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Oh my, oh my, oh, hello, hello, hello, I

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see you found me on your radio
dial yet again. Sorry about that.

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It's so dusty, and I was
trying to do a little bit of sprucing

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of the place, and honestly,
I was a bit in over my head.

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I suppose I inhaled so much dust
and probably a couple of spiders or

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two. I don't kill spiders,
by the way. I like having them

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around, not just because I'm lonely, although that may be, but you

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know, they control the insects that
come into my home. Here. What's

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that? Oh no, no,
no, These walls are three feet thick,

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pure cement and bedruck. Don't you
worry about a thing. I have

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a good one for you tonight,
one that I think will definitely please your

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desires for fear, my dear,
So get comfortable because I'm going to play

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it for you right now. Oh
may suspense the hushed voice and the prowling

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step in the dead of knight,
the crime that is almost committed, the

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stir of nerves at the ticking of
the class, the rescue that might be

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too late, or the murderer who
might get away. Mystery and intrigue and

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dangerous adventure. We invite you to
enjoy stories that keep you in suspense.

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For suspense tonight, we present The
Body Snatchers by John Dixon Carr. Beware

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of the body snatcher who prowls after
dug Beware of the grave he romps,

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Beware of the murder he commits to
provide new corpses for the doctors. Up

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to the year eighteen thirty two,
the body snatchers terrorized England. According to

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the law, only four bodies a
year could legally be supplied to the surgeons

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for anatomical study, and even these
were a monopoly granted to the Barbers and

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Surgeon's Company of London. But the
study of surgery had to go on in

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hundreds of medical schools all over England. Perfectly reputable doctors were compelled to buy

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bodies and ask no questions. In
eighteen twenty eight burst the scandal of Burke

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and Hare, who found grave robbing
too slow and murdered sixteen persons in order

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to supply doctor Knox of Edinburgh,
and so out of basic good purpose sprang

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the evil of the body snatch turned
back the clock now to a cold night

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just a hundred and ten years ago. Look into the brick kitchen of a

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house on Wandsworth Common, not far
from London. There, in the light

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of a tallow dip, SIT's all
mother Slade in her draggles, Bunny,

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what I'm keeping them? Two hours? Two mortal hours, but the Dutch

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clock and they're not here yet,
Mother Slade in the graveyard, not half

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a mile off. And once I
thought I heard church bills ring and one,

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Mother Slade, did you call no, my girl? Or did not

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call? But I thought, I, and what are you doing up at

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this hour, my girl? I
was only locking up, mother Slade.

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I ain't h enough to have taken
you over from a good for nothing mother,

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not worth a gunpad at to blow
her up. Please, mother Slave,

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I'm giving you a good home and
brought you up practically like a lady

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with only the housework to do.
I'm sorry, mother Slade, only I

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wish you wouldn't talk like that about
me. Oh mother, what do you

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do? Peggy Lester? Stop up
until this hour? Your miss Lame is

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snuffbox twenty times a day. I
was only going to say, I thought

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I heard a horse and cart in
the lane in our lane. Yes,

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mother Slave, there it is now, Yes, easy, my DearS,

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drive easy with the merchandise. The
doctors don't like it if you bump the

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merchandise. Merchandise, mother Slade,
what's that? I'll tell you what it

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is, my girl. I didn't
mean anything, mother Slade. It's your

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uncle Matt and your cousin Rob are
coming home from their business. That's what

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it is. Do you hear that, piggy lister? I didn't mislay your

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snuff box. It's on the table. And if you don't want me to

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take my fingernails to you instead of
a strap, you get on after bed

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this minute, dear, Yes,
mother slave, I'm a coming, my

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DearS, don't be impatient. I'm
a coming. Nasty dimlight this candle gives.

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Oh oh, mother Slade has got
a romantic so cruel she can hoddle

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him. Move, just fall back
the bar, open the door, will

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met? Did you get it?
Did we get it? Strike my blind?

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But that's a good and ain't it? Rob? Still the gad cant

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didn't sign and close the door.
They ain't after you? Ain't they?

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Can't you anythink? I thought tired
church bills more like a perishan funeral bell.

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If you asks me take it easy, rob, take it easy.

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We've shaken them off, have we. I wish I was a certain of

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some people. The spains and sack. You're still in the cart. Let

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them stay, whosa coming to find
them? Then you didn't get it after

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all, you six cowpera. Don't
you started blaming that? Noah, you

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such a potato chat with a slade
or metal. Make you shut it?

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What happened? I'll tell you what
happened. He was too quick, that's

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what The girl was only buried this
afternoon. The sooner the better, My

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dear. What's the good of the
merchandise if it ain't fresh? Eh?

