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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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of changed some of the donation levels
at the Patreon side as we're still experimenting

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with it, so we change the
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evaluate the different levels and the way
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