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Oh me, oh my dear,
you've found me again. I suppose you've

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been twisting that radio knob until it's
darn near ready to break off. Well

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you found me tonight, and I'm
happy to have you here. I have

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a pretty good one for you to
listen to tonight with me. It's an

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oldie, but as they say,
it's a goodie. I had to personally

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dust this one off, and it
was quite a feat to accomplish. But

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I'm pretty happy with the results of
this. What's that? Oh my no,

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no, no, don't you even
worry about that. No, no,

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no, that's going to be just
fine. Everything's going to be just

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fine. What I need from you
now is to simply relax. We're going

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to listen to this together. And
what was that? Oh? Who am

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I? Oh? Well that's not
really important at all. You see where

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I'm broadcasting from. The name is
the first thing to go, so don't

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worry about that. Besides, we
aren't names, really, we're We're what

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we believe in and what we think
about all night long. That's the truth.

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But now, I think, my
dear listener, I think it's time

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that we what what what? Oh
no, no, no, no,

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no, don't even don't even concern
yourself. Let's get to this story right

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now. I can't wait. Ah, stretching out of my favorite chair.

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Good evening, friends, this is
your house, to welcome you through the

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creaking door into the inner saying,
come in, Come on in and join

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my wisty white friend. Ah,
you're shivering cold, Well, don't let

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it throw you. Just remember that
many are cold, but you are frozen.

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Oh. Yes, your seat is
deserved for you, but please don't

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tear it. Remember the high ghosts
of living. Now, if you've got

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some time to kill, let's kill
it to night's inner sank to mystery.

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The Judas Flock was written by Frederick
Mathow and stars Barry Koger and the roll

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of Sebastian with Larsons Herbias Andrew No
all comfortable and ten good. I want

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to warn you. If you feel
a pair of thin, cold hands passing

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over your face, don't be frightened. The hands belong to a clock,

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a monster called clear Patriots Clock.
It's a very unusual clock. For years

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it's been giving people the work.
The story is really the story of Sebastian

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Packard. Since this clock can only
murder, since it can't talk. Well,

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let Sebastian speak for it. I'm
a clockmaker. I carry on the

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profession my father taught me in London. I like clocks, all that is

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but one. For thirty years,
I've looked for a certain clock and a

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certain man. The clock is known
to collect us as clear Patriots pluck the

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man I swore killed when there's a
boy of fourteen. I closed my father's

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blazing eyes and wiped the forth of
blood from his lips. Last night I

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found clear Paper's clock. Tonight I
may have found the man. I'm told

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you're an expert clock repair man.
Mister A Pecker met him. Yes,

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I suppose I am. Well,
I have a clock, rather my husband

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has, and it hasn't run for
years. Would you have a look at

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it? We'll contrib in eaven.
No. It weighs five hundred pounds.

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One of those huge marble things,
Italian Renaissance, i'd say Italian. Could

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you describe it further, Well,
it's rather unusual black marble, heavily carved

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with strange Egyptian characters. The ivory
face has a beautifully yched scene on it,

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but it's a gruesome one crusome.
What kind of scene. It's a

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picture of a woman, a beautiful
woman, and she's holding the limp form

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of a young man in her arms. Yes, it's Kirsty Cleopatra's clock.

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I knew without seeing it why the
clock wouldn't run. It had been built

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in Italy for a prince of the
House of Savoy in fifteen ninety eight.

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He conceived the clock when he discovered
that his family treasures included forty gold coins

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minted by Cleopatra and an Egyptian parchment, a parchment describing in horrible detail the

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death by poison of Cleopatra's young brother. The forty gold coins, but those

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Clearpatra had given a trusted servant to
administer the poison to her brother. The

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writer of the parchment had slain the
servant for his treachery and carried the coins

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with him to Rome. The Cleopatra
The clock was made to run only when

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the forty gold coins were in place, and the clock's hollow weights twenty in

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each weight. And the coins have
been in my possession since the day of

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my father's death. Well, mister
packer, can you fix it? Oh?

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Sorry, day dreaming? Yes,
yes, of course does mister d

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does mister Arnold know that you're having
the clock repair. No, we've only

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been married a few weeks and I'd
like to have it working when he comes

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back to town tomorrow, sort of
a surprise. See, I'll be there

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in half an hour, son.
So last night I went to the Arnold

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house and I found clear Petro's clock
again. It's six feet of black marble

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glistening. It's pendulum motionless, It's
hollow way, empty and waiting. I

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started to work. Fog horns from
the East River sounded much as I remember

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they did in London, and suddenly
I was back there. On a fateful

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day, about a fortnight after the
clock had first been uncreated by my father.

