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She just drinks to make herself forget. Her husband divorced her about a year ago, just because she went out on a few parties he didn't approve of. She's been alone ever since. Funny, you standing up for her, Patsy? Usually you'd be the first to condemn anyone who plays around the way I understand she does. All right, Nick, think what you'd like. Just as long as we get her home to her apartment so I can put it to bed. Who's going to bed? My friend's young yet. Let's go somewhere. The only place you're going, young lady, is home to bed. Who's that? I don't know him. Oh, yes, you do, Sally. That's Nick Carter, the man I work with. Never heard of him. This the place? Just ahead, Patsy? Yeah, stop at this first entrance. She lives on this side. Okay. Come on now, Sally. This is where you live. I'll get out first and give you a hand. Help myself. Don't need a hand. Can take care... Want me to go up with you? No, Nick, you wait here. She'll be all right. All right. But don't let her keep you up there all night. I won't. Oh, I better go after her. She'll fall in the lily pool if she's not careful. Yeah. She's getting pretty close to the edge of it. You're better... That's terrifying. Come on. What's the matter, Sally? What is this? The pool. The pool. Down, does he? No, he lives this way, rally. Okay. Holy smokes, Nick. Look in his back. Yes. A knife. Right between the shoulder blades. Did you find the body, Nick? Not exactly. It was Patsy's girlfriend who found it, really. What's her name? Sally Reeves. Oh, that one. Where is she now? Oh, Patsy's putting her bed. She lives in this house. She's, well, slightly under the weather. She happened to find him. Oh, Patsy and I were at a small friendly gathering and she walked in. Got well lit up and wrecked the party. Patsy wanted to bring her home, so we did. As she went by the pool, she started screaming. I came over here and found this. Let's have a look at him. Nick, that's Arthur Reeves. What? That's Sally Reeves' ex-husband. And you say she found him? That's right. Very interesting. Maybe she found him because she knew just where to look for him. But Riley seems to think Sally did it herself. He's a dope. Well, you said she's hated her husband ever since he divorced her, Patsy. Maybe she did kill him. Oh, Nick. Well, she certainly acted guilty enough when they questioned her. That doesn't mean anything, and you know it. Maybe, maybe not. Well, Riley will find out. Oh, Nick, you can't leave it to Riley. Well, that's certainly what I'm going to do. This is none of my affair. Nick Cardi, you've got to make it your affair. No, Patsy. But I'm not going to see Sally put in jail for something she didn't do. You've got to help her, Nick. And why? Because I asked you to. That's why. Oh, Patsy. Oh, Nick, will you do it? Well, I suppose I'll have to if you put it that way. Oh, Nick, I knew you would. But it's against my better judgment. I don't care why you do it, just as long as you do it. Now, where do we start? Well, I guess the best thing is to go down and see Riley in the morning. Find out just how the case against her stacks up so far. Then we'll see where we go from there. Patsy. Hi, Riley. Lieutenant, have you let Sally out of jail yet? Let her out. I should say not, Patsy. She's in for good the way it looks now. She did it all right. Riley, do you mind telling us just what the case is against her so far? No, I don't mind at all. Which side are you on in this, Nick? I'm on the side of the law, just as I always am. She'd know me well enough for that by now. Oh, sure, sure. Well, here it is. Reeves was Sally's ex-husband. He divorced her for seeing too much of other guys, and she hated him for it. In spite of the 500 bucks a month alimony he was paying her, or it's supposed to be paying her. She said he hadn't paid her anything for the last three months. Exactly. Now, you've proven my case for me, Patsy. Now, Reeves' partner tells me that Reeves was having a tough time making both ends meet, and that the law would pay in his alimony. He spent too much on his second wife. And here's another thing. Reeves just took out a $50,000 insurance policy in this Sally's favor. Hmm. Is that so? He had to. That was part of the divorce settlement. You should have done it before then. Yeah, I know. But that insurance policy is another swell motive for Sally to want Reeves dead. She wouldn't kill anybody. Well, here's another point then. She says she got to your