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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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It's a great story of a police officer turned private detective facing the dilemma
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of his life. It's an ounce of prevention. Now it's time for us
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to get into today's episode of The Saint, and we do have a few
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lost episodes between last week and this week's. The original air date is September
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the eighteenth of nineteen forty nine, and the popular title for it is The
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color Blind Killer The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
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based on character is created by Leslie charteris a non to millions from books,
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magazines, and motion pictures. The Robinhood of modern crime now comes to
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radio Darling Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint. Hello.
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How is my favorite shipboard acquaintance this easonmon you startled me? Can hardly see
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you through the fog here on day? Yes, it is getting thicker,
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isn't it? But I suppose it's to be expected. Last night nature went
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on a binge of moonshine, and this is her foggy morning after. How
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can you tell through the fog? So you know you have a very pretty
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laugh, farmer. I'll listen for it in all of your pictures from now
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on. Thank you. But I'm I'm a going to make any more pictures.
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I'm retiring, retiring at the peak of your career. I'm just tired
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of pictures that all, Barbara, You'll never be able to run away from
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it. What do you mean I'm referring to whatever it is that frightens you.
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Why don't you tell me about it? Barbara, there's nothing to care.
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I'm I'm tired. I need to raise see Simon, don't let me
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talk about it. Some things that someone's standing there. No, I don't
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see anyone. You are nervous. I could confide in someone if I could
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tell you what Perhaps I already know more than you think I do. You're
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cold? Where's your rab over there? Some places in one of those dictures,
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I'll find it. I don't see it here, Barbara. You're sure
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your Barbara behind you? Look Barbara, Barbara, man overboard, Man overboard.
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Maybe you'd like a swim through Saint Oh, oh, mister templar,
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mister templar, oh, hell. I suppose the usual question is why am
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I? Sometimes they awaken from your type of custom, make comma asking whoeverdent?
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I wasn't yet quite that hard. I even remember who you are,
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Doctor Norman. It is doctor Norman, celebrated archiatrist. Isn't that? It's
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very good? But I'm afraid I must still confine you here to the ship's
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in semiary for a while. Possible concussion. They tell me what makes a
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famous neurologists like you pose mere ship's doctor. I'm really not posing, Patridge.
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The ship's position is ill. I was within earshot when I heard the
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familiar call. Is there a doctor in the house? And I know Simon,
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don't try to get up. I have a flash here if a drink
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will make you happy? Oh not right now, thank you. I recall
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I have some unfinished business to attend. Yeah, they couldn't find her and
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sayfall she's gone. It was a horrible accident. Horrible, yes, accident.
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No you mean to say she didn't fall over book, she was murdered.
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Murdered, But who I think I know who? My head like the
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averade improving ground. I will make you a seditive. You know you're not
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looking very well. I always look like this, and I'm angry. Only
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one cure. Yes, I know the lady with the scales. No,
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no, Mada'm just you know. Typically I've been curious about what makes a
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man like you. Now I'll tell you every eight days or so, someone
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winds me up. Right now, I'm wound up height height with jored.
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But if it's the chiacterst, I would advise you to unwise. Yeah,
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I think this would. You can sleep up a while. Thank you.
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You say you think you know who killed Barbara. I was wrong. I
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do know, and I think you ought to talk to me. And why
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you said you think I need that charactry doctor. I think you're too taught
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at the moment that bless your concussion might be dangerous. Very well, doctor,
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all unwined, I'll tell you the entire story if you don't mind,
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Simon here this will help you vision the metronome the guy had suffered. But
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no, no, I don't mind. I've never met Barbara Brook, although
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I doubt if there's a human being alive who hasn't heard of her or seen
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her in the movies. I first saw her the day we boarded ship.
