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Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Avenger.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The road to crime ends in a trap that justice sets,
crime does not pay.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil, is actually Jim Brandon,
a famous biochemist. Through his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has
perfected several inventions to aid him in his crsade against
crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable of these inventions is
the highly secret diffusion capsule, which cloaks him in the
black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistant, the beautiful Fern Cordier,
(01:57):
is the only one who shares his secrets and knows
that he the man the underworld fears as the Avenger,
and now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The Avenger and the keys to the city.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
May Grinshaw, Yes, what is it, Lloyd?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
There are a few details I'd like to clear up
with you before I leave. Can you spam me a
minute now, of course, Lloyd. Well, here, this is a
daily schedule I made for covering all your appointments while
I'm on vacation.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Fine, Lloyd, Fine, Frankly, I don't know how I'm going
to get along without you for two weeks. Well, if
you'd rather I didn't go, mere Grimshaw, Oh no, you've
burned arrest Lloyd and I want you to take it
too bad that you can't come along there. Have that
bitter political campaign you've just been through. You probably need
a vacation more than I do. If I went away
for a rest, my enemies would probably maneuver me out
(02:52):
of office before I got back. They certainly don't let
up on you for a minute, do they. No, that
young district Attorney Michael Zane is a fighter. You'll never
forgive me for being elected?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, Saye and the ex mayor were great pals. They
worked hand and glove and everything, so naturally Zaine wanted
to seem reelected.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
How long have you been weathering the political storms here
at city Hall, Lloyd? Oh? Fifteen years? May Frenshaw, fifteen years.
Remind me to give you a medal when you get back. Now,
let me see what's on the day's schedule.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Oh plenty, Your new cultural movement gets somewhere today.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh that at.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Noon you give the keys to the city to Ruscoe
Marbury the Explorer lecture.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Oh yes, How the voters can't say that I'm not
living up to my campaign promises. I promised them culturing
and I'm delivering it promptly. Keys are in the top
drag of your desk. And here's the speech that goes
with them. Thank you Lloyd. Now you better run along
and you'll mess your train. Good hing, and bring me
back one of those famous oak you proud and so,
(04:00):
mister Marbury. It is with great pleasure and I present
to you the keys to our city. Even though they
are but token keys, they will unlock the hearts and
minds of our good citizens. I feel confident that you
will find our city a most fertile field for the
great cultural growth to which your whole life has been dedicated.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Thank you, your honor.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I accept these keys with great pride because I know
they represent the great esteem with which your citizens regard
a humble spokes for the arts. I will begin my
series of lectures this afternoon. I hope I may look
forward to seeing all of you. Then, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Question that Roscal Marbury is certainly a fascinating person.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yes he is.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
His first lecture was a great success. Firm he held
that audience fell down from two o'clock to you made.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Me want to visit all those glamorous places he told about.
It must be wonderful to travel all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, it's not as wonderful as it sounds. Now, young lady,
how about getting back to those reports we were working
on before we went to.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
The lecture, right, Jim, I'll get my book.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh, I'll chippern.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Hello, Jim, where are the places? If you've been I've
been trying to get juices. Three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, I was at a lecture. What's the trouble, Inspector.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
There's been an explosion and here at the public library.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
An explosion in the library. Yes, some valuable books have
been stolen.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Get down here as fast as you can, Jim.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
Well, here you are, Jim. This is the first edition
room where the explosion occurred.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Here couldn't have been much of an explosion, Inspector. Everything
seems to be intact.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
The door was blown open, Jim, that's all.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, let me get this straight, Inspector. Your theory is
that someone blew the lock on that door, enter this room,
selected the five most valuable books from these shelves, and
made us get away down that back stairway at the
end of the hall.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Yah, I said Jim.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Who had access to this room only the custodian. No
one else has ever permitted inside this room. He's personally
responsible for all these books.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I see. Well, let's have a look at the door.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Looked as if a small bomb or grenade was placed
either on the door knob or inside that lock.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That's the way I figured it, Jim.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Since the library was open at the time the explosion occurred,
some of the librarians from downstairs must have come up
here immediately upon hearing the sound. Yeah, there's three of them.
