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so your uncle what's wrong with him he's possessed
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as in the devil something like that
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he says a dark man is following him watching him at all times
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what do you make of it it's nonsense of course but I'd be lying if I said it
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didn't bother me you see it runs in my family possession
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no detective deteriorating melancholy
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practically every member of the Hartwood family is driven mad before they grow old
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but Jeremy didn't kill himself is that why he's at your setup
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despite being convinced that he is truly possessed he decided to put his last chips on Dr gray in his psychoanalysis
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figuring he might stumble upon some cure
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you mentioned a letter i received a disturbing letter from
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Jeremy accusing the staff and all the other patients of being involved in some cult and now they are also out to get
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him could it be real or is it all just in his head it's a story he tells
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himself Mr carby anything to avoid the truth which is
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that we're all terribly insignificant that people mean so very little to one another that there is no one out to get
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Jeremy Hartwood because he isn't worth getting here we are
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my uncle's not well Mr kby i want to make sure he's all right then what's my
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part in this you couldn't get a cab i just wouldn't feel safe going alone
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did you bring a gun yeah you think it'll actually come to that no but you might
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need to wave it around depending on how agreeable the staff will be
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what exactly are we going to do when we find Jeremy
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i don't know let's just find him first
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hello hello looks abandoned it can't be there
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has to be someone around wait here i'll go around back
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now what do we got here
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nah I'm not getting in there
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every day your silence weighs a little heavier it's been a difficult year for
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everyone and many have lost all hope i read in the papers about people
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suffering pictures of dust covered landscapes without a drop of water i
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wish I knew if you were still tending the earth or if you had turned your back
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against us i have started to look for help elsewhere
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i pray you will tell me if I'm going down a path that you find disagreeable
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with help from Batiste and Charlotte i found comfort in the practice of the
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voodoo i have long been skeptical of that Caribbean cult but it's been of
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good use to me it seems all harmless in my book i say some words dreamt up by
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the creoles and I carry around a small pocket of grigree
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nothing of this is mentioned in the Bible of course but the French Quarter priestess tells me it's all connected
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she says the Christian God is just one more perspective on the creator of
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things that's what I like to think but the other way around that the spirits of
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her faith are just aspects of you our heavenly father
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i am so grateful for the words you gave Mr hartwood we will sing your praises at
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St john's Eve the world will be blessed soon again
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only the sacrifices of the Old Testament compare to your demands let it be the
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truth a mother of earth wood and dirt a
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mother of a thousand young sacred sand $1 black cat oil $150
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devil sho strings a quarter that makes $2.75
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madame what was that you were telling the doctor a goat without horns what
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does that mean ah you must have misheard me madam i said no such thing please i
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know I don't look like any of you but I'm devout i'm ready to do what it takes
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m do not be so eager to sacrifice the few things you have left madam now
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please leave my store a goat without horns
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please do not touch the boiler it is working after all while the sabotage has
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caused a leak only the decorative plate has been completely ruined let's wait for Mr chance to turn up and he can take
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a look at the leak mr waits [Music]
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sunday June 22nd i spent all day looking for Jeremy i should have cared for the
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others but I'm scared that he will do something irreversible cassandra is upset that I didn't give
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her the latest shipment of pain medication that Weights brought from the post office yesterday
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i would have given it to her but the company didn't send a new key this time around so the box is just sitting there
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on my desk they must have figured we had plenty of their gimmicky keys by now i
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only remember seeing one lately grace was playing with it inside the grand parlor unless it turns up by itself it
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will have to wait i have to figure out where Jeremy is i
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think Jack knew something that dog of his found a strange rot permeating the
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house she's showing us he said like those blotss and streaks of fettied rot
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was talking to him come
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the Great Depression president Hoover raises tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods in an act to protect American
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labor following the collapse of the Wall Street stock market on October 24 last year American industry has suffered
