May 22, 2025 • 27 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 (00:22):
Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man, The lives of
Harry Lyon, the fabulous stories of the immortal character, originally
created in the motion picture of The Third Man with
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zither music by Anton Carris. That was the shot that
killed Harry Lyon. He died in a sewer beneath the enna.
And those of you know we saw the movie The
Third Man. Yes, that was the end of harry Line,
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but it was not the beginning. We had many lines.
I can tell you about all of them, how because
my name is Harry Lane and now Orson Wells as
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Harry Lyme the third Man. In today's story, the Golden Fleet,
it's a queer story, no matter how you look at
It begins with a bullfight. It ends with a naval
engagement on Vagina Sea. There's a woman, and of course
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have another drink, all right, if you are two gin
things for him, two things. It all started in the
little seaport of alger Cirrus. Like every other town in Spain,
there's a bull ring. I don't know how you feel
about bull fights, but if it's Sunday in Spain, it
will hardly stay away from them. A bullfighter is to
Spain when an opera is to Italy, it's the only
thing in the country that's starting on time. I'd been
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dawdling over my shell fish and beer, so when I
got into the second Fightina Soldadido was in the ring.
He was younger than and braver than he is now.
But I've never been one of his fans. Too much
ballet dancing for me, and I'm not bullfighting with I
won't go into that. I could talk about the corridor
all night that I promised you a story about adventure
on the high season the beginning. Right now, Saltadido is
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dedicating the bull. He is paying this compliment to the
lady who is seated next to me. For the first time.
I glance at her, and the glance freezes into a stair.
She has very dark red hair, very pale ivory skin,
and very bright yellow eyes, I mean really yellow, like
a cat's. I won't dwell on an I'd like to,
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but I won't. So if I have to say that
this kid could stop traffic on the Indianapolis Speedway, the
bullfighter turns, tosses his hat to her in the classical
gesture over the shoulder, and moves out into the sunlight
toward the bull. As far as I'm concerned, the bullfighter.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Is over and you must watch studying signor m I
beg your pardon. It is very pleasant to feel your
eye upon me. I have all been scare that. But
just now, don't you think it's a bit disrespectful to
our friends.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All that he's a good friend of yours singer to
permit me to inform you that he is my enemy?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's very grateful. I think that was also a grateful speech.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I didn't hear it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I do not mean it's the detention of the boot
you mean. No, I mean your little speech just now
about his being your enemy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
He's my friend aspect I had dot it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When many fights over me.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Senior, fighting over you be a pleasure. When do I begin?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Whenever you like?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Shall I take on the man of the ball.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I think you need not bother about the bulls look
so that it was about to make the kills. That
was a beautiful kill, wasn't it? Mis said, what is
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your name?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Lying? Harry? Lying? Yeah? Good killed?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I will call you Harry. The bull needed like a
penitent at his feet. The beasts seemed to be asking
the to dios.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Partner should have been the other way around.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You are already jealous.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I adore that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Still you must admit it was a glorious killer. Tell me, Harry,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And I just I'm just looking around?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And what are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't need to look any longer. I found it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You make very prety little speeches.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I adore that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
What is your profession?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The export to the import? Mostly I dabble in a
lot of things.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Why and I had allowed myself to hope you were
a sailor.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I have been a sailor.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Will that you have to have master's papers? I'm here
with my yachts.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Perhaps you have seen it in the heart, the three
master with a black hole.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's mine. We've lost our captain. It happened quite suddenly.
I'm very sorry. You're not a ship's captain. I would
like to see you in the blue jackets with the
gold bucket.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Would you believe that I was a ship's cap I
do not believe it. But I have master's papers in Barcelona.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh that is a bar because we are leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, I have suddenly bring them down by train tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
In other words, you want to tell you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
In other words, I've got the job. I needed that
job too much, and of course she knew it. I
don't say she didn't like me, but there wasn't any
doubt of it. That season, I was a little afraid
about the steams. I found a friend of mine afod
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job in Barcelona and made arrangements to cook up some
papers for me, and rushing down that night to the coast.
Then I changed into my best shirt the other one,
and went to the best restaurant. She told me she
was going after the bull friend. Good evening, Good evening.
I am sorry, but I just realize something. I don't
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know your name. You do not know the lady's name.
You know, of course he knows me, or Spain knows me.
