# The Saint: The Horrible Hamburger (EP5031)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 3 Aug 2026, 37 min.

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Today's Mystery: After a wrong turn leaves Simon Templar and taxi driver Louie dining at a lonely roadside restaurant, a flat tire leads them to discover a corpse in the trunk of Louie's cab. When the body mysteriously disappears, the Saint sets out to uncover the truth behind the "Happy Hamburger." Original Radio Broadcast: September 10, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring Vincent Price as Simon Templar, The Saint. Also featuring Louise Erickson, Noreen Gammill, Arthur Q. Bryan, Dave Light, and Larry Dobkin as Louie. Written by Louis Vittes. Music composed and conducted by Van Dexter. Directed by Helen Mack. Announced by Don Stanley. Based on characters created by Leslie Charteris. A James L. Saphier production. Support the podcast monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Martin, Patreon supporter since September 2017. Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to:Adam Graham PO Box 15913 Boise, ID 83715 Take our listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Become one of our friends on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/radiodetectives Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter/X at @radiodetectives Join us again next time for another adventure of The Saint.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
[0:35] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Grant. In a moment, we're
[0:38] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of The Saint.
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[1:20] Speaker 1: Again, thank you so much for your support. Appreciate you
[1:25] Speaker 1: supporting the show for the past decade. But now, from
[1:30] Speaker 1: September tenth, nineteen fifty, here is the Horrible Hamburger.
[1:56] Speaker 3: The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint
[2:10] Speaker 3: based on characters created by Leslie Charters and No One's
[2:13] Speaker 3: millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood
[2:17] Speaker 3: of Modern Crime now comes transcribed a radio starry Hollywood's
[2:20] Speaker 3: brilliant and tell her the doctor Vincent price.
[2:22] Speaker 4: As let's sing taxi taxi.
[2:32] Speaker 5: Among men who know locomotion test it's Louie three to one.
[2:36] Speaker 4: Hello Louis, and mister Temple Climate, thank you Andy. Can
[2:41] Speaker 4: I watch you this beautifully? Whit? Can you after me? Louis?
[2:45] Speaker 4: What's wrong?
[2:45] Speaker 5: Something has to be wrong before I use a poetical
[2:48] Speaker 5: type speech. No but as a law which says cab
[2:50] Speaker 5: drivers can't use good England. Well, no, but no, witty?
[2:53] Speaker 5: Can I watch you waft.
[2:54] Speaker 4: Me to spring Lake Road? If you please? Spring Lake Road?
[2:58] Speaker 4: I never height of it. Nothing better to do, go
[3:00] Speaker 4: around making up new streets, Louis. Spring Lake Road is
[3:03] Speaker 4: in Westchester. Good, well, it's stay there, Huie. I want
[3:06] Speaker 4: to go there. Why I've been invited to dinner by
[3:09] Speaker 4: some friends. The food tastes better in west Chest No,
[3:12] Speaker 4: but my friends lived there, Okay, so please don't tuck, Louis.
[3:20] Speaker 4: Lots of people live in Westchester. Lots of people are crazy.
[3:23] Speaker 4: Westchester happens to be a very lovely place full of trees,
[3:27] Speaker 4: ain't it? The trees are attracted? Who apes? I'd better
[3:31] Speaker 4: tell you how to go.
[3:32] Speaker 5: Well to tell me I'll find it, I know, but
[3:34] Speaker 5: Russ and mister Temper, I'm a cab driver. Cab drivers
[3:38] Speaker 5: never get lost, Louis, don't say it.
[3:53] Speaker 4: We've just passed that oak tree on the left for
[3:56] Speaker 4: the third time, so it's an active tree. I thought
[4:00] Speaker 4: cab drivers never got lost. Somebody swiped all the streets
[4:03] Speaker 4: sign from the trees. So I got lost.
[4:06] Speaker 5: So I'll turn my badge, and so my wife will
[4:08] Speaker 5: despise me, so my children will go through life a
[4:10] Speaker 5: shames of their old man.
[4:12] Speaker 4: So douay, Louis, it's ten o'clock. My dinner invitation was
[4:16] Speaker 4: for eight thirty. You'll never make it. I don't doubt that,
[4:20] Speaker 4: but I'm hungry. Next time you get to an eating place,
[4:23] Speaker 4: don't say anymore. Right up the road, Yeah, the happy hamburger,
[4:27] Speaker 4: Ben Lawton proprietor doesn't look very happy. Why does it
[4:30] Speaker 4: got to look happy?
[4:31] Speaker 6: Above, I'm at the place itself, So maybe it looks
[4:35] Speaker 6: a little like if the wolf came around and huffed
[4:37] Speaker 6: and puffed, he wouldn't have to strain along before it
[4:39] Speaker 6: fell down. But food is food, except when it's a
[4:43] Speaker 6: happy hamburger.
[4:44] Speaker 5: Perhaps, however, hey, this must be the wolf puffing or
[4:47] Speaker 5: maybe puffing.
[4:50] Speaker 4: Here he is, yeah, savage looking at Nimy some woo.
