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Be anything for preserve, mister Templer, rip, not Carl, just some
more coffee please. It's such an innicent thank you? Excuse me? Do
you mind? If I sit down here with you? I'd be happiest.
Oh, thank you. I hope you realize I wouldn't approach a perfect stranger
if it wasn't a matter of life or death. Oh I'm sure he is
a matter of life or death. That's why I had to sit down with
the handsomest man in the room. You well, but you certainly aren't much
of a conversationalist. Well, happily you fill the gap. Now, how
may I be of service in this matter of life or death? Do you
think you could gaze into my eyes as if I was the only woman in
the entire world, but don't make it anything personal. Well, I consider
it a thestic channel. I want you to hug me with your eyes.
Well, I spurn you proudly, la Bell. Damn. Well, now,
how's this for an odd and yet humble gaze? Not now, he's
not watching. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be fresh. Who's he,
Marvin? He's over there with that that woman. He's looking out of
the way. I want if you look at me this, I shall have
to see Doc turn around. They're leaving. They'll see you. Well,
shall I start hugging you now? I'm sure it will be good for the
muscles in my eyes. Yes, I'm hugging. Stop. Why he never
even noticed me? He walked right on out. Oh man, I'm sorry,
Carl, but would you mind changing that coffee to a double brandy?
But I never drink not for you, dear me. Did he say,
mister Templar, Not Simon Templar, Simon Templer, the Saint, the robin
hood of modern crime. Fate has led you to me. Yea, I
must have a word with fate and before fate entangles us further. What's your
name, Alice? Alice Parks, but you can call me Alice. Thank
you, Alice. Could you give me an explanation of this in a few
thousand well chosen words? You mean to say, you haven't figured it out,
and you are perfectly marvelous detective. Well, I'm a little slow,
Alice. The heavy meal, Well that was Marvin, Marvin Hickerson. We
were engaged practically, and then he came to the city. He's a scientific
farmer, but he sold his farm for how much, may I ask?
Fifty thousand dollars? How scientific can you get? He said he had to
come here to pursue his new vocation to the city. I mean, and
what is his new vocation? Oh, he's a private eye. Well,
I guess there's always room for one more. You do, see, don't
you? It's good? See what how horrible the whole thing is. Marvin
has met this this woman, and I found out he's drawn out. He's
whole fifty thousand dollars out of the bank this morning, And while he's carrying
it around with him. Now nobody will help me. I don't know what
to do. Alice, tell me, are you worried about Marvin or are
you worried about the money. Oh? I'm only worried about Marvin, mister
Templer. He's an awful dope, but I love him. I see if
you would go to him and tell him, well, the facts, the
facts you know about life. Well, frankly, I'm not feeling very fatherly
at the moment, but I'll try you will you really? Will you swear
it by something sacred? I swear it by something. Oh, mister Templar,
you're the nicest detective a girl ever had for a detective. Come in,
mister Hickerson, Marvin Hickerson, private eye, come in, come in.
Oh thank you? Now, what's your problem, mister Templer? I
wanted to talk to you about a girl, Marvin, a girl. You're
in your apartment alone? And then she walked in, Well, not exactly.
It was more than the maker around her shoulders meant money in her smoldering
eyes meant trouble. Marvin. Tiny pulse started to beat in your temple as
she swayed closer, and it became a tom tom if she threw herself into
your arms, murmuring words of passion and fear of Marvin. Get a grip
on yourself. Oh girl, Yes there is a girl, Marvin, but
you are not sand stayed you noticed. Huh. Well, we've all got
to start somewhere, true, And I can't take your case anyway. I'm
involved in a big deal, Marvin. Alice is worried about you. Alice,
mister Templar. Alice Parks has got to learn that I am not a
child. I'm a man. I'll accept that. And the sooner she stops
interfering in my affairs, the better it'll be for everybody. Just because I
now happen to be going around with a woman, definitely a woman who is
going to put me in way of making a great deal of money. And
hello, Marvin, how ye oh uh oh, mister Dorgan, who's your
friend, Marvin? This is mister Templar, Mister Templar, this is mister
Dorgan, honest Jack Dorgan. He trains horses. He's from Kentucky, Kentucky.
