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Speaker 1: The Blue Beetles.

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Speaker 2: Weeping down from the Youngers slash Gangland, comes a friend

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of the unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: Enemy of criminals, the mysterious, all powerful character a problem

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to the police or a crusade of a law In reality,

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Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman, loved by everyone but suspected

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by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue People,

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he hides behind a strange mask and a sup of

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interrigable blue shade armor, flexible ourselves but stronger than still.

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Today's episode of The Blue Beetles is entitled Mashing the

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Arson Rings. Numerous fires of suspicious nature have stirred the

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civil authorities to a point where a concerted drive is

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under way to discover who and what is back of

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this unprecedented wave of mysterious conflagrations. As the city's fire

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inspection department become obsolete. Is the increase of destructive fires

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and abandoned factories and all law tenements due to coincidence?

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Or is an organized campaign of wholesale arson being engineered

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by a mastermind. As our story opens, the Troman Dan Garrett,

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who in secret is really the Blue Beetle, discusses the

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situation with his friend and confident doctor Franz. The Chemist

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and Denny don't really believe that there's a ring of

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professional arsonist woods setting these plans.

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Speaker 2: I am positive.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've had a long dry spell. There's such

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a thing as spontaneous combustion. I know that. Then on

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what do you base your suspicions?

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Speaker 2: The fact that in each case the burned building had

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been vacant for a long time, or had been operating

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on a.

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Speaker 1: Losing basis, and was heavily insured. Not those old tenements

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on River Street. But surely the owners would be taking

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a terrible risk of discovery if they set them on fire.

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Speaker 2: Not if I hired professional arsonists. They're pretty clever, you know, yes, But.

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Speaker 1: Look at the property loss and in some cases loss

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of life. The property losses in each case I've.

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Speaker 2: Found are all covered by fire insurance. A loss of

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life such as in that last tenement, fires and other

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things that's equivalent to wholesale murder.

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Speaker 1: You're right, Danny, and if someone deliberately set those fires,

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that person should pay the extreme.

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Speaker 2: Penalty they will if I can get the evidence I.

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Speaker 1: Need to convict them of. What do you intend doing?

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I'm asking the Chief to put me on special duty

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to investigate these mysterious fires with Officer Mannigan.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if Mike wants to work on them with me,

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he will, all right.

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Speaker 1: He likes excitement as much as you do.

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Speaker 2: I know I can't stand in activity as long as

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there are criminals to run down. I'll only be happy

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when I'm on their trail.

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Speaker 1: And I do hope you'll always be as successful in

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the future as you have been in the past.

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Speaker 2: I've got a fire engines that's my exit.

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Speaker 1: Cue along that now, I'm Dan Garrett's a smoke here.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, God, more wild than the apartment house. But

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the challenge your back on the top.

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Speaker 1: Guy.

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Speaker 4: He's a hard guy, these houses, aren't.

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Speaker 3: We're the part of the boat him up.

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Speaker 1: Because as a girl up as that's not fall window.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna count here he killed if you don't, John,

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But there's a cop warning or not to jump.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now we're going right into the buildings. Yeah, and

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there's another comp fly right after him.

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Speaker 3: But they'll be playing to a crystal let inferno.

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Speaker 5: Boy.

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Speaker 1: Look at the flames pouring out of that window underneath.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like counting for them babies, I guess.

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Speaker 1: Look the fireman just got a hose up that ladder.

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They're pouring a stream of water into the windows. Too

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late up man, Yeah, that's the end of the cops

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and the girls. Yeah, gee, what a crack.

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Speaker 3: Look look up there on the roof. Yeah, it's the

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two cops.

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Speaker 5: And the girl.

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Speaker 1: What do you know about that? They went up and

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set it down just in time too. While I'm gonna

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landing a ladder over to them from the hook and

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ladder truck where but it will reach it's too short.

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Oh why don't they jump across to the next room.

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It's too far, honey, pot camp, it never made it.

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Speaker 3: The fireman's stretch your nets or if they can't get

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hearing up to their.

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Speaker 1: Buildings, that fire is too high. See you four out

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of those lower windows.

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Speaker 3: I'm just that tack. No, no, no, look.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one cup's hanging to the edge of the roof

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by his hands.

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Speaker 3: Now the other one's crowing over him.

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Speaker 1: But when they drying the dude that's taking cops hanging

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from the face top's feet stuff. He can almost break

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the ladder up. There's a fireman growing up the ladder.

