 famous of all man-hunters the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction Nick Carter master detective presented by the three great Linux home brightness Linux clear glass varnish Linux cream polish and Linux self-polishing wax created by ACME America's great producer of fine ACME quality paints curious adventure four rings of death or Nick Carter and the mystery of the Tory Island in just a moment we'll hear how Nick Carter solved the mystery of the four rings but first do you realize that millions of homes are now brighter more beautiful than ever because so many American homemakers have come to depend on chemtone the miracle wall finish now they're discovering the way to new beauty for woodwork furniture and floors with the three great Linux home brightness Linux self-polishing wax which beautifies your floors with a satiny yet tough anti-skid finish that resists wear water and dirt Linux cream polish which cleans as it polishes leaving 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to visit L Island where we're going now they buried everything somewhere on the island and recorded the burial place in a secret code or cipher they lived there for a while and later we're all lost in the storm while trying to get back to the mainland that sounds pretty fantastic Nick is there any real truth in it his lawyer Andrew Jessup recently came across something that convinced him the story is true so we rounded up the airs of the four original Tories and arranged for them to meet in the island this afternoon if I can decipher the code they'll dig up the treasure and divide it is some night to dig up anything I'd say gosh Nick I wish you hadn't left that boat leave us here like this is the loneliest looking island I ever saw especially on a nasty night like it's all right but we'll go back with Jessup when he goes okay you're the boss that must be the house up there yes I hear it wait here Pat see in the dark I want to see what's wrong hey you there we are get your hands up stop by sir it's murder Nick Nick what is it I'm okay but this man isn't stopped a bullet with his head who is it Nick I don't know let's see if he's any identification on him Cyrus J file that's one of the air spatsy I remember the name one of the air yes Nick what's that shining in the mud at your feet where right there oh yes napkin ring napkin ring out here what in the world I don't know Pat see but let's get this man's body up to the house they may know what it's all about you know this man for all your people here with you I guess file was here a few minutes ago but discovered he'd left his glasses on my boat and went down to get them anyone else on the island only Matt Odell the caretaker for the fishing company that owns the island we're expecting Peter Brady the personal representative of the owners to arrive shortly but it hasn't come yet where the others in the living room you're sure file was murdered you don't get a shot through the head the way he was accidentally you ever see this ring before that's files ring it's his part of the clue to the treasure how could a napkin ring be a clue to a treasure I can't tell you that I simply know that each of the four airs is a napkin ring like this and that the four rings together give the key to the hiding place of the treasure and it's possible that whoever killed this man wanted to get hold of the ring for himself who'd want to do that where does this matter or Dell stay he has a shack just below here where he lives why I think I'll have a talk with him I'll be right back must be Odell Shaq the only one around here to stay home on a night like this well no one's it who's there that the deuce would want to over here what's up don't quite know except that somebody knocked me cold when I was looking for Adele you see anybody no did you know I came down here to tell you that Odell's at the house came in just after you left I thought you might be searching for him how long after I left it Odell show up why about five minutes I should say I want to talk to that man I think wait a minute the ring by a snap can ring what about it's gone I had at my pocket what I came down here but it's gone now so that's what your assailant was after it looks that way well let's be getting back fine business one of the rings missing before we can hold on there's a hole in my coat pocket maybe I there it is I just caught the glitter of it in the flashlight now you're right that's it the murderer has missed again yes who is it well hello Brady this is Nick Carter I'm going to solve the cipher for you hope the way things are going now there may be no cipher left to solve well let's get back to the house I want to talk to Odell you learn anything from Odell no I'm pretty sure now he had nothing to do with what's been going on here you mean he wasn't the one who hit you no I'm quite sure he knows nothing about that or about files death oh by the way Carter I want you to meet the other three years this is Cecil Wittemore how do you do with your job on all right Mr. Carter that's Kurt Sturdiff and for the fireplace I understand that no one of you men said anything to anybody about the search for the treasure you expected to make here tonight one did Brady know what this is all about just oh yes we had to tell the owners of the island what we intended to do if you mention it to anyone Brady no certainly not that is except for a chap who used to work here on the island is Odell's assistant you mean Charlie Vane Brady yes I thought he might be interested having worked here there's the man cut he worked here on the island up until about six months ago he was a fanatic on the subject of the Tory treasure hunted for it every spare moment he had got so he felt the treasure was his because he spent so much time looking for it you think it'd be crazy enough to come out here and start a private war to get hold of it my practically cracked on the subject all right we'll see but first where the other napkin ring each man has his own ring cutter and there's no doubt at all but the treasure is still here in the island this island hasn't been talented for nearly a hundred years except for the caretakers it's used as a tie-up and stop over for the boats working for the fishing company or Brady can tell you that that's right Mr. Carter there's every reason to believe the stuff