 New post-war old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt presents Nick Carter famous for chasing crime Every week at this time two great names are joined as new post-war old Dutch cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all Detective fiction Nick Carter master detective Are you going to break into this apartment? I don't have to pass it Sally gave me her key You think of everything don't you? Okay, come on This is certainly a pleasant living room But there's all there are two bedrooms to wonder whether this one is the marriage Let's see what Girls been shot through the temple Somebody just came in the front door. It's all right miss Carl. I'll get And now the case of the quiet roommate today's adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter Brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser It's lately after noon and Nick and Patsy are in the lattice office of John Fenris president of the Fenris Department I'm glad you brought miss born to the store with you, Mr. Carter You'll understand his business. You said you were being annoyed by a black male in this event precisely Girl work here in the last Saturday night is trying to take me down for a lot of money You were involved with it of course not nothing of the sort and what's the trouble our fashion designs are being stolen Oh, you mean that the clothes sold in the Fenris store are great many of them are miss born Two years ago. I hired Jerry Barthes one of the best dress designers in the business to create designs Exclusively for the Fenris store. Well, I knew Fenris models couldn't be bought anywhere else in town Yeah, but that's the point they can be now The cut-rate stores have our exclusive style that mark down prices before we even put them on sale That can't be very profitable profitable. We've lost a fortune And this girl says she knows how our fashions are being pirated and who's responsible for and she won't tell you who it is Tell me she has the gold ass twenty five hundred dollars for the information Then you want me to find out who's stealing your design No, I want you to force Mary Danville to give me that information without paying for it You mean I have a right to know and it's her duty to tell me without blackmailing me. I want you to scare Scaring girls is out of my line miss a family. You want me to investigate your problem Oh, so you want to run up a lot of investigating fees do you well? I won't fall for it. I'm not asking you to fall for anything I'm responsible to the board of directors for every dollar I spend it isn't my money It's your store isn't it? Well, it was my father's store now belongs to a great many people and they expect me to show a profit I can't throw money away on detective. Well, it's probably just as well miss a family. I Don't think I'd enjoy working for you anyway. Mr. Carter if my secretary were here I'd have I'd have her show you out. Oh, we can find our way out. Come on back with pleasure Miss Carlisle, you think my office is a public waiting room Mr. Desk and I have to see just the same you do to Mary Dandle is none of my business But when you start ransacking my apartment just because control yourself miss Carlisle I've done no such thing and if you didn't do it you hired someone to your accusations are in particularly bad taste in front of Outsiders with Carlisle. Oh, don't worry about us miss offenders. This young lady's outburst hasn't changed my opinion of you a bit I think I'd like to talk to miss Carlisle privately though. I forbid it. Oh, you do I certainly do This man's a detective miss Carlisle. Fine Mr. Detectives you come down to the Stenruss Exclusive Song. I'd like very much to talk to you privately Well, I didn't imagine you'd have a private office like this miss Carlisle. Oh, yes, mr. Carter I'm in charge of the Stenruss Exclusive Song. But with a job like that I should think you'd be afraid to antagonize miss Stenruss. Wouldn't you hate to be fired? He won't fire me miss Rowan What makes you so sure? Because mr. Stenruss is the only person in the world who would have any reason for ransacking the apartments that Mary and I share He wants the information Mary has. Do you have it too miss Carlisle? No, but if I did I'd do exactly what she's doing I'd make him pay for it That was a luck on your apartment door broken. No, it wasn't but somebody had been there because Mary's wardrobe Inside out and my room had been all torn up. Was anything stolen nothing of mine and Mary says Stenruss didn't find what he was after That's kind of you said Mary Danville hasn't told you what she knows about the fashion fit Are you and your roommate on friendly terms? Yes, of course I got the story to hire her and I also thought to it that she was supposed to hit but she still doesn't trust you enough to tell you That is not the point. He said I'd be better off not knowing the first he discovered was dynamite Look miss Carlisle, I don't want to alarm you but can you get a room for yourself and marry Danville at a hotel for a few nights? Quiet I suppose so and I'd do it if I were you and I wouldn't let anybody know where I was staying But everything's happened while I've been here at the store Nobody would dare to try