1 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:34,600 Hello from Boise, Idaho. This is Adam Graham and Christmas and Christmas Eve. 2 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:40,359 We'll be sharing holiday related encores on both days. A reminder of these 3 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:46,280 programs were recorded several years back, so any offers or information discussed are not 4 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,799 valid unless they're currently on on the website. But now let's go ahead and 5 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:59,759 listen today's program and Merry Christmas. Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time 6 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:03,959 Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If 7 00:01:03,959 --> 00:01:08,000 you have a comment, send it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot 8 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,680 net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one of our 9 00:01:12,719 --> 00:01:19,239 friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detectives. 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The Adventures of 19 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:38,520 the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint, based on characters created by Leslie 20 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:42,759 Charteris and known to millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures, The 21 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:46,919 Robinhood of Modern Crime now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented 22 00:02:46,919 --> 00:03:00,280 actor Vincent Price as the Saint. Come in him, mister temple a r 23 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:05,080 ready in a minute. Hey wait you see my cat? I gave it 24 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,800 a bed for Christmas? Well congratulations. Look, I don't want to rush 25 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,680 you, but if you don't hurry, Christmas Eve's gonna be already Christmas morning. 26 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,639 And what'll all in pots think? Ah? They will be thinking and 27 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,560 yure fortunate. However, all I have to do now is get my whiskers. 28 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,360 Huh there? How do I look, mister Templar. If I didn't 29 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:29,879 know you was mister Templar, I wouldn't know who you were. M Louis, 30 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,879 don't I look like Santa Claus? This may come as a surprise to 31 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:37,719 you, mister Temple, Santa Claus is fat. Oh you are not the 32 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:40,159 fat. Oh well, hand me that cushion from the couch. Huh okay 33 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:49,039 here, yeah, thank you? Now then how's that now? Say ho 34 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,639 ho ho? What for? Santa Claus has always say ho ho ho oh? 35 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:58,560 I see, well, anyway, you look like Santa Claus. Hey, 36 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,280 mister Temple, whose ideal Missus winterbottoms? Oh, the name who annoys 37 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,639 tots on Christmas Eve? Missus Winterbottom is a very well known philanthropist, and 38 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:11,360 every Christmas Eve she collects hundreds of small children and feeds them. Yeah yeah, 39 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,319 who feeds them the rest of the year. Don't be bitter, Louis. 40 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:19,480 At least I ought to give the little tots a laugh. Yeah yeah, 41 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:23,439 And I suppose there is something to be said for Missus Winterbottom. I 42 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:26,920 won't say it now, Oh worry. There's something to be said for Santy 43 00:04:26,959 --> 00:04:30,319 Claus too. He does go around filling stocky. I know, a blonde 44 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,160 shouldn't say that either. No, someone at the door, No, would 45 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:42,319 you mind? No, it's probably one of them tots. Correction, it's 46 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:48,079 a top. Twenty years later, I'm already back up thanks, now reach 47 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,680 gents. You know that gun in her hand looks loaded. Now that you 48 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:58,680 may reach the chandelier. Okay, why not no chandelier? Oh a wise 49 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,560 guy? Huh. If you're going to shoot me, I insist on knowing 50 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,759 your name, Just call me Sally, Sally and your last name? Never 51 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,600 mind, that's how would you like to get plugged in the in the bread 52 00:05:09,639 --> 00:05:13,560 basket? Where? Let's pass lightly over that. I wouldn't like to get 53 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,000 plugged anywhere? And shut up? All right? Where is it right down 54 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,959 the hall? Are you trying to be smart? Not especially so it's going 55 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,639 to be like that. Huh. Likewise, now you listen to me, 56 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,920 fats boiling, you shut up too, I didn't say anything. Well, 57 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,399 shut up anyway, I'm shutting up. What was I saying? You just 58 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,160 finished calling me fats boiling? That's right, that's wrong. I'm not fat 59 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,560 spoiling. Huh. Well it helps keep the conversation looks fat. Are you 60 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:43,839 going to stop stalling and hand over the stuff or well I have to shoot 61 00:05:44,079 --> 00:05:46,079 since I am not fat boiling, and since I have no stuff to hand 62 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:49,199 over, I'm afraid you have to shoot, mister Temple. That could be 63 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:54,199 fatal you keep quiet? Punk? Who's a punk? You're a punk? 64 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:58,480 It's the temple of a punk where Sally is just a little confused this evening 65 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:06,720 or not? You shouldn't shut up. I am not falling. You were 66 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:11,439 just about to shoot me? Well, I know, but ten you blea? 67 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,600 Oh I'm sorry. I can't stand the side of blood. Why don't 68 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,519 you strangle Louis? Don't be unkind It seems to be the doorbell again. 