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the unknown come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time

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and space. These are stories of the future adventures in

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which you'll live in a million, could be years, on

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a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation

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with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.

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Speaker 3: He minus minus minus minus minus.

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Speaker 2: The Night Story Doctor Grimshaw's Sanitarium.

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Speaker 4: What you will hear in.

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Speaker 2: The next half hour represents either a magnificent hoax or

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the true explanation of the famous Grimshaw Sanitarium scandal which

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made the headlines back in nineteen forty seven. The manuscript

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upon which this account is based was removed by the

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New York State Police from a fountain pen cover found

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in the doorway to doctor Grimshaw's study. We offer this

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manuscript as evidence only. Whether it is authentic or not,

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you must judge for yourselves. My name is John Dougherty.

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Speaker 5: I'm a graduate of Hamilton College, class of thirty four,

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member of Theta Alpha. I'm one of those fools who

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wanted some excitement in life, so instead of going to

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my father's shoe business. I became a private detective. These

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are facts. You can check them if you like. The

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rest of what I write here is so fantastic that

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I don't expect it to be believed. If anyone should

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find this manuscript and read it, all I ask is

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that you notify this Millicent Armbrister of two ninety nine

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Wallace Avenue, Buffalo, that Johnny Dougherty is dead. On the

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evening of July first, Miss Armbruster and I were driving

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to a wedding, not our own, although I wish it

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had been. It was Sunday, and in order to avoid traffic,

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I took the Old Mill Road, a single lane dirt

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affair that runs past the Gowanda Cemetery.

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Speaker 6: Johnny, aren't you.

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Speaker 7: Going too fast?

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Speaker 5: Not for this road? There's nothing around except some tombstones.

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Speaker 8: John the gate to the cemetery, what about it that

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hairs look out look out.

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Speaker 5: Be skidded for about twenty feet and slammed into the

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back of the hearse. The two rear doors buckled and

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snapped open. It was a freak. A huge oak coffin

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with brass handles tipped up and began slowly to slide

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back toward us.

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Speaker 7: Horrible.

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Speaker 5: You stay right here, baby, Okay, Mac.

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Speaker 4: You don't pay much attention to speed limits, do you, Joe?

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Speaker 5: Oh look, let's not get hung up on who was

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right and who was wrong. I was going too fast

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and you were traveling without lights after dark.

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Speaker 4: Let's see a driver's license all right here?

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Speaker 5: Uh, private eye, if you don't mind, who does this

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joy wagon belonged to.

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Speaker 4: Go on the funeral service? It's being rented to Grimshaw?

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Who Grimshaw from the private sanitarium?

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Speaker 5: Mind if I asked what you were doing after dark

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coming out of a cemetery with a wooden Kimona.

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Speaker 4: We're moving won a Grimshaw's patience to a new grave.

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Speaker 5: They always travel like this.

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Speaker 4: Look, Hawkshaw, how about skipping the third degree and giving

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me a hand getting this box back in the wagon?

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Speaker 5: Better screw on that cover again. It's gonna slide off.

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Speaker 4: Let's get it in the hears first.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Junior, you get on that end.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you ready?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Lift, just slide it. Brother, who's in there? Can come

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look for the cover. I told you that would happen.

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It's a guy's name, Junior.

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Speaker 4: Oh, why don't you ask him?

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Speaker 5: Sherlock Home a real wise guy. I've got half a

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mind to report this accident. It will go ahead, see

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where it gets here. Now, if you're potton me, I'll

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deliver the body.

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Speaker 7: Everything all right, Johnny?

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Speaker 5: I thought so until a few seconds ago. Listen, Tolik,

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can you sit here in the car for another five minutes?

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Where are you going for a stroll through the cemetery?

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Speaker 7: Johnny stoped making Joe, and we lifted.

