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The Saint: The Big Swindle (EP1587) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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let's go ahead and we'll get into today's episode of The Saint. The original
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air date is February the twenty fifth of nineteen fifty one, and I do
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want to assure you in advance this isn't a Dragnet crossover, but the title
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is The Big Swindle The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The
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Saint based on characters created by Leslie Charterers and known to millions from books,
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magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood of modern crime now comes transcribed
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to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint.
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Just a moment, Eh, are you Simon Templar the man they call a
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saint? Yes? I am? Who am I? What do I get
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if I come up with a correct answer? Let me no, I'll show
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you now you're in if you're carrying your laundry in that little black bag,
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Jack Benny, I said, I'll show you. Yeah, Oh, laundry
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never looked like this. Don't touch just look. It's almost all big bills.
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The whole bag full of big bills. What did you do? Said
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your card? Honest John, That's what I want you to tell me.
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You mean you don't know how you got all this money. I don't know
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anything that goes for who I am, where I came from, where I'm
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going. I see an hour ago, I woke up in the taxi we're
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driving through the park. I got a bump on the head the size of
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an ostrich egg in this bag full of sugar beside me. When I wake
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up from a bump on the head. I'm lucky if I find an aspirin
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beside me. I got no wallet, no papers, no keys, not
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even a match. But my pockets they're empty and sows my head. I
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remember nothing. Your cab driver, I was waiting for me downstairs, he
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says. He picked me up on a midtown street. Says I gave him
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a ten spot to drive me through the park where I took a nap so
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for one thousand dollars from this joy jammed bag. Saint, who am I,
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my friend? I'm afraid you have amnesia. You'd better tear some doctor
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away from his cigarette test and have yourself looked at your nuts. You go
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to a doctor with a knock on your knock, and the doctor calls the
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cops. The cops come calling and write your own finish. You don't like
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cops with a head like I'm wearing. I'm not even positive I hate spinach.
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It isn't what I might think of cops. It's important, Saint,
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it's what they might think of me. You mean the money, I mean
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exactly nothing else. Anybody carrying this kind of dough these days is neither been
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stealing from a banker holding out on the government. No hospital saint, no
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doctors, no cops, no explanations, no jails. You me, You
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once again sink for a thousand bucks? Who am I all right? One
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thousand dollars goes to the Red Cross in anticipation of the day that I become
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a national disaster. You just made a deal. It's for you. You'd
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better go into my guest room, lock yourself and your money in and sleep
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off that bump. Huh before it grows into another head and wants to know
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who it is you find sleeping pills in the medicine chest. If you need
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him, I'll need them. You're going somewhere. I want to see if
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that cab driver left his meter running. Thanks a lot, Miss Temper,
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very welcome, mister. I can't help you there at the time being,
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I'll just call you mister sugar. Mister. All I know is the guy
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climbs in the cab at forty eight, Madison, hands me a ten spot,
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tells me to take it off through the park while he snatches forty.
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He handed you the money before you took him riding. Yeah before let me
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have how come because I didn't want him in my cabin. That's how come
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the way he was bothering and weaving, I thought he was lushed. I
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didn't want no trouble with no drunks. They had a little argument, a
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little discussion. Then he takes out a ten dollar bill and forces it on
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me. So I stopped discussing and stop driving. The ten dollar bill.
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He took it out of his pocket. Huh. If you know one the
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other place a guy can carry his, don't let me know. And I'll
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take the bill off of my wife's neck when we go to bed nights.
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Huck, what's the matter You think I'm lying? You're not lying. Now.
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I know how my old grandmother felt when the medicine man swore that the
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snake oil would cure her rheumatism. Having trouble finding out what the score is,
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Eh, I don't care what the score is. I'd just like to
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know what the game is. Wow. Wow, here he is your long
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lad's Yeah, and I'm very glad they saw so you were waiting for me.
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Yeah, we've seen you chatting with the cab push outside Saint. We
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didn't want it to rupt, so we come here to do her to awake
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you. We want to have a chat to with your sat what you please
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now, one ahead at the time. Now once we chat about oh man,
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which man man we've been shagging? Shagging he means, following the guys
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in your apartment. Now when we've oiled the bush and tell him the bush
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has a reaction. Right while he's talking to him, I can understand it.
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I did a little sick man sold. The boss says, we should
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call it. You want to ask your politely, No, badge, so
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he said, first ask him politely. Oh, thank you, cecil.
