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All right, well, now it's time to get into today's episode of The
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Saint. Today's program is the Case of the Blonde Who Lost Her Head.
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The original air date November the thirteenth, nineteen forty nine, The Adventures of
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the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint, based on characters created by Leslie
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Charteriss and known to millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The
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Robinhood of Modern Crime now comes to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor
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Vincent Price as the Saint. Taxi Taxi one hundred Sutter. Please it's kind
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of light, an't it? Yes? It is comes this time a night.
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I figured guys should order forty five hundred Sutter. Please mind you.
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I don't like to get voice driver. Yeah. Of all the cabs in
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San Francisco, most of them operated by drivers who mind their own business.
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Why did I have to get your cab? Well? I like, who
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are you going to see at forty five hundred. My name is Simon Temper.
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I am six foot one inches star and I have a birthmark on my
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right shoulder blade. My income for last year I was all right, the
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waiting the question, I give up. I'm going to visit a man named
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Clarence Quiggly. Clarence Quiggly, Clarence Squiggly. You're going to see this alleged
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Clarence Quiggly. You've got a collection of paintings. I like to look at
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paintings. Maybe that will seem odd to you. But come come now,
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no temper now, I with your wife. You'd have to do better than
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that, you know. Oh so how much do I owe you? And
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go away? Would you think I was soaking you? If I suggested three
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bucks, I would as one man in the world or another. Let's make
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it three bucks anyway, let's just be yokels and make it fifty cents.
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Here you are well, I hey, hey, is that blonde giving you
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the eye on me? Blonde? Yeah, the one coming down the street
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towards us. Oh yeah, best best foot forward. I never saw her
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before in my life. Elsworth, I beg your pardon, but that's my
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neck. You've got your arms around this man named Clarence. Quickly, driver,
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stop heckling, miss whatever your name is. The way you're strengthening me
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is a pleasant way to be strangled. But dear, it sounds so cool.
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I'm not Ellsworth, Dear, I think I can honestly say I have
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never been Elsworth. Dear, you're not. No, I'm sorry I thought
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you were. Maybe I just hoped you were. Don't you know Ellsworth?
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Dear when you see him? No, I don't. I guess, But
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I saw you, and then the name came to me. So I who
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is Ellsworth? I don't know. Well, I suppose a certain amount of
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confusion about who or what Ellsworth is is understandable, you see. Not only
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don't I know who Ellsworth is? Yes, I don't even know who I
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am. Now what I want to know, in a general sort of way,
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is I'll miss the Clarence quickly? Is going to field? Driver?
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Would you mind concentrating on your driving? You know he's liable to be frustrated,
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like I'm taking you and a lady right back the way you started my
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apartment. Yes, because mss uh miss X needs help. I'm imposing on
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your mister Tim. Nonsense. The hour's late. You couldn't very well go
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wandering about the streets indefinitely, especially in that hat. Is anything wrong with
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my head? Not a thing? No, it's very charming, and the
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macket also it resembles a bird's home away from home. Well, mister,
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we have returned from where we went away. Good you're going to keep on
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being a yokele here this time only half a yokel. Well goodbye. You
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know where I'm going? No, I'm gonna like outside of Clarence quiggwis I
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think the night he's a fellow, needs a friend. I need to come
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along. Now, there you go, Now take your hat off, make
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yourself comfortable. I'm so afraid it's quiet. Now, let's take a look
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at your bag mm hm usual odds and ends and a compact initialed DM DM.
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Does that suggest anything? DM? No, it doesn't. Nothing means
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anything. All I remember is being outside an art gallery on Sutchy. You're
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well dressed, compacts, gold, no latch key, which means you probably
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don't live alone, which could also mean you've been missed. Yes, the
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police Missing Person's Bureau, the hello, Oh get me, inspector Murray.
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H thanks, I'll hold on. I hope maybe they know about Oh,
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what's the matter. I just touched the back of my head, terribly painful.
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Come here, Yeah, bruise the size of what I wish my bank
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account was. And there's the cause of your amnesia. Hello, Inspector Simon
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Templar, mm inspect that your language is deplorable, Inspector, I'm looking for
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someone to blind Inspector. No, no, well maybe, but not tonight
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at any rate. The girl I'm looking for is around twenty two years old,
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blonde hair, blue eyes, heightd five for three inches and thereabout wearing
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a street suit, brown white blouse with ruffles at the neck. And what
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oh oh, you're looking for it too, and names Dorothy Moore. Why
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do you want it? I see, and I guess you've got priority.
