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there's also a Malien address there. And now it's time for today's episode of
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The Saint. The original air date is March the twenty fifth of nineteen fifty
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one and the title is Formula for Death. The Adventures of the Saint,
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starring Instant Price. The Saint based on characters created by Leslie Charteris and known
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to millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood of
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modern crime now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent
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Price as the saint. Ah, good afternoon, mister templar, Oh,
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good afternoon. Well come in, sir, come in. You're very kind
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eh. And it isn't everyone who'd invite a mere stranger in like this,
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And the fact that it's my own apartment into which I'm being invited is Oh
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did you find what you were looking for? Oh? Dear, then you
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can tell I've been searching through your things, but it took such pains to
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be neat. I abhorred this. That's exactly the way I feel about fat
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intruders who practice burglary in my apartment. Burglary. Oh really, sir,
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do I look like a burglar? You look like a fastidious rhinastris with a
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taste for Bond street tailoring. You see how appearances can be deceiving, I
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assure you, sir. Another thing I am not is a rhinoceros. And
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that makes two things. You aren't suppose we trade him for one thing?
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You are very well for one thing. I am an unhappy man. Your
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wife doesn't understand you. No, the reason for my own happiness is I
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no longer understand myself. I've changed it worries me. Now take last night
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for example. Yeah, it was such a commonplace activity, the sort of
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thing a man in my profession soon gets used to. And yet all during
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it and afterwards I found myself actually feeling sorry for the poor chap Oh.
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And what was happening to the poor chap oh? The usual thing, placing
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lighted matches under the fellow's fingernails, pressing burning cigars under the souls of his
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feet, sticking pins into the calf of his leg yurs exactly prosaic on original,
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but still highly effective if they want effective. It's hardly likely that I
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would be here, wouldn't you say? The point is why are you here?
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Fatty? The name is Archibald, Archibald, Roland p Archibald. Obviously
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I have come to regain possession of my property, worth property. What does
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it look like? An envelope, mister Templer, a small Manila envelope.
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And the man you tortured said he gave it to me. Yes, Fernanda
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said your name very clearly, even though we were doing a magnificent job of
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twisting his arm at the time, and he was doing a pretty good job
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of pulling your leg. What do you mean, look, Rowland p Archibald.
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My tailor is due here at any moment with a newly made suit that
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I am very eager to try on. I'd be obliged to you if you
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picked up your marbles and nice. That depends on whom it's being pointed at.
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It's a Wolfer, one of the finest automatics the Germans ever made.
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I suppose you'd suspect an ulterior motive if I asked you for a closer look
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the envelope. Please, I've gone to considerable trouble, mister templom My patience
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is exhausted, thoroughly exhausted. I'm not as thin as I used to be.
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So we break some rye, crisp together the envelope for the last time.
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Very well. I suppose next you'll be pestering me for a step.
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Don't come and they close us Saints. I have to get the envelope.
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I just don't happen to have it on me. I've searched this apartment thoroughly.
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It has to be on your person. Out with it. Curse you.
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I'll take it. Please hand it over all right? Wouldn't it be
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amusing if when I reached into my pocket, instead of finding an envelope,
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I found a gun. You will have a gun, mister templom A gun,
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of course, not I was just keep your hands where they are,
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saint. But the envelope. I'll raise your hands, please, hire,
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thank you. I'll remove the envelope from your pocket myself, playing it cagey
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hmm, Shelby. In my profession, caution is the difference between living and
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dying. A witch pocket this one. Yes, it is a nice gun.
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You've shown it to me. When I asked, I wouldn't have had
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a kick in your bay window. That chick is going to cost you your
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life. Well, everything's expensive these days. Do you know the way out?
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Yes, mister Templar. What's more important, I know the way back.
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Who is it? It's phinny, mister Templar. I've brought your soup.