Came on the run, but the thief was gone for
that time, all of which would seem to add up
to one conclusion.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Berlarm, Glad you agree with me on that, Jim. I
think the custodian is guilted.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It would seem so, because if access to this room
was gained by blowing open that door, only the man
who knew whether those books were placed on the shelves
could find them and make his escape within a single
minute that elapsed before the three librarians arrived on the scene.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Oh, it's how I reason it out.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
I think the custodian blasted this lock merely as a cup
were up to make it look like a common robbery.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The time element completely rules out the possibility of an
outside job. Only a person who had access to this
room could have stolen those books.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Right now, Even though this evidence is all negative, Jim,
it's enough to make an arrest.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Come on, let's find that custodian.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Oh gosh, Jim, I'd almost given you up. Marburry's already
begun his lecture in the adjoining gallery.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Why don't you go in?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Burn?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I got held up at headquarters.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Hasn't that custodian confessed yet?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And strangely enough, I'm beginning to doubt his guilt. However,
since he can't furnish an alibi, we'll have to hold
him for the time being. Well, shall we go in?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
We better if you want to maintain social position. Everybody
with anybody who's in there, and the mayor district atterechnique.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Two seats near the backburn.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
To an end.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
He is a great artist, not because of his ingenuity
and disrespect conventions, but rather because of the magnificent spiritual
fire that makes his expression candidate. Note the richness and
depth of color in those portraits and figure compositions hanging
there to your left. These would never be called mere
technical achievements of high order. They are neither stylized nor dated,
(08:22):
and they never can be. The relentless hand of time
can never touch me.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Keep your seat, Keep your seats, please, everybody, please keep
your seats. Mister Marbury, please continue with your lecture. I'm
sure there is no need for alarm. I will inform
the police immediately and this matter will be investigated.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Come on, friend, was there anyone injured in this explosion, Jim.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No, Inspector, it parallels that Libry explosion exactly.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The lock on this vault was blown just like the other.
That's right. What's missing, Jim, Now you'd better hold onto
your head, inspector, Doctor Harbaugh. Though Curata reports that three
priceless paintings are gone, he's preparing a full description of them.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
Well, Jim, this second robbery proves wor up against a
professional thief.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And there we made a big take about that library custodium.
One thing is certain, anyway, he didn't pull.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
This job any ideas, Jim.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yes, this vault door was blown from the inside out.
That definitely establishes the fact that the explosion is a
cover up and doesn't occur until after the criminal gets away. Now,
this steel door tells a much straighter story than that
wooden one. In the library. I'll take that lock down
to my laboratory and give it a going over.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
It looks like we're in for some trouble. Jim, here
comes the mayor.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
If here, Inspector East Bombington public buildings are beginning to
look mighty suspicious.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
I agree with you, Mayor Grenhaw. Have you got any
ideas might help somevin that's your department. But off hand,
I'd say these steps are being committed deliberately to embarrass
my administration and everything stand for.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
That's carrying politics pretty high.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I don't think there's any limit to what the opposition
will do get me out of office. District Attorney's saying, threatened,
here do I hate it easy?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Mayre Grench.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I won't take it easy, and you'd better not either
if you want to keep your job. I'm giving you
forty eight hours to crack this case and deliver the criminal.
And the bigger he is, the better I'll like it.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Inspector White speaking.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Inspector, this is District Attorney's.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Saying, Oh, yes, missus An, I hear.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Mair Grenshaw's writing you pretty hard on these robberies.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Yes, that's right, I don't mind ad many I'm up
to a blind alley on both of them.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I understand I want to help.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
If you like, I'll send several men from my office
I over to work with you.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Well, that's very kind of you, missus, Am, But right
now I'm might. I have nothing for them to do.
If any leeds develop, I certainly let you know.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Do that, Inspector. This is a nasty business.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's up to us to clean it up. Maya's proved
he's utterly incompetent.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Goodbye.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
According to the directions they gave us at the hotel
in Okie, Jim, we turn left at the next flok
in the road and the boat houses a little beyond that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, I certainly hope we find Sarah's Lloyd fishing out
of here as they said for him. Otherwise we've wasted
some very precious.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Time, Jim. I simply can't understand why you're so eager
to have a.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Talk with law.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Neither could the mayor. He flatly refused to tell me
where Lloyd was. I finally got the information through one
of his clerks.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
But Lloyd couldn't have had anything to do with those
robberies in the city, Jim. According to the hotel manager
up the year. He's never been away for a hotel
for more than three hours at a time since he
arrived in Oak.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Lloyd is on the inside of things at city Hall.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
If these robberies are in any way connected with a
political fude, I believe he's the man who can tip
us off.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Do you think that's the motive behind the.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Robberies then, oh, I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm
on the track of something that Lloyd may be able
to explain. If he can, then this trip is really
a short hout to the solution of this case. You see,
fern I picked up them anute but interesting piece of
evidence when I examined that lock from the museum vault.
Oh oh, there's the boat house just ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Oh, and that lone fisherman at the end of the
dock must be Lloyd.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Come on, parn.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Hello there catching anything?
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Oh what are you doing up here?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, I'm after some information about those bombings and THEEPS.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Lloyd information for me. I have been up he hoped
view for two days.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I know that, but I thought you might be able
to tell me who's trying to frame home in city Hall.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Hey, what do you mean by that? Brandon.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
You're trying to insinuate that the mayor had anything.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
By that house gation. He's pulling off the door.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Now back to the Avenger and the keys to the city.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Go back, contest.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He's falling off the doors of the word after him.
