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Speaker 1: The Avenger, The road to crime ends in a trap that,

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just as sets, crime, does not pay. The Avenger, sworn

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enemy of evil, is actually Jim Brandon, a famous biochemist.

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Through his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has perfected two inventions

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to aid him in his crusade against crime as the Avenger,

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the telepathic indicator by which he is able to pick

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up thought flashes, and the secret diffusion capsule, which cloaks

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him in the black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistant, the

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beautiful Fern Cordier, is the only one who's shares his

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secrets and knows that he is the man the underworld

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fears as the Avenger, and now the Avenger and the

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Tunnel of Disaster.

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Speaker 2: Burne.

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Speaker 1: We'll finish this experiment later. It's time to listen to

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the broadcast now.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, Jim, I've forgotten about that.

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Speaker 1: Why burn Inspector White's talked of nothing else for a week.

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Speaker 4: You helped him write his dedication speaks for the opening

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of the new tunnel.

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Speaker 3: Didn't you, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And I'll never forgive us if we don't listen

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to them delivery.

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Speaker 3: I'll it in you know.

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Speaker 1: They ran into so much trouble building that river for

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a tunnel. I often thought they'd never finish it.

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Speaker 5: Well, folks, several thousand people are gathered here for the

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dedication of the new river Ford Tunnel. It cuts through

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South Mountain. In another moment, the ceremonies will begin.

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Speaker 4: The final cost of the tunnel amount to more than

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twice the amount originally.

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Speaker 1: That's right, for the engineers ran into all sorts of difficulties.

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In fact, they advised the city council more than once

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to abandon the whole idea. It's pretty well known that

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the engineers wanted to resign, but the city held them

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to their contract.

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Speaker 4: Well, I suppose now that the tunnel is finished, it's

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worth all the money that was spent on.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we'll relieve the traffic jams and the other tunnels

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and make it easier to get in and out of

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the city. On the south side.

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Speaker 3: They're ready to begin the sounder.

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Speaker 1: Right and the work was carried forward.

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Speaker 5: We are broadcasting to you from a helicopter from which

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we can see both ends of the tunnel. Now, in

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just a moment, our tunnel Commissioner Jonas Anderson will drive

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the first car through the tunnel. Right now, the tapes

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are being cut, the municipal band is striking up, and

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the Commissioner's car is entering the tunnel. As soon as

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the car emerges at the other end, the signal will

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be given for the first ticket to be sold. The

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Commissioner is making this trip to establish a time record.

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And now I'm going to lower the mic over the side.

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Let you listen to the band for a moment. This

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record ron seems to be taking them in the fun

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I'm an expectant and must this car should have come

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through by now. Inspector White of the police department has

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just ordered the band to stop playing. Something has gone wrong, stand.

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Speaker 3: By, Jim. What could have happened?

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Speaker 1: Oh? If that's I almost likely it couldn't be anything else.

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Speaker 5: Yes, something is wrong here, folks. We're going to land

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our helicopter on the roadway so that we can give

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you a first hand report.

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Speaker 1: Say with the radio, friend, I'm going to see if

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I can pick up anything on the telepathic indicator.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Jim, nobody can understand what's happened here.

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Speaker 1: Inspector White is.

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Speaker 5: Going through the tunnel and the police squad car now,

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and we should know something in a minute.

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Speaker 3: Jim did you pick up anything on the indicator?

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Speaker 1: Not Jet Brian.

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Speaker 5: Here comes the inspector squad car. Now we'll have new

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spoil you in just a moment. Ladies, Jim for the

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very strange things happened here. Inspector White reports there's absolutely

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no sign I mean to the Commissioner's car in the

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tunnel lake.

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Speaker 1: They've just disappeared. Well, Jim, pick up anything, yes, Burn

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I did wat him amid impressions of great excitement. The

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indicator picked up a strong telepathic impression of violence and disaster.

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What shall we do, Jim, We better get out there

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to the tunnel right away, fur Inspector White will lead us.

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Speaker 2: Well, Hey, Jo, it's Jim Branch.

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Speaker 1: Please connected with my armice.

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Speaker 2: Let him throw the ropes.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, Inspector good.

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Speaker 2: This is some yes term.

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Speaker 6: We tried to get them to go home, but they

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won't budge over this way. Jim, I want to talk

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to you.

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Speaker 1: Say how many guards were stationed in the tunnel when

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this crazy thing happened, Inspector for Jim, One.

