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Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. John Hodiac in tonight's presentation

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of Suspense.

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Tonight, Auto Light presents a story based on fact.

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As we recreate the excitement and violence of a fire in an oil field, the story is called

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Hellfire, our star Mr. John Hodiac.

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Hey, Hap, what's the busiest thing you know?

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My telephone, Harlow.

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My wife's always on.

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Well, your car's electrical system is much busier than that, Hap.

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Why, it goes to work the instant you press the starter and continues every second your

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engine runs.

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It works every time you blow the horn, turn on the lights, radio heater, and electric

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windshield wipers to mention just a few.

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Does everything but talk, eh, Harlow?

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Right, Hap, and if that electrical system could talk, it would tell you that a check-up

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of your car's electrical system at periodic intervals is just good business.

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You mean it pays in smooth economical performance.

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It sure does, Hap, so friends, treat the important electrical system of your car to a periodic

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check-up soon and be ready for those cold driving days ahead.

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See your car dealer or your nearest authorized auto light service station.

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You can quickly locate your nearest authorized auto light service station in the classified

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section of the phone book under automobile electrical service.

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Or call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25.

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And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light.

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And now, auto light presents transcribed Hellfire, starring Mr. John Hodiac, hoping once again

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to keep you in suspense.

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Oil hunters are like farmers and fishermen.

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They all try to harvest a crop.

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The main difference between them is that the oil hunter has to find his crop before he

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can harvest it.

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Finding a nickel glass of beer in a free lunch counter is a lot easier than finding oil in

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untested territory.

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I know.

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I've been looking for it for a long time.

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Hear that?

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That's Betsy, my drilling rig.

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She's scrounging around on the ground again looking for a crop we can harvest.

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I say again because this is the eighth time we've tried this session and so far no dice.

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And there are seven dry holes in this immediate area to mark my failures.

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I feel pretty bad about it.

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But not nearly as bad as the rest of the stockholders.

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No, sir, not nearly as bad.

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The stockholders are getting impatient, Drake.

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The way you talked about this field, I felt you would have something for them long before

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now.

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Tell them I'm sorry.

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That isn't enough.

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According to the brochure you made up for them, this was supposed to be a sure thing.

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There's no such thing as a sure thing when you're looking for oil.

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The brochure said conditions out here were most favorable for oil.

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You saw the results of the test yourself.

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If ever a series of tests showed possibility for oil, those did.

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I brought a longer man on the trip down here that I'd like you to meet.

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Who is he?

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His name is Hotchkiss, petroleum engineer.

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Oh.

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And an expert on costs.

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Oh.

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Oh, Mr. Hotchkiss, over here.

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Mr. Hotchkiss, Mr. Drake.

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How are you?

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How are you?

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Well, find anything?

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It seems to me this is a very efficient operation, Mr. Drake.

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Well, I could...

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However, there are several aspects to be considered which might stamp you as a supreme optimist.

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You mean the storage tanks?

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Yes.

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Well, I'd like to talk to you about that.

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Yes, I think you'd better.

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Why don't we go back to the office?

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Mr. McClain?

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Yes, let's go back.

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I'm rather anxious to hear what Mr. Drake has to say.

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Wally!

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You, Wally!

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Sorry to bust in like this, Wally.

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What's the matter?

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I've got the roller bit off.

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It's stuck in the casing.

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I'll be with you in a minute.

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Sorry, gentlemen.

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We'll have to postpone this meeting until tomorrow morning.

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I don't know how long this will take.

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Your most convenient break, wasn't it?

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One more snide remark out of you and I'll shove you down the casing right after the

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bit.

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Now, Drake, I'm sure Mr. McClain meant no harm.

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What time do you want us in your office?

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Be here around 8 a.m.

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I think everything will be straightened out by then.

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Yes, it is.

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So long.

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See you later.

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Come on, Smiley, let's get to work.

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More coffee, Wally?

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No, thanks, honey.

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Got to get to the field.

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McClain and his watchdog will be there at eight.

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How does it look?

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I mean, do you still think there's oil?

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I don't think there's oil.

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I know it.

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I won't get another chance to find it if I miss this time.

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But you're the best wildcatter in the business.

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You won't have any trouble getting enough money to try again.

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People don't like guys who go around spending their money on hunches.

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And that's what I did this time.

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McClain's got questions I can't answer.

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What are you going to do?

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What can I do?

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Tell him the truth.

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Maybe he'll see it my way and maybe he won't.

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You've got any money to bet, bet that he won't.

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It's a sure thing.

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All right, we got to go now.

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Okay, if I drive out to the field this afternoon?

