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The Saint: The Saint Goes Underground (EP1377) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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The Saints run local CBS run ended on June thirtieth of nineteen forty eight,
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and the series last of the air for a whole year, returning in
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nineteen forty nine as a mutual series. The first program aired on July tenth,
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and we have the fourth program of this run so here from July thirty
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first of nineteen forty nine is The Saint Goes Underground. The Adventures of the
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Saint starting Vincent Price. The Saints, based on characters created by Leslie charteris
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unknown to millions from books, magazines and motion pictures. The robin Hood of
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Modern Crime has now transcribed for radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent
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Price as the Saint. Anything wrong, Captain, nothing serious, mister Templar,
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just coming down here for a check. Go on as soon as we
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can. Oh, and where is here? Ned'stone? New Mexico used to
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be a big silver mining town. But not just not a little town,
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I guess, although I did notice there's a carnival playing over on the edge
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of this emergency landing strip. Now, how long are we to enjoy the
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hospitality of Headstone? Oh? Two or three hours long? Up to see
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the town, have dinner if you like, Sorry to delay, sir,
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All right, all right, Captain, I'm seldom bored strange town. Or
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you better go back and fasten your seat. Mister camp were coming down now
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right, I'll see you later. Well, good evening, Saints. You
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know me yet I don't seem to record your face, Harry Kelly, and
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you don't recall my face because we've never met. But I've seen many pictures
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of you, and so I recognized your meeting. Well that's very flattering.
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Tell me, mister Kelly, how can I get into town. You can
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find a camp on the other side of the carnival planning on staying long,
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Not at all should I. On the contrary, I was just going to
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suggest that I doubt if Heedstone would welcome the presence of the saint. Just
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a friendly remark you onnerst un naturally, and if I may be permitted,
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a friendly question, why are you telling me this? Just an interest in
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the continued help of my fellow human. If you have any trouble and tim
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look me up. Anyone can tell you what a find I'm The Purling show
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is just about to start. See little Fatima, the girl who shakes and
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shivers like a pol pull of jelly. Only one dime ten cents, the
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tenth part of a dollar for you. I read the paths, the present
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and the future. Learn your fortune, young man, I already know it.
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Grandmother. I'm destined to meet a tall, dark and beautiful woman.
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I'll settle for nothing left. I see strange lines on your face, young
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man. I will tell your fortune without charge. Give me your hand.
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I see danger. Beware of a blonde young woman. She will bring you
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death and the worst ways of dying. Grandmother, I see danger much danger
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for one with a halo about his head, then death unless he travels.
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I see. I think I'm beginning to get the idea. You might tell
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your crystal ball that I'm beginning to be interested too. My grandmother and made
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the thing. Bless you, Oh thank you? They do you suppose you
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can drive me somewhere that serves a good dinner? Sure, silver Dollar Hotel?
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You know, I was just sitting there, a commuter with nature about
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how many guys there are who blow their wad to watch some dame do a
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holder or won't spend a dime on a hack? Do I detect a touch
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of Brooklyn? How could you miss? That's me? I'm Ziggy from Flatfoot.
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I used to drive a hack in Brooklyn. Now I own the only
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hacking Headstone. It's like, you know, I ain't seen a Brooklyn bridge
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for ten years since I come out here for my health. I always say,
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it's a smart man who knows when it's healthy to get out of town?
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Meaning what does everything have to mean? Something? May I mind my
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own business? I stay healthy. That's why I'm living in Headstone instead of
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underworld, I seem. But if you didn't mind your own business, I
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suppose you'd give me some advice about leaving Headstone? Is that it? No?
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No advice, man, That's part of minding my own business. Headstone
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is a great place the strangers to visit if they paid off their insurance.
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Here you are? Wait, then, very nice dinner? My check?
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Please? No, no, no, thank you? Keep the change.
