Episode 634 - Crimesolving on Campus (Michael Shayne, Box Thirteen, Richard Diamond, & The Saint)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 634 – Crimesolving on Campus

Date: August 17, 2025
Host: Mean Streets Podcasts
Featured Shows: Michael Shayne, Box Thirteen, Richard Diamond, The Saint

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Overview

This week, the “Down These Mean Streets” podcast takes listeners back to campus—literally and figuratively—as it presents four classic radio mysteries set in the halls of academia. In the spirit of back-to-school season, the episode gathers four legendary radio detectives—Michael Shayne, Dan Holiday (Box Thirteen), Richard Diamond, and Simon Templar (The Saint)—as they untangle crime, cover-ups, and campus intrigue at colleges. The host provides rich background on each show and performer, immersing listeners in the atmosphere of Golden Age radio and the world of campus-based mystery.

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Episode Structure & Segments

[00:56] Introduction & Context

• The host shares a personal back-to-school anecdote and introduces the theme: campus crime-solving.
• Each featured radio show and detective is introduced with context, highlighting their unique styles, sidekicks, and actors.

Featured Cases:

• Michael Shayne: "Return to Huxley College" (Mutual, Nov 5, 1946)
• Box Thirteen: "The Professor and the Puzzle"
• Richard Diamond: "The Martin White Case" (NBC, Jan 22, 1950)
• The Saint: "Simon Carries the Ivy" (NBC, Apr 1, 1951)

Notable Quote:

“Since we’re in back-to-school mode at my house, I’ve picked four radio mysteries where our sleuths are headed to campus themselves...” – Host, [00:56]

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[08:16] Michael Shayne in "Return to Huxley College"

Starring: Wally Mayer (Michael Shayne), Cathy Lewis (Phyllis Knight)

Plot:

• Shane and assistant Phyllis Knight visit her alma mater, Huxley College, at the Dean’s request.
• The case: A peeping Tom incident has escalated into murder among the sorority girls.

Key Discussion Points

• The contrast between Wally Mayer’s more collegial Shane and the later “tough-guy” incarnations.
• Campus setting as a character—shady sorority rows, fraternity rivalries, and college bureaucracy.
• The partnership dynamic: Phyllis Knight as an equal, witty, and resourceful collaborator.

Important Moments

• [11:21] Discovery of murder:

  “At the sorority. One of the girls has been murdered... dead about half an hour, a very neat job of strangling.” – Professor Brill

• [16:41] Turning point: Football laces used for strangulation become an essential clue.

• [30:52] Resolution:

  “Well, Officer, you’d better clamp the bracelets on Mr. Quincy Baldwin. Huxley’s most brilliant student is coming, too. Yeah, yeah.” – Shane, [31:03]
  Quincy confesses to “an experiment in psychology—experiment in murder, you mean.”

Tone & Notable Quotes

• Witty banter and classic radio detective patter.
• Playful rivalry:

  “Research, honey, research. It looks to me like this particular seat of learning has got quite a spread, baby, know what I mean?” – Shane

• Philosophical wrap-up:

  “Colleges give me an inferiority complex... That stuff about thermal diffusion and kinetic... What do you call them? Ah, that’s no place for a dick.” – Shane, [33:00]

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[34:15] Box Thirteen: "The Professor and the Puzzle"

Starring: Alan Ladd (Dan Holiday)

Plot:

• Dan Holiday visits friend Bob Lanham at Riddell College, drawn by a cryptic plea for help.
• A suicide turns out to be murder, entangled with stolen diamonds, blackmail, and a love triangle.

Key Insights

• Academic setting adds layers to the mystery: faculty intrigues, student romances, and small-town suspicion.
• Holiday’s outsider perspective: not a detective, but always pulled into trouble.

Important Segments

• [46:05] Bob is jailed, accused of killing his romantic rival Ed Macklin; the case hinges on weak circumstantial evidence.

• [51:21] Holiday faces a gunman who forces him to burn crucial evidence:

  “Now light a fire in that grate and step on it.”
  “Oh, we’re going to toast marshmallows, aren’t we?” – Holiday

• [56:03] Villains’ conspiracy revealed through eavesdropping:
  “I kill him with his own gun while the machines in that shop were running. Nobody heard the shot. Suicide.”

• [57:28] Full explanation and confessions: illicit diamond cutting, blackmail, and Holiday wraps up the case.

Memorable Quote

"Trouble has a bad habit of popping up." – Dan Holiday, [39:57]

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[61:00] Richard Diamond, Private Detective: "The Martin White Case"

Starring: Dick Powell (Richard Diamond)

Plot:

• A college student and war vet, Martin White, believes he’s seen a presumed-dead former army comrade—now on his own campus.
• Diamond risks his own safety to uncover the truth.

Key Segments

• [63:41] Martin’s wartime recollections set the tone of paranoia and unresolved trauma:

  “He was big and nasty. But up on the line, he went to pieces...he’d have gone over the hill shore.” – Martin

• [68:09] Attempted hit-and-run, hinting at the danger on campus.

• [71:32] Gathering clues: obtaining Blackwell (the alias) student file, setting the trap for confrontation.

• [79:09] Diamond prepares to act as night watchman, drawing out the murderer.

• [83:27] The pool showdown:

  "Now, I gotta do this fast. This is it."
  Diamond narrowly escapes death, subdues the criminal in a suspenseful aquatic fight.

Notable Quotes

• Quipping through danger:

  “But a young guy comes in with a real problem and old hard-headed Diamond gets a fast softening of the skull.” – Diamond, [68:14]

• On closing the case:

  “Once the guy kills, he’ll do it again to beat the rap.” – Diamond

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[90:11] The Saint: "Simon Carries the Ivy"

Starring: Vincent Price (Simon Templar)

Plot:

• Templar is summoned by his old fraternity brother Buzz Barnhart to investigate poison pen threats targeting men interested in Barnhart’s daughter Angela.
• The campus is gripped by fear after a professor is killed, entwined with forbidden romance and psychological unraveling.

Key Drama Points

• Old school ties and nostalgia clash with modern dangers:

  "There is no higher duty than the duty we all owe our alma mater...She needs you, Buzz. For university, for fraternity. The grip." – Buzz, [93:01]

• Investigation into the professor’s death and the biting satiric view of academic bureaucracy.
• Templar’s conversations reflect on generational change, the pressures of postwar college life, and the darkness lurking under the campus surface.
• The mystery climaxes as the author of the threats—Angela’s own father, lost in his own faded glory and delusion—reveals himself.

Memorable Moments & Quotes

• [113:46] Revelation:

  “The person who wrote this wrote the poison pen notes. A very sick person, Angie. A person unable to face reality. Someone living in the past still in that golden moment which was never afterward equaled.” – Templar

• The tragic final confrontation on the press box:

  “Now it’s a hundred feet straight down. Let’s see how young you look lying on the concrete, Templar!” – Buzz

• Aftermath and reflection:

  “There are times to look the other way.” – Dean, [116:04]
  “Proves what I’ve always said. Can’t beat a college education.” – Dean
  “And above all, keep a sound grip on reality.” – Dean

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Notable Themes & Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | Key Theme / Event | |------------------------|-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Introduction & Theme | 00:56 | Back-to-school; campus-set mysteries | | Michael Shayne | 08:16 | Peeping Tom to murder case; collegiate banter; solution ([31:07]) | | Box Thirteen | 34:15 | Academic intrigue, suicide/murder, diamond smuggling ([56:57]) | | Richard Diamond | 61:00 | PTSD, mistaken identities, dangerous impostors ([83:27]) | | The Saint | 90:11 | Fraternity loyalty, generational drama, poison pen reveal ([113:46])|

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Conclusion:

Tone:
Respectful, nostalgic, witty, and suspenseful. Each segment balances campus nostalgia with a sharp awareness of human frailty, institutional pressures, and the perennial dangers lurking even in ivory towers.

For New Listeners:
This episode is ideal for anyone new to old time radio mysteries or returning fans who appreciate collegiate settings, strong character work, and classic whodunit structures with social commentary.

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Selected Memorable Quotes

• “At least I can say I’ve been through a college.” – Michael Shayne, [24:52]
• “Trouble has a bad habit of popping up.” – Dan Holiday, [39:57]
• “He’s got the same rotten eyes. That didn’t change. And that nasty smile...In a dark room, I’d know him.” – Martin White, [67:18]
• “There is no higher duty than the duty we all owe our alma mater...The grip.” – Buzz Barnhart, [93:01]
• “Colleges give me an inferiority complex...” – Michael Shayne, [33:00]

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Listen-Guide Tip

For those searching for a particular style, note:

• Michael Shayne: Fast talk, wit, banter (“hardboiled with a heart”)
• Box Thirteen: Philosophical, methodical, danger finds the reluctant detective
• Richard Diamond: Jokes and jazz under pressure, lighter side of noir
• The Saint: Satirical, intellectual, with Vincent Price’s charm

Each story stands alone, but together, the episode underscores how campus life, with its power struggles, ambitions, and personal dramas, is perfect ground for mystery and moral inquiry—even in the golden age of radio.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Michael Shane]

Get this and get it straight.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

[Dan Holliday]

The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

[Narrator/Announcer]

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective the Adventures of the Saint Starring Vincent Price. Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

[Podcast Host]

Hello and welcome to down these Mean Streets and more old time radio detectives and crime solvers. It's hard to believe that summer vacation is coming to a close. My daughter reports for her first day of third grade tomorrow and since we're in back to school mode at my house, I've picked four radio mysteries where our sleuths are headed to campus themselves in cases set at college. First up is an adventure of Michael Shane, private Detective. Now usually when we hear Mr. Shane on the podcast he's portrayed in an ultra tough two fisted manner by Jeff Chandler. But today we'll hear a different earlier incarnation of the character voiced by Wally Mayer, one of radio's busiest character actors. You may know Wally Mayer from his work on the lineup as Sergeant Matt Grabbed. We heard an episode of that show last week or on Let George do it as Lieutenant Riley. Unlike Jeff Chandler's lone wolf, this Michael Shane solves mysteries with the help of his lovely secretary Phyllis Knight, played by radio legend Cathy Lewis. We'll hear the two of them in the Return to Huxley College, originally aired on Mutual on November 5, 1946. Mike and Phyllis visit Phyllis alma mater at the request of the Dean. He asks them to investigate the case of a peeping Tom that's turned into a murder mystery. Next up is Alan Ladd as mystery writer Dan Holliday and the man behind box 13. Holliday's newspaper ad seeking adventure yields a letter from an old friend. In the syndicated episode the professor and the Puzzle, Dan's friend is a professor whose fiance left him shortly after her father, who was also a faculty member, committed suicide. Or did he? And if that wasn't bad enough, soon his ex fiance's new suitor also turns up dead. Then Dick Powell is Richard diamond, private detective in an episode known as the Martin White Case, originally aired on NBC on January 22, 1950. Diamond's new client is an ex GI who's enrolled in college only to discover that a man he knows from his army days, a deserter and a murderer who's believed to have been killed in action, is alive, well and on the same campus. And finally, we'll hear Vincent Price as the Saint in Simon Carries the Ivy. Originally aired on NBC on April 1, 1951. There's danger on the saint's old campus, where a beautiful young co ed has many admirers and a jealous suitor who's threatened their lives. Simon Templer is approached by an old fraternity brother to study the clues and figure out who's guilty. That frat brother is played by the great Ed Begley, who will also hear this week in Richard diamond in his regular role as Lt. Walt Levinson. Now let's go back to school with these old time radio detectives. We'll kick things off with Michael Shane right after these messages.

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[Phyllis Knight]

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[Professor Brill]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Commercial Female Voice]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

Get ahead of you.

[Commercial Female Voice]

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[Professor Brill]

In any money, not even a box.

[Michael Shane]

Stop.

[Commercial Female Voice]

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[Phyllis Knight]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Phyllis Knight]

Winston's easy drawing too.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

The flavor comes right through to you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Quincy Baldwin]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

Winston tastes good like a cigarette. Should I dedicate this program to the fight against crime? Not merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but crimes of intolerance, discrimination and bad citizenship.

[Michael Shane]

Crimes against America.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, oh, why, yes, of course.

[Professor Brill]

Gentlemen, no speak English.

[Phyllis Knight]

Will you be quiet?

[Professor Brill]

I will take no college stuff and that's final.

[Phyllis Knight]

Mr. Shane says he'll be delighted to take the case.

[Narrator/Announcer]

The Hastings Manufacturing Company and the Kayside Corporation presentation. Michael Shane, Private Detective. Starring Wally Mayer and Kathy Lewis. A detective without a murder case is like flapjacks without syrup. Yet that is just the predicament of.

[Dan Holliday]

Our friend Michael Shane.

[Narrator/Announcer]

In fact, things are so dull that we find Michael and his blonde assistant, Phyllis Knight, not at the office, not at police headquarters, not at the morgue. But squirming uncomfortably in the seat of higher learning. In other words, the office of the.

[Professor Brill]

President of Huxley College.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Professor Brill is explaining the situation to our friends.

[Professor Brill]

As I say, Mr. Shane, I decided to ask for your help because Phyllis Knight graduated from Huxley and is now, as I understand it, your amanuensis. My? Oh, no, professor. She's just my secretary.

[Phyllis Knight]

Amanuensis means secretary, my pet.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, excuse me.

[Michael Shane]

Yes, quite so.

[Professor Brill]

You see, Mr. Shane, we don't want to take our problem to the town police. Unfavorable publicity, you know. But something must be done about it immediately. It's affecting the morale of our girls. The girls? I thought this place was co educational. It is, Mr. Shane, but our feminine students seem to be more affected by it.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, a bad rash of Frank Sinatra.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, no, no. That is no more than usual. You'll understand, after talking with the victims. I have two of them waiting now in the outer office. Just a moment, please. Oh, Ms. Brown, you step in here, please.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes? For Frank, sir.

[Michael Shane]

Very good.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yes, step right in here.

[Professor Brill]

Ms. Brown. This is Mr. Shane. Ms. Brown.

[Phyllis Knight]

How do you do?

[Michael Shane]

Hello.

[Professor Brill]

And Ms. Knight and Mr. Shane's associate and one of our former alumni.

[Phyllis Knight]

How do you do, Ms. Brown?

