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Standard of California on behalf of Independent Chevron gas stations and

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standard stations throughout the West invite you to let George do it.

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The Flowers That Smelled of Murder, another adventure of George Valentine.

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Personal notice, danger is my stock and trade. If you're in on a game and you know you're gonna

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draw the losing hand, deal me in, George Valentine. Write full details.

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Dear Mr. Valentine, I'm a freshman at Western State University. I'm majoring in botany and I've

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suddenly found out that flowers can smell of murder. My professor of botany is about to be

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killed. Several attempts have been made on him but nobody takes me seriously. I'm sure I'm not

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imagining things. I'm not imagining things so give me a chance to tell you the whole story.

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I live in Quonset Hut number 8, University Road. The name is Louise DeRaine. That row of Quonsets

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on University Road, they're all reserved for XGI's. If our freshman friend took any part in the recent

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unpleasantness, she's not likely to be a lightheaded character. Well. So if she has murder on her mind.

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Okay, whether she's the next whack or just plain wacky, Western State here we come.

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Oh Louise, yes sure she's here. Darling, coming out soon?

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I'll be right there, Daddykin. I just got out of the shower.

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Have a seat, Miss Brooks. Mr. Valentine, she won't be long.

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Oh thank you. Louise wrote me quite a letter. She said something about a murder.

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Oh yes, I know. The poor child's been walking around with the idea of murder on her mind for days.

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Which reminds me. Reminds you of what? Do you know what Socrates said about murder, Miss Brooks?

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I beg your pardon? He said nothing. Oh. Even though society did murder him, you know. He

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just drank the hemlock and died. You see, after looking well at the world, the true philosopher

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decides there's nothing to say. Oh, that's very interesting. But about Louise and this letter.

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Not with Sally, my pink sweater. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you had company, Marco.

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It's impolite to stare, George. Can't help it, Angel. My mother decided I was going to be a boy baby.

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Dear, this is Mr. Valentine and his assistant, Miss Brooks.

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Of course. How do you do? How do you do?

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I'm so glad you did take my letter seriously. I suppose I should tell you what this is all about.

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Well, it would help. Poor Professor Cobra is in terrible danger.

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I don't sleep at night thinking about it. Oh, yes. The handsome professor is a source of great concern to my wife.

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Your wife? Oh, yes. For the longest time.

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Yes. I'm very proud of how young and beautiful she keeps herself.

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Oh, Michael really means that. Can you wonder why I think he's such a darling?

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Yes. Well, at the risk of not being a darling, aren't you a little too old to be a freshman?

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Well, as long as Michael doesn't admit it, I won't. You mean Mr. Durene is a freshman here at Western State too?

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Oh, yes. We're just starting. Both of us are here on the GI Bill of Rights.

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He was in the OSS. He can speak 17 languages, including North Manchurian. Show them, darling.

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Well, I... Yeah, well, now about those murder attempts on Professor Cobra.

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Oh, oh, he's my botany teacher. You see, I used to be in the WAC, but I always really wanted to be a botanist.

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And I'm doing very well too. Show them, darling.

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Well, you'd never think it, but plants range from the lower algae to the fungi, mosses, liverworts, spines, and gymnosperms.

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Isn't that terribly thrilling?

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Well, not as thrilling as murder, Mrs. Durene.

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You know that little thing you mentioned in your letter, remember?

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Oh, oh, yes, yes. You see, somebody has already tried to kill Professor Cobra several times.

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And no matter what John says, the things that happened to him weren't just accidents.

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No.

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Now, the time something went wrong with his car and he nearly went off the cliff.

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Or the time somebody almost ran him down when he was crossing a corner. And other things like that.

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Well, is there any reason why anybody would want to get rid of the good professor?

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Why don't you know?

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No.

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John's almost succeeded in crossbreeding a terrestrial orchid with an epiphytic one.

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It'll be the most beautiful flower ever grown.

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And for that reason, someone wants to murder him?

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Of course. He's almost ready to report it to the Botanical Society.

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It's to be called Papelionaceous Corolla Louise.

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Think of it, Valentine. Louise, just a freshman majoring in botany, is going to have a flower named for her.

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Could a man want a greater compliment for his wife?

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Papelionaceous Corolla Louise as a motive for murder?

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Brooksie, I think we'd better...

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Oh, you're not taking me seriously either, are you?

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I'm afraid you're taking botany a little too seriously, Mrs. Durene.