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Hello. Well, well this is a surprising hotel. First a beautiful dinner
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and then an even more beautiful blonde. May I sit down? By all
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means? Missus? Eddy Calmley. You are Simon Templer. I should have
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worn my dark glasses. But now that the truth is out, you might
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as well call me Simon. All right, Simon? Now how did you
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know who I am? Now? Don't tell me that you were just passing
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and recognized. Well, Ziggy told me that you were here. He owns
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and drives the taxi here in Headstone. I know I shouldn't look a gift
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blonde in the hair, But why did Ziggy tell you I was in here?
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Well, Ziggy knows that I need help, and he thought that is,
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since you're the saint, you might help me. Well. I have
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been known to help beautiful blondes on occasion. But tell me why you should
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need help, Eddy. Someone's been trying to kill me. There should be
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a law against that. Are you sure. I've been shot at twice and
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everybody here has been very unfriendly except Ziggy and a man named Harry Kelly.
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I've noticed the unfriendliness in this town, but being unfriendly towards you is obviously
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an indication of insanity. Please don't joke about it. I'm frightened, all
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right. Now tell me about it. Well. My father was known as
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silver Slim Conny. He lived here for years, but he sent me east
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to school when I was very young, and I didn't come back here until
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recently. My father died about a month ago. He was broke and all
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he left me was his old silver mine. He called it the Betty Mine
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after me and I take it. Somebody wants the mine? No, No,
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the mine is completely worthless. There hasn't been any silver in it for
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years. But my dear, you were shot at twice. Have you any
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idea who did the shooting? No, but it might be the same man
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who told me to get out of town. Oh who Mike McCarthy. Siggy
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says he's an Eastern gangster who has been living out here for several months?
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Will you help me? Mister Simon, Well, I've never been able to
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say no to a pretty girl. You mentioned a man named Harry Kelly before.
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Just who is he? He knew my father. He's been very friendly
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to me, although he thought I ought to leave town too. I've met
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mister Kelly and he cheats me very much, I think. All right.
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Oh, just a minute, there was some red dust on your coat.
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Oh thank you. Viggy apparently doesn't get enough passengers to keep his cab dusted.
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Did you say Ziggy was parked outside in his giant He was when I
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came in. Oh there he is, yes, looking exactly as if he
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were back in Brooklyn. And Diggy was she found. Thanks for your bird
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dogging, which I must admit in this case has done much to overcome any
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natural prejudice against cab drivers as I might have say. Do you know where
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Harry Kelly lived? And let's go there? Hey, don't you ever clean
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out this hack? What's all this? Dost? Who knows? Maybe it
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was that redhead that hired me yesterday, so she had the And Viggy you
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missed your calling. You're funny as an undertaker well, now, Viggy,
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I don't suppose you'd care to tell me why you warned me to get out
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head down? Got me all wrong saying I wasn't warning you. I was
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just talking about myself. And I don't suppose you'd care to tell me why
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somebody took pot shot at miss Connolly here and told her to get out of
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town too? Me, I don't know nothing, like I was telling you,
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saying, I mind my own business. Maybe you stay ignorant that way,
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but it's healthier and I like it like that. And in that case,
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why did you send miss Connolly into Bee? Me? Wow? Like
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you can see, she's a pretty little pigeon. She needs to know some
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guy will help him. Now, it ain't no secret that the Saint goes
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around mixing in other people's business. So I tell her to see you?
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And who told you? I was the thing? I got eyes in my
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head? Ain't I? Like I said? I used to hack in Brooklyn?
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I got it wrong? What about this Mike mccott picked me smart money?
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Say huh A lot of guys have crossed his bed at once to get
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what I mean? What about uh? Harry Kelly vocal stuff nice schmoll.
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But no more. You're doing all right for a guy that doesn't know anything.
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You got me wrong, path, Ziggy. He looks people over,
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but he don't see nothing except one guy is tough, but another guy is
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small, and maybe another guy is to know. I really don't think we
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should try to involve Diggy Simon. He's been very nice as it is,
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he's got something foul. I ain't really equipped for it, because the way
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you're headed, only a saint could feel at home. Here we are saying
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Kelly lives on the first floor in the ring. Oh thanks, wait for
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it, Diggy. We've got a couple of other calls to make after this.
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Don't worry. Oh wait, you get any trouble, just yell.