is right where the original owners there is how much is it worth any idea something over two millions as far as I can gather gosh it's worth all that how come the whole island hasn't been dug up before this that's a lot of money the whole islands practically one big rock without some idea of where to look at it to be an impossible job I see well whether the killer is Charlie vane or someone else he's probably on this island right now first thing to do is to see that he doesn't get off the island now we can catch him down logical how can we do it hotel you come in here please what do you want I want you to go down to the dock and take the spark plugs out of each of the company boats then no one can use them yes sir yes it you and Brady do the same with the boats you came in all right come on baby right I'm going to make a tour of the island to be sure there are no other boats here and we can sit tight until morning catch whoever's behind us I'll go with you make a nasty night outside that's very dangerous I don't care I'll feel safer where you are than I would anywhere else let's go and no argument that's it right up there it's been almost round the island we haven't found a trace of another book maybe wait look here fancy on this rock there's been a boat drawn up here recently right that's the only possible explanation of those scrape marks in the barnacles there but since there's no boat here now the killer may have left the island already I certainly hope so I've had enough for one night if he got drowned in the loose on the island on a black stormy night promise more trouble and that screen sounded as 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after him i'd chase us after a murderer in the dark unarmed do you think i'm crazy i don't know wait a moment what do you know about striven at this why we uh sturdiff and elman and i are waiting in the living room for you and jesse and brady to come back sturdiff and got the bright idea that he'd go up to the roof and see if he could see anything so the lady we heard him yell and we started up the stairs to see what was wrong you hear anything after he was killed why we we thought we heard someone dash fountain down the back stairs and out the back door well you better get sturdiness body inside i'm going to have a look at the roof see what i can find there come on passie right with you find anything useful carter no tracks in the ground outside that mean anything grounds to cut up there's a sort of stone platform though up there in the roof that the tories must have used as a lookout platform the faint marks of two men up there but still not good enough to help us any there's no question though that sturdiness was thrown from there well what do we do now we had more guns i'd suggest we all get out and try to find whoever's doing this killing with only one gun mine that's hopeless nick are you going to try to solve the cycle i'm afraid we can't passie but the killer got away with sturdiness ring no no he didn't cut sturdiff and gave it to me to keep for him oh well we still have all four rings our murdering friend is having all this trouble for nothing now let's get started all right let me have the rings you are caught up all horrible good now let's see each of these rings has a different inscription excuse me dear mind if i go back and eat my supper i ain't had time to eat yet and i'm getting to my hungry no no it'll go right ahead we'll let you know if we need you thank you the only answer to this is that the inscriptions on the rings constitute the cipher itself the only question is how to arrange the rings to get the correct interpretation nick did you notice that there are little notches filed in the edges of the rings mm-hmm two of the rings have the notches on both the top and bottom and these other two have them only on one edge yes but i believe that if the rings are put together with the notches matching up we'll be heading in the right direction you mean stack them one on top of the other exactly with the notches matching up in each case the rings with the single notches will go on the top and the bottom respectively i see like this that's it and now what you notice patsy there were two lines of inscription on each ring that's right and from the uneven way the letters on the inscriptions are engraved i feel sure it was done so that with the ring stacked on top of each other the way you have them certain of the letters in the inscriptions will come directly under each other there are only three or four places where they do that nick as a matter of fact patsy there's only one place if you look closely but the letters are really directly under each other yes you're right write these letters down as i read them okay go ahead h a e t m l i three did you say three yes one of the rings has the date 1730 on the second line oh yes of course hey wait a minute right under the three on the bottom ring is another number looks like yes says 251 write that down too you think that's part of it i believe it is now what have you got there nothing that makes sense h a e t m l i three 251 maybe that's in cypher two patsy maybe no we've got the right ring on the top and the right ring on the bottom and not just prove that but we've got the two rings in the center in the wrong order we just transpose them we force your way ahead of me refers to a book a book just as well known to those old tories as it is to us now where can i find a copy of it here ah mad odell he has quite a collection of books in his shack he must have a copy there but nick do you think i'll be back in a minute patsy just long enough to get the book here's lights odell odell poison i know those symptoms strict nine odell odell what's no use he's too far gone yes what else what is it who poisoned you did you see him odell going too fast odell can you tell me who did it a fellow so that's it i should have known that did what happened the killer he came up here we followed him must have waited for us in here shot often as i'll say he did must have killed him instantly go on go on any shot me ruby arm went out the window climbed down that big tree outside and ran off into the woods carter coming here hurry more trouble i just found a car in the room where the rings were the rings were oh patsy patsy patsy are you hurt patsy what happened patsy well i was