Yeah, glad to meet you, mister Dorgan. So you're from the
Bluegrass country. Huh, the bluegrass country, the home of fast horses and
beautiful women. Where's that Kentucky? Oh oh yeah, yeah, sure,
come on, Marvin, Ah sure, mister Dargan, would you excuse us?
We got a very important appointment, and Marvin has also got fifty thousand
dollars? Who is this guy, Marvin? He's got nose trouble, mister
Champler. If Alice Parks thinks I need someone to protect me, she's mistaken.
My experience is a private investigator has made me a pretty shrewd judge of
character, and my faith in the integrity of honest Jack Dorgan is unfounded.
Thank you, Marvin Hickerson. Right, come on, Marvin, the Colonel
and Carle are waiting. So long, friend, So long, honest Jack.
See you at Churchill Down sometimes. Where's that buy in your old home
state? Kentucky? Ooh, Kentucky, Kentucky. Mister Templar, I'm worried
about Marvin. Why doesn't he count? I'm a little worried about him myself.
Alice didn't have quite the same faith in honest Jack as Marvin did in
this penthouse. Marvin never had expensive taste, never in his life, and
her picture on the piano MM all my love. Marvey, Honey, you're
Coralie. It's rather sound true looking, isn't he? Oh? I suppose
she's pretty. You happen to care for that type? Who doesn't? Oh?
You men are all alike. It's a convenient arrangement. Oh, he's
just an absolute, an absolute beast. Don't you dare call Marvin a beast?
Why doesn't he come, mister templar? I think I heard the elevator
Alice that maybe Marvin, Hello else, you better let me have that gun,
Marvin. No, no, I'll need it. I'll need it when
they hunt me down in the inevitable land. Marvin, what's happened? Tell
me, Alice, mister templer, you see before you an outlaw, a
criminal. Give me the gun, Marvel. I have lived by the gun
and an days, hours, minutes. I don't die by the gun.
What did you do? Marvin, Alice sight, I killed a man?
Oh you didn't? I did? I think I did? It's all so
confused. Sit down, Marvin. There wasn't time. The police will be
after me, maybe with bloodhounds. Oh I doubt if they could track you
up the elevator shaft. Now, look, where was this killing? And
who got killed mister Dorgan in the hotel here in sweet A, on the
seventh floor. But you didn't do it. You couldn't tell him he didn't
do it, mister Template. Let him tell it, Dallas. What happened?
Marvin? It is all mixed up. There are a lot of people
there, all betting a lot of money on the horses. And I was
there with the colonel and coral Lee and Carle. I knew she was mixed
up in this go on. And I bet my fifty thousand on a tip
mister Dorgan gave us because he knew the race was fixed, and I won
two hundred thousand, And then mister Dorgan told me to bet it all on
another race that was but the horse lost and there was a big argument,
and somebody put a gun in my hand and it seemed to go off,
and and mister Dargan fell down and there was there was blood, blood all
over. It was awful. Did anyone call the police? I don't know.
I get somebody. Did everybody saw it? I'm a murderer. You
are not, Marvin. Just because you killed someone, that doesn't make you
a murderer, does it? Mister Templar, I think I had better investigate
this, Marvin. You wait here without him, he'll never take me a
Lotvin, come back, Here's better this way, Alice, forget me,
forget it. Somewhere in the night, there's a pale, hundred tendingless fugitive
from justice. Find someone to take my place in your heart? Farewell,
Marvin, Oh, mister Temple, didn't you No, Alice, I didn't.
He was already in the elevator. Oh what are we going to do?
Did he really murder someone? I think we'd better go find out.
Come on, Alice, where are we going to sweet a seventh floor to
see whether honest Jack Dorgan has really gone to his old Kentucky home. No
answer, But there must be someone in there, Marvin said, The room
is filled with people. Let's try the door. It's open dark in here.
Wait till I find the light switch. Well, do you have to
turn on the light? Can't we just leave? We have to find out,
Alice. Yeah, but it's just a perfectly bare room. Doesn't look
much like a gambling then, does it. You don't see any body.
I don't see a sign of anything. Well, and it didn't happened.
