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Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of The Saints.
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Original air date November the twenty sixth of nineteen fifty and the title is
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The Terrible ten Type The Adventures of the Saints, starring Vincent Price. The
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Saints, based on characters created by Leslie Trotteris and known to millions from books,
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magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes
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transcribe to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the saint
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on my way. Mister Templar, hands up, I said, hands up?
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Are you crazy or something? Do you want me to shoot you?
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Look, I'm not crazy. I'm not even shopping to go right back inside.
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Wait a minutely the snot lose her head because John over there, mister
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Templar, mister Temple. But I ain't okay sitting down. But I still
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aid, mister Templar, I don't think you can escape what's coming to you
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by lying to me. I never lie to Blunch. And besides, my
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name is Louis. Mister Templar invited me over to dine, you know,
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for dinner. I drive a cab. Does mister Templar drive a cab?
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No? Will you see that I'm not, mister Temple. It does not.
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Where's your cab? If you're a cab driver out in the street,
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you're trying to trick me into leading lady. You can't keep a cabin in
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a pop and what with the landlord says, stop trying to fool me.
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Just just give me that picture. What picture? I'm Sally Blair, I'm
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LOWI I'm pleased to meet I want my sister's picture. I haven't got your
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sister's picture. I haven't even got my picture. I'm warning if I have
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to kill you to get it up, I'll kill you. That's against the
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law. Ask any police. This is your last chance. Are you going
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to give me the picture? Or will I have to shoot you? I
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think you better shoot me, miss Blair. Mister Temple, I'm very glad
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to see you. I didn't knock. It's not polite, but well it
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is my apartment. What seems to be the trouble. I all of a
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sudden she's crying, so I noticed. Look, I don't like to mention
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this in front of a crying woman, mister Temple, but that's her gun
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she's still got in her hand. Yes, I think I'll take it,
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Miss Blair. Thank you. It wasn't loaded. It wasn't a lot.
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So what was I scared about, Miss Blair? I'm a fool, probably,
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although a pretty one. Who is your sister, Valerie Marsh But you
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already know the he I do now. I didn't before you told me,
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but you must have known. You have her picture, and that a picture
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of her doing what sunbathing at the beach in Miami with Pete, mister Templer,
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you know Pete, of course would not be mister Marsh. Presumably,
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then the picture of missus Marsh with a friend in Miami, probably taken at
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a time when she had told her husband she was elsewhere, would be valuable
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for what a divorce case. Now you're admitting you knew all about it.
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I'm being bright, humor. Maid. Your name's Blair, your sister's name
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is Marsh. You're not wearing a wedding ring, however, therefore it's your
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sister who must be married and to a man named Marsh. Simple maybe for
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guys that went to college. Me I played hooky from kindergarten. To me,
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it ain't simple, but it's true, am I right? Miss Blair?
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I don't know, because you should have known all these things before this,
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because after all, you did have my sister's picture. Who told you
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that Valerie's husband Theodore Marsh and he ought to know, wasn't he? I
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don't know. Let's go ask you, mister Temple. You're walking into alliance
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then I'm driving there in a cab. Yeah, but your name mate Daniel.
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No, however, Miss Blair needs help, right, Miss Blair?
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It isn't help. It's well, it's clearing things up. Well, perhaps
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we can get started on that right away. Exactly what did your sister's husband,
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Theodore Marsh say in reference to me? Well, after echold Valry,
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he was going to divorce her. He said, you had a picture of
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her and Pete taken in Miami two months ago. Where was he at the
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time? Out west? Someplace on business? Your sister really was in Miami.
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Yes, she was at the beach with b Yes, beat what Brian?
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But of course it was the merest coincidence. No, Pete's in love
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with Valerie. But how about Valerie? I don't know, except that she'd
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never do anything it would endanger her marriage. I take it to your brother
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in law, Mister Theodore Marsh is very wealthy. Then he is loaded up.
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That is yes, Miss, here is either the Marsh residence or Grant's
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tomb. It's the Marsh resident, okay, but how can you tell Grant's
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tomb is smaller? And Miss Blapp thank you, Louisa. Will you wait,
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I'll wait. I wouldn't even mind. All right, I'm sorry about
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the dinner, that's all right. Would you like to go and get some
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dd while you're waiting, I should say, not what kind of guy you
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think I am? You asked me to dinner. I'm gonna have dinner with
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you if I have to wait till breakfast, All right, Louis, Come
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on, miss Lay, mister templar, Oh, come now, you can't
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be formal with a man you are going to call me Simon, Simon,
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don't tell anybody about my trying to shoot you. I won't. I really
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should have had a manicure before I touched that button. Tell me is it
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solid gold or only gold plated? And everything that theato or buys is solid
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gold? The poor man must be weighed down. Good evening, miss Sellie.
