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Well, hello, there, looks
like you've found me yet again by tuning

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that silly little dial of yours randomly
ruckshot until you came upon my little broadcast.

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I do appreciate it, and I
enjoy sitting here in the dark knowing

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you're out there too, listening along
with me. It's nice to not always

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feel so alone. You know,
you know where I am. It can

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feel that way at times. What's
that? Oh no, no, no,

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no, my dear, No,
no, no no, don't you

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worry about them at all. They
can't get in here, and they're of

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no threat to you anyway, and
as far as me, but I'm used

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to them, So don't you can
turn yourself at all with that. No,

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no, no, no, no
no. The only fear I want

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you to experience is make believe.
That's why we sit here late at night

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and listen to these scary pieces.
It's to remember that, well, we're

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alive, some of us more than
others, but still the case remains.

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So please get comfortable, comfortable.
It's about time we start this story.

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You see. There's only so much
night because all good things must come to

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an end, So please please relax
your sanctus, get in your favorite change.

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What's that? No, no,
no, no, no, don't

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worry about that. It'll get warmer. It'll get warmer or perhaps much colder.

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In this story stories suspense. Now, let's see suspect suspect suspend ah.

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Here we are suspense, the condition
of mental uncertainty, usually accompanied by

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apprehension or anxiety fear of something which
is about to occur. As do not

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keep me any longer in suspense.
For our story of suspense tonight, we

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invite you to enjoy The Devil in
the Summerhouse by John Dixon Carr. Somewhere

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along the Hudson, perhaps not far
from Terrytown, there is a modest house

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in its own grounds. Behind it, in a spacious garden, stands a

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summer house of evil memory. More
than twenty five years ago, a man

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shot himself, or at least died
in that summerhouse. They found Major Kenyon

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with a scorched bullet hole in his
head and the weapon beside him. But

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we are in the present now.
The latticed summer house has grown heavy with

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bins, and only the other evening, two men came into that garden at

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twilight over the shaggy grass as a
storm was brewing along the Hudson. Two

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men, the lawyer from New York, who's there? And Captain Burke of

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the homicide Why, my friend easy? I was just trying to ask you

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the same thing. My name is
Parker. I'm an attorney. You're not

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Captain Burke. Yeah, the very
same, and no other. I thought

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I recognized you, mister Parker.
Must be something important to bring yours so

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far from New York at this time
of night. I was in Tarrytown anyway.

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I thought they'd be a housekeeper here, and I don't see any lights.

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I've got business here, Yes,
in a way, have you I

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don't know. I'll tell you better
after you tell me what brought you to

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a place that no one has lived
in for ten years. Tell me,

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captain, did you ever get an
anonymous letter from a dead man? Did

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you know? I can't say I
did. That is anonymous. How do

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you know the man's dead? Because
they're all dead, every last one of

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them, dead and under the ground
where they can't be hurt me longer.

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Look, there's the summer house where
Jerry came Union used to work there.

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The windows of the library in the
dining room. Confound this lightning extra Winter's

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plays, don't it. Jerry Kenyon
hadn't the care in the world. He

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had to shut himself. I'll show
you the letter now. Look, mister

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Parker, I couldn't read anything in
this light. But if we can get

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inside the house, certainly we can
get into the house. I was the

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family attorne there, who got the
keys? Why should have dead person send

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me a letter? Oh? I
was working. I you got a flashlight?

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I see, came here prepared,
runny thing. Any this is the

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library. There were always candles on
the mantle. Yes, have you matched,

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Captain? Oh? Yes, I
like them and that's better. Same

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old heavy furniture, same old thick
carpet, same old globe. Man.

