June 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a charismatic con artist, offering a glimpse into his schemes and the moral ambiguities of his adventures. The narratives blend wit with suspense.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh presenting Wars and Wells.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
As a herd of man.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The lives of Harry Lyon the Fabulous Stories of the
Immortal Character, originally created in the.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Motion picture of The Third Man with zither music by
Anton Karas. Most people you know spend their lives searching
for something, the girl of their dreams, of the perfect man,
as the case may, deeper happiness, of fame and glory.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
For the part of gold at the end of the rainbow,
Just for the rainbow.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
My search has always been for the ideal sucker, not
just any sucker, but the perfect one, the sucker with
a couple of hundred millions in his pocket and open
mind and not too much brains. Well, last year in Paris,
I was sure I'd found it. Sam Chord actually probably
thought of it. Sam Cord at the oil Man. He
actually wears one of those steps. It's even on the
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shaws of and those shoes of the trick heels, and
a gold tooth, thicken heart and pale blue eyes, as
innocent as any new boevage. Well, when I ran into Sam,
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I felt as though I had struck Oil myself.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He was sitting the two do all alone, and I
checked up the foot autumn we was.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Now it's getting it the old dice, Come on, I
wonder if you know how it works. It's a dodge
for making a soccer speak to ease for us, which
is always important. And what you do is sit idly
shaking some dice in a tough sort of thing. That
happens dive and you drop one of the dice near
the soccer. Pretend you don't notice that you did. The
soccer picks up the dice or die if but the
same get unreturned it to you with a merry laugh.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And that's how all the fun begins. Yachts and you drawn,
Thank you, thank you very much. That's the nineteen five
on the mooreteen. That was a nice gif.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You a nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
That's the last time anybody tried to drop thetize on me.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, that's how I happened to get acquainted with Samford
Ideal or team. He was a mighty check brother, so
he took him around somewhat. But I can't say I
took in. I thought he didn't tried. But pretty soon
the feelings started to press in on me that if
there was a sucker in the body.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And what insane.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that's how I happened to find myself late in
December last year, Sa mornings. I was in the bar,
the Balance hoteller, in one of those places where everybody
goes that by everybody, that is, everybody with a capital
E or a capital body, you know, thrown the skins
and kingless blondes, movie stars and maharajas and of course
your old friend.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Anyway, what youven, mister lyon staying with that for her
Christmas Christmas will depends to which you give me a sting.
It depends on what I find in my stocking. What
would you say to the beautiful whether princes they are
a terrific figure and a tremendous bank account? Do I
understand you correctly, Yes, sir, mister Lyme, you understood that.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I don't think because I thought you said. That's what
I said, mister. A beautiful princess with a banker.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Very beautiful, mister Lyme, and the bank accounties.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And know, yeah, she is sitting over there, and I
see what you mean, would you She's the favorite.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Daughter of the Sultan of Kalaba, Princess lailas the name
she's beginning.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
To see here all right, great, And now how do
I go about arranging the need of man? After all
the princess I can't ask for the why, I'm pretty
angry to It's all arranged, mister Range. You have a
somewhat authority, old man.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Santa claud The princesses asked me to tell you that
she's anxious to make your acquaintance.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Mister Lime, here's your doing, and very Christmas. She had.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
The big front suite in the hotel was full of
half house flowers, and there was the sound of music
from a Grandma roon somewhere, and through the big windows
we could see the moon rising over the snow.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Capped down I don't want to talk about it, Harry.
Hello Brussels, very well, that's mister van Bricker.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Yes all right, I'll go down to Zurich tonight and
take the first then in the morning, Yes, right away,
bring those, Harry.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm sure. But when do I see you again, Harry?
I have much to talk to.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
You about them tomorrow in.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Brussels and peraps after that Istanbul will do, Harry, and
see if the road is open to Durick.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We plads, it's the train I need you downstairs?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
What are you waiting for?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Aren't you gonna kiss me goodbye? It's gonna be time
for that, Dada, Harry, I'm the wady speech. I have
a naturally sispicious nature. So I checked the boy.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I checked not just about the trains for the princess,
but about the princess as well. It seems she was
just as good as she looked.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It really was a kingdom of Kualabad, and Yila really
was a sultan church. About half an hour later, I.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Found myself sitting next to a bundle up under a
fur rug and one of the slaves on our way
down to the railway station. The moon was high up
above us and casting an unnecessarily flattering like princess.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'll send you a wire, Harry, if I had to
fly down the children and then maybe you can leave
me Rome. Would you be willing to do that? Willing
la for you? I go all the way to Kualabad.