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Speaker 3: Say.

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Speaker 1: The girl's climbing down over the two cups hanging there.

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Look out, see she almost lost hole.

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Speaker 3: The fireman's gotta see, says, he says.

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Speaker 1: He's say yeah, but say, looks like he sainted time.

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Speaker 3: Two cups gonna get down? I don't know. They're still

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hanging up past my not back in.

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Speaker 1: The hooking ladder truck a bed now out. The end

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of the ladder is white under.

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Speaker 3: Him, don't you there? He goes, he dropped.

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Speaker 1: He made it. Now there's only the top hanging into

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the roof.

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Speaker 3: He can't make it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Who is?

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Speaker 1: He looks like patrolman Dan Garrett.

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Speaker 3: The other cup was manning in his town. And I've

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cowered all right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but how's he gonna get out of listed him?

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He look the fire is looking up to him. Now

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he's trying to climb back onto the room.

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Speaker 3: Very close. He made it.

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Speaker 1: How is he gonna get down from that?

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Speaker 3: Which means or I would like to be in his place?

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Say he's fit, the feary ain't here?

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Speaker 2: He is, he's got a long pool.

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Speaker 1: What's he gonna do? Hold warn across for the other room, gosha.

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I hope he leaks it very good?

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, he.

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Speaker 1: Ought to get our medals for this day's work. M

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hell Danny, I understand you distinguished yourself at the fire today.

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I almost extinguished myself with all I could do to

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hold on when Mannigan and the girl were both hanging

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on to me.

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Speaker 2: He's no lightweight, and I'm.

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Speaker 1: Proud of you, my boy.

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Speaker 2: That took the nerve. You got to have nerve to

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make good on the police force.

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Speaker 1: And I know, but you've covered yourself with glory. The

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important thing is I got some valuable information, Kah, from

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whom the girl I rescued, Elsey Williams.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I talked to her at the drug store where

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the fireman took her when she fighted.

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Speaker 1: She worked for Gordon, sort of a secretary and rent collector.

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Is that how she came to be in that building

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when the fire started?

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Speaker 2: Yes, she was collecting rents. She told me she saw

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one armed man leave the cellar entrance in.

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Speaker 1: A hurry as she entered the building. Oh, what's suspicious

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about that? He might have been a friend of the janitor.

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Miss Williams told me that she'd seen him in a

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huddle with her employer early this morning before the fire,

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But that still doesn't prove anything.

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Speaker 3: Weight.

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Speaker 2: As he left, she heard him. Say to Gordon, don't worry.

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Speaker 1: Your troubles will soon be over.

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Speaker 2: We won't miss.

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Speaker 1: As Gordon been having trouble some sort, Yes, financial troubles,

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been losing money on his houses.

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Speaker 2: He also has a lost building. It's been empty for months.

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Speaker 1: That's literally looks suspicious.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I figure my trail begins with mister Gordon.

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Speaker 1: What are you going to do?

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Speaker 2: Call upon mister Gordon and make him talk.

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Speaker 5: As the carman down, Dolf do you I won't see

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you one.

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Speaker 4: I'm busy, so important to do.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, i'll see him the calmann John guard did

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you go? Oh coming officer, Oh that's on your mind?

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Very busy this afternoon, fire.

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Speaker 2: This morning, and everything very upsetting. Every financial loss to

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you or to the insurance company.

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 2: I asked you to whom the fire.

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Speaker 1: Was a heavy financial loss? So you are the insurance company.

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Oh okay, just because you're right that uniform, don't think

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that you can be impertan into the taxpass.

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Speaker 3: I'll report you just.

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Speaker 1: A minute, mister Gordon, I'm here on official business. Your

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buildings were heavily insured.

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Speaker 4: You stand the gain rather than lose by this fire.

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Speaker 1: Today, the fire chief reports evidence of incendiorism.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean?

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Speaker 3: How can report such a thing.

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Speaker 4: I have, mister Gordon. I'm here to help you if

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Speaker 1: You tell me who the ringleaders are and miss Arston Rackett,

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and I'll do what I can to get you off

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lightly when your case comes up in court. Court? Who

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said anything about court?

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Speaker 2: I did?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be arrested shortly on suspicion of being

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party to a conspiracy to defraud the fire insurance company.

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Speaker 3: No, no, you can't do now.

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Speaker 1: Now, now, why don't you break down? Give me the

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information I'm after.

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Speaker 2: What do you want to know?

