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Ah, it must be that time of night again. Happy
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to see you found me and found your way here.
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Get comfortable, Sit in my favorite chair. It's as much
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yours as it is mine at this point. Oh yes,
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I have a story tonight. I think you'll enjoy quite
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a bit. It's about someone a lot like me, someone
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who has an ordinary life with ordinary people, really an
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ordinary man. But not everything is as it seems, So
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get close, get comfortable, have a hot cup of tea.
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It's cold out there, but it's even colder in here. Now,
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let's listen to the store storms SHP. It's going to
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be all right.
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Tired of the everyday grind ever dream of a life
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of romantic adventure.
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I want to get away from it all. We offer you.
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Escape, Escape transcribed to free you from the four walls
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of today for a half hour of high adventure.
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You are running through the alleys of a Mediterranean village,
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the blackness of the Italian night confusing you, while somewhere
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in the dark behind you coming closer as they search
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for you, or a man and a beautiful woman who
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mean to take your life.
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Listen now as Escape brings you Kathleen Heights story An
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Ordinary Man I don't.
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Know yet why I said it, but later, as I
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stood at the deck rail and felt the light chill
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of the Mediterranean night, I decided it was a good thing.
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I was forty years old.
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In all my forty years, people had never looked at
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me the way they had in the salon a few
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minutes earlier. Forty years that's a long time to go unnoticed,
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a long time to be just an ordinary man. I
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had never known a beautiful woman, and Maria Novella was beautiful.
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A man doesn't tell such a woman that he's an
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assistant county assessor, or that this Mediterranean cruise took his
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life savings. It was late, I was alone on deck,
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and for the first time in my life, I felt
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that I could be anything I wanted to be.
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A boy, Oh boy.
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Hello, So this is where you came to hide senior hands?
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Oh, Miss Novella, No, I just thought it was stuffy
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in the dining room. Came out on deck to take
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the air.
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You are very gallant, sin I too, found Signerrina Puston's
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little game very trying.
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Oh well, it wasn't the game so much.
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As a matter of fact, I get sort of the
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kick out of guessing who people are or what they do,
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and then finding out whether I'm right or wrong.
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People can be very deceptive. You must have discovered that
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so often they're not what they seem. Is that not so?
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Oh?
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I don't know. I don't get fooled very often. If
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you're a good judge of character, and I fancy that
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I am.
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I'm sure that you are.
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Well, thanks very much, not at all.
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It's a quality I admire. I am so often wrong
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about people. I was completely wrong about you.
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Yes, I guess I had you fool all right.
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Your work must be fascinating.
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Oh, it's a.
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Job, but importing rare gems. It has the sound of
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many things, romance in its true sense and history. And
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I should think danger.
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Oh I suppose, But as I say, it hits a job,
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even scouting around the world in search of perfect stones.
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Well, it all becomes routine after a while.
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I think you are modest, senior hands. I think you
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know a very great deal. You do not say, and
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I think I will go right on regarding your life
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as romantic and dangerous.
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Well, if it makes you happy, it.
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Does, you see, senor, you prove my point? Oh, how
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is that that people are so often not what they
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see here. You are an important of rare gems, and
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you have the appearance of just an ordinary man. It's
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getting chilly. I'm afraid that must go in now.
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Oh so soon? I mean, well, if you're chili, I
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could lend you my coat.
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And it's all so quite late.
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Oh well, then may I see you to your cabin?
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Oh very nice. We seem to be very much alone.
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Yes, not a very lively group of board, i'd.
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Say, And I had thought not a very interesting group
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until tonight.
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Oh yes, I guess you're right here.
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We are here.
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Wow, we're practically neighbors. I'm just a few doors down
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on the other side.
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I know.
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Oh you do?
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Do you mind that I noticed you?
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N then I'll bet you know. I'd don't mind the
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least bit.
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I hope not. Sometimes in your handsome a woman traveling alone.
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She's afraid just being alone. She's afraid.
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Why no, there's nothing to be afraid of a small
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cruise boat like this, not very many people.
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I should not trouble you.
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I talk to you, just go right ahead. Are you
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you're trembling? Miserable?
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I'm a foolish woman. I will say. Good night now,
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signor and thank you for being so kind.
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Are you sure you're all right now? If you'd like
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me to stay with you?
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No, please, you must go and forget what I said.
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Oh, I'm sorry, signor It's only Pietro.
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Misterbllo.
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I see, I do not mean to frighten the Signorina.
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What are you doing in my kevin?
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I bring you the Signorina, fresh linens. It's enough crime,
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fresh linens.
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So late at night you bring me the linens?
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Yes, it is late, Pietro.
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Pietro has much work in so many cabins. This Signorina
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was not Ina. I did not think that she would mind.
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Going to Pietro. This must not happen again.
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As you away.
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Pietro would never frighten the Signorina.
