July 4, 2025 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: April 12, 2010
Dan thinks he’s going on vacation when an old friend invites him to a white elephant of a house that he’s being forced to sell. However, a mysterious noise and a nursery rhyme book get him on a treasure hunt for a rich man’s fortune.
Original Air Date: June 16, 1948
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Dan thinks he’s going on vacation when an old friend invites him to a white elephant of a house that he’s being forced to sell. However, a mysterious noise and a nursery rhyme book get him on a treasure hunt for a rich man’s fortune.
Original Air Date: June 16, 1948
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episode of Box thirteen. Last Willand Nurse erin a rhyme. We'll listen
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and then we'll come back Box thirteenwith the Stein Pharamond Pictures. Alan Ladd
as Dan Holiday. Dear Dan,I'm inviting you up to Pharaoaks to spend
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the last weekend with me. Forgetyour Box thirteen, gag for a while,
and grab yourself a little vacation.There's not much I can offer in
the way of excitement or advanture,but if you'll really go any place or
do anything you might like to seethe crumbling grandeur, of the crumbling grandere
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of the Last of the kin Verse, you'll know how to get there.
And I'll be waiting. How aboutit? Ten vacation, The man said,
you know, someday I'm really goingto take a vacation, but this
wasn't it. And now I'll backto Box thirteen and damn Holiday's newest adventure
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last Well and nursery rhymes. Ithink you should go net your holiday.
You need a rest, Oh,Susie. Every time I go for arrest,
something happens to me. But whatcan happen at a nice quiet place
like farao Oaks. Gee, fromwhat your friend Ted gets about, it's
just a spout to take it easy. Sure that huh uh huh, while
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you'll come back all full of vimand vinegars. Okay, Susie, you
talked me into it. Forward mymail to far Oaks care of Ted Kennilworth.
It was pleasant two hundred mile drivethrough the countryside. I was forgetting
all about Box thirteen. It's stayedafter me all the way after Pharaohs.
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I got there in the evening andTed was waiting for him. Maybe I
should explain Ted and Faroaks. Yousee, Ted was my closest friend at
college and he had inherited Faros.One of those big overdone hawses people were
building in the eighteen nineties. Itlooked like an insane wedding cake gingerbread balconies
all running around and contributing nothing tothe architectural value of the place. Anyway,
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I parked on the drive, walkedup the stairs with Ted and into
the house. Oh I'm glad youcame, Dan. I've been wanting to
have you up here for a longtime, but I guess I never got
around to it. Hey, whatdo you do for space here? Suppose
you have hospel of guests and you'veonly got twenty rooms. Yeah, well,
don't worry, I won't have itlong. What do you mean come
on in here? It's the onlyroom with chairs? Hey, why are
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the crape hanging? I'm selling,Dan, selling all that you're kidding?
No, I wish I was getting, but I can't keep this place up.
You're broke, flattened last week's pancakes. But I thought you inherited money
from Uncle Thaddy. Is not athin round dime. Oh no, wait
a minute. He had a thousandbucks for very breath he took, did
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he I'm asking? I'm telling no, Dan, All they left me was
this house. Are you sure therewe go again? Look, fell I've
been asked that question a million times. All he left was the house.
It doesn't seem right. It wasn'tme a millionaire, and where's his money
gone? Finished capoot. But look, where could a guy like your uncle
Thaddeus spend all of his money?That's the gold plated question. He never
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spent a nickel if he could helpit, Okay, then my money's still
with us. Then you kill me. You're so tied up with fiction that
you look for a deep, darkplot and everything that this makes no sense.
It does when you check and findout that Uncle Thaddius lived the last
five years on credit credit. Youmean with all of his dough. There
must be a record of the money. I had help looking for it.
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Help who Uncle Sam? Income tax, inheritance tax. If they couldn't find
the dough, how could I?No? Damn Uncle Thaddius fooled everybody.
He didn't have a knickel. Well, it sounded off beat to me.
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Uncle Thaddius lived close to his vestand he had had money at one time,
lots of it. He never wentany place, did anything but our
cool three million or so just curlsup from evaporates, or did it?
Anyway? I thought about it laterthat night. Oh why don't you stop,
Dan, It's supposed to take avacation and you're beating your brains out.
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I'll Listen put it together and whatit get got? Uncle Thaddius practically
a hermit. He's known to havemoney, but when he dies, all
he leaves is this. Well it'soversized, lean to Dan. I've looked
through the whole house. I knowit like the back of my hand.
I lived here when I was akid, after mother and dad died.
What about the will, uncle,Yeah, well, nothing about money in
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it. Oh it's okay. Comeon in, Helen. Why I didn't
know you had company. Oh it'sall right, Helen. This is Dan,
Holiday, Dan, this is Helen. Start finding. Helen's clearing out
odds and ends for me, Dan, odds and end. While I was
daddy as Kenworth secretary, that is, once in a while I was.
When he got behind him catalogging books, I came in and did it for
him. Oh, sit on,Helen joined the wake. Well, I
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haven't much time. I want tosort out some papers. You can look
them over to morrow. Ten.I don't want to throw him out.
What papers? Mister Kenworth kept everything? Hey, collected bills, receipts,
pieces of twine. That's a patthat okay, just like to keep things,
including money. What do you meanit's the holiday. Where's his money?