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Speaker 1: Who is the one armed man who is seen to

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leave the building just before the fire? One armed man fire?

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Speaker 3: I don't know anywhere?

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Speaker 1: Who had a confidential talk with you earlier this morning,

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my secretary, or in knowing your secretary into this? After all,

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she almost lost her life to day collecting rents for you?

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Speaker 4: All right, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 2: His name is Joe Duranda.

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Speaker 1: It's called Stumpy. He worked for the Modern Wrecking and

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Construction Company. They wrecked buildings and construct buildings that you're

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coming and going.

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Speaker 2: What a profitable business, I'd say.

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Speaker 1: Oh listen, I didn't want to do this thing. They

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threatened to undermine my tenements, so they'd collapsed. I didn't

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hire them to burn them down. The buildings collapsed, I'd

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get no insurance at all, But did be a total loss?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's their racket. What did they get out of it?

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Speaker 1: Thousand dollars down and twenty percent of the insurance?

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Speaker 2: Mm not sad. And I suppose they get the job

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of rebuilding hairs huts part of the contract. Who's the

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head of the company.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Somebody always spoke of his boss as.

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Speaker 1: Uh the skipper.

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Speaker 4: Something must have been in the navy at one time.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that. What does the gang use that

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makes the fire spread so quickly?

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Speaker 1: Cathleen, No nothing. Will you go down with me to

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the DA and tell him what you just told me?

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Speaker 2: Now, look here, officer, my life isn't worth a dime

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ride Now for talking, we don't worry.

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Speaker 4: The DA will have you guarded day and night.

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Speaker 2: What was that one that sounded like my secretary's boy?

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Speaker 4: Hold on, let's see you going in there?

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Speaker 3: God hear not those men they're carrying along.

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Speaker 1: You're right, hey, don't count count taper. I'll fix you

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for sticking your nose.

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Speaker 3: You know what, don't consent.

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Speaker 1: You come on good and take a walk with me.

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Oh kind I've got this gun in your back, so

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don't open your trap. You and me's gone for a

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little ride. This skipper wants to see you later that evening,

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I up in one of the city's skyscrapers.

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Speaker 4: Stumpy is reporting to his skipper.

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Speaker 1: You see, it was like this, skippers. I seen the

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cuppa go into Gordon's office, and I figured maybe Gordon's

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secretary a spill of beans to Garrett after he rescued it.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh.

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Speaker 1: So I called some of the boys, of course, and

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when the copper stayed in with Gordon so long, well,

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I figured the heat was being tained on. So I

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decided to pick up Gordon as well as a girl.

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You took a terrible risk by kidnapping them and broad daylight.

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Well what else could I do, Skipper?

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Speaker 3: The heat was on?

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Speaker 4: Where are they all?

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Speaker 1: I got him tied up in one of your budgets

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down at the end of the River Street.

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Speaker 4: You bring him out to my yard about midnight. We'll

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see how much they've.

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Speaker 1: Spilled to the police. Okay, skipper, and keep away from

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waterfront saloons. If you get drunk tonight, you're all through? Sure, Sure, Skipper,

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you can trust me. I won't take not even one drink.

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You better not if you know what's good for you.

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I've got a couple of jobs for you tomorrow, and

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I want you sober. And you can trust me, Skipper.

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I ain't a where my bread and burda comes from,

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all right? Remember that if you want to be able

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to continue eating bread and butter. What will happen to

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Elsie Williams and the brave little Secretary?

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Speaker 4: Will Garden be bumped off for talking?

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Speaker 1: Can Dan Garrett recover from the blow on my head

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in time to catch the thugs?

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Speaker 4: Or will he lose the trail completely?

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, at doctor Franz's little apothecary shop, the Troman, Dan

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Garrett is talking with Doctor Franz while donning his blue

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beetle chain armor in.

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Speaker 4: Math, Doc, I've got a hunch.

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Speaker 1: There's that sailor costume you brought along. Something to do

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with your hunch. Yes, I'm gonna put it on over

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my blue beetle costume. And what's the idea? Well, I'm

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convinced that the Arson trail leads down at the waterfront.

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M that's an interesting thought. A fire trail leading to water, yes,

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but nevertheless that's the way.

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Speaker 2: I see it.