Marvin was just imagining things. There wasn't any murder at all. This doesn't
look much like a room. A murder was committed in ten minutes before.
Let's go, mister Templar, let's find Marvin and mister Templer. What are
you looking at that spot on the floor, Alice, that stain? Oh,
mister Templer, it isn't I'm afraid it is blood. I'm coming coming,
Oh, Alice, come in, Oh, mister Templor. How could
you sleep so late with poor Marvin roaming the streets a hundred fugitive? Eh?
What time is it? Well? I forced myself, And how do
we know Marvin is a hunted fugitive? Is there anything in the papers about
a killing? No? But the body will turn off wanted. I mean
they always do. Usually. Are you going to do to find Marvin?
I think I'll go out and make a few bets on the horses. What
You're going to spend the day in carefree abandonment while poor Marvin is roaming the
streets a hunted fugitive. I'd like to find out more about Marvin's friends,
Coralie and the Colonel talking about horses in the bar of the Croydon. Well,
it might be a way of getting acquainted. You're going to get acquainted
with her. Well, I'll go along to protect you, thank you,
But no, you won't turn into putty in her hands. She won't mold
you. If she wills, maybe even fate worse than death. It's a
pleasant way to go. Well, all right, I trust you, Thank
you. You're nice, mister templor. And I want you to know that
if it wasn't for Marvin, why am I seriously consider you? No?
And here you are working to save your rival. Why it's it's like Sydney
Carton is a far far better thing I do than I have ever done before.
This is goodbye, goodbye Sidney. Wow another Scotch over icebar. I
tend to answer, I've seen you studying the form. Got anything good going
today? Not a thing? But my luck generally is bad anyway, you
and me going out to the track today, Well, I generally like to
place my bets elsewhere. I bet fairly large amounts, and that the track
this brings down, the odds brings down it. You couldn't I generally lose.
But then everyone has to have a hobby. Everyone has to have a
hobby. Definitely, missus Carstairs yes, indeed, excuse me. Would you
all think I was just terrible? If I started up a conversation with you
just as bold as that, I would think it was terrible if you didn't,
you all that is, you're making fun of my accident. I'm Kentucky,
Horst Country. That's why I couldn't resist when you started talking horses,
the fraternity of horse players. You wouldn't be going out to the track today,
missus cost Carly cost My name is Heath Cliffs Carly Simon, Heath.
I'm delighted to know you. Thank you. Are you going to the tract?
I'd love to, but I have that's Daddy. He's awful, smart
about the races. He wins all the time. Just scams and money.
This sounds like a gentleman I should need. Are you staying here in the
hotel? We have rooms on the seventh floor. Would you all care to
come up? Wow? I would just love to, Daddy. I'd like
to make you acquainted with a friend of mine, mister Heathki Simon, my
father, Colonel Costas. How do you do, sir? Pleasure? Real
pleasure? Oh shoot down, sir, Thank you. Ken h Tim is
the hordest player to Daddy, I told him about you making simply scars of
money on the races. You what, courly, I've asked you time and
again not to mention my business to stranger. But Daddy, all I said
was you need scared them. I most apologize, sir. You see,
the fact is, uh, you look like a gentleman I can trust.
The fact is that I bet on races only when I have gifted information.
You mean fixed races. Weird? You might put it that way. He
said that the spool of key should have fallen from such low state. But
as long as it has, there's a profit to be made by knowledge,
handsome profits. And I don't mind saying I have such knowledge. Could you
give them a tip? Daddy? Oh, I couldn't ask anything like that.
Oh well, perhaps you can do me a fever. I have a
horse going in just a few minutes. Put the horse pallor down. The
horse has been refusing my betch. You see, I'm too heavy winner for
them. If you would care to police the bit for me, I'd be
delighted. Cool and those little something for yourself just down the hall the just
do the hold. See day, So we'll go by all means after you
a lord, after you you come, call you come and daddy, I'll
give you the money before we go in forty thousand, No, Bree Fox,
and whatever you want to add of your room. Forty thousand. That's
a lot of money, chicken feeding boy. Millions in this thing. Millions.
