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Speaker 4 (01:58):
Do we mean dubiyi Commissioner of Police, Monsieur, I be
Dock in writing this report, beg your indulgence. This case, Monsieur,
is my last. When this series of robberies began, I was,
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as you know, no longer with the surety. Ten years
ago I had retired, and in the last unhappy months
had been touring the provinces with a variety show.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Mess you, messieur, madame.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
It gives me infinite pleasure to introduce to you that infallible,
magnificent virtuoso of crime, who, for eighteen years to the
greater glory of the suy day.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Standing in the wings.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
The sad realization which for months had oppressed my heart,
was confirmed that already to ten short years, I was
forgotten in the capitals of the world. Then applause drew
me from my unhappy weather, and I'll give you that
of it offsimy. I shall describe to you some of
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the highlights of my career, show you some small aspects
of my technique, and answer questions on the art of detection. Monsieur,
monsieur Leback, if you please, my souvenir, advance master, Ah.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
The shoes of Woayan.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
These shoes were worn by buoyant the breakout over one,
who frequented count affairs. There he spied out rich men,
wailing them and murdering them for their money. It was
these pair shoes which furnished the essential clue. Well, finally
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the bag of tricks were emptied, and that day I
took no pleasure in the wild applause of the ignorance
and credulous when I entered.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
My dressing room, Ah, matte, this young man has come
to pay his compliment, and le Back was telling me
your matto justitia vi tutam regina. Justice is the queen
of virtue.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
My murto, No, it's le Bak who finishes himself a
classical sclar.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Oh, I am misunderstood. My name is Williamson. I came
back to tell you that you are a very great artist.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Indeed, how would you know?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, in a small way, I'm in the same kind
of work.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
A music hall comedian perhaps, Oh no, no, no, he
is from Scotland, yardvy dot in a small ways, correct, Yes,
I'm over here on a case. You say that you
were formerly with the spe I was formerly commissioner for
eighteen years. Commissioner.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Oh well, I'm on my way to see your present commissioner.
I believe his name is Dubini.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
A blackhead, bangling full. Give him my regards.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, I would do that and wish him luck in
solving these recent robberies.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Oh you know about or Franz knows about them and
he's laughing at the police one moment.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You are here because of the robberies, Missau.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Well, yes, yes, the certe seems to think an Englishman
is involved.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Why what do you want to give you? Massipties? The
case will never be solved.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
No, Why you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
See, Dubini has been fortunate since he became commissioner. There
have been no other crimes of this type. It involves
a master the criminal. It takes a master to catch
a master.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You seem so certain monsieur.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well, naturally, I am v DAK.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Later, Commissioner Williams described to me how he arrived at
your office to be greeted by a scene of noise,
confusion and desperation. Detactives carried back and forth with urgent
messages while you, Commissioner, vented your bad temper on an
unfortunate gendre pool Pool. Their uniforms were authentic, Commissioner, and
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they said they needed the cabinets for evidence.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
So you helped carry the cabinets out of the truck.
But it was an official truck if they had an
order tigned by.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You, nd by me hind by there you meanly get
back to the prefect cure, yes, Commissioner, Well, well what
do you want?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I'm Williams in Scotland.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
God, oh oh yes, yes, forgive me this is a
most trying day.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, Missioner, yes, yes, Jonna Bordinay, what progress have you
made in finding the criminal who stole my medal? We
must be patient and all my general I beg you
bless you find a way of carving these crimes. We'll
find a new Commissioner.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
I failed to see the humor. He said it involved
a math. The criminal who said this be dug bedc. Yes,
I met him by chance. He's a fascinating man.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
He's a real art, greatly overrated. Monsieur.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
I can assure you he once held this up as
his myths were most irregular.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Still in the case of these robberies, he might be
able to.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Forever Never, for years, Monsieur, his reputation overshadowed every man
who held his office. Even I had to suffer these
humiliating comparison. Or how is that v Doc would have
done it?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
So? Vdoc would have caught them sooner. V Doc would
have known immediately if that must have been very irritated.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
But his name to be mentioned. I took certain steps
which made it impossible for him to remain in Paris.
I managed judicially to keep.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
His name out of the papers.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Now finally he is forgotten, so in the case of
these robberies, he might be able to find them.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Never, of course, I have no way of knowing the
twists and turnings in your brain to be before you
made the inevitable decision. I can only say that your
messenger did not take me holy by surprise. Naturally, as
my duty to France, I instantly obeyed your summons.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Coming be doc, how are.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You more of me? Excellent?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Commit well monjoho is Spector Williams Illo, Doc.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I want to discuss these recent robberies.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Would you be, doc? Huh?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Inspector Williams and I have been discussing them.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Shall I summarize? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do?
