August 10, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Presenting Wharton Wells as the Third Man. The Lives of
Harry Lyons the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
created in the story The Third Man with Zeto music
by Anton Garris.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Have you ever tried looking for a needle in a haystack? Well,
I did a bit of needles searching in London myself,
not so long ago.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Only this was no ordinary needle, as it all concerned
a picture a man had painted in Harland three hundred
years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Alcoholictile adventure, The Elusive Fermi.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now Arlton Welles as Harry Lyme the third Man
in today's story The Elusive Vermire.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I first met Horace.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
StJohn Winder there, Oh, yes, that really was his name.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
That can. Horace had class.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's probably the classiest.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Breaking and entering the merchants that had ever burgled an
English country mansion. And he had tastes to Horace's jars
were all big ones, and he planned the months in advance,
down to the last detail. That's how I came to
get involved. We were having a drink at his villa
one evening, just a two of them.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
My dear fellow, I've been wondering if I could interest
you in a small.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Business, pops, so long as it involves a maximum of
profit with a minimum of risk.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Answers, Yes, this has been profitable enough, I assure you.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
As for the risk, that's up to yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I am all ears there was something relaxing.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Second vers I should be turning to England next week.
He should have the right opportunity to present it to
I pupposed that this is a place called Bardsley Hall.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wilts Wilts, which my dear.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Father would County Bartlea Hall is one of the showcases
there on the country seed of Lord Rixton.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This visit will be during his lordship's absence.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Of course, naturally he would the most embarrassing if we
were to meet.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
He has a hippo white to adam in pieces that
I find quite irresistible, not to mention the modest collection
of Chelsea and Beau pots, and some fine examples of
water glass.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
And well this is where you come in Adim an
extraordinarly fine peaking by the seventeenth century Dutch master.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Themir then deafed no doubts on familiar terms with Themir's
lady of the visions in our national Gallery.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I've been on for many terms as any ladies that.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I can't say I remember heard in particular, I want
to carry on, old man.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'll let me stop the fine floor of your eloquence.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And I need hardly tell you that the disposal of
the obs that come in my position since almost as.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Many problems as a reposition, and needs to be as
carefully as planning.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yes, I guess so well.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Unfortunately, the hippo write Adam the Chelsea and Bow and
the water doesn't have no great difficulties. A fact here
that he includes a.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Number of gentlemen roll is e go to wed to
their collections and a reasonable advice.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
However, of a mill is is one might say, a.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Rather different cantallity.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
But the one thing it's rather too easily recognizable for
an English collector to dare hang without risking the danger
of having to answer awkward questions, and for anover the present.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Day prisive of the mill is I'm afraid rather beyond
the person most of my impoverished fellow.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Counturement I see it occurs to me, Harry, But with
a little preliminary organization you might possibly be able to.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Find a market for it in America.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, I do wherever a few connections very com precisely.
So if you're interested, tell me, old man, what would
be a fair price for the.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Mire in your currency or one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's real money and my curR of one hundred thousand,
and the.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
What the normal agency in transactions involving rare works of
out there is from twenty.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
To thirty three percent.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
In that case our settled for fifty.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I proposed to suggest, for.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I shouldn't if I were you, old man, and of
course you really want me in honest seal very.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Well if it is you're startings moving from the island
at once, for su oh I shall, as.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I say, for God the pleasures of this he didn't spot,
and return to London next week.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I should make a requisite inquired as regarding his lordship's movements.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
And when the appropriate milk the rhymes.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
You will receive a while from me saying simply.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Roger, and then as.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Soon as possible you will go to Nice and catch
the first available played for London.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
By the time you arrived.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
That their would be in my position, you were collected
a disaddress, I write.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It down, yell me.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Onto a all gay girl East c three of the
somewhere in the east Endo, Wasn't it exactly?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Not the most salubrious neighborhood? They must admit well that
I find extremely convenient in.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Selling old masters is not exactly as the English would say, my.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But they don't call me Harry resourceful rhyme for nothing.
As it turned out, I didn't even have.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
To contact my American connect is at all. A couple
of days after Horace left.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
For Ringland, I got talking to a guy named Joseph
J Popman, who turned out to be an oil minion
every moment, and it was traveling to.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Give himself in his culture. All I had to do
was mention the name for me and make sure it
did the risks.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Do I understand you to say, missus.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Lyme that you've got a real genuine died in the
wolf ver Mere.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
For sad lies.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I haven't quite got it yet, but you can get it,
I think, so, yeah, right?
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Name your price, Well, they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Come cheap, you know, hundreds of and what well one
hundreds and fifty thousand dollars sold?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
When can I take deliberate once?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm so fast it's coming here.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
You know, buying a pair of socks and five and.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Ten cents to you know, Oh, I don't quite get you.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
We've agreed on a price, certainly, but this may take
a lot of delicate negotiation. You realize, of course there
are certain unusual features about it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
How do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
For instance, the picture is likely to be, shall we say,
a trifle warm.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
I don't care if.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's white hot.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
My partner, junior, sayt Chottenheim, a junior, got himself a
Rembrandt last time he was over here.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And my wife's millions didn't ring with envy everything.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So you get me that from mere, mister lyman.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
I'll pay the price you aim, and ask no.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Question for right, And so long as you know exactly
where we stand, I'm expecting word from my colleague and
name them any day now. And as soon as the
okay comes through, I'll be flying to London. I suggest
you follow immediately, and I have the picture.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'll deliver it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
We'll close the deal fair enough. Sure, that's okay by me.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
A few evenings later, Horace is WHI.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I came through Roger and I passed the word on
to Joseph ja and the following night I was in London.