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Oh, mister Parker, this letter
that you were talking about, Yeah,

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read it? Hey, wait a
minute, this thing is dated November two,

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nineteen eighteen. That's right. And
be careful of that paper. You

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see how old it is. But
it was mailed yesterday. I'm where I

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don't remember. I didn't keep the
envelope. Read it there, Joe,

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in case you didn't know, it's
high and Joe there, Joe, if

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you want to know how Major Kenyon
really died. But we know how he

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died. It was the uside.
Are you sure it was? Whoever wrote

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this letter? Doesn't seem to think
so. If you want to know how

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Major Kenyon really died. Looking the
third draw the desk in the library,

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pressed hard at the back of the
drawer, you wor truly it's not sign

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it's right? Are you sure you
don't know who wrote that letter? This

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is the first time I've been back
in this room, Captain. It was

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almost a home to me once.
There's the chair where Isabelle sat on the

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afternoon it happened. Isabelle was Jerry
Kenyon's wife, the utiful woman. There's

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the door that the maid let me
in by that afternoon, you know,

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Captain, seems to me they're all
here the night. Oh, we stand

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neath the sounding rafter, and the
walls around us a bear as they echo

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appeals of laughter. It seems that
the dead of the Yet we stand to

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our glasses steady. You know,
I was at my school, reader,

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How does the rest of it go? Yet we stand to our glasses steady

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and drink. To our comrade's eyes, he has a glass to the dead.

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Already rah for the next Excuse me, catching I don't know what's come

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over me talking that way. I
was very fond of these people. Are

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you going to look at the desk
drum? This is a lot of nonsense,

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And why are you here, mister
Parker. Jerry Kenyon was always a

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happy man, at least that's what
I always thought, big boisterous fella.

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He had a good position with vitatone, you know, the photograph company.

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Sure I know, but he'd just
been made a major in the army.

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Nineteen to seventeen. There was a
war on then two. If you remember,

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I remember to make the world safe
for democracy. Old days, old

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heartaches, old memories. I remember
that blazing hot day in August and all

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the windows were up. I remember
this room and Isabelle. It was Jerry's

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wife sitting in that chair knitting.
I remember day. Oh yes, Kitty,

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what is it? This is Amanda? See him as ken and he

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says his name's Parker. Yes,
I'm expecting joy. Please all right,

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ma'am. So I take you knitting
in your knitting bag? Why should you

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take my knitting? I don't know, miss Kenyon. I just wondered you

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didn't come in now? Thank you, hello, Joe, Hello, isabel

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you said for me, Joe,
I must apologize for Kitty. Seven's are

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getting to be a problem nowadays.
She loves pretty enough to get along.

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Oh, Kitty's got large ideas.
She wants to go on the stage,

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if you please, and do imitations
like Miss Draper. She only knew how

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hard it was acting all your life, Isabelle, you've been crying. I

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have not, at least. Is
that why you sent for me? I've

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missed you. You haven't been here
in over a week. Joe. I

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had an idea Jerry was getting a
little tired of having me around this house.

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Oh no, Joe, Why Jerry? Yes, what about Jerry?

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I wish I knew Joe. That's
why I wanted you here. Where is

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he, by the way, I
want to say goodbye to him before he

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leaves. He's probably out in the
summer house where he works with all those

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papers. He's got a lot of
work to catch up with. He's going

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over Sees tomorrow. Yes, I
know he's out there. He's been out

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there all day his last day here, I've been alone. That sounded like

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a shot. Yes, it was
a shot. Jay doesn't seem to worry.

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It's only Paul. Jerry's brother,
Paul. Oh, but you've gotten

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them off your hands were good,
Jerry asked him out. He got here

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two nights ago. That doesn't make
it any easier for you, does it.

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No, I don't mind. Jerry's
fixed him up with a pistol range

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in the cellar. Paul's a terribly
bad shot, not like the rest of

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us. You don't seem to like
it, Joe. Shall I have Kitty

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go down telling you as long as
he keeps away put Joe. But about

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Jerry? Who is it this time? Joe? Jerry's been home five days

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on leave from camp. Well,
never mind, who have camp? But

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he spent four evenings of those five
with that Fisk woman, Diane Fisk,

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the redhead with all the money.
Oh, she got money. She must

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have some attractions. Then, please
understand me, Joe. It's not that

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I'm jealous any longer. It's just
Jerry goes his way and I go mine.

