March 2, 2025 • 57 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Saints Overboard by Leslie Charts, dramatized by an evil teller,
with Paul Reese as the saint and Patsy Kensis as
Loretta Page.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
From the Waves. She rose in the dead of night,
like aphrodite in a green bathing cap, somewhere in the
depths of the yacht. My man Oris was snoring soundly,
but I'd been sleeping with the porthole open, and I
heard her coming. I slid out of bed and hauled
myself up the companionway overhead. According to the calendar, there
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was a full moon, but in one of those feakish
fits of temperament that sometimes strike the north coast of
France in early summer, banks of sea mist had rolled up.
And then I heard what sounded suspiciously like revolver shots
midnight dip.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I know it's a bit of a chief, but that
lord coming up behind I prefer him not to find me.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Say no more here, grab hold, get down below, and hi,
thank you so much. Lost. Something not exactly.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Seen anybod swimming around here by any chance.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
At this hour. Channel swimmers usually hit the beach further
east towards Calais.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
It's nothing like that just fun of our party took
on a silly bed.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
I expectedly have gone back. Thanks anyway, good bye, Johnny.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
What's troubling you experience?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Come out, come out wherever you are my mind, it's
a bit wet in the water tonight.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Just a little.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Try the bathroom brandy or hot coffee?
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Neither really? I think I'd better be getting back to
collect my bet.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ah, Yes, the bet pretty high stakes. If all that
shooting is anything to go by, at.
Speaker 8 (02:15):
Least use these towels.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
All right? For those shots, they were just part of
the make believe.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm rather partial to these games myself. They helped pass
the long evenings. Who did the shooting?
Speaker 7 (02:30):
The man who spoke to you from the dinghy?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Right, I'll be off, I don't think so.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You can't possibly try to swim across in this fog?
One hundred to one, you'd miss your boat.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
I'll run you back under no circumstances.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I won't go with you, you won't go without me.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Then, after here, have you thought what would happen if
I screamed? I could rouse half the harbor?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I dare say, sister, But if you stopped to consider,
what would happen. If I screamed, what well, this tub's
mine and your trespassing, you couldn't even claim I've invited
you on board. You're wearing a wet bathing costume AND's
very little els. I'm intrigued by that pouch on your waistband.
But let their pause. No people would ask why you
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suddenly decided to start screaming at half us three in
the morning. Besides which, this is a French port, and
the Frenchman have such a wonderful grip on the facts
of life.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
As you say, French juries are so understanding in cases
where a woman shoots her lover, stand back away over there.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, well, well so it was a gun. Now, I
may never know what sent you swimming through the fog
in the wee small hours with a gun on your belt,
but why not stay a night and shoot me after breakfast.
I won't complain.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Then, I promise you you've got a nerve.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'll give you that look from the brief gander I
had an old hook nose in the dinghy. He looked
like a man's job for me. I know you've got
what it takes, but these games can get pretty tough,
and I hate being jockeyed out of a good fight.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
I'm going now.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I don't think I'm afraid to shoot because I'm not
get out of the way.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well, if that's the way you feel about it, I'll
take that, Thank you very much, beast. I'm sorry kid.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
The oh damn you?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh oh, I'm the Retta Page.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's a nice name.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
And you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh, I have dozens. Simon Temple is the aly real one.
Some people call me the Saint st.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
You know.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
So you're this, I've read all about you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm flattened.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Oh, there's no need. It's only in the way of business.
I'm a detective.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Are you just where are the bracelets? No?
Speaker 9 (05:12):
Listen, you've done some stealing in your time, well with discretions.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, there's a racket running today that steals millions.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
It's been going for years.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I couldn't begin to guess how much money has been
taken out of it since it began.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I know, darling, but you can't do anything about it.
It's called income tax.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh, to be serious, Now have you heard of the lutin?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It sank, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
In seventeen ninety nine, with about a million pounds worth
of gold on board, The last attempt to salvage the
cargo was a couple of years ago. The Lautina Company
developed a special underwater sandsucker to clear the silt. The
only trouble was that the ship carrying it to the
wreck was blown sky high, and the explosion.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Wasn't an accident?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Is that it?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The same year, an American salvage ship went out to
search a wreck of Kate Charles the Marida, which sank
in nineteen eleven and took the Emperor Maximilian's Crown duel
to the bottom with her another million pound cargo. They
found the ship, but the cupboard was bare, and fish
don't wear jewelry.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I take it.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
There are others, Oh, yes, quite a few.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I could give you a list of ships known to
have sunk with bullion on board which have been located
and examined and found to be as clean as a whistle.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So this is what you're detecting.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm with the Ingerbeck Agency. We're on contract to Lloyd's.
We've been on this case for the last five years.
No Ingerbecks. The insurers have known for a long time
that there's some highly organized racket cheating them out of
six figures each year.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Dangerous word.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Oh it is. Three of our men have simply disappeared.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
One of them found a trail leading to Dina, but
we ran.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Up against a brick wall.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The men just couldn't get inside the racket. Well we reckon.
There's another way. There must be a top man, and
the odds are he's human.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Ah, so you came out here to be human with him.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I haven't succeeded so far. I've had dinner with him,
but I haven't been invited on board his boat. Tonight
I tried to get on board without an invitation.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And nearly got shot. For your pains. All very interesting,
but why tell me?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Just because you are who you are, I thought you
might be intrigued enough to become involved on the side
of the angels.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
For one could be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Two things. The name of the boat you wanted to
look at, the Falconberg, and the name of the boyfriend,
the bloke who passed.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
In the night, Kurt Fogel.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
How very appropriate. I'll call him Birdie when we get acquainted. Now,
when you're ready, I'll row you ashore and no arguments,
no argument, Well, I see you.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
How about the beach opposite the casino Plage de Lucouse.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mid morning on the beach, any developments.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Oh, good morning, you could say.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
So, I'm invited to dine with friend Fogel on the
falcon Burg.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You're not thinking of accepting, not up to last night?
Speaker 7 (08:41):
What part of last night?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm serious. Fogel might know his intruder was a woman.
It may be a trap, possible, and I'm.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Going all the same, and for a very good reason.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
There's a new salvage operation just about to set sail
on Falmers.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Do you remember the Chalson Castle disaster off the Channel Islands.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
A few months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That's it, five pounds in gold bullion aboard that ship
we reckon. Fogel will be staying somewhere close to Algny
before too long.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Even more necessary for keeping clear of him.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Maybe kat Fogel isn't as bad as he's painted. He
lets some lovely flowers with his invitation.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You watch out. He'll be falling for him next.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
I might well.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
When you're riding around in your roles half strangled with diamonds,
I hope the memory of your lost love comes back
to haunt you.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Oh, you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I hope, so enjoy the sun and the sea breezes.
I'm going in search of our mutual friend. I fancy
a chance meeting.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We meet again.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Good morning, Ah.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I'm pleased to see you. You've been on my conscience.
I hope you didn't think I was too unceremonious about
disturbing you last not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'd only just gone to bed.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Excuse me. This is the world famous professor Yule.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
How do you do?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
My name is Fugal When you join us, mister Tombs,
thank you. You're staying long.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I have no plans it. I'll stay until I get tied.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
In the place does not agree with everybody. Some people
find it definitely unhealthy.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Garson, monsieur, mister tools.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And Absence, thank you, and you professor U'll you must
find it quite relaxing after all the excitement. Oh you've
heard of me? Who hasn't? It must have been an amazing.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
Experience, fascinating and rather frightening, that's not to say uncomfortable.
Perhaps you don't know that the temperature of water falls
rapidly the further down you go. At five thousand feet
below the sea, it's only a few degrees above freezing.
I'm installing extra heating in my next battistall.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You're going down again, though I've only just started.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
I hope to get down twice as far with a
new model. And even that's nothing.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
If some of the.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Latest alloys turn out all right, we may be able
to have a look at the Cape Verde basement over
three thousand.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Fathoms, monsieur, and what do you hope to find?
Speaker 11 (11:08):
No information about depth currents for a start, and then
I'll be on the lookout for marine life and depths
never reached before. And I'm also hoping for some evidence
about Vaguaner's theory of continental drifts.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
An exciting program.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
Well, none of it would be possible without mister Vogel.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
My first descent ruined play.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Oh won't you have another?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I'm afraid we have an engagement next time. Perhaps, if
you're interested, you might like to come up with this
on a trial switch. It won't be very sensation, or
just to test for the new apparatus.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
In moderately deepfat I'd love to won't.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Be here, the water is too shallow. We're using the
herd deep and north of Alderney. We will be leaving
for Saint Peter pot in the morning, it's Claire to
join us.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, that sort of an imitation doesn't drive every.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Day, and we may be seeing you.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'll give you a shout in the morning as we
go by, see if you have made up your mind?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So old been? How was your weekend?
Speaker 12 (12:02):
Rockenson to ask our man has party at the cunninghams
Oh my god, rain solid it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
From we start to finishing. Nothing to enliven the proceeding.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
You know me, Peter, something turned up on Saturday nightmare.
You don't have to bury myself in Shropshire for the pleasure?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Have you stayed in?
Speaker 8 (12:17):
The flat?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Town can be just as boring as the country, Roger,
believe you me.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Let's be honest about it.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Life is boring without Simon?
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm missing about in his boat somewhere Dina. I think
I got a card last week over there, s Sons
and Horace.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Who could ask for anything more?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
At Peter Quintin, Hello, Peter Sport your uncle Simon here,
it's Simon, Speak up, old man. The line's ghastly. Roger's
here splendid two birds with one stone, I listen, didn't
you want to tell me? You had a respectable family.
It still is, and I'm the only one who's had
anything to do with you. An't of them know anything
about Lloyd. I was sort of cousin right. Dig him
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out and stage a reunion. Then find out whatever you
can about the child font Castle like a shuttle boy.
But are you sure you don't want an estate agent?
I don't, fat head. It's a wreck, not a ruin.
She sank somewhere near old only a few months ago.
I want you to find out precisely where she went down.
Get a chart and get the exact spot marked. Then
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send it to me at the post restaurant Saint Peter Port's,
Guernsey tonight. Name of toombs, name what toombs? Tooms as
in Toton Carmen, Oh toombs wall clear.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
As mad but Roger on Man, Hello, Silent, you're on
the war park again.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Possibly do you think you could buy me a nice
diving suit, Roger, one of the new self contained models
with oxygen tax Say you're representing a movie company and
you want it for an undersea epic.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
What's the racket?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No racket, Roger, I've just taken up submarine geology. Now,
if you bought that out of it this afternoon and
posted it off to me. Why didn't I bring it out?
Give me that phone? And why don't I bring out
the child? No? Send both partils. That's important. Understood? What understood?
But you can both come out to Gerby if you want.
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I might need a bit more muscles, so you'd better
make it two suits while you're at it. You tabs
can cut up at the Royal, but you're not to
recognize me unless I recognize you first. It may be
worth a point or two if the ungodly don't know
we're connected, so it's a deal.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Come in, Simon, by all, that's wonderful. What on earth
are you doing in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Calling on you? And not a moment too soon by
the look of things. Good afternoon, I hope I intrude Loretto.
Who is this guy? And how do you know he's
on the up and up?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I don't that he has a nice clean smile.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Who's the heart?
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Steve Murdoch meets Simon Templer, so this is him?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He always ingerbecks.
Speaker 13 (15:05):
That's right, okay, saint. I know you're tough, but keep
out of my hair. I've got a big job to do.
Been here, long lander at your bourg this morning? Did
you ask for Loretta at the desk?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What if I did see anyone? Sit up and take notice?
