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he was also a marine for over a year i thought i would lose my mind but now now that i talk to him every week it is so much better now i'm not sure that i understand you madam how do you manage to talk to him if he's dead i have found a simply wonderful method of communication spiritualism oh i see oh she answers and all that sort of thing if you knew what peace of mind what comfort spiritualism has taught me you wouldn't speak of it the way you do no no no i didn't mean to stare at it if it gives you a comfort and peace of mind you know no perhaps i've been missing something we'll i'd like to know if you'd be obtained to permit a lonely man to go with you the next time you attend the meeting you should have heard him i'm doing john vandenberg's favor get it mr kirk in the favor i'm letting him bring me to the seance next week and if we land they're making we have easy streets we'll land them when slim and i go into our acts we'll end them they did the little old lady in mourning talking to the spirit of her son and look all you've got to do is stay sober get off my back and look hey don't come back loaded when it's time for you to meet the chump i want you to be able to navigate right to congressman hey i'm going down to the restaurant and get something to eat mr kirkman and okay slim i'm glad i don't have to worry about you and the firewater like i do about mazy oh i can take it or leave it anybody will you notice what does tonight look like it figures to be great and we've got a fresh chump lined up a real big one continue the mail of money for a while longer to ralph x steven general delivery newark yes i uh i want to say something i've been working for you six months now get me i'm not complaining but i've got some ideas i want to go and talk to you maybe you don't realize it but i i've never met you i realize kirkman i'll make myself known to you when i feel like it i've been mr harding i'm calling from the restaurant phone booth i've been waiting for your call slim hey i got it all arranged for late tonight after the seance there'll be some drinking and then they'll go to bed good i want to go over their whole layout voice crying out from the other side of the world mother i can do for you no dear nothing did you do is me too i held on to it and three days later i was offered to be more money for it that is good i have to go now that's incredible simply incredible would you see me to my home now this is adequate i am at peace with the world yes yes of course i'll be glad to you know that was simply incredible i i never thought such things could really happen i am just a moment there's a surprise waiting for you next time you go shopping for food it's in a red and gold package with a familiar name craft on it it's new craft deluxe margarine and it's a delicate blend of ingredients that actually captures the flavor of the most expensive spreads that money can buy you don't believe it well you can actually prove it to yourself the 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held right here i throw you a lot of excellent all right the spirit writing desk yeah the media puts a piece of paper on the blotter and then the person who wants to write a confidential message to the spirit world writes on the paper and pulls it himself and burns it yeah the medium then opens the desk drawer like this pretending like he's looking for a pencil that's it the top of the desk is cut out under the blotter and the carbon copy of the message drops into the drawing see the medium reader they pull this one from vanderwood well they did it this evening i see well i made copies of those duplicate messages to the spirit world i want them in court when we've got the mr big behind this operation as people like vanderwood we have to protect from the fakers like kirkland and whoever's back of it i'll come right to the point now you've become involved with some dangerous and very clever swimmers your cook been with you long mr vanderwood oh she about 1215 years ago she happens to have a new boyfriend the courtship started the very next night after you attended your first say on huh you you mean these people have gone that far to learn about me i do your cook has been talking every night about you with your background mr vanderwood are just the bait we need you count on me mr hard you can count on me for tonight yeah he'll be here for a special say on i'll be back before curtain time hey you know sometime he's going to promise up the boss will give you what for what happens maybe he will and maybe he won't i'll be back hello it's me oh hello mr kirkland hey we're gonna try that new gag tonight the one where we use the paraffin mask yes so i'm going to pull it myself hey i heard it's been a great success in england ought to be good for an extra grand tonight well he'll be worth a hundred grand or more if it takes in old man vanderwood he's just about ready for the big touch slim just about ready say uh go down to the cellar uh get me that pale of hot paraffin for you okay okay paraffin is right at the foot of the stairs slip okay i know where it is i'm a lord now vanderwood coming tonight yes sir you said i think so we've read every newspaper clipping about him that was ever published we've been through his house posing as electricians i've had henry keeping steady company with his cook we talked with his tailor bar bird laundry woman we talked to kids who served with the boy with the girls the kid dated you know how i went coast crowd put the fight on a