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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh oh, mister A's come in giving you up for
the night.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're not alone, doctor Gail. There are a couple of
minutes back there, and I'd given myself up for good
as close as that closer.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome on into the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Coffee's perking. Didn't you find a less dangerous way to
make a living and being.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
A private detective?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Sure? But then who'd supply you with your material for
your book on criminal psychology? Sugar, sweet and black?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Here you are.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Incidentally, the book is coming very well thanks to the
unorthodox point of view I get on the criminal mind
through your eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, what happened to you tonight?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What happens tonight? Seems to have started with a man
named Judas Judas.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You mean Judas Iscariot from the Bible.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Of course, that's the guy, doctor Gail, the world's emotional
tarreas stew vision that it took two thousand years for
it to catch up to me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, I'm listening, mister Ray. I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The Cases of Mister Ray, starring George Rapt and produced
and directed by Jason j.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I hadn't been in my office around sixth Avenue for
more than ten minutes. When the hall door opened just
wide enough to admit a man's eye. From where I sat,
I could see it with steel blue. And when the
door opened a little wider, I could see that I
belonged to a very tall, very thin, very blond man.
I waved him in.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
My name, Sarah is Doran Richard Duran of Doran and Stanton,
Fifth Avenue, importers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Dealers in objects of art, curios and such. What can
I do for you? I want you to deliver a
package to a gentleman in Chicago. Go on. That's all
there is to it. I see. My name is Ace,
Edward Ace, Sole owner of ASE Investigation, sixth Avenue in
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New York. Dealer in homicide, matricide and patricide, and also
in the gentler forms of crime. What you want as
a worthy boy waking his way through reform school? Now
I know just such a lad.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
This is no ordinary package, mister Race. I'm willing to
pay a fee of say, fifteen hundred dollars for its
safe delivery.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
What you are, as a man named Ace, got the
package under your arm? Yes? What's in it? Adam Baum?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Not quite but something perhaps equally as explosive. Go on
it contains the most priceless item ever to come into
the possession of Doran and Stanton.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You still haven't told me what it is.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I didn't intend to.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I don't like working in the dark. What's at worth
in thollarsand sens? I mean?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I have consented to sell it to a British gentleman
named Colonel Amherst for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You can get a lot of explosion out of that
kind of scratch is the Dingus insurance?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Unfortunately, mister Ace, it is not possible to apply for insurance.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I see what you mean.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yes, the uh Dingus as you call it, has had
a most checkered and colorful career.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Mostly blood red. I suppose.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
You put things so obliquely, mister Ace, but you're quite right.
For many years Doran and Stanton have kept it hidden away.
Now Colonel Lamhurst may have the joy of possession and
the fear. You will find him registered at the Ambassador East.
Deliver the package, collect the money, and return to me
here in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Why don't you take it to Chicago yourself or have
the colonel come here. I will be frank, sir.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Neither of us wishes to assume the risk. I would
advise you to go on. If you accept the assignment, Shall.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I give you a check for your fee? How much
cares do you have with you?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Two hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Why, I'll take that a balance. When I returned from
Chicago with your money, excellent. Here is your retainer and
here is the package. I also have your transportation.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
You leave on the Commodore Vanderbilt tonight car fifty seven
compartment E good luck, mister Race.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Just one more thing, mister Durand how do you know
you can trust me?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
If you are wise, mister Race, you will give me
no reason to regret my trust.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And the baggage left in my hair was no larger
than the farm box of candy that evening box under
my arm, my arm pressed close to the gun, and
my shoulder holster I bordered the Commodore vander bunk. Well,
it just relaxed my bunk. When the door to my
compartment opened, I looked up from my berth into the
face of a small, fragile old man. His hair was
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glossy and deep black, His eyes were glossy and deep black,
But it wasn't his bones, or his hair, or his eyes.
That really interested me. It was his right hand. And
if there was a gun from where I lay it
a mighty big it will please clasp your hands to
gather at the back of your neck. I'll wait a minute,
and have you even met your sister. I intend to
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take the package. If you make one move, I'll be
forced to shoot you. That makes a problem. You can't
get the package unless I do move. It's under my mattress.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Oh how clumsy. If this place is so small, I
I forgive me. I am reluctant to permit.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You to rise. Of course I could shoot you and
kill you now, and then roll you over and take
the package. But you won't because you're not sure it
is under the mattress. And if you don't find it there,
I won't be allowed to tell you where it is.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Yes, I I suppose you are right. I can never
think these things through clearly, very well. I have no alternative.
