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Price episode of The Saint. Unfortunately, there are a couple of lost episodes
between last week's show and this week's. The original airdate on this week's program,
is May the twentieth of nineteen fifty one and the title Penno Roses on
My Corpse. The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
based on characters created by Leslie Charters and known to millions from books, magazines,
and motion pictures, The robin Hood of modern crime now comes transcribe to
radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint. Would
you like some more coffee? Madam? No, thank you. Excuse me,
I'll see who's at the door? I mean, Chester, I answered
the doorbell, madam. No one, madam. It's silly. Someone rang,
someone rang, madam. But you see there's no one at the door,
no one at all. I suppose it could have been children playing pranks.
Perhaps so, madam, and shut the door. Chester, yes,
manute at your feet on the doorstep. Oh wait, it seems to be
a package of some sort. Pick it up, yes, madame, don't
give it to me, sorry, Chester, but shut the door. Come
along in here, open that package, yes, madame. Well haven't you
finished yet? In a moment? Yeah, what is it? You have
only to look, madam? What is it? Nothing important? Madam?
Only a red rose. A red rose, mister templar, how do you
find the roster beef? Very easily? You make the jockey. I'm making
a joke. I laugh, I laugh for missus match. She's a very
happy Who is missus? My two chee? That's my wife. Well,
I'm glad I make your wife happy. Perhaps when we get around to the
dessert, I can make your children happy too. And no, got the
children? Oh that's too bad. But perhaps by the time we get around
to the dessert. No, not enough time. However, mister templary,
you are maybe expected the lady I always hope. But what lady is the
one that she's over the corner table with a very beautiful lines go on a
table, Now that you mention it, you're quite right. She has lovely
eyes. But I wasn't expecting her, not until Christmas at any rate.
She's a watch you all to the dinner. Perhaps there's something fascinating about the
back of my neck to be so, because now the ladyship gets up,
and where do you think she got to this table? Yes, m well,
goodbye tony, oh I degree the goodbye your pardon to our Simon temper,
aren't you yes, I am. May I sit down? Of course,
I'm Laura Kane. How do you do? Would you like something to
drink? No, thank you? A drink wouldn't help, or perhaps I
could. I'm pretty desperate and very beautiful. Thank you, But you didn't
come to my table to hear me say that. No, mister Temper,
you see I know about you. It's probably an exaggeration. You're the saint.
Yes, it is an exaggeration. And I need help, desperately help
about what mister champion look And I think for a couple of reasons, you'd
better specify what I am to look at At my shoulder, my left shoulders
very pretty. There's a red rose pin doing. That's what I need help
about the rose And I know very little about flowers, except that they're beautiful
and are very often sent to beautiful women. Someone who never sent his name,
by someone who sees to it that they're delivered secretly with no word at
night. That is rather unusual, frightens me. Or perhaps the roses is
sent by an admirer of yours, a very shy admiring I thought that at
first, but not anymore, no matter how shy a man might be,
It's not easy for anyone to sneak into a house night after night, unseen,
unheard. It can't be shyness. Well perhaps not takes cunning determination.
There's more too. Yes, my first husband was killed a number of years
ago. Police never found out who killed him. When his body was found,
mister Templer, there was a red rose pinned to his shoulder. Mister
Templer. Yes, do you think I'm being hysterical about this? I mean,
am I attaching too much importance to something that might be harmless? I
don't know too many unknown factors? You married again, didn't you? Yes?
To Henry last year? Did he know about your first husband? Of
course? Your husband's at home, No, which isn't unusual. Oh,
he's away most of the time. He likes to travel, climb mountains and
things like that, and you. I don't like climbing mountains much. How
about your husband? I don't like him much either, I see, do
you? He's very rich? I suppose in view of your sentiments, he'd
have to be. And he is away a lot. So there are servant
well only Chester the butler. Does he know about the roses? He knows
I've been getting him. I don't think he knows about their connection with my
first husband, which is just as well. I don't think he admires me,
and then why do you keep him on? Henry insists. Henry's very
much attached to Chester, and Chester makes a good watchdown. This is where
I live. It's a large house. You're being kind. It's not only
large, it's horrible along to Henry's family for hundreds and hundreds of years.