69 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:25,240 No way, It's very impolite to keep people waiting. But I must have 70 00:06:25,319 --> 00:06:30,079 been followed here, Sally. Look, stop illustrating a point with that gun. 71 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,839 It might go off. I don't care, But then I bleed. 72 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:41,560 Where can I go? I got hide? Well try the kitchen. Oh, 73 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,399 come on, he in it's open house tonight. Well, well, 74 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:50,800 my old pal fat, I am not oiling, although I'm beginning to waiver. 75 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:56,399 Perhaps I am simon the split personality. Who are you, Joe Hudson? 76 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:59,839 You'll remember your old pal, Hudson Hudson, Well, I must have 77 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:02,519 you look like a hornet, but your lines aren't as night. Look if 78 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,600 i'm your old pal, why don't I know you? Oh that's easy. 79 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,720 We never met personally? How else can you meet. Ignore that. But 80 00:07:10,839 --> 00:07:13,879 if we haven't met personally or otherwise, how can I be your pal? 81 00:07:13,959 --> 00:07:19,399 Oh? I was just being friendly. Besides, you got something for me. 82 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:26,839 I have a great little kidder. Ain't your fads any poll? No, 83 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,720 I feel better. I'm a pal too. Look, I wish I 84 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,160 deserved your delighted choice. We'll just let me have the stuff and then I'll 85 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:35,839 get tough again. What stuff? Am I gonna have trouble with you? 86 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:40,120 The door behind you is open. Why don't you use it in that way? 87 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,319 Nobody will have any trouble. I'll use it. I'll use it after 88 00:07:43,399 --> 00:07:47,079 what So that's like that? Huh? Ever see one of these before. 89 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,480 I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. But the answer is yes, I 90 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,079 have good good then you know how it works. It shoots bullets of guys. 91 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,000 Guys who get bullet shot at them have a habit of dying. Really, 92 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:01,519 and then perhaps you better not shoot that gun me. I won't so 93 00:08:01,639 --> 00:08:05,240 give me so I ain't got well that is I that is, you ain't 94 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,959 got factual basic, I ain't a patient man. Hand the stuff over, 95 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:15,360 or I don't have any stuff, or you get shot. I'd bled who 96 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:18,360 cares I do. I hoped you might. However, this could be a 97 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:22,480 stall, this could be trouble. So if you can't shoot him, why 98 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:24,720 not? It's against the law. I read it in the papers. It's 99 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:26,759 against the law. Yeah, yeah, I believe you. Oh so that's 100 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,160 okay. Yeah, but I like doing things against the law. Oh well, 101 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,919 you could go to jail. I already been there, well for shooting 102 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,000 somebody. That they'll hang you or something. If somebody told him, well 103 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:41,960 I would, it would euh, I would. So maybe i'd better shoot 104 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,679 you first. Well, I wouldn't want to deprive mister templar of the privilege. 105 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,440 Well, fats, that's your last chance. Oh not that phrase. 106 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,720 Also, I still don't know. It looks like I'm gonna break a law. 107 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,320 Hey, who did that? You did? Your dog? I did 108 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,600 not this. Here is a plan, but you won't get away with it, 109 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,919 good guy, mister Hudson. It's the temple who made with the artillery. 110 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:07,519 He must have been Sally. She's in the kitchen. She can stay 111 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:09,159 there and she saved our lives. Louis. Yeah, but maybe by now 112 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:16,559 she's found out she likes to shoot gun. That's hope, not he it 113 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:20,440 was nice of you to frighten mister Hudson, off, I did you did? 114 00:09:20,519 --> 00:09:28,159 I didn't shoot anybody. No, so glad I've got her yourself cold. 115 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:37,399 Come up, put around the couch. Oh it's a little late, 116 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,480 but somebody ought to mention. She is not a bad looking dish. You've 117 00:09:41,519 --> 00:09:48,519 mentioned it. M looking for smelling sauce in her bed. No identification. 