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Hello Graves, come in, Simon Graves. Where is missus Marsh in
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the music room? Man? Come on, Simon, miss Sellie. Yes,
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missus Marsh may not welcome any visitors, she said, not. Well,
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that's all right, she'll see us as you say this. Sei Graves
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is a very nice butler. Well, his hair is hardly snow white.
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However, all butler's used to be young sometime or other. I don't know.
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I always thought they were kept in the cellar till age like wine.
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This is the music room. Well, it's a little smaller than kannegge Hall.
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No, bubt, who's there? I'm sorry. I hope I didn't
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upset you, darling. Sir, you couldn't upset anyone. You're too wholesome.
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This is mister Templar. Oh, how do you do, mister Templar
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the detective? Well, not exactly. Oh, shouldn't you be muttering somewhere
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with my husband in a dark corner I don't know him well, or possibly
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lurking in a hotel corridor. I never look its analogy, although I will
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admit you surprise me, do I? You don't look at all like the
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kind of man I thought you'd be. You should have been small and sly,
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greasy, your hat pulled over your eyes, a cigarette dangling from your
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lips. You know, I once knew a man who looked exactly like that.
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Oh, one of your associates. No, he happened to be the
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professor of ethical philosophy at Harvard. Valerie stopped flirting with Simon. Besides,
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you're wasting time, He says. He never had a picture of you and
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was never hired by Theodore to do anything. Then why did Theodore say,
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I don't know but I believe Simon look at him. Yes, I'm looking,
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yes, And if I'm turning a bee thread, it's because it's very
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warm. And shouldn't we be asking that question of mister Marsh? Oh,
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yes, of course, Sally Darling, will you get Theodore? He's in
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his study all right, Bally. What is mister marsh studying in his study
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the labels on bottles of old whiskey? Oh, now that's a fascinating subject.
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You're a little on the fascinating side yourself. Yes, but I don't
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have a million dollars. We like theato. Some men don't need a million
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dollars, like Pete, Oh, Pete, he'd just like to have money.
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But that was, Sally, your husband's study. Where is it?
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Come with me? It's upstairs. That's a NodD place for it. No,
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it's next to his bedroom, so that after Theodore has studied enough bottles,
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he doesn't have to walk upstairs. He couldn't, Sally, Sally,
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what's the matter behind the death? That was Theodore? Marsh Darling? Yes,
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you said as I said it intentionally. The knife in his back reached
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the heart's still warm. He was murdered quite recently, murdered. Men rarely
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commit suicide by stabbing themselves in the back. They find it inconvenient or something.
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And I beg your pardon, but I heard someone screaming Miss Blair,
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graves and unmannerly sound. But mister Marsh has been murdered. Good hits,
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miss I agree with you. Would you mind phoning the police Graves and asking
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them to drop in the police, Yes, Missus Marsh, and some of
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them probably won't even remove their hats. It's vulgar. But still you're being
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unkind. Suddenly I'm being angry. I think someone's been trying to make a
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fool of me and succeeding, which is very important. But the same person
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has done something a little more serious. He or she has murdered. You
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know, people get electrocuted for that. Okay, get a shot from this,
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don't finger prints are on the desk, non, sir, Come on,
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not in a all? All right? What were you doing here?
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Missus Blair asked me to visit with missus Marsh. So so I was visiting
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with missus Marsh. Why you've seen missus March. Why Sally Blair asked you
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a visit in the first place? She thought I was an art patron.
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Why Lieutenant Riley stopped pretending that you don't have degrees from at least two universities?
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A quiet, quiet, what do you want to do? Get me
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in trouble with the boys? Keep it a diddy seecret between it. Thanks,
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you're not confiding in me tonight, Not until I go home and write
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like mad in my diary. All right, go home. I'd like to
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say goodbye to Sally and neither of them. I suppose there's a profound police
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reason for that. No, I'm just being mean. Good Night Trembler,
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good night Templar. Yeah. One thing I gotta say about you. You
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got a lot of dignity. It's funny you should say that, Lieutenant.
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I was just considering sliding down that banister. Lots of cops back at that
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marble shack. So there were Louis, so they were well, they find
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out the Theodore marsh was dead by themselves. What did you tell him?