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Oh, come in, finley, if you'd been here ten minutes ago,
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you'd have found me having my measure taken by someone else. Indeed,
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you're displeased with my work, mister Templar, Not someone else. Wasn't a
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custom Taylor Finley. He was taking my measure with a gun. Well,
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now that's the how of this latest masterpiece of yours workout? If I may
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say so, sir, I do believe I've exceeded myself. Then you've exceeded
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the best here in town. If you'll remove your coat, mister Templar,
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I'll just take the suit out of the box. Yeah, now, if
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you'll just slip the coat on, all right, it's a good bit.
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Step over to the mirror, sir. Yeah, it's a well tailored piece
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of Hey, what's this? Pardon this little well, I'll be something wrong,
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sir. Yeah. Is it the latest fashion to wear a bullet hole
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beside the breast pocket? Wat's that a bullet hole? Look see for yourself,
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small and round and still smelling of cordite. It isn't possible. How
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could a thing like that have happened? Did this suit have any known enemy?
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Say a bargain basement blue serge with a jealousy neurosis? Mister Templar,
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I'm dumbfounded. I don't know what to say. What's this another bullet all?
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Huh? Something in the inside pocket? It feels like it's an envelope.
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What ye're a small Manila envelope that has a familiar ring. So has
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this name penciled across the flat name? Do you have a customer name for
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Nandy's Nande's wife? No, sir, I know no one by that name.
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Who is he? Sir? A man who tells tall tales when his
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arm is twisted, A man who right now is probably very dead. Ah,
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my beloved, he'll the cup the clears to day of last regret and
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future fears. To morrow? Why to morrow? I may be exactly where
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you are right now, coding omark, I am to a disinterested highball,
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drust and empty. Simon this cup fix fears empty in an entirely temporary condition.
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Bartender double for mister Murphy, and I will have the same. Yes,
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a George generasity is matched only by your indulgence and wits. What brings
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the mighty man catcher to Third Avenue? Whiskey women, the encyclopedia that walks
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like a man and drinks like a fish. I'm at your service, my
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saintly well, I'm glad Einstein just wasn't available. An amateur. Thank you,
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thank you, thank you. Ah ask me anything, Simon, my
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brain is in your hands. I will start with names. Two names.
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Name them Roland t Archibald in a neat, natty and fat with an extra
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bulge under the arm. That probably means a gutten. That's Roland and that's
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all. Now, don't tell me that filing system you ca brain is slipped
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up on Roland p I'm afraid so, Simon, he has ah, no
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friends, no acquaintances, no non occupation, non anything, A very mysterious
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cookie. I'd put him more in the plum pudding clad. Next name Fernandez,
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Brnandez. No, Simon, I know some money. I was afraid
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you would. Three bartenders. A manufacturer of hearing aids. A truck drive
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all best and safest driver, I evenue. All truck drivers are the best,
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in the safest anymore e safecracker or professor of Oriental languages. Three more
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bartenders. What's the use? I wouldn't know the right one if I heard
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it. Look, take a look at this four seats of fools. Cat.
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You want to know what it is. I know what it is.
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It's a formula, complicated formula and nuclear physics. Oh now I'm learning.
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Where did you get this? Hot potato, Simon. It came in a
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small manilla envelope that I found in the pocket of a brand new suit.
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You want me to tell you what the formula means? Too bad Einstein wasn't
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available, and I'm more concerned with whom this belongs to rather than what it
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means. These initials printed in the upper left hand corner. Yeah, the
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R L, which means are well, Simon on a formula in nuclear physics.
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The L probably stands for laboratory, M mean bartender, a triple for
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mister Murphy. Drop in any times, Simon, At any time, I
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shall always be glad to receive you. Hi. Hi, I been waiting
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a long time for you to come out of that saloon. Oh why I
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wanted to see you. That's why you're a saint, aren't you. I'm
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a saint and you're seeing what are you seeing? Me? About the envelope?
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You know, the one with a formula? I want it now?
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Don't tell me it's your homework. You know who I am, junior?
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Who are you? It don't make no difference who I am. But if
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it'll make you happy, it'll make me happy. My name's Jus. Come
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on, give why I got a gun in my pocket, that's why.
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And I'm told to bring back that envelope no matter what. If I refuse
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to give it to you, you shoot me and take it from me.
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Huh, that's the truth. You knew it this, aren't you? I
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know my way around what happens when you shoot me here on the sidewalk.