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Goodbye? They want me, yes, it seems because I've been reported missing
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partially that what else do they want me for? Murder? Here? Now,
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try another cup of coffee, Darthy, I guess we'll call you that
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unless we get evidence to the contrary. Dorothy Moore would fit the initials on
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your compa. You stay here and wait for me. Where are you going?
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From the information I've been able to get on the phone, you're guardian.
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A man named Matthew Shreiber was shot and killed earlier this evening. You
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disappeared. That's all the information in the public domain at the moment, I'm
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going to look for more at my house. Yes, or shouldn't you turn
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me over to the police. Well, actually, I don't really know that
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you are, Dorothy Moore. I'd like to know a little more about the
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murder itself before coming to any decisions. You want to help me, yes,
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I need help so, because you see, what's so terrible about it
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all is that I don't remember anything at all, so I can't even say
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I didn't murder anyone. Hello, Hello, Wow, it's been fun making
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you good bye. Now wait a minute, don't shut the door. Why
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not, I'm coming in all right. I hate to see him crying?
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But who are you? Simon Templar? An attractive name, much more distinguished
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than mine. Well, what's your name? Walter's not the most glamorous name
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in the world, But I'm a butler, so I bear up. Good.
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Where is everybody in the library? They're so well bred? Oh?
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Who is in the library? Missus Atkins, the housekeeper, the Cassandra of
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our day, gloomy lady prophesying disaster. Yes, and of course there's mister
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tins l a strange fellow who spends a good deal of his time sitting on
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small horses and hitting a large ball with a long wooden stick. A polo
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player. Doesn't matter what you call it, it's no job for a grown
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man. What's his relationship to miss Moore? Hat's not start prying? Shall
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we expound? Well? To preach your confidence. He's engaged to marry miss
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Moore, if and when she's and if she happens to be innocent of our
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guardian's assassination. Now anyone else in the library. No, no, no,
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mister Schreiber, dear departed's soul is detained elsewhere at the morgue. He
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was shot in the library. That's a bad place to be shirt usually fatal.
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I suppose you take me to the library, can we? Why did
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the police suspect miss Moore because of me? You see, I told him
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that I heard shots in the house. I left my quarters on the gallop
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ran towards the library. Just before I got there, the door opened and
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miss Dorothy ran out, ran down the hall and out the front door.
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Is that true, my dear mister Templer. If not what I have told
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the police, Otherwise I don't know. Besides, it isn't good form to
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suspect, the butler, the library, surfac missus Atkins, mister Tinsley,
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mister Temple, what do you want? I'm looking for miss Moore? So
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young men are the police? Why a guardian was murdered? All his money
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goes to her and she disappeared. Perhaps she didn't murder mister Shriver. But
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you wouldn't bet on it, prepserve? Did I hated him? Perhaps,
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mister Tinsley there did not. Now look here isn't he priceless? Now look
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here such a typical phrase, So typical. I wonder if he can really
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be so stupid. I love Dorothy, and no one ask questioned that.
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But what is it about her that you love? The money she was to
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get when mister Shriver died, The money you wouldn't have got if you'd married
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Dorothy against mister Striver's wish. Mister Shriver didn't approve of the marriage. He
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well, he hesitated about it, but we were working on it and then
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became impatient. Now look here, you wouldn't again, I resent that?
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Good is now on record that you resented? How about Walters? W Yes?
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What motive would he have that makes you think he has one? One
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the hopeful type. Walters is a man with a criminal past. Whether or
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not he got tired of his upright life here, I cannot say it wouldn't
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surprise you. What may surprise both of you, however, is an odd
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fact. Dorothy Moore is suffering from total amnesia amnesia. What are you made?
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Do you remember nothing of her past? Herself, neither name nor habitation.
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Oh horrible, how convenient? Wait a minute, how do you know
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that I get around? Well, then you must know where she is.
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You've got to tell me, mister Tinsley is now being the ardent lover.
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I can't tell you why. Well, whoever shot Schreiber? There's very little
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doubt that Dorothy saw the killer, but Dorothy doesn't remember. The killer therefore
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would have an urgent interest in getting hold of Dorothy before she did remember,
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and making sure that she would never remember anything again. Well, good night
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you lovely people. Mh dithy Dorothy, Dorothy Dorothy? H Oh you again,
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it's me again? Did you like to play so much the first time?
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Where's Dorothy? It's more? Yes? Did she come back here?
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Stay somewhere? She was at my apartment when I got there, she was
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gone. She did come back here? She didn't ring, Let's find out.
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Tinsley and Missus Atkins still around. Missus Atkins has gone up to bed.
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I think. As for mister Tinsley, I imagine he's something the whiskey.
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I we'll find out. Tinsley. Oh it's you. Yes' where's Dorothy?
