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The Saint: The Ghost Who Came to Dinner (EP1623) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boiseidah.
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  Speaker 1: time for today's episode of The Saint. The original air
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  Speaker 1: date April the eighth, nineteen fifty one, and the title
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  Speaker 1: is The Ghost Who Came to Dinner.
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  Speaker 2: The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
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  Speaker 2: based on characters created by Leslie Travers and known to
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  Speaker 2: millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood
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  Speaker 2: of Modern Crime now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's
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  Speaker 2: brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, mister Templar, Yes, louis starting to rain, so it is.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't get a dinner back in town.
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  Speaker 3: You had to travel all the way out here in
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  Speaker 3: the country to.
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  Speaker 5: Eat, Louis, I was invited to a dinner party, and
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  Speaker 5: Long Island is hardly the country.
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  Speaker 4: Fall of trees, Ain't it true? This does happen to
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  Speaker 4: be a rather lonely spot.
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  Speaker 3: But the rain is getting heavier too. I should have
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  Speaker 3: stared in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Louis.
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  Speaker 3: What does a cabby from Brooklyn doing out here in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of nature?
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  Speaker 5: He seems to be driving a cab by a Louis.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Is it possible that the roof of your cab leak?
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  Speaker 3: It's possible it's leaking on you, on me. Well, after all,
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  Speaker 3: mister Temple, according to the chemistry books were composed of
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  Speaker 3: ninety eight percent water.
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  Speaker 5: Anyways, crabs, I find the percentage high enough without any additions.
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  Speaker 3: However, there's no extra charge we got, mister Temple.
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  Speaker 4: The motor. Ah, it stopped, so I noticed discouragement. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's possible to hold leaks too. Yeah that's nice.
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  Speaker 3: No, don't blame the motor after all, it ain't composed
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  Speaker 3: ninety eight percent water.
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  Speaker 5: You suredly will be while we sit here in calmly
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  Speaker 5: contract pneumonia.
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  Speaker 4: Who's calm book, mister Temple?
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  Speaker 3: You know something, This could be the beginning of like
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  Speaker 3: a real horror story.
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  Speaker 4: It's the nighttime where two guys stuck out here in
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  Speaker 4: the wilderness Long Island.
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  Speaker 3: The rain is raining, the thunder is thundering, and I'm scared.
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  Speaker 3: You know what ought to happen next? If this was
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  Speaker 3: a horror story, that's what ought to happen next.
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  Speaker 4: It did.
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  Speaker 5: Sound came from the left through those trees. Yeah, oh, here,
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  Speaker 5: she likes it must be a house. Doesn't seem very far.
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  Speaker 4: Away, But that's where the dog yelled from.
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  Speaker 5: Huh yes, except the judging from the sound, the dog
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  Speaker 5: was outside.
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  Speaker 4: That's strange. Why would a dog be out in this downpour?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he read a book on chemistry, or maybe he's
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  Speaker 3: just leading the dog's life.
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  Speaker 4: That was a joke, I think, yeah, and I may
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  Speaker 4: laugh later. At this moment, there's someone running down the
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  Speaker 4: road from the direction of the house.
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  Speaker 6: Book.
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  Speaker 4: He's heading for us.
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  Speaker 7: I hope you don't mind, but can you give me
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  Speaker 7: a lift back to Glenville?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: We'd be glad to except that we're stuck here ourselves. However,
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  Speaker 5: you can join us inside it's slightly less.
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  Speaker 4: Damn thanks.
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  Speaker 8: I won't stay long. I don't care for a neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: How did you get here?
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  Speaker 8: I'm a camp driver.
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  Speaker 4: Well, or where's your cab?
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  Speaker 8: Back there?
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  Speaker 4: That house?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, the Hawthorn place?
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  Speaker 4: He said, Well, why didn't you take your cap when
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  Speaker 4: you left?
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  Speaker 7: Because I was in a hurry because there was things
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  Speaker 7: closer to the camp than I was.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of thing?
