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Original Release Date: March 29, 2010
Dan goes undercover as a sandhog to find out who's been sabotaging the construction of a tunnel.
Original Air Date: June 2, 1948
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Dan goes undercover as a sandhog to find out who's been sabotaging the construction of a tunnel.
Original Air Date: June 2, 1948
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of OldTime Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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get into Box thirteen three today.Well listen and then welcome back thirteen with
the Stile Faramond fixtures Allen lad As, Dan Holiday, big a little miss
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Jordan to looks thirteen care of Asdartakers. He needs your help. I dare
not go to the police for reasons. I'll explain when you see me.
Please come to my office to thesecurity. Please come to my office in
the security building. Signed Douglas McIntosh. Not much of a letter. But
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then, as the proverb says,great oaks from little acorns grow And before
this was over, the acorn grewinto a large, large oak. And
now back to Box thirteen and DanHoliday's newest adventure three to die. Thank
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it Macintosh, Thank a Scotch name, isn't it? Ah? You can
smell her the susie. What doyou want? Well, if this man
is the same Macintosh I looked up. He's building that new tunnel under the
river. Gee, maybe he wantsyou to be a Hedgehog. No,
Susie, they're called sandhog. Ohwhat will they think of? Nick?
Well, I think i'll see whatmister McIntosh has on his mind. I'll
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beat the security building, Susie,security building. Huh. It was the
only security I was to know untilthe whole thing was over. Anyway,
I went to Macintosh's office. Iwas shown right into an oversized man who
looked as big as the Washington Monumentof the Tweeds. He didn't waste much
time. So you're the many,yes, and the man? All right,
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you call me mac what's your name? Holiday? Dan? Holiday?
All right, now, Dan,I'm in trouble. Trouble gets around fast.
But look here, I'll tell youquick. I'm a contracted a bid
on this new tunnel, got thebid and posted I bund to finish the
tunnel in time. So far everything'sclear. But now then I am not
going to finish in time? Ohwhy not? Now we get to the
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point, then a sharp point.You say you're running into trouble, Hey,
sabotage. Why don't you call apolice, Hey, captain? Maybe
publicity unfavorable. Way, they can'trisk it. Oh then what's my problem?
I doubt who's doing this to me? You suspect someone of doing Look,
man, accidents like we've been havin'don't just happen. They're made broken.
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The air hoses, emory and thecompresses, hundreds of delays, little
things that add up to owls.I see another thing so far. The
men working for me think these thingsand accidents. At the moment they suspect
somebody's doing the dirty work in thattunnel, they'd walk out sand Huggan's dangerous
enough itself. In short, somebody'strying to ruin you. Exactly, it
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would drawn me, the contract wouldgo to someone else. They did not
get another contract for years. Butwhat can I do? I'm detective,
you see I I beg your pardon, mister McIntosh, But can't you see
I'm busy. Put you out telegram. I thought you ought to see it
right away. I treat it well, Oh it's it's all right. You
can talk and try to him Dan. This is Fred Harris, construction engineer
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Harris Dan Holiday. Now what aboutthat wire? The last shipment of concrete
we ordered was derailed about two hundredmiles from here. Good, well,
don't just stand there. Get everytruck out of the road. Get that
count right here. Yeah, tohave enough sense to think of that without
coming to me first, go ahead, get it down, Yes, sir,
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you see what I mean? Thenanother delay? Who's this Harris?
He thinks he's going to be myson in law. Also he thinks an
engineer and degree makes him a greatman. That it takes the place of
fifteen years of experience. That's anargument I'd rather watch on the sideline.
We're going with your story. Wehave to finish him three weeks around forfeit
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my contract. McIntosh told me everythingyou knew. It wasn't much, only
that whoever was doing the dirty workcausing accidents delays had to be working in
the tunnel. So we went tothe tunnel. But first, before I
was taken down into the workings,I was given khaki coveralls and a fiber
helmet and a little metal tag tohang around my neck. Mac explained the
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tag. Every sundhog gets one ofthose. It's got his own number on
it. What's it for? Ifyou heard a case un disease of the
bends. Yeah. At one sideof the tag it explains the man is
a case un working working under pressure. Oh so if the disease hits him
on the surface, he can begiven proper treatment. That's it. There
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are six places initiative where that canbe treated. The man is put into
a chamber, pressure increased, thengradually decreased him like a diver. He
comes up too fast the nitrogen andhis blood is forced into his tissues.
Causes pain and sometimes whoosh. Youseem to know a lot of rita.
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I'm a rider. A rider hasto know a little about everything. He
then, I hope you'll be ableto tell me more about what's going on
down there? All right, really, m I'm ready h true. Together
Mac and I rode one of thevoice down into the workings. My ears
began to pop from the pressure,and swallowed hard to keep them open.
