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The Saint: Miss Godby’s School For Girls (EP1509) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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in the long term. Now it's time for today's episode of The Saint.
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The original aired eight November the fifth, nineteen fifty and the title Miss Gogby's
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School for Girls. The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
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based on characters created by Leslie Charmers and known to millions from books,
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magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes transcribed
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to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint.
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Oh Hello, good morning. This Simon Templar the Saint. Good morning.
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I'll tell him when he comes in for a Saint. You sleep pretty late.
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It's because of my Hey. Who is this? You know? Miles
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Banning? Miles Banning? Yeah, I know him slightly. I got a
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message for him. You know his daughter, Plice, Yeah, a cute
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little girl with braces on her teeth and pigtails. What about it? She's
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almost eighteen now, no more pigtails. But nobody misses him, you know
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what I mean? Look, my friend, if you have a message for
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Banning, why not give it to him yourself. He gets excited. I
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want you to break it to him gently. It'll cost him two hundred grand
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to get his daughter back. Get her back? Well, who's got it?
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I have and I want the money tonight. Tell him at his place
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on the bay, his place on the bay. And I suppose I tell
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him that if he doesn't pay, you'll never see his daughter again. He'll
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see her, all right, he'll see you, but he'll wish he had
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goodbye. Say hey, wait a minute, my friend. Hello, Hello,
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hello, your party has hung up? Sir, do you have his
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number? Not yet, operator, But I'm going to try real hard.
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Go right in, mister Temple. Mister Banning has been waiting since you call.
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Oh, thank you, Templar, Come in, come in, Oh
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thank you, mister Banning. I'm sorry we had to meet again. And
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he said, have you heard from him? She's all right, she is
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all right. Well, I think there's very little doubt about it, mister
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Banning. And until he gets the money he would how much? How much
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does he want? Two hundred thousand dollars by tonight? All right, he
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shall have it. You can raise that amount in such a short time he's
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got release. Yes, tell me when did it happen? Two days ago?
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From our school, from missus Godby's. I finished school. I've been
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waiting to hear ever since. You've notified the police. The police, what
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have they to do with it? But after all in a forcible kidnapping with
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the man threatening violent napping violence. My dear templar, this man isn't threatening
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to kill Felice. He's threatening to marry her. Marry yes, I see,
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and she's willing to marry him. Unfortunately she is. That's the tragic
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part of it, you see, she's only seventeen. Then you must know
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the man well as well as you ever know any man who takes care of
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your horses. I employed him as a groom. His name is Hendron,
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Tony Hendron. And you're willing to pay two hundred thousand dollars to keep this
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marriage from happening. Oh more more, Felice has a million dollar trust fund
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from her mother. She'll be an heiress at twenty one. I'll pay anything
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he wants. The money at your plate on the bay tonight. Do you
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have any idea why he didn't call you direct? I'm afraid i'd have detectives
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here checking the call, I imagine, but she didn't. But why not?
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The police are pretty good at finding why. I couldn't take a chance
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on this thing getting in the paper's templar, you can see that, of
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course, and I might try picking up his trail before tonight. It's possible,
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not probable, but possible. Well, I think my first start will
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be Miss Godby's school. Mister Banning. I'll let you know if I find
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anything, and try to relax. Things will work out, all right.
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Relax. If you had a daughter who was trying to throw a life away,
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you couldn't. Of course I couldn't. I promise you one thing,
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mister Banning. I'll do my best to find him. I know you will.
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I beg your pardon. Oh you frighten me. I'm terribly sorry.
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Could you tell me where to find Miss Godby. I am Miss godbib Oh,
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how fascinating that is. I am head of Miss Godby. And while
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I'm really mister Godby, still there's always been a Miss god Bay at the
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head of Miss Godby, so in a sense, I am Miss Godby.