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  Speaker 7: Listen, young man, nobody lives in the Hawthorn House. Nobody's
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  Speaker 7: lived there for over a hundred years. So tonight, back
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  Speaker 7: in town, I picked up a fair and where does
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  Speaker 7: he want to go? The Hawthorn House. I'm an old fool,
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  Speaker 7: so I take him there. He gets out of the house,
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  Speaker 7: tells me to wait, goes inside. I walk around to
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  Speaker 7: stretch my legs. Then I noticed the house is all
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  Speaker 7: lit up. I think that's mighty queer. But I figure
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  Speaker 7: maybe somebody knew who bought the.
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  Speaker 4: Place, perhaps someone dead.
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  Speaker 7: No, because I go round to the side and I
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  Speaker 7: look into the house through the big front window.
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  Speaker 8: And I see who's in the house. It ain't anybody
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  Speaker 8: knew who was it.
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  Speaker 7: It was the folks who used to live in that
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  Speaker 7: house a hundred years ago. And what was worse, they
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  Speaker 7: were sitting around at table eating dinner.
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  Speaker 5: I see you say they were the people who lived
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  Speaker 5: there a hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Well how could you know.
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  Speaker 7: That because of the way they was dressed, because of
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  Speaker 7: the way they looked. Mister, I've lived in Glenville all
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  Speaker 7: my life, and there's pictures of the Hawthorns.
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  Speaker 8: Going way back in the Glenville town Hall.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps the people you saw were descendants of the original Hawthorne.
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  Speaker 7: Shure, sure, except nobody dresses that way anymore, except that
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  Speaker 7: one of them was bleeding all to the tablecloth with
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  Speaker 7: his throat cut open, and another was putting food into
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  Speaker 7: his mouth, only he didn't have a feace around that mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Look, you're a positive you didn't imagine, all.
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  Speaker 8: Right, I imagine that. I'm crazy. Think whatever you like, but me,
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  Speaker 8: I'm getting out of here.
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  Speaker 4: So let's us get out of here too, Louis all
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  Speaker 4: that's swell with me. Are we gonna walk to Glenville?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'd like to take a look at that house. Why, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we may still be in time for dinner.
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  Speaker 3: But mister templar, I ain't hungry, And besides.
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  Speaker 4: That guy might still maybe be bleeding. I doubt it
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  Speaker 4: you do. Huh, why you're forgetting we're ninety eight percent water.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that answer is supposed to cheer me up.
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  Speaker 5: The dog I'm worrying about, Louis. Why well, out here
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  Speaker 5: a dog would be.
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  Speaker 4: Kept for companionship protection. Therefore, why was that dog put
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  Speaker 4: out in the rain? I just as soon forget the dog.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, somebody is busy not paying attention to meet.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hey, that's the house. Huh.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously colonial architecture large rather pretty brilliantly left with colonial
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  Speaker 5: electricity candles, Louis, you can see them through that large window,
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  Speaker 5: chandeliers ablaze with candle.
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  Speaker 3: I can't see anything else except the ceiling. But that
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  Speaker 3: must be the dining room. Yeah, probably, mister templar, there's
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  Speaker 3: all this real. It seems to be. Hey, bell, pull
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  Speaker 3: on the door. A dog don't like a ring in
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  Speaker 3: the bell. Look, mister Temple, look an elephant with teeth.
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  Speaker 4: It's a large dog. It's drench.
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  Speaker 3: Look up for your hand because he's just swallow with it.
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  Speaker 4: Look you know he's heading for me, mister Temple, did
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  Speaker 4: I has to come all the way out here to
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  Speaker 4: feed a dog. He likes you.
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  Speaker 3: He's looking up at yeah, trying to decide which part
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  Speaker 3: to start on.
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  Speaker 5: Nay, there's positively a light in his eyes. Or do
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  Speaker 5: you know you may be his ideal? Yeah, sure, his.
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  Speaker 3: Ideal dog food get found, mister Temple, leave us go inside.
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  Speaker 4: No one answered the bell. I wonder, Oh it's open.