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You hold your noise and listen.
We left the orson cart outside like we

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always do. We creeps up to
the lych gate of the church yard.

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Walk softly, mats, walk softly
up in your oily beaver hats and net

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paws under the starlight and the white
frosted elms. Take care of the graves

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too. Spring guns may be set
in some of them to protect the dead

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from rodders. And if the coffin
is one of those new iron ones,

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all your labor will be in vain. Open the gates softly, he might

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such a bloody right with them shovels. So I can't help it. I'm

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loaded down with all this stuff.
Oh and we'll do all the work when

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we do get there, I will, Matt. Hi, listen, I

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can't hear nothing except your teeth jetterin, Matte. There's other people besides us

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in this yere churchyard. Aye,
two or three hundred dads. But they

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won't bother us. I means living
people down, talk souls. Someday's got

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a dark lantern. I see him
flash past the gravestones. Oh wait,

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can't you see it? There?
It's a coming street toward us. I

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see him. Come on, they've
seen us. Matt won't down behind the

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gravestones. Catch down. They can't
suit through stone, Matt, He says,

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here sacred to the memories a girl's
relatives. He've been watching her grave.

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Trusif only I had my barkers.
First time in two years I go

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without a brace of pistols and this
apple. So Chang got your bark has

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met Patterson? I got what's just
as good? Give me a shovel.

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What are you going to do?
Charge them? This year? Shovels got

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a nicey your death. They left
to take time out to reload. Won't

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they do that? Somebody started a
bill that'll bring down every peal within a

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mile. If you want to tie
and ticket and then nick in your roope,

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stop we are. But if you
don't want to get scragged before your

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time, follow me. That's all
there is to it, mother slade.

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We went out by the gate and
blow me if they could stop us perishing

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nun scows? Did they recognize you? No? We had on the kerchios,

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read our eyes and did you do
it? I don't know. There's

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blood on the shovels, no sla
wad it off? Anyway, we're here?

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Well I want now is a Christian
fire to sit by and a drop

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of spirits to warm my stomach.
There's no spirits in the house, Meton,

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Won't you lie to me, you
ugly? I'm warning there's no spirits,

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only half a loaf of bread.
Don't I know it? I haven't

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tasted a drop of gin all day? Black dogs on the back. Well,

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ark at what I say? The
doctor was promised a corp tonight,

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All right, dearie, he gets
a corp tonight. There's a few rebella

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game. What's the clockle had come
on, spit it a nice young corp

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without any trouble or bother. What
about young Tiggy upstairs? Right me?

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Blind? What a doubt it I
you'd have to be mighty careful. Why

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you'd have to smother her with a
pillow while I sit on a lens.

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That's what brokenheir had done up in
Edybury. Then you don't leave any marks

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on him. See you're off atill. Wait if the doctor she they've been

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polished off, just playing murdered,
he won't have nothing to do with it.

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These ways. They don't like it, like it or not, dearie,

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they all do. Who's buying the
beef tonight? Dr George Arnald him?

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The young fella out full and way, that's the man, dearie.

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But I thought he was two pyres
and leader play. That's what Doctor Ronald

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thought too, till they started putting
a cruise on him. At that's college.

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No corpse, they said to him. No lecture, no lecture,

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no students. They all come to
it, deary, sooner or later.

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What beats me is why they got
to have these bodies. You'd think the

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doctor's killed enough people as it is
without al buying them after they was Steve,

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don't you question the way that providence
met prison. You can't drink that.

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You can't drink mother slave, Oh, stow that noise, Bob Penty,

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do you want to wake the poor
girl up? Steam? You can't

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do it? This Covnald, he
knows her. Arnald knows him. He

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knows Peggy Peggy Fair worships the grave. He walks on. Oh, he

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said her are once when mother Slide
broke it accidentally like and she can't forget

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him. What's I'm going to think? When he opens up the sack he

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parts Carnald, do he's bater?
Ain't he? He can't go to the

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police and says body Peggy Peggy Letter, don't dreat of a slade? Don't

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do it? And now do you
two thick heads know what mother Slide is

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are going to do? Are going
to kill her? Ain't you? Tag

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Peggy Lester Hugh, I heard her
moving about upstairs. You did miss the

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milk and water. She's on the
stairs. Now, Rub, you're the

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last to be depended on. Go
out and fetch in the set. Don't

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do it. He'll bring us all
bad luck. Matt, you're a lad

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after my own art. You stop
with your hand, just as I tell

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you, trim the candle. Let's
sad, it all nice and snug.

