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to Adam Graham bio box one five nine one three, Boise, Idaho eighty
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three seven one five. Now it's time for today's episode of The Saint.
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The original Airnate August the thirteenth of nineteen fifty and the title Dossier on a
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Damsel in Distress. The Adventures out of the Saint starring Vincent Price. Let's
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say, based on characters created by Leslie chatterers and knowns, and millions from
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books, magazines, and motion pictures. The loblinhood of modern crime. Al
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come stranscribe the radio starring Hollywood Billions and tell us the doctor Vincent Price as
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let's think were I didn't see. It's perfectly all right, mcsans. Oh,
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please don't go, please, And now it's a scene of the crime.
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They'll take care of things. I can see you're in a hurry.
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Yes, I am all right, driver, step on it, yes,
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sir, comfortable Musans, I don't know you do. I an oversight on
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my part that can be easily remedied. I'm Simon Templar, Simon Templary.
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Oh you're the saint, aren't you. Sometimes I feel as though I had
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a neon sign on my forehead. I'll confess the fatal appellation. Well,
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I think i'd better get out, mister Temple. You see age is not
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synonymous with boogeyman, Miss Ames, and why not call me Simon? After
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all we were both present at the unveiling of the course. You think you're
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being funny, mister Templar. There's nothing funny about murder, particularly when as
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pretty a girl as you is involved. But I'm not involved. A question
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of semantics, Missames. A man gets killed when you're within five feet of
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him, and you turntail and run. If a's not being involved, my
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dictionary lied to me. Why I suppose you're right? It was foolish of
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me to run when I heard those shops and saw him faller. How did
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you know who I was? Such modesty is becoming but hardly intelligent, Miss
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Ames. You're a star, your show is opening in a week and your
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pictures have been plastered all over town. Of course I should have known.
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Did you know the man who was shot him? Yes? If I had
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an appointment with him. His name was Jim Barry or the publisher. Yes,
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I know him, or rather than you him. He's been kind enough
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to publish some scribblings of mine. But what were you going to see him
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about? Anything special? No, just a business talk, business talk with
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a publisher. Don't tell me that Barry kilgo a company is going to publish
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the story of your life. No, but jim' sperm was preparing an anthology
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to modern theater and he wanted to include the new play I'm going to be
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him. He's come to the floor. I picked down what happened, but
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he doesn't like us. Beddy. The driver of that card threw some hot
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lid our way. I don't know. I only saw the glint of a
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gun out of the corner of my eye. A driver. Are you a
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Simon as he did? Wait? See? How do you like that?
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We get shot at and he faints? I don't claim him, don't don't.
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You must be due at the theater for rehearsal about now, and the
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show must go on. For the life of me, I've never been able
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to understand why. Hey Joe, what I say? Okay, Larry,
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here's my dressing room, sim huh, you go in and wait for me.
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I have you watched the rehearsal and the wings that Larry Stephen's, our
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stage manager, is superstitious about this. Okay, Betty, but you're a
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thank if I had watch dog will be panting on your thresholder you get that
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after what's happening, Tom, and I'll be glad to know your close by.
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Oh well, might as well waiting time? Really there, I don't
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know what you mean. I think you do, Helen. Just remember what
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I told you about Jim Darry and you'll be Simon Templar, What in the
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world are you doing? Well? Now, that's what I call a quick
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switch vera pangburn Lady novelist gets stage struck. Or are you merely getting material
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for a novel about backstage? Oh? No, no, better novels for
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me, Simon. Oh, let me introduce Helen Trask. Helen. This
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is Simon Templar. How do you do, mister Templar? As well as
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might be expected under the circumstances, Miss Traska not too accustomed to entering one
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lovely ladies dressing room and finding two others awaiting men. Well. As a
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matter of fact, Helen and I were waiting for Jim Barry. We thought
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he was coming here with Betty. Jim Barry. Oh, he's your publisher,
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isn't he there? Yes? And Helen's too. Helen's is really latest
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discovery. She has a new novel coming out. Well, I'm afraid you're
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going to be disappointed, Ladies, Barry's been unexpectedly detained. Oh oh,
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and I was so anxious to see you. Why not let me substitute.