party about 9.30 or 10 o'clock. Well, the medical examiner says the guy was killed at least by 9 o'clock, so she could have killed him and gone to your party for an alibi. Where does she say she was from, say, 8 o'clock up to the time she got to our party? She says Reeves called her and asked if he could see her about 8.30. So she said yes, and sat in her apartment, waiting for him, but he never showed up. So she says, it's a fine alibi, I don't think. It's no alibi at all. Who was the last one to see Reeves alive? Oh, his partner, Workman. He said Reeves was at the shop, but left to go to see Sally about something. Amazing. Now, everything points to Sally, isn't it? Oh, it came to me as if Nick is natural. She did it. She didn't do it, and Nick's going to prove it. Oh, is he now, Betsy? Well, how's he going to get around the facts? Nick's going to dig up some new facts, Lieutenant. Then you'll see how wrong you are. Well, maybe, but I doubt it. Look, Lieutenant, can I see Sally? Oh, sure, sure. I guess it'll be all right. Would you like to see her now? If I can. Okay, I'll fix it. You go ahead with your investigation, Nick. I'll go back to the office and wait for you when I'm through here. All right, I'll see you then in a little while. I think I'll go down and have a talk with Reeves' partner first. Now, Mr. Workman, you say Reeves was here in the store last night after dinner? Yes, Mr. Carter, he was checking stock with me. Then he left to see Sally. That was about 8.30. He said he'd be right back to help me finish checking. Did he say why he wanted to see her? He said he was going to ask to let him out of some of the alimony he owed her. I see. But he didn't come back. No, I stayed here by myself until about one o'clock. Mm-hmm. I should judge by the type of furs you carry here, Mr. Workman, that you must do a pretty good business. That's right, Mr. Carter. Then how do you account for Mr. Reeves having such a hard time keeping up his alimony payments? Well, Mr. Reeves is a heavy spender. He spent money freely himself, and his second wife was extravagant. Mm-hmm. Did Reeves have any insurance in the partnership? The kind, I mean, that leaves you any money if he dies. Oh, no, Mr. Carter, we talked about it, but decided it wasn't necessary. Have you and he ever had any trouble? Oh, not the slightest. We've always been the best of friends. Mm-hmm. Well, thanks for your trouble, Mr. Workman. I guess that's all for now. Any time I can help you, let me know. Oh, by the way, mind if I use your phone? Oh, not at all. It's on the desk over there. Thanks. Just want to call my office. I'll be in the back room if you want me. Thank you. Oh, Patsy, how'd you find Sally? Nothing new. That is nothing definite. I'm going to see Reeves' wife. Then I have to drop in on the DA, so I may be tied up the rest of the day. Well, that's good. What's so swell about it? I bet you I find something to help prove she's innocent. Or guilty. Now, Nick, don't be like that. You drop over there around 8 o'clock tonight. I'll show you what I've found. Okay, see you about 8 then. At Sally's apartment. What's your plan to live in this place? Patsy! Patsy, where...? Patsy, what happened, Patsy? Patsy, can you hear me? Yes, what's the matter? Be, for Nick at least, the routine investigation has suddenly taken a strange turn. What's happened to Patsy? 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Oh, I didn't see one. How'd he talk? Well, it's sort of funny, as if he were trying to disguise his voice. He might have had something in his mouth. Probably did. It's an old trick. Without your best friend wouldn't recognize you. Then what? He tried to jerk the coat off me, so I scratched his face for him. Good for you. Not so good, Nick. Look at my fingernails. They're all broken. Oh, they'll go in again. Then what happened? He hit me and knocked me down just as you rang the buzzer. It must have gone out the back door as you came in the front. Then I must have gone out cold. You were certainly completely out when I found you. What does all this mean, Nick? Why did Sally get this coat? Oh, yes, her ex-hubby gave it to her instead of some bag alimony to the odor. He took it out of the stock at the store about two weeks ago and brought it to her. Took it out of the stock at the store, huh? Well, does that mean something to you? I don't know, Betsy. But either this coat is tied up with a murder or it's an extraordinary coincidence. Well, how can you find out? Get the history