He's over there him.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
I assume hurry, he's going down. Jim here, comes to
car and get help.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Stop.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Stop, he was in the water, didn't Hell, I got
I got the rope in the car.
Speaker 13 (15:04):
Orry, Ranger, come on out here at the end of
the dock, jim Jimmy, you all right.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Yes, I've got him.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I here's the rope.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Grab on now, okay, let me help you with the rope.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Pull him in along side of the dock. Here waters
shallow there.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, well now they are.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Right all right, that is that's safe. Let's go down
and help men. Hey one of those Oh then bad shape.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Jimmy is going all right.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'm I'm afraid not burn.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
All right.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Here.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Let me get a hand with him. We'll put my
hair down the bank.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Give him oft official respiration.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think he's dead, Ranger. He was shot in the
back before he was heel into the water. What that's right.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
We were standing here talking to him when somebody shot him.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
He did all right, bullet wound the left shoulder. Well,
come along, I have to deliver you to the sheriff
an off view.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Huh just a minute. We have nothing to do with
this man's death. I'm Jim Brandon. I'm connected with the
police department.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Here are my credential.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I don't care who you are.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
You're coming of me.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Listen, ranger, let's not waste time on doing there's a
murderer on the loose around here someplace.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Come on, before I get tough about it, turn drive
back to the hotel and call Inspector White.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
All right, you down.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
This young lady's coming along too. You're both under arrest
on suspicion of murder.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Jim, I'm getting worried. Do you suppose the inspector will
come up to get us out of here? I think
you have to spend the night in this jail.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, don't worry, Kurn. Inspector ought to be here any minute.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's nearly four hours since we call them.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Do you think there's a possibility that he's packed this
case himself and letting us sweat it out of here.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
In the opening, Jam, no, Pern, don't start imagining things.
Inspector's too smart to play a joke that would backfire
on him in the future.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Not stubbing, Sheriff would listen to reason.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Ah, here's the inspector now, Jim, a fine mess you
got yourself into up here. Never mind that. Now, sigustraighten
things out so we could go. Yeah, sheriff gave me
the key to let you out.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I thought you'd never get here, Inspector.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
First, I tried to get District Attorney's and he called
the sheriff up here a nine things out, but he.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
He refused to get involved. He acted like he was
glad to get rid of you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Jim, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Come on, Inspector, that murder trail is getting colder by
the minute. That's right, Inspector. Lloyd was standing there where
you are when he got that shot on the bank.
Howel and the shot must have come from across the lake, Jim, Yes,
(17:53):
and that means the range was a thousand yards. We'll
be only a cracked shot with a telescopic lens on
his gun could make an accurate out at that distance.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Well out a narrow down our list of suspects. He
tell me, Jim, who knew that you were coming up
here to question layd?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Inspector?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Was no secret. The Mayor and practically his whole office staff.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Knew it, which includes a few of the Da stooges.
If you want to put any stock in rumors, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh by the way, Nan, when you called mister Marbury
to cancel our luncheon engagement, did you mention where we
were going?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I'm not sure, Jim, I think I did.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Though.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
In other words, Jim, anyone even slightly interested in your
activities could have found out that you were coming up here.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I'm afraid so.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But that's not what what's worrying me now, Inspector, do
you realize that we've only about twenty hours left to
track down our criminal? Otherwise this case will wind up
your career as a police inspector.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Come in, Randonsclia Wen.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Glee, thank you, your honor.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
It was a terrible thing that happened to Lloyd now
miss him, Madley, Mayor Grenshaw, May I come straight to
the point.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I won't ask you a few questions.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Of course, fire away, Brandon, how.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Long have you known Cyrus Lloyd office.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He was a party secretary here at City Hall, but
I had never met him until I was elected Mayor.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Did Llyd have access to the city keys?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yes, I suppose so. The keys are kept in a
small safe right over there. I suppose he knew the combination.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
May I see the keys, Mayor Grenshaw.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, it's an unusual request, Brandon.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I understand your reticence, Mayor, but I'd like to have
a look at them. You can call it a request
from the police department.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Uh uh, all right, I'll get them now.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You doesn't seem to trust you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
He makes that rather evident, doesn't he.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Well, frankly, I don't trust him either.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Quiet here he comes. Yeah, the keys, Brandon, Oh, thank you.