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Yeah, sure.

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I'll be at the shack if McClain hasn't booted me out by then.

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Don't talk like that, Wally.

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I don't like it.

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You're a good wife, honey.

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Might have to be to stay married to you.

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Now you get on out to the field and tell that McClain a thing or two.

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That I will, Dottie, that I will.

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Well, are you satisfied?

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Yes, Frank.

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All except the particular expenditures Mr. Hotchkiss pointed out.

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Come over here, Mr. Hotchkiss.

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I want to show you something.

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Very well.

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You know what this is?

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Yes, it's a contour map of an antikline.

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Right, and we're sitting on top of it.

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Then why are you so concerned with the inquiry Mr. McClain and I are making?

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Because I have no proof of it.

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Proof means oil.

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And until I strike oil, you'll just have to go along with me, that's all.

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We don't have to do anything, Mr. Drake.

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You are the one who has to do something, it seems to me.

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Now you listen to me.

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As long as I'm running this operation, I don't have to do any explaining or answering to

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anybody.

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Anytime you think you can get somebody to do the job better, you just buy me out.

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I happen to own a pretty good chunk of stock too.

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I know that.

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But the block of stockholders I represent have the votes necessary.

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And Wally.

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We're in.

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We're in.

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We just hit the oil stand.

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Good.

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Now get the control headset to go and drag up the tubing.

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I'll be with you in a couple of minutes.

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Yes sir, Wally.

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And the other questions, gentlemen?

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Yes, I have one.

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Go ahead.

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Where do I go to buy stock in this outfit?

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The next few days were a whirl of activity.

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We snubbed the tubing into the casing without losing a single drop of oil.

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After a close check of casing head pressures, we figured we had a major find.

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Almost 10,000 barrels a day was the potential.

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After we got the tubing set, we got the Christmas tree fastened.

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This gadget controls the flow of oil through a system of valves that lead to storage tanks,

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meters, gas traps, all the places oil goes to when it leaves the well.

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McLean and Hotchkiss took the first train back to town.

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I don't think they said more than a dozen words to each other up until train time.

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Finally, it was finished, or just about.

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All that remained to do was start the oil flowing out of the tubing through the Christmas

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tree into the tanks.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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I thought you'd be out at the rig cheering when they turned the valve.

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I had a few reports to make out to the stockholders.

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What's the matter, Wally?

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Aren't you happy?

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Oh, I'm happy enough, Dolly.

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I'm just so tired I can't hardly stand up.

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Tired of being sweaty and dirty.

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As soon as I finish days, I'm going home and take a cold shower, and then I'm going to

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bed for about a week.

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Did anybody ever tell you you're a wonderful man?

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Smiley said so.

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What?

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Yeah, I bought him a drink this afternoon.

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He told me I was wonderful.

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Well, at least you haven't lost your sense of humor.

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Do you feel any different?

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Why, should I?

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Well, you're married to a wealthy man now, huh?

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Oh, I don't see any...

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Hey, wait a minute.

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What's the matter?

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Oh, trouble.

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Holy...

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Fire!

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The well's on fire!

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Wally!

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Wally, don't go!

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Wally!

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Yes, she... she blew.

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Big Steve was turning the valves on.

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She went right up in his face.

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We couldn't get near him.

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Smiley, run to the shack.

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Put in a long distance caller, Larry, Burnett, and Tulsa.

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Tell them we want them to come down here and put out an oil fire.

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And tell them the name is Price.

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Right, Wally.

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And tell Dottie to contact McClain.

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Tell him what happened.

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She knows the number.

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And tell her to tell McClain to hustle on down here.

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Okay.

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Carl!

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Whitey!

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Big Pete, come here!

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You, Whitey, get a team together and start putting up a dirt barricade around the derrick.

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Make it about 75 feet square and about five feet high.

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When the valve inserts in that Christmas tree, girl, there'll be a fire shooting all over

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the place.

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Okay.

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Carl, you go with him.

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What about the shutoff valves at the tanks, Pete?

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All off.

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The fire started before Steve opened up.

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Check them anyway.

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Right, Wally.

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Delaney, take some men and get over to the storehouse where they got some tarps.

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Take the tarps.

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I'm Wally.

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Wally.

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Over here, Smiley.

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Wally, I called Burnett like you told me to.

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When's he coming?

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He ain't.

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What?

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He left for Arabia yesterday.

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They got a fire there.

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They don't know when he'll be back.

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Maybe a month.

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But if the fire eats into the underground pool like it did in Romania in 29, it may

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be six months.

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Okay, then, come on.

