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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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dot net. Well, today we begin our look at the Saint. Now,
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for many old time radio fans, when you think of the Saint,
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you think of Vincent Price, and we're going there next week. However,
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the Saint had a radio history as well as a lengthy publication and film history
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prior to when Vincent Price took on the role in nineteen forty seven. Saint
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was first written by Leslie Charterers in nineteen twenty eight. He was a bit
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of a row. He was a semi reformed faith, though still would lift
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something at one time or another. In the early years, the Saint characterized
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primarily by the fact that whatever crimes he ever committed were against bad people aka
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the ungodly, as Simon Templar would call them. The character softened with time
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as he would do more sleuthing and any crimes would not only be against the
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ungodly, but would serve to benefit someone who had been wronged in some way.
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The Saint was dashing, clever, witty, with a lot of very
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light moments, and became a huge hit with the reading public. Moved to
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films was certainly a move that made sense. Lewis Hayward played the Saint in
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The Saint in New York, and then the film franchise passed to George Sanders,
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who really this was a career making role, as he played The Saint
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in five films between nineteen thirty nine and forty one really became that generation's definitive
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Saint. Two other movies followed with Hugh Sinclair, and Sinclair was really a
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somewhat minor Hollywood player, whereas The Saint was the beginning of Sanders career.
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The Saint was as good as it got for Sinclair, Irish radio was actually
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the first. It was the first country to have a Saint radio series,
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according to DIGITALDLAFTP dot com. Radio Athlone in Ireland produced six episodes of The
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Saint starring Terence de Marnay in October and November of nineteen forty Well NBC would
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follow this, and this is kind of this is a pilot for the series.
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Unlike most of the Vincent Price programs, which were original story created for
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radio, this was actually based on an original story by charterers, and in
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fact the first twenty six Saint episodes broadcast over the radio were similarly written.
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This stars British actor Dennis Green as the Saint, who would not get the
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role Edgar Barrier would, and we'll discuss that a little bit more after this
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show. But this audition was originally recorded sometime in December of nineteen forty four
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and the title is The Miracle Tea Party Listen for a Saint. The Saint,
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The hero of one hundred thrilling Yarns of Breathless Adventure and Mystery, The
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Robinhood of modern Crime the twentieth century is Gaius Buccaneer already immortalized in twenty five
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best selling books, half a dozen popular motion pictures, and countless magazine stories.
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The Saint by Leslie charteris brought to you now in a new medium,
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the radio, and the author, mister Leslie Charters himself will appear on this
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program personally introducing his famous character. Have you read The Late Saint has revolutionized
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the sat peak of adventure writing. The Saint is won friends at every corner
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of the globe. The Saint who made such men as P. G.
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Wodehouse. Right to the author, I hope you're going to write dozens more
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Saints stories. They're simply cocky stories of thrilling adventure that made naturalist William Beebe
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say, if I were Maru at the bottom of the sea in my bethisphere,
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I choose the Saints stories for company. And Humorist will Cuppy christened the
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Saint the Prince of Adventurers. The Saint's exploits have been translated into every European
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language. Critics have placed him in the tradition of Sherlock, Holmes and Raffles.
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But actually he's like neither. He is unique, and so I bring
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you the only man who can do him justice the author who first brought him
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to life. Oh, mister Charteris. But wait, before Leslie Charteris speaks,
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let me tell you that he isn't the gray whiskerd author you may have
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pictured. In spite of all the exciting things he's done, he's still only
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thirty three, and yet he knows what he's writing about. For fourteen years,
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he's been traveling and adventuring all over the world, and more than half
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the Saint's exploits are founded on things he has seen himself. But meet mister
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Leslie Charters for yourself. Good evening, mister Charters, tell us how you
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see the Saint's character? Well, that is rather retall order. Let's let's
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say that he has a sense of humor. He never takes anything too seriously,
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not even himself. Of course, he has his own idealistic motives for
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perking the ungodly in the snoot, But he really thinks it's quite a lot
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of fun too. And you let the public share the fun with me.
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I hope they do. After all, the world is full of villains who
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are to be jumped on, and I suppose most people would really like to
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take a share in the jumping. But since most of them aren't quite so
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quick on the door as they'd like to be, they don't mind letting the
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Saint do it for them. I know just what you mean. I've often
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felt that way myself. So what of these adventures are you bringing us tonight?
