'm afraid that won't be possible. My news will be

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of interest to the public. But I have decided to

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let you put your show on first. My news can wait.

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Speaker 1: I'll call everyone in then just a moment, Princess Della,

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we'll sit at this end of the shot today.

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Speaker 4: Very well, mister Brandon, it makes no difference to me.

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Speaker 1: You turn off the lights, shorwden. I'll keep my flashlight

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on you. All right, Now take your place in the circle,

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and everyone join hands. Hayden will hold my right wrist

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so that my hand will be pre to turn on

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this flashlight in an instant. There are you ready, Princess,

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I am ready.

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Speaker 4: I call upon some friendly spirit.

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Speaker 3: Let my voice penetrate these walls and travel on wings

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of winds. Out there in the vast unknown, I speak

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a friend, a lonely, unhappy spirit. I would call you

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back from the dark lost valley of the beyonds.

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Speaker 4: Come spirit, manifest I the veil is lifting.

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Speaker 3: The boundary between the living and the dead is not

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a barrier. It is but a frail cloud of mortal

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man's uncertainty. Come kind spirit, help.

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Speaker 4: Here, help here.

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Speaker 1: The spirit approaches.

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Speaker 4: Oo long, there it is in the corner.

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Speaker 1: Ghosts, it's there, all right, keep your hands, joining everyone,

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I'll turn on the lights. Hurry, Brendon, it's already disappearing.

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Speaker 4: What's gone, Jim, Look, Professor Gans, he must have fainted.

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Speaker 1: Help me, Brandon, We'll get him out of here. Don't

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touch him, strong, Why not look closer. There's a small

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dagger below his heart. What, Professor Gangs is dead? Well,

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the police have confirmed my suspicions. Burn Professor Gans was

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killed by a poison dagger.

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Speaker 4: Any prints on it?

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Speaker 1: Jim, inspector says there was a partial print, but it

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was too smudge to feel any value.

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Speaker 6: Jim, up until now, I'd never believed in ghosts. But

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you have to admit that no living person in that

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room could have thrown that dagger. No one broke the

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circle for a second.

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Speaker 1: So you're willing to pin this murder on a ghost, Well,

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how do you explain it? Then? The ghost is the

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only one that we can rule out, because you see,

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there wasn't any ghost.

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Speaker 4: There wasn't any the gym. We saw it twice.

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Speaker 1: What we saw was nothing more than a clever mixture

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of muriatic acid and ammonia vapor released through tiny holes

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in the dummy radiator. One radiator at each end of

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the room was a dummy.

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Speaker 4: But how did the ghost just hear so quickly?

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Speaker 1: The gas was operated by an automatic pressure gauge in

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the basement. It was time to last for ten seconds,

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and that spiral whirling effect was due to the intermittent

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release of air which circulated about the vapor. At the

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end of ten seconds, the whole thing was dissolved by

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a very light spray of ammonia and water also released

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from the radiator.

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Speaker 2: USh.

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Speaker 6: I almost believed in that ghost, especially after you placed

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Princess ter at the opposite end of the table for

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the second sale.

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Speaker 1: That's why they had two sets of radiators in room,

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just in case a skeptic made a request like that.

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Speaker 4: But what of the voice, Jims. It didn't come from

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anyone in the room, It came from the ghost.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's easy, Princess Fella's accomplished pentriloquist.

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Speaker 6: Wow, there goes my ghost story. Right up the chimney,

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or I should say, right down the radiator.

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Speaker 1: Ern, I don't want any of this revealed until we

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know whom ends.

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Speaker 4: All right, Jim, But I don't see how we're ever

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going to find that out.

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Speaker 1: At the moment. Neither do I. But we'll keep trying.

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Speaker 4: Is the inspector still questioning Jordan Strong and the Princess?

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Speaker 1: Yes, but he'll have to let them go for lack

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of evidence.

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Speaker 6: I wonder if Jordan had time to put on his

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socks before it went a headquart his socks? Yes, our

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fashion plate disillusioned me. He appeared at that last seance

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without any socks.

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Speaker 1: Well, Fern, get your coat We're going to the gymnasium

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whatever for Jim. I'm interested in seeing a little professional boxing.

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I've often heard those French savat boxes are something to see. Stella.

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What are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I'm packing, Jordan. I'm gonna pull out.

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Speaker 1: Don't be a fool, Stella. When you're at the bond,

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you've got to stay here and stick things out.

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Speaker 4: You suit yourself. I'm leaving.

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Speaker 1: Listen to me, Stella. We still have a chance to

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pull through all this and win that fifty thousand dollars prize.

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You've got to go through without seance today.

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Speaker 4: If we stay here, we'll wind up in jail, no

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matter how the seance turns out.

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Speaker 1: What are you getting it? The police have no evidence

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against us. Strong was the only one with a motive

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for killing gangs. We're in the clear.

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Speaker 4: You're wrong, Jordan. Jim Brandon knows we had a motive

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for killing gangs.

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Speaker 1: Brandon, how could he know anything?