I decided I wouldn't mention the extra fifty thousand dollars
to Horace.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's all what you don't know, you're entitled to, you'll
never miss.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I booked in at the Ritz out and after dinner,
I'm in my way out to the East End.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I'll grow.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It is a sinister little side street, the heart of
a slum and twelve a. It wasn't exactly what you'd
call a palace, however, I knocked. After a while, the
door opened a few inches and a little Cockney guy stuffed.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
His nose out.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah what do you want him?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm looking from mister winder Mill here. Yeah, well he
told me to come to this a dress.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
He did, did he?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
What's your name? Harry Lyon?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Oh why didn't you say you're first? I'm right in,
mister d Thanks you must be Jerry, I'm person.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Well we'll get into Paris. Yeah we all right. I
don't even fancy, but we can have a bit of
measure and property.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
His money the way man, this door all right?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Make you said? We don mister larm sit down and rest.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Joe takes to me. Thanks, Uh, why won't I be
able to see mister wender Man.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And you say you ain't heard about anything.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I know it's something that matter.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Something's the matter.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
All right, he's gonna right a.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Well, snuffed it, snuffed it set up his do just
kicked the person back. You mean he's dead, That's what
I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But how didn't happen?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
He says, But your block? Well I've always been a
bit dickie, you know, just the seventy gave back?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
What's this block?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Block?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Care?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh you mean he had a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Couldn't put hi much? Plain? Could on?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
What did this happens?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Or yes they had a telegram problem?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Wait's when it happened?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yes did He's not to be exactly.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It's also of the seconds you might say, see mister
winder me and me and gone up a bit of
a round in the capsides. All well, but we picked
up with you on her name's asy do it? Smolke
furniture and on and pretty junkies?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was there a picture among the things that you a.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Big one and a gold friend to stay heels in? Look,
I love the fancy They're sitting in the room with
a big map on the wall in front of them
round gloating.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't think why they've haven a bother with an
honored duck.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
And anyway, we was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Coming out with the stuff the day.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
But if we go with mister winning, men are cracking
jokes and checking away ninety to a dozen, and and me.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Only listed with half the years.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You might say, you know, all of a sudden, I'm lazy,
ain't dogging no more. I'll take a quick butch butchers.
It's okay, Look.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Don't gunderstand English, but I'll take a look.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And ladies all lock in the Johnny owner in the corner.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
When I stopped, the fantasy was wrong. It's just tennis,
a ready, don.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We just took away.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
First in this morning.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
By they had to take a give a day. To
my hor it's going to be a real slap up duneral.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Others left the best for the government, that's what I yes,
cent of us doing your credit. By the way, what
happens the picture picture?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Oh you mean a picture?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Here's the picture?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
What is the matter?
Speaker 9 (10:08):
I was a bit wonny about that.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
But well, what would all them rogers snipping around it?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Sawn? He muld have been a bit dangerous.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So I thought, I let it, get rid of it
till sweet, you don't need to Jerry. You didn't destroy
it when I was going to.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
And then I thought, look at probably lovely for alf
a Que put off of Bridge, off for Gwyndy's on
times with super Jaxon also, so.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I took it up like their names.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
McFarland. What does a jack shop down the street, Hey, Bob,
let's only give me.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Yeah, I've been ready for But where does this mister
McFarland have a shot?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Turn park round just to be artist?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Was he likely to be on the premises now? Is
just a lot of as in the wording did what
was it double?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I just thought I might buy it back if he
still has it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well, could find a lot a lot of benefits myself.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But but it's the.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Picture you want to find it an angus McFarland's.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, But Jerry, it seems that underestimated the business acumen
of mister.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
McFarland, as in his shop bright early next morning. But
when I mentioned the picture, he shook his head.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hi, so and then the picture you mean not? He
it's no longer here? The oh who did you sell
it to? But heal from someone in Fulham. He was
seeking for old flames. He said, he mean, bo oh,
I have been shot or what was his name?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
I didn't conn.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
He paid me cash that I didn't hunk, you know
whereabouts in Fullham? And he has his shot and I
didn't kidnap need it?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
But can you tell me anything about him at all?
It might help me to find him?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Or I may you have an accent? You have an accent,
all right, but it's the weather. It was a worshow
what it was? I didn like to commit yourself. And
if you're a forgotten uh would this five pound house help?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You don't remember, mister Farlow? If you help, all Right'm
gonna start remembering well.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
As I to called the man, he was torn thin
and thin shape.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Will go on? What about his accent?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Accent? Something about nuts in okay, here's another.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Five Uh give mister McFarland, give way.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Of course, i'da called the news news alsh is that straight?