I didn't look.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Oh you should have.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
There was a bloke kicking his heels in a corner
with watchdog written all over him. I walked through with
my face buried in a newspaper. But he must have
seen you, So we're taking no chances. Then this proves
he's suspicious that you already. Now Steve here has rolled
up shouting your name. He'll be asking himself who is here?
What's he here for?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Mike?
Speaker 13 (15:43):
And look after myself.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm sure you can, dear old skunk, That's not the point.
Loretta's supposed to be all innocent and girlish charm. If
they think she's involved in any matahari business, she might
as well pack up and go home, That is, if
they let her.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
So.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So clean yourself up anything that connects you with Ingebec's
flush it down the toilet and then blow what that
moves skidrattle pass out into the night. Loretta can go
downstairs with you, and you can both act out a
fond farewell in the foyer, and then you beatle down
to the pier and catch the next ferry back to
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dear Old Blight here. Then take the first steamer you
can get to Saint peter Port in Guernsey. Hetz Wheth
Fogel will be tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
How do you know that?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He told me. I got into conversation before lunch.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
So we were right. It is the childon Castle's.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
After the real This guy wants me out of the
way for his own reasons, and I'll give you one guess.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
What they are, Steve, You're on your way today.
Speaker 13 (16:40):
I start taking orders from some fancy lieman.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
You ask, Steve, you're taking them from me the.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Saint's right orders.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
It's what I said until Martin Ingebec takes me off
this assignment. You do what I tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I just hope you won't live to a gret This
as for you. If anything happens to you will be
the first to know. Good afternoon coming, Loretta.
Speaker 13 (17:05):
We have some play acting to get through.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Give me a moment, Steve. I'll be right down.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'll leave while you're seeing Steve off. I can't risk
the foyer game, but I spotted a fire escape in
the corridor.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Must you go?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Not because I want to Loretta, but Vogel and his
crew ought to be seeing me get back to the Corsair.
I take it you still mean to go across to
the Falkenburg tonight. Absolutely did I dream the rest of
it after you'd gone last night?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
I don't know, Simon. What did you dream that you
came back to me? That's when the danger would really start.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I dream that you didn't think it too dangerous.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
But I am afraid, Simon, I'm scared to death.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh my darling, let's be scared together, and how keep
watch over you. I sat on board the Corsair and
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about half past seven watched the tender speed towards the Falkenburg,
with Fogel in evening dress sitting beside Loretta. I let
the dark deepen a little, then went below to get
into my swimming trunks, taking a leaf from Loretta's book
and fastening my automatic to the belt. The dark waters
received me without a sound, and a few minutes later
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the hull of the Falkenburg loomed ahead. As I climbed
on board, A door opened further up a deck, and
footsteps began to move towards me. In another second, I
was spread eagled on the deckhouse roof, peeping warily down
over the edge.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
This opens piece of deck is rather pleasant for sitting out.
We beg an awning over that boom if the sun
is too strong.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It must be marvelous to own a boat like that,
to be able to have you here.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
This is present. At other times it can be a
very lonely ownership.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
That must be your own choice.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It is.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I'm a rich man.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
If I told you how rich, you'd think I was exaggerating.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I could fill this boat a hundred times over with
electrical company generous. Millionaire is always attractive. I have never
done so. Do you know that you're the first woman.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Who set foot on this deck.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
I'm flattered.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
You have tempted me to be foolish. For years, I've
shut women out of my life. Who wants to be hurt?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
And yet what's wealth without women? I have broken the
rules of a lifetime to bring you here. Now I
want you to stay.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
You change your mind in the morning.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
You don't know me yet, Loretta like you. I look
facts in the face.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I know you're the kind of woman I can forget
to be cold with. Stay here, Stay, no, no, I
must have time, ask me again tomorrow. Moving tomorrow, we're
going to Saint Peter pot. I hoped you'd come with me.
You will come, monsieur.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Excuse me here for is it with someone trailing about
the ship again?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Well over on the support side there there, do you see?
Speaker 14 (20:18):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Yes, I think I can get himthing you're not going
to shoot him?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
See lying flat on the deckhouse roof. At first I
couldn't believe this report for Paula. Then I too saw
the shadow, and there was only one thing to do.
I stepped off the roof and fell on Fogel, one foot,
knocking the automatic out of his hand, and the other
striking flat souled at the side of his head. Fogel
staggered against the rail and fell to his knees. Loretta
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stared at me, half incredulous. I put my fingers to
my lips and kissed them out to her. Then, as
Fogel began to drag himself up, I launched myself into
the sea. As I broke surface, the canoe was moving
by me. I caught the gun. I thought I told
you to say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
I thought I told you I didn't take your orders.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They were Loretta's orders. Steve remember she's crazy too. I'm
staying right like I'm getting shot for it, and I
won't interfere next time I go this bog. What's more,
zero skunk, you're putting Loretta in danger, says you. That's
something I won't alast this bog, and so I will.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
Man once you're in here with the name?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Is he well? URIs old bean? I describe it as
a sort of detective unsavory looking object, isn't it? He
did not yet he's doing his best. I don't expect
he'll feel too happy when he wakes up. Let's get
him below and see.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Oh marry Jim, sir, he's a crowd down him stairs.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Right you are, lay on macduff.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Oh my again, head?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
What the hell is this just another boat? Stephen on
your left, the port side on your right, the starboard up,
there's the sharp end. You can it? Why'd you bring
me here for a brief chat? Now? Do please try
to get it through that thick scull of yours. I
don't give two hoots how soon you have your funeral.
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But Loretta's your only chance of getting to the bottom
of Fogels little racket, and you're in danger of blowing it.
That's what you'd like to believe. For crying out loud
your nome thanks to your brilliant strategy of tearing into
the Hotel de la Mare and shouting for Loretta at
the top of your boys. The bloke who was saluting
her this afternoon knows your face. If he'd seen you
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tonight during your little escapade, that would have been that
for Loretta anyway, And.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
You feel like a father toy.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Now that's my business, I'll.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Say it is.
Speaker 13 (23:02):
I know you, sink. You're as crooked as a corkscrew.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
You're in this.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Racket for what you can get out of it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Dinghy approaching so ah, Oris, not a moment too soon.
Do you think you could trust this object up and
dispose of it? Keep it quiet and well out of
the way if you're.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Gonna tie it?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Hey, what the show you just give me? You, Melissa,
that's all you'll have. I'm afraid we'll be having some
unwelcome guests. Short lift orrishold bean. It's up to you.
Bye bye, Steve, must love you and leave you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Corsir ahoy to you.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hello there, mister.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Fogel the color wall for a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Of course, Now let me give you a hand.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I'm afraid this is the most un silly for a.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Visit, not at all. I never go to bed very early.
Come down to the saloon, sure, Now what will you
have to drink?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Orris?
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I only called to see if you've decided about tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, yes, I would rather like to come hopefull. You
might be wanting the whiskey and some glasses, Sir Aris
anticipates my every need is whiskey.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
All right, for your whiskey will do very well.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
How do you take it?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
A splash of so that, but don't dry on it now?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oris and I take us need good health, good health.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Then we will expect you tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Loretta is coming too, Loretta you know mis Paige.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
No, I'm afraid I don't know the lady.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Oh I do beg your pardon. My Memmy is playing
me tricks?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Perhaps you only thinking, Guernsey, What the charming bird this is,
mister Troom's.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What's the tonnage about twenty five?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Delightful? I under you something like this all to yourself.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
That bothering about crewels and formalities. All the other cabins
are attractive, was this.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, they're pretty comfortable I should love.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
To see them.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
I had no idea how small boat could be so luxurious.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, let me show you around, Oris, and did you
figure out yourself?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Indeed?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I did, Ah Oris, I shall be showing our guest
over the boat. Right, everything ship shape and Bristol fashion
as usuals up right, you are follow me, mister Fogel.
The galley. Here's where we open the tins and unscrew
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the bottles. On the right, the refrigerator where we keep
the beer warm.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Beautiful fit with the here.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Maps and buckets, a place for everything, and everything in
its place. Apparently that's just the bathroom and toilet adequate,
but really no route sing your cat.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
A bathroom really remarkable on a boat this side, May
I look by all.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Means in here.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
An empty bath as you see, but such a charming
green very nice shower too.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I almost wish I could find something you have forgotten.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Down here, A small single cabin.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Charming and the fitted word of may I.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Are surprisingly spacious, And over here the double cabin and
the double wade space you have managed to find you
can had a small army. Please you will permit me
to see the fittings, of.
Speaker 15 (26:41):
Course, just boring old clothes and afraid indeed, and that
door at the end the forecast, that's Oris' quarters.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
I can't believe you have managed to squeeze in and
yet another cabin. It's scarcely believable. I'm also luxurious. I'm
quite intrigued. Man, Just a peep and help yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I have seen many birds where the owner's quarters aunt
as good. And that's all, is it, mister tools?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, you can't get much more into a fifty foot
indeed you can't. And that there, Oh, just a hatchway
to the deck.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Follow me.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Here we are back to square one.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I must apologize. I'm a fed. My enthusiasm ran away
with me. I should never have asked you to show
me around.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
At this, not at all. It's a pleasure, I assure you.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
It's been worth it to men.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I'm coming down.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
We'll look out for you.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Then it's Peter Port.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I'll be there at tea time to night.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
And many thanks of what.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Orsi devil you find? Anything out of Pricer you've god
Demo son of a Worus? Where is him?
Speaker 9 (28:05):
You're practically leaning on him? What's that beneath that mainsail?
I sort of laid him along the boom and after canvas.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Round him slags a bug in a rug. Here he is, yep, oh,
my goals, he's gone. Simon, good to see you, rogero Sport.
Good crossing, Peter, how are you all the better for
seeing you? And no, since you asked, the crossing was lousy,
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up and down all the way from Weymouth. Well you're
both here in picturesque Guernsey. That's the main thing. What
about the goods they arrived.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
Consigned as requested. I've arranged for the diving suits to
be sent out of the corsair. I saw a mored
in the harbor as they came, insistent Peter, Paul.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, and you can pick up a chart from the
post office whenever you like. Top hole. I knew I
could rely on you. And now are you going to
let on what this is all about? Well, basically money
promising how much money? Millions? But I can't bill means well,
my merry men, it goes like this. There once was
a little burning, and that's where we come in.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
I say it.
Speaker 12 (29:17):
There's no bonus for anyone that's simply putting further away.
The underwriters must want to recover some of the money
they've lost in claim since he went.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Into business and ingebex Ruebay Commission and we want both
well yes and no Alas today, I'm not sure it
is money. We're after the sort of boodle they've been
lifting from the seabed, you know, uncut diamonds, half a
ton of bar gold that takes time and organization to
get rid of. You mean you can't just cut them
into the nearest pawn shop and ask how about it?
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We'll give you all the just so sport. You have
to park them somewhere, Meaning if we could find this parking,
or at least find out where it is, then follow
friend Fogel when he goes to fetch some of the
boodle out or put some more in. Will you get
the general drift the clearest mount cap'n just one thing?
We are, beautiful heroine. She's only trying to get it,
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Fogel from his soft side. If he has one, I'll
take care of her. Yes, that's what I thought I
ought to have known. We couldn't afford to give you
a start like this. If you're staking a claim on
the heroine, I think I'll go home. Is it a claim?
Speaker 13 (30:18):
So?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't know now communications Oris and I will get
in touch with you here. If we can't send a message,
we'll put a bucket on the deck of the Corsair,
which means you look out for signals. Remember the old
card code. We'll put the cards in one of the portholes.