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Speaker 6: On each end and two in the center. The center

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ones were knocked out, but they're in the hospital under guard.

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Speaker 1: There's not a chance that they know anything. If they did,

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they'd have been killed.

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Speaker 6: That's what I think. But here's something else, Jim's. This

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note was found pinned to the coat of one of

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those guys.

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Speaker 3: What does it say, Jim?

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Speaker 1: It's a warning to the mayor. It says river Ford

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Tunnel is a death trap. The public will never use it.

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Close it at once, or a disaster will strike again.

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Speaker 4: Well, anyway, it's a relief to know we're dealing with

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a flesh and blood criminal. For a while, it looked

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as though the commissioner had just disappeared into Finnish.

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Speaker 2: Well, he has burned.

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Speaker 6: We know that he went into the tunnel, and we

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know he didn't come out.

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Speaker 1: He's not in there now, So where is he, Inspector.

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I'd like to take a walk through the tunnel.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you won't find a thing, Jim.

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Speaker 3: But come on, do you think this will cause the

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tunnel to be closed for good? Inspector?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Fern. That's up to the city council.

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This tunnel cost the city fifteen million dollars. I'm betting

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they won't close it.

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Speaker 6: Well, whether they do or not, I've still got to

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crack this case, and in short order.

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Speaker 1: To wait where's that hammering coming from, Inspector.

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Speaker 2: That's my men testing every inch of these walls. Jim.

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If there's a hollow spot, they'll find it.

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Speaker 1: Good work, Inspector, Jim.

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Speaker 2: Have you got any ideas at all on this thing?

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Speaker 1: Not yet, Inspector. But there's got to be a joker

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in this deal somewhere. We'll just play the hand out

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and we'll find it.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, huh. I'm Michael Evans.

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Speaker 1: What's your business?

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Speaker 5: Brandon?

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Speaker 1: It's called you and I came to make a few inquiries.

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Mister Evans, I'll get to the point, and Brandon, what

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do you want? You were the construction engineer on the

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Riverfood Tunnel, weren't you?

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Speaker 5: Yes? I wish I had never heard of a blasted thing.

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I told them from the beginning that tunnel shouldn't be built.

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If they wouldn't listen to.

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Speaker 1: Me, well, what were your objections to the tunnel? Objections?

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Speaker 5: And there was a waste of that taxpayers money for

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one thing. I could have built a road around both

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sides of that moting for a fraction of what the

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tunnel costs. But if it does take up motorists a

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few minutes longer to reach the bridge safety is more important.

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Speaker 1: Inspector White says, you received a number of threatening letters

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during the time the tunnel was under construction.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I turned them all over the city council, but

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they didn't pay any attention those politician Evans.

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Speaker 1: How sound are the walls of the tunnel.

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Speaker 5: Young man? I'll put my work up against any construction

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job in the country. Well, I'm not questioning. You'll hear

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the plans. The mayor told me to hand them over

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to here. I'll take them and get out. Your questions

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are an insult.

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Speaker 1: Rands for Evans. You want to take that attitude, You're

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of no help to us.

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Speaker 4: Come on, Vern, I've met some grumpy old men before,

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but mister Evans.

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Speaker 3: Takes the prize.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes grumpiness is imployed to hide on easiness. Fern, you

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mean you suspecting Jim's I haven't made up my mind

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about that yet so far. I'm too busy wondering about

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something else I saw in that office.

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Speaker 5: What was that, Jim?

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Speaker 1: There was a tiny model of a gold smelter on

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the work table in there.

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Speaker 3: A gold smelter.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm wondering what interest a construction engineer in

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this city could have been a gold smelter. This is

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the Hartley Steel Mill Fern. That must be the office

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over there.

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Speaker 3: What do you expect to find out here, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Well, this visit is more or less of a shot

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on the dark fern. You'll notice that this land adjoins

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the city property on which the tunnel is located.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: In going through the city records, I discovered that before

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the tunnel was built, the Hartley Steel Company tried to

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buy up all that adjoining city property. They didn't succeed,

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but I'd like to find out why they were at

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that land.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like an interesting angle.

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Speaker 4: Jim.

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Speaker 1: Oh, here's the office building. Ah, yes, we just walk

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right in you, Joe, I know it's It's Jim Brandon.

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I've got business with mister Hatley.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there must be some mistake. Mister Hartley's been dead

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for three years.

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Speaker 1: I want to see the man in charge.

