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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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you you'd like to donate by mail. Well, now it's time for today's
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episode of The Saint, and there were actually five lost episodes between last week's
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show and this week's, so here now from November the sixth of nineteen forty
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nine is the case of the Unhappy Homicide. The Adventures of the Saint,
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starring Vincent Price, based on characters created by Leslie chargerments a non Familion from
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Books Magazine. From Motion Pictures, The Robin Hood of Modern Crime. Now
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come to radio, Darling Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor of him from Price The
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Same Waiter, Yes, waiter, Will you tell the chef of this unhappy
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restaurant that he'd make a better shoemaker? Get this miserableok, and catch It's
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called a salad. Don't but me something to take. Someone is waiting for
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you at another paper. I'll get back to him at once. Warn him
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against eating anything in this establishment. Tell him his life is in danger.
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There is something change about the gentleman. I think he has a gun in
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his pocket. More severe critic of food than I am. Well, tell
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the chef he better flee for his life. Do you wish to see the
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chef? No, he'll have to look out for himself, not the chef,
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the little man. Little prayer about it? Yuh ography. How do
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you do you wish to see me? Mister templar? My name is Potts.
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How do you do I need help? I'm the senior partner pots and
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Carter Jeweler's Extraordinary Extraordinary. Earlier this evening, mister Carter was killed. Too
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bad, mister Templar. It wasn't an accident. Oh he was murdered.
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Ah, I see, and the Plief they're picking you for Queen of the
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May. And you want me to prove you didn't murder Carter. Oh no,
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mister Templar, No, No, I want you to prove I did.
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It's no use, mister Templar, I did kill Carter. Why wouldn't
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the Polief believe you? Because they couldn't find the course? There's usually one
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around after a murder, you know some I restore this one. Dealing couss
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is a rather restricted profession. Where did you kill your partner in our establishment
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on Virshire Boulevard. That's the nice place for it. When earlier this evening
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and then you found the police from the shop, No, I couldn't bear
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the sight of Carter's body. I walked over to a nearby hotel and made
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my call from there, and then I returned to the shop. I didn't
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go into the back where the shooting had taken place. Yes, I waited
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for the police. They arrived, I told them what had happened and led
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them into the back. But when you got there, the coupared with bare
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Yes, with the temper no one had heard the shot. No, you
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see, it's a business neighborhood. It was evening, understandable. May I
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ask you a questions? Of course? Are you tired of living? Right
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up? Oh? Oh? You mean? Why am I so anxious to
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have the police leaving here? Because I shot Carter in self defense. He's
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a larger man than I am. He was threatening me with physical violence.
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I acted only in self defense. I think, well, I'll drop you
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at your home and miss parts. You've got a job. Yes, you've
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got to find your partner's body. But I ask yourself where you'd go if
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you were no, No, you wouldn't be going anywhere himself. You better
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spend some time thinking about your friends. One of them might have removed the
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costs in order to shield you. Or think of your enemies. Are you
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married? Yes? I am? Well anyway, an enemy of yours might
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have moved the body to make the killing look like well like premeditated murder one
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way or another. That's the part you've quite a bit to think about,
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haven't you. Well, My living room furniture is trouting or are you I'm
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Carter? Yes? Of hops and carter pots and corner One of us is
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in a bad way. Either you're dead or I'm crazy. I can assure
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you why I'm up there very well. I'll see a psychiatrist in the morning
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to headhands sleep. What does Pot walk with you? Hey, you've been
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hurting me, haven't you. I've been following Pots. What did he want?
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Nothing? Really, he really wanted to assure me that he kills you.
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He what kills you? Shot you? To amplify an already unbelievable remark,
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he said that he must see him safe. Well eccentric anyway it mister
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kind of? The situation is rather bizarre. A man confesses to a murder,
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the police do not believe him. He comes to me and asks me
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to approve him a murderer. I leave him and find myself confronting the man
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he claims to have murdered. It doesn't make sense. Perhaps it's not intended
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to What do you mean? I suggest you go to the police, identify
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yourself to them, and ask complete protection for yourself. I don't need any
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protection. Pot wouldn't harm a fly, but you not a fly, my
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dear follow The possibility of Pots really doing me harm is something I can't take
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seriously. Why not go to the police anyway, I couldn't without exposing pots
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for ridicule, and you solstitute for your part is rather touching, especially since
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he accused you of being a thief, of fealing from the firm to be
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perfect. He that's that, and I have something to think about? Is
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something to fear? You know? Now a man has already confessed to your
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murder and you're still alive. If confession may have been moonstruck madness, it
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may have been profiting. Good night, mister Carter. Well hello, hello.