anything while Mary and I were at home. I'm not too sure of that Is Mary at your apartment now? I think so Why I want to talk to her and I'd also like to examine your apartment You want me to take you there now? No, I want you to line up a hotel room Besides, Patsy and I may do better talking to Mary alone If you think I don't think anything yet miss Carlisle except that you may not find it healthy to stay in your apartment All right, mr. Carter. I'll do whatever you say You can live somebody in there, miss. Maybe she's afraid open the door Miss Danville, Sally Carlisle send us. I'm Nick Carter private investigator Look miss Danville. I know you're in there because I heard you're moving around I'm going to camp right here on your doorstep till you open this door miss Danville I'm here to help you if I can What well now you're being sensible. I don't know you Miss bone and I would like you to tell us what you can about your apartment being thirsty as recently Sally Carlisle told us about it miss Danville. Nick and I are here to investigate. So if you let us in I'm in a hurry right now. I have a date Couldn't you come back some other time? I'm afraid this can't wait miss. But I can't There's one thing I want particularly to know Was anything stolen from your ward room? No miss Carlisle thinks mr. Fenrath did the searching for what? Well, do you have any idea? Look mr. What's your name? I told you I'm in a hurry I'm late for my date now. Is your date with a gentleman friend? Well, yes my date's with a man. Fenrath just talked to you here outside your door and you're right But I'm to meet him downstairs in the lobby Oh, your callers meet you in the lobby today. Look, I don't know you Maybe you're a detective and maybe you're not but until Sally's here to say you're okay. I'm not going to talk to you I'm ready to leave and I'm going right now You're making a mistake miss Danville. Maybe maybe not But don't try to follow me down to the lobby if you do I'll I'll call the police Very well. They won't even go down in the same elevator with you. Go right ahead. That's what I intended to do He's not you're going to follow me. No But wait here and see what she does. So what are you expecting her to do? That's she if you were miss Danville Would you leave two strangers standing in front of your door after a conversation like the one we just had? I bet all the pain you can't nothing You'd meet your boyfriend in the lobby and then get right back up here to see what's going on Well, if you ask me, I don't think she has a date. You don't know And if she did it wasn't with a man Oh, why do you say that? She didn't tie her nose and it was shiny and her lipstick wasn't on straight No, no I have a feeling she just wanted to get away from this apartment as fast as she could Then it'd be all right Come on, let's get inside and see what's bothering her Well, you're not going to break into that apartment, are you? Don't have to Sally Carlyle gave me her keys You think of everything, don't you? I do All right, come on Certainly a pleasant living room nothing sinister than here But there's other than two bedrooms Which one is married Danville? Well, not this one or at least I wouldn't think so Why not? Because the pictures on the vanity and you'd hardly have your own picture in the room Good girl The married Danville's room must be the other one Let's see what's there You know, one of the more I wanted to get away from The girl in the floor She's been shot through the temple Miss, did you see her? Quite Somebody that's been in the front door Listen, maybe we can hear something Okay Who's that? Who is it? Wait here, Sally No, Gary, I don't Just get out of here and call the police Nothing Whoever you are, come on out or I'll shoot It's all right, Miss Carlyle, it's Oh, Gary, you're full less of a trick, yes? Oh, Miss, it's Carter, are you heard? Not a bit, Miss Carlyle, but tell your trigger happy friend to quit pointing that revolver at me Oh, I'm sorry, old fellow, but I was nervous After what's been happening here Well, it's good most people can't hit anything with a revolver This is Jerry Bartlett, our fashion designer, Nick Carter and his secretary, Miss Bolland And how do you do? I'm awfully sorry, I frightened you, but I obviously I thought I told you not to come back here, Miss Carlyle I know, but I got to thinking about married Danville and Well, if it was dangerous for me to be here, it was dangerous for her too So I came up to get her, and she just left a few minutes ago Oh, I see. Well, in that case, Gary, I suppose we might as well leave too Come on, just a minute, Miss Carlyle Did you see your roommate in the lobby just now? In the lobby? No Well, there's somebody else in this apartment, in one of the bedrooms You mean you've caught our mysterious visitor? Oh, that's wonderful But who? Suppose you take a look, that's a good idea Recognize her, Miss Carlyle? Of course we recognize her But that's married Danville What? You mean this murdered girl is your roommate? Yes But why would anyone? Mr. Carlyle, you've got to catch her murderer, you've got to I think I did catch her murderer, Miss Carlyle But I'll let her get away Married Danville was apparently murdered by the girl who made