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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Presenting Orson Wolle as the Third Man, The Lives of
Harry Lyme, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
created in the motion picture The Third Man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
With Ziba music by Anthem Carron.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Friends. The title of this story is Faith, Lime and Sheriffy.
You see, I've been told by many people, many times
that I'm hopeless case, but they're so wrong. Hopelessly, I'm
full of hope for that matter, full of faith and charity.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Faith in the great universal Sucker and hope that he's.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Coming my way. And charity, well, there's one cause that's
always right in front of me every time I shave.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And now Orson Wells as Harry Lyme, the third Man
in today's story, Faith, Lime.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And charity and wealthy tourists have always been attracted by
the romance of India and the beautiful Tarj. Mohammed Harry
Lyme has always been attracted by the romance of beautiful
and wealthy tourists. This idea in mind that I took
to train from New Delhi to Agra. Since the ancient
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capital city of India, whether Tarj is located, these traveler
shrines are happy hunting grounds for a gentleman of fortune
like myself. To pardon my stress, I'm a gentleman. I
felt I earned the title by listening politely to the
interminable prattle and snibblings of Missus Hayley, missionary's wife, of
whom I shared my compartment. I couldn't know that this
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innocent chit chat would lead the bloodshed within forty eight hours,
and that the blood shed would be mine.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I suppose you're going to agraft.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Do you see the charge?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No? How yes? Among other things, Miss Haley, I.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Could tell you what a cultured gentlemen the first moment
I laid eyes on you survive.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
But all too many people see the beauties.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Of India and never give us thought to the poor,
the knighted people. We must think of them this the line.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Don't you agree?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh? Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
My husband is the redend, mister Haley. You know he's
the head of the mission of Nanda Devid.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
He's given his whole life to these poor natives. It
came into their gods and their souls. We have an
alternat there. You know.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
One of the finest, the terrible things happened, such a
terrible thing that we had a fire just last week.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yes, look at these chippies often edged Nanda.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They're re destroyed by fire and medical Adra mission.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
That picture and that's my husband, mister Henry standing there
remembers four little Indian children.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't raise the money, he'll be heart broken. Money.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yes, yes, that's why I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Going to Agra.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
We need three thousand pounds right away to.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Cover the emergency.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
And when we heard the lady Edith then a murder
puy Agra, we decided to approach her.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And she's really wealthy and.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Her family had always help the mission.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I'm sure she'd.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Never missed three thousand pounds and the mission needs it
so dreadfully.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
But oh, oh dear, I just did speaking to her.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
I'm not well, you know it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
But the shot of the fire and wonders to much
draft where he's sitting.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Oh oh, thank you, mister Lidel.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That's awfully carry out you.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
It's nice to find someone who's thoughtful. I'm so glad
we happened to share this compartners.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So am I tell me more about this Lady Edith.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Lady Edith, she.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
And Agre with healthyances and eld and his mother.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I'm sure her heart will be moved.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
By the flight of these poor orphans. But I did anything,
as I didn't have to approach her myself.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I was strong, Missus, this is only a suggestion, and
you're quite free to say yes or no. But I
was wondering, he's right to help with someone else approach
ready eat it on behalf of the mission myself, for instance?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You will?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
That's awfully kind of I don't know whaps you would
be a good idea fine.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The time we arrived in Agrow, the missionary's wife would
greatly agree to let me approach ready eat it for
the cash, where I should add, I think for the
benefit of those with sensitive disposition. But I had no
intention of making off of the three thousand pounds needed
by the orphanage. But I calculated that if Lady Edith
was good for three thousand pounds, she was good for
five three for the orphans and two for Harry Lyon.
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After all, with the Mangy streetfifts of his income to charity,
who can proplay this is a great stroke of luck,
already made scheme for relieving me overly rich and so armer.
The credentials and the clippings Missus Harry had given me,
I set out to find Lady Edith. Just as I
arrived the steps of the Conflict where she and her
father were staying, a large limousine drew up, and her
angry voice isn't hit behind a month old copy of
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the London Times.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I don't care, Ernie, I think all a miserable spots.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I can't watch down.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
He don't remember pot Ernie's indigestion. I'm tired of remembering
for her and his indigesture.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
If you're going to marry him, will have no choice.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Ernest was always a fame. But they came all the
way to our great to see the Tajmaha. I'm afraid
mother's writing. Did I just don't feel up to anything tonight?