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I may not be without admirers myself
if it comes to that. You

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have no idea how true that is? Isabelle? No, I was thinking

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about Jerry. It may not always
be lucky. You may meet some girl

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who's not as broad minded as I
am, and then when he gives her

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the go by, Paul must be
getting really curious down in that. So

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it's not hitting anything. You must
be using a lot of ammunition. Now,

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your trouble, Joe, is you're
too much of a gentleman. And

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if you really want to see Jerry, there he is now, well,

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just standing in the door of the
summer house. Look out the window.

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Finally right out there. Doesn't he
look noble in his new uniform, sam

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brown, belt and revolver and everything. We'll look how he turns around and

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waves his cap at us like a
real soldier. Real soldiers don't exactly wave

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their caps do there he does?
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Joe Parker's

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here, Joe Parker. He wants
to see you into the summer house again.

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Not a care in the world.
Here we listen, Isabelle. You've

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got to slow down. You'll be
crying again in a minute. Come when

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I was here to sit down.
Light hurts my eyes, that's all.

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And we'll just pull these blinds.
We'll still be able to see it.

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It's better. Thanks. Oh no, you heard the great five Chiefs orders.

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I'm to get you something. What
do you have your highball? Oh?

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It's no bother. Everything's out in
the dining room here. The iceman

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didn't deliver the day of all days, so I'm afraid I can't give you

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any eyes. I read in the
paper yesterday that we're likely to have automatic

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ice boxes any day. Now,
you know things that freeze ice by electricity

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or something. Do you believe that, Joel, I doubted listen to a

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bell? Here you are. It's
not cold at all. It's the best

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I could do. What I wanted
to say was, couldn't you get that

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brother of yours to give up practicing? Now? Hasn't he done his good

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deed for the day? Yes,
maybe he has. I'll ring for Kitty.

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You don't have to call me,
miss Kenyon. I'm here. Oh,

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yes, Kitty, what is this? It's only to tell you there's

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another visitor. This time. It's
a warm on lady, Kitty. Call

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her a lady, please. Maybe
she says her name's Diane Fisk, Dian

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Kitty. Tell a lady. I'm
not in lady. She's a fine lady.

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I don't want her truth, my
dear, I do put her in

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truth. Anyway, it's too late, Miss Keny. She's coming down the

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hall now, my dear missus Kenyon, how do you do, Diane?

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This is a friend of ours,
Miss Fisker. Mister Parker. Now,

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I don't want to intrude, really, I don't. I wouldn't have been

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chewed it for a world, especially
on a day like this. Isn't it

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awful? But your husband simply insisted, My dear missus Kennedy simply wouldn't take

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no for a nunc. I'm sure
he wouldn't. Do you know what he's

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brought from his office as a surprise, No, a phonograph recording machine.

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He's going to let us use it
so that we can all hear ourselves talk

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twice. Oh nice? His name? Can't somebody stop that firing? Don't

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fly off the handle. Take it
easy, kitty, Yes, ma'am.

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Would you please go down the cellar
and tell mister Kenyon's brother he's driving us

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all crazy. Tell him to stop. Yes, ma'am, My dear missus

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Kenyon, I do hope I haven't
offended you in any way. I know

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I'm a silly little chair of box. They say people who have red hair

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often are because at your age you
must find the heat very child. Don't

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you think we all better sit down. I was very my in what Missus

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Fisk said about our phonographic colling machine. Missus Kenyon was just talking about a

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machine to make ice. Yes,
yes, isn't science wonderful? But I

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do think it was me to Major
Kenyon to invite me out here and then

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go and fall asleep in the summer
house. Did you say fall asleep?