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I was in the shop when the
man from Scotland Yard stepped in.

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He walked straight to the clock and
stared at it. Good afternoon, sir,

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Does the clock interest too very much? When did you acquire it?

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A cousin bought it an auction in
Italy and I'm displaying it for sale on

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consignments. My name's Pettiborne, Scotland
Yard. I've been looking for this clock

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for a month. It was stolen
in Italy. Stolen, yes, mister

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Packer, had worse. Murder was
done. Yeah, I'm afraid you wouldn't

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bothered yourself in a bit of something
here, murder taking possession of the clock

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in the name of the Crown.
I shall never forget the look of horror

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on the detective's face as he laid
his hand on the clock's car car.

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It froze there while his face straight
faceted white, and his eyes balced.

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He opened and closed his mouth soundlessly, and crumpled to the floor from master's

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throat. He was still twisted and
very dead. Mister Pettibone had died of

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a heart attack the moment it took
possession of the clock. My father wants

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time to think, so I helped
him drag Pettipond into the stockroom. I

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went to my quarters. I dozed
fitfully to awake hours later the sound of

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angry voices. Well, cousin,
Andrew, you've done me a fine turn,

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haven't you. I've told you I
didn't mean to kill the old girl.

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It was an accident. Don't talk
so loud, the boy will hear.

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You killed her as soon as you
learned that she'd made out a will

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in your favor, and then when
you thought it was safely sold all her

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furnishings and sent the clock to me
to sell. All right, I did.

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When you're in it to the years, I'd go to the police.

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And how will you explain poor stiff
mister Pettybone lying in your staff room all

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this while? Besides, there's nothing
to fear now that Pettybone is gone.

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He was the only one who suspected
me. Now you're the only one who

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knows why I create this cursed black
monster tomorrow and you leave with it?

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And will you also create mister Pettybone? Oh oh, look, I have

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a plan here. Sit down in
this chair right here, now, show

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you how we can solve the whole
thing. My young heartbeat with the wild

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dread. As I listened. I
can only see cousin Andrew's back, but

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I could see Father seated dejectedly in
the chair near the black marble clock,

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his head in his hands. It
was midnight, all the clocks in the

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shop again striking the hour, and
louder than all the rest was chime over

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the evil clock. If only then
I'd known I might have done something.

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Eh, chime ten twelve before my
horrified eyes by heavy marble, Peace leaned

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slowly from the wall and crashed across
my father's back. Cousin Andrew stood facing

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my father was the clock pinnus rail
form in the crushed chair. He choked

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him. He made little pitiful sounds, his eyes begging for life. But

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my cousin Andrew just stood his back
to me and watched, undering, sinners,

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you die hard. Then Cousin Andrew
ran from the sharp crying for help

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with claim an accident. I raced
into the shop. My father was dead.

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I choked back my tears and closed
his poor staring eyes. Then,

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for some reason I thought of the
coins and the clock's weights. I took

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some, and I ran from the
shop, the blood stained gold pieces jangling

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merrily in my pocket. Armed with
the notion that the coins were of value

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and the definite notion that I must
eat. I approached one of the many

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dingy little curio shops in the Limehouse
district. I stepped through the fog toward

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a shop where a dim light burned
in the rear. Every inch of wall

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and ceiling was hung with curios,
the old armor and swords and shields.

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I would have run out, but
a rizened apish man barked at me from

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the rear. Wait, what do
you want? I have something to sell,

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and what have you gone? I
have fought a gold pieces, sir,

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They're supposed to have been the coins. Clear Patriot paid a servant to

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poison her brother. Twist the starting
neck. Here, you're pulling my legs.

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I'm not pulling your legs. Here
they are climy gold right enough?

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Will you come them? I didn't
steal them. They they belonged to my

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farm, hors and largely tail.
Will you buy them by me? Said

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by them? Oh, you get
out of here before I cause a bobby

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your skin. Go on or get
out? Give me back my coring.

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How do I call about and set
your sound? One the ugly brute came

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toward me. He held my coins
clutched and a tight hairy fist. Before

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I move, it struck me the
wall. Then it happened. As I

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hit the wall, my eye caught
a metallic gleam above me. I leaped

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back instinctively. The hairy arm thrusted
me again. I heavy metallic object dropped

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from the ceiling, struck across the
forearm of the pets wrist. I stared

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first to the man's gaping mouth.
One of the great bleeding gash in the

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arm. He clutched his other hand, and the blood that dripped on the

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object that had struck him with an
ancient heads among his axe. The gaping

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mouth opened and closed, making no
sound, and then with a moan of

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horror, the pawn broke a crumpled
to the floor. I clapped my mouth

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upon a cry of panic, I
stooped together all the coins, followed with

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the man's head. Blood made him
slippery, nestling him into my pocket.