You'll follow my instructions very closely, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Now you put your right leg on the floor, misterrace slowly, slowly.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
That's it now, So roll over very gently on the
floor with your side so slowly. Keep your hands on
that all right, get up, I won't shoot.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh what an idiot?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I am a stupid, imbecile bungler.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I knew it. I had the premonition you would grab
it my leg.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Now I stand up.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Permit you could do it, the stupid idiotic bungler. I'll
break Get going outside? Now? Are you taking me a
little fresh air? You do not? You will not. Please
do not be angry with me, mistakes, Get out out
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of the platform.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
I beg you, missays, I am promised, impotent and confident.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
If that's what I am? All right? Who sent you?
No one, mister l a No, who said you?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Please till not hit me again?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh? Shut you can?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I barely I'm alone on the little I'm a coward,
the coward, miss Days.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I have no one, no one, okay over your going?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
No no, no, put me down? Please you I swear
it's no one.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No one.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, black tap Relax? Oh thank you, sir. You stay
out of my way. Next time we meet, I'll toss
you over boy. Yes, yes, quite right, excellent, Thank you sir,
Thank you very much. I left the little Man shivering
out on the platform and went back to my compartment,
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and just as I walked into the room, that's when
I really got it. I don't know how long I
was out when I opened my eyes and the small
room looked as though it had been searched. It had,
and the package was gone. The train was just pulling
into some drinkwater stop. I got off and my skull
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patched up by the local druggist and hired a hack
to drive me back all the way to New York.
Two hours later, I got out in front of the
Duran Stanton shop on Fifthadner. There was a small light
burning inside. I opened the door and went in. There
was quite a crowd in there. All of them were cops.
Hetacted Lieutenant Walsh of Pomis. I came forward. He had
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been talking to the sulfiest looking doll I had seen
since Minsky closed his door. Where where hello? Race in
imported art? Now I want to talk to dr Yeah,
you can talk to Duran if you like, but he
won't answer you. He's dead. What did he die? A
hole in the head, two bullets went through it, got
a smear on it. Yet uh Downcate of Burglary, Hey, Jimmy,
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the back door Duran was upstairs with his wife. Here
they heard the noise. He came down to investigate. Bang
Bang A very dead mister Duran. I'm sorry to hear that,
Missus Duran. Thank you mister Ace Eddie Ace, you said
you wanted to see my nothing important, Missus Duran. I
won't bother you now you suffer a bad shock, A.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Very understanding his tray. I tried to stop my husband
from going down. He wouldn't miss me. But is there
something I can do for you? The string?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, not right now. I mean, mister Duran was just
gonna show me a Chinese ring. May I come to
see you in a few days, Missus Duran, please do
Oh by the way, have you heard from Colonel Lamhurst.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Colonel Amherst, I don't know the gentleman.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Alright, watch you eddy h h, Miss Duran. I I
think you'd better go upstairs now. The boys are gonna
bring the stiff.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I mean we have to take understand. Thank you for
your tunes. Goodbye, mister Rayce. Please call again, And if
I should hear from a Colonel Amherst, I'll tell him
to call you.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Missus durand left the shop. She hesitated briefly at the door,
glanced over her shoulder at me once, and then was gone.
Walcher's boys brought the stuff out of the back room.
I took a quick gander at it, and a longer
one was a very, very dead, mister Duran. Al right,
but it wasn't a man who had come to my
office that morning. No, uh, I guess I'll hit the road.
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Watch take around, take your hat or respect for the dead.
I'd like to see the rest of that adhesive patch.
Don't be mobid. Yeah, maybe ask you a few questions,
like what you really came here for at this hour?
Where you were an hour ago? Look walls just between
us an hour ago. I cracked the back door of
the shop and threw a couple of slugs into the
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ground when he got in my way. I came back
to see if I dropped any clues that might lead
to me. If you find any, I'll be at my office.
Bring him up and we'll split him fifty fifty. Well,
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the little man with the big gun, I thought I
took that away from you on the train. I have
many of them, mister. I. First, I must ask you
to forgive the liberty I took in entering your office
to wait for you. What else to find you? I
did not know. Eventually you must return here, all right,
eventually I did. What's your problem, mister Ray? I have
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a grievance on the train. You caused me a great humiliation. Yes,
yes you did. You slap my face. You did not
even have the decency to function me manlike. Next time
I promised to fund you hard. It will be no
next time, mister Ray.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
For you, I have the greatest resentment, Yes, yes I have.
If you give me the slightest propagation, I promised to
shoot you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Really really, I wait, all right, watch your queue twice?
Your a nuisance. You will come with me, Misterday where
we're going? He's waiting to speak to you, fool. Colonel
Gregory Amherst.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Ah, come in this day is come in?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Come in? Uh?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Well done this time?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well then it is, Oh, thank.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You, thank you? What's him for?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Answer? Thanks? Nice? Way out? You got here? You like it?
You really like it.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
It's so difficult to get proper accommodations these days. And
as to the point, where is the coin the coin precisely,
you mean the coin that was in the package piece
that I think of?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You do not blame me for the symptom.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You know full world of which coin I have difference?