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Then we came to the bottom ofthe shaft, about one hundred and fifty
people, or the surface of theground. Mac looked around for a minute
and then angers, Angers, here, come here. A short, powerfully
built man walked over to us.He was grinning as he said to Mac,
ah, what brings abortion to thetuddle? Angers? Meet a friend
of mine, Dan Holiday, DanAngers Capital with my foreman, best man
in the world in his line.I the best. We say yourself,
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Who do you do Jane? Howare you angers? First? Rachig ship
We had another little rubbers today,Mac another break in the air horse at
the shield, the horse whipped roomedand body for Levins, who has got
him right in the middle. He'sdone for this job. Won't work for
a month. Rock and rip anotherone. Hey, you're visiting us here,
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Dan, Well you might call itthe Dans later doing a story on
sand hugging once atmosphere, you'll getit here. You want to see the
works, Show around Angush and becareful of him. Don't you worry,
make good. I'll go back tothe office. Now, come back there
when you finished. Then, Oh, sure, it's got him worried,
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Dan, a little wonder every pennyhe stands to lose every penny. Worse
if I ever catched the one that'sdoing a child with the maroon with me
bare hands. You and Max seemto be good friends. And I started
to get it thirty years ago inScotland. Well, time's flitting. I
want to show me around. Sure, let's get going. I follow Angus
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into a big air lie. Itwas a rain horse, concrete compined with
double steel doors. As one doorclosed behind us, the pressure was built
up equaled after the tunnel the boltgradually, But I knew what would happen
if we went down fast case ondisease, a terrible racking pain. My
brother I had a lot of respectfor them and who worked on there day
after day, taking risks, bigchance every time in the center. Then
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he opened another steel door and Angusand I were in the tunnel itself.
As soon as my ears became usedto the noise, Angus guided me through
a small flash car. We goton and rolled down narrow gates tracks to
the center of the tunnel. Youcan hear me. This guar runs down
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by gravity like a handbrake on.It's you sluish, I'll stop. There's
a mortar for running back. Loopchieves tame and a job blake list.
How long is the tunnel? Thissaves about a hot me along new this
side. Hey, it's Gottard onthe other bank of the river. The
same time we did. Oh,did you have any trouble over there?
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No, only on the seat,but we're keeping up with them. I'll
keep raving until this thanks finished.Accidents or no accidents. How much time
had it got three weeks. Thankyou, Omegan. We've got to our
max fan of steelers every night.God, here's the end of the track.
I looked ahead. Tremendous scaffold roseinto the air. Men covered it
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like ants, working with nomadic drills. Shovels, wheelbarrows, dump trucks ran
back and forth, filled with themud and sales. I got of the
wall of earth that lay ahead.I looked up, and I felt a
little funny when I realized that rightover my head was the river, lots
of clean, fresh air, whiledown here was nothing but the deafening noise
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of the hammers and the thought thatdeath worked right next to every one of
these men. Hangers noticed me gazingup at the scaffold. Last time you
ever saw not thinly listening? Yes, yes, what holes? All that
mud back that she yield and compressedair, air, just air holding back
the river. Hay, you see, compressed air here in the tunnel is
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built up to a pressure equal tothe pressure that's shoven down from a pool.
Oh. In other words, ifthe pressure outside of this tunnel is
well forty five pounds for square inch, that's the pressure in here, right.
This may not fear. Good question, But what happens if the pressure
in here gets less? We'd getcrushed to jilly h nice thought Nash No
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Ore, there's always the changer ofthe blue out. What's that? Some
challenge? We hit the weak spotin the river. Bid, the bid
will kick all the pressure we've gotin heel and you get a blow out
like a tire blowing out. Hey, the main machinery equipment all bloom to
the surface of the river and intothe air. Does that ever happen?
Aye? And once only once?May Yellow. A man lived at Dilla
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boots tang if I staying off myhat to your boys down here? A
million people drive to every day.Yes, maybe not one of the hundred
stops to think how the funnel wasbuilt and what had cost not only in
money, but an injury in depth. When a man kicks to sandog and
it kicks to the danger too woundlyonly one We've only got the half crew
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working to d Oh, but twomen have been killed. Nobody wants to
be the third supercision, Mayvic.But watch the ministry in whom until the
third? Well, what I said, Anger showed me the whole thing.
All there were a million ways inwhich someone could sabotage the words breaking arrows,
happy to compress air gages, plotsof ways. Then later Angers took
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me to a complicated affair. Itwas like an elevator cage. In fact,
it wasn't elevator because Angers explained,this is the latest thing, combination
elevator and decompression kambom hal thing.We'll go back up, we go up,
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slow down. As we go up, the pressure and here is decreased
until it's equal to the end ofthe surface. Oh. There, there's
no danger of case on disease.Not if we go up slow enough and
the pressure is reduced. I setthe gages to do it for us.
Oh, I see, Well didyou see enough to write your story?
No? No, I don't thinkI have not chat so you didn't see
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anything done? Of course that mac, How could I? I was hoping
you let get an idea, Yeah, but I didn't. You're going back
again? What could I find?Pray? Tell you? Then, but
I don't think I could find it. Hey, you're advertised to adventure.
You couldn't get it in a betterplace? Yes, yes, I know
that. How could I explain myselfdown? May later use your imagination.
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Man, Well, suppose suppose Iwent back there as a worker, as
a sand dog. I mean,that's it, But you don't know anything
about it. I can handle ahammer, a shoveler. You'd get dirty
and tired, every muslin, Yourbody'd hollowed out load, an't you?
Well? I can always say I'mdoing it for my heart. Be a
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sand hog. See how it feels. Then right about it, by harry,
men, you've got it all rightdone, stunting the mother you're a
sand dog. Oh, that wasthe way to do it. But when
I got home that evening, Ithought about it, that huge scaffold men
scrambling over the pressure within the tunnel, holding back the tons and tons of
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mud and silk ready to come inand crush everyone. What if that pressure
failed? What if they had aweek spot on the river bed and there
was a blowout. The more Ithought about, the more inclined I was
to yes, agraph Oh, shoveit on the door, will you?