I see they're all labeled. Oh yes, this one is
for the library, that's the museums, wonder for the municipal settle,
the citizens swimming pool, and this last one for the
city Hall of.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All ex goodness, Yes, miss Kirby. Who oh, all right
to send him in. It's Marbury, Marbury. Have you finished
with the keys? Brand Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Put them right back in the safe. If anything should
happen in these keys, I really would be in trouble.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
This is the proper keys.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I'll tell you later.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Friend, glad to see him, Marbury, leave in your honor
till youre. I can only stay a moment Mayor Grenshaw,
on my way to the lecture.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
The last run of the series, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yes, I'll be leaving tomorrow, and I'm really sorry you've
made me most welcome here.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
For the purpose of this visit is to ask you
a flavor, of course.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, I seem to have misplaced the keys to the
city you gave me when I arrived. Either that or
they've been stolen.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Don't worry about that, Marlbory. Those keys were only cardboard
covered with yielded ten. Nobody would steal in.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, that's what District Attorney Zaane told me.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Zane.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes, he was visiting me at my hotel when I discovered.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
They were missing, and thinking nothing of it.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Well, in that case, I wonder if you'd give me
into set just to keep his a souvenir.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Certainly we've dozens of them.
Speaker 14 (21:18):
I'll have enough set brought in right away, Jim.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I can't understand why you wouldn't attend more Brede's lecture tonight.
His subject was no tiger in Africa, and.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I thought it was a friend.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We had more important work to do.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
What just standing here on the street corner waiting for
the district attorney to go into his house.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's right. I think we've given him time to retire.
Now you wait here, Fern. They shouldn't take more than
ten minutes.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
What are you going to do, Jim?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Turn the tables on the da. I'm going to fire
some questions at him.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
As the effect, Zaye saying, wake up?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
What?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Who?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Who called me?
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Wake up?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Sane? Who's there?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Who? Ope?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Me?
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Troop is on the march?
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Sane?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Where did you get the keys to the city?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I found there in your pocket?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The keys to the city, yes, saying.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The keys that opened the door at the library and
the vault at the museum.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
What sort of frame?
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Where's the fifth keys? Aim the key to the vault
at city Hall?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Where is that?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I have no city keys.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Who dares accused me of those crimes? I'll turn on
this slight and you can accuse me to my fa there?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What where are you?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Who spoke to me?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
What?
Speaker 15 (23:09):
There's no one here? I I must I must have
been having a nightmare. Oh yeah, I guess I need
a rest. My nerves are shot the case to the
city some dream.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Uh, Jim, I think you had a sour hunts this time.
It's almost two a m. Nobody's shown up here at
the city Hall to rob that Vaullgard'll be patient a
little longer, Inspector. And why don't you go home? It's
past your bedtime?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Who not me?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I won't be able to sleep a week until I
find out what the criminal?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, who are you expecting? Listen, someone's coming now, remember, Inspector,
wait until after he comes out of the vault.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
And nap him.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We want to find out what he's after in there. Uh,
he's inside the vault.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Now, who is it?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You'll come out in a minute.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Have you got your gun ready, Inspector dangerous?
Speaker 7 (24:27):
I'm all set for.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Whatever comes Jim.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
When he comes out, you turn on the lights and
I'll cover him.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Now ready, okay, reach you and reach hi. I'll shoot
mister Marbury and for once he's absolutely speechless.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Okay, Marbury, your next lecture schedule for the jury.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That shot fell far short of the target.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
A thousand yards of some distance, even with the telescopic lens.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, Marbury was a crack shot, and he'd had lots
of experience hunting big game, as he so unwisely admitted
in several of his lectures.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I hope I have better luck with the fishing, I
promised the mayor a trap.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Want it debate your line? Yes? Please, Jim, all right,
what do you want to know for en Well?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
I know the first clue that led you to suscept
Marbury was that small piece of guilling you discovered under
the microscope when you examined that musing bought one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, I figured that came from the keys to the
city Marbury had.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
But what made you think there was a connection between
Marbury and Lloyd?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I wasn't sure there was a connection Fern until Lloyd
was shot. That proved he was implicated and knew too much.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Lloyd was the one who arranged it so that Marbury
was given a real set of sun That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
How we didn't find the piece that was missing from
the puzzle until last night when we saw the paper's
Marbury had stolen from the City Hall vault. They were
the records of a crime he had committed twenty years ago.
Lloyd had discovered that secret and bargained with mobbery the
books and paintings in exchange for the records.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
The Marbury shot Lloyd in panic. The theory might talk
before he had a chance to get those records rightburn
But how did it happen that you found the keys
to the city in District Attorney Zayne's pocket?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Marbury planted the keys that he no longer needed on Zaye.