We didn't leave any That's what theman said. But he didn't,
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did he? Ten? No?Then where it isn't Helen? Let me
explain you See, mister Holliday hasa complex to him. The simple act
of taking a drink of water isfilled with mystery and dark meaning. While
I'm behind my cloaking dagger, youtwo argue about it. I'll be all
finished tomorrow ten and you can lookover everything. See you later, mister
Holiday. Oh good, nice girl. Huh, don't matter. Don't you
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like her? I just matter?What do you want me to do?
Start sending orcards? Hey, comeon, let's take a walk. I'd
better go to the house. Ohyou're kidding. Why? Oh, just
to take a look. Expect tofind a million tucked away in an old
pillow case. You never can tella boy. Come on, just to
satisfy my curiosity. Okay, Isatisfied my curiosity. Ted nee of the
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old place back and forward. Almostall of the funiture had been cleared out,
and if there was a hiding placefor anything, we'd have found it.
But it's still bothered me, andit bothered me after I finally went
to bed. Then in the middleof the night, somebody was taking a
walk in the house. I gotout of bed, opened my door,
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and I went to Ted's room.Dead dead, wake up? Huh what's
the matter? Oh? Oh,then be quiet? What what's mate with
you? You're walking in? Yousleep? I heard someone upstairs? Oh,
large mice, go back to bed. I tell you, I heard
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someone walking around. What's directly aboutmy room? Room? Yeah? This
that old room I played in whenI was a kid. What's in there?
Oh? Cut it out, willyou? Damn? What's in that
room? Nothing? You saw ittrunk with some old toys in it.
That's all. I heard. Someonewalking around it there. Ah, you
were dreaming. You've got your headso crammed at the car. Huh yeah,
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so what did you? And Iare the only ones in the house,
That's what I said. But someonejust drove away from here. That
car was on the road, noton the grounds here. Drove away from
here, all right, It droveaway from here. Now go back to
sleep. The next dream you haveto tell Freud, not me. I
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know I've heard someone upstairs. Somebodywas going through that old room, which
Ted had used as a playroom whenhe was a kid. But why Ted
and I have gone through it witha fine tooth comb and there was nothing
there. But the next morning Iwanted a better luck, so Ted and
I went back. I don't knowwhy I'm doing this except to humor you.
Dan, there's nothing in this roomy? How old is that horn?
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I don't know? Maybe twenty years? Oh? Get this? Uncle Thaddy's
never threw away a thing, noteven his money. Still harping on that.
Yeah, hey yeah, what elseisn't that trunk? Oh? Baseball,
glove? Dust ball? Bad guys, just rabbits almus as old as
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I am. Then let's see topsstrings. That's all. And there's nothing
else in the room. Nope,Yet someone was up here last night looking
for something. Oh, Dan,stop it right? Huh? What's the
matter? I nothing nothing, Iguess. Come on, come on,
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come on, what are you gonnasay? Wait a minute, lose something?
I don't know why? Don't youknow? It seems to me there's
something missing from this bunch of jockwhat I can't remember, but there's one
thing toy on train? No,no, no, those things are all
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here, and what's missing? Comeon, Ted? Think? Oh,
but it's more than twenty years agotwenty five is more like it. Yet
you know something's missing. I don'tknow it's it's just that something hit me,
you know, like like a nameyou try to remember, or a
place or a day. All right, what I don't know, Dan,
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I can't remember. Oh I ammister Wilson. Come on in tacking childhood?
Theodore playing with toys again, justrummaging around? Uh, Dan,
this is Martin Wilson. Uncle's ajourney, mister Wilson, Dan Holiday,
Well, Theodore, the papers areall ready for the sale. You can
sign them anytime. Oh good,be glad to get it off my mind.
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But I kind of hate to seethe whole place go. Yes,
yes, indeed staying long, misterHoliday. No, just the weekend.
Were you looking for something, Theodore? H oh no, not in particular.
Well, when you're ready, we'llsign the papers. Oh excuse me,
mister Wilson. But but could Itake a look at the will?
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Will? What will Thadius Kenworth?What for? Dan's a writer, mister
Wilson, he's writing now. Butcould I look at it? That will
be up to Theodore, how aboutit? Ten? And when you've looked
at him? I don't know.I don't know. Is this the only
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will? Of course, it's theonly one I've been able to locate.
Well, Donne, what'd you find? Just the house and all it's in
it? And I said, thisclause states you'd receive the house and all
it's in it. Is there somethingcurious in that, mister Holiday. Maybe
here's a clause that strikes me asbeing peculiar. Which one's that? Oh?
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Listen, the happiest days of allof our lives are those spent in
innocence. If you would become happy, Theodore, then remember your childhood and
those things that were dare to you. Yeah, maybe the old boy was
right. Do you read any oddmeaning into that, mister Holiday? Do
you? Old Fad was a peculiarman, a very peculiar person. He
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had streaks and quirks, and oneof them was getting rid of a fortune
in time to keep anyone else fromenjoying. Maybe he thought people should work
for their money. What are yougetting sore about me? I'm not if
you're quite finished with this will,mister Holiday? Oh yes, I I
am. Thanks all right, we'dbetter get the business of signing the papers
over with. Theodore. Can't makea buyer wait forever you know? All
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right? Hi everyone? Oh hiHelen? What is this? While the
grim looks nothing? I'll be finishedto day, Ted, then you can
look over everything. Oh thanks,Oh Ted, I want to go for
a long Oh oh sure, excuseme, of course I'll finish my work
in here, Helen. I won'tno, not at all. Iry.