a cool daring getaway But the fugitive's picture is on Sally Carlyle's vanity So we should know who she was in, just a moment Now back to the case of the quiet roommate Today's adventure with Nick Carter Brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser The scene is Sally Carlyle's bedroom And Nick sears grimly at the photograph he's removed from Sally's dressing table This is a picture of a girl who left her apartment just as we arrived Who is she, Miss Carlyle? Well, that's daughter Grace Do you particularly have a good friend of yours? Well, she gave me the picture and she stopped in to see me once in a while, at all She spent her as a secretary so everybody in the store tried to get in touch with her Oh, I see Oh, I think she can give them a boost with Penrith Do you really have that much influence with him? Well, if I think I'll have trouble getting Penrith to okay one of my fancy designs I try to sell Darby on it first If it's okay with her, you'll take it Oh, then she gets to see your designs before they're approved? I'm sure she does Uh-huh Who else sees them? Oh, Penrith, of course And Sally here Oh, yes, I see him, too Do you think this Dorothy Drake would commit murder to help Penrith? You said she was here in this apartment when you got here, didn't you? Yes, she was Well, I don't see why you let her get away She told us she was Mary Danville We had no reason to doubt her But she doesn't look the least dead like Mary Don't forget, Miss Carlisle, I never saw Mary Danville before And we didn't find Mary's body until after Dorothy Drake had left She must have killed Mary All you have to do is find her You know where she lives? Sure, there's no secret about that It's over on Prince Street But she won't be there Mary must have known that she was a fashion thief Not just a minute, Miss Carlisle You can't assume that she's guilty of Mary's murder Or of the fashion theft theory You and Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Fenris all had access to the fashion design But if she isn't guilty, why did she run away? We don't know that she has run away If she's smart, we'll find her at home Let's see if she is smart Come in You don't seem surprised to see us, Miss Drake I knew you'd be here after me Well, are you coming in? Thanks We are I suppose you found Mary's body We did And I suppose you said you'd say I didn't kill her Naturally And I suppose you won't believe me when I do Well, you lied to us at Sally Carlisle's department Of course I lied, I was frightened I just found Mary's body You mean she was dead when you went into her apartment? Yes, she was And how did you get in? I had a key Where'd you get it? That's under your kid's Solving murders is my business, Miss Drake Unless you give me some straight answers, I'm going to escort you down the headquarters I wouldn't try that if I were you Why not? I'll sue you for false arrest and I'll collect You seem pretty sure of yourself You'll find out how sure I am to try to make trouble for me You think Mr. Fenris will back you up, huh? I wouldn't count on that if I were you No Look, if you're going to take that attitude, Miss Drake, I'll have to show you I'm not bluffing Come on Come on, where? To headquarters Where do you think? Now, look, you can't do it I certainly can And if you won't come willingly with me, I'll have Sergeant Matheson of the Homicide Squad here within 10 minutes You just cry, I don't see what'll happen Very well Where's the telephone, Miss Drake? It's in the hall, Nick Fine, call Matty Right No! Don't you dip! Walter! Mr. Carter Wow If I were you, I wouldn't make any phone calls until I knew what I was doing Pardon, Mr. Fenris? I won't have my secretary, myself, or the store mixed up in a murder scandal, Carter And if you do it, I'll run you right out of business What are you doing here, Fenris? He came because I called him as soon as I got away from Mary Danvers' appointment Okay, now that we're back to that, Miss Drake, I still want to know why you went there She was following orders, Carter Your orders? Naturally I was entitled to the information the Danville girl said she had and I was going to get it Even if you had to steal it Her attempt to extort money from me was outside the law You have to fight fire with fire So you gave Miss Drake the key to Miss Danvers' apartment? I did Why did you get it? They have a key shop in the basement of our store I borrowed Sally Carlile's key from her locker long enough to have a duplicate made Did you borrow it with Sally's permission? I told you, you have to... I know, you have to fight fire with fire Okay, so you had Miss Drake sneak into Miss Danvers' apartment What was she supposed to steal? Mary Danvers' claims she had a package of correspondence that proved the identity of the woman I wanted it Wait a minute Wait a minute You say you sent your secretary to get the letters married Danville had? I did But before she had any chance to let you know whether she got them or not, you called me and asked me to get them Does that make sense? It makes a lot of sense I had no intention of hiring you What I'd heard about you, I was quite sure you wouldn't take the job If that was what I'd said, I would I'd have found some excuse