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Then I'll drive over and tell the sheriff. I heard somebody yell, PA,
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thank foul. Come on, Betty, and I hope our friend is
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in and that he talked. Yeah, strange Harry telling you to come and
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see him if you had any trouble. If he had any connection with me,
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then why hasn't he said something to me? Well, sounded to me
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like a cautious man. Maybe he did know something that didn't want to say
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anything. Unless he felt sure something was going to be done. I we'll
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soon know. Yes, who is it? Simon Templer? The fight just
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a minute? Oh, shots were in that room. This is no time
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for conversation, John. We're going now like this, Kelly, Oh,
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Simon, Kelly, Kelly, this is Simon Templer. Yes, Kelly,
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the saint who shot you? But mine? Kelly? Well, Betty,
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he isn't going to tell us anything now. Killer did a very thorough job.
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Window open. Must have shot from here. Here's a shell out the
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fireplace. But what was he saying? Sounded like like spin. Come on,
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Betty, We're going to spread a little saintliness. And I think I
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know where to begin. But Viggy, didn't you hear anything? Well?
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I noticed some noise, but like I I know, you mind your own
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business. Are we going to the Sheriff's time? No, not yet,
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VIGGI who's the estare in this time? All man matters? The office is
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closed now, but he lives right ahead there, that big white house.
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Okay, stop there. I'd like to satisfy a little curiosity about that mine
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of yours. I'll be right back. You STI here, Betty, What
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do you want mister Matthews. Who else should be here? It's my house,
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ain't it? What do you want? My name is Diamond Templer.
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I wanted to ask you if you know the Connolly silver mine. I know
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every mind within two hundred miles to hear young fella. Hey, ain't that
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Betty Connolly is sitting up there in that taxi? And why can't she tell
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you about the mine? She owned it? Well, she has told me.
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But I just wanted to check about the possibility of a mistake. How
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much silver would you say? There wasn't the Connolly mine about enough to put
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in your eye and still leave room for your finger. Couldn't there be a
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hidden vein in it? Nope, there ain't been enough silver around here to
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make a dime for years and years. Could there be anything else of value
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in it? Mud and water? If you call that valuable you sure,
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of course, I'm sure, young fella. I've been here, man and
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boy for seventy years, and I ain't got no time to stand around answer
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and durn fool questions. Goodbye, well, goodbye, and Betty you may
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be right, oh man, Matthew says the mine is worthless too, So
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Diggy can take us to see Mike McCarthy. Are you sure you want to
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go there? Say? I was you? I get on that plane.
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It's leaving pretty soon. Noziggie, I've decided not to leave Headstone just yet.
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Later you can drive me over to Albuquerque and I'll take the cheap the
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rest of the way. Okay, charm, it's your funeral, Simon,
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Please be careful. Don't you worry Betty the Halo whereas Benevolent Association would be
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very upset if anything happened to me, I'll be right off. Yeah,
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I'm looking for Mike McCarthy where you found him? My boy scout training had
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never fails. My name is Simon Templar the Saints. I've been known by
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that name. So what That's a very interesting question. I must trying to
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think of an answer sometime. Meanwhile, I thought you might like to know
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that I heartily disapprove of you are telling a certain Thaty Connolly that you ought
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to leave town. What's the girl to you? It's my business. I
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could make it mine, and if I do, your halo is going to
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slip down and start choking it. I thought bullets were more in your line
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mean, and what eating the shots fired at missus Connolly and a little gunning
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job only a few minutes ago. I didn't do any gun and, but
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I'm liable to if you don't beat it. And you sound so sure of
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yourself, Michael, that's because I got more in my hand than an itching
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palm. It's very pretty gun, Mike. But I'm very much afraid that
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nothing will satisfy my curiosity short of knowing why you want to get Miss Connolly
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out of town. I got answers for those guys. Six. I just
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stand right there, stay away from that death saint worry Mike. I have
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no interest in the desk at call, but I do have an interesting Miss
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Connolly. And now, Michael, I'll did you a du what happens tinla?
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Oh? Not much. I'm afraid the conversation is just getting interesting.