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What's the matter, Dan, I'mjust thinking. By one. I'm sure
I heard someone in that room lastnight. Ten. The room he uses
a playroom when you were a kid. Now, now, one, that
sentence on the will about your childhoodremembered if you want to be happy?
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Oh good look uncle. That wasa little well eccentric maybe, but it
ties in the player room your childhood. Someone looking for something and you're feeling
something was missing from that old trunkand look out Ted all right, yeah,
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but Jenny, give me that push. That coping stone would have nailed
you. It fell off of theroof. Yeah, hey, I guess
about time to get rid of theplace. It's falling up. Part that's
stone didn't fall, Ted, itwas pushed off. And now back to
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last Well and Nursery Rhyme. AnotherBox thirteen adventure with Alan Land as Damn,
Holliday, that's stone was pushed ted, and I went to the roof
saw the marks made when the stonehad been shoved forward, and it was
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meant to put the lights out forhim. Why, that's what I want
to know. Why, Because it'ssomething in this house someone wants to get
and keep you from getting. Youknow, you're almost making me believe this.
You've got to and you've got tothink what's missing from that old trunk?
Oh, I've tried, Dan,I can't. There was nothing in
it. Toys, that's all.Yet you say they're all there? Oh?
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I think so. Now wait aminute, let's go at this.
Logically, there were trains, bats, baseball, mit, mechanical toys,
things like that. What do youget, man, all this You wouldn't
have missed another of those things.So the thing that's missing must be different
from those, different enough to makeyou realize it's gone. Yeah, you're
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beginning to make sense. Are youtry making some Oh? Dann, I
can't. Great, look but eitherhen no, no? What oh the
thing that's missing? Oh? Maybeboth Wilson and Helen were in the house
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when that stone almost put apart inyour hair? Yeah, either one could
have shoved it off. It wasn'ttoo big or too heavy. Yeah,
but why kill me? Because thekey to this whole business is in your
head. As soon as you rememberwhat's missing from the trunk, you'll have
it. And both Helen and Wilsonhave keys to this place, and therefore
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either one could have come into thehouse the night I heard the problem in
the playroom. All right, wheredo we start? Now? We try
to find what was taken whoever hadit taken it away? And two hours
of pounding a Ted didn't help.He just couldn't remember what it was.
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Okay. I had an idea andtold Ted do you mean that? Yes,
you follow Wilson when he leaves,and I'll follow Helen. Oh,
I don't know. He Look,it's our only chance. Come right out
and accuse you the one, andthat'll be the end. We've got to
do it this way there, Wow, all right, wait ah there you
out there? Oh, hello Holiday, how are you? It's fine?
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Thank you? Good? Good?Wells here, Dore. It's all settled.
You're getting a good price for thisplace, but you'll have to leave
day after tomorrow. What the termsof the sail by a Once the media
Documentcy I'll put it off. Whatfor? Just put it off. Look
here, I sold this place foryou. Theodore got a fine price.
Yeah, but I didn't know I'dhave to leave right away. We should
have read the terms of the sail. I've got to be going on other
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things to take care of. Howdo you like that, I've got to
get out. Okay, that givesus less time. Are you following?
See what he does where he goesanything. I'll do the same with Helen.
Helen didn't leave until that afternoon,all right. Let her get a
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start in and drove after him.She didn't stop in the village, kept
growing in the town about twenty milesfarther. I kept a safe distance behind.
Then in the clown stopped. Thecar got out, and so did
I. So far this was ablind chase. Then she went into a
store and on the window was children'stoys and books. Toys and books,
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children's are I edged up to thewindow and looked in. Helen was talking
with a clerk, and she hadsomething in her hand, and from where
I stood, it looked like oneof those linen covered kid's books. Then
I saw the clerk go to ashop of books and looked them over.
Helen followed her. The clerk shookher head. Helen turned to leave,
and I ducked to keep out ofsight. Helen went to every toy shop
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in town, but every place shegot the same answers, shake of the
head. Okay, so it wasHelen who had taken a missing item from
the trunk, and it was akid's book. But why and what was
in that book? It was darkwhen she finally headed back to the village
at Fairoaks. She didn't know it, but she was going to get company
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that night. Well, well,then it's the holiday. Dan sounded better.
I was just in the village.Thought i'd drop in and say hello,
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I'm glad you did. Dan.Sit down, won't you? Oh,
thank you. I'll finish at thehouse. Yeah. Oh, things
weren't amiss. Daddy is ken Worthkept everything under the sun, including a
secret, just any secret. Iwonder what he did with his money?
Oh, why, don't think hehad any I believe he was an old
fraud when I lived the last fiveyears of his life on credit, all
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right, there must have been agood reason for everyone extending credit to him.
He was an institution around here.Everybody humored him. Well maybe why
maybe did you know him? No, but tradesmen wouldn't extend credit for five
years without expecting to get the money. I didn't know anything about that.
I'm sure you do. What.How was your trip in the town today,
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Helen? Pleasant? Profitable? You'rean odd person? Is a holiday
all the names? Dan, Rememberyou're still an odd person. You didn't
find what you were looking for?Did you? Was I looking for something?