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Speaker 5: That coffin back on the meat wagon. I got a

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good look inside it. Yeah, exactly how I felt. I

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figured we knocked the stuffing out of the corpse, only

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I didn't expect the stuffing to be sand. What Yes,

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that was a body. That was a dummy stuffed with sand,

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interesting question. Who's supposed to be in that box? And

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just where is the dead man spending his time? Sometimes

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in my business, when things drop off, you have to

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go out and dig up new clients. My next case

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was a gentleman named Harlan Ward Senior, the wealthy automobile manufacturer.

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I'd gotten his name off his son's tombstone.

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Speaker 1: Are you trying to tell me, Dorogy that my son

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Holland was never buried at go on the cemetery.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, mister Wood. But why maybe if you'll tell me

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the circumstances surrounding your son's death, I can help answer.

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Speaker 1: That my son was a rather impetuous young man, tall,

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good looking. After his graduation from Princeton, he began drinking

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quite heavily. After he got into a couple of scrapes.

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that he could be cured. While my wife and I

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were in Europe, we received words that he died buried

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in all absence. Last week, my wife and I decided

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to have his body removed to the family vault here

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at short Heels. How'd your son die suicide?

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Speaker 5: You never saw the body?

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Speaker 1: No, we couldn't get back from Europe in time. Now

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you're told me that his coffin contains a dummy. How

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do I know this whole thing is the plan to

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fleece me?

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Speaker 5: You don't, But you're a rich man, mister Ward, and

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you're perfectly willing to take a chance that I'm on

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the level and that your son may still be alive.

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Speaker 1: You sound very sure of yourself, mister dargy.

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Speaker 5: My fee is a two thousand dollars retainer plus expenses.

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What sort of expenses? However? Much it cost to take

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the cure at doctor Grimshaw's sanitarium. Doctor grimshaw sanitarium was

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just outside Gowanda. Most of the cases were nervous breakdowns

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and alcoholics. Admitted myself as a dipso and just to

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make it convincing, I started at five or six bars.

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On the way over, I was interviewed by Grimshaw himself,

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a small man with a fringe of white hair. You understand,

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mister Dougherty, that's not my real name, of course social reason.

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Speaker 9: We understand. Our paid clientele is very select and our

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rates are very high.

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Speaker 5: You'll be paying cash and in advance. Doctor Grimshaw angs

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a cure usually say that, of.

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Speaker 9: Course, depends on the degree of alcoholism. This is my assistant,

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doctor Boyner.

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Speaker 5: How do you do?

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Speaker 1: How do you do?

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Speaker 9: We are accepting mister Dorothy as a patient. Better place

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him in the ward with mister Kay and mister mister

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Kay is a long term patient.

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Speaker 5: Mister Dorothy a.

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Speaker 9: Highly intelligent man, formerly a professor of plant pathology. Mister

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Kkey suffers mild delusions. I think you'll find him rather amusing.

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Speaker 5: After about three days, my roommate's Arthur Kay and Craigie

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got used to me, and we even began to play

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three handred bridge. Kay was a chronic dough adict, an intelligent,

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sensitive man. Craigie was nothing but a clown. He kept

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a big black cat named the Professor, which he talked

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to as if it were human.

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Speaker 6: And so I said to.

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Speaker 10: Her, my dear countess, if you don't like the company

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of my cat, then you don't like me. She looked

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at me as if I were insane, but of course

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the joke was on her, because I was a professor.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 6: The Professor was very sociable, excellent company, except.

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Speaker 11: When he kills birds and deposits him in your bed.

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He's nothing but a feline murderer as far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 6: Ah, same, you have insulted him as.

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Speaker 5: The k give me a professor. Let's make friends about

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giving me your part. Scratch me, your black devil.

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Speaker 6: You insulted him, you hurt his feelings.

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Speaker 5: We'll just keep him away from me.

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Speaker 6: It will be a pleasure. I would advise you not

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to insult them again. Good afternoon and evening.

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Speaker 5: Wow. He always is, not to say ever since I've

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been here? What's his problem?