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You'll fall down, of course eventually, But first a woman's screams. There's
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always a woman who screams, and people start running towardoise and the cop comes
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tearing up, and uh, what do you do during all of this?
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Guys? Me? I run the envelope. I take it out of your
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pocket before I run. Oh, you'll have time. Huh. When a
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man is shot, he doesn't just go PLoP like they do in the Funny
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Baby. First he clutches the spot with bullet hit him, and then he
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taggers around for a while. Then he lurches, swerves, sinks to one
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knee, gets up again. Nothing brings out the ham and a man like
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being shot, So you'll have to wait until I'm through with my dying act
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before you can reach into my pocket. Guy. By that time, yeah,
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maybe you're right. There will be no charge for the lesson. Maybe
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I can teach you something what his rifle fire? Get down over here behind
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this car, Gus. Yes, you're wrong. I didn't lurch a stagger.
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No woman screams like me, Gus. I didn't stay Gus. I
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guess mine was the last lie you'll ever hear, mister Templar, mister Templer,
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Oh it's you, Faddy Templer. I wish you wouldn't persist in calling
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me by that absurd name. Well, a rose by any other name.
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I suppose the same sort of reasoning applies to a rat. Well, is
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this the big moment Roland and Archibald's revenge? The payoff I was promised for
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the kick in the stomach I delivered. I would hardly hank my horn after
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you shot your name at the top of my voice on a busy thoroughfare if
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it were my intention to kill you, mister Templar. M No, I
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suppose you wouldn't. You'd park your car somewhere and stalk me from it with
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a high powered rifle. Well, you know that sounds rather effective. I
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must bear it in mind for the future. I'm still bearing it in mind.
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From the path, kidnamed Gus caught the bullets form eh, I don't
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quite understand. It's simple, Fatty, you missed me, you would think
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today. Oh really, sir, this is must amusing. You won't hear
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gas laughing, My dear Templar, I am an expert rifleman. If I
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had aimed at you, I shouldn't have missed you. But come, sir,
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the temper of the conversation is not at all what I had in mind
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when I sought you out. Now I should like to suggest an omistice,
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a peace plan, as it were, with a loser paying a generous amount
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as reparations to the winner, meaning that you wind up with a formula and
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I with the customary thirty pieces of silk. No, come com com,
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Templer. You make it sound as if treason were involved. I assure you
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the formula has nothing to do with any government project. Then what is it,
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Chubby? A recipe for sweet potato pie, A method of manufacturing quick
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frozen bourbon? What is it? The only person who can answer that is
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doctor Vargas Barker. Thanks, where are you going, mister Templer? You
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can telephone book. You've just given me the answer to another one of three
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puzzling initials. Chubby. I think I know now what the middle one stands
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for. Good morning, good morning? May I help you? So this
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is VRL, HM, good old vr L. I beg your pardon.
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I'd like to see doctor Vargus. Doctor Vargas, you seem surprised. This
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is the Vargas Research Laboratories vr L, of course, but doctor Vargus never
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sees visiting. I'm not a visitor, but I've got in a small manilla
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envelope practically makes me a member of the firm. I beg your pardon again.
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And on such short acquaintance, what I merely tell the doctor. It's
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probably a matter of life or death. But I've strict instructions never to interrupt
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the doctors. Whom shall I say? Is Colin Simon templar saint with a
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question mark where my halo ought to be. Do we know each other?
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No? Something tells me that we will. But until that happy moment,
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I got temper send him right in. Did you hear something? Something that
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sounded like artillery fire with the ability to make words through that door, mister
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Temple, thank you, well, come in, come in, don't take
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all day about it. You close the door, now, sit down,
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templar, I believe we have something to discuss. I have something to discuss
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with doctor Vargas. And who am I supposed to be snow white? I'd
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rather not answer that. Let's get right to the heart of a temper.