118 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:56,759 He's a driver's license. Her name is Sally Walter's address forty nine. Pardon 119 00:09:56,879 --> 00:10:01,600 drive ye, social security card. She's the secretary. That's what I need. 120 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,120 Take it back. If she's coming to better put the bag back. 121 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,759 If we keep the gun now, there's still some bullets in it. No, 122 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,240 we don't want her to know we went through her bag. We're ashamed 123 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:15,960 of ourselves. We're going to pay her a visit. She ain't home, 124 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,399 but she will be after she leaves here, and then perhaps we can find 125 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:37,240 out what keeps the home fires burning. Sally was in kind of a hurry 126 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:43,840 leaving us, so she was. Mister templar, don't look right, Santa 127 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,120 Claus. Chasing nor blunt. I'm not chasing her technicalities will get you no 128 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:54,679 place. Hey, this must be it forty nine? What is she a 129 00:10:54,799 --> 00:11:00,279 secretary of the Treasury. I suspect this is where she works. Lewis works 130 00:11:00,279 --> 00:11:05,200 over time, huh and probably sleeps in. Come on, I hope that 131 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,720 nobody is speaking, because I'll think Santa Claus is off schedule. I think 132 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:13,320 perhaps I can manage that the works. Yeah. Ouch, now you look 133 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:20,519 like an implastic with you ring lily. Okay, you know this is the 134 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,080 type house I gotta feel in Santa Claus. I'll have to use the Serbon 135 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:30,559 central. Uh. Yes, I'm Simon Templar. You are, I am. 136 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,200 There's nothing I can do about it. Mm mister Temple, all Butler's 137 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,320 are like him. I doubted. I think he's been practicing haw hawe. 138 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,360 Well good night, then, I think not. Would you mind removing your 139 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,039 shoe from the door? I would you might at least have shined it for 140 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:52,480 who? No one, madam? Oh, but such an interesting looking now 141 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,080 one, Santa Claus, you've lost your whiskers. I haven't there right here 142 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,360 in my pocket. Nai. Actually, my name is Simon Templar, I'm 143 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:03,360 color. This is Lewis. Hi h I mean hi, he's going to 144 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,320 the peasants type? Did you want to see me? Now that I've seen 145 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:15,720 you. Yes, welcome in here. Thank you, Madam Humphrey go away, 146 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:26,440 Yes, Madam Humphrey is such a problem sometimes, shall we nice? 147 00:12:26,919 --> 00:12:33,039 M Yeah, fire in the fireplace, books on the bookselves, port in 148 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,559 that decady, Yes, would you like some? No, thank you. 149 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,159 I just wanted to be sure the accessories were all correct. Someday maybe I'll 150 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:43,799 find some other wine besides port in the decado. I dream, Simon, 151 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:48,480 are you the one who found them? It's beginning again? Found what my 152 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,720 jewels? Of course, have there been lost? Simon? They were stolen? 153 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:54,679 You know that, don't you should? I I've heard of the Saints, 154 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,080 Simon. I didn't know it was also a Santa Claus. Oh, 155 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:01,360 it's a fleeting impulse. When were you a duel? Stolen this afternoon? 156 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,360 You see, Claude, my husband, that is, bought me them for 157 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,519 Christmas. Santa Claude, louis sorry. We decided to have the party this 158 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,120 afternoon. We thought it'd be nice to have a quiet eve, so we 159 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,919 did. The jewels were in quite a large box, there were quite a 160 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,559 lot of them, and Claude hired of Santa Claus. But before the party 161 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,960 was over, Santa Claus had disappeared, so with the jewels. There must 162 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,480 have been some precaution. Oh, there were several detectives, but the Santa 163 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:28,879 Claus that he was going out to get some mayor while the party was on. 164 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,480 He never came back, but he didn't have the jewels on him. 165 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,960 The box was locked, and it was too large for the detectives not to 166 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,879 have noticed. I see the name of the man hired to play Santa Claus 167 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:43,320 was of course Fat Spoiler. And who may you be, Claude? This 168 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,600 is Simon, Templar and Louis. I know neither of them. Snoops, 169 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,080 obviously get rid of them. Claude likes behavior as though he were an emperor. 