 The Linux show starring Nick Cotter, master detective, presented by the three great Linux home Brightoners. One of the most daring and resourceful characters in the history of detective fiction. A man whose name has become a symbol of the triumph of right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and lawlessness. Nick Cotter, master detective. Today's exciting case, the howling horse, in which Nick Cotter goes hunting in a forest of death and tracks down a fabulous four-legged killer. Really enjoyable living. For real contentment, it is necessary that we have time to relax. Time to do the things we like as well as to do the necessary things. And these days, American homemakers everywhere are learning that one important way to enjoy leisure time is to depend on the three great Linux home Brightoners. Those magic new shortcuts to beauty for woodwork, furniture and floors. You too can save drudgery each day with those three great Linux home Brightoners. 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Exactly duplicates the here and hereby bequeathed. You got that? I've got it. Better and better. Ah, see that word will in last will and testament? Uh huh. A precise duplicate of the written will from this thank you note. Who's that? Hiya folks. It's the demon reporter and stuff in person. Why, it's Scubby. Oh, hello Scubby. Pardon the interruption Masterminds. The housekeeper let me in. Well, what's cooking? Good looking. Nick's testing the validity of a will Scubby. We're matching samples of the dead man's writing with the writing and the will. Oh, very interesting. Do they match? Precisely. Well, and the will is genuinely. On the contrary, the will's a fraud to it. Huh? Now turn off the ultraviolet Patsy. Put on the lights. Hey, I don't get it Nick. If the writing and the will dovetails with other letters, doesn't that prove the same guy wrote both? Now Scubby, the fact that words and individual letters from old correspondence match words and letters in the will, proves someone forged the will by tracing the dead man's handwriting. Very clever. Very clever indeed. It'll make a nice feature article when I finish with my story on the howling horse. It's... Did you say howling horse, Scubby? Yes, beautiful. I'm on my way upstate to cover one of the craziest stories that ever hit the desk. I thought Nick might be interested. What is it Scubby? Well, it seems there's a guy upstate named Lucas who had a B. Lucas, three degrees in medicine, archaeology and natural philosophy, explored the Gobi Desert in 36. Yeah, the very same. Oh, this Lucas must be pretty wealthy. It's got a biggest state, about 700 acres of forest and lake. But what about that howling horse you mentioned? Well, there's a story that Lucas brought back a couple of horses with him from one of his explorations and they howl. Not so. They also kill cattle. Ridiculous. These horses of Dr. Lucas also have murdered a man. Oh, no. Well, that's the story I'm going to check. Are you interested, Nick? In horses that murder men? Certainly am. Well, here's my car. I should reach the look at the state by nightfall. Let's go. Sit down, Mr. Carter. Ma'am. Thank you. The other gen two. Thank you. I'm mighty happy to have you with us in the burnin'. Thank you very much, Sheriff Crane. Well, the case too tough for you to handle, eh, Sheriff? Well, you betcha. It'd be too tough for anybody except Mr. Carter here, working out a corgine anyway. You better explain, Sheriff. Well, it's like this. Lucas ain't amenable, ma'am. Not by long, Sheriff. Keeps yourself locked up in that estate. Nobody can get in. Nobody sees him. He kind of acts like he's scared of something. Hiding. But he's a mighty powerful man in this county. Got influential friends. My hands are tied. I can't buck him. But you can, Mr. Carter. I hear you're a fighter that don't care who's where the punches land. Well, I try to live up to that reputation, Sheriff Crane. Now, tell me about Lucas's horses. Don't know a thing. He brought them back with him about six months ago. Moved them in in horse lands. Nobody's seen them. Well, pretty soon people start talking about them horses howling. They're sure about them howling? Yep. Then, one or two folks seem one of them running around Lucas' estate. A big black critter. Sheen him at night. Me, in the cornering. Well, pretty soon they started killing cattle. Rip them apart with their teeth. Folks used Lucas. He just laughed. Told them they was crazy. Sure, he didn't own no horses. I see. Last week, Jed Storm was killed. On the