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The cars they put out nowadays have rare and wonderful gadgets attached to Pardon
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me, but I'm trading a fellow, a man named Carter. Do you
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know him? Do I know you? Or should I? What do you
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think a Carter's cabin as well? In sight? Just a moment, I
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take my eyes off the cap for a moment, and I should what's your
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name? I'm Simon. No, I only bought this car yesterday. Are
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you part of the standard of questment? No? I go with this luck
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models only. I'm so glad I said for the extras. Care what doesn't
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matter and on where we're going or what we do when we get there is
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a nice ciet. See. Hey, hey, wait a minute, that's
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the ignition key. I know you've got the key. Well may I borrow
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it? No, No, cart's cat is out of sight. So you're
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cute? This is and now, Simon, what are we going to do?
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I think? Oh, hello officer. Now this may be a residential
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neighborhood. But it is. It is, But that doesn't mean you should
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play house. Well, we weren't exactly paying house office. I were trying
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to persuade the lady to return my ignition key to me. That affect lady,
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give him back his ignition key. Oh I don't here you are.
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Thank you. Now you take that ignition key and stick it in a lot.
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That's right. Now you turn it so you're doing very nicely. Now
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you've pushed a little button over there. Oh charming. Now you shift the
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gear at the first you release the hand break. You're a bright boy.
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The next time you go out with a girl and make sure your ignition key
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isn't showing. Now step on the gas and get the heck. Got it?
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Simon? Are you angry with me for delaying me? Not? Especially?
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Where are you taking your jewelry? Oh? You really shouldn't. You
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don't know me well enough. Which jewelry or pots and cotta? You know
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the thing I should My husband was half of it. Uh Uh hot door
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cotta hot. They must have a nice assortment of stones. What makes you
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think so hot? Doesn't that in your late baby? Not in his own
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marriage. I'm not so sure that's a compliments, brute. Huh because he
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was a riot. There's a light in the back. Are you coming with
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me? No? Why not? You think you're a hobby might be there,
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I'm broody, all right, Just don't hatch anything. Oh there,
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open the door? Okay, okaymer, how right you are, miss Carter.
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What do you want? Let's go inside? I said inside, Well,
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come in. But I know you weren't expecting company, the houses,
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the net. What made you think I'd be here? I wasn't sure,
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but it was a possibility, so I came. Now that you're here,
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I'd like to take a look in that back room where the light is.
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Where the light and I'd rather suspect the vault tembler. I don't have the
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stamp. No, but I've got a feeling you're going to Let's get on
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with it, shall we. Let's both check. Wait a minute, you
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might understand, give me a chance to I don't want you to come in
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keep walking? All right? All right? But what are you idiot?
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If you think aby putting the lights out? You Claire? Where the light
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switch is near the back door? I got it? Oh, lying half
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a car the doorway and I'm a mid it's blood leaking out from under him.
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Let's take a look at the background. Uh huh yeah, back window
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leading to an alley. Than so much for that? Now? Can you
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worry about that when a man being dead? Men before? I don't care.
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The husband might. The police certainly would. Well, I gotta go.
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He's got a job notifying the police. They wouldn't like it if you
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didn't. What are you going to do? Live number A stle operator asked
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the police headquarters, tell them all me. I'm going to visit with a
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man who confessed to a murder before it was committed. Curious to see whether
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he's going to stick to that confession now that the murder is a d I
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want to see mister Pott at this a Yes, I'm peculiar. I want
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to see mister Pott is this dow? I'm sorry, but maybe you're agret
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counter good heaven, sir, you putting me aside. Tonight you win the
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badge for alertness. Now shut the door. Yes, sir, birth five,
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I refuse to not they usual, but you're young, big, and
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you look as if you've got muzzled. You let me push you as bad
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as if you were a doddering old man. Why my father was a butler
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before me, sir, and his father before him. We're accustomed to dealing
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with gentlemen. We must be quite a come down talking to me worth five.