[4:55] Speaker 4: The poor dog looks as if he hadn't eaten for
[4:58] Speaker 4: a week. Let's get into the before he mistakes me
[5:01] Speaker 4: for a tea ball stake feels happy. Hamburger is not
[5:09] Speaker 4: having a busy night. What can I do for you?
[5:12] Speaker 4: We'd like some dinner.
[5:13] Speaker 7: Well, we're kind of closing, but you haven't closed yet. Oh,
[5:17] Speaker 7: I guess we ain't said anywhere. I guess the missus
[5:21] Speaker 7: dish up some food. I'll go tell her.
[5:25] Speaker 4: A very enthusiastic type hooles. Never mind that, I hope
[5:28] Speaker 4: they have a well stocked lder. I hope it further
[5:31] Speaker 4: occurs to me that they don't have to go out
[5:33] Speaker 4: and catch that dog before they have a lighter at all.
[5:35] Speaker 4: Stop hoping a man could get seasoned. Of course, this
[5:38] Speaker 4: place may be an undiscovered gourmet's delight, but I wouldn't
[5:41] Speaker 4: bet on it. A gourmet who could have delighted in
[5:58] Speaker 4: this place is still under covered. What do you think
[6:03] Speaker 4: of missus Lawton's cooking? You know so, I don't want
[6:05] Speaker 4: to think of it. I'm trying to eat it. Finish
[6:07] Speaker 4: with your jennifellers more likely to finish. How about dessert? Well,
[6:12] Speaker 4: we got blueberry pie, we got huckleberry pie. And what's
[6:15] Speaker 4: the difference.
[6:16] Speaker 7: Huckleberry pie is a nickel moore? Why harder to spell?
[6:23] Speaker 8: What?
[6:23] Speaker 4: Sure you have apple pie? Oh?
[6:38] Speaker 6: Man?
[6:39] Speaker 4: What's the matter, lily dinner? Yeah? I know exactly what
[6:42] Speaker 4: you mean. However, we won't starve to death. Why do
[6:46] Speaker 4: you try to find your way back? I beg your pardon.
[6:49] Speaker 4: It wasn't made up with a pie. I was afraid
[6:51] Speaker 4: it was.
[6:54] Speaker 5: I think maybe yeah, flat flat, Fine, we're back in
[7:01] Speaker 5: front of that oak tree again. You keep your eye
[7:04] Speaker 5: on that open mister Temple while I get the spare.
[7:07] Speaker 4: Yeah, wants some help? No thanks, thank you, mister Temple. Yes, Louis,
[7:16] Speaker 4: come here. Don't tell me you can't lift the spare
[7:20] Speaker 4: all by yourself, despair. I could lift. But there's something
[7:23] Speaker 4: else you see? Yes, a hitchhiker man in his forties,
[7:31] Speaker 4: craps dressed in farmer's clothing. He might have walking terribly tired, Louis,
[7:36] Speaker 4: he got dead.
[7:50] Speaker 5: Somebody shoots a guy, all right, Maybe you don't like him.
[7:53] Speaker 5: Why does he have to stuff the corpse into the
[7:55] Speaker 5: trunk of my cat.
[7:56] Speaker 4: I don't know. There were no papers of any kind
[7:59] Speaker 4: on the body, all right, so he's a total stranger.
[8:02] Speaker 4: But why are we heading back to the Happy Hamburger?
[8:04] Speaker 4: Because that's where we must have acquired the corpse. It's
[8:07] Speaker 4: the only place we stopped. We're out the side of
[8:09] Speaker 4: the car unless he was already in the trunk before
[8:12] Speaker 4: we left the city.
[8:12] Speaker 5: No, no, I checked the tires plus the spare before
[8:15] Speaker 5: I picked you up.
[8:16] Speaker 4: Then it's the Happy Hamburger. The man was murdered fairly recently. Anyway,
[8:21] Speaker 4: how do you know? No rigor more? This body warning?
[8:24] Speaker 4: The mind of him mind?
[8:25] Speaker 9: You know?
[8:26] Speaker 4: I'll stay a dope. And it's the temple LII. What
[8:30] Speaker 4: kind of a welcome you think we're going to get
[8:31] Speaker 4: at the Hamburger? It's hard to tell, except that it
[8:35] Speaker 4: may not be a welcome at all. Joints is dunk.
[8:57] Speaker 4: Looks like maybe they went out of business. There's a
[8:59] Speaker 4: house behind the restaurant. Let's talk too. The lawtons may
[9:02] Speaker 4: have gone to bed. It's after eleven. It is very late.
[9:05] Speaker 4: Maybe we should go to bed. Becomes a Julia werewolf again.
[9:09] Speaker 4: Yeah that animals should be bad, but not by me.
[9:12] Speaker 4: All the flesh I got I need from along living.
[9:15] Speaker 4: I'm coming as the hound of the basket. He's not
[9:18] Speaker 4: bothering so far.
[9:20] Speaker 5: He kept his feet to themselves. Suppose he decides the
[9:22] Speaker 5: risk if you and see how we.
[9:23] Speaker 4: Take it, and it's a chance we'll have to take yep,
[9:26] Speaker 4: here goes Oh, look now that our trummer has left
[9:32] Speaker 4: us again, if I couldn't be more pleased.