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Speaker 6: Manic? Depressive?

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Speaker 11: A little paranoid too.

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Speaker 5: How long have you been here, Arthur? I'm sure two years.

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Speaker 11: I left for a while, but I couldn't stay away

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from the junk, so I committed myself again.

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Speaker 5: Did you happen to know a patient here named Harland Warden?

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Why do you ask that? Did you know him? I

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met him socially a few times. I understand he died here, So.

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Speaker 11: The newspapers said, I wouldn't know. Suicide, wasn't it?

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Speaker 5: Was it? You're being pretty careful, aren't you, mister Dorty.

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Speaker 11: What would you say if I were to tell you

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that I don't believe Holland ward is dead?

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Speaker 5: What makes you so certain you'd share this room with us?

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She slept in the same bed you now use. I see.

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Speaker 11: He was an alcoholic, doing quite well too, from what

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I could observe. We all expected him to go home soon.

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Then one evening he had a violent fight with Craikie.

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Craggie accused him of snooping or something. Later that night,

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Grimshaw and Voyner took him out where where they take

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all the special treatment cases. To the charity clinic. It's

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that small building on the other side of the stone wall.

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A few days later we read about his death suicide.

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Speaker 5: They said, does what makes you think he's still alive?

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Speaker 8: This?

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Speaker 5: About a month ago.

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Speaker 11: I was in the garden next to the wall that

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separates us from the charity clinic. Suddenly I thought I

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heard a sound like a child whimpering. It stopped, and

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a moment later this note came over the wall, wrapped

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around a stone's say, help me, for God's sake, Carlin Ward, Arthur, how.

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Speaker 5: Would you like to have some fun like? What like

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sneaking out tonight and going over the wall to the

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charity Ward? What do you say would break the monotony

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a little?

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Speaker 11: I suppose there's no real harm in it's.

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Speaker 5: Of course not. I'd go alone, but I'll need help

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scaling the wall. Will you do it?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 5: I'll go with you. Ull clear, give me your hand

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and I'll lift you careful when you drop.

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Speaker 11: Ready, go ahead, Yah, there's a charity building over there,

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the one with the lights in the basement.

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Speaker 5: Of Come on, let's crawl over. Maybe we can see something.

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Now listen, can you make out what he's saying? No,

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I can believe, good law. What was that? Han't some

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patient having the DTAs. Let's have a look easy. It

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wouldn't do to get caught now, see anything, some sort

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of laboratory. I can see Grimshaw and Voin on something else.

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But there's a child with its back toward me.

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Speaker 9: Please, no, it will all be over soon.

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Speaker 5: You won't remember anything.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't want to know.

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Speaker 11: Why not give it to him?

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Speaker 5: Good Lord?

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Speaker 2: What was it?

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Speaker 5: What did they do to that child?

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Speaker 1: Either?

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Speaker 9: That wasn't a child.

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Speaker 5: It was a midget, the smallest midgard I've ever seen,

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trying to give it some sort of injection. When it resisted,

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Buena knocked it out.

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Speaker 8: What do you suppose they were doing to it?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. Other well I know is that when

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it fell it had the face of harland Ward. All

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the way back to our room, my brain was working

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like some frantic pinball machine. Only the score somehow wouldn't

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add up. The pieces were there, all right, A crazy

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old doctor, a brutal assistant, a private sanitarium, and a

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midget with a dead man's face. I thought that when

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I got back to our room, i'd have some time

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to think about it. I'd forgotten about our friend, the

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happiness boy. Sound, Craky Crown caught you? Fine, you've caught us. Now,

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how about crawling back into the woodwork like a good

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little count? Will you mink hunting? Arthur and I like

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to go mink hunting at night?

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Speaker 6: You make fun of Craig, I shall report you to

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doctor Vna.

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Speaker 5: It better not if you know what's good for you.

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Speaker 6: Oh you threaten me me, Count Craiky, I should scream

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for help.