[Professor Brill]

I should explain, Ms. Brown, that Mr. Sheen is a private investigator whom we have employed to solve the embarrassments which have been occurring here recently. Now, if you'll just repeat your story.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, if you say so, Professor Brill. It's a little embarrassing.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, well, go right ahead, Ms. Brown.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, well, it happened last Monday night. I was in my room in the sorority getting ready for bed. I was getting into bed when I heard a sound like somebody giggling and an echo, maybe. Oh, no, sir. More like a mad laugh. It came from the window. It was open, but there was a scream. Somebody was trying to pry it off. And then I screamed. That's the usual procedure, I believe.

[Professor Brill]

Go on, Ms. Brown.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, he ran away, that's all.

[Professor Brill]

Do I understand, Professor Brill, that you brought us all the way down here just because of some Peeping Tom? No, no, no, no. You don't appreciate the situation. Mr. Shane, in the past week I've had at least a dozen complaints similar to Ms. Brown's.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, my.

[Professor Brill]

It's gotten so our girls never know when they're safe.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I don't think that's peculiar to Huxley College, Professor.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, really? Oh.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, yes, I see. Well, Mr. Shane, I think you should hear the newest turn of events. Ms. Brown, will you ask Quincy Baldwin to step in here?

[Phyllis Knight]

It's all right if I leave, Professor?

[Professor Brill]

Oh, yes, of course.

[Michael Shane]

And thank you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Goodbye, Mr. Shane. Ms. Knight. Bye. Goodbye.

[Professor Brill]

Until last night, Mr. Shane, none of the boys had been involved. But now, well, I'll let Quincy take away. Oh, well, come right in, Quincy. Oh, thank you, sir.

[Phyllis Knight]

Tall, blonde and rugged.

[Professor Brill]

Mr. Shane, this is Quincy Baldwin, another of our students. Our most brilliant student, I might say. Oh, well, I'm glad to meet you. How do you do, sir?

[Michael Shane]

And Ms. Knight. Charmed, Ms. Knight.

[Phyllis Knight]

Thank you.

[Professor Brill]

Quincy. Mr. Shane would like you to tell him your unfortunate experience of last night. Oh, well, Mr. Shane, about 10:00 clock last night I was coming home from lecture, and about a block from my fraternity, a masked man jumped out from behind a hedge.

[Quincy Baldwin]

And.

[Professor Brill]

And?

[Michael Shane]

Yes?

[Professor Brill]

Well, he conquered me on the head. I see. Just a friendly gesture or some sort of college Hazy? Hardly, sir.

[Quincy Baldwin]

The man had a gun.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Professor Brill]

Any way for you to recognize him again? Oh no sir. He got away. I should add, Mr. Shane, that this individual has been sending anonymous notes to my office. He boasts of his activity and promises more serious things to come. Now believe me, sir, if it isn't stopped soon, a mass hysteria will break out among the student body. I hope you catch him, sir.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm willing to do anything I can to help.

[Professor Brill]

Yes, that's an idea. Quincy, perhaps you should go along with Mr. Shane. You can acquaint him with the campus.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And all our activities.

[Professor Brill]

Be glad to, sir. Well, for this afternoon I'd like to work alone if this peeping tom performs only at night. Well, suppose, Quincy, you meet us say about 9 or 9:30? Well, could you make it 10, sir? I have to attend a lecture tonight and it's on the kinetic principles and thermal diffusion.

[Phyllis Knight]

Really? I must try that sometime.

[Professor Brill]

Yes. Yeah, okay, okay. Mega 10 o'.

[Michael Shane]

Clock.

[Professor Brill]

Where will we meet? Well, at the clock tower.

[Phyllis Knight]

Meanwhile, maybe this afternoon Quincy can show me around, bring me up to date on things.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, sugar. I'll want you. We've got to check those anonymous notes.

[Phyllis Knight]

You said you wanted to work alone.

[Professor Brill]

I've changed my mind, if you know what I mean. Well, that tower clock is 5 minutes slow according to my watch.

[Phyllis Knight]

Our good looking friend should be here now.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, good looking bookend if you ask me. Oh yeah? And since when do you go for blonde guys with curly hair?

[Phyllis Knight]

Will you look who's talking? You spent plenty of time wandering around the girls gym this afternoon.

[Professor Brill]

Research, honey, research. It looks to me like this particular seat of learning has got quite a spread, baby, know what I mean?

[Phyllis Knight]

I get it. Hey, here comes our blond menace right now.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, hello there. Hello. Sorry to be late. The lecture was wonderful. I wish you could have heard the professor on the separation of the isotopes.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh no, have they separated again?

[Professor Brill]

Oh yes, yes, yes, all over town. Mrs. Isotope couldn't stand his drinking.

[Phyllis Knight]

Ah, well, I know it was causing talk.

[Professor Brill]

Well anyway, it was a good lecture.

[Phyllis Knight]

You know, with all your enthusiasm, Quincy, I suspect there's a cute redhead at the desk in front of you.

[Professor Brill]

Oh no, no, no.

[Quincy Baldwin]

The feminine element doesn't fit into my program.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh really?

[Professor Brill]

Look, I. I may seem a little over enthusiastic, but you see, my father.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Used to teach her at Huxley Psychology.

[Professor Brill]

So erudition is probably bred into the corpuscles. You might say guys have been shot for saying less. Well, suppose we get started, huh? The sorority houses are on Elm street, aren't they?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yes, the street here to our right.

[Professor Brill]

I'm blamed if I know where we start. Just ambling down Sorority Row waiting for some gal to yelp isn't my idea of an investigation. Have you checked on the notes this.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Individual has been writing?

[Professor Brill]

Yeah, yeah, I did that this afternoon. The guy printed them with a pen.

[Michael Shane]

No dice.

[Phyllis Knight]

You know, this place hasn't changed a bit. Street's quiet as a grave at 10 o'.

[Michael Shane]

Clock.

[Quincy Baldwin]

May I make a suggestion, Mr. Shane?

[Professor Brill]

Yeah, shoot. Well, it might look better if you and Ms. Knight were alone for a while. If you were to get in your car and park under a tree and. Well, you follow my train of thought. Well, I think I caught the caboose.

[Phyllis Knight]

At least in basic English. You mean smooching?

[Professor Brill]

You know, you're improving, Quincy. That's the first sign idea we've had.

[Phyllis Knight]

Please, Mr. Shane. Wait a minute. Mr. Shane, isn't that Professor Brill?

[Professor Brill]

Yes, and running too.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, I thought I might miss you. Something terrible has happened, Just terrible. Yeah? What? At the sorority. One of the girls has been murdered.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, what a dreadful, dreadful thing to happen.

[Michael Shane]

Mm.

[Professor Brill]

Dead about a half an hour and a very neat job of strangling.

[Phyllis Knight]

What? What's that wand around her throat, Michael?

[Professor Brill]

Well, it looks like. Yeah, yeah, it is the laces from a football.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

A football?

[Professor Brill]

Who found her?

[Phyllis Knight]

I did.

[Professor Brill]

You're one of the students living here?

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes. Jean Winters. I came to ask agan's for my sewing kit. I forgot it when I moved out. You see, we lived together and I couldn't stand it any longer.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Professor Brill]

What was wrong?

[Phyllis Knight]

I'll tell you, Mr. Shane. As House mother of this sorority, I owe a duty to my other girls. I made Jean move to another room before she and Agnes drove the rest of us insane. Please, Mrs. Fuller. They were fighting always. Yesterday I caught them in here pulling hair and smashing things. Boy trouble out there. I told Agnes I went out with Gil only once. Is that why Agnes slammed the door in Gil's face this afternoon? I saw that myself.

[Professor Brill]

Wait, hold it. Who's gil?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Gil Packard, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

He's our star halfback and my roommate. He was Agnes's boyfriend.

[Phyllis Knight]

Tight Little Corporation, this.

[Professor Brill]

Mrs. Foyer. During the past hour, did anybody hear any unusual sounds from this room?

[Phyllis Knight]

No. It's been very peaceful since yesterday.

[Professor Brill]

Then the killer probably was somebody Agnes knew. That window over there. Any way of reaching it from the outside?

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, there's a little porch. I suppose somebody could climb up it. But if you ask me, Mr. Shane, I think you won't have to look outside this room for the murderer? If you're Talking about me, Mrs. Fuller, I'll let you remind you.

[Professor Brill]

If you ladies don't mind, I'll run this circus.

[Phyllis Knight]

Michael, listen.

[Professor Brill]

Yeah, Outside that window. I'll see if I can get a look at him. Stop where you are.

[Phyllis Knight]

Who is it? Michael.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, darn it. He got away. I just saw his back. But Mr. Shane, aren't you going after him? No, no, it's useless. He's got too much of a head start anyway. I got a hunch he's not the man we want.

[Phyllis Knight]

Dollars to donuts, it was the Peeping Tom.

[Michael Shane]

Maybe. Maybe.

[Professor Brill]

Well, children, I think that's all here for the while. Oh, say, Quincy, have you any idea where I might find Gil Packet at the moment? Well, surely he has to be in his room by 9:00 every night.

[Quincy Baldwin]

He's in training.

[Professor Brill]

Okay, then, let's take off.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Our room is right down the hall here.

[Professor Brill]

Fine.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't know your purpose, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

But I can tell you Gil has nothing to do with this affair. I didn't say he had, Prince. I'd just like to get a list of Agnes's possible enemies. I can't rely too much on Ms. Jean Winters.

[Phyllis Knight]

You might also check on the spat between Gil and Agnes.

[Professor Brill]

This is our room.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, hello, Quincy. Gil, this is Mr. Shane and this Knight. They want to see you about something. Just a social call, Mr. Packet. Oh, say, you got quite a scratch.

[Michael Shane]

On your cheek there.

[Professor Brill]

It's bleeding. Oh, yeah, I was just changing the bandage. I got it in a scrimmage. Oh, won't you have a chair, miss?

[Phyllis Knight]

Night. Thank you.

[Professor Brill]

By the way, Mr. Packard, wasn't it rather risky to break training tonight? How did you. Oh, so Agnes blant again, did she? Told her what would happen if the coach found out. Thinks it's so funny to make a guy jump through hoops. No, no, it wasn't Agnes. Mr. Packet, I happen to recognize the plaid coat you're wearing. I saw the back of it when you ran away from the sorority house a few minutes ago. That's how you got the scratch, isn't it? Well, I. I fell off the porch. Somebody yelled at me and I. I got scared and ran. I wanted to talk to Aggie and. Well, I wasn't supposed to be out after 9 o'.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Clock.

[Professor Brill]

I figured nobody would see me at her window. I'm afraid it's a all my fault, Mr. Shane. I told Gil to go over there tonight and have it out with Agnes once and for all.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Professor Brill]

Got trouble over Gene Winters? No, over another guy. Red Burroughs. Aggie knows I'm crazy about her. And yet her. Say, what's all this pumping about anyway? Agnes has been murdered, Mr. Packet.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Murdered?

[Professor Brill]

What?

[Michael Shane]

She's dead?

[Phyllis Knight]

That's right.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, no.

[Professor Brill]

It doesn't seem possible. But just this afternoon, Aggie and I. Oh, my.

[Phyllis Knight]

Mike. Look under that bookcase, Mr. Packard.

[Professor Brill]

Did you go to see Agnes at any time earlier this evening?

[Michael Shane]

No.

[Professor Brill]

Can you prove it?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I was with him at the lecture, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

Yes. And we came back here and Quince left. I sneaked out later. I see. By the way, is that your football under the bookcase there?

[Michael Shane]

Huh?

[Professor Brill]

Yes, it is.

[Michael Shane]

Mm.

[Professor Brill]

It's unlaced. Where are the strings? I don't know. It was laced this afternoon.

[Phyllis Knight]

Michael, where are you going?

[Professor Brill]

To telephone. I think the police can take over from here.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What? What do you mean?

[Professor Brill]

Well, for your information, Mr. Packard, Agnes Carter was strangled with a pair of football legs, or didn't you know? Well, good morning.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, good morning, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

We'd like to see Professor Brill.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I think he's busy right now. He telephoned for us to come right over. Oh, then I'll tell him you're here. Just a moment.

[Professor Brill]

All right.

[Phyllis Knight]

You know, Michael, I don't like this case. There's something fishy about it somewhere.

[Professor Brill]

Yeah, fishy is an aquarium. It's too blamed simple.

[Phyllis Knight]

Then you don't think Gil Packard did it?

[Narrator/Announcer]

No.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, we had to arrest him. Circumstances were too strong. But you know who our man is.

[Phyllis Knight]

Who?

[Professor Brill]

Handsome face, that Quincy bird.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What?

[Phyllis Knight]

Be quiet. You can go right in.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, thanks. Come on, baby.

[Phyllis Knight]

Ah, Mr. Shane. Ms. Knight, I'm glad you could come.

[Professor Brill]

Quincy here has been pestering me for one solid half hour.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yes, Mr. Shane?

[Professor Brill]

You've got to clear Gill. He didn't do it.

[Michael Shane]

You know who did?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, no, but I'm sure Gil is innocent.

[Professor Brill]

Why, I've roomed with him for two terms now. The most popular boy on the campus. He's a swell fella. He wouldn't do such a thing. And besides, I was with him most of the evening.

[Phyllis Knight]

But he did break training and wanted to lie about it.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, he was just scared. The whole thing is most regrettable. Most regretful. I anticipate a very unfavorable reaction among our regions and alumni. Well, Quincy, I don't see that there's much that can be done. Oh, Gil will be given a fair trial. Mr. Shane. Almost anybody could have killed Agnes.

[Quincy Baldwin]

She had Plenty of enemies.

[Professor Brill]

The girls didn't like her. The boys got too. She had a Mesolina complex. Is that bad?

[Phyllis Knight]

Psychological double talk, Michael. It means a lady wolf.

[Professor Brill]

Agnes went for one boy after another.

[Quincy Baldwin]

The minute she knew he was in.

[Professor Brill]

Love with her, she'd throw him over to show her power. Gil was just another one.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Any of those boys might kill her.

[Professor Brill]

Or one of the girls. Jean Winters, for instance. Anybody might.

[Phyllis Knight]

Pard. Please. Professor Brill, this special delivery letter just came.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, yes, yes.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Thank you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Thank you. Oh, you didn't even wait. Yes.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, excuse me while I see what this is.