Any questions, what's your next move me Tomorrow they're trying
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out Professor Yule's new bathistal. I'm invited to the party. Meanwhile,
it's dinner with Fogel tonight in my guys, as the
innocuous mister Tooles, you're walking a tightrope. Saint to watch out,
you don't slip.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
Excellent mister Toobs, you were able to join us. Let
me introduce you to miss Page.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
How do you do?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
And mister h good evening, Good evening.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It's a nasty bruise, mister Pogel.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yes, if we had an intruder on board last night,
I got the worst of the encounter.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Did you catch him? I'm afraid not. Better luck next
time's professor you'll not joining us if we could not
drag him away from his baptistto not on the heath
of a descent, will be working on it for half
the night.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
Now let us order. I recommend the seafood straight from the.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Next Why haven't I told you how beautiful you are
a writer?
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Because you haven't noticed.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Because so many other ridiculous things have been happening all
the time. Last night, for instance, I went diving off
into the sea and left your on board Fogel's boat.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
So you did silent.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, Well, apparently it wasn't death, so I suppose it
must have been dishonored, and.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
It might turn out to be both. Please, simon, we
don't dance together too long.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Tell me what you know.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Well, I was no sooner in the sea than there
was Steve in his canoe. We had a bit of
a disagreement.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Again in the middle of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
There's no choosing time or place. Anyway, I slugged him
and brought him aboard the Corsair. Fogel came over shortly
afterwards and put in a great performance of being shown
over the boat. Luckily, Oraris had disposed of Steve and
he didn't find him.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
So you're still the innocent mister Toos.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's me. Unfortunately Steve got away somehow, so I haven't
the foggiest idea where he is right now?
Speaker 16 (32:47):
And I don't care, not right now. You're the one
who's here, Simon, Me and you, darling Loretta, No, no,
fogel's looking at yes, Simon.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Do you love me?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Indeed? I do say it, say it all, rita, darling.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
I love you, dear liar.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
You're going to hurt me, saint, and I don't seem
to mind more not.
Speaker 17 (33:24):
Young, and you're so beautiful, you along the shallow beautiful,
Oh and yours.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
My dad's sax. I have ordered you a neat whiskey,
mister Thoms. I thought you might like one after your efforts. Again,
quite a good flow, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Right, oh my on the name of Bilds have has
been happening here? Let's have a look at you, old son.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Still side slarting door, right you are, faith.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Hello, old cockroach, Come in and make yourself at home.
But of course you already have quite a rubbish if
you've made of this place. There's still some of the
bulkhead you haven't pulled to pieces. I'll finish that in
a minute, so be careful with that gun. It's liable
to go.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Off don't come any closer.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
And oh my god, you've killed him.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think you're right. This is a bit of a poser.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Yes, what do we do with him?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
No problem there, surely, ohs bought a sack a few
bits of old iron from the engine room. And betty's
your aunt? What nat friend fogel old son? When his
henchman fails to report all present and correct? What was he?
Speaker 9 (35:00):
I wonder that great parcel thing come on board us afternoon,
the diving suit. Well, if that's what was in it,
ripping away at the packaging, he was will not come across.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Him a suspicious old cold focal. Well now he'll never know.
And now there's nothing for it but to carry on
with the charade.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
You're not still going.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Over there tomorrow. An innocent man would, even if he
had caught a burglar in the night. You must be
bomy was that perishing girl in it? She's not perishing, Oris,
And that's just the point. Not while I'm still on
my feet.
Speaker 13 (35:29):
But how long will that be?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And what? Yeah, that's my job when you're feeding the
shrimp for this blows well, you could always go back
to being an artist's model. Now, cheer up, Old sport,
and don't worry. I'll be having the time of my life.
I'll take all the wind out of birdy sails when
I step on board, bright and beautiful. It ought to
be a great moment.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
A perfect morning, mister Toombs.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
After an eventful night, you enjoyed our evening out a
very pleasant But I meant what happened later? What happened later,
mister Toombs. We this harbor thief business is turning into
an epidemic. Mister Arnheim, I also had an unexpected.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Visitor hereos Did you lose anything value?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
No, nothing at all. We caught him, then you were
luckier than we were. Good morning, Good morning, miss Page.
I was just about to recount the story of our
midnight intruder.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
Oh that sounds exciting.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
Near, mister Toombs.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Had one of those harbor fieves on board last night,
and he caught him, and he's.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Too exciting perhaps, Oh it was my man Orris and
I wrestled with him all over the saloon, trying to
get his gun away from him. Then Orriis hit him
over the head and we tied him up and took
him ashore. We lugged him along to the police station,
but When they tried to revive him, they found he
was well sort of dead dead. Hm Oris must have
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overestimated his strength.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
But won't you be arrested, dim me?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
No, they call it accidental death. I may have to
attend an inquest next week. You I'm not quite sure
how they ordered these things in Guernsy. Is this where
you take your dip, Professor Ule.
Speaker 11 (37:11):
We're just about over the deepest sounding ninety four fathoms.
It isn't much, but it'll do for the first test.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Have you known mister fogelon.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
About six months now, Miss Paige? He offered a help
after my first descent. He was very glad to accept
his offer. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must give
the equipmentcom quest check before answer.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You know, Loretta, there's one person who may be sitting
on the same volcano as we are. I mean he
doesn't know it, Professor exactly. When this new batistol has
proved itself, our dear Professor will be expendable, Fogel will
simply get rid of him.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
But how and when?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I wish I knew? Good God, it looks like some
robot from Mars Beautiful.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Isn't a combination of a sphere and a diving suit.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
They lower me in through the top.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Can you actually move about in it?
Speaker 15 (38:04):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
Quite well?
Speaker 11 (38:05):
Really, it looks a great deal heavier than it is underwater.
The air inside reduces the weight quite a lot. And
it's made from a new lightweight alloy, lighter than anything
in the past, and as strong as temperate steel.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What sort of pressures do you meet down there?
Speaker 11 (38:20):
I'll act three thousand feet more than a half a
ton to the square inch in an ordinary diving suit.
Speaker 8 (38:25):
You've been crushed to a pulp.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Go down in it yourself if you like, and prove
how comfortable it is. Thanks, but no fair, I'll take
your word for it.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Can you hear me.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Right?
Speaker 18 (38:40):
Winch me up and lower me over?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Good luck?
Speaker 8 (38:44):
Start twinching?
Speaker 14 (38:54):
Oh right, showing down my good feet? A five past?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
What's those cables?
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Swingchline?
Speaker 8 (39:11):
The telephone wire?
Speaker 6 (39:12):
An electric cable?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (39:15):
No, he has two out of you cylinder's.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Iced a reade hundred and fifty must be nearing the
seabed by now.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
How much cable have we let all?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I've got to sixty?
Speaker 14 (39:27):
Why in seventy five?
Speaker 8 (39:29):
Why something and seventy five feet?
Speaker 14 (39:32):
With this here?
Speaker 18 (39:32):
Jo stop time on the bottom of ever, everything's working perfectly.
Speaker 14 (39:37):
He's very comfortable.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
That can you do the booth?
Speaker 14 (39:41):
Oh yeah, I'll ever go leave. I'll tie a short box.
Give me another twenty feet the cable release.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
Another twenty feet.
Speaker 18 (39:57):
I can walk quite comfortably. I've taken a ten steps.
No sign of a leak, humid it is still nor more.
Hold on, something has happened on one of.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
The oxygen cylinders.
Speaker 18 (40:09):
It's just fizzled out. Not the gage still shows three
quarters full. It must be a forty vowel. I'm turning
on the other one.
Speaker 14 (40:18):
You you might bring me up now win hill.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
Abol This might be it?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Well you do, I don't know yet a percent.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
What is the matter.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
I think it's a fume. You're just fixing the winds.
Have you up in a few minutes.
Speaker 18 (40:33):
I hope it there's anything serious.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
The reserve clator seems worse than the first.
Speaker 14 (40:37):
The pressure is falling rapidly. But please don't belong.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Can't we do anything?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Said, I know.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
Nothing about the machinery. We must leave it to the engineers.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
This reserve seleader is acting up like the first one.
Speaker 14 (40:49):
I don't think it's gonna last much longer.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
What is the problem up there?
Speaker 8 (40:52):
You turn to the payable wind.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
Oh my god, this surnder's just giving out.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Oh can't you put the cable onto another winch?
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Have no other would take the load?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
We could rig up a tackle.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
We'd take over on aw to wings him up with
block and tackle.
Speaker 14 (41:08):
Much longer?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Are you now, mister Arnhem? Surely you've got a suggestion
I must take. Not well, I have walk away from
that wind, sunny Jim. If you don't want to be carried.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Away gone, mister Tooles, have you got mapped?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Not yet, but I'm likely to if our friend here
doesn't get out of my way in the next two second.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
I know this is a ghastly situation, but you won't
helpe me by getting a stelicals.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
Everything possible, it's being done.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
One thing isn't being done, and I'm going to do it.
Get him away from those controls, togle and I'll start
the wind.
Speaker 13 (41:41):
My dear mister tools Simon behind you watch out.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Oh, I trust you're feeling better, much better and full
of admiration. Oh it was smooth, Bertie, very smooth. You
don't mind if I call you birdid you you were
determined to flush me out, and in the end you succeeded.
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Very clever. And how is your pawn, the Professor?
Speaker 8 (42:10):
Unfortunately the fault was traced too late.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Mister Templar, poor you a terrible death.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
So you know who I am.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
I learned this morning one of my men photographed you
entering the Royal Hotel. Confirmation came by ship's telegram.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
And once you knew it was curtains for the Professor, he.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Would certainly never have agreed to use his Baptist Stroyal
for the purposes.
Speaker 8 (42:32):
I have in mind.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
And Miss Page a grave disappointment to me. My scheme
was more successful than I bargained for. It knitted two birds.
She could not refrain from crying out the warning to you.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
So where do we go from here?
Speaker 5 (42:45):
Well, that depends on you. You have given me a
good deal of trouble, mister Templar. The man you tangled
with last night is essential to my plans.
Speaker 8 (42:52):
I want him back.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Birdie, you're calling the wrong number. You need a spiritualist.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
You're turning the truth.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Mostly I wondered a little from the straight and narrow
when I said we'd taken him to the police station.
A bloke with my reputation. Can't afford to deliver dead
bodies to the police, not even if they die of
old age, so we gave him a sailor's funeral. I see.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
That leaves me with the problem. He's one of my
best men, and it may take a considerable time to
replace him, time I cannot afford. But fortunately I see
a solution. Do I detect the odor of a deal
in the air. We shall shortly be anchoring directly over
the wreck of the Chelfront Castle. Five million pants worth
of bullion in her strong room, which I intend to
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remove before the official salvage operations feagure.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Hence the haste you have deprived me of.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
The only member of my crew who could have been
relied on to open that strong room. The man you
kill is one of the best saith breakers in Europe,
but I have heard that the Saint matches up to
the best in the world.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
You want me to go down and give a demonstration,
That is what I intend in the Bathiston.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
It will not be necessary.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
A child front castle is lying in twenty fathoms. An
ordinary diving suit will be quite sufficient.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Are you offering me in partnership?
Speaker 8 (44:12):
But I'm offering you is a chance to help your partner.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
My partner, delectable miss Page, and if I refuse your imagination,
mister Templar, if you do refuse, I shall clearly have
no further use for either of you. If you cooperate
the lovely Loretto, if it'll be put ashore soon as
convenient alive, and.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
I am to go ahead on your word, what other
choice do you have, mister Templar.