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There was something in her expression, in the way she walked and talked and
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smiled, and immediately told me here with someone I should know. Her entire
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demeanor was an attitude of invitations at my fear, doctor. She was a
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frightened lady. She wanted someone near her. I walked over to her there
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on deck and immediately made myself useful. Her steward evidently had become busy elsewhere,
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though I kissed my hat and said, somewhat idiotically, get your program
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here, lady. You can't tell the state rooms without the numbers. Your
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steward seems to have deserted you. I sealed the scow before, so it's
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the direction to your stateroom. You're looking for. I would like you.
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I thank you very very much this way. My name is Temperance Simon,
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for sure, and of course your Barbara Brooks. You know we've passed the
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bar on route to a thirty six main deck. There's an old fashioned with
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a new acquaintance sound in it will a little later here on the ship.
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Oh, there's double acts us. You're going, nichol. I think I
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saw the man you meant. It's North Centers gentleman named Rader. I don't
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know that name. I'm sure you've heard of still Raider. He's just the
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biggest sign his line of work as you are in yours. What is his
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line of work? Well, he's uh, he's an extreminy of human beings,
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obvious in the moment I first saw you. Why don't you tell me?
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No, I can't know I procured good. A reason is any for
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not telling me, But I must warn you I have a peculiar talent for
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finding things out for myself. No, you must have do it? You
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please? Please? Hello Rader? Well mm hm, world's getting smaller,
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yes, yes, but I understand you're doing your share disease that it doesn't
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get over crowded, saving for your health again or just having just traveling rader?
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Why does the mirror glimpse of you rounding her corner got a lady's pet
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and chattering lady. I don't know any ladies obviously, and she thought I
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was someone else. Maybe if you're of a mind to annoy her, you
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wish you were look the same, just soaked up sunshine on this cruise.
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Don't go poking in any dark places might be Oh what sort of bad rader?
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A big shot? Just so there's no misunderstanding, you butt in where
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you ain't welcome on this cruise, and yet and I'll kill you. I
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wish your head shut. And it feels as if a regimental crap game was
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going on in spite of it with jet propelled dyke. You haven't drunk your
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sedative yet? Here? Oh thank you? Shall I go on taking the
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load off of my concussion by army. I think I was president, Yes,
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doctor, you were. It was the night of that ridiculous costume ball
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shift Captains is a fond of arrangement. I remember we were at the bar
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together. You were a pirate at of course, yes, you were a
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clown. The ball was loaded with clowns, some of them not even aware
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of their clownishment. But it was gay and srightly the music. I remember
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our conversation. Doctor. You suddenly appeared at my elbow and said, in
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the most shivery, sinister manner. You know, Templar, I have a
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confession to mix to you. Well, I'm always interested in confession, the
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doctor. I've had a schoolboy crush on the beautiful Barbara ever since I saw
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her and pictures first, Tell me what does one do about it? Well,
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I know exactly what I would do if I were you, doctor.
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Yes, I can doubt the nearest by kent at the prices we judged.
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I think I was hoping you'd cut it fellow in on your acquaintanceship, Templar.
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But if you want to reduce me, won't you at least show me
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which mask she's heading under? I think I might be able to make my
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own introduction. Very well, doctor, look for a self like figure in
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a blue and yellow holloquin costume. Thank you, Templar, Thank you,
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And if you should ever need a good sick ay as the crisis you try,
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that'll be seen. Don't turn around, mister Temper. I have a
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pistol and a smaller back, and I really is that any way to enjoy
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a wall in Saint Andason hard? Well, I'm all he is except for
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the small of my back, which fields abnormally large at the moment, an
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arrangements of the made saints, I mean a big hit of lettuce. If
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they go through all the signs, say keep up, say that you do
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now, don't turn around. It's custom so pretty. I'd hate to have
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to put a hole from my pocket. Well, it's probably just a coincidence,
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but I've acquired the same regard for the small of my back. Keep
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regarding it that a way, saint, don't let on nose, wonder where
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it doesn't belong, And you might again, but for getting you saw certain
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people go to this boat. See just tell me how you're going to swing
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it? Missus Miller wouldn't be surprised. I'd recognize the notorious Lil Miller's voice
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on a party line. How are you going to take him? Little U
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palm days? Or or to have the mark deck? He sing just a
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touch and your little little what's the matter? Little? You're lucky saying not
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a shot deep? Are heir? No crowd howd all you want to?