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Yes, of course. How did
you know? Well, I came up

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the back way and I saw him
in the summer house with his head forward

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on the table, taking a nice
little suit. It's very queer. Of

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course, you couldn't see much except
in the bright light of the door,

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but I think I saw him there. I didn't disturb him naturally, but

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I think i'd better disturb him.
And now, please don't trouble on my

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account. The fact is, my
dear, I don't altogether trust myself in

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this room. A woman of my
age has to conserve his strength, you

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know, So if you'll just excuse
me, m well, of course,

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if you, dear, I just
can't think what I'm always saying, because

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I have the best intentions in the
world, mister Barker. Parker, Yes,

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Parker, but I do somehow manage
to send people being so dependent in

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everything except the Nana guys. I
couldn't offend you, mister Barker at park,

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now, could I? I'm not
sure? Of course. The person

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I really came to see was Paul, mister Kenyon's brother. He's a little

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young, of course, but he's
joining up next month, and I think

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we should all do out bit,
don't you. He has such a pleasant

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personality. I think he likes me. Why have you walked into that door

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this minute? No? How am
I ever going to get any place?

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Someone's always interrupting my revolver practice,
just when I'm getting to the point where

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I, oh, Paul, good
lord, are you here again? You're

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a very untidy object. Paul.
It's pretty untidy in the cellar and dirty.

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I've got cock croaches on me,
so keep away. Do you have

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a good day? Shooting? So
well? One of the best. It's

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the target on the only shop that
mattered. I the target dead center.

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That sounded like Isabelle. I think
it was Isabelle. Why have you got

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those linds down? Get them up? What is it? What's wrong with

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you? What are you looking at
through that window? That was twenty five

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years ago, Captain Burke, we
found Jerry Kenyon lying across the table in

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the summerhouse. He'd shut himself through
the head with his own revolver, and

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the hoster it was lying on the
floor beside him, I said, when

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Isabel found him, he'd been dead
about half an hour. The doctor's proved

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that today. Yes, that shot
had been fired again into his head.

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The front of his uniform cap was
powder burned with a bullet entered. There's

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no doubt about that, none at
all. We never noticed the real shot

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because that young lad was shooting off
guns like a maniac, and the seller

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precisely. Now, they're all dead
by accident illness. They're old, gone,

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is about. Kenyon died less than
a year afterwards. I think she

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died just because she was so fond
of Jerry. I suppose you've guessed my

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little secret. Oh, I think
I can sort of read between the lines.

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You were in love with us about
Kenyon, weren't you. Yes,

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Well, these things happen. I
never let us see it. You understand,

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women know pretty generally. So they're
gone, the youngest of them.

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And I'm left alone with old tunes, old ghosts, wondering why the fellow

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ever killed himself? Why? Why? And this morning, out of a

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clear sky, I get a letter
saying, if you want to know how

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Major Kenyon really died, look in
the third drive the desk in the library.

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But I tell you we know how
he died. Oh, aren't you

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going to do it naturally? I've
got a key somewhere here that fits the

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drawer. O listen, mister Parker. And my father's country in Ireland,

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they're got to saying that when a
man's going to commit suicide. I thought

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of doing that too. And then
the devil comes in and takes him by

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the hand and talks to him.
They so you can see the devil as

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plane as I see you, just
before you pull the trigger. The devil

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must have been in the summer house
that afternoon. Oh no, I wasn't.

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What do you mean Major Kenyon didn't
kill himself. He was murdered,

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my dear Captain Burke. The police
covered all that at the time. Everybody

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had an alibi. They well,
think of what I've told you. Isabelle

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and I were together all the time. Paul, her brother was shooting off

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guns in the cellar. Diane Fiska, what about her? A chauffeur who

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drove there swore he saw her walk
straight up to the place she passed the

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summer house, but didn't stop there. That's eck. Even Kitty the maid

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could prove she'd never stirred out of
the house until just a minute or so

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before Isabel went herself. Oh and
why did the maid have to leave the

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house at all? She was taking
Jerry the black coffee he drank every afternoon.

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He'd already been dead half an hour
then, And that, my dear

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captain, disposes of everybody. Well, now, listen, mister Parker,

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You're a good guy, and I'm
not going to hold out on you any

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longer. You see, I say
Major Kenyan was murdered because I know he

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was murdered by an outside of by
one of the people in the house.