The trail was getting hot, and Morborie knew it, so
he went to the Mayor's office to turn suspicion on
Zane until he himself had a chance to get out
of town. Burne, start playing your line. The Mayor's trout
is biting.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
All characters, names, places, and plots used in the Avenger
program are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead
is purely coincidental.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
This is a thought, a thought, a thought. Remember listen
for another adventure of the Avenger
Speaker 4 (28:15):
O
The Avenger.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The road to crime ends in a trap that justice sets,
crime does not pay.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil, is actually Jim Brandon,
a famous biochemist. Through his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has
perfected several inventions to aid him in his crsade against
crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable of these inventions is
the highly secret diffusion capsule, which cloaks him in the
black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistant, the beautiful Fern Cordier,
(01:57):
is the only one who shares his secrets and knows
that he the man the underworld fears as the Avenger,
and now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The Avenger and the keys to the city.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
May Grinshaw, Yes, what is it, Lloyd?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
There are a few details I'd like to clear up
with you before I leave. Can you spam me a
minute now, of course, Lloyd. Well, here, this is a
daily schedule I made for covering all your appointments while
I'm on vacation.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Fine, Lloyd, Fine, Frankly, I don't know how I'm going
to get along without you for two weeks. Well, if
you'd rather I didn't go, mere Grimshaw, Oh no, you've
burned arrest Lloyd and I want you to take it
too bad that you can't come along there. Have that
bitter political campaign you've just been through. You probably need
a vacation more than I do. If I went away
for a rest, my enemies would probably maneuver me out
(02:52):
of office before I got back. They certainly don't let
up on you for a minute, do they. No, that
young district Attorney Michael Zane is a fighter. You'll never
forgive me for being elected?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, Saye and the ex mayor were great pals. They
worked hand and glove and everything, so naturally Zaine wanted
to seem reelected.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
How long have you been weathering the political storms here
at city Hall, Lloyd? Oh? Fifteen years? May Frenshaw, fifteen years.
Remind me to give you a medal when you get back. Now,
let me see what's on the day's schedule.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Oh plenty, Your new cultural movement gets somewhere today.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh that at.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Noon you give the keys to the city to Ruscoe
Marbury the Explorer lecture.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Oh yes, How the voters can't say that I'm not
living up to my campaign promises. I promised them culturing
and I'm delivering it promptly. Keys are in the top
drag of your desk. And here's the speech that goes
with them. Thank you Lloyd. Now you better run along
and you'll mess your train. Good hing, and bring me
back one of those famous oak you proud and so,
(04:00):
mister Marbury. It is with great pleasure and I present
to you the keys to our city. Even though they
are but token keys, they will unlock the hearts and
minds of our good citizens. I feel confident that you
will find our city a most fertile field for the
great cultural growth to which your whole life has been dedicated.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Thank you, your honor.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I accept these keys with great pride because I know
they represent the great esteem with which your citizens regard
a humble spokes for the arts. I will begin my
series of lectures this afternoon. I hope I may look
forward to seeing all of you. Then, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Question that Roscal Marbury is certainly a fascinating person.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yes he is.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
His first lecture was a great success. Firm he held
that audience fell down from two o'clock to you made.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Me want to visit all those glamorous places he told about.
It must be wonderful to travel all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, it's not as wonderful as it sounds. Now, young lady,
how about getting back to those reports we were working
on before we went to.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
The lecture, right, Jim, I'll get my book.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh, I'll chippern.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Hello, Jim, where are the places? If you've been I've
been trying to get juices. Three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, I was at a lecture. What's the trouble, Inspector.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
There's been an explosion and here at the public library.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
An explosion in the library. Yes, some valuable books have
been stolen.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Get down here as fast as you can, Jim.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
Well, here you are, Jim. This is the first edition
room where the explosion occurred.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Here couldn't have been much of an explosion, Inspector. Everything
seems to be intact.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
The door was blown open, Jim, that's all.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, let me get this straight, Inspector. Your theory is
that someone blew the lock on that door, enter this room,
selected the five most valuable books from these shelves, and
made us get away down that back stairway at the
end of the hall.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Yah, I said Jim.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Who had access to this room only the custodian. No
one else has ever permitted inside this room. He's personally
responsible for all these books.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I see. Well, let's have a look at the door.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Looked as if a small bomb or grenade was placed
either on the door knob or inside that lock.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That's the way I figured it, Jim.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Since the library was open at the time the explosion occurred,
some of the librarians from downstairs must have come up
here immediately upon hearing the sound. Yeah, there's three of them.