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Where are we going?

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To the shack.

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I got a few telephone calls to make.

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What are you going to do?

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I'm going to put the fire out myself.

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But you can't do that, Wally.

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Why not?

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What do you know about putting out oil fires?

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I've seen him do it.

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I know the oil business.

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What more do you want?

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What about equipment?

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That's what I'm going to make the phone calls for.

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I just spoke to McClain.

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He's flying down here.

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Good.

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What are you going to do?

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Burnett can't come.

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I'm going to do it myself.

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But you can't.

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That's what I told him.

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He can't do it.

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I say I can, and I'm going to.

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This is Wally.

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Get me Fred Stone at the Foster Oil Company in Hobbs, New Mexico.

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And make it quick.

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The show light is bringing you Mr. John Hodiac in Hellfire, tonight's presentation in radio's

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outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Say Hap, name something more complex than a fine watch.

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Why two fine watches, Harlow.

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Well I'm thinking of the electrical system of your auto light equipped car.

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Every unit is precision built by auto light to operate with every other unit as a perfect

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team to give you the smoothest performance money can buy.

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You mean units like the auto light starting motor, generator, distributor, coil, spark

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plugs, voltage regulator, and battery.

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Eh Harlow?

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Yes sir, Hap.

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And just as one misfit part in your watch can gum up the works, so can one wrong part

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in the electrical system result in poor car performance.

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And what does all this mean to me Harlow?

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It means Hap that you should always specify auto light original service parts for your

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auto light equipped car.

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Insist on the best for your car and be sure of the best in performance because from bumper

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to tail light you're always right with auto light.

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And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. John Hodiac in Elliot Lewis's

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production of Hellfire, a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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When I told Smiley and Darlie I was going to put out my oil fire I meant it.

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The only trouble was I wasn't sure I could do it.

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Oh it seemed Burnett snuff him out but that was his business and he was the best in his

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business.

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Me I was Wally Drake, sort of a high class rough neck in the business of looking for

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oil.

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There's something about seeing the results of your sweat go up in thick black greasy

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smoke that makes you think an all out effort can kind of compensate for a lack of experience.

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I put in a call for some of the things I knew I was going to need.

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Asbestos equipment, high pressure pumps and hoses to spray me and keep me from being roasted

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alive while I was working in there and some dynamite to use when everything else was set.

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After I finished my call Smiley and I went out to look at the fire.

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I still say you're crazy Wally.

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No I'm not.

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I just don't want to see all my oil burn up while we wait for Burnett to get back from

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Arabia.

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But we might be able to do it another way.

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What other way?

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We could set up another rig about 300 yards from here, spud in and with the right figuring

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we could whip stock right into this casing and cut the flow of oil.

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And how long do you think that would take?

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Depends on what angle we want to intersect the casing.

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Can't do it Smiley.

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The tolerances would be too critical.

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What about digging a tunnel?

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We could start about 100 yards.

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No I'm not going to take a chance with anyone's life but mine.

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You'd let Burnett take a chance wouldn't you?

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That's what he gets paid for.

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No Smiley we'll do it just like I said with me taking the chance.

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Okay Wally but let me help.

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All right.

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You're going to handle the water to spray me down.

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Okay.

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First we've got to bust old Betsy up.

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Break up the derrick?

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Why?

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Take a look at it.

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The lower part is white hot now.

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If I get the fire out without getting rid of that white hot steel the fire would start

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again as soon as the gas hit it.

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Well how are you going to do it?

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Push it over?

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In a way yeah.

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I'm going to set two dynamite charges against the base of it and blow it over.

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But how do you know which way it'll fall?

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I don't.

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I'm not an expert.

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But it might fall.

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Yes it might.

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Once the rig is down then we...

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Hey Wally, the stuff you sent for us here, the land is getting the pump hooked up now

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and the dynamite's up to the shack.

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Thanks Pete.

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Come on Smiley.

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Yeah?

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I'm scared.

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I saw mine.

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If things sort of don't go right, see that McClain gives Dottie a square deal on the

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stock.

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Sure pal.

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Smiley.

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What is it pal?

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Oh stop short paling me.

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It's just in case anything happens.

357
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It hasn't happened yet so get that sloppy look off your face.

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Sure pal.

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I mean, yeah I will.

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Did you see Pete?

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Yeah I saw him.

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And you're all set huh?

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Yeah I'm all set.

364
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Is the dynamite guy here?

365
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He's outside having a cup of coffee.

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They got a canteen set up in back of the shack.

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Yell for him.

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Okay.

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Hey dynamite, over here.

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Let's go to work.

