August 18, 2025 • 27 mins
A collection of gripping detective stories featuring sharp-witted investigators, puzzling crimes, and clever resolutions. Each episode showcases the art of deduction and the thrill of the chase.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, so the great Boston Black He condescends to visit
(00:30):
the lonely Henry Rice. Aren't you afraid your friends will
look out and find out about this baking.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'll take my chances with my friends, Rice, but I'm
not going to take a kicking around from you.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm kicking you around.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You know what you're doing. You're framing a murder on
my friend Shorty.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Terribly unfair of me, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know what it is. I'm out framed.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The police are looking for evidence and the murder of
that fellow Ashley, and you have phony evidence that makes
it looks as if Shorty killed him.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I do so, I do a cigarette later, I think,
with Shorty's initials on.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It and Shorty's fingerprints on it too, And it was
found at the scene of Ashley's murder.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know, I know. I made sure it would be
found there. I've got it you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now, yes, for now, but I'm getting it back. Shorty
has a record. If the police connect him with Ashley's death,
short he's as good as dead himself.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yes, he will be what a ha ha, looks as
if your friend Shorty will go to the chair of
murder and you, the great Porston black You won't be
able to do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I might, I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Unpleasant position you're in, Blackie, but very pleasant for me.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Look, i'll give you ten thousand for that Lightning's not interested.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Make you miserable as worth ten times ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Then what will you take for the lighter?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Nothing? You see? I have everything, Blackie, everything, even you
and a.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Jam h Look you're an art collector, aren't you, as
of a sort of the sort who'd like the Abbot
painting in his collection.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, now you're getting interesting. But the abboit is not
for sale, Blackie. It's in the City Art Gallery and
under heavy guard.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I know. But if you promise to give me shorties later,
I'll get that Abbot for you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You will, how I'll steal it? That's absolutely impossible.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You let me worry about that.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You can't do it, Blackie. You can't do it, can't I.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's four o'clock in the afternoon. Now by nine o'clock tonight,
I'll have stolen that painting.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those
who have no friend.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Look in the left hand top drawer of my buro.
William Ry, I think you'll find a raise of blade
with a handle, should be right in the front of
the drawer.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I said, oh, yeah, I have it here, thanks, Blackie.
Why are you collecting all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I can't tell you, Mary, why.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Not because in the first place you wouldn't like it,
and in the place that ties for.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
First you wouldn't believe it. Let's see if I have
everything in this bag.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
When you have a razor blade with a handle, you
have a knife, rubber gloves and adhesive tape. That's everything
you ask for so far, then I.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Guess I have everything I need. Now all I have
to do is close the case there and beyond my way.
It's a long Blackie.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Is it something wrong? Coo me do something wrong? Mary?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yes, you do something wrong, Blackie, Mary.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You've hurt my feelings. All I'm going to do is
get Shorty.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Out of a jam with a knife, a razor blade,
adhesive tape and a pair of rubber gloves. Yes, what
have they got to do with getting Shorty out of
a gam?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
A lot? And you're asking a lot of questions.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Not getting any answers. Oh, black you please tell me
where you're going. I'll worry myself sick.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh all right, I am going to the City Art
galleries with a knife and.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
To raise a blade, and he's of tape and a
pair of rubber gloves.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I'm going to steal the Abbot painting.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You are going to do?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
What? Steal the abbit painting and give it to Henry Rice.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Oh Blackie, you're not, but I am.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And don't worry.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
As soon as he gives me shorty cigarette like that,
I'm going to see that the painting goes right back
to the gallery.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I should think so. But that's not what worries me.
It's how you're going to steal it. There are steel
doors and steel shutters on the windows of that gallery,
and there are men with guns everywhere. Oh darling, I
don't know how you can possibly steal.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The Abbot, don't you, Marry Well, don't feel too badly
about it. Ask a million people and they'll tell you
what can't be done. But ask me and I'll say
it can.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Com Faraday, pick up your telephone. It's a little surprise
waiting for you on the other end of the line.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
How is it?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Little red riding hood. No, Rawlins, you've been around Blackie
too much.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
No kid, Inspector Faraday, somebody very interesting wants to talk
to you.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Funny that you mentioned Blackie because he wants to talk
to you about Blackie.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yeah. Oh, isn't pick up your phone and see all right,
I'll pick it up. But rollins. If this is your
idea of a joke, I'll give you an idea of
what it's like to be pounding a beat. Hello.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Hello, Inspector Faraday. This is Henry Rice.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Henry Rice.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yes, you remember me?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Of course, remember you Rice. If it takes me a
hundred years, I'm gonna I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
To see you remember me and still hold me at
such highest steed.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I hold you in high esteam, I'll high esteem you.
I'm gonna hold you for matter you love me.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But I didn't call you to have you boost my ego.
