Jan. 7, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | "Malice Aforethought"
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
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Ah, I see you found me
on your radio. Donald once again,
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must have spent quite a while finding
this station. I'll tell you that,
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well, welcome. Unfortunately, I
can't tell you who I am, because
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well where I am. We we
no longer have names. But I will
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say I have a very scary one
to play for you today. It's one
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metal give you a chill all the
way down to your bones, if you're
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lucky enough to have anything more than
bones, that is. But now I
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suppose I'll get comfortable in my oh, in my rocking chair. I can't
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believe this microphone still works. To
be honest, it's a beautiful night,
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beautiful night for fear loathing suspense.
So I suppose we should. We should
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get to it right now. Of
course, I may no longer be in
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the real world, but I still
need money. So please pardon me if
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there happens to be an advertisement before
the story begins. Just sit back,
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relax, and try enough to think
about all the things you're currently hiding from.
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What's that? What's that? Oh? Oh no, no, no,
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no, don't you worry a bit. Don't you worry a single little
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bit. Let's get to the story
right now. I'd like to give you
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a thrill. The Alfred hits com
show. Every week at this time you'll
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hear thirty minutes of sheer excitements.
The man who makes the movie is that
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everyone remembers the famous director who gave
you spell Down, Suspicion, the Mecca,
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the lady manages the gableman may call
the cavalier of the macaque mister Alfred
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hits Common. I'm a little worried
about mistress these days. I think we're
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getting altogether too many sinister looking butlers, hands coming through sliding panels and such.
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You see, I'm interested in people
in characters, horrible or characters.
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I like to call inside a man's
mind if I can possibly do so,
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and find out what makes him behave
like a madman or an embrasuit. That's
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why I took a fancy to this
story by Francis Isles, called Malice a
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forepall this feller. Isles doesn't tease
you. He comes right out and tells
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you what happens. And he doesn't
tell them why. He leaves that up
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to us. Up to you and
me. Well, let's have a listen,
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see what we can make of it. What do you say the prisoner,
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Edmund Alfred Bickley, you are charged
with Unless we are quite I shall
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ask the officer in charge the prey
barroom. Edmund Alfred Bickley would charged with
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this indictment the ninth day of April
nineteen forty seven, at Women's Cross,
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Long Island, You poloniously, wilfully
and with malice of forecast the kill and
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murder one Junior Elizabeth Mary Bickley.
How do you believe guilty or not guilty?
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Not giving gentlemen of the joy it
president of it doesn't look much like
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the soul of Chap who'd murdered his
wife, does he? But you never
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can tell about these quiet polite little
man. Or I hope you don't mind
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my following this thing with you and
make you if you comment from time to
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time. I'll try not get him
away, turn him of the prosecution.
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We'll call the first witness. Well, we're dependent to take the sign.
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Do you away your constitutional rights not
to testify it? I do? And
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Bickley, we to understand that you
are a doctor of medicine. Well,
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I have conducted a general practice in
Women's Cross for eighteen years, Doctor Bickley,
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was your relationship with your wife Julia
altogether friendly. At the time of
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her unfortunate death, I loved her. We were happily married for almost twenty
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years. Since her passing, my
life has been completely empty without my dear
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wife Julia. She was hevery your
dear wife, Julia. I wonder,
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doctor Bickley, I wonder if you're
married, was as happy as you like
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to have? The jury believe.
Didn't dear Julia ever get on your nerves?
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Did you ever get sick and tired
of dear Julia? Well? Really,
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I think you might have been considered
enough to get back from around a
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little earlier. Today, I've been
suffering from a fright for the headache,
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and there's so much to do.
I can't conceive how you expect me to
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get everything done in time for our
death. I'm sorry, Julius. Sorry?
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Or really, Edmund, do you
think you're being sorry? We'll get
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to work completed, all right.
Tell me what you want done, Julia.
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First of all, you'll have to
take care of the tennis court.
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So that's what you were mad,
doctor Biffy. That's dear Julia. How
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many tons? Sad? You haven't
a hand? Bickley sounds like at least
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half a dozen out on the lawn
and some chairs. Julia, I don't
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think I'll be able to get all
these things done, my dear Edmund.
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They've got to be done. And
before the guest begin to arrive, you've
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better change your clothes, Julia.
Have you ever thought that Sunday I might
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stop saying yes, Julia, Yes, Julia, cost Julia, Edmund,
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that will be quite enough. I
forbid you six thoughts. Yes here here,
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yes, you here. I seem
to settle that r dos it.
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I've got to get rid of that. I've got to kick free from juwire.
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Oh yeah, I know what I've
got here. I've got to kill
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me mit kill man. Don't go
with do it? You know, mine
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there's a serious business. If you
get caught, it can be very annoying.
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Hello, big may Hello, that's
how's your practice? Oh? Fair
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enough? How are your patients getting
on? No complaints? Say? Have
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you had any cases of your poisoning
lately? Go out in the past?
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Feel not well? I've got old
missus Kirstenson. You know I have found
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a new treatment that's practically cured.
That's interesting. What is it of an
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adium compound? You only draw back
here that didn't use a severe headaches,
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but it really clears out the poison
his headaches, you said, similar to
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migraine, but only temporary. It
doesn't taste bad, just a bit Acid's
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like grape troop. It sounds like
an useful for me having the laboratory Fitsten
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put you order me sound, I've
got more than I can use. Victory.