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Mother, I've got to talk to you.

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Darling, you might at least close the door. There's a terrible draft.

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Is... is this your son?

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Who are these people?

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Well, your mother just happened to answer in there, but we were going to leave anyway.

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Well, no, why should you? Everybody knows anyway.

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Knows what, Stephen?

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All right, I'll qualify it. Everybody knows. Except you, my father.

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Please, dear, you're talking to your father.

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He knows that, my darling.

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George, wouldn't it be better if we...

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Wait a minute, wait a minute. I didn't know there was going to be a double feature.

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How do you think I feel on the campus when everybody knows I'm a sophomore

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and my mother and father are freshmen?

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Well, that is an interesting setup.

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Tell me, Stephen, do you do your parents' arithmetic for them?

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This is no kidding.

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Mother, everybody's saying that you and Professor Kober are that way about each other.

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They see you everywhere together.

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No son wants to hear that kind of talk about his mother.

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Oh, now wait a minute, son.

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I'll have you understand your mother's a very attractive woman.

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Thank you, Michael.

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Oh, Stephen, I made some of that potato salad you like so much.

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It's in the refrigerator.

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Oh, it's no use talking to you two.

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Oh, oh, Mr. Valentine.

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We forgot all about Professor Kober.

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Did we?

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I thought he was very prominent in the conversation.

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Now, somebody is trying to kill him.

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Of course, Michael and Stephen won't believe it, but...

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But I do.

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Enough to want to hang around a while and see what this is all about.

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Miss Brooks, it's very considerate of the Phi Gamma Epsilon sorority

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to worry so strenuously about my husband.

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Well, naturally, when we girls heard about these threats on Professor Kober's life, we just...

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I can just imagine what your hen parties must sound like.

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I hope your house mother doesn't listen in.

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Oh, oh, it wasn't just that, Mrs. Kober.

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You see, with all this talk about Mrs...

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Oh dear, what was I going to say?

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Oh, I'm terribly sorry.

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Why should you be?

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It's common knowledge on the campus that Mrs. Drain's been throwing herself at my husband.

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And all this talk about murder attempts has been a figment of this woman's weird imagination.

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Oh, and that's all there is to it?

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My husband leads a very sheltered academic life.

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He happens to be engaged in some experiments with flowers.

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That's hardly provocation for murder.

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Oh no! No, I love flowers myself.

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True, he's very handsome for a botany teacher, but childishly unaware of his own charms.

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That's no cause for murder either.

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Of course not!

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However, if the professor were aware of his shaggy, masculine attraction,

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and were doing something about it...

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Yes.

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That might be a very understandable cause for murder.

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Ha!

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Good day, Miss Brooks.

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Believe me, Mr. Valentine, these accidents that had been happening to Professor Kober are,

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well, just that, accidents.

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Yes, I know what you mean, Professor Bosworth,

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but I'm more interested in these experiments Kober's working on.

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And as head of the department, and presumably his boss,

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you ought to be able to give me that information.

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Of course.

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But I doubt if it could possibly have much interest for the layman.

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Professor Kober is merely trying to create a new genus of the Orchid family.

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Of course, it'll probably be when the valuable American horticultural prize paper will be written on it,

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and a few thousand botanists throughout the world will thrill over it,

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and there will be some academic glory for Professor Kober and Western State University.

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Obviously, you have a great deal of respect for Professor Kober.

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I have. He's a true genius.

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I'm merely the head of the botany department.

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My particular talent is being able to get the money from the trustees,

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so that men like Kober can carry on the experiments and reap the glory.

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I see.

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There's only one thing we had any conflict about, Kober and I...

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Oh, what's that?

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The name he insists on giving this flower.

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The papillonaceous corolla Louise.

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Ah, the Louise part of it bothers you, eh?

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Yes, I can see that might lead to complications.

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MUSIC

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No, no, no, Miss Brooks, Mr. Valentine, you're not intruding at all.

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Any friend of Mrs. DeRaines is always welcome in the greenhouse.

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Oh, John, I just can't wait till you show them my new flower.

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No, I can't wait either. I've heard so much about it.

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Well, this way.

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I hate to sound like a tourist, Professor Kober,

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but this greenhouse is more elaborate than any I've ever seen.

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Yes, isn't it, my dear?

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The most modern in the world. I designed it myself.

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And we have different rooms for every type of flower, don't we, John?