Oh, here we are, remember the knock in Gisha, come back
by yourself across tara. Okay, you're right, Well that's just quite a
place after noon for it. You have three soul kid just about colonel Oh,
I'm not bitting for it, No course for long. Mister Heathcliff here
would like the wager, certainly, sir. The cash has both right over
there, Thank you, brave folks to win hurry, I'd like to place
forty thousand, five hundred on Brave Fox to win. You're just in time,
sir. Forty five hundred twins answer did you make the death time?
Right? And I bet five hundred for myself. It's all I had with
will small dividends. First big ones will come leader, Okay, okay,
fellows, quiet town of bucks of clause and let it go. Here's the
ring, well hard exciting at the half. It's on his choice by a
head, see me fight the buaizac in top perry by two lengths and break
box. You're sure of your information, colonel, nothing to worry about,
my boy at the three quarters, still on his choice by a head,
a ble Raizac by one nice see me fast and top turrif fire I ain't
and the brave Potx is trading daydie. What's the matter with that little old
hall bull Raissack is taking command by two lengths on his trice here second and
the top territ I see me fist and the brave Fox is beginning to close
ground on the outside. Come on, brave fock, can he do it?
Build coming down to the line and finish. It's bull Raisac and top
turref with bray Fox on the outside. And now it's a bull rays Ac
and brave fots a bull raised sack and the brave Fox and your brave fox
skip gets up to win it by the nose. Well, I certainly have
to add it to you, colonel, say that step outside the hall for
me it sud. I just didn't want the boys to hear, will sir.
My information is always creaked, my boy always. How much do you
be willion. Well, let's see at two to one, I'll get Nick
one hundred and pretty bold. And mister heathclip you bag fifteen. You didn't
have more with you. I don't want to appear greedy, colonel, But
do you have anything else running today? Not to do? My boy?
Nothing sure? And of course I've never been to missus shure tomorrow? Will
you have the fever, don't you? Yes, yes, I have something
tomorrow, or we'll help meet me back here at the same time, if
you you want to get in on it, could I draw some real money
out of the bank to bet on it much as you like, my boy.
Of course, that's purely up to you. Of course, I make
no guarantee you. Certainly it's a pretty risky business, eh Colonel. Why
I might lose my shirt? Yes, yes, indeed, sir. But
I don't understand, mister Temple, you actually want a thousand dollars? Come
on, money, Alice. The whole place is working with a The race
was actually over before I bet they'd let me win the money. Why so
I would go to the bank tomorrow, draw out thirty or forty thousand,
and come back and bet it. And then I'd lose. Oh was she
very pretty? Who pry? Well? If you care for that time?
Marvin de h the surest sign of twenty twenty visions. He hasn't come,
Marvin. When I think of him out there, a poor, lonely,
hunted future, I know, I know. And here we are, the
two of us, safe, alone in your apartment. The two of us
alone in your apartment, Alice seven? What's that somebody outside the window?
I'll open it, Marvin Tree, how'd you recognize me? I was wearing
dark glasses and the mustache. Im in, Marvin. We we recognized your
voice. I didn't say, marn skid roll, how awful? That's where
I belong and a human derelict, a hunted criminals. Are you hungry?
No? I ate at the Sunshine Mission. They wanted me to stay and
sing tenor in the choir, But then I read the paper when came here.
Is there any hope? Marvin? Look, I want you to stay
here tonight. Tomorrow you're going to the police and give yourself up. Never
it may not be as bad as you think. You're going to give yourself
up and then send the police over to sweet Ay. The seventh floor of
the Croydon, where I will have just been swindled out of my money,
just as you were. I was swindled. Gee, they had unnerves swindling
up private eye and some crooks just have no decency. But Coralie wasn't a
crook, was she. I'm afraid so, ge Marvin. Oh, I
suspected her of course all along. Now look, here's the plan, Marvin.
I'll be there two o'clock. You walk into the police station it two
and send them over. That would give me enough time to lose the money.
Have you got that sure? I'll I'll give myself up. Well I'll
go with you, Marvin. No, Alice, A woman's place is in
the home. You'll wait here until I get back. How long will you
be? I'm lucky ten years, oh, Marvin, Alice? Oh?