I what is this man doing a top paper? He
doesn't know us? All right, O, man, you can fix
that and produces.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I am the battle's from Gernified, but you will call
me Nadia.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, idea. The next morning I had the forged papers
and the captain's job safely in my pocket. Truth was,
of course, that I had never been a sailor in
my life. Unless you come to work. I had to
do as a deckhand when I found me he stowed
away on a shortshire from Alexandria to Naples. But I
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needed that job there, and after one look into those
huge cats yellow eyes, I would have jumped at any
job she offered, whether I needed to or not. You
like the ship hard, She's a beauty.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The steward will take your leggs Jr. Cabin right now.
You'll be needed on deck to superintendent the past.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And by the way, where we're going to China? Now, Jasira,
Spain to Hong Kong, China. That's quite a run for
an old salt whose only experience as a navigator consisted
of piloting a canoe around the shallow end of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin.
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Luckily I thought to bring along a little help. The
help's name, of all things in the world was Sydney Carton.
He was an ex smuggler, rather an unemployed smuggler. I'd
run into Sydney occasionally andreas little capers in and around
the Mediterranean, and I figured he was crooked enough so
I could trust him. His main attraction, besides a shock
of dirty carrot colored hair and a glass eye with
a set of teeth like a rotten rake. Sydney was
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the only man I ever knew could eat a tomato
through a ziffer. But if Sydney was an eyesore, he
was a gift from heaven. As far as Captain Lyne
was concerned. He was a real sailor, remember, and he
covered up for me, doing all the real work while
I walked around in my blue jacket with the gold buttons,
trying to look important. Actually Sydney wasn't doing this for love,
but since I didn't have any money, I found it
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necessary to make him a few promises. I tell you, Sydney,
this isn't a yacht at all. Of course it's a yacht. Ye.
This is a pleasure, pure and simple, and there's nothing
in it. First I told you we were carrying contraband,
old man, and I'll move it. What kind of contraband? Dope?
Don't be a fool, Eddie, Nobody smuggles. Don't into China.
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We're going off around the world just for the fun
of it, and that ain't any fun. Why had I
been signed on? So few questions asked? Why had we
left so quickly? Above all, what had happened to the
original captain? It was queer enough all right, But I
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was not telling Sydney the truth when I claimed that
this was not a pleasure cruise. It was a pleasure,
to believe me. And one night's quite lady muster been
because I remember the morn town Hm. I was up
on definishing Addie. You're still a man. I want to
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talk to you. You found it? How did you find
the contra bed under the floorboards?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I know what we're carrying now, erie, and it had
knock your eye out. Amazing, that's what it is. Amazing, Okay, okay, Oh,
I've got a.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Whole lot to spill out it a whole lot. Maybe
I ought to begin with the explosives. Explosives very powerful.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
They are eerie enough to blow this ship to China.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So that's not the contra bed.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
But let me ask you this, Eddie. Did you ever
notice that glass box in the child house with a
sign over it? That's his emergency. I don't heard.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Something go on. And I also found out about the
Captain Erry.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Do you know who you are?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Said to one thing at a time? For he was
a naval officer. For it that olver the iron Mighty
Mackey Mackey, the Nazi Navy. He was and you know
he's not.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Come into that. But the captain's name, Ry was von
keerniy Gra That Terry he was her husband is a
ram go if ever I see.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
One, now you take it, You take them, and I
want to hear it. I can't laugh it off, Erry
Treasure will. It just ain't funny. These explosives are all
wided up and said to go away. This isn't a ship.
It's a bomb and it's for what we're listens. Stay there,
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I'll be back in a second. Hello, Hello, Nagia.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's too hot to sleep, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
M hm? Really hard?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Or keep me come hey, honey, lonely?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
When I finally got to my own cabin it was dawn.
Didn't there go looking for Sydney and anyway? I was
bone tired because let me sleep for more than an hour? Yes, yes,
what is it? It's Mattis what do you want? We're
inside the land in the old cour don't bother me
a Sydney. You know it is the cause? Yes, please
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captain aspeak you okay, okay, now then what is it?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's cotton.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I want to talk to you about your what's wrong? Well,
I hardly know how to tell you, sir, but he's
gone gone. Yes, we've searched everywhere very thoroughly, but there's
no doubt Pulsa, mister Cotton is not in this ship.