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The Miracle Tea Party? The Miracle Tea Party? Yes it sounds screwy,
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doesn't it, but it explains itself as we go along. Well,
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who else is in it? Beside the Saint? There's Patricia Home, of
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course, she's the Saint's beautiful companion in crime. You could put it that
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way, but anyway, she's been in most of the Saints' adventures. Then
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there's Funny Oh you mean, Inspector John Henry fernackt of the Detective Bureaus.
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He's quite an old favorite in the Saints series, isn't he. The Saints
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certainly has given him a lot of gray hairs, though they've had a few
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battles, but they really think quite a lot of each other now. On
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this occasion, Fernac's indigestion was what really started the whole thing. Is indigestion?
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Yes, or he was in all kinds of trouble. The New York
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Police Commissioner was running him ragged about some espionage business, and of course the
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paints and his tummy weren't helping him a bit. I suppose the story really
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began when the Commissioner was sitting in his office waiting for Inspector John Henry Fernach
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to come up on the carpet. Yes, Inspector Fernac is outside, Commissioner,
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Eh, send him in. You sent for me, Commissioner. Yes,
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I'm still waiting for your report on that espionage business out at the airplane
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factory. And my men are doing their best. And you better get some
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man that can do better. And I promise the FBI months ago we cracked
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this case. But you're laying down on the job for nick. I want
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action, I want it fast, yes, sir. And another thing,
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why haven't you rounded up this man, Simon Templar fellow they call the Saint.
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You can't arrest a man without evidence, Commissioner, and get some.
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Everybody knows the man's a crook, one of the most notorious crooks in the
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country. We've never been able to prove it, Commissioner. In a minute,
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you'll be telling me you've fallen for this stuff about him being the modern
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Robin Hood. Well, the things he does generally seem to turn out all
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right. He's even helped me a lot of time. Oh, fernack,
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you must be getting soft in the head. What's the matter with you?
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Are you sick or something? When as a matter of affects her I am,
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I'm suffering from indigestion. Indigestion? Why don't you get something for it?
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Why don't you get some miracle tea? Is that the stuff they advertise
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in the radio? Yes, why don't you buy some? I win,
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sir, I'd just stop in at the drug store on my way home.
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Yes, sir, good evening. What can I do for you and give
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me some Give me a package of miracle tea. One package of miracle tea,
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yes, sir. Hey you are, sir, And isn't there something
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else? What do you mean something else? What are you looking at me
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like that for? Come on, give me that stuff and take your money.
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Hey, hey, wait, hey, mister come back here. I
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made a mistake. Oh he's gone. Oh oh, mister mister quick,
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what terrible mistakes? A customer came in and I made a terrible Oh oh
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its on down the street. Hey, hey, you stop? Oh well,
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well, well it isn't my old friend John Henry Furnac the Saint.
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Now what did you do that for? And I'm ashamed of you, Henry
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rolling in the gusher at your age. Well you hit me. I'm walking
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down the street a lot and you hit me, So don't be an ass,
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Henry. I was just passing by when I saw a bloke in the
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distance waking you over the beam with a piece of lead pipe. I ran
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after it and he got away. Yes, I thought of asking him to
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come and have a drink on it, but he ran too fast. Was
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he a friend of yours? I don't know what it's all about. I
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just came out of that drug store back there, and I heard footsteps behind
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me, and I, oh, lord my head. You better go home,
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Henry, and rest That dentis dome Taxi, Oh taxi. Now be
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careful of him driver, he's very fragile. Sorry, I can't go with
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you, Henry, but I'm late already. I've got a date with someone
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much more beautiful than you. I suppose I ought to thank you, but
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I'm still not sure that you didn't suck me Simon Templar fourteen forty four Prospect
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Place. So long, Henry, call me anytime you want a body.
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God. Hey, wait, Henry, you dropped your package. Oh well,
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I'll just have to keep his little package with me until the morning.
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Hello, Simon, you're late. I ran into a little excitement on the
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way, Darling. What in the box you're carrying? Orchids? O?
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Pat, give me back that box. It's not mine. Tea a package
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of tea, miracle tea for indigestion. Indigestion, ha ha, so your
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sins are catching up with you. Pat. Now don't open it. It
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belongs to Simon. Where did you get all this money? What money?
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The money that's in this package of tea. It's full of thousand dollar bills.
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Look one, two, three, four, five, five thousand dollars.