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Oh? And what a telegram itread. Save for the fact that I
don't want more bloodshed, you wouldhave gotten yours today. Stay away from
the tunnel or you will be thethird to die. And now back to
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Three to Die, another Box thirteenthadventure with Alan Land as Dan Holiday.
I showed back to telegram the nextday and what he said filled the air
with dark blue color for ten minutes. Then we could check to see who
sit this no die snack? Idid, and it was sent from a
pay phone book. I guess youwould be changing your remained about the job
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now or what makes you say that, Well, he's after you whoever it
is. Yes, you can backout if you want to. And what
would you think if I did?Does that make a difference? Nah,
But there are a lot of menin that tunnel to stand to lose their
lives. Mag You've got to getthe police. They can't the publicity would
ruin me. All right, fixit up for me to work down there,
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and we'll see what happens. Okay, So I became a sandhog for
three days. I used muscles thatthought they've gone on a criminal vacation.
Well I woke them up and theywoke me up in the middle of the
night. Aching. Then one dayin the tunnel I was talking with one
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of the sandhogs. You know,then you're done pretty well. When you
knew it this high egg Joe highache all over. Yeah, you'll get
used to mean. I don't thinkso. But Joe, tell me something,
Joe, what what about these accidentsdown here? Uh? Damn?
What about them? Well? Maybethey just parted the job. You know
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what do you think some of themain't just like that said? So?
Oh? I mean, well likea host like two guys untilled and what
I got? Hey, Joy?Yeah, yeah, okay, you had
to show you Dan that Kyle wa Clipchin had. Yeah. Look looking
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at the decompression chamber high well,Harris, yeah, Harris. Oh see
what I mean? That car didn'tlook like no accident. Thanks Joe.
And this is one time I canhonestly say it was it was bad.
I was showed. That's okay,you know something you were almost at safe
to die. Before leaving the tunnel, I ran down to the stock of
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that card. He had to stopump at the end of the track.
It was wrecked. But in thewreckage I found something. One of the
tags like the one I had.This one had the number fifty seven on
it, and I stepped in mypocket. Maybe one of the sandogs have
dropped it. Then, just asI was about to step into the decompesssion
Chamber Angers. Campbell came up tome, and you're a ship's going off
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done. I'm plenty for the day, almost more ways than one. Huh,
what do you mean? Come on, let's get in. I want
to get back up, all right. I'm worried. I can guess why.
Huh. Look, I know you'renot writing a story on Sandhogan,
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I know why you don't here?Oh you do? Hi, Max Dessert.
I want him to call it police, but he won't. How did
you find out about me? You'vebeen nosing around then that obviously I would
be careful that, Jeff, Yeah, I will be. Joe told me
about the card that almost got you. Somebody sent it down the tracks.
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Angers. Right, you've been withMac a long time, thirty years,
good ones, and yet you staywith a job. I could have a
top job up on the surface,I say, angus got any idea?
Who's doing all this? No?Harris? Huh why Mac doesn't like him?
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Ahduction Stan White, pointing Harris's ruininghis own feather in law father in
law to be Angers. Still nopoint? And how about the protection insurance
to cover the completion bond? Youmean Mac might be don't diss himself to
get the insurance. This could beNo, no, ladd the insurance wouldn't
have covered the laws. No,let's snow it. And why I wish
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I knew competitors? Do you thinkwhy they prim company? But no,
they wouldn't. They'd be too easyto find out. Men got a habit
to talk and talk it around.No, damn that snow them? And
who? Why? Why did someonetry to kill me? Today you've got
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the answers to those things done,and you'll have the whole thing well up
at the top. I walked tothe shack with you. No, I'm
going back June. But I thoughtyou were through for the day. I'm
still got much to do. Seeyou tomorrow. What angers had made sense?
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Couldn't be Max competitors because I checked, they'd been in business a long
time, they had plenty of moneybehind them, They'd gotten a bit for
another job of State and Harris.And it didn't make sense either. If
he was going to be Max Sonand Lawes didn't watch that he'd be sabotaging
me. So I changed clothes,thought a lot, and then went home,
would get some dinner. When andit hit me first of twins,
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sudden cramps that made me bend overas if someone had folded me in with
with a baseball back. The buildingsstarted a spin twist, and it got
all nice. Doc, there youare. You're all right now. I
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know this isn't very original, butwhere am I take a deep breath.
That's it. Feel better. Lots. What happened couldn't have been anything I
ate. You had the bends,the bends, the tag around your neck
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tip this off. You are sufferingfrom caseon disease, so we put you
in the chamber. Come on,get up. We may need dischamber for
someone else any minute. You makeit sound as bad as the housing situation.
Yes it is, but you're allright now. Next time, don't
come up so fast. But II didn't come up fast. Yes,
nothing, nothing at all. Thanksa minute doctor. That had me good.
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I knew why I came up slowly. Angus had been with me.
He he, I don't remember.That couldn't be not Angus. The next
day I went back to the job. I had just put on my cover
lls when when an idea hit me. I searched in my pocket. It
was something dan oh, no,Joe, I am it's easy to drop
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something out of these cover rolls.That's a number of your tag, Joe
tag. Oh the one we allwear in case we get the bends on
top? Yeah, five and two? Why got it on? Sure?
Always wear it here? It isuh huh? Why what are you getting
that? I don't know. Listen, I'm going back for something I forgot.