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So we are asking politely, So why don't you politely tell us? Look,
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if you boys are auditioning a new television act, radio city went that
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away. We almost do a lot of politely sni we hally got one good
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man and left. So what goes with the man in your apartments? Ain't
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the boss that she wants to know? The boss says he got to know.
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The boss says he don't want that. All trouble with a loss should
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start up again? Badge, are you're talking too much? I apologize,
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sane, you are not talking enough. Now politely for the final time.
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The man with the black bag, what's he up to? Yeah? And
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what's he carrying? In a bag mustache, wag mustache, wag. It's
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a new kind of mustache wax. Imoginized he dropped in to give me a
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free home demonstration. Why don't give us none of that? You name got
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a mustard, but he said he didn't mind waiting. Oh damn, Basil,
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Shall you hold him while I hit him? Or shall I hold him
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while you hit him? Not you? Mike the choice? No, no
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badgel lions broken? He hello, boss, Hello, Hey, you're just
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in time to accept my thank you? Yeah for making me a member of
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the Thug of the Month club. To think of all the honey I've been
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wasting on gymnasiums. From where I sat, it didn't look wasted. Go
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and beat it, boys, I'll talk to you later. So bus were
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trying to be light then, well, yeah, yeah, beat it,
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beat it. You know me template not as well as I would if I
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bet on horse races. Thank O'Connor. You're a bookmaker when you don't know
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me at all, Saint, I'm not a bookmaker. I'm the bookmaker and
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bully for you. We'll get right to the heart of the thing. Ain't
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how much I've got nothing to say or try. Macys let's be a little
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realistic template. The way you live, the way you dress. You know
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you got that dollar. Look, all you gotta do is tell me,
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in fifty words or less, what I want to know about your guest inside
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and the big cash prize is yours. What's he up to? He doesn't
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know either, he says, Oh, come on, feller, give a
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little. Do I have to start mentioning amount so you can mention any amounts
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of amounts you want? I have nothing to sell you O'Connor. All right,
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okay, if that's the way you want to play the hand, but
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you won't hold out along. I've found that people and race horses have one
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important thing in common. They both have a price. And then right by
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me with your impossible questions and make a deal with citation. Not a deal
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will be with you, saying, and if my money won't make the record,
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spend the boys have a way all day? Wrong? Mmm, yes,
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the boys. It's too bad they weren't able to stick around and play
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a little longer. But I guess the zoo was getting anxious, or you'll
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be seeing them again soon, insane, Maybe you'd better start getting anxious.
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Oh love, what thou and I with fate conspire to change the sorry scheme
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of things entire not shatter it to bits. And then anyone who recites omark
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I am to a highball either loves omark I am or loves highball. I'm
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happy to say that I love and I'm faithful to both. And what brings
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the great Saint, the scourge of the wicked, the nemesis of evil to
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this humble drinking place. I have a brain to pick with you, American
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whose brain? Your brain? Ah, you've made a wise choice? Do
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we haggle about price? Or is it the usual? Price? Is what
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it always is? Splendid, splendid. I will accept payment now, yeah,
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a bottle of bourbon for my friend, one of the stamped for services
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rendered. Ah yeah, yeah, thank you, and now render friend at
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your service. Friends, Now, which branch of my fabulous brain if you
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purchase memory branch Mice and Men Division, Department of Thugs and Bookmakers to file
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on Frank O'Connor Frank O'Connor born in Boston in nineteen twelve, father which brings
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us up to recent years and in old trouble with the law that he doesn't
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want it stared up again to quote a thug named Basil in the case of
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the missing paint man Pain. Let's have that in Wallsteime, George Payne Pain's
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paints. He liked to play the horses. He didn't like to pay the
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bookmaker. He didn't mind making promises, though. When was this a couple
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of years ago? He owed O'Connor what could easily have been the annual budget
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of a small Latin American republic. How did it all come out? He
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disappeared, disappear like the buttons on a shirt and a ten cent launder.
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It created quite a splash, sir, how come you were in Las Vegas
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at the time? The hotel Flamingo I believe it was Roum two ten and
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the lady you liked in the floor show was named Ibomb. Yeah, Sam
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Day, when you had time, would you mind writing my memoir? But
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right now, let's go on with the opera. Yeah. The police found
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out about Paine's debt to O'Connor. They picked O'Connor up, grilled in medium
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rare, made him very uncomfortable, found they couldn't pin anything on him,
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turned him loose and pain Where are the snows of yesteryear? The popular theory
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is that he is a victim of Avenesia somewhere Anesia. He'd had it twice
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before, his doctor said, so be kind to the next bomb who asks
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for a handout. Simon, he may own a million dollar paint factory in
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Long Island City. Any relative wife, much younger, much prettier too.