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Uh. Yes, you see. The school was founded by my great aunt
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Hazel god By. My office is right down the hall here, and ever
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since then it's been a tradition with us god Bys too. What girls,
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girls, you ladies please, we'll come right in here, sir. Thank
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you, honestly, mister Temples Simon Templess, Honestly, mister Templar. There
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are times when I'm almost glad Great Aunt Hazel is not alive today. God,
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big girls today are are well? You saw it was a little frightening,
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flattering, but rightening. That's exactly it. Frightening the word for the
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modern generation, frightening. I was just visiting one of our most interesting and
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traditional classes, how to enter a drawing room? And what do you think
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I found there? Apathy, absolute under guys, mister Godby, I'm here
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about Felice banning a case in point, a young girl from one of the
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most socially prominent families in the city, and she runs away with a jockey
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a groom. Worse if this ever gets into the papers, Mister Templer,
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I'm afraid that Missus Godby's is finished. That is the word finished. Felice
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did leave here then with Hendry, certainly I told her father, so any
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ideas about whether two of them might have gone, mister Temper, Yes,
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I withdraw the question. Oh you'll have to excuse me, Missus Templer.
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There are just a few classes I insist on teaching myself, and this is
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one of them. Fine needlework, hmm. If you care to sit in
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a thank you I will miss mister God until then, until later. Huh
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would you like to have words with me? That's a fascinating question. I
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am not like those adolescents down the hall exhibitionists. Are you saying, yes?
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I am? Then you're here about Felie. You know Felise, she's
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my roommate and dearest friends. Oh, please sit down, missus Morrison,
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Barbara Morrison, Well, I'd like very much to have words with you about
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Felice. Well, I've made a deep study of her. She's a psychological
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wreck. I see. Did she talk to you about a man named Tony
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Hendron? She thought she couldn't talk to me about men because she was seventeen.
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It's a very uninteresting age. Really, I much prefer twenty one myself.
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You do, actually, Well, isn't that a coincidence? I'm twenty
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one? Yeah, naturally, Barbara. Do you have a theory about why
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Felice would run away with Tony Hendron? Well, she'd never marry him.
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Of course, you'll never marry anyone for any particular reason. Father fixation roughly
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the reverse of the more familiar ed of the situation with a male child.
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Her life is completely subordinate to that of the beloved all powerful father. Oh
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why, I don't know. Her father's a horrible mess. Then you don't
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think she'd marry Hendron. It's not as simple as that. She might see
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a father symbol in him. Or this might be a temporary rejection of authority,
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or it might be loved love. How utterly naive? Oh, I
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just thought of something. Would you be interested in some pictures? What kind
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of pictures? Some snaps of Tony Hendron? Yes, I would be interested.
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When Felice left Eye took them for safe keeping, Mother Godby would have
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had a fit if he'd found them. I keep them in my purse constance.
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Here they are. Uh, this is Tony Hendron. Yes, isn't
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he handsome? I think he looks a lot like Gregory. Yes, it's
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in a wilted sort of way. Here's another one of him, taken at
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the beach. Police couldn't grown up that much? Oh that isn't police with
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him in the picture? Oh? Oh, who is it? I don't
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know? And I certainly admire Tony's taste in brunettes. Barbrae. I can't
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thank you enough for your help. Feel free to call on me at any
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time. Thank you tell me how are you so sure of your diagnosis of
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pelice? Have you studied psychoanalysis? Studied it, mister Templar. My family
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sent me to an analyst at the age of three. Well, but now
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you're completely normal, of course, except that now I've taken up dianetics all
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me to straighten out my friends. Of course. Well, thank you and
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goodbye, mary Worth. Did you learn anything, Templar, anything? No,
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mister Banning, I learned practically nothing at the school other than what you
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told me. You have the money, I'm getting it, yes, and
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you're still determined to pay off Hendron. I'd do anything to keep my daughter
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from marrying a blackmailer like Hendron. Yes, I agree. It doesn't strike
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me as being the ideal son in law. Well, i'll see you here
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later tonight, Denny A Templar. I know I'm imposing on you if if
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you'd rather not come tonight, I want to. Men like Hendron have been
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known to pull a double cross In the meantime, I'll keep on looking,
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thank you, Templar. I'll ring for Edward to show you. Oh,
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don't bother, I can find my way out. I bought a small road
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map on my way in, Yes, it is a large house, isn't
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it very well? I'll see you tonight, right. Oh, oh,
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I'm terribly sorry. That's perfectly all right. It was byfle I'm glad,
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glad that we've met. Ask why because I have something belonging to you?
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A photograph? A photograph. Yes, you look quite beautiful in a bathing
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sir. Oh, and the man with you looked very much like Gregory Peck.