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Orson Wells returns in just a moment as the third Man,
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and now Orson Wells as the third Man, continues with
today's story, the Golden Fleece, and I still don't know
how we made it in before it. The trick was
to keep that second mate from guessing that I couldn't
tell the poop from a boss with it, and also
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to keep all of us from crashing into a reef
for turning upside down or something. Luckily, a little boat
came out to meet us with the harbor pilot scenes
that's the regular procedure. I was very grateful, I can
tell you to be spared the embarrassment of having to
swim for it. But it's a long haul from Hong Kong,
China to Panama City, and much as I liked Naja's company,
I think I would have quit the job if I
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hadn't managed to make a deal with Young Matthew's the
second mate. I showed him some papers I had to
have proving I was a secret operator from the FBI,
and explained that he had to cover up for me
the way Carton had been doing before. And by the
time we got out of the canal on the Pacific end,
I had everything pretty much under control. Drag another drink,
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alloex Please go on, mister Lime, Hanry Lime. You see,
I've got a reason for this. Sinning is young. We'll
come to that in a minute. What's happened to Corton Sydney?
Nobody ever saw him again? Now I'll skip the Pacific
crossing now because nothing very important happened to us till
we got to China, unless you'd like you us more
about his yellow eyes of Nan Green. What's happened to
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Voluntinic Valves, the lady's husband. I'm coming that though, Man,
just a second, guy, I finished the drink. Okay, Well,
it was late in March when we sided Hong Kong.
I'd learned how to imitate a sea captain by then,
but I was more than a little anxious about my papers.
Had been a nasty moment or two in Tahiti, and
I was afraid the British had thort of this, might
spot the forgery and might even have gotten some wireless
message about me by then, but I still didn't know
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the purpose of the trip. You understand, Sydney hadn't gotten
around to telling me about what the contraband was before
he disappeared, So my curiosity got the better of me
as usual, and I stayed with the ship with the
people coming alongside on the portfol can't as a pilot.
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We've already taken him on the harp of police. Eh.
Isn't good?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You know the speedboat his mind a bretmership with anchrist
mister mensis. Please, the captain and I are leaving.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now we are Where are we going?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I know?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Good question?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Okay, now, but you have to answered my question.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
There'll be plenty of time for that on the way.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, we've been riding up river from Hong Kong for
a but half hours, so far out. You took it
into a beautiful head to start talking.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm taking you to meet a very important man, Harry
h you'd better know his name.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's General Way Chinaman.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He is Chinese. Yes, General Way was governor of one
of the largest southern provinces, but of course.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That was well, we're meeting him. I think the mainland
be too hot for him now.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So General will be waiting for us on the journey,
of course, a Chinese boat. I hope you're hungry, because
there's bound to be quite a I.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Can you say we've come halfway around the world to
keep a dinner engagement with a Chinese warlord.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh, it has been a very serious mission, Harry. And
before you meet the General, I think you should know
the truth. The General is turning to retrieve the lost
PROVINTI Luckily he is a wealthy man and had many
investments in Tangiers. It was my mission to bring him
some of his wealth, which would be needed in the
coming war. I think you have guessed what happened to
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the batons one.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Kind of plane. Yes, I think I think the Baton
had a wife, and I think his wife bumped him off.
All right, honey, please call me Nadie. Okay, I think
Nadia bumped him off.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
He was a greedy man. I had reason to suspect
that he planned to take part of the gold for himself. Yes, Harry,
gold boughs purchased in Tangiers. That's why I couldn't tell
you earlier. It would have been too much of a
temptation the ship is lying this good half a million
dollars worth.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know those Chinese ships and the ones that look
like some kind of cross between a Spanish galleon and
a floating chopsyway door. The reason we came out to
the biggest and gaudiest on the river. We were helped
on board with a whole lot of Oriental fans, and
I gathered that in a minute we were going to
be presented to his nibs, the warlord himself. Not yet. Yes,
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it's just one thing I don't understand. No matter what
price the old boy pays for that gold you brought him,
I can't can't see why you bothered to Cardie all
the way across the Pacific. If you just told me before,
I could have made a very nice deal for you
in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I did not bring the gold here for the prophet.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Harry.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah he comes, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
A thousand welcome, Welcome to you, great one, Oh my gratitude.
This is general way, mister Harry Lyon, Harry, may I
present my father.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You've heard about sharks, fins and birdness too, but I'll
bet you never knew a Chinese banquet can last seven
and a half hours. Oh this one did with eating
all the way?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
May I appear some more rice wine?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Captain Line, I'm afraid I've had too much already. General.