[Professor Brill]

Yeah, sure, sure. Well, if it's as you say, Quincy, everybody on the campus is in this. I. I think I'll let the local police in.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, my, this is frightful.

[Professor Brill]

What's wrong, Mr. Shane? Read this letter, Professor Brill. I told you you couldn't stop me, even for murder. Nobody can outwit me. Least of all that wool brain detective you've hired. You'll be hearing from me again. That's all. It's unsigned. Well, now you'll believe me, Mr. Shane.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Gill is innocent.

[Michael Shane]

Maybe not.

[Professor Brill]

Gil could have mailed this letter before we arrested him. To make it look like the work of your Peeping Tom. Well, what do you propose to do now, Mr. Shane? Go home, Professor. What? Yep. Yeah, I don't feel like playing blind man's buff any longer. Yeah, the local police can take over.

[Quincy Baldwin]

But, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

I'm sorry. I should remind you, Mr. Shane, your fee was dependent upon catching this Peeping Tom who is now a murderer. That's okay, Professor. At least I can say I've been through a college. You coming through?

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, yes, yes.

[Professor Brill]

Oh. Oh, by the way, professor, could you tell me who is the most popular girl on the campus?

[Phyllis Knight]

Let me see.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, Claire Fiser won the last popularity contest.

[Michael Shane]

Why? Oh, nothing, nothing.

[Professor Brill]

Goodbye, gentlemen.

[Phyllis Knight]

Mike, what are we stopping for? You leave something back. The hotel.

[Professor Brill]

Honey, have you seen the new Cary Grant movie?

[Phyllis Knight]

No.

[Professor Brill]

Well, you're going to. In fact, you're going to see it three times today.

[Phyllis Knight]

Are you kidding? I thought we were headed for the city.

[Professor Brill]

That's what I want everybody to think. Let's go. Come on, baby. The theater's right across the street. Until 9 o' clock tonight it's you and me in the dark and cozy.

[Michael Shane]

Pretty good.

[Phyllis Knight]

Pretty good With Cary Grant. Oh, look, my dear Mr. Shane, do we have to keep walking around the same block all night? Mike, let's stop a minute.

[Professor Brill]

I tell you, it's going to happen. I feel it in my bones.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, I still. You say nobody's going to pull two murders two nights running. Besides, I just can't see how you figure a nice boy like that Quincy.

[Professor Brill]

Well, you wait, sugar. You wait. If I guessed right, and I think I have, it's going to happen right across the street in that same sorority house.

[Phyllis Knight]

I see you and the gent sat down over a cup of tea and decided it all, I suppose. Hey, isn't that Quincy coming along the sidewalk?

[Michael Shane]

Mm.

[Professor Brill]

And Ms. James Gene Winters carrying tennis rackets.

[Phyllis Knight]

Must have had a night game.

[Professor Brill]

Hello, Quincy. Oh, Mr. Shane, I thought you'd left. Well, we were delayed. Just taking a last stroll around the place. Well, how are you tonight, Ms. Winters?

[Phyllis Knight]

All right, thank you. Have a good game. All right. I don't like playing at night.

[Quincy Baldwin]

She says she can't see the ball under the lights.

[Phyllis Knight]

I have enough trouble hitting it in the daylight. I know what you mean. I have the same trouble.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, do you play, Miss Night?

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, I used to a little. I don't get a chance very often now. Come on, Prince, let's go.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Just a minute, Jean. Is there anything I can do, Mr. Shane?

[Professor Brill]

No, no, thanks. We're just taking a last look at the campus.

[Phyllis Knight]

Listen, Quincy, if you're going to restring these. Right.

[Professor Brill]

All right, all right.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, then, goodbye, Mr. Shane, Ms. Knight.

[Michael Shane]

Goodbye.

[Phyllis Knight]

Good night. Good.

[Professor Brill]

All right, honey, this is it.

[Phyllis Knight]

What? Michael, are you in a trance staring at the stars like that?

[Professor Brill]

Come on, baby, we gotta get going.

[Michael Shane]

What?

[Phyllis Knight]

What's the matter?

[Professor Brill]

I think I know how Ms. Claire Fisher is going to be killed if we don't get there first.

[Michael Shane]

There.

[Professor Brill]

That's Claire's room. The lighted window, third to the right.

[Phyllis Knight]

On the ground floor.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yeah.

[Phyllis Knight]

May I ask, Mr. Shane, how you knew which was her room?

[Professor Brill]

Or shouldn't I mention more research? Honey, I checked it before we left this afternoon. Now, keep in the shadow of these bushes. We don't want anybody to spot us.

[Phyllis Knight]

How do you know Claire is going to be the one to be killed?

[Professor Brill]

Just a hunch, honey. Figuring it from his angle.

[Phyllis Knight]

Look, look, our light just went out.

[Professor Brill]

Okay, now look, we've got to get across that stretch of lawn without being seen. If we muff this, it may be the end of Claire.

[Phyllis Knight]

You say when.

[Professor Brill]

All right, now aim for that big bush under the first window.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yeah.

[Professor Brill]

Then work along the building to her window. You all set?

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes.

[Professor Brill]

Okay, let's go. We made it.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right.

[Professor Brill]

Speak up.

[Phyllis Knight]

It's a cop.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I got you covered. No funny decision.

[Professor Brill]

So it was two people in Town? Listen, Officer, please. You've got us wrong. I'm the detective, Michael Shane. Oh, yeah, he left town this afternoon. But wait a minute. You're leaving for the station right now.

[Phyllis Knight]

Michael, somebody's Claire's window.

[Professor Brill]

Yes, Come on, we got to get in there. Oh, no, you overd opposite. Look, look, a girl's going to be killed.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, yeah.

[Professor Brill]

Ain't that interesting? Okay, you asked for it. Come on, Phil.

[Phyllis Knight]

Quick. Michael, he's going in the window. Hey, no. Come back.

[Professor Brill]

Now, you get that cop and come a running. I'm going in this window.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, watch out, darling.

[Professor Brill]

All right, Quincy, up with the hands. It's dark in here, Mr. Shane. You can't see me, but she'll feel me. Why, you jerk.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, you.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, you don't. You haven't got me yet, Mr. Shane. Oh, that's what you. Here. Here's a sample of my. Come on, open the door.

[Phyllis Knight]

Come on. Come on. You all right?

[Professor Brill]

Yeah, yeah, I'll let you in.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Wait a minute.

[Professor Brill]

Hey, what's going on here? Come on. Turn on sl.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes. Yeah. Here we are, officer. Oh. Oh, Michael, you're hurt.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, brother. Did he give me a Swedish massage?

[Phyllis Knight]

And Claire. Oh, look.

[Professor Brill]

Holy. Sir, you wasn't kidding me. Another murder? No, not quite. I can feel her heartbeat.

[Phyllis Knight]

Strangled with. With what?

[Professor Brill]

Tennis strings, baby. Tennis strings. Well, Officer, you'd better clamp the bracelets on Mr. Quincy Baldwin. Huxley's most brilliant student is coming, too. Yeah, yeah.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Thanks to you, Mr. Shane, I am.

[Professor Brill]

The most brilliant student. The rest are sheep. Fools.

[Phyllis Knight]

Seems to me you have a rather extreme way of proving the point.

[Professor Brill]

Girls do like me. I was too brilliant. The boys were jealous of my brains. Even Gil. Beeping Tom. They reacted just as I wanted them to.

[Phyllis Knight]

I started it just as a game.

[Professor Brill]

To watch the sheep react. An experiment in psychology. Experiment in murder, you mean. It was easy. And Gil was such a fish.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I helped you, Mr. Shane.

[Professor Brill]

I even risked my neck. There was a thrill of danger. But you didn't catch me, Mr. Shane. You just blundered onto it. You stupid man. Well, hardly, Quincy. You see, you made a couple of slips. You were the only boy that the peeping Tom picked on. And then you were so helpful to us, you didn't come directly to meet us at the clock tower. You took a few minutes out to kill Agnes.

[Phyllis Knight]

Michael, how did you know? You tried to kill Claire tonight.

[Professor Brill]

His ego. You remember when I asked Professor Brill who was the most popular girl?

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes.

[Professor Brill]

Well, that was it. Gil, the most popular boy. Claire, the most popular girl. You couldn't resist that, Quincy. I still say you're stupid. Yeah, well, it could be. But you'll be wearing the dunce cap, Quincy, when you sit in the gas chamber. Oh, what's that, honey? Another bill?

[Phyllis Knight]

No, my duck. Just a little check from Huxley College. Darphy, remember?

[Professor Brill]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Say, by the way, did you graduate from any other college?

[Phyllis Knight]

Of course not.

[Professor Brill]

Are you sure?

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, that's good.

[Michael Shane]

Why?

[Professor Brill]

Well, colleges give me an inferiority complex. That stuff about thermal diffusion and kinetic. What do you call them? Ah, that's no place for a dick.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, well, it's all right, Michael. I like you just the way you are.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, you do, huh?

[Phyllis Knight]

Besides, you're intelligent. That's what counts in the long run.

[Professor Brill]

You wouldn't change me.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Well, what?

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, you might take your feet off the desk.

[Professor Brill]

Oh, why, certainly, Ms. Isotope.

[Phyllis Knight]

Why, thank you, Mr. Isotope.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Michael Shane Private Detective Stars Wally May and Kathy Lewis this is the Mutual broadcasting system, box 13 with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Hol.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Dear Dan, I know all about your box 13ad in the Star Times, but I'm writing to you as a friend to come and see me. As you know, I'm teaching at Riddell College, not too far from where you are. Frankly, I've got a problem. I don't know whether it's anything very.

[Michael Shane]

Exciting.

[Dan Holliday]

Excited about it or not. Matter of fact, it's sort of personal, but. Well, will you come to see me, Bob Lanham? Yeah, it was a personal problem, all right, at first. Then the whole thing got tangled around up to my neck.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And now back to box 13 and Dan Holiday's newest adventure, the professor and the Puzzle.

[Phyllis Knight]

Maybe it'll be a kind of a vacation for you, Mr. Holiday.

[Dan Holliday]

Could be, Susie. But somehow I have a habit of running into trouble or it runs into me.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, why don't you be careful then?

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, now, who has fun that way?

[Phyllis Knight]

Remember that old saying, never trouble, trouble until it. Oh, no, that's wrong. It's never trouble, trouble until. No, it's.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Tell you what, Susie.

[Dan Holliday]

You keep working on it. I'll be back in, say. Say, a week. College in the northern part of the state was one of those little places where classes are more important than football and education is still the prime reason for the buildings being there. I drove to the campus, found the Teachers Club where Bob stayed. He was a bachelor. And later at dinner.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't know, Dan. Maybe all this is silly, but I thought perhaps you could help.

[Dan Holliday]

I can't unless I know what's troubling you?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, I. I was engaged to be married.

[Dan Holliday]

Was? Who changed whose mind?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Evelyn. I mean, she changed hers.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, I'm sorry, Bob. What happened?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, I don't know, Dan. Everything was fine for a while, and then, poof, it's all off.

[Dan Holliday]

And you don't know why?

[Michael Shane]

No.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, did you say something? Do anything?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Not that I know of, but.

[Dan Holliday]

But what?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Bob, Listen, let's forget it. I almost sent you a wire telling you to forget my letter.

[Dan Holliday]

But you didn't. Which means you've got something else on your mind. Want to spill it?

[Quincy Baldwin]

All right. But don't let Evelyn know I told you.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, of course not.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Everything was fine, as I said, until. Until her uncle committed suicide.

[Dan Holliday]

Suicide? Oh, I'm sorry, Bob.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Now she's gonna marry Ed Macklin.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, now, wait a minute. Her uncle killed himself. And that makes her break her engagement with you and tie up with this Macklin?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Doesn't make much sense, does it?

[Dan Holliday]

Not enough to do much good. That all you know?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yes. Just a day or so before. Before he died, Evelyn sent back my ring.

[Dan Holliday]

Just like that, huh?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Oh, there was a note, but it wasn't an explanation. Just that she thought it wouldn't work.

[Dan Holliday]

No hint of that before Uncle's death?

[Quincy Baldwin]

None, Dan. Absolutely none. That's what's got me stumped. But I could understand it if it wasn't Ed Macklin. He's lots older than she is. Why, it was a kind of a joke between us that he.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Who is.

[Dan Holliday]

Who is Ed Macklin?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, he was her uncle's assistant.

[Dan Holliday]

Assistant?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm making this as clear as a mud puddle. But Evelyn's uncle, Professor Gardner, was professor of mineralogy. Macklin was his laboratory assistant.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Oh, and that's all I know.

[Dan Holliday]

You sure? Of course. All Right, now the $64 question. Why did Professor Gardner kill himself?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Dan, believe me when I tell you he didn't have a reason in the world. Not a single reason.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, that made as much sense as double talk from Alice in Wonderland. Bob stuck to it too. The Professor Gardner didn't have a reason to kill himself. Evelyn, it seemed, had been raised by him. He was like a father to her. He was respected, well liked. Famous in a small way, for his pamphlets and articles. And I got an explanation of his specialty later from Bob in his rooms.

[Quincy Baldwin]

He was a crystallographer, Dan. That means he. He studied the crystallization of minerals. You see, each mineral has its own particular crystalline formation. Salt, for example, as common table salt, crystallizes in a particular Way Galena, we used to call it. The crystal in the old radio sets, you remember, that has another form of crystallization. Professor Gardner was an expert.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, was he working too hard?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't think so. It was never work for him.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, I see. Well, what do I do now?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't know. I thought maybe you could. Well, I guess it's hopeless.

[Dan Holliday]

Look, Bob, is it certain that Professor Gardiner killed himself?

[Quincy Baldwin]

What do you mean?

[Dan Holliday]

Well, you said there was no reason for suicide.

[Quincy Baldwin]

There wasn't.

[Dan Holliday]

Would anyone have wanted to kill him?

[Quincy Baldwin]

No.

[Dan Holliday]

You're sure, Bob?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I said no. Everybody liked him.

[Dan Holliday]

Maybe somebody didn't.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I didn't know of anyone.

[Dan Holliday]

And suddenly Evelyn breaks off her engagement with you just after.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Oh, look, Dan, I'm sorry I got you up here. I. I guess I was stupid to write to you. Go back and forget the whole thing.

