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three, Boise, Idaho eight three seven one five. Well, now it's
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time for today's episode of The Saint, and this is an episode where Vincent
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Price wasn't available. He was in Paris and unable to get back in time
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for the show, so Barry Sullivan takes over as the Saint. We'll have
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a little more on Barry Sullivan. We did hear mister Sullivan previously and in
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an episode of Rogues Gallery back in twenty eleven. So it's been a few
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years, but here now is the Saint with Barry Sullivan from September the seventeenth
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of nineteen fifty and the ghosts that giggled Vincent Price, who was usually heard
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at this time as the Saint has been delayed in Paris tonight by arrangement with
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Metro Golden. There you will hear Barry Sullivan in the role. Mister Sullivan
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can currently be seen with Lana Turner and Raymonland in a Life of her Own
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The Adventures of the Saints, starring Barry Sullivan. The scene based on characters
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created by Leslie Charteris and known to millions from books, magazines and motion pictures.
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The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes transcribed radio starring Hollywood brilliant and
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salented actor Barry Sullivan as the Saint. Oh I beg your pardon, sir
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or madam, as the case may be. Young men, Yes, I
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saw you. I'm never invisible. In September, You'll kick that bird.
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Oh no, why didn't he or she was browsing? Browsing on the part
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past. You realize what our native wild bird life means to America. No,
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think of the ruby throated bar blah, the scarlet tanager, the great
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crested Greek. Come to think of that. I used to know a great
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crested Now the man I knew was a Greek, he wrestles. The bird
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life of our country must be protected at all cost young man, at all
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costs, Madam, I assure you I would not deliberately kick a bird,
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not even a bullfinch. Well, all right, I'm ashamed. I suppose
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that henceforth I'll be known as a man who hasn't a feathered friend in the
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world. The beat of tiny wings will never brighten the declining years of Simon
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Temple's life. Did you see your name was Simon Templar? Not exactly,
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but it is You're the saint. After our unfortunate introduction to each other.
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You may find that hard to believe. It is. I wait to visit
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you. I wanted to ask you to help my brother brother. He kicks
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birds, or perhaps birds kick him. Warburton has nothing to do with birds.
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Warburtons. His trouble is well, a little different. What is his
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trouble? He's haunted? Madam, I have a feeling. James Ferber is
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the man you want. Don't be a resident, Thank your pardon. Warburton
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is haunted by a ghost. That sounds reasonable. And this Warburton, he's
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older than you are. If you're implying by that, is he senile?
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The answer is no, you're older than I am. But perfectly saying,
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nevertheless, he's haunted. I know, how do you know? I heard
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the ghost myself. It giggles, giggles, giggles, And I'm strongly tempered
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to murmur happy haunting, But I resist temptation. And what is even more
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dreadful? Mister temper? And of course you're coming with me at once to
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investigate the matter. Not only is my brother haunted, but he likes it.
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My name, I suppose I should tell you is proof text. How
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do you do? And my brother is, of course Warburton texter. How
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does he no? I guess he doesn't do so well, Miss Faxtor.
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What is his occupation? Warburton has been a banker all his life. It
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is not proper for a banker to be haunted, except perhaps by certified public
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accounts. It's temples. I should want you to take immediate steps about pronecting.
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Well, I'm not at all sure that i'm qualified to, although I
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should like to help. Something will undoubtedly occur to you. Something always does,
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perhaps, but in these latter years it's usually been something more substantial than
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ghosts, something blunder. Mister timp your arm if you please. Of course,
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Lady Charles will put the car away. Charles must have been listening closely,
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Miss Faxter, you and your brother wealthy modestly so what it's satisfied?
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The private curiosity. I've noticed that ghosts tend to haunt only the welfare.
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That's rather a characteristic of ghost or of the wealthare I'm not sure I approve
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of your speculations on the subject. We'll go at once to the drawing room,
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which is where the ghost ghosts are. It is where Warburton may possibly
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be the door you're left, mister Templer, hmm, Warburton is not here.