All right, Helen, let's quitshadow boxing. You went into every
toy shop in Tounded. Is thata crime? Oh no, no,
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not at all. But shoving astone off of a roof might be called
one. What does that remark me, Helen? I want what you took
from the playroom at the house.Why didn't take anything? Oh? Yes
you did, and i'm uncle Thaddeus'spapers. You must have seen a letter
telling Ted to look in that trunkfor a clue, some sort of a
book. You're crazy, but it'sfun now. Hand it over, Helen.
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I told you I didn't take anything. Listen, that stone just miss
killing ten and anyone who wants tokill someone has a strong motive. For
sure, it was just an accident. I leaned on the stone. Sure,
sure, sure, but I willlook if we put two and two
together, the stone and the stolenbook. I wanted Hill, something funny.
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All right, you can have it, but it won't do you anymore
good than it did me. Let'sget out of here. Oh the ladies
armed, I'll kill you. Goright ahead. Stop. There must be
a lot of money to make youattempt to murder and threaten another. I
want that book, Helen, Nowstay away, take it easy. I'll
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take the gun with me and thebook. It was a little book of
nursery rhymes, the kind kids lookat hour after hour. I took it
back to Ted and told him whathad happened. Helen. But but why,
why? For what I've been harpingon since I've been here. Your
uncle's money and this book is theclue. Yeah, I remember it now,
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that's what was missing from the trunk. Sure look, Ted, Helen
went through your uncle's papers and foundsomething. I would have sworn it was
lawyer Wilson, and it's something Helenwas counting on, But I ruled him
on. Why well, when Ifirst saw her will, I noticed it
had been drawn up by another firmof attorneys. If you remember Wilson even
admitted he had to hunt for it. Then Helen must have found the letter
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telling you to look for this book. Yeah, but there's nothing but nursery
rhymes. We've been through it adozen times and there's not a marker a
piece of paper in it. Yes, I know, but we've got it.
Yeah, we've got it, andI've got to get out of here.
You've got to figure this out beforeyou leave. One shot up here,
you'll have as much chance of findingout. I know, but Mark,
come on, come on now,let's look through it again. See
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anything. No, I'll keep lookingat it. Well, wait a minute,
was he matter? Go back?What did you see? And didn't
see anything? It was something Ididn't see. Oh damn, you're crazy.
Humm looked in Look each rhyme isnumbered one, two, three,
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four, then six. Number fiveis missing. Hey, you're right Helen
took it. No, no,no she didn't. Why of course she
didn't. That's why she was tryingto buy another one like it. But
she couldn't. It's too old,all right. Number five is missing?
What was it? Oh? Hey, I can't remember that, Yes you
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can. I look number one,little miss Muffett. Number two simple simon
three, sing a song of sixpencefour three blind mice. Wait a minute,
mice, mice. No, no, no, that one's here.
No no, not Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock.
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It's not there, And I knowit was your uncle took it out rather
than market. He took it outto make it tough for you. Yeah,
but why that one? I tedin the hall at that grandfather's clock.
Yeah. I used to watch itfor hours when I was a kid.
Well, come on, hey,Dan, you're terrific. Okay,
here's o'clock. But it stopped.I try to whine it the other day,
but it wouldn't go. I listenedthe rest of the rhyme. The
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clock struck one, one, oneo'clock. This clock stopped at six.
No, no, Now, what'llhappen? We turn the hands until they
get to one. Well, don'tyou stand there? Boy? Do it?
Okay? Seven? Hey, nine, ten, eleven? Twell,
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easy one. Look the face cameopen. Hey there's a letter. We'll
get it out and read it.Yeah, yeah, read it, My
dear nephew. Since you've figured thisout, I must assume you've learned that
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money is to be earned not comeby easily? All right? Go to
the sun dial in the garden.Turn the indicator until it points to twelve.
You'll then be able to lift theface of the dial. In the
column you'll find negotiable bonds and securities. You'll Dan, Dan, I know
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you love me. Did you havea nice time after holiday? Great,
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Susie, great Dwyler Creston. Wellnot exactly, that's what I thought.
Oh, maybe you won't want togo to the party tonight. Then what
party? Well, we're all startingfrom the city hall, starting from the
city Hall. Why, Oh,it's a treasure hunt. It'll be loads
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of fun. Oh, Susie,how do you manage it? Good Night,
next week, same time. Throughthe courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Alan
Ladd stars as Dan Holiday in Boxthirteen. Box thirteen is directed by Richard
Sandville with an original story by RussellHughes. Original music has composed and conducted
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by Rudy Schrager. The part ofSusie is played by Sylvia Picker. Production
is supervised by Burne Carstenson. Thisis a Mayfair production from Hollywood. Watch
for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramounticshure, Welcome Back. I don't know
if having someone finding a large treasureafter two simple clues teaches the link between
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work and money, but give ongoal credit for trying. All right,
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all the hard work. I lovethe show in your commentaries. Listening to
Johnny mcderrell and Pete Kelly's Booze reallyjust highlights the brilliance of the writing and
casting of Pat Novak for it easilycould have been a lesser show. Looking
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forward for long and fruitful relationship withthe show. Thanks again. Well thanks
Dorothy, that's a keen observation.And well, here's a lot of shows
like that. They're amusing, they'refun to listen to, but at the
end of the day, they didn'tmake it because they had some fatal flaw
that stopped them from being tops.It's important to remember when listening to the
shows that golden age of detective showswas really a short period of time.