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I'll be a little late on thejob. Tele section boss for me.
When you shore where you're going,you're all heaped up. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I guess Iam Joe. I'll be back. I
went to Mac, told him you'dhave to go to the tunnel that day
and supervise operations. He thought Iwas crazy. What for to force you
opponents into the open where we canget a shot at them for a change.
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They don't get this look. They'regoing after you, but by accidents
things like that. But if you'rein the workings, they might be tempted
to direct the entire tunnel with onestroke. Do you mean they're going after
me? That's it? You wantme to lead with my chin lake that
co loading off first, lose thecontract. Money isn't ever exactly You're right,
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but men have been killed on thereyou've got to think of their lives
too. They do. Then geton with me and this once and for
all, force them into the open. You're going too, Yeah, because
I've got an idea, but Ican't prove a thing until we see the
last play. I was leading withMax's chin, and I knew it,
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but mine was plenty sort too,and that made me feel a bit better
about it. Mac knew we hadno ars, and so he decided to
go with me into the tunnel.I went to my job, and it
was particularly feeling knowing that any minutesomething might happen, something that would make
Joe mac Angus, any one ofus the third d God or worse.
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Then, Hey, Dan, funny, funny mud. I could have sworn
the mud down here. Wasn't thisdeep before? What do you mean,
Joe, that's to look around?The MUD's coming up getting high? Yeah,
yeah it is, Joe. Thepressure here must be going down,
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Danny. To get too low,that world will come in on us,
the whole river will being all left. Come on, let's get to the
gauges. Do what's the money pastsgoing down in here? Come? There's
nothing wrong with the great They reachthe hife rerecord or the cats. I
must getting higher. Look, lookI'm in a coming in. There's the
mud coming up this gags. Hey, there ain't going here being f the
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gages stop, damn saved them foranybody reason would think the pressure was okay,
getting the emergency compressors, pressures dry, stelling the compressions, get him
on, I got him watched thegages were at any pressure up? What's
about her? Angus? Somebody jumpedthe presser engage us to make it looked
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like we had a love deo toun. Save for those emergency compressiors, we'd
have a done tom. What didyou say, Angus? I said,
the emergency compressors. You said,save for the emergency saved for any way
of putting at Angus, either inwords or on a telegram, I said,
buzz your tag h right here?Yes, of a new chain,
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So as your tag. I thinkeup in that cart yesterday, the cart
that almost killed me. You're crazyand you you weren't anywhere around a minute
ago. I was coming in here, Dan, what'd you try to see?
There's your sabbatur mine. You're clearsieststock raven crazy? Yeah, and
he went back down. Yesterday todecompress yourself after I left the chamber.
You didn't turn on a decompression valvefor me on the way up. You're
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you're crazy man, crazy angers,because you were the only one who could
have played that trick on me getme out of the way by failing to
turn on the decompression valve. Youand I were the only ones in that
chamber. Hey, she's running backto the chief getting the Fargus compression recommend
it. But I never could thinkyou enough but to think that after thirty
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years, Angus would ever do athing like this. Mac, don't waste
time even thinking about it. Let'sgo phindash his tunnel instead. See what
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would the matter with him, misterhallibutty jealousy, Susy. You see,
he'd worked with Mac as a foreman. Then he saw Mac rise, I'm
a form under the owner of abig company. Thirty years every day he'd
go into the tunnel of just anemployee while Max stayed on top the big
boss. And it kind of madehim will jellah to put up milish Girlie.
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Well, that makes up my mindfor me, mister Holiday. Congratulations,
Susie, What do you mean Iquit Huh. Being about twenty nine
years Good Nights Seek the same timethrough the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Alan
Lads diars As Dan Holiday and Boxthirteen. Box thirteen is directed by Richard
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Sandville. Three to Die is anoriginal story by mister Sandville, adapted for
radio by Russell Hughes. Original musicis composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager.
A part of Susie is played bySylvia Picker. Production is supervised by Burne
Constance. This is a main Fairproduction from Hollywood. Moore Alan lad in
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his latest Paramount Pictures welcome back onceagain. We have another sand Hog story.
You'll remember that Let George Do Ithad a very similar story line a
few weeks ago. Um, andwe got a comment saying, yeah,
the Shadow actually did a sand Hogstory as well. It wasn't quite this,
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it had some similarities. One possibilityI might suggest is that the same
writer, just because writers tended towrite for different shows, that the same
writer wrote wrote at least uh theLet George Do It and the Box thirteen
script seems like it might be apossibility. But this, this apparently was
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something that could be sold and usedon different mystery shows because it is a
pretty a pretty interesting scenario as wellas as well as a unique way to
try and commit murder. All right, email from calling Hey Adam. I
love the show, especially like Georgeyou wit. I heard on the podcast
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that you were looking for new radioseries to year, and I want to
suggest Kenny Matson. The show isvery witty and the mysteries are good as
well. Also, I'm gonna recommendCasey Crime Photographers as others have. It's
a great show. Well, thanksso much for the recommendation calling in.
As I said on Friday, KennyMatson is definitely on my raids radar screen
and I will be listening to someCasey after Christmas or after Easter. Excuse
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me? All right, well,we're gonna go ahead and rat the show
up. Got any comment? Centerto me Bucks thirteen at Great Detectors dot
net. You can call in leavea voicemail for the show called two O
eight ninety nine one Great d That'stwo O eight nine nine one four seven
eight three. But from Boise,Idaho. This is your host, Adam
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Graham signing off.