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And mister Temper, this is the room where we spend most of our
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evenings. It's where we've hurt the goose. If something's been bothering me,
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you said it giggles, He giggles. She giggles, And does she do
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anything else? Clank chains? For example? Or her blood curdling moan,
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and apparently not Warburton. And I heard it on a number of occasions.
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The sound seemed to come from the study. The door on the right wall
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leads to it. Now, you, investigator, Warburton did naturally he went
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into the study. He does a man should look after such matters. He
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went in and shut the door behind him to spare me. He stayed.
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On each occasion some little while. I heard the giggle again and insisted on
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being let into the study. You were perfectly right, I imagine Warburton let
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me in. There was no one there. I was momentarily unnerved, of
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course, of course, but Warburton seemed quite understand. As a matter of
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fact, he seemed positively happy about it all. Did you ask him why
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his reply was frivolous? He said that his age, it was flattering to
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be haunted by a ghost whose giggle was so youthful. This happened how many
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times, perhaps half a dozen. I wonder where Roburton is, and perhaps
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in the study. It wasn't a giggle, but it did come from a
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study. Yes, must see at once Roberton. Roberton, do you have
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a key? No? Never kept knocking let me in, mist the ghosts
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don't generally go about opening doors. Left me a way of getting into the
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study, the window overlook in the garden. I suppose we try the garden
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all right, it's this way, Oh, mister Templar, I'm frightened.
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What are we going to find in there? Mister Templar? Do you I
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don't know. I've never believed in you didn't start now whether it was but
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streams? It wasn't a ghost? Sure that? Yes? In a way
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I wish I weren't, But I don't think I cry the sc Let's wait
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and find out before Now this would be the window with the study. Yes,
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it's quite a bit higher than my head. Concrete walk directly underneath the
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window. Does it matter if the walk is concted? It wouldn't be any
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footprints on concrete? Perhaps not? It's the tempter. But do ghosts lead
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foot print? I suppose not. However, is there a ladder about the
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gardeners over there? Yes? Yes? Is it open? I think so
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we can try? No ladder? Oh, yes, it's one back to
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that study window. Sorry, the ladder against the window. You know,
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I've always envied fireman climbing up and down ladders all day long. It's templifier,
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all right. Up the ladder it is. Can you see into the
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study? Yes? What letters stand out of the way. I'm coming down.
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My brother is in there is I think perhaps we'd better go inside.
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We have a couple of phone calls to make, yes to a doctor and
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the police. Doctor. I suspect from what I could see that a doctor
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won't be too necessary. But you're calling and will at least show the proper
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solicitude. Something happened to over he's dead friend? He is here. You
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better take my arm? No, thank you very much. I don't need
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help. We had that's on make It was cool by the way, Miss
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Saxton. Yes, well, the police are on my way here. If
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I were you, I'd try to think up something to tell them besides a
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ghost story. What do you mean? Ghosts aren't generally capable of beating a
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man's head to a pulpe. The police will be here, they said.
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I'll run along then, Miss Dexton. Nothing I could tell them that would
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be of any help to anyone, I suppose not. I ring for Tom.
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I don't bother Miss Baxter. I'd got a walk very well, Thank
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you for having come home with me and listening to my ghost story. Good
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night, mister Campson, good night here. You are a rite, whether
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I want to or not. Eh, yes, sir, thank you,
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You're welcome ship. Hello child, he I thank your pardner. I seem
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to be sitting on you, not entirely, of course, but enough to
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know that you're not a ghost. I don't like to seem inquisitive, but
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you can speak. I can simon temper ah the saints off and go around
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sitting on law. I am not sitting on your lap. No, but
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you didn't, miss. As a matter of fact, I am now at
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the opposite end of the seat. Say what's your name? The ring?