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I stumbled, whimpering in fright through
the shop into the night, and the

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fog of London never swallowed a more
frightened and a more lonely boy. I

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hadn't touched those horrible coins since the
day the storekeepers wrist had been cut by

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the falling headsman's axe. By now
I half believed the legend that Eva followed

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them. I began to feel that
the only way I could escape their curse

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was to find the clear Patriot clerk
and put the coins back in the hollow

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ways where they belonged. One day, as I read the notices in the

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Times, my heart skipped a beat. Auction of clerks at Chopen Place auction

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rooms Saturday at seven rare items,
one of them fine Italian Renaissance piece of

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black mark. Rare treat for collectors. Come early. I went early.

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I was the auction room's first visitor. At the rear of the shop,

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balding, dimlit eyed man looked up
and praised me as poor in prospects,

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turned back to his paper. I
felt the forty gold coins in my pocket.

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I sauntered casually towards the black gleaming
clock. Other clocks about were ticking

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only the pendulum. The Egyptian clock
remained motionless. Subconsciously opened the glass door

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of the clock to reach for the
hollow weights. I seemed to hear my

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father's words again, sleeping clocks he
himself. I reached for one of the

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weights, my intention being to unscrew
the cap of the weight quickly and to

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replace the coin. I saw somethly
I had never noticed before. Directly beneath

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the right hand weight was a small, round, flat bit of metal set

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into the floor of the pendulum box. Startled me looked over my shoulder towards

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the man in the rear. He's
watching me. I had the unhooked weight

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in my hand. Within the clock, I have to work fast down to

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replace the coins. My fingers were
sweating with excitement. I slipped and fell

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directly on the metal piece beneath the
hate the attention with the men now coming

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towards me because something was happening within
the clock for herrings, sound of wheels

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turning, grabs, and then they
put with mouth wonder. I watched the

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supporting panel in the front of the
clock suddenly start to rise on hinges.

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The clock was off balance, but
clock proved forward ponderously, and I stood

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there transfixts in the path of a
black marble. Might why do you up

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to one side? Wait for no
more? And I ran for the street.

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Oh Jangle, Merrilyn, my Pooket. As before I was where I

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started. Only as I ran,
I knew. I knew my father had

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been murdered, and I knew how, and I knew who I had done

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it. I walked for miles,
trying to pull myself together. I wondered

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aimlessly, or so I thought,
But fate had traced my palt before me.

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Because I was starting to find myself
staring under the shop window of a

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rare coin dealer named Megloyd. I
walked into the shop Megloyd seemed nice little

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man. He smiled a bit quizzical
bit my firm belief that I possessed the

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betrayal coins of Cleopatra. I pulled
them on his counter. Who I say,

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you, you could be right?
You know need these are the right

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dealer? Who I say, suppose
they were? Let me put it glass

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to them. Would it be worth
a great deal even if they were?

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Well, let me see, let
me see. Oh yes, gracious,

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yes, they are nearly new,
fine condition. They should be worthing great

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dealers, collectors' items. Mister Maglaroy, I've give there's something I ought to

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tell you about these pieces. They
Oh that's not important. Oh well,

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no, just a moment. I
have a catalog on this Egyptian area in

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my show window, I said.
The coins lay on the counter. I

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watched mister Legloyd run down the aisle. The approach of the display window is

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foot caught in an electric wire which
lay across the floor. The lights went

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out, and I saw pitched forward
the street light peered through the broken plate

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glass. It laid across a protestically
spoiled form in the shop window. I

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needed no more light than there was
to see what had happened. The upper

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half of the heavy plate glass had
broken and dropped flat against the solid lower.

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Mister Legoroyd Layers, the born shop
keeper, holding with one hand the

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bleeding forearm he had pushed through his
glass windown. As he gripped the gold

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coins were on the floor covered with
blood once again. And tonight I will

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find out if mister Arnold is cousin
Andrew. If he is, I shall

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feel no remorse in killing. While
working to repair the clock last night,

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I discovered that my father's accidental death
had been a well conceived diabolical murder.

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If the right hand weight was heavier
than normal thus reached the floor of the

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clock on the twelfth stroke at midnight, they tripped a trigger which collapsed the

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base of the clock and cause it
to fall forward. My father had died

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on the twelfth stroke of midnight.
Have you finished this, no, mister

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Donald, I'll have to come back
tomorrow night. What time do you expect,

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mister Arnold? Tomorrow? We're about
eleven, i'd say, Will you

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be finished by it? I think
so. I'd have to take these weights

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to the shop with me, though
something has to be added. I've put

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the coins in their place within the
weights, not twenty in each weight,

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but twenty and one and ten in
the other. The other ten coins are

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in my bunney in another pocket.
I have a small thirty eighth old I

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don't have to use it. I
have a thirty year road date to keep.