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I'm very good at pila tricks and small talk and your name Templar. Yes,
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it has been for a number of years. I can remember, way
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back when my pilot the idea of keeping the Thames away from rehearsal. Did
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I who are you? Oh? Steven's the stage manager, that's right,
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And I'm also the guy who doesn't like stage door. John. If there's
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something about the way you said that that hurts me deeply? At gee,
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what's that thing in the cuff of your trousers? Step in the cup of
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my trousers? Yeah? Right here? Now look here, Temper. I
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don't know what this is all about, but you don't, but you should
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know a revolver cartridge when you see one revolver cartridge? Is that what this
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is? It is? Where's bedy aim? Why in rehearsal I had them
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start and I presume there's a shooting scene in this play. Yes, for
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at the end of the first act. But I like me even less after
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this. But I'm stopping that rehearsal. You can't do that, tap,
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I don't you have a dead star on your hands? Many aims? Are
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you crazy? I hope so? I hear them? Waiter cluster, stage
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age, what are your left? I hope you know what you're doing.
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I'm afraid I do shooting scene now topic don't apparently nothing that I'm a little
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amazed at finding you? All right, Why shouldn't I be fun? Now
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there you have me? Why why everybody pepla? I've had enough of this
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nonsense. You've held up the rehearsal by keeping Biddy away, and now you've
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broken up the end of the first act. You know you get out of
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this theater. I'll have you thought. I know, Stevens, I must
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be super sensitive. Why else would I get the idea that you don't like
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me? No, don't answer. It's something I want to do. First.
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Where's the gun? You're a leading man? Fired? Just now?
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That's over there on the floor. Just a pop gun with blank cartridge brank
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cartridges. So that's it. I've always wondered how people shot and plays had
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so many lies? Do you mind if I take a look. What's all
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the commotion about? Hold on, it's jillgir. We've been having a little
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trouble with a fellow named Templar, but everything's under control. Well, i'd
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better be. I've got quite an investment in the show, and the way
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it looks now, it'll pop before they get to this. There's nothing for
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you to get excited about mister kilgoar. I assure you that that's all in
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the way one looks at it, Stephens, And I suggest that you look
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at this gun. I see a temper, So what so this break it
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open? So those aren't blank cottages, they're real, real But that's impossible.
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Perhaps you'd better take a second look. Why would anyone in this theater
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two real poets for the blank? Now that is a puzzling question, Stephens.
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Of course, it couldn't possibly be that someone was interested in killing Betty
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Ames, now could I still don't understand how you new Son. Well,
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theatrical people may dress somewhat unconventionally, but I thought that Steven's with revolver cartridges
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in his trouser customers coming a pit overboard. Fortunately, your leading man is
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a sensitive so he jumped at least a foot when I shodowed at him.
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His father, Oh, if you haven't startled, yeah, then I doubt
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that we'd be sitting here in your dressing room. Why should anyone want to
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kill me? The usual motives money, jealousy, and fear of discovery.
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I'm not rich and there's no reason for anyone being jealous of me, and
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I don't know what's saying about anyone. Are you certain of that, Betty?
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Of course I am. You were pretty much in evidence when Jim Barley
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was killed. A dozen other people, But perhaps they didn't see what you
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saw. I didn't see anything at the killing. Perhaps, But what about
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well, a familiar face in the crowd, for example, familiar face?
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No? Oh, wait a minute, years, Yes, I did see
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someone, ye eyes, how that you saw the killer? Who is it?
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That's just it? I don't know. Let me remind you that a
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familiar face belongs to someone you know or has seen before. I know that's
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son. But I just caught a flash of a face and I was thinking
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it looked familiar and was starting to identify my mind, and then the shots
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were fighting, Jim Barry was killed, and then it was gone. MM.