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  Speaker 4: I look, he's leaving. It's strange. He sounds terrified, but
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  Speaker 4: of what I didn't say. A thing always seems empty.
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  Speaker 4: That's going, oh kind of quiet, not even a chain clanking,
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  Speaker 4: not even a creaking. And there's a door down the hallway.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably the dining room. I ain't hungry. The house
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  Speaker 4: is all dusty, unused, but there is a light.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they forgot to turn the gas off when they
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  Speaker 3: all died or something. Mum, hum, it's the dining room.
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  Speaker 3: I would around up and buy some oil for that door.
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  Speaker 3: The large table in the city, chairs all around, white linen,
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  Speaker 3: and Polly's stilver around the table, plus dishes with food. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: in food that's warm. Louis ok, mister Templan, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like this, a house in which nobody's lived for a
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  Speaker 3: hundred years miles from many ways, all lit up with
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  Speaker 3: candles in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 9: A table with fresh cooked food on it, and there's.
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  Speaker 4: No one, no one at all like the table unless
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  Speaker 4: and as we can't see them.
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  Speaker 10: Louis, ye.
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  Speaker 3: Found a lot of cobwebs, mister temple in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of empty rooms, but nothing a living.
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  Speaker 4: No, you may as well head back for the dining room.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let your rappetite temperature. Probably might now all the
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  Speaker 4: food is vanished. Hey, isn't it that.
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  Speaker 9: Sounds yeah like dishes rattling?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, come on, maybe maybe the guests all old time.
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  Speaker 5: Baca they were in the house. It would mean they'd
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  Speaker 5: all have to rush out into the rain.
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  Speaker 4: But why they were Firstly, maybe I don't know you
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  Speaker 4: as a Gerish as we can look in without beings,
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I.
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  Speaker 9: Don't believe it. A butler, an old guy dressed in
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  Speaker 9: close up along in a museum. Look at he's got
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  Speaker 9: knee pants on. What I scuffs at that table where
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  Speaker 9: is no one seated? He's serving dinner?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe maybe he's just practicing for what I heard
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  Speaker 3: of ghost writers.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he's a ghost. But suppose we go in and
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  Speaker 4: find out, good, good evening.
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  Speaker 3: Be still, if you please be still, I'm afraid we
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  Speaker 3: might disturb the guests.
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  Speaker 4: He's gathering some of the busy going to the swinging door.
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  Speaker 4: Probably leads to the pantry. Look, he's waving on us.
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  Speaker 4: Shall we wave back? And he wants us to join him.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, uh huh, serving pantry. I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 7: Indeed you should, but you are hot and hortens the name,
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  Speaker 7: of course, but the footman must have told you that
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  Speaker 7: the footman kill it. He let you in, didn't He
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  Speaker 7: shouldn't have directed you to the dining room, of course,
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  Speaker 7: but then he's getting old. You'd better go to your
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  Speaker 7: quarters at once. They are behind the main staircase. Glad
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  Speaker 7: you came along.
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  Speaker 4: We need you.
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  Speaker 9: Kleb isn't the man he used to.
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  Speaker 7: Be, But then he's been with the Hawthorns for so
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  Speaker 7: many years. I remember when he entered the service.
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  Speaker 4: You do.
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  Speaker 7: It was the year old Boney got his toes toasted
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  Speaker 7: at Moscow. Old Bone can't stand around gossiping all evening.
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  Speaker 4: Guests might notice. Get your quarters, man, I've worked to do. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: look he ducked out. Yeah, the door is locked. Probably
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  Speaker 4: a spring latch. Which means we may as well go
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  Speaker 4: back to that.
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  Speaker 3: Anymom, Well, you know Sultan's wrong with this whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Temple, who is old boneyeh? Oh, that happens to
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  Speaker 4: be the nickname the English head for Napoleon the way.
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  Speaker 3: Oh fine, So Howton says he remembers the year old
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  Speaker 3: Bonney got his toes toasted at Moscow. Look, my brother
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  Speaker 3: in law, Joey, you know, happens to be very educated
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  Speaker 3: man college man, no, no, graduate of the United States Army.