sitting here waiting for you and suddenly the ceiling fell in on me somebody hit you i guess so i i didn't see anybody or hear them oh nick the ring they're gone but it makes no difference i have the notes we made i took them with me to be sure i guess whoever hit me wanted the rings for himself did i hear some shooting yes you did all men is dead and brady shot through the arm did you get back in time to catch the murder no brady says he went out the window and down a tree i'm going outside to see if i can find anything that might be a clue anything carter i think so now tell me what happened here well we were all sitting in the living room when brady heard something outside in the hall he went out to look and moment later we heard him call out to someone to stop all men ran out and they both dashed up the stairs there were several shots and i called you you know the rest i see brady did you get a look at his face well i know no i didn't darken the hall and i couldn't all right all right never mind never mind let's get finished with this cypher but carter shouldn't we do something about this plenty of time for that plenty of time cypher comes first oh by the way i found matt or del dead in his shack poisoned what somebody put strict nine in his food oh del dead but why would anyone want to kill him matt didn't have any of the rings right or del was killed for an entirely different reason well now let's get this cypher finished i found this book in or del shack and it gave me the answer that copy of hamlet told you where the treasure was buried it did you remember patsy we had the letters h a e t m l i three two five one that's right well if you transpose the two rings in the middle of the stack we made you get these letters h a m l e t one three two five one that's wonderful nick hamlet at one c in three line 251 that exactly patsy i looked it up and the clue gives us this line deep in the cellar seek for our remains and the treasures buried in the cellar of this house apparently so let's see what we can find down there we'll probably have some hunting to do around here but it shouldn't take too long hey hey don't shine that light in my eyes i can't see oh sorry brady now we'll see look out nick no you don't brady follow carl why did you knock brady out he was trying to kill me he was afraid i was getting too close to his secret his secret brady is the murderer we've been looking for brady but what about charlie vane vane existed only in brady's imagination he's been dead six months vane dead yes and you'll find a buried in that corner over there where brady buried him after he killed him how do you know where he's buried when i flashed the light in your face is the moment ago i saw where brady was looking naturally he'd look toward the spot which held his secret he was afraid i might accidentally stumble on the body if we started digging down here but how in the world did you know that vane was dead and buried there odell lived long enough to give me a clue to that and with what i already had figured out it all made sense that's why brady killed a dell to keep him from talking absolutely incredible power it's like a nightmare except that it makes sense vane and brady together found the treasure when they were working here six months ago brady killed vane so he could have the treasure for himself then when you jessup organize this trip to solve the napkin ring cypher code he determined to kill you all off so as to prevent you're discovering it before you knew he was here on the island he killed phyle then went out again and came into dock it was brady who threw stuff in it off the roof and later knocked patsy out and killed ulman he also shot himself the powder marks on his sleeve prove that incredible absolutely incredible well now let's find the treasure but if the treasure is buried in the cellar nick what are we looking up here on the roof floor oh didn't i tell you patsy the treasure isn't buried down there it's up here up here but the quotation from hamlet carter that said the quotation i read you was not the right one jessup now let's see you see those large flat stones forming the platform on that side yes what about them count off the first eleven and lift the next one up lift it up wait cemented down i doubt that go ahead jessup try it give him a hand with them all right if you say so you seem to be right about everything so far even defining things body where you said it was now with them off lift oh nick you're right the stone is coming up well will you look at that the old torris treasure nick look at those gorgeous rings and necklaces and gold coin yes patsy if jessup is right you're looking at about two million dollars worth of golden jewels but how did you know it was here under this particular stone carter because the quotation from hamlet the correct quotation not the one i made up to fool brady reads like this upon the platform fixed 11 and 12 and there was no other solution possible in just a moment nick and patsy will bring you a preview of next week's exciting case but first let's face the facts everybody's days are busy we've all filled our daily schedules full to overflowing doing our home front jobs and helping with the all-out effort toward victory in 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hear from nick carter himself well nick what's on the program for next week next week can i want to tell you about a man who was killed by an unknown poison and apparently without opportunity or motive four people were gathered for a discussion on hinder philosophy and suddenly one of them fell over dead none of the others had any idea what had happened sounds pretty blind to me how did work out what clues there were were uncovered accidentally and unexpectedly and it wasn't until the second murder that things became clear and even then nobody but nick could figure out what anything meant but he got the right answer and the murderer uh well what's the name of the story nick i call it poison with a past or the mystery of the vidante killing and that's all about that for now so long so long everybody and so long to you both nick and trancey we'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week next week at this same time listen to another curious experience of nick carter master 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