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And no end of gadgets.

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Well, Louise's enthusiasm is a constant source of inspiration,

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but she is right. There is no end of gadgets.

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I'm afraid only Professor Bosworth and I know where they all are

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and what they're supposed to do.

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Yeah, please come in quickly so that I can close the door.

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Well, yeah, but shouldn't we put on a light?

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Can't we, say?

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Well, you see, we have no light at all in this room.

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I had it built especially for this experiment.

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Tell them why, John. It's awfully intriguing.

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Well, you see, light and cold are the two enemies of the papill...

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ornaceous corolla.

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The slightest fall in temperature would mean their death.

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That's why we have a thermostatic control.

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Even that is well hidden in the back.

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But how did you get to see these beautiful specimens of yours, Professor?

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Well, you will.

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In a minute, after you get used to the dark.

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George, I think I'm beginning to see them now.

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Look, can't you see them glowing?

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Yeah, hey, they're really something.

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Worth every minute of the 12 years I've spent to get that unearthly perfection and colour in the petals.

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But John says that nature, the most beautiful and dangerous things thrive in the darkness.

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Can't you see that, John?

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Well, I didn't put it as romantically as that, Louise.

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But with these flowers, it does seem that way.

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And another thing, you have only to touch them and that glow comes right off on your fingers.

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And you can't get rid of it for days.

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Well, that's very interesting.

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Well, now I'm afraid we'll have to get to work, Louise.

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We got that new soil preparation this morning.

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Let's get on out where it's light.

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Oh dear, and I left the seed chart in my car.

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I'll be right back.

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Oh, hurry, my dear.

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I have to bring in the flats for those seedlings.

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Oh, Mr. Valentine, why don't you and Miss Brooks stay and see how we work?

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Yes, Professor, thanks. That'll be fine.

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On the other hand, Brooks, you stay here.

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I think I'll give the Professor a hand.

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Okay, George.

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Hey, you don't want to do that all alone.

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Oh, no need for you to bother Valentine.

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Hey, Professor, look out.

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Get out of the way.

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Valentine.

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Oh, that was close.

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Are you all right?

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I wouldn't be if you hadn't pushed me out of the way.

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That boulder was coming straight at us.

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Yes.

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Can you stand up?

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I think so.

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Oh, just a part of it went over my foot.

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I think you can see for yourself, Brooks.

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Are you all right, John?

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Yes, yes, quite now, Louise.

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George, where are you going?

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Up this hill.

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See if this is another one of those accidents.

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Oh, I'll help you inside, John.

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Wait a minute, darling.

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Professor Coburn nearly got that boulder

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in the middle of his back.

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He was bending down over his precious seedlings,

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a perfect target.

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It must have fallen from here.

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Yeah, but it didn't just come loose, Brooks.

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See, look at this.

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Property of Western State University,

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Botanical Department.

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Yeah, the shovel somebody used to spade up

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the dirt from under that rock.

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He had to do it to be able to push it down.

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You mean he or she, don't you?

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Yeah, Brooks.

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What I want to know is, was that boulder meant

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for the professor or for me?

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We'll return to tonight's adventure, George Valentine,

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in just a moment.

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Here in the West, winter brings skiing, skating,

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and tobogganing to a lot of folks,

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but to the battery in your car,

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winter brings a heap of extra work.

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Colder mornings mean harder starting.

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Longer evenings mean more battery juice for lights.

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So why not give your battery a helping hand,

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get real fast starts and extra power from it?

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Just pull in at an independent Chevron gas station

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or a standard station.

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Being experts at battery service,

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they can give it more pep than a pup in no time at all.

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If your battery's got one foot in the grave,

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they can supply you a new Atlas battery.

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Each Atlas battery has the number of plates

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and the certified capacity stamped right on the battery case.

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And the written warranty you get with a new Atlas battery

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is good at 38,000 stations seven days a week.

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For all your car's battery needs,

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rely on a standard station

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or an independent Chevron gas station,

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where they say, and mean,

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we'll take better care of your car.

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And now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine.

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A huge boulder almost pins a college professor

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against a tree.

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Why?

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He's only interested in developing a new type of orchid.

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The incident itself is exciting enough,

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but if you're half as curious as Claire Brooks,

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what you really want to know is why your boss,

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George Valentine, thought something like this might happen.

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Remembering all the strange characters in the case,

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you're right on George's heels

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as he enters the Quonset hut on University Road.