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I think proof factor thinks you're a ghost? Do you? You needn't slide
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any closer to me. I already have sufficient evidence that you're not, are
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you? God? I admit that you have a delightful way of not being
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ghostly. However, I would like to know why Miss Thaxter thought that you
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were. Oh that's because she hopes I want or would be that right,
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and I pray could have grammar. Well, what are you good on?
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No? No, no, it's no that please? Yeah? Why does
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she dislike you. Imick well, but laugh You have a difficult time making
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him laugh now I know you were in that study with him. Your silence
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here or discussion. I wish you wouldn't say things like that. I mightn't
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like you. If you do, I'll survive, will you? Now?
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You're threatening me? Yet, if you hadn't waited for me in this car,
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I'd never have known who you are. And somehow it doesn't hang together
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because then I couldn't have been of any danger to you. It couldn't have
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been of any help. How can I help you? By handing the ridels,
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handing watfover the key, the key, of course, the key too.
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Please don't be difficult. I'm terribly sorry, but actually I don't know
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enough to know if I'm being difficult or foolish. Let me sitch. Why
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not right, I'm ticklish. If you don't let me search you, I'll
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scream you didn't bother you forget I've already heard you scream. Maybe the charge
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has. He'd stop the car and come charging that. You're probably with a
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wretch, but he'll hit you on the head with it. And it's the
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only head I have to my name, ah Loreen yeah, search me,
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Loreen. You look like you'd lost your last giggle. Naturally, you didn't
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have the key, but I told you that before you searched me. Didn't
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you like it anyway? I refused to answer that, And besides, were
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at my home. Oh I mean, I would suggest that immediately after I
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leave you you visit the police, and no, you tell them all your
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presence and Warburton study tonight. I can't because you murdered Warburton, Texter because
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of who I am. I didn't your Warburton. But do not not believe
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me because of who I am? Who are you? Missus Warburton Faxter?
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Carhy Temper. Your feet are on my sofa? What's wrong with that?
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That's too big? Girl? Are you an observant kid? Templar? Have
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you observed this? Oh? Dear? You know, I wish for once
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that someone would threaten me with a machete or a Malayan crease or an original
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Australian Sunday boomeranger. I get so tired of revolver it. That's maybe because
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you ain't been shot by one. People have tried and tried. Gonna shoot
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me with the other armor unless you act nasty? Oh no, I was
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the pride of missus Thrushbottom's dancing class. My manners are favorably known throughout the
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length and bread. Oh, if Lord Chesterfield's son had had a son of
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his own, he probably would have been me a stoppus. I can't contain
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my joy. Besides, I got something ask you be careful. Remember I'm
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not your best friend, and I might tell you. Why don't you get
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tired of making wise cracks? He's a living Who are you anyway? The
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name is Galloway and the feet of lodge proceed. Mister Galloway, Where is
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it? Where is what? The key? What key? You know as
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well as I do, perhaps, But what makes you think I had it?
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You went to the house with miss Accident, you as I did.
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But how did you know I'm psychic? You mean you were following. I'm
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a bad boy, and you think my purpose was to procure the key from
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Warburton. It's very interesting. One of us who didn't know before now knows
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the key was Warburtons. He also knows that obviously Warburton no longer has the
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key. Otherwise, Yes, he's very interesting. Indeed, exact boy,
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haven't you realized yet that you shouldn't know Warburton is now minus key. Why
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shouldn't I because Warburton is now also minus life. That is a very interesting
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fact. But it don't get me the key. You may get you the
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chair. I missed something, he certainly did. Warburton texed it, and
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we'll pretend you didn't know what's murted. I don't like that mended at Warburton.
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Hey, wait a minute, I didn't bargain and no death sentence,
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templar. How good are you at forgetting things? Seems like what my visiting
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is? No, no, no, I could never forget that. There'll
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always be a warm face in my heart. Oh, oh my god,
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what's wrong? I think I'm going to have an attack? Help? Yeah,
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yeah, hold on me, I shall Hey, nearly busted my wrists.