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What does she bring? You think? Fifteen guineas? Maybe twenty, maybe

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more twenty guineas? Strike my blind. But this is a way of doing

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business that I listen. Did you
call me mother? Slave's right,

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my jakie's right, my little
pet. Put your wrap around you and

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your slippers, keep your feet warm, and come right down here to mother's

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slide. I'm coming Mother's side.
I'm coming who in those times would be

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a surgeon and still be an honest
man at that drugged hour of the night,

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look into the sitting room of a
spacious house. Many candles are still

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alight there, though they have burned
down nearly to their silver sockets. There's

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Chinese paper on the walls, and
a turkey carpet under foot in front of

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the fire. Now almost out sits
doctor George Arnold, with his bottle,

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green coat and heavy hair. Doctor
Arnold, sir, Hi, I beg

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your pardon, missus tancred, Doctor
Arnold Stair. It's gone to a club.

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Yes, yes, oh, yes, so it has. You've got

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a lecture to deliver tomorrow and you'll
be all worn out. Why did you

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go on up to bed, missus
Tancred? Yes, sir, you're a

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jewel of a housekeeper I admire and
I can't do without you. But would

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you please go away and let me
alone? Sure? I'm very sorry,

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sir, No offense intended. I
shouldn't have said that. I'm I'm thinking

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too much. Perhaps I'm smoking too
many cigars, if you'll excuse me.

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Why must they keep tolling that balladies
till church? Why must they keep it

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up all night? Well, sir, Elsie says the parson told him to

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do it else. Wait, who
is Elsie? Doctor Arnold say, you're

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always up in the clouds, mooning
over books and whatnot. But I did

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think you'd recognize the name of your
own parlor maid. Of that Elsie,

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I see, well, Elsie says, it's because of the murder in the

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churchyard. What murder? Two resurrection
men? Body snatches sir, Oh,

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you wouldn't know anything about such people. No, no, no, of

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course not. They were caught trying
to rob a grave, but they got

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away. One of them. Rule
was a horrible big fellow split Willie Kendrick

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said open with the edge of a
shovels anything wrong, sir, No,

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not exactly. I thought for a
second, see how you look. Did

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they did they get the body?
Yes, sir, it was Willy Kendrick.

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His head was split open with a
shovel. No, no, I

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mean did these resurrection men get what
they were after? No, sir,

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thank god. Oh you may well
say that doctor wasn't exactly speaking in the

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religious sense, but never mind what
Elsie says. That are what she calls

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peelers all over the place. Peelers. Yes, these new policemen after Sir

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Robert Peel and somebody from the new
detective Police that they're using instead of the

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Bow Street runners. Well it's tankard. I'm going to si one more cigar

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and then I'm going to bed.
Very good, sir. You see,

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sometimes you give orders, then it's
too late to recall them. Whatever the

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medical practices you you can't look your
conscience in the face afterwards, then I

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can't tell you how or why a
miracle comes along and saves you and you're

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free. What was that? Sounds
like a wholesome cart in the drive?

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Missus Tancred, Will you please go
upstairs now make haste. It's visitors,

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sir, or even missus tancred.
You had my instructions. Obey them,

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sir. There's the front door.
I heard it the last time. Go

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away, I will admit whatever visitors
we have. Goody evening. Oh,

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come into the sitting room here,
Missu, missus slaves love. Just call

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me mother Slide. You don't hardly
seem natural or friendly to hear anything else.

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It's a pleasure to curtsey to your
doctor. Two. What's a lovely

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room? I suppose your candles is
going out though, one by one puff,

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then you'll be in the dark.
I suppose you've come to a port

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failure, failure, dear I understand
you didn't get what you went after,

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blessure, Dearie, we got something
just as good, the finest piece of

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merchandise you ever saw. You haven't
gone here, blessured, Dearie. Mother

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Slide always keeps a word. Bring
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can see it. Deary, I
forgot the big fella with the black eyebrows

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is uncomet. The little fella with
the watery eyes is cousin rob And between

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them in that sack they're carrying Who
is it, nineteen year old girl?

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Dearie finest anatomical specimen you ever saw? If you want this yere thing,

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don't governor? Why did you bring
it here? That's where you told us

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to bring it? Dear? I
mean why did you bring to the front

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door? Why not to the surgery
only place in the earth where there was

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lights, haven't you? Oh?
No? Where do you want to take

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it? Yes, dear, do
take it over and put it in the

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cupboard there where I'm pointing this cobby
is yes, and then close the cupboard

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door. Shame on you too,
tracking and nuddy boots over the doctor's lovely

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turkey carpet. Easy, dear,
it's easy there. Don't bruise the merchandise.