road that passes Lucas' estate. Head was near Torneau. Body all ripped to pieces. I figured maybe the law better step in. I had to pull every string I could to even get into Lucas' estate. Search the place from top to bottom. House barns every minute. Well, sir, Lucas was telling the truth. There ain't no horses there. You're sure, Sheriff? Ma'am, I'm a farmer before I'm a sheriff. You can't fool a farmer on things like that. All right, Sheriff. We'll start tonight and see what we can find. Just one warning, Mr. Carter. Maybe I sound kind of fantastic like, but believe me, I ain't been stretching the truth. You go slow and you go careful. That Lucas is me. Them horses is deadly. Thanks for the warning, Sheriff. But I've met deadly killers before. And Nick is still here, which is more than you can say for most of the killers he's met. Main directions are right. This must be the road that skirts Lucas' estate. Keep your eyes on the left. We ought to sight the house any minute now. It's dark, Nick. Watch for lights. Oh, what's the program, Nick? You going to bust right in? Going to try. I don't know how tough Lucas really is. Maybe he's just bluffing, Sheriff Crane. Nick, I can see lights off to the left. Yeah? Where are we, Skipper? Deep in the woods there. See? Yeah. The lady's right, Nick. I see them. That must be Lucas' house, all right. Yes. There's a gravel drive turning off the road. Here goes. I'll be more than interested to meet Lucas again. Oh, you know him, Nick? Casually. I had a rather distasteful job of checking his credentials for the government some years ago. Intelligence work. Believe me, it was a nasty interview. Nick! I don't want to compete, Nick. Someone's bombarding me. Oh, stop the car, Nick. We'll be blown up. Stop, anyway. There's a roadblock ahead. Hey, this doesn't look like a bluff to me. Lucas is playing for keeps. This is private property. You will arrest Casino's private property. I shall give you five minutes to get out of here. Where's that voice coming from? He's using a public dress speaker out on the ground. He's probably got the microphone in the house. This is your last warning to everyone. You will have five minutes to get out by the ground. Apparently, we have it much choice. What kind of a lover was that Chinese? It was and raises a very curious question in a fantastic case. Let's back off to the road and start finding the answer to it. This is far enough. Let's get out. Okay. Well, where are we now, Nick? About half a mile past Lucas' house. We're going to cut into the woods from here, then circle around to the house. Well, I got my flashlight. Lead on it. No, no, Scubby. No flashlight. We do this in the dark. Well, Patsy, you can wait in the car if you want to. Oh, me? Well, you talk as though you think I'm scared. Well, aren't you? Yes, but I won't admit it. All right. I'll hold your hand, beautiful. Ah, I'm not that scared. Now listen, we've got to be as quiet as possible. Hey, do you think that we're going to meet any while versus Nick? No, no, Scubby. Smith, you haven't explained yet about Lucas talking in Chinese. Not sure. I understand. Get myself. Oh, I sure wish I'd covered the beauty contest instead of this guy. Hold everything. What is it? Quiet. Listen. Get that. Cheap as did I. It sounds like hauling. There it is again. Hulling horses, I said. Nonsense. Nick Carter said. Well, is it nonsense now, Nick? Hulling. Hey, it's coming closer. Are we just going to stand here and wait, Nick? We are not. Come on, hurry. What's happening, Nick? I'm not being chased by a Scubby-sulling horse. I'm going to use a gun to protect himself with a lover. Careful now, whatever you do. Hold your hand. Hey. You think I'm mad? You almost got him, too. Quick now. Wait, Nick. I know we are. Get your flashlight out, Scubby, and flash us right ahead. Quick. I'm going to get a look at that horse if he's still there. Right. Here you are. Nothing but a body of a man sprung there in the crack. A body without a head. He paces the last few steps forward to examine the victim of a murder he could not prevent. Who is the dead man? 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When Nick Patsy and Scubby attempt to steal into the estate on foot, they witness the tracking down and killing of a man by one of Lucas' savage creatures. Now in the blackness of a forest clearing, they examine the dead body. Oh, what a mess this fellow is. Yes, head torn off completely. Apparently, Dr. Lucas' man-eating horse took it away with him. Did you hear the way it howled? It was like a lion or something. Oh, that wasn't any lion or anything else that I ever heard of. You're right, Scubby. Wait a minute. Wow, this is on. What, Nick? Look at the gun this fellow was carrying. Huh? Lying beside his right hand. What a love of feet. What is it? Happens to be a Patterson coat. Model of 1848. 