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and you're mailing address for any physical items. Well, now it's time
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to get into today's episode of The Saint. Simon Templar returned to the air,
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played once again by Vincent Price after a four week hiatus following Barry Sullivan's
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two weeks. The original date of today's program is October twenty ninth of nineteen
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fifty and the title It's Snow use The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price.
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The Saint based on characters created by Leslie Charterers and known to millions from
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books, magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood of Modern crime,
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how comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as
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the Saint Snows Sports who likes ski trains. I'd rather have an old fashioned
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mountains I should have stood he No. On the other hand, drabs not
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Hello? Heat next to you? Isn't I admire intelligent women. Sit down,
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Hi, but I'm not intelligent. Oh you're being modest, I am
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not. I'm sorry. You are beautiful, though, I bet you say
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that to all the beautiful girls you meet. Do you like to ski?
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No? Why are you on the ski train? Because of the telegram you
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sent me? Then you are Simon Tempter. I kind of thought you looked
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like one. Thank you. Your telegram sounded desperate. What do you want
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me to do a very small thing? Yes? I like you to be
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my host? What are you married? So well? But nobody will mind
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if you're my husband? And nobody will mind. Look, Peggy, I
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said, only for a while. None of my husbands was ever able to
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say I stayed my welcome, none of your, Peggy. How many husbands
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have you had? I have a terrible memory. I do remember a Smith
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and a Joe, so of course they're easy. Name. Yeah, Look,
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and may I ask you why you want me to be your husband?
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So nobody will murder me? If Charlie thinks I'm married to the saint.
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He'll think twice before beating my brains out, which would be the neatest trick
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of the year, he said, on account of I don't have any brains.
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I'm calling Charles. Who is Charlie? He's in the car of a
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head with the blind Oh he's a friend of yours. Oh. No,
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he used to be my last husband. I mean he was my husband live.
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I think I understand. And why should he want to kill you?
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Alimony did you get from him? It doesn't seem much of a motive.
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It's a lot of alimony. Also, he doesn't like my following him around.
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You follow him around? Why to make sure Vicky doesn't kill him?
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VICKI that's a blonde. She married Charlie, asked me. And she wants
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to kill him. Well, who wouldn't side She doesn't even like him.
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But she's crazy about money and if she kills him, she'll get all the
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money and I won't get any alimony. So I know, a girl isn't
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supposed to be forward, and that's Amanda be her husband anyway, not the
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first time they meet. After all, this is a matter of a life
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and death. So so Simon will you be Yeah, snow Valley out we
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go. Oh time and look all the tactic has the slaves, so they
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are I'm right in. Oh, thank you, thank you well too.
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We're going to uh to the snow Talp Hotel, snow Top Hotel. Keep.
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It's a nice lobby. I'd better go register in. Look, Peggy,
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let's pretend we're not married. I mean, let's not pretend we're married
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to the hotel clerk. I'd never marry a hotel clerk, Peggy. I
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didn't either, Never. Charlie and Vicky must have gone upstairs already, you
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think if they were on a honeymoon. Finish, I'm going to register.
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I'll get separate rooms for Oh but Simon, is that friendly? It's practical.
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Excuse me, oh my gort you okay, at least you're coming to.
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What you're doing is sculpting like anything, even snow man. I'm sculpting,
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but for right now, I'm making a bust wiki what anybody can see
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A Vicky, you'll be busy all winter. I'm having not the studio in
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the woods. You wishing I make you a bust. Also, I'm going
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to be too busy sculptured. Oh Peggy, don't saying that all my life.
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I'm dying for you. You're not fine ready, byoch you're laughing,
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laughing, that's what? Oh well, I think about it. What's to
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think, Peggy, is necessary to leave? I'm married again? Now,
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same of Simon minding the husband. The husbands might be minding you. Oh
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mind, beautiful what I'm doing with mine, chisel. It's not the business
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of any Charlie doesn't mind your Scott making a pause, Wicky, No,
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she's not so beautiful like you. Also, I'm not admiring this Childie calling
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I go, But mine heart stays with you. You better live here.
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Somebody might step on it. Oh hag, who was that? Oh that
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was I don't believe it. Well, it happens in Bulgary all the time.
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That's where he comes from. He's got a studio out in the woods
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and he's making a bus to Bickie. He tries to do that with all
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of Charlie's why I never heard of him before, you must have. He's
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a very famous chiselam Peggy. I've got us a couple of rooms. Yours
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is two eighteen. We can pretend we're married for your husband's former benefit.