I know this may sound a little rude, but I
kind of wondering, is he is not? You really your daughter?
She is my only child. That's funny, she doesn't look
for her Chinese.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Nadia's mother was a white passion refugee. I met her
and chief fool and made the mistake.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Of marrying her.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Nadia, However, there is no mistake.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
She's my very precious jewel, miss Aligne, and I thank
you for taking such good care of her father.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's what's happened, Harry Bot.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
All that goes on it. It had vanished.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
While we were in there stuffing ourselves. Somebody had made
off with the yacht. Word came to wasard was going
downstream toward the open sea.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Why yours man?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Mess this boy? A certain maid. I should never have trusted,
I should never trust anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But if you'd gone on stabbing a ship's offices and
tossing him overboard, you would have ended up without any cruise.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
She's ahead of us and come about and prepared to
receive herself don't you get any more speed?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Weren't punching a hole in the floor as it is.
This is your last change. I'm about fire. They won't answer,
they will know fire. We had a dangerous looking gang
of hatchetman It was machine guns on our launch and
I put up a good show. It wasn't long before
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we were next to the yacht and I could see
a lot of damage. You can under the crew on board.
It wasn't my crew and the strangers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's easy you get such a storm over the side.
Come on, Harry, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Generally hit.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Your arse.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, here we go. No sooner will be on deck
than I meanlessing mangol. I haven't noticed before I happened
a shrouds bit off the end of the grenade and
threw it smack into our launch. Well, we have closed
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everybody on our side.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I guess this is it?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
No idea, yes, and yeah, this is monicheur Stone. I'm
not a wait a minute, you're not just husband happy
for me.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I was not as did as she thought I was.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
When she pushed me into the sun. You should have
remembered I'm a good swimmer.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Try your hands in the air, please, all three of
your hands. How did you get here by playing?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I couldn't guess your fall, and it was the easiest way.
I just flew to Hong Kong and wasted time. Are
you going to do? I am going to do unto
others as they would do unto me.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Captain, if you happen to remember.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Any prayers, you'd better start saying, I'm all three of you.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I would it, Kenny felt and tying it doesn't matter
about me, but Nadia, father, I'm your little child. Do
you imagine I would leave you now?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is all very nice and noble, But what about me?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's true, Harry? And this man has had nothing to
harm you. Let him swim from me.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
He knows about the gold, Nadia, and I prefer to
keep that as my own secret.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
He also knows about something else, don't you, Harry, Captain?
Talk about it tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I keep telling me.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
There's a tiny glass window here by my hand. Cortin
explained it to you. I heard him. The science says
for emergency owners. Remember what he said, Harry, this isn't
a ship.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's a bomb. Thanks Nadia.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That he's a good swimmer too. Goodbye, Harry, will give
me a father with the steel about. I still wear it,
but enough to break a pint glass. Goodbye, Harry, he's
too far.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Away to hear.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He will hear this. Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Sampan picked me up, But I almost drowned myself first
thinking about all that gold half a million dollars, whether
it's going down at the bottom of the sea. Have
another James Lane. Thanks again, mister Lime. Well that's the story.
Here's why I told it you. I'm on the spot
where this happens. I've got it marked exactly on the map,
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crossed about twenty thousand pounds to do the salvage. But
that story is a pretty big margin of proper and
I just wondered if you'll be interested, sir in investing.
Mister Lime, I wonder if you know who I am. Well, no, no, man,
not exactly. I'm a lord constable and chief of police
in this colony. We have a food doss here on
your activities as a confidence man, and I thought i'd
let you tell your tale because I wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
To know how you work lying that salvit wreck.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It's the oldest of all the old skin games. I'm
surprised that you're trying it on anybody, at least of
all the policemen. Good night now, and by the way,
we'd be much happier. Yeah, if you leave town within
the next twenty four hours, that is.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Another jin slings.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
No, just give me the check. Harry Lyon returns in
just a moment. No, Harry Lott. Well, friends, and I
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think you understand why I don't like telling that story.
Wherever I tell it to usually turns out to be
a cop. That is the worst of it. The worst
of it is true.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Well tip fips exact ex exctation extended to expected expected
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expect
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Contact EXCESSI
Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man, The lives of
Harry Lyon, the fabulous stories of the immortal character, originally
created in the motion picture of The Third Man with
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zither music by Anton Carris. That was the shot that
killed Harry Lyon. He died in a sewer beneath the enna.