Came on the run, but the thief was gone for
that time, all of which would seem to add up
to one conclusion.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Berlarm, Glad you agree with me on that, Jim. I
think the custodian is guilted.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It would seem so, because if access to this room
was gained by blowing open that door, only the man
who knew whether those books were placed on the shelves
could find them and make his escape within a single
minute that elapsed before the three librarians arrived on the scene.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Oh, it's how I reason it out.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
I think the custodian blasted this lock merely as a cup
were up to make it look like a common robbery.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The time element completely rules out the possibility of an
outside job. Only a person who had access to this
room could have stolen those books.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Right now, Even though this evidence is all negative, Jim,
it's enough to make an arrest.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Come on, let's find that custodian.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Oh gosh, Jim, I'd almost given you up. Marburry's already
begun his lecture in the adjoining gallery.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Why don't you go in?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Burn?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I got held up at headquarters.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Hasn't that custodian confessed yet?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And strangely enough, I'm beginning to doubt his guilt. However,
since he can't furnish an alibi, we'll have to hold
him for the time being. Well, shall we go in?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
We better if you want to maintain social position. Everybody
with anybody who's in there, and the mayor district atterechnique.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Two seats near the backburn.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
To an end.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
He is a great artist, not because of his ingenuity
and disrespect conventions, but rather because of the magnificent spiritual
fire that makes his expression candidate. Note the richness and
depth of color in those portraits and figure compositions hanging
there to your left. These would never be called mere
technical achievements of high order. They are neither stylized nor dated,
(08:22):
and they never can be. The relentless hand of time
can never touch me.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Keep your seat, Keep your seats, please, everybody, please keep
your seats. Mister Marbury, please continue with your lecture. I'm
sure there is no need for alarm. I will inform
the police immediately and this matter will be investigated.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Come on, friend, was there anyone injured in this explosion, Jim.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No, Inspector, it parallels that Libry explosion exactly.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The lock on this vault was blown just like the other.
That's right. What's missing, Jim, Now you'd better hold onto
your head, inspector, Doctor Harbaugh. Though Curata reports that three
priceless paintings are gone, he's preparing a full description of them.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
Well, Jim, this second robbery proves wor up against a
professional thief.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And there we made a big take about that library custodium.
One thing is certain, anyway, he didn't pull.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
This job any ideas, Jim.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yes, this vault door was blown from the inside out.
That definitely establishes the fact that the explosion is a
cover up and doesn't occur until after the criminal gets away. Now,
this steel door tells a much straighter story than that
wooden one. In the library. I'll take that lock down
to my laboratory and give it a going over.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
It looks like we're in for some trouble. Jim, here
comes the mayor.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
If here, Inspector East Bombington public buildings are beginning to
look mighty suspicious.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
I agree with you, Mayor Grenhaw. Have you got any
ideas might help somevin that's your department. But off hand,
I'd say these steps are being committed deliberately to embarrass
my administration and everything stand for.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
That's carrying politics pretty high.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I don't think there's any limit to what the opposition
will do get me out of office. District Attorney's saying, threatened,
here do I hate it easy?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Mayre Grench.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I won't take it easy, and you'd better not either
if you want to keep your job. I'm giving you
forty eight hours to crack this case and deliver the criminal.
And the bigger he is, the better I'll like it.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Inspector White speaking.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Inspector, this is District Attorney's.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Saying, Oh, yes, missus An, I hear.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Mair Grenshaw's writing you pretty hard on these robberies.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Yes, that's right, I don't mind ad many I'm up
to a blind alley on both of them.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I understand I want to help.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
If you like, I'll send several men from my office
I over to work with you.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Well, that's very kind of you, missus, Am, But right
now I'm might. I have nothing for them to do.
If any leeds develop, I certainly let you know.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Do that, Inspector. This is a nasty business.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's up to us to clean it up. Maya's proved
he's utterly incompetent.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Goodbye.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
According to the directions they gave us at the hotel
in Okie, Jim, we turn left at the next flok
in the road and the boat houses a little beyond that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, I certainly hope we find Sarah's Lloyd fishing out
of here as they said for him. Otherwise we've wasted
some very precious.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Time, Jim. I simply can't understand why you're so eager
to have a.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Talk with law.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Neither could the mayor. He flatly refused to tell me
where Lloyd was. I finally got the information through one
of his clerks.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
But Lloyd couldn't have had anything to do with those
robberies in the city, Jim. According to the hotel manager
up the year. He's never been away for a hotel
for more than three hours at a time since he
arrived in Oak.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Lloyd is on the inside of things at city Hall.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
If these robberies are in any way connected with a
political fude, I believe he's the man who can tip
us off.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Do you think that's the motive behind the.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Robberies then, oh, I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm
on the track of something that Lloyd may be able
to explain. If he can, then this trip is really
a short hout to the solution of this case. You see,
fern I picked up them anute but interesting piece of
evidence when I examined that lock from the museum vault.
Oh oh, there's the boat house just ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Oh, and that lone fisherman at the end of the
dock must be Lloyd.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Come on, parn.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Hello there catching anything?
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Oh what are you doing up here?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, I'm after some information about those bombings and THEEPS.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Lloyd information for me. I have been up he hoped
view for two days.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I know that, but I thought you might be able
to tell me who's trying to frame home in city Hall.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Hey, what do you mean by that? Brandon.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
You're trying to insinuate that the mayor had anything.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
By that house gation. He's pulling off the door.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Now back to the Avenger and the keys to the city.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Go back, contest.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He's falling off the doors of the word after him.