1848? You mean a hundred years old? It's about. This is one of the original coat models, fired with percussion caps. Oh, but that doesn't make sense, Nick. Why would a man defend himself with an antique like that? Well, if you remember, Scubby, that when Lucas warned us off, he talked in Chinese, it does make sense. No, not to me, it doesn't. We're on a very few minutes. Come on. Get up to Lucas' house. Well, aren't you going to search that body for identification or something? No. We won't find any. How do you know? Let's concentrate on being quiet, shall we? Okay. Put that flash out, Scubby. Sure. Stay on your toes. Dr. Lucas' downing pets may be closer than you think. Oh, Nick. I can see the house lights in here. Straight ahead. Yes. All right, quick, now. Oh. I sure wish there was a move. You're not getting romantic, are you, Scubby? Heck no. I'm just scared of the dark. Wait a minute. Listen. What's the funny sound? Like machinery. It's not machinery. All right. Let's get to the house. Take this path here. Take that sound. It's awfully familiar. You can't place it. Familiar to you, Scubby? Well, yeah. Coming over the PA Lucas has on the ground. Over the PA? Right. All right, quick. Into the house. Those French windows at the side look open. Open. They're smashed. Like a truck went through them. So they are. Careful of broken glass. Oh, Nick, look at this room. Yeah. Looked as if the truck drove through here, too. Yeah. Where is Dr. Lucas? I have a hunch that something's happened to Dr. Lucas. Yes, Patsy. Something that accounts for the funny noise you hear over the PA. Come on. Not in the right place. The train's advice is open. Yes. I rather expected this. It's... It's a body. Going alongside that phonograph. And it's a needle running in the last groove on the record that's making that strange sound, Patsy. I'm afraid Dr. Lucas has played this phonograph for the last time. Better take the playing arm off the record, Scubby. Yeah, right, Nick. Now, let's have a look at this body. The blood. Body quite warm, killed very recently. The same way our friend back in the woods was killed. Head torn off. Only this time the head was left with the body. But this isn't Dr. Lucas. Nick, look at the head. He's Chinese. Glory be your right, Patsy. Then this explains why we heard a warning in Chinese over the PA when we first drove up to the house, right, Nick? Scubby, start that record again. This man couldn't talk English, so he had an English-speaking record made to warn people off the ground, right? Scubby, play it quick. OK. Turn off the PA first. We'll hear it direct. Right, Nick. This is private property. You are trespassing on private property. I will give you five minutes to get out of here. What'd I tell you, Nick? That's the voice we heard. This is your last warning, whoever you are. Five minutes to get off my ground. Please turn off machine. Please turn off machine. Oh, the love of a couple of hatchet men. Please turn a move. Attack it and self-highly expert in use of lethal firearms. Kindly raise arms to extreme vertical positions. Remain with backs against walls. Thank you. Oh, no, listen, wise guys. Please remain silent. So we have made a long journey for most prosperous meeting, Mr. Lucas. Lucas, what is it? Hi, Patsy. Was extremely injudicious to take away Gochichang. Mr. Lucas, rash action put miserable selves to extreme expense of body and press for a long journey. Yes. Now necessary to locate Gochichang at once. If ever that number two associate a yet unsuccessful intact, remain for self and miserable number one associating yourself, Mr. Lucas. You will please inform this person of locality of Gochichang. May miserable things hide remind honorable Mr. Lucas, this person highly barbaric species, lack refining benefits of civilized education, much prepared to obtain required information with cruel methods of contemptible salvage. Golly, Nick. Oh, who is this Gochichang character you birds are after? He's the guy I think you mean. He's dead by now. He's a quiet scrubby. Ah, this knows highly interesting. It's true, Mr. Lucas, that Gochichang departed to join all of our ancestors. Whatever it is. Then a task of this person reaches to minimum. Only necessary to ensure demise