Speaker 8 (44:33):
You have fifteen minutes to decide.
Speaker 7 (44:44):
How long do you think we'll live?
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Now? Indefinitely according to Birdie, until I'm a twothless old
gaffer and you're a stalwart at the Women's Institute. If
I do this job for him, he's ready to send
us an affectionate greetings card. And I do believe and
you believe him. But he murdered you for the Baptistan.
But he doesn't need us dead. The mere fact that
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we're here proves that his racket has been exposed and
that others know all about him.
Speaker 7 (45:12):
You don't sound all that convincing.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I'm convinced enough to do what he wants.
Speaker 7 (45:16):
But in Heaven's name.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Why, because it's certain death if I don't, by no
means certain if I do, and because this will be
the first strong room I've ever cracked in a diving suit.
Speaker 19 (45:30):
Oh, simon, just a few points before we screw that
helmet on, mister Templar.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'm all ears, or at least it feels as if
I am with my head poking out of this diving suit.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
If a lost will go down with you, he will
lead you to the strong room. I have shown him
where it is on the ship's plans. He will also
carry the underwater hydro oxygen torch, which you will use
to cut through.
Speaker 8 (46:02):
The steel plate on your directions.
Speaker 19 (46:05):
I should be in touch with your birth by telephone,
and I will.
Speaker 8 (46:08):
Expect you to keep me informed of your progress. Is
that clear as a bell.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Let's get started.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
Get the helmets on, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Then?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Made for the cradle, and we'll lie you down the
side for your second as well as mine.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
I wish you were, mister.
Speaker 14 (46:32):
Temple, where at the strong I'm starting work?
Speaker 6 (46:52):
Everything all right? If all off? Yes, for all this year.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
But it'll take a long time to move.
Speaker 18 (46:58):
There's a glass storm of If we break the glass,
you send straight down here for.
Speaker 14 (47:04):
More than another few minutes.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Break the glass fast and we'll bring you out.
Speaker 8 (47:09):
Calvierre Orbell.
Speaker 6 (47:11):
You two get ready to go down.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
As soon as they come up, attend to the glam
right gloss. Bring them up? Stop?
Speaker 7 (47:31):
Why have you done that?
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Done?
Speaker 8 (47:33):
What?
Speaker 7 (47:33):
Stop bringing them up?
Speaker 6 (47:35):
My dear girl.
Speaker 8 (47:36):
Forty five minutes or twenty fathoms.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Is enough to saturate the blood with nitrogen. If you
come up too quickly, you get divers paralysis. The gas
forms bubbles in the blood like champagne. When you pull
a cork.
Speaker 8 (47:48):
You have to come up gradually.
Speaker 7 (47:50):
That's not what you were doing.
Speaker 6 (47:51):
What else?
Speaker 7 (47:52):
You were going to take one of those airlines off
the pump, won't you? You don't have to say anything.
You were going to kill him.
Speaker 8 (47:59):
I was how deeply would his death hurt you?
Speaker 7 (48:02):
I know why he went down for you.
Speaker 10 (48:05):
He wouldn't have done it to save his own life.
He tried to make me believe that, but he couldn't.
He knew you meant to kill him as soon as
he done what you wanted. He wasn't afraid, but I
knew you must have offered him something.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
That he could believe. You made him do it for me, My.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
Dear letter, A drama. So he's the perfect gentle knight.
Is he dying to save a lady's honor?
Speaker 7 (48:27):
Exactly? And it's something you'll never understand.
Speaker 19 (48:30):
Such a critish chivalry won't be given a chance.
Speaker 7 (48:33):
But he never had any right to bargain on my behalf.
I'm quite capable of doing that for myself.
Speaker 8 (48:38):
You're not in a position to make bargains. I have
uner told you what I think of you might dear,
but you were trying to deceive me.
Speaker 17 (48:43):
I took risks for you.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
I gambled everything to keep you beside me.
Speaker 7 (48:47):
But I'm still beside you. You can take what you
want from me by force, I suppose, but I could
give what what I could give it to.
Speaker 14 (49:00):
You willingly.
Speaker 7 (49:02):
Let him go, and I'll stay with you.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
You have my word.
Speaker 7 (49:15):
Oh I didn't know you had radio to lephony on board.
Speaker 5 (49:18):
Oh yes, I will show you how it works. This
telegram goes via the radio station at Sherbourg. I have
a chateau at Arkville. You can be as comfortable there
as you wish.
Speaker 7 (49:28):
After tomorrow, is that where you'll put this into shore.
Speaker 5 (49:32):
Perhaps he's safe enough for the moment, locked in his cabin.
I'll decide what to do with him later.
Speaker 7 (49:38):
He must never know about you and me. I mean,
you understand that he is part of our bargain.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
Naturally, but I'd have to find some way to satisfy him.
Speaker 8 (49:50):
I think about it.
Speaker 7 (49:51):
I have too much to risk, But how could he
threaten you?
Speaker 5 (49:54):
Now, my dear Loretta, do you realize even Mahawat is
at stake not only the cargo I now have on board,
there have been others.
Speaker 8 (50:01):
I have to keep it all somewhere where at the
bottom of the sea. What uckview under thirty feet.
Speaker 5 (50:08):
Of water, and what a treasure gold jewels such as
you have never dreamed off, nearly twelve million pounds worth,
and it is for you to share.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
There's nothing in the world you can't have.
Speaker 5 (50:20):
Tonight we drop anchor above it and we lower the
shelf from Castle Gold to the same place.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
That is what I must protect from silentimplaf All that
afternoon I remained locked up in that cabin, hearing the
thuds and gratings of the incredible cargo coming aboard. I
thought of Peter and Roger and Oris back in Saint
peter Port, But most of all I was thinking of
Loretta and tormenting myself with unanswerable questions. The shadows spread
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and deepened towards darkness. At length, I tackled the lock
on the cabin draw overhead. The first pale stars were
coming out as I climbed onto the deck house roof,
just as I'd done the last time. I looked over
the edge straight into the wheelhouse.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
You will forgive me if I send you below, My dear,
I fear you might be tempted to swim ashore.
Speaker 6 (51:10):
Stuart.
Speaker 8 (51:11):
Would your accompany, miss Page and lock the door behind her?
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (51:15):
Will you be unloading the gold tonight if it'd be safer.
Speaker 5 (51:18):
God alone knows what this man Templar has told his friends,
and it will be necessary to sink the Falkenburg. A pity,
but the risest course we can easily fit out a
troller letter to the cover of the gold. Helmsman uh
tell Ivarlove to be ready to go down in a
quarter of an hour, and tell Calvilli to have a
diving suit ready for me as well.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
I ran lightly ahead of the helmsman, then as he
passed beneath me, my arms shot out and grasped him
by the throat. I'll relieve you if you're automatic. If
you don't mind now if you want to live to
a ripe old age. Fritz, listen carefully. You're not taking
that message to evolve, understood.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
I un will stand good.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
You take me along with you and you tell him
that Vogel's instructions are that I'm to go down one
false move and bang bang, get me up than on
your feet. I want avalof below decks. When friend Fogel
arrived arrange at Fritzer, the helmsman played his part well enough.
He ordered Avalov to stay below with the rest of
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the crew while Calviery prepared the two diving suits. Such
cooperation deserved better than the uppercut I administered, but he
would certainly have alerted Fogel to what had happened. By
the time Fogel appeared to be helped into his suit,
I was already standing by the rail with my helmet on,
trying to look like Ivalov. A few minutes later, we
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were being lowered down the side, lit brilliantly by a
three hundred watt submarine lamp suspended from a boom. The
lamp followed us into the water and hung six feet
over our heads as we reached the bottom. In its
blade I saw Fogel looking upwards as the grab descended
towards us. I helped him direct the great claw and
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settle it around a huge rock. The wire cable straightened,
became taut. Slowly the rock lifted, and there laid open
was the last of Kurt Fogel's secrets, the most amazing
Aladdin's Cave that the hordes of piracy had ever known.
Speaker 14 (53:17):
Off my guy the case saw to me honor.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
How much gold had gone down in that first load,
half a million, a million. Again, I toiled and struggled
to steer the laden grab over the hole. Six loads
came down. Fogel was lost to view, stacking the gold
inside the hole. When the grab disappeared above us for
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the last time, I drew my keen heavy bladed diver's knife.
I thought of Professor Hule, I thought of Loretta. I
began to cut through the fibers of Fogel's line. As
they parted, I tied his line around my waist and
through my own line, and looked into a jagged spur
of granite. At that moment, I saw the top of
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the Fogel's helmet emerge. I moved nearer and brought my
helmet close to his, until barely six inches separated our
front windows. His blackness, burning eyes widened into pools of horror.
His hands groped round and found the loose trailing ends
of his severed line. His mouth twisted in the shape
of soundless words that no human ear would ever hear. This.
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Then I slashed my knife clean from the pipe feeding
him oxygen. He fell topless, backwards, his arms waving, his
hands clutching at the yielding water.
Speaker 8 (54:43):
It's quite easy, really.
Speaker 12 (54:44):
As soon as we got Loretta's radio telegraph.
Speaker 7 (54:46):
Full marks there, Loretta Silver was very proud of his telephony.
He explained it all to me.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
No, we set off at once or a source through.
Speaker 8 (54:54):
We dropped a hook about a quarter of a mile away.
Then we paddled over in a date.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Everyone on dexim busy with a diving business. So it
came out born on the other side and went below.
If we collected seven specter, reason all tied him up,
left him money for inspectment, and where did you collect
the American tragedy for him? He crashed onto the corse there.
Earlier in the afternoon, it seemed all steamed up about
something we can't keep meeting like this, Steve, people will talk.
Speaker 13 (55:16):
I guess I owe you something for helping me clean
up this job. Saint. I'll see Inger Becks here about it,
and now I'll probably offer you a share.
Speaker 8 (55:24):
Of the reward.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
I won't say no, though it goes against the grain
to earn money. Honestly, it's such an anti climax.
Speaker 7 (55:35):
What next, Simon?
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Next, I suppose I'll go on stealing and fighting and
winning and losing. I'll end a panged or shot or
stabbed in the back, that is, if I don't find
a safe birth in prison first.
Speaker 8 (55:49):
But that's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
If I tried to live any other way, I'd suffocate
from sheer boredom.
Speaker 7 (55:54):
Oh it's Simon, that's all for the day after tomorrow.
What about tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
We'll take tomorrow as it comes.
Speaker 12 (56:13):
As goodbye to all those millions you promised.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Us or never gave you that idea, Roger old Son,
you don't think we three are going home just yet,
do you. No, We're going over to the Corseir to
unpack those nice new diving suits we've got on board,
and then one of you drawing room heroes is coming
down with me on a little treasure hunt the American tragedy.
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Can't possibly know how much bootle is stowed away down there,
and what he doesn't know about he'll never miss. Now,
how about a toast to riches beyond? Compare bottoms up,
bottom of them up?
Speaker 1 (56:58):
In Saint Overboard, let me try Chriss, dramatized by Noble Teller,
Paul Reese played the Saint. Patsy Kencid Loretta, Charles Simpson,
Roger Jonathan Keeble Pieter, John Hollis Horis, Jeffrey Whitehead Fogel,
John Garacio Murdoch, David Timpson, Professor Yule, and Joshua tile Arnheim.