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Yell.

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Here he comes.

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I heard him.

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My name is Collins, not dynamite.

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Mind if I bring my coffee in with me?

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No, only don't slop it on the floor.

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Sorry.

378
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What do you want to know?

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Can you rig up a charge that will knock out two legs of the rig?

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That's my business.

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Of course I can.

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Well I have to set two separate charges or can you make one charge do it?

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Any way you want it.

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How long will it take to get the charges ready?

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I said how long will it-

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I heard you mister.

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Give me a chance to drink my coffee.

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It's getting cold.

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Hey listen to you.

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Smiley.

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Who sent you here dynamite?

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My name is Collins.

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I said who sent you here dynamite?

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Stone over at foster oil said you needed a man with dynamite savvy.

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He sent me.

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Well I'm the guy who needs you because I'm the guy going into the fire.

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I got a lot of questions to ask.

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I'm in a hurry.

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If you want to talk with that coffee cup shoved down your throat just tell me.

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Either way I want answers and I want them quick and civil.

401
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Now make up your mind.

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How do you want to answer me with or without the coffee cup?

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No offense mister.

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Mr. Drake.

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Mr. Drake.

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Now what do you want to know?

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How long will it take?

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How do you want the dynamite?

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What's the best way?

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Jelly.

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We can put it in a can, wrap it in asbestos and get out in plenty of time if the fire's

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not too close.

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How soon can we go?

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Well by the time you get all the other stuff ready I'll be ready.

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See you out there.

416
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Okay.

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Collins.

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Yeah?

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You forgot your coffee.

420
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Oh thanks.

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Where's the asbestos suits Smiley?

422
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Oh it's back of the shack.

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Let's go.

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Wally.

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Go on Smiley I'll be out soon.

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Yeah right.

427
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I'm sorry Wally.

428
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I'm sorry.

429
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I'm not really heroic.

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I can't act a part of the brave wife sending her husband out.

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Wally please don't go.

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I'm so afraid.

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I got her honey.

434
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That thing's burning up about ten, fifteen thousand dollars a day.

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I got her.

436
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I don't care if it burns up a million dollars a day.

437
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Don't go.

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00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:49,960
Dottie.

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Dottie.

440
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What?

441
00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,760
Have you ever known me to take wild chances?

442
00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,760
Oh sure I play a hunch as far as it'll stretch but have I ever gone overboard on a pipe dream?

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No.

444
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,440
Then you must know that I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think I could finish it up

445
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right don't you?

446
00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,840
But Wally I'm so frightened.

447
00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,640
Well be a little anxious maybe but don't be frightened.

448
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You stay right here.

449
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Don't come out there.

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I'll be back to see you as soon as we knock old Betsy over on her side okay?

451
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Okay Wally.

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See you honey.

453
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This was going to be the easy part if there was such a thing.

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The fire instead of shooting straight up in the air was coming out of all the valves of

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the Christmas tree like a Fourth of July spray.

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But there was a good side to it.

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The back two legs of the rig were comparatively free of any flame but it was still plenty hot.

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Ready to go?

459
00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:51,240
Yeah.

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Keep me plenty wet.

461
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I don't want to broil.

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You won't.

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Got the drill pipe ready?

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Set to go boys.

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Okay let's have it.

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I'm ready.

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Smiley kept the water smacking into me while I got close enough with the drill pipe to

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plant the charge.

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Then I retreated, paying out the insulated cable as I went.

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Once I got to the periphery I raised my hand to Collins.

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Here Wally, let me get that thing off your head.

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Wow.

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Man, I'll get the rest of this thing off.

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How'd it go?

475
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Great, huh Collins?

476
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Real great.

477
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You did real good.

478
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What now?

479
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,320
Now we got to knock that Christmas tree off the tubing.

480
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:03,760
You can't get close enough for that.

481
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Even with that monkey suit you'd be ashes before you got one turn completed.

482
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Yeah.

483
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Get Pete and Whitey for me.

484
00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:10,680
Pete, oh Pete, Whitey, come here.

485
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Now what are you going to do?

486
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,440
I think I know how I can knock that gadget off.

487
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What's up Smiley?

488
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I got a job for you guys.

489
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Hiya, Whitey.

490
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Hiya, Wally.

491
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I want you guys to get me a 50 foot section of casing and a 50 foot section of tubing.

492
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We got it, it's right on.

493
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Then I want you to put the tubing into the casing and weld it so that we can run water

494
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between the two of them.

495
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,920
What's that going to do?

496
00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,920
It's going to give me a water cooled boom that I can swing from a bulldozer to knock

497
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the Christmas tree off.