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The Kirk will show you up to your room in a minute. What are
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you going to do? I'm going to fry in the bar and drink myself
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to death. To sixteen to seventeen. Ah, here we are to a
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thing. Thanks which room to the Thompson's room right next to yours. Man,
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if you need any thanks, You're very welcome coming Simon, Simon.
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Where are you are you behind a door? Heggy? Heggy? Heggy?
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What are you doing on the floor? It was an earthquake and the hotel
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sells down and hit me on the head and I'm good. Come on now,
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let me help you up. I'll put you on the couch and now
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you can go right back and get my head. You're left and on the
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floor. Your heads where it belongs. It seems to be a little too
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much of it though. It's where the hotel. But this isn't the earthquake
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season. What happened, Well, somebody knocked at the door just after I
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got here. It would be about an hour ago. Go on, I
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stuck my head. I didn't see him. If you want a booming back,
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I might enjoy it. But Diggy, do you have anything worth stealing?
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Simon? You can believe me. Who steals my purse steals trash m
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Besides, your purse wasn't stolen, it's right here on the table. Strange.
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I'm hungry, Simon. I think getting hit on the head my uptock,
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it may not be good for your head, especially if the next time
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you get hit a little harder. How does your head feel now? Like
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its beginning to belong to me? Eat the more misteaks, Simon, are
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you trying to sat in the of course, not speak the top off me.
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He's a sculpture, you know, but he's crazy about my figure.
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It's all mine and he is married to look neither am I. You don't
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have to shout. Even though I did throw myself at your head, it
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doesn't mean I have to have a figure like a flowers. I didn't sing,
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Simon, this is papa. No, No, I tell you that's
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debatable. Oh I'm beautiful. This one sounds like her husband? Well,
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yes, his a husband. His name is Simon, your husband. No,
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don't apologizing. Also, it's not necessarily standing. I'm being courteous and
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I'm not inviting you to sit down. This is a way to treat great
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sculpture like are you are the Michelangelo. Right now, there's one thing you
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unquestionably have in common with Michelangela genius. Your fingernails. I am insult all
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sides. Week is coming in weeky? Oh, Vicky? Yes, so
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she is? Where's her husband? He doesn't coming? We why not?
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Who cares? Maybe perhaps she's suffering from dispepsik. She really love to see
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a man suffering from dispepsi something eat, no doubt you're know she's coming,
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my love. We've been waiting long and who with this lovely man? Of
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these lovely people you're with? Well, she is Peggy, he's her husband.
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How do you do? My name is Temperance. I'm Vicky Tompson.
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You lost something? Haven't you done? Your husband? What are you?
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I've seen you someplace before? Huh? Where in Charlie's photogram? Have the
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album? You're not? I am Darling Charlie's former wife, and I know
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all about the Long Winter Evenings from Charlie shows his photograph album to his wife's
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age. I don't think we'd better bother these nice people any long. And
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let's go have had dinner. But have you seen Charlie Moore? I see
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we're come along, say confidential. I do not understanding wiki. Oh why
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not? She's worrying about her husband. Ridiculous, I'm seeing you sooner?
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Not if I'm seeing you sooner? Did you know, Sticky, Yes,
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she does that to people. What I meant was she turned tail as soon
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as I mentioned Charlie to us. So she did, which reminds me.
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Where is Charlie? Oh so pretty? A very high type snow of course,
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none of my farmer husbands ever took me for a walk on my honeymoon.
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I don't find good. It's funny Charlie didn't show up all through dinner,
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Simon, Yeah, would you mind not discussing other people? Let's discuss
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all. Hey, what happened to that snowman? Snowman? Oh, he
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must have melted. He was right there on the side of the road.
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He didn't melt taky because it gets cold or not warm in the night time.
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I wouldn't say that. Take e still, Hu, The snow is
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completely flat where the snowman wasn't sleigh Mark's right next to the spot. I'm
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cold, silent. Why are you more interested in that snowman than you are
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me? Tho? He had a kind face. Hey, let's go back
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to the hotel and get warm. I'm going back to Mago. I'll take
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care. Oh, Simon, I want to make sure nobody hits you on
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the head again. Oh, but before I do. You know, I'm
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a little worried about Charlie. Uh oh, clerk, yes, sir,
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have you seen mister Thompson around, mister Thompson. Oh yes, oh no,
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oh, yes, I don't know what. I was merely remarking that
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I know who mister Thompson is and I have not seen him around. As
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a matter of fact, missus Thompson was asking about him too. I see,
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thank you. The things seem to be disappearing around here. The snowman,
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Charlie Thompson, thank you. We're not going on stairs. We're going
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out again to look for Charlie. No, the snowman, Simon, and
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the resemblance between me and Eskimo is no coincidence. S w I'm freezing.