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Miracle tea. What an excellent name for it, Simon, Where do
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you get this tea? Believe it or not? Inspector Fernac dropped it and
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I picked it up. Hmm. A few moments ago I found him being
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beaten up by some plug ugly I rescued the Poro buzzard and poured him into
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a taxi. Then I found this package lying on the sidewalk. This money,
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Simon, do you think it's real? No doubt a bit. Maybe
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you'd porl Fernac's life saving. Well, he has a bank account, Darling.
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Police inspectors don't carry their world the wealth around in packets of tea graft
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Simon. Maybe he's taking grab John Henry. No, he's so honest to
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run out of his ears. Well, let's see. John Henry had a
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pain in his thumb tumb and stopped into Osbit's drug store on the way home.
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My hunch is that he was handed this packet by mistake. My further
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hunch is that right now there must be considerable agitation going on in mister Osbitt's
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drug store. Please, how was I don't know? It was not a
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man. I'm over here, you fool, But how was I don't know?
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It was Inspector Furnic at the police department. He came in so quietly,
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he lowered his voice, just like one of our own men. I
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said, come here. I ran after him. I almost had the package
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back. So when this other fellow came along, and please, mister Osbit,
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it was a mistake. This other fellow was twice my size, that
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it killed me, that my friend might have saved me the trouble. Come
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here, no, no, please, no, darling, I wish you'd
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explain. Where are we going Osbit's drugstore in search of further medicals. There's
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the drug store right over there. Come in with me, darling. What's
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fun? Good eating? Sir? What can I do for you? Is
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mister Osbit around? Oh? What's it about? What's about this package of
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tea? I'd like to return it. A friend of mine bought it,
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but decided he wouldn't risk taking it, So I said, Fernaco power my
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waist, a perfect good half dollar. I'll take it back and change it
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for you. Did you say your friend's name was Fernack? Yes, you
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probably know him, great detective and all that sort of thing. Oh,
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I'm sure we can change this package for you. Say if now, if
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you wait right here, sir, I'll get mister Rosin Simon. His eyes
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popped out of his head. What my sweet do you hear how he grabbed
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the packet and scuttle up those backstairs. Os must be back there. You
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stay here, darling in the store. Well, I see what goes on?
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Oh miss, what are you bursting in? For your job is down
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below in the store. It's for next packager. A man just brought it
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in the store. Wants to exchange next package. Give it to me.
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Ah, you're crazy, there's no money in here, but he said,
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well the protheros listen. Who's there? Hello, little people? Hope I'm
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not interrupting. Oh, don't bother searching that box, mister Osbit's I removed
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the door amy and sealed it up again. Who are you? I know
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who he is. I've heard about that whistle, the Saint. That's who
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he is, the Saint. So you say, I want to learn about
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your business, comrade Asbit. I don't know what your recket is yet.
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Obviously it's something big. If you can give away five gran with a four
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bit packet of tea, I don't know what you're talking about. Oh yes,
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you do. Take your hand away from that pocket house bit, miss
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me. Oh boy, very bad manners. But if you want to play
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rough next, please let me alone. I didn't Joy Simon. Are you
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all right? All right? I'm having a beautiful time hospital bull the guns
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so I had to put them both to sleep. Come on, darling,
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let's go downstairs again and look after the shop. Let me have ten cents
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worth of cough drops please, and hurry it up. Ten cents worth,
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yes, sir, here you are here here, not all that? Only
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ten cents worth, I say, special bargain price today, sir, three
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pounds for a dime. I like some razor blades, now, why don't
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you try this excellent electric razer. But I don't want an electric razer exactly
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the same price as the blades. We are selling elector rais us for a
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dime today, So here you are, and I don't want to I'll have
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a dollar bottle here you are, miss it's reduced to a quarter to day,
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and please accept these bath salts. Really, it's very kind of you,
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don't mention it. It's mister Osbert's birthday today and he's in the mood.
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Simon. You're giving the whole store away. It may be loads of
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fun, darling, but where is it getting it very far yet? But
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I've really been hanging around here in the hopes at some minute, No,
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not a customer. I wonder how much you'd charged to haunt her house out
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of the way, darling, Yes, sir, what would it be?
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Razor blades, shaving cream, hot water bottle. I haven't seen you before.
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Then you should admire the view. Where's that USSI? Yeah, Oh,
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dear old Oss is lying down for a while. Got a headache or
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something. See have you tried our passion flower lipstick? Cut that calmedy?