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What do you think we ought to do about it? I would suggest
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talking it over over a drink. That seems basically so, what'll it be?
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Anne Scotch overse mind Simon too, Johnny Walker over Ice Waiter? About
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that photograph? Simon? Was there really a photograph? Or can we go
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on to other things? There really was? Unfortunately? Do you know someone
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named Tony hendry Nann? Perhaps I'd better look at the photograph first? And
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here you are? Thank you? Yes, yes, I know Tony.
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It's an old picture, though I hope you haven't changed. I don't think
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so. Two O, thank you. Well, here's to the eternal there
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it is the things that will never change. What was it you wanted to
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know about Tony? He's run off with a million dollars? Are you surprised,
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not if it was wearing his skirt. Do you know Miles Banning?
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I know him, but it surprised you that he's paying two hundred thousand dollars
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for hernda not to marry his daughter. It wouldn't surprise me. Now you
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mind if I asked a question about you, Anne. It's about time,
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Sara. How do you know Hendrin and Banning? I was this former Missus
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Banning's nurse. This private nursing pay well enough for mink and being a wife
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does and in this case I earned it. And the present missus Bannings.
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Oh, he didn't tell me about you. He wouldn't. You're investigating police
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and Tony for him. In the same chance, I have an appointment.
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I'm afraid I have to go, but you haven't finished your call me anytime
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you be like investigating anything? Please anything? I want to see you again.
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You're very attractive. Goodbye. Indeed, the lady leavin you wish to
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order anything to eat? Of course? This is my lunch hour, waiter,
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bring me another straight scotch ten o'clock. I wonder if our friend Hendrin
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will come tonight after all, mister Benn, he'll come with two hundred thousand
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in cash waiting for him who wouldn't come. You're still determined to give it
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to him? What else can I do? I think I'll go out and
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have a look around, all right, gentle, I'll keep an eye on
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the driveway. If anyone comes, I'll be close by. Try and get
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a little rest. I won't be wrong. Thank blew me old place.
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I wonder what Anne does for amusement out here? Who's there? Thought I
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heard something? I'm sorry I stepped on your kiddy, but you should be
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more careful. You can see better out here than I can. In fact,
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I can't see anything. I might as well head back for that hit.
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My poor beat on caved in aching head. Oh he was stuck with
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me. Thanks Kitty, Hey who hit me? Yeah? I never aspired
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to be the robin Hood of modern crime. Giddy. It's very hard on
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the skull. I wonder how long I was out? Ten fifteen? I
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better get back to crime is picking up? Kitt Come on, three shots
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and not one of them missed. Who are you? I'm Simon templar your
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police. Yes, you better go inside. I'm afraid he is. You're
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the same, don't you? Yes? Promise me you'll find who killed him.
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I'll do my best. Police. You loved him very much, Tony.
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I hated him all right, everybody here. I won't keep you along,
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mister Banning, just long enough to get your statement. Mister Temple,
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you sat on the phone that you found the body. Yes, that's right.
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It's quite simple, Lieutenant Lieutenant Thompson, isn't it. Yes, sir,
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well, my wife and I and my daughter were upstairs when we heard
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the shots. I came down and found a safe open, a large sum
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of cash missing. How large? Two hundred thousand dollars. Templer then came
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in and told me a man had been shot, and I found it was
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a man named Hendryn, who used to work for me. Apparently he and
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the confederate opened the safe, quarreled over the money, and Hendron got shot.
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Let's check with you, missus Benning. That's all I know about it.
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Yes, So you see, there's no point in carrying on this discussion
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any further. Just a minute, mister Banning. I appreciate your motives,
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but after all, a man's been killed here tonight. The lieutenant is entitled
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to a more complete explanation than that. Very well, but I'd like to
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ask if my daughter could go to a room. She's had a bad shock.
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Certainly, mister Banning, go on, Phillie. I'll be up to
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see you soon, dear. All right, what I told you, Lieutenant,
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was not quite all, though in principle thoroughly correct. The truth is
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my daughter had runoff with Hendry. I agreed to pay him two hundred thousand
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to bring her back. You saw him tonight, mister Banning. He came
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here. Yes, I paid him the money and he left. I never
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saw him again. Mister Templar, were you with mister Banning when he paid
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him the money. I'm sorry to say that I was unconscious at the time.