Saint Overboard is directed by Matthew Waters
Saints Overboard by Leslie Charts, dramatized by an evil teller,
with Paul Reese as the saint and Patsy Kensis as
Loretta Page.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
From the Waves. She rose in the dead of night,
like aphrodite in a green bathing cap, somewhere in the
depths of the yacht. My man Oris was snoring soundly,
but I'd been sleeping with the porthole open, and I
heard her coming. I slid out of bed and hauled
myself up the companionway overhead. According to the calendar, there
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was a full moon, but in one of those feakish
fits of temperament that sometimes strike the north coast of
France in early summer, banks of sea mist had rolled up.
And then I heard what sounded suspiciously like revolver shots
midnight dip.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I know it's a bit of a chief, but that
lord coming up behind I prefer him not to find me.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Say no more here, grab hold, get down below, and hi,
thank you so much. Lost. Something not exactly.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Seen anybod swimming around here by any chance.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
At this hour. Channel swimmers usually hit the beach further
east towards Calais.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
It's nothing like that just fun of our party took
on a silly bed.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
I expectedly have gone back. Thanks anyway, good bye, Johnny.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
What's troubling you experience?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Come out, come out wherever you are my mind, it's
a bit wet in the water tonight.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Just a little.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Try the bathroom brandy or hot coffee?
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Neither really? I think I'd better be getting back to
collect my bet.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ah, Yes, the bet pretty high stakes. If all that
shooting is anything to go by, at.
Speaker 8 (02:15):
Least use these towels.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
All right? For those shots, they were just part of
the make believe.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm rather partial to these games myself. They helped pass
the long evenings. Who did the shooting?
Speaker 7 (02:30):
The man who spoke to you from the dinghy?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Right, I'll be off, I don't think so.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You can't possibly try to swim across in this fog?
One hundred to one, you'd miss your boat.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
I'll run you back under no circumstances.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I won't go with you, you won't go without me.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Then, after here, have you thought what would happen if
I screamed? I could rouse half the harbor?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I dare say, sister, But if you stopped to consider,
what would happen. If I screamed, what well, this tub's
mine and your trespassing, you couldn't even claim I've invited
you on board. You're wearing a wet bathing costume AND's
very little els. I'm intrigued by that pouch on your waistband.
But let their pause. No people would ask why you
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suddenly decided to start screaming at half us three in
the morning. Besides which, this is a French port, and
the Frenchman have such a wonderful grip on the facts
of life.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
As you say, French juries are so understanding in cases
where a woman shoots her lover, stand back away over there.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, well, well so it was a gun. Now, I
may never know what sent you swimming through the fog
in the wee small hours with a gun on your belt,
but why not stay a night and shoot me after breakfast.
I won't complain.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Then, I promise you you've got a nerve.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'll give you that look from the brief gander I
had an old hook nose in the dinghy. He looked
like a man's job for me. I know you've got
what it takes, but these games can get pretty tough,
and I hate being jockeyed out of a good fight.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
I'm going now.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I don't think I'm afraid to shoot because I'm not
get out of the way.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well, if that's the way you feel about it, I'll
take that, Thank you very much, beast. I'm sorry kid.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
The oh damn you?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh oh, I'm the Retta Page.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's a nice name.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
And you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh, I have dozens. Simon Temple is the aly real one.
Some people call me the Saint st.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
You know.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
So you're this, I've read all about you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm flattened.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Oh, there's no need. It's only in the way of business.
I'm a detective.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Are you just where are the bracelets? No?
Speaker 9 (05:12):
Listen, you've done some stealing in your time, well with discretions.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, there's a racket running today that steals millions.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
It's been going for years.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I couldn't begin to guess how much money has been
taken out of it since it began.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I know, darling, but you can't do anything about it.
It's called income tax.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh, to be serious, Now have you heard of the lutin?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It sank, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
In seventeen ninety nine, with about a million pounds worth
of gold on board, The last attempt to salvage the
cargo was a couple of years ago. The Lautina Company
developed a special underwater sandsucker to clear the silt. The
only trouble was that the ship carrying it to the
wreck was blown sky high, and the explosion.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Wasn't an accident?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Is that it?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The same year, an American salvage ship went out to
search a wreck of Kate Charles the Marida, which sank
in nineteen eleven and took the Emperor Maximilian's Crown duel
to the bottom with her another million pound cargo. They
found the ship, but the cupboard was bare, and fish
don't wear jewelry.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I take it.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
There are others, Oh, yes, quite a few.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I could give you a list of ships known to
have sunk with bullion on board which have been located
and examined and found to be as clean as a whistle.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So this is what you're detecting.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm with the Ingerbeck Agency. We're on contract to Lloyd's.
We've been on this case for the last five years.
No Ingerbecks. The insurers have known for a long time
that there's some highly organized racket cheating them out of
six figures each year.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Dangerous word.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Oh it is. Three of our men have simply disappeared.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
One of them found a trail leading to Dina, but
we ran.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Up against a brick wall.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The men just couldn't get inside the racket. Well we reckon.
There's another way. There must be a top man, and
the odds are he's human.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Ah, so you came out here to be human with him.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I haven't succeeded so far. I've had dinner with him,
but I haven't been invited on board his boat. Tonight
I tried to get on board without an invitation.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And nearly got shot. For your pains. All very interesting,
but why tell me?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Just because you are who you are, I thought you
might be intrigued enough to become involved on the side
of the angels.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
For one could be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Two things. The name of the boat you wanted to
look at, the Falconberg, and the name of the boyfriend,
the bloke who passed.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
In the night, Kurt Fogel.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
How very appropriate. I'll call him Birdie when we get acquainted. Now,
when you're ready, I'll row you ashore and no arguments,
no argument, Well, I see you.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
How about the beach opposite the casino Plage de Lucouse.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mid morning on the beach, any developments.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Oh, good morning, you could say.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
So, I'm invited to dine with friend Fogel on the
falcon Burg.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You're not thinking of accepting, not up to last night?
Speaker 7 (08:41):
What part of last night?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm serious. Fogel might know his intruder was a woman.
It may be a trap, possible, and I'm.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Going all the same, and for a very good reason.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
There's a new salvage operation just about to set sail
on Falmers.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Do you remember the Chalson Castle disaster off the Channel Islands.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
A few months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That's it, five pounds in gold bullion aboard that ship
we reckon. Fogel will be staying somewhere close to Algny
before too long.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Even more necessary for keeping clear of him.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Maybe kat Fogel isn't as bad as he's painted. He
lets some lovely flowers with his invitation.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You watch out. He'll be falling for him next.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
I might well.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
When you're riding around in your roles half strangled with diamonds,
I hope the memory of your lost love comes back
to haunt you.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Oh, you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I hope, so enjoy the sun and the sea breezes.
I'm going in search of our mutual friend. I fancy
a chance meeting.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We meet again.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Good morning, Ah.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I'm pleased to see you. You've been on my conscience.
I hope you didn't think I was too unceremonious about
disturbing you last not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'd only just gone to bed.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Excuse me. This is the world famous professor Yule.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
How do you do?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
My name is Fugal When you join us, mister Tombs,
thank you. You're staying long.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I have no plans it. I'll stay until I get tied.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
In the place does not agree with everybody. Some people
find it definitely unhealthy.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Garson, monsieur, mister tools.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And Absence, thank you, and you professor U'll you must
find it quite relaxing after all the excitement. Oh you've
heard of me? Who hasn't? It must have been an amazing.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
Experience, fascinating and rather frightening, that's not to say uncomfortable.
Perhaps you don't know that the temperature of water falls
rapidly the further down you go. At five thousand feet
below the sea, it's only a few degrees above freezing.
I'm installing extra heating in my next battistall.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You're going down again, though I've only just started.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
I hope to get down twice as far with a
new model. And even that's nothing.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
If some of the.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Latest alloys turn out all right, we may be able
to have a look at the Cape Verde basement over
three thousand.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Fathoms, monsieur, and what do you hope to find?
Speaker 11 (11:08):
No information about depth currents for a start, and then
I'll be on the lookout for marine life and depths
never reached before. And I'm also hoping for some evidence
about Vaguaner's theory of continental drifts.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
An exciting program.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
Well, none of it would be possible without mister Vogel.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
My first descent ruined play.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Oh won't you have another?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
I'm afraid we have an engagement next time. Perhaps, if
you're interested, you might like to come up with this
on a trial switch. It won't be very sensation, or
just to test for the new apparatus.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
In moderately deepfat I'd love to won't.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Be here, the water is too shallow. We're using the
herd deep and north of Alderney. We will be leaving
for Saint Peter pot in the morning, it's Claire to
join us.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, that sort of an imitation doesn't drive every.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Day, and we may be seeing you.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'll give you a shout in the morning as we
go by, see if you have made up your mind?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So old been? How was your weekend?
Speaker 12 (12:02):
Rockenson to ask our man has party at the cunninghams
Oh my god, rain solid it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
From we start to finishing. Nothing to enliven the proceeding.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
You know me, Peter, something turned up on Saturday nightmare.
You don't have to bury myself in Shropshire for the pleasure?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Have you stayed in?
Speaker 8 (12:17):
The flat?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Town can be just as boring as the country, Roger,
believe you me.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Let's be honest about it.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Life is boring without Simon?
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm missing about in his boat somewhere Dina. I think
I got a card last week over there, s Sons
and Horace.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Who could ask for anything more?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
At Peter Quintin, Hello, Peter Sport your uncle Simon here,
it's Simon, Speak up, old man. The line's ghastly. Roger's
here splendid two birds with one stone, I listen, didn't
you want to tell me? You had a respectable family.
It still is, and I'm the only one who's had
anything to do with you. An't of them know anything
about Lloyd. I was sort of cousin right. Dig him
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out and stage a reunion. Then find out whatever you
can about the child font Castle like a shuttle boy.
But are you sure you don't want an estate agent?
I don't, fat head. It's a wreck, not a ruin.
She sank somewhere near old only a few months ago.
I want you to find out precisely where she went down.
Get a chart and get the exact spot marked. Then
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send it to me at the post restaurant Saint Peter Port's,
Guernsey tonight. Name of toombs, name what toombs? Tooms as
in Toton Carmen, Oh toombs wall clear.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
As mad but Roger on Man, Hello, Silent, you're on
the war park again.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Possibly do you think you could buy me a nice
diving suit, Roger, one of the new self contained models
with oxygen tax Say you're representing a movie company and
you want it for an undersea epic.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
What's the racket?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No racket, Roger, I've just taken up submarine geology. Now,
if you bought that out of it this afternoon and
posted it off to me. Why didn't I bring it out?
Give me that phone? And why don't I bring out
the child? No? Send both partils. That's important. Understood? What understood?
But you can both come out to Gerby if you want.
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I might need a bit more muscles, so you'd better
make it two suits while you're at it. You tabs
can cut up at the Royal, but you're not to
recognize me unless I recognize you first. It may be
worth a point or two if the ungodly don't know
we're connected, so it's a deal.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Come in, Simon, by all, that's wonderful. What on earth
are you doing in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Calling on you? And not a moment too soon by
the look of things. Good afternoon, I hope I intrude Loretto.
Who is this guy? And how do you know he's
on the up and up?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I don't that he has a nice clean smile.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Who's the heart?
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Steve Murdoch meets Simon Templer, so this is him?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He always ingerbecks.
Speaker 13 (15:05):
That's right, okay, saint. I know you're tough, but keep
out of my hair. I've got a big job to do.
Been here, long lander at your bourg this morning? Did
you ask for Loretta at the desk?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What if I did see anyone? Sit up and take notice?