I thought perhaps you'd like to know something about your
friend Boston Blackie.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I know all I want to know about him.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, but you don't inspect you dog, You've always wanted
to send Blackie to the same I'm coming and cattage
you have for me. But You've never been able to
prove anything against him.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I will someday.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Really, what inspector that this is that day?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah? Why are you talking about Blackie.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And what he's going to do tonight? He's trying to
steal the Abt painting with the City Art Gallery's what
you heard me?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Yes, I heard you, but I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm not asking you to believe me. I just wanted
you to know that the painting was to be stolen
and that you couldn't keep Blackie from getting it.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Have a pleasant eye, inspector, listen right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Wasn't that sort of a surprise, inspector.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Oh you're steal here rollins. Yeah, it was a big surprise.
And guess what he wanted?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What to tell me?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Blackie is trying to steal the Abbot painting from the
City Art Gallery tonight.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Trying to steal the Abbne Right.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
So I'm dumb enough to fall by that.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Yeah, you'd have to be dumb to fall for it.
Not even Blackie could break into the City Gallery, much
less break out of it with the Abot painting.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Not even Blackie. Why that pain is that painting is
so heavily guarded that you so heavily got Ronna stopp
laughing and kept me a squat black. He's gonna steal
the abbit.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
What are we laughing about, No, Inspector Faraday, the gallery
isn't closed.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
We're op till nine to night.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I see, mister Lawrence. And then you still have your
regular number of gods on duty.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Oh oh, yes, of course, of course. Even though there
are a few people in the gallery this late, it's
it's almost closing.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Time and nothing's missing.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Ill believe me, this place wouldn't be so quiet if
anything were missing, much less the habit painting you thought
was going to be stolen tonight.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I didn't think it was going to be stolen, mister Lawrence.
I just heard a rumor that somebody was after it,
and I came down here to check Bess routine.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
I certainly appreciate your interest in my gallery, Inspector.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh well, may I show you around?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
No thanks, I have to get back to headquarters.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
If I had you worried about your abbit painting, mister Laurence.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Sokoh, I don't ever worry about it, Inspector. It's the
most heavily guarded painting in my gallery, even not even Well,
what was that?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Sounds like someone broke a window on the front pide
of the gallery.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Yes, and there was a stream in.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That gallery there too. Come on, I think we better
have a look over there.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yes, I'll think we better here. What happened here?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't know, mister Lawrence. I just turn it here,
and all of a sudden the window behind me broke.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Someone must have thrown a stone in from the outside. No, sir,
nothing telling here. I'd say, someone in here through something
out the window. Well, did you see anyone throw anything?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Nos? One of these people here through anything? What's been
thrown by someone standing? But I couldn't see them, Sorry,
mister Lawrence.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Mister r it comes to not one of your guards,
mister Lawrence. Yes, yes, I'm from the Abbot Gallery too.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Mister l Mister Lawrence.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
All of a sudden the life went on when I
turned them on, the Abbot painting was missing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, turn in the alarm quickly.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Han's gone to turn it on already.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
We'll throw the switch that locks the doors in the
window shut o all, take care of mister Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, there goes the alarm. Oh dear, the abbot stolen.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I I can't believe it. I can, mister Lawrence, round
up everybody in the place. Don't let anybody out. I
want to question everybody, even though I know the guy
who stole your painting. All right, blankie, I have question
and searched everybody in a place, including you, and no
(09:19):
one has the painting. Where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You did the questioning and the searching. You tell me
where it is at. Painting's been cut out of its frame.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
You cut it out and got rid of it. Now,
how did you get it out of here?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
The painting is missing.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
You know very well it is because you saw it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You can prove that, of course.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Now I can't prove it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But you're here.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I gotta tip you'd steal it, and the painting is missing.
That's all I need to know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh no, tardy. You also need to know where the
painting is. And until you know that, you can't say
I stole it.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
All right, all right, I can't say you stole it,
but I can think it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You can watch think. You can think it hardly. You
couldn't think it way out of a revolving door.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Tell me something. There was a commotion in the other end.
Of the game, right just before the painting was stolen.
What was that?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Oh, somebody threw something out of.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
A window the painting. Maybe, No, it was just a stone.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I thought maybe it had the painting wrapped around it
or something. But a coup on the street saw it fall.
That was just a stone.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, sure, yeah, And that was part.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Of the thief scheme to create a commotion in another
part of the gallery so he could come in here,
turn out the light and grab the abbot. Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, it's a very clever idea.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
It was your idea, and I know it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But can you prove it? Well I can't prove it,
then of course I can go.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yes, you can go. But when I find that painting, Buckie,
your friends will find.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You in jail.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh good morning, now, I come on in, come in.
Have you seen the morning paper? No? What have I done?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You've stolen the abbot painting.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh that's not news. That's old stuff. I did that
last night.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
But how did you do it, Blackie? The way it
was guarded with even Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
There just a genius. That's all just sort of note.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
There's a phone call for you, genius.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Hello God Mourning Blackie. This is Henry Rice.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh Henry, good morning.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yes, isn't it though? And I see the papers where
you had a good knife. Oh fair, you got to
have it, Blackie. How did you do it? How did
you do the impossible?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It wasn't easy, Rice, I just made it look that way.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And now back to Boston Blackie. Blackie's friend Shorty, is
being framed for the murder of a man named actually
gang leader Henry Rice, who hates both Blackie and Shorty,
has the phonied evidence against and in order to get it,
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Blackie promises to steal the valuable and heavily guarded Abbot painting.