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Louis stopped being disrespectful. Okay, we eat and dine now, now we
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turn left at Mlani and Sa eighteen ninety no three twelve. Oh it's too
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bad. Eighteen ninety Malannie Road would have been at least the advertizing address.
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Who are we calling on a man named Pete Bryan? Can he cook?
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Maybe? No? But he has other talents, Louis. He looks very
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pretty in beach pictures. He does? He does? You're going up to
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his place to take some all pictures? No, I just want to find
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out exactly how he fits in the picture of murder? What is it?
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Simon Templar sounds like a clean coul American boy working his way through college.
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Oh, just remembered, you're the saint. I'm wrong, You're wrong.
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May I come in? It's a little on the late side. I've just
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seen missus Marsh lucky you will come in? Oh, thank you? Uh,
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Valerie, since you're here, No, I thought you said. I
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just said that I had seen her. She was trying to look when I
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left her, like a woman stricken by overwhelming grief. Because you were leaving
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because and I hope this comes as a shock to you, her husband was
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dead, Theodora Marsh dead. Terrible? Do I mean nice? That depends
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on what and how handy a man you are with a knife. Was the
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pride of my scoutmaster. You had a hand on the knife that killed Marsh.
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You may yet be the pride of the district attorney. You're really saying
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Marsh was murdered, he was really murdered. Fine, wait a minute.
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You're the man who has a picture of Valerie and me taken in Miami.
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Aren't you the one Marsh was going to use for divorcing Valerie? So I've
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heard I don't have it, which I regret. It's a picture that won't
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mean anything in the divorce case anymore, but might mean a lot in someone's
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trial for murder. That's right, then, nice of you to tell me
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about it. Are you offering a picture for sale? I don't have it.
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Would this make you change your mind? Oh you've run out of knives?
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Ah bray, this is safer. Well it's a very pretty gun.
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Stop admiring it. Hand over the picture. I don't have it. Would
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you prefer being shot? I never prefer being shot. As a matter of
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fact, I'm never shot. It's unethical or something. I don't think I'm
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going to mind being unethical about you. I'd mind you haven't much time left,
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neither of you. The police are coming to visit with you, with
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me. Why doesn't seem to have been a very well kept secret that you
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and missus friendly, shall I say? Mister marsh is now dead as a
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result of extreme violence. The police will undoubtedly want to know where you were
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earlier tonight. Where, by the way were you That's none of your business.
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Oh now you've wounded me to the quick. I shall leave now.
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Wait you want me to stay and tell the police about the picture. Okay,
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get out. Don't try anything with that photograph. It doesn't mean a
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thing, of course it doesn't. Good night, mister Brian. Be nice
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to the police. They don't have a million dollars like Valerie, and they're
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not pretty. They can be the death of you. Home at last.
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Yeah, it'll be a late dinner, but it will be dinner. I
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don't care what it is, just so long as it's something. You must
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be starved. I'm terribly sorry. Oh that's okay. You couldn't help it.
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Shut the door behind you doing okay. He looked his envelope on the
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floor. Somebody must have shove it on the door while we were out.
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Hey, it's a special delivery addressed to me. Well, well then it's
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a photograph. Mmmm man in Ava, didn't I nam? Huh's very nice?
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What they got on the beaches that I'm bed either, Louis, you're
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speaking of the woman. I yeah, never mind, it's very marsh.
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The man's speak. Brian, you can you might don't want? You know.
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I'm puzzled, Louis, hardly. Theodore Marsh wasn't lying when he told
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his wife he tent the picture to me. That's nice. So maybe where
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he is now the temperature is mild instead of hot. Louis, I'm worried.
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What about mister Marsh's future, about his past, and about excuse me
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a moment. No, that's all right. I got some serious studying to
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do. Hey, here's a horse in the fifth I know it's gonna win
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Adia now because my feet hurt big cause your horse's name is blue Jay.
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Oh well, put a plaster on him for me. Huh, hello,
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Lieutenant Raley, Please timon temper, I'll hold on. Wanted to come down
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and arrest the picture. Lieutenant you visited Pete Bryan. You holding him?
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I meant in jail you're not. You'd have liked to, but you're not.
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Should you have? I don't know? Good night. His place is
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over on the other side of town. Took us nearly an hour to get
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here from it, it's gonna take us nearly an hour to get back there.
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Oh, don't tell me we're going for another ride. Yes we are,
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huh. We dine later, and we dine later bos and the guy
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is asleep. Then we're waken already. May have run away from home.