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Yeah, you're party this prescription and find that when my my medicine will be
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ready? Come back at six o'clock this evening. I think you're your medicine
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all they're ready for you. Then checks your clock. Okay, Simon,
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give you this piece of paper. You call it a prescription, Well,
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after all, this is a drugstore. I look at it. Pat I
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ever see a doctor write out a prescription like that. It's a drawing floor
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plan of a building. Now I suppose we have to go back to Burglary.
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No, my pet, I think we run into something bigger than burglars.
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Simon, I don't know. I think I'll go upstairs again and investigate
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how sleeping Beauty is. Come on, Patricia, roll over us. I
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let's see what you've got in your pockets. Ah, there's a wallet.
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What's inside, Simon? Very interesting? Osbit has a driving license and a
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credit card, both made out in the name of Baron and Escue five seventy
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seven Park Avenue. I wonder if OSSI has been leading a double life.
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Anything interesting in the desk, Just these papers. They look like a lot
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of radio commercials about miracle tea. That's him. Well this doesn't look very
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sinister. Let's take him along anyway. Your babies are waking up, Simon.
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Oh, I've had enough exercise for today. Come on, Darling,
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let's go. I think we earned a drink. Make mine a miracle Tea
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in the soda. Oh, Simon, we've had dinner. Why aren't we
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doing something about Baron and Escue instead of sitting at home listening to the radio.
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Well, aren't you satisfied, darling? We are hot on the trailer.
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One of the most ingenious rackets I've ever heard of. Money flows like
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water. Plans are handed over a drugstore counter. The packets of tea gets
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spiked with thousand dollar bills. What you really mean is that this is still
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got you buffalo. On the contrary, my deductive genius is just getting into
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high gear. You know, I'm convinced that there's some connection between these Miracle
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Tea broadcasts and the racket we're on too. That's why I've been studying all
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these radio commercials you found in Osbert's office, just been waiting for the program
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to come on the air, and I think it's due right now. Good
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evening, everybody, Holks. Why not try Miracle Tea, the amazing health
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beverage which has brought relief to so many sufferers. Let me read you a
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few testimonials. Missus GK of Brooklyn rights for years. I don't see what
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this radio program has to do with Osbar's drugstore and the money and the plans.
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Don't you listen? And mister J. B. Philadelphia writes, Miracle
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Ta has indeed performed miracles for me. Miss LG. Of Trenton writes,
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Pat I was right. I got it. The code signal. It's one
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of the neatest I ever game Acraft code signal. Yes, it's so gorgeously
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simple. I almost missed it. The one thing I couldn't figure out was
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how the agents of this ring and you went to visit Hospits drug store.
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Well, this is how it's done. The initials of the operative of the
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Big Boss wants to get in touch with the given over the radio through the
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testimony exactly. No detective on Earth could trace the connection between a radio broadcast
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and the particular person who listens to it. Years after all, anybody can
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go into a drug store and buy a patent medicine without attracting attention. Yes,
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and then, and then the package contains the wages of work well done,
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like the one Thurnach got hold of, or instructions for another job.
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Darling, you're wonderful, don't you ever amaze yourself constantly? Give me the
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phone. I'm going to organize a little tea party of my own. Spector
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Fernack speaking, Hello John, Henry, and how is the little tom tum
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this evening? Simon? Haven't you anything better than do than they call me
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up at this time a night and make funny remarks? Seriously, Henry,
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if you're really interested in cleaning up this espionage business, just rush one of
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your squads to Osbert's drugstore, a place where you bought your miracle tea.
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Hey, are you kidding me so once? I'm not, Henry, unless
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I'm very much mistaken, a few other guys are going to be there shopping
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for miracle tea tonight. You'd better pick up everybody who buys it and hold
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him for questioning if I thought that, you never have. Don't spoil your
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record, Henry. Just do as I say and I'll get in touch with
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you later. I may have the big shot for you then, But who
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is the big shot of this ring? And I'm not certain, but I'll
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bet though that Baron and Esque could tell us something. I think I'll just
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run over and ask him. What was the address? Five seventy seven Park
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Avenue. If you're not back in an hour, I'll meet you there with
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an ambulance. I'm very sorry, so, but the Baron is not at
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home? No, no, who's playing that type? Added down the hall?
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Lind I'm sorry, so, but the Baron is not at home?
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Or you repeat yourself, Clarence. Oh sorry, I had to clout you,
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but you really were getting monotonous. Now to find the dear Baron?