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Speaker 2: Then. Do you have an appointment?

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Speaker 1: No, but I think he'll see me. I'm from the police.

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Speaker 6: Oh well, come in. I'm Theodore Ramsey, the general manager.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: This is my assistant, Miss Collier. Sit down, won't you

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thank you? I'm sorry to barge in on you this way.

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Mister Ramsey. But there are a few questions I'd.

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Speaker 2: Like to ask.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's all right, mister Brandon. Only I'm a little

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curious as to why the guard didn't call me from

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the gate to say you were coming.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he saw us. We came in the

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side entrance just as some trucks were pulling out.

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Speaker 2: I see. Well, go ahead, Brandon.

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Speaker 1: Some years ago, the Hartley Steel interest try to buy

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the city land adjoining us property. Why.

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Speaker 6: Well, old mister Hartley was living then, and when he

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heard the city was thinking of building a tunnel under

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this mountain, he was afraid it might undermine part of

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our property and and endanger our business.

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Speaker 1: Oh I see any other reason?

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Speaker 6: Well, frankly, yes, we had always hoped that the city

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would build a road around this end of the mountain.

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A great deal of our material is delivered in trucks,

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and a good road would be to our advantage. Naturally,

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a tunnel through the mountain would cancel out the road.

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Speaker 1: And you weren't willing to build the road yourself. Well,

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not unless we owned all the land. Mister Ramsey, do

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you own the steel nooll.

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Speaker 6: Now, oh no, no, i I'm just the general manager

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Speaker 1: Does he take an active bought and running the mill?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes and no. You know how these rich boys are.

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Speaker 6: He has an office over there near the smelting plan,

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but I I don't think he's in it very often.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, mister Ramsey. This was just

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a routine check.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's all right.

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Speaker 6: Even though we weren't very keen on the tunnel at first,

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we're just as much upset as you are. Is the

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way things have turned out. Hold on me again if

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I can be of any help.

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Speaker 1: One inspector. Has the council decided whether they're going to

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open the tunnel or not? Well, they reached the decision

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two hours ago, Jim. The tunnel has now opened the traffic.

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I've just come from there, Specter.

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Speaker 4: I just can't understand they're opening the tunnel, and could

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you've had a chance to solve this.

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Speaker 6: Case burn The council is inclined to believe that the

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whole this is peering actuis stage of some kind of

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a hoax, or even the publicity's done.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they're right.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I'll get it, Jim.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Yes, the inspectors here, sure, hold on a minute, please,

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inspector for you?

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Speaker 6: Hello, what holy smoke? If you call a tunnel and

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tell him to stop all the traffic? Good, I'll get

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out there right away.

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Speaker 1: What's the matter, Inspector.

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Speaker 6: They just received a telephone call at headquarters saying disaster

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would strike the tunnel again at midnight.

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Speaker 7: Come on, Jims.

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Speaker 1: St now back to the Avenger and the tunnel of disaster.

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What time is it, Jim so eleven fifteen? Inspector say,

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look at that car ahead. Why it broke right through

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the gate and went into the tunnel.

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Speaker 6: All the fools, Jim Purne get out and stand god here,

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see that no other cars get past the guard.

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Speaker 1: Okay, come on, where are you going, Inspector.

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Speaker 2: Into the tunnel?

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Speaker 1: Inspector, Inspector, You're crazy, can never come out of there

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a lot.

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Speaker 4: Come back, Jim, Why do you think it's important to

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go into the tunnel from the opposite side.

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Speaker 3: We're losing time driving around this mountain Fern.

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Speaker 1: Every car that has disappeared within that tunnel when in

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at the north entrance. There's some reason for that, and

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I've got to sign out.

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Speaker 4: What it is, Oh, Jim, I'm afraid we're too late

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to save the inspector. We lost minutes getting to the

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place that God had his car parked.

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Speaker 1: There's the entrance, friend, hold tight, I'm going to crash

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right through the gate.

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Speaker 3: Ok yes, Oh, the God is blowing brush to stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain to him later. We having a second to lose. Now,

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keep your eyes peel fern. If there's a clue in here,

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we've got to find it.

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Speaker 3: Right Jim, Gosh, this place is frightening.

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Speaker 1: When we reach the center of the chunnel, we'll stop

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to see if we can pick up any sound.

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Speaker 3: There's absolutely no sign of another car in here.