And those of you know we saw the movie The
Third Man. Yes, that was the end of harry Line,
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but it was not the beginning. We had many lines.
I can tell you about all of them, how because
my name is Harry Lane and now Orson Wells as
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Harry Lyme the third Man. In today's story, the Golden Fleet,
it's a queer story, no matter how you look at
It begins with a bullfight. It ends with a naval
engagement on Vagina Sea. There's a woman, and of course
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have another drink, all right, if you are two gin
things for him, two things. It all started in the
little seaport of alger Cirrus. Like every other town in Spain,
there's a bull ring. I don't know how you feel
about bull fights, but if it's Sunday in Spain, it
will hardly stay away from them. A bullfighter is to
Spain when an opera is to Italy, it's the only
thing in the country that's starting on time. I'd been
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dawdling over my shell fish and beer, so when I
got into the second Fightina Soldadido was in the ring.
He was younger than and braver than he is now.
But I've never been one of his fans. Too much
ballet dancing for me, and I'm not bullfighting with I
won't go into that. I could talk about the corridor
all night that I promised you a story about adventure
on the high season the beginning. Right now, Saltadido is
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dedicating the bull. He is paying this compliment to the
lady who is seated next to me. For the first time.
I glance at her, and the glance freezes into a stair.
She has very dark red hair, very pale ivory skin,
and very bright yellow eyes, I mean really yellow, like
a cat's. I won't dwell on an I'd like to,
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but I won't. So if I have to say that
this kid could stop traffic on the Indianapolis Speedway, the
bullfighter turns, tosses his hat to her in the classical
gesture over the shoulder, and moves out into the sunlight
toward the bull. As far as I'm concerned, the bullfighter.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Is over and you must watch studying signor m I
beg your pardon. It is very pleasant to feel your
eye upon me. I have all been scare that. But
just now, don't you think it's a bit disrespectful to
our friends.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All that he's a good friend of yours singer to
permit me to inform you that he is my enemy?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's very grateful. I think that was also a grateful speech.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I didn't hear it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I do not mean it's the detention of the boot
you mean. No, I mean your little speech just now
about his being your enemy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
He's my friend aspect I had dot it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When many fights over me.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Senior, fighting over you be a pleasure. When do I begin?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Whenever you like?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Shall I take on the man of the ball.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I think you need not bother about the bulls look
so that it was about to make the kills. That
was a beautiful kill, wasn't it? Mis said, what is
(05:06):
your name?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Lying? Harry? Lying? Yeah? Good killed?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I will call you Harry. The bull needed like a
penitent at his feet. The beasts seemed to be asking
the to dios.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Partner should have been the other way around.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You are already jealous.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I adore that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Still you must admit it was a glorious killer. Tell me, Harry,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And I just I'm just looking around?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And what are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't need to look any longer. I found it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You make very prety little speeches.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I adore that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
What is your profession?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The export to the import? Mostly I dabble in a
lot of things.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Why and I had allowed myself to hope you were
a sailor.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I have been a sailor.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Will that you have to have master's papers? I'm here
with my yachts.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Perhaps you have seen it in the heart, the three
master with a black hole.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's mine. We've lost our captain. It happened quite suddenly.
I'm very sorry. You're not a ship's captain. I would
like to see you in the blue jackets with the
gold bucket.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Would you believe that I was a ship's cap I
do not believe it. But I have master's papers in Barcelona.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh that is a bar because we are leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, I have suddenly bring them down by train tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
In other words, you want to tell you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
In other words, I've got the job. I needed that
job too much, and of course she knew it. I
don't say she didn't like me, but there wasn't any
doubt of it. That season, I was a little afraid
about the steams. I found a friend of mine afod
(06:39):
job in Barcelona and made arrangements to cook up some
papers for me, and rushing down that night to the coast.
Then I changed into my best shirt the other one,
and went to the best restaurant. She told me she
was going after the bull friend. Good evening, Good evening.
I am sorry, but I just realize something. I don't
(07:01):
know your name. You do not know the lady's name.
You know, of course he knows me, or Spain knows me.