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Lieutenant. I hardly need to point out how desirous I am of having
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my daughter's name kept out of him. Oh. I'll do my best,
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mister Banning. I'm a father myself. Thank you. I'll be grateful.
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I'll be very grateful. And now could we go to our rooms? I'm
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afraid I see. Of course, I'm sorry I kept you this long.
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I understand that's your job. Come here, good night, gentlemen. You
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won't mind if we look around missus Panning, of course not. Please ring
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if you want anything, certainly, missus Panning, don't you worry about us?
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No, don't worry about us, missus Banning. Good night, good
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night. Well Lieutenant, Oh, I don't doubt that Hendrin did have someone
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else in with him on his black male scheme and then he knocked him off.
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It looks pretty simple. And if you believe that, you'll look pretty
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simple. What do you mean the killer is a mysterious intruder seen by no
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one. It's logical. Lord Temper Banning is a big man in this town.
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Now. How long it takes to work up from pounding a beat to
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a detective lieutenant? Fifteen years? How long it takes to go back to
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a beat fifteen minutes? So I'm buying his story until I find out it's
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wrong. Fair enough, Lieutenant, Can I go along with the right?
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Oh? Sure, sure, we'll start checking tomorrow. Meet me back here
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at ten in the morning. Good. I've got a few questions I'd like
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to ask Miss Banning. A couple of things. I'd like to ask missus
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band Danny to get a grippa and yourself. Remember you're a family mayor.
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I am most happy to answer any questions, and so is my daughter,
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aren't you, dear? Yes, father, Missus Banning will be down soon.
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Unfortunately, Lieutenant missus Banning is indisposed this morning. Oh, however,
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she knows nothing of the affair. Could we ask Felice a few questions alone,
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mister Banning? Pelise, no, Father, I'd rather you stayed with
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me very well, Felice. Did you come back to the house with Hendron
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last night? And was there anyone with him? But Pelice came back early
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in the evening. She was still obstinate about marrying Henron, so I still
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had to deal with him. You were in love with miss Hendron, Miss
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Banning, yes, so she was just a minute. Now, let Felice
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answer, mister Banning. Were you in love with Hendron? Felice? Father
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told you I was, and you were if he told you I was anything?
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Further, gentlemen, do you know where Hendron lived? Felice? Go
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ahead, dear, in a rooming house three twelve Main Street. Oh,
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now we're getting somewhere. Let's go, Templar. I hope you find Hendron's
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confederate, Lieutenant I. I hope you find him, and if you recover
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the money, there'll be a liberal reward. In it for you. Thank
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you, mister Banning. We'll be in touch. Good day, mister Banning,
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felice, goodbye, gentlemen, good templar. Dear that might be in
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for a big reward if we recover the two hundred grand Lieutenant, stick to
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the Irish sweet steaks. The odds are much more in your favor. Hendren,
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Sure I know him? Owers me six weeks rent the dirty easy,
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dear mother, speak not ill of the dead. He's dead, very got
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himself shot last night. Shot, he said, just my love that I
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lost that way. There's month. Oh well, you'll find months like that.
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Put a ceiling on rents. Why don't put a ceiling on how many
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dead beat tenants can get shot in a month. I want to write my
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congressman, if I could write, choke back your tears for a moment.
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Dear heart and gentle person, what did you know about Hendry? Did he
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have any friends him who'd be a friend of his? That dirty? No
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good? Yes, now let's start again. Nothing you can tell us about
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him at all, nothing except he came to me two months ago saying he
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was coming into ten thousand dollars, wanted to borrow a ten spot did you
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lend it to him? Two weeks ago we heard a story he was going
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to get two hundred thousand instead of ten, had said he'd pay me double
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my back rent. What did you do? Locked his trunk in the basement?
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That's what much good it did? Mean? Nothing in it but hair
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oil and mustache wax. Tell me what am I gonna do with mustache wax?
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Well you might wax your mustang? What w I searched his room?
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But I say, Lieutenant, have you got a date for to night?
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Why? Because I want to make one for you business or pleasure. The
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successful man is the man who combines both. Be at my apartment around nine,
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But yeah, may need you. What kind of girls do you go
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out with? A good policeman, lieutenant is theoretically able to cope with any
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foreseeable emergence. Good evening, Simon? Okay, so glad you could come?