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I will send you over something.
I'd say it kind of it's I'd
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like to see how it works,
I say, now, bily old man
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watched the idea of puffing around of
the kitchen so early in the morning.
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Oh yes, Julia, what are
you doing down there in the kitchen?
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Or just taxing you a little breakfast? Jurr idea? Now isn't that thoughtful
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of the doctor? Here you are, my darling breakfast? And there is
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it the pride? Now really?
Edmund? You know I don't much care
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for grapefruit. Or you like this
grapefruit? Julia? I fixed it especially,
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I'll just bet you did. Oh
you'll like that grapefruit, Julia.
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It's just what the doctor ordered.
What is a junior? Are you getting
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one of your headaches again? Oh? One of my headaches, Edmond?
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Is bread well? What do you
want me to do? Give me something,
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Edmund? Well, I suppose I
could give you an in projection,
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Julia, a small one. Get
out to hypodermic needle, doctor, or
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at times when that shiny bit of
glass and steel can save a person's life,
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But that same little needle can kill
a person, can't it? Doctor?
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As sure as a bullet through the
head. Any doctor? How much
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morphy? Will it take? One
grain? Two rains, three grains?
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Well, that's not a lot to
killer? Or at your arm? Then?
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Oh thank you, madam. Oh
I see doctor mcain, you like
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suspense to mad Now who the devil
is? Battlin? Madan? Are you
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home? Dedmond? I come in, come on duty? Hello Edmund,
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Hello, oh Madeline, Madelyn Darling, missus Josh Edmund. We're not alone?
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What you know Dennis Bourne? Don't
you? Doctor? We've been swimming
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this morning over these Hampton Yes,
yes, sir, how are you Dennis?
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Why? Doctor you? Dennis is
just leaving. Thanks for the beach
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party, Madeline, it was fun. Goodbye Denny you are later? Goodbye
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doctor? Yes? Goodbye? Oh
see here, Madeline, I hope you
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up wasting much time with that fellow
now ducky. You have no right to
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be Jeff. Of course I have
no claim on you, Madelin, but
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you know i'd marry you in an
instant, Darling, if things were different.
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Yes, and the things may be
different. I live sooner than you'd
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expect. You're very sweet. You
know. I'm worried about Julia. Oh.
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She's been suffering from terrible headaches,
and lately she's been sitting in my
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laboratory and giving herself shots to relieve
the pain. I'm afraid it's getting to
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be a habit. How dreadful?
Dreadful? Yes, I want to help
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Julia, but I just don't know
what I can do. I think you're
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doing more than enough already. Is
that what you came here for, Dotty,
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to tell me about your wife?
No, Madelis, I came here
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to be with you. That's quite
a line you've got there, Donny.
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For a man getting along in years, well, it's all add them.
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Every morning a great proof for you. Give me a great food, allah
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pixy, followed by headache, followed
by hyperdelic meals, and be sure you
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tell everyone doctor, tell everyone in
town about poor duty of headaches and what
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she does to cure them. I
know, Edmund, but I know what's
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causing me headaches of mine? You
do, you're causing them, Hi,
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It's all the result of anxiety,
Edmund. Anxiety over the shameful way you're
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carrying on with that melon Padmire.
Oh oh, then you know about me?
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What do you think? I'm another
pool? I have eyes and ears,
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a shameful of Emma. Stop Edmund
that I'm in love with me.
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I don't talk nonsense. Oh my
sad relief. I want you to give
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me a divorce so that I can
marry the woman I love. That's a
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wise move. If give her a
chance to get out of your life,
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maybe you will have to try.
Helia. I asked you a question,
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Will you give me a divorce?
I'll never give you a divorce. You
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will be marriage to me and then
for as long as I live. Oh
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don't you got that way? Give
me something to believe this thing? Yes,
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you will. You please hold the
syringe for a moment. Dear,
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that was bo. It's safe that
you have causing a Prince of Syren's going
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to give her this time Claims four
five. Take an easy old chap.
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Then you came grains of molding Lethal
Ghost eleven twelve, I seen lottery visits
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the moment Welcy fifteen by all out
your arm? H well, so long,
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Jia using she's off yet Bickley letsy
Now takes about twenty minutes to dive
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a morphine and about the same time
to drive up the Madeline Clanniss out if
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we take the time to enjoy the
scenery. Nice day, isn't it?
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By hen Menondarli are you home?
Oh? Hello? That Dennis? Hello?
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What is mad She asked me to
give you a message. Oh,
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she doesn't want to see you anymore. She he gains to be married to
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me? What well, where's you
are going to talk? Tell him?
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What? Where are you? Ed? This is all no Edmunds, I
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love Danny. That's all there is
to it. I tell you what you're
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going to do. Madlin don you're
having your bunch of break off this ridiculous
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indapements. We have drive to Connecticut
tonight and they married immediate day. What
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about Julie Julius did oh? Oh, doctor Bickley, you aren't supposed to
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know that Julius did it? Hello? Where's Buck the big leaves? Here?