The Morning Papers announced that the painting has been stolen,
and as we return to our story, Blackie is asking
Henry Rice to keep his part of the bark.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
All right, Rice, I stole the painting for you. Where's
the cigarette light which shot his fingerprints on it?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Where's the painting? Blackie?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'll deliver it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I'll surrender the lighter on delivery of the painting.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh no, I don't trust you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You crossed me.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You tipped off Faraday that I was going to steal
the Abbot. But I got the painting for you just
the same. Give me the lighter and I'll deliver the painting.
Fair enough here it is, thanks Now, when do I
get the painting in a little while?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
But tell me something.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
What did you call Faraday and tell him I was
going to steal the Abbot if you wanted the painting
so much?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
To tell you the truth, Blackie, much as I wanted
that abbot, I didn't much care whether you got the
painting or Faraday got you.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
No, you see, it's hard for me to decide which
I do most like that painting or dislike you.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Faradi speaking, You're all power, Blackie. Listen to you. I
don't want to talk to you until you ready to
tell me what you did with that painting, and then
I'm gonna talk to you through bars.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Do you mean that putting you in a cage?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I'll cage you, Blankie. What do you want?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I want you to meet me at the City Art
Gallery so I can give you the Abbot painting.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I wanted you in on this too, mister Lawrence, in
case Blankie is just pulling another fast one. I don't
know too much about pictures.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I'm glad you called me in, Inspector Faraday the Abbot
was stolen from this room.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh were black How did you do it? And where
is the abbit? Now?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
One thing at the time, mister Lawrence, you can see
how I stole the painting. There's the frame for it
still there on the wall empty.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yes, you cut the picture out of its frame, that's obvious.
But when how did you do it without anyone seeing you?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, that was the easiest part of it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I waited until there was no one here, then caused
that commotion outside.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
While everybody was in the front hall of the gallery.
You had time enough to cut the abbot out of
its frame, roll it up and take it away.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yes, but not very far.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Come on, the abbit's in the next room. Take to
the back of another picture.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Oh, thank heavens, man, I thought we'd seen the last
of the abbot forever.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Where which picture?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Right there? The painting of the two children of Hey
It's gone? Was hanging there last.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Night, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We sold that painting out a half hour ago.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
What yes, yes to a man named Na named Smith
Smith from Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Smith from Kansas City. I know who that is, all right,
an old friend of mine. See you fell aslight.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
It like you're not going anywhere. This is another one
of your tricks. Yeah, coming to.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Not to jail Faraday, at least not with this gun
in my hand.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
A gun.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh, good, heavens, good heavens, mister Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Goodbye, Hello Mary, this is Blackie.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Hello Blackie.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Did you give the painting?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I tried to marry but I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's gone sold to a man named Smith from Kansas
City for two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
No, it's right, Mary.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think I know who has it, and it's not
John Smith, and he's not from Kansas City, a.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Man who seems to like to play tag. And Mary,
if you don't mind, i'd like you to get into
the game.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I don't see any reason for this call of yours, Blackie.
As you can see, I am Smith of Kansas City,
and I have what I want.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You mean you're Henry Rice of New York and you
think you have what you want?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Then what is that painting hanging on the wall behind
my desk? Two very lovely children recognize it?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yes, that's the painting I'd tape the abbot to Surprised. Frankly,
I am I didn't think you were smart enough to figure.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Out how I'd steal it.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
But I was smart enough, wasn't I. I arrived at
your method of stealing it by the simple process of elimination,
My dear Blackie. You see, it couldn't be taken out
of the gallery, and so when I heard it was missing,
I knew it must still be in the gallery, and
so I looked, and so I found it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh fine, is the abbot still taped to the back
of that painting on your wall?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And not quite. You'll never find the abbot, I can
assure you.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Even if I did find it, Rice, I wouldn't be
finding the abbot.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
No, if you knew anything about art at all, you'd
know the painting ice.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So for you it was a phony.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Look at it closely and you'll see. Come on, we'll
look at it together, and I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Ah nah, no, no, no, Blackie, you can be more
clever than that. Really, I can look at the painting
myself and tell whether or not it's all penty. Then
go ahead look at it, and have you followed me
to it? Oh no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Then you're going to spend the rest of your days
with the phony. Painting. But that's not my worry.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, Blackie, you've aroused my curiosity. I hate to
think I've been cheated, but I think you'd better stay
here while I go look at it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
If you don't mind, I do mine. What was the
buzzer for?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You'll see I'll turn around and look at the reason
for the buzzer. Come in, Max, ye for sure?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Where did you find a guy this big in a
redwood forest?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Rather overgrown youngsters? Me and Max? I have to run
out a minute. Do you think you could uh persuade
this fellow to remain here and quietly until I return.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Sure, Boss, I got a friend here in my pocket
to convince him like this, some convincer a voice.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It's good work, Max. I should keep him asleep for
a little while. I'll be back for a minute.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
You know something, Boss, what I like to hit guys
on the head.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It does something to me.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
You come to now? Uh, I'll let you get up
and then I'll hit you again with my black jack.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh, hi, Voss, you're back.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Huh Yeah, hello Bryce?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Did you see the painty? Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And it's authentic?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Never mind, you wouldn't understand Max, Blackie your trick elast
didn't work.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well, you can't blame a guy for trying.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Can you know you'll never find the Avid Blackie. You
know I've outsmarted you at every turn. I feel rather
good about that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'll get that painting back.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You will never even see it again. Now, don't you
envy me, Blackie. I have the Avid painting. I'm free
and clear of any suspicion. But the police are looking
for you, and you don't even know where I've hidden
the painting. Well, I think you've done everything you can
for me, Blackie. You may go now.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Thanks for something anyway, No hard feelings, Blackie here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'll make amends by taking you to the top of
the steps. Well, anyway, a Blackie, just want to fight
down and you're in the streets.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And I suppose you think out on my feet too,
I trust not.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You'll need to be rather nimble to side step the police.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Don't forget that looking for you.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Thanks for the warning.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Don't mention that.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Bunny, good girl Mary here right out of time? Does
everything work all right? Perfectly?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I did just what you told me on the phone.
