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Suspense!

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Autolyze and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Burt Lancaster in The Long Wait, a suspense

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play produced and edited by William Spear.

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Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go.

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The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh.

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Hey, that's not the way hurrah for Thanksgiving Day goes.

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What do you mean?

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Why I wrote it?

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No matter.

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The 1950 version is different.

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Listen.

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Over the river and through the woods the snow is soft and white.

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Grandpa is happy with his jalopy.

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His spark plugs are autolyte.

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Over the river and through the woods blow high, ye winds blow low.

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The cars as snappy as grandma and pappy.

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Give smooth even spark all along the line of fire.

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Save gas.

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Wait a minute.

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These last lines don't rhyme.

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Why sure they do.

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Your car and autolyte resistor spark plugs are always in rhyme.

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In fact, you're always right with autolyte.

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And now with The Long Wait and with the performance of Burt Lancaster, autolyte hopes once again

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to keep you in suspense.

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When I stepped off the train at Grand Central I spotted Len Bush waiting for me.

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All the heat of my body sucked into my head.

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I knew that feeling.

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I felt that way every time I wanted to kill a man.

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He waved to me.

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I turned my back and I started up the ramp to the upper level of the street.

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He caught up to me and he kept pace with his long shuffling look.

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Don't get me wrong, Dan.

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I don't want to hound you.

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And why begin, Lieutenant?

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Something you said to the warden before you left.

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You want to repeat on it?

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I told him I'd be back for the limit.

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In this town we don't even like guys to steal apples or push carts.

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So when it comes to murder...

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You can't touch me.

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I served my full time.

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I'm clean.

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We just got to sit back and wait for it to happen.

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Your brother died two years ago.

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Everybody's cooled off.

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Why don't you let it lay?

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I don't cool so easy.

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If Richie could come back, he'd say forget it.

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Don't tell me what my brother would say.

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All right, all right, I won't.

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I don't know why I butt into other people's affairs anyway.

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It's not my job to worry about things before they happen.

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You'll be the first to know, Lieutenant.

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You're a jerk if you put your neck in a noose to rub out a dame like Lois Williamson.

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So long, Dan.

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I waited until he was swallowed in the crowd.

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Then I went across and down park until I made the car in that hotel on 40th Street.

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Dan Vetter?

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Oh, yes.

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I'm going to go and get a room for you.

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423.

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The elevator was an old cage that pulled itself up like an old man with asthma climbing stairs.

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I caught the reflection of my face in the panel mirror of the cage.

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Three years housekeeping with the state had left a mark.

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A little paler, maybe.

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Serene was the word for me.

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That's the way the reporter put it.

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The serene countenance of an alabaster saint showing no trace of the killer rampant under

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the shelf.

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Only I hadn't killed anyone.

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Yet.

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I got out of the elevator and I found 423.

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Inside I made for the bathroom.

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I felt under the washstand.

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The gun was there.

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Shorty Thompson had it taped neatly in place just like he'd promised.

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I pried it loose.

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I heard someone at the door.

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I yanked it open.

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Lois Williams came in.

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Not exactly came in.

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I was just standing there.

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I was just standing there.

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I was just standing there.

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I was just standing there.

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I thought the bowling ball would have been there.

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I was just standing there.

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I went in the hallway.

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I had no idea what exactly came in.

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She saw the slew of it along the wall and hung there like a f contrat balloon.

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The little rat was as beautiful as ever.

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The scared look in her eyes made them brighter and greener.

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She was wearing one of those curved gowns that she used to design for herself and was

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pointed up neat and tidy.

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She stared at the gun in my hand in a kind of a glad hungry way.

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Or I'd say to the trouble of coming for me.

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I'd have found you but thanks anyway.

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What are you waiting for?

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I don't know.

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Go ahead.

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Kill me.

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Don't hurry me.

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Go ahead.

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You want me dead and I don't want to live.

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You want to die.

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That's why you came to me.

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There's one thing, Dan, about Richie.

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I didn't think he'd kill himself.

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You figured he'd enjoy looking at his wife and kids through bars for the next ten years, huh?

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I've lost every friend I had because of that.

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Nobody will speak to me, have anything to do with me.

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I can't get a job either. No club will hire me. They're all afraid of me.

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What do you expect?