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  Speaker 3: He's now a mechanical type engineer. Well, anyway, once he
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  Speaker 3: told me Napoleon was in Moscow in eighteen hundred and twelve.
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  Speaker 4: It's your brother in law. Was great.
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  Speaker 3: But mister Temple, that would make this guy hot over
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  Speaker 3: over one hundred and fifty years.
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  Speaker 4: Old, I'm afraid it would.
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  Speaker 3: A guy over one hundred and fifty years old is dead.
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  Speaker 3: So what's Houghton doing walking around?
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  Speaker 4: Huh? But he may have been too busy to lie
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  Speaker 4: down and die. That does not put a twinkle in
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  Speaker 4: my eye. Look, mister Temple, I want to go home.
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  Speaker 5: Knew he visit a pattern here of some kind, a
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  Speaker 5: pattern for horror. And if that pattern is to mean anything. Hey, loving, Well,
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  Speaker 5: that closet there, Yeah, it's a closet. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: suppose we open it.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I don't like to mention this, but in all
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  Speaker 3: old families, you know what they keep in closets, They
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  Speaker 3: keep skeleton in closet.
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  Speaker 9: He it felled out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no skeleton. Now, however that I can see for myself.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunate thing on the whole. Well, what's fortunate about her?
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  Speaker 5: With a skeleton, you can never tell whether or not
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  Speaker 5: its throat had been cut.
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  Speaker 3: His throat has been cut? Yeah, verily, let's go take
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  Speaker 3: a trip someplace.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go. What haven't you realized something yet? I don't
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  Speaker 4: think I wanna. This man here is dressed just as
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  Speaker 4: we are, not, in the costume of a dead age.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it didn't help him many Oh you plant some Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: long brown hairs clinging to his clothes and various papers.
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  Speaker 4: In life Lewis. His name was Charles Gray. He was
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  Speaker 4: a lawyer. Oh, the bar association ang like this to
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  Speaker 4: do something else. Well, he was carrying this document loon.
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  Speaker 4: Now what is it? A copy of the last will
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  Speaker 4: of one Samuel Hawthorn. Although him we didn't meet yet.
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  Speaker 4: No lots of closets we haven't open, and yet I
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  Speaker 4: know we're not going through if I can help it. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what does the will say?
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  Speaker 3: And you better read fast, because all them candles, you know,
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  Speaker 3: begin to give up. I, Samuel Hawthorne, being sound of
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  Speaker 3: mind and body, do hereby make this my last will
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  Speaker 3: and testament.
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  Speaker 5: It is my desire that all my heirs, in time
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  Speaker 5: to come, in order to inherit my vast fortunes, must
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  Speaker 5: at least once a year open Hawthorne House, and there
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  Speaker 5: give a ceremonial dinner to the neighboring gentry. In customs,
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  Speaker 5: at this dinner, everyone present must wear clothing of my tower.
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  Speaker 4: My heirs must be of high moral repute and avoid divorces. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: the dead man here, mister Charles Gray, was the lawyer
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  Speaker 4: in charge of the estate and presumably came here to
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  Speaker 4: make sure the turn is that the will were met.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so now we know the ghosts weren't really ghosts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but what we haven't seen any of them.
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  Speaker 4: It's true, nor any neighboring gentry. However, that stipulation was
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  Speaker 4: probably way Mister Temple. You know, we we'd better maybe
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  Speaker 4: get the police. There had any phones around here. Couldn't
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  Speaker 4: we walk to Glenville? No? Yeah, I think we're here
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  Speaker 4: for the night.
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  Speaker 3: Oh fine, fine, it's right in with that pattern for
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  Speaker 3: Hower you mentioned. All I personally need right now is
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  Speaker 3: for someone to scream, good and.
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  Speaker 4: A loud and.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Temple, this makes the second time we've searched the
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  Speaker 3: house and found nothing.