Which is out? The weather? In the pattern? Sir? And
tetting it? He was alish of Paddy's pigs.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I was too late to do any more of that evening,
so I went back to my hotel on spent the
rest of the night, cursing a vertib of mister Angus MacFarland.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Next morning away they brought up my breakfast.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
As I was coping a toast in the English marmalade
I swached on the bedside radio was right in the
middle of the morning.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
New recessions by one quarter out per person per week.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
The police last night recovered from premises in reading a
quantity of antique furniture porcelain glass which had disappeared two
nights previously from Barnsley Hall, Wiltshire during the absence of
the owner, Lord Rexton.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
A man has been detained.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It is understood that a valuable painting by the Dutch
mark the ganzmier Pentos.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Is still missing and the police well, I.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Didn't need anyone to tell me what that meant. I
had to find that picture, find it fast as some
man who will say a fan goodbye to Joseph J.
Hoffman and his beauty four hundred and fifty thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
In a moment, Austin Wells returns as Harry Lyme the
Third Man, and now Horse and Wells as Harry Lyme
(14:30):
the Third Man continues today's story. The elusive Vermire.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
For half a day.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I combed the main streets and back alleys at Fulham
I knew, and I figured.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
There couldn't possibly be.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Another jump shop within two miles that I hadn't already
been into. Then suddenly, in the dirty little side street,
I found myself outside a dirty little shop, compared with
which mister McFarland's dump looked like something out of Barn Street.
What excited me was half a dozen soot covered old
pictures in the window.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I pushed open the door and entered.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I at the top of the rnagin. You, sir, he was.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Tall and thin and clean shaven, and there was no
mistake in that accent.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Uh Do you happen to be the gentleman who bought
a number of old pictures from a dealer in Allgate
or they or so Ago?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh, let's be from all I just be Farland.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You mean that's right?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And you know, mister McFarland, I haven't known each other
these last fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
What is your treaty to braid himself? That's me, sir,
that have the next star to him in the old
Calagorian bark.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It skip to think I found you, mister man. I'm
trying to trace one of those pictures sold to McFarland
by mistake. You mean you say it's a valuable picture.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh not intrinsically so, but it belonged to my grandmother,
and so for me at any right, it has a
strong sentimental value, if.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
He ain't the stake perty, So if you still have it,
I'll be glad to buy a bank at a fair propity.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yourself, of course, already sold.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
One or two torpid stud He come this way.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
This is the large hat after bite from it fired
the robber.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Here there were fifteen or twenty pictures, most of Corneal reproductions,
like the Monarch of the Glen Psyche at the Well
on the Conter's Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
What originals there were?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Looked to me, even Corney And still I went through
the lot three times and there was nothing remotely like
a vermire.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He sure you I can't here, shirt, Well, that's quite sure.
We searched the joint from Florida's ceiling and he was right,
of course, simply wasn't there y You say you've sold
one or two pictures, that's right?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Who too?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You know the names of the buyers well, he was.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
A gent committed bought four of themselves, an archie sort
of a gent with sandridge is a big black beach.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He was looking for a same to one of his
old masterpieces, he.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Said, And then there was, uh was Missus Hockett. Missus
Hoggett is right, lives over the river at Parsley.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
She's left to write a couple of pictures. His present
for a very part epis cause this is one I'm after.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Possibly have been one of them, surely don't know why?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
God, sir, there is what I recall, some height and
cacki ugly peace.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
They were too with a free fiction?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Would that be?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It said?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
No, no, no? And the other did you see?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Sure of course I remember the other one wishes sill
in an old fashioned dress, standing in.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
The room with a map on the wall.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Is that right? There was a map and a globe,
you know, a globe of the world.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Sure there was a globe toward it, sir, I remember
it is that the picture? That's one I believe, so,
I believe so. But whereabouts in Pumpney does does missus
Huggett live? Where that's name? Afraid of catch heavy? You
don't know, you know, sir, except she's somewhere's up to
the top of the pill.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay, that's something to go.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
On anyway, Thank you, mister Burner. Let's be your trouble.
Oh thank you, no trouble, apop said, thank you, missus.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Huggett, Putney Hills.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Sant was getting warmer, hurried back to the main street,
looking for a cab to take me to Putney Bridge.
And then as I rounded a corner, I bumped into
a man, A big, solid, very English looking there.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Why hello, mister Lyon, thankcy bumping into you in Fulham
of all place.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
A hello?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You gon't remember me?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I can't requy your face. I've found at your feet
are familiar.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I see what you mean. Yours would be flat too,
if you've founded a bit for ten years.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh of course I remember now I have inspected Jane.
That's right, Nice to meet you again. Inspect the Jane
so long?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
What's the hurry, mister Lyon?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Little business to ass Andrew? Inspect the James Rome Just well?
We meet so rarely.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
In fact, I didn't even know you were back at
England till yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yesterday, Yes, why I haven't devoted you once? Or twice
you appeared to be doing around with a drunk shop.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Oh yes, well do you see.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
As a matter of factor, don't tell me you're on
the trail.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Of the missing Vermere, mister rime missing there have you
heard about it?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
It was stolen from Lord Brixton.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Ah No, I can't say I have.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
As a matter of fact, I've been trying to match
an old Georgia and the candid and make a fair
for a friend of mine back home in the States.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Really know, no, not so fun.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I'm afraid things like that as diseased to come by
these days. The antique market isn't what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
It's all these rich Americans.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know, no personal reflection, as I couldn't have met
me when you said rich.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Anyway, mister alive, if you intend continuing with your search,
you might at the same time keep an eye open
for this Vermire. Our information is that it's found its
way into a junk shop.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Somewhere in this area, and I've certainly looked for it.
