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All Right, well, now it's time for today's episode of

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Candy Madson. And this is the new year's episode from

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December seventeenth of nineteen forty nine. Here is the valley.

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Speaker 1: Of the move.

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Speaker 3: Hello, you can't to eight two nine. Yes, this is

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Candy Madson.

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Speaker 4: The National Broadcasting Company presents Candy Madson yukon two eight

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two o nine. This is the start of a mystery.

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Our main character is a San Francisco girl, Detective Candy Madsen.

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There are others in the show too, and Inspector Mallard,

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a gent who calls himself Ram Brandt, Watson, a cowboy,

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a dude, ranch owner, and a gal the casting agency

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assured us was a dowager slightly boozy. There are a

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few other voices along the way too. I think that

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has all the makings of a good mystery show, don't you. Well,

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let's go on from here and find out. So here's

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Candy Matson.

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Speaker 3: Like the man just said, this is the start of

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a mystery. Christmas had me completely tuck it out, no

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when it invited me to the Rose Bowl game or

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the East West of keys Are. So I decided to

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make like a bear and hibernate over New Year's. It

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worked out perfectly because my old friend rem Brandt Watson

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put it. You wish to beat nineteen jfty and some

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remote spot. Is that the idea, dog? That's the idea, Docky.

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Speaker 5: I have a perfect place for you, a dude rat reasonable,

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just on the other side of Sonma, in the Valley

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of the Moon.

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Speaker 3: Valley of the Moon, New Year's even the valley of

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the Moon, rem Brandt.

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Speaker 5: That sends me good. Maybe it can send us both.

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I have a commission to take some pictures up there

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for a brochure they're putting out. I have to be

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there tomorrow afternoon. Yea, I see your nibbling at the date,

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I shall be blood. Why don't you drive me up.

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Speaker 3: You when your point, I'll pick you up tomorrow at

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what time?

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Speaker 5: Let us be spectacular and say hi noon, Hi noon,

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And I do bring some cash, will you?

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Speaker 6: Girl?

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Speaker 3: I'm a little short. I thought you were going up

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there on a commission.

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Speaker 5: Yes I am, but they have some simple rime one

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armed devices and and there goes me commission.

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Speaker 3: Naturally, a girl has to look right to welcome in

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the new year. That gave me the perfect excuse to

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squander a few hard earned dollars and cents on some

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lovely clothes that didn't make sense but cost dollars. The

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afternoon was aging gracefully, a little gray here and a

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wrinkle or two there, so I stopped for a parfe

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very dry and no olive. With that mission accomplished, I

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headed back over Corney Street, and as I wheeled past

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Portsmouth Square in the Hall of Justice, I realized I

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hadn't seen my chrum Mallard in quite some time. Inspector

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Ray Mallard of San Francisco Homicide a very smart cops.

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You can smell a clue a mile away when it

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comes to me. He very conveniently carries his own fog around.

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Speaker 7: Well, Candy, my little cupcake, now.

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Speaker 3: Dear you called me your little cupcake.

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Speaker 6: Sure still the Christmas season. Let's be charitable. I always say,

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Speaker 3: Say in a situation like this? Nothing? I just exude

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a stream of steams from the top of my head.

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Speaker 7: Very cute. What brings you around our boarding house?

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Speaker 3: You darnis. I thought you might like to know I'm

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Speaker 7: What did they get you on Pattief?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they got me as I tried to make

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my getaway on a triton. But for your information, inspector,

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I'm spending my New Year's Eve up in the valley

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of the Moon.

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Speaker 7: Oh want to get away from it all?

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Speaker 3: That's right you in particular?

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Speaker 7: In that case, may I get you a midwinter vacation

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off to a flying start?

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Speaker 3: You can try?

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Speaker 7: How I'm not working tonight? How's about a movie?

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Speaker 3: You've got yourself at Gate? What's playing?

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Speaker 7: Bacub?

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Speaker 3: That's what I thought? Where's text in these faithful hoss

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mustard in this time?

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Speaker 6: I have the plast and the pictures of Pitt too.

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I read all about it. Yeah, hot lead over low rato.

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Look here's the adam of paper. I can't wait to

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assume that a searing epic of the West's wild grandeur

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men as rugged as the mountain. We are singing saga,

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scorching bullets, strumming guitars and supple senoria, and starring the

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champ of the cowboys. Text tacoff, what more can want?