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I'm a busy woman and I'm a puzzled man, doctor, And one of
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the things that puzzles me is how you knew I was coming here. A
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friend told me to expect you. M a friend who carries about seventy five
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extra pounds and it dislikes being called fatty. Not so sure. I like
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your friends, and I'm not so sure. I give a hang. Just
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for the record, I've been checked and double checked by almost every government agency
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in this and several other countries. Oh, then you are doing government work.
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Your fat friend is a terrible liar. Take it up with his clergyman.
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We're here to discuss a formula one that somehow found its way out of
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this laboratory and your pocket you have it. Yeah, it's burning a hole
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in that pocket. Toss it over. H This is what the fusses are
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about. That good day, templar. Yes, it is rather nice.
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Huh. Then please feel free to go out and enjoy it and take this
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mishmash with you. Mish marsh, gibberish, prattle, nonsense, fick your
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own word. The word I pick is why? Why? Why? What?
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Look at this formula is mishmosh? Why does a fat man named Archibald
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want it so badly? Why does a kid named Gus threaten to gun me
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down for it wind up getting a rifle slug ride into another world? And
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why is a new suit delivered with a bullet hole over the heart? And
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why did I'm a scientist not a policeman? Goodbye, mister doctor Bogus,
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excuse me, yes, you're one in the laboratory right away. Okay,
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mister Templer was just leaving. Will you show him out? Miss Fernandas did
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uh? Did she say? Fernandez? That's my name, Jean Fernande,
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and I am delighted to hear it. You have a father, a husband
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perhaps, or is it a brother who might be mysteriously absent? Oh,
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mister Temple, you must help me, you must, Oh, but my
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brother louis he? No, we can't talk here later. Here's my address.
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And if you see a certain beef truss named Archibald before I do,
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don't tell him your name is Fernande, but he knows that. Oh,
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mister Temple, I'm afraid, I'm afraid. Who is it? It's Jay,
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Suir Finley, Marshy you for a moment, h come in Finley now,
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don't tell me you've made me a new coat. That's fast, Oh,
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mister Temple, I could hardly do justice to my craft if I.
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Mister, I have a problem. Judging from the wreckage. You've come to
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the right place to unload it. It's that the object you've found in the
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suit I delivered yesterday, sir, the envelope. Yes, sir. A
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gentleman called at my shop today inquiring for it. He insists that the envelope
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is hears and demands its return er. Fat gentleman, No, sir,
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rather thin gentleman. His name is Fernandez. M I doubt it. Pardon.
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Did he tell you how the envelope happened to be found in my suit?
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Yes, sir, he did it. He was in for a fitting
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himself the other day, Bernandez. Yes, sir, Fernandez. He says
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he saw your coat hanging on the rack, admired it, and on an
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impulse, dried it on the envelope had been in his hands at the time,
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and he just slipped it into the park and then forgot about it.
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Huh so he informed me, sir. Now he's threatening me with legal action
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if I don't tell the gentleman to call here for the envelope. Finley,
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if he can identify the contents, he can have it. That sounds reasonable
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enough, mister Templar. I'll tell him good day, sir, and thank
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you. Oh yes, tell the gentleman. I'll expect an explanation about that
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bullet hole in my coat. You know, I'm dying to hear how the
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gentleman gets around that one? Who is it this time? Quickly? In
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Geene? I expected two hours ago I couldn't get a win, and then
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when I did, he followed me. I had to lose him. Who
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that meant? Archible? You know, it's remarkable that he stays that fat,
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getting around as much as he does. Mister Temple, Please, I
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haven't seen or heard from Lewis in three days. Do you know what?
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No, but I thought, I thought, this isn't what you thought of
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what you think it's going to find your brother, Jean. It's what you
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know? What I know? I don't understand Jane what your brother mixed uping?
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No, I can't tell you. I came here because I thought you
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niw where Lewis is? I'm going? Now? Do you want to see
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your brother again alive? What do you mean? The first and last I
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heard of your brother was when Fatty told me about putting lighted matches under his
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fingernails. Oh no, no, I didn't mean to break it to you
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so ungently. But you've got to be made to realize that unless you tell
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me what. All right, I'll tell you, but you must help me
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find Lewis. You must, and I will at first that formula that seems
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to be so important, and yet isn't I did that? You did what?
