April 6, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | "Murder off the Record"

Unknown Broadcast | "Murder off the Record"

The latest episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries plunges listeners into a thrilling narrative steeped in suspense and dark humor. The host introduces a story centered around the character of Happy Dolan, a drifter who arrives in the bustling city of Reno with high hopes of changing his fortunes. Right from the start, the atmosphere is laden with an ominous tone, encouraging the audience to delve deep into themes of escape, fate, and the allure of both danger and romance.

Happy Dolan's adventure begins at The Rialto Record Shop, where curiosity leads him to a peculiar fortune-telling weighing machine that proclaims, "Danger, Fortune, and Marriage Await You." This card sets in motion a series of unfortunate events for Happy, who soon finds himself mingling with unsavory characters. After attempting to beg for a small amount of change, he is coerced by a threatening stranger, Simon O'Toole, at gunpoint into a life-threatening scenario involving a river. Luckily, he is rescued by a mysterious woman named Jesse, who claims a connection with his fate, further complicating his circumstances.

As the plot unfolds, Happy's efforts to evade O'Toole and shake off his disastrous luck become increasingly tangled. A wallet he finds in the street leads to an encounter with O'Toole, who reveals both his predatory and investment intents. Just as Happy starts dreamily investing his newfound fortune at the Grove Casino Club, he finds himself drawn to Jesse, who insinuates her way into his life with flirtation and intrigue. Their fast-paced connection teeters on the absurd, with Happy's bold declarations of love juxtaposed against the chaotic backdrop of gambling and quick decisions that could lead to his demise.

However, fate takes a dark turn when the thrilling escapade spirals into tragedy. Jesse's sudden and mysterious death raises questions of betrayal and deeper conspiracies surrounding her and O'Toole. It becomes clear that underlying motives connect Happy to a potential inheritance from a deceased uncle, unbeknownst to him until O'Toole reveals the plot: they had both been betting on his demise to claim a fortune. The drama intensifies when Happy learns he has surpassed his initial misfortunes only to become embroiled in a deadly game of survival.

In a climactic twist, Happy confronts Michael Dolan, who also has designs on his life. A desperate struggle ensues on a train, culminating in a violent yet darkly humorous confrontation that eventually leads to the unraveling of a plot soaked in greed, deception, and mistaken identities. The entire narrative encapsulates the tenure of crime noir, where fates are intertwined, encapsulated with questions about luck, destiny, and the darker sides of human nature.

As the episode draws to a close, Happy finds himself implicated in the very crimes intended to befall him while securing a personal victory of sorts—his unexpected inheritance. The host closes with a reflection on the twists of fate and the irony of Happy's plight, having triumphed over his misfortunes, ending up both without a bride and with an inheritance but still marked by the chaotic events of the night. The chilling narrative leaves listeners pondering the lessons therein, as they are urged to savor life's complexities before the curtain falls on another visceral chapter of Inner Sanctum Mysteries.

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Ah, good to have you back. Oh what's that?

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Well?

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I suppose I am a little melancholy some days. Do

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you ever feel like you really wish you could get

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away from it all? You could go away away, maybe

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escape some things about yourselves. Of course, no matter where

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you go, there you are. But I do enjoy the fantasy.

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But you know what else I enjoy fear and terrorist

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And that's why I've picked tonight's episodes. You see, it's

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all about murderer off the record, because, of course, when

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you do murder murder on the record, you end up

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in prison. Now, don't my dear, so get comfortable. I

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know it's cold, but the fire will warm, as will

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this spot of tea. I prepare now, relax, and let's

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just listen to.

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This in our sanctum mysteries, Red Evening, friends of the

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Creaking Door, this is your host to welcome you once

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again in for the inner sanctum. Come here, don't hesitate,

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Come right in. Once you get accustomed to our surroundings,

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you'll never leave. Nobody ever does. Once you're in, you're OUs.

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This is the kind of place that grips here, the

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kind of place where the bars hold and no holes

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a bard ever wish you were somebody else, somewhere else.