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There's been all we're all looking for that fine thing. It's only a little
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more ground to cover. We've working our way round to the back of the
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hotel. I know, but but Tim, I'm finding a snowman in the
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middle of all the snow It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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The difficulty of that has always been overrated. There's an easy way of finding
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a needle in a haystag. How we just sit down on a haystack.
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That's the what I just said, Sid, It was a joke. Yeah,
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let's keep the conversation on a higher level. Sad straight ahead, middle
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trees there is. It doesn't seem to have been damaged much. She's frozen
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silent. We're about one hundred yards in the hotel, and she'd have a
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wood pile here, which is just what we need. Some nice dry wood.
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I mean a nice hot bath as good as wood burns. I'm gonna
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build a fire. Oh, I appreciate your worrying about being sided one motel.
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I'm not building the fire for one TI. I'm building it because I
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want to give that snowman a hot foot, Simon, that's a very pretty
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fab Why do you keep staring at that snowman? Oh, I'm waiting for
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its mail. Now. That isn't a nice thing to do to take his
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look? Wait, begin the mails already. Oh yeah, yeah, now
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we know why the snowman was smooved, don't you jolly. He was getting
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a snoop simon. He he's very dead. Somebody beat his head in.
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Sheriff will be over a little while, Peggy, as soon as he gets
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these gloshes on. I hate to think of Charlie lying out there in the
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snow. He was never not going. Man, Peggy, maybe you better
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run upstairs to your ro It's just that I wanted to get over the Sagate
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studio before the sheriff gets there. Do you think killed Charlie and put him
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in the snowman, It's possible. Charlie's death makes Vicky a very rich widow
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who Surgay might approve of that? And that Peggy wife's places at her husband's
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sign. That looks still. We'd not a word, and I'll now you're
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right out here in the lobby. Never mind, let's go get ourselves a
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sleigh. This here's the studio, folks. Oh, Piggy, why don't
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you stay out here in the sleag You don't think all your sculptures have seen
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inside him? No, but he might be dangerous. I'm coming with you.
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You don't mind if I come too? A little dark out here?
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Oh no, we'd love having come on, Okay, oh, the studio
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looks like Yeah, the Prince of Graustock should be inside, but it won't
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be. Let the windows three fourths cover to a snow. You ain't answering
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too quick. Uh huh, the doors open, Come on, we're so
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dark. Wait a minute, find the knights, say what's going on here?
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All right? Hey that's my sleigh. That was your sleigh man?
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All right, now what are we gonna do? Now we'll phone the phone.
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Anyone see one o. They don't have lines strung out in east Wood,
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And well that's fine. Look what I foun huh oh, it's a
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wallet, not much help, no identification in it, Simon, is the
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kind Charlie always carried with lots and lots of money. And that's what is
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empty now. It could just as well be carry's a purse, Simon.
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Now you mentioned that Charlie's wallet was missing. When we found it, an't
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miss anymore. I wonder if any spare socks they're gonna turn out. Charlie
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Thompson was wearing one red sock and one green one. Somebody may have walked
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off with a mate to one of them. Well, come on, everybody,
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let's start walking. It's gonna take us about a week to walk back
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to the hotel. Snow's kind of teep out there and may not be back
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for hours a month, Simon. A couple of pairs of seas in the
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corner of the door. They're very decorative. People go from place to place
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on ski. Sure, sure people who can ski. I almost read a
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book, Simeon. They said, skiing is really very simple. It did.
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Don't look at me. I ain't getting on them, wouldn't get trap
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All right, you stay here, we're sending for you. You mind,
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don't mind at all. You know, I'll help you get those skis trapped
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on. I hope it's downhill all the way. Simon, you're such a
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liar. You ski beautifully, Yo, this is wonderful dry. Yeah,
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as long as you stay on your feet hungry. Well, when we get
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back to sown and I like what a swalami sandwich? Keggy. People get
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shot for jokes like shot from the pump of trees down the slope. Do
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you know what bad little boys do? I think we can get under the
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smoke here, get to some rocks next, now ball with rock. Yeah,
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he can't get us. Let he gets a lot closer I can't see
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what it is. You have to come out into the open. Okay,
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I've got one ready, all right, now he's moving out. Here goes
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Simon. You hit him for the next you hit him again? Oh,
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Sime, no, I know how it go to you. Gosh. I'm
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so glad to get back to the hotel. Oh, mister Templar, Oh
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right, yeah. The sheriff said he wanted to see you as soon as
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you came in. He's in the manager's office to your left. Thank you.