[9:35] Speaker 5: You know, if they're asleep, then I'm gonna love us
[9:38] Speaker 5: with a great love, and I'm not at the moment
[9:40] Speaker 5: seeking affection. Yeah, missus Lawton, that's right. My name is
[9:46] Speaker 5: Simon Templer. This is Louis.
[9:48] Speaker 2: What do you want.
[9:49] Speaker 4: You cooked dinner for us a little while ago, so
[9:51] Speaker 4: I cooked dinner for you. But since that time we've
[9:54] Speaker 4: had a little trouble. We had a flat tire.
[9:57] Speaker 2: This ain't a garage.
[9:58] Speaker 4: I wasn't referring to the when I said trouble.
[10:01] Speaker 2: Why don't you say what you're referring to?
[10:03] Speaker 4: Well, I would rather your husband were here when I do.
[10:06] Speaker 4: He's asleep or he can be waked. What far it's
[10:10] Speaker 4: a matter of some importance. You still ain't said anything.
[10:13] Speaker 4: The matter might be murder, murder, that's right.
[10:18] Speaker 9: Come in I thinks.
[10:25] Speaker 2: Right in here it's the parlor. Michelle takes time to
[10:29] Speaker 2: waken mister Lawton and sleeps hard.
[10:32] Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid it's necessary.
[10:34] Speaker 2: That don't make it easier, But I'll get him up
[10:37] Speaker 2: from drift.
[10:41] Speaker 4: I think the wait for her is gracious. Very few
[10:44] Speaker 4: women are at their best in the middle of the night. Lowings,
[10:47] Speaker 4: that's what you'd think, would you like? No?
[10:50] Speaker 5: Okay, hey, mister Temple, you figuring the deceased we got
[10:55] Speaker 5: in the camp was put there, but a lot not necessarily.
[10:58] Speaker 4: They did have the opportunity. So what anyone else who
[11:01] Speaker 4: might have been around.
[11:02] Speaker 10: The place where we were having dinner or stop complicating,
[11:04] Speaker 10: thinks it's bad enough.
[11:07] Speaker 4: This is some Paula I've seen in cheerier places. I've
[11:11] Speaker 4: got a radioil no television set? Is that the well,
[11:15] Speaker 4: mister Temple, What do you think of television? I think
[11:17] Speaker 4: of it as infrequently as I can. Missus Lawton is
[11:21] Speaker 4: apparently having difficulty awaken her husband. From what we've seen
[11:24] Speaker 4: as a guy, how can she tell when he's awake?
[11:41] Speaker 4: And eleven twelve?
[11:46] Speaker 5: You know what happens at midnight? Ghosts take walks. Maybe
[11:51] Speaker 5: our bites have flown the coop. It's a possibility. How
[11:54] Speaker 5: can a boid fly a coop?
[11:56] Speaker 4: Right here? They can't fire a whoop? I hello, mister Lawton.
[12:04] Speaker 4: You didn't have to bother dressing for us. I dress
[12:07] Speaker 4: for myself.
[12:07] Speaker 2: Don't go second mud over the best rug sack where
[12:10] Speaker 2: you are?
[12:11] Speaker 7: I'll set where I am. Wife tells me you are
[12:14] Speaker 7: mister templar I am. She also tells me you got
[12:18] Speaker 7: something to say about a murder.
[12:19] Speaker 4: I have say it in a moment. Your wife and
[12:24] Speaker 4: you own the Happy Hamburger. You already know that. I
[12:27] Speaker 4: noticed quite some farm land behind the house yours. Yeah,
[12:31] Speaker 4: frement yourself? Pretty much? Does that? Pretty much mean you
[12:35] Speaker 4: have help sometimes hired hand named webster? Why only sometimes? Well,
[12:41] Speaker 4: you up and quit this afternoon. It's too bad. Oh,
[12:44] Speaker 4: you'll be back as.
[12:45] Speaker 7: Soon as he spends his money. You might be wrong
[12:48] Speaker 7: about that, always has before. What are you getting at?
[12:53] Speaker 4: Suppose we go outside to the cab? Huh? I don't mind,
[12:58] Speaker 4: Come on emmy.
[12:58] Speaker 2: I'm right here.
[13:07] Speaker 4: What kind of a man is wedsday? Not much?
[13:09] Speaker 7: Account works when he has to eat, gets a full belly,
[13:13] Speaker 7: stops working.
[13:14] Speaker 4: The philosopher perhaps ever have any quarrels with him, I
[13:17] Speaker 4: don't know.
[13:18] Speaker 2: Is the ancient mister templar?
[13:19] Speaker 4: Perhaps? But is there any reason why your husband should
[13:22] Speaker 4: hesitate about answering that question? No reason, no quarrels, right, Louis, Yeah,
[13:29] Speaker 4: please open the Trump compartment, will you sure? In a second.
[13:35] Speaker 4: There's something I'd like to show you, mister Lawton, if
[13:39] Speaker 4: you were planning on surprising anybody, give up? What do
[13:42] Speaker 4: you mean?