I what is this man doing a top paper? He
doesn't know us? All right, O, man, you can fix
that and produces.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I am the battle's from Gernified, but you will call
me Nadia.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, idea. The next morning I had the forged papers
and the captain's job safely in my pocket. Truth was,
of course, that I had never been a sailor in
my life. Unless you come to work. I had to
do as a deckhand when I found me he stowed
away on a shortshire from Alexandria to Naples. But I
(07:36):
needed that job there, and after one look into those
huge cats yellow eyes, I would have jumped at any
job she offered, whether I needed to or not. You
like the ship hard, She's a beauty.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The steward will take your leggs Jr. Cabin right now.
You'll be needed on deck to superintendent the past.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And by the way, where we're going to China? Now, Jasira,
Spain to Hong Kong, China. That's quite a run for
an old salt whose only experience as a navigator consisted
of piloting a canoe around the shallow end of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin.
(08:16):
Luckily I thought to bring along a little help. The
help's name, of all things in the world was Sydney Carton.
He was an ex smuggler, rather an unemployed smuggler. I'd
run into Sydney occasionally andreas little capers in and around
the Mediterranean, and I figured he was crooked enough so
I could trust him. His main attraction, besides a shock
of dirty carrot colored hair and a glass eye with
a set of teeth like a rotten rake. Sydney was
(08:38):
the only man I ever knew could eat a tomato
through a ziffer. But if Sydney was an eyesore, he
was a gift from heaven. As far as Captain Lyne
was concerned. He was a real sailor, remember, and he
covered up for me, doing all the real work while
I walked around in my blue jacket with the gold buttons,
trying to look important. Actually Sydney wasn't doing this for love,
but since I didn't have any money, I found it
(08:58):
necessary to make him a few promises. I tell you, Sydney,
this isn't a yacht at all. Of course it's a yacht. Ye.
This is a pleasure, pure and simple, and there's nothing
in it. First I told you we were carrying contraband,
old man, and I'll move it. What kind of contraband? Dope?
Don't be a fool, Eddie, Nobody smuggles. Don't into China.
(09:20):
We're going off around the world just for the fun
of it, and that ain't any fun. Why had I
been signed on? So few questions asked? Why had we
left so quickly? Above all, what had happened to the
original captain? It was queer enough all right, But I
(09:42):
was not telling Sydney the truth when I claimed that
this was not a pleasure cruise. It was a pleasure,
to believe me. And one night's quite lady muster been
because I remember the morn town Hm. I was up
on definishing Addie. You're still a man. I want to
(10:06):
talk to you. You found it? How did you find
the contra bed under the floorboards?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I know what we're carrying now, erie, and it had
knock your eye out. Amazing, that's what it is. Amazing, Okay, okay, Oh,
I've got a.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Whole lot to spill out it a whole lot. Maybe
I ought to begin with the explosives. Explosives very powerful.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
They are eerie enough to blow this ship to China.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So that's not the contra bed.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
But let me ask you this, Eddie. Did you ever
notice that glass box in the child house with a
sign over it? That's his emergency. I don't heard.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Something go on. And I also found out about the
Captain Erry.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Do you know who you are?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Said to one thing at a time? For he was
a naval officer. For it that olver the iron Mighty
Mackey Mackey, the Nazi Navy. He was and you know
he's not.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Come into that. But the captain's name, Ry was von
keerniy Gra That Terry he was her husband is a
ram go if ever I see.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
One, now you take it, You take them, and I
want to hear it. I can't laugh it off, Erry
Treasure will. It just ain't funny. These explosives are all
wided up and said to go away. This isn't a ship.
It's a bomb and it's for what we're listens. Stay there,
(11:45):
I'll be back in a second. Hello, Hello, Nagia.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's too hot to sleep, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
M hm? Really hard?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Or keep me come hey, honey, lonely?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
When I finally got to my own cabin it was dawn.
Didn't there go looking for Sydney and anyway? I was
bone tired because let me sleep for more than an hour? Yes, yes,
what is it? It's Mattis what do you want? We're
inside the land in the old cour don't bother me
a Sydney. You know it is the cause? Yes, please
(12:31):
captain aspeak you okay, okay, now then what is it?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's cotton.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I want to talk to you about your what's wrong? Well,
I hardly know how to tell you, sir, but he's
gone gone. Yes, we've searched everywhere very thoroughly, but there's
no doubt Pulsa, mister Cotton is not in this ship.