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That's impossible, is it? I
why not open that desk, Roan and

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see what time is it? Uh? It's a quarter tway quarter eight and

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I haven't got a time for what
Holy Saint Patrick, will you open that

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draw? It's waited twenty five years, my friend, it can wait a

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minute more. I've got the key
somewhere, miss bunch of keys. Everything

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same. Paul never altered when he
inherited, same old desk, same out,

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phonograph. Same I think this is
the key. Yeah, it opens.

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There's nothing here except one of two
old newspapers. Everything very dirty,

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letter says the first heart at the
back. Have you tried that doesn't seem

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to Yes, my god, it
does work well. There seems to be

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a movable back on a hymn.
Well, what's inside? Uh? As

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some sort of flat brown paper possel, sealed with wax and about as dirty

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as it can get. Open it, man, open it. I'm going

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to It's a phonograph. There's a
plain white label something on it, written

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in pencil. I don't see too
well nowadays without my glasses from here.

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Give it to me, alreditory,
go on a record of how I killed

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Harry Kenyon. Say, don't you
get it, mister Parker. This is

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the real goods. The murder is
going to tell us his own story twenty

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five years later. Be careful whatever
you do, don't drop it. You

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seem to be interested enough now.
I don't say I'm not interested. I

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say I can't believe it. You
know, when you were talking about the

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dead coming back and that kind of
thing, you sure started giving me goose

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pumples. But that's just what it
is a dead person. Now there's the

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phonograph. Put that record on.
Let's hear what the ghost says. Any

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of them could have made the record
of yeh for it was all here.

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Don't just stand there by the phonograph? Want to work? Yes it works?

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Is it wound up? Yes,
it's wound up. Here goes Now,

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look, mister Parker, whose voice
do you think it's going to be?

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I don't know. Now I want
to warn you the voice you're going

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to hear from their ease. Be
quiet, listen, I've started it up.

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Well, speaker. Who killed Jerry
Kenyon? I killed him, Joe

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Dear. I'm sorry about it,
Joe, but I had to have you

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for an alibi, and you were
so terribly easy to cut a phonograph record.

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Man, don't look at it.
Zippers allied. We said you and

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I were always together, Joe,
but that wasn't quite true. I left

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you to go into the dining room
and mix the high ball, remember yes,

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And I was carrying my big knicking
bag remember that too. And there

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was something else in it besides nissing. I'm an awfully good revolver shot Joe.

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I told you we were all good
except Paul. And the back windows

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of the dining room faced the same
way as the back windows of the library.

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Thank you, Isabel, Thank you. Gerry was in the summer house.

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I made a sign to him from
the window, and he came to

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the door there in bright sunlight,
fifty feet away. Joe, don't you

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know what august heat is in a
wooden summer house, didn't you? Didn't

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anybody see that no man would be
wearing a cap inside on a day like

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that. Jerry had taken his cap
off before he went into the summer house.

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We saw him do it. He
was bareheaded when he came to the

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door. So I lifted the revolver
and shot him through the head. Then

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I dropped the gun back in my
knitting bag and went back into the library

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with your drink. I'll talk back
to the thing in my knitting bag too.

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I had to use it. It
was a duplicate of Jerry's army camp,

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with a powder burnt hole already fired
through it in the place I wanted.

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So I've been the goat for twenty
five years. I waited for some

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time and then flipped out to find
the body. I set it a new

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cap over Jerry's head in place where
it ought to go. I put the

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old cat in my knitting bag.
I took his revolver out of the holster

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and kept it. The gun that
I used I dropped on the floor beside

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him, so I proved it was
suicide. You see. So, Joe,

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listener, I'm very sick. They
tell me I'm going to die.

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Joe, I'm afraid I'm going out
in the dark and I don't know what's

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saying. Don't go away, you
y okay, I've had just about enough

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of this. You. I want
you to tell everybody about it. I

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want you to tell him how a
poor crazy woman couldn't stand that man any

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longer, and how it's cut off
and it's going to stay cut off.