Of course, that I'm no authority on painting. I wouldn't
know of a mayor that crept up and bit me.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
You're far too Morich, So I'm sure if, as I say,
you do, haven't decided by any remote chance, I'd be
grateful if you get in touch with me at the yard.
Oh sure, depend on that inspector.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Thank you, mister light, good.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Day, goodbye, thank you, hey, taxi taxic.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I had to get that picture, and I had to
get it fast, and once I got it, I'd have
to get rid of it even quicker. Still, well, I
found missus Hugget after some trouble, and I learned from
her that she'd given them to her married daughter, who
lived at two sixteen Colchester Street, Pimlicol.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I was hot on the sand. Now if I had
been a bloodhound, I had a barked to bathe or
whatever it is they do. Anyway, I found two sixteen
Cortious Street. It was no very great trouble.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And from the way my land had greeted me and
showed me, and I guess Mama, I'd already been on
the phone to some purpose.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The first thing I started when I walked into the
father wasn't me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yes, there it was, in all its glory, hanging over
the mantelpiece. Is all I could do is stop them
shouting for joy. But if I had imagine my Lena
was gonna be an easy nut to crack, and I
had another guess coming.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It was obvious those telephone ones had been running red hot, ma.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I just told you as you wasted your times anywhere,
you know if.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
I want to show but surely this is SMI is
William to consider William my husband?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, I wouldn't I.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
See anything that consult to him?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I need to say, the pictures of my cheese is
nine fifty pounds. I couldn't possibly dream letting it go
for there? William be serious on that? Okay, twenty five?
Come on, this is it's twenty five pounds.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
That's a lot of money for a picture like the
Apple at Yourself, as old as the hell that's the
way the paint's cracking, and how the colors bad?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Is it probably won't be fit for anything for the
scrap even another couple of years. Teens to get old
of it? Well, I explained that your mother has a
sentimental value for me.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
How come will you forget all the presidents of present?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
There's not the sort of thing one should sell.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, the title looks real nice up.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
There over the mantel to see it?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yet thirty pounds fifty pounds for that old job.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'll take it to David. You drive a hard bug
and this is okay fifteen, Thanks very much. I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Mine it was mine.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
At last I could idly believed my good fortune. With
a Vina tucked under my arm, I hurried back to
the red text. So all I had to do now
was contact Joseph JA, get rid of the fiction, and
collect my dollars one hundred and fifty thousand of them
and every cent for harry lyon typhone Hoppin's hotel.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And to my delight and relief, I heard his voice
at the other end.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Those are fitting Hoppin speaking. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's me JJ, harry Lyme. Well, say, how are you?
Speaker 9 (22:38):
It's swell to your voice?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Hi, you know how swell it is to hear yours.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
How's that little business we discussed coming along?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, that's why I'm calling you to tell you I've I've.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Got the goods. No kidding, right here, bring it around
to my hotel?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
No cool?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right now? Do you have the money?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
JJ?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Sure, one hundred and fifty Bay I can How.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Do we wait to get pictures?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Expect me in five minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars to give me in
the luxury to which I become accustomed for well, for
a month or two. Anyway, it seemed two weeks.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Eline returns in just a moment, and no, Harry Lime.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
As I came out of the ritz, asked a picture
under my arm, and the porter signaled a camp for me.
From the corner of my eye, I caught sight of
a familiar pair of feet coming towards me. Inspector James
of Scotland yells, and I shot a quick glance. On
the other side two more sets of feet, just as
big and just as flat, also coming my way to
(24:58):
another chance limit.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I knew it. I did some split second thing.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
That is that yes, please Scotland yard right? Did you
say Scotland yard right? A hello, Inspector? Where did you
strength round.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
And talk abouttual incident? That I've just got my way
to see you inspected day?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Really you never believe it, but you know that texture
you were talking about today, that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Vermere, mister alive?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
There is a thin car, yes, Vermere, well, hold on
your hat, old man, But.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I I think I found it.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You do, Yes, I've done it.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Right here, and you were on your way to deliver
it to me.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Yes, that's correct, inspected, splendid, most public spirited action.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Still, thank you. I'll take it down and save you
the trouble if you like certain one here you are. Thanks.