[13:43] Speaker 10: Look, m looks like Boyd's cancel, like Coops, something I
[13:49] Speaker 10: picked the wrong Boyd.
[13:50] Speaker 4: We have mislaid our corpse. Mister Strange, say how about
[13:55] Speaker 4: letting us in on this. Mister Lawton, was your hired hand,
[13:59] Speaker 4: a man in the forties with brown hair and eyes
[14:02] Speaker 4: of stocky build a small scar under his left job bone.
[14:05] Speaker 4: That's Webster. You must have met him. What do you
[14:08] Speaker 4: have to say for himself? We met him, but he
[14:12] Speaker 4: didn't have anything to say.
[14:27] Speaker 5: We didn't start out being the great loves of the
[14:29] Speaker 5: lot of his life.
[14:31] Speaker 4: But I hate to think what they must be thinking
[14:32] Speaker 4: of us now, right, I hate to think of the
[14:34] Speaker 4: missing mister Webster. Yeah, he didn't even say goodbye. It's
[14:38] Speaker 4: the temple of what happened to him. I don't know.
[14:41] Speaker 4: Corpses rarely are the active tide, but the late mister
[14:45] Speaker 4: Webster may have been an exception.
[14:47] Speaker 5: Exceptions like that, I hope stay away from me. We're
[14:51] Speaker 5: in what could easily be an overgrown film station.
[14:54] Speaker 4: Slow down, loye, this is expert. All town nearest the
[14:58] Speaker 4: Happy Hamburger Play seems to be shut up for the night.
[15:02] Speaker 5: I didn't take the sidewalks in though. Hey, up ahead,
[15:06] Speaker 5: the gay white way.
[15:08] Speaker 4: The drug store badly still open. Let's stop there learning okay.
[15:16] Speaker 5: Yeah, windows full of harnesses, vitalizer and yard goods.
[15:22] Speaker 4: How did you know what? It's a drug store and there's
[15:24] Speaker 4: a large sign advertising ice cream sodas in front. Oh
[15:27] Speaker 4: well that explains it. Well, thisting only for information. Come along.
[15:37] Speaker 5: Joined us crawling with juveniles, and look at the jukebox.
[15:41] Speaker 4: So it is the waitress behind the fountain that's too public.
[15:44] Speaker 4: The waitress the fountain, h mister templar, I just noticed
[15:49] Speaker 4: behind the castrogister dissent. Look it.
[15:52] Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll not put your eyes back in their sockets.
[15:57] Speaker 5: She's dressed in gingham. She's wearing pigtails and.
[16:00] Speaker 4: Big blue eye. She's nearly the farmer's daughter. Lewis. Is
[16:03] Speaker 4: that a fact? Hey, maybe she knows a joke. He's
[16:07] Speaker 4: still Lewis. She may be able to help us. Is
[16:10] Speaker 4: help the word you really had in mind? Good evening?
[16:14] Speaker 4: Then I beg your pardon?
[16:16] Speaker 9: Sofa? What's for?
[16:18] Speaker 4: Mmm? And farm? Mean's what it used to be? Not
[16:21] Speaker 4: to mention the farmer's daughter.
[16:23] Speaker 9: It was a little stranger.
[16:25] Speaker 4: Oh that's Louis.
[16:26] Speaker 9: It's not bad either, but it looks married. Who are you?
[16:29] Speaker 9: I'm Simon Templar, I'm Teddy. And what are you doing
[16:32] Speaker 9: after I gets through here?
[16:33] Speaker 4: Well?
[16:33] Speaker 9: Are you married?
[16:34] Speaker 4: No?
[16:35] Speaker 9: What a coincidence.
[16:36] Speaker 8: I'm not married either, but it happens all the time.
[16:38] Speaker 8: But what I wanted my closest in half hour? Tell
[16:42] Speaker 8: me that, my dear Teddy. I look, what do you
[16:45] Speaker 8: know about a man named Webster? Dan Webster, I imagine.
[16:48] Speaker 9: So hired hand out to the Lawtons.
[16:50] Speaker 4: Yeah that's the Dan Webster I had in mind.
[16:53] Speaker 9: He wears a private property no trespassing sign on him.
[16:56] Speaker 4: Oh who's signed?
[16:57] Speaker 9: Missus Lawton's?
[17:00] Speaker 4: Mister Lawton feel about that?
[17:02] Speaker 9: Mister Lawton has never seen sid to whisper, sweet, nothing's
[17:04] Speaker 9: in my showlike ears? Don't you think they show like
[17:08] Speaker 9: my ears. I mean I hadn't noticed stop wasting time
[17:12] Speaker 9: and do so noticing.
[17:13] Speaker 4: Look I'm almost old enough to be your father.
[17:15] Speaker 9: Maybe, but you're not my father.
[17:17] Speaker 4: Uh. Good evening, Teddy.
[17:19] Speaker 9: So far, it's a terrible eating Where are you going, Louie?
[17:22] Speaker 4: And I have an erin to do?
[17:23] Speaker 9: My phone number is one three seven in case in
[17:26] Speaker 9: case of what your erin is out of town. Goodbye.