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Ask in a motion picture?

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Speaker 3: Popcorn?

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Speaker 7: Oh, we'll have that too.

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Speaker 3: I went home, did some packing for the trip the

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next day, picked something to eat, and then changed into

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my spurs at Jingle Jangle for tech Tacus Melard ride.

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We took off. We got to the early show, so

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we managed to get some good feet. Of course, he

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wasn't kidding about the popcorn. He got a great big

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bag of that. We fumbled our way down the darkened

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aisle and found a place to sit. The movie was

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almost over.

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Speaker 7: The thing looked like a gosh to me.

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Speaker 8: He sere okay, sorry lady, what happened?

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Speaker 7: You're okay? Oh? Have some popcorn? No I won't.

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Speaker 3: He was going to be right.

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Speaker 8: What I said, sure is good popcorn? Oh sure I

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don't want some? I said, Are you sure you don't

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want some popcorn? I can't saying no, thank you, I

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don't want idea.

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Speaker 9: If you will, pardon me, I'm going home and catch

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this on television.

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Speaker 7: Not understand your.

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Speaker 3: After hot let over Laredo, I suffered through six reels

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of a Bounty College picture. Freshmen looked like holdovers from

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the early days of the war. Then a newsreel, then

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a cartoon, then the trailer, then again tech Aco. So

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we got out about midnight, and I drove Mallard back

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to the Hall of Justice. As he got out of

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the car, oh oh, now that's what I call sharp dialogue.

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On leaving the lady, all he can say.

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Speaker 6: Is, oh, well, oh, nothing personal, Candy, Now, he laughed

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at me. I was just thinking, you're going up to

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the Valley of the Moon for a rest, Is that

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the idea?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Yes, that and trying to get away from Techaco.

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Speaker 7: I know you too well, Candy, you're not going to

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have any rest.

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Speaker 6: Look at the headline on that paper in the news

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stand there man missing in Sonoma mystery.

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Speaker 3: And Nomah can have it. Mallard, Dear, if I so

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much as step inside the Sonoma city limits, you can

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come and lead me away quietly.

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Speaker 7: You know something, I'm gonna remember that.

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Speaker 3: Mallard waved goodbye and went inside. I didn't like the

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way he said that, but I had other things to

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think about, such as getting home and getting some sleep,

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so I did, and in the morning, I drove over

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to California Street, picked up Mrant. We headed out across

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the Golden Gate bridge up to heard Sonoma. The value

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of the moon wasn't too far. A couple of hours

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of leisurely driving with time out for readjustments and you're there.

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Then another eight miles north and east and there was

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the Dude Ranch.

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Speaker 7: This is it, Diah, what do you think of it?

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Speaker 3: Perfect? Just perfect? Wait, rem brand dear, it's a real want.

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Speaker 5: Of course, God would going concern they were going to

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take in guests as a sideline. Oh, here comes to man.

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I imagine that's mister dottas the owner.

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Speaker 3: I'll shut off the motor.

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Speaker 7: Good morning. How do you do sir? Would you mean

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mister Lawrence? Per chance? Yes?

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Speaker 5: And you Watson, Rembrandt Patson, I'm here to take some

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pictures for you, as we discussed by the Dell system.

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Speaker 7: Oh yes, Watson, right on time. That's good.

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Speaker 5: Oh Candy, I mean I present mister Lawrence, owner of

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the Double L. Miss Madson.

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Speaker 7: I do.

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Speaker 5: Miss Madson was wondering if she could get accommodations for

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about a week.

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Speaker 7: Mister Loaden what now?

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Speaker 10: Wait a minute, Watson, I'm paying you a substantial fee

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for this job, and I won't get stuck with non

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paying guests.

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Speaker 7: Oh I think you're laboring up.

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Speaker 3: Miss apprehend Look, mister Laurence, I'm here as a commercial guest.

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I'm not asking for anny papers, and I doubt if

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i'd stay here now if you got down on your

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bended knuckles.

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Speaker 7: Oh now, wait a second, I didn't mean it just

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that way. I apologize.

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Speaker 10: It's only that well, I've had some tough luck with

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people lately who seem to be only too intent on

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beating me out of their bills.

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Speaker 7: Please, Miss Madson, excuse me. I just jumped to conclusions,

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that's all.