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She won't mind now, is she? Yes? It's the letto in the
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back leaves very little doubts she's dead. You're no Simon. I would never
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have faced, say late missus Miller for a professional card shop. She wants
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anything but the type professional card shops always anything but the type. Doctor.
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Yeah, you think I actually played bridge with it myself with the cook and
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they hot headed when it said. Well, because my old grandmother used to
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say, doctor, beware of lady thieves with red hair. I guess the
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lady's red hair accounted for the lack of insulation and her temperaments. How does
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your head feel better? Doctor? Much more? You still haven't touched your
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senity, have I? I think you'll find it it help side here?
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Oh thank you? Well, you know, shortly after the murder of missus
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Miller, doctor I called on her bereaved husband than the partner in crime.
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A very interesting visitor was you have the next for making all of your visits
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in the Simons? And I found Miller in the bar quenching his stara with
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the merry waters of the river of forgetful fifty grand in the palm of our
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hands and beep, No more limb, no more lil, no more sucker,
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no more sucker, Beep, no more fifty grand I see you valued
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your wife Highley, who was the sucker? Miller? Ah, you're funny.
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Tell me what's still Raider cruising for Miller? And don't tell me it's
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a coincidence he's on board the same ship. You get funnier and funnier.
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Why is Barbara Brooks so afraid of Raider? You ain't even warm? Thanks,
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You're a mile wide of the target and I'd better use a different kind
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of ammunition than manner. Yeah, like what like a little murder performed on
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an unwilling sucker in Reno? Well you know about that. You won't like
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going back to Reno, Miller. It gets hot in the summer time,
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especially in the penitential Well Raider with fillowing me on this deal, he I
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wasn't gonna say anything, feel honest. I was just Miller. I always
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knew someday you'd choken their yellow. I thought you and I had a little
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understanding. Saint. You've got a reputation for wrong thoughts, Rader. Yeah,
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but right or wrong, I've backed my ideas up to the hill.
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Keep that frog stick around the cover raider I might take it away from and
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the Dutch courage that rides with it too. I'll keep it hidden. And
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now you just be careful of the places where the lightstone shine saints. Come
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on, and I want to talk with you, well, I'll be out
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in a little wild phil. I want to drink dunk enough. Come on,
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you'd better go, Miller. And if you can't talk your way out
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of it, my regards to the fishes, and I recall it well.
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Shortly after, mister Leder passed on his second warning that you and I met
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for the first time professional, Yes, doctor, the very next night,
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and I am very surprised at you. He'd want you to stay away from
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that place, yes doctor, so he had. But I'm perverse by nature
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and I like to poke around. I was strolling around the deck with Barbara,
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getting moon burned and trying desperately to get some more information. So wonderful
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having you near, as Simon, I feel, say, hey, I
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refuse to accept the compliment, particularly on a moonlit night at sea. I'm
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offerring to danger, Simon, not remain of from the very same thing.
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I'd like to join the team Barbara, why don't you read, because if
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I did, we'd spost be dead that morning. I'm not going to organize
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silent good night. Don't turn around, Setler. I've got a I know,
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I've gun pointed at the small of my back. That's it. Now
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keep away from Barbara Brooks. Am I clear? Clear enough? Anything else?
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Yeah? Just so it sinks in sink. Take this along the rate
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Later on the fire once again, you went to the picture doctor Norman.
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You found me there, lying on the deck, basking in moonlight and blood.
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He go on, Simon, tell me the rest of it. Well,
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after your neat job of balconizing me, thus saving me a trip to
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the ship's doctor and innumerable words of explanation, I hit upon a strategy,
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and my next visit found me calling in the lions den. WHOA, I
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tell you, you're being made a Patsy raider. You're on the verge of
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being demoted back to second class hoodlum. I can take care of myself,
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and I admit a minor sandbagging committed in your good name doesn't amount too much
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rader. But what if the same someone likes your name it designs to use
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it in other ways? What do you mean? I mean murder? You're
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a lead pipe stinch to pay for one of your own someday, rader.