[Dan Holliday]

You're afraid Evelyn's involved.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm not.

[Dan Holliday]

That's what's in the back of your mind, but you're afraid to say so.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I said I'm not.

[Dan Holliday]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Michael Shane]

Bob.

[Dan Holliday]

Still want me to go back? Well, no. No.

[Quincy Baldwin]

You find out what you can, Dan, without getting anyone in trouble.

[Dan Holliday]

Trouble has a bad habit of popping up.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't want it to.

[Dan Holliday]

But you still want me to stay.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I guess so.

[Dan Holliday]

All right. But get this straight, Bob. I am not a detective.

[Quincy Baldwin]

What do you mean by that?

[Dan Holliday]

If I find anything fishy about this, I'll have to call the police.

[Quincy Baldwin]

They've already been in.

[Dan Holliday]

All right. I'll start from here. For the rest of the evening, we sat and talked. Bob was nervous. He wanted me to help because. Well, because he was in love with Evelyn. But he didn't want me to help because he was afraid of what might turn up. Well, now, what could turn up? I found out. It was the next morning that I put in a call to Lt. Kling. Waited a half hour, then ambled down to the local police department of Riddell.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, yes, Mr. Holiday. Lieutenant Kling called here, told me about you.

[Dan Holliday]

I asked him to.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Name's Carson. I'm chief of police here.

[Dan Holliday]

Yes, I know.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What can I do for you, son?

[Dan Holliday]

Well, if I'm butting in where I don't belong, just say so, will you?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Can't tell that till you spit out what's on your mind, Chief.

[Dan Holliday]

Carson leaned back, lighted a corn cob pipe and waited for me to start talking. I liked him. Behind that pink face was a good, shrewd mind. I told him I had come to Riddell, and when I'd finished Mm.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You ain't a detective?

[Dan Holliday]

No. Not even a private one?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Used to helping a friend, eh?

[Dan Holliday]

That's all.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, can't see as I can tell you, any more than Bob Lanham did.

[Dan Holliday]

You sure?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yep. Found Professor Gardner in his laboratory.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, at the college?

[Narrator/Announcer]

No, he had a little workshop back of his house. He was sitting at his table there, his own gun in his hand. Shot himself through the heart.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Something sound odd to you, son?

[Dan Holliday]

Yes. A man doesn't usually kill himself that way.

[Narrator/Announcer]

That's right.

[Dan Holliday]

Usually in the head, but that's the way it was.

[Michael Shane]

Mm.

[Dan Holliday]

Tell me, are you satisfied with the case, Chief Carson?

[Michael Shane]

Gotta be, son.

[Dan Holliday]

Which means you're not.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Look here, son. I'm only a small town policeman, but I do my work the best I can.

[Dan Holliday]

Yes, I know. And the thing that's puzzling you is why should Professor Gardner have killed himself?

[Michael Shane]

Mm.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Or if he didn't, who else would have?

[Dan Holliday]

And there's no one else.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Nobody stood to gain. Nothing. Wasn't a rich man his niece? No, I'm sure she didn't.

[Dan Holliday]

What about Ed Macklin?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Nothing to gain. Got it marked down as suicide, son. Just as dead end as a blind rabbit burrow.

[Dan Holliday]

And so it was a dead end. I didn't press Chief Karsten any further. He was sure to to look for clues, and there just weren't any. I went back to Bob's rooms and stopped outside. The door sounded as though a square dance were going on with hot music. I opened the door fast.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right, break it up.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Come on, come on, break it up.

[Dan Holliday]

Bob, stop.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Bob, you're back.

[Phyllis Knight]

Now try it again.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Let him and I'll turn.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Dan, get out of the way.

[Michael Shane]

Now cut it out.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, let him.

[Phyllis Knight]

Come on.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Get out of here, Macklin, for now.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Sure, or try to see Evelyn once more and I'll beat your head in, that's all.

[Dan Holliday]

He's a little bigger than you are, Bob. All around. I'll kill him.

[Michael Shane]

Ah.

[Dan Holliday]

Now, now, take it easy. What happened?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, I. I tried to see Evelyn this afternoon. She wouldn't talk to me. Macklin came in a couple of minutes ago and, well, you saw what was happening.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah.

[Dan Holliday]

Yeah, I did. It's a nice eye you've got there.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Shut up.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, now look. Remember me?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm sorry, Dan.

[Dan Holliday]

Okay, so that's Macklin.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Uh huh.

[Dan Holliday]

Sit down, Bomb.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't want to sit down.

[Dan Holliday]

Sit down. All right, now that's better. Now, how far do you think you're going to get by running into his fist?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Now listen, Dan, I've got to see Evelyn. I've got to find out what's going on.

[Dan Holliday]

All right, maybe we will. Why is Macklin afraid to let you talk to Evelyn?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't know, Dan.

[Dan Holliday]

I take it he's well, to use an old fashioned word, a rival.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I never thought so.

[Michael Shane]

But then.

[Dan Holliday]

But then, just before her uncle's suicide, she suddenly switches to Macklin.

[Quincy Baldwin]

But why? Why should she?

[Dan Holliday]

If we find the answer to that, Bob, we'll find out a lot of things. Now, let's get a side of beef and fix up that eye. You're going to look pretty silly teaching class tomorrow with a shiner. But he didn't look silly in class. You see, he never got there. The next morning I was pulled out of a nice deep sleep by nobody.

[Michael Shane]

Ho. Oh.

[Dan Holliday]

Hello, Dan. Yeah, sure.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Bob.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah, Dan, I'm in trouble.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Great.

[Dan Holliday]

How could you get in trouble at 6 in the morning? That's too early.

[Quincy Baldwin]

It's not a joke, Dan. I'm in jail.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Huh? For what?

[Quincy Baldwin]

For killing Ed Macklin.

[Professor Brill]

Of course.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I didn't kill him.

[Dan Holliday]

I believe you. But look, haven't you got any alibi at all for last night?

[Michael Shane]

No.

[Quincy Baldwin]

When you left me, I went for a walk to think things over.

[Dan Holliday]

Fine, fine. Everybody goes for walks when somebody gets killed. What time was Macklin killed?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Just about the time I was out for that walk.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Morning, holiday. Nice day.

[Dan Holliday]

Hello, Chief.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You want some breakfast, son?

[Quincy Baldwin]

No, no, nothing.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You gotta eat, son. Got some ham and eggs.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Nothing.

[Dan Holliday]

I said bring it, Chief.

[Narrator/Announcer]

He'll eat it.

[Michael Shane]

Mm.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You want anything?

[Dan Holliday]

Meaning me?

[Michael Shane]

Yeah.

[Dan Holliday]

Okay. Thanks.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Not all looks bad, don't it?

[Dan Holliday]

Yeah. Why did you arrest Bob?

[Narrator/Announcer]

You ought to know, son. Saw the fight they was having. One of the teachers living next door to Bob here heard it.

[Dan Holliday]

Yeah, well, looks like you've got a motive, Chief.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Macklin takes his girl, they get in a fight.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I didn't kill him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now, I want to believe that.

[Dan Holliday]

But Chief, I'd like to talk to.

[Michael Shane]

Bob if I can. Huh?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, all right. I'll get the ham and eggs. Be back in maybe 10 minutes.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Don't you believe me, Dan?

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, of course I do, Bob. Look, how was Macklin killed?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Knife. His own?

[Michael Shane]

Uh huh.

[Dan Holliday]

Now listen, I've got to see Evelyn.

[Quincy Baldwin]

What for?

[Dan Holliday]

Because I believe everything goes back to her uncle and his death.

[Narrator/Announcer]

How?

[Dan Holliday]

I don't know. I'd like to find out.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Nothing makes sense. Nobody had a motive for killing Professor Gardner.

[Dan Holliday]

And everyone says he couldn't have killed himself because he didn't have a reason.

[Quincy Baldwin]

So what have you got?

[Dan Holliday]

What have I got, Bob? I. I haven't the faintest idea yet.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And now back to the professor and the puzzle. Another box 13 adventure with Alan Ladd as Dan.

[Dan Holliday]

I didn't have a thing, not a thing to go on. Bob was in a spot, but a good one. He had motive, opportunity. Yet I didn't think he'd kill. I believed he couldn't. And I kept thinking that Professor Gardner's suicide had something to do with Macklin's murder. But how? A harmless professor kills himself. His niece suddenly breaks off her engagement and switches to another man. And that man is kill.

[Michael Shane]

And.

[Dan Holliday]

And who gets the brass ring on this merry go round? Well, it was about time to see Ms. Evelyn Gardner. I found the address, drove there and no one answered the door. But I heard someone in the back, so I walked around the side of the house and putting some papers into an incinerator, was a girl of maybe 24, 25. She seemed to be in a hurry, anxious to get it over with. Then she turned when she heard my steps.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh. Who are you?

[Dan Holliday]

I'm sorry. My name's Dan Holliday.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh. Oh, yes, I. I've heard Bob speak of you.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, go ahead. Finish what you were doing.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I. I haven't got a match. I wanted to burn this. This rubbish.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, here's a match. I'll light it for you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, no, no, I can do it.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, it's no trouble.

[Phyllis Knight]

I said I'd do it.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, all right. Here. Here's the match.

[Phyllis Knight]

Thank you.

[Dan Holliday]

Whatever she was burning, she was anxious to get it over with. But she was a little nervous and the match went out.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, please. Have you another match?

[Dan Holliday]

No, no, I'm sorry. I'm afraid that was the last one I had.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I'll have to get some. Will you come into the house?

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, thank you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Did Bob come with you, Mr. Holliday?

[Michael Shane]

Bob?

[Dan Holliday]

Haven't you heard?

[Phyllis Knight]

Heard? Heard what?

[Dan Holliday]

No. No one's told you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Told me what? What are you talking about?

[Dan Holliday]

Bob's been arrested for the murder of Ed Macklin.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, no, no, he didn't.

[Dan Holliday]

How do you know?

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, we've got to see him.

[Dan Holliday]

That might help. But how? How can you be sure Bob didn't do it?

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, he couldn't have.

[Dan Holliday]

Then who did?

[Phyllis Knight]

I don't know. I don't know. But it wasn't Bob.

[Dan Holliday]

It has something to do with your uncle's death, doesn't it?

[Phyllis Knight]

No, no, nothing. How could there be a connection?

[Dan Holliday]

I'm asking you.

[Phyllis Knight]

I'm going to Bob. I've got to see him.

[Dan Holliday]

She was gone. I watched her drive away. Then I hurried back to the incinerator. It was stuffed with papers. I dragged them out. Newspapers, wrapping paper. And then a little sheaf of receipts. Registered mail receipts for parcel post packages. The signature of the sender was MA Gardner. Professor Martin A. Gardner. Now, why was Evelyn burning these? I looked a little longer and found something else. A carbon copy of a letter. It was partially torn, and all I could read of it was. And this is the last job, because it's the biggest. I want more than my usual fee. If I don't get it, you'll never get the finished products. And it was signed with the initials M.A.G. martin A. Gardner. Okay, so I had a lead. But where would it get me? I found out I didn't go back to the jail because I wanted to look a little longer at those papers I'd found. There was also a bank book and the deposits totaled over $12,000. But it was in the name of Samuel Stoner. The bank was in the city, not in Riddell. Back in my hotel, I was trying to figure this out when.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Hello.

[Dan Holliday]

You know. You know, that thing's liable to go off.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Yeah, it could. Mind if I sit down?

[Dan Holliday]

I wasn't expecting company.

[Villain/Antagonist]

I'll sit down anyway.

[Dan Holliday]

Okay. Now that you're rested, goodbye.

[Villain/Antagonist]

In a hurry?

[Dan Holliday]

That's right.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Not so fast, sweetheart. Stay sitting. That's better.

[Dan Holliday]

What do you want?

[Villain/Antagonist]

What you've got right there.

[Dan Holliday]

These?

[Villain/Antagonist]

That's right. Push them across the table. Keep your hands on top.

[Dan Holliday]

Scared?

[Villain/Antagonist]

Not at all. Now light a fire in that grate.

[Dan Holliday]

It's awfully warm. Don't you think it could get hotter?

[Villain/Antagonist]

Go ahead. Light a fire in that grate and step on it.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, we're going to toast marshmallows, aren't we?

[Villain/Antagonist]

Could be. Now put some paper on it.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, pardon me. You don't have a log with you, do you?

[Villain/Antagonist]

I'll bring one the next time. Now throw that stuff on the fire. All of it.

[Dan Holliday]

But I haven't looked it over yet.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Throw it on.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, what could I do? I threw all the stuff on the fire, watched it burn away. My company did too. Watched it burn. I mean, he was a cool cookie then. Pretty, isn't it?

[Villain/Antagonist]

I used to sit in front of a fireplace and read when I was a kid.

[Dan Holliday]

But you didn't get to be president.

[Villain/Antagonist]

No, that's true. Poke it up a little. See that it's all burned.

[Dan Holliday]

It is? Good.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Now I'm going.

[Dan Holliday]

Oh, I was hoping you'd Stay for dinner. We could put up a spit and roast a chicken.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Oh, I almost forgot. You're just stop nosing around.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, well, well. I guess I have to with that stuff. Burn.

[Villain/Antagonist]

That was the idea.

[Dan Holliday]

Yes. I suppose you'd have killed me as you killed Macklin. I shot in the dark, but it hit his face not so bad before got twisted up. His fingers tightened on the trigger of his gun. But then he smiled.

[Villain/Antagonist]

You'll have to prove it. And something tells me you'll never see me again.

[Podcast Host]

So long.

[Dan Holliday]

Okay, maybe the things were burned. But I remember one thing. An address. The address on the registered mail receipts where Gardner had sent the packages. And there was the name Samuel Stoner. Something told me Stoner and Gardner were the same. And that bank account was his. But why? Why was he paid that much money? What was he doing? There was only one way to find out. Go into the city and go to the address written on those receipts. I drove into the city. The address was an office building. And there were 50 firms doing business in that building. I looked at the directory in the lobby. No good. How could I visit 50 places and get right answers? But I saw him. The man who made me burn the papers. He went into the building. He didn't see me. I tailed him. Watched him get into an elevator. I got close enough to hear him say, seven, please. Seventh floor. There were other people in the elevator. Chances are I'd make a lot of stops before it got to seven. Okay. The steps for holiday. I wondered if I'd made it. Then went into an office that had no name on the door.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I waited.