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Or you would insist that we go to that native
place to eat them all the lasted I feel retchical.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Come on, Ernie, you'll feel better out there in the
open air. Couldn't we go tonight?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Or three two?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Remember how we used to talk about seeing the taj
by moonlight?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Sorry, my dear, really, I am but almost tie light
now the.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Moon's coming up, or it would be lovely do come in.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, I'm absolutely against it. You'll have to wait until
another night when the little.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Feeling better is I can't have him out in the
night air.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But this stomach ups it. That's right, perhaps monny a
night I never ernie or I think I better lie down.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Oh you're impossible.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Now calm yourself, my dear Reith, don't be so impulsive.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Come along inside and you'll have a nice class evening together.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Edid where are you going?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Diver take you to the partner.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You come to ourself by yourself, my chivalrous soults, But
not there. The thoughts of the lovely lady is having
to visit the romantic tasma all alone. So I hail
one of the ancients, and unlikely to exit the day
of the tourist driver of the charge my hall.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yes, I.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I could have walked faster. The street was thronged with
children and darkeys. Dey breathe, and finally we reached the
great red sandstone wall which guards the US. I jumped
out and paid the driver. His bony fingers closed over
the root pie. They touched my hands the first time
I noticed the night the driver's face. The cheeks were sunken,
and the eyes glowed strangely like dark cold. I stared
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at him, pro fascinated a sea school.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
Remember he who betrays the little one shall play with
his blood.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And then he was gone under the gates. There it
was chaj Mahal by moonlight, the loveliest building in the world,
standing beside one of the forest lander minarets, the loveliest
woman in the world. And I approached her. She seemed
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not to see me, so if she were in a
trance and stood close to the side of it, Still
she did no sign that she was aware of my existence,
and stood in silence, gazing at the shimmering reflection in
the pool. Lovely, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yes, It's the loveliest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And said, the sight of the taj Rahara marks a
new era in a mortal's life.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
That's exactly the way.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
I feel it was this, This was the beginning of
a newareness on me. Old old things and the uggiest
scenes and the shabby things lived behind only beauty.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It could be that way. They needed you know my
name it yes, and in fact were all I ever knew.
It to be enough that in the memory of these
few moments he had been at taj Who are you
mm mm my name is Harry Lyonon. How did you
know me? I sought you out, I knew you'd be here.
You know, how could you have known me? Sometimes the
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heart sees more clearly than the eye.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, I shouldn't let you talk this way. You haven't
met a moment ago, and.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
What has time to do with it? We find the
Tajmah how beautiful, not because it took twenty thousand men
twenty years to build it, but because Shah Jahn loved
this beautiful queen so much at the moment of her
death that he vowed their love would escape from time.
Because at that moment that this beautiful monument was created,
not twenty years later, when the final gem was set,
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important things happened quickly the dwinkling of an eye, until
life has changed.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I almost believe you. Then I must go my cars.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Wait, why don't you let me drop you off?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
MI to night?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
O'kay? I kind of if I eat it, I'm staying
at the Hotel International seed it in a luxurious limousine
equipped to the correct English chauffeurs. She became Lady Edith
then and murdered vacious and casual chanitorus. And that is
at the moment that's seen that ever taken place. At
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the time we stopped at the International brother for a drink,
we were talking and laughing easily.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
To give me, do you know this is the first
really pleasant evening I've had since I arrived in India.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Some of the credit goes to the Taj Mahaud some
of the credit. And he is an amazing country, you know,
such beauty and such squalor side by side. That reminds me.
Not that I wanted to boil this evening, but did
you hear about the tragedy of none that day? Being?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh, I know what happened here?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
What are these crippings? I handed at the clippings Missus
Hallie had given me that face softened with sympathy as
she read the fighters of homeless.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Sort of Oh what a shame, poor little children.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, he's coming up here. On the train I met
Missus Haley, the missionary's wife. That's all I have to
know about it. The frail little creatures and big job
of raising five thousand thousand the next few days to
cover this emergency. I understand the mission is a poor
one that doesn't exploit him out of good work. Now
they're in desperate trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
What kind of you to be so concerned, Missus Hays.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Try to touch and consider it, and so in fact
that I agreed to help raise the money.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You had much success, none at all. So fine, it's
too I.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Have a dreadful confession to make, lady either.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
That's why I followed you to the Chuche of my heart,
and I, Missus.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Hanley, read in the paper that you were inaugu and
asked me to approach on behalf of the offense. Oh, yes,
that's why you approached me on the healt of the orphan. Well,
that's why I followed you. But once I'd seen you,
I'm afraid the whole thing went right out of my mind.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I don't understand that is.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Old fashioned, But now that our acquaintance is on a
more personal basis, I couldn't use it.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Now, I'm sorry I even told you about Nanda David.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I'm glad you did.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Let's just forget about it, shall we? Oh we shall not.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
In spite of your foolish civil rayal, whatever it is,
we shall not forget it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I insist on making the confidence.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You do, Yes, I do?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
How much money did you say the mission five thousand
pounds the agency and started rebuilding the orphans.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
But this makes me feel you're the ridiculous Harry.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Really get back to the concert now, when would I see?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
How about my ice? Advertised very well, I'll have the
money for you.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Think in a moment. Austin Wells returns as Harry Lye
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the Third Man, and now Uston well as Harry Lyme
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the Third Man, continues the day's story faith, lime and charity.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And I woke the next morning to find my breakfast
waiting for me. Evely, one of the native servants in Rodegua,
was a sleep on the tray. Under one of the dishes,
I found a note written in a strong hand which
said remember the little one, and I pushed the food
away from me. And that night I met Lady Edith
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at the Tajmahow once more. She gave me the packet
of bills, which I put in my pocket with a
few more protests, and we lingered on. She wore a
simple evening dress as a white scarf and grover her head.