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I'll hang on to your wishbones. We've got a horrible

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example of what we mean. We're in the biggest little

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city in the world. Reno, a fellow with a growth

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of beard, thousands of balloon at the knees and a

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dragging war. And this is a store who sign reads

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the reality record shop? Make a record of your own voice?

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Are recording of your voice? Yeah? Can I get out

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of record?

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Now?

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There's a special long playing record? How long? Almost twenty minutes?

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That's it? Where do I go? This mood? This buttons

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starts the recording. You speak into the microphone.

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I got it, scrambled to the chief of police. Greetings,

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this is Happy Dole at age twenty six, citizen at large, USA,

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occupation drifter. I wrote into your merry little burg on

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the wrong end of a locomotive. That was yesterday. I

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came here to change my luck and I did.

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My luck was bad. I changed it to terrible.

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I almost got knocked off twice for nothing, and I

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got a complaint.

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The weighing machine at the historic drug store.

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I ought to be declared out of bounds because that's

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where crazy things began happening to me. I put my

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last copper penny in the machine, just to see what

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not eating did to the human figure.

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Besides my weight.

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The machine stamped out a card for my penny, one

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of those little white cards with your fortune on it.

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The card read danger, fortune and marriage. Await you, danger,

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Fortune and marriage. The machine had me confused with somebody else.

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The only thing that ever happened to me was being born.

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I hit the sidewalks to mooch the price of a flop.

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It was getting on till midnight, and I had to

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pitch fast if I didn't want to camp out doors.

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I started my pitch and a little guy with a

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pull down hat and his hands tucked in his pockets. Uh,

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pardon me, friend, but I'm a stranger town.

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Skip this spiel. I know it backwards. Sure, what are

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you bucking for a flop? Follow me? Oh? He said,

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you wanted a flop coming?

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Look if you just bought me four bits, I know

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a place you're not going to get stubborn, I said.

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Follow me? Do I have to do this? Answer your question? Gun?

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You a cop?

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Now you're getting in sully, Start walk. I know you're

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flopped right where you stand.

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Y the town.

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Sure had to welcome that little guy with the cannon.

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Was braided me through the country, fide back streets toward

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a river.

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They're not that road. I look friendly, sir. Okay, it's

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just far enough.

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River's kind of deep at this end.

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You swim. No, it's too bad. Maybe you should learned

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her turn around. Yes, that shows me. I won't have it.

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I just treat you to a bath and a flock.

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Why why do I I'm kind of strangers here? You

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go into dreamland? What's going down? For the third time?

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When I heard an angel's voice.

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Mister, try the side, grab size and hold on. I

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can't come to me.

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I don't help you.

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I'm over the bank.

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I sit then in for.

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A pul river. We sat on the bank, me and

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my guard an angel. So I came around. You saved

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my life. Thanks, you're welcome. I'm happy, Dolan you Jesse.

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Funny time of nights be out rowing, lucky for you.

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Sure if you just happened to the outruw. Maybe what's funny?

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I won you in a weighing machine. Did you say

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a weighing machine? Yes?

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Over the door drug store. I got my way in

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this card.

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You want to hear my fortunes? Oh, I ahead and

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read it to me. Cast your troubles on the waters.

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If you want to see your future, you're my future.

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Happy Dolan, I dumble them.

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We'll get flood, get tossed into the river.

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Called me back in. Why don't you well? You sound

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like you're fully recovered. So yes, wait Jesse wait he

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was gone. I had something more to think about.

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I hit back towards the lighted up sections of town

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and ran into a brain.

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Teaser number three. Number three commenced.

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With a wallet, a fat, cushy wallet, lying in the

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middle of the street, begging for a taker. I grabbed

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the wallet and started to leave fast but not fast

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enough for minimal lad Out of my way, mister.

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This smit persuager.

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That's the gun for if I am my property of wallet.

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I was knocked down or robbed a few minutes ago.