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Is anything wrong? Oh? Well, that's dread. Yes, I'll
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have him ride away. No right, Dennis, he knows, and so
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does Maverick. Here's that two of
the Alpha Discock Shaw and this week's story
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now as the Forethought by Franca Siles, directed by Alfred Discock, dramatized and
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produced by Jerol Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Learnsome, doctor. The
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house is pretty quiet now without Junia. It was a nice funeral, though,
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And those tears of yours were very
nicely doctor, very effect you've seen,
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even remarkable, how quiet a woman
gets off you give her fifteen grains
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of morphine. Hello, I want
to speak with Madelon Cranmere. I know
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perfectly LSE's Bandannis. How important that
I speak with her? Now? You
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please tell Madelon that Hello. Hello, I wonder what mattered decision? Doctor,
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Too bad you made that suit about
Julia when you weren't supposed to know
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she was dead. Oh well,
maybe Madelon's forgotten about it. Maybe it
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wouldn't have happened if she hadn't thrown
me over for that play boy. I
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hate, I hate maddled it.
I thought to yourself, think, oh,
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oh, let's excuse me for coming
stayed in I saw your light was
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on. Y say ye sit out, had I let's see your doctor.
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How's your practice? No complaints?
Sorry about Julia, must have been quite
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a shock. Oh well, let's
we all have our peddens to be just
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how did it happen? Bigley?
If it isn't too painful for you to
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talk about? No, no,
no, no, I don't mind.
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Of course you heard all those ugly
romas that we're going around about Julia giving
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herself injections of morphine. The actually
must have taken an overdose. That's all
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too bad, Too bad, fine
woman, Oh the best, the best
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you can outcross your fingers now,
doctor Bickley, say by remember that vanadium
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compound. I sent you the headache
stuff. But oh yes, yes,
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the the antidote for your poisoning.
Well, oh, missus, Christenen's henry
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lapsed and I'm afraid I'll have to
borrow something back from you, if you
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don't mind. Why it's all gone? Oh did you have a case of
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You're it poisoning? Too? Who
was it? No? Not exactly.
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I I was making some mistar oh, some experiments. Well, no matter,
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and I'll ordered some more after going
home, because the kind of you
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to stop by. Han't you ate? You know? Same? Big?
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Yes? Another thing? What was
it made Julius start taking more themes snakes?
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Yes? Uh, the tumor of
some sort of migraine. Oh well,
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we'll never know. No, I
don't suppose we ever shall well,
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pomatically, he's on to you a
store of fake quickly. He's figured out
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exactly how you got with Rgunia and
I Wiston and Malin krammea ever, go
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to the police again, you'll probably
hang over. Pardon me, doctor mccartt.
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The State of New York employed electricity. It certainly was nice of you
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to come to my little party.
I just thought we ought to establish friendly
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relations again. All right, it
was good for you to ask us,
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Actor Bickly. Well, thank you. Dennis. I hardly expected you because
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you didn't think I'd come along,
did you, Edmund? I doubt my
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new husband. Oh have you and
Dennis actually tied the knot when I was
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in that guy? Please get my
congratulations. You do the very supporting of
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you. Not at all? Oh
do you too know? Doctor Liston?
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I don't believe we've met. This
is Dennis Bourne and Madeline Crapner. Oh,
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missus burner. Now, this is
a curious thing to do, doctor
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Brickley, when you got a slow
deliberately bringing together the two people who can
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prove you're a murder. If you
excuse me, I'll just step out into
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the kitchen and see if the refreshments
already. Oh, you're fixing the refreshments?
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Are you? Doctor? What it
means grapefruit? Aren't you going to
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bother with suspense this time? I
hope you all like devil Hands had for
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Madeline. You don't know what you're
saying. I have an idea. Why
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don't you go on a nice diet? Oh girl, Saint Brickley, what's
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that yellow stuff you're mixing with the
mannies and stuff from the test tube?
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Putting a little extrac devil into the
devil's hand as well? Here we are.
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Everybody fought too, said that's good. They almost good enough to eat
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almost. I'm going to eat one
of these, even if it does spoil
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my dinner, Doctor Linston, You'll
be amazed how many dinners that sandwich is
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going to spoil? Hold on a
typically, don't I get any? Oh?
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I'm sorry, you want a sandwich
dinner? I'm starve. Well,
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I'll go out and fix shoot something
else. I'll take one of these.
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Oh no, I have to try
to stop him. Doctor. No reason
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why young Dennis should go away of
this? And Madeline? But what could
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you do if you're well talking about
it? Big? I had quite a
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distressing night, fraid I must have
eaten some spoiled meat that disagreed with me
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and not the only person that had
a bad night. And so I have
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to talk to you, doctor.
I'm Lieutenant Russell. Homicide, spoil homicide.
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I mean some of my guests have
died. I didn't say that.
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You'll put two and two together pretty
fast that day? Why does you feed
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poison sandwich? Mister and missus Bourne
and doctor Linston yesterday afternoon, sir,
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let meet for spoil? That could
have happened to anyone? Why you could
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see yourself? I'm sick of bad. Do you have typhoid fever? Typhoid?
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You have it on pretty good authority, doctor, that lethal quantities of
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typhoid tuba terms don't usually breed on
devil Ham sandwiches unless somebody puts them in
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typhoid O the world? What happened, old man? Do you put the
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wrong germ from the wrong test?
Tube on the wrong devil Ham Sandwich do
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the vicking, and myfraid I will
have to arrest you on the charge you've
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murdered. Think they both die Madalen
and Lizon. They're arrested in the charge
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murdering your wife. My wife?