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Speaker 3: I think you set a new record for the jump

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or forget it, doll do okay, I'm sorry. Do you

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have room for me, mister Lauren Why?

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Speaker 10: Yes, yes, Court a delightful cabin just in the back

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of the ranch house. Not being prepared. It'll take about

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an hour to get it in shape.

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Speaker 7: Will that be all right?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Sure, we can eat in fine, I'll.

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Speaker 10: Get one of the boys to fetch your luggage. Oh,

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you can park over there under the old stables. Oh, no,

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garage again, I have to.

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Speaker 7: Apologize, Miss Madison. The garage is overloaded. Now.

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Speaker 10: We have a sheriff's posse up here the old of

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the ranch next to mine. Disappeared yesterday afternoon. The sheriff

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is searching the entire vicinity around here.

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Speaker 7: By you. All right, Well, speak to me, girl, what

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is it?

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Speaker 3: I'm all right. I just happened to singer of something

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Mallard once said. Last night, I pushed my assembled horsepower

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into the stables where they belonged, and Rembrandt took me

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by the arm and steered me into the ranch house

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with a beautiful place, a tall cathedral like living room

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with a cracking fireplace about the size of Danny's inferno.

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At one end. After this one side of the fireplace

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was a cozy little bar. The sun was just going

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over the yard arm, so I figured an old fashion

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would be quite in order. Was right behind the bar

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was the personification of an old fashioned cowboy, real chafs,

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leathery face and little squint wrinkles around his eyes. Well,

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howdy tick, seems like as if I'd done toll you

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in a movie last night.

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Speaker 11: To yourself, ma'am, Nope, must have been two other cowboys.

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I've been working here at the Double L for almost

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five years.

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Speaker 3: My mistake, partner match is the handle. What's yourn?

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Speaker 7: Is that the way cowboys talk them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hollywood and Vine Variety. I'm glad to know you

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call me Jeff, Miss Matson. This is rem Brant Watson. Jeff,

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are those shoulders sewed in?

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Speaker 7: Are they real? I'm afraid they're real.

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Speaker 3: Hi, mister Watson, you riding heard? And all those bottles

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back there?

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Speaker 7: Jeff yep.

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Speaker 11: For better or worse, Chang, our regular bartender took powder

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on a day before yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Oh, seems like he picked a bad time to do

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a runout.

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Speaker 11: Oh you mean the missing jets from Glenn Valley, Glen Dell. Yeah,

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that's the ranch next hour. I understand the police are

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on the lookout for Chang, but he didn't do it.

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He's a good, honest Chinese boy.

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Speaker 3: Even so, it's a bad time to disappear.

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Speaker 11: Oh, I admit it doesn't sound good. Well, you folks

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won't mind the efforts of an amateur dispenser.

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Speaker 7: What can I do for it?

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Speaker 3: In old fashion?

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Speaker 7: To me? Yet?

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Speaker 3: Well, I can try from now when I get easier.

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Rimbad only want to cook?

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Speaker 11: Well I can fix that all right. It comes to

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the Duchess. The Duchess, yeah, one of our guests. She's

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been out here about two weeks, and she can go

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through the still spirits faster than a buzz saw through

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mushy pie.

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Speaker 7: And I hope you're prepared to talk. Hello, my dear,

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you're just a right haven't you?

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Speaker 3: Mentally or physically? A sense of humor too? I shall

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enjoy your company. Are you staying long? I'm not sure

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now my plans are rather indefinite.

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Speaker 7: Oh you love it?

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Speaker 3: Here I miss h and may I present to rimbat

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wasn't charmed?

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Speaker 7: I'm sure now has come in?

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Speaker 9: Oh you delightful lad, Jeff, dear boy, make me just

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a little nip for the old favorites?

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Speaker 11: Will you sure? One pain killer coming up? Here's your

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old fashioned miss Madison, mister Watson, your coat? Thanks, young lady.

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You must be an actress.

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Speaker 3: You look like what Noah and I used to be

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an actress, A famous one.

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Speaker 9: I toured all over the continent with the greatest of stars,

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the finest of play. I was the toast of London, Berlin, Vienna. Yes,

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but I had kings and princess worshiping at my feet.

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I was once the vortex of an international incident. But

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no matter, those days are gone forever an hour and

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here's your what?

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Speaker 7: Oh thank you? Jeff?

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Speaker 3: Well, as we used to say, here is to cry?