hollywood actor for a quarter of a million yeah that's the picture of vanderwood you mean that the kid tells him that spiritualism should be endowed that the old man is to give us a quarter of a million a million dollars we'll set up an institute making it possible for all gold star mothers and fathers talk with their boys here's the paraffin bottle i don't want to put the door is there i should be somebody come in yes i'll talk to you later i want to know how you do tonight and kirkland don't 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vanderwood oh oh good evening oh yes i'll attend to the lights as those of us close in mind to the other worlds may feel and see and hear manifestations in the world beyond i would try to reach out into the world beyond for your son mr vanderwood john vanderwood can you hear me john your father is waiting your father is waiting he wants to talk to you is someone trying to communicate with me yes yes this is your father johnny dad it is good to hear your voice how are you you don't sound quite the same john are you all right yes i'm quite all right dad is there anything i can do for you for me no but it would be wonderful if you could arrange for other boys to be able to talk to their loved ones well now how can i do that son all you have to do is tell me and i'll do it perhaps it would be too much to ask but if you would put up the money maybe these fine people who have made it possible for you to talk to me could make the necessary arrangements arrangements so that thousands of parents could talk to their boys yes yes it will be a good thing and these people here could arrange yes yes they could have confidence in them dad you can trust them implicitly you can trust them implicitly goodbye father goodbye no you can't even thank her you oh well watch the meaning of this mr andrew heartless heartless contemptible rockin yeah turn your lights on someone your vicious rotten thoughts trying to take me over by playing on my love for my dead son what are you saying mr andrew i talk to my boy all the time and these good people make it possible don't don't waste the breath of me madame you're undoubtedly one of this gang i had to bring me here in the first place i'll have a counter-spice on you as soon as i can counter-spice they've been checking on you people they're keeping mr harden is the one who made me really much who are you people are making up with me so that's it yes and i'm going to report to him about this awfully distraught maybe you won't report to him mr there are you going to stop me there are ways mr van der wood i'm afraid you're never going to leave here alive stay right where you are everyone there come an agent that every door i might be glad to see you mr harden this man was going to kill me i heard it all mr van der wood i'm afraid i upset the apple heart pollution my temper oh no one can blame you you can't break in this way how much of a bite were you going to put on mr van der wood you can't pull a thing these phonies got hold of the record of your son's voice he sent you that christmas from korea they had their man spend hours practicing for the occasion fine i'll take it easy kirkland you'll last longer you're under arrest keep mr harden i'm just a foolish old woman who tried to make a fast dollar i have no idea of what these men were how far is she involved slim oh she's one of them not too important but one of them you'll have to stay madame slim slim you're a stooley a rat slim here is a special agent of mine now kirkland as your acting manager who's the big brains back of all this i don't know i never saw him and i think he's telling the truth too mr hardy now for weeks we've been trying to check on how you passed all this money along to the big boss without even knowing who the big boss is i'm telling nothing and other than holding fake say ounces you got nothing on me nothing i got surprised for you kirkland you may change your mind when you see what it is like that slim notice your hands kirkland the glow in the dark you touched something we had sprinkled with infrared powder and the powder rubbed off on your hand that something was money paid you to attend say ounces and even though we didn't know how you got the money to the big boss the big boss handled that money too look at those hands over there in the front row like the dear little mother sitting there in the front seat lay off me will you you're the big boss me the big boss that's a laugh the big boss is a man oh no maybe the big boss is a woman a woman who can sound like a man over the telephone and you wouldn't have handled that money if kirkland hadn't sent it to you that's right who'd have thought it very clever very clever yes joining up as a cheap come on artist so you could keep your eye on the boys huh clever talking with kirk backstage then going out on a fake errand and calling him in a man's voice in the phone booth just outside kirkland you didn't know that mazy the bar fly was your boss guy grab her went for the high power electric switch don't touch her don't touch her wait a minute can't reduce something easy way out she chose to electrocute herself more eloquent than a written confession the newest greatest gift idea in years the sensational new lady sunbeam controlled heat hairdryer it dries your hair in just minutes with new ease and comfort never before possible making it easy to keep your hair looking its loveliest all the time sunbeam dries your hair faster with a comfortable attractive cap 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