[17:34] Speaker 4: Wow. I'm afraid Wow is exactly right.
[17:38] Speaker 10: Oh you know, I'm coming to the conclusion they got.
[17:41] Speaker 4: Something these small tons up in Westion. But you mean
[17:45] Speaker 4: they have is Teddy and you're married and we have
[17:47] Speaker 4: an appointment? Yeah? Well the Happy Hamburger. You mean we're
[17:51] Speaker 4: gonna wake the Lawtons again? I hope not. So what
[17:53] Speaker 4: are we going out there for? We're going to dress
[17:57] Speaker 4: us on very proud property. I ought to hang a
[18:15] Speaker 4: sign with shuttle on it. I'm like, I don't imagine
[18:18] Speaker 4: we're going to be coming out here again.
[18:20] Speaker 5: You're not breaking my heart. You know, every time we
[18:23] Speaker 5: come out to the Happy Hamburger gets darker. I think
[18:26] Speaker 5: I'll coin a proverb too late. It's always darker before
[18:30] Speaker 5: it's lighter.
[18:31] Speaker 4: I don't think that'll catch on Happy Hamburgers. Up ahead, Louis,
[18:36] Speaker 4: we have a problem. Oh, thanks for letting me. What
[18:39] Speaker 4: kind of a problem have we got? We gotta find
[18:41] Speaker 4: a pond, a brook, or perhaps a lake. You're got
[18:44] Speaker 4: a sudden desire to go swimming, No, not swimming.
[18:47] Speaker 5: You forget something, Louis, I always forget something.
[18:49] Speaker 4: What is it this time? Ponds, brooks or lakes create mud? Oh?
[18:53] Speaker 5: Thanks a lot tonight. I don't need any more. Call
[18:56] Speaker 5: me hypersensitive. I just don't need any money.
[18:59] Speaker 4: That is not the under these trees. Okay, you know
[19:06] Speaker 4: about that mud. I have a specture mistaken.
[19:09] Speaker 5: That's because you've got a suspicious nature being got to
[19:12] Speaker 5: get starting.
[19:15] Speaker 4: They were heading away from the house. Why we're looking first?
[19:18] Speaker 4: I know, I know, And they rarely occur in house. Okay, okay.
[19:23] Speaker 5: Does this watery object you're looking for have to be
[19:26] Speaker 5: any place in particular? Or are we surveying Westchester count.
[19:30] Speaker 4: It has to be on the Lawton's land All that helps? Yeah?
[19:33] Speaker 4: Probably they got one hundred and thirty nine acres and
[19:36] Speaker 4: in the dark. How are we going to search you?
[19:38] Speaker 5: I understand, Hazel Twigs, don't wait anymore. That hound without
[19:44] Speaker 5: a home again, I hope he goes away and be silly.
[19:47] Speaker 5: Way you want to meet up with him, you'll do
[19:49] Speaker 5: all the wanting by yourself. Why, because he's going to
[19:52] Speaker 5: be a hazel twig?
[19:54] Speaker 4: What is hey went on? You mean he'll help us
[19:57] Speaker 4: find water? Actually, but what is all this six about water? Anyway?
[20:01] Speaker 4: Among other things? Louis water washes away blood. No, I'll
[20:18] Speaker 4: tell you a secret, mister Templar. I never like hikes.
[20:21] Speaker 4: It can't be much longer. That dog is definitely leading
[20:24] Speaker 4: us somewhere. Aren't sure she'll probably to a poney buried
[20:27] Speaker 4: last month. I don't get it. We're referring to the
[20:31] Speaker 4: junior size lake that pond? Yes, no, what? Oh fine, fine,
[20:37] Speaker 4: he went swimming. We gotta go swimming too. No, we
[20:41] Speaker 4: can walk around the pond. We're at one end of it. Hey,
[20:45] Speaker 4: look at that on ground hunker Hamburger stopped. Yeah, just
[20:48] Speaker 4: beyond the pond in a small plump of trees would
[20:51] Speaker 4: join them. Of course, Come on? Why because the land
[20:54] Speaker 4: around the pond is muddy, all right?
[20:56] Speaker 5: So the land around upon is muddy. This fills me
[20:58] Speaker 5: with a great dog not moving he's waiting for him.
[21:01] Speaker 4: Also fills my shoes with mud. Hey, you know what
[21:05] Speaker 4: happens to trees when they die, They become telegraphed. Stop
[21:08] Speaker 4: swiping my jokes. That dog is going up with joy.
[21:15] Speaker 5: What has he got to be so happybody hasn't even
[21:16] Speaker 5: gone near a tree. He's digging at the ground for sure.
[21:19] Speaker 5: You had that bonny bury last month.
[21:21] Speaker 4: Do you know what we're gonna do? Loing, I got
[21:23] Speaker 4: an unhappy idea.
[21:24] Speaker 5: We're gonna copy the dog and dig right, I'm already
[21:27] Speaker 5: looking for something to do with.
[21:29] Speaker 4: What are we going to dig for something the dog lost? No,
[21:32] Speaker 4: it was something we lost and mister Temples a couple
[21:51] Speaker 4: of feet more, I'll be in China. He'll be silly.