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Speaker 9: What was that?

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Speaker 3: It's a perfect toast. We have quite a mystery in

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this part of the country, young lady, And so I

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keep hearing.

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Speaker 9: I can't understand mister Ferguson had everything to live for,

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mister Ferguson, the man who owned Glenn Valley, wealthy, good looking,

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in the best of health.

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Speaker 3: You seem to know quite a bit about the gentleman Duchess.

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Speaker 9: Only what I read in the newspapers, and I can't

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understand it well.

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Speaker 3: As I said, here's to cry. We dealatedt the bar

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for a few more moments than Jeffy for me. That

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lunch was ready and rembrand and I ate we managed

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to duck the Duchess. I don't think I could have

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taken her with food. After lunch, Laurence showed me to

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my cabin. It was, as he said, delightful, with a

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warming flame in the fireplace, with cheery and comfy, and

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I felt completely at home. Lawrence left to talk to Rembrandt.

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They were going to just the pictures you want to take,

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and I felt like going riding, so I changed in

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my jeans and started to leave.

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Speaker 11: But as I did, Oh sorry, Miss Madison. How didn't

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mean to frighten you? You did, Jo, I was just

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about to knock when you opened the door.

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Speaker 3: Right, okay? Was there something you wanted?

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Speaker 7: Or you're in riding clothes? And that answers my question,

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the question being or were you going riding?

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Speaker 1: Is here?

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Speaker 11: The boss wanted to know if you were going riding,

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and if so, did you want some company? I usually

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show the guests around the acres. Well, yes, that'd be wonderful,

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and uh.

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Speaker 7: How long do you want to be out, miss Madison?

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Speaker 3: About three hours or so?

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Speaker 7: Sure?

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Speaker 11: In that case, we'll take the deluxe tour over across

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the back sixteen enough through Manzanita Canyon. You know, when

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we get up to the top of Iron Mountain you

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can see the whole valley.

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Speaker 7: Of the move.

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Speaker 3: That's for me, Jeff, let's hit the leather. Jeff was

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obviously born in the saddle and came into this world

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teething on a teather rein you couldn't tell where the

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horse left off, and Jeff began a real rider. We

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knows that through the clump of branch buildings and on

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into open space. I had a fine horse under me,

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and I really felt like I was living. They've been

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riding about an hour. When we came across the little streams,

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Jet indicated we should stop and water the horses. How

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long have you been a cowboy, Jeff?

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Speaker 11: Oh, about as long as I can remember. Around here,

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up around Montana that a little bottle little I gradually

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drifted further west, hit upon the Valley of the Moon

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about five years ago, fell in love with it. I've

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ben ever said, reckon, I'll stay here too.

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Speaker 3: I don't blame you. Excuse me if I seem to

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be full of questions, Jeff, that's what I'm here for. Man, good,

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because I've got a couple more. What's up that little

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draw there on the other side of.

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Speaker 11: The creek, Nothing but a tangle of man's anita, scrub,

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oak and bruck.

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Speaker 3: Pretty hard to get through there, ahd, it's impossible.

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Speaker 7: I've seen chipmunks get filed up in that draw. Uh huh.

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Speaker 3: Then how come those bootprints are going right up there?

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Speaker 7: Bootprints? I don't see any Well, hey, you're right.

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Speaker 3: Eat the bootprints for the result of shoes with cuban heels.

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Speaker 11: Oh, now there's a strange one. What I thought to say,

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You know something just dawned on me, Maxon. Didn't I

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see your pictures in the fiscal papers a couple of

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weeks back?

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Speaker 3: San Francisco, Big party, San Francisco.

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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, San Francisco. Excuse me for sure? You know

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the way he was asking those questions. Just now it

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hit me you're a detective.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid you've got me Pardoner.

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, miss Matson, listen, it's duck Jeff too late?

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Now what wow? Oh there, what are you doing over

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this way? Calf Fie boss? You give us quite a

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little start. You haven't answered my question.

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Speaker 11: Oh, we just stopped the wall of the horses, mister Lawrence,

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Miss Matson, here's the mighty fine riders. You wanted to

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make the big circle of the ring while you certainly

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picked up fine time to do it well, Sheriff Puffy

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is out around this way.

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Speaker 7: You're lively. Get shopped now. I'll get back to the

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ranch bronto.