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  Speaker 4: It was a woman screaming. Look, maybe it was a ghost. Ghosts,
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  Speaker 4: I an't supposed to scream. They clank change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe this Your ghosts didn't know that. Go back
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  Speaker 3: to the dony I suppose when in the house with
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  Speaker 3: Is that good?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe the corpse took a walkership No, still here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm still dead.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, fellows have a fun dressed up like Napoleon do
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  Speaker 3: looking walking very street.
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  Speaker 7: I hate to say inquisitive, but oh, mister Gray's.
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  Speaker 4: Touched in a bad way, isn't it. It's not especially normal.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Simon Tempter.
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  Speaker 7: And James Hawthorne, sir. Besides housebreaking, your occupation and his
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  Speaker 7: wife o the same, don't Yes, I am sitting at
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  Speaker 7: allarynxes rather than not occupations for the same.
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  Speaker 5: But it would be if I had cut mister Grey's throat. However,
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  Speaker 5: you're Samuel Hawthorne's air.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the current one. Yes, you've been, snoopy, But there
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  Speaker 4: was a clause in the will about the well being
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: overdoing that. Snoopy, you're married, mister Hawthorne.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, would have helped supply a motive, I suppose, but
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  Speaker 7: I'm not not. Have I ever been fortunate or unfortunate
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  Speaker 7: enough to be married?
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  Speaker 4: A woman screamed a few moments ago. Who was she? Her?
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  Speaker 4: But you couldn't have failed if you were in the house.
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  Speaker 4: But I was. But you must have been been raining
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  Speaker 4: out your clothes a dry and spot well.
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  Speaker 7: To be honest, I wasn't in the house, and yet
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  Speaker 7: I was you search the house?
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  Speaker 4: I presume, yes, you overlook the seller. I didn't find one.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tricky place to get to. The entrance is
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  Speaker 4: behind the chimney in the parlor.
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  Speaker 7: Has something to do with colonial politics perhaps, At any rate,
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  Speaker 7: I was down there.
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  Speaker 4: You're fond of selling well when they.
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  Speaker 7: Were equipped with bottles and bottles and bottles of Napoleon Brandee. Yes, Uh,
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  Speaker 7: now could you go?
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  Speaker 4: Might? I said? Down?
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  Speaker 7: I have another few hours to remain in costume, and here,
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  Speaker 7: in order to comply with the terms.
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  Speaker 4: Of the world.
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely I shall that's polite. It's more probably branded.
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  Speaker 4: So what do we do? Sit here, listen to his
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  Speaker 4: snore and napodium keeps cropping up all the time. Suppose
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  Speaker 4: we go downstairs and have a look at his bottom.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, some staircase down to the cellar head, very narrow.
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  Speaker 4: My shoulders keep rubbing against the wall, and a.
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  Speaker 3: Dirty wall too. Hey, look the cellars all lit up.
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  Speaker 3: Candles and barrels. They had lots of barrels, not to
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  Speaker 3: mention kegs and casks and everything.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Hands up casks and blondes and heights it.
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  Speaker 9: Hands up with forty two caliber revolvers.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Forty two.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't expect me to be armed, did you.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid we didn't expect you at all.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Misatually would say that. But this isn't going to work
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: out the way you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I haven't had any thoughts reason. But look,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: it's the temple. She's running up the stairs. Yes, hey,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: she bolted the door behind her.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, mister Temple, that was a very solid type of
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: door into the cellar. And the cellar is about six
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: miles underneath the ground and we're locked in.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't worry, Louis we'll be released in time, in
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: time for what a funeral? The girl was beautiful, loing.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: She's on the other side of a locked door. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: what good is it doing you? Huh? I can worry. Oh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: this is an occupation for a grown man. Worry about
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: what the part she's playing in this entire mask that's
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: the temple.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, those were shots today. I answer your question hard.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: May we don't know who shot at home?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So she had still locked?