I didn't look.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Oh you should have.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
There was a bloke kicking his heels in a corner
with watchdog written all over him. I walked through with
my face buried in a newspaper. But he must have
seen you, So we're taking no chances. Then this proves
he's suspicious that you already. Now Steve here has rolled
up shouting your name. He'll be asking himself who is here?
What's he here for?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Mike?
Speaker 13 (15:43):
And look after myself.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm sure you can, dear old skunk, That's not the point.
Loretta's supposed to be all innocent and girlish charm. If
they think she's involved in any matahari business, she might
as well pack up and go home, That is, if
they let her.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
So.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So clean yourself up anything that connects you with Ingebec's
flush it down the toilet and then blow what that
moves skidrattle pass out into the night. Loretta can go
downstairs with you, and you can both act out a
fond farewell in the foyer, and then you beatle down
to the pier and catch the next ferry back to
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dear Old Blight here. Then take the first steamer you
can get to Saint peter Port in Guernsey. Hetz Wheth
Fogel will be tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
How do you know that?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He told me. I got into conversation before lunch.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
So we were right. It is the childon Castle's.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
After the real This guy wants me out of the
way for his own reasons, and I'll give you one guess.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
What they are, Steve, You're on your way today.
Speaker 13 (16:40):
I start taking orders from some fancy lieman.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
You ask, Steve, you're taking them from me the.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Saint's right orders.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
It's what I said until Martin Ingebec takes me off
this assignment. You do what I tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I just hope you won't live to a gret This
as for you. If anything happens to you will be
the first to know. Good afternoon coming, Loretta.
Speaker 13 (17:05):
We have some play acting to get through.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Give me a moment, Steve. I'll be right down.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'll leave while you're seeing Steve off. I can't risk
the foyer game, but I spotted a fire escape in
the corridor.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Must you go?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Not because I want to Loretta, but Vogel and his
crew ought to be seeing me get back to the Corsair.
I take it you still mean to go across to
the Falkenburg tonight. Absolutely did I dream the rest of
it after you'd gone last night?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
I don't know, Simon. What did you dream that you
came back to me? That's when the danger would really start.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I dream that you didn't think it too dangerous.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
But I am afraid, Simon, I'm scared to death.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh my darling, let's be scared together, and how keep
watch over you. I sat on board the Corsair and
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about half past seven watched the tender speed towards the Falkenburg,
with Fogel in evening dress sitting beside Loretta. I let
the dark deepen a little, then went below to get
into my swimming trunks, taking a leaf from Loretta's book
and fastening my automatic to the belt. The dark waters
received me without a sound, and a few minutes later
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the hull of the Falkenburg loomed ahead. As I climbed
on board, A door opened further up a deck, and
footsteps began to move towards me. In another second, I
was spread eagled on the deckhouse roof, peeping warily down
over the edge.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
This opens piece of deck is rather pleasant for sitting out.
We beg an awning over that boom if the sun
is too strong.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It must be marvelous to own a boat like that,
to be able to have you here.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
This is present. At other times it can be a
very lonely ownership.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
That must be your own choice.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It is.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I'm a rich man.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
If I told you how rich, you'd think I was exaggerating.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I could fill this boat a hundred times over with
electrical company generous. Millionaire is always attractive. I have never
done so. Do you know that you're the first woman.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Who set foot on this deck.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
I'm flattered.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
You have tempted me to be foolish. For years, I've
shut women out of my life. Who wants to be hurt?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
And yet what's wealth without women? I have broken the
rules of a lifetime to bring you here. Now I
want you to stay.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
You change your mind in the morning.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
You don't know me yet, Loretta like you. I look
facts in the face.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I know you're the kind of woman I can forget
to be cold with. Stay here, Stay, no, no, I
must have time, ask me again tomorrow. Moving tomorrow, we're
going to Saint Peter pot. I hoped you'd come with me.
You will come, monsieur.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Excuse me here for is it with someone trailing about
the ship again?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Well over on the support side there there, do you see?
Speaker 14 (20:18):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Yes, I think I can get himthing you're not going
to shoot him?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
See lying flat on the deckhouse roof. At first I
couldn't believe this report for Paula. Then I too saw
the shadow, and there was only one thing to do.
I stepped off the roof and fell on Fogel, one foot,
knocking the automatic out of his hand, and the other
striking flat souled at the side of his head. Fogel
staggered against the rail and fell to his knees. Loretta
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stared at me, half incredulous. I put my fingers to
my lips and kissed them out to her. Then, as
Fogel began to drag himself up, I launched myself into
the sea. As I broke surface, the canoe was moving
by me. I caught the gun. I thought I told
you to say goodbye.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
I thought I told you I didn't take your orders.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They were Loretta's orders. Steve remember she's crazy too. I'm
staying right like I'm getting shot for it, and I
won't interfere next time I go this bog. What's more,
zero skunk, you're putting Loretta in danger, says you. That's
something I won't alast this bog, and so I will.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
Man once you're in here with the name?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Is he well? URIs old bean? I describe it as
a sort of detective unsavory looking object, isn't it? He
did not yet he's doing his best. I don't expect
he'll feel too happy when he wakes up. Let's get
him below and see.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Oh marry Jim, sir, he's a crowd down him stairs.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Right you are, lay on macduff.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Oh my again, head?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
What the hell is this just another boat? Stephen on
your left, the port side on your right, the starboard up,
there's the sharp end. You can it? Why'd you bring
me here for a brief chat? Now? Do please try
to get it through that thick scull of yours. I
don't give two hoots how soon you have your funeral.
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But Loretta's your only chance of getting to the bottom
of Fogels little racket, and you're in danger of blowing it.
That's what you'd like to believe. For crying out loud
your nome thanks to your brilliant strategy of tearing into
the Hotel de la Mare and shouting for Loretta at
the top of your boys. The bloke who was saluting
her this afternoon knows your face. If he'd seen you
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tonight during your little escapade, that would have been that
for Loretta anyway, And.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
You feel like a father toy.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Now that's my business, I'll.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Say it is.
Speaker 13 (23:02):
I know you, sink. You're as crooked as a corkscrew.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
You're in this.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Racket for what you can get out of it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Dinghy approaching so ah, Oris, not a moment too soon.
Do you think you could trust this object up and
dispose of it? Keep it quiet and well out of
the way if you're.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Gonna tie it?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Hey, what the show you just give me? You, Melissa,
that's all you'll have. I'm afraid we'll be having some
unwelcome guests. Short lift orrishold bean. It's up to you.
Bye bye, Steve, must love you and leave you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Corsir ahoy to you.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hello there, mister.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Fogel the color wall for a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Of course, Now let me give you a hand.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I'm afraid this is the most un silly for a.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Visit, not at all. I never go to bed very early.
Come down to the saloon, sure, Now what will you
have to drink?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Orris?
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I only called to see if you've decided about tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, yes, I would rather like to come hopefull. You
might be wanting the whiskey and some glasses, Sir Aris
anticipates my every need is whiskey.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
All right, for your whiskey will do very well.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
How do you take it?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
A splash of so that, but don't dry on it now?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oris and I take us need good health, good health.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Then we will expect you tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Loretta is coming too, Loretta you know mis Paige.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
No, I'm afraid I don't know the lady.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Oh I do beg your pardon. My Memmy is playing
me tricks?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Perhaps you only thinking, Guernsey, What the charming bird this is,
mister Troom's.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What's the tonnage about twenty five?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Delightful? I under you something like this all to yourself.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
That bothering about crewels and formalities. All the other cabins
are attractive, was this.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, they're pretty comfortable I should love.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
To see them.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
I had no idea how small boat could be so luxurious.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, let me show you around, Oris, and did you
figure out yourself?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Indeed?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I did, Ah Oris, I shall be showing our guest
over the boat. Right, everything ship shape and Bristol fashion
as usuals up right, you are follow me, mister Fogel.
The galley. Here's where we open the tins and unscrew
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the bottles. On the right, the refrigerator where we keep
the beer warm.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Beautiful fit with the here.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Maps and buckets, a place for everything, and everything in
its place. Apparently that's just the bathroom and toilet adequate,
but really no route sing your cat.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
A bathroom really remarkable on a boat this side, May
I look by all.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Means in here.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
An empty bath as you see, but such a charming
green very nice shower too.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I almost wish I could find something you have forgotten.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Down here, A small single cabin.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Charming and the fitted word of may I.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Are surprisingly spacious, And over here the double cabin and
the double wade space you have managed to find you
can had a small army. Please you will permit me
to see the fittings, of.
Speaker 15 (26:41):
Course, just boring old clothes and afraid indeed, and that
door at the end the forecast, that's Oris' quarters.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
I can't believe you have managed to squeeze in and
yet another cabin. It's scarcely believable. I'm also luxurious. I'm
quite intrigued. Man, Just a peep and help yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I have seen many birds where the owner's quarters aunt
as good. And that's all, is it, mister tools?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, you can't get much more into a fifty foot
indeed you can't. And that there, Oh, just a hatchway
to the deck.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Follow me.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Here we are back to square one.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I must apologize. I'm a fed. My enthusiasm ran away
with me. I should never have asked you to show
me around.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
At this, not at all. It's a pleasure, I assure you.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
It's been worth it to men.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I'm coming down.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
We'll look out for you.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Then it's Peter Port.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I'll be there at tea time to night.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
And many thanks of what.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Orsi devil you find? Anything out of Pricer you've god
Demo son of a Worus? Where is him?
Speaker 9 (28:05):
You're practically leaning on him? What's that beneath that mainsail?
I sort of laid him along the boom and after canvas.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Round him slags a bug in a rug. Here he is, yep, oh,
my goals, he's gone. Simon, good to see you, rogero Sport.
Good crossing, Peter, how are you all the better for
seeing you? And no, since you asked, the crossing was lousy,
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up and down all the way from Weymouth. Well you're
both here in picturesque Guernsey. That's the main thing. What
about the goods they arrived.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
Consigned as requested. I've arranged for the diving suits to
be sent out of the corsair. I saw a mored
in the harbor as they came, insistent Peter, Paul.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, and you can pick up a chart from the
post office whenever you like. Top hole. I knew I
could rely on you. And now are you going to
let on what this is all about? Well, basically money
promising how much money? Millions? But I can't bill means well,
my merry men, it goes like this. There once was
a little burning, and that's where we come in.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
I say it.
Speaker 12 (29:17):
There's no bonus for anyone that's simply putting further away.
The underwriters must want to recover some of the money
they've lost in claim since he went.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Into business and ingebex Ruebay Commission and we want both
well yes and no Alas today, I'm not sure it
is money. We're after the sort of boodle they've been
lifting from the seabed, you know, uncut diamonds, half a
ton of bar gold that takes time and organization to
get rid of. You mean you can't just cut them
into the nearest pawn shop and ask how about it?
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We'll give you all the just so sport. You have
to park them somewhere, Meaning if we could find this parking,
or at least find out where it is, then follow
friend Fogel when he goes to fetch some of the
boodle out or put some more in. Will you get
the general drift the clearest mount cap'n just one thing?
We are, beautiful heroine. She's only trying to get it,
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Fogel from his soft side. If he has one, I'll
take care of her. Yes, that's what I thought I
ought to have known. We couldn't afford to give you
a start like this. If you're staking a claim on
the heroine, I think I'll go home. Is it a claim?
Speaker 13 (30:18):
So?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't know now communications Oris and I will get
in touch with you here. If we can't send a message,
we'll put a bucket on the deck of the Corsair,
which means you look out for signals. Remember the old
card code. We'll put the cards in one of the portholes.