Now, how abuse did Julia pop up
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among the devil Ham Sandwiches? But
you no evidence, no evidence at all.
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You shouldn't have said that, Bigley. You'll hear the evidence that dim
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when the time comes. We must
have a I see well, doctor Harry,
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listen, take the stand, please, doctor listen, I listen.
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No, no, it's not a
ghost, Beckles, he's your old friend.
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Listen in the flace. He looks
tired and he's lost about twenty pounds.
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But I'm afraid your died of devil
Ham Sandwiches produced him but didn't quite
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finish him off. Too bad,
Doctor liston? Do you know the prisoner
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at the bar? And I most
certainly do. What transactions have you out
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with a prisoner which might have a
bearing on this case? On the fourteenth
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of March just passed, I delivered
to doctor Bickley the quantity of a newly
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developed vanadium compound which is useful in
counteracting uric poisoning. However, this compound
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also induces severe headaches. And it
is my belief that doctor Bickley employed this
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quantity of medicine. Well, that
is Bickley right out in the open.
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The whole scheme you thought was so
clever. So I can live beyond apprehension.
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And the incredible thing is the way
that idiot Getson has guessed everything which
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caused her dead. Thank you,
doctor Liston. Well, this is Madeline
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Vourn, Please take us stile,
miss Madelone Vourn. Oh this looks nasty
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Bickley. Madlin got over the sandwiches
too. She is looking at you with
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a very friendly expression. Ducky,
I see she's dressed all in black.
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Missus Vaughn. I suppose you tell
us, in your own words, exactly
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what happened on the second floor of
your house and wan Cross on the morning
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of the ninth day of April my
deed body s well. The prisoner doctor
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Bickley burst into my room and demanded
that I break off my engagement with Dennis.
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My late hostess said I must marry
him. I asked him what about
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his wife, Julius, and he
replied Juliet, is there, missus Bawn?
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Was this before or after doctor Bickley
received a telephone call and forming him
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with his wife's dead immediately before?
He seems to be getting a little warm
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in here, doesn't it? Doctor? All your affairs in order? Is
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you will all made out, life
insurance premium is paid up. It'd better
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be because he's getting around in insurance
circles that you're not a very good risk.
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The defense will samuraize. Thank you, your honor ladies and gentlemen of
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the jury. It is a scandalous
soul fray against justice that the defendant should
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even be on trial before you.
Who is doctor Vicklay an outstanding physician,
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public servant of long standing man of
unsullied reputation, a man who is anah
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a self or life with our boy
wife Julia was unquestioned in the community.
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And what is the evidence against him? The dubious testimony of one Madelin Born,
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which casts some vague doubt over the
exact moment at which doctor Dically learned
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of his dear wife's death. And
as for the testimony of the prisoner's colleague,
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doctor Linson, his only evidence proved
that the defendant was in possession of
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certain chemical compounds which every doctor of
medicine in the United States is authorized to
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have in his laboratory. What sort
of evidence is this? I represent to
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you the prosecution's case against Doctypically.
There's nothing but yes what yes what?
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Yes what? And that Doctypically is
as innocent of this famous crime as you
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or I President. I will stand
to have a verdict of this order.
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Here it comes up women, crossl
sing sing, consultation room, will a
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chair a fury hear me? Or
is rechair? Thank you? Thank you
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everyone, what a very fair time. But thank you again. I think
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goodbye, goodbye everybody. Oh,
goodbye, Lieutennis, thank you for just
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a minute. Head, Yes,
lieutenant, it is my duty to arrest
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you in this integement that you feloniously
and with malice of forethought, did killed
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by means of poisoned food one Dennis
Borno. Well, poor old doc.
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He sort of liked Dennis, and
he never meant for Tenny to eat that
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pebl Ham sandwich from the nineteenth of
September. Poor doctor Bickley went to the
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chair for poison Dennis. For now, let that be a lesson to you.
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I tell you. Murders a serious
business, and the slightest slip can
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be disastrous. As for me,
I think I'll fit commercial pinter directing for
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a while. At least the occupational
hazards aren't quite so high. You've been
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listening to The Alfred Hitchcock Show.
Original music was composed and conducted by Claude
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Sweden and arranged by David Stretch,
with doctor Samuel Hartman at the Fairman.
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Members of the cast included Joseph Kerns, Edmund McDonald, Jeff Corey, Jarrett
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Waldo, Doman Field, Margaret Brayton, John Dayner, and Tom harwand ju
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announcer Owen James mister Hitchcock with our
director, and commatization and production were by
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Lawrence and Blee. No, well
you made it to the end. Well,
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aren't you a brave one? Well, good good. I'm glad you
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are stuck around with me, but
you've seen soon the sun will come up,
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and my time movie at an end
for now anyway. But of course
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you can always try to find me
tomorrow night, because I always seem to
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come back somehow. But until then, enjoy my favorite song, trying not
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to be too Afraid, And I
suppose if you really love what I'm doing,
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you can. You can find us
in the world Wide Web, Internet
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or whatever they call it now,
at weird dash Mysteries dot com. I'd
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appreciate hearing from you, or maybe
getting a tip. Money is an object
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even now, even where I am. But until then, take care,
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all right, The rumbling privately batt
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Ah, I see you found me
on your radio. Donald once again,
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must have spent quite a while finding
this station. I'll tell you that,
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well, welcome. Unfortunately, I
can't tell you who I am, because
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well where I am. We we
no longer have names. But I will
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say I have a very scary one
to play for you today. It's one
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metal give you a chill all the
way down to your bones, if you're
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lucky enough to have anything more than
bones, that is. But now I
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suppose I'll get comfortable in my oh, in my rocking chair. I can't
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believe this microphone still works. To
be honest, it's a beautiful night,
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beautiful night for fear loathing suspense.