for not hiring you And why did you call me? That's really very simple, Carter If Miss Drake had been successful in getting those letters, I would have found some excuse for not hiring you If Miss Drake had been successful in getting those letters, Mary Danville would have immediately accused me of having her apartment burglarized But I would have been in a position to deny it How? I could have proved that I was trying to hire a detective to get the letters for me At the very time somebody else was actually getting them Very clever, Penlet And now you've put your secretary right in the spot He has not? I would- You were in the apartment with Mary Danville's body when we found you, Mr. Rick And you admit why you were there But that doesn't mean enough By the way, did you get the letters? No When I saw Mary's body, I didn't even start to look for them I think perhaps you did What? I think perhaps you found them and didn't want Mr. Fenris to know you found them You're accusing Miss Drake of being the fashion thief, and that's preposterous Mary Danville's murder is preposterous too, Fenris But it happened Just the same Did anybody else accept Miss Drake check out of the store just before the murder? Yes Sally Carlisle took an extra hour at lunchtime Because she said she was nervous about her apartment and wanted to go home to check things How about Jerry Bartlett? Say, I remember now Hot, he came in while you were out, Mr. Fenris And said he wanted an hour off to attend to some personal business And I told him it would be all right So nobody's eliminated Well, looks as though I've first gathered to find those letters But where are you going to look for them? I don't know, Mr. Fenris But I'm going to start looking just the same And when I get any information, you can be sure I'll let you know Miss Bowen, what's the idea of summoning all of us here to Carter's office in this high-handed manner? He has some information for you He isn't even here He said he'd be delayed a bit, Mr. Fenris Delayed? Doesn't he know my time's valuable? Should we go back to the store, Mr. Fenris? You can go back if you like, but I'm staying right here Oh, you are, are you? We'll see about that I'm staying true Mr. Carter must have had an important reason for us to come here The only thing that's important to me is to find out who's been stealing our fashion design You mean murder doesn't bother you? Mary Dandoo was outside the law, Miss Bowen She deserved what she got Did Carter say how soon he'd be here? I'm sorry, he didn't Just the same, we'll wait until he gets here All of us This is an outrage We've been here nearly two hours And I refuse to submit to such treatment any longer Where is Carter anyway? I'm sure I don't know, Mr. Fenris All he said over the phone the last time he called I know He said to tell us to wait Well, I'm not going to wait any longer I'll bet you are Your curiosity wouldn't let you do anything else What the devil's he up to anyway? Oh, Miss Board wouldn't tell even if to you, Mary Always not to reason why Always just to wait Hi, everybody Well, it's about time, Carter Do you realize you kept us waiting here? Yes, Mr. Fenris I've kept you waiting about two hours Well, your explanation better be good I'm a busy man My explanation's very good I intended to keep you people waiting here when I called you I have all the colossal nerve I had to get you here So I could search your homes without being disturbed You mean you... I mean I've made a thorough search, Miss Drake With a full approval of the police department I'll... I'll have you thrown into jail I'll have you... Calm down, calm down, Mr. Fenris You said the proper way to fight fire was with fire Remember? I can't found you You were interested in results, Fenris Well, I've got results right here in this packet What's in it? A letter that cost Mary Danville her life All ready to be turned over to the police Have you read them? I haven't even examined them I thought I'd prefer to do that with everyone present Oh, why wait any longer, then? I don't intend to wait No, I'll take care of this Nobody's going to frame me Look, he's got a gun So I see Has anyone accused you of anything, Mr. Bartlett? No, and nobody's going to Well, as long as you have that gun in your hand, I suppose you're right You just keep away from me If you don't want this gun to go off Now let's see these letters Why? They aren't the letters at all Carter's trying to trick us Quite right, Mr. Fenris, they're fakes I didn't even look for the letters What? You didn't look for them No, I didn't Mr. Fenris, how did you know these letters are fakes? Why? You said you'd never seen the letters And yet you know it once these aren't genuine How about that? Carter, are you accusing me of something? Yes, I'm accusing you of Mary Danville's murder That's utterly ridiculous You don't think I'd steal my own fashions, do you? They aren't your fashions That's just the point, Fenris They aren't your fashions Now, see here You're president of the store because of your name Because your father founded the business The money you made stealing those fashions and selling them Was probably more than your salary So Fenris murdered Mary Then deliberately sent me to her