170 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,240 On occasion, the box wasn't found anywhere in the house. The jewel 171 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,559 box. Now the jewels were in sewing. Naturally, there's none of your 172 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,799 affair I to speak to earlier. You should never have let you in. 173 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,679 I let them in. So now he's going to speak Seville to her. 174 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:11,200 We'll go quietly, except mister Worth. What is Fat's boiling's address? I 175 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:18,879 have no idea. Good night, good night, Simon, and I'm sorry, 176 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:28,000 so am, I I'll show you out. Thank you? Whoa whoa, 177 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,519 whoa, whoa whoa pronounced Carla word. Yeah, what do we doing 178 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:39,879 now, Santa Claus? We get into your nice clean cab and hey, 179 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:45,320 wait a minute, Joe, Now we're going to find out what became of 180 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,720 Sally Simon. Well, good evening, Salim. I overheard Fat's address is 181 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:54,720 seventeen Beale Street. I've got to get right back to the house before anybody 182 00:14:54,799 --> 00:15:00,240 noticed it. Goodbye, an awful short visitor, but long enough. Now 183 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,399 we're gonna visit mister Boyle. I think so. I hope he ain't so 184 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:05,879 handy with a gun as the rest of his characters. Maybe he may not 185 00:15:07,039 --> 00:15:09,879 be. Now I'm all cheered up, but there's one thing I'm sure he 186 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:26,679 isn't. What's that fang? Quite a change from the Whit's dump. Now 187 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:33,799 this is a dump, and mister Boyling would seem to be shy. Mister 188 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,919 Templar, you said something about the one thing he wouldn't be with Fat? 189 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,639 Why because he was called Fats? Not exactly. Maybe I'm worried. Eh 190 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,320 the door was open. Yes, maybe that means our boyd has flown. 191 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:54,720 Maybe come man, that's going okay. I ain't usually so poetical, but 192 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,440 the lights on. Yes, and the room looks funny, looks like a 193 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:03,279 hurry hurricane came to stay for dinner and remained for six months. Somebody was 194 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,360 looking for a jewel box, and someone obviously didn't find it. The extent 195 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:15,000 of the search indicates that nothing was left untouched. It's a funny smell in 196 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,080 this room. You know, a couple of funny smells. Yeah, one's 197 00:16:18,159 --> 00:16:22,399 perfume and the other gun powder. Huh, gun batter. That's why I 198 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,720 ain't been looking behind any pieces of furniture. It really wasn't very far of 199 00:16:26,799 --> 00:16:32,639 the cluing. Huh, he's behind the day bed. Fats, Fats, 200 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:37,320 Louis. Hein't doing so good. He's dead, and Louis, yeah, 201 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:53,080 he wasn't fat. Mister Templar, Yes, Louis. We're being followed since 202 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,480 since we got a boiling's place. It's interesting Louis stopped the cab. It'll 203 00:16:57,519 --> 00:17:00,480 make it easier for wherever's following. That's exactly what I want, even on 204 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:06,559 Christmas Eve. If this shouldn't happen, Now what Now we get out, 205 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:15,000 don't look behind you, start walking. Here is a nice longly stream. 206 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,519 Everybody else's home hanging up stockings. I wouldn't mind hanging up stockings myself. 207 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:25,440 I who do you think it is? I think it's our friend Hudson. 208 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,319 Oh, I just lost five pounds. You mean the guy that was chasing 209 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,559 Sally who was all ready to shoot us until she made the explosion? Need 210 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,319 remind her? Oh? You think he wants some money or all life? 211 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,039 Possibly? What kind of an answer is that you hear? Quickly? Here 212 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,799 temp cer Ali is full of garbage cans, also dark. You don't have 213 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:51,440 to see garbage cans to know they're around, Hudson. Yes, good evening, 214 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:53,039 Hudson. Don't turn around. I've got a gun on you. I 215 00:17:53,079 --> 00:17:56,319 don't like it. He take mister Hudson's gun away from him? Okay? 216 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:03,440 Good at it? At him and I'll wait them that you can't shoot me 217 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:07,000 with my own gun? Why not? That ain't factful? What other gun? 218 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:10,160 Could I shoot you with your own? Hey? You mean you ain't 219 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,720 got Oh? Mister you are a liar? And on Christmas Eve too? 220 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,160 Hudson? Who hired you to follow Sally and me? It was my own 221 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:23,920 idea, Louis. Mister Hudson isn't being friendly. He ain't Uh, he 222 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,720 ain't there he don't lose your heads, fellow, We've lost patience with him, 223 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:32,640 Louis, we have shooting. Louis's beginning to bore me. He's beginning 224 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:40,279 to I should shoot him. Fatal, fatal. Okay, I don't know 225 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:44,039 what my wife six kids are going to say. Got a wife and six 226 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,880 kids. Wait a minute, please, Louis, we're being cruel, prolonging 227 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:48,839 mister Hudson's egg, and he put him out of it. Now, wait 228 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:56,720 a minute. Who hired you, missus Worth, missus Carlo Worth. You're 229 