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I don't suppose you got a similar flash among the people in the theater
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tonight. No, might have been any one of them or none of them.
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Hardly what i'd call an elusidating statement. I put this together. Barry
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was the publisher for Vera Pangmen and Helen Trask, and both of them were
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in the theater kill Gore, who put up the money for the show.
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Is Barry's partner in the publishing business, and he was in the theater.
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Stephen's the stage manager had that Cottridge and his cuss. Yes he did,
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didn't he? So where does that get a son? Exactly nowhere? Well,
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as my old grandmother used to say, if at first you don't succeed,
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try checking up the corpse. Come on, belly, let's go to
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the Morgue. The place gives me the creek sun. Strangely enough, the
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Morgue never was noted for being the most cheerful place in the work. Do
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you think your skin's work? How optimistic can one man be? But it's
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quite a try looking for someone, mister templar are they're duncans our things ings?
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They're pretty dead around here? The same jolly old soul lunch. Oh
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I get the cakes, mister Temple, I'll peachie for you. See,
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have jolly enough to do me a favor? Maybe? Yeah? Did you
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get an advanced case of rigor mortis in here? Sometime this evening fell about
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the name of Barry. Barry, you sure did gun killing a neat job
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too. You want to see him a long doubted? The lady Duncan but
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you know, I have a theory that every murdered man dies with exactly eleven
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dollars and sixty three cents in his pocket. Yes, but how can that
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be, mister Templar, Let's look at his personal effectancy ay duncan personal sake?
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Well, it's a sure order, no shirt. Can't you know the
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rules? Oh of course, I'm sorry I mentioned it. Miss Ames was
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anxious to see if those opening night tickets to her new show, the ones
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in your name, that is, could possibly have been lost around here some
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for her. Oh eleven dollars sixty three cents. You say, well,
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that's an interesting theory, mister Templar, And we can't block the prophecy of
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science, can with no? Indeed? There you are. Take a look
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what jewry a couple of keyrings. There's a couple of hundred bucks in the
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wallet. Matthew's a theoryal to Dunkin, don'ted? Is that all it was
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on him? I see for yourself. I told you that, say hey,
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look out, yeah, okay, my gosh, you thank you.
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I don't know what happened suddenly everything turned black? All right, Betty,
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don't talk. I'll get you outside. Even though those who like Duncan gets
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crazy in here sometimes No I don't either. You're sure you're okay? Yeah,
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thank you. I'm all right now, Thanks very much, mister Duncan.
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Who you're welcome? And uh them opening night tickets in my name?
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You lost? Oh you'll find them at the box office in your name,
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mister Duncan. Well, I'm glad you folks dropped in the first part of
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your scheme seemed to work right, Simon. Well, I did get hold
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of Barry's keys, and thanks to the fainting acts you stayed then, very
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rigidous that it was, but there was little else of interest there. Then
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what goes on now? And I might suggest that we hauled right here in
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front of the office of Barry Kilgore and Company Publishers. He got a key
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and look as though it fits the lock, and walk right in there.
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You see what skilled presidence and some petty larceny can accomplish at Western Barry's office.
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You know, Oh, yes, right over there, s kill Gore
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is the one next to it. There's the light switch on the wall.
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You'll never make an understudy to a sneak beef by talking about light study.
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My flashlights enough, but I still don't understand. What do you expect to
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find up here? Simon? Never do I, but I'm looking for motives,
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and what better place to find motives than in the dead man's private files.
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M let's start with this stuff on the desk. Those are only galley
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poots of a book, Simon, it would appear. What a fascinating title,
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My Heart's Won Romance by Helen Trapp. Oh, no talk about calls,
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no motive for murder there? I wonder what do you mean? This
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into the office memo clip to it? So Pete Segg Jim stopped publishing this
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kind of type before it ruins its initial k K for kill Gore? What
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do you make of that? Son? I think kill Gore didn't like the
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book. But if it's a thought as all that, why was Jim Barry
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publishing? Maybe you'd better take another look at Helen fast. Oh you mean
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you think that Helen and Jim Barry were trying to keep it open and clean?