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Not by me, mister o'too, Simon o'too.

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I didn't see my assailant have any objection of being searched.

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What poor establish her innocence? Found your pockets inside out?

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Look miss through too.

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I've got your wallet, Oh, but I found it on

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the street.

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Honest, I did here. I'll give it back.

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Well, were you taking yourself in such a hurry? Places

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square meal? First in a room and a bath, and

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maybe to the casino to.

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Try your luck? Yeah?

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I figured to see if a weighing machine had some

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of the answers I'd been trying to find.

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Would you say your wing machine? Yeah, don't tell me.

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You got one of those little white cards at the

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store drug store too? What I did? Card with a

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proxy of fortune? I have it right here. I'll read

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it to you. Any investment you make will be wonderfully successful.

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What are you wiring me for?

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Any investment I make it, sir, hardly enough investments of

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my business, loans and investments of every kind.

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Any investment you were on your way to luck? You

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say that was when I had the wallet. I'll invest

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in you. I'll stake you just like that. No, about

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half of your future and rioting? Is it at the

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point of a gun? Or do I have a choice.

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Give me a town where things happen fast. And less

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than an hour later, I was at the Growth Casino Club.

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I had two grand in my pocket and a guy

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named O'Toole had assigned claim check on half my future

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wind lose or drawer, Give me a town where you

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make the same doll every which way you turn. There

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was Jesse, dressed to kill, lapping up the nightlife, hitting

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my way.

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Like a homing pigeon. Hello yourself, you picked the wrong play.

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The management here is offully hard on. Pan had drift

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over just to needle me. No. I came over because

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because what Because it seemed the most natural thing to do.

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Falling in beside you as if we go together? Huh

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do we go together? Sure? Sure we do. You see

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this bank roll? Happy? Where'd you get it?

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Legitimately? I sold fifty percent of me for two grands?

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You're talking crazy? Maybe what are you going to do

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with the money?

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Well, that little white card said danger, fortune, Marriage.

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I've had the danger. Now I'm here to let my

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door right on fortune.

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And if I clicked there, and if you click there,

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then marriage. According to your card, you found your future

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in the river. Baby, I'm it.

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I clicked in the casino for all the door I

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could carry without staggering the rest. I took a check

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for him.

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Oh happy, your door so incredible, kid. Remind me to

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buy that wing machine. Have a gold plated.

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I want it on our front lawn as a souvenir.

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Now what I cut you in on half of me?

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I control what? Yes? Yes, happy, great little town.

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Nothing ever closes, Nobody sleeps or doesn't want you. You

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can rent or you drive a car in the spur

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of the moment, any hour. Even the justice of the

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piece has his neon sign on until all hours to

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catch the marrying trade that won't wait until the sun

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comes up.

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And you happy during If this woman to.

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Be enough, it would ve got a short I do,

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and I pronounce your man and wife between dollars.

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Let's go, missus Dolan.

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Oh, I've got a room reserved Stanborok Hotel.

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Will you say we drive right to it? It's the

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second Yes, happy, I'll drive as you saw yours. Hey,

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where do I get in? You're not getting in? What gifts?

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Stand exactly where you are? Wait a minute and.

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The next one won't go over your head.

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You tell me what it's all about some other time.

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But now suppose we say the bride changed her mind?

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So long has been.

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Please me? Now that's what I call hospitality to strangers.

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Ask a guy for four bits and he gives you

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a whole river. You know, Dolan's getting more action in

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less time than a census taker and a hornet's ness,

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Danger of fortune. Marriage the Night doesn't have finished, nor

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as Dolan. Let's cut the rest of that record with him.

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Tell me I hiked back to town to look for Jesse,

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the bride who changed their mind. I hit every joint.

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It was still at a checked hotel, registers couldn't find

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a hider hair.

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And then on our backstreet winding toward the river, a tool.

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Don't you have a sleep. I've got to watch my investments.

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We're in partnership or I'm buying your half back right now?