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They all knew how I felt about my brother.

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By the way,

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how is Tim Grady?

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I'm gonna look him up too.

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That's a kick.

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I ratted on Richie to save Tim and then he shook me loose.

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He didn't want anything to do with this squealer, he said.

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And you still love that dirty...

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You took him to make you miserable enough to want to die, huh?

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All right, so now you know.

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No job, no friend, no Tim. I got nothing to live for.

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My brother had everything to live for and you...

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killed himself.

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That saved the post-mortem till after you do the job.

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This was the day I caused my brother's death.

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But she wasn't scared.

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She was begging for it. Something was wrong.

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She came closer to me. She looked up at me with that...

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that haunted thing all over her.

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Desire for an end of life.

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I thought of her suddenly dead, still looking at me like that.

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I couldn't do it.

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It wasn't right.

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I put my gun back in my pocket. She saw me do it.

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Even when I try to get myself killed, I fumble.

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I'll take care of it myself.

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Hey, watch it, you crazy bastard.

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Come here. I'm allergic to people jumping out of windows.

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Especially out of a room registered as my name.

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Why? Why did you stop me?

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You always were a high-strung dame.

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Now go on, go home.

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Go home and sleep it off like it was a jag.

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I don't have a home.

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You really don't, huh?

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I've got nothing. I told you I've got nothing.

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No.

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No, it's no fun this way.

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Oh, well.

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Wait a minute.

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I'll take you to a room in the hotel.

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Here. Here, have a drink. You'll feel better.

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Thanks.

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Lois.

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Lois, I'd like to help you.

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You help me? Why?

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To tell you the truth, I don't know.

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But I know what Richie meant to me.

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I was with him when he died. I...

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I was with him when he died.

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I heard the way he called your name.

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Dan, listen to me.

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Before you became a singer, you were a dress designer.

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What does that prove?

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Well, it proves your troubles are over if you want them to be.

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The only way my troubles will be over is for you to use that gun.

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There's a way that doesn't hurt so much.

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The nerve doc says there's nothing like starting your own business

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or cracking a safe to get your mind off trouble.

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What do you know about psych-cliates?

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Nothing. But I know plenty about cracking safes.

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And I understand business is almost the same thing.

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Go into business.

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I have a business.

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Go into business.

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I haven't got a dime.

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I'll supply the coin. We'll be partners.

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Yeah? In what?

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The dress business.

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Dressed in what?

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The boys would laugh you out of town.

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Nobody laughs at Dan Vowell.

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Well, come on. What do you say? Partners?

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I haven't designed a dress for you yet.

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Oh, it'll come back to you?

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Once you're in business, you're sure to make a lot of new friends.

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You get a new slant on life.

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I'll tell you what I'll do.

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I'll talk to the old gang and they'll give you a break again.

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If things go on smooth, you'll be happy again.

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You think so?

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I looked at her a minute.

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And then I put across the cliture.

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Lois, I'll bet even Tim Grady comes back.

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I was always baffled by the effect a guy could have on a dame.

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I watched Hope push some of the unhappiness off her face.

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Mentioned the guy and the dame's heart changes places with her brain.

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She hesitated a second.

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I'll give it a try.

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Good.

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Now, do you think you can make it past bridges and open manholes or do you need protection?

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I'm all right now. After all, we're partners.

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I raised 20 grand and Lois went all out spending.

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She threw herself into the job with all she had. She had plenty.

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She was going to open on Madison Avenue.

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I spent a lot of time with Lois, talking dress shop.

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She took me to spots to check style.

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The dog show, the art galleries, the opera.

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She was beginning to show signs of wanting to live again.

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A month after we became partners, she told me.

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We can open tomorrow, Dan, except that...

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Well, I...

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Let's have it, Lois.

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The money's all run out and Dan, we have to advertise and get a sale for...

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What'll it take?

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Five thousand? Oh, three thousand.

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I'll get it.

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Oh, Dan.

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She kissed me.

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When I fought down the chill that sent along my spine,

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I said, I want you to be happy, Lois.

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I went over to the Ember Club on 60th to raise the money.

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I stayed away from the old spots until now.

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Lou Henry, you owned the place. Glad handed me when I walked in.

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Hey, Dan Barrow. Where you been, boy?

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All around and about.