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Hello station deal PK. Give me mister Vernon the annunswer of the Military TA
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program. Please, Hello Vernon, you're at the testimonials for the ten o'clock
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broadcast? Are you ready? Missus? B C of Los Angeles writes,
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Since drinking your tea, I have become hold on hold on a moment,
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Vernon, Good evening, Baron, put your hand over that mouthpiece. How
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are you doing here? Don't move to fill this gun in your back.
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Baron talks faster than you can. I'll get back on that phone and repeat
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exactly what I tell you. Hello, Hello, Vernon. Tell him.
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Tell him you're changing the copy completely. Vernon, I'm I'm changing the copy
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completely. Tell him to make it read like this. There are many testimonials
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in our files, and they all praise Miracle Tea. Hello, make the
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ten o'clock commercial read. There are many testimonials in our files and and they
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all praise Miracle t Stop reaching for that desk, draw Baron, It makes
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me nervous. Now say all of you, everybody, why not buy Miracle
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Tea tonight? Come and say it, all of you, everybody, why
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not buy Miracle Tea tonight? Now tell him that's all. That's all,
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Vernon, All right, now you can turn around. What is the meaning
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of this? I should say about fifteen years for you, Baron? Or
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would you prefer me to call you osbit osbitten? I recognize you. Why
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it's the instant I heard it in spite of your false whiskers. Besides,
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I took the liberty of looking through your wallet while you were taking a siestra
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in the shop. Very smart, aren't you, mister Templar, I get
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along. You've been running one of the most efficient espionage rackets in the country,
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haven't you. Are you crazy crazy enough to recognize plans of an airplane
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factory disguised as a prescription, Well, what are you going to do about
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Well, I'm going to leave that to Inspector Furnac. His men are already
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at your drug store. They've probably picked up Miss GK, Mister l G,
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and missus B C already, And in a few minutes, when your
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ten o'clock program goes on the air, there'll be a whole flock of the
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speptics rolling in to join the tea party. I have an uncanny memory for
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people who interfere with me. Simon Templar, Well, why do you're thinking
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it over in Alcatraz? Don't forget to tell the other boys to look out
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for me. Tell them about the Saint. Well, that certainly had me
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on the edge of my chair, mister charteris, but it seems that Simon
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did all the work and Inspector Fernack got all the credit. You know,
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in a business like the Saints you can't advertise too much. Besides, he
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doesn't own a private jail. No, of course. Well, now,
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what are you going to tell us about next week? Well, there was
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a man who was snatching loot out of sunken ships. That sounds interesting.
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I called that story Saint. Overboard, there was a guy named Vogel who
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was pretending to finance a certain Professor Yule, the inventor of an extra deep
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sea diving suit. Remember that exciting moment when Simon was on Vogel's yacht and
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Professor Yule was going down to make it said, five hundred down seventy five
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feet? Explain it, professor? Can you hear me down there? Yes,
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mister Vogel, I'm on the bottom. Everything is working splendidly. Give
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me another twenty feet of cable. I'm going to try to walk a bit.
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Something's gone wrong with the oxygen supply. Dwitch, bring me up.
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The winch is jammed. Hello, Hello, down there, gofessor. What
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can we do? Saint? Get away from that winch, fogal or this
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gun might go off, now watch me start it. Look down behind you.
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I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next week to hear this new story
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entitled Saint Overboard, another thrilling adventure in this program by Leslie charteris a program
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in which the author himself each week sets the scene for a new story of
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the Saint. The part of the Saint is played by the noted English actor
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of stage, screen and radio, Dennis Green. And so until next week,
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listen or the Saint welcome back. Well. This is certainly a play
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that helps me to appreciate the talent of Gerald Moore, as he plays at
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least three parts in this program. He's a customer in the drug store,
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he's a radio pitch man, and he plays the villain in the teaser for
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the next episode, which would not be produced. The Saint Overboard, by
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the way, was made as a BBC radio play in nineteen ninety six,
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and actually reviewed that over on the blog a couple weeks back. The person
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who did get the role of the Saint was Edgar Barrier. Barrier was oddly,
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I think from his style and voice tone he was a great character,
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but seemed automatically to me to be somewhat ill suited for the role. And
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no episodes exist in the full form from the Edgar Barrier era on the Saint.