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They tell me she's running the paint factory now, bigger and better than ever.
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That's all clothes file, And I got my money's right, naturally,
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I do have a remarkable brain down that fabulous anytime, mister temporary time.
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I am here at my office every day. Excuse me, you're excused,
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but with reluctance, I'd like to get by, Please you get by anyway.
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Look, I'm a very busy woman. I have no intention of standing
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here on a catwalk suspended over a thousand gallon vat of boiling risin while a
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stranger throws passes at me. So that's what's boiling in that outsized tub.
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Blow us huh, And I had hopes it would turn out to be a
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hot Tom and Jerry, see here, who are you? What are you
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doing here? Well, they told me in the front office that missus Paine
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would be back here in the production office, Simon Temple. I'm missus Payne,
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and if you want to talk to me, mister Temple, let's get
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away from the heat of that vet before my makeup runs. If it runs,
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I'll chase it for you. Come into my office. Oh thank you,
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Ms Payne. I'm here to talk to you about your husband. My
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husband. You know something about George. You know where he is? Well,
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let's just say I know where a man with amnesia is. At least
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he says he has amnesia. He says, I'm afraid I don't understand frankly,
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now do I yet? And what makes you think you? Well?
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A book maker named Frank O'Connor. O'Connor, yeah, and two patrons of
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the arts named Basil and Cecil who work for him. I'm afraid I don't
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follow you. In the course of a dull conversation, Basil, let it
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slip at their interest in my man with a paralyzed memory as a continuation of
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their one time interest in your husband. So you think that the man with
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amnesia and my husband are one of the same. It's the theory that I'm
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working on. If only it turns out to be more than a theory.
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Mister templar, When can I meet this man? It gets your head?
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No, all right? Only look, if you're worried about that resin you
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have cooking, couldn't you get some obliging neighbor to turn it off when it's
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done. My only obliging neighbor is the foreman of this plant. I can
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leave as soon as he comes back. He's my card. Thank you.
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Oh, if only I could have George back again, mister Templar. If
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the man with a bump on his head does turn out to be my husband,
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I shall be eternally in your debt. That idea has some fascinating kind
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of tass if I say yes. Joe Foller Interurban Insurance Company, Oh,
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I don't need any I'm not a salesman. I'm an investigator of what people
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mostly Here. You've dug up a guy who might be George Payne. Yeah,
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big is I have a big telephone. Missus. Payne called me right
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after you left her. I'd like to have a talk with this guy who
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might be George Payne. Come on in, Faller. There's anything left to
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the guy. When I get through with him, it's yours. You don't
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sound happy about this character. No, and I won't be until I know
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why he's pretending to have amnesia, pretending Yeah, why is the insurance company
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dipping an oar into this quarter of a million bucks? Good reason? Two
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hundred and fifty thousand good reasons. That's the amount you won't have to pay
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if mister Payne is still living. That's it. Come and meet my guest.
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I'd like to very much, mister sugar. You didn't luck hanging from
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the uh wait, committed suicide? Yeah, it looksact way. I was
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supposed to look that way. But if he could talk, I think he'd
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tell us he's been murdered. Cheerful place, isn't it? Fire Waiting rooms
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of morgues aren't supposed to be cheerful. You're pretty sure that the unfortunate victim
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is pain, aren't you? Oh? I didn't say that, Saint.
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I said he fits the physical description. But if the lovely missus Pain should
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tell us that she is satisfied with the identification at the court is her husband,
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then what And in all likelihood the insurance company will be equally satisfied.
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And two hundred and fifty thousand dollars moves from your pocket to hers. That's
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the way it goes, Saint. When a policy holder dies, we pay.
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It's the basic principle of life insurance. You know. I know,
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but in this particular instance, a few things strike me as being a little
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too ba basic. What do you mean? And I can answer that partially
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as of now, but I prefer to answer it entirely as of later.
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You still think pain was murdered? Sat guess work mathematics the well worn problem
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of two added to two and equally four, only in this case it was
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ten and ten equaling twenty twenty. What sleeping pill? Sleeping pills, twenty
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sleeping pills, each one guaranteed by the manufacturer to make you dream of Eddie
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Lamar. They they're in my medicine chest. Oh today I'm stupid. The
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late Lamented knew I had dream pills in my medicine chest, even said he
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thought he would need one. So he took one, and it didn't work,
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and he lay awake with a bump on the head and a skullful of
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amnesia, and being mentally upset. He became depressed, and he got out
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of better hung himself. How have you ever hung yourself? Yep, huh.