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What is it you do? Don't
bruise the merchant? Don writ me

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blind? What's the ords? She
can't feel it? There? Here's your

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body, mister Sabourne. Let's see
your money for just one moment before I

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give it to you. I ain't
no itching? Is it better not be?

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No? I made a bargain with
you and I'll stick to it.

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Thank you that you uncommon genteel love
kind of stand back? So your two

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stone of fat heavier than I am, and you don't impress me, easy

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take. I want to ask only
one question, where did you get that

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body? That's a question, deary. What people in your profession don't ask?

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Why not? Because they don't dare
That's why would the police be interested

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in where you got the body?
No, dear not that so interested in

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as where we brought it to your
house. It's your responsibility now, I

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suppose it is. The victim wouldn't
be, by any chance, that pretty

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little girl you used to treat so
unmerciful. You wrote your noise about how

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Art treated. I was rather fond
of Peggy. Strike me blind, I

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think, get out of this house, or if you go and get out,

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not without that money, deary,
it's twenty guineas. Now there's money

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on the table, onto that newspaper. Take what you want, and you

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get out of here before I oh, what was that a what was it

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a late visitor? I imagine was
you expecting anybody? No, don't drop

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the money, don't drop it all
over the carpet. Yes, it's the

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way you should have come through that
arch and down the passage. Thank you

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for and no games. Mind you
if you know what you're not, deary.

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Remember you got the body now?
Yes, I've got the body now.

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Cool, poor little devil, Ronald
said, in Heaven's name, missus

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Tankred, haven't you gone to bed
yet? I had to get upset to

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answer the yes. Yes, of
course, I'm sorry, doctor Ronald.

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What's the matter with you? Madam? Watch is a ghost and you're almost

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crying? Am I? Well we
must remedy that. It's so dark in

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here. I could barely see your
city there. The candle's going out,

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one after another, nothing but smoking
and atleast smell of grease in that cupboard

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door. What about that cupboard door? I always declare, sir, it

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won't keep shut without any latter or
bolt, if you'll excuse the liberals,

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just Tancred. Keep away from that
cupboard, doctor Donald, sir, are

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you ill or anything? No,
but keep away from that cupboard. Who

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who rang the bell? Dear?
I was almost forgetting it's that man else

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He was talking to us about that
man, the officer of the detective police.

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Sir, he wants to see you. Well, I see him,

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but in some other room, not
here. It's as you say, there's

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not enough light, not a bit
of a doctor, not a bit of

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it. Never too dark, as
you might say. Were the police are

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concerned? I couldn't help it,
sir. He must have followed me down

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all, are you? That's right, doctor, I am stalker at your

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service, Inspector, stalker. How
do you do, Inspector? This is

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tancard. You may go by,
Lisa. I'll just get some more candles

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and put them in that bracket by
the cupboard. It's not in new so

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you need trouble. It's no trouble, sir. Excuse me. First of

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all, doctor, I must apologize
for intruding as late as this not at

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all, Inspector. Will you be
seated an sir? Ankor kindly? No,

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I dare say you're wondering why I'm
here? Oh, yes I am.

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Rather it's a bad business, doctor, a very bad business. You

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mean the murder in the churchyard.
Oh you've heard about it? Well.

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My housekeeper said something about her a
man being killed with a shovel. That's

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right, doctor, not much doubt
about who did that. No, no,

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the little fellow dropped his dark lantern
with the initials on it. They're

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professional body snatchers. We've had our
eye on him. For a long time.

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Speaking of body snatchers, Doctor,
well, I expect this at middle

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lawys pretty hard in you surgeons.
It's an infamous lawser all the same,

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doctor, it is the law.
Yes, And if any surgeon happened to

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be caught with a body, especially
a murderful what are you hinting at?

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Nothing? Doctor, nothing? By
your leave, I only want to ask

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a question, Well, what time
did your friends leave? No? Come,

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doctor, there's one man of the
world to another. You see any

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green in my eye? You are
not going to say you had no guests

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when the horse and cart are still
at your front door. They didn't get

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away, No, doctor, they
didn't. So they made a little reception

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committee as they left by the back
door. Darbies on the wrists snap,

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just as I might reach out and
touch your wrist like this. What do

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you mean by dabis handcuffs? I've
got a pair in my pocket. DAGs

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into their mouths. That's to keep
them from miak. Do we have to

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go on with us? You?
You already seem to know everything I could

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tell you, not exactly everything.
I don't know, for instance, where

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you've hidden the girl's body. You're
a very diligent man. Inspector Stalker.