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But meanwhile, how would you feel gett hung for somebody else's Shenanigan? I'd
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vienna you sure word. Look, I'm not rigged up with no murder.
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Saint Little meant fifty grand U's alive. That's what we figured. The sucker
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was good for. Man, that's a good enough reason for wanting lil among
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the present instead of the late raider. Tell me what was the angle,
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black man? Nah? No, nothing so crude. Saint I sponsored the
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party, spot him, finger him and oil them and the miller squeezing through
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a deck of card Guy's a sucker for good looking James and card games.
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That's all that sounds very uncomplicated, easy picked. The guy ain't had the
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coin long enough to be smart about it. Who's the guy he makes water
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heating the fat man with the diamonds from pathetic that's sucker. I should have
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tumbled. It looks like you did. I thought you were out for a
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bust up. Fifty g's a lot of money, Saint I figured if I
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could scary the insurance, how about Barbara Brook deal me out. I'm not
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in on whatever the caper is there. She saw you the day we sailed
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and she got scared. Maybe it's because I ain't exactly pretty. But if
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you really want to know something to saint, I'll tell you. I was
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propositioned on the stunt again staid Dame a few weeks before we sailed. I
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turned it down. The Big Dough too a deal, Yeah, big dough
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to bump her off. Not for me, though, Nah, she's too
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prominent, too much heat on those jobs who made the offer. Rader,
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he wasn't exactly interested in. Leave him calling court saying John Smith was.
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I'm concerned. But he had a description, didn't he? Everybody has a
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description? I sure sure he was a medium sized guy with the light who
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turned him off? Get down, brown tye blue shirt, brown tie,
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blue shirt, brown tie, blue shirt. Not a very harmonious cal scheme,
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is it? Really? Thank you? Rader? At least your last
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earthly utterance was in the direction of good thank you, round tie blue shirts.
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What did he mean in silence? Well, it means that either the
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man for whom I sirch isn't a very fastidious dresser doctor or else or else
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or else, he's color blind. Blue and brown just aren't worn together.
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I'll take that drink now, doctor, and I mixed for you your concussion
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later, doctor, later, Well, I can see that you're going to
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be a very difficult patient. I hope you don't mind drinking out of another
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medicine clouds. No, right now, I prefer it a little more.
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Doctor. That's fine. That's such a beautiful color. Hasn't it done?
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Aren't you going to drink it in a moment? Doctor? When I finished
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my story, yes, of course his study Barbara's murder, wasn't it?
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Yes? Barbara was next. But immediately before our last meeting on deck and
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the fog, Doctor, I found out what she was afraid of. You
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did, But how it was easy. The steward had some keys, I
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had some money. The stewart has enough now for that chicken ranch he's always
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dreamed of. You broke into Barbela's faithful Yeah, well what did you find?
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Simon largery, perfume stockings, and some letters, doctor, peculiar letter,
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yes, yes, and all from the same fans. A fan she
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was once engaged married doctor, A fan who loved her very much and hated
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her in equal proportions, who was so torn between love and hate he had
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to kill her. So you should know what do you mean? Will you
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know the classifications? You're the doctor? Oh o, color blind? Schizophrenic.
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I don't believe I've ever met one before, doctor Norman, so color
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blind. He mistook the green and orange holloquin costume worn by Lil Miller for
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the blue and yellow one worn by Barbara. That is very interesting. Poor
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little if she'd come to the ball as anything but a harlequin, she'd have
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lived to take him fifty thousand dollars. You know you were wrong about Lil's
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hair. Doctor, wasn't read it with brown? You said it was rad
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I wanted to see if you degreed. You said it. Yeah. It's
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of course handed to me, would you, doctor, they're alongside to drink.