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Now where is it?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Suppose you tell me, then we'll both know. Say you see,
I told you he was uncompacted. But we must discuss
this comy.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
But don't you see he's a.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Terrible person, a liar, a bug. If you don't take
this monkey away, colonel, I'll break his leg.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
I'll do be quietly in this, or I should let
him break your leg the bazaarre.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
For indeed, na sir, I.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Shall put it bluntly, concisely in simply, I believe you
had the coin. I believe that you and Stanton, Duran's partner,
are working together, and you both mean to hoodwig Rand
simulate a theft on the train and then dispose of
the coin, sharing the proceeds between you and Stanton.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
So you got a pony coin when you slug me
on the train. You know fo what I did.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
So you'll see you see how he twits.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He quiet. I thought you were supposed to be in
Chicago waiting for the coin.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
That was the business arrangement.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
But you cannot blame him for coming here before the
coin is delivered. In an effort to save a little money.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And you even know which train and compartment I'd be.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Occupying in my business, Sir, I must know anything. I
even know when I'm beaten and forced to pay, and
that time has come, I shall pay how much fifty
thousand dollars? The price was one hundred and fifty thousand,
that is.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
When I planned on taking it by storm.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Now I am willing to tender wealth of the realm,
a quantitative and relative difference.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
If you can say that again, You've got a deal
on One condition is at first you tell me what
this coin is all about. Tell you what you mean?
Speaker 8 (15:23):
You don't that that Stanton hasn't told you what's it?
He's sleptary his life device. It is priceless, priceless, Jared,
I said, and bargain.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
With you for you. Indeed, ahead, you're fun. You know
what the coin is. I don't, but I know where
it is. You don't. I'm still in the drivers. Indeed
you are. For you any will, sir, I shall show
my good faith.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Please please, Colonel I beg you be careful.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
What you say is the fag liar of scoundrel and him.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
He struck me again.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He struck me again.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yes, and it serves you will not to require you
were saying, Colonel had the coin? Yes, tell me their
what do you think it is? Comes of a point?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
To the point, tell me, sir, how much do you
know of your Bible?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I told you I'm a normal I want not ask guide.
It is very much to the point you know, of course, if.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
One Judas is carriot the great betrayal, yes, yes, And
for his betrayal he received from the Roman authorities, is
promised wage thirty pieces of silver.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Now, then that was two thousand years ago.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Mark well, what I am about to Saesa there are
in the connections of New miss Mathis certain coins of
antiquity dating back to the days of.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The Pharaoh's two thousand years before the day of the
Great Betrayal.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Eh, now, sir, you begin to comprehend, I'm still lessening
very well. To the point of all that thirty pieces
of silver paid the Judice is.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Carried only one. Only one, I say, has been on earth.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
The rest for all we know, who've gone into the
dust to the bones of the Judas. But that one coin, sir,
with the imperial head and arms of Caesar stamped upon it,
has been sought for for, killed for and and died
war through bloody century after century. Will you say that,
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I say, or nuts ah, But my fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Thousand dollars says otherwise. The face another the coin. If
you please, I'll have to see stand first. You say,
you see he cannot be trusted.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
It's Leonidas correct in his analysis of your characters.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Are sure, but I still have to see stand first.
Very well.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
There's nothing for it, I suppose as added inducements are
a bonus.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Have ten thousand dollars for yourself. We need an advisements
to stend of it.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
If you deliver that coin to meet here before dawn,
the same with it die.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What more have you do? I'll try to earn the
ten g hamhers didn't have the corner. Stanton was on
the loose. He might or might not have it. If
it existed at all, it had to be someplace. I
hustled on back to the shop of Duran and Stanton.
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I never got a good look at the little man
who was tailing me. Every time I glanced back, he
had his face draped in the foreign language newspaper. I
made sure he was still pounding along behind me, and
I turned in at the door of Duran and Stanton.
I didn't expect it to be opened. I was wrong.
I didn't expect to find anyone there. I was wrong again.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I walked slowly to the kid at the far end
of the shop. She was no more than sixteen or
seventeen or Her face was white, her eyes loaded with beer.
She stood in front of the safe under a small
yellowish light. I looked carefully for a gun in the
right hand. It's always these frightened, white, white faced kids
willie that you have it. She was unarmed. I left
my breath out and close an arm. I'm the police.
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Who what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I know you mean missus Durant? Is your mother my
step mother.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I was up at school when I heard it that
my father had been.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I came here at once. What were you looking for
in the safe? The safe or were you putting something
in it? Like? What? Luck? Infant? No time for guessing games.