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Speaker 1: But what you see the idea that clear leads in

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that direction. Stumpy's reference to his boss a skipper, which

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may mean that Stumpy's been a sailor, or that the

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head of the Arson ring may have headquarters on a

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ship of some kind. I see. Also, I learned from

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Gordon today that napther's being used to saturate the buildings

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before setting them afire. Napther is used extensively around ships

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to remove grease and paint and rust. For what you

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going to do? Disguise myself as a sailor and see

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if I can pick up Stumpy's trail in one of

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the waterfront cafes. That will be dangerous, Denny, and I

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love danger duck, and it's in the line of duty,

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a part of my crusade against crime. Well you better it.

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Me change your face at it. There's some makeup. I'd

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act a little tipsy if I were you, It would

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be more convincing.

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Speaker 2: That's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: I'll hide my blue beetle mask until I go into

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action as the Blue beetle. And when I do, some

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people are going to get a pick surprise.

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Speaker 3: As the matter tailor lost a twatt.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for my friend Stumpy blossom pal Stumpy.

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Speaker 3: You know Stumpy?

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Speaker 4: Sure, I know Stumpy. Gotta fine stumpages.

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Speaker 1: What do you want with him?

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Speaker 2: He's gotta give me a job.

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Speaker 1: He's my pounds said, if I ever wanted a job ashore,

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he'd steer me into or a good job.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I ain't seen him.

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Speaker 6: Maybe you could find him down at the end of

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River Street, in the River Street or something doing down there.

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Sometimes he sleeps on one of the modern recon and

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construction companies barge.

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Speaker 2: Well promised me a job. He did.

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Speaker 1: I'll go find him and buy him a drink or

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spy Stumpy.

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Speaker 3: Oh good, this is maybe. Look there's a guy.

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Speaker 1: Coming down there looking for Stumpy. Yeah, he said, he's

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a power of Stumpy attending.

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Speaker 4: These front But he ain't.

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Speaker 6: He's cold, sober and he ain't snow power Stumpy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, goodbye.

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Speaker 7: Amber rough light and see can't find my pan Stumpy.

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Speaker 2: You know Stumpy one arm Stumpy grunt.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I know him.

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Speaker 4: He's down on the barge there.

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Speaker 3: Come on, bell let me see you are.

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Speaker 2: That's very kind of you made.

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Speaker 1: Why don't mention it? I am a seafar and may

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and mooselle a seat fair and.

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Speaker 2: Men gotta stick together. Stumpy is a seat Farnell.

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Speaker 1: Watch your step matey. Yeah, he's the bodge Stumpy. He'll

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be glad to see an old friend, Stumpy if you

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will find him right down there.

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Speaker 3: And he ain't down there now you.

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Speaker 1: Can talk to the rats until he comes. Yeah, what

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are you doing? I just knocked an old family or

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into the hole of this scale. Who is he? I

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don't know the mazy phone he was asking for you

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when playing drunk up at the cafe.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, probably a dick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you doing with him?

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Speaker 1: Put the hatch cover on and pile some bags of

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sand on it, and I'll go up the phone and

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skipper at the office.

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Speaker 3: It's okay.

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Speaker 4: I'll take care of it.

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Speaker 1: And if they're saying the hole gets noisy, open up

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the hatch and fill the hole with sand and I'll

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keep him quiet for a long time.

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Speaker 4: What will happen to the blue people now?

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Speaker 1: Can he escape from the racking fested tomb or will

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he be smothered to death by sand.

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Speaker 4: In the meantime, several telephones are busy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, mister mayor, Yes, yes, you're right, something should be

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done about these costly fires. Whan Yes, yes, sir, yes,

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need of be glad to serve on the Citizens Committee.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, anything but the good of the city.

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Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, mister Mayor, I'd like to have

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you and your wife spend.

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Speaker 4: The weekend on my heart some die.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, not at all, not at all that it'll

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be a pleasure. Yes, it's alright, Well.

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Speaker 4: Just let me know where.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye jumpy On the other songs y hello, yes, huh mm,

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that sounds suspicious. It maybe that the throeman Dan Garrett

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playing detective what Yeah, it's a good idea something. Tell

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us to open up the sand elevator and fill the hole. Yes,

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sinker if necessary. We're in short. I'll meet you out

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at the yacht in a half hour. Bring Gordon and

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the girl. We find out the same, squealed, you'll.

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Speaker 3: Know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Good Bye, Hello doctor, friends speaking Hello doc, can you

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hear me you standing? Yes, I'm talking to.

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Speaker 2: My portable wireless telephone.

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Speaker 1: But where are you in the hold.

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Speaker 4: Of a sand barge at the foot of river streets.