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So glad you called me? Why candlelight and chanting? How excited?
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Yeah? Take your rap? Please? You're so tall, Simon? Can
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you unbend? I can try? Thank you? And you dropped my wraps?
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Dropped it right on the don't you dare pick it up? I wasn't
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thinking of picking it up. I wasn't thinking about it at all. What
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were you thinking of? Simon? Tell me? On, tell her,
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Simon, tell her. Oh, good evening, Danny, Miles, did
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you follow me again? Don't you ever get tired? I get more tired
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than I can tell you. That's why it's not going to happen again.
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Anne, I mean it. You're a pretty pitiful object. I'm warning you,
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and put that kind of way. Danny. You'd never shoot her?
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No, no, I couldn't. But that doesn't apply to you, Templar.
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You're too smart anyway. I was against involving you in this from the
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beginning. You'll remember I argued against it, and you'll remember that you're talking
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too much. Now, don't be ridiculous. He's got us figure it out
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anyway. Why do you think he asked you here? If it wasn't a
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Trappist? Why do you think I don't want you to say it? Stand
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away from easy, Benny. You haven't got a chance. No, no,
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you're the one who hasn't a chance. You're the one now it gives
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us reparte. Put down the gun, Miles, So let's get out of
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here. No, no, no, we can't. We can't leave him
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here. He turned us in. Keep me out of this place. You
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see, I can't leave him here. You both gang up against me.
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I'm afraid it's pretty much up with you anyway, mister Banning. You killed
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Hendron, didn't you? What if I did? He was double crossing me.
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The two of them were he and Anne. Yes, you would have
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give him ten thousand for his part in it, and he and Anne decided
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to take the whole two hundred thousand money from Felice's estate. I had to
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take the money from her estate and would have left me, she said,
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So she kept golding me. So you rigged up this blackmail story so you'd
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have an excuse to take the money later, if you were called to account
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as trustee of the estate or trust fund, I would be a witness that
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the money was spent on behalf of police neat. I didn't know until last
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night. Anne was really plenty to go away with him. I shot him.
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I had to. I had to keep her. You better give me
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the gun, Banning. No, No, everything will be all right.
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You're the only one who knows it'll be all right, and you'll see be
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all right. Now, stand away from the police around their way, mister
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Benny. In fact, the door is opening now, No you don't.
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That's an old trick, templar. And I'm not falling for it. I'm
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not God my arm give me that gun, Banning, pop it, drop
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it said, oh, thanks for dropping in. Lieutenant's hurt and and I
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didn't mean it. I didn't get away from her, Banning let me look.
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Flesh will bad, but not too bad. I didn't mean to add.
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I didn't mean to Philly shit my arm. It wasn't me. I
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swear I didn't mean. Do I swear it? Dad? Take police out
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of it? Which you, Lieutenant Phil Come on, miss Banning, this
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is no way with my father. Please thank you for what you did.
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You might have saved my life. I didn't do anything. Well, of
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course you did. He wouldn't grabbed your father's arm, deflected his name.
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Mister Temple might have been killed. I didn't touch father. Father shut her.
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He aimed at her, and he shut her. I didn't touch him.
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He realized how bad she was, and he hated her. He shut
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her. He doesn't love her anymore. He only loved me. Yeah,
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but miss Banning had let her alone. Lieutenant. If this gives her any
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comfort. How to go on convincing herself. She's going to need all the
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comfort she can get. But what's to come? If you like a drink,
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Lieutenant, don't mind if I do. It's one case I was glad
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to get rid of. Made me feel kind of unclean. Banning wasn't a
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very nice person. I'm afraid or Anne or Hendrhim he had his daughter convinced
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though, yes he did, Ben, he has been all right at one
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time. You know what happened to him. He got afraid, I guess,
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afraid of losing his youth. That's what Anne represented. Afraid of losing
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his money, which she spent for in faster than he could make. It
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doesn't pay to get afraid, Lieutenant, I guess not. He's to not
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being afraid. He is to not being afraid. Yeah, but uh,
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how do you keep from it? You stave it off from one minute to
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the next, another drink for the next Minute's there by all means by Aholl
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means you've been listening to another transcribed adventure of the Saint the robin Hood of
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Modern Crime. Now here's our starve innct Price. In tonight's cast, you
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heard Peggy Weber, Gloria McMillan, Maggie Morley, Ted Osben, Theodore von
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Eltz, and Larry Dobkin. This is Vincent Price inviting you to join us
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again next week at the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint.