Well that's nice, because you may have to, dad, boy,
I want you been up to now.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I took the Princess Lilah to her train stamp. She
took me some very interestant things.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
May never hear of a man or Professor bird Lake
Joe Sheep is bird Lake with Geolis? Why sure you
know about geology too?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I had to do with all John noel Man a
check up.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What you want with old Birdley I'll tell you later,
But first, is he a good man?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Well Son?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
I don't rightly know what church you goes you that's
what you mean by good man.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But he knows where it all is. When he know't, he.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Can make a miny sharp guess.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Hello bird Lake, Oh ye, send him right up.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Next day. Told me they went to the station the
night before bird Lake was coming to Sat Mars to
see and she's left a note for him.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And introducing me and saying I can speak to come
in mister Nime. That's what I can infink. That's who
you are for the birthday.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, I had to get at the princess has already
told you when she explained that she and her father,
the Sultant, had engaged you.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Because I want you to thank you, mister Lyon.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yes, I'm just back from now this morning.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
But unfortunately, mister Princess, she had to get the Brussels
to see Van Lincoln.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
So what you'll say to Van Blinker.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
I don't know without having first seen my report.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
She says that I'm to give a tone, yes, said,
maybe you could give me out just a rough idea first,
the layman's language and.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
Layman's language, mister lime, and news is good, indeed, I think,
I may say, without furt of exageration, very good.
Speaker 10 (08:22):
Of course there have been.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Only a few trial drilling attentions.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
But the times are like Falabad in the next year
or so is almost surely going to turn into the
most important new oilfield in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The most did you say, the most important of the
new fields? Millions?
Speaker 10 (08:39):
Hundreds of millions, mister limes, billions.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hello, operator, get me the concierge.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
I want to talk to the border, not only for
the old self neither, but for.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Whoever's fortunate enough to get to the border. When's the
next day in the bustle.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But by the time I got to Brussels, she left
for Eastanbul and wire was for it to meet them Switzerland.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Dearest Harry had said, urgent to meet me thirty except
you will tell Rome love why you are so where
do you think I was on? Thirsty?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh Harry boy, i'se prayed, O Sam, I'm glad you
can join the artilight Italy.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Okay, Harry boy, not as party as Texas, but okay,
let's go to my room with them in a minute. Sam,
I want to see if lailas Laney. You know, Sam,
not a Radian princess.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Boy, you really got it bad.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Don't you find the kind of Arab princes that girl?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I must say what I mean, Arab girl, especially down
at that part of the countries.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Let them big bails will spend most of.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Their lives in their Arab Orlilah's in answer, Fay, well
you can say that you I mean, she's been going
to school here in Europe. Why old selt and hasn't
any nail airs, and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
She's his favorite. I know it sounds fitchy, but it's true.
I checked so Die.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You check on everything, don't you shove? That's what he
checked on me. Sure well it wrong drug, but you
checked on me. You must brought us some fairly unsaving
a life.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sure you mean you don't care care about what? But
I'm a con man, even a cru Why should a
Harry boy you mean cruked the con me? You ain't
nobody done that. If I Laila, you see you've checked
on her. Don't worry Harry.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Boy, your little Arab lady friend with the college.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Education's fifty okay, yes, I'm it, okay from your part
if you could mean so many different things, okay.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
In this particular case comes just about everything okay.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Means she's an Arab named Laila, not.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
A great from Brooklyn, Old City. It means she's just
what she says she is and everything you think she is.
It means she's a something daughter in the bee's knees.
Come on, Harry boy, let's have us a drink.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Late. I was tired, so I didn't notice the door
of my room. I was already unlocked. I just opened it. Yeah, last,
and it's spending in the morning. Mister line an underlie
lock the door? Why you'll have me? Okay? Now, how
can I tell them? I certainly? But if he just
fucking the doctrine, Hey, that's what I should say.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
My name is right?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yes, neither were sorting you on the phone life with your.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Thank you Now they're pretty.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Ready for you, misterli. If you have passed through exactly,
that is your understand it.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
The princess look here old now before I start answering
your questions, but you answered online just who was that
you were watching for in the streets?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Lie but.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Raised and oil then follow you and there is even
the possibility of lacking themselves.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Said nothing of the Russian.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Well, you're still not making any sense man, not in
my language anyway. And let's see if I can't do
a little guessing. You're all you worried about the oil
concession in Qualabad, right?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And that true?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
If the esculates are even half yea, this is in
the fast because anything we've had to deal with in this.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Generation, and you've got that idea in your head, you
and whoever these other characters are representing the other oil
companies that I've got arrangements. Why you Well, let me
tell you something. You're right, I happen if you're in
just isn't buying into that concession? Mister don Can you
come to the right room now?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Rrible go away, Sam, I'm busy, busy son. Oh I
see you've.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Got company where where Trump Mann?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You hand on each other? You're you're going, mister I
was getting you, mister Sam, I know what's your thinking?