Speaker 8 (08:50):
We are satisfied that they've all been carried out by
the same game.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
The crimes are all of our similar.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Nature is the robbery of the National Museum of the
Pretty pally raya well of.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
The home of General bordone Ye, the criminals have consistent tis.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
We've watched all the fences closely. Nothing has toled up,
not ad not approach.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I think they may have been smuggled out of France.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, all the stern goods are still here. The thieves
are waiting.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
They have time. Then all we can do is wait.
You asked the help of vi Duck. I never wait. Well, well,
what will you do, gentlemen? Thieves?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Well, they are a very special lot, a tightly knit,
highly professional group where each man knows everything about the others.
Yet sometimes one may be found is jealous of another.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And can be induced to talk.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
But the Commissioner has had every known dual thief in
Paris picked up in question.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No thief will talk to gendarmes. It's a simple fact.
Dubin never comprehended to whom do I know the thief?
I once knew a gentleman thief who I doubt if
he is involved in these robberies, but he is likely
to know. The ones are the Marquis de Villiers, A
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marquis he assumed the name for professional reasons. He gained
Auntrey into the greatest houses with such ease that he
was also called Monsieur Latchki.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Oh, his unds charming. And you believe this marquis wouldn't
know Eh, if I can.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Find him, he isn't in Paris. He is in hiding,
has been for years. I'll get in touch with some
of my old friends.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
You'll need some officers.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Ah, what a bangler.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
No, no, no, none of your bullies. I'll go alone
unless Inspector.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Williams would enjoy meeting the marquis.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Inspector Williams and I met that night in the Luxembourg Gardens.
It was striking ten and news vendors were crying the
headlines exhorting the public to patients, telling them that their
infallible police were at work. Both Williams and I were
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addressed as sailors. We crossed the gardens and began our search,
first calling on a certain woman of the Phobos Saint Germain.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yes, what do you want, adele you? Yes, I am
looking for the marquis and.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
The marquis oh sheeria, I am sorry, I have not
seen him for weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Then to a certain metro d in a fashionable restaurant,
and to a young dancer at the stage door of
a well known theater, without success. Finally, we stopped on
the boulevard to buy white violets from an old beggar
the marquis.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Monsieur, what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Caffeine letto lato.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Man ah, caffeine latou. Here we are down these steps.
What do you want, madam? Are you expecting the marquis?
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Who are you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Two lonely sailors who have business with the marquis? And
white violets from madame?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh, have come in. He's not here yet.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, we'll take this corner where we can see. What
a place something to drink?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Monsieur?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Two calvados, madame, Yes, cafe is like this are the
washed linen Perri's' hides from her guests. But I feel
most at home with the criminals who frequent these places
because you worked among them.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
No, because I was one of them. Look yeah, on
my chest, but.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Ga l turn into my flesh the mark of the
chain gang.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I spent eight years on the chain gang. But how
then it was supposed to be fifteen. But I escaped
in the habit of a nun.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But did they know when you worked in the ciltine?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Of course that's why I worked there.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
You know what it is to be a fugitive, to
live expecting a return to that hell where I couldn't
stand it.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So I made a supreme gamble.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You went to the cirte.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Ah, no mona me. What was more logical?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I knew everything about crime, every trick of the tree.
And then well, then inevitably I became commissioner.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Here he is the marquis. Have you a corner table.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
And I have cooled some of your wines.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I will bring it immediately.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
And you can speak to him.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No, no, no, well we'll wait. Be ready to leave
just when he's a Do as I say.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
When you see the old woman coming back now, monsieur,
may I.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Pass just a moment? Where is this wine?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh? Please?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
It has been noted especially I'd like to.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh please, no, no, no, no no, it is for
the marquis.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Monsieur le marquis your battle? What please you take my wine?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I think no, it's got a knife.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
When you see the wine in the shoe. Moment, Tom,
remember you must die and we all must die. Stand
against the wall. But thank you all. Be quick now
who was responsible for this fight? It was the sailor.
He took the wine. Why blame me? I was insulted
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by the marquis. I insulted you. Life enough, you're both
underrest here. Put out your hands. There, luck together, a
cozy loving pair.