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, still locked. Don't bother, Louis, No one will answer.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: You may as well go down again and make ourselves comfortable.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah for how long? Twenty years? That'll be silling?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Louis, You got an optimistic thought.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: We'd never last twenty years down here.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: You know something, mister Templar, I'm beginning to feel aged
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: in the water.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: You better restrain yourself. You've already been down here half
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: an hour?
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: Perhaps, Hey, hey, the Marines have landed me.
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: Let's get another bottle.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Got another bottle of us? Definitely an amphibias, oh, mister
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: temple Templing.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Huh, but not exactly, very not of you don't find admitting.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: That's why I'm here myself. I need another bottle of brandy.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I don't know what happened. I want upstairs. It's all empty.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Must have operated, huh. Oh, perhaps those shots frightened it
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: out of the bottle. Oh you're having so hey, I
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: had myself. Matter of fact, I'm vilating no confidence when
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: I tell you those shots were filed at mate.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Whoever shot at you couldn't have had very good aim,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: fortunately for me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: No car dear cousin Cala happens to be and I
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: put myself to be foga a loudly marksman?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Oh should I say mark woman Kla being blonde and
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: be oh you murdered?
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: She's next to in line that Samuel Harton's pretty little
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: watune in it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: If I should have happened to be disqualified, I'm dead.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Then you have your bottles. Suppose we go upstairs and
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I did the staircase bless towards from one shoulders?
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: Can I rub it off back in the fire? Very temporary,
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: have a reputation for these things. Who cut mister Grey's shirt?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: A murderer? All very produits. But why who.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Is mister Gray's task to see to it that the
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: brew visions of the will were observed?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: His death therefore, must have had something to do with that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: You're a bachelor. Indeed, I am worth he no, her
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: pretty little wife, Oh, I should be decius.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, you are thinking about her
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: grief makes me this therefore watching this bottle, and I
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: hope they'll all.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Think you are too terribly selfish.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: I shall tie her off to Betty bye.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: That perhaps, but it's almost mourning your lord him. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: am very glad to see go. But how about us?
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Now we go for the police, Louis, if you're a cabulest, however, Carl, oh,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: let's not look for her, or mister Temple. A girl
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: with all those calibers don't appeal to me. Oh, you're
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: being now minded, Louis.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: After all those shots, how many calibers can she have loved?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Sweat out?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: It's cold, it's dark, But do I mind? No out
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: here at least, no ghosts, no cops.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Just neither, Louis.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Look, Oh, the other cab, the cable Look, Louis, m.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't like that? Hmm? Should I take a
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: look too? You're might as well? Okay, I'll bet wow
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: well the frightened cab driver. Mister Temple, Yes, except that
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: nothing will frighten him. Anymore.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Mister Temple, this is not a healthy neighborhood for throats.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: This has been cut too. Yeah, same technique is used
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: on one Gray Jory. We've got to get back to
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: the house. You don't like our throats the way they are.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Come along, Louis, there's no time to go to Glenville.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: There's lots of time in which a murderer may kill again.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, let's change a few subjects. Huh, very well.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got three questions, Louis. Why did the cab
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: driver whose Boddy we've just seen, lie to us? Why
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: did Carla think she was in danger from us? And
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: can a bachelor be divorced?
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: The answer to the last one, I know he can't. Right, Therefore,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: we know who the murderer is. Don't we.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: Take the dog?
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: We know about him too, don't we know about him?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: You remember I mentioned the long brown hairs clinging to
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Gray's clothes. Those hairs must have come from the dog.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: We saw. The dog therefore belong to Gray down the hole.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: And then I'll come. Yeah, if I knew quickly, well,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Carla going to run away.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: But I won't let go of the guy.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Yes you will. It's much too heavy for you. Just
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: come along with.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Us, all right.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: You don't try anything.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I won't except for catching a killer.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: A killer.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: M We want the dining room. Why everybody bay so soon?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Nearly everyone, mister Hawthorne.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm glad you've got. Carla's got mister Templer. She
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: might not miss me again.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: We don't know that it was she who shot at you,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: do we, Carla?
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: It would be easy to discover if this gun has
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: been fired recently.