[Michael Shane]

And then.

[Dan Holliday]

There was an outer office with no one in it. Then I heard voices.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Are we clear?

[Villain/Antagonist]

Macklin's dead.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You killed him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I suppose.

[Villain/Antagonist]

But it looks like someone else did. It was a perfect setup for a frame.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, the niece business, huh?

[Michael Shane]

Yeah.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Oh, and there was another guy nosing around. He picked up some stuff the girl was going to burn.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Who was he?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Why didn't you?

[Villain/Antagonist]

Look, two bump offs are enough. I only signed for the gardener job.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right, here's your money.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Now that I know what the gimmick was, I want more.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, yeah?

[Villain/Antagonist]

Don't reach for anything.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right. I'll cut you in on this.

[Villain/Antagonist]

That's better.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Wait a minute. This other fella.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Don't worry. I made him burn the stuff he took from the incinerator.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You idiot. You shut up.

[Villain/Antagonist]

I told you killing Macklin wasn't in on the deal. But he had this. I had to kill him to get it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You sure you're clean on the Gardner thing?

[Villain/Antagonist]

I know I am. I kill him with his own gun while the machines in that shop were running. Nobody heard the shot. Suicide.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right. Now get out of here.

[Villain/Antagonist]

You know, I'm taking this with me.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Put that down.

[Villain/Antagonist]

Don't worry. We'll split on it. I just want to make sure there's no double cross. Now. See you later.

[Dan Holliday]

I stepped back, waited. Then as he came through the door, I knocked the gun out of his hand and grabbed it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Stay where you are.

[Michael Shane]

What?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, so you fell out.

[Dan Holliday]

I'll take what you brought back.

[Narrator/Announcer]

No.

[Dan Holliday]

Hand it over, Cookie.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Come on.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, well, well. Okay. Let's all take a trip to headquarters. Well, with those two sweethearts safely tucked away, I began to put the pieces together. I did some reading. Then I went back to Riddell. Went back to see Bob.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Dan, where you been?

[Dan Holliday]

Playing tag with a man.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Bob got a phone call. Holiday from the city.

[Michael Shane]

You.

[Quincy Baldwin]

You're letting me out?

[Dan Holliday]

I think they are.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yep. No more free meals on the town. Bob, come on.

[Michael Shane]

But.

[Quincy Baldwin]

But, Dan, what happened?

[Dan Holliday]

We've got to go see Evelyn right away and straighten out a few things. Now, sit down, both of you. Evelyn.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes?

[Dan Holliday]

I think I know the whole thing.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes, I. I guess you do.

[Quincy Baldwin]

What's everyone talking about? Why was I let out of jail?

[Dan Holliday]

Because you didn't kill Macklin, and Professor Gardner didn't commit suicide.

[Phyllis Knight]

He. He didn't?

[Dan Holliday]

How do you know he was killed? Look, Evelyn, Bob would have been convicted of Macklin's murder if I hadn't. Well, Bob, Professor Gardner was doing illicit diamond cutting.

[Phyllis Knight]

What?

[Dan Holliday]

Yes. Yes, he had a perfect setup for it. The shop where he worked cutting and polishing his mineral specimens. The stolen diamonds were sent to him. He recut and polished them so they could be offered for sale. Isn't that right, Evelyn?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yes, but Macklin.

[Dan Holliday]

I think you had better tell him, Evelyn.

[Phyllis Knight]

Ed Macklin found out. Then my uncle was killed, and Macklin knew why.

[Quincy Baldwin]

You mean he threatened to expose your uncle if you didn't marry him?

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes. He wasn't sure until after. After Uncle Martin was killed.

[Dan Holliday]

Killed by a hired killer. Hired by the man who was sending the diamonds to be recut. Professor Gardner was going to quit, but he received one last diamond, the biggest. He wanted more than his usual fee or he would keep the diamond.

[Quincy Baldwin]

But Evelyn, how does she come into it?

[Dan Holliday]

Well, naturally, Evelyn wanted to protect her uncle's name, but Macklin's death prevented it. You see, Macklin found the big stone, and he was killed because he did.

[Phyllis Knight]

Welcome back, Mr. Holiday. Did you have a nice vacation, Susie?

[Dan Holliday]

It was just as if I'd never been away.

[Phyllis Knight]

Huh? You mean you didn't take a vacation at all?

[Dan Holliday]

Not exactly, Susie.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, you mean it was like a typical Holiday?

[Dan Holliday]

I.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What?

[Phyllis Knight]

I made a joke. Get it?

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Dan Holliday]

Good night, Susie.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Next week, same time, through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd stars as Dan holiday in box 13.

[Dan Holliday]

Box 13 is directed by Richard Sanville.

[Narrator/Announcer]

With an original story by Russell Hughes. Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. The part of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker. Production is supervised by Vern Carstensen. This is a Mayfair production from Hollywood Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest.

[Phyllis Knight]

Paramount picture.

[Narrator/Announcer]

The National Broadcasting Company presents Dick Powell as Richard diamond, private detective.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Are you Mr. Diamond?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah, unless there's a warrant out.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond, I'd like to talk to.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You about a man. Honda. Looks so unhappy. Can't talk about girls all the time.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond, this is pretty serious. I'm scared stiff of him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Why?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Because he's dead.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And here's another exciting case from the files of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring Dick Powell. Diamond Detective Agency. Homicides with class. Ah. Ah. Well, that's a pretty good answer. What kind of a slogan was that, shamus? Oh, my goodness, I didn't notice. That's right. Well, don't take any bets. I know a dozen people who would swear you were something else. Oh, now, stop the gag. I got something important to talk to you about. I know what it is. You do? I bet you've lost your shoes. Oh, what makes you think that, wise guy? Well, I drove by the docks this morning and spotted two landing barges with laces. Oh, I give up. Here, you better talk to the lieutenant. Rick. Hello, Wolf. Why don't you lay off Otis?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

He was just calling to ask you.

[Narrator/Announcer]

To do a favor for us. What kind of a favorite? The Fifth Precinct is having its annual dance next week. Oh, now, Walt, what's the matter? Just a couple of songs and then you can go home. Oh, sure, sure. Just like last time. I was just going to be a couple of songs last time, too. But before those lovely cops let me go, I had a crack in my voice like the Liberty Bell. This time I promise, only two songs. All right, all right, all right. If one of them is Mule Train, sure. But why mule train? I want to whip Otis for sound effects.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, wait a minute, Walt. I think I spotted a client. Okay, Rick. I'll tell the committee you'll be there. Bye.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Are you Mr. Diamond?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah. Unless there's a warrant out.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond, I'd like to talk to you about a man.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, don't look so unhappy. Can't talk about girls all the time.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond, this is pretty serious. I'm scared stiff of him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Why?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Because he's dead? That's right. He's supposed to be dead.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll bring him over. We can make a fortune from Barnum and Bailey.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I guess I better go.

[Narrator/Announcer]

No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Maybe you better tell me about it.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Okay.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm Martin White. I go to Barrett College. I'm an ex gi. I'm a senior now because I couldn't start until I was released from the hospital three years ago.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hospital, huh? What was the trouble?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I got hit at Casino.

[Narrator/Announcer]

How long were you in the hospital?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Two and a half years.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Two and a half years?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah, I. Okay, I fell apart.

[Michael Shane]

A picture here. Oh.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, Psychosis. Yeah, go on.

[Quincy Baldwin]

The other day I was on my way to class when I saw this man I was telling you about.

[Narrator/Announcer]

The one who's supposed to be dead?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah, that's right. He used to be in the same outfit with me. I saw him killed at Casino.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, wow.

[Narrator/Announcer]

So you made a mistake. So he looks like the guy.

[Quincy Baldwin]

No, no, it's not like that. Maybe I better tell you and then you'll understand.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Go ahead.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, his name was Jarvis. Paul Jarvis. I was a captain with the 5th army when we went into Casino.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And Jarvis?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Private. He'd been with us since we pushed Rommel out of the desert. Everybody hated him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Why?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Goldbrick Never missed a chance to dog it. But he was smart, plenty smart. There wasn't anything we could pin on him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah, I know the type.

[Quincy Baldwin]

He was great in a street fight because he was big. And I mean really big. Big and nasty. But up on the line, he went to pieces.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay, go ahead.

[Quincy Baldwin]

One night we got a report that a man answering Jarvis's description had killed a corporal in a fight. By the time the details got to me, the Germans had opened up with everything they had. I was ordered out on patrol, so I took Jarvis with me.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You took a big chance.

[Quincy Baldwin]

You know it. There was one witness to the killing, an old man in the town. If Jarvis knew he might be identified, he'd have gone over the hill shore. So I figured I'd watch him, keep him with me until the Germans slowed up and we could show. Show him to the old man? Oh, he moved up the crowds. Had the main body zeroed in with their 88s. Our job was to move Up. Try to spot a path through the enemy artillery pattern. We had to belly down and Jarvis and I ended up in a hole together.

[Narrator/Announcer]

They'll spot us. Sure. They'll correct and drop those things all over us in a minute.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Keep your head down, Jarvis.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I kill you. They'll spot us.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Now you listen to me. You raise your skull one inch out of this hole before I tell you, so help me, I'll drill you myself.

[Phyllis Knight]

Okay?

[Narrator/Announcer]

You hate my guts, don't you?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Knock it off.

[Narrator/Announcer]

This is real funny.

[Quincy Baldwin]

This is two guys this close hating each other. Next time I'll pick a bigger hole.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Captain White, what about that murder?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Can it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You think I killed a guy, don't you?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I don't think anything right now. Just those tents down there.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You're thinking about it, all right. You and everybody else. You all hate me because I'm not a tin soldier like you with ideals sticking out all over your fat face.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I told you to knock it off, but you wanted it late on the line, so I'll tell you. Yeah, I hate your guts.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay, that's good enough. I kill that corporal.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Captain White, you're out of your mind.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I am, huh? Well, this is as good a place.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

As any to go.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Over the hill. You're crazy. Get down. Relax. I got a bayonet pointed right at your belly. Jarvis, don't go on cry wine.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm gonna put you in for a.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Purple Heart, only you'll have to pin.

[Quincy Baldwin]

It on your blanket. Jarvis. Jarvis for the lover.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now you're only a number on the record, J. You dirty. You're gonna take a little while to die, Captain, so you can think about me getting out. I'm taking off, and I'm leaving the rest of the saps with all the honor and glory they want. So long, Captain. It's all yours. Jarvis, come back here.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Well, it was one of Those lucky things, Mr. Diamond. I got out, spent a day and a night in that hole until the medics found me.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What about Jarvis?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'd swear he got the 88 right on top of him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

But now you think you've seen him and you're not sure.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm not sure of anything right now. But I saw that 88 hit and I saw Jarvis go down.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay, okay. Let's say you did see Jarvis. He got out some way. Looks pretty simple to me. Call out the authorities and tell them you spotted a man wanted for murder. There certainly should be a lot of guys from your outfit who could identify him.

[Quincy Baldwin]

No, he's done something to his face. Maybe the shell did it for him, but I know it's him. You can't miss a guy that size.

[Narrator/Announcer]

A lot of big boys, sure, but.

[Quincy Baldwin]

He'S got the same rotten eyes that didn't change. And that nasty smile he gets.

[Michael Shane]

I'd know him anywhere.

[Quincy Baldwin]

In a dark room, I'd know him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You said you were scared. Why not go to another school? I can't.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I've got a job up there and I've got a wife and a kid. That's why I came to you. I can't go to the police. They might put me back in that hospital. They'll think I'm slipping again up here.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, let's. Let's say it is, Jarvis. What in the world would a guy like that be doing in a college?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Don't you think I've asked myself those questions? Just forget the whole thing.

[Narrator/Announcer]

No, no, no. Now wait, Martin. Look, if I prove to you one way or another about this Jarvis, will you forget about Casino?

[Michael Shane]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Announcer]

What name is he using? Blackwell.

[Quincy Baldwin]

John Blackwell.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay, let's go.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Don't you. Don't you get a fee or something?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Your wife a good cook? The best. Well, I'm staying for dinner. And after you see what I put away, you'll probably wish you'd paid the hundred today in expenses. Usually I'm pretty hard about my fee because the trouble I get into has to be balanced on the book some way. But a young guy comes in with a real problem and old hard headed diamond gets a fast softening of the skull. Well, two hours later, Martin White. Me and my real soft skull were on the campus of Barrett College. And in the converted Quonset hut the Whites called home.

[Phyllis Knight]

He's hungry, Mr. Diamond.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Ah, yes, sir.

[Dan Holliday]

Well, nice looking boy.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah, takes after his mother.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Martin. Martin, if we're going to do something about this thing, we'd better get a move on.

[Quincy Baldwin]

All right, where do we start?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I think I'd like to look at this. What's the name this guy's using? You say Blackwell. Oh, well, I'd like to look at Blackwell's school record. How about it?

[Quincy Baldwin]

I think I can fix it. Let's go.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, dinner's at 6, Mr. Diamond.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah, we eat early because I'm night watchman on campus. I go on duty at seven.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll be on time, Mrs. Wife.

[Phyllis Knight]

It's Nan.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, well, love corned beef and cabbage, Nan.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I'll walk out with you. I have to go to the store.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Come on, Mr. Diamond. We'll walk Nan out across the street.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Martin, look out. Oh, that idiot must have been drunk.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Nanny all right?

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, sure. But you. Martin, he came right at you.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I know it's a diamond. That guy wasn't drunk.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Nan, you think you can go to the store alone?

[Phyllis Knight]

Certainly. I. I'm fine.

[Professor Brill]

But that car.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now, come on, Martin. We've got to check those records.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I see you at dinner. And, Martin, you listen to what Mr. Diamond has to say. That man was probably drunk.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Good girl.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah.

[Quincy Baldwin]

What about that car?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Could have been an accident. Let's think. It was. For a while, anyway.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Now, this is where they keep the records.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hello, Susie.

[Phyllis Knight]

Hi, Martin. Well, hello.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hello. Susie, this is Mr. Diamond.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Susie. Mr. Diamond, Susie Wirt.

[Phyllis Knight]

It's really a pleasure, believe me.

[Quincy Baldwin]

We'd like to look at the file, Susie.