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Speaker 4 (17:36):
And so according to plan, my plan, the Marquis and
I Vdoc we're thrown in the same cell. For it
has been my experience Commissioner Dubini that to gain Immn's confidence,
one must share the hardest BLUs of his personal fate.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
When you learned that you would have taken the first
small step toward mastering the art of detection. But enough I.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Had boosted to Inspector Williams, and I believe to you
that the Marquis.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Would talk within twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
But the hours dragged on, and he sulked in his
corner and I in mine. Finally I gave a pre
arranged signal to a passing guard.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
You on your feet. I only stand in the presence
of gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Up.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
You are to come with me.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Don't tell me this line. Pig is being released while
I released, he's.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Being taken upsets for questioning.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We have a tip on this fine tip that you
know quite a lot of monsieur about these robberies.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Now, March.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Say, how did he look when you said you had
a tip about me?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Interested in subloc and I think there was sympathy.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
When I reached your office Domin you were eating your.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Dinner, yes, Chateau brilland with so snriquat, And I thought, Commissioner,
how you.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Had never lived as I had so often found nothing
but bread and water.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
But I was in your office because of duty, so
I wasted no time.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Well the mark, he will not talk. Well, I am
afraid this case is too much for you. With your
trap is sprung, the bird is caught, but he will
not sing.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Because you have a stool pigeon in the next cell.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
How did you know?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Where do you take me from? His ears waved through
the bars, Remove him any more advice? Yes, have you gend'armes?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Give me a sound beating before they throw me back
into the cell.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Pleasure aft have eaten?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Oh also, and pumps to flee, and then a.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Sweet The beating was genuine.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I insisted on that an artist must make sacrifices to
be must be willing to risk.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
His flesh is very alive on every.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Turn of the wheel, which is why you will never
be heavy dark. It was two hours late when they
threw me back into the cell. You will talk, you
will talk yet, But I know nothing here.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Let me see that cut.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I told them I knew nothing. Whoever committed those robberies
would not let himself fall.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Into the hands of the police. That is right, my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
But I must say I was flattered to think they
believe that you are right to be flattered.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
You mean you you know them, the men who robbed
the petty Pale, the man who planned it, ah brilliant
in comproble.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yes, I know them well.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
And so the birds sang, and I was ushered back
to your office just before midnight. But it was fortunate
that you were alone, you Mini, for much of what
I had to say was only for your years.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Will will we do well?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
The case is solved. Let me sit down, please? Well?
Will did the makey confessa?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Not so fast?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Enemy?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I know the names of everyone involved. I know where
the stolen goods are stored. The celan take chillan will,
and I know I'm very weary of crime Commissioner, of
greed and envy, and fear of men who seek success
through fraud because they have no talent.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
All of us have all cry.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And I am weary of you, Dubinni, who stold to
achieve your success. I store my name the only thing
of value I owned. When I left the Surety, I
left a monument that towed in the minds of my countrymen.
You stole it, you tore it down, stone by stone.
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How could I you have till you you whispered in
one ear and then another. You drove me out of Paris,
hoping that I would be utterly forgotten.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Am I right, doc, I beg you you know the name? Yes,
there is a price. How much? I have composed a
statement for you to sign.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I am il dubignim declare that whatever poor talents I possess,
I owe entirely to the master of all detectives you.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
But what would you do with it? I will use
it as I see fit when I see it very well?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
There now the name.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Here is the address where the student goods are stored.
But if you make a raid now, I said, immediately,
you may find the whole gang there. But away, Commissioner,
do you need the names if you can catch them
with the goods?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I did you need the raid in person?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Knowing that newspapers would send reporters there, I was willing
to let you have the glory for once.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I remained in your office drinking your excellent.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Cognac when young Inspector Williams joined me.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
He had been informed that the case was sold. Ah
a most charming kgnak.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, can I tell me the marquis was not involved?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
No, no, no, no. He merely disclosed the names.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
How many were in the gang?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Seven? Yeah, seven, all experienced thieves.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Who was there an Englishman?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Why?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I believe he said there was one who had escaped
from Dartmore. The commissioner's reasoning was correct.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
On that, and the master mind the Marquis, did not say,
but surely be dark?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
You know not of his certainty?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Then I have surpassed my teacher because I know.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Oh who is he?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You William, what possible proof?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Proof?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
My proof is the marquis, the cavid latour. When you
and his stage that very convincing fight, what staged shot?
The marquis shouted, memento Morris? What of the Latin motto?
The marquis is lebaque. You're assistant in the variety show.
The man who fancies himself to be a classical scholarity
of tutum regina justice is the queen of retuns.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
What could be my motive? I mean to rob and
gain nothing for myself.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Didn't you gain great satisfaction when all of France laughed
at d'aubignible.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
You are worthy of your teacher.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Before I go? What will Dubini discover in this raid.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Why the stolen goods, the Jews, the general's medals, the
mirrors and paintings from the petty palade, everything and begang.
Oh they have escaped, but they are of no consequence.
They were only two men, and now one is a
chabby marquis, and the other well.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
A man who is rather pleased for himself.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
And so I redoc beg your intelligence, Commissioner Duvigni, for
the nature of this report.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
As I said, it is my final case, and perhaps
not my best. If you wish, consign these pages to
the fire.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
There are witnesses revealed here, both yours and mine, which
I fancy both of us.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Are willing to forget.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
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Suspense.
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Doc's final case was written for Suspense by Sylvia Richards.
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