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When Mike had a sudden attack of drops me. That's funny. I never
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heard of him being sick. It's because you mind your own business, ziggy
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like you tell me Betty worries that it's over mine of yours about two miles
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out of town. Any place in town where we can rent a car?
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Oh? Why I have a car? What I feel the prospecting urge coming
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over me, Ziggy can take us to Miss Connolly's car, and then we
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can dispense with your valuable service. What's wrong with Mike care Nothing, Ziggy.
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It's just that I don't like people looking over my shoulder, especially when
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I visit alone mine in the company of a beautiful girl. Well, here's
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the batty mine. Although I don't know why you want to see it,
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right, I don't know either. As long as I'm here, I might
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as well take the forty cent tour. Certainly, sir. Right this way,
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this old cable car goes down into the mine. All we have to
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do is stand on the platform and pull the cable. It works with balance.
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Wait, I'll find out on the forty cent tour. We give the
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exact distance three hundred and fifty four feet six inches. Thank you, and
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thank you for having electric lights in a mine that hasn't been worked for years.
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Oh, the mine has its own battery. See, here's a bulb
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on the car. Shall we go down? What are we waiting for?
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Let's go Maybe the light will go out this whole little like this. I've
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been waiting for you too, Well, Michael McCarthy, I was wondering if
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we were going to have your coming and this time wise, I don't try,
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and I don't tell me Michael that you're going prospecting with it. I'm
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riding down with it, but I'm coming back alone. Start the car down,
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Saint, but don't try no tricks. You have a suspicious mind.
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Mine. Well, here we go. Call out your floorers, please,
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mezzanine ladies, underwear, glosses and etcetera. You'll be singing a different tone
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pretty soon, Saint. You both had your chance to leave town your way.
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Now you're going to leave my way. Sorry, don't be Betty.
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This is my first ride. I'm an open cable car and it'll be your
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last. I wouldn't be too sure. We missed that cable breaks before we
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get to the bottom. What are you talking about a little crowded here for
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one too? So I guess the one and I have to do. Oh
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terrible. That's all right, Timon. It could have been you. He
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almost knocked you off the platform two with the padded shoulders in my coat,
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I helped them hit the side. Look at your shoulders, they're covered with
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dirt from the sides of the chafe. H it's red dirt. Wait a
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minute, Well we can go back up, Betty. Mike doesn't need our
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health, and I don't need anybody to answer questions anymore. Simon. I'll
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never understand you. Why did you look at the dirt on your coat and
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say you didn't need any more questions? Because that dirt was red cellf eyed
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Betty, and it explains why Mike was so anxious to run you out of
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town. Well, I don't see how red sulfite is used in paint,
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but that doesn't make it valuable. Red sulfide is also cinnebar or from which
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we get mercury, and that is pretty valuable. Evidently your mind is rich
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in cinebar, so it's worth a lot of money. Betty. Oh,
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then that was what Kelly was trying to tell us when he said sin.
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Yes, he was trying to say cinebar. How can I ever thank you,
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Simon? Well, I have a couple of ideas on the sefty,
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But now people would say I was chasing you for your money. So I
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guess you can just see me off on the train. We'll stop in town
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and have the diggy drivers to Albuquerque. Oh, but I'll drive you now,
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I insist on taking a cab. I don't want you coming back alone.
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I may want to change my mind about fortune, like I said,
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Saina, to see you leave. But it's Tomas, just plenty of BoNT
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it's changes. What's you ought to take? Miss Conley Whiting? But she
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doesn't have to go now, Ziggy and decide she's rich, is what?
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Yes, Diggy, we found out the dead mine is valuable after all?
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You mean you found silver? No mercury? Oh the stuff they put into
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MoMA. That's the tough diggie that it's used for a lot of other things,
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particularly in wartime, and it's worth a lot of money. Oh what
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do you know? So that's why Mike was trying to make you leave.
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That's well did you stop? And Telly Sheriff? We didn't have time,
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but I'll see him when we go back. That's pretty nice for you or
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anybody. Oh here we are just in time too, the Chief Center.