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Yeah, you're awful early, Dan. The tables don't open till 10.

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I need five grand, Lou.

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Five grand? Without even a hello to soften me up?

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I need it, Lou.

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I figured you'd let me have it.

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For past favors.

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Sure, Dan. Don't mean no more to me than my right arm.

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Thanks. Be seeing you.

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Hey, Dan. A buddy of your brother's is out there at the bar. Shorty Thompson.

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Oh, thanks again. I'd like to see Shorty.

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Another one, bartender?

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Hello, Shorty.

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Oh, you, huh?

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Hey, you're in business, Dan. Something real imaginative, huh?

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Yeah, legitimate, too. Lady's gone.

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Ain't that a riot?

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Shorty was drunk. I don't like to talk to drunks.

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I was going to leave when I saw who the guy was on the other side of Shorty.

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It was Lieutenant Len Bush. Shorty turned his back on me and spoke to him.

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This guy is Richie Barrow's brother as though you didn't know.

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A few years ago, the joke was on you, Lieutenant.

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You put Dan away for sticking up a jewelry store.

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You didn't really believe Dan Barrow would pull anything as crude as that.

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It was Richie who done it. But Big Brother here took the rap.

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Shut up, Shorty.

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Used to be sort of a gag with the boys.

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If Richie got shot, Danny Boy would do the bleeding for him.

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Everybody knew that Richie was one in a million.

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Everybody knew that Danny Boy would die for the kid.

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Yeah, I'm going to let you in on the secret, Bush.

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Danny Boy's partner is the dame who killed Richie Barrow.

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You're drunk, Shorty.

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Get away from me, you rat.

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I turned back to the bar and I kept my temper in my pocket.

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If Shorty kept talking like that, I wouldn't be healthy for him.

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And I didn't want to do anything to him. He was Richie's best friend.

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Two more of Richie's friends walked in while I was downing my drink.

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Gus Manning and Tommy Ogle.

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I put my glass down and I started to leave.

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Just a minute, then.

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What's on your mind?

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The way I get the news, you and Lois have teamed up.

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Yeah?

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That's all I want to know, you freak.

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Hold it, Gus, hold it. Maybe Dan's got it scrambled.

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Lieutenant, Lois Williams is a dame who pinned the rap on Richie, ain't she?

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Any newspaper morgue will give you the answer.

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Look, I know she testified against him.

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And you know she lied about your brother to save Kim Grady.

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I know.

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Well...

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All right.

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Lieutenant, the boys and I want to have a little talk.

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Okay, Dan, it's your funeral.

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We all watched Len put on his hat and walk out.

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I put my back up against the bar so none of them could get behind me.

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Well, what are we waiting for?

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Cut it out, you guys, cut it out.

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Dan, you okay?

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Yeah.

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What happened?

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The boys don't like me just now.

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They want to keep me from making a girl happy.

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Yeah, yeah, the girl responsible for your brother's death.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Burt Lancaster in the long wait.

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Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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And now it's time for my Thanksgiving fairy tale.

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Last night my car called me out to the garage.

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Harlow, I don't feel good.

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I think you ought to do something about it.

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Well, open your hood and say ah.

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Ah.

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Oh, your spark plugs need replacing.

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I'll buy you a new set of Auto Light Resistor spark plugs with the exclusive Auto Light 10,000 ohm built-in resistor.

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Gosh, Harlow, would you?

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That's better than turkey on Thanksgiving.

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Just think of it.

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Turkey on Thanksgiving? Just think how I run.

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And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage our star Burt Lancaster with Betty Lou Gerson in the long wait, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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I sent the five grand to Lois so that she could open the doors while I went after business.

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And I knew where to get them.

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Nobody spends dough on a dame like a hood when he's loaded.

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On Thursday, the Third National Bank was held up.

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Friday morning I knocked on the door on 8th Avenue.

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Who is it?

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Me, Dan Varrell.

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Busy now, Dan. Some other...

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Hello, Tony.

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Oh, hello, Glenda.

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Hello.

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What do you want, Dan?

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You knocked over the Third National.

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What is this, a hijack?

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No.

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Your dame looks like she needs a lot of clothes.

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After last night, I figured I'd get plenty of that.

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What are you still talking about?

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I'm in the dress business, Tony.