I waited outside Rice's office door, and I followed him
down the steps, and from then on I didn't let
him out of my sight till they went into another building.
But where's the abbit?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You show me the building Rice went into, and I'll
show you the abbot.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
This is the door he went into when you follow him. Marry, Yes, Blackie,
it's a warehouse, but were house a palace? This is
where Rice hid the abbit.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, but it's such a big warehouse.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
We'll find it. Come I not sing, I say the
door is unlocked.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
No, that's bad. Means it's probably a guard around here somewhere.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
M Well, there seems to be nothing but an anti room.
There's another door there. Should we try that one?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Come on, but quietly, don't worry now, sh I hear footsteps? Yes,
and I see the man who's making them.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Oh, I see something else too. This is a camping casino.
Same thing now. But Rice must use this place every night.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And here comes past the footsteps, and they'll have to
take care of him before we do anything else.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
He isn't as big as that match you were telling
me about him.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
No, he isn't, but he's got a gun. Be quiet,
and we'll be telling the angels about him.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You're so rush here he comes. Hey you for turning
your chair.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Why, Blackie, you hit him only once?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You're selfish?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Not even a second.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Sock for me, Mary, I would gladly trade that second
sock for a second sight.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
That would help me find the abbot.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh ay, luck finding the painting over there.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Blackie, I'll find it under this table.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Time.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Well, I have torn things apart till I'm exhausted.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
So the last place I'm gonna look, we'll look over the.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Old places again. We may have missed something.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Oh dear, well it's not here. I'm gonna rest me.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'll rest in a minute. Not here.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Let's try this over here, maybe end of this take it? No,
I think here, let's try over there.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Mind if I play a little Roulette while you look ahead.
I love roulette when it's for fun.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I love looking for things when I can find them.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Oh, Red, and.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Even the situation here is black and I.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay, gosh, I guess Rice has a spool completely.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Oh no, Black, you'll find it.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I want to quit for a while and say a
little Roulette.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Start thinking again. I'm sure if Rice came here, the
painting is in here.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Red and even let's see where the little ball stops
this time.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I wish it would stop on the painting. That's it.
What stand back, Mary? That roulette wheeler's turned for the
last time.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Take that table leg here and.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Golly in a million pieces, and I was just about
to spend it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Make a fortune, Mary, we found a fortune. Look under
what's left with the wheel.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Looks like a candy.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, look at it when I take it out and
unroll it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Look the painting, Yes, the painting, Mary, And suddenly the
whole picture has changed, Blankie.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
So you went to all the trouble of stealing the
abbot just because of Shorty's lighter?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yes, And now Shorty has his ladder and the art
gallery has its abbot and everybody is happy.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I suppose I'm not happy.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Why didn't you tell me Rice was framing short and
let me get that lighter from him.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Because by the time you'd have cleared Shorty, he'd have
been sent to the electric chair.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Shorty was innocent, of course he was.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
If you're unhappy because I didn't let you help clear Shorty,
I'm unhappy because Henry Rice was the cause of all this,
and he's going free. Oh no, he Isn't you've arrested
him or what for running a gambling joint.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
No, we couldn't prove that, but the DA is a
great case against him, Blackie, and all because Rice made
you steal that painting.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But you can't say Rice stole the painting. I did.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Yes, you stole it, Blackie, But who got it after
you stole it?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Or Rice did? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh, I'm beginning to see a little flow in Rice's
master plant.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
And water flow. You didn't actually steal the abbot. Technically,
all you did was move it from one room to another,
so that clears you. I'm sorry to say, but the
painting was taken out of the gallery. So Rice goes
to jail for receiving stolen property.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Good work, Faraday.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
This all started with Shorty's cigarette lighter, but it looks
like Rice met his mas sh
Wow, so the great Boston Black He condescends to visit
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the lonely Henry Rice. Aren't you afraid your friends will
look out and find out about this baking.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'll take my chances with my friends, Rice, but I'm
not going to take a kicking around from you.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm kicking you around.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You know what you're doing. You're framing a murder on