I suppose it must be quite a relief to get
rid of it. Oh sure, yes you know, of course
there'll be a reward for this from the insurance and
the writers. A reward.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
I didn't know that quite kidious what in fact five
hundred pounds? How does that work out in dollars in
such a thing?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
About forty hundred, I believe, but not as much as
to say, one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Of course, quite a lot of money. And yeah, it's
quite a lot of money and text free too.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, So no wonder you're known at the yard as
ducky heady line. No one.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
In the.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Thing that.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
Bess in.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
The song.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
It its contrast in status and
Presenting Wharton Wells as the Third Man. The Lives of
Harry Lyons the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
created in the story The Third Man with Zeto music
by Anton Garris.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Have you ever tried looking for a needle in a haystack? Well,
I did a bit of needles searching in London myself,
not so long ago.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Only this was no ordinary needle, as it all concerned
a picture a man had painted in Harland three hundred
years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Alcoholictile adventure, The Elusive Fermi.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now Arlton Welles as Harry Lyme the third Man
in today's story The Elusive Vermire.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I first met Horace.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
StJohn Winder there, Oh, yes, that really was his name.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
That can. Horace had class.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's probably the classiest.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Breaking and entering the merchants that had ever burgled an
English country mansion. And he had tastes to Horace's jars
were all big ones, and he planned the months in advance,
down to the last detail. That's how I came to
get involved. We were having a drink at his villa
one evening, just a two of them.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
My dear fellow, I've been wondering if I could interest
you in a small.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Business, pops, so long as it involves a maximum of
profit with a minimum of risk.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Answers, Yes, this has been profitable enough, I assure you.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
As for the risk, that's up to yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I am all ears there was something relaxing.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Second vers I should be turning to England next week.
He should have the right opportunity to present it to
I pupposed that this is a place called Bardsley Hall.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wilts Wilts, which my dear.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Father would County Bartlea Hall is one of the showcases
there on the country seed of Lord Rixton.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This visit will be during his lordship's absence.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Of course, naturally he would the most embarrassing if we
were to meet.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
He has a hippo white to adam in pieces that
I find quite irresistible, not to mention the modest collection
of Chelsea and Beau pots, and some fine examples of
water glass.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
And well this is where you come in Adim an
extraordinarly fine peaking by the seventeenth century Dutch master.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Themir then deafed no doubts on familiar terms with Themir's
lady of the visions in our national Gallery.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I've been on for many terms as any ladies that.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I can't say I remember heard in particular, I want
to carry on, old man.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'll let me stop the fine floor of your eloquence.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And I need hardly tell you that the disposal of
the obs that come in my position since almost as.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Many problems as a reposition, and needs to be as
carefully as planning.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yes, I guess so well.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Unfortunately, the hippo write Adam the Chelsea and Bow and
the water doesn't have no great difficulties. A fact here
that he includes a.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Number of gentlemen roll is e go to wed to
their collections and a reasonable advice.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
However, of a mill is is one might say, a.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Rather different cantallity.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
But the one thing it's rather too easily recognizable for
an English collector to dare hang without risking the danger
of having to answer awkward questions, and for anover the present.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Day prisive of the mill is I'm afraid rather beyond
the person most of my impoverished fellow.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Counturement I see it occurs to me, Harry, But with
a little preliminary organization you might possibly be able to.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Find a market for it in America.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, I do wherever a few connections very com precisely.
So if you're interested, tell me, old man, what would
be a fair price for the.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Mire in your currency or one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's real money and my curR of one hundred thousand,
and the.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
What the normal agency in transactions involving rare works of
out there is from twenty.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
To thirty three percent.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
In that case our settled for fifty.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I proposed to suggest, for.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I shouldn't if I were you, old man, and of
course you really want me in honest seal very.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Well if it is you're startings moving from the island
at once, for su oh I shall, as.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I say, for God the pleasures of this he didn't spot,
and return to London next week.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I should make a requisite inquired as regarding his lordship's movements.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
And when the appropriate milk the rhymes.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
You will receive a while from me saying simply.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Roger, and then as.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Soon as possible you will go to Nice and catch
the first available played for London.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
By the time you arrived.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
That their would be in my position, you were collected
a disaddress, I write.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It down, yell me.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Onto a all gay girl East c three of the
somewhere in the east Endo, Wasn't it exactly?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Not the most salubrious neighborhood? They must admit well that
I find extremely convenient in.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Selling old masters is not exactly as the English would say, my.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But they don't call me Harry resourceful rhyme for nothing.
As it turned out, I didn't even have.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
To contact my American connect is at all. A couple
of days after Horace left.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
For Ringland, I got talking to a guy named Joseph
J Popman, who turned out to be an oil minion
every moment, and it was traveling to.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Give himself in his culture. All I had to do
was mention the name for me and make sure it
did the risks.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Do I understand you to say, missus.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Lyme that you've got a real genuine died in the
wolf ver Mere.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
For sad lies.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I haven't quite got it yet, but you can get it,
I think, so, yeah, right?
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Name your price, Well, they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Come cheap, you know, hundreds of and what well one
hundreds and fifty thousand dollars sold?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
When can I take deliberate once?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm so fast it's coming here.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
You know, buying a pair of socks and five and.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Ten cents to you know, Oh, I don't quite get you.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
We've agreed on a price, certainly, but this may take
a lot of delicate negotiation. You realize, of course there
are certain unusual features about it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
How do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
For instance, the picture is likely to be, shall we say,
a trifle warm.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
I don't care if.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's white hot.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
My partner, junior, sayt Chottenheim, a junior, got himself a
Rembrandt last time he was over here.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And my wife's millions didn't ring with envy everything.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So you get me that from mere, mister lyman.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
I'll pay the price you aim, and ask no.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Question for right, And so long as you know exactly
where we stand, I'm expecting word from my colleague and
name them any day now. And as soon as the
okay comes through, I'll be flying to London. I suggest
you follow immediately, and I have the picture.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'll deliver it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
We'll close the deal fair enough. Sure, that's okay by me.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
A few evenings later, Horace is WHI.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I came through Roger and I passed the word on
to Joseph ja and the following night I was in London.