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Tell the other boys, too.

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I went all the day buying their clothes from Lois Williams.

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Sure. What do I care where they buy them?

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The next day I ran into Numbers Johnson.

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He ran a policy racket on the East Side.

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I don't have a dame, Dan. You know that.

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Yeah, I know. It's about time you gave your wife a break.

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If I buy her clothes now, she'll expect me to every time I hit.

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That's the idea.

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Do you see it my way or do I...

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I don't figure it. You in the dress business.

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Well, if I keep happy in the dress business, I'll stay out of the numbers business.

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Which way do you want to play?

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The doll will get some new duds.

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Once the ball started rolling, it became a mouth.

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Lois knew all the angles on female frills.

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Her clientele was strictly 10th Avenue, but she turned them out on the Long Island, and they loved it.

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One dame tells another, and in no time at all, the shop is jammed with customers.

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It was a crime the way the dames spent the dough or the hoods go to to make so much trouble to collect.

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Lois clowed like a firefly.

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She was the complete businesswoman.

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She loved being surrounded with dolls who bounced in and out with business of the shop.

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Business that must have madame's attention.

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I asked her during a lull.

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You happy, Lois?

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Yes, Dan. Almost completely.

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I do miss the old gang though.

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Come in.

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Pardon me, Miss Williams. There's a Mrs. Barrell outside.

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Let's see if you want to see Mr. Barrell.

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Mrs. Barrell? Oh.

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Richie's wife, June.

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She was supposed to be in the mountains with a kid.

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That's why I sent her money.

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I didn't want her to know about this.

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She was waiting for me on the street.

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She had a roll of bills in her hand, and she threw it at my feet.

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The roll bounced against the storefront.

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I saw the rubber band snap off it, and the bills unwrapped like a sigh of relief.

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You think I'd take your money now?

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Now? What do you mean?

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You and Lois.

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Okay, so it's tainted money, but you got a kid you need it.

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You thought a lot of Richie, didn't you?

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As much as you did.

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Oh, no, much more.

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When Richie had pneumonia, I remember how hard you took it.

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During the crisis, you wouldn't eat or drink or talk.

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I remember thinking if Richie dies, Dan will die too.

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Take the money for the kid.

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You loved Richie, and now you're sponsoring that woman with his blood.

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June, wait!

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I'll kill you both!

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Nobody was going to keep me from doing what I wanted.

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Not Len Bush following me around, or Shorty Thompson hating my guts,

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or Richie's wife itching to kill me.

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I'd given Lois back an urge to live.

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I swore I was going to make her happy, and I was on first base.

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She had a going business.

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Lois' old gang hung out in the village, the Bolo Road.

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Richie, Lois, and Tim Grady used to pal around with the musicians who played the spot.

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They used to work with the musicians, and they'd play the music.

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They used to wait until closing time, and then huddle with the jive artists until morning.

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When Lois and Tim double-crossed Richie, the other kids cut Lois out of their hair,

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and Tim Grady left town.

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That night I went down to the Bolo Room to get Lois' friends back for her.

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I walked in just as the last paying customers left.

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The kids were getting set for a jam session when they spotted me.

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The place became full of hush.

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They glared at me, hating me for not daring to open their mouths.

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I picked a menu up off a table and I laid it on the bar.

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I pulled a pencil out of my pocket. I said,

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I'm giving a party for Lois Williams. You're all invited.

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Saturday night, gold room, carnet hotel.

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Whitey Jones?

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Yeah.

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I'm putting you down, plus your dame and three guests.

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Suppose I can't make it.

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Then throw away your piano. You'll never play it with broken hands.

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Phil Bliss, you, your dame and three friends, and your horn.

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Well?

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Okay, yeah, sure, baby, sure.

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Jerry Barton, Mel Folley, Joe Ward, Les Seltzer, your dames and three friends.

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Okay.

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And make sure that Lois knows that you're all tickled to death to see her.

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I'll be checking you off as you come in.

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I'll be seeing you on Saturday.

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It was Friday, the day before the party.

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Hello?

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Hello, Dan.

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Yeah?

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This is Lou Henry down at the Emerald Club.

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Yeah.

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Look, I don't want you to think I'm butting into your affairs, Dan,

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but we'll know how you feel about Lois.