of you and friends and then return to home. How demise? But we... Then now, this is how I'm in Qing Tuo now. Ning Jing Chen. This is the pay off. Look out, Muscabee. Here, go to the front of the ground. Let's wait for three scummies. Get moving. All right. Take me with you. Through the door. Move fast. Oh, you block them off of that photograph like a fool. You can't block bullets as easily. Then they recover in up any minute now to start shooting. This must be the kitchen. Straight ahead and out the back door. Dude, do you think we can shake them, Nick? We move fast enough again. All right. I'll get the door. You go fast and quick. Come on, scummies. Go right with you. Now what? Quiet. You keep running. Come on. You stand a 50-50 chance of shaking them in the dark out here. Why didn't you tell them you weren't looking? You think they developed me? Hey, this looks like a garage ahead. In there. Hurry. There's a car here. Don't bang into it. All right. Now what, Nick? Oh, we can just hold that long enough. Sheriff Crain will rescue us. Huh? What do you mean, Patsy? Well, when you were damning the body, I called the sheriff and notified him about the two deaths. What? He said he was coming right up so that he could get his posse together. Oh, good work, Patsy. That's a little darling every time. That's about the worst news I've ever had. Good Nick. I... I understand, Patsy. It's too late to explain now. All right. Here's what we do. Yeah, we're going to see Nick. Get into this car. Drive out of the garage like six again. Get past those two killers. I'm coming. Get in close up. I'll take the wheel. You two hold on now. All right. Here goes. I'm cutting straight across the lawns and fields. Let's hope the tires hold. They don't get us now. We're safe. I think we... I think we made it. You all right back there? I guess so. Why not? We're going straight through the fields to that patch of woods where we found the first victim of grocery junk. So for Pete's sake, why? I'm going to perform the nastiest piece of business I've ever been forced to do. I'm going to run a human drag line. Let me just look at you. I want to take the body with me, unfortunately. I don't want to drag it. Oh, really? Of course, really? Get across Lucas's land away from the house. Quick. Give me a hand with the body. Okay. Pick one. Is this a set of drag line? Or go she jump? All right. Let's start moving, Shelley. Okay. Pick what? The drag line. Folks use it down south for fox hunting, Patsy. Especially when there aren't any foxes in the neighborhood. It's an artificial trail. Oh, I understand. But why are we here? For the sake of Sheriff Crane and any men he may bring with him. Don't forget, grocery junk is around the house and grounds. And the killer. We better turn ourselves in the bait to save their lives. Good ol' howling horse. Why didn't Lucas leave him before he found him? Nick, did Lucas discover grocery junk? No, he didn't. Gentlemen, by the name of Marco Polo, discovered him. Marco Polo? Yes. And just the other side of that tree's got him. All right. grocery junk was discovered many centuries ago. He's unknown in the western world. He was, that is, until Lucas brought him here. I warn you, sooner or later, he'll pick up the scent of this trail we're making and come after us. And believe me, it'll be a tremendous shock. Nothing could shock me anymore. You've never seen anything like grocery junk, scummy. Really? Got the queen. Fortunately, there's a brisk wind blowing. He doesn't pick up this blood trail. Maybe he'll pick up ours. And he... Wait, wait. Yeah, I hear it. We're in luck. We've been sent in. Keep moving, scubby. He's at the top of the little hills. All right. He's not closer. He just passes a racehorse. Yeah, and he howls like a pack of... Nick, I just got it. Good, no time to talk about it. All right. This is far enough. Put the body down, scubby. Okay, good. Get your flat flat ready. That's it. Yes, Nick. I want you to stand to my left. Here's an extra magazine for my automatic. Hold it. When I yell for it, slap it into my wrapped hand. Okay. Oh, what a monster. Stand by. Oh, it sounds awful close. You'll be in sight any second now. Mike, scubby, straight ahead. Right. Blooming up into scubby's flat side. It's all right. It's all right. Give me a... Give me a minute to say this. The class thing was a dog. I do. That was Yoshi-Jung. The fabulous, almost mythical, Tibetan master. This is the first and probably the last time we'll ever see this breed. And in killing it, we've destroyed the monster that murdered Dr. C.B. Lucas. In just a few minutes, Nick will be back to give you the final details of today's story and describe the strange creature thought to be the howling horse. When your furniture was new, of course you were proud of its handsome gleaming appearance. 