So yeah, boy, you're thinking I was going to make
a deal with that done. They couldn't cut you out
of that oilers and.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
There watch well, I would if ire in your places.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But I think with you, we hadn't talked to that,
didn't think so you see what my influence on by you?
I figured ten sure, I know, ten percent of one
hundred millions dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
No sounds quite a lot to get by. And sn
It is here treating his door some kind of crossan
are you as far as you're concerned?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I swear to that wouldn't give you a very.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Carryline returns and to the moment, m.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Cd Qualabad is a tiny island kingdom, or rather shape
than either off of.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The Red Seas, and I suppose as long as any
other islands in the world.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
But nobody gave it a thought until just recently, during
all that excitement over the oil concession.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And then suddenly it.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Has forgotten a little blob of sand you have to
vocarefully on the map where it became a sort of battlefield,
the scene of an undeclared World war in miniature. Who
do you think was caught up right in the midst
of it? Sam and I flew down in his private
constellation to the nearest airport about seventy miles down the coast.
Sam's yacht was waiting there for us, and that's how
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we got to Quonabody in style.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We were met in the port by.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Some solemn looking navars from the old Sultan, who told
us we'd be received at court that evening. I was
also given a note. It was from Laula. I will
meet you, my darling. It began in the courtyard of
the Whispering Lions. I long to see you. Take the
narrow road that leads from the street of the Components.
Turned you left the street of the builders of bird Cages,
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and continue through the garden of nameless Delight. I will
be there when the moon has risen in the third hour.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But be careful. The city is full of our enemies,
and you were in great peril. Oh. I was more
of the same sort of lyrics.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
When you get the idea just rereading it over from
one of the navars are particularly repellent, ld banded with
a more beaten beard and one glittering eye, the white
of which was the color of tapio. They sidled up
to me, mister liars, May.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Your shadow never grow there what's there?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
May your back never bend, May your cheeks never wither
two a thousand sons for you, this unworthy one, this
despicable dog, is none other than Yachi handed grant.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, something the world your table show. What your trying
to tell me is that you're a big shot shot.
Of course it is an expression of the American It
is that you would say, I am a man.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Of Intu Yessulan's right hand man, right, I ali Hammed
the Sun's right hand.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Yes, individuals, Wait a minute, don't get it is a
sultan who.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Is my little and right right Okay, okay.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
My whim is his law.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's enough, Billy, old son, and I'm your son speaking
of He only smiles if I dane smile and.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
When I have browned.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And from all this is very instant.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I'm sure I mentioned these matters to the Great American Lord,
and in time.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Amazing is dear never grow, only to point out that when.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
The time comes to discuss the time a contact for.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The oil concession, clear it yu Yacka being fantasy and
general around far behind the throne which is.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
You, which is indeed, as the Great Lord is pleased
to put out of this unworthy one me okay, shut up,
shap May your shadow never.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Grow less same to you, old man. I hadn't gone
very far into the town.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
A big black limousine came up beside me and started
the red faces looking at the other windows.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Van Blecker. Ah, mister Lime, that is all yours, mister
van ber there.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Will be misclime, and the contract for the oil concession
is in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Just now, have expikes me that there are too many
farming visitors to disc comes nice towards you mean me.
Don't say you hadn't been born, mister Lime, You're.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Back, never been, old man, your shadow never.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Go or less. This unworthy one throws himself in the
dust beneath your chariot wheels. And thanks to remind you
of an old.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Saying among oil man has written, never come to a
gushers till you own the real estate.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Ah, there.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Trouble with you, Sam is your suspicious nature, drunk an blicker.
But he started the conversation. Sam, I am forgot, and
I'm working for your boy. We're going to get this concession. Sam.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Here, that kills me that night, if you appointed on
and in the appointed place, in the courtyard of the
whispering Lions, I met, what did you.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Think I was going to do. Do you hear that signal?
Signal for once? It's my god at the gates look out.
It means we discovered discover who's discovered an.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Old dead?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I did tell him to go away the streets in
the market and he probably they surrounds us here of it.