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Anybody here?

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The derains seem to be out, George.

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What do you want?

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What are you doing here?

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Oh, just looking for your father and mother, Steven.

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We have something to talk about.

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Go on, find them. I can't.

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Get out.

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Now that's no way to talk, Steven.

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Why not?

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Father's out somewhere quoting Homer.

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My mother's, who knows where she is.

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Expect to walk in and find me in the best of humor?

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Now listen to me, kid.

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I won't and take your hands off of me.

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I said listen to me.

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Your mother was right when she said someone

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was trying to kill Professor Cobra.

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We saw it happen again this afternoon.

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And he's not dead?

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What's the matter?

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Why'd they make such a mess out of it?

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Okay, it's no use talking to you.

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By the way, when did you get home, Steven?

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I don't see why I have to answer questions like that.

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Not to strangers.

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Now get out of here!

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Oh, I really must apologize for my son's manners.

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Mr. Drain.

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We didn't hear you come in.

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No, I came in the back way.

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Did I hear you say something about another accident

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happening to Professor Cobra?

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Yeah, you heard right.

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You needn't look at me that way.

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I was in the Hodgkin's Library all afternoon

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reading Plato's Republic in the original Greek.

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Believe me, it wasn't easy.

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A cup of tea, Miss Book?

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Oh, no, I don't think so, thanks.

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Be a shame if anything happened to Professor Cobra

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before he won that $50,000 prize.

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Is that how much the prize is worth?

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Oh, yes.

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I see you don't know your flowers, old man.

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Um, where's Louise?

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Oh, she called and said she'd be working late again

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at the greenhouse.

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Oh, now look, Drain, I'm as modern as the next guy,

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but don't you resent your wife spending so much time

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with another man?

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Oh, no.

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Louise happens to be fond of flowers.

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I am imbued with the spirit of philosophy.

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But get one thing straight, Valentine.

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We're very much in love with each other.

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Nothing can alter that.

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Thanks.

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That makes a lot of things clear, Drain.

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It does?

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Sure, Brooksie.

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Now come on, we're in a hurry.

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["The Star-Spangled Banner"]

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Let's have a look in the orchard room, Brooksie.

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Can't see a thing, George.

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Give yourself a chance.

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Remember the flowers that glow in the dark?

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Professor Cobra?

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George!

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Something on the floor.

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I just tripped over it.

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Just a minute.

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Who, who is it?

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I don't know.

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I can hardly see.

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But I think it's the professor.

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I'm sure this is his top coat.

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The one he wore this afternoon?

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Yeah.

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But it's not the professor.

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What?

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It's a woman.

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Louise?

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No.

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Well, let me see.

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Hey, it's Mrs. Cobra, the professor's wife.

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Stabbed in the back with a pair of pruning shears.

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Oh, George, I can't look.

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I know.

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And about that theory of mine.

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Yes, dear?

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You don't have to worry about it anymore.

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This little piece of mayhem has knocked it all in a cocked hat.

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Well, where do we go from here?

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We go to the telephone and call Lieutenant Riley.

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["The Star-Spangled Banner"]

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Well, still running true to form, eh, Valerie?

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Leave it to you to get murder all mixed up with the professor

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and flowers that glow in the dark.

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Oh, the trouble with you, Lieutenant,

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is that you think murder only happens to Mr. Average Man.

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Yep.

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I've got no imagination, Miss Brooks.

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Oh, I could imagine somebody trying to knock off

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Professor Cobra with his surprise of 50 Gs

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lurking in the background.

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But why his wife?

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Because she happened to be wearing his coat.

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You know, somehow, Lieutenant, I hate putting things off

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until tomorrow morning.

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If that's supposed to be an issue,

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if that's supposed to be an aspersion on the efficiency

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of the homicide squad, it leaves me cold.

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What do you expect me to do,

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slap the whole Durene family in the can?

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No, not that, but...

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Both the father and the son could have had a gripe

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against the professor.

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And if Mrs. Cobra wasn't killed by mistake,

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either Louise or the professor could have done it.

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Um, George, didn't you have a sort of special theory

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all cooked up before we found Mrs. Cobra?

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Oh, Brooks, I didn't like the lieutenant.

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I wasn't hept on the jealousy angle.

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Take off here as soon as I could after you called, Valentine.

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This is dreadful.

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Murder is never very wholesome.