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Speaker 1: Jim, No, this is the center here. I'll pull up here. Okay,

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now let's listen for a moment. No good, This place

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is as silent as a tomb. Now, Jim, I'll drive

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along slowly. Keep your eye on the road. Jim.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I'll just caught sight of something on the side

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of the road.

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Speaker 1: What was it for an.

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Speaker 3: No, something small that seems to be shining.

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Speaker 7: There.

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Speaker 1: It is, Jim, Huh, what's a pencil? It's the Inspector's

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gold pencil. Turn good, heavens.

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Speaker 3: That means he got as far as the spot, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and according to my mileage gauge, this is exactly

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a tens of a mile from the north entrance. Come on, Fern,

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we've got to get back to the laboratory. This is

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our first real clue.

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Speaker 3: Here. Jim, I made some sandwiches for you. You haven't

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eaten a thing all day. Oh thanks, burn How are

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you making out, Jim?

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Speaker 1: Well, according to these maps, that spot where we found

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the inspector's pencil is directly parallel with the Hartley steel mill.

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Speaker 4: But Jim, if the tunnel walls as solid as everyone claims,

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what connection can the steel mill.

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Speaker 3: Have with the tunnel.

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Speaker 1: That's where my other discovery comes in.

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Speaker 3: Your other discovery.

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Speaker 1: Yes, According to this early geological history of that tunnel land,

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small deposits of gold were once discovered there. Gold that

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could be the motive Burne, Jim.

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Speaker 4: If old mister Hartley knew about the gold, that could

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have been as reason for wanting to.

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Speaker 3: Buy the land.

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Speaker 1: Right, But old Hartley is dead. Somebody's living must know

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about that gold, Fern. That's the reason they want the

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tunnel closed. Who, Jim, So far we have three possible suspects.

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Three yes, merkle Evans the construction engineer, Hartley's grandson, Lee Burgess,

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and Ramsey, the manager of the Hartley Mill.

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Speaker 4: I know why you suspect Evans, Jim, but what reasons

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have you for thinking Burgess and Ramsey may be guilty.

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Speaker 1: Both of them have the facilities and are in a

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position to mine the gold.

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Speaker 3: Jim, none of this is what you call solid evidence.

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Speaker 1: No, it isn't, Fern, But we haven't time to get that.

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We've got to force the hand of the guilty party.

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Speaker 3: How Jim.

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Speaker 1: I want you to put in a telephone call to

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all three suspects, tell each of them that Jim Brandon

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has discovered a hollow section in the tunnel wall, and

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that a crew of men is going to start digging

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at once.

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Speaker 2: Then hang up.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and what are you going to do, Jim?

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Speaker 1: If there's any connection between the tunnel and the mill,

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the guilty party will show up at the mill. I'll

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be waiting for him there as the avenger.

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Speaker 5: Oh so you finally got here, Burchess. I've been waiting

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here at the gate for ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: I came as soon as I could. Evans I had

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to call my men here at the middle and tell

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him to get thinks that all right, then, come on,

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you haven't any time to lose. What What was that noise?

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I don't know, there's no one in sight. Say, who

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do you suppose that girl was? Who called to warn us?

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How should I know?

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Speaker 5: You can't bother about that now, Burgess, you got enough

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dynamite to fill in our mind that it.

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Speaker 1: Joins the tunnel lenty, don't worry about that.

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Speaker 5: The minute I set eyes on that Brandon, I knew

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he was trouble.

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Speaker 1: Oh, stop driping Evans. Who knew this was a dangerous

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game when you came.

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Speaker 7: In on it.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, we're not licked yet. Yes, and you can talk

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like that because you're young, burchess. But what about me?

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Speaker 5: I was a respect to engineer all my life, and

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until I let you tuck me into this gold mining business.

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Speaker 1: I taught you into it. You're ridiculous, Evans, and you're

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yellow the boot Listen here, shut up arguing isn't going

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to get us anywhere. We're both in this thing up

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to the eyes. Yes, you're right, I guess we have

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to keep our heads.

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Speaker 5: Now, we'll dynamite our mind for twenty yards right there

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where it connects with the tunnel, and when the cops

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break through the tunnel wall, I'll run unto nothing but.

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Speaker 1: Dirt, right, and then I'll sue Brandon for everything he owns.

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Speaker 5: All right, here's the shank.

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Speaker 1: Open the door. Purchase, all right, get inside, lock that

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door after us. Purchase?