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Yeah?

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Well, June, your brother's wife's been down here talking to Shorty Thompson.

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So what?

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She talked Shorty into rubbing out Lois.

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What?

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He's on his way now.

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Remember who told you, Dan?

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I dialed my body code on the flyer.

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If Shorty touched Lois now, being a buddy of Richie's wouldn't help him.

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The same went for June.

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Hello?

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Lois Williams, Francis?

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Give me Miss Williams.

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I'll connect you with her office.

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Come on, snap it up, snap it up.

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I'm ringing, sir.

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Come on, Lois, answer, come on.

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Miss Williams' office?

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Put Lois on.

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She's not in.

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Who's calling me?

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It's me, Dan Varo.

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Where'd she go?

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Mr. Varo?

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You just called Mr. Varo.

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What do you mean, I just called?

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Someone called, said it was you, and spoke to Miss Williams.

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I wonder why they do that.

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Well, never mind that.

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What did she, what did he say?

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Miss Williams always goes to the Museum of Art at this time of day to copy designs.

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She made an appointment to meet you.

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I mean, the man who called at the museum.

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She just left.

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I didn't wait for the elevator.

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I took the stairs three at a time going down.

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I came out on the street.

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The cab was idling on the other side of the avenue.

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I come to the traffic to get to it.

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I hopped into the cab, and for five bucks the hacky crashed light all the way.

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I was at the museum and nothing flared.

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The length of the building was quiet as a wall.

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I cursed myself for not asking what room Lois would be in.

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Here, here, you can't run here.

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Did you see a girl with, with drawing papers and crayons, tall, beautiful, well-stacked?

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I see hundreds of them.

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Well, where would she go to draw designs?

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The armor room, maybe.

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The Egyptian room, or the famous painting.

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Second floor.

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I had visions of a dead in some corner.

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I thought of her all twisted in the heat.

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I hit the Egyptian room on the run, and I stopped short.

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Lois was standing at the other end.

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She was behind a mummy case.

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On the other side of it was Shorty.

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He had a knife in his hand.

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They didn't see me.

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I sneaked up on them and I watched Lois fighting to move her lips.

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Lois, run, run to me.

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Dad!

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Here it is.

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I hate to do this, Shorty.

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Dad, he tried to kill me.

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I have to keep up with you, Dan.

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Still with me, Lieutenant?

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I always keep an eye on my friends.

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Who's this laying here?

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Shorty Thompson.

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You better take him in.

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He tried to kill Miss Williams.

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Yeah, I guess I'd better.

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Come on, Lois.

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By the way, Bush.

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Huh?

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You better pick up June Varrell, too.

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She was in on it.

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In case you don't know who she is, she's my sister-in-law.

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With June and Shorty out of the way for a while, nothing was going to upset things now.

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The party Saturday night in the gold room was a big success.

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Every time somebody tried to make a break for home, I beat them to the exit and insisted they stay.

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The place was full of smiles and hot adudes, and only Lois didn't know they were phoning.

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She was a dream in a green, backless evening gown, held up by a deep breath and an anxious look.

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She bubbled around, greeting people.

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Thank you, I enjoyed it.

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Lois?

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Dan, where have you been hiding?

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No place.

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Tell me, Lois, you happy?

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Dan.

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Just be happy, that's all I ask.

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Just be happy.

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I'm doing like this, Dan.

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Is there any guy here you like? Anybody?

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No, there's just one guy for me, Dan. He's not here.

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But he is, he's back in town. He's at the Sphinx Hotel.

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Tim.

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Yeah. Lois, I think I'll drop over and see him now.

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Dan, you're not going to do anything?

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Don't worry, Lois. I'm going to fix everything.

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She had her job, her friends. Just one thing more. Just Tim Grady to make the picture complete.

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The Sphinx Hotel was over in 6th Avenue. I walked. I wanted time to cool off. I wanted to do things right.

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Yes?

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Mr. Grady's room?

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One moment, please.

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Hotel?

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The Sphinx Hotel.

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Yes?

22:30.780 --> 22:31.780
Yes.

22:31.780 --> 22:32.780
Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

22:36.780 --> 22:37.780
Yes.

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Yes?

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This is Dan Varrell.

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Dan.

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Yeah. Remember?

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It's 3 a.m., Dan.