This is not your apparent.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
There are no policemen here, the land of violence and
sudden deaths. The agents have ben Ali Harmert is fanatic,
so they think nothing is murdered with us, not with us,
with you that Ali is the creature of Unbliqua and
will stop at nothing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
What do we do? Take this?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Put it on?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, I hap you with the so this way all
your eyes are uncovered. No one, I hope. Yes.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
At the gates is an old woman by trusted slam.
She will convey you to a place to see, asking
questions and go in silence. It is your only hope
one moment.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
You know something, That's the first time I've ever kissed
anybody without first taking off my baby. It's quite a
chase through twisting Shadow Valley's torturously winding narrow streets, tripping
over my pretty skirts most of the way, and the
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funny thing is I never saw always chasing me. Now, friends,
it's too late now for me to pretending that I'm
exactly a stranger to the confidence racket. And I'm afraid
it's I'm now going to make a little confession. The
contents of this particular package is perhaps not exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
As advertised I gave this tale.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
If you remember a title, I called it a night
in a harem, and it's conceivable, and having heard that title,
you may have expected something a little different what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
If so, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Anyway I did spend
the night. I don't have a lot of way they.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Pronounce it a re foolah other that they do, and
that dreary and more uneventful six hours I've never put
in the only slow eyed daughters of the East Iranian
who seemed to be the cook and their grandmother. Until
that veil was a considerable inconvenience. I either servant let
me in, and after the six hour way dimension, the
servant let me out, and then I was taken down
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to the shore and putting the robots, muffled oars and
all the rest of them. Very thirty departure for Big
Oil man like myself? How you love the other passenger?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Harry? Everyone now, I think there's something you ought to know.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Pays me to tell you this, but you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Will find out him.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Okay, honey, let me know the worst after that night
in the Sultan's hell, And I'm ready for any disappointment.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's about your oil concession. Why are you waiting their? Yes?
Ma the way, what was I waiting for? I never
even saw anybody chasing me? Raised loose had honey? They
sure are?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well what about this oil concession? The contract is so well,
that's all right, son's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You'll see that. I get my cut. The concession didn't
go to him, pet busy and my father came to
understand him. We must not say these things are written
in the star Breaker. Yes, Harry, it was kis Kismet.
Who's he? Kisme is fake? Yes? They played us ten
million dollars just for action? And what was I doing
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all this? I don't jump. I know I was being
used to jack up the price, Harry. What could I
have done without you? I'm just a help to a
young day And what am I?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I don't answer that either. No, I didn't murder it.
I even let her kiss me goodbye. If I went
up the gang bank to Sam's Archie told me someday
when I knew everything, I thank you well after I
got my dress off and I had Sam for breakfast.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Come on, char oh or you had nothing to lose,
You didn't lose it any of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You call that nothing? Well nothing was just exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
What a new forul tarry boy? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Who has mentioned a hundred billion dollars beside you? I
don't know? Bird Light? Oh, if you told me just
even bird lakes and authority on.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
A while, well, what's there to celebrate? Ten million cans
just for down pairs? That's why I celebrate.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
But they got the confessional.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Why but saying a little o'd isle and even Lionard
doesn't stay on any longer. The professor fredlay nowhere. That
was just the feller that fool himself. Good lack fly, he's.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
A hiding, he's a player. London. I kicked.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I checked on everything I knew.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
First. Of course he was on the prince.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
But he is the prince for sure.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
But dem of princess, don't say a girl as the keeper.