I decided I wouldn't mention the extra fifty thousand dollars
to Horace.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's all what you don't know, you're entitled to, you'll
never miss.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I booked in at the Ritz out and after dinner,
I'm in my way out to the East End.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I'll grow.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It is a sinister little side street, the heart of
a slum and twelve a. It wasn't exactly what you'd
call a palace, however, I knocked. After a while, the
door opened a few inches and a little Cockney guy stuffed.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
His nose out.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah what do you want him?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm looking from mister winder Mill here. Yeah, well he
told me to come to this a dress.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
He did, did he?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
What's your name? Harry Lyon?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Oh why didn't you say you're first? I'm right in,
mister d Thanks you must be Jerry, I'm person.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Well we'll get into Paris. Yeah we all right. I
don't even fancy, but we can have a bit of
measure and property.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
His money the way man, this door all right?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Make you said? We don mister larm sit down and rest.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Joe takes to me. Thanks, Uh, why won't I be
able to see mister wender Man.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And you say you ain't heard about anything.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I know it's something that matter.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Something's the matter.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
All right, he's gonna right a.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Well, snuffed it, snuffed it set up his do just
kicked the person back. You mean he's dead, That's what
I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But how didn't happen?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
He says, But your block? Well I've always been a
bit dickie, you know, just the seventy gave back?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
What's this block?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Block?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Care?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh you mean he had a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Couldn't put hi much? Plain? Could on?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
What did this happens?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Or yes they had a telegram problem?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Wait's when it happened?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yes did He's not to be exactly.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It's also of the seconds you might say, see mister
winder me and me and gone up a bit of
a round in the capsides. All well, but we picked
up with you on her name's asy do it? Smolke
furniture and on and pretty junkies?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was there a picture among the things that you a.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Big one and a gold friend to stay heels in? Look,
I love the fancy They're sitting in the room with
a big map on the wall in front of them
round gloating.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't think why they've haven a bother with an
honored duck.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
And anyway, we was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Coming out with the stuff the day.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
But if we go with mister winning, men are cracking
jokes and checking away ninety to a dozen, and and me.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Only listed with half the years.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You might say, you know, all of a sudden, I'm lazy,
ain't dogging no more. I'll take a quick butch butchers.
It's okay, Look.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Don't gunderstand English, but I'll take a look.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And ladies all lock in the Johnny owner in the corner.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
When I stopped, the fantasy was wrong. It's just tennis,
a ready, don.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We just took away.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
First in this morning.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
By they had to take a give a day. To
my hor it's going to be a real slap up duneral.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Others left the best for the government, that's what I yes,
cent of us doing your credit. By the way, what
happens the picture picture?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Oh you mean a picture?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Here's the picture?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
What is the matter?
Speaker 9 (10:08):
I was a bit wonny about that.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
But well, what would all them rogers snipping around it?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Sawn? He muld have been a bit dangerous.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So I thought, I let it, get rid of it
till sweet, you don't need to Jerry. You didn't destroy
it when I was going to.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
And then I thought, look at probably lovely for alf
a Que put off of Bridge, off for Gwyndy's on
times with super Jaxon also, so.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I took it up like their names.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
McFarland. What does a jack shop down the street, Hey, Bob,
let's only give me.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Yeah, I've been ready for But where does this mister
McFarland have a shot?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Turn park round just to be artist?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Was he likely to be on the premises now? Is
just a lot of as in the wording did what
was it double?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I just thought I might buy it back if he
still has it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well, could find a lot a lot of benefits myself.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But but it's the.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Picture you want to find it an angus McFarland's.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, But Jerry, it seems that underestimated the business acumen
of mister.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
McFarland, as in his shop bright early next morning. But
when I mentioned the picture, he shook his head.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hi, so and then the picture you mean not? He
it's no longer here? The oh who did you sell
it to? But heal from someone in Fulham. He was
seeking for old flames. He said, he mean, bo oh,
I have been shot or what was his name?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
I didn't conn.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
He paid me cash that I didn't hunk, you know
whereabouts in Fullham? And he has his shot and I
didn't kidnap need it?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
But can you tell me anything about him at all?
It might help me to find him?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Or I may you have an accent? You have an accent,
all right, but it's the weather. It was a worshow
what it was? I didn like to commit yourself. And
if you're a forgotten uh would this five pound house help?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You don't remember, mister Farlow? If you help, all Right'm
gonna start remembering well.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
As I to called the man, he was torn thin
and thin shape.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Will go on? What about his accent?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Accent? Something about nuts in okay, here's another.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Five Uh give mister McFarland, give way.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Of course, i'da called the news news alsh is that straight?