of the coat, first of all. Well, how do you do that for heaven's sake? I know a man who can tell me. Come on. I'm glad you phoned him in advance. I'd hate to have made all this trick for nothing. Hello, Mo. Nick, how are you? Come in, come in. This is Betsy Bo on my assistant, Mo. How do you do? Hello, glad to see you. And now, what is this puzzle you say you got for me, eh? Here's a fur coat, Mo. Have a look at it. It's beautiful, Nick. Beautiful. What can you tell me about it? Well, it's, why, at least forty years old. Well, that isn't what I mean. What can you tell me about the coat itself? Everything I could tell you about it, Nick. But I might have to rip it apart a little here where it's sold. Go ahead. I want to know as much as you can tell me. Sure, Nick, sure. Now, I rip a little of the lining here and cut a few of the stitches here with the skin that's all together. Now, look, Nick. You see this little blue mark on the skin here? Yes. That means the coat was sold by Fishbone Brothers. And their mark, the skins were sold together by Herman Schultz who works for them. Nobody else in the business stitches like Herman. Anything else? Fishbone Brothers make up the coat, they send it to a retailer. That's all I could tell. Suppose they could tell me anything else about it? You can ask them. They got a store right on the block from me. I could telephone them that you are coming, and they should take good care of you right away. Thanks, Mo. Oh, by the way, that knife there on the counter, is that any particular kind of knife? All for your sumic garments, you, then, Nick. That is a good knife for training the skins. Is that it, you ask? Oh, just saw it one while ago, and I was curious. Come on, Passy, let's go see Fishbone Brothers. Well, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Carter, but I wanted to be sure of the facts. This coat was sold by us to Perry Long. And Perry Long sold the coat to a Mrs. Jackson Moody, who lives in Boston. But three months ago, she reported it stolen and offered $500 reward for its return. $500? Oh, Nick, we complained that reward. We found the coat. You found it, Passy. The reward's yours if you want it. Is that what you wanted to know, Mr. Carter? Yes, thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Oh, Passy, call Riley and tell him to meet us at Reeves and Workman's Place. What are we going back there for? I want to see if Workman can add anything to what we already know about this stolen coat. Goodbye. Oh, goodbye. I didn't expect to see you again tonight. I just want to ask you a few more questions, if you don't mind. No, no, not at all. Come in, all of you. Working pretty late, aren't you? Yes, I am. You see, without Mr. Reeves, there's so much more for me to do. Pretty dark in here for you to be working, isn't it? Oh, no, I can see plenty well in this light. Well, Lieutenant Riley has to make some notes. Make notes? And what, Nick? Why, and Mr. Workman's answers to my questions, naturally. Sure you won't mind if I turn on another light, will you, Mr. Workman? Oh, now really, Mr. Carter, I don't think... Nick, look! His face is scratched right across the cheek. Yes, there was a cat sleeping on a pile of furs a little while ago. I didn't see him, and when I tried to move the furs, he jumped at me and scratched me. What an alibi. Now, what was it you wanted to ask me? Well, first, Mr. Workman, I'd like your permission to look around your shop a bit. Oh, now, see here, Mr. Carter, I don't see what rides you around. Riley! Come in here and... See that Mr. Workman stays where he is while I take a look around the place. Oh, look here, you can come in here and do this. I said where you are, Workman. Nick knows what he's doing. But I don't understand what... Just sit tight. Nick'll tell you when he's ready. Wow. This is an interesting package, Workman. Addressed to some firm out in San Francisco. Seems to be full of pieces of fur coats, some odd neck pieces, and some other odd pieces of fur. All expensive fur, too, if I'm not mistaken. That's just some pieces I had left over. I don't think so, Workman. What do you think they are, Nick? I think Workman is a receiver of stolen fur. Ridiculous. He cuts them up and ships them to the west coast. His accomplice out there ships his stuff east. And they put them together and mix the furs up so they can't be identified. You're crazy. I wouldn't get mixed up in anything like that. Raleigh? Ever seen a knife like this one before? Hey, golly, Nick, that's