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It's a good place to begin from. When Louis was a very young
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man in his teens, it was restless, nervous, neurotic. The doctor
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called the type which, with a few lies here in a little propaganda there
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is easily convinced that there's nothing more noble than a certain form of politics.
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Huh. He joined the movement and rose rapidly, and he was slated for
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big things. So one day he stopped being restless and erotic, looked at
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himself and what he'd become with disgust, And oh, he only thought he
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quit All these years, he didn't have the slightest connection with him. He
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never dreamed that they'd seek him out again and had expect him. They wanted
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something from him, huh, something that he could get for them easier than
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anyone else could. Well, they found out where I was working. He
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knew that doctor Vargus was conducting important experiments, and they made my brother a
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proposition. Either he was to make me give him the Vogus formula, or
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he was to be the execute Oh can't you see why I'm the work,
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especially since the formua you gave your brother to pass along was a phoney.
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That's right. I couldn't give him the real one, not even to save
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his life. I simply couldn't. So I copied things and papers the doctor
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had thrown away at a little bit of each of the score of discarded papers.
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Thought it would work that I'd fool them. It doesn't know he took
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it from me goodbye, And you haven't seen him since. Did he tell
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you where he was bringing the supposed formula, who he was giving it to?
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He said, I'd be safer if I didn't know. He merely said
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he's going to meet a man who'd been one of the Cleverest agents for years,
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one of the most important men in the organization. It must be,
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it must be, well, what makes you think so? Why else would
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he follow me? Why else would he? Where are you're going to look
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out the window? No, Jean, get away from that window. I
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just want to see somebody's been playing Fourth of July with a high powered rifle.
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This is no time to stand near. Get down, Jean, Jean,
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Oh, hello, welcome home again. Come in, mister Templar,
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Come in, sir. Someday I'll open the door of my apartment. Walk
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in. And this time you went quite so neat about it. Patty,
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the name is Utchabald, And this time mister temple Rich was someone else.
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Someone will deplorably, missay Habits, who searched your apartment? You've been to
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the hospital? Yes, Miss Fernandez's she'll live. How about her brother will?
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He's still in the common I suppose we discuss Roland p Archibald, and
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what brings in here this time, my dear sir, the formula naturally,
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No Rowland, not the formula. I'm certain doctor Vargus must have told you
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by now that the former why should she tell me anything? Because of what
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you are, Roland, something had been stolen from a laboratory, so you
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set out to bring it back. That's your job. We're both on the
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same team. But my dear Templar, I'm the villain of the opera and
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the fellow who swore that he'd have your life. Remember your cover you were
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making like the criminal element as a cover up. You're a counterintelligence agent,
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am I? Yeah. I began to get on to you into what part
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you were playing in this drama, and I called on Vargas this morning.
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Hmm. She was expecting me, and the only one who could possibly have
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told her that I'd be dropping in was you. And so the doctor is
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doing important work. She's been security checked from here to Sunday. So since
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you're playing ball with her, you must be playing for the home team.
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Have you anything at all that might help us find out who pressured Fernands to
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go after the formula. He's the same man who's been shooting off his rifle.
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We could only find out who I know who he is. You'll do
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sure Fernandez gets the formula from his sister goes to deliver it, has a
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few unpleasant words with Uncle Joe's one man spiring, and they start fighting with
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guns. My new suit is a casualty, and so was Fernandez that he
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managed to get away and come to us. He's been in a coma ever
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since, muttering your name and the words in the pocket, in the pocket
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which led you to me? In the pocket I was wearing instead of the
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pocket of the new suit that was hanging in the shop with my name on
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it, would you mind explain? Fernandez wasn't sure he'd be able to get
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away, so he hid the manilla envelope with a formula in the pocket of
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my new suit. Get Away. Get Away from where in the tailor's shop
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where he went to meet the spy. But why the tailor's shop? Why
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because the spy has a cover identity too. He happens to be your hands
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I was saying. He happens to be a tailor. A taylor named Finley,
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keep those hands up. A taylor named Finley who one day tells me
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he's never heard of a man named Fernandez, and the next day tells me
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an old customer named Fernande's is called to claim the Manila envelope. You're very
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clever, mister Templar. But where did you come from? Just now?