Welcome to the Great Detectives of OldTime Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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the Stile Faramond fixtures Allen lad As, Dan Holiday, big a little miss
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Jordan to looks thirteen care of Asdartakers. He needs your help. I dare
not go to the police for reasons. I'll explain when you see me.
Please come to my office to thesecurity. Please come to my office in
the security building. Signed Douglas McIntosh. Not much of a letter. But
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then, as the proverb says,great oaks from little acorns grow And before
this was over, the acorn grewinto a large, large oak. And
now back to Box thirteen and DanHoliday's newest adventure three to die. Thank
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it Macintosh, Thank a Scotch name, isn't it? Ah? You can
smell her the susie. What doyou want? Well, if this man
is the same Macintosh I looked up. He's building that new tunnel under the
river. Gee, maybe he wantsyou to be a Hedgehog. No,
Susie, they're called sandhog. Ohwhat will they think of? Nick?
Well, I think i'll see whatmister McIntosh has on his mind. I'll
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beat the security building, Susie,security building. Huh. It was the
only security I was to know untilthe whole thing was over. Anyway,
I went to Macintosh's office. Iwas shown right into an oversized man who
looked as big as the Washington Monumentof the Tweeds. He didn't waste much
time. So you're the many,yes, and the man? All right,
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you call me mac what's your name? Holiday? Dan? Holiday?
All right, now, Dan,I'm in trouble. Trouble gets around fast.
But look here, I'll tell youquick. I'm a contracted a bid
on this new tunnel, got thebid and posted I bund to finish the
tunnel in time. So far everything'sclear. But now then I am not
going to finish in time? Ohwhy not? Now we get to the
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point, then a sharp point.You say you're running into trouble, Hey,
sabotage. Why don't you call apolice, Hey, captain? Maybe
publicity unfavorable. Way, they can'trisk it. Oh then what's my problem?
I doubt who's doing this to me? You suspect someone of doing Look,
man, accidents like we've been havin'don't just happen. They're made broken.
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The air hoses, emory and thecompresses, hundreds of delays, little
things that add up to owls.I see another thing so far. The
men working for me think these thingsand accidents. At the moment they suspect
somebody's doing the dirty work in thattunnel, they'd walk out sand Huggan's dangerous
enough itself. In short, somebody'strying to ruin you. Exactly, it
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would drawn me, the contract wouldgo to someone else. They did not
get another contract for years. Butwhat can I do? I'm detective,
you see I I beg your pardon, mister McIntosh, But can't you see
I'm busy. Put you out telegram. I thought you ought to see it
right away. I treat it well, Oh it's it's all right. You
can talk and try to him Dan. This is Fred Harris, construction engineer
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Harris Dan Holiday. Now what aboutthat wire? The last shipment of concrete
we ordered was derailed about two hundredmiles from here. Good, well,
don't just stand there. Get everytruck out of the road. Get that
count right here. Yeah, tohave enough sense to think of that without
coming to me first, go ahead, get it down, Yes, sir,
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you see what I mean? Thenanother delay? Who's this Harris?
He thinks he's going to be myson in law. Also he thinks an
engineer and degree makes him a greatman. That it takes the place of
fifteen years of experience. That's anargument I'd rather watch on the sideline.
We're going with your story. Wehave to finish him three weeks around forfeit
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my contract. McIntosh told me everythingyou knew. It wasn't much, only
that whoever was doing the dirty workcausing accidents delays had to be working in
the tunnel. So we went tothe tunnel. But first, before I
was taken down into the workings,I was given khaki coveralls and a fiber
helmet and a little metal tag tohang around my neck. Mac explained the
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tag. Every sundhog gets one ofthose. It's got his own number on
it. What's it for? Ifyou heard a case un disease of the
bends. Yeah. At one sideof the tag it explains the man is
a case un working working under pressure. Oh so if the disease hits him
on the surface, he can begiven proper treatment. That's it. There
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are six places initiative where that canbe treated. The man is put into
a chamber, pressure increased, thengradually decreased him like a diver. He
comes up too fast the nitrogen andhis blood is forced into his tissues.
Causes pain and sometimes whoosh. Youseem to know a lot of rita.
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I'm a rider. A rider hasto know a little about everything. He
then, I hope you'll be ableto tell me more about what's going on
down there? All right, really, m I'm ready h true. Together
Mac and I rode one of thevoice down into the workings. My ears
began to pop from the pressure,and swallowed hard to keep them open.
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Then we came to the bottom ofthe shaft, about one hundred and fifty
people, or the surface of theground. Mac looked around for a minute
and then angers, Angers, here, come here. A short, powerfully
built man walked over to us.He was grinning as he said to Mac,
ah, what brings abortion to thetuddle? Angers? Meet a friend
of mine, Dan Holiday, DanAngers Capital with my foreman, best man
in the world in his line.I the best. We say yourself,
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Who do you do Jane? Howare you angers? First? Rachig ship
We had another little rubbers today,Mac another break in the air horse at
the shield, the horse whipped roomedand body for Levins, who has got
him right in the middle. He'sdone for this job. Won't work for
a month. Rock and rip anotherone. Hey, you're visiting us here,
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Dan, Well you might call itthe Dans later doing a story on
sand hugging once atmosphere, you'll getit here. You want to see the
works, Show around Angush and becareful of him. Don't you worry,
make good. I'll go back tothe office. Now, come back there
when you finished. Then, Oh, sure, it's got him worried,
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Dan, a little wonder every pennyhe stands to lose every penny. Worse
if I ever catched the one that'sdoing a child with the maroon with me
bare hands. You and Max seemto be good friends. And I started
to get it thirty years ago inScotland. Well, time's flitting. I
want to show me around. Sure, let's get going. I follow Angus
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into a big air lie. Itwas a rain horse, concrete compined with
double steel doors. As one doorclosed behind us, the pressure was built
up equaled after the tunnel the boltgradually, But I knew what would happen
if we went down fast case ondisease, a terrible racking pain. My
brother I had a lot of respectfor them and who worked on there day
after day, taking risks, bigchance every time in the center. Then
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he opened another steel door and Angusand I were in the tunnel itself.