Which is out? The weather? In the pattern? Sir? And
tetting it? He was alish of Paddy's pigs.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I was too late to do any more of that evening,
so I went back to my hotel on spent the
rest of the night, cursing a vertib of mister Angus MacFarland.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Next morning away they brought up my breakfast.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
As I was coping a toast in the English marmalade
I swached on the bedside radio was right in the
middle of the morning.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
New recessions by one quarter out per person per week.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
The police last night recovered from premises in reading a
quantity of antique furniture porcelain glass which had disappeared two
nights previously from Barnsley Hall, Wiltshire during the absence of
the owner, Lord Rexton.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
A man has been detained.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It is understood that a valuable painting by the Dutch
mark the ganzmier Pentos.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Is still missing and the police well, I.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Didn't need anyone to tell me what that meant. I
had to find that picture, find it fast as some
man who will say a fan goodbye to Joseph J.
Hoffman and his beauty four hundred and fifty thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
In a moment, Austin Wells returns as Harry Lyme the
Third Man, and now Horse and Wells as Harry Lyme
(14:30):
the Third Man continues today's story. The elusive Vermire.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
For half a day.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I combed the main streets and back alleys at Fulham
I knew, and I figured.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
There couldn't possibly be.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Another jump shop within two miles that I hadn't already
been into. Then suddenly, in the dirty little side street,
I found myself outside a dirty little shop, compared with
which mister McFarland's dump looked like something out of Barn Street.
What excited me was half a dozen soot covered old
pictures in the window.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I pushed open the door and entered.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I at the top of the rnagin. You, sir, he was.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Tall and thin and clean shaven, and there was no
mistake in that accent.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Uh Do you happen to be the gentleman who bought
a number of old pictures from a dealer in Allgate
or they or so Ago?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh, let's be from all I just be Farland.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You mean that's right?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And you know, mister McFarland, I haven't known each other
these last fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
What is your treaty to braid himself? That's me, sir,
that have the next star to him in the old
Calagorian bark.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It skip to think I found you, mister man. I'm
trying to trace one of those pictures sold to McFarland
by mistake. You mean you say it's a valuable picture.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh not intrinsically so, but it belonged to my grandmother,
and so for me at any right, it has a
strong sentimental value, if.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
He ain't the stake perty, So if you still have it,
I'll be glad to buy a bank at a fair propity.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yourself, of course, already sold.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
One or two torpid stud He come this way.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
This is the large hat after bite from it fired
the robber.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Here there were fifteen or twenty pictures, most of Corneal reproductions,
like the Monarch of the Glen Psyche at the Well
on the Conter's Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
What originals there were?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Looked to me, even Corney And still I went through
the lot three times and there was nothing remotely like
a vermire.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He sure you I can't here, shirt, Well, that's quite sure.
We searched the joint from Florida's ceiling and he was right,
of course, simply wasn't there y You say you've sold
one or two pictures, that's right?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Who too?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You know the names of the buyers well, he was.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
A gent committed bought four of themselves, an archie sort
of a gent with sandridge is a big black beach.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He was looking for a same to one of his
old masterpieces, he.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Said, And then there was, uh was Missus Hockett. Missus
Hoggett is right, lives over the river at Parsley.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
She's left to write a couple of pictures. His present
for a very part epis cause this is one I'm after.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Possibly have been one of them, surely don't know why?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
God, sir, there is what I recall, some height and
cacki ugly peace.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
They were too with a free fiction?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Would that be?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It said?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
No, no, no? And the other did you see?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Sure of course I remember the other one wishes sill
in an old fashioned dress, standing in.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
The room with a map on the wall.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Is that right? There was a map and a globe,
you know, a globe of the world.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Sure there was a globe toward it, sir, I remember
it is that the picture? That's one I believe, so,
I believe so. But whereabouts in Pumpney does does missus
Huggett live? Where that's name? Afraid of catch heavy? You
don't know, you know, sir, except she's somewhere's up to
the top of the pill.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay, that's something to go.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
On anyway, Thank you, mister Burner. Let's be your trouble.
Oh thank you, no trouble, apop said, thank you, missus.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Huggett, Putney Hills.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Sant was getting warmer, hurried back to the main street,
looking for a cab to take me to Putney Bridge.
And then as I rounded a corner, I bumped into
a man, A big, solid, very English looking there.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Why hello, mister Lyon, thankcy bumping into you in Fulham
of all place.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
A hello?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You gon't remember me?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I can't requy your face. I've found at your feet
are familiar.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I see what you mean. Yours would be flat too,
if you've founded a bit for ten years.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh of course I remember now I have inspected Jane.
That's right, Nice to meet you again. Inspect the Jane
so long?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
What's the hurry, mister Lyon?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Little business to ass Andrew? Inspect the James Rome Just well?
We meet so rarely.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
In fact, I didn't even know you were back at
England till yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yesterday, Yes, why I haven't devoted you once? Or twice
you appeared to be doing around with a drunk shop.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Oh yes, well do you see.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
As a matter of factor, don't tell me you're on
the trail.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Of the missing Vermere, mister rime missing there have you
heard about it?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
It was stolen from Lord Brixton.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Ah No, I can't say I have.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
As a matter of fact, I've been trying to match
an old Georgia and the candid and make a fair
for a friend of mine back home in the States.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Really know, no, not so fun.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I'm afraid things like that as diseased to come by
these days. The antique market isn't what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
It's all these rich Americans.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know, no personal reflection, as I couldn't have met
me when you said rich.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Anyway, mister alive, if you intend continuing with your search,
you might at the same time keep an eye open
for this Vermire. Our information is that it's found its
way into a junk shop.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Somewhere in this area, and I've certainly looked for it.