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Speaker 5: Did you hurt him? Just knocked him out? We put

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him to bed, hope that he wakes up in the

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morning he's forgotten the whole thing, and he hasn't. He's

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too crazy for them to take seriously anyway. Come on,

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let's get him back in a bed. I went to

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sleep in my own room, and the next thing I

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felt was the sharp jab of the hypodermic needle in

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my left arm. Hold it.

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Speaker 9: It'll be useless to start with, mister Dorothy. In a moment,

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your motor nerves will be completely paralyzed. Ursus about grimshock,

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I might ask the same of you, my good friend. Come,

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Creakie informs me. You and mister Ky decided to do

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some snooping earlier tonight he followed you, and so you

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climbed the wall.

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Speaker 5: Craigie is insane, mister Dorty.

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Speaker 6: That is a matter of opinion.

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Speaker 5: Quicky, what is this?

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Speaker 6: Perhaps, my assistant, that the grim Shaw would be good

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enough to explain, Assistant, Yes, you see, I am the

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actual head of the Grimshaw Sanatarium.

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Speaker 5: Come.

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Speaker 9: Craikie paints many delusions, mister Doroty, but in this case

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he is telling the truth. Hunt Creiky is actually Professor

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Ernst Hassler. Professor Hasler and I work together in the

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Berin Neurological Institute before and during the last war.

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Speaker 6: Unfortunately, my political affiliations with the Third Reich were under

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investigation by the War Crimes Commission. However, doctor Grimshaw managed

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to smuggle me into this country, where I masqueraded as

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a mental patient, in order that we might continue certain

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experiments which were interrupted by the American Army.

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Speaker 5: I can imagine the short of experiments you conducted.

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Speaker 9: You and your friend mister k will discover their exact

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nature very shortly.

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Speaker 5: Mister Doughty.

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Speaker 9: It is a magnificent opportunity to serve science.

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Speaker 5: The past half and the next thing I knew I

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was coming to in a different room and hearing the

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voices of Voyner, Grimshaw and craigy is it from a

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great distance the turtry?

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Speaker 4: What this is? CC?

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Speaker 6: All the measurements reducing rapidly you'll operate at once have

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won us start the anesthesia?

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Speaker 5: Very well?

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Speaker 4: Doctor come.

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Speaker 5: When I came to again, I had a blinding headache.

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I began to wonder if Craikie and Grimshaw weren't doing

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something to drive me insane. Because I lost all sense

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of perspective. The room seemed to grow in size. I

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don't know how much time passed, but one day Craikie

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came into the room of the bundle in his arms,

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about the size of a newborn baby. The bundle was

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my friend Arthur kay and bourse. Yet I was exactly

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the same size that he was.

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Speaker 6: Let me out of here. Put me out, Allow me

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to congrat your latude, gentlemen, how are you feeling you're

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thirty monthster? I'm disappointed. Do you not feel privileged to

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be a part of an experiment that will place me

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at the very top rank of the world's endocrinologist?

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Speaker 7: What are you doing to us, you madman?

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Speaker 6: It has long been established gentleman, that dwarfism and giantism

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result from injury to or malfunction of the pituitary and

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thyroid glands. The interlock between these glands was thought to

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be a hormone. I have discovered that this was incorrect.

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It was an enzyme, an enzyme I isolated some years ago.

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I was well on the way to synthesis in Germany

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when the surrender interrupted me. The interruption also limited the

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number and type up subjects on whom I could experiment.

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I was forced to find others, such as Harland Wood.

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Mister Ward was only a control experiment.

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Speaker 5: I suppose you plan the same for us.

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Speaker 6: No, gentleman, for you, I have reserved a special privilege.

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Speaker 10: You, gentlemen, will be the.

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Speaker 6: First to test the full effects of the end enzyme

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in shorts. I intend that you, mister Kay, and you,

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mister Dougherty, when the experiment is completed, will emerge as

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perfectly healthy, normal individuals, except of course, that you will

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be only fine inches tall.