So I suppose we should. We should
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get to it right now. Of
course, I may no longer be in
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the real world, but I still
need money. So please pardon me if
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there happens to be an advertisement before
the story begins. Just sit back,
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relax, and try enough to think
about all the things you're currently hiding from.
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What's that? What's that? Oh? Oh no, no, no,
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no, don't you worry a bit. Don't you worry a single little
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bit. Let's get to the story
right now. I'd like to give you
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a thrill. The Alfred hits com
show. Every week at this time you'll
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hear thirty minutes of sheer excitements.
The man who makes the movie is that
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everyone remembers the famous director who gave
you spell Down, Suspicion, the Mecca,
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the lady manages the gableman may call
the cavalier of the macaque mister Alfred
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hits Common. I'm a little worried
about mistress these days. I think we're
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getting altogether too many sinister looking butlers, hands coming through sliding panels and such.
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You see, I'm interested in people
in characters, horrible or characters.
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I like to call inside a man's
mind if I can possibly do so,
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and find out what makes him behave
like a madman or an embrasuit. That's
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why I took a fancy to this
story by Francis Isles, called Malice a
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forepall this feller. Isles doesn't tease
you. He comes right out and tells
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you what happens. And he doesn't
tell them why. He leaves that up
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to us. Up to you and
me. Well, let's have a listen,
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see what we can make of it. What do you say the prisoner,
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Edmund Alfred Bickley, you are charged
with Unless we are quite I shall
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ask the officer in charge the prey
barroom. Edmund Alfred Bickley would charged with
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this indictment the ninth day of April
nineteen forty seven, at Women's Cross,
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Long Island, You poloniously, wilfully
and with malice of forecast the kill and
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murder one Junior Elizabeth Mary Bickley.
How do you believe guilty or not guilty?
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Not giving gentlemen of the joy it
president of it doesn't look much like
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the soul of Chap who'd murdered his
wife, does he? But you never
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can tell about these quiet polite little
man. Or I hope you don't mind
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my following this thing with you and
make you if you comment from time to
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time. I'll try not get him
away, turn him of the prosecution.
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We'll call the first witness. Well, we're dependent to take the sign.
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Do you away your constitutional rights not
to testify it? I do? And
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Bickley, we to understand that you
are a doctor of medicine. Well,
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I have conducted a general practice in
Women's Cross for eighteen years, Doctor Bickley,
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was your relationship with your wife Julia
altogether friendly. At the time of
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her unfortunate death, I loved her. We were happily married for almost twenty
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years. Since her passing, my
life has been completely empty without my dear
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wife Julia. She was hevery your
dear wife, Julia. I wonder,
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doctor Bickley, I wonder if you're
married, was as happy as you like
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to have? The jury believe.
Didn't dear Julia ever get on your nerves?
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Did you ever get sick and tired
of dear Julia? Well? Really,
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I think you might have been considered
enough to get back from around a
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little earlier. Today, I've been
suffering from a fright for the headache,
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and there's so much to do.
I can't conceive how you expect me to
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get everything done in time for our
death. I'm sorry, Julius. Sorry?
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Or really, Edmund, do you
think you're being sorry? We'll get
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to work completed, all right.
Tell me what you want done, Julia.
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First of all, you'll have to
take care of the tennis court.
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So that's what you were mad,
doctor Biffy. That's dear Julia. How
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many tons? Sad? You haven't
a hand? Bickley sounds like at least
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half a dozen out on the lawn
and some chairs. Julia, I don't
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think I'll be able to get all
these things done, my dear Edmund.
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They've got to be done. And
before the guest begin to arrive, you've
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better change your clothes, Julia.
Have you ever thought that Sunday I might
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stop saying yes, Julia, Yes, Julia, cost Julia, Edmund,
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that will be quite enough. I
forbid you six thoughts. Yes here here,
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yes, you here. I seem
to settle that r dos it.
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I've got to get rid of that. I've got to kick free from juwire.
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Oh yeah, I know what I've
got here. I've got to kill
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me mit kill man. Don't go
with do it? You know, mine
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there's a serious business. If you
get caught, it can be very annoying.
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Hello, big may Hello, that's
how's your practice? Oh? Fair
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enough? How are your patients getting
on? No complaints? Say? Have
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you had any cases of your poisoning
lately? Go out in the past?
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Feel not well? I've got old
missus Kirstenson. You know I have found
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a new treatment that's practically cured.
That's interesting. What is it of an
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adium compound? You only draw back
here that didn't use a severe headaches,
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but it really clears out the poison
his headaches, you said, similar to
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migraine, but only temporary. It
doesn't taste bad, just a bit Acid's
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like grape troop. It sounds like
an useful for me having the laboratory Fitsten
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put you order me sound, I've
got more than I can use. Victory.