I sometimes get the feeling all of them are still living in it with us
no lights in that. Chester likes to go to bed early, and he's
careful about saving Henry's money as well as his reputation. He always goes about
turning lights off. Must make the house a very cheery plenty as it does
cheery as a tomb. You know, I'm afraid to go in. Why
not? Green Chester wouldn't like being waked. You asked me to come home
with you because you were afraid your unknown admirer, the man who's been sending
you the roses, might be waiting for you. Well, I could go
in alone, and I'm being silly. The light switches to your right,
Sam right, anyway, there's no one in the foyer. I'm counting my
blessings as they come along. Where are the roses? Usually left? Sometimes
on the door step, mostly though in a living room, on a table
there. And then suppose we try the living room. Yes, wait,
the lanch right near the door. I'll get it. There's nothing on the
table, no roses, no roses, but Missus Kane on the couch the
far corner. Flowers are there. They never stay where you are, Kane.
Please, miss please tell me it's all right. I'm afraid I can't.
Missus Kane. Yes, yes, there's a knife buried in his chest.
He's dead. Oh no, mister gentler, Yes I know, Missus
Kane. Your husband is holding a red rose and it's the templer. All
right, we want to be alone. I don't break this case. I'm
liable to wind up being alone in someplace out in Staten Island. Kane was
a very rich boy. Very rich don't like to get murdered unlike the poor.
You mean the same difference, except around dumps like this. A CoP's
got to be careful. I look, templar, we got your story in
the babes. Missus Kane is a very beautiful and need I remind you of
a very wealthy woman. If she's a babe. We got your stories translated,
that means we got a couple of pages of nothing. How do you
happen to know that her first husband got himself not to off too? I
didn't happen to know, she told me. I suppose maybe that's a mark
of a favor. But how do you like the Butler Chester? Well,
I don't know. I never met him. I mean as a suspect.
I never liked Butler as a suspect, old fashioned. He lives here,
except he don't seem to be living here anymore. It makes sense to me
whatever it does to you. And the thing I'm worried about it is was
his disappearance a coincidence? Or would be because he stuck the knife and the
boss? I wouldn't know. Of course, if we figure him for the
killing, it would make everybody very happy except Chester. Yeah, well,
I we'll find him. Well, Well, the more I have to do
around here, so I guess I'll pull the boys out, go back to
my pinochle game. You staying on for a while, You would think that
would on these consolations, Lieutenant, you are a cad. If nobody ever
confused me with a gentleman anybody ever confused you with? To say, I
think it's nice of you to even consider the possibility. A good night them?
All right, boys, I'm still here. It was nice for you
to stay, and the police were very nice. Why not get to bed
now? There's nothing to be done tonight, Diamond, Do I really think
Chester killed my husband? Do you know? Chester would never have harmed Henry?
And that leaves Chester with a job on his hands explaining his disappearance.
That's his problem. I suppose. I am tired, Simla go but Laura,
yes, I don't think he'll show up. I'm not talking about Chester.
He What do you mean? But you've been waiting for someone all evening.
Every time the front door opened, even though the police were here,
you grow tense. Expectant was fairly obvious, Laura, you're imagining things all
right? Good night, good and thanks for every I didn't do anything I
wish I could have prevented. Try and get some sleep all phone in the
morning. Thank you. So I'm a templing. Oh hello, Joe,
the tenant left you on guard? Huh yeah, me, I'd be happier
was I inside? Oh? The weather out? Here, not the lady
in there. Hell, let's life and practically in the raw too. Good
night night, miss Temper, missus Temper, quick, get in the car,
do hurry? Oh all right, of course I might be walking into
the lions den. Good heavens, do I look like a lion? No?
No, much more like a lamb. So I've been told better be
getting away from that redtule house. I never could stempyons deplorable. Yeah,
not to mention the policeman out front. Peez, that's not all right.