As soon as my ears became usedto the noise, Angus guided me through
a small flash car. We goton and rolled down narrow gates tracks to
the center of the tunnel. Youcan hear me. This guar runs down
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by gravity like a handbrake on.It's you sluish, I'll stop. There's
a mortar for running back. Loopchieves tame and a job blake list.
How long is the tunnel? Thissaves about a hot me along new this
side. Hey, it's Gottard onthe other bank of the river. The
same time we did. Oh,did you have any trouble over there?
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No, only on the seat,but we're keeping up with them. I'll
keep raving until this thanks finished.Accidents or no accidents. How much time
had it got three weeks. Thankyou, Omegan. We've got to our
max fan of steelers every night.God, here's the end of the track.
I looked ahead. Tremendous scaffold roseinto the air. Men covered it
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like ants, working with nomadic drills. Shovels, wheelbarrows, dump trucks ran
back and forth, filled with themud and sales. I got of the
wall of earth that lay ahead.I looked up, and I felt a
little funny when I realized that rightover my head was the river, lots
of clean, fresh air, whiledown here was nothing but the deafening noise
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of the hammers and the thought thatdeath worked right next to every one of
these men. Hangers noticed me gazingup at the scaffold. Last time you
ever saw not thinly listening? Yes, yes, what holes? All that
mud back that she yield and compressedair, air, just air holding back
the river. Hay, you see, compressed air here in the tunnel is
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built up to a pressure equal tothe pressure that's shoven down from a pool.
Oh. In other words, ifthe pressure outside of this tunnel is
well forty five pounds for square inch, that's the pressure in here, right.
This may not fear. Good question, But what happens if the pressure
in here gets less? We'd getcrushed to jilly h nice thought Nash No
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Ore, there's always the changer ofthe blue out. What's that? Some
challenge? We hit the weak spotin the river. Bid, the bid
will kick all the pressure we've gotin heel and you get a blow out
like a tire blowing out. Hey, the main machinery equipment all bloom to
the surface of the river and intothe air. Does that ever happen?
Aye? And once only once?May Yellow. A man lived at Dilla
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boots tang if I staying off myhat to your boys down here? A
million people drive to every day.Yes, maybe not one of the hundred
stops to think how the funnel wasbuilt and what had cost not only in
money, but an injury in depth. When a man kicks to sandog and
it kicks to the danger too woundlyonly one We've only got the half crew
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working to d Oh, but twomen have been killed. Nobody wants to
be the third supercision, Mayvic.But watch the ministry in whom until the
third? Well, what I said, Anger showed me the whole thing.
All there were a million ways inwhich someone could sabotage the words breaking arrows,
happy to compress air gages, plotsof ways. Then later Angers took
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me to a complicated affair. Itwas like an elevator cage. In fact,
it wasn't elevator because Angers explained,this is the latest thing, combination
elevator and decompression kambom hal thing.We'll go back up, we go up,
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slow down. As we go up, the pressure and here is decreased
until it's equal to the end ofthe surface. Oh. There, there's
no danger of case on disease.Not if we go up slow enough and
the pressure is reduced. I setthe gages to do it for us.
Oh, I see, Well didyou see enough to write your story?
No? No, I don't thinkI have not chat so you didn't see
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anything done? Of course that mac, How could I? I was hoping
you let get an idea, Yeah, but I didn't. You're going back
again? What could I find?Pray? Tell you? Then, but
I don't think I could find it. Hey, you're advertised to adventure.
You couldn't get it in a betterplace? Yes, yes, I know
that. How could I explain myselfdown? May later use your imagination.
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Man, Well, suppose suppose Iwent back there as a worker, as
a sand dog. I mean,that's it, But you don't know anything
about it. I can handle ahammer, a shoveler. You'd get dirty
and tired, every muslin, Yourbody'd hollowed out load, an't you?
Well? I can always say I'mdoing it for my heart. Be a
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sand hog. See how it feels. Then right about it, by harry,
men, you've got it all rightdone, stunting the mother you're a
sand dog. Oh, that wasthe way to do it. But when
I got home that evening, Ithought about it, that huge scaffold men
scrambling over the pressure within the tunnel, holding back the tons and tons of
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mud and silk ready to come inand crush everyone. What if that pressure
failed? What if they had aweek spot on the river bed and there
was a blowout. The more Ithought about, the more inclined I was
to yes, agraph Oh, shoveit on the door, will you?
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Oh? And what a telegram itread. Save for the fact that I
don't want more bloodshed, you wouldhave gotten yours today. Stay away from
the tunnel or you will be thethird to die. And now back to
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Three to Die, another Box thirteenthadventure with Alan Land as Dan Holiday.