You know, if the Kings are him could have seen
you nice, I think you would have forgotten about his Queen.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Forever, and then he wouldn't have built the towns and
which is all reporter, he would have built it for you.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I noticed someone coming to the gates at the fire
under the courtyard. Something about the slope of the shoulders
that familiar. As the figure approached, I saw that it
was Sir Ernest, Lady Edith's fiance. She rose to her feet, Anne,
what you're doing here? Anybody asked the same question, Ned,
come along?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Why don't you spoken to like a child? What does
this mean?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
It means that you're coming back to the concinate with me.
I'm eat of peace. You must come with me. I'd
explain everything later. Oh very well, learn ite. I think
it's rather rude out him.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Good night, mister Lyne, and I hope we'll meet again.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I hope she'll let eat it. Good night. And I
wish something was up now I had to do, would
get out of agra and fans. There's nothing to stand
in my way, nothing but a white turban native who
certainly appeared out of the shrubbery. You will come with
me from Are you a friend or the little one?
I'm very sorry, but I have some business to attend
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to do. Not force me to use this gun. Don't
know what you want of me. You will do as
I order.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
You will walk slowly through the gates. I will be
a few places behind you, with this gun hidden in
my cloak. You will not attempt to attract the guards
in any way. If you make one sign or one
move as you passed them, it will be the last
Buddhist thing you ever do. I'm moved to persuade by
the beard of the prophets.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Okay, okay, old man, go, I'll do as the native
came abreast of me. I expected it. Threw my weight
against him. It's the only advantage I had. MA life
was good, and they would fill out the five thousand pounds.
He was caught off balance. I grabbed the skinny wrist
and forced the gun out of his hand. But suddenly
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the other hand was holding a knife. Praise my cheek.
Don't how you would play. I use my head like
a battering ram and send him sprawling. No. Not A
second day after me, there was a white wall by
the roadway. I fallted over it. I was out of condition.
I got to my seat, and then I caught a
glimpse of something crouched on the top of the wall behind.
He jumped like a monkey and lad it on my back,
throwing me to the ground again. This time I was
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really out, but he didn't me down and thought, his
knees pressing into my ribs, and the cold steel of
his knife against the flesh of my neck.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
The soil on which you lie is holy soil.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
This is an ancient burying ground.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
I would not wish to desecreate it with the blood
of an infidel, but it is for the little one.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And we'll putting a well, wait, wait a minute, I'll
do what you want. He would come with me with
no purpose, struggle, yes, yes, anything you say. Just let
me out on your pitch and.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
Be quick if perhaps a kicking the rose will give
your speed, white dog out not quickly?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Why are you taking me?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Silence?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Okay, neither way between the tombs toward the ruined building
of the dingy Doom.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Hurry what is this the foreman and sah, it is
an ancient mosque?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Take off your shoes. Why take off your shoes. This
is a holy place. Ah. You take that knife away
from my ReBs. Now will I bring you to the
little one? I saw a faint, reddish glow from inside
the mask it as a lamp. How about smart figure,
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a woman's figure? She was wrapped in the women down
to the other side. What kind of creature is this?
We meet again, mister Lyon, Missus Harry, the missioner's wife.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
What are you doing here, Missus Haley? That was one
of the greatest parts I ever played. Your information, my friend,
Missus Haley is known by many names, from many people,
including the police.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
To my Indian friends, I am known as the little one. Oh.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
When I had to leave England, I decided that a
clever person could make a good living from rich white tourists.
I came to Nanda Debbi a few days ago and
heard about the orphans and the fire. My native spies
already had Lady Edith under observation.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
This was too good a chance to miss.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And so you paused as Missus Halle, and used me
to work for you exactly, my friend.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I knew enough about Lady Edith's personal life to feel
that an attractive gentleman would have a better chance than
an old woman, and so I used you.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You have a fascinating mind, Annie, whatever your name is.