And mister Temper, you're quite a detective on too, but not exactly a
detective. But we do detect every once in a while, don't when I
can't help myself? Why? Well, you see, I drove up the
house and noticed Howards but hoards a policeman outside. I've been expecting to drop
in on Laura and and share a cup of tea, but the champagne would
seem to be more in Laura's lion. Well, I don't mind a bit
of why myself. No, however, dabbling, what I mean to say
is, with all those policemen around, I thought it hardly wise to visit,
and you know, no, oh, I'm sorry I've been terribly rude.
My name's Gordon Ashington. My friends call me Gordie. Well, I'll
try to resist, but you haven't told me yet. Whatever has happened where
that dear Laura's of course, Well it's dear Henry's too, you know what
his dear Laura's house. Oh well, yes, of course. But why
think of nasty things, because they've become even nastier. What umbers are you
trying to say? Dear Henry is dead. Well, it's most distressing,
of course, But dear Henry is not only dead, he was murdered.
Oh, Dear Laura shouldn't ever, Oh that is what makes you think Laura
did. I didn't say. I do not think that Laura did anything of
the thought. I I just remember that terribly important engagement. You will excuse
me going too, if you can get a care right at the corner.
Oh, yes, of course, mister Ashington. Yea, that engagement you
just remembered. I'd be very careful keeping it nonsense. It's a business engagement.
Might be the making of me. Perhaps. On the other hand,
it might be the death of you. Alexander Graham Bell you may rope hello,
mister temper, mister Simon Templer. Are you satisfying a morbid curiosity or
addicted to practical chokes? I realize it's very late, ser, but I'm
Chester, mister Chester, the butler. Yes, the police, I'm afraid
are more interested in you than I am. Why not? I must think
I murdered mister King? Did you? Of course? But then why didn't
you stay at the house there? The murderer being I didn't see him.
I heard mister Kane cry out, and then horrible sounds that I heard steps
coming towards me, so you ran? Yes, Well why have you called
me? Because I knew missus Kane had spoken to you about the roses.
How did you know? Man? She told me she was going to tell
you. That is what do you want me to do? Help me?
You'd better come here, I can. I'm afraid of me. Where are
you? Mister Kane had a small hunting lodge. That's where I am son
Chresley Road, just across the George Wahhington Bridge off high Windwell, I don't
dare come into the city, mister Temple, I see, but got to
help me. I don't want to be murdered, all right? Then?
Now be out there. As soon as I can. Thank you, sir,
Please hurry, I'd like to be alive when you come the templer.
Yeah, so you explained everything, but I still don't seem right in the
middle of the night. Nobody takes it taxes to Jon, but I have.
Yeah, that's what bothers me. Also, it's my taxes, you
know something, the stock in the chain where that happens in New York too,
Yeah, but it's more like home there here. It don't make me
feel good. You're not supposed to feel good. We're on our way to
help a man whose life may be in danger. Oh no, I feel
would look this Buckler Chester supposing he killed mister Kane himself. So from whom
would he be in dangerous? But he may not have killed Kane Louis,
so to let him stay in those choice No, No, he was in
the house when Kane was murdered. Yeah, but he didn't see the killer.
If he's telling a proof, that's I know, Except the killer may
not know that this here is the place, Yes, cabin set back when
they roan. Come on, mister, I should have rung my elephants ju
if I had elephants. Dum that we're not having elephants. There could be
a lot safer than what we're doing, right, I don't know. Don't
complain as the temple. Please the sounds you're liable to hear of from this
wilderness, and that sounds, I want to hear. The lights in the
cabin man, maybe Chester want the Pennsylvania and it's the temple. It's a
joke. See, there's a time of Pennsylvania called chest all right, maybe
a populential and let you hear my feet chatter. You're gonna knock, of
course, Simon Temper Chester, Yeah, and Louis, and Louis coming please
quickly. I haven't say I've put the lights on in this room. It
pass the road where you coming with me? Oh? I should have had
the lights on here in the kitchen either, but I was afraid to wave.