my friend Shorty.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Terribly unfair of me, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know what it is. I'm out framed.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The police are looking for evidence and the murder of
that fellow Ashley, and you have phony evidence that makes
it looks as if Shorty killed him.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I do so, I do a cigarette later, I think,
with Shorty's initials on.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It and Shorty's fingerprints on it too, And it was
found at the scene of Ashley's murder.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know, I know. I made sure it would be
found there. I've got it you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now, yes, for now, but I'm getting it back. Shorty
has a record. If the police connect him with Ashley's death,
short he's as good as dead himself.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yes, he will be what a ha ha, looks as
if your friend Shorty will go to the chair of
murder and you, the great Porston black You won't be
able to do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I might, I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Unpleasant position you're in, Blackie, but very pleasant for me.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Look, i'll give you ten thousand for that Lightning's not interested.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Make you miserable as worth ten times ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Then what will you take for the lighter?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Nothing? You see? I have everything, Blackie, everything, even you
and a.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Jam h Look you're an art collector, aren't you, as
of a sort of the sort who'd like the Abbot
painting in his collection.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, now you're getting interesting. But the abboit is not
for sale, Blackie. It's in the City Art Gallery and
under heavy guard.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I know. But if you promise to give me shorties later,
I'll get that Abbot for you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You will, how I'll steal it? That's absolutely impossible.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You let me worry about that.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You can't do it, Blackie. You can't do it, can't I.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's four o'clock in the afternoon. Now by nine o'clock tonight,
I'll have stolen that painting.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
to those who make him an enemy, friend to those
who have no friend.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Look in the left hand top drawer of my buro.
William Ry, I think you'll find a raise of blade
with a handle, should be right in the front of
the drawer.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I said, oh, yeah, I have it here, thanks, Blackie.
Why are you collecting all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I can't tell you, Mary, why.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Not because in the first place you wouldn't like it,
and in the place that ties for.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
First you wouldn't believe it. Let's see if I have
everything in this bag.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
When you have a razor blade with a handle, you
have a knife, rubber gloves and adhesive tape. That's everything
you ask for so far, then I.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Guess I have everything I need. Now all I have
to do is close the case there and beyond my way.
It's a long Blackie.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Is it something wrong? Coo me do something wrong? Mary?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yes, you do something wrong, Blackie, Mary.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You've hurt my feelings. All I'm going to do is
get Shorty.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Out of a jam with a knife, a razor blade,
adhesive tape and a pair of rubber gloves. Yes, what
have they got to do with getting Shorty out of
a gam?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
A lot? And you're asking a lot of questions.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Not getting any answers. Oh, black you please tell me
where you're going. I'll worry myself sick.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh all right, I am going to the City Art
galleries with a knife and.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
To raise a blade, and he's of tape and a
pair of rubber gloves.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I'm going to steal the Abbot painting.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You are going to do?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
What? Steal the abbit painting and give it to Henry Rice.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Oh Blackie, you're not, but I am.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And don't worry.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
As soon as he gives me shorty cigarette like that,
I'm going to see that the painting goes right back
to the gallery.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I should think so. But that's not what worries me.
It's how you're going to steal it. There are steel
doors and steel shutters on the windows of that gallery,
and there are men with guns everywhere. Oh darling, I
don't know how you can possibly steal.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The Abbot, don't you, Marry Well, don't feel too badly
about it. Ask a million people and they'll tell you
what can't be done. But ask me and I'll say
it can.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Com Faraday, pick up your telephone. It's a little surprise
waiting for you on the other end of the line.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
How is it?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Little red riding hood. No, Rawlins, you've been around Blackie
too much.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
No kid, Inspector Faraday, somebody very interesting wants to talk
to you.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Funny that you mentioned Blackie because he wants to talk
to you about Blackie.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yeah. Oh, isn't pick up your phone and see all right,
I'll pick it up. But rollins. If this is your
idea of a joke, I'll give you an idea of
what it's like to be pounding a beat. Hello.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Hello, Inspector Faraday. This is Henry Rice.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Henry Rice.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yes, you remember me?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Of course, remember you Rice. If it takes me a
hundred years, I'm gonna I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
To see you remember me and still hold me at
such highest steed.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I hold you in high esteam, I'll high esteem you.
I'm gonna hold you for matter you love me.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But I didn't call you to have you boost my ego.