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Thank you. I've heard it well
enough too. But you kind of rest,

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No, now, my friend,
you kind of rest now after hearing

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that. I'm not going to arrest
anybody. Help me, captain. Did

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you know what was on the record. No, that's why I had to

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hear it. I knew about it, but I wasn't sure what it had

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to say. But so help me. I never guessed how hard it would

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hit you. Man. Don't you
get it even yet? Yes? I

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get it. Oh no you don't. You don't see anything. That was

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how the fake suicide was managed.
Yes, that's just how it was all

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done, bar one or two little
things. Only only it wasn't Isabelle Kenyon

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who committed the murder. Did I
hear you correctly? You did? This

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is another one of your little jokes
I imagined. Can't you let me alone?

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Have you some kind of personal spide
against me? What did I do?

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You're going to hear the real truth
now if I have to hold you

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down in that chair. I know
Missus Kenyon didn't kill her husband because I've

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just come from talking to the real
murderer up the river. But they're all

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dead. Oh no, they or
not. And I haven't got much time

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either. That clock's just going to
strike eight. What's the time got to

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do? Deal? If you will
follow me, Missus Kenyon died listening year

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after her husband and change. But
it wasn't Missus Kenyon's voice you just heard

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in that record. What I'm telling
you. The real murderer hated her,

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hated her like poison, and wanted
her playing for the crime. When Missus

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Kenyon died, the real murder wrote
a letter well, but she never mailed

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that letter. She made a lying
record of Isabel Kenyon's voice his evidence.

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Now you figured it out for yourself. Who was pretty enough to take me

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Kenyon's eye and strike back like fury
when she got thrown over? Who wanted

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to go on the stage and do
impersonations? Kitty the Maid I a talking

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sense. She shut Jerry from the
dining room window, and she couldn't borrow

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Missus Kenyon's knitting bag. She went
out to the summerhouse with a gun and

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the fake cap, wrapped the napkin
on a coffee tray. He did go

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out, I remember. Actually she
got there before Missus Kenyon did, but

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the summer house was dark inside and
Missus Kenyan never noticed her. The next

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day, Kitty wrote that letter,
but she couldn't bring herself to send it,

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so she kept that letter till the
day before yesterday. Then one of

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the boys that sings him, thinking
he was doing her kind action, but

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a stamp on it and mailed it. Did you say, sing sing?

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Yes, they're electrocuting her tonight for
the murder of an Italian down at Coyer's

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hook. I found out about the
record, all right, But the one

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thing I wasn't sure of was that
she had done the job alone. Frankly,

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the way you went did, I
thought that you might have been in

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on it. Two. Uh,
That's why I had to hear it through.

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And it was anything but a joke. And now here it goes to

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blazes forever eight o'clock. She's dead
and so ends the Devil in the summer

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House. Tonight's story of Suspense.
The part of mister Parker was played by

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Martin Gable again next Tuesday at nine
thirty pm Eastern Wartime, a story dedicated

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to the thrill of the nighttime.
The hushed voice and the prowling step.

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Another adventure in suspense. William Spear, the producer, John Deets, the

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director, and John Dixon Car the
author, are collaborators and suspense. This

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is the Columbia Broadcasting System. Well, my dear, I hope you enjoyed

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that. I'm just going to play
my favorite record yet again again. It

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may also be my only record,
but that makes no difference on how good

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it is. It does not speak
to the quality. No, it's a

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very very quality record record, and
I enjoy it so much. It makes

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me feel warm and cuddly. I
enjoyed it. Sorry about the summer,

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because we are heading headfirst into a
winter, a very long winter, a

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winter longer than perhaps you've ever imagined. But that's of course not for me

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to discuss, not in a mixed
company. If you will, I hope

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you are enjoying yourself, and if
you wish to reach me, please you

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can do so either with your favorite
Ouiji board or of course email, because

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the Internet reaches further than you may
realize. At Weird Mysteriespod at gmail dot

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com. But now, my friends, the day is coming and that means

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my time is up. But I'll
see you tomorrow night for another terrifying stories.

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Until then, be safe and please
please wipe your feet on the way

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out, if you know what I
mean. Pay co payment for your