(13:04):
Orson Wells returns in just a moment as the third Man,
(13:53):
and now Orson Wells as the third Man, continues with
today's story, the Golden Fleece, and I still don't know
how we made it in before it. The trick was
to keep that second mate from guessing that I couldn't
tell the poop from a boss with it, and also
(14:14):
to keep all of us from crashing into a reef
for turning upside down or something. Luckily, a little boat
came out to meet us with the harbor pilot scenes
that's the regular procedure. I was very grateful, I can
tell you to be spared the embarrassment of having to
swim for it. But it's a long haul from Hong Kong,
China to Panama City, and much as I liked Naja's company,
I think I would have quit the job if I
(14:34):
hadn't managed to make a deal with Young Matthew's the
second mate. I showed him some papers I had to
have proving I was a secret operator from the FBI,
and explained that he had to cover up for me
the way Carton had been doing before. And by the
time we got out of the canal on the Pacific end,
I had everything pretty much under control. Drag another drink,
(14:54):
alloex Please go on, mister Lime, Hanry Lime. You see,
I've got a reason for this. Sinning is young. We'll
come to that in a minute. What's happened to Corton Sydney?
Nobody ever saw him again? Now I'll skip the Pacific
crossing now because nothing very important happened to us till
we got to China, unless you'd like you us more
about his yellow eyes of Nan Green. What's happened to
(15:17):
Voluntinic Valves, the lady's husband. I'm coming that though, Man,
just a second, guy, I finished the drink. Okay, Well,
it was late in March when we sided Hong Kong.
I'd learned how to imitate a sea captain by then,
but I was more than a little anxious about my papers.
Had been a nasty moment or two in Tahiti, and
I was afraid the British had thort of this, might
spot the forgery and might even have gotten some wireless
message about me by then, but I still didn't know
(15:38):
the purpose of the trip. You understand, Sydney hadn't gotten
around to telling me about what the contraband was before
he disappeared, So my curiosity got the better of me
as usual, and I stayed with the ship with the
people coming alongside on the portfol can't as a pilot.
(15:58):
We've already taken him on the harp of police. Eh.
Isn't good?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You know the speedboat his mind a bretmership with anchrist
mister mensis. Please, the captain and I are leaving.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now we are Where are we going?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I know?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Good question?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Okay, now, but you have to answered my question.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
There'll be plenty of time for that on the way.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, we've been riding up river from Hong Kong for
a but half hours, so far out. You took it
into a beautiful head to start talking.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm taking you to meet a very important man, Harry
h you'd better know his name.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's General Way Chinaman.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He is Chinese. Yes, General Way was governor of one
of the largest southern provinces, but of course.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That was well, we're meeting him. I think the mainland
be too hot for him now.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So General will be waiting for us on the journey,
of course, a Chinese boat. I hope you're hungry, because
there's bound to be quite a I.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Can you say we've come halfway around the world to
keep a dinner engagement with a Chinese warlord.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh, it has been a very serious mission, Harry. And
before you meet the General, I think you should know
the truth. The General is turning to retrieve the lost
PROVINTI Luckily he is a wealthy man and had many
investments in Tangiers. It was my mission to bring him
some of his wealth, which would be needed in the
coming war. I think you have guessed what happened to
(17:25):
the batons one.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Kind of plane. Yes, I think I think the Baton
had a wife, and I think his wife bumped him off.
All right, honey, please call me Nadie. Okay, I think
Nadia bumped him off.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
He was a greedy man. I had reason to suspect
that he planned to take part of the gold for himself. Yes, Harry,
gold boughs purchased in Tangiers. That's why I couldn't tell
you earlier. It would have been too much of a
temptation the ship is lying this good half a million
dollars worth.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know those Chinese ships and the ones that look
like some kind of cross between a Spanish galleon and
a floating chopsyway door. The reason we came out to
the biggest and gaudiest on the river. We were helped
on board with a whole lot of Oriental fans, and
I gathered that in a minute we were going to
be presented to his nibs, the warlord himself. Not yet. Yes,
(18:25):
it's just one thing I don't understand. No matter what
price the old boy pays for that gold you brought him,
I can't can't see why you bothered to Cardie all
the way across the Pacific. If you just told me before,
I could have made a very nice deal for you
in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I did not bring the gold here for the prophet.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Harry.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah he comes, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
A thousand welcome, Welcome to you, great one, Oh my gratitude.