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I will send you over something.
I'd say it kind of it's I'd
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like to see how it works,
I say, now, bily old man
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watched the idea of puffing around of
the kitchen so early in the morning.
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Oh yes, Julia, what are
you doing down there in the kitchen?
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Or just taxing you a little breakfast? Jurr idea? Now isn't that thoughtful
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of the doctor? Here you are, my darling breakfast? And there is
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it the pride? Now really?
Edmund? You know I don't much care
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for grapefruit. Or you like this
grapefruit? Julia? I fixed it especially,
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I'll just bet you did. Oh
you'll like that grapefruit, Julia.
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It's just what the doctor ordered.
What is a junior? Are you getting
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one of your headaches again? Oh? One of my headaches, Edmond?
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Is bread well? What do you
want me to do? Give me something,
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Edmund? Well, I suppose I
could give you an in projection,
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Julia, a small one. Get
out to hypodermic needle, doctor, or
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at times when that shiny bit of
glass and steel can save a person's life,
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But that same little needle can kill
a person, can't it? Doctor?
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As sure as a bullet through the
head. Any doctor? How much
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morphy? Will it take? One
grain? Two rains, three grains?
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Well, that's not a lot to
killer? Or at your arm? Then?
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Oh thank you, madam. Oh
I see doctor mcain, you like
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suspense to mad Now who the devil
is? Battlin? Madan? Are you
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home? Dedmond? I come in, come on duty? Hello Edmund,
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Hello, oh Madeline, Madelyn Darling, missus Josh Edmund. We're not alone?
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What you know Dennis Bourne? Don't
you? Doctor? We've been swimming
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this morning over these Hampton Yes,
yes, sir, how are you Dennis?
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Why? Doctor you? Dennis is
just leaving. Thanks for the beach
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party, Madeline, it was fun. Goodbye Denny you are later? Goodbye
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doctor? Yes? Goodbye? Oh
see here, Madeline, I hope you
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up wasting much time with that fellow
now ducky. You have no right to
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be Jeff. Of course I have
no claim on you, Madelin, but
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you know i'd marry you in an
instant, Darling, if things were different.
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Yes, and the things may be
different. I live sooner than you'd
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expect. You're very sweet. You
know. I'm worried about Julia. Oh.
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She's been suffering from terrible headaches,
and lately she's been sitting in my
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laboratory and giving herself shots to relieve
the pain. I'm afraid it's getting to
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be a habit. How dreadful?
Dreadful? Yes, I want to help
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Julia, but I just don't know
what I can do. I think you're
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doing more than enough already. Is
that what you came here for, Dotty,
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to tell me about your wife?
No, Madelis, I came here
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to be with you. That's quite
a line you've got there, Donny.
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For a man getting along in years, well, it's all add them.
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Every morning a great proof for you. Give me a great food, allah
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pixy, followed by headache, followed
by hyperdelic meals, and be sure you
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tell everyone doctor, tell everyone in
town about poor duty of headaches and what
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she does to cure them. I
know, Edmund, but I know what's
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causing me headaches of mine? You
do, you're causing them, Hi,
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It's all the result of anxiety,
Edmund. Anxiety over the shameful way you're
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carrying on with that melon Padmire.
Oh oh, then you know about me?
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What do you think? I'm another
pool? I have eyes and ears,
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a shameful of Emma. Stop Edmund
that I'm in love with me.
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I don't talk nonsense. Oh my
sad relief. I want you to give
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me a divorce so that I can
marry the woman I love. That's a
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wise move. If give her a
chance to get out of your life,
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maybe you will have to try.
Helia. I asked you a question,
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Will you give me a divorce?
I'll never give you a divorce. You
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will be marriage to me and then
for as long as I live. Oh
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don't you got that way? Give
me something to believe this thing? Yes,
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you will. You please hold the
syringe for a moment. Dear,
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that was bo. It's safe that
you have causing a Prince of Syren's going
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to give her this time Claims four
five. Take an easy old chap.
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Then you came grains of molding Lethal
Ghost eleven twelve, I seen lottery visits
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the moment Welcy fifteen by all out
your arm? H well, so long,
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Jia using she's off yet Bickley letsy
Now takes about twenty minutes to dive
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a morphine and about the same time
to drive up the Madeline Clanniss out if
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we take the time to enjoy the
scenery. Nice day, isn't it?
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By hen Menondarli are you home?
Oh? Hello? That Dennis? Hello?
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What is mad She asked me to
give you a message. Oh,
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she doesn't want to see you anymore. She he gains to be married to
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me? What well, where's you
are going to talk? Tell him?
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What? Where are you? Ed? This is all no Edmunds, I
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love Danny. That's all there is
to it. I tell you what you're
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going to do. Madlin don you're
having your bunch of break off this ridiculous
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indapements. We have drive to Connecticut
tonight and they married immediate day. What
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about Julie Julius did oh? Oh, doctor Bickley, you aren't supposed to
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know that Julius did it? Hello? Where's Buck the big leaves? Here?