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He's not at home? Say sure, quite, sir, mister look
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for him as though we didn't know he was out. But I assure you
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show me well he's not in the house. No, don't look those mug
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missus. Potts isn't in the house. I you knew that, sir before
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you looked. Tell me how did she feel about her house? I beg
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your father? All right? All right, you've given me the proper outraged
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response. What's your name? And Anderson make a speech? Well, my
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father or his father beforehand, and I'll bet you they own you exactly what
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cooked with the master and mister thirty you what cook? Well, mister Potts
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is a very fine man. Missus Potts is a very fine woman. And
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you take the high road and I'll take the low road. Hey, company's
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coming, I will take the low road. Butler, who am I?
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I don't know? So good? And tell the police all about me when
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they arrived, and they'll be here soon. It'll give them something to think
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about besides missus Potts and Anderson. Yes, sir, you think about something
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besides Missy's Potts too, something like murder, sir. Okay, it's only
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Simon, Hello, Simon, business as usual here at Pots and Carter.
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Yes, usual enough. I suppose with kartera lying in the morgue and my
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husband where nobody knows he's looking for him for him, then whom have they
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in mind for Carter's murdered Burglar's obvious? What happened last night? Someone was
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burgling the vall Carter supplied him. A burglar theory was a great and any
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pleasant aspect. It doesn't explain your husband's confession. Now, well, he
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was overworked, he was tired. I didn't know what he was saying.
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These are fad that maybe maybe he's lost his mind something Yeah, I like
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that, or something better. The theory doesn't explain your husband's accusations against Carter,
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accusations of fact. I don't know anything about all then why you're acting
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the car last night? I was worried about my husband, about Gotter,
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and I always wanted to meet you. Why not the kind of thing I
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can about coldly? Like that, miss discuston warmly some other time? Right
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now? What about anderthon your butt? Then? I don't trust him.
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I know it's not done this year mistrusting, but this, but I have
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a feeding he knows more than he should, more than he should. Why
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don't you find out by discussing things with him warmly? I'm not so sure
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I like that. I'm not making friends today, just influencing people. I
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can't imagine what anison would I wouldn't know. Simulate your imagination by going out
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of the house now and working on him. You really think it's important,
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very important? I run along all right, but sure I'll lock up you
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go on the lady, No be at home starting up the turn. I
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mean you don't have to have a sin. Yeah there's the back door,
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m h locked and now the front door knocked? No yees? Now yeah,
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got your heap over there, Yeah, yest to take a care.
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I like my heap. Now, don't look now, but some little characters
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let the air out a couple of your tires. But then suppose we go
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for a ride in your cat thirty nine tall tower drive. Okay, hey,
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did you happen to notice the happy thanks to who deflated my tires?
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Sure? I noticed it? Why not? I'm under Oh well, why
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didn't you stop her? Mister? I'm a married man. That means I'm
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cautious for all I knew. Maybe you're the kind of fella likes your girl
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of the flator's tires for him. It depends on the circumstances. Caddy,
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not too early in the morning. Okay, next time, I'll know.
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You don't like a girl that deflates your tires for you in the morning.
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You don't think it's fun, No, I think it's murdered thirty nine felt
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car driver man? Okay, fall over here? Okay, I stop.
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Well, I should wait for him. We'll both wait for somebody to get
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to the hunt. No, for someone to leave it. Hey, hey
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miss it. Yeah, there's a guy leaving the house now getting into a
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car. Good and follow the car. Okay, too close? Huh?
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Not too close, there goes, Well, we go too Okay, going
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on a long trip, I ain't got too much gas in the tank.
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He's going on a very long trip, and yet I don't think he's going
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far. And space is relative, Kebby. Remember what Hamlet's been Well,
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I wasn't around at the time. I could be bounded by a nutshell.
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Yet count myself king of incident. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember it
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now? Were it not that I have a nice guy Hamlet? I want?
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I wonder does Anderson have that dream getting dark? I don't like these
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hills when it starts getting dark. Hey, a guy would trail and to
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turn off the road, drivate, driveing, pull up to it and start.
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Okay, the house is beyond the bend, quite near the road,
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Kebby. Yeah, I'm leaving you. Look, I want you to drive
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back to town since you hit a place with a phone called the police.
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Yeah, and tell him what to warm itself for a murderer. They can
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pick the murderer up here. Okay, pal don't love them? Where?