I think we might get along.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Have a good laughtness TONI, and it will be your
last one.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
What do you mean your usefulness to.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Me has ended?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I want the five thousand pounds you collected from Lady Edith.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Oh yes, I know the exact amount you asked her for.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
One of my men cleaned your table last night at
the International Bar.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Everything you said was reported to me.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh yeah, quite an operator, honey, that's we can make
a deal.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
We will make no deal.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You will give me the five thousand pounds. If I don't,
will kill you, and if I give you the money,
willingly kill you.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I leave no loose ends.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
When I finished a job, mister line, your body will
not be discovered the other days.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
By that time I'll be gone.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I time, we've wasted enough time. Hand over the money.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
And she'd been talking. The feel of a cold, slimy
stone under my bare feet gave me an idea. It
was a last desperate chance.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
The money.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
If you please help, Michael, it's a She dropped the
lamb and the confusion. I broke away from Usterfa, but
not before his knife had slipped my shoulder. I ran
across the courtyard holding a wound, the stones cutting my feet.
The old woman's hysterics, and most of his curse is
still ringing in my ears. I don't remember where I ran,
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or even how I ran. All I remember is sinking
to the ground behind an old two woman, lying while
most of his footsteps ran by. I waited until everything
was quiet, perhaps minutes, that's how, I don't know, dragged
myself up fine in found my way somewhow back to
the road. I was free. I had the money. Now.
All I had to do was get away from Agra
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as far away as I could get. Hand fast and
pain in my shoulder was like fire, and my coat
sleeve was covered with blood. My feet were bruised, but
I ran pain sword. It seems as if I were
running down a hill that got.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Steep and steep.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
At the severn I went Finally I reached the bottom,
and then everything went black. When I woke, the Agra
police was standing around me. I tried to sit up,
and there seemed to be a great weight on my shoulder.
I remembered about my arm and bandaged. Sorry, the pain
came back. Policemen were talking if there was another voice
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I'd heard somewhere before. Since man is the impossible to know.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
He collected five thousand pounds from my fields and for
Missus Heley for the.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Mission at Tandadi. I checked for the mission and following
Missus Helen has been dead. Fory just he's officials criminal.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I had a minute and I let him explain. That's all.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
There isn't orf at Landadevia, and there was a file
a few days ago.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I don't be a fool it just because you developed
some sort of ridiculous intenuation with me.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I must make out a report. When did you first
see this man? Lady?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
His eyes are open.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Let him talk.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Mister NaNs had it?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
What happened? I told Lady Edith and the police the truth,
more or less the truth. I told him I'd met
the woman on the train who claimed to missus halland
and taken in by an innocent tool in her hands,
and all the rest of it. Lady Edith believed my story.
Couldn't tell HI about the policeman. He straightened up and
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spoke to another office and bring in the prison. The
other policeman returned in a minute to the trail little figure.
She glared at me. Is this the woman you met
on the train, mister lyon All? Yes, she's the one
you and How did you know I felt that.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Way about snakes?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I took a chair, say I took a chair. Take
it away.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
You can't do this to me.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I'm a British subject.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He says, you're the sin he tried to do the other.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
How vouch for mister l character.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There's no need for that, Ladys. What do you mean, inspector.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
I mean that we're very indebted to you already, mister Lyme.
We picked this woman up on suspicion tonight. We've been
watching it a long time, but we never had any
conclusive evidence against that. Now you've given us the tattle
money we need, howling and a AliOS, A little wonderlist
missus Hallie, weren't be troubling wealthy tourists send me.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Longer, No, Harry, what a dreadful experience for me to
be the innocent victim of that wretched woman. I know
you never would have forgiven yourself she'd got a hold
of my money.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
No, yeah, quite right, I never would have forgiven right.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
So thanks for you. The money's quite safe.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Inspect a sound attack in your coat and returned it
to me.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
No oh oh fine, I knew a big glad to
hear it.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
And now I have a surprise for you that will
make all this trouble as you'll seem worthwhile.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
You're coming to New Delhi with.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Me next week.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And so, ladies and gentlemen of the Men's Board of
Northern India, it gives me great pleasure, on behalf of
your well known benefactor, Lady Edith ban and Murdock, to
present the Reverend doctor Halle with this check for five
thousand pounds. The restoration of the orphanage is Vanda Debbie,
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Doctor Halle, your check Carroy Lime returns in just a month.
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And now, Harry Lime, I suppose it's true that every
tale has a moral, even when the tale concerns Harry Lime.
A friend of mine supplied the moral of this one.
The other day. Just got back from India, and he
told me that he'd seen the new Orphanagered Nanda DEVII,
complete with foundation stone, which he assures me bears the
words in grateful tribute to Harry lyme philanthropist. Nicely tired too,
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he told me, and rather appropriately, with a cold chisels
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exact station at an