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Marlow. That's why many good showsdidn't make it. You had to have
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well, let's go ahead and we'llget into today's show. It's an
episode of Box thirteen. Last Willand Nurse erin a rhyme. We'll listen
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and then we'll come back Box thirteenwith the Stein Pharamond Pictures. Alan Ladd
as Dan Holiday. Dear Dan,I'm inviting you up to Pharaoaks to spend
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the last weekend with me. Forgetyour Box thirteen, gag for a while,
and grab yourself a little vacation.There's not much I can offer in
the way of excitement or advanture,but if you'll really go any place or
do anything you might like to seethe crumbling grandeur, of the crumbling grandere
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of the Last of the kin Verse, you'll know how to get there.
And I'll be waiting. How aboutit? Ten vacation, The man said,
you know, someday I'm really goingto take a vacation, but this
wasn't it. And now I'll backto Box thirteen and damn Holiday's newest adventure
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last Well and nursery rhymes. Ithink you should go net your holiday.
You need a rest, Oh,Susie. Every time I go for arrest,
something happens to me. But whatcan happen at a nice quiet place
like farao Oaks. Gee, fromwhat your friend Ted gets about, it's
just a spout to take it easy. Sure that huh uh huh, while
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you'll come back all full of vimand vinegars. Okay, Susie, you
talked me into it. Forward mymail to far Oaks care of Ted Kennilworth.
It was pleasant two hundred mile drivethrough the countryside. I was forgetting
all about Box thirteen. It's stayedafter me all the way after Pharaohs.
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I got there in the evening andTed was waiting for him. Maybe I
should explain Ted and Faroaks. Yousee, Ted was my closest friend at
college and he had inherited Faros.One of those big overdone hawses people were
building in the eighteen nineties. Itlooked like an insane wedding cake gingerbread balconies
all running around and contributing nothing tothe architectural value of the place. Anyway,
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I parked on the drive, walkedup the stairs with Ted and into
the house. Oh I'm glad youcame, Dan. I've been wanting to
have you up here for a longtime, but I guess I never got
around to it. Hey, whatdo you do for space here? Suppose
you have hospel of guests and you'veonly got twenty rooms. Yeah, well,
don't worry, I won't have itlong. What do you mean come
on in here? It's the onlyroom with chairs? Hey, why are
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the crape hanging? I'm selling,Dan, selling all that you're kidding?
No, I wish I was getting, but I can't keep this place up.
You're broke, flattened last week's pancakes. But I thought you inherited money
from Uncle Thaddy. Is not athin round dime. Oh no, wait
a minute. He had a thousandbucks for very breath he took, did
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he I'm asking? I'm telling no, Dan, All they left me was
this house. Are you sure therewe go again? Look, fell I've
been asked that question a million times. All he left was the house.
It doesn't seem right. It wasn'tme a millionaire, and where's his money
gone? Finished capoot. But look, where could a guy like your uncle
Thaddeus spend all of his money?That's the gold plated question. He never
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spent a nickel if he could helpit, Okay, then my money's still
with us. Then you kill me. You're so tied up with fiction that
you look for a deep, darkplot and everything that this makes no sense.
It does when you check and findout that Uncle Thaddius lived the last
five years on credit credit. Youmean with all of his dough. There
must be a record of the money. I had help looking for it.
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Help who Uncle Sam? Income tax, inheritance tax. If they couldn't find
the dough, how could I?No? Damn Uncle Thaddius fooled everybody.
He didn't have a knickel. Well, it sounded off beat to me.
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Uncle Thaddius lived close to his vestand he had had money at one time,
lots of it. He never wentany place, did anything but our
cool three million or so just curlsup from evaporates, or did it?
Anyway? I thought about it laterthat night. Oh why don't you stop,
Dan, It's supposed to take avacation and you're beating your brains out.
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I'll Listen put it together and whatit get got? Uncle Thaddius practically
a hermit. He's known to havemoney, but when he dies, all
he leaves is this. Well it'soversized, lean to Dan. I've looked
through the whole house. I knowit like the back of my hand.
I lived here when I was akid, after mother and dad died.
What about the will, uncle,Yeah, well, nothing about money in
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it. Oh it's okay. Comeon in, Helen. Why I didn't
know you had company. Oh it'sall right, Helen. This is Dan,
Holiday, Dan, this is Helen. Start finding. Helen's clearing out
odds and ends for me, Dan, odds and end. While I was
daddy as Kenworth secretary, that is, once in a while I was.
When he got behind him catalogging books, I came in and did it for
him. Oh, sit on,Helen joined the wake. Well, I
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haven't much time. I want tosort out some papers. You can look
them over to morrow. Ten.I don't want to throw him out.
What papers? Mister Kenworth kept everything? Hey, collected bills, receipts,
pieces of twine. That's a patthat okay, just like to keep things,
including money. What do you meanit's the holiday. Where's his money?
We didn't leave any That's what theman said. But he didn't,
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did he? Ten? No?Then where it isn't Helen? Let me
explain you See, mister Holliday hasa complex to him. The simple act
of taking a drink of water isfilled with mystery and dark meaning. While
I'm behind my cloaking dagger, youtwo argue about it. I'll be all
finished tomorrow ten and you can lookover everything. See you later, mister
Holiday. Oh good, nice girl. Huh, don't matter. Don't you
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like her? I just matter?What do you want me to do?