[Phyllis Knight]

You a new professor, Mr. Diamond?

[Narrator/Announcer]

No, no, Just a friend of Martin's.

[Phyllis Knight]

Married?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Not a bit. Why?

[Phyllis Knight]

Pretty square, huh?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Sometimes. But I can learn.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yeah, well, I might just start some night classes of my own.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Sounds like fun. In about five years, you let me know how your education is progressing.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, age is a problem with you, huh, my dear?

[Narrator/Announcer]

When I stumbled over 30, everything got to be a problem. Now, do you think we can.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes.

[Quincy Baldwin]

The records, Susie.

[Michael Shane]

Remember?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah, Susie, the records.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, okay. Which ones?

[Quincy Baldwin]

We want to see the file.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Everything from B to C. Okay, but.

[Phyllis Knight]

If I get in trouble for this, you may have to make it up to me in some way.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll buy you a soda and I'll let you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Here they are.

[Narrator/Announcer]

B to C. Ah, thanks, Susie. I'll let you know when we're finished.

[Phyllis Knight]

Okay. Be a recluse. Only I got some ideas about that, too. I'll be in the next room.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Ah, youth. Well, let's take a look.

[Quincy Baldwin]

How come you asked for everything from B to C?

[Narrator/Announcer]

No sense in letting everybody know what we're doing. If we just asked for Blackwell's file, Susie might have said something to him. Now, now, here it is. Yeah.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Scissors. John Blackwell, 28, resident of McAllister, Oklahoma.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hey, get a load of this. Height 6ft 6. Weight 240, I said.

[Quincy Baldwin]

He's a big one.

[Narrator/Announcer]

If he fell down, he'd be halfway home. Look, Martin. Where. Where can I find this Black Wolf?

[Professor Brill]

Let's see.

[Quincy Baldwin]

What does it say about his classes here? It's 2:30 now. Yeah, he should be an English Lit.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Take me over there.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Want to see him?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I want to meet him. You want to meet him? Oh, now, relax. Sooner or later you've got to talk to him. Oh, Susie. Susie.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, Susie. We're finished.

[Phyllis Knight]

Why not? How about that soda?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll take a rain check.

[Phyllis Knight]

Lots of rain up here, Suzy. Yes.

[Michael Shane]

Bye.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, we left Susie in the middle of a pout. Martin took me across the campus to another building. We went up a long hall and stopped at the door marked English Lit. Martin looked in for a minute and then pointed.

[Quincy Baldwin]

That's him. That's him right there.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now, relax, relax. Hey, he must get a bloody nose from the altitude. He's head and shoulders of the whole room.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I'm sure of it. I tell you, when I get around to that guy, I'm sure of it. That's Jarvis.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Get back from the door. The class is breaking up.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Let's get out of here. Mr. Diamond.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Ah, no, no, no, no. Now, I want you to introduce me to him.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I can't, I tell you.

[Professor Brill]

I got the shakes.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, you're gonna have to face it sooner or later, Martin. Here they come. Okay, I'll try. There he is. Blackwell. He sees you over here now.

[Quincy Baldwin]

What do I see?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Just introduce me. I'll do the rest. Yes, you call me.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah. You don't know me, but I understand you're a new student. I'd like you to drop by the paternity house and meet some of the boys.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, well, thank you. I'd be glad to.

[Quincy Baldwin]

SAE this is Mr. Diamond, Mr. Blackwell.

[Narrator/Announcer]

How do you do? Fine. Ingram. You a professor here, Mr. Diamond? No, just a friend of Martin's. This your first year at college? Yeah. A little late, aren't you? What held you up? Service. That's right. Oh, well, I was in the army myself. What outfit were you in? I didn't say I was in the army, Mr. Diamond. Matter of fact, I was in the Navy.

[Michael Shane]

Oh.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, Mr. White, I have to be going now. When would you like me to stop by the house?

[Quincy Baldwin]

Oh, anytime around six. Most of the boys are in then.

[Narrator/Announcer]

See you then. Nice meeting you, Mr. Diamond. Yeah. Well, you've never met him before. I mean, here on the campus.

[Quincy Baldwin]

No.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Why? When he left, he called you Mr. White.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Yeah, and I didn't introduce myself.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, I. I do know one way to clear this whole thing up.

[Quincy Baldwin]

How?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Fingerprints. Washington's got a record of Jarvis. If I can get black bulls, we can compare them.

[Quincy Baldwin]

It's a swell idea, but about as easy as going after a mountain lion's molar.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, I'll think of something. You go on home and stay with the wife and baby. All right. I left Martin and cut across the street to the college malt shop. When I went In a bunch of kids were having a time playing records and making dates, so I slipped by them and eased into a phone booth and put a. A fast call to the fifth Precinct police station and Walt Levinson, Fifth Precinct. Sergeant Otis. Oh, good grief. I got the zoo. Oh, you just call up to make wisecrack, Shamas? Now put the lieutenant on, but don't growl at him. He's close enough to snap a collar on you. Yeah, what do you want, Diamond? That's a pleasant way to answer the phone. What have you noticed been doing setting fire to the commissioner? Oh, I give up. Where are you? I'm up at Barrett College. College? Sure, sure, sure. I'm trying to talk to science department into bidding on your sergeant's brain. They've got gargantuas and they need a match set. Now, will you please be serious? Okay, okay, Walt. Now, look, I've run into something that has a good chance to end up looking like Homicide. I can use some help. You know that's out of my district. Look, I just want you to do some checking for me. Find out about a John Blackwell who's supposed to come from McAllister, Oklahoma. He's a student here. What do you want to know about him? Oh, how long he lived in McAllister. Family, friends, the usual things. And then do some checking on a boy named Jarvis, Paul Jarvis. Check his fingerprints with the military authorities. See if he was ever in McAllister and if he knew Blackwall. Okay. Now, where can I call you and how fast do you need it? Now, wait a minute. What's the matter? I just spotted someone in this malt shop. Are you in a mall shop? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I gotta hang up. I don't want to lose this boy. Where can I reach you? Call the local law and tell him I'm on the campus wearing a beanie. Funny. Pretty funny. Ah, Mr. Blackwell, isn't it? Huh? Oh, yeah, Mr. Diamond. That's right. Mind if I sit down? Not at all. Just finishing my malt. Looks good. Think I'll have one. It is good. Good for you. Makes you healthy. Live a long time. Well, I guess that's what we're all after. I guess so. How long have you known Martin? Martin White? Yeah. Not long. How long have you known him? Just met him today. With you. Why? Well, nothing. Wondered how you knew his name. Oh, he was pointed out. Well, I gotta be going. Mr. Diamond, this little chat has been very enlightening. Goodbye. Goodbye. No. Hey, waiter. Huh? Oh, you want something, mister? Yeah, the small glass. Just the Glass. Don't touch it. What's wrong with. Is it contagious or something? Yeah, it's five bucks. Give me a napkin to wrap it up in. Oh, collector, huh? Yeah, something like that. Okay, take it. I had a girlfriend used to collect beer cans, but this is a new wrinkle. Thanks.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Oh, ain't nothing. Come back again.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Get a load of our ice cream dishes. You'll lose your mind. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't look where I was going. Yeah, I hope I didn't break anything of value. Mr. Diamond, you're going to hog a sidewalk, that's for sure. Let me help you. I can make it. It's a mess, isn't it? Taking one of our famous malls back home. It might be Jarvis. I beg your pardon? I said it might be Jarvis. Name's Blackwell, remember? Oh, yeah, I forgot. You see, Martin White says he thinks he was in the service with you. I told you, I was in the Navy. I didn't say Martin wasn't. Well, you're mistaken. My name's not Jarvis. Oh, now, isn't that funny? Martin's so sure, he was even going into New York in the morning to see if he couldn't find some of his old buddies who might have remembered you. I hope he has a nice trip.

[Dan Holliday]

Trip?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll tell him when I see him.

[Quincy Baldwin]

But I don't get it, Mr. Diamond. Why did you tip him?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, you knew it before I tipped him on. I don't want him to skip before I can get the information on him.

[Quincy Baldwin]

But now he's sure to take off.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Not until he gets you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, Mr. Diamond, do you think.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I know. I know you'll try. Nan, Martin is the only one here at Barrett who can actually identify him. He knows I'm suspicious of him, so he'll go after Martin first and then me. He's got to make his play.

[Phyllis Knight]

But you said that he.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Martin, give me your hat and coat. Why?

[Quincy Baldwin]

What are you gonna do?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Take your place as night watchman. Whatever he's going to do, he'll try tonight. I want him to try it on me.

[Quincy Baldwin]

No, I won't let you do it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Look, I've pushed it this far. It's all set up.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, honey, don't let him do it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond, I.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now, you two lock yourself in and I'll come back.

[Professor Brill]

Honey, please.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Mr. Diamond.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hey. Hey, the hat fits pretty good. I'll have a look.

[Phyllis Knight]

But there must be something we can do.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Sure. Sure, Nan, there is. What? Save me some corned beef and cabbage. Huh? It was dark when I walked out with Martin's hat and coat and started to cross the campus. I had a flashlight. The night was black, solid black, but I had a feeling it sat on my shoulder and raised goosebumps. When you've been in this business as long as I have, that feeling is an alarm ringing inside telling you the trouble is creeping up. Halfway across the campus, I stopped. I heard nothing but the usual sounds that come with night. Dampened, muffled sounds. I walked and I heard it. The sound of someone walking well behind me. I stopped again. Maybe it was Jarvis, maybe it wasn't. There's one way to find out. Keep going. If it was anyone with no business with me, okay, he'd stop following. I cut to my left, away from the main walk and toward the shadowy bulk of the college buildings. I kept going until I reached the gymnasium building. I was leading my pigeon to me. But who was the pigeon? My toes were beginning to turn in, so I figured I was. Then the bulk of the big building popped up in front of me. I tried the door. It was open. I went in, closed the door behind me. There was no light at all. Only a funny sound that I couldn't identify. A peculiar humming. And there was a smell. Chlorine. Yeah, chlorine. Now I knew where I was. An indoor pool. The hum was the filtering machinery. I wanted to turn on the flashlight, but in a place like this, I couldn't give Jarvis the tip on where I was was I had to get out. So I felt my way carefully along the tile floor. I kept what I guessed was the middle of the walk around the pool. And then he was in with me. I stopped, but he didn't. Why, Wife, I know you're in here. This couldn't be better. You're a SAP. White, coming in here. Don't be silly, wife. You know that door leads to the filtering machinery. Come on, this way. It's the only way out. And I'll be waiting for you. Okay. It's all the same whether you come to me or I go to you. Stay where you are, Jarvis. What's that? We met before. You're not white. No, I'm not Diamond. Yeah, not White. And you're not Blackwell. You're Jarvis. Surprised, buster? What's the difference? Not, I guess. Where's the real black hole where you're gonna be, Diamond. Stay right there, Jarvis. Sure, and let you shoot off your mouth? All right, Diamond. It's all the same to me whether I get you first or white. I gotta do both. Now, we'll see just how tough you are, Diamond. Well, the boy's got a gun. You miss, Diamond. And too bad the flash gave you away. Now, I gotta do this fast. This is it.

[Professor Brill]

Diamond. Diamond.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Diamond. For the.

[Phyllis Knight]

I can't swim.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, buster, I got news for you. I'm not going to teach you. This won't take long. Just enough to get you a little water log. Hold your nose, Jarvis. It helps.

[Professor Brill]

Diamond.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Diamond. Martin, lights. Martin. Get him on. Yeah.

[Quincy Baldwin]

I have to come let you do it alone. I heard the shot and I. Where's Jarvis?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Jarvis. Oh, I. I think we can take him out now. He's done here. Grab him. Yeah. You dead? No.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yeah.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Give me a hand. Mr. Diamond, wait.

[Michael Shane]

Hey, Har.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll get my breath. You know, Jarvis was a bad soldier, but in the Navy, he had just been plain lousy.

[Phyllis Knight]

And we did. Diamond, we're both so grateful, we've got.

[Quincy Baldwin]

To pay you something.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay, okay. Mail the recipe for your wife's corned beef to a gal named Helen, huh?

[Phyllis Knight]

But, Mr. Diamond, Jarvis won't.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I mean, he won't come back. Oh, no, no, no. The army picked him up. They've got first crack at him. Then come the McAllister authorities who'd like to talk with him about the murder of John Blackwell.

[Quincy Baldwin]

So that's how he got Blackwell's papers.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Sure, sure. Blackwell was alone in the world. He was going to come here to school. But Jarvis hitched a ride and. Well, once the guy kills, he'll do it again to beat the rat.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Blackwell and Jarvis were both from McAllister.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah. Yeah. Jarvis figured this college would be a great hideout under a different name, papers all in order. But you saw him and he saw you, and that put a crimp on his plans. There, on you. You know the rest now, I guess.

[Phyllis Knight]

All right, I'll get it. Be back in a minute.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'll send your clothes to you when I get back to the city. My hurry, Mr. Diamond.

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, Mr. Diamond, the phone's free. You?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Me? But no one knows I'm here but the McAllister Police Force. Levinson, Otis, Jarvis, Susie, the campus. And you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Will he ask for you?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, thank you. Hello? Diamond? Levinson? Yeah. Well, what's on your mind? Are you all right? Never better. Why? Because we got the report on Jarvis. He's a bad boy.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You watch yourself.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Don't get caught alone with him. Oh, sure, sure, Walt. I'll be real careful. The only place I'll be seen with him is in a swimming pool, huh? And I'll Cut the wise crackers. What's that? You say something? Hold it a minute. Walt.

[Phyllis Knight]

Opio, shh, please.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Sorry, Mr. Diamond. I guess the phone awakened him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Diamond. Diamond, what are you doing? You got asthma? Quiet, Walt. Hold it. Nan. Martin, bring the baby here.

[Phyllis Knight]

But he's never done this at this time.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, never mind. Bring him here. Okay, you asked for it. Now, now, now, baby. Baby. Stop calling me baby. It's twilight on the prairie and the moon will soon be high. She'll be hurting every star up in the sky. We'll ope along to dreamland and we'll bid each care goodbye. While the wind blows through the sagebrush with a sigh. So hush, little darling, little dear, go to sleep, little darlin, I'm right here. Let my shoulder be your pillow. You'll be safe as you can be. Little darling, you mean all the world to me. We'll always be together. And I promise faithfully that your dreams will all come true. Just wait and see. So hush, little darling, little dear, go to sleep, little darling, I. Right here. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello. Say, what's going on over there? Oh, now hold it a second, Walt. I got somebody who wants to say hello to you. That's a good boy.