The Belgians unnatural talents for the conference record. You know,
the old shoulder nine dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Holly boy, I'm surprised you must have.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Showed a few words old chairs in your day. Then
there's no no oil in probabout at all.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Of course, now don't you might not you? You can't
blame her, the old bens of the Sweden that there
is that boy half old.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
They gotta live to live on ten million cashiers?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Lord, but why not?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, what happened? Yeah, I thought we'd just say a
lot of it.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Sid, I've heard a whole lot about this. Yeah, the
barely dead.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Order be fun up? Way you can try to sell
you that order to be fun?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
To come on that. Harry Boy bottoms up.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
Harry Line returns in just a moment, and.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Harry Line, Well, I was up in San Mars last week,
and of course I went to the Palace Hotel and
stopped in at the barn.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But one of Luigi's famous stingers. Oh, mister live, how
are you this year? Mister lyme? I, by the way,
the princess live you see?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yes, indeed, mister Linan looking lovelier than ever, if that
is possible for you?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Staying over the Luigi. Yes, say your shadows never grow less.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Old man, sad may or beard never grow white, and
you find the start calling.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Me sands, though I'm not saying alge, just.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
From those important dangers Monte Carlo.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
And as for the princess, old man, you could tell
us for me chuck aback like clothes.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I am sorry, mister. What's that last? Ter terrabic? Merry
Christmas
Uh presenting Wars and Wells.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
As a herd of man.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The lives of Harry Lyon the Fabulous Stories of the
Immortal Character, originally created in the.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Motion picture of The Third Man with zither music by
Anton Karas. Most people you know spend their lives searching
for something, the girl of their dreams, of the perfect man,
as the case may, deeper happiness, of fame and glory.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
For the part of gold at the end of the rainbow,
Just for the rainbow.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
My search has always been for the ideal sucker, not
just any sucker, but the perfect one, the sucker with
a couple of hundred millions in his pocket and open
mind and not too much brains. Well, last year in Paris,
I was sure I'd found it. Sam Chord actually probably
thought of it. Sam Cord at the oil Man. He
actually wears one of those steps. It's even on the
(01:20):
shaws of and those shoes of the trick heels, and
a gold tooth, thicken heart and pale blue eyes, as
innocent as any new boevage. Well, when I ran into Sam,
(02:33):
I felt as though I had struck Oil myself.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He was sitting the two do all alone, and I
checked up the foot autumn we was.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Now it's getting it the old dice, Come on, I
wonder if you know how it works. It's a dodge
for making a soccer speak to ease for us, which
is always important. And what you do is sit idly
shaking some dice in a tough sort of thing. That
happens dive and you drop one of the dice near
the soccer. Pretend you don't notice that you did. The
soccer picks up the dice or die if but the
same get unreturned it to you with a merry laugh.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And that's how all the fun begins. Yachts and you drawn,
Thank you, thank you very much. That's the nineteen five
on the mooreteen. That was a nice gif.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You a nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
That's the last time anybody tried to drop thetize on me.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, that's how I happened to get acquainted with Samford
Ideal or team. He was a mighty check brother, so
he took him around somewhat. But I can't say I
took in. I thought he didn't tried. But pretty soon
the feelings started to press in on me that if
there was a sucker in the body.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And what insane.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that's how I happened to find myself late in
December last year, Sa mornings. I was in the bar,
the Balance hoteller, in one of those places where everybody
goes that by everybody, that is, everybody with a capital
E or a capital body, you know, thrown the skins
and kingless blondes, movie stars and maharajas and of course
your old friend.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Anyway, what youven, mister lyon staying with that for her
Christmas Christmas will depends to which you give me a sting.
It depends on what I find in my stocking. What
would you say to the beautiful whether princes they are
a terrific figure and a tremendous bank account? Do I
understand you correctly, Yes, sir, mister Lyme, you understood that.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I don't think because I thought you said. That's what
I said, mister. A beautiful princess with a banker.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Very beautiful, mister Lyme, and the bank accounties.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And know, yeah, she is sitting over there, and I
see what you mean, would you She's the favorite.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Daughter of the Sultan of Kalaba, Princess lailas the name
she's beginning.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
To see here all right, great, And now how do
I go about arranging the need of man? After all
the princess I can't ask for the why, I'm pretty
angry to It's all arranged, mister Range. You have a
somewhat authority, old man.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Santa claud The princesses asked me to tell you that
she's anxious to make your acquaintance.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Mister Lime, here's your doing, and very Christmas. She had.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
The big front suite in the hotel was full of
half house flowers, and there was the sound of music
from a Grandma roon somewhere, and through the big windows
we could see the moon rising over the snow.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Capped down I don't want to talk about it, Harry.
Hello Brussels, very well, that's mister van Bricker.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Yes all right, I'll go down to Zurich tonight and
take the first then in the morning, Yes, right away,
bring those, Harry.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm sure. But when do I see you again, Harry?
I have much to talk to.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
You about them tomorrow in.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Brussels and peraps after that Istanbul will do, Harry, and
see if the road is open to Durick.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We plads, it's the train I need you downstairs?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
What are you waiting for?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Aren't you gonna kiss me goodbye? It's gonna be time
for that, Dada, Harry, I'm the wady speech. I have
a naturally sispicious nature. So I checked the boy.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I checked not just about the trains for the princess,
but about the princess as well. It seems she was
just as good as she looked.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It really was a kingdom of Kualabad, and Yila really
was a sultan church. About half an hour later, I.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Found myself sitting next to a bundle up under a
fur rug and one of the slaves on our way
down to the railway station. The moon was high up
above us and casting an unnecessarily flattering like princess.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'll send you a wire, Harry, if I had to
fly down the children and then maybe you can leave
me Rome. Would you be willing to do that? Willing
la for you? I go all the way to Kualabad.