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Speaker 5: How many minute you got down on the mine?

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Speaker 6: Eight?

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Speaker 1: Where are the prisoners in the room near the smelter?

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Speaker 6: Say?

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Speaker 1: What are we going to do with those prisoners?

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Speaker 7: Deal with them?

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Speaker 1: Eliminate them? What else? I don't think I'd be in

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such a hurry to do that, Evans.

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Speaker 4: Who's that?

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Speaker 7: Who's in here?

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Speaker 1: It's the Avenger? And this is the end of the

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line for both of you.

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Speaker 7: Where is he?

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Speaker 3: Get them?

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Speaker 1: Purchase? How can I fight someone I can't even see?

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You might as well give up.

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Speaker 5: The police will be here in a minute, all right, Purchase. Now,

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come on, let's get out of here while there's still time.

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Speaker 1: No, we've got a dynamite of mine first. If we don't,

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they've got the goods on it. It's too late, I

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tell you, it's our only chance. Unlock the trap door

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of him quick? Okay, help me move these filecases away

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from it. No, you don't Purchase, You're not going down

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in that mine. Oh you knocked them out. Stay where

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you are, Evans, or you'll get the same. The police

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are here now, Evans, and you'd better deliver those prisoners

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and good health. All the charge will be murdered, as

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well as kidnapping.

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Speaker 2: Jim Burn over here, we're waiting.

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Speaker 1: Are you? What are you planning to do down here?

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Inspector deliver your dedication speech for these reporters.

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Speaker 6: No, Jim, I brought Burgl Evins down here in the

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tunnel to demonstrate exactly how this swinging wall works.

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Speaker 3: How do you feel, Inspector?

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Speaker 6: Fine, Fern fine, never better. Okay, Evans, stop talking.

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Speaker 5: All right, and you'll notice there's a steel girder every

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fifteen feet here through the center of the tunnel. Well,

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this section of the wall right here between these two

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girders opens just like a door. The huge hinges are

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behind the steel girder there on the right.

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Speaker 2: But where does the door end. There's no trace of

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a break in the wall.

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Speaker 1: It ends over there beneath that girder on the left

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dozen it Evans.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, that's right, and that girder is attached to

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this moveable portion of the wall. When the wall swings

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back in the place, and that girder covers up the

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crack like a piece of weather stripping.

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Speaker 2: Open it up. Evens we want to see for ourselves.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'll have to signal a man on the other

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side of the wall. You see, this whole section is

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wired and controlled by a photo electric eye back there

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in the mine. Whenever we wanted to open the wall,

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all we had to do was break the beam and

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it swung out automatically, gave the signal.

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Speaker 3: For hidden. It's like a revolving stage.

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Speaker 1: When the wall is swung open like that, it looks

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like a curve in the tunnel.

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Speaker 3: And people drove right into the mine before they realized.

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Speaker 1: But not you, Inspector.

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Speaker 6: Well, I threw my pencil out in time to leave

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a clue for you, didn't I ride, Inspector Jim.

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Speaker 3: Why didn't that section of walls sound hollow when they

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tested it.

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Speaker 1: It's too well reinforced for and look at the thickness

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of it.

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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, okay, Evan, that's all. Take him the headquarters

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at Buckham Boy.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Inspector, what is it?

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Speaker 2: Jim?

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Speaker 1: Smile? Those reporters are snapping your picture.

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Speaker 3: And it's thrilling to see all this traffic going through

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the tunnel.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it proves how much the c that he needed it.

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Speaker 3: Is there really a rich gold ain under the tunnel gym?

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Speaker 1: No fern. As it turned out, Burgess and Evans had

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already mined most of the gold in this mountain, not

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that it will ever do them any good.

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Speaker 3: There's just one other thing I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 4: What happened to the two men who were in that

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carp inspector filed into the tunnel that night.

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Speaker 3: They weren't how prisoner with the Inspector.

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Speaker 1: And Commissioner, Oh, because they were Burgess's own men. That

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spectacular dash of theirs was aged to keep the disaster

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stories going.

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Speaker 3: Well, come on, Jim, we'd better get back to the laboratory.

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Speaker 2: I have work to do, so have I.

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Speaker 6: The Inspector wants me to write his dedication speech for

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the new court house next week. All characters, names, places,

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and plots used in the Avenger program are fictitious. Any

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similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

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Speaker 3: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.

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Speaker 1: Remember listen for another adventure of the Avenger