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However, listeners who've listened to us a long time will recall that during
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World War Two, many American radio programs were broadcast overseas as part of the
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Armed Forces Radio Services Mystery Playhouse series, and without commercials. There were a
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few minutes at the end of each episode where they rebroadcast this American mystery show,
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and then they would include a green room preview introduced by the host,
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in this case mister Peter Laure. This was part of Mystery Playhouses broadcasts of
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Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper from February of nineteen forty five. The clip
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is about four minutes long and appears to be from The Simon Templar Foundation starring
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Edgar Barrier from January sixth of nineteen forty five. So let's go ahead and
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take a lesson to five minutes of the Simon Templar Foundation. Now for our
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next production, you've sending much less exciting, oh, only seventeen shots.
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A mob of crooks out smarting each other for a paltry two hundred thousand dollars.
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Two murderers and Simon Temper, better known as the Same follow me to
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the green room for a preview. Right this week. Come then, ome
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in o' horace. You really should have told me sooner. I told you
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what a police headquarters have been moved to a long island mentioned like this.
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It's quite a shock to a hardworking taxpayer like me. You better start getting
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it the shots. But oh, mister Nelson, that DA is expecting me
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go on here, and I wicky wouldn't keep bobbing over that lot though Hollis
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sick this way, sir, I cozy, little dumb, isn't it Hollis?
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My name is not Horrace here god striker, mister Nason. In fact,
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sir, yes, tell me you might as well out the door.
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And haven't I sit down with the temper? So you were the famous gentleman
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known as the stage are you? Sometimes My friends call me that, mister
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Templer. We have taste here with a serious matter, a very serious matter.
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So it would seem so serious, in fact, that I have been
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obliged to adopt rather extraordinary measures, view like sending around the phony pikes to
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pick me up. For you knew he was a phony, My dear that
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has a friend. You didn't really think that Hollis over there could successfully impersonate
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an officer of the law. Did you why are Shall we get down to
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business very well? Do you have in your position a certain diary containing statements
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and suggestions which I hardly need say are fully unproved. That is the statement
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that when you held a fine job in Washington, we dreamed up the high
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tour oil swinboll and got away with it no fabrications in the beginning to end,
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and that you and your associates now control about ninety percent of the black
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market gasoline in this country. Lies lies, every one of them naturalists.
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That's why you're saying, thank you to have them first. The fact remains
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that their publication might seriously damage the character and the financial standing of certain reputable
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members of the community, especially including you. I it is for that reason,
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and that reason alone, that I am prepared to ascertain what value you
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placed on this bodroom. What's your offer? Shall we say? Ten thousand
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dollars? May I ask you what you find for funny about ten thousand dollars
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or nothing? Nothing on the ordinary circumstenter. But you must admit that in
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this case it is a little ridiculous. And what would you suggest two hundred
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thousand? Just like that. What did you say? You've heard me at
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a two hundred thousand dollars. You're insane. No, I'm not. I'll
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tell you what I'm going to do. Jack, I'm going to set up
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a foundation. So I'm on the Templar Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Wounded Water
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r You will have a capital of one million dollars. Your share will be
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exactly one fifth. Do I make myself here? Why haven't you changed your
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tune before you ever get out of this house? Max, don't try to
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get your gun holest. See, I always carry a spare and I'm an
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excellent shot. And it says if you'll remember that I always had something of
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my flee. Now take your gun out very slowly by the muzzle drop.
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Thank you. Now, if you taught me that's right. And now if
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you'll be good enough to unlock the door, go on open it. You'll
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hear from me again, like said another. In fact, I can expect
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to have your check by Saturday morning. Good night, jud welcome back.
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Yeah, no respect disrespect for Edgar Barrier. We've heard him in a lot
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of radio programs, both on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio and on
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the War in character roles and he's fantastic in those, but really he does
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not fit the role of the Saints. His series would actually be canceled after
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thirteen episodes and we'd go off the air March thirty first of nineteen forty five.
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There would follow a summer series actually over CBS, replacing the Jack Carson
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Show, and it would start Brian Ahearn as The Saint with Louise Arthur as
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Patricia Holme, and the series would run for the thirteen week summer season that
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was expected, and then The Saint would go off the air in September of
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nineteen forty five and not return for another two years until Cannix Radios local CBS
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station in Los Angeles began to produce The Saints starring Vincent Price, the series
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that we'll start listening to next week. So I hope you've enjoyed this look
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at the Saint before Vincent Price, and next week we will begin the series
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