apartment So that if anything went wrong, I'd be the suspect Miss Drake, don't be a fool I'm not anymore, I'm getting smart The rest of us had to check out before we could leave the store But you didn't And I'm the only one who knows You weren't around the store at the time of the murder Nick, that's right She said Mr. Fenris was out So she told Gary Bartley would be all right for him to leave Look, Carter, it may be news to you, but there aren't any letters There are? No, Mary and I worked out that scheme because I thought Fenris suspected me What scheme? Well, you see, it was like this I paid Mary to quit her job and make Fenris that proposition My professional reputation was at stake And I thought I could get the fashions heat to show his hand that way If you knew there weren't any letters, why did you pull that gun? Well, I got excited, I guess I knew there weren't any letters And then when you showed up with a whole bundle of them I figured I was being framed with fake letters I wasn't going to stand for that I have all lost your senses You're leaving that fantastic story about hiring Mary Danville Look at him with his gun in his hand Gary, look out Oh, oh, oh, I'm not quick enough, Bartley I'm trying to get your gun back, not unless you want to slug in the heart And that goes for all of you Mr. Fenris covering the group with the revolver he grabbed from Bartlett Edges his way towards the door of Nick Carter's office We'll see what happens in just a moment And now for the conclusion of the case of the quiet roommate Today's adventure with Nick Carter Brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser Mr. Fenris revolver in one hand reaches for the door of Nick's office with the other So you thought Mary Danville knew you'd been selling those fashion designs, right Fenris? And that's why you killed Yes, I thought you was all set to blackmail me for the rest of my life It's Bartlett's fault that I killed her Oh, you can't hang the blame on me Fenris And you can't leave this office either Try to stop me, see what happens to you I have a trick lock on the door to prevent just that thing I snapped a secret text when I came into the room You will never be able to find it Fenris Thanks for telling me Carter In that case I'll let you find it for me Oh no, no dice You don't have any choice Get over here and open this door or I'll blow your head off Well, I mean it Okay, I guess you got me You get it open and be quick about it All right, all right, take it easy Fenris I can't be quick about it First you twist the door handle slightly to the left like this And a pull turns to the right like this Don't try any funny business Carter I'm right behind you And I'm ready to pull the trigger if I have to I am sure you are Now you turn the door knob to the left again And open it Wait, wait, give me the gun Fenris Give it to me before I break your arms Hit me, slam the door into me here And I'm gonna slam my left fist right for your face If you don't knock that knock, you All right I've got it Carter All right, good, hold on to it this time I didn't want to kill Mary Danibou I thought I had to do it I'm sorry, I can't sympathize with you You tricked me Carter How did you know? I didn't know Fenris Didn't have any idea of who was guilty But you remember what I said about guilty people running away? But that's why I arranged this meeting To give the murder a chance to try to run away And it worked But if there were any letters, Nick If Mary Danibou didn't have any letters There were letters that day But she didn't have them Now letters were from Fenris to the people who bought the fashion designs from him Yes, they wouldn't buy unless I gave them something to put them in the clear In case the store ever brought any suits against them I thought you got hold of those letters in some way But you acted as though you thought I was double-crossing you Oh, you had me half crazy I had to accuse someone, didn't I? And you're still trying to justify yourself, Anson The store should have been mine I only got a small part of what I deserved Well, starting right now Fenris You're going to get more than a small part of what you deserve You're going to get the work Well, Nick, let's hear something about the adventure A new post-war old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week Mike, it started when Patsy and I went on a visit to another city And were greeted by a welcoming committee A welcoming committee with machine guns, no less See, I went there to look for a gangster But I spent most of my time looking for Patsy You see, Mike, I found the gangster first Even though I was sorry I ever did believe him Yeah, Patsy pretended to be a gunman He played the part of talent too well for her own sake Searched thousands though we're in for an exciting half hour, Nick What do you call this adventure? I call it The Case of the Great Impersonation Nick Carter, master detective, is presented each week at this time By the Carnegie Packing Company It is produced and directed by Jock McGregor And is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated Charlotte Manson is featured at Patsy Today's script was written by George B. 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