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You're the one who knows. I'm the one who knew? Did she
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come back here? I haven't seen her? Well? There is where's missus
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Atkins's room? Way, sir? I come along, Kinsley and like both
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of you in sight. If you insist, Missus Atkins will not be pleased
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at having a sleep interrupted. I'm not pleased either. This is her room,
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sir. Thanks. Oh, girl must be asleep, and then we
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must wake her up. She's a very sound sleeper. And then we'll go
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in and wake her. Wow, how do you like that Missus Atkins strung
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up to a beam. Anyone got a knife? Yes, yes, here
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you are. Now we'll cut the rope and get her down there. That's
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that she did. She's dead. Cool girl. Although you know something.
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She must have killed the old man Schreiber. I mean then she committed suicide
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in remorse. I mean Heaven's sakes, Templar, stop playing with that rope.
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This is a very interesting rope, is it? Why? Because it
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proves you see that she didn't commit suicide she was murdered. Yes, Inspector
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Marian, I understand you don't think that Missus Atkins committed suicide. I know
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she didn't. Well, while the boys are playing her fingerprints and stuff,
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would you mind explaining to you a poor benighted member of the lower intellectual classes,
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I mean a cop like now, Murray, now stopped pulling my leg.
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You're one of the brainiest men I know. And why do you always
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beat me to a case? Oh? I'm prettier now about this alleged phony
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sewers, take a look at the rope with which Missus Atkins is supposed to
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have hanged herself. Oh, I see the rope was thrown over the beam
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there. I'm afraid you're right, Temper. It wasn't hard to spot.
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Her weight would have pulled the rope sharply down over the beam. The fibers
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of the rope therefore should have slanted upward instead of which they slammed down,
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indicating that somebody put the rope around missus Atkins's neck and then hauled her up.
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We were supposed to think that missus Atkins committed suicide as a compression of
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guilt, which leaves us where in the shribe of home. I'm more interested
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in where the girl is drothy Moore? Uh huh? Why because I have
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many coming through the door. I'm not sure, Simon, Hello Dorothy,
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I don't know exactly how I got here. I don't recognize the plice at
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all yet I should shouldn't. Yes, you should miss more because this is
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where you live, and I'm afraid you're not going to stay very long.
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What do you mean I'm placing you under arrest. I'm suspicion of murder.
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You know I love police headquarters. There's so romantic, Mary. How are
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you going to prove anything against that girl that she's suffering total amnesia by proving
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that amnesia is a fake? Oh? How I haven't any coming over here
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to look at one of our guests. I'll have him seen this more too.
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He's due any minute. I'll go get the girl now, I wonder
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to the other door. Come in, Hello, Well you're not Murray.
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I was supposed to you dollar, of course, what's the matter with you?
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What are you complaining? But I'm come. We've got to get to
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the bottom of these things, don't we. I suppose that when you were
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a little boy, what did you want most of all to be a big
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boy? Are you afraid of the dog? No, No, you're not
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afraid because you have little friends who come to you in the dock. Perhaps,
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eh, No, Now why are you afraid of the dog? Oh
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it's a long, long story, and you know you don't look at all.
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Well, well, I don't feel so good either. No, you
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should see a doctor. Thank you, thank you, I think I will.
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Hey, goodbye. Oh trembler, Yeah, you're alienist was here,
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Mary, but he left Alienists when I just phoned him and told him not
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to come. The district attorney wouldn't hold the girl in sufficient evidence and ballistics
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and ran a paraffine tests, no proof, but she'd fired a gun.
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But the man who was just in here, doll, I think his name
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was, he's not the alienist. He's the guy the alienist was coming to
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examine. He's nuts. Oh, dear, well, I guess you're happy
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now that we can't hold the girl. No, no, because while you
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were holding her, things were safe now, Mary, let's go visit,
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no visit where the Scriber house a house where two people have died, a
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house very convenient murder. Yes, eyes, no eyes, Walters, we're
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coming in, Yes, sir Darthy's home. Yes, sir, she got
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here when ten minutes ago? Perhaps, well we'll go to the library.
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Yes, she got here ten minutes ago. And then she sat in this
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room for a few minutes, made a phone call and went up to bed.
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I had to found you, mister Temple. I'll wake her up and
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get her down here. Hold on Tinsley around in the guest room playing solitaire,
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ofughing, get him down here too. That are we? And Walters?
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You come back too? Sure having fun temper. I don't care very
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much for this stage of any case. But what are you doing with that
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telephone? Hiding it under the couch? Here? Are you being subtle again
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again? Ah? You flatter me? Hello, Dorothy, Sorry to have
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had you waked, But I wasn't asleep. I was trying to remember.