the same kind of knife that killed Reeves. You're quite sure? Of course I am. That same dark-colored handle, the same two metal bands around it. I'd know that anywhere. That's the same kind of knife we saw at Mo's a little while ago, Nick. Except that the handle is different. Exactly, Patsy. The knife's a regular furrier's knife. But I imagine at some time in the past year, Mr. Workman had new handles put on all his old knives. Right, Mr. Workman? Say, now, look here. If you're trying to connect me with Reeves' murder, you're all wrong. I didn't kill him. Ever see this fur coat before? No. And I suppose you weren't the man who tried to take it away from Patsy tonight at Sally's apartment. No, of course not. What's that about, Nick? You didn't tell me about anybody trying to rob Patsy? Reeves gave Sally a very expensive fur coat out of the stock here at the store instead of paying her some back alimony. But Reeves didn't know it was stolen. Then when you arrested Sally, Workman knew he had to get that coat back before you found it, recognized it from the description that's been sent out and traced it back to him. So we tried to steal it from Patsy tonight in Sally's apartment. Lies! All lies! Then Nick, I'm beginning to see what you're leaving up to. Do you, Riley? I'll say I do. Reeves finds out that Workman is dealing his stolen furs. They get into a fight about it. Workman tells Reeves the coat he gave to Sally was stolen. Reeves is sore and starts for Sally's house to get it back. That's where he was headed when he was killed last night. I'll bet that's it. Go on, Riley. You're doing well so far. But when Reeves leaves, Workman gets scared. He doesn't want Reeves to tell anybody he's selling stolen furs, but the only way he can stop him is to kill him. So he grabs one of his foreign knives, beats it up to the apartment house before Reeves gets there, waits for him and kills him. Why, it's as plain as the north on your face. You're crazy, all of you. I didn't kill Reeves. Where were you between 8 and 10 last night? I told you I was here in the store, taking stock, alone. That ain't no alibi. Come on, Workman. I'm taking you down to headquarters. We've got ways you're making fellas that have nothing to say. Talk a lot down there. No, I was right, Nick. Sally didn't do it. Oh, Nick, you're wonderful. Well, thanks for those few kind words, Patsy. Okay, Riley. Take him down to headquarters and wait for me there. Well, age will come, Nick. Oh, there's one last bit of evidence. That'll clinch this case, Riley, and I think I know right where to put my hand on it. Meet you in your office in about half an hour. Four of you gathered here to welcome me. Riley, Patsy, Sally, and Mr. Workman. Now let's sit down and be real cozy. What's all this about, Mr. Carter? They won't tell me anything, except that you've got some use for me. It's okay, Nick. Okay, Riley, go right ahead. Well, Sally, it's like this. Mr. Workman here is the man who killed your ex-husband, Arthur E. That's a lie, Riley. Oh, no, Tate. Sally's stolen fur's, your knife, Sally having a fur coat that was stolen, and you trying to get it back, it all adds up. Just wait till the jury gets it. Then you know I didn't do it. Of course, we know it. And I'm apologizing right here and now to both you and Patsy for being such a dumb idiot as I was. I should've known you wouldn't kill him. Isn't it wonderful, Sally? You're free. And Nick did it. I knew he would. Now, I can collect the $500 reward for recovering the stolen fur coat. Oh, it's just super, super, Patsy. You collect that money, and I'll collect the $100,000 on the insurance that Arthur took out for me. I don't think you will, Sally. But, Mr. Carter, why not? Yes, Nick, why can't you get that money? Sally. Yeah? You told me Reeves never got to your apartment last night. But you didn't see him at all, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, that's right. I waited and waited, but he didn't come. Riley. Mm-hmm. Got the things you found in Reeves' pocket? Well, sure, Nick. There you are. Sally, in Reeves' pocket was a bill for women's clothes addressed to you postmarked the morning of the murder. It must have been delivered to you that afternoon. Now, if you didn't see Reeves, how did that bill get in his pocket? Well, I... You did see him, didn't you? Yes, he tried to take my fur coat away from me, but I wouldn't let him. And you got into an argument about money, didn't you? He was broke and couldn't give you any, so