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It's a difficult thing to do, and it's a dreary way to die
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painful too. You can swing and sway in agony for as much as five
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minutes before you pronounce yourself dead. But people have been known to do it,
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Saint, not people who have twenty sleeping pills available. See what you
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mean. If he wanted to kill himself, he could have gone after the
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pills instead of the cords. You are detective, But why was he murdered?
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Some people call it the root of all evil. You and I simply
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refer to it as money. This is where I get off. If he
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was knocked off for anything, it was certainly not for money. Or didn't
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you notice that little black bag was still with him. If the killer had
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taken the little black bag with its little green contents, the suicide he hoped
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to make everyone think it was would no longer look like suicide. There's a
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lot of sugar in that bag, Saint, and the killer could have so
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easily taken it cost him a lot of money to make this murder look like
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suicide. The way I'm thinking, it didn't cost him one red scent.
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What do you mean? Not one Chinese dime, because that little black bag,
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with its cargo of joy, every last penny of it will now go
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back to its lawful owner. Lawful owner, but who the killer? Don't
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think I waited any longer for missus Payne to come and identify the body.
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I have a sudden urge to talk to a second book maker. You're going.
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You're not interested in knowing whether or not Missus Payin identifies the guy's her
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husband? Are you kidding a taxi? Taxi? You don't want to taxi?
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Mister Temple does see Persil? No diary, not Cecil. You have
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used your head. He's used both his heads. Did recess time at the
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monkey house again? Boys? He is funny, is he Persil? He
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is funny now, Cecil. But will he be funny later? No?
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He will not. Person It is not possible to be funny when you are
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sleeping in the river bed and a pair of sea member Germany. I want
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you, knights at the round table, to take me somewhere. Oh,
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we're gonna take you somewhere. Yeah. I want to see O'Connor. There
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are some questions I intend to make him answer. You are gonna make him,
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Basil either this chapter, screw you or somebody already beat his brains.
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I'm saying the bus is awaiting in the cure, but I hope he hasn't
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been awaiting too long. This way, Pitching and Saint, we are just
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about and advice. You're losing our politeness, are we not? Sison we
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Indeed, what my colleague means Saint is don't venture to try. And yes,
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Saint, like I told you, people and race horses they both have
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a price. You wouldn't talk for money set up prices now a painless rubout,
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as against one that's full of agony, being far too generous O'Connor.
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They drive carefully, you hold again, you want the cops on it.
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I'm sorry, Boss, don't worry, but I will see the badger drive
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here. Yeah, well, Saint, look, I'll make the offer even
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more attractive. I'll let you choose the spot where the bullets go. Already,
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now that's two, Max frankly saying, I'd like to be able to
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tell you that I'll let you go after you told me what I want.
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You know, maybe with just a couple of broken bones here and as But
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I can't do it. I can't let you continue alive. You're too smart
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and unless you're running away, you off form. You've stirred up a fire
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I thought i'd put out three years ago. You did kill Pain the paint
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man three years ago, didn't you. Well, he owed me some pretty
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important money, the boys, and I called on him to collect and he
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said no, and the boys action. I'll stay with that. Yeah,
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there's two wapes of mind they made with a little too much action. See.
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I didn't want George Payne killed, just wanted them scared. And the
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pain up. The Pain died and the river bottom has been his home these
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last three years. And yeah, yeah, that's it. And tonight he's
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going to have company on that lonely river bottom and that won't be no mermaid.
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Ready to give me an air form? Now, sat not quite ready.
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We'll make him ready when we get to the shack Berg. Yeah,
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I'll be just screaming to talk. Meanwhile, then let's have some more of
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your reminiscences O'Connor. For instance, what made you so interested in the little
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man with the black bag? Huh? What made me interested? Are you
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crazy? Here we go, we knock a guy off three years ago,
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and for three years he's laying in a river. Oh, how would you
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feel if you see him or his exact dupe look at the same close,
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same everything on the street one day last week? I'd feel hearted. So
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you had the boys tail him for a couple of days. Yeah, and
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one of the places he went was my apartment. Yeah yeah, but where
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he goes twice before. That's what I get to worry over. Yeah,
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he went to the place where George Pain would be most apt to go,
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didn't he. He sure did, so he began to worry about it.
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Huh. He didn't want George Pain or anything concerning him to pop up anywhere.