00:18:56,759 --> 00:18:59,759 quite sure? Strike me that that is? Don't strike me that. Look, 230 00:18:59,759 --> 00:19:02,079 Look she didn't what I shay? Why would I say she did? 231 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:07,039 You have a point there, But why should she have wanted you to follow 232 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,240 Sally? Well, she had an idea. Her husband and Sally were kind 233 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:14,759 of, you know, kind of decorating their own little tree together, and 234 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,720 I couldn't put it more tax for her. I see. So, if 235 00:19:17,759 --> 00:19:21,720 you've got enough divorce evidence, missus Worth could hold up her husband for plenty 236 00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:23,880 of alimo. No, no, oh, missus Worth is the baby with 237 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:29,680 adull. Mister Worth is a very well educated bomb. Indeed, it's interesting, 238 00:19:30,519 --> 00:19:33,440 Louis. Let me have the gun. Yeah, wait, I thought 239 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,720 I told you the truth. I'm sure you did, mister Temple. That's 240 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:41,680 gratitude, it's necessity. Well, we need him out of the way for 241 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,200 a little while. He's out of the way now, yeah, Now we're 242 00:19:45,240 --> 00:20:03,559 going to find out who else knew that that spoiling was thin. You know, 243 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,799 if we visited it often enough I might even get accustomed to this joint. 244 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,720 You might also start confusing yourself with grant. Good evening, Humphrey. 245 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:15,880 I'm sorry the family retired for the night and it is late. I know 246 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:19,440 I wish to retire myself. Hey, Humphrey, you don't look sixty five. 247 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,240 Good night, sir? Are you going to ask us in no? 248 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:29,039 Why Humphrey? I thought you and I were going to sing Christmas carols together? 249 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,759 Go with me, shut the door away, Okay, I shall complete 250 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:38,440 all right, but not now. It's the templar. Well, I'd gone 251 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,599 out hitting people over the head, and I couldn't have him warn any when 252 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,920 we're here, why we're going to boggle the joint in a way, and 253 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,880 a kind of description would be searched the place looing oh for what badly enough? 254 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,319 Something that can't be seen or touched? Sounds like a ghost. Yes, 255 00:20:55,519 --> 00:21:08,079 and in a way it is a ghost of a murderer. It's the 256 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,519 night before Christmas, all right, but a creature restoring a couple of creatures. 257 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:17,640 Plus, we've covered all the rooms on the other landing before. The 258 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,680 bedrooms be here, and therefore this should be someone's bedroom. Let's go in. 259 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:30,519 We're sleeping. If I can open the door softly enough and look in 260 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:38,240 right through the window, yes, the dressing room door behind would be the 261 00:21:38,559 --> 00:21:42,559 bedroom proper. Proper is not a way where any position to throw around, 262 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,559 and I'm would have to go in to the dressing room. Come on, 263 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:55,839 Louis, Okay, wait a minute, inhale, mister Tampla don't usually take 264 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,440 breathing exercises in the middle of the Louis all right, I'm in hail well 265 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:07,839 white feel dominion a good leaning to love it. But no, then how'd 266 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:15,119 we go? You didn't care for that? By feel, you didn't tell 267 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,839 me anything. What do you want? Person should tell you who killed fans 268 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:37,839 and boil another bedroom? We go in naturally, m for a bachelor. 269 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,759 That ain't the words you should have used. I'm beginning to get worried about 270 00:22:41,799 --> 00:22:47,960 this, Supposing somebody screamed yourself together the way. Okay, after all, 271 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:52,119 like the poet says, strong heart never won fair mate, and you mean 272 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,519 faint heart. All right, So for dinner, I'll eat dog food now, 273 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:03,920 okay? M hm. The dressing room, well, mister Templar, 274 00:23:04,039 --> 00:23:11,000 Yes, the same perfume we noticed. Oh, don't be frightened, Simon. 275 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,960 What are you doing in here? Louie and I have been testing perfume 276 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,000 in the middle of the night. You're awakening. I'm sorry, I'm even 277 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:21,759 sorrier about something else. What's that? The perfume you use is very distinctive, 278 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,039 sally A. I supposed to say thanks, no, because the last 279 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,640 place Louis and I noticed it was in Fats Boylan's room, minutes after he'd 280 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,160 been killed. Oh not good, sound you're making all this upward? No, 281 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,359 no, this bottle of perfume will be evidence. But I didn't kill 282 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,119 Boylan. You must be joking about that. I don't think a jury would 283 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,839 find it funny. You knew about boil and stealing the jewels. You must 284 00:23:44,839 --> 00:23:48,279 have helped you. I didn't. But then you found yourself being trailed by 285 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,799 Hudson, who had been hired by Missus worth. You were afraid he'd discovered 286 00:23:52,839 --> 00:23:56,279 the connection between you and Boylan. That's why you came to my apartment. 