I showed back to telegram the nextday and what he said filled the air
with dark blue color for ten minutes. Then we could check to see who
sit this no die snack? Idid, and it was sent from a
pay phone book. I guess youwould be changing your remained about the job
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now or what makes you say that, Well, he's after you whoever it
is. Yes, you can backout if you want to. And what
would you think if I did?Does that make a difference? Nah,
But there are a lot of menin that tunnel to stand to lose their
lives. Mag You've got to getthe police. They can't the publicity would
ruin me. All right, fixit up for me to work down there,
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and we'll see what happens. Okay, So I became a sandhog for
three days. I used muscles thatthought they've gone on a criminal vacation.
Well I woke them up and theywoke me up in the middle of the
night. Aching. Then one dayin the tunnel I was talking with one
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of the sandhogs. You know,then you're done pretty well. When you
knew it this high egg Joe highache all over. Yeah, you'll get
used to mean. I don't thinkso. But Joe, tell me something,
Joe, what what about these accidentsdown here? Uh? Damn?
What about them? Well? Maybethey just parted the job. You know
(16:56):
what do you think some of themain't just like that said? So?
Oh? I mean, well likea host like two guys untilled and what
I got? Hey, Joy?Yeah, yeah, okay, you had
to show you Dan that Kyle wa Clipchin had. Yeah. Look looking
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at the decompression chamber high well,Harris, yeah, Harris. Oh see
what I mean? That car didn'tlook like no accident. Thanks Joe.
And this is one time I canhonestly say it was it was bad.
I was showed. That's okay,you know something you were almost at safe
to die. Before leaving the tunnel, I ran down to the stock of
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that card. He had to stopump at the end of the track.
It was wrecked. But in thewreckage I found something. One of the
tags like the one I had.This one had the number fifty seven on
it, and I stepped in mypocket. Maybe one of the sandogs have
dropped it. Then, just asI was about to step into the decompesssion
Chamber Angers. Campbell came up tome, and you're a ship's going off
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done. I'm plenty for the day, almost more ways than one. Huh,
what do you mean? Come on, let's get in. I want
to get back up, all right. I'm worried. I can guess why.
Huh. Look, I know you'renot writing a story on Sandhogan,
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I know why you don't here?Oh you do? Hi, Max Dessert.
I want him to call it police, but he won't. How did
you find out about me? You'vebeen nosing around then that obviously I would
be careful that, Jeff, Yeah, I will be. Joe told me
about the card that almost got you. Somebody sent it down the tracks.
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Angers. Right, you've been withMac a long time, thirty years,
good ones, and yet you staywith a job. I could have a
top job up on the surface,I say, angus got any idea?
Who's doing all this? No?Harris? Huh why Mac doesn't like him?
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Ahduction Stan White, pointing Harris's ruininghis own feather in law father in
law to be Angers. Still nopoint? And how about the protection insurance
to cover the completion bond? Youmean Mac might be don't diss himself to
get the insurance. This could beNo, no, ladd the insurance wouldn't
have covered the laws. No,let's snow it. And why I wish
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I knew competitors? Do you thinkwhy they prim company? But no,
they wouldn't. They'd be too easyto find out. Men got a habit
to talk and talk it around.No, damn that snow them? And
who? Why? Why did someonetry to kill me? Today you've got
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the answers to those things done,and you'll have the whole thing well up
at the top. I walked tothe shack with you. No, I'm
going back June. But I thoughtyou were through for the day. I'm
still got much to do. Seeyou tomorrow. What angers had made sense?
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Couldn't be Max competitors because I checked, they'd been in business a long
time, they had plenty of moneybehind them, They'd gotten a bit for
another job of State and Harris.And it didn't make sense either. If
he was going to be Max Sonand Lawes didn't watch that he'd be sabotaging
me. So I changed clothes,thought a lot, and then went home,
would get some dinner. When andit hit me first of twins,
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sudden cramps that made me bend overas if someone had folded me in with
with a baseball back. The buildingsstarted a spin twist, and it got
all nice. Doc, there youare. You're all right now. I
(21:12):
know this isn't very original, butwhere am I take a deep breath.
That's it. Feel better. Lots. What happened couldn't have been anything I
ate. You had the bends,the bends, the tag around your neck
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tip this off. You are sufferingfrom caseon disease, so we put you
in the chamber. Come on,get up. We may need dischamber for
someone else any minute. You makeit sound as bad as the housing situation.
Yes it is, but you're allright now. Next time, don't
come up so fast. But II didn't come up fast. Yes,
nothing, nothing at all. Thanksa minute doctor. That had me good.
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I knew why I came up slowly. Angus had been with me.
He he, I don't remember.That couldn't be not Angus. The next
day I went back to the job. I had just put on my cover
lls when when an idea hit me. I searched in my pocket. It
was something dan oh, no,Joe, I am it's easy to drop
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something out of these cover rolls.That's a number of your tag, Joe
tag. Oh the one we allwear in case we get the bends on
top? Yeah, five and two? Why got it on? Sure?
Always wear it here? It isuh huh? Why what are you getting
that? I don't know. Listen, I'm going back for something I forgot.
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I'll be a little late on thejob. Tele section boss for me.
When you shore where you're going,you're all heaped up. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I guess Iam Joe. I'll be back. I
went to Mac, told him you'dhave to go to the tunnel that day
and supervise operations. He thought Iwas crazy. What for to force you
opponents into the open where we canget a shot at them for a change.