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Door is locked, however, it's a it's a cheap blck. I mean
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flat key should open it, perhaps this one. Yes, it's it's it's
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it's gonna docum light switch around someplace. That's about it. It is.
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Brian didn't run away from home, nor could I have waked him. However,
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loud I rang, Oh, his head don't look so good. Well,
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the gunny shot himself. What's stole in his hands? And I think
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we'll leave it there he uh, he's not as pretty as his picture.
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Yes, sir, Hello Graves, mister Templar, mister Temple, this will
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go better inside. Of course, everyone has retired for the lights, naturally.
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Some of them, however, can still be waked. I beg your
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pardon the music room, I think, yes, sir, here we are,
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sir, good Graves, I'll need your help. I want you to
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go to miss Blair's room. Wake her if she needs waking, Tell her
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I'm down here with the photograph. The photograph the one of Missus Marshall.
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She'll know, Tell her that and leave her. Wait five minutes. Then
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go through the same routine with Missus marsh But you don't have to understand what
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you do as I say. Yes, sir, oh uh, before you
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go, turn off all the lights in this room. Where do you accept
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that small one on the table? Very well, sir, But why I'm
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setting a scene and it'll play better in the dark. Just told me.
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Good for grades the picture I have it. But before you start anything anything,
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yes, like waving guns at me, I'd like a question or two
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answered. Marsh was a rich man, like most rich men, I assume
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he made a will. Yes, the provisions of which are hesitation doesn't become
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you. Obviously he would have left the bulk of his estate to his wife.
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Yes, Yes, there would have been the usual bequest's servants and what
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else? You've been in touch with Theodore's lawyer. No, I'm guessing,
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but I am right so far. Yes, what else was in the will?
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He left me some money, a lot of money, A lot of
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money, thank you? But that doesn't mean it, mister Templar, this
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is hardly the time too, Oh, Sally, Valerie, I'm afraid of
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Simon. Hello, miss you don't have to be afraid of Simon, Sally.
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He's a gentleman and flattery won't help, not anymore, missus marsh Why
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did you tell me your husband and said he'd sent that picture to me?
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Because that's what he now? What conceivable reason would he have for telling you
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about it? Well, I really don't know. Would he have wanted to
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make it possible for you to steal it from me, to make it possible
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for your sister to threaten me with a gun and an effort to get it
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away from me? I don't know what to say. You might try the
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truth. How did you know your husband had sent the picture to me?
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I? All right, I'm not very proud of myself, but I've been
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using graves to spy on my husband. I said, I wasn't proud of
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myself, but I had to protect myself. I didn't want to be divorced.
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Then you discovered the existence of the picture and it's whereabouts, not from
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your husband but through graves. You say discovered its existence, as though perhaps
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it didn't exist. Oh it does exist, all right, I have it
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with me. Oh yeah, here, thank you. Hm. It's a
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nice picture, very good likeness. Mm. There'd be no doubt about identification.
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There would have been no difficulty about corroboration either, once Pete Bryan was
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put on the witness stand, Simon, you said, would have been no
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difficulty. I did. Brian, unfortunately, is no longer in a position
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to testify to anything. Well he's not, not, he is. I
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left him half an hour ago, lying on the floor of his bedroom,
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a revolver in his right hand, a bullet woman in his right temple.
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He killed himself, so it would appear. But why unless, of course,
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he killed Theodore and was then seized with panic or remorse and put an
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end to his own life. It's a pretty theory. Theory, theory,
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pretty but like so many pretty things, faults. He was murdered. But
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from what you just told us, Lewie and I entered his room. I
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had to put the lights on. Well, according to police records, no
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man shoots himself in the dark. Oh, this is all a little too
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much for me. I'm going upstairs. I think you'd better leave the photograph
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here though, No I'm keeping it. It belongs to me, it belongs
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to the police. I said I was keeping it. Valerie, put that
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gun away. It's pearl handled, no doubt, had gun of the highest
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pedigree. I don't care what you say or think. I'm Missus Marshall.
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You'd better let be a heavy gun. I'm sorry, madame. Never mind,
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And the photograph here you are, mister Templar hasn't been damaged. I
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rather thought you'd be outside the door, Graves. Thank you, sir.
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You might as well let me have Missus Marsh's gun to exhibit A and exhibit
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B. The police will be pleased here it is. Yes, yes,
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it's rather a heavy gun for a woman. I wonder if it's heavy enough
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to I'm afraid I may have slightly damaged your butler, Missus marsh Yes,
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so I see, but I feel terribly about it. If you knocked him
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out, he probably deserved it, thank you, Sally. But I don't
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feel terribly about knocking him up. What I feel terrible about is the butler
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turned out to be guilty. Simon. Yes, Missus march I am.