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You had a killing the night. Yeah, and this check

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indorse over to you adds up to an even half

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check seems an order. I'll keep it now, give me

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back that paper I signed, and let's say goodbye. For

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keep it much. You're for getting something happy.

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But I bought half of your future, your whole future,

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not just the proceeds the one night's good forwards.

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Look, a tool. Either you're crazy or you're a fox.

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What give? What have you really got up your sleeve?

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A mechanical obedi? What's there about me that brings out

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the gun.

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In people, do you take a partners advise? Eppy, you're

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not asking, you're telling you lave town at once. There's

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a train out at six am. You'll go to Chicago

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to the address on this card, twelve.

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Seventy five Rutgers drive.

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What do I do with twelve seventy five Rutgers drive Chicago.

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You'll be out of danger there. My investment in you

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will be secure. Why am I in danger here?

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Aren't you? But I wasn't going to Chicago or just

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ducking o' tools gun.

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When the train was half mile out, I went to

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the rear platform, one pull on the emergency court and

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the train would make an unscheduled stop just for having a.

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Dolan get away from that emergency court.

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Dolan, Yeah, hello, I didn't get your name last night.

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Smith. Why do you keep tailing me for exercise? You're

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a hard man to kill? Why as you give up

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you had two tries? One more try?

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You're gonna kill me out here.

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When the train goes to a tunnel. Why are you

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out to kill me? I told you for the exercise

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I free. Well, you make a move and I won't

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wait for a tunnel. Why should I freeze it. What's

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a percentage?

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But if I got it an hour or two minutes, okay,

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if that's how you want it, that's how I was.

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Man' spit my hard.

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To You were wrestling for gotting, rocking on our heels,

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say the word hell, take a turner out of bed,

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and then suddenly we we're midair over the railing with

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a shot from all.

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I came two on the tracks, six feet from an

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unconscious little guy who called himself Smith.

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I couldn't feel my back or legs. I was bleeding badly.

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Smith looked twice as bad as I felt. I watched

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his hands feel around blindly for the gun laying.

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A foot away.

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He was half dead, but still concentrating on business.

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I started crawling. I got to the gun first thing.

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I'm a chushu. Smith. You want to knock me up

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if you don't answer some questions fast? But question why

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have you been trying to kill me? What's behind it?

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It said a lot of questions. I got two more.

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Who's Simon O'Toole? And why did a blond name Jesse

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marry me? And they take up powder? You figure I've

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got the answer. I know all three of you got

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the answers. You clam up and you're a dead man, Smith, and.

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I'm a dead man. Yours not gonna talk. I stood

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over a lot of guys in my time. I just

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standing over me now, not one. I'm opened up. Every

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go ahead and shoot. I've got to kill you. Smith.

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It's either you or me. You got the.

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Gun, Yeah, I've got the gun.

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I'd killed the killer. I kept telling myself it was

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self defense, and.

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I'd exterminated a rat that somebody should pin.

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A badge on me for doing it.

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With an hour before I could bring myself to drag

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Smith into the woods, I left him under a club

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of blueberry bushes and headed back for town to find

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a hot thrive.

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I'd married.

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I found her in the last place I expected her

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to be, right in my room at the Stanbrook, curled

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up on a sofa like someone cadnapping.

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Jesse, Jessee, I could have saved my breath.

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I'd be a widower longer than i'd been a bridegroom.

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Jesse was stone dead. How haven't you been traveling in

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the wrong direction? Happy? Until how did you get in here?

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I came to persuare the young lady to when all

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our marriage with Alibi, You killed in all I might

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have she'd remain stubborn.

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Someone reached her face Smith? Why did Smith kill her?

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There's in death the usual flight of double crosses. She

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recovered you from the river, happy you in. There were

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partings until the young lady foolishly decided to operate.

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On our own. What were they after with me?

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I suppose the time has come to talk of things.

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You're a missing air I am a missing air.

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Me?

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Why did my old man leave me? Is worn out suspenders?