Now give me a small package. Eh if I'll do it,
you stay here. Pull out that light now, don't leave
till I get back. Keep that door locked. But why
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take this gun? If anybody breaks and use it? And
tuck that gold chain you're wearing around your neck and
side your dress. It might tangle your gun arm when
you need.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It, But I've never fired a gun before.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Baby, You'll be surprised how natural it will come to
you if you have to. I left the kid in
the shop, strolled down Fifth across thirty folts from my
office on sixth. The little man on my tail had dusted.
I took my time. I figured there'd be somebody waiting
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for me at my office. There was. I figured he'd
be holding a gun on the door he was. I
figured it would be the little man if he wasn't. Alright,
miss Trace, I'll take that package. M what name a
you're wearing now, Stanton, give me that package. You're sure
you want it? Your life is a mighty high price
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to pay for it.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
You'll forget I'm holding the gun.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, he headstrong. Here's the package that's better, mister Race.
All the time I was talking to Stand and I
watched the little man across the street, the foreign language
paper still covering his face. After Stand left my office,
I watched Borne through the window. He came out of
my building. I didn't hear the shot, but I saw
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the gun flashes of fire. Stanton slunk to the pavement.
By the time I made it downstairs, the little man
was far away, and so was Stanton. His body was
still lying where it had fallen. The street was deserted.
His wallet had been first to make it look like
a clumsy hold up. The package, of course, was gone.
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I picked up the wallet, cased the contents. Among the
usual stuff, there was a small clipping on glossy paper.
It was a crude picture of a coin. The caption
under it red coin of Judas. I didn't have to
wreck my brain to figure out where i'd seen it before.
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Who hace, Open up and don't shoot.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'd do so frightened.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Give me that gold chain from your neck. Stop playing simple.
You can keep the chain after I've taken the coin
from the end of it, so you know I have it.
I must have been blind not to known it before.
Did your father give you the coin?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yes, he told me to keep it at school it
was the safest place. But after I'd heard he'd been killed.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
This eight no need for love, my dear. You see
your seaconnel I told you here again. Well, miss Days,
I must say I'm disappointed in you. I did consider you.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
A man and some peculiar or not, that was your idea,
I said, dear neiders, with fifty thousand dollars coin of
the realms, the verse from you opening above board the coin,
and what am I giving for this honorable gesture? This
this two portershell combs. Look Kiron Leonidas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
This time's I mean business. This gun will underscore my intention.
Now the coin misdays and my fifty thousand dollars. You're
not even i'mbers in your fat clown Leonidas never gave
me fifty cents. He knocked off standing for those combs.
But that was the most hit strong, your most in strong,
coming to me with his baggage and telling he was
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all on error.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
My dear colonel, I intended to return the money to you,
but in my distress over learning that I had failed
in my mission, that you just slipped my mind.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Mine like a ski. Run then to her and slipped
your mind again. My dear fellow, I said, yes, yes,
you're of this colonel, as your deed wi you la
earlier were misdays. I've got the coin, but I can't
sell it to you. You'll have to deal with missus
Duran and her stepdaughter. It belongs to them. You are
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indeed the soul of honor.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But the fact of the matter is that Marline Duran
called me.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
After you talked with her. Oh, come in Mali.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Just tell me which one of you killed Stapin Blin.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Put anything in his pitl away.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Which one of you.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
It was quite unintentional, missus dorand a regrettable and melancholy accident.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I assure you, I never meant oh.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Here now, I said, and you tell him to do it?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
No, no, no, no, I I you did.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm going to kill you too.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Hey for him and say she's mad. Uh huh stupid?
I stupid, shut down man.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
You see, I killed him. I loved Stanton, so I
killed his killers.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, just like you and Stanton killed your husband. He
got wise of the fact that you and Stanton were
gonna run out on him, so he sent Stanton to
deliver the phony package. He knew that Amhurst was in
New York. He tipped Amhurst off, figuring that Leonidas would
be sent to kill Stanton for the package, but Stanton
was wise to it. He sent me instead. When he
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saw that I was attacked, he came back here and
killed your.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Husband, Yes, my husband, and he deserved it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Alright, Marlene, come along with me.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I'm not going with you, mister Race, because you and
Elsie are going to the morgue.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And so Elsie used my gun to send two bullets
into Marlene. How do you like that? I forgotten the
kid was holding it.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But what about Elsie? Won't she have to stand trial?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, it's been settled down at headquarters. After all, Marlene
did kill two man and then threaten Elsie and me
with a gun, so Elsie'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And and what about the coin does Elsie keep?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah? Uh, she's having it melted down into what a
small silver crucifix?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Mm?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I see? I like that.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Good night, miss Race, good night Doctor Gale.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
In a moment, George Raft will be back as mister
Ray's to tell you about next week's case. But first
the brief word from our sponsors.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
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the man who was forced to help his wife's murder.
Thank you, George. We'll be listening.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
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