And Darty, is anyone likely to suspect you may have come here?
I don't know. I can't even thank mister m you're sure you don't know
who killed mister Kane. No, I don't. If I did, I
could have gone to the police and been safe, Miss Wester. Mister Kane
was very welcome, he wasn't he Yes, sir, and missus Kane,
Well, she was married to mister Kane, so I meant in her own
right, I don't think so, Sir. Kane wasn't home very much at
the time, was he, No, Sir? Why, well, he
wasn't really happy in his manage, and he could have divorced his wife for
not mister Kane, Sir, he couldn't have endured the scandal. And Kane
Chester that name? You can't think of the killer's name? Could it possibly
be Gordon Ashington? I don't more. What does mister Ashington do besides to
have tea with missus Kane. He raises flowers, Sir. He has a
conservatory out on Long Island, he said to sing among those flowers? Could
there possibly be roses? Roses? Yes, you know what they're of course.
But then suppose you answer my question. I should imagine you raised roses,
sir Chester. Yes, sir, I'm having unkind thoughts about you.
What do you mean, mister Temper, I think, for example, that
you know who killed mister Kane. I think also that your original intention was
to keep quiet about that knowledge until the case had been closed as unsolved.
Why would I do a thing like that? It's an ugly word, Chester,
but I'm afraid I don't have to use this blackmail for that. That's
ridiculous now for an innocent man. There's no explanation of your behavior that holds
water. I was afraid mister Kane was nice today. The room in which
he died showed no signs of struggle. Therefore, you couldn't have heard the
murder. You must have seen it. No, sir, your story about
fleeing from the series Footsteps is childish. According to your own story, you
had no way of knowing whose they were or even who had been killed.
An honest man in your circumstances would simply have run out into the street and
yelled for help. You didn't. I who killed mister Kane? Ship,
I don't know. Would you prefer dying alongside the murderers and accessory after the
fact? Very will share. I did see you. Wait, it's that
window, Chester, You were near the lamp kind of offer. He didn't
turn it off. No bullet did it for him. I came through that
window. We can find the door and this confound in darkness. Yeah,
yeah, here it is. Oh, there goes a car, kill his
car. We're too late Louis. Right, let's go back in. There's
another lamp around. Wait, strike a match please, okay, mister Temples.
Yeah here it is, mister Temples. I know Louis. Two of
the bullets hit him. Oh I ain't gonna bustle no more. No,
he's second murder scene in two days. But in this one he played the
title role and almost a Templer. And now Jersey Coups wasn't bad. You
know, if ID shut my eyes, I could almost have imagined there was
New York Cups just goes to show you, to show you what the crossing
a river. Don't change your cup. I'm taking you home, No,
Louis, Missus Kane, if you don't mind, I mind. Look,
mister Templer. Maybe she's beautiful, but right now I could easy spine even
Helena Troy, and from what I hear from a boy, she would be
all time to nat it. You hear right? How do you know you
was around while she was still on the vine? Blue? Yeah, we're
passing Missus Kane house. Oh oh, there's a couple, so there is
wait for me, Louis. Oh wait hey you Oh well, mister Template,
hello again, Joe like to see missus Kane. So what I I
mean at this hour? Does she turn invisible at fat an hour? Oh?
Hello, I know she wants to see you, but you might try
asking her. Okay, you wait here frying? Well, that way I
get to see you too. Hey, you know something I'm afraid I do.
She's gone, that's right, But how did I know I get?
She shouldn't a dot dot? I'm supposed to protect you. Hey, hey,
mister template, where are you going? Believe it or not, Joe,
I'm going to pick a few flowers. That would be the greenhouses over
there. Yeah, you interested in flowers? So they desclare a small house
where Gordon lives. I should think there is a light on it here,
and then let's see how quietly I can open a door, very quietly,
but very bad murmans murders. You bull going right? Urber? Who's the
pumplere? I know I can't give a card, but you are, Laura.