[Michael Shane]

Now.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now say hello to the lieutenant. Oh, let's get off the line, Walt. Yeah. Bye. You have just heard Richard diamond, private detective, starring Dick Powell. Ed Begley played Lieutenant Walt Levin Robinson. Also in the cast were Wilms Herbert, Paul Dubob, Sammy Hill, Jerry Hausner, Jane Webb and Dave Ellis. Music was under the direction of Frank Worth. Richard diamond is written by Blake Edwards and directed by Russell Hughes. Dick Powell currently may be seen in the motion picture version of the best selling novel, Mrs. Mike. This is Eddie King inviting you to be with us next Sunday at this same time when we will again bring you Dick Powell as Richard diamond, private detective. What's on NBC? Bill Harris celebrates his birthday this evening by getting into just a little more trouble than usual on the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show. Theater Guild on the air presents Jane Wyman, Beatrice Pearson and Mel Ferrer in the psychological melodrama the Willow and I. It's the best entertainment on the air and it's yours for the listening today on NBC. Now stay tuned for James Melton and the harvest of stars on NBC.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Price, the Saint. Based on characters created by Leslie Charteris and known to millions from books, magazines and motion pictures, the Robin Hood of modern crime now comes transcribed to radio starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saint.

[Michael Shane]

Coming, Coming.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Good morning, Templar. Get you out of bed?

[Michael Shane]

Well, I.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You young fellow, stay out too late. Get up too late and no exercise. Flabby every one of you.

[Michael Shane]

It's only that my rowing machine sprang a leak a little while back.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Rationalization.

[Michael Shane]

Well, they're rationing everything these days. Come in, mister.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You know me? Templar Barnard. Buzz Barnhart. I used to see you at the fat house when you were at State. The grip, brother.

[Michael Shane]

What?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, yes, the grip. As if I could ever forget. How does it go again?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

If you are trying to joke, Templer, there are two things I never joke about. The university, the fraternity.

[Michael Shane]

Won't you sit down, Mr. Barnheim?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Buzz.

[Michael Shane]

Buzz. You played football, didn't you?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Football?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I was before your time, Templar. But my old jersey still hangs in the frat house. The one I wore when I scored the touchdown against Michigan all America in 1926. And in 1926, football was football. Remember that?

[Michael Shane]

Football was football. I got it.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Templar, you've made quite a reputation as the Saint. That's why I've come to you. There's a force of evil loose on the campus of our alma mater, Templar.

[Michael Shane]

A.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

A force of evil. Read this.

[Michael Shane]

I know all about you and Angie. Let me tell you what will happen if you keep on seeing her. First you will be. This was written by a very sick mind, Mr. Barnard.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Obviously a poison pen note. And I have reason to believe that every man showing interest in Angela has received one.

[Michael Shane]

Who is Angela?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

My daughter. And a senior at the university. Young and very beautiful, I'm sure of it.

[Michael Shane]

But I don't quite see, Mr. Barnard, that is, Buzz, that there's anything that I can do.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

The young student who received this note, Jim Fuller, disregarded it last night. He was seized from behind and choked unconscious. If his assailant hadn't been frightened off by other students approaching, I firmly believe Fuller would have been killed.

[Michael Shane]

Then it's a matter for the police.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

The police, Templar? The police, let alone not being state men, are not even university men. You see how impossible it is.

[Michael Shane]

But I still don't see how I.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

There is no higher duty than the duty we all owe our alma mater. Though we may wander far, when she issues a call, we must answer. Templar. Her reputation is threatened.

[Michael Shane]

She needs you, Buzz. For university, for fraternity. The grip.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

The Griff brother. Then it's all settled. I'll tell Dean Matthews to expect you.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, is Dean Matthews still there? Gosh, he must be 180 years old by now.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Of course, he no longer handles the administrative duties, but he insists on knowing everything that's going on.

[Michael Shane]

Well, I'll see him in the morning and arrange to take some refresher courses.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Very intelligent. Excite less suspicion.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah. You might give me the names of the students your daughter has been seeing.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Angela as a rule, doesn't care too much for the company of students. Templars. She prefers older men.

[Michael Shane]

Oh. How about Fuller?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Fuller is, I believe, more of a convenience than anything else. College dances and so on. Angela, I say this without conceit, you understand. Prefers someone cast more in the image of her father. Younger, naturally.

[Michael Shane]

Can you give me the names of any of these images?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

She has been somewhat circumspect. You might try Professor Hobson. A young instructor in psychology. Around 35. Quite handsome.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah. Angela must be a very attractive girl.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Angela is an attractive woman, as you will find out.

[Michael Shane]

Is anything in particular meant by that, Mr. Barnard?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Just caution, Mr. Templer. I know my daughter and I'm looking forward to it.

[Michael Shane]

For alma mater of course.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Of course, of course. The grip.

[Michael Shane]

The grip. Good afternoon, Dean. My name is.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Come in, Templar. How's that? I never forget a face.

[Phyllis Knight]

Never understand.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You're coming back with us again?

[Michael Shane]

In a way, yes.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Good. Finish the job this time, my boy.

[Phyllis Knight]

Graduate.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Make up your mind to it.

[Michael Shane]

And you'll do it. Dean, I think you have me confused with.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Nonsense. Nonsense?

[Michael Shane]

I remember you perfectly.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Left here last semester, didn't you?

[Michael Shane]

As a matter of fact, Dean, I graduated from this fair tower of learning quite a number of. Well, a fair number of years ago. The reason I'm here just now is to audit a few courses. Any courses in connection with an investigation I'm making for Mr. Barnard.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

But I understand all this.

[Michael Shane]

Oh good.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I understand your needs exactly fine. Angela Barnard is a very interesting young woman.

[Michael Shane]

They'll tell me you've received to know too.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

How's that young man?

[Michael Shane]

Nothing, sir. Now about those courses.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

My assistant will arrange things with the registrar.

[Phyllis Knight]

I know exactly what you want.

[Michael Shane]

How splendid.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And this semester, Templar, make up your mind to buckle down to work. No more cutting classes. A job worth doing is worth doing well, Dean Assiduity. Stick to itiveness and a constant image before you of your picture parents proud smile when you bring home that diploma.

[Michael Shane]

You touched me.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Study hard, think straight and resolve to be the kind of a success which in later life will enable you to contribute generously to the alumni firm.

[Michael Shane]

Professor Hobson?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yes.

[Michael Shane]

My name is Templar Simon Templer. I'm auditing your psychology 1.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

With what in mind, Templar?

[Michael Shane]

Do I impress you as a typical undergraduate type? No, no, I was afraid not. Then I'd better be frank. I understand poison pen notes are circulating on the campus, Hobson. And further, that you yourself may have received one.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yes.

[Michael Shane]

Well, I've been asked by Buzz Barnhart to find the author of the notes.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I hope you can. I hope you can.

[Michael Shane]

Can you contribute to anything further than just hope?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Templar? I. I suppose you know that I'm implicated in this.

[Michael Shane]

It has been suggested. Yes, I have. One of the notes.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Have you seen them?

[Michael Shane]

Here? Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty much like the other I saw. Have you heeded the warning to stay away from Angie? No.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Or rather, Angie hasn't stayed away from me. That sounds egotistical. But then you don't know Angie.

[Michael Shane]

Or do you? No, I'm still looking forward to it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Don't.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I still don't know how this thing got started. Templer. Every young professor gets a certain amount of flattering attention from the coeds. But this is different. Vastly different. Angie's a woman tremendously attractive and tremendously evil. You really feel that? Yes.

[Michael Shane]

No. No.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

No one that young is evil. Give them time. Angie is twisted badly so. Her family, her father. I can't even be objective enough about the girl to analyze what's wrong.

[Michael Shane]

Have any ideas about the author of the note? No.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Someone badly. Neurotic, perhaps. Dangerously neurotic. That's obvious. Total lack of adjustment to realities. Perhaps these traits are apparent on the surface, perhaps not. It could be anyone.

[Michael Shane]

You make my chances of finding him or her appear rather gloomy. I've seen.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Why not? A neurotic, a psychotic. In college ranks these days we turn them out on an assembly line. I'm somewhat of an escapist, Templer. I sought a professorial post as a refuge. A serene and lofty observation point. Let others compete, struggle, become ulcer ridden. Not for me.

[Michael Shane]

Well, you could have chosen a better historical period.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Any historical period. Have you any idea what goes on in a university today? Templar? Just last June we graduated most of our veterans who got back to normalcy six months later. Nine out of every ten men in college are 1A. Now try instilling the old college spirit in these boys. Try getting them to study their homework so their mothers will be proud of them. Try getting them to conform to the nice, conservative moral standards which prevailed when you and I went to college.

[Michael Shane]

Happily, I don't have to try. I only have to catch them. Who's been writing letters? Do you have any ideas about anyone else who might have received one of these valentines?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You know about young Fuller?

[Michael Shane]

Yes. Yes.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Well, you can't really count him anyhow. Try our esteemed football coach, Buddy Ritko.

[Michael Shane]

A football coach hasn't enough worries. He has to go out and choose more.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You don't choose Angie Templar.

[Michael Shane]

She chooses you. Oh, I see. Well, thanks for your help, Hobson.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And I'd be a little careful about.

[Michael Shane]

Walking around alone after dark till this thing is cleared up. You might be in danger.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Unless, of course, I was the author of these letters.

[Michael Shane]

There's always that possibility, yes.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

In any case, I wish you success.

[Michael Shane]

In any case?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

In any case, the ivory tower has come crashing down. This bruised and soiled occupant has no further distance to fall. Well, see you in class, Templar.

[Michael Shane]

If I don't get hurt in football practice. Yes.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Oh, yes. Our Mr. Ritco. A character builder.

[Michael Shane]

A character builder or a winning football coach.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

He combines the aggressiveness of a hungry shark with the ethics of a professional stool pigeon.

[Michael Shane]

A winning coach. See you in class, Professor.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right, break it up, boys. Hit the showers.

[Michael Shane]

I beg your pardon? My name is Templar, Mr. R. Oh, an alumnus.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, what's the complaint, Mr. Templar?

[Michael Shane]

No complaint, Coach. Just a little information.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, you want to know why we dropped two games last fall. Well, the ball was slippery and our quarterback was stupid.

[Michael Shane]

Not that kind of information. I. I wanted some information about Angela Barnhart. Angela and you. As a matter of fact, you're pretty.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Nosy, even for an alum. Come on in the office.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, thank you.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You haven't been writing me letters on the subject of Angela.

[Michael Shane]

So you got one, too. May I see it? Sure. Yeah, it's pretty nasty.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, I've gotten worse. You should see them when I lose a football game.

[Michael Shane]

The man who wrote this might be dangerous. Ritka.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I can handle myself.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah, you look like you can. Any aversions to telling me what there is between you and Angela? None.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Except that it's none of your business.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah, her father asked me to investigate these letters.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Good old boy.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I met Angie through him.

[Narrator/Announcer]

He's the kind you find on every campus if you're unlucky. He's still back in 1926, when he was a star. Nobody knows anything about football but him. Least of all me.

[Michael Shane]

What about Angie?

[Narrator/Announcer]

She's the kind you meet on the.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Campus if you're lucky.

[Michael Shane]

Aren't you a little old for her, Ritko?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

She likes it that way.

[Michael Shane]

Couldn't this be trouble?

[Narrator/Announcer]

It's worth it.

[Michael Shane]

All these notes were typewritten. You don't have a typewriter, do you, Coach?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Look, these letters were written By a nut. I didn't have time to go to class when I went to college. But I'm smart enough to figure that. Am I nutty enough to be doing it? 43 coaches last year had nervous breakdowns. A lot more are acting strange. But the man with the net hasn't gotten them yet. Am I one of them? Pay your money and take your choice.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Now beat it. I'm busy.

[Michael Shane]

You're a hard man, Mr. Rica. Yeah, yeah.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Oh, there you are, Templar. I'd heard you'd come down to the gym.

[Michael Shane]

How are you, Mr. Barnard?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Buzz. Oh, you've met our friend Rico.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Arms around the neck, chums, Buzz.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Good, good. Templar, Angela's waiting outside. She wants to meet you.

[Michael Shane]

I'm sure the desire is mutual, but don't you want to hear about it?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Well, tell me later. Right now I'm going to stay here and show Ritko some plays Pop Warner used in the single wing. Some real plays. Ritko?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Oh, sure, Buzz. Sure, Jim Dandy.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

My trouble with you, Rico, is that you don't understand the fundamentals of the. What are you waiting for, Templar?

[Michael Shane]

A break in the conversation?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Run along, Templar. And I wish you luck.

[Michael Shane]

You'll need it. And you too.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yes, I'm used to it, Angie. You're not used to. Right, Buzz.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Badly put. But right now, here's an off tackle smash.

[Michael Shane]

I'm sorry I can't stay with you happy people.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now, what was that you were going.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

To tell me about Pope?

[Phyllis Knight]

You were be Simon.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah. And you would be Angie. Yes, you very definitely would be Angie. Heard a lot about you, to coin a cliche.

[Phyllis Knight]

And now what do you think?

[Michael Shane]

I don't know you well enough to tell you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Well, I'd like to get better acquainted. Come on, walk me to class, Simon.

[Michael Shane]

I hope it's a long walk in a short class.

[Phyllis Knight]

You're very smooth, Simon. Lots of practice. Yes, yes, you had lots of practice.

[Michael Shane]

Don't you think we'd better talk about the letters, Angela?

[Phyllis Knight]

Who must? I don't consider them particularly important. They're ugly and they're stupid and they're written by a man. That's all I know.

[Michael Shane]

Why are you so sure they're written by a man? Because they're ugly and stupid.

[Phyllis Knight]

Yes, but not you, Simon. Not you.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Angie. Angie, I've been looking for you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Hello, Jim. Jim Fuller. Simon. Tim.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, how are you, Jim? Great.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You work fast, Mr. Templeton.