I thought perhaps you'd like to know something about your
friend Boston Blackie.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I know all I want to know about him.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, but you don't inspect you dog, You've always wanted
to send Blackie to the same I'm coming and cattage
you have for me. But You've never been able to
prove anything against him.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I will someday.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Really, what inspector that this is that day?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah? Why are you talking about Blackie.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And what he's going to do tonight? He's trying to
steal the Abt painting with the City Art Gallery's what
you heard me?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Yes, I heard you, but I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm not asking you to believe me. I just wanted
you to know that the painting was to be stolen
and that you couldn't keep Blackie from getting it.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Have a pleasant eye, inspector, listen right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Wasn't that sort of a surprise, inspector.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Oh you're steal here rollins. Yeah, it was a big surprise.
And guess what he wanted?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What to tell me?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Blackie is trying to steal the Abbot painting from the
City Art Gallery tonight.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Trying to steal the Abbne Right.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
So I'm dumb enough to fall by that.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Yeah, you'd have to be dumb to fall for it.
Not even Blackie could break into the City Gallery, much
less break out of it with the Abot painting.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Not even Blackie. Why that pain is that painting is
so heavily guarded that you so heavily got Ronna stopp
laughing and kept me a squat black. He's gonna steal
the abbit.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
What are we laughing about, No, Inspector Faraday, the gallery
isn't closed.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
We're op till nine to night.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I see, mister Lawrence. And then you still have your
regular number of gods on duty.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Oh oh, yes, of course, of course. Even though there
are a few people in the gallery this late, it's
it's almost closing.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Time and nothing's missing.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Ill believe me, this place wouldn't be so quiet if
anything were missing, much less the habit painting you thought
was going to be stolen tonight.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I didn't think it was going to be stolen, mister Lawrence.
I just heard a rumor that somebody was after it,
and I came down here to check Bess routine.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
I certainly appreciate your interest in my gallery, Inspector.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh well, may I show you around?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
No thanks, I have to get back to headquarters.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
If I had you worried about your abbit painting, mister Laurence.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Sokoh, I don't ever worry about it, Inspector. It's the
most heavily guarded painting in my gallery, even not even Well,
what was that?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Sounds like someone broke a window on the front pide
of the gallery.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Yes, and there was a stream in.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That gallery there too. Come on, I think we better
have a look over there.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yes, I'll think we better here. What happened here?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't know, mister Lawrence. I just turn it here,
and all of a sudden the window behind me broke.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Someone must have thrown a stone in from the outside. No, sir,
nothing telling here. I'd say, someone in here through something
out the window. Well, did you see anyone throw anything?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Nos? One of these people here through anything? What's been
thrown by someone standing? But I couldn't see them, Sorry,
mister Lawrence.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Mister r it comes to not one of your guards,
mister Lawrence. Yes, yes, I'm from the Abbot Gallery too.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Mister l Mister Lawrence.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
All of a sudden the life went on when I
turned them on, the Abbot painting was missing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, turn in the alarm quickly.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Han's gone to turn it on already.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
We'll throw the switch that locks the doors in the
window shut o all, take care of mister Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, there goes the alarm. Oh dear, the abbot stolen.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I I can't believe it. I can, mister Lawrence, round
up everybody in the place. Don't let anybody out. I
want to question everybody, even though I know the guy
who stole your painting. All right, blankie, I have question
and searched everybody in a place, including you, and no
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one has the painting. Where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You did the questioning and the searching. You tell me
where it is at. Painting's been cut out of its frame.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
You cut it out and got rid of it. Now,
how did you get it out of here?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
The painting is missing.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
You know very well it is because you saw it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You can prove that, of course.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Now I can't prove it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But you're here.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I gotta tip you'd steal it, and the painting is missing.
That's all I need to know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh no, tardy. You also need to know where the
painting is. And until you know that, you can't say
I stole it.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
All right, all right, I can't say you stole it,
but I can think it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You can watch think. You can think it hardly. You
couldn't think it way out of a revolving door.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Tell me something. There was a commotion in the other end.
Of the game, right just before the painting was stolen.
What was that?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Oh, somebody threw something out of.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
A window the painting. Maybe, No, it was just a stone.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I thought maybe it had the painting wrapped around it
or something. But a coup on the street saw it fall.
That was just a stone.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, sure, yeah, And that was part.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Of the thief scheme to create a commotion in another
part of the gallery so he could come in here,
turn out the light and grab the abbot. Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, it's a very clever idea.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
It was your idea, and I know it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But can you prove it? Well I can't prove it,
then of course I can go.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yes, you can go. But when I find that painting, Buckie,
your friends will find.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You in jail.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh good morning, now, I come on in, come in.
Have you seen the morning paper? No? What have I done?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You've stolen the abbot painting.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh that's not news. That's old stuff. I did that
last night.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
But how did you do it, Blackie? The way it
was guarded with even Inspector Faraday.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
There just a genius. That's all just sort of note.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
There's a phone call for you, genius.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Hello God Mourning Blackie. This is Henry Rice.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh Henry, good morning.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yes, isn't it though? And I see the papers where
you had a good knife. Oh fair, you got to
have it, Blackie. How did you do it? How did
you do the impossible?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It wasn't easy, Rice, I just made it look that way.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And now back to Boston Blackie. Blackie's friend Shorty, is
being framed for the murder of a man named actually
gang leader Henry Rice, who hates both Blackie and Shorty,
has the phonied evidence against and in order to get it,
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Blackie promises to steal the valuable and heavily guarded Abbot painting.