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Good Night. The life script of the Saint was written by Dick Paul Don
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Stanley speaking three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Today's the day for the
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premiere of NBC is Gigantic Sunday afternoon broadcast The Big Show. Every Sunday afternoon
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starting today, You'll hear an hour and a half of the greatest stars in
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radio performers like Fred Allen, Jimmy Dready, ethel Merman, Frankie Lane,
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Meredith Wilson, and many many more. It's the Big Show on NBC.
32:14
Welcome Back definitely takes a more somber tom than the typical Saint story with the
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ending because you definitely feel really bad for the girl at the end of the
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story, though a good point from the Saint and a good life lesson.
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This is the type of episode I'll have to keep in mind if I ever
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decided to do all I needed to know I learned from the Saint. Well,
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we turned out to some listener comments and feedback, and we have this
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from Brian, who writes regarding his donation, I continue to enjoy all your
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podcasts. Thanks for your perseverance keep them coming. Well, thanks so much,
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Brian, to appreciate your continued support of the program. And then we
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have a comment from Mark, who, when we were playing the Verry Sullivan
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episode, says, I'm looking forward to the return of Vincent Price. I
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like his replacement, but Vincent is just the best, especially when he's paired
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with Louie. Well, thanks so much, Mark. And often when the
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Saints not paired with Louie, it's because Lawrence Dopkin, who plays the role
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of Louie, is playing some other role in this week's episode. Such was
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the case this week. Actually, So I do, though, love the
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Louie pairing. It's just such a classic matchup and really just fun how those
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two characters play off each other. All right, Well, there's one more
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thing I did want to talk about, because this week's episode announced the start
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of the Big Show. And oftentimes we'll let these sort of promotional announcements go
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by without much of a thought, and perhaps we have with some episodes of
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The Big Show mentioned on other programs, But I did want to talk about
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The Big Show what it was. Basically, CBS in the late forties did
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a talent raid on NBC. They brought some of the top comedians, their
34:25
top talents over to CBS. Over the course of several years, you had
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so many people signing on to work for CBS, led by Jack Benny.
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You had Burns and Allen moving over there. You had Lomon Abner coming on
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the program, and CBS just had a very powerful entertainment lineup, with Benny's
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Sunday Night being the keystone. So in nineteen fifty NBC launched The Big Show.
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The Big Show was a ninety minute radio variety program hosted by Tallulah Bankhead,
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probably best known in Hollywood for her role in Lifeboat, but a well
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known stage actress. Program would air in Hollywood and at other times in New
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York City because there were a lot of radio stars who didn't have shows anymore,
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really had a power pack lineup, and it also included those on NBC
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who had other shows, who would of course appear as part of their function.
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The Big Show is just an embarrassment of riches. When it comes to
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talent, you have some of the best talent ever assembled on a single radio
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program. The comics on there included Fred Allen Jimmy Duranty. Also, there
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was an appearance or two by Martin and Lewis, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx,
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and the music was just extremely well done. Meredith Wilson, I think
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is an underrated forgotten musical genius, and his work on the orchestra there was
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simply phenomenal. And each episode of The Big Show ended with the entire cast
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coming on stage and singing Wilson's song Me the Good Lord, Bless and Keep
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You, which would actually become a closing song for a wide variety of acts
36:36
over the year, but its origin was on NBC for The Big Show.
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The entire first season of The Big Show, plus an episode and two thirds
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of the second season is in general circulation and it's definitely worth listening to.
36:53
You can go to archive dot org and take a listen. They also like
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many variety shows, and I think The Big Show is probably the last one
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to do this. They also enacted scenes from recent movies or plays occasionally,
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and I have to admit some of my favorites are when they go ahead and
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follow the serious dramatic reenactment with a comedy scene, particularly one starring Jimmy Duranty.
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But regardless of your taste, it's worth it's worth taking to listen to
37:23
if you're into music or comedy of the era. All right, well,
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that will actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Crime
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and Peter Chambers and join us next Monday for another episode of the Saint.
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