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I'm not sure why I'm still up or why you're still here. The answer
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to that is simple. Yes, I haven't explained how I knew Graves was
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the murderer. Oh how did you know? Well, there was the photograph.
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You lied about it when you said your husband had sent it to me,
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But I knew you had to be lying because if your husband intended to
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use it as evidence in a divorce case, he would have sent it to
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his lawyers, not me. That's true. Therefore, I wondered, had
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you sent me the photograph yourself, not if you were planning to commit murder,
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because that photograph would have been strong evidence against you, and it might
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have been selling. Well if it were, why would she have come to
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my house and tried to get it back from him? No, it was
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neither your husband, Sally nor yourself had sent the picture to me, and
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Peter O'Brian's death cleared him, which left Graves who wanted the bequest my husband
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had left him. Yes, Graves who sent the photographed to me in order
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to provide motive for murder against you, and who then proceeded to murder your
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husband. Who Riven knew about the picture. Graves took it from my desk.
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But Simon, why did he kill Pete a double gamble. Either the
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police would accept the suicide as genuine and close the case on the basis that
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Pete had murdered your husband and then killed himself, or else I'd have been
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suspected of both killings, right, Simon, Yes, you've finished the explanation.
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Are you going to rush away now that you've solved the mystery of the
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picture? Not? I'm your tindactor, Simon. Yes, and they call
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you the saint. Well, even saints can take time off. I'll see
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who it is. Louis Louie. Oh good heavens, I forgot all about
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now, Louise, stop standing there and looking hungry. What do you want
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to shore to sit down and look hungry? I promised Louis at dinner,
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and then your sister came along, and then the murder came along. You
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two haven't had your dinner yet, I'm afraid not. Well, both of
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you, sit right down. I'll go see what we have in you,
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see, Louis, I was explaining the clues to missus marrish. I didn't
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mean to stay so long blaming the clues. Yes, so wipe off the
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lipstick from your face. Huh. Oh, it's all right, mister Temple,
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I think we're gonna have a wonderful meal, because, judging from the
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look in your eyes when I came in, yes, missus cooks with guess
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the religious organizations of America invite you to find yourself through faith and come to
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church this week. 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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This adventure of The Saints, entitled The Terrible Tin Time was written by
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Lewis Viddie. In the cast you Heard, John Banks says Valerie marsh and
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Lamar Johnson as p Alan Parish, with Sally Ken Christie the Lieutenant and Anna
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Hurlehy the Butler. Louis is played by Larry Dobkin. The Saint, based
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on characters greeted by Leslie Trules, is a James Well Safire production and is
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directed by Helen mack. Vincent Price is now starring in The Winslow Boy at
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the Las Palmas Theater here in Hollywood. All you Saints fans will be glad
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to know that the Saint comic books are on sale at all news stands here.
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An answer is Don Stanley. Three chimes mean good Times. On NBC
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for more mystery. This afternoon, there's another adventure with that heart boiled private
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eye Charlie Wilde, who solves another battling case by a mere swash of the
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buckle. It's thirty minutes of suspense with Charlie Wilde. Later today and Sunday
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means another broadcast in NBC's gigantic series The Big Show. Pilula presides as usual
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and Her guests tonight include Fred Allen, Edwyn and many more on The Big
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Show tonight on NBC Welcome Back. Well, poor Loly just wanted to get
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dinner out of this whole deal, but he did get it in the end.
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By the way, if you're wondering, and I was, what a
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tent top is A literal tin type is a very old photograph photography method that
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was at its height in the middle of the nineteenth century, but had pretty
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much fallen out of use by the early part of the twentieth century, So
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the name was just a way of referencing the photograph and a litter of fashion.
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Actual tin tops have been making a bit of a comeback that's been spearheaded
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to a large extent by a photographer named John Kaffer, who lives up in
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Dundee, New York, and was profiled in The New York Time several years
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ago and lives a nineteenth century lifestyle and is a leader. There are other
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ten top enthusiast out there, and you thought listening to sixty year old radio
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programs was a bitter retro. Ten Times were also used during the Afghan War,
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was the first time they were used in a war by the US military
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since the Civil War. Well, that will actually do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with Crime and Peter Chambers, and a week from
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tomorrow join us from Man from Homicide, and then next Monday it'll be another
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episode of The Saint. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen
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from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.