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And remember that your dealer is headquarters also for ChemTone, the miracle wall finish that brings quick new sparkle to walls and ceilings. ChemTone covers in one coat, dries in one hour. And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. I had heard of the Tibetan mastic before, Matthew. You'll find an interesting chapter on that strange animal in a pamphlet on Chinese dogs published by the Kuan Kuan Company in Los Angeles in 1944. It's one of the oldest defense breeds in the world, and it's so revered in Tibet that none has ever been allowed out of that country. Go see Zhang, means dog of Tibet. Oh, well, aren't there any pictures, Nick? No, those Tibetans do not permit pictures to be taken, Matthew. All we have are the descriptions of various explorers from Marco Polo Down. All described as a giant dog as being the size of a horse. Well, it sure was, Nick. There have been attempts to steal one of the mastics and bring them out of the country, but in each case, the dog has either been stolen back or killed. So Dr. Lucas managed to steal Ghostie Zhang. Right, brought it to his estate, and then lived in constant fear knowing that Tibetans would never let him keep the dog. He knew that sooner or later they'd send men to kill it, and they did. And that's why he kept himself locked up? Precisely. Lucas made that recorded warning to play over his PA system whenever strangers drove up. It was undoubtedly worn by some sort of mechanical device that was set off by our entrance to the ground. He also repeated it in Chinese, to warn off any Chinese gunman who might have trailed him here. Then it really was, Lucas, we heard. Yes. You see, Passy, the dog apparently turned savage and broke loose from the chains with which it was confined. Lucas could not recapture it, so it roamed the estate, killing everything it met. Fact right before our eyes, we saw it kill a man. That was Mr. Fang's number two assistant, crawling around the grounds. The mastiff ran off with a dead man's head in its jaws, crashed into Lucas' house, and attacked Lucas himself. Then it dropped the head of the Chinese, tore off Lucas' head and rushed off with it. Exactly. That's why you and Scubby leaked to the conclusion that the head we found alongside Lucas' body actually belonged to that body. Well, when did you first again understand what was happening in it? When I saw that the first victim had been carrying an old Patterson coat. There's only one section of the world that continues to use antique firearms, Passy, and that's the mountain regions of China. In Tibet, you'll still find soldiers equipped with flintlock rifles and those Civil War weapons. Got it. Well, what about those killers from Tibet that came after the dog, Nick? The men that thought you were Lucas. Probably slipped off and started back for home. We'll never see them again, and there's no need to, really. They haven't been guilty of any crime. All the guilty parties in question have already paid in full. Well, Nick, that was certainly an unusual tale. What's next week's story going to be about? Next week, Ken, we're going to meet a strange young man who, as far as anyone knew, never touched alcohol at all. Yet, apparently, came home intoxicated night after night. Then, one evening, he was murdered. And that was the evening he carried home with him a can opener seven feet long. And his murder was revealed by a silkworm, a giant can opener, and telltale silkworms. Sounds like a swell story. What's its title, Nick? A Case of a Worried Worm. Master Detective, produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. Long Clark is starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson plays Betsy. Original music is played by George Wright. Script is by Alfred Bester. The programs are fictional, and any resemblance therein to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Cotter Master Detective is presented at this time and over these same stations each week by the three great Linux home brightness. Linux Clear Gloss, Linux Cream Polish, and Linux Self-Polishing Wax. This is Ken Powell speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America, and saying, so long until next week, is the mutual broadcasting system.