Start sending orcards? Hey, comeon, let's take a walk. I'd
better go to the house. Ohyou're kidding. Why? Oh, just
to take a look. Expect tofind a million tucked away in an old
pillow case. You never can tella boy. Come on, just to
satisfy my curiosity. Okay, Isatisfied my curiosity. Ted nee of the
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old place back and forward. Almostall of the funiture had been cleared out,
and if there was a hiding placefor anything, we'd have found it.
But it's still bothered me, andit bothered me after I finally went
to bed. Then in the middleof the night, somebody was taking a
walk in the house. I gotout of bed, opened my door,
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and I went to Ted's room.Dead dead, wake up? Huh what's
the matter? Oh? Oh,then be quiet? What what's mate with
you? You're walking in? Yousleep? I heard someone upstairs? Oh,
large mice, go back to bed. I tell you, I heard
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someone walking around. What's directly aboutmy room? Room? Yeah? This
that old room I played in whenI was a kid. What's in there?
Oh? Cut it out, willyou? Damn? What's in that
room? Nothing? You saw ittrunk with some old toys in it.
That's all. I heard. Someonewalking around it there. Ah, you
were dreaming. You've got your headso crammed at the car. Huh yeah,
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so what did you? And Iare the only ones in the house,
That's what I said. But someonejust drove away from here. That
car was on the road, noton the grounds here. Drove away from
here, all right, It droveaway from here. Now go back to
sleep. The next dream you haveto tell Freud, not me. I
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know I've heard someone upstairs. Somebodywas going through that old room, which
Ted had used as a playroom whenhe was a kid. But why Ted
and I have gone through it witha fine tooth comb and there was nothing
there. But the next morning Iwanted a better luck, so Ted and
I went back. I don't knowwhy I'm doing this except to humor you.
Dan, there's nothing in this roomy? How old is that horn?
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I don't know? Maybe twenty years? Oh? Get this? Uncle Thaddy's
never threw away a thing, noteven his money. Still harping on that.
Yeah, hey yeah, what elseisn't that trunk? Oh? Baseball,
glove? Dust ball? Bad guys, just rabbits almus as old as
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I am. Then let's see topsstrings. That's all. And there's nothing
else in the room. Nope,Yet someone was up here last night looking
for something. Oh, Dan,stop it right? Huh? What's the
matter? I nothing nothing, Iguess. Come on, come on,
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come on, what are you gonnasay? Wait a minute, lose something?
I don't know why? Don't youknow? It seems to me there's
something missing from this bunch of jockwhat I can't remember, but there's one
thing toy on train? No,no, no, those things are all
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here, and what's missing? Comeon, Ted? Think? Oh,
but it's more than twenty years agotwenty five is more like it. Yet
you know something's missing. I don'tknow it's it's just that something hit me,
you know, like like a nameyou try to remember, or a
place or a day. All right, what I don't know, Dan,
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I can't remember. Oh I ammister Wilson. Come on in tacking childhood?
Theodore playing with toys again, justrummaging around? Uh, Dan,
this is Martin Wilson. Uncle's ajourney, mister Wilson, Dan Holiday,
Well, Theodore, the papers areall ready for the sale. You can
sign them anytime. Oh good,be glad to get it off my mind.
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But I kind of hate to seethe whole place go. Yes,
yes, indeed staying long, misterHoliday. No, just the weekend.
Were you looking for something, Theodore? H oh no, not in particular.
Well, when you're ready, we'llsign the papers. Oh excuse me,
mister Wilson. But but could Itake a look at the will?
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Will? What will Thadius Kenworth?What for? Dan's a writer, mister
Wilson, he's writing now. Butcould I look at it? That will
be up to Theodore, how aboutit? Ten? And when you've looked
at him? I don't know.I don't know. Is this the only
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will? Of course, it's theonly one I've been able to locate.
Well, Donne, what'd you find? Just the house and all it's in
it? And I said, thisclause states you'd receive the house and all
it's in it. Is there somethingcurious in that, mister Holiday. Maybe
here's a clause that strikes me asbeing peculiar. Which one's that? Oh?
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Listen, the happiest days of allof our lives are those spent in
innocence. If you would become happy, Theodore, then remember your childhood and
those things that were dare to you. Yeah, maybe the old boy was
right. Do you read any oddmeaning into that, mister Holiday? Do
you? Old Fad was a peculiarman, a very peculiar person. He
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had streaks and quirks, and oneof them was getting rid of a fortune
in time to keep anyone else fromenjoying. Maybe he thought people should work
for their money. What are yougetting sore about me? I'm not if
you're quite finished with this will,mister Holiday? Oh yes, I I
am. Thanks all right, we'dbetter get the business of signing the papers
over with. Theodore. Can't makea buyer wait forever you know? All
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right? Hi everyone? Oh hiHelen? What is this? While the
grim looks nothing? I'll be finishedto day, Ted, then you can
look over everything. Oh thanks,Oh Ted, I want to go for
a long Oh oh sure, excuseme, of course I'll finish my work
in here, Helen. I won'tno, not at all. Iry.
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What's the matter, Dan, I'mjust thinking. By one. I'm sure
I heard someone in that room lastnight. Ten. The room he uses
a playroom when you were a kid. Now, now, one, that
sentence on the will about your childhoodremembered if you want to be happy?