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I won't take much of your time.

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What, tomorrow too?

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I'm coming up now.

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Come in.

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I pushed open the door and I went in. I was standing by the bed.

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He was wearing a monogram black robe over some fleshy yellow pajamas. He glad-handed me.

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Come in, Dan. Come on in. Have a cigarette?

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I took one and I watched him going through hard times trying to light it for me.

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I let him sweat for a while and then pulled out my light, lit my cigarette and shoved the lighter under his face so I could light his.

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He couldn't stand still. He moved around the room like a cat on hot coals.

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He was a big good-looking check. Broad shoulders with all the trim. Curly hair, dimple on his chin.

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I just got back out on the coast. That's the place to be, Dan. You ever saw anything like it?

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Well, things go on in L.A. Someday...

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Lightsome place.

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And you say, Dan?

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Lois is a great dame.

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She sure is, Dan. She sure is. Anybody says different should get slugged.

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Listen, Dan, there never was anything between me and Lois. Anybody says different's a no-good liar.

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We were just good friends. We hardly ever even went out.

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Relax.

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Are you and Lois a partner?

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Yeah.

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She must be pretty near the happiest girl in town.

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Pretty near. You know, when I first saw Lois a few months ago, she was all set to kill us.

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Oh, wait a minute, Dan. I tell you...

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Sit down, Tim. You make me nervous.

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Nobody's blaming you for the way she felt.

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And Amara... Amara, I pulled out of the partnership. And Lois will be alone again.

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I don't want her to be alone. It's not good for her.

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Anything I can do, you know.

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She's in love with you. I'd like to see her get married.

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A woman with... with $75,000 business, well, she needs someone to look after her interests.

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The mention of the 75 grand has eyes lit up like Broadway after dark.

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Reading his mind was like looking through a dirty window into a filthy room.

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It hurt to think a foul ball like Tim Grady could make a girl do anything for her.

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Well, Dan...

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It's about time she got a proposal for marriage.

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Yeah.

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Why don't you call her up, Tim?

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Yeah. Good idea, Dan.

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I mean, right now. Stuyvesant, 1541.

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Now?

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Well, sure, sure. If you think...

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Heh. I won't know what to say.

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It's been so long.

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Say you want to marry her.

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Yeah. Yeah, sure.

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Lois? Hello, baby.

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Well, I see you knew the old voice.

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I closed the door.

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I didn't know if I'd be able to control myself if I'd listen to any more.

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I got to the dress shop at 10 o'clock the next morning.

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Lois was floating around like a... like a waft of loveliness.

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She touched the ink stand on her desk, moved a chair, straightened a picture.

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Wasn't conscious of what she was doing.

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She talked fast and happy about things that didn't mean a thing.

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She flung open a window and hugged the inrush of air.

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She spoke with her back to me.

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Oh, Dan, it's wonderful. It's wonderful. It's like beautiful.

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You're happy, huh, Lois?

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Dan was waiting when I got here this morning.

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He proposed. He said you wanted it that way, too.

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I guess I'm the happiest woman in the world.

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Can I use your phone?

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Sure. Sure. Call Paris, Bombay, Shanghai.

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He's in there.

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And that's him.

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I'm assigned Lieutenant Bush.

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Dan Verrill talking. I'm at Lois' shop.

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If you get here in five minutes, it'll be about right.

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Yes, Dan, I'm the happiest woman in the world and I owe it all to you.

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She turned from the window and saw the gun in my hand.

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Remember, you're always right with Autolite.

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Next Thursday for Suspense, James Stewart will be our star.

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Here, the play is called Mission Completed, and it is as we say,

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a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald.

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Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin.

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The Long Wait is an original play by Fred Freberger.

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Bird Lancaster is the star of The Hawk and the Arrow, a Norma F.R. production soon to be released by Warner Brothers.

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In the coming weeks, you will hear such stars as Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner, and Eddie Cantor.

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Don't forget, next Thursday same time, Autolite will present Suspense starring James Stewart.

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Meanwhile, see the very informative story about Suspense in the current issue of Quick Magazine.

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You can buy Autolite Resistor Spark plugs, Autolite staple batteries, Autolite electrical parts at your neighborhood Autolite dealers.

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Switch to Autolite. Good night.

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