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Is anything wrong? Oh? Well, that's dread. Yes, I'll
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have him ride away. No right, Dennis, he knows, and so
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does Maverick. Here's that two of
the Alpha Discock Shaw and this week's story
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now as the Forethought by Franca Siles, directed by Alfred Discock, dramatized and
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produced by Jerol Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Learnsome, doctor. The
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house is pretty quiet now without Junia. It was a nice funeral, though,
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And those tears of yours were very
nicely doctor, very effect you've seen,
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even remarkable, how quiet a woman
gets off you give her fifteen grains
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of morphine. Hello, I want
to speak with Madelon Cranmere. I know
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perfectly LSE's Bandannis. How important that
I speak with her? Now? You
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please tell Madelon that Hello. Hello, I wonder what mattered decision? Doctor,
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Too bad you made that suit about
Julia when you weren't supposed to know
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she was dead. Oh well,
maybe Madelon's forgotten about it. Maybe it
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wouldn't have happened if she hadn't thrown
me over for that play boy. I
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hate, I hate maddled it.
I thought to yourself, think, oh,
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oh, let's excuse me for coming
stayed in I saw your light was
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on. Y say ye sit out, had I let's see your doctor.
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How's your practice? No complaints?
Sorry about Julia, must have been quite
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a shock. Oh well, let's
we all have our peddens to be just
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how did it happen? Bigley?
If it isn't too painful for you to
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talk about? No, no,
no, no, I don't mind.
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Of course you heard all those ugly
romas that we're going around about Julia giving
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herself injections of morphine. The actually
must have taken an overdose. That's all
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too bad, Too bad, fine
woman, Oh the best, the best
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you can outcross your fingers now,
doctor Bickley, say by remember that vanadium
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compound. I sent you the headache
stuff. But oh yes, yes,
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the the antidote for your poisoning.
Well, oh, missus, Christenen's henry
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lapsed and I'm afraid I'll have to
borrow something back from you, if you
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don't mind. Why it's all gone? Oh did you have a case of
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You're it poisoning? Too? Who
was it? No? Not exactly.
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I I was making some mistar oh, some experiments. Well, no matter,
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and I'll ordered some more after going
home, because the kind of you
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to stop by. Han't you ate? You know? Same? Big?
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Yes? Another thing? What was
it made Julius start taking more themes snakes?
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Yes? Uh, the tumor of
some sort of migraine. Oh well,
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we'll never know. No, I
don't suppose we ever shall well,
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pomatically, he's on to you a
store of fake quickly. He's figured out
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exactly how you got with Rgunia and
I Wiston and Malin krammea ever, go
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to the police again, you'll probably
hang over. Pardon me, doctor mccartt.
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The State of New York employed electricity. It certainly was nice of you
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to come to my little party.
I just thought we ought to establish friendly
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relations again. All right, it
was good for you to ask us,
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Actor Bickly. Well, thank you. Dennis. I hardly expected you because
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you didn't think I'd come along,
did you, Edmund? I doubt my
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new husband. Oh have you and
Dennis actually tied the knot when I was
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in that guy? Please get my
congratulations. You do the very supporting of
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you. Not at all? Oh
do you too know? Doctor Liston?
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I don't believe we've met. This
is Dennis Bourne and Madeline Crapner. Oh,
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missus burner. Now, this is
a curious thing to do, doctor
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Brickley, when you got a slow
deliberately bringing together the two people who can
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prove you're a murder. If you
excuse me, I'll just step out into
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the kitchen and see if the refreshments
already. Oh, you're fixing the refreshments?
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Are you? Doctor? What it
means grapefruit? Aren't you going to
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bother with suspense this time? I
hope you all like devil Hands had for
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Madeline. You don't know what you're
saying. I have an idea. Why
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don't you go on a nice diet? Oh girl, Saint Brickley, what's
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that yellow stuff you're mixing with the
mannies and stuff from the test tube?
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Putting a little extrac devil into the
devil's hand as well? Here we are.
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Everybody fought too, said that's good. They almost good enough to eat
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almost. I'm going to eat one
of these, even if it does spoil
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my dinner, Doctor Linston, You'll
be amazed how many dinners that sandwich is
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going to spoil? Hold on a
typically, don't I get any? Oh?
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I'm sorry, you want a sandwich
dinner? I'm starve. Well,
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I'll go out and fix shoot something
else. I'll take one of these.
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Oh no, I have to try
to stop him. Doctor. No reason
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why young Dennis should go away of
this? And Madeline? But what could
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you do if you're well talking about
it? Big? I had quite a
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distressing night, fraid I must have
eaten some spoiled meat that disagreed with me
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and not the only person that had
a bad night. And so I have
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to talk to you, doctor.
I'm Lieutenant Russell. Homicide, spoil homicide.
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I mean some of my guests have
died. I didn't say that.
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You'll put two and two together pretty
fast that day? Why does you feed
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poison sandwich? Mister and missus Bourne
and doctor Linston yesterday afternoon, sir,
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let meet for spoil? That could
have happened to anyone? Why you could
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see yourself? I'm sick of bad. Do you have typhoid fever? Typhoid?
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You have it on pretty good authority, doctor, that lethal quantities of
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typhoid tuba terms don't usually breed on
devil Ham sandwiches unless somebody puts them in
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typhoid O the world? What happened, old man? Do you put the
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wrong germ from the wrong test?
Tube on the wrong devil Ham Sandwich do
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the vicking, and myfraid I will
have to arrest you on the charge you've
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murdered. Think they both die Madalen
and Lizon. They're arrested in the charge
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murdering your wife. My wife?