The Morning Papers announced that the painting has been stolen,
and as we return to our story, Blackie is asking
Henry Rice to keep his part of the bark.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
All right, Rice, I stole the painting for you. Where's
the cigarette light which shot his fingerprints on it?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Where's the painting? Blackie?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'll deliver it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I'll surrender the lighter on delivery of the painting.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh no, I don't trust you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You crossed me.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You tipped off Faraday that I was going to steal
the Abbot. But I got the painting for you just
the same. Give me the lighter and I'll deliver the painting.
Fair enough here it is, thanks Now, when do I
get the painting in a little while?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
But tell me something.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
What did you call Faraday and tell him I was
going to steal the Abbot if you wanted the painting
so much?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
To tell you the truth, Blackie, much as I wanted
that abbot, I didn't much care whether you got the
painting or Faraday got you.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
No, you see, it's hard for me to decide which
I do most like that painting or dislike you.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Faradi speaking, You're all power, Blackie. Listen to you. I
don't want to talk to you until you ready to
tell me what you did with that painting, and then
I'm gonna talk to you through bars.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Do you mean that putting you in a cage?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I'll cage you, Blankie. What do you want?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I want you to meet me at the City Art
Gallery so I can give you the Abbot painting.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I wanted you in on this too, mister Lawrence, in
case Blankie is just pulling another fast one. I don't
know too much about pictures.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I'm glad you called me in, Inspector Faraday the Abbot
was stolen from this room.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh were black How did you do it? And where
is the abbit? Now?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
One thing at the time, mister Lawrence, you can see
how I stole the painting. There's the frame for it
still there on the wall empty.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yes, you cut the picture out of its frame, that's obvious.
But when how did you do it without anyone seeing you?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, that was the easiest part of it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I waited until there was no one here, then caused
that commotion outside.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
While everybody was in the front hall of the gallery.
You had time enough to cut the abbot out of
its frame, roll it up and take it away.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yes, but not very far.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Come on, the abbit's in the next room. Take to
the back of another picture.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Oh, thank heavens, man, I thought we'd seen the last
of the abbot forever.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Where which picture?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Right there? The painting of the two children of Hey
It's gone? Was hanging there last.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Night, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We sold that painting out a half hour ago.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
What yes, yes to a man named Na named Smith
Smith from Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Smith from Kansas City. I know who that is, all right,
an old friend of mine. See you fell aslight.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
It like you're not going anywhere. This is another one
of your tricks. Yeah, coming to.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Not to jail Faraday, at least not with this gun
in my hand.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
A gun.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh, good, heavens, good heavens, mister Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Goodbye, Hello Mary, this is Blackie.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Hello Blackie.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Did you give the painting?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I tried to marry but I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's gone sold to a man named Smith from Kansas
City for two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
No, it's right, Mary.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think I know who has it, and it's not
John Smith, and he's not from Kansas City, a.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Man who seems to like to play tag. And Mary,
if you don't mind, i'd like you to get into
the game.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I don't see any reason for this call of yours, Blackie.
As you can see, I am Smith of Kansas City,
and I have what I want.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You mean you're Henry Rice of New York and you
think you have what you want?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Then what is that painting hanging on the wall behind
my desk? Two very lovely children recognize it?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yes, that's the painting I'd tape the abbot to Surprised. Frankly,
I am I didn't think you were smart enough to figure.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Out how I'd steal it.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
But I was smart enough, wasn't I. I arrived at
your method of stealing it by the simple process of elimination,
My dear Blackie. You see, it couldn't be taken out
of the gallery, and so when I heard it was missing,
I knew it must still be in the gallery, and
so I looked, and so I found it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh fine, is the abbot still taped to the back
of that painting on your wall?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And not quite. You'll never find the abbot, I can
assure you.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Even if I did find it, Rice, I wouldn't be
finding the abbot.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
No, if you knew anything about art at all, you'd
know the painting ice.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So for you it was a phony.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Look at it closely and you'll see. Come on, we'll
look at it together, and I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Ah nah, no, no, no, Blackie, you can be more
clever than that. Really, I can look at the painting
myself and tell whether or not it's all penty. Then
go ahead look at it, and have you followed me
to it? Oh no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Then you're going to spend the rest of your days
with the phony. Painting. But that's not my worry.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, Blackie, you've aroused my curiosity. I hate to
think I've been cheated, but I think you'd better stay
here while I go look at it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
If you don't mind, I do mine. What was the
buzzer for?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You'll see I'll turn around and look at the reason
for the buzzer. Come in, Max, ye for sure?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Where did you find a guy this big in a
redwood forest?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Rather overgrown youngsters? Me and Max? I have to run
out a minute. Do you think you could uh persuade
this fellow to remain here and quietly until I return.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Sure, Boss, I got a friend here in my pocket
to convince him like this, some convincer a voice.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It's good work, Max. I should keep him asleep for
a little while. I'll be back for a minute.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
You know something, Boss, what I like to hit guys
on the head.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It does something to me.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
You come to now? Uh, I'll let you get up
and then I'll hit you again with my black jack.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh, hi, Voss, you're back.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Huh Yeah, hello Bryce?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Did you see the painty? Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And it's authentic?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Never mind, you wouldn't understand Max, Blackie your trick elast
didn't work.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well, you can't blame a guy for trying.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Can you know you'll never find the Avid Blackie. You
know I've outsmarted you at every turn. I feel rather
good about that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'll get that painting back.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You will never even see it again. Now, don't you
envy me, Blackie. I have the Avid painting. I'm free
and clear of any suspicion. But the police are looking
for you, and you don't even know where I've hidden
the painting. Well, I think you've done everything you can
for me, Blackie. You may go now.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Thanks for something anyway, No hard feelings, Blackie here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'll make amends by taking you to the top of
the steps. Well, anyway, a Blackie, just want to fight
down and you're in the streets.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And I suppose you think out on my feet too,
I trust not.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You'll need to be rather nimble to side step the police.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Don't forget that looking for you.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Thanks for the warning.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Don't mention that.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Bunny, good girl Mary here right out of time? Does
everything work all right? Perfectly?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I did just what you told me on the phone.