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Speaker 3: Just a moment, mister Lawrence. You've been uncivil ever since

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I got here, and I don't like to be dictated too.

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Speaker 7: It's like being on board ship, Miss Madison. The captain

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is the law.

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Speaker 10: I am the owner of this property, and you'll do

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as I say, I'll get moving both of you.

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Speaker 7: If you don't like my attitude, you can leave any time.

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Speaker 3: You walk lee now yes, Oh no, mister Laurence. I'm

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beginning to find your ranch extremely interesting. Jeff and I

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have wheeled our horses about and sifted back to the

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ranch house. I looked back a couple of times, but

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there was no sign of Lawrence. I was mad, and

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Jeff must have sensed it, because he was smart enough

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to keep his mouth closed. As I dismounted at the

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stables and headed for the house, he waved me for

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Laura audious and disappeared. Just as I went through the door,

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I was greeted by Rembrandt.

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Speaker 7: Oh, there you are. I was about to institute a

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searching party for you.

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Speaker 9: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I was safe enough until I gained the grips with

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a thing called my own temper. Have you been doing, ducky,

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I've had a most good, lightful afternoon, Canadia. I've been

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playing Canas with the can answer. Oh, you don't know

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how to play can As.

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Speaker 5: I know that and you know it, but I don't

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think the Duchess does. She celebrated each hair and put

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a hefty pull on her bitchos why do you manage

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to make any sense out of the game? But has

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me puzzled too. All I do is put down some cars,

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any cars, and she'd congratulate me.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you've got a green thumb for the game. Incidentally,

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I thought you were going to be taking pictures. This

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afternoon call.

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Speaker 5: Off on account of the law mister Lawrence had to

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ride out into the Lone Carrie and deliver the phone

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message to the sheriff. He's making like ghost riders in

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the sky. Help there, do go and change deer and

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the smell of horses. Yes, I know, and incidentally we

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do have a soave ree. This evening, two more guests arrived,

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the cook tails and you have to be a little

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entertainment after dinner.

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Speaker 3: Good around here, anything will be an improvement. I didn't

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tell Rambretta I was going to change, so it wasn't

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a tip. When I stayed in my genes, I went

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back to the stables, got the board, rig me another horse,

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and headed out toward that creek again. I wrote best

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at this time because I noticed something else there besides

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the bootprints. It was a battered ten gallon hat on

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the far side of the creek. With studded initials JF

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on the crown. But when I got there, the cupboard

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was bare but good. Not only was the ten gallon

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hat gone, but the bootprints had been completely obliterated. I

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stayed for another few minutes to study and frustration, and

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then went back to the ranch. I changed, met Rembrandt,

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had dinner, and then we relaxed in the living room.

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Speaker 7: Oh, Dove, I'm sorry ful. This outdoor living makes me

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ravenous outdoors.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you've stepped out of this building since

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we got here. Well, then it's the fault of outdoor

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living that does it. Oh, they are the new arrivals,

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a lot of fire. Did you meet them?

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Speaker 5: No, they looked at me as though I might soil

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that escutcheon, whatever that is. I can see what you mean.

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Speaker 7: Boat.

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Speaker 11: Enjoy your dinner, Oh, hello, Jeff, Yes, it was wonderful.

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Does anybody say mister Lawrence or the Duchess.

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Speaker 3: We haven't seen Lawrence. No, the Duchess is over there

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writing a letter.

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Speaker 11: Well, I hope you'll all drop around about an hour.

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I'm going to do some singing and a little guitar plucking.

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Is there anything you don't do?

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Speaker 3: Jeff?

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Speaker 7: No, very little, but none of them too during good either.

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Speaker 3: Sure we'll be here, won't we brand Well?

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Speaker 7: I asked, I go with three diamonds and a joke car.

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Speaker 3: Jeff left Rembrandt snoozed, and I threw a wrap around

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my shoulders and took a stroll around the patio. The

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air felt good. I went over to my cabin and

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picked up some cigarettes and started back. But as I

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came close to the cabin opposite mine, it was the duchess.

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I recognize those tones and groans anywhere, duchess, this is

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candy mats.

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Speaker 7: Are you all right?

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Speaker 9: Pees, I'm all right, Dutch? You indigestion? I should imagine?

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Speaker 3: Is there anything I can do? Can I get you something?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 7: What a dear think you are?