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No but on Uncle Jonas of twelve seventy five Rutgers Drives, Chicago.

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Left your quarter of a million dollar estate. My uncle Jonas,

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I hardly remember him. You will when they read the

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will tomorrow. You've been advertising everywhere, publishing your picture for

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months before his death. Funny, I never saw an ed.

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You don't read the papers, You just sleep under them

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on park benches. What was Smith's angle?

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Smith and Michael Dolon, a distant relative of yours and

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an aspiring air, wanted desperately to succeed you, That is,

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hoping your dead body. The girl's angle was obvious. Yeah,

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marry me. Let Smith knock me off and be my

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legal widow.

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Yes, and my angle explains itself.

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You cut in for half, and those weighing machine cards

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were just a way of getting me to play soccer.

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Yes, the hotel management ringing happy.

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They're curious about city overnight guests to check in without baggage.

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They'll be badging in shoreby drawing.

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Conclusions about a drifter who murdered his new bride.

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You're threatening me with a rap.

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Ask yourself, how much credibility will you have with the authorities.

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Better get back to that railroad station as fast as

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you can. But made in Chicago, you still see me

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as an investment, a gilt tedged one. Now now that

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I can be framed for murdering Jesse and charged with

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the actual murder of Michael o'dolan alias Smith, how could

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you know about that?

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I saw Smith get on that train with you. You

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can only be here alive over Smith's dead body.

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Get going while you can.

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What about the corpse on the sofa? Leave the disposal

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of your bride to me. I've had experience in similar matters.

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I got going as far as this booth here in

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the rialto record shop. It's all here on the record

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And thanks for a lovely time everybody.

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You have a great little town here, all right? Your recording? Yeah,

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whould do me a little favor? Yes, wrap it up

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and mail it to the chief of police with my compliments.

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Wouldn't it be better, sir if we delivered it personally?

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We I should hate to be compelled to shoot a

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customer a gun.

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This is where I came in.

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You listened all the time I was making that record. Well,

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I'm in the cooler now, no tools in the cell

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right next door to me.

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I've been here a day and a half. Mister Dolan,

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I deal for you. Huh.

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Catching a killer, But it's good for the record business.

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But you're not exactly a killer. Maybe you can prove

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to the DA that shooting that man Smith was justifiable,

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homicide justifiable.

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It's not going to like that wherever he is. Nor

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is he going to like another thing wherever he is.

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What other thing is he not going to like?

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His inability to claim your uncle Jonas's fortune. You see,

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the will was read this morning and you were left

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your uncle's library in a nineteen.

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Twenty eight Na automobile. The rest of the estate went.

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Out to tell me, yes, it went to your cousin,

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the late mister Smith, and now with his death sure

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reverts to charity.

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Charity.

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The late mister Smith, wherever he is, is going to

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tie all over again of enligement of the heart.

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It looks like.

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Smith with his own worst enemy. He kept puzzling the

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wrong cousin. They tell me that when Happy Doland turned

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loose in that nineteen twenty eight Nash automobile, uncle Jonas

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left him. There's one certain town he's going to cross

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right off his roadmap.

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They're going to rugged there.

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Too much happens in record time.

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Of friends.

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It's time once again to close that creaking door until

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next week at the same time when we'll be back

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with a little honk of morra.

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You'll be sure to listen, don't you until next week?

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Then good night, pleasant streams.

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Inner Sanctum has come to you through the worldwide facilities

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of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

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I do enjoy a little murder, whether on or off

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the record, I suppose. Well, I guess the night is

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about over. Soon the sun will rise. Well, I'll have

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to go back to where I come from, and you

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you over there. You need to get back to your cozy,

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comfy bed with your linen fabric sheets. Enjoy feather soft

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pillows waiting to embrace you as you gnaw and gnaw

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until you're gone yet again. But please, as your eyes

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get heavier and heavier, don't forget. Be thankful for what

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you have. I'll see you tomorrow night.

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Come along my family. Thank you

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