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I better to take your revolver. What happened to your attack? I
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decided to postpone it. You know what? I think you light it,
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but I'm afraid I did. But I have the gun now, Galloway,
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stay with you. Let's see why. I gotta get on it. I'm
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likely to shoot you if in the back. Stop being foolish. Heroes.
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Never shoot eyes in the back. Lieutenant cool I'll bet you never knew why
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I was a hero. Go away, Temper. I was just about to
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take my man. Oh, I can't be. They must have put you
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on the fact the case. I'll tell you all about it next spring.
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Were any keys found on his body? For sure? So with a safe
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deposit key among them? Sister wanted to know the same thing, and no
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safe deposit key. I see, cool? Did you leave a policeman in
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my house with Miss Texter? This becomes a shock to you and the readers
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of mystery stories, but I did. I'm placing myself one more question.
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Cool, If I had a key to somebody else's safe deposit box, would
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the bank let me get at the box just because you had the key to
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it? No? In that event, why have people threatened me? A
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sword? May tickle is applied pressure and involved themselves in a murder case for
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something that can be You have no earthly use to them. Templar, sell
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it from us. Yes, yeah, Miss Taxlor, this is Simon Templar.
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I hope I haven't wait too. I haven't been a street and I
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thought perhaps you might still be up, Miss Taxtor. I've had a visitor
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who, among other things, carried about a good deal of earth on his
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shoes. You know a man named Galloway? Of course I do. Who
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is he? My gardener? Chi tey at fourteen May, York, the
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privates, you please, that's the high class neighborhood. What are you going
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to do there, Louie, Louie, Hey, I'm glad to Yeah.
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Certainly took your time getting me into this, like, I'm sorry, Louis,
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but well I didn't have an occasion to call a cab before. Now
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is that so? Of course? Louis? Well, I accept your apology,
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and now I was uns again? Who's dead? The scene of the
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tragedy? I wait, you wait? About how old is this? Mistaxt?
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Middle fifties? I should think way I I just wanted to know how
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long I'll have to wait? Middle fifties? Not long? Yeah, my
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name is Simon Templer or for certa Miss texts expecting me? Yeah? In
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a drawing? Yeah, I haven't in there. I'm propos Why no grunge
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until later? Roficer? Hell he went, Miss Baxter. Sorry, it's
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so late. Kind of you to come and ask the questions. It may
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keep me. What did you want to know? First? How long has
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Galloway have been with you good many years. Where does he sleep? Garden?
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Huh? And I can stop and see him on my way out,
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Miss Xter. If you know your brother had been married, the police told
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me about it tonight. I hadn't known before. You didn't really think your
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brother was meeting a ghost in his study, did you? No? I
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would have preferred it to be that. However, you've never met Louren Anderson.
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She's cheap, mister Tempter, cheap and goss and you told the police
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about hearing her in the study before we discovered your brother's body. I told
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him nothing. It might have been safer too. Do you know where she
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lives? Theatrical hotels? Which one? I'm not sure You've got to remember?
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And quickly? Why? Because I'm afraid I'll have to be another of
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death before this is open. Oh. I think it was the the ex
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Brook Hotel, the experts. Thank you. Good night, miss doctor,
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good night night. All right, Louie, get out of that cab.
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Come with me where you're going around the house to the gardener's place. I
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wanted to pick you a few flowers. Now I want to witness with me,
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oh at Gato to the oil. You want to speak to the gardener
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about me? Yeah, this is the place, all right? He shouldn't
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you have knocked? Unnecessary? Unless I'm mistaken and I wasn't mistaken. Oh
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oh, you mean you expected him to be dead. Perhaps you'd better come
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with me, Louis, okay, but I just as soon not meet me
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at a corps. Yes, tonight they depressed me something. Oh beautiful lobby,
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yeah, promis and king like mad and that place to sleep however,
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mailbox pigeon holes, yes, yeah, I mean this real number is one
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eleven. That would be Ana Macarda. Because the back of the hotel,
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I imagine this lady was going to visit. She ate in her middle fifties.