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greatly thousands of companies have gone bankrupt and left a large part of the American workforce unemployed in an
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attempt to turn the tide the Smoot Holly Tariff Act has been signed by President
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Herbert Hoover by regulating commerce with foreign countries the government hopes to encourage the industries of the
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United States to compete with cheap foreign imports
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superstition on rise new Orleans voodoo stores and spiritual mediums see
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increased profit during troubled times while the market has faced hard times ever since Black Thursday of last year
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voodoo doctors and snake charmers see significant rise in number of customers with the coming eve of St john on the
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23rd the police expect increased cult activity around Bayou St john the
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southern shore of Lake Poncha Train voodoo rituals in that area on the eve
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of St john have a long tradition reaching back to the first snake worshippers brought as slaves from West
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Africa during the 19th century its practice was popularized by the legendary Marie Leavau and has since
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been embraced by many of the creoles and the surviving aristocracy of the French Quarter
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author seeks asylum rumors regarding author Cassandra Bogard making Detto her
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home verified detto Hospital is an old plantation building on the eastern
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shores of Lake Poncha Train while often considered an asylum for the insane residing doctor Elmore Lee Gray prefers
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to think of it as a convolescent home a place where you can go to rest the
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patient list is kept secret but thought to include many of the black sheep of wealthy families because at Detto
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treatment does not come for free local author Cassandra Bogard has now been
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confirmed by her own admission she's been lauded as a powerful Creole voice
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and written many successful books lately it was reported from Hollywood that she
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has finished a moving picture manuscript titled Slaughter Gulch that film is set
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to hit the theaters next year
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thanks what are you doing who are you whoa
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pardon me excuse me my name is Edward Kby private investigator i hope you don't mind we let ourselves inside i do
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mind this is private property you can't just barge in here i'm sorry about all
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this but I'm looking for my uncle it's urgent and no one was answering the door we can't hear you knocking anymore none
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of us can who is your uncle darling jeremy am I right she has that Heartwood
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gloom doesn't she that's right i'm Emily Hartwood i just came to make sure my
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uncle is all right well he is unavailable right now you will have to come back another day unavailable how is
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he sleeping we can wait he is lost don't I know you from somewhere who's your man
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again Miss Hotwood my name's Edward Kby private investigator splendid enough all
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of you get back to your rooms mccarthy keep your eyes on the child
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and you two please leave immediately look we're not here to cause any trouble
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just let us see the old man satisfy the curiosity of my client here and we'll be off jeremy has gone missing there's no
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need to worry but it might be some time before he turns up the whole staff is looking for him what he ran off
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i don't have time for any of this please come back tomorrow all right in that case we'll just wait in his room you
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don't mind do you it's upstairs right wait you can't don't worry we'll be
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discreet in the corridor it's the first door on your left i'll tell Dr gray you're here
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excellent thank you madam
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all right here we are let's look around see if we can dig up any clues
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every night the dark man stands opaque at the threshold of my room counting the
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days until my spirit spills out of my tide shape
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only his palid mask shelters my remaining sanity staring directly into
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the face of that demonic sultan would surely sunder time itself would he have
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looked the same to my father as he struggled for his life does his veiled
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face haunt my niece quite the same way i wish so that I could rest my soul in
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that sun convent would I find you there Juan or Senora
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Pioce back from the beyond every night I hide from him moving from
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one misshapen memory to another seems conjured out of fantasy and delirium
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places I struggle to even paint i wish I understood your death Senora is
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there anything I could do for you but bury you in that bleak necropolis
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that triumphant chapel rising above the ledges and the oven vaults shall be your
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sephila where you may rest and I shall weep
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how did you first come to understand such things Senora how did you know that the battered boil
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in the basement would lead me to Lafayette Cemetery or how the old upstairs clock with its astronomical
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motifs would take me to that hateful mound outside of Claremont Harbor
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those are my memories my past is there perhaps a chance if ever so
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small for me to see Terraa oh I want that more than anything please
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let my talisman take me there let me sit with one under his bodie tree
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despite having sold me that talisman Miss Jackson the voodoo priestess
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revealed none of her secrets to me that's why I had to travel to Tonka