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Mind about these things? Maybe, but we do know kill do I
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didn't like it, and kill Dore dans to get plenty. Now that Barry's
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Dan, he becomes sole owner of the business. Simon, Helen, someone's
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coming to the outer office. What if it's the police Jim Barry's murderer.
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The suggestions are very inconsiderate of you. What's he doing now, Simon,
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See there are two people in the office. Are they coming in here?
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M No, No, they've gone into killed boy's office. Oh they didn't
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turn on the lights, so they must be familiar with the place. Remind
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me to complain to the owners of this building. They've neede these walls so
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sound those I can't even recognize the voices, let alone here. Yeah,
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yeah, we could hear those, all right, couldn't we. I'll be
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right back. Oh, oh, whoever it was got away? Then tell
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you all right, I'll get a dog, so I better make it a
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contenter instead, Daddy content. Yeah, the shots missed, but I certainly
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smashed up that Deskcot ran into find the lights and see how much damage was
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done? That does it now? Sun? Damage was quite extensive to mister
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Kildore, A chief suspect has been crossed off the list. Buy a bullet
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between his eyes. Well, at least you got me home safe and sound.
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Something. After what's going on today, I'm beginning to wonder how that
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happened? That's everything loved to be in place. Yes, of course that
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is a funny thing that every since my college prom days, I've had an
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abiding dislike for chaperones popping up unexpectedly. I had to better look around to
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let these modern inventions fighten you Betty, to celephone is quite answer. Answer.
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Huh, yes, bah, I want you to do a favor,
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Betty. I think I know something about Jim. There is death just a
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minute burreah some spirre pengboin. She says she thinks she knows something about the
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Barry killing. Well, don't you think he's a bad thing? To split
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the receiver with me and let me listen to him? Bia, what do
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you mean? I don't know just how to explain it, Betty? What
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is it? Are you still there? Simmons? What happened there? This
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may come as a tremendous surprise, Betty, but it sounds like vera pangburn
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just became murder victim number three. A lot of time, myst year is
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brawn instead of brain unaffected. It's not meat. Come on, let's go
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in Simon be she is yeah, the floor is she She's lucky? Then
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Barry or kill go it shot in the upper part of the aisle. You
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better get some towns. I'll be right. What happened, man, I'm
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a fire escape shot at. I'd be indignant about it too, Vera.
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But suppose we talk about it. Let it wait up, I'll lift her
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there now, if you'll make like Florence night and get him. Betty,
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I'd like to look at the fire escape. Poor darling. Time for talk
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later. Let's get you fixed up first. He just relaxed. Here,
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we're here, and everything's gonna be all right. The view from your fire
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escape is very disappointing, Vera, only shattered glass out there. Did this
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homicidal friend of your shoot through the window? Yes, I was talking on
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the phone to Betty. I looked up and saw him. He had a
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handkerchief over his safe. He shot twenty you are, and that'll hold him
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til we get him dog. By the way, Vera, Not that I'm
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curious or anything, but what was it you were going to tell Betty over
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the phone about Jim Barry's murder? I can't tell you. Simon. Well,
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I'll admit I'm not as pretty as Betty or no, no, I
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won't say anything. He's already shot at me once. I won't say anything.
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Don't kill this you want to do? You don't have to tell us
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anything timee. We better call a doctor. She's no condition to be bothered
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now right now, neither am. I suppose you take care of the medical
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details and they meet me at Helen's task repart, Helena, is that where
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you're going now? Now? I'm going to marry Stephens sraight? And if
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that sounds confusing to you, it's no wonder. I'm a little confused myself.
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Yes, hello, Stephen, you mind if I step in time Tepler?
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What blazers are you doing here? I guess you do? Mind?
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Well? I have an invitation for you, Stephens, to come calling on
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helen Task with me, Helen Tran. Why should I go to I thought
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it would be sweet if we all chewed over a few explanations together. You'll
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get no explanations for me and I'll get out templar. Okay, Stephens,
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But if you don't mind, I would like to leave you something first.