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Good heavens no, and I don't understand her. Why do you want
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me along to stand? I asked this at the room, to stand outside
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the door, To stand outside of mister Temple. You think you can trust
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me with such an important assignment? Who is it, Simon Templer? Oh
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defintely you forgot to mention me in Lois. Oh well, then I accept
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your public hush. Get to one side, may I can in I'm not
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the company? Well, we will pretend i'm that company. Simon, Did
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you come because you wanted me to search you again? No? No,
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no, this time I'm going to do the searching. It's in Drew with
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the hour you obviously wouldn't have it on you. Therefore I look elsewhere.
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You think I has the key? Uh huh, I glad you had such
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a small kitchen at it takes a long suit, Simon. So salry,
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Why don't I break a bottle of real lemons you. I'll come back in
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the morning and squeeze you some more. Ah, hiding places in here?
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And finally, too obvious, where's your bedroom? Not just a minute?
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Well, that's a beautiful bed you have, lorring, thank you kind.
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So it's old fashioned kind bedpost with ornamental heads which which come on Simon.
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Follow bedpost string tied to the inside of the head. And at the end
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of the string this that's the key. It is the key that was safe
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deposit box. In the safe deposit box, Loreene, did Warburton keep his
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money largely in cash? I don't. It's a little lad for lyone,
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honey. Yes, he recently cashed a lot of bonds or maybe fifty thousand
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dollars worth. Now's your phone? Yeah, are you going to call the
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police? Oh? Please, Simon, don't call. I don't like car
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like Lieutenant Cool. He's real cute. He looks just like Willie the penguin.
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Won't tige him too, and he patted his hair in the middle of
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Lieutenant coop a Simon, templar, Lieutenant, what did you find in Warburton
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safe deposit box? How I knew i'd given you a hinds enough earlier I
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was pretty sure you'd get a court order, and you did, and thank
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you, by Simon, please open the box it was empty. I don't
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like the way you're looking at me, Ireen. Your window overlooks the alley
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running back of the hotel, so so get me a pillow and a blanket
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off the fig all right, shoved his chair and front of the window.
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Throw a blind do thank you darling. Now, Now if I pull the
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blanket into a roll, flap the pillow on top of it so it extends
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a bit above the chair. You were blind from the outside of it,
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look as though you were sitting in that chair. Maybe it right? Now
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you put a coat on and with me. Ah, we've got a bowl
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in a different kind of alley. I'm cold. Why do we have to
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stay here? Because from where we are we can't be seen, But we
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can't see your window with a silhouette on the blind and if anyone comes up
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the Gamley and I don't understand. I suppose you were an aging woman who
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owned nothing but an old house. Suppose you spent all your life with your
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brother, who had all the money. I suppose your brother then met and
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then a pretty girl, and then he catched in all this money and was
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preparing to leave you. How would you sell I'd be unhappy about You'd kill
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your brother if you were half insane with pride and anger. You're trying to
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have his wife convicted of murder. You'd call in somebody, somebody like me
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to be around when you discovered your brother dad you played a safe deposit box
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key someplace in your brother's wife's room. You'd hire your guard to threaten me
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about the key and then kill him before he could get frightened and blow up
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the whole scheme. But then then, when you realize the man you'd been
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using is a blind had stumbled out of a part of the truth, what
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don't you do? You try to wind up the case quick. I wouldn't
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you try to shoot your brother's wife. That make it look like suicide.
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Now Louis is at the door of your room, so that won't be tried.
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But the alley he is box. Yeah, yeah, she's coming down
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the alley, stopping outside your window. And then you'll the gun she's lifting.