This is general way, mister Harry Lyon, Harry, may I
present my father.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You've heard about sharks, fins and birdness too, but I'll
bet you never knew a Chinese banquet can last seven
and a half hours. Oh this one did with eating
all the way?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
May I appear some more rice wine?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Captain Line, I'm afraid I've had too much already. General.
I know this may sound a little rude, but I
kind of wondering, is he is not? You really your daughter?
She is my only child. That's funny, she doesn't look
for her Chinese.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Nadia's mother was a white passion refugee. I met her
and chief fool and made the mistake.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Of marrying her.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Nadia, However, there is no mistake.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
She's my very precious jewel, miss Aligne, and I thank
you for taking such good care of her father.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's what's happened, Harry Bot.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
All that goes on it. It had vanished.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
While we were in there stuffing ourselves. Somebody had made
off with the yacht. Word came to wasard was going
downstream toward the open sea.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Why yours man?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Mess this boy? A certain maid. I should never have trusted,
I should never trust anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But if you'd gone on stabbing a ship's offices and
tossing him overboard, you would have ended up without any cruise.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
She's ahead of us and come about and prepared to
receive herself don't you get any more speed?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Weren't punching a hole in the floor as it is.
This is your last change. I'm about fire. They won't answer,
they will know fire. We had a dangerous looking gang
of hatchetman It was machine guns on our launch and
I put up a good show. It wasn't long before
(20:38):
we were next to the yacht and I could see
a lot of damage. You can under the crew on board.
It wasn't my crew and the strangers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's easy you get such a storm over the side.
Come on, Harry, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Generally hit.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Your arse.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, here we go. No sooner will be on deck
than I meanlessing mangol. I haven't noticed before I happened
a shrouds bit off the end of the grenade and
threw it smack into our launch. Well, we have closed
(21:22):
everybody on our side.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I guess this is it?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
No idea, yes, and yeah, this is monicheur Stone. I'm
not a wait a minute, you're not just husband happy
for me.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I was not as did as she thought I was.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
When she pushed me into the sun. You should have
remembered I'm a good swimmer.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Try your hands in the air, please, all three of
your hands. How did you get here by playing?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I couldn't guess your fall, and it was the easiest way.
I just flew to Hong Kong and wasted time. Are
you going to do? I am going to do unto
others as they would do unto me.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Captain, if you happen to remember.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Any prayers, you'd better start saying, I'm all three of you.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I would it, Kenny felt and tying it doesn't matter
about me, but Nadia, father, I'm your little child. Do
you imagine I would leave you now?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is all very nice and noble, But what about me?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's true, Harry? And this man has had nothing to
harm you. Let him swim from me.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
He knows about the gold, Nadia, and I prefer to
keep that as my own secret.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
He also knows about something else, don't you, Harry, Captain?
Talk about it tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I keep telling me.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
There's a tiny glass window here by my hand. Cortin
explained it to you. I heard him. The science says
for emergency owners. Remember what he said, Harry, this isn't
a ship.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's a bomb. Thanks Nadia.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That he's a good swimmer too. Goodbye, Harry, will give
me a father with the steel about. I still wear it,
but enough to break a pint glass. Goodbye, Harry, he's
too far.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Away to hear.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He will hear this. Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Sampan picked me up, But I almost drowned myself first
thinking about all that gold half a million dollars, whether
it's going down at the bottom of the sea. Have
another James Lane. Thanks again, mister Lime. Well that's the story.
Here's why I told it you. I'm on the spot
where this happens. I've got it marked exactly on the map,
(23:27):
crossed about twenty thousand pounds to do the salvage. But
that story is a pretty big margin of proper and
I just wondered if you'll be interested, sir in investing.
Mister Lime, I wonder if you know who I am. Well, no, no, man,
not exactly. I'm a lord constable and chief of police
in this colony. We have a food doss here on
your activities as a confidence man, and I thought i'd
let you tell your tale because I wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
To know how you work lying that salvit wreck.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It's the oldest of all the old skin games. I'm
surprised that you're trying it on anybody, at least of
all the policemen. Good night now, and by the way,
we'd be much happier. Yeah, if you leave town within
the next twenty four hours, that is.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Another jin slings.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
No, just give me the check. Harry Lyon returns in
just a moment. No, Harry Lott. Well, friends, and I
(25:25):
think you understand why I don't like telling that story.
Wherever I tell it to usually turns out to be
a cop. That is the worst of it. The worst
of it is true.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Well tip fips exact ex exctation extended to expected expected
(27:10):
expect
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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