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Yes, what's that? You know? Something? Stephens? I think you're
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coming with me, whether you want it or not. All right, now
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that Betty is here, we have a quorum. I don't understand, mister
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Templar, why are you all here at my apartment? There's no sense asking
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him, Helen, he's completely crazy. Stephens. I think you're prejudice because
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your jaw still aches a little at Miss Trask. When I entered Betty's dressing
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room tonight, Very was saying something to you about Jim Barry. What was
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it? Why? She was merely warning me against him. Said he had
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a weakness for young women writers. In your case, that's understandable. Would
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you say his weakness could account for a rather poor manuscript accepted? If you're
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insinuating anything, mister Temple or Helen, of course not. You didn't listen
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to Vera Dige naturally not. Mister Barry always acted like a perfect gentleman.
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What are you driving at anyway, Temper, I say I'm a perfectionist,
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Stevens. I don't like ragged details hanging over and that snatch of conversation intrigued
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me. Something else intrigues me too, that cartridge in the Trouser Cough episode.
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You really are determined to play Sherlock Holmes, aren't you? Well?
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If it'll leave your mind any on my way to Betty's dressing room. I
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bumped into a pop table, A box of what I thought were blank cartridges
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filled against me and out of the floor. And do you think that there
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might have been some loaded cartridges among the blanks, and that one of them
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lodged in your car? That's it, exactly a very simple explanation. It's
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almost too simple. Did you try to check this theory of yours? Well?
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I try to, but when I get back to the table, the
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box was gone, which of course makes it even simpler. Do you mind
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if I use your phone? Helen hump Why no, no, not at
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all. As you call the police, Simon, No, uh vera pang,
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that's hungry, m that's right. Hello, Oh oh yes, doctor
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a house Miss tengmine. Oh that's fine. Give her a message, will
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you please tell her? Simon? Templar called and she needn't worry about that
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killer any longer. That's right. Betty Aims has remembered who it was,
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She saw it the scene of the murder, and that's all the evidence we
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need. Simon, what is this all about? Beautiful here in the park,
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isn't it. You know very well that I haven't remembered the face I
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saw when Jim was killed, A brilliant moon soft starlight, A perfect night
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for romance, and she talks about killing. Oh please, Simon, please?
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What are we doing out here? Anyway to take a cue from you?
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Just killing time? And I think we've killed enough. Let's get going,
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Simon, for the last time. Would you give me a direct answer?
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Where are we going? Or didn't I tell you why? I'm merely
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taking you home. Here's my daughter, Simon. I can find my way
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in alone. Don't you think the least I can do is to search the
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apartment for you? Again? That won't be necessary. Thank you, good
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night. We'll at least allow me to turn the light sis for you.
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Very satisfying. I can see for yourself. Yes, I can see quite
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well. Hello Vera, quickly. I never argue with the lady Vera to
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give me when she's got a gun in her hand. That's I thought that
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phone call of yours might have been attract Simon, but I had to make
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sure. Now that you apparently have made sure, Vera, you and Betty
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are going to join the other. Simon, tell me why you killed Jim
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Barry Vera? Was he your husband? Pretty smart? Aunt? You?
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Simon? That's right. Jim was my husband. I thought so. Jealousy
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was the only motive I could figure for you. Every young woman who came
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along and thought she could write turned his head that Helen's task. A high
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school girl could write a better book than she did. But Jim Barry was
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going to divorce you and marry her, wasn't he? Yes? And now
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Jim's dead and kill God is dead because he suspected me. And you're going
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to die too, right now? No, you don't give me are oh
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sir? Oh Sione? Who's so scared? You know something that hey sows?
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I. I still don't understand, Simon. That business of their is
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being shot? Now? How did you know that she'd say that? You
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know, Betty, that's one thing I always dislike about solving a murder.