He's over there him.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
I assume hurry, he's going down. Jim here, comes to
car and get help.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Stop.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Stop, he was in the water, didn't Hell, I got
I got the rope in the car.
Speaker 13 (15:04):
Orry, Ranger, come on out here at the end of
the dock, jim Jimmy, you all right.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Yes, I've got him.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I here's the rope.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Grab on now, okay, let me help you with the rope.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Pull him in along side of the dock. Here waters
shallow there.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, well now they are.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Right all right, that is that's safe. Let's go down
and help men. Hey one of those Oh then bad shape.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Jimmy is going all right.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'm I'm afraid not burn.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
All right.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Here.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Let me get a hand with him. We'll put my
hair down the bank.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Give him oft official respiration.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think he's dead, Ranger. He was shot in the
back before he was heel into the water. What that's right.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
We were standing here talking to him when somebody shot him.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
He did all right, bullet wound the left shoulder. Well,
come along, I have to deliver you to the sheriff
an off view.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Huh just a minute. We have nothing to do with
this man's death. I'm Jim Brandon. I'm connected with the
police department.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Here are my credential.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I don't care who you are.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
You're coming of me.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Listen, ranger, let's not waste time on doing there's a
murderer on the loose around here someplace.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Come on, before I get tough about it, turn drive
back to the hotel and call Inspector White.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
All right, you down.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
This young lady's coming along too. You're both under arrest
on suspicion of murder.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Jim, I'm getting worried. Do you suppose the inspector will
come up to get us out of here? I think
you have to spend the night in this jail.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, don't worry, Kurn. Inspector ought to be here any minute.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's nearly four hours since we call them.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Do you think there's a possibility that he's packed this
case himself and letting us sweat it out of here.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
In the opening, Jam, no, Pern, don't start imagining things.
Inspector's too smart to play a joke that would backfire
on him in the future.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Not stubbing, Sheriff would listen to reason.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Ah, here's the inspector now, Jim, a fine mess you
got yourself into up here. Never mind that. Now, sigustraighten
things out so we could go. Yeah, sheriff gave me
the key to let you out.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I thought you'd never get here, Inspector.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
First, I tried to get District Attorney's and he called
the sheriff up here a nine things out, but he.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
He refused to get involved. He acted like he was
glad to get rid of you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Jim, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Come on, Inspector, that murder trail is getting colder by
the minute. That's right, Inspector. Lloyd was standing there where
you are when he got that shot on the bank.
Howel and the shot must have come from across the lake, Jim, Yes,
(17:53):
and that means the range was a thousand yards. We'll
be only a cracked shot with a telescopic lens on
his gun could make an accurate out at that distance.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Well out a narrow down our list of suspects. He
tell me, Jim, who knew that you were coming up
here to question layd?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Inspector?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Was no secret. The Mayor and practically his whole office staff.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Knew it, which includes a few of the Da stooges.
If you want to put any stock in rumors, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh by the way, Nan, when you called mister Marbury
to cancel our luncheon engagement, did you mention where we
were going?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I'm not sure, Jim, I think I did.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Though.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
In other words, Jim, anyone even slightly interested in your
activities could have found out that you were coming up here.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I'm afraid so.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But that's not what what's worrying me now, Inspector, do
you realize that we've only about twenty hours left to
track down our criminal? Otherwise this case will wind up
your career as a police inspector.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Come in, Randonsclia Wen.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Glee, thank you, your honor.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
It was a terrible thing that happened to Lloyd now
miss him, Madley, Mayor Grenshaw, May I come straight to
the point.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I won't ask you a few questions.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Of course, fire away, Brandon, how.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Long have you known Cyrus Lloyd office.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He was a party secretary here at City Hall, but
I had never met him until I was elected Mayor.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Did Llyd have access to the city keys?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yes, I suppose so. The keys are kept in a
small safe right over there. I suppose he knew the combination.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
May I see the keys, Mayor Grenshaw.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, it's an unusual request, Brandon.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I understand your reticence, Mayor, but I'd like to have
a look at them. You can call it a request
from the police department.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Uh uh, all right, I'll get them now.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You doesn't seem to trust you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
He makes that rather evident, doesn't he.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Well, frankly, I don't trust him either.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Quiet here he comes. Yeah, the keys, Brandon, Oh, thank you.