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Where were you hiding? I was in the closet, fatty, You very
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rudely dropped in here while I was going through mister Temple's things just before,
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still looking for that allusive Manila envelopeasiny, Yes, but the search seems to
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be about over, mister Templar. Sir, oh, I know what you're
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going to say. It's worthless. I've waste your words, your last words.
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Just take the envelope out of your pocket and hand it over if you
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insist, And I see that you do, careful, very careful. Something
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is funny. Yes, I was just thinking, wouldn't it be amusing if
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when he reached into his pocket, instead of bringing out an envelope, he
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brought out a gun. He wouldn't live long enough to point it. You
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will have a gun? A gun? Why of course not? Wait,
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stay just as you are, Templar, I'll take the envelope from your pocket
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myself, playing it cagy in my profession. Which pocket this one? Oh
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that's splendid, mister Templar, splendid, splendid. You must teach me that
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kick trick sometimes, and the knockout punch was magnificent. I enjoyed it,
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thank you, But I don't think you enjoyed it nearly as much as I
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did. In fact, Fatty, I'm a little sorry it's over. Oh,
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mister Temple, for the last time, the name is Yes, never
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mind, I think you've earned the right to call me fatty. You have
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been listening to another transcribed adventure of a Saint the robin Hood of Modern Crime.
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Now Here is our star and some Price ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's
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cast, you heard Patricia Jeffson as Jane and Bill Conrad as Archibald. Jack
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Moyles was Thinley Whitfield, Connor's Murphy. Damn Edwards played Gus and Jody Gilbert
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doctor Vargas. This is Vincent Price, inviting you to join us again next
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week at the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night,
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good Night. Script of the Saint was written by Michael Cramwell. The
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Saint, based on characters created by Leslie Chatteris, is a James L.
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Sethia production and is directed by Helen Mack. Vincent Price is soon to be
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seen co starring with Errol Flynn and Michael Imprell in William Marshall's production of Bloodline.
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All you Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saint comic books
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are on sale at all new stands. Your anouncer is Don Stanley. Three
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chimes mean good Times. On NBC, there's Fun Today and every Sunday with
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two of your favorite families. On NBC, there's the Blandings Family with more
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perplexing adventures in their famous dream house, starring Kerry Grant and Betsy Drake as
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mister and Missus Blanding. And Sunday also means the Harris family with Frankie,
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Julia's and all the other favorites of the Phil Harris alas Fatio and Today here
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Judy Holliday, Jimmy Durandy, Carmen Miranda On the Big Show on NBC.
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This is Andrew J. Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and
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a Man and his Wife. You're listening to the great Detectives of Old Time
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Radio. Welcome back. Well, what a well written script. I particularly
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liked the scene where the gunman who was trying to get the formula was shot
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after Simon had given his sort of dramatic description of how my shooting is a
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kirk and great guest cast as well. Of course, William Conrad always a
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great character actor over radio and really easy to believe he was the villain because
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he so often played the heavy and this is probably the closest you have to
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William Conrad doing a Sydney Green Street character. So that took a little bit
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to grow on me, but I think it worked out well in the end.
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Jody Gilbert was an interesting name to hear in the credits. She mostly
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did comedy work and her famous part over radio was as Pasqually's daughter Rosa on
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Life with Luigi on CBS, and it's interesting to see her in something a
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little bit more serious, very interesting role and another Cold War story. Getting
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a couple of those in a short period of time is a nice twist.
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But with that we'll turn to some listener comments and feedback. Kate comments.
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I wish Randy Stone Frank Lovejoy from not Beat was an investigator instead of a
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reporter so you could post the episodes. One of my favorites here is the
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Saint Well, thanks so much much. I am not quite that strict in
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terms of them having to be officially an investigator because Randy Stone deals with crime
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and mystery, and yeah, I think he is close enough and we're definitely
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going to do that series eventually. But thanks so much for the comment,
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Kate. To appreciate you listening out there. One final note, we've kind
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