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Rogue's Holiday

The Lives of Harry Lime · September 21, 1951 · 28 min · 4,038 words

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presenting Orson Welles as The Third Man. The Lives of Harry Lime. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture The Third Man with Zither Music by Anton Carus. That was the shot that killed Harry Lime.

He died in a sewer beneath Vienna. And as those of you know, we saw the movie The Third Man. Yes, that was the end of Harry Lime. But it was not the beginning. He had many lives. I can tell you about all of them. How? Because my name is Harry Lyme.

You know I ever tell you about the time when I outwitted three very suspicious Wall Street investors that a net profit to yours truly of fifty five thousand American dollars? No? Well, I will sometime. Anyway, because of that little caper, I decided that an ocean trip would be good for my nerves and for the nerves of some half dozen New York

detectives. That's how I happen to go on a holiday. A rogues holiday, if you will. Orson Wells as Harry Lime the third man in rogues holiday. Very present. Day of sorter New York aboard the Queen Anne,

bound for Southampton. I was on a passenger list as Jay Harrington Lime. By eight, of course, at the captain's table. Remembering how I put the investments of those three Wall Street brokers and my own personal piggy bank whenever I was asked and what business are you in Mr. Lai? I would smile to myself

and answer I'm an investment broker Lady Barbara it is the Lady Barbara for you. Yes of course I thought with me aren't you also sitting at the captain's table yes that's right and I seem to remember that there's an empty chair table next to yours you're not traveling alone. It's of no importance

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