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Oh hello Anderson, fancy finding me here? Mister temper? Whatever would your
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grandfather say? What do you want? I'm admiring the country home of the
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pot. By the way, where is mister Pott? I don't know who's
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had a big friend. Stay away from that door, mansense. It looks
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like a charming door work too, mister Pott tied and gagged. I told
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you I don't accept it vice graciously, nor do I care for larger miss
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lantern jaws. But landon jaws are handy to hit. Now for you,
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mister Pott, or get the gag out of your mouth. You be better,
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don't rush it your hands nice time? Look out behind? Oh,
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hello Claire, Hello, so glad you propped in? You are? Yes?
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Remember I warned you about your butler. It was he who brought your
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husband here and tied him up. That's interesting. You should ask me why
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I suspected him. All right, I'll tell you. When I visited your
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house and met Anderson for the first time, we had a little chat in
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the course of which he remarked that I knew you weren't in the house before
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I searched him. Why because how did he know I'd seen you outside the
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house? And unless let me help you, do you feed mister standing?
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I will help restore the circular what so formal? Mister Kemper unless Claire,
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you told him. Why should I told him that? Obviously, because you
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and he were in on this little plot together to kill Carter and frame your
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husband for the murder, that she would inherit the business and the butler.
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You're shot. Timon was fantastically wrong, you're implying, Alison Kilcatta. No,
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no, He'll go to the gas chamberge excessively, do you Soca was
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shot from the back room. I was out front with you. You were
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at the front door. That's true. Carda was shot as we as he
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was going into the back room. His back therefore was two eyes. And
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yet if you remember he was shot in the back. Afterwards we remarked how
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he lay face uper with the blood coming out from underneath him, and a
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fool are you? Oh, dear dear, I was wondering how long it
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would be before you produced the pit. Mister Potts. Can you stand alone?
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I can't. I'm falling. If you, thank you, that's a
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good deal better. The police will be here shortly and that will be that
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relaxed. You've fallen to rise again. But your wife, I'm afraid,
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has deflated their last time. Now Here you are mister Potts in good health.
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Mister Templar, how could I have killed Carter and not killed him?
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Simplicity itself. Mister Potts, your gun had been carefully loaded with blanks.
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Carter pretended to be dead, But why should he have done that. Your
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wife must have persuaded him that by doing that he would escape going to jailor
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professed she'd have a hold over you. He's not a very nice woman,
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is she. No, with Carter murdered, she was preparing to have you
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disappear permanently. It would seem to the police that you've killed Carter and fled
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to the country. I can't thank you. Don't bother it with one but
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in the future, mister Potts, before you confessed to murdering anyone, he's
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sure you murder him. You have been listening to another adventure of the Saints,
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the robin Hood of modern crime, And now here is our star vincent
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pride. Ladies and gentlemen. Freedom is everybody's job. The Bill of Rights
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established our freedom and protects it. But freedom demands that each of us carry
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out our duties as a citizens, to vote in an informed way so that
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the best man is placed in public office, to serve on juries, to
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take an active interest in public issues. Remember, by making our form of
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government work better here, we strengthen democracy everywhere. Missus Linton Price inviting you
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to join us again next week at the same time for another exciting adventure of
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the Saint. Good Night. Wid script of the Saint is written by Louis
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as our Caste and good As, Betty Luger, Constantly Barak and Osburn,
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Larry Dodkin and Tom Brown. The music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmermann.
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The Saints, based on characters created by Leslie Joynervins, is the James
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L. Safier production and is directed by Thomas A. Mcavitie. In surprise,
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so soon to be seen in Robert Lippard's production of The Baron of Arizona,
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all you Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saint's comic book
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are unclayed with all you sad You're announcer Merril Rudd is a mutual broadcasting system.
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Welcome back. I love that opening scene with the Saint complaining about the
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soup in the hands of a not as talented actor really could come off in
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a negative way, but it really just it feels good the way that it's
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worked in and pretty natural and really does up the Saint's character and give him
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momentum going into the story itself. And I enjoyed this thoroughly. Even though
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I figured the wife to be the murderer pretty early on, her entry into
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the shop was just way too suspicious for me. Well, that will actually
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do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Easy Money, and then
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join us back here next Monday for another episode of The Saint. In the
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meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow
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