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Would you send someone out to mister top Off studio has left the slave
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drivers standard. I'll take care of it, sir. Thanks Simon. Do
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you know who killed Charlie and Charlotte? Well, I'm not sure, but
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I think it isn't going to take much longer to find out. Hello,
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Sheriff, I'm Simon Templar. I know, mister Templar the same. This
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is a great pleasure. Thank you. And this is Peggy Smith, Jones
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and so forth. Glad to meet you. My name's Hudson. That statement
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from mister Thompson the scupper fellow, mister Templar, I thought you might have
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something dead, Yes I have. It might be better if you got them
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in here, though, and we cleaned up the whole thing at once.
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Hold right in the next room, Hold on, would you mind stepping in
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here? Books? I am disgusting. This is the way to spending maybe
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several long Yes. When your husband arrived at the hotel, what was the
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first thing he did? Well, he said he was going to take a
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shower. I let him upstairs. I see, excuse me a desk,
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Oh, clerk, will you get me a sprig of holly with berries on
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it? I noticed the Floria shop in the lobby. No, I know
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it isn't Christmas yet. No, it's not for a gag. It's for
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a noose. Confidential, everybody, this Simon, he's crazy for miss I
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kiss the girl under a missiletoe, No difference. Oh, come in here
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you are, mister temper. Oh thank you. Would you please hand me
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that vase on the table, sir, thank you again? Very nice?
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The berries are green? Now? Why hello, just a minute, Peggy.
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Look, when a man wants a sprig of Hollywood berries, he wants
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red berries. Now you go right out and get me what I I want.
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I'm sorry about the berries being green. I guess they aren't right yet.
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I'll go right now. Oh no, excuse my boss. You broke
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the ball. It's also breaking the head the clerky. I just wanted to
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make sure he wouldn't try playing games with his gun. Share of done.
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Yes, Peggy, the one he tried to kill us with. But if
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he was the one, he must have been the one killed Thompson. He
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is, but I don't what reason would he have to kill John. I
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think he'll tell us to be with us again. Good evening, I hope
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you slept well. You listen, Thank you, Shriff. Charlie Thompson was
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killed in his shower. Then he was dressed, dragged out of the hotel,
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and planted inside the snowman. That's why you moved the snowman, Wasn't
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it so that you wouldn't have to carry the body so great a distance.
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I never touched Charlie Thompson, and I know you did, Templar. Thompson's
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corpse was wearing one red sock and one green. It meant whoever had dressed
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him was color blind. Yes, said in the business with the Holly proved
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that the dairies were really red. But when I told our friend here that
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they were GREENY had to take my word for it. He couldn't tell the
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difference. Why why did you gievil man? Simon? He must have been
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the one who had hiped me over the head in my room. M h
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that's why I knew missus Thompson hadn't killed her husband. What do you mean
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you wouldn't have had to hit Peggy over the head and in order to get
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into your husband's room. And I couldn't suspect mister popa. Why not?
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Some of my best friends are suspecting me because you would never have left Thompson's
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empty wallet in your own studio. It was the clerk Peggy, and I
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surprised planting it there after. Of course he had taken all the money out
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of it. But that's why Thompson was killed, mister poppa. He always
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carried lots and lots of money in his wallet. If Peggy supplied that information.
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You mean this clerky tried to frame me, so I am looking like
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a murderer that he did. What a while the men who tried to choosel
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on a chiseler? Real long? Oh there we are, Simon. Did
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you know that some people Benno skies there must be a moral in that rumba.
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I'm immoral, Simon, We're not really married, but you could kiss
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me. M M nice Simon. You've been listening to another transcribed adventure of
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the Saint the robin Hood of Modern Crime. Now here's our star, Ladies
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and gentlemen. This is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again next week
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at the same time for another exciting adventure of the good Night Then. Script
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was written by Lewis Viddie. This is NBC the National Broadcasting cover Welcome back.
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It might seem to some listeners that we've had color blindness as a clue
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used before, and of course they're correct, back in The Colorblind Killer,
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which we've heard only a few months ago. But keep in mind that at
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the time of the airing of today's episode, it had been more than three
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years since The color Blind Killer aired and over another network, so the cleary
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use was not a big deal at all. I like this one a lot
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of very clever and witty wordplay, and Vincent Price clearly back after six weeks
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