Of course, that I'm no authority on painting. I wouldn't
know of a mayor that crept up and bit me.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
You're far too Morich, So I'm sure if, as I say,
you do, haven't decided by any remote chance, I'd be
grateful if you get in touch with me at the yard.
Oh sure, depend on that inspector.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Thank you, mister light, good.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Day, goodbye, thank you, hey, taxi taxic.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I had to get that picture, and I had to
get it fast, and once I got it, I'd have
to get rid of it even quicker. Still, well, I
found missus Hugget after some trouble, and I learned from
her that she'd given them to her married daughter, who
lived at two sixteen Colchester Street, Pimlicol.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I was hot on the sand. Now if I had
been a bloodhound, I had a barked to bathe or
whatever it is they do. Anyway, I found two sixteen
Cortious Street. It was no very great trouble.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And from the way my land had greeted me and
showed me, and I guess Mama, I'd already been on
the phone to some purpose.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The first thing I started when I walked into the
father wasn't me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yes, there it was, in all its glory, hanging over
the mantelpiece. Is all I could do is stop them
shouting for joy. But if I had imagine my Lena
was gonna be an easy nut to crack, and I
had another guess coming.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It was obvious those telephone ones had been running red hot, ma.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I just told you as you wasted your times anywhere,
you know if.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
I want to show but surely this is SMI is
William to consider William my husband?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, I wouldn't I.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
See anything that consult to him?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I need to say, the pictures of my cheese is
nine fifty pounds. I couldn't possibly dream letting it go
for there? William be serious on that? Okay, twenty five?
Come on, this is it's twenty five pounds.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
That's a lot of money for a picture like the
Apple at Yourself, as old as the hell that's the
way the paint's cracking, and how the colors bad?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Is it probably won't be fit for anything for the
scrap even another couple of years. Teens to get old
of it? Well, I explained that your mother has a
sentimental value for me.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
How come will you forget all the presidents of present?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
There's not the sort of thing one should sell.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, the title looks real nice up.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
There over the mantel to see it?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yet thirty pounds fifty pounds for that old job.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'll take it to David. You drive a hard bug
and this is okay fifteen, Thanks very much. I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Mine it was mine.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
At last I could idly believed my good fortune. With
a Vina tucked under my arm, I hurried back to
the red text. So all I had to do now
was contact Joseph JA, get rid of the fiction, and
collect my dollars one hundred and fifty thousand of them
and every cent for harry lyon typhone Hoppin's hotel.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And to my delight and relief, I heard his voice
at the other end.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Those are fitting Hoppin speaking. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's me JJ, harry Lyme. Well, say, how are you?
Speaker 9 (22:38):
It's swell to your voice?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Hi, you know how swell it is to hear yours.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
How's that little business we discussed coming along?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, that's why I'm calling you to tell you I've I've.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Got the goods. No kidding, right here, bring it around
to my hotel?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
No cool?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right now? Do you have the money?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
JJ?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Sure, one hundred and fifty Bay I can How.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Do we wait to get pictures?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Expect me in five minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars to give me in
the luxury to which I become accustomed for well, for
a month or two. Anyway, it seemed two weeks.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Eline returns in just a moment, and no, Harry Lime.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
As I came out of the ritz, asked a picture
under my arm, and the porter signaled a camp for me.
From the corner of my eye, I caught sight of
a familiar pair of feet coming towards me. Inspector James
of Scotland yells, and I shot a quick glance. On
the other side two more sets of feet, just as
big and just as flat, also coming my way to
(24:58):
another chance limit.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I knew it. I did some split second thing.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
That is that yes, please Scotland yard right? Did you
say Scotland yard right? A hello, Inspector? Where did you
strength round.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
And talk abouttual incident? That I've just got my way
to see you inspected day?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Really you never believe it, but you know that texture
you were talking about today, that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Vermere, mister alive?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
There is a thin car, yes, Vermere, well, hold on
your hat, old man, But.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I I think I found it.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You do, Yes, I've done it.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Right here, and you were on your way to deliver
it to me.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Yes, that's correct, inspected, splendid, most public spirited action.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Still, thank you. I'll take it down and save you
the trouble if you like certain one here you are. Thanks.
I suppose it must be quite a relief to get
rid of it. Oh sure, yes you know, of course
there'll be a reward for this from the insurance and
the writers. A reward.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
I didn't know that quite kidious what in fact five
hundred pounds? How does that work out in dollars in
such a thing?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
About forty hundred, I believe, but not as much as
to say, one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Of course, quite a lot of money. And yeah, it's
quite a lot of money and text free too.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, So no wonder you're known at the yard as
ducky heady line. No one.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
In the.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Thing that.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
Bess in.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
The song.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
It its contrast in status and
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