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That's all we needed. Now I'll take that gun. It's a pity
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that your brother and Galloway weren't birds, Miss Baxter, what do you mean
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they'd be alive? You were so fond of see. I mean that safe
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deposit key couldn't have been a beny used to Galloway or yourself. But missus
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tacheda She had two uses for it. First, she got it a safe
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deposit box at the same bank, next to her brother. She would known
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to the god at the bank. Therefore she could go down into the vaulk
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and by working quickly empty Warburton's box, which she did, and then she
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planted the key on you. I'm so grateful to you. I don't know
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how can you tell you? Well, children say when they don't know something,
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Care will select a suitable recipient for your gift, and either way you'll receive
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as signed receipt upon delivery and probably a heart sell better of gratitude. All
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you have to do is send your money order to Care New York. Care
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will do the rest. Vest It's Care New York. And now this is
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very sullivant, inviting you to join us again next week at the same time
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for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night. The nice script of
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the Saint was written by Lewis Viddie. Barcast included Lourien Tubble, Irene Tedro,
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Hal Marsh, Jodovalla, Larry dot Com. Music was composed and conducted
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by Von Dexter. The Saint, based on character, was greeted by Leslie
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Cartter. This is a James L. Fathia production and is directed by Helen
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mack All. You Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saint Tummy
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books say that all news fans yourn ausre is don stam three times means good
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time, voon MVC, There's Hope, there's Gatcha. They're both returning soon
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to MBC Guest Bob Hope returns oc Cobra third, and you'll that's your life
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at Gratcho Mark beginning of October fourth. Listen while you hear the Time or
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Top Comedy by Bible and Gratcho Mark beginning soon on MBC Fan Faith and Ginger
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Rodgers and Theatergild on MDC Welcome Back. This was a station on our script,
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though it was weird to have a Sullivan stepping in for Price, particularly
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when Louie entered the story. We saw a very different approach when long Clark
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wasn't available a few weeks back, and they just made a story in which
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Patsy and Scubby worked on the case. But the Saint doesn't have any supporting
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characters with any regularity other than Louie. And while Larry Dopkin, the actor
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who plays Louis, could certainly play Detective le Louis himself couldn't really busy driving
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force in a mystery without some major rewrites, which they didn't want to do
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here, And so all of the lines were basically the same things that Pross
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would read, and it's just a little odd because the delivery is different.
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And there is a way when the radio scriptwriters were writing these where they would
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write it they do have imagining the actor delivering the lines, and in some
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ways this reminded me of some of the very first episodes of Johnny Doller.
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After edm and O'Brien took over for Charles Russell, and the lines sounded odd
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because they were clearly written for Russell in those first couple of episodes, and
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then, of course O'Brien would develop his own style and the scripts would be
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written with O'Brien very different delivery in mind. Of course, Sullivan was a
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fine actor, mostly did television, dance, screenwork. He was nominated for
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an Emmy and has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for both television
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and film, where he made some great contributions, most notably And the Bad
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and the Beautiful. And I saw him a few weeks back in an episode
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of Cannon, and he did quite well Over Radio. His biggest break in
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his only lead for any period of time, was his Richard Rowe. The
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original Richard Rogue was Dick Powell, and it was radio's first hard boiled private
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eye, originating in nineteen forty five, and he left the role after the
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summer of nineteen forty six, but a decision was made to bring it back
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for another summer series in nineteen forty seven with Sullivan in the role, and
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he just lasted that one summer, so that were one surviving exemplar from his
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run. I don't think does Sullivan justice as an actor, but this was
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a good story overall, some nice twist, and my only issue with the
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story was just weird to be having Barry Sullivan reading Vincent Price's lines. I
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did like the little bit with Louie complaining that he was coming into the whole
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set up late kind of a weink in, and ond to the audience well
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at Mister Sullivan will be back with us next week when we return for the
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Saint Join us tomorrow where we'll have Dane Clark in crime and Peter Chambers in
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the meantime. Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot need,
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