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Oh good look uncle. That wasa little well eccentric maybe, but it
ties in the player room your childhood. Someone looking for something and you're feeling
something was missing from that old trunkand look out Ted all right, yeah,
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but Jenny, give me that push. That coping stone would have nailed
you. It fell off of theroof. Yeah, hey, I guess
about time to get rid of theplace. It's falling up. Part that's
stone didn't fall, Ted, itwas pushed off. And now back to
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last Well and Nursery Rhyme. AnotherBox thirteen adventure with Alan Land as Damn,
Holliday, that's stone was pushed ted, and I went to the roof
saw the marks made when the stonehad been shoved forward, and it was
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meant to put the lights out forhim. Why, that's what I want
to know. Why, Because it'ssomething in this house someone wants to get
and keep you from getting. Youknow, you're almost making me believe this.
You've got to and you've got tothink what's missing from that old trunk?
Oh, I've tried, Dan,I can't. There was nothing in
it. Toys, that's all.Yet you say they're all there? Oh?
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I think so. Now wait aminute, let's go at this.
Logically, there were trains, bats, baseball, mit, mechanical toys,
things like that. What do youget, man, all this You wouldn't
have missed another of those things.So the thing that's missing must be different
from those, different enough to makeyou realize it's gone. Yeah, you're
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beginning to make sense. Are youtry making some Oh? Dann, I
can't. Great, look but eitherhen no, no? What oh the
thing that's missing? Oh? Maybeboth Wilson and Helen were in the house
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when that stone almost put apart inyour hair? Yeah, either one could
have shoved it off. It wasn'ttoo big or too heavy. Yeah,
but why kill me? Because thekey to this whole business is in your
head. As soon as you rememberwhat's missing from the trunk, you'll have
it. And both Helen and Wilsonhave keys to this place, and therefore
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either one could have come into thehouse the night I heard the problem in
the playroom. All right, wheredo we start? Now? We try
to find what was taken whoever hadit taken it away? And two hours
of pounding a Ted didn't help.He just couldn't remember what it was.
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Okay. I had an idea andtold Ted do you mean that? Yes,
you follow Wilson when he leaves,and I'll follow Helen. Oh,
I don't know. He Look,it's our only chance. Come right out
and accuse you the one, andthat'll be the end. We've got to
do it this way there, Wow, all right, wait ah there you
out there? Oh, hello Holiday, how are you? It's fine?
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Thank you? Good? Good?Wells here, Dore. It's all settled.
You're getting a good price for thisplace, but you'll have to leave
day after tomorrow. What the termsof the sail by a Once the media
Documentcy I'll put it off. Whatfor? Just put it off. Look
here, I sold this place foryou. Theodore got a fine price.
Yeah, but I didn't know I'dhave to leave right away. We should
have read the terms of the sail. I've got to be going on other
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things to take care of. Howdo you like that, I've got to
get out. Okay, that givesus less time. Are you following?
See what he does where he goesanything. I'll do the same with Helen.
Helen didn't leave until that afternoon,all right. Let her get a
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start in and drove after him.She didn't stop in the village, kept
growing in the town about twenty milesfarther. I kept a safe distance behind.
Then in the clown stopped. Thecar got out, and so did
I. So far this was ablind chase. Then she went into a
store and on the window was children'stoys and books. Toys and books,
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children's are I edged up to thewindow and looked in. Helen was talking
with a clerk, and she hadsomething in her hand, and from where
I stood, it looked like oneof those linen covered kid's books. Then
I saw the clerk go to ashop of books and looked them over.
Helen followed her. The clerk shookher head. Helen turned to leave,
and I ducked to keep out ofsight. Helen went to every toy shop
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in town, but every place shegot the same answers, shake of the
head. Okay, so it wasHelen who had taken a missing item from
the trunk, and it was akid's book. But why and what was
in that book? It was darkwhen she finally headed back to the village
at Fairoaks. She didn't know it, but she was going to get company
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that night. Well, well,then it's the holiday. Dan sounded better.
I was just in the village.Thought i'd drop in and say hello,
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I'm glad you did. Dan.Sit down, won't you? Oh,
thank you. I'll finish at thehouse. Yeah. Oh, things
weren't amiss. Daddy is ken Worthkept everything under the sun, including a
secret, just any secret. Iwonder what he did with his money?
Oh, why, don't think hehad any I believe he was an old
fraud when I lived the last fiveyears of his life on credit, all
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right, there must have been agood reason for everyone extending credit to him.
He was an institution around here.Everybody humored him. Well maybe why
maybe did you know him? No, but tradesmen wouldn't extend credit for five
years without expecting to get the money. I didn't know anything about that.
I'm sure you do. What.How was your trip in the town today,
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Helen? Pleasant? Profitable? You'rean odd person? Is a holiday
all the names? Dan, Rememberyou're still an odd person. You didn't
find what you were looking for?Did you? Was I looking for something?
All right, Helen, let's quitshadow boxing. You went into every
toy shop in Tounded. Is thata crime? Oh no, no,
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not at all. But shoving astone off of a roof might be called
one. What does that remark me, Helen? I want what you took
from the playroom at the house.Why didn't take anything? Oh? Yes
you did, and i'm uncle Thaddeus'spapers. You must have seen a letter
telling Ted to look in that trunkfor a clue, some sort of a
book. You're crazy, but it'sfun now. Hand it over, Helen.
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I told you I didn't take anything. Listen, that stone just miss
killing ten and anyone who wants tokill someone has a strong motive. For
sure, it was just an accident. I leaned on the stone. Sure,
sure, sure, but I willlook if we put two and two
together, the stone and the stolenbook. I wanted Hill, something funny.