[21:54] Speaker 4: You can't get to China by digging straight down, but
[21:57] Speaker 4: you can't where you get is. Australia tells me things
[22:01] Speaker 4: like that, Hey, what is it, Louis? From where you
[22:06] Speaker 4: are you can't see, but from down here, Well, I'll
[22:10] Speaker 4: come to the edge of the hole. Well, Louis, we've
[22:15] Speaker 4: kind of found that corps all over again. Look you
[22:19] Speaker 4: tell that dolls to shut up. Wait, I don't feel
[22:21] Speaker 4: so now. I'll give you a hand, Louis, help climb
[22:24] Speaker 4: out of the hole. That sounds like a carp backfire
[22:28] Speaker 4: roads too far away, never mind climbing up her, Louis,
[22:31] Speaker 4: I'm going to join you down.
[22:32] Speaker 11: Hey, what's going on? And I'm not gonna like the answer?
[22:38] Speaker 11: And someone is having target practice with us for target wool.
[22:42] Speaker 11: I could see a vague figure at the other side
[22:44] Speaker 11: of the pond, too dark to identify. Oh, there goes
[22:48] Speaker 11: that houn that walks like a horse. Probably figured was
[22:51] Speaker 11: too crowded down here. Hey, mister templar, I hate to mention, miss,
[22:57] Speaker 11: but if the boy with the gun kind.
[22:59] Speaker 4: Of warm over heah, I realized that, Louis, this grave
[23:03] Speaker 4: we're in isn't level. The edge on your side is
[23:05] Speaker 4: lower than the one facing the pond, which means you
[23:08] Speaker 4: can climb out with our being seen. Make for the trees,
[23:10] Speaker 4: then for the roads, your cab and if you police
[23:12] Speaker 4: him may be sober, then what are you going to do?
[23:14] Speaker 4: Stay here? Otherwise our gun shooting friend will head for
[23:17] Speaker 4: the cab too. But while I'm getting help, you are
[23:20] Speaker 4: level to be getting too. Now that's a chance we'll
[23:22] Speaker 4: have to take, and believe me, I'm not taking it
[23:24] Speaker 4: with any great joy, but we have no alternative.
[23:26] Speaker 12: You better hurry, okay, mister templar, But look at with
[23:29] Speaker 12: the way the taxi businesses, be careful. I don't want
[23:32] Speaker 12: to have to look for another fair and a counter.
[23:34] Speaker 12: You got shot in the woods?
[23:52] Speaker 4: To me, well, it's been a lovely life.
[23:56] Speaker 9: Simon, what on earth are you doing down there?
[23:58] Speaker 4: What on earth on, Teddy?
[24:01] Speaker 9: Is it fun down there?
[24:02] Speaker 2: Because if it's fun.
[24:03] Speaker 4: Off, I'm right down Teddy, stay where you are.
[24:08] Speaker 9: May not be very fancy down here, but it is cozy. Simon,
[24:13] Speaker 9: you didn't tell me you weren't alone.
[24:14] Speaker 4: I didn't have a chance to better not to look
[24:16] Speaker 4: at him too long.
[24:17] Speaker 9: Simon, what on earth are you doing down at the
[24:19] Speaker 9: bottom of a grave with mister Lawton?
[24:22] Speaker 4: He is mister Lawton, isn't he?
[24:24] Speaker 9: Well, of course he is. Why do you say it
[24:27] Speaker 9: in that funny way?
[24:28] Speaker 4: Because we were supposed to think it was Dan Webster,
[24:30] Speaker 4: except that I hadn't thought so none for a while
[24:33] Speaker 4: and he was murdered.
[24:35] Speaker 9: Teddy, did you murder it?
[24:37] Speaker 4: No?
[24:38] Speaker 9: Well, I'm certainly glad to hear that, because you're very handsome.
[24:41] Speaker 9: But after all, even hansome fellow shouldn't murder people. What
[24:44] Speaker 9: they should do with.
[24:45] Speaker 4: Teddy Dan Webster, along with missus Lawton murdered mister Lawton.
[24:48] Speaker 9: Well, that's not very surprising, because I did have a
[24:51] Speaker 9: crush on each other, and nobody loved mister Lawton anyway.
[24:53] Speaker 4: They must have planned to leave town immediately after the murder.
[24:56] Speaker 4: But Teddy, did you happen to notice a dog about?
[25:00] Speaker 4: Have to mention Dan Weston.
[25:02] Speaker 9: I heard somebody running in a dog barking before I
[25:04] Speaker 9: found you.
[25:05] Speaker 4: Dog, mister frightened webster, are so.
[25:08] Speaker 9: That's all right?
[25:09] Speaker 4: How did you find me?
[25:10] Speaker 9: I noticed your car outside the Happy Hamburger. I lived
[25:12] Speaker 9: on the road a bit and was going home, so
[25:14] Speaker 9: I knew you were someplace around. And when I was
[25:17] Speaker 9: a little girl, I used to be a.
[25:18] Speaker 4: Girl Scott because you wanted to learn how to tie
[25:21] Speaker 4: out to bill campfire, No, because.