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They don't get this look. They'regoing after you, but by accidents
things like that. But if you'rein the workings, they might be tempted
to direct the entire tunnel with onestroke. Do you mean they're going after
me? That's it? You wantme to lead with my chin lake that
co loading off first, lose thecontract. Money isn't ever exactly You're right,
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but men have been killed on thereyou've got to think of their lives
too. They do. Then geton with me and this once and for
all, force them into the open. You're going too, Yeah, because
I've got an idea, but Ican't prove a thing until we see the
last play. I was leading withMax's chin, and I knew it,
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but mine was plenty sort too,and that made me feel a bit better
about it. Mac knew we hadno ars, and so he decided to
go with me into the tunnel.I went to my job, and it
was particularly feeling knowing that any minutesomething might happen, something that would make
Joe mac Angus, any one ofus the third d God or worse.
(24:15):
Then, Hey, Dan, funny, funny mud. I could have sworn
the mud down here. Wasn't thisdeep before? What do you mean,
Joe, that's to look around?The MUD's coming up getting high? Yeah,
yeah it is, Joe. Thepressure here must be going down,
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Danny. To get too low,that world will come in on us,
the whole river will being all left. Come on, let's get to the
gauges. Do what's the money pastsgoing down in here? Come? There's
nothing wrong with the great They reachthe hife rerecord or the cats. I
must getting higher. Look, lookI'm in a coming in. There's the
mud coming up this gags. Hey, there ain't going here being f the
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gages stop, damn saved them foranybody reason would think the pressure was okay,
getting the emergency compressors, pressures dry, stelling the compressions, get him
on, I got him watched thegages were at any pressure up? What's
about her? Angus? Somebody jumpedthe presser engage us to make it looked
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like we had a love deo toun. Save for those emergency compressiors, we'd
have a done tom. What didyou say, Angus? I said,
the emergency compressors. You said,save for the emergency saved for any way
of putting at Angus, either inwords or on a telegram, I said,
buzz your tag h right here?Yes, of a new chain,
(25:45):
So as your tag. I thinkeup in that cart yesterday, the cart
that almost killed me. You're crazyand you you weren't anywhere around a minute
ago. I was coming in here, Dan, what'd you try to see?
There's your sabbatur mine. You're clearsieststock raven crazy? Yeah, and
he went back down. Yesterday todecompress yourself after I left the chamber.
You didn't turn on a decompression valvefor me on the way up. You're
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you're crazy man, crazy angers,because you were the only one who could
have played that trick on me getme out of the way by failing to
turn on the decompression valve. Youand I were the only ones in that
chamber. Hey, she's running backto the chief getting the Fargus compression recommend
it. But I never could thinkyou enough but to think that after thirty
(26:30):
years, Angus would ever do athing like this. Mac, don't waste
time even thinking about it. Let'sgo phindash his tunnel instead. See what
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would the matter with him, misterhallibutty jealousy, Susy. You see,
he'd worked with Mac as a foreman. Then he saw Mac rise, I'm
a form under the owner of abig company. Thirty years every day he'd
go into the tunnel of just anemployee while Max stayed on top the big
boss. And it kind of madehim will jellah to put up milish Girlie.
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Well, that makes up my mindfor me, mister Holiday. Congratulations,
Susie, What do you mean Iquit Huh. Being about twenty nine
years Good Nights Seek the same timethrough the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Alan
Lads diars As Dan Holiday and Boxthirteen. Box thirteen is directed by Richard
(27:38):
Sandville. Three to Die is anoriginal story by mister Sandville, adapted for
radio by Russell Hughes. Original musicis composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager.
A part of Susie is played bySylvia Picker. Production is supervised by Burne
Constance. This is a main Fairproduction from Hollywood. Moore Alan lad in
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his latest Paramount Pictures welcome back onceagain. We have another sand Hog story.
You'll remember that Let George Do Ithad a very similar story line a
few weeks ago. Um, andwe got a comment saying, yeah,
the Shadow actually did a sand Hogstory as well. It wasn't quite this,
(28:25):
it had some similarities. One possibilityI might suggest is that the same
writer, just because writers tended towrite for different shows, that the same
writer wrote wrote at least uh theLet George Do It and the Box thirteen
script seems like it might be apossibility. But this, this apparently was
(28:48):
something that could be sold and usedon different mystery shows because it is a
pretty a pretty interesting scenario as wellas as well as a unique way to
try and commit murder. All right, email from calling Hey Adam. I
love the show, especially like Georgeyou wit. I heard on the podcast
(29:10):
that you were looking for new radioseries to year, and I want to
suggest Kenny Matson. The show isvery witty and the mysteries are good as
well. Also, I'm gonna recommendCasey Crime Photographers as others have. It's
a great show. Well, thanksso much for the recommendation calling in.
As I said on Friday, KennyMatson is definitely on my raids radar screen
and I will be listening to someCasey after Christmas or after Easter. Excuse
(29:36):
me? All right, well,we're gonna go ahead and rat the show
up. Got any comment? Centerto me Bucks thirteen at Great Detectors dot
net. You can call in leavea voicemail for the show called two O
eight ninety nine one Great d That'stwo O eight nine nine one four seven
eight three. But from Boise,Idaho. This is your host, Adam
(29:57):
Graham signing off.
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