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Oh, Dr. Bondsworth, this is Lieutenant Riley of Homicide.

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How are you?

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How do you do?

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When I talked to you before, Valentine,

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I was convinced that all this was just so much nonsense,

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but now I see how wrong I've been.

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Oh, Lieutenant.

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Yes, doctor?

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How can we go about keeping this as quiet as possible?

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You know how squeamish trustees are about bad publicity.

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Oh, that should be easy, doctor.

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Just what do you propose we do?

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Forget somebody was killed here tonight?

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Oh, no, no, no, of course not.

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I suppose I'll just have to issue some dignified announcement.

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You make it sound like a wedding, doctor.

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Now, I'd better go and speak to the dean.

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What's going to be a terrible shock to him

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after all the years he's spent with the poverty?

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Oh, oh, Valentine, you'll call me in the morning?

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Yeah, sure thing.

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We're going to be moving along now, too.

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Well, what about it, Valentine?

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Come on, let's get moving. I'm tired.

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I have to be at the morgue at eight in the morning.

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Let's not worry so much about a night's sleep, eh, Lieutenant?

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What? It's my night's sleep you're talking about?

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As a tough-minded practical cop,

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I know you don't subscribe to the bromide

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so dear to the heart of mystery writers.

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Such bromides as?

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The murderer returning to the scene of the crime.

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Oh, no, no, not that one, Valentine.

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You're willing to wait it out and see?

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No. What do you take me for? Why, I wouldn't...

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You wouldn't what, Lieutenant?

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I wouldn't dare take a chance on Lieber now.

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Oh, the worst thing about waiting around in the dark

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is that you can't play gin rummy.

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Patience, Lieutenant.

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Well, if no one shows, darling,

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the dawn's going to come up like thunder

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on someone's very red face.

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Oh, you and your subtleties.

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You know, I was talking to the commissioner the other day

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and said, I...

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Boss, why bother about having a homicide squad

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when one man like George...

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Hey. What's that? What's that?

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Sounds like it comes from the other end of the green.

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This is my day off of Pat Answers. We'd better go and see.

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Wait a minute. Hold it, Valentine. Hold it.

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There's a lot of glass on the ground here.

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Yeah, and whoever indulged himself in this bit of vandalism

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is off in that car.

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But we'll never catch up with him.

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Okay, Valentine, something did happen, as you said it, Mike.

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But what was it?

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The murderer. He came back to smash this thermostat, see?

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But take a chance like that on being caught, George.

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Just to smash the devil out of this gadget?

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A very important gadget, Lieutenant.

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It controls the temperature of the greenhouse.

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Of course, Professor Coburn's flowers.

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They're dying right now.

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You and the Lieutenant have to keep that from happening.

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Me? What do I know about flowers?

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When in doubt, just ask Bruxy.

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Now, come on, come on, Miss Bruxy.

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Look, fun is fun, but it's cold in here.

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Now, Lieutenant, let me have your shirt.

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You already took my jacket.

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These flowers have to be kept warm and covered.

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Even if we just save one of them, it'll mean something.

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Yeah, well, I don't see you giving up much for the cause.

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Lieutenant, please.

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Oh, for the love of Mike.

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Here, take the shirt off my back.

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Oh, I just hope that Valentine knows what he's doing.

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We'll find out as soon as he gets back.

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In the meantime, we have to find something else

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to put around these flowers.

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Well, that's...

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No, no, please, Miss Brooks.

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No, no, don't look at me that way, please.

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I've done enough for the flower kingdom tonight.

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Oh, you're cute, Lieutenant.

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But I just happen to remember those burlap bags outside.

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All right, Valentine, we sit here in the dark in the...

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in the orchid...

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Orchid room, and the murderer is going to walk in this door

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and say, here I am, take me downtown.

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You won't have to say a word, Lieutenant, I hope.

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Okay, Brooksie, send them in one by one.

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You can start with Stephen.

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Oh, Stephen, will you come in?

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Why do we have to go through this?

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Hasn't my mother caused us enough trouble?

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You shouldn't be so critical of your mother, son.

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Now, go over there and sit down.

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Mr. Durene next, Brooksie.

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If you will, please, Mr. Durene.

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Isn't this kind of unusual, Valentine, all the darkness?

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Oh, but of course, as the philosophers have always understood,

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murder and darkness go together.

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Sit next to Stephen, will you?

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I think he can find your way.