[25:24] Speaker 9: I wanted to learn how to track a man. I
[25:27] Speaker 9: had a feeling it would come in handy it had.
[25:33] Speaker 4: Did anybody call for a cat? Louis excuse me, daddy,
[25:38] Speaker 4: Hello Louis, Hello, Louie says, I thought you'd gone to
[25:42] Speaker 4: town for help. It would take too long. Maybe I
[25:45] Speaker 4: could get behind the villain and surprise him.
[25:47] Speaker 2: So instead, mister Templey, you surprised me.
[26:04] Speaker 4: Back to the Hamburger again. Well hungry, no, except perhaps
[26:08] Speaker 4: for justice, Simon.
[26:10] Speaker 9: The Lawton's car is outside, missus Lawton's in it.
[26:12] Speaker 4: Come on into the cab this way. It'd be as
[26:15] Speaker 4: quiet as you can't. All right, you can't see us
[26:23] Speaker 4: under the trees here, can your ignition on? Louis, be
[26:26] Speaker 4: ready to start the car. Okay, it's ready. That's just
[26:32] Speaker 4: coming out of the house carrying a couple of suitcases
[26:39] Speaker 4: getting into the car. Here they go, Louis, I know,
[26:45] Speaker 4: follow them. You may not notice they're being followed. And
[26:50] Speaker 4: supposing they do, I will have to chance that.
[26:52] Speaker 5: Okay, but look, I don't mind so much being shot myself.
[26:56] Speaker 5: But don't forget this here. Can't belongs to the company.
[26:59] Speaker 5: I can't afford the bullets in us. We're coming into
[27:14] Speaker 5: ext Brook.
[27:15] Speaker 4: What now, mister templand Teddy at this hour of the night.
[27:18] Speaker 4: No one would be about him. I right, that is
[27:20] Speaker 4: kind of light. The police station is where the next
[27:22] Speaker 4: block in that case. Catch up with him, Louie, quick, well,
[27:25] Speaker 4: I should have a collision with I'm preferably a small size.
[27:28] Speaker 4: When you're a good driver, Louis, run them off the
[27:30] Speaker 4: road to caver. Mind that hit them as soon as
[27:33] Speaker 4: we get opposite the station.
[27:35] Speaker 5: Okay, I only hope it will show on the meter.
[27:39] Speaker 5: We're getting close to.
[27:40] Speaker 4: Him and Nanks going Louis Ah didn't leave a scratch
[28:03] Speaker 4: of fender. They wanted those tops polite, which is very unusual.
[28:08] Speaker 4: And Louis be still, why I have to explain things
[28:11] Speaker 4: to Teddy here from what I heard sheet on Louie,
[28:14] Speaker 4: I shut up, Please Simon tell me, well, do you
[28:17] Speaker 4: see Teddy? Missus Lawton and Webster planned to kill mister
[28:20] Speaker 4: Lawton and then leave town, figuring no one would ever know.
[28:22] Speaker 9: How did they expect to get away with it?
[28:24] Speaker 4: Actually, their idea of placing the corps in the trunk
[28:26] Speaker 4: compartment of the cab was clever. Normally the body wouldn't
[28:29] Speaker 4: have been discovered for days and then miles away from
[28:32] Speaker 4: exper But instead.
[28:33] Speaker 9: You got a flat and came back.
[28:35] Speaker 4: Very lucky flat. But not for missus Lawton and Webster.
[28:38] Speaker 4: She got quite a shock when she saw her smiling faces,
[28:41] Speaker 4: but she kept her head and sent Webster out to
[28:43] Speaker 4: remove the body from Louie's cab and hide it. The
[28:46] Speaker 4: only mistake she made was being too housewifely. What do
[28:50] Speaker 4: you mean, oh, when Webster returned. Her instinctive reaction was
[28:53] Speaker 4: to tell him not to track mud on the rug.
[28:56] Speaker 4: If he'd been asleep in the house, there shouldn't have
[28:58] Speaker 4: been mud on his shoes. Therefore, I concluded he'd been out,
[29:01] Speaker 4: I see, and when the body was missing, I knew
[29:04] Speaker 4: that he'd buried it. The mud also told me the
[29:07] Speaker 4: burial place had to be near water.
[29:08] Speaker 9: And mister Lawton's dog led you to the burial place,
[29:11] Speaker 9: and that's where I found you. Simon, Yes, but we
[29:17] Speaker 9: were kind of interrupted back there, so.
[29:21] Speaker 4: Wow, wow, wow, Louis, I'm not hearing a thing. Was
[29:25] Speaker 4: she a thing? In my riview mirror? Louis, we've reached
[29:28] Speaker 4: Teddy's place, stopped the car. Okay, But Simon, my dear,
[29:33] Speaker 4: you're very lovely, but you're very young, so I'm afraid
[29:37] Speaker 4: this is where the farmer's daughter goes back to the farm.
[29:53] Speaker 3: You've been listening to one other transcribed adventure of a saint,
[29:56] Speaker 3: the robin Hood of Modern Crime.
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[30:11] Speaker 4: this same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint.