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Are you afraid of him? Really?
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I do not know. I'm afraid many things.
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Because if you're afraid of Pietro, it's a simple matter
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to tell the captain.
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I would not want that.
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Look.
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If it make you feel better, I'd be glad to
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come into your cabin with you, just to look.
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Around, be sure that everything is all right.
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No, oh, thank you, but no, you've talked too much.
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You will please go now too.
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I I'd like to help you, miss Novella.
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Not now. We will meet tomorrow. Perhaps then you can
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help me.
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My mind was full of Maria Novella, and I didn't
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sleep very well that night. A beautiful woman was afraid,
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and she had brought her fears to me, or rather,
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she brought them to the man. She thought I was
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a man whose business was danger in romance, a dealer
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in rare gems. I knew that night that I would
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never tell her the truth, that I must somehow come
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to be this man. She thought I was.
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Your move Rensel.
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Huh oh, yeah, yeah she is. I'm sorry, mister Brilliant.
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My mind hasn't been on my checkers all afternoon.
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You would think we were playing chess for great stakes.
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The way you study your moves.
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I'm not even thinking about the mister Brilliant. I'll concede
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the game to you.
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And I will accept only because it will be the
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first game I have won from you in three days.
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You sure you don't mind?
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I'm not at all, My friend, tell me, have you
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business in Trapani? I asked if you had business in Trapani?
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We dock in Sicily tonight.
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You know, no, no, no, this is just a pleasure trip.
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Oh that is good. Then you will be able to
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spend some time with me.
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Yes, I like that. I didn't realize that Trapani was
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your home.
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It isn't that I have many friends there. If particular
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friend occupies one of the final Baro palaces, he has
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an exceptional collection of jewels. So the man with your
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knowledge of gems. But you are not listening, are you, hnsel?
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Oh, well, to tell you the truth, I was looking
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for someone.
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Really.
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I guess it's obvious. But I haven't seen her all day.
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Do I know her?
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Oh, miss Novella. I don't place the name, should I?
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Yes?
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Last night in the salon, remember when Miss Thurston organized
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our Guess who game? Miss Novella was the beautiful dark
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woman in green.
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Oh.
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Yes, I do remember her now, very lovely. But I
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don't believe i've seen her today.
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I'm sort of concerned about her wrapped in her cabin
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of time or two.
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She didn't answer. I think I'll check again.
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I believe I would if you were worried about them.
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Yes, I think i'd better excuse me. Oh, and thanks
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for the game, mister brilliant.
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I'll see you when we talk Hansel.
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Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
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Oh my goodness, sorry, missus Hensel didn't see it, are
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you heart?
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No, no, no, miss Thurston, and I'm.
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I blew my whistle. But I guess you didn't hear
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in time. I guess not doing green sprints around the day,
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getting my land legs in shape. Stop for gym classes
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every day with wind sprints.
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Well, don't let me keep you, but we are.
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All paying indications tonight in the salon before we die.
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Oh oh oh, hello, senor.
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Hands, you were putting fresh linens in my cabin, petrol
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fresh water. They keep you pretty busy with linens and water,
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don't they.
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Pietro has much work, so many cabins.
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I hope I find everything in its place. Petrol.
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I hope it's so too.
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Signor who is it?
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It's mister Hensel. I was wondering if if oh.
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Hello there, please come in, senior hands.
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Well, if you're sure you don't mind, I will. Frankly,
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I've been worried about you, Miss Novella.
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I did not sleep well last night. Told morning I
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took a sedative. I awakened only a short time ago.
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I was going to send for you.
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It is something wrong.
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I told you I might need your help. This is
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why I am frightened.
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Oh my, what a beautiful brook.
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The last of my family's treasure, Signor how it is?
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I do not know. My grandmother left it to me.
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I've just come from her funeral.
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And listen you say, this is why you're frightened.
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I am a woman alone. Someone may know I have
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a brooch.
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Of great value, Pietro.
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Perhaps Pietro do not know, Miss Nobella.
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Why don't you go to the captain. I'm sure he
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could offer protection until you're a shore.
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No, I will not call attention to myself by going
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to the captain if you will not help me.
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No, But how can I be have help to you?
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You are used to these things, Signor. You often carry gems?
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Do you not?
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Oh?
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No? Oh, well of course yes, but I don't see you.
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I can trust you.
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Take it, please take.
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It, keep it for me only until with Dakatraponi. I
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will feel so much better, so much safer here.
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Yes, but if something should happen, please, this will.
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Be safe with you. I do not mean to impose,
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but who else can I turn to if I cannot
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trust you?
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You can trust me, miss Nobella. I'll keep it for you.
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Oh there you are handeled, ready to go ashore.
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Oh, mister brilliant, I was looking for someone.
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You are still looking for the same lady.
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Huh No, not still again. I really must find her.