498
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It might take a few hours.

499
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,040
Okay, but hurry up.

500
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All right, Whitey, get the tubing.

501
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,040
Right.

502
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,040
Now Pete, see about the casing.

503
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:57,160
Now listen, Smiley, when I get there, I'm going to swing the dozer in an arc so that

504
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,000
the boom acts like a baseball bat.

505
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You keep the water going.

506
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000
Yeah, Wally.

507
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,640
I stay down behind the asbestos shield though.

508
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,200
I got it rigged all across the front.

509
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,640
I know, but it won't help me much when I swing around.

510
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,000
Well, maybe I can rustle up some more.

511
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000
I don't know.

512
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000
This will do.

513
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000
Let's go.

514
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Don't forget now, Smiley, the water.

515
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:13,880
Keep it going.

516
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:14,880
Gotcha.

517
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Pete.

518
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Go.

519
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:17,880
You stay on the hose with Smiley.

520
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:18,880
Will do.

521
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,880
Everything else clear to you guys?

522
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:20,880
Yes, sir.

523
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:21,880
All right.

524
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,880
Okay, then I'm shoving off.

525
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:34,920
I started forward, a long boom projecting like some monstrous weapon.

526
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,880
The assuring stream from Smiley's hose smashed into me as I inched closer to the flaming

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fountainhead of the Christmas tree.

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As the end of the boom passed about 20 feet to the left of it, I pulled the right tread

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of the dozer to a slithering stop.

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Then the boom began its swing, and when it reached the full momentum of its travel, it

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slammed into the tree like a flaming pillar of doom.

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A fire began shooting straight up into the air.

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Suddenly, I couldn't feel the water from Smiley's hose, and in that instant, I began

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to see her.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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The water.

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I've got to get out of here.

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50 feet.

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40.

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20.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Water.

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Smiley.

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Water.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Smiley.

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Hey, Wally!

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Wally, can you hear me?

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The water!

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What happened to the water?

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Bad coupling.

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It'll be fixed in a minute.

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Okay.

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I'll be ready for the big blast, then.

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Albert, you'll burn.

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Let me do it.

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I'll be all right.

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This is the easy part.

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Through the Christmas tree, or I can set the dynamite under the fire.

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I won't let you.

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Yes, you will.

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But Hehe地方, Canby, dahtie, ey.

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dahtie won't know.

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Yeah, Wally?

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How much will it take?

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I'll do it. I know how to place the stuff.

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Just get it ready. I'll take it in.

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Whatever you say.

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That's what I say. Get going.

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He stop yet, Smiley?

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I can't tell from here.

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Hey, B, a little more beef on the grill.

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Hey, B, a little more beef on this hose.

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My hand's cramping.

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I got it, Smiley.

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I see him. I see him. He's getting off the dozer.

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A swing left a little, Pete.

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Where? I can't see.

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Left of the dozer. See? Over there.

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Yeah, I see him now. Where's he going?

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I think he's heading for the draw works.

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Splash him, Pete.

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He's almost out of range.

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Now! He's coming out.

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Here, let me help.

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Pressure! More pressure back there.

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Here he comes.

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Oh, come on, Wally.

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I don't think he...

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I better go after him.

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No, no, no. Stay on the hose.

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Oh, Wally, come on.

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Keep the water on him. Keep it on him good.

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Come on, Wally. Come on.

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He's in the clear.

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All right, now, Kongs. Let her go.

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She's going.

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That was all there was to it.

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Like a blast from the lungs of a thousand typhoons,

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the dynamite snuffed out the fire as if it were a giant birthday candle.

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Now I'm fulfilling a part of the wish I had when all this began.

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I'm staying in bed for at least a week.

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Hospital food isn't bad, and I get plenty of visitors.

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The only trouble is they won't let me take a cold shower.

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But at least it's something to look forward to.

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Suspense.

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Presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. John Hodiac.

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Next week, the story of a man who had no fear and so was able to attempt his own death.

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A new dramatization of C.E. Montague's action.

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Our star, Mr. Herbert Marshall.

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That's next week on Suspense.

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Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis

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with music composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Lud Bluskin.

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Portions of this program are transcribed.

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Hellfire was written for Suspense by Ross Murray.

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Tonight's story, Joseph Kearns was heard as Smiley,

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Clayton Post as Pete, Charlotte Lawrence as Dottie,

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and Jerry Hausner as Collins.

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Featured in the cast were Junious Matthews, Herb Butterfield, and Dick Ryan.

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John Hodiac can soon be seen starring in the Allied Artists Production,

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