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Speaker 1: Are you in danger? Not yet with what happened. Someone

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knocked me into the hold and now they're.

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Speaker 2: Filling the bridge with sand.

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Speaker 1: But Henry, you'll be very deling.

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Speaker 4: I'll look back.

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Speaker 1: Hellophone the police to come at once the Modern Wrecking

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and Construction Company's warehouse.

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Speaker 4: I'm in the bridge, hied up to the pier. Hurry back, hurry.

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Speaker 1: Where are you taking it out to the skipper's yacht?

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Who's the skipper?

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Speaker 2: Don't you wish you.

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Speaker 1: Knew and could tell somebody?

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Speaker 5: I know who you are and what you do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it ain't gonna do you no good. You'll

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never tell what are you moving? This skipper ain't taking

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no chances on you or your boss at squealing heiny garden,

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You awake? Oh eh, he's awake.

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Speaker 6: You'll never get away with this.

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Speaker 3: Patrolman Dan Garrett is on your tail.

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Speaker 1: Say it did squeal? That's who the guy was that

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Gus knocked into the hole of the sandbarge. Well, he'll

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never tell nobody nothing. He's buried alive by this time.

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All that must be the skipper now on his way

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out to the yacht. We're both thinking about the same yay,

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or maybe it's summer. Hide the counter.

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Speaker 3: I'll slap you overboard. I should have left the gag

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in your mouth.

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Speaker 1: That's what a guy gets for being saw counted.

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Speaker 3: Okay, skipper sir, are you coming? Yeah, he's got your fire.

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Follow it of be off.

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Speaker 1: Okay, just be yill and I'm gonna get you up again.

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Speaker 4: Aunt.

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Speaker 1: I regret very much Miss Williams and mister Gordon that

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you saw fit to express yourselves to their poverties to

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the extent you have. In my business, long tongues means

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short lives. What are you going to do with it?

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Speaker 5: My lawyers?

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Speaker 1: Your lawyers will assist in settling your estate, mister Gordon.

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Only your heirs will benefit by your long tongue.

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Speaker 3: No, no, you can't mean that.

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Speaker 1: That was my meaning. Very quickly, mister Gordon, we're all

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going for a little sea boys, if you and Miss

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Williams aren't coming back. Yes, the flu people, your prop

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that gun thumpy you might injure the young lady. Why

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it won't save you. Your record is smashed. Your folke

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of respectability will no longer shield you.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you guys, not goey. Don't let this guy bluff you.

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Any of you I'll blast you with my ray guy poast.

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I'm gonna take me alive.

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Speaker 1: Now I'll dive by water with timby Daddy, how did

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you escape from the hold of that sand bar? I

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discovered one of the hatches wasn't tight, so was the

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hole filled with sand. I climbed up in the sand,

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laized the hatch and crawled out. That was a matter escape, Yes,

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when what did you do? Then? I heard a girl

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scream across the water, so I figured it must be

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Miss William's voice. I dived overboard, swam out to a

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speedboat board nearby, and climbed the board. Luckily, I found

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the ignition key in the switch and started her up.

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Speaker 2: Rest was easy.

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Speaker 1: Drove the boat out to within a quarter mile of

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the yacht Typhoon, dived over and swam out to her.

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Speaker 2: And then on. It was just a matter of getting

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aboard without being seen.

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Speaker 1: He certainly had an exciting night. Yes, but that's what

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the blue beetle craves.

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Speaker 2: Who were try away.

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Speaker 1: And did they find the skipper's body? Not yet?

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Speaker 2: Well, as he said, he lived by fire and died

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by water.

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Speaker 1: My by but a strange epithaph. Yes, but I'd prefer

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one which would read here sleeps the Blue Beetle. He

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did his job.

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Speaker 4: Now dressed in peace. That's just what I'm going to do.

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Speaker 1: Goodn't I doc a fire and a flood can tain

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me for my self appointed task.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna get them sleep.

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Speaker 1: And so the Blue Beetles smashed another crooked racket and

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chalked up another victory for his crusade against crime. Further

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adventures of Patrolman Dan Garrett will be presented in the

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next episode of The Blue Beetles. The Blue Beagle is

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the copyrighted Fox feature appearing in Mystery Men and Comics.

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Speaker 4: Magazine on sale at your newstand. The Blue Beatle is

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on the air quite a week on this same station.

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Speaker 1: Consult the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers and don't

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forget to lift them in