Well that's nice, because you may have to, dad, boy,
I want you been up to now.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I took the Princess Lilah to her train stamp. She
took me some very interestant things.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
May never hear of a man or Professor bird Lake
Joe Sheep is bird Lake with Geolis? Why sure you
know about geology too?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I had to do with all John noel Man a
check up.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What you want with old Birdley I'll tell you later,
But first, is he a good man?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Well Son?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
I don't rightly know what church you goes you that's
what you mean by good man.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But he knows where it all is. When he know't, he.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Can make a miny sharp guess.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Hello bird Lake, Oh ye, send him right up.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Next day. Told me they went to the station the
night before bird Lake was coming to Sat Mars to
see and she's left a note for him.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And introducing me and saying I can speak to come
in mister Nime. That's what I can infink. That's who
you are for the birthday.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, I had to get at the princess has already
told you when she explained that she and her father,
the Sultant, had engaged you.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Because I want you to thank you, mister Lyon.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yes, I'm just back from now this morning.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
But unfortunately, mister Princess, she had to get the Brussels
to see Van Lincoln.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
So what you'll say to Van Blinker.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
I don't know without having first seen my report.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
She says that I'm to give a tone, yes, said,
maybe you could give me out just a rough idea first,
the layman's language and.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
Layman's language, mister lime, and news is good, indeed, I think,
I may say, without furt of exageration, very good.
Speaker 10 (08:22):
Of course there have been.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Only a few trial drilling attentions.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
But the times are like Falabad in the next year
or so is almost surely going to turn into the
most important new oilfield in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The most did you say, the most important of the
new fields? Millions?
Speaker 10 (08:39):
Hundreds of millions, mister limes, billions.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hello, operator, get me the concierge.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
I want to talk to the border, not only for
the old self neither, but for.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Whoever's fortunate enough to get to the border. When's the
next day in the bustle.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But by the time I got to Brussels, she left
for Eastanbul and wire was for it to meet them Switzerland.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Dearest Harry had said, urgent to meet me thirty except
you will tell Rome love why you are so where
do you think I was on? Thirsty?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh Harry boy, i'se prayed, O Sam, I'm glad you
can join the artilight Italy.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Okay, Harry boy, not as party as Texas, but okay,
let's go to my room with them in a minute. Sam,
I want to see if lailas Laney. You know, Sam,
not a Radian princess.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Boy, you really got it bad.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Don't you find the kind of Arab princes that girl?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I must say what I mean, Arab girl, especially down
at that part of the countries.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Let them big bails will spend most of.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Their lives in their Arab Orlilah's in answer, Fay, well
you can say that you I mean, she's been going
to school here in Europe. Why old selt and hasn't
any nail airs, and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
She's his favorite. I know it sounds fitchy, but it's true.
I checked so Die.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You check on everything, don't you shove? That's what he
checked on me. Sure well it wrong drug, but you
checked on me. You must brought us some fairly unsaving
a life.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sure you mean you don't care care about what? But
I'm a con man, even a cru Why should a
Harry boy you mean cruked the con me? You ain't
nobody done that. If I Laila, you see you've checked
on her. Don't worry Harry.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Boy, your little Arab lady friend with the college.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Education's fifty okay, yes, I'm it, okay from your part
if you could mean so many different things, okay.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
In this particular case comes just about everything okay.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Means she's an Arab named Laila, not.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
A great from Brooklyn, Old City. It means she's just
what she says she is and everything you think she is.
It means she's a something daughter in the bee's knees.
Come on, Harry boy, let's have us a drink.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Late. I was tired, so I didn't notice the door
of my room. I was already unlocked. I just opened it. Yeah, last,
and it's spending in the morning. Mister line an underlie
lock the door? Why you'll have me? Okay? Now, how
can I tell them? I certainly? But if he just
fucking the doctrine, Hey, that's what I should say.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
My name is right?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yes, neither were sorting you on the phone life with your.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Thank you Now they're pretty.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Ready for you, misterli. If you have passed through exactly,
that is your understand it.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
The princess look here old now before I start answering
your questions, but you answered online just who was that
you were watching for in the streets?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Lie but.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Raised and oil then follow you and there is even
the possibility of lacking themselves.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Said nothing of the Russian.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Well, you're still not making any sense man, not in
my language anyway. And let's see if I can't do
a little guessing. You're all you worried about the oil
concession in Qualabad, right?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And that true?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
If the esculates are even half yea, this is in
the fast because anything we've had to deal with in this.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Generation, and you've got that idea in your head, you
and whoever these other characters are representing the other oil
companies that I've got arrangements. Why you Well, let me
tell you something. You're right, I happen if you're in
just isn't buying into that concession? Mister don Can you
come to the right room now?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Rrible go away, Sam, I'm busy, busy son. Oh I
see you've.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Got company where where Trump Mann?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You hand on each other? You're you're going, mister I
was getting you, mister Sam, I know what's your thinking?