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All right, you can have it, but it won't do you anymore
good than it did me. Let'sget out of here. Oh the ladies
armed, I'll kill you. Goright ahead. Stop. There must be
a lot of money to make youattempt to murder and threaten another. I
want that book, Helen, Nowstay away, take it easy. I'll
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take the gun with me and thebook. It was a little book of
nursery rhymes, the kind kids lookat hour after hour. I took it
back to Ted and told him whathad happened. Helen. But but why,
why? For what I've been harpingon since I've been here. Your
uncle's money and this book is theclue. Yeah, I remember it now,
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that's what was missing from the trunk. Sure look, Ted, Helen
went through your uncle's papers and foundsomething. I would have sworn it was
lawyer Wilson, and it's something Helenwas counting on, But I ruled him
on. Why well, when Ifirst saw her will, I noticed it
had been drawn up by another firmof attorneys. If you remember Wilson even
admitted he had to hunt for it. Then Helen must have found the letter
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telling you to look for this book. Yeah, but there's nothing but nursery
rhymes. We've been through it adozen times and there's not a marker a
piece of paper in it. Yes, I know, but we've got it.
Yeah, we've got it, andI've got to get out of here.
You've got to figure this out beforeyou leave. One shot up here,
you'll have as much chance of findingout. I know, but Mark,
come on, come on now,let's look through it again. See
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anything. No, I'll keep lookingat it. Well, wait a minute,
was he matter? Go back?What did you see? And didn't
see anything? It was something Ididn't see. Oh damn, you're crazy.
Humm looked in Look each rhyme isnumbered one, two, three,
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four, then six. Number fiveis missing. Hey, you're right Helen
took it. No, no,no she didn't. Why of course she
didn't. That's why she was tryingto buy another one like it. But
she couldn't. It's too old,all right. Number five is missing?
What was it? Oh? Hey, I can't remember that, Yes you
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can. I look number one,little miss Muffett. Number two simple simon
three, sing a song of sixpencefour three blind mice. Wait a minute,
mice, mice. No, no, no, that one's here.
No no, not Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock.
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It's not there, And I knowit was your uncle took it out rather
than market. He took it outto make it tough for you. Yeah,
but why that one? I tedin the hall at that grandfather's clock.
Yeah. I used to watch itfor hours when I was a kid.
Well, come on, hey,Dan, you're terrific. Okay,
here's o'clock. But it stopped.I try to whine it the other day,
but it wouldn't go. I listenedthe rest of the rhyme. The
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clock struck one, one, oneo'clock. This clock stopped at six.
No, no, Now, what'llhappen? We turn the hands until they
get to one. Well, don'tyou stand there? Boy? Do it?
Okay? Seven? Hey, nine, ten, eleven? Twell,
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easy one. Look the face cameopen. Hey there's a letter. We'll
get it out and read it.Yeah, yeah, read it, My
dear nephew. Since you've figured thisout, I must assume you've learned that
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money is to be earned not comeby easily? All right? Go to
the sun dial in the garden.Turn the indicator until it points to twelve.
You'll then be able to lift theface of the dial. In the
column you'll find negotiable bonds and securities. You'll Dan, Dan, I know
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you love me. Did you havea nice time after holiday? Great,
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Susie, great Dwyler Creston. Wellnot exactly, that's what I thought.
Oh, maybe you won't want togo to the party tonight. Then what
party? Well, we're all startingfrom the city hall, starting from the
city Hall. Why, Oh,it's a treasure hunt. It'll be loads
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of fun. Oh, Susie,how do you manage it? Good Night,
next week, same time. Throughthe courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Alan
Ladd stars as Dan Holiday in Boxthirteen. Box thirteen is directed by Richard
Sandville with an original story by RussellHughes. Original music has composed and conducted
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by Rudy Schrager. The part ofSusie is played by Sylvia Picker. Production
is supervised by Burne Carstenson. Thisis a Mayfair production from Hollywood. Watch
for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramounticshure, Welcome Back. I don't know
if having someone finding a large treasureafter two simple clues teaches the link between
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work and money, but give ongoal credit for trying. All right,
let's get into some listener comments onFacebook. Dorothy rights ahead, thanks for
all the hard work. I lovethe show in your commentaries. Listening to
Johnny mcderrell and Pete Kelly's Booze reallyjust highlights the brilliance of the writing and
casting of Pat Novak for it easilycould have been a lesser show. Looking
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forward for long and fruitful relationship withthe show. Thanks again. Well thanks
Dorothy, that's a keen observation.And well, here's a lot of shows
like that. They're amusing, they'refun to listen to, but at the
end of the day, they didn'tmake it because they had some fatal flaw
that stopped them from being tops.It's important to remember when listening to the
shows that golden age of detective showswas really a short period of time.
(32:04):
Most of the shows we listened toa ran between forty nineteen forty two and
nineteen fifty two. You had tobe really extra special to stand out from
the crowd of sluice ranging from theFalcon and Saint to Sam Spade and Philip
Marlow. That's why many good showsdidn't make it. You had to have
it all together and also be thereat the right time in order to stand
(32:27):
out. All right, well,we're gonna wrap it up. If you
have any of a comment, pleasefeel free to email me Box thirteen at
Great Detectors dot net, cast yourvote for the show on podcast Alley at
podcast Alley dot Great Detectors dot net, and remember to follow us at Radio
Detectives. From Boise, Idaho,this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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