287 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,200 No, yes, you hoped I'd throw Hudson off, perhaps frightening him. 288 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,720 The meanwhile, you could get to Boil and get the jewels from him. 289 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:06,480 That isn't true. When you got the Boiling's place, you found him already 290 00:24:06,559 --> 00:24:10,119 dead and the jewels gone. I didn't. It would be much better for 291 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,079 you that way. What do you mean you wouldn't be liable to a first 292 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,960 degree murder charge. But there were detectives here while a party was going on. 293 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:21,400 Boylan couldn't have stolen the jewels they saw him leave. He didn't have 294 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:23,920 them. He did have them. He was playing Sandy Clause and he was 295 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,799 a thin man. Sandy Clause is, as Louis pointed out to me earlier 296 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:33,200 tonight, are fact. Therefore, Boylen entered this house wearing padding underneath his 297 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,599 costume. He left it with a large jewel box in place of the padding. 298 00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:44,039 That's how he did it. Sally, you're smart, hmm. You 299 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,839 found Boyling, you knew his address. Therefore you had hired him in the 300 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,759 first place, and therefore also a jury would believe you'd killed him unless you 301 00:24:52,920 --> 00:25:00,359 tell us who did. All right, I'll tell mister Temple, tell him 302 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,160 to point the gun someplace. Mister Worth, point that gun someplace out I 303 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:08,400 prefer this direction. We're saying, mister Templar about the jewel The jewels were 304 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,759 insured. Therefore you, mister Worth, arranged to have them stolen. Indeed, 305 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,039 indeed, in that way you could retain the jewels, the insurance money 306 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:22,559 as well, and not worry very much whether or not your wife divorced you. 307 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,160 Clever Boylan is dead. How true. You had to see to that, 308 00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:30,039 didn't you. Otherwise he might have blackmailed you for the rest of your 309 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:33,920 life or for whatever money you got out of the entire crooked deal. I 310 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,319 can see two other deaths, yours, your friend, and Sally. You're 311 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,599 going to kill her too, That depends, I should think. Un Sally 312 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:45,559 Claude, I never knew you intended to kill anyone money to play the engine 313 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,640 quite so strenuously, My dear, you were in on most of it, 314 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,319 but not murder. I'm a very with the Templar's pessimism is justifying. I 315 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:59,279 shall have to include you. But however, did you get onto her Templar 316 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:04,200 a perfume. To be precise, this perfume where you cut him in the 317 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:11,880 eye. I hope this gets in someplace more effective. Mister Temple, is 318 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,720 a trail of unconscious bodies you're leaving behind you tonight. If late end to 319 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:27,359 end, yes, it would look terrible. Simon. Yes, Kla, 320 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,240 you've been very sweet, even without your whiskers. You've been sort of a 321 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:41,720 Santa Claus to me, may I with pleasure? Well, I never knew 322 00:26:41,839 --> 00:26:48,240 Santa Claus good kiss like that. Santa Claus is no saint. Yes, 323 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:56,400 Oh, hello, Louis, mister Templar, you better put on your whiskers. 324 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,799 You've forgotten all about Missus Winterbottom. Missus. Oh well, the hour 325 00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:06,000 has passed midnight. The tats have undoubtedly tattered off to bed by now, 326 00:27:06,839 --> 00:27:14,160 Louis, you may tell missus Winterby no that the Saint ain't no Santa Claus. 327 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:32,599 You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of the Saint, the robin 328 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,519 Hood of modern crime. Ah, here is our star Vincent Price. Ladies 329 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:41,000 and gentlemen, all of us who live in the United States are aware of 330 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:48,200 the spiritual values of American life. Our factories and machines and luxuries. But 331 00:27:48,319 --> 00:27:52,799 there is another side to American life, a side made up of spiritual values. 332 00:27:53,799 --> 00:28:00,799 Our country was founded upon faith in God. In the Declaration of Independence, 333 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:07,319 it states that men were endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. 