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[31:22] Speaker 1: NBC Welcome back. I love this episode. It is peak
[31:39] Speaker 1: Louis and the Saint storytelling, so many great lines, and
[31:44] Speaker 1: they're really just given a great chance to play off
[31:47] Speaker 1: of each other. I will note that we once again
[31:51] Speaker 1: have a reference that tossed this to New York with
[31:54] Speaker 1: them talking about Westchester, so apparently not in a minor
[31:59] Speaker 1: league city anymore. That was just for last week. One
[32:03] Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about was the murderer's joke
[32:07] Speaker 1: when he was pretending to be the restaurant owner about
[32:11] Speaker 1: the five cent difference in the price of blueberry pie
[32:15] Speaker 1: and huckleberry pie, being explained by the fact that huckleberry
[32:20] Speaker 1: is harder to spell. Now, for most listeners to The Saint,
[32:25] Speaker 1: that might as well be the case, because certainly Huckleberry's
[32:31] Speaker 1: the idea that there was such a thing was something
[32:35] Speaker 1: that people were culturally aware of, but probably few had
[32:39] Speaker 1: actually ever tasted them. Huckleberries are kind of a regional
[32:44] Speaker 1: delicacy where I live. They only grow in Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
[32:51] Speaker 1: and Montana. Now, while blueberries are very easy to cultivate
[32:57] Speaker 1: and wildly available throughout the Unida States, the huckleberry really
[33:02] Speaker 1: only grows in the wild and they are very expensive.
[33:07] Speaker 1: Where I grew up in northwest Montana, there were signs
[33:10] Speaker 1: for buying wild huckleberries that offered very high per gallon price.
[33:19] Speaker 1: My family we decided we would try our hand at
[33:22] Speaker 1: it once, and we spent several hours at this and
[33:26] Speaker 1: we yielded three, not three gallons, three auckleberries. There are
[33:32] Speaker 1: people who know the spots where the huckleberries grow, and
[33:36] Speaker 1: they pick and they are quite thorough and the whole
[33:40] Speaker 1: challenge of growing these outside of the wild is still
[33:46] Speaker 1: very much a live issue. Some of our best universities
[33:51] Speaker 1: in this portion of the country have spent years trying
[33:54] Speaker 1: to figure this out. My brother was talking to me
[33:58] Speaker 1: about it last time I was out in Montana, and
[34:01] Speaker 1: despite years and decades of research, you can still only
[34:06] Speaker 1: pick them in the wild. And there are quite a
[34:08] Speaker 1: few products that get made from huckleberries. You can get
[34:13] Speaker 1: things like huckleberry jams online, but also out here you
[34:18] Speaker 1: can get things like huckleberry flavored chocolates and huckleberry ice cream.
[34:25] Speaker 1: That's just fantastic moral of the story. If you ever
[34:29] Speaker 1: do find yourself in one of these states where we
[34:33] Speaker 1: have huckleberries, be sure and tried. I think everybody should
[34:36] Speaker 1: taste huckleberry at least once. All right, well, now it's
[34:40] Speaker 1: time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank
[34:44] Speaker 1: you to Martin, Patreon supporter since September twenty seventeen, currently
[34:50] Speaker 1: supporting the podcast that the Detective Sergeant Level lost seven
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[34:56] Speaker 1: much for your support, Martin, And that will do it
[34:58] Speaker 1: for today. If you're enjoying podcast, please follow us using
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[35:09] Speaker 1: back next Monday with another episode of The Saint, but
[35:13] Speaker 1: join us back here tomorrow for the Big Story where.
[35:19] Speaker 13: Wiley re right Bergen Missus Peters died four minutes ago.
[35:24] Speaker 4: Cyanide Gas got that Wiley right. I'll wrap it up
[35:27] Speaker 4: and you're on the front page.
[35:28] Speaker 9: Well what do you mean wrap it up?
[35:29] Speaker 4: What more do you want? The killer? Did you get me?
[35:32] Speaker 4: Peter's arrest? I'll hold headline and listen.
[35:34] Speaker 2: He could be halfway out in Lake.
[35:36] Speaker 4: Erie's swimming for Canada by now pols his tools. Why
[35:40] Speaker 4: you on tired off a pretty pink package? You at fifteen,
[35:43] Speaker 4: Wiley Whalley hold the line, you kiddus, get moved.
[35:47] Speaker 13: Line Wiley and get a photographer out here where city
[35:50] Speaker 13: hospital crazy.
[35:51] Speaker 4: We can't run pictures of I know, I know, we're
[35:53] Speaker 4: a one. Pictures of her husband, can't you?
[35:55] Speaker 13: He's coming down the hall now, now hold the line?
[35:58] Speaker 4: Can I help him?
[35:59] Speaker 5: Yeah?
[36:00] Speaker 13: You would be so kind. I'm Edward Features. Yeah, I've
[36:02] Speaker 13: senior picture. Oh I'm looking for room three. H four
[36:05] Speaker 13: there four, it's right on the corner. You're looking for
[36:08] Speaker 13: someone special. My wife. I called the house and they
[36:11] Speaker 13: told me that she'd had a slight accident.
[36:14] Speaker 1: You'll be with us then in the meantime, send your
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