I waited outside Rice's office door, and I followed him
down the steps, and from then on I didn't let
him out of my sight till they went into another building.
But where's the abbit?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You show me the building Rice went into, and I'll
show you the abbot.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
This is the door he went into when you follow him. Marry, Yes, Blackie,
it's a warehouse, but were house a palace? This is
where Rice hid the abbit.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, but it's such a big warehouse.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
We'll find it. Come I not sing, I say the
door is unlocked.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
No, that's bad. Means it's probably a guard around here somewhere.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
M Well, there seems to be nothing but an anti room.
There's another door there. Should we try that one?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Come on, but quietly, don't worry now, sh I hear footsteps? Yes,
and I see the man who's making them.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Oh, I see something else too. This is a camping casino.
Same thing now. But Rice must use this place every night.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And here comes past the footsteps, and they'll have to
take care of him before we do anything else.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
He isn't as big as that match you were telling
me about him.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
No, he isn't, but he's got a gun. Be quiet,
and we'll be telling the angels about him.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You're so rush here he comes. Hey you for turning
your chair.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Why, Blackie, you hit him only once?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You're selfish?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Not even a second.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Sock for me, Mary, I would gladly trade that second
sock for a second sight.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
That would help me find the abbot.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Oh ay, luck finding the painting over there.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Blackie, I'll find it under this table.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Time.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Well, I have torn things apart till I'm exhausted.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
So the last place I'm gonna look, we'll look over the.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Old places again. We may have missed something.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Oh dear, well it's not here. I'm gonna rest me.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'll rest in a minute. Not here.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Let's try this over here, maybe end of this take it? No,
I think here, let's try over there.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Mind if I play a little Roulette while you look ahead.
I love roulette when it's for fun.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I love looking for things when I can find them.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Oh, Red, and.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Even the situation here is black and I.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay, gosh, I guess Rice has a spool completely.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Oh no, Black, you'll find it.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I want to quit for a while and say a
little Roulette.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Start thinking again. I'm sure if Rice came here, the
painting is in here.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Red and even let's see where the little ball stops
this time.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I wish it would stop on the painting. That's it.
What stand back, Mary? That roulette wheeler's turned for the
last time.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Take that table leg here and.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Golly in a million pieces, and I was just about
to spend it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Make a fortune, Mary, we found a fortune. Look under
what's left with the wheel.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Looks like a candy.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, look at it when I take it out and
unroll it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Look the painting, Yes, the painting, Mary, And suddenly the
whole picture has changed, Blankie.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
So you went to all the trouble of stealing the
abbot just because of Shorty's lighter?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yes, And now Shorty has his ladder and the art
gallery has its abbot and everybody is happy.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I suppose I'm not happy.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Why didn't you tell me Rice was framing short and
let me get that lighter from him.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Because by the time you'd have cleared Shorty, he'd have
been sent to the electric chair.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Shorty was innocent, of course he was.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
If you're unhappy because I didn't let you help clear Shorty,
I'm unhappy because Henry Rice was the cause of all this,
and he's going free. Oh no, he Isn't you've arrested
him or what for running a gambling joint.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
No, we couldn't prove that, but the DA is a
great case against him, Blackie, and all because Rice made
you steal that painting.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But you can't say Rice stole the painting. I did.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Yes, you stole it, Blackie, But who got it after
you stole it?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Or Rice did? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh, I'm beginning to see a little flow in Rice's
master plant.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
And water flow. You didn't actually steal the abbot. Technically,
all you did was move it from one room to another,
so that clears you. I'm sorry to say, but the
painting was taken out of the gallery. So Rice goes
to jail for receiving stolen property.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Good work, Faraday.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
This all started with Shorty's cigarette lighter, but it looks
like Rice met his mas sh
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