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Speaker 7: I heard the inspector tell Brandon to search Gan's apartment.

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Says knows who we were and all about the trouble

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that you got us into in Vienna. He must have

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had some proof of it. Brandon has that proof now

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and he's just waiting for the proper.

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Speaker 1: Time to use it does put us in a spot.

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Speaker 4: We've got to get out of here, Jordan. I'm afraid.

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Speaker 1: What are you afraid of? Stella? Did you kill games?

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Speaker 4: How dare you say that?

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Speaker 1: Might take it easy? Stella? Listen, I'll make a deal

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with you if you stay here and go through with

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this seance. I promise you have nothing to fear from Brandon.

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Speaker 4: What are you talking about, Jordan? You would not.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about what Brandon knows, that's all. Is it

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a deal? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: How do I know I'm not next on the murderer's list.

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Speaker 1: You're being hysterical. Come on now, get things ready for

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your performance. If you'll make it a good one, Stella,

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we'll be on easy Street.

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Speaker 4: Well, mister Jordan, may I speak with you a moment,

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of course, Miss Corner?

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Speaker 6: What is it? Well, mister Brandon is busy at police

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headquarters and won't be able to get here for the

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day off.

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Speaker 4: But you must.

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Speaker 1: This is the final test for the price.

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Speaker 4: You are to go on with the seance as usual.

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Speaker 6: It is understood that if you can vince Strong and Hayden,

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that Princess Della has brought about a genuine manifestation.

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Speaker 1: The prize is all right, I'll call a princess.

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Speaker 4: We are ready. Close the door, please, mister Jordan, and

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turn out the lights. Jordan, Wait a moment. What was

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that noise?

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Speaker 1: I don't know? Seemed to come from just outside the door,

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but there's no one there.

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Speaker 7: Close the door then, and let's get started. Join the circle, Jordan.

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Let me warn you all, do not break the circle

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no matter what happens. Let silence reign a moment. Spirit

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of another world come to us.

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Speaker 3: Manifest thyself to those who do not believe, show thyself

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within this room.

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Speaker 4: Come spirit, appear, appear and speak. Who who is sleep?

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Speaker 1: I am the spirit of Alvin.

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Speaker 4: Something is wrong. Turn on the lights where you are,

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all of.

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Speaker 1: You, and hear me out. Ghosts of the murdered have

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a right to speak.

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Speaker 4: Turn your flashlight on him.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Strong, there's no one there. I'm here, but you

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can't see me. Be a ghost killer me. You admit

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before witnesses, Princess Stella, that you have no power to

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produce a ghost.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, but tell me who you are.

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Speaker 1: I am the Avenger Stella. I am here to accuse

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Claude Jordan of the murder of Professor Gans. It's a

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sorry trick you're playing on. It's no trick, Jordan. I'll

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turn on the lights and produce the evidence. It's step

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Strong and Hayden. Search Jordan. You'll find something interesting there.

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There's a small bow and arrow attached to his leg

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and fastened underneath it is a small dagger like the

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one used to kill Gans. Yes, that's right, is wrong?

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Call Inspector White. Tell him Jordan is ready to give

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him an exhibition. That some amazing footwork. Well heerned you

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furnished the clue that solved this murder case.

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Speaker 4: I did, Jim.

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Speaker 1: You noticed that Jordan wasn't wearing socks at the seance

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when Gans was killed.

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Speaker 4: That a glue.

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Speaker 1: The thing that had us stumped until then was the

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certain knowledge that no one of that seance could have

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used his hands to dry that dagger into Gan's heart.

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That's right, But what if a person were just as

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dexterous with his feet as with his hands.

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Speaker 4: You mean, could have thrown the dagger with his feet.

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Speaker 1: Hardly thrown it, but he could have aimed it with

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his feet.

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Speaker 4: I see that.

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Speaker 6: Little bow and arrow fastened to Jordan's leg could be set,

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aimed and release by his other foot.

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Speaker 1: That's right after I'd figured that out, I realized that

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the smudge print on the dagger could have a toe print.

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Speaker 6: So that's why we went to the gymnasium to see

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those Sabbat boxes who boxed with their feet.

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Speaker 1: Yes, one of those boxes demonstrated my theory of how

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the crime was committed without moving the upper part of

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his body at all.

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Speaker 6: Jim, just what was that the professor Gans knew about

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Princess Stella and Jordan's the motive.

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Speaker 4: For the murder.

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Speaker 1: Jordan was mixed up in a killing in Vienna about

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twenty years ago that Gans happened to remember. He intended

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to expose Jordan after the seance that day, and Jordan

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knew it.

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Speaker 4: It seems to be no limit to the methods of murder.

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Speaker 1: They don't give us detectives a chance to grow complacent.

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Speaker 4: No, this one really had you on your toe.

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Speaker 1: Oh upon Miss Gallia, that some would call a very

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murderous weapon. All characters, names, places, and plots used in

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the Avenger program are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living

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or dead is purely coincidental. This is a thought, a thought,

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a thought. Remember listen for another adventure of the Avenger

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of