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I have to explain things. And if you won't let well enough alone,
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no, Simon, I won't. All right, there was the glass and
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the fire skip. Uh. Now shall we get back to that moon,
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Simon? What about the glass? Oh, it came from the shattered window,
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and there was no glass within the room. Therefore the shot was fired
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from within, scattering the glass outward. And who was inside the apartment at
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the time. Deer m we have achieved a meeting of the mind. Now
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if we can carry that a bit further, They while discussing those lovely shimmering
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stuff. But I heard two shots fired over the phone. Did she use
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the second one to give herself that flesh wound? If you were afraid someone
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was closing in, you'd make a life desperate attempt to throw suspicion elsewhere,
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wouldn't you. And she was the one who put the real bullets in the
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gun on the season and fired at me in the cab. But Simon,
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why me? I hate to get repetitious, but remember those motives from murder?
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I listed money, jealousy, and fear discovery. Yeah, let's latch
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onto the last one. She was afraid You'd remember that it was her familiar
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face you saw in the just before Jim Valley was killed. Satisfied now,
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well almost, There's just one more little thing, look very if it doesn't
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concern the moon, I'm not interested, all right, Simon, get interested.
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You've been listening to another transcribe adventure of the Saints, the robin Hood
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of Modern Crime. I'll hear's us starve in some price ladies and gentlemen,
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as good citizens, we have the entire sphere of American life in which to
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use our heritage. So let's make the affairs of our nation, state,
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and community our affairs. Remember that we all have a voice in them.
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Use that voice, and use it well and often. Only then can we
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set an example of freedom, knowing that our own American heritage is the cure.
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This is Vincent krist inviting you to join us again next week at the
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same time for another exciting adventure of the Saints. Good Night. The Nice
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Strips of the Saint was written by Sydney Marshall. Our cast and good at
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Francis Cheney, Barbara Eleanor Audley, Frank Kryssel, Stanley Faranas At You Bryan.
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Music was composed and conducted by Von Dexter. The Saint, based on
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character is created by Leslie Chatters, is the James L. Faffier production and
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is directed by Helen Mack. Vincent Price as soon to be seen, co
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starring in Ako's production of His Kind of Woman. All Youse Saint fans will
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be glad to know that the Saint's comic book Jron sail at All News fans
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You're Ansair, Don Sanley Programs, Get Your program There. Following now on
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NBCR two Sellar programs, Want to Say To You and far Let's the next
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for another exciting adventure Mystery on the Adventures of Sam Faith. Then here the
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NBC Symphonies Summer Concerts with guests got It, Helen Troubles and Vladimir Gohsen.
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And congratulations the station WWJA Detroit on this the thirtieth anniversary of broadcasting. This
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is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. Well, this was
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definitely a more action packed episodes. I don't think any episode of The Saint
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has begun in such an exciting fashion as this one. There. I also
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have to say that Vincent Price is fantastic in this. And one thing that's
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a little bit different about The Saints is that while some characters will work alone
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almost exclusively, with maybe a sidekick every now and again, some will almost
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always have a sidekick with them. The Saint is a series where the Saint
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almost always works with someone, but he has a a wide variety of different
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sidekicks, and this is something you'd also see in the Saint movies as well
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as the television show with Roger Moore, although in the television show he often
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ended up working alone. The one thing that I think the radio show lacks
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is sort of that globe trotting aspect, because most of these feel like they
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occur just in the Saints' home city. At least the NBC versions also nice
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to see a little bit more of variation on Arthur Q Bryan's voice. Arthur
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q Brian, of course, is most famous for doing the voice of Elmer
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Futt, the first character he played back in the Problem of the Peculiar Payoff,
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really had a lot of elements, so it was more obvious that it
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was the same actor who's as played Elmer Futt. Here he's playing the stage
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man manager, and it's not really all that obvious. You really have to
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listen for it. And it was actually radio that gave him the opportunity to
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mix up his repertoire with a lot of different voices. Even to most people,
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though, he'll be the first voice of Elmer Fud forever. All right,
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Well, that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with
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Crime and Peter Chambers, and be back with us again next Monday, as
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