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Speaker 5: The days and nights have followed were a living nightmare,

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a nightmare from which Arthur and I awoke for brief

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periods to find ourselves in a strange new world, a huge,

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frightening world where everything seemed enlarged a one hundred times. When

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we finally emerged, we found ourselves imprisoned in a tiny

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mouse cage. Judging by the relative size of things, we

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could not have been more than five inches tall. Now

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we realize the experiment was at an end, and from

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now on it was either escape or be destroyed.

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Speaker 7: How's it coming? At another moment?

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Speaker 9: His lack?

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Speaker 8: And if we escape, then what we'll worry about that

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after we get out of this mass cage? Suppose we

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don't take it. At least you've written a story on

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that scrap of paper. Someone may find.

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Speaker 7: It and read it. Nobody will believe it.

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Speaker 8: And why did you bother to write it?

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I suppose I want the world to know what happened

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to me.

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Speaker 5: That does it help?

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Speaker 8: We push the door open?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 8: What the first job is getting down to the floor.

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I think we can make it by sliding down the

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telephone card are you name? Go ahead, I'm right behind you, easy,

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now look out.

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Speaker 6: That does it?

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Speaker 8: Now we can figure out a way to get out

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of the room.

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Speaker 7: That should be Oh listen, somebody's coming. It must be creaky.

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We got to hide here. You're close. If he finds.

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Speaker 6: Us, well, my friends, I'm for feeding. I trust that

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you will so. Oh you have managed to break out,

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it won't do you know? There is no way you

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could have gotten out of the room with the door

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and window locked. I know you are in here. I

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would advise you to save yourselves trouble and give up.

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Speaker 5: Very well, my.

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Speaker 6: Tiny friends, if you prefer to play the game of

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cat and mouse, and I shall be happy to furnish

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the cat.

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Speaker 10: There is no way you can get out.

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Speaker 7: What now he's gone to?

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Speaker 9: The cat?

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Speaker 5: Is that monster? Ever gets in here? With Goddess?

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Speaker 8: There must be what you see that in skind of

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wire running along the morning for by, it's the automatic

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fire alarm. When the alarm is tripped by a fire

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a short circuit, all the box is.

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Speaker 5: Gone, so the patients can skip in the rooms.

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Speaker 8: If I can shot that wire before quickly lets the

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cat to the building.

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Speaker 7: Let's go.

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Speaker 8: There's a tiny sliver of skill from the cage on

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the floor, and look at that. Keep an air of

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the door.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead.

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Speaker 7: The situation is as wrong, I hurry apart for God's sake.

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Speaker 8: Stand away, I'm going to short it ready, Okay, here.

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Speaker 5: Goes the door.

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Speaker 7: Let's make a run for it down the hall. If

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we can get to the guy and we got a chance,

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I not smoke shot. May actually is time to pire.

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Come on, wait a minute, I have to go back

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the nine. You script see a fool. There's no time.

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Come on, you go ahead. I'll cantchell me up. I'll

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wait only a second.

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Speaker 5: I got it.

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Speaker 7: Come on, there's nothing to stop us. Now, father, where

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are you? It's funny, father, father, father, what's happened to you?

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Speaker 2: This is the record found in a fountain pen cover

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in the burned out hallway of doctor Grimshaw's sanitarium. There's

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nothing to add except that the fire which destroyed the

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sanitarium and killed so many of its occupants, including doctor

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Grimshaw and doctor Voyna, was definitely of incendiary nature.

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Speaker 5: It is believed by the.

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Speaker 2: Fire chief that some small creature, possibly a mouse, chewed

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the insulation off the wire and short circuited the system.

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The two patients, John Doherty and Arthur Kay, vanished completely

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after the fire, and their remains were never fond whether

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the manuscript which you have just heard is authentic or

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whether it was the work of one of the more

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demented inmates of the sanitarium. We leave to your judgment.

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