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I had hoped we could go ashore together.
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That would be fine. But I promised miss Novella. Yes
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the Signorina leave this if you left it twenty a
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few minutes ago.
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She has gone ashore.
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Gone, But surely she must say.
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What is this small Hotel de Monte San Juliano?
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How did you know that.
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Signor?
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You are listening to an ordinary man Tonight's presentation on Escape.
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A suspect in a hold up and a known narcotics
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user cross the path of your night Watch during Tomorrow
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Night's tour of duty on CBS Radio Tomorrow and every
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Friday night on most of these same stations. You're on
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the case with night Watch, a police recorder, an actual
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police in a prowl car, protecting the public from wrongdoings
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and wrongdoers. Remember night Watch, exciting authentic stars address listening
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Tomorrow night and now Escape and the second act of
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an ordinary.
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Mantel Montes and Giuliano. Please hurry the urgency of Maria
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Novella's notes saw me through those next minutes. In my confusion,
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I lost track of mister Brilliant. Somehow I managed to
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get through customs. What I would have said if they
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had found the broach, I do not know. I only
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knew that I must find Maria Novella and return it
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to her.
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She was not registered. When I arrived. I took a
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room and waited, and then just a minute your head.
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I was afraid I had lost you. Hencil.
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Oh, come in, mister brilliant.
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You never lose that look, Pencil always when we are together,
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you are looking for someone else.
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Sure seems that way, doesn't it.
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You have not found the lady at Signorina Novella.
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No I haven't. I then I will take it, hen
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Soil you you, we will take what please.
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We are old friends. We played checkers together. Please do
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not make me shoot old friends.
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I want a.
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Brooch you you know you can puzzle over it when
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I am gone, hand soil. These are ugly little episodes.
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We should not prolong that.
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I I'm not a brave man, mister Brilliant, but I'll
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tell you whole thing that good.
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Then you will not have to act like one. Now,
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where is it in one of your suitcases?
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No, I'll let you.
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I did not want to do that. Please, but you
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are such a foolish man and you waste my time.
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You forced me to find it myself.
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No, but you can't.
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I promised, I promised, but I came as soon as
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I could, and I trusted you.
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I know, I know how he knew I had the brooch.
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I don't know. I'm ashamed, so completely ashamed. Pietro he
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must have known.
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But I am to blame. I should never have given
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it to you. It was my responsibility.
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I should never have taken it. But if I hadn't,
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mister Billiant would have found you. And well, at least
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I saved you that.
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Oh, I'm not blaming you. Please understand that I'm just
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so very upset.
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Well, oh, this is no good. We'll have to go
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to the police.
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I had not thought of the police. No, No, I
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do not want to.
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But I've already called him, called as soon as he left.
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I must say, they were very calm about it. I
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said I'd have to come there and make a report.
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Oh no, I shouldn't go through that. I've been too
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long under this trainer.
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Oh well, I guess I can handle it myself, if
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you trust me again, Oh, trust you.
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It's only that I'm so willy ob this if the
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police would come here, but.
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I'll bring them now. Don't you worry? You just stretch
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out here and will bother you now with Rena, I'll
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hurry and don't worry, miss Novella. I just won't rest
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until I get that brooch back for you.
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The Trapani police continued to take the whole matter with
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great calm. I had the feeling that they thought I'd
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manufactured the entire story, and it was well after midnight
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before I finally persuaded one of them to go back
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to the hotel with me.
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I imagine the signor in now will be asleep.
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Yes, I should think so. I think the whole town
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of Trapani is asleep, including.
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Its police force.
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We like to be sure, Signor Sometimes it takes time
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to be sure.
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And all that time, mister Brilliant was speeding away somewhere
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scott Free.
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Is easy to leave the Tripani. If you missed the
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Brilliant was anxious to leave. He could have been gone
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in minutes.
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Is that any reason not to try to stop him?
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Here.
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We are quietly now, Miss Nobella, Miss.
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Nobella, the room is empty.
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Signor well, I don't understand that she must be here.
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Is she in the closet?
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Senor No, but then she must have left the note.
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I do not see a note, do you no?
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The Signorina she had a room here at the hotel.
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Yes, I'm sure she did. That must be where she's gone.
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We will see connectomy plays with the room of her.
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Name Novella, Maria Novella.
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Signorina, Maria Novella.
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I will wait. Are they ringing her room?
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They are checking her number?
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Well, that must be where she is. The combany got
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tired of waiting for us, just went to her own room. Well,
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you can't blame her.
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Yes, you are sure.
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M h wasn't she there?
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The hotel says they have no guest by the name
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of Maria Novella.
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No guest a cigarette, no no.
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Senor hints.
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I know, I know you don't believe there is any
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Maria Novello, just like you don't believe anything else I've
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told you.
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Very fantastic story.
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Signor.