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You will if you get the chance. Tinsley's here in the house, isn't
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he? Yes? He is? I haven't sake is a man never get
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any peace, you know, inspector marry mister Tinsley. Oh yes, the
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policeman, get off your polo pony, and where's Walters? Now on his
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way to Canada? I imagine Dorothy get on the phone right away? The
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phone? Yes, oh, there doesn't seem to be one in here,
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perhaps in the next room. Why do you want me to fall? I
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don't what you say. Didn't they used to be a phone in this room?
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I don't know. I don't remember. Oh yes, yes, your
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amnesia. But you remember everything that happened since the blow on your head,
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don't you. But then, equally, of course, since you were in
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this room a very little while ago, and since you you used a phone
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in here, you should have remembered that. Why didn't you well, I
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don't know, slip my mind. No, Darth, they didn't slip your
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mind. You were merely being over careful. What does that mean? It
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means that you are not now nor ever were suffering from amnesia. Why should
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I pretend to have amnesia? Because you killed your uncle, you knew you'd
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need something to help you out in court, so you wandered about until you
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found someone on whom you could try out your amnesia. That happened to be
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me. You're just saying those things without proof. Besides, there was a
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paraphin test. It indicates merely that you wore gloves when you shot your uncle.
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It indicates I might have worn them if i'd shot him. You can't
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prove I did. I can prove your amnesia was phony that along with some
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other things. How can you prove it? Very simple? Your hat.
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When you arrived at my apartment, you took your hat off, discovered a
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large bruise on the back of your head. That was to supply applausible reason
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for your amnesia. But Dorothy, as I remarked to the cab driver at
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the time, your hat was immaculate, untouched. You're asking us to believe
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that the killer knocked you out and then carefully put your hat back on your
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head again, not asking you to believe anything. I'm going what a charming
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revolver, the one you used on your uncle. It still has bullets in
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it, So don't try to stop me, Dorothy. You didn't ask me
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how I could be so sure the killer hadn't done that business with your hat.
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I don't care. I'm so sure because of Walter's statement. Remember he
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saw you rush out immediately after the shots. All right, you're smart,
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but you'll never stop me. Perhaps not, but Walters, who's right behind
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you, well, or you can't pull me. It wasn't trying to Miss
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Dorothy. I'd better you know, gentlemen, you knocked Miss Moore out with
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a bottle, Yes, sir, But but you said you were going to
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can misunderstood me, Sir. I merely said I was going to get some
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Canada dry. Now the bottle's ruined. That's too bad. Oh, never
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mind, wald there's no harm done. Inspect Mary. You'll take this more
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and I'll take an old fashioned. You have been listening to another adventure of
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the Saint the robin Hood of modern Crime, and I'll hear us our starved
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and some price. Ladies and gentlemen. Next week, most of you will
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be enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. While you're eating your Thanksgiving turkey and counting
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your blessings of the past year, think, think for a moment of the
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Price, inviting you to join us again next week at the same time for
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another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night. The Light Script of a
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Saint was written by Little bit Is. Our cast included Peggy Webber, Ted
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Bonels, Jerry Hausner, Tom Brown and Daniel Hurleyhey. The music was composed
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and conducted by Harry Zimmermann. The Saint based on characters created by Leslie charteris
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Essa James L. Safier production and was directed by Thomas A. Mcavity.
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Vincent Rice is soon to be seen at Robert Leppard's production of The Baron of
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Arizona. All your Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saints comic
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books are on saleed audio stands. You're announcer, Merril Ross. This is
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the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back, a good clue regarding the fake and
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just some great witty dialogue. I love the let's just be Ycal's part now.
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Recently I conducted a poll on Facebook asking people which was their favorite program
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in one hundred and ninety the six that we're doing which they enjoy the most,
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and one hundred and ninety three people participated and the answers perhaps not too
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surprising. Johnny Doller came in first with sixty five percent, followed by the
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe with thirteen percent. The Saint and Dragnet were tied for
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third place with eight percent, Nick Carter five percent, and Easy Money one
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percent, which, in one way I guess is good because only one person's
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losing a favorite as we'll be wrapping that series up. But thanks so much
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to everyone who participated. I won't read through all the comments on the thread
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about the vote. There are some good ones. I appreciate everyone who commented,
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but Kate commented regarding episode thirteen eighty nine, says, yours truly,
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Johnner is great, but I had to go with the Saint when I took
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the listening. Now, while I do my chores well, thanks so much
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again to everyone who voted, and that will actually do it for today.
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We'll be back tomorrow with Easy Money and coming next Tuesday, Crime in Peter
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