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No, no, don't try to tell them apart that there are romans,
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doctor Dobby, is that there are different colors? I'll catch you tell
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you'll find it saint like very much for you to drink it, my doctor,
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What a pretty purple gun you're wearing? Or is it pink drink of
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tipler? You hardly feel it's just a dash of Prussic acid and doctor Norman,
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when you give a sedative, you go overboard drink it. Tippler,
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Well you're the doctor. A toast to you, Doctor Norman, to your
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green shirt, blue tie, and gray handkerchief, none of which match.
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Here's how my eyes you threw it in my eyes with a question of your
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eyes or my stomach, doctor, in my eyes blind, you will get
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over a doctor, which is more than can be said of me. If
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one of those shots of your should hit me. I know I shouldn't practice
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medicine without a lifenase doctor, any more than you should. But here's an
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editive from me to you. Pleasant nightmare, Doctor Norman. You have been
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listening to another adventure of the Saints, the robin Hood of modern crime.
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Now Here is our star vincent price, Ladies and gentlemen. In a prejudice
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filled America, no one would be secure in his job, his business,
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his church, or his home. Yet racial and religious antagonisms are exploited daily
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by quacks and adventurers, whose followers make up the irresponsible, lunatic fringe of
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American life. Refuse to listen to our spread rumors against any race or religion
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helped to stamp out prejudice in our country. Let's judge our neighbors by the
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character of their lives alone, and not on the basis of their religion or
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origin. This is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again next week at
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the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night. The
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Light script of The Saint was written by Michael Kramoy. Our cast included Buddy
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lou Gerson, Jene Bates, Frank Gerstall, Bill Conrad, and Barney Phillips.
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The music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmermann. The Saint, based
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on characters created by Leslie Charteris, is a James L. Saffier production and
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is directed by Thomas A. Mcavittie. Vincent Price is soon to be seen
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in Harry and Popkins production of Champagne for Caesar, co starring Ronald Coleman.
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All you Saints fans will be glad to know that the Saint comic books are
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unsaled all new stands. You're announcer, Merril Ronn. This is a mutual
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broadcasting system. Welcome back. I love this episode, just this one.
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It does certainly change up the format of The Saint with Vincent Price telling the
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story kind of opening up Immedia's race, but it works well here. It's
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a nice change of pace. It kind of reminds me of an episode of
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suspense, and certainly a different sort of role for William Conrad. William Conrad
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plays a lot of heavies, but never quite a one like this. So
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I found it enjoyable and just the way you can kind of see, you
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know, I think this is my second or third time listening through it.
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This the little clues that that were dropped as to what was going on,
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you kind of see that, you know, just very nicely done and all
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in the course of twenty five minutes, making a pretty remarkable and entertaining story.
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Also, you did hear the anti race as a message at the beginning
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of the show, which was something standard very strongly that Vincent Price failed about,
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and so you would those end messages at the end of The Saints would
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often be for that cause. The missing episodes of The Saint from the previous
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four weeks a political frame up, the baseball team shooting, death of a
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fighter, and retribution. I should also mention that, according to Digital la
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FTP, this title of this episode is actually the schizophrenic psychiatrist or a schizophrenic
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psychiatrist. I think that, you know, if that was the official working
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title, I understand that. But the reason I wouldn't announce that is just
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like Gangster District Attorney, it gives away the end. And unfortunately, good
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thing for this one is that they have something that doesn't exactly give it away,
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though you might have noticed early on, and so that's why I use
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that sort of alternate title on this one instead. Well, now we turn
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to iTunes reviews from just Josie. Listen to this app a lot at night
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when trying to relax. I enjoy the shows very much, I have to
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say, though I feel the host tends to at times ramble on and on
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and I lose interest. I have to work on that. Well. I
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hope not to ramble too much, but thankfully I save most of my rambling
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for the ends, so you get the show anyway. All right, Well,
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that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Easy Money,
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and then join us back here next Monday for The Saints starring Vincent Price.
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