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe I did shoot at him, but.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: There's something else that should come first. Charles Gray was
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: murdered in this house earlier tonight. Why both you, mister Hawthorne,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: and Carla covered a fortune. That's why you're both here,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: mister temp Lloyd. All mister Hawthorne had to do was
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: spend the night here in appropriate costume and also refrained
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: from appearing in a divorce case. A bachelor can't appear
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: in the divorce case.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Canty, mister Hawthorne, you found the papers for the horse
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: suit on Gray Aimy MIA's correspondent there.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: He was always so touchy about his wife.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I didn't find them, doesn't matter, however, I knew they
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: or something like them had to exist on the other hand,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: if Horton, the ghost butler we found serving dinner earlier
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: this evening is really insane.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: You're trying to pin the murder on him. He left
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: the house in time to have committed Its usually a motive,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: you know, mister Harthorne. Which murder are you talking about? Uh?
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Gray's murder? N? Actually no, because Horton wouldn't have had
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: to leave the house to kill him. Gray was murdered
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: in this room.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: But you accepted my statement about having to leave the
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: house to murder. You're both talking about the cab driver's murder.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Art what cab driver?
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: The one who brought Gray here, the one who saw
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Gray murder, the one who fled and then thought things
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: over and decided to return for a little exercise in blackmail.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Mister Temple, you said he lied to us, But what
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: about you? Remember, Louis, He told us he.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Looked into the dining room through the front window and
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: had seen the ghosts of dinner. Do you also remember, however,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: that when we got to the house.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we looked in the front window two and all
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: we could see through it was the chandeliers and the ceiling.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I said so myself, Uh huh, the cabby light and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: died for it. Look, I haven't been outside the house alive.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: It must have been.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: You claimed you were in the cellar when we first met,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: and that's why you didn't hear Carla scream. But the
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: cellar stairway is now it's impossible to avoid getting plaster
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: on your shoulders, plaster that can't be rubbed off. And
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: yet when we first met, I remarked that your clothes
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: were spotless. You should have been wet non you'd had
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: time to change from your ordinary clothes.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: You didn't think of rubbing plaster on the costume. However,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: too bad. You might then have applied to the scarlet
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: of murder a coat of whitewash.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: I was hiding in the cellar because James had threatened me.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: You see, I mean mister Gray was going to see
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: his wife for a divorce and named Jane, and.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: If he did, you would inherit all the Hawthorn money.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Yes, I was terrified that he would kill me.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: I think. Tell me about hotn Carla.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Poor Horton has been hired every year for the occasion.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: He's very very old. Now tell me about you, Simon.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm t I don't mean to interrupt you and
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: miss Carla, but it's snowie.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: You don't have the ghost of a chance.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of the Saint,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the robin Hood of Modern Crime.
• 29:40
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• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Linctant Price inviting you to join us again next week
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: at the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Good Night.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: The script of The Saint was written by Lewis Vitties.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: In the cast, you heard Drian Martin as Carla and
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Edmund McDonough as James. Tudor Owen was the butler Fred Shields.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: The cab driver Louis is played by Larry Dodger. The Saint,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: based on characters created by Leslie Chatteris, is a James l.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Safire production that is directed by Helen mac Vincent. Price
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• 31:03
  Speaker 10: This is Andrew J.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
• 31:07
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• 31:09
  Speaker 4: of old time radio.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, you know, probably just for pure surprises. There's
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: no series quite like The Saint. You know. Last week
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: we have a kind of satirical look at nineteen fifties
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: college campuses and the overall culture and legacies, and here
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: we get probably the most spooky episode of the series.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Incredibly well done. Though I do have to admit that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: with Louis driving the Saint out to dinner in the Country,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I thought for a second that there had been an
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: error and I had downloaded a duplicate of The Horrible Hamburger,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: which also featured that particular plot lot. But this turned
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: out to be completely different and still in a very
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: interesting way. So again, this continues to be a gem
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of the series and I'm definitely gonna miss it when
• 32:23
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• 32:27
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• 32:42
  Speaker 1: this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.