I see they're all labeled. Oh yes, this one is
for the library, that's the museums, wonder for the municipal settle,
the citizens swimming pool, and this last one for the
city Hall of.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All ex goodness, Yes, miss Kirby. Who oh, all right
to send him in. It's Marbury, Marbury. Have you finished
with the keys? Brand Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Put them right back in the safe. If anything should
happen in these keys, I really would be in trouble.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
This is the proper keys.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I'll tell you later.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Friend, glad to see him, Marbury, leave in your honor
till youre. I can only stay a moment Mayor Grenshaw,
on my way to the lecture.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
The last run of the series, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yes, I'll be leaving tomorrow, and I'm really sorry you've
made me most welcome here.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
For the purpose of this visit is to ask you
a flavor, of course.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, I seem to have misplaced the keys to the
city you gave me when I arrived. Either that or
they've been stolen.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Don't worry about that, Marlbory. Those keys were only cardboard
covered with yielded ten. Nobody would steal in.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, that's what District Attorney Zaane told me.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Zane.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes, he was visiting me at my hotel when I discovered.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
They were missing, and thinking nothing of it.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Well, in that case, I wonder if you'd give me
into set just to keep his a souvenir.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Certainly we've dozens of them.
Speaker 14 (21:18):
I'll have enough set brought in right away, Jim.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I can't understand why you wouldn't attend more Brede's lecture tonight.
His subject was no tiger in Africa, and.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I thought it was a friend.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We had more important work to do.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
What just standing here on the street corner waiting for
the district attorney to go into his house.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's right. I think we've given him time to retire.
Now you wait here, Fern. They shouldn't take more than
ten minutes.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
What are you going to do, Jim?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Turn the tables on the da. I'm going to fire
some questions at him.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
As the effect, Zaye saying, wake up?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
What?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Who?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Who called me?
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Wake up?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Sane? Who's there?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Who? Ope?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Me?
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Troop is on the march?
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Sane?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Where did you get the keys to the city?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I found there in your pocket?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The keys to the city, yes, saying.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The keys that opened the door at the library and
the vault at the museum.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
What sort of frame?
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Where's the fifth keys? Aim the key to the vault
at city Hall?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Where is that?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I have no city keys.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Who dares accused me of those crimes? I'll turn on
this slight and you can accuse me to my fa there?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What where are you?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Who spoke to me?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
What?
Speaker 15 (23:09):
There's no one here? I I must I must have
been having a nightmare. Oh yeah, I guess I need
a rest. My nerves are shot the case to the
city some dream.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Uh, Jim, I think you had a sour hunts this time.
It's almost two a m. Nobody's shown up here at
the city Hall to rob that Vaullgard'll be patient a
little longer, Inspector. And why don't you go home? It's
past your bedtime?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Who not me?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I won't be able to sleep a week until I
find out what the criminal?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, who are you expecting? Listen, someone's coming now, remember, Inspector,
wait until after he comes out of the vault.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
And nap him.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We want to find out what he's after in there. Uh,
he's inside the vault.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Now, who is it?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You'll come out in a minute.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Have you got your gun ready, Inspector dangerous?
Speaker 7 (24:27):
I'm all set for.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Whatever comes Jim.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
When he comes out, you turn on the lights and
I'll cover him.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Now ready, okay, reach you and reach hi. I'll shoot
mister Marbury and for once he's absolutely speechless.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Okay, Marbury, your next lecture schedule for the jury.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That shot fell far short of the target.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
A thousand yards of some distance, even with the telescopic lens.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, Marbury was a crack shot, and he'd had lots
of experience hunting big game, as he so unwisely admitted
in several of his lectures.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I hope I have better luck with the fishing, I
promised the mayor a trap.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Want it debate your line? Yes? Please, Jim, all right,
what do you want to know for en Well?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
I know the first clue that led you to suscept
Marbury was that small piece of guilling you discovered under
the microscope when you examined that musing bought one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, I figured that came from the keys to the
city Marbury had.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
But what made you think there was a connection between
Marbury and Lloyd?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I wasn't sure there was a connection Fern until Lloyd
was shot. That proved he was implicated and knew too much.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Lloyd was the one who arranged it so that Marbury
was given a real set of sun That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
How we didn't find the piece that was missing from
the puzzle until last night when we saw the paper's
Marbury had stolen from the City Hall vault. They were
the records of a crime he had committed twenty years ago.
Lloyd had discovered that secret and bargained with mobbery the
books and paintings in exchange for the records.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
The Marbury shot Lloyd in panic. The theory might talk
before he had a chance to get those records rightburn
But how did it happen that you found the keys
to the city in District Attorney Zayne's pocket?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Marbury planted the keys that he no longer needed on Zaye.
The trail was getting hot, and Morborie knew it, so
he went to the Mayor's office to turn suspicion on
Zane until he himself had a chance to get out
of town. Burne, start playing your line. The Mayor's trout
is biting.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
All characters, names, places, and plots used in the Avenger
program are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead
is purely coincidental.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
This is a thought, a thought, a thought. Remember listen
for another adventure of the Avenger
Speaker 4 (28:15):
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