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Yeah, Yeah, that's it. You worried because whatever Pains double was
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up to had to be a swindle, and you were afraid that the swindle
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might interest the police again in the Pain affair, and that you'd be on
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the carpet again and maybe this time he'd be nailed as Pain's killer. Yeah.
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I knew that you had it figured, Saint. You see what brains
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do for a guy, though, you were going to be killed because you
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got brains, Sam, Come on, Saint, come out, gid gain
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spare the boy's some bruised knuckles. What's the swindle. The guy who looks
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like pain is pulling h if he's pulling as any swindle right now, it's
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trying to convince Saint Peter that he belongs. Yeah, the man you're worried
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about is dead dead, You're not pulling a swindle. A little sightseeing trip
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to the Morgue will convince you. Okay, all right, we'll take that
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trip, Saint. And if the guy is dead like you say, maybe
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you'll live a little. But if he's not, you're gonna be dead a
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little. And I'm glad you're still here. I see everyone else is gone.
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Oh I dreadful thought of going home after seeing my poor husband and the
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Morguy. I thought maybe if I could work out, I'm not think too
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much. And what do I do now? Applaud the performance the speech you
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just gave missus Payne. Frankly speaking, you're just about as bad an actress
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as you are a swindler. Why how dare you? Okay? You're gonna
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climb down off that high dudgeon? Or must I push you? The little
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plot was a honey. It was so simple it almost works here. I
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dem I don't know what's such a simple swindle? Almost stupid. We haven't
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mister Paine, who has been missing for three years. We have a Missus
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Payn who is dying to get her hot little hands on a quarter of a
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million dollars worth of insurance money. You're in Shane. Finally, we have
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the highly fortuitous appearance of a man who looks so much like the missing mister
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pain that even his bookie gives him a double take plot. Make a deal
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with the double have him fake amnesia, tell him to call on the Saint
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and ask the Saint to find out who he is. I don't know what
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you're talking about. Give a man a proper bag of money so that the
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man can say, I wouldn't be bothering you, Saint. I'd go to
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the police and ask them to find out who I am, except that this
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money I've got is probably illegal. So the Saint puts his fabulous nose to
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the grindstone and sniffs out that the man is George Payne, and the man,
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of course, willingly allows himself to be murdered so that I can collect
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my husband's insurance. The man thought he would take over a paint factor,
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that's all he thought. He didn't know about insurance. So the man is
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then murdered by me. Of course, no, no, you and I
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were here together. Remember we were standing over that high that of resin at
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the time the man was murdered. Well, thank you at least for not
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accusing me of murder, mister Templer, I said, you didn't actually commit
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the murder, but your colleague did. So you are just as much of
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a candidate for the chair as he is. Oh, I have a colleague,
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gat Goo good imagination like yours, mister Temper. I'm surprised you didn't
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make it a whole game. So the man is murdered, and missus Paine
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says, yep, that's that's George Payne and collects all the insurance money as
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of now without having to wait that long dreary seven years before missing spouse can
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be declared legally dead. In plot, you should write comic books, mister
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Templary. I should, at least the murderers in that business are all made
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of ink. You know, this whole affair might have given me great difficulties.
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It weren't for one thing, oh what one stupid thing, the man
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with the alleged amnesia telling me he awoke from his deep nap with his pockets
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picked dry. And yet the cab driver telling me that he took a ten
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dollar bill out of his pocket a little unimportant and stupid. Of course,
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you can prove all the wild things you do. There's only one thing that
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still consumes my curiosity, Missus Pain. Who is your accomplice, the man
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who actually committed the murder? Well, all you have to do is a
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templest is turn around and you'll see him, and you'll see this beautiful gun
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I'm holding two hour. Yes, an insurance company detective would be a big
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help in swindling an insurance company. Stay off, sat, I said,
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stay, thank you give me that. Some give it to me, thank
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you. Run That won't help me in pain. Someday somebody is going to
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buy a can of your paint, and missus Pain, and wonder why there
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are buttons you don't father, Missus Payne, I've been called it before.
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What do you say we go drop in on some police. You've been listening
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to one of the transcribed Adventurer of the Saints, the robin Hood of modern
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Crime. Now here is our starve and some price ladies and gentlemen in tonight's
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cast you heard Joan Banks as Missus Payne and Sheldon Leonard is Frank ed Max
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and Tony Barrett were Cecil and Basil. Sidney Miller was Murphy Lamart Johnson Mister
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Sugar and Jack Moyle's Fowler. This is Vincent Price, inviting you to join
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us again next week at the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint.
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