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Very nice timing. Gee, thanks Betty for keeping my force to visit the
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Headstone from being tall. Oh Simon, well why don't you stay in Headstone?
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I won't know how to run the mine or what to do with the
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money or anything. You'll learn you know what to do when you get back
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to town. Yes, but what will the sheriff to leave me? I
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mean about Mike McCarthy killing Harry Kelly. I don't think he will, since
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Mike didn't kill Kelly. But Kelly was shot with an automatic dejected a shell
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on the fireplace. Remember, but Mike McCarthy carried a revolver, you thought,
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Yes, will the sheriff. The sheriff will believe when you show him
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that the gun that killed Kelly is in Viggie's podcast. What what are you
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talking about? You knew about the cinebarrow or in the mine. You carried
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some of it away to be tested in your cab, and there was red
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dust in it, which you tried to explain with a corny gag. You're
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crazy. Harry Kelly had an idea what was going on, so you slipped
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around to the back while we were at the front door and killed him.
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All right, wise guy, you're so smart? What about Mike. Mike
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was working for you, But Simon Viggy told me that you were in town.
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Sure, he couldn't be sure that I wasn't here to break up his
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little scheme. So the smartest thing to do was to get us together so
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he could watch both of us. He thought I would use his cab as
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I did, and it would be easy. But he slipped up when he
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sent Mike out to the mine ahead of it. Viggy was the only one
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who knew where we were going. Okay us, Like you said, you
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should have followed your own advice about minding your own business. He's all your
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beddy. The gun that killed Kelly is now I'm the deep beside him.
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All you have to do is turn the body and the gun over to the
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sheriff, and from there on in he'll mind Ziggy's business for him. But
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don't worry, Betty, I'll start back some day to make sure that Denis
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is in conjunction with mercy. You have just heard another adventure of the Saint,
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the robinhood of modern crime. Now here is our starves. Then some
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prise, ladies and gentlemen, how many times there have been men just like
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Ziggy led into crime by infaciable greed forgetting the simplest truth. So aptly phrased
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by John Dryden, murder may pass unpamished for a time, but tardy justice
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will overtake the crime. This is Vincent Price extending a personal invitation to all
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of you to join us again next week at the same time for another adventure
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of the Saint. Good Night. Tonight's script of The Saint was written by
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Michael Cramoy. Our cast included Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips, Colleen Collins,
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Fred Howard and Tony Barrett. The music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmermann.
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The Saint is a James L. Saffier Agency production and was transcribed and
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directed by Thomas A. Mcavity. Don't forget that the Saint comic books are
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on sale at all news stams. You're announcer Merril Rosts. This is a
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mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Long time listeners of our show will remember
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Tony Barrett as the voice of Mark Donovan on the Adventures of Frank Ray.
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So I guess this Cabby was an evil Mark Donovan as Donovan was also a
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Cabby who ended up going on globe trotting adventures with Frank Ray. Beyond that,
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this is just a wonderful episode writing and plus Vincent Pass's acting is to
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perb It's got a light feel, but there's a clever twist thrown in.
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This is just similarly very engaging radio, a very strong mix of actor and
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part Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have a couple
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listener comments regarding the episode The Miracle Tea Party. Michael says, not regard.
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Not only is this a faithful adaptation of the same short story, but
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it is the first time I've ever heard Leslie Charter is on the air,
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and that is a nice feature of these. It doesn't happen with a whole
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lot of programs, but when you actually get to hear a mystery author,
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that's definitely something special. I think the other time that occurs to me is
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on the premiere of the Poirot radio series in nineteen forty five. I guess
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said Christie was supposed to appear live, but actually appeared by transcription when they
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were having problems with the setup. Just nice to hear some of these authors
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who were not recorded all that much. And Aloma says, I listened to
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your shows all day while I scrapbook, love them and can't imagine without my
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favorite detectives. Can't work and listen to music makes me want to dance.
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I can't get anything done well glad to help with your productivity. Thanks so
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much for the common Alomma, and we will be back tomorrow with Easy Money,
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our first look at that series. Oh and then be sure and listen
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