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Mrs. Durene next.

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Valentine, what are you doing?

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You're not even asking these people any questions.

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I'm so worried about Professor Kober.

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He hasn't had a wink of sleep all night.

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Over there, Louise, please.

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Oh, ye gods.

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Go right in, please, Professor Kober.

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Oh, my flowers. You did manage to keep them alive.

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Look at them. How they glow.

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How did you do it, Mr. Valentine?

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Ah!

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Well, I could tell you, Pat, but I won't.

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Sit there, Professor Kober.

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Oh, Dr. Bosworth, I think you can come in.

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I believe I know who our murderer is.

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I certainly hope so.

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And I have you to thank for the answer, Doctor.

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Me?

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Yes, sir. And I want to shake your hand.

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Of course, but...

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Hey, look at that guy's hand.

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The fingers, the way they shine.

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That's right.

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Well, what do you know?

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Look at his hand, John. It's the pollen from our flowers.

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That couldn't be.

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You haven't been here for weeks.

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Oh, yes, he was.

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He had to be here when he killed Mrs. Kober.

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Golly, I never imagined

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Bosworth thought he'd killed a professor.

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Well, why else would he have said it would be such a shock to the dean?

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After all the years

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the old gentleman spent looking forward

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to the end of those experiments.

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Yeah, sure.

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With Kober gone, Bosworth could finish his work

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and get all the glory.

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But first he had to kill those flowers.

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Then, using Kober's notes, it would be easy.

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I noticed a faint glow on the thermostat

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control, even in the light.

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Well, I was too worried about who was getting away in that car.

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You see, only two men knew about those elaborate

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temperature controls in the greenhouse.

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And Kober, the true scientist, would rather die

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than destroy his own brainchild.

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Well, that's that.

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I'll never be able to feel the same way about a man

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who almost achieved immortality.

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Huh? What?

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Well, Professor Kober was so grateful

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he volunteered to call his sensational

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orchid the Papillonaceous

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Valentine.

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You too, you know I'm not as

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beautiful as the fair Louise.

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That's gratitude for you. It was my coat and my shirt that kept those flowers alive.

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One of the first things a lady does when she's shopping for clothes is to touch the garment.

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She judges the texture by feeling it.

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The hand test will tell you a lot about

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Atlas grip safe tires, too.

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Next time you're at a standard station

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or an independent Chevron gas station,

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just press your palm on the tread of a new

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Atlas tire and feel how it grips your hand.

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Atlas tires on your car grip the road in the same way.

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Thanks to their special non-skid tread design.

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And the tire is made of a special

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non-skid tread.

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And it's a very, very, very, very, very

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special non-skid tread design.

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That's how they give you quick straight stops

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and why Atlas tires

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are safer on the turns.

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You can't buy safer driving for yourself

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and your family. And you can't find

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a better warranty than the written Atlas

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warranty. It's good at 38,000

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stations in the 48

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states in Canada, seven days

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a week. Why take chances in

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winter driving? Get Atlas grip

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safe tires tomorrow. Get them at any

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independent Chevron gas station or

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standard station where they say,

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and mean, we'll take

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better care of your car.

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Music

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Next week when you tune our way

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for another adventure of George Valentine,

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you'll find George reading a letter from

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an old man who says, Dear Mr. Valentine,

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I wish to bestow a beautiful

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and precious gift upon a member of my family,

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the worthiest one,

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the rare Wittenberg Bible.

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You can help me.

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Kindly call Sunday morning when I can be sure

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that all of my little family will be home.

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Signed, Wesley Hart.

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Another problem for George.

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Next Monday night in

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Murder, it's a Gift.

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Tonight's adventure of

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George Valentine has been brought to you

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by Standard of California

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on behalf of independent Chevron gas

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stations and standard stations

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throughout the West. Let George

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Do It stars Robert Bailey

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and George with Francis Robinson

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as Claire. Wally Mayer appears

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as Lieutenant Riley. Tonight's

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story was written by David Victor and Herbert

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Settle Jr. and directed by Don Clark.

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Also heard in the cast

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were Loreen Tuttle as Louise,

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Jeff Chandler as Michael,

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Tommy Cook as Stephen,

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Ted Ponells as Kober,

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Faye Baker as Lenore, and Herb Rawlinson

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as Bosworth. The music

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is composed and conducted by Eddie Dunstetter.

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Your announcer, John

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Heaston. Listen again next

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