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Speaker 9: You know I'll be all right. I have these attacks

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all the time. You run along and enjoy yourself. Jeff

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is going to sing. It's such a dear boy. But

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you're sure you'll be okay, Yes, yes, dear, go along.

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Speaker 3: Oh here, let me put a blanket over your hair

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and take off your shoes.

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Speaker 9: You'll be up so much more comfortable. We're so sweet,

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so pretty. It remind me of myself when I was young,

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thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: I tupped the old girl in and left to the

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dreams of the past and went back to the ranch house.

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Jeff was just pulling up a chair in front of

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the fireplace.

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Speaker 11: I have to understand, folks, I'm not a singer. I

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don't pretend to be warble along the way I feel.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 7: Is there any particular kind of cowboy tune you'd like

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to hear?

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, I'm just seeing a favorite good idea. Just

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do what comes naturally.

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Speaker 7: Okay, you asked, Let's see, here's what I think you

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might like. Oh, Ery mean, no, am very square.

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Speaker 8: The guy.

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Speaker 7: Blows on the green just by three. But beer, oh

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hi you bo oh. I'm sorry, Jeff go, I don't

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know what you were doing.

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Speaker 3: No, mister Lawrence, you arrived just in time the entertainment silver.

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Speaker 7: What what are you talking about? This matter?

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Speaker 3: I I said, the show is over. Take the sheriff around.

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Speaker 7: Yese and his men are outside. They're just leaving for

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the night.

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Speaker 3: You better call him back right now. The duchess is

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dead in her cabin, poisonous.

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, sheriff. Sheriff hop, that's right. Can you

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and your men come back for a fell seems we

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have more trouble. Okay, over, so we tie off. So horse, Now,

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then what's this all about? Well?

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Speaker 3: I could tell you, Lawrence, but I think it'd be

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more proper coming from the Star himself, don't you think so?

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Speaker 11: Jeff looks like this is it, doesn't it? You know

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you're smart, missus Mathson. Like they say in that ad,

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never underestimate the power of a woman.

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Speaker 3: That's right. That letter the Duchess wrote proves your point.

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Speaker 7: What how do you get hold of that letter? I

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thought that? Oh she wrote a duplicate?

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Speaker 9: Is that?

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Speaker 3: Like you say, never underestimate the power of a woman.

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Speaker 11: Wait a moment, I don't understand what's going on here.

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Go ahead, miss Mason. You tell looks like I'm not

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the star any longer.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's up to about two weeks ago. You had

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as nice and gentle a cow folk working for you

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as there ever was. Then the Duchess arrived. She wasn't

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kidding when she claimed to have mingled with nobility important people.

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As a matter of fact, she had an inside tip

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about your ranch and the one next door of Ferguson's face,

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Glenn Belly, didn't you receive a fantastic offer for your

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property from a big wine company just recently.

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Speaker 7: Learned why, Yes, I did, so did Ferguson.

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Speaker 3: They were going to merge the two places and make

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it one of the world's largest venues.

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Speaker 7: I didn't know about that part of it.

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Speaker 3: But that just did. She wanted in on the ground floor.

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That's why she came out here. She tried to talk

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business with Ferguson, but he'd have none of it. So

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in one of her boozy moments, she hit upon the

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idea of doing away with Ferguson, but she didn't have

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the nerve to go through with it. That's when she

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approached Jeff here and cut him in on the deal.

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Jeff was tired of the poor but honest cowboy routine,

533
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saw a chance to make some heavy sugar and went

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along the gag.

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Speaker 7: Right, Jeff, she's got it straight so far, boss. Yeah,

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I can't believe my ears.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's nothing. Just wait a while. Jeff and the

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Duchess were out riding one afternoon when by chance, Ferguson

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rode up too, just where the boundaries of the two

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ranches meet. While the Duchess talked to Ferguson, Jeff sneaks

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around and back and bashed in his head. They hold

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him up to that braw where you bumped into us

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this afternoon. I know now why you ordered it out

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of there. On the other side of that snarl of

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brush and manzanita, there's a quick sand pitch that is

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now Ferguson's permanent residence.

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Speaker 7: This is terrible, terrible.

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Speaker 3: In a hurry to dispose of your late neighbor, they

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left shoeprints along the bank of the creek, and they

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also overlooked Ferguson's hat with his initials on it. I'm

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mighty glad you came by when you did, law after

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I had noticed the bootprints. I think Jeff is going

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to dump me into the quicksand tool.