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instead she cruy told Batiste my caretaker that he would be betrayed and
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killed in the most awful way that the one he loved would pierce his thigh with
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a sharp spear and that he would be devoured by his own mother
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what a terrible thing to say
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the people of Detto were becoming dangerous they do not understand what they are doing i must do something to
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stop him i tried talking to Dr gray but he confuses my worries he's caught up in
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treating me how can he expect evil to be cured with medicine and conversation
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the orderly the housekeeper and the patients are all deranged they will call upon evil to enter this world all we be
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lost everything unless I can find the cl Mr wait he
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seems to be a clear thinking man maybe bulber goard
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the dark man offered me a prison and I accepted
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i signed that miscarried contract and entered the dark packet everyone is safe
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hey you know anything about this looks like some sort of talisman no I don't
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help me out here will you
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would it kill a guy throw some of this stuff
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out i'd be crazy too if I had this much junk lying around
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oh wow that's striking i want to save this one
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all right come on i want to go see Dr gray
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come on let's go yeah I'm coming
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what the hell is going on where am I
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what the hell is going on
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don't let them get inside com they're not the good kind
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are you Is this your store there are no owners here we both strangers in
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Jeremy's story jeremy did this how the pack with the
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dog man jeremy warned us but we didn't think much of it
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i'm Detective Edward Kby i was hired by Jeremy's niece to find him oh yeah how
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much you paying you $150 she sure getting her money's worth
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tonight are you a thanking man on bear not if I can help it
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you know I think Jeremy's hiding in the way we can't find him he has this juju
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necklace that guides him the talisman that's right it's some magic charm he
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got for Miss Jackson down the street the voodoo priestess you know surprising things compad yeah the mama here take
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the key i locked the gate to save her place from all the ghouls and goblins getting inside maybe if you go there you
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can find some clues to show you the way thanks i'll have a look
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i rec It's the talisman like the one in the painting
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i recognize this place
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i think it needs numbers like coordinates maybe there's something in Jeremy's
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notes it's showing something a place where is
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detective I was wondering when you were going to show up mrs thompson told me
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you were here i understand you are working for Jeremy Hotwood's niece uh
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yeah I guess so i mean you're not wrong we came here for her uncle i just didn't
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expect I didn't expect this you are Dr gray right that's right you don't happen
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to have some identification detective i'm not keen on having strangers prying into my business
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huh detective Edward Kby Decar Street New Orleans
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enjoying the view car Detective those old French Quarters the voodoo people
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the gangsters i'm sure you live an exciting life well it's not quite like
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the stories Doc just trying to make a living aren't we all making a living
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well welcome to Detto detective i hope your time here will be useful now what
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can I do for you why don't you tell me where I can find Jeremy Hartwood
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why wouldn't that make for a short visit i wish I could tell you but I'm afraid I
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don't know a drink detective anything brandy oh you do belong in the French
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quarters detective armeniac or cognac you know just give me
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the cheap stuff i'm not much of a connoisseur having low standards is not a virtue
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detective let me see if I can broaden your perspective what can you tell me about Jeremy
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i wouldn't want to go into details about his condition doctor patient confidentiality
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i'm sure you understand sure but he is crazy and he's gone
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missing why here try this
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oh it's good got a bite it's called a side car the trick is not
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to be afraid of the tartness of the lemon then for goodness sake don't overdo the triple sack
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okay what can you tell me about Jeremy ah well let me think he is an anxious
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man constantly worried about events not presenting themselves according to his model of predestination
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he complains about things not being carried out in the right order and that some things simply shouldn't be
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is any of this helpful to you uh not really uh I was hoping for some
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direction where to look next i'm sorry i have nothing for you then you should
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talk to my orderlys they have been looking for him for a while now i'm sure
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they would appreciate your help yeah I ran into Batiste earlier come to think
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of it he he might have given me a lead oh excellent so your investigation is
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already underway i'm going to go but I'm sure we'll meet
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again looking forward to it safe returns