You start to house whatever. But the police did to stay find out
you've been gallivanting around the country. pH They think when they find out you,
then I was here. Only no Gordon, because when I got here,
I'll stop and touch the hood of your cars. This is hot right,
I've been rest last and gone off your drive A queer too, Gordon,
I wasn't go the composer, glad of what difference did it make?
Fair eyes reason? I haven't ust become lips because of the murderer, and
I have and not for the first time I knew about the first hugment and
the roses I knew, idea. Won't thank you, Trusty Fanning, giving
us Lara growing and helping you bear the burden of your great well for the
idea, I should perhaps go very Oh no, tell me this is where
we come into good evening? What's the devil do you mean by not knocking,
intruding, eavesdropping? I'm a cat and you'll never hear me call you
God? It better let go of Laura, all right? Can be some
heroics about him, is a matter of fact. I'm here merely to give
you a message early from whom Chester time and the police have found him.
He's in their hands at the moment, and the police won't treat him badly.
Will this because he didn't kill Henry. Didn't kill Henry and the police
won't treat him badly. I see he's dead, poor old tap. You
lack conviction with dast I lack incas. After all, what is Chester to
me? More than you realize? Perhaps you see he was shot to death
in front of Louis and me. He had been in the house when Henry
Kane was murdered. To you, who the murderer? Wife? I still
like, you're certain before he died, Chester past that name onto me.
He did? He did? Is that why you're waving has gone about?
I just want to be sure, just and I don't care what touch to
say. If he told you I murdertained you he was lying that flying Gordon
Kee put that gun away. No, Gordon, don't put the gun away,
but stop pointing it at me. You might try another direction until the
police arrived. Other director who missus Janes? Of course you see she happens
to have killed both her husband and Chester oh Di oh Mann's sake, don't
faint till later. So in the middle of the night, we're sitting in
a restaurant. This adds up, It certainly does. Lara Caine interrupted me
earlier to night, and I never got to the dessert her and mister Temples.
I know the cops are locked. Missus Kane up, which fortunately I
think it is a waste on a kind of how she looks. But look,
I can't believe she killed her husband in the bucket. She did lose.
Yeah, I'd like to ask you how you know? Only I don't
want to stay Hickle breakfast. It's very simple, early man. Her motive
is outvious. She did the trade Kane Mike divorce her, therefore she killed
him and hoped to inherit his money. Hha. And the roses an attent
and Robert a clever one to direct suspicion if Gordon. She even put on
an act with Chester about the roses ordinarily, if Chester hadn't decided Black meeting
her would be more fun. Heither testified about the roses routine and helped him
the gordyad. Yeah yeah, but how now excuse me, but I think
any minute the sun has gone to rise out of You know, whoever murdered
Chester had been ves blocking and knew that Chester hadn't been given the opportunity to
tell us the murderer's name. Yet, when I suggested Chester had told him
how, Gordon got scared and started awaving a gun, so you knew he
was innocent, and that left made this tank a lady whose love was not
at all like a red red rose. You have been listening to another transcribe
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OH and a Man and his Wife you're listening to the great detectives of old
time radio. Welcome back. Well an interesting final episode. I actually like
the confrontation with Chester the most. That was probably the best scene in this
There's no mention made of Vincent Price's departure, and I doubt it'll be discussed
in next week's show either. Usually the approach taking an old time radio is
just here's your star, folks, pay no attention that we've just changed to.
That is the one thing Vincent Price was known to have set about playing
the Saint was that the hardest part was finding new ways to get conked on
the head. He really provided a great and very memorable performance. He's a
hard act to follow, and let's see how m Conway lives up to the
challenge. There are people who actually prefer the Conway episodes more so, certainly
be interesting to hear. Also, I do have to say that I like
the jingle of then very nice and a very special gift. I guess to
people who like nineteen fifties nostalgia, all right, well that we'll do it
for today. All right, Well, that will actually do it for today.
We will be back tomorrow with Ellery Queen and next week the Old Order
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