[Phyllis Knight]

Now don't make a scene, Jimmy.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Scenes. Scene? What do you expect when you practically push my face down in the dirt? And rub my nose in it.

[Phyllis Knight]

No one's asking you to keep bringing your face around, Jimmy. Go away, Jimmy. Go away.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

All right, Angie. I'll see you later.

[Michael Shane]

Maybe wasn't that a little cruel?

[Phyllis Knight]

Jimmy's a child.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Really.

[Phyllis Knight]

A child.

[Michael Shane]

And you're pushing 70, of course.

[Phyllis Knight]

Don't talk down to me, Simon. And don't try to erect it any barriers by talking about my age. People only erect barriers who are frightened.

[Michael Shane]

Psychology.

[Phyllis Knight]

One experience too. Meeting tonight at the stadium, Simon.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, game tonight?

[Phyllis Knight]

No game. Just ask. We can climb the stairs to the press box and look out over the whole campus. Not afraid of height, Simon.

[Michael Shane]

Just high heels, my dear.

[Phyllis Knight]

I'll see you around nine, Simon.

[Michael Shane]

Don't keep me out too late. I've got to carry the ivy this year.

[Phyllis Knight]

Carry the ivy?

[Michael Shane]

College slang of another day. Meaning to graduate.

[Phyllis Knight]

I'll get you home very early, Simon. In fact, I'll take very good care of you. I'll see you tonight.

[Michael Shane]

See you tonight, angel. It's a little warm today.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Templar.

[Michael Shane]

Who's that?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Jim Floy.

[Michael Shane]

Oh. How are you, Jim?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Don't try to be friendly, Templar. I know you're going to meet Angie.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, I shouldn't have bragged to the boys at the frat house.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Not funny, Templar.

[Michael Shane]

I suppose it isn't. I'm sorry, Jim. It's all right.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I don't count.

[Narrator/Announcer]

I'm worried about Angie.

[Michael Shane]

Come on, we can talk as we go. Jim, It's.

[Narrator/Announcer]

It's not natural to be like she is.

[Michael Shane]

Give you a rough go.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Not only me, all men. It's kind of like she's revenging herself on him for something.

[Michael Shane]

How about this? Well, this preference for older men, that's her pattern.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hobson, Ritko, you and a lot of others.

[Michael Shane]

How long does it usually last?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Not long.

[Michael Shane]

She cuts them up, too.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

What causes it? Templer, what is it?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I want to help her, but I can't reach her.

[Michael Shane]

What's the matter?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Over by a light tower alongside the stadium.

[Michael Shane]

Hmm. I don't see any lying on the concrete. Come on. Huh?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

It's.

[Narrator/Announcer]

It's a man.

[Michael Shane]

Yeah, it was a man before. He fell. From a long way up.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Who is it?

[Michael Shane]

Better not look, Jim. It's pretty nasty. Professor Hobson.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Hobson?

[Quincy Baldwin]

What happened to him?

[Michael Shane]

He fell or jumped or was pushed. Whatever it was, he won't be able to tell us.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

He's dead.

[Michael Shane]

The ivory tower has come crashing down. Looks like the writer of these letters wasn't fooling. Jim, find Angie and take her home. I've got work To. Good morning, Dean.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Oh, Templar. Sit down, sit down.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Thank you.

[Phyllis Knight]

Shocking thing about Hobson. Shocking accident, of course.

[Michael Shane]

What makes you think so, my dear fellow?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Hobson was one of our professors. How could it be anything else?

[Michael Shane]

Dean, do you think he was climbing light towers at the stadium? Jesper? Excellent exercise.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Officially, yes. Actually, no. But whatever it was, I don't want to know. I mean, well, the good name of the university temple.

[Michael Shane]

You can see that the man has been killed. Dean. The police are investigating.

[Phyllis Knight]

But we don't need to tell them.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

About the letters, do we?

[Phyllis Knight]

That is to say, do we?

[Michael Shane]

I'm afraid we do, Dean. Hobson didn't fall from the. The light tower. He fell, but from somewhere else. His body was moved to the base of the tower.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You're making things up, Templar. It was an accident.

[Michael Shane]

I think it was murder.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Murder? Templar, I must ask you not to use that word. No state man was ever murdered. Keep that in mind. Now, I'm very busy this morning. Remember, Templar, in this country a boy.

[Phyllis Knight]

Can be anything he can wants to be if he makes up his mind to it.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Study hard, save your pennies and you'll get there.

[Michael Shane]

Swell.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And now you'll excuse me. Oh, by the way, Templar, here's a note for you that was left at my office this morning.

[Michael Shane]

A note for me? Oh, thank you. I know all about you and Angie. You don't stop seeing her, I will. Looks like I'm on the list, Dean. Another letter written in poison.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I don't believe it.

[Michael Shane]

Look, here, read it for yourself.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

No, no, no, I don't want to read it. I. Templar, if it's someone in this college, then somehow I failed, haven't I? I mean, this age, these times. Things have somehow gone wrong, haven't they?

[Michael Shane]

Nesting nest. Somehow things have gone very wrong.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Templar.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Templar, wait up. I've been looking for you.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, hello, Barnard. I've been looking for you too. I got a little note this morning dripping with venom. No.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

There's a force of evil loose on this campus, Stepler. You've got to find it and quickly. Spring football practice starts next month.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, we'll clear it up before then. Tell me, how's Angie taking Hobson's dad?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

How should she take it? What was Hobson to her?

[Michael Shane]

More than a friend, I should say.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

True. But Angela's not for brooding. She wanted me to remind you that you didn't keep your date last night.

[Michael Shane]

Hardly.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

She said she would be at the same place tonight. Didn't tell me where. But I guess you'd know.

[Michael Shane]

Yes, I Suppose I would.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Fine girl, Angela. You're lucky that she singled you out for attention. She has, you know. You're very lucky.

[Michael Shane]

I could be the luckiest man in the cemetery.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Say, you could at that, Templar. Well, that's the way things go. That's just the way things go. Yes, sir.

[Michael Shane]

That's just Buzz. If you don't mind, I haven't gone yet. I'll see you at the 50 yard line.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Hello, Mr. Templet.

[Michael Shane]

Jim. It seems I meet you at the same spot every night. I know.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You're going to meet Angie. I followed her and saw her go.

[Michael Shane]

Up to the press box. You seem to get around. Jim, tell me something. Where did you find Angie? Last night, after I told you to get her and take her home. She wasn't up in the press box? No.

[Narrator/Announcer]

She was coming from the other direction.

[Michael Shane]

I'm glad. Why?

[Narrator/Announcer]

You think Professor Hobson jumped from the press box?

[Michael Shane]

Jumped? No. Would you do me a favor, Jim? Wait at the foot of these stairs. Don't let anyone come up. Would you do that?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Why should I?

[Michael Shane]

Because I think I can solve this thing tonight. Is that reason enough? Oh, sure. Good. Wish me luck, huh? Not with Angie. Just luck. See you later, Jim. Anybody here?

[Phyllis Knight]

Just me, son.

[Michael Shane]

Oh, Angie.

[Phyllis Knight]

You short of breath, son?

[Michael Shane]

Yeah. The stairs.

[Phyllis Knight]

What a disappointment.

[Michael Shane]

Where are the lights?

[Phyllis Knight]

Angie, there are dinners. You're the first one who ever wanted any.

[Michael Shane]

Angie, I want you to listen and answer my questions. I didn't come up here to hold hands with you or whatever it is they're doing in college these days.

[Phyllis Knight]

Same thing as in your day, Simon.

[Michael Shane]

Angie, a man's been killed. I don't know how to make it register with you or how to get you to drop the role of the femme fatale and face reality. A man's been killed because of you.

[Phyllis Knight]

I know. And I'm afraid, Simon. Terribly afraid.

[Michael Shane]

Good. That's a start. But you're the key to this, Angie. What you are and what made you that way. This may sound strange, but do you remember your mother?

[Phyllis Knight]

A little. My father was mean to her and I hated him for it. But I love my father.

[Michael Shane]

All right. Now, what was the first thing you remember about him?

[Phyllis Knight]

I thought he wanted me to be a boy football player. He didn't want a girl.

[Michael Shane]

What was that?

[Phyllis Knight]

What?

[Michael Shane]

Thought I heard something. Angie, do you think your father loves you? Now, I don't want to ask you this, but I have to.

[Phyllis Knight]

Of course he does. I think he enjoys my being able to make fools of men. He asks me about it.

[Michael Shane]

Men younger Than himself. And do you enjoy him?

[Phyllis Knight]

Oh, I don't know. Paul. Paul Hobson told me that I was revenging myself for the way my father treated my mother. But I don't know.

[Michael Shane]

Angela. Do you think your father is rational?

[Phyllis Knight]

Stop. Stop. Please. Please.

[Michael Shane]

All right. Now, look. Try and pull yourself together, Angela. I. I want to show you something. Come over here.

[Phyllis Knight]

What?

[Michael Shane]

I brought a flashlight so you could look at this typewriter. Read the story.

[Phyllis Knight]

A young tearing, slashing Buzzsaw roared up and down the gridiron. It was state today a fury of a man wearing the number 87. This must have been left in the typewriter from last fall.

[Michael Shane]

Read the date line.

[Phyllis Knight]

November 8, 1926. I don't understand. Read fairly, wearing the number 87. Today, a football immortal was born in the fire of competition. His name. Buzz Barnhart.

[Michael Shane]

What?

[Phyllis Knight]

Simon, what?

[Michael Shane]

The person who wrote this wrote the poison pen notes. A very sick person, Angie. A person unable to face reality. Someone living in the past still in that golden moment which was never afterward equal. A sick brain who could sit up here and see himself down there on that empty football field and write stories about what used to be.

[Phyllis Knight]

No.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

They were better days than you ever saw, Templar. Far better.

[Michael Shane]

Were you here all along, Buzz?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I just came up. You told young Fuller not to let anyone up. Of course. Angie's father is different. I never thought much of Fuller anyway. He couldn't make our fraternity. Templar didn't even come out for football.

[Michael Shane]

Take it easy, Buzz.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Wondering why I asked you here? To catch the right of the notes, Templar.

[Michael Shane]

A lot of criminals have it, Buzz. The subconscious desire for punishment.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Nonsense. You were the only one against whom it was fun to compete. A state man, Father, how could you?

[Phyllis Knight]

How could.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Don't worry, Angie. We'll still be all right. Those fools with their youth will still come clocking. And you'll send them all over because they can't measure up to me. That's it, isn't it? Their youth doesn't mean anything, does it?

[Michael Shane]

You can't bring back your own youth, Buzz. Let it go.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Let it go. I'm still twice the man any of you are. Look at Hobson. I picked him up like a baby. And he 20 years younger. And I'll do the same for you.

[Michael Shane]

Stay back, Buzz.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Give it up.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

I saw you looking at her. I saw you. You're all alike, you young men. Come here. Tempera.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Come here. No, Father.

[Phyllis Knight]

No.

[Michael Shane]

Listen to me, Buzz.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Now it's a hundred feet straight down. Let's see how young you look lying on the Concrete Templar.

[Quincy Baldwin]

Let's see.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Pull her away. You look out, Jim. Look out. Don't look, Angie.

[Michael Shane]

Don't look.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

You all right, Jim?

[Narrator/Announcer]

I guess so. I, I dodged.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And, and he.

[Michael Shane]

Yes, I know. He made his last run. Take Angie home, will you? Well, I, I, I'm William.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Sure, Angie.

[Michael Shane]

I'll stay with Buzz. He'd like that. Fraternity Brothers.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Templar, I want to congratulate you on the way you've handled this thing. Exemplary.

[Michael Shane]

And I thought it was better for Angie's sake to put her father's death down. A pure accident, Dean. Also, Hobson's not the truth, but there are times to look the other way.

[Phyllis Knight]

Exactly. Times to look the other way. Very well put.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And of course, who are we to.

[Phyllis Knight]

Say that they weren't pure accident?

[Michael Shane]

Both of them deem.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And I'm not at all sure that Barnhart's mind wasn't sound as a dollar. After all, wasn't he All American Dean and Chairman of our alumni fund? What more proof do you want?

[Michael Shane]

All right, Dean. It never happened. Any of it. Satisfying?

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Yes, indeed.

[Phyllis Knight]

Proves what I've always said. Can't beat a college education.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Send us the boy and we send you back the man.

[Phyllis Knight]

As the twig is bent, so the tree shall grow.

[Michael Shane]

I'll remember, Dean.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Do so.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

And above all, keep a sound grip on reality. Well, good luck in your final exams, Templa.

[Michael Shane]

Thank you, sir.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You have been listening to another transcribed.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Adventure of the Saint, the Robin Hood of modern crime. Now here's our star, Vincent Price.

[Michael Shane]

Ladies and gentlemen, in tonight's cast, you heard Mary Ship as Angela and Ed Begley as her father. Earl Ross was the Dean, Whitfield, Connors, Hobson, Fred Shields, Ritco and Lamont Johnson. Jim, this is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again next week at this same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good night.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Tonight's script of the Saint was written by Dick Powell.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Three chimes mean good times on NBC this afternoon.

[Simon Templar (The Saint)]

Be sure to hear the big show and Theater Guild on the air presents the Fallen Idol with WALTER Pigeon on NBC.

[Podcast Host]

We just heard Michael Shane, Box 13, Richard diamond and the Saint. That will do it for this week's episode. Thanks so much for joining me. I'll be back next week with more old Time radio detectives. In the meantime, you can check out Stars on Suspense, my other Old Time Radio podcast. New episodes of that show are out on Thursdays. If you like what you're hearing, don't be a stranger. You can rate and review the show in Apple podcasts or wherever you listen. And if you'd like to lend support to the show, you can visit buymeacoffee.com meansts OTR. I'll be back next week with more old time Radio Crime solvers. But I'll be back next week with more old time Radio Crime solvers. But until then, good night and happy listening.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Now here is our star, Vincent Price.

[Michael Shane]

Ladies and gentlemen. In a prejudice filled America, no one would be secure in his job, his his business, his church or his home. Yet racial and religious antagonisms are exploited daily by quacks and adventurers whose followers make up the irresponsible lunatic fringe of American life. Refuse to listen to or spread rumors against any race or religion. Help to stamp out prejudice in our country. Let's judge our neighbors by the character of their lives alone and not on the basis of their religion or origin.