Now, how abuse did Julia pop up
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among the devil Ham Sandwiches? But
you no evidence, no evidence at all.
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You shouldn't have said that, Bigley. You'll hear the evidence that dim
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when the time comes. We must
have a I see well, doctor Harry,
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listen, take the stand, please, doctor listen, I listen.
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No, no, it's not a
ghost, Beckles, he's your old friend.
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Listen in the flace. He looks
tired and he's lost about twenty pounds.
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But I'm afraid your died of devil
Ham Sandwiches produced him but didn't quite
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finish him off. Too bad,
Doctor liston? Do you know the prisoner
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at the bar? And I most
certainly do. What transactions have you out
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with a prisoner which might have a
bearing on this case? On the fourteenth
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of March just passed, I delivered
to doctor Bickley the quantity of a newly
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developed vanadium compound which is useful in
counteracting uric poisoning. However, this compound
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also induces severe headaches. And it
is my belief that doctor Bickley employed this
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quantity of medicine. Well, that
is Bickley right out in the open.
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The whole scheme you thought was so
clever. So I can live beyond apprehension.
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And the incredible thing is the way
that idiot Getson has guessed everything which
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caused her dead. Thank you,
doctor Liston. Well, this is Madeline
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Vourn, Please take us stile,
miss Madelone Vourn. Oh this looks nasty
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Bickley. Madlin got over the sandwiches
too. She is looking at you with
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a very friendly expression. Ducky,
I see she's dressed all in black.
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Missus Vaughn. I suppose you tell
us, in your own words, exactly
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what happened on the second floor of
your house and wan Cross on the morning
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of the ninth day of April my
deed body s well. The prisoner doctor
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Bickley burst into my room and demanded
that I break off my engagement with Dennis.
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My late hostess said I must marry
him. I asked him what about
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his wife, Julius, and he
replied Juliet, is there, missus Bawn?
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Was this before or after doctor Bickley
received a telephone call and forming him
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with his wife's dead immediately before?
He seems to be getting a little warm
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in here, doesn't it? Doctor? All your affairs in order? Is
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you will all made out, life
insurance premium is paid up. It'd better
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be because he's getting around in insurance
circles that you're not a very good risk.
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The defense will samuraize. Thank you, your honor ladies and gentlemen of
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the jury. It is a scandalous
soul fray against justice that the defendant should
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even be on trial before you.
Who is doctor Vicklay an outstanding physician,
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public servant of long standing man of
unsullied reputation, a man who is anah
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a self or life with our boy
wife Julia was unquestioned in the community.
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And what is the evidence against him? The dubious testimony of one Madelin Born,
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which casts some vague doubt over the
exact moment at which doctor Dically learned
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of his dear wife's death. And
as for the testimony of the prisoner's colleague,
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doctor Linson, his only evidence proved
that the defendant was in possession of
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certain chemical compounds which every doctor of
medicine in the United States is authorized to
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have in his laboratory. What sort
of evidence is this? I represent to
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you the prosecution's case against Doctypically.
There's nothing but yes what yes what?
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Yes what? And that Doctypically is
as innocent of this famous crime as you
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or I President. I will stand
to have a verdict of this order.
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Here it comes up women, crossl
sing sing, consultation room, will a
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chair a fury hear me? Or
is rechair? Thank you? Thank you
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everyone, what a very fair time. But thank you again. I think
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goodbye, goodbye everybody. Oh,
goodbye, Lieutennis, thank you for just
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a minute. Head, Yes,
lieutenant, it is my duty to arrest
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you in this integement that you feloniously
and with malice of forethought, did killed
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by means of poisoned food one Dennis
Borno. Well, poor old doc.
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He sort of liked Dennis, and
he never meant for Tenny to eat that
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pebl Ham sandwich from the nineteenth of
September. Poor doctor Bickley went to the
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chair for poison Dennis. For now, let that be a lesson to you.
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I tell you. Murders a serious
business, and the slightest slip can
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be disastrous. As for me,
I think I'll fit commercial pinter directing for
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a while. At least the occupational
hazards aren't quite so high. You've been
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listening to The Alfred Hitchcock Show.
Original music was composed and conducted by Claude
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Sweden and arranged by David Stretch,
with doctor Samuel Hartman at the Fairman.
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Members of the cast included Joseph Kerns, Edmund McDonald, Jeff Corey, Jarrett
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Waldo, Doman Field, Margaret Brayton, John Dayner, and Tom harwand ju
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announcer Owen James mister Hitchcock with our
director, and commatization and production were by
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Lawrence and Blee. No, well
you made it to the end. Well,
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aren't you a brave one? Well, good good. I'm glad you
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are stuck around with me, but
you've seen soon the sun will come up,
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and my time movie at an end
for now anyway. But of course
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you can always try to find me
tomorrow night, because I always seem to
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come back somehow. But until then, enjoy my favorite song, trying not
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to be too Afraid, And I
suppose if you really love what I'm doing,
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you can. You can find us
in the world Wide Web, Internet
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or whatever they call it now,
at weird dash Mysteries dot com. I'd
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appreciate hearing from you, or maybe
getting a tip. Money is an object
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even now, even where I am. But until then, take care,
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all right, The rumbling privately batt