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Speaker 11: After the boss sent us back in. I sort of

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figure to get you in step.

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Speaker 3: And then, Lawrence, you were going to be mixed because

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in your will you would name Jeff as your soul.

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Speaker 10: There is that, right, That's right, Hi, I loved him

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like a son.

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Speaker 3: Then the Duchess and Jeff could have swung a hard

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bargain with that wine outfit. All very smooth, except for

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one thing.

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Speaker 11: One thing I'm kind of curious about that one thing,

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miss Mathison.

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Speaker 3: Alcohol, Jeff. It's not only lifting to begin with, but

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also acts as a depressing agent. The duchess had been

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inviting all day, and after dinner she arrived at that

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point of depression, realized what a horrible thing she had done,

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and she wrote the full story about the wine company

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and Jeff's eupiicipity and made a copy. You were afraid

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of that yourself, Jeff. That's when you went out and

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slipped the old girl a lethal mickey. I heard her

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groaning and went into investigate. She said it was indigestion,

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but I knew differently her bread, and I knew too

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that she'd be dead within five minutes. Then I saw

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her shoes, cuban heels with much caked on the inner

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side of the arch. That's when I had to hunch.

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The letter she was writing had a definite meaning. You

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overlooked it, you. I found it where only a woman

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would think of looking tucked inside her bosom. Sure, I'm sorry, Laurie,

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I had you figured wrong from the start. I was

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the one who was wrong. You aren't hard at all.

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Your softest price, Well, Jess, take to the sheriff.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so I see well, I'm ready for him. You

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can't beat the royal flush with a pair of deuces her.

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Should I say dune it I go, there won't be

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any fun, And all of a sudden the dawns on me.

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People should accept their life. You're going to be a cowboy,

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just stay a cowboy. And if you're born a millionaire,

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don't fight that either. For the bimus matter, and I'm

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glad the boss happened along when he did. I don't

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think Quickstandard looked good on.

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Speaker 3: Like Jeff said, he went quietly, no trouble, too bad.

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He wasn't content to be just a ranch hand, simple

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and unspoiled because his run Brad had noticed. He did

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have wonderful shoulders. He played the guitar, he sang, and

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he made fine old fashions. All in all a very

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nice guy, except for two voices hitting from the behind

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and poisoning.

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Speaker 9: The valley of Moon.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'll go back. It's lovely, after all. One man

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with a snarl brain can't undo the work of the

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original master painter.

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Speaker 7: Listen again next week at this same time for excitement

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and adventure.

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Speaker 3: Just dial Candy Madson. You come two A two o.

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Speaker 4: Nine heard tonight were Helen Fleeve as the Duchess, Louethoven

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as Lawrence and Climecy, Jeff Henry Left is Inspector Mallard,

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and Jack Thomas's Rembrandt. The program stars Natalie Masters as

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Candy and is written and produced by Multi Masters. Sound

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effects were created by Bill Brownell and Jay Rendon. Eloise

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Rowan is heard at the organ. The characters in Tonight's

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story are entirely fictitious, and any resemblance to actual people

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is purely coincidental. The program came to you from San Francisco,

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Dudley Man Love Speaking. You are tuned for the Stars

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on NBC.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Well the Singer. Seventeenth is an odd air

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date for a New Year's episode, but that is what

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he has been verified through Digital Belly, so we'll go

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with that. I think one challenge with Candy Mattson and

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being timely in terms of the airing episodes was the

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show was always constantly being shuffled about, as we talked

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about a few weeks back, so it could be that

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the episode was intended to be aired later, but just

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because of all the shuffling around, they just wanted to

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keep the scripts in order. Actually toyed with using this

627
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using the part where she annoyingly says San Francisco when

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Jeff says Frisco in the intro to the show. I thought,

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I would, you know, jokingly say Frisco and then show

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her play her annoyed response of San Francisco. But she

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wasn't as annoyed as I remembered when it came time

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to recorded, so I didn't opt for that particular.

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Speaker 7: Joke.

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Speaker 2: This was a pretty fun episode as usual. It didn't

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take itself, you know, incredibly seriously, but it did have

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a kind of a message in the end about I like,

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00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,759
particularly the last line about the Valley of the moon.

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So this was another just fun mystery with Kenan Manson. Well,

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now we turned the listener comments from my podcast Alley

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