So yeah, boy, you're thinking I was going to make
a deal with that done. They couldn't cut you out
of that oilers and.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
There watch well, I would if ire in your places.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But I think with you, we hadn't talked to that,
didn't think so you see what my influence on by you?
I figured ten sure, I know, ten percent of one
hundred millions dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
No sounds quite a lot to get by. And sn
It is here treating his door some kind of crossan
are you as far as you're concerned?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I swear to that wouldn't give you a very.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Carryline returns and to the moment, m.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Cd Qualabad is a tiny island kingdom, or rather shape
than either off of.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The Red Seas, and I suppose as long as any
other islands in the world.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
But nobody gave it a thought until just recently, during
all that excitement over the oil concession.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And then suddenly it.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Has forgotten a little blob of sand you have to
vocarefully on the map where it became a sort of battlefield,
the scene of an undeclared World war in miniature. Who
do you think was caught up right in the midst
of it? Sam and I flew down in his private
constellation to the nearest airport about seventy miles down the coast.
Sam's yacht was waiting there for us, and that's how
(15:02):
we got to Quonabody in style.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We were met in the port by.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Some solemn looking navars from the old Sultan, who told
us we'd be received at court that evening. I was
also given a note. It was from Laula. I will
meet you, my darling. It began in the courtyard of
the Whispering Lions. I long to see you. Take the
narrow road that leads from the street of the Components.
Turned you left the street of the builders of bird Cages,
(15:25):
and continue through the garden of nameless Delight. I will
be there when the moon has risen in the third hour.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But be careful. The city is full of our enemies,
and you were in great peril. Oh. I was more
of the same sort of lyrics.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
When you get the idea just rereading it over from
one of the navars are particularly repellent, ld banded with
a more beaten beard and one glittering eye, the white
of which was the color of tapio. They sidled up
to me, mister liars, May.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Your shadow never grow there what's there?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
May your back never bend, May your cheeks never wither
two a thousand sons for you, this unworthy one, this
despicable dog, is none other than Yachi handed grant.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, something the world your table show. What your trying
to tell me is that you're a big shot shot.
Of course it is an expression of the American It
is that you would say, I am a man.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Of Intu Yessulan's right hand man, right, I ali Hammed
the Sun's right hand.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Yes, individuals, Wait a minute, don't get it is a
sultan who.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Is my little and right right Okay, okay.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
My whim is his law.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's enough, Billy, old son, and I'm your son speaking
of He only smiles if I dane smile and.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
When I have browned.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And from all this is very instant.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I'm sure I mentioned these matters to the Great American Lord,
and in time.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Amazing is dear never grow, only to point out that when.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
The time comes to discuss the time a contact for.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The oil concession, clear it yu Yacka being fantasy and
general around far behind the throne which is.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
You, which is indeed, as the Great Lord is pleased
to put out of this unworthy one me okay, shut up,
shap May your shadow never.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Grow less same to you, old man. I hadn't gone
very far into the town.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
A big black limousine came up beside me and started
the red faces looking at the other windows.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Van Blecker. Ah, mister Lime, that is all yours, mister
van ber there.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Will be misclime, and the contract for the oil concession
is in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Just now, have expikes me that there are too many
farming visitors to disc comes nice towards you mean me.
Don't say you hadn't been born, mister Lime, You're.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Back, never been, old man, your shadow never.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Go or less. This unworthy one throws himself in the
dust beneath your chariot wheels. And thanks to remind you
of an old.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Saying among oil man has written, never come to a
gushers till you own the real estate.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Ah, there.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Trouble with you, Sam is your suspicious nature, drunk an blicker.
But he started the conversation. Sam, I am forgot, and
I'm working for your boy. We're going to get this concession. Sam.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Here, that kills me that night, if you appointed on
and in the appointed place, in the courtyard of the
whispering Lions, I met, what did you.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Think I was going to do. Do you hear that signal?
Signal for once? It's my god at the gates look out.
It means we discovered discover who's discovered an.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Old dead?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I did tell him to go away the streets in
the market and he probably they surrounds us here of it.
This is not your apparent.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
There are no policemen here, the land of violence and
sudden deaths. The agents have ben Ali Harmert is fanatic,
so they think nothing is murdered with us, not with us,
with you that Ali is the creature of Unbliqua and
will stop at nothing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
What do we do? Take this?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Put it on?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, I hap you with the so this way all
your eyes are uncovered. No one, I hope. Yes.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
At the gates is an old woman by trusted slam.