334 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:12,200 Thus, religious faith is part of the very foundation of American democracy, and 335 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:21,279 one of our most precious national heritages is freedom of worship. By exercising this 336 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:26,920 freedom, you and your families can enjoy the spiritual pleasures that come with church 337 00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:33,160 or synagogue attendants. Moreover, your religious leaders stand ready to give you their 338 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:38,079 help whether you need personal or family guidance. And if you suffer the loneliness 339 00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:44,519 natural to a newcomer to this country, the churches of your faith will welcome 340 00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:49,119 you. We all know that without spiritual values, the other advantages of American 341 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:56,200 life have little meaning. Without faith, the family and the community become unstable. 342 00:28:57,119 --> 00:29:03,160 Without faith, the individual denyse himself the peace and guidance of religion. 343 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,880 The doors of your churches and synagogues are open to you. The freedom to 344 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:15,599 worship as you please is yours, and so America's religious organizations invite you to 345 00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:21,519 find yourself through faith and to come to church this week, and may I 346 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:27,960 wish you all a wonderful Christmas and for the world peace in all the years 347 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:33,680 to come. This is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again next week 348 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,880 at this same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night. 349 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,440 This Adventure of the Saint was written by Lewis Willis. Cast included Mary Shipp 350 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,480 as Sally and Betty lou Gerson as Carla. High Everbach was Hudson Ted Osborne 351 00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:11,160 Claude. The butler, Stanley Ferrar Louis is played by Larry Dodkin. The 352 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:15,079 Saint, based on characters created by Leslie Charteris, is a James L. 353 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,920 Sethier production and is directed by Helen Mack. Vincent Price is soon to be 354 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,599 seen co starring in RKO's production of His Kind of Woman. All you Saint 355 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,359 fans will be glad to know that the Saint comic books are on sale at 356 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,599 all news stands. You're announcer Don Stanley. Three Chimes mean Good Times on 357 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:36,480 NBC For your Christmas Eve listening pleasure, There's another broadcast of NBC Sunday hour 358 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,519 and a half extravaganza, The Big Show. There's a whole Christmas stocking full 359 00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:45,119 of stars including Tallula, Jimmy Duranty, Edwyn, Charles Boyer, Robert Merrill, 360 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,960 and many more. Tonight also means your weekly visit with the Harris family 361 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:52,359 on the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show. Be sure to hear this special Christmas 362 00:30:52,400 --> 00:31:40,319 program later today on NBC Happy Halls. Chriss, welcome back a Dason episode. 363 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:45,400 And I love the character of Louis. I always tend to think that 364 00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:52,279 the Saint having a recurring Cabby sidekickd have been inspired by the adventures of Frank 365 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,680 Race and Mark Donovan, but Louie is not quite in the Mark Donovan class. 366 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,240 All right, Well on to some listener comments and feedback, and just 367 00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:06,960 have a comment from Michael. Still love Vincent on the one episode where he 368 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:10,759 hit the brakes and put the bad guy through the windshield, and I think 369 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:17,559 that references back to the peculiar payoff. And it is probably a bit of 370 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:24,400 an oddity in detective fiction that the hero has been captured in cars and in 371 00:32:24,519 --> 00:32:30,000 a position where they really could do some damage, rarely do so. There 372 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:34,319 may have been other instances, think in one of the Carter Brown mysteries something 373 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,880 like that. Happened also an episode of The Abbots, and then that episode 374 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,279 of The Saint. But most of the time when they're ordered to drive somewhere 375 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:47,279 or they're in the passenger seat, just here. A few minutes later they 376 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:53,279 arrived. Of course, it's a very scary situation, and there's the possibility 377 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,799 that you could come out of the whole thing. Dad, So I can 378 00:32:58,599 --> 00:33:01,759 understand a little bit hesitation to do it, but I still expect it to 379 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,720 happen more. But at any rate that I'll do it for today. I 380 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:12,440 hope you've enjoyed all these special Christmas episodes we brought you over the last five 381 00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:16,640 days. They've certainly been fun to listen to. Tomorrow we return with Crime 382 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:22,240 and Peter Chambers, and then next Monday join us back here for The Saint. 383 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,680 In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot 384 00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:30,039 net, follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives, and become one of our 385 00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:36,240 friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com. 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