Any questions, what's your next move me Tomorrow they're trying
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out Professor Yule's new bathistal. I'm invited to the party. Meanwhile,
it's dinner with Fogel tonight in my guys, as the
innocuous mister Tooles, you're walking a tightrope. Saint to watch out,
you don't slip.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
Excellent mister Toobs, you were able to join us. Let
me introduce you to miss Page.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
How do you do?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
And mister h good evening, Good evening.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It's a nasty bruise, mister Pogel.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yes, if we had an intruder on board last night,
I got the worst of the encounter.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Did you catch him? I'm afraid not. Better luck next
time's professor you'll not joining us if we could not
drag him away from his baptistto not on the heath
of a descent, will be working on it for half
the night.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
Now let us order. I recommend the seafood straight from the.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Next Why haven't I told you how beautiful you are
a writer?
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Because you haven't noticed.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Because so many other ridiculous things have been happening all
the time. Last night, for instance, I went diving off
into the sea and left your on board Fogel's boat.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
So you did silent.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, Well, apparently it wasn't death, so I suppose it
must have been dishonored, and.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
It might turn out to be both. Please, simon, we
don't dance together too long.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Tell me what you know.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Well, I was no sooner in the sea than there
was Steve in his canoe. We had a bit of
a disagreement.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Again in the middle of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
There's no choosing time or place. Anyway, I slugged him
and brought him aboard the Corsair. Fogel came over shortly
afterwards and put in a great performance of being shown
over the boat. Luckily, Oraris had disposed of Steve and
he didn't find him.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
So you're still the innocent mister Toos.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's me. Unfortunately Steve got away somehow, so I haven't
the foggiest idea where he is right now?
Speaker 16 (32:47):
And I don't care, not right now. You're the one
who's here, Simon, Me and you, darling Loretta, No, no,
fogel's looking at yes, Simon.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Do you love me?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Indeed? I do say it, say it all, rita, darling.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
I love you, dear liar.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
You're going to hurt me, saint, and I don't seem
to mind more not.
Speaker 17 (33:24):
Young, and you're so beautiful, you along the shallow beautiful,
Oh and yours.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
My dad's sax. I have ordered you a neat whiskey,
mister Thoms. I thought you might like one after your efforts. Again,
quite a good flow, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Right, oh my on the name of Bilds have has
been happening here? Let's have a look at you, old son.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Still side slarting door, right you are, faith.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Hello, old cockroach, Come in and make yourself at home.
But of course you already have quite a rubbish if
you've made of this place. There's still some of the
bulkhead you haven't pulled to pieces. I'll finish that in
a minute, so be careful with that gun. It's liable
to go.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Off don't come any closer.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
And oh my god, you've killed him.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think you're right. This is a bit of a poser.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Yes, what do we do with him?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
No problem there, surely, ohs bought a sack a few
bits of old iron from the engine room. And betty's
your aunt? What nat friend fogel old son? When his
henchman fails to report all present and correct? What was he?
Speaker 9 (35:00):
I wonder that great parcel thing come on board us afternoon,
the diving suit. Well, if that's what was in it,
ripping away at the packaging, he was will not come across.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Him a suspicious old cold focal. Well now he'll never know.
And now there's nothing for it but to carry on
with the charade.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
You're not still going.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Over there tomorrow. An innocent man would, even if he
had caught a burglar in the night. You must be
bomy was that perishing girl in it? She's not perishing, Oris,
And that's just the point. Not while I'm still on
my feet.
Speaker 13 (35:29):
But how long will that be?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And what? Yeah, that's my job when you're feeding the
shrimp for this blows well, you could always go back
to being an artist's model. Now, cheer up, Old sport,
and don't worry. I'll be having the time of my life.
I'll take all the wind out of birdy sails when
I step on board, bright and beautiful. It ought to
be a great moment.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
A perfect morning, mister Toombs.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
After an eventful night, you enjoyed our evening out a
very pleasant But I meant what happened later? What happened later,
mister Toombs. We this harbor thief business is turning into
an epidemic. Mister Arnheim, I also had an unexpected.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Visitor hereos Did you lose anything value?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
No, nothing at all. We caught him, then you were
luckier than we were. Good morning, Good morning, miss Page.
I was just about to recount the story of our
midnight intruder.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
Oh that sounds exciting.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
Near, mister Toombs.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Had one of those harbor fieves on board last night,
and he caught him, and he's.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Too exciting perhaps, Oh it was my man Orris and
I wrestled with him all over the saloon, trying to
get his gun away from him. Then Orriis hit him
over the head and we tied him up and took
him ashore. We lugged him along to the police station,
but When they tried to revive him, they found he
was well sort of dead dead. Hm Oris must have
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overestimated his strength.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
But won't you be arrested, dim me?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
No, they call it accidental death. I may have to
attend an inquest next week. You I'm not quite sure
how they ordered these things in Guernsy. Is this where
you take your dip, Professor Ule.
Speaker 11 (37:11):
We're just about over the deepest sounding ninety four fathoms.
It isn't much, but it'll do for the first test.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Have you known mister fogelon.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
About six months now, Miss Paige? He offered a help
after my first descent. He was very glad to accept
his offer. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must give
the equipmentcom quest check before answer.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You know, Loretta, there's one person who may be sitting
on the same volcano as we are. I mean he
doesn't know it, Professor exactly. When this new batistol has
proved itself, our dear Professor will be expendable, Fogel will
simply get rid of him.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
But how and when?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I wish I knew? Good God, it looks like some
robot from Mars Beautiful.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Isn't a combination of a sphere and a diving suit.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
They lower me in through the top.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Can you actually move about in it?
Speaker 15 (38:04):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
Quite well?
Speaker 11 (38:05):
Really, it looks a great deal heavier than it is underwater.
The air inside reduces the weight quite a lot. And
it's made from a new lightweight alloy, lighter than anything
in the past, and as strong as temperate steel.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What sort of pressures do you meet down there?
Speaker 11 (38:20):
I'll act three thousand feet more than a half a
ton to the square inch in an ordinary diving suit.
Speaker 8 (38:25):
You've been crushed to a pulp.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Go down in it yourself if you like, and prove
how comfortable it is. Thanks, but no fair, I'll take
your word for it.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Can you hear me.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Right?
Speaker 18 (38:40):
Winch me up and lower me over?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Good luck?
Speaker 8 (38:44):
Start twinching?
Speaker 14 (38:54):
Oh right, showing down my good feet? A five past?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
What's those cables?
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Swingchline?
Speaker 8 (39:11):
The telephone wire?
Speaker 6 (39:12):
An electric cable?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (39:15):
No, he has two out of you cylinder's.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Iced a reade hundred and fifty must be nearing the
seabed by now.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
How much cable have we let all?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I've got to sixty?
Speaker 14 (39:27):
Why in seventy five?
Speaker 8 (39:29):
Why something and seventy five feet?
Speaker 14 (39:32):
With this here?
Speaker 18 (39:32):
Jo stop time on the bottom of ever, everything's working perfectly.
Speaker 14 (39:37):
He's very comfortable.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
That can you do the booth?
Speaker 14 (39:41):
Oh yeah, I'll ever go leave. I'll tie a short box.
Give me another twenty feet the cable release.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
Another twenty feet.
Speaker 18 (39:57):
I can walk quite comfortably. I've taken a ten steps.
No sign of a leak, humid it is still nor more.
Hold on, something has happened on one of.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
The oxygen cylinders.
Speaker 18 (40:09):
It's just fizzled out. Not the gage still shows three
quarters full. It must be a forty vowel. I'm turning
on the other one.
Speaker 14 (40:18):
You you might bring me up now win hill.
Speaker 8 (40:21):
Abol This might be it?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Well you do, I don't know yet a percent.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
What is the matter.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
I think it's a fume. You're just fixing the winds.
Have you up in a few minutes.
Speaker 18 (40:33):
I hope it there's anything serious.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
The reserve clator seems worse than the first.
Speaker 14 (40:37):
The pressure is falling rapidly. But please don't belong.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Can't we do anything?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Said, I know.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
Nothing about the machinery. We must leave it to the engineers.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
This reserve seleader is acting up like the first one.
Speaker 14 (40:49):
I don't think it's gonna last much longer.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
What is the problem up there?
Speaker 8 (40:52):
You turn to the payable wind.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
Oh my god, this surnder's just giving out.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Oh can't you put the cable onto another winch?
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Have no other would take the load?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
We could rig up a tackle.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
We'd take over on aw to wings him up with
block and tackle.
Speaker 14 (41:08):
Much longer?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Are you now, mister Arnhem? Surely you've got a suggestion
I must take. Not well, I have walk away from
that wind, sunny Jim. If you don't want to be carried.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Away gone, mister Tooles, have you got mapped?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Not yet, but I'm likely to if our friend here
doesn't get out of my way in the next two second.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
I know this is a ghastly situation, but you won't
helpe me by getting a stelicals.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
Everything possible, it's being done.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
One thing isn't being done, and I'm going to do it.
Get him away from those controls, togle and I'll start
the wind.
Speaker 13 (41:41):
My dear mister tools Simon behind you watch out.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Oh, I trust you're feeling better, much better and full
of admiration. Oh it was smooth, Bertie, very smooth. You
don't mind if I call you birdid you you were
determined to flush me out, and in the end you succeeded.
(42:06):
Very clever. And how is your pawn, the Professor?
Speaker 8 (42:10):
Unfortunately the fault was traced too late.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Mister Templar, poor you a terrible death.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
So you know who I am.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
I learned this morning one of my men photographed you
entering the Royal Hotel. Confirmation came by ship's telegram.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
And once you knew it was curtains for the Professor, he.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Would certainly never have agreed to use his Baptist Stroyal
for the purposes.
Speaker 8 (42:32):
I have in mind.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
And Miss Page a grave disappointment to me. My scheme
was more successful than I bargained for. It knitted two birds.
She could not refrain from crying out the warning to you.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
So where do we go from here?
Speaker 5 (42:45):
Well, that depends on you. You have given me a
good deal of trouble, mister Templar. The man you tangled
with last night is essential to my plans.
Speaker 8 (42:52):
I want him back.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Birdie, you're calling the wrong number. You need a spiritualist.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
You're turning the truth.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Mostly I wondered a little from the straight and narrow
when I said we'd taken him to the police station.
A bloke with my reputation. Can't afford to deliver dead
bodies to the police, not even if they die of
old age, so we gave him a sailor's funeral. I see.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
That leaves me with the problem. He's one of my
best men, and it may take a considerable time to
replace him, time I cannot afford. But fortunately I see
a solution. Do I detect the odor of a deal
in the air. We shall shortly be anchoring directly over
the wreck of the Chelfront Castle. Five million pants worth
of bullion in her strong room, which I intend to
(43:37):
remove before the official salvage operations feagure.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Hence the haste you have deprived me of.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
The only member of my crew who could have been
relied on to open that strong room. The man you
kill is one of the best saith breakers in Europe,
but I have heard that the Saint matches up to
the best in the world.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
You want me to go down and give a demonstration,
That is what I intend in the Bathiston.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
It will not be necessary.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
A child front castle is lying in twenty fathoms. An
ordinary diving suit will be quite sufficient.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Are you offering me in partnership?
Speaker 8 (44:12):
But I'm offering you is a chance to help your partner.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
My partner, delectable miss Page, and if I refuse your imagination,
mister Templar, if you do refuse, I shall clearly have
no further use for either of you. If you cooperate
the lovely Loretto, if it'll be put ashore soon as
convenient alive, and.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
I am to go ahead on your word, what other
choice do you have, mister Templar.
