(xxx) The Altar of Sacrifice

Presenting Detective Nick Harris and a salute to the law. Ladies and gentlemen, we again take pleasure in bringing to you the Ammonate Los Angeles Criminologist and President of the International Secret Service Association. Detective Nick Harris and another true life story proving to the youth of today the folly of committing crime.

And now Mr. Harris, thank you Mr. Gibson and good evening everyone. Today is Memorial Day and I have chosen a story which I will call the author of SACROTHIS. The facts were recently given by a retired captain of police of an eastern city and concerned this very day.

In fact, for ten years, just at midnight before Memorial Day, certain flower shops were broken into and all the lilies of the valley were taken. The offender would always leave money on the counter to pay for the flowers and any damage to the property he had made as he gained entrance into the store.

As he left no clues and never entered the same place twice, the police were unable to catch him until one night the captain of the detectives took his assistant Lieutenant Morrison and drove to a well-known flower shop, one of the feuds that had not yet been entered.

They parked their car in the shadow of a large tree. It was almost midnight. Captain Blake, why do you think this man will choose a taker shop tonight? He had only the more expensive places where they sell the rarest flowers.

This is the only store of its kind that he hasn't already visited. You say you've gotten in touch with the owner of the shop and had him advertise in the papers and over the radio a special sale of lilies for a memorial day?