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famous investigator t-shirts now available over at famous.greatdetectives.net. Well, today we're

celebrating 3,900 episodes, and we're doing it with an episode of Suspense. The original

air date is March the 28th, 1946, and the title is Out of Control.

I arrived in Gatlinburg around 10 in the morning. I checked in at a hotel called the

mountain inn, went downstairs to breakfast. My dog, Schnöcke, went with me as she always does.

I gave my order to the waiter, and as I sat there, I looked the place over. It was a good size room

by the echo in it. There was a log fire crackling in a fireplace on the far side of the room,

and the large view window on my right, glass as a special kind of echo. There was only one person

in the room when I entered. It was a woman apparently a wealthy and rather vain woman judging

from her perfume. She was sitting at a table diagonally across from me. I looked in her direction,

so to speak. I heard a man's footsteps approaching across the room, and smelled fresh polish

unwriting hoots as he went past me. He paused before her table. Well, you gave her this,

and this is going to spill more. Hello, Martin. Well, the crane. He surprised to see me.

What do you want? I hear your husband is thinking of running for government.

So what? Well, Martin, I've got a newspaper kept in here. I thought it might interest him.

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