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I think you'll have it fixed in
time to strike midnight. Oh yes,

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mister Arnold, it was struck at
midnight. Here we are wait a

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certain place now, and it seams
exactly five minutes before midnight. You sit

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the hands, and then just a
little so on the pended on So dear

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pictres clock picks again. It wakes
from a thirty year sleep. Eh,

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cousin, Sebastian cousin, That's what
I wanted to tell you. My wife

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told me your father owned this clock
in London. Who would just then?

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Uh? I was your father's cousin. So uh you are Sebastian Patner,

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the little boy who ran away that
nice you were, cousin Andrew. Yes,

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well, seriously, I I don't
know how much you know that horrible

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night when your father was killed.
I know the what fell on father.

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I heard the sound from my room. It was frightened. I came down

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the stairs. Better time to see
them carry father away or cover it up.

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So that was why I didn't find
you in your room afterwards. It

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happened so fast. Yes, we
were sitting talking. The clocks in the

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store were striking twelve. Suddenly the
base of clear Patrio's clock seemed to cave

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in. And I know, I
uh. I bought the clock at an

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option a few years later. It
was sentimental. I guess had it all

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fixed. It's good and solid now
I saw that. Yes, well,

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I I think I got to run
along now because Andrew nonsense and nonsense.

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Let's make up for a last time
and get it great. Well, now,

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come now I have some final report
from me. Sit down a wire.

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No, no, not that chair. This one's a lot more comfortable.

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Oh very well. It's a funny
thing when you were working with blocks.

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As long as I have, you
get to be quite philosophical about time.

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Those that are Oh well, I
sat by the big clock just as

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my father said, thirty years ago. Do you know how many seconds ago

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that was? Because andrum no,
do you well that three hundred and fifty

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million, three hundred and sixty thousand
seconds and ten years? That would be

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nine hundred and forty six million,
eighty thousand seconds in thirty years. You've

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got quite a mechanical minds imagine here
tried this port here, here's your father.

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What's the metacus drum? You will? Oh? Your face is drawn

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and gray. Cousin Andrew, it's
late, it's after midnight. Let it

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go, I say, you do
look off you not? I don't care.

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I don't ring sinners where you're going? Don't go? I must go,

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cause Andrew. I told the patrolman
near my shop that I would like

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him to meet me at twenty after
midnight. The patrolman yes, but yes,

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sit down and stick my chair.
It's more comfortable. You're shaking like

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a leaf, and you just sit
quietly. I'll see myself out ring sinner.

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Good night, cousin Andrew. Guess
it's up gladly. And you die

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hard too, don't you. It's
just a matter of timing, I said

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a hand, a minute passed.
The weight didn't touch your clever little spring

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of ice till just now because it's
lighter. By ten pieces above stained gold

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from the coffer of love Lover,
dear picture, rest easy father, and

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a fine chime with head by all
I'm gonta leave you in our folks for

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a timely morrow. You can figure
out how long you believe. Sure,

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that's your pastime, but figuring out
how long you're going to live, that's

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just any ol time. Oh yes, By the way, this story should

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teach you another lesson. Never complain
when you have to work late. Remember

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that over time is certainly better than
undertime. Not h good. Nine pleasant

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streams. Inner Sanctum was heard in
the United States over CBS the Columbia Broadcasting

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System and has been rebroadcast for service
men and women overseas. This is the

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United States Armed Forces Radio Service,
the voice of Information and Education. Ah

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Yes, I feel like the best
way to unwind after something truly scary is

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with a good song. So this
is my favorite and may also be the

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only record I have at my disposal. But I hope you enjoyed the story.

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Tonight and it's another night. I'm
just glad this old beat up microphone

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still works and you're out there seeking
me. Of course, we're all seeking

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what I have found. I suppose
depends on how you look at it.

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But if you want to reach out
to a little old me, you can

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go to weirdash Mysteries dot com because
the Internet goes beyond all places. There,

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you can leave me a tip,
listen to other episodes and I sure

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do appreciate it. Or you can
email me. I suppose that works as

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good as a Wiji board. Go
to Weird Mysteries show at gmail dot com.

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Send me something and I might just
read it on the show. What's

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that? Oh no, please don't
concern yourself with that. All right until

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to morrow night. I'll see you
later