Brother, Hello, colonel, come in, sir, Come in. I
I don't quite understand, Colonel. Where is everybody? Where is bread?
The cashier? All the better? Well, it's just a family party,
tod sir. Just colle and myself say hello to the gentlemen. Corley,
Honey, Hi, stupid. Yeah. Coraly seems to have lost her Southern
charm and refinement. Colonel Yes, it's pity. I constantly try to impress
on our cast. Of course, we are all act as in a way
that to be successful you must live, you a twenty four hours a day.
But there's not the same pride in craftsmanship there was in my day.
Sit down, sir, thank you, eh, what gave me away?
Simple thing? Really? One of our personnel saw you with young Marvin Hickerson
the other day. Come in doggin, ye knows well, honest Jack Dorgan
from Kentucky. Then you really weren't shot. Mister Dorton got the gunhill blanks,
the blood was catching. You're a convenient way of getting rid of a
sheared lamb. I thought as much. Now what happens? Nothing, nothing
at all, mister Templar, No doubt. You have the police outside waiting
to pounce after we take your own money. How much did you bring,
by the way, thirty thousand? Oh shame, we have to pass it
up. We're going to pass up thirty grand necessity, we at least beat
the thousand, not on me one from us, Colonel him and his Kentucky
Ah, that would be the police. A little earlier to mister Templar,
come in freak for the sky. I got your covered, Marvin. I
can go to the police, mister Templar. I thought if I brought the
gang and myself, I might get a lighter sentence. Lighter sentence for what?
Why? For sure, mister Dorgan. Yes, mister Dargan made a
quick recovery, Marvin. Yeah, and I got a gun too. You
see it. Well, well this is conve you. The police are coming.
Then we can't take mister Temple's thirty thousand, although of course I had
to pull violence finds my sense of Southern hospitality. Stand up to my feet,
hurt, stand up, you forget. I've got a pistol here on
anyone move what pistol? Marviy the saint pistol I shot you with, That's
what Marvin. Look, the cartridges are blanks, blanks. I don't believe
it. Oh you're doing Stay away from him, Dargan. Yeah, you
stay away from me, or I'll show for ahead. They have fun,
Hi, I will, I'll shoot to more. Marvia tickled Marvin. Well,
they're coming in like flies. You shouldn't have come, Alice. These
men are trying to kill us. No, I've got her blank cartridges are
they can look at the hole in the wall. Mister Dargan. It's lucky
that Marvin mischief. Yes you're holding Hey, that's your bullet hole, Yes
it is. Isn't he put that thing down, kitch? Somebody could get
hurt. Alice, did you change the bullet Yes, I did. I
know Marvin a little better than you, mister Templar. I checked his gun
before he went out to give himself up to the police, just in case.
Yeah, get back your wretch. You're dealing with Marvin Hickerson private eye,
me too, Marvin, Honey. Well you too, curly honey,
Yes, you too. And I'll take my fifty thousand back too. Oh,
such a pity show to meet the young man so willing to part with
money right where you are, Colonel, Don't worry, mister Templar, I
can handle him. Is there's only the start of a long and successful career
as a private eye. Marvin. I think Alice might have something to say
about your career, Alice, Alice is still you know, yes, Marvin
very much hystatically. So you're back your rat. You're dealing with Marvin Hickerson,
scientific farmer. You mean this is goodbye? Alice. Marvin's waiting outside,
mister Temple. I guess it just wasn't meant to be you and me,
that is, I agree, But I want you to know that I'll
always remember you, mister Temple, from the first moment in that restaurant and
you hugged me with your eyes. That was a moment God. And when
the first child comes, we'll name it Simon after you. Yes, Simon
forever. Endeavor, I'll be very honest. Just think by tomorrow I'll be
missus. Marvin Hickerson, I wish you'd promise me one thing, Alice,
what Simon? Don't ever take that hick out of Hickerson. You have been
listening to another transcribed adventure of the Saint, the robin Hood of Modern Crime,
and I'll here is our star. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Vincent
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of the Saints We've heard, and I absolutely enjoyed it. It's certainly not
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but I do think that it is just a nice change of pace, and
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