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You meet the lovely lady on a boat for no reason,
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you tell her you are an importer of rare jewels.
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The lady is a fright and she trusts you. It
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gives you a fine old brooch. Then you landed trumpad
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the man you play check us with steals the brooch.
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Now all three are gone, the lady, the man, the.
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Bro I didn't make it up. I couldn't make it up.
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It happened. I tell you, she may be in danger.
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She may have been KIDNAPM.
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Sorry, we cannot deal with what may.
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You need a resting, then tomorrow you can enjoy Trapani.
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It's really a very nice place. He was right, I
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needed a rest Where was Maria Novella? Oh? I should
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never have gone to the police alone. My mind was
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full of things I should never have done. If only
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I had just been content to be an ordinary man.
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Oh hello, Oh are you all right?
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I am safe with Fred?
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Oh, thank heaven. When we came back and you were gone.
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I should have let it know, but I was so upset.
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You understand, well.
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I do, but the police don't. I can't understand it,
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but they don't anything I've told them.
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My friends have talked to me. They think we must
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go to the police.
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Together, and I think that's the only way.
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And I cannot rest now until we do. Please this
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last favor. Please come here for me.
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I was able to find, but must have been the
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only taxi in Trapani at that hour. I gave him
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the directions Maria Novella gave me, and we wound through
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a series of narrow streets to what seemed to be
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the edge of the city.
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A soft rain began to fall. I told myself it
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would all be.
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Over soon, commencing that handsome.
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Well, I'm afraid I'm pretty wet.
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You are just fine.
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Oh my, I should have asked that taxi to wait.
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It's a shamed to bother your friends at this time.
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They do not mind.
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And you have been so kind, unbelievably kind, pencil.
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Brilliant, But like most kind of people, you are.
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Inclined to Maddy, do what you have to do. Ransom, Henry,
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quick about it, But we owe Hansel an explanation.
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Look at this confusion you, the two of you together,
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worse than that Hancil marriage.
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I said, be quick about it, Ransom.
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A very impatient girl, Maria, but so beautiful Hensel, and
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so helpless.
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She needs a strong man like you to protect you.
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Planned it deliberately.
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But why we needed someone to take the brooch off
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the boat. You see, such a simple reason, and you've
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made it so complex for us. So you and Pietro,
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Pietro such an ardent, young Latin Pietro. If he had
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not detained Maria, she would have met you at a hotel.
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You would have delivered the brooch to her gladly as
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it was. I had to trouble you for it. Now
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the police are involved.
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It's very messy, and so the brooch isn't hers. There's
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no dead grandmother in Lisbon. You stole the brooch.
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Aw you are thinking, hencil, but a little lady, and.
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She gave it to me because I was supposed to
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be a gem expert and if the authorities founded on me,
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there would be no trouble.
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Is that right?
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That is very wrong a gem expert? Who would believe
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that of such an ordinary man?
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No one.
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I guess we picked you for yourself alone. You are
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a nice, ordinary man. I hate to tell you. Tell
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me what out in the garden, a very old cistern
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of the Romans building. I don't think anyone will ever
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find you.
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You are going to kill me, No such a thought.
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We are only going to let you die not much further, handsil,
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you must be very tired.
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I guess I am. The rest will do you good?
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What small enough?
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You are?
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You all right? Singer Hanson?
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Oh, I I'm much better? Thanks you. You brought the police,
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hansl you. No, I didn't have anything to do with well,
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did I? Officer?
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Oh?
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I think so?
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Yes.
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I got to thinking about your story.
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She's a very fantastic story, is so unbelievable.
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But then I think about you, such an ordinary man, you.
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Could not make up such a story. So I follow you.
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Under the direction of Norman McDonald, Escape has Brought You,
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transcribed an Ordinary Man by Kathleen Hight, starring John Dayner
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with Virginia greg featured in the cast where Edgar Barrier,
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Anthony Barrett, Ida Reese Meren, and Harry Bartel. You're announcer
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Dan Cubberly. The special music for Escape is composed and
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conducted by Leith Stevens.
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Ah.
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These old records just have a way of really pumping me.
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I hope you enjoyed that one as much as I did.
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I have a feeling you might have. The look on
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your face tells me I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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I am here every day, ma'am, every night night, ready
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to share a little piece of fear with you and
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enjoy what it is to be alive.
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I suppose.
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I don't know if that's the right term or not now,
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but now the night is reaching its end, and I
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think it's about time part ways. For now I have
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to go back to wherever it is I come from.
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And you, well, you need to get into that big
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cozy bed of yours for a good night's Without a
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doubt that's the best thing for you. So go on
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make your way home, but be careful and never forget
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to be thankful for what you have. I'll see, I'll
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see tomorrow night.
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The call in the coma coma comagas the wrong brings,
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the un bringing you rumbling, the mumbling break
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