Speaker 8 (44:33):
You have fifteen minutes to decide.
Speaker 7 (44:44):
How long do you think we'll live?
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Now? Indefinitely according to Birdie, until I'm a twothless old
gaffer and you're a stalwart at the Women's Institute. If
I do this job for him, he's ready to send
us an affectionate greetings card. And I do believe and
you believe him. But he murdered you for the Baptistan.
But he doesn't need us dead. The mere fact that
(45:07):
we're here proves that his racket has been exposed and
that others know all about him.
Speaker 7 (45:12):
You don't sound all that convincing.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I'm convinced enough to do what he wants.
Speaker 7 (45:16):
But in Heaven's name.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Why, because it's certain death if I don't, by no
means certain if I do, and because this will be
the first strong room I've ever cracked in a diving suit.
Speaker 19 (45:30):
Oh, simon, just a few points before we screw that
helmet on, mister Templar.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'm all ears, or at least it feels as if
I am with my head poking out of this diving suit.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
If a lost will go down with you, he will
lead you to the strong room. I have shown him
where it is on the ship's plans. He will also
carry the underwater hydro oxygen torch, which you will use
to cut through.
Speaker 8 (46:02):
The steel plate on your directions.
Speaker 19 (46:05):
I should be in touch with your birth by telephone,
and I will.
Speaker 8 (46:08):
Expect you to keep me informed of your progress. Is
that clear as a bell.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Let's get started.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
Get the helmets on, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Then?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Made for the cradle, and we'll lie you down the
side for your second as well as mine.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
I wish you were, mister.
Speaker 14 (46:32):
Temple, where at the strong I'm starting work?
Speaker 6 (46:52):
Everything all right? If all off? Yes, for all this year.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
But it'll take a long time to move.
Speaker 18 (46:58):
There's a glass storm of If we break the glass,
you send straight down here for.
Speaker 14 (47:04):
More than another few minutes.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Break the glass fast and we'll bring you out.
Speaker 8 (47:09):
Calvierre Orbell.
Speaker 6 (47:11):
You two get ready to go down.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
As soon as they come up, attend to the glam
right gloss. Bring them up? Stop?
Speaker 7 (47:31):
Why have you done that?
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Done?
Speaker 8 (47:33):
What?
Speaker 7 (47:33):
Stop bringing them up?
Speaker 6 (47:35):
My dear girl.
Speaker 8 (47:36):
Forty five minutes or twenty fathoms.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Is enough to saturate the blood with nitrogen. If you
come up too quickly, you get divers paralysis. The gas
forms bubbles in the blood like champagne. When you pull
a cork.
Speaker 8 (47:48):
You have to come up gradually.
Speaker 7 (47:50):
That's not what you were doing.
Speaker 6 (47:51):
What else?
Speaker 7 (47:52):
You were going to take one of those airlines off
the pump, won't you? You don't have to say anything.
You were going to kill him.
Speaker 8 (47:59):
I was how deeply would his death hurt you?
Speaker 7 (48:02):
I know why he went down for you.
Speaker 10 (48:05):
He wouldn't have done it to save his own life.
He tried to make me believe that, but he couldn't.
He knew you meant to kill him as soon as
he done what you wanted. He wasn't afraid, but I
knew you must have offered him something.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
That he could believe. You made him do it for me, My.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
Dear letter, A drama. So he's the perfect gentle knight.
Is he dying to save a lady's honor?
Speaker 7 (48:27):
Exactly? And it's something you'll never understand.
Speaker 19 (48:30):
Such a critish chivalry won't be given a chance.
Speaker 7 (48:33):
But he never had any right to bargain on my behalf.
I'm quite capable of doing that for myself.
Speaker 8 (48:38):
You're not in a position to make bargains. I have
uner told you what I think of you might dear,
but you were trying to deceive me.
Speaker 17 (48:43):
I took risks for you.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
I gambled everything to keep you beside me.
Speaker 7 (48:47):
But I'm still beside you. You can take what you
want from me by force, I suppose, but I could
give what what I could give it to.
Speaker 14 (49:00):
You willingly.
Speaker 7 (49:02):
Let him go, and I'll stay with you.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
You have my word.
Speaker 7 (49:15):
Oh I didn't know you had radio to lephony on board.
Speaker 5 (49:18):
Oh yes, I will show you how it works. This
telegram goes via the radio station at Sherbourg. I have
a chateau at Arkville. You can be as comfortable there
as you wish.
Speaker 7 (49:28):
After tomorrow, is that where you'll put this into shore.
Speaker 5 (49:32):
Perhaps he's safe enough for the moment, locked in his cabin.
I'll decide what to do with him later.
Speaker 7 (49:38):
He must never know about you and me. I mean,
you understand that he is part of our bargain.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
Naturally, but I'd have to find some way to satisfy him.
Speaker 8 (49:50):
I think about it.
Speaker 7 (49:51):
I have too much to risk, But how could he
threaten you?
Speaker 5 (49:54):
Now, my dear Loretta, do you realize even Mahawat is
at stake not only the cargo I now have on board,
there have been others.
Speaker 8 (50:01):
I have to keep it all somewhere where at the
bottom of the sea. What uckview under thirty feet.
Speaker 5 (50:08):
Of water, and what a treasure gold jewels such as
you have never dreamed off, nearly twelve million pounds worth,
and it is for you to share.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
There's nothing in the world you can't have.
Speaker 5 (50:20):
Tonight we drop anchor above it and we lower the
shelf from Castle Gold to the same place.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
That is what I must protect from silentimplaf All that
afternoon I remained locked up in that cabin, hearing the
thuds and gratings of the incredible cargo coming aboard. I
thought of Peter and Roger and Oris back in Saint
peter Port, But most of all I was thinking of
Loretta and tormenting myself with unanswerable questions. The shadows spread
(50:48):
and deepened towards darkness. At length, I tackled the lock
on the cabin draw overhead. The first pale stars were
coming out as I climbed onto the deck house roof,
just as I'd done the last time. I looked over
the edge straight into the wheelhouse.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
You will forgive me if I send you below, My dear,
I fear you might be tempted to swim ashore.
Speaker 6 (51:10):
Stuart.
Speaker 8 (51:11):
Would your accompany, miss Page and lock the door behind her?
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (51:15):
Will you be unloading the gold tonight if it'd be safer.
Speaker 5 (51:18):
God alone knows what this man Templar has told his friends,
and it will be necessary to sink the Falkenburg. A pity,
but the risest course we can easily fit out a
troller letter to the cover of the gold. Helmsman uh
tell Ivarlove to be ready to go down in a
quarter of an hour, and tell Calvilli to have a
diving suit ready for me as well.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
I ran lightly ahead of the helmsman, then as he
passed beneath me, my arms shot out and grasped him
by the throat. I'll relieve you if you're automatic. If
you don't mind now if you want to live to
a ripe old age. Fritz, listen carefully. You're not taking
that message to evolve, understood.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
I un will stand good.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
You take me along with you and you tell him
that Vogel's instructions are that I'm to go down one
false move and bang bang, get me up than on
your feet. I want avalof below decks. When friend Fogel
arrived arrange at Fritzer, the helmsman played his part well enough.
He ordered Avalov to stay below with the rest of
(52:19):
the crew while Calviery prepared the two diving suits. Such
cooperation deserved better than the uppercut I administered, but he
would certainly have alerted Fogel to what had happened. By
the time Fogel appeared to be helped into his suit,
I was already standing by the rail with my helmet on,
trying to look like Ivalov. A few minutes later, we
(52:39):
were being lowered down the side, lit brilliantly by a
three hundred watt submarine lamp suspended from a boom. The
lamp followed us into the water and hung six feet
over our heads as we reached the bottom. In its
blade I saw Fogel looking upwards as the grab descended
towards us. I helped him direct the great claw and
(53:00):
settle it around a huge rock. The wire cable straightened,
became taut. Slowly the rock lifted, and there laid open
was the last of Kurt Fogel's secrets, the most amazing
Aladdin's Cave that the hordes of piracy had ever known.
Speaker 14 (53:17):
Off my guy the case saw to me honor.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
How much gold had gone down in that first load,
half a million, a million. Again, I toiled and struggled
to steer the laden grab over the hole. Six loads
came down. Fogel was lost to view, stacking the gold
inside the hole. When the grab disappeared above us for
(53:44):
the last time, I drew my keen heavy bladed diver's knife.
I thought of Professor Hule, I thought of Loretta. I
began to cut through the fibers of Fogel's line. As
they parted, I tied his line around my waist and
through my own line, and looked into a jagged spur
of granite. At that moment, I saw the top of
(54:04):
the Fogel's helmet emerge. I moved nearer and brought my
helmet close to his, until barely six inches separated our
front windows. His blackness, burning eyes widened into pools of horror.
His hands groped round and found the loose trailing ends
of his severed line. His mouth twisted in the shape
of soundless words that no human ear would ever hear. This.
(54:28):
Then I slashed my knife clean from the pipe feeding
him oxygen. He fell topless, backwards, his arms waving, his
hands clutching at the yielding water.
Speaker 8 (54:43):
It's quite easy, really.
Speaker 12 (54:44):
As soon as we got Loretta's radio telegraph.
Speaker 7 (54:46):
Full marks there, Loretta Silver was very proud of his telephony.
He explained it all to me.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
No, we set off at once or a source through.
Speaker 8 (54:54):
We dropped a hook about a quarter of a mile away.
Then we paddled over in a date.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Everyone on dexim busy with a diving business. So it
came out born on the other side and went below.
If we collected seven specter, reason all tied him up,
left him money for inspectment, and where did you collect
the American tragedy for him? He crashed onto the corse there.
Earlier in the afternoon, it seemed all steamed up about
something we can't keep meeting like this, Steve, people will talk.
Speaker 13 (55:16):
I guess I owe you something for helping me clean
up this job. Saint. I'll see Inger Becks here about it,
and now I'll probably offer you a share.
Speaker 8 (55:24):
Of the reward.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
I won't say no, though it goes against the grain
to earn money. Honestly, it's such an anti climax.
Speaker 7 (55:35):
What next, Simon?
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Next, I suppose I'll go on stealing and fighting and
winning and losing. I'll end a panged or shot or
stabbed in the back, that is, if I don't find
a safe birth in prison first.
Speaker 8 (55:49):
But that's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
If I tried to live any other way, I'd suffocate
from sheer boredom.
Speaker 7 (55:54):
Oh it's Simon, that's all for the day after tomorrow.
What about tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
We'll take tomorrow as it comes.
Speaker 12 (56:13):
As goodbye to all those millions you promised.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Us or never gave you that idea, Roger old Son,
you don't think we three are going home just yet,
do you. No, We're going over to the Corseir to
unpack those nice new diving suits we've got on board,
and then one of you drawing room heroes is coming
down with me on a little treasure hunt the American tragedy.
(56:36):
Can't possibly know how much bootle is stowed away down there,
and what he doesn't know about he'll never miss. Now,
how about a toast to riches beyond? Compare bottoms up,
bottom of them up?
Speaker 1 (56:58):
In Saint Overboard, let me try Chriss, dramatized by Noble Teller,
Paul Reese played the Saint. Patsy Kencid Loretta, Charles Simpson,
Roger Jonathan Keeble Pieter, John Hollis Horis, Jeffrey Whitehead Fogel,
John Garacio Murdoch, David Timpson, Professor Yule, and Joshua tile Arnheim.
Saint Overboard is directed by Matthew Waters
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