She will convey you to a place to see, asking
questions and go in silence. It is your only hope
one moment.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
You know something, That's the first time I've ever kissed
anybody without first taking off my baby. It's quite a
chase through twisting Shadow Valley's torturously winding narrow streets, tripping
over my pretty skirts most of the way, and the
(20:06):
funny thing is I never saw always chasing me. Now, friends,
it's too late now for me to pretending that I'm
exactly a stranger to the confidence racket. And I'm afraid
it's I'm now going to make a little confession. The
contents of this particular package is perhaps not exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
As advertised I gave this tale.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
If you remember a title, I called it a night
in a harem, and it's conceivable, and having heard that title,
you may have expected something a little different what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
If so, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Anyway I did spend
the night. I don't have a lot of way they.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Pronounce it a re foolah other that they do, and
that dreary and more uneventful six hours I've never put
in the only slow eyed daughters of the East Iranian
who seemed to be the cook and their grandmother. Until
that veil was a considerable inconvenience. I either servant let
me in, and after the six hour way dimension, the
servant let me out, and then I was taken down
(21:03):
to the shore and putting the robots, muffled oars and
all the rest of them. Very thirty departure for Big
Oil man like myself? How you love the other passenger?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Harry? Everyone now, I think there's something you ought to know.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Pays me to tell you this, but you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Will find out him.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Okay, honey, let me know the worst after that night
in the Sultan's hell, And I'm ready for any disappointment.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's about your oil concession. Why are you waiting their? Yes?
Ma the way, what was I waiting for? I never
even saw anybody chasing me? Raised loose had honey? They
sure are?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well what about this oil concession? The contract is so well,
that's all right, son's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You'll see that. I get my cut. The concession didn't
go to him, pet busy and my father came to
understand him. We must not say these things are written
in the star Breaker. Yes, Harry, it was kis Kismet.
Who's he? Kisme is fake? Yes? They played us ten
million dollars just for action? And what was I doing
(22:05):
all this? I don't jump. I know I was being
used to jack up the price, Harry. What could I
have done without you? I'm just a help to a
young day And what am I?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I don't answer that either. No, I didn't murder it.
I even let her kiss me goodbye. If I went
up the gang bank to Sam's Archie told me someday
when I knew everything, I thank you well after I
got my dress off and I had Sam for breakfast.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Come on, char oh or you had nothing to lose,
You didn't lose it any of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You call that nothing? Well nothing was just exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
What a new forul tarry boy? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Who has mentioned a hundred billion dollars beside you? I
don't know? Bird Light? Oh, if you told me just
even bird lakes and authority on.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
A while, well, what's there to celebrate? Ten million cans
just for down pairs? That's why I celebrate.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
But they got the confessional.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Why but saying a little o'd isle and even Lionard
doesn't stay on any longer. The professor fredlay nowhere. That
was just the feller that fool himself. Good lack fly, he's.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
A hiding, he's a player. London. I kicked.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I checked on everything I knew.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
First. Of course he was on the prince.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
But he is the prince for sure.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
But dem of princess, don't say a girl as the keeper.
The Belgians unnatural talents for the conference record. You know,
the old shoulder nine dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Holly boy, I'm surprised you must have.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Showed a few words old chairs in your day. Then
there's no no oil in probabout at all.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Of course, now don't you might not you? You can't
blame her, the old bens of the Sweden that there
is that boy half old.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
They gotta live to live on ten million cashiers?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Lord, but why not?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, what happened? Yeah, I thought we'd just say a
lot of it.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Sid, I've heard a whole lot about this. Yeah, the
barely dead.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Order be fun up? Way you can try to sell
you that order to be fun?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
To come on that. Harry Boy bottoms up.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
Harry Line returns in just a moment, and.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Harry Line, Well, I was up in San Mars last week,
and of course I went to the Palace Hotel and
stopped in at the barn.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But one of Luigi's famous stingers. Oh, mister live, how
are you this year? Mister lyme? I, by the way,
the princess live you see?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yes, indeed, mister Linan looking lovelier than ever, if that
is possible for you?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Staying over the Luigi. Yes, say your shadows never grow less.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Old man, sad may or beard never grow white, and
you find the start calling.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Me sands, though I'm not saying alge, just.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
From those important dangers Monte Carlo.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
And as for the princess, old man, you could tell
us for me chuck aback like clothes.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I am sorry, mister. What's that last? Ter terrabic? Merry
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