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Thank you, sir. I tried
to do my duty, you said the

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girl. These gin muddled degenerates have
been watched every second since they left each

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Hill churchyard. They hadn't a body
then, but they brought one here,

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and there's only one other person who
lives in the same house with them,

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Arnolds. Sir, this is Tancred. Listen to me, yes, sir,

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must you always break in with the
most completely ill timed entrances at all

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the worst period of my life.
I was there, only trying to be

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helpful, sir, Yes, right, madam, always be helpful. You

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had to have some light. He's
the candles, sir, five of them

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in a big candle. Abum,
we can hang them in the bracket,

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ma'am. Hold up that light.
Hold it high, really, sir,

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I'm not in the habit of being
spoken to hold it high. I tell

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you do as the inspector tells you, missus Tancred. This is a very

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fine carpet you've got here. Doctor. Yes, others have admurdered tonight,

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but it often't to have footprints on
it. Muddy footprints footprints leading from the

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door, asked the sofa, asked
the half over to that cupboard. Quite

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correct, and I think that's done
it, Doctor Nald, I think it

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has inspected stalker. We couldn't have
proved anything against you for that churchyard business.

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But this, let me open,
bluebeards covered inspector. Let me be

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the first to show you watch inside
who wanted a certain body? It appears

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you've come to the right place.
Now look, Lord Almighty, I'm the

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body, mister police, standing up
of very much alife. I'm wearing a

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nice new dress that the doctor gave
me. Dave, you don't say anything,

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Please, don't say anything. Stop
a bit, miss, aren't you

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Peggy Lester? Yes, just because
the doctor has to be so terranly respectable

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and a girl whose sound then has
to come here in secret. Wait a

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minute, everybody, Peggy Leicester,
you're lying. I I'm not lying.

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So let's it. Why didn't I
guess it? It's the oldest body snatcher's

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trick in the world, is it? Of course, the old pinch penny

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like mother's slave, couldn't sacrifice a
good household drudge. Of course they brought

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the body here instead of taking into
the surgery where it might get locked up.

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Could you be persuaded inspected to tell
us just what you're talking about about

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body snatchers? Sir, Well,
what about them? They take a living

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of comprises and put him into a
sack and sell him to a green doctor

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as a dead man. Yes,
but see here they get the best price

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they can. Then in the middle
of the night there the companies gets up

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and robs the doctor's house, and
the doctor can't tell us because he's bodily

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goods. I never intended to go
through with it, no, young woman,

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I tell you, I wasn't going
to rob the house. They made

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me do this. I was going
to tell doctor Arnold when I found out

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where they were taking me. I
pretended to go through with it so I

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could warn the doctor. I can
hurt so much, you'll agree to almost

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anything that sounds like the truth.
But it puts me in a funny position,

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and no mistake. Hell yeah,
your three murderers, inspector, seemed

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to be seemed to be leaving.
They're leaving right enough, Trust up like

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fowls, and under God, does
anybody go with them? How can anybody

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go with them? I'm willing to
believe this girl acted under threats. She's

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committed No crime, and I don't
for the life of me see how we

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can touch You can't touch me,
No, sir, I confound you for

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making me lose a night's sleep.
There's nobody you didn't even buy a body.

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Will you tell me, doctor,
just what crime you've committed? And

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so ends The Body Snatchers, the
story of London at Midnight one hundred years

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ago and Tonight's story Out Suspense Columbia
presents these tales of mystery and intrigue and

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dangerous adventure for your relaxation and enjoyment. Next Tuesday there will be another in

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this series is Same hour, nine
thirty Eastern wartime. William Speer the producer,

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John Deetz the director, Alexander Semler
the composer, conductor, and John

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Dixons, the author, our collaborators
on suspense. This is the column the

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Broadcasting system. Oh my, let
me get that for you? Was the

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tea good? I see well it
must have been, because this cup is

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helping bone dry. I'm glad you
enjoyed yourself. I enjoyed myself too,

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And speaking of enjoying myself, I
wanted to mention that I have some some

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emails from you, this one right
here is from George and he's from Michigan.

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Oh very nice, very nice.
I love Michigan this time of year,

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he writes, writes, why hmm. You know a lot of people

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have pondered that very question, a
lot of people a lot smarter than me,

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And I'd have to say, at
the end of the day, well,

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the answer is hmm, a bit
older than you are. If you

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wish to understand life, you have
to look at dead in its single bloodshot

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eye, surrounded by tentaclings and the
scream of men, women and children,

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damned for eternity. But thank you
for writing again. I hope that helps.

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And if you were to write me, just simply send an email to

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Weird mysteriespod at gmail dot com.
But now I must go back from where

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I came from, and you have
a warm bed until tomorrow night, my

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dear for your det