you gave him this bill and said he could at least pay that, right? Well, he... And by the time he left you, you were so mad you could have killed him, weren't you? But I didn't kill him. Workman did. Workman didn't kill him, Sally. You did. After he left, you grabbed up that furrier's knife, ran down the stairs, rushed over to where he was still standing beside the pool and plunged the knife in his back before he knew you were there. I never owned a knife like that. I couldn't have done it. Ever see this picture, Sally? Huh? I found it in your apartment a few minutes ago. A flashlight shot of a tea party you had in your apartment. Dated three months ago. And on the table is one of Workman's fur knives being used as a cheese knife. So you did own a knife like that. All right, I... I did kill Arthur. I had to have money quick. I got a lot of bills that have to be paid. He wouldn't give me any money. Assurance is all I could get. Oh. So I killed him. Well, Nick, so she did do it. I was right all the time. I told you I didn't do it. I knew you didn't do it all along, Workman. But I had to do it this way to break down the case against Sally. Sorry. You say you knew all along, Nick? Certainly. A new Workman couldn't have done it because he'd never have chosen such a public place as a court inside a large apartment house at nine o'clock on an early fall evening. There's altogether too much chance of us being seen. He'd have picked a much safer spot. Furthermore, he never would have killed him before. He got that stolen coat back from Sally. No, Riley, only someone who was so mad they didn't stop to think would kill a man in such a public place. Well, didn't I... I got a little Workman go. He was dealing in stolen furs, wasn't he? Why, you're right, Nick. I'll see that he gets his for that, I will. Come along, you and your tour, Sally Reeves. I'm going to put you on board right where you belong. Hey, Lord, was you all right for the very first time? Man, you tried to finish your beer. Well, I was certainly wrong that time. You certainly were, Patsy. Completely wrong. She wasn't like that when I knew her years ago. Times changed. So do people. You couldn't know what she's like now. I'm sorry, Nick. Gee, I suppose I'll never hear the end of it. You'd prefer we weren't, Patsy. They don't feel too bad. If it hadn't been for you, we'd never have caught Workman and broken up his racket and stolen furs. And the right person is going to pay for Reeves' murder. Those are the things that really matter, always. In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview of next week's exciting case. But before they do, a word to the wise. When you use Linux Clear Gloss on your floors, linoleum, furniture and woodwork, they look as though you'd spent hours polishing them. And yet, Linux Clear Gloss is so easy to apply, so easy to keep clean. Linux Clear Gloss is a durable protective coating which is brushed on easily, drying without brush marks to a tough, transparent surface that sturdily resists alcohol, perfume, crude acids, boiling water and hot grease. The brilliant beauty of Linux Clear Gloss is a constant source of satisfaction to every homemaker, for it wears and wears, keeping its good looks for a long, long time. Linux Clear Gloss keeps dirt on the surface, too, where it's easily wiped away. So protect and beautify every wood and linoleum surface in your home with Linux Clear Gloss. 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The sheriff found one big clue that satisfied him, but Nick found a number of small clues that really solved the murder. What do you call a story, Nick? I call it murder in the night. Or the mystery of the milkman's discovery. So long for now. So long, everybody. And so long to you, Nick and Patsy. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week. Next week at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter, master detective, entitled Murder in the Night. Or Nick Carter and the mystery of the milkman's discovery. Nick Carter, master detective, is a copyright feature of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. It is presented at the same time and over these same stations by the three great Linux home brightness. Linux clear gloss, Linux cream polish, and Linux self-polishing wax created